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OK a few posts basically saying "Ecky is a bunch of new age hippie shit!!"
And you know what?? It's true.
In fact if I wasn't the type of guy to skim through and get the useful stuff and screan out the negative, I'd probably throw that book in the garbage after the first few pages.
So alright, rather than having to do the sifting and using common-sense to suck out the marrow and discard the fat, I'm going to just give it to you STRAIGHT.
After this you won't even have to read the book anymore if you don't want to.
Here is the meat of it, very rough and written in about 5 minutes:
1- You are not your mind, you are the "observer behind your mind":
Why? Many thoughts are rooted in old conditionining, or even emotional/chemical addictions AND are running on AUTOPILOT.
EG: You're out at a club and you feel approach anxiety, even though you LOGICALLY know that it doesn't make any sense (it's an old conditioned autopilot emotional response).
YOU are not actually generating these thoughts, therefore learn to stay "present" and you will experience total clarity and feel super happy and good....
The key is that if you IDENTIFY with these thoughts (ie: believe you are "in control" and actively/deliberately thinking them, as opposed to the reality that it's just an autopilot that has nothing to do with "you") you give them FUEL and make them stronger. If you don't identify with them then they become diffused and go away.
2- Non-resistance:
Oftentimes it's the RESISTANCE to a situation that's causing the bad emotions, NOT the situation itself.
The vast majority of all bad emotions you experience is RESISTANCE to situations, NOT the situations themselves.
Most situations are not that bad at all. It's just that your ego has this concept that "It's supposed to be this specific way" and when it doesn't get what it wants, it resists it and creates a massive amount of negative emotion built up in your system.
For example you might hear a car-alarm going off outside. Is it REALLY that bad?? Uhhh, no. However if you have this "conditioned" idea that it's bad then you'll start going "Uhhhh that's sooooo annoying... I can't concentrate.... I'm so pissed off at whoever left this thing on!!"
That's because your conditioning tells you this is how you're supposed to react. As an EXPERIMENT try just "being in the moment" and ACCEPTING it, rather than throwing up all sorts of "resistance". You may even find that the car alarm is pretty funny.
Well, the same principle can be applied to all the "lows" when it comes to your journey towards personal transformation and success with women. Accepting them (ie: not "resisting") will make you RESOURCEFUL. Feeling all sorts of negative energy due to resistance will resourcefulness and leave you STUCK and STAGNANT.
You often see guys who come on the forum who you can tell are "resisting" the lulls in their progress. Many of them whine and quit and never improve. Then you have the guys who practise the art of "non-resistance" and allow their natural resourcefulness to find solutions, and they come back a year later totally PUA'ed up. They "accept" it as a "part of the process" and blast through their sticking points and go on to ultimate victory....
3- Seeing the world as a unified whole, instead of seeking shelter in "judgements, interpretations, labels, and comparisons":
This one is sneaky, in that most people who hear about it will instantly say "That's bullshit!! I judge because I'm an objective person and I'm qualified to do so!!"
However believe it or not, you are MORE than capable of "acting in the moment" without having to judge and label everything that you see.
In fact, by simply observing and not having to continually label/interpret everything in a self-dialogue, you will be utterly blown away at how much better it allows you to see what's going on around you.
Even moreso, it actually IMPROVES your memory of the events. This will freak you out, because at first you'll think that because you aren't running the "taperecorder" of self dialogue that you'll forget everything but it is JUST THE OPPOSITE. You will see the world with more vividly and remember your experience with much more sharpness.
As far as "success with women" goes: it makes you insanely effective, because you aren't getting all these crazy emotional ups-and-downs with things like congruence tests or a "pull" that's "on the fence" and you're not sure if you'll get it or not (and the girl is unconsciously waiting to see if you can "keep your cool" to decide if she'll sleep with you or not). It also gives you this crazy fucking SIIIICK vibe where you can talk to a girl and LISTEN to her without judgement, which makes the "qualification" phase of the pickup really really smooth and natural, and also positions you as someone she's qualifying herself to when she talks to you (this is hard to explain -- try it and you will see girls will just keep talking and talking while they try to impress you).
It's also allows you to let the girl talk without having to think of something to say "in your head' right after she's done, and you wind up taking these really smooth pauses that she WAITS for EAGERLY to hear your answer. Man, this type of thing just really smoothens out your game as a whole. Try it.
Key realization: Having to continually label and interpret IS a sign of a "weak reality". It's hard to understand, but eventually it will become clear. Move past it this incessant need.
4- Being "in the moment" instead of needing to be a "step ahead":
It's this bullshit need to be a step ahead that fucks up your whole approach.
Trust me, whenever I'm trying to be a step ahead I can't think of what to say (other than with canned lines).
When I take on the belief that "the words will be there to flow out when I need them" I suddenly can talk and talk and talk for hours on end....... and everything I say is ON POINT.
5- Realizing the "painbody" is a buildup of old negative emotion and social conditioning that tries to "re-energize/replenish" itself via period "flare ups":
When you realize this to be the case it will freak you out.
Basically the painbody is it's OWN ENTITY that wants to replenish itself. If you "stay present" it will not be able to do so, however.
What you'll find it this: If you can stay present long enough it even starts to STARVE and like a desperate lion or polar bear who will eventually attack ANYTHING, the painbody will even make you experience a "pain body flareup" over something utterly ridiculous if you starve it for long enough.
I starved out my painbody for an entire month before it used the BANK MACHINE not working to create a flareup and I start punching the bank machine until my knuckles were almost bleeding.
Then I started it another month (1 month totally happy/fun/in state) and it used my credit card not working and I reamed out the poor sales clerk for half an hour.
Basically you'll find that you can starve out the painbody by 1) realizing it exists and the painbody flareup is NOT REAL, and then 2) staying "present" and starving it so it can't replenish itself.
Over several months the painbody flareups will become further and further apart. It then becomes your job to "diffuse" OTHER people's painbodies by not allowing them to "bounce off of you" when they come at you with bullshit.
If you just keep up this practise you will be utterly blown away by how 1) you no longer get pissed at ANYTHING, and 2) a lot of old bad social conditioning goes away and you start acting a lot closer to your old "caveman" core...
What do I mean by "caveman"?? I'm talking that BADASS MOFO who walks straight up to girls and just TAKES them by the hand and drags them out of the club without the slightest hesistation.
So is this in your best interest?? Uhhhhh.... Maybe.
6- Access to the "universal intelligence/creativity":
Last but not least, the idea that when you're "in the moment" you have access to some sort of higher universal intelligence.
Is this really true?? Who knows.
It may in fact just be that it's simply a better "creative state" to be in, and that mystics like to think of it as like a "link to god" or something to that effect.
Well either way I don't really care, but I'll tell you this: Most highly creative people are being "in the moment" when they create. That's when the true strokes of brilliance come out.
And you know what else??
As a "master pickup artist" it's when you're in the moment that you have those BRILLIANT nights when you just utterly dominate and takeover the entire venue.
This is why all artists have a "love/hate" relationship with themselves.
They KNOW what they're capable of if they can just get themselves "into the moment", however sometimes they block themselves (because it can be hard sometimes) and then they produce utter garbage.
So you wind up getting down on yourself cause you're like "I KNOW what I'm capable of!! But I just can't seem to do it right now!!"
The more often that you're accustomed to accessing (as Ecky would put it) "The Power Of Now", the more easily you can access it over and over.
And what happens when you do??
Those brilliant nights come FLOODING in, and suddenly your sex life is very very interesting.
To Sum Up...
Alright, convinced to read a bit of Ecky??
I DEFINITELY agree, a lot of "new agey" type stuff, what guys like Tim and Jeffy and Ozzie and I jokingly call "AURA MAN".
(Aura Man = New Agey dudes who wear power crystals and magnetic bracelets and believe in chakras and that the entire world will come to them if they just meditate and all that).
At the same time, even if it IS AURA MAN style, I can still respect that there's MUCH WISDOM contained in the "The Power Of Now" and even more importantly "A New Earth".
Enough that I have a massive amount of respect for Eckhart Tolle despite his funny appearances (I'll probably look even funnier than I do now at 60 -- so much love to Eckhart Tolle) and I recommend his book "A New Earth" wholeheartedly to anyone who's interested in bettering themselves.
Anyway, the main reason I even noticed this book was that "The Blueprint" has soooo many similar ideas that I came to independently.
When I found a book that had so much in common with my own ideas that's probably what allowed me to "see past" the new-agey stuff and get to the meat of it. Hopefully with this short post here you can see many of the same things.
OK that's it!! Hope it helped.

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Seven-year-old Kye had a pretty fantastic "adventure wish" -- to be Batman for a day. (Can't say I blame him.) And that's exactly what he got! I'm not talking about some small potatoes caper, either -- I'm talking about a day that started at 10 a.m. with a bank robbery (staged in an actual bank) and went on to include run-ins with villains like The Joker and The Riddler, a "bomb" threat, stacks of fake money ... even patrol car chases.
I'm sure Kye loved every second of his adventure. But personally, my favorite part came at the very end ...
As a grand finale to his day of superheroics, Kye was awarded Key to the City by Assistant Police Chief James Hawthorne.
Oh. My. God. When he takes off his Batman mask and you see that cute little face ... if you're wearing mascara, better hope it's waterproof. I can't even think about it without choking up!
I hope Kye lives a long life filled with many more adventures and many more encounters with real-life superheroes like the people who made his dream come true.
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Being and Thought in Robin West
Let me focus on aspects of Robin's Critical Legal Studies chapter as a way of in part accounting for the disappearance of what Robin calls the "moral brief" in CLS. This may help account for why it is so difficult to achieve today the morally-centered jurisprudence to which her book aspires, but also why new movements may be emerging that will make this possible .
First let me say I very much like the way Robin shows the indeterminacy critique ingesting the moral brief within CLS. I agree with Robin that the indeterminacy critique should only have been an 'analytical' lesser included element in the moral critique instead of swallowing it whole by self-referentially rendering the moral critique itself indeterminate (and I said so in my "Critical Legal Studies as a Spiritual Practice" at 36 Perpperdine L. Rev. 515). And I also was intrigued by Robin's showing how the specifically Foucauldian power-obsession could ultimately give rise to the neo-crit substantive world-view that would 'amoralize' the moral critique as itself a mere expression of power. I really liked all that.
But I think perhaps Robin underplays the lived-experience hemorrhage that was the collapse of the 60's itself, the actual loss of confidence in our moral understanding that was originally an expression of the collective ontological force of the movement itself as a rising up of a group-in-fusion and a dawning of moral awareness grounded in the group's felt confidence–the "moral glue" that gave way in the whole society, or rather across the movements and within the larger felt moral-support movement that unified us or 'lifted' us, like a wave. The return following Reagan's election (and especially his second election) of 'atomization' and the concomitant loss of self that came with that, this return of collective doubt was the key factor to my mind that weakened our moral conviction at the level of our social being, 'underneath' the very ideological/cognitive processes that Robin describes as the erasure of the moral brief at the level of thought. In the face of the collective flight that Reagan's emergence symbolized, a deep-seated fear reasserted itself, Fear of the Other who would no longer be There for me, for each person, as a confirmatory partner in a felt moral universe. By hemorrhaging away from each other, we cast each other back into solitude, with the full-time help and money of the forces of conservative social reaction (as well as the rise of the more centrist liberalism of the Clintons and the liberalized-by-the-60s professional class) to make sure we could no longer recognize each other as a truly transformative moral social force moving toward a radically transformed egalitarian and loving community. The formula for the moral weakening I'm describing was thus Ontological Doubt+Conservative Opposition and even Demonization+Cooptation into a non-transformative centrist-liberal imago of "society".
Within CLS itself, this loss of confidence was manifested in a quite specific 'sociology'. The weakening of the erotic-binding or connection-force or affirmation-force that had unified the various identity groups–the weakening of that lifting wave–increasingly led to a kind of identity-terror, the hostility among groups within CLS became predominant over the aspiration to moral transformation of law and society that originally gave birth to us (as Robin shows in her description of the Georgetown conference which I believe she helped to organize). This hemorrhage of the moral force of what had previously brought us all together and given birth to CLS in the first place and then also gave birth to the femcrits and Critical Race Theory was hardly unique to CLS. What took place within Critical Legal Studies was common across all the 60's movements, and as we ebbed away from each other our moral thought lost (some of) its moral base in experience, a weakening that led the emerging, maturing professors and scholars in CLS—all up against a now post-60s relatively more conservative culture—to become uncertain about their formerly confident critique of alienation, of law as legitimation, and of the moral necessity of a fundamental transformation of social relations and of legal culture as well.
This general point about the historical basis of the weakening of the moral dimension of CLS thought points up an underlying ambiguity in Robin's book about the relationship of being and thought in general, or more accurately of the relationship between social being and social thought.
For me, the moral dimension of legal discourse and of jurisprudence is inherently linked to the upsurge of mutual recognition and of moral awareness at the level of 'social being' that is carried forward by the process of what we call "movement", the social manifestation of desire, the desire for a better, more affirming, more mutually recognizing social world. This movement is something that is lived out in direct relations between human beings; it is grasped in lived experience and then becomes something that is "thought" in, for example, "normative jurisprudence." In this sense I would say Robin's book is a legacy of feminism, which itself is a carrying forward of the liberatory memory of prior social movements and incarnations, and the 'validity' of the book is rooted in its implicit evocation of the memory of the lived experience that has made our moral nature known to us. By the same token, the 'State" itself is not a fixed entity but a partial expression of this lived moral awareness, the moral consciousness prevailing within the group, within society, at a particular moment. When people are pooled up in what I once called "the pact of the withdrawn selves," when they are withdrawn into themselves, 'the State' tends toward becoming a kind of collective otherness, an alien projection of a kind of false collective, and moral discourse becomes rudderless, as it largely is in the present moment in history, when rights with fearful content (the right to bear arms) are overwhelming the memory trace of rights with positive historical meaning (as when the right to equal protection, at a certain moment in the nineteenth century, meant the abolition of the dehumanization of other human beings). But there are moments when the reverse occurs and 'the State' becomes infused with the aspiration to authentic community, although in my view constrained by individualist paradigm that at one time had utopian content and now centuries later mainly seals us in separation, although that is another story.
To me this fluid nature of 'the State' addresses both the pro-legal-reform aspects of the femcrits and Critical Race Theory…the positive uses of the State whose ambiguity Robin discusses…and the more fear-based view of the State which the neo-crits in my opinion make something of a fetish of to the extent that they tend to locate Power everywhere and are too preoccupied with ferreting out its pernicious influence, in a way that makes them wary, afraid, of any binding moral discourse. Both of these conceptions of Law and the State can be true depending upon the underlying sense of connection or disconnection at the level of social being in the culture. Thus, the important link that needs to be illuminated and furthered in my view is the link between the development of the being of social movement as lived experience and the moral expression of that process in legal discourse. In this I'm wholeheartedly on Robin's side, the side of moral vision and a morally informed legal discourse—or to use her phrase, the "moral brief" and the cumulative legacy of social movements that support it–but i would not install that moral vision and discourse in the projected entity called the State, but would want to specify, narratively, how it could be HERE, or linked to politics and lived experience.
I think what this means in today's world is to ally the call for a moral jurisprudence with the developing spiritual-political movement that is trying to be born in many incarnations across the world, a post-Marxist vision of social transformation that affirms the spiritual dimension of human existence and of our connection to each other and roots moral claims in that intuited, invisible awareness of our longing to see and be seen by each other in a life-giving and affirming way. When Martin Luther King said, "Justice is Love correcting that which revolts against Love," he was pre-figuring a jurisprudence grounded in a new recognition of our common humanity not as mere material beings with economic needs, but as spiritually connected social beings with needs for meaning, recognition, and love. I'd urge Robin to tie her call for a recovery of the moral dimension of law to this emergent spiritual force, and to help teach and inspire a new generation of scholars who can think from this kind of awareness rather than the rudderless, indeterminate analytics that is the dead end of a despiritualized liberal scholarship.


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Title: Reviewing memorized surah and Tajweed poems How many times should I review the same Juz in one day?
Title: Reviewing memorized surah and Tajweed poems
Assalaamu aleikum wa rahmatu Lahi wa barakaatuh
Alhamdu lilah I try to read a juz of the Quran daily. My first question is:
1)How many times should I review the same Juz in one day? In other words if I review Juz 1 on Monday how many times should I recite it until the Hifz gets stronger?
2)Many Muslims students as well as teachers have memorized the Jazariyyah and the Shatibiyyah poems as well as many other tajweed poems. I am really amazed at their ability to quotes some lines of those tajweed poems very easily. My second question is
Do they have a schedule to review each individual poem daily?
May Allah the Exalted increase your reward in this life and in the hereafter for your services. Truly I personally have benefited and still am benefiting tremendously from it. Wa salaamu aleikum
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
1) The number of times you repeat a juz' depends on what stage of review you are at. If you just finished memorizing the juz' or the whole qu'ran, then you made need to repeat it three or more times to get it down. If however you have memorized it before and you can easily remember it, then once is enough and then you can review more than one juz' particular per day, meaning two or three different ajzaa' per day.
2) With any hifth one has to go through a period of tathbeet where one repeats a lot of the subject or the whole subject daily every day to get it firmly down. One it is down, it requires periodic review, and the best way is to have a set amount to review daily to keep it strong.
May Allah give you the same and increase you in beneficial knowledge.
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Thanks for the tips. I will definitely do that, and am really looking forward to this trip.ITN wrote:Definitely stay at Tavarua if the wife is coming. The pool is amazing and if wind is the right direction you can kite right in front of it in the lagoon and show off. Watch out for the coral though at low tide.
And when you go over to Namotu make sure you ask nicely if you can kite there out of courtesy (they'll always say yes) and buy lunch and beers there to thank them for the hospitality. They are very cool friendly people on both islands.
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We've told you about the surprising—yet chic—decor trend on the rise: displaying vintage tech. Everything from a camera to a typewriter can look great in a vignette on your bookshelf. But if you're not the type to scavenge thrift stores and flea markets, cheat with these thick plastic wall prints.
From Supermarket's extensive online store (seriously, check it out), these numbered Wally decals from DaDaDa studio are the perfect way to give your space a little retro flair without investing in a pricey antique.
Ok, so these prints aren't cheap. But they're groovy in a pop-art kind of way.
Grab the Lubitel (Wally No.076) or the gloriously greige computer monitor (Wally No.007) for $89, or pick up the Kodak Instamatic (Wally No.092) or the anxiety-inducing security camera (Wally No.015) for $59.
Judging by the numbers on the prints, there could be about a hundred more of these, so give us a heads up if you spot 'em.


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This Week's Food & Dining: Two farmer's market options for your weekend, smart garden growing at The Urban Store
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Supporters of embattled McHenry County Mental Health Board President Lee Ellis are taking advantage of a two-week delay in his ouster to persuade or pressure McHenry County Board members to keep him.
An email sent Thursday to county mental health service providers asks them and their clients to call County Board members ahead of the Public Health and Human Services Committee's vote Wednesday to fill three vacant seats with newcomers and not Ellis.
At least two County Board members with connections to the mental health service community have been called in recent days regarding whether they would vote for a slate that did not include Ellis.
The calls and the email come from people affiliated with the Mental Health Board and a former mental health agency that collapsed last year despite Mental Health Board financial assistance.
The email to service providers was sent by Linda Mix, a board member of the McHenry County Behavioral Health Foundation, which is the Mental Health Board's fundraising arm.
The calls to County Board members that the Northwest Herald knows about came from Ellis and from Thomas Webb, board vice chairman of the now-shuttered Family Service and Community Mental Health Center, where Mix also had worked as a volunteer.
Mix's email implores service providers, which rely heavily on property-tax revenue disbursed by the Mental Health Board, that consumers of mental health services need to call County Board members to "resurrect the vote to include Lee Ellis." The public health committee had voted Feb. 15 to recommend a new slate for County Board confirmation the following Tuesday, but board Chairwoman Tina Hill, R-Woodstock, pulled the appointments and others until March 5 because of concerns over Open Meetings Act compliance.
Mix, who said she did not have time to talk Friday morning, said she's fighting because the Mental Health Board "helps out the consumers," and declined to comment further.
However, public health committee Chairwoman Donna Kurtz, R-Crystal Lake, questioned the appropriateness of drawing agencies reliant on Mental Health Board funding into a fight over the board's leadership.
"I think it's real important that service providers don't get caught in a war because they are at the mercy of the Mental Health Board for funding in many cases, and their independence and objectivity needs to be respected," Kurtz said. "From the very beginning, good judgment would dictate that no one would ever place the service provider agencies in a position where they would have to vouch for any member of the Mental Health Board. I'd hate for service providers to be used as pawns for someone else's political game."
Critics over the years have alleged that the Mental Health Board has become a bloated bureaucracy that spends far too much tax revenue on administration and overhead that should instead be disbursed to agencies treating the mentally ill and disabled, as it was created by voter referendum to do. About one-third of the $13.15 million the Mental Health Board collected last year stayed internal – it employs more than 30 people and is paying back $3 million in economic stimulus bonds it used to almost quadruple the size of its Crystal Lake headquarters.
Criticism of Mental Health Board spending has increased in the past year over issues such as spending almost $1.8 million to try to save Family Service and contractually paying more than $30,000 for the former executive director to get her doctorate – she left months after receiving it.
Webb said Friday that he reached out to new County Board members Robert Martens Sr., a former CEO of Family Service, and Joe Gottemoller, an attorney hired to move Family Service through the legal process of closing. Webb said he offered his opinion to them and how they vote "is up to their conscience."
"I've known Lee Ellis since before the final demise of Family Service. He sat in on our Finance Committee meetings for over a year – he has experience in the banking industry, and a lot of common sense and a lot of compassion. I think there's a witch hunt out for him, which I think is despicable, really," Webb said.
Gottemoller said he told Webb in no uncertain terms that he would respect the committee process and whatever names come out of the public health committee for confirmation.
The County Board cannot vote to add Ellis, but can reject nominees and send them back to committee for reconsideration. The County Board chairman under board rules has the prerogative to add names to the agenda within 48 hours of a meeting, but approval still requires a majority board vote.
"My response to him was that the process is that the committees make the recommendations. That's what we do," Gottemoller said. "Assuming it comes back the same way, I'm going to support what the committee [recommends]."
The Mental Health Board lent Family Service about $1.4 million to keep it afloat. It paid an additional $398,000 to North Central Behavioral Health Systems in a last-ditch effort to save Family Service through a merger that fell through.
Martens said he received a call earlier this week from Ellis, who said he wanted to stay on the Mental Health Board and asked Martens if he would be supportive. Martens, who retired from Family Service a year and a half before its collapse after 34 years as CEO, said he responded that he thinks Ellis was a good candidate, but that he is still watching how the situation develops.
"I've had experience with him in terms of his knowledge of the budget. He expects a lot from those who are getting funded by the [Mental Health] Board," Martens said. "He provides some continuity, and some continuity is a good thing, but some change is needed as well. Whether that's one person or three persons, that's up to the entire County Board."
Ellis could not be reached for comment.
Public health committee member Sandra Fay Salgado said that she does not anticipate any significant change of heart when the committee votes again Wednesday morning because its first vote moved forward 6-0. The committee spent nine hours last week openly interviewing 12 candidates for four vacant seats.
Kurtz said she is willing to reopen the process Wednesday if committee members wish, but said that is not her preference, given the work they put into it.
Salgado, R-McHenry, is the human resources director for Pioneer Center for Human Services, the county's largest social service provider and a vocal critic of Mental Health Board spending.
"Obviously it looks like there's something of a campaign on this. I don't feel we did anything secret or meant not to be transparent," Salgado said. "Hopefully, we'll have the same result [Wednesday] and move it forward."
Mix's email incorrectly alleges that Hill sent the recommendations back to committee because members used secret ballots to cast their votes. Hill pulled the recommended appointments from four committees out of concern that their agendas – which did not explicitly state that a vote would be taken – might not comply with new Illinois Open Meetings Act requirements.
Public health committee members whittled down the 12 nominees on paper and voted openly on their final choices. Assistant State's Attorney Jana Blake Dickson, who attended the meeting, said doing so does not violate the law. The Open Meetings Act forbids elected officials from casting secret ballots for final votes.


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 12, 2013Contact: Ricahrd Lewis, SergeantPhone: 310.458.8462e-mail: email@example.com
The Santa Monica Police Department will be conducting a DUI/Driver's License Checkpoint on Friday April 19, 2013, at an undisclosed location within the city limits. This is part of an ongoing campaign to reduce the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol involved crashes. DUI checkpoints are conducted to identify offenders and remove them from the street; as well as bring awareness to our community of the dangers of impaired driving.
Officers will be contacting drivers passing through the checkpoint looking for signs of alcohol and/or drug impairment. Drivers caught driving impaired can expect jail, license suspension, and insurance increases; as well as fines, fees, DUI classes, court probation and other expenses that can exceed $10,000.
All too often, members of our community are senselessly injured or killed on local roadways by impaired drivers. Santa Monica Police Lieutenant, Jay Trisler stated, "Over the course of the past year, traffic collisions involving impaired drivers/riders were involved in 91 collisions; which have killed 3 and injured 28 people".
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), checkpoints have provided the most effective documented results of any of the DUI enforcement strategies, while also yielding considerable cost savings of $6 for every $1 spent.
The Santa Monica Police Department reminds drivers that if you plan on drinking, have a designated driver or call a taxi cab to take you safely home. For more information, please contact Sergeant Phillbo Rubish at the Santa Monica Police Department Traffic Section at 310-458-8950, or the Public Information Officer, Sergeant Richard Lewis at 310-458-8462.
Funding for this operation is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.


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Detectives are appealing for witnesses after cash was stolen from an elderly man during a distraction burglary at a house in Grassmoor.
The 82-year-old answered the door of his home on Mill Lane to two men claiming to be checking the chimney on behalf of the council at around 9am today (Friday, April 4).
The victim allowed the men into his house and one of the men stayed with him in the living room.
Police believe the other man then searched the house and stole cash. The men left after around ten minutes.
A neighbour then came to check on the victim as he had seen two men drop some cash outside the house before picking it up and running away.
The victim then discovered cash was missing from an upstairs room and police were alerted.
The first man is described as white with a tanned complexion, around 5ft 7ins tall, between 20 and 30 years old and of a large build.
The second man was of a similar age, build and complexion but was around 5ft tall.
They both wore blue baseball caps, black padded jackets, black trousers and boots.
Officers would like to speak to anyone who saw two men fitting this description and any suspicious vehicles in the area at the time.
Police are reminding residents to be cautious if an unwanted caller arrives at your doorstep.
Make sure you check identification and do not to let anyone in if they are not sure who they are.
Genuine callers will not call unannounced, they will arrange an appointment or give written notice about work taking place.
If they are persistent or make you feel concerned or uncomfortable then please contact the police immediately.
Witnesses or anyone with information is asked to contact Chesterfield CID on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


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I have a few questions regarding Hafs by the way of both Ash Shatibbiyah and At Tayyibah, the other way of reading..
Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatu lilahi wa barakatuh
May Allah increase your reward for every work you put through your research. I have a few questions regarding Hafs by the way of both Ash Shatibbiyah and At Tayyibah.
A) Hafs by way of Ash Shatibbiyah
1. the other way of reading verse 54 of surah Ar Roum, you referred to in your files, is by reading the word Dha'f with Dhamma. Is this the (same) dhamma found also in the riwayah of Warsh of that same verse and surah? In other words, reading the verse with a Dhamma just like in Warsh.
B) Hafs by the way of AtTayibah
1. Hafs by the way of AtTayyibah usually reads Al Medd Al Ja'iz al munfaSil with a 2 vowel count. Does the way of At Tayyibah (Hafs) also allow in some places of the Quran a 4/5 vowel count for that same medd?
The reason is that I have listened to at least 2 reciters who would read in Hafs by way of At Tayyibah with a two vowel count then switch to a 4/5 vowel count the medd al ja'iz and go back to a 2 vowel count again.
2. Does Hafs by tariq At Tayyibah allow idgham of ayah 28 of surah Al Qiyamah instead of sakt?
Jadhakulahi khrairan. Wa salamu aleikum
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
Jazakum Allahu khairan for the dua', and may Allah increase you in beneficial knowledge.
A. Yes, This is the same dhammah that Warsh and the other qira'aat use in reading in the aayah:
So the words in red above are then pronounced as: and in this allowed way of Hafs 'an 'Aasim and they way these words are read in the different qira'aat other than the qiraa'ah of 'Aasim.
B1. Tareeq At-Tayyibah refers to the way of the poem called Tayyibat-un Nashr that contains all the rules outlined in the famous book of Imam Ibn Al-Jazaree, An-Nashr fi-l-qirar'aat il-3shr. There is not one way or tareeq in the book for Hafs 'an 'Aasim, but over 50. The name Tareeq at-Tayyibah may confuse many to think it is one way but in fact there are many ways in At-Tayyibah including tareeq Ash-Shaatibiyyah.
There are a few ways in Tareeq At-Tayyibah that have something called or "lengthening for glorification", which is when there is the negation of there being a deity other than Allah, such as in: . In these few ways, is normally two vowel counts but when the reader is at one of these special phrases, the word of negation is lengthened to four vowel counts. There are only a few ways of tareeq at-tayyibah for Hafs that have this allowed lengthening. Please see the following link for more explanation: http://www.abouttajweed.com/150707.htm . Other than this exception, when reading at one sitting a continuous recitation, the mudood need to be equal. In prayer, one can switch ways in different rak'ah, since each rak'ah is a separate recitation.
B2. Yes, there are some ways in tareeq At-Tayyibah that have idghaam of instead of a .
Wa iyyaakum wa-l-muslimeen.


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Dive into the vast ocean of your psyche, cracking open all that has been frozen allowing you to emerge into your greatness.
The #1 most powerful force RESIDES within YOU
The Breath is all you need
Using the power of community and breath to unlock the personal and collective unconscious, allows us to explore the deepest aspects of Self, Spirit, and Universe. This is a breathing journey going deep within to connect with your Inner Wisdom. It draws on ancient healing and spiritual practice from around the world. A combination of everything I've learned ranging from breathing techniques, meditation techniques, forgiving yourself and loving yourself techniques, and lastly how to release what you don't want to make room for what you do want.
This is a guided breathing experience for you to get a sense of what breathwork is like.
♥ ♥ What are those results you ask:
- healing of emotional or physical trauma
- getting more clarity on your path in life
- feeling a profound sense of inter-connection to nature and the world around you
- getting an expanded feeling of compassion and love for yourself and others.
- intense experiences of the body and energy release
- heart opening and transcendent experiences
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We suggest a donation of 200kr, wewill accept whatever you wish/can offer.
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19:00 START - Dive in opening Circle - if it's your first time, please allow 5-10 min to check in.
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Some say I'm a Breathwork facilitator, a workshop leader, a peaceful visionary…I say I'm a pure soul "a white light", always have been always will be my pureness will never change. Life has brought me many lessons that have challenged this knowing. I say "bring it on" because I'm a pure soul that will never change; YOU and I are ONE in the SAME. Have you forgotten your pureness, that's ok, there is no better time than now to remember. It would be my honour to be with you when you remember your greatness.
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Please spread the love, spreading love is always good
Invite your friends, family, co-workers, neighbors what the heck
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Until then Many Blessings - Geoffrey
What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?
The center is well served by public transport, Hellerup St is a short 5-minute stroll away, as well as several buses such as 21, 1A. There is the possibility for street parking on Svanemollevej which is very close to the center.
When you get to Hellerupvej 10, you will need to pass through the passageway between nr 8 & 6 Hellerupvej, then immediately turn left and you will find the center on the top floor of the old yellow warehouse just in front of you.


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Heaven on Earth is a private Thai style villa on Klong Nin Beach. It is located directly on the beach and offers fantastic views of the sea and the magnificent sunsets. The villa consits of 2 buildings. One houses the 2 bedrooms and 2 baths and the other the living room with Dining area and a fully equipped kitchen. A Sala and terrace by the pool invite you to relax and the only decision you need to make is whether You want to take a dip in the pool or take a swim in the crystal clear ocean. The villa is equipped with everything you expect from a 5 star villa and on request there is also a private chef available who will spoil you with culinary delights. In the vicinity of the villa you will find restaurants, massage and a travel agency where all types of trips and activities can be organized for you. It is the perfect place for a family or friends to spend unforgettable holidays in a tropical paradise.
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Private Villa with Private Pool, on the Beach.
"Heaven on Earth" is your opportunity to fully relax in a peaceful environment. Imagine living in 5 Star luxury villa, on a white sand beach, with nothing but sand between you and the ocean. Imagine watching the sunset every evening in front of your villa with your favorite drink sitting in the "Sala".
Consider having your biggest decision to be whether you are going to swim in the ocean or take a dip in your private pool before or after breakfast. Breathe in the sea breeze, drink in the unspoiled magnificent beauty and quiet, and remove any pressure to do anything.
The Thai style architecture contributes to the serenity of the experience. You are surrounded by beautiful tropical landscaped gardens and only the highest quality construction has been used to create "Heaven on Earth." The main building is comprised of the living room, the dining area, the kitchen, and the powder room. The second structure has two master bedroom suites, one on the ground floor, and one on the second floor.
In addition, there is a magnificent outdoor shower adjacent to the bathroom on the main floor. Elegance in exquisite natural environment await you for the vacation of your dreams. You deserve to experience "Heaven on Earth" remember... Heaven can't wait, book it now! You will never forget this memorable experience!
:: Villa 2 Bedrooms::
Upstairs Master Suite (7x7), Downstairs Master Suite (10x10). 2 Master Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms and 1 Toilet (Sleeps 4)
There are two master bedroom suites, one above and one below. They both have views of the ocean. The upstairs master has a balcony! The Thai style architecture contributes to the serenity of the experience. You are surrounded by beautiful tropical landscaped gardens.
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Private Pool (some room)
Non Smoking room
Extra Bed: Small cot - upon request
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Balcony: The balcony is on the second floor Master bedroom.
Oceanfront: You cannot get much closer to the ocean without being on a boat. The negative ions are good for your health, your lungs, and your soul!
Beachfront: Our villa is 20 meters from the sandy beach and ocean waves.
Private Pool: There is a beautiful private pool in front of the Villa by the sand. There are also four jets in the swimming pool.
Linens Provided: We offer fine bed linens.
Air-Conditioning: There is air conditioning in each villa room.
Beds King (2): There are two master bedroom suites, one above and one below. Tempur Pedic (memory foam mattresses) very comfortable!
They both have views of the ocean. The one upstairs has a balcony!
Jetted Tub: This is part of the Master bathroom suite on the ground floor.
TV: We have cable with Flat Screen Televisions and DVD players in both master suites.
Satellite Or Cable (2): We provide cable.
Video Library: We have a DVD library for our guests.
Full Kitchen: The kitchen is fully stocked with a stove, oven, fridge, dishwasher and all the amenities.
Cooking Utensils: You will not want for anything!
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Washing Machine: Private washer / dryer
Clothes Dryer: Private washer / dryer
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There is a 'Welcome Package' including cool drinks when you arrive, as well as an English speaking Concierge on site.
Gazebo: In Thailand it is called a "Sala" and is positioned by the beach for either yoga or to sip a cocktail and watch the sunset in glorious splendor.
Deck / Patio: Elegant either around the pool or right on the beach.
Parking Off Street: Parking for a vehicle is provided off the street, on the property.
Non Smoking Only: The purity of nature does not lend itself to smoking. We ask that you leave your cigarettes at home or use this as an opportunity to quit all together!
Broadband Access: Cable modem Internet is provided. You plug in the CAT 5 cable and you are set to go!
Wireless Broadband: Please bring your laptop and you're ready to connect!
Handicapped Accessible (May Have Limitations) : If you are on crutches, you can get around the property, and stay in the downstairs bedroom, however, it is not really wheel-chair friendly.
Pets Not Allowed: Because of allergies, we request that guests leave pets with family or friends who can provide excellent care when they are on vacation.
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Across the street are: laundry service, Internet access, massage studio, Tour operator to book activities, and Cook-Kai Restaurant. In addition, nearby are two &Five-Star& properties with spas to dine and indulge.
Located on Koh Lanta, Thailand, Asia (90 minutes South of Krabi airport, near Pimalei Resort).
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Karzai to leave office with mixed legacy 12 years after inheriting a broken Afghanistan
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KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghans go to the polls next weekend to choose a new president, and that in itself may one day be considered Hamid Karzai's greatest achievement.
There has been no shortage of criticism of Karzai in recent years. His mercurial behavior and inability or unwillingness to tackle corruption in his government have been well documented.
But in a nation hardened by decades of war, the fact that he is stepping down as president in the first democratic transfer of power since the fall of the Taliban is no small matter. It is made possible by a constitution that Karzai helped draft and that prohibits him from serving a third five-year term.
The April 5 election "is a historical marker that will in many ways determine I think not only how he's seen in history if he achieves that but will also be a very important indicator about the future of this country," U.S. Ambassador James Cunningham said last week.
Cunningham said the differences between Karzai and his former American backers will most likely be relegated to a mere historical footnote. Karzai has refused to sign a security pact with the U.S. that would allow thousands of foreign forces to remain here after the end of 2014. Despite overwhelming public support for the deal, he left the decision to his successor. Many believe Karzai simply did not want to be remembered as the president who permitted foreign troops to stay in Afghanistan.
Karzai inherited a broken country when the Americans and their allies chose him more than 12 years ago as a leader they hoped could cross ethnic lines, embrace former enemies and bring Afghans together. As he prepares to leave office, Afghanistan has made great strides yet remains hobbled by a resilient Taliban insurgency and fears of a return to civil war.
In many parts of the country, women have more opportunities, schools have opened and nascent governmental institutions are functioning. After five years of oppressive Taliban rule, people are allowed to express their views in public.
"This is one of his greatest legacies. We are here and we can say whatever we want and we can say it to him," said Saima Khogyani, one of 69 women lawmakers in parliament. "Whether he does what we ask is something else, but he listens."
But widespread corruption, poor governance and stubborn poverty foster support for the Taliban, who control vast rural sections of southern and eastern Afghanistan. The militants have not only shown little interest in peace but have stepped up attacks aimed at disrupting the elections.
Critics fault Karzai for employing former warlords linked to massive abuses. Karzai's defenders say he was hamstrung because the U.S.-led coalition enlisted those warlords to fight the Taliban, empowering them.
Many remember the Karzai of the 1980s, when he lived in Pakistan as the former Soviet Union bombed his homeland, napalm laying waste to the countryside. He would talk of the Afghanistan of his childhood — ruby red pomegranate orchards as far as the eye could see, tribal elders passing through his family home outside the southern city of Kandahar, his father, a Popalzai tribal elder, dispensing wisdom and making decisions with a single sweep of his hand.
"What he understood as democracy was what his father practiced in Kandahar, traditional (ethnic) Pashtun back and forth, (use of) jirgas," as a tool of governance, said Afghan journalist Ahmad Rashid. "I think it is his memories of his father and his past and how ruling and governing was done in the 60s when he was a child that has had just a huge impact on him."
Shortly after the Taliban seized power in Kabul in 1996, Karzai became a matchmaker of sorts, shuttling between Afghanistan's disparate anti-Taliban groups trying to unite them under a single umbrella.
After the U.S.-led invasion in late 2001, Karzai led a small band of men into southern Afghanistan to take on the Taliban regime. The Taliban eventually surrendered not to the Americans but to Karzai, seeking his guarantees of safe passage.
Karzai was still in the mountains in Uruzgan province when he was reached by satellite telephone and told that his lifelong dream would come true: He would be the president of Afghanistan. He was to head a government cobbled together in Bonn, Germany, a collection of warlords-turned-politicians who brought with them their weapons and their militias.
"There were other possible leaders, but Karzai's role in opposing the Taliban, his personal and family sacrifices, and his role in the war set him apart," said Zalmay Khalilzad, who served as President George W. Bush's special representative to Afghanistan.
To many Afghan officials and foreign observers, Khalilzad was Afghanistan's de-facto ruler in those initial months after the Taliban's collapse. He lived at the palace, crafted alliances and took center stage organizing the traditional grand councils or loya jirgas that would eventually approve Afghanistan's constitution.
"In the early days he (Karzai) was very much obligated to the Americans, in their lap as it were," said Rashid. "Khalilzad was almost running the country. It took some time for him to emerge."
Khalilzad and Rashid agreed that Karzai's greatest contribution was his ability to cross ethnic lines, make deals with former enemies and hold the country together.
"Karzai helped communities overcome past divisions, uniting the minority groups with the non-Taliban Pashtuns," said Khalilzad. "He enabled all communities to come together and overcome, to a large extent, the conflicts of the past. He has not put people in jail because they oppose him. He allowed freedom of expression. State structures have been restored, though unevenly."
His leadership was affirmed in a 2004 election, although his re-election in 2009 was tainted by allegations of massive ballot box stuffing. With that in mind, some candidates have raised fears about fraud and government interference in the upcoming elections. Relentless insurgent violence also could keep jittery voters from the polling stations.
Time and distance have caused memories to fade, occasionally shining an unfairly harsh light on Karzai's performance, said Paula Newberg, a former special adviser to the United States in Afghanistan.
"It's sometimes hard to remember how isolated Afghanistan was in 2001," said Newberg, a government professor at University of Texas. "Afghanistan from 1996 to mid-2001 was a place where free speech was absent, women were hidden, food was scarce, and health care almost non-existent. Afghans themselves had little opportunity to improve their lives in Afghanistan, and large numbers were leaving the country for any place that would have them."
The list of challenges Karzai faced over the years was daunting, said Newberg.
"President Karzai's tenure in office could not have been anything but challenging," she said. "He came to office with the high expectations of others and great optimism among many Afghans and foreigners alike."
He wowed the West with his impeccable English. Even the creative force behind Gucci, Tom Ford, anointed Karzai, resplendent in his long green and purple striped coat and signature karakul hat, "the choicest man on the planet."
But the presence of more than 130,000 U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, a spike in deaths of civilians by errant bombings and a coterie of "yes" men by Karzai's side caused the relationship to sour. He began angering Washington with belligerent statements, sometimes accusing the U.S. of being in cahoots with the Taliban and more recently calling the Taliban "our brothers" as he sought to bring them into a peace process.
Karzai resented the United States for not taking the fight to Pakistan, where he believed the war should have been fought instead of in Afghanistan. And his friends say he never forgave many world leaders for what he felt was their deeply insulting criticism of the disputed 2009 election.
"He disagreed with the United States about the source of the war," Khalilzad said in an email. "Also, he was treated personally in a way that violated his sense of honor."
Associated Press writer Kim Gamel contributed to this report. Kathy Gannon is AP Special Regional Correspondent for Afghanistan and Pakistan and can be followed on www.twitter.com/kathygannon


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Opinion: Will Republicans Abandon the Sequester?
Editorial board member Steve Moore on the coming budget deal and if Republicans might give up the sequester cuts and put tax increases on the table. Photos: Getty Images
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I ... I ... the ... a cheap to be pretty significant ... ninety billion dollars to part ... time trying to lead the House budget the Senate budget ... if we could do you know some find a compromise until we could pay for with either shavings or that ... was what I call gross revenue not raising taxes that finding ways to generate additional revenue ... Debbie good day ... welcome back to Opinion Journal I'm well the next big event in Washington starts Wednesday as the negotiations over something very familiar taxes and spending ... Democrats by and large want more tax revenue for more spending and Republicans want the opposite they want was a bow ... or maybe ... we just heard Oklahoma's Tom Cole suggesting that maybe revenue could be a component of those negotiations ... here to talk about that with me is the Wall Street Journal editorial page is the more I don't state ... Danielle you're right there's an assumption that Democrats want more spending of Republicans want less of it ... that you live along the speaking on Capitol Hill all the time ... and the dirty little secret is going on right now is there a lot of Republicans ... who like to have a spending as well and that's why we may see ... I you know some of these budget caps The compromise the way not so much because Democrats insist upon it because Republicans might well Steve the budget caps and the famous now famous sequester you are on a hard liner on both of the ... threat al and tell us why am I Joe and I ... my view is that these are really the only leverage the Republicans have right now and that most Republicans do want to hold the line on spending they wanna bring these enormous emphasis now ... on and so this is the only concession native really been able to get ... down over the last ... three or four years from present Obama and it's something by the way that Pres Obama very much regrets he wished he wishes today he didn't have to live under these ... these caps because the really restraining his ability to spend more money on the stimulus programs in education ... and all the things the cost of investment in so ... you know what you're seeing right now is a lot of the defense Fox ... in the Republican caucus on who ... you know very understandable understandably want to protect America's national security interests around the world where very nervous about these cuts ... are talking about maybe getting out of giving away the sequester and the caps ... in exchange for getting more money for ... the military but outside the fence now it isn't exactly clear what Congressman call was saying he didn't say raising taxes we refer to something as growth revenue but nonetheless ... you think there's a danger here that some Republicans may split off from what the ... budget chairman Paul Ryan said which is he does not want to raise taxes ... you know I don't think it's a very serious risk of an idea ... the problem is that I've talked to some of the Republican leaders ... on in the last top three or four days about that's who we actually are in negotiations with ... the White House and some of this up ... every time they caught the BBDO you not to ... trim some of these giant entitlement programs for some relief on the budget caps ... what that the president on says says you know the price of admission the ransom for that it's a trillion dollars of tax increases our ... present Obama has ready made it much needed very Klinger ... the stock in negotiating the coveted title reforms without significant knew what he calls revenue increases when you when I call taxes so very quickly in one of the prospects for the negotiations to star once tasted ... you know I just don't think they're very good idea I think that the Democrats are not very ... committed to this idea of some ... in ostensible kind of reforms in exchange for read reducing the scout for relaxing the caps into the deal is just not there are Democrats will not do it without tax increases and that ... Baghdad this is a nonstarter ... Naresh dear I get thrown out the winner right there ... but have to say the negotiations start Wednesday and Halloween is the next day ... somehow it all makes a very appropriate at the very appropriate


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Restoration Projects
The Restoration Hangar at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, CA contains the aircraft restoration projects underway at the Museum with the exception of the B-17 and DC-3/C-47.
A large number of the 268 Museum volunteers can be found working on various projects every Thursday and Saturday and the hangar is open to the public for viewing. Some projects have been underway for years, but a number are approaching completion and will soon become part of the Museum's flying inventory.
A few, such as the P-59 and the Aichi D3A2, will be the only flying examples in existence and all are noteworthy in their own way. A summary of the restoration projects and their progress reports follow below.
These restoration projects are funded by donations to Planes of Fame Air Museum. Look for the link below to give support to your favorite airplane!
- N. American L-17A Navion
- Boeing B-17G
- Bell P-59A Airacomet
- Me-109
- N. American O-47
- Aichi D3A2
- Grumman OV-1 Mohawk
North American L-17A Navion
Over the year 2013, the restoration progress on the North American L-17A Navion will be a short story. Since 2009, the hydraulic system was installed and the electrical wiring was replaced with the correct gauge wiring and is now being completed. The landing gear were tested and they cycled correctly. Structure-wise, we have a complete aircraft. The instrument panel was completed with an updated series of circuit breakers for the planned electronics and communication systems.
Yet to be done are the following requirements: the headlining for the canopy has to be sewn and glued in position. The flight instrument panel is still in Fighter Rebuilders being completed. Extensive systems tests of the hydraulic and electrical systems must still be performed when the engine can be run after the acquisition of an airworthy propeller. We are awaiting the verdict on the propeller, which is in the prop shop.
The team now consists of Roger Long, Phil Claypool, Jim Stuhler, and Quentin Swager. (Dec-1-2013)
Boeing B-17G (Manufactured by Douglas)
In late 2008, the Museum assembled a volunteer restoration team to work with Museum staff under the direction of John Maloney to accelerate the process of bringing B-17G, #44-83684, "Piccadilly Lilly II" back to flight condition. By 2013, significant progress was made with respect to the short term goals of 1) enhancing the visitor experience and 2) systematically repairing and mitigating on-going degradation of structural components. Efforts have focused on the restoration of various crew stations so that visitors can more easily put themselves in the shoes of a young crew member at 25,000 feet on a bombing run over enemy territory in late WWII.
The ball turret has been restored and a machine gun (with new ammo box) mounted in one of the waist gunner positions. New gun barrels were fabricated and added to the tail and a fully refurbished, modified top turret has been installed. Both the ball turret and top turret can be manually operated. Motors for the chin turret have been restored to allow the chin turret to be electrically operated when it is reinstalled.
Crew station equipment, particularly in the nose, cockpit, and tail gunner positions are currently being restored, replaced with new surplus items, or if necessary, fabricated in preparation for reinstallation when structural repairs are completed in those positions. The tail cone has been removed and structural repairs in it are nearing completion after the tedious task of stripping all old paint was completed. The same is true of the radio compartment where paint was stripped, structural repairs were completed, the compartment was repainted and most equipment has been refurbished and reinstalled. A new radio stack was obtained and new radio mounting brackets fabricated from scratch.
All equipment from the nose (including the chin turret) and cockpit were removed, cataloged, and stored, with each piece being cleaned or refurbished prior to reinstallation in 1st quarter of 2014. The cockpit and nose have been stripped and repainted and structural repairs, including the re-fabrication of some structural components, are nearing completion. New windows have been installed and the nose plexiglass was removed, refurbished and reinstalled.
New wood flooring was made for the tail gunner's compartment and the waist. Fabrication of new flooring for the cockpit is nearing completion and fabrication of new flooring for the nose is in progress. Other wooden components have also been rebuilt or refabricated, including the floor in the waist and radio compartment, an electrical junction box in the bomb bay, two ammo boxes (the first two of several), the tail gunner seat, the radio operator's desk (using mostly original wooden components), and the navigator's desk, and the instrument panel frame, with the restoration and re-fabrication of interior wooden doors still in progress. Radio mounting brackets on the exterior of the aircraft, all props have been stripped and repainted plus the engine cylinders, tail wheel assembly and main landing gear have been cleaned and repainted. Restoration of peripheral equipment such as bombs and bomb carts has been completed. Landing light housings have been refabricated from scratch. Numerous repairs have been made to the horizontal and vertical stabilizers and related fairings. The vertical stabilizer has been rebuilt and remounted and bomb group markings added.
New signage (part of an Eagle Scout project) directs visitor attention to, and provides information about, various features of the aircraft.
Our dedicated Volunteer Restoration Team includes: Bill Amend, Stevan Hart, Jack Hopkins, Sung Su Kim, Gilbert Orosco, Keith Pappas, John Thomas. Technical direction is provided by John Maloney. Docents Frank Teichrow, Sharon Trerotola, Dick Roche, Paul Rosnau, and Steve Wallace shepherd visitors around and through the aircraft. All work is under the watchful eye of our B-17 crew veterans Wilbur Richardson and Carl Rossman who ensure what we do is historically accurate and that visitors receive a quality experience. (Dec-2-2013)
Bell P-59A Airacomet
The Bell P-59A Aeracomet was America's first jet powered aircraft. Designed and built during WWII, the aircraft never saw combat. However, it was the precursor for all other jet aircraft that followed and was put in service as a trainer for subsequent jet aircraft developed. The XP-59A first flew on October 1, 1942 at Edwards Air Force Base (then called Muroc Dry Lake). The XP-59A was fitted with a dummy propeller when it was not flying as a security precaution. Only six of the 66 originally built survive. When the restoration of the example at Planes of Fame Air Museum is complete, it will be the only P-59 flying anywhere in the world. The P-59 restoration has been underway for 22 years by a group of dedicated museum volunteers. With your help, 2013 will be the year it is finished!
The P-59 restoration is nearing completion after many years of effort. Major items that have been completed and installed to date are; wing spar caps, fuel bladders, electrical wiring, fire warning/extinguishing systems, canopy and windscreen replacement, control surfaces overhaul, and engine installations. Items awaiting completion are: cockpit and instrument panel overahaul, control surface rigging, and engine runs.
Volunteers assisting are John Benjamin, Fran Pieri, Guy Hill, Chris Hill, Bob Velker, Greg Pascal, Bill Buchanan, John Zing, Ron Hackworth, Keith Parker, Bob Poteete, Jose Macasaquit, John Maloney, Steve Hinton, George Higgins, Bud Fine, and Dick Horst.
Planes of Fame has been offered an amazing opportunity to get the P-59 in the air. An anonymous donor has put up $25,000 as a matching grant to raise the $50,000 needed to finish the P-59. Be a part of this historical project, donate now! (Dec 12, 2013)
"Returning soon to a sky near you!"
Me-109 (Hispano HA 1112 "Buchon")
Work started on this aircraft a little over three years ago. The original charge was to just fix the wing, propeller and other damage caused when the airplane ground looped due to brake failure some ten years ago. We have suffered from mission creep and are now into a full blown restoration. As part of the restoration, we were able to obtain parts lists, maintenance information, certain assembly drawings, paint scheme details. To date, our work has included the complete stripping of aircraft paint. The right wing root and right and left wing tips have been repaired and the windshield, center canopy, and rear Plexiglas canopy have been removed, disassembled, and painted.
The damaged landing gear and gear actuator have been repaired and the aircraft is back on its gear. Radiators and shrouds have been removed and repaired plus all control surfaces were inspected and recovered. Lots of metal work has been done on the gear doors, wheel wells, right wing internals, and flaps.
To finish up and get the 109 flying, we need to get the wings back on, install the engine and rebuild the engine carburetor, and install brakes. Correct wheels and tires need to be acquired and the hydraulics/wiring repaired and reinstalled. The fuel tank needs to be finished and a new "liquidometer" installed along with the cockpit and canopy. Control surfaces need to be reinstalled and repairs to the fiberglass engine cowling must be finished. Finally, a new propeller needs to be located and the aircraft painted, stenciled, and detailed.
One thing that has made this restoration difficult is the mix of US and metric fasteners. Also, various repairs had been done prior, not always correctly, as this airplane has been ground looped multiple times.
The volunteers in the ME Bf-109 team are George Orff, Bert Bruckman, George Higgins, Dick Horst, Mike Fuller, Bobby, and of course thanks to John Maloney for his insight and help.
North American O-47
The North American O-47 is a restoration project that has been underway for a long time. The O-47 was moved to the Restoration Hangar in 2008 and major attention has been given to it in 2009. Extensive corrosion damage to the main lower fuselage formers has been addressed by the volunteer team, John Maloney, and John Kagihara. The lower fuselage is also being re-skinned. The landing gear has been overhauled and major work on the three position cockpit completed. Currently, the canopy is being overhauled and reconstructed when necessary. When the fuselage is completed, the interior will be painted and reinstallation of parts can begin. Work on various components in the engine compartment has begun and numerous re-fabrication projects identified. All-in-all, major progress has been made in the O-47 restoration and a completed fuselage with tail surfaces is in sight.
Volunteers in the O-47 team are John Benjamin, Dave White, Jack Felix, Lou Cook, Larry Glover, and Robert Wilhelm McCain.
Aichi D3A2 "Val"
2009 saw progress in the long term restoration of the Japanese Aichi D3A2 "Val" dive bomber. Sections 3, 4, and 5 of the cockpit canopy were completed and a new bulkhead for the tail section was completed. New attachment fittings for the rudder and vertical stabilizer were also machined and installed plus many ribs were redone.
In late summer (Aug-Oct), Alex Gonzales was joined by Shigeru (Sam) Hayashi. Sam lives in Japan and traveled to Planes of Fame Air Museum to provide invaluable project assistance. Sam translated various Japanese documents/manuals looking for needed dimensions in the tail area. He also converted metric dimensions to "U.S." dimensions for easier use. The new information allowed Sam to fabricate a new trim tab mechanism for the rudder and correct the structure of the horizontal stabilizer. We hope that Sam will be able to rejoin us in the near future and also thank his very understanding wife who allowed his extended absence from home.
Grumman OV-1 Mohawk Project - A Salute to Viet Nam Veterans
Thanks to the "heroic" efforts of Jim Dale, Dick Cole many other Planes of Fame Air Museum volunteers, our OV-1A Mohawk flew into Chino in November of 2006 having been rescued from a small airport in Louisiana where it sat through multiple hurricanes. After its military service it was used in aircraft icing research and made its way through several different owners. This particular OV-1 is the second production aircraft built and the oldest flyable Mohawk in existence. We are very close to getting the Mohawk back into the air where she belongs. Our goal is to fly the Mohawk at air shows as our SALUTE TO VIET NAM VETERANS. As you can imagine the Mohawk needs some work and financial support. If you are able to give, it would be greatly appreciated.
If you have questions or would like to tour the Mohawk, please e-mail Planes of Fame Air Museum volunteer and project coordinator, Scott Turner.
Thank you for your interest and support, Team Mohawk (Dec 1, 2013)


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Dance On Film ~ Jerome Robbins' NY Export: Jazz Opus, The Film
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Jerome Robbins' "ballet in sneakers" re-imagined on film with the NYC Ballet on the streets of New York.
New York Magazine says, "This film is just about the purest, sexiest thing going in ballet."
Wall Street Journal calls it "the most infectious tribute to the Big Apple since Jay-Z's 'Empire State of Mind'"
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About the film
In 1958, Jerome Robbins' "ballet in sneakers," NY Export: Opus Jazz, became a smash hit when it was broadcast on The Ed Sullivan Show and toured around the world. Set to an evocative jazz score by Robert Prince and abstract urban backdrops by Ben Shahn, the dance told the story of disaffected urban youth through movement that blended ballet, jazz and ballroom dancing with Latin, African and American rhythms to create a powerfully expressive, sexy and contemporary style. Now, the work comes full circle in a vibrant new scripted film adaptation, conceived by New York City Ballet soloists Ellen Bar and Sean Suozzi, and shot on location around New York City. This feature length film premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival, where it won the Emerging Visions Audience Award.
Despite all the success and visibility of its debut, the intervening decades have found Opus Jazz infrequently performed. The concept of taking this little-seen ballet and adapting it for the screen in a modern, real-world context was the brainchild of two New York City Ballet soloists, who, while dancing the ballet, found that it had urban themes and a contemporary relevance that spoke to them. "Sean and I danced Opus Jazz at the New York City Ballet revival in 2005," explains Bar. "We thought the ballet seemed a bit dated in its 1950's trappings, but the themes that came out in the dancing — the energy and raw emotion of urban youth — were just as relevant today as they were then." Mr. Suozzi adds that because the ballet is danced in sneakers, instead of toe shoes, it seemed especially fitting to be filmed on location. "We decided to put our dancers in regular clothes, instead of costumes," says Suozzi. "It makes the dance even more accessible. Ballet doesn't have to be a mysterious art form — it's our most natural, visceral expression."
Enlisting directors Henry Joost (Catfish, Sundance '10) and Jody Lee Lipes (Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same, SXSW '09), Bar and Suozzi set out to make the most ambitious dance film in recent memory — the first to return Jerome Robbins' choreography to the streets of New York since the movie version of West Side Story. Shot on anamorphic 35mm film, this on-location adaptation utilizes New York City locations like the pre-renovation High Line, McCarren Pool, Coney Island, Red Hook, and Carroll Gardens as backdrops for the five very different movements of the ballet.
Run time: 60 min.
The Dance on Film series is presented by the Bud Werner Memorial Library, Perry-Mansfield and Steamboat Dance Theatre. The free screening includes an introduction by dance history professor and Perry-Mansfield Executive Director Joan Lazarus.
About the film's commentator
Joan Lazarus served as Executive Director of Oakland Ballet, General Manger of Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center, and Executive Director of WestWave Dance, an annual festival of new choreography presented in San Francisco. Joan has performed with or in the works of Alonzo King, Cliff Keuter, Ellen Bromberg, Victoria Morgan, Krissy Keefer, Frank Shawl, Bill DeYoung, Toni Pimble, Richard Colton and Alan Ptashek. She taught at the University of Oregon, Mills College, San Francisco Ballet, Dance Circle of Boston, The Princeton Ballet, RoCo Dance & Fitness, and Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, and co-authored the Dance Curriculum Guide adopted by the San Francisco Unified School District. She received Bay Area National Dance Week's Contribution to the Field of Dance Award in 2006, and in 2012 she received an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Sustained Achievement. Lazarus was named 2011 Dance MVP by the San Francisco Chronicle. Joan joined the staff at Perry-Mansfield in June 2012.
About Dance On Film
This 2013 Dance On Film series is presented by Bud Werner Memorial Library, Perry-Mansfield and Steamboat Dance Theatre. Perry-Mansfield celebrates its 100th anniversary as the oldest continuously operating arts camp in the United States this year. Steamboat Dance Theatre is a community dance organization presenting its 42nd annual concert March 20-22, 2014, in addition to year-round dance scholarships and education programs in Yampa Valley schools and throughout the community. This collaborative and educational dance film series features free screenings of the hottest new dance documentaries along with the finest classic dance films from a variety of genres filmed throughout the ages.


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this is my system spec
asus P5G41T-m LX INTEL G41 mobo
Corsair Vengeance 8gb ram
4870x2 graphics card
q6600 cpu with freezer 7 pro cooler
ocz zs 750w psu
windows 7 ult 64 bit
I am trying to play different games, bf3, cod 3 and when the game starts to load i get the BSOD. if i go into CCC and turn off A.I the games will play. (im gussing this is only using one core of the card)
i have used driver sweeper in safe mode to clean out the old drivers, and am running the newest ccc/drivers 12.2. I have tried a few older version as well but with no luck.
nothing is OC and all standard.
anyone know why this is happening or know what i can try and do to fix it please
many thanks
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I have tried cod 3 as well, but it is the same.
anyone else had this problem, or know a way of fixing it?
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