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Hello Asawar
What Albert Hourani wrote is totally false and relying on a sensational journalist (Zaidan) for your history is wrong too. Mawali weren't second class citizens, they had full rights since they were muslims. The guy thinks that the post-Islamic Mawali system is the same as the pre-Islamic one which is totally false. Many Mawali went to become governors. military commanders and high state officials. A huge minority of them were also scholars and judges and here are some names from different periods for your knowledge:
Dinar ibn Dinar, mawla (plr Mawali) and military commander for the Ummayyad clan.
Musa ibn Nusair and his family: The conqueror of North Africa and co-conqueror of Iberia, he was first a military commander, then a politician then commander again as well as military governor on all the lands west of Tunisia. His sons and family were also prominant politicians and military commanders. He was a Mawla for the Ummayyds
I think I gave ample evidence that what these guys said, particularly Zaidan, was wrong. Mawali were never treated as second class citizen's with no rights and had to pay jizyah like none muslims, it was the masses of ordinary people from conquered lands who were converts but were not included into the system of wala that the grossly exaggerated "second class" citizenship. Also, the shu'ubiyyah movement that came in the early abbasid era and was supported by them contributed to this false sense of victimization for the none Arab muslims and mawali. Remember, most of the historians of the later periods were none Arabs and reading the erroneous accounts of the Ummayyads highlights this fact.
I both agree and disagree with you on your first point. Yes the Sassanids were a divided empire with powerful regional nobles and people who only fight to seek wealth, but I disagree with you on the issue that this was their doom. This was the Sassanid system. It worked perfectly for hundreds of years and it survived many incidents where the existance of the empire was threatened an it survived. With the Arab invasion it was to be too much for them and the natural course of history came over them. 600+ years later the same thing will happen to the Arab empires with the Mongols and so on. The Asawirah joined because as one of them said after Qadisyyah and this is not an exact quote "they (Sassanids) are dying and we want to survive". Daylamites too joined the system when it was profitable and rebelled when they thought it was profitable like all wild and semi-nomadic tribal peoples of the world (including bedouin Arabs).
As for my quotes from Al-Baladhuri and others, well I have to admitt I didn't go and read the book from cover to cover, I just read the part about the early days of the conquests and the Ummayyad period. Your quotes are authentic obviously, since you quoted the same paragraphs in detail I earlier posted, and I don't find any contradictions or history manufacturing on my part. I said Daylamites paid tribute till they felt some weakness then they rebelled, then armies came an after a couple of years engagements and siege to their mountains peace and so on. The Daylamite "resistance" in the Islamic era was like their "resistance" during the Sassanid era, out of opportunism nothing more nothing less.
"I both agree and disagree with you on your first point. Yes the Sassanids were a divided empire with powerful regional nobles and people who only fight to seek wealth, but I disagree with you on the issue that this was their doom. This was the Sassanid system. It worked perfectly for hundreds of years and it survived many incidents where the existance of the empire was threatened an it survived. With the Arab invasion it was to be too much for them and the natural course of history came over them. 600+ years later the same thing will happen to the Arab empires with the Mongols and so on. The Asawirah joined because as one of them said after Qadisyyah and this is not an exact quote "they (Sassanids) are dying and we want to survive". Daylamites too joined the system when it was profitable and rebelled when they thought it was profitable like all wild and semi-nomadic tribal peoples of the world (including bedouin Arabs)."
Believe it or not the long-time-believed-via-muslim-sources of Sassanid sudden fall mainly due to their inner problems, and corrupt government, corrupt religion is not professionally acceptable todays. As for years with addition of chinese annals and sources to Sassanian studies, comparative study of Sassanid military potence through Byzantine sources. And the fact that it was mainly due to Arab Muslim military might and intelligence, and their celestial mission, is now seem ridiculous in professional matters. Yet historical accounts testify the Arabic might and talent in military expeditions and governing an empire by destruction of the other people's culture, and plundering of they resources.
"This was the Sassanid system. It worked perfectly for hundreds of years and it survived many incidents where the existance of the empire was threatened an it survived"
Yes it did but it exhasuted mainly to external pressures from east and west especially upon it's end. And at last it was seen that all the military brilliance of the Sassanids faded away when great quantities of it's enemies actually wounded it. Arabs for example took a part of their kingdom first -which about ten years ago was captured and it's resistence potentials totally annihilated (the region of Khwarwarn, Iranak or like arabs say Iraq)- their capital Ctesiphon (whose early capture by the Arabs due to it's bad geographical poistion, gave the Arab enough gold to finance for many years many expeditions) was then times just nominally theirs and Arabs actually didn't do much endeavour to take it.
The fall of Sassanids was marked by the various simultaneous blows from Byzantine-Turkic-Khazar alliance, which at that time really aimed to erase the Sassanids once for ever and thus free a vital part of the silk road to Byzantine empire. after that time Sassanids just lingered cause their traditional dignity didn't allowed them to believe that it was over, and actually they were waiting for another blow especially from Byzantine, or Turkic Khaghanate. but actually the two of them were -after striking that successful blow- involved in another series of wars with their neighbour, one of which resulted in the fall of Turkic Khaghante at the hand of the Chinese.
"With the Arab invasion it was to be too much for them and the natural course of history came over them"
You may go on insisting of this, good luck. vereything happened so far in history was the Natural course of history..hehe The Sassanids actually weren't natural enemy of the Arabs as they helped them many times (see the events of invasion of Arabia by the people of Ethiopia empire) but it should be taken into consideration that Arab invasions of Iran started almost as early as the Sassanids established their kingdom. Actually the opportunist Arabs always took advantage of a single weak point in Iranian world. By the time of the Shapur II the Arab invasion was almost successful and they penetrated into Sassanian heartland (Parsa) pillaging. But by the intervention of a might ruler Shapur II with Sassanian strong army they repelled and punished Arabs badly (ridiculuous that Arabs after their conquest of Iran did many evil deeds in Parsa region itself, stating taking revenge of those times) See the way they think of the other people guys!
"I said Daylamites paid tribute till they felt some weakness then they rebelled, then armies came an after a couple of years engagements and siege to their mountains peace and so on.."
And I said with reference of some sources NO, you dindt notice that the Jaziya and tributes you said before about Deylam was actually tributes the cityu of Rayy or Dastbi had to pay. And you obviouslywere wrong considering Rayy and Qazvin Daylamite cities. And Urwah ibn Zaid took no tribute from them as the accounts just tell of his victory over the joint army of the Deylamites and Persians in Vajrud after battle of Nahvand.
"The Daylamite "resistance" in the Islamic era was like their "resistance" during the Sassanid era, out of opportunism nothing more nothing less."
That's what I said in my previous post!
"Finally about the failure of resistance of the Spahbods and other provincial nobles"
At first I should make it clear that Deylmaties had no title Spahbod. and their failure was about the fact that many of them in charge of the regions or cities prefered to pay the tribute as they couldn't raise an army who could match the quantity of the Arab armies.
"well it was a direct result of the failure of the Sassanid system after Qadisyyah and particularly after Nihanwand which is why it was called "Fath Al-Futuh" or roughly "the conquest of conquests". After its collapse every noble was to himself which made it easier for the Arabs to finish the conquest."
Yes I agree, as many eastern governors were sometimes actually under control of the Turkics. But you are wrong it was not the failure of the Sassanid system after Qadisyyah and particularly after Nihanwand as it was the DIRECT result of the final destruction of iranian armies after the universal war of the byzantine-turkics and then the Arab invasiosn against them.
As for battle of Nahavand I say that it's a very good subject to study for the interested.
- Clear defensive stance of Iranians (which shows the strong probabilty of iranians being more less tha Arabs in conrary to the most islamic sources given numbers)
- The indication of the raw recruits from almost city of Iran in islamic sources (which shows indirectly the military shortage of the Iranians in terms of good soldiers)
- The clear mythicized scenes of the battle which actually turned into stories later times
- The indication of the fact by Islamic soucres, that Arabs somehow know that once Iranians are out of their defenisve positions, they could win the day.
By the way I noticed you said somewhere Deylamites changed sides. It is in some narration that Deylamite soldiers in service of Sassanids changed sides in battle of Qadesiya NOT the Deylamites as whole!
"Second, the Sassanids were weak, but were not a spent force"
If they weren't a spent or weakened force by extrenal factors, they would have certainly acted differently facing Arabs. some scholars facing this fact suggested that Sassanid armies during a long time battle with Roman armies, adapted the tactics and warfare, which were aimed to work out confronting the Romans; I don't deny this reason, but I do insist these are all minor causes to what really happened, in brief, lack of troops for defending Iran.
If one reads history of the Sassanian from beginning to end, will observe that this was not the first attpemted Arabic invasion in Iran. As there are accounts that during the Turco-persian wars, Iranians used a rather rational policy and made peace with Byzantines, piad off the invading Arabs and proceeded to face the Turks on the northeastern frontiers. the point is before and after Islam Arabs always tried to launch an Invasion of Iran for sake of plunder. though the fact the Islamic government united Arabian tribes to a greater extent. Yet the stories that Arabs never dared or even dreamed of attacking the land of Kasra is fictional story.
"The Byzantine wars ended for ever before the Arabs ever even united in the Peninsula (in 628). The Turko-Persian war ended a year later. Seeing that the Turks chose the long way around the Caspian to Attack the Sassanids in the Caucasus I think this is evidence that they were too weak for a direct frontal attack in the Khorasan-Mazandran area"
In 628 emperor Herakelios after siegeing Ctesipon, signed a favorable treaty on his terms with the new king Kavad II son of the former slain king Xosro II. But even after Byzantine departure there's no account of the full departure of the Turkics and Khazars from Iranian lands in north. But yes why did Heraklios signed the treaty in haste and left his allies? it is could be to many causes; Herakelios was afraid of the byzantine frontiers and even was not quite confident of his allies ( Maybe Yabghu-Khan the Turk khan upon the serious defeat of the Sassanids mostly have his own plans for Iran in the future.). The other reason is the same which acted dramat in the turning point of the war from Sassanids to the Alliance, that was "Shahrvaraz" - one of the commanders of the Sassanian armies in victories over Byzantines in Asia minor - who as result of conflicts commited by Xosrau II revolted and did not attend to the rest of the Sassanian wars against the alliance, continuing seprataely with his notable amount of elite troops in Calcedonia. According to Tabari Shahrvaraz upon his enemity with the king until his death was still present on the Roman soil and we should say his presence was one of the reasons of the Herakelios departure to confront him, as again according to Tabari, Shahrvaraz and his men suffered defeat and the Romans pursued and killed them.
But the scene is not over yet, As soon Yabghu khan had to haste to secure his eastern frontiers and left his son "Buri-Shad" in his place. and again in 628 - the year of most of the changes happened against Sasanids as near as their- after return Yabghu Khan attacked gergia and captured and plundered city of Tiblisi. This time we see the Turkic invasion of Aran or Agvanak more inside the Sassanian lands in the book "Tarikh i Aghvanak". Later in 630 they attacked Armenia. in the clashes between Sassanid sent forces of 10.000 men the truks mangaed to eliminate almost all of the Iranian army. But the sources doesn't give account of no Turkish penetartion deep into Khurasan during the wars of the Alliances mostly in the west. ( As the Sassanids surely had already drawn most of their troops from the east to the west)
So it's not about chosing a long way through Cacausus mountains to be weak! this could have the following reasons:
-They wanted to joing the Byzantines in the siege of Tiblisi.
- Many of the allies of the Turkics were Khazar and Dulu, as for which this way was better.
- No account that the Turks at the same time didn't took advantage of the east.
"However if they did attack during theIslamic conquests there please correct me because I not well versed in that place's history during that period except from what I read about the conquests. Arab invasions started first in 635 and became at full speed in 636"
Now if you note that in 630 there was a serious defeat of the Sassanids at the hand of the Turks in Armenia, it is far from reason that their penetrations and frontier attacks did not last after the year 630 maybe just not documented. And guess what dear reader the Arab invasions already started .In fact there was during the time of Xosro II himself (start of the Byzntine-Turkic Persian wars) a battle fought between a division of Iranian armies and Arabs, in which the division were annihilated ut they didn't take it into account. ( Unfortunately I dont remember the source but i will put it as soon as i remember)
"As for Persians helping Arabs, well it wan't out of charity, it was in their interests, Arab petty kingdoms of Yemen gave them Arabia Felix for free, even a stupid guy knows that this opportunity won't come again. The Petty kingdoms of Yemen were in long struggle with the Northern Arab tribes, Banu Tamim, Bakr Wail, Taghlub etc. and had no problem with the Sassnids who were close and had the might to end the joint Judeo-Ethiopean control on Yemen."
Reading islamic history books like Tabari's or Dinouri's you will notice that in fact Arabs pleaded firstly the romans after their refusal pleaded many times Sassanians until they said yes and dispatched troops to reconquer Yemen. no more saying!
"Finally about my note on the Daylams, well as I said before, these were free people, like Bedouins, Berbers other nomadic, semi-nomadic and clan based peoples of the world. They cherished their freedom and only money could insure their loyalty. The Daylams who fought for the Sassanids fought for money not Persian nationalism or freedom from the Arabs (in the political sense). They actually couldn't care less who governed the Iranian plateau. They just wanted money. The defeated Sassanid and their noble allies couldn't afford money but the Arabs could so they joined them. Pure legitimate opportunism."
I did emphasized that they werent quite subjects to the Sassanids. But fortunately according to accounts like Al-Baladhuri it is obvious that doesn't mean they were ready to accept invaders in Iranian soil, as they shortly after the battle of Nahvand. joined the remainder of Sassanids, people of rayy to fight the Arabs. thus not feeling like to be subjects to the Sassanids they clearly appreciated freedom of Iran. And they did care who goverened Iranian plateau as they were historically related to the Medes tribes. please don't try to impy such theories.
As for opportunism I think they had right to use it. As that was their home and Arabs were simply blood-thursty Invaders. Invasion and defense there's a huge difference between these two.
"The Byzantine wars ended for ever before the Arabs ever even united in the Peninsula (in 628)"
Look at the dates of the first Muslim waging wars on the Ghassani and Byzantines:
battle of Muttah 629
battle of Tabuk 630
conquest of Mecca 630
this shows that even the Muslims hadn't still expand their control over Mecca to the south, it is obvious they were matcless in Arabia and thus its actual rulers, why? the reason why is that they waged two wars to Byzantines and allies before actually conquering Mecca!
So what we have here Byzantine-Turkic vs Sassanid war nominally ended in 628 with Turksstill proceeding further successful attack most notable of them annhilation of teh Sassanid army in Armenia in 630 (plus unkown situaton of the Sassanid control over parts of its huge land of Khurasan at the time).
So I think what you're saying thenceforth is also exactly admission of the Muslim military mights before and after 628.
That story is disappointing!
- Persian humiliated Arabs? how? when? where?!! in the fables? I think it was more Arabian jealousy of the Iranians. No recorded invasion of Arabia by Iranians only defending. let alone that Iranians even accepted the Yemeni Arab request for help to drive out the Habashis!!
- Did the Byzantine, Sassanids ask for it and got it?! Sending emissaries to tell you yield your home or pay a homage tribute if not there will be blood! No wonder cause I know the way Arab Muslims think always thought of the other nations throughout history ( a matter they best preserved in their traditions till now)
- About Persian governour of Yemen it's just a story of his orders to attack muslims. And he certainly did surrender to Islam, cause he wasn't blind and was observing the situation.
"well unfortunatly the rules of war during that period in Human history said that allies who betray treaties are killed, it was done by the Romans, Byzantines, Sassanids, Arabs, Mongols, English, French etc. So though brutal as it was, it was the law then and everyone accepted it"
Oh nice topic "it was done by the others"!, but let me ask you this question: "if it was done by the others, were they preaching a faith claiming to be the last or did they claim that they (romans, Sassanids,.....) had a celestial mission for the mankind during human history so on and still insisting on it????
let's compare this two events with difference of about ten years:
actual capturing of Ctesiphon by Byzantines, much less pillaging (Byzantines)
capturing of Ctesiphon by Arab Muslims claiming to be the saviours, total pillage with no mercy (Arab Muslims)
The long recorded tradition of beheading the prisoners of war to disheart the enemy by Arabs.
I read it and I think my post earlier answered it.
Byzantines didn't have the stomach nor the resources to conquere all Persia. They knew it was more expedient to capture the capital, force a truce for a certain number of years and hope that events later would help them finish the Sassanids once and for all. As it turned out, the Sassanids immediately went into civil conflict changing 11 emprors in some 20 years. Only when Yazdgerd came did peace finally came on the sassanids. By this time Arabs came and wanted Iraq (which comes either Uruk or Sumerian root for lowlands) as well as Khuzestan, the Arabs came to stay. They never had any plans to go beyond the mountains. Arabs have been recorded as being living there for nearly a mellenium and they wanted to clear it from the Persians. What happened is that things changed (Omar famously said "I wish a mountain of fire was between Persia and the Arabs"). When Omar knew that Persians were preparing for a comeback he authorized the Nehavand expedition and a complete conquest for the land.
"By this time Arabs came and wanted Iraq (which comes either Uruk or Sumerian root for lowlands) as well as Khuzestan, the Arabs came to stay. They never had any plans to go beyond the mountains. Arabs have been recorded as being living there for nearly a mellenium and they wanted to clear it from the Persians. What happened is that things changed (Omar famously said "I wish a mountain of fire was between Persia and the Arabs"). When Omar knew that Persians were preparing for a comeback he authorized the Nehavand expedition and a complete conquest for the land."
Yes, I have heard that some say the Prophet himself promised Syria, Iraq, Iran and Eygpt to his followers. On the other hand Arabs invasions was always accompanied with pillage and some sort of opportunist migration. ( By the time of early Sassanids there are accounts of the presence of some Arab tribes settled under protectorate of Shahanshah in Kerman province, the very tribes which earlier came for plundering the lands of south Iran).
The interesting is that the saying related to Omar ibn Khattab caliming he wanted only a firewall of some sort could be only a myth. Arabs though not very keen on living in the lands of Iran ( cause the climate of the most of Iran is not so generous), but on pillaging its cities.
Iraq itself wasn't a homeland to Arabs since a millienium but the another semitic people like Babylonian, Akkadian, Assyrian, etc. Arabs presence always marked by migrations from Arabia since ancient times until some 200 years ago in which Arab tribes still were migrating into Khuzestan province and south Iraq.
"As for massacres and murder of POWs, it did happen but it was rare. Only few incidents were ever recorded and in any given case POWs could only be killed on the expressed orders of the Caliph and many were not. Instead they bought their freedom."
Heh, wrong it did happen even without the very order of the Caliph. First I should point out again that if everyone on those times did such slaughters ( which I doubt the other did with harshness of the Arabs), those others than Arabs weren't claiming to be the saviours of the people of the world and have still insisted on the holiness of the conquests, cherish the commanders of the conquest like they live, even to day we live now!
Some example of the slaughters without permission; Abu Musa Al-Ashaari ordered at the siege of Shushtar that Arabs bring forth the Iranian prisoners of the former wars and behead them to intimidate the defenders. (Dinavari, Akhbar Al-Toval).
"As for pillaging, well fortunately we have a census ordered by Omar (see Kitab Al-Kharaj by Abu Yusuf) for those paying Jizyah and living in the Sawad of Iraq and Khuzestan. Those were found to be more than 600k able bodied working men. Multiplying by 4 (assuming there were 4 people who didn't pay jizyah for every one who pays it and this is about the standard) we find that Iraq alone from today's Baghdad to the Gulf coast and having the river Karkhah as the boundry between Iraq and Khuzestan had 2.4 million"
Well we see again that Arabs thought or think that Jiziya is a natural thing and duty of anyone. it's booty after pillaging! the statistics are given variously in most of the islamic sources as well.
"Iraq at the turn of the last century didn't have that much. And from all this land only a small size was taken and most of those lands were imperial holdings or holdings of the previous Arab rulers, the rest were left for the people with a fixed tax of 10% of the total value of the produce of the land. The local nobility or Duhqans continued to exercise power almost unchallanged all over the conquered lands so hardly any large scale pillaging occured, except for the city of Ctesephon which was natural"
Pillagin of the city of Ctesiphon was natural. yeah Arabs needed resources of the capital of the others to be able to fund their further expeditions to spread the faith which of course were costly (so it's natural even today that they sack any place).
Wrong again! see guys! the Dehgans were allowed as long as the Arabs needed them. As you can see after a century they disappear to great extent, e.g. the richest in Parsa province ( the very heartland of Persians) were therefore a Arab chieftain who become like other landlords.
Wrong again as pillaging occured to great extent especially for the case of Iranians, for which Arabs held a great envy for centuries, exampls of which, detailed I will give in the next post.


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Reunited: Brindle Terrier Staffordshire Bull Male
- Dog ID 41019
- Status Reunited
- Registered 07 Jul 2012
- Name ED
- Breed Terrier Staffordshire Bull
- Gender Male
- Operation
- Age Adult
- Build
- Colour Brindle
- Tail Full
- Marks & Scars White on chest and paws
- Tagged Unknown
- Microchipped Yes
- Tattooed No
- Date Lost 03 Jul 2012
- Where Lost Hillingdon/Hayes Middlesex
- Lost In Region South East
- Lost In Post Area UB4
- Date Found 18 Jul 2012
- Where Found Uxbridge High Street
- Found In Region South East
- Found In Post Area UB8
- Date Reunited 18 Jul 2012
- Other Info Had a call today (Monday 16th July)from dog walker who said she saw him on Saturday in fields in UB8/10. She hadn't seen the posters then. We went to look but it is a very big place and couldn't see him. It is on the Hillingdon Trail and it goes for miles.
- Phone 1 07958567818/07544511079
- Phone 2 02088453584
- Reward? Yes
- Listed By SAT
- Views 1076
- Followers
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- Yes Kimmybear, interestingly I recently had another call from someone who saw him on the night he was found. She said he was wearing a collar, but the collar he came home in was not the one he went missing in. It seems possible that someone had him before he was found. Hopefully he escaped and wasn't just let loose to negotiate the roads etc. Still can't believe he is home.
To anyone else missing a dog - please don't give up and continue to get those posters out there - other dog lovers love to help. - 2012-07-18 23:30 Kimmybear - Area Co-ordinator Essex and Herts
- Yippee!!! Welcome home Ed! Well done Shirley - for all you know, your hard work may have got him home. Maybe someone had him and he got too hot to handle and was let go? Or maybe, he escaped? Well done to Jack too and to the police. I would be asking the dog warden why HE didn't know you had reported him? Sounds like a breakdown their end, not yours and this is not acceptable. But, yes, to echo SanBarn's comments, well done for having him chipped. You did it, Shirley! You got your baby home! xxx
- 2012-07-18 17:01 SanBarn
- Thank heavens for his microchip! Welcome home Ed. xx
- 2012-07-18 14:24 janiejewel1649
- Fantastic news. Talk about a "Breakdown in communications" Welcome home Ed, I expect now you will have a "Clean up" and some nice grub. Seems as though someone had him for a while. Love tol see a reunited picture if possible:-)
- Had a phone call from Petlog at 2am this morning. Police had found him wandering in Uxbridge High Street, called the dog warden who then sent him to Battersea at Old Windsor.
Dog warden asked why I had not reported him! I had reported him to police, dog warden, vets etc. and had put details on Dog Wardens website and Battersea website aswell as Doglost. Must have been a breakdown in their records.
Strangely I also had a call from a vet in Derwent Drive, Hayes to tell me they had found my dog but it had no chip. On further investigation I found that another dog was picked up yesterday but is more of a lab cross, although similar colouring to Ed. Anyone lost one?
A Mastif (Ibelieve) was also found in Hillingdon Borough too.
Ed looks very well (although dirty) and the pound do not believe he could have been out all the time for the past 2 weeks.
Welcome home Ed. Thanks for help from Dog Lost. Shirley xxx - 2012-07-16 22:21 Kimmybear - Area Co-ordinator Essex and Herts
- Well done! Get some more posters up around there - you can never have enough. Try and plot this point and the place he went from. This should form part of a triangle. These places are parts of his route. Well done. Remember if you should seem him, by all means call but take care not to frighten him as he may not immediately recognise you as he has gone into survival mode. Let him come to you. Don't chase. Give him time to process that it is you. Do this food and scenting daily SAT, same time. Remember wildlife may also decide to eat it though. But it will definitely help, and it may well him eating it. Keep up the fab work. Come on Ed, home time! x
- OK, just got back from scenting and putting food out. Fingers crossed.
- 2012-07-16 20:04 SanBarn
- A sighting! This is good news. Maybe do some scenting near the area he was seen? Also leave food at regular times so that he stays around that area.xx
- I have phoned the police. He is such a friendly dog that I would be surprised if he wasn't spotted by someone. We're keeping positive.
- 2012-07-15 17:55 SanBarn
- SAT,posters are the best thing,not everyone knows that they should inform the dog warden when they find a dog.Ed could be with someone or in the woods,dogs can be very good at hiding themselves in woods and fields,moreso now the crops are getting tall.Have you been to your local police station to ask if any one has reported a dog? Keep in contact with the dog warden,local kennels and vets once a week as Ed needs to be kept fresh in their minds.xx
- Hi, have been out again tonight putting up more posters. Ed has got out before which made me get him chipped. He didn't go far and was reported to the dog warden that time. This makes me think that he is probably with someone local but they haven't reported him yet.
I have put up posters around where I think he would have gone to and some further afield. It is basically in a built up area but with fields and woods not too far away. - 2012-07-11 20:45 Kimmybear - Area Co-ordinator Essex and Herts
- Where does the garden lead out to? Fields? Roads? Residential estate? Would Ed usually have come back home if he got out? I'm trying to think where he could have gone and why he hasn't returned yet. Dogs do usually come back to the place they went missing from if they can, so leave something of home, e.g. blanket, old jumper, outside this fence if there is no longer any access for him. And keep checking there. Posters everywhere! You are doing well. x
- Ed went missing from the back garden when the neighbour was replacing the fence and didn't realise he could get out.
- 2012-07-10 22:51 SanBarn
- Sat,how did Ed go missing? You're doing all the right things, don't forget to give a poster to the local postie, better still, a trip to the local sorting office to leave posters for the posties to take out with them, doctors surgeries and health centres are a good bet too along with community centres and any retirement homes, anywhere that a lot of people come and go.xx
- 2012-07-10 21:40 Kimmybear - Area Co-ordinator Essex and Herts
- Well done, Sat. Just keep working at it, it will give you something to focus on and it will make Ed famous, so if someone does have him he will be too hot to handle. Also, it can remind people if they saw him so they call you. Can you post on here how he got lost, as people can get clues from that. Thanks and well done! Come on Ed, where are you precious? x
- Ok thanks. Some vets I have phoned get alerts from the microchip company and also some have said they will spread the word throughout their companies. Just off to put more posters out.
- 2012-07-09 22:19 Kimmybear - Area Co-ordinator Essex and Herts
- Sat, remember to do everything in the email, one by one.the most important thing now is to poster 100's, working out from the area Ed was lost in, at least a couple of miles, and then further. Remember council's road crew and Highways Agencies' crew do not scan dogs, so you must call daily to remind them. Same applies to railways. If someone has picked him up, you need to make him too hot to handle with all the posters. You CAN do it! Let's get Ed home! x
- 2012-07-08 22:15 Jayne - Head Office
- Alerts sent to helpers in UB1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. HA2,4. W7.
- Thanks everyone. Have put up posters and contacted local warden, vet and Dogs Trust. Will continue to do more this week.
- 2012-07-08 21:27 Kimmybear - Area Co-ordinator Essex and Herts
- Emailed and texted owner re basic info and photo now on. Advised I am not co-ord for this area and that the local co-ord will contact owner shortly. Alerts please. Thanks. x
- 2012-07-07 22:37 Kimmybear - Area Co-ordinator Essex and Herts
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Super scientist Nina returns to the science lab for lots more experimenting in the sixth series of CBeebies' popular science show. In this series children from around the UK visit Nina to investigate why our bodies are brilliant. Also on hand to help are Nina's five animated sense Neurons.
Nina and the Neurons is a series of 15-minute programmes made by BBC Children's Scotland for CBeebies - aimed at the four to six age group - which focuses on the five senses.
Each programme starts with Nina practising an experiment or demonstrating an activity for her Science Show later that day.
Nina is then interrupted by a video message (on a TV screen in her lab) arriving from a child. The child is asking Nina a question, eg. "Why can I only see stars at night, Nina?"). She thanks the child for question and promises to come and help them find out the answer.
Nina then meets the child and family at either their home, or a suitable location to do a series of very simple experiments with them which will answer the child's question.
Once Nina receives the child's question, she states that she will need some help from the Neurons to help her with the answer. Nina selects one neuron of the day who will be most apt to operate the required sense relating to the question. So if question is "Why can I only see stars at night, Nina?" then the experiments will require much use of the sense of sight, and so LUKE will be the neuron of the day for that programme. However, all neurons will be involved in each programme, as we do, of course, use all our senses for most daily activities.
The Nina and the Neurons website raises awareness of the five senses and asks children to explore them in a humorous way. It does this by drawing on children's' experience of the real world and the way that their body works.
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- Become aware of the five senses and the ways they affect their body (and in doing so, their day-to-day lives).
- Learn some basic scientific facts and skills by watching Nina carrying out some fun experiments in her lab.
- Be inspired to discover more about the world around them.
Nina and the Neurons now has a game for mobiles and tablets which gives children a fun and exciting introduction to Physics. Nina's Workshop Drop helps children to develop their thinking and decision-making skills, rewarding them with fun physics every time they play!
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In Vaclav Havel's songless version of John Gay's anti-opera, there is no opera. Nor is the show aimed at 'beggars' (or the common people), but at intellectual dissident sympathisers. For Havel (lately President of the Czech Republic) was a severe critic of the harsh Soviet influence which followed the 1968 invasion of his homeland. After much privation during these years, he was resurrected as a hero when the Eastern bloc collapsed.
Unlike the Brecht/Weill 1928 spin on the same material (in The Threepenny Opera), which was a voluble in-yer-face critique on capitalism, Havel attacks the oppressive communist regime that entrapped him. In a way then, Havel's play is the antithesis of Brecht.
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Feral Interactive today announced that F1 2012™, the FORMULA ONE™ racing simulation game, will be released for the Mac later this year. Developed by Codemasters Birmingham and published by Codemasters for consoles and PC, F1 2012 is the follow-up to F1 2011 and the BAFTA Award-winning F1 2010. As the first new Formula One game to appear on the Mac in over ten years, F1 2012's arrival on the starting grid will be welcomed by Mac gamers.
The official game of the 2012 FIA Formula One World Championship™, F1 2012 features all the teams, drivers and circuits from this most hotly contested season. All 20 tracks are recreated in meticulous detail, including classics such as Silverstone, Monaco, Hockenheim and Monza, along with more recent arrivals such as Singapore's Marina Bay Circuit and the brand new Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.
F1 2012 offers thrilling gameplay that, in an intense and extensive Career Mode, accurately simulates motorsports' most demanding competition. Players get to pursue a Formula One career and battle the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel for the FIA Formula One Drivers' WORLD Championship. They can also take on the role of race engineer as well as driver, fine-tuning their car set-ups according to the circuit, weather conditions and their own handling preferences.
In addition to Career Mode, F1 2012 features several other modes; Season Challenge condenses the Formula One season into just ten short races. Quick Race allows players to choose any car, track, driver and weather condition. Champions Mode pits players' skills against each of the six former FIA FORMULA ONE DRIVERS' World Champions competing in the 2012 season in events that showcase those drivers' exceptional talents, such as Kimi Räikkönen's prowess in bad weather.
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"Informative & covers a lot of territories"
Yes I'd listen again to help recall some of the important points about various relaxation techniques to induce obes, as well as how to control my spiritual self once I come out.
I loved that he covered so much unknown territory. The most fascinating parts were the limitless freedom & knowledge we can access out of our physical bodies, as well as the spiritual control we have, & that nothing can harm us there.
My favorite part was probably where he talks about our ability to explore our complete present life's history from any perspective, as well as our past lives!
My most extreme reaction to this book was that it explained so many useful, creative &, unexpected ways to use this ability. It actually made me much more determined to pursue access this spiritual world, which I haven't been able to do on a conscious level yet. (this book made my current INability much more frustrating lol)
This book contains many valuable tips I never would have thought of. So it's worth listening to again!:)) BUT his hypnosis chapters did NOTHING to help me. It's probably my own fault for having such a scattered mind & poor relaxation habits.
"Loved this book, really influnced my perspective"
Definitely yes! I'd recommend this book because Nick Vojicic's story was unusually inspiring to me. I heard about it thru my 12 yr old son who couldn't wait to tell me about this cool guy he learned about at school! So I'd love to spread this guy's story the same way to my family/ friends. Nick uses great humor & charisma (through his own narration) along with extreme openness & trust, letting the audience in on his greatest fears & lowest moments of despair. Therefore, he kept my attention start to finish. I could hear his raw emotion about his life & past. He has such determination to reach his goals, & living for God & for others rather than himself....... without overdoing the religious parts/ bible quotes, & without judging others. He related his experiences to everyone's real life problems, & not just how it relates to him. He brought me to tears a few times which is rare:)
Nick Vujicic........ Becuse I can't imagine handling his situation with such a great attitude. & after hearing his story, I think that more now, than ever, maybe regular people have great strengths deep down which we're not necessarily aware of..... yet. (probably given to us somehow by God)
This is an easy question...... Nick's shows his true-self all through this book & it shows constantly in his voice. He doesn't hold back, & even broke down in one chapter, but kept talking right thru it.
Absolutely yes, when he talked about his thoughts of suicide.
Great book, awesome narration & message for all people of all cultures & religions.
"Too much rambling on w/irrevelent details = boring"
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Something else with interesting true story/ stories or an unusual biography.
I suppose the narration quality was fine, so yes:)
Marylin Manson, he already looks so freaky that anything about him doesn't come as a surprise.
The story about the combine (or tractor) demolition derby night was where I started having doubts about this book, & losing my focus. The author seemed to ramble on wayy too much with details for my taste.
"not believable, nor consistant"
Firstly, the TITLE is completely misleading. This book was much more about the bible & accepting Jesus Christ, than haunting demons, possessions, & Satan.. Secondly, It just plain was not believable. The first chapter really kept my interest & was very intriguing. Then it just got to be ridiculous...... the writer's actions & reactions just didn't follow human nature. I was looking for a good, scary, TRUE story about demons, hauntings, or possession, where good probably triumphs over evil, perhaps with a mention of Jesus here & there..... not a Bible lesson.
No, this book has not turned me off to others in this genre. I would take anoother chance. This topic is very interesting & believable to me.
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- It would be interesting to have examples of instances where 'consultations' in any quarter operated in the spirit of openness to evidence.
- Point of accuracy – in his quoted letter to Councillor Bruce Marshall, Mr Walsh did not discuss 'stopping' the planned joint primary campus for Dunoon but simply, post election, asking for the plan to be suspended pending clarification on funding options not previously known to him.
- A straw poll would be interesting.
And in this case, we're talking about a council where proposals were put forward to close rural schools without any evidence that anyone, however senior, had read the 2010 School's Act 2010 enough to understand it. And that was primary legislation not minister's speeches or the Scottish Architecture journal.
It's not impossible that no one at ABC knew that the Schools for the Future fund also supported refurbishments. While there may accusations of laxity and incompetence in this, Government information on this is clearly opaque and that is not helpful.
- Speaking purely for ourselves – the frontline presence of this fund says new build.
It would not occur to us to ask if a fund that purported to support one thing might actually fund something else. We would expect the targets a fund supports to be upfront or easily discoverable.
We accept that we have a particularly straightforward attitude to most things but we are experienced readers and analysts of information.
It is reasonable to assume that this information is comprehensive.
We are working, as we try to do, to be fair in this and there is no doubt that the available information is not fully lucid. No one should have to play guessing games with government information and this information does not hint at anything that would even prompt a guess.
- On 25 October 2011 the online journal Scottish Architecture carried an article entitled: 'Scottish Schools for the Future programme expanded'.
It's opening paragraphs said: 'An announcement made on Sunday (23 October) by First Minister Alex Salmond outlined plans to build or refurbish 30 schools as part of the next phase of the school buildings programme – 12 more than originally planned.
This will see the total number of projects built under the £1.25 billion 'Scottish Schools for the Future' programme, which aims to provide high quality facilities for pupils and their teachers, rise to more than 60.'
However, to be fair to Mr Walsh, anyone who went straight to the horse's mouth – as practical people would do – to the Scottish Futures Trust webpage for Schools for the Future, would find it hard to distil any sense that this is other than a new build initiative.
Is it reasonable to expect senior officers and council leaders to hear all minister's speeches to parliament and to be au fait with specialist magazines? Maybe it is.
However, we ourselves would go straight to what we would assume was the authoritative source – and we have been unable to find anything else on the Scottish Government website. One link that seemed germane – 'Building Better Schools: Investing in Scotland's Future' – would not open, recording simply Error 404.
If we ourselves were to go on the basis of the Scottish Futures Trust online material, we would not even ask if the fund covered refurbishments.
So the lack of awareness Mr Walsh claims may have been enabled by poorly managed public communications.
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The information is not unconfirmed. It is utterly authentic.
The venue was in Lochgilphead and yes, we admit to being more concerned with the content that the venue.
This does not mean that you are wrong – and there is indeed an additional interest in the session being held outside Kilmory. - Minutes of today's meeting of 'Concerned Councillors' Group
Duplicate salaries would not be possible within the rules.
This would be a matter of sharing the leader's salary three ways for the duration of the triumvirate. - NOW – 21.00: BBC 2′s 'Town' with Nicholas Crane visits Oban
Wasn't it fantastic – history – and with Catherine Gillies at Dunollie as mercifuly crisp as a brandy snap; the entrepreneurial spirit; the landscape; the seascapes; the island connections; the uniquely beautiful waterfront location that actually addresses its waterfront; the thrilling, mad and testosterone-packed outdoor activities born from the natural resources of a place like this; the masculine industry at Glensanda; the great food; the great music….
Now it all has to be made to be true all of the time.
There was that honest and fundamentally worrying glance at the shops for sale and to let, the shabby properties… and we all know there could have been more of this.
But this programme reminded us all of the core value to Argyll of the unique asset of Oban.
The warmth of the programme should not make us complacent that all is well with Oban – but absolutely determined to get it up to speed and keep it developing. - Minutes of today's meeting of 'Concerned Councillors' Group
The SNP group are clearly unable to progress what they had already agreed at the earlier meeting on 16th May. All of them seem to be totally unable to agree to anything. "Impotent' gets nowhere near the reality.
The paralysis bears witness to the situation we have already published – that the SNP party now requires its councillors to submit their intentions in advance for signing off [or not] by either the local MSP or an NEC member – and the SNP Constituency Association Convener.
The minutes also bear witness to what we said this morning – that they were squabbling amongst themselves and getting nowhere.
What no one could have imagined – nor would we have dared to publish it – was that we would be getting a New Way hydra as leader.
A triple headed short term leadership with three very different heads – Duncan MacIntyre, Michael Breslin and Vivien Dance.
Did someone say something the other day about popcorn and a seat in the front row?
The difference between the clued up and the clueless revealed in these minutes could not be sharper – and the frustration of the clued up is manifest.
It's dreadfully funny – but you have to feel real sympathy for Councillor Walsh. Follow him through the minutes and you get the picture. - Serenissima waits for higher tide – and she has had earlier identities
We are, of course aware of that.
Watching at the time, what we saw her do was make marked changes of course over a short distance, some times at 90 degrees and at one point turning through 180 degrees three times in a row.
While some of this could have swinging to tide and current, the repetitions did seem to suggest controlled activity.
And it was only when she settled that her AIS recorded 'At Anchor.'
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How does prohibiting a specific use of one's property protect private property rights? To get the answer, you'll have to ask Rep. Joe Duarte, R-Candia. He not only claims that it can be done, but that he's done it.
Duarte is a co-sponsor of House Bill 1339. It would prohibit anyone with a hunting, fishing or trapping license from paying a private property owner for the exclusive rights to hunt, fish or trap on said owner's property. This is plainly an abridgement of both private property rights and the right to contract. Duarte, though, says it isn't.
"This bill would prevent giving exclusive right to hunt for payment and excludes others who have the right to hunt while protecting property rights by placing the penalty on the licensee," he claims in the House Fish and Game Committee's report recommending passage of the bill.
In other words, Duarte says the property owner's rights are protected because the bill prohibits the hunter, not the property owner, from entering into a contract for exclusive hunting rights.
That's preposterous. The bill would ban property owners from leasing their own land to anyone, even friends or family members, for the purpose of hunting, trapping or fishing. In a rural state that relies as heavily as New Hampshire does on property taxes, that would deprive some landowners of a source of revenue that could mean the difference between their being able to keep their property or being forced to sell it.
This bill ought to be rejected as the unnecessary infringement on property and contract rights that it so obviously is.
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Doing something we love. Sitting on a boat. Fishing, drinking a beer, watching the world go by as the sun sets.
This is Pepper. She's my cat. She was a farm cat that a friend of mine begged me to 'rescue' so that she wasn't killed by the farmer (how could I say no?!). I was only supposed to keep her until I could find a home for her…that was um, 6 years ago? I wouldn't change things for the world!
Fluffy was the third kitten we got. The first two, adopted from the SPCA both died within 2 weeks of mysterious convulsions. Horrible and weird. Fluffy was a bit older when we got her. And she lived at the local Farmer's Co-Op where her Mum lived in the chemical store. So she's a little….crazy. Not psycho crazy. She won't attack you or anything…she's just nuts. Personally I think her personality is just too big for her little body!
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Jay Thomas/Becca Duran: Song for Rita
Jay Thomas is a fine multi-instrumentalist, equally at home with flute, soprano sax, flugelhorn and trumpet. And the playing of any one of these instruments in no way compromises his playing on any of the others. Like Benny Carter, he is one of very few jazz musicians who are adept on instruments with very different mouthpieces and therefore requiring very different embouchures.
Song for Rita is Thomas' 5th album as a leader and presents a variety of Latin sounds and rhythms. For a real treat, the play list has three relatively obscure tunes by Antonio Carlos Jobim. The whole affair is enhanced and enlivened considerably by the participation of Thomas' attractive wife, Becca Duran, both as a vocalist and as a composer of two of the more beguiling tunes on the agenda, "Song for Rita" and "Au Contraire". The former immediately brings to the ear aural images of Getz and his bossa nova collaborations with Astrud Gilberto. On the latter, Thomas' trumpet noodles delicately and unobtrusively under Duran's lilting vocal. An added fillip on this track is the good guitar by Chas Davidson. Although Thomas spends most of his time on the tenor sax, he takes out the hard to negotiate soprano for engaging rhapsodizing on "Vineet's Blues". His flute helps to impart the eerie environment and sounds of the jungle on "Amazonas". The mellow flugelhorn comes out on the samba, "Wu Wei". Thomas is careful when he plays this horn and the trumpet. Recognizing his limitations, he substitutes enchanting melody for high note pyrotechnics which is an effective and smart way for him to go. This tune also offers opportunities for some inventive percussion work by Mark Iverster. The one standard, "I'm Glad There Is You", is here as a reminder that the artistry of Thomas and Duran extend way beyond Brazilian as Duran puts a shiny, sensuous veneer on this classic torch song, aided and abetted by Norman Durkee's keyboards.
Thomas and Duran alternate between two sets of rhythm, guitar and keyboard, with Miguel Garrido's bass the only constant appearing on all tracks. The shift in personnel in no way detracts from the quality or vigor of the performances. This is another fine effort by this Seattle pair and is highly recommended. Visit Jay's Internet page at www.emeraldnet.net/~biggroove/files/jay/thomas.html.
Track Listing: Song for Rita*@$; Antigua^; I'm Glad There Is You*@$: Little B's Bounce^; I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do*@; Amazonas*; So Tinha de Ser Com Voce*@$; Wu Wei^; Leaving*@; Vineet's Blues^; Brigas, Nunca Mais*@; Waltz for Joanne*$; Au Contraire^
Personnel: Jay Thomas - Trumpet/Flugelhorn/Tenor & Soprano Saxophone/Flute; Becca Duran - Vocals; Miguel Garrido - Bass; Luis Peralta*, Mark Iverster^ - Drums/Percussion; Rick Reed@, Chas (Vineet) Davidson^ - Guitar; Norman Durkee$, Joshua Wolff^ - Keyboard
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The cast of "Thor" is quickly shaping up! First, Marvel announced that Chris Hemsworth is their choice to play the god of thunder, now, the studio revealed that villain Loki is going to be played by Tom Hiddleston.
Loki is the nemesis of Thor and is known as the god of lies and mischief. Loki is actually Thor's brother, but the sorcerer resents our hero.
Sibling Rivalry Alert!
"Thor's" director previously worked with Hiddleston as his co-star in the BBC's "Wallander." Both also starred in the London stage production of "Ivanov."
Mark Protosevich, Ashley Miller and Zak Stentz wrote the script for "Thor."
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"Bridget Jones's Diary" is set to become a live musical!
The 2001 film is based on the popular book of the same name and the author, Helen Fielding, is working on the show's book and will contribute to the song's lyrics.
No word yet on the cast, but Renee Zellweger is definitely NOT returning for the musical version.
I enjoyed the book and the film, so I'm looking forward to seeing the musical!
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My fellow critics have revealed their favorites at these year's Cannes...so far (remember, we still have until May 24th):
"A Prophet" by Jacques Audiard -- already nominated for the Golden Palm at Cannes, the film tells the tale of a young French-Arab who is sent to prison because of his Mafia associations.
"Bright Star" by Jane Campion -- also nominated for the Golden Palm, it's a drama about the 3-year romance between poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne. And we all know Miss Jane Campion can do period piece like no one else can! Oh yeah, she's also the only woman to have won the Cannes' Palme d'Or.
"Fish Tank" by Andrea Arnold -- also a Golden Palm nominee, the film tells the tale of 15-year-old Mia who must deal with her mom's new boyfriend.
"Vengeance" by Johnnie To -- From Hong Kong, this action drama is about a French assassin working as a chef who goes to Hong Kong for revenge! Another Golden Palm nominee.
That's it for now, more Cannes update later!
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First Look: "Disney's A Christmas Carol" Plus How You Can Board the Film's Train Tour for Special Sneak Peeks
JIM CARREY stars as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in DISNEYS A CHRISTMAS CAROL, a multi-sensory film re-envisioned by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis. Capturing the fantastical essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3D motion picture event, DISNEY'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL opens in theaters around the world in November 2009. Early footage from the film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2009.
-- Disney is pulling out all the whistle stops and taking its show on the road with a spectacular immersive and interactive 40-city train tour including a 3D sneak peek of film footage from the upcoming movie Disneys A Christmas Carol, it was announced today (05/08/09) by Dick Cook, chairman, The Walt Disney Studios. Set amidst a snowy backdropcomplete with all of the sights and sounds of Christmas including carolers, decorations, giveaways and many more surprises in each of the 40 citiesthe Train Tour is being launched with HP on board as the title and technology sponsor and driven by Amtrak. This family event is for guests of all ages and is free to the public.
Disneys A Christmas Carol Train Tour kicks off Memorial Day Weekend 2009 in Los Angeles, traveling across the country with stops in 40 cities, culminating in New York City in November. Visitors will be treated to a behind-the-scenes look at the magic and the cutting-edge technology of Disneys A Christmas Carol. Pictured above is the state-of-the-art 48-foot-wide, 3D theatrethe first inflatable 3D theatre ever to go across the countrywhich will be erected onsite in each city showcasing an exclusive sneak peek of Disneys A Christmas Carol in Disney Digital 3D.
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Where the Chobe and Zambezi Rivers join they form Impalila Island, at the end of which four countries meet (Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe)
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This is to say nothing of the excellent bird watching nor the superb fishing for bream or tiger fish
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May 10
Former PJP Board Member Nominated to the High Court
Former Peter Jennings Project Board of Advisors member Elena Kagan was nominated today by President Barack Obama to take Justice John Paul Stevens seat on the Supreme Court. 2008 PJP fellows will remember Kagan as part of our panel on Women in the Law. But Kagan was more than a PJP participant. Until she resigned after assuming the position as Solicitor General for the Obama Administration, Kagan was an active board member, advising director Todd Brewster on programming and showing dedication to PJP's mission to increase constitutional awareness in the press. Here is an admiring piece about her from the New Republic, authored by PJP faculty member Jeffrey Rosen and released today.
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Reynoldsburg High School DECA is cleaning house. The association of marketing students is following the example of the television show and hosting a huge garage sale that will feature Reynoldsburg apparel from the high school bookstore at low prices. "One could easily walk away with an armful of hoodies, T-shirts and the like, for under $25," DECA President Jenelle Krumlauf said. The DECA Garage Sale will be held at the high school in the cafeteria and cafe patio from 5 to 8 p.m. March 27 and 9 a.m. to noon March 28. DECA will accept cash and all sales are final. The proceeds from this sale will help the DECA members who will attend the International DECA Career Development Conference in Anaheim, Calif. at the end of April. DECA, an association of marketing students, explores the different roles of marketing through study, events and competition. There are 33 members at Reynoldsburg High School and nearly 180,000 members worldwide. Students must take the course marketing, management and research at the high school to be a member of DECA. For more information about DECA, go to www.deca.org.
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Historical exchange rates not updated
After installing and running the 'Exchange Rate Downloader' today (2009/04/14), going to Tools-Currency/Exchange Rate and editing US Dollar, only one entry for 2009/04/07 is listed. Base currency is set to Canadian dollar. Why is there an entry for a week ago? Does this extension only get a rate for today to display on the home page? How do you get historical rates into the securities/currencies table? Do you have to add it in manually?
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The "Exchange Rate Downloader" does only seem to get the current exchange rate. This is a 3rd party extension and I am not sure of its exact functionality. However there is another extension called "Stocks/Forex Quotes Auto Synchronizer" which will record the exchange rate at regular intervals and provide you with a history of the rates.
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Hello Ben,
I also had the extension called the"Stocks/Forex Quotes Auto Synchronizer" installed and updating on file open (& 30 min intervals) as well as "Profit Calculator", "Moneydance Updater" and "Exchange Rate Downloader". I've since removed "Exchange Rate Downloader" but after the stocks were updated by "Stocks/Forex Quotes Auto Synchronizer" , a check of the USD exchange rate table shows no changes.
Hello again
I have contacted the developer and now have a clearer understanding of the intended functionality of thes extensions. "Stocks/Forex Quotes Auto Synchronizer" and "Exchange Rate Downloader" work in tandom. "Exchange Rate Downloader" does the actual downloading of the currently available numbers from yahoo. And "Stocks/Forex Quotes Auto Synchronizer" invokes "Exchange Rate Downloader" at regular configurable intervals. So both extensions are necessary.
With regard to historical data I cannot verify on my machine that a record of past exchange rates is recored as i have only recently installed the extension. However in consultation with Brian (another member of the support staff) it seems that historical data is only stored for exchange rates on a weekly basis, regardless of the frequency with which you invoke the "Exchange Rate Downloader".
I hope you find this helpful.
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Fall fair and costume contest
CALLICOON, NY —Catskill Regional Medical Center (CRMC) and the Grover M. Hermann Hospital Auxiliary are sponsoring a fall fair on Saturday, October 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine, at the Callicoon Division on Rt. 97. Read more
Church fair
PORT JERVIS, NY — The Drew United Methodist Church will hold a church fair on November 3 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Vendor tables will have jewelry, handmade gifts, crocheted gifts, candles, napkins, greeting cards, homemade soup, Rada knives and Christmas decorations.
There will be a bake sale, a coffee break from 9 to 11 a.m. and lunch from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. with sandwiches, hot dogs, soup and apple crisp.
Call 845/845-3423.
'Extreme/Outside the Box' new art exhibit
WURTSBORO, NY — An art exhibit titled "Extreme/Outside the Box" will be on display at the Wurtsboro Art Alliance Gallery from October 27 through November 11. This exhibit is intended for mature audiences and viewer discretion is advised. An opening reception is planned for Saturday, October 27 from 2 to 4 p.m.
The gallery, located at 73 Sullivan St., is open Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 4 p.m. or by appointment. Visit www.waagallery.org or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Paintings by Ken Bosch at By Delaine
NARROWSBURG, NY — Paintings by Ken Bosch will be exhibited at By Delaine, a gift shop at 44A Main St. from Saturday, October 27 to Sunday, November 4. An artist opening reception is planned for Saturday, October 27 from 4 to 8 p.m.
Bosch grew up in Highland Lake, NY. He holds a B.A. in Fine Art from SUNY Oswego and an M.A. from Marywood College. His career as an art teacher began at Narrowsburg Central School, where he taught from 1972 to 1986. He currently teaches in Wilmington, DE, and plans to paint fulltime following retirement this year. Read more
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News Analysis: fracking in Cochecton; divisiveness is 'heartbreaking'
Fracking is already thriving in Sullivan County. Not the same controversial natural gas extraction method that makes headlines. No, this is community fracking, the social byproduct of the hydraulic fracturing debate, pumping tension through Sullivan County communities that face the possibility of gas wells dotting their landscape. Read more
Sullivan West voters approve spending
Sullivan West taxpayers voted to approve spending $2.698 million from the Capital Reserve Fund to pay for repairs and construction for two school campuses. At the elementary school in Jeffersonville, the money will go to resurface the track, repair the cross country trail, replace the 1961 roof, replace an underground oil tank and to create a storm water retention pond for a planned sports field. Read more
Shohola resident withdraws complaint
Shohola resident Carrie Thomas elected to withdraw her August 9 complaint against Shohola Township for various violations of the Pennsylvania Sunshine Act, which she claimed occurred during a special meeting of the board on July 12. Read more
Pike and Wayne arts grants
STROUDSBURG, PA — Wayne County Arts Alliance and the Ritz Company Playhouse in Hawley as well as the Black Bear Film festival in Milford are the top grant recipients among Wayne and Pike County artists and arts organizations named to receive Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA) Grants. The announcement came this week from the Pocono Arts Council. Read more
Highland burglaries
A series of burglaries in the Town of Highland have come to an end with the arrest of an individual suspected of committing those crimes. Chief constable Michael Walton reported during the town meeting on October 16 that the perpetrator had been breaking into the basements of vacant homes and stealing copper wiring. Patrols have been increased throughout the town. Walton reminds residents that any unusual activity should be reported to the constabulary at 845/557-3489 or by calling 911.


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Bear: Good/great etc.
Poo-er: Variation of 'poor'. May also end with 'ness' to create an adjective.
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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Affectation is the product of falsehood
Endurance is patience concentrated.
Worship is transcendent wonder.
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
No violent extreme endures.
The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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