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Whether you live by the beach or just dream about ocean breezes, you can enhance the natural beauty of your home with crisp white, splashes of coastal colour, and sea-themed accents. Be inspired by these nautical accessories to give your house a coastal feel. Anchors, ships wheels, wooden lighthouses, beach signs, sailing yachts, vintage oars, fishing nets and surfboards all make for great beach house decor.
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Cup-feeding is a way to provide breast milk or formula to a baby who is unwilling or unable tobreastfeedor drink from a bottle. If a mother wants to breastfeed, cup-feeding is also sometimes used as an alternative to bottle-feeding for a baby who needs supplementation for a few days.
To cup-feed your baby, fill a medicine cup to about1 fl oz (30 mL) with breast milk or formula. Make sure your baby is supported in an upright position and is wrapped or swaddled to keep his or her hands from getting in the way and spilling the cup. When you swaddle your baby, keep the blanket loose around the hips and legs. If the legs are wrapped tightly or straight, hip problems may develop. Your baby should also be alert.
You want your baby to slurp or sip the milk. Do not pour the milk into his or her mouth. To do this:
- Stimulate your baby's rooting reflex (as you would when you breastfeed) by tapping the baby's lower lip with the cup. This signals that it's time to eat.
- Rest the brim of the cup lightly on your baby's lower lip, with the brim placed on the outer corners of the upper lip. The tongue should be able to move freely to the cup's lower edge.
- Tip the cup so the milk comes to the edge of your baby's lower lip. Make sure your baby swallows after slurping or sipping the milk. Leave the cup in this position, even as your baby takes breaks. You will need to stop for occasional burping.
The feeding should last no more than about 30 minutes. Follow your baby's cues about when to stop.
Many babies with special needs can easily learn how to cup-feed. This feeding technique can promote the physical bond between the mother and baby when breastfeeding or bottle-feeding is not possible.
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Phuket , known as "The pearl of the south" , is one of Thailand's most popular tourist destinations , attracting visitors from both Thailand and overseas.There are numerous beaches along its coast.
Phuket , the pearl of Andaman , never fails to make a lasting impression on its visitors with the perfect natural beauty and all the conveniences for those who truly seek a quite rest. This impressive surrounding is easily accessible either by road , air or ferry.
The fresh breeze , pleasant sunlight and fine white beach that stretches to meet the emerald sea continues to welcome the rolling waves, the scenery that awakes any sleepy spirit before the sky in the horizon gives way to the gentleness of twilight, freshness and tranquility to take place right here.
One of the most popular tourist areas on Phuket is Patong Beach on the central western coast, perhaps owing to the easy access to its wide and long beach. Most of Phuket's nightlife and its cheap shopping is located in Patong, and the area has become increasingly developed. Other popular beaches are located south of Patong. In a counterclockwise direction these include Karon Beach, Kata Beach, Kata Noi Beach, and around the southern tip of the island, Nai Harn Beach and Rawai. To the north of Patong are Kamala Beach, Surin Beach, Bang Tao Beach & Layan Beach. These areas are generally much less developed than Patong, and sought out by individuals, families and other groups with a preference for more relaxed and less crowded environs than Patong. There are many islands to the southeast, including Bon Island, just a short boat trip away. There are several coral islands to the south of Phuket, the Similan Islands lie to the north west, and Phi Phi Islands to the south east. Islanders engage in a lively tourist trade, catering to snorkellers and scuba divers.
Nai Yang Beach, Phuket is where the Nation Park office are located. The beach itself is a long curving bay lined with evergreens that provide shade to picnickers--for which activity this a very popular spot. The large coral reef is home to many different species of fish, and Nai Yang is well known as a site where sea turtles come to lay their eggs during the period from November to February; the population of these has, however, dropped off greatly. First class accommodations are available, and small food vendors cater to the many day trippers that visit.
Layan Beach, Phuket is at the northern end of Bang Tao beach where the beach meets a river and a lagoon. The area is home to many birds and other wildlife who enjoy the peacefulness of the lagoon. The many small tracks which cover the hillside of the beach are well known by climbers and bird watchers. You can reach the beach by walking pass the Laguna Phuket Resort or by following the highway and turning in to Nai Thon beach at the road sign.
Bangtao Beach, Phuket is a large open bay with one of Phuket's longest beaches. It was once used for tin mining, but has since been developed into a luxury resort. Most of it is occupied by the Laguna complex, a massive five-hotel development with golf course. There are, however, accommodations available outside Laguna at the bay's south end. Dry season swimming is excellent, and at the bay's north end is a smaller bay, almost completely enclosed, at the mouth of which is some fine coral. Plenty of places to eat, tour companies, and other tourist facilities available either at Laguna or in the nearby town of Cherng Talay.
Surin Beach, Phuket is known as 'Millionaires Row' due the the top-end celebrity haunts Amanpuri, Twinpalms and The Chedi amongst the luxury resorts there, as well as the many US$ 1 million+ houses that sit proudly on top of the hills overlooking the Andaman Sea. Although popular with tourists it's not a busy resort town, more like a coastal village. Fine white sand and turquoise water has ensured that the picturesque beach is very popular with tourists and Thais alike. The whole area is awash with high end hotels and housing which in turn has created opportunities for high end restaurants and wine bars.
Kamala Beach, Phuket is a Muslim fishing village north of Patong. Tourist development on the beach much of which is covered by a Muslim graveyard and a police outpost has been slow in coming. Buffalo herds still come down to the beach to cool off in the afternoon. The beach is beautiful and about 2 kms. in length. There are accommodations ranging from guesthouse to international class, and a number of small Thai restaurants specializing in seafood for the tourist. Kamala is the perfect place to get away from it all and has little to offer in the way of entertainment for that go across the mountains to Patong. Regular bus service to and from Phuket Town during daytime; tuk-tuk service available to Patong, 5 kms. away on the new road.
Patong Beach, Phuket is a beach on Phuket's west coast. It is the main tourist resort in Phuket and contains the centre of Phuket's nightlife and cheap shopping on the island. The beach became popular with western tourists, especially Europeans, in the late 1980s. Patong Beach - over 2 km of golden sand awaits you in one of the most famous beaches in all of Phuket for those who would like the feeling of busyness, this is probably the beach for you. Fast driving notorious for its great variety of activities such as motorized water sports, wakeboarding, kayaking, volleyball and have their party when the sun goes down, Patong is also one of the most interesting places to be on. If you get hungry angry, you are not for the street right next to the beachfull of restaurants, cafes and bars. If you're in the mood for surfing head for the northern end of the beach as the waves a bit, there are more open to the wind and tend to give a real rush!
Karon Beach, Phuket is one of Phuket's longer beaches (5 km) and rarely feel full. There are no toilets on the beach, in contrast to Patong, but the hotels throughout theStreet are more than happy in general, leave their bodies) (a charge. Fine white sand and beautiful waters, if you want sun and beach head to the south of the beach if you just want pretty much in itself, a small corner down in the north overlooking the lake is a perfect place.
Kata Beach, Phuket is a few minutes away from Patong, this beach is lined with palm trees and said the ideal family beach with its calm and shallow waters making it ideal for swimming. The water here is excellentsnorkeling in the northeast) monsoon season (November to April. The most common sports would probably be the Banana Boat, and dragged through the water to be accompanied by a speed boat and clinging to ensure that you do not fall down!
Rawai Beach, Phuket site of the Chao Ley or Sea Gipsy village, many restaurants and bungalows, shell handicraft shops, and both fishing and charter boats to the nearby islands. The beach itself is suitable for swimming. Rawai is 7 kms. west of Chalong Circle.
Cape Panwa, Phuket its sand is rather rough and the water shallow but it's certainly very scenic with views out across Chalong Bay and Lone Island. Luxury villas and condominiums line almost the entire beach but dotted in between are fishermen's huts and at the far west end of the beach there is a mangrove swamp.


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State Champions!
NAMPA — For the past several seasons the Snake River Lady Panthers have been knocking on the door. On Saturday, the Lady Panthers kicked that door in and then sprinted their way to the first girls state basketball championship in program history as they downed the Filer Wildcats 51-34 at the Idaho Center in Nampa.
"It's the first time that a Snake River Panther girls basketball team has been in a state championship game and the kids responded real well," Snake River head coach Rich Dunn said. "The funny thing about it is that our first two games over here this weekend were probably the worst that we've played in the four years that we've been here. It just so happens that this year we were able to get ourselves into the championship game and I thought that tonight was the first night that we played good basketball. It's good to get over that hump. You have to get there to be that program and we want to be that program."
Early on it was all Wildcats as they built a quick ten point lead with a basket at the 6:53 mark in the second quarter as Snake River trailed 18-8.
That's when Snake River awoke however as they turned up the defensive pressure, closing the second quarter on a 16-4 run, including a dagger at the buzzer when Makena Shelley dialed long distance directly in front of the Filer bench, sending the Lady Panthers to the break with a 24-22 lead.
"Our goal was to be close at the half because we don't have a lot of depth. We're eight deep and when you have to play three nights in a row it's something that you have to overcome," Coach Dunn said. "We worked on our little zone press at our shoot around today that we've kept in our bag all year because we really haven't had to use it and when we were down ten we knew we would have to go to that press to create some turnovers and it went our way."
Filer tied the game on their first offensive possession of the second half but the Snake River defense then clamped down on the Wildcats, as they allowed three more points for the remainder of the quarter while the offense tallied 11 in the frame.
"It's funny. We are a man defensive team and we didn't run man all night," Coach Dunn said. "What we did though was run our zone with a man to man mentality and I really think that it threw them for a loop because there really isn't any film out there on our zone defense."
In addition to the solid defensive performance, the Lady Panthers also did a fabulous job of rebounding against a Filer team that sported a trio of girls who stood over six feet tall. Brylie Bair was the stalwart of the Lady Panthers rebounding efforts as Bair ripped down 17 rebounds on the evening to finish the night with a double-double as she added 13 points. She also drew 11 fouls on that trio of bigs down low, saddling the Wildcats with the dreaded foul trouble.
"When you get over here to state it's a physical game and I think that Brylie Bair responds to that really well and that zone put her into position but she did a good job of finding body first before boxing out," Coach Dunn said.
"I've played that girl in volleyball so I came out knowing that I needed to put my best effort in and with it being the last game I not only wanted to do it for myself but for my team," Bair said. "Everytime I see someone with that kind of talent it makes me want to do just as good."
Snake River put the finishing touches on their state championship with a 16-7 fourth quarter. Snake River were led by Shelley and her 15 points. Kylie Coby added 11 and Madison Pilster added 10 as four out of the starting five tallied double-digits in the scoring column, much to the delight of the large contingent of Snake River fans who made the trip to Nampa.
Filer 14 8 5 7 - 34
Snake River 8 16 11 16 - 51
Filer (34) - Anna Williams 2, Katie Hughes 13, Sarah Sharp 2, Jenna Jarolimek 4, Alyssa Case 2, Sierra Koyle 3, Kassidy Moon 2, Cassidy Ferrell 6. FG: 13. FT: 8-19. 3-pointers: 0-6. Fouls: 21. Fouled out: (Sarah Sharp). Rebounds: 43 (Cassidy Ferrell 9). Turnovers: 22.
Snake River (51) - Madison Pilster 10, Makena Shelley 15, Scout Baldwin 2, Brylie Bair 13, Kylie Coby 11. FG: 16. FT: 14-25. 3-pointers: 5-18 (Madison Pilster 1, Makena Shelley 3, Kylie Coby 1). Fouls: 16. Fouled out: none. Rebounds: 42 (Brylie Bair 17). Turnovers: 14.


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Cellcom Israel ltd. Announces Sale of a Small Portion of its Issued Share Capital by Controlling Shareholder
Feb 12, 2013, 09:01 EST
NETANYA, Israel, February 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Cellcom Israel Ltd. ("Company") (NYSE : CEL ) announced today that Discount Investment Corporation Ltd., or DIC, the Company's controlling shareholder, has informed the Company today that it sold in Israel to Israeli investors approximately 1.69 million shares of the Company, constituting approximately 1.7% of the Company's issued share capital, for a total consideration of approximately NIS 46 million in cash. Following the sale, DIC holds approximately 41.9% of the Company's issued share capital (approximately 45.3% of the Company's voting rights).
The shares have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933. Accordingly, the shares may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
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Cellcom Israel Ltd., established in 1994, is the leading Israeli cellular provider; Cellcom Israel provides its approximately 3.338 million subscribers (as at September 30, 2012) with a broad range of value added services including cellular and landline telephony, roaming services for tourists in Israel and for its subscribers abroad and additional services in the areas of music, video, mobile office etc., based on Cellcom Israel's technologically advanced infrastructure. The Company operates an HSPA 3.5 Generation network enabling advanced high speed broadband multimedia services, in addition to GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks. Cellcom Israel offers Israel's broadest and largest customer service infrastructure including telephone customer service centers, retail stores, and service and sale centers, distributed nationwide. Through its broad customer service network Cellcom Israel offers technical support, account information, direct to the door parcel delivery services, internet and fax services, dedicated centers for hearing impaired, etc. Cellcom Israel further provides through its wholly owned subsidiaries internet connectivity services and international calling services, as well as landline telephone communication services in Israel, in addition to data communication services. Cellcom Israel's shares are traded both on the New York Stock Exchange (CEL) and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (CEL). For additional information please visit the Company's website http://www.cellcom.co.il
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5 τοῦτο φρονείσθω ἐν ὑμῖν ὃ καὶ ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, 6 ὃς ἐν μορφῇ Θεοῦ ὑπάρχων οὐχ ἁρπαγμὸν ἡγήσατο τὸ εἶναι ἴσα Θεῷ, 7 ἀλλ' ἑαυτὸν ἐκένωσε μορφὴν δούλου λαβών, ἐν ὁμοιώματι ἀνθρώπων γενόμενος, 8 καὶ σχήματι εὑρεθεὶς ὡς ἄνθρωπος ἐταπείνωσεν ἑαυτὸν γενόμενος ὑπήκοος μέχρι θανάτου, θανάτου δὲ σταυροῦ
IreneY wrote:OK first: Fig tree question I think you are right. That's how I read it and this essay (?) seems to agree with us
Third one I really can't tell. It confuses me a lot I must say so i will have to work on it a bit.
As for "Δεῦτε οὖν καὶ ἡμεῖς, κεκαθαρμέναις διανοίαις συμπορευθῶμεν αὐτῷ καὶ συσταυρωθῶμεν καὶ νεκρωθῶμεν δι' αὐτὸν ταῖς τοῦ βίου ἡδοναῖς·" : Could it be the object of νεκρωθωμεν? That's how I read it at least.
As for the last one: I think it refers to the following quote by Luke (13:33) " 33 πλὴν δεῖ με σήμερον καὶ αὔριον καὶ τῇ ἐχομένῃ πορεύεσθαι, ὅτι οὐκ ἐνδέχεται προφήτην ἀπολέσθαι ἔξω Ἱερουσαλήμ." Haven't checked its syntactical role though if that's what you are asking.
IreneY wrote:Hi! About that third one. It's an off-chance but is it included here? http://www.ccel.org/ccel/brownlie/greek ... epage.html
As for "νεκρωθῶμεν" that's exactly what I mean. Kind of like "dead to the world" or something. I think you figured the rest out yourself so you don't need my paltry efforts to help out a bit I do want to crack that third one out though, it's driving me crazy!
P.S. Big Week eh? That's a good one. Have you tried actually explaining the idea of "Big/Holy Monday" etc to people? Have of them look at me strange and the others sort of get what I'm talking about (forget "Big Saturday"! That's too strange )
IreneY wrote:Hey there! About the "Big Week". Apparently very few people thing of the Holy Week as well, a holy week. Holy Friday yes, the rest of the days no, not really. I mean, sure, they are holy but they don't think of them as so. Don't know if I'm making any sense here.
How about "Let your "state" of the omogenon (?) be the opposite of the order of the heathens? As in our leaders are the "least" (hockey doesn't help thinking linguistics you know) and not considered (or consider themselves) the most important people (as they do in the social order of the "heathens")
IreneY wrote:Have to think about it a bit longer. Question (since I am woefully inadequate in some aspects of Koine): Can κλήρος mean anything else than what it usuallly means? Just to cover all my basis and not try for a meaning that could be wrong. About αυθαίρετος now; I think it may actually have the meaning of "self-chosen" not as "voluntarily" chosen but maybe "arbitrary whatever"? Could be that modern Greek gets in the way though
As for hockey yes, I'm a fan. Was even before I moved and let me tell you, hunting for hockey games on sat TV is no fun! One of the nice things about moving to the US is I can watch hockey to my heart's content. I have to say that I was rather impartial when back home, favouring the Red Wings only because their colours are the same as Olympiakos' but now that I am in Michigan I'm definitely supporting them (nothing whatsoever to do with my husband being a HUGE supporter of them at all )
P.S. Going under Epitaphios was fun!! (Anastasi still is Fun story: None of my grandpas was very religious. My mom's dad however was really annoyed by the culinary restrictions of lent. Therefore, when he found out about Μικρή Ανάσταση, he decided that since Christ had already risen he didn't have to fast anymore! According to my mom he drove my grandma crazy because he would start singing, drinking and grilling meat outside just after noon ! )
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Natur & Miljö i Kambodja: Månatliga uppdateringar
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Cambodia Marine Conservation Project – July 2012
This month was extremely productive, we got to put into practice all the research that was planned and discussed the previous month with experts from the Seahorse Trust and Save Our Seahorses.
Conservation Projects
Reef Surveys
All the hard work in training volunteers in June paid off with our reef check surveys being completed in the first 2 weeks of July despite the weather. Surveys were done on 6 of the local dive sites. The reef check surveys look at indicator invertebrate and fish species as well as the substrate composition of the reef. These surveys will be again reproduced in the first couple of weeks of each month to access the health of the ecosystem.
Seahorse Surveys
Our major goal with the seahorse research is to find out exactly where they are and get an idea of the local seahorse population; i.e. Species present, percentage of males versus females and juvenile numbers. So far we have marked 14 seahorses on the site known as 'The Corral'. Of these 14, 8 were male, 4 female and 2 juvenile. All sighted seahorses have been of the Hippocampus spinosissimus species.
We already know that there are seahorses present on 'The Corral' we are now branching off a little to look at other sites around the project that have previously had seahorses or have suitable habitat that seahorses should be inhabiting. So far we have sighted seahorses in the channel between Koh Koun and another dive site called 'Vietnamese Bay'.
With the beginning of benthic surveys looking at the substrate composition and invertebrates, these new sites where seahorses have been sighted will also be included in the survey sets.
To find out more about the lives of the Cambodian seahorses we have started trying to collecting their faeces. To do this seahorses are captured for several hours and placed in jars with holes in them to still allow for water movement whilst retaining the faecal matter. So far we are yet to collect anything as we release the seahorses after an hour before they show any signs of stress.
Clean Ups
With the rainy season upon us, more and more boats use our bay for shelter. This means more and more rubbish that gets washed in off the boats. Volunteers have done a great job cleaning the beaches in all kinds of weather to remove all sorts of rubbish from playing cards to plastics and general rubbish to shoes.
Community Projects
We have finally got a new school building for the children. This one is leak proof and cooler for the lessons. The new school building is closer to the project site which is great as it means more volunteers that are here for conservation can also take part in helping out with the lessons. With the new classroom it seems that the children also have a new attitude towards study, which means sometimes children turn up to several lessons a day, especially now that Khmer school is on holidays. It is great to see everyone turning up and really keen to learn even in their holidays.
Community Playground
We have started a playground up behind the village near the Khmer school. At the moment we are still clearing the land which is a big job, removing rocks, small plants, scrub and grass. When finished it will be an amazing 15m x 7.5m wooden fantasy playground and I'm guessing volunteers may be the first to give it a go.
Other Stuff...
Thank you to the 10 students from Duke University for coming down to the project from Phnom Penh to make a start on the playground. They set the project in motion measuring out the area and beginning the clearing.
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Anne Hathaway Goes Full 8 Mile While Rap-Battling James Corden
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The Robot Elders who rule the robotic population of Chapek 9 are, like most governments, extremely corrupt. They are well aware that humans are no threat to their way of life. Nonetheless, they spread anti-human rumors and propaganda constantly as a means of distracting people from the planet's real problems (such as a crippling lug nut shortage and the fact the planet is run by a government of corrupt, incompetent Robot Elders).
The Elders are four centuries old and were carved from meteorites by the Robot Founders.
The one with yellow eyes is named "Jimmy."
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Fry: Stop! Take one more step and I'll breathe fire on you!
Leela: He'll do it! He's crazy!
Jimmy: Can they really breathe fire or did we make that up?
Blue Elder: Gee, I can't remember any more.
Bender: Humans are no threat to us. They're stupid, putrid cowards!
Fry: Damn right!
Bender: The fact is, humans are completely harmless!
Blue Elder: We're well aware of that.
Bender: You are?
Blue Elder: Of course, but they're useful to us as a scapegoat to distract the public from their real problems.
Green Elder: Like our crippling lug nut shortage!
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Blue Elder: Quiet, Jimmy!
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Big cousin showing little cousin how it's done...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
* Easy Way To Dye Easter Eggs With Kids That Is Mostly Mess Free!
We recently celebrated my adorable niece's 2nd birthday
with a Cousins-Only Spring Birthday Party.
One of our craftivities was easy egg-dyeing!
"C"s preschool teacher let me know about this little gem
and I WISH I had known about it years ago!
The directions for easy tie-dye eggs come from Family Fun Magazine.
Start with hard boiled eggs.
Aunt "D" and I hard-boiled a dozen eggs each
the night before so we would have plenty of blank canvases!
Then, set each child up with a colander over a sink
or, in our case, a shallow pan/dish.
Place one hard-boiled egg in the colander
and splash with some white vinegar.
Add a drop of food coloring.
Then, add another drop from one other color,
and gently swirl the egg around in the colander to distribute the colors.
Yellow seems to make the best follow up color
for most eggs if you don't want them to get muddy.
We did have success with a few eggs with drops of red, yellow, and blue
spread out to make rainbows!
Swirly Girls.
Let the colors sit for a minute to dry,
then rinse the egg in your colander under cool water in the sink.
Big cousin showing little cousin how it's done...
Repeat for your next egg....
how easy is that?!
They'll tie-dye and come out beautifully
and no two eggs will be alike!
My sweet hubby helping the girls.
Wishing you and your family an
Egg-stra fun and Easy Easter!
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Here in Washington, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice has been on Capitol Hill this week trying to drum up support for a nomination she doesn't yet have. She's hoping to become secretary of state, but so far it's not looking good. Rice is under fire from Republicans for what she said on Sunday talk shows, about the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya in September.
NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.
MICHELE KELEMEN, BYLINE: For two days, Ambassador Susan Rice tried to win over her critics, insisting that she did not try to mislead the American people about Benghazi; but was relying on talking points given to her by the intelligence community. Her efforts seem to be backfiring, though. Even a moderate Republican, Susan Collins of Maine, came away unimpressed.
SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS REPUBLICAN, MAINE: I would need to have additional information before I could support her nomination.
KELEMEN: Collins is adding a new wrinkle to the critique of Susan Rice. She is not only holding the U.N. ambassador to account for downplaying al-Qaida's link to the attack in Libya. The Maine Republican also points out that Rice was in the State Department during the deadly bombings at the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
MAINE: And what troubles me so much is that the Benghazi attack, in many ways, echoes the attacks on those embassies in 1998 when Susan Rice was head of the African region for our State Department.
KELEMEN: Another Republican senator, Bob Corker of Tennessee, spent an hour and a half with Rice to talk about his concerns. He calls Benghazi a tawdry affair, and says he's disappointed with everyone associated with it, including the intelligence community, which drew up Rice's talking points.
SENATOR BOB CORKER: I would just ask that the president step back away from all the buzz around this particular situation, and take a deep breath and decide who is the best secretary of state for our country at this time, when we have so many issues to deal with in the Middle East and other places.
KELEMEN: He didn't make any suggestions, though Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts is said to be another leading contenders. Collins of Maine says Kerry, who is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, would be as she put it: An excellent choice and would sail through a confirmation process.
The politics surrounding this baffles Aaron David Miller, vice president of the Woodrow Wilson Center.
AARON DAVID MILLER: Is it an effort to lay down a marker, in the wake of a second term victory to an empowered president that we can't be taken for granted? Is this an effort on the part of the Republicans to force Obama toward another choice, John Kerry, which would then open up another seat? I find some of this stuff not credible and I'm searching for a real explanation.
KELEMEN: Miller, who advised six secretaries of state, says he's never seen anything like this before. And he doubts President Obama will back down from a fight over a key national security position.
MILLER: Its no way to get started, in terms of image and credibility abroad; backing down in response to political pressures, because you were not prepared to fight hard enough for a secretary of state that you clearly have signaled is your first choice. And I think the president has done that.
KELEMEN: And President Obama did so again at his latest Cabinet meeting.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Susan Rice is extraordinary. I couldn't be prouder of the job that she's done at USUN.
KELEMEN: Leading Senate Democrats are also rallying around her. They will have a 55-45 advantage in the next Congress. Rice would need 60 votes to get confirmed. Very few secretaries of state have faced any opposition in past Senate votes.
Michele Kelemen, NPR News, Washington.
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text: In humans, intranasal oxytocin (OT) enhances many aspects of social cognition, including increasing gazing to the eyes, inferring the emotions of others, socially reinforced learning, and empathy. Intranasal OT also enhances some aspects of social cognition and social functioning is subjects with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). While these findings are promising, there are limitations to intranasal delivery, including poor penetration of the blood brain barrier. The study will utilize an alternative approach to stimulate the OT system. Melanocortin 4 receptors (MC4R) are concentrated in brain regions that synthesize OT and MC4R agonists stimulate central, but not peripheral release of OT in rats. Social bonding in the monogamous prairie vole is an OT-dependent form of social learning that may be useful for screening drugs to enhance social cognition. Melanotan II (MT II), an MC4R agonist greatly enhances social bonding in prairie voles. The investigators will explore the mechanisms by which MTII, and a small molecule MC4 agonist from Pfizer, enhance social bonding. MTII is currently being used in humans for other indications, enabling an immediate translational application of this work for enhancing social cognition in ASD. However, before clinical trials can be initiated with MC4R agonists, the mechanisms of action must be documented. The investigators hypothesize that MC4 agonist will promote OT-dependent social bonding in the prairie vole by acting directly on OT neurons in the hypothalamus and stimulating OT release. This study will test this hypothesis with four Specific Aims that determine whether: 1) MC4R receptors are expressed on OT neurons; 2) MC4 agonists induce immediate-early gene activation in OT neurons and induce OT release in the prairie vole brain using in vivo microdialysis; 3)the facilitation of social bonding in prairie voles requires activation of OT receptors in the nucleus accumbens; and 44) the site of action of the MC4R agonist is directly on OT neurons in the hypothalamus. Together these aims promise to provide critical mechanistic information that will be critical for drug development targeting the MC4R and the initiation of studies in humans. This study directly addresses the priority area of evaluating novel treatments that can address the core symptoms and associated medical conditions throughout the lifespan.


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CHESAPEAKE, VIRGINIA -- I was referred to Service Masters by Merry Maids (who said they don't do deep cleanings). I no longer had cats in ONE room of the house and I wanted to turn the room into a nursery. I had already done basic cleaning and wanted them to do a deeper cleaning with stronger products on the walls, windows and blinds. I didn't do the deeper cleaning myself because I'm pregnant and I did not want to use the stronger chemicals myself. I told them I didn't need a carpet cleaning because we were changing the flooring to wood for the baby's room.
The customer representative on the phone seemed very skeptical. It seemed like they didn't want to do the work. They asked if the room had fleas or ticks or feces which I replied NO, since I had already cleaned it, and the cats never had fleas or ticks. At the end of the conversation she said that her boss/manager quoted the cleaning of that one room for about $700 or $800!!! When online I've seen FULL HOUSES of 3,000+ sq ft deep cleaned for $300-$400!!!
MAPLE GROVE, MINNESOTA -- My experience with Service Master was something less than stellar. First, the background. We came back from vacation to find 3 inches of water in our basement - a flood warning had gone out for the area, the only time in the 22 years we have lived here, and the only time our sump pump really needed to kick in. The pump failed, leaving us with a disaster. Because everybody was so booked, we ended up pumping out the water and doing what we could to siphon off the excess moisture from the carpet ourselves
After first contacting Service Master, I was rerouted to so many different numbers, I can't recall them all. In the end, I got lost in the rerouting, and had to start all over again. Since there were a LOT of flood calls coming in at the same time - Service Master had brought in people from other states - I can't fault them too much for this. When Service Master did finally come out to begin demolition, the young men cut our wall out at 3 feet high instead of the 2 feet we'd originally been told. This sent our insurance claim higher since, in order to repair the damage, the adjuster had to price it out at 4 foot wide drywall sections all the way around.
After the debris had been removed, Service Master left fans and dehumidifiers to dry the basement out. One of the fans was not working at all. The dehumidifier they plugged was not working. And the second humidifier wasn't plugged in at all. Yet, Service Master initially tried to charge me for ALL fans and humidifiers (they backed off once I pointed out the error), and insisted on charging me for the first day of equipment rental even though nothing was done because the dehumidifier wasn't working. I should also point out that, when my claim adjuster reviewed the Service Master bill, he could not in anyway figure out how it came out to such a high price.
Finally, once the bill came in, I tried to remit payment over the phone with a credit card. Service Master told me that if I did pay with a credit card, they would charge me an additional 2.2% to cover the processing fees. Who does that? Isn't that a cost of doing business? In a nutshell, my experience with Service Master was less than satisfactory. I would never EVER recommend them to anyone.
WILLISTON, VERMONT -- In March of 2013 I had a baseboard pipe freeze and burst. It flooded part of the upstairs and most of our downstairs. I contacted our insurance agent who contacted and sent ServiceMaster to respond and give an estimate and they were contracted to clean up the water and start removing the damaged property. The guy who was in charge had a contract that needed signing and on it said I was responsible for the $500.00 deductible. We talked and he told me "we'll work it out", indicating they probably would absorb it into the estimate.
ServiceMaster completed their job and a construction company, Bergeron Construction from Keene, NH, which I would highly recommend, was called in to do the repairs. They were in many instances were disgusted at the way ServiceMaster HD done their job such as leaving parts that had to be removed still attached, just basically not doing the job. The foreman for Bergeron had to call them on several different occasions to return to the house to complete the work.
Anyway, Bergeron completed the job and I'm a satisfied customer with Bergeron Construction. I received several payments from the insurance company and immediately forwarded them to the appropriate companies and thought everybody was square.
On January 4th, 2014 I received a snotty letter along with a bill from the collections dept of ServiceMaster. This is the first correspondence I ever received from them. The letter said how they had responded in a timely manner and properly handled and managed the damages and how I owed them a balance for costs the incurred to the tune of $500.00. Now I was sure that the guy in charge when they first arrived said it was going to be absorbed into the estimate. Now they pulled this on me. I'm wondering if they are double dipping, having the employees work up the estimate and then hit the homeowner for the deductible which would be free money for the company.
I called the company and spoke to a woman named ** whom didn't take long for tempers and voices to rise. To make a long story short, she told me I had to pay the total amount and that it was not their problem that this bill was almost one year old. She claimed it was tied up in the insurance companies hands.
I shouldn't have played the cancer card but my temper got the best of me and I told her I have terminal lung cancer and if she couldn't work with me on this bill, like making payments, the company may not get a dime because I'm going to be dead from cancer in six months (according to my oncologist who told me this 2 months ago so it really may be four months). I told her again about the dates of the construction and the billing and I could not dish out $500.00 just like that.
She told me she was going to call me the next day with a plan and I'd have to accept it. I told her I may not answer because I had a doctors appt and she said "you'd better call back within a day if I leave a message" and hung up on me. This was on January 8th, 2014. No one called until January 13, 2014 and I told her that a plan had to be worked out that it was unreasonable to expect me to pay $500.00 in 13 days. She pretty much said she didn't care and she felt sorry for people who had cancer because there were people like me who claimed to have it and using it as an excuse. I hung up on her after a few choice words.
I then called her supervisor who said she had heard the conversation and she said the $500.00 was due at the end of the month and furthermore she didn't care that the bill was tied up with the insurance company and she was going to charge me 18% interest monthly on the bill for the past year even though the insurance company had the bill. So that is my complaint that these people may be double dipping. They are definitely not customer friendly when it comes to paying a bill. I probably will pay the bill but it will be after I file a complaint with the Attorney Generals Consumer Protection Division and a payment plan with no interest.
FLORIDA CITY, FLORIDA -- I am an Active duty Marine officer stationed in Japan. My mother, 66 and ill, lives in Miami in a home that I owe. In Oct 2010 she experienced an overflow in the Master Bath that flooded the Master bed, Master closet and part of a closet in the living room. My mother is not technologically savvy and does not understand completely the relationship between companies, clients, and the insurance company. She called a friend who referred her to Service Master Professional, a franchise in South Florida owned by **. ** arrives at the house and tells my mother that they will start immediately and will finish the job entirely.
The insurance adjuster arrives the next day, when ** and his company are already at work. The adjuster barely talks to my mother because ** engages him. Two days after they began the work, on a Friday one worker comes in and retrieves all the gear and leaves. My mother calls ** several times to come back and finish the job. They had taken 3 feet of wall out without replacing it. They also had to disinfect and clean properly. ** tells my mother that he is waiting to see how much the insurance company is going to approve in order for him to come back. After 8 to 10 days we decide to call another company to come in and finish the job.
When ** first came in, he won over my mother's trust by saying things like, "we will take care of you, don't worry, we will finish everything and leave it as new". And he had my desperate mother sign a contract without providing an estimate. ** Company then sends the insurance company a bill directly. Then, ** begins harassing my mother with aggressive, obnoxious, and rude phone calls asking for the check. My mother had to call the insurance with him on the line so that he would stop harassing her. After, an ordeal the insurance company sends a check to my home for me to sign and to pay **. At this point I have not seen the bill, so decide to call **.
He tells me that he did finish the job, that putting the walls down and drying was one job and then replacing the walls was another. Completely different from what he told my mother and completely ridiculous statement. I asked him to send me the bill so that I could review it. The bill was blown out of proportion. He added things in the bill that didn't happen. He charged for equipment that was not used. Like a 1-3 ton dumpster, extra humidifiers and air movers billed for 4 days instead of 2 and a charge for water extraction that didn't take place because when he arrived at the house the water had dropped and my mother had dried up the residue.
His bill totaled $5475.58 when it should had been approximately $2500.00 less. I typed an itemized rebuttal to his claim and send it back to him and made a formal complaint to corporate. Corporate assigned a mediator who reviewed my rebuttal and asked ** to make corrections and re send to me and the insurance company. Instead, he ignored our emails and had his assistant send an email asking when was it a good time to pick up the check, and later another email threatening that he would submit the account to collections.
I again, called him. He said that he didn't agree with the rebuttal and that my mother didn't know the difference between a dehumidifier and an air mover. He then said he would place a lien on my property. I sent out another email to all parties explaining ** absurd position and with photos of the home after the damage but before ** arrived, which proved that the floors were dry and that no water extraction took place. I didn't have pics of the equipment in the house.
However, ** claimed to have pics and when I asked him to share them with me, he answered in his usual arrogant tone: "I'm not playing games." I don't understand what games he was referring to; I could only suspect that he did not have any pictures. The next day [a Friday, Japan time] I receive yet another threatening email from ** assistant informing me that they had submitted the account into the claims department and that on the following Monday a lien would be placed on my home. I knew that a lien takes at least one week to go through and that we would go to small claims court for the judgment.
I also knew that once the judge saw that ** ignored all emails and turned down all negotiations, that he made no honest attempt to solve the issue… that he would not have a case. I knew ** was only trying to strong arm me and pressure me to release payment to his ridiculous charge. However, because the insurance company had no say in the situation, in fact, the representative [who also dealt with **] told me that they had already releases the check and they were staying out of it, I found no reason to fight for an insurance company that was not interested in not getting ripped off. I decided to release the check to **.
Dealing with ** specifically was exhausting. He is aggressive, vulgar, unethical, unmoral, unreasonable; he is far from the epitome of a gentleman or business owner. It is my impression that he has vast experience in bulling, threatening and pressuring people to pay him at will. He is also experienced in dealing with insurance companies and in this case over charging them for an unfinished and poorly executed job. I recommend you avoid him and his business.
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI -- My sump pump stopped working during heavy rains in June of 2015. Servicemaster employees told me they had to put holes in drywall, but would be below the wood trim so it wouldn't be seen. Most of the holes are above the wood trim. They beat the doors up and the door jams. The walls had to be repainted due to them putting marks all over them. Do not use this company if you care about your home.
ST. LOUIS PARK, MINNESOTA -- The city of Eagan, MN's sewer backed up into my basement and of course it was not their fault. So I called ServiceMaster on a Saturday to give me some help. VALUABLE LESSON. This is why you never do anything without an estimate up front. The tech for ServiceMaster (Chris) called me and said they were on their way at about 330 pm. I asked him how much he thought this would cost. He said he would talk to me when he got to my house about the cost. When he and a helper arrived around 4 he said he was unable to give us an estimate because the office was closed on the weekend.
He made us feel better by telling my wife and me that ServiceMaster was willing to work with the homeowner when insurance companies were not involved. Chris and his helper did a great job and did it very quickly. My family and I moved the furniture; they cut the carpet into squares and hauled it out to their truck and then vacuumed the floor dry and sprayed an anti-microbial agent to kill the germs. They were gone after about 3 hours and 45 minutes. I also rented 5 fans and a dehumidifier to help dry out the basement. ** was able to tell me the cost of renting the equipment. 10 days later I received an invoice for $3770.80. I was shocked.
I thought maybe a $1000.00 for labor, because it was on a weekend, plus the rental fee for the equipment, which was another $600. I complained to Todd their representative in St. Louis Park, MN about the high cost and he did make some adjustments down to $3479.99. Everything was charged by the square foot. I still do not understand why they could not have given me an estimate if it was based on square footage since they were standing in my basement. So remember to get an estimate up front.
I feel like they are taking advantage of me and I have learned a valuable lesson not to trust people when they act like they are doing you a favor and trying to help you. I realize people have to make a living, but this really seems extreme. I have emailed them a few times about resolving this, but they do not respond.
SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA -- Service Masters, Shreveport LA, located at 851 Hope St., Shreveport, La 71101 was called to do water restoration work on my master bedroom and master bath after a water leak. Service Master came and installed blower fans and dehumidifiers that were NOT HEPA filtered air filtration devices that are required for a water restoration job.
During the initial visit Service Master's technician confirmed that there was no signs of mold. I hired a mold inspector who confirmed that there was no mold. However she raised concerns that there were no HEPA filtered air filtration devices without which there was a higher chance of mold growing.
She also recommended spraying mold retardant immediately. Even after multiple reminders to Service Masters in the coming days, the mold retardant was NOT sprayed. No mold retardant was sprayed even a week LATER. No mold retardant was sprayed even on the day the fans were taken out. Service Master technician casually forgot to bring the equipment to spray the mold retardant.
At this point the sheetrock had started to discolor. I hired a mold inspector who confirmed that the discoloration on the sheetrock was mold. I called Service Masters multiple times but they didn't pick up my phone calls. A day later they came and sprayed the mold retardant but it was already too late.
Service Masters Shreveport, LA is definitely not equipped to do any water restoration job. They DO NOT HAVE the required filtered air filtration devices. They did not spray mold retardant in a timely manner. Mold/fungal control and inhibition steps were not completed by Service Master within the time frame required to prevent the mold from growing.
Because of their negligent behavior mold was allowed to grow. Airborne Mold and Fungi in air is very dangerous especially for toddlers and pregnant woman. I have a 2 year old and I had to pay out of pocket to do mold restoration on top of the water restoration due to negligence and unprofessional service provided by Service Master.
On top of it Service Masters, Shreveport LA DID NOT take responsibility of their negligence and UNPROFESSIONAL ATTITUDE. During the whole fiasco I was told the management was on spring break and would address my issue once they are back. I cannot imagine how a company is just put on a standstill if the management is on spring break!! A month and several emails and phone calls later, my issue still remain unresolved. No steps have been taken by Service Master to rectify their mistakes. TOTALLY UNPROFESSIONAL!! I am shocked that Service Masters would franchise their name to such management!
CHAMBERSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA -- "Marry in Haste, Repent at Leisure", or so the saying goes. On December 28, 2012, my husband Arnold and I bought the home that was to be the fulfillment of our lifelong dream. On June 1, 2013, that home flooded from the top down, as a result of a ruptured toilet supply pipe.
We called our insurance company and they told us to call ServiceMaster Professional Cleaning of Chambersburg to do the dry-out. We did, and, not knowing any better, we also hired them to do the renovation/repair work (to the tune of our $24000 insurance settlement!), based on the prompt and professional response of their dry-out team, and on the fact that they said they could begin working on the house right away, and would probably be done by September. Since it was mid-summer and all the other contractors in our area were pretty well booked up, that sounded pretty good, and so we went ahead and hired them to do the job.
Five months later, we fired them. Our home was still not finished - nearly every phase of the repair had been bungled: the recently installed drywall needed to be cut open to repair wiring damaged by ServiceMaster "professionals" while reinstalling the electrical receptacles, and to insert a beam in the kitchen that the drywallers "forgot" needed to be installed; our curtains and cabinets, which were undamaged by the water, were badly damaged by ServiceMaster personnel, and our kitchen was still a tent in the backyard and a BBQ grill.
Now here it is Christmastime, here we sit in our ruined house, and we have to come up with more money to pay a different contractor to repair the things that ServiceMaster Professional Cleaning messed up, such as leveling out the drywall around the windows and doors so that the woodwork can be installed; $300 to an electrician to reinstall the outlets that ServiceMaster's team of "professionals" loused up by cutting the openings in the drywall too large, and still more to patch the holes in the drywall after the fix is done;
$172 to the furnace repairman to replace an electrical connection between the furnace and the thermostat, shorted out when ServiceMaster's demolition team tore the thermostat out of the wall along with the paneling it sat on, without turning off the power supply to the thermostat; money to a carpenter to actually install the support beam that ServiceMaster said they had installed, but didn't... the list goes on and on.
Perhaps the biggest insult of all is that we actually paid $637 of our insurance settlement money for a portajohn for the ServiceMaster employees, who used it for a total of five weeks, even though it sat here in our yard and ON OUR DIME for six months, and all the while, we thought that SERVICEMASTER was paying for it!!!
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI -- On July 24th 2013 a defective toaster caused a kitchen fire in our home. I am a single mother of three teenagers and my daughter has just had a child. We did not have renters insurance but my landlord had homeowners insurance that he had been carrying for a lot of years. ServiceMasters got the contract through the insurance agency to restore the home. I was given 4 days to remove the entire contents of our home and find another place for us all to stay.
My landlord told me it could take anywhere from three weeks to a month for them to complete the job. Rent has been paid consistently on time every month, even the last two in which I haven't even occupied the premises. I spoke with my landlord today and he informed me that he spoke with the ServiceMaster's overseer of the project and this man informed him that they were at a standstill until the cabinets they had ordered came in, could be this week or next. It has been six weeks already and I am broke and broken!
How does one get a company moving? I have watched the house sit empty numerous days and when someone did show up to work two weeks after the incident took place, there was only one man, who worked for another two weeks. How does a company that big not have enough people and our economy is screaming for jobs?
It seems to me that if they can rebuild a house in one week as we see on the popular Home Makeover show that someone who is getting paid handsomely could equally do the same, not that I expected that really, but six weeks and still counting seems ridiculous to me, especially with a family who is homeless as a result. Where is the compassion?
STEVENSVILLE, MICHIGAN -- The insurance company said to call these people for water remediation after my roof leaked causing plaster ceiling and wall damage. ** said "Don't worry. It can't get worse." He never wrote out what was to be done nor a schedule. He orchestrated a chaotic destructive and illogical disastrous demolition. He had a dehumidifier set up (why? The entire ceilings were dripping, looking back it just doesn't make sense to do this everything's demo'd). The dehumidifier leaked all over the already wet floor, contributing further to damage.
Workers put plastic bags (not large enough) over the bookcases. They did not protect the chair nor table nor sofa so I put sheets over them. Again, in retrospect, WHY didn't they put this furniture in the bedrooms?? It's relatively easy. They did not protect the bedrooms, the cold air returns, nor the heating ducts from the debris. I put towels under the bedroom doors but didn't think of the furnace till after. The electrical box, the boards holding it, and the light fixture itself were PULLED out of the WET ceiling by the workers, THEY never shut off the breakers!!! They broke two windows. They chipped and gouged the 1930's trim around the windows.
They tore down a support column, which then tore 2 feet of plaster and lath away from the wall which was not to be demo'd. At this point I was so shattered with dealing with all these stressors and with ** continuing confabulations surrounding these "incidents". He left the broken wall (in its entirety, including the part they had broken). When they tore down this support post, it necessitated removing the post on the other side and the arch. This then resulted in my having to replaster and repaint two other walls that had not been damaged. They also left a huge strip of lath along the edges of the ceiling.
The workers had also torn away wall paper border that was not to be pulled. AND it was NOT necessary at all for them to remove all the lath, only the lath that was damaged. In particular, the lath in the walls did not have to be removed. This is making restoration more difficult because a "layer" of the room is now gone. I was going to say, this made fitting the old baseboard difficult...
FORGOT to say, when they pried off the baseboard it was as if for a demo. It is deeply gouged along the edges and has cracks. I would have liked to re-use the 1X8's from this house built in 1929. I signed off just to get rid of them, but with a statement to have them fix the wiring on the sign off. It has cost me so much money and time to fix the disasters THEY caused. I hope that NO one ever ever uses them. PLEASE.


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Actor Garrett Hedlund spent much of his downtime on the set of new movie On The Road jamming with his co-star Terrence Howard.
The Tron:Legacy star worked with avid musician Howard in 2005's Four Brothers and they both appear in the upcoming adventure drama with Kristen Stewart - and Hedlund reveals whenever they had a free moment, they got together to play guitar.
He tells Interview magazine, "When Terrence and I worked together more than seven years ago, he showed me what was basically the first thing I ever learned on a guitar. It was a little Spanish number.
"But by the time we started working on On the Road together, five years later, I'd obviously learned how to play more, so Terrence came to my room with a guitar and played a song, and then I played a song, and then he played a song, and then I played a song - this must have gone back and forth about 12 times. It was nice to have been able to do that."
Hedlund also got the chance to hone his skills with Tim McGraw while shooting Country Strong.
He continues, "When we did Country Strong with Tim, I got to jam with him in the studio, which was like a real alignment of the stars because when I was, like, 10 years old, I'd be singing his songs...
"But now, all of a sudden, I'm in Nashville (Tennessee), hanging with Tim and (his wife) Faith (Hill), having dinner at their place, and Tim is coaching me while Faith is making an amazing dinner. So things have been wonderfully surreal like that."


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Is there any report from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) which defines the time for going out to pray Salaat al-Istisqaa' (prayer for rain)?
There is a hadeeth in Sunan Abi Dawood with an acceptable isnaad from 'Aaishah (may Allaah be pleased with her) which states that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) set a day when the people should go out. 'Aa'ishah said: "The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) went out when the rim of the sun appeared…" The hadeeth clearly indicates that a day was set when the people were to go out to pray Salaat al-Istisqa', even though it does not name this day. More than one of the scholars have stated that it is mustahabb to choose Mondays and Thursdays, because deeds are shown to Allaah on those days, and because these are good days for fasting. So if the Muslims combine fasting and praying for rain, their du'aa's in this case are more likely to be accepted.
It may be said that it is not prescribed to single out these two days rather than others, because that was not proven from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) or from any of the Sahaabah, and this is the correct view. So it is not prescribed to choose one day rather than another without there being any text to prove that. What is prescribed is to choose a day on which the people should go out, which may happen to be a Monday or any other day, according to what is in the people's best interests and according to what is convenient for them.


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Auto Makers Rebound as Buyers Go Big
U.S. Sales Cruise Back to 2007 Levels, Driven by Fondness for Pickups, SUVs
Five years after skyrocketing fuel prices and turmoil in financial markets knocked auto makers into a tailspin, the U.S. market has recovered to its former size and character, dominated by larger, more powerful and more profitable vehicles.
U.S. car and light truck sales rose less than 1% in December, reflecting in part a hangover from a surge the month before. But overall, the U.S. auto industry in 2013 had its best sales year since 2007, and industry executives said on Friday they expect gains to continue in 2014, though...


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In a video, two Microsoft employees approach the robot, who said (in a rather robotic voice) "Which building do you want to go to?"
After checking that she heard the visitors correctly, and double-checking both workers want to take the same shuttle, the robot declares: "It should be here in four minutes."
Microsoft itself will use the robot to handle shuttle requests in its own buildings. For the moment Microsoft has only presented the Software aspects of the robot, but Chief Research and Strategy officer Craig Mundie hinted that the current software robot is "just the tip of the iceberg."


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Nexus: The Jupiter Incident is a story-based single player strategy game. Starting in 2040, you are in control of the fleet of a multinational cooperation fighting a rivalling cooperation. The discovery of foreign technology leads to expeditions into space. When you return to Earth you find it occupied by Aliens. Only one colonizing spaceship with humans escaped. Your task is to find this ship, use it to build colonies and to finally gather enough strength to take back Earth.
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Artist/actor Leonard Nimoy will exhibit his recent photographic series that explores the lost or hidden self.
Inspired by Aristophanes' theory that humans were once double-sided creatures with two heads and multiple limbs before Zeus cleaved man in two and left him forever struggling to be whole again, Nimoy's photographs reveal his subjects' other half. Shooting in nearby Northampton, Massachusetts, Nimoy recruited volunteers from the local community with an open call for portrait models willing to be photographed posed and dressed as their true or imagined "secret selves." From the popular rock star and superman to the more unexpected dog lover and Pan, these various secret identities (off-line avatars as they might be described) offer an intimate, sometimes humorous, and often profound new look at the residents of Northampton and the inner yearnings and fantasies that we all share.
Accompanying the large, life-size photographs is a video documenting the artist's conversations with his subjects and the poignant, personal moments he masterfully elicits from his unlikely muses.
You can sponsor this show for just $100 — your name on the wall and an invite to the opening! More info here. You must be a member of MASS MoCA or an exhibition sponsor to come to the opening reception. Not a member? Join today and be the first to see the exhibition and meet the artist.
Mr. Nimoy is signing 100 copies of the catalog Secret Selves, which will be available for purchase at Hardware: The MASS MoCA Store beginning at 4 p.m. on July 31. (Please note that he will not be signing books or autographs during the opening reception of the show.) Please also note that Mr. Nimoy will not sign any merchandise or Star Trek memorabilia at the museum; any such merchandise brought to the museum on July 31 will be checked at the door for the duration of the event.
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Diesel Washington & Scott Alexander in I'm a Married Man
Synopsis: Diesel's wife hates basketball so much that he practically has to take a vacation to watch his favorite game. He gets his first chance in the hotel room, but somebody on the team dropped the ball. Scott, from house keeping, comes in to do a little clean up, but he winds up making a big spill...on Diesel's crotch. Slippery fingers on the court can't be helped, but a slippery cock is a different matter. Who cares if his team can't get it up? Diesel can, and he's going for the rim-shot.
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