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Famous Theories of an Islamic State – Rev.
November 6, 2011 2 Comments
AL-MAWARDI, AL-GHAZALI and IBN-KHULDOON did not present any theory but defined the features of an Islamic State and the characteristics of an Islamic Rulers. Farabi also defined the vision of the Global Islamic State presented by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
In fact, Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal is the only theorist to be called as he presented the idea of an Islamic State as a political solution for Muslim and non-Muslim communities. His Two-Nation Theory is a synonym or a redefinition of the State of Madinah established by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
Correction: The following were not the presenters of a theory but they defined an Islamic State according to their understanding of Shari'ah.
Abu'l Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad al-Mawardi (350-436 A.H/972-1058 A.D — age 86) was the first political thinker in the history of Islam. He was from Shafa'i fiqh. (Correction: The course book says 364 A.H/975 A.D… while http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Al-Mawardi mentions 448 after Hijra and Wikipedia says 972 A.D…The first Hijri year was 622 A.D…. The difference between 972 and 622 is 350, which means he was born in 350 A.H)
Abu Hamid Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Ahmed al-Ghazali (436-489 A.H/1058-1111 A.D — age 53) was born near Tus in Iran. He wrote many books on political issues out of which "Ihya-ulUloom/The Revival of Religious Sciences" was his masterpiece.
Abu Zaid Abd ar-Rahman ibn Khaldun (710-784 A.H/1332-1406 A.D — 74) was born at Tunis in an Arab family. He was a historian, a political scientist, a scholar of Islamic law and the founder of the sciences of civilization or umran (as he called a new science) now known as sociology. (Correction: The course book says 724 A.H while Wikipedia and http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ik/klf.htm say 732 A.H…the difference between 1332 and 622 is 710 which means he was born in 710 A.H)
Were these three the only political scientists or experts of Muslim ummah who dared to present a present the theory of an Islamic state? Al-Mawardi appeared as the first political thinker of Islam after a gap of more than three hundred years after the death of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in 10 A.H/632 A.D. What were the Muslims doing during that time? 1406 to 2010 – 604 years have passed idle…or do we know any grand personalities who have made achievements on scholarly basis and gained international fame…Allama Iqbal (1255-1316 A.H/1877-1938 A.D — age 61), Maulana Mawdudi (1903-1979 A.D — age 76), Hurun Yahya, Shiekh Hamza Yusuf….. got a new name Hammad yousuf from Pakistan (http://metaexistence.org/timeline3.htm) as the philosopher and founder of MetaExistence school of thought and the presenter of a new political system against the Western one but couldn't find more about it.
The fact is that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was the first political scientist and founder of a Islamic state. Then the first four caliphs contributed politically to improve the system and so on.
Al-Mawardi, Al-Ghazali and Ibn-Khaldun… Can Allama Iqbal be counted as the fourth political scientist/political thinker, why or why not? He wasn't only a poet or a thinker or a philosopher. He was a scholar of Qur'an as he explained it in poetic form and that distinguishes him from all other scholars…a better scholar that he argued with his father regarding the change of faith and convinced him. He knew the languages. He knew the history. He was a political scientist, the presenter of a political theory….the ideology which helped in forming the world's largest Islamic state. The whole political movement of Pakistan was based upon his theory.
The spirit of 1947 can be revived not only by remembering and mourning over the sacrifices of the common Muslims, but also by recalling the theory, the ideology, by discussing different aspects of the movement in the classrooms.
Principles/features of an Islamic state/caliphate/imamate according to Abu'l Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad al-Mawardi, Abu Hamid Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Ahmed al-Ghazali and Abu Zaid Abd-ar-Rahman ibn-Khaldun.
1) Sovereignty belongs to Allah (SWT), His laws should be imposed so the justice, truth and goodness prevail. 2) Khalifah/imam governs the state as the successor of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). 3) Khalifa/imam is responsible to impose Shariah, so Muslims can freely practice their faith, can be protected from their enemies. (Al-Mawardi thinks that khilafat replaces prophecy to defend faith and administer the world to guidance. Ibn-Khaldun disagrees with him on this point).
Election of imam/caliph – Al-Mawardi has set the qualifications for an imam/caliph to be elected. 1) He upholds justice under all conditions. 2) He has knowledge of religion and has the interests and policy of the Muslim community. 3) He is physical fit and healthy, not disabled. 4) His physical organs are in a state of coordination. 5) His wisdom can be trusted. 6) He is brave enough to wage jihad against infidels. 7) He must be a descendant of Banu Quresh, the tribe of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).
Mode of election – The imam/caliph may be elected by the electoral college which consists of the persons who are present in the capital. OR He may be nominated by the ruling imam who may nominate his son, father or a relative (if they are qualified).
Duties/functions of the imam – 1) He must uphold the Islamic Shariah. He should try to correct the ones who innovate in religion or corrupt the religious matters. 2) He must dispense justice and settle cases according to shariah. 3) He must maintain law and order in the country, for the growth of economic activities and for people's safety. 4) He must enforce Qur'anic criminal code so people know their limits (hudood). 5) He must defend the borders of the Islamic state from external invasion. 6) He must establish the supremacy of Islam over other religions and creeds. He can undertake jihad against those who oppose Islam. 7) He is responsible to collect zakah and kharaj. 8 ) He should manage to pay form Baitul-maal to those who are entitled for. 9) He should appoint honest men to assist him in the office and manage the affairs of Baitul-maal. 10) He should direct the national policy for nation's interest. He can delegate his duties to trustworthy men and find himself luxury and religious devotion. (This last point is searched as if imam is incapable of executing his duties, he can delegate his duties to new imam or he can be replaced by a new imam through electoral process.)
Deposition of imam/caliph – 1) He can be deposed if a change in his moral status is witnessed as *if he surrenders before his immoral desires and dishonour shariah or *if he distorts the principles of shariah. 2) He cannot continue his leadership if he suffers bodily defects *loss of senses and/or mental ability to run the office *loss of physical organs (becomes disabled) *he becomes a prisoner or his powers are seized by his staff.
According to him, khilafah/caliphate is a divine state and Allah (SWT) is the Supreme Authority. Thus His divine laws should rule. He thought khilafah is necessary to protect Muslim's religious, social and political rights and from internal conspiracies and external invasion. His definition of khalifah as khalifatulllah was an innovation in a sense that the four earliest caliphs, Khulaf-e-Rashideen, never claimed to be Khalifatullah but Khalifatur-Rasool (the successor of the Prophet).
Duties of khalifah/caliph – 1) He must be able to wage jihad. 2) He should discharge the duties of his office directly or indirectly through experts and ministers. 3) He should have knowledge for the purpose of ijtihad along with consultation of religious experts. 4) He must be pious for to carry one his office as a political and religious entity. 5) He must establish justice and settle cases with fairness. 6) He must have knowledge of shariah and wisdom to endorse it as the rule of law. 7) He should be a practical Muslim and must show a reliable Muslim character. 8 )He must be aware of the official matters and the performance of his administrators. 9) He should seek aid from the men of calibre to speak about the affairs of the state. 10) He must keep his morality and should avoid immoral practices.
He derived four kinds of state or governmental systems as they had developed in the history of Islam.
1) Khilafat/caliphate – The ideal Islamic state established by Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) under divine guidance and maintained by Khulafa-e-Rashideen. Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was the law-maker and set the rules of Shariah for people's welfare in this world and salvation in the Hereafter. The khilafat had two forces; the Prophetic Shariah and asabiya (to be explained presently). The asabiya would become inactive if the law-giver eliminated it.
2) Mulk under Shariah – This form of government gradually lost the inward characteristics of khilafah. Though in early times (right after khilafat-e-rashida) state was governed by the rules of Shariah, but the electoral process of khalifah was effected by the family dynasties, loyalty to tribes and clans. That gradually caused a great harm to the image of true Islamic caliphate. Shariah became the matter of science and instruction while the state was ruled under the authority of the ruler.
3) Mulk under the Siyasa Aqlia – This type of government cannot be called an Islamic State but a Muslim State. Finally the Islamic state had turned into an absolute monarchy as the ruler had become the supreme authority to rule and to use military power to extend the frontiers. The burden of royal expenses and military expeditions was covered by imposing taxes on the people. Religion had no role in political affairs and was left for religious scholars to discuss and solve the religion-based matters. This form of government had no resemblance to the original form of caliphate.
4) Siyasa Madaniya – A hypothetical form of government presented by Al-Farabi and ibn-Sina. Ibn-Khaldun disregarded it as it never existed in human history.
My Notes:
1) The course book doesn't even define what form of government is the fourth one. It never existed though but didn't Ibn-Khaldun know that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) had prophesied about such form of government and any prophecies of the Prophet (pbuh) can't be categorized as hypothetical. The world will be ruled under Islamic Shariah.
2)So the Islamic State/caliphate in it's true meaning (as a divine state to be governed under the rules of shariah) lost it's soul right after Ali ibn-Abi Talib's martyrdom. The later styles of caliphate could distinguish between the ruler and his administrators, religious personalities and common people. This style led Muslims towards monarchy/imperialism, which finally caused the end of Muslim caliphate.
3) That lost soul of khilafah, for centuries, is in search of a territory, which is acquired in the name of God, where people's will is to live according to God's will and where people want to be governed by pious, honest, sincere, brave, wise and educated bunch of administrators. If Prophet had said so, all lands will finally provide that body. (der kiyon lug rahi hay, kiyon people of the world have decided, laaton say hi maan kay dain gay)
4) Allama Muhammad Iqbal was also the presenter of the theory of an Islamic State, literally a practical one. This could be Allama's big fault to choose his happy birth to be after ibn-Khaldun in a non-Arab descent, otherwise his theory would have been the part of the Islamic history and thus the part of the curriculum of Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Summary: Al-Mawardi, Al-Ghazali and ibn-Khaldun – they agree that an Islamic state should be a divine state and it should be ruled under the divine laws. A Muslim ruler must be a lover of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). He must be a pious person, honest in his duties, sincere towards the people and wise and educated enough to handle the state affairs. He must establish justice without any discrimination and should maintain law and order for peaceful environment. He must be a guardian of the rights of minorities. He must be a brave man, must not surrender himself to non-believers and must keep an army alert to fight against the invaders. And it's a common sense that the ruler should not continue in case of any physical and mental defects, involvement in corruption or obvious moral principles that are not allowed in Sharia.
If Abu Nasr Muhammad Al-Farabi (259-339 A.H or 872-950/951 – age 79/80) was the one who gave the ideal of ruling the world under one government, his theory should be the part of our curriculum too because that is what that hasn't happened and can be worked on. I personally think that the followers of dajjal got this idea of ruling the world from Al-Farabi and that is why they don't want Muslims to study it.
"He (Al-Farabi) presented some rare original ideas to political science, which have still not been realized. He held that if someone embodying all the qualities is not available, then the state should be governed jointly by a group of rulers of particular qualities. This theory presaged the present system of having council of ministers to run the administration." taken from…. http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-10234.html
An Islamic state is a system of government which is based upon the principles of Sharia' set by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The first Islamic state was established in Medinah in 622 A.H by the Prophet himself as he migrated from Makkah to Medinah and all the residents and migrants mutually accepted him as their ruler.
Muslims believe in Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as the final prophet of God, after his demise, his companions continued the system as his followers and the Islamic state got the title of caliphate. So caliphate is an institution in which a Muslim personality of high profile rules according to Qur'an and sunnah as the follower of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The caliphate is the symbol of the unity of Muslim nations around the world. The period of 632 -661 A.H was ruled by Abu Bakr, Umar ibn Al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan and Ali ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with them all) respectively. This period is called Khilafat-e-Rashida.
Later on, from 661- 1346 A.H (March 3, 1924), different Muslim dynasties ruled over Muslim territories. Sultan Abdul Majid son of Sultan Abdul Aziz from Ottoman Dynasty was the last caliph of Islamic caliphate. His rule ended on March 3, 1924 when a Turk general Mustafa Kemal Ata-Turk abolished the caliphate and became the first Turk president.
A very few Muslim individuals or groups in different countries since then have proclaimed to be the caliphs for the sake of revival of Islamic caliphate but couldn't succeed. However, the global domination of Islam or a global Islamic caliphate is already prophesied by the Prophet(pbuh).
The nature of Islamic state:
"The sovereignty of God, the message conveyed by all the prophets, is the foundation of the system. Legislation contained in the Qur'an becomes the basic law of the state. This puts the fundamental law of the society beyond the lobbying power of particular interest groups and ensures that legislation is just and equitable. The government must make decisions on the basis of what God has revealed. If it does not, according to the Qur'an it is not Islamic, for those who make decisions on other than what God has revealed are unbelievers (Surah Al-Maida 44). In cases not covered by revelation, decisions based on Islamic principles ar left to the Mujtahids, Islamic experts on legal interpretation. The Muslims can make laws or regulations dealing with such matters, but these do not have the same permanence as Qur'anic injunctions" taken from http://www.islamfortoday.com/cleland04.htm
The concept of an Islamic state, is of a territory that is governed according to the will of Almighty God and where people regardless of any differences live in a peaceful environment and enjoy their rights as per granted by Allah (SWT). Following are the elements/features/characteristics/principles of an Islamic state.
"Behold, thy Lord said to the angels: "I will create a vicegerent on earth."…Surah Al-Baqarah 30
In general, all human beings are Allah's viceroy, thus they all responsible to establish a system under His divine laws.
1. Sovereignty of Allah – Believing in Allah (SWT) as the Supreme Authority in all matters is the foundation of an Islamic state. Allah is self-sufficient and His being and work is free from all faults. Everything and everyone depends upon Him for their existence and sustenance. His divine law should be the law of His land like it is in the the rest of the universe. So basically an Islamic state is a divine state where Allah (SWT) is regarded as the only Sovereignty over all.
"Whatever is in the heavens and on earth,- let it declare the Praises and Glory of Allah for He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise… To Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth: It is He Who gives Life and Death; and He has Power over all things… He is the First and the Last, the Evident and the Immanent: and He has full knowledge of all things...He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in Six Days, and is moreover firmly established on the Throne (of Authority). He knows what enters within the earth and what comes forth out of it, what comes down from heaven and what mounts up to it. And He is with you wheresoever ye may be. And Allah sees well all that ye do… To Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth: and all affairs are referred back to Allah…He merges Night into Day, and He merges Day into Night; and He has full knowledge of the secrets of (all) hearts"…Surah Al-Hadeed 1-6
2. Khalifah/Caliph – A form of government which is founded upon Islamic Sharia' is called khilafah/caliphate. The head of the state/ruler/commander is called "khalifa/caliph, ameerul mu'minee or imam". He must be the true follower of Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W). A wise, pious man who could be trusted for guarding the Islamic constitution (divine laws) and ensures it's imposition. He is also the symbol of Muslim's unity and brotherhood. He can be held accountable by the judiciary, just like an ordinary person, if found guilty of error/crime.
3. Consultation (Shura) – An Islamic state is not a dictatorial kind of government. It is a system where all state and public affairs are handled and accomplished by the mutual consultation of the wise and educated representatives of people. These representatives are elected on merit. The criteria for merit is also prescribed by Sharia'.
"Those who hearken to their Lord, and establish regular Prayer; who (conduct) their affairs by mutual Consultation; who spend out of what We bestow on them for Sustenance;"…Surah Shura 38
4. Obedience of the ruler (Ulul-amr) – The citizens of an Islamic state must obey their ruler/khalifa in all the matters that are not contrary to Islamic Sharia'. They have a right to submit their doubts or complaints against khalifa or other officials in judicial courts. They will be punished if they disobey the ruler or break laws.
"O ye who believe! Obey Allah, and obey the Messenger, and those charged with authority among you. If ye differ in anything among yourselves, refer it to Allah and His Messenger, if ye do believe in Allah and the Last Day: That is best, and most suitable for final determination"…Surah An-Nisa 59
5. Equality/Equal Opportunity – Islam denounces discrimination on the basis of race, colour, cast, creed, language, faith, and nationality. Islam believes in human rights for each individual present there within the boundaries of an Islamic state. The authorities and majority are guardians of the rights of minorities and are not allowed to interfere in there religious and personal matters.
"O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other. Verily the most honoured of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well-acquainted" Surah Al-Hujraat 13
6. Justice – Rule of law and safety of people's life and property regardless of any differences is one of the main objectives of an Islamic state. All are equal before the law and the court cannot make distinction between elite and poor, the less privileged Muslims and non-Muslims. All citizens are assured of the freedom to move around and enjoy their rights. They can approach the judicial courts for fast and fair justice to solve their disputes.
"O ye who believe! stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses to Allah, even as against yourselves, or your parents, or your kin, and whether it be (against) rich or poor: for Allah can best protect both. Follow not the lusts (of your hearts), lest ye swerve, and if ye distort (justice) or decline to do justice, verily Allah is well- acquainted with all that ye do" Surah An-Nisa 135
7. Welfare State/Social Welfare – The state is responsible for the well-being of every citizen and for the proper provision of basic necessities to them. The social welfare is maintained through collection of zakah. Zakah is the yearly tax imposed upon Muslims on their savings. Khilafah is an institution where religion and politics are not considered separate and khalifa/caliph/ruler/head is an authority over both terms, thus the government is authorized to collect zakah and distribute it according to the rules of sharia'.
"It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces Towards east or West; but it is righteousness- to believe in Allah and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers; to spend of your substance, out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves; to be steadfast in prayer, and practice regular charity; to fulfil the contracts which ye have made; and to be firm and patient, in pain (or suffering) and adversity, and throughout all periods of panic. Such are the people of truth, the Allah.fearing" Surah Al-Baqarah 177
"Alms are for the poor and the needy, and those employed to administer the (funds); for those whose hearts have been (recently) reconciled (to Truth); for those in bondage and in debt; in the cause of Allah. and for the wayfarer: (thus is it) ordained by Allah, and Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom"…Surah Tauba 60
8. "Amr bil ma'roof wa nahi anil munkar" – The head of the state is ordered to follow the rule of "amr bil ma'roof wa nahi anil munkar" meaning order people to do good and stop them from wrong and punish them if they don't. It is to create an environment where people are persuaded to live in harmony, behave nicely, control their anger through sermons and/or public speeches. Children are trained to develop such a character from homes and educational institutions. The purpose is to reduce the rate of home-based or street crimes and stop people from harming each other.
"You are the best community that has been raised for mankind. You enjoin good and forbid evil and you believe in Allah" Surah Al-e-Imran 110
"The believers, men and women, are protectors of each other; they enjoin what is right and forbid what is evil" Surah Tauba 71
"The hypocrites, both men and women, proceed one from another. They enjoin the wrong and forbid the right"…Surah Tauba 67
Note – The course books do not explain the characteristics/features of an Islamic state as they are mentioned above. #2 Khalifah/Caliph is replaced with caliphate because it doesn't make sense to include caliphate as an article of the complete institution which is caliphate. The references from Qur'an and ahadith are missing in three books that I have referred to.
Thus, an Islamic state or khilafah/caliphate is comprised of these eight features/characteristics; Sovereignty of Allah, Khalifa/ruler, consultation, obedience of the common Muslims towards their khalifah, equality, justice, welfare, "amr bil ma'roof wa nahi anil munkar". (do correct me if this is wrong).
Objection: As a Pakistani, we believe that Pakistan is naturally an Islamic state. It has lost the true identity and couldn't proceed in the right direction as must have been the dream of Allama Iqbal and Quaid-e-Azam. The reasons are enormously numerous. Out of them, one is our poor and abnormal educational system. The book writers seem highly obsessed with ancient foreign systems, most systems are proven dead. Students cannot be blamed, even teachers do not take interest in explaining such boring, dull and dead theories for the whole year. The curriculum does not include anything that can help a student developing positive thoughts about Pakistan.
This is very much unfair to include as a major part of the curriculum of political science, the centuries old ideologies and theories that most of them are irrelevant in today's political environment.
Herbert Spencer's organic theory, Bluntschli's idea of state as a personified masculine, jusristic theory of the personality of state presented by Treitschke, Bluntschli, Jellinek and Maitland, Rousseau, Jhon Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Bertrand de Jouvenel and hundreds more….. they might be good to be studied in extra timings, but don't deserve to be the part of the course book to occupy few chapters.
While the relevant content is not even mentioned in the book anywhere. Allama Iqbal's theory/ideology of an Islamic state, his political thoughts, Quaid-e-Azam's understanding of Iqbal's theory, his political efforts and strategies to prove it to be a practical one. What kind of state is Pakistan? What features are missing and why, that can make Pakistan an ideal Islamic state?


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The Gist of Biofuels
Biofuels have been around as long as cars have. At the start of the 20th century, Henry Ford planned to fuel his Model Ts with ethanol, and early diesel engines were shown to run on peanut oil.
But discoveries of huge petroleum deposits kept gasoline and diesel cheap for decades, and biofuels were largely forgotten. However, with the recent rise in oil prices, along with growing concern about global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions, biofuels have been regaining popularity.
Gasoline and diesel are actually ancient biofuels. But they are known as fossil fuels because they are made from decomposed plants and animals that have been buried in the ground for millions of years. Biofuels are similar, except that they're made from plants grown today.
Much of the gasoline in the United States is blended with a biofuel—ethanol. This is the same stuff as in alcoholic drinks, except that it's made from corn that has been heavily processed. There are various ways of making biofuels, but they generally use chemical reactions, fermentation, and heat to break down the starches, sugars, and other molecules in plants. The leftover products are then refined to produce a fuel that cars can use.
Countries around the world are using various kinds of biofuels. For decades, Brazil has turned sugarcane into ethanol, and some cars there can run on pure ethanol rather than as additive to fossil fuels. And biodiesel—a diesel-like fuel commonly made from palm oil—is generally available in Europe.
On the face of it, biofuels look like a great solution. Cars are a major source of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas that causes global warming. But since plants absorb carbon dioxide as they grow, crops grown for biofuels should suck up about as much carbon dioxide as comes out of the tailpipes of cars that burn these fuels. And unlike underground oil reserves, biofuels are a renewable resource since we can always grow more crops to turn into fuel.
Unfortunately, it's not so simple. The process of growing the crops, making fertilizers and pesticides, and processing the plants into fuel consumes a lot of energy. It's so much energy that there is debate about whether ethanol from corn actually provides more energy than is required to grow and process it. Also, because much of the energy used in production comes from coal and natural gas, biofuels don't replace as much oil as they use.
For the future, many think a better way of making biofuels will be from grasses and saplings, which contain more cellulose. Cellulose is the tough material that makes up plants' cell walls, and most of the weight of a plant is cellulose. If cellulose can be turned into biofuel, it could be more efficient than current biofuels, and emit less carbon dioxide.


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The cover of the Food & Wine section Feb. 5 will feature Olympics: A fine excuse to explore Russian food. Inside you'll find more recipes plus buying, cooking and health tips on a variety of food-related subjects. For past food stories and recipes go to www.tri-cityherald.com/food-wine. A grilled cheese sandwich paired with a bowl of hot soup is such an iconic meal that it follows us from childhood into adulthood.
As grown-ups, though, we might opt for more complex flavors than a simple tomato and cheddar combo. This version leans to Mexico, with an earthy bean soup and, standing in for the sandwich, a spicy cheese and roasted poblano quesadilla. Yet at its heart, the meal remains that long-remembered duo, which is comforting and, bonus, super-easy to pull together.
Prep: 15 minutes Cook: 20 minutes Makes: 4 servings
4 strips bacon, diced
1 white onion, finely chopped
1 red bell pepper, finely chopped
1 can (29 ounces) black beans, drained, rinsed
3 cups chicken broth
1/2 teaspoon dried Mexican oregano (or other oregano)
Fresh cilantro, chopped
Crema or sour cream
1 lime, quartered
QUESADILLAS: 4 flour tortillas, 6 inches in diameter
1 cup or more grated Chihuahua cheese, or other good melting cheese
2 poblano chilies, roasted, peeled, cut in thin strips
Cook the bacon in a large Dutch oven or saucepan over medium heat until fat is rendered and bacon is crisp; transfer bacon to a paper towel-lined plate to drain.
Add the onion and red pepper to the pan; cook in the bacon fat until vegetables begin to soften, about 5 minutes. Add the beans, chicken broth and oregano; heat over medium-low until soup is hot, about 10 minutes. Stir in the reserved bacon.
Meanwhile, place 2 tortillas on a flat surface; sprinkle with the cheese. Divide poblanos over the tops. Cover with remaining 2 tortillas. Cook in a skillet or on a griddle over medium heat, flipping once, until the cheese melts and tortillas brown slightly, about 2 minutes per side. Cut each quesadilla in quarters.
Divide the soup among 4 serving bowls; top with the cilantro and a dollop of crema or sour cream. Serve with the quesadillas alongside, passing the lime quarters for squirting into the soup.
Nutrition information per serving: 432 calories, 14 g fat, 7 g saturated fat, 37 mg cholesterol, 53 g carbohydrates, 24 g protein, 1,245 mg sodium, 12 g fiber From: The Chicago Tribune


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Electric-Life Power Window and Door Lock Kit - Lock & Roll
Ditching The Manual Labor
Packard introduced the first power windows (along with automotive air-conditioning systems) in the 1940 Packard 180 series. This was a hydro-electric system.
Reaching across to the passenger door to unlock it or to crank the window down is a pain in the ass. Take it from us who have had to drive around in a semi-late model truck that wasn't purchased with all the bells and whistles. Those little extra packages cost money, man! Although the side lunge motion has turned into a quick, convenient way to get a little exercise we'd rather save the effort for the gym.
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Tips for Summertime Health and Youth
Spring 2013
Summer is here, and, as always, we are looking for ways to protect us and to buy the best products to help us stay healthy and youthful.
Luckily, there are things we can do to combat the environmental issues of summer (sun, heat, wind) without spending a lot of money. Looking and feeling marvelous comes from within!
I spend a lot of time in tropical climates where Bain de Soleil is not readily available, so I am happy to share some tricks and tips:
Maintain the integrity of your skin. Your skin is the biggest organ in your body and composed mostly of water. It is made of cushioning strands of collagen and elastin. Within this cushioning, your skins cells contain natural chemicals which make up your Natural Moisturizing Factor, or NMF. Water binds itself to your NMF, which then in turn hydrates your skin. The production and health of your NMF is what makes your skin well balanced and enable it to perform all of its vital functions; especially keeping you from overheating.
Hydrate! Dehydration and dry wrinkled skin go hand in hand. The biggest thing you can do at any time of year is to drink lots of water. Average recommendation is at least eight glasses per day (two quarts). But not all waters are equal. A lot of water can be acidic and can cause increased oxidative stress on the body. I would recommend San Pellegrino, Evian or Fiji water, which are more pH balanced.
Eat light with fruits and vegetables high in electrolytes and water. Examples are melons, berries, oranges, peaches, tomatoes, celery, lettuce, and cucumbers.
Stock up on omega-fatty acids by adding salmon, mackerel, almonds, walnuts and flaxseed to your diet, which will give your skin that fresh, dewy glow.
Avoid prolonged exposure to wind and nightly air conditioning. Your skin regenerates itself at night when you are sleeping and A/C sucks any moisture out of the air.
Combine that with lack of sleep and your skin will soon start to show the early signs of aging combined with puffy eyes.
Take supplements like vitamin E and C and Lysine (1000mg/d) will help your skin's cells hold more moisture and elasticity.
Start drinking tea instead of coffee. You can still get your morning buzz, but without the "afternoon" blood sugar crash that coffee inflicts. A good choice is green tea, which contains catechins and potent antioxidants along with the water to keep skin hydrated.
JoAnna LaForce, R.Ph., C.G.P., is a clinical consultant pharmacist. She graduated from the University of Southern California and Idaho State University School of Pharmacy in 1975 and is board certified in geriatric pharmacy. She worked for Kindred Pharmacy Services in Santa Barbara, California, 1994 to 2006. Her duties included review of drug regimens of patients in convalescent hospitals and assisted living centers, interdisciplinary meetings and reviews with physicians, nurses and other health professionals, and education to nursing staff and nurses' aides, social service personnel, and physicians. She has also provided pain management consulting for hospice patients for the past twenty years. JoAnna is currently clinical director of The Farmacy® West Hollywood, The Farmacy® Venice and The Farmacy® Westwood. The Farmacies are organic medicine centers that provide natural healing products and herbs, including medical cannabis. They are staffed by licensed acupuncturists, herbalists, massage therapists, and licensed nutritionists. She oversees all clinical aspects, including quality control and standards of operation.
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What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Cognitive-behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps the client overcome avoidance by gradually facing what is feared with lots of praise and positive reinforcement for doing so. Further, the therapist and clients will examine all elements that maintain a problem, including their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Often clients will be asked to practice the techniques in between sessions, as active participants in their own therapy. Parents, teachers, and other adults around the child can be very helpful in this process. Once the skills are learned and practiced, clients can keep using what they have learned in therapy to approach other problems in their life.
CBT has been extensively investigated in rigorous clinical trials and has demonstrated effectiveness in treating anxiety in children and adults. Cognitive-behavioral therapy can be used alone or in conjunction with medication, depending on the severity and nature of each client's problem.
CBT for OCD - Exposure and Ritual Prevention
Currently, the most effective psychotherapy for OCD is called Exposure and Ritual (or Response) Prevention. Exposure therapy involves systematic exercises, designed by the therapist and the patient, to help patients confront situations and objects that elicit the unwanted thoughts or ideas, worries and fears. Through the exposure exercises the patients learn that over time the fear and distress associated with thoughts decreases. Many children with OCD are afraid that something bad will happen as a result of confrontation with the situations or objects that elicit obsessional distress. Repeated exposures without rituals will teach the patients that their fears are exaggerated.
Individuals with OCD have developed strong habit of reducing their anxiety and distress by repeatedly using rituals. Common examples include washing, checking, ordering or mental rituals such as seeking reassurance from mom, thinking about certain numbers or words. Most times the rituals successfully reduce the distress temporarily. However this temporary reduction prevents the patients from learning that the distress would have decreased even without the rituals. As long as they perform their compulsive rituals, patients will continue to believe that the rituals protect them from bad things such as illness, death, or making serious mistakes. The best way for patients to learn that the rituals do not really protect them is to refrain from performing the rituals after they do their exposure exercises. Thus, ritual prevention is designed to help correct the patients' beliefs that rituals prevent disastrous consequences from occurring or that they can't handle the distress and anxiety if rituals are not acted upon. By purposely becoming anxious through the exposure exercises, but resisting the urges to perform compulsive rituals, patients learn that these urges to ritualize and the anxiety/discomfort will dissipate on their own.
What is Habit Reversal Therapy?
Our Center utilizes a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy known as Habit Reversal Therapy (HRT) to treat Chronic Tic Disorders including Tourette's syndrome. The efficacy of this treatment has been illustrated in several adult and adolescent studies.
Treatment begins with awareness training. During this phase, the aim is to orient the patient toward detection of his or her tic beginning at its earliest expression. The patient is instructed to describe the tic in as much detail as possible to the therapist and may even be recorded making the tic or watch his/herself in a mirror. Secondly, the patient notes situational triggers that affect tic expression. Noting when, where and how one's tic occurs facilitates awareness.
Next, relaxation techniques including deep breathing, muscular relaxation and visual imagery are taught. Such techniques help to ease the patient's urge to tic. Lastly, together with the therapist, the patient develops a "competing response," an action that is incompatible with the expression of their tic but is less noticeable to others. For example, a competing response to a head jerk tic may be to tense one's neck, or a competing response to a nose-sniffing tic may be a breathing exercise. This response acts as a replacement strategy for the tics.
Family instruction is another important component of program. Family members and significant others are taught favorable ways to discuss the tics and the patient's improvement. Lastly, the patient is taught to practice these control techniques in different settings.
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Another Earth (US - BD RA)
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A high school graduate named Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling) celebrates her acceptance to MIT with friends, and drives home intoxicated. While driving she listens to a radio story about an approaching planet that scientists claim looks exactly like Earth. The story leads her to look at the stars out of her car window, and not paying attention to the road, she crashes her car into another vehicle. The accident puts John Burroughs (William Mapother) in a coma, and kills both his wife and his son. Rhoda is a minor, so her identity is not revealed to John. After serving her four month prison sentence, Rhoda declines MIT, and takes a job as a janitor at a local school. Eventually Rhoda develops the courage to visit John, who has recovered and is now living a sad, lonely life at home. Intending to apologize for the harm she did to him, she loses her nerve, and pretends to be a maid offering a free day of cleaning. John reluctantly agrees to Rhoda's offer. When she finishes, John asks her to come back again. Rhoda returns several times over the following weeks, and develops a caring relationship with John.
Mike Cahill's Another Earth is all about mirroring universes, so it's rather fun to note how much it mirrors Duncan Jones' brilliant 2009 feature Moon. Both films are science fiction melodramas based around the concept of encountering one's own self. Both treat the science fiction elements as somewhat coincidental, or are at least low-key in comparison to most major release sci-fi films. Both films are also the feature length/narrative-based directorial debuts. Jones had made a short film called Whistle, and Cahill directed a well received film on the US/Cuban conflict entitled Boxers and Ballerinas, which also saw him collaborating with Another Earth co-writer/co-producer/actress Brit Marling. The intended emotional messages are similar between Moon and Another Earth, but Cahill focuses in a more meditative and poetic fashion. Moon was certainly not what some might consider 'mainstream' entertainment, but it was relatively conventional in its general storytelling, whereas Another Earth is strictly speaking what most people would consider an art film. At the very least it wears its indie status (which is more heartily earned thanks to an almost $5 million difference between the budgets) with a little more purpose. Despite the intergalactic elements there's sizably less science fiction here, and the bulk of the special effects revolve around a static second Earth in the background of some shots.
The second Earth thing isn't a new concept. Apparently there's an actual scientific theory that states there's a possibility of a mirror universe, and science fiction film and television have dabbled in the ramifications since, I don't know, the original Star Trek? This concept isn't what makes Another Earth a bit of a novelty, it's the almost matter-of-fact treatment of phenomenon. Like all good science fiction, the fantastical elements are present for the sake of allegory. Cahill and Marling sneak bits of social and political allegory into the science talk that leaks from radios and televisions throughout the film, but for the most part they are concerned with using their concept as a way for the two main characters to deal with grief. The meditative tone, and sense of melancholy is draining, but there are a few precious moments of levity, such as a brief montage of Rhoda and John playing Wii Boxing. Asking for more humour in a film about regret is a little unrealistic of me, but I found that the consistency of grief caused me to unintentionally stonewall my some of sympathy. Cahill and Marling also introduce a rather perverse angle to the mix to kick off the third act, but this PG-13 frown-fest never has what it takes to deliver on this darkest angle, which doesn't quite make sense for the narrative (without spoiling things I think this is a 'really go there or don't go there' situation). Complaints aside, I admit that at its most tender Another Earth had an effect on me, largely because of Brit Marling and William Mapother's performances, which overwhelm any issues I may have with the characters. I really could've done without the magical Indian custodian, though.
Stylistically speaking Duncan and Cahill don't have very much in common, at least not at this point. Another Earth encompasses a fair number of styles, but reminds me the most of Darren Aronofsky's films, especially his rawer, more unsettling films (which I suppose by some accounts would be all of them). Cahill is smart with his small budget and shoots the film vérité style (quite literally seeing that he's the cinematographer), complete with handheld cameras, naturalistic lighting, and a generally voyeuristic sense of camera placement. I believe this was the ideal approach to the material (I suppose a big, baroque version would've worked too), but found myself a bit annoyed with the constant repositioning, and arbitrary zooms used during some conversational moments. I'm hoping the next time he makes a movie he employs a more headstrong cinematographer that will help him lock down the camera when needed. The editing, which Cahill also did himself, isn't quite as extreme as the editing in Requiem for a Dream, but jumps about quite a bit. This acts to create some immediacy, but like the occasionally incessant camera wobble, it's seems more arbitrary than artful, and rarely serves the story.
According to the technical specs on imdb.com Another Earth was captured entirely digitally, but not in full 1080p video. For whatever reason (likely monetary) Cahill, who also acted as cinematographer, shot in 720p HD, so this 1080p, 1.85:1 transfer isn't going to blow any minds, and the rest of this section will probably sound more negative than I intend it to. This warning in mind, I've actually seen worse from full 1080p and 35mm releases. The obvious shortcomings are in general resolution, and minor artifacts. In many ways it reminds me of a 16mm release (which I believe is comparable in general resolution?), though this particular grain is of the digital variety. The almost exclusive use of natural source lighting means that a lot of the film is quite dark, and with darkness comes a loss of resolution, and generally more digital artefacts. In brighter lighting the general noise levels are cut, but there are some jagged edges, and bright white levels blowout consistently. Sharpness also increases a bit in better lighting, and leads to some unavoidable chroma noise and moiré effects. Colour quality changes with the lighting as well, and is rarely what I'd call vibrant, outside occasional daylight greens and warm highlights. These hues usually appear natural, but are often slightly impure, especially yellow, which take on a bit of green.
This DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack is among the loudest I've heard in a while, which is surprising given the film's generally low key audio production. But here even the simplest things are loud, especially occasional narration, or other dialogue that doesn't come from the on-screen image. It's not often I have to turn down my system for the sake of talking. Sound effects are featured largely in the front channel with the dialogue, but general ambience subtly leaks into the stereo and surround channels at the quietest times. Music is a more important element. John is a composer, and Rhoda tells him a story that helps reawaken his creative energy, so music represents more than just film score throughout. This particular score, by a band called Fall on Your Sword, is quite eclectic, including more traditional piano and cello elements, along with some more aggressive electronic stuff (mostly at the top and bottom of the film). The classical elements are the slightest bit thin to my ears, but overall things are effectively warm and sonically dynamic.
The extras are placed on the menu in a weird order, so I'm going to run through the order I preferred to watching. First is The Science Behind Another Earth (2:40, HD), which features Cahill and Marling speaking with astrophysicist Dr. Richard Berendzen about the scientific history behind the multi-universe theory, and the implications found in the film. Creating Another Earth (2:30, HD) features Cahill and Marling interviewing each other about their production process (which is rather odd…). This is followed by seven deleted/extended scenes (9:20, HD) that fill out some questions about Rhoda's home life, but aren't really necessary for the film, which already makes us feel terrible for Rhoda, and a few failed special effects ideas. Next up are a series of those fluffy 'Fox Movie Channel Presents' featurettes, including Direct Effect with Mik Cahill (4:20, SD), In Character with Brit Marling (4:20, SD), In Character with William Mapother (4:20, SD). Things are rounded up with 'The First Time I Saw Jupiter' music video by Fall on Your Sword (3:20, HD), a trailer, a soundtrack trailer, and a trailer for (snicker) Atlas Shrugged Part 1.
I'm guessing that Another Earth might've had a little more impact on me had the entire film not been spoiled by the trailer, but despite some problems with the tone, and all the navel gazing, I generally enjoyed the experience. The film was shot at 720p HD, so don't watch the film expecting any miracles in the video department. The sound design is modest, but the DTS-HD soundtrack is robust. Extras are sadly minimal, and act to tease what might've been achieved with a good director/writer, actress/writer commentary track.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
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This was just okay. The scenery was amazing and very eye-appealing, but the rest of the story was uninteresting.
Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13
Disc Details
Release Date: 29th November 2011
Discs: 3
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 English Descriptive Audio
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Deleted Scenes, The First Time I Saw Jupiter Music Video, The Science Behind Another Earth, Creating Another Earth, Fox Movie Channel Presents Featurettes, Trailers, DVD Copy, Digital Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Mike Cahill
Cast: William Mapother, Brit Marling
Genre: Drama and Sci-Fi
Length: 92 minutes
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Ease your child into her new sleep schedule.
"Kids can't just jump from a nine-thirty bedtime to eight o'clock," says Jodi Mindell, Ph.D., associate director of the Sleep Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. To make the transition:
* Move bedtime and wake time up by 15 minutes starting two to three weeks before the first day of the new routine. Every few days, make them another 15 minutes earlier.
* Declare a ban on screen time for the hour before bed; cut out caffeine a few hours earlier. These changes will help her fall asleep faster.
Getting there
School-bus accidents actually are surprisingly rare. When they do happen, they're often in the first two months of the school year, when kids are anxious or excited, and less likely to be cautious when getting on or off the bus. All the more reason to teach your child these tips now:
- Stand way back from the street at the bus stop.
- Wait until the bus stops completely and the driver has opened the door before approaching the bus.
- Use the handrail when getting on and off.
- Cross in front of the bus, instead of behind it.
- Take ten big steps away from the bus after getting off, and be sure the driver waves you across before crossing in front.
- Don't stop to pick up stuff dropped near, under, or in front of the bus until the coast is clear.
Fact: Riding the bus is 12 times safer than walking, biking, or riding in a car to school
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Switching to whole-wheat bread isn't the only way to make your kid's lunch pack a healthier punch. Rethinking what you put between those slices can also add nutrients -- and variety. Kid-tested suggestions from dietitian Bridget Swinney, the author of Baby Bites:
Old standby: Peanut butter and jelly
Upgrade: Almond, cashew, or sunflower-seed butter instead of peanut. All three provide significantly more iron and magnesium. Almond and sunflower butters also offer almost three times the vitamin E; almond provides calcium, too.
Old standby: Turkey or ham
Upgrade: Lean roast beef. It's nutritionally denser than turkey or ham, providing the same amount of protein but a lot more iron, zinc, and vitamin B12 -- for about the same or only slightly more fat and calories.
Old standby: Bologna
Upgrade: Turkey or meatless bologna. Turkey has about half the fat, with just as much protein. Better still: Meatless (which is made from wheat and soy but tastes surprisingly good) has zero fat and cholesterol, and about twice the protein of regular.
Old standby: Cream cheese and jelly
Upgrade: Low-fat cream cheese with fruit spread. You'll cut four grams of fat per ounce of cheese. Fruit spreads (like Polaner All Fruit or Smucker's Simply Fruit) have about 20 percent fewer calories and about a third less sugar than jellies and jams.
Field trip tip! A double brown bag with a frozen water bottle or juice box inside works just as well as an insulated sack or lunch box to keep foods fresh -- and you don't have to worry about it getting left behind. The drink will thaw in time for lunch.
Plus: Get more yummy ideas with our School Lunch Planner
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Not-so-unusual ailments
Unpack that bag
Homework really can be a pain in the neck. Experts say a backpack should weigh no more than 15 percent of a child's body weight, but most kids carry more.
The result: "We're seeing more children with neck, shoulder, and back problems," says Karen Jacobs, a spokesperson for the American Occupational Therapy Association.
To ease the strain, have your child:
- Pack the heaviest items closest to the back of the pack
- Use the right-size bag (one that sits below the shoulder blades and extends no lower than the waist), with well-padded shoulder straps
- Wear the bag snug against his back
- Hand-carry a book or two if his backpack weighs a ton
- Empty out nonessentials daily
Louse-y luck?
You may have heard that lice are gaining resistance to the shampoos that worked when we were kids. It's true, but for now Nix and Rid are still the best first line of defense, says Barbara Frankowski, M.D., chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on School Health.If you get the dreaded call from daycare or school, use a shampoo treatment and let your child return to class the next day. You may have to repeat the process a week later to kill newly hatched lice. If your child still has live lice after that second dose, she may have a resistant strain. Her doctor can help you weigh the risks of using a prescription shampoo that's stronger -- but also harsher -- than an over-the-counter.
Curious about insecticide-free alternatives? While meticulous combing without a shampoo works for some, it's not easy to pull off. Coating the hair in Cetaphil soap is your best bet for suffocating lice (it works better than home remedies like petroleum jelly, vinegar, and mayo). Visit nuvoforheadlice.com
Get moving!
Ten minutes of exercise may not sound like much, but that's all it takes to boost attention and focus in schoolkids, according to a recent study at East Carolina University, in Greenville, North Carolina. (Bonus: These mini-workouts add up to about 70 miles of movement a year!) If your child's school doesn't offer regular P.E., talk to the teacher about a daily ten-minute "get the wiggles out" session. For some creative ideas for schoolkids of all ages, click on "Energizers" at ncpe4me.com.
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A guide to illness
Too sick for school?
"Mom, I don't feel good." Now what? Should you let your child stay home? Call the doctor? We asked Steven P. Shelov, M.D., coeditor of The American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Symptoms:
Skip school: If your child's temperature is 100 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. A fever usually signals a contagious infection.
Call the doc: If he seems unusually lethargic, has a severe headache, is hallucinating or delirious, or still looks ill after the fever breaks.
Skip school: If his cough is persistent, severe, brings up mucus, or is accompanied by a fever.
Call the doc: If your child starts to have noisy, rapid, or difficult breathing, or you notice a blue tinge to his lips or fingernails.
Runny nose
Skip school: If he has other cold or flu symptoms. A drippy nose alone is no reason to skip school; just be sure he has plenty of tissues!
Call the doc: If your child is having difficulty breathing, is unusually sleepy or lethargic, or has a fever over 101 Fahrenheit.
Sore throat
Skip school: If the pain seems moderate to severe and isn't relieved by taking a drink
Call the doc: If there's also has a fever, spots on the throat, a severe headache, rash, swollen glands, red or painful joints, nausea, or trouble breathing.
Skip school: If the pain seems sharp or is concentrated in a specific area of the stomach, or is accompanied by fever, vomiting, or diarrhea
Call the doc: If it's severe and lasts longer than two hours, is accompanied by severe vomiting, or there's blood in vomit, stool, or urine.
Skip school: As long as your child is still having loose bowel movements
Call the doc: If it lasts past 48 hours, or if your child has a fever, is vomiting, there's blood in his stool, or you suspect dehydration
Skip school: If your child has thrown up within the past few hours, or has a fever or no appetite.
Call the doc: If your child also has a fever or diarrhea that lasts more than 12 hours, or shows signs of dehydration
Skip school: If your child also has a fever (this usually means an ear infection)
Call the doc: If your child has a fever, discharge from or swelling around the ear, headache, dizziness, or hearing loss
Skip school: Until it's diagnosed
Call the doc: No matter what. Many rashes are contagious; any skin eruptions should be seen and diagnosed by your pediatrician.
photo: Julie Toy
Want to change your school? Parenting and Georgetown University has teamed up to launch Mom Congress, a brand-new program to help moms connect and advocate for positive change in their children's education.
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Safi's Petfinder page
This is a real Staffybull, and SBT rescue is involved. Someone took her home, but they apparently didn't understand the breed, and returned her as "too needy". Staffies are people dogs!
Safi is very sad and lonely back in the kennels.
Lonely Staffy in NC needs home
Why buy from a breeder when there are plenty of homeless pups in shelters???
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Where is she in NC.. I sometimes help with Pitbull Response in my area, VA, and I may be able to help her. She is adorable.. I have a 2 yr old pit I rescued at 4 weeks and is very demanding... love him to death though and know what they are like.
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Visual Learning: "Out of many, one"
Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. For the viewer, they offer a chance to connect and question. They also offer potential for play and imagination, and pulling the observer into purposeful messages.
Most often, newspaper and magazine readers take a quick glance at photos and their captions. With this YES! lesson plan, you and your students can luxuriate—and pause—to truly understand an image, its message, and why it's interesting (or not).
STEP 1: What do you notice?
Ask your students to make sense of the photograph by trusting their instincts of observation and inference. In doing so, the photograph offers possibilities and interpretations beyond a typical reading where the reader glances at the picture to reinforce their interpretation of the picture's title or caption. Do not introduce any facts, captions, or other written words outside of the image. You may hear: fuzzy black lines, intersecting lines, white space, assorted angular shapes, tiny words, capital letters.
STEP 2: What are you wondering?
After you've heard what your students are noticing, you'll probably hear the peppering of questions: Are those pipe cleaners? Is this 3-D or flat? Is this a web? I see the word "DEMOCRACY." What does this have to do with the picture? What are the other words? This is a good time to reveal the photo's caption, accompanying quote, and facts about the actual situation. Watch how the conversation shifts from what they believe to be true to discerning the facts about the photo.
Photo caption
E Pluribus Unum, 2010. 24 X 24 feet laser etched onto aluminum panels
"Depicts the names of one million organizations around the world that are devoted to peace, environmental stewardship, social justice, and the preservation of diverse and indigenous culture. The actual number of such organizations is unknown, but estimates range between one and two million, and growing."
Photo by Chris Jordan
Photo facts:
Photographer Chris Jordan is famous for his giant works of art, making bold statements with maximum impact about mass consumption and waste.
Jordan's E Pluribus Unum is based on the work of Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, and creator of a database of 130,000 organizations around the world. In Hawken's book, he talks of a new massive movement that brings together social justice and ecological restoration.
E Pluribus Unum is Latin for "Out of many, one." In other words, we may be individually different but we are united. It is pronounced: ee ploor'ibus yOOnum. This phrase is also on the Seal of the United States, as well as on U.S. coins, even though it is no longer the official motto.
Additional resources around the image:
EXPLORE :: Paul Hawken, environmental and author
VISIT :: Chris Jordan E Pluribus Unum and other artworks
READ :: Journey to Midway, destruction of disposable culture
STEP 3: What next?
E Pluribus Unum is the motto printed on most U.S. currency. If you were in charge, what motto would you print on U.S coins and bills?
It used to be that environmental and social justice issues were viewed separately. Now there is an environmental justice approach. Why do you think these two issues are seen as one? What are some environmental injustices you've heard of globally? In your community?
What issue or cause do you care about most—peace, environment, or social justice? Are you involved in any organizations devoted to these causes? Why or why not?
Chris Jordan states, "I think of this piece (E Pluribus Unum) as being like a compass, pointing toward a true source of hope and inspiration for our times." How would you describe or depict "our times"? What do you feel is a true source of hope and inspiration these days?


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The following error may occur when trying to update iDRAC6 or iDRAC7 with the Dell Update Package of any version:
Failed to access virtual USB device
It has been determined that the iDRAC7 DUP does not detect the temporary virtual USB partition presented by DRAC for copying over the update payload. Simply add the following command before proceeding with running the iDRAC7 DUP:
ln –fs /proc/mounts /etc/mtab
The DUP will now properly detect the USB device to proceed applying the iDRAC7 update. Dell Engineering has fixed this issue with DTK 4.4 for Linux.
the iDRAC6 update package also requires the aforementioned symlink. However, this USB error will still occur if any iDRAC6 virtual media is connected. This means that the DTK .iso image itself cannot be mounted remotely and booted to in order to update iDRAC6 firmware. It also means vFlash partitions cannot be mounted, either, if a vFlash card and license is installed.
DTK must be burned to a CD for booting or be converted to a USB flash drive or booted from PXE. And once booted to DTK virtual media must be disabled/detached. You can do this either manually via the iDRAC6 web GUI or using DTK commands:
DTK commands:
1. At prompt enter "syscfg --virtualmedia=disable"
2. Then "syscfg --vflash=disable"
Web GUI:
1. System > Media/Console tab > Configuration
2. Change "Virtual Media" menu to "Detach"
3. System > vFlash (if applicable)
4. Uncheck the "Enabled" checkbox
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Keyboards are a dime a dozen these days. But the one that keeps us coming back is SwiftKey. That's as much for its ease of use as its legendary prediction algorithms — its "Fluency Engine," which helps your phone seem to know what to type before you do.
Prediction was always SwiftKey's bread and butter — for years it was leaps and bounds better than Google's stock keyboard, or SwiftKey's arch rival, Swype. Today, it's picked up features made popular by its competitors — the "Flow" swiping method for typing, for one — added cloud sync so you never lose your customized predictions, and it's easier than ever to tie it in to your Google, Facebook or Twitter accounts, so SwiftKey can learn even more about what and how you type.
In 2014, SwiftKey shook things up again by becoming a free app, adding emoji, and offering up various themes, available via an in-app purchase.


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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
Back in August I posted a first version of a rules-driven solution for backups, index and statistics maintenance and integrity checks. The system in general has been working well, and has saved my team a huge amount of time and effort. We are coming to the anniversary of its use in production soon.
Today I offer an update that contains a few enhancements, performance improvements and a bug fix.
To recap, this is a system or framework to manage many small databases across many instances on many servers in a policy-based/automated way. The details about how to deploy and how to use the system are in the original post, but at a high level:
The theory behind this project is to save work configuring servers (efficiency), to ensure that the maintenance is in fact deployed and working for ALL databases in the environment (quality), to ensure that it works in a truly consistent way everywhere (consistency), and to make it so that the servers don't have to be touched by a DBA when changes happen, such as adding or dropping databases (resiliency).
The updates in this 1.1 version include
The code for the system is posted here, and you are welcome to download it and try it out. Please note that this is not a commercial solution, and that while you may test or deploy this, you do so at your sole risk. Edits to the code almost certainly will be required for your environment. Please read, understand and test the code thoroughly before you even imagine using this in production. I do not want to cause you or your employer any pain. License for using this solution is GPL 3.0: http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0. You may use and modify this code, but not sell it.
This has been run on SQL Server versions from 2005 to 2008 R2. It probably works on 2012, but I have not tested it thoroughly.
I run only case-insensitive collation; if you are on a case-sensitive system, then you have my sympathy, and you might have to edit a few things to make this work.
There is coverage for Quest Litespeed backups in the solution; other third-party backup products could be incorporated easily, but have not been. It should be possible to follow the pattern used to handle Litespeed and extend it to any other third-party stored procedures.
If you haven't done index maintenance for a while, and you flip this solution on you might blow up your transaction log. Be sure that you have plenty of log space and plenty of log backup space, and watch the process the first few runs. This is especially true if the combination of Standard Edition of SQL Server and the preference for Online index maintenance applies in your environment, because the maintenance process will perform index maintenance using reorganize (defrag), which produces a lot of log.
Lastly, this is a solution for the type of environment that has many small databases, not the type with a few big, performance intensive databases. Databases that are large and require detailed attention may not be suitable for a one-size-fits-all solution like this.
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Boston Goal 6 July 1776
Honourable gentleman
I have the liberty to address my self
to you to make known my present situation, being an
Inhabitant of this Town and a Freeholder thought my self Intitled to Act anything therein I should
think proper (that was not repugnant to the law's) to the
settling the Unhappy differences subsisting between this
and the mother country
Upon Govr Hutchinson's being sent for from his
Government its well known he was well Acquainted with
the Constitution of this Country and as it was thought
he could be of service thereto upon his Arrivall in England,
an Address was set on foot by a number of respectable March to
and other's of this Town to Influence him to use his
Endeavour's thereto, among the number I also set my
name and upon no other motive
Upon Genl
Gage's Arrival, he superseeding
Hutchinson a respect was thought due to him, an Address
of Congratulations was drawn up and presented him
begging his Assistance to prevent the unhappiness that
was like to prevail in this Country which I also sing'd,
General Gage's leaving this Province the command being
in General How he isued a Proclamation for the Inhabitants
to Associate themselves and bear Arm's in defence of
the Town, being what I did not thing was my duty
I did not sing, sometime After he Isued another recom-
-mending to the Inhabitants to Associate themselves for
preserving the peace and good Order of the Town by
preventing any Riotous doings by the Soldier's or other's
which I thought Incumbent with every good Citizen to comply
with, these are the only matter's in the present Affair's that I have
had any concern's with an [d] can duely Affirm that I have never borne
Arm's nor done one single moments duty against this Country
General How's quiting this
Town in so short a time as he did
must of Consequence be attended with the utmost Confusion and
gave no one time to settle his thoughts what to do with themselves
or property, but the past unhappy situation we had been in this
Town I finally concluded to take the Opportunity to go to Halifax
their to have tarried or gone from thence to England untill the
unhappy disputes whare settled leaving my Property behind,
but upon the proceedings of Mr. Brush takeing away the property
of the people of this Town as you will see by the copy of paper's
accompanying this which I have related to the Hon ble Councill
of this Province, I then alter'd my mind and concluded to carry
my Goods with me which I shipt on board the Brig Elizabeth
being Twenty-Six packages on the Passage was taken by three
of the United Colony Vessell's and brought in Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Upon my landing your agent Mr Wentworth
me he must Examine my Baggage as also what Money and
Paper's I had, from the former he has detain'd about £35- [LMY?]
and from the latter five setts of Bills of Exchange amounting
to £100-stirlg payeable to my self Only, after he Examined
my Baggage had his leave to carry it with me but haveing
no Acquaintance in the Town accepted his Offer of his store,
and haveing tarried one day upon Parole the next morning
the Master and two other passenger's and my self haveing
provided Carriadge's at our own
Expence and being
attended by a Man sent with us by Mr. Wentworth we
set of for head Quarter's, but upon our reaching Newbury
Port about 20 miles whare we stopt to refresh our
selves the popular Assembled and swore we should
not ride and threatened to destroy the Carriadge, we
sent for the Committe of safety to Appease them, but all
to no purpose, finding our selves in such a situation
we comply'd, the Committe not thinking it safe they
Appointed a Guard of five Men and Obliged us to pay
the Expence the rest of the Journey, as soon as we came
out of the Inn we received Blow's, mud, stones, Eggs,
and every other abuse and proceeded to Boston being
40 miles on foot, from whence we was again carried
to Wartertown 9 miles before the late Councill and
being each seperately ask'd a few Question's and not
properly Examined was sent back to Boston and
committed on a supposed Crime of being concern'd with
Crean Brush denied the Use of pen Ink and paper and
Candle light not suffer'd to speak to any one but in
presence of the keeper whare we have been ever since
13th April, after my Committment my brother wrote
Mr Wentworth for my Baggage who return'd for
Answer that he was not permitted to send it without
Order's of Councill which has depriv'd me of every
A fortnight after my committment the former
Expir'd and a new one Assembled upon the 10th June I
wrote them desiering that some
Enquiery might be made into my
Affair on the 13th was waited upon in consequence thereof, of
by a Committe of whom I desier'd to know what charge they had
Against me, or if any person had lodg'd any Information against
me, who acquainted me that they had none or knew of any but
was sent to make an Enquiery, after I had acquainted them with
the whole and the Freindly part I have acted by my Townsmen
they requested I would committ it to writing to make their repor [t]
copy's and also Certificates from the Gentlemen of the Town of my
Conduct I take the freedom to transmitt you, I have heard nothing
since but transiently that in debate some of the Councill is for
liberating me and the rest of the passenger's and other's for putting
us under restiction's
Hon ble Gentn
I now make my Applications to you in regard to
my property which I had with me when taken desiering to be informed
by you weather my singing those Addresse's done purely out of
good motives to serve the Country (if they have not had the desie [r'd]
Effect I am sincerely sorry for it) or the going away shall Intitle
me to the safe of the same, when I left this I knew of no Man
on the Continent that had any demands against me and I also
left a Real Estate in this Town and a Number of outstanding
In the last Thursday paper
publish'd by John Gill of this
I find their find an Advertisment by the Agent Mr. Wentworth requiering all
person's legall Claimer to say in their Claims 24th Instt to which I beg
leave to [ . . . ] you, and as its not possible I can receive any Answer from
you before that time, if I shall not be releas'd by the Hon ble Councill
I shall by my Attorney lay in my Claims to my property and when I
shall be favour'd with your Answer to my request shall Esteem it as
a perticular favour and am gentn with great respect
The Hon ble United Congress
at Philadelphia
Your most Obet
Hum Servt
William Jackson


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There are over 1,000,000 different apps for Twitter and a new one is added every second.
This means it is often quite easy to get confused finding those that actually add real value to your day-to-day tweeting.
I took a look at some of the latest and most promising Twitter tools to get you tweeting like a pro.
So, if you think it is time to up your game with some new tools, keep reading.
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Tom Cruise is "for real"
Tom Cruise was on Jimmy Fallon last night. They had a water fight. And he talked, again, about go-carting and motorcycles. It was better than the night before on Letterman, slightly, but Top Gun is still, these days, painfully uncool, "for real".
You know those commercials when they dress some dork up in a suit and he comes upon the cool kids all like, hey, yo, what's up in the hizzy and I'm down with the bros?
Cringe, right? You cringe.
This is Tom Cruise. Every time he'd lose a card or fall behind in the game, it was "for real?" He must have dropped at least 10 "for real?"s in 3 minutes, like it's something his son Connor says a lot and there's old dad trying to kick it with the youth.
Why haven't he and Demi Moore found each other yet?
In fairness, it's fun to watch them get soaked and giggle. John Travolta might be jealous.
Then again, Demi doesn't exactly fit the profile of a Tom Cruise potential wife. Word is he may be auditioning a new one. According to the UK Sun a new candidate has emerged: Malin Ackerman's sister Jennifer. The two were talking at a party in Stockholm last week - click here to see photos - and now you know her name. See below for some photos of Jennifer Ackerman earlier this year. She doesn't seem like a girl who minds the attention, or the rumours, does she?
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UBS AG will pay about $1.5 billion and two former traders face prison as the bank settled charges with U.S. and U.K. authorities for manipulating interest rates in a global conspiracy to boost profits and bonuses.
Tom Alexander William Hayes and Roger Darin were charged with conspiracy in a criminal complaint unsealed today, the U.S. Justice Department said. Hayes also was charged with wire fraud and a price-fixing violation for manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate at another bank, the department said.
"Make no mistake, for UBS traders, the manipulation of Libor was about getting rich," Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division, said in a news conference in Washington.
The charges are the first brought by U.S. officials against individuals alleged to have manipulated Libor and comparable benchmarks in Europe and Japan.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's $700 million fine is the largest in the agency's history, David Meister, the commission's head of enforcement, said at the news conference. The total penalties of $1.5 billion represent about one-third of the bank's 2011 net income.
UBS fell 0.3 percent to 15.20 francs in Swiss trading after rising as much as 2.4 percent during the day.
Conspiracy, Fraud
The U.S. government said the two men were part of a conspiracy to commit wire fraud from September 2006 to 2009. Hayes, 33, served as a senior yen swaps trader at UBS in Tokyo, while Darin, 41, worked as a short-term interest rates trader at UBS in Singapore, Tokyo and Zurich, the U.S. said.
Prosecutors allege that Hayes and Darin "conspired with others known and unknown within UBS to cause the bank to make false and misleading yen Libor submissions to the British Bankers' Association."
Darin didn't respond to a voice-mail message, and Hayes couldn't be reached. U.K. fraud prosecutors arrested Hayes last week in connection with a criminal probe opened this year, according to people familiar with the matter.
UBS was ordered to pay a total of about $1.5 billion to U.S., U.K. and Swiss regulators for trying to rig global interest rates, including Libor. Regulators found that traders at the Zurich-based bank made more than 2,000 requests to its own rate submitters, traders at other banks and brokers to manipulate rate submissions through 2010.
UBS Japan agreed to plead guilty in connection with the rate-rigging investigation, while UBS AG, the parent company, entered a non-prosecution agreement with the Justice Department.