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You would think that plopping a non-rugged electronic device into a pool of water (in the case of the toilet we hope it was just water) would kill it forever, but that's not always the case. Even non-rugged gear can survive underwater for a few seconds, sometimes. And if it's powered down, the survival rate goes up quite a bit.
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The key is to dry it quickly and thoroughly, and for that you need more than a paper towel or the sleeve of your shirt. And that's when you could use a Bheestie bag.
The 7-inch-by-9-inch bags are made of a pretty sturdy foil like material and are designed to draw water and moisture out of electronics. Inside are a couple hundred little BB-sized white pellets made up of water-absorbing chemicals.
According to Bheestie & Co., the pellets are 700 times more effective at pulling moisture out of the atmosphere (which consists of the sealed bag for the most part) than dry rice. And the chemicals in the bag work faster than silica gel, which is often used for pulling moisture from the air.
Bheestie (pronounced 'be-ste) in case you were wondering, is a word from India used to describe a servant who carries water.
The pellets themselves are non-toxic, though if you eat them you are advised to immediately drink two glasses of water and contact your doctor just to be on the safe side. You don't want them drying out your insides. And just as full disclosure, we do usually test every claim a company makes, but took their word on the non-toxic statement. We didn't eat any.
But for pulling water out of electronics, it just so happened that we were finishing up the rugged roundup review when the Bheestie bags arrived in the lab, so we had lots of wet electronics to test with.
First up was a cell phone that wasn't actually rugged, but which we dipped in water anyway. Now, if your electronic device is powered when it goes underwater or gets exposed to a lot of moisture, it's probably going to be destroyed. Unless the water is distilled, it will likely complete a circuit and something will fry. We've seen this happen many times in the lab, sometimes to dramatic effect.
But if the device is powered down, there is a good chance that drying it out can actually save it. The problem with a lot of the tiny electronics of today is that you can't safely take them apart, so there is no way to get hidden water out of them. That's where the Bheestie bags can come in handy.
We dropped the wet cell phone into the bag and sealed it up, letting it sit overnight. In the morning, we unsealed the bag and removed the phone. It seemed dry, and sure enough, came right to life when powered up. This was after resting for several minutes at the bottom of our test tank filled with water the day before.
The bags cost $20 each, but are reusable. In fact, we tested the same bag with five different soaked devices. It worked every time.
The little pellets are mostly white, but a few are blue. The blue ones turn gray when the absorbency properties of the chemicals are lost, so you can check to see if your Bheestie is still functioning.
The company says you can use the bag for maintenance, putting electronics inside at night to keep them in a totally moisture free zone. Using the bags this way, they are supposed to last a year. Dropping sopping wet electronics inside decreases this time dramatically, but it worked five times in our testing, and there was still a little bit of blue color left in the marker pellets.
We had two minor problems with the bags. First, they only come in one size. It would be nice if there were an iPad or Android Tablet size for larger devices. Even some of the big smart phones are a tight fit in the bag. Secondly, the pellets are very small, which means that they can actually fall inside some electronics. We tested the Bheestie bag with a portable hard drive that had been submerged in water as part of the rugged review testing, and the next day we had to pick several pellets out of the USB ports.
With a tiny price tag and a great track record in our testing, we would highly recommend that anyone who might at some point get exposed to lots moisture or even a splash of water keep a few on hand.
While we don't really see the value of using the bags for maintenance purposes, having some on hand for emergencies should be a standard tool in every IT department. For $20 and almost no hassle, they might just be able to save expensive gear from a catastrophic failure due to water ingress. Against water, your protection is in the bag.
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Not that these bags are a bad idea, I saved a cell phone once myself with dry rice, but let's be honest - how often do our electronic toys fall into the water when they're off?
The first thing to do when portable electronics get wet is to remove the batteries. Forget powering down, just take them out as fast as possible. The only thing I have bought without removable batteries is a Nook. It fits quite well in a two quart Ziploc bag. Most touch screens do fine in a Ziploc bag. And there are specialty bags for electronics to be taken under water. I have some nice video taken with my cell phone on a reef in an optically clear specialty bag (auto focus gets a bit picky with the constant wave motion so take it down and hold it still about two feet from something and let it adjust). Ziplocs do fine for the quick dip or with sand and mud but there are also specialty double seal bags that are cheap. Keep your fire starters in those if you are going walk about. A frost free refrigerator does relatively well for drying out electronics but it can take a few days. Note that some electronics (fruity types) have moisture indicators inside to let the manufacturer off the warranty if the device is operated in condensing atmospheres so put the device in a Ziploc after taking it out of the refrigerator till it warms up. Microfiber rags make great wicks and will remove water from just about anything. Wing it out and it will soak up more. Put one in the Ziplock against the seal. Without a battery, distilled water can be used to remove salt water from electronics; the MgSO4 in salt water will absorb moisture from the air and wet electronics if not removed.
Just to be fair, were any phones tested immediately after being exposed to see if they worked? I had a cheap phone some years back that was lost in 12" snow, and not found till a week later after the snow melted. It was still turned on and worked perfectly without drying, and still does to this day. Given that, I do agree that drying makes a lot of sense.
Sounds like a good product to store your phones in when at the water parks or beach. A little preventive measure goes a long way . . .
Many people talk about using the Silica Gel packets that come in your shoe boxes or other places but if you think about it they are no longer active because they have been used up. The silica just does not work as well.
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BURTON, MICHIGAN -- The deli was being set up and the only chicken available was the advertised special 8 piece. The chicken was filled with brown crud especially near the bones. Threw the chicken away. Purchase date 5/27/2018 cashier Robin at 11:08:28. There was only one cashier open, shelves were bare and once again products were moved making shopping difficult.
INDIANAPOLIS METRO AREA, INDIANA -- Thanks to all the people who have shared reviews on Meijer Company. In the spirit of fairness, I would like to add my "cents worth." This posting is not meant to disparage the name and reputation of the Meijer company, but is rather to call into question a specific corporate policy that I believe demonstrates frank discourtesy toward the customer.
In general, I have been reasonably pleased with the quality of products and level of service provided by the local stores in my area. However, more recently I have noticed a decline in the quality of the apparel they carry, and am not pleased with their Christmas return policy. My understanding is that when you receive a gift that is accompanied by a store's own original gift receipt, if you return the item with the receipt, the gift receipt has the record of how much the item cost, so that the full dollar amount of the returned item as listed on the receipt would be applied to the item exchanged. Not so at Meijer!
I received a sweater that was purchased at Meijer that needed to be exchanged for the correct size. This was not some frivolous return. I really wanted the item, but as a pre-Christmas sale item, it was out of stock, and would not be in stock. I waited until just a couple of days after Christmas to do the return, because I didn't want to waste so much time standing in line on the day after Christmas just for a single return.
When I brought the item and the receipt to customer service, I was told that it was okay to exchange it for anything else --well and good, so far. Imagine my shock and surprise when brought up something else for the exchange, and the value they credited to the exchange was just barely a couple of bucks! What they didn't immediately know, but I knew at the time was that I had purchased the same sweater for someone else (and during the same sale time as the person who purchased one for me!), so I knew, based on the date of the receipt, how much the item was sold for that week. The gift-giver paid nearly $15 for the item.
When I explained that I knew how much the gift-giver had paid for the item, and that it could be verified by the receipt date, I was told that didn't matter. I was informed that the policy for gift receipts --regardless of the date the item is purchased -- is to give the customer who returns an item the value of the "most recent sale price" on the item. So, when you are talking about something for Christmas, and you return the item after Christmas, you can may expect only a very small fraction of the price paid in return.
What an unjust return policy! Receipts are supposed to not only validate a purchase, but also serve as evidence of price paid! Not so at Meijer. Why even bother to request a gift receipt? So now when I want to buy something for someone else as a gift at a Meijer store, I really think long and hard, and probably more than just twice. If it's someone I know well, who wouldn't be offended to see a price, I'll give them the regular receipt. Otherwise, I try to buy elsewhere.
In fairness to the company, I haven't purchased a gift for someone else at Meijer in many months. I hope that they have updated their gift receipt return policy so that they are in step with other retailers.
I have been shopping at Meijer for about 5 years and I have to say that I don't have a problem at the store I go to. I like how there are a lot of variety. They live up to their "One stop shopping." I can go there and buy car items, groceries, plants, electronic items, clothes and home essentials without having to go to different stores. I have worked for retail before and I can understand some things can be out of worker and company hands.
I do have to agree that they do need more cashiers and less U-scans (I personally hate those things) just because for one they take jobs away from people. And of course that is what companies are striving for. Their prices are good especially when they have items on clearance!
I have read some of the post on here that are just so ridiculously stupid. One is made because it is possible like he said that he probably hit the pay inside button, OK that is not their fault. Consumers take things way out of hand and don't stop to think that maybe they might have done something wrong or they didn't read the sign or didn't read it properly and they jump down the workers' throats and demand they get it the price they "think" they saw or get it for free. Then later complain that prices are going up.
HMMM well when you have thousands of people who come in and out of the store there are mound to have people who are going to complain or leave perishable items in lanes instead of walking back or handing it to a cashier so they can take it back, the company is going to lose out on that money and of course it is going to affect the prices and when it affects the prices and people don't want to pay the price then the company doesn't make the money and they are losing out on more money and then its affect the workers because now the company have to start cutting hours.
Then people start complaining about not enough workers at the store or hard to find a job, but it is all a chain effect.
So since I have worked in retail I can understand when something goes wrong. And that is fine mistakes are going to be made oh well move on. When I have a problem and I ask one of the workers and they are nervous it upsets me because IT'S NOT THEIR FAULT and it's like they are waiting for someone to yell at them or to call them stupid (which I have seen). And it's NOT right.
And people want to complain about workers are rude or they have an attitude, hmm I wonder where it came from??? I bet one of those customers who do yell at these workers probably wouldn't be talkin' all that crap if that person was not on the clock. You just don't go somewhere and call people the B word or stupid because something didn't work in your favor OR you did something in which you believe wasn't your fault. But like I said I don't have a problem with Meijer nor for any other company I shop at. Like they say you have to be in the other person's shoes to understand it and I have.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -- I was once an employee of Meijer and left because I was 8-balled for whistle blowing. I am not a previous disgruntled employee but someone who has a business degree and understands how business works but had to learn through the school of hard knocks how business works for Meijer.
This is not your standard typical company. This company is all about alienating itself to such the extent that the expense it generates by mistreating its own employees and constantly mismanages its own leadership that it cannot afford to provide the basic necessities to create and maintain a pleasurable consumer shopping experience for YOU the consumer! They will not train anyone! Unless of course you truly believe that one can achieve all the necessary training by computer modules.
When something is not right or goes wrong anywhere within a store, the first order of business is to determine where to place blame. Once blame is cast, chaos is then instilled which may very well include a store director or a district director yelling at the employee in the middle of the sales floor while YOU the consumer watches. That would be the standard morale builder that upper management will hope that it brings the employee down enough to either step down or quit.
But if that fails then the employee will be placed under a microscope and management find that one mistake the employee will inevitably make or made 10 years prior and fire them for that. They usually look for things like if he/she were caught that one time shop lifting when they were 15 years old and the records are juvenile and sealed but because he/she didn't reveal that information on their application they will terminate the employee's employment and deny unemployment benefits because they lied from the onset. All this even though he/she is now 45 years old and was turned into a scapegoat over someone's agenda to get the fashion's department in the order they wanted.
So the next time you shop at Meijer and you become disgusted about the conditions or the incorrect pricing or the lack of customer service or the lack of cashiers, think about it! This is how corporate Meijer wants it. You are in their store NOT YOURS! YOU will play by their rules NOT YOURS! EVERYONE will tow the line or there is the door NO EXCEPTIONS including YOU the consumer!
I did not make this up! The examples I wrote were truly examples! Much much worse takes place every single day! If you don't believe, just go to your neighborhood Meijer store and observe for yourself. You will see all this in all its glory at the Wyoming Michigan store. No one is happy and no one wants to be there but then why should they, back stabbing gets old after a while whether giving or receiving. For YOU the consumer, good luck! You may seriously want to consider other alternatives unless of course you support diseased corporate environments of such!
By the way, the survey they ask of you on every receipt over $10.00 is designed to rid itself of whomever they can blame for your complaint. So before you get too detailed about your complaint, think about whose life your going to disrupt as a result of your complaint because honestly, where this company is concerned everything that happens is the dictate from upper management. Everything is done in accordance to a written process, EVERYTHING!
FORT GRATIOT, MICHIGAN -- My boyfriend and I were unfairly discriminated against by a cashier (unknown) and the 2nd Shift manager, on the evening of May 7th, 2009. We were attempting to purchase a bottle of liquor when the cashier informed me that Meijer policy states that all adults purchasing liquor must show ID. When asked if I could return the car and have my boyfriend re-enter to purchase liquor in the interest of preserving the sale, we were ordered to leave. We understand that the cashier was acting in her best interest to protect company policy, but her personal verbal attacks were way out of line.
The cashier made several statements regarding the age difference between myself and my boyfriend (I am 29, he is 45) and referred to him as my "sugar daddy" while on a phone call to bring her manager to the register. Another customer overheard this and was appalled saying aloud "did you hear her? That was extremely rude." Additionally, she took my boyfriend's license and did not return it while she went to the phone and we fear she was taking information for an identity theft scheme, as we saw her remove a pen and paper and write down notes about it while waiting.
Then, when returning his license, she struck an aggressive stance and threw it onto the register in our direction. We asked her not to be so hostile, which only increased her aggression. The manager did little to stop her personal rant on us.
We planned on spending over $500 in this location this weekend alone for an impending Mother's Day Celebration and would have returned the following day to purchase a variety of cooking supplies and products. Additionally, we spend $200-$300 monthly on items like hotdogs for "customer appreciation" for professional functions. Fortunately, there is a Wal-Mart located directly next door to this Meijer, so we will be moving all of our business to these locations instead.
I am appalled by the injustice that was done to us. Having our relationship referred to as being "suspicious" and "inappropriate" by a manager and a cashier simply based on the fact that I look young is discriminatory and offensive.
When we asked if my boyfriend would be allowed to buy liquor with his daughter (a minor) present, we were informed that "was fine because that is his daughter, but because I look old enough to be an adult, I must present ID." What I don't understand is that this "store policy" seems to encourage discriminatory behavior amongst Meijer associates, and does little to prevent minors from obtaining liquor. We understand that these employees were doing their best to follow company policy, but their verbal attacks on our personal situation were unnecessary and wrong.
I have been encouraged by several friends to seek legal counsel for this incident, but I believe that doing so would only encourage more speculation on our healthy romantic relationship, which I am unwilling to do, no matter what type of financial gain I would receive. Some things are more important than money, like values and morals. I pride myself for practicing anti-discriminatory values in my daily life and consequently am glad today to know that I will never cause anyone to feel as violated as I felt on May 7th 2009, when verbally attacked by the staff of the Fort Gratiot Meijer.
COLUMBUS, OHIO -- My name is **, and I work for a corporation that provides services to Mentally Challenged Adults. I work in a management position, and was given $1,300 in Meijer's gifts cards, to do start up shopping for 2 new consumers. On October 27, 2008, I went to store #62, and purchased a significant amount of merchandise. I had two carts loaded with needed items for my 2 new consumers. I knew I had not completed the shopping however I'm only one person, and had two carts, so I decided to check out.
I must include, I was followed around the store during my 2 hour shopping trip, however I understood that. Back at the consumer's home, I put away the belongings, and headed back to Meijer, to complete the shopping. I spent another 11/2 hours, shopping, and being followed around the store. Upon checking out, once the receipt printed, this Barbie doll looking woman, came to me and said "may I see your Identification", I ask her "for what?" She didn't respond.
She then ask me to give her my receipt, to which I asked "why?" She explained "I received an alert from my office", she went on to look at my receipt and ask me "why are you spending gift cards to purchase gift cards?" I told her "come on woman, you're harassing me, you have my receipt in hand, and you look like an intelligent woman, nowhere on that receipt does it show, that I'm using gift cards to buy gift cards".
She then ask me to see the credit card with which I purchased the gift cards. I told her "hell no' I said you are harassing me because I'm black and spent $1,100 dollars at this store, this is absurd." She at that point said "I'm not harassing you, as you have done nothing wrong." I responded, "then why the hell are you in front of me demanding to see my Identification, the receipt, and the credit card?" Once again, she replied "I got an alert from my office." I took my items and left, feeling much like a criminal, as other shoppers had stopped to look at this woman's demands on me.
I feel if I were a white woman, who shopped at Meijer and spent $1,100 dollars, I would have walked out of the door with no problems. One employee who worked their also ask me was I a career shopper. I was totally harassed throughout my time spent at Meijer, as one associate came to me while I was shopping to ask me was I interested in purchasing some Meijer photos. I told her no, however I did ask to be directed to the floral department.
This particular Meijer is close to the neighborhood in which I live, as I am a homeowner who owns a home in Forest Park. Because of my ties to this community in which I'm very active, I have decided to raise awareness to the black community in regards to shopping at Meijer store # 62. I have also e-mailed channel 4,6, and 10 in regard to this senseless act of being black while shopping at Meijer. This should not be allowed to happen to any other African American, and as I long as I have breath in me, I'm going to make damn sure it doesn't happen again.
I have read many reviews criticizing Meijer from a consumer point of view. Much of this is entitled customer rubbish, where people fail to read signs (thus they claim to be overcharged because they pick up a 30 oz bottle instead of a 10 oz), use the self check out fast lanes when they do not have the knowledge or patience to learn how to do so, and go shopping at midnight and expect the same kind of service as during the day. There is a delusion that just because you have a dollar, that you OWN the people who work there.
This is wrong. It is not moral. Meijer like all big-box stores is a direct result of how Americans have chosen to spend their money. YOU wanted bigger, faster, cheaper. You got sprawl, u-scans, and Chinese lead-laden garbage, and overworked underpaid employees who are working their hardest just to make ends.
What I have learned as a customer and an employee of Meijer is that the customer is NOT always right. People must go home at some decent hour. Watching people on Christmas eve whine like children about how the store closes at 7 pm is disgusting. These people have families and work hard. I have had customers throw potatoes at me, threaten to hit me, and swipe at me with their hands, not to mention lie repeatedly.
I believe in a society of mutual respect and conduct. I have always acted in this manner while shopping, returning my cart myself, not using plastic bags, saying "please" and "thank you" no matter what, not using the u-scan when I knew I would need help, and NEVER heckling of whining at hard working people. Meijer is a family owned store. Its employees are union members. When you shop at Walmart or Target and pinch pennies, what you fail to realize is that Meijer helps its employees, all who works over 12 hours to have healthcare, instead of pushing it off on the government welfare like other corps.
Coupons are often an issue. In college, I found that making a list (and yes, shopping at my local Meijer) and sticking to it, without coupons was always far cheaper than what other girls in my building did with chasing sales and clipping coupons. These are advertising tactics that get you to buy what you don't need. I personally wish Meijer would do away with them, and just lower prices overall. Coupons are made by many different vendors and often do not work correctly. Be patient and courteous with your cashier when you hand them a wad.
I agree that it has gotten too big, but as I mentioned above this is a direct result of us demanding bigger, better, faster, cheaper. If you have at u-scans, don't use them. (and I'd like to dispel the rumor that they take away jobs. they create many higher paid tech and production jobs and are constantly monitored.)
My experience has lead me to believe that the general American consumer does not understand how to get what they want, and how to express their opinions in a productive matter. Logic tells us that if you dislike something you want it to be fixed, yes? But the current approach does the total opposite. Don't buy foreign products if you don't like them. Don't shop at anti-union stores if you are tired of corporations beating on working people, and forcing us to pay for what they should in taxes. And if you have a problem with a store, don't shop there and write a clear, respectful letter, maybe a few times even to the company.
Abusing employees only decreases your level of service. Shop at decent hours of the day. Spend time with your family, and just stop rushing so much. We really don't need more stuff. What we need is peace of mind, community, and passion in life.
CARMEL, INDIANA -- I have been shopping at Meijer in Carmel, IN for years and more recently going there weekly for odd grocery items and liquor. After March 2010, Indiana passed a new law where everyone is carded no matter their age if they are purchasing liquor at a store. My boyfriend and I are both 24 years old, get carded frequently, but have never been denied alcohol because our licenses are valid until 2013. He has the old IN state driver's license though, which has seen better days, while I have the shiny, bright new one.
Until several weeks ago, Meijer employees never seemed to notice a difference between our IDs and allowed us to spend 100s of dollars in alcohol and groceries without a peep. This changed when my boyfriend was checking out and the cashier said his license was invalid. He explained that he used it almost daily at their store with no issue and she called for her manager. The woman who came over was extremely rude about this, exclaiming that his ID wasn't real and he could not purchase his alcohol. We went back in later that evening and used his ID to buy the same bottle of alcohol with no problem but were baffled by her behavior.
Today, my boyfriend went in to buy a couple of items, was carded again with no problem but left his credit card at home. He came back to Meijer to pick up his items in the Customer Service area and the same team leader was back there checking people out. Coincidentally, she would not let him purchase his alcohol, claiming his ID was fake again even though fifteen minutes earlier he was old enough to buy it.
I heard about this recurring issue with the woman and called the store to speak with the director. He told me the team leader had no right to turn a customer down simply because she 'thinks' an ID is fake but rather must type the ID number in the system. I've never seen her do this before. The director said to ask for him the next time we made a purchase and had an issue with her so he could address it properly.
My boyfriend went in later that evening to purchase his items behind Customer Service and before he could ask for the store director, the team leader denied him and exclaimed that she was the one he spoke to. I contacted the corporate office via email and will be calling them during regular business hours tomorrow. I am so upset that I printed out my bank statement to illustrate just how much money I spend at Meijer a month. It's pathetic, but I have spent almost $1000 at Meijer and that is just on myself!
ALMA, MICHIGAN -- Like most folks in the area, I really looked forward to the grand opening of the Alma Meijer store. Produce is my passion and I would travel to East Lansing and other Meijer stores in order to get fresh organic produce. Fuel, travel time was/and now is again a bit of a pain but worth it to me.
The store opened earlier than advertised and I was one of many smiling bobble heads crossing the threshold. I went straight away to the produce and was extremely surprised and disappointed with their produce department. The Kale was riddled with larva holes, wilted, turning yellow and soaked with water. The cucumbers were moldy and rotted.
I reached out to Meijer with my concerns and I prefaced these concerns by letting them know that I'd never had this happen before in any Meijer store. Along with my concerns I asked that they look into this. I received a prompt and courteous reply from Meijer customer service who stated that she would be forwarding my correspondence to the Alma store directly and that I would be hearing from them directly. To date I have not heard from any Meijer representative.
Assumptions are never very reliable however when one's concerns get dismissed one has to wonder why this happened in the first place. Is this perhaps a demographics issue? Do corporate bean counters determine that country "corn fed" folk won't be as interested in organics as much as our more trendy locations so let's give the Alma store everyone's seconds??? The organic produce I looked at were basically nutrient depleted yet the big fat organic price was fresh as ever.
I think it important to include that I had made just under a dozen trips to the Alma store before stopping altogether. I will be following up with any future developments to include pictures if I find the organics in the same shape as I expect them to be. On the same note.... if my visit finds a produce department fitting of the store's namesake I will update with that information as well.
I attempted to use a Santa Buck to discount the purchase of a $100.00 T-Mobile prepaid phone card. The checkout attendant was unsuccessful in his attempts to run the Santa Buck for it, and agreed that there is NO disclaimer printed on the coupon that would indicate that it could not be used toward the purchase of prepaid phone cards. Let me state clearly that the checkout attendant was at all times courteous, respectful, knowledgeable and friendly. Not so was the store "manager" he contacted for assistance. We'll call the "manager" "Mr. no".
"Mr. no" examined the Santa Buck and proceeded to give me some lame excuse that prepaid cards are not "general merchandise" and that a Santa Buck cannot be used to discount the purchase. I asked "Mr. no" politely to call HIS manager and he said he would not call "corporate", and Santa Bucks could not be used on prepaid phone cards, with no other explanation. During the following discussion I asked him TWO MORE TIMES to call "corporate". "Mr. no" REFUSED. TWICE!
I proceeded to pay for the two items I really needed, successfully using Santa Bucks for each, and left all the rest of the items I had in my cart at the Service Desk for "Mr. no" to deal with restocking. Within 1 1/2 miles of store # 164 there is a Target, Super Wal-Mart, Krogers, Walgreens, Home Depot, Office Max, Shoe Carnival, and many smaller specialty stores. There is no compelling reason to visit this Meijer, other than it might have an item on sale.
In the future I will AVOID Meijer stores unless there is some loss-leader on sale I want. In that case I'll purchase that loss leader item and make my other purchases elsewhere. I'll post this experience on the appropriate Web forums, and will discourage friends & family from visiting Meijer. So the result is this: A friendly and helpful checkout attendant is hamstrung by wrong documentation and poor "management", directly hurting the bottom line.


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In an earlier post I mentioned one of the ways that Fundación Paraguaya serves its constituents by broadening its scope beyond just making microloans. In that post I wrote about the Fundación's self-sustaining agricultural and hospitality education program for high school students.
Another way that Fundación Paraguaya equips people to make better use of microfinance and emerge from poverty is through Junior Achievement's business education program. As it happens, Fundación Paraguaya's Junior Achievement program, in addition to the traditional Junior component, also includes a Women Entrepreneurs element for adults.
The program covers a range of topics including development and management of budgets, teamwork, business revenue and expense tracking, planning, sales strategies, break-even analysis, human resource management, self-esteem and "life map" development.
A bit of cultural background: I've been told that, among lower income families in Paraguay, women often run the household while the men labor to bring in income. The training provided via the Women Entrepreneurs program seeks to build on the management skills that these women already have developed and refine them such that they too can contribute to the family's income by starting a small business.
Recently, the JA/Fundación Paraguaya program held a fair at which participants in the women entrepreneurs program set-up tables and showed their wares at a mall in greater Asuncion. I went there to meet some of the women and learn about how their entrepreneurial activity has affected their life.
To a one, they recited the litany of quality of life improvements that one would expect to read in a press release: a richer daily life due to their customer interactions, enhanced self esteem and confidence, a more financially secure household, no longer having to rely on pawn shops and usurers to help them through periods of reduced cash flow, and first-time purchases of household appliances – an oven, a refrigerator, perhaps even a toilet -- that are taken for granted in more developed parts of the world.
The ladies' ambitions followed a similar pattern. While most of their businesses currently take the form of door-to-door sales, they all hope to have a proper store and even to hire people within 5 years or so; perhaps even to have a store in the very mall where the fair took place!
For a few minutes, the cynic in me entertained the possibility that they'd all been briefed on their talking points and were more or less sticking to a script. But that was only for a moment. The smiles and twinkling eyes made it clear that these were not in any way mere recitations of talking points. The training and the microfinance loans, without a doubt, have had a significant positive impact on the quality of life of these women.
To those of you who've made loans to entrepreneurial women I say "good on ya," it's working!
To those of you thinking about making such a loan and wondering if it really will make a difference I say, the eyes and smiles don't lie; go for it!


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Ask a Muslim [split from introductions]
11-01-2013, 10:23 AM (This post was last modified: 20-02-2014 06:14 PM by Bucky Ball.)
RE: Ask a Muslim [split from introductions]
I have proven by many academic quotes in my long post that the god Sin is Allah. You ignored them. YOU must take them one by one, and show why they are wrong. I have already done the proving. All you did was contradict it, with NOT one reference, (and don't even think of using your holy book). Then you said that Islam came from monotheistic culture. Any historian knows that is 110 % false. The fact that you either know so little, or want to lie about it raises the questions of both your ignorance and you motives, (as Free said). You appear to be totally ignorant of Ancient History, and yes, I am a scholar, (a student anyway), so you are wrong about that also. I posted many academic references, and you ignored them all.
I have proven that Allah developed FROM the god Sin, as they had the same identical mythological daughters, and in fact even Mohammed thought so, as he put the Satanic Verses in the book, and then removed them, when it was convenient.
You have offered not one scholar as a support for your claims. You have negated not one of mine. Your rebuttals are opinions, supported by no evidence, just your opinions, and no references. Al-Ilah, BEFORE it meant "the god" was the crescent phase of the moon. You have NOT disproven that.
You have now changed your tune, after saying Islam was from a monotheistic culture, and attempted to explain away the fact that many hundreds of gods were worshiped in the Kabala at the time of Muhammad. ANd don't even start trying to say was was historical by QUran quotes. That's ludicrous. It's like quoting the Bible to prove the Bible. It's utterly circular. You don't even know what that means. The question is not whether Islam IS monotheistic, but what it developed from. Again, you have attempted to evade the argument. It's very obvious.
Again, I will post point by point, my refutations sometime this weekend. It will be easy.
Insufferable know-it-all. It is objectively immoral to kill innocent babies. Please stick to the guilty babies.
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RE: Ask a Muslim [split from introductions]
(11-01-2013 10:23 AM)Bucky Ball Wrote: Mullah,
First of all, don't even say that I "ignored them" because that is a pure lie. I took your academic quotes one by one and explained how each of them fails to prove that Sin is Allah. If you're going to include academic quotes again, in your next post, then you should also explain in your own words how the said quote proves that Sin is Allah. And please don't mix religion with culture. The words "monotheistic culture" doesn't really make good sense to me because "monotheistic" is religious while "culture" is simply cultural. As I said before, Islam is a monotheistic religion and you can't change that fact no matter how much you disagree or argue against it. And Islam didn't develop from any pagan culture either. I don't disagree that the Arabs used to worship hundreds of gods even at the time of Muhammad, but you have no proof for your assertion that that is what Islam developed from. It seems like you just want to believe that, but you didn't provide any specific reasoning nor historical evidence for the idea that Islam originated from a non-monotheistic culture.
As a matter of fact, the message of Islam was completely an opposite of the cultural lifestyle and the beliefs of the Arabs living at that time. That is one of the main reasons why the pagans of that time strongly opposed Muhammad and the message that he was preaching. They mocked him and they cursed him and they even tried to kill him in order to put an end to Islam even though many of them were people of his own clan, the Quraysh. They hated the religion that he was preaching. They hated it because it was the opposite of everything that they believed in. They also hated Muhammad because he destroyed all their idols, moon gods, statues, and everything else they used to worship as "gods" inside the Kaaba.
To put all of that into context, the Kaaba in Mecca was originally a place of monotheistic worship that was first given to Abraham according to tradition and it was devoted to the worship of the one and only God, Allah. So the Kaaba was first and foremost built for the purpose of a monotheistic religion. However, as the years passed by, the concept of the monotheism of Islam came to be contaminated. The descendants of Abraham became too numerous to live all in the valley of Mecca and those who went to settle elsewhere took with them stones from the holy precinct and performed certain rites in honor of them. And later, through the influence of neighboring pagan tribes, the stones came to be symbolized as idols and then slowly the pagan pilgrims started to bring some of those idols into the Kaaba itself. It was Muhammad who destroyed all the idols in the Kaaba in order to restore the house back to it's monotheistic purpose, the way it is today, and the way it was intended to be before paganism took over.
As for your claim that Allah had the same identical daughters as Sin, I have already pointed out the fallacy of that argument, which you still haven't refuted. So, every time you say that you "proved" that Sin and Allah had the same identical daughters, I will just put up a link to that post in order to expose the errors of that argument to everyone until you actually quote what I wrote and attempt to refute it. Maybe you're not doing it because you know that you are wrong, and so you're probably just trying to cover up your shame and your guilt of being wrong by saying that I "ignored them" and pretending as if you are right. I've been getting a suspicion of that the more I debate with you. And I highly doubt that you are even anything close to a scholar. Okay, you might be just a student of history, but I don't believe that you're a scholar. Even if you are, you are clearly doing a terrible job in trying to support the idea that Allah was a moon god in so many ways.
And when you said that Al-ilah was a phase of the moon "BEFORE it meant 'the god,'" where is your source for that? I mean, where did you read that it was "before" and not after? You didn't provide any historical evidence nor any logical explanations whatsoever to support that particular claim. You're just saying it, but you gave no academic citations for that nor presented any kind of reasoning to actually prove that.
Once again, as I mentioned earlier, "Al-ilah" was a generic word that simply meant "the god" in the Arabic language, as attested by a countless number of academic references. Therefore, the word "Al-ilah" could have equally applied to any other god by the Arab speakers. For example, Sin, Hubal, Wadd, Amm, Alqamah, etc. can all be called "ilah" (meaning "god") or even "Al-ilah" (meaning "the god") by whoever believed in them at the time. But that is not the same thing as calling them "Allah." And the possibility that a similar name was the name of a moon god as well doesn't necessarily mean that one of them was derived from the other. It's a non-sequitur. There could be many other pairs of words or names in Arabic, or in any other language, that simply sound alike, but it might be just a coincidence because two words having similar sounds doesn't necessarily prove that there is a connection between the two.
More importantly, the idea that the name "Allah" originated from the name of a moon god (whatever it is) definitely lacks historical/academic support. You don't even have to be a scholar to know this. This is evident by the fact that there are so many books and resources on the history of Islam which say nothing about a moon god being turned into Allah. It is just a fringe theory which is so unpopular and unsupported in the academic world that no one even bothers to disprove it. That's why there is hardly any mention of this in most of the history books about Islam. So, the thing is that I am not the one who needs to provide academic references in order to disprove the idea that Allah originated from Sin. Why? Because you weren't able to prove that in the first place. But I still managed to smash all your arguments, one by one. And I will keep doing this over and over again, even a million times, if I have to. I look forward to your next rebuttal as well. And you can take as long as you want, but I can guarantee that you're fighting a losing battle with me no matter how hard you try and I will not back down and I will prove it to everyone.
14-01-2013, 05:54 AM (This post was last modified: 14-01-2013 05:59 AM by Internet Mullah.)
RE: Ask a Muslim [split from introductions]
(11-01-2013 09:39 AM)Chas Wrote: You call those answers? You did not address the questions I asked.
Yes, those are answers indeed. And I addressed the questions that you asked. Your question was, "Why would any woman with any intelligence and self-respect be a Muslim? Then, in this post, I explained that Islam doesn't undermine a woman's intelligence nor her self-respect. So your implication that a woman with any level of intelligence and self-respect doesn't have a good reason to be a Muslim is wrong in the first place. That question was almost like a no-brainer to me. I mean, it's almost the same as asking "Why would any man with any intelligence and self-respect be a Christian?"
I don't know why you would even ask such a question as if the answer is not obvious to you, but I still answered your question anyways.
RE: Ask a Muslim [split from introductions]
(14-01-2013 05:54 AM)Internet Mullah Wrote: "Why would any man with any intelligence and self-respect be a Christian?"I dunno
RE: Ask a Muslim [split from introductions]
... I still want to know why embassies are so hated by Muslim communities....
The people closely associated with the namesake of female canines are suffering from a nondescript form of lunacy.
"Anti-environmentalism is like standing in front of a forest and going 'quick kill them they're coming right for us!'" - Jake Farr-Wharton, The Imaginary Friend Show.
RE: Ask a Muslim [split from introductions]
(14-01-2013 05:54 AM)Internet Mullah Wrote:No, a woman has a subservient position in Islam. Why would anyone submit to that?(11-01-2013 09:39 AM)Chas Wrote: You call those answers? You did not address the questions I asked.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
RE: Ask a Muslim [split from introductions]
(14-01-2013 07:34 AM)Chas Wrote: No, a woman has a subservient position in Islam. Why would anyone submit to that?Because "Allah has made one of them to excel the other". Jeez, Chas, is it so hard to understand?
Also, the Prophet said, "I looked at Paradise and found poor people forming the majority of its inhabitants; and I looked at Hell and saw that the majority of its inhabitants were women."
Face it, Charles, we are inferior to you and that's that. Might as well learn to deal with it. Also, we tempt you with our mere existence and it is our fault and not yours, when you rape us. For which we do apologise.
"E se non passa la tristezza con altri occhi la guarderò."
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RE: Ask a Muslim [split from introductions]
That would explain why men tend to be stronger physically... all to overpower and rape women.
I don't like that reason.
The people closely associated with the namesake of female canines are suffering from a nondescript form of lunacy.
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RE: Ask a Muslim [split from introductions]
(14-09-2012 10:11 AM)Vosur Wrote:(13-09-2012 03:02 PM)Internet Mullah Wrote: How can he have the knowledge of all the science, astronomy, the stars, the earth, the moon, oceanography, and so many other things contained in the Quran? Was he just guessing luckily getting everything correct?Care to elaborate on how the Qu'ran contains any (scientific) knowledge that Muhammad couldn't have had at the time?
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RE: Ask a Muslim [split from introductions]
Quote:First of all, don't even say that I "ignored them" because that is a pure lie. I took your academic quotes one by one and explained how each of them fails to prove that Sin is Allah. If you're going to include academic quotes again, in your next post, then you should also explain in your own words how the said quote proves that Sin is Allah.
You need to understand that when it comes to beliefs, nothing can be proven nor disproven. What it all comes down to is who provides the best evidence to support the best argument.
Unfortunately for you, Bucky provided the best argument. Also unfortunately for you, you failed to acknowledge that Bucky provided the best argument. This amounts to nothing less than intellectual dishonesty.
Quote:And please don't mix religion with culture. The words "monotheistic culture" doesn't really make good sense to me because "monotheistic" is religious while "culture" is simply cultural.
Who the fuck are you trying to fool here? Are you trying to tell me that Muslims don't mix religion with culture? If this was true, then perhaps you would like to explain to the rest of us why Muslims are still dressing themselves in clothing resembling the 6th century Arabian era; why non-Muslims are not permitted to enter the "religious" city of Mecca and most of Medina, and why the most widely distributed Quran (the Hilali-Khan translation) interpolates a custom of hatred towards Christians and Jews in its translation?
Those 3 things I have listed above come from cultural and traditional beliefs and are indeed 100% of the Islamic belief system.
Quote:As I said before, Islam is a monotheistic religion and you can't change that fact no matter how much you disagree or argue against it. And Islam didn't develop from any pagan culture either. I don't disagree that the Arabs used to worship hundreds of gods even at the time of Muhammad, but you have no proof for your assertion that that is what Islam developed from. It seems like you just want to believe that, but you didn't provide any specific reasoning nor historical evidence for the idea that Islam originated from a non-monotheistic culture.
Again, he did indeed provide links, arguments, and reasoning to support his argument. You are simply using intellectual dishonesty to deny it, and are fooling nobody on this forum. The archaeological and historical evidence clearly indicates that Islam finds its roots buried in the traditional beliefs of the Arabians during his time, and also I will demonstrate conclusively that certain Quranic verses are not original to the Quran, but were ripped off from earlier texts that were circulating in Arabia during Muhammad's time.
Observe (originally written at http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Parallelism:_J...ay_Birds):
Qur'anic Account:
Qur'an 3:49:
According to two verses in the Qur'an, Jesus Christ (with the permission of Allah) created a clay bird which he blew into and brought to life.
"And (make him) a messenger to the Children of Israel (saying): I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, that I determine for you out of dust the form of a bird, then I breathe into it and it becomes a bird with Allah's permission, and I heal the blind and the leprous, and bring the dead to life with Allah's permission; and I inform you of what you should eat and what you should store in your houses. Surely there is a sign in this for you, if you are believers."
Qur'an 5:110:
"When Allah will say: O Jesus, son of Mary, remember My favour to thee and to thy mother, when I strengthened thee with the Holy Spirit; thou spokest to people in the cradle and in old age, and when I taught thee the Book and the Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel, and when thou didst determine out of clay a thing like the form of a bird by My permission, then thou didst breathe into it and it became a bird by My permission; and thou didst heal the blind and the leprous by My permission; and when thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and when I withheld the Children of Israel from thee when thou camest to them with clear arguments -- but those of them who disbelieved said: This is nothing but clear enchantment."
Now compare those two Quranic verses with the two known texts below:
Apocryphal Account
This story is a clear parallelism of two apocrypha, which are as follows:
The First Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ.
This is also known as The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour, and was written around 400 CE.
"And when the Lord Jesus was seven years of age, he was on a certain day with other boys his companions about the same age. 2. Who at play made clay into several shapes, namely, asses, oxen, birds, and other figures. 3. Each boasting of his work and endeavoring to exceed the rest. 4. Then the Lord Jesus said to the boys, I will command these figures which I have made to walk. 5. And immediately they moved, and when he commanded them to return, they returned. 6. He had also made the figures of birds and sparrows, which, when he commanded to fly, did fly, and when he commanded to stand still, did stand still; and if he gave them meat and drink, they did eat and drink. 7. When at length the boys went away and related these things to their parents, their fathers said to them, Take heed, children, for the future, of his company, for he is a sorcerer; shun and avoid him, and from now on never play with him." - The First Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ: Chapter 15
The Second Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ.
This is also known as The Infancy Gospel of Thomas – probably a fragment of the Gospel of Thomas, and was written around 140 CE.
"I, Thomas, an Israelite, judged it necessary to make known to our brethren among the Gentiles, the actions and miracles of Christ in his childhood, which our Lord and God Jesus Christ wrought after his birth in Bethlehem in our country, at which I myself was astonished; the beginning of which was as follows. 2. When the child Jesus was five years of age and there had been a shower of rain that was now over, Jesus was playing with other Hebrew boys by a running stream, and the waters ran over the banks and stood in little lakes; 3. But the water instantly became clear and useful again; they readily obeyed him after he touched them only by his word. 4. Then he took from the bank of the stream some soft clay and formed out of it twelve sparrows; and there were other boys playing with him. 5. But a certain Jew seeing the things which he was doing, namely, his forming clay into the figures of sparrows on the Sabbath day, went presently away and told his father Joseph, 6. Behold, your boy is playing by the river side, and has taken clay and formed it into twelve sparrows, and profanes the Sabbath. 7. Then Joseph came to the place where he was, and when he saw him, called to him, and said, Why do you that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day? 8. Then Jesus clapping together the palms of his hands, called to the sparrows, and said to them: Go, fly away; and while you live remember me. 9. So the sparrows fled away, making a noise. 10. The Jews seeing this, were astonished and went away and told their chief persons what a strange miracle they had seen wrought by Jesus." - The Second Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ: Chapter 1
Muslim Objections Refuted:
This parallelism has never been explained by Muslims except to use it to perversely claim that the Bible is corrupted. They argue that the original Bible contained the apocryphal story of Jesus making and animating clay birds, and that the Qur'an was merely correcting a wrongful exclusion of these apocrypha from the canon.
This is erroneous as the sira tells how Muhammad, far from receiving these stories from Allah (via the angel Jibreel/Gabriel), heard it from three Christians. Saifullah & Azmy of Islamic-awareness have kindly provided the following evidence below:
"Those who talked to Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, were Abu Haritha Ibn `Alqama, Al-`Aqib `Abdul-Masih and Al-Ayham al-Sa`id. They were Christians according to the faith of the king with differences between them; they say: He is Allah, and say: He is Son of Allah, and say: He is the third of three [i.e., part of Trinity] and these are the claims of Christianity. [They use as evidence for their claim that He is Allah the argument that] he used to raise the dead, cure the sick, create from clay bird-like structure then breathe into it to make it a [living] bird. All this was by the leave of Allah, the Praiseworthy the Exalted {to appoint him as a sign for men} (Maryam:21). They also argue for saying that he is Son of Allah by saying he had no known father and spoke in infancy which is something never done by any human being. They use as evidence for their claim that He is the third of three [i.e., part of Trinity] the argument that Allah says: We did, We commanded, We created and We judged [i.e., by using the plural for Himself], and whereas if He was one, He would say: I did, I judged, I commanded and I created; but it is He, Jesus and Maryam. The Qur'an was revealed addressing all these arguments."
Abu Muhammad `Abd al-Malik Ibn Hisham al-Ma`afiri, Al-Sirah Al-Nabawiyyah, 1998, Volume II, Dar al-Hadith: Cairo (Egypt), p 181-182.
"The names of the fourteen principal men among the sixty riders were: `Abdul-Masih the `Aqib, al-Ayham the Sayyid; Abu Haritha b. `Alqama brother of B. Bakr b. Wa`il; Aus; al-Harith; Zayd; Qays; Yazid; Nubayh; Khuwaylid; `Amr; Khalid; `Abdullah; Johannes; of these the first three named above spoke to the Apostle. They were Christians according to the Byzantine rite, though they differed among themselves in some points, saying He is God; and He is the son of God; and He is the third person of the Trinity, which is the doctrine of Christianity. They argue that he is God because he used to raise the dead, and heal the sick, and declare the unseen; and make clay birds and then breathe into them so that they flew away; and all this was by the command of God Almighty, 'We will make him a sign to men.' They argue that he is the son of God in that they say he had no known father; and he spoke in the cradle and this is something that no child of Adam has ever done. They argue that he is the third of the three in that God says: We have done, We have commanded, We have created and We have decreed, and they say, If He were one he would have said I have done, I have created, and soon, but He is He and Jesus and Mary. Concerning all these assertions the Qur'an came down."
A. Guillaume, The Life Of Muhammad: A Translation Of Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah, 1998, Oxford University Press: Karachi (Pakistan), p 271-272.
"The parallelism between the Qur'an's 'Jesus animating clay birds' verses and the apocryphal infancy gospels is strong, suggesting that Allah was not the author of the Qur'an, nor is he the God of the Christians. There are various reasons why these apocryphal gospels are not included in the canon; the First Gospel of the Infancy is a comparatively late work while the Second Gospel of the Infancy (actually a fragment of the Gospel of Thomas) is a famous forgery. Both these apocrypha contain verses that contradict the canonical Gospels.
According to the sira, the purported sources of the story are three Christians who spoke to Muhammad. These Christians were either heretics or they were unsure of doctrine as their errancies were then repeated in the Qur'an. These errancies include Jesus animating clay birds, the talking baby Jesus, and the Trinity comprising God, Jesus and Mary (Father, Son and Mother)."
So what will you do now? The historical evidence regarding those two ancient Christian texts predates the Quran by hundreds of years, and clearly demonstrates that Muhammad used the cultural and religious beliefs of some of the Arabian Christians and included those beliefs and texts into his Quran.
Any attempt to dispute this will undoubtedly demonstrate again your intellectual dishonesty, but by all means, go ahead.
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... speaking of the triplets ... and Kinari. Mr. Goodwill is still retired on a shelf and contemplating possible return to service.iannon wrote:Nice to know another of the triplets is still in action I use mine daily right now with Shincha seasonAdamMY wrote:Maiko Kinari in my Nerikome Kyusu, and Seigan SO Sansai Tebineri Yunomi.
And Kinari ... is back on the menu, boys! (LotRism) Just opened the bag. The dry aroma is not like any other shincha so far this year. Hope to brew it in the AM.
What a shincha line up ... currently open Miyabi, Botan, Yutaka Midori, 88 Night, AOI, Kikyou, Kirameki, Tsubaki, Sae Midori, Mare, Chiran from O-Cha and Hakoniwado via OTTI 13 and 14. Some are now virtually gone ... which means time to open some new selections.
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The Recording Academy's president says this year's great clothing cover-up kerfuffle was "much ado about nothing."
A memo from CBS surfaced earlier this week advising Grammy participants to avoid wearing see-through clothing and to make sure "buttocks and female breasts are adequately covered" during the show's broadcast.
"For some reason people thought this was something new or different or even foreboding as far as being restrictive," Neil Portnow said backstage after the show.
What was outlined in the memo was simply the standard the show has followed every year for at least a decade, he said.
What's more, he added, every TV network has to communicate its standards and practices to anyone appearing on its shows.
Jennifer Lopez and Kelly Rowland, who both wore only slightly revealing outfits, joked about the memo.
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"The Listener" centers on mind-reading law enforcement consultant Toby Logan (Craig Olejnik), who uses his telepathic ability to help solve crimes. Having kept it hidden for many years, Toby learns to control his ability as he faces both professional and personal challenges, now realizing that his gift can be used to help others.
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(EDGE) Many turn to Adele's music after a breakup, but the singer helped another same-sex couple get engaged.
The singer is currently touring in Melbourne, Australia and is making headlines after she invited a man on stage, in front of 77,000 people, so he could propose to his boyfriend, the BBC reports.
For his 40th birthday present, Wade Nicholas-Doyle took his boyfriend Chris to Adele's show over the weekend. But Chris got more than he bargained for when the singer brought the men on stage. That's when Nicholas-Doyle got down on one knee and proposed to his partner, sparking loud cheers and applause from the crowd.
"Did you say yes?" Adele said before hugging the men. "I actually had no idea that was going to happen. Congratulations!"
Speaking with the BBC, Nicholson-Doyle said the moment flew by him.
"It just kind of blacked out and all I could see was Chris and Adele standing there," he said. "To share the stage with her, if only for five minutes, is really incredible. We're very much in her debt."
Same-sex marriage isn't legal in Australia and a proposal for a vote was blocked by lawmakers last year, the BBC notes.
Nicholson-Doyle said the couple has yet to make plans about a ceremony, adding "Chris' head is still spinning at the moment."
This isn't the first time Adele, who recently got married herself, helped a gay couple propose.
Last May, the British singer invited a fan on stage at a show in Copenhagen, Denmark where he popped the question to his partner.
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BANGKOK (AP) — In junta-ruled Thailand, the simple act of reading in public has become an act of resistance.
On Saturday evening in Bangkok, a week and a half after the army seized power in a coup, about a dozen people gathered in the middle of a busy, elevated walkway connecting several of the capital's most luxurious shopping malls.
As pedestrians trundled past, the protesters sat down, pulled out book titles such as George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" — a dystopian novel about life in a totalitarian surveillance state — and began to read.
In a country where the army has vowed to crack down on anti-coup protesters demanding elections and a return to civilian rule, in a place where you can be detained for simply holding something that says "Peace Please" in the wrong part of town, the small gathering was an act of defiance — a quiet demonstration against the army's May 22 seizure of power and the repression that has accompanied it.
"People are angry about this coup, but they can't express it," said a human rights activist who asked to be identified only by her nickname, Mook, for fear of being detained.
"So we were looking for an alternative way to resist, a way that is not confrontational," she said. "And one of those ways is reading."
Their defiance, if you can call it that, is found in the titles they chose. Among them: "Unarmed Insurrection," ''The Politics of Despotic Paternalism," ''The Power of Non-Violent Means."
The junta has banned political gatherings of five people or more. But it is unclear what laws, if any, such low-key protests could be breaking.
The coup, Thailand's second in eight years, deposed an elected government that had insisted for months that the nation's fragile democracy was under attack from protesters, the courts and, finally, the army.
The leader of the junta, Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, says the military had to intervene to restore order after half a year of debilitating protests that had crippled the former government and triggered sporadic violence which killed 28 people and injured more than 800.
Since taking over, the military has made clear it will tolerate no dissent, and it has launched a major campaign to silence critics and censor the media. The junta has warned all citizens against doing anything that might incite conflict, and the list of targets has been long.
At least 14 partisan TV networks have been shut down along with nearly 3,000 unlicensed community radio stations. Independent international TV channels such as CNN and BBC have been blocked along with more than 300 Web pages, including New York-based Human Rights Watch's Thailand page. Journalists and academics have been summoned by the army. Activists have fled.
A sudden interruption of access to Facebook on Wednesday fueled widespread speculation that the nation's new rulers were testing their censorship power; the junta, though, insisted it was merely a technical glitch.
Kasama Na Nagara, who works in the financial sector, said about 20 people were participating in the book readings. Saturday marked the third day that the group had organized such a protest. They have been careful to avoid soldiers.
On Friday, the group was supposed to gather on another walkway where they had conducted a reading a day earlier. But when troops showed up, they called it off.
Human Rights organizations are deeply concerned over how far the clampdown will go.
Some people have begun using encrypted chat apps on their smartphones, for fear of being monitored. And at least one major bookstore in Bangkok, Kinokuniya, has pulled from its shelves political titles that could be deemed controversial.
So far, Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," in which authorities operating under the aegis of "Big Brother" fit homes with cameras to monitor the intimate details of people's personal lives, is not among them.
"But we have Big Brother watching us now," Kasama said. "It has become too risky to speak out. It's sad. But it's safer to be silent in Thailand right now."
On Sunday, thousands of troops deployed in multiple locations across Bangkok to stop expected protests by a separate group of anti-coup protesters, raising fears of possible violence if the soldiers crack down. Authorities closed several elevated "Skytrain" stations to try to prevent large groups from gathering.
So far, the other anti-coup protests have been relatively small. As many as 1,000 people marched through Bangkok and scuffled with troops several times last week, though no injuries have been reported.
Those protesters have carried hand-made signs and banners with messages like "No dictatorship" and "Pro-Democracy" and "Anti-Coup." Some have shown up with masks of prominent political figures to conceal their faces and black tape across their mouths to protest the increasing repression.
Associated Press writer Thanyarat Doksone contributed to this report.
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Eli Wallach, who won a Tony Award on Broadway and appeared in more than 100 movies, starring opposite Clint Eastwood as a scheming treasure-seeker in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966), has died. He was 98.
His death was reported by the New York Times, citing his daughter Katherine.
Wallach's career as an actor spanned six decades. He made his Broadway debut in 1945 and in his 90s was still acting in movies, including "The Holiday" (2006) and "The Ghost Writer" (2010). He and his wife Anne Jackson starred in a Broadway revival of "The Flowering Peach" in 1994, almost 50 years after they met in a Tennessee Williams play.
Born in New York, he played Italian lovers, Mexican bandits, swarthy Wild West villains and street-smart bad guys. He was a nasty Mexican outlaw in "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) and the likeable mechanic Guido in "The Misfits" (1961), which was the last completed movie of both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe.
Wallach received an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement as an actor in November 2010.
Five years after his Tony-winning role in the Tennessee Williams play "The Rose Tattoo" (1951), he made a splashy arrival in Hollywood. He was cast as a Sicilian cotton-gin owner in "Baby Doll" (1956), another Williams script.
Wallach's portrayal earned him the British Academy of Film & Television Arts award as "most promising newcomer" – at 40, an honor he happily accepted.
Brooklyn legacy
A mere five decades later, he accepted another award, this one from the Neighborhood Playhouse acting school in New York City, where he had been a student in the 1930s.
Kate Winslet, his co-star in "The Holiday," presented the award. "He's always smiling, always chatting, always concentrating, and always telling stories," she told People magazine, recalling his tale of dancing on screen with Marilyn Monroe. "I made him tell me that story again and again and again," she said.
Wallach was born on Dec. 7, 1915, the son of Polish immigrants who lived at the rear of their candy store in Brooklyn, New York.
"We were the only Jewish family in our working-class neighborhood, which was predominantly Italian," Wallach wrote in his 2005 autobiography.
Violence between rival Mafia gangs caused the family to move to a safer neighborhood in Flatbush. By then, Wallach was in junior high and had absorbed the accents and ethnic characteristics he would use to good effect in various roles.
Failed teacher
After graduating from Erasmus Hall High School in 1932, he attended the University of Texas. An older brother had spotted the bargain $30 tuition fees the Austin school charged out-of- state students.
Adapting to Texas, Wallach sported a silver belt buckle and groomed polo ponies, getting close to the horseflesh that proved so useful to his film career. He joined a university drama club and was in a play with Walter Cronkite, a fellow student who later became a household name as CBS News anchor.
After graduating in 1936, Wallach put aside his ambitions to act. Bowing to family pressure to find steady work as a teacher, he earned a master's degree at New York's City College. Then he failed the teacher examination.
Wallach studied acting with Sanford Meisner and dance with Martha Graham on a scholarship until he was drafted into the U.S. Army months before Pearl Harbor was attacked, on his 26th birthday.
Film fame
After serving in a hospital unit, Wallach was discharged in 1945. While still in uniform, he was cast in his first Broadway play, "Skydrift." It closed after five days.
Wallach met Jackson in a production of Williams's "This Property Is Condemned." They married in 1948, the year they joined the Actors Studio in New York City, along with fellow charter members Maureen Stapleton, Karl Malden, and Marlon Brando.
In his memoir, he recalled the "evangelical" fervor he shared with the other "Method" actors. "We must have seemed rather smug and difficult at the time," he wrote.
He spent two years in the Broadway run of "Mister Roberts" before Williams picked him for the role of the Italian truck driver opposite Stapleton in "The Rose Tattoo."
Wallach appeared in another Williams play, "Camino Real," directed by Elia Kazan, and in 1954 began a two-year run in "The Teahouse of the August Moon," playing the Okinawan character Sakini, first in London, then as a replacement in the Broadway production.
'Low on funds'
He insisted he preferred the stage to movies, yet jumped at Kazan's invitation to star in the movie "Baby Doll."
"I found it difficult to escape the lure of fame that film offered," he said. Over the years, the money proved equally irresistible.
Even after being acclaimed in "The Magnificent Seven" and "The Good, the Bad and The Ugly," he did a half-dozen so- called spaghetti Westerns in Europe.
"I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did them," he said in a 1998 interview. "I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd rush off to do a movie somewhere."
He often sniffed at the airs of filmmakers, though at heart he was a movie fan. After seeing the finished version of "The Magnificent Seven," Wallach wished he could have heard the music that was added after the film was shot. "I would have ridden the horse differently," he said.
Wallach and Jackson had a son, Peter, and two daughters, Roberta and Katherine.


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Cowboys take Oklahoma St RB Randle in 5th round
Apr. 27, 2013
IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys have taken Oklahoma State running back Joseph Randle in the fifth round of the NFL draft, addressing the need for a backup to DeMarco Murray.
Randle, who had consecutive 1,000-yard seasons before skipping his senior year to turn pro, was taken 151st overall Saturday.
The Cowboys needed a backup for the injury-prone Murray after not re-signing Felix Jones, their top pick in 2008.
The 6-foot, 202-pound Randle rushed for 3,085 career yards and 40 touchdowns, including 24 scores in 2011 when he finished second to Barry Sanders in single-season points in school history with 156.
Murray emerged as the starter when he was a rookie but has missed nine games in two seasons with ankle and foot injuries.
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We at Canucks Army would like to take a special time-out to showcase a cause that needs your attention. Our friend Richard Loat (@mozy19) is organizing a cross-country event to help feed the hungry. Please help our friend Richard and his team as he shoots for the "Five Hole for Food".
Five Hole for Food is a 9-city, 11-day cross-Canada whirlwind tour to raise food for local food banks. Presented by Molson, the tour starts June 29th in Montreal and makes its way west, with its final stop in Vancouver on July 9th.
At the Vancouver event, a stick by the Canucks will be awarded to the participant who brings the most food. The Vancouver Giants mascot Jack and the Abbotsford Heat's Hawkey will be on hand for the festivities as well as a possible appearance by Canucks mascot Fin (@canucksfin).
The final day in Vancouver will take place at Sunset Beach Park. So come down, enjoy the sun and bring your stick and some canned food to join in the fun and help a most worthy cause.
For more information, please reach out here:
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Antony Price worked for Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music in the '80s as a stylist and was responsible for the Lou Reed 'Transformer' album cover. Pivotal in forming the louche, ultra sexy look that defined that period Price has also collaborated with David Bowie and Duran Duran. He currently works on made-to-measure as well as Daphne Guinness' line of shirts.
His latest project is the 'Priceless' range for Topman, consisting of suits, overcoats and shirts. The emphasis is on tailoring and quality, which is reflected in the prices (£50 to £180 for a suit). The collection debuts on November 3rd, and it will be available from the London flagship store as well as online.
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Ira Bodenstein, the trustee for Peregrine Financial Group Inc. (PFG), asked a court for more time to wind down the defunct futures brokerage, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Although the trustee has already shut down PFG's Iowa operations and entered into an agreement to transfer its customer accounts to Vision Financial Markets, he said in a court filing that he needs until March 15 to completely shutter the brokerage.
In the filing, Bodenstein said that the extension is necessary "given the size and magnitude of [PFG's] business" and that it will help him to consolidate PFG's business operations, liquidate its assets and review customer claims.
To assist with the liquidation process, Bodenstein is seeking to retain roughly 15 of the firm's employees, including its general counsel, chief financial officer and chief compliance officer, on an hourly basis.
PFG filed for bankruptcy protection last July after a failed suicide attempt by founder Russell Wasendorf Sr., who confessed in his suicide note to embezzling customer money over the course of nearly two decades.