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Olympics Day 11: Highlights & Results
Scores and highlights from Day 11 of the Summer Olympics in London.
BEACH VOLLEYBALL All U.S. final is set
LONDON (AP) — Two American teams will square off for the gold medal in women's beach volleyball. Two-time defending Olympics champ Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings beat China 22-20, 22-20 for their 20th straight Olympic victory. Fellow Americans Jennifer Kessy and April Ross rallied to beat the top-seeded Brazilians, Juliana and Larissa 15-21, 21-19, 15-12. WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL U.S gold hopes still alive LONDON (AP) — Destinee Hooker scored 19 points to help the U.S. women's volleyball beat the Domincan Republic 25-14, 25-21, 25-22 to move into the semifinals. The unbeaten Americans played without captain Lindsey Berg, who hurt her left ankle in the final preliminary match against Turkey on Sunday. The U.S. is looking for its first gold medal. The top-ranked U.S. team will play the winner of Tuesday's late match between Italy and South Korea. WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS Two medals for Raisman, none for Douglas
LONDON (AP) — Aly Raisman, the captain of the U.S. women's gymnastics team, grabbed the gold in the floor exercise. She also earned the bronze medal on balance beam and was part of the gold medal winning U.S. squad in the team event. All around gold medalist Gabby Douglas finished seventh on the beam after a fall. TRACK AND FIELD-100 METER HURDLES U.S. finishes 2,3 LONDON (AP) — Defending champ Dawn Harper was edged out by Australia's Sally Pearson for the gold medal in the women's 100-meter hurdles. Pearson won in a time of 12.35 seconds, two hundredths of a second in front of Harper. Kellie Wells took the bronze medal. TRACK AND FIELD-1500 METERS Manzano gets silver for U.S. LONDON (AP) — Leonel (lee-ahn-EHL') Manzano has done something no American had done in 44 years: Win a medal in the Olympic 1500 meters. He captured the silver with a second-place finish. Algeria's Taoufik Makhloufi (tah-FEEK' mak-LOO'-fee) grabbed the gold medal only a day after being reinstated to the final. Makhloufi was disqualified from the games after track and field officials ruled he didn't try hard enough during a heat in the 800. But the disqualification was recinded. CYCLING-OMNIUM Hammer settles for silver LONDON (AP) — Sarah Hammer has won the silver medal in cycling's omnium event. The American was overtaken by Britain's Laura Trott in the last of the six events in the cycling competition, giving Trott the gold medal. TRACK AND FIELD-MEN'S HIGH JUMP Kynard grabs silver for U.S.
LONDON (AP) — Erik Kynard's final jump came up short. The American had to settle for the silver medal after clearing 7 feet, 7 3/4 inches in the high jump at the Olympics. He raised his height in an attempt to surpass gold medalist Ivan Ukhov of Russia but couldn't pull if off. TRACK AND FIELD Bolt advances in 200 LONDON (AP) — Usain (yoo-SAYN') Bolt opened defense of his Olympic 200-meter title with a comfortable win in the opening round to finish in 20.39 seconds. Bolt's teammate, 100-meter silver medalist Yohan Blake, won his heat easily in 20.38 as well. American Wallace Spearmon also qualifed with a time of 20.47. TRACK AND FIELD-WOMEN'S 200 Three Americans qualify
LONDON (AP) — Sanya Richards-Ross of the U.S. outleaned Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica to win their 200-meter semifinal heat in 22.30 seconds. Two-time defending 200 champion Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica, and two-time runner-up Allyson Felix of the U.S. and 100 silver medalist Carmelita Jeter (JEH'tur) of the U.S. also advanced. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL U.S. beats Canada LONDON (AP) — Diana Taurasi (tohr-AH'-see) scored 15 points and Candace Parker added 12 to lead the U.S. women's Olympic basketball team to a 91-48 rout of Canada. The 39th consecutive Olympic win for the Americans propels them into the semifinals. WATER POLO U.S. advances to gold medal game LONDON (AP) — Maggie Steffens scored four times, including the go-ahead goal to lead the U.S. over Australia 11-9 in extra time and into the women's water polo final. Australia's Southern Ash converted a penalty with one second left on the clock in regulation to tie the match 9-9 and force extra time. OLYMPICS-ASYLUM Seven members of Cameroon team missing LONDON (AP) — Cameroon's Olympic chief says seven of the country's Olympic competitors are missing from the athletes' village, prompting concern they may attempt to seek asylum in Britain. David Ojong, head of mission for Team Cameroon, says that the seven all currently hold visas which would allow them to remain in Britain until at least November. Britain's Home Office, responsible for immigration, said it could not comment on whether any of the seven had applied for asylum. MEDALS China leads by 3; Britain rising LONDON (AP) — With three gold medals, Britain raised its total to 22 and has now won more of them than at any Summer Games in 104 years. It trails only China, which has 34 golds and 73 overall, and the United States, which has 30 golds and 70 overall. South Korea has 12 golds and 23 overall, whhile Russia has 10 golds and 48 overall.
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The Raiders are in "serious" talks with the Houston Texans about a trade for veteran quarterback Matt Schaub, according to a report by a Houston radio station.
Schaub, 32, is the kind of experienced quarterback the Raiders are looking for while they continue to search for a long-term solution.
Journeyman Trent Edwards, fourth-year player Terrelle Pryor and second-year player Matt McGloin are the only quarterbacks on the Raiders roster.
Coach Dennis Allen and general manager Reggie McKenzie said in recent months that they aren't sure if the Raiders quarterback of the future is on their roster.
McKenzie added that he is inclined to go with a veteran in 2014 as his starter, while a younger quarterback learns under the veteran.
That younger option might be Pryor or McGloin, or it could be a quarterback that the Raiders select in the NFL draft in May. The Raiders hold the No. 5 pick in a draft that features numerous attractive quarterbacks.
Schaub still has three years left on a contract that calls for him to earn $10 million in base salary in 2014, $12.5 million in '15 and $14.5 million in '16. The Raiders are flush with salary cap space and can accommodate such a salary.
Schaub is fresh from his worst season since he became a starter in 2007. He had 10 touchdown passes and 14 passes intercepted last season. That prompted coach Gary Kubiak to bench Schaub.
McKenzie traded for veteran quarterback Matt Flynn last offseason and anointed him the starter. Pryor beat out Flynn in training camp, and the Raiders released Flynn early in the season after Flynn started one game.
In other news, linebacker Rob Jackson and defensive end Alex Carrington are scheduled to visit the Raiders in the coming days as the Raiders continue their wide-ranging search to revamp their defense.
Jackson, 28, played mostly special teams and as a reserve linebacker during his six seasons with the Washington Redskins.
However, he also flashed as a potential starter when he filled in for 14 games in 2012.
The Raiders are set at all three linebacker spots, with 2013 starters Kevin Burnett, Nick Roach and Sio Moore under contract for 2014. The Raiders also added veteran linebacker LaMarr Woodley via free agency Thursday.
Jackson played in only 10 games his first three seasons. He appeared in 44 of 48 games the past three seasons. Fourteen of his 15 starts came in '12.
Already, the Raiders signed four players that are expected to compete for starting jobs next season.
Defensive end Justin Tuck, defensive lineman Antonio Smith and cornerback Tarell Brown are the others besides Woodley.
Carrington, 26, started nine of the 44 games he played for the Buffalo Bills the past four seasons. He played in only three games last season and recorded 10 tackles.
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A Loft In Brooklyn
I thought I'd kick off the New Year with this — a project I completed a year ago and just recently photographed. Here's what happens when someone lobs me the keys and says, "Ok kid, go nuts".
This is a duplex loft in Brooklyn, and upon purchase it was much more traditional/transitional: crown molding, sea foam green walls, orangey oak floors. Many people were involved in the decision-making, but I was more or less in charge of the color schemes.
Upstairs in the main room, we did what I call a Fauvist color-washing, in which we attacked the walls with grey glazes applied with putty knives and wallpaper brushes. Downstairs, we used two of the same colors and applied the glaze with a shoe shine brush. That's an off-black powder room upstairs, in the bathroom downstairs I created a faux-fossil fish room, and the piece de resistance is the two-tone tree painting behind the master bed, by dear friend and colleague Brian Gilmartin.
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I've gotten a couple of lineup tickets where member were confused about Broadcast vs Logical channel numbers. I thought I would make a post to try and resolve some of the confusion.
Under the old NTSC ( analog broadcast) life was simple. Your local station marketed as "Channel 5" broadcast on a frequency that was tied to channel 5 on your TV tuner. Even your cable company tended to retransmit "Channel 5" on their number 5.
ATSC ( digital broadcast ) is more complicated. Everyone still transmits on a frequency with a FCC channel number, but that number is usually hidden from consumers. The station transmits a "Logical Channel Number" and subchannel that is what most users see. The logical channel number often has no relation to the physical channel number. In addition, while only one station could transmit on the same physical channel, it's possible for two stations to transmit the same logical channel number (although it shouldn't happen).
There's also the concept of subchannels. A subchannel isn't a different frequency, but an additional audio/video stream mixed in with the "primary" signal. All subchannels coming out of a transmitter usually have the same logical major channel, but that's not always the case. Your "channel 27" and "channel 33" may actually be coming from the same transmitter now!
I've modified the lineup report on the SD web site to provide "logical" and "broadcast" channel numbers. Hopefully this will help you troubleshoot your systems as the physical (broadcast) channel number is often hidden.
Here are some examples:
In Dallas, TX the station that's marketed as "Channel 5" used to transmit analog on Channel 5. Digital transmission is on Channel 41 with a logical channel of "5-1". The analog transmitter is now shut down, but the station still calls itself "Channel 5" even though it has nothing to do with the frequency known as channel 5.
In Dallas, TX the station that's marketed as "Channel 11" used to transmit analog on Channel 11. Digital transmission *was* on another channel (44?) but when the analog station shut down, the digitial transmission was moved to Channel 11. The logical channel was always "11-1".
I don't have an example in front of me at the moment (I'll update this post when I find it), but I've seen a case where "11-1" is on one transmitter and "11-2" is on another!
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A Box for Allen is a collaborative sculpture installation made with the artist Robert Wechsler and inspired by the work of artist/architect Allen Wechsler. It is a reconfigured cubicle salvaged from a condemned building that was brought to another dilapidated building in a remote location on UCSB's campus. The proportions were altered from its original format, creating a long narrow room. It seems to fit the space: the dimensions, the sterile feeling, the décor, and the once new and now worn exterior. Even though it feels like it belongs in the room, it is it's own bubble of removed space, with its own climate control and entranceway.


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wait 10 minute later it will end up on you tube.
*SPOILER* The part where he bought the Star Wars Holiday Special made me laugh so hard I nearly lost control of my bodily functions.I was thinking, wtf is going to be in that bag? Perfect.
Monday, September 18, 2006 Premiere cancelled I'm very sorry to say that the AOL "First View" Premiere of the "White & Nerdy" video has been cancelled. Apparently, the video has already leaked online, and AOL doesn't feel comfortable doing a "World Premiere" promotion for a video that a number of people have seen already. (I can understand songs leaking, but a video? How'd THAT happen?) Anyway, it's really a bummer... it would have been great promotion for the album... but hey, life goes on.So... I'll be uploading the video to this page shortly. Tell your friends!
THE ALBUM IS IN STORES! I don't know if you've heard anything about this or not, but... well, I've got a new album, and it's out as of today.I'm in the middle of my cross-country promotional blitz - getting a little tired of talking about myself, but still having a great time. The buzz on the new album is huge - the record label seems very excited. Say, if I could ask a favor... if you are at all inclined to pick up a copy (or 12) of "Straight Outta Lynwood," could you please try to do it this week if at all possible? People in the industry really pay a lot of attention to first week sales figures and chart position - it means a lot to them. (Okay, okay, it means a lot to me too.)And to all the spoiler-free people who have somehow been able to resist the temptation to download and listen to the album early... I congratulate you and salute your will-power. Now that you've come this far, make sure you do it right - after all, you can only listen to a new album for the first time once. When you get home from the record store, unplug the phone. Dim the lights. Anoint yourself in the finest of oils, set out a plate of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and put the CD in your stereo. Make sure that the volume is turned up to just below the pain threshold, and that you're sitting in the sweet spot on your couch. Then press play, sit back and bask in the glory and majesty that is "Straight Outta Lynwood." Listen over and over again until the songs are permanently wedged in your brain. Then and only then, you may flip the disc over to the DVD side and play all of the music videos, followed by the making-of-the-album featurette. Then you can check out the 5.1 mixes, or take full advantage of the karaoke function until the neighbors threaten to call the police.Anyway, enjoy the new album. I really hope you like it.Oh, by the way... just because you DEMANDED it... we will make "White & Nerdy" hoodies (as seen in the video) available to the public. They should be ready in about a week or so... I'll keep you posted. See ya at the in-store!
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First of Straight Outta Lyndwood, is great. I was a little afriad that it might be as good as some of his other albums, but it is great.Second, I ordered all of his CD's (except his collection CD's and the UHF soundtrack, since I have the movie) and even though it costed quite a bit to import them, they are defiantly worth it.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Tech softball team will again be delayed in playing the Eagles of Morehead State. Due to the chance of severe weather Wednesday, the teams have decided to reschedule the doubleheader.
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Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua.
I can FINALLY wear this again a few days a week without my skin being bothered by the alcohol it contains and OMG, I love it so much and I have missed it a lot. I love the finish, love the buildability, it's just my HG foundation, there's nothing I can say. I was actually reunited with it during the hotter days at the end of the month, because I had fake tan on and VA is the only foundation I own in a darker shade (B30), so I decided to try it again and am so glad I did.
I still do alternate between this and Estee Lauder Invisible or Nars Radiant Tinted Moisturizer.
Illamasqua Naked Rose and Jemma Kidd Pawaw blushes.
Seriously, I have worn no other blush than those two for the whole month. Quite unusual for me so it shows how much I love them. I particularly like that the Jemma Kidd one really lasts all day, and that Naked Rose goes with absolutely everything.
Givenchy Noir Couture mascara.
I think it's about two months since I started using this mascara. I am happy to report that even though the formula is now thickening a bit, it's nowhere near being dry yet, and there's still quite a lot of product in the tube, so I can still get a few weeks of wear out of this one. (I never keep mascaras more than 3 months, though, and usually my eyes get itchy around that mark if I don't change it, so I always get a reminder).
Chanel Illusion D'Ombre - Mirifique.
This is really the easiest product in the world to mimic the effect of slightly smudged black liner, and the brush that comes with it makes it so easy to apply. If you get only one of these shadows, it should be this one!
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Tammy Kelly redesigns traditionals to make healthier breakfast recipes
During leisurely holiday mornings, breakfast often has a chance to take center stage. Most of these recipes can be made ahead and all of them have been redesigned to include healthier ingredients.
Mini Mushroom and Sausage Quiches
8 ounces turkey breakfast sausage, removed from casing and crumbled into small pieces
1 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
8 ounces mushrooms, sliced
1/4 cup sliced scallions
1/4 cup shredded Swiss cheese
1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
5 eggs
3 egg whites
1 cup 1 percent milk
Position rack in center of oven; preheat to 325F. Coat a nonstick muffin tin generously with cooking spray.
Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add sausage and cook until golden brown, 6 to 8 minutes. Transfer to a bowl to cool. Add oil to the pan. Add mushrooms and cook, stirring often, until golden brown, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer mushrooms to the bowl with the sausage. Let cool for 5 minutes. Stir in scallions, cheese and pepper.
Whisk eggs, egg whites and milk in a medium bowl. Divide the egg mixture evenly among the prepared muffin cups. Sprinkle a heaping tablespoon of the sausage mixture into each cup.
Bake until the tops are just beginning to brown, 25 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Place a rack on top of the pan, flip it over and turn the quiches out onto the rack. Turn upright and let cool completely.
Fruity Baked Oatmeal
3 cups quick-cooking oats
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup fat-free milk
1/2 cup butter, melted
3/4 cup chopped peeled tart apple
1/3 cup chopped fresh or frozen peaches
1/3 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
Additional fat-free milk, optional
In a large bowl, combine the oats, brown sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Combine the eggs, milk and butter; add to the dry ingredients. Stir in the apple, peaches and blueberries.
Pour into an 8-inch square baking dish coated with cooking spray. Bake, uncovered, at 350F for 35-40 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean. Cut into squares. Serve with milk if desired. Yield: 9 servings.
Make Ahead Hash Brown Casserole
6 bacon slices, (often I substitute turkey bacon bits)
1 cup chopped onion
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 (32-ounce) package frozen Southern-style hash brown potatoes
1 cup (4 ounces) pre-shredded Four Cheese blend, divided
1/2 cup chopped green onions
1/2 cup fat-free sour cream
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 (10.75-ounce) can condensed 30 percent reduced-sodium, 98 percent fat-free cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
Cooking spray
Cook bacon in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat until crisp. Remove bacon from pan, and crumble. Discard drippings in pan. Add 1 cup onion and garlic to pan; cook for 5 minutes or until tender, stirring frequently. Stir in the potatoes; cover and cook for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Combine crumbled bacon, 1/4 cup cheese, green onions, sour cream, salt, pepper, and soup in a large bowl. Add potato mixture; toss gently to combine. Spoon mixture into an 11- by 7-inch baking dish coated with cooking spray. Sprinkle with remaining 3/4 cup cheese. Cover with foil coated with cooking spray. Refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.
Preheat oven to 350F.
Remove casserole from refrigerator; let stand at room temperature 15 minutes. Bake casserole, covered, at 350F for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake an additional 30 minutes or until bubbly around edges and cheese begins to brown.
Spinach, Caramelized Onion, and Feta Quiche
2 teaspoons olive oil
3 cups chopped onion
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups frozen Southern-style hash brown potatoes, thawed
1 (11-ounce) can refrigerated soft breadstick dough
Cooking spray
1 (10-ounce) package frozen chopped spinach, thawed, drained, and squeezed dry
1 cup fat-free milk
3 large egg whites
2 large eggs
1 1/4 cups (5 ounces) crumbled feta cheese
Preheat oven to 350F.
Heat olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add onion, sugar and salt; cook for 30 minutes or until golden brown, stirring occasionally. Stir in potatoes, and cook for 5 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from heat.
Unroll dough, separating into strips. Working on a flat surface, coil one strip of dough around itself in a spiral pattern. Add second strip of dough to the end of the first strip, pinching ends together to seal; continue coiling the dough. Repeat procedure with the remaining dough strips. Cover and let dough rest for 10 minutes.
Roll dough into a 12-inch circle, and fit into a 10-inch deep-dish pie plate coated with cooking spray.
Spread potato mixture in bottom of prepared crust, and top with spinach. Combine milk, egg whites, eggs and cheese; pour the milk mixture over the spinach. Bake at 350F for 1 hour or until set, shielding crust with foil after 50 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.
Breakfast Braid
1 (13.8-ounce) can refrigerated pizza crust dough
Cooking spray
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/4 cup chopped onion
4 ounces chicken or turkey sausage
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 cup (2 ounces) shredded Monterey Jack cheese
1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1/4 cup chopped seeded jalape�o peppers
1 large egg white, lightly beaten
Preheat oven to 425F.
Unroll dough onto a baking sheet coated with cooking spray; pat into a 15- by 10-inch rectangle.
Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and sausage; cook 9 minutes or until lightly browned. Stir in eggs; cook 1 1/2 minutes or until set. Remove from heat.
Sprinkle Monterey Jack lengthwise down center of dough, leaving about a 2 1/2-inch border on each side. Spoon egg mixture evenly over cheese. Sprinkle cheddar over egg mixture; top with jalape�o peppers.
Make 2-inch-long diagonal cuts about 1 inch apart on both sides of dough to within 1/2 inch of filling, using a sharp knife or kitchen shears. Arrange strips over filling, alternating strips diagonally over filling. Press ends under to seal. Brush with egg white. Bake at 425F for 15 minutes or until golden brown. Let stand 5 minutes. Cut crosswise into slices.
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Encroe Presentation: The War Within
Aired July 7, 2007 - 15:00 ET
(NEWSBREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Morning, morning, morning, it is Monday morning. It's beautiful outside, it's 12 degrees, it's crisp. CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The morning commute to the city, London's financial district. Every day, 300,000 people commute to work here, amid fears that Britain is now Al Qaeda's number one target. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Raised in Britain, and a member of Al-Qaeda. Today the prosecution outlined how Barat (ph) wanted to blow up a tube train as it passed beneath the Thames. AMANPOUR: I'm Christiane Amanpour. For the last 10 years, London has been my refuge from the conflicts raging overseas, but now those conflicts have erupted right here. Nothing has been the same since suicide bombers struck London's buses and tubes. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The head of MI-5 has warned the terrorist threat faced by Britain will last for a generation. AMANPOUR: British intelligence says it knows of 30 terrorist plots. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The people being encouraged to attack us are young, British-born Pakistani Muslims, groomed to carry out appalling atrocities. AMANPOUR: Inflammatory headlines spread Islamaphobia. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Muslim women, who wear the veil are not aliens. AMANPOUR: And Britain's Muslims wonder how they fit in. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If we're not careful, we will have bloodshed on our streets, based on race and faith. This is something serious. AMANPOUR: We uncover stories never heard, images never seen. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tough streets of Baghdad. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Gang members driving down this street. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A deadly risk. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can hear and see the choppers. ANNONCER: Now, Amanpour reports. AMANPOUR: It's been dubbed Londonistan, the hidden world of London's home-grown Islamic extremists. They are a tiny minority of Britain's 1.6 million Muslims, but they have no trouble getting their voices heard. ANJEM CHOUDARY, MUSLIM RADICAL: One day, you will conquer Rome! One day, one day you will conquer the White House! AMANPOUR: Anjem Choudary is the public face of Islamic extremism in Britain. His group, Amwar Jaroun (ph) disbanded before the British government could outlaw it under its new anti-terrorism rules, but that hasn't shut Choudary up. CHOUDARY: Whoever insults Islam or insults the Prophet Mohammad deserves capital punishment! AMANPOUR: That was Choudary's inflammatory rhetoric just days after Pope Benedict's controversial speech about Islam. CHOUDARY: Pope Benedict, you will pay! CROWD CHANTING: Pope Benedict, you will pay! CHOUDARY: The Mujahedeen are on their way. CROWD CHANTING: The Mujahedeen are on their way! AMANPOUR: Outside Westminster Cathedral, British Catholics looked on in disbelief. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They can stand outside our church and abuse us, and abuse our religion and abuse people we hold dear, with absolute impunity. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The simple question to the Christians is, do you condemn what the pope said? Do you condemn the pope? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, I don't condemn -- UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you condemn what the pope? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What he said -- UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes or no? Do you condemn the pope? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If any of us was to amble up to, you know, the mosque at Regent's Park and say anything in regards to Allah or Mohammad or what have you. Best case scenario, take away the police for inciting racial hatred. Worst case scenario, attacked by a bunch of thugs wearing tea towels on their heads. CHOUDARY: Democracy, hypocrisy. AMANPOUR: Even away from the bully pulpit, Choudary, who is a lawyer, not a cleric, continues to advocate extremist views, like calling for Sharia, Islamic law for Britain. CHOUDARY: All of the world belongs to Allah, and we will live according to the Sharia where we are. This is a fundamental belief of the Muslims. You know, if I was to go to the jungle tomorrow, I'm not going to live like the animals. AMANPOUR (on camera): Anjem, basically, a lot of what you're saying is, it's my way or the highway. I mean, how does that kind of logic fit into a democratic state like the one we live in now? And like the one you live in? You live here by choice. Do you not believe in democracy? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, I don't at all. We believe that people must live according to the Sharia. AMANPOUR: That would mean in a country such as Britain, people would have their hands cut off for robbery, we'd be stoned for what you call adultery, hanged? You can see that happening? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: One day the Sharia will be implemented in Britain. It's a matter of time. Whether it comes through our peaceful discussion and debate, whether it comes because the Mujahedeen would send an army one day, Allah knows. CHOUDARY (voice over): An Islamic army coming to lay down the law in Britain? What do people think in Walthamstowe, one of London's biggest Muslim neighborhoods? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lovely, lovely, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) AMANPOUR (on camera): Ishmael, would you like to see Sharia law in England? ISHMAEL: Sharia, what's that? AMANPOUR: Islamic law? ISHMAEL: No, no. I'm Muslim myself, but like for someone to tell me that's the law of the whole country, the whole land, I think it's wrong. This is a free land. Everyone's entitled to what they want to do, you know what I mean? It's not Taliban here. AMANPOUR: It's not the Taliban? ISHMAEL: It's not the Taliban here, you know what I mean? AMANPOUR (voice over): But you wouldn't know it at this traditional Muslim wedding. Choudary has come to officiate. CHOUDARY: In the West they want to say equality between all people, between men and women. However, Allah has created us different. I mean, surely he has given man authority over the woman, he has given him qowama (ph) because he provides food, clothing and shelter. AMANPOUR: They never saw the bride or the female wedding guests. They were segregated in different halls. But we were invited to witness the nica (ph), the dowry agreement between the groom and his father-in-law. CHOUDARY: Allah, please accept this Nica to be conducted in accordance with the Sharia. (CROWD CHEERING, SHOUTING IN UNISON) AMANPOUR: And even at this wedding, Choudary preaches holy war. CHOUDARY: Allah please bless him with pious children that will continue the jihad to liberate our land. Allah, please support all the mujahedeen wherever they are, Iraq, Chechnya, Palestine, Kashmir, Fallujah, Darfur. AMANPOUR: But how about those who carried out the London's subway attacks on July 7th, 2005? Choudary gives an ominous answer. CHOUDARY: I'm not planning to blow myself up on the Underground, or carry out a martyrdom operation in Britain. However, those people who may be, will be doing what Mohammed said they can and (UNINTELLGIBLE) and other did, probably because of the same reasons, which they included in their wills. I think you really need to take a look at that. AMANPOUR: This is the videotape will of one of the subway suicide bombers, Mohammed Sadiq Kahn. MOHAMMED SADIQ KHAN, SUICIDE BOMBER: Until we feel security, you will be our targets. Until you stop the bombing and gassing and imprisonment and torture of my people, we will not stop this fight. We are at war and I am a soldier. Now, you, too, will taste the reality of this situation. AMANPOUR (on camera): Those reasons that they included in their will, are those reasons justified in your view, or in your view of Islam? CHOUDARY: I think we have everything we need in those wills. AMANPOUR: Where in the Koran does it justify the killing of innocents? CHOUDARY: I'd like to get on to another question, because I've answered that question already. AMANPOUR: Have you? In Koran? CHOUDARY: In the video of Mohammed Sadiq Kahn he quotes the verse in the Koran, which is chapter 2, verse 111, where Allah says he has purchased from the believers the life they will kill others and be killed. SADIQ: Muslims all over the world I strongly advise you to sacrifice this life for the hereafter. AMANPOUR: There are Mullah, Imams, today who say that the suicide bombers have really done a lot of damage to the reputation of Islam. They're saying that the kinds of things that you are saying is, in fact, damaging the religion so much. CHOUDARY: Well, you obviously are just making a statement here. There's no real question there. The fact is, people don't refer to you for Islam. They refer to people like Sheikh Abek Mohammed, people like Sheikh Ayman Al Zawahiri, like Sheikh Osama bin Laden. I happen to be in an ideological and political war, my brothers in Al Qaeda and other Mujahedeen are involved in a military campaign. AMANPOUR: You call them your brothers. Do you mean that? CHOUDARY: Of course. AMANPOUR: Al-Qaeda? CHOUDARY: Of course, every Muslim in the world is my brother. These people, ladies and gentlemen, have a good look at them. They actually think if you kill children, if you kill a woman you would go to heaven. You have no chance in hell! And you are a lawyer, Mr. Choudray? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We don't kill children! UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can I speak? I'd like to say that this is not an ideology. It's a mental illness. (APPLAUSE) AMANPOUR: And stopping it from spreading may be the most important battle for Britain today. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) AMANPOUR (voice over): Hanif Qadir is a youth worker in Walthamstowe. Overnight he discovered that he was on the frontline of Britain's battle against terror, when police arrested 14 young men in his neighborhood. HANIF QADIR, YOUTH WORKER: There's a minority, I mean, in the schools that actually believe that -- I mean these are Muslims and non-Muslims, and this is very shocking -- but blowing people up is quite cool. AMANPOUR (on camera): That blowing people up is cool? QADIR: It's quite cool, yeah. AMANPOUR (voice over): Last August British police descended on Wolfenstowe, saying they had foiled a conspiracy to blow up a dozen U.S.-bound airliners with liquid explosives. This set off the biggest security alert since 9/11. QADIR: I got an e-mail about this, so I put the question to some of these guys, and the answers I got back is, when a bomb goes off in Baghdad or Afghanistan, and innocent women and children are killed over there, who cares for them? So if a bomb goes off in America, or in London, what's wrong with that? AMANPOUR: Indeed, a poll in "The Times of London", showed a shocking 13 percent of British Muslims believe the London subway bombers were martyrs, and many British Muslims see the Iraq war as a war against Islam, against them. (On camera): We're talking about England here, we're talking about young Muslims, who have grown up in this country. I think people would be really stunned to hear you say that it is essentially foreign policy which is causing youngsters to blow themselves up on the subway system, and youngsters to think that that's cool. QADIR: Foreign policy has a lot to do with it, but it's -- it's the minority radical groups that use that, to get to our young people. AMANPOUR (voice over): And some of those young Muslims are easy prey, because they believe the British government crackdown is scapegoating them, as when Minister John Reid came to talk to Walthamstowe parents. MINISTER JOHN REID: There are fanatics who are looking to groom and brainwash children, including your children, so all I say is look for those telltale signs now. AMANPOUR: One of those fanatics was in the room, waiting to pounce. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When they come to your own houses, when your house is raided or your business is raided, you'll be just as irate as I am! AMANPOUR: Omar Brooks, a self-styled religious leader of an extremist group that is now banned. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm the one they call extremist rubbish! QADIR: Now, he's went in there, and he's you know, he's shouting and he's hollering at everybody and everybody thinking, yes, this guy is against the system. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm outside. Where's your freedom of speech now? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Over there. QADIR: They're considered to be heroes, you know, for the younger guys. Yes, get in there. He's telling them how it is. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They should not come to Muslim area. We don't want to see John Reid, we don't want to Tony Blair, or any of your cronies. QADIR: It's very easy for them guys to then come back into the community and have a lot of supporters. AMANPOUR: These people? Many of them self-appointed clerics, are dominating the national debate, and certainly the debate within Islam right now. They're the loudest voices. How is that possible? QADIR: Because our scholars have educated themselves to preach Islam are not coming out of their holes, their mosques and their holes to engage these people. They're frightened of that. AMANPOUR: So, Hanif is desperately trying to fix that, trying to get the mosque elders, many still stuck in the tribal traditions of Pakistan, to communicate with the younger generation. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'd like to ask these young people, because I'm part of the committee of next-door mosque, which young men come into the mosque and the mosque refuses? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How many times, you, the community leaders, have tried to engage with us, the youths, I want to know? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sometimes young people like you go in the mosque and the older people are praying, and you disturb the prayer. We know about young people, what you do. Some of you -- no, you listen to me. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're not attacking the mosques. We're attacking the elders. AMANPOUR: What do you think is your most serious problem right now as young Muslim men in England? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We feel like the youth have been called the enemy within. Because they're blaming us on being terrorists, blaming us as suicide bombers, when they have no, no right to actually accuse us. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If I was walking down the street, right, with my mosque hat on and my beard, and you know what, straight away, terrorist. They would think extremism. AMANPOUR: Extremism can thrive amongst kids who see no way out of their ethnic ghettos. QADIR: They're into all kinds of vices. They're into street crime, gun crime, drugs, car theft, credit card fraud. But then you've now got another threat. AMANPOUR (on camera): What's the new threat? QADIR: The new threat is radicalism. It's a cause. Every young man wants a cause. AMANPOUR (voice over): So, Hanif's cause is to break the ice. This time in a pool tournament between the police and the young men who often find themselves on the wrong side of the law. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: On the street they hate the uniform, at all. So this is to break them barriers. I think it is a brilliant idea. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is unusual to see it, but it's quite good at the same time, because like the kids and the police are mixing together. I personally think it's a great thing. QADIR: All it takes is just foothold. It wasn't just the game. It was them being here. They were in the same room having a laugh and a joke. The same guys they've arrested many times, and may arrest again. But you know what, they've got one think in common now, they're playing pool. And it's the only chance they've got to beat them. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: On behalf of the Metropolitan Police this is for the Active Change Foundation Pool Tournament October 2006. Well done. (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) AMANPOUR: It's a good start for Walthamstowe, but it is only a start. QADIR: You can be Muslim and you can be British, you know. Like you can be Christian and you can be British. You can be Jewish and you can be British. If the British-born Muslims really want to do something to stop people damaging Islam, then start reading up on your book, explain it to your children, come out of your denial phase. They only conspirers against Islam, at the moment, right? And the biggest threat to Islam at the moment is our enemies within. (END VIDEOTAPE) MUSIC VIDEO: Gonna build a dirty bomb, use the spirit of religion and education. AMANPOUR: Bombs and in the backlash, seeping even into song, how far will it go? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MUSIC VIDEO: I reject your truth because it's all a lie, reject your proof, like American pie. AMANPOUR (voice over): Rejection has been Aki Nawaz's thing since the days of punk rock. His latest blast against the system and his angry new album, sum up what many young British Muslims reject today, the war in Iraq, the war against terror, and all its infamous abuses. SINGER: Reject war and terror AMANPOUR (on camera): Why is the cover of your album so provocative? AKI NAWAZ, DIRECTOR, NATION RECORDS: It's provocative because I find, now it represents American foreign policy, which is far more provocative than any other piece of artwork has ever been. AMANPOUR: And you can't get much more provocative than this track, Aki's song and video about making a dirty bomb. SINGER: Gonna build a dirty bomb, this is education. My Ph.D. will free me, weapons grade uranium, a suitcase of Semtex a mobile phone trigger blow them all to hell for a million-dollar figure. NAWAZ: I decided to write this track called "Cookbook DIY" how a common man can make a bomb, how an educated man makes a bomb, and how a scientist from the White House makes a bomb. And I was trying to say that morally, they are all as repulsive as each other. SINGER: I insist I'm a legitimate scientist, paid by the government with your finances. There's less radiation so you get a cleaner bomb, sure, money people, it costs a billion AMANPOUR: When you put out the songs about dirty bombs or benefits of jihad, does it ever cross your mind that young people who might be inclined to take that and run with it in a violent way might do so? NAWAZ: That would be like saying -- me saying, you know, I'm angry because I watched "Rambo". Hollywood is making films, you are making documentaries about terrorism, about the current situation, blah, blah, blah. You're allowed to do all of this stuff, but me as a Muslim, being asked that question, just again exposes the kind of pathetic intelligence that's rife out there, where one rule is for one, and another rule is for another. AMANPOUR: But it is, in fact -- Muslims -- who have been blowing up planes and hijacking planes and taking them into buildings, going on to subways in your own capital -- NAWAZ: As far as terrorism is concerned, we can't even touch the immensity of state terrorism that has gone on by the West. AMANPOUR: You mean that? NAWAZ: I absolutely mean it, right across the globe, even in Europe people are sick, sick to death of the American foreign policy. AMANPOUR: Aki Nawaz may be on the cultural cutting edge, but his take on America is becoming mainstream in Britain's Muslim community. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's see what a wonderful surprise. AMANPOUR: This so worries the United States that it sent its ambassador, Robert Tuttle, and his wife Maria, to reach out to Muslims here in Britain. Today they're visiting Birmingham's central mosque. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If I was to strap a bomb into myself and go into Birmingham's city center and blow innocent people up I'm not practicing what my preaching. My religion is Islam, the religion of peace. Likewise what America preaches, and its actions don't go together. ROBERT TUTTLE, U.S. AMBASSADOR: At the end of the day, until you can have free elections and open dialogue like we're having here now, then that's when you truly have peace. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can't bring democracy to Iraq if you bomb cities and kill children and men and women. They're not going to love you. If you're killing my child, I'm not going to love you. I'm going to hate you. And this is what he has done. Sorry, Mr. Ambassador, you know, you're a nice man. How can you defend Mr. George Bush's policy? And I hope as soon as he goes, Mr. Bush, somebody sensible comes in power in America it will be very beautiful. TUTTLE: Let me say first let the record show he said I was a nice man, let's not forget that, all right? I've known President Bush for 25 -- almost 25 years. He's not anti-Muslim. He's not anti-Islam. AMANPOUR: But the ambassador can see he's facing a tough audience, still, he cannot afford to ignore them. TUTTLE: This is the largest mosque in the United Kingdom, the largest mosque in Western Europe. I think the reaching out and the discussion and the dialogue is what really counts here. AMANPOUR: And that gets more critical by the day. Especially in Birmingham, Britain's second largest city with its largest Muslim minority. Mohamed Ali is a Birmingham artist, also known as Aerosol Arabic. MOHAMMED ALI, ARTIST: Transforming a wall into a piece of art, in itself, you know this is so exciting. AMANPOUR: He rose from painting graffiti on city walls to displaying his art in museums and stately halls. ALI: This is actually a chap, a guy, who is making the round, the call for prayer. ALI: God has given me a gift which is the ability to paint, so I'm using my skills which I might have to be able to change in society. You see something negative and you actively go to change that. AMANPOUR: Mohammed Ali's reaction to the negative atmosphere is to practice what he paints. ALI: People are increasingly becoming disillusioned or they are being led astray. This is not the way. I mean, I've done workshops for kids and I say to them, if you've got issues, put it onto a canvas, you know, paint, express yourself. AMANPOUR: And that is quite literally the aim of Mohammed Ali's new project, a giant street mural that he'll be painting on the side of an Islamic nursery, along with students from a multi-faith high school. ALI: The whole mural supported by the Reverend John, he's a chaplain of the local college, and the head headmaster here of the faith-based Islamic nursery. Everybody engaging together to work on the mural together to me it's a powerful thing. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're about to redo everything. This has come at a perfect time. ALI: Ok, guys, are you ready? AMANPOUR: In a flash, Mohammad turns into Aerosol Arabic, and this ugly wall into a piece of street art. ALI I'm going to give you the same cans so we'll have red, orange, yellow, blending up to the top. You understand? First of all shake your can as well. AMANPOUR: None of these students has ever even wielded a spray can before. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's nice. It's nice to have a chance. It's good. I like it. It's my first time. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What you need to do, see as Tony showed you, you solid and blending up like that. ISKAR KHAN, SCHOOL INSPECTOR: I just think it's great that people from across the communities are going here and united to produce a piece of artwork like this. It's the issue of the day, unless the communities work together like this we haven't got a rosy future to look forward to. We need to do more of this. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We will have various icons from different faiths in the form of architecture, so we can have, you know, the Martyrs' Church and Birmingham Central Mosque to represent the unity of the people. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it's good. It promotes like brotherhood, non-Muslims alike, you know, they think negative of us so it's nice to have that image to show that you know, to bring us closer, if you know what I mean. So it's a good thing. REV. JOHN BREADON, CHAPLAIN: The views of Islam and Britain have taken quite a knocking, so to see an expression of Islamic faith in a very interesting art medium is all for the good. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's the great thing about graffiti and this outdoor art taken on the streets, because it's art for the people, looking at that and people around you here. These aren't the people going to the nice big galleries, this is art going out to the people in an accessible form that young and old can say you know what? I like this. It's transforming something ugly because believe me that wall was ugly. AMANPOUR: While Mohammed Ali tries to transform the ugliness that's dividing Britain, from his recording studio, Aki Nawaz is trying to make sure that every Muslim child here grows up to question that ugliness. NAWAZ: All I want my kids to know is that they have absolutely every single right that the British people have. They're allowed dissent. They're allowed to be provocative. They can be a part of society or put the middle finger up at society. AMANPOUR: Muslim women take on hot button issues. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We got the door slammed in our face. AMANPOUR: In Britain's war within. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (NEWSBREAK) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well if Christians were the cross, Jews have the Star of David, Muslims have the crescent moon. What symbol if any should atheists have? AYESHA HAZARIKA, COMEDIAN: Chris says the symbol for atheists must be a flame to remind Christians they used to burn atheists. AMANPOUR: Ayesha Hazarika likes to confront hot button topics head on, whether it's on a radio or before an audience at a London comedy club. HAZARIKA: I'm quite a moderate Muslim in a kind of wine swilling, bacon sandwich chomping kind of way but that hasn't stopped people being very hostile towards me. I gig in some very - I guess very white areas that they are probably very fearful and very hateful of Muslims because of everything that's happened. And a couple of days after the bombs went off in London, this woman phones me up at my office and she goes, "Ayesha, just want to let you know, nobody blames you." And then she follows up with lots of, you know, "You mustn't blame yourself." I was like I didn't until that point. Thanks! AMANPOUR (on camera): So you really felt there in that one phone call that society is looking at all of your community in that weird way. HAZARIKA: Up until that point I think I sort of had distanced myself from it but then suddenly I thought I guess I am a Muslim, and people must think well you're a Muslim, part of your community did this. You're sort of guilty by association. There is a lot of really massive stereotyping going on in society at the moment. AMANPOUR (voice-over): And nobody has been more stereotyped than women who wear the niqab, the complete face veil. That's become a lightning rod for controversy after a teacher was suspended for wearing it on the job. Rukkiya Ghani is just another anonymous figure in the crowd but her veil now says more about her than her face ever did. Do you feel part of the British culture, part of British society and life? RUKKIYA GHANI, WEARS NIQAB: Absolutely. I find it quite a bizarre question to be asked. I've been, you know, born in this country, brought up here, and you know, everything about me is pretty much English. AMANPOUR (on camera): What is the most common question that you get asked? GHANI: Why? Why do you cover? Why do you do it? We just don't understand. I see it as an obligation of my faith. AMANPOUR (voice-over): Actually, the niqab is more about is more about culture than the Koran, just like the fact that more than half of Britain's mosques don't allow women to pray inside. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Go home. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We've come to pray to do my prayers. AMANPOUR: That's why these Muslim women are trying to get their foot in the door. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Please. We've got the door slammed in our face. (Inaudible) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm so disappointed. He just shut the door on me. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We don't have space for the woman. AMANPOUR: And this debate continued on the air. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's just a small flavor of the reception a group of Muslim women got when they tried to pray in a London mosque with the men. But is now the right time to be fighting the battle of the sexes within Islam? Catherine, how was this experience for you? Why do you want to pursue it? CATHERINE HOSSEIN, IMPAC: Because it is an intrinsic right in our religion, according to Islam we have this right to pray in mosques but because of cultural reasons, you know, the older generation in some mosques in this country are excluding us. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're not supposed to show your face to the man. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We don't ask you to have the rights in the mosque and take over the mosque. All we want to do is come and pray. At least slam the door properly, love. HOSSEIN: I think this is absolutely the right time for women within Islam to be having these kind of debates and if more and more women were allowed to have a greater role in Muslim community it would help temper some of the extremism which is ruining things for the whole community. AMANPOUR: How delicate is the situation in England? HAZARIKA: I think the situation is incredibly delicate, the majority of Muslims in this country are very passionate about their religion, but they're also moderate people. They're also passionate about their lives that they've created for themselves in Britain. AMANPOUR: Like Ayesha herself and her family, who made a cross- cultural leap when they moved from India to Scotland. HAZARIKA: When my dad first moved to Glasgow one of his patients said to him, What are you? And he said I'm a Muslim. Aye, but what kind, a Rangers Muslim or a Celtics Muslim? AMANPOUR: Football teams. That's good. HAZARIKA: I thought that was brilliant. I thought that was fantastic. AMANPOUR: What was he? Is he? HAZARIKA: Whatever you are. We want to remove this idea that Islam is a religion of peace. Islam is not a religion of peace. AMANPOUR: Will growing Islamophobia push British Muslims even further apart? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) AMANPOUR: This could be London's next big landmark, and big controversy, a mosque, unlike any seen before. ALI MANGERA, ARCHITECT: We are really basing it on Islamic landscapes, desert landscapes so we've got this sort of dune-like very soft structures which then form these terraces at the back. AMANPOUR (on camera): And totally modern. MANGERA: Yeah, completely modern. AMANPOUR (voice-over): Ali Mangera is one of Britain's hot young architects. What are you trying to say, or are you trying to say anything about Islam? MANGERA: Well, we're trying to say the Islam is progressive so hopefully Christian groups or Jewish groups could sit around the olive grove and discuss peace, that's really our aim. AMANPOUR (on camera): Wouldn't that be nice? MANGERA: Wouldn't that be nice. AMANPOUR (voice-over): You'd think that everyone would be ecstatic at Ali's vision. Just like they were when London won its bid to host the 2012 Olympics, but the mega mosque will hold 40,000 Muslim worshippers, and it will be the most visible monument from the games. ALAN CRAIG, CHRISTIAN PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: The site itself, an old chemical site. AMANPOUR: City councilor Alan Craig is leading a campaign against it. CRAIG: There you have it. This is the mega mosque, the huge building you've seen on the plants and architects would be right there. AMANPOUR: It looks like wasteland. What's wrong with putting a mosque or anything there? CRAIG: This is different. This is huge, this is massive. This is going to be at least the biggest mosque in Europe, some say the biggest mosque outside the Middle East. AMANPOUR: And right now, it's become the biggest symbol of the tug-of-war that's happening here over Islam. Today councilor Craig and his supporters are canvassing the neighborhood. CRAIG: Hello, sorry to bother you. My name's Alan Craig. I'm a local councilor, I'm calling around about a large mosque for their plan to build just across the way here. You've heard about this mosque, this large one. What is your reaction to the plans, would you welcome or not welcome the plans? Do you approve or disapprove? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not welcome. CRAIG: Not welcome. You wouldn't like to have it here. AMANPOUR: A blunt view shared by other East Enders. (on camera): Why do you not want to see this mega mosque here? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: To be honest we're overcrowded here now, without getting a load more people coming. I'm living here, you know? It's just overcrowded. AMANPOUR (voice-over): The mega mosque will pack in even more people than the big league soccer stadium does every weekend. But for Muslims in the neighborhood, Craig's campaign just smacks of more Islamophobia. (on camera): So what's your opinion, should there be a mosque, another big mega mosque? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This the first time I'm hearing it myself and with all respect I feel that's a brilliant idea. If it was another religion they would have got planning permission to build straight away. Whenever it's Muslims there seems to be barriers. I don't understand why. AMANPOUR (voice-over): Some say Craig's campaign against the mosque is really a competition between faiths. How would you describe yourself? CRAIG: I'm a committed Christian. AMANPOUR: A lot of this sounds like, sorry to say, white middle class anger and fear of Muslims right now. CRAIG: I would just say that's nonsense. I'm used to people insulting me and calling me anti-Muslim and calling me Islamophobic. Muslims have the right to build mosques, just as others have the right to build churches or Hindu temples and so on. It is value toyed ask these questions. AMANPOUR: And the biggest question is about Tabliki Gemayad (ph), the group that's commissioned the mega mosque, it is among the most secretive and fundamentalist of Britain's major Muslim organizations. It never allows cameras inside its mosques, but now the group is reaching out. Abdul Khaliq, a Tabliki member and businessman, is now spokesman for the mega mosque project. (on camera): What is the Tabliki philosophy? It is secret. We don't know, we're not allowed in. ABDUL KHALIQ, BUSINESSMAN: It's not secret at all. The doors are quite open. It's just they do not engage with the media and that's why it's not known to the people. Their philosophy is you should have Islam within you in such a way it should reflect from you. AMANPOUR: But that peaceful image does not sway Tabliki critics. CRAIG: There are a number of people who have become terrorists, who have become suicide bombers, who were closely associated with Tablikli Gemayad, including the leading of the 7/7, London 7/7 bombers, Mohammed Sadiqi Kahn (ph). So is there an association between what Tabligi Gemayad are teaching and the terrorists and the suicide bombers? AMANPOUR: The FBI, French intelligence is looking at Tabliki Gemayed because of its links to terrorism, fundamentalism, its potential influence and people are scared. KHALIQ: People need not be scared. They have investigated for a long time. What have they found? There are millions of people following this organization. Do you not think after all that time for them to produce only two terrorists? If it was an organization, don't you think there would be hundreds and thousands of them? Tabliki does not encourage terrorism in any way whatsoever. AMANPOUR: It's a view shared by Shahid Malik, one of only four Muslim MPs in Britain's parliament. Obviously there's a lot of spotlight on Tabliki mostly because they're secretive. You know them. They're your constituency. What are they like? SHAHID MALIQ, BRITISH MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT: They don't preach an evil ideology. That doesn't mean evil people might not go to one of their mosques. AMANPOUR (on camera): Muslims that we've talked to feel under assault, under fire. Do you feel that? MALIQ: I think the Muslim community feels under siege and n this country after the 7th of July, 2005, where we had the heinous suicide bombers in London and there's a degree of polarization that's taken place in our communities. AMANPOUR (voice-over): And many worry that will push Muslims in Britain to retreat into their communities even further. CRAIG: We have a great debate going on in this country about the whole nature of multiculturalism. And if there is the possibility that this mosque would impact Westham in that way so it becomes a separate society, a parallel society, I think that's very worrying. AMANPOUR: But for an architect like Ali Mangera, it's a challenge to build on. MANGERA: We're trying to resolve the issues in an architectural sense. Our views are really to get people together because ultimately, whether you're Muslim, Jewish or Christian we're all human beings and we share this small planet and we have to think about getting on with each other. AMANPOUR: So who will win the battle of ideas? When mainstream and extremist Muslims face off in debate? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We like to die and you all like to live. You like to go to your pubs, you like to see your wife and children. Good for you. So don't fight the Muslims and you will be saved. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) AMANPOUR: The battle for Islam is, in the end, a battle of ideas, and tonight, on the campus of the prestigious Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, there will be a debate between mainstream Muslims and the self-appointed apostles of Islamic Holy War. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to bill (ph) and welcome to this ex belief (ph) that Islamist violence can never be justified. AMANPOUR: The small group of Islamic extremists who turn up at every rally and protest in Britain have come here to Ireland to debate moderate clerics who say their religion has been hijacked by the likes of Anjem Choudary and Omar Brooks. OMAR BROOKS, MUSLIM RADICAL: ... Muslims. We dream of the blood of enemy. We can face them anywhere. That is Islam, that is jihad (Arabic). He said, I laugh when I kill and he said to his own people (Arabic), He said I come to slaughter all of you. So anyone who wants to stand and face the Muslims he will face the banner of jihad. AMANPOUR: There aren't many people following the banner of Omar Brooks yet he and his colleagues here have loudly dominated the public debate about Islam. But tonight the moderates fight back. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: These people ladies and gentlemen, have a good look at them. They actually think if you kill children, if you kill women you go to heaven. You have no chance in hell. You are a lawyer, Mr. Choudary - can I speak. You are a lawyer and you would know you can't go to heaven unless you claim insanity. This is not an ideology. It's a mental illness. ANJEM CHOUDARY, MUSLIM RADICAL: It's a common thing to say that the enemy, the babies, they kill children, they're fundamentalists. And that happens during the Second World War. There's a lot of propaganda. What are Muslims supposed to do being killed in the streets in Afghanistan and Baghdad and other places, in Palestine? Do they not have the same rights to defend themselves? In war, people die. People kill each other. MOHAMMED SHAMSUDDIN, MUSLIM RADICAL: You want to remove this idea is Islam is a religion of piece. Islam is not a religion of peace. There is evidence in the book of Islam called the Koran, sanctioning violence. AMANPOUR: But does the Koran really sanction this kind of violence? No, says Sheikh Shaheed, who has spent a lifetime fighting apartheid and Islamic extremism in South Africa. SHAHEED SATARDIEN, SUPREME MUSLIM COUNCIL OF IRELAND: They extremists claim to know Islam but the aliqab (ph) version of Islam that seem to portray God and his messengers as cruel and uncompassionate monsters. I demand them to provide proof from the text of the Koran, the holy book of Islam. MOHAMMED SHAMSUDDIN, MUSLIM RADICAL: Chapter 9, verse 29, what does Allah say, fight those of you who do not believe in Allah and in hereafter. AMANPOUR: To decipher the Koran we visited the same East End neighborhood where our journey began, to talk to Imam Usama Hassan. (on camera): They say but look these verses in the Koran that are quoted justify this kind of violence. What's going on? HASSAN: Those verses are always taken totally out of context and nearly always ignoring the spiritual aspect, the aspect which talks about forgiveness and repentance. AMANPOUR: Few people here have studied the Koran as closely as Imam Hassan. He had memorized it by the time he was 11, and at 19, he briefly fought in the jihad against communists in Afghanistan. But he says there is no justification for violent jihad in Britain. HASSAN: If you have the wrong intention you can justify your criminal actions from any text, whether it's the Koran, the Bible or Shakespeare. There are passages in the New Testament where Jesus Christ is alleged to say, "Think not that I have come to bring peace. I have come to bring the sword." That's a famous quote in the New Testament. But clearly, most Christians don't misunderstand that to justify terrorism and wanton violence. AMANPOUR (on camera): What is your reaction when you hear this book, the Koran, and those words taken in vain, to justify what you've called crazy Islamic terrorism? HASSAN: It makes me furious, the people who do that kind of action and who support it are a very tiny minority, but it only takes a handful of course to create devastation. AMANPOUR (voice-over): And that is why Imam Hassan's message to his flock at Friday prayers is so urgent. HASSAN: Many people are terrified of Muslims. They are terrified of a brother walking down the road with his eastern dress, and his hat and beard they see the image associated with suicide bombers. And it is up to us to dispel that fear, to smile at people, to tell them that Islam is not about bits of cloth, it is not about the face veil or headscarf or the face veil or about violence. It is about peace. AMANPOUR: No one knows who will win Britain's battle for Islam. Will it be those fighting the new jihad to claim back their faith? 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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - UF Health in Gainesville announced Thursday that 12 people have died from the flu since October and more than 150 people have been admitted to the hospital with the virus.
That's an alarming number to many people, including Jacksonville doctors, who say this serves as another unfortunate reminder that it's not too late too get a flu shot.
In Duval County, there have been five deaths from the flu so far this season. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning that there are still months left in this flu season.
The CDC said most of the nation has seen moderate to high flu activity this week. The Duval County Health Department, however, said this flu season has been mild so far, but people still need to get their flu shots.
"What's concerning to us right now is not the number of case being referred to Shands at UF but the severity of these cases," said Paul Myers, of the Florida Department of Health in Alachua County.
Alachua County health officials are not taking this virus lightly. The Florida Health Department says four of the 12 deaths were people younger than 40, which is unusual given that the elderly are typically the age group that experiences complications from the flu.
Eleven of the 12 who died had not been vaccinated.
"Once you get it, it takes about two weeks for your body to form antibodies against the virus," said Dr. Wesley Mills, of St. Vincent's HealthCare. "So that's why it's important to get it now because the flu season could last until April or May, so it's not too late to get it. But you want to get it sooner than later since it takes two weeks to take effect."
Of the five confirmed deaths in Duval County, three were women and two were men. Their ages ranged from 35 to 74.
The CDC said it can't determine why younger people are dying from the flu until it has gathered each state's statistics after the flu season. Then it will be able to provide more information like what states were hit the hardest, what ages and why.
In the meantime, the CDC says flu season is far from over. Mills said he's seen more flu activity in his office this year than last, and getting an annual flu shot is imperative.
"We do it yearly because we think it starts to lose its effectiveness over that period of time," he said. "So you definitely want to get one annually, not only because it loses its effectiveness, but also because they change the strains in the vaccination."
Mills said each year health officials try to pick the strands of flu that they think will be most prevalent that year, and that's what the vaccination tries to prevent.
If you are having any flu-like symptoms, see a doctor within 48 hours because some of the medications they use to treat the flu only work if given in that time period.
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From the county fair to the World's Fair, USAC has it all
Next to NASCAR and FIA, USAC might be the best-known sanction in the world. The Speedway, Indiana-based organization has a storied history with quite a story. The United States Auto Club, or USAC, was formed when the American Automobile Association (AAA) withdrew from auto racing following the infamous 1955 24 Hours of LeMans disaster in which 82 people were killed when a car crashed into the crowd. USAC effectively took AAA's place as the top sanction in the world for what they termed Championship automobile racing.
From 1956 to 1979, USAC sanctioned the United States National Championship; a title won by world-renowned drivers such as A.J. Foyt, Mario Andretti, Bobby Unser, Al Unser Sr., and Tony Bettenhausen. But in those days the sanctioning body had a reputation of unpredictable rules enforcement, which eventually led to bad blood between the sanction and the car owners and drivers. It spilled over in 1979 when the lion's share of the teams competing in USAC's Championship Series broke away and formed their own organization, Championship Auto Racing Teams, or CART.
While a lawsuit ensued over which organization had the right to use the word Championship, the fight eventually settled down. For the next 18 years, USAC sanctioned the Indy 500, as it had since 1956, while CART kept the race on its annual schedule.
The peaceful coexistence ended in 1996 when Tony George started the Indy Racing League and split with CART, decimating big-time open wheel racing in the U.S. USAC became the sanctioning body for the IRL, but that only lasted until the 1997 IRL race in Texas. At that event, USAC officials errantly scored Arie Lyendyk two laps down, when in fact he won the race. The debacle, which included A.J. Foyt slapping Lyendyk in Victory Lane, was USAC's final racing event for the IRL.
USAC weathered its exodus from big-league open wheel racing just fine. As far back as the mid-'50s, USAC sanctioned the National Midget Series and the Sprint Car Series. In fact, they have crowned a champion in each of those series since 1956. They also added the Silver Crown Series in 1971. Originally, these series were feeders for the Championship Series. Today they are some of the most coveted championships in open wheel racing, and arguably, one of the best paths to the upper echelon of motorsports. Six of the last 10 NASCAR Nextel Cup Championships have gone to former USAC champions.
One of the reasons that you see a high number of USAC vets in the upper levels of NASCAR has to do with talent.
"You learn to be versatile racing in USAC," says four-time USAC Champion and defending Nextel Cup Champion Tony Stewart. "You race a 900-pound Midget, a 1,200-pound Sprint Car, a 1,400-pound Silver Crown Car on dirt and asphalt-three different types of cars on two different surfaces at tracks ranging from half-mile up to mile and a half. Because you have to constantly adjust to each one, it doesn't get you in a habit or pattern.
Habits and patterns can be bad and are easy to get into when you race just one type of car. The versatility that Stewart spoke of is the very reason that Nextel Cup owners continually look to USAC for their next superstar.
The bulk of today's USAC is made up of four series, each racing a different type of car on dirt and pavement. The Silver Crown cars are the big dogs running on tracks 1 mile and larger, while Sprint Cars usually race on tracks 5/8 mile and smaller. Midgets are the oldest type of USAC racer with designs dating back to the '30s, while the Ford Focus Midgets are the newest ones dating back to 2002. Let's take a closer look at each one.
There are two types of Silver Crown cars: a dirt version and a pavement version. The dirt car looks very similar to a Sprint Car but is actually much bigger. Tucked in the 96-inch wheelbase is a fuel tank that holds 75 gallons of methanol-plenty of juice to finish a 100-mile race sans pit stop. Silver Crown cars get their muscle from a 355ci American production-based engine that produces over 700 hp. Put that in a 1,500-pound car and you have a monster that is super quick and wildly nimble.
Switch over to pavement and you have a radically different animal. Introduced just last year, the pavement Silver Crown cars look like nothing you have seen before. It's as if a Sprint Car fell out of the sky and landed on top of a WKA Kart that had been injected with a massive dose of Balco's best steroid cocktail. The car and its design serves only one purpose: to launch USAC into the future and back onto the world stage.
"We wanted to take USAC open wheel racing to major venues across the country," explains President/CEO of USAC, Rollie Helmling. "We would never have had the opportunity to do that without the new-generation cars."
The cars were initially met with skepticism, which is evident when you watch them race. The final race of the season at Kansas saw just 13 cars take the green flag. Still, if they can get the car counts up, the Silver Crowns have the goods to put on a great show.
The cost of a new Silver Crown race car can run as much as $80,000 for a pavement car and a little less for a dirt one. While that is a lot of bread, the Silver Crown series is a premiere league where a championship often means a shot at the lucrative world of NASCAR. Previous Silver Crown champs who have hit the big time along with Stewart include Jeff Gordon, Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne, and J.J. Yeley.
Ironically, the little cousin of the Silver Crown cars, the Sprint Car, sports more horsepower (800) and a lighter weight (1,200 pounds). That adds up to an even gnarlier monster. Like the Silver Crown cars, Sprints run on pavement and dirt. However, unlike the Silver Crowns, the cars are hard to tell apart.
In most areas of the country, these babies are powered by 410ci V-8 engines with aluminum blocks and cylinder heads. However, the USAC Western States Sprint Cars have a maximum of 360 ci. All the motors use fuel injection and methanol.
A typical Sprint Car costs between $50,000 and $60,000. Most teams have separate cars for pavement and dirt tracks, although you can run the series using just one.
Two and a half pounds per horsepower-now that is a power to weight ratio any motorhead could appreciate. Now check this out: If you are 5 feet, 10 inches tall (the average height for an adult male), then you are as tall as the wheelbase on a USAC Midget. According to the rules, the wheelbase must be 66 to 76 inches, giving a fair amount of latitude to car designs.
More latitude is found in the engine rules, which is terrific if you're the creative type. USAC Midget motors must be normally aspirated, internal combustion, four-cycle, piston type engines with a maximum of six cylinders. All engines are fuel injected and burn straight methanol. From there the sky's the limit. Have at it.
Midget racing dates back to the '30s. In terms of the basic concept (slam as much power as you can into a teeny frame), little has changed. While they are designed for and race on oval tracks that are 1/2 mile and smaller in length, a USAC Midget can achieve over 150 mph on a 1-mile track thanks to a motor that produces 325 to 350 hp and a minimum weight of 900 pounds.
Although cheaper than a Sprint Car, a competitive Midget will still run you $40,000 to $60,000 without bells and whistles. Like the Silver Crown cars, the Midget alumni list reads like a who's who in motorsports: Gordon, Stewart, A.J. Foyt, Mario Andretti, Johnny Rutherford, Parnelli Jones, and Mel Kenyon.
Only 4 years old, the Ford Focus Midgets are perhaps USAC's most successful series. Of the 250 feature races USAC sanctioned in 2006, just over 100 of them where Ford Focus Midget events. The reason is simple-cost, or lack thereof. A competitive race-ready Ford Focus Midget will run you about $26,000. A brand-new complete engine alone is $8,995, while a rebuilt one will cost you a mere $3,995.
"It's a great incubator series," says Helmling.
As you might guess, the cars get their name because they use the same motor found in the Ford Focus. The guts of the four-banger are no different from those running down the highway. But make no mistake: These engines get the job done, putting out 180 hp. All Focus motors come from S.C.R.E.A.M. (in California). They begin life as cast-iron blocks straight from FoMoCo. S.C.R.E.A.M. adds a traditional Hilborne-style fuel injection system, crank trigger, and a clutch with a starter, so these little gems are completely self-sufficient. As spec motors, the only things that competitors are allowed to maintain and calibrate are the fuel, ignition, and lubrication systems.
When partnering with Ford to create the motor, USAC wasgunning for a powerplant that would require rebuilding only once a year. They got more than they were expecting. "The motor is more durable than anyone expected," says Helmling. "We haveteams running multiple seasons without rebuilding."
Talk about cost control. Unlike other USAC series, the rules package of the Ford Focus Midgets make it necessary to run the same car whether you race on dirt or asphalt.
While acceptance of the new Silver Crown car has been slow and the Sprint Cars have held steady, USAC's biggest success has been with the Ford Focus series. And that is having a major effect on the Midgets. After a period of decline, Midget racing is making a resurgence, and Helmling attributes it directly to the Focus: "These guys who run the Focus Midgets want to move up, and when they do they move into the Midgets." The increased growth in Midget racing is evidence that the Focus Series is doing exactly what USAC intended by providing an entry-level open wheel series.
"It is a great bridge from the Quarter Midgets or go-karts to the full-sized Midgets," continued Helmling.
The biggest challenge for USAC is continuing to elevate the entertainment value for the fans. One of the ways that is accomplished is through the delivery of a successful racing product. As a sanction, it has a bottom to top plan that begins with the Focus and ends with the Silver Crown. The Focus series is in good shape and continues to grow.
The trick for 2007 and beyond is boosting the participant numbers in the pavement Silver Crown cars. USAC has tapped that car as its crown jewel, but its inaugural season fell short of expectations. "The car count wasn't what anybody expected or wanted," says Competition Director Owen Snyder III. "But the participants that did get involved were fairly happy with the product."
"I was one of those guys who was totally against them," says Bud Kaeding, a six-year veteran of USAC racing. But his mind changed soon after he strapped in: "I ran Second at Phoenix and had a lot of fun driving the cars. They-the new cars-are a lot more fun to drive than the old Silver Crown cars because it's really up to the driver to get the car around the track." From that Phoenix race, Kaeding went on to win the 2006 Silver Crown Championship.
It seems that the biggest problem with the Silver Crown cars is getting the word out. "Our car counts weren't there this year," continues Kaeding. "But that will come. I think a lot of people waited to see if it was going to be around for the long term."
"We decided to sit back and watch and see how it develops," says Stewart, who fields race teams in both the National Midget Tour and the National Sprint Tour, but opted out of Silver Crown for 2006. "We haven't discounted it; we're considering it. I really like the concept behind it. It gives the drivers and USAC great exposure. It's going to grow and get bigger as time goes on."
To help spurn that growth, USAC is relying on NASCAR. By running Silver Crown races (e.g., the Kansas event) in conjunction with Nextel Cup weekends, USAC exposes the drivers, teams, and sponsors to a wider audience and potential new fans, and gets their cars on bigger racetracks. Bigger tracks equal more excitement. For example, the Silver Crown cars cruised around the 1 1/2-mile Kansas Speedway almost 20 mph faster than Kasey Kahne's 178-mph pole-winning speed. With bigger car counts, that type of racing could easily grow into some of the most exciting in the land.
Helmling is emphatic that thenew-generation Silver Crown Cars are here to stay and is paying careful attention to the marquee series. In 2007, they are starting the season later (March) in order to give more teams more time to prepare more cars. In addition, they are working to increase the Silver Crown schedule for both dirt and pavement by a minimum of one and possibly two races. With venue numbers increasing and positive responses from drivers like Kaeding, the Silver Crown series should attract more participation in 2007. That additional participation should translate into better racing, which elevates the appeal to the fans.
USAC, as a whole, has the formula for success-a strong entry-level series that feeds talent into the upper series. They are continually turning out top-flight talent that is hitting the big time. At the same time, USAC's wide variety of cars affords racers the opportunity to enjoy a motorsports career without ever leaving the sanction.
"There were enough races in USAC where I could quit my job and drive for a living," says Stewart
Think USAC is just about open wheel cars? Wrong. The sanctioning body actually goes well beyond just the four main series. While USAC may no longer sanction the Indy 500, they still have a big presence at the Brickyard. Each year in July, the Formula 1 cars race on Indy's road course under the USAC sanction in the U.S. Grand Prix. In addition, they are involved in sanctioning rally racing through the United States Rally Championship.
USAC also is the U.S. certification representative for F.I.A. So, if you're heading to the Bonneville Salt Flats to attempt a land speed record, USAC will be there to certify the results.
They also certify a significant amount of automotive test data. For example, 16 USAC personnel just completed a 35-day test in Laredo Texas at Chrysler's testing facility. They were there to certify the results of a 100,000-mile test of Mercedes' new E-Class diesel.
With such a wide presence, USAC truly goes from the county fair to World's Fair.


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Hello all!!!
Alright so just this past weekend, Taste of Huron came to an end… I had mixed feelings about this. I was slightly saddened. For two weeks I ate the best food that Huron County had to offer. A minimum of three courses, all which included a fantastic dessert! I ate at the Blyth Inn, the Black Dog, the Little Inn, Eddingtons, Hessenland, the Fireside Cafe and finally I finished the Taste of Huron of with the Gala. All the restaurants were so fantastic and I enjoyed them all.
I am however feeling a slight sense of relief.. I ate soooo much in the last two weeks, I wont lie to you. I may have gained a few pounds, but it was totally worth it!
I will provide a short slideshow of just a few of the delicious things I was able to consume ..
YOU SHOULD BE! that was only about a quarter of what I got to eat! But no worries my friends, the Taste of Huron is an annual event and now you KNOW that you MUST come and attend Taste of Huron next year!


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Subway's Jared Fogle Speaks At Mining ConferenceSOCORRO, N.M. April 27, 2011 – Jared Fogle, the longtime spokesman for Subway restaurants, will be speaking about health during next week's New Mexico Mine Safety Conference.
|Jared Fogle, longtime spokesman for Subway restaurants, will speak at the N.M. Mine Safety Conference at noon Tuesday, May 3.
State Mine Inspector Terence Foreback said Fogle will talk about his experiences with healthy eating to encourage New Mexicans to commit to a healthy lifestyle.
"Our conference theme is 'Focus 24/7' and we want to encourage people in the mining industry to think about health and safety all the time, not just at the mines," Foreback said. "Health and safety issues don't stop when we leave work."
Fogel will speak at the Tuesday luncheon during the three-day conference.
Health will be stressed at this year's conference. Events will include free health screenings by the Miners' Colfax Mobile Unit and a free health fair with health care professionals from the mining industry.
Mining professionals will congregate at New Mexico Tech for the fourth annual New Mexico Mine Health and Safety Conference on May 2 to 4 at Macey Center. Foreback said he expects this year's event to be more successful then the highly attended conferences of the past.
"We had 200 participants in our first year and are hoping for the same turnout this year," he said. "We have excellent guest speakers and a series of important, informative breakout session topics.""
The New Mexico Bureau of Mine Safety, a department of New Mexico Tech, provides professional services to the state and its miners. Foreback has served as State Mine Inspector for four years.
This year's conference continues to expand and improve on the quality of the presentation and speakers, Foreback said. Sessions on health topics are front and center this year to emphasize the theme of "Focus 24/7." Joseph Main, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Health and Safety, will deliver this year's keynote address at 8 a.m. Tuesday, May 3, in the Macey Center.
"We are extremely honored to have Mr. Main as our keynote speaker this year" Foreback said. "We're trying to draw a cross-section of the more than 6,000 people employed in the mining industry in New Mexico, to bring together different parts of mining organizations to work on mine health and safety issues."
The conference theme "Focus 24/7" gives a nod to topics important to the industry, not just at mines, but important to general health and safety.
Most of the events take place at Macey Center, including four meals which are included in the $90 price of the conference. Those interested may get information and registration forms by calling the Bureau of Mine Safety at (575) 835-5460
The conference opens at 9 a.m. Monday with registration and exhibitor setup. Monday afternoon's schedule is devoted to recreation and interaction, including a golf tournament at 11:30 a.m. and tours of the Very Large Array operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
A special "Miner's Lunch Bucket" dinner starts at 6:30 p.m. at Macey Center. A cocktail hour will precede dinner with entertainment by Holy Water and Whiskey, a folk music trio from Albuquerque. The dinner speaker will be New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Secretary Michael Duvall.
Joseph Main will be keynote speaker for the Tuesday morning session, followed by break-out sessions in the morning and afternoon.
A spouse tour of the Salinas National Monument will include a park service guided tour of the Gran Quivira ruins and lunch at the monument will be an exciting event Tuesday morning and afternoon.
Tours of the Mineral Museum will begin at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, followed by a banquet starting at 6:30 p.m. William Holder, Director of Health, Safety and Security for the Mosaic Company's potash mines will be the featured speaker.
Wednesday's opening session begins at 8 a.m. followed by break-out sessions and adjournment at noon.
Foreback was appointed as State Mine Inspector in 2007. Foreback previously worked for the Mining and Minerals Division of the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, following 26 years in private mining industry.
This year's conference committee includes representatives of the Bureau of Mine Safety, the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration and the New Mexico mining industries.
By Thomas Guengerich/New Mexico Tech


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Dr. Grumpy: "Sorry... Did it change your job a lot?"
Mrs. Neun: "NO! But I want to have something wrong with me, too!"
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
IF she wants to have a debilitating neurological disorder, there's already something wrong with her.
How can I tell you this : You do!
There seem to be a lot of people with her disease. And, most of them are worse off than those with real diagnosis.....at least in their own minds.
Neun is probably her married name. I'm guessing her maiden name was Munchhausen.
She can have *my* MS. No charge, even!
Now how do we arrange the donation?
Everyone wants to be special these days and for the folks that have no actual special talent, or anything about them that's interesting, the only way to garner attention is to have a disease. Look at all the attention people draw to themselves now. Folks used to hide in the shadows when illness struck-not the best way to handle things I admit... but now we have swung the pendulum the completely opposite way. Now there are bumper stickers for every obscure disease and people want to draw attention to themselves because of them in the name of "awareness". I'm still not sure exactly what "awareness" accomplishes but hey, it's "something".
So, tell the woman she's got "Mines Worsen Yur Syndrome"
She can have my sister's AS or my good friend's leukemia. How about being thankful she's healthy
I will give her all of my $$$ if she will also take my rheumatoid arthritis.
Can I send her my lupus so I can enjoy the sun with my kids this year?
Wow, obviously she does not have any kind of debilitating disease, if she had any clue of the very real pain and suffering, she would change her mind. She just wants people to log and ahh over her "disease" and feel bad for her. This type of person is self centered and very annoying.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder, complicaded with Hypocondriasis? Wait, excuse me, 'Health Anxiety Disorder'.
I'd be more than happy to give her my kidney failure so she can go on dialysis and I can have my life back.
You find some real gems, dontcha?
What a weirdo!
Leave her with my MS people, they'll have her running out the door. ;->
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