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Fall operating hours came into effect Saturday, September 1 at MUN Botanical Garden. The flower gardens, trails and field centre are open daily, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. September 1 – November 30.
In observance of Remembrance Day, MUN Botanical Garden will be closed on November 11.
Effective December 1, the Field Centre, including the Gift Shop, will be open Monday - Friday.
The Botanical Garden is open 10 am - 5 pm, May 1 - August 31.
Information on admission fees and operating hours are available on the Botanical Garden's website.
For more information, please telephone 864-8590.
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I don't think I can agree with the statement that "Code is meant to be broken by someone". And I sure do not agree with a +4 mod to something like that.
The writers of the software have their RIGHTS to decide how it can be used. You are NOT forced to buy their software, so dont say that "I bought it I can do whatever I want with it".
You can DO whatever you want with it. Whant to burn the disc ? fine. Delete all your copies ? Fine. but if you dont wanna use according to the rules that were there for you to see then return the software and get a refund (which is possible in most places I ever saw an EULA being applied).
I will probably be modded down because of this but... you know what...if such a statement of "My rights are bigger than everyones else" is modded up then being modded down is a compliment.
I don't think I can agree with the statement that "Code is meant to be broken by someone". And I sure do not agree with a +4 mod to something like that.
The writers of the software have their RIGHTS to decide how it can be used. You are NOT forced to buy their software, so dont say that "I bought it I can do whatever I want with it".
No, the writers of software do not have the right to tell people how it can be used. Just like the authors of a book don't have that right. What writers of software have is copyright law and patent law. EULAs are something software companies made up and are now attempting to make legitimate. But it's definitely not a right.
Furthermore, the "owners" of a copyrighted work don't even own that work. In the system the U.S. uses, the people "own" a copyrighted work. The original author, however, gets a limited time during which he gets exclusive rights to decide who can copy the work, modify the work and redistribute the work. As soon as that time limit is up, the author is no different than anyon else and the work enters the public domain. So stop sitting and listening to the *IAA and the BSA and learn exactly what copyright law is and how it works.
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The license can't legally tell you what you can do with the software. You can burn it, trash the disks, throw it away, let it swish around in your toilet, install it on as many personal computers as you own, as long as you are the only user. Things get hazy if others benefit from your copy of the software.
The software company, can, however, refuse to give you updates if you don't comply with the agreement. However, they can't pursue legal action unless you violate copyright laws. EULA's are mostly posturing and an attempt to control your activities, that's all it really is legally too.
If you don't make copies and give them to anyone, you are within your rights of the law. I can throw that agreement away. If I don't sign it, and choose not to abide by it, there's no recourse for them to take, other than the above mentioned sanctions.
Just don't violate copyright and everything will be OK, I promise 8) As long as the use is "Fair and Reasonable" there isn't a court in the land that will convict you of EULA violations LOL.
I challenge any of you to find a case where Microsoft was able to make someone uninstall windows for violating the EULA, or because the user didn't "own" the software, excepting copyright violations.
They can sue you if you put an ISO and license code up for download, but they can't do squat without that copyright violation.
They could potentially lock you out of your software with a "control feature" in the software. They'd lose a lot of honest paying customers that way tho... when it went horribly wrong.
I dont know about the legallity of a EULA or Copyright Law, and you are right on claiming that (I am no lawyer). But I am not talking about "Copyright law".
I just think that if there is an agreement upon a certain product that you have to accept in order to use it, and if you can return the software for refund if you dont agree with it, then you should just use it according to the agreement or not use it at all.
And I still dont see how can anyone (specially if it is one inside computer software market) agree that "Code is meant to be broken". It just doesnt sound fair use to me.
But you know... opinions diverge...


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Local history resources are available in print or on microfilm at EVPL. They can be found in the Indiana Room or in the Reference Department at Central Library. Other resources included are EVPL websites and electronic databases. For current information about Evansville, see Community Information.


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The inspection that oversees passenger servicing at railways and on trains through January-February 2013 inspected 97 passenger trains of State Railways Administration Ukrzaliznytsia to check how conductors and train crew fulfill their duties, and as a result, discovered 1,086 violations.
In particular 139 fare dodgers were detained, 13 cases of carrying surplus hand baggage were discovered, 53 violations of work rules, 61 violations of official duties, and 873 violations of sanitary-technical conditions were registered.
As a result of the checks, revisions of ticket prices worth UAH 1,600 and fines worth UAH 10,900 were registered. Moreover, two criminal cases were opened regarding violations in the servicing of passengers on trains and the railways since the beginning of the year.
In 2012 during inspections 2,478 violations were discovered on long-distance and suburban trains. In particular, 1,199 passengers without tickets and 61 cases of carrying surplus hand baggage were found.
In addition, the inspection discovered 179 violations of working rules of the train crew, 298 cases of the improper fulfillment of duties and 1,685 problems with the sanitary-technical condition of passenger cars.
In general in 2012, the employees of the inspection found 24 cases of mass transportation of passengers without tickets on long-distance and local trains.
Within the last year 686 passenger trains were checked.
Moreover, the service inspected trains of other states that run on the territory of Ukraine. In 2012 35 trains running via Baltic and CIS states were checked. As a result, 194 passengers without tickets and 720 kilograms of surplus hand baggage were discovered.


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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 24. IN our continuing series of award announcements that will culminate with the 2008 World Swimmers of the Year being announced on Dec. 1, Swimming World honors the top Disabled Swimmers of the Year today, and in the December issue.
South Africa's Natalie du Toit and Australia's Matthew Cowdrey have earned the top Paralympic award we have to offer.
du Toit put together an amazing year in which she excelled both in the pool and open water ranks. She became the first female amputee swimmer to qualify for the Olympics when she took fourth at the FINA Open Water Championships in Seville, Spain. She wound up taking 16th overall in the 10K event at the Olympics. At the Paralympics, du Toit posted three world records and won five gold medals the following month. Her efforts were so impressive to our World, Regional Swimmers of the Year panel that she was a strong write-in candidate for the African Swimmer of the Year award. That award will be announced on Wednesday.
Cowdrey, meanwhile, became the first swimmer to defend his title in this category as he also won the 2007 Male Disabled Swimmer of the Year award. Cowdrey, who has a congenital amputation of his left arm, set four individual world records, won four individual gold medals and a pair of individual silver medals at the Paralympics. He also won gold in the 400 medley relay with a world record and took silver in the 400 free relay.


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It took ESPN a few days, but finally, they suspended Stephen A. Smith, the bombastic TV talking head whose idiotic remarks about domestic violence last week on First Take went viral.
The network just released this statement: "Stephen A. Smith will not appear on First Take or ESPN Radio for the next week. He will return to ESPN next Wednesday."
It's unclear what took the network so long – perhaps they found his apology hollow and self serving? – to react, but it might have dawned upon them that many others at the network have been suspended for much, much less.
Related: Stephen A. Smith is Going on First Take to Grovel So He Doesn't Lose His McDonald's & Oberto Endorsements
Related: Stephen A. Smith Apologized For Not Being Articulate Enough For You To Grasp His Point About Women Provoking Domestic Violence
Related: Stephen A. Smith Seemed to Be Pretty Clear and Consistent With His Views on Domestic Violence


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Making it big as a celebrity, and staying that way, is among the riskiest, unlikeliest and angstiest of life gambles. With the uncertainty that is the daily bread of the film and TV businesses, no wonder stars often feel so helpless, anxious and out of control that, according to psychiatrist Werner Muensterberger in his 2014 study Collecting: An Unruly Passion: Psychological Perspectives, they channel their energies into collecting weird things.
Good doctor Muensterberger calls it "an experiment in self-healing" that reduces the "tension between id and ego." Make of that tension what you will, but stars, given the resources and the need, sometimes go to extremes to possess what others would walk right past at any garage sale. And with Guillermo Del Toro's astonishing exhibition currently at the Los Angeles County Museum—room after room of artificial eyes, Goya paintings, life-size Bride of Frankenstein figures—we have a unique opportunity to view up close just how fascinating and bizarre personal collections can be. Take Leonardo DiCaprio. You could make the case that he's obsessed with collecting supermodels, but he also lusts after super rare action figures from sci-fi and fantasy movies like Star Wars, E.T., and 2001: A Space Odyssey. This raises the question: Does DiCaprio's jones put him in competition with Ben Stiller, who scours high and low for Star Trek memorabilia to add to his mammoth collection?
We can't confirm whether Amanda Seyfried talks to the animals, but we're reasonably sure they don't talk back: The actress has an extensive private collection of taxidermy. Yikes, paging Norman Bates. Speaking of serial killers, convicted murderer John Wayne Gacy's paintings have been bought by Johnny Depp, who also digs limited-edition movie-star Barbie dolls and personal items used by Beat writer Jack Kerouac, including a suitcase, sweatshirt, coat and rain hat bought by Depp for over $50,000.
The collecting bug even hits fashion-forward guys like Jay Z, Bradley Cooper and Robert Downey Jr., for whom it's all about fine watches. But can they compete with Charlie Sheen, who has been known to rock a $700,000 Patek Philippe from his near $6 million stash? Or with John Mayer, who can adorn his wrist with any old Rolex timepiece from his astonishing collection, reportedly valued at $20 million?
Pop culture obsessive Quentin Tarantino geeks out with his vast collection of movie- and TV-themed board games, including Platoon (yes, really) and Dawn of the Dead.
Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie are known to collect knives—lots and lots of knives. Don't say you're surprised.
Are celebrity collections about trying to create an ordered outpost in a chaotic world? Is it about mere investment? Is it the appeal of a never-ending pursuit? For Tom Hanks, who owns a big collection of fully functioning vintage typewriters, it's a respect for individuality and a vanished way of life. Hanks nicely summed the collecting bug in a 2013 New York Times opinion piece: "No one throws out typewritten letters, because they are pieces of graphic art with a singularity equal to your fingerprints."


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Yep. we do it quite often. i've done it with fat free and lower fat ones and never had an issue with flavor or texture.
I've had success with both.
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Al Harris: Veteran Safety Retires After 14 Year CareerDecember 28, 2011
Two-time Pro Bowler Al Harris has announced his plans for retirement on Wednesday.
The veteran cornerback sat out the second half of the 2011 season with a knee injury and says he plans on starting a coaching career to transition to life after the NFL.
He was currently a member of the St. Louis Rams after spending eight seasons with the Green Bay Packers, five with the Philadelphia Eagles and one with the Miami Dolphins after being selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the sixth round of the 1997 draft.
Despite leaving the game on less than ideal terms, Harris remains upbeat about his future:
That's just God's way of telling me it's time for me to turn the page. I had an awesome time. I thank God for Spags (head coach Steve Spagnuolo) giving me the opportunity to come out and I hope I left a positive impression on everybody.
He played nine games for the Rams in 2011 before suffering the injury and landing on the injured reserve list. This comes after appearing in three games for the Miami Dolphins in 2010.
The nagging injury didn't heal at the rate Harris thought it would and now he walks away from the game—with the ability to still walk. He isn't going to be a former player that staggers around with a cane for the rest of his life.
The Texas A&M Aggie leaves the NFL with 468 career tackles, 21 interceptions and two forced fumbles in 194 career games.
He will be remembered for his aggressive play in coverage and speed to keep up with even the fastest receivers in the league. Before his recent injury troubles, he rolled off a streak of 10 straight years without missing a game. He was a defensive iron-man before age got in the way.
Harris leaves the game with a Super Bowl ring that the Packers gave him after he just missed their improbable run of last year. It's an example of what his former employer thought of him and how much they valued his services.
Harris leaves for now, but who knows if he can become the next great head coach in a league that features plenty of teams that would free up an assistant spot for him.


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Mathematical algorithms run through many aspects of our lives, from recipes to computers, to the financial system. But can they be used to program a dance? In their new dance, Meeting Place, choreographers and performers Hamish MacPherson and Martine Painter have explored that question by letting their movements be programmed according to a set of simple rules.
The pair was inspired by computerised music, which is composed according to automated formulae without much human guidance. But while music can be written and performed entirely on a computer, dance usually relies on human performers.
To show this clearly, Hamish and Martine opted for minimalism. Their dance had no music, except for their own vocal yelps and sighs, and their movements were simple and rigid. They began with four movement units - an arm swing, a leg raise, a vocal cry and a turn - and each performer built up their own sequence, one movement at a time. They then added in parts of each others' sequences until they were moving in unison, then subtracted movements until they were left dancing each others' original dance.
The sequences of movements were inspired by mathematical patterns like Pascal's Triangle, a pyramid-shaped arrangement of numbers that starts with a 1 at the top and builds each row by adding the two numbers directly above it. The first four rows look like this:
Hamish and Martine assigned a particular movement to each number - for instance, a turn in a circle while bent double at the waist was movement 1. Hamish danced the left side of the triangle, and Martine the right side. They performed the numbers in the middle together. They started by both turning together, then each alone for the first two rows. Then Martine turned once alone, both of them did a new move together for "movement 2", and Hamish turned once alone.
As the duo danced, they gradually deviated from the formula, letting the algorithm descend into chaos before building it back up again.
Surprisingly, the dance looked unrehearsed and nearly improvised, as if it evolved naturally on stage. Even though their movements were largely predetermined and their faces carefully kept blank, the dancers often looked like they were responding to each other and having a conversation. The audience was left with a sense that, no matter how automated, dance is still a human endeavour.
Meeting Place premiered on 10 January as part of the Resolution! festival at The Place in London, which runs until 17 February.


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Netherologist Coppernickels
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Speak with Netherologist Coppernickels at the bridge leading into the Netherstorm from Blade's Edge.
You must have crossed the main bridge into Netherstorm from Blade's Edge. Did you see Netherologist Coppernickels working with all of his crazy equipment there?
Strange... I've been expecting a report from him and it's overdue. He's probably forgotten. You know those 'science' types.
Head back out to the bridge and pin him down. Don't accept any of his excuses, just get me that report.


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My brother was on the Al Asr trip this summer and has written up about his experience. The trip takes youth usually from the UK, Canada & the USA to a month-long ziyarat & educational trip where they not only get to visit the holy shrines, but also learn a lot about the religion in general. This trip is one of the most life-changing experiences that a sincere youth can go on. I went on the trip back in 2008 and wrote about my experiences here. Though it has been more than 4 years since I went, it had an impact on me that I believe I still carry within my persona.
The Prophet (pbuh) said to Abu Dharr (one of his companions): "O Aba Dharr, take advantage of five things before five other things [take advantage of you]: Your youth before your old age, Your health before your sickness, Your wealth before your poverty, Your free time before your being busy and your life before your death"
It is said that when you go for the ziyarat of the Ahlul Bayt (as) it is only by their invitation that you do so, and I'm definitely thankful for getting to be one of the "chosen ones". The decision to go on the Al-Asr trip was made over a short period of time. I had heard about the trip a lot and I was aware that some of my friends and members of the community were also interested in going. I recall accurately that it was a Tuesday night and I was with my family sitting in the living room. My brother was on his laptop uploading a D'ua on YouTube (*AluQeema shameless plug*) and out of the blue I said "I think I want to go on the Al-Asr trip this year", there was a moments silence which was eventually broken by my brother who replied "OK, I just signed you up". So that was basically that, I was officially going. There was a short period where my friends from the community, for various reasons, were starting to think twice and momentarily had changed their minds. But eventually we all signed up and I couldn't have asked a better group of friends to go on this journey with. This was going to be the greatest summer of our lives.
Having previous knowledge of the trip and its history, I learned quickly that some of the scholars (like Sheikh Hamza Sodagar & Sheikh Usama Abdulghani) would not be joining us on the trip this year because as they were out for tabligh in the west. This did bother me a little bit as I had grown to love these ulema a lot and was hoping to benefit from them over the month. Luckily they were going to be present at Muslim Congress in Dearbron which is only a few hours' drive away from Toronto. I decided that if I can't spend a month with them (as well as the number of other great scholars that are present at the conference), a weekend would suffice. This would essentially be the kick-start to my "greatest summer".
Fast forward a little bit to July 9th and the Toronto group was on their way (a day behind in relation to the Americans and the UK group) via Turkey. We arrived in Tehran late at night, and I got to see the infamous convertible hijabis for the first time as we started to land. The airport was literally like a school during summer break – completely empty, which we had no complains about because we were too tired to wait in large cues at the customs. Anyways, we made our way out and were greeted by two of the brothers including a friend from Toronto who was there from before for a two month course. We immediately made our way to another domestic airport to make our way to Mashad. Once we arrived, we learned our flight had been delayed, being dead tired that's the last thing we wanted to hear as we just wanted to get to our final destination and rest on a nice comfortable bed. But Alhamdulillah, experiences like these are made a lot easier when you are with good company. First thing we did was pray Fajr. During the long waiting period, we were all understandably RIDICULOUSLY exhausted but refused to sleep and were in a hilariously hysterical state. It was during this waiting period where we got a taste of the first Iranian dish at the restaurant on the 2nd floor of the airport. Contrary to popular belief, Iranian food does have enough flavor and you don't need to pack hot sauce or ketchup with you. The flight to Mashad was short, we got our first (but not last) experience on the famous Iran Air, where their motto is "We will get you to your destination, dead or alive…more likely dead" – the ascension and descending of the plane was as if it was trying to set the world record for fastest take-off and landing. It wasn't all bad though, the food was good I guess.
Arriving in Mashad, it finally hit me that I was back in the Middle East after a long time, the heat was quiet welcoming, we were greeted by brother Ali Zaidi one of our great teachers and mentors on the trip. We all grouped up and got in a bunch of taxis and made our way to the guesthouse, the traffic wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and the drivers were pretty smooth for the most part. Our driver however got lost and started lecturing us in the car for not having anyone's phone number even though he was at fault for not paying attention following the 3 other taxis and busy making a stop to make tea. We finally arrived at the guesthouse (lucky us actually, we didn't have to unload any luggage as it was already dealt with at that point). We met more of the mentors (Br. Amin, Br. Mohsin) as well as Sheikh Amin and another good friend from Toronto who had left a few days earlier than us. Br. Ali Zaidi took us all straight to the dining hall for some food, we were hungry, but way too tired to think about eating, I was so tired I didn't realize I was eating my rice and kebob upside down and it wasn't until someone pointed it out to me that I realized the kebob was at the bottom because the box was upside down…clearly I, more than others was more tired. After settling in and meeting the other brothers from U.K and the U.S – as well as one brother from Pakistan – we went straight to the shrine of Imam Ridha (as) for our first official ziyarat. We were all pretty fixed on the thought of what it will feel like and what not and I remember it was as if I was floating across the courtyard, I felt so light and I (and many of the other people) had a complete loss of emotions and were in tears (while the ziyarat was being recited). It was incredible. We made our way inside as It was time for salaat. I remember I was next to Sh. Amin and he told me I looked really tired, and I replied I was but I couldn't complain anymore because I was finally at the presence of my beloved Imam and the thought of sleep was no longer in my head. After salaat we made our way towards the zareeh. Now I grew up in Saudi Arabia, and have had the honor to do Umrah numerous times, and had some experience with the crazy flows of crowd that try to touch the blackstone; but I must say being in that crowd trying to reach the zareeh was a true jihad.[Side story: we had uniforms for whenever we were outside the guesthouse, simple white dress shirt and black dress pants, and I had some really bad luck where I ruined 3 of my 4 white shirts the first 2 days and laundry was either done by hand or once in a while. The first one got ruined because I got some blood on me during my first attempt to touch the zareeh, the second was a coke spill and the third was good old oily Desi food stains.]
The schedule for most of our stay in Mashad was jama'at at Fajr, then breakfast and 3 classes in the morning (aqaid, ahkaam and everyone's favorite, spouse selection) followed by lunch, then salaat and the haram at night, dinner usually after that haram.
One of the days we did have a little road trip and got to go to Nishapour, this is where I finally got to bring out my DSLR for some photography. I was upset because camera's weren't allowed in the haram, I knew of this beforehand but after seeing the beauty of the haram I really wish I could've captured those moments for the sake of my own memories. Anyways, we got a little history lesson and some group photos taken, it was a good relaxing day overall. We also got to visit the place where they had the footprints of the Imam and the well which was dug by him, and later had dinner at a restaurant in a mountain area. After dinner, we actually climbed up a mountain in search of a waterfall, which turned out to be at a lower area – so while the climb was a waste, it was still fun.
Another one of the days was dedicated to visiting other areas of the haram, including the library which was beautiful. Especially the namaaz room, which again I wish I could've captured with my camera, absolutely beautiful and genius design. Other architectural designs and numerical significances were explained to us and were really interesting for me because I enjoy that stuff personally. We also got to see the art museum as well as the carpet museum (which wasn't as boring as it sounds, and was pretty well air-conditioned so we didn't rush that part of the tour). Another day was dedicated to visiting the bazaar where we all pretty much bought our rings from. We also got attacked by shoe-polishing kids who were quiet crafty and were quite persistent in trying to make us pay for services we did not ask for, it was pretty funny. That day we prayed in a small open roofed mosque close to the bazaar which was a cool experience as well.
We also got to eat at the dastarkhaan of the Imam on the last Friday that we were in Mashad which was really nice experience as well. During one of the last days, we had the opportunity to meet with Ayatollah Makaram Shirazi who spoke to us and gave us great advice regarding self-building and our duty.
The last night in Mashad was very bitter sweet, I felt I made my best connection with the Imam (as) that night as we got a longer stay and stayed quiet late till around 2 am I believe. Some of the brothers also did matam right outside the haram which was also very nice.
A few of the nights, we had some spare time after dinner and before lights out and got to play some street soccer. I knew from past experience that sports is usually a great way to learn everyone's names and get to know each other and bond, and that's exactly how it went. It was fun and we got some of the mentors schooling us as well, especially Sh. Mahdi, I still don't know how he was destroying us playing on concrete in flip flops with a size 2 ball.
The next part of our journey included a trip to Esfahan. We initially had a 2 night 3 day stay there but because Ramadhan was right around the corner we cut that trip short so that we could keep our fasts from the start (and also be able to visit the Haram of Bibi Massoma on the Thursday night for D'ua Kumail). I couldn't escape loading the busses this time around, but It really wasn't as bad as I thought it would be except for a few suitcases of the sisters which all the brothers feared (one yellow one specifically gave us all nightmares). Our Iran Air flight got delayed so we settled down at a side, had some food and a discussion session with Maulana Shirazi (our spouse selection teacher) and Br. Aqib (our aqaid teacher). Finally we boarded and the entire flight was spent in solving each other's tricky riddles, we also got a great ariel view of the Haram at night all lit up which was also beautiful. We landed safely (Iran Air was good to us this time around) and made our way to the guesthouse.
Esfahan was a really nice experience, we got to visit Chehel Souton (40 columns), the grave of Allamah Majlisi, Naqsh Jahan, and a mosque which we were told was almost a 1000 years old. It certainly looked that way from both the outside and the inside; it was like time travelling, great experience. The funniest thing to me was the overly decorated mannequins; the detail was quiet hilarious, colored hair and facial hair for the guys, eye shadows and crazy amount of makeup on the female mannequins, funny stuff. I really enjoyed just walking in the streets and the bazaar and just taking in the cultural experience. I grew up in the Middle East, but Iran so far was nothing like the rest of the Middle East except for the heat. We had a swimming pool at our guesthouse in Esfahan and got to go swimming as well which was pretty cool.
Now it was time to head towards the holy city of Qom, we were all exhausted and slept through the entire bus ride. We arrived at the guesthouse which was literally a short walk away from Masjid Jamkaran and settled in. The next day we got a little briefing about the city of Qom and who Bibi Masooma was and then made our way to Jamkaran where we got to pray Dhuhr and Asr. That evening we went to the haram and did our ziyarat and were there till Maghrib. After Maghrib we got to experience D'ua Kumail which was recited beautifully by Haaj Mahdi Samavati. For the next 14 days our schedule was re-adjusted due to Ramadhan. Our days started with Dhurain followed by our 3 classes (with Maulana Sawadi now being our aqaid teacher, as well as the Iranian revolution). We also had some Qur'an classes with Br. Asim which we all enjoyed and benefitted from greatly. After classes we usually had time to rest till Maghrib and then we would have iftaar followed by a visit to the haram.
The first Friday we got to also experience D'ua Nudba after Fajr at Masjid Jamkaran which was another incredible experience. During the 14 days, we had a number of days where we would head out and got to learn about the Hawza and Islamic universities visiting their campuses and all that good stuff. We also visited Bayt ul-Noor, Bibi Shatitia's grave, as well as a warehouse where they were constructing the new zareeh of Imam Hussain (which will replace the current one in the near future).
We enjoyed front row seating during Jum'ah prayers twice and although had trouble staying awake at times, it was another moment I can't forget. It was the month of
Ramadhan so we also got an opportunity to sit and participate in the Qur'an recitation after Dhuhrain where 4-5 great reciters would rotate and take turns reciting. Maulana Sabzawari also joined us on the trip in Qum, but on the last night – he was with us in Tehran and it was great to have him speak to us as well.
One of the fun activities we had were the late night sports in the indoor gym. Since our schedule was adjusted and our days started later, we used to stay up till Sehri & Fajr playing sports. We usually rotated each night, one night for soccer, and one night for volleyball. We had a lot of fun and not only bonded more with each other as participants but with the mentors as well (Sh. Amin, Br. Salman, and Br. Ali).
Probably the most memorable part for a lot of us was our daily walks & trip to Masjid Jamkaran every Fajr, or as I liked to call it, the Jamkaran Fajr Crew. The mosque was usually fairly empty during Fajr (since the mosque is basically on the out-skirts of town) and we all usually got to sit in the first row of the Jama'at. It was a very spiritual experience for us and many of us used to go a little earlier to pray Namaaz-e-Shab.
Another experience at Jamakaran was Tuesday night, where you couldn't recognize that it was the same place. During the night of Tawasul, groups of people from all over would come and attend the spiritual gathering; it was a very lively atmosphere.
On one of the nights we got to eat out at a restaurant and enjoy some games at the arcade and also went go-karting. I embarrassed myself pretty bad in the basketball game and go-karting, getting only 8 points in basketball and crashing in the go-kart race, but overall it was really nice and we all enjoyed ourselves.
The last day, we were told not to go to Jamakran for Fajr as we were leaving early and there wouldn't be enough time. But a few of us insisted and got permission. Interestingly enough, almost everyone decided to make their way for one last time and we took some group pictures after words – Jamkaran Fajr crew stayed true to the last day. We were now on our way to Tehran for a few days – our final destination before heading back home to our countries. The bus ride to Tehran wasn't too long but we were all completely exhausted at this point of the trip and had no energy to do much. We had someone recite Dua Imam-e-Zamana as well as D'ua Ahad on the bus as our journey began. We kept our fasts, but we had to break it due to travelling. We had a tight schedule for the next 2 days so before we even went to our guesthouse in Tehran, we made our way to the Shah's palace, where NO one had ANY energy and at every stop a lot of us were found sitting and lying down anywhere to get some rest and some shut-eye. After the Shah's palace we made our way to Imam Khomeini's house where we were slightly more awake. I think it was the ice-cream that woke us up. Anyways, we prayed and learned a little bit about Imam Khomeini, his house, the Hussainiya attached to his house and had a guest speaker speaker deliver a short speech. After that, we made our way to the second floor of the Hussainiya and some delicious fast food, SFC cheese burgers and fries…I can still taste it mmmMMM, good stuff!
Following lunch, we made our way downstairs to the gallery where they had some really amazing rare pictures of imam Khomeini and some nice artwork as well which I enjoyed. We finally arrived and settled at the guesthouse, which was actually really cool – a giant dorm like room where everyone was in the same room . It was a really nice way to spend our last couple of days together. The guesthouse was right next to Imam Khomeini's shrine and was only a short walk and we had time to visit that as well. The next day, we got to go for Jumm'ah at Tehran University and again got some front row seating and met some high profile people.
The last day, I wasn't feeling too well and wasn't planning on heading out, but I thank Br. Ali Zaidi for convincing me to come as it turned out to be a very special day. It started with a trip to Behest-e-Zehra. Learning about the martyrs, visiting and seeing their graves and hearing their stories, looking at the pictures of the revolution – it was all a great learning experience. After Behest-e-Zehra we got to pray in a private Hussainiya and met another high profile figure which was another once-in-a-lifetime experience.
We made our way back to the guesthouse for lunch and I was pretty much done, but there was one last item remaining for the day, and that was going to the famous Milad tower in Tehran. I convinced myself this time that it was the very last thing and it didn't matter how exhausted I was, I would just suck it up and go spend these last moments with my good brothers and teachers. The view was really nice from the Milad Tower and so was the food at the restaurant.
The trip was now coming to an end, the mood was bitter sweet as we were eager to return home to our families, but sad that we had to leave our Al-Asr family behind and of course sad that we were leaving the presence of the Ahlul Bayt in both Qom and Mashad.


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Monthly Archive for March, 2011
Shedding for the Wedding: I push, you pull. Or maybe I pull, you push…?
March 23, 2011
The CWWork it, ladies.
How bizarre. Team Eco Lovers won a challenge… by sawing through a humongous log!
Mother Nature is not happy with Samantha and Brooks, but Samantha and Brooks are happy with their prize……
'Mad Men' season 5 premiere likely delayed … maybe until 2012
The fifth season of the program, which stars Jon Hamm and Janua……
Tune In | 03.24.11
- THERE ARE MANY THINGS ABOUT THIS STORY THAT MAKE ME HAPPY: Not the least of which the fact that this bodes pretty well for the return of GOB.
- SPEAKING OF BRITISH ADAPTATIONS, FACT: I WILL WATCH GILES IN ANYTHING: Let's just hope that NBC's adaptation of this is more in the The Office vein, and not in the Coupling vein.
- ALREADY MISS LIZ? Mark your calenders.
- IT'S BEEN, WHAT? A MONTH? TWO? SINCE I REPORTED ON TORCHWOOD? There. I fixed it.
- American Idol: Who's getting cut tonight? (My money's on Thia, but what do I know?) 7 p.m. FOX
- The Office: Michael finally pops the question. 8 p.m. NBC
- Jersey Shore: Season finale. Unfortunately, not the series finale. 9 p.m. MTV
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|NCAA Basketball Tournament: Connecticut vs. San Diego State (begins at 6 p.m.)
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Top Chef All Stars: Twists, turns and a mysterious envelope
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Idol: Motown in the middle
Motown tonight, which doesn't exactly excite me. Lots of songs we've heard in past seasons. And after watching, lots of unnecessary pimping from the judges and bad arrangements.
Some ……
The Event: Like An Alien Supernova In The Sky
Episode 114 "A Message Back"
March 21, 2011
NBCThe Event will now incorporate stories ripped from the headlines. Eat your hearts out, Salahis.
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The Real Housewives of Miami: Of pigs and couture
"Waterfront & Center"
March 15, 2011
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- BEFORE THEY WERE LAS ESPOSAS DE LA CASA: Y before los trabajos de las narices.
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RuPaul's Drag Race: Don't waste the pretty
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The 118th edition of IFA Shield kicks off with eight teams vying for the coveted trophy. The HardTackle analysis the strength and weakness of the teams and predicts the possible permutation and combinations. Let's find out which team will be four likely teams to make it in semifinal stage.
This edition of IFA shield has attracted only three foreign teams and lost a bit of spark after Goan clubs and Shillong Lajong refused to take part in it though the participation of big three clubs in Kolkata is a relief for the organizers. The tournament is divided into the two groups. Group A consists of East Bengal, United Sports Club, Singaporean league side Geylang Internatioanl and Korean lower division club Busan Kion Tang. Group B consists of the recently concluded Federation Cup Semi Finalist Mohun Bagan, Mohammedan Sporting, and 2nd division outfit United Sikkim and Bangladeshi side Sheikh Jamal.
Group A: East Bengal, United Sports Club, Geylang International, Busan Kion Tang.
East Bengal
East Bengal will be the favourite to win the Group A. The Kolkata giants have experience of playing in AFC Cup and have done well last edition. Playing against the likes of Geylang and Busan will not be a problem if Armando Colaco chooses to field their strongest XI. The Red and Gold brigade will get enough match practice for I-League by playing this competition. Mehtab Hussain is expected to return from the injury and this will be perfect platform for midfielder to get his fitness level back. Armando Colaco will use this tournament to test few players and will hope to win all three group matches.
Players To Watch Out: Mehtab Hussain, Lalrindika Ralte.
United Sports Club
United Sports Club financial crisis is known to all. The purple brigade is failing to rope in the sponsors and off field problems have affected performance of the players. After a promising start to the I-League, the club has gone from bad to worse. There is rumour that Dutch coach Elco Schattorie is back in Oman and may not return. The club even has not started preparation for the tournament. The absence of coach may affect their performance while Ranti Martins is not at his best. It will be difficult for United Sports Club to get through group stages if the Nigerian does not fire.
Players To Watch Out: Eric Brown, Ranti Martins.
Geylang Internatioanl
S-League side will be playing first time in IFA Shield. The Singaporean side popularly known as the Eagles in Singapore has experience of playing in continental competitions in the past. They did not have a good season last year as they finished in bottom half of the table. The IFA shield could work as good preparation for them. Geylang has signed a new set of foreign players for the upcoming season. Former Albirex Nigata Singapore defensive pair Yuki Ichikawa and Kenta Furtardo will have to be at their best if Geylang has to entertain the thoughts of reaching knock outs. The Japanese pair did well last season playing for Albirex Nigata helping them finish third in the league standing. The club even has roped in three Argentine players. The striking pair of Leonel Felice and Joaquim Lopez will have the responsibility to pump few goals for the Eagles. They will be getting able support from their fellow countrymen Franco Chivello from the middle. There are few local signings and coach Kanan Vedhamuthu believes that this is perfect for the players to gel well.
Players To Watch Out: Yuki Ichikawa, Kenta Furtardo
Busan Kiong Tang.
Busan Kiong Tang from South Korea is the fourth team in the group. The Korean club plays in the lower divisions in Korea.
29th January
East Bengal V Busan Kiong Tang, United SC V Geylang Internationals
1st February
East Bengal V Geylang International, United SC V Busan Kiong Tang
4th February
East Bengal V United SC, Geylang International V Busan Kiong Tang
Group B: Mohun Bagan, Mohammedan Sporting, United Sikkim, Sheikh Jamal.
Mohun Bagan
Mohun Bagan by far looks the strongest team in the group. The club has been in sensational form of late and gave a good account of themselves in the Federation cup. Their Nigerian star striker Odafa is short of match fitness and he will look to help his club perform well. The youngsters in the team have to come good after disappointing performance in Federation Cup semifinal. The last time Mohun Bagan won the tournament was in 2003 and this will be a good opportunity for them to win it as their form has been good since the victory over East Bengal in CFL.
Players To Watch Out: Odafa, Katsumi Yusa
Mohammedan Sporting
The Black Panthers showed some signs of resurgence under the new coach Sanjay Sen. the club did not lose a single match in the Federation Cup, but failed to make it to semis on goal difference. Brazilian striker Josimar is in good form and he will be looking to continue his productive run. The team looked cohesive in midfield. Penn Orji and Anthony Soren will be the key figure in the success of the Black & Whites in the tournament.
Players To Watch Out: Josimar, Penn Orji.
United Sikkim
The 2nd division outfit United Sikkim was a last minute replacement for Shillong Lajong. The club performed poorly in Federation Cup and fans must not expect much from the Snow Lions in the tournament. The experience of playing against some of the strongest teams in Indian football will help them in 2nd division which will start very soon. James Singh will be a key figure in the team while the youngsters in the team have to give a good account of them in the tournament.
Players To Watch Out: Bhaichung Bhutia, James Singh.
Sheikh Jamal
Sheikh Jamal Dhanmodi Club is the only foreign club in the group B. The Bangladeshi Side is leading the domestic league at present. The form of the Bangladesh Premier League will certainly help them in the IFA Shield. The Sheikh Jamal will look to perform well and we may see some upsets from them. The club will be heavily banking of Haiti International Sony Norde. The striker was in sensational form last season in his debut season in Bangladesh scoring 15 goals in 30 matches for his former club Sheikh Russel KC. Bangladesh International Mamunul Islam will have to put some good performance and create scoring opportunities for Norde. Shakhwat Hossain Rony is one of the highly rated players in Bangladesh. The striker will have to support Sony Norde upfront. If Sony and Rony combo works, it could be difficult for rival defence.
Players To Watch Out: Sony Norde, Mamunul Islam.
30th January
Mohun Bagan V Sheikh Jamal, Mohammedan V United Sikkim
2nd February
Mohun Bagan V United Sikkim., Mohammedan V Sheikh Jamal
5th February
United Sikkim V Sheikh Jamal, Mohun Bagan V Mohammedan


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Pro-life group won't push for more anti-abortion bills this year
After years of waging a dogged and largely successful campaign to pass a slew of stricter anti-abortion laws, the Center for Arizona Policy, the state's most influential pro-life group, is shifting gears to defend those laws at the Capitol and in court.


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I live in the virtual stream and the life stream. Every day. I am intense. I am the happiest I have been in a long time. I create deeply, with significance, one for everyone, with passion. All improvised.
I try to stay away from caretaking as much as I can. I have done that time. I could do no more, not without damaging myself, beyond repair, into a much quicker decline.
So I wake up in our 27 foot RV with slider in coastal Georgia, drink chicory, grab the cellphone and I walk/photo for 1 to 2 hours. I post 2 – 3 photos to G+. I drag sawn and backhoed shrubs and trees across the strip as I walk the perimeter of the grass airstrip, 43 acres from the road to the marsh. It was a farm until 12 years ago. The machinery waits, aging, under metal roofs.
I visit with Gaia Tree, one of the Live Oaks in the woods on the penisula on the marsh 15 miles inland from the Atlantic. I give thanks. I walk back, pick raspberry leaves, juniper and pine needles for the daily regional herbal tea.
I sort through the morning's imagery, I post, I create, I read. Salad for lunch with some protein. Homemade dressing. …
We are on a death path, a path where we may never be able to come back to this planetlifestream in its incredible full richness if we do not all, immediately, do the most that we can to minimize fossil fuel use. We have gone past the tipping point. The extremes, the lengthening of weather events is already rapidly accelerating.
Many are beginning to change. Are you?
I express my grief, my hope, my knowledge in the work I create and respond to, in the paths/streams I follow, in the research that I post at my blog. I have been silenced over and over again by my caretaking roles, by polite conversation, and by a deeply wounding personal attack.
Sooooo, as to not go insane, I create. I pour it all in.
I wander off track regularly into the pathways of others, get caught up, get lost, come back. As long as I remember/practice "careful respect, folkish humour and ceremonial delight" I minimize my caretaking/hero habits. I am becoming the space to come back to.
Only when I create from the depth of my stream skin-to-skin with the world-earth-planet stream do I feel a measure of repose. That feeling also comes from in-the-moment back-and-forth prose writings with the wordsmiths/imagemakers/photoshooters of G+.
The people I engage with who are in-the-stream-of-now are also restful to be with. We are streams, not still lives. We each are many, not one.
The traditional 3rd person artist statement
Her prints are an abstraction of the moment when human beings interact with rich inks and papers; of humans connected to place; of humans exploring/experiencing process.
She has no preconceived image in mind. The process transforms bits of human flotsam into images which are mysterious, full of movement and rich in color. The image is whatever emerges from the juxtaposition of what objects were found that day, where the objects press into the plate and what styrofoam was used for the plate.


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The Heimat Abroad
The Boundaries of Germanness
Publication Year: 2005
Published by: University of Michigan Press
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Pol
List of Abbreviations
An idealized German village presented a charming scene for a visitor in 1933: "clean curtains fluttered in front of polished, white-framed windows, and a flower garden bloomed in front of every house. . . . the flowers of grandmother's Heimat grew there." Surprisingly, the settlement was in Brazil rather than Bavaria.1 It just as easily could have ...
Part 1. The Legal and Ideological Context of Diasporic Nationalism
Germans' preoccupation with their diaspora predates the existence of Germany as a nation. Indeed, the disunity of the various German states in the early nineteenth century, combined with the growing pressures of internal and overseas migration, compelled individual states to define quite consciously who was a citizen and who was not. Uniquely relying on birth and heritage as key criteria for citizenship, these states ...
Chapter 1. Diasporic Citizens: Germans Abroad in the Framing of German Citizenship Law
The state's relationship to ethnic Germans abroad, as expressed in German citizenship laws, went through a substantial evolution during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This chapter can only present an overview of these developments, but I hope to suggest which societal developments most influenced citizenship legislation and shifting definitions of the national community in the long term.
Chapter 2. Home, Nation, Empire: Domestic Germanness and Colonial Citizenship
When the Kaiserreich came into being in 1871, its rulers had little premonition that the young country would soon become an empire, acquiring significant overseas territory in Africa, China, and the Pacific after 1884. Germany's imposition of power over Kiaochow (a region in the Shandong Peninsula of China, including the city of Qingdao), Cameroon, East Africa (present-day Tanzania), German Samoa, ...
Chapter 3. German-Speaking People and German Heritage: Nazi Germany and the Problem of Volksgemeinschaft
It has become commonplace to describe the utopia of German National Socialists in their own words as Volksgemeinschaft. English-speaking authors quite often do not translate the word as "national community" or "people's community" but rather keep it in the original German. This practice intentionally stresses the specifically German character of the concept and particularly its inextricable association with the ideas of National Socialism.
Part 2. Bonds of Trade and Culture
The German diaspora was not simply a "seeding" of German people from a motherland. Rather, it was a way of seeing the dispersed German- speaking communities, which emerged long after the multiple migrations discussed in this volume's introduction. The descendants of these dispersed communities were sought out by German nationalists after World War I, who hoped that the German diaspora could prove to be a deterritorialized nation in order to counteract the territorial losses of the German Reich.
Chapter 4. Blond and Blue-Eyed in Mexico City, 1821 to 1975
Mexico City has long been home to a small but influential community of mostly wealthy German immigrants. Giving an affirmative answer to the question of whether there is a German diaspora, this chapter discusses the negotiation of national identity in the German "colony" in Mexico City. This colony defines itself as those Germans and their descendants who pursue "respectable trades" and subsidize German-language institutions in Mexico City.
Chapter 5. Jews, Germans, or Americans? German-Jewish Immigrants in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Traditionally the history of Jewish migration to America has been divided into three periods. The first Jews in America were descendants of Jewish refugees from Spain and Portugal. They reached the shores of North America in the seventeenth century and founded small communities on the East Coast in harbor cities such as Charleston, Philadelphia, New York, and Newport, Rhode Island. Their numbers remained low.
Chapter 6. German Landscape: Local Promotion of the Heimat Abroad
In 1869 a German factory worker described his experience at a picnic on Chicago's North Side. "Nothing thrills a German more than a festival in the woods under the green leaves of oak trees!" he exclaimed. "This [feeling] has clung to our people since the forest life of our ancestors. I forgot that I was so far, so distant from my homeland celebrating a festival under foreign oaks, [and] I had lively conversations with those around me and was full of happiness."1
Chapter 7. In Search of Home Abroad: German Jews in Brazil, 1933–45
Ethnicity, no matter how narrowly constructed, is by definition unstable. Internal conflicts (political, generational, or other), relations with the majority society, and international factors all create a constant flux. Any kind of ethnic maintenance, then, is a remarkable phenomenon: it is based on group negotiation and acceptance of myriad variables, all of which are constantly changing.
Part 3. Islands of Germanness
The diverse communities of ethnic Germans scattered across Central and Eastern Europe are the best-known groups in the German diaspora; they include settlements in Galicia, Volhynia, Bessarabia, Bukovina, the Volga, and Transylvania, to name a few of the most prominent. Certainly, these communities have occupied the most prominent position in domestic German debates about the Auslandsdeutsche.
Chapter 8. Germans from Russia: The Political Network of a Double Diaspora
There are Germans whose dream landscape is not forests and mountains but wide open plains under a big sky. These are the Russian Germans, transplanted farmers whose origin was in the crowded Southwest German states in the eighteenth century but whose paradise and souls' Heimat became the Russian steppe, a paradise lost after a century and resought on the plains and pampas of North and South America.
Chapter 9. When Is a Diaspora Not a Diaspora? Rethinking Nation-Centered Narratives about Germans in Habsburg East Central Europe
With this chapter I want to encourage German historians to broaden their understanding of the term German beyond a nation-state-centered concept that for too long has privileged the German state founded in 1871 as the social, cultural, and political embodiment of a German nation. I suggest that communities in Habsburg East Central Europe, popularly constructed by German politicians and historians ...
Chapter 10. German Brigadoon? Domesticity and Metropolitan Germans' Perceptions of Auslandsdeutschen in Southwest Africa and Eastern Europe
In the 1950s play and movie Brigadoon, a Scottish village, wrapped in mist and isolated from the world by magic, is rediscovered by the twentieth century. The modern people who enter the village are delighted to find that its inhabitants have preserved the values, dress, dialect, and lifestyle of an earlier time. The German Sprachinseln of Eastern Europe were never wrapped in mist, but they were effectively ignored ...
Chapter 11. Tenuousness and Tenacity: The Volksdeutschen of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Holocaust
A 1938 memorandum of the German Reich chancellery defined Volksdeutsche as people whose "language and culture" had "German origins," although they were not citizens of Germany.1 The German word Volksdeutsch, however, carries overtones of blood and race captured neither in that bland de‹nition nor in the English translation "ethnic Germans."
Chapter 12. The Politics of Homeland: Irredentism and Reconciliation in the Policies of German Federal Governments and Expellee Organizations toward Ethnic German Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, 1949–99
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Shampoos and Care of the Hair
In the absence of actual disease of the hair or scalp, the single, total purpose of a shampoo is to cleanse. No matter
what the price and no matter what the claims on the bottle, that is all a shampoo can do.
Shampoos are of two types: the soap shampoos and the soapless. The great majority of both types are liquids which contain from 50% to 90% of water. It is, of course, much cheaper to use an ordinary toilet soap. (See below for list of acceptable toilet soaps.) However, liquids can be applied more evenly to the scalp and they are less apt to leave solid soap particles in the hair—advantages more important to women with their longer hair, than to men.
A good shampoo should have a high dry-soap content and be free from excessive free alkali. The latter may irritate the scalp and make the hair dry and lusterless. Many shampoos contain pine and tar oils, sodium perborate or alcohol in excess of 40%. All such shampoos are not acceptable for normal scalps, since they are hard on the scalp and hair and are not necessary to the effectiveness of a shampoo. Tincture of green soap, which contains about so% alcohol, is much cheaper than most alcoholic commercial shampoos, and is sometimes helpful in the treatment of dandruff. But it should be used only by people with oily hair and its use should be discontinued at any sign of irritation. Coconut or palm-kernel oil in a shampoo may cause irritation of the scalp in some people. Medicated shampoos, containing tar oils, are useful in treating many scalp conditions, including dandruff (see page 283), and are employed by skin specialists in the management of certain diseases of the scalp and hair.
The soapless liquid shampoos advertised and distributed most extensively are "sulfonated oils" and "sulfated alcohols." In contrast to the slightly alkaline soap shampoos, these products are very nearly neutral—a fact made much of by the manufacturers who, without any particular scientific justification, have raised a great clamor about the importance of avoiding alkaline preparations.
Sulfonated oils, which are practically latherless, are good cleansing agents. So, too, are the sulfated alcohols, which produce a definite, but "thin," lather. The chief advantage of the sulfated alcohols, however, is their effectiveness in hard water—probably the only justification for their use, in view of their high price.
Drene, best known of the sulfated alcohol shampoos, usually has been found in use tests to have a drying effect on the hair; it should be used, if at all, only by people with oily hair.
Special Drene for Dry Hair seems to have less drying effect. But some physicians have reported undesirable reactions from the use of sulfated alcohol shampoos.
Shampoos not otherwise described are liquid soap shampoos. Soaps with high coconut oil content are preceded by an asterisk (*). Ratings are based on tests made by CU in 1938.
CD Liquid Castile (Cooperative Distributors, NYC).
Palmolive Shampoo (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Jersey City, N. J.).
Marchand's Castile (Charles Marchand Co., NYC).
*Wildroot Instant (Wildroot Co., Buffalo, N. Y.).
(In order of increasing cost of dry soap content)
Macy's Olive Oil Shampoo (R. H. Macy & Co., NYC).
Macy's Castile Shampoo.
Almay Tar Shampoo.
Packer's Tar Shampoo.
Mary Scott Rowland Liquid Castile (Mary Scott Rowland, NYC).
Kreml (R. B. Semler, NYC).
Conti Castile Shampoo (Conti, NYC).
Laco Castile (Lockwood-Brackett Co., Boston).
Daggett & Ramsdell Perfect Oil Shampoo (Daggett Sc Ramsdell, NYC).
Klenzo Cocoanut Oil (United Drug, Boston).
Edna Wallace Hopper's Fruity (Edna Wallace Hopper, NYC). Canthrox (H. S. Peterson & Co., Chicago).
Mulsified Cocoanut Oil (R. L. Watkins Co., NYC).
Barbara Gould (Barbara Gould, NYC).
Packer's Olive Oil Shampoo (Packer Mfg. Co., Mystic, Conn.).
Woodbury's Liquid Castile (John H. Woodbury, Cincinnati).
Most alkaline of liquid soaps examined. Contained more coconut oil than most "Castile" soaps.
Van Ess (Van Ess Laboratories, Chicago).
Pinaud Shampoo (Pinaud, NYC).
The following are liquid shampoos of the soapless type, listed here without recommendation:
Sulfated Alcohols
Drene and Special Drene for Dry Hair (Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati). The company has agreed with the Federal Trade Commission to stop certain misleading representations about the two Drenes. (Special Drene is less "drying" than Drene.) Ward's Glisteen Cat. No.-66n (Montgomery Ward).
Sulfonated Oils
Venida Oil Shampoo (Reiser Co., NYC).
Marrow's Mar-O-Oil (J. H. Marrow Mfg. Co., Chicago).
Hairtone Soapless Oil (McKesson & Robbins, NYC).
Admiracion Olive Oil Shampoo (Admiracion Laboratories, Harrison, N. J.).
Admiracion Foamy Oil.
A good toilet soap will provide an excellent shampoo for men, whose short hair does not require the even dispersion of soap particles that is necessary for women and that is afforded by a liquid shampoo.
The following soaps, tested by CU in 1939, are considered of good quality because of absence of excess free alkali and impurities, and are fairly cheap. The order is alphabetical.
Cashmere Bouquet
Note: Even good soaps can irritate sensitive skins. If any of the above soaps is unsatisfactory, try another until a satisfactory, non-irritating soap is obtained.
How often should the hair be washed? The question has no single answer. Some people with much-admired hair wash it daily, and other people for whom shampoos are rare events have hair that is no less luxuriant. One dermatologist tells of a pair of lovely Southern ladies who were famed for never shampooing at all. Probably a safe rule to follow is to shampoo your hair enough to keep the scalp dean.
If you live where the air is heavily contaminated with dirt and smoke (as it is in almost any sizable city), or if your hair is oily, you should probably shampoo comparatively often—say, at least once a week. Frequent shampooing is not likely to harm the hair, so long as a good soap is used, although expert opinion differs on this point.
It is better to apply a small amount of shampoo, wash and rinse the hair, and repeat this process two or three times, than to wash only once with a heavy application of the shampoo liquid. Rinsing is best done under a shower or spray. Begin the final rinsing, which should be especially thorough, with water at least as warm as any used during the shampooing, and end it with cool or cold water.
If only hard water is available, vinegar or lemon juice added to the rinse water will remove the mineral salts de-posited on the hair by the combined action of the soap and water. These rinses leave some free fatty acids on the scalp and hair, but the acids are generally considered less harmful than the mineral salts they replace and certainly their use leaves the hair softer. Some beauty parlor operators claim that acid rinses injure permanent waves, but we have no in-formation to substantiate this point.
After drying the hair, persons with dry or semi-dry scalps may find it advantageous to apply a little lotion made by dissolving one part of castor oil (tasteless type) in three parts of pure alcohol.
Beauty parlor shampooing possesses no advantages what-ever over good home shampooing, and may be definitely inferior. The use of rather intense artificial heat to produce rapid drying—a common beauty parlor practice—is anything but beneficial to the hair.


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A new material called graphene oxide "paper" has been created that can be folded, wrinkled and -- to a certain extent -- stretched. But despite being the same thickness as ordinary paper it is very stiff and extremely strong, claim its inventors. Moreover, they believe that the new carbon-based material can be adapted for applications including molecular storage, ion conductors and supercapacitors (Nature 448 457).
First isolated in 2004, graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of graphite that, aside from having unique electronic properties, is very strong. But as of yet there is no way of producing it in large quantities, which has limited its potential as a building block for new types of specialist materials.
Now, however, a group from Northwestern University in the US including Rodney Ruoff have discovered that large quantities of oxidized graphene can be weaved together to create a new type of "paper" that is stiffer and stronger than other thin materials.
"My dream has been to disassemble graphite into individual sheets, and then reassemble those sheets in different ways," Ruoff told physicsworld.com. To do this his group begins by oxidizing graphite to make graphite oxide, which leaves roughly half the carbon atoms with an attached oxygen atom. When graphite oxide is mixed into water, these oxygen atoms repel water molecules, forcing the individual layers – graphene oxide – to disperse or "exfoliate". The researchers filter this exfoliated mixture through a membrane, which collects the layers in such an arrangement to produce graphene oxide paper.
Normal graphite has a delicate structure, needing only a small lateral force to break apart its regularly-stacked layers. Conversely, the layers in graphene oxide paper interweave with one another and wrinkle on larger scales. This allows load to be distributed across the structure, making it stronger than graphite foil and "bucky paper", which is made from carbon nanotubes. In fact, Ruoff claims, the only material stronger could be diamond.
The interwoven structure also lets individual layers shift over each other, so that the collective layers become pliable. But most importantly the paper can be chemically tuned by altering the amount of oxygen on the layers. Reducing the oxygen content, for example, would take it from being an electrical insulator to a good conductor. Moreover, the paper could be infused with polymers, ceramics or metals, to make composite materials that outperform their pure counterparts.
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It was only two weeks ago when a professor was found dead at the bottom of a cliff, and now recent news broke that he was allegedly alive days after the fall.
Ronald Bettig, 56, was pushed and fell off of a cliff at Blackhawk Quarry near Pennsylvania State University, and a police investigator is now saying the school's associate professor may have been alive for up to two days after the fall, according to CBS News.
George Ishler, 39, allegedly pushed the professor off of the cliff after Danielle Geier, 32, told him that she wanted Bettig killed because he criticized the way she was raising her son and thought they would inherit money from Bettig.
Geier and Ishler also reportedly wanted to murder Bettig because troopers said they would benefit from his death, AOL reports.
Pennsylvania State Trooper Brian Wakefield, said that the professor was still alive, yet possibly unconscious and immobile during the time that Geir and Ishler planted his belongings and car, hoping Bettig's death appeared as if he suffered an accidental fall.
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Melbourne, Mar 16 (ANI): Obesity has hit Aussie kids so hard that their fatness is making car seats smaller for them, says a new research which claimed that booster seats should be made bigger keeping the childrens growing size in mind.
According to a study, by accident researchers in Melbourne, almost 40 per cent of children who meet the height criteria for booster seats are too heavy to use them.
Parents are instead restraining overweight and obese youngsters with adult seatbelts, a dangerous alternative that leaves them more vulnerable to injury in an accident.
Citing the situation, researchers are calling for a bigger, tougher booster seat standard to cope with weights up to 10 kilograms heavier, putting Australia in line with the notoriously heavyweight United States.
"We've had the call for bigger chairs and hospital beds, strengthened ambulances, and even tougher (equipment) in mortuaries, and now bigger booster seats too," News.com.au quoted Ian Caterson, a professor of human nutrition at the University of Sydney, as saying.
"It's just one more sign that we've got serious problems with our weight and this time it's the safety of our children that is at stake, Caterson added.
In the study by the Monash University Accident Research Centre, parents of 633 children aged 4 to 11 years were surveyed who fell within the recommended height range for using booster seats.
They found only 29 per cent were typically restrained in booster seats.
"A key finding was that 37 per cent of the children who met the recommended height criteria exceeded the maximum weight for booster seats stipulated by the current Australian safety standard," lead author Dr Sjaanie Koppel said.
"This appears to be a significant issue for children aged seven years and older in particular. And despite such children not meeting the minimum recommended height for use of adult restraint systems, seatbelts appear to be the preferred mode of restraint for these children, Koppel said.
Research shows that children aged four to seven have significantly less risk of head and spinal injuries, internal organ injury, and lower body fractures when restrained in a booster seat compared with an adult seatbelt alone.
The team called for the maximum booster weight to be increased from 26 to 36kg and a new parental education campaign as part of the Federal Government review of restraint guidelines currently underway.
Obesity experts stressed that while building everything bigger served a practical purpose, it did not deal with the root cause of the problem.
"We need to be preventing obesity in the first place," Caterson said.
"As well as the individual looking at their own physical activity and diet we need to change the whole environment to make it easier to take the healthy option."
The study is published in the Medical Journal of Australia. (ANI)
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: This year you will be more energized than you have been in a long time. You have a sense of direction that allows you to detach more from the daily ups and downs. Optimism surrounds you. If you are single, you really enjoy your summer and the period that follows. If you are attached, you will want to plan several getaways together.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) • ★★★★ Confusion will filter into your day, and you might be inclined to take off early. You need time to recharge your batteries. A situation could become uncomfortable, even if good news surrounds it. Know that your thoughts could change. Tonight: A loved one is energized.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) • ★★★★ You will be delighted by a friend's reaction to a thoughtful gift. This person seems to be at a loss for words. Communicate precisely with others in general. If meeting someone, confirm the time, place and day! Tonight: Schedule some one-on-one time with a special person.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) • ★★★★ You get what you want without having to charm anyone. You might not know what to do next, as you are so used to presenting your case. Maintain a sense of humor, especially when dealing with a boss. Tonight: Anything could happen. You don't need to wish upon a star.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) • ★★★★ Listen to news more openly than you have in the past. Your judgment will prevent you from hearing every detail. Make time to schedule a haircut or a massage. You need to indulge yourself, as you have experienced a lot pressure as of late. Tonight: Relax.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) • ★★★★ Tap into your imagination when making plans. A friend or loved one could be thrilled by the possibilities that you conjure up. You have an instinctive side to you. Listen to your inner voice more often. A call from a special person could delight you. Tonight: On the prowl.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) • ★★★★ You will be unusually assertive, and you'll get excellent results. Ask for what you want. A boss will smile as he or she watches you in action. Be careful with someone at work. This person might seem easygoing, but that likely won't be the case. Tonight: At your favorite haunt.
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Nelson Vails, the first African-American to win an Olympic Medal in Cycling joined the "Bike305" Bike to Work Day cycling team of seven Miami-Dade mayors to kick off the first annual "Bike305" Bike to Work Day at the University Metrorail Station in Coral Gables today. The team of seven mayors included: Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez; City of Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado; Key Biscayne Mayor Frank Caplan; Coral Gables Mayor Jim Cason; Pinecrest Mayor Cindy Lerner; Palmetto Bay Mayor Shelley Stanczyk; and Cutler Bay Mayor Ed MacDougall. Miami-Dade County residents were encouraged to leave their cars behind and ride bikes to work to reap the health benefits of cycling, save money on gas and reduce traffic congestion.
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Email Justin at firstname.lastname@example.com recover your username
I think he's suggesting an idea, not asking for his username.
Are you saying to also allow email addresses to help you log in? Like, using the email instead of using a username. I don't see how this would be a huge issue, but I do agree about it being easier to remember that instead of remembering the username because, you use it all the time.
I agree p3d; it would be a very good idea for AG if they created a "forgot username" button or something like that. It's a pain to have to email an administrator when you forget your username.
I think he's saying there should be a thing that says "Forgot Your Username/Password?" that you click on, and you get a reset email sent to you. What he's saying is while you can reset your password, there's nothing that send an email to you to tell you your username. Your best bet is to email Justin.
I think that's what he's saying.
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