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In the May 21, 1965, note to Sgt. James Adair, a white Philadelphia police officer on security detail for a Law Day visit on May 1 to the University of Pennsylvania, King conveyed his appreciation for "the time and effort which you spent in providing both protection and traffic accompaniment for myself and the members of my party."
"While I hardly feel this necessary most of the time," the civil rights leader wrote, "it is both comforting and humbling to know that there are persons who are so concerned about my welfare."
Less than three years later, on April 4, 1968, King was assassinated in Memphis.
The Raab Collection in Philadelphia has set the price at $10,500 for the one-page typewritten letter, which was passed down through the police sergeant's family until descendants who wish to remain anonymous decided to put it up for sale. The note is on letterhead stationery of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights organization led by King, and is signed by him at the bottom.
Raab Collection Vice President Nathan Raab said King was aware of the near-constant death threats but chose to put them out of his mind, recognizing that many were baseless, so he could continue with his work.


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Actual rating will vary with options, driving conditions, habits and vehicle condition.
The standard features of the Kia Niro FE include 1.6L I-4 139hp hybrid gas engine, 6-speed auto-shift manual transmission with overdrive, 4-wheel anti-lock brakes (ABS), side seat mounted airbags, curtain 1st and 2nd row overhead airbags, driver knee airbag, airbag occupancy sensor, automatic air conditioning, 16" aluminum wheels, cruise control, ABS and driveline traction control, electronic stability.
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The Plug-in Hybrid, in all-electric mode, can gently accelerate to highway speeds, but the engine joins the powertrain going uphill or accelerating hard. The gas pedal has a spot where there is resistance, in order to stay in all-electric mode, but you often have to push past it and use the engine to keep from getting run over by fast traffic.
Once, we found ourselves with an empty battery at the top of a hill. Zero electric range. By the time we got to the bottom of the hill, after coasting and taking advantage of regenerative braking, we had added three miles of range.
Friction braking with the brake pedal also charges the battery. The pedal was a bit spongy, and the travel was long, but the blending of regenerative braking with friction braking was seamless. However, both Niro powertrains sometimes hesitated or lurched during transitions between braking, regeneration, and transmission shifting. It's one drawback to the Kia (and Hyundai) single-motor hybrid system, as opposed to the two motors used by Ford, GM, Honda, and Toyota.
The Niro sheds pounds with an aluminum hood, liftgate, and suspension bits. Its light weight and low center of gravity largely make the car handle and hold the road well.
It's far more fun to drive in Sport mode, but that's where the fuel mileage will sink. Eco mode is more frugal, but it's sluggish. The Eco mode is uncomfortable because it prevents the transmission from kicking down for acceleration. The engine will stay in higher gears as long as possible, which not only keeps the rpm and sound down, but brings in the electric motor to add torque for acceleration.
The Niro snaps into Sport mode as the driver pulls the shift lever to the left, almost like a downshift. The car comes alive, and easily keeps up with fast traffic on the freeway. The Sport mode enables sharper throttle response and transmission shifts; and supposedly sharper steering too, although we couldn't feel much difference in turn-in quickness or weight in the steering wheel.
The transmission is quick, decisive and engaging in Sport mode. Kia chose a dual-clutch transmission, rather than a continuously variable transmission, partly because it wanted the Rio to not feel like a hybrid (but just be one). Mostly, it didn't want the Rio to feel like a Prius. Research has shown that hybrid owners don't much like the characteristics of the CVT that usually comes with hybrids. The dual-clutch transmission uses gears like a manual transmission, but feels like an automatic, and can be manually shifted more sharply than a CVT.
Niro doesn't have paddle shifters, so you have to use the lever to shift the transmission in Sport mode. But, strangely, downshifting in Sport mode does not produce engine braking, especially the regenerative variety.
One novel feature, called the coasting guide, tells the driver the most energy-efficient time to coast and brake. Predictive Energy Control looks at the route set by the navigation system, and comes up with a plan to spare the throttle and raise the fuel mileage on the trip, then instructs you step-by-step on a screen how to achieve that goal. Of course it doesn't have eyes, it's based on speed limits and elevation; so what it tells you to do with the gas pedal and brake in real time, assumes you're the only car on the road. But it gives you the right idea.
Kia calls the Niro a crossover because it looks like a crossover. It feels more substantial than a compact hatch. It has big wheel arches with black flares, a thick cowl, rocker-panel cladding, roof rails, and a rear skid plate that makes it resemble a Jeep Cherokee from the rear. There's no obvious styling effort to mark it as a hybrid, no visible attempt to look aerodynamic or eco. But in fact the Niro is very aerodynamic, with the drag coefficient being a low 0.29.
The low nose and wide sweeping hood conceal a long front overhang. It's lower than the Kia Sportage crossover, while its lines are smoother and rounder than those on the Kia Soul.
A small flash of blue trim around the front parking lights distinguishes the PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) versions.
The quality of the cabin materials is good, and the surfaces are soft. The instrumentation is simple and basic, with big white-on-black gauges, and glossy black trim on higher models. The dash panel doesn't try to impress you. There are no gauges that give any clue to its being a hybrid, except for a big green leaf on the panel.
With seat frames that came out of the near-luxury Optima sedan, the front seating position is high, reducing headroom; but it's still not as high as in the Soul or Sportage, which have taller rooflines.
The cabin is wide and feels it. There's comfortable room for four people, and enough elbow room for five no problem. But maybe not headroom. The rear seatbacks are already canted, not upright, so the passengers' heads don't scrape the ceiling.
The cargo floor is low and flat, because the battery is under the rear seat, and because there's no four-wheel-drive components to make room for.
There's less cargo space than in the Soul or Sportage: 19.4 cubic feet with the rear seat up, and 54.5 cubic feet with it down, not quite flat. But we found that it squashed down flat when we put weight on it. The cargo capacity is a lot less than the Prius v, with its 67.3 cubic feet.
Kia put a lot of effort into insulating the body structure and isolating engine noise, and it shows. When you floor it and the engine howls, the noise stays out of the cabin.
As a subcompact wagon hybrid and plug-in hybrid, the Niro works. It's low, wide, practical, economical, quiet, fairly stylish and roomy, with good handling and decent acceleration when it's in Sport mode. When it's in high-mileage Eco mode, it's a slug. We think it wins most comparisons to the Toyota Prius v, from powertrain to handling to mileage.
Sam Moses contributed to this report, with reporting from New Car Test Drive editor Mitch McCullough, and staff reports.
The 2018 Niro Hybrid comes in FE, LX, EX and Touring models. The Kia Niro FE ($23,340) comes standard with dual-zone climate control, LED headlamps, 16-inch alloy wheels, six-way manual front seats, 60/40-split folding rear seats, rearview camera, steering-wheel audio controls, two 12-Volt power outlets and USB and auxiliary input jacks on the center console, a 4.2-inch digital display between the instruments, and a 7.0-inch touchscreen with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.
Niro LX ($23,650) adds roof rails, keyless ignition, rear center armrest, and LED taillamps. (Prices are MSRP and do not include destination charge.)
Niro EX ($26,150) gets cloth-and-leather upholstery, fog lights and LED running lights, power folding heated door mirrors with integrated turn signals, blind-spot monitors, heated front seats, leather-wrapped steering wheel and shift knob, a USB charger in the center console, and glossy black interior trim.
Niro Touring ($32,000) got a price increase of $2000 more than the other models, for 2018. It adds leather seats, ventilated in front, 18-inch alloy wheels, an 8.0-inch touchscreen, eight-speaker Harman Kardon premium audio system with HD radio, front and rear parking assist, 10-way power adjustable driver's seat, and a heated steering wheel.
The Kia Niro Plug-In Hybrid, also referred to as the Niro PHEV, comes in LX ($27,900), EX ($31,500), and EX Premium ($34,500) trim levels. The plug-in has a locking charge port, so the car can't be unplugged while at a public charging station; a charge-timing function to take advantage of lower overnight electric rates; and a portable charging cord. It qualifies for a (-$4543) federal income tax credit the year it's purchased, assuming the buyer's tax situation permits the full credit to be used. It also earns state purchase rebates in New York (-$2000), California (-$1500), and other states, plus regional and corporate incentives.
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Some risk factors for cancer can be avoided, but many cannot. For example, both smoking and inheriting certain genes are risk factors for some types of cancer, but only smoking can be avoided. Regular exercise and a healthy diet may be protective factors for some types of cancer. Avoiding risk factors and increasing protective factors may lower your risk but it does not mean that you will not get cancer.
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Matthew Robinson, mayor of Hazelwood, Mo., describes the damage his town sustained from a severe thunderstorm. Photo: AP.
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|The Shuffle Phenomenon � A Technological Fix For a Creative Problem?
|Thursday, 10 March 2005
can't go to far these days without seeing Apple Computer ads on
television promoting their latest buzzword: "Shuffle." Beyond it being
Apple's latest $99 iPod, the idea of Shuffle is more of a cultural
phenomenon than a piece of hardware. The genie is long out of the
bottle with downloadable music. The music industry, these days being
comprised more of order takers than visionaries, have embraced the
download model as their future, despite the fact that it takes their
musical commodity and insults it with low profitability and even
lower-quality sound.
While consumers love the convenience and portability of downloadable
music, the idea of selling feature-laden discs that offer
high-resolution surround sound, 24-bit stereo tracks, video content and
great new music is somehow not much of a priority for the aging baby
boomer executives who run most major labels these days. DualDisc shows
some hope of offering the kind of value needed to compete with
DVD-Video movies, but with less than a few hundred DualDisc titles on
the street so far, it is hard for anyone who invested in DVD-Audio or
SACD to get too excited about re-buying their collection all over again
on the new format.
With high-resolution music in limbo, more and more music lovers are finding ways to legally and rightfully archive their music to use in their lives in ways never before possible. Advances in hardware and bandwidth make it possible to travel from the suburbs of Southern California to Hong Kong and then, via your hotel's high-speed Internet connection, to access your entire CD collection that you ripped on your music server on your laptop via a wireless connection. Just a few years ago, that wasn't really possible; now it is reality. A music lover in Manhattan can ride the subway with the top 500 classical albums of all time in the palm of his hand, when just five years ago, he would have needed to call Bekins movers to help him travel with such a vast collection. Unquestionably, technology has helped all of us to find new ways to enjoy our music collections. The question is, are we better off for it?
Shuffle on your music server – be it an iPod, a Sonos, a ReQuest or some form of home theater PC – is an amazing feature. Never before have we been able to take our favorite tracks and hear them in ways that perhaps have never in the history of the universe ever been heard before. Shuffle allows us the ability to give new life to our most beloved music. The random nature of Shuffle allows you to mix songs in ways that are perhaps physically possible but logistically difficult in the traditional album model. Who would keep getting up for hours and hours to pull crazy selections from your vast collection of compact discs? For anyone who has started to collect and archive music on any type of server, the idea of Shuffle is exciting.
But when we look at the music industry as a whole, is Shuffle a copout? Shuffle allows us to pick songs we know and love and make them sound new again. This is in direct opposition to the idea and passion of finding new music to fall in love with instead of sticking with the familiar classics. The download model, which drives the Shuffle concept, has given a vibrant new life to the once-mighty single market. For decades in the classic rock period, you were compelled to buy an entire album, not just a single. Can you imagine just buying "Comfortably Numb" from Pink Floyd's The Wall when you didn't own the entire album? Today, the iPod generation does just that. Does the newly-found ability to buy download singles and the major labels' willingness to sell music in this model help to create great new records? Ask yourself this question: how many truly great (I mean a 10 out of 10) albums have you bought in the last 15 years? How many of those records were released in the last few years? When you do spring for an album, how often do find that there are only one or two good tracks on it? How often do you wish you hadn't bought that album you thought you would like for $15 when you could have bought a DVD movie for $24 that you are almost guaranteed to like? For me, even the best new records today, such as Velvet Revolver's Contraband, have only a handful of hits on them. Contraband's hits are quite good, making it one of the better rock records I have heard in the past few years, but to compare Contraband with Appetite for Destruction from Guns N' Roses or Core from Stone Temple Pilots would be a losing proposition. The latter two are complete and classic rock albums, with very little filler.
I am worried that the download model and the impressive popularity of the iPod will allow the music industry to continue to lose focus on their core issue, which is the need to sell increasingly valuable products. MP3s are convenient, but because of their disposable and volatile nature, they are not nearly as valuable as an album on CD. At the same time, consumers have spoken on the topic of the CD. It was a great run and the majors made billions of dollars reselling their entire musical catalogues all over again from vinyl to CD. However, six years ago, things changed with the launch of DVD. GenX and GenY consumers want an audio/video experience for their hard-earned money and the CD doesn't give it to them. DualDisc can, but it has yet to be determined how serious the major record labels are about selling discs that are packed with features, including videos, high-resolution surround sound, 24-bit stereo tracks, archival photos and more. With the first DualDisc going platinum (from Canadian alternative-punk band Simple Plan), let's hope that the me-too record executives see that the format might have some legs, resulting in some significant support, because as cool as downloaded and server-based music can be, if that is where the music business is going, the incentive to create and develop the next album like Electric Ladyland or Sgt. Pepper's isn't going to be there. And that will be when the technology starts to kill off the art.


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Cinnamon Roll Banana Pancakes (NYDC Day#6)
Today, I decided to relax and make something easy, after waiting in front of the oven anxiously for pate a choux to rise all day on Saturday. So, I made cinnamon roll pancakes that I saw on Pinterest, although I made up my own cinnamon filling recipe. Tomorrow, there will a more exciting post, I promise!


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As of 2015, there is no cure or protective vaccine for SARS that is safe for use in humans.[8] The identification and development of novel vaccines and medicines to treat SARS is a priority for governments and public health agencies around the world. MassBiologics, a non-profit organization engaged in the discovery, development and manufacturing of biologic therapies, is cooperating with researchers at NIH and the CDC developed a monoclonal antibody therapy that demonstrated efficacy in animal models.[9][10][11]
Several consequent reports from China on some recovered SARS patients showed severe long-time sequelae exist. The most typical diseases include, among other things, pulmonary fibrosis, osteoporosis, and femoral necrosis, which have led to the complete loss of working ability or even self-care ability of these cases. As a result, some of the post-SARS patients suffer from major depressive disorder.[12]
There is no vaccine to date. Isolation and quarantine remain the most effective means to prevent the spread of SARS. In addition, handwashing, use of universal precautions, disinfection of surfaces for fomites, and use of a surgical mask are recommended. Avoid contact with bodily fluids. Continue with precautions for at least 10 days after the person's signs and symptoms have disappeared. Keep children home from school if they develop a fever or respiratory symptoms within 10 days of being exposed to someone with SARS. Wash personal items in hot, soapy water including the eating utensils and dishes, bedding and clothing of someone with SARS.[13] Annual influenza vaccinations and 5-year pneumococcal vaccinations may be beneficial; but vaccinations only reduce or weaken the severity of SARS infection.[citation needed]
SARS is still considered a relatively rare disease, with 8,273 cases as of 2003.[14]
|Probable cases of SARS by country, 1 November 2002 – 31 July 2003.
|Country or Region
|SARS cases dead due to other causes
|Fatality (%)
|China (Mainland) *
|China (Hong Kong) *
|Taiwan **
|United States
|Macau *
|Republic of Ireland
|Russian Federation
|South Korea
|(*) Figures for the People's Republic of China exclude the Special Administrative Regions (Macau SAR, Hong Kong SAR), which are reported separately by the WHO.
|(**) Since 11 July 2003, 325 Taiwanese cases have been 'discarded'. Laboratory information was insufficient or incomplete for 135 discarded cases; 101 of these patients died.
Outbreak in south China
The epidemic of SARS appears to have started in Guangdong Province, China in November 2002. The first reported case of SARS originated in Shunde, Foshan, Guangdong in November 2002, and the patient, a farmer, was treated in the First People's Hospital of Foshan (Mckay Dennis). The patient died soon after, and no definite diagnosis was made on his cause of death. Despite taking some action to control it, Chinese government officials did not inform the World Health Organization of the outbreak until February 2003. This lack of openness caused delays in efforts to control the epidemic, resulting in criticism of the People's Republic of China from the international community. China has since officially apologized for early slowness in dealing with the SARS epidemic.[16]
The first clue of the outbreak appears to be 27 November 2002 when Canada's Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), an electronic warning system that is part of the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak and Alert Response Network (GOARN), picked up reports of a "flu outbreak" in China through Internet media monitoring and analysis and sent them to the WHO. Importantly, while GPHIN's capability had recently been upgraded to enable Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish translation, the system was limited to English or French in presenting this information. Thus, while the first reports of an unusual outbreak were in Chinese, an English report was not generated until 21 January 2003.[17][17][18]
Subsequent to this, the WHO requested information from Chinese authorities on 5 and 11 December. Despite the successes of the network in previous outbreak of diseases, it was proven rather defective after receiving intelligence on the media reports from China several months after the outbreak of SARS. Along with the second alert, WHO released the name, definition, as well as an activation of a coordinated global outbreak response network that brought sensitive attention and containment procedures (Heymann, 2003). However, by then although the new definitions do give nations a guideline to contain SARS, over 500 deaths and an additional 2,000 cases had already occurred worldwide.[18]
In early April, after Jiang Yanyong pushed to report the danger to China,[19][20] there appeared to be a change in official policy when SARS began to receive a much greater prominence in the official media. Some have directly attributed this to the death of American James Earl Salisbury.[21] However, also in early April, accusations by Jiang Yanyong emerged regarding the undercounting of cases in Beijing military hospitals.[19][20] After intense pressure, Chinese officials allowed international officials to investigate the situation there. This revealed problems plaguing the aging mainland Chinese healthcare system, including increasing decentralization, red tape, and inadequate communication.
Many doctors and other medical staff in many nations heroically risked their lives treating patients and containing the infection before ways to prevent infection were known. Not all survived.[22]
Spread to other countries and regions
The epidemic reached the public spotlight in February 2003, when an American businessman traveling from China became afflicted with pneumonia-like symptoms while on a flight to Singapore. The plane stopped at Hanoi, Vietnam, where the victim died in The French Hospital of Hanoi. Several of the medical staff who treated him soon developed the same disease despite basic hospital procedures. Italian doctor Carlo Urbani identified the threat and communicated it to WHO and the Vietnamese government; he later succumbed to the disease.
The severity of the symptoms and the infection of hospital staff alarmed global health authorities fearful of another emergent pneumonia epidemic. On 12 March 2003, the WHO issued a global alert, followed by a health alert by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Local transmission of SARS took place in Toronto, Ottawa, San Francisco, Ulan Bator, Manila, Singapore, Taiwan, Hanoi and Hong Kong whereas within China it spread to Guangdong, Jilin, Hebei, Hubei, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Shanxi, Tianjin, and Inner Mongolia.
In Hong Kong, the first cohort of affected people were discharged from the hospital on 29 March 2003. The disease spread in Hong Kong from a mainland doctor who arrived in February and stayed at the ninth floor of the Metropole Hotel in Kowloon, infecting 16 of the hotel visitors. Those visitors traveled to Canada, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam, spreading SARS to those locations.[23]
Another larger cluster of cases in Hong Kong, China centred on the Amoy Gardens housing estate. Its spread is suspected to have been facilitated by defects in its drainage system. Concerned citizens in Hong Kong, China worried that information was not reaching people quickly enough and created a website called sosick.org, which eventually forced the Hong Kong government to provide information related to SARS in a timely manner.
Identification of virus
The CDC and Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory identified the SARS genome in April, 2003.[24][25] Scientists at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands demonstrated that the SARS coronavirus fulfilled Koch's postulates thereby confirming it as the causative agent. In the experiments, macaques infected with the virus developed the same symptoms as human SARS victims.[26]
In late May 2003, studies from samples of wild animals sold as food in the local market in Guangdong, China, found the SARS coronavirus could be isolated from masked palm civets (Paguma sp.), but the animals did not always show clinical signs. The preliminary conclusion was the SARS virus crossed the xenographic barrier from palm civet to humans, and more than 10,000 masked palm civets were killed in Guangdong Province. Virus was also later found in raccoon dogs (Nyctereuteus sp.), ferret badgers (Melogale spp.), and domestic cats. In 2005, two studies identified a number of SARS-like coronaviruses in Chinese bats.[27][28] Phylogenetic analysis of these viruses indicated a high probability that SARS coronavirus originated in bats and spread to humans either directly or through animals held in Chinese markets. The bats did not show any visible signs of disease, but are the likely natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses. In late 2006, scientists from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention of Hong Kong University and the Guangzhou Centre for Disease Control and Prevention established a genetic link between the SARS coronavirus appearing in civets and humans, bearing out claims that the disease had jumped across species.[29]
See also
- 2009 flu pandemic
- Bird flu
- MERS-CoV – Coronavirus discovered in June 2012 in Saudi Arabia
- Health crisis
- Jiang Yanyong
- Public health in the People's Republic of China
- SARS conspiracy theory
- Super-spreader
- Progress of the SARS outbreak
- Bat-borne virus
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Further reading
- Alan DL Sihoe; Randolph HL Wong; Alex TH Lee; Lee Sung Lau; Natalie Y. Y. Leung; Kin Ip Law; Anthony P. C. Yim (June 2004). "Severe acute respiratory syndrome complicated by spontaneous pneumothorax". Chest 125 (6): 2345–51. PMID 15189961. doi:10.1378/chest.125.6.2345.
- War Stories, Martin Enserink, Science 15 March 2013: 1264–1268. In 2003, the world successfully fought off a new disease that could have become a global catastrophe. A decade after the SARS outbreak, how much safer are we?
- SARS: Chronology of the Epidemic Martin Enserink, Science 15 March 2013: 1266–1271. In 2003, the world successfully fought off a new disease that could have become a global catastrophe. Here's what happened from the first case to the end of the epidemic.
- Understanding the Enemy, Dennis Normile, Science 15 March 2013: 1269–1273. Research sparked by the SARS outbreak increased the understanding of emerging diseases, though much remains to be learned.
External links
|Library resources about
Severe acute respiratory syndrome
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to SARS.
- Vaccine Research Center Information regarding preventative vaccine research studies
- MedlinePlus: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome News, links and information from The United States National Library of Medicine.
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Symptoms and treatment guidelines, travel advisory, and daily outbreak updates. From the World Health Organization (WHO).
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Information on the international outbreak of the illness known as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Provided by the US Centers for Disease Control
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Information on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) – For Health Professionals from the Public Health Agency of Canada.
- Life in Hong Kong during SARS – a gallery of images reflecting daily life in Hong Kong during the 2003 SARS outbreak.
- What we can learn from SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)—Lessons for Future Pandemics
- Virus Pathogen Database and Analysis Resource (ViPR): Coronaviridae
- Other
- NIOSH Topic Area: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- NIOSH Publication: Understanding Respiratory Protection Against SARS
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Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Haqqani is the leader of the worldwide Naqshbandi movement. He was born in Larnaca, Cyprus, on the 23rd of April 1922, a Sunday, the 28th of Shaban, 1340 AH. His lineage on his father's side traces its roots to Abd al-Qadir Jilani, founder of the Qadiri order. His lineage on his mother's side goes back to Jalal al-Din Rumi, founder of the Mevlevi order. In addition to being the current Grandshaykh of the Naqshbandi order, he is a shaykh and murshid (guide) of the Qadiri, Chishti, Kubrawi and Suhrawardi orders. The Naqshbandi Sufi Order is the largest and most widespread in the world. It strictly adheres to the Shariah and traces its transmission through the first caliph Abu Bakr Siddiq (r). It is the strongest of the main Sufi Orders in North America, England, Germany and the rest of Europe.
Shaykh Nazim grew up in Cyprus where he was known from a young age for holding an unusually high spiritual station. He learned Hanafi fiqh, hadith and tafsir until he was able to give legal rulings on a number of issues pertinent to his time. He completed his studies in jurisprudence in the Hanafi school of law at the Fahri Effendi Madressa. He had a gift for explaining difficult realities in clear and easy aphorisms.
In 1940, after completing school in Cyprus, he moved to Istanbul and studied under Shaykhs Jamal al-Din al-Lasuni (d. 1955) and Shaykh Sulayman Arzumi (d. 1946). He obtained a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Istanbul. Then, in 1944, he moved to Tripoli, Lebanon, where he was hosted by the mufti of Tripoli Shaykh Munir al-Malek. The next year he was in Damascus where he met Shaykh Abdullah Faiz al-Daghestani, thirty-ninth shaykh of the Naqshbandi chain of shaykhs, who made him his successor when he left this world in 1973.
Shaykh Nazim returned to Cyprus where he began a campaign to revive Islam in the face of intense pressure from the secularist Turkish government. He was jailed many times and at one point there were 114 cases brought by the state against him. During that time he spread the Naqshbandi tariqat over Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He moved back to Damascus in 1952 and married there.
Shaykh Nazim is known in Arab countries as Muhyi al-Sunna al-Nabawiyya [Reviver of the Way of the Prophet] and as Muayyid al-Din [Support of Religion]. He holds the middle course that is true Islam, between the batinyyat [permissiveness] of some groups and the tashhaddud [harshness] of others. He returns home overland through the Netherlands, Germany and Turkey teaching on the way.
Shaykh Nazim began to spread the teachings of Islam and the spiritual path of the Naqshbandiyyah to the West starting in 1974 when he took to traveling to London every year and spending the month of Ramadan there, until now. In 1986 he was called to travel to India-Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore. His followers among the rank and file of the Indian and Malay peoples number in hundreds of thousands. In 1991, he made his first journey to America. In this first trip he visited over fifteen states. He met many people of different beliefs and religions: Muslims, Christians, Jews, Sikhs, Buddhists, Hindus and New Age believers. Twenty-three mosques and centers were established for the Naqshbandi Order in North America in the wake of his visit. He made a second visit in 1993. Through him tens of thousands of people have entered Islam and taken initiation in the Naqshbandi order in America.
Many educated people come to America and Europe from the Muslim countries to take doctorates in Islam. They do not know that these universities cannot give them the knowledge and true spirit of Islam. These scholars are against Shaykhs and tariqah. They do not understand the profound contribution of tariqah to Islam. Large numbers of Muslims in India, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines. Bosnia, Chechnia, Daghestan and many other places have come to Islam through the sincere work of tariqah Shaykhs and spiritual leaders. Now, under Shaykh Nazim's leadership, thousands of western people are coming to Islam. His followers include many thousands of Germans, Dutch, English, French, Spanish, Italians, Americans and Canadians.
In October, 1993, Shaykh Nazim attended the rededication of the mosque and school of Imam Bukhari in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. He was the first in many generations of shaykhs in that line to be able to return to the heartland of the great Central Asian masters. His khalifa and representative in North America is his son-in-law, Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani.
In 1994 Shaykh Nazim visited Bosnia during the war. In 1996 Shaykh Nazim visited Russia and the following year visited Daghestan, Moldova and other former republics.
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A former Harvard miler, Amar Kuchinad, won Sunday's Giant Steps 5K in Amagansett, and Ashley West, 16, of East Hampton, was the women's winner, a "first" for her in this event. The road race, which benefits the Pediatric Dental Fund of the Hamptons, drew about 100 competitors, a record.
Last year, West, who runs cross-country and track at East Hampton High School, was the runner-up to Barbara Gubbins, though Gubbins, apparently because of work, wasn't at the starting line on Abram's Landing Road Sunday morning.
West's time was 21 minutes and 22 seconds, a personal record for her on this rolling course — and good for 12th over all among the 99 finishers. Kuchinad, 37, running at a brisk 5:52-per-mile pace, crossed the line in 18:10, eight seconds ahead of the 44-year-old Mike Bahel, owner of the Body Tech fitness centers in Amagansett and Montauk.
Kuchinad had good things to say about Bahel, the 56-year-old Mike Bottini (who placed fifth in 19:30), and West, all of whom had personal records that day, and all of whom are trained by John Conner, a former international-class miler and 800 runner who lives in Springs.
"We were together for the first mile and change," the winner said of the lead group, which also included Tim Donahue and Nicholas Monagan, the eventual third and fourth-place finishers. "Then he [Bahel] pulled ahead. It was a pretty fast second mile. In the hills, I squeaked by Mike and tried to hold it together for the rest of the way. These guys are fabulous."
When he heard Bahel was 44, Kuchinad said he hoped to be able to run as well at that age. "I love it out here," the New Yorker continued, adding that he will do the Run for Ron 10K at Amagansett's Fresh Pond Park this Saturday and Ellen's Run in Southampton on Aug. 21.
He had done the Run for Ron last year, Kuchinad said, finishing "fourth or fifth." This had been the first time he'd done Giant Steps. "Frankly," he said with a smile, "I was hoping the course would be flatter."
If it was flat he wanted, Bahel suggested he do the Shelter Island 5K on Oct. 16.
West, who has been training with Conner this summer and with Bill Herzog, East Hampton's former longtime varsity boys track coach, credited a pre-race talk with Conner as having enabled her to run a personal best.
"Bill has me run at knee height in the bay and sometimes on the track he'll have me pull a 30-pound sled," West said, adding that she had expected Gubbins, who's 51, but still very competitive in local races, to come Sunday. "She would have pushed me."
Gubbins won among the women in this race last year (and was third over all) in 19:34.
While his 19:30 was 28 seconds faster than he'd done at the 2010 Giant Steps, Bottini said he was "still going after the elusive sub-19. . . . I think I could do it on a flat course."
Kuchinad said he'd run the Fifth Avenue Mile last fall in 4:51, "which I felt pretty good about until I heard a 54-year-old had done a 4:33!"
The East Hampton Sports Camp was well represented, putting five counselors — Nick Monagan (who finished fourth in 19:17), Ben Latham, Jamie Tulp, Cory Lillie, and Miranda Lustig — on the line.
"This is the first year they're offering a cup to the winning camp team," said Mark Crandall's Sports Camp partner, Eric Scoppetta. "And we were the only camp that entered."
"There are no other camps," Latham chimed in.
Crandall, whose Hoops 4 Hope mentoring program in Zimbabwe and South Africa is to benefit from a fund-raising party "with a great African band" at the Sportime tennis club in Amagansett this Saturday, was also among Sunday's spectators.
On the way to the awards ceremony behind the Amagansett Firehouse, Crandall said that the organization's Zimbabwe director, Ngoni Mukukula, would receive Hoops 4 Hope's Ubuntu award this year, thus joining past recipients Larry Brown, Doc Rivers, and Bobbito Garcia.
Giant Steps' age-group winners were Evan Boccia, 7, and his sister Olivia, 9, in the 9-and-under group; John Weed and Melissa Greenblatt in the 13-to-19s; Monagan and Emily Landeck in the 20-29s; John Nehme and Deanna Angello in the 30-39s; Bahel and Kimberly McAdam in the 40-49s; Bottini and Jean Mitchell in the 50-59s, and Paul Maidment and Elizabeth Sadoff in the 60-69s.
Maidment, who's from East Hampton, also bettered his 2010 time that day, placing 17th over all in 22:58 (a 7:25 pace). He was overhead to say, "Just finishing is an achievement" on receiving his award.


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Studio b. is coming back and it will be bigger and better than ever, said owner Colleen Duffley.
"We'll have a cafe, a full-time culinary school and full-time staff," she said excitedly over the phone. "It's going to be a new b."
As a freelance photographer and creative director, Duffley has been lending her artistic talents to national brands doing everything from photo and commercial shoots, branding and logos. She's traveled extensively around the world for her job, but when work brought her to 30A, she knew she wanted to create a home-base in the area.
"I shot Seaside for 'Southern Living' and fell in love with it," Duffley said. "I had a studio in Dallas and thought 30A would be a great escape."
Wanting to bring the "big city art" Duffley is exposed to regularly while working, she founded Studio b., "an artist's colony" in 2005.
"We brought artists to this area that had never even been to the U.S., we were once called 'The Sundance of the South,' " Duffley said referring to annual independent film festival. "It raised the bar for creative people in the area."
While the Studio b. name has lived on through events and traveling art shows, the brick and mortar location closed in 2011.
"Just as we were hitting our stride, the oil spill hit. We started the most amazing idea in the worst economy," Duffley explained. "We decided to close the location to rebuild and relocate a bigger, better b. I still get emails daily saying 'I miss Studio B.'"
The wait is almost over as Duffley is currently working the location and design of the new Studio B.
The actual building will be a work of art, with a nod to modern architecture and sustainable living, the new space will be made of old storage containers. Duffley even came up with a new motto to match, "Creativity Contained." On the rooftop, she plans to have a garden.
"I acquired most of the containers fairly locally," she said. "I had to search and search for the ones I wanted. Repurposing is such a great way to highlight one of the philosophies of Studio b., which is to be aware and be mindful of environment."
The construction and planning of the new Studio b. will be well documented as Duffley and crew will be filming the entire process.
"It's really amazing," she said. " By mid-2014 I hope to be up and running."
For those unfamiliar with the old b., the studio will offer art and culinary classes as well as a few children's classes.
"Our mission has always been whether you've never done it before or you do it for a living, we have classes for you," Duffley said.
The space will also serve as a gallery and overall creative meeting space for all levels of skill. The accomplishments Studio B. has already achieved � and the prospect of new beginnings � makes Duffley proud, she said.
"It's like the adult's version of recess," she said. "It's a playground for your imagination. Studio b. has proven to a lot of people that they have creativity in them. It also connects people and lets them do things they don't normally get to do."


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[This review from the Monitor's archives first ran on Jan. 5, 2009.] In A World of Trouble, New York Times chief correspondent Patrick Tyler distills 25 years of journalistic experience and a mountain of declassified government documents into an erudite, unusually eloquent analysis of a half century of United States policy toward the Middle East.
Don't expect, however, to be heartened by what you will read here. "After nearly six decades of escalating American involvement in the Middle East, it remains nearly impossible to discern any overarching approach to the region," writes Tyler. "What stands out is the absence of consistency from one president to the next, as if the hallmark of American diplomacy were discontinuity."
Relying on information newly made available from presidential archives, Tyler takes readers on a tour of American relations with the Middle East from the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower through that of George W. Bush.
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But where Tyler particularly excels is in tackling the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, a thorny subject that assumes center stage for several chapters. Though there have been the occasional breakthroughs in reconciliation efforts – principally the Carter-brokered Camp David Accords – Tyler sees the timidity of some US presidents in the face of Israeli hawkishness as a major impediment to lasting peace.
For example, Tyler notes that President Johnson did not demand that Israel give up its 1967 conquests. Decades later, during the Clinton era, Tyler writes, "American constancy suffered as Clinton allowed his administration to cave to Netanyahu's demands to wipe the slate on which Rabin had charted a path to comprehensive peace and reconciliation."
The US approach to Iraq, which Tyler dissects in meticulous fashion throughout the book, provides another example of baffling inconsistency. Ronald Reagan ended up supporting both sides in the Iran-Iraq War; George H.W. Bush encouraged Shiites to revolt against Saddam Hussein in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, then failed to come to their aid; Bill Clinton dithered on supporting CIA-organized Iraqi coup plotters, which led to the compromise of the operation and the deaths of the plotters; and George W. Bush invaded Iraq without planning for the postwar period.
But Tyler does not restrict himself to presidential blunders. He pointedly assails the machinations of several cabinet members as well.
Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon's secretary of State, emerges as a master manipulator who secretly encouraged the Israelis to violate a cease-fire with the Soviet-backed Egyptians during the October war of 1973. He even withheld an offer Nixon entrusted him with delivering to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, in which the US president proposed a joint superpower initiative to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict.
According to Tyler, "Kissinger's argument [was] that Israel had to win so the Soviets would lose," and he allowed this conviction to overrule Nixon's directives and the entire principle of superpower détente.
Kissinger was not the only one who abused his power, Tyler charges. Secretary of State Alexander Haig, he says, circumvented President Reagan in extending US support to Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
Like Kissinger, Haig wanted to crush anyone associated with the Soviets; for Haig, that meant allowing Israel to ride roughshod over Lebanon in pursuit of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Reagan eventually reasserted control and sent US Marines to Lebanon as peacekeepers, but they were subjected to a terrorist attack in 1983.
When Reagan ordered retaliation against Iranian-backed Hezbollah, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, unsure of the identity of the culprits, did not implement the order.
There are a few shortcomings in "A World of Trouble."
Tyler discusses only those presidential administrations – beginning with Eisenhower's – that coincided with war or turmoil in the Middle East.
For information on US-Saudi Arabia relations, he relies too heavily on Prince Bandar bin Sultan, former Saudi ambassador to the US. And he criticizes President Carter's reluctance to interfere in Iranian domestic affairs by arguing – without apparent irony – that the US and Britain had always meddled in Iran.
But these are minor.
Regrettably, there is no concluding chapter to this book. But Tyler's recommendations – consistency in US foreign policy, continuous engagement with the Middle East, a more balanced approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict, accommodation with the Islamic world combined with an unwavering commitment to punishing terrorists who attack US interests – are forcefully expressed throughout.
Serendipitously, the publication of "A World of Trouble" coincides with the beginning of a new presidency. President-elect Barack Obama and his incoming administration enjoy the perfect opportunity to heed Tyler's sound advice.
Rayyan Al-Shawaf is a writer and freelance reviewer based in Beirut, Lebanon.


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This year's election has attracted more candidates than Massachusetts has seen in a long time. We believe each of them deserves the chance to speak directly to the voters about whatever issues they want to put on the table. Each Sunday, we're offering candidates on the ballot in contested races space for a brief statement of their choosing.
This year's election has attracted more candidates than Massachusetts has seen in a long time. We believe each of them deserves the chance to speak directly to the voters about whatever issues they want to put on the table. Each Sunday, we're offering candidates on the ballot in contested races space for a brief statement of their choosing.
Mary Z. Connaughton
Republican for State auditor
Ever wonder who holds the State Auditor accountable?
The National Association of State Auditors conducts peer review to determine if a state auditor's system of quality control is sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that the office's organizational structure, policies and procedures conform with generally accepted government auditing standards.
Many states post the peer review reports online, yet there is no such report, that I can find, on the website of the Massachusetts State Auditor.
There should be.
As State Auditor, I will require annual peer reviews by the National Association of State Auditors and will post the reports online immediately. No government office should be exempt from public scrutiny; the people simply must know how the State's top fiscal watchdog is performing.
Ed Markey
Democrat for Congress
7th District
MetroWest Medical Center has provided MetroWest families with top quality health care close to home for generations. It is a jewel in the fabric of the local community. That is why when I learned that MetroWest Medical Center was on the brink of closure due to inadequate reimbursement rates from insurers, I sprang into action. I worked closely with CEO, Andrei Soran, hospital staff, private insurers, local, state and federal officials to successfully keep the doors of MetroWest open. I will continue to fight to ensure that MetroWest Medical Center gets the fair treatment it needs to continue offering excellent medical care. I am proud that my support was helpful in protecting the critical health services that MetroWest Medical provides to the local community, and I look forward to seeing MetroWest Medical continuing to thrive now and into the future.
For more information, please visit my website at www.edmarkey.org or visit me on Facebook at "The Ed Markey Committee."
Jamie Eldridge
Democrat for State Senate
Middlesex & Worcester District
A frustration many voters have with Beacon Hill is that special interests have too much influence on our public policy decisions. This is a frustration I share, which is why I have worked hard to limit the influence special interests have. For example, last session I proposed an anti-pay-to-play law, which would prevent companies seeking business from the state from making campaign contributions. I also fought to require disclosure of corporate campaign expenditures in Massachusetts elections.
When necessary, I have not been afraid to take on special interests that are an obstacle to progress. I led the fight to make public the refundable tax breaks given to corporations, so we ensure that taxpayer dollars are being wisely-spent to create jobs. I also stood up to Senate leadership, labor unions, and casino developers and their dozens of lobbyists in opposing expanding gambling because it was the right thing to do.
Karen Spilka
Democrat for State Senate
2nd Middlesex and Norfolk District
Jobs. It's the word on everyone's mind these days. It's on my mind as well, both as Chair of the Economic Development Committee and as the Senator for a thriving economic region.
Despite tough times, we in the legislature have made some real progress in job creation for MetroWest. The life sciences bill included $12.9 million for Framingham - an investment predicted to create over 1,000 jobs. There was $1.3 million for Natick that will create 500 new jobs. A $2.5 million grant for Hopkinton will result in 125 new jobs and that money, plus $3.1 million for Medway will put the infrastructure in place for many more.
Through my years of public service I have developed an understanding of how government can help businesses get the resources they need to expand and grow. I don't rest - and I won't rest - until the MetroWest gets the resources it deserves.
Ed McGrath
Republican for State Senate
2nd Middlesex and Norfolk District
The sad recent, history of the legislature's chronic ethical lapses and its response to those lapses prove that we need new people in the legislature. Three house speakers have been indicted, two convicted. One state senator was caught stuffing cash in her bra, another convicted and jailed for OUI and a third awaits trial for assaulting women in Lowell.
Unbelievably, the legislature responded by imposing more open meeting law mandates on towns like Framingham, while ensuring that these requirements don't apply to the legislature. This is exactly the kind of hypocrisy that has destroyed confidence in state government.
If I am elected to the state senate, I will work to end the new requirements on our local governments and make the open meeting law applicable to the legislature.
Kate Hogan
Democrat for State Rep
3rd Middlesex District
I ran my first election as an advocate for small business and I am proud of the legislation enacted in my first term. The legislation was aimed at creating a consistent and stable small business environment in Massachusetts, it reformed our approach to economic development and addressed the high cost of small business health insurance, offering at least a partial roadmap for economic recovery and a revitalized state economy.
From a bill allowing restaurants to serve alcohol at Sunday Brunch; to The Economic Development Bill, aimed at making Massachusetts a great place to do business; to The Small Business Health Coverage Bill, establishing purchasing cooperatives to keep costs down, we have taken significant steps toward making Massachusetts a great place to do business. We all know how important small businesses are to our economic health. I look forward to continuing my efforts to create a small-business-friendly environment in the Commonwealth.
Danielle Gregoire
Democrat for State Rep
4th Middlesex District
Throughout this campaign, I have focused on my accomplishments and agenda for coming sessions. My opponent has relentlessly attacked my record and my character. He has pointed to half-truths, ignored facts, and spouted party rhetoric in order to tarnish what I have achieved. Repeatedly, I have been labeled as a party insider, a minion of the Speaker, and a liar. I resent these implications and implore the residents of Berlin, Marlborough and Southborough to seek the truth.
I have voted against party leadership on many issues this session, including my first budget as State Representative because it contained too many new taxes. Every vote I take is with the sole purpose of seeking the best result for this district. This race should be about issues and facts, not about slant and soundbites, I intend to continue to run it that way. I challenge my opponent to do the same.
Steven Levy
Republican for State Rep
4th Middlesex District
Transparency in government is something many candidates promise but often fail to deliver. The citizens of the Commonwealth should know what is going on in state government at all times. They have a right to know where every dollar comes from and how it is spent. Government only improves when citizens are reading the bills, know their representative's voting record on legislation, and communicate with their government officials in an honest and respectful dialogue about what is best for both the district and the state as a whole.
As your representative, I want to make access to information easier for residents. I will advocate for informative, user-friendly web sites, I will hold regular office hours throughout the district to address your questions and concerns, I will be in constant contact with local officials to keep them abreast of current issues, and I will publish quarterly e-newsletters with news from the statehouse.
Chris Walsh
Democrat for State Rep
6th Middlesex District
Framingham is a diverse community with rural, suburban and urban areas, historic districts, technology parks, mountaintop homes, ranches and low-income housing, names from old town maps and those that represent centuries of legal immigration. We have it all. Residents point to diversity with pride but it's also our toughest problem. Framingham hasn't always worked well together, competing factions often keep us from moving forward in a unified, intelligent fashion despite generations of dedicated volunteers.
I face two unenrolled candidates who represent factions of disaffected residents - often with justification, but it's not enough to represent only one group or clique; solving serious economic and social problems will take bringing everyone to the table - working for a common goal. My campaign is inclusive; understanding that focusing on common goals bridge divisions. The list of campaign supporters at www.ElectChrisWalsh tells it all - I am a serious candidate for all of Framingham.
Jim Rizoli
Independent for State Rep
6th Middlesex District
Here is part two of what I stand for:
We are at the gangrene stage in Framingham, and some good old amputation has to take place in order to survive.
The first deep cut has to happen with all the incumbents who go along with the "let's all just get along" philosophy.
The good news is, it was accomplished with Pam Richardson losing to Chris Walsh, which hopefully is just the beginning, but we need more.
We need to get all the incumbents out of office and put people in that stand for honor, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law.
We want people that will be staunch fighters for freedom of speech, and will defend your right to speak your mind, no matter how wrong people might view you, or your thoughts on some matters.
Time to take our government back.
Jim Pillsbury
Independent for State Rep
6th Middlesex District
After elected, I plan to seek common ground with those just elected who believe in a complete open and ethical State House. I believe the majority of the recently elected representatives want to earn back the trust of the voters in passing what voters want, an all inclusive ethics bill. If the house leadership opposes the majority in its efforts to pass immediate ethics reform, new house leadership that supports the will of the voter should be elected. After the playing field is level, I would seek out those who will support a forensic audit of every department, completely ending pension abuse and fraud and make the majority of what Beacon Hill does and records, open to the public at no charge and on-line.
Making sure that Framingham can reel in health care costs for its employees, and resolve the placement of social services are issues I will support.
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David Mercer
Republican for State Rep
7th Middlesex District
We need our state government to be accountable to perform its duties in the interest of the people. It seems that it has become too easy for the Beacon Hill incumbents to neglect the people in the electorate. In order to bring meaningful positive change to our state and to our community this must change. New people with new ideas need to be allowed to work to correct problems which have hindered economic growth in our area. We cannot continue the failing tax and spend policies which have yielded a dangerous deficit. To delay change in our state legislature will only intensify the problem as time moves on.
I would like to have the opportunity to work for the people of Framingham and Ashland in the legislature. I believe 2010 is a great year for a change in the direction of the state government. Let's be a part of that together.
Tom Sannicandro
Democrat for State Rep
7th Middlesex District
One of most common concerns I hear as I travel around Framingham and Ashland is the rising cost of health care in the Commonwealth, particularly for small businesses. I'm pleased to say that hope is on the way for small businesses struggling with rising health care premiums.
I was proud to support the Small Business Health Care bill signed by the Governor last August. This important bill will not only save small businesses up to 12 percent on insurance premiums, but will allow employers to pool their resources to purchase their insurance as a cooperative. In addition, it will enable more small employers to implement their own wellness programs, creating workplace incentives to improve employee health and lower health care costs.
Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy, and as Representative I will continue fighting to make sure MetroWest small businesses have access to quality, affordable health insurance.
Carolyn Dykema
Democrat for State Rep
8th Middlesex District
There are currently thousands of Massachusetts soldiers on active military duty, many serving overseas. When these soldiers return they face challenges unique to their generation and to today's wars, and they need our support.
On the Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs, I have heard powerful stories about the disabling affects of PTSD from repeated tours in intense combat, traumatic brain injury from improvised explosive devices, and limited employment and housing options upon return home. We can't let veterans and their families face these challenges alone.
While Massachusetts is top in the nation for veterans programs, there is more we can do to give returning veterans the support they need to transition back into civilian life.
It was an honor to co-sponsor and help pass legislation that begins to address these needs, but there's more to do. As your representative, I will continue to advocate for the needs of our veterans.
Jennifer Callahan
Democrat for State Rep
18th Worcester District
Being a strong proponent of increased government transparency and accountability, I am proud of the town of Bellingham's e-Government Awards "for access to local government via the internet" by Common Cause. I believe people have a right to access state government no differently than local government. This is especially true concerning how taxpayer dollars are budgeted and spent.
Massachusetts was one of only 14 states not having a transparent budget website. This year the Legislature finally passed a major victory for the public calling for the creation of a comprehensive budget website to include information about expenditures, grants, tax credits, subsidies and contracts. Soon the public will have direct access with a click of a mouse from any computer. I worked hard to help lead this effort whereby citizens will no longer have to file a Freedom of Information Act to request basic budget information.
For more information visit: repcallahan.com/voice.
Ryan Fattman
Republican for State Rep
18th Worcester District
The most important issue Massachusetts faces for its future is building its economy. Deval Patrick and Rep. Callahan want you to look at the last 12 months, and think things are getting better. They are not. I ask you to look at the last 12 years.
From 1998 to 2008, Massachusetts had no job growth. While most of New England added jobs to its economy, we added taxes to the 7th highest burden in our nation. In this recession, according to the NFIB, Rep. Callahan and Deval Patrick increased taxes by $400 million on businesses.
To grow jobs, we need lower taxes on businesses and families, and to implement a year moratorium on all new regulations to find out what's working, and what's not. Lowering the income tax like people voted for in 2000 would also help grow jobs, as studies show small business would use the extra income to hire 19-25K new employees. This is the way forward - not Rep. Callahan and Deval Patrick increasing taxes.


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But now, Jackie's coming to her mom's defense -- adding, "She's like a superwoman pretty much" ... "My mother does not need to justify herself."
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An international superstar whose appeal spans not only Western Europe but also Latin America, Eros Ramazzotti is an Italian singer/songwriter with a distinctive voice and a wide-ranging pop/rock style that encompasses everything from adult contemporary to classical crossover. He initially established himself as a chart-topping twentysomething pop star in the mid-'80s before growing ever more sophisticated as a singer/songwriter over time, remaining remarkably successful from both a critical and commercial standpoint in the process.
Born on October 28, 1963, in Rome, Italy, Ramazzotti began his recording career in the early '80s in association with the DDD label. While he made his commercial debut in 1982 with the one-off single "Ad un Amico," his big break came in 1984 when he won Newcomer of the Year at the Sanremo Music Festival with his song "Terra Promessa." Released as a single that same year, "Terra Promessa" became a breakout hit for Ramazzotti and led to the release of his full-length album debut, Cuori Agitati (1985), which spawned another significant early hit single, "Una Storia Importante." The first of Ramazzotti's international hits, "Una Storia Importante" was not only a chart-topping smash hit in Italy, where it was showcased by Ramazzotti at the 1985 Sanremo Music Festival; it was also a smash hit in neighboring France, where it spent three weeks at number two on the singles chart, and in Switzerland, where it reached the Top Ten. "Adesso Tu," performed at the 1986 Sanremo Music Festival, was another significant hit with international appeal.
In addition to these early hit singles, Ramazzotti proved popular as an album artist, with Nuovi Eroi (1986), In Certi Momenti (1987), and In Ogni Senso (1990) all reaching number one on the Italian albums chart and the Top Ten elsewhere in Europe. Ramazzotti took his career to the next level in 1993 with Tutte Storie, the first of his albums to be released in Spanish (as Todo Historias) as well as Italian. The album was a hit throughout Western Europe, as was the single "Cose della Vita" (his first bilingual hit), and Ramazzotti took his supporting tour to Latin America for the first time, performing in over a dozen countries there. Moreover, Ramazzotti negotiated a worldwide distribution deal with BMG, another pivotal step in building his international fan base. His next album, Dove C'è Musica (1996), capitalized on the enormity of his fast-growing fan base, topping the charts throughout much of Western Europe and spawning the international smash hit "Più Bella Cosa."
At the height of his success, Ramazzotti took a four-year break from album-making, releasing only the greatest-hits compilation Eros (1997), for which he re-recorded early hits such as "Terra Promessa" and "Una Storia Importante." After the turn of the century Ramazzotti returned with Stilelibero (2000), 9 (2003), and Calma Apparente (2005), a trilogy of chart-topping albums with a more sophisticated, adult-oriented style. Then came E2 (2007), another greatest-hits compilation for which he recorded new versions of past hits, this time collaboratively, and included a few new songs, most notably "Non Siamo Soli," a chart-topping smash hit collaboration with Ricky Martin. Ramazzotti's next album, Ali e Radici (2009), was another commercial blockbuster, topping the Italian charts for six weeks straight and spawning the international hit "Parla con Me."
2010 saw the release of the live album 21.00: Eros Live World Tour 2009/2010, recorded on Ramazzotti's world tour in support of Ali e Radici, the album featured two discs of greatest hits from Ramazzotti's back catalogue. Two years later, Mis Mejores Canciones de Amor (2012) was released, collecting together fourteen of Ramazzotti's most popular Spanish language love songs.~ Jason Birchmeier
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Meat Pie (Tourtiere)
This recipe is for 2 pies. On average each pie will have 2 pounds of meat (1 pound beef & 1 pound of pork). Multiply it out to make larger batches. While you can of course make your own dough for the pie crust it is simpler (especially if doing a larger batch of say 10-20 pies at once) to just buy the boxes of no name frozen 9 inch pie tins (come 2 to a box normally. Then by the Pillsbury ready-made pie crust tops. They come 2 to a box also.
Ingredients: - 2 lbs. medium ground beef
- 2 lbs. lean ground pork
- 2 medium potatoes
- 1 large onion
- 1 teaspoon garlic (minced)
- Sage (to taste)
- Poultry seasoning (to taste)
- Salt & Pepper (to taste)
- Trio mix (gravy thickener) 1 teaspoon
Preparation: 1) Peel, cut and boil potatoes (mashed potatoes style). When done drain water and hold in a bowl (may need it later). Mash the potatoes well & hold till needed.
2) Finely chop the onion and cook in a large greased pan.
3) Mix both the beef and pork together well and start cooking in the pan when onions are cooked down.
4) Once the meat starts browning add the seasonings.
5) If the meat appears to be too dry, add some of the potatoe water you held on to.
6) Once meat is completely browned add in the mashed potatoes and mix well.
7) Add Trio mix (gravy thickener).
8) Fill 9 inch pie shells, water the top edges of the pie shell crust, and place the top crust on the pie (cut away extra) and using a fork crimp the edges of the top to the pie shell base.
9) Bake at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes (until crust is golden brown). Then place in zip lock freezer bags to store. De-thaw and re-heat as needed.
The other great thing was that my aunt Florence had agreed to let me go through all her photographs and see if there were any (especially older one) that I wanted to copy. So I brought my mobile scanner and a pad of paper and copied about 60 pictures. Included in there were some I had never seen before including one old one of their father (my grandpa Wilfrid Lafleur) standing in front of the truck he use to own. I was able to copy it and then repair it. \I will have to make copies for all the other family members that will want it.


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