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"Financial support for MURDERERS!" yells a ponytailed man holding an American flag.
"Are you going to blow up our daycare centers?" a woman shouts nearby.
On a quiet, residential Margate street, roughly a hundred angry protesters gather outside an unassuming white building adorned with a rounded green dome and a small gold crescent.
Men and women drape themselves in flags, holding signs that say "Shut Down the Mosque" and "Taliban Imam." In the warm June evening, police wrap crime-scene tape around the mosque.
On the other side of the fence, a television news camera zooms in on a bemused-looking man in a white tunic and matching hat, arms folded across his chest, his mouth an unreadable line.
Weeks earlier, FBI agents arrested Izhar Khan, imam of the Masjid Jamaat Al-Mu'mineen mosque. Police leveled charges of providing funding and material support to the Pakistani Taliban on the 24-year-old Khan; his 76-year-old father, Hafiz Khan, who is the imam at the Flagler Mosque in Miami; three other family members; and an unrelated Pakistani man. Their arrests shocked the local Muslim community and left two prominent spiritual leaders in solitary confinement awaiting trial.
John Gillies, special agent in charge of the FBI's Miami office, was careful not to implicate the mosque or its members in the criminal case. "I remind everyone that the Muslim and Arab-American members of our community should never be judged by the illegal activities of a few," he said in a written statement.
But protesters from groups such as the Tea Party of Fort Lauderdale and the Coral Springs-based Americans Against Hate remain unswayed.
A pale man with glasses and a grave expression steps up to the podium. "We believe that things that are unsavory and unacceptable to this community are being done, and we want the answers," he tells the cheering crowd.
Such is the logic of anti-Islam groups that have become increasingly visible in Florida: Last year, a Gainesville pastor burned a Qur'an, and the Florida Family Association persuaded Lowe's to pull advertising from the TLC reality show All-American Muslim. In Boynton Beach, the construction of a new mosque prompted protests, and Broward County Republicans refused to allow a local Muslim activist to join their executive board. The call to shut down the Margate mosque is the latest example of backlash against South Florida's roughly 90,000 Muslims. Nezar Hamze, executive director of the local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), says, "Unfortunately South Florida is developing into a pit of anti-Islam bigotry."
Now, with two of their beloved spiritual leaders accused of supporting terrorism, Muslim civic activists are trying to remake their image in the larger community.
Masjid board President Yazid Ali faces the news cameras. "We don't support terrorism," he says. "We're Americans."
Just before 6 a.m. on May 14, 2011, FBI agents surrounded a single-story, flat-roofed building that could be mistaken for a private home. Despite its humble appearance, the Flagler Mosque is one of the oldest in Miami. As the men inside began their morning prayer, they heard a loud banging on the door, congregant Sayeed Shamin Akhtar told NPR.
An FBI agent removed his shoes and strode into the prayer hall. He grabbed a stooped, elderly man with a long white beard by the hand. "You're coming with me," the agent told imam Hafiz Khan.
Forty-five miles north in Margate, police cruisers and federal agents blocked the entrance to the mosque on Holiday Springs Boulevard before the morning prayer began.
"They pointed the guns at the entire mosque," says 19-year-old Shan, who can't hide the outrage in his voice. Shan, who declined to give his last name, used to play basketball with Izhar. He's now one of many teenagers struggling to reconcile the role model they knew with the man accused of supporting terrorism.
The 20-page federal indictment against the Khans includes damning allegations. Members of the conspiracy are accused of sending money to the Pakistani Taliban, financing the purchase of guns, and sending children from an Islamic school to learn to kill Americans in Afghanistan. Their ultimate goal, according to the indictment, was to help the Taliban overthrow the Pakistani government and establish shari'a — strict Islamic — law there.
Federal prosecutors say the Pakistani Taliban is allied with al Qaeda and has been involved in numerous attacks against America, including a December 2009 suicide attack on a U.S. military base in Afghanistan that killed seven Americans, an April 2010 suicide bombing against the U.S. consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan, and the attempted Times Square bombing in May 2010. Last May, the group claimed responsibility for suicide attacks that killed at least 80 people at a military training facility in northwestern Pakistan.
The indictment portrays the white-haired Hafiz Khan — who has lived in the United States since 1996 — as ringleader of the alleged conspiracy to support the Pakistani Taliban. He founded a madrassa, an Islamic school, in Pakistan before moving to the United States and has sent children there to learn to kill Americans in Afghanistan, prosecutors allege. In conversations recorded by the FBI, he's accused of calling for an attack on the Pakistani Assembly and the death of that country's president. When he heard that mujahideen — radical Islamic militants fighting to overthrow the government in Afghanistan — had killed seven Americans, he allegedly wished that "God bring death to 50,000 more." He and his sons are accused of sending more than $50,000 to support the Pakistani Taliban.
Yet his son Izhar merits only a few sentences in the indictment. On June 11, 2009, Hafiz Khan allegedly asked Izhar to collect money from a donor in the United States that was to be used for the mujahideen. Five days later, Izhar wired $900 to his sister Amina in Pakistan.
Izhar and Hafiz Khan have both pleaded not guilty and are being held in solitary confinement in a federal detention center.
Khurrum Wahid, the Margate attorney representing Hafiz Khan, calls Izhar a sweet, outgoing guy who likes basketball and sent money to his sister at his dad's direction. As for Izhar's father, Wahid (pronounced WAH-head) says the case against Hafiz Khan is based on rhetoric — the rants of an older man talking to his children. "Does rhetoric make you a terrorist?" Wahid asks.
The Khans allegedly began sending money to the Pakistani Taliban beginning around April 2008, two years before the Pakistani Taliban was labeled a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. According to the indictment, the money transfers continued until at least November 2010.
Interestingly, the Khans were not arrested for six more months. The feds finally cuffed the imams in May, shortly after Osama bin Laden was killed and the world turned its attention to the people who harbored terrorists in Pakistan.
Women arrive for Friday prayer at the Jamaat Al-Mu'mineen mosque with traditional headscarfs, hijabs, covering their hair and necks and layers of shimmery fabric concealing their bodies. Friday is the most important prayer day of the week in Islam, similar to Sunday for Christians.
There are separate entrances to the mosque, one door for men and one for women. A man who days earlier attended a hearing in the Khan case stops to welcome a visitor, making sure she knows where to go. Older ladies smile and welcome her with the traditional greeting, As-Salaam-Alaikum — peace be unto you — before slipping off their shoes and entering the building.
Upstairs, the women's prayer hall is a windowless room with green striped carpeting. A small sign on the wall urges: "Sisters: No eat/drink/speak in prayer hall!!"
Sweet-smelling lotion and soap perfume the room. Roughly 50 women sit in rows on the carpet, some cross-legged, others leaning against the walls, keeping their eyes down as they listen to the imam preach. His service downstairs is broadcast on TV screens mounted on the wall. In Islam, there is a tradition of men and women praying separately to avoid being distracted by the opposite sex.
Some of the women wear all black, but others have red, gold, and turquoise scarves. Toddlers babble and wander around the room. One little girl, with dark curly hair and a mischievous grin, keeps trying to play with the vacuum cleaner as the adults turn and kneel toward Mecca. In the back of the room, teenagers cluster and peek at their cell phones. Lying on a nearby wooden shelf is an informational pamphlet titled "Women's Rights in Islam — Respected, Honored, Cherished."
On the TV screen, the imam preaches about devotees failing to follow religious laws in their daily lives. He scolds them for sacrificing Muslim rules of modesty to fit in with American society — shaving their beards and changing their clothes to go out in public or fly on a plane. "This is what we do," he says in disapproving tones.
Later, he provides a legal update. Defense attorneys had been to the mosque weeks earlier to update them on the Khan case, and the trial is scheduled for November. "Inshallah, this case it will take approximately six weeks," the imam says. "Let us... pray for imam Izhar and his family to resolve this sooner than later."
The women in the prayer hall register no reaction to this announcement, listening as quietly as they have throughout the service.
In the days after the Khans were first arrested, the civil rights division at South Florida's chapter of CAIR received a stream of complaints. The masjid in Margate, the Flagler Mosque, and Masjid An-Noor in Miami all said they received hate mail. Flagler Mosque got two hate calls, along with a van parked outside with a sign that read, "This place needs to be razed down."
When first questioned about the impact of the arrests on the community, Hamze can't recall anything but the spike in hate mail and phone calls. Then he remembers the Margate protest. "Obviously the hate groups use the Khan case," he admits.
Hamze's group, CAIR, is a nonprofit that protects civil rights and promotes understanding about Islam. It doesn't help his cause to discuss Muslims being scared away from mosques or worried about having their phones tapped. Instead, he highlights the good news: no violence, no chaos. "We really grounded the community and explained the [legal] process to them," he said.
After the arrests last summer, he says, members of the community launched a statewide initiative, the Florida Muslim Congress, aimed at teaching Muslim leaders about terrorism laws and organizations. The goal is to help ordinary citizens work with law enforcement officials and avoid being accidentally linked to extremists. "OK, I'm sending money home to my family; what do I need to know?" Hamze explains.
"We can help avoid situations like we have here with the imams," he says. "This is the Muslim community dealing with issues that we need to deal with."
Growing up in South Florida, 35-year-old Hamze developed a remarkable tolerance for bigotry. When he worked as a manager for a company that sells cars, his coworkers didn't realize he was Muslim. They saw his clean-shaven face and fair skin and assumed it was fine to badmouth the religion in front of him. He says he listened quietly and used the opportunity to talk about diversity with his staff. But when he told them he was Muslim, he remembers with a laugh, they looked "like they just saw a ghost."
Since becoming head of CAIR in 2009, Hamze has received more than his share of vitriol from anti-Islam politicians. At a town hall meeting in 2010, he stood up to question U.S. Rep. Allen West, the congressman from Plantation who has called Islam "a totalitarian, theocratic, political ideology." That night, West added salt to the wound with a reference to 9/11. "The people that flew those planes into buildings were shouting 'Allahu Akbar,' " or God is great, he said.
Hamze tried to argue with him. "You've attacked Islam — " he began.
But West shouted him down. "You attacked us!" he said, and the crowd of West supporters cheered.
"It hurts," Hamze says now. "I can't describe the feeling of having 300 to 400 people yelling and screaming at you."
Last fall, Hamze again tried to reason with his opponents. He applied to join the Broward Republican Executive Committee, noting that he agrees with many GOP values. But roughly 200 people packed a committee meeting to make sure he was not voted onto the board. They shouted "terrorist" and "you're in al Qaeda."
Joe Kaufman, head of the anti-Islam group Americans Against Hate, led the charge against Hamze. "They humiliated me in front of everybody," Hamze says. "They made a mockery of themselves." Yet he prided himself on remaining stone-faced. "I just keep it inside and know that I have to have patience."
In Islam, one of the paths to salvation is to "keep your mouth closed," he says.
It's a teaching many locals seem to take to heart. Leaders of the Margate mosque have remained largely quiet, except for a statement released the day Izhar Khan was arrested. "We would like everyone to know that there are no charges against Masjid Jamaat Al Mu'mineen for any wrongdoing, and we are cooperating with all the authorities involved in the case," he said. "We would like everyone to know that Masjid Jamaat Al Mu'mineen does not support terrorism, for this is forbidden in Islam. The Qur'an clearly tells us, 'Do Not Spread Corruption on Earth.' "
Calls to the mosque seeking comment for this article were not returned.
At a January hearing for the Khan case, supporters of the imams filled two back rows of the Miami courtroom. They sat quietly through the legal arguments over how much evidence would be released to the defense team.
Afterward, when a reporter approached to ask their response, one of the men shook his head gently and directed her back to the lawyers. There would be no loose tongues today.
In private, local Muslims admit they have an issue with P.R. In a modest white office building a few miles from the Margate mosque, a group of activists is tackling the problem from another angle — starting with kids.
This is the law office of Khurrum Wahid, Hafiz Khan's attorney. It's also home to Emerge USA, a nonprofit group Wahid founded in 2006. Emerge aims to empower Muslim, Indian, Pakistani, and Arab-American people through voter registration, political polling, and a leadership training program for young adults. By getting more of Florida's 120,000 registered Muslim voters involved in politics, Wahid hopes participants will stop being alienated and vilified. "Public perception drives public policy," he says.
Wahid is a former public defender with a friendly face and a relaxed, scruffy goatee — the look of a working dad who can't be bothered with pretense. He sits at the wide conference table in his office with his shirtsleeves rolled up, leaning forward. He points out a framed document on the wall marked "Secret" from the days before he was cleared to read classified government documents.
Born in Pakistan and raised in Canada, Wahid is now thoroughly American. He roots for the Dallas Cowboys and hosts political fundraisers through the political action committee he founded, CVA-PAC. Wahid remembers, as a kid in the early '70s, getting beat up a lot. Other children taunted him with "Paki go home." Things improved by high school. After the initial shock at an influx of multicultural immigrants, Canadians began to accept them as part of the landscape. The taunting stopped, and Wahid grew more confident. Back then, he says, Muslims were seen as computer geeks, not terrorists.
Wahid was working as a public defender in Miami when the World Trade Center fell. He began representing immigrants detained for questioning in the wake of the terrorist attacks. When he opened a private practice in 2004, he started taking cases other lawyers might shun. He defended the man who was convicted of plotting to bomb the Herald Square subway station in 2004 and Boca Raton doctor Rafiq Sabir, who was convicted of conspiring to treat wounded al Qaeda militants. He also recently represented Rais Bhuiyan, a convenience-store clerk in Texas who tried to prevent the execution of the man who shot him in the face after 9/11.
Wahid believes terrorism cases are, in many ways, the civil rights battles of his generation. While outsiders might paint his clients as criminals, he says people like the Khans are being prosecuted for giving money to groups the U.S. government doesn't like. "I think these things are not so black and white," he says. "I think innocent people get caught up in the politics."
Yes, this means Wahid gets threatening emails and letters. But like Hamze, he insists such backlash doesn't get under his skin. "I tend not to really focus on those," he says.
The closest he comes to complaining is to point out that most of his cases have nothing to do with terrorism. In 2006, he defended the Miami man known as the "Shenandoah rapist," accused in a string of sexual assaults and convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl. Yet no one blamed the lawyer. "I think people are more accepting of me representing a serial rapist than they are of me representing an imam [accused of] giving support to the Taliban," Wahid says.
But sometimes, a clash between his work and personal life is inescapable. Last year, he landed on a federal "Selectee" list — a terrorist watch list. Now he gets a pat down at the airport before flying and can't print boarding passes at home. He smiles when first relating the hassle, laughing at the absurdity of government bureaucracy. But when asked about it later — how does he handle that kind of stigma? — he retreats back to serious lawyer mode. "It tells me that the system is broken."
Wahid's office is a haven for the fresh-faced and ambitious, including a college-student intern who also works with Emerge and a cadre of young lawyers. Nauman Abbasi, the 27-year-old executive director of Emerge, works here too. With his clean-shaven face and gelled, dark hair, Abbasi embodies the vast difference between the older and younger generations of Muslims living in South Florida. He arrives for an interview on a January afternoon wearing a gray blazer and jeans, mourning the damage to the BlackBerry he accidentally dropped that day.
Abbasi grew up in Michigan, the child of North Indian parents. He says his pre-9/11 childhood was "not that bad." But after moving to Florida in 2003, he noticed a marked difference in the treatment of Muslims. Up north, he never heard of pastors burning Qu'rans or people shooting at mosques, as happened in Melbourne in 2006. "No one should have to go through what we are going through as a community," he says.
To him, Muslims in South Florida are following an age-old immigrant pattern. Thirty years ago, they came here to earn money to send back home to places like Pakistan and India. Their goal was to provide for their families and build a mosque. After 9/11, they realized they had no coherent voice with which to condemn the attacks and draw a bright line between ordinary Muslims and terrorists who kill in the name of religion. Now, he wants something better for his peers, particularly those who are stereotyped as budding terrorists. Young men who are seen as criminals tend to get caught in a self-fulfilling prophecy, he says. "It's like a disease. If you have all that hatred built up in you, you're not going to go anywhere."
Abbasi began volunteering for Emerge in 2010 after he organized a successful protest in Sunrise, preventing a garbage dump from being built near the Islamic Foundation of South Florida, a combined mosque and school. He also does P.R. for the Islamic Foundation. Speaking at local mosques about Emerge, Abbasi says he gets a mixed reception. Some people support the group's goal of working with the American political system to create change. Others don't see the point in joining a system that portrays them as terrorists. Abbasi admits bigotry is a serious problem. "We're at the lowest tier of society right now, unfortunately," he says. "People can pick on us."
In 2010, Abbasi was visiting New York City and wanted to see the Wall Street trading floor. But a police officer told him the public viewing area was closed. Eying him, the cop blamed Abbasi for the change. "We've beefed up security because of your people," the cop said.
Abbasi shakes his head, letting frustration creep into his voice. He's also upset by the way the FBI agents handled the arrests of the Khans — surrounding their mosques instead of their homes. "When you go into a mosque with your gun, how does that look?"
But he is troubled by the charges. To kids in the community, seeing 24-year-old Izhar Khan accused of supporting terrorists is shattering. "Here is a guy that's supposed to be a role model, and he's accused of doing something horribly bad."
Like Wahid, Abbasi focuses on his hopes for the future. Emerge places young people in internships with mayors and state representatives, introducing them to elected officials and lobbyists in Tallahassee. If a girl in a headscarf works in the mayor's office, he says, people will realize, "They're not all terrorists."
Laila Abdelaziz is a model for the change Emerge hopes to create. The 20-year-old Palestinian refugee spent her childhood in Baltimore and moved to Florida in high school. As a teenager, she watched her mother bristle as neighbors ridiculed her traditional headscarf. "She couldn't handle the comments, the looks, driving us to school. She was looked at as an extremist," Abdelaziz says ruefully, as if the ignorance of Americans is a tired, established fact. Eventually, her mom stopped wearing the scarf.
Today, Abdelaziz bears no resemblance to the subdued, cloaked stereotype of Muslim women. Hollywood starlets would kill for her confidence, along with her long, unveiled dark hair and daring grin. She has worked for Sen. Bill Nelson and campaigned for President Barack Obama. In 2010, she gained brief prominence when she questioned Obama after his speech at the University of Tampa. That night, she shouted to be heard over a crowd that erupted in cheers and booing when she mentioned the "occupied Palestinian people."
"Why have we not condemned Israel and Egypt's human rights violations against the occupied Palestinian people?" she demanded. "And yet we continue supporting them financially with billions of dollars from our tax dollars?"
As Central Florida field coordinator for Emerge, Abdelaziz brings that same passion to defending her cause. "Enough is enough. It's not right to antagonize a community this way," she says.
"What the Muslim community is trying to do is... step up their game.
The classroom at the Islamic Foundation of South Florida is cheery and colorful, with books and posters decorating the walls, including a special picture-book display titled "Meet our President Barack Obama."
It's past 7:30 p.m. on a Friday, and four teenaged boys gather in the corner of the room waiting for the teacher.
"Find Air Jordans," a boy in a Hollister T-shirt commands his iPhone.
The teenagers all attend local public high schools but are here for the weekly youth group run by the mosque after Friday-evening prayers. They're busy debating the previous night's Miami Heat game when a reporter interrupts to ask them about their political leanings.
"Ron Paul 2012!" shouts 16-year-old Hamza Andha, a thin, dark-haired kid who says he wants to be governor of Florida. "I don't want to sound harsh, but he [Obama] is kind of a tool."
The mood shifts when the teacher arrives. Abdur Rahman Al-Ghani is thin and solemn, wearing a white tunic and matching cap. He explains that the youth group has open discussions about the conflicts between Islamic teachings and American culture. For instance, young Muslims are not allowed to date or have sex before marriage. So Al-Ghani talks to the boys about abstinence. "He doesn't want us to end up like the people on Jersey Shore," Hamza jokes.
Tonight, Al-Ghani is lecturing on social media, how it's helped create change through the Arab Spring and Occupy movements. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter can be used to combat "greed and a heartless, ultracynical ideology of the banking elites and the policies they generate," the teacher says. Over the next two hours, the topic wanders from economic inequality to the failures Al-Ghani sees in the American system of government.
Shan, the 19-year-old Florida International University student who is friends with Izhar Khan, seems to embody the conflicting opinions in the room. First, he touts his American civil rights: "Our power as Americans is to criticize the politicians to make them better," he says. Moments later, he advocates religion-based government. "Islamic law is perfect."
When the discussion turns to the Khan case, mixed emotions again prevail. The students seem both angry and resigned. Shan's voice rises when he remembers the FBI agents, their guns trained at the mosque, ready to arrest his imam. "We're very good friends," he says of Izhar Khan. He says that Khan helped increase attendance at the mosque and that people were frightened away after his arrest. Wahid called the imam a "huge positive force" for young people.
But when asked about the terrorism charges, Shan becomes subdued, almost mournful. The animation that lit his voice is gone. "There's nothing we can do about it," he says.
Hamza, his 16-year-old classmate, is even more cautious. He's not sure if the allegations against Izhar Khan are true. "Life goes on," he says.
Owais Qureshi, a Deerfield High School student, still has some indignation left. He points out that the Margate mosque serves the wider community and provided food for the needy after Hurricane Wilma. He's hurt that the protesters ignored all that when they yelled and screamed for the mosque to be shut down.
"It does make me sad," he says. "They just didn't choose to first find the truth before they took action."
It will be nine long months before the Khans are scheduled to go to trial. Wahid expects to battle with prosecutors over the accuracy of their translations, since much of their evidence rests on phone calls in which Hafiz Khan was speaking his native Pashto. Meanwhile, both sides are still debating what evidence — particularly information-gathering via wiretapping — should be allowed during trial.
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Wahid knows there is pressure to resolve this case. Hundreds of Muslims in South Florida will be invested in the outcome. As religious leaders, the Khans' fate is inextricably linked to their followers. "[This case] will have far more of an impact on the Muslim community as a whole than some other cases we've dealt with," Wahid says.
Back in Margate on a quiet Thursday afternoon, a small group of elderly men leaves the mosque after saying prayers. A white-bearded man stops to praise imam Izhar Khan. He doesn't believe Izhar was supporting terrorists. "He liked to help poor people. We like him. He's very educated. Nice," says the man, who declines to give his name.
The man is gentle and soft-spoken, smiling and patting the arm of the reporter questioning him. But there is a sadness in his weathered face. "We miss him very much," he says. "Only God knows best... I hope they come home one day — him and his father."
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We don't know about you, but when we want the latest in online sports interviews, we brush right past ESPN.com and The Sporting News and head over to The 700 Club. Yep, Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network has a sports section, which includes inspirational tales from the NFL, Major League Baseball and, of course, pro wrestling.
It's difficult to tell if these folks have just wandered over for a chat or are full-fledged members of the 700 Club. At any rate, if Roberston is, as many claim, just out there selling crazy, many pro athletes seem to be buying — by association, at least. Witness (and we love the headlines the best):
• Morgan Ensberg: Three Strikes, You're Saved (this should put a definitive end to those "is he Jewish or not?" questions, by the way)
• Shaun Alexander: Running Back For Jesus
• Jeff Hazuga: Blessed From the Bench
And this, an excerpt from Danny Wuerffel: The Quarterback With a Servant's Heart:
While everyone around him was awed by his talent and promise, Danny realized his need for a Savior and decided to surrender his life completely to Jesus Christ.
Not to mention surrendering to opposing NFL defenses, which sacked him 52 times for 362 yards in losses over a sterling 25-game career. Thanks a bunch for that, Christ.
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Hand-carved turkey and cranberry sandwich
Served on ciabatta bread.
At The Observatory, we have a great range of buffet and drinks packages that make for a truly festive celebration in North Greenwich, no matter what your plans are this Christmas 2019.
Celebrate the festivities with your work friends with drinks and nibbles or bring the whole family together for a truly festive celebration, starting at £ per person.
Our full menu will be available on 18th November 2019, but you can expect to find dishes like Cumberland Sausage Pigs in Blankets, Roast Shallot Tarte Tatin and Wholetail Whitby Scampi.
As well as food packages we also have drinks packages available for pre-order that we can arrange to have waiting for you on arrival. Both packages go perfectly together and help create a memorable event for you, your colleagues or your loved ones.
Our packages are available for a minimum party of 10 people and we also require a £10 deposit per person.
Pre-book you bottled drinks package and, as well as your drinks being ready for you when you arrive, we'll give you a little something off your bill.
Call The Observatory on 020 8853 4574.
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Eero Tamminen wrote:Seems like NULL pointer access called by qsort() callback. That's only called in scandir() function. According to your backtrace, that's in Hatari fallback version of that, which seems weird because I would have expected OSX to provide scandir() in system libraries i.e. your build may be configured wrong.
Is this with the plain SDL GUI (which Hatari developers can test on Linux), or in the OSX code (not maintained by Hatari developers, but outside contributions)?
darwinmac wrote:I also use Hatari 2.0.0 on my 2016 MacBook Pro with 10.12.4. I do not have any problems using the SDL F12 menu. I will mention that, unless you are in full screen mode, you can use the Preferences menu item in the Hatari menu or the Insert Disk A or Insert Disk B menu options in the File menu in order to insert a disk into Hatari.
I am not an official Hatari OS X maintainer, but I have tested the MacOS version in the past.
Looking at your path, what directory are you using to run Hatari? I know there was a problem in the release version if your path was too long. However, I am not sure that is the problem you are having.
Bob C
darwinmac wrote:Now that you have it working, you will want to search on Google for actual Atari ROMs. The included EmuTOS is good, but you'll have the best compatibility with the original Atari ROMs.
raticide wrote:@Bob, thanks a lot. It works like a charm now. I definitely need to understand how all this works on MacOS.
Btw, I got this security warning message that asks me to authprize the launch of the app. Thanks a lot for the anticipation though. Might be useful for others.
Cheers and thank again.
leech wrote:I tried transitioning to a Mac from my beloved Gnome-shell when I started at my new job. I had a hard time with it, they do some things rather unintuitive for someone who has lived through all the Ataris and Amigas and onto Windows and various Linux desktop environments.
So now I just 'apt install hatari' and am ready to play. Nice that you got it working there. I believe the Hatari developers even write it mostly for Linux, right?
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Lightweight Jamie Kavanagh (12-0-1, 5 KOs) defeated Ramon Valadez (11-3, 6 KOs) by unanimous decision at the Phoenix Club in Anaheim, California on Saturday night in a hugely entertaining fight.
From the first bell both men came at each other with a full frontal assault. Though Kavanagh was throwing more combinations and being busier in the opening stanza, it was Valadez who stumbled the Spanish-speaking Dubliner with a left hook in the opening round.
The same theme occurred in the second, with Kavanagh trying to work more but getting tagged by power shots from his opponent. On a few occasions, Kavanagh dropped his left after throwing his jab and Valadez was able to take advantage with several well-timed overhand rights.
In the third round Valdez hurt Kavanagh with a body shot followed by a few combinations and had him on the ropes and in trouble.
However, the Dubliner turned the fight on its head by almost knocking down Valadez with a beautiful short right hand. Kavanagh tried to finish the fight and almost punched himself out in what was a tremendous action-packed round.
From the fourth on, Kavanagh started to out-work and out-box Valadez, and the Irishman's conditioning really came into play. He was able to use his speed to move out of real danger and win the next few rounds.
Early in the seventh round Kavanagh let his hands go once more, but Valadez hurt him again with a huge right hand that rocked the 22-year-old and opened a slight cut on the fighter's left cheek.
The Irishman managed to get out of the round and won the last stanza by completely out-boxing his opponent, scoring regularly with sharp combinations to end the fight in style.
After the final bell, judges Jonathan Davis, Jerry Cantu and Patrick Connolly scored the fight 80-72, 79-73, 78-74 respectively.
In other news, Seanie Monaghan (16-0, 10 KOs) successfully defended his WBC Continental Americas light heavyweight title on October 24 when he defeated Rayco Saunders (22-19-2) by unanimous decision at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City.
Saunders offered a durable challenge but looked like a man who came to survive the night as opposed to try and win. That said, he made Monaghan work hard over the fight, and the Irish American boxed competently over the course of the 10 rounds to gain valuable experience.
At the end of the fight, judges Ron McNair and Kevin Morgan scored the fight 99-91, while Robert Perez scored it 98-92.


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Is Paypal the safest way to accept payment for a transaction/sale of equipment?
I know personal checks are not a good idea since they can look like they get cashed then bounce 2-4 weeks later.
What about USPS money orders or cashiers checks?
I was just thinking with Paypal once they send you the money and it's in your paypal account then you are safe as the seller.
With the Empi unit I was trying to sell I got about 4 people wanting to send personal checks that were obviously scams.
So is Paypal the safest?


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With strong revenue growth potential and excellent cost management,
Further, with a solid outlook for the industry, this Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) stock looks very attractive as of now.
Structured as a REIT, Weyerhaeuser is one of the world's largest private owners of timberlands, with more than 6 million acres of timberlands primarily in the U.S., and another 14 million acres under management in Canada.
Weyerhaeuser is also one of the largest manufacturers of wood and cellulose fibers products. They also develop real estate, primarily as a builder of single-family homes.
Improving Fundamentals and Increasing Dividends
The company has been focused on improving its capital structure with strong liquidity and reduced interest expenses. Further with housing recovery underway, continued operational excellence and excellent cost management, WY is positioned for strong revenue growth and is expected to grow its dividend over time.
On April 11, 2013, Weyerhaeuser announced its quarterly dividend of $0.20 per share, up 18% from earlier quarterly dividend of $0.17 per share. The company has grown its dividend by more than 33% since declaring its initial dividend as a REIT.
Positive Earnings Estimates Revisions
As a result of improving outlook for the company, analysts have been revising their estimates for the March 2013 quarter and the fiscal year 2013. Zacks consensus estimates for the first quarter and the fiscal year 2013 now stand at $0.22 and $1.08 per share, respectively, up from $0.19 and $0.97 per share, 60 days ago. WY will report it first quarter earnings on April 26, 2013.
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Solid Industry Outlook
With a Zacks Industry Rank of 2 out of 265, Building Products/Wood industry is expected to outperform significantly in the near-to-mid term.
Better Play on Housing Recovery?
As a result of improving sentiment, home construction companies and homebuilder ETFs have been on the run in the past few months and some of them already look quite expensive. From valuation perspective, timber industry looks quite attractive now. Continued pickup in the housing construction and remodeling activities will result in increased demand for wood.
Further, most timber companies deferred their harvest when the demand for wood was low while their assets (trees) continued to grow and so as the housing market returns, the cash flows from harvest operations will increase in a big way. Lumber prices have been soaring of late and will continue to benefit timber companies.
WY is a Zacks Rank#1 (Strong Buy) stock. It also has a longer-term Zacks recommendation of "Outperform." Additionally, a Zacks Industry rank of 2 out of 265 indicates very strong likelihood of continued strength in the short to medium term, compared to other industries.
Further with a dividend yield of 2.7%, excellent fundaments and a solid growth potential, I believe that this stock will be a nice addition to any portfolio.
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I'm amazed by how young people around the world are innovating despite the numerous challenges they face. Their participation in the fight against poverty is crucial. At the World Bank, we know we can't end extreme poverty by 2030 without empowering youth.


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Win Eric Clapton's Album 'Slowhand'
Here at Planet Rock we are giving you the chance to win copies of Eric Clapton's masterpiece SLOWHAND, which is re-released on December 10 and available in 5 different formats. Read on to see how you can get your hands on a copy!
ERIC CLAPTON and SLOWHAND
Eric Clapton has been in the spotlight for close on fifty years and the portrait of his artistry is a complex one – from guitar icon to songwriter to interpreter of jazz, blues, rock and country music. He has fashioned albums in many different styles and with many different themes, yet few have the sense of oneness that pervades SLOWHAND..
SLOWHAND was recorded at Olympic Studios in South West London in May 1977 and was produced by Glyn Johns. Released in November 1977, SLOWHAND was the most successful album of Clapton's 1970s studio recordings. It reached No.2 on the Billboard chart, where it stayed for five weeks, spending a total of seventy-four weeks on the American album chart.
SLOWHAND features Wonderful Tonight, Lay Down Sally and Cocaine – songs that are still heard regularly on radio and at Eric Clapton's live shows. So long after its release is a great recommendation and testimony to its place in Clapton's canon. The album includes cover versions of songs written by some of his favourite songwriters (JJ Cale, John Martyn, Don Williams, Arthur Crudup) along with original compositions by Eric Clapton.
SLOWHAND 35th ANNIVERSARY EDITION
ERIC CLAPTON's SLOWHAND 35th ANNIVERSARY comes in five different formats:
1. SUPER DELUXE EDITON – 3 CD / 1 DVD (audio only) / 1 LP
2. DELUXE EDITON – 2 Disc Set
Both the Super Deluxe Edition and Deluxe Edition feature four Slowhand session outtakes (three of them previously unreleased) "Looking At The Rain", "Alberta", "Greyhound Bus" and "Stars, Strays And Ashtrays".
A week before the Slowhand sessions commenced, the band performed at London's Hammersmith Odeon. The Super Deluxe Edition captures the complete 14 track Hammersmith Odeon, April 27, 1977 concert on two CDs, while the Deluxe Edition features 9 tracks from the Hammersmith Odeon concert. Songs featured at the Hammersmith Odeon show include "Tell The Truth", "Knocking On Heaven's Door","Can't Find My Way Home", "Stormy Monday", "Badge", "I Shot The Sheriff" and "Layla".
To be entered into our draw to win a deluxe edition of this superb record, just listen to the slowed-down SLOWHAND track below and tell us which song you think it is!


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Beat it's a unique one page Joomla Template, especially designed & developed for bands, music events and any kind of performers linked do the music and dance industry such as DJ's, singers, musicians and dance groups.This template offers a lot of useful features that will help your work stand out from the crowd!
With Beat Template you will find a Social Feed Grid that shows the latest tweets, Instagram photos, latest posts from your band Facebook page and news; Events location map (integrated with google maps); Event Countdown; audio player; video and image gallery; unique product slider to sell your merchandise products; news/blog page; contact form with CAPTCHA and much more!
This template it's compatible with Joomla 2.5.X and 3.X versions. It has a fully Responsive structure built with Bootstrap and it's retina ready, so it can adapt to all types of screens and devices, allowing your fans to follow your work, news and events anywhere at anytime! It comes in 2 versions (dark & light) and it's highly customizable to help you turn Beat template into your own awesome website.
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Rebecca Gilbert and Randy Ben David have roots - both the human and botanical variety.
On their farm off North Road in Chilmark they grow root vegetables such as beets, carrots and onions, and they have wild root herbs including sweet grass and ginseng.
Rebecca and Randy also have family roots that run as deep as the rich, sweet soil they cultivate without chemical fertilizers or pesticides. For Rebecca those roots run back for three generations to her grandmother, who farmed the Gilbert property in Chilmark using organic methods in the 1920s. Randy's roots are in Oak Bluffs, where he grew up on a family homestead surrounded by flocks of chickens and all the other trappings of traditional Vineyard rural life.
Now thanks to an unusual partnership with the Vineyard Conservation Society, Randy and Rebecca hope to make their roots permanent on the Gilbert Native Earth Teaching Farm.
The partnership is based on a plan for the conservation society to buy development rights to the Gilbert farmstead, a 34-acre property off North Road abutting Tea Lane that has been organically farmed continuously for 200 years. VCS plans to pay $600,000 for the development rights and has already raised $400,000 of the money.
The Gilbert Farm is a richly diverse place including wetlands, woodlands and open farmland. Among other other things, the headwaters of both the Mill Brook and the Paint Mill Brook are found on the property. The Mill Brook runs south into the Tisbury Great Pond, while the Paint Mill Brook runs north into the Vineyard Sound near Cape Higon.
The Massachusetts Audubon Society is also a partner in the project.
The money from the sale of the development rights will allow the owners to repair their buildings and complete the construction of a small farm stand, where they plan to sell vegetables, flowers, herbs and eggs. The owners also recently received approval from the Chilmark board of health to build a composting toilet near the entrance to the farm.
The Native Earth Teaching Farm will include an organic farm education center and a teaching farm for children and adults. There will be community gardens and workshops on farming and gardening.
"This is as much about conserving people and traditions and culture as it is about securing the real estate against future development," said VCS executive director Brendan O'Neill.
"Our focus is on the relationship between people and the land. Certainly food and flowers are one thing that we get from our relationship with the land - but also people come here and they feel refreshed," said Rebecca Gilbert.
The Gilbert Farm is an old-style Vineyard farmstead, complete with an out-of-plumb 200-year-old shingled farmhouse with barn red trim. It is an organic place in the truest sense of the word, with squawking chickens and honking geese, an herb garden, a vegetable garden, a couple of pig pens over here, a small pasture for sheep over there. Everything is handmade, from the black locust fenceposts to the hand-milled native pitch pine that will be used to build the farm stand. Today the farm stand is still just a small foundation with a deck on it. Randy and Rebecca hope to finish it by mid-summer.
Like their farm project, the partnership between Rebecca and Randy has a kind of balance and harmony. She does most of the talking; he has the deep knowledge from working the land, the strong hands. He cuts the wood, builds the fences and the poultry pens; she grows the herbs and runs medicinal workshops. He runs the tractor, turns the compost and smokes the home-grown ham and bacon in his own smokehouse. She takes school children on tours of the farm, and she took a business class to learn about the business end of farming.
They both collect the eggs, which they sell from a refrigerator in the barn. It's an honest-John system, $3 a dozen, put your money in the coffee can inside the fridge and take your pick: washed or unwashed eggs (unwashed eggs stay fresh longer).
The poultry operation is something of a preservation project in itself. Randy and Rebecca are committed to the preservation of rare domestic breeds of ducks. On Wednesday morning this week, iridescent black ducks nested inside a pen, and a young flock of caramel-colored Khaki Campbells darted around the yard.
Because it has been farmed organically for so many years, there is a rich variety of wildlife and natural plant life throughout the property. Wild wood lilies co-exist comfortably with cultivated row crops of squash and cucumbers. A lush herb garden is bordered on one edge by native milkweed.
Rebecca left the milkweed to grow after a group of Chilmark school children did a project last year on monarch butterflies and wrote a letter to the newspaper asking people on the Vineyard to leave their milkweed for the butterflies.
"I did that for the Chilmark children," Rebecca said. "No, you did it for the butterflies," Randy gently corrected her.
"One of our biggest goals is to be responsive to the community," Rebecca said.
Rebecca and Randy met because of the pigs. "I wanted to raise pigs but I don't drive, so I didn't know how I would be able to get the sacks of feed. Randy drove, and he knew about raising pigs, so it was a beautiful combination," Rebecca said.
The farm will now be a dual operation: Randy and Rebecca will try to farm for a profit (or at least break even), but the nonprofit component will permit public access to the farm for education tours, classes and community gardens. "We want to try and make it economically sustainable as well as environmentally sustainable," Rebecca said.
The farm has been classified as a botanical sanctuary and Rebecca plans to create a medicinal herb trail.
Rebecca and Randy also recently launched a new concept that they call a foster garden. A Vineyard resident who needed to move from her home brought her family heirloom plants over to the Gilbert Farm, where they will remain in adoption until the woman can find a permanent home. The woman and her children come to the farm to tend their plants.
The Native Earth Teaching Farm is an organic farm, and Rebecca and Randy are members of the Northeast Organic Farmer's Association, but nevertheless they reject the term. "Organic is a term that belongs to the federal government," Rebecca said. "We're not fond of it, and we are especially not fond of the genetic altering of foods," Randy added.
Rebecca said all the Vineyard farms are important to each other.
"There is sort of a critical mass of farms that needs to happen before it feels like a vital farming community - we learn the most from other Island farms. We really need as a community to look at ways to preserve farms, and not just one or two. It needs to work as a system," she said, adding:
"There is not much connection between a large-scale farm and conservation, but here there is a real connection between farming and conservation."
She concluded: "The education is for everyone. This is a teaching farm, and it teaches us every day. We learn something from everyone."
The Native Earth Teaching Farm is now open for tours by appointment (508-645-3304). Because of the poultry project, visitors are asked to leave their dogs at home.


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Cold weather, it appears, is finally upon us. Simple steps can prevent a good deal of trouble. The National Weather Service, American Red Cross and others offer these suggestions.
Cold weather, it appears, is finally upon us. It might not even get above the freezing mark on Thanksgiving Day, and the snow and ice will inevitably come our way soon enough.
It's a good time to recall that each season brings hazards of its own, but simple steps can prevent a good deal of trouble. The National Weather Service, American Red Cross and others offer these suggestions:
Let's start with the car, especially if headed out for a drive of any distance for the holidays.
Remember that winter driving brings its own set of rules:Watch the weather and plan long trips carefully. Allow more time. Tell someone your route, destination and schedule. Take at least one person with you. Remember that sleet, snow, freezing rain and/or fog sometimes force a thoughtful reconsideration of plans. Put more distance between your vehicle and the one ahead of you. Remember, if you get stranded, stay with your vehicle. Walking away for help, especially in a blizzard, can have very bad consequences.
Winter brings too many fires.Keep chimneys, fireplaces and flues clean. Don't use liquid fuel or cardboard to start a fire in a woodstove or fireplace. Be careful with electric space heaters. Make sure they're in good working order. No frayed cords and don't use extension cords. If the power goes out, use flashlights or battery-powered lanterns, not candles or oil lamps.
Beware the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.Don't use space heaters powered by propane, kerosene or heating in an enclosed room; those can only be used in well-ventilated places. The same goes for an attached garage. Know the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning: headache, lightheadedness, dizziness and unexplained sleepiness. Carbon monoxide is odorless and tasteless, so it's important that CO detectors, as well as smoke detectors, are working and are tested every month. If carbon monoxide builds up in the body, it can cause serious, immediate health problems, even death.


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Omalizumab injection
What is this medicine?
OMALIZUMAB (oh mah lye ZOO mab) is used to help treat allergic asthma and chronic hives. It may be given with other treatments for these conditions.
This medicine may be used for other purposes; ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have questions.
COMMON BRAND NAME(S): Xolair
What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?
They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
lymphoma or other cancer
an unusual or allergic reaction to omalizumab, hamster proteins, other medicines, foods, dyes, or preservatives
pregnant or trying to get pregnant
How should I use this medicine?
This medicine is for injection under the skin. It is given by a health care professional in a hospital or clinic setting.
A special MedGuide will be given to you with each injection. Be sure to read this information carefully each time.
Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. While this drug may be prescribed for children as young as 6 years for selected conditions, precautions do apply.
Overdosage: If you think you have taken too much of this medicine contact a poison control center or emergency room at once.
NOTE: This medicine is only for you. Do not share this medicine with others.
What if I miss a dose?
It is important not to miss your dose. This medicine is usually given every 2 to 4 weeks. Call your doctor or health care professional if you are unable to keep an appointment.
What may interact with this medicine?
Interactions are not expected.
This list may not describe all possible interactions. Give your health care provider a list of all the medicines, herbs, non-prescription drugs, or dietary supplements you use. Also tell them if you smoke, drink alcohol, or use illegal drugs. Some items may interact with your medicine.
What should I watch for while using this medicine?
After receiving each injection, you will be monitored for a short time in your doctor's office or clinic.
Improvement of your asthma or allergies will not be immediate. Improvements will occur gradually.
You will have regular blood tests to determine how often you will need this medicine.
Do not stop taking any of your other asthma or allergy treatments unless otherwise directed by your doctor.
What side effects may I notice from receiving this medicine?
Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible:
allergic reactions like skin rash, itching or hives, swelling of the face, lips, or tongue
breathing problems
pain, tingling, numbness in the hands or feet
unusual bleeding or bruising
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mild redness, itching, swelling, or bruising at the injection site
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2011 Leading Edge Award Recipients
Six ASTC member organizations and one science center professional received Roy L. Shafer Leading Edge Awards on October 15 at the 2011 ASTC Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland.
Leading Edge Award for Business Practice
Awarded to the International Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, U.K., and Philippine Science Centrum, in Manila, Philippines.
The International Centre for Life was recognized for Sustainability Through Diversity. The Centre has rendered itself sustainable for the foreseeable future by developing a business portfolio that provides funds for the center's dual missions of public science engagement and support for world-class scientific research. The institution runs on revenue generated from two onsite cafés, a parking garage, a conference and banqueting business, and leases not only to university laboratories, but also to popular bars and nightclubs.
Philippine Science Centrum won its "Edgie" for Typhoon Ondoy: Rapid Response & Recovery. On September 26, 2009, Typhoon Ondoy sent nine-foot-high flood waters into the science center, submerging its exhibits and traveling exhibitions. Within 24 hours, the center's staff and trustees met and immediately started the first steps of rebuilding, launching a fundraising campaign called Project 926 with the goal of raising 9 million Philippine pesos (about $210,000) in two ways (cash and in-kind assistance) within six months. The center reopened to the public less than six weeks after the typhoon hit, and was fully restored after four and a half months.
Leading Edge Award for Visitor Experience (small institution)
Awarded to Amazement Square, Lynchburg, Virginia, and Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive Centre, in Oak Hammock Marsh, Manitoba, Canada.
Amazement Square received its award for the Amazing Adventures of Scorpy Bug, a curriculum-based cartoon series designed to help educators take an interactive and interdisciplinary approach to teaching challenging concepts. The series has been made available free-of-charge to teachers and families through publication in the regional newspaper and through a comic book series that addresses specific scientific topics. Scorpy is integrated across all museum platforms: exhibitions, outreach programs, website, and community and school partnerships.
Oak Hammock Marsh Intrepretive Centre was recognized for its Wetland Outreach programming. Migratory birds depend on wetlands, and many species are endangered due to wetland destruction. In the past three years, the center fostered public awareness among students and educators across a vast geographic area on the value of wetlands through several outreach programs. The "Wetlands On-the-Go" team delivered programs to 56,000 students in 2,500 classrooms in over 100 communities in three Canadian provinces. The centre also held eight workshops for teachers in six Caribbean locations and provided educational resources to underserved communities.
Leading Edge Award for Visitor Experience (large institution)
Awarded to Chabot Space & Science Center, Oakland, California, and the Museum of Science and Industry, in Chicago, Illinois.
Chabot Space & Science Center accepted its award for Bill Nye's Climate Lab, a media-rich, hands-on exhibition that explores the effects of climate change on Earth's interconnected systems and offers activities that increase climate and energy literacy. Each visitor receives a "Climate Scout ID" — an RFID card that is automatically detected as the visitor moves from station to station, achieving solutions to climate challenges and earning points. Exhibit activity is stored on the ID, which can be taken home and used to log in on BillsClimateLab.org.
The Museum of Science and Industry received its "Edgie" for Science Storms, a 26,000-square-foot (2,400-square-meter) permanent exhibition that features dynamic large-scale experiments that explore nature's most powerful phenomena. Visitors can manipulate the vortex variables of a 40-foot tornado, unleash a tsunami in a 30-foot wave tank, trigger an avalanche, pit fire against water to see how flame reacts to different conditions, and more. ASTC members Chicago Scenic Studios, Inc., Evidence Design, Lexington, Mad Systems, and PRG helped create the exhibition.
Leading Edge Award for Experienced Leadership in the Field
Awarded to Clarence Sirisena, assistant chief executive (projects and exhibition division), Science Centre Singapore. Sirisena was honored for spearheading several international exhibition collaborations, and for researching and sharing with the science center field the newest approaches in traveling exhibitions development and management.


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Time Team America will premiere on PBS on Wednesday July 8th, 7 p.m. The series will run from July 8 to August 5, 2009
Part extreme adventure, part hard science, and part reality show, Time Team America takes viewers deep into the trenches of America's most intriguing archaeological sites. Dr. Joe Watkins will appear on the show as one of the team's five archaeologists. In each episode, the show's team of top scientists has just three days to uncover the buried secrets of their assigned dig. Every hour counts as they piece together the past using the latest technology, decades of combined experience and their own sharp wits. Far from the comfort of a science lab, Time Team America faces different challenges and visit sites that range from 13,000 year old chart quarries to a late 19th century U.S. fortress. Following its popularity in the UK, Time Team debuts in the US, bringing archaeology into the public's home as they watch intense conversations between experts and share the rush of discovery as artifacts emerge from the ground.
Joe Watkins, PhD, RPA is the Director of the Native American Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma, as well as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the University's Department of Anthropology. He is 1/2 Choctaw Indian, and has been involved in archaeology for forty years. His research interests include the ethical practice of anthropology and anthropology's relationships with descendant communities and Aboriginal populations. He has published numerous articles on these topics as a means of trying to expand the conversation between Indigenous groups and anthropologists. His research examined archaeologists' responses to questionnaire scenarios concerning their perceptions of American Indian issues. Dr. Watkins has a passion for preserving sacred sites of the American West. He's an expert in Native American archaeology. Joe also has a keen interest in experimental archaeology, which uses replica tools to discover how people of the past went about the activities of daily life.
Joe Watkins has been intensively involved in the major national anthropological organizations as a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for American Archaeology as well as in numerous capacities within committees. He also is a member of the Indigenous Advisory Committee of the World Archaeological Congress. The Foundation is eagerly awaiting his TV debut and thanks him for his tireless work to bring archaeology into the public consciousness.
(Above photograph of Joe Watkins by Laurance Johnson, PBS)
Click here to find out more about the PBS series


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General Information
Masjid Nur is located at 1073 Lawrenceville Hwy, Lawrenceville, GA 30045, USA. It's very clean and nice Mosque as well as soothing place.
- Name: Masjid Nur
- Type: Mosque
- Address: 1073 Lawrenceville Hwy, Lawrenceville, GA 30045, USA
- City/Locality, State: Lawrenceville, Georgia
- Established: Unknown
- Madhab (School of thought): Sunni
- Language Services: English
Local Date/Time Now
Feb 28, 2020 01:24 AM
(Timezone: America/New_York, Daylight Savings Time is not in effect)
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Odhu (wash)
- Odhu (wash) facilities available but might not be adequate
- Hot water is available
- Restrooms are available
- Shower facility may not be available.
- On-premise parking available
- Parking may be easily available
Facilities for Women
- Prayer space available in (curtain) shared prayer hall.
- Odhu facilities may not be available.
- Restrooms may not be available.
- Shared entrance.
Wheelchair accessiblity
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Looking to get a kite for the 10-15 knt days, but I'm not sure
if its even worth going out in low wind for wakestyle? Board riding
will be a SS darkside with pb floyds. These are the kites I have in
LF Havoc 14m
Switchblade 14m
SS Rpm 14m
I weigh 155 lbs, any other kites I should be looking at? Or is it not
worth trying in low wind. Not sure about pure c's as relaunch in low
wind might be difficult. Thanks.


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Catch is a stand up guy, and may his security business live long and prosper. He already knows how I feel through em@ils about that....... wait! I meant Electronic mail, please forgive my ignorance! Yeah, bra, you're an authority when it comes to this profession, and I'm sure your name/ co name can be heard for miles in Silicon Valley.
neel, how obtuse can you be?
Your whiny ****? Take it elsewhere.


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1) A form tells you that you should submit it at least two weeks before the start of the semester. It is an important form that all of your students need information on before class can be held. What do you do?
- a) Submit at least two weeks before the semester starts.
- b) Submit the week before the semester starts.
- c) Submit the weekend before the semester starts.
- d) Submit the day before your class starts.
- e) Submit one hour before your class starts. Call the department angrily when it is not immediately processed.
2) A form only provides one drop-down menu for requesting times on a single day, and you wish to have multiple days in the week. There is a comment box that allows you to type in extra information. What do you do?
- a) Type in the additional times in the comment box.
- b) Ignore the comment box and submit two forms.
- c) Submit two forms, writing in the comment box "same class, two days."
- d) Submit two forms, writing in the comment box "lol I can't see a place to request two times."
- e) Panic and call the department's front desk during lunchtime, when they're understaffed because their student workers have gone home for the summer.
3) A form asks what semester you would like to request. What do you do?
- a) Request the semester you want.
- b) Leave it blank and assume they'll guess correctly.
- c) Request the wrong semester, and then blame the department when they get it "wrong," even though they have your form on record.
4) A form asks you to check a box if you wish to have a special condition occur. You would like to have that condition. What do you do?
- a) Check the box.
- b) Don't check the box, and then blame the department when they get it "wrong," even though they have your form on record.
5) The single staff member that is receiving and processing these forms works part-time and has a class this afternoon, yet you:
- a) Submit your request late.
- b) Submit the wrong information.
- c) Leave out information.
- d) Call the department when you don't get it processed immediately.
- e) All of the above, and then nitpick on an inconsequential typo in the response email.
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You may not be able to get away for ten full days, but a long weekend trip can be almost as rejuvenating. Consider these locations when you're in need of a quick vacation.
Charlottesville, VA
On the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains, Charlottesville is great for history lovers, hikers, and wine drinkers. Book a room at an authentic log cabin for a truly unique experience. Check out the live concert series downtown and sip wine at Jefferson Vineyards.
Cold Spring, NY
Cold Spring is perfect if you're staying in New York City and want to venture a couple of hours north for the afternoon or for an overnight. Go glamping at the Liberty View Farm, kayak on the Hudson River, or go paddle boarding with Hudson River Expeditions. Visit Fahnestock National Park for a stroll in the woods. Cold Spring is also close to Beacon, an art-filled community popular with New York City residents who want to get away for a day. To book your New York trip, check out Hipmunk's guide to NYC hotels.
Hartford, CT
Once home to some of the most influential writers in the U.S., you can now tour their homes in Hartford. Stay in an Airbnb castle that has a Romeo and Juliet room. Don't miss a tour of the Mark Twain house. You can also visit the Victorian mansion where Harriet Beecher Stowe lived!
Willamette Valley, OR
There are over 400 wineries in Willamette Valley. Plus, you're just one hour from Portland in case you want to visit the cool city for a day. Stay in a room with views of Mount Jefferson and Mount Hood. Take a walking wine tour while you're in the valley, too.
Santa Cruz, CA
Complete with both surfing and mountains, Santa Cruz is just an hour and a half from San Francisco. Stay in a tree house in the Sequoia forest, located in the Santa Cruz mountains. Take a surfing lesson or stroll down the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk, too.
No matter what coast you live on, there's a great getaway to take advantage of.


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To play the WRU Lottery now please download and complete the PDF form below and send it back to the Welsh Rugby Union by post. The form includes instructions on where you would like to see the contributions from your ticket allocated and also includes a Direct Debit instruction form for us to send on to your bank or building society.
Please send your completed form back to:
WRU Lottery
Welsh Rugby Union
Millennium Stadium
Westgate Street
Alternatively, contact your local club and discuss with them, how you can go about playing the WRU Lottery. To discuss further purchasing your tickets directly from the Welsh Rugby Union, please contact Julie Thomas on 029 2082 2408.
The Welsh Rugby Union Lottery was established in 1994. The scheme successfully generates crucial revenue for rugby clubs, schools rugby and youth rugby throughout Wales, ensuring the growth and future of the game at grass roots level.
Through selling lottery tickets to supporters and members, rugby clubs are able to reap the benefits from their retail efforts as well as providing their fans with the chance to win some superb prizes. Lottery tickets are sold in books of six tickets and each book costs £6.00 equating to a mere £1.00 per ticket.
A club can expect to earn between 35% and 45% of the income from each ticket sold: the percentage increases in accordance with ticket sales. Clubs can generate anything between £500 and £10,000 each year to further the development of their club. Rugby clubs purchase their own allocation of tickets and sell them on to individuals. Additionally, individuals can purchase tickets outside of a club environment by setting up a direct debit for a monthly subscription (form available to download here). Subscribers nominate either a club they wish to support, or if they would rather see their contribution to the WRU Lottery benefiting youth initiatives, they can support either schools rugby or youth rugby.
At present, almost 26,000 tickets are entered into each monthly draw with at least 35% of the monthly income being invested in the game. Since its inception of the WRU Lottery, £500,000 has been generated for the development of community and youth rugby.
The tenth anniversary of the WRU Lottery was marked in February 2004 with a special draw at the Millennium Stadium before the RBS Six Nations Wales v Scotland match. Club successes within the Lottery scheme include Aberystwyth, who a few years ago averaged just short of four hundred books of tickets per month earning themselves over £10,000 in a season. Their ticket holders are particularly successful as many tickets have benefited from the hundred pound prizes whilst a few lucky winners were rewarded for their contribution to the development of Welsh rugby with new cars!
Draws take place on the 15th of each month at different rugby clubs or rugby venues throughout Wales. Winners are notified in writing the following day whilst clubs receive details of the winners, along with a newsletter giving information on ticket sales by club and by district. Lottery results are published here on the WRU Website and also in print the day after the draw in the Western Mail, and in the Liverpool Daily Post on the 17th of each month.
If you have any queries regarding the WRU Lottery or wish to purchase tickets please contact Julie Thomas at the Welsh Rugby Union on 029 2082 2408.
*The WRU Clubs Lottery is regulated by the Gaming Board for Great Britain and is therefore a bona fide fundraising project which operates strictly within the law. The Gaming Board stipulates that no more than 50% of the monthly income from the Lottery can be allocated as prize money, which is why the level of prizes can alter slightly from month to month.


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Circular General Polycarbonate Light
High lumen oputput
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DALI and Self Test options
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Halo light effect
coloured options
Additional trims to enhance individuality
A quality decorative LED luminaire with sympathetic looks to please architects and designers, the X-XLP demonstrates that mains and emergency LED lighting need no longer be a compromise. Comprising of a high quality polycarbonate enclosure with a steel gear tray and an elegantly shaped polycarbonate opal or prismatic diffuser, suitable for use on escape routes (850° hot-wire test, defined by ICEL).
The X-XLP Light is designed for use in mains and emergency modes with instant on light. The diffuser is snap fitted via three locating lugs and provides a seal to IP20. A BESA entry is provided in the base with two 20mm conduit entries. The X-XLP / HALO is a translucent polycarbonate enclosure for where backlighting halo effect is required. Available in red, green, blue and white with the added option of brass and chrome decorative edge.
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In less than a week's time at two separate India schools, police said Friday, they believe that children have been poisoned by their school lunches.
At least 23 students in the southwestern coastal state of Goa were treated at a hospital after they got sick at lunch, authorities said. The students, in the third to fifth grades at St. Joseph School, have been released from treatment, Vishram Borkar, a police superintendent in Goa, told CNN.
St. Joseph School is a government-aided private institution, he said.
"We have registered a case of food poisoning," he told CNN, "and our investigation is on."
Earlier this week, 23 students died and 25 people were hospitalized from food poisoning after a school lunch in northern India's Bihar state.
There were two cooks at the Bihar school, an official told CNN. Two children of one of them -- Panna Devi -- ate the toxic food and have died, medical superintendent Amarkant Jha Amar told CNN.
Panna Devi is not receiving treatment because she didn't eat the toxic food, Amar said. She has a third child who ate the food and is improving at a hospital, the medical chief said.
The other cook, Manju Devi, is also hospitalized, along with her three children, Amar added.
Earlier, CNN-IBN had reported that two of Manju Devi's children had died.
Bihar state is one of India's poorest. Experts have said the deaths shine a light on food safety in the country and have prompted discussion on how to improve national school food programs amid news that authorities warned of safety problems with Bihar's school meal program months ago.
On Friday, authorities in Bihar announced that a new committee would be formed to strengthen food preparation in rural schools. The state's mid-day meal director, R. Lakshmanan, said village communities will also help monitor standards of meals for schoolchildren.
Deaths cause protests
The Bihar students, who authorities said were between the ages of 5 and 12, started vomiting soon after their first bite of lunch. Some fainted.
The parents of at least three children have buried their lost ones near the school -- one right in front of the building, according to CNN journalists who saw the burial mounds. An official told CNN that the parents did so out of protest.
After the Bihar tragedy, demonstrations sprang up around the area as people angrily demanded answers. One news video showed men apparently attacking a school bus with sticks. Others gathered together and held signs. Students at nearby schools refused to eat. A group that supplies lunches to schools in the Chhapra district of Patna was attacked.
It's unclear whether the children were intentionally or accidentally poisoned. An investigation is under way, and police told CNN that investigators have been unable to find the headmistress of the school in order to question her. Authorities were questioning the cook, also hospitalized in the tragedy.
Agricultural chemical suspected
Officials believe the poison was an organophosphorus compound, a type of chemical that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says is commonly used in agriculture.
It's a nerve agent related to sarin gas, which is used in chemical warfare, the U.S. Health Department says. Exposure to a high dose can cause an irregular heartbeat, difficulty breathing, paralysis and seizures.
Bihar state Education Minister P.K. Shahi said the children were poisoned by an insecticide that was in the food. Shahi said he heard reports that the cook had questioned the quality of the oil she was supposed to use, but was overruled by the school's headmistress.
"The information which has come to me indeed suggests that the headmistress was told by the cook that medium of cooking was not proper, and she suspected the quality of the oil," Shahi said. "But the headmistress rebuked her, and chastised the children, and forced them to continue the meal."
According to the Indian government's figures, nearly half of India's children suffer from malnutrition of some sort. Since a landmark Supreme Court decision in 2001, all government schools in India have been required to provide free meals to students younger than 13.
Bihar state has been working "to improve the quality and ... try to get good food served," Shahi told CNN.
"However, the challenge is still there because the magnitude of this program is so huge that there are a number of challenges." He said those challenges are at least partly financial.
"Even though I would unhesitatingly admit that there are some quality issues before us, this is the first incident which has happened in the state," Shahi said. "In the past, we have received complaints regarding quality, but the incident of this nature ... has really shocked us -- shocked the entire state."
CNN's Harmeet Singh reported from India, and CNN's Ashley Fantz wrote in Atlanta.


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Hi, I'm trying to get an OS onto this phone - I have watched your video "4946-all-one-guide-how-upgrade-your-device-pictures-videos.html#post89051" but when I open the AppLoader folder there is nothing there except a folder called Images which is empty.
I have installed the OS on my desktop PC already. Can anyone help me?


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Reviewed By Daniel G (LONG BEACH, CA) Reviewed for a 2001 BMW 3-Series —11/4/2017 8:48 PM
My mechanic had told me about the performance, sound, and increase in gas mileage. Well, I don't know about the gas mileage.....but the sound is incredible! Performance, I feel a little increase. Overall, I truly think it's worth the price and time to install.


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I would like to use properties from an inheriting model's Meta class to configure a field defined in an abstract model higher up the inheritance tree:
class NamedModel(models.Model):
class Meta:
abstract = True
verbose_name = 'object'
name = models.CharField("Name",
help_text="A meaningful name for this %s." % Meta.verbose_name)
# see what I'm trying to do here?
class OwnedModel(NamedModel):
class Meta(NamedModel.Meta):
verbose_name = 'owned object'
I would like the help text on the name field of OwnedModel forms to say 'A meaningful name for this owned object'. But it does not: the word 'owned' is missing, which would suggest that the verbose_name from the NamedModel.Meta is used when the model is set up, not OwnedModel.Meta.
This isn't quite what I expect from an inheritance point of view: is there some way to get the field to be created whereby Meta.verbose_name refers to the value on the non-abstract model class, not the abstract one on which the field was defined?
Or am I being daft?
(This may seem like a trivial example, and it is: but it's just to illustrate the point of something more important and complex I am trying to do)
Many thanks in advance.


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Welcome to Used Car Face Off, where we find two similar or similarly priced used cars and ask you which one you would buy. Choose wisely!
A couple weeks ago, I focused on some coupes from the 2000s that were relatively cheap and one was relatively rare. Neither of them were particularly special, however, which is a quality you want from a car that will cause endless moments of inconvenience when transporting more than one other person. Coupes should look and feel special, yet few of them do today. Time to go back to the 1970s and '80s, I guess.
So many carmakers play it safe now that it's necessary to dig up some interesting creations from a time of fewer regulations and smaller manufacturers and importers who could afford to lose some money. This week, I've assembled some ambitious attempts that were otherwise massive failures. But ones that are reasonably sought after today.
The Citroen name sounds weird in the U.S., but only because you haven't been able to buy a new one here since the Nixon Administration. The SM, however, will always be weird, even by Citroen standards. That's fine, because weird usually means beautiful with this French company. This 1973 SM in brown is very, very beautiful. And it's one-owner. Fantastic.
Fantastic also describes the interior. It's brown in here, too. The gear lever for the five-speed manual operates in a funny way. The radio is mounted in traditional Citroen fashion: on the console where you can't see or use it. Useable? No. Inviting? Absolutely.
Power comes from a 3.0-liter V6, but the amazing thing about opening a Citroen's hood is seeing the Hydropneumatic suspension balls. Smooth engine, great ride, amazing looks – how could it have failed? Well, complexity for one. But you have to continue to applaud the ambition with the SM and even though the $24,500 price is high and you'll kill yourself looking for parts, shouldn't everyone own one? On second thought... no, not everyone should own an SM.
Citroen is still an established carmaker in Europe, and the SM was officially sold here in 1972 and 1973, so it's almost a mainstream choice when compared to this: the Bitter SC. What's a Bitter? It isn't a Ferrari 400, even though it looks like one. It's an Opel with a totally different body sold through Buick dealers that no one bought in the '80s. Another failed GM attempt to topple the imports? Actually, yes. That makes this 1985 Bitter SC very, very odd.
The exterior is actually pretty nice to look at. The inside, however, not so much. Thirty years shows the kind of progress we've made as a society regarding leather-upholstered dashboards. The color is the problem – too much cream.
Like the Citroen, it's a 3.0-liter six here. Unfortunately, I believe the automatic tied to this car is a three-speed unit. The fact it looks like a Ferrari doesn't win it any favors when people think you're going to go very quickly from a light. This is much cheaper than a Ferrari – or the Citroen for that matter – at $10,400. And it's probably much, more easy to fix. Maybe.
Would I be brave and take the Bitter? No, but not because it isn't without its charms or the fact you'd have the long explanation of its existence. It just doesn't come close to the marvel of the SM. And if I'm going to by a headache-inducing car, you want to hear people go "Wow" on a regular basis.