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Small number of 2013 Buick Encore models recalled for loose steering wheelThu, 04 Apr 2013 08:43:00 ESTBuick Encore due to an issue that could result in the steering wheel falling off on certain models. In a letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, GM says that 144 Encores equipped with heated steering wheels could have been incorrectly retrofitted due to a parts shortage.
Needless to say, a loose or separated steering wheel would likely cause an accident if it happened while the vehicle was in motion. The recall doesn't go into effect until April 12, but concerned Encore owners can use the official recall notice (attached below) to contact GM.
RECALL Subject: Steering Wheel may Detach
Report Receipt Date: MAR 28, 2013
NHTSA Campaign Number: 13V105000
Component(s): STEERING
Manufacturer: General Motors LLC
General Motors is recalling certain model year 2013 Buick Encore vehicles manufactured between December 9, 2012 and December 28, 2012, and equipped with a heated steering wheel. The steering wheel fastener may not have been properly installed. This could cause the steering wheel to come loose or separate from the steering column.
If the steering wheel separates from the steering column while driving, the ability to steer could be lost, increasing the risk of a crash.
General Motors will notify owners, and dealers will inspect and make any necessary repairs on the steering wheel. These services will be provided at no charge to the customer. The safety recall is expected to begin by April 12, 2013. Owners may contact General Motors at 1-800-521-7300. This is General Motors campaign number 13098.
Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
By Jeffrey N. Ross
See also: KBB 2013 Brand Image Awards has some obvious and oddball winners, 2014 Buick LaCrosse steps up to the big leagues with plenty of luxury, 2014 Buick Regal gets the party rolling in NY.


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Geodesic Domes: Have a mini Thunderdome on your site. You can cover the dome with an old surplus parachute.
Camo netting and ammo cases for a little military feel.
Vintage signs (Gasoline station signs, Ford, Chevy, etc).
Old car parts: chrome, grills, tires.
Chains: metal or plastic chains from your hardware store.
Old, torn-up fabric to cover your site or to fly as tattered flags. Old canvas tarps.
Don't forget the nighttime: string lights, rope lights, neon, solar-powered garden lights, bonfires, torches, etc.
Do some reading on Burning Man camping tip sites to get an idea of what you will need for the desert. Here's a good start: http://www.burningman.com/preparation/event_survival/securing.htmlThere will be a competition for best campsite, so get to work!

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There was nothing on at the movies last night that both of us wanted to see, so we decided to go down to the Warehouse and see if there were any cheap DVDs we could buy, and watch at home. Came home, fatally, with four DVDs and a video (of Antz). Found The Princess Bride, Charade, Calendar Girls and a triple DVD with Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, To Kill a Mockingbird and one of the Hemingway stories, Farewell to Arms.
We watched Charade, which just proved again that the pacing of movies has increased extraordinarily over the last few decades. Charade isn't slow, but it's quite talky in spots, particularly in the scenes between Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant. And Grant looks rather tired – he perks up with Hepburn, but in one or two other spots he's a little on the weary side. Hardly surprising, considering he was he was 59 when he made it, and has to do a lot of running around in the later scenes. Hepburn is lovely, and plays the scenes wonderfully. The kind of male/female dialogue seen here is something else that's gone from movies…by the second scene these two would have been in bed if the movie had been made recently, and then they wouldn't have had anything else to talk about. But they never come close to that, and even the kisses are nearly all on one side, because Grant has a job to do, and can't get involved. Some of the dialogue seems almost to have been put in as a result of the two actors playing the parts – as when Hepburn asks, cutting across the 'real' dialogue, how does Grant shave in the cleft in his chin…?


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Opinion: Is Chrysler's future autonomous?
The future of Chrysler has been up in the air in recent days. Currently, it only sells two models, the 300C and Pacifica, and appears to have been starved of development investment (despite promises from management). Some have even speculated Chrysler could be killed off entirely.
Which is why this week's surprise announcement that Google's self-driving vehicle division, Waymo, is to buy 62,000 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrids over the next few years is so significant.
Does it signal this long-running and innovative premium brand could be one of the world's first to merge into a fully autonomous car company?
The FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) and Waymo announcement itself hinted as much. The two "are beginning discussions about the use of Waymo self-driving technology, including potentially through licensing, in an FCA-manufactured vehicle available to retail customers".
Why couldn't Chrysler – the brand that has already helped reinvent the car several times with models such as the 1934 Airflow and the 1984 minivan range – become the first car company in the world to only sell autonomous vehicles?
The amount of learning that the company will benefit from given its close and growing relationship with Waymo will be considerable. Right now, Waymo is the only self-driving car company with a fleet of genuinely autonomous vehicles on public roads. Later in 2018, it will launch the world's first self-driving transportation service, so people can use the Waymo app to book a ride in an autonomous car. And that car will likely be? Yes, a Pacifica Hybrid.
"Waymo's goal from day one has been to build the world's most experienced driver and give people access to self-driving technology that will make our roads safer," said Waymo CEO John Krafcik. "We're excited to deepen our relationship with FCA that will support the launch of our driverless service, and explore future products that support Waymo's mission."
Chrysler: a modern luxury car company
Anyone who's seen a car company's dreamy corporate video on its autonomous future will likely have watched happy people enjoying the journey in a decadent open-plan living room-style cabin, decked out with large screens, luscious seats and little evidence of actually accommodating a driver. They often have steering wheels that retract into the dash. They invariably have front seats swivelled to face the rear.
This is the future of luxury motoring: moving spaces on wheels, rather than what we know as car interiors today. It's going to be a big leap for traditional luxury brands, particularly those that still emphasise driver-focused traits. Chrysler doesn't have such baggage. It hardly has a model range at all these days – but it does have two feet firmly in the autonomous car camp, with arguably the best player around right now, well ahead of any rivals.
And the Pacifica Hybrid's interior? It's already more like a living room on wheels than many other conventional cars. The attributes that make it such an acclaimed minivan would develop perfectly into being a desirable autonomous mini-room.
If ever this was an opportunity to revive its former mainstream-luxury status, once again make it an innovator, this is it. FCA could kill Chrysler, certainly. Or it could cash in on all the free publicity it's getting with its future-tech association with Waymo, all those people being wowed by Pacifica Hybrids that drive themselves, and reinvent Chrysler as a luxury car company of the future. With the tech-leader profit margins that presumably could come with it.
Doing so needn't cost a fortune. It would steal it a march over all its rivals. It would help FCA double down on its association with the autonomous car industry, and help spread this tech through to other brands in its range. Go on, Sergio Marchionne, throw the dice. What do you have to lose?


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It All Starts With A Blog Post
If you're trying to promote your product and service, you need to commence with a blogpost. Don't make your post all about you, or what you have to offer. It is crucial that you add price for your fans. What problem does your reader have that they feel as if your product can figure out. When you have written your masterwork it's time to share it with the planet. You can start by posting to Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn. Now great some sort of graphic that represents the main point of your blogpost. This graphic will be used to post to Pinterest. Before I move on I believe it is significant to identify that contemporary statistics indicate that Pinterests converts better than both Facebook and Twitter combined.
All Social Media Is Not Created Equal
To make sure your social promotional program is reaching your clients, find out where they assemble. Are a lot of them on Facebook or do they like Twitter? Dependent on your niche, you might be much better off having a look at LinkedIn or even YouTube. Poll your clients and find out where they spend their Internet hours. Pitch your tent there.
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Social media promoting can be used to make a rather more user-friendly storefront. Your main website is the most important, of course, but it's possible to set up a Facebook store that may be visited from any post on your account. Facebook users like to look around the site and may find your website and your items and will even make a purchase, all while staying on Facebook. This allows you to communicate with the potential consumers without the necessity to ever leave Facebook
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By using social media, you have found the hub of where people go so as to get information. Using this to your benefit will get you ahead in promoting your business. This draft was engineered to show you how and where to effectively use social media to boost your net position.
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text: URMC / Giving / Pages / The Meliora Challenge Together, We Made History On October 21, 2011 we publically launched The Meliora Challenge, our most ambitious fundraising campaign ever. Thank you for helping us Learn, Discover, Heal, Create — and make the world ever better. Dear Alumni and Friends, Thank you! Your generosity resulted in nearly $700 million being raised for the University of Rochester Medical Center to support faculty, students, and programs during The Meliora Challenge: The Campaign for the University of Rochester. Please check out the infographic below on the URMC campaign. Your support has helped to propel our effort to cure and prevent disease, educate future leaders in medicine, nursing and dentistry, and set new standards for patient care. Best Regards, Mark B. Taubman, MD CEO, University of Rochester Medical Center and UR Medicine Dean, School of Medicine and Dentistry


text: Shortly after International Book Day, we visited Balham Library who had invited Chestnut Grove Primary School to a special film screening and talk by Book Aid International who are based in South London. We were blown away by the delightful and very thoughtful comments of the pupils - too many great answers to share in this report! http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/libraries https://bookaid.org/ http://www.chestnutgrove.wandsworth.sch.uk/ #gettoknowyourlibrary @ChestnutGroveAc @Better_Balham library @wandsworthlibs


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In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
All thanks and praise is due to Allah, we seek His help and forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allah from the evil within ourselves and the consequences of our evil deeds.
Whoever Allah guides will never be led astray, and whoever Allah leads astray will never find guidance. I bear witness there is no god but Allah, alone without any partners, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His Servant and His Messenger.
"O you who have believed, fear Allah as He should be feared and do not die except as Muslims in submission to Him." [Quran, 3:102]
"O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them many men and women. And fear Allah, through whom you ask one another, and the wombs. Verily, Allah is ever watching over you." [Quran, 4:1]
"O you who have believed, fear Allah and speak words of appropriate justice. He will then amend for you your deeds and forgive your sins, and whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has certainly attained a great attainment." [Quran, 33:70-71]
Verily, the most truthful speech is the Book of Allah, the best guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (Peace be upon him), and the worst affairs are newly invented matters (in the religion). Every newly invented matter is a religious innovation, and every religious innovation is misguidance, and every misguidance is in the Hellfire.
To proceed:
Brothers and Sisters! Christians and Muslims have differed for centuries over the nature and status of Jesus Christ. Both religions revere him and both believe him to be of virgin-birth. Both religions claim to know his true nature and purpose. Muslims believe that Christian leaders of old altered the scriptures in order to redefine the status of this Noble and virtuous Prophet of Almighty Allah. In fact, eminent Christian theologians readily admit that the Bible has been altered throughout the ages, so in that respect, there is no disagreement. The renowned Biblical scholar from the USA, Dr. Bart D. Ehrman, formerly the president of the Southeast Region of the Society of Biblical Literature stated that:
"One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them to be pastors. They are taught critical approaches to Scripture, they learn about the discrepancies and contradictions, they discover all sorts of historical errors and mistakes.. They find that there are other books that were at one time considered canonical but that ultimately did not become part of Scripture, they come to recognize that a good number of the books of the Bible are pseudonymous (written in the name of an apostle by someone else), that in fact we don't have the original copies of any of the biblical books but only copies made centuries later, all of which have been altered." [See: Bart D. Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the hidden contradictions in the Bible and why we don't know About them]
This altering of the original message of Jesus is also stated in the Islamic texts: the Quran and Prophetic Hadith:
"VERILY, THIS IS THE TRUE NARRATIVE CONCERNING JESUS. INDEED ALLAH IS ALMIGHTY, THE ALL-WISE." [Quran, 3:62]
Muslims believe that Allah sent another Prophet after the Prophet Jesus, whose coming was foretold in previous scriptures such as the Torah revealed to Moses (Musa) and in the Gospels that were revealed to Jesus (Isa). This final Prophet was Muhammad. Allah stated in the Quran:
"Say O Muslims: We believe in Almighty Allah, and that which has been revealed to us, and that which has been revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and to the Tribes of Israel, and that which has been given to Moses and Jesus, and that which has been given to the Prophets from their Lord. We do not discriminate against any of them, and to Him (the one true Allah) we have submitted." [Quran, 2:136]
Allah also informed mankind that the previous scriptures have been changed, altering much of the original message, and can no longer be relied upon. So from Allah's Mercy, He sent the final Prophet, whose name was Muhammad (Peace be upon him) with the final revelation, the Quran. Allah protected it from corruption and alteration. The following are some important points of belief with respect to Jesus (Peace be upon him):
1- Muslims believe that Jesus was born of miraculous birth. Allah said in the Quran:
"The example of Jesus in the sight of Allah is like the example of Adam. Allah created him from clay and then said to him: "Be!" And he came into being. This is the truth from your Lord so do not be from those who doubt." [Quran, 3:59-60]
From the outset it must be made clear that Muslims believe that Jesus is a Prophet of Allah, born from virgin birth, from a Noble mother, Mary (Maryam), who was untouched by any man. The Angels said to Mary:
"O Mary, verily Allah has chosen you, purified you from unbelief and immoral conduct, and chosen you above the women of creation." [Quran, 3:42]
Then she was informed that she would have a son:
"O Mary, verily Allah gives you the glad tidings of a word spoken by Him. His name will be the Messiah Jesus, son of Mary, held in honour in this world and in the Hereafter, and of those brought near to Allah." [Quran, 3:45]
She was a virgin, untouched so she asked:
"O my Lord, how shall I have a son when no man has touched me?"
He replied:
"So it will be, for Allah creates what He wills. When He has decreed something, He only says to it, 'Be!' and it is." [Quran, 3:47]
So Jesus was created from a command from Allah Almighty, he is not the son of God and nor is Mary "the mother of god."
In defence of the accusations against his mother, Allah promised Mary that Jesus would speak whilst still a baby:
"He will speak to the people in the cradle and in manhood, and he will be one of the righteous." [Quran, 3:46]
2- Muslims believe Jesus was a Prophet sent by Allah, not the son of God, nor part of a Trinity. After Jesus was taken into the Heavens, Christians incorrectly began to believe that since Jesus had no worldly human father, then God (Allah) must be his literal father, and so the author of the Gospels of John who never met Jesus, stated almost a century after Christ:
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten son." [1 John 4:9]
Brothers and Sisters! The vast majority of Christian scholars do not believe that John or any of the Apostles wrote these words. So these are clearly not the words of God, nor the words of Christ. And this ultimately led to the Prophet Jesus (Peace be upon him) himself being worshipped by later Christians. Consequently this was the introduction of the worship of others besides Allah into Christianity. Islam categorically forbids this attribution of a son to Allah:
"Say: He is Allah, the One. Allah is the Self-Sufficient He begets not, nor was He begotten, And there is none co-equal or comparable unto Him." [Quran, 112:1-4]
Indeed there is no proof to show that any of the disciples of Christ worshipped Jesus because they knew that to worship anyone other than God (whom the Muslims refer to as Allah) would be a clear violation of the first and most important of all the commandments in the Bible:
"You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourselves any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: You shall not bow down yourselves to them, nor serve them." [Exodus 20]
Therefore to direct worship of any sort towards the beloved Prophet Jesus or his respected mother is a clear violation of this universally agreed upon commandment. Allah commands similarly in the Quran:
"And from His signs are the night and the day, and the Sun and Moon – so do not prostrate to the Sun or the Moon but prostrate to Allah alone, the one who created them if it is He whom you truly [claim to] worship." [Quran, 41:37]
Furthermore Allah the Most High states:
"They have disbelieved who say: Allah is the Messiah son of Mary." [Quran, 5:72]
And He said:
"They have disbelieved who say: Allah is the third of three [in a Trinity]." [Quran, 5:73]
3- Muslims believe that Jesus and Mary were Noble humans, Servants of Allah and not objects of worship. As such Muslims revere the Prophet Jesus, and they likewise revere Mary, the mother of the Messiah. Allah stated in the Quran:
"The Messiah son of Mary is but a Messenger of Allah and Messengers before him have passed away, and his mother was a truthful woman – they both used to eat food." [Quran, 5:75]
In this verse Allah makes it clear that Jesus is a Messenger of Allah, Mary is a truthful woman and both were humans because they ate food, which was provided to them by their Lord – showing that they were reliant upon their Lord. For any Muslim to direct worship to a Prophet or any other being besides Allah is considered to be idolatry (Shirk).
4- Jesus was a sincere and humble servant of Allah:
"And behold! Allah will say on the Day of Judgment: 'O Jesus son of Mary! Did you say unto men, worship me and my mother as gods instead of Allah?' He will say: 'Glory to Thee! Never could I say what I had no right to say. Had I said such a thing, You would indeed have known it. You know what is in my inner-self, though I know not what is in Yours. For You know in full all that is hidden. Never did I say to them anything except what You commanded me to say: 'Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord.' And I was a witness over them while I lived among them. When You took me up, You were the Watcher over them, and You are a witness to all things.'" [Quran, 5:116-117]
Even in the Bible there are clear statements showing that Jesus (Peace be upon him) would direct worship to Allah. Read here a verse from the Christian Bible read by all Christian Arabs:
"And Jesus said to him: Why do you call me good? No one is good except Allah alone!" [Mark 10:18]
Here Jesus distinguishes himself from Allah, i.e. that he is the worshipper and Allah is the one to be worshipped. In the Old Testament of the Arabic Bible, we find the following:
"In the beginning Allah created the Heavens and the Earth." [Genesis, verse 1]
Many Christians in the West become astonished when they read these words, because they imagined that Allah is exclusively the deity of the Muslims, but the reality is that Allah is the Lord and Allah who created Adam and made him the first Prophet, He is the same Allah who sent Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob, Moses, John, Jesus and Muhammad (Peace and blessings be upon them all). Many people in the West perceive Allah as a "foreign" god of the Arabs. But now you can see that the name Allah refers to the One God, Lord and Creator of all existence, who has the sole right to be worshipped.
5- Muslims believe that Jesus was not crucified but rather he was taken up into the Heavens before he could be harmed:
"They said in boast: "We killed the Messiah Jesus son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah." But they killed him not, nor did they crucify him – but it was only made to appear as such to them." [Quran, 4:157]
The Quran also informs us:
"And remember when Allah said: O Jesus, I will take you and raise you to Myself and clear you from the forged statements of those who disbelieve." [Quran, 3:55]
So he was raised to the Heavens before they could capture him and kill him. Then Allah placed his image on another who was killed in his place. This further leads to the Islamic belief that he was not resurrected after death because he did not die. However the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) stated that Jesus will descend before the Last Day to establish Allah's worship and justice on earth, he will then die as others die. This ascension of Jesus into the heavens is also mentioned in the Bible:
"And while they were gazing into heaven as Jesus ascended, behold, two men stood by them in white robes (Angels), and said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven." [Acts 1:11]
Christian scribes however decided to make this ascension seem as though it occurred after the so-called resurrection so as to fit in with later Christian doctrine which prescribed that Jesus "the son of God" died for the sins of mankind. So without the death and subsequent resurrection of Christ, this doctrine would have no validity. Islam teaches that each individual carries the burden of his own sins or the sins he teaches others – and Allah readily accepts the repentance of the believing servant when he seeks forgiveness from Allah by calling upon Him directly and seeking His Mercy without any need of intercessors. Islam is vehemently monotheistic and regards any act of worship directed towards other than Allah to be polytheistic. So worship such as supplication, prostration, seeking refuge, seeking divine aid, assistance and support, seeking forgiveness and deliverance and so on can only be sought from the one true God, Allah.
6- Muslims affirm and believe in the Miracles of Jesus (Peace be upon him) that took place by the permission of Allah:
"O Jesus son of Mary! Remember my favour to you and to your mother when I supported you with the Angel Gabriel so that you spoke to the people from the cradle as a baby and in maturity. Behold! I taught you the Book and the Wisdom, the Torah and the Gospel. And you made out of clay the figure of a bird and you breathed into it, and it became a living bird by my permission, and you healed those born blind, and the lepers by my permission. And behold! You brought forth the dead by my permission. And when I restrained the Children of Israel from you when they resolved to kill you after you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, 'This is nothing but magic.'" [Quran, 5:110]
Respected Brothers and Sisters! These miracles were performed by the permission of Allah as a sign for the people of his Prophethood and truthfulness. Many of the Prophets were given miracles by the permission of Allah: Moses (Musa) parted the Red Sea by Allah's permission, Muhammad split the Moon in two by Allah's permission and so on.
7- Jesus is the brother of the Prophets. The Prophet Muhammad (Peace and blessings be upon him) said:
"I am the closest of all the people to Jesus the son of Mary in this life and in the life after death." His disciples asked him: "How is that O Messenger of Allah?" He replied: "The Prophets are paternal brothers – their mothers are different but their Religion is one, and there was no Prophet between myself and Jesus."
It is established by way of the Torah, the Gospels, the Quran and the authentic Prophetic tradition that the lineage of Muhammad and Jesus goes back to the Prophet Abraham (Ibrahim Peace be upon him). Abraham had two sons: Ishmael and Isaac. Isaac's son was Jacob also known as Israel. Jacob had twelve sons from whom emanate the Children and tribes of Israel and its Prophets. From the lineage of the Prophet Ishmael descended the Prophet Muhammad through the Arabian tribes. All of mankind are obligated by these revealed texts to accept Muhammad as the final Prophet and the Quran as the final revelation that has abrogated all previous revelations. Allah commanded humans to testify that, "there is no diety worthy of worship in truth except for Almighty Allah; and Muhammad is His servant and Messenger; and Jesus the son of Mary is His servant and Messenger." You too can testify to this right now.
8- The unbelievers plotted against Jesus in his life to have him killed but Allah saved him. Allah said in the Quran:
"Meanwhile the disbelievers plotted to have Jesus killed, and Allah plotted in response, and Allah is the best of plotters." [Quran, 2:54]
The unbelievers plotted to kill Jesus, but Allah plotted in response to the wrongdoers. So this deemed the plot of Allah to be a praiseworthy attribute because it established justice. Allah changed the form and features of one of the people present so that he resembled Jesus. It is said that one of those who plotted against Jesus was changed by Allah to look like Jesus, and was executed in his place, though he pleaded that he was not Jesus. He left out to get Jesus killed but found himself being arrested and executed. So that sealed the plot of Allah against them in the best way. Another saying is that when the unbelievers came to seize Jesus, Jesus asked his disciples who would wish to take his place in this world to be seized and killed, and in turn receive the promise of Paradise for his sacrifice. So one of the disciples stepped forward, was seized and executed. In this is the fruition of the plot of Allah in response to their plotting in that they were not able to kill Jesus. Allah stated:
"They say in boast, 'We killed the Messiah Jesus son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah.' But they killed him not, nor did they crucified him, but the resemblance of Jesus was put over another man." [Quran, 4:157]
9- Muslims believe that Jesus (Peace be upon him) is the anointed Messiah who will return at the end of time and fight and kill the Anti-Christ (Dajjal). The Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said:
"By Him in whose Hand is my very soul, Jesus son of Mary will soon descend among you as a just judge. He will break the cross, kill the swine, abolish the jizyah (the duty paid by non-Muslims living under the protection of a Muslim country) and the wealth will pour forth to such an extent none will accept charity." [Bukhari]
The cross is not but an object of torture and execution used in ancient times, it is not a symbol of God or Christ. So it is strange that centuries after Christ, it was used as a charm, kissed, revered and worshipped – would Jesus recognise this strange practice to be a teaching that he taught his disciples? Furthermore, Jesus himself was not crucified so it has no connection to him, even symbolically. The Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) also said:
"There is no Prophet between me and Jesus (Peace be upon him). He will descend to the earth, and when you see him, you will recognise him as a man of medium height, reddish fair, wearing two light yellow garments, he will look as if drops were falling down from his head though it will not be wet… He will kill the Antichrist and will live on the earth for forty years and then die. Then the Muslims will pray the funeral prayer for him." [Abu Dawud]
So the true followers of Jesus today believe also in Muhammad as a Messenger and devoted Servant of the same Allah who sent Jesus.
10- Choose Islam today: The Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said:
"Whoever says, 'I testify that none has the right to be worshipped except Allah alone, He has no partners in worship – and Muhammad is His devoted Servant and Messenger, and Jesus is His devoted servant, the son of His maid-servant Mary, he was Allah's Word which He announced unto Mary and His spirit – and he testifies that Paradise is true, and Hellfire is true, then Allah will enter him into Paradise through whichever of the eight gates of Paradise he pleases." [Bukhari]
This single utterance spoken sincerely and truthfully will enter you into the Islamic fold and put you on a path to Paradise and Allah's eternal pleasure.
"Educated, intelligent Christian men and women are accepting the Islam of Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad after learning and verifying that Christ's original true message was fused with Egyptian and Roman mythology to create a new religion so as to make it palatable and acceptable to Roman [Pagan] Europe. I have studied him (Muhammad), that wonderful man, and in my opinion, far from being an Anti-Christ, he must be called the saviour of humanity." [George Bernard Shaw, in his book 'The Genuine Islam']
I ask Allah to assist us in living by the Quran and Sunnah. I pray He lets us recognise the truth for what it is and helps us to follow it, and that He lets us see falsehood for what it is and helps us to avoid it.
O Allah! Guide us and protect us from the causes of ignorance and destruction! Save us from the defects of ourselves! Cause the last of our deeds to be the best and most righteous! And forgive all of us.
My respected people! Anything good I have said in my today's Khutbah (Sermon) is from Allah the Almighty, and any mistakes are my own and I seek refuge in Allah from giving wrong advice and from all forms of calamities and fitnah. And I ask Allah's forgiveness if I stepped beyond bounds in anything I said or I do.
May Allah be praised; and may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon His Messenger Muhammad and upon his family and Companions.
With this I conclude my Khutbah (Sermon) and ask Allah, the Almighty and the Sublime, to forgive all of our sins. So seek his forgiveness, He is all forgiving and Most Merciful.
This Jumu'ah Khutbah (Friday Sermon) was prepared for delivery today, Friday, Rabi'ul Thani 3rd, 1439 AH (December 22, 2017), by Imam Murtadha Muhammad Gusau, the Chief Imam of Nagazi-Uvete Jumu'ah and late Alhaji Abdurrahman Okene's Mosques, Okene Kogi State, Nigeria. He can be reached via: +2348038289761 or email@example.com


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Adolescent room beautifying thoughts are anything but difficult to create once you recognize what young people love the most. Obviously, every individual has a one of a kind identity. So configuration styles and designing topics will clearly change from individual to individual. Be that as it may, We ca dependably sum up specific standards in teenager room enhancing that can be utilized as a diagram for high schooler room brightening ventures.
When in doubt high schooler infuriates are searching for a spot for articulation and if their room offers them a chance to do this, it will work incredible for them. As a parent or a creator it's your obligation to initially make kinship with the particular adolescent kid or young lady for whom you are adorning the room.
The greater part of the occasions you will find that they are looking a good example, all things considered. This can be a genuine individual who has accomplished some striking outcomes in their recorded of mastery. Young people can have distinctive energy on life, for example,
1) Sports exercises -, for example, skating, soccer, swimming, cycling, baseball
2) Hobbies -, for example, demonstrate plane making, toy trains, origami, earth displaying, manikin making, painting and drawing, outlining
3) Special aptitudes -, for example, performing expressions like singing, moving, and so on.
On the off chance that you discover any of this present in the young person for whom you will design a room for, your assignment turns out to be simple. You should simply think about in subtleties the different parts of the particular side interest in detail either by finding out about it or examining it with the adolescent kid or young lady.
Such sort of dialog will address numerous inquiries, for example,
Are there any uncommon instruments required to play out this pastime?
What amount of least space is required?
What is the finished result?
For instance if a young person kid cherishes making model planes, the end result for the plane that gets wrapped up? Where to store it?
Another model would be of a youngster young lady who cherishes pencil drawing. You can ask her particular inquiry, for example, from where does she get thoughts for portraying? Does she sketch genuine pictures if yes shoes welcome somebody in her room to sit on a little seat so she can make a sketch. For this situation you should search for additional room for such exercises with respect to great lighting conditions, whenever required.
So adolescent room improving is about the young person oneself. When you know the particular needs of the individual, everything else turns into a matter of drawing a couple of options and finishing it by examining it with the young person kid or young lady. Along these lines you will have secured a very braod part of the finishing topic that can come to fruition further with itemizing.


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Steffi Marth's mission is to squeeze the best out of every day. The professional mountain biker from east Germany loves challenges of all kinds like racing bikes, trying new sports and taking adventurous trips. Her life on two wheels began at the age of 12 on a BMX bike and after becoming a pro 4X racer, she was pushed higher into the mountains with the desire to explore. She is a multiple National Champion and World Champs Bronze Medal winner.
For many years now Steffi shares her passion with fresh faces at her skills camps and loves to spread her great enthusiasm for bikes. When not behind bars, you can find her with her handcrafting-box, doing crosswords, yoga or behind the camera.


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What hidden forces control the information we see online-- and how? You may think you know, but you likely can't imagine how pervasive it is. Watch our investigative report from Full Measure at the links below. (Two parts.) #Wikipedia #Snopes #FakeNews #Astroturf #Propaganda #Gab #AndrewTorba http://fullmeasure.news/news/cover-story/sum-of-all-knowledge-part-1 http://fullmeasure.news/news/cover-story/sum-of-knowledge-part-2


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Chicago, IL -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/10/2012 -- Allofmp3, provider of the popular music forum aom3.org, has recently reviewed the online music shop mp3va.com and has stated that it has the largest music catalogue available online. The company, which has been reviewing online music shops to help their users buy legit and cheapest music, also stated that this music database record has not surprised them because the online music shop has been building its catalogue for past 5 years. The company further informed that mp3va.com was unheard of before because their provision of mainstream albums was later than their competitors. Now mp3va.com is providing these mainstream albums and is also offering two free tracks to display the quality of their mp3 tracks.
In the mp3va review, the company has stated that the online music shop's catalogue is almost twice that of other music providers. The review further informs that mp3va's user interface is simple yet effective and also has additional features if required by customers. The download speed of the mp3s is also complemented, stating that the speed of the downloads will match the user's max internet speed. Mp3va.com provides a 20% discount on all albums and charges $ 0.15 per track with permanent special offers, states the review. Overall the online music shop has received a highly recommended mark giving it an 88% personal rating.
Aom3.org has been one of the most active music forums on the internet. Users discuss various topics on the site and also inform each other of latest offers for buying song tracks and albums. The company itself reviews music providers and updates the users on latest music news. The forum has been considered as one of the best places to gain attention for new artists or existing ones who are trying gain popularity. The company also informs its users on the legality of music and maintains a friendly atmosphere by constant observations.
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Introduction: How to Make a Really Cool Blowgun Dart
want to make a dart for your blowgun that not only looks really cool but is really fast? then this is the instructable for you, but naa really this is pretty good, enjoy.
Step 1: Step 1: Gathering Materials and Stuff
for this easy and really cool dart, you will need:
1 A4 sheet of paper
1 nail
2 rolls of different colored electrical tape (i.e red and black rolls)
1 roll of wool/yarn (colored to match the tape is recomended for awesomness)
1 pair of scissors
1 pocket knife (optional but preferred)
Step 2: Step 2: Cut and Roll
get your A4 sheet of paper and cut into the centre like so, then roll it into an amazingley awesome cone like mine, if u cant ill settle for just awesome (sorry i couldnt hold the camera and take a pic)
Step 3: Step 3: Tape and Cut(again)
tape up the cone so that u cant see any white left,
then put it into ur blowgun to see where to cut it so it fits and then CUT
almost done the basic part
Step 4: Step 4: Nail and Tape and YEAH
get your nail and drop it down the open cone, then get a pencil or somthin and push it down so it sticks out the apex of the cone.
get your other color tape and wrapo round the nail and up the cone so that the nail wont go no where
lookin pretty snazzy huh
Step 5: Step 4: Its a Wooly End
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One of the more prominent industrial unions in the US voted to endorse the goals of the worldwide boycott, divestment and sanction [BDS] movement against "Israel", citing "its long history of violating the human rights of the Palestinians," thus becoming the first nationwide union to do so.
The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers' national convention met in Baltimore last week and voted on a string of foreign and as well as domestic policy issues, including the call to boycott "Israel" and support the nuclear deal with Iran.
According to a statement on the UE's website, the union voted in favor of the "Justice and Peace for the Peoples of Palestine and "Israel"", and cited the Zionist entity's sordid human rights record: "starting with the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians in 1947-48 that turned most of Palestine into the "State of Israel"."
The move's goal, the union said, was "to pressure "Israel" to end its apartheid over the Palestinians just as similar tactics helped to end South African apartheid in the 1980s." The union further called for the US aid to "Israel" to be cut off and expressed support for "the right to return."
The union also voted on a number of other foreign policy issues, including the demand to end US military intervention in the Middle East and other regions.
"We [need] to get rid of this culture of war," said Mike Ferritto, a local delegate. "We have done enough damage. We need to get out of the Middle East," said Brandon Dutton, another delegate.
The vote on "Israel" was prompted by an encounter with Palestinian trade unionists during the World Social Forum in Tunisia. Delegate Autumn Martinez, who cosponsored the resolution and participated in the meet, said: "It's absolutely disgusting what is going on; Free Palestine!"


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The teachings of the Master of Public Health in Comparative Effectiveness Research are offered by Paris Descartes University that encompasses all the fields of knowledge of human and health sciences. Its health department is renowned in Europe and in the whole world for the high quality of its training and the excellence of its research.
This is a unique opportunity to get a specialised Master in Comparative Effectiveness Research, a first of its kind in Europe, offered by top-level professors coming from Paris Descartes University, Paris Diderot University but also from the best European universities such as Amsterdam University, Danube University Krems, the University of Bern, Oxford University, Queen's University Belfast, Manchester University, and York University.


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Fenway Park College Night
Wednesday September 21, 2011 at 7:10 pm
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Kick off the semester with College Night at Fenway Park! The school year is just getting started, but we think you already deserve a break so take a nine-inning one with hundreds of other students at the Orioles vs. Red Sox game on Wednesday, September 21 at 7:10 pm.
This special event is just $20, which is the regular price of a General Standing Room Only ticket, but includes everything listed below:
-A General Standing Room ticket ($20.00 value) to the Orioles vs. Red Sox game on Wednesday, September 21 at 7:10 p.m.
-A "College Night at Fenway" t-shirt courtesy of New Balance
-A private, pre-game party on the Budweiser Right Field Roof Deck from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm (concessions items are not included, but are available for purchase)
-A raffle that includes ticket upgrades, autographed items, and other cool prizes
-Exclusive access to the Players' Club lounge during the game
-Opportunity to take photos with the 2004 and 2007 World Series Trophies
-A visit from Wally the Green Monster
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POLICE sources have confirmed what The VOICE was told on Thursday night by an anonymous source that the person shot dead in Abbotsford is Manbir Singh Grewal of Coquitlam, brother of slain gangster Gavinder Grewal, who was found dead in his North Vancouver apartment with injuries consistent with homicide on December 23, 2017.
This is the 14th South Asian to be murdered this year in the Lower Mainland area. None of the murders has been solved.
On Thursday at 6:43 p.m., the Abbotsford Police Department responded to reports of shots fired in front of a business in the 32000-block of South Fraser Way at Clearbrook Road. Upon arrival, officers located a deceased male.
Police said: "We are in the early stages of this investigation; however, the initial indications suggest this appears to be a targeted incident."
A large area outside the CIBC bank on South Fraser Way near Cedar Park Place was cordoned off by police. The victim was shot just inside or just outside the bank that was open at the time, according to one report.
The Major Crime Unit of the Abbotsford Police Department was to transition this investigation over to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT).
Anyone with information about this incident should call the IHIT Tip Line at 1-877-551-4448 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
SURREY RCMP had in late July of 2017 cautioned the public against interaction with Manbir Grewal, then 28, and four other individuals who had been the targets of shots-fired incidents at the time.
"Each of these individuals has refused to provide information to police on these violent incidents," said Assistant Commissioner Dwayne McDonald, Surrey RCMP Officer in Charge, at the time. "At this point, we must assume that these men continue to be targets and, as such, we are advising the public to be cautious of any interaction with these five individuals."
Now, a year later, Manbir Grewal is dead.
The killer or killers apparently managed to get into the building from the front door and then went up the stairwell as access to any floor requires a card. CTV showed the broken lock on the stairwell door and the broken door handle lying on the floor where the victim lived. Police had collected fingerprints from that area.
Back in March 2015, Abbotsford Police had issued what they called "an important public safety notification" warning the public about three men it believed posed "a risk of significantGrewal was known to police and associated to gang activity. Investigators believe Grewal's murder was targeted and linked to other gang violence in the Lower Mainland.
The three men were involved in an ongoing conflict and a criminal lifestyle that included violence, drugs, and weapons. Police released their photos in an unusual move.
One of the three was Grewal, who police said had a criminal conviction for extortion and possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking. He was prohibited from possessing firearms.
In June 2016, almost six years after the crime, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team announced that Gavinder Grewal, then 29, and Jason Himpfen, then 41, had been arrested and charged in the July 2010 homicide of Mandy Johnson and the attempted murder of Gator Browne in Abbotsford. Grewal was charged with manslaughter in relation to Johnson as well as the attempted murder of Browne. Himpfen was charged with second-degree murder in relation to Johnson and the attempted murder of Browne.
The other 13 South Asians killed in 2018
* January:
Sachdeep Dhoot, 18, of Surrey: Last seen on January 9, body found in Vancouver on January 18. Vancouver Police said it appeared to be a targeted murder.
* January 19:
Lovepreet Singh Dhaliwal (Jason), 24, of Abbotsford. Police said he was trying to leave a criminal lifestyle.
* January 27:
Kalwinder Thind, 23, of Richmond, an innocent victim who died outside a downtown Vancouver nightclub on Granville Street while trying to break up a fight.
* February 15:
Kaminder Rai, 32, of Surrey, a realtor who was killed in Vancouver.
* March 9:
Pardip Brar, 23, of Delta, who was killed in Surrey. He was known to police.
* April 26:
Amin Vinepal, 24, of Delta, whose body was found in Surrey. He was known to police.
* June 4:
Jaskarn Singh Jhutty (Jason), 16, and Jaskaran Singh Bhangal (Jesse), 17, both of Surrey. The Frank Hurt Secondary School students' bodies with gunshot wounds were found on a roadside.
* July:
Sukhpreet Grewal, 32, of Abbotsford, whose body was found inside a home on July 20. He was known to police.
* August 4:
Gagandeep Singh Dhaliwal, 19, of Abbotsford. He was known to police.
* August 19:
Lakhwinder Singh Bal, 48, of Surrey. He was known to police.
* October 2:
Varinderpal Singh Gill, 19, was shot dead in Mission. Abbotsford Police had issued a public warning about him on August 15.
* October 11
Sumeet Randhawa, 30, of Surrey, who was known to police, was shot dead.


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Jamie West is the Provincial Member of Parliament for the riding of Sudbury.
Born and raised in Sudbury, Jamie has devoted himself to working to address the issues affecting families in the community, including healthcare, poverty, public safety, and opposing the privatization of public assets like the selling off of Hydro One.
Jamie is a well-known advocate for workers' rights and fairness. He was identified as one of Canada's 250 emerging leaders for the 2017 Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference.
Prior to the 2018 election, he was the President of the Sudbury & District Labour Council and the Worker Safety Rep at the Copper Cliff Smelter. As a Sessional Professor, Jamie also taught 1st and 2nd year Health and Safety at Laurentian University's School of Northern Development.
Jamie believes in giving back through volunteerism. He has been a United Way volunteer since 2002 and has sat on several boards and advisory committees in the Greater Sudbury area.
He is a graduate of Cambrian College and Laurentian University.
Jamie is honoured to be your MPP and is working hard for the people of Sudbury.


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Cream of parmesan with truffle. 140 gr net wright.
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A Turkish company has come up with a machine that feeds stray dogs while encouraging people to be environmentally friendly.
When a plastic bottle is thrown into Pugedon's 'Smart Recycling Boxes', dog food is dispensed into a bowl on the ground.
The remaining water in the bottles can even be poured into the machines to provide a drink for the animals.
The idea is that the bottles that are recycled pay for the dog food.
Istanbul has 150,000 stray dogs and cats, according to Big Think, and dealing with the problem has been a controversial issue for the city's residents.
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If you like to see yourself increase in value, grow in wisdom and understanding, contribute more to prosperity, then you know that pretending that you are fine where you are is like locking up yourself in a room with no windows.
Because soon or later, you will run out of fresh air and eventually run out of life itself.
The path of personal development is the path of adding fresh air to our daily progress, or else we are in trouble.
Here are some important questions to think about.
Have you been locking up yourself in the same room of life for the last year or so?
Are you doing the same thing today as you did five years ago?
Are you getting rewarded for your contribution today as you did five years ago?
Are you all too comfortable where you are that you are scared to move a muscle?
Have they convinced you that there is security in laying around a stagnant pond than it is to go with the river that flows?
Is it time to open up your doors and windows for fresh air?
Is it time to face your fears?
Is it time to act as though failure wasn't meant for you?
What if you had like, three days to live or something, would you still do what you are about to do? Talk what you usually talk about? Wouldn't you want to think about what legacy you are leaving behind?
Tell me, are the people around you the reason you don't want to sail beyond that muddy pond?
Don't you think it's time to move on? Time to stand tall and embrace the path of continuous personal improvement (CPI)?
Is it your progress o'clock?
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We are all familiar with the open-plan office: noisy, wide-open spaces with people crouching behind minimal screens on tiny, tightly packed desks. "I disagree. That is just poor open-plan design." Meet Nigel Oseland, one of Britain's most renowned workplace consultants and a strong advocate for the original type of open-plan office – the Bürolandschaft.
Originally a physiologist, Nigel Oseland switched his focus to psychology while monitoring brain activity in the neurology department at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He received a bachelor's degree in psychology and went on to do research for the government's Building Research Establishment. There, he studied the impact of environmental conditions in buildings on satisfaction, comfort and performance, while studying for his master's and doctoral degrees. After 11 years he decided to venture out into the "real" world and became a workplace consultant. We asked him to explain what that means.
Nigel Oseland's own description is quite juicy:
"I think of us as the meat in the management-architect burger, and, yes, sometimes with a little cheese or relish." Of course, he offers a more formal description as well: "I help organizations make better use of their space, either by using it more efficiently to save money, or preferably by using it to facilitate a culture or workstyle change and improve business performance."
By all accounts, he is doing a good job. Nigel Oseland is co-founder of WCO, the Workplace Consulting Organisation, and has a leading reputation in the field. For the past 14 years, together with his wife, he has organized the Workplace Trends Conference, one of the most highly regarded conferences dedicated to workplace design and cultural innovation. If you want to discuss activity-based design, human-centred design, flexible working and agile working, Nigel Oseland is your man. But which of these terms should we use?
"They are similar terms with slightly different nuances. In the UK we tend to talk about agile working, which is about creating flexible environments that you can quickly adapt to the business. Elements of agile working include flexibility regarding work – where, when and how you work – and providing the spaces needed to do that. Sometimes people need a brainstorming room, breakout spaces, quiet rooms or teleconferencing booths. Instead of believing that all work has to be done at a desk or in a meeting room, you introduce a richer mix of work settings to facilitate different types of activity."
Admittedly this sounds logical. We might expect every office on the planet to follow these principles. But, as we all know, that is not the case. Still, Nigel Oseland is optimistic.
"I've been doing this for more than 15 years now, and particularly before the last recession, in 2008, I started to see glimmers of hope. People were coming to me and asking: How can we create collaborative environments, implement a culture change, and use my workspace to facilitate this?"
"Then we hit the recession", he says, "and it was all about consolidating and reducing space. But I have seen the discussion coming back again. We only need a five per cent improvement in our performance to pay for our buildings. That's all we are looking for. Five per cent!"
Currently, Nigel Oseland is conducting a major survey on psychoacoustics – a study on how sound affects the physical, physiological and psychological parts of humans. "It's not only about how we perceive sound, but about how we interpret it."
Human interpretation of sound, and hence performance, is mainly determined by four factors, according to Nigel Oseland:
"Perceived control is a difficult but interesting one. Studies have shown that lack of control has a negative effect on performance. And it persists 24 hours later. If we feel we have no control one day, it still affects our performance the next day."
Offering other places to go, fit for purpose, is one way to enhance perceived control. Another is to introduce an office etiquette. "It seems there is always one person with a loud voice in the office – everyone knows one of those people. We could agree that it's OK to ask that person to go to one of the phone pods or to lower their voice a bit."
We might be tempted to conclude that if everyone had their own room, all these problems would disappear and everyone would be happy. But, according to Nigel Oseland, that would not make people feel and perform better and businesses thrive. "That may be good for focus and concentration, but most organizations want their people to interact and collaborate as well."
Download a summary of Nigel's research >>
Everything Nigel Oseland says is about seeing and listening to the human side of it all. If we create a dynamic, flexible workplace, where there is room for both introverts and extroverts, focus and stimulation, stress and laughter, we will achieve that five per cent productivity gain and pay for the entire office.
"I tend to refer to the landscaped office. Originally we had something called Bürolandschaft, which was a design principle in the sixties. It was a more organically designed office, rather than rows of desks. It had some semi-private areas, some screening including planting, and it may have used different floor levels to break up the space. It would certainly include quiet pods, breakout spaces and so on. My concern is that at the moment the trend is toward the stimulating environments, forgetting that 50 per cent of the workforce and our activities are on the introvert scale."
Nigel Oseland himself seems to thrive at both ends of that scale. Part-time researcher, part-time consultant, he needs both focus and stimulation. His solution: no official office. "I have a small home office – a cabin in the garden where I can close the door. But then I have to see people. For that purpose I use my clients' offices or a co-working club. I think I'm a hybrid."
When asked to describe himself, Nigel Oseland shrugs and lets out a short laugh. "Well, I'm just a bloke."
* Co-owner of a micro brewery: Haresfoot Brewery. "I try to be a beer sommelier."
* Dedicated canicross runner – cross-country running with dogs attached to the runner by an elastic line. "I have a big dog, he never gets tired, so I started with this in January."
* Gets motivated by sharing knowledge. "Learning is my primary motivator. Sharing is the second."
* Definition of work: "Any activity that contributes to the success of your business."
Text: Lars Wirtén
Photographer: Rebecca Hemmungs
This article is from the magazine ECO for Sustainable Design - Office edition. If you enjoyed it and want more similar articles, read the full magazine online or download it to your iPad or Android tablet for a more interactive experience.
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Ok, so this weekend, I attended the FABB Bike Summit at George Mason University and met a number of people doing all kinds of things to make biking better in our region--not just in Fairfax. I have sooo much material..and then Sandy hit. She'll have me (figuratively speaking) under water for a while, but as soon as I can, I will get you the FABB stories along with the effort to make Pennsylvania Avenue safer for everyone: cyclists, pedestrians and yes, drivers!
But for now, bear with me as I test the waterproof properties of my outerwear and report from the rainsoaked roadways at WTOP.
And tell me how you all are doing out there: are you hunkering down at home? Do you have to get in to work? Dealing with the Capital Bikeshare closings? Do tell. And really, stay safe. I've covered a lot of storms and messy weather stories over the years---this one is really dangerous.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248764601940114006.post4229624755746878646..comments2020-08-07T06:51:25.969-05:00Comments on Indians Baseball Cards: Feeling like Yukon Cornelius... NOTHIN...--Davidhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248764601940114006.post-85555524852507269582017-03-21T15:16:54.341-05:002017-03-21T15:16:54.341-05:00I didn't, we were not even planning on staying...I didn't, we were not even planning on staying at all. I was going to drive straight through to home but decided I couldn't go any farther so stopped for the night. We got a room for the night and left the next morning. AdamEhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248764601940114006.post-16805194743697639672017-03-20T22:55:02.252-05:002017-03-20T22:55:02.252-05:00Awesome! I'd love to hear about the stay in HS...Awesome! I'd love to hear about the stay in HS. Did you happen to take in any of the baseball-related things in town? HS was THE spring training hot spot back in the day...--Davidhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248764601940114006.post-36319078625539805372017-03-20T17:47:06.982-05:002017-03-20T17:47:06.982-05:00Tough luck. I stayed in Hot Springs one night wh...Tough luck.

I stayed in Hot Springs one night when we were traveling back to MO from a Red Sox Rangers game.
http://thoughtsandsox.blogspot.com/2010/08/trip-to-game-part-1.html
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REDUCTION SALE Cut and Slash, £f- S. The entire spring stock must move. We do not make reduction at the end of crihe season but now when you need the goods. SALE COMMENCES TUESDAY. See Dills The entire stock will DemarM flown. P AY US A VISIT. This sale we propose to make equal to our great January sale which was a "HUMMER." Come and see now cheap goods can De sold. GOLDEN RULE, SCHMITT&HBFFLBY. r &. ! TRAVELING MEN, Plfease Take Notice! I Have Secured a Choice Line of Qray Mixtures for Business Suits ' Just the Thine for the Road. Call and Examine Them. Bespeptfully, JACOB HERZ. W FOR ALL THE LATEST SYLES SPUING SUITINGS GALLON Harry G; Tucker, THE PEARL ST. TAILOR. W. J. HUGHES & SONS CO. WHOLESALE DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, LUMBER. N. W.Cor. Fourteentn ani Maple Sts. LOUSVILLE, KY- [Mention this"p*per. For the Next Four Weeks I will sell you an elegant suit for $22.00 CASH. I do this to make room for the finestline of Spring Goods ever brought to this city Pearl Street. Daily Journal. THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 7. Queensware, at the Bazaar. Try J. B. L. Catarrh Cure, eod&w Special black dress goods day, at the Golden Rule. Our new line of racquets have ar rived.—The Bazaar. D. E. Pryor's drug store is headquar ters for Gondola cigars. may5d6t Our second shipment of tennis nets have arrived.—The Bazaar. John Rodabaugh and Elnora E Hitchins are licensed to wed. Walter Fugate, of Indianapolis, i; calling on his friends in the city. Fifty-nine cents 'buys a silk grenadine worth $1, to-day, at the Golden Rule. Mrs. H- S. Thompson returned last might from a visit at her former home at Kokomo. I£ you want the most durable smoke buy the Gondola cigar atD. E. Pryor's drug store. may6d6t Silk and dress goods day, special silk grenadine worth f 1, only 59 cents, at the Golden Rule. Al Swadener and Charlie Lunsford are still alive, but their arms are in slings—shaking hands. The Morrill twins, the evangelists, closed their meeting at the Broadway M. E. church last evening. Miss Ada Pilling who has been VIE iting relatives in the city, returned to her home in Camden yesterday. Mrs. Lord, proprietor of the Omer House, at Lake Maxinkuckee, is in the city, the guest of Miss Nannie Martin. Harry Purcell and Harry Tritt went to Indianapolis yesterday to attend a meeting of the National Pharmaceutical Association. Misses May and Josie Gallagher en- tsrtained a party of friends in a very pleasant manner at their home on the West Side Tuesday evening. Wanted, girl for general housework in family of two. Call this morning at Mrs. S. B. Patterson's, Ninth street, between Market and Broadway. Major MeFadin departed yesterday for Sidney 0., to attend a reunion of the Ohio veterans of the Mexican war. The Major will be gone several days. Dr. A. G. Miller, of South Bend, will be at the Murdock Hotel Thursday and Friday of this week. The papers were incorrect last week, as he was not in the city. may6d2t The condition of Miss Stella Sebastian is improving and the many friends of the young lady are made glad by the knowledge that she is oh the road to recovery. Reports come in from all sides o: the damage to budding fruit by the frost of yesterday morning and it is estimated that;.-this region suffered much by the delayed cold snap. The many friends of Mr. Frank W. Searle in this city, will be pleased to hear that he is having a: profitable trip in the interest of the firm he is engaged by, in the West Indies. A letter recently received from St. Thomas Danish, West Indies,, gives many interesting incidents of his trip. The coffee crop, the principal, industry of that section is reported large, and prospects-good for a satisfactory yield. The Official Count Completed Yesterday Afternoon, Bead, Swadciicr. Hofl*«mii, JUmslbrd and Huriicx. Have a Majority oil (lie Fuce of the RetuniN. The official count was begun yesterday afternoon at the Council Chamber and carried along without incident until the second precinct of the Third ward was reached. This precinct voted at Torr's cooper shop, and Jerry Sullivan was the inspector. When that precinct was reached Mr Sullivan stated that by mistake the tally sheets and election returns had been put in the sack with the contested ballots and sealed up, and that unless the Board would give him permission to open that package in their presence they would have no returns. The request was granted. A protest was then entered but afterwards withdrawn when it was apparent that the right to do so was given by the election law. No other incident occurred and the count was completed by 4 o'clock. There were no material changes, and only three changes from the unofficial returns were made. Barnes gained, five in one precinct and lost three in another, and Dean gained five. Altogether fifty-five votes were reported protested and not counted. What these "rotes are or what defects existed cannot be stated.' Under the law, protested ballots are sealed up and cannot be examined unless a contest is filed. In one precinct in the Fifth ward three Republican votes were thrown out because the eagle was stamped instead of the square. In another, five were nhus thrown out and in another four for Read were counted. It is apparent that all should have been thrown out or all counted. A lack of uniformity in this respect resulted in an injustice to Mr. Webster. No ticket is legal unless the square is stamped but the intent is so plain where the eagle and" rooster is stamped that such tickets are usually counted. A contest can be begun any time within ten days and should it be apparent that Mr, Webster has suffered an injustice a contest will be made. No technical points will be taken advantage of but the will of the • voters determined. The tabulated statement of the rote appears in another part of the paper. The following- is a summary of the official vote. FOB MAYOR. .1421 """'"""" mo Read [P] Webster [ Bead's majority FOB CLERK. Swade-er M (iorraira [Dl -"28 Swadener's majority 57 FOB TREASURER. Hoffman [D] - '•• 1583 Voss[E] 123 8 Hoflman's majority 325 FOR MABSHAL. Lunsford [El..' «|2 Deati[D] 1«6 Lunsford's majority 96 JOB WATER WORKS TRUSTEE. Barnes [B] J*>* Graffls [CJ i" 3 Barnes' majority 35 TOR COUNCIL—FIRST WARD. BeatnTDl '•• 355 Wise [B] .-259 Majority. 36 SECOND WARD. Dolan [D] ••••' 260 .Bridge |BJ JU* Majority .' 56 THIRD WARD. Drompp FDJ '. 220 Mlnthom [Kj.., .19-1- Hajorlty 26 FOURTH WARD. Hadley |R1 -280 Gibson ID] •"* Majority. :...-'. ••••• 98 FIFUH WARE. Peters [DT. E] TnimatH Majority .................................................. 37 NOTES. Two years ago the Democrats broke faith, and nominated Gus Gleitz for Water Works Trustee against Tommy Austin. Mr. -Austin was elected. Again they attempted to bring the water works system into the control of the ring 1 and nominated an active politician and were defeated. The Republicans won both fights on a fair square fight. They should cut down the salary of the water works clerk, who novr gets $75 per month, and an office room, and put in two or three non-partisan Republicans to even up on the non partisan agreement. Inspector Kearney of the First ward; objected to the clerks stating how many ballots were contested, raots which there was no -secrecy about and which the newspaper representatives would be compelled to gather up. He also objected to Mr. W. . T. Wilson speaking before Board as a representative of Mr. Webster.' Mr. Kearney should hang out of the window awhile and let the freshness blow Off Let the new Council get a hustle on them and appoint a new park committee and. Assembly Park wli be a reality. In the warm days of August not many years hence the editor of tLe Pharos can sit under the trees in Assembly park, where the rippling waves upon the shore will encourage meditation and the blushing roses and the joyous music of the birds enliven the imagination and reflect upon the correctness of the fact that to the visionless all things are visionary. Tne Republicans have elected Foley, Middleton, and others of the few Republican Irishmen to office. The Journal is glad to see that the number in the Republican party is increasing. They are welcome,and will be well treated. No Irish need apply to the Democratic party for office. It is a glorious thing to win even if it necessitates answering three thousand questions a day, figuratively yelling with every gratified citizen met with and putting ideas into tolerable English while a conversational bee is being held in the same room. The Reporter is after the gang in beautiful style. Get a last evenings Reporter and enjoy yourself. • Joseph Guthrie makes a gentlemanly, dignified, and-fair presiding officer of a returning board. Inspector Guthrie was made president of the board nnd Inspectors Jenks and Fickle, clerks. Mr. Gibson should learn that great reforms are accomplished only by the Republican party; •. ' V The official count was witnessed by a number of candidates.and interested, spectators. ' The Prohi's polled 103 votes for Mayor. ••''•' All Masons, their wives, ^mothers sisters and daughters are requested to attend divine services at the Broadway M, E. church this, Thursday, evening at 7:30. The-Knights Templar will assemble at the asylum promptly at 7 o'clock p. m. and march to the church headed by the Knights Pythias band and brother Masons, as far as they can, will join the procession going to the church. The ladies will assemble at the ba'sement of .the church and on the,arrival of the, procession will fall in and follow to the audience room wbere seats will be reserved in the center or body of the church for all Masons and their ladies, immediately behind the Knights Templars. And all are requested to join in the solemn services of Ascension day service. Preaching by Sir Knight H. J. N orris. • '•' Bentli of 51r». Frankbonne. j Mrs. Louisiana Frankbouse Burnett died at the residence of Pierce Rich' ardson, on Twelfth-street,":iast evening- at 9:15, aged 52 years. Mrs. Frankhouse was stricken with la grippe a few weeks ago and the malady in an aggravated form caused her death. The deceased was an estimable woman, . an earnest Christian worker and her death will be' widely' regretted. She leaves three grown children, . one son and two daughters, to mourn her loss. . The announcement of the funeral will be made later. Don't hunt around town for a good cigar, ^but' t bry .the Gondola. D. E. Pryor's is headquarters. mayod6t. Broad Toe, Flat BottOm Comfortable Shoes. WALKER& RAUCH, 42O Broadway. M i See our low goods. The Rival Cabinet Letter Me. . $1,50 For Each Cabinet filing A 12-File Cabinet $18 Call and See Them, at Wilson, Humphreys & PERHAPS You Don't Know It. Many people sometimes want a thing that they know would cost, less if McCaffrey had it—but they do not think we keep it. Why Don't you think we keep it? 'You have nevfer reasonably''expected to find anythiag in any of our lines that you.couldn't find, have you? In Groceries, have you ever found a more complete line for more different kinds of people? : . .';.:. : - : ": . ' •"•' But Groceries from a single lino;; we've a score of others. -'>.- - ! /"•''--'' In Hams, or Bacon, or Dried Beef, you cannot want what we have not. In Summer Glassware—water pickers, water sets etc.r^we'have all that; a new and pretty. , ', ,., .' Your Table—we furnish it complete at any cost'that pleases you the best'.; Your Kitchen—we've more things for it than you ever thought of us^g.. : l Your Chamber—we've more things for it, and you choose from plenty of them. ' ., We've almost everything,that house-keeping brings need for! ,':Yttu will do well to ask if you want anything. . -' ' r.v-.; M. McCaffery & Co.
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In some kind of mad-hatter move extraordinaire, UD has decided to eliminate ALL of their existing lipsticks and has replaced them with a ton of new colors and formulas. It isn't entirely clear to me if some of the older colors are being re-branded (ad possibly re-formulated), or if UD put the kibosh on them all together.
The new Vice Lipstick Line is sleek and chic – the bullet appears to be mixed metal gold and a sort of Smokey silver, and pretty heavy duty. There are said to be over 100 shades (wow!), in 6 formulas/finishes.
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Potential That Goes Beyond
Architecture students build relationship between people and community
For the 2015–16 graduate students in the Andrews University School of Architecture & Interior Design, the words of Winston Churchill, "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us," extend beyond buildings to the community in which they live, as they helped bring the twin cities, Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, closer together toward a common architectural goal.
Over the last several months, the 2015–16 graduate Urban Design Studio class, led by Andrew von Maur, professor of architecture, has been recognized with six national awards for excellence in the field of urban design and town planning for their work on "Twin Cities Harbor: A Study of Potential in Benton Harbor & St. Joseph, Michigan." The purpose of the study was to prepare information to suggest that the Twin Cities harbor area is on the cusp of great transformation.
The project had several goals: to honor and celebrate the essence of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph both in their distinct and shared identities; to study the existing working harbor and conceptual changes to its location, operation and site design; to study how the harbor area can shape an attractive gateway to the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph; and to study how the harbor can help to support humans and the environment.
von Maur has been teaching at Andrews since 2003 and has been leading the Urban Design Studio since 2004.
Students Cecelia Cameron, Christian Campos, Steven Davidovas, Ryan Jacobson, Orean Joseph, YoungEun Joung, Neo Lehoko, Jimmy Owino, Gian Penaredondo, Cesar Rojas, Britney Thomas and Roxanna Torres-Colón represent an international mix of individuals who worked in conjunction with the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission to develop the extensive study of the potential in the Benton Harbor–St. Joseph area.
In preparation for the project the group embarked on an eight-day field trip to visit successful port towns in order to learn from them. Nantucket, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode Island; Boston, Massachusetts; Camden, Maine; Portland, Maine; Newport, Rhode Island and Portsmouth, New Hampshire were among the places visited.
While there, students met with different designers, planners and architects to look at projects that were happening now and to see how ports are developed. It was important for students to visit working harbors with commercial shipping because Benton Harbor is also a working harbor.
Each year, von Maur selects a real client for the graduate students in architecture to work with in order to provide hands-on experience in the field.
"As a student in school, you don't always get the sense that what you do has a big impact," says von Maur. "It is sometimes difficult and abstract, this concept that all the work you do as a student is leading to something. In the graduate year for our architecture students, we try to very directly engage students with real work so that they can do it together with us before they graduate."
Listing the benefits of this project for students, von Maur says, "Having a client provides accountability to real people. Students are taking their drawings every week to a stakeholder committee that includes the mayor of St. Joseph, the assistant city manager of Benton Harbor and all these other influential people. When you have to show up with your work and present it verbally, students take that seriously. They suddenly realize that it matters and that people care."
In addition to an increased sense of responsibility, students are working collaboratively with one another and other interdisciplinary professionals.
"For an architecture student to suddenly have to deal with how their work plugs into all these other fields and professions, or even politics and taxes, it expands their horizons," says von Maur. "This is good because it prepares them to go into the workforce."
The other benefit von Maur sees is that they are able to meet every class period and ask God to lead them in making the right decisions.
"This presents a model for how students can think of themselves as a Seventh-day Adventist professional before they graduate," explains von Maur. "If you don't do something like that before graduation, then what happens is students don't understand what reconciling their Adventism with their work as an architect looks like."
When selecting this project, von Maur remembers his initial hesitation.
"God works in funny ways sometimes, He knows how to shut doors and he closed all the doors for all the other projects I was considering for my graduate students," said von Maur with a laugh. "I ended up just trusting that the Benton Harbor project was what we were supposed to be working on. After the first meeting with the client I realized this is what we should be doing."
The success of the study, which was originally intended to be a private project, is that it resulted in public open houses and meetings where community members who were interested in the work could see what they were producing. Additionally, the group did a two-month exhibition at the Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph with all the posters and research on display for community members to see.
"At first I thought nobody was going to care about this," said von Maur. "I was skeptical, but on opening night, around four hundred people showed up. I watched them walk in, and then slowly, you see in their eyes the understanding that this project was about them and for them. And suddenly there was this buzz of energy in the room. It was a joy to see people appreciate the work and to share in that belief that there is potential in our community that we don't yet realize, potential that goes beyond buildings and architecture and into the identity of the community and the relationship between the people and the community."
On the heels of this success, the group was also hired to retrofit two shipping containers into an art gallery in order to exhibit the study in a physical fashion in the community. The container will be in the arts district of Benton Harbor first, and eventually moved to St. Joseph. Shipping containers allow for mobility of the project, so they are able to get as much exposure as possible—a mobile meeting space to showcase the project.
Additionally, a joint commission was developed comprised of members from both communities, whose intention was to carry on the work started by the Urban Design students.
One of the project's major stakeholders, Harbor Shores Golf Club, hired von Maur and Jesse Hibler, an Andrews University alumnus, local architect and adjunct professor of architecture, to redesign their master plan for the neighborhood adjacent to the hotel.
von Maur drew on inspiration from Alex Kotlowitz, who was the keynote speaker at the 1999 commencement ceremony at Andrews, when von Maur graduated. Kotlowitz discussed the racial tensions between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor in his 1998 book "The Other Side of the River" and called for University students to not only do mission work abroad, but in cities that are in their backyard, like the twin cities.
"The power of the project is that is does something that nobody else has been able to do or was willing to do," explains von Maur. "The diversity represented in our group of students was a bonus for the client. While the students were local, because they were from Andrews, in reality they come from varying places and had no agenda besides serving those in their backyard. I'm really happy that we were able to follow up on this keynote speech from 1999!"
Lehoko reflected on her participation in this study. "The best part of the experience, in my opinion, was knowing that we were doing something that many people care about," she says. "It was something that could possibly change their lives for the better."
von Maur adds, "I see Urban Design Studio as having the ability to provide a service to help different cities around the world to improve their situation to something healthier, and through our work point to Jesus and the plan that he has for us."
He continues, "I think you have to help people where they are, and cities are one of those places. It was a huge blessing for our students and it was a way bigger success for the community than anyone expected. The reason people are investing in this, I think, is because they see the process that our University students helped start. It was really a blessing and it has the potential to build momentum to do good things. I don't think people are going to forget about this work any time soon."
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This unidentified "Portrait of a Girl" is part of the Royal Collection, and dates from c.1615-1618. The collection attributes the picture to the British School, in the style of Paul van Somer (1576-1621). Although the frame states the sitter is James I's daughter Elizabeth [Stuart], Queen of Bohemia, we can't know when the inscription was added, and the Royal Collection gives no name, saying only that the picture was 'formerly' known as Elizabeth. No alternative identity has been suggested.
For comparison, here's a portrait of Elizabeth at 7 years old in 1603 (© Royal Museums Greenwich), by Robert Peake the Elder. What do you think?


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Unknown Era
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About Unknown Era
Unknown Era were formed in 2014 by a ragtag group of musicians, socialites and party heads, quickly building up a strong reputation as one of Nottingham's most popular bands with their high energy mix of Soul, Ska, Reggae, Gypsy, Punk, Rock, Funk and Dub.
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The release of their self-titled EP led to a string of sold out gigs in Notts and beyond, playing with the likes of Goldie Looking Chain, Counting Coins, The Aggrolites, Millie Manders, The Beat, Neville Staples and many more. Unknown Era deliver messages of equality and love with a bit of mad stage dancing, audience interaction and all round good times.
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