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PORTSMOUTH — A proposed bill that would have required municipalities to notify condo owners about pending projects that could affect their property values died Wednesday when it failed to get out of committee in the House of Representatives.
PORTSMOUTH — A proposed bill that would have required municipalities to notify condo owners about pending projects that could affect their property values died Wednesday when it failed to get out of committee in the House of Representatives.
Bill backer and Portsmouth resident Robin Rousseau said the bill was "too inexpedient to legislate," while vowing it will be reintroduced at the next legislative session.
"Myself and other condo owners will go all out and educate the House municipal committee and condo associations around the state," she said. "So it's not dead, just on hold."
State Rep. and local lawyer Paul McEachern sponsored the bill that would have required all land-use boards in the state to notify abutters who live in condominiums. The bill would have changed the definition of "abutter" to include "condominium or collective unit owners, rather than the officers of the collective or condominium association."
He said Thursday he thought the committee "didn't understand it," while he believes it was "a simple housekeeping bill."
"The committee was argumentative with me which was surprising, frankly," he said. "Their sympathies were with the towns."
McEachern said the biggest obstacle cited was cost, with opponents saying abutter notifications cost $10 each by registered mail. He said municipalities can pay for it with fees paid by the parties applying for the projects.
"You have to pick your fights," he said, explaining why he didn't argue the bill on the House floor after it was poorly received in committee.
Rousseau discovered the lack of notification first-hand while seated as a member of the city's ZBA on April 21, 2009. That night, a Market Square project was presented to the board and Rousseau realized she and 46 other unit owners at MacIntosh Condominiums hadn't received abutter notices, even though they own condos across the street.
As Rousseau left the meeting, a citizen pulled her aside to say he wasn't notified about a meeting for the Southgate Plaza development project, despite being one of 144 condo owners at the abutting Springbrook Condominiums, she said.
Portsmouth's principal planner, Lee Jay Feldman, said the city follows state law by notifying a condo association or manager of a condo association.
"Whatever the state law mandates, we will be happy to abide by," he said.
McEachern cautioned that a municipality will one day "run into a problem" when a condo owner claims that even though he or she wasn't required to be notified as an abutter by state law, they were entitled to notification "as a technical abutter."

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Doing my bit to display some Kafir Pride, covering the European and Asian sides of my heritage. The knight is from "Crusader", by Paul Raymond Gregory — commissioned as cover art for the 1983 Saxon album of the same name. The kanji characters on the right read as juujigun — meaning crusade or crusader. The literal translation of the characters is "Army of the Cross".
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At least 15 people are missing, after the police plane they were travelling in disappeared en route, in Indonesia.
A twin-engine Indonesian police plane went missing on Saturday with 15 people on board en route to the island of Batam, south of Singapore, police and rescue authorities said, as search teams scoured the area.
The plane, which took off from Pangkal Pinang on the island of Bangka at around 9.30 a.m. is thought to have crashed between the islands of Mensanak and Sebangka or Gentar, a police report seen by Reuters said.
A search team recovered items apparently identified as being from the missing aircraft, including seats, luggage and documents, the report said, noting that according to the manifest there were 15 people on board.
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Posted on April 27, 1992 in Washington Watch
Looming over the horizon of the 1992 Presidential campaigns of George Bush and his Democratic opponent (presumably Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton) is the threat of an independent campaign by Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot.
At this moment, a virtual "Perot-mania" appears to be developing. Although two-thirds of all Americans say they know little or nothing about Perot or what he stands for, he is nevertheless receiving 20-25% support in many state and national polls. A recent poll put Bush at 40%, Clinton at 30%, and Perot at 23%. And a surprising mid-April poll of Texas voters by Texas A & M University found Perot winning in that very important state! The numbers were Perot 35%, Bush 30% and Clinton 20% (with the rest unsure or uncommitted.)
More than commitment to the man and a specific message, the potential strength of the Perot candidacy reflects deep voter disillusion with either the two major parties, Washington in general, or both. At present, Perot appears to be a perfect vessel for voter anger, perhaps because of his combination of folksy charm, enormous wealth, the way he uses his caustic wit to criticize business-as-usual in government and his promise to "clean house up there" (i.e., in Washington). Other factors may be his penchant for military adventurism (e.g., rescue missions in Viet Nam and Iran), or the substantial and favorable press coverage during his career which has given him a larger-than-life profile.
Public anger is deep this year. Jerry Brown's campaign has been fed by it, and Pat Buchanan's campaign has thrived on it. Two-thirds of the votes cast for these candidates have been characterized as `none of the above' protest votes). And with the anger is a large measure of disillusionment and apathy: fewer than 20% of the eligible Americans have voted in the recent primaries.
Now it's Perot's turn to go to the well of voter disgust, and in his folksy style he has gone to that well often—with a big bucket of sarcasm. "In Washington," he says, "you raise the problem, you have a bunch of lobbyists run up and down the halls, nobody who knows anything about the problem passes the laws and it doesn't work." The Texan charges, "What we have now is a system where if you have potholes in your city, all the politicians hold conferences on potholes." Perot promises, "If and when I ever have to do this job, we're going to get hot asphalt, get a shovel, fill potholes, move on to the next one a skip the press conference."
He is pushing all the right buttons.
Perot has already invested nearly one half million dollars of his own money to create a virtual citizen army which is attempting to put him on the ballot in all fifty states. He announced that he would only run if the citizens created a mandate for his campaign. He has furthermore promised to spend up to $100 million of his own money to run his campaign and will take no federal campaign money, as Bush and the Democratic candidate will.
These pledges have raised public awareness of some aspects of our election laws and loopholes in them, which have, until now, escaped public scrutiny
Campaign funds
Under current federal campaign finance laws, individuals may contribute no more than $1,000 to a primary Presidential campaign, but the federal government will match the first $200 of every contributions. The intent of these rules is to limit the influence of major contributors, while at the same time encouraging small contributions—hence the matching funds. In the November general election, the nominees of the two major parties will each receive $55 million from the federal government to finance their campaigns, but they may spend no more than that amount. This public financing provision is an attempt to eliminate the need for (and the influence of) special interest money in the general election.
Perot represents a unique challenge to these laws. While the law has always permitted candidates to spend their own money for primary campaigns, those who have done so have used relatively small amounts, usually well under one million dollars, just to get their campaigns started, there is no limit to how much money they may use. The $100 million he has promised to spend on his own campaign, an amount equal to just a few month's interest on his estimated $2.5-3.5 billion personal fortune, will almost equal the combined spending of Bush and his Democratic challenger. This is utterly without precedent in American history.
Ballot access
In order to protect democratic rights, independent candidates can get their names on the presidential ballot, but the procedure varies widely from state to state. In some states it is ridiculously easy to get on the ballot, making it equally available to serious and non-serious candidates alike. Tennessee, for example, requires only 25 signatures on a petition, while Louisiana requires no more than a $500 filing fee.
On the other hand, some states make it extremely difficult to get on the ballot. In New York, a candidate has twenty-nine days to get 20,000 signatures including at least 100 signatures from sixteen of the state's thirty-three congressional districts. Yet, experts on New York's election laws suggest getting at least 50,000 signatures, since more than half of the signatures on any petition are usually invalid. This requires a virtual army of people just to get a candidate on the ballot.
In all, 754,000 endorsements are necessary to get on the ballot in all fifty states. To build this national effort, Perot has used an 800 (free phone line) system with 1,300 lines, on which he has received almost two million calls. The calls are coming in at an average of 30,000 per day, but that number more than triples on days following Perot's appearances on national television talk shows. For example, after a March 25 appearance on "Donahue", the phones lines received 18,000 simultaneous calls, and 56,000 calls over the next hour.
Perot says that if the people create a campaign structure in all fifty states, he'll run. The statement sounds very democratic, but some worry that such a campaign may become just the opposite. Without a party or formal organization, without the need to raise money and woo supporters, he may be left very much on his own.
Yet despite this and other worries, most notably a lack of specificity regarding any question of policy, Perot's movement is growing. But who is Ross Perot?
Perot likes to joke about his reputation, saying in one recent speech, "I am not a legend. But I am a myth." There are a number of things about Perot's life which do lend themselves to myth-making.
He grew up in Texarkana, a modest city in northeastern Texas, and earned an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy. Although he was an average student, he was elected president of his class. After fulfilling his commitment to the military, Perot worked for a time with I.B.M. But the company discouraged one of his entrepreneurial ideas, so in 1962 Perot founded his own company—Electronic Data Systems (E.D.S.) with $1,000 borrowed from his wife's savings. He sold the company in 1984 for $2.55 billion.
Critics contend, however, that Perot made his riches largely from government contracts. By 1984, when E.D.S. was sold, it was the largest processor of Medicare and Medicaid claims in the country. In the early 1970s he was investigated by a Congressional subcommittee for allegedly garnering excessive profits from those government contracts, although the subcommittee never found any evidence of wrongdoing by Perot.
His activities outside of business earned him even more notoriety among the general public. In 1969 Perot sent $1.5 million dollars of food and medical supplies for U.S. prisoners of war held by North Vietnam, hoping to help them and at the same time publicize their plight. Ten years later he hired a retired Viet Nam veteran to recruit a team and lead a rescue operation for two E.D.S. employees from a Tehran jail. Perot bankrolled the effort, which helped spirit the two men out of the country after a riot at the jail freed them from captivity. And in the mid-1980s, Perot was even exploring a possible independent effort to rescue the American hostages from Lebanon, though no action eventually emerged.
The same year that he sold E.D.S., 1984, Perot headed a state commission charged with advancing proposals to improve education in Texas. He helped ensure the passage of the bills through the Texas legislature, and even paid lobbyists supporting the reforms with his own money. Today, the picture of reform is mixed, and some of the measures have been repealed. But even Perot's critics cite improvements in educational indicators.
While they are the stuff of national folklore, actions like the Tehran rescue or the proposed Beirut mission are not legal under American law. Perot's free-lance style of decision-making worries some people, especially those who remember past American Presidents who took the law into their own hands to fulfill personal foreign policy goals—no matter how noble.
Despite its fascinating content, all this information still leaves an enormous gap in the public's knowledge: what does Ross Perot stand for?
Perot has offered just a few policy tidbits—he is in favor of gun control and keeping abortion legal, for example. And while he is known as a staunch supporter of the military, he opposed the Gulf War, arguing that the Emir of Kuwait was not worth fighting for. In response to the Iraqi aggression, Perot proposed that a commando team, possibly with Israeli help, be sent out to assassinate Saddam Hussein.
On the other hand, during a crime wave in Dallas in 1986, Perot proposed cordoning off minority neighborhoods and making a door-to-door search for weapons and drugs." Later, in 1989, he argued that suspending the Constitution and declaring martial law would be an effective way to combat the drug trade. And while he has said virtually nothing about the Arab-Israeli conflict, even to the point of refusing to comment on whether he would support continued U.S. aid to Israel, Perot raised some concern when he said he admired Ariel Sharon's style of "cowboy" adventurism—a style reflective of his own.
It is clear that even with these few specifics about his policies, it is still hard to understand Perot. He does not fit any classic niche on the political left or right. No one knows how to define him, which in a sense is all very well and good for his campaign. For the moment, at least, Perot represents nothing so much as the idea of change. As a self-made billionaire, he projects an aura of power, decisiveness and success. Yet, he also maintains an image of being "the common man". For example, he eats with his employees and volunteers in the cafeteria.
For information he relies on a network built up over the years among members of the American business community, much like other candidates for national office. But Perot also counts on input from a further network of law enforcement, military and, it appears, intelligence personnel. A study of these individuals provides no further insight into his ideological outlook or policy preferences.
Nonetheless, as was mentioned above, voters do not need much information about the man in order to support him. At this time his momentum still seems to be growing, though it is a support pollsters would describe as "thin". Right now, given his lack of issue specificity, the appeal of Perot is not based on support for his proposed solutions to U.S. problems. His appeal right now is his "outsider" status, his image, which can change after a few weeks of press scrutiny. The depth of Perot's support is a symptom of very deep voter dissatisfaction.
With this in mind, it is time to look to the fall, and how a Bush-Perot-Clinton match-up might look.
Clinton receives positive ratings from voters who are looking for someone to be an agent of change, and/or for someone who is concerned about the needs of the average voter. Both of these issues are themes that Clinton is hoping to use against Bush in the fall. He is hoping to steer the debate toward those issues, and away from issues where voters find him lacking, such the areas of political leadership, honesty, and demonstrating strong convictions.
Voters perceive Bush as being strong in the realm of foreign policy and as a world leader, and the believe that he has demonstrated strong convictions. These are the areas which the Bush campaign is already trying to stress. But voters rate Bush poorly with regard to being out of touch with and not caring about the needs of the average voter. These are issues which the Bush campaign is hoping to downplay in the campaign.
Since Perot has already given large hints that he will campaign as an agent of change, he will likely pull more support from Clinton and the Democrats than he will from Bush. Some have argued that Perot will pull support from business leaders, since Perot is a business leader himself, but this is not likely to be a significant factor. For while Bush may speak of changes, and he is in fact trying to argue that he is the candidate of change, he is maintaining a rock-solid base of support in the business community and those related to government, who don't want any significant changes and who, in any case, do not want to risk electing a Democrat.
At this point Perot is still an unknown quantity, with no defined strengths or weaknesses. This will not begin to change until the press begins to investigate his business career with some degree of thoroughness. Until that time, he will continue to rise a little or hover at his current level of popularity. It is impossible to predict for certain what such an investigation would do to his popularity.
If he does become a candidate, both the Democrats and the Republicans will attack him, and will definitely make an issue out of the fact that he has never held government office before and would be unable to accomplish much even if he won. As one former congressional leader commented, "In his business, there's a hierarchy. In Congress you have 535 people … and you're not their boss." While such arguments have been used effectively in the past, one cannot know whether political inexperience, even on the presidential level, will be more of a virtue or a liability.
What is certain is that his wealth will buy him a lot of television air time, which he can use to define himself and deflect attacks from the press while at the same time attacking his opponents. His 800 number has created a database of nearly two million potential campaign volunteers in all fifty states.
With resources like that at his disposal if he runs, Ross Perot will be a factor in the race. He will be able to help define the terms of the debate and influence the outcome. He may even prevent either of the two parties' candidates from winning a majority of electoral votes.
All of this has shed light on another facet of the American electoral system which is not well-known: the electoral college. The candidate winning the majority of the popular vote does not necessarily win the presidency. It has been more than a century and a half since no candidate has won a majority of the electoral votes, and though that possibility is unlikely, it is still drawing attention.
I will examine this important and complex issue in a future article.
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February 3rd marked the nineteenth anniversary of the Cermis massacre.
Today, the lower house of the Netherlands Parliament will discuss the ratification of Ukraine's association agreement with the European Union.
February 3rd marked the nineteenth anniversary of the Cermis massacre.
The current minister of defense of Iran Hossein Dehghan has officially announced this decision.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pays a two-day visit to the US, where he will visit Pearl Harbor.
The ceremony for the handover of 4 hectares of land in Okinawa is going to be held today by the US military under the jurisdiction of the Japanese authorities. This will be the largest return of land since 1972.


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What you need: 1 square denim purse (You may purchase the purse at a craft supply or department store, or you may sew one yourself). The new metallic denim gives a nice effect. The purse used for this project was purchased at Jo Ann Fabrics for under 3 dollars; Variety, iron on patriotic patches of choice. ( We used a 4 pack of white stars and one small USA patch for this project but any design you select will work; 1 yard Patriotic Ribbon® 1and 1/2" wide with any patriotic design on it; Fabric glue; Fabric paint in white and red for handle stripes; 1 #4 flat paint brush.
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1. With #4 paint brush and white paint, paint stripes 1/2 inch apart on both sides of both purse handles and allow to dry completely. Repeat this process with red paint, painting stripes in between each white stripe. Allow to dry.
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Your Sexy Step Mom Films a Secret Masturbation Video for You
Hello there! If you're watching me right now, then you must've found the special DVD I secretly placed in your bedroom for you. You clever boy! Now that your father has returned from his business trip and is home with us again, we won't be able to have our special time together anymore. I just hate the thought of you masturbating up in your room all alone! So, I've created a video especially for you to help you when you're feeling that urge and need to take care of your erection.
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I think that just because Tiger Woods is a famous golf player and public figure, he should still deserve to have some type of privacy in his life. I do not think that it is fair to think that somebody like him should not be able to live a life without some photographers chasing him at all times.
Public figures are always hounded and people really love scandal. Tiger Woods, somebody who was unique both because he was the best there has been in a sport and for being a mixed race person playing a mostly white sport, has been in the public eye since his early 20s, and he needs more privacy.
All sporting stars deserve a level of privacy. However, Tiger Woods, through sponsorship and endorsements, has made himself to be something of a role model. This opens him up to more scrutiny of his private life, and his privacy does not extend to covering things that could affect his position in these cases.
Tiger Woods like many other celebrities don't necessarily get the same rights as private citizens do get. They get paid much more than the regular person in the United States of America to deal in part with things of this nature so they should have to get use to it.
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Area debut of "Perfume" screened at Little Theatre
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KALAMAZOO--Western Film Society presents the area debut of "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer," starring Ben Whishaw and Dustin Hoffman. Based on the on the best-selling novel of the same name, the film will be shown Friday through Sunday, June 15-17, in the Little Theatre at Western Michigan University.
Show times are Friday and Saturday at 7 and 9:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 and 5 p.m. General admission is $5 and $3 for students. The 2006 film is rated R for sexuality, nudity, violence and some disturbing images, and has a run time of 147 minutes.
"Perfume" is the newest film from German director Tom Tykwer ("Run Lola Run"). It tells the haunting tale of an 18th-century French orphan, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Whishaw), who uses his extraordinary sense of smell to create the world's finest perfumes. His work takes a dark turn when, upon being employed by master perfumer Giuseppe Baldini (Hoffman), Grenouille sets off on a quest to find the perfect scent. Once he starts to take notice of the intoxicating aromas of beautiful women, he decides the perfect perfume can only be created by preserving their essences.
"Perfume" won several international film awards, including the German Film Awards' Outstanding Feature Film, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design and Best Sound.
The Little Theatre is located at the corner of Oakland Drive and Oliver Street on WMU's historic East Campus. There is free off-street parking behind the theatre. For more information, visit the Western Film Society at www.rso.wmich.edu/wfs or call the Little Theatre movie line at (269) 387-8221.
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This morning when I started the car, there was a warning light left illuminated on the dashboard. Needless to say the icon was a bit obtuse, at a guess I thought it might be something to do with the brake lights, as it looked a bit like a cross between a bulb and the hand brake light, but after a flick through the manual it turned out to be a general bulb problem warning. A quick bulb check and it looked to be one of the headlamp bulbs.
Now as any long term readers of this blog will know I had a generally poor opinion of our previous Ford Focus, especially when it came to changing headlamp bulbs, since the design of the engine bay in the revised mark one Focus we had was so bad that even the experts had to disassemble the front of the car to change one of the bulbs. I'm not alone in that either, the original posting is by far the most commented on the site. There are various suggestions on how to make it easier, but whichever way you look at it the bulb change is still a pain.
Compare this to the Volkswagen Golf we now have. I've just popped down to the car park and changed both headlamp bulbs in about ten minutes with no tools at all, the back of the headlight is a screw fit, and the bulb sits in a socket that again screws in and out. It's not exactly as if there is loads of free space in the engine bay of the Golf – it's still a bit fiddly, but it's a job that either myself or Beth could easily completed on the roadside, rather than needing a toolbox or a visit to a garage to do the job properly.


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Kathy Wyer
Director of Media Relations
UCLA School of Law
(310) 206-1766
LOS ANGELES, CA, November 9, 2015 – UCLA School of Law has received a $5 million transformative gift from attorney Kenneth Ziffren to establish the Ziffren Center for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law.
UCLA School of Law is widely recognized as having one of the strongest and top-rated programs in the nation for the study of entertainment and media law. The Ziffren Center will enable UCLA Law to expand its program still further through curricular innovations, research support, new programming, and hands on skills training that will benefit students, faculty and the greater community.
"We are so fortunate to count Ken Ziffren among our most dedicated supporters and most distinguished alumni. Ken was a remarkable UCLA law student — at the top of his class, editor in chief of UCLA Law Review, and a law clerk after graduation to Chief Justice Earl Warren," said UCLA School of Law Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin. "His career in media and entertainment law has been equally remarkable, and throughout he has given back to our institution so generously with his time, wisdom, knowledge and philanthropy. Now, with this extraordinary and inspirational gift, he both cements and ensures UCLA Law's preeminence in media and entertainment law. We are enormously grateful to Ken, and I am thrilled and honored by this opportunity to create the Ziffren Center at UCLA School of Law."
Ken Ziffren '65 is one of the leading media and entertainment lawyers in the country and has long been an ardent supporter of UCLA School of Law. An adjunct professor at the school since 1998, he currently teaches the popular Motion Picture Distribution seminar. He is a member of the UCLA campus-wide Centennial Campaign Cabinet and UCLA School of Law Campaign Cabinet, and serves on the UCLA School of Law Board of Advisors. He also served as chair of the five year fundraising campaign for UCLA School of Law (2008-13), which raised more than $110 Million, a year ahead of schedule. Ziffren is co-founding partner of Ziffren Brittenham LLP, one of the country's preeminent media and entertainment law firms, and is married to Ellen, a non-profit consultant.
In 2014, Ziffren was named by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as the city's film czar, charged with increasing film and television production in California. Aside from his representation of top talent in film, television and new media, in 1988 he served as a neutral mediator to help resolve the Writers Guild strike, and in 1994 and thereafter, he represented Starz in creating the premium pay television service. He also represented the Television Academy in 2003 and 2011 in negotiating the Emmy Awards agreements with the four networks.
"Ken truly sets the standard to which we all aspire, both personally and professionally," said Susan Akens, executive director of the new Center. "His contributions are immeasurable, and as in years past, so many students will continue to benefit from his insight for years to come. He's often referred to as the 'dean of entertainment lawyers,' and it's impossible to imagine a more fitting name to grace our Center than his."
About UCLA School of Law
Founded in 1949, UCLA School of Law is the youngest major law school in the nation and has established a tradition of innovation in its approach to teaching, research and scholarship. With approximately 100 faculty and 1,100 students, the school pioneered clinical teaching, is a leader in interdisciplinary research and training and is at the forefront of efforts to link research to its effects on society and the legal profession. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.


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October 2012, New York Metro
Wendy Wax's TEN BEACH ROAD is part of the third year of Penguin Group USA's Read Pinkä program with The Breast Cancer Research FoundationÒ , undertaken in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In addition to a donation of $25,000 for ongoing research, the company is raising awareness of the search for a cure by featuring Read Pinkä and the fight against breast cancer on the covers of fourteen novels by prominent authors. The message is seen nationally via hundreds of thousands of books. For more information please visit the Read Pinkä site.
In addition to TEN BEACH ROAD, Read Pinkä features novels by Nora Roberts, Carly Phillips, JoAnn Ross, Eleanor Brown, Madeline Hunter, Karen White, Jayne Ann Krentz, Jodi Thomas, Natasha Solomons, Kathryn Stockett, Catherine Anderson, and Jillian Hunter.
Wendy is reaching out to readers with a the Read Pinkä message via her web site, e-mail, social media and book blogs and sites. She's also hoping to spur conversation about the program by offering book clubs the opportunity to enter for a chance to win ten copies of the Read Pinkä edition of TEN BEACH ROAD for their group and a visit with Wendy at an upcoming meeting via Skype or by phone.
Commenting upon her participation in Read Pinkä, Wendy says "Breast cancer never touches just one life. It touches family and friends and even strangers, and its ripples extend through time regardless of the outcome. The amazing strides in treatment and the many who have overcome this disease are welcomed reasons for celebration, but we can't forget there is still no cure. I am proud to be part of Read Pink and the effort to raise awareness of the need to keep the research and the hope going strong. I'll be Reading Pink in October. I hope you'll join me."
Award-winning author Wendy Wax has written eight novels, including Ocean Beach, Ten Beach Road, Magnolia Wednesdays, the Romance Writers of America RITA Award finalist The Accidental Bestseller, and 7 Days and 7 Nights, which was honored with the Virginia Romance Writers Holt Medallion Award. Her work has sold internationally, been excerpted in Cosmopolitan magazine and been featured in publications such as USA Today and Women's World.
A Florida native, Wendy lives in Atlanta.
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This year's NCBD theme is Bumasa at Lumaya (Read and Take Flight).
When we read books, we take flight. Our imagination is set free. Our sense of wonder soars. Our ability to play around and think outside the box is activated. When we read, we can look at another person's place in the world and discover that our humanity is mirrored in them. Our world view expands and we realize, despite our color, culture and creed, that we are not any different from each other at all.
To drum up this theme, volunteers are encouraged to:
- Post on their social media accounts (FB, Twitter, IG, Tumblr) photos of Filipino children's books and/or Filipino YA books that
- Have set their imagination free
Allowedtheir sense of wonder to soar
- Moved them to take a proactive action for one's self and others too
- Encouraged and fostered play and recreation
- Expanded their world views
- Made them realize the importance of compassion, empathy and kindness
- Made them proud of their culture: regional and national
- Gave them an AHA moment (self knowledge or a solution to problems)
B. When posting, include the bibliographic data: title, author, illustrator, publisher, copyright
C. Set the posting this way:
Week 1 - This book sets my imagination free!
Copyright year:
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#PHYALit (if it is a YA book)
D. Schedule of posts:
Week 1 - July 3 - 9: Books that set my imagination free and my sense of wonder to soar.
Week 2 - July 10 - 16: Books that moved me to take action, to be proactive and encouraged me to play and have fun.
Week 3 - July 17 - 23: Books that expanded my world view and stirred in me kindness, empathy and compassion.
Week 4 - July 24 - 30: Books that made me proud being Pinoy and books that gave me AHA moments
You may also blog about this, but be sure to connect or link to any of your social media accounts. Thanks and have fun!
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Serves 6
Carving pumpkins for Halloween is a favorite autumn pastime in my family. We always conclude by roasting the seeds and snacking on them for days to come. Pumpkin seeds are higher in protein than other seeds and are loaded with omega-3 fatty acids, zinc, calcium, and B vitamins(great for stress). Kids love to help out with this snack too.
1/2 cup raw pumpkin seeds
1/4 teaspoon coconut oil, melted
1/4 cup raw almonds
1/4 cup cranberries (unsweetened)
1/4 cup cacao nibs, dark chocolate chips, or carob chips
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
In a small bowl, toss pumpkin seeds with coconut oil until coated. Spread seeds in a skillet, and heat over medium-high heat. Shaking the skillet constantly, cook 3 minutes, or until most of the pumpkin seeds swell and pop. Transfer to a bowl. Add the almonds to the skillet. Shaking the skillet constantly, cook 30 seconds, or until golden flecks appear. Transfer to the bowl with the pumpkin seeds. Stir in remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly.


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Who is Scott Pettigrew?
You've found the homepage of Scott Pettigrew. In an effort to make it easier for old acquaintances/friends to find me, here are places where I've gone to school, worked, or otherwise been affiliated with. Should you like to get in touch with me, you may do so using the "Call Me" link at the bottom of this page. My email is also not hard to find.
- Brookland Elementary; Rochester, MI
- Reuther Jr. High; Rochester, MI
- Rochester High School; Rochester, MI
- The University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI (Bursley Hall, 2nd Hamilton & Baits Residence Halls, Thieme House)
- Oakland Community College
- Oakland University, Rochester, MI
- The Japan Center for Michigan Universities (JCMU / ミシガン州立大学連合日本センター)
- Kelly Services; Troy, MI
- HCIA, Inc; Ann Arbor, MI
- EDS, Inc; Warren, MI
- PocketScript, Inc. / LLC; Mason, OH
- ZixCorp; Mason, OH/Dallas, TX
- Ensemble Chimes Global; Troy, MI
- Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center; Cincinnati, OH
- HealthBridge / Tri-State Regional Extension Center; Cincinnati, OH
- Avon Players; Rochester, MI
- Amateur Radio – N8VSI
- Utica Shelby Emergency Communications Association (USECA); Utica, MI
- West Chester Amateur Radio Association (WC8VOA); West Chester, OH
- Warren County Libertarian Party
- Libertarian Party of Ohio – Central Committee Member, District 1 (4/2012 – Present)
- Libertarian Party of Ohio – IT Director (6/2012 – 6/2013)
- Libertarian Party of Ohio – Central Committee Chair (5/2014 – Present)


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961) Arminius, 21.11.2016, 06:00, 18:00, 18:19 (5770-5772)
Celyne Kayser wrote:
@ All.
Is Jesus 100% responsible for everything the churches have done after
him in his name?
What we must do ........
The word 'must' is a giveaway. It revives the Kantian controversy whereby hundreds of years of controversy should be revisited, so that history can teach us.
The hardware will overcome the software in any case, and if we do not learn from history, all the software will merely melt away. **
For instance, what is good in a run away post apolaptic world, where technology's remains will be either tun amok artificially implanted beings, replicating and adapting humanity, enslaving them in a post Bachause nightmare?
Science would not be thought anymore, because humanity may be crossbreed with animals , reminiscent of the film »Dr. Moreau«, minus the happy Hollywood ending.
Scientists would also be incorporated into a world of mechanical intelligence, where they are no longer needed.
So a return, an Eternal return of diminishing functions of harmonic elements, based on sound rather then sight be incorporated in a new mass re evaluation of an alternate universe from the earliest get go, with the wrongly abandoned premises.
If, the programmers do this now, and not wait until they are made dispensable, then there is a chance the sheeple will follow the new line.
Other than that option, the future is bleak, and the run away brace new world will turn chicken. **
962) Arminius, 22.11.2016, 00:56, 10:20 (5773-5774)
Why are you (**) so fatalistic? Although, realistically said, it is not a good beginning if human beings are not needed anymore.
Through rain, yes (**), and a certain amount of air humidity.
963) Arminius, 23.11.2016, 17:01, 17:11, 17:21 (5775-5777)
Why should God or his work be limited? And why should God or his work be limited by the laws of physics?
Theologically said: Such limits would contradict what most human beings think about God, because according to them, thus by definition, God is the creator of everything.
Do you mean that Trump will fulfill the deconstruction of the evils of capitalism (**) and the New World Order (**)?
And before I vote: What do you concretely mean by circus as catharsis (**)?
964) Arminius, 24.11.2016, 11:47 (5778)
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Not to those many humans who believe in God and his laws (regardless whether some others do not), also not to those who do not accept all physical laws and methods.
Note: We are talking about it in a philosophical (especially metaphysical) and a scientifical (especially physical) sense here.
If you consider only physics, then you have to leave out the metaphysical aspect (science dictates this, and the word physics shows it). But you do not have to leave out the physical aspect, if you consider only metaphysics (philosophy does not dictate this, and the compound word metaphysics shows distinctly that physics" is considered in metaphysics). There are many consequences that follow from this, and one of them is that scientists, although they claim to be objective, are subjective because of this dictatorship, the dogma, the determination of the methods. The scientifical methods are determined by subjectivists.
Being objective in a more real sense means that the subject determines nothing at all but lets the objects themselves determine what they are.
965) Arminius, 25.11.2016, 12:50, 12:56 (5779-5780)
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The modern science is an Occidental science and has conquered the whole world. So even if the genocide will be continued and finally completed, the techn(olog)ical results of the Occidental science - especially the machines - will be there, and then it will depend on the Non-Occidentals or the machines (**|**) whether science will be continued or not.
Maybe science will die in the same manner as Faust in the second part of Goethes tragedy Faust.
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966) Arminius, 26.11.2016, 02:08, 02:11 (5781-5782)
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967) Arminius, 27.11.2016, 15:07 (5783)
I am just offering some keyword arguments that could - but must not - speak for the meaning of life:
1) Offspring.
968) Arminius, 28.11.2016, 21:02 (5784)
Fent wrote:
Yes, that is a fact. As it is almost always the case: alleged oppositionists use other ists not because they like them but because they hate the same object. There is the same example with all alleged Greens who are political not because they like the green nature but because they hate people who drive cars or have factories ... and so on. .... The deepest reason for that is the fact that they hate themselves.
969) Arminius, 29.11.2016, 14:31, 14:46, 15:04, 15:28, 16:36, 20:45 (5785-5790)
Well, it is also said that the ancient Egypt was the granary of the Mediterranean area and less dry than today.
Interestingly, the most exact branch of science is not a branch of natural science but a branch of spiritual science: mathematics. Mathematics is not a branch of natural science but a spiritual science the most exact branch of science.
You (**) are right. Unfortunately, intelligence has decreased and the whole education system with all its schools, high schools, colleges, universities has become a corruption system (like all other institutional systems).
The younger Marx was right, but the older Marx was not right because of his change from philosophy to political economy. Marx became wrong when he became more political / politico-economic than philosophical.
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Yes. As I said: It is a spiritual science, thus: a science. In German, there is the distinction between Naturwissenschaft (natural science) and Geisteswissenschaft (spiritual science), and Sozialwissenschaft (social science) is something between them.
Mathematics is the most exact science, and - interestingly - it is not a natural but a spiritual science.
James S. Saint wrote:
Yes: .
What they did is something like a declaration of bankruptcy. A science that has proven that logic does not work is no science. In other words: The current scientists are no scientists.
James S. Saint wrote:
Yes, and we both know why they did that.
Mathematics is not a branch of natural science, as we know, but it is a branch of science. So it must be a branch of another kind of science, and I call this another kind of science spiritual science (following the German Geisteswissenschaft - Geist means ghost, spirit -, although Geisteswissenschaft is often translated by humanities, but I do not think that that translation is the right one). The translation is a bit difficult, but we know that mathematics as such has nothing to do with physics, with chemistry, with biology, ... and other branches of natural science. Mathematics is a subset of the set logic.
Arminius wrote:
970) Arminius, 30.11.2016, 13:51, 14:34, 16:08, 23:25 (5791-5794)
Iambiguous wrote:
My thoughs are not English. So I have to translate each thinking element into the English language. In other words: I am aware of the fact that Geist and spirit are not the same. The words Geist and Ghost have the same root. They had the same meaning before this meaning split. So maybe it is not possible anymore to properly trannslate Geist into English, which means that it is also not possible to properly trannslate e.g. Geisteswissenschaft into English.
Howsoever: The word incorporeal (cf. the definitions above) comes very close to the word I am talking about, because incorporeal means unphysical (non-physical), and that leads us to unnatural (non-natural).
Iambiguous wrote:
We already observe that mathematics and the rest of all sciences, especially the social sciences, are in conflict with each other:
James S. Saint wrote:
I think that this sociopolitical development is a very ugly one. At last there will be no practical science anymore (at least no one which is practiced by real humans), and "no practical science" means "no science in use, only false definitions of it".
Mathematics should remain what it has always been: an unphysical (non-physical), thus an unnatural (non-natural) branch of science which is the most exact one, thus also the best one when it comes to help all other branches of science.
If someone is badly talking about mathematics, then you can be sure that this someone is not a scientist.
Iambiguous wrote:
What is mathematics to you?
Kriswest wrote:
Is that addressed to me?
I was talking about the decrease of intelligence in general:
Arminius wrote:
Ad hominems do not help you. You can use as much ad hominems as you want to: it will never change anything. You have never given any argument. So stop trolling and stalking here.


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---- An office to reach out to Muslims while American vets die from lack of treatment at VA hospitals.
(Washington Examiner) - President Obama is establishing a new position to coordinate outreach to the Muslim-American community, picking a former president of the Muslim Youth of North America to run it.
"A big part of this role is making sure the national conversation about these communities is not framed through a single lens, but covers the full range of issues that Muslims and other Americans face," Zaki Barzinji, who will work out of the White House Office of Public Engagement, told the Huffington Post.
Barzinji's new job deprives Gov. Terry McAuliffe, D-Va., of his director of intergovernmental affairs. Barzinji previously worked on McAuliffe's gubernatorial campaign.
"This appointment is a further extension of this Administration's commitment to America's tradition of religious pluralism," Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to the White House office of public engagement, told the Huffington Post.Read More . . . .
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Don't You Forget About Me
Dear Anne, "Rita couldn't have the surgery. It's spread to her lymph nodes." I was at church for our annual Mass of Remembrance—a lovely Mass for all those who died in the past year, with individual candles for each of the deceased. Ironically, I was there to light the candle for my friend Claire (her… Continue reading Don't You Forget About Me


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The practical application of machine learning to e-discovery, commonly referred to as predictive coding, has begun to move from just a debated topic, to an applied technology. As developers of machine learning explain the efficiencies of their processes, law firms and review companies have the same natural reactions that most do when learning about an industry changing technology. These reactions include the initial confusion of how this complex technology works, the doubt of putting decision making into the hands of computers and the concern of potentially having jobs replaced by the new technology. As discussion of the projected impact of this technology has begun to find its way into the mainstream media, it is the jobs impact issue that seems to be getting a lot of ink these days, perhaps highlighted by the concerns of an economy that is still seeking traction.
Take for example the recently released book - Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. In a Yahoo! news blog interview of McAffee, the research scientist for MIT's Sloan School of Business suggests that a busboy might have less anxiety about job prospects than a lawyer due to advances in technology. This is a comparison that seems a bit far-fetched and one that preys directly on the fears of an uncertain economy.
But the attention focused on jobs impact is nothing new, back in March the New York Times ran a story headlined "An Army of Expensive Lawyers Replaced by Cheaper Computers." And while the story did discuss the benefits of machine learning, it is also implied that the technology was putting lawyers out of work by eliminating them from the document review process. In practice this is not true. The intention of machine learning is not to replace lawyers, but rather to reduce the burden on lawyers as they deal with an overwhelming deluge of data.
Servient has developed applications and technologies that greatly reduce the time and cost of document review. It is critical to understand though that our learning technology, Predictive Review, is based on the input of skilled legal knowledge. We don't eliminate the lawyer and their knowledge of the case; in fact it is intrinsic to our process. What we do accomplish is to speed the process and free the legal team from the burden of reviewing documents that are irrelevant to the case. A key economic benefit is that we reduce costs that can be passed on in the form of savings to the client; an opportunity that we feel will ultimately provide the firm that uses it with a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Rather than focus on the fears that a troubled economy may foster we suggest that a more holistic discussion of advanced learning technology and its place in the e-discovery process be taken. We would begin our dialogue by stressing that the developers of e-discovery machine learning technologies are not removing lawyers from the document review process. Machine learning technology, such as our Predictive Review, can free up legal talent from the burden of reviewing documents that are irrelevant to the case and focus on the documents that are relevant. The result is a gain in productivity and increased intellectual availability, which are arguably very positive economic impacts.
When one considers the impact that advanced technology has on the legal profession, it is helpful to ask whether reviewing a mountain of completely irrelevant email is truly a lawyer's job; or is it instead more aptly described as a wasteful increase in the cost of litigation. The advanced technology that reduces the burden created by the mountain of irrelevant documents involved in today's electronic discovery does not do away with lawyer jobs. Instead it helps to preserve the economic viability of litigation.


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lila rose
Emily Esfahani Smith
In the context of the O'Keefe and Lila Rose undercover work, Smith analyzes the ethics of undercover journalism in the recent past and present.
"Planned Parenthood - Cleaner Race by 'Helping' Blacks" - Lila Rose, James O'Keefe - UCLA Campus Buzz
Sean Hannity
James O'Keefe
Lila Rose
Sean Hannity features Rose and O'Keefe's phone calls to Planned Parenthood clinics. Posing as potential donors who want to give money specifically for minority abortions, the recorded phone conversations attempt to accuse the organization of supporting genocide.
Lila Rose
James O'Keefe
Lila Rose, with James O'Keefe posing as her 23-year-old boyfriend, goes into a Los Angeles Planned Parenthood clinic. She's posing as a 15-year-old girl.
"Caught on Tape: Planned Parenthood Aids Pimp's Underage Sex Ring" - Lila Rose & David Schmidt - Live Action
Lila Rose
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A video of Lila Rose's undercover reporting in a Planned Parenthood clinic. While James O'Keefe was not officially a part of the Liveaction video, he advised Rose and had worked with her before on a similar video in 2006 and 2007.


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Back to Esra Ozyurek's thought-provoking book on (mostly white) German converts to Islam in Turkey, and onwards to a subject which has been bothering me for a long time… appropriation, conversion, and where the dividing line is. Or, is there actually a dividing line?? And if there isn't, then what on earth am I doing, continuing to identify as Muslim?
My thoughts on this issue continue to evolve. Back in the day when I first converted, I hadn't even heard the word "appropriation" and had no idea that it was an issue. Nowadays, I see it as an important issue that poses complicated ethical problems that I have no idea how to navigate "ethically". So, what I am about to say here is rather disjointed.
To begin with something concrete: the cover of Ozyurek's book. This book has a picture of a white, apparently middle aged woman. She is wearing what looks like the upper half of a white prayer hijab outfit with black patterns around the edges, a brown galabiya with coral and gold embroidery. Her eyebrows have been plucked, she is wearing kohl and lipstick, and her hands are decorated with red nail polish, several rings with large decorative stones, and henna. In her right hand is a burning cigarette.
She stares directly at the camera, but her expression is not inviting. She looks rather pissed off. Why? Because the photographer is interrupting her smoke break? Because she knows she is obviously breaking several conservative Muslim "rules", and is anticipating judgy reactions from onlookers? Because she doesn't like being gawked at by curious outsiders?
Or, maybe this is intended to invert the more usual Orientalizing themes that often appear in pictures of veiled women—she doesn't look like a stereotypical, submissive victim, she isn't crying over her dead son or begging by the side of the road… but nor is she the stereotypical "terrorist" veiled woman, waving an AK47 or screaming "death to America."
I am not sure what non-Muslim eyes see when they look at that picture. Do they wonder why anyone would bother covering their hair, presumably in the name of modesty… and then wear red lipstick and nail polish, which are often regarded as something a woman would wear in order to look attractive? Do they assume that no born Muslim women ever smoke, so the lit cigarette indicates that the woman in the picture is either "inauthentically Muslim" or ignorant of her chosen faith? Or, that she is a rebel? Or, maybe their eyes just stop dead at the juxtaposition of white skin and white head-covering… and their minds try to grasp how "a woman like us" who presumably has all freedoms and choices open to her would choose to "do that to herself"?
(This is beginning to sound way too double consciousness-y. The mark of a conservative convert, I suppose.)
But I know what I reflexively see when I look at it. What registers immediately is now difficult it is to place it in any context. She is wearing the type of hijab that is most usually worn for prayer, especially at home. Either she is about to pray, or has just prayed… or has responded to an unexpected knock on the door of her home, throwing on the prayer hijab lying handy in order to answer it. But if that's the case, why is she wearing nail polish? Did she make wudu', apply nail polish, pray, and take a smoke break? Or make wudu', apply nail polish, take a smoke break before praying… only to be interrupted by the photographer??
Yeah, I know it was posed and not "real"—but what are they trying to simulate here? That a convert doesn't know or care that you can't make wudu' over nail polish, unlike a "real" Muslim woman, who would presumably know this… although many of the female converts the book discusses were influenced by Salafism, so they would have encountered the whole "what renders wudu' void" discussion ad infinitem? Or that converts are preoccupied with certain symbols of Muslimness, particularly the headscarf, and like to appropriate some colorful ethnic traditions, such as henna decorations and embroidered galabiyas, but miss the central point of what modesty "really is"? As a result, converts may ostentatiously wear hijab in the name of Islamic modesty, while continuing to engage in behavior that are often stigmatized as immodest in some immigrant Muslim communities, such as smoking and wearing cosmetics in public, but are blind to the contradiction? (Though again, converts having dealings with Arab and Salafi-influenced communities will almost certainly have heard an awful lot about what "true modesty" is and how women are "supposed to" dress and behave in public, at home, and everywhere else.)
Or maybe the point of the photo is that it doesn't make much sense. That there is no readily obvious context. That the model who is playing the role of the convert is doing just that—playing a role, that she doesn't actually understand.
She's taken a bit here (hijab, of course, because every true Muslimah must wear one! because that "Why hijab?" pamphlet she was given before she converted says so!) and there (those exotic embroidered clothes are so pretty and feminine!). She tries to practice the basic obligations (such as prayer five times a day), as well as the sunna (henna! the female Companions wore it!), but has also kept some bad European habits because even though everyone knows they are unhealthy they're too hard to give up (smoking), and try as she might, the body language associated with "modesty" such as lowering one's gaze doesn't come easily. Nor do purity laws make much sense (tell me why Allah can't hear my prayers if I make wudu' when I'm wearing nail polish again? I thought Islam is supposed to be a rational religion??).
Converts don't usually learn their religion "naturally," the way those who are born into it are assumed to do. Converts often learn primarily in an intentional, self-directed manner. They read pamphlets, books, online articles. They watch youtube videos, documentaries. They attend study circles aimed at converts, as well as Muslim conferences and classes. They discuss "how to do X the right way" with other converts. They do these things in order to learn and practice the basics of their new faith. Learning how to pray organically, by watching one's parents for example, is seldom an option. (Though, reality can be more complicated, what with born Muslims growing up in non-practicing families and learning about their faith when they get older primarily on their own steam… but that's another issue.)
The sources most accessible to white, European or North American converts who do not know Arabic or any other language such as Turkish, Farsi, Urdu, Hausa, Malay, etc are usually written/produced by Muslims of varying degrees of conservatism. These sources often focus on identity issues in the here and now, as well as legal questions— what is/is not acceptable for Muslims to believe or do, hijab, halaal food and drink, how to perform rituals such as salaat and fasting correctly, gender roles in the family, and so forth. These issues tend to be presented in absolute terms (e.g. haraam/halaal; "the scholars agree that X is an obligation…"). Both Muslim community expectations of converts as well as (often) the expectations of non-Muslims also act to promote this focus on outward appearance (clothing, food, rituals) as the proof of "true" conversion, especially for women converts.
As a convert, I almost never came across thoughtful consideration of, say, the complex history behind the present-day Muslim near-obsession with hijab. Even when such discussions were in English, they were not directed to people such as myself, and it was difficult to relate them to my own predicament as a convert, trying to learn as much as I could about my new faith and to practice it "correctly."
Most of my convert friends were in a similar situation—married to immigrant Muslim men in our late teens or early twenties. This was in the early '80's, before the internet, and back when there was little information available about Islam or Muslims in the public library or the media. What we learned was mainly from books and pamphlets, often written by conservative immigrant male Muslims or by conservative male religious leaders or activists in Pakistan, India, Egypt or Iran, as well as from sisters' study circles (often short-lived, at least in my community), mosque sermons, the odd Islamic conference that we could manage to attend, and… our husbands and their ethnic communities.
It was a confusing situation, now that I look back on it.
On one hand, there was a lot of rhetoric (especially from those who were Salafi or who had been influenced by them) about separating "culture" from "Islam." Some converts were very happy to claim that we of all Muslims were best placed to do that, because we supposedly were not at all in danger of ever confusing our "culture" with "Islam." As white converts, we were allegedly culture-free, and therefore more able to read the Quran and the hadiths from a "culture-free" standpoint. (Which is obviously nonsense. But anyway.)
Yet, on the other hand, especially for us women, there was a lot of emphasis on learning all about culture. The cultures of our husbands, primarily, but also the cultures of other dominant ethnic groups in the community. As wives, it was minimally expected that we learn how to cook "right"—which meant, how to cook the foods that our husbands had grown up with, and to learn a whole lot of other cultural stuff, particularly customs and norms of social behavior. To make things even more complicated, certain aspects of Arab cultures were declared "sunna" and therefore somehow trans-ethnic and untied to any particular historical time and place (this was especially complicated for those converts who married immigrants who weren't Arab).
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Well I'm finally going to give this blogging thing a try. I am not really sure of what to do, so don't laugh as your viewing this. Remember I am a neophyte.
I have been interested in papercrafting for the past 5 years. It started out as scrapbooking ( I have only completed 1 book, but books are ongoing right?) my real love is cardmaking and gift boxes and bags. I am always looking for unusual boxes and bags. I like to change it up to and not always for their intended use. I have recently become the card lady and poster lady at work for people retiring or moving on to other jobs. Because we have a huge amount of staff, I have used squash albums and explosion boxes for cards since they provide lots of space for sentiments and signatures. The posters could not be done without my trusty Cricut Expressions. Man I love that machine!! and my DH for giving it to me for Christmas. I was the envy of all my scrapping friends. Unfortunately my hubby took a lot of heat from the other guys for being such a super husband.


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Word Art: How to Combine pictures and illustrations!January 21, 2010 at 11:17 am | Posted in crafts, Education, Kids and reading, Writing | 2 Comments
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Here's a fun activity that allows you to write and draw at the same time! In this activity, instead of coloring in shapes or shading them, students will print and repeat words related to the picture to fill in the area.
Grades: 3-8
Materials: Paper and coloring materials
Draw a picture (outline only) of a cartoon character (Like one of the undercover kids!), still life scene, person or any idea the child has. Fill in the open area with printed words related to the object or letters of the alphabet. For example, if you draw an outline of an apple you can fill in the picture with the words: seeds, red, the letter "a", etc.
Be sure to print in medium to large letters/words inside the outlines, or the project will take too long. Before you know it you will have a creative art project with both words and illustrations! Very cool!
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Due to the cold, really cold, weather we've been experiencing lately we've been spending more time inside. This has afforded me an excellent opportunity to make some quick portraits of our dog friends. I find the sight of these furry faces quite heart warming on these cold winter days. Most of these shots were made with only natural light from a window. The colours reflect the cool winter light. The dogs are wonderful subjects, totally without pretense or inhibition.
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PARISHIONERS at St Frideswide Church in Osney attended a service at noon for those lost in the First World War, marking the homes of local soldiers on a street map.
Residents were invited to read the stories of those killed at war and put their own names in a diary showing who lives in the houses now.
Churchwarden Anne James said 82 men in the area, including seven pairs of brothers, never returned home.
The 66-year-old said: "It makes you think about the impact it would have had on our small community.
"We have marked up on the street map where all of the men who never came back used to live – it makes you realise how it must have felt.
"Where I now live, in Barrett Street, two of my would-be neighbours never came back."
The church has also compiled online records about the local men, which can be accessed at oxfordhistory.
org.uk/war/stfrideswide For visitors and people who live in the nearby streets, a book of remembrance marks all those who died in the First and Second World Wars and which houses they lived in.
Pauline Massey, 65, whose family has lived in Bridge Street since 1916, said her family had known others who had lost men.
She said: "My grandfather, Harold Perks, moved here from Jericho in 1916 to work on the railway and his brother was injured, but not killed, in the First World War.
"Our family home for three generations has now been in Bridge Street and I remember that growing up as a child we lived near a family who had lost their father.
"And it was only today when I looked in the book of remembrance in this church that I realised he had been killed in the Second World War."
Church vicar the Rev Prof Martin Henig said the centenary of the First World War was also a time to reflect on modern-day conflicts.
He said: "We should not look at it just as a historical commemoration, because we have continued to fight these unnecessary wars. I am thinking today particularly about the conflicts in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Gaza, and the terrible loss of life still endured."
The Osney Island fallen
1) Lawrence Wilfred Edwards, 47 Bridge Street (1895–1917)
A 22-year-old private who served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, at Eastleigh Hospital in Hampshire, as well as the hospital ship HMHS Lanfranc.
He drowned on April 17, 1917, when the vessel was torpedoed by a German u-boat while returning to Southampton, from Le Havre in northwestern France. The Hollybrook memorial in Southampton also honours Private Edwards.
In St Frideswide Church he is remembered both on the main plaque for all the Osney soldiers, as well as on his own personal plaque, prepared and paid for by his friends in Eastleigh Hospital and then brought to Oxford in November 1917.
2) Tom William Robert Abbs, 24 East Street (1893–1914)
The son of coachman Richard Abbs, Tom Abbs joined the Royal Navy in 1911, before the First World War started in 1914, and served as a sick-berth attendant or medical assistant. At 20 years old he became the first man from Osney to die in the war when on September 22, 1914, he was aboard HMS Aboukir.
The vessel was torpedoed in the North Sea by a German u-boat and sank in just 20 minutes, resulting in the deaths of 527 men, including Private Abbs.
He is also honoured on the Chatham Naval Memorial.
3) Ernest Albert Eltham, 97 Bridge Street (1879–1915)
Wantage-born-and-bred and brought up by his grandparents, Ernest Eltham moved with his wife Ethel Goff to Osney to work as a porter for the Great Western Railway by 1909.
He had two children, Edna and Ernest, although Edna died aged seven in 1914. He was a lance sergeant in the 1st Royal Berkshire Regiment, having volunteered to serve in the war before conscription for married men was introduced in 1916.
He was killed on September 25, 1915, in Belgium, aged 35, but has no known grave. Instead, he is remembered on the country's Ploegsteert Memorial.
4) John Edward Soundy, 18 West Street (1885–1918)
One of 11 siblings, John Soundy was the son of a soldier, Henry Soundy, who grew up in New Hinksey.
He married Mary Wheeler, of Kennington, in 1909 and they had three children, Rosina, Gladys and Henry. The family had moved to Osney by 1914.
During the First World War, he served as a combat engineer in the 273rd Railway Construction Company of the Royal Engineers. The Sapper died aged 33 in Salonika on October 5, 1918, of pneumonia. His brother Frederick, who served in the 5th Battalion of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, died on September 21, 1918.
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Volunteers in the Chaffey Electorate will be the beneficiaries of a policy to abolish fees payable by volunteers for Department of Communities and Social Inclusion (DCSI) screening, under a Marshall Liberal Government.
The State Liberals will also address the excessive delays and wait times that have plagued the DCSI screening process under the Weatherill Labor Government.
Member for Chaffey Tim Whetstone said volunteers are the backbone of the Chaffey Electorate and abolishing DCSI screening fees for volunteers is recognition of their community service.
"Volunteers play an important role in the Chaffey community and it is important we lower costs to encourage more people to put up their hand to volunteer in our community," said Mr Whetstone.
"In regional South Australia, almost 60 per cent of the population do volunteer work with about 1.76 million volunteer hours worked across the state every week.
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State Liberal Leader Steven Marshall said being a volunteer should be a source of pride, not a financial burden, and more South Australians should be encouraged to get involved.
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"After 16 years of Labor, our passionate volunteers deserve to know we value their dedication.
"A Marshall Liberal Government is committed to supporting our volunteers, as they underpin the work of many non-government and not-for-profit organisations in our state."


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