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7-Eleven and drone startup Flirtey made the very first consumer drone delivery in the United States, according to Tech Crunch.
The convenience store chain successfully delivered Slurpees, a chicken sandwich, donuts, hot coffee, and candy to a family on July 10 using a drone built by Flirtey.
Amazon and Google have been seeking to develop a drone delivery service in the US;Amazon even announced this past week that it will be developing drone docking stations to shield drones from inclement weather and allow them to recharge during long deliveries.
However, regulatory barriers from the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) continue to inhibit drone deliveries. The agency released a new comprehensive set of regulations back in June for the commercial use of drones, but the regulations did not allow commercial drones to fly long distances, which would be a necessity for Amazon's package delivery service. Congress directed the FAA earlier this year to create rules that would allow for long-distance drone deliveries by 2018.
Drone deliveries have taken off elsewhere in the world, as JD.com introduced a drone delivery service between warehouses in rural China, and Switzerland's post office has already conducted drone deliveries.
Drones turned the corner in 2015 to become a popular consumer device, while a framework for regulation that legitimizes drones in the US began to take shape. Technological and regulatory barriers still exist to further drone adoption.
Drone manufacturers and software providers are quickly developing technologies like geo-fencing and collision avoidance that will make flying drones safer. The accelerating pace of drone adoption is also pushing governments to create new regulations that balance safety and innovation.
Safer technology and better regulation will open up new applications for drones in the commercial sector, including drone delivery programs like Amazon's Prime Air and Google's Project Wing initiatives.
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Jewish Treats therefore presents five things that you can do during the work week to prepare for Shabbat:
Monday--Dry Cleaning - Sounds mundane, but it is customary to wear nicer clothes in honor of Shabbat. Finding stains on Thursday can add unnecessary stress to the end of the week.
Tuesday--Invite Guests/Make Plans* - Whether you plan to host or to be hosted, it's good to make arrangements early in the week.
Wednesday--Food - Shopping on Wednesday leaves ample time for special Shabbat food preparation.
Thursday--Parasha Prep - Take a few minutes to review the week'sparasha (Torah portion) so that you will have an interesting D'var Torah to share at the Shabbat table.
Friday--Table Setting - Set the table early in the day so that the aura of Shabbat is apparent to all who enter.
*Look ahead to March 3, 2017, and make plans to attend Shabbat Across America and Canada at a location near you.
This Treat is reposted in honor of Shabbat Across America and Canada.
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Theresa May's biggest problem? Being a woman
PUBLISHED: 12:28 21 November 2018 | UPDATED: 12:56 21 November 2018
Liz Nice says Theresa May's sex makes it impossible for her to win over Brexit
Theresa May is sticking to her guns while all around her the knives are out.
Knives don't usually do so well against guns, so she may well come out of this mess yet.
She has managed to remain relatively poised and confident but is always hampered by her lack of warmth.
In this she fails to be a woman, and it is against the patriarchal expectations of womanhood that in a man's world we women are judged.
May is always impeccably turned out – which is in her favour. Boris can wear a bobble hat and not bother to brush his hair, and everyone finds this charming. If May did that, everyone would say she was losing the plot – the favoured accusation against any woman in a leadership role from those who seek to undermine her.
"Her refusal to display any emotion in public … conveys a form of madness," said Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore at the weekend.
Oh, really? Well perhaps Suzanne has never been a boss, in which case she would know that any show of emotion from a woman in business is also seen as "a form of madness".
May can't win!
If she shouts in a meeting, she will be seen as unhinged.
If a male colleague does the same, he will be seen as strong and powerful.
Shouting is a particular problem for women. We have higher voices so sound loud when passionate – yet, so often, if we get animated, we are told to pipe down.
And that's what this latest Brexit drama is really all about, isn't it?
The Tory rebels want May to pipe down, to let the big clever men take over and show the little lady how it's done.
Boris changes his mind like the wind and Rees Mogg is acting in his own patrician drama with every statement he utters – yet we are supposed to follow the two of them, rather than the woman who has stuck at it and kept as close as possible to the path she always said she wanted to follow in the first place?
She might have more luck if she followed the time-honoured tradition of women out to get their way – by using her feminine wiles to get men to do her bidding while convincing them it was all their idea in the first place and then letting them take all the credit.
But maybe, like the rest of us, she was just bored of doing that?
Maybe she wished her cabinet – and the country – would just listen to a woman's words, rather than judging her only on the way she comes across? Maybe, but I doubt it will happen in May's lifetime – or in mine.
What makes someone inspiring?
I attended a fantastic event last week at Milsoms Kesgrave Hall near Ipswich organised by Archant which honoured 100 of Suffolk's most inspirational women. I was thrilled, and somewhat disbelieving, to be named as one of them.
I'm sure my colleagues were just being nice, but it did get me thinking about what being inspirational is actually about.
I've achieved plenty in my career. Getting into Oxford University, becoming a magazine editor in London and New York, launching the Magazine MA at the University of Sheffield, writing my book, Magazine Journalism, and coming back to Archant after having my children and getting the role of creative director here. My success in the world of work and academia looks pretty good on paper.
But I was born academically clever and could write from the age of seven as naturally as breathing. I got those gifts with no effort on my part whatsoever. But what I've come to realise this year is that we can hide behind those gifts.
We can use work to gain our self worth and convince ourselves that our lives are successful.
But real success is happiness and if we truly want to be an inspiration, it's the personal stuff we need to sort out. Because it's the personal stuff that is the really hard part.
I read a great quote the other day: 'Knowing your worth is about being ready to leave the table when respect is no longer being served.'
Follow that, and it won't matter if other people find you inspirational. You will be an inspiration to yourself.
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Showing Love–the Right Way–During the Holidays
April 26, 2020 by Cami Checketts
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By Cami Checketts –
Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year to me because of all the love that is shown. Love to neighbors, family, friends, and those in need at home or abroad. We all show that love in different ways. Most of us will make extra donations to those in need and reach out to neighbors we might not see often. We'll enjoy spending more time with family and close friends.
My husband and I were both raised by wonderful parents who loved us and took very good care of us. It's always so fun to go to Grandma's house and get spoiled as they serve us a hearty meal and dessert, and then afterwards…when they start passing around the chocolate. While we love these parties (and the food), we're grateful they are special occasions. Sometimes the love is shown through the sharing of food and it's awfully hard to make healthy choices at such times. Has anyone else offended Grandma by saying no thanks to pumpkin pie?
None of us would knowingly hurt one of our children or other family members, but I've found myself showing love through food. The baby grins when I hand him a sucker. The older boys jump with joy when Daddy makes cookies. My husband gives me an extra kiss when his special black licorice appears in his drawer. I don't believe any of these examples are a problem if they happen occasionally, but when the baby is eating suckers and cookies all the time, he's not going to feel good or develop properly.
In Romans 13:10 (KJV), the Bible says, "Love worketh no ill to his neighbor…." The last thing we want to do is to show our love by doing something that harms others, but my husband and I are often guilty of showing love through food. My husband's chocolate chip cookies are famous in our neighborhood. We often discuss how we can enjoy sharing treats with those we love while still modeling and offering mostly healthy choices. My husband's thoughts: "If you truly love someone, you would encourage them, in a positive way, to make the healthiest choices possible because you know how great that is going to make them feel."
I can't imagine a sweet grandmother handing out her lemon pound cake is thinking, "Here you go, my darlings, clog up those arteries, get hyped up on empty sugars, and just deal with being overweight." Of course, none of us thinks that way, but if we aren't offering healthy foods (most of the time) to our family, we are essentially handing them problems.
My husband is still going to bake cookies and I'm still going to hide black licorice in his drawer, but I hope that both of us will be more conscious of how we show love and what we serve at those holiday parties. Having a happy, healthy family is worth being a bit more conscious about what we eat. Now if I can just wrestle the sucker out of my baby's mouth!


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text: Pruning is what keeps your plant looking young. It is the most neglected plant care technique. Why? Because plant owners fear they will do it wrong and kill the plant. In fact, pruning is quite easy once you overcome your anxiety about doing it. Pruning will alter the appearance of your plants, but it will not kill them. It is the only way to keep plants from becoming overgrown with long, bare stems touching the ceiling, bending over or crawling across the floor. I have written Indoor Plant Bulletin No. 24 to help you overcome your pruning fears and explain how to go about it.


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Gastric Bypass Patient Celebrates Three-Year Anniversary
by June Zaragoza, MPH, RD, LD
Mary Pirrello celebrated her one-year-anniversary on December 27th, 2006. I first met Mary when she attended our monthly information session presented by our surgeons. At that time she faced a difficult insurance approval process, but she prevailed, and after over a year of working for it, finally had her surgery right after Christmas in 2005. She said surgery was her Christmas present to herself.
Within 6 months, she lost approximately 50 lbs; and by one year, 100 lbs. She exercises as much as she can, which includes jogging and entering 5K races. She attends school and is planning an archeological dig this summer in Belize.
Mary attends support group regularly, helping to start a clothing swap program and patient web site (weigh-to-go-victory.tripod.com). In group she often mentions how grateful she is that bypass surgery has tamed the beast (her appetite). Before, she was hungry all the time. She describes her experience having weight loss surgery by saying, "My life has been returned to me."
Two years after her surgery, Mary earned her bachelor's degree. "Sometimes I have to pinch myself. Really hard to make sure I'm not dreaming any of the last year and a half. I'm just grateful for the opportunities that have presented themselves through going to school up here and meeting everyone I have since. The surgery is all a part of it too. Body image has a lot to do with confidence level for me. I felt that as long as I looked body image wise out of control, who would take me seriously when I speak about things that matter to me. I wouldn't, so why would anyone else."
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Mary has maintained her over 100 lb weight loss and adds, "Once you get past the idea that you 're not fat anymore, then you start looking at what you need to do to live your life. The weight was always such as issue. I have to stop that tape from playing in my head. There's no reason I can't do what I want to do."
In the last year Mary has moved, went back to school for her MBA, and is applying for grants for a research project. She projects being done with school by June of 2010 and is looking forward to her 30th high school reunion.
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There are several types of shoes that may appear in multiple categories. Boots is an example. Can be found in the informal, formal, travel and fashion clothing. casual boots are usually made of suede leather and laces or straps to hold. Party and the boots are made of various materials and may come with buckles, zippers, straps or cords. Travel boots are tough and built so that travelers can walk without constantly keeping your feet at ease and without injury. leather boots used formal end to give a bright appearance suitable for formal occasions.
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"What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. … In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them."
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TORONTO – The hot boot of Italy fly-half Kris Burton was instrumental in Canada's downfall as the Italians walked away with a 25 – 16 victory at Toronto's BMO Field Friday night.
It was the Canadians second international rugby game at the stadium and first loss there. Canada defeated the U.S.A. in their BMO debut in 2011.
Played in front of 12,220 fans, Canada took an early lead in the game and was 13-9 ahead at half-time. But the dominant Italian scrum handcuffed the Canadians in the second half.
Burton kicked 20 of his team's 25 points, missing only one kick on the night. Canada fullback James Pritchard was also accurate, but had fewer chances at goal.
Pritchard did manage to kick 11 points on four shots at goal, which put him into second on Canada's list of all time points-scorers. Only current manager Gareth Rees has more points.
Playing a more expansive game early on, Canada was stymied by Italy in the second half.
"Italy to us is a team that is very strong up front and very strong in the contact area," stated Canada head coach Kieran Crowley. "We played into their hands by having one off runners a lot of times. That got them into the game.
"It was pretty disappointing from our perspective. We didn't execute what we went out to do."
"From our point of view it was a good win," added Italy head coach Jacque Brunel. "Canada is a tough team and they showed the strong spirit they had at the World Cup and against the U.S.A. last week. We knew it would be a difficult game, so we are happy with the result."
Canada started the match brightly, disrupting Italy's throw on the first line out of the match. They spun the ball wide and earned a penalty, which saw them take an early 3-0 lead.
Italy replied with a penalty soon after to level the score at 3 apiece.
A turning point for Canada was the loss of prop Hubert Buydens in the 17th minute with an ankle injury.
Both sides traded penalty goals before Pritchard took a mark in his own 22m off an Italian kick and launched a towering bomb. The Italian scrum-half Tito Tebaldi couldn't hold on to it and Canadian winger Conor Tranior scooped on the loose ball and ran it in for a try under the posts to make it 13-6 Canada.
Burton would add one more penalty to make it 13-9 at the break.
Italy struck first after the break, with Burton punishing the Canadians for a ruck infringement to reduce the lead to just one point, 13-12.
Canada was again penalized for a ruck infringement in the 50th minute and the resulting kick for touch gave Italy a lineout just 10 metres out from the Canadian line. Italy perfectly executed a driving maul off the line out to score their only try of the match and take the lead for the first time. Burton converted the try to take the score to 19-13.
Off the resulting kick-off Italy were penalized for obstruction and Pritchard was successful with the three points, closing the gap to 19-16. That was as close as the Canadians would come.
Italy won a scrum penalty right in front of Canada's post and Burton made no mistake, extending the lead to 22-16.
Italy's scrum dominance continued to earn them penalties. Burton extended the score to 25-16 with less than eight minutes remaining.
Canada finished the match with a strong surge on the Italian line, however the Azzurri's defence held strong to preserve their nine point lead and 12th spot in the official IRB world rankings.
Canada next face Georgia in Burnaby, B.C., on June 23.


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This has to be the hottest day of the year so far, right? My pink shoulders are testament to this. My friend and I decided to jump in the Mini, speed out of the city and spend the day beach and forest hopping. We also brought my dog, Indie, which was a bit of a gamble as she doesn't travel well, but we all had lots of fun. Gah, Scotland is so pretty!
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Interview: James Frankel
About the Islam in China Interview Series: Islam in China is doing a series of interviews with academics, Chinese Muslim artists, scholars, researchers etc. The goal is to give the readers of this resource a good overview of aspects of Chinese Islamic culture and civilization. The current interview is the second interview in this series.
About James Frankel: James Frankel is an Assistant Professor at University of Hawaii. His area of expertise is the history of Islam in China and his areas of interest include comparative history of ideas and religious and cultural syncretism in China. His PhD dissertation was on the subject of Chinese Islamic scholarship during the early Qing Period. He has traveled extensively in Asia and Europe and has interacted with Muslim scholars and leader in many Muslim communities. His book, Rectifying God's Name, on the great Chinese Muslim scholar Liu Zhi was recently published by the University of Hawaii Press.
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Interview of James Frankel: On June 22nd, 2011 I had the good fortune of sitting down with James and interviewing him, and discussing things of interest. Here is the transcript of the interview.
James Frankel Interview Transcript
Islam in China: Can you tell us something about your background? How did you get interested aspects of the Chinese Islamic Culture?
James Frankel: Well, I have been doing it for quite a while. I have been working on this topic for a while, since the senior year of my college days. I came to it through two different directions. It's a hybrid topic, so I came from it from both directions. From the Chinese direction, I was an East Asian Studies Major at Columbia University and that comes from my family background. My parents deal in Asian art, so Chinese culture was around me when I was growing up. So it was only natural that I started to study Chinese culture at university. That was the first part. As an East Asian language and culture major, I studied Chinese culture, Chinese philosophy and Chinese history. And within that I also studied Chinese religion. Now the other part, the Islamic part, is a little bit harder to frame but what it comes down to is that during that time in my life, (when I was) in my late teens and early twenties, I was engaged in a personal search for meaning and understanding of the world and life. That led me to the study of religion independently and that led me eventually to the study of Islam. These two interests converged when I was twenty one years old when I was writing my bachelor's thesis and I had to write something original about Chinese culture and I decided to write about Chinese Muslims and ever since then I have been doing that.
Islam in China: So your recent book, Rectifying God's Name, talks about the work of Liu Zhi and also the broader context of the Han Kitab, can you please tell us something about that?
James Frankel: Well, in my early research, even from that Bachelor's thesis, whenever I read about Chinese Islamic intellectual history the name Liu Zhi always came up. Every article, every chapter of a book in English which dealt with Islam in China always mentioned Liu Zhi. It actually mentioned the three great Han Kitab writers: Wang Daiyu, Ma Zhu and Liu Zhi, but Liu Zhi was clearly the most accomplished of these writers from all the descriptions. So I wanted to know what this person was writing. It was from there I worked backwards. I acquired my first copy of the Tianfang dianli from a family friend in Hong Kong, from a Chinese Muslim family. And I tried to read it but it was impenetrable at that time and so I had to backtrack and I wanted to learn the context of the kind of language that he was using which leads us back to the history of the Han Kitab. And that history begins with the long history of assimilation of Muslims in China who arrived some time in the Tang period (618-906) in the seventh, eighth and ninth centuries, and then after several centuries working with the Chinese language and Chinese culture, some of them lost contact with the Islamic sources. So then during the Ming period (1368-1644) in the sixteenth century, there emerged a great figure, Hu Dengzhou, who was so unsatisfied with the amount of Islamic knowledge available in China that he went westward in pursuit of Islamic learning. He returned bringing with him what may have been Sufi teachings and all sorts of books in Arabic and Persian. Then he and his associates back in China began to translate these works. That's the origin of the Han Kitab. And then from those original translations, generation after generation, teachers transmitted and expanded upon this knowledge, in a scholarly network spread throughout central and eastern China. Then, from these beginnings, the more innovative, original Han Kitab works of Wang Daiyu, Ma Zhu and Liu Zhi emerged in the two centuries after that. It was in this context that I then delved deeply into Liu Zhi's thought.
Islam in China: It seems that the Han Kitab represents the acculturation of Islam in China with respect to the Confucian and the Daoist philosophies of China. Would you say that that tradition still survives or did it die out in China?
James Frankel: I think it continues amongst those of us who are reading the Han Kitab today and there is a small group of Chinese readers, Chinese Muslims readers, who are probably studying the Han Kitab but the tradition, the Han Kitab itself, there was an interruption in the Han Kitab tradition which had a lot to do with the upheaval in China in the late 19th century, all the way up to the 20th century. The Chinese Islamic intellectual tradition evolved and was transformed into something quite different. If you look into the research that some of my colleagues are doing into the early 20th century intellectual history of Muslims in China, it has a lot to do with the reformation of China: the Chinese education, the Chinese intellectual tradition at large, the modernization and to some extent the Westernization of that intellectual tradition. So the Han Kitab may have been transformed into something else, like apologetic works by Chinese Muslims which were much more concerned with a new order and not the Confucian order that they were interested in previously. I think today there is resurgence in interest in Han Kitab but that represents a revival rather than a continuation.
Islam in China: There seems to be a general revival of Confucian teachings in China, do you think that this would feed back into this (Sino-Islamic) tradition?
James Frankel: Yes I think so. I do think that after the heights of Maoism and the Cultural Revolution, there is a resurgence of Confucian thought in China. Confucianism never disappeared from China but it was subordinated just as Islam and other religions and philosophies were subordinated during the heights of the extremely ideological period in China's history. Now that they have been discovered by Western scholars there has been a recognition of the Han Kitab as not only Muslim books but also as part of the Confucian tradition. So as Muslims rediscover or redefine their identity in China, I do think that there will be a synergy between the rise of Confucianism in China and the Sino-Islamic tradition.
Islam in China: Were there any influences, from the Muslim Confucians in the other direction as well, i.e., on the wider non-Muslim Confucian scholars?
James Frankel: I think minimally. It was not as profound or influential as the Jesuit and the Chinese Catholic thought and writing that penetrated China from the 16th through the 18th century. There may have been some subtle influences but I think that the scope of the Han Kitab was limited to the Chinese Muslim community, and a particular elite amongst the Chinese Muslim community, to express themselves and express their self-identity. So I do think that there was limited influence. I do know for example that Liu Zhi's Tianfang dianli was included in the Siku quanshu, or the Qianlong emperor's (r. 1736-1796) compendium of literature. So it gained a certain modicum of recognition but I do not think that Islamic thought penetrated Confucian circles that deeply.
Islam in China: And why do you think that is the case?
James Frankel: If you look at the description of the Tianfang dianli in the imperial compendium in the Qing period, I think the answer is right there. The Confucian editor who reviewed Liu Zhi's work said that Liu Zhi was a brilliant scholar who writes beautifully, that his style is very eloquent but he says that Islam is fundamentally absurd and therefore all the clever ornamentation that Liu Zhi used, all of his Confucian training was to no avail. So the dominant Chinese world view would see Islam as being inherently inferior to Confucian thought and I think it was the utmost obstacle to any kind of serious influence by Islamic thought on Chinese culture.
Islam in China: Can we make a parallel between Islam and Buddhism in this context? For the longest time Buddhism was also considered to be a foreign religion in China?
James Frankel: Buddhism is unique amongst the foreign religions in China because it really was transplanted and naturalized in China to the point that it became one of the so-called Three Teachings alongside Confucianism and Daoism. No other religion has been able to achieve that level of acceptance in China. So although it was foreign, Buddhism integrated into Chinese culture and society. Perhaps it has to do with historical circumstances, the manner in which the missionaries and then Chinese Buddhists translated this tradition into Chinese. May be all of these factors contributed to why Buddhism became so widely accepted in China. I think it is because of a number of things – historical circumstances, the timing when Buddhism entered China, and that it was an attractive religion at that time. Also, in the field of comparative religion we often hear the generalization that Asian religions are less exclusive and more inclusive, whereas the Abrahamic monotheisms, as similar they are to each other, are exclusive of each other not to mention other religions in the world. So Judaism, Christianity and Islam demand an exclusive commitment to their truth claims that can't really permit the acceptance of other religions simultaneously. Buddhism does not require that same kind of faith commitment. Buddhism traditionally has been more of a practice rather than a doctrine and so it managed to find a way to coexist with Confucianism and with Daoism often in terms of syncretism and blending of traditions. So there is a parallel between Islam and Buddhism, or Buddhism and other foreign religions, but Buddhism, as I said, has a unique distinction of successful transplantation of a foreign religion in China. Of course throughout the centuries it has had its opponents as well, but you cannot separate Buddhism from Chinese culture today. The same cannot be said about Islam.
Islam in China: Going back to the topic of Liu Zhi's teaching, what do you think other cultures, especially Muslim cultures and Muslim minorities, can learn from that particular era in time and that culture?
James Frankel: Well, in many ways, I actually think that Liu Zhi's, and not just Liu Zhi's but the Han Kitab phenomenon and the scholarly enterprise developed by Muslim intellectuals in China, is consistent with some of the earliest and the most deeply held values of Islam. There is a Hadith[1] which says that the "word of wisdom belongs to the Believer and he should take claim of it wherever he finds it." And we know the oft-repeated Hadith, "Seek knowledge even though be it in China" And that is exactly what the Han Kitab writers were doing. They were finding wisdom in the tradition of Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism which also blends Buddhist and Daoist ideas. And they were finding parallels with Islamic ideas and values. As I have argued in my own book, this is just an expression of their simultaneous existence as Chinese Muslims. I think Muslims around the world, especially minority communities, can learn a lot from this. Rather than the rejectionism that we see, the exclusivity of Islam for lack of a better word, that is, the thinking that Islam is completely independent and bears no relation with any world tradition except in so far as traditions which preceded it may have been divine revelations which may have been distorted. Rather than looking at it simply in those terms, we can see the universality of human wisdom and Liu Zhi made this argument that the wisdom of the Chinese sages is identical to the wisdom of the Arabian sage, the Prophet (pbuh). That is something that all of us can learn from and we can have a civil discourse based on finding common ground. A lot of inter-faith dialogue in Western countries is based on that principle but I do not think that it has been as successful for European or American Muslims as much as the Han Kitab enterprise was successful for Muslims in China. So I think that is a lesson for all of us.
Islam in China: Ever since China opened up to the rest of the world, there have been a number of pressures on Chinese Muslims in terms of national policies and also influences from the outside with respect to "purging" Islam of Chinese influences i.e., mainly influences coming from the Middle East. How does this affect the local Chinese Muslim tradition?
James Frankel: From its inception in China, Islam has never been a monolithic entity. Islamic communities in Northwestern China are different from Islamic communities in Eastern China. The further East we get, we see greater assimilation into the mainstream Chinese culture. That has been true even earlier and includes the Han Kitab, which were works of assimilation. So I think there will always be different Muslim communities in China. We see it everywhere; there are different Muslim communities in Muslim countries and there are different Muslim communities amongst Muslim minorities in the West and elsewhere. I think that would be the case in China as well. I do think, however, if I can give my personal opinion, for the lack of a better word – the Arabization of Chinese Islam that we see will continue to some extent. I think that it threatens to undo some of the efforts of the luminaries of the Han Kitab three hundred, four hundred years ago. If the idea of an exclusive or "purified" Islam is to be promoted in China, I think that will only serve to further separate China's Muslims from their non-Muslim neighbors. That will put Muslims in a more unfavorable position in Chinese society. I think assimilation i.e., some sort of integration, is vital. I am of course not advocating the loss of Islamic identity. But if the pendulum swings too far in the direction of differentiation then you leave these communities vulnerable to intense segregation and ghettoization. I do not think that that would be a good outcome.
Islam in China: Now moving in the other direction, outside of China was there any influence of the Confucian and the Daoist traditions on the Islamic world?
James Frankel: Not that we can document. Buddhist, yes. Buddhist influences in early medieval Islam are documented but that did not come from China. It probably came from India and Central Asia. Daoist and Confucian influences in the Central Islamic lands, I do not think that we can really document this. We can speculate but the evidence is very very scant. I think it behooves Muslims everywhere to learn more about other religions of the world, including Chinese religions.
Islam in China: In general, would it be correct to say that within the larger Islamic, and even Confucian and Daoist, context the influence has been a one way street intellectually or is that too strong of a statement?
James Frankel: That is too strong of a statement, but I think the preponderance of evidence in the Han Kitab shows mainly the influence of Confucianism on Islamic thought and that is because they are written in Chinese. The Chinese language carries within it certain ideological and cultural assumptions; any language does. Now there may be subtle influences of the Islamic culture on the Chinese culture. There certainly have been influences in terms of material culture. There have absolutely been influences on the Chinese culture because trade went both ways, but intellectually and religiously I think that the vast majority of influences haves been one directional. Maybe further research will reveal more bidirectional influences.
Islam in China: Mainly because of the rise of China on the world stage, China has started reappearing in the consciousness of the wider Muslim world once again. Do you think that such influences and such interaction will once again become prominent?
James Frankel: I am sure of that. China is so integral to the global community and there are more Muslims in China than most people realize. With the opening of China, and Chinese people traveling abroad, a certain percentage of the traveling Chinese population will be Chinese Muslims, including Chinese Muslims performing the Hajj[2]. The Hajj has traditionally been not only the religious obligation that it is, but also a meeting place for Muslims around the world, a pan-Islamic, almost universal marketplace not only of goods but also ideas. So I think that the Chinese Muslims and Chinese Islam will be further integrated into global Islam just as China is being integrated in the global civilization.
Islam in China: Based on what I have read about the Han Kitab, owning to the peculiarity of the Chinese language, the translation of Arabic and Farsi terms into Chinese, when they are translated back, may lose some meaning or sound strange. Can you comment on that?
James Frankel: Any attempt to translate from language x to language y, and then back to language x, is bound to produce oddities of expression. I think with translation comes increased complexity. In the encounter of civilizations, I write in my book, translation is the necessary first step but also the greatest barrier to communication. We try to finds ways to communicate when we encounter the other and then we have to find a certain accommodation to an entirely different set of ideas and worldview. I think that the ideas that are written in Liu Zhi's work are based on some very sophisticated ideas from Islamic mysticism and metaphysics, which would be difficult for most Muslims to understand even in their original language, not to mention that the Chinese language which Liu Zhi used is the most refined and literary language of that culture, of China. The Neo-Confucian texts are very hard for most Chinese people to penetrate and so multiple layers of complications exist. And so you may ask, who can read these? And I would have to say that at this point only a very few people can read these overlapping literatures. And of course when we translate back to English, another layer of complexity is added. But hopefully our attempt i.e., the my attempt and that of my colleagues, will open up this up to a whole new audience in what is the Lingua Franca of our day. With reference back to the Chinese and the Islamic context, we can understand the meaning of these books in both contexts and finally in an English speaking context.
Islam in China: Can you say a few additional things about the work of Liu Zhi and the Han Kitab?
James Frankel: If we look at their name, the word itself shows their complexity. The word Han is the Chinese word for the Chinese language (and people) and the word Kitab is the Arabic, or rather the pan-Islamic, word for the book. It has been borrowed by many other languages too. So Han Kitab shows that the writers and the readers of these books were an audience that was equally comfortable with the Chinese literary tradition and the Islamic religious tradition. As such some people call them works of apologia which seek to explain and defend Islam. I think that is part of their purpose, but there is another aspect. For the scholars who wrote and studied, these were also works of inner transformation, they were works of personal devotion. In Islam, for a scholar, an alim [3], his work is an act of devotion and I do not think that Liu Zhi and Chinese Muslim scholars were any different in this regard from other Muslim scholars. I think that they thought that they were doing a service to Islam and they were serving Allah and his people by writing the works that they were writing. At the same time they completely embodied the Confucian ethic of education and self-cultivation that takes place through learning and scholarship. And so the Han Kitab, just as the name suggests – their hybrid Chinese-Arabic name, they were simultaneously works of Islam and Confucian, or Neo-Confucian, (works of) self-cultivation by these scholars. They also served a more general purpose of educating the Muslim community in China and to some extent speaking to the non-Muslim scholarly elite, the Confucian elite, in China and showing them aspects of Islam which they hadn't seen previously. So they actually serve multiple purposes. A personal purpose for the writers themselves, a communal purpose for Chinese Muslims in general, and a wider purpose in the encounter between the Chinese and the Muslim civilizations.
The work of the Han Kitab writers was so important and so remarkable. They were showing that there was not only a genetic, blood connection between the Han and the Hui, but also that there is a profound intellectual, ideological, ethical, moral and even, dare we use the word, spiritual connection between the Chinese and the Islamic traditions. The stigma of otherness or foreignness that Muslims have carried for so long, if it is ever going to be, I would not say eliminated, but minimized, there needs to be more communication between these communities. And I do think that this example, which admittedly occurred at the most elite and scholarly level of society in late imperial China, may hold a lesson for Han and non-Han relations in China in general. If you want to call it a meeting of civilizations, there is a lesson to be learned from that meeting and that lesson, as I said earlier, can be transferred to other Muslim minorities elsewhere, even in the United States. There is a lot of common ground; it sounds so cliché that I almost feel embarrassed to say it, but we do have so much in common than that which separates us and differentiates us – our DNA itself. I think there is a lesson to be learned here. I would not be doing the work that I am doing if I did not believe that there was some relevance of this work to the bigger picture and when I say bigger picture what I am talking about is our relationship with one another and to the world in which we live. And I do not mean to sound so grandiose but that is what motivates me.
Islam in China: A number of authors have argued that, historically and even now, Islam has been the "Other", or at least one of the "others". Do you think that through the process of acculturation and non-Muslim Chinese getting to know more about Islam, the Chinese people will stop thinking about Islam as the "Other"?
James Frankel: I think that the Chinese conception of Muslims is best captured by the title of my colleague and mentor John Lipman's book Familiar Strangers. That is exactly what they are. They are other, but they are an other that has been in the midst of Chinese culture for so long that they are a known other. They are not a complete other, they are not a complete enigma. Will they ever be a not-other? I think China will have to become, and it is becoming, a more cosmopolitan society but for the most part among the great Han majority, as it is described in Chinese sociological and anthropological studies and policies in China, there is an attempt to make China very homogeneous. That, to some extent, requires minorities who are "other", who are heterogeneous, and who must conform to a certain cultural standard if they are to belong to China. As long as that attitude persists, there must be an other, especially insofar as Muslims insist on differentiating themselves. And the Muslims in China who are not-other are the Muslims who have assimilated to the degree of losing their Islamic identity. So I think there must always be some degree of otherness as long as there are self-identified Muslims in China.
Islam in China: My last question, what future works are you thinking about?
James Frankel: I am contemplating my next major writing project, my next major research project. Perhaps a second book, which is basically the outgrowth of the work that I did on Rectifying God's Name. It is to look at the parallel, the intertwined history of Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Chinese context. Recently, during my visit to New York, when I spoke to a group at local synagogue, I was talking about this very topic of Jews and Muslims and how they have assimilated in China and we noticed so many parallels, and not only parallels but also ways in which these two groups have influenced each other. We also see that the Christians were an integral player in this drama. One of the responses that I got from an audience member in this mostly Jewish audience was that she "never realized how similar we were." She meant, or course, how similar Jews and Muslims are, and we can add Christians to that equation as well. And in the Chinese context perhaps it is easier to see in the stark relief of Chinese society. the relationship between Jews and Muslims than it is to see this relationship in the politically charged climate of the Israeli-Arab politics.
Explanation of terms:
[1] A Hadith is a saying of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
[2] Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and Madina which is in present day Saudi Arabia.
[3] The Arabic or rather the pan-Islamic term for a scholar
Rectifying God's Name
Here is the description of James' new book from the University of Hawaii Press.
"Islam first arrived in China over 1,200 years ago, but for more than a millennium it was perceived as a foreign presence. The restoration of native Chinese rule by the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), after nearly a century of Mongol domination, helped transform Chinese intellectual discourse on ideological, social, political, religious, and ethnic identity. This led to the creation of a burgeoning network of Sinicized Muslim scholars who wrote about Islam in classical Chinese and developed a body of literature known as the Han Kitab. Rectifying God's Name examines the life and work of one of the most important of the Qing Chinese Muslim literati, Liu Zhi (ca. 1660–ca. 1730), and places his writings in their historical, cultural, social, and religio-philosophical contexts. His Tianfang dianli (Ritual law of Islam) represents the most systematic and sophisticated attempt within the Han Kitab corpus to harmonize Islam with Chinese thought.
The volume begins by situating Liu Zhi in the historical development of the Chinese Muslim intellectual tradition, examining his sources and influences as well as his legacy. Delving into the contents of Liu Zhi's work, it focuses on his use of specific Chinese terms and concepts, their origins and meanings in Chinese thought, and their correspondence to Islamic principles. A close examination of the Tianfang dianli reveals Liu Zhi's specific usage of the concept of Ritual as a common foundation of both Confucian morality and social order and Islamic piety. The challenge of expressing such concepts in a context devoid of any clear monotheistic principle tested the limits of his scholarship and linguistic finesse. Liu Zhi's theological discussion in the Tianfang dianli engages not only the ancient Confucian tradition, but also Daoism, Buddhism, and even non-Chinese traditions. His methodology reveals an erudite and cosmopolitan scholar who synthesized diverse influences, from Sufism to Neo-Confucianism, and possibly even Jesuit and Jewish sources, into a body of work that was both steeped in tradition and, yet, exceedingly original, epitomizing the phenomenon of Chinese Muslim simultaneity.
A compelling and multidimensional study, Rectifying God's Name will be eagerly welcomed by interested readers of Chinese and Islamic religious and social history, as well as by students and scholars of comparative religion."


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Burnt myself a bracelet,
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The Band Boosters are a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, and have the same operating standards as any corporation – all while being fully staffed by parent volunteers. They hold monthly meetings and elect a Board of Directors each year. Furthermore, the President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, BHS, and BMS Representatives-at-Large comprise the Executive Board.
Meetings are usually held on the first Tuesday of each month, beginning at 7pm. Please stay closely connected to the Calendar in order to stay updated on any necessary meeting date and times changes. Minutes from monthly meetings will be emailed out as well as posted on our Booster page below.
Please feel free to contact any of our Booster Executive Board members if you should have any questions – we know there are many components to our Program and are here to help!
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Step 2
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Add portions of butter, one at a time, to reduced cooking liquid, beating constantly with a wire whisk until butter melts and mixture turns white. Remove from heat. Serve immediately with baked or broiled fish.
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I can't believe I haven't posted these sweet little things yet.. I really thought I did already. Probably because they were taken at the same time Kyle shot product shots for Bunny Snarl and I posted all of those already. Anyway, aren't they adorable??? They make me smile! Kyle got them for me when he was in Vietnam. :] He took some really awesome pictures over there and I'll post them here soon enough!
I just realized I have so many things that need to be shared on this blog-- too many projects I haven't shown you guys, too many late outfit entries. I must really do something about that!
Anyway, I have to get back to sewing some orders (still can't believe I'm getting orders for Bunny Snarl!! God is good!). Click read more to see the puppets more clearly! Don't you just love all the pretty patterns on them? And oh my goodness. It's a bunny. Such a cute little thing. I die every time I see it. The elephant is awesome too but you know me. I have a thing for bunnies ;]
I am rambling. Enough. Must get back to work! I also have to get my stuff ready for my pattern making class tomorrow!
Photos by Kyle ;]
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"Thank god for Peter Manning," started a contempo e-mail to the Brooklyn based accouterment shop. "He is ambience the apple to rights one account of accouterment at a time."
How exactly, you ability ask, is a menswear shopped tucked into 600 aboveboard anxiety of amplitude in DUMBO ambience the accomplished apple to right? In the words of Craig L: "Short men of the apple unite."
Roughly 30% of American men are beneath 5'8" and while that accomplishment varies hardly based on age group, there's a key actuality in here. Boilerplate acme is aloof over 5'9″ but added American men are beneath 5'8" than over 6'1". Tom Cruise (5'7") and Kevin Hart (5'4") may be arch men, but appearance houses are still designing for the Bradley Coopers (6'1") and Will Smiths (6'2") of the world.
At 5'7 Tom Cruise is about 2 inches beneath boilerplate height.
To women, the abstraction of a appearance industry accouterment to an unrealistic concrete ideal ability complete familiar. But for men, there's no "petite" area to boutique at, and no "plus size" accoutrements to acclaimed brands.
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Search "short men shopping" on the Internet and you'll acquisition sites alignment from tailors who will accomplish you custom clothes to lists of which brands action inseams beneath than 30" (most don't). But now, at the top of all these searches, is Peter Manning. Not too bare because the 2-year-old cast has ashore to adequately basal online advertising.
"They're award us, we accumulate growing!" said Co-Founder Peter Manning in a contempo account with Beast Finance.
The adventure of the aggregation is intertwined with Manning's own adventure – and not aloof because he called it afterwards himself on the admonition of a branding expert. At 5'8" Manning could never acquisition clothes that fit. "I was bringing this amount of clothes into the tailor, abridgement T-shirts and polo shirts, and I said, 'This is crazy, something's got to appear here.'"
Manning, who was a Tony Award-winning Broadway ambassador afore he got into clothing, approved to address to boilerplate retailers first. "I knew a brace bodies in the retail apple and I asked them about it. And they said, 'Oh yea, we apperceive you [short men] exist, and we're not activity to put you in our stores.'"
So Manning absitively to do it himself. He begin a business accomplice with retail acquaintance and set about branding the abstraction of baby accouterment for men. They came up with "not so tall."
"There's this affair about actuality abbreviate in this country," he said. "I anticipate this chump didn't complain, and didn't accession his articulation and say, 'You know, we charge some 27" inseams,' and nobody's walking about naked. They were authoritative do and adversity in blackout and aloof advantageous the clothier tax."
Peter Manning designs abutting for the not so alpine man beneath 5'8
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The "tailor tax" is addition able byword Manning has devised to explain the plight of abbreviate men. Manning himself was advantageous hundreds to bags per year. So he went to a clothier and started from scratch, re-patterning accouterment to fit beneath men. We're not aloof talking about beneath blow legs, either. He re-thought the adjustment of pockets, the cut of collars, alike the breadth of ties.
For his anew advised clothes, Manning absitively he bare a new allocation system. "Small, medium, ample and extra-large beggarly article in the apple and it would be ambagious if we acclimated those aforementioned terms. So we had to appear up with a new system," he explained. They created sizes 1-4 and are abacus 2x and 4x soon. They will acceptable alarm that band "not so thin." As Manning says, "That guy who's not so alpine but additionally broader has a absolutely adamantine time."
While a new allocation apparatus may be alarming for some, Manning doesn't see it as a problem. Abounding men appear to his DUMBO-based "fit shop" to get abstinent and – already they apperceive their admeasurement – adjustment annihilation from sweatpants to apparel based on it.
His celebrity extends above re-outfitting the absolute citizenry of men beneath 5'8". The aggregation additionally articles a abundant accord of its clothes in the U.S. and is acquisitive to move all assembly actuality eventually.
While Peter Manning, the company, is by best measures acknowledged – it's are already assisting and growing anniversary division – it may anon accept antagonism from added retailers.
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Analyst Brian Sozzi told Beast Finance that he expects boilerplate accouterment shops to bolt on, if alone because affairs clothes to beneath men could addition their basal lines. "Less material, whether it's a blow leg or on a shirt sleeve, agency added profit. And aloof because of that I anticipate you'll see added companies ultimately hunt this." He says baby menswear would accomplish faculty for companies like Ralph Lauren (RL).
Manning, though, isn't so sure. He anecdotal afresh overhearing a abbreviate salesman at a administration abundance acquaint a beneath customer, "Oh, you apperceive what, [the store's buyers] accumulate affairs beneath and beneath [small sizes] and I don't accept it because all of our barter are that size."
For Manning, the actuality that this citizenry is abandoned is both "strange" and "crazy" and a host of added adjectives. In abounding ways, he sees his accouterment band as a array of mission: "We're accomplishing article special."
His co-Founder, Jeff Hansen, the retail adept mentioned earlier, agrees. Hansen has formed with names like Bare Escentuals and La Perla and says, "I've never apparent acknowledgment like this beyond any of the brands I've formed with over the years."
The aggregation affairs to aggrandize to accomplish the bound from Brooklyn to Manhattan in the abreast future, with the ambition of aperture fit shops in above cities in the years to come.
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The company Par B.L.eux will be twice as present this year at the 2017 Venice Biennale invested by Marie Chouinard:
Clara Furey, associate artist at the company, will present:
– "Untied Tales (the vanished power of the usual reign)" – a co-creation choreographed and interpreted with Peter Jasko, on June 24.
Benoît Lachambre will present various activities:
– "That Choreographs us" – an intensive workshop from June 13 to 26.
– "That Choreographs us" – a public presentation on June 25 to 26.
– "Improvisation 00" – an exterior improvisation on June 25 to 26.
– "Lifeguard" – Par B.L.eux's latest creation on June 30.


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After a while I decided to invest in some paraflex sheets to spread wet mixtures on such as flax cracker mix, as I was a little tired of cutting up square of baking paper. I do think these are a worthwhile addition.
Just a quick Edit as I realised I hadn't mentioned where we got it from. We bought both my Juicer (more on that later) and the dehydrator from here
They were great for delivery and answering my questions prior to purchase. I was intending to wait until I found out how they dealt with any problems before mentioning them, but we haven't had any yet, fingers crossed that remains the case.
Some recipes: Raw lime, ginger and mango pleasecake , Flax crackers


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They traveled from Boynton Beach, from Orlando, even from out of state to attend this reunion. Who were they? We like to call them Vita Nova Grads. Adults who were a part of Vita Nova early on came back to share their life journeys. They even brought their children who Liz Smiley, Director of Housing at Vita Nova Village, has declared are her grandchildren. They came to reconnect with their old friends and the staff as well as to make new friends with the youth here now.
The hotdogs and burgers were great but it was the beef brisket that stole the show. The hugs, the laughter, the stories of "back in the day" – all were ingredients that went into making this delicious recipe for family reconnection. Someone once said, "Home is knowing that no matter how hard times get, someone is there for you." Welcome home friends. Welcome home.
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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Month of Courage
For the month of February, we chose the theme of courage. Courage comes in so many different packages it's easy to forget what courage means. Courage isn't always about doing, its also about not doing. Courage isn't always large acts that impact a nation. Courage can be as small as getting out of bed in the morning to care for a loved one. Need not to forget that courage isn't the absence of fear but the rather the judgment to evaluate the importance of something else. Courage is quiet. Courage is forgiving. Courage is fighting. Courage is helping. Courage lies in all of us and how we demonstrate it in front of others is what gives others the courage to spread it.
Spread courage by donating on the link to the left and give a little courage to someone in need today!
Courage Spotlight
LBDA would like to introduce you to Tru. We met Tru at a past convention and from the moment we met her, we knew she was warm and genuine. She taught us many things about life with Lewy. From coping strategies to what it feels like to have specific symptoms. She talked about how her family has adapted to her every changing condition. Her fight everyday to make the most out of living with a disease no one can treat is a remarkable act of undeniable courage. Waking up every day with purpose and the willingness to help other takes a tremendous amount of courage To be so forthcoming and honest with such a personal condition with us remarkable. To be so forthcoming and honest about such an intimate and hard indisposition. We wanted to feature her and her blog because of she is a "Tru" meaning of courage. Please check out her blog here
Ways to Engage Your Senior
Give the courage to feel involved by engaging with your loved one. Our care partner tips this month offers few simple yet effective ways to interact with your senior.
- Painting, drawing, and sculpting.
- Karaoke for therapy and courage.
- Skype, FaceTime, and video chatting.
Studies have shown that creating long-lasting memories with your loved one and providing them with the courage to engage can result in 73% less likely to develop mild cognitive impairment with seniors with LBD.
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As I wrote in my last C25K post, I spent last weekend in Portsmouth with my family. It was my best friend's boyfriend's birthday on Bank Holiday Monday so we went to the Petersfield Festival.
I don't get to see my friends that often as we live about 3 hours apart. We spent the first couple of hours in the pub having some food and catching up. The Square Brewery does really good nachos and onion rings if you're ever in the area!
As more and more of the birthday boy's friends turned up, we decided to give up our seats in the pub and head into the sunshine. Despite living about 20 minutes from Petersfield for most of my life, I couldn't remember ever having been into the town centre. I know I've been to their swimming centre, the Teddy Bear Museum and the Heath but the centre was brand new to me!
Our first stop was of course the petting zoo. I'd found out this was there a bit earlier in the week when I was looking for parking information and it caused the longest, most excited Facebook thread I've been involved with in a long time. Sadly, they didn't have the skunk they'd promised on the website but there were plenty of other cuddly animals! As you can see, I got to hold a ferret, a rat and a snake and also won a dance-off against a parrot.
We then had a wander around the other stalls, culminating in me and Rob buying £14 worth of olives and stuff from a very enthusiastic salesman. He gave us a mix of some kind of ginger, sun-dried tomatoes and raw garlic which sounds vile but tastes delicious. He reckoned it would last a week in the fridge, but we've eaten most of it in two sittings.
We had to leave relatively early as we had to drive back to Nottingham, but not before we got to see said best friend Becky perform on stage. She sang songs from her last album and a forthcoming one as well as a sea shanty duet with her friend Chris Ricketts. Becky sounded excellent as always and got lots of laughs during "Weird Nerdy Crush". The large crowd was more attentive than I was expecting and one guy even heckled the MC at the end asking him to get her back on!
The only downer on the day was getting back to find one of our gerbils had had an abscess burst on his tummy and he was covered in blood. After a call to an out-of-hours vet, we managed to get the bleeding to stop and gave him lots of treats. We saw a vet in the morning who gave us some antibiotics we have to mix with Ribena and give to him twice a day, as well telling us to give him a little salt water bath twice a day. Luckily he seems to be pulling through, but he's getting wise to the Ribena mix!


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Drive As Though Your Life Depended On It!
Put the Brakes on Fatalities is a national program whose goal is to deliver to the public the major causes of transportation fatalities and their avoidance. Each year on October 10th, every driver, pedestrian, motorcyclist and bicyclist is encouraged to be exceptionally careful so that for at least one day, there will be no fatalities on New Jersey's roads.
In 2014, 556 individuals lost their lives in motor vehicle related crashes on New Jersey roadways. Of particular concern were the 170 pedestrian fatalities, which represent nearly 31% of all motor vehicle fatalities. When compared to the national average of 14%, New Jersey is clearly overrepresented and must continue to take action. From Sunday October 4th through Saturday October 10th the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety will be partnering with the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police and other law enforcement agencies statewide to help raise awareness throughout New Jersey. Additionally, all of the state's roadway users will be asked to do their share (slow down, avoid distractions, stop for pedestrians, use crosswalks and obey crossing signals).
By the Numbers:
In 2013, speeding was a contributing factor in 29 percent of all fatal crashes – with 9,613 lives lost in such crashes. The economic cost of speeding-related crashes in the U.S. is estimated to be $52 billion per year. (Source: Traffic Safety Facts 2013 Overview)
Among passenger vehicle occupant fatalities, the age groups 13 to 15 and 21 to 34 had the highest percentage of occupants killed that were unbuckled. Of the 5,852 casualties where seat belt use was known, 3,559 (61 percent) were unrestrained. (Source: Traffic Safety Facts 2013 Occupant Protection)
Drunk driving continues to be a serious problem in the United States. Alcohol-involved crashes killed 10,076 people, accounting for 31 percent of all motor vehicle traffic fatalities in 2013. An average of one alcohol-impaired driving fatality occurred every 52 minutes. (Source: Traffic Safety Facts 2013 Alcohol-Impaired Driving)
Distracted driving is a behavior dangerous to drivers, passengers and pedestrians alike. Distractions including talking on a cell phone, texting, eating and programming/ looking at a GPS injured an estimated 424,000 people in motor vehicle crashes in 2013, while killing 3,154 others. For drivers 15-19 years old involved in fatal crashes in the U.S., 10 percent of the distracted drivers were distracted at the time of their fatal crash. (Traffic Safety Facts 2013 Distracted Driving)
The Middlesex Police Department will participate in this important initiative. Motorists can expect an enhanced focus on and enforcement of motor vehicle violations. Please do your part and drive safely and courteously.
For more information about the disposal of prescription drugs or about the September 26 Take Back Day event, go to the DEA Office of Diversion Control site .
Updated Child Passenger Safety Law
Important: The new Child Passenger Safety Law goes into effect September 1, 2015 and is as follows:
Any child under the age of 8 years old and a height of 57 inches shall be secured as follows in the rear seat of a motor vehicle:
A child under the age of 2 years and 30 pounds shall be secured in a rear-facing seat equipped with a 5-point harness.
A child under the age of 4 years and 40 pounds shall be secured as described in (a) until they reach the upper limits of the rear-facing seat, then in a forward-facing child restraint equipped with a 5-point harness.
A child under the age of 8 and a height of 57 inches shall be secured as described in (a) or (b) until they reach the upper limits of the rear-facing or forward-facing seat, then in a belt positioning booster seat.
A child over 8 years of age or 57 inches in height must be properly secured by a seat belt.
If there are no rear seats, the child shall be secured as described above in the front seat except that no child shall be secured in a rear-facing seat in the front seat of any vehicle that is equipped with an active passenger-side airbag. The aforementioned is acceptable if the airbag is de-activated.
Correct use is easy if you follow four steps:
Read the manufacturer's instructions for your car seat. Face the child safety seat in the proper direction. Infant seats always face backwards. Baby rides in a semi-reclining position facing the rear of the car. Convertible seats face backwards in a semi-reclining position for infants under 30 pounds and under 2 year of age, and forward in an upright position for toddlers. Secure your child snugly in the car seat. Always buckle the seat's harness system securely to hold your child safely in the seat. Allow no more than one finger-width of slack between your child's collarbone and the harness strap. Secure the child car seat with a seat belt. Anchoring the seat properly with a seat belt is critical. A seat that is not buckled securely to the car can tip over, slide sideways or, in a crash, be ejected from the car. Check your instruction manual to find out how to route the seat belt properly and fasten it tightly.
For more information and for information on how to find a NJ Child Passenger Safety Technician, visit http://www.nj.gov/oag/hts/childseats/index.html
The Goal is Prevention
The key to deterring impaired driving is highly visible enforcement. The research is clear on the affect highly visible enforcement has on deterring impaired driving. Prevention and not arrest is the goal of the campaign. Drivers must perceive that the risk of being caught is too high before their behavior will change. Use the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over message to convince audiences that the chance of being caught is too high to risk. This message works and has influenced many citizens nationwide not to drink and drive.


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text: Ahmedinejad's latest choice represents a major compromise Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's three previous nominees were shunned over their lack of experience, and the latest candidate appears to be the strongest so far - having held the post for three months on a temproary basis and having previously served as a deputy oil minister. His nomination on Sunday also represents a big compromise by the hardline president, who has been pushing for a fresh face to purge a ministry that he claims has been run by a "mafia", and for Iran's huge oil revenues to be more fairly distributed. A vote of confidence is expected to take place on 11 December, Gholam Ali Hadad-Adel, the parliamentary speaker, said in a session broadcast live on state radio. Hatef Haeri, an oil consultant, told AFP: "It looks like a good decision to name someone from within the Oil Ministry. The atmosphere is more positive." "It looks like a good decision to name someone from within the Oil Ministry. The atmosphere is more positive" Hatef Haeri , oil consultantParliament had rejected Ahmadinejad's first choice on 29 August, arguing that the nominee lacked experience in a sector that accounts for 80% of Iran's export revenues. The president's second nominee was withdrawn before a vote, and the third was rejected a week ago. Hossein Afarideh, a member of the parliament's Energy Commission, said: "There is no doubt that Vaziri-Hamaneh is the best option so far given his long record in the Oil Ministry." But the issue many deputies raised was their unease with Ahmadinejad's style. The president has apparently refused to consult the parliament before presenting each nominee. Foreign investments Many MPs did give a frosty reaction when Vaziri-Hamaneh's name was announced, although Afarideh said "the initially negative reaction will not be the final decision of deputies". Shokrollah Attarzadeh, another Energy Commission member, said: Many MPs gave a frosty reaction to the president's latest choice"Since some deputies do not consider it good to once again reject the nominee, I think if Vaziri-Hamaneh consults with deputies he would win the confidence vote." Vaziri-Hamaneh is also a figure seen as unlikely to upset volatile international markets - or indeed efforts to secure greater foreign investment inside Iran. On Sunday, he said the oil and gas "buy-back" scheme, set up for contracts with foreign companies to overcome a constitutional barrier to them holding equity, should be abandoned. "But we will definitely have foreign partners in our contracts and we welcome foreign investment under appropriate conditions and prices," he said. Deputies have acknowledged that the dispute over the post has been damaging to investor confidence as well as Iran's standing within Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), where it is the number-two producer. Oil profile Iran is said to hold 12% of world's total oil reservesIran, estimated to hold 12% of world oil reserves, produces 4.2 million barrels a day, or 5.2 % of global production. The long-running dispute over the minister has also highlighted divisions within the Islamic republic's dominant right-wing camp, a mix of more pragmatic and moderate conservatives and religious hardliners such as Ahmadinejad. While parliament has approved Ahmadinejad's radical choices for other portfolios, few appear willing to take such a step when it comes to the oil sector - the backbone of Iran's economy. Iran's constitution, hammered out after the 1979 Islamic revolution, puts oil and gas within the state sector and forbids concessionary basis or direct equity stake production-sharing agreements with foreign firms. Analysts have repeatedly said Iran - holder of the world's second-largest oil and gas reserves - is under pressure at least to tweak the arrangement if it wants to meet targets to boost its oil production capacity to 5.4 million by 2010 and then to seven million by 2015. SOURCE: AFP


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As I mentioned in my post about things to do in Liverpool this Autumn, The Giants are returning to Liverpool for the final time! If you're planning to see the Giant Spectacular this weekend, here's a round up of places to eat that are on the Giant's route…
Silk Rd Tapas
The upper story restaurant located in Beetham Plaza will be offering prime viewing opportunities on both the Saturday and Sunday as multiple Giants, including the mischievous giant dog Xolo, pass along The Strand. Check out my post from Pink Media's Silk Rd Blogger Event to see what delicious tapas and gin serves Silk Rd have to offer.
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Delifonseca is set to welcome the return of the Giants with an all-day dockside celebration. With the Giants set to make their way along the waterfront and down Sefton Street between 10.15am and 4.00pm on Sunday October 7, the restaurant will be opening an hour earlier to kick-off the merriments. With service starting at 8am, guests can indulge in a proper breakfast to set them up for the day's activities.
Delifonseca are doing an outdoor BBQ, just incase you get peckish while waiting for the Giants to stroll down Sefton Street.
The Brink
The Brink is a wonderful dry bar and café, owned by national charity Action on Addiction, and will be serving up Giant Scouse Pie with Chips and Green Beans for £6.95 for local residents and tourists alike.
The Giants will be passing close to The Brink between 4.15pm and 7.15pm as they make their way from Princes Park to Queen's Wharf for their evening sleep. As well as Giant Scouse Pie and Chips, The Brink will be serving its regular menu, featuring paninis, burgers, and meals for the little ones from their Kids' Menu.
Tiger Rock Hawker
Multiple Giants, including the new Little Boy Giant, will be in and around the city close to Tiger Rock Hawker's central location as they make their way through Castle Street, Dale Street and Victoria Street all day on Saturday October 6 between 10am and 5.45pm.
Spectators can work up an appetite following the Giants through Liverpool before heading to Tiger Rock Hawker on North John Street to enjoy some delicious, fresh East Asian cooking.
Wherever you see the Giants this weekend, make sure you don't go hungry!
Information supplied by Pink Media but all opinions are my own


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The call for ideas deadline may have passed but registration for the 6th annual Blogging while Brown Conference is still open – but the deadline of 1st March 2013 is fast approaching.
About Blogging while Brown
Black bloggers from around the country will be gathering in New York City for the 6th Annual Blogging While Brown Conference. Since its launch in 2008, Blogging While Brown has grown to become the premier blogging conference dedicated to education, collaboration, and innovation among bloggers of color. The conference brings Black social media experts, speakers, and independent content creators together to educate, inspire, and expand their influence in social media and technology.
Highlights from 2012
A draft schedule is available here and for more updates check out the Blogging while Brown blog