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Al Muhaddith – Shaikh Mahmoud Ba'youn al Rankousi
Shaikh Mahmoud Ba`youn al Rankousi
by Orfan Rabbat
Before presenting some information about Shaikh Mahmoud Rankousi and his life, May Allah have mercy on him, an important comment must be made about his impact on my life and on the lives on most of those who got to know him.
The Islamic nation abounds, walhamdu lillaah, with righteous scholars that have been outstandingly good models for their students and aquaintances, and I have known quite a few and respect them deeply. When I reflect about Shaikh Mahmoud, I find features that make him belong in a very special class.
The more I got to know him, and the more I got to knowing Islam, I kept seeing how EVERY action of his was derived from the Quran or the Sunnah, and if no text was available from these sources, he would be acting according to some "weak" hadeeth. This "real life" example of the Sunnah had a singular feature about it: It had a simplicity and "beauty" that forced on me, time after time, a feeling of deep acceptance and tranquility. The way he "lived" the Sunnah clarified its beauty and validity more than can ever be explained in books. Furthermore, I used to ask him frequently about subjects of controversy or hardship, and each time he would answer, I would be surprised to realize the same feeling of deep acceptance inside me, and find myself thinking: If the Prophet salla Llaahu `alaihi wa sallam was present today, and was asked about this, he would undeniably have given this answer.
Several times I ask myself why am I being so positive, and I always notice it is because his answers and his application of the Sunnah always come in harmony with all that I have learned from the Sunnah and Quran. And the more I learned, the more I found out how this was true concerning any action or answer of his.
From knowing him in this manner, I have come to believe that the beauty and "truth" of the noble Sunnah, brings with it certitude about its truth, just like seeing the Prophet salla Llahu `alaihi wa sallam in a dream brings with it certitude about its truth. He said, salla Llahu `alaihi wa sallam, "Whoever has seen me in a dream, he has seen the truth; for the shaitan can not take my image."
In other words, when one sees the Prophet in a dream, he knows with undeniable certitude that he has seen the truth, and I feel that when one perceives the true Sunnah applied in daily life, he knows with similar certitude that it is the truth.
Other persons who have met such "living examples" of the Sunnah must have experienced the same features that I did, and for this we thank Allah for making his true religion crisp and clear to those who approach it with a sane heart. I therefore pray Allah to accept the above description of Shaikh Mahmoud's influence as a praise to Allah's infinite Mercy, more than a praise to the man himself, Aameen.
Shaikh Mahmoud Rankousi was born in 1329 Hi, 1910 AD, in Rankous, a village 45 km North West of Damascus.
His family descended from the tribe of al Ansaar: the "supporters" who supported the Prophet salla Llaahu `alaihi wa sallam and his companions who migrated from Maccah to Madeenah ("al Muhaajireen").
He once told us that one of his righteous ancestors had an unusual ability to "perceive" by touching, so he was called "Ba`youn" (the person with eyes), which became his family name.
Shaikh Mahmoud's mother died when he was 2 years of age. His youth was exceptionally protected by Allaah Ta`aala from what otherwise would be considered "normal" straying or mistakes.
His father, Shaikh Qasim Ba`youn was a righteous man. He took special care of his son, and enlisted him in the Quranic memorization class. Shaikh Mahmoud memorized the Quran when he was 5 years old.
One day his father was told about Shaikh Badru'd Deen al Hasani, the great Hadeeth scholar in Dar el Hadeeth, Damascus. Shaikh Qasim was planning to go study under him, and was discussing it when Shaikh Mahmoud told him, "It may be better if I go."
His father asked him, "Why?"
He answered, "I am still young (he was about 12 years of age) and can remember more…"
His father was pleased and took him personally to Shaikh Badr-u-Deen at the school of Dar el Hadeeth. Since then, he remained and lived there, under Shaikh Badru'd Deen's personal supervision, whose house was connected by a door to the school.
Although the level of Islamic learning was high at the time, some topics taught by Shaikh Badru'd Deen were of such difficulty that only Shaikh Mahmoud was able to finish them.
After the death of Shaikh Badru'd Deen, he remained in Dar el Hadeeth and helped rebuild it, to allow for more students. He also became one of Shaikh Abul-Khair al Maydaani's closest students, took the Naqshbandi way from him, and became one of his foremost successors.
Shaikh Mahmoud once said that he saw the Prophet sall Llaahu `alaihi wasallam in a dream where he "gave him" his tongue (the symbol of "speaking the Sunnah"). Indeed, when he used to narrate the Hadeeth, it was as if a door was opening, allowing the listener to directly perceive the splendor of our Prophet's wisdom and character. Indeed, he was besaught by foremost scholars from all over the world, seeking Hadeeth and Islamic Sciences as well as the Naqshbandi Way.


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The vet team now working at Nanning Bear Farm have the advantage of much needed equipment and supplies which were sent in advance of the trip.
The use of a surgery table, anaesthetic apparatus and air conditioning means they can work in greater comfort in the still sweltering Chinese summer heat. Though with teams splitting into two this time – facilities were still stretched.
Prioritised for inspection were the bears who had failed to put on weight despite the introduction of a suitable diet – which can often be the result of serious health issues such as terminal cancer.
With the health checks still continuing, members of the vet team have reported back on some of the bears who received care in the first few days of the mission. Much room for optimism with bears having their pain removed. Sadly however, there was a fatality too.
Themba passed away as the vets prepared to examine him. His weight had long been a cause for concern and when his appetite further dwindled he was prioritised for surgery.
Veterinarian Mandala Hunter-Ishikawa said:
"We were unable to help as he took his last breaths. A post-mortem was conducted. To our surprise, we did not find a liver tumor or gall bladder issues. Without having analysed all the results we can't confirm the exact cause of death, but gastric ulceration or gastrointestinal lymphoma – cancer – seem most likely."
Nic Field Bear and Vet Team Director said:
"It was the worst possible start to the day. Themba had been given the highest priority for health care but no one could have anticipated such an acute onset and he passed away before the team's eyes as they prepared for his health check. The entire team have worked tirelessly over the week with professionalism and hard work. I could not be prouder of all concerned working remotely from Chengdu in far from ideal circumstances."
Derek had failed to gain weight over the last few months and suffers from a number of ailments including blindness in one eye from cataracts, hair loss and serious dental issues.
Fortunately no evidence of more serious issues were found and vets were happy to see that Derek has put on some weight.
Animals Asia Founder and CEO, Jill Robinson MBE said:
"There was a shocked silence as Derek's mouth was opened for intubation and we saw that not one tooth remained in the front of his head. All incisors, canines, and most molars had been removed with just six molars remaining. Derek had also been de-clawed in the process and it was horrible to imagine that his teeth and claws had been painfully extracted in one awful surgical mutilation on a previous farm."
Derek will continue to be fed nourishing food to build up his body with vets hopeful his health issues are mostly superficial.
Wilberforce is another thin bear – with hair loss on his bony hips and rump – despite having received a more nutritious diet over the past six weeks.
He is in poor mental health too with head wounds from stereotypic weaving against his cage bars and evidence of muscle wastage.
Vets can't confirm the exact cause of Wilberforce's problems until results come back as a number of causes and a combination of issues could be at play.
In the meantime, Wilberforce was de-wormed and his three horribly shattered and infected canine teeth removed.
The surgery will have left Wilberforce feeling much better, but with evidence that he had his bile extracted via a metal or latex catheter implant, he has been scheduled for another health check and possible abdominal exploration on return to Chengdu.
Moon bear Rufus has suffered badly during his 13 or 14 years in the hands of the bear bile industry.
His front paws have been cruelly de-clawed, while his four canines were cut back to gum level.
Vets were able to remove the canines and tend to the wounded paws.
A victim of the free drip fistula method of bile extraction, Rufus has a scar on his abdomen and, not surprisingly ultrasound examination revealed a thickened gall bladder that will eventually need to be removed.
Following the operations, Rufus' health remains a critical concern for vets who may need to perform additional procedures in the coming days.
Jill Robinson said:
"We're very thankful that bile extraction had been stopped in the past two years at Nanning Bear Farm – at the very least it has allowed these bears' bodies to begin to heal. Although we are faced with the truly awful reality of bear bile farming here – the situation could have been so much worse if Mr Yan and his staff had not called time on these horrific practices."
Gummy Bear was prioritised as vets noticed what appeared to be serious dental issues causing difficulty eating.
When she was finally on the table it was found that literally all of her teeth were rotten.
Veterinarian Emily Drayton said:
"The degree of periodontal disease was the most severe I've ever seen. The teeth were literally falling out of the gums and would have been extremely painful, but would also have caused a high degree of bacteria in her mouth and potentially the bloodstream too."
In combination with abnormalities found on an ultrasound and evidence of disease in the liver, the team opted to perform an abdominal exploration in search of life-threatening tumours.
Fortunately for Gummy Bear, the exploration ruled out the worst.
Antibiotics and pain relief have been prescribed, while significant dental work was carried out leaving vets hopeful that she will make a full recovery.

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Well you know the good thing about this is that Naruto will be the gateway anime for lots of kids that get them started...While the filler does stink and some character voices in the dub are unforgivable (Shino and Oro-sama off the top of my head) it will be an anime that when it ends or goes on hiatus will make kids (only familiar with anime in the US) look for more JP stuff...Just like DBZ was for a generation of anime fans Naruto may work in a quite similiar way (Motivating them to find more anime, usually fansubs)...So while some aspects of the infiltration sucks, other aspects will be very beneficial in time...
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Oh after the Rock Lee vs. Gaara fight there will be an influx of Rock Lee toothbrushes and action figures being bought..Oddly enuff whenever I show a non-anime person an ep of Naruto the Rock Lee one is the first one I play...It's like if you don't dig this you're not worthy of watching anime...
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The dub is one of the best we've had in awhile and, best for the Naruto fans, you're getting uncut sets (granted it's going to take 10 YEARS for the uncuts to catch up Xp ).
Be thankful it's more popular and not butchered by 4Kids (my poor One Piece ;_; ).
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But as you said, if you've never seen the original....
Ignorance is indeed bliss
According to the anime insider, Naruto on cartoon network Ranked #1 in time period on all broadcast and cable with boys 6-11 and tween boys 9-14 for May...
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I seen the japanese subs, and i think the english dub isnt all that bad, they didnt edit the part where sakura was hit by the kunais zaku through at her( i always love to see sakura taking a beating). But the thing that gets me is Oro's voice and changing curse seal to curse mark, and a few other change of words but overall its pretty good for a dub
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Yeah Oro's voice was awesome in Japanese, in the English dub he sounded like your typical bad guy. And another thing is the English Dub completely screwed one of my favorite parts, when Oro scared Kikashi when he confronted him in front of Sasuke. Other than that I have no problem with the English dub.
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DEAR GOD!!! It kills me to hear kids talk about the Americanized Naruto. Nar-uto this Nar-uto that. Its ridiculous. And after showing my younger cousin a future subbed episode, he goes, what does Kage Bunshin no Jutsu mean? That just literally put me over the edge.
(Yeah it sounds like i'm on speed or something but seriouusly people. Do they really have to say the title "Village Hidden in the Leaves" in place of everytime Konoha is used?")
*I must say the voice of Orochimaru sounds more like Michael Jackson than a gentleman
The best dub I have seen by far is the Tenchi series (this is probably off-topic though)
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but the soul still burns!
All Ive heard about the dubbs is that they have a hard time saying Naruto right. But Ive been seeing the Naruto fighting game everywhere lately, the 1st one I think, (cant tell cause the covers different)
Im just glad its different than when I first got into anime, now if you want to see it in japanese you can. I keep telling people to encourage their kids with anime addictions cause it will introduce them to Japanese. =) And then when we win them all over we too shall have Animate stores!!! whhahaha go internationalization!
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Retail Therapy – Party Time
So, as you all should know by now, Swagbucks is celebrating their 5th birthday on Monday! Are you ready to celebrate? Are you ready to earn bundles of Swag Bucks? Good, so am I! I'm super excited for our 5th Birthday Blowout – it's gonna be a rockin' party! Since we're all in party mode, this week in Swagbucks Shop & Earn we're offering DOUBLE SWAG BUCKS on four of our favorite party planning stores: Birthday In A Box, CelebrateExpress.com, Walmart.com, and Shutterfly.
Birthday In A Box is the absolute perfect place to shop when planning a birthday party. Whether you're turning 1 or 100, whether you're going for a specific theme or no theme at all, this website has all of the necessities to make your party an awesome success! Let's say you wanted to have a fairytale princess birthday, because come on, who wouldn't want to have a fairytale princess birthday? You can shop just in that theme and snag one box that includes everything you need – birthday candles, utensils, plates, cups, napkins, streamers, balloons, tablecloths, and more! It ship straight to your house, making it the easiest birthday you've ever planned! Shop now and earn 10 Swag Bucks for every dollar you spend!
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CelebrateExpress.com is the ultimate online party store. From party hats to pinatas, from noisemakers to costumes, from forks to knives, they have everything you need in one, convenient place! My birthday is actually next week, also, so I was using CelebrateExpress.com to do a little shopping myself. I love a lot of bright, vibrant, even neon colors, so I snagged myself some rainbow balloons and streamers – very excited for them to arrive! Shop now and earn 12 Swag Bucks for every dollar you spend!
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Walmart.com is always a great resort for party supplies (as well as anything else you could possibly ever need). Obviously birthday cake is a vital part of any birthday party. Walmart.com offers a great selection of cake supplies: candles, cake toppers, cupcake stands, cooling racks, spatulas, fondant molds, decorating pens, and much more! Shop now and earn 4 Swag Bucks for every dollar you spend!
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Don't forget the camera! You'll want to capture all of your birthday memories, so make sure you're snapping away throughout the party. Then, send your photos over to Shutterfly to make photo albums, greeting cards, stationary, calendars, and more. Being how much I love my dog, Sophie, I used Shutterfly to turn a photo of Sophie into a woven blanket. Shutterfly is also a great place to make personalized gifts for the special people in your lives. Shop now and earn 4 Swag Bucks for every dollar you spend!
What was your favorite birthday party that you planned, either for yourself or someone else? Let me know in the comments below!
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The Bibliothèque nationale de France was founded almost seven centuries ago. In Paris, four places revealing specific aspects of French cultural heritage offer a unique and outstanding setting for special events.
BnF's rooms can accomodate your guests for special events, lectures, symposiums, seated dinners, cocktails. Your guests can also have the opportunity to learn more about the library's collections, benefitting a private tour of one of the exhibitions.
For further information, please contact the office of special events. We will be pleased to assist you in your request and offer you the most suitable place for your event.
François-Mitterrand Library
Thousands of readers and visitors use the library each year. The BnF is a friendly and comfortable place to organize symposiums, lectures, cocktails or dinners. Its auditoriums can seat 200 and 350 persons, its Belvédère up to 400 persons and the outstanding hall of Globes up to 400 persons for a seated dinner and 800 persons for a cocktail.
Richelieu Library
The Richelieu Library is the historic site of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Private tours of temporary exhibitions followed by a cocktail can be organized. The exhibition galleries and the biggest areas in the library are also available.
Arsenal Library
Ideally located at the heart of Paris, the Arsenal Library can accommodate your guests for cocktails, dinners and private tours. Up to 100 persons can be accommodated in the living-rooms where Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas and Alfred de Musset used to meet, and discover the unique collections of the library.
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This is for a logo on stationary, website and busness cards.
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ROCK HILL, S.C. – Insource Performance Solutions, LLC and LeGrand North America, Inc. violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) when they failed to accommodate and subsequently discharged a disabled employee, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in lawsuit it filed yesterday. Insource is a North Carolina-based corporation that provides labor services for its clients, including LeGrand. LeGrand, a Delaware corporation, is a leading provider of products and systems for electrical installations and information networks.
According to the EEOC's complaint, Kendell Nichols suffers from asthma. On Oct. 5, 2009, Nichols was hired by Insource to work as a forklift driver at LeGrand's warehouse and distribution facility in Fort Mill, S.C. Around June 26, 2010, a LeGrand supervisor instructed Nichols to count inventory at the LeGrand warehouse. Because of the heat in the warehouse at the height at which inventory was located, Nichols was concerned that his asthma would be triggered. In order to avoid possible breathing difficulties, Nichols used his forklift to lower the inventory to the floor in order to count it.
When questioned about this method by a LeGrand supervisor, Nichols informed the supervisor of his disability and requested an accommodation. Specifically, Nichols requested that he not be required to stand atop an order picker (a high-reach lift machine) that other employees were using to count the inventory, but instead be allowed to use his forklift to lower inventory to the warehouse floor where he would count it. Both LeGrand and Insource denied Nichols' request and sent Nichols home for the day. When Nichols returned to work around June 28, he was fired by LeGrand and Insource for failing to complete the inventory counting assignment.
Such alleged conduct violates the ADA, which protects employees from discrimination based on their disabilities. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, Rock Hill Division (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. LeGrand North America, Inc. and Insource Performance Solutions, LLC, Civil Action No.0:11-CV-02465-CMC-PGJ) after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement. The EEOC seeks back pay and compensatory and punitive damages for Nichols, as well as injunctive relief.
"Employers must remember that they are obligated under the ADA to provide disabled employees with reasonable accommodations that allow them to perform the essential functions of their jobs, unless doing so would be an undue hardship on the employer," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District. "Employers must also remember that the definition of 'disabled' under the amendments to the ADA that became effective on Jan. 1, 2009, is broad. More people with impairments that arguably were not covered before the amendments are now clearly covered, and must be accommodated according to the ADA's requirements."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on the agency's web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Rather self-explanitory. I do apologize for the blurry pics but was too lazy to re do them . Anyway the battle was really for nothing, but the Cybarskulz and Empire felt like fighting anyway. The objective was to, well really we just decided to fight.
My forces. Including my spider walker and two other vehicles I designed. The Gunship bomber I call the Medusa and the walker the Spartan.
Another pic of the Medusa and a footsoldier and bazookaman.
The Cybarskulz forces including two abominations: snake and retaliation (it should be easy to tell them apart), three flying mummies, a jet pack skellie, bunch of footmen, calvary, a suicidal ghost and their hero. (the one with the huge shoulderpads)
And there is my hero! But what is that ugly pinkish mass behind him?
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NEW YORK (AP) The second round once again proved the downfall for U.S. Open darling CiCi Bellis.
The 15-year-old California, who became an overnight sensation when she stunned 12th-seeded Dominika Cibulkova in Flushing Meadows' first round, lost her juniors match Tuesday to 17-year-old Russian Natalia Vikhlyantseva 7-6 (9), 2-6, 6-1.
Bellis, the top-seeded girl, frequently shrieked at herself after bad shots, at times saying, ''Where's your game?'' and ''That is so lame!''
It was Bellis' second straight match played on the Grandstand, the third-largest venue, to accommodate her newfound following.
After beating Cibulkova, the Australian Open runner-up, in the main draw to become the youngest player to win a U.S. Open match since 1996, she lost in three sets to Zarina Diyas of Kazakhstan.


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Ami, LeeAnne, Sarge and Chad had charisma and power, these pea brains who are left are boring, ugly and weak.
I think Chris has been pretty vital in this game. First he was the one who got Eliza to switch and then he gave her the line last night about going into the Final Four against a 60 year old and Twila.
How come nobody likes Eliza :\/ She's the most interesting person left?
Chad didn't show a lot of charater, but generally, I agree with tachuan. There was not a single person that stood out this season. The cast was relativly boring. I think everyone is looking for another person like Rupert, and the casting people didn't go out on a limb and cast someone like him, that stood out from the very beginning.
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Pfizer said Friday it has stopped a late-stage study of its drug Lyrica as a potential treatment for HIV-related nerve pain. In the United States, Lyrica already is approved to treat nerve pain from diabetes, pain following shingles, fibromyalgia, and some seizures in adults with epilepsy. Pfizer has been studying Lyrica's potential use for HIV neuropathy, a condition involving nerve damage marked by burning pain that typically begins in the feet. However, an early analysis of study data found that pain improvements in treated patients were almost identical to those who received a placebo. The study did not raise any safety concerns; Pfizer plans further analysis of the results.
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by Christopher Bachler
I recently went to a local post office branch to mail some packages. A scruffy man behind the counter with about four days of overgrowth on his face, disheveled hair and a bad attitude finally came to the counter to help me. So far nothing out of the ordinary; I was at the post office, after all. (I am not mentioning the specific branch because I may have to go back there someday.)
I told the man that I wanted to send two packages the cheapest way possible. He brought up some options on a computer and rudely thumped the screen with his finger without saying a word. I strained to see what he was pointing to on the sun-glared screen and approved one option. He brought up more options and again thumped the screen with his finger — still saying nothing.
I answered. He did the same again and again until FINALLY, in pure indignation, I demanded: "DON'T YOU TALK?" He pointed to his ear and shook his head. I concluded that he was a deaf mute.
At the start I assumed — based on his demeanor and attitude — that he was just another postal ignoramus. I have had many encounters with that kind. But I never imagined that he was a deaf mute.
Who would expect a deaf mute to be working a counter at the post office?
Only the U.S. government would pull something like this. It would be almost comical — like a Steve Martin or John Candy movie — if it wasn't so appallingly real. Here is affirmative action and political correctness RUN AMOK!
Everyone understands the need to employ the disabled. But you expect people to be assigned to jobs they can properly do. For instance, a person in a wheelchair could do phone work as well as anyone else, but you wouldn't expect a deaf person to answer phones; would you?
Of course, there was also a time when you wouldn't expect a person who can't speak English to be working the phones with an English-speaking public. You would also expect the operator to live and work somewhere in this country. Why must we call Asia to fix problems here? Is the U.S. Postal Service running everything?
Someone — perhaps in the depths of Hell — must be messing with us! These absurdities remind me of a 1960s' sitcom called "F-Troop," in which the permanent lookout guard at the fort was a nearly blind man named Vanderbilt. Sit-coms thrive on such nonsense. Evidently, life imitates art.
Some will insist that exceptions must be made for the disabled. No. A place of employment does not exist for the benefit of employees but for the benefit of customers on whose patronage the organization depends. Should exceptions be made for someone flying a plane or performing open heart surgery? Would you hop in a cab with a blind driver?
And then there was this postal worker's demeanor. Does a man's hearing limitations prevent him from bathing and shaving? Does the inability to speak compel him to behave like an ignoramus? And are supervisors too cowardly to upbraid employees, especially if they are classified as disabled?
I can understand a bad attitude in an immature kid who works a counter for minimum wage. But I believe that postal workers are paid fairly well, at least when benefits are factored in. (I'm sure that they won't agree since few people, even on Wall Street, ever think they are paid what they deserve.) Yes, I actually have the nerve to expect a little better from our public employees, especially those at the top.
This and more begs the inevitable question: Where does the U.S. Postal Service get its employees? Do they recruit employees like field hands? Do they send out crews of seedy men in pickup trucks to round up homeless people or disoriented barflies?
There seems to be an extraordinary number of dolts working at these places. Their manners are often poor and their competence minimal. Only rarely have I dealt with civil postal workers BEHIND the counter. On the other hand, I have rarely encountered letter carriers who were not friendly, polite and helpful.
Has it occurred to the U.S. Postal Service to put these sharp and civil workers in the office behind the counter and to send the crusty dullards out to do the real work? I guess not. This is the U.S. government, after all. And this is the golden age of political correctness.
So what does common sense have to do with anything?
Christopher Bachler is a freelance curmudgeon from Media who would like all people who wait on the public to be smiling, courteous and friendly. In other words, he must be taking too many prescription drugs.


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Learn the history of the building's name
DuBois Hall is a residence hall within the Hasbrouck complex. The Hasbrouck complex is made up of suites, each having two to four student rooms, a common bath and a lounge area. Students who live in the suites enjoy the privacy of their own "living room" and often personalize it (along with their individual rooms) with posters, plants, rugs and furniture. The residents are responsible for maintaining and cleaning their own bathroom.
Located in the basement of DuBois Hall is a laundry room with washers and dryers, as well as a T.V. lounge, a bike rack, a recycling room, and cooking facilities. Located on the first floor of DuBois Hall are vending machines, a microwave oven, public restrooms and a study lounge with two computers. DuBois Hall is in close proximity to the tennis courts, the Health Center, Hasbrouck Dining Hall and computer lab, the Student Union Building, Elting Gymnasium, and the Parker Complex. DuBois Hall offers its diverse residents a dynamic and high-energy environment. DuBois residents are active within their community and have established a friendly atmosphere throughout the building.
DuBois is also a 10 month hall and open during all scheduled vacations (unless otherwise indicated by the Director of Residence Life) to permit those students needing housing an opportunity to remain on campus when other halls are closed. You must live in 10 month housing to stay over breaks.
History: DuBois Hall is named after the DuBois Family, one of the original Huguenot families who settled in New Paltz. Hendricus DuBois married Jannetje Hooghteeling, by whom he had nine children. They resided in the hamlet of Libertyville, just west of the village of New Paltz. Hendricus served as an ensign and Captain of the 4th Ulster County Militia at Newburgh, NY during the American Revolution. Hendricus sided with Conferentia party during the Coetus-Conferentie controversy in the Dutch Reformed Church during the 1750's and 1760's. In 1766, Hendricus, along with members of the Elting, Low, Van Wagnenen, Van Vliet, Ean and Auchmody families, left the Dutch reformed Church at New Paltz and organized the Conferentia Church, or "Owl Church," on Libertyville Road in New Paltz. The church disbanded and rejoined the Reformed Church in 1774. At New Paltz Hendricus served as Overseer of the Poor (1751-1752), Constable (1754), and Assessor (1760).
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Olive Leaf liquid tincture: A natural anti-viral. Dosage: One dropperful daily for maintenance or one dropperful 3x/day for active infection.
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Colloidal Silver: Mouth spray or nasal spray. Nature's natural antibiotic. Safe to use at first sign of any type of infection. Dosage: 2-3 sprays, 3x/day.
Reishi or Maitake Mushrooms, or Beta Glucan combinations like Immune Essentials, Immunotix: Beta Glucans are polysaccharides of D-glucose monomers linked by b-glycosidic bonds. They occur most commonly as cellulose in plants, bran of cereal grains, cell walls of baker's yeast (saccharomyces cerevisiae), certain fungi, mushrooms, and bacteria. Yeast (saccharomyces cerevisiae) and medicinal mushroom-derived B-glucans are notable for the ability to modulate the immune system. Helps to strengthen the immune system to ward off infection(s).
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There was one correct sentence. A constituent is a person who authorizes another to act in his or her behalf. Her contention appears to be that if you didn't vote for a particular candidate, they don't represent you. So put up or shut up.
Let me remind you, there are plenty of people who don't vote that our elected officials are tasked with representing.
Children under the age of 18 don't vote; citizens who, by reason of mental disabilities that lack the power to make a decision, don't vote. But every elected official is required to make decisions that are in the best interest of those citizens when crafting policy and law. Regardless if the citizen voted for them or contributed to their campaign or shares their opinion.
In our community, we have neighbors and friends who are second-home-owners or who live in Grand County part of the year. More than likely they don't vote here, but they still have an interest and stake in how our community develops. They pay higher taxes, in many cases, than those of us who live here all year. They contribute to the fabric of our community and bring diversity and vibrancy to it. They still deserve to be heard.
There are those who simply don't vote, by choice or by circumstance, but they still have voice and they are still constituents and are represented. It is sad if it is by choice and they don't fulfill their civic responsibility, but they are not marginalized.
The idea so often touted is that if one is a fifth- or sixth- or seventh-generation resident of someplace his or her voice or opinion is worth more than someone who isn't. To that I say "Hogwash." I'm an eighth-generation Utahn; my ancestors were here in July of 1847. I don't get, nor do I deserve, more voice in Utah issues than someone who has lived here two years or two months.
I can't imagine an elected official who would choose to speak only with those citizens who voted for him/her, or only with those who share the same opinions or ideals. Our elected officials represent all of us, not just the citizens who voted for them.
My late father-in-law, Norman G. Boyd, former mayor of Moab, had a philosophy that when you are tasked with making a decision that involves the public, "if you anger (he used a more colorful phrase) 10 percent of the people on either side of an issue then you've probably made a good decision for the majority of people." He knew that even his political foes were his constituents.
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By Cynthia A. Harris
Title: Stewart M. Lee papers, 1928-1996
Predominant Dates:1960-1990
Primary Creator: Lee, Stewart M. (1925-2007)
Extent: 27.5 Linear Feet
Arrangement: This collection is arranged into 9 series by type of material: 1) Biographical, 1959-1996, undated; 2) Correspondence, 1965-1990; 3) Subject, 1950-1993; 4) Printed Material, 1928-1993, undated; 5) Photographs, 1980-1981, 1983, 1985, 1990; 6) Media, 1972-1992, undated; 7) Oversize, 1971, 1976-1977, undated; 8) Artifacts, 1963-1992, undated; 9) Addition-Biographical, Literary Works, Subjects, Photographs, Media (VHS tape and cassette tapes), 1947-1993, undated.
Date Acquired: 08/09/1990
Subjects: Consumer movement
Languages: English
This collection includes biographical material, correspondence, material by subject, printed material, photographs, cassette tapes, computer disks, VHS tapes, reel-to-reel film, and artifacts. The biographical material consists of newspaper clippings about Stewart M. Lee and his work in the consumer interest. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically and include letters from such people at Elizabeth Hanford Dole, Betty Furness, Virginia Knauer, Nelson D. Rockefeller, and Caspar Weinberger.
The Subject series is arranged in alphabetical order with fair trade making up the builk of the series. Other topics in this series include product advertisement, consumer interest, Ralph Nader, packaging deceptions, President Ronald Reagan's consumer activity, President George Bush's consumer activity, President Jimmy Carter's consumer activity, price fixing, alcohol and tobacco, trading stamps, weights and measures and warranties. The printed material is arranged in alphabetical order according to type of material and newsletters make up the bulk of this series. Some newsletters included are Better Business News & Views, COCO Intercom, The Consumer Affairs Letter, Consumer News, The Insurance Forum, Status Report, and World Consumer.
Photographs include advertisements for the 1986 Super Bowl games. The Media series includes consumer information such as buying habits, money management, real estate tips, becoming an informed shopper, buying furniture, buying vehicles, buying a home, seat belt safety, airbag safety, helmet laws, and brand names.
Oversize items are posters explaning the Universal Product Code (UPC), grades for best and second best, and the size of olives.
The Artifacts include examples of products that Dr. Lee took with him when doing presentations or testifying before the House, Congress, and other government agencies. Some artifacts included are cereal boxes, laundry detergent boxes, toothpaste boxes, empty vegetable cans, empty soda cans, plastic packaging for corn chips, product labels for bathroom tissue, and the suitcase he used to carry the items in.
The Addition Series consists of boxes 16-20 and includes biographical information, literary works, subjects, photographs and media. Some topics of interests are Amway Case, Consumer Week, and a photograph of President Gerald Ford.
Dr. Stewart Munro Lee (1925-2007) was born on August 7, 1925, Beaver Falls, PA. He served in the Navy during World War II (1943-1946). On June 11, 1947, he married Ann Gilchrist. He received his B.A. in Economics from Geneva College in 1949, and his M. A. and Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Lee made a significant contribution to economics on a regional and national level. He testified many times in the consumer interest before House and Senate Committees and government agencies in Washington, D.C. Minutes of these sessions refer to Dr. Lee as an authority in the field of consumer economics.
In June 1964, Dr. Lee was selected as a delegate of the American Council on Consumer Interests to the biennial congresses of the International Organization of Consumers Union held in Oslo, Norway. He was also selected to attend the Fourth Biennial Conference held in Nathanya, Israel in June 1966 and as a delegate to the Fifth Biennial Conference at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York in 1968.
In 1978, Dr. Lee was consumer advisor in the United States delegation to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Switzerland. He was also a delegate to the conference in Baden, Austria; Stockholm, Sweden; London, England; and Madrid Spain.
Dr. Lee co-authored the book Economics for the Consumer published in 1967 by the American Book Company.
In 1989, Dr. Lee was part of the New Start: Consumer Insurance Project. New Start's aim was to educate consumers about benefits of no-fault automobile insurance, and to work for its acceptance as a solution to escalating insurance costs and the numerous auto-personal injury lawsuits that were clogging the nation's courts. After the members did some research, New Start amended its proposal to suggest a Personal Protection Policy designed to allow consumers to choose the coverage they personally needed.
Although, Dr. Lee was a professor at Geneva College, he also taught classes at other colleges and universities, presented lectures, and participated in panel discussions.
Stewart M. Lee died on July 1, 2007.
Repository: Morse Department of Special Collections
Access Restrictions: No access restrictions: All materials are open for research.
Use Restrictions: Restrictions may apply to the Cassette Tapes, Computer Disks, VHS Tapes, and the Reel-to-Reel films. The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and the libel laws as they apply.
Physical Access Note: Original materials available during open hours of repository and any digitized materials that are online are available with Internet access.
Technical Access Note: The Cassette Tapes will require an appropriate player and speakers. The Computer Disks will require the proper disk drive on a computer. The VHS tapes will require a player and a viewer. The Reel-to-reel-films will require appropriate player, speakers, and a large screen to view them.
Acquisition Source: Stewart M. Lee
Acquisition Method: Donation
Appraisal Information: Acquired because its documents, materials, and artifacts enchances the Consumer Movement Archives.
Related Materials:
The following sources provide additional Consumer Movement information:
Agan (Anna Tessie) Papers
American Council on Consumer Interests
American Council on Consumer Interests (Metzen Addition)
Americans for Fairness in Lending
Brooks (Thomas) Collection
Brunn (George) Collection
Dartland (Walter T.) papers
Kiesling (Roy) Papers
Mason (Florence) Collection
Meyer (Louis S.) Papers
Morse (Richard L. D.) Papers
National Consumer Law center (NCLC) Records
Shields (Currin V.) Papers
Wilner (Dorothy K.) PapersFor more information please see http://www.lib.k-state.edu/finding-aids#consumer.
Preferred Citation: [Item title], [item date], Stewart M. Lee papers, Box [number], Folder [number or title], Consumer Movement Archives, Morse Department of Special Collections, Kansas State University Libraries.
Processing Information: This collection was processed at the folder level.


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UH Hilo to honor Astronaut Ellison Onizuka with second annual science day event
UH Hilo Home > News and Events > UH Hilo Press Releases
Date: Thursday, January 3, 2002
Contact: Walter Dudoit, (808) 974-7642
For Immediate Release
5th-12th graders from the Big Island's public and private schools will spend the day in college classrooms when the University of Hawai`i at Hilo hosts the Second Annual Astronaut Ellison Onizuka Science Day on Saturday, January 26, 2001, beginning at 9:00 a.m. The event, sponsored by UH Hilo, American Savings and the Mauna Kea Astronomy Education Center, is free and open to the public. Snacks and lunch will be available for purchase.
The registration deadline is Friday, January 18. The collaborative effort between members of the Big Island scientific community, the State Department of Education, NASA and UH Hilo faculty will feature scientific workshops, sessions and hands-on exhibits. Interactive displays will be set up on the Mookini Library Lanai, in addition to 20 "break out" sessions in the morning. Onizuka, who dreamed of becoming an astronaut while growing up in the coffee fields of Kona, was a frequent visitor to the classroom, where he would urge students to take an interest in the study of science.
He lost his life on January 28, 1986, when the space shuttle "Challenger" exploded 73 seconds after liftoff. Many schools across the country help to keep his memory alive with science education days held in his honor. "Educational outreach is an important component of our mission at UH Hilo," said Chancellor Rose Tseng. "Ellison Onizuka's story has inspired countless youngsters to pursue lofty dreams, and to think about the role higher education can play in making those dreams come true." Registration forms for the Astronaut Ellison Onizuka Science Day are available through the principals' offices at public and private schools throughout the island. For additional information and/or to fax in registration forms, please call (808) 933-3912.
Disclaimer: The University of Hawaii at Hilo is not responsible for the contents, links and/or materials presented in any web site listed above that are not of the "hilo.hawaii.edu" or ".uhh.hawaii.edu" domains. All comments, complaints and grievances should be filed with the author, host and/or owner of said site.


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TAYLORSVILLE — The Unified Police Department believes it has solved the Girl Scout Cookie caper.
Police have identified the two people believed to have stolen money from a group of girls who were selling cookies over the weekend.
Kayla Long, 24, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of theft, a class A misdemeanor.
Investigators believe her accomplice was Steven Andrew Kvenvold, 24. As of Tuesday afternoon, detectives were still looking for him.
There was an outcry from Utahns over the weekend after a group of Girl Scouts from Troop 2532 were robbed while selling cookies Saturday in the parking lot of Wal-Mart, 5469 S. Redwood Road.
A man had pulled up to their table, gotten out of his vehicle, acted like he was going to buy cookies, and then grabbed the cash box and ran. He got back into the car and drove off with a woman, police said.
The break for detectives came from extensive media coverage, surveillance video of the couple's alleged getaway car and tips from the public.
"We were able to identify the vehicle through surveillance video. … That video that we released to the media, that footage that was released to the community, led to the identification of the vehicle and that led us to the suspects," said Tracy Wyant, chief of the Unified Police Department's Taylorsville precinct. "The media coverage was paramount."
That car was registered to either Long or one of Long's relatives, Wyant said. After discovering who owned the car, investigators found out that Long had been booked into the Salt Lake County Jail shortly after the robbery for an unrelated incident.
The alleged vehicle used in the robbery was seized and impounded.
The motive in the cookie robbery was likely drug-related, police said. Wyant was not optimistic that any of the stolen cash would ever be found.
"Considering the circumstances surrounding this event, this investigation, I do not believe money will be recovered," he said.
Long has been arrested and charged several times over the past eight years, according to Utah state court records. Some of her recent convictions include possession of drug paraphernalia in November 2012, a misdemeanor theft charge that was amended from a felony in January 2011, and shoplifting in 2008.
In 2007, Long was found guilty of felony drug possession, but the case continued to linger through the courts because of continuous violations to her probation. Earlier this month, she was discharged unsuccessfully from a drug treatment program, another violation of her probation, according to court records.
Kvenvold's criminal history includes a conviction for attempted aggravated robbery in 2012. According to court documents, he robbed a cashier at a smoke shop at knife point. He was given a suspended prison sentence and served some jail time for that conviction.
Kvenvold was also convicted of misdemeanor retail theft in 2009.
Taylorsville Mayor Jerry Rechtenbach noted at a news conference outside Taylorsville City Hall on Tuesday afternoon that the Girl Scout Cookie robbery had sparked quite an out cry.
"As a community, I think we're all appalled at how this thing happened," he said.
Donations from the community made up for the lost cash, and the Girl Scouts have been invited to sell cookies at Taylorsville City Hall from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday as well.
Police say the event should serve as a reminder for all groups doing fundraisers to be careful with their money. Wyant suggested troops put a limit on how much money they are in possession of at all times, and make frequent deposits of their cash in a safe place when needed.
The Girl Scouts of America said in a prepared statement it was "thrilled" to learn of the arrest.


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Jordan Matthews WR 6'3" 205 Vanderbilt
2012 Matthews had 94 receptions 1323 yards while scoring 8 TDs averaging 14.1 per catch and over 100 yards per game. Does he sound like a player we'd like to be a Seahawk? His cousin played WR for us.......maybe you remember him.......Jerry Rice. hmm


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Craig Morgan, 'Corn Star' – Song Review
Craig Morgan is winning the battle to be country music's most agriculturally minded singer, but his latest single may leave farmers hiding behind their tractors. The singer has pushed against the cheese boundary before, but with 'Corn Star' he joins Trace Adkins ('Brown Chicken Brown Cow,' anybody?) in embracing jokes that make eyes roll so hard that the price of Tylenol goes up.
"Corn star" and "porn star" — they rhyme. We get it.
"She's a corn star / Talk of the crop at every county fair / Corn star / Blue ribbon winner for the last five years," Morgan sings to begin the chorus. "They cut a four lane highway right through her pasture / Blamed it on progress and movin' traffic faster / But everybody knows the only reason for the road / Was to see her chug-a-luggin on the top of that tractor."
'Corn Star' stands out on Morgan's 'This Ole Boy' album. It's the project's 'Redneck Yacht Club' or 'Bonfire' — a song that is too much fun to leave as an album cut. There's a clear trend with this style of song for Morgan. He continues to push the envelope in terms of corniness to find the limit ('International Harvester' and 'Still a Little Chicken Left on the Bone'). Now it's time to back up the tractor.
"You'd swear you'd seen her in a red bikini on a 'Baywatch' episode / But I'm telling you straight that 600 acres is the only life that she knows / There gossip in town flying around / She was sunset stripping for tips in L.A. / But that's just a bunch of bean growers / Talking to bean loaders," Morgan adds during the second verse.
While the joke wears thin after a listen or two, some credit must be given to the song's structure and Morgan's vocal performance. He embraces the plowboy anthem like he embraces his most emotional ballads, and the lyrics — while over the top — are tightly packaged and clever. It was now or never for 'Corn Star,' as the song wouldn't stand a chance on country radio if released in November.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the first time this season David Thomas was named the North East Collegiate Volleyball Association (NECVA) New England Division Player of the Week. He was tabbed for MIT's third straight selection after compiling 49 kills, a .400 hitting percentage, 27 digs, 10 blocks, and four aces in a 3-1 week for the nationally-ranked No. 13 Engineers.
Thomas kicked things off with 15 kills, a .583 hitting performance, and three digs against Lesley University. He then posted 12 kills, a .611 hitting percentage, nine digs, three blocks, and two aces at Daniel Webster College. In a tri-match featuring Vassar College and New Jersey City University, Thomas notched 11 kills, a .350 hitting percentage, nine digs, and two blocks versus the host Brewers before registering 11 kills, six digs, five blocks, and two aces against the Gothic Knights.


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We are always on the lookout for interesting handlebars from the past. The Lauterwasser caught our eye a little over a year ago. We weren't sure if it was a very practical bar for today's bikes, for its super long reach design requires a very short stem or at least looks best with a very short stem. But it was hard to ignore the enthusiasts asking us to make one -- some citing it was the most comfortable bar they ever tried.
These first two pictures are our prototype. The second two are from Velospace and Bikecology. The picture from Bikecology is an actual bar made by Jack Lauterwasser himself. The Velospace one on the Raleigh -- don't know if it is a restored original or just a replica.
Ours doesn't have quite graceful curves of the original, but it cuts a nice profile. We are also adapting it to fit today's components. We chose a 22.2mm OD grip to fit flat bar levers mainly because we felt aero levers wouldn't be very ergonomic on this design. Width is about 47cm. We expect to get the first production in June or July.
Read more about Jack Lauterwasser from this BikeBiz article.


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The Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society Presents the 2008 East Coast Bigfoot Conference. September 27, 2008 Noon to 7:30 pm. Doors open at 11:00 am. Admission Reserved seating $20.00 General Admission $10.00.
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Who owns the land? Only the land knows. We mortals are passersby, and our lives are but a brief moment in the great span of time and space. We are born, we live out our lives, and most of us do the best we can with it, but the wind is forever, and the rivers flow forever to the sea, and all the seasons of the weathers will come and go after we are gone. But the Earth endures, the Earth is eternal" - Earl Hamner
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Magic Mile Power Rankings - Richmond
Unpredictablility was the name of the game on Saturday night at Richmond. And it sure provided a very happy ending for one driver.
Kevin Harvick picked up his first win of the season and moved into the top 10 in the Sprint Cup standings. Happy Harvick was the beneficary of a late restart that allowed the No. 29 to zip past the field, leaving the likes of Clint Bowyer, Joey Jogano, Juan Pablo Montoya and Jeff Burton in his wake in second, third, fourth and fifth, respectively.
Here's a look at the Magic Mile Power Rankings* heading into Race 10 at Talladega Superspeedway on May 5:
1. Jimmie Johnson - Look, he started 26th. He ran as high as third. He got incidently side-swiped by Tony Stewart. And he somehow salvaged a 12th-place finish. And after all that, he was still able to extend his points lead in the standings. Not a bad day when you really think about it.
Previous ranking: First, --
Consecutive Weeks in MMPR: 9
Previous ranking: Fourth, +2
Consecutive Weeks in MMPR: 7
3. Brad Keselowski - It's been 38 races since Bad Brad last finished worse than he did this past week (33rd). That consistency has to mean something. Plus, that slalom move he used to get through traffic on Saturday night was ridiculous.
Previous ranking: Second, -1
Consecutive Weeks in MMPR: 9
4. Kasey Kahne - Johnson wasn't the only one victimized by an ill-timed slide. Kahne was caught, too, when Mark Martin when for a spin. It was an atypical day for Kahne, whose 11.7 average finish is on pace to be the best of his career.
Previous ranking: Third, -1
Consecutive Weeks in MMPR: 6
5. Carl Edwards - The hot then not routine continues for Cousin Carl. Maybe the biggest surprise of all after the race on Saturday night was the fact that Edwards didn't lead a single lap despite running up front all night long. Outside of the 122 laps he led during his win at Phoenix, Edwards led the field for just 19 laps over the other eight races, and yet he's second in points. I'm scratching my head, too.
Previous ranking: Sixth, +1
Consecutive Weeks in MMPR: 8
6. Dale Earnhardt Jr. - That was just what the 88 team needed. That top-10 couldn't have come at a better time after three consecutive (frustrating) sub-par finishes. And with Talladega next on the schedule (five career wins), it looks like Junior will be back on track in no time.
Previous ranking: Seventh, +1
Consecutive Weeks in MMPR: 9
7. Clint Bowyer - Three top-fives in his last four races, Bowyer is continuing his climb up the MMPR and Cup standings. Those thinking last year was a fluke certainly have to be changing their tune as Bowyer is already nearly halfway to equaling his top-five total from last year. Talladega is a bit of a wild card for Bowyer, though, as he has seven top-10s, including two wins in 14 starts - but he also has four finishes 35th or worse.
Previous ranking: Ninth, +2
Consecutive Weeks in MMPR: 2
8. Kyle Busch - It looked for a while like the No. 18 was going to find Richmond's victory lane for a fifth consecutive spring, but Rowdy was victimized by Stewart and Johnson's dust-up. On the bright side, he did avoide a potential penalty from NASCAR that really would have hampered his day.
Previous ranking: Fifth, -3
Consecutive Weeks in MMPR: 6
9. Aric Almirola - Look, the guy has three straight top-10s. You don't do that unless you're doing something right behind the wheel.
Previous ranking: N/A, +2
Consecutive Weeks in MMPR: 1
10. Greg Biffle - It's been a tough couple weeks for The Biff. Talladega isn't exactly the best place to break out of a funk, but if he can avoid "The Big One" on Sunday, he'll almost certainly be in contention late in the race.
Previous ranking: Eighth, -2
Consecutive Weeks in MMPR: 4
Wave Around: Kevin Harvick - If he can string together back-to-back wins - heck, even back to back top-fives - then his MMPR debut will be just around the corner.
Dropped out of the MMPR: Martin Truex Jr.
*This list is comprised of drivers that compete in the Sprint Cup Series on full-time basis.
Previous Nos. 1
Week 1 - Jimmie Johnson
Week 2 - Jimmie Johnson
Week 3 - Brad Keselowski
Week 4 - Brad Keselowski
Week 5 - Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Week 6 - Brad Keselowski
Week 7 - Kyle Busch
Week 8 - Jimmie Johnson


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Women of action in Sudan
Working in development, there are some faces you never forget because they come back to you at the end of a long day, time and again. As we recognize International Day of Action for Women, I've been thinking about some of these faces from a recent trip to Sudan. Faces of young women who are doing community work that is so important, it is really in a league of its own. I'd like to dedicate this "day" to these women of action, the young graduates of village midwife schools in eastern Sudan.
The doorway to the midwives school in Kassala, a town close to the Red Sea, leads you into a small courtyard crowded with beds, belongings, and cooking utensils gently baking under the desert sun. Passing through this open air dormitory, another door opens into a classroom, in which a group of about twenty young women dressed in soft white are listening to a lecture that involves plenty of gesticulating and a plastic model lying on a bed. These students have already qualified as midwives and are now in town to learn more advanced skills that they can take back to their villages in a few months.


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Hurricane Katrina spread massive devastation and became a storm of the century as it made landfall in Louisiana during August of 2005.
Amid that tragedy, a 10-year-old Isaac Banks found himself trapped in the second floor of his paternal grandmother's home on the east side of New Orleans, helplessly bearing witness as the world he knew was swept away in the tide.
"I was usually staying with my grandmother on my mom's side of the family, but that weekend my grandmother on my dad's side wanted me to help her because she bought a new house and was moving. I went to help her move and that's when the storm hit, and my grandma said I needed to stay at her place because it wasn't safe to go back home," said Banks, who today is a college freshman and plays forward for the East Tennessee State University men's basketball team in Johnson City, Tenn.
While the storm itself passed over, it was the floods that followed which truly defined the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. In all, it was the costliest natural disaster and fifth deadliest hurricane in U.S. history, as 1,833 people lost their lives from the storm and the ensuing floods.
Banks remembers the flood vividly as the waters rose to six feet and invaded his grandmother's home, ultimately forcing the family to the second floor of the structure. They stayed there for the first six days of the event, but were finally evacuated when authorities arrived and informed the family that the waters would be surging to as high as 10 to 12 feet.
They were moved to the University of New Orleans' Lakefront Arena, which was the main shelter for people on the east side of the city. Meanwhile, the rest of Banks' family from uptown New Orleans – including his maternal grandmother – was huddled inside the Superdome, the city's famous, monolithic sports complex.
"We were at the arena for two nights, and it wasn't good," Banks said. "There was no place to go to the bathroom, people were committing crimes, and there were even some homicides. It was a lot like the stories from the Superdome. We were glad to finally get out of there, but all we had was the clothes on our backs."
Banks described the departure from the arena like "being refugees," as he and others were lined up outside the structure to await helicopters which were dispatched to bring people to the nearest airport. After waiting seven hours, Banks said he and his family made it to the airport and were finally informed once they loaded the plane that they were headed to San Antonio, Texas.
The family stayed in San Antonio for two weeks before deciding to move on. Without a home to return to in New Orleans, they made the decision to move to California, where Banks would spend the next three years going to school and playing middle school basketball.
Banks – who also lost a brother to a homicide just months before Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast – admits it was a hard time.
"I was younger, and I had been through two major traumas with the loss of my brother and then Katrina," Banks said. "I got into a lot of trouble. I had a bad temper and would get in a lot of fights and stuff. I'm glad I finally grew up."
Banks says he remembers the excitement when he and his family decided to return to New Orleans in 2009, just in time for him to begin high school back in his hometown. As the family drove the entire cross-country trek, Banks said he thought he had things figured out.
"I was already playing basketball in middle school, and thought that I would just walk into playing time in high school," Banks said. "I realized pretty quick as a freshman that I was going to have to work hard. There were a lot better players than me on the team."
That hard work resulted in a high school career that grabbed the attention of college recruiters, which offered Banks yet another opportunity to move on. While he was forced to leave New Orleans back in 2005, this time Banks made a change on his terms.
"I could have stayed at home or in Louisiana to go to college, but I wanted this chance to get away and concentrate on school and basketball," Banks said. "That's what I liked about Johnson City. It is different than the other places I've lived. It's a slower pace, but that's a good thing. Not having those distractions makes it easier."
Having gone through so much, Banks said the experiences of Hurricane Katrina left one major impression on his young life.
"I'm blessed to be alive after going through devastation like that … I'm lucky."


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A list that tracks the most overused words of 2011? How amazing is that?
Oops! "Amazing" tops the official "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness," released Friday by Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. This is the 37th year the university has compiled a list of the hoariest, most annoying, and most clichéd words and phrases emanating from weary (or lazy) jawbones this year.
"With so much media and so many more opportunities to communicate, a lot of people find they get lazy and get stuck on a word or phrase to express themselves as the easiest way to get their point across," says John Shibley, a public relations officer for the university who has helped compile the list for the past 15 years.
The university cobbles the list together from submissions streaming in from around the world, including Australia and Western Europe. This year, about 4,000 nominations arrived electronically.
"Amazing" earned the top spot because of its ubiquitous use to describe anything, great or small, no matter its relative merit. Examples: "That Hot Pocket I just ate was amazing!" Or, "The French Revolution was amazing!"
Frequent use by television jabbers Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, Anderson Cooper, and every run-of-the-mill red carpet celebrity is blamed for spreading "amazing" into practically every conversation heard on television, streets, subways, or dinner tables. At least, Mr. Shibley says, its use replaces that 1980s chestnut, "awesome."
"Amazing" received 1,500 nominations, says Shibley. "The mailbox was packed for 'amazing' – that one just slammed to the top of the unpopularity contest this year."
The list, which dates to 1975, began as a New Year's Eve game concocted by former Lake Superior State University public relations director Bill Rabe. In the pre-Internet days, the university used to receive as many as 800 nominations by letter or postcard. The proliferation of media now generates thousands of submissions worldwide, but also more opportunities to suck a word or phrase dry.
"There's ample opportunity for a buzzword or buzz phrase to get overused. The environment's very rich to draw from," Shibley says.
Here are the other overused words the list's gatekeepers hope will one day be banished:
Baby bump. A cuter way to describe a woman carrying an unborn child than the word "pregnant."
Shared sacrifice. Petitioners interpreted this phrase, popularized by political backbenchers to corporate middle managers, as a stealth way to get others to give more without having to do anything themselves.
Occupy. The Occupy Wall Street movement that gained traction in the fall popularized this word that now is used to describe anything that protesters feel needs scrutiny. Examples: Occupy Flash Player and Occupy Sesame Street.
Blowback. Corporate jingoism meaning resistance.
Man cave. Men no longer have home offices, dens, or workshops. Instead, they now have "man caves," a phrase many petitioners say was popularized by home design and home-buying TV shows.
The new normal: Normal wasn't good enough. It had to be freshened up by the word "new." Marketing trends experts and self-help gurus popularized this phrase, which they use to define a new method or environment that is here to stay – until the new "new normal" shows up, that is.
Pet parent. Some animal lovers shun suggestions that people "own" dogs or cats. This phrase evolved to describe a gauzier relationship with domesticated animals, which has the possibility of irking actual human offspring.
Win the future. President Obama and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich overuse this phrase, among other politicians. It means to galvanize supporters, but many petitioners say it is ultimately meaningless jingoism.
Trickeration. This isn't even a real word, but it is often used by football play-by-play broadcasters to put trick plays in the context of science.
Ginormous. Another fake word used to describe something larger than large and bigger than big.
Thank you in advance. The closing line of many job applicants' cover letters, which many petitioners said sounds condescending and almost a dare.
The university doesn't expect any of the banned words or phrases to disappear anytime soon. After all, "24/7" (2000), "mute point" (1990), and "ball park figure" (1980) are past winners and remain widely used today. The hope is that people think about what they say and the words they choose to say it.
"If people are passionate about language, that's a good thing," Shibley says.


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Jan Hendricks (d. 1559)
Jan Hendricks (Heyndricx), an Anabaptist martyr, was strangled and burned at the stake on 21 February 1559 at Middelburg, Dutch province of Zeeland, together with Mayken Daniels and Andries van Laerbeke. They had all three fled from Flanders because of their faith and were arrested 15 July 1558. The city government of Middelburg questioned the Catholic priest at Roesselare, Flanders, about them, indicating that they had lived there. Jan was a native of Waert (Weerden) and was by trade a locksmith.
Pekelharing, K. R. Bijdr. voor de Gesch. van de Hervorming in Zeeland, in Archief Zeeuwsch Genootschap VI (1866): 38-40.
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van der Zijpp, Nanne. (). Jan Hendricks (d. 1559). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 17 January 2019, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Jan_Hendricks_(d._1559)&oldid=100486.
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FEATURE | winter 2002
Terror in the Name of the Lord
Armed only with lists of urgent community needs, women who shut ChevronTexaco ports and oil flow stations will do it again if promises aren't kept.
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While the world lives in fear of international terrorism, the terrorists in our own backyards seem almost forgotten But we must not underestimate anti-abortion extremists - a small army of zealots ready, willing, even eager to rekindle strikes on doctors and clinics across the nation if court actions and rulings start to go their way in 2003.
Three decades after Roe v. Wade was won, extreme anti-abortion groups continue to celebrate violence as a justifiable means to make legal abortions impossible to obtain. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms cites 149 acts of arson and 47 abortion clinic-related bombings between 1992 and 1998. In figures from the National Abortion Federation updated through 200 1, there were seven antiabortion-related murders, 15 attempted murders, hundreds of stalkings and clinic invasions, and a sharp increase in arson. Several key people who were convicted of antiabortion crimes have served their sentences and are back out, freely celebrating their prior acts of domestic terrorism. Now, with prominent trial dates approaching - including that of James Kopp, indicted for the fatal 1998 shooting of Dr. Barnett Slepian in Amherst, New York-new precedents may be set in a new judicial climate that will dictate the course this struggle takes.
How did we get here and where are we headed? To understand that, we must first look back a couple of decades.
"Welcome Pro-Life Activists - Have a Blast," read the marquee outside a little motel in Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1985. Members of the Pro-Life Action Network (PLAN) were in a festive mood following dozens of arsons and bombings of abortion clinics around the United States. Some wore firecrackers on their conference name badges. A letter from imprisoned clinic arsonist Curt Beseda was read. This small but seminal meeting in many ways epitomized the brazen yet banal nature of organized antiabortion extremism-a rah-rah atmosphere, like some perverse parody of a pep rally, in which threats of future violence were cloaked as free speech, and past criminal acts were celebrated as valid tools for intimidating fellow citizens. A fringe culture was coalescing.
Then, in 1986, the Summit Women's Health Clinic in Delaware was invaded by PLAN director Joseph Scheidler and three other PLAN members. Scheidler, according to court records, said he was "casing the place." The next day, protestors entered the clinic and seriously damaged equipment.
Throughout the country, similar attacks occurred. Fed up with the assaults, the National Organization for Women (NOW) and National Women's Health Organization clinics in Delaware and Milwaukee filed suit against Scheidler and the others. The women's organizations sought a nationwide injunction to stop the clinic invasions and also asked the courts to make those responsible for the attacks pay for the damage they caused. Using laws created as tools against organized crime, NOW and the two clinics set out to prove a nationwide conspiracy of violence and terror against women's health care clinics.
Kim Gandy, the current president of NOW, explains: "NOW decided we had to stop the violence. Scheidler and his gang were calling in blitzes-they would attack clinics without warning and hold staff and patients hostage. Clinics were being blockaded and invaded. If we did not act, we thought clinics would not be able to stay open."
NOW v. Scheidler is a class-action suit, filed under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). The suit seeks court injunctions that would bar antiabortion extremists from engaging in organized criminal acts against patients and clinics. It also seeks fines and reimbursement for damage done. Lead attorney for NOW Fay Clayton says the case sought "to ensure that the constitutional right [to abortion] recognized [in 1973] would exist not just in theory, but in reality."
The case is aimed only at antiabortion protestors who engage in criminal acts, such as criminal trespass, assault, and conspiracy to block access to clinics. It doesn't go after those whose activities are clearly protected by the First Amendment, including prayer, leafleting, shouting and name-calling. NOW and the clinics claim that PLAN and others engaged in what the federal racketeering law prohibits: namely, a "pattern of racketeering activity," including the use of fear, force, and violence, in order to prevent people from receiving and providing legal abortions. Scheidler, in a 1984 letter, bragged that he helped organize a "pro-life Mafia." Clayton maintains that the actions met the legal definition of organized crime, and the courts, so far, have agreed.
In March, 1993, antiabortion zealot Michael Griffin murdered Dr. David Gunn in Pensacola, Florida. Outraged by the killing and by claims from federal authorities that they were powerless to do anything to stop the violence, abortion rights groups mobilized to change the laws. Led by the Feminist Majority, the National Abortion Federation, the National Abortion Rights Action League, and Planned Parenthood, groups lobbied, fought, and campaigned to pass the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) the following year. Among other things, FACE makes it illegal to use force or the threat of force to interfere with clinics.
Antiabortion extremists, including many who would become leaders of the then newly-formed American Coalition of Life Activists (ACLA), argued that the murder of Dr. Gunn was "justifiable." A wave of four murders and seven attempted murders of doctors and clinic personnel came in the next two years. No group was held responsible for the attacks, although individuals were prosecuted. In 1995, ACLA launched a campaign it called the "Deadly Dozen" that featured Old West-style "unwanted" posters of 13 leading abortion providers. Some of the posters included the providers' home and work addresses. The targeted physicians said they were acutely aware that similar posters-not attributed to ACLA-had preceded the murders of three of their colleagues. The providers said they viewed the posters as a hit list, and the FBI contacted those on the list and offered protection; the abortion providers donned bulletproof vests and took other security precautions.
In 1996, four doctors and two abortion-provider organizations sued under the civil section of FACE, in what became Planned Parenthood v ACLA. The case sought an injunction to stop the published threats against doctors and also sought monetary damages.
One of those named in the suit was the Rev. Michael Bray of Bowie, Maryland, a founder of the ACLA. Bray, who is pastor of a church he cofounded, is the author of A Time to Kill: A Study Concerning the Use of Force and Abortion. The book maintains that there is a "biblical mandate" for the use of "deadly, godly, force to protect the unborn." Bray served four years in federal prison in the 1980s for his role in the arson attacks and bombings of seven abortion clinics.
ACLA leaders gave some of the "Deadly Dozen" data to Neal Horsley, of Carrollton, Georgia, who posted the material on his "Nuremberg Files" Web site. The Web site named doctors and abortion rights supporters and called for them to be tried for "crimes against humanity." When an abortion provider was murdered. The name appeared on the site with a line through it. Horsley used gray tape for the names of abortion providers or staff who had been wounded. The entire Web site was designed to look as if it were dripping in blood.
After Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot through the kitchen window of his home in October 1998, his name was placed on Horsley's Web site with a line through it. In the April, 2001 HBO documentary, Soldiers in the Army of God, Horsley spoke of the Slepian murder: "See, I told you. There's another one. How many more is it going to take before we finally realize that legalized abortion in fact will destroy the United States of America? What do you expect people to do who literally understand that these people are making a living killing babies? Well, the evidence is at hand. There are people out there who will go and blow their brains out." The Army of God's Web site was used for threats to abortion providers, attributed to "soldier" Clayton Waagner in 2001. Waagner was at that time a fugitive, having escaped the Illinois prison where he was being held on firearms and theft charges. Waagner is now serving 30 years in prison, and is the lead suspect in the mailing of 500-plus anthrax hoax letters to clinics.
In Planned Parenthood v. ACLA, a federal jury in Portland, Oregon in 1999 ordered ACLA to pay abortion providers $109 million in damages. Judge Robert Jones declared that the posters were "a blatant and illegal communication of true threats to kill, assault, or do bodily harm" and issued an injunction against further publication of the "deadly Dozen" data by the defendants. But in 2001, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the trial court verdict on First Amendment grounds.
In May 2002, however, a larger panel of the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed the jury's verdict and reinstated the injunction but ordered a reevaluation of the $109 million awarded to the abortion providers. "There is substantial evidence," Judge Pamela Rymer wrote for the majority, "that the posters were prepared and disseminated to intimidate doctors from providing abortions. Holding [ACLA members] accountable for this conduct," she concluded, "does not impinge on legitimate protest or advocacy." The Ninth Circuit majority emphasized the dramatic recent history of antiabortion violence, including the murders of doctors that had been preceded by "unWANTED" posters. ACLA went beyond merely vilifying or ostracizing doctors, the opinion stated, to intentionally instilling fear, which is terrorism.
Maria Vullo, attorney for those fighting ACLA, says the case doesn't harm freedom of speech. The law, she says, recognizes harmful speech in areas including racial discrimination, plagiarism, and copyright infringement-and juries decide such issues all the time. "When you cross over the line into threatening violence," she says, "it's not free speech."
NOW v. Scheidler went to trial in Chicago in 1998-12 years from the time the case was filed. After a dramatic, seven-week trial, a federal jury unanimously held Scheidler and his fellow defendants liable for 121 acts of extortion, force, and violence. In 2000, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago unanimously upheld the verdict.
"The decision was an enormous victory for the clinics and abortion rights," says Susan Hill, the head of the two abortion clinics involved in the suit. "The jury and the court said that invading clinics, destroying buildings, and threatening to carry out these assaults is extortion. Of course, with any other business, that would be obvious."
It's been 16 years since the NOW v. Scheidler case began. During this winter session, the Supreme Court is slated to consider two questions raised in the suit. One is whether the PIAN activists deprived the clinics of their ability to offer services and took away the right of patients to obtain medical services. The other question is whether private organizations such as NOW and the clinics can use the federal racketeering law to get injunctions to stop alleged organized criminal activity. Although the Supreme Court has not yet agreed to hear Planned Parenthood v. ACLA, observers believe it will.
NOW attorney Fay Clayton says it would be "terrible" for the public if organizations lost the right to obtain injunctions under RICO. "Injunctions," she says, "are one of the most critical tools for righting a wrong, fighting crime, and preventing violations." It would be an equally serious blow to the public, she says, for the Supreme Court to rule that it's not extortion to disrupt the work of abortion clinics and stop individuals from obtaining medical services.
If it rules against the clinics and patients, says Clayton, the Supreme Court will "take away an enormously important tool for fighting any kind of domestic terrorism. Anyone who uses force or violence, like the KKK or skinheads, would be immune. Even the Department of Justice has urged the court not to do this."
Kim Gandy, president of NOW, predicts that if there are losses in the Supreme Court, it will "embolden antiabortion forces." In the past, she says, the Supreme Court took away the ability of clinics to rely on protections of the civil rights laws. When that happened, Gandy says, "violence around the clinics increased. We cannot have that happen again."


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Sevillian-style duck
Ingredients: 1 large duck 80g of cured bacon rind 2 carrots 100g of leeks 150g of onions 50g of celery 80g of lard 200g of tomatoes 4 cloves of garlic 3 spoons of flour 2 glasses of dry white wine or sherry 1 bare litre of meat stock 1 bay leaf 200g stoned green olives ground white pepper salt
Put a casserole dish on the heat with the lard and the bacon rind. When it is hot, add the whole cleaned, salted duck. Brown it well everywhere and add the onions, leeks, celery, carrots and garlic, all peeled and cut into julienne pieces. Then add the chopped tomatoes and the bay leaf, wine or sherry, flour and the stock and leave to cook until the duck is tender. Remove the duck and strain the sauce.
Cut the duck into four quarters and put these on a serving dish
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- Категория: Second course
- Стоимость: Average
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- Energy: High
- Cholesterol: Average
- Proteins: High
- Antioxidants: High


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Leonardo DiCaprio Comes Into Movie Sets 'Ready to Work'
Leonardo DiCaprio lands via a private helicopter onto a friend's yacht on Saturday (July 22) in Saint Tropez, France.
Recently, the 37-year-old actor's Django Unchained co-star Jamie Foxx spoke about the process of watching the superstar work with director Quentin Tarantino.
"Here comes Leonardo DiCaprio, the good-looking guy that you see in the tabloids with the models," Jamie said. "And he comes in so different and ready to work – to see those guys get together in the corner and develop the character and watch the character go different ways."
FYI: Leo is wearing a Zanerobe shirt.