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Post-Earthquake Haiti: A Nation on the Edge
The Ohio Christian University's Disaster Management Program's Disaster Response Team recently returned from a relief trip to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The team had three main goals. The first was to place students on the ground in order to give them international disaster work experience. full story..
OCU Partners with Berger Hospital in Haiti Relief Efforts
As Ohio Christian University's Disaster Management program is getting ready to send another team to Haiti, the work continues full speed here in Pickaway County. Tina Pierce, ED Cli full story..
OCU Relief Team to Travel to Haiti
A team of students from Ohio Christian University's Disaster Management program is getting ready to venture to the island nation of Haiti again. full story..
2010 Graduates of License-Approved Teacher Education Program
OCU is pleased to congratulate its first three graduates of the license-approved Teacher Education program: Sheri Davis (Early Childhood Program), Lindsey Hedge (Middle Childhood Program), and Sarah Johnson (Early Childhood Program). Sarah was also honored to be the valedictorian of her class. full story..
Baritones Dominic Lehman and Burt James Complete Senior Recitals
The Music Department presented Dominic Lehman and Burt James in Senior Recitals on April 16 and April 17. The two baritones are completing the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education. Their recitals included sacred art songs, spirituals, arias, and art songs by Franz Schubert, George F. full story..
450 Volunteer for Pickaway County Community Action Day
Nearly 450 volunteers fanned out into Pickaway County on Thursday to participate in the 10th annual Community Action Day hosted by Ohio Christian University. Now dedicated to the memory of park volunteer Ralph C. Starkey, the event tackled more projects with more manpower than ever this year, according to Rev. full story..
OCU Students Visit Washington D.C. and Congressman Stephen Austria (OH-7)
Fourteen of Ohio Christian University's top students were selected by Dr. David H. Garrison, Department Chair of Business, for a two day visit to Washington D.C. full story..
Hallmark Year for Ohio Christian University Accreditation
Ohio Christian University was visited March 29-31 by the Higher Learning Commission, which accredits all universities in Ohio. The visiting team gave OCU a glowing report. full story..
OCU's Haiti Relief Efforts Continue with $25,000 Raised
Greetings from Ohio Christian University, Thank you for a tremendous response to the Haiti Crisis. full story..
Local Youth Share Experience in National Leadership Program
The Pickaway County Council on Youth Leadership honored the supporters and students of the program in their annual Patrons Luncheon on Wednesday, March 10 on the campus of Ohio Christian University. The PCCYL is a local chapter of the National Council on Youth Leadership and each year selects one student from each county school to attend the national NCYL leadership conference at Washingt full story..
OCU profs to teach classes at Teays Valley, Circleville High Schools
Professors from Ohio Christian University will head off campus next year to give Pickaway County students new opportunities in higher education right in their own high school classrooms, according to Michael P. full story..
Men's Basketball Beat Rival KCU to Win Regional Championships
This stepping stone was a big relief for the Ohio Christian University men's basketball team. The Trailblazers used their defense to force 25 turnovers and beat Kentucky Christian University 67-57 on Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn. full story..
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Tennessee Tech's financial aid office is prescribing prospective students and their parents gather all the information they can during February's Financial Aid Awareness Month. Raymond Holbrook, director of financial aid at Tennessee Tech, encourages information seekers to check the university web site, come by the office and tune in to a special television program.
"Students now can complete their next year's financial aid application on our web site," said Holbrook. "The 'prospective students' section takes you step by step through the interactive process."
Completing the Free Application for Federal Student Assistance (FAFSA) correctly and early is the key to reducing financial aid stress. In addition to the web site, the university offers FAFSA applications in the University Center, Room 214. Students also will find personal computers and resource staff to help search for scholarships.
State-wide PBS affiliates, including Cookeville's WCTE, will broadcast a panel discussion designed to help students and parents complete their forms. The program also will map out the available financial aid opportunities. The one-hour television program, "Funding Your Future: Financial Aid for Students," airs Sunday, Feb. 1, at 4 p.m.
Viewers filing for the 1998-99 school year are encouraged to have a FAFSA application on hand along with their 1997 tax year information. Nashville news commentator Pat Nolan will host the discussion sponsored by the Tennessee Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. Nolan is particularly qualified to lead the discussion, having just completed the college financial aid process with his daughter.
Tennessee Tech's web site address is http://www.tntech.edu. The financial aid pages also provide a ready-to-print checklist helpful in keeping progress of all the vital steps in the process.
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March 5, 2013
Barry Strauss is Professor of History, Cornell University.
In 2012 Prof. Strauss was named an Honorary Citizen of Salamis, Greece in recognition of his book, The Battle of Salamis.
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Pizza >Dominic's Ii Pizza & Pasta
9834 Glades Rd, Boca Raton, FL | Directions 3343426.366601 -80.199975
Mon. - Sat. 11am - 10pm;Sun. 12am - 9:30pm
The place looked nice but when I ordered whole wheat spaghetti I was told there was a $4 upcharge for it. Seriously? In a restaurant where the average age is about 60, you slap people with a $4 charge for simply getting whole wheat, which many seniors eat for health reasons?
Nonetheless, I got the spaghetti and I must say it was extremely dry. For a $4 upcharge for simply getting whole wheat you might expect this would be organic or at the least good, but it was neither one.
The pizza is good here but not as good as Nino's or Boca's Best Pizza. It is frankly too greasy, as the grease drips right off the pizza. Not to mention the pizza is more expensive than the other two places mentioned.
Spagehetti and Sleazeballs – I took my 3 little kids and their grandparents to Dominic's II and the kids food came out 30 minutes late. Usually, that would mean lots of apologies from the waiter and manager... not at this place. The waiter says talk to the manager... the manager says, you'll have t talk to your waiter about that... and not only do they charge us for the kids food, but they also charge an 18% gratuity to the check. Talk about Spaghetti and SLEAZEBALLS! I will NEVER go there again. If you are considering it... don't... Nino's is just up the street (at Powerline and Palmetto) and not only do they have better food, they're a heck of a lot nicer and more professional.
Boynton is the hot spot! – I just had to comment and disagree on the previous comment. I always choose Dominic's of Boynton Beach specifically for their friendly service. Considering I also have children it is very hard to find a friendly restaurant environment. The staff is extremely friendly, and as far as Dominic the owner (I don't know him personally), but he has always been friendly and willing to help out. It bothers me when somebody will go out of their way to put down an establishment for no reason.
After reading this, it actually sounds more like a former employee who is retaliating.
I assure you the food is great and the staff is extremely friendly.
Avoid on the new one in Boynton! – The food and staff is better at Vito's then in Boynton. The owner Dominic was walking around with a drink in his hand introducing himself...why I dont know because he should have been in an AA meeting by the sounds of it. The food is good but takes a very long time to come out and the service was ok but there was this one server who kept cursing which I found very inappropriate seeing I had my little ones with me, but after seeing how management talks to them I can see why they spoke like that. I wont return it puts a sour taste in my mouth. I will go to Vito's at Dominic's II in Boca still even though Dominic still owns that one at least he isnt there as much from what I notice.
Found the Best Pizza since I moved from NY – I love the pizza because is freshly prepared, thin crust, enough cheese and spices. The pasta dishes are big. My favorite is the fried calamari, cooked perfectly, not overcooked, fresh, just the way it sould be, generous portion served with lemon and sauce. I just can't get enough, I can't wait to go back and savor them. I recommend it. The best pizza I've found, I live in NW Broward and go to Boca to enjoy the food at Italian Restaurant (not the service). I've been going here for about 2 1/2 yrs and never dissapointed with the food. The service is not as great, since waiters I've had always take so long to take my order, refill, forget the garlic rolls included in the pasta dishes, not bring the kids menu (I have a child), etc. In short not attentive. But just for the food I return.
AMAZING – After remodeling the New York Style Pizzaria into a beautiful romantic restaurant, i've become drawn to going there as much as possible. The staff is delightful and the food is out of this world!
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|What's strange to me is that all of this escalated once I started retraining him, just with his basic obedience commands. Perhaps just coincidence. But once I started giving him more attention the more powerful it seemed to make him.
When he eye balls anybody instruct him to go into bed or a place. Any time he looks at the child or goes near them instruct him into bed. Don't let the dog have any chance to act aggressively or possessive over anything in your house especially children. Turn the tables on the dog. Crate him when you can't supervise. Feed him away from the children. Exercise him daily. Take an active approach if you want to keep the dog. Start researching dog behavior more and train him. Start to let the dog know you will provide food water and exercise but you expect it to be obedient in the house in return.
Don't allow the children to feed the dog treats. Ask the children to be calm around the dog if possible. With young children it is more about the dog being totally under control and understanding that you are in charge and expect him to be not involved with the children s business. You can't really reason with a child and tell it to be quiet all the time so you just have to ask the dog to totally accept the noise and actions of the children.
Personally I would never leave a dog like that alone with a child/children as one bite is gonna seriously affect the child for the rest of it's life. It is not worth it. Better to get rid of the dog if you can't handle it or train it really well to not interfere with the children. In future you may have other kids over and you don't want the dog acting like this.
There is a child in my area and he got bite and he now gets hysterical any time he sees a dog and is actually making himself more of a target because he is so afraid. It is just a terrible cycle for any kid to be in.
|I'm glad you responded. I will definitely look into a trainer with more knowledge. I want to help him, but also don't want to make it worse.
This is a big deal.
I adopted out a foster. A wonderful dog to a very experienced dog home and a friend. 3 weeks she called me saying the dog but her husband. We talked for a long time and it came to light that the dog was following around her youngest son all day and got snippy with other dogs if they got close. And then bite was preceded by husband trying to take away an empty cereal bowl.
But we realized that the resource guarding was escalating. The dog was immediately tethered or crated. He lost every priveledge. NILF. Strictly enforced. If the dog started trying to follow the youngest, she would redirect and do obedience. She gave her eldest son lessons in working with the dog.
It was very very hard work. But I know for a fact that it has dissipated. They have had no more issues and the rules have been relaxed a bit. But she is still diligent. Any sign of "claiming" and the dog is back on the program. Had this been any other adopter, I would have taken the dog back. And I would have if she asked.
You need to get professional help. This needs immediate intervention.
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|It is very concerning. I am a stay at home mom and I don't like the fact that he's constantly eye balling my child like he's going to pounce. I'm not sure of the steps to take to fix the problem.
Your dog SHOULD know that you are in charge and YOU will take care of the children. I'd be very concerned that he's dismissing your leadership role and knows that if he doesn't take over no one cares about the kids.
With a new baby this will be hard but can you go back to dog classes so you can regain your leadership role outside the home? Then it will also start to transfer back into your house when you dog realizes 'oh, the humans have it, I can back off'.
WAY more exercise with you leading the walk or in charge of the game. And dog classes so you can re-learn how to have your dog follow you and listen to you in every situation.
|Now that I recognize it, he always tended to resource guard the baby. First my son, now my daughter. And it always seemed to be with only one person, first it was my mother in law and now that we've moved it's my son.
|Heavily supervise and keep separate until you figure it out. How was the dog with the toddler before the baby came along?
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I'm pretty sure my gsd is resource guarding my infant daughter, especially toward her 2 year old brother. This is a new behavior seen by him, but like another person said, I might have not seen the signs. I did today however when my dog lunged and snipped at him. What can I do?!
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The Good Old Naughty Days (by all means)
The Good Old Naughty Days (French title: Polissons et galipettes – "Rascals and somersaults"), released in 2002, is a compilation from over 300 recently discovered film clips from silent hardcore pornographic films made between 1905 and 1930, re-edited by director Michel Reilhac, with a new soundtrack by Eric Le Guen. Most of the films were made in France and were intended to be shown in brothels. The collection also includes a pornographic animation from the United States, Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure, made by unknown artists in or around 1928 and never theatrically released before.
Themes covered include pornographic adaptations of classics such as Madame Butterfly, precursors of pornography clichés such as the encounter between the "musketeer" and the milkmaid, stock characters such as lascivious nuns and priests, and footage showing bestiality (sexual acts with animals), which according to the film-maker Michel Reilhac shows that "the modern porn industry did not invent anything – everything had already been filmed by our great-grandparents."
At the time of its release (2003) it was the first R18 film to be rated for display in cinemas in the United Kingdom for over ten years, despite its contents, partly due to its 'classic' style and age and as "historical footage". (Wikipedia)
'Thank God I took out the duck scene'
A secret stash of naughty silent films turned up in a Paris attic, and producer Michel Reilhac knew he had to put them on the big screen. Will Hodgkinson reports
by Will Hodgkinson (for The Guardian, Friday 12 March 2004)
Our great-grandparents were rather less prudish than we might imagine. Decades before pornography became big business, naughty French people were making dirty films for the fun of it. In The Good Old Naughty Days, a collection of 12 silent films from the earliest years of the 20th century, nuns, priests, teachers – even a dog – play out sexual dramas in a wide variety of inventive positions, locations and logistical arrangements. And, unlike the stars of today's films for the one-handed viewer, everyone looks like they're enjoying themselves. Even the dog.
- The Good Old Naughty Days (Polissons et galipettes)
- Production year: 2002
- Country: France
- Cert (UK): R-18
- Runtime: 71 mins
- Directors: Michel Reilhac
"The difference is money," says Michel Reilhac, the French director and producer who put The Good Old Naughty Days together. "These films were made as a joke by people who had no idea of performing to the camera, and you can tell: the way they carry themselves is entirely natural. By the 1930s people realised that they could make money with these films and they became another thing entirely. The charm and innocence was gone."
Reilhac doesn't fit into the conventional image of a pornographer. A polite, courteous, almost lavender man, he seems the model of bourgeois propriety. He shares an immaculately smart converted warehouse in Paris's chic 9th arrondissement with his wife and three teenage children, who are all about to leave for their second home in Kenya. But Reilhac's film is more social history than pornography, showing an uninhibited side of working-class life from the beginning of the century not captured elsewhere. It gives us a relationship with long-dead people who would have otherwise only been represented by highly formal photo ]graphs, if at all. And since the average French man has always been able to look at naked women without exploding into fits of giggles or frenzied lust, The Good Old Naughty Days has been accepted in its native country as the valid historical document that it is.
The story of The Good Old Naughty Days begins in the attic room of what Reilhac coyly terms "the house of a very respectable family in Paris" – so respectable that the family have remained anonymous for fear of scandal being attached to their good name. Following the death of the patriarch, relatives discovered a stash of 30 one-reel dirty movies, dating back to the turn of the century, hidden in a secret cupboard in his study. None of the family had known about the existence of these films, which were hurriedly turned over to the National Film Archive.
"I was organising an international festival of film archives," says Reilhac on how he heard about the old man's private passion. "We had invited the French actor Pascal Gregory to do some programming and he wanted to screen a pornographic movie. It sounded like cheap provocation to me, but a friend mentioned these porn films from the silent days that were really funny. So I called up the National Film Archive and began to learn about this world that none of us knew about."
The films have very little in common with conventional pornography and a lot to do with the frank but double-sided attitude towards sexuality in early 20th-century France. The crew of conventional films made the blue movies on their days off: they would borrow some costumes, a camera and a reel of film, find the nearest whorehouse and pay a couple of prostitutes a few francs to star alongside them in comic but extremely explicit sexual farces. The prostitutes' fee made up the entire cost of the movie. One of the films, The Musketeer's Dinner, features a French infantryman who has a meal in an outdoor restaurant before two waitresses decide to make his lunch a highly memorable one. It was made during the filming of a 1920 film, The Three Musketeers, in the Paris suburb of Redon, and its happy star would have been a jobbing electrician or a cameraman taking advantage of his boss's day off.
The men and women who took part in the films were not professional actors. They had no concept of the camera as something that could make their image live outside of themselves – there is none of the self-consciousness that you might have expected because they had no idea that anyone would ever see these films, and they did not have the relationship with a camera that we have today. The most artful it gets is the way the women make themselves alluring by arching their arms behind their head and languidly reclining on sofas; a likely nod to Manet's nudes of the same period. "The films give a perspective on our great-grandparents' attitudes to sex, which were that it's very much like eating and drinking," says Reilhac. "Sexual desire was a natural thing, and whatever was at hand to satisfy that desire was fair game."
The films poke fun at authority figures. In 1925′s Abbot Bitt at the Convent two nuns forget their sacred vows over a church altar; a youth spies on them through a hole in the wall and when Abbott Bitt arrives to discover this sacrilegious scene he starts buggering him. In 1920′s School Spanking a teacher finds novel ways of disciplining her girls, before the headmaster arrives to prove himself equally ill-equipped to restore order While lesbian scenes are often provided for the titillation of straight men in modern porn films, homosexual ones are rare. But these films were an extension of the clandestine world of the brothel, where society's conventions were overturned. At a time when there was no formal concept of homosexuality as a lifestyle choice, most brothels offered young men as well as women. And the films show strong women in control, leading the way, and apparently taking as much pleasure as the men. Perhaps inevitably, the films were co-opted by the brothels themselves.
Knowledge of the blue movies filtered out through the prostitutes borrowed from the huge Parisian whorehouses that the vast majority of French men visited. The brothels were a legal and important part of society that was accepted if not necessarily talked about, and most men had two sexual lives: with their wives and with their prostitutes. As young men were expected to know what to do with their (in theory) virgin brides come the wedding night, elder relatives would take them to the brothel to receive their sexual education. There are letters from Marcel Proust to his grandfather in which the great novelist complains of his father's refusal to fund his weekly visit to the whorehouse. The films were to provide an important function for those yet to be initiated into the sexual life.
"The films started to be shown in Paris brothels," explains Reilhac. "We found printed programmes that showed how they were screened at regular hours in the waiting rooms – young men would find out how sex went by watching them before losing their virginity to a prostitute." Wealthy private collectors, who in turn commissioned more dirty movies, bought some of the films – the grandfather of this respectable family house was one, as was King Alfonso XIII of Spain, who had a passion for women with enormous breasts. In this way the pornographic film industry was born.
The reactions to Reilhac's film say a lot about the sexual mores of the countries it has been shown in. French audiences have been made up of couples and friends who have found the film hilarious, but in Spain it has been predominantly single men who have gone to see it in secret. "The word of mouth publicity that we were relying on didn't happen there," sighs Reilhac. "There was a shame element attached to it, which I think has to do with Spain being a Catholic country. The scenes with the nuns and the priest were a big problem because that was perceived as an attack on the church. I had to take out a sequence where the nuns were having penetration with candles. It is illegal to show a desecration of holy objects in Spain."
In the UK the film will be released with an R-18 certificate, the designation hitherto confined to hardcore porn only available in licensed sex shops. This is the first time for over a decade that this sort of film has been given a mainstream cinema release. But the chief concern at early screenings here was over the welfare of a dog that provides a service to a lady of dubious moral fibre. "We had a screening at the Chelsea Arts Club in London," says Reilhac. "Two women were very upset about the dog, and they kept asking if it was harmed in any way. I told them that as far as I could tell that little dog was very happy. Thank God I took out the scene with the duck." Nothing is done to the dog; it is the dog that does the doing. Is something done to the duck? "Oh yes, most definitely."
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Neonazistic blood is not and will never be part of Greek Democracy
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Dear Guest of Allah Ta`ala
Soon you will be departing for the Sacred cities of Allah Ta'ala and His Beloved Rasul Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam. The honourable angels will follow your progress from the skies and graciously escort you into the very heart of Islam and Imaan. Not only will they echo your heartfelt cry of "Labbayk", but even the rocks and stones which you pass by, will join you in the Talbiyah. Your long cherished hopes will be realized, your sincere Du'aas answered and your dreams realized.
O, Haaji! The sweet Mercies of Allah always seem like dreams. Marvel at your good fortune and your awesome destiny. Indeed it is not only your wealth that takes one for Haj, for many are the millionaires who like last year and the year before promised themselves that they will go set out for this sacred journey. However, they never got down to it. They died rich in wealth but bankrupt in Imaan. They died without having really lived. They died miserably. They died without making Hajj.
You have been given the Taufeeq by Allah Ta'ala due to your firm intention and His Kindness. You, who were penniless just the other day, is now afforded the occasion to spend thousands of dollars to go into the barren desert of Arafaah, with no other motivation but to fulfil the rights of Allah Ta`ala! You, with a feeble and weak heart, will be made to bear the separation of your little innocent children. Your Trust in Allah Ta'ala – that He will care and look after them – deserves to be saluted in the heavens!
O Haaji! Understand well that your Journey is not a single journey. It is a journey that is wrapped with layers and layers of other journeys. May you be alert and appreciate of the various journeys your Imaan will experience during this journey of your Haj.
Hajj: A Journey of Jannah
Rasullullah Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam said: "Between one Umrah and another Umrah is the Kaffarah of sins, and there is no reward for an accepted Haj other than Jan- nah." (Bukhaari, Muslim)
Thus your Hajj, if done correctly, will cleanse your soul from all the impurities of sin. It is a journey to Jannah. An accepted Hajj eases the passage to Jannah and results in a willingness to spent the rest of one's worldly life in pursuit of Allah's Pleasure.
Hajj: A Journey which removes poverty
Rasullullah Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam informed us that Hajj and Umrah removes poverty and sin. (Tirmithi)
Come on, O Haji, admit it: you fear your pockets being emptied. You did endless calculations and worried about the dent in your bank account. You thought you were becoming a bit poorer. How wrong were you! A Haaji never becomes a pauper or a beggar. To the very contrary, just as his journey of Hajj removes sin, so too is it a means of removing poverty and paucity of wealth.
Hajj: A Journey of Sabr
In a Hadith it is mentioned that the Thawaab of Hajj and Umrah is in proportion to the difficulty experienced and amount spent (Muslim). Sabr, O Haji, is something that you will need tons and tons of. In fact those giants who were under the illusion that they had Sabr, found themselves to be infants in the face of difficulties and trials Hajj tossed up. Millionaires line up in queues of twenty plus desperately at Muzdalifah in order to use the toilet facilities. People flip, O yes, they flip. Doors are knocked and banged at. People scream and shout in languages they are unused to: "Jaldi karo…bi sur'ah.. (Make quick!)"
From having to exercise Sabr at the Hajj Terminal, (Prepare to wait for twelve hours) to making Sabr when buying a cup of tea, Hajj will teach one what the word "wait" means. So many people waiting, O Haaji, will next be seen on the Day of Qiyamah.
Sleep is but a dream during the days of Hajj. In fact, count yourself lucky to get a half-decent four feet space to sleep in Muzdalifah. In the process of pelting, prepare to be pelted. A "five star Hajj" is no guarantee for your safety during Tawaaf from being stomped, stamped, pushed and shoved. Your wealth counts for nothing; your social status is of no value. Sabr Haji , Sabr!
Hajj: A Journey of Love
Rasullullah Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam said that for every footstep a Haaji takes, he is given a reward, a sin is removed and he is elevated one stage. (Baihaqi).
Aaah! The walking Hajj! Like small little streams converging into a river, like rivers flowing and converging at the oceans, so too do the Hujjaaj stream from their apartments and hotels, to converge on the roads which eventually flow into the ocean of Rahmat, called Arafaah.
O Haaji, how beautiful is Imaan and Islam! O Haaji, never will you see so many different flags being hoisted by such a variety of people. Sandals and bottles, cans and mats, shoes and boxes - all hoisted upon sticks. From anything of a group between three to three hundred and more, you will see the flags of Imaan and Muslim brotherhood fluttering proudly. The echoes of Labbayk of walking Haajis ring through tunnels and shakes the very core of their souls and makes ones Imaan grow and flow, flower and blossom; in every vein, bone and pore.
Hajj: A Journey of acceptance in the Divine Court
In a Hadith it is mentioned that a Haajee will intercede on behalf of four hundred family members. Yet in another Hadith, Rasullullah Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam said that a person who makes Umrah or Haj is a guest of Allah. If he makes Du'aa, Allah Ta'ala accepts his Du'aa and if he asks for forgiveness, Allah forgives him. (Ni'saai)
Value each and every word of Rasullullah Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam. Does it not impress upon you the lofty status that you as a Haaji enjoy in the Sight of Allah? Indeed it does. Thus make plenty of Du'aa for yourself, your family and friends, the Ummah and humanity and our beloved country. Make Du'aa for both your worldly needs and the needs for your hereafter.
Hajj: A Journey of a Re-birth
Rasullullah Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam said that whosoever performs a Hajj free from arguments and sin, then that person is purified from sin just as the day his mother had given birth to him. (Bukhaari, Muslim)
O Haaji! Those who fear Allah Ta`ala will tell us that this is the ultimate reward. So many sins we committed in our lifetime, so many rights of Allah Ta`ala we destroyed, so much pride we brazenly and daringly flaunted, so many Divine Laws we held in contempt, so many Sunnahs we abandoned - our evil is sufficient to blacken the skies, blot out the sun, cause the oceans to become bitter and make the earth sink — what hope could there be ever for our forgiveness? O Haaji! Rasul Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam gave you the glad tidings of returning home purified from sin just as the day your mother gave birth to you.
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KELOWNA, Okanagan Valley, BC, Jan. 24, 2014 /CNW/ - CedarCreek Estate Winery Proprietor Senator Ross Fitzpatrick and Anthony
von Mandl, Proprietor of VMF Estates (von Mandl Family Estates) jointly
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CedarCreek Estate Winery has been recognized twice as 'Canadian Winery of the Year' and was one of the first eight wineries in the Okanagan Valley. The success of CedarCreek is rooted in the vision of Senator Ross Fitzpatrick. Born and raised in the Okanagan, he fulfilled his boyhood dreams by returning to the Okanagan Valley to acquire an orchard and small vineyard near Kelowna and naming it CedarCreek.
CedarCreek owns some of the Valley's most desirable vineyards in Kelowna and Osoyoos. CedarCreek was not up for sale, however when approached by Anthony von Mandl, the Fitzpatricks saw another family with a shared vision for the Okanagan Valley who would continue their family legacy for generations to come.
Commenting on the purchase, Senator Ross Fitzpatrick stated: "The CedarCreek philosophy of respect the land, honour tradition and pursue perfection has guided us well over the last 27 years, up to and including this final transaction. I cannot imagine a better place for CedarCreek given Anthony's commitment to the Valley and his goal to place the Okanagan on the international wine map which has been unwavering over the last twenty years. We have placed CedarCreek in very good hands and I look forward to enjoying many more glasses from our Home Block. I am very proud of our accomplishments and would like to extend my sincerest appreciation to my family, staff, colleagues and customers for their support over the years."
CedarCreek President Gordon Fitzpatrick added: "We say 'Our Wine is our Word' and we are confident that CedarCreek will continue to over deliver under the ownership of the von Mandl family and the winemaking guidance of Darryl Brooker. It is not very often that two multiple winners of Canada's Winery of the Year join the same family."
The purchase includes CedarCreek winery and the Fitzpatrick family's vineyard holdings (excluding Greata Ranch Vineyard and Winery in Peachland, British Columbia, which the Fitzpatrick Family will continue to own and operate). The purchase price was not disclosed and the transaction is expected to close in early February 2014.
About VMF Estates
Founded by Proprietor Anthony von Mandl, VMF Estates is the von Mandl family's newly created family-owned business comprising a collection of some of the most exceptional vineyards in the Okanagan Valley, including Mission Hill Family Estate, CedarCreek Estate Winery, and CheckMate Artisanal Winery, a small, gravity-fed winery located on the "Golden Mile", just south of the town of Oliver in British Columbia. Each winery operates independently, with separate staffing, management, and its own hallmark and identity. The common purpose is to produce wines that can stand alongside the best in the world. Rick Bonitati, President of VMF Estates, oversees all of the wineries and vineyards on behalf of the von Mandl family.
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Look all over the world and you will see custom bags and totes slung across many shoulders, containing various objects people will need to get through their days and respective responsibilities. Personalized tote bags, custom bags, and logo totes are all great ideas for advertising specialties.
Promotional tote bags work very effectively as eye-catchers no matter where you take them. Unlike purses, totes can be fashionably carried and transport important materials by both men and women. Implementing promotional tote bags will consistently deliver successful marketing campaigns in which consumers will carry your business with them.
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For instance, what if your organization gave away some recycled, reusable shopping totes? A great idea would be to couple those awesome bags you personalized to fit your brand's image with a way to build some good will and excitement with your recipients by offering a discount or a perk for Tweeting pictures of themselves using their bag while grocery shopping. In scenarios like this, not only are your marketing efforts getting greater reach, but the people involved can really build a sentimental attachment to your organization, while saving on using plastic disposable bags.
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At USimprints, our selection of custom tote bags spans everything from shopping bags and lunch bags to attaches and briefcases. It's easy to be taken off guard at all the different bag choices, because a bag is a bag, right? We agree that you're going to get the same practical utility from any type of personalized bag. They are great space savers and a highly useful giveaway, but not all bags are created equal.
Drawstring bags are one of our best-selling, most customized products we sell. They are lightweight, compact, simple, and inexpensive. Some even feature cellphone or water bottle holders, but for the most part, you're only going to want to choose promotional drawstring bags if you are looking for a cheap, fun, and lightweight giveaway (or maybe if you are planning on handing out a very large quantity).
Our discount tote bags, paper bags, shopping bags and various tote bags all fall into a similar class with drawstring bags. At that point, it all depends on what your objectives are. Why your audience would want to use them, and how you can tie it into your organization.
Up next you have more specialty types of bags. Given their reputation as a regrettable byproduct of the late 80's and early 90's, Fanny Packs are surprisingly popular, and when you think about it, it isn't too surprising. They're useful, convenient, and they stand out. You could also be looking for something like a cooler or lunch bag, or computer bags and iPad sleeves and cases if you're catering to a techie, gadget-loving audience.
We also sell briefcases, backpacks, and duffel bags for those who would enjoy a way to carry around more stuff, while also keeping it organized. Of course, as you move up in the world of promotional bags and custom totes, you can expect to shell out more money, but giving away something really nice and highly useful will turn into a promotional giveaway that likely gets used until the bag is old and worn down, and when you think about it, that's the best you could hope for in the world of promotional products.
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distributed.net is a loosely knit group of computer users from all of the world that is taking up challenges requiring lots of computing power (most notably the RC5, DES, and OGR cracking contests). It is simple to participate in the challenges by downloading and running their client software (which uses idle CPU time to complete its tasks).
Email Security through Procmail (the Procmail Sanitizer) provides methods to sanitize email, removing obvious exploit attempts and disabling the channels through which exploits are delivered. Facilities for detecting and blocking Trojan Horse exploits and worms are also provided.
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Just another sunset, near Labuan Bajo, Flores
Just another sunset, near Labuan Bajo, Flores
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Labuan Bajo will be the first port of call for most first-time visitors to Flores, whether arriving by boat or plane. And like many port towns in the world, we want to love it, but it just isn't very lovable.
Most near anywhere else in Flores is more lovable than Labuan Bajo, and most travellers will stay here just a night or two as they come and go.
During low season, Labuan Bajo seems to have a fair range of accommodation, but in high season, in the words of one diving instructor we talked to, it is "a veritable madhouse where the hotels are packed and every soul wants to get the hell out of dodge". Even in low season, we had to try three hotels before finding a hotel with a spare room that was decent, so if you're visiting Labuan Bajo in July or August, book in advance if you can. Most of the better establishments are happy to let you book online or over ... Read our complete Labuan Bajo travel guide


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I've been searching the Internet for the last several days trying to find reviews on neo-round shower bases. We are specifically looking at a 36x36 shower, but in general we are looking for a tried and proven brand without going into customization work. I seen Vigo and Maax carry a neo-round, but I couldn't find hardly any reviews, except problems with the sliding mechanism on the door on one of the brands. My main concern is a leaking/cracking base.
We were considering a neo-round because a few manufacturers make frameless surrounds with doors that slide along the shower walls instead of outward. Our space is small so this would be a better design.
However, if all the neo round are not good quality or the sliding doors are problematic then we would go with the neo angle option. Again, any feedback on quality bases would be appreciated. I think one advantage of the neo angle is it would be easier to replace the door/frame if there was ever a problem.
Our schedule is tight so we would like to finalize with the contractor this week. He is also looking, but I prefer an outside opinion.


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Duncan & Miller is a term used by collectors when referring to glass made by the George A. Duncan and Sons Company or the Duncan and Miller Glass Company. These companies worked from 1893 to 1955, when the use of the name Duncan was discontinued and the firm became part of the United States Glass Company. Duncan & Miller pieces were often colored blue, chartreuse, or pink and blue opalescent. Early patterns may be listed under Pressed Glass.
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The countdown is on for City's Santa Stroll! Sky blue Santa suits at the ready and be prepared for a real fun day at the City of Manchester Stadium on Sunday.
The 4km charity Stroll, sponsored by Optimum, is the centrepiece of a day of festive fun for all the family with an ice rink, real reindeer and Santa's sleigh to get everyone in the Christmas spirit.
Everyone who's bought a Santa suit goes into the hat for a chance of £1,000 of merchandise from the CityStore - and there are other fabulous prizes, vouchers for the Malmaison hotel and VIP match packages courtesy of Etihad, to be won on the day.
Blues manager Roberto Mancini will be there to kick off the event at noon, with every penny of the proceeds going to CITC Giving, the charitable giving arm of the club's CSR policy.
Sunday's running order is as follows:
10am – City Square opens.
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If his body was weak, his tongue was powerful. The content of his sermons, his exegesis of Scripture, were never without a point. Sometimes the point stung the high and mighty. Some sermons lasted up to two hours.
His lifestyle at the imperial court was not appreciated by many courtiers. He offered a modest table to episcopal sycophants hanging around for imperial and ecclesiastical favors. John deplored the court protocol that accorded him precedence before the highest state officials. He would not be a kept man.
His zeal led him to decisive action. Bishops who bribed their way into office were deposed. Many of his sermons called for concrete steps to share wealth with the poor. The rich did not appreciate hearing from John that private property existed because of Adam's fall from grace any more than married men liked to hear that they were bound to marital fidelity just as much as their wives were. When it came to justice and charity, John acknowledged no double standards.
Aloof, energetic, outspoken, especially when he became excited in the pulpit, John was a sure target for criticism and personal trouble. He was accused of gorging himself secretly on rich wines and fine foods. His faithfulness as spiritual director to the rich widow, Olympia, provoked much gossip attempting to prove him a hypocrite where wealth and chastity were concerned. His actions taken against unworthy bishops in Asia Minor were viewed by other ecclesiastics as a greedy, uncanonical extension of his authority.
Theophilus, archbishop of Alexandria, and Empress Eudoxia were determined to discredit John. Theophilus feared the growth in importance of the Bishop of Constantinople and took occasion to charge John with fostering heresy. Theophilus and other angered bishops were supported by Eudoxia. The empress resented his sermons contrasting gospel values with the excesses of imperial court life. Whether intended or not, sermons mentioning the lurid Jezebel (1 Kings 9:1—21:23) and impious Herodias (Mark 6:17-29) were associated with the empress, who finally did manage to have John exiled. He died in exile in 407.
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Rod Building Time
By Larry Jurgens
Now that winter is fast approaching, it is time to be thinking about building yourself your own personalized fly rod.
I have heard it said many times that it looks "hard" to build a fly rod. My normal response is: "If you can you tie a fly or necktie you can surely can build a fly rod."
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Thomas F. Schaller
4:01 PM EST, February 5, 2013
Last week, top Maryland Democrats announced their intention to make it more difficult to put statewide policy referenda on the ballot. The move is a clear response to Republicans' success last year in putting to referendum policy questions in the hope of achieving victories the GOP couldn't win in the legislature.
The Republicans' ballot plans backfired, most notably the surprising approval by voters of same-sex marriage. But the Democrats, who dominate state politics thanks to large legislative majorities, took notice of the potential threat to their legislative monopoly. And while the Democrats' defense of legislative rule is right on the merits, like the GOP's initial attempt to circumvent the legislature, it's wrong in its motives.
Only this column's most devoted readers know that the two political phenomena I find most noxious are partisan institutionalism — the strengthening or weakening of political institutions for potential partisan gain — and direct democracy, which allows citizens to enact policies directly by circumventing the republican filter of legislative action.
The movement toward establishing initiatives and referenda exploded nationwide during the Populist era. The desire to empower citizens directly is alluring in principle but can be very problematic in practice. If legislators lack the discipline to balance budgets or think beyond the short term, citizen-voters can be even more selfish and less far-sighted.
Consider California, where for the past four decades voters have repeatedly chosen to keep their taxes low while approving public spending for cherished items. Although California's budgetary fortunes have improved lately, the state remains a fiscal mess. Conservatives blame big-spending liberals, and liberals blame revenue-resistant conservatives. Both are right in their damnations because both are guilty.
But what of last November's ballot victories, in Maryland and three other states, for same-sex marriage advocates? The longer history shows that majorities at the ballot tend to deprive minorities of equal representation. Prior to 2012, all 34 previous ballot measures to enact (or prohibit) same-sex marriage, including measures proposed in supposedly liberal states like California, resulted in defeat for marriage equality advocates.
The U.S. Constitution does not provide for direct democracy to enact national policy. And while the Constitution does not prohibit states from using direct democracy — federalism permits each state to determine whether to employ initiatives and referenda — the national charter very clearly requires every state to guarantee its citizens a republican form of government: Every state must have a legislature. In his most famous Federalist essay, Number 10, James Madison explained the founders' belief that the republican form, a representative democracy in which voters select legislators to enact policies on their behalf, is superior to the expression of undiluted public preferences.
Neither of the state parties in Maryland is motivated by adherence to these governing principles, sad to say. Because Republicans control so few seats in Annapolis, they turned to the referendum as an alternative manner for exercising power in state policy; and now the Democrats are trying to make use of the ballot tougher to reinforce that advantage in policy control.
Don't we have enough problems already with partisan institutionalism in America? The gerrymandering of congressional and state legislative districts has reduced the number of truly competitive seats nationwide, turning legislative elections once fought during the general election between the two parties into intramural fights among each party's primary voters.
Policy fights should be won by persuading the public to elect officials who will fight to pass laws, issue orders and appoint judges who in turn rule in accordance with public preferences. Circumventing the checked-power lawmaking process with referenda, or trying to manipulate the referendum process to embolden or thwart the other party, offends our constitutional traditions.
Thomas F. Schaller teaches political science at UMBC. His column appears every other Wednesday. His email is firstname.lastname@example.com. Twitter: @schaller67.
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