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When it comes to support from developers, Windows Phone has long been one of the less popular platforms. That trend looks like it might be about to change. Amazon has just released a new app for Audible, their audiobook subsidiary. WP users can now buy and download from a catalog of over 100 thousand audiobooks.
"Our customers love the convenience of having their Audible content accessible on any device they choose," said Ajay Arora, Vice President of Mobile Applications at Audible, Inc. "Now, with the launch of our new Windows Phone app, the complete Audible experience can be enjoyed by millions of devoted Windows Phone customers, all of whom will now be able to find and listen to their books anytime and anywhere."
The new app will of course sync with a user's existing Audible account, thus expanding the usefulness and reach of Amazon's empire. It supports all the major features found in the other apps, including sharing, bookmarks, reading stats, and the ability to play in the background.

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The East Valley has raised $2,622,312 so far for the Mesa United Way 2011-2012 Pledge Campaign, a fundraiser that's been a little tougher to pull off this year because so many residents and businesses in our community who donated in the past are still recovering from recession. In fact, the United Way upped the goal to $2,825,000 this year because of an increased need by people who haven't needed assistance before.
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A few days after Apple's new software system, the iOS7, became available, my friend urged me to download it because it was just "so cool."
Once I did -- an hour later -- I immediately regretted it.
While the aesthetic is more modern, the text messages and keypad lock show up ombre (wasn't that a 2012 trend?) and the overall system is incredibly slow. My apps are all out of place and most need to be updated -- and the buttons are delayed and overly dramatic when they open. I'm sure Apple will release a fix to solve some of the tardiness -- requiring yet another update -- but in the meantime, I'm regretting giving into FOMO.
I'm not the only disappointed Apple user though -- this toddler isn't a fan of iOS 7 either. When his dad updated "his" iPad, he threw a tantrum, claiming "everything was different," and that no, he didn't want to get used to it.
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In 2012, ACS's Committee on International Activities (IAC) approved a plan to award competitive Global Innovation Grants of up to US$5,000 to ACS Local Sections, Technical Divisions, International Chemical Sciences Chapters, and Governance Committees in order to further Article II, Section 3 of the ACS Constitution which states:
"...the SOCIETY shall cooperate with scientists internationally and shall be concerned with the worldwide application of chemistry to the needs of humanity."
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- Engage developing countries
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- Support development and quality of the ACS International Center™
- Sustain momentum of the International Year of Chemistry (IYC) beyond 2011
The ACS Office of International Activities (OIA) administers the yearly grants towards activities which catalyze new international collaboration and partnerships, especially those dedicated to solutions to global challenges.
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(Story updated to add that Deutsche Bank reiterated its "buy" rating on Gilead Sciences, but lowered its price target to $57.)
BOSTON ( TheStreet) -- Although many of the best mutual fund managers were ultra-cautious late last year, they still made major commitments to select stocks, underscoring their confidence in the companies.
Research firm Morningstar, which tracks the portfolio changes of 26 top-performing mutual funds for its "Ultimate Stock-Pickers" series, published a list of 10 stocks those managers bought, either to establish a new position or to add to an existing one.
The stock pickers' choices were eclectic and, in one instance, surprising. The managers at the Fairfax Financial Holdings Fund (FRFHF) made a big addition to a conservative choice, the respected but underperforming health-care-products company Johnson & Johnson (JNJ). At the same time, it added to its stake in the troubled Canadian mobile-device maker Research In Motion (RIMM). The Yacktman Fund (YACKX) also bought Research In Motion shares, adding to its stake by more than 60% in the fourth quarter. But the stock seeing the most buying was biotechnology firm Gilead Sciences (GILD). The Hartford Capital Appreciation Fund (ITHAX) established a new position in it, buying nearly 4 million shares, while the Parnassus Equity Income Fund (PRBLX) doubled its stake, to 4 million shares, in the quarter. Gilead also has the best ratings from analysts of the group, garnering 15 "buys." But last week, Deutsche Bank, while reiterating its "buy" rating on the firm's stock, lowered its price target to $57 from $66 on expectations of price discounts on its HPV drugs. Parnassus bought a significant new stake in brokerage firm Charles Schwab (SCHW), picking up more than 10 million shares. International banking firm Citigroup (C) and the pharmaceuticals industry's biggest player, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), were the only other companies to see two funds add to their positions in the period. Also among the 26 fund managers on the Ultimate Stock-Pickers roster are the Dodge & Cox Stock Fund (DODGX) and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B). "Managers send signals about the level of conviction they have in a position by how much of their portfolio (on a percentage basis) they're willing to commit to a given name at any point in time," Morningstar said in a research note. Although it found that the fourth quarter "was probably one of the least-active periods for stock buying that we've seen in quite some time." Indicative of that, the top "buys" had only two of the 26 funds buying their shares, compared to prior periods when there were usually four of five managers buying a particular stock, Morningstar said. Here are the 10 most-purchased stocks in the fourth quarter of 2011 by the "Ultimate Stock-Pickers" funds in order of value:
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Beechwood Cottage Cabin / Chalet Lake George
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Beech Wood Lake Cottage is located on the east side of beautiful Lake George. This cozy cabin has 2 bedrooms, (single & queen) and a sleeping loft with 3 twin beds. There is dock space for one boat.
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- 2 bedrooms & 1 bathroom
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The Beech Wood Cottage vacation cabin is located on the shores of the crystal clear Lake George. this rental cabin has it's own private dock and swimming beach make this lake cabin the perfect summer vacation travel destination. The views off the cabin deck include the Adirondack Mountains, and Happy Family Islands. Wake to the sounds of the local song birds, gulls and woodpeckers. Catch a glimpse of Herons, Canadian Geese, deer, loons, muskrats, beaver, mink and more. (Even a moose has been seen!) Off the lake cabin dock catch Sunnys, Blue Gils, Perch, Pike, Large and Small Mouth Bass. End your day relaxing on the cabin deck with beautiful sunsets views.
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If a debate is like boxing, last night, I had hoped for a brawl. I had hoped for a no-holds-barred teardown of Barack Obama's foreign policy of appeasement, anti-Americanism and embarrassing meddling. I had hoped to see Romney tear into Obama for his administration's failures to protect our diplomats and consulates. I had had hoped to see a real fight. Instead, I was treated to a smart victory- something that helped keep safe Mitt Romney's lead that will deliver him to the White House. That satisfaction will last longer.
Anyone who knows me knows I love boxing. I've made references to the sweet science before as I firmly believe that like boxing, debate is a simple form of combat that requires minutes to learn, but a lifetime to master. After I watched the debate last night, I thought, "That's not how I would have played it… That's better than my idea."
I cannot attest to what, exactly, President Obama's debate prep consisted of. However, I can reasonably assume that it consisted of a fair amount of preparation for how to defend against the accusations of ineptitude and cover-ups in Libya- both, of which, seem more and more apparent with each passing day.
Obama had tried to feign outrage during the second presidential debate at the insinuation that there had been any purposeful misleading in the aftermath of the attack on our consulate in Benghazi. President Obama's laughable counter-attack to distract Americans from his administration's utter foreign policy failures has been to accuse Romney of "politicizing" the attack. This time, I speculate that President Obama was fully prepared to counter-attack Romney. If this was boxing, Obama needed to land a knockout punch.
So, Romney did what any fighter would do if he had won the previous rounds and he was heading into the last round- he played it safe. Romney didn't have to win by knockout; he was already winning by decision. With Gallup putting Romney comfortably ahead and with Romney having more electoral votes in the projections, Romney needed to not screw up majorly. Getting drawn into a debate on whether or not he was being insensitive by "politicizing" attacks would not help him. So, Governor Romney did what any good fighter would do and moved in only for safer, well-guarded punches, never allowing Obama the opportunity to land his knockout punch. Romney played it smart.
He moved the conversation to discussions of what to do with Iran- a decidedly safer topic. Mostly, however, he proved yet again that he could command the direction of the debate and moved the discussion into domestic issues for much of the debate. While this was a refresher course for many, it was likely more exciting for the average undecided voter as many cannot relate to foreign policy issues as it is ever-changing, complex and often does not immediately affect our day-to-day lives. By moving the discussion to domestic issues, Romney provided himself another opportunity to outline his domestic agenda while simultaneously highlighting the fact that President Obama does not have one.
Romney played it safe and was not reckless. He stayed smiling and outlining the issues while still having the patience to not take the bait. While many casual observers might note that the contest came out a draw or perhaps a narrow Romney victory, I submit that it was a stunning and, at times, boring strategic victory that safeguarded Romney's lead.
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UCSD Breaks Ground on Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Building
|Left to right: SPPS Dean, Palmer Taylor; SPPS student, Rani Dibbini; Craig Ventor; Chancellor Robert Dynes;and Vice Chancellor Edward Holmes.
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UCSD School of Pharmacy Welcomes
The Class of 2007 of the UCSD School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences was officially welcomed during a week of orientation activities, a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Pharmaceutical Sciences building and a White Coat Ceremony, where they received the white coats they will wear during their four years of study culminating in the Doctor of Pharmacy degree. Classes began Thursday, September 25.
Selected from a highly competitive pool of 510 applicants, the class of 26 students includes 14 women and 12 men.
According to Anthony S. Manoguerra, Pharm.D., Associate Dean for Student Affairs, this is an extremely talented and diverse group of individuals. All of them demonstrated high academic ability in their undergraduate careers with an average undergraduate grade point average for the class of 3.60. They bring to UCSD experiences from 17 different undergraduate colleges and universities throughout California and the United States; including 7 UC campuses, 1 California State University campus, 1 non-California public university and 8 private universities.
In addition to their academic achievements, the students have broad volunteer experience with each of them demonstrating strong leadership skills through work or volunteer activities in a variety of settings. In addition to academics and public service, many of the students are accomplished in art and music or have participated in competitive sports.
The UCSD School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is the newest health sciences professional school in the UC system and only the second publicly supported school of pharmacy in California. Approved by the Regents in 2000, the school enrolled the first class of students in September 2002.
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Students, staff, dignitaries and guests gathered to celebrate as the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) broke ground on September 25 on a state-of-the art, 104,000-square-foot facility to house the personnel and programs of the new UCSD School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
The School was developed to support the new millennium's growing demands in pharmaceutical education, by training students to meet the expanding role of pharmacy practice in health care, and to advance pharmaceutical sciences utilizing cutting edge technologies from the genetic revolution. The first class of 25 students entered in September 2002, and the second class completed orientation this week.
The $42 million, four-story building will be the headquarters for the new school, with classrooms as well as clinical pharmacy practice and point of care facilities, and laboratories to accommodate research in bioinformatics, drug information, pharmaceutical chemistry, the biological sciences and high intensity computational studies.
"Pharmacy practice of the future will grounded in the basic sciences of medicine instilled with healthy doses of pharmacology and contemporary genomic sciences," said Palmer Taylor, founding dean of the new school and the Sandra & Monroe Trout Chair of Pharmacology. "Students will also need a variety of clinical experiences to serve effectively as therapeutic counselors as indications for medications and the medications themselves increase in complexity."
Designed by Anshen and Allen (Los Angeles), the new building is scheduled to be completed by fall 2005. The facility will be located in the current parking lot area south of the Basic Science Building on the School of Medicine campus.
The building is designed to eventually house a 250-seat auditorium for combined medical and pharmacy student lectures, and core research facilities, with fundraising continuing to garner support for these additional elements of the building.
"Space on campus is at a premium," said Dr. David Adler, associate dean of academic affairs for the school. "The building will enable us to go to our steady state size of 240 Pharmacy Doctorate students, 60 Ph.D. students and a complement of fellows and residents."
The school's floor plan was designed to promote interaction between different disciplines. "One end of the floor will be chemistry intensive, while the other end will house informatics labs with pharmacology and biomedicine interspersed," Taylor noted. "We'll have replicated that design on all three floors to encourage cross-discipline fertilization."
UCSD's new School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences – the first public pharmacy institution to open in 100 years, and the first state-supported pharmacy school in Southern California – will assume a role in this rapidly evolving field by emphasizing research in pharmacogenomics (the study of the interaction of an individual's genetic make-up and response to a drug), bioinformatics (the science of managing and analyzing biological data using advanced computing techniques) and contemporary structure guided drug design. "What we will do is educate students on the application of modern genomics – with its potential to individualize therapy – to pharmacology," Taylor said.
"The first year charter class was exceptional and met every challenge we asked them to," said Adler. The new school will offer graduate programs leading to the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees as well as continuing professional education for practicing pharmacists and postdoctoral education. Current pharmacy students attend classes on campus and in the School of Medicine, with second year students sharing some classes with medical students.
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UCSD: The Pharmacy School of the Future
UCSD's new School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is well poised to take advantage of the emerging technologies of genetics, bioinformatics, and the changing role of pharmacists.
"Pharmacists in the community are becoming much more involved in the therapeutic counseling of outpatients," said Palmer Taylor, founding dean of the new school and the Sandra & Monroe Trout Professor of Pharmacology. "That requires knowledge of both the basic science of pharmacology and genomics, as well as the clinical experience of how that relates to therapeutics and therapeutic counseling."
The new school joins the School of Medicine as part of UCSD Health Sciences. For the first few years, pharmacy students will attend classes in the School of Medicine and general campus facilities, and in late 2005 they will move into their own four-story, 104,000-square-foot building in the heart of campus, just south of the Basic Science Building on Osler Drive in La Jolla.
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Nearly 500 students applied to the Charter Class and just 25 were admitted, beginning in September 2002. At steady state, 60 students will enter annually to pursue the four-year program leading to a doctor of pharmacy degree (Pharm D.), the minimum degree required for a licensed pharmacist to work. Eventually, an additional 60 students will be enrolled in the School to pursue a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences.
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1/4 cup capers, chopped coarse
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I Met My Creepy Neighbor38 Comments Published by JD July 19th, 2009 in I Know Things.
I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you
Pretty L-of-the-V came from here
Oh, peeps, this was so creep-ay!
When we moved into our house 11 years ago, the previous owners told us they had never seen the elderly woman two doors down but that her daughter came around every so often to bring her supplies or whatever. Cool. Our other neighbors seemed really nice, and we settled into a happy existence, never thinking about the mean old lady on the corner or her daughter. Except one time I saw the alleged daughter in her backyard, throwing an empty milk carton into the next yard. I gave her a hard look, tho I was wearing sunglasses, which might have mitigated the effect.
ANYway, it's the present. In the entire 11 years, I've never seen the crazy old lady on the corner. (Yes, she went from being an elderly woman to a crazy old lady.) Not only that, her windows are papered over. Not only THAT, when I've skulked around the alley behind her house . . . oh, but surely you get the picture.
ANYway, it's the present. Again. I was enjoying a cookout with my family and I happened to look over between the gap in our bushes and saw The Trash-Throwing Daughter. She looked friendly enough, and she wasn't whipping garbage into other people's yards, so I gave her a wave.
She responded by yelling something I couldn't hear, so I hollered back some gibberish of my own: grass, weather, flowers, sky. She kept yelling, and it seemed that something more than gibberish was required, so I motioned that I would go around to the front of her house.
So there I was! Face to face with the daughter of the evil witch from the haunted house! She seemed harmless, but I kept my distance, for that is my way. She asked me if I wanted some lilies of the valley and I DID! I figured she had been gardening (her mother being too old and infirm and busy eating young children) and had dug up a bunch that she didn't want.
Wrong. She handed me a trowel and motioned to her garden. Oh. I was supposed to dig them up. This was weird, to say the least. I could see my family looking anxiously through the bushes. I wanted to eat my hot dog! I didn't want to garden with my creepy neighbor. I stalled by making small talk.
"So, how long has your mom lived here?"
"My mom doesn't live here."
"Do YOU live here?"
Long silence. Then finally:
"Oh! How long have you lived here?"
Creepy smile.
"A long time."
"Well, we've lived here 11 years, and I've NEVER seen you!"
"I've never seen YOU!"
OK, now, that's impossible. People see me! I'm out and about. I'm on my driveway taking pictures of the fetus, I'm scooping up dog poo, I'm walking the cats on their leashes. I am a presence in the neighborhood! You cannot say you've never seen me!
I looked toward her house and could have sworn I saw a curtain twitch.
I practically threw the trowel at her. "I think I hear my mom calling me!"
I ran home and buried myself under a bunch of sofa cushions. Dave was still in the yard, manning the grill, but everyone else was inside. I proceeded to tell them the story of the creepy neighbor when . . .
OHMYGOD THERE SHE IS! I scream-whispered. She was walking down our driveway! Did she have the trowel? Someone rescue Dave! He's out there! Alone!
But Dave came in shortly thereafter. He was holding a bunch of lilies of the valley.
"Uh, your neighbor brought you these."
My family gave me a collective side-eye and went back to enjoying the cookout.
I ate my hot dog inside.
And I threw away the lilies of the valley. Because I know if the wicked witch who lives in that scary house can shape-shift, she can sure as hell put a curse on flowers.
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38 Responses to "I Met My Creepy Neighbor"
Jul 19th, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Good Grief! You live two doors down from Boo Radley!
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Oh, that's terrifying. Maybe the crazy old lady knits clothes out of the kids' skin after she eats them. Otherwise you might see her at the mall. She also found the special formula to grow children in her garden, so she has no need to go outside.
Jul 19th, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Crying laughing here. "I think I hear my mom calling me!" I hope you enjoyed your flowers. You're lucky, though. She might have sprinkled them with anthrax.
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Any people go missing in the neighborhood? She must be related to the Psycho killer. Perhaps she keeps her dead mother's body around, watching TV with it or something.
Maybe the Lilies of the Valley sprang out of her mother's corpse in the back yard…
(Okay, no more of that, or I'M going to turn into the creepy neighbor.)
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 9:52 AM
I'm glad she's your neighbour so that she doesn't have to be mine – we're looking for a new house (in Peterborough) and wishing we could go interview neighbours before we buy.
I wonder if she reads your blog?
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 9:57 AM
Isn't the meaning of Lily of the Valley "eternal rest"? No, wait, that's poppies. Never mind.
ps: I'm starting to think I might know the source of the mysterious fetus…
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Oh, great! I might BE your creepy neighbor! Except I don't have any lilies of the valley in my yard. And I HAVE seen my neighbors as I peer out the curtains. Oh, and I do cook hotdogs in my backyard. Want to come over?
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 10:52 AM
I think you did a very wise thing by throwing those flowers away!!
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Why is she YOUR neighbor and not Dave's as well?
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 1:59 PM
Do you live next to Normanda Bates?
You're going to have to give us updates now on the Bates house. You know she probably killed her mother and the bones are sitting in a rocking chair.
We rarely see Mr. Friendly's wife. (Our neighbor. I named him that in sarcasm, because he always glares at us in the most unfriendly manner.) We didn't see the wife for a few months and wondered if she died. Then Anastasia saw her. How can a person go for months and not be seen coming or going from their house?
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 2:27 PM
When's the last time you took your medication? Why no pictures of the daughter? Have you thought about deep frying the fetus?
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 3:44 PM
Hmmm. Sounds suspicious to me… I sure hope old Mom is not in the crawl space under the house or something. Or providing fertilizer for the Lilys of the Valley. Or mummified under the sheets in the spare bedroom.
Maybe you should sneak over and check?
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Ha ha ha! That's so funny. A crazy old witch who turns out to actually be the daughter who visits! Hahahaha! I think I would be a bit nervous of someone who has papered over windows. Whatever does she get up to in there?
One last thing to ponder on – All parts, including the berries, of the Lily of the Valley are highly poisonous.
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 3:55 PM
It's only three months until Halloween. Maybe you'll get a glimpse of the old lady then.
LOL@ Lola. Normanda Bates! Hilarious.
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 4:52 PM
I can't believe you threw away lilies of the valley! My grandmother had those years ago, and I've tried planting them (from bulbs) and never had any luck. And here you get free ones and you just toss the poor things away. Shame. Shame, I say. Shame.
Anyway, I was reading this other blog, and this woman was talking about how she saw this woman staring at her lilies of the valley who then waved at her when her eyes met hers. She shouted across the yard, "Take a picture–it'll last longer!" The woman shouted back, "Grass wet her flowers dry!" at which point she realized the woman was crazy and yelled back at her to leave her alone!
At which point, the woman mentioned she was coming over!
At this point, of course, she feared for her life. But, she tried to remain calm. Soon–too soon for her liking–she was face to face with this woman. She didn't know what to say, so she just blurted out, "You want some lilies of the valley?"
To her surprise, the woman said "I sure do."
Shocked, she didn't know what to do. So, she handed the woman her trowel and pointed to her garden. At the very least, she figured, if the woman tried to kill her, the cops would at least be able to get her fingerprints from the trowel.
What followed was an awkward conversation, punctuated by the woman claiming to hear voices calling her as she ran back home. Now, she knew the woman was crazy.
Fearing for her life, she decided to take some lilies of the valley to her herself, hoping that, if nothing else, the crazy lady would think of her kindness and spare her when she finally flipped and went on a killing rampage through the neighborhood.
She wasn't sure the plan worked, though, as she later saw the lilies of the valley in the trash can.
The blog post was just titled "I Met My Creepy Neighbor." Weird coincidence, eh?
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 5:31 PM
I've always lived in apartments – so I don't really care who my neighbours are !
Although this time it's different – I know all my neighbours in my wing now – just that I don't talk to them much ! LOL
That certainly was a creepy – her mom doesn't live there and yet she heard her mom calling !
Yikes !
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 6:48 PM
I wouldn't be surprised if we don't look like that neighbor to some of ours. We're such troglodytes.
I guess we'll have to start growing lilies of the valley to rebuild our image.
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 9:08 PM
I'm pretty sure most of the people around us think WE'RE the creepy neighbors. We're not at all unpleasant to people, we're just not out trying to make friends with everyone. And, we're the only couple under 50 in the area without kids.
@Lola: Our neighbors on one side have lived in the house for over a year. I've seen the woman and little girl once, and the man maybe four times. Oh, and they have had either the fire department or an ambulance over there like five times. They're very mysterious.
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 9:21 PM
funny story, jd. i even hit the stumble button for ya because i suck at doing that. i'm turning over a new leaf, well just a corner of it and only for tonight.
now didn't your mom tell you never to talk to strangers. it's a good thing you didn't go digging in that woman's yard for lilies. i think her wanting you to do it was a cry for help. just exactly where is her mother then? pushing up lilies, huh? nice save: i think i hear my mom calling me.
you were on the right track though talking to her from a distance (grass, weather, flowers, sky – too funny), but you have to pull back a little from the mr. rogers' "Won't You Be My Neighbor" mentality. sum ting's wong. smiling all crazy too. nope.
next time you see her, it's okay to wave from a distance while saying: stay, the, h*ll, away, from, me. just don't forget to smile when you do it, or she will think that something is wrong with you.
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Jul 19th, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Wow, I don't think anyone can top that creepy neighbor. You have the creepiest neighbor around the blogoshere – congratulations?
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Jul 20th, 2009 at 5:27 AM
Maybe the fetus is actually a voodoo doll from the Wicked Witch of the West… she does live West of you – right?
We use to sing a song when we were kids called OLD LADY WITCH… do you know that one?
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Jul 20th, 2009 at 6:10 AM
I'd keep those cats on a leash if I were you! Good luck!
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Jul 20th, 2009 at 6:11 AM
I can identify! We have a weird neighbour too. He has a son with some kind of mental issue, who never goes out and is seldom seen – I've never seen him, in fifteen years and he's only two doors down – but is heard occasionally, yelling and screaming. They have a dog I never see, too.
I do, however, see the weird neighbour. He creeps out at odd hours and walks down end neighbour's drive, looking furtive. He comes out two minutes later, never having reached the house. We think he sneaks down there to pee. Also, we see him taking wheelbarrow loads of … stuff … into the fields, and coming back empty. Earth, bricks, bits of concrete. Stuff.
I don't even want to think about what he might be doing.
Jul 20th, 2009 at 9:16 AM
And this is why I never talk to any of my neighbours. They are all evil and probably axe-murderers. Of course, I may be wrong, but why take chances?
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Jul 20th, 2009 at 11:16 AM
I think all we have had a neighbor that we doesn't want, I had a neighbor who always bothered me, she likes do it, and many times she blamed me for things that I haven't done. Oh My God I hated that woman, thanks God I moved out.
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Jul 20th, 2009 at 11:58 AM
Our creepy neighbor recently moved. Glad to hear we were not the only ones with wacky neighbors. Just smile and nod and try to stay on your own side of the fence :).
Jul 20th, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Hmmm, maybe this explains why NO OTHER Feedblitz subscription of mine went into spam. JUST YOURS.
Erm, does this not mean that your trash is now possessed?
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Jul 20th, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Maybe the elderly woman is a cover for the "daughter's" pot-farm. Would explain the gardening, occasional visits and papered over windows.
Jul 20th, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Ok. Why do I feel you are all too eager to believe the worst of your poor neighbour. I mean, just because she drops fetuses around the block doesn't mean she isn't a caring individual reaching out to you the only way she knows how – with her trowel.
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Jul 21st, 2009 at 6:47 AM
Oh man. That. Was. Awesome!
Background. Present day. Foreshadowing. Shape shifting.
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Jul 23rd, 2009 at 8:37 AM
Fetus hotdogs — yummm
Jul 23rd, 2009 at 9:07 AM
This is another example of why I love you so. What a weird neighbor, what an odd way to meet her. So typical, too, that even when there are witnesses to these things you've been talking about, you come off looking like the nut job.
Jul 25th, 2009 at 11:49 PM
I'm sure she was telling the truth when she said her mother didn't *live* there… doesn't mean her mother wasn't *there*…
(chuckles and runs away before JD throws something at me…)
Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Very funny story. I think most of us have lived in neighborhoods with a weird elderly person, we can relate.


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The Qur'ân is made up of 114 Surahs: only 27 of them were revealed in Madinah while the remaining 87 were revealed in Makkah or some other nearby locations. It is to be reminded that the Jews were in Madinah and the Christians were in Najran and Yemen. There was no seat of Christianity in Mecca, in al-Hijaz nor in Madinah as stated by Bell:
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Ibn Ishâq narrated also in al-Sîrah al-Nabawiyyah, speaking about four people from Quraysh (Mecca) who were among the generation that preceded the Prophet Muhammad(P) and who had abandoned their people's faith (paganism) and went in search for their Haneefite roots.
These four men were Waraqah bin Nawfal, cAbdullâh bin Jahsh, cUthmân bin al-Huarith and Zaid bin Amro who said to each other "you know that your people had deviated from the religion of your father Abraham" and decided to search for their Haneefite roots and they "scattered into different countries seeking the Haneefite religion, the religion of Abraham". Ibn Ishâq said that Waraqah bin Nawfal had converted to Christianity as a result of his search. [3]
The migration of these four men out of Mecca shows that the city was completely a pagan society for if there was any significant Christian or Jewish presence in Mecca, it wouldn't be necessary for these men to travel in search for it.
Yet another piece of evidence is that during the period of Christian influence and power in Yemen, from Najran to Abyssinia (Ethiopia), history narrates to us the famous attempt of a great Christian army to conquer Mecca. This army from Yemen was supported by elephants and was lead by Abraha, the Abyssinian. The doomed invasion occurred in the same year that the Prophet Muhammad(P) was born ,and later came to be known amongst the Arabs as the Year of the Elephant. The army's aim was to vanquish Mecca, destroy the Ka'aba (the holy shrine built by Abraham(P) and his son Ismâcîl(P)) and then to convert the pagan Arabs to Christianity. Once this was accomplished, they could force them to make pilgrimage to the great church named al-Qulais that Abraha had built in Yemen for this purpose.
Ibn Ishâq in al-Sîrah al-Nabawiyyah under the title The Story of the Elephant said:
Dr Helmi Mahroos Ismâcîl in his book al-Sahrq al-'Arabi al-Qadîm writes:
This Christian attempt lead by Abraha to destroy the Ka'bah corroborates that Mecca and al-Hijaz, in general, had no Christian or Jewish influence whatsoever even until the time the Prophet Muhammad(P) was born. Abraha had failed in his attempt to destroy the Ka'bah and this was a subject of a Qur'ânic Chapter as a Sign from God (Surat al-Fîl) :
Historians could not explain how this great army of Abraha didn't reach its goals in conquering the weak- and almost surrendered city of Mecca!!
The following provides an excerpt from a Yemenite archaeological site that mentions, in part, this incident. Walter W. Muller, a specialized researcher in ancient Arabian history, under the subject Outline of the History of Ancient Southern Arabia, says:
Without giving any reason why Abraha had failed in capturing Mecca even though it had surrendered!
Bernard Lewis in his book The Middle East: 2000 Years Of History From The Rise Of Christianity To The Present Day, writes:
For further information on the story of this Christian campaign against Mecca a reference is made in al-Seerah al-Nabawiyyah. Below is a pre-Islamic poem from the same source that preserved the event by a person who had witnessed it. The poet Nufail bin Habeeb was there when the event took place and met with the fleeing soldiers of Abraha's army who asked him the directions to Yemen:
The poem can be roughly translated as follows:
Bernard Lewis also gave a brief summary on how al-Hijaz looked before the advent of Islam saying the weakness that hit the empires of the north and the south lead to the state that later came to be known to Arabs as al-Jahiliyyah (the days of ignorance).
Although the above excerpt paints a very dark image of how the situation was in Arabia before Islam, it is not totally true. The great amount of cultural heritage left by the Arabs of al-Hijaz represented, for example, by their literature shows that the term al-Jahiliyyah is not descriptive and was mainly used to mean the decline in the social/ethical standards, but nothing else.
Furthermore; the failure of the Christian Abyssinian army of Abraha to capture Mecca made the pagan Arabs glorify the city even more. Mecca was mainly a pagan society that worshipped stones and trees, yet still believed in a Supreme God. As the Qur'ân makes clear, they believed that their false gods and idols were a means of getting nearer to God:
The historical evidence plus the internal evidence of the Qur'ân proves beyond any doubt that there was no Christian nor Jewish influence in al-Hijaz, in general, and in Mecca, in particular. So how was Muhammad(P) borrowing from the Bible when the non-existence of any Arabic Bible or Arabic apocryphal sources has been proven?
Again the Qur'ân denies that someone was teaching the Prophet(P) and at the same time points to the fact that the language is foreign.
Had someone been teaching Prophet Muhammad(P), his family and close friends would have eventually known. However, far from being skeptical about his claims to prophethood, these people gave their wealth and lives for Islam.
In Sûrah Fussilat, the Qur'ân explains the reason why the revelation is in Arabic. This is to make sure that the people who were experiencing it could not make excuses.
Now with the absence of Jewish and Christian sources in Mecca, the question remains: who was teaching Muhammad(P) the stories of the old Prophets and Nations which were all revealed in Mecca as the following table shows:
Arranged according to Qisas al-Anbya - Stories of the Prophets - by Imam Ibn Kathîr [10]
The only answer to the question of who was teaching Muhammad(P) the Qur'ân can be found in these verses [53:2-5]
some people attribute to Muhammad(P) an encyclopedic knowledge, indirectly saying that he knew all the sources - Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Hanif and ancient Arab beliefs - you name it - before he could compile the Qur'ân. This ignores the simplest facts which the disbelievers from among his own people acknowledged 1400 years ago- that Muhammad(P) was an illiterate man. The following verse, for example, was revealed in Mecca during the early stages of the Prophet's call:
The Qur'ân had answered this accusation 1400 years ago; but all through the past thousand years were some people able to provide any further evidence for their claims?
It should be kept in mind that the Qur'ân was publicly memorized and recited by all Muslims, both during and after the life of Muhammad(P). If it was not clearly and widely known in Mecca that Muhammad(P) was illiterate, the verses which claimed that he was certainly would have caused doubts amongst the Muslims. However, not only did the Prophet's(P) followers continue to grow - in spite of great persecution - but there is also no record of the pagan Arabs in Mecca accusing Muhammad(P) of not being illiterate. They instead accused him of having a tutor or of being possessed, as previous verses have shown, since it was common knowledge that he was illiterate.
[1] Richard Bell, The Origin of Islam in its Christian Environment, 1925; 1968 (Reprinted), The Gunning Lectures Edinburgh University, London: Frank Cass and Company Limited, p.42.
[2] Nabîh Aqel, Tarîkh al-cArab al-Qadîm, 1983 (Third Edition), Dâr al-Fikr, Beirut, p. 305.
[3] Ibn Hishâm, al-Sîrah al-Nabawiyyah, Mousasat cUlûm al-Qur'ân, Beirut, p.222.
[4] Ibn Hishâm, Op.Cit, p.43.
[5] Helmi Mahroos Ismael, al-Sahrq al-cArabî al-Qadîm, 1997, Mousasat Shabab al-Jami'ah, Egypt, p. 210 - 211.
[6] Bernard Lewis, The Middle East: 2000 Years Of History From The Rise Of Christianity To The Present Day, 1996 (Second Impression), Phoenix: London, p.45
[7] Ibn Hishâm, Op.Cit, p.53.
[8] Bernard Lewis, Op.Cit, p.42
[9] Nabîh Aqel, Op.Cit, p.271
[10] Ibn Kathîr, Qisas al-Anbiya, 1985 (Third Edition), Dar al-Jeel, Beruit.
Khâlid al-Khazrajî, Mustafa Ahmed, Elias Karîm, Qasim Iqbal, cAbd ar-Rahmân Robert Squires, M S M Saifullah & Muhammad Ghoniem
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