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In honor of Black History Month and Rosa Parks' birthday, we celebrate the many times she stood for fairness and equality -- and changed our nation along the way.
In honor of Black History Month and Rosa Parks' birthday, we celebrate the many times she stood for fairness and equality -- and changed our nation along the way.
This is the month we honor the many contributions African Americans have made to our nation. Through centuries, African Americans have fought courageously for their rights and the rights of others, charting a path toward equality and freedom that has brought our nation closer to the promise of a more perfect union.
But this is also a month to reflect on what progress can be made if we work together. Every child deserves a quality education, no matter where they live. Every person must have access to affordable health care and housing. And to honor the promises enshrined in our Constitution, we must remove any shadow of discrimination that prevents any person, regardless of race, from getting a job or casting a ballot.
These are the promises Democrats have fought for and we will continue to work toward with purpose, knowing they are true to America's fundamental values.
I'm Virgie Rollins, the Chair of the DNC's Black Caucus. As we kick off and celebrate Black History Month, we Democrats have so much to be proud of, and so much work left to do. That's why throughout the month of February, we will be featuring various elected officials and leaders in our party from across the country, telling all of you about "Our Values, Our Voice, and Our Vote."
Our Values
The Democratic Party believes that every American, regardless of where you were born or what you look like, deserves access to a quality education, affordable health care, to earn a living wage, to get a little help from your neighbors when you need it.
Democrats are committed to making sure all children regardless of income have the opportunity to get a first-rate education. That's why President Obama and Democrats support expanding programs like Head Start, since studies show early childhood education is critical to future success. And that's also why President Obama and Democrats have promoted initiatives like Race to the Top to reward schools for innovation and partnered with schools that need assistance to improve.
Many African Americans are still struggling to recover from the Great Recession, and unemployment in communities of color is disproportionately higher than the national average. President Obama has exhibited true leadership by calling on governors and businesses across the country to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, which economists say will lift millions of Americans out of poverty – with African Americans standing to benefit.
Under the Affordable Care Act, 9 million Americans have already enrolled to receive health insurance coverage through private insurers via the health care exchanges, through the Children's Health Insurance Program, or through the expansion of Medicaid. But millions more stand to benefit if Republican governors holding out would accept the federal dollars to help those in their states who need it most. 7.3 million African Americans already have access to benefits through the no cost-sharing feature of ACA, and free preventative screenings and procedures such as mammograms and colonoscopies.
And while Republicans in Congress allowed federal unemployment benefits to expire, President Obama is taking action to help the long-term unemployed through partnerships with more than 300 companies and special job training.
It is clear that Democrats truly value economic opportunity for all.
Our Voice
Democrats have shown the true diversity of our party and made phenomenal strides over the past several years, namely with the election of President Barack Obama. From Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, the first black chief executive of that Commonwealth, or Senator Cory Booker, the first African American New Jerseyans have sent to represent them in the U.S. Senate, in all 50 states, there are examples of progress and pride for us all. You will hear from many of them this month.
Our Vote
Although the Voting Rights Act was weakened by last year's Supreme Court decision, we remain steadfast in our resolve to protect and expand access to the ballot box for every American. Unfortunately, GOP legislatures and governors in states like Arizona, Texas, and North Carolina have engaged in a cynical campaign to make voting harder, which just isn't right. New voting restrictions and identification requirements have imposed unnecessary burdens on low-income, African American, and Latino voters, but Democrats are fighting back.
So join us as we reflect on the many accomplishments and diversity of our party this month, and as we look to the important elections ahead of us this fall to keep moving the country forward. Each day in February, we will provide new graphics, videos, or blogs for you to share with social networks and your family and friends. We hope that you do – we've got work to do!
Virgie Rollins is a small business owner and the chair of the Democratic National Committee's Black Caucus. She is a native of Michigan and lives in Detroit.
Last week, President Obama laid out an ambitious agenda for the year ahead: expanding access to preschool education for every American child, making the minimum wage a living wage, and reducing gun violence in our communities.
But as our executive director, Patrick Gaspard, notes in his video message marking Black History Month, the President can't do this on his own. And as we celebrate the many contributions of African Americans throughout our history and the progress we've made in the fight for equal opportunity, this should also be a moment to focus on the change we still need. This month, let's commit ourselves to working toward President Obama's vision of stronger families, stronger communities, and a stronger America.
Watch Gaspard's message, then say you stand with President Obama in the fight to make sure our best days are still ahead of us.
Four years ago, this country did something historic; something few thought was possible in electing Barack Obama. And two million more African Americans were inspired to come out and vote than in the previous Presidential election – 96% of whom supported the President.
Read MoreThe conclusion of Black History Month is a great time to reflect on the accomplishments of African Americans and contemplate where we are headed as a Nation. And this year's theme, "Black Women in American Culture and History," is a reminder for all to look back on the important role black women have played in our nation, the struggles they continue to face, and the incredibly important role they will play in our future.
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R17 Report: Hawks break drought against United
The Wollongong Hawks snapped a seven game losing streak with a resounding 93-82 win over Melbourne United on Friday night.
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The Wollongong Hawks have lost seven straight NBL matches but have been a chance to win each and every one of them.
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As he grew up gazing at navels and dreaming of basketball stardom, the pint-sized Jahii Carson soon came to an important realisation.
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The enormous depth and ability of players to step up at different times has seen the New Zealand Breakers bounce back from a disappointing loss to record a comfortable 90-79 win over the Perth Wildcats at North Shore Events Centre on Thursday.
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The New York State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) is a bureau of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. The SHPO houses and maintains a broad range of information relating to historic properties in New York State including historic buildings, structures, sites, districts, and objects. The SHPO includes in its mission a responsibility to provide this information to municipalities, state and federal agencies, and the general public for the purposes of planning and research.
The SPHINX program provides the user with access to a variety of data linked to more than 250,000 individual properties presently tracked in the system. Information concerning eligibility and listing status for the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places, involvement in federal and/or state project reviews, Investment Tax credit activity, and historic resources survey data can be found in this program. The data captured in SPHINX is based on the most current information retained at the New York State Historic Preservation Office.
The information contained in the SPHINX web pages can be useful to state and federal agencies, municipalities, planning and engineering firms in the early planning stages of a project. The Project Review section of SPHINX can provide interested parties with a tool to see if a project has been submitted to the SHPO for review. The USN (Unique Site Number) Report provides an address-based query for any municipality identifying properties that have been evaluated by the SHPO and assigned a State and National Register of Historic Places eligibility status. This report can also provide information on locally designated historic districts. The National Register section of the system provides detailed information on the state's more than 4400 State and National Register listed properties and historic districts. The Survey section of the system captures data generated by the state's on going cultural resource survey program. This system also tracks locally designated and federally certified local historic districts. The general information contained in the SPHINX web page can provide an early indication of the presence or absence of eligible and/or Listed historic properties in or near a project area.
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noun (Concise Encyclopedia)Systematic effort to destroy an individual's former loyalties and beliefs and to substitute loyalty to a new ideology or power. It has been used by religious cults as well as by radical political groups. The techniques of brainwashing usually involve isolation from former associates and sources of information; an exacting regimen calling for absolute obedience and humility; strong social pressures and rewards for cooperation; physical and psychological punishments for noncooperation, including social ostracism and criticism, deprivation of food, sleep, and social contacts, bondage, and torture; and constant reinforcement. Its effects are sometimes reversed through deprogramming, which combines confrontation and intensive psychotherapy.
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Make Hundreds of Dollars Off Microsoft, AT&T and Nokia Bending Over Backwards to Sell Windows Phones
The first flagship Windows Phone, the Nokia Lumia 900, comes out on April 8th; and because the companies behind it are so eager to get people to try a Windows phone after decades of besmirching that brand, they're discounting it massively. This enormous, beautiful, and somewhat revolutionary phone costs $449-$499 without a plan, but you can get it at AT&T for $99. Walmart has it for free if you don't already have AT&T service and $49 if you do.
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I emailed this to Ken and did not hear back. Ken - are you ignoring me? I know I have not been here in a while but that is no reason to ignore me! This is a second year seedling found growing in a pile of pine bark mulch. I finally got around to distributing the last of the mulch and was tossing out most of the hostas coming up. I saved a bright gold one and this one. It was growing about 8 feet away from a Royal Tiara. It's possible it came from the Royal Tiara - it has the same kind of twisty leaves. |
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Teresa, congrats on your "twisty" seedling. Hope it continues to do well for you. There is something very special about the ones we grow from seed in our own garden. I think it makes gardening with hostas even more fun :) Dan |
Teresa, your seedling is showing great promise! Shiney, twistey, apple green, what's not to love!? The seed could have come from anywhere...your garden or a neighbor's...stashed by a rodent or dropped by a bird. I'd just call is Orphan X and enjoy watching it grow up. And if it starts acting out, you could package it up and send it to my house for a dose of Tough Love, eh? ;-) |
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Nice to see you posting again Teresa! Seedlings can be weird,where they pop up. I found a little blue seedling this year,down by my little creek,in a place where no hosta had ever been planted. I moved it up into the garden,so I can observe it next year. Hope yours turns out nicely! Phil |
Hello Phil! I never had any luck when I was planting the seeds myself. I don't really have a dedicated spot to start them indoors anyway. It makes it more fun when these just turned up on their own. Here is seedling #2 - the yellow one. Also year two. The other hosta in the photo is Invincible. The leaves already have some bumps and a little rippling. Now that I am paying attention to these - they will die over the winter! :-) |
Congratulation to these nice seedlings! #2 could be h.'Invincible Spirit', see the hosta library. Your picture shows the onset of puckering and piecrust on a slender leaf, very nice. Bernd |
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The company I work for is looking into buying new AutoCAD software due to upgrading computers. We don't use 3D commands at all and are looking into purchasing the LT version for budgeting reasons. What we are trying to find out now is if you can export and import SHP files from GIS ESRI software. Are you able to edit the SHP files if necessary? Any advice on this would be helpful.
Thanks in advance.
i don't believe you can bring in .stp files into autocad LT
since its LT your very limited on what file formats you can use
you need to look at full blown autocad or Autocad Map 3d
I'm wondering about .shp file or shape files not the file extension for the 3D graphic file. We do not use any 3D files.
Thanks though.
OK. Thank you very much. Is there any where that states this in some sort of print out. I need to have something to give to the supervisors, if you understand what I mean.
Download a Trial and see what you can and cannot do first hand.
You can Google relationships between AutoCAD Full and AutoCAD LT.
Map will not have a comparison matrix with LT but AutoCAD Map can be Trialed as well.
You should be field testing software IMHO to find what works for you: the entire Autodesk line is available for download, you can rule out or decide on what you seek in less time that asking, finding documentation, sending up the river to spervisors, them asking more questions, you coming back for clarifications... and so on.
You know they aren't going to buy your first response, especially when the$$ discount is huge, right
A quick FYI - AutoCAD doesn't do GIS SHP work, but Map3D does. Any references to SHP files in AutoCAD refers to shape definitions for SHX fonts and shapes used in line type definitions. With object enablers you *may* be able to make do a couple of licenses of Map3D for the high-end content and the grunt work with LT.
I guess I should rephrase then. I need to export the files to .shp files. We design our mapping system layouts and grids using AutoCAD .dwg files sent to us from builders and developers. We need to be able to export/import the files to our mapping system. It has to be a .shp file. I was wondering if the LT version had that option. From what I have found it does not. Correct?
correct it does not have that option
look at Map 3D
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When natural disasters strike, in addition to being there to offer help and support, Lions are able to rely on disaster relief grants and funds from LCIF to assist with crucial immediate needs. Through the generosity and compassion of Lions and donors, in the last 10 years the Foundation has been able to award more than US$100 million in disaster relief funds.
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When disasters occur on a much larger scale, Major Catastrophe Grants are awarded for long-term reconstruction projects. Major Catastrophe Grants are directed by the Foundation's Board of Trustees and cannot be applied for by a district. These grants provide significant funds for catastrophes with major international impact, such as the Japan earthquake and tsunami, China and Haiti earthquakes, Hurricane Katrina and the South Asia tsunami.
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Helping Pakistan's health services recover from the devastation of the floods, giving Cardiff's youngsters a much deserved summer holiday and supporting Ireland's bid for women's Six Nations rugby glory are just some of the projects to receive a cash boost designed to support Cardiff medical students during their studies.
Launched in April 2009 the Dr Jack Matthews Scholarships offer Cardiff medical students grants towards the cost of undertaking athletic, artistic, medical or charity work.
Named after Dr Jack Matthews, who graduated from the School of Medicine and enjoyed a successful rugby career playing for Cardiff, the Barbarians, Wales and the British Lions, individual scholarships of up to £750 are awarded to medical students to support extra curricular activities.
Dean of Cardiff University's School of Medicine, Professor Paul Morgan said: "We've been aware that our medical students do these wonderful things for a long time. The Dr Jack Scholarships allow us to help the most exceptional students and support community projects in Wales and across the world.
"The second round of Scholarships illustrate, yet again, how far our medical students are willing to go to broaden their horizons, support communities and, in turn, their medical careers."
Among the key projects supported by the Dr Jack Matthews Scholarships include:
Supporting Cardiff youngsters
Two Cardiff medical students hope to take youngsters from one of Cardiff's socially deprived communities on a summer camping trip with the support of their Dr Jack Matthews Scholarship.
Katherine Burden and Bethany Watt, who are both volunteers at a youth group at the Beacon Centre in St Mellons, will use their scholarship to help fund a camping trip for local Cardiff youngsters.
"Our youth group, held at the Beacon Centre, St Mellons is run for two age groups, 7-11 and 12-16. It is open on weekday evenings, and is run by a part time youth leader, and four volunteers.
"With the support of the Dr Jack Matthews Scholarship we will take some of the youngsters away for a weekend camping. For many of them, this will be their only holiday. The Dr Jack Scholarships will help subsidise the cost as much as possible, to enable more children to come," said medical student Katherine Burden.
This is not the first award the medical students have received. They also received an award in the last round of the Dr Jack Matthews Scholarships to support their youth work.
Katherine Burden, Catherine Bathurst and Bethany Watt received a £500 scholarship which helped the three to arrange trips including swimming lessons and Christmas visits to Cardiff's Winter Wonderland.
Katherine added: "The youth group has a budget to cover running costs of the club, but it is very difficult to find funding for trips and other activities.
"Last year, with help from the Dr Jack Matthews Scholarship, we were able to take around twenty children to Winter Wonderland in Cardiff, buy lots of craft material, and pay for a small number of the children to attend the camping weekend away.
"This year, we would love to be able to take more of the children with us, as the ones that went last year still talk a lot about what a great time they had."
Award helps boost Ireland's bid for Six Nations glory
Medical student and Irish women's rugby star Claire Molloy's dream of lifting this year's Six Nations rugby crown have been boosted with the support of her Dr Jack Matthews Scholarship.
Claire, who also combines her medical studies with playing for Bristol Ladies Rugby Club, is a key member of Ireland's bid for Six Nations glory.
Claire said: "I started playing rugby in my first year of my medical degree and since then I've earned 11 caps for my country over the last two years. Last year I earned nine caps, the highlight of which was playing in the World Cup.
"I played for my country in four out of five Six Nations games and played in all of our World Cup Games, where Ireland finished seven out of twelve."
However, despite some financial support, the cost of combining her medical studies and life as an international rugby player has proved to be a financial strain with her Scholarship going some way to helping her combine her passion for sport and medicine. "The expensive nature of rugby can be quite restrictive financially, even at a basic level of food and utilities. Receiving a Dr Jack Matthews fund helps relieve that stress and prevents me from having to juggle a full-time job to help fund my rugby which would only detrimentally affect both my studies and rugby," she added.
Helping Pakistan's flood victims
Providing awareness of basic healthcare to communities in Pakistan affected by the July 2010 floods is key to the financial support received by medical students, Sameena Aslam and Heather Blair.
Supporting the work of the Edhi Foundation, the two medical students plan to use their Dr Jack Matthews Scholarship to help fund a trip to Pakistan later this year.
Heather said: "Working alongside the Edhi Foundation we plan to visit Pakistan and help the victims of the floods.
"We hope the experience will mean that we will both gain medical experience working in both rural and urban settings and appreciate how management of a healthcare system works in a developing country with fewer resources, particularly in the light of the recent natural disasters."
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Heather added: "We are both passionate about international health, particularly in developing countries. We chose Pakistan due to the aims and ethics of the Edhi Foundation, and the need of basic healthcare provision especially the since the floods in July 2010. We both have substantial knowledge of Pakistan's culture, religion and lingual diversity which will aid us in working alongside the communities there.
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Come Visit Israel. Before It's Gone.
November 23, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
You're going to have to hurry.
By Bradley Burston
I have a nephew who's never seen Israel. I have young cousins, and friends and children of friends, who have never been here, but who have long wanted to come visit.
I want them to come soon. Before it's all gone.
The Israel I want them to see is dying by the day.
It's the Israel I saw when I myself once came to visit. A place which had a calm but breathtaking belief in a better future. A place that still had a shot at just that. It was this Israel that convinced me to stay.
This is this Israel that this government, and this parliament, has decided, once and for all, to finish off, precept by democratic precept. As they see it, the sooner, the quieter, and the more permanently, the better.
My nephew is going to have to hurry.
I want him to see what's left of a place of quietly extraordinary people who dreamed of decency and peace, who envisioned making a place in the world where both we and our immediate neighbors could live together: no longer hated, no longer hating.
It was a place where there was an overriding belief that democracy was sacred, that minority rights should be respected more and more, rather than less and ultimately not at all.
This was the place I came to so many years ago, unfamiliar with its rude clamor and its face-slap smells, the directness of its language and its unfamiliar concepts of personal space.
Foreign. It was a place that believed that affordable housing and quality health care and reasonable living costs and reliable employment should be available to the poor as well as the well-off, to the elderly and infirm and the pre-existing condition, to the Arab as well as the Jew.
I want my nephew to know that there was once a place that his great-grandparents, believers in social justice who had been anarchists in Bialystok and became anarchists in Boyle Heights, could take pride in.
I want him to see it before they kill it. Kill it with settlements. Kill it with privatization and Social Darwinism and the lie they call the free market. Shred by shred, what is good is being drained away, voted away, diluted away in secret, or torn away by force.
Every morning we wake to it. Dreading it. Every morning, a new abomination, an obscene policy proposal, a rabbinical outrage, new plans to expel Palestinians from homes in Jerusalem, new plans to drive Bedouin from homes in the Negev, new steps taken to insult the United States, new ways of threatening a free press, new permits to expand settlements, an endless stream of opaquely worded legislative assaults on democracy, from ravenous middle and back-bench politicians on the make.
Last week, as Israel marked the watershed of the assassination of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, I was thinking about the place this could have been. The Israel, for example, that was the promise of the Rabin government.
A government that related seriously to the needs of Israeli Arabs. A government that more than doubled the education budget for all Israeli children. A government that fostered construction of thousands of homes for young couples and families within Israel, that invested millions in depressed outlying towns rather than new settlements, that dramatically expanded ties with the Muslim world, and with developing nations.
I want my nephew to meet my heroes, the people who have made it through wars and tragedy and this government and who still believe in that Israel whose future is one of social justice and peace.
I want my nephew to know that most Israelis believe that settlements do little other than ruin their lives, stain their country, and block the way to peace.
I want my nephew to see that people here have let down their guard and have let the people in power run and ruin their lives. When scouts in the Book of Numbers called this a land that eats away at its inhabitants (13:32), they knew what they were talking about.
I want my nephew to meet my heroes, the people who still believe in the Israel that can endure. Not one big ghetto of a doomed settlement, but one modest jewel of a country. People who hope for good, people who see all people as deserving of respect, safety and freedom, are heroes. And, for the time being at least, they're still here.
Istanbul's Muezzins Get Voice Training After Complaints
May 13, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
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It is meant to be a beautiful, melodic and spiritual start to the day.
But the morning calls to prayer by some of Istanbul's muezzins and imams have had locals plugging their ears rather than reaching for their prayer books.
The problem is such that following a flood of complaints by locals, special classes for the tuneless culprits have been set up.
Imam Mehmet Tas, one of the school's first pupils, said he was already feeling the benefits.
"I have so much more self-confidence now in my abilities to do all five calls to prayer in their correct tempos," he said.
The improvement scheme was put together by Mustafa Cagrici, the city's head of religious affairs, who is determined to make sure all of the city's 3,000 mosques produce a beautiful call-to-prayer each morning.
"For some reason, these imams were hired even though their voices are not good, they just can't sing!
"We're doing our best to help our imams and muezzins to improve their singing."
He says that since lessons started, complaints have dropped from hundreds a month to just dozens, an improvement that can be credited to the singing teacher, Seyfettin Tomakin.
"I personally find a badly sung azan [call to prayer] very disturbing," he said.
"The azan is music, beautiful music that brings people to God, that's why it's so important to sing it well.
"Sure, there are some people who find it harder than others, that's why some come here for a year. But my job is to find their voice to enable them to sing."
Sadly, for some, no amount of teaching will ever be enough.
"There are some people who can't improve – no matter how much training you give them," said Mr Cagrici.
"So we connect their mosque, by radio, to a central mosque where there's an imam who can sing."
Ramadan Drumroll
September 17, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Kirk Semple
A few hours before dawn, when most New Yorkers are fast asleep, a middle-aged man rolls out of bed in Brooklyn, dons a billowy red outfit and matching turban, climbs into his Lincoln Town Car, drives 15 minutes, pulls out a big drum and — there on the sidewalk of a residential neighborhood — starts to play.
Mohammad Boota plays in 20-second bursts outside Pakistani businesses in Brooklyn, as he did at Bismillah Food last month. He has learned that not everyone appreciates his services.
The man, Mohammad Boota, is a Ramadan drummer. Every morning during the holy month, which ends on Sept. 21, drummers stroll the streets of Muslim communities around the world, waking worshipers so they can eat a meal before the day's fasting begins.
But New York City, renowned for welcoming all manner of cultural traditions, has limits to its hospitality. And so Mr. Boota, a Pakistani immigrant, has spent the past several years learning uncomfortable lessons about noise-complaint hot lines, American profanity and the particular crankiness of non-Muslims rousted from sleep at 3:30 a.m.
"Everywhere they complain," he said. "People go, like, 'What the hell? What you doing, man?' They never know it's Ramadan."
Mr. Boota, 53, who immigrated in 1992 and earns his living as a limousine driver, began waking Brooklynites in 2002. At first he moved freely around the borough, picking a neighborhood to work each Ramadan morning.
Not everyone was thrilled, he said. People would throw open their windows and yell at him, or call the police, who, he said, advised him kindly to move along.
As the years went by, he and his barrel drum were effectively banned from one neighborhood after another. He now restricts himself to a short stretch of Coney Island Avenue where many Pakistanis live.
Fearing that even that limited turf may be threatened real estate for him, he has modified his approach even further — playing at well below his customary volume, for only about 15 to 20 seconds in each location, and only once every three or four days.
The complaints have stopped, he said. But as he reflected on his early years of drumming in the streets of New York — before he knew better — wistfulness seeped into his voice. He rattled off the places he used to play, however briefly: "Avenue C, Newkirk Avenue, Ditmas, Foster, Avenue H, I, J and Neptune Avenue."
"You know," he reluctantly concluded, "in the United States you can't do anything without a permit."
Mr. Boota wants to be a good American, and a good Muslim. "I don't want to bother other communities' people," he said. "Just the Pakistani people."
Several prominent Muslim organizations in New York said they knew of no other drummers who played on Ramadan mornings. But while the custom's usefulness has been largely eclipsed by the invention of the alarm clock, it has hung on in many places. Indeed, Mr. Boota said he continues the practice, in spite of the challenges and resistance, as much to keep a tradition alive as to feed a cultural yen of his countrymen.
"They're waiting for me," he said.
The daily Ramadan fast runs from the start of dawn to dusk. So shortly after 3 one recent morning, Mr. Boota left his wife, Mumtaz, as she prepared a predawn meal in their Coney Island apartment. About 15 minutes later he pulled his Lincoln to a stop in front of Bismillah Food, a small Pakistani grocery store on Coney Island Avenue, near Foster Avenue. Several men were inside; taxicabs parked outside suggested their occupation.
In one fluid motion, Mr. Boota popped the trunk, cut the motor, leapt out, hoisted the drum's strap over his shoulder, greeted the owner — "Salaam aleikum" — and, standing in the sidewalk penumbra of the shop's fluorescent light, began playing.
The men came to the door. "He's a very popular man here," one of them said, nodding at Mr. Boota, who wore his usual performance attire: a traditional shalwar kameez, a loose two-piece outfit, elaborately embroidered with gold thread.
Mr. Boota wielded his two drumsticks in a galloping clangor that echoed off the facades of the darkened buildings.
After about 20 seconds, he ended his performance with a punctuative smack of the taut drum heads. There was an exchange of mumbled pleasantries in Arabic, the men moved back inside the store, and as quickly as he had arrived, Mr. Boota was behind the wheel of his car again, driving a block south to another Pakistani-owned business.
"It's a great noise," he said.
Breaking the Gaza Siege
November 13, 2008 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Ramzi Kysia
GAZA CITY, FREE PALESTINE (29 October 2008) – This morning I walked to the Indian Ocean and made salt in defiance of the British Occupation of India. This morning I marched in Selma, I stood down tanks in Tiananmen Square, and I helped tear down the Berlin Wall. This morning I became a Freedom Rider.
The Freedom Riders of the 21st Century are sailing small boats into the Gaza Strip in open defiance of the Israeli Occupation and blockade. This morning I arrived in Gaza aboard the SS Dignity, part of a Free Gaza Movement delegation of twenty seven doctors, lawyers, teachers, and human rights activists from across the world, including Mairead Maguire – the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
When I close my eyes, I still hear the crash of ocean waves, I still feel the warm sun on my face, and I still taste salt from the sea spray. When I close my eyes, I can still see the Israeli warship that tried to intimidate us when we reached the twenty-mile line outside Gaza, and I can still see a thousand cheering people crowding around our ship when we refused to be intimidated and finally reached port in Gaza City. Today, the proudest boast in the free world is truly, "Nam, Nehnu Nastatyeh!" – "Yes, We Can!"
Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, an independent member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, sailed aboard the Dignity, along with six other Palestinians from the West Bank, from 1948/inside the Green Line, and from countries in Europe. What should have been a ninety-minute drive from Ramallah to Gaza City became a three day odyssey as he travelled from the West Bank to Jordan, then flew to Cyprus, before finally coming aboard the Dignity for the fifteen hour sea voyage to Gaza.
"We're challenging Israel in a manner that is unprecedented, "said Dr. Barghouti. "Israel has prevented me from visiting Gaza for more than two years now. I am so pleased that we managed to defy Israel's injustice so that I can see all the people I love and work with in Gaza. Israel's measures are meant to divide us, but it is our defiance and resistance which unite us. "
Photos from Gaza: Hamas sailors watch as a boat carrying European politicians (unseen) leaves Gaza's seaport November 10, 2008. The boat arrived at Gaza from Cyprus on Saturday after attempts to get to the Palestinian territory via Egypt failed. Other pictures of the boat, and of Palestinians in Gaza. Reuters |
This is a resistance which can and should light the fire of all our imaginations, and bring hope not just to Palestinians, but to peoples suffering the terrible tides of oppression and injustice the world around.
After watching the Dignity's arrival, Fida Qishta, the local coordinator for the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in the Gaza Strip, said "If Gaza is free then it's our right to invite whomsoever we wish to visit us. It's our land and it's our sea. Now more groups must come, not only by sea but also the crossings at Erez and Rafah must be opened as well. This second breaking of the siege means a lot, actually. It's the second time in two months that people have come to Gaza without Israel's permission, and that tells us that Gaza will be free."
For over forty years, Israel has occupied the Gaza Strip. Despite the so-called "Disengagement " in 2005, when they shut down their illegal settlements here, Israel maintains absolute control over Gaza's borders and airspace, severely limiting the free movement of goods, services, and travel. Israel is still an occupying power.
For over two years, Israel has maintained a brutal blockade of Gaza. Less than twenty percent of the supplies needed (as compared to 2005) are allowed in. This has forced ninety-five percent of local industries to shut down, resulting in massively increased unemployment and poverty rates. Childhood malnutrition has skyrocketed, and eighty percent of families are now dependent on international food aid just to be able to eat. An hour after we arrived, I watched a teenage boy digging through the garbage, looking for something he could use.
Israel's siege isn't simply illegal – it's intolerable.
Renowned human rights activist Caoimhe Butterly also sailed aboard the Dignity, and will remain in Gaza for several weeks as Project Coordinator for the Free Gaza Movement. But, said Butterly, "My feelings are bittersweet. Although we're overjoyed at reaching Gaza a second time, that joy is tempered by the fact that the conscience of the world has been reduced to a small boat and 27 seasick activists. This mission is a reminder of not only the efficacy of non-violent direct action, but also of the deafening silence of the international community."
Our first voyage in August, the first voyage of any international ship to Gaza in over forty years, showed that it was possible to freely travel. This second voyage shows that it is repeatable, and this sets a precedent: The Siege of Gaza can be overcome through non-violent resistance and direct action.
Today, the Free Gaza Movement has a simple message for the rest of the world: What are you waiting for?
Ramzi Kysia is an Arab-American writer and activist, and one of the organizers of the Free Gaza Movement. To find out more about Free Gaza and what you can do to help support their work, please visit http://www.FreeGaza.org <http://www.freegaza.org/>


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I love Joan Rivers. I love her Red Carpet comments, her "Fashion Police" snark and her unapologetic refusal to age. And now, I love her for her tattoo.
Word is Rivers, at 80, just got inked for the first time. During an interview with the Associated Press' Frazier Moore -- she was promoting a new season of "Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?" -- Rivers rolled up her sleeve and showed the small "6M" stamped on the inside of her arm.
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Irene Engel joined UConn Health Center in its infancy, working as a nurse in the surgical unit. The institution was nine months old, operating out of McCook Hospital in Hartford until space on the Farmington campus was available.
Her career took her through virtually every aspect of the Health Center's operations. She moved from nursing on the 3-11 pm shift to associate director of nursing with responsibility for setting up the new hospital's specialty units, e.g., intensive care and neonatal units. When her husband died (he was 44, she was 42), Engel's busy schedule expanded to include school for a business degree, which she felt would better allow her to support her son. Upon graduation, she resigned from nursing and joined the School of Medicine to help organize the faculty practice.
Next step was a job with the Department of Surgery as Peter Deckers was transitioning into his new appointment as chairman of the department. Several years later, she became assistant dean for space planning and programs for the School of Medicine, a position she held until her retirement 17 years ago.
"People used to joke that I had a different job every six months," says Engel, whose retirement in 1995 was in name only. A member of the Health Center Auxiliary since 1969, Engel was active in fundraising for the Auxiliary's scholarships for medical and dental students, and its many programs to support patients. She also helped lead the effort to raise $1.5 million to endow the Auxiliary's Joseph M. Healey Jr. Memorial Chair in Medical Humanities and Bioethics. "I think we are the only hospital auxiliary in the country that has endowed a chair," says Engel. She became facilitator of the Auxiliary four years ago and helped lead efforts to establish free long-term accommodations for parents of newborns treated in the hospital's neonatal intensive care and the child safety seat identification system that provides vital health information about children at the scene of an accident when the driver is unresponsive.
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i got one of these 'Giant Fieball' bromeliads last year, and it is growing as easy as the small version. I had it all nice and red, and it has lots of stolens on it, looks like it came out of a gardening book it was so perfect. This year, it is SO hot, it was deep red, but it was so hot, I moved it to some more shade. When I moved it, THEN it got what I assume is sunburn on it. I would have thought it would have gotten burned IN the sun. But it came out when it was in the shade!! Well now it is in the shade, and it is nearly all green. With lots of sunburn splotches on it. I am going nuts trying to figure out how to redden it up again.
I know I can't get rid of the sunburn, why it showed up in the SHADE, i dont know, but thats when it did. But how do i get it red again? It is till SO hot and sunny all day. Heck i am surprised that my cactus dont burn up in the sun!
BUT, what about when it is back in the sun, it is SO hot here in south Fla., will drapping it with 'cheese cloth' give it shade, or trap in heat? THAT is what I am really worried about. Will it get to hot? Can a bromeliad get to hot, like this one? The regular one I have is kind of ratty looking, and it is in the sun till 2pm or so, but it is rooted into a huge pot with a small tree in it, so I cant move it out, and I can always take a pup off, and start over if I wanted to. But it is the Giant one i want to get red first, and then, keep it red and not burn it, or overheat it. Will drappping it with cheese cloth trap in heat? OR should i find a branch someplace in my Plumeria tree and hope it gets enough sun to make it red, and then it will get lots of fresh air, and no chance of it over heating. I have nearly all my bromeliads hanging from baskets in my big Plumeria tree. They are all in full color, during the summer the leaves give out just enough shade for the bromeliads, and then when it goes bald in the fall/winter, it lets in more light, to keep everyone in full color all winter:) Its just that this one is so big already, I would like to put it on one of my outsdie tables, and use it for decoration, like most bromeliads can and are used for. But will the cheese cloth trap in heat? I dont know. Just standing outside even in the early morning it is HOT to me! So...is the cheese cloth ok, or will it trap in the heat from the table or if it has to go on the ground, from the soil? Or should i find a place in the Plumeria and start looking up, and it should redden it up in a week or so. Any tips would be very helpful. |
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- Posted by hotdiggetydam (My Page) on Sun, Aug 7, 11 at 11:36
Mine are grown in early morning sun then dappled shade the rest of the day. They hold their color and don't burn in the hot Texas sun. Because they are in baskets I had to change the soil mix to hold more moisture. Our no rain and extra hot days (100-105)are taking a toll on the smaller plants in baskets. |
- Posted by sunshine_qld Qld Aust (My Page) on Mon, Aug 8, 11 at 7:18
HDD what sort of hanging baskets do you use? |
- Posted by splinter1804 (My Page) on Mon, Aug 8, 11 at 16:50
Hi everyone Aveo - Your plant would have shown the burn marks if you had left it in the sun as well. It's just that sunburn doesn't always show immediately and it possibly got the extra dose of heat just before you moved it to the shade that's why the burns didn't show up until then. I noticed where I live, a few years back we had an abnormal hot day one New Years Day and it wan't until a week later that the sun damage began to show. As for a method to shade the plant sufficiently and still give it enough light to maintain colour. A friend of mine has a plant which he cannot move and he made up a shade cover from an old umbrella covered in 75% beige shade cloth and just stuck it in the pot. This affords ample shade and still allows sufficient light to maintain colour. Hope this may help you, All the best, Nev. |
- Posted by love_the_yard z9A Jax FL (My Page) on Mon, Jun 11, 12 at 23:30
HDD, what sort of hanging baskets do you use? Still wondering! Thanks! |
- Posted by ken_ny Z10FL (email@example.com) on Fri, Jul 6, 12 at 0:29
- Posted by hotdiggetydam (My Page) on Fri, Jul 6, 12 at 8:53
Sorry guys somehow I missed reading this post again until now. I use wood, wire, some plastic baskets. |
- Posted by love_the_yard z9A Jax FL (My Page) on Thu, Jul 12, 12 at 22:23
Thanks! Carol in Jacksonville |
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THE AVETT BROTHERS at RED ROCKS | 7/9/11The Avett Brothers last night.
Last night at Red Rocks, when Governor John Hickenlooper introduced the Avett Brothers -- which he called the one of best bands in the world -- he said, "If you look back into the history of music, there's something special about people who are born with multiple talents and from childhood get to sing together as brothers. I'm talking about the Everly Brothers. I'm talking about the Wilson brothers of the Beach Boys. And we're going to hear another band that's every bit as good."
That's a tall order, putting the Avett Brothers in the same company as the Everly Brothers and the Beach Boys. But Hickenlooper might have a point. Siblings seem to have inherent thing when playing together that other people don't have, a sort of intuition that only comes from sharing the same blood. Whatever it is, Scott and Seth Avett have it, as Saturday's show at Red Rocks proved.
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For just under two hours, the Avetts pulled material from pretty much every one of their recordings, showing the full spectrum of what the band is capable of. From heartbreaking ballads to foot-stomping barn burners and everything in between, the brothers traded off lead vocal duties and offered up some remarkable harmonies.
Opening with a pair of tunes from their latest effort, the Rick Rubin-produced I and Love and You, the Avetts came out full of enthusiasm on "Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise" and "Tin Man." While "Go to Sleep" started off somewhat slow, it didn't take long before most of the guys in the band were jumping up and down. As with quite a few songs over the night, a lot of the folks in the sold-out Red Rocks crowd sang along.
"Go to Sleep" was just one of the many of the tunes where it felt like the Avetts had the capacity crowd (close to 9,500 people) in the palms of their hands. The band's exuberance for the first half hour or so definitely seemed to rub off on the audience through a buoyant take on "January Wedding," and two back-to-back tunes from 2007's Emotionalism -- "Shame" and "Paranoia in B-Flat."
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Before Scott and Seth Avett and bassist Bob Crawford crowded around one microphone to do a moving take on John Denver's "Back Home Again," one of the brothers said they grew up listening to Denver. (Before Hickenlooper introduced the band, AEG's president Chuck Morris inducted Denver into the Red Rocks Hall of Fame and said that the singer-songwriter was a big inspiration to the Avett Brothers.)
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