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The jinn are an important realm of created beings whom Allah mentioned in many places in the Holy Qur'an. One of the most significant of those passages is that in which Allah tells us, in Soorat al-Jinn, about the great wisdom and powers of reasoning with which many of them are blessed, even though they are different from human beings. They were astounded when they heard the word of truth and faith and verses from heaven recited on the lips of the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him). So they were sincere towards Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, and they were sincere towards themselves; they could not but submit to the truth that they were listening to and put aside all arrogance and stubbornness, doubts and hesitation. They took their decision to believe in the Seal of the Prophets, who was foretold by Eesa ibn Maryam (Jesus son of Mary, peace be upon him), without paying any attention to the specious arguments and doubts of the polytheists. For the truth cannot be sullied by sinful attempts or concealed by flawed arguments that are aimed at driving people away from the main purpose for which Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) was sent, which was to confirm the message brought by the noble Messengers who came before him, which was the message of Tawheed (affirmation of the Oneness of Allah), to spread sublime values and attitudes among the people, and to complete the mission of all the Prophets who came before him, the aim of all of whom was to bring people forth from the worship of other people to the worship of the Lord of people, from the constraints of this world to the abundance of the Hereafter, from the injustice of distorted man-made religions to the justice and mercy of Islam.
Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):
And (remember) when We sent towards you (Muhammad SAW) Nafran (three to ten persons) of the jinns, (quietly) listening to the Quran, when they stood in the presence thereof, they said: "Listen in silence!" And when it was finished, they returned to their people, as warners.
They said: O our people! Verily! We have heard a Book (this Qur'an) sent down after Moosa (Moses), confirming what came before it, it guides to the truth and to a Straight Path (i.e. Islam).
O our people! Respond (with obedience) to Allah's Caller (i.e. Allah's Messenger Muhammad SAW), and believe in him (i.e. believe in that which Muhammad SAW has brought from Allah and follow him). He (Allah) will forgive you of your sins, and will save you from a painful torment (i.e. Hell-fire) .
And whosoever does not respond to Allah's Caller, he cannot escape on earth, and there will be no Awliya' (protectors) for him besides Allah (from Allah's Punishment). Those are in manifest error
[al-Ahqaaf 46:29-32].
Prof. Sayyid Qutb (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
These verses speak, as does the present surah (chapter), of the great surprise felt by the jinn when they first listened to the Qur'an. It had such a great effect on their minds, hearts and feelings. They were filled with emotion, resulting in their travel in great haste to tell their people. They report expresses such overflowing emotions. Indeed, it is stated in an exceptionally fluent, warm, charged and joyful style. The surprise for them was great and their reaction was only natural.
We have heard a wondrous discourse. (Verse 1) The first thing they realise about the Qur'anic discourse is that it is unfamiliar and that it makes the listener wonder. This is how the Qur'an is received by anyone who listens with an open and positive mind. He will find that the Qur'an contains intrinsic power, strong appeal and beautiful rhythms that touch hearts and feelings. It is wondrous' indeed, which tells us that the group of jinn listening to it had refined literary tastes.
Giving guidance to what is sagacious. (Verse 2) This is the second prominent feature of the Qur'an which the jinn immediately felt within their hearts. That they use the word sagacious' to describe it is particularly significant. It is true that the Qur'an guides to what is right and sensible, but the term sagacious' also connotes maturity and wisdom that distinguishes right from wrong. It adds an element of awareness that naturally guides to the truth and to what is right and good. It establishes a bond with the source of light and guidance, as well as harmony with major universal laws. In doing so, the Qur'an guides to what is sagacious, as indeed it does by providing a code of living the like of which has never been experienced by any other human community. Yet this system enabled individuals and communities to attain sublime standards in personal morality and values as well as in social relations and interactions.
And we have come to believe in it. (Verse 2) This is the natural and sound reaction to listening to the Qur'an and understanding its nature. The surah puts this response to the unbelievers in Makkah he used to listen to the Qur'an but who would not believe in it. They even attributed it to the jinn, alleging that the Prophet was a soothsayer, a poet or a madman, influenced by the jinn. Here we see the jinn wondering at the Qur'an, profoundly influenced by its discourse, unable to resist it. We see them able to discern the truth and submit to it: We have come to believe in it. They could not turn away from the truth they clearly felt.
We shall never associate partners with our Lord. (Verse 2) Theirs, then, is a case of complete faith, and tainted by any element of polytheism, delusions or superstitions. It is faith based on understanding the truth presented by the Qur'an, i.e., the truth of God's absolute oneness.
End quote from Fi Zilaal al-Qur'an (In the Shade of the Qur'an), 6/3726
This group of jinn were saved when they responded to a voice deep inside in their hearts, asking them about the reason for refusing to believe in the Seal of the Prophets, who was sent to complete and perfect noble characteristics, and to call people to affirm the oneness of Allah, may He be glorified, and believe in all the Messengers and Prophets who had come before. Although this voice sometimes becomes strong when the soul is pure and calm and at other times it becomes weak when the soul indulges in worldly distractions, they passed the test and deserved to be commemorated forever when Allah mentioned them in the Holy Qur'an.
On our website we have previously discussed many details of the world of the jinn, which you can read about in the following fatwas:
The realm of the jinn: 2340, 13378, 20666
Do the jinn read the Qur'an? 166892
Do the jinn have the ability to change their form? 157606
Companion from among the jinn 149459
Were any Messengers sent from among the jinn? 140629
Differences between the jinn and the Shaytaan (Satan) 108679
Was Iblees the father of all the jinn? 102373
Can we see the jinn? 40703
Every human has a jinn companion 26226
She thinks that the jinn are stealing things from the house 101681
How we can protect ourselves from the jinn? 10513
And Allah knows best.
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- Scan, copy and fax
I do hope HP realises that this printer will not be leaving my home and I intend to keep it. NO REALLY! It's THAT awesome. As I mentioned before in my first look, the HP DeskJet Ink Advantage 5525 is a wireless printer, which means that apart from the power cable you don't need any cables to get connected… always a winner in my house.
I've really put the HP 5525 through it's paces by using it for work, printing pictures, scanning documents to e-mail, making copies etc. and I can, in all honesty, say I'm impressed. Setting up the printer on my wireless network was super easy and took all of about 5 minutes. And just like that it was accessible from my MacBook Air, iPhone and iPad.
The touchscreen panel on the HP 5525 allows the printer to perform various tasks from start to finish without ever needing your computer. Using the touchscreen display, you can access a library of free applications including HP Quick Forms, scan documents and send them directly to your e-mail and print pictures directly from a memory card, once again making your life easy as you don't have to make use of a computer.
As far as speed goes, the HP 5525 is pretty quick. It can print up to 23 pages per minute if you're only printing in black and up to 22 pages per minute if you're printing in colour. A rather impressive upgrade from my 12 pages per minute on the old printer. Pictures take about 19 second to print if you use standard photo sizes. All in all rather speedy for a small home printer.
AirPrint is probably my favourite feature. It's a little piece of genius from Apple. Using your iPhone/iPad, you simply choose the picture/document you want to print, tap the button and the following choices appear:
Choose Print and it will bring up the printer that has been set up to make use of AirPrint/your Wi-Fi.
Press print and the picture you selected will be printed and ready for you to use.
Just make sure you put the photo paper into the feeder the right side up…else your darling nephew will look more like a demon child than the gorgeous angel he really is. The photos that come out of the HP 5525 do not disappoint.
Another really awesome feature is the fact that, as long as the printer is connected to the Internet, you can scan documents directly to e-mail. And to make sure nobody just randomly scans and e-mails documents and wastes your precious bandwidth, a pin code is needed before the printer will scan and e-mail anything. Quality wise, the scanned documents are impressive. Everything comes out crisp and clear and there is an option to scan in colour.
Then there is HP ePrint. This is what allows you to e-mail documents to your printer and, as long as it is connected to the internet, these documents will be printed and ready for use by the time you reach your printer. The site allows you to specify addresses from which the printer is permitted to accept printing jobs. This safeguards you from random strangers e-mailing tons of documents to your printer and wasting your ink.
HP claims that you can print up to twice as many pages with the same amount of ink – "Ink Advantage", they call it – as any other similar printer to the Deskjet Ink Advantage 5525. While I didn't quite print enough to put this theory to the test, I did print more pages than I would have printed on my older HP with one set of cartridges.
My personal opinion is that HP has managed to produce a small printer that cuts costs, increases productivity and makes your life easier all in one go. It's perfect for the home and, after using it for work for a few weeks, I also see how it could work wonders for a small business as well.
Turn Ons
- AirPrint and HP ePrint
- Reduced ink usage
- Can print straight from an SD card
- The scan to e-mail function
- Super easy to use
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- Sometimes after printing a document the printer randomly makes a whole bunch of noises for about 30 seconds. Annoying!


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As I've mentioned here before, I started taking pictures of gravestones after finding photos of my great-great-grandparents' graves (in London) online. I was moved to see it, and so grateful to the stranger who took the time to take the pictures. Not surprisingly, many others feel the same way. Tonight I received the following message via FindAGrave. The writer refers to a gravestone containing several names, including a baby named Susan who was born and died in 1960. I am not sure how the grave memorial pictures are selected for this site but want to say thank you for posting this wonderful picture. Susan was my sister. She was born the same year as me. She lived a few days and when she passed on. My father had to put his grief aside and lay Susan in her casket next to him on the seat of the family station wagon where both of them traveled from New York through a blizzard to Pa. so she could be laid to rest in peace with family. Also listed on the grave marker is my Grandma (Hazel) and Grandpa (Charles) whom I received my middle name. Along with them my grandma's son Russel, who like Susan died very young. Although I never had the chance to meet her I miss her dearly and think of her. My father passed in 2003. I am sure they are together with Grandma and Grandpa and Russel as well as all the remaining family members who have passed, as they wait for us to join them when our time on this earth is complete. Thank you again for posting this wonderful picture. God bless you. |
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- Posted by ravencajun (My Page) on Thu, Oct 10, 13 at 19:41
I am so thankful for the people that do what you do. I have found so much invaluable information from the pages of findagrave.com. I recently passed the link on to several people who have been amazed. Thanks again |
what a moving letter.... |
- Posted by maire_cate (My Page) on Thu, Oct 10, 13 at 20:41
How nice! It's obvious your good deed meant so much to her. Do you receive many comments from the photos you post? |
Oh, how very touching. You really brought comfort to that family. Good for you! |
That is so lovely, Alisande. |
What a wonderful message! I'm glad she took the time to write you. |
Find a grave web site does not 'select' the photos. These are submitted by volunteers all over the country and world. They do control the posting to the web page. For large photos, the pixel count of the photo is reduced to fit and to help speed downloading of the page to a user's computer while browsing. However, the picture may be stored at a higher pixel count and the higher pixel count is available. |
A beautiful letter. |
Thanks, everyone. I thought I had responded before this, but I guess not. Today I uploaded my 1,700th photo to FindAGrave! That sounds like a lot to me, but many other volunteers have far surpassed it. |
I meant to add that while the maps are back (with their own tab on each cemetery page), it's no longer possible to search individual cemeteries for names. I don't know why they would remove that function. |
I just made contact with a guy who takes pics of cemeteries and he has taken over 87,000 photos for one huge cemetery alone. I actually just went back and read his letter to me to check the number. I had requested some photos for very old headstones and my request was granted almost immediately. Turns out he is in the process of adding all the information for his pictures on find a grave. He just hadn't gotten to my family's photos but had them on his computer. He just doesn't take one photo but will get very close to get dates and then the whole headstone, family plot shots etc. I've sent him family information so that it can be added to the find a grave site. He even made a special trip out to take an additional photo of a Confederate Solider Marker that was barely seen in one of his photos. He brushed it off with a small paint brush (no cleaning product) and took a photo of it. Alisande - I have a couple headstones that I want to post for you to see. One has phrase "Now we know" on it and another has a strange symbol. I'll have to go through my family tree photos to find them. I just read an article from the County where I grew up. One cemetery brought in a herd of goats to eat away the brush and debris so that old graves could be found. One part of it is well kept but I guess the other part has been neglected for years. I have family members at that cemetery, so I will be interested in finding out what is found. Evidently, it took 3 weeks for the goats to eat through all the growth. |
I'd like to see those, Mboston. And yikes--87,000 photos!! It took me five years to do 1,700. Although some stones can be read clearly in one photo, I usually take two for each memorial, and occasionally three if two or more stones are related. I like the idea of the goats! |
you are awesome for doing this and wowsers...87,000 pictures...that is incredible!! |
Keep up the good work. It's a great place to search for bones. |
Goats will clear out pesky kudzu vines! Though, to completely eradicate kudzu, the goats may have to graze the same location for more than one year since kudzu spreads from its roots and the kudzu will not be gone until the roots have been decimated. |
I'd never been to this website before. I found my maternal great grandfather and grandmother's memorials and my paternal grandfather. Very cool |
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This volume forms part of a series exploring key issues in ethics, law and society, published in association with the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society. The collection is a celebration of the approach and values embraced within previous volumes in the series. The works collectively address new technological, social and regulatory developments and the fresh ethical dilemmas these pose, but quite critically, also compel an urgent revisiting of social and legal issues that were once the subject of controversy but which have fallen out of the line of sight of academics, politicians and policy-makers. Bringing together selected papers, the editors seek to make apparent the thematic links between contributions in presenting works written by a group of international experts in response to specific ethical issues, including topics on the ethics of care, theorizing ethics, body politics and governance; as such, the collection is multidisciplinary in approach, seeks to appeal to a broad audience and provides a valuable resource for all those concerned with contemporary ethical issues. This fifth and final volume brings the series to a close and is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Jennifer Gunning.
Contents: Introduction: Introduction, Nicky Priaulx and Anthony Wrigley; Steering through choppy waters - a tribute to the bioethical nous of Jennifer (Jenny) Gunning 1944-2010, BSc 1st Class (Open University), PhD (Birkbeck). Søren Holm. Theme 1 - Ethics of Care: The ethics of care: resetting our social 'operating system' after Rational Man 2.0 and sorting out what we care about, Nicky Priaulx; Care as cornucopia: a critical ethics of care and fantasies of security in the neoliberal affective economy, Robin Mackenzie; Ethics and choice in healthcare: the case of public v. private cord blood banking, Karen Devine; Still gendered after all this time: care and autonomy in the child custody debates, Susan B. Boyd; Eradicating the badge of inferiority associated with caregiving men: masculinity, vulnerability and the global employment context, Michèle Alexandre. Theme 2 - Theorizing the Ethical: Theorizing the ethical: ethics as a shared means to a shared end, Nicky Priaulx; Why applied ethics?, Ruth Chadwick; Criminalization and the moral responsibility for sexual transmission of HIV, Scott Burris and Matthew Weait; Re-thinking the ethical: everyday shifts of care in biogerontology, Joanna Latimer and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa. Theme 3 - Body Politics: Body politics, Anthony Wrigley; Informed choice not informed consent: shifting focus and protecting interests, Bernadette Richards; Informed choice over informed consent: cracking the old Chesternut?, Tom Hayes; Wanted dead or alive: organ donation and limitations on surrogate consent on non-competent living donors, Anthony Wrigley; Swept under the carpet: why surrogacy law needs urgent review, Kirsty Horsey; Screening applicants for assisted reproduction: complexities and issues, Sonia Allan. Theme 4 - Governance: Governance: creating an ethical architecture, Nicky Priaulx; Human tissue: a common regulatory framework for its procurement, storage and use, Jennifer Gunning; Moving human embryonic stem cells internationally: near-future challenges for the UK Stem Cell Bank and American collaborators, Natasha Hammond-Browning and Neil Stephens; Confidentiality and the family courts: ethical dilemmas for health and social work practice, Julie Doughty; Index.
About the Editor: Nicky Priaulx is Co-Editor of Ethics, Law and Society Volume V (Ashgate Publishing, 2012) and a Senior Lecturer in the Law School, Cardiff University, UK. She is author of The Harm Paradox: Tort Law and the Unwanted Child in an Era of Choice (Routledge-Cavendish, 2007) and Director of the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society at Cardiff University and the Legal Aspects of Medical Practice LLM Programme. Anthony Wrigley is Co-Editor of Ethics, Law & Society Volume V (Ashgate Publishing, 2012) and a Senior Lecturer in Ethics in the Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University. He is a philosopher with research interests in ethics, metaphysics and law who has published widely in philosophy and applied ethics. His work predominantly tackles issues at the margins of life, from harms and the Non-Identity Problem in reproductive ethics to the scope and limits of advance decision-making for those who have lost capacity. He is also co-author of the European Textbook on Ethics in Research (The European Union, 2010).
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In tough times, the rented room is resurgent
Homeowners and renters team up, sacrificing some privacy for the chance to share expenses in tough times.
Midwest girl with Fiestaware seeks housemate for green living.
Writer with four turtles in tub, cats in basement, six dogs and 50-some fish seeks human roommate without pets.
Woman with three jobs, chest pains and unemployed husband seeks roommate.
Students and teachers. Animal rescuers. Clerks and construction workers. Singles and marrieds, and both the un- and the employed are doing it — sharing their housing with strangers for a fee.
What used to be regarded as an arrangement by college students, and given up when one gets a job, is now becoming a way of life for folks who either can't afford the high cost of rent or are seeking ways to pad their wallets and pay the mortgage by home-sharing.
Because most of the arrangements are informal, it's hard to assess just how many people now share their homes with strangers for money. But as the economy plummeted during the past year, mortgage foreclosures soared and layoffs became common, the ads for people seeking roommates increased by more than 70 percent nationwide on craigslist.com.
The few agencies who do referrals say shared housing is now common and gives struggling people more affordable-housing choices — providing that those who pair up can adapt to having less privacy. Some social scientists say by challenging our obsession with privacy, we tap an unused resource: those often cavernous homes built during the boom years.
Like your mother used to say about dating, when it comes to home-sharing, there is almost always someone for everyone. Most likely there's a perfect match somewhere for Fiestaware, Three Jobs and Four Turtles.
WHILE IN SOME cultures living close together has always been the norm, having the privacy of your "own" home has become part of the American dream. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, apartments became popular as an alternative to traditional boardinghouses because they offered privacy, says Wendy Gamber, an Indiana University professor who wrote a book about American boardinghouses.
Then after World War II, as demand for housing outstripped the supply, renting a room again became common. The shared-housing concept hasn't gone away since.
Perhaps that's why having strangers living upstairs in my grandmother's big Victorian house never seemed unusual to me. My grandparents were close to their Nordic roots, where it was common for several families to live in one large farmhouse.
Renters were always part of my postwar growing-up life in Kent. Many were women who worked in my grandmother's restaurant. Later came a hairstylist, a sky diver, a Scottish art student who stole my heart when I was 16. . .
Strangest of all was a man I recall only as "Mr. Wagner," who ran Saturday-night Old West-themed-séances in the once-elegant fireplace room. I was 4 dressed in feetie pajamas when I was trotted into the room to sing "Jesus Loves Me" as my grandmother played the piano. Then we all joined hands with my mother, aunt, grandmother and their friends who sat around the table in the dark as the trumpet — which looked like a cheerleader's megaphone — rose and pointed to the person whose turn it was to speak to the spirits.
After the thumping in the dark and the muffled voices of the "spirits," the lights came on and someone would find themselves wrapped in a lasso.
I don't know how long the séances went on, or how much money Wagner raised, but one day he vanished and a police officer came to the door looking for him. He was wanted, my grandmother told me, "for bunco in another state."
I, too, have shared my house since an unexpected divorce left me destitute. But I found renting had a learning curve. Most annoying was a woman who took my good china to church potlucks and didn't return with the pieces. Was the last straw the candle left burning in her room that set off the smoke detector? Or the overflowing toilet that seeped through the floor and dripped right onto my head?
These days, the best roommates are friends and pet sitters. They lend a hand with chores, fix meals and give rides to the airport. In one case, a friendship endures long after the boarder moved on.
LAST MARCH, Lauren Zimmermann, 24, put her Fiestaware in a box and moved from Madison, Wis., to Seattle for graduate school. An apartment of her own was out of the question with Seattle's high rents. She moved into a house in Wallingford that she shares with two night-clubbing, snowboarding roommates, Kara Gibson and Richenda Ghebrial, who interviewed almost 30 people before settling on Zimmermann. They say they've become as close as sisters.
Now with a good job, Zimmermann has her eye on a bigger Central District house, but a roommate is still a necessity. So Zimmermann advertised to share the house and the rent at $545 each, ideally with a socially conscious type. She's interviewing prospective candidates.
"It's a strange concept," she says. "You wouldn't strike up a conversation with a stranger on a bus, but in the same amount of time you let someone move into your house."
So many people are advertising "it's almost a capitalist market for roommates."
And what's been said about Seattle's cool dating climate is true with the roommate search, she says. After being interviewed, there's the anxiety of "what if they don't call back?"
ONCE SETTLED into a house or an apartment, well-selected roommates usually are a compatible group, say those who do the referrals.
In Haller Lake, north of Northgate, Tim Nguyen's house tucked among trees off a busy road is home to four people who share two bathrooms, a kitchen and sparsely furnished living room. Each pays $450, including utilities, affordable housing for Nguyen's tenants, including David Hull, a North Seattle Community College student, one of several students who live there.
Nguyen, 33, selects roommates about the same age, saying it keeps them compatible.
During the summer Nguyen, a computer programmer, and his roommates have barbecues. At Thanksgiving he cooked dinner. Their company makes him feel safe and less lonely.
It also helped him finance a mortgage he otherwise couldn't, he says, and was a way for him to get ahead after graduating with a master's in business administration from Gonzaga University in 2002.
Then, he worked for several years, saved his money and put it down on a small house in Spokane, taking in a few roommates to make the mortgage affordable. Soon after he was able to rent out his Spokane house, buy a house in Tacoma and again share it with roommates. Now that one is rented by a family, and Nguyen, who came here as an exchange student from Vietnam, theorizes that someday if he marries, he'll buy again and his Haller Lake home will be rented to one family.
Newer to the shared-housing game are a number of middle-class, middle-aged workers who once had lucrative incomes but — either because of the economic downturn or sometimes a divorce — find themselves at risk of losing their homes.
One Bellevue real-estate salesman rents rooms in his comfortable house with a pool because the housing market has been slow and he's in need of extra cash. A married man who sells real estate in the Kitsap Peninsula rents out rooms in his house to help meet his mortgage.
In Lake Stevens Jenell Gehrke, 40, also once in real-estate sales but now at Boeing, rents out the basement of her five-bedroom home so she can hang onto it.
Gehrke is also going through a divorce and has three children. A few years ago, when she and her husband were both selling real estate and making a combined $100,000, she could not have imagined there would be a day when she'd have to rent out part of it to strangers to make the mortgage payments.
"But then," she says, "I also couldn't imagine being a single parent."
FAI MATHEWS, 56, is in the doctor's office, suffering from chest pains, but she's still talking on the cellphone, her voice weary, although she breaks into hearty laughter often.
Mathews works three jobs. Her husband, David, a journeyman carpenter for 22 years who's recently been laid off, does odd jobs, trying to pay their bills and the mortgages on their primary residence in Rainier Valley and two rental houses, where renters have fallen behind on their payments.
Each day, Mathews cooks for Meals on Wheels, then goes to a second and third job at the Center for Kinship Care, a place for relatives raising other relatives' children, where she does referrals and then manages a Web site.
Mathews hopes to rent one of the rooms in their large house to bring in more money. She began her three jobs a year ago, after helping her daughter out financially. The family was just getting caught up when David lost his job. "I'm not whining. A lot of people have it worse than we do," Fai Mathews says as she waits for the doctor. No matter what he advises, she says, "it's not going to stop me from working."
Today, most shared-housing programs focus on matching the elderly, for whom the arrangement has both emotional and economic advantages, the experts say. Almost five years ago the Whidbey Island Soroptimist Club gave a grant to start a program that helps people with spare rooms find folks who need housing.
The homeless people on the island "are not under the bridge or the woman with the grocery cart and 12 coats," says executive director Doris Newkirk. "They are working people living below the poverty line."
Whidbey Island Share-a-Home (WISH) acts only as a referral agency, but the number of those referred has increased by 40 percent during the past year. In the nearly five years the program has been in existence, 800 people have been referred to housing.
"An 86-year-old minister came to us homeless because he outlived his money . . . I have a 73-year-old woman who does gardening for a living. She can't make ends meet in the winter. These folks are hardworking people," Newkirk says. "A lot of people ask why these homeless people are coming to Island County. They aren't coming here. They were born here and lived here all their lives. They've just fallen on hard times."
WISH requires a detailed application for both homeowner and home seeker. Then if one sees the other's profile and is interested, Newkirk puts them in touch.
"I'm like the eHarmony or Match.com of housing," she says.
DESPITE BACKGROUND and reference checks and pre-move-in interviews, sometimes things do go wrong.
Vivi Brown, a middle-aged woman who plays the saxophone, knows that her house full of multiple dogs and cats, four turtles and all kinds of fish makes finding roommates challenging. Dogs dart around the legs of visitors in the pretty gray Craftsman north of Seattle. Turtles claim the upstairs bathtub. Two roommates live downstairs. They're music students, and Brown says she seldom sees them.
Once, she says, a roommate relationship went sour. "She just pretended to like cats," Brown explains. The decelerating relationship was "like watching a nature show. She was trying to eradicate me from my own house."
Still, Brown hopes to find one more roommate to rent out her master bedroom. She plans to sleep on the living-room couch. The income allows her to write instead of having a full-time job, and to travel to warmer climates.
Each day she looks for that just-right roommate, a new batch of ads will appear as one person after another seeks that certain someone.
"Do any of these apply to you?" asks one: "Sartre, Camus, lawn bowling, Little Miss Sunshine, the Big Lebowski, macaroni art, snowboarding, softball . . .
Then inquire within."
Nancy Bartley is a Seattle Times staff writer. She can be reached at 206-464-8522 or email@example.com. Alan Berner is a Times staff photographer.
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Do You Eat Your Kids' Leftovers?
One of the devils I didn't feel applied to me too much was little devils—a.k.a., eating your kids' leftovers. Yes, I do have a toddler, but she eats pretty much what we eat, so I don't often have the opportunity to snatch, say, fries off her plate or finish up her mac and cheese.
But this little devil reared its head the other morning. For some reason, my daughter wasn't her usual hungry self that day, so when I set a whole-grain waffle smeared with cottage cheese and a dollop of fruit spread on her tray (a breakfast she usually loves), she picked at and played with it more than she actually ate. Sometimes it takes her a bit of time to get in mood to eat, so I went ahead and finished my own breakfast at the table with her, figuring she'd wolf down the waffle in no time.
No such luck. After giving her a good 20 minutes to eat, she still had taken only a couple bites. Then it was "All done, down please! All done!" So I unlatched her tray and let her toddle on her way while I cleaned up. As I took our plates to the kitchen, I looked at that ¼ eaten waffle and thought, "Geez, she didn't eat any of this. These waffles are expensive—not to mention the cost of the cottage cheese. I feel bad wasting this good food…" And into my mouth went the waffle. I polished it off in about a minute.
I had already eaten my breakfast, so clearly I wasn't hungry. I guess I just felt wasteful throwing a perfectly good waffle away. Note to self for next time: Toss the waffle already. Better in the trash than in my belly when I'm not even hungry for it.
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I use ecotect/radiance to run Daylight factors studies.
I have a problem to set light reflectance of internal materials (floor / walls / ceiling):
- what value should I enter ? LRV value or L* Value ?
- Where should I enter that value: in the materials properties solar absorption (see picture 1) or in the color editor (see picture 2)
It changes really much the results.
if you click on "Highlicht: Lighting"
In that action you can see the parameters that affect in that calculations.
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OK. THank you.
But I have the LRV value of a material.
Where do I enter it ?
In solar absorption (1- LRV ?) or in colour (reflect.) ???
I don´t know what is LVR, is not similar abbreviation word in my country. But if you want to do a interior lighting analisys the main parameters are:
- Color reflected interior
- Specularity interior
if you have doubt try to explore the parameters value of the material library. It is ever a good began.
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Third Millennium Bible (TMB) | New International Version (NIV) |
4 And they broke down the altars of the Baalim in his presence, and the sun images that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherah poles and the carved images and the molten images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them and strewed it upon the graves of those who had sacrificed unto them. | 4 Under his direction the altars of the Baals were torn down; he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them, and smashed the Asherah poles, the idols and the images. These he broke to pieces and scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. |
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I just got done wrestling with multiple versions of the oracle client. We wanted to install an Asp.net app that uses the 11g ODP.net install on a server that already had a 10g client installed. While 11g and 10gR2 are supposed to have decent support for multiple oracle homes, the 10g client that was installed was only R1. To make matters worse, the app using the 10g client was an old asp app via an ODBC dsn. So rather than risking messing up the existing asp apps, I decided to give the xcopy deployment a shot.
Getting the actual software setup is pretty well documented with an article on Oracle's website. It really came down to just unzipping the package and running:
install.bat odp.net20 c:\oracle\product\1.1.0-xcopy-dep odac11_xcopy
However, my whole point in doing this was to avoid polluting the existing environment so a couple of items were out. First of all, the last step in the article is to add a couple of environment variables. Because I didn't want to interfer with the oracle home of an existing client install, i wanted to avoid this. However without it, I got a nice exception: "Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleException The provider is not compatible with the version of Oracle client"
The fix was to add the following to my Application_Start event in the global.asax:
Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", @"c:\oracle\product\1.1.0-xcopy-dep;c:\oracle\product\1.1.0-xcopy-dep\bin;", EnvironmentVariableTarget.Process);Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("ORACLE_HOME", @"c:\oracle\product\1.1.0-xcopy-dep;", EnvironmentVariableTarget.Process);
This got me to an oracle error that I recognized: "Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleException ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified." This is usally fixed by changing tnsnames.ora but in this case it didn't work. While it might be possible to use tnsnames with this xcopy deployment, I decided on a different route. I could have used the host/service name format in the connection string, but this oracle environment is setup with RAC (clustering). The oracle driver has a nice feature where the tns infomation can be inline in the connection string. So this:"Data Source=MyTNSName;User Id=user;Password=pwd;"became this (which is right out of my tnsnames.ora):
"Data Source= (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = orahost1.company.com)(PORT = 1522)) (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = orahost2.company.com)(PORT = 1522)) (LOAD_BALANCE = on) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVER = DEDICATED) (SERVICE_NAME = MyTNSService.company.com) (FAILOVER_MODE=(TYPE=SELECT)(METHOD=BASIC)(RETRIES=180)(DELAY=5)) ) ) ; User Id=user;Password=pwd;"
That nearly got everything working. The only thing left was a particular block of code that I had wrapped in a System.Transactions.TransactionScope block. This normally requires the OraceMTSRecoveryService. This is something that is installable with the xcopy deployment (run install.bat with no params for usage), but this would have overwritten an existing version of the service if it was already there. Instead I decided to force the transactions to local only (it was only a single call to the db so I knew I wouldn't need a distributed transaction). This could be done by adding "Promotable Transactions=local" to the connection string but I'm compiling against an older version of the driver (18.104.22.168 x64) in order to support both 64 and 32 bit with the same code and this option wasn't supported in this version. Instead I changed the following registry key:
After that everything seems to be working.
Consider using a config change instead of a registry change with: <oracle.dataaccess.client> <settings> <add name="PromotableTransaction" value="local"/> </settings> </oracle.dataaccess.client>
Reason? I forgot to change the registry fix back and fought with "there was an error promoting the transaction to a distributed transaction oracle" for a day before I figured it out .
I've done this again with the 4.0 provider and tnsnames.ora worked fine. I think the first time I did this I didn't also update sqlnet.ora to use tnsnames with names.directory_path=(TNSNAMES,EZCONNECT).
Another thing I don't remember doing in the 2.0 version was using the xcopydir\odp.net\bin\4\oraprovcfg utility. I needed to put Oracle.DataAccess.dll in the GAC, but doing it manually didn't work. I had to run oraprovcfg /action:gac /providerpath:<fullpath to Oracle.DataAccess.dll>
Last, I've also discovered that ODP.net supports the following configuration that should be a replacement for setting the path and oracle_home environment variables in code:
See the following for more info:http://docs.oracle.com/html/E10927_01/InstallODP.htm
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You rock! I'm developing an ASP.NET 4.0 app using the 11g version of ODP.NET and I encounter the same problem. This solves the issue with having multiple versions of Oracle client in a host machine. Btw, I only needed to include the environment variables in Application_Start in global.asax as follows: void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e) { // Workaround on Oracle issue // We need to specify here 2 environment variables Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", @"C:\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1;C:\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1\bin;", EnvironmentVariableTarget.Process); Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("ORACLE_HOME", @"C:\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1;", EnvironmentVariableTarget.Process); Then the full connect string in web.config, as follows: "Data Source= (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = orahost1.company.com)(PORT = 1522)) (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = orahost2.company.com)(PORT = 1522)) (LOAD_BALANCE = on) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVER = DEDICATED) (SERVICE_NAME = MyTNSService.company.com) (FAILOVER_MODE=(TYPE=SELECT)(METHOD=BASIC)(RETRIES=180)(DELAY=5)) ) ) ; User Id=user;Password=pwd;" Thank you so much!
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2013 and earlier BMW X5 Lease Questions
CarMan@Edmunds Posts: 38,515Hi habsone. BMW Financial Services' September buy rate lease money factor and residual value for a 36 month lease of a 2011 X5 Diesel with 15,000 miles per year are .00195 and 51%, respectively for consumers who qualify for its top credit tiers.
This money factor is .00030 lower for loyal customers.
Using an MSRP of $63,300 and a selling price of $52,500, I estimate that this vehicle would have a zero down, pre-tax monthly payment would be around $727. This drops to $702 for loyal customers.
On this deal you will have to pay your vehicle's first month's payment, a security equivalent to that payment rounded up to the nearest $50 increment, and BMW FS $725 acquisition fee.
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CarMan@Edmunds Posts: 38,515Hello tseck1. BMW Financial Services' September buy rate lease money factor and residual value for a 36 month lease of a 2012 X5d with 12,000 miles per year are .00195 and 54%, respectively for consumers who qualify for its top credit tiers.
The money factor would be .00030 lower for loyal customers.
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insidecarbuy NYCPosts: 95Yes, you can. If they don't want to give it to you then tell them you want to cancel. In NY, no dealer can keep your deposit. Let them know your getting this price from other dealers and you don't want to say who if they ask. More than likely they will give it to you. Keep me posted on the outcome, stay firm on what your asking for and if they offer to split it don't except. You want the whole credit!
habsone Posts: 43Thank you for your reply Car man. What i wanted to find out from this forum that I was not cheated by the dealer . By looking at the numbers you provided i know believe that i got a fair deal. $727 + 3% tax app. total $749. If i take 1st month payment of $770 which dealer has paid and divide that by 36 it roughly come out to $749. After all said and done i am pretty happy with my lease and my SAV. Special Thanks to Insidecarbuy for helping myself and others for earlier post. It is good people like you who are helping people like us make an informed decision.
paulsohi Posts: 22011 X5 Diesel - 12k miles/year. 36 month lease.
Neg Price - 52445
Down Payment - 3000
Sales Tax (VA) - 1579.35
Doc Fees and Tag - 279 & 200 respectively
Monthly payment is coming out $739.17
(they used a 54% residual and money factor of 0.00235)
What wrong with those number, any help would greatly be appreciated. -
habsone Posts: 43Money factor is high. Try to get them lower it to .00195 which is a going rate. As Car man and others have mentioned in earlier posts, if you are a current owner of the BMW the rate will go down another .00030 to .00165.When i was looking to lease my X5d i too negotiated a good deal as far as price of the SAV was concerned, However they jacked up the M/F to .00235 which i refused to pay. They finally came around Two days later and we settled for .00195 hope this helps. Good Luck !
ab10000 Posts: 127Hi
They did the same to me about the .00235 MF, I came the next day and spoke with another Salesman here in Bay Area California and he told me that he will do .00195 MF.
I think it varies by the salesman you talk too, and they use this increase their commission. I can not believe it why BMW Financial let them get away with this. This not a good practice -
habsone Posts: 43Although it is not a good practice, It's perfectly legit. My understanding is that BMW financials set the Residual value which dealer can not tampered with however dealer can change the MF . It is up to us to get the best MF. Ask question. Get some car buying lessons from forum like this, Do your homework and you'll save some $$$.
ab10000 Posts: 127Sorry but I disagree with your comments, the MF should be based on the credit of applicant not the mood of the sales person or dealer, they have to treat customers in fair way and not discriminate without bases. I had 2 sales persons giving me 2 MF .00195 and .0235 from same dealer within days here in Northern California. This is a game that they play which I think is cheap.
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CarMan@Edmunds Posts: 38,515Hi bimmerbanker. According to the latest information that I have seen, BMW Financial Services' current buy rate lease money factor and residual value for a 36-month lease of a 2011 X5 35i Premium with 15,000 miles per year are .00195 and 56%, respectively for consumers who qualify for its top credit tiers.
BMW is currently providing a $1,730 option credit on versions of this truck that are equipped with navigation and $1,000 on versions that aren't.
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CarMan@Edmunds Posts: 38,515
CarMan@Edmunds Posts: 38,515Hi gaadi_vala. BMW Financial Services' October buy rate lease money factor and residual value for a 36-month lease of a base 2012 X5 35i with 15,000 miles per year are .00195 and 48%, respectively for consumers who qualify for its top credit tier.
The money factor would be .00030 lower for loyal customers.
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gaadi_vala Posts: 3
xturbo Posts: 1Car man,
Could you please tell me the money factor and residual value for a 2012 X5 50i for 10k mi per year and a 36 month lease?
Anyone with a recent purchase/lease of a X5 50i who is willing to share details of their deal is much appreciated.
Many thanks to all for contributing to this helpful forum.
Jay -
aloocheh Posts: 4
omszz Posts: 10hi xturbo,
I just placed an order today. Below are the terms I got...
X5 xdrive50i - sport pkg, premium pkg, premium sound pkg, multi-contour seats, running boards.
Initial Cap Cost - $68,910 ($1500 over invoice + $725 acquisition fee)
Residual - 64% (36mo/10k)
Money Factor - .00155 (bmw loyalty rate)
Monthly Payment - $799 (includes tax)
Amount Due at Start - $4,530.13 (see breakdown below)
Amount Due at Start:
First Monthly Payment 798.63
License 285.00
Documentary svc fee 150.00
dealer admin fee 2.50
Cap. Reduction Tax 294.00
Total Inception Fees 1,530.13
+ Cash Cap Red 3,000.00
Total Drive Off 4,530.13
If hadn't done the $3k down towards cap cost, with all the same terms, the monthly payment would have been $895 (includes tax).
I think its a pretty good deal. I have seen others get slightly lower over invoice purchase price, but $1500 over invoice was the best offered through local dealers in Seattle, WA area. Also I'm not thrilled about the $150 doc fee, but I let it go, as I'm getting a good build date (week 46).
The other nice thing about ordering is I got the Oct rates locked, but if the rates or residual get any better between now and the car delivery date, I can switch over to them.
Hope this helps.
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Gross sales revenue of the live auction industry grew by 6.3 percent in the first half of 2006 as measured by recent surveys of NAA members. This is compared to the same time period one year ago. If this trend continues, this will result in about $255.4 billion in total revenue for the entire industry, up from $240.2 billion in 2005. Residential real estate auctions, the hottest category of all auctions, grew by 4.4 percent in the first half of 2006, up slightly from the 4.0 percent at the same mid-year point last year. Residential real estate grew at 8.4 percent overall in 2005 and has been the topic of widespread media coverage as a growing business niche.
These findings were gathered by the global market research firm MORPACE International on behalf of the National Auctioneers Association (NAA). Results are updated quarterly.
"This research shows the continued growth and popularity of the auction industry," said NAA President William Sheridan, CAI, AARE, GPPA, of Mason, MI.
The following are some additional details from the report:
-- Thirty-six percent of NAA members say they conducted more auctions in 2006 than they did in 2005, while 22 percent said they conducted fewer and 42 percent said they saw no change in the number of auctions.
-- The overall outlook for the second half of 2006 is somewhat more cautious than it was in mid-2005 for the end of last year. Forty-one percent of NAA members said they saw an increase in gross sales receipts in the first half of 2006, compared to 57 percent that said they saw an increase at this mid-point in 2005, leading to a more cautious outlook for the rest of 2006. The percentage of those who believe they will see an increase in revenue in the remainder of 2006 is 57 percent, down from 69 percent last year.
-- Land and agricultural real estate auction revenues grew 0.7 percent in the first half of 2006, compared to 0.5 percent in the same period last year. Commercial and industrial real estate auction revenues grew by 2.0 percent in the first half of 2006, compared to 4.8 percent for the same period last year.
A detailed statistical report of full year 2005, with information on all auction categories, is available for easy viewing on NAA's homepage, www.auctioneers.org, by clicking on the brown square icon that says "Auction Industry Grows 10.6 Percent." The research study is funded by the National Auctioneers Foundation.
With more than 6,000 members from throughout the world, the National Auctioneers Association is the largest organization of its kind dedicated to promoting, increasing and building trustworthiness of the competitive bidding method of marketing, and enhancing the professionalism of its members. Member benefits range from federal legislative representation to comprehensive continuing education programs, including coursework to earn the following professional auctioneer designations: Certified Auctioneers Institute (CAI), Accredited Auctioneer, Real Estate (AARE), Graduate, Personal Property Appraiser (GPPA) and Certified Estate Specialist (CES). The organization was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Overland Park, Kan. For more information on the NAA and its programs, log on to www.auctioneers.org.


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Hart of Dixie star Rachel Bilson is in the heart of a different kind of drama — the parental kind, from the sounds of it! Rumors are swirling that Bilson and her long-time boyfriend Hayden Christensen (of Star Wars fame) are expecting their first. Neither Bilson or Christensen have confirmed the rumors, though, so we'll just have to wait to see where this story lines goes!
Hart of Dixie star Jaime King has a little more on her mind these days than the lines for her show … King and her husband, director and producer Kyle Newman, have welcomed their first baby! Son James Knight Newman arrived on October 6th. Newman shared the happy news via Twitter, saying, "So happy to welcome our son James Knight Newman to the world! @Jaime_King and I are thrilled beyond believe."
Earlier this month, Jaime King announced that she and husband Kyle Newman are expecting their first baby. Hard on the heels of that announcement has come news that the couple are expecting a daughter. But wait! Really? The Hart of Dixie star took to Twitter yesterday to set the record straight: "To all the media outlets printing that we are having a girl, that is false! We don't know- we want a surprise …" Guess we'll just have to wait and see whether the future holds a son or a daughter for King and Newman!
Everything is coming up roses for actress Jamie King (aka, Lemon Breeland)! The Hart of Dixie star and her husband Kyle Newman have shared that they're expecting their first baby later this year. The couple's happy news comes on the heels of the news that King's show Hart of Dixie has been renewed for a third season. Lots of congratulations going on for this happy pair!


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Marijuana Rehab
Narconon drug rehab centers help people get off marijuana.
At Narconon centers on six continents tens of thousands of people have sought help for addiction to marijuana, cocaine or other drugs.
In the long-term, residential Narconon treatment program, each person has the time to fully detoxify from the effects of drugs. A sauna-based program that incorporates daily exercise and a strict nutritional regimen enables each person to flush out drug residues left behind in fatty tissues of the body.
According to information published by the Brookhaven National Laboratory, THC tends to be stored in fatty tissue as it is fat-soluble. The combination of sauna, nutrition and exercise enable these residues to be flushed out, improving mood, cravings and energy.
Each person in recovery also has the support needed to discover and repair the reasons drug abuse started. And to complete recovery from addiction, each person learns the life skills that are vital to staying drug free even when faced by challenging situations. It takes a very well-rounded program like this to turn addiction into lasting sobriety.
At a Narconon program, no drugs are ever used as part of addiction treatment. The goal is a completely drug-free life. In seven out of ten cases, graduates of the Narconon drug rehab program accomplish this goal, one of the best success rates in this field.
In its own way, marijuana or cannabis may be one of the most controversial drugs in the world. It's the only street drug to be recommended for medical use in the same form that is used for illicit drug abuse purposes.
Arguments for medical marijuana are largely based on the supposed therapeutic effects and the harmless qualities of the drug. But is this actually the case? If the drug were actually harmless, one would assume that people were not becoming addicted, not suffering adverse effects and not needing rehabilitation to become drug-free if they want to. Is this the case?
There is evidence that marijuana is itself addictive and that it also paves the path to use of other drugs. While lasting recovery is achievable at Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers around the world, it would be better if the true nature of the drug were realized by more people before they made the choice to start.
Marijuana and Rehabilitation
Recovery from addiction to marijuana requires the same steps as recovery from any other addiction. The damage done to relationships, to one's ability to think clearly and one's ability to reach goals must be rehabilitated. With marijuana, each of these areas takes a hit.
Around the world, between 125 and 200 million people abuse cannabis each year. In the US, 2.4 million new people start using marijuana every year, average age about 18.
In 2009, more than 360,000 Americans who were using marijuana and could not stop without help went to rehab. About 45% were under 21 and the majority were 24 or younger. Twenty-five percent of these 360,000 people started using marijuana by the time they were twelve years old and another 32% had started by the time they were 14. It's likely that either marijuana or alcohol was the first drug they started abusing.
The mental effects of marijuana can become more severe if the drug is used on a daily basis or in the event of higher dosages. This fact becomes significant when the rising potency of marijuana is considered. Over the last two decades, the average THC (tetrahydrocannabinol - the intoxicating ingredient in marijuana) content has increased from less than 4% to more than 10%. Some samples have THC contents of 25% or even higher.
Marijuana's Effects on Perception and Thinking
Research shows that marijuana causes distorted perceptions, poor coordination and difficulty thinking and solving problems. This can result in learning and memory problems. And since the effects of using marijuana can last for weeks, a person using the drug every day may be experiencing a constant reduction of their intellectual ability.
Marijuana's Effects on One's Life
According to the United Nations, among those who become long-term marijuana abusers, lower income and higher unemployment are common, along with a higher rate of being unmarried. Heavy use or use of high-potency marijuana is associated with mental health problems such as psychosis or schizophrenia. Chronic use can result in anxiety and depression.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) also reports that heavy marijuana smokers suffered damage to social life and to employment or careers due to work absences, accidents, workers' compensation claims and frequent job turnover. NIDA notes that marijuana use may aggravate existing problems to the point that minor problems become serious ones.
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When someone you care about is abusing cannabis and can't find a way to stop on their own, contact the international offices of Narconon to find a location of a Narconon drug rehab near you. This can be the beginning of a new sober life for your loved one and it can mean that you can have your loved one back again, the way they were before drugs changed things. Get all the details today on how Narconon helps end addiction to marijuana.


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Kevin Durant Goes Hollywood With "Thunderstruck"
Add actor to Kevin Durant's expanding resume. Durant brought Hollywood to Oklahoma City to film "Thunderstruck", a basketball based movie aimed at children that centers on Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder. The plot sounds very similar to the movie "Like Mike." Read More »