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Just thought of her the most. Really cool video! |
Here is a link that might be useful: an adorable infestation of humming....
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- Posted by lilosophie (My Page) on Thu, Jul 17, 14 at 16:02
I used to have that sort of traffic, several feeders going, re-filing them more than once a day - 100# sugar per season. But I quit when I really thought about it: there are hummers around and they visited the garden, but mostly hung out in the trees across the service yard and lived on the sugar-water, not such a good diet, they need tiny bugs and the varied nectar. The area could not sustain them in a natural way, so I quit, There are hummers around, they come and shower in my sprinklers and visit the planters and the Rose of Sharon. There is another upside: the hummer-poop attracts ants and the feeders attract yellow-jackets. I did enjoy the show tremendously, but it was better for all concerned to close the production |
- Posted by anneliese_32 6 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 17, 14 at 19:38
We have a few around, they visit the flowers as well as the few feeders in the neighborhood, but mainly chase each other. The flying saucer feeder gets visits from the Downy Woodpecker as well as the Red-bellied Woodpecker and the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. |
Cool picture Lilo. I totally understand. I too try hard to sustain whatever wildlife I like to see by natural means, e.g. plant life and vegetation for housing. I remember yellow jackets in California, they seemed monstrous! Yikes. That's probably the best part of bird watching anneliese, one thing you do might attract many birds. Too many cool birds to see. Speaking of which, we just had two students visit from Germany. As I was walking them over to get identification cards for work, S shouted "Look J!" and pointed at our highly ubiquitous male Cardinal. I realized Cardinalis cardinalis are probably only here, and promptly gave her my Eastern region (of the US) bird book. She only gave it back on the last day. She could've kept it. It turns out, it's very specific to where I live... Eastern side of the US, well, and into Mexico some. I love to observe flora and fauna wherever I go, and cannot imagine what birds they must have in Germany. What was either of your favorites there? |
Robin, sure brings back memories for me. Imagine 30 of those feeders . I used to buy fifty pounds of sugar for the little pigs and they could empty 30 feeders in a day during migration. Lord luv a duck, I can't do that any more. Sure was fun to sit out in the gardens and watch them feed. Thank you for thinking of me and remembering about the birds. |
I will have Missy read this thread and list the plants that they visit constantly. |
In that case Don, also tell her Agastache cana. I had to look it up, but funnily enough, the website had a picture with a hummer feeding. That's the plant where I offered it for trade, and while I waited for the hummer to quit feeding, it gave me the most horrified look as I dug it up. Like, "Where the heck do you think you're taking that?! You put that plant down, young lady." Second for me was the butterfly bush. |
Here is a link that might be useful: from High Country's website
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Tough to Leave the Devastated Place
March 25, 2010 by TMO · 3 Comments
By Ilyas Hasan Choudry, MMNS
TMO Editor's note: Houston editor Ilyas Choudry spent a week helping earthquake victims in Haiti. This is his report.
Lets' say for seven days in a row, you wake up to see dire situation around you. When you woke up the eighth day, you are going to take an airplane to a place, almost like paradise on this earth, as compared to the everyday anguish of the past seven days. But instead of feeling happy to leave the devastated place, you have this extreme lingering sadness inside; telling that you should not leave. May be there is a way to delay your departure and that you can stay for few more weeks or may be months or even years, to see this torturous place come out of the ruins.
This is what I felt on Sunday, March 15th, 2010, when I went through a long queue for more than two hours to aboard American Airlines Flight 1908 from Port-au-Prince to Miami International Airport. I did not want to leave my fellow Haitian human-beings in desperate situation, while I had to begin my journey back to luxurious life in USA. For the past seven days, I had to take cold showers early in the morning (first time after 1987); sharing one bathroom with six other persons, when on few days suddenly realizing that I was the last of the six and that there is very little water left for me; got to eat rice & beans and for a change of menu, I used to eat beans & rice the next day; fridge not laden with food and Coke / Pepsi as electricity was unpredictable and not strong enough for the fridge to work. If it was not for immediate responsibility of my own family in Houston and to earn a living for them, I would have preferred to stay back in Haiti, as so much is needed to be done there, while we live in heaven on earth called USA.
World came out in a big way to respond to Haitian crisis after the devastating earthquake of January 12th, 2010. Everyone has tried their best in the manner they know to assist. But to be really honest, the world has failed the Haitian people. I feel the hype created about safety and security situation was not appropriate. I drove & walked on the streets of Haiti during these seven days, the Haitians that I have seen on the whole are very nice hardworking people and not threatening (especially after what they had gone through). Provision of safety and security are important things, but the way this fear of insecurity was created and blown out of proportion, it hampered the overall response and made several agencies and NGOs to confine their services to few thousands, the lucky ones who could reach the so-called safe compounds, while real masses were neglected.
Still there have been individuals and non-governmental organizations, working independently or together with the resources of international agencies like UNO, UNICEF, etc. who have tried their best to provide food and health services at grassroots levels in an amicable manner. I am part of one of them called "Helping Hand For Relief & Development (HHRD)". Visit www.HHRD.Org for more details.
With the help of donors from USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Pakistan and elsewhere, HHRD has provided food and healthcare services at rotational clinics in various communities within Port-au-Prince (like Nazon, Leogane, Ave Lamartinier, Masjid Taweed, Masjid Ya-Sin, etc). Between January 26 and March 19, 2010, HHRD in all have organized 55 clinics, taking care of more than 11,000 Haitians, with the voluntary help of doctors from USA, Turkey, Bangladesh and of course Haiti (paid and volunteer). After March 19, 2010, HHRD will work on establishing some permanent clinics.
I was in Haiti from March 7 till 14, 2010 and was appalled to see that two months have passed, but no real effort has been done by the world community. Near me, what was expected of the Governments of the world was to bring necessary heavy machinery and equipment into Port-au-Prince to remove the rubble. Two months have passed and despite traveling east-&-west and north-&south of Port-au-Prince, the number of heavy machinery that I could see was about six (6). One can go to Centerville (Downtown) Port-au-Prince and see several five to eight story buildings leaning on one side and can fall down onto the pubic anytime. There is rubble all over the place. All the work that one can see on the rubble is that people cutting the steel and securing it for any future reconstruction work.
When Tsunami 2004-2005 & later on last year Earthquake 2009 came in Indonesia and Earthquake 2005 came in Pakistan, the action was swifter in removing debris and rebuilding efforts started within one month or so. But not in Haiti, where more than two months have passed and genuine work to remove the rubble is far from sight. Question is not why work was swiftly done in Indonesia and Pakistan: Query is why not in Haiti: I have no idea why??
I was most impressed to see the resilience of common Haitians, who despite the world almost ignoring them, are coming out every day in the morning, to earn their living. Marketplace is full of people, doing small little businesses to survive and few seen begging. Their high spirits need to be saluted.
Many small NGOs like HHRD are doing their little roles at grassroots level as per their capacities, but they usually get no or little attention of the media, and as such are unable to reach out to larger audiences and people to bring more and more assistance to the common masses.
Like the next immediate need for Haitians is proper shelter with rainy season coming in April 2010. HHRD has come up with an unique idea of taking Youth during their Spring Break from USA, to work on a Shelter Home Village project, where 100 wooden small homes are being constructed in another devastated area called Leogane, Haiti (35 miles west of Downtown Port-au-Prince along Leogane Highway). These Shelter homes will hopefully sustain the rainy season and provide safe haven for three to five years. HHRD contacts in the field for this and other projects are Shahid Hayat 1-347-400-1899 and Saqib Ateeque 1-609-575-7474. For general public to participate in this project, details can be found at www.HHRD.Org
As I write these lines, after a long time, we can see a reassuring response from the world, when our very own former US Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are seen standing with President Rene Preval in front of the earthquake damaged Haitian Presidential Palace. They are reassuring the shattered Haitians that world has not forgotten them 10 weeks after the deadliest earthquake of modern times. The still crushed Haitian Presidential Palace with no work being done on it in the past ten weeks, clearly show that world has not done the real work of rebuilding the Haitians'. Hopefully these words of the former Presidents will bring a different response in the right direction towards true recuperation & reconstruction efforts and not merely handouts.
Otherwise the human spirit is very strong. Long-term micro financing initiatives, physical rehabilitation, and reconstruction of infrastructure work is needed: Not merely a box of food here and there. Haitian people together with the non-governmental entities, including HHRD will continue to exert efforts and rebuild a new Haiti soon, providing common human beings worldwide with an opportunity to serve their fellow Haitians and indeed all this will be possible through the Grace of God.
Muslims Help Haiti
March 11, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Letters from Dr. Reshma Vasanwala with International Medical Corps
TMO Editor's note: Here are two emails from Haiti sent by Doctor Reshma Vasanwala. She volunteered her services for Haitian earthquake victims, as has Dr. Khalid Rao from Detroit and other Muslim physicians.
Hi all,
I arrived in Haiti safely–on a UN plane from Santo Domingo. The airport bar at Port au Prince is buzzing with activity–international NGOs, troops (including the 82nd airborne unit), media, journalists, and aid workers.
We are staying at one of the few standing hotels in Port au Prince–a five star hotel that hosted Angelina Jolie, Sean Penn, Anderson Cooper, and the like. There are still a lot of CNN folks here and media from all over the world staying at the same hotel. To my surprise, I'm in the lap of luxury—buffet meals, swimming pool,. Its weird that just across the street hundreds of thousands of people are living in tents and slums.
We are not allowed to leave the hotel and we take a private bus everyday to our place of work. Driving just these short distances, one can see the devastation caused by the earthquake and the suffering of the Haitian people.
We passed some tent cities that were said to have 40,000 people living there! There is a lot of unrest on the streets as gangs are fighting each other for territories.
Our group has tents set up in the hospital compound, since the buildings are unsafe to work in. The hospital grounds have been transformed into an entire campus of tents-each providing a different type of specialized medical care. There is a pediatric and neonatal ICU, a regular ICU, HIV and TB tents, general surgery, OB, and ER. However, in most of these tents the doctors only come by every few days, and no one to cover at night, so people simply die.
Our group, IMC, provides Emergency care on this campus and we provide coverage 24hours a day. I am assigned to the ER–which has been awesome.There are literally hundreds of patients (600-800) each day, and there is a line several blocks long every morning. I have never quite experienced anything like this. The tents are like 100 degrees, it smells, there are rats and it is complete chaos–but its a blast!
I am doing things here that I have never done, simply because there is no one else to call, or everyone else is too busy. I have never provided such substandard care in my life, because we don't have the tool and resources to provide good care. However, the reality is that for most of these people, this is the best care they have ever received.
A word about the people on the IMC team…there are about 30 volunteers here, and I am so impressed by these people. They are brilliant, passionate, interesting and loads of fun.
I am working the night tonight so I have the day off, but I wish I was back at the ER tent rather than the swimming pool–its been that much fun so far.
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 8:16 AM:
Working with the IMC group has continued to be a blast. Its really amazing that when people come together for a common purpose, there is a unique bond. Our lives have become really integrated and routine. It sometimes feels like summer camp or a travel experience where you don't have the tedious routines of running errands or the tending to of details that take up so much time back home– so that you can stay focused on purpose.
I am getting used to the work in the ER and really like it. Its really frustrating however, because everyday people die and often it feels like we are running a hospice service because there is not much we can offer–especially when we don't have a full laboratory or radiology service. The medicine wards, where there seems to really be no medical care going on, seem more like a support group—"Hey, I'm sick, you're sick–lets hang out together"
Yesterday was especially hard yesterday when a 2 year old died from an unknown cause and we watched the mother cry and scream inconsolably. This really got to me.
It was the first time I had seen such a reaction. I was beginning to think, that the Haitian people, having been through so much, had become stoic or emotionally shut down. Before yesterday, I had not really seen emotion expressed in a way that I might expect when a death occurred or when they heard bad news.
On a more random note, a couple of days ago there was some film people from LA who are starting a reality/documentary series about international community development and they filmed all day at our ER. They got me on camera as they followed me and another doctor deal with a sick kid who needed surgery and the surgeons here did not want to operate. We called the 82nd airborne to get the kid transferred to another facility where the surgery took place and the kid survived.
We'll see if that scout footage makes it on their first show.
Its hard to believe that I just have a few days left. I think I may come back again very soon.
The Muslim Population in Haiti
Pallbearers carry Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent Doug Coates in Ottawa January 27. Coates died in the Haiti earthquake. REUTERS/Chris Wattie |
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) — Tucked away on a corner of the Haitian capital's dusty, congested Delmas Road, a modest white building bears a curious sign, painstakingly stenciled in green Western and Arabic script.
"Mosquee Al-Fatiha," it reads. "Communaute Musulmane d'Haiti."
An attendant splashing water on the ground greets a visitor who approaches the gate. "As-salaam aleikum [peace be upon you]," he says, breaking into a smile. "Welcome to the mosque."
Haiti, the Caribbean nation closely associated with the African-derived faith of voodoo, is home to a small but growing community of Muslims. Two Islamic centers in the capital of Port-au-Prince are among nearly a dozen around the country started by those who have converted to the faith.
Officials with the major Islamic groups estimate there are between 4,000 and 5,000 Muslims in Haiti, a nation of about 8 million people.
In the lanes of the historic Carrefour-Feuilles quarter, a neighborhood that snakes up the mountains surrounding Port-au-Prince, a plangent, timeless sound echoes.
Among the market women haggling over prices while portable radios blare popular Haitian "compas" music, the muezzin's call to prayer goes forth from a new Islamic masjeed, or prayer center.
"Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, La ilaha ila Allah," — "God is greater, God is greater, there is no god but God."
Haiti is about 80 percent Catholic and 20 percent Protestant, according to State Department figures, while some 85 percent of its people regularly practice voodoo.
Muslims noticeable in cities
But followers of Islam have recently stepped into the public eye. Muslim men distinctive in their kufi headwear and finely groomed beards, and women in traditional scarves, are now seen on the streets of several cities.
Nawoon Marcellus, who comes from the northern city of San Raphael, recently became the first Muslim elected to the Chamber of Deputies, Haiti's lower house of parliament.
"I returned to Haiti in 1985 just to preach Islam," said Abdul Al-Ali, the Delmas mosque's white-bearded, commanding imam, or spiritual leader. "I converted while I was in Canada and we bought the space for the mosque in 1993."
"Haitians would like to have the truth and Islam will bring it to them. If we follow Allah, peace be upon him, I think things can change."
In impoverished Haiti, beset by a faltering economy, malnutrition, political violence and a two-year-old electoral dispute that has led to a freeze on $500 million of international aid, some converts find the attention Islam devotes to charity and social justice particularly appealing.
"If you see someone who is in need, the ones who need help, whether it's education, money or what have you, we Haitians as a whole tend to be very generous in helping with one another," said Racin Ganga, the imam of the Carrefour Feuilles center, who attended college and was introduced to Islam in New York.
"Those who don't have anything tend to help out. It is in some way inborn to us as Haitians, as well as Muslims, to help out. So that principle of responsibility, of helping those less fortunate, resonated very well."
Yacine Khelladi, an Algerian economist who has conducted an informal survey of the religion in Haiti, said in its idealized form, Islam could address many of Haiti's needs, including social justice, literacy and a sense of community.
"It even regulates business, land disputes, banking and other things — all of which could be perceived as attractive in Haiti as an alternative model," Khelladi said.
Inspiring revisionist history.
The study of Islam has also resulted in some provocative new theories about Haitian history, including a revisionist view of Boukman, a rebel slave who inspired other slaves to rise up against their colonial masters.
"Boukman was never a voodoo priest, like they say; he was a Muslim," said Samaki Foussoyni, a worshiper at the Delmas mosque.
"When they describe his name, Boukman, in English, as he was from Jamaica, they are really describing 'book man,' because of the book he was always reading, which the French here in Haiti always referred to as an "upside-down" book," Foussoyni said.
"They described it as such because it was the Koran, which you read left to right. When they say they had a voodoo ceremony at Bois Cayman, where Boukman lived, it was in fact 'Bwa Kay Imam,' or 'the woods of the house of the imam' in Creole."
Although the mosques are locally maintained and receive no assistance from Islamic charities abroad, the nascent faith got an international boost from the U.S.-led military force that entered Haiti in 1994 to restore exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.
"The Pakistani and Bangladeshi soldiers came to our mosque to pray and enjoy our faith and they encouraged us with this belief," Al-Ali said.
Conscious of their status as outsiders in overtly voodoo and Catholic Haiti, a nation that endured decades of dictatorship and brutal military repression, Muslims are quick to stress the peaceful nature of their faith and to distance themselves from the September 11 attacks on the United States.
"Allah says that if a man kills another man it is as if he has killed all humanity," said Racin Ganga. "The people who did what they did in New York, they are not even human. Islamic people should use the weapon of their love, because violence, as we've seen here in Haiti, will not take us anywhere."
Muslim Medical Groups in Haiti
(Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 24, 2010) – The Islamic Medical Association of North America (IMANA) said today that it has helped convert the "Bojeux Parc" amusement park in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to a health care facility. The facility is being operated through a partnership between IMANA, Comprehensive Disaster Response Services (CDRS) and AIMER Haiti volunteers.
With existing hospitals in Port-Au-Prince overwhelmed with patients, IMANA said physicians at the facility are hoping to increase their capacity as quake victims continue to present with fractures, infected wounds and dehydration.
"On day one, an air hockey table doubled as a procedure table. Now, with our partners, we are providing services from pediatricians, obstetricians, emergency doctors, and surgeons to at least 100 patients a day. We are hoping to arrange equipment that would allow our surgeons to go from performing simple procedures to running a full mobile operating room," said Dr. Sameer Gafoor, a volunteer physician in Port-au-Prince. Gafoor is a cardiologist at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C.
IMANA is planning to send additional teams of physicians and surgeons every week with shipments of supplies to support existing operations.
Community News (V12-I5)
January 28, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
IMANA sets up clinic in Haiti
Imana team on their first day in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti–The Islamic Medical Association of North America (IMANA) said today that it has helped convert an amusement park in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to a health care facility. The facility, which is seeing over 100 patients a day, is being operated through a partnership between IMANA, other medical teams, and local partners such as Aimer Haiti.
With existing hospitals in Port-Au-Prince overwhelmed with patients, IMANA said physicians at the facility are hoping to increase their capacity as quake victims continue to present with fractures, infected wounds and dehydration.
"On day one, an air hockey table doubled as a procedure table. Now, with our partners, we are providing services from pediatricians, obstetricians, emergency doctors, and surgeons to at least 100 patients a day. We are hoping to arrange equipment that would allow our surgeons to go from performing simple procedures to running a full mobile operating room," said Dr. Sameer Gafoor, a volunteer physician in Port-au-Prince. Gafoor is a cardiology fellow in Washington, D.C.
IMANA is planning to send additional teams of physicians and surgeons every week with shipments of supplies to support existing operations.
Flint Islamic center seeks expansion
FLINT, MI–The Flint Islamic Center, catering to more than 1500 Muslims in the area, is seeking a $4.5 million expansion to its existing facilities. The new complex will have a mosque, a grade school, and will double its size from its current facility.
Besides an expanded worship space, a multi-purpose hall for social gatherings, a professional kitchen and new offices, the plan is to revamp the school operation with a new media center, science lab, school cafeteria, a new gym, an expanded computer lab to include long-distance learning, and room for a new high school program, said board member Abed Khirfan to mlive.com.
The Flint area continues to attract Muslim professionals and their families to the area due to its excellent schools, communities, and hospitals.
Kais Menoufy honored for his human rights work
SACRAMENTO, CA– Kais Menoufy, a Muslim community activist in Sacramento, was honored by the Florin Chapter of the Japanese American Citizen's League, for his commitment to civil rights.
Menoufy helps bring "Songs of Hope" – an annual concert performed by Arab and Israeli musicians – to Sacramento.
Since 2006, the Florin JACL has partnered with Muslim organizations to take Muslim American youths to the Manzanar Internment Camp in the Southern California desert where Japanese American were interned during World War II.
Eboo Patel to speak at Stanford graduation ceremony
Interfaith leader Eboo Patel is one of the featured speakers at this year's graduation ceremonies beginning on June 11, 200. He will joing UN Ambassador Susan Rice and Stanford Philosophy Professor Debra Satz.
Patel is a member of the Obama administration's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. A Muslim born in India and raised in Chicago, he founded the Interfaith Youth Core in 1998 to inspire and train college students to build understanding.
He is the author of a Washington Post blog, "The Faith Divide," which explores what drives faiths apart and what brings them together. He also wrote "Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation." He holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois.
"We believe Eboo Patel's lifelong work to encourage religious tolerance and to prompt young people to take action will inspire all of us to make a difference," the class presidents said.
Islam in Haiti
January 28, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Geoffrey Cook, MMNS
Haiti is a benighted country that your author knows well having made working journeys there, and serving on a Committee in my home State of California to support that nation in her struggles (the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere) for over a decade now.
The information your essayist is to relay was a surprise to me, too, although I had intended to write about a slave rebellion that a Muslim led during the early history of Creole Hispaniola for the Observer a year and a half ago, but I could not trace the references down even in the largest academic library in Western North America which is literarily down the street from me. With the Internet, though, I have been able to trace the history and condition of the religion on the western half of that nation's island.
Islam came at the earliest period of the then Colony by the importation of slaves from Sub-Saharan Africa. As the current distressing rioting in Nigeria between Christians and Muslims demonstrates, there is a significant population of Muslims from West Africa. From an historian's point of view, the fact that the middle men in the slave trade were Arabs (Muslims) is most disturbing.
Much of the early accounts are confused by 200 years of oral tradition (many times relayed memory), legend and mythology. There are two mangled accounts of rebellion, but they were in another French isle in the Caribbean, Martinique, that became associated with the Haitians. One says that the leader still wanders around Saint-Dominique, as Haiti was called then. This is no more than mythology.
Many Muslim slaves from West Africa were forcibly baptized, but there is a belief that the Maroons (any group of slaves descended from fugitive slaves from the Seventeenth through Eighteenth Centuries) mainly held onto their Islamic beliefs. One such slave, Dutta Boukman, who was smuggled in from Jamaica, received his name because he could read, and his French masters reported he read upside down which indicated he most likely was reading Arabic and, at that, feasibly, the Koran. This description is an unquestionable fact although legend claims he was a Voo-Doo priest, but "revisionist" Haitian scholarship suspects that he was a Muslim. Nonetheless, his death by decapitation in a 1791 rebellion, which he commanded, raised the demand, again, that led for freedom and the finally successful Black Haitian Revolution for Independence in which the Muslims, who were instrumental in that War, spoke Arabic to confuse their enemies!
Before Dutta, another Maroon leader, a Marabout warrior in the Islamic tradition, François Macandal, too, attempted a rebellion, but was burned ghastly at the stake in 1758. The Mandingos, a distinct linguistic group, from West Africa, provided much of the leadership during the Haitian Revolution, and many of them were most definitely Muslims.
Islam had a vital impact at the birth of the Republic, and now it is beginning to assert itself once again. Various estimates are that the Muslim population in this Creole motherland is between 3500 and 7000. Most of the adherents to the faith live in Port-au-Prince earlier this month, where the majority of the death and destruction befell and the Mosquee Al-Fatiha stands (stood?), and the Bilal Mosque and an Islamic Center in the second largest city in the country, Cap Haitian, on the north coast is situated. (Cap Haitian, fortunately, was not impacted as much.) There are other places of worship locally maintained throughout the land mass although your writer has not been able to confirm the comprehensive condition of the community after the disaster on January 12th.
In the 1920s an influx of Arab immigrants entered Haiti from the Middle East – especially from Morocco although ethnically the largest of the Haitian Muslim population today are indigenous to their Caribbean country. Your researcher did trace down some individual North American Muslims, but not their demographics within the populace. Being an impoverished mixed assemblage, they were not able to construct their first Mosque until 1985. It was a built from a converted residence. The first minaret was built in 2000. Whether that minaret is standing has not been determined by your journalist, also.
Politically, the first Muslim to enter the Chamber of Deputies (i.e., their Congress) was Nawoon Marcellus on the Fanmi Lavalas ticket, the Left-leaning party led by President Aristide.
Your writer, who has gotten encouraging press releases from Islamic charities benefiting the citizens irrespective of belief, it is important to know that your Zakat is, further giving succor to your Muslim brothers and sisters. The figures (0.4of the population) and institutions your writer has mentioned may have drastically been decimated. After the situation has been solidified, rebuilding this small but burgeoning religious society remains.
Islamic Relief to Help Haiti
January 21, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Press Release
Islamic Relief USA works with Mormon church to aid Haitian quake victims
Residents leave Port-au-Prince by a bus after a 6.1 magnitude aftershock in Haiti's capital January 20, 2010. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins |
(Alexandria, VA, January 13, 2010) — Islamic Relief USA, America's largest Muslim relief organization, announced today that it will immediately fly a $1 million shipment of aid to those impacted by yesterday's earthquake in Haiti. That relief aid will be sent in coordination with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Those wishing to donate to Islamic Relief USA's "Haiti Emergency" appeal may visit www.IslamicReliefUSA.org or call (888) 479-4968. Checks payable to "Islamic Relief USA" may be mailed to: Islamic Relief USA, P.O. Box 5640, Buena Park, CA, 90622.
In October 2009, Islamic Relief USA responded to two Pacific Rim earthquakes by coordinating a massive aid shipment to Samoa and deploying emergency teams in Indonesia.
Islamic Relief partners worldwide also responded to other major disasters such as the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia and the Pakistan earthquake in 2005. More than $100 million in relief aid was collected to assist the victims in those disaster areas. Islamic Relief also responded to Hurricane Katrina, delivering aid to more than 60,000 people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
[NOTE: Media professionals interested in speaking to aid workers who have experience in disaster zones or to learn more about ongoing response efforts may contact Islamic Relief USA VP of Fund Development Anwar Khan at 818-216-9723.]
Islamic Relief USA, based in Alexandria, Va., is a non-profit 501(c)(3) humanitarian agency with offices also in California, Illinois, New Jersey, and Texas. As an international relief and development organization, Islamic Relief strives to alleviate the poverty and suffering of the world's poorest people. Since its establishment, Islamic Relief has expanded greatly with permanent locations in more than 35 countries worldwide.
For the sixth consecutive year, Islamic Relief USA has been awarded four stars by Charity Navigator, the largest charity evaluator in the country. This prestigious award puts Islamic Relief among the top 2.25 percent of charities in the nation.
Media Contacts: Anwar Khan, 818-216-9723 (mobile), E-mail: email@example.com; Mostafa Mahboob, 310-351-0952 (mobile), E-mail: email@example.com
Arab American Muslims, Christians–Relief to Haiti
January 21, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Arab Detroit, Ameera David
DEARBORN,Mich.–Just a day after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, the death toll was already estimated at over 1,000 people. Today, only a week later, that toll is thought to stand at 200,000—a number inclining with each passing hour.
Now, in the wake of such a disaster, a host of global organizations are contributing to relief. Joining those ranks are Arab American Muslims and Christians, who from a national to local level are stepping up to the plate and helping in unprecedented ways.
Immediately following the incident, Islamic charity Zakat mobilized as many as 50 volunteers to distribute high-need commodities. The charity, founded and directed by Khalid Demir, has pledged over $50,000 dollars in hygiene products, medical supplies, and hot cooked meals.
Demir himself just returned from a trip to Haiti in hopes of better facilitating the relief but was troubled by the amount of people who still hadn't received any medical attention or food. "With severely overcrowded streets, there is chaos. These are people who haven't eaten in over a week" he says.
Other Muslim organizations such as Helping Hands (based largely in Detroit) and Islamic Relief of USA have also dived in to help— both by sending in representatives to assess the calamity as well as by pledging over $1 million dollars in goods and services.
Helping Hands is currently negotiating the start of an efficient medical base clinic in Port-au-Prince. There, they will equip the center with sizeable medical provisions while also contracting quality physicians from the US and abroad into Haiti for treatment.
Umbrella organizations representing America's Arab Christian population have also taken a stand in supporting the Haitian earthquake survivors.
Arab Melkite and Maronite Catholic Eparchies have opened special collections in their respective churches which will go directly to the Catholic Relief Services (CRS), an organization with a $25 million commitment to relief.
International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC), representative of America's 300 plus Arabic Orthodox churches, will provide over $170,000 in relief.
Thus far, they have airlifted water purification equipment to accommodate 10,000 people as well as enough tents to lodge 500 families. Not to mention opening a campaign for donors to both finance and assemble "Hygiene Kits" complete with soap, towels, toothbrushes, and band aids.
Amal Morcos, IOCC Communications Director, is pleased to be afforded this opportunity to help. She says, "Faith based organizations play a very important role in humanitarian aid. They should uphold certain values in representing the religion and its followers— demonstrating that they care about all people regardless of their faith."
Also showing compassion is the Michigan Food and Beverage Association, an umbrella organization which encompasses hundreds of Arab owned restaurants and stores in and around the metro-Detroit area.
The association, founded by Syrian American Edward Deeb, hopes to rally member businesses to contribute monetarily as well as with food products, with the goal of giving $2 million or more in aid.
"They don't have enough food, enough water, or enough medical supplies. There are 1.5 million people, and they need our help" says Deeb.
While donations are surfacing mostly though large, pre-established organizations, there are also many individual Arab Americans finding creative ways to help.
Just this week, Lebanese American, Reem Sater, has initiated a fundraiser which will support Architecture for Humanity, an organization that works on reconstruction and the building of a sustainable infrastructure that can withstand earthquakes in the future.
Almost immediately after the earthquake hit, Sater thought of ways to activate the younger generation, "I didn't see anyone from our age group organizing any relief efforts, and I felt like we had a responsibility just as anyone else to assist those in need."
Taking place at a Ferndale lounge, each $20 donation made to the relief organization will include a drink of the person's choice. The event promises to attract more than 200 guests and raise $5,000 in proceeds.
With recurring aftershock earthquakes and new problems developing, Haiti holds an uncertain future; however, while the true devastation remains to be seen, Arab Americans are stepping in, actively responding with open hearts and little hesitation.
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Friends of Gubernatorial Race Candidate Shami Organized Unity Dinner Meeting
Ahmad AL-Yasin, Muzaffar Siddiqui and other friends of Farouk Shami, candidate for the Democratic Party Nomination for Texas Governor, organized a dinner at the Arab Cultural Center, for Mr. Shami to speak to the community about his candidacy and campaign issues. It was termed as "The Unity Dinner", since it was attended by people from all the diverse communities, including Caucasians, Europeans; African-Americans; South-Americans; Africans; Middle-Eastern; South-Asian; and South-East-Asians. Mr. Shami was accompanied by Jerome Ringo, one of his campaign consultants, who is an avid advocate for environmental justice, clean energy, and quality jobs. Present on the occasion was Paul Lynch, Consul General of England in Houston.
After his inspiring speech, Farouk Shami had a special meeting with President of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston (ISGH) Dr. Aziz Siddiqi to discuss his campaign. Dr. Siddiqi assured him that as candidate, he has all the chance to visit ISGH Masajids and meet with people: However ISGH being 501 (c) does not canvass for any candidate.
In his stirring and honest presentation after lavish Middle Eastern dinner, Farouk Shami said that both his rival Former Mayor of Houston Bill White and competing party's candidate Rick Perry have bragged in the recent past about bringing job into Houston, Texas and USA: If one looks closely, one easily find out that majority of these jobs were brought by his company CHI Farouk Systems.
"I know how to balance billions of dollars of budget, while my main contender has recently left the City of Houston in huge budget deficit and $103 millions of dollars short. I have always run by company debt-free and this is how the State of Texas should be run," said Mr. Shami.
"Vote for me and I will bring resources and opportunities to diversify Texas economy with the development of new market sectors through tax & other incentives, job growth, clean energy resources, rehabilitated transportation infrastructure, initiatives for food sufficiency in Texas and much more. I have good working relationship with high level businesspersons and government officials in more than 100 countries and I will use that leverage for a most prosperous Texas," added Farouk Shami.
For more information, one can visit his website at: http://www.faroukforgovernor.org/
Helping Hand Organizing Medical & Relief Missions to Haiti
Executive Director of International Projects for Helping Hand For Relief & Development (HHRD) Irfan Khurshid reached Port-Au-Prince on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 to place all the logistical systems and base camp to start providing assistance to thousands of Haitians'. With American forces occupying most of the airport in Port-Au-Prince, Mr. Khurshid had to reach Haiti from Canada, going first to Havana – Cuba, then to Santa Domingo – Dominican Republic, and then by land into Haiti. He has already started the food distribution in Haiti.
With this humanitarian crisis of massive proportions in Haiti, HHRD is in the process of setting up a base camp. Once the camp; systems, logistics; and procedures are in place, HHRD will need services from doctors and medical staff, as well as relief-&-social workers. To register for this Haiti Earthquake Recuperation Program 2010, one can reach ILyas Hasan Choudry, who is coordinating Medical and Relief teams for HHRD to go to Haiti. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 1-832-275-0786.
In a communiqué received from HHRD, it has been learnt that HHRD, a leading US Muslim Community International Relief organization, has launched a $1.5 Million Haiti Earthquake Recuperation Fund. HHRD is one of the leading international NGOs of USA Muslim Community [501 (c) (3) – Federal IRS Tax Exempt ID: 31-1628040] and their motto is "Muslims For Humanity", meaning wherever humanity will need assistance, HHRD will try the best possible way using all resources and networks to help our fellow beings.
HHRD has a matching donation program, so when someone donates to HHRD, they can ask their employer to fully or partly match that giving. For all updates and more information, one can visit www.hhrd.org or call Farrukh Raza, Chairman HHRD at 1-732-593-7017 and/or Shahid Hayat, Executive Director at 1-347-400-1899.

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worldwide underestimated how key he remained to running the
organization, shattering the conventional thinking that he had been
reduced through isolation to being an inspirational figurehead, US
officials said in May. His personal, handwritten journal and his massive
collection of computer files show he helped plan every recent major al
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last year that had travelers and embassies on high alert, two officials
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(U) The records show bin Laden was communicating from his walled
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branch, which has emerged as the leading threat to the United States. US
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While Roodepoort (GLRU), Rustenburg Imapala (Leopards) and Brakpan (Valke) all feature near the top of the Predator League their participation in the Club Championships is due to them being the top clubs in their respective provincial leagues, excluding the university clubs.
Amongst the favourites to reach the finals are Pretoria Police (Blue Bulls), who won the Carlton League by beating Varsity Cup winners Tukkies, and 2010 champions College Rovers (KZN), who have only lost three of their last 77 matches.
Top half of draw:
Roodepoort (Golden Lions) vs Naka Bulls (invited, Blue Bulls) – Match A
Rustenburg Impala (Leopards) vs Villagers Worcester (Boland) – Match H
Pretoria Police (Blue Bulls) vs Welkom Rovers (Griffons) – Match E
Durbanville-Bellville (WP) vs Blanco (SWD) – Match D
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We have a 10x16 shed used to store the riding mower, push mower, and all garden stuff. It hadn't been cleaned out in about 6 years, and was really piled with crap, and every black pot for every plant we bought in the last 10 years. So, last month I took everything out, purged like a crazed banshee, and reorganized. All the different bags of potting mix, fertilizer, rose dust, etc. was put in large plastic see through bins with like products, and labelled. Pots recycled. Trash thrown out. Tools rehung and put away. Then I went to the garage and pulled out all the garden stuff that should be in the shed too, and got that put away.
Two weeks ago a cousin visited from Canada, and we decided to go to Boston to tend the family gravesite. I made a list the night before of stuff to take, and the next morning it took me all of 5 minutes to gather it all up! And 5 minutes to put it all away! It used to take me 1/2 an hour to gather up tools and stuff because it was all over the place, hard to reach, etc. And never really put away.... And that's the payoff! Barbara |
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- Posted by claire_de_luna (My Page) on Thu, Nov 20, 08 at 0:40
Barbara, Congratulations! Your post reminds me of how we actually need to put our hands on our ''things'' at times, just to know what we own. Sadly, it takes getting fed up with the situation as it isn't (working that is!) to make necessary changes. I did something similar a year ago in our garage, which made my life so much easier. Just today, I re-organized our freezer/fridge/pantry while I sorted some of the contents for our local food pantry. While I was doing that, I also made lists of meals I could make with the ingredients I have on hand. Tonight, I pulled together dinner in 15 minutes, and didn't realize I had anything I could make that fast! Doesn't it make you want to look at what else to can do to simplify your life? You're right...the payoff is absolutely worth it. |
I am impressed! It's a lesson to the rest of us that by just spending some time cleaning out one area saves hours throughout the year. |
Good for you! There is the immediate satisfaction of having a neat space, and as you point out, lots of later payoffs as well. |
'Doesn't it make you want to look at what else to can do to simplify your life?' As I slowly get areas done, I do find that the time savings is significant, and that doesn't even factor in the frustration and stress from not being able to find things. DH needed some duct tape, and I told him exactly where it was. Of course when he was through with it, he left it there on the table. . I handed it to him the next time he walked by....... I've been working on the closets, and after seeing the 'vertical folding' thread, re-did the t-shirt drawer, and got a lot of clothes purged or put away. Went away for a 3 day trip, 10 minutes to pack. Payoff time! I just love these payoffs, it helps keep me motivated. Barbara |
- Posted by des_arc_ya_ya (My Page) on Thu, Nov 20, 08 at 11:09
Did the same thing last night when I went to get walking clothes out of the closet to wear for this morning. I had reorganized my closet yesterday and all of my walking clothes are hung together in the closet, all my jeans, dressier things, etc. Made getting ready the night before even easier. I, too, love the payoffs!! Anybody else? |
Congratulations! You inspire me! I have to get my winter stuff out-snowshovels, snowblower,etc. and the garden stuff put away. Also need to rake up all those darned leaves! |
Yes, isn't it much easier when we go to look for something and it is where it belongs. Does cut the stress and buying duplicates because you didn't know that you have it. I have been doing a lot of it. Still need to do the garage and should do it as it has been cool out the last few days but am trying to get ready for the holidays. I did most of my pantry today because everyone was putting stuff anywhere and I couldn't find the tuna but knew that I had six of them. Now I know what I have and what I need to buy. |
Thanks for sharing your success story, Barbara! MaryLiz |
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I mean it already super slows you, shreads your mr and armor and makes you pretty much naked so you cant defend yourself with ad or ap. Just make it kill you, its a free kill most of the time it is used, especially early game anymore. Is there any real reason why it should reduce your attack damage and ability power at all? isnt the slow and armor and mr shred enough?
sooo, when someone is running away like a little ***** alone, they should be able to take one of the pursuing party out with them? you sound like those "people" whom thought smite worked on champions.
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Doesn't stop you from using CC to get away. Does ghost work? or take cleanse huehuehue
Sounds like someone is mad they got baited running in 1v3 thinking they could clean up.
The spell you're looking for is called 'Lovetap'. Coming S3.
Come on guy...
Cleanse is what you take when you're expecting to eat every exhaust ever, like when I'm Wukong.
I disagree with exhaust being a champion instakill, but I do think we should be able to smite Teemo.
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Although it's often skewed and misleading, the portion of the each preseason game that matters for fake football is the one where both the first team offenses and defenses are on the field. In Week 1, that was often only a series or two, and then in Week 2 it was the first quarter, and usually at least one series into the second quarter. Now as Week 3 begins tomorrow, we'll see the starters play well into the third quarter, with backups sometimes seeing the field for just the fourth.
So far then, our sample size to measure anything of meaning in the preseason is inherently small. But in two instances with two tight ends who are being leaned on to deliver varying degrees of value (one a quality late-rounder, and the other a high ceiling sleeper), an alarming early trend has emerged, especially with both learning new offenses.
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What is the best way to store potted roses during winter? I put them in the garage last year but I think it may have been a little too warm. I saw some very fleshy light green growth towards the middle/end of march. They seemed to do fine when brought back outside put this seems unhealthy to me. I also thought about putting them back outside when/if this happens again, but it seems to me that this would be to early. |
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I had asked a similar question a few weeks ago :) Here is the link to that post. It doesn't cover the new growth coming in too early in the season, but it may help.... ~Tammy |
Here is a link that might be useful: Where to Over-Winter
The garage is fine. That pale growth is due to lack of sunlight. I get it on my pots buried in leaves too. It's less of a problem than taking them out too soon and having them freeze. Sometimes it will green up once out in the light and sometimes it just drops off when new growth starts. I don't take my pots out until night time temps are steadily remaining above freezing. Usually that's the beginning of April for me. The hardest thing on the roses is that yo-yoing freeze/thaw. They only have so much energy stored in the roots and canes. If they start to grow and then all that new growth is frozen off and they have to grow again they can only do that a couple of times before the stores are used up and they die. Unless you want to take them out during the day and then put them back in every night leave them in the garage until the nights are above freezing and don't worry about that pale growth. |
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Here's another returning contestant -- Brandy Neelly, 18, who sings a clever and self-assured cover of Hunter Hayes' "Wanted." I'm personally not a fan of the nasal quality to her voice (Harry said yay, J. Lo said nay re: whether she should keep that), but I might just need to hear another song. I am very distracted by the amount of ghostly foundation on Brandy's face… and how the thick streaks of shiny blush match J. Lo's light pink lipstick.
My thoughts exactly.
Ethan Harris, 20, completely wins me over as a character with the drawing of Keith Urban on his guitar, his new job at a (long pause…) oh that's right, copy and print center, and especially his dazed real-time commentary on how weird it is to be talking into the TV screen. This long-lost Osmond brother, Ronny, is a genuine delight. I don't see him winning any vocal competitions with that high-pitched instrument of his -- there's nothing objectionable about it, but it's not likely to be an Idol Moment generator. Maybe I'm way off.
Power Chord: Leah Guerrero, 21, strikes me as someone with more entitlement than talent.. before she starts singing, that is. Really powerful voice. J. Lo is into 19-year-old tram driver Zach Day's whole vibe -- and his flip flops, which he thankfully removes in order to execute a cartwheel and toe-touching kick outside. Harry finds the break in Symphony Howlett, 24's voice "incredibly annoying and distracting," but would like to hear it again without it. I'm surprised he didn't ask her to lose it immediately and just sing again right there. She has a lot of drive and she's not gonna stop!
Ayla Stackhouse, 17, showcases a strong, conversational style of singing on "Wings" that could really draw a stage or TV audience in. I dig her bravery in general and agree with J. Lo (again!) that she's got a star quality in that she's not afraid of the lights. We see so many spotlight-starved "finished product" divas show up 'round these parts, whereas Ayla basically just has to sing and make eye contact to establish her star power. There's a big difference.
Thanks to Eric Gordon, 27, we can all spend some quality time wondering just what Keith Urban does with his hair dryer. (You can't achieve such a stunning flat-ironed mane by aiming that volumizing heat jolt anywhere near your head, silly.) The Richmond, Kansas lab technician sings John Mayer's "Perfectly Lonely" with competence and a groovy sense of timing, but I'm not blown away. Harry seems more intrigued by Eric's James Dean-esque pompadour and Members Only jacket than anything else. I think what I'll remember most about Eric is that he's like a taller version of Travis Wall from So You Think You Can Dance.
By the end of the auditions, the judges seem so desperate for any trace of human decency that they might have given Ryan Nisbett, 24, a golden ticket based on his politeness alone -- the formerly 300-pound but now scrawny art student refuses to shake hands after coughing into his own, and he doesn't start out his audition by bitching that he has a cold. You'd think an elegant lady was singing during Ryan's cover of Sarah McLachlan's "Angel" -- it's a lovely voice in general, but the intrigue of a "so high guy" could wear off quickly against powerful singers. If Idol doesn't work out, I think Ryan could find work as a "Johnny Depp losing weight for a role" impersonator at a theme park. Not Disney or anything. Something regional.
Marialle Sellars, 17 -- wait, didn't she open the show last week? This time we get her backstory: Her father, who always insisted she study music and learn how to play all sorts of instruments (she still seems unclear on why), passed away in 2008. There's a scratchy quality to her vocal on "Grenade" and Harry insists she looks like Miley Cyrus. "You are gonna be a nightmare for the other competitors," he tells Marialle. Well, if she was Miley, that would definitely make sense!
Who were your favorites tonight? Discuss!


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Should I drop out of nursing school? - page 2
I'm in my 2nd semester of LPN school at a community college, in a very highly regarded program with a 100% NCLEX pass rate. I was THRILLED to have gotten in to nursing school. I have a bachelor's in... Read More
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An Ever Green Evening
Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 6:00pm to 6:00pm
Evergreen Museum & Library The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Evergreen Museum & Library hosts its annual holiday open house, featuring creatively themed seasonal decorations; a silent auction for one-of-a-kind faux book covers hand-decorated by some of Baltimore's best designers and crafters; and after-hours viewing of the museum's special exhibitions, "JUST Jacks!" and "Lasting Legacies: Recent and Promised Gifts to the Permanent Collection." Johns Hopkins students will showcase work-in-progress for an upcoming group exhibition of art books; festive holiday snacks will be served; and a variety of unique gifts and fresh greens harvested from Evergreen's grounds will be available for sale in the museum shop.
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New Living Translation (NLT) | New International Version (NIV) |
1 "When you divide the land among the tribes of Israel, you must set aside a section of it for the LORD as his holy portion. This piece of land will be 8 1/3 miles long and 6 2/3 miles wide. The entire area will be holy ground. | 1 " 'When you allot the land as an inheritance, you are to present to the LORD a portion of the land as a sacred district, 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits wide; the entire area will be holy. |
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