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PAKPAC Condemns NY Attempted Bomb Plot
May 6, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Press Release
"Washington DC: May 4th, 2010: The Pakistani American Public Affairs Committee (PAKPAC) condemns the Times Square attempted attempted bomb plot over the weekend. We appreciate the efforts of the New York Police Department as well as the FBI and vigilant NY residents in responding to this incident and saving hundreds of lives. PAKPAC is shocked and saddened to learn that the prime suspect is of Pakistani heritage. Though details of the case are still being uncovered and investigations are on going, we denounce this attempted attack on our soil and seek that this individual or any accomplice, to be tried and punished under American Judicial system. Whether this is an act of a lone individual or a group, it harms everyone and benefits no one. As a community, we should have zero tolerance for such acts as they damage and disrupt the way of life of Americans.
"PAKPAC agrees with President Obama's call for all citizens to be vigilant, it maybe be recalled that it was reporting by a vigilant NY resident that stopped this tragic incident from happening. PAKPAC and Pakistani Americans are committed to protect and defend the United States of America. We ask the Pakistani Americans and American Muslims to demonstrate an iron resolve against terrorism and to remain vigilant and continue to report anything that is illegal or suspicious to law enforcement agencies.
"Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, stated on the "Today" show that it was premature to label any person or group as suspect. "Right now, every lead has to be pursued," she said. "I caution against premature decisions one way or the other." PAKPAC requests that the U.S. law enforcement agencies and American community to safeguard the civil rights of the thousands of law abiding Pakistani Americans and ensure that there is no backlash against the community, locally in Connecticut or across the nation. Pakistani American community seeks to work together with the Obama Administration and law enforcement agencies, and to provide them with resources to protect the safety of our nation and its citizens.
"The US ambassador to Islamabad Anne Patterson held talks with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on this issue. Mr. Qureshi assured Pakistan's full cooperation to US in this regard. The nation of Pakistan along with its armed forces has given unprecedented sacrifices in US-led war on terrorism. It is estimated that over five thousand Pakistani military and civilians have lost their lives, while Pakistan economy has suffered a loss of $35 billion since September 11 attack. PAKPAC welcomes the full cooperation offered by Pakistan Government.
"PAKPAC is monitoring this developing situation and will keep you updated periodically."
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Community News (V12-I10)
March 4, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Muslim and Jewish comedy show
FAIRFIELD, CT–The Muslim Student Association (MSA) and the Jewish student group KADIMA at the Fairfield University in Connecticut co-hosted their first event Wednesday night, a comedy show called "Stand Up for Peace," featuring Scott Blakeman, a Jewish comedian, and Dean Obeidallah, a Palestinian-American comedian, the Mirror student newspaper reported.
The two comedians have been performing since 2002 in an effort to bring Muslim and Jewish people together and promote peace and understanding between the two groups. They began by performing shows for Seeds of Peace, an organization devoted to bringing Palestinian and Israeli teenagers together.
"When we found out about Stand Up for Peace a few months back, we thought, 'What better way to do this than co-sponsor this with MSA?'" said Alison Goldberg '11, president of KADIMA. She said that she and Nargis Alizada '12, president of MSA, had wanted the two organizations to put on an event for a while.
"We wanted to raise awareness to the fact that Jewish and Muslim students don't hate each other," Goldberg said.
Mosque redevelopment plans rejected by Lomita CA
LOMITA, CA–The Islamic Center of the South Bay was stopped in its tracks to redevelop its property. The Lomota Council unanimously rejected the Center's proposed redevelopment plans last Monday. It cited traffic concerns as the major reason behind the decision.
"Basically it just caused too much traffic on the streets in that neighborhood," Mayor Don Suminiga said. "People are coming from all over to this area. The Islamic Center in Lomita is the only one around. People are coming from Orange County, San Pedro, Torrance."
The mayor said that the mosque can likely be remodeled without increasing the number of people coming to the center.
Muslim claims NYPD discriminated against him
NEW York, NY–Said Hajem,a 39 year old Moroccan born immigrant, claims that he was not hired by the New York Police Department because of his faith and the fact that he was born outside of the United States. He is now suing the department for discrimination.
According to the New York Times Hajem took the police exam in February 2006 and scored 85.6 which is much higher than passing.
In June of the same year he received a letter of congratulations from Commissioner Kelly and began prepared to enter the force.
"I started dreaming of becoming one of the Finest," Hajem told the Times. "As an important person who is going to save lives and stop terrorism."
But in the four years since Hajem first started having those blue dreams, his application seems to have been stalled in a black hole.
Hajem, who has filed a lawsuit against the city, says that in July 2006 an officer reviewing his paperwork told him that he disapproved of people from "other countries" joining the NYPD, according tot he Times.
That officer, Ricardo Ramkissoon, allegedly also didn't accept references from people with Middle Eastern names.
"He told me, 'I need American names,'" Hajem told the Times. "He said, 'You may be a terrorist."
The city and police department for their part content that they have "successfully recruited native speakers of Urdu, Farsi, Arabic, Pashto and other languages," said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne. "Our linguist program is the envy of law enforcement worldwide."
Lawyers for the city filed a motion asking that Hajem's claim be thrown out, but U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Sullivan ruled on Jan 29. that there was enough evidence for the suit to go forward.
Community News (V12-I9)
February 28, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Duke's Muslim chaplain to give opening prayers at US house
DURHAM –- Duke University's Muslim chaplain, Abdullah T. Antepli, will deliver the opening prayer for the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., at 10 a.m. March 3.
Antepli is serving as guest chaplain at the invitation of U.S. Rep. David Price.
"I am deeply humbled and honored to be asked to give this opening prayer. It is a great honor for me and for Duke University," Antepli said in a news release. "It's wonderful that Congress, through their invitation, is acknowledging Duke's commitment to diversity and a pluralistic society."
Antepli, who joined Duke in July 2008, is one of only a handful of full-time Muslim chaplains at U.S. colleges and universities. He is the founder and executive board member of the Muslim Chaplains Association and a member of the National Association of College and University Chaplains. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Duke Divinity School and Duke Islamic Studies Center, where he teaches courses on Islam.
The guest chaplain program is sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain of the House of Representatives. Guest chaplains must be recommended by current members of Congress, and each member is allowed to recommend only one religious leader per session. Opening the House of Representatives in prayer is a tradition that began in 1789 with the first Continental Congress.
Columbia MSA discusses Sunni-Shia unity
NEW YORK, NY–The Muslim Student Association of Columbia University held a lecture by Imam Ammar Nakshawani on the importance of uniting Sunni and Shia Muslims.
"There needs to be dialogue in order to bridge the gap," Nakshawani said in his lecture on Thursday. The word "dialogue," he added, stems from the Greek word "dia," which means "to see through the lens of another person." "For so many years, when Shiites and Sunnis tried to bridge the gap, the Shiite would look through his lens. The Sunni would look through his."
In his address, Nakshawani asked the audience to put aside political and theological differences between Sunnis and Shiites and focus on the group's shared fundamental beliefs, such as the oneness of Allah, Muhammad's (s) role as the prophet of Allah, and the five pillars of Islam.
"Take off your lenses and see through the eyes of someone else," Nakshawani said.
He criticized he speeches of Sunni and Shiite clerics who use negative phrases, such as "atheist sinners" and "infidels," to incite hatred of the other sects.
Muslim cemetery proposed in Connecticut
CANTERBURY,CT–The Connecticut Council of Masajid is planning to establish a Muslim cemetery in Canterbury. They have identified a 11 acre site which was recently toured by the area residents and the Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission.
Abdul Hamid, president of Council of Masajid, has been in Connecticut since 1966 and lives in Hampton. He said he has always found a friendly mix of people in the state.
"This is an opportunity to get to know people,'' he said of the walk through the woods.
The group has an option to purchase the Canterbury property for $300,000 from Daniel M. Cymkow. According to the wetlands application, a 12- to 15-foot wide driveway would wind through the land. The first and second phases of the cemetery would be four acres each, and the third phase would be 17 acres. The land would not be clear cut, Hamid said.
If a wetlands permit is approved, the group would still need a special exception permit from the Planning & Zoning Commission.
First Halal Meals on Wheels Program Introduced in US
DETROIT, MI–The Arabic Community Center for Economic and Social Services has launched what is the first Halal Meals on Wheels program in the US. The program delivers hot Halal meals to seniors who require care and was launched last month in Dearborn.
Amne Darwish Talab of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services told the Detroit News that there has been a need for this type of service for a long time.
"There are a lot of people who don't have the same living conditions as they did before this economic crisis," said Talab, ACCESS's social services. "A lot of seniors have no family or no kids or their kids are in another state."
The program currently has about 20 recipients and is expected to grow.
Muslim students help the homeless in Orlando
ORLANDO, FL–The Muslim Student Association at the University of Central Florida has launched a program which not only provides food for the homeless but also gives then clean , new socks.
Project Downtown is a part of MSA National that was started by students in Miami who wanted to give the homeless more than food, the Central Florida Future reported.
The project is founded on the idea that people should not only give food but also whatever modest, unconditional gifts they can offer, according to Project Downtown's Web site.
Huma Khan, a mechanical engineering major and the Director of Project Downtown, Orlando, said that the sock donation was one way to give more to the community.
"It's just a random thing we picked out that homeless people do need," she said. "Socks, underwear, stuff like that. Just little things that we look over that people in the streets actually do need and that they appreciate a lot more than we do."
Khan added that the members of Project Downtown, Orlando give the homeless someone to talk to.
"Us being here kind of just gives them something to look forward to," she said. "I build relationships with people. I know who they are, I know them by face…if you have a good conversation with someone one week, it'll kind of make your day a little bit better and you'll look forward to speaking to that person again."
Abundant Faith, Shrinking Space
August 27, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Mosques Turn to Synagogues, Ballrooms to Accommodate Growing Membership
By William Wan, Washington Post
They stream in through the doors every Friday — a sea of Muslims pouring into a synagogue in Reston.
Muslims facing a lack of worship space lease a Jewish synagogue in Reston, Virginia, prompting an unexpected cultural exchange. |
The men roll out long prayer rugs on the synagogue floor. An imam stands up front and praises Allah. And as the faithful begin whispering their prayers in flowing Arabic, their landlord, a rabbi, walks by to check whether they need anything.
This unlikely arrangement between a burgeoning Muslim congregation and a suburban synagogue is what happens when you combine the region's rapidly growing Muslim population with a serious shortage of worship space.
As area mosques prepare for the start of Ramadan this weekend, many are simply bursting at the seams. Every available inch — even in lobbies and hallways — is being used. Parking is impossible. Traffic afterward is worse than postgame gridlock at FedEx Field.
Nobody knows how many Muslims are in America — estimates range from 2.35 million to 7 million — but researchers say the population is growing rapidly, driven by conversions, immigration and the tendency for Muslims to have larger families. One study by Trinity College in Connecticut shows the percentage nationwide having doubled since 1990. In the Washington area, the increase might be even sharper, local Muslim leaders say.
A building boom has brought new mosques to suburbs such as Manassas and Ellicott City, but many have been full from the moment they opened. So, desperate for room, Muslim communities have started renting hotel ballrooms, office space and, yes, even synagogues to handle the overflow.
"We say our prayers, and a few hours later they meet for Sabbath and they say their prayers," said Rizwan Jaka, a leader at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) mosque in Sterling, which added services at two synagogues last year. "People may think it's strange or odd, but we are simply grateful for the space."
The extra room will prove crucial this weekend with the beginning of Ramadan — a month of fasting that often draws hundreds to mosques in addition to regular members. Anticipating the throngs, many mosques have hired off-duty police and rallied volunteers to handle the traffic.
"Just like you have Easter Christians, Hanukkah Jews, we have what we call Ramadan Muslims. They just come out of the woodwork on the holy days," said Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, outreach director at the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church.
Last year at the height of Ramadan, Abdul-Malik had to turn many away to avoid violating occupancy rules, which limit his mosque to 2,000 worshipers. When asked how many he expects this year, the imam chooses his words carefully: "I'd rather not say because of the fire marshal."
"The prophet Isaiah said our houses would be houses of prayer for all people," said Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk. "Now, I don't know if Isaiah could have imagined us hosting Ramadan in the synagogue, but the basic idea is there."
It turned out to be relatively easy. Their new Muslims friends didn't need much: wide-open space, carpet to cushion the floor and a place for their shoes. The synagogue's social hall suited them perfectly.
The arrangement has led to the unexpected benefit of cultural exchange. There have been pulpit swaps, with the imam and rabbi preaching to each other's congregation and interfaith visits as well.
David Fram, 72, who sings in the synagogue's choir, was recently invited to the Sterling mosque for daily prayers. It was an amazing, if somewhat awkward, experience. "I didn't know quite what to do; there was a lot of bending and kneeling in their prayers," he said.
Standing quietly in the back of the prayer hall, Fram decided to simply bow his head in reverence. He ate lunch ("some kind of spicy meat and rice") afterward. And a few weeks later, he found himself at Barnes & Noble buying a Koran, out of curiosity.
"It's not like the U.N. here. We're not looking to draft some final settlement agreement between Israel and Palestine," Nosanchuk said. "But we're learning from each other, and we're trying to give them the space they need and make them feel at home."
ADAMS and other congregations are unlikely to solve their space problems anytime soon because of the long lag time usually required for new mosques. Because the Koran prohibits borrowing money at interest, congregations don't use bank loans for construction. Instead, they fundraise over many years and then pay in cash.
The process can be excruciating.
It took Muslims in Prince William County 10 years before they accumulated enough money for a new home. While they waited, they crammed into a one-story house off Route 234. Each week, they somehow fit 50 cars into a space meant for 20. When services got too full, people knelt outside and prayed on the grass.
Women working minimum-wage jobs donated their family's jewelry to the new-mosque fund. When construction finally began in 2004, families often drove out to the site just to watch and dream about a future of plentiful parking and prayer space.
But it wasn't meant to be.
Almost as soon as the new mosque, Dar Al-Noor, opened three years ago during Ramadan, the building was packed with 1,200 people. So this year throughout Ramadan, members will continue praying and fundraising for further expansion, said the community's president, Mohammad Mehboob.
"We are a community with many people but not so much money," Mehboob said. "But Allah has always provided for us. It's amazing we have this mosque now, and, inshallah, we will continue to build and grow."
Obama Must Call Off This Folly Before Afghanistan Becomes his Vietnam
July 2, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Senseless slaughter and anti-western hysteria are all America and Britain's billions have paid for in a counterproductive war
By Simon Jenkins
If good intentions ever paved a road to hell, they are doing so in Afghanistan. History rarely declares when folly turns to disaster, but it does so now. Barack Obama and his amanuensis, Gordon Brown, are uncannily repeating the route taken by American leaders in Vietnam from 1963 to 1975. Galbraith once said that the best thing about the Great Depression was that it warned against another. Does the same apply to Vietnam?
Vietnam began with Kennedy's noble 1963 intervention, to keep the communist menace at bay and thus make the world safe for democracy. That is what George Bush and Tony Blair said of terrorism and Afghanistan. Vietnam escalated as the Diem regime in Saigon failed to contain Vietcong aggression and was deposed with American collusion. By 1965, despite Congress scepticism, American advisers, then planes, then ground forces were deployed. Allies were begged to join but few agreed and not Britain.
The presence of Americans on Asian soil turned a local insurgency into a regional crusade. Foreign aid rallied to the Vietcong cause to resist what was seen as a neo-imperialist invasion. The hard-pressed Americans resorted to eve r more extensive bombing, deep inside neighbouring countries, despite evidence that it was ineffective and politically counterproductive.
No amount of superior firepower could quell a peasant army that came and went by night and could terrorise or merge into the local population. Tales of American atrocities rolled in each month. The army counted success not in territory held but in enemy dead. A desperate attempt to "train and equip" a new Vietnamese army made it as corrupt as it was unreliable. Billions of dollars were wasted. A treaty with the Vietcong in 1973 did little to hide the humiliation of eventual defeat.
Every one of these steps is being re-enacted in Afghanistan. Every sane observer, even serving generals and diplomats, admit that "we are not winning" and show no sign of doing so. The head of the British army, Sir Richard Dannatt, remarked recently on the "mistakes" of Iraq as metaphor for Afghanistan. He has been supported by warnings from his officers on the ground.
Last year's denial of reinforcements to Helmand is an open secret. Ever since the then defence secretary, John Reid, issued his 2006 "London diktats", described in a recent British Army Review as "casual, naive and a comprehensive failure", intelligence warnings of Taliban strength have been ignored. The army proceeded with a policy of disrupting the opium trade, neglecting hearts and minds and using US air power against "blind" targets. All have proved potent weapons in the Taliban armory.
Generals are entitled to plead for more resources and yet claim that -victory is just round the corner, even when they know it is not. They must lead men into battle. A heavier guilt lies with liberal apologists for this war on both sides of the Atlantic who continue to invent excuses for its failure and offer glib preconditions for victory.
A classic is a long editorial in Monday's New York Times, congratulating Barack Obama on "sending more troops to the fight" but claiming that there were still not enough. In addition there were too many corrupt politicians, too many drugs, too many weapons in the wrong hands, too small a local army, too few police and not enough "trainers". The place was damnably unlike Connecticut.
Strategy, declared the sages of Manhattan, should be "to confront the Taliban head on", as if this had not been tried before. Afghanistan needed "a functioning army and national police that can hold back the insurgents". The way to achieve victory was for the Pentagon, already spending a stupefying $60bn in Afghanistan, to spend a further $20bn increasing the size of the Afghan army from 90,000 to 250,000. This was because ordinary Afghans "must begin to trust their own government".
These lines might have been written in 1972 by General Westmoreland in his Saigon bunker. The New York Times has clearly never seen the Afghan army, or police, in action. Eight years of training costing $15bn have been near useless, when men simply decline to fight except to defend their homes. Any Afghan pundit will attest that training a Pashtun to fight a Pashtun is a waste of money, while training a Tajik to the same end is a waste of time. Since the Pentagon originally armed and trained the Taliban to fight the Soviets, this must be the first war where it has trained both sides.
Neither the Pentagon nor the British Ministry of Defence will win Afghanistan through firepower. The strategy of "hearts and minds plus" cannot be realistic, turning Afghanistan into a vast and indefinite barracks with hundreds of thousands of western soldiers sitting atop a colonial Babel of administrators and professionals. It will never be secure. It offers Afghanistan a promise only of relentless war, one that Afghans outside Kabul know that warlords, drug cartels and Taliban sympathizers are winning.
The 2001 policy of invading, capturing Osama bin Laden and ridding the region of terrorist bases has been tested to destruction and failed. Strategy is reduced to the senseless slaughter of hundreds of young western soldiers and thousands of Afghans. Troops are being sent out because Labour ministers lack the guts to admit that Blair's bid to quell the Islamist menace by force of arms was crazy. They parrot the line that they are making "the streets of London safe", but they know they are doing the opposite.
Vietnam destroyed two presidents, Johnson and Nixon, and destroyed the global confidence of a generation of young Americans. Afghanistan obscenely dubbed the "good war" could do the same. There will soon be 68,000 American troops in that country, making a mockery of Donald Rumsfeld's 2001 tactic of hit and run, which at least had the virtue of coherence.
This is set fair to be a war of awful proportions, cockpit for the feared clash of civilisations. Each new foreign battalion taps more cash for the Taliban from the Gulf. Each new massacre from the air recruits more youths from the madrasas. The sheer counterproductivity of the war has been devastatingly analysed by David Kilcullen, adviser to Obama's key general David Petraeus no less.
Obama is trapped by past policy mistakes as were Kennedy and Johnson, cheered by an offstage chorus crying, "if only" and "not enough" and "just one more surge". He and Petraeus have to find a means and a language to disengage from Afghanistan, to allow the anti-western hysteria of the Muslim world which the west has done so much to foster now to cool. It is hard to imagine a greater tragedy than for the most exciting American president in a generation to be led by a senseless intervention into a repeat of America's greatest postwar debacle.
As for British politicians, they seek a proxy for their negligence in Afghanistan by staging a show trial of their negligence in Iraq. Why do they fiddle while Helmand burns? Might they at least ask how they can spend £40bn a year on defence yet watch a mere 8,000 troops on their one active front having to be rescued by Americans?
Community News (V9-I39)
September 20, 2007 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Faith communities urged to shine the light on post-911 discrimination
CHICAGO, IL—Two leading faith-based publishers – one Muslim, one Christian – urged that faith communities "shine the light" on a disturbing pattern of discrimination across America in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
"We live in a xenophobic country," said the Rev. John Buchanan, editor and publisher of The Christian Century magazine. "We thought we had [even] taken care of anti-Semitism and that has been popping up here and there. One of the things we must do is name it [xenophobia] and keep shining a light on it."
Buchanan, who is also pastor of Fourth Presbyterian Church here, was responding to a presentation from Imam Malik Mujahid, president of the largest Islamic publishing house in the U.S., who had offered some alarming statistics about what he called "the unreported domestic war on terror."
Since September 11, 2001, Mujahid said, 500,000 Muslims have been interviewed by the FBI. Mujahid estimated 24% of Muslim American households have had a visit from the FBI. He estimated 28,000 have been detained or deported. Mujahid said special prisons for Muslim prisoners have been established since 9/11 and "Halliburton has a government contract to build more."
Mujahid, who is imam to three mosques and chairman of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, said he constantly hears critics claim that Muslim leaders do not condemn terrorism. Muslim leaders have been doing that all along, he said, pointing to a unanimous resolution of the U.S. Senate praising Muslim leaders for speaking out. That resolution got virtually no media attention, he noted.
Both religious leaders shared their thoughts on "The Legacy of 9/11 on Media, Faith and Society." The interfaith dialogue, held on the sixth anniversary of the 2001 terrorism events, was hosted by the Communication Commission of the National Council of Churches USA (NCC) meeting near the national headquarters of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, one of the NCC's 35 member communions.
Mujahid had many examples of what he says Muslims call "Islamophobia" but he particularly pointed to the swearing in of Keith Ellison, the first Muslim American elected to the U.S. Congress. Last December Rep. Virgil Goode (R.-Va.) had made anti-Muslim remarks regarding Ellison's use of the Koran in the private ceremony in taking his oath of office.
"There was no statement from the Republican Party" objecting to Rep. Goode's remarks, he said. "There was no statement from President Bush."
Buchanan acknowledged the National Council of Church's role in speaking up on behalf of those who are being scapegoated in our country but said, "the evangelicals have just 'out-mediaed' us in the past few years." He urged moderate mainline churches to speak out more loudly on behalf of "our Muslim brothers and sisters" and protest Islamaphobia when it is seen.
"We must say no to the late D. James Kennedy's notion that this is a Christian nation and we must do all we can to elect Christians to office to keep it that way," Buchanan said. "We must say no to Franklin Graham's statements…[that disparage] Muslims."
Buchanan said, we must concentrate on the "inclusive and tolerant tradition" that is in all of our sacred texts. He read from Isaiah 19 as an example of "the inclusive view of God?that's worth knowing about and talking about."
"What are you going to do with information like that?" asked the Rev. Michael Livingston, NCC president, who was moderator of the discussion. "The level of ignorance and lack of awareness in the religious community, this war, this is part of our legacy," Livingston told the church communicators. He challenged his audience to "move this legacy in a different direction."
The National Council of Churches USA is the ecumenical voice of 35 of America's Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, historic African American and traditional peace churches. Those member communions represent 45 million faithful Christians in 100,000 congregations in all 50 states.
Chicago cabbies get tickets while praying
CHICAGO, IL–Muslim taxi drivers in Chicago have alleged that as many as 500 of them have been ticketed for parking vehicles in access lanes near O'Hare Airport while pray at a nearby prayer trailer. The trailer has been set up by the city for making it convenient for observant drivers to pray. Cab drivers claim that despite providing them with the location, the city punishes them with hefty fines for using it.
The tickets ranging from $50 to $80 can cut a driver's daily profits into half.
"The financial impact, at least from a revenue standpoint, is huge," says Wolfgang J. Weiss, one of the managing directors of the Chicago Professional Taxicab Drivers Association. "We just want them to back off."
Aviation Department spokesman Greg Cunningham said authorities do not want to interrupt Muslims and their prayer habits, according to Chicago Suntimes. But he contends that cabbies must follow the rules at a facility that needs to be clear of traffic in order for operations to run smoothly and safely.
"It's a temporary parking and holding area," Cunningham said. "If a vehicle blocks off other vehicles from leaving the facility, it becomes a problem."
Malaysian Fulbright scholar to visit Montgomery County
Rosnani Hashim, professor of education at the International Islamic University in Malaysia, will be at Montgomery County Community College from Oct. 18 until Nov. 11.
During her stay, Hashim will engage in scholarly activities both at the college and in the community.
In Malaysia, Hashim has taught educational philosophy, history and sociology from the Islamic perspective since 1987 at the International Islamic University.
She has written extensively on Islamic education and its roles and position in a multi-racial, multi-cultural and multi-faith society like Malaysia, and she has lectured abroad on the issues of Muslim worldview, education, curriculum and women.
Hashim holds a doctor of philosophy (PhD) degree in education from the University of Florida, a master of science degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin and a bachelor's in mathematics from Northern Illinois University.
She has served as the vice president of Women's Affairs for the Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia, and she has published six books and has written more than 30 articles, book chapters and papers.
"It's tremendously prestigious that our students will have the opportunity to interact with another Fulbright scholar," said Aaron Shatzman, dean of social science and writer of the Fulbright scholar application.
"We are among a very elite group of institutions to be awarded a visiting specialist under this program. Dr. Hashim will afford both the college and community at large a valuable perspective into higher education from a Muslim point of view."
"The presence of a Fulbright scholar on our campuses is yet another demonstration of the high quality and excellence of the education and cultural outreach that we provide to our students and the community," said Karen A. Stout, president of Montgomery County Community College. "We are deeply honored to welcome a scholar of Dr. Hashim's stature to our institution."
The Fulbright Visiting Specialist program "Direct Access to the Muslim World" is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State and administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) in Washington, D.C.
Interfaith support for Jewish temple
FAYETTEVILLE, AK–When a Jewish congregation was facing opposition from the community over its plans to construct a synagogue in the Butterfly House neighborhood, help came from an unexpected quarter. Fadil Bayyari, a practicing Muslim, approached the congregation and offered to provide contracting services at cost.
Bayyari was aware of similar opposition faced by Muslims across the nation and wanted to help.
" Having that partnership with a practicing Muslim and Palestinian Arab, we really feel that spirit will cross religious boundaries and attract people from all walks of life, " said Ralph Nesson, a member of the fundraising committee.
Mosque proposed in Manchester
MANCHESTER, CT–The Connecticut town may get its first mosque soon, if the plans of a group of local Muslims are approved.
The Association of Muslim Community is requesting a special exception to allow a place of worship in a residential zone. The group hopes to renovate a small, single-family house at 232 Woodland St. and convert it into a mosque, Association of Muslim Community Treasurer Tarek Ambia said.
Ambia said the group consists of about 25 to 30 Muslims, most of them Manchester residents, who now travel to East Hartford, Hartford, and Windsor to worship and who would like to establish a mosque closer to their homes.
"They feel like they should have something here locally," Ambia said.
Town regulations allow places of worship in residential zones as long as they meet several requirements in areas such as parking and screening between the place of worship and nearby homes.
Plan to build first Mosque in Hawaii questioned
A Muslim group in Hawaii is soliciting donations to build what would be the Island's first mosque. The "Masjid Al-Baqi Project" plans to acquire a house in the Kona Highlands subdivision and convert it into a mosque.
But the plan has already attracted media scrutiny after the seller of the house and her listing agent say that the house is in escrow but not for Syed Kamal Majid, the only person named in the documents connected with the Mosque project.
The listing agent says the buyers are "a Hawaiian family" and have noting to do with any mosque plan.
MAS Freedom Launches 'Faith over Fear and Justice for All' Campaign in Texas
KATY, TX—The Muslim American Society has launched a campaign to fight attempts to slander and intimidate the Muslim community of Katy, Texas. The Muslim community is facing stiff opposition for its plans to build an Islamic center.
Opponents of the center, who own property adjacent to the site of the proposed Islamic Center of Katy, have initiated an Anti-Muslim campaign, which includes the use of a misleading internet website address that continues to post extremely derogatory and inflammatory propaganda directed against the Muslim community and Prophet Muhammad (s).
The purpose of the Faith Over Fear and Justice for All Initiative, according to MAS Freedom Executive Director Mahdi Bray, is to "encourage and build a positive interfaith atmosphere that affirms the right of all people of faith to live in freedom from intimidation and hatred, and that builds bridges of real understanding and mutual respect for the good of the entire community."


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Family Jewels
Les knows what he's looking for.
Winning Smile
The queen of the castle.
See Something You Like?
Rings, meet bling. Bling, meet rings.
Daddy's Girl
Ashley wrote her first pawn slip at the age of seven.
The Son Also Rises
Seth has money on his mind.
Di, My Darling
"I'll take the doll, but not her necklace."
All Sales Final
The window is where the action is.
Say Cheese
Don't let the sweet smile fool you, Amber is one tough cookie.
Don't Finger The Merchandise
Ring in the New Year!
Not Fur Sale
We're not sure what kind of animal the orange one is from.
Back In Black
Taking a photo break between dealing with customers.
Service With A Smile
Ashley and grandpa Henry take a look at some jewelry.
The Cupboard Is Bare
Times are tough when you have to pawn your stripper pole.
Show Time Starts Now
Ooooo. Shiny!
Not Even a Nibble
"Tanks but no thanks."
Numbers Game
Up next, 2177252.
Hard Copy
For every item, there's a slip.
Trained Eye
Les always handles the merchandise with care.
All Smiles
Keeping it in the family.
Who's Buying?
Ashley breaks for lunch.
Rules Are Rules
No pawn slip, no cash.
Detroit Hock City
In Detroit, cash is king.
Axes Of Power
Guitars are always coming in and out.
Cart Breakers
"Can we play through?"
Anything On?
Television row.
Hardcore Pun?
A moment of levity.
No Deal
"I'd like to help you. I really would."
Adding It Up
Balancing the books.
Rock Star
Henry really knows his stones.
Child's Play
Ashley and Seth deal with the public.
Good As Gold
A rare smile from the boss.
What a Croc
"Careful, it has a little bite."
Behind The Glass
Rich works the window.
The Final Step
Pick up your cash at the window.
Golden Touch
The family that pawns together, stays together.
Can We Help You?
The house that Gold built.
Let's Make A Deal
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The Doc.CloseAndDiscard() method on documents returns message of ' not a member of 'Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Document'.
How do we close a dwg file in AutoCAD 2013?
Solved! Go to Solution.
Solved! by Alexander.Rivilis. See the answer in context.
Solved! by jeff. See the answer in context.
Not sure what your asking
Imports System Imports Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime Imports Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices Imports Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices Imports Autodesk.AutoCAD.Geometry Imports Autodesk.AutoCAD.EditorInput Imports Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.DocumentExtension <Assembly: CommandClass(GetType(AutoCAD_VB_plug_in1.MyCommands))> Namespace AutoCAD_VB_plug_in1 Public Class MyCommands <CommandMethod("MyCommand")> _ Public Sub MyCommand() Dim doc As Document = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument doc.CloseAndDiscard() End Sub End Class End Namespace
Solved! by jeff. See the answer in context.
In the last example,
CloseAndDiscard does not show up in intellisense but it does build for me.
Works great, thanks.
more clearly, it's DocumentExtension.CloseAndDiscard(doc)
just in case anyone would expect it to be an extension method, like i did
It is a extension method
public static void CloseAndDiscard(this Document doc) { CloseInternal(doc, true, null); }
I checked it and you're right, but I am using VB.net. And there it isn't an extension method.
Taken from MSDN:
Notice that the extension method definition is marked with the extension attribute <Extension()>. Marking the module in which the method is defined is optional, but each extension method must be marked. System.Runtime.CompilerServices must be imported in order to access the extension attribute.
Extension methods can be declared only within modules.
With C# you import the namespace and VB you import the module, but it still is a extension method.
I am importing
Imports Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.DocumentExtension
which is a class. I couldn't find the module I am supposed to import in VB. Do you know where I can find it?
I know that, Alexander. I was asking about the module for VB.
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The Ducks (9-19, 5-12) rallied back from a 13-point deficit in the final eight minutes, taking the lead on a Taylor Lilley steal and layin with 4.6 seconds remaining. Coming out of a timeout, Morris dribbled up the court and released a three-pointer just inside halfcourt that banked in as time expired.
Oregon scored six straight to rally from a 67-63 deficit, tying the game on a baseline jumper by Nicole Canepa with about 12 seconds left. Lilley stole the ensuing inbounds pass and drove in for the go-ahead layin. It was the Ducks' first lead in the second half.
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We recently purchased a grossly overgrown and neglected property, and are systematically plowing through it. We started yesterday on removing a vine growing up on the fence from below the pool deck. We don't know what the vine is, but it's thick, fat, and has completely blocked the view, so it needed to go. As we pruned, we discovered a citrus growing below, that it had enveloped. The citrus has tiny blossoms forming, and a crushed leaf smelled very lemony. There were no rotting fruits on the ground below, as there are under the other citrus in the yard. The citrus is about 10' tall, and very nice, once we got that vine off of it. I'm hoping it bears fruit. Are there citrus that don't? Fingers crossed! We gave it lots of water, and will fertilize soon. Suzi |
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a pic of the whole tree and a close up pic of the trunk and leaves would help to id it. |
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We are between two houses while the remodel is going on the other, but will be back there Monday, and I'll take photos! Every time we work in the yard (1.4 acres), we discover something new! Gardener ID'd 2 seedling guava trees! It might be years before they fruit, but the gophers don't seem to like them, so it's good!! I'll post photos next week. I'm sure it's citrus! Just hoping it fruits! Beats me while the others have rotting fruit, hanging fruit, and buds, but not this one! That vine might have choked it! But the vine has met it's master!! Suzi |
- Posted by desertdance So.CA LowDesert (My Page) on Wed, Mar 20, 13 at 15:30
Here is the photo. I sent this to myself prior to the unfortunate loss of my cell phone 2 nights ago. I only have this photo, and no more cell phone until my contract expires in late April. Please disregard all the junk in front of the tree. Our irrigation contractor put all that stuff there. I have since pruned out all the dead wood. This tree has huge thorns, and I know it bears, because there was an old dried up piece of fruit resting between a couple woody branches. The blossoms are white, not purple based. The leaves smell heavenly lemon! Suzi |
- Posted by desertdance So.CA LowDesert (My Page) on Wed, Mar 20, 13 at 15:48
Hopefully you can see this photo better. it does show the leaves, blossoms and some trunk or older branches. Suzi |
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healthy looking tree. |
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Nestled on five luscious acres near Columbia Town Center, Vantage House is a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) designed to allow active seniors to fully experience all that retirement living has to offer. Since 1990, we've been offering a full spectrum of senior living options from our 222 independent living apartments to assisted living and skilled nursing care in our Medicare-certified Health Center right on one central campus.
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As a full-service retirement community, Vantage House offers the reassurance that you will never have to move from your home should your needs change over time. In our on-site Health Center, experienced staff are available to offer assistance with life's day-to-day activities in our assisted living community. For short-term illnesses or injuries, recuperative care can be provided as can more comprehensive nursing care when needed.
To make sure you are enjoying your retirement to the fullest, we provide a number of amenities and services to make your stay with us more enjoyable. From housekeeping and linen service to full-service banking and furnished guest suites, we strive to provide our residents with everything they need under one roof.
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The first International Scientific Meeting was held in San Diego on February 2-4, 2001 and with the help of an extraordinary faculty and the support of Tulane University's CME Department it was a wonderful success. The proceedings of the symposium were subsequently published in a special issue of the American Journal of Cardiology thanks to a very generous grant provided by Pfizer Inc.
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New to Miva Merchant 9 is The Catalog, which is the place for managing all of your products and categories in your store.
This is an introductory walkthrough of the Miva Merchant 9 Admin. The store admin has been completely redesigned to be optimized whether your logging into your store from a smart phone, a tablet, or a computer.
Price Groups just got a whole lot more powerful with Miva Merchant 9. This video breaks down the concepts of this robust Marketing toolset.
Learn how to build themes with Miva Merchant's new Ready Themes functionality.
Miva Merchant has some powerful custom fields functionality that can be utilized to add content to customer accounts, orders, products, and categories. The first step of harnessing this power is to activate the Custom Fields module in your Miva Merchant store admin. This video shows you how.
Many times we assume the only way to see success from "offers" is by discounting the price. That's not always the case. We'll walk through a number of successful strategies e-commerce sites have deployed to increase their revenue and conversion rates without lowering their price point.
For our first Meetup in our new location, Brennan Heyde will be giving a talk on "Getting Started Selling Online." This talk will cover 5 major areas to consider when starting a new eCommerce store: Finding the right products, business rules to live by, getting paid, choosing the right ecommerce platform, and how to fulfill an order.
Although you can create an unlimited number of users at no additional cost to you, the Miva Merchant software only comes with a single Concurrent User license This video explains what how concurrent seat licensing works, and what users will see when logging into a store with all available seats occupied.
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Miva Merchant 9 optimizes the process of editing records in your store. Watch this video to learn how to speed up your workflow when managing multiple records.
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I live in Tacoma, Wa with my husband. I have an 8 month old son who keeps me on my toes! I am enjoying being a stay at home mom and watching my son grow and learn.
I'm originally from Victoria, BC, Canada, but I moved here to marry my american husband :)
I love baking bread, and eating bread! I am a carb addict. I also love trying new recipes, but I seem to be drawn to really basic meat and potatos style meals. Maybe I am an old-fashioned style cook and baker.
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Lyons, Nebraska, Sep 16, 2011 -- USDA Rural Development has awarded $72,014 to the Center for Rural Affairs in Lyons, Nebraska to help facilitate and finance the development of small and emerging rural, private business enterprises. Leveraged funds totaling $65,000 from the Center for Rural Affairs and numerous partners will complete the funding package.
"We appreciate receiving this grant. MarketPlace is making a difference helping small rural businesses improve their bottom line and expanding their businesses even in these tough economic times. One small rural business adding one or two new jobs has an impact in rural Nebraska and rural South Dakota. This grant allows this kind of growth to continue," said Director, Kathie Starkweather, Center for Rural Affairs.
The Center for Rural Affairs Nebraska MarketPlace, goes into its sixth year, and with the funds awarded today will bring focus to new opportunities for youth, information and training in emerging opportunities of technology and green business development. The South Dakota MarketPlace, as it continues in its second year, will include a strong outreach effort to the eight Native American Tribes in the state. MarketPlace is a proven vehicle for developing small rural businesses and creating jobs.
"We are pleased to assist The Center for Rural Affairs in their efforts in developing rural small businesses," said Area Specialist Korey Young, USDA Rural Development
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Hey Annie -- Issue #10
Submitted by Annie Ory on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 13:58
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Advice Question:
Hey Annie:
My boyfriend and I have been together for a few years. We've always liked to "play" with other people, couples, men, women, we're both bisexual. We have always had fun with it and it's been great. We never really had an agreement that we did it any certain way. On occasion he would see other people without me and I didn't really like it, but he would always say, "well you can too if you want" but I didn't really know anyone I wanted to be with alone.
A couple of months ago I met a straight guy I really like. We cuddled and kissed some but I didn't have sex with him because I felt I needed to talk to my boyfriend about it first. When I did he said I could only date this new guy if he also had a date with someone which didn't seem fair but I went along. The next time he made a date I called my new friend. My date went well, we had sex and I spent the night, which my boyfriend has done in the past. His didn't go so well. His interest was cheating on her husband and feeling guilty about it, decided not to spend the night or have sex with him. Now he say's he's not comfortable with dating separately anymore. He wants me to dump my guy! He says I "can't" see him again. The night I spent with him none of us got any sleep because my boyfriend kept calling and texting all night wanting me to come home!
I am SO ANGRY! I feel that I should be able to do anything he did and I just know that as soon as I dump my guy he'll find someone and tell me we're back to "open" again. What the hell! Why is he acting so selfish?
Fighting Mad Gander....
Hey Gander:
"Why is he acting so selfish?"
People behave selfishly when they feel, well, selfish. He's feeling selfish, jealous, envious, controlling. What's interesting to me is that you didn't notice this when he was off having sex with other people without your agreement or consent. He's obviously a selfish guy, and I'm sure you knew that, but are surprised at HOW selfish he is willing to be. You're right, if you dump your guy, as soon as it's convenient for him he'll change the rules again. The structure of your relationship, defined by your partner, is flexible based solely on his desire to be comfortable and happy, with complete disregard for your happiness and comfort. What that tells you is that you'll have to take care of your happiness and comfort yourself.
You need to decide what to do based on your comfort and happiness. That may be hard, because I assume there is some threat, spoken or not, that you could lose your primary relationship if you choose something that makes him uncomfortable. That would not be a significant loss from my perspective, but then I don't know what the relationship means to you.
The conversation you have with your partner around this issue really needs to start with a calling forth. You need to call this man forth to live the life HE created. Tell him you know he's afraid, envious, jealous and threatened. Tell him you understand those feelings because you've lived them all yourself. Tell him you will help him in any way you can, that you will be supportive, but don't let him tell you what you can and can't do. You are within your rights, and long over due frankly, to make choices about what kind of relationships you want to have. Keep talking but don't let these conversations be controlled by your boyfriend. YOU tell HIM what you are going to do, and you tell him what his options are. Make it clear that one of them isn't choosing FOR you. Remind him you love him, just as he loved you when he was sleeping with other people. Remind him you'll be back home soon, just as he came back when he went out with other people. Remind him that he'll survive feeling jealous and envious, just as you did. Offer him some resources to get him through, and turn off that phone....
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[379] Utility of Brachyury in Distinction of Chordoma from Cytomorphologic Mimics in Fine Needle Aspiration and Core Needle Biopsy
Vickie Y Jo, Jason L Hornick, Xiaohua Qian. Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background: Chordoma is a neoplasm of notochordal differentiation that most often occurs in the axial skeleton. Separation from mimics such as chondrosarcoma and metastatic mucinous adenocarcinoma (ACA) is therapeutically important but diagnostically challenging, especially in limited biopsies. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) for T or brachyury, a nuclear transcription factor expressed in chordoma, has recently proven diagnostically useful in whole-tissue sections. Our aim is to compare brachyury with conventional markers (S-100, EMA, keratin) in distinguishing chordoma from mimics in fine needle aspiration (FNA) and core needle biopsy (CNB) samples.
Design: In total, 20 chordoma cases (8 FNAs and 12 CNBs), 10 FNAs of chondrosarcoma, and 12 FNAs of metastatic mucinous ACA were evaluated. IHC was performed on cell blocks and CNBs using a rabbit polyclonal antibody to brachyury (Santa Cruz). Nuclear staining in at least 5% of tumor cells was recorded as a positive result. IHC (S-100, EMA, pan-keratin, AE1/AE3) performed at the time of diagnosis was also reviewed.
Results: Of the 20 chordoma cases, 15 were axial skeleton primary tumors and 5 were metastases (spine, pelvis, lung). Brachyury was positive in 17 (85%) chordoma cases; 14 had multifocal nuclear staining of moderate to strong intensity and 3 had weak focal staining. There were 5 sets of concurrent FNA and CNB; 4 pairs were brachyury-positive in both samples, and 1 pair was brachyury-positive in the CNB and negative in the cell block. S-100, EMA, and keratin stains were available for 13 cases: 9 (69%) cases (including the 3 brachyury-negative cases) were positive for S-100 and keratin or EMA, and 4 cases were keratin-positive but S-100-negative. No nuclear brachyury staining was seen in chondrosarcoma or metastatic mucinous ACA, though 2 ACA cases showed cytoplasmic staining.
Conclusions: Brachyury separates chordoma from cytomorphologic mimics with high sensitivity and specificity in limited biopsies. As a single test, brachyury has higher sensitivity (85%) than a combined panel of S-100 and epithelial markers (69%). When added to the conventional panel, brachyury increases sensitivity to 100% without sacrificing specificity. Cytoplasmic staining in mucinous ACA is a potential pitfall when interpreting brachyury in samples with scant cellularity.
Category: Cytopathology
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No, I don't think it has changed aging. Seniors continue to be the "throw-away" generation. Medicare used to be a lifeline for those of us who couldn't afford healthcare. Now the better doctors won't accept Medicare patients and we're denied adequate medical care.
Who speaks for us? Certainly not AARP. So many of us who worked all of our lives don't have adequate money now to even pay for our prescriptions, much less our day to day living expenses. We have no way to increase our incomes. Who cares about that? Who advocates for us?
My feeling is that "Changing Aging" is more of a philosophical glance at aging with no real solutions.
I have been for sometime giving this a lot of thought–and I think most of us over 60 would like to tell our children to back up— "Just leave us kids alone" (70's) song ; well now that we are 30 years older–long story short is that if you are reasonably healthy the # of yrs. matters very little. Life is full of changes — meet them as new challanges— donot think or get paranoid because we forgot why we went into the next room; maybe it was a polite way of not saying –shut up child; you bore me & I do not need you to tell me there is dust on the tv; I simply do not care & leave if you do not like the way I keep my house..I would not dream of telling you the same thing.. I expect more respect I could most likley write a book on this subject as I am currently a mind to do so.!! I do not mean to offend you personaly; am sure you have our best interest in mind.. Sincerely 4everblugenes 47
Why don't you suggest they help you out and clean your house once a month?


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It's easy. All you have to do is beat the spread on 15 straight games.
That's the kind of gambling grand slam you'll attempt for 50 years, and then in frustration on one gloomy Sunday morning you'll hand a paper and pencil to your lovely wife who has been getting as far away from the living room as possible on Sundays throughout your marriage. You'll tell her to make a few squiggles on a pad of paper, and make picks based on cool names, funky-looking logos, or maybe her favorite tourist destinations, (that's poor strategy because it automatically eliminates over half the league, but we digress). She'll haphazardly make a few check marks, and a few hours later you'll be rich.
We're not sure if that's the strategy used by a Delaware man who needs just two more wins against the spread on Sunday to make a cool $100,000 off of a minimal $5 bet. Maybe he chose his dog instead, or perhaps a gold fish. Either way, he's suddenly a huge Eagles and Ravens fan.
Parlay betting started in Delaware two years ago, and although two people have come agonizingly close, no one has pulled off the 15-team slam yet. The Philadelphia Daily News reports that an anonymous man made a 15-team parlay bet last week that carried over into this week because there were only 13 games in Week 5. He's now turning his knuckles several shades of white while clutching a ticket with the final two bets, and he has a favorable point spread with both. His card has the Eagles +1 on the road against Washington, and the Ravens -4 at home against Houston, a line that's now moved to -7.5.
So he's two more wins away from $100,000. Sure, that sounds nice, but the Daily News' Dick Jerardi sees an opportunity to get greedy. Please start your calculator…
What the player could do to give himself a potentially nice profit is this: Bet $22,000 ($44,000 total) to win $20,000 on the Redskins and Texans. He would win $40,000 if the Skins and Texans cover the 1 1/2 and 7 1/2 ($20,000 plus $20,000). He would win $56,000 if the Eagles and Ravens cover the favorable plus-1 and minus-4 ($100,000 minus $44,000). He would win $140,000 if both games fall in the middle – Eagles tie or win by 1 and Ravens win by 5, 6 or 7.
This man will also age by at least 25 years in one day on Sunday.
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"In the early days Gertrude Stein brought [artist] Juan Gris to my studio. He came prepared to be photographed with a high white stiff collar, as if for a family portrait," recalled Man Ray of the circumstance that led to this portrait. Indeed, Gris's stiff and formal pose implies that he was completely ill at ease with the prospect of having his likeness made.


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A delicious low calorie BBQ pizza! Yes, you can eat the WHOLE thing for under 400 calories! Submitted by MESSIEJESSIE23 Carbs: 51.7g | Fat: 10g | Fiber: 14.5g | Protein: 35.3g | Calories: 398
Incredible! 5.0/5
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Quick dinner using leftover cooked chicken. Submitted by DIGGING4ROOTS Carbs: 28.6g | Fat: 6.5g | Fiber: 1.2g | Protein: 16.3g | Calories: 243.7
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Submitted by LIFENPROGRESS Carbs: 15.6g | Fat: 1.2g | Fiber: 5g | Protein: 14.8g | Calories: 136.2
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Submitted by NIKI778 Carbs: 22.7g | Fat: 23g | Fiber: 7.9g | Protein: 42.9g | Calories: 454
This recipe is delicious and easy! Submitted by JENNIW70 Carbs: 49.7g | Fat: 7.9g | Fiber: 3.1g | Protein: 24.9g | Calories: 368.6
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Submitted by CHELLES Carbs: 31.1g | Fat: 4.6g | Fiber: 3.8g | Protein: 1.2g | Calories: 165.2
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Recipe courtesy The Neelys Submitted by JUJEE13 Carbs: 40.9g | Fat: 5.4g | Fiber: 6.2g | Protein: 4.2g | Calories: 226
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A fun spin on chicken. Submitted by HOWDOIHEARTTHEE Carbs: 34.4g | Fat: 3.1g | Fiber: 3.8g | Protein: 55.8g | Calories: 403
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A meal in its own, but I like to have it with a nice salad! Submitted by RAEVYN32 Carbs: 43.6g | Fat: 10.7g | Fiber: 5.8g | Protein: 17.3g | Calories: 334.7
In the morning, throw all the ingredients for this simple recipe in the slow cooker. A hearty and healthy dinner will be waiting for you when you get home! Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 7.9g | Fat: 3.7g | Fiber: 1.8g | Protein: 26.8g | Calories: 176.8
This recipe takes a traditional French dish and gives it a California twist. A good portion of the fat comes from the avocado, which has mostly heart-healthy monounsaturated fats. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 1.2g | Fat: 16.3g | Fiber: 0.2g | Protein: 32.8g | Calories: 287.2
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Easy recipe, no prep work. Submitted by VLVTGRRL Carbs: 9g | Fat: 13.4g | Fiber: 0.9g | Protein: 24.4g | Calories: 261
A tasty twist on boneless pork chops! Submitted by FLUFFYWONKENOBE Carbs: 17.7g | Fat: 25g | Fiber: 2.1g | Protein: 22.3g | Calories: 399.7
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Super quick and easy low fat, low calorie Taco Tuesday option! Submitted by BOOTSTRAPBABY Carbs: 31.5g | Fat: 1.4g | Fiber: 2.5g | Protein: 14.7g | Calories: 207.5
You'll love these cheesy yet healthy enchiladas! Submitted by TALESIN Carbs: 27.4g | Fat: 8.5g | Fiber: 2.4g | Protein: 11.7g | Calories: 241.3
I found a similar recipe on a website before, but it called for tomatillos and not nearly enough mango! Submitted by SDEFLOR2 Carbs: 44.3g | Fat: 2.7g | Fiber: 10.7g | Protein: 29.7g | Calories: 299.5
A refreshing alternative to tuna salad. Pair with tomatoes and cucumber for a light lunch. Submitted by JLPNURSE Carbs: 20.4g | Fat: 4.1g | Fiber: 6.1g | Protein: 27.6g | Calories: 219.1
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LE MARS, Iowa (AP) -- Wells' Dairy says it is voluntarily recalling one of its Blue Bunny ice cream products for a labeling problem.
The Le Mars, Iowa-based company said in a news release Saturday that packages of 56 fluid-ounce Blue Bunny Premium Bordeaux Cherry Chocolate Ice Cream are being recalled because the product may contain egg not declared on the label. People who are allergic to egg could have a severe reaction if they consume the ice cream.
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As I told you before, I'm working in a total revamp to this site, including a complete filmography section. For this reason, I'm uploading pictures from some movies, specially the older ones.
Today, I have added screencaptures from Private Resort, Slow Burn, Platoon and Lady Blue, but you can expect a little more this weekend.
Private Resort screencaptures
Platoon stills
I have added a new quotes page, because I found an awesome script from Martina (the same girl who did the affiliates one). And because of this, I'll need your help.
With this script, you can add quotes, too. So, if you're a related-Johnny quotes collector, please, help me! You can add quotes from Johnny himself, from his characters or from someone on Johnny.
Go to the add form. Select a category into the drop down menu. Insert the quote into the appropriate form, and the 'who said it', too. As you can see, you can insert your name, your email and your website. Just please check if the quote isn't already listed.
Golden Globe winner Johnny Depp attended the Paris premiere of SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET last night, January 16th, and signed autographs for fans waiting outside the theater. I added 38 pictures from Johnny and Tim.
Also I had forgot to add the pictures from Tokyo press conference, so added 50 new ones.
– Sweeney Todd Tokyo Press Conference
– Sweeney Todd Paris Premiere
Note: I'm working in a total revamp of this site, with a complete update of all pages. This site is SO outdate, some pages was last updated in 2004, some pages never was updated since this site open doors. You can expect a BIG surprise when I finish it.
Johnny is on the cover of the Feb. 2008 French Premiere magazine. The picture isn't new, but the title couldn't be more right: "Johnny, the magnificent".
Also, in the new issue of Radio Times:
Steady ladies! This week we're chatting to none other than Hollywood heart-throb Johnny Depp, who's soon to be back on the big screen wielding yet more sharp implements as he takes on the role of the demon barber of Fleet Street, Sweeney Todd.
He and director Tim Burton join us on the eve of their South Bank Show appearance to try to explain where their magical outsider chemistry comes from. And yes, there are pictures…
Thanks to part-time poet and emma, from the JD-Zone Board, for the heads up!
"I would like to thank my beloved friends at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for bestowing such an honor on me. It is a humbling experience, especially in the company of such talent. For many years the HFPA has supported my work and for that I have always been truly grateful. While this is indeed a happy day for me, I am overjoyed at the recognition the film as a whole is receiving. TIM is a dear friend and a true artist whose vision and skill inspire us all. He is a genius. Without his unwavering trust and support, I would not be anywhere near where I am today. Also, big thanks and respect to HELENA, whose simply staggering performance as Mrs. Lovett is a wonder to behold. I must send a behemoth salute to the wonderful crew and cast of 'Sweeney Todd' and all at Dreamworks/Paramount and Warner Bros. Pictures. In addition, I'd also like to extend my sincere gratitude to, first and foremost, my cherished friend and agent of forever ago, TRACEY JACOBS; the extraordinary man and producer, RICHARD ZANUCK; the mastermind STEPHEN SONDHEIM; and, of course, my precious family, VANESSA, LILY-ROSE and JACK, for all of their love, support and pure and absolute happiness everyday. Overall, I believe it to be a proud achievement for everyone involved and on behalf of us all, I thank you."
This was posted @ The Insider, I was so curious (and certainly you, too) to read what Johnny said about his GG. Go Johnny, you deserve it.
Johnny Depp secretly visited Great Ormond Street Hospital yesterday to donate £1 million of his own money to thank staff for saving his daughter's life.
He arrived unexpectedly at the London children's hospital where eight-year-old Lily-Rose was treated last year when her kidneys failed.
Last week he invited five Great Ormond Street doctors and nurses to the party for the London premiere of his film Sweeney Todd.
And on November 29, unknown to the public, Depp spent four hours at the hospital telling bedtime stories to patients dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow after having his Pirates Of The Caribbean costume flown over from Los Angeles.
Congratulations to Mr. Depp, for his Best Actor, Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award for his role in Sweeney Todd!
Sweeney Todd was also awarded as Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.
The site JustJared has the complete list of winners. Go check!
[Film Guardian] After facing off against Russell Crowe in 3:10 To Yuma and Heath Ledger's Joker in the upcoming The Dark Knight, Christian Bale is preparing to go head-to-head with Johnny Depp. The pair will star in Michael Mann's crime thriller Public Enemies. Bale will play FBI agent Melvin Purvis who led the hunt for the 1930s bank robber John Dillinger, to be played by Depp. Filming is expected to begin in March before a possible actors and directors strike on July 1 forces Hollywood film production to grind to a halt.
Added 80 pictures from latest night, where Johnny was attenting the SW's Premiere at London.
– Sweeney Todd London Premiere
Sweeney Todd star Johnny Depp is on the new cover of Rolling Stone, talking about tackling the notoriously difficult Stephen Sondheim score for his new film, and how music has always been a part of his life.
If anyone can send us scans from this issue, we'll be very gratefull.
Thanks to Wei-Wei for the heads up!
EDIT – Added the RS pictures in the gallery, also scans from The Envelope's LA Times:
– Rolling Stones – January 08
– LA Times The Envelope – January 02, 2008


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For the money, for the quality - this is a great lipgloss. It's a neutral mauvy-pink with an iridescent sheen. It is perfect for use alone for a nice neutral lip, or over any lipstick. In fact I wish the MAC dazzleglass had shimmer that was as refined as this - sparklly but not chunky. For the extra few dollars, I'd go for this any day.
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A brand new version of the highly anticipated 'UP' wristband by the company Jawbone has just been released and it looks to be just as awesome as the original UP wristband, before it was pulled from the market. UP is a flexible, durable wristband that you wear all day and tracks your activities. When paired with the app that is available for iOS device, the UP wristband tracks your sleep, your activity level, your food and drink (if you want), your ideal wake up time and even reminds you when you've been sitting on your ass too long.
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