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LONDON, ENGLAND, FEB 6 - Kevin Schwantz is almost as good going slowly as he is going fast.The 1993 500cc World Champion showed off his trials skills in the Revolution show, an exhibition/competition that was part of the Carole Nash MCN (Motorcycle News) Motorcycle Show on the London Docklands. Schwantz was joined by fellow World Champions Freddie Spencer, Neil Hodgson, and Dougie Lampkin, as well as four-time 500cc World Championship runner-up Randy Mamola, 500cc and World Superbike contender Frankie Chili, and multi-time Isle of Man champion John McGuinness. As if that wasn't enough star power, Charlie Boorman, Ewan McGregor's riding mate, put on a show on his BMW R 1200 GS.The trials competition included identical sets of obstacles that the riders raced through separately. They rode under a limbo bar, weaved through a set of poles, then rode across a set of tabletops and over a seesaw. The most exciting obstacle was a tower of scaffolding with a metal pathway going up four stories. That was where the riders finished, ascending, then descending before racing to the finish line.Of the non-trials specialists - Lampkin was replaced by 17-year-old phenom Jack Sheppard on Sunday - Schwantz was in a class by himself. In the head-to-head competion, Schwantz, riding Lampkin's spare Gas Gas, was unbeatable, until he came up against Sheppard. Still, it was clear that the Texan knew what he was doing."I've been to a few world indoor competitions and they have a little bit of a timed, head-to-head, so I guess it is something they sort of do," Schwantz said after the third and final day of competition. " And being as we're pretty confined with the space we've got, it probably doesn't quite meet FIM standards as far as safety go. But I think we all realized that. We got [road circuit racer John] McGuinness here to remind us how bad safety really is at some places."So far it's been good fun. Pretty good group of guys. Everybody gets along pretty good. We all go out and have dinner at night and have kind of an idea on where to check on each other when we're doing the compeititon and making it as close as we can. Nothing too risky."Schwantz grew up riding trials and counts former European Trials Champion Mick Andrews among his friends and heroes"For me, riding trials is something that I really enjoy," he said. "Some of the guys, I mean, Freddie [Spencer] and Randy [Mamola] and [Frankie] Chili had never done anything, any real trials riding, to speak of. So a little bit more difficult for them than it was for me. [Neil] Hodgson said, 'Ah, I found out we were going to ride trails bikes, so I went and got one and rode four times before I came here. That's all the riding I've done.'"Hodgson had borrowed a trials bike, but had so much fun that he plans to add one to his garage on the Isle of Man as soon as possible. For Hodgson, whose World Championship-winning career was effectively ended nearly two years ago by a horrific crash on his right shoulder at a Southern California motocross track - he tried racing in British Superbike last year, but retired after falling on the same shoulder - it was racing his idol Freddie Spencer who was the highlight of the weekend. And not just racing Spencer, but beating him on identical Honda XR100s on a concrete oval layout."Well, you know, it's a famous saying in racing you're as good as your last race," Hodgson said with a smile. "Definitely Freddie's [Spencer] got the experience on me on the flat tracking, but at the end, a little bit of cheating from Mr. Hodgson and I managed to hold him off. Quite enjoyed that."Me and Freddie, I'm not joking, I'm acting like about an eight-year-old and he's acting like a 12-year-old. We have had so much fun," he said. "Me and Freddie, we're down here in the morning in our kit, whilst everybody is not even changed, playing on the XR100s. Superb. Obviously, not to be the boring cliche, but when I was a kid he was totally a hero of mine, so just to have fun with him on like a personal level means more to me than anything."After his forced retirement, Hodgson remained involved with the Motorpoint Yamaha team, while also mentoring Steve Brogan (BMW - Jentin Racing), who won the BSB EVO Superbike class by three points. And he'll continue to spend his life at racetracks."I've got quite a bit coming up," he said. "I'm doing quite a lot of work for Eurosport, doing a lot of commentary on the World Superbike events. And I'm also working for a company called Focused Events,doing track days, mainly in the UK. But this time of the year when the weather's terrible we go to Europe, southern Spain. We go to all the top tracks, Jerez, Aragon, Cartagena, so I'm keeping busy. I'm definitely keeping out of trouble."As for a possible return to racing, that won't happen. The shoulder's "a lot better," but even after two operations he knows he'll "never get the full movement, I've got no strength sort of like above my head. But I can ride dirt bikes. I can ride, obviously, XR100s and trials bikes, but I can't really complain."On his track day road bike, "it's literally the last three seconds and it takes that little bit of extra strength and I've just got no strength in it, so I'm definitely done with the racing. But obviously staying involved in the sport, because it's the greatest sport in the world."
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After entering the zoo, make your way around its 10 themed areas — including Wild Australia, Wild Asia and the Great Southern Oceans — where you can see animals living in unique environments that imitate their natural habitats. Have your camera ready at all times, as views of Sydney Harbour and Harbour Bridge abound.
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Sydney Taronga Zoo opened on October 7, 1916. Since then, the zoo has conducted 33 conservation breeding programs, 11 recovery programs, 10 in situ conservation partnerships and is involved in a further 10 major research programs for conservation. The zoo is a not-for-profit organization and maintains a proud international reputation for animal care and conservation.
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This is a condition where the pressure of the fluid in the eyeball builds up.
Painful eye, blurred vision, occasional headaches.
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In infants, teary or cloudy eyes, unusual sensitivity to light, and enlarged corneas.
Chronic glaucoma, can be extremely painful and can also eventually cause damage to the retina and optic nerve leading to partial or complete blindness.
It may be well established before you notice the warning signs: You have headaches, you need new glasses, you develop tunnel vision, and eventually you develop blank spots where you can't see anything.
The eye's lens, iris, and cornea are continuously bathed and nourished by a water-based fluid called aqueous humor. This fluid is constantly being produced and consequently needs to be continually drained away. And this is what the problem is with glaucoma patients, there is an obstruction to the drainage of the fluid and as a result, pressure builds up and causes problems.
This condition can be genetic, babies can be born with a defect in the drainage system in the eye and can consequently develop glaucoma early in life.
As the optic nerve deteriorates, your field of vision narrows and you have difficulty seeing things at either side. If nerve damage continues, it can affect your central vision and lead ultimately to total blindness.
Researchers believe certain things can trigger this illness;
Treatment of chronic glaucoma requires measures to control the flow and drainage of the fluid in the eye. You can help yourself by relieving stress and maintaining collagen production. Acute glaucoma is different: If the pressure of excess fluid in the eye is not relieved quickly, the result can be blindness. Both laser and conventional surgeries are performed to treat glaucoma.
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BYU basketball: Pacific 3-point barrage dooms Cougars 89-82
Stockton, Calif. • Bad habits die hard for this BYU basketball team.
Having won four straight games at the Marriott Center, the Cougars headed back out on the road Thursday night with a backpack full of confidence, but all those problems that haunted them in past games away from the Marriott Center surfaced again.
And the result wasn't pretty.
Pacific rolled to an 89-82 win over the Cougars at the Spanos Center in front of a split crowd of 4,058, all but ending BYU's hopes for an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament. Pacific students stormed the court to celebrate the mild upset.
"They were just better tonight," BYU coach Dave Rose said.
Indeed, Pacific made 10 of 21 3-pointers, exposing BYU's inability to contain penetration, and outrebounded the foul-plagued Cougars 41-32 in improving to 5-8 in the West Coast Conference, 14-10 overall. BYU fell to 9-5 in league play, 17-10 overall, and out of second place in the league heading into Saturday's showdown at Saint Mary's, which took over that spot Thursday night with a win over San Diego.
"We just didn't stop what they like to do," said BYU's Tyler Haws, who fouled out for the first time in his career. "They hit big shot after big shot, and we didn't make them do anything differently."
The Tigers were 7 of 9 from 3-point range in the second half, when they outscored BYU 54-44 to exact revenge from an 88-78 loss in Provo two weeks ago.
"Some of them were tough shots, and some of them were open," said Matt Carlino of Pacific's 3-pointers. "We know those guys can hit shots, and we can't allow that to happen. That's on us."
Carlino scored 28 points off the bench and Haws added 20 for BYU, but it wasn't nearly enough. Haws was 6 of 16 from the field, his second-straight subpar shooting performance.
The Cougars were 23 of 33 from the free-throw line, missing seven of those in the first half when they were threatening to take control of the game.
Haws fouled out with 1:08 remaining, Pacific's public address announcer reminding the crowd three times he had been disqualified.
"I think what we have run into with a couple of teams is that they have played really well [at home]," Rose said. "That's what teams do, they play well at home. They play a little bit better."
And BYU doesn't match it on the road.
The Cougars shot 44.1 percent, and another season-long bugaboo foul trouble plagued it from almost the opening tip. Bigs Eric Mika and Nate Austin picked up two fouls apiece in the first half and spent considerable time on the bench. Mika had just four points and made just one field goal, with less than three minutes remaining.
Austin had just two points, on a steal and dunk with 2:01 left that trimmed a 16-point UP lead to 79-75.
But the Cougars struggled to score after that, or get stops.
"Sometimes we are on the same page, but other times we are not," Carlino said. "I think it is a consistency thing."
Really, the game got away from BYU midway through the second half.
The lead see-sawed the first eight minutes of the second half until UP's Aaron Short made back-to-back 3-pointers from the same spot in the corner to give the Tigers a 60-53 lead with 11:01 remaining.
Pacific increased its lead to nine before BYU chopped it to four. But the momentum was short-lived.
Trevin Harris and Tony Gill hit 3-pointers and Kahlil Kelley had an uncontested dunk to balloon the lead to 73-60.
With the crowd at full throat, the Cougars could never slow down the freight train.
"That's a big number double figure [3-pointers]," Rose said, staring at the stat sheet.
The Cougars led 38-35 at halftime, but were just 10 of 17 from the free-throw line in the first half when they had the chance to move out to a bigger lead.
With Haws struggling to find his shot and getting into foul trouble - he played just 14 minutes in the first half - Carlino rescued the Cougars offensively.
He scored 14 first-half points, going 4 of 6 from 3-point range. Haws had nine at the break.
The Cougars got off to a great start, taking a 9-0 lead in the first two minutes, then went icy cold.
Kyle Collinsworth ended the six-minute field goal drought, but by then Pacific had the lead, thanks to a 12-2 run.
The Cougars made their first seven free throws, then made just 3 of their next 10.
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BYU notes
• ESPN announced that next week's Gonzaga at BYU game will be moved from 7 p.m. MST to 9 p.m. to accommodate the Duke-North Carolina schedule change. The BYU-Gonzaga game will be televised by ESPN2 instead of ESPN.
• Al Fredette and TJ Fredette, the father and older brother of Jimmer Fredette, attended Thursday night's game in Stockton, which is about an hour south of Sacramento. Jimmer Fredette scored a career-high 24 points in the Kings' 106-101 overtime win over the New York Knicks on Wednesday. The BYU men's volleyball team, which plays at Pacific on Friday night, attended Thursday's game as well.
• Carlino moved into 42nd place on BYU's all-time scoring list, passing Keena Young.
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The state's first day of same-sex marriage didn't go off without a hitch--659 of them to be exact (zing!).
Mayor Bloomberg's office announced that one-day record-breaking feat was achieved yesterday as same-sex couples across the city took advantage of the new law.
"Today was a historic day in our City, and we couldn't be prouder that on the first day that everyone in New York City could have their love affirmed in the eyes of the law, we were able to serve everyone," Mayor Bloomberg said in statement.
Manhattan performed the most ceremonies by far with 365. Brooklyn was in a distant second at 121, and more than half of those couples stopped by Brooklyn Borough Hall and the office of Marty Markowitz, the borough president.
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Town of Martinsburg resident Renee J. Beyer, 39, died Monday of injuries suffered in a head-on crash Saturday afternoon on Route 12 in the town of Harrisburg.
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Things have been crazy busy lately. It seems like every time I'm about to post this, something comes up and post pones it yet again. I'm currently in the middle of a hair cut and color… So since I can't move from the chair and don't have my work in front of me… These next 25 minutes are dedicated to Paleo!
Growing up, one of my all time favorite breakfasts was biscuits and gravy. I'm convinced my mom makes them better than anyone! Lately, I've been craving biscuits and any kind of bread really. So last week I took an entire day to figure this recipe out.
After a couple of misfires and a dozen taste tests from friends, we finally have a winner! The texture is pretty on point, and with a little grass fed butter (and honey for you sweet lovers) you will hardly miss all that bad stuff!
Easy Paleo Biscuits
4 egg whites, 1 egg
3/4 cup almond flour
1/4 cup coconut flour
2 TBS coconut oil (don't melt it)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
-First, preheat the oven to 400.
-Then, crack open your egg whites and egg and whisk until nice and fluffy.
-Add 1/4 cup almond flour to your egg mixture and whisk again. Set aside.
-Combine all other dry ingredients in a large bowl and stir well
-Add the coconut oil in solid form to your dry ingredients. Using a fork, work the oil into the mixture. You are trying to get a nice crumbly look to the mixture.
-Once you get that look, stick it in the freezer for at least ten minutes. If you have the time, give it an extra ten.
-Take the bowl out of the freezer and add the egg mixture to the dough. Stir well!
-Fork out about 2-3 TBS of the dough onto the cookie sheet and mold the biscuit into the shape you want.
-Bake for 15-20 minutes, then add your (optional) butter and honey and enjoy!!
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Original source: Beider, Alexander. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire. Teaneck, NJ, USA: Avotaynu, 1993.
Armenian DNA Project (Family Tree DNA)
Open to all Armenians. The Armenian DNA Project is an important resource for Armenians researching their family history as well as their deep ancestry through genetic testing. DNA testing can be a valuable tool for people with different surnames in determining whether they are genetic cousins, particularly considering the destruction of many Armenian genealogical records and the fact Armenian surnames were often based on the fathers first name, his city of birth, his occupation, or a distinctive human characteristic. By reaching thousands of years into the past, this project also aims to find genetic traces of both the ancient peoples whose descendants make up the current Armenian population (Armens, Colchians, Hattians, Hayasa, Hayk, Hittites, Hurrians, Kaskians, Luwians, Mitanni, Mushkis, Pala, Phrygians, Urartians, etc.) and the ancient invaders who conquered or passed through the Armenian lands (Assyrians, Gamrik-Gimirri-Cimmerians, Greeks, Parthians, Romans, Scythians, Macedonians, Medes, Persians, etc.) This project is open to individuals with direct paternal ancestors (Y-DNA) or direct maternal ancestors (mtDNA) of Armenian ancestry.
A blog written by an Armenian-American with historical references. Discussion of family genealogy of Armenians who escaped the genocide in Eastern Turkey. Pointers and tips on researching Armenian genealogy will be forthcoming.
Bocicoiu Mare, Maramures, Romania
Information on the Jewish shetls of Bocicoiu Mare.
Busko Blato Family Tree - Croatian Genealogy - Croatian Ancestors
Croatian genealogy and family history page dedicated to researching family roots in the Busko Blato region of Bosnia and Hercegovina and to a lesser extent, Dalmatia (Croatia).
Genealogy in Croatia.
This site contains information in three categories: 1) Croatian anguage and grammar aides for genealogists; 2) Links to other sites such as Croatian cemetery records, Croatian WWII deaths, the online Croatian telephone book with maps, links to good maps, a list of all Croatian towns organized by county and a general help number which keeps track of the change of street names both before and after the war of independence which ended in 1995; and 3) examples and explanations of christening, marriage and death records in Croatia plus examples of the Status Animarum which is frequently available. Links are also provided to other sites showing Croatian given names.
History and data regarding the village of Deutsch-Zerne, Hungary n/k/a Srpska Crnja, Serbia, its Donauschwaben settlers and their descendants. Includes detailed village maps and information regarding the BAMBACH, BOCKMÜLLER, ENGELS, HOFFMAN, KAMPF, KREMER, SCHLEIMER, STEIGERWALD, TABAR, and WEISSMANN families plus many others from Torontal County, Vojvodina, and the Banat.
Donauschwaben Villages' Helping Hands Project (DVHH)
The DVHH is a volunteer project to collect and publish historical and genealogical information for the former Danube Swabian villages situated in the six Donauschwaben regions of what was until 1918 the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Swabian Turkey, Banat, Batschka, Smyrna, Slavonia and Bosnia. We offer a repository of information specific to Donauschwaben genealogy, culture and lifestyles. In many cases we can offer one-to-one assistance to fellow researchers.
Family History - Institutional Structures and Elite of the Country Silvaniei XIV-XVII Centuries
Transylvanian Family History Database.
Federation of Jewish Communites of the CIS
Genealogical research and contacts with Jewish communites in fifteen countries in the Former Soviet union.
Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family
A blog to help anyone with Russian and Ukrainian ancestry to find family. Updated several times a week with information on where to find genealogical resources.
Dedicted to family history research of the German Descendants from the Austrian province of Galicia (now part of Eastern Poland and Western Ukraine).
The lists of Georgian noble families, history of their surnames, bibliography, brief historic-demographic survey of Georgian population, etc.
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The Pantry Quiz #63
Do You Know?
A key ingredient in several of Mexico's hallmark mole sauces, Mexican chocolate is made by grinding together cocoa, sugar, and which one of these spices:
1. Cardamom
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3. Cumin
4. Cayenne pepper
Please leave your answer in the comments, and let us know whether you have this ingredient in your pantry.
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Buzz: The Rangers May Try To Bring Mats Zuccarello Back This Season
2:05PM: Pat Leonard says in the Daily News that Zuccarello's representatives will be in NY tomorrow and they may speak with Glen Sather about having Zuccarello return when his KHL season ends.
6:58AM: According to Larry Brooks in the NY Post, Glen Sather is planning to talk with Mats Zuccarello about returning to the Rangers after his season in the KHL ends.
Zuccarello signed a two-year deal with the KHL but it contains an NHL out clause. He left the Rangers as an RFA but the Rangers sent him a qualifying offer to retain his rights.
Sather said that he has always liked Zuccarello as a player and Zuccarello is apparently willing to explore the idea of returning to the NHL.
He has 11 goals and 17 assists in the KHL this season.
He has two goals and one assist in four playoff games this season.
Zuccarello played around 15 minutes a night in the regular season and nearly 20 minutes so far a night in the playoffs.
Brooks says that the key for Zuccarello to return would be for the Rangers to offer him a one-way contract for the 2013-14 season.
This is not the first that the idea of Zuccarello coming back this season has been mentioned.
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At long last…
It took a lot of planning, prototyping, testing and trial runs, but we've finally completed our migration over to amazon/aws.
What does this mean for you? It means significantly lower chances of down-time (our systems are waaaaay more fault-tolerant now), plus tighter security (we were always secure, but now even more so).
On our end we get to breathe easier knowing that our systems are fully redundant and scalable to meet demand, and we can start deploying new updates with confidence.
The rest of this post is a bit inside baseball, but I thought I'd share some details as we get asked about our setup quite often in support-land and at tech meetups.
About a year ago we began bumping up against walls that impeded our ability to move forward. These fell in to three broad categories: scalability, agility, and (as a result) marketing. Arguably these are good problems for a company to have (well, maybe not the marketing part), and while we had theoretical solutions for everything, the practical matter of implementation took quite a bit of time, a lot of learning and a few leaps of faith.
On the infrastructure front, our production architecture at Linode, while hyper-optimized (running arch+nginx), did not lend itself to easy scalability. Given a team of sysadmins we could have overcome this, but we're app developers at heart. Enter aws: eb, ec2, rds, ses, s3 and route53 to save the day. While we still have a few things to tweak, we couldn't be happier with the move. Major props to the boys at TriNimbus for giving us a hand.
On the agility front, our inability to efficiently work on isolated feature development was killing us. Branching-and-merging is not an area where svn excels. We're now git across the board and cannot believe we waited so long to switch. We still use beanstalk for our repo origins because, well, they're awesome. On another note, we made the mistake, in hindsight, of outsourcing some of our mobile app development. We were running low on internal man-power (as our time was getting sucked into putting out fires), but in the end having a portion of our development outsourced really killed our iterative release cycles. As we were unable to synchronously release feature updates across all platforms we got stuck in the mud. So we're bringing development back in-house. All of it.
On the marketing front, being in a scalability bind we weren't in a position to bring hoards of new users into the mix — though we did welcome thousands of new users through organic / word-of-mouth referrals. Now that we have the infrastructure in place to support rapid growth, we'll be kicking things up a notch to more aggressively get the word out.
All of which is to say that it took the better part of a year to dig ourselves out of the hole we made for ourselves. Building good software and running a solid business both involve continual improvements and course-corrections, and it's nice to be back on a path with daylight again. We're all pretty stoked for what comes next.
7 Things You Need To Stop Doing To Be More Productive, Backed By Science
A great article by CamMi Pham that really resonates.
"There's a notable distinction between being busy and being productive. Being busy doesn't necessarily mean you're being productive. Being productive is less about time management and more on managing your energy. It is the business of life. We need to learn how to spend the least amount of energy to get the most benefits."
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Mendoza: Doming D has a life after 45 years at PAL-A A +A
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TO EVERY participant in the PAL Interclub Golf, the name Doming Duerme immediately rings a bell. If not, the guy that doesn't remember Doming must have been somewhere during the duration of the PAL Interclub Golf—contrary to what he had told his wife after planting a goodbye kiss to the missus's cheek.
Aha, mister! Did you, or did you not, play in the PAL Interclub?
For, if you did, you would surely have known Doming D was all over the PAL Interclub during the two-week event that you were right smack in the center of golfing battle. The first week of the PAL Interclub is, of course, the Seniors tournament and the second the Men's Regular.
I should know. I have practically covered all the PAL Golf Interclub events the past 20 years of its editions rotating in the cities of Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, Davao and current host Bacolod—not to mention the other stagings in Cebu's now-defaced Club Filipino de Cebu in the '70s. Ah, how time flies.
And in those past 20 PAL Interclubs or so, Doming D was the chairman of the organizing committee (after Doming Javellana's stint at the helm), which means Doming D was on top of everything for 20 or so straight years in the PAL Interclub, the country's premiere golf team championship.
And what a PAL Interclub Golf chairman Doming D was. Never was there a single major mishap—not even a minor kink, I tell you—that marred the tournament under his watch.
What a spotless record, indeed, for the diminutive Doming, who stands barely 5-feet but whose stature as an exceedingly upright person towers sky-high.
Doming D retired last year as PAL's regional vice president covering the Visayas and Mindanao. With that, it meant he also bade farewell as PAL Interclub's organizing committee chairman.
A lawyer, Doming D is the most loyal employee I have ever met thus far. He worked 45 years at PAL.
I saw him Sunday at Bacolod's Planta Hotel lobby and, replying to a query, Doming D said, "Oh, I am back as a farmer in my native Cotabato, tending to my fields of rice, a few rubber trees and coffee. In my life, I couldn't ask for more."
What a guy, this Doming D. One of a kind.
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Hyland Hills Golf Course, North Course
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The North Course at Hyland Hills Golf Course is a 9-hole par-3 golf course in Westminster, Colorado. This 3-par layout has 3 sets of teeboxes for a fun, but challenging golfing experience. There are 3 other courses on this same property, the Blue Course, the Gold Course, and the South Course. Online tee times may be available at Hyland Hills Golf Course or at nearby golf courses, usually offered at a discount from the normal rate.
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Swaggers Backpackers is a converted old house located within walking distance of all the best parts of Oamaru. Explore the old victorian era buildings and shops of the city centre, or see the penguin colonies down the street. Swaggers is owned and operated by camp mum Agra, who makes all guests feel welcome, informed, and perhaps a bit mothered.


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Getting an entire feature-length film out of a short story always seemed odd to me. Adapting a piece of fiction by H.P. Lovecraft is even more of a trick since much of his work doesn't translate to film (see my review of The Call of Cthulhu for a notable exception). Director Ulli Lommel sidesteps both issues by completely ignoring the Lovecraft story on which The Tomb (released on DVD this past week by Lionsgate) is allegedly based. Names of some of Lovecraft's characters from other stories like Charles Dexter Ward and David Pickman are kicked around, and there's mention of a "witch house" which also refers to Lovecraft's work, but it feels like an afterthought. Lovecraft's "The Tomb" concerned a man's morbid fascination with a crypt he finds as he wanders through the woods, while Lommel goes in another direction entirely, delivering a pretty blatant knock off of the Saw movies, right down to the creepy doll puppet.
Tara Griffin (Victoria Ullman) and Billy Trafford (Christian Behm) both awaken in what appears to be a warehouse basement. They don't know one another, but they've both been beaten bloody and each has a tag tied to their toe with a date written on it. A sinister and electronically filtered voice announces over a P.A. system that one of them will survive if they follow the rules of the game set out for them, or at least that's what I think he says. Poor audio is one of this film's many negative features, and the mysterious villain's distorted voice is hard to understand, as are other characters in the many scenes where Lommel is so enthralled with the musical score that he lets it play louder than the dialogue. One thing the mystery villain does say repeatedly is "eight nails, who fails," which refers to the nails driven into the many coffin lids we see in the movie and that only one person will get out alive. Someone obviously thought this line was a lot more clever than it actually is as it is repeated ad nauseum.
Tara and Billy find several people in a similar state, most of whom live just long enough to provide another piece to the puzzle of who their captor is. Each time one of their fellow captives dies, our two heroes dutifully, though inexplicably, place the deceased in one of the coffins provided by their host and nail the lid shut. We soon learn that all the victims have wronged their captor at some point; one spurned his romantic advances, another sold him a defective car, etc.
Logic doesn't just take a backseat here; hell, it got into the wrong car and sped off in the opposite direction. Our characters are held captive for several days before either of them thinks to look for a way out. When they do search for an exit they end up back where they started, exclaiming "we've been walking in circles," despite the fact that their prison is constructed from a rigid grid of scaffolding, making it pretty much impossible to travel in a circle. The prison is lit entirely by candles, none of which ever burn down. There are several randomly placed scenes of a being I assume to be Death riding on horseback. And there are countless scenes where the action is sped up to hyper-speed or Lommel uses a double image effect that will make you feel like you've had several too many tequila shots. That last one isn't confusing, but it's annoying as hell. Basically this is a tedious little flick that eventually bumps into an ending that doesn't make any sense.
The only extras on the disk are previews for a handful of other Lionsgate horror films, including an equally inaccurate adaptation of Lovecraft's Beyond the Wall of Sleep. If you're looking to watch a Lovecraftian flick might I suggest The Dunwich Horror or Die Monster Die. Both take their liberties with the source material (particularly the latter) but they are entertaining flicks in their own right.


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The future of the digital experience can be found at the intersection of search and social. RKG CEO, George Gallate, explores this whole concept and shares his vision of where our industry is going in the future. Get George's unique perspective on the changing Search and Social Paradigms in this video.
Learn how to create an effective SEO strategy, driving more organic traffic by addressing all the primary elements.
It is important for Enterprise SEM program managers to start thinking hard and deep about the implications of Enhanced Campaigns in the long term, as well as understanding what it is likely to become.
There's a paradox that exists amidst the feverish pace of search industry changes: Classic, boring, "old SEO" is still what works best.
Meet George Gallate, CEO of RKG. With such extensive experience in the digital marketing world, George brings a great perspective to RKG.
Large-scale site search and dynamic content can be problematic for SEO and both issues generate many questions at conferences and online. This article is an attempt to set clarity on the subject.
Google Webmaster Tools links can show up as regular content with no tag in the vicinity.
Enhanced Campaigns will significantly impact the way paid search platform providers do what they do, the way paid search managers do their jobs, and the way performance optimization happens.
Learn how to manage enterprise level SEO programs for both users and search engines in our webinar featuring industry thought leaders.
It seems like every few weeks Facebook launches a new ad type. This guide describes the ad types available to smaller scale marketers.
Learn how RKG recommends dealing with the many variations of products on ecommerce sites, and keep both users and search engines happy.
Google Enhanced Campaigns is step in a direction RKG has requested a number of times, but we may be losing functionality of greater value.
If we wanted to be picky about it, we'd say 404 pages are not errors and can even be (blasphemy!) an acceptable user experience.
If the striving marketer holds these ideas as guiding principles, it will help her to stay pointed towards success.
The smartest way to begin 2013 might well be to make a careful review of paid search performance and practices in 2012.
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On July 11, 2014, the House of Representatives passed a bill to renew bonus depreciation and to make the provision permanent. Bonus depreciation is one of several expired provisions that House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) has made sought to make permanent.
Bonus depreciation allows businesses to immediately deduct 50 percent of qualified purchased property and was one of the tax provisions that expired at the end of 2013. The bill passed by the House makes a number of changes to the bonus depreciation provision such as expanding the definition of qualified property to include owner-occupied retail stores and lifting certain restrictions to allow for more unused corporate alternative minimum tax credits to be used for capital investments.
Other permanent extensions of expired provisions, or "tax extenders" bills, which have passed the House include the five-year built-in gains recognition period for S corporations and the research tax credit. Chairman Camp's approach to tax extenders—dealing with fewer, select provisions and making them permanent—breaks from what many saw as standard operating procedure in Congress. Historically, a one- or two-year extension of all the expiring tax provisions was packaged a single bill (or attached to a larger bill).
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Contexts of Accommodation
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moreThe theory of accommodation is concerned with motivations underlying and consequences arising from ways in which we adapt our language and communication patterns toward others. Since accommodation theory's emergence in the early l970s, it has attracted empirical attention across many disciplines and has been elaborated and expanded many times. In Contexts of Accommodation, accommodation theory is presented as a basis for sociolinguistic explanation, and it is the applied perspective that predominates this edited collection. The book seeks to demonstrate how the core concepts and relationships invoked by accommodation theory are available for addressing altogether pragmatic concerns. Accommodative processes can, for example, facilitate or impede language learners' proficiency in a second language as well as immigrants' acceptance into certain host communities; affect audience ratings and thereby the life of a television program; affect reaction to defendants in court and hence the nature of the judicial outcome; and be an enabling or detrimental force in allowing handicapped people to fulfil their communicative potential. Contexts of Accommodation will appeal to researchers and advanced students in language and communication sciences, as well as to sociolinguists, anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists. less
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Here are some chewy nuggets from this week's mobile marketing news:
The Guardian reports on two mobile innovations, one of which sounds straight out of Mission: Impossible – using your fingerprint to unlock your cell phone. The Motorola Atrix, released by Orange, is supposedly the world's first smartphone that uses a fingerprint reader, so forget drawing a secret shape or entering your PIN. The Guardian also reports that Londoners who are short on cab fare can text their cab's license plate number and have the ride added to their phone bill. (The Guardian)
A couple of recent news headlines have spurred huge increases in mobile use. All Things D reports that even though it was the middle of the night for many Americans, last Friday was the second-biggest texting day of 2011 so far, following only New Year's Eve. The number of texts sent was over 6 times that of an average day. Mobile sites also slowed down Sunday night when word of Osama bin Laden's death spread, but they were back to normal within half an hour to two hours. (All Things D; Mobile Marketer)
If you're getting desperate and considering picking Mom some flowers from your front yard, fear not. Florists are warming up to mobile commerce, so buying her bouquet is a snap. Beneva Flowers is one such florist, with a mobile app that speeds up the ordering process by leveraging the phone address book so people don't have to type as much. (They say their mobile store could outperform their online store or physical presence this year.) 1-800-Flowers.com is beefing up its mobile site as well. (Internet Retailer)
A new study from Demandware Inc. and Forrester Research says consumers with smartphones have high expectations for the online shopping experience, rewarding a brand with their loyalty if the experience is good and turning to the competitor and complaining to friends if not. Retailers should adapt to these higher expectations by providing stellar brand experiences and product info, says Demandware. (Internet Retailer)
Aaron Biebert of 8pmwarrior.com discusses why he favors Tag over QR, namely because Tags can be smaller, the end destination (link, video, special offer, etc.) can be changed anytime, and Tag offers reporting data on how well the barcodes are performing. We're not gonna argue with that. (8pm Warrior)
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Temperatures in the single digits didn't discourage the hundreds of celebrants who thronged Evergreen Lake to watch fireworks and welcome the new year.
The annual Skate the Lake event, which benefits DriveSmart Evergreen-Conifer, didn't disappoint, with ice skating, general merriment and two rounds of pyrotechnics.
Ethan Vimont sums up what he learned during his two consecutive terms as a Peace Corps volunteer in one word.
"Patience," he said.
The 27-year-old Pine native returned to the U.S. in December after stints working in Mali and then Nepal.
They came, they sang, they lit candles on the menorah.
That was both the grand plan and the simple purpose of the 60 to 100 attendees at Saturday's 10th annual Festival of Lights on the lawn outside the Evergreen Lake House.
They sang along to two Jewish blessings and watched as four candles were lit for Hanukkah. A fifth "helper" candle called the "shamash" was placed in the center of the 12-foot-high menorah.
There are times in when music can be made even more beautiful by the setting in which it is presented. In the case of the Evergreen Chorale's latest collaboration with the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra, the concerts' beautiful settings will make the music all the more joyous and the holiday season all the more festive.
Sisters Caitlin and Sidney Powell lug their guitars into the Muddy Buck on a recent morning, ready for a potential photo shoot, even though it's the breakfast coffee hour.
Getting a big welcome home to Evergreen after serving in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan can be a little overwhelming — but in a good way.
At least that's what U.S. Army Specialist Michael Berna felt after being greeted by a crowd of well-wishers at Buchanan Recreation Center on Saturday to thank him for his service. He spent nine months at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, returning home to Evergreen late last week for a holiday break after a couple of weeks at a military base in Kentucky.
Anne Skewes, a P.E.O. chapter FR member, won an original painting by Pem Dunn of a rose in bloom. She won the painting at the chapter's annual fund-raiser on Dec. 5 at Mount Vernon Country Club.
Evergreen resident Claire Roberts and her Bichon, Lulu, have been invited to compete in the American Kennel Club Agility Invitational in Orlando, Fla., Dec. 13-14. The pair will compete against the swiftest, most agile dogs in the country for the top spot in the 12-inch class. This year, 163 breeds from 41 states and five countries will be represented at the Invitational.
The holiday season is upon us, and what better way to kick off your shopping than by supporting our local Evergreen artists? Friday, Dec. 5, marks the 23rd annual Holiday Walk in downtown Evergreen. The walk begins at 5 p.m. with the arrival of Santa and Mrs. Claus at the Evergreen Lake House to light the community tree. Crowds then walk with Santa down Main Street and take holiday photos, enjoy entertainment, and shop for gifts.
It's quite a hot time in the Borocle, one of downtown Evergreen's newest art galleries.
The gallery in the building at the southeast corner of Highway 73/74 also is a workshop for glass blowers Eric Post and Kyle Purcell, who create jewelry pendants, vases, goblets and other art forms. Mandie Smith rounds out the group, creating wire art plus soaps, scrubs and other items.
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Kroger has inked a deal with Florence Square owner Brixmor Property Group that will allow the grocery store chain to begin construction on a Marketplace store on Mall Road next month.
Stacy Slater, senior vice-president, Investment Management for Brixmor, confirmed the deal Wednesday.
"We have been talking to Kroger for many years about bringing a Marketplace to this location," Slater said. "We expect the new store to open early in 2014." ...


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Social Business has been a big catch phrase lately in Social Media. It is one of those fraudulent terms to make something that has been around for 1000's of years sound new and fresh. Of course the primary reason is for Social Media Agencies and Talking Heads to make money selling books and services that Brands really don't need.
The basic premise sounds great. Your employees are on the front lines and who better to be your voice and brand advocate than your employees. But do they care? The bottom 80% in the US have only 15% of the wealth. The bottom 60% of the US on average make less than $41,000 per household. This means that easily the bottom 60% of jobs make $30,000 or less which is not very much. So upfront the fact is chances are your front line employees especially in retail and service jobs (think working at Jiffy Lube or being a Waiter) make very little. To them it is 'just a job'. You want them being your voice and front lines on social media? Really? But you can change that!
If you really want to be a 'Social Business' these are the 5 Tips Businesses aren't being told:
1] Pay your employees more. If this is a job vs a career you will never get them to participate because they won't care. Especially as employment gets tighter they can jump ship easily. I suggest paying your employees in the Top 25% for those job descriptions.
2] Invest in your employees. Show them you care and that you want them to stay. Offer improved job training and opportunities for advancement. Imagine a FourSquare check in on Twitter 'In Management Training! This is my chance Woohoo! Love my company!'
3] Improve their working conditions. Little perks like free coffee mean a lot. Bigger perks like a paid day of work on their birthday mean even more.
4] Lead by example. The top mangers need to walk the walk and also be part of the front lines. Be on Twitter or Blogging and interacting with customers, vendors and employees. The biggest obstacle to getting employees to do anything is when they feel upper management should be doing something required of them and they aren't.
5] Make it fun. Give them incentives. For every employee called out by a customer on Twitter or your Facebook Page get's a $10 ITunes card. Give employees coupons to give away to customers and friends on social media. Today only use Coupon Code 1234 and get 15% off your purchase at our online store. Encourage them to create YouTube videos that are fun and meet certain guidelines (Think Harlem Shake) and the ones with the most views get company paid lunch.
Now that you know how to be a Social Business what do you think? Will you need to make significant organizational changes? Are you willing to spend more on employees? The rewards could be significant. You could have a positive and energized workforce. They can then create a positive and energized customer based. And I bet if that happened you would recoup that investment. But I guarantee most Social Business Evangelists fail to explain that most employees just won't care or want to be social for you unless you create the conditions I outlined above.


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|April 27 and October 12
|May 5 and October 20
|April 29 and October 14
|May 7 and October 22
|May 1 and October 16
Do you have broken furniture or appliances, old mattresses, or any other non-reusable large or heavy-household items?
Leave items at the curbside with your other garbage by 7:30 a.m. on your regular garbage collection day and we will haul them away for you. Items may be collected by different trucks.
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- Houses with back alleys must have large items put out at the front of your property for collection.
- Homes in the rural area will have large items tagged and collected later that day or the next day
All items must be less than six feet by three feet (1.8 metres x 0.9 metres) and weigh less than 200 lbs. (90 kg).
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- furniture
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Different trucks collect different items, and where possible, items are sent to be recycled.
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- televisions
- stereos
- computers (monitors, towers, key boards, speakers, mice)
- desktop printer
- car parts
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Randy Chung has studied various forms of Chinese martial arts, including Shaolin kung fu, Hung Gar, and T'ai Chi. He has studied Bagua Zhang under Zhang Jie since 2005. Chung currently resides in Seattle, WA. Randy Chung, Mark Wigzell, and Will Baller have all studied Zhuang Gong Bagua Zhang with Master Zhang for many years. Through their hard work and discipline, they have all gained a deep understanding of the Zhuang Gong Bagua system. Randy Chung and Will Baller are also studying Xingyi Quan with Master Zhang. They all continue to study Bagua Zhang under Master Zhang at his home in Seattle.


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Warwickshire have appointed Gareth Roberts as their new commercial director to replace James McLaughlin who will take up a new job as chief executive of the charity Cure Leukaemia at the end of the month.
Roberts is a friend of Warwickshire chief executive Colin Povey having worked under him as director of sponsorship and media relations at Carlsberg UK.
"Gareth has worked with some large brands across a number of sports over several years. In particular his experience in sales and sponsorship areas is extensive," said Povey, a former chief executive of Carlsberg UK.
"He has worked closely with a variety of sports governing bodies and experienced large global tournaments from a client's perspective, all of which should serve him well for the role here at Edgbaston. He joins us at a good time with a clear schedule of Major Matches confirmed for the coming years and with the ground redevelopment having been completed."
More recently Roberts has worked as chief executive of the Leicestershire and Rutland Football Association, having previously held a temporary role as sponsorship director of Wycombe Wanderers football club and London Wasps rugby club, who groundshare at Adams Park.
Roberts is expected to take up his new job at Edgbaston in May and he will join Warwickshire at a particularly tough time.
Warwickshire host the third Test against the West Indies at Edgbaston in early June but there will be no Test cricket at the ground in 2013 or 2014 when India and Australia visit.


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The Second Clinton? (BaselineScenario)
Does last week's Volcker-fest mean that the Obama administration wants to get tough on Wall Street, or is it just a political show?
Under fire, Wall St. puts money to work (Globe and Mail)
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Obama to Seek Freeze on Some Spending to Trim Deficits (NYT)
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Both orchestras are recognized at the county and regional levels and the upcoming concert promises to be an unforgettable evening.
Performing with the orchestras at "Rochestra Rising!" will be a special guest, legendary rock violinist Bobby Yang. Yang is known for his acoustic violin performances of music from rock legends such as Led Zeppelin and Rush, and has agreed to perform with the orchestras to benefit string music education in Indian River County.
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The fifth point is that the Quran also says that when people greet each other in Paradise, their greeting is the greeting of peace. The Quran puts it this way "Their mutual greeting among themselves is a greeting of peace."
Now, in this sense then we can see that peace is not only just an abstract concept. It's not only inherent in the very term "Islam" but in many of those theological terms. May we add to this that it is well-known that there's only one greeting that is known and used by hundreds of millions of Muslims all over the world irrespective of their linguistic background.
In fact that greeting became incorporated in the variety of languages spoken by Muslims. It is the key to the heart of a Muslim, whether you are coming from Africa, from Asia, from Europe, from America, you name it. Just tell a Muslim "Assalamu `alaikum", meaning (peace be with you), or the more complete one "Assalamu `alaikum" (peace be with you), regardless of background they will know what you are talking about. It is the most common greeting in the world. It is a greeting also that has good meaning.
I tell my friends in Europe and North America I have no problem if somebody says hi or hello, I don't know what it means, but there is one thing I know for sure that has a beautiful meaning, that mutual greeting "Assalamu`alaikum" (peace be with you).
Works by the Author
- Zakah and Distributive Justice (Dr. Jamal Badawi)
- Dr. Jamal Badawi: Brief Introduction to the Quran
You know something, on my phone at home I have a recorded message of course as many people would have, and the recorded message begins with "Assalamu`alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh" (May the peace and blessings and mercy of God be with you).
Even if I'm at home and able to pick the phone, the first thing I say irrespective of who is speaking, I say "Assalamu`alaikum Warahmatullah" or "Assalamu`alaikum" and that arouses some interest and curiosity among people, especially those who are not Muslims. Many of them say "What, what did you say?" I say "I said Assalamu`alaikum which means peace be with you, and that's the Muslim greeting".
You know, many times I hear people say "Oh, that's nice". This is a natural innate inclination among all human beings to pursue the peace. When the greeting here is a greeting of peace, it really touches the heart, and in my humble understanding, much more than hi and hello. It's really much more beautiful. All of this are part of the argument again that peace is at the core of Islam. That's the second level.
The Supreme Objectives of Islamic law
|Islam is about safeguarding faith, which means again peace, and people are entitled to believe in what they want to believe in
But you can take it also to a third level even; just the term peace itself and its derivatives. That if we examine what is called the supreme objectives of Shari`ah or Islamic law, even though the word Islamic Law and Shari`ah may not be exactly equal, we will not get into these details.
But the five major objectives of Islam you might say, the supreme objectives, as derived by the scholars from reading the Quran and the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) are five.
Some say that you could even add one to them like justice. In that order, Islam is about safeguarding faith, which means again peace, and people are entitled to believe in what they want to believe in, to worship and practice what appeals to their heart and mind. It doesn't matter whether they agree with you or not, they are entitled to that, they are entitled to equal protection for their right to believe and their right to worship the way they want. That could be a whole topic by itself but I'm just stopping at that. Number one.
Secondly, or the second supreme objective, is to safeguard life, the sanctity of human life. That again is connected with peace. Because it means that a person is entitled to live in peace with others, and if you are not aggressing against others you are entitled to have the tranquility and peace and to use your right to exist.
The third, is to safeguard the mind, both positively in the sense of encouraging reading, studying, researching and experimentation. And from the negative standpoint by prohibiting for example the toxics or anything that destroys or damages that beautiful gift from God. That again is connected with peace. How could I be at peace without, or how could I achieve that peace intellectually without, being free to research and to benefit myself and humanity at large.
The fourth is to safeguard and protect the family or in general owner, owner of all people. In fact, this is also another implication of peace. It includes also fifthly to safeguard property, the right to own things and use it in the legitimate way.
Acquiring wealth legitimately, disposing of it legitimately as well. So even the ultimate objectives, or supreme objectives in Islam, are really connected very much in that notion of peace. With this in mind, let us go back to the definition of Islam beginning with peace with God, the Creator. Peace with God means to have close relationship with our Creator.
A relationship that involves first of all confession of faith willingly and convincingly that God, the one God of all people, not the God of Muslims, but the God of all humanity, God of the whole universe, is the sole Creator, Sustainer and Cherisher of the universe, that's where it begins. It can't be achieved without what we said earlier by being willing to submit to God and to God alone, an unqualified submission.
|Fear of punishment comes from the fact that Allah knows our psychology and our nature,
To have a relationship which combines elements of fear of God, and fear of God here doesn't mean like fearing from God. We might be afraid of tyrants or we might be afraid of death but we don't like or appreciate or respect these things. No, that's a different meaning of fear altogether.
Actually the most noble fear is the fear from disconnecting oneself from God. The fear of displeasing the Creator who created us and gave us all the blessings that we are enjoying in our lives. Yes part of it, as the Quran indicates, is the fear of punishment but this is not the only one.
Fear of punishment comes from the fact that Allah knows our psychology and our nature, and when a person is so much attracted to sin and transgression or hate or violence, sometimes remembrance that Allah is more powerful than we are and He is able to punish us for our transgression against others, sometimes that also provides at least for some people or for all people in different states of spirituality a motive not to disobey God.
One element of it obviously is to seek the reward of Allah, our Creator. That everything good we do righteous we may get reward in this life in some form or the other, but definitely we get also a reward in the life to come. But that's not the whole thing because as one of the great scholars describes it, it becomes like a merchant kind of relationship that I donate that much for charity now but God will give me many folds, so they tend to think of the rate of return. But it's not just fear of the hellfire, which is there. It's not only hope for the reward of Allah, but above all hope for the mercy and closeness of Allah.
But the third element is very important and the Quran does refer to that as well. It's very key in our understanding of our relationship with the Creator. A relationship that is based on the love of Allah the Almighty. And the Quran does refer to this. Describing the true believers, it says "The true believers are more intense in their love of Allah". They are not forbidden from loving others, but the greatest love that a believer has, the most intense love is that of Allah the Creator.
And Allah the Almighty (Glory be to Him) is so kind and merciful to us that He used a term in the Quran in a couple of places to describe Himself as Wadud, which is more than just loving. Actually Abdullah Yusuf Ali came close to the true meaning of Wadud as "Full of loving kindness". But that love of Allah or the mutuality of the love between the believer and the Creator is not a slogan. It's not just a nice feeling. It's a responsibility above that.
As we read in the Quran, addressing Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) to teach Muslims "Say to them, O Muhammad, if indeed you love Allah, follow me" – Why follow him? Because he speaks for Allah, he receives the revelation from Allah, so we are not equating him with Allah by any means, but he speaks for Allah, he communicates to us the commands of Allah. Follow me meaning, follow the teachings of Allah revealed through me. Allah will love you more and forgive your sins.
These are essential ingredients in achieving that peace with Allah as the One and only Creator, as the One who is not only worthy of being believed in as the Creator, but the One also who is the only entity that we worship, that nobody else, no entity in general is to be worshiped instead of Allah the Creator or alongside to be equated with Allah. Nor are we as Muslims permitted to pray to Allah through any of His creatures. No intermediary even of the greatest of the prophets, we are not supposed to pray through him.
We pray to God directly. This I hope might shed some light, at least on that level of peace, peace with the Creator.
Watch this segment of Dr. Jamal Badawi's Talk
Related Links:Peace and Justice in Islam: (Episode 1 - Part 1/2)
Are We Really Inspired by Prophet Muhammad?
Peace in an Unstable World
Contentment: A Paradise on Earth
How to Achieve Tranquility of the Heart


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