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It's been a buoyant few months for U.S. light vehicle sales in general, with demand for full-size pickups driving some of the biggest monthly sales figures witnessed by our nation in years.
Yet simultaneously – and occurring somewhat under the radar – sales of hybrid light vehicles are also enjoying a healthy spike, which many experts believe is helping set the stage for a more widespread shift by the motoring public to purely alternatively-powered vehicles in the not-so-distant future.
For example, take a look at the May 2013 Electric Drive Sales Dashboard just released by the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA): it reports that automakers sold 48,796 hybrids last month, bringing the total number of hybrids sold this year to 212,711 units – some 14% higher than year-to-date hybrid sales at this point in 2012.
[As a tangent, here's an older video that explains how to maximize hybrid fuel mileage.]
In terms of just "plug-in" vehicles alone, some 7,754 were sold in May, with cumulative year-to-date sales of plug-in vehicles hitting 32,305 units in 2013, with overall plug-in sales reaching 103,220 units in just over two years, noted EDTA President Brian Wynne in a statement.
"Surpassing the 100,000 mark for plug-in sales is an important milestone for this industry, but we're just getting started," he said. "Consumers and critics alike are experiencing and connecting with these cars, fueling significant growth trends."
The numbers reveal a compelling narrative for all electric drive-based technologies, Wynne stressed. For example, May's sales are more than double the 3,378 plug-in vehicles sold in the same month back in 2012 – in actuality a 130% increase over last year – while the 32,305 units cumulatively sold year-to-date 2013 is a 123% increase over the 14,519 plug-in units sales sold up to this point in 2012.
"With constantly advancing technology and building consumer confidence, the electric drive industry is well positioned to carry this momentum forward," Wynne pointed out. "It's no surprise that gasoline prices are spiking again, but now motorists have real alternatives to the monopoly fuel. These cars use far less gasoline than their combustion engine counterparts – or no gas at all."
Ford Motor Co. added that it surpassed its previous full-year hybrid sales record set in 2010 of 35,496 vehicles in just the first five months of 2013, with the OEM projecting to sell approximately 37,000 hybrid vehicles through May, for around a 375% increase over the same period last year.
"We're working tirelessly to get as many hybrids to the market as we can right now to meet this unprecedented customer demand for our electrified vehicles," said Erich Merkle, Ford U.S. sales analyst, in a statement. "The success we are experiencing with hybrids is energizing the whole company."
C.J. O'Donnell, Ford's electrification group marketing manager, added that the hybrid Fusion sedan is turning in just 14 days on average, with that turn rate is even higher in key markets like Los Angeles, at just 10 days. Also, the Fusion Hybrid just hit an all-time-high percentage of overall Fusion sales, reaching 15% this May.
"Our all-new electrified vehicle lineup is drawing new customers to the Ford brand," O'Donnell noted. "We're hearing from our dealers they literally can't keep our hybrids in stock [and] this is particularly evident in key markets like California."
Now the question is can this surge in hybrid vehicles can sustain itself in the months to come. Time will only tell.


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Yesterday we talked to director Tyler Gillett about his work on the webseries Books. Writer Joe Webb was also kind enough to answer a few of my questions about the project.
Are more episodes planned?
We hope so; but, probably not in the current webisode format. The scope of Books is so damn big, and the execution was so complex, that it's hard to justify the cost per episode without better distribution. So, realistically, if we're gonna have a life after this, it'll be as a half-hour show - but that's not at all out of the realm of possibility. The current plan is to shop the project to Hulu, smaller cable outlets like IFC, and potentially even a few Canadian networks (Fremantle's had success there before) in the spring of 2012, and to shoot for deficit financing in the 150-200 range per ep for six episodes. If that happens, we've got a Season One story arc ready to rock.
From the start, did you shoot this as a half-hour pilot or as a web-series?
A little of both, which made writing the script a painstakingly long process. The awesome part about digital production is that it's like the Wild West, and if you're aggressive and ambitious, you can make something that looks like, I don't know, Shameless, with a low-five figure budget if you don't have to pay people to work. So we decided early on that our primary goal was to make a Showtime-like pilot, that we could then take out and sell (and it would hopefully be a product that would also, indirectly, sell ourselves).
But...we also had a responsibility to Fremantle to try to make it playable as a web-series, since they kicked in some money for the rights to distribute it via their small internet TV portal. To what extent we succeeded I'm still not sure. We feel like it plays great in sequence, and we've pieced it back together into it's full pilot form for sales purposes and a few big TV festivals in 2012; but I don't think a random viewer could stumble upon one of the middle chapters in the web format and have much idea what's going on.
You mentioned Fremantle covered some of the costs. How did you fund the whole thing?
At the end of the day, we ended up splitting the cost about 50/50 with FremantleMedia. So like 3 seconds of one Ford advertisement from American Idol were devoted to paying half our production budget. The other half came from months of Tyler shooting extra NatGeo stuff at his day rate and me teaching kids how to get into business school.
Do you have any future projects on the horizon?
We just talked about getting the whole team back together to shoot something logistically simpler this spring while we figure out the future of Books (it'll be My Dinner with Andre, featuring Josh Beren and Peter Douglas), but we're also both working on other things. This fall, Tyler directed a horror-anthology that got into Sundance and a cool new digital show with Chad, Matt, & Baron Davis. I'm pitching in early January on a couple features and have 2 TV projects in development for the 2012 pitch season.
That being said, there's that old business adage about it being 10 times easier to keep an existing client than to attract a new one; and, somehow, I think that applies as a parallel to Books. So much of the groundwork has already been laid on the show, and I've spent so much of the last year living it day in and day out, that if I got the opportunity to continue working on it, I'd jump at it, even if the money proved barely enough to cover the monthly bills.


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How do you stay so healthy? You look great! I know you exercise and eat really well at your house, but what about all those cookies you make? Do you ever find yourself eating 4, or 5, or 10? Do you ever hop on the scale and realize that you've gained 10 lbs? Do you eat when you're stressed? It seems like this isn't really an issue for you, and that's fantastic! Any tips?
First of all, you are too nice. Thank you very much for your kind words. My "secret," quite simply, is that I'm super tall. I do try to stay healthy and exercise regularly but I think when you are six feet tall weight isn't as much an issue as finding jeans that are long enough! I am lucky that I do not have to stress out much about weight but I feel so much better when I exercise and eat well. It seems to make a difference in how my day goes (and how my clothes fit). My exercise routine took a dive over the summer but I'm back into rotating P90X, Insanity and Jillian Michaels (when I only have 20 minutes) these days. At some point I will join a gym again but right now I have to get it in early or it doesn't happen.
Cookies are my vice. I love them. And we make them.
Sometimes a lot.
But I kinda justify that because something's got to give...we don't really have any junk food in our house and sometimes you've just got to have a little bit of sugar.
A little background on why we are so conscientious about what food we stock our house with:
Lucy's syndrome causes obesity {more about that here}. Since receiving her diagnosis {more on that here}, our awareness of what foods we bring into our home has been heightened drastically (and struggled with) every single day. We try to stay away as much as possible from processed, colored, fatty things but man alive that's tough sometimes. It sounds silly but sometimes I lament the fact that we aren't "normal" and we can't just have candy and mint Oreo cookies around. A while ago I got into this phase of "wo is me" because my poor kids looked at me with puppy dog eyes to please buy even things like granola bars or goldfish for their lunches (Lucy goes hog wild on that stuff and we just can't have it around). And then I came to the stark realization that that's not something to mourn...we should be celebrating that we are forced to eat more healthy around here! It's just a tricky process to work out and although we are very far from perfect at it, we sure try.
Please share some of your favorite recipes!
I make pretty simple things for family dinners. Some of our favorites are honey lime enchiladas, chicken pot pie (I know, not overly healthy) and grilled steak or chicken with baked potatoes. We have salad for dinner almost every single night.
As far as those salads go, right now I am SO into fresh basil. I crave it every day. I buy these plants at Trader Joes:
...and chop up the leaves for some of my favorite things:
caprese salad
I love this so much.
(Elle took this picture before we drizzled a little bit of olive oil and balsamic vinegar over the top, and sprinkled freshly ground pepper over it all. You cannot forget the balsamic vinegar. It makes my mouth water even to think about it!)
You just layer fresh mozzarella cheese,(you can get big packs at Costco), tomatoes, and freshly chopped basil. Then add the balsamic vinegar, oil and pepper.
For a more hearty caprese salad my favorite is chopping up all the following ingredients:
--fresh mozarella cheese
--lots of basil
and toss with a balsamic vinaigrette dressing. This is one I like:And there you have it, my favorite salad:
For sweeter salads I usually mix and match whatever I have in the fridge (my sister Saydi is a salad guru and taught me everything I know). Lettuce and spinach mixed with any variety of apples, grapes, Parmesan cheese, craisins, mandarin oranges, avocados...whatever I happen to have on hand. I usually mix in "candied" almonds too for good measure:
(You just sprinkle a little sugar over the top of raw almonds and saute them until they brown up a little and then let them cool.)
This is one of my favorite dressings for sweeter salads:
And there you have it...easy as pie.
As far as main dishes go, I use a lot of chicken. (I know we should probably do more vegetarian stuff but I'm not there yet.)
I mostly use this chicken because it's SO easy and quick to cook (my sister Saren taught me this nifty method and I thank her in my mind every time I use it):
I spray the pan with Pam and throw in as many frozen chicken tenderloins as I need.
I cook them over medium heat with these things sprinkled over them.
(No, I'm not a great frozen chicken photographer so please excuse the blurriness :)
As it cooks I shred it up with two forks now and then.
(And I make sure I have that very serious expression on my face. This is very serious business, folks.)
I end up with chicken like this that I can use for myriads of quick things from enchiladas to salads, etc.
Mostly I like to use that chicken with stuff like this:
or this:
I am a big sucker for any kind of Thai food I can get my hands on and it's so easy to make and serve over rice.
As far as snacks go, I'm still trying to beg my kids into loving my favorite:
...and I try to always have something like this out on the counter.
Do you pack home lunches for your kids or do they usually eat a hot lunch at school? I'm trying to be more conscientious about my spending as well as helping my kids eat healthier and I wondered what you do?
I have a really big pet-peeve with school lunches. They are not healthy and they are expensive. That being said, we let our kids buy lunch once a week. We make lunches the rest of the time. I'd love to say that we pack all kinds of interesting new things each day and I cut their sandwiches into cute shapes for them and all that jazz but we are plain-jane in the sack lunch arena. Our kids get peanut butter sandwiches pretty much every day except on the rare occasion when Grace decides to make ham and cheese. I sometimes buy chips and keep them out in the garage so Lucy won't get into them and they bring those too, but most of the time they choose between grapes, apples or carrots and we stick in some pretzels and applesauce. We do not believe in juice boxes or anything like that that professes to be all good for you but is really filled with sugar. Water is key and I'm going to teach them to love it if it kills me :)
I have an 18 year old (I can't believe it - where did the years go?) with special needs and let me tell you... the search for making her life "better" never ends. We've tried supplements over the years, but I'm curious as to what you are using? I'm open to trying new things and am really, really interested in what you are doing with Lucy. I look forward to hearing more - you never know where the next breakthrough is going to come from!
Lucy has been through various stages of supplements. The last ones we tried made her go on a huge, drawn-out emotional swing that was horrible for all of us as she went through what they called "detox." {all the details about that back in this post}. But then she evened out a little bit and we took those darn supplements all over creation with us this summer in our little cooler to keep them refrigerated. About a month ago we called it quits to see if we noticed a difference.
We did.
She became nicer. And more even-tempered. At least in my eyes. But Dave and I have both noticed that she has gained more weight. And that kills us when we work so hard at helping her on that front.
Oh it is just SO hard to judge what is really making the differences. Is it age? Is it sociability? Is it gaining more mental understanding of her world around her? Is it supplements? Is it how much sleep she's getting or what kind of nutrients she's getting from her regular food intake? It boggles my mind daily to try to figure this out. Sometimes it makes me want to cry.
For what it's worth, she was taking supplements to help boost her amino acids (to help with muscle growth), protein powder, highly concentrated vitamin D drops and a liquid supplement that was packed with every kind of vitamin and mineral you can care to dream up.
We are trying to get to the point where she will get the extra vitamins she needs through what she eats, but it's a continual, grueling process. Sometimes I feel so inundated with differing opinions it boggles my mind. You're right, we will never be "done" searching for answers on something like this because every body functions so differently, especially those with special needs. I hope you find the best answers for that daughter of yours! I sure pray that we find them for Lu as well.
Right now I'm sitting here about to board a plane to get up to Logan for the sold out Time Out for Women there. I'm looking forward to meeting lots of interesting people and I'm crossing my fingers that all the things I finagled up for my kids back home pull through!


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"The OpenCL specification is a result of a clearly recognized opportunity from leaders like NVIDIA to grow the total market for heterogeneous parallel computing through an open, cross-platform standard," said Neil Trevett, vice president of embedded content at NVIDIA. He added that "NVIDIA will continue to be very active in the OpenCL working group to drive the evolution of the specification and will support OpenCL on all its platforms, providing developers an additional way to tap into the awesome computational power of our GPUs."


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The League has put together a list of more than 30 job descriptions listing the major areas of responsibility within orchestra administration and staff titles.
Depending on the size of the orchestra, individual job titles may vary and often individuals will have more than one area of responsibility. For example, in a large budget orchestra with a large staff, you may have vice-presidents, directors, managers, and assistants (see Chart 1) with very specific responsibilities. In contrast, a mid-to-small budget orchestra will have fewer staff and often one person will wear multiple hats, for example being in charge of both the marketing and communications or the development and marketing for the orchestra. (See Chart 2 and Chart 3)


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Frank Miller's 300 is the war comic that follows the history of the 300 Spartan soldiers who fought against Xerxes II's forces in 480 B.C. Historically accurate and supercharged with action and emotion, 300 is by far one of the best stories ever told in comic books. King Leonidas leads his personal bodyguard of 300 soldiers against Xerxes, the self-proclaimed lord of the world. With no hope of victory, the warrior based society of Sparta must rally the other Greeks to fight with their open defiance of Xerxes' bribes and offers. Leonidas positions his brave and utterly suicidal soldiers at Thermypolae, the "Hot Gates", a small passage that laid in the south of Greece – so small that Xerxes' 2 million of soldier counted for nothing against just 300 men. For three days, the 300 Spartans held off the largest invasion army ever assembled before Allied Forces invaded Normandy on June 6th, 1944 with 3 million men.
Gerard Butler … Spartan King Leonidas
Andrew Pleavin … Daxos
Tyrone Benskin … Persian Emmissary
Richard Cetrone … Hero Spartan
Michael Fassbender … Stelios
Lena Heady … Queen Gorgo
Vincent Reagan … Captain
Rodrigo Santoro … Xerxes
Andrew Tiernan … Ephialtes
David Wenham … Dilios
Dominic West … Theron
Tom Wisdom … Astinos
US – March 9, 2007
France – March 28, 2007
UK – March 16, 2007
Germany – April 5, 2007
Netherlands – April 5, 2007
Japan – June 5, 2007


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At the beginning of 2010, the Islamic world at large and the Islamic Studies community in particular, lost Dr Salah al-Din al Munajjed, a brilliant and eminent scholar who passed away on 18 January 2010 in Riyadh (KSA) where he had lived for many years. In the following, we present an obituary as a tribute to his memory.
Note of the editor
This obituary was revised by Zaher Al-Munajjed, son of the late Dr Salah al-Din Al-Munajjid.
At the beginning of this year, the Islamic world at large and the Islamic Studies community in particular, lost a brilliant and eminent scholar: Dr Salah al-Din al Munajjed who passed away on 18 January 2010 in Riyadh (KSA) where he had lived for many years. He was buried in Al-Madina al Munawwarah.
Salah al-Din al-Munajjid is known to all those working in the broad field of Islamic studies, Muslim Heritage and Arab culture. He is the editor of numerous manuscripts and the author of over a hundred publications in which he shed light on the varied aspects of the rich Arabic learning. He was also a commentator on the main events of political, social and intellectual life of the Arab world during the tormented 20th century.
He was born in Damascus in 1920 to a family well known in the fields of learning and devotion. His father Sheikh Abdullah Al-Munajjid was a master in the Quranic sciences. Fond of reading from an early age, he began writing when he was 19 years old. His articles soon appeared in the leading literary journal of that time, Al-Risala published in Cairo by the famous journalist Ahmad Hassan al Zayyat.
His first job was in the ministry of higher education in Damascus. In parallel, he pursued courses in the faculty of law. Following his graduation, he pursued his university studies in Paris at the Sorbonne University where he obtained a doctorate in international law.
His love of manuscripts never left him even while occupied studying law. He continued researching and studying manuscripts and having become an eminent expert, was nominated as director of the Arab League's Institute of Arabic Manuscripts in Cairo in 1955. The Institute, founded in 1946, had as its main goal the collection of ancient Arabic manuscripts. Al-Munajjid performed this task to the best of his considerable ability. In his capacity of director of the Institute and as a lover of manuscripts, he catologued, studied and micro filmed thousands of manuscripts from around the world. He was widely acclaimed for this work and sometimes nicknamed the "Father of Manuscripts" and at other times the "Sinbad of manuscripts". This role and his love of manuscripts are reflected in his lecture "Activités de l'institut des manuscrits arabes" [Activities of the institute of Arabic manuscripts] presented to the 24th Congress of Orientalists held in Cairo in 1957.
Later, Dr Al-Munajjid spent a year in Princeton University in New Jersey, USA, where he was a visiting professor. Following that, he returned to Lebanon where he resumed writing and founded a publishing house (Dar al-kitab al-jadid: House of the New Book) which focused mainly on printing his own books. During this period, his output was very large. He also gave conferences and lectures at congresses and symposia in universities and scholarly meetings all over the world.
During that same period and through his writings and articles in Al-Hayat newspaper, he engaged with Kamel Mrowa, the founder of Al-Hayat, in the major political and ideological debate of that period of Arab history. The price he paid for his candid and bold opinions was the burning of his library in Beirut and an unsuccessful attempt on his life.
Finally, in 1975, following the Lebanese civil war, he settled in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from where he continued writing and publishing, in addition to commenting regularly on ongoing events in two Arab newspapers, Al-Hayat and Al-Sharq al-awsat.
The late Salah al-Din Al-Munajjid spent a great deal of his scholarly life scrutinizing the original manuscripts of Islamic culture, collecting copies, comparing them, establishing catalogues, listing indexes, editing unpublished texts and writing comments and analyses, as well as studying the various aspects of Arabic classical learning. His interests covered history, literature, medicine, calligraphy, palaeography, the contribution of women to Islamic civilisation, geography, travel accounts, and biography. With all these accomplishments, published in a large corpus of about seventy years of intellectual activity, he enriched the modern Arab library with jewels of incalculable value. The most brilliant of them are texts unearthed from the dust of libraries for the first time and published in his methodical editions.
The late Salah al-Din al-Munajjid's early scholarly interest was in history, especially the history of Damascus. In the 1940s, he was one of the first to collect inscriptions on the monuments of his city, which he classified in categories according to the types of monuments. This interest in historical evidence remained with him during the whole of his intellectual lifetime. It is not surprising that one of his first major books was an edition of Ibn 'Asakir's Tarikh Dimashq (History of Damascus).
But this interest in historical literature was just one aspect of his editorial accomplishments. Connoisseur of the hidden depths of classical Islamic culture, he was aware that a great number of important texts remained unpublished. Having access to the original manuscripts, he endeavoured to edit them professionally into critical editions according to a strict methodology.
His editions included Kitab Adab al-ghurabā' (The book of strangers, Beirut 1972), a mediaeval Arabic graffiti on the theme of nostalgia attributed to the celebrated man of letters Abu 'l-Faraj Al-Isfahānī (d. shortly after 360 H/971 CE), Sharh gharīb khutbat Ā'isha… fī abīhā Abī Bakr by Abū Bakr al-Anbārī (271–328 H/885–940 CE), an eminent Arab philologist of the Abbasid period, Al-Dhahabī's al-'Ibar, Ibn al-Dawādārī's Kanz al-durar wa-jāmi' al-ghurar, and Al-Balādhurī's Kitab futuh al-buldan in three volumes. These editions are among the most quoted in recent Islamic studies.
The editions he performed were supported by a deep knowledge of the rules of codicology. Remarking that sometimes critical editions are incorrectly edited, he published two books on cataloguing and editing Arabic manuscripts to warn students and young scholars of the dangers of amateur delving into the complex field of codicology . In addition, he established rules that were adopted by scholars and Arab academics. More than all his other contributions, his work as an expert in codicology must be celebrated, as it testifies to his patience, his respect for academic standards and his willingness to perform editions according to the most rigorous rules.
Textual editing was only a part of Salah al-Din Al-Munajjid's scholarly skills and the outstanding contribution he made to modern Arabic culture. He said in the tribute that Al-Ithnaniyah Forum in Jeddah dedicated to him in 1985: "My writings reflect my culture. I endeavoured to be an associate scholar in every aspect of the Arabic and Islamic culture. This is why you find in my writings different dimensions of this culture". And indeed, the legacy of dozens of publications that he left testify to the richness of his contribution. He was not involved in only one field but tried to embrace all aspects of Islamic culture, along the model of the ancient encyclopaedists, like Al-Jahiz and Al-Biruni. Although the latter's' encyclopaedism was broader in the sense that it also encompassed philosophy and science, the absence of these specialties from the curriculum vitae of Salah al-Din Al-Munajjid reflect more a part missing from modern Arabic culture than a dimension missing from his education and research activities.
An insatiable reader, his pleasure in reading led him to writing in order to share with others the results of his culture researches. Thus, he researched fields which other writers did not dare investigate. This shows his pioneering work and lasting interest in unearthing documents and data about the role of women in classical Islamic civilisation, especially the contribution of women to symbolic production, to literature, theology and calligraphy.
His classical books about women in Islamic culture are still a precious source for recent studies on social history, whether be they editions or commentaries. He edited al-Suyūtī's Al-Mustazrif min akhbār al-jawārī and collected a relatively huge amount of evidence on the written documents, both extant and lost, on women in Arabic culture: "Mā 'ullifa 'an al-nisā'" (what was written about women).
Similarly, in a related field, social history still benefits from his insights. His study on Amthāl al-'āma 'inda 'l-'Arab (Beirut 1981) is a main source in the article "Representations: Proverbs, Adages, and Riddles" in The Encyclopaedia of Women and Islamic Cultures: Practices, Interpretations and Representations (Brill, 2007, vol. 5, pp. 517-528).
Based on the thousands of sources available to him, he wrote a number of works dealing with aspects of the social life of ancient Muslims which until then had remained in the dark. One of them, Al-Zurafa' wa 'l-Shahhathun fi Baghdad wa Baris (Charmers and Beggars in Baghdad and Paris) was published in 1946 (reprinted in Beirut in 1969). Another one, Bayn al-Khulafa' wa 'l-Khula'a' fi 'l-'Asr 'l-'Abbasi (Between Caliphs and the Debauched in the Abbasid Period), was published in 1957 (reprinted in Beirut in 1974). Jamal al-Mar'ah 'inda 'l-'Arab (Women's Beauty among the Arabs), published in 1957 and reprinted since by his publishing house in Beirut in 1969, is still a classical study. In these pioneering researches, he unearthed practices, knowledge and aspects of the ancient Arabic culture that were intimately linked to the daily life of the Islamic world in the classical age.
In 2002, Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation issued a volume of Essays in Honour of Salāh al-Dīn al-Munajjid which contains articles in Arabic and English. Just a few weeks ago, a last book, Zawiyati fi al-hayat (My angle in life) appeared under Salāh al-Dīn al-Munajjid's name, as a farewell to his readers all over the world. The thick book of 487 pages, published by his daughter Mona Al-Munajjid, collected the newspaper articles he published in the journal Al-Hayat during the 1960s.
In an obituary published by Haitham al Sayyed in Al-Iqtisadiah newspaper (Riyadh) dated 21 January 2010, we read:
"The accomplishments connected with Salah al Din Al-Munajjed's name are surely remarkable, and the only way we can convey that greatness is to speak about a personality that took the journey of "Encyclopedic authorship" and delved into the depths of historical studies moving between times, nations and different periods. We can speak about Al-Munajjed who wrote geography and travel literature, biography, society, events, even touched upon the amusing and the odd. He was the same Al-Munajjed who plunged his thoughts deep into the Prophet's Biography and swirled into various manifestations of literature from poetry to prose, and criticism to documentary, all this in addition to revising and re-editing over 25 classical Arabic literary works as well. The march did not stop there, for he founded the rules for the revision and editing of manuscripts and established its modern guidelines. And there are also the political and diplomatic studies, memoirs, letters and documents, in addition to innumerable revised and re-edited texts on the history of Damascus, Arabic calligraphy, ancient writings and Fatwas. We are therefore speaking of a cultural figure that cannot be described by one attribute or associated to one branch of knowledge without having another rushing to couple itself with his name. He is culture in its utmost conception, it cannot be comprehended but by the few, and it cannot be applied but by the fewest. For this reason, when Arab culture lost Salah al Din Al-Munajjed, it really lost a man of letters, a historian, a researcher, a writer, a critic, an intellectual, a scholar, a jurisprudent, and a politician, and before all these, a man who was above all at the service of his nation and religion; it lost a man who enriched the minds of generations and added a whole and complete library to the Arab tradition".
In conclusion, we present some of the most important publications of Salah al-Din Al-Munajjid.
In the field of specialized reference books:
- The reference to books written on Prophet Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him),
- the dictionary of women,
- the lexicon of Islamic calligraphists and penmen.
In the field of history:
- The East in the eyes of Maghrebis and Andalusians,
- A Study of Umayyad Caliphs,
- Arabian Historians and Geographers
- Damascus: in the Eyes of Travelers and Muslim Geographers.
In the field of paleography:
- The history of Arabic calligraphy since inception till the Umayyad era
In literature:
- The Wittiest of What I read,
- Proverbs about Arabian Women,
- The Arab canons of women's Beauty,
- Sexual Life of the Arabs.
His publications concerning manuscripts include:
- The Rules of editing Manuscripts,
- The Rules of Cataloguing Manuscripts.
Writings in the field of modern Arab political thought:
- The pillars of the Catastrophe or the Reasons behind the Defeat of 1967,
- Faisal Bin Abdul Aziz and the Islamic Solidarity,
- The Bolshevization of Islam,
- The Socialist Delusion.
In the field of diplomacy:
- The Islamic Diplomatic System.
In the field of Islamic studies:
- Islamic Society in the shade of Justice, and
- The Best of what I read about Islam.
Also, he reedited and revised the following precious classical books:
- the History of Damascus (Volume I) by Ibin Asaker,
- Promoting Virtue and Forbidding Vice by Ibin Taymia,
- the Literature of Foreigners by Abu A-Faraj Al-Asbahani,
- the Qur'an Schools In Damascus by An-Nuaimi,
- the Orphan Poem,
- Letters and Poems by Al-Jahiz,
- The Fatwas of Imam Muhammad Rashid Ridha.
Further Resources
- Obituary in Al-Hayat Newspaper (in Arabic) 21.01.2010 (London): click here.
- Salah al-Din Al-Munajjid: Al-ism al-qabil li-l-qisma 'ala kul al-manahij al-ma'rifiya (21.01.2010).
- Obituary in Al-Iqtisadiyah newspaper (Riyadh) by Haitham al Sayyed (21.01.2010).
- Homage to Salah al-Din Al-Munajjid in the Ithnaniyah Forum (Jeddah) in 23.3.1985: Hafl takrim al-duktur Salah al-Din Al-Munajjid (in Arabic).
- Essays in honour of Salâh al-Dîn al-Munajjid, London, al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2002 (table of contents here).
- See the entry "Al-Munajjid" in the Catalogue Al-Kindi (the library's catalogue of the Dominican Institute For Oriental Studies in Cairo) listing a survey recording 185 items of Salah al-Din Al-Munajjid's production: click here.
Selected List of his works1. Codicology and Editions of Manuscripts
- Ibn 'Asâkir, Thiqat al-Dîn Abû'l-Qâsim 'Alî, Ta'rîkh madînat Dimashq, Damascus, 1951-54, 2 vols.
- Règles pour l'édition des textes arabes, [s.l.], Dar al-Ma'aref. (Extract from Mideo: Mélanges de l'institut dominicain d'etudes orientales, vol. 3, 1956, pp. 359-374).
- "Handlist of Arabic Manuscripts in the Library the University of Leiden by P. Voorhoeve", Majallat Ma'had al-Makhtutat al-'Arabiya, vol. 1/03, 1957. [Refutation of Handlist of Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the University of Leiden and other Collections in the Netherlands, compiled by P. Voorhoeve, Leiden: Library of the University of Leiden, 1957].
- "Les certificats de lecture et de transmission dans les Mss arabes de la BN de Paris par G. Vajda (1957)", Majallat Ma'had al-Makhtutat al-'Arabiya, 1957, 161 pp.
- "L'œuvre d'al-Beruni par D. J. Boilot", Majallat Ma'had al-Makhtutat al-'Arabiya, Cairo, 1957, pp. 158-159. [Refutation of L'œuvre d'al-Beruni: Essai bibliographique by D. J. Boilot, Mideo: Mélanges de l'Institut dominicain d'Études orientales du Caire, 1955, pp. 161-256].
- Al-Balādhurī, Kitab futuh al-buldan, Cairo, 1956-60, 3 vols.
- Fihris al-makhtutat al-'Arabiyah f-i al-Ambruziyana bi-Milanu, Cairo: Ma'had al-Makhtutat al-'Arabiyah, 1960.
- Ibn al-Dawādārī, Kanz al-durar, Cairo, 1961.
- Ibn al-Dawādārī, Kanz al-durar wa jāmi' al-ghurar, Cairo, 1961.
- Al-Suyūtī, Al-Mustazrif min akhbār al-jawārī, [n.p.], 1963.
- Al-Dhahabî, Shams al-Dîn Abû `Abd Allâh Muhammad, Al-'ibar fî khabar man ghabar, Kuwait, vol. 4, 1963 [vols. 2-3 edited by Fu'ad Sayyid].
- Fihris al-makhtutat al-'arabiyah fi maktabat al-Kungris bi-Washintun, Beirut: Dar al-Kitab al-Jadid, 1969.
- "Remarques sur les éditions de l'œuvre de Birūni: Avec un supplément contenant une liste des manuscrits arabes connus des ouvrages de Birūni", Tehran [s.n.], 1976, 14 pp. (extract from: Communications présentées au congrès international de Birūni, Tehran 1973).
- Abū Bakr al-Anbārī, Sharh gharīb khutbat Ā'isha… fī abīhā Abī Bakr, Majallat al-Majma' al-'Ilmi al-'Arabi, vol. 37 (1962), 414–27; reprinted in a book Beirut, 1980.
- Qawa'id tahqiq al-makhtutat, Beirut, 1987.
- Qawa'id fahrasat al-makhtutat, Beirut, 1987.
2. Original works
- "Mā 'ullifa 'an al-nisā'", Majallat al-Majma' al-'ilmī al-'Arabī, vol. 16, 1941, pp. 212–19.
- "Khitat Dimashq," al-Machriq, Beirut, vol. 42, 1948, pp. 39-65, 242-88, 348-70.
- "Masadir jadidah 'an ta'rikh al-tibb 'inda al-'arab", Majallat Ma'had al-Makhtutat al-'Arabiya, vol. 5, 1959.
- Mu'jam ma-ullifa hawl Rasul Allah salla Allahu 'alayhi wa-sallam, Beirut, 1982.
- Al-Mustashriqun al-alman: tarajimuhum wa-ma-ashamu bihi fi 'l-dirasat al-'arabiya (edition and authorship), Beirut, 1978.
- "Al-mu'arrikhun al-dimashqiyyun wa-atharuhum al-makhtuta min al-qarn al-thalith al-'ijri ila nihayat al-qarn al-'ashir", in Majallat Ma'had al-Makhtutat al-'Arabiya, vol. 2, November 1955.
- "Ijazât al-sama' fi al-makhtutat al-qadima", Majallat Ma'had al-Makhtutat al-'Arabiya, vol. 2, November 1955.
- "Une importante Risāla de Suyūtī", Mélanges offerts au R. P. Henri Fleisch, edited by Said Boustany, Pelio Fronzaroli, Andrzej Zaborski et al., Beirut, Imprimerie catholique, Université Saint-Joseph, 1976-77, pp. 341-344.
- "Women's Role in the Art of Arabic Calligraphy", in The Book in the Islamic World: The Written Word and Communication in the Middle East, edited by George Nicholas Atiyeh, New York: State University of New York Press, 1995, pp. 141-148 (online here).
3. Translations of his works
- Le concept de justice sociale en Islam ou la société islamique à l'ombre de la justice, par Salâh al-Dîn al-Munadjdjid; traduit de l'arabe et annoté par Mohammed Hadj Sadok, Paris, Publisud, 1982.
- La description de Damas d'Ibn 'Asākir (historien mort à Damas en 571); édition critique de Salah ad Din al Munajjid; traduction de Nikita Elisséeff, Damas: Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO), 2008, 2 vols. (vol.1: The French translation; vol.2: the Arabic text).


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There are over 900 breeding bird species indigenous to or migrating to Thailand. Birdwatching tours are particularly popular in Sam Roi Yot National Park and Khao Sok, which is home to six species of hornbill. Crocodiles, lizards, and turtles are numerous. Fish abound in the rivers and coastal waters.


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February has been a hectic month. I usually read more books than this but work has intruded much on my leazure time this month, we are about to hatch a new product soon. It has not been easy to rank these fine books. I am trying a new format with a concentration of my reviews, better? worse? Read the reviews if you want to know more.
I made mistake with the feed earlier this month so I have to make 2 similar posts to get it right, sorry ignore the other
The God Engines by John Scalzi
John Scalzi treads new domains with this dark Gothic Opera of star travel, faith, living gods, sex, violence and space battles which channels the spirit of H.P. Lovecraft…
… The God Engines is a chilling horror story set in a world with living manifested gods, so it has to be fantasy? Well, maybe, there is a lot of Space Opera and science fiction in this fantasy story. I think it's magnificent and I love the inventiveness of the story, using gods as engines! I am just sorry it is so short, the plot could easily have been made into a full length novel. I say convinced that it would be easy for John Scalzi, him being such a fantastic writer (nudge, nudge).
The Course of Empire by Eric Flint & K. D. Wenthworth (Empire Series 1)
The reason I am reviewing The Course of Empire now is that the second part The Cruible of Empire will be out next month (March 16, 2010). This is the first book in a series about an alien invasion of earth by the Jao that changes into something else under the pressure of yet another more menacing alien race, the Ekhat bent on exterminating all non Ekhat life from the universe. It holds interesting alien point-of-views (pov), alternatives to violence and an unusual positive treatment of collaborateurs…
… This is one of the best alien point of view stories I have read in a long time, the world is vivid and the characters are easy to love. I got very emotional here and there in the story, especially at the end. I would recommend The Course of Empire to anyone intrested in a good alien point of view story or if you are just looking for good science fiction.
Semper Human by Ian Douglas (William H. Keith) (Inheritance Trilogy 3)
This is the last book in a Marine Corps Saga spanning thousands of years and three trilogies. The Trilogies are first Heritage, then Legacy and finally The Inheritance Trilogy. It is an epic military saga about the Marine Corps and the Garroway family that serves in it…
… The whole series is a great homage to the Marines, where every man is a rifleman first. It is a strong moral story about standing up for your team and your ideals. It also have great world-building and believable science within the fiction. You should read the other books in the Inheritance Trilogy before Semper Human, there is lots of references. I strongly recommend the whole series to any lover of military science fiction and space opera.
The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
It's been said that John Brunner invented the term "worm" for a program that replicates itself on a network in this proto-cyberpunk novel from 1975.
The first half of the novel had me wondering if this was way to intelligent for me, then the fog lifted, the wow feelings started to hit me. This is a great novel! It involves the Brain Race, a development from the previous Arms Race. Every superpower collect their own brain resources and develop them at great cost in institutions like Tarnover to handle the out of control speed of change in society. The novel addresses many of the problems with the ever faster changing world that are still valid today. Especially in the area of mental health…
… The Shockwave Rider impressed me with its content and how the pieces fell into place in the story and it became great. It is a few years old but much of what it tells are still valid. Read it if you can get hold of it.
Coyote Horizon by Allen Steele (Coyote 6)
Humanity meets aliens in Spindrift (4) where the Hjadd saves the day and we learns to know them better in Galaxy Blues (5) when we go and trade with them. Contact with another technologically more advanced civilization always leads to change. This time the contact is with an interstellar multi-specie civilization whose very existence challenge many of our traditional belief systems. The planet Coyote become much more than a safety vault for the overpopulated and ecologically devastated home planet. It becomes a focal point of the whole human civilization when the Hjadd sets up there embassy there and not on Earth.
This book is concurrent in parts with Galaxy Blues (5). It is a two book story the last part Coyote Destiny (7) is published in March 2010…
… I like the characterization in the beginning of the book. The world building is good, it's one of Allen's strengths. The storyline was clear and easy to follow. I am not so hot on this many protagonists and switching back and forth between them. It works but I personally would have preferred a more central protagonist, but that's just me. I liked the book in general and it is a good read you don't want to put it down…
… The book ends with a cliffhanger but you don't have to wait long to read the last part of this story. Publication is next month. You can start reading about Coyote with this book but you you misses a lot of the backstory if you haven't read volume 1-3.
Pleasure Model by Christopher Rowley (Netherworld Trilogy 1)
Rook Venner bring the evidence home, said evidence being Plesur, a pleasure model with long golden hair, deep blue eyes, a pert little nose and large mouth loaded with heavy lips that works like triggers on the heterosexual male mind all packed into a gorgeous young body, to protect her from rape. Only to wake up in the middle of the night by a phone call telling him to get out NOW!
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Live Free or Die by John Ringo (Troy Rising 1)
This is the first book in a new series called Troy Rising. It is an alien invasion Space Opera with an unlikely hero…
… Live Free or Die is an amusing Space Opera with a bit sketchy characters and world building but quite enjoyable. I would recommend it to readers of military science fiction with a sense of humor. I will definitely buy the rest of the series as soon as it is available.
Mirrored Heavens by David J. Williams (Autumn Rain 1)
This is the action packed first book in a new cyber-thriller series, Autumn Rain.
It starts out as one of those super action packed first scenes in a Hollywood Block Buster but here it feels like it never stops. Put a handful major characters, one mega conspiracy or two and the intrigue and mysteries of a Le Carré cold war spy thriller into the mix and splatter it out on a canvas of world-wide insurrection, high technology and dystopian cityscapes and you have a feeling what this book is…
… Mirrored Heavens is a strong first novel by David J. Williams. He presents a chilly future high-tech world of espionage and double crossing that is more than entertaining, the characters are not very deep and at times the plot might feel a bit over complex at times but so far I like it. I already have volume 2 Burning Skies here waiting. I can recommend it if you like fast paced cyber thrillers.
Starbound by Joe Haldeman
Starbound left me conflicted, I have had to have a few days to think it over before writing a review. After the human race's near extinction from an exploding martian the earth authorities decide to send an expedition after the mysterious Other's starship that left the solar system heading for what might be the Others home world…
… not a bad book, nor an excellent, it is somewhere in between for me. It took a little long time before the action started and when it did it was over in no time. I would recommend it if you like mysterious aliens and Defying Gravity-esque personal interaction.
I haven't read Marsbound, and it it is supposed to be a better read than this one, maybe it suffers from middle-book-itis.
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Bitter Angels was written by Sarah Zettel under pseudonym. It's a military science fiction of sorts with a central murder mystery. And I liked it much more than Kingdom of Cages, which put me off from her, seems I was wrong…
… I liked the mystery part, but it took a bit too long to get to when it started to make sense, around page 300. I wouldn't mind if the author made faster work of that. It left only 150 pages for the real action and the characters to grow.
Now and then I felt it was too much talks, meetings and dead ends that didn't bring the story forward, but I might have missed a point or so. It slowed it down from excellent to good in my mind. Bitter Angels is a good mystery-spy science fiction and if you like that it's a book for you.


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NASHVILLE (AP) – A report from the state Second Look Commission cites what members called "gaping holes" in the child welfare system.
According to The Tennessean, the annual report looked into what the commission termed the worst incidents of child abuse in Tennessee.
The report stated there were missed opportunities to protect children, even in cases where authorities knew families were abusive. The commission recommends more training for not only Department of Children's Services caseworkers, but also police and mental health providers.
"The SLC determined there are significant problems with the manner in which severe child abuse cases are being handled in Tennessee," the report states. "It will take a concerted and sustained effort to peel away the many layers of this complex issue to get to the core."
The recommendations by the commission include employees of the various agencies taking training together, said Carla Aaron, director of child safety for DCS and a member of the commission.
"What I can impact within DCS, certainly, we will try to weave it in," she said. "Several of the recommendations we have already begun working on."
The 17 members of the commission include lawmakers, judges, doctors, lawyers, police and child advocates. The Legislature created the panel in 2010 to examine cases in which children suffered severe abuse more than once.
The panel found some child abuse investigators give up too easily and unshared information allowed serious concerns to continue without investigation. In one case, a child was left with drug-using caregivers because they wouldn't cooperate even though police were able to glean information in the incident.
Commission director Craig Hargrow said some investigations were closed before complete services to aid the families could be arranged.
"What we're seeing this year is caseworkers identifying an issue or a safety hazard and addressing the hazard but not particularly addressing why the hazard is there in the first place," Hargrow said.
The report cited, as an example, a girl placed with an out-of-state relative only to end up moving across multiple states and in and out of foster care.
"Approximately two years later, she found herself back in Tennessee, off her much-needed medication, without a home and not in school," the report states.
The commission recommended increasing domestic violence penalties, a more thorough examination of the health of children exposed to methamphetamine and a DCS review of how it approved foster families and custodians to care for children.
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U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Announces $28 Million in Emergency Relief Funds to Repair Damaged Transportation Links in Federal Parks and Recreation Areas in New York and New Jersey
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that $28 million will be made available to repair roads and bridges in federal parks and recreation areas in New York and New Jersey damaged by Hurricane Sandy. The funding will help ensure the repairs are completed as quickly as possible.
"This funding will continue to help restoration efforts and ensure that tourists will be able to enjoy these historic sites," Secretary LaHood said. "We remain committed to doing all we can to help the region recover from the Hurricane Sandy."
The Federal Highway Administration's Emergency Relief for Federally Owned Roads (ERFO) program will provide funding to the National Park Service for the repair of roads, bridges, ferry docks and pedestrian walkways at five National Parks – the Gateway National Recreation Area in both states, the Statue of Liberty National Monument, Fire Island National Seashore, Governors Island National Monument and Sagamore Hills National Historic Site in New York. The ERFO program also will provide the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) with funds to restore access to the Edwin B. Forsyth National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey.
"Restoring transportation links after an emergency is critical to the economy," Federal Highway Administrator Victor Mendez. "The tourist season means jobs and customers – and we want to help make sure popular parks and tourist destinations in New York and New Jersey are as accessible as possible and open for business."
The ERFO program provides funding to federal agencies to repair federal roads and other facilities damaged by natural disaster or catastrophic events. These federal agencies, such as the NPS and the USFWS, have ownership and maintenance responsibilities for facilities open to public travel.


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January 8, 2007
By JOHN FLOWERS AND JOHN S. McCRIGHT
MIDDLEBURY — Employees at the Specialty Filaments Inc. manufacturing plant in Middlebury tried to make sense over the weekend of the announcement by company management on Friday that they were suspending operations and looking to sell the business. The move idled about 175 workers in Middlebury; no one is sure if they will ever be able to go back to work for Specialty Filaments.
"We were told on Friday morning that the company was going into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which means they were restructuring, so we were all hoping for a quick sale," said one Specialty Filaments employee who asked not to have his name publicized. "Then later in the day we heard it was a 'seizure of operations,' so I don't know what is going to happen."
By JOHN FLOWERS
MONTPELIER — Local lawmakers on Thursday praised Gov. James Douglas' 2007 agenda calling for Vermont to become a national leader in environmental and telecommunications technology, but stressed they now want to see more details on how the proposals will be funded.
Douglas, a Middlebury Republican beginning his third term in office, outlined his priorities during an inaugural address that stressed the need for bipartisan cooperation in dealing with a litany of issues, including affordable housing development, property tax reform and improving education opportunities.
"Vermonters aren't interested in partisan intrigue — they are interested in results," Douglas said to a large crowd dominated by Democratic lawmakers, who secured even larger majorities in both the House and Senate this past November.
MIDDLEBURY — Residents in the seven Addison Central Supervisory Union towns will vote this Tuesday, Jan. 9, on $935,500 in repairs and improvements to Middlebury Union High School, including a new elevator, new hot water storage system and extensive roof work on the "H-wing" of the MUHS building.
If the project sounds familiar, that's because district voters on Feb. 28, 2006, agreed to spend $486,000 to replace the MUHS elevator and hot water system. The school's current freight-style elevator doesn't meet the state's fire safety laws, while the existing hot water system is 50 years old and needs to be replaced, according to ACSU officials.
While voters approved the project last winter, school officials quickly learned that the voted money was insufficient to do the job. The lowest of three bids received from prospective contractors came in $60,000 above the $486,000 budget.
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5: James Arthur Franklin, 20, pronounced dead at the scene of a Capitola Avenue. Two other men injured. Victims of a drive-by shooting at East Shine and South East streets uninjured in a separate incident the same afternoon
5: B.J. Murphy re-elected Kinston mayor in victory against Ralph Clark and John Marks
5: Robbie Swinson reelected to Kinston City Council; Wynn Whittington wins seat in first political race
7: Kinston�s Kerr Drug closes its doors, prescriptions transferred to Walgreens
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11: A family of four escapes a house fire in Deep Run, but two small dogs die in the incident
11: Laurie Ann Ellis, 41, is accused of shooting her mother, Brenda Woodard after an argument in Woolard�s Sharon Church Road house
12: Lenoir County Sheriff�s Office says argument turned deadly on Little Wiggins Road in La Grange when James Scott Wiggins allegedly fired a .357-caliber gun at his brother, Davis Brent Wiggins, hitting him in the neck and killing him
14: The GTP could become a sales lot for armored vehicles used in conflicts overseas, state officials say
17: �Community Day� held at Southeast Park in the wake of a number of area shootings
17: Two more victims shot, bringing the total to six people shot in Kinston in the month of November, authorities say
20: Kinston permanently closes College Street railroad crossing as a way to improve area traffic
20: Reuben Davis announces he won�t seek another term as Lenoir County Commission chairman
21: Lenoir Memorial Hospital announces plans to cut 85 positions, save $6.5 million
23: Juannette Roache, 23, and Chasity Caraway, 16, named Miss Kinston-Lenoir County 2014 and Miss Kinston-Lenoir County�s Outstanding Teen for 2014 in the 60th annual program held Nov. 23 at Grainger-Hill Performing Arts Center
25: Hundreds benefit from second annual Quinton Coples Turkey Giveaway at various locations around Kinston.
30: Two men shot outside Carver Courts apartments
1: Kinston City Councilman Joe Tyson re-selected by Mayor B.J. Murphy as Mayor Pro Tem, his second consecutive two-year term in the position
2: Craig Hill selected as chairman of the Lenoir County Board of Commissioners
3: Wok & Roll restaurant robbed
5: LMH announces the hospital is seeking a financial �partner� after studies completed with healthcare firm
5: Scotty McCreery, American Idol winner, plays a free show in Kinston at a packed Woodmen Community Center
7: Authorities uncover a meth lab in Deep Run off Tyndall Williams Drive. The suspect, Donald Robert Page, is eventually caught by lawmen
7: The family of Matthew Powell, who Lenoir County Sheriff Chris Hill says died as a result of hanging himself in the Lenoir County Detention Center, calls the death suspicious
8: The Lenoir County Education Foundation and Kinston-Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce awards more than $10,000 in grants to area teachers
11: State Department of Transportation officials say Stoneyton bridge on N.C. 58 North should be open by Jan. 4. Residents have faced a lengthy detour around the bridge between Kinston and Greene County
12: Contentnea-Savannah K-8 School dedicates new walking track
13: Authorities respond to an animal complaint and find two dead horses and 14 malnourished horses on a Greene County farm. Carl Davis, a Wayne County resident, surrendered ownership of the horses to Greene County and eventually was charged in the incident
15: Hallmark store, one of Vernon Park Mall�s oldest tenants, announces it will close in mid-January
15: Pat McNeill, retired Greene County educator, awarded Order of the Longleaf Pine, the state�s highest honor
17: In Deep Run, a 16-year-old rescues his cousins from an attacking pit bull
17: Four arrested in Grifton home invasion after family chases two of the suspects
18: Former Jones County Commissioner Oz Coward dies at 74
19: Referee Emily Manning dies after collapsing at JV basketball game at South Lenoir High School
20: Ralph Jonathan Winn charged with second-degree murder after Kaitlyn Rouse, 15, died two years ago after purchasing drugs from him
20: A hearing is requested after new evidence is discovered in the case of Laura Jean Ackerson, killed in 2011. Grant Ruffin Hayes III, already has been convicted in the case but his wife, Amanda Perry Hayes still faces trial. Grant Hayes is the father of two of Ackerson�s children
21: Officials announce plans for a Fairfield Marriott to be open in Kinston by the end of 2014
21: The condition of Timmy Mooring, deputy chief with the Sandy Bottom Volunteer Fire Department, improves after being burned at an incident at a hunting camp Dec. 17. Mooring was burning brush when vapors from diesel fuel exploded and flared up on him
24: Kinston Waffle House robbed. A man and his pregnant girlfriend are caught in Jones County and charged with the crime
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CB 300 crowns Moore champ again
Two Rivers musher defended title for second year
Musher Allen Moore continues rewrite the history books in the sled dog race world. The Two Rivers musher's team held off close competitor Nicolas Petit Monday afternoon to win his fifth title in the Copper Basin 300.
After crossing the finish line at 2:05 p.m. Moore thought it was very competitive this year.
"It was definitely a race," he said. "It was close. We were nip and tuck in the end."
Moore knew Petit would be his only competition the rest of the race after both mushers pulled in to the Lake Louis Lodge checkpoint early Monday morning. Both were taking their mandatory rest time.
"I was only one minute ahead of him and he didn't even know I was in the picture because I was taking all of my rests early and he was taking all of his late," Moore said.
Petit was the first one out of that checkpoint and beat Moore to the first Tolosna checkpoint. Moore gained the lead over Petit by arriving and departing first out of the next checkpoint at Tolsona. Moore crossed the finish line at Old Paths Church in Glennallen at 2:05 p.m. Petit came in seven minutes later.
This year's experience further cemented Moore's views that the Copper Basin 300 is the best tune-up for 1,000-mile races. He believes it should be a prerequisite for races such as the Yukon Quest and Iditarod.
"Some of the other races - like on a river - that's all you see," Moore said. "Here you get to see mountains. You see cold weather most of the time. You get to see everything."
Moore's fifth victory in the Copper Basin 300 is the most in the history. Four other mushing teams have won it twice. This year also marks the second time Moore has successfully defended his title two years in a row. He pulled off the feat in 2007 and 2008. It's been done two other times. Susan Butcher did it in 1991 and 1992. Mitch Seavey won back-to-back titles in 1997 and 1998.
After scratching off one title defense, Moore gets to defend another one in two weeks, the Yukon Quest. He also plans to race in the Iditarod later this season.


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