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Colorado College: Students Found Guilty for Satirical Flyer
Two male students were found responsible for violating the school's "violence" policy for posting a flyer that parodied a flyer from the Feminist and Gender Studies program. Colorado College's "Feminist and Gender Studies Interns" had distributed a flyer called "The Monthly Rag," which included a reference to "male castration," an announcement about a lecture on "feminist porn," and an explanation of "packing" (pretending to have a phallus). As a parody of "The Monthly Rag," the two male students distributed a flyer called "The Monthly Bag" under the pseudonym "Coalition of Some Dudes." The flyer included references to "tough guy wisdom," "chainsaw etiquette," the shooting range of a sniper rifle, and a quotation about "female violence and abuse" of men from the website batteredmen.com. The college subjected them to an hours-long hearing and found them responsible because of their "juxtaposition of weaponry and sexuality" on their flyer. Disciplinary letters were placed in their official files.
- "FIRE Launches New Video Series With Short Film on Censorship of Gun-Related Speech," June 30, 2010: Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is proud to release a new short film, "Empty Holsters: Gun Speech on America's Campuses," highlighting widespread campus censorship of student speech about guns. The film is the first in a new FIRE series focusing on how colleges and universities across America are preventing students and faculty members from speaking out on the weightiest political issues of the day.
- "FIRE 2010 U.S. News Letter to Colorado College President Celeste," January 7, 2010
- "FIRE Exposes Unrepentant Abusers of Liberty in 'U.S. News' College Rankings Issue," August 25, 2008: The 2009 edition of U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Colleges issue, released today, includes a full-page advertisement from FIRE highlighting the five colleges and universities that have earned FIRE's Red Alert distinction for being the "worst of the worst" when it comes to liberty on campus. Students should think twice before choosing to attend Red Alert schools, which include Brandeis University, Colorado College, Johns Hopkins University, Tufts University, and Valdosta State University.
- "US News and World Report FIRE ad," August 25, 2008
- "FIRE Letter to Colorado College President Richard F. Celeste," July 29, 2008
- "Colorado College Board of Trustees Backs School in Punishing Students for 'Violent' Parody," June 26, 2008: The Chair of Colorado College's (CC's) Board of Trustees has affirmed the school's actions in finding that student Chris Robinson and another student wishing to remain anonymous violated CC's "violence" policy for posting a flyer that parodied a flyer of the Feminist and Gender Studies program. In a letter to FIRE, Board of Trustees Chair David van Diest Skilling wrote that "the College acted correctly in their handling of the students' behavior" and that "there is no need for further action." FIRE continues to call on CC to remove the guilty verdict from the students' files immediately and to stand by its own promises of freedom of expression.
- "Response from Board of Trustees Chair David van Diest Skilling to FIRE," June 18, 2008
- "FIRE Letter to Colorado College Board of Trustees Chairman David van Diest Skilling," May 16, 2008
- "Trials and Tribuations of 07/08 by Richard Celeste," The Catalyst, May 8, 2008
- "Episode 111: Adam Kissel's Speech at Colorado College," April 28, 2008
- "Colorado College Denies Appeal of Students Responsible for 'Violent' Parody," April 28, 2008: Colorado College has denied student Chris Robinson's appeal of its finding that he and another student violated the school's "violence" policy for posting a flyer that parodied a flyer of the Feminist and Gender Studies program. The school also has decided not to remove any letters about the case from the students' files until after graduation. FIRE is assisting Robinson in his case against the school.
- "Episode 110: An Update on Colorado College," April 21, 2008
- ""The Free Expression Myth on America's Campuses," Adam Kissel's Speech at Colorado College, April 21, 2008," April 21, 2008
- "Punishment Without Crime: Professor of Political Science at Colorado College David Hendrickson's Letter to 'The Catalyst,' April 11, 2008," April 11, 2008
- "Letter to Chris Robinson from Mike L. Edmonds on Appeal Decision, April 11, 2008," April 11, 2008
- "The Monthly Bag, Block 7, 2008," April 10, 2008
- "Episode 108: FIRE's Case at Colorado College," April 7, 2008
- "Professor of Political Science at Colorado College David Hendrickson's Letter to 'The Catalyst,' April 4, 2008," April 4, 2008
- "Colorado College Punishes, Deems Students "Violent" for Satirical Flyer," March 31, 2008: Two students at Colorado College were found guilty of violating the school's conduct code regarding "violence" after they distributed a satirical flyer mocking a publication of the Feminist and Gender Studies program. As part of their punishment, the students have been required to hold a campus forum discussing issues brought up by their satirical publication. They turned to FIRE for help.
- "On The Threat to the First Amendment in Higher Education," March 28, 2008
- "Colorado College Anti-Discrimination Policy," March 28, 2008
- "FIRE Letter to Colorado College Vice President Mike L. Edmonds, March 26, 2008," March 26, 2008
- "Letter from Colorado College Vice President Mike Edmonds to Chris Robinson, March 25, 2008," March 25, 2008
- "FIRE Letter to Colorado College President Richard F. Celeste, March 21, 2008," March 21, 2008
- "Campus-wide email from President Celeste regarding the Monthly Bag, February 28, 2008," February 28, 2008
- "The Monthly Bag," February 10, 2008
- "The Monthly Rag," February 1, 2008
Case Materials
- "The Unique Free Speech Challenges Facing Student Satire and Humor," by Azhar Majeed, February 1, 2013
- "Colorado College Remains in the 'Red'," by Azhar Majeed, June 21, 2012
- "This Month in FIRE History: Controversy at Colorado College," by Bridget Glackin, March 18, 2011
- "Time for Colorado College to get off FIRE's Red Alert List," by Peter Bonilla, September 10, 2010
- "Changes in Leadership Give Red Alert Schools Golden Opportunity to Restore Free Speech," by Peter Bonilla, May 19, 2010
- "Still Looking for a New Year's Resolution, Red Alert Schools?," by Peter Bonilla, January 14, 2010
- "How Can Colorado College Get Off FIRE's Red Alert List?," by Adam Kissel, August 31, 2009
- "This Month in FIRE History: Students Found Guilty for Satirical Flyer at Colorado College," by Claire Jenkins, April 23, 2009
- "Exploitation of 'Violence' Charges Makes Colorado College One of 2008's Worst Offenders," by Peter Bonilla, December 30, 2008
- "Stop Invoking Virginia Tech to Punish Protected Speech," by Adam Kissel, November 24, 2008
- "This Month in FIRE History: IUSB and Double Standards for Student Speech," by Claire Jenkins, September 18, 2008
- "How Can Colorado College Get Off FIRE's Red Alert List?," by Adam Kissel, August 26, 2008
- "FIRE Again Urges Colorado College President to Demonstrate His Recommitment to Free Speech," July 31, 2008
- "Weekly Media Round-up: IUPUI Heats up the News Cycle, and Richard Celeste Continues to Get it Wrong," by Peter Bonilla, July 18, 2008
- "Colorado College President Blogs on 'Monthly Bag' Case, Makes Errors, Spins Untruths," by Adam Kissel, July 17, 2008
- "FIRE's 'Test for Free Speech'," by Samantha Harris, July 16, 2008
- "Whence is Colorado College's Board of Trustees Getting Its False Information?," by Adam Kissel, June 26, 2008
- "Colorado College's President Misses the Point (Again)," June 25, 2008
- "When Schools Punish Creative Work," by Adam Kissel, May 20, 2008
- "Colorado College Joins Worst Offenders of Liberty on FIRE's Red Alert List," May 15, 2008: Colorado College has earned the dubious distinction of being placed on FIRE's Red Alert list because of its disregard for protected speech, obvious display of double standards, and lack of a fair judicial process. In order to be placed on Red Alert, an institution must be an unrepentant offender against basic rights that it either promises or that are guaranteed by the United States Constitution, and maintain policies and/or practices that demonstrate a serious and ongoing threat to students and faculty. Colorado College has refused to remove the guilty finding from the records of two students who posted a parody flyer on campus and reaffirm its published commitments to free speech.
- "Colorado College Press Strategy: Parse Words, Ignore Substance," by William Creeley, April 29, 2008
- "New Colorado College Video Now Up on Multimedia Page," by Emily Guidry, April 29, 2008
- "Colorado College Denies Students' Appeal of Guilty Finding," by Emily Guidry, April 28, 2008
- "Adam Kissel's Colorado College Lecture Available on Multimedia Page," April 28, 2008
- "Colorado College Travelogue, Part II: Media Tour," by Adam Kissel, April 28, 2008
- "Colorado College Travelogue, Part I: Lecture at CC," by Adam Kissel, April 24, 2008
- "Adam Kissel Speaking at Colorado College Tonight," April 21, 2008
- "Colorado College and LSSU Media Round-Up," April 18, 2008
- "Colorado College Feminists Do Not Seek Dialogue," by Adam Kissel, April 16, 2008
- "What Did President Celeste Really Think About The Monthly Bag?," by Robert Shibley, April 16, 2008
- "The Coalition of Some Other Dudes and the Range of an M1-A1 Tank," by Adam Kissel, April 16, 2008
- "Can State Officials Condemn Without Censoring?," by Adam Kissel, April 15, 2008
- "Colorado College President Celeste Blogs on "The Monthly Bag"," by Robert Shibley, April 14, 2008
- ""Muzzle Tov" to Brandeis and Valdosta State from Greg," April 11, 2008
- "Greg's New Blog for 'The Huffington Post' Questions Campus Speech Abuses in the Aftermath of Virginia Tech," April 8, 2008
- "Latest FIREside Chats Episode Features Colorado College," April 7, 2008
- "Colorado College Still Swarmed by Media," April 3, 2008
- "Colorado Springs Abuzz over Punishment for Parody," by Adam Kissel, April 2, 2008
- "Colorado College President Defends "Violence" Finding against Satirical Flyer," by Adam Kissel, April 1, 2008
- "Persecuted for Parody, Colorado College Student Fights Back in Op-Ed," by William Creeley, March 31, 2008
- "Colorado College Punishes Students for "Violent" Satirical Flyer," by Adam Kissel, March 31, 2008
Blog Entries
- "CC dinged over free speech issue,"
by Staff Editorial, The Gazette (Colorado), August 28, 2009 - "Group scolds CC for free-speech violations,"
by Brian Newsome, The Gazette, June 28, 2008 - "What we're buying at college,"
by Mona Charen, Townhall.com, May 2, 2008 - "EDITORIAL: Punished for the crime of satire,"
Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 1, 2008 - "Chainsaw Etiquette at Colorado College,"
The Independence Institute, April 25, 2008 - "Face The State's Interview with Adam Kissel of FIRE,"
Face the State, April 23, 2008 - "Star Chamber at CC,"
by Vincent Carroll, Rocky Mountain News, April 16, 2008 - "Joking students called on the carpet,"
by Jenel Stelton-Holtmeier, Denver Post, April 12, 2008 - "CC's free-speech fears,"
by Vincent Carroll, Rocky Mountain News, April 8, 2008 - "'What Can The Virginia Tech Tragedy Do For Me?',"
by Greg Lukianoff, The Huffington Post, April 7, 2008 - "Flyers prompt free speech debate at Colorado College,"
by Heather Skold, KRDO News Channel 13, April 3, 2008 - "Satirical Flier Raises Ire,"
by Peter Marcus, Denver Daily News, April 3, 2008 - "Flyers spark free speech debate at CC,"
by David Tauchen, KOAA NBC, April 2, 2008 - "Free speech an issue at CC after satirical flier is prohibited,"
by Brian Newsome, The Gazette, April 1, 2008 - "Quick Takes from Inside Higher Ed: Double Standard Alleged,"
by Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, April 1, 2008 - "Colorado College satire causes a stir,"
by Joe Murray, The Bulletin, March 31, 2008


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The family of a north Florida soldier killed in Afghanistan says he was a responsible young man who had recently gotten married.
Pfc. Markie T. Sims of Citra died Saturday in Panjwal, Afghanistan. Wanda Thompson says her 20-year-old son suffered head trauma when an improvised bomb exploded next to his vehicle.
Sims played football at North Marion High School and graduated from Marion Technical Institute in 2011.
Relatives tell the Ocala Star-Banner that Sims got married in October, and his wife is pregnant.
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Last month I wrote a blog post about retirement, a term that some believe is becoming an anachronism. As early as 2008, financial consultants were writing about this possibility: "The word 'retirement' conjures up visions of leisurely days spent traveling, dining at fine restaurants, golfing, volunteering, and getting together with friends. Unfortunately, only very, very few of us are going to be able to live the dream."
Larry Cohen, the author of this foreboding paragraph, went on to say in his article on investmentnews.com that the reason for his negativity was that "very few households have saved enough to be able to afford such a lifestyle for the 20, 30, or more years they are likely to live after they retire in their early 60s."
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TUCSON-An organization is giving hope for struggling homeowners.
NACA, Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, is in town helping homeowners apply for reduced payments, something that many people are calling a life saver.
NACA representatives are meeting with homeowners walking them through each and every step so they have a better opportunity of modifying their loan.
This past year has been a hard one on Teresa Hayes.
"I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer," said Hayes.
And after being gone on medical leave for her treatments, she lost her job.
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Her husband, a veteran, also lost his job during the economic downturn.
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"We are now down to a point where we can't afford our home anymore," said Robert Hayes.
Their 250 thousand dollar home is now worth half of that, but they are still making the same payments as six years ago.
Even after pleading with the bank, they said their bank won't lower their monthly payments.
"It had everything we wanted, and it still has everything we want, but they would rather work with a stranger than work with me," said Hayes.
Teresa said the possibility of leaving her three kids without a home is too much to bear.
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Their hope is during this event, they can persuade the bank to help them out.
During this event, struggling homeowners meet with underwriters who can make key decisions for the bank.
"When we get situations like that folks like that, and we can put them in front of the bank, explain to them that even though they are current. They are robbing Peter to pay Paul the struggles that they are going through it makes a world of difference," said Rick Herrera with NACA.
For Teresa and her family, a modified loan would make all the difference.
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Early Muslim Historians
This short article is taken from the full article (by Dr. Salah Zaimeche) which is available here as 18 page PDF file.
A strong regard for history has existed throughout a great many centuries up to the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him – pbuh) and beyond. From accounts relating to the Prophet (pbuh) and later Khulafa (leaders after the Prophet pbuh) we also learn of knowledgeable individuals who were held in high regard for their expertise in history. For example, an-Nadr b. al-Harith was famed for his expertise on heroic Persian sagas, while Makhrama b. Nawfai az-Zuhri and Aqil b. Abi Talib (the brother of Ali b. Abi Talib) were commissioned by Umar b. Al-Khattab to register all known Arab tribes. Later still, Daghfal an-Nassaba excelled as a Genealogist in the time of Mu'awiya.
The historiography of the Muslims is characterised by a continuous narrative in which each event is set out in the words of contemporaries and eye-witnesses. Memorisation was the most popular and honoured style of learning prevalent at the time of the Prophet (pbuh) and prior still. Learned people were those who had committed knowledge to memory and would then impart their knowledge through recitation to the audiences. This however meant that in effect there was very little critical analysis, as is the norm of much western education. On the other hand, remitters were of course able to exercise the right of selection in choosing their authorities. On more complex issues such as resolving somewhat undecided points within the teachings of the Prophet (pbuh), schools were established to provide for this, the earliest being in Medina. Within such schools, memorisation was complimented with minimal jottings such as those of Hasan al-Basri (d. A.D. 728). Oral traditions, however, remained paramount both in practice and prestige.
However, in the second century, from A.D. 719 to 816, books, as we understand them, began to appear; production received a definite impetus by the practice of studying genealogy, particularly in relationship to the Prophet (pbuh). It is from this point that we have the beginnings of written Muslim history from which it is possible to arrive at an authentic narrative of events. This is but one of many examples demonstrating the birth of another Islamic science; a birth that has a direct relationship to the Islamic faith, in particular the life of the Prophet (pbuh).
Ibn Ishaq (d.768) and Ibn Hisham (d. 218/833)
Early Muslim historical writing was primarily concerned with the biography of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) (Sirat Rasul Allah) and the first wars of Islam (Al-Maghazi). Muhammad Ibn Ishaq related the first known biography (Sira) of the Prophet (pbuh). This work no longer exists in its original form, but has been preserved in at least two recensions, one of these recensions being authored by Ibn Hisham, thus Ibn Hisham's work represents one of the best existing authorities on the life of the Prophet (pbuh). The Arabic text was published at Gottingen in three volumes by F. Wustenfeld, 1858-60, and a German translation by G. Weil, The Historian of the Caliphate, appeared at Stuttgart in 1864. It is this latter work which is perhaps better known in the West, and is now more conveniently read in the English translation of the late A. Guilaume.
Alfred Guillaume also provided an English translation of an attempted reconstruction of Ibn Ishaq's work. This was produced largely by translating what Ibn Hisham reports from Ibn Ishaq, adding quotations from the latter that are included by al-Tabari (mainly the material that Ibn Hisham omitted) and placing Ibn Hisham's comments on Ibn Ishaq's work at the end of the translation in a section called "Ibn Hisham's Notes" (pp. 691-798). The page numbers suggest that Ibn Hisham's comments constitute about 15% of his recensions of Ibn Ishaq's work.
Ibn Hisham's (d.833) work contains information concerning the creation of the world, Biblical Prophets, and the advent of Islam. The actions and deeds of the Prophet (pbuh) are meticulously noted, and his battles described in great detail. Ibn Hisham's Sirat Muhammad rasul Allah is considered by Dunlop as one of the best existing authorities on the life of the Prophet (pbuh).
Ibn Sa'ad (d.845)
With Ibn Sa'ad, a pupil and secretary of Ibn al-Waqidi, begins a new genre which initiates biographies of Tabaqats (classes). His treatise Kitab al-tabaqat al-Kabir (the great book of classes) deals with the biographies of the Prophet (pbuh) and his companions and later dignitaries of Islam till 845. Ibn Sa'ad elaborates on the qualities of the Prophet (pbuh), and the main traits of his mission. It is the first major example of religious biography, universal in scope, trying to include all the religiously relevant persons of Islamic history, comprising 4,250 entries, 600 of them women. Ibn Sa'ad died in Baghdad in 230/845, and with his work ends the series of early, or at least comparatively early, native Arabic texts on which, for the most part, we depend for information regarding the life of Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) and the beginnings of his mission. Ibn Sa'ad's work can be found in a Sachau edition and in others.
Al-Azraqi (d. 219/834)
Around this time others focussed their efforts on describing and detailing the histories of towns and cities. One of the earliest examples of such work is that of al-Azraqi in his Akhbar Makka al-M'usharrafa (Chronicles of Mecca the Glorious). A generation or two later there appeared the Ta'rikh Baghdad (History of Baghdad) of Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur, a voluminous writer (d.280/893). Most of his works however are lost. Book 6 of the History of Baghdad, dealing with a part of the Caliphate of al-Mamun, was edited and translated into German by H Keller, and also translated into English by Kate Chambers Seelye.
Ibn Qutayba (d.276/889)
Ibn Qutayba's Kitab al-Ma'arif or 'Handbook of History' as it was entitled by its nineteenth-century editor, deserves mention, as it is one of the oldest surviving purely historical works of the Arabs. It deals with the pre-Islamic as well as Islamic history of the Arabs, and is still useful as a reference book, for genealogical and biographical matters in particular. Another point of interest that can be drawn from this work concerns the sets of issues that the widely esteemed and highly orthodox author deems important or relevant enough to mention, and perhaps equally important, the issues that the author omits (of course this is in the context of a comparatively short book; 330 pages of Arabic text in Wustenfeld's edition).
Abu Hanifa ad-Dinawari (d.889)
Abu Hanifa ad-Dinawari (better known in botany, see relevant chapter) was also a historian, and well known for his Kitab al-Akhbar at-Tiwal (Book of Long Narratives). This work deals in principle, as the title suggests, with selected episodes which interested the author, chiefly from Islamic history, but also the pre-Islamic period is not completely disregarded. In this latter regard ad-Dinawari provides accounts of Alexander the Great, and detailed information regarding the Sasanid Kings down to Yazdagird, the last of the Sasanids. His account of the Muslim conquest of Iraq is picturesque, and includes many interesting and apparently reliable details, notably for the battle of al-Qadisiyya. Another interesting section recounts the later days of Umayyad rule in Khurasan and the defeat and death of Marwan II, the last Umayyad Caliph. The narrative is brought down to the death of al-Mu'tasim in 227/842, i.e. it continues to the author's own times.
Al-Tabari (d.923)
According Ibn Khalikan (see entry on Damascus at Muslimheritage.com), the History produced by at-Tabari, the work which Europeans usually refer to as the Annals of Al-Tabari and of which the original title was Ta'rikh ar-Rusul wa'l-Muluk (history of the Apostles and Kings), was the soundest and most reliable work of its kind.
Al-Tabari was born at Amul, north of the Elburz range in the coastal lowlands of the Caspian Sea then called Tabaristan, and died in Baghdad. He was a precocious student who was, as he himself states, a hafiz (a person who has successfully memorised the entire Qur'an) by the age of seven, qualified as an Imam or leader of the Muslim worship aged eight and studied the Prophetic traditions aged nine (it seems well-authenticated that he left home aged twelve). After several years spent as a poor wandering scholar in Arabia, Syria, and Egypt, he settled down as a jurist in Baghdad. He was now able to follow a multiplicity of branches in search of expanding his knowledge. His acquisition of knowledge was to embrace not only history, Qur'an exegesis, Hadith and Fiqh, but he also possibly wrote in the field of ethics and had an educated person's interest in Arabic poetry. In Ta'rikh ar-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, a work that took forty years to complete, Al Tabari looks at Antiquity and the Islamic period up to 915. As an objective historian, he hardly expresses any judgment, and keeps a global vision of history. What survives fills fifteen large volumes; we are told that the original was ten times as long. His method is chronological, describing events year by year, and usually traditional—tracing the narratives through one or more chains of Hadith to an eyewitness or contemporary of the incident, and his method has the virtue of stating sources carefully. Indeed, his principal authorities for history are not, in general, any of the books, but chains of tradition going back wherever possible to eye-witnesses of the various occurrences. This was the method already employed in Al-Tabari's time by the experts in the science of Hadith. The method was applied with rigour by the best of these experts (muhaddithun), who had employed strict criteria for estimating the value of the different traditions, with which Al-Tabari as a distinguished student of the religious sciences was perfectly familiar (his Tafsir or Qur'an Commentary has been as highly regarded by Muslims as his History, as well as his extensive work Tahdhib al-Athar on Hadith). The application of this method on the widest scale might seem to give an almost irrefragable guarantee of truth to a historical narrative. This was no doubt a paramount reason for its adoption by Al-Tabari. On the whole, according to Dunlop, with the exception of Ibn al-Athir (whose great work Al-kamil, had not been translated in its entirety by the time Dunlop was writing, i.e. in the early 1970s), the Annals of al-Tabari is the best work in Arabic for information concerning the historical development of Islam and the Caliphate.
His comfortable, if not luxurious, financial and economic circumstances were curbed by his habit of eating temperately, dressing modestly and generally to avoiding excess in all things. Anecdotal evidence suggests that he never accepted any official employment (such as that of judge, for which he would have been abundantly equipped), although his post as tutor to the son of a vizier would doubtless have given him the entrée to such a career had he wished. These stories stress his high moral standards and his great probity, with a reluctance to accept costly gifts in return for services which he did not feel he had earned or for which he could not give equally valuable presents in return.
Al-Sûlî (Abu Bakr Muhammad b. Yahya – d.335/946 or 356)
Al-Sûlî a skilled chess player and a descendant or at least a great-nephew of the Turkish Prince, Sul Tigin of Jurjin, is a figure of some importance. He authored a literary history, Kitab al-Awraq fi Akbar Ahl al-Abbas wa sha'rihim (Book of Pages on the History of the Abbasids and their Poetry), was a courtier of the Caliphs al-Muktafi and al-Muqtadir, and later enjoyed a great deal of court favour. His Kitab al-Awraq appears to have been divided originally into five or six parts, of which four have survived. J. Heyworth Dunne edited the last of these in 1934 under the title Kitab al-Awrak, a section on Contemporary Poets. An edition of the whole work was planned and has perhaps been carried out in Haidarabad. Another portion of his work was also edited by Dunne, the Akhbar ar-Radi wa'l-Muttaqi bi'llah (History of the Caliphs ar-Radi and al-Muttaqi) and later translated by M. Canard. This is a good history on the court and the capital. Al-Suli's forte no doubt, as Canard indicates is politico-literary biography.
Abdus al-Jahshiyari (d. 942)
Abdus al-Jahshiyari authored Kitab al-Wuzara' wa'l-Kuttab (Book of the Viziers and Secretaries), an extensive work which began in pre-Islamic times, and gave an account of the secretaries of the Prophet (pbuh) and the secretaries of his successors down to the end of the Umayyad Caliphate. The narrative constitutes a history of the administration of the Islamic land until the advent of the 'Abbasids. What survives of the work is estimated at about one-third. The importance of the Kitab al-Wuzara was first shown, as was appropriate and natural, by an Austrian Orientalist, A. von Kremer in his paper Ueber das Budget der Einnahmen unter der Regierung des Harun alrasid, and contributed to the proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Orientalists. It can be read with profit for a view of the finances of the Abbasids in Harun's time.
Most recently Michael Awad has published a useful little work, Lost Fragments of Kitab al-Wuzara, compiled from manuscripts and printed sources. Though quite short (118 pages), this publication forms a useful supplement to the editions.
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The narration of historical events and the reflexion upon their causes are old scholarly concerns since ancient times. In Islamic culture, a specific Arabic historiographical tradition emerged very early, since the late 7th century, to account for the history of Islam and the development of its civilisation. The following article presents a general outline on the Islamic historical literature, from the first biographies of the Prophet to the great endeavour of Ibn Khaldun who, in the Muqaddima, laid the foundation of a philosophy of history based on sociology and material factors for the explanation of human and social events. A Model of the Historians by: Caroline StoneIn this short article we learn about Al-Mas'udi, a man regarded by Ibn Khaldun as the Imam of historians. Al-Mas'udi was responsible not only for a great deal of first hand reports but he was also instrumental in designing and establishing both a distinctive style of narrative and shaping the profession of the historian. Ibn Khaldun's 600th anniversary by: FSTC LimitedIbn Khaldun is probably one of the greatest sociologist, political scientist and philosopher in human history. This year is his 600th anniversary. Ibn Khaldun was the first to systematically analyze the functioning of an economy, the importance of technology, specialization and foreign trade in economic surplus and the role of government. Historians in North Africa and Spain by: FSTC LimitedThis article recognises the efforts and achievements of Muslim North African and Spanish historians. Surviving writings have proven an insightful and an engagingly informative source of a time past. Historians of Egypt by: FSTC LImitedThis article reviews in some details of the extensive efforts by Muslims in recordings of the history of Egypt. Such works have proven over time to be an invaluable source of information for successive generations of historians. Late Muslim Historians by: FSTC LimitedThe study of history has received much attention from Muslims over the centuries, from the time of Prophet Muhammad to modernity. This short article reviews works of some of the many early historians after the 15th Century. Resources: FULL ARTICLE: Muslim Historians , by: Dr. Salah ZaimecheThe study of history has received a great deal of attention from Muslims over the centuries, from the time of the Prophet to modernity. This short article details some of the early historians and their work after the 15th Century. The historians considered in this short article are but a few names in a multitude of Muslim writers on history.


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Valentine's Day Massacre: The Official Nicholas Sparks Body Count
Features By Scott Beggs on February 18, 2013 | Be the First To CommentNicholas Sparks is really good at killing people. No one is safe in his books and the movies made from them. In fact, if you've gotten close to any of the characters, it's a fair chance that they will develop a terminal illness, reveal that they've been hiding a terminal illness or be struck with a terminal disease called drowning. Sparks is an angry god, and he shuffles off mortal coils aplenty in order to pretend that he writes Greek tragedy and tug despotically at heartstrings. The murdering mastermind has struck again with Safe Haven, capitalizing on the fact that people love crying violently at movies on Valentine's Day, and like many have done before with Freddy, Jason and Leatherface, it seems only appropriate that we tally up all the bodies lying at Sparks' feet. Maybe someone can even make a memorial video set to Sarah McLachlan or something. As expected, Spoilers for all Sparks movies abound.
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I would like to thank ValSaxby for her GEA, JohnoP, dave1967, Maiwand, SteveMoulding and mattberry for their personal UA's on the previous Stonechat image ... Chuffed with ALL, so thank you
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This evening a Linnet sat on Gorse, no staging here but captured whilst out and about.
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About as perfect a capture of a Linnet as i have seen,the kind of image we all strive for!
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Updated: 12/12/2013 - I finally did my pull up!!! It was a New Year's Resolution that took me ALL YEAR! But I did it.
From left: Ryan Willhite, 3; Scarlett Gallagher, 1
Two young children were found brutally stabbed at a mobile home late Wednesday night.
Their grandmother frantically called 911 after stumbling upon the nightmarish scene inside the mobile home: a 1-year-old and 3-year-old with multiple stab wounds, the man left to care for them--his throat slit.
Scarlett Gallagher, the youngest victim, was already dead when deputies arrived at the home on Woodmen, three miles east of Powers in the Falcon area. Her brother, Ryan Willhite, survived long enough to be transported to the hospital, where he later died. Ryan was just days away from his fourth birthday.
Deputies found 22-year-old Ethan Courrau in the trailer, dying from an apparent self-inflicted wound.
"He had slit his own throat," a deputy can be heard saying on dispatch tapes obtained by 11 News. Courrau died at the hospital.
According to a family friend, Courrau was the boyfriend of the children's mother, and had been left to care for both kids while she and the grandmother went grocery shopping. The savage attack occurred while mother and grandmother were gone.
The family friend says the mother was four months pregnant with suspect's child.
The El Paso County Sheriff's Office has not confirmed the relationship between Courrau and the children's mother. They did say he is not the father of either child, but associated with the family.
Shell-shocked family and friends arrived at the home throughout the day Thursday, leaving stuffed animals and flowers outside in a makeshift memorial for the children. Though most were too grief-stricken to talk, relatives did say they'll never forget Scarlett's beautiful smile, and recall Ryan fondly as a very typical little boy.
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Big-framed character actor (and sometime leading man) David Huddleston has worked in virtually every film and television genre there is, from Westerns to crime dramas to science fiction. Born in Vinton, Virginia, he attended the Fork Union Military Academy before entering the United States Air Force, where he received a commission as an officer. After returning to civilian life, Huddleston enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He made his television debut in 1961, at age 31, in an episode of the Western series
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With his deep voice and prominent screen presence, plus a sense of humor that never seemed too far from his portrayals -- even of villains -- Huddleston was one of the busier character actors of the 1970s. Indeed, 1974 comprised a year of credits that any actor in the business could envy:
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Terence Young
The Klansman
(1974) -- and that doesn't even count his television roles. By the end of the 1970s, he had graduated to a starring role in the series Hizzoner (1979), about a small-town mayor; and in the 1980s he had recurring roles in series such as
The Wonder Years
. Huddleston's big-screen breakthrough came with the title role in
Santa Claus: The Movie
(1985), and he became a ubiquitous figure on the small screen with a series of orange-juice commercials. His subsequent big-screen appearances included
(1988) and
The Big Lebowski
(1998), and he continued working into the first decade of the 21st century. In 2004, Huddleston essayed one of the most interesting and challenging roles of his screen career, in the short film Reveille. Working without dialogue alongside
James McEachin
(with whom he'd previously worked in the series
), he helped tell the story of a sometimes comical, ultimately bittersweet rivalry between two veterans of different armed services. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
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Notorious, critic-boxing director Uwe Boll takes the helm for this adaptation of the controversial video game that ignited controversy across the globe and is actually illegal to own in Australia and New Zealand. Dude (Zack Ward) is an unemployed slacker currently subsisting on Social Security until he lands his next job. Dude's uncle Dave (Dave Foley) is a cult leader currently in dire financial straits. When Uncle Dave hatches a plan to rip off a local amusement park, Dude sees the heist as the perfect opportunity to make a little extra cash. Unfortunately for Dude and Uncle Dave, the Taliban are all set to execute the exact same heist. Erick Avari, Seymour Cassel, Verne Troyer, Larry Thomas, and J.K. Simmons star in a deliberately over-the-top action comedy that is sure to garner as much controversy as the video game that inspired it. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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After transforming his first motion picture into a smash Broadway musical, Mel Brooks brings the story of two would-be theatrical moguls turned con men back to the screen in this musical comedy. Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane) was once one of Broadway's most successful producers, but a string of flops has thrown his career into a tailspin, and now he struggles to raise the cash to stage new shows by playing gigolo to lonely old ladies. While going over his books, accountant Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick) notices that Bialystock raised more money than he spent for one show, and points out that if one raised enough money for a show that closed in one night, you could make more off a flop than a hit. This strikes Bialystock as a brilliant scheme, and he decides to give it a try, persuading Bloom to join him in staging the world's greatest flop. After discovering a truly vile script -- "Springtime for Hitler," a musical set in the Third Reich written by neo-Nazi pigeon fancier Franz Liebkind (Will Ferrell) -- and giving a key role to the secretary Ulla (Uma Thurman), a drop-dead gorgeous blonde with only a tenuous understanding of the English language, Bialystock and Bloom are certain they have the disaster they need for their plan to work. But the scheme unexpectedly goes wrong when "Springtime for Hitler" becomes a "so bad it's good" hit. Mel Brooks co-wrote the screenplay for The Producers as well as producing it, but directorial chores were handed over to Susan Stroman, who also directed the Broadway show; Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick also repeated their roles from the Broadway production. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Two bad cops rise from the grave in an attempt to go straight in this offbeat comedy. Mike Mattress (Tate Donovan) and Dean Crept (William Forsythe) are a pair of stone-faced FBI agents who are not above stretching the law to their advantage; their double dealings lead to their fiery death in a booby-trapped car, and the two agents find themselves descending into Hell. After a disturbing run-in with Satan (Robert Goulet), Mattress and Crept escape and find their way back to Earth, where they hope to perform some good deeds that might allow them to escape damnation. Starting over as private eyes, Mattress and Crept are hired by millionaire Greydon Lake (Barry Newman), who believes his wife Gloria (Vanessa Angel) has been unfaithful to him. Gloria soon turns the tables by hiring the two gumshoes away from her husband, but things take a sinister turn when Greydon turns up dead. While tracking down leads in Greydon's murder, Mattress and Crept discover he was financing research by the eccentric Dr. Boifford (David Huddleston), whose bizarre talents come in handy when Buster (Bobcat Goldthwait), a leg man for the detectives, is killed while doing research; Boifford is able to transplant his brain into the body of a robot. Meanwhile, Buster's accident attracts the attention of the police, as well as FBI agents Dalton (Zach Galligan) and Langdon (Gary Busey), who are hot on the heels of the formerly dead lawmen. G-Men From Hell is based on characters from the comic book Grafik Musik, created by Michael Allred. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The plot of this Raymond Chandler-esque comedy crime caper from the Coen Brothers (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen) pivots around a case of mistaken identity complicated by extortion, double-crosses, deception, embezzlement, sex, pot, and gallons of White Russians (made with fresh cream, please). In 1991, unemployed '60s refugee Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) grooves into his laid-back Los Angeles lifestyle. One of the laziest men in LA, he enjoys hanging with his bowling buddies, pompous security-store owner Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) and mild-mannered ex-surfer Donny (Steve Buscemi). However, the Dude's life takes an alternate route the afternoon two goons break into his threadbare Venice, California, bungalow, rough him up, and urinate on his living room rug. Why? Because Jackie Treehorn (Ben Gazzara) is owed money by the wife of a certain Jeff Lebowski. However, the goons grabbed the wrong Jeff Lebowski. With the right info, they would have invaded the home of philanthropic Pasadena millionaire Jeffrey Lebowski (David Huddleston). The Dude looks up his wealthy namesake, manages to get a replacement for his rug, and meets the millionaire's sexy young wife Bunny (Tara Reid). Later, Jeffrey ("The Big") Lebowski calls in the Dude to deliver a $1 million ransom for the return of his kidnapped wife. Fine -- except that Walter intrudes and botches the ransom drop. As events unravel, the Dude gets caught up in the schemes of Lebowski's daughter, erotic artist Maude (Julianne Moore), encounters both cops and bad guys, and drifts through an elaborate bowling fantasy sequence titled
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This film is based on an innovative short film made for MTV about a guy living in a horrible downtown apartment filled with scores of mischievous, smart-alecky roaches. The story chronicles the adventures of Joe (Jerry O'Connell), a hapless rube from the rural Midwest who journeys to the wilds of New York City. Mugged repeatedly on his arrival, his luck seems to turn when he finds an affordable apartment in a very dubious neighborhood. Unfortunately, his landlord (Don Ho) is more interested in evicting or, if need be, murdering his tenants, so that the building can be turned into a (highly profitable) penitentiary. Joe finds the allies he needs in his apartment's cockroaches, who sing and dance their way into his heart. This film should be of interest for fans of 1930s musicals; it makes reference to Busby Berkeley's elaborate dance phantasmagorias and the odd water ballets of Esther Williams. Many of the scenes utilized real roaches who were "choreographed" via tiny filament harnesses and other devices. Animal rights activists will be pleased to note that no roaches were intentionally harmed during filming. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
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A series of mysterious malfunctions plague the
's computer. The source of this high-tech nightmare turns out to be the holodeck, where a trainload of Orient Express passengers has suddenly appeared. These fabricated strangers may well hold the fate of the
in their hands, as the starship slowly develops a deadly intelligence of its own. Veteran character actor David Huddleston guest stars as the holodeck-generated train conductor. First telecast May 14, 1994, "Emergence" was scripted by Joe Menosky, from a story by Brannon Braga. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Though this film is billed as a comedy, it does contain some violent moments as it follows a young man's journey across the U.S. in search of himself. Our hero is vegetarian Charles Thundertrunk whose father owns the fabulously successful fast-food chain Burger World. At his father's request Charlie reluctantly goes on a tour to promote the restaurants. His journey turns inward after he witnesses a violent shootout at a Burger World outlet. Upon his new journey he re-encounters his childhood hero, Glosser. Glosser is a spaced New Ager who believes everything happens for the best. He bases his philosophy upon a near-death experience. Glosser's journal was stolen by an evil arsonist. Charlie and Glosser decide to search for it together which leads them to the films fiery climax. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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James Lapine, whose Broadway credits as a writer/director includes work with Stephen Sondheim, made his Hollywood debut with this comedy. Michael J. Fox plays Michael Chapman, who once upon a time was a wise-cracking child star on a situation comedy called "Life With Mikey." Now in his thirties and on the skids, Michael makes personal appearances at grand openings of hamburger stands, and runs an unsuccessful talent agency (specializing in kids) with his brother Ed (Nathan Lane). The agency's only successful client is Barry Corman (David Krumholtz), a fourteen-year-old with an attitude who is known as "the cereal king" for his appearances on television commercials. Ed is trying to talk Michael into closing the agency and Barry is threatening to go elsewhere when a sprightly 10-year-old reprobate named Angie (Christina Vidal) tries to pick his pocket. When Angie delivers a heart-rendering tale of questionable honesty about being an orphan from Queens, Michael realizes that Angie would be perfect for a Sunburst Cookie commercial. She clicks in the commercial, and both her career and the agency's soar. In the meantime, Angie movies in with Michael, and as they bond, Michael realizes how to act like an adult and Angie realizes how to act like a child. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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Jessica (Angela Lansbury) serves as narrator for tonight's story, which centers around working-class private eye Frank Albertson (a pre-Politically Incorrect Bill Maher) and his wife Sunny (Faith Ford). After years of sponging off Frank and Sunny, Frank's uncle Charlie (John Finnegan) suddenly inherits a fortune--and just as suddenly disappears. Later on, a mangled corpse is found on a local railroad track, whereupon Frank attempts to claim the body as that of Uncle Charlie.. However, there seems to be several other people interested in claiming the corpse--and the aforementioned inheritance--themselves. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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This made-for-cable biopic originally went out under the simpler title Margaret Bourke-White. Farrah Fawcett stars as the famed photojournalist, whose work for Life magazine from 1936 onward gained her worldwide celebrity. The best scenes, showing the dauntless Bourke-White (Fawcett) at work in the most grueling and perilous of situations, are all too fleeting. The filmmakers evidently believed that the audience would be more intrigued by Bourke-White's stormy relationship with her husband, novelist Erskine Caldwell (played with a fluctuating Southern accent by Frederic Forrest). The film's chief assets are the well-focused performance of Farrah Fawcett, and the lensed-on-location sequences in Louisiana and Moscow. Margaret Bourke-White premiered over the TNT cable channel on April 24, 1989. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Following the disastrous Pirates (1986), director Roman Polanski got back on creative track with this finely-wrought thriller that, while failing to impress at the box office, was nevertheless his most critically well-received film of the decade. Harrison Ford stars as Richard Walker, an American doctor who has come to Paris, where he's scheduled to deliver a paper to a medical conference. Richard has brought along his wife Sondra (Betty Buckley), because Paris was the site of their honeymoon 20 years earlier. Sondra picks up the wrong suitcase at the airport, which leads to her kidnapping and an ever-more complicated quest that takes Richard into the seedy and dangerous underworld of European drug smuggling and terrorist arms sales. Along the way, he is rebuffed by skeptical officials at the American Embassy and meets Michelle (Emmanuelle Seigner), a sexy courier who agrees to help him in exchange for the money she's owed for trafficking in narcotics. Playing cleverly on American fears about Europe's Byzantine politics and "decadent" society, Frantic received, from many observers, perhaps the greatest compliment possible for a thriller, comparison to the work of Alfred Hitchcock. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
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A tracking gunman is joined by his collegian son in an effort to catch a homicidal religious freak in this made-for-cable western. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi
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The TV detective series Blacke's Magic starred Hal Linden as dapper professional magician Alexander Blacke, and Harry Morgan as Alexander's con-man father Leonard. Together, Blacke and Blacke solved mysteries with the help of Alexander's prestidigatory skills and Leonard's flim-flammery. In the series' two hour pilot, the Blackes attend a magician's convention, where an old friend of Alexander's is murdered. All the magic tricks performed on the episode were real, requiring Hal Linden to acquire a few conjuring skills post-haste. The Blacke's Magic pilot aired on Sunday, January 5, 1986; the series itself premiered the following Wednesday. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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When the Bough Breaks
Jonathan Kellerman's Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning novel When the Bough Breaks was evocatively adapted for the TV screen in 1986. Ted Danson plays a clinical psychologist, brought in to tend to an emotionally withdrawn little girl (Rachel Ticotin). There's a possibility that the child may have witnessed an unsolved double murder. As Danson and the girl draw closer, he becomes enmeshed in a homicidal conspiracy sparked by a clique of wealthy, well-connected men. Ted Danson also coproduced When the Bough Breaks. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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In this children's drama, a con artist's dog leads two children to his former master's secret cache of loot. The children's lives change dramatically after that. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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Magnum, P.I.: Going Home
After thirteen years away from home, Magnum (Tom Selleck) returns to Tidewater, Virginia, to attend the funeral of his beloved grandfather. The occasion serves to reopen several old wounds, culminating with Magnum angrily accusing his stepfather Frank (David Huddleston), whom he has always resented, of stealing a precious family heirloom--namely, a letter from Abraham Lincoln. Musical comedy star Gwen Verdon makes her first series appearance as Magnum's mother Katherine; and watch for Tom Selleck's real father Robert Selleck Sr. as "Grandpa Everett" in a brief home-movie sequence. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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After introducing how Santa and Mrs. Claus came to the North Pole and began their work delivering toys at Christmas time, this routine children's film segues into a story about an evil corporate magnate (John Lithgow). One of Santa's elves (Dudley Moore) goes to work for the nasty tycoon and invents a wild array of far-out toys. Then there is a little boy who does not believe in Santa Claus and a girl who finds out about the toymaker's plans to defraud his company. Santa's reindeer are a little under the weather, not to mention Santa himself. This labyrinth of subplots quickly draws attention away from the story, wherever it is. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
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In this actioner, a tough young woman and her ex-con lover leave a trail of destruction across the South while trying to escape the law. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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Written by Walter Lockwood and directed by Joan Micklin Silver, Finnegan Begin Again is a whimsical comedy drama about a late-blooming romance. Robert Preston plays a Mike Finnegan, 65-year-old newspaperman resigned to wasting his time on a lonely hearts column and caring for his ailing, unappreciative wife (Sylvia Sidney). Mary Tyler Moore portrays Liz DeHaan, a much-younger schoolteacher, recently widowed and mired in a go-nowhere relationship with a mortician (Sam Waterston). Liz comes to Mike for advice...and nature takes its course. Finnegan Begin Again premiered February 24, 1985, over the HBO cable service. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Spaghetti-western stalwarts Terence Hill and Bud Spencer star in the Italian actioner Go For It. The stars play a couple of self-styled "supercops" who take on a demented scientist. The villain has invented an all-powerful "K Bomb," intending to detonate the device in a major metropolis. Hill and Spencer must contend with martial arts-trained busboys, a femme fatale called Der Vamp (Faith Minton) and -- even worse! -- a troupe of demonic child actresses, as they race against time. The "E. B. Clucher" credited with the direction of Go For It is actually a pseudonym for Enzo Barboni. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Mariette Hartley portrays Candy Lightner, the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, in this made-for-television movie produced and written by Michael Braverman. After her daughter is killed by a drunk driver in a hit-and-run accident, Lightner forms M.A.D.D. to enact legislation curbing the spread of alcohol-related driving. ~ John Bush, Rovi
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John Sebastian's musical score lends an appropriately anachronistic touch to the endearingly outdated The Act. Robert Ginty and Sarah Langenfield are the principal participants in this satiric tale of political dirty trickery, with emphasis on underhanded union tactics. Also on hand are veterans Jill St. John, Eddie Albert and Pat Hingle, who laudably behave as if the dialogue they're spouting actually has some artistic value. If you don't remember The Act making the scene at your local theatre in 1982, don't feel bad. The film barely received a release at all until it was committed to videotape several years later. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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The Oklahoma City Dolls
In this film, a group of frustrated feminists form a football team for their factory in an effort to foil male chauvinists. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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Written for television by Allan Sloane, Family Reunion stars Bette Davis as an ageing New England schoolteacher who is given an "unlimited" bus ticket as a retirement present. She uses this gift to visit the farthest-flung members of her long-estranged family. In her absence, Davis' small town falls prey to corruptive influences, but with the help of her more honest relatives (four generations' worth, including Bette's real-life grandson J. Ashley Hyman), everything is resolved at the annual Founder's Day gathering. Family Reunion originally aired in two parts, on October 11 and 12, 1981; the preponderance of Davis' family members and unresolved plot strands would seem to suggest that this 4-hour film was intended as a series pilot. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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In the last two weeks, law enforcement officials have made a number of drug related arrests in Holyoke, dismantling two significant drug rings in the city. But this is only the first step in the process.
Holyoke is a small city with some big city problems, according to Holyoke Police Chief James Neiswanger. Among the top items, is the drug trade.
"Our main drug problem probably is heroin, followed by cocaine and crack and other various drugs."
Located on what is known as the drug corridor, a stretch of highway formed by Interstate I-91 that connects New York City to Canada, a fair amount of drugs move through the city. Combine this with the highest poverty rate in the state and an abundance of rental units, the result according toNeiswanger is an environment conducive to this sort of criminal behavior.
"Those offer some unique challenges. Holyoke is a social service community and that's what the city is working through right now."
Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse says the city is responding the problem proactively and will continue to crack down.
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Party like an animal! Climb out from under your rock and get ready to explore the wild of the night! Here you'll discover awesome music, delicious food and drinks along with exhilarating activities that'll make you howl for more! Today's deal from the Active 20-30 Club of Sacramento No. 1 includes:
The Active 20-30 Club of Sacramento No.1 is proud to present its 44th annual Spring Party, Sactopalooza 2012! This years party is being held at the Sacramento Zoo on June 16th from 5:00pm to 10:00pm. The event will feature two of the best tribute bands around and Sacramento's hottest DJ. Rock out to the Red Not Chili Peppers, a repeat performance by No Duh (who rocked Sactopalooza last year), and a long-time Spring Party favorite, DJ Rigatony! The Sactopalooza Spring Party is the largest annual fundraising event for the Active 20-30 Club of Sacramento No. 1, with all the proceeds going towards local children charities. This group of 20- to 30-year-old volunteers works year-round to improve the lives of local children with special needs. In addition to raising funds for children, the group organizes hands-on events to interact with children at an annual picnic, winter clothing drives, and a holiday party at the UC Davis cancer center. Proceeds from this party helps support these events and the organization's work with children throughout the region. Be part of the action – dance the night away, challenge your friends to a test of strength while saddled-up on the always thrilling Mechanical Bull Riding, or partake in your own version of American Gladiator as you suit-up for an action-packed round of Gladiator Jousting! At this party there's more action than at the zoo! As you take in all the fun, nosh on some tasty food and wash it all down with a refreshing beer or a cool cocktail!
Don't delay; get this rockin' and rollin' deal from the Active 20-30 Club of Sacramento No. 1 today!


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Exhibition: Here Me
All day | Upton Hall Bacon Gallery | Permalink
Vincent Pontillo presents Here Me, a multimedia installation.
Exhibition: Modern Art - Creative Imagination Running Wild
All day | E. H. Butler Library Circulation Gallery | Permalink
Abstract paintings and creative sculpture (from car parts) by modern artist Vincent Shannon from Hornell, N.Y. will be on display. Viewable during regular library hours. See http://library.buffalostate.edu/hours/index.php.