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Syria is making preparations to strike Tel Aviv in case Israel launches another attack on its territory, The Sunday Times reported on Sunday.
The Syrian army has begun deploying advanced surface-to-surface missiles, the report said, adding that it has received orders to strike central Israel in case additional attacks against Syria are carried out.
The Sunday Times said that the information was obtained by reconnaissance satellites that were tracking the Syrian forces. According to the report, Syria was deploying advanced Tishreen missiles which are capable of carrying a half-ton warhead.
Israel, foreign media reported, was behind three attacks against targets in Syria in the past five months. The air raids, it was said, targeted shipments of weapons heading to Lebanon's Hezbollah.
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I made this yesterday for the first time and my wife and I loved it.... delicious and healthy! We put a thin slice of sweet onion on half of the sandwich and it was a good addition. Tomato would be good, too, although the original recope is fine. I will probably use tuna packed in water next time, however.flag if inappropriate
This is excellent! Wow. What a fantastic lunch for an outdoor party. And healthy to boot. I blanked at the grocery store and forgot the onion AND celery.. still absolutely delish. Will make again and again.flag if inappropriate
Tasty and good looking gourmet sandwich. Next time I would use half the olive oil and garlic, though.flag if inappropriate
This recipe is outstanding! It is fantastic as is but even better with an extra Tbs of lemon juice in the beans. I was a little worried that so much raw garlic would be overpowering but it was perfect. (I was mostly concerned with what it can do to your breath afterward but no one has complained so far!) As watercress is usually not available in my local market, I substitute arugula. I've also used lime juice instead of lemon and it is equally as good. This is definitely going into regular rotation on my menu list!flag if inappropriate
Used the basil instead of parsley (preference) and the overall flavor is a knockout. The beans would even be suitable as a dip for pita chips. Delish!flag if inappropriate
One of my regular favorites! I never have watercress handy so I omit that, and I use cilantro instead of parsley as I think it adds more flavor. I also toss in a bit of red pepper for an added kick!!!flag if inappropriate
This was so delicious! I made the recipie and made half into sandwiches and the other half I made into salad with the tomato, potato, and green bean as was recommended by another review. Both were good but the sandwich won my vote hands down. I will definitely made this again- very soon! I added capers to the tuna part and I do suggest it. It just added a little something extra that I thought was really good. I might also double the bean part just because it was so good and easy. One can just wasn't enough for me.flag if inappropriate
Made this sandwich last night and it turned out excellent. I used all of the ingredients as stated and it was simply delicious and so easy to make! This will be a new favorite in our family.flag if inappropriate
I've made this recipe only once, but have already filed it under "favorites." Quick and easy to make, but different and delicious enough to serve to guests.flag if inappropriate
I have made this many times and my favorite version is not a sandwhich, I serve it over fresh spinach with tomatoes........It's a staple at our house.flag if inappropriate


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And then the heavy rains and floods of Summer wiped them out. I thought the flowers were dead. Nothing grew over winter.
Your Spring is Coming!" But, before the season changed to Spring, I had to endure a long hard winter of depression. In fact, it was the most deepest darkest winter I had ever experienced.
Just like the flowers and beans were wiped out by rain and flooding, I too felt like I was being tossed around by the waves. The meaning of Paul's words, "The weaker I get, the stronger I become,", became real to me, as the only thing holding my head above the waves was His strength. I realised that I couldn't avoid this depression, I had to face it head on. I had to go through it and find what was causing this depression and cut it off at its roots. I realised that the roots lay in broken friendship wounds and hurts from within the church over the years. I knew this time, I couldn't fight the pain or mask it or shove it way deep back down inside. All I could do was rest in Him and allow myself to feel the hurts, face them in order to move on. In my darkest moments during the depression, I felt Him with me. I was never alone.
Then I came to a place where there was light at the end of a tunnel and I walked out into a spacious place. I still felt vulnerable, so I cocooned myself for a while. I had to be mindful to guard my heart. In the past I was so wanting people to accept me and love me, that I ran after them. I gave my heart away too quickly. I decided that I would no longer do that. I trusted that He would bring people into my life. I stopped pursuing friendships, and let them develop naturally. I stopped wanting many friends, and started to look for those who would stick by me and love me unconditionally.
The man of many friends [a friend of all the world] will prove himself a bad friend, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. {Proverbs 18:24}
It has been interesting who He has bought back into my life and who was there all the time, but I didn't realise. I believe now that for the first time in my life, I am building friendships of depth and longevity. Because I am no longer desperate for people to accept me and love me, I have come to a place that I love and accept myself. There is no need to hold onto the friendships so tightly as I did before, scared that when they saw 'the real me' they would reject me, as has happened time and time again. The friendships that I am nurturing now see the real authentic Jo, because I am comfortable with who God made me to be.
When I travelled through the Valley of Death as I suffered from depression, there were times that I felt like I could die. There were times that there seemed to be nothing left to give as I was dried up, depleted and useless. But God! He makes all things new. And here I am months later seeing beauty in my life where I never thought I would. I am beginning to grow and bloom because of His love and grace.
4 God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more, neither shall there be anguish (sorrow and mourning) nor grief nor pain any more, for the old conditions and the former order of things have passed away.5 And He Who is seated on the throne said, See! I make all things new. Also He said, Record this, for these sayings are faithful (accurate, incorruptible, and trustworthy) and true (genuine). {Revelation 21}When I travelled through the Valley of Death as I suffered from depression, there were times that I felt like I could die. There were times that there seemed to be nothing left to give as I was dried up, depleted and useless. But God-see, He makes all things new. And here I am months later seeing beauty in my life where I never thought I would. I am beginning to grow and bloom because of His love and grace.
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RIVERSIDE — A boy who was only 10 when he fatally shot his white supremacist father was convicted Monday of second-degree murder by a judge who said the child knew what he did was wrong.
Riverside Superior Court Judge Jean Leonard weighed the severity of the crime versus whether the amount of abuse and neglect suffered by the boy, now 12, played a significant role in the slaying of 32-year-old Jeff Hall, a regional leader of the National Socialist Movement.
Leonard noted the boy lay in bed, waited for the right moment and shot his dad at point-blank range with the "bad gun" — a .357 Magnum — while he slept on a sofa in the family home.
"This was not a complex killing," said Leonard, who heard the case without a jury. "He thought about the idea and shot his father."
The boy's stepmother told authorities that Hall had hit, kicked and yelled at his son for being too loud or getting in the way. Hall and the boy's biological mother had previously gone through a divorce and custody dispute in which each had accused the other of child abuse. She initially told authorities she had killed Hall but then quickly retracted her statement. She was not charged in the case.


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The fight against crime was intensified when the department of transport, safety and liaison in the province hit the ground running and launched the Emthanjeni and Ubuntu Local Municipalities' Community Safety Forums (CSF) at the weekend.
Department spokesperson Keitumetse Moticoe said CSF is an integrated structure that has key functions which include coordinating, monitoring and evaluating the implementation of safety programmes or projects at a local level.
"They identify policing priorities with the police, joint ownership of policing programmes and ensure police accountability to the community among other functions," he said.
The Northern Cape has the smallest population of the country's nine provinces but hold the dubious distinction of being the province where the chance of being raped and murdered is the highest in the country.
The launch at Victoria West's community hall at Ubuntu municipality was attended by various members of the community and stakeholders that included the SAPS, department of social development, youth groups, women's groups, CPFs and faith-based organisations.
The provincial police commissioner Lt-Gen Jeanette Basson also attended the launch and addressed the community on the importance of finding unity in such forums. She said the new body would create a good platform for communities to voice their concerns, be actively involved in fighting crime and finding solutions to challenges in their communities. Acting head of department Catherine Nomakwezi Jonkers said it was an exciting day for community members to be united in launching the CSFs. She said the commitment of various stakeholders made the launch possible and only unity and commitment will further its mandate.
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I am not a good cook at all but I was able to make this with no problems! And my husband really liked it...and that is saying a lot! I didn't do the spinach since neither of us really like it. And to speed things up I threw the chicken on our outside bbq to cook while I was doing other prep. A definite A+
This was a great recipe. You could even add sliced carrots, pea pods or bean sprouts for extra crunch. I also cooked my spinach on the individual plates in the microwave for 10-15 seconds each, to ensure the spinach would be soft. Great flavor. I also used whole wheat spaghetti and added extra garlic & ginger. A carrot peeler works great for getting the ginger sliced thin.
Great recipe! Not that spicy, but it was still really tasty.
It was terrible, but then again, I don't like anything that tastes like Thai food.
I've made this recipe a number of times and it's now become a family favorite. The red pepper flakes add a lot of flavor. I forgot to add them once -- I won't forget again.
Took a bit longer to make than I had hoped, but the ingredients are all favorites and the flavor was great.
This recipe was fabulous! Have made it over and over with rave reviews from everyone.
I was rather impressed with this recipe. One of my favs so far. I am single and whatever I cook I usually use for leftovers. This was one leftover dish that just improved as it sat in the fridge. It was so easy and inexpensive. Thanks FoodFit!!
I substituted chunks of pan seared salmon for the chicken and it was a big hit with the family.
This is a wonderful balanced meal. My whole family loved it. and the best part of the meal is how easy it is to fix. This will be a repeatedly used recipe. m m m m good !
This is the greatest!! We added a bit of Kikkoman's Stir Fry Sauce over our portions and it made it PERFECT...
This recipe is fabulous, as is the Food Fit program. Eating is exciting! I still am in shock that I am eating such interesting and delicious foods, and I am losing weight! Who knew dieting could taste so good!
Can't say enough about this recipe. I thought it was easy to prepare and very tasty. My family agreed! Would not hesitate to serve this dish for company next time. May substitute steamed broccoli for the mushrooms and duck/pheasant for the chicken.
good meal , could cook w/other meats also
If you enjoy Chinese-American restaurants, you'll love this. The flavor of the noodles and the presentation were fantastic. The chicken needed to cook slightly longer. It came out tough. In a few weeks, I'm trying it with tofu.
even my pickiest child wanted seconds!
Although we appreciate plenty of sauce on our food, we enjoyed this delicious departure from the norm. After the first try, which had splendid results, I think it'll be easier to slightly alter the recipe to our personal tastes. Thanks!
Love the noodles. Makes a nice change.
A very healthy and delicious recipe. Serving the chicken, mushrooms, and noodles over a bed of spinach makes a nice, colorful presentation. The flavors complement each other very nicely.
Don't pass this recipe by! It has a really good taste for not much trouble on your part.
It sure beats take-out! The flavors blended well.
very good stuff!!!
I am not usually a big spinach fan, but when served with the noodles and chicken, it tasted great! I will definitely make this again.


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Last Night at the Lobster: A Novelby Stewart O'Nan
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Stewart O'Nan has been called "the bard of the working class" and has now crafted a frank and funny yet emotionally resonant tale set within a vivid workaday world seldom seen in contemporary fiction.
Perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall, The Red Lobster hasn't been making its numbers and headquarters has pulled the plug. But manager Manny DeLeon still needs to navigate a tricky last shift. With only four shopping days left until Christmas, Manny must convince his near-mutinous staff to hunker down and serve the final onslaught of hungry retirees, lunatics, and holiday office parties. All the while, he's wondering how to handle the waitress he's still in love with, his pregnant girlfriend at home, and the perfect present he still needs to buy.
Last Night at the Lobster is a poignant yet redemptive look at what a man does when he discovers that his best might not be good enough.
"Set on the last day of business of a Connecticut Red Lobster, this touching novel by the author of Snow Angels and A Prayer for the Dying tells the story of Manny DeLeon, a conscientious, committed restaurant manager any national chain would want to keep. Instead, corporate has notified Manny that his — and Manny does think of the restaurant as his — New Britain, Conn., location is not meeting expectations and will close December 20. On top of that, he'll be assigned to a nearby Olive Garden and downgraded to assistant manager. It's a loss he tries to rationalize much as he does the loss of Jacquie, a waitress and the former not-so-secret lover he suspects means more to him than his girlfriend Deena, who is pregnant with his child. On this last night, Manny is committed to a dream of perfection, but no one and nothing seems to share his vision: a blizzard batters the area, customers are sparse, employees don't show up and Manny has a tough time finding a Christmas gift for Deena. Lunch gives way to dinner with hardly anyone stopping to eat, but Manny refuses to close early or give up hope. Small but not slight, the novel is a concise, poignant portrait of a man on the verge of losing himself." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"'Last Night at the Lobster' takes place during 12 hours on Dec. 20, the last day for a Red Lobster restaurant at a depressed shopping mall in New Britain, Conn. Stuart O'Nan's entire novella could probably fit on those large, laminated menu pages that entice us to 'Come See What's Fresh Today.' There is no plot here beyond the serving schedule from opening, to lunch, to dinner, to closing. It's just... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) another work day in the lives of a few people behind those sad economic headlines you skim in the newspaper. A memo from the parent company in Orlando 'regretted to inform' the manager, 35-year-old Manny DeLeon, that his restaurant is being shuttered because its numbers are down. 'While Red Lobster doesn't license franchises,' the narrator explains, 'over the years he's come to consider this one his,' but tomorrow Manny is being transferred (and demoted) to an Olive Garden nearby. He can take four of his 44 employees with him, but the rest are being laid off or have already quit, and Manny is determined — sweetly, naively — to make their last day together more meaningful than it can possibly be. Although nothing goes quite right for Manny, nothing goes particularly wrong either. The scope and emotional range of this poignant story are surprisingly narrow, as though O'Nan locked himself in a narrative box, tied one hand behind his back and then dared himself to make it engaging. The fact that he pulls it off is a testament to his precision and empathy. 'Thanks for thinking of Red Lobster,' Manny tells some disgruntled diners as they shuffle back out into a snow storm. 'But what does it mean?' he wonders to himself. 'Who, besides the people who actually work here, thinks about Red Lobster? And even they don't really think about it.' Somehow, O'Nan manages to acknowledge the irrelevancy of this place while demanding that we think about it carefully for a few hours. And why not? Red Lobster — a 'family' restaurant that promises the same decor, the same 'Endless Shrimp,' anywhere across the country — is a perfect setting in which to examine the lives of people who cook and clean and serve. The setup promises a kind of Nickel and Dimed expose of minimum-wage drudgery, the struggles of single moms without health insurance, the humiliations of sexual harassment. But there's no soap box under this novel. O'Nan just wants us to watch one day as the snow piles up outside, the customers trickle in and out, and the workers who bothered to show up go through the motion of preparing their last meals together. In his careful description of the routines of cleaning and cooking and serving, O'Nan manages to catch the subtle melody of humble labor. Manny, in particular, is a masterful portrait. 'He's right on time,' O'Nan writes, 'even now trying to lead by example, when there's no point.' To him, the Red Lobster is 'surprisingly beautiful,' a clean, well-lighted place. 'The restaurant looks warm and alive and welcoming, a place anyone would want to go. It looks like a painting, and he feels proud, as if this is his work, and in a way it is, except it's over.' But even on his last day, Manny 'wants it to be perfect.' He knows it's silly, but he can't help hoping that his customers will realize what a fine place this is. He 'wants them to say this is the best meal they've ever eaten, and the most memorable.' Passing an elderly couple's table, 'he's inordinately proud that they've both cleaned their plates.' Manny's pride would be so easy to satirize — or pity — but instead O'Nan sees the muted nobility in his devotion. And he sees Manny's weaknesses, too: his sentimentality, his softheartedness, his avoidance of confrontation. Mixed up with his sadness about the restaurant closing is Manny's reluctance to let go of an old girlfriend who works here. Once they close tonight, he won't see her again, and Manny has invested the evening with enormous romantic potential — none of which can possibly be realized. They've both moved on: She has a steady, hulking boyfriend, and there's a pregnant woman waiting for Manny at home. Yet 'he wants to make a final declaration,' O'Nan writes. '"I love you" or something equally futile — but she's already headed for the door.' Full of regret and gentle humor, 'Last Night at the Lobster' serves up the kind of delicate sadness that too often gets ruined by the slimy superiority that masquerades as sympathy for working-class people. It wouldn't take much longer to read this story than to polish off a large helping of hush puppies, but it's a far more nutritious meal. Ron Charles is a senior editor at Book World. Send e-mail to charlesr(at symbol)washpost.com." Reviewed by Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
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"A deeply moving novel about how we work, how we live, and how we get to the next day with our spirits intact. If there was ever a book that embodies what's best in us, it's Stewart O'Nan's Last Night at the Lobster." Stephen King, bestselling author of Lisey's Story
"A rueful mood piece....O'Nan hews to a neglected literary tradition by focusing his sympathetic attention on people with few options....Very low-key, but haunting and quietly provocative." Kirkus Reviews
"This slice-of-life novel is funny, poignant, and exquisitely rendered. Strongly recommended." Library Journal
"[A] densely packed 146 pages with few wasted words. It's O'Nan at his most concentrated....Last Night at the Lobster doesn't have Dickens' warm and fuzzy ending, but it is a paean to those who do their job and do it well..." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Last Night at the Lobster makes beautiful sense in the span of O'Nan's writing life: It's a Zen koan of a book — Manny's life in all its integrity echoing out across a wintry mall in a Rust Belt American town." The Los Angeles Times
"Stewart O'Nan excels at bringing the reader into the skin of his characters....In lesser hands, Last Night at the Lobster...would be mundane; instead, this bittersweet story sings." Denver Post
"[C]oncise, unsettling, sometimes funny....Strong fiction such as this offers not only diversion and entertainment but also the opportunity to experience life as another human being. To read Last Night at the Lobster is to take an enlightening walk in the shoes of a different kind of hero." Philadelphia Inquirer
"The characters populating O'Nan's restaurant never leap off the page, and by the book's end, no great strides have been made, no pivotal issues resolved." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"O'Nan's empathy for his characters is one of his great gifts as a novelist, and it is an impressive achievement that Manny's misplaced affection for Red Lobster is not risible, but tragic." The New York Times Book Review
O'Nan has crafted a frank and funny yet emotionally resonant tale set within a vivid workaday world seldom seen in contemporary fiction. This work presents a poignant yet redemptive look at what a man does when he discovers that his best might not be good enough.
The Red Lobster perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall hasn?t been making its numbers and headquarters has pulled the plug. But manager Manny DeLeon still needs to navigate a tricky last shift with a near-mutinous staff. All the while, he?s wondering how to handle the waitress he?s still in love with, what to do about his pregnant girlfriend, and where to find the present that will make everything better.
Stewart O?Nan has been called ?the bard of the working class,? and Last Night at the Lobster is one of his most acclaimed works to date.
In the new novel from the author of Last Night at the Lobster, a middle-age couple goes all in for love at a Niagara Falls casino
Stewart O'Nan's thirteenth novel is another wildly original, bittersweet gem like his celebrated Last Night at the Lobster. Valentine's weekend, Art and Marion Fowler flee their Cleveland suburb for Niagara Falls, desperate to recoup their losses. Jobless, with their home approaching foreclosure and their marriage on the brink of collapse, Art and Marion liquidate their savings account and book a bridal suite at the Falls' ritziest casino for a second honeymoon. While they sightsee like tourists during the day, at night they risk it all at the roulette wheel to fix their finances-and save their marriage. A tender yet honest exploration of faith, forgiveness and last chances, The Odds is a reminder that love, like life, is always a gamble.
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Stewart O'Nan is the author of ten novels, including Snow Angels and A Prayer for the Dying, as well as works of nonfiction, including the bestselling book with Stephen King on the Boston Red Sox, Faithful. Granta named him one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists in 1995.
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The best game of sophomore Merritt Hempe's career could not have come at a better time for Georgia.
The 6-foot-2 center from Fredericksburg, Va., posted the first double-double of her 51-game tenure on Thursday, scoring 15 points and grabbing 11 rebounds as the Lady Bulldogs recorded a 58-56 Southeastern Conference upset victory over No. 13 Kentucky at Stegeman Coliseum.
Hempe, who has averaged 8.4 points and 6.4 rebounds in league play this winter, didn't necessarily distinguish herself on the stat sheet in the first half against Kentucky, going 1 of 3 from the field with one made free throw. But in the final 20 minutes, she made 6 of 7 field goal attempts, including several key putbacks on offensive rebounds.
"There wasn't an area where she didn't play well," Georgia coach Andy Landers said of Hempe's play against the Wildcats. "Defensively she was very, very good, both in the man and in the zone. She rebounded the ball exceptionally well on both ends of the floor. She was able to convert some of the offensive rebounds into points and anytime you have a player go 7 of 10, they've had a terrific night there. She was very good in all parts."
Although Hempe couldn't pinpoint the difference between her play in the first and second half, Landers was quick to detail distinctions.
"The biggest thing in the second half was she actually received the ball better," Landers, whose team (15-6, 3-5 in the SEC) faces Mississippi State (15-7, 2-5) at 3 p.m. today in Starkville. "She fumbled a couple of balls in the first half and let one or two get away from her and wasn't as sure-handed. In the second half, her hands got better. The ball stuck and she was able to go forward and do what she wanted to do with it."
A starter in 20 of Georgia's 21 games, Hempe has tallied double-digit points in seven games and leads the Lady Bulldogs (15-6, 3-5 in the SEC) in several categories, including free throws made (42) and blocked shots (20).
Perhaps just as importantly against Kentucky, she also provided frequent encouragement to her teammates in the second half of what many considered a "must-win" game for Georgia, which opened conference play with an 0-4 record.
"I kept saying to the team, 'This is our game. We have to win this game,'" she said. "Everyone fought so hard and wanted it so bad and everyone was really focused with the mind set of no matter what happens, this is our game and we need this game."
"That's the best I've seen her play all year," senior point guard Khaalidah Miller said of Hempe. "She understood that we needed her to play big. (Landers) kept stressing how Kentucky's post players rebound the ball a lot and how our post players had to do the same and how we had to hit some shots inside. She had a great shooting night and made some crucial shots in some clutch moments, and that's what we needed her to do."
Landers and Hempe concur that they'd both like to see something resembling double-double play from her every night.
"Consistency has been something I've struggled with, especially this season," Hempe said. "I'm just trying to play hard every possession. I just want to do whatever I can to help the team. If it means scoring, I'll try to score. If it's assists, it's assists — whatever I need to do to help."
"That's something you go through with players when they're developing," Landers added. "Becoming a veteran means that you've become consistent at some acceptable level. Young players, when they develop, often (range) from good to somewhere else. It's a process that our whole team is enduring, or experiencing, now."
In addition to climbing out of the SEC hole they dug for themselves, today's game has added significance for the Lady Bulldogs as they hope to erase the memory of last year's 50-38 loss to Mississippi State, a game widely acknowledged to be nadir of Georgia's 2012-13 season.
"It was the worst game we played last year," Landers said. "I've scratched a hole in the side of my head trying to figure that out. We took a veteran basketball team to Starkville and we don't perform and it started with decision-making. …And it wasn't a one-person deal. It was across the board. When something like that happens, you can't explain it."
"I remember that game," Hempe added. "We were kind of lagging in that game and I didn't know what was going on. Hopefully, this year we'll be more prepared and more ready to go, especially because we haven't had the best season. We won a big game (against Kentucky), so we need to continue to build on that."


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In this ongoing and pervasive propaganda drive, people are deceived into distancing themselves and scapegoating the Muslims. But guess what - Muslims are normal people like most of us and prefer to live in peace - here and anywhere.
Today - and earlier - the West is deliberately targeting Muslims and their countries in accordance with an intricately fashioned master plan of divide and conquer. Different tactics are used to increase discrimination, segregation, and sowing hatred in the community of humankind. And yes there are those who call themselves Muslims, but acting against mayor, general accepted tenets of Islam - obviously, they are doing the dirty work of the NWO/ Neo-imperialist/ Zionist forces. But this present fear-mongering is pernicious for all of humanity and it is a policy aimed at distracting from the real problems such as the depleting of reality from all of its higher levels (the sacred in its different aspects), the greediness of many in face of world poverty, and the devastation of the earth's environment. These are all troubles of which the holy Prophet (pbuh) has warned us against!
Preamble: A wave of demonizing Islam has been unleashed from certain quarters in the West and even in the East - especially since 9/11. It is a war staged by the self-loving (Western…) elites taking on different forms depending on place and circumstance, distracting from the global powers' responsibility for the current crisis. The situation is difficult and needs logical and critical thinking by anyone to pierce through the media bubble. Violence, aggression and slaughter of innocents is terrorism, no matter by whom, no matter the justification.
Remember what really happened on 9/11 2001:
The three! WTC buildings came down in controlled demolition!
Over 2000 architects & engineers confirm it.
It is not difficult to trace the confrontation between traditional and modern elements in the Islamic world to the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance. link
About This Site ... (more than 770 pages.)
Traditional Islam is fully aware of the nature of the (post-)modern world and capable of explaining that world as well as expounding in a contemporary language the teachings of Islam in both its exoteric and esoteric aspects to both the West and the Islamic world itself. SHN
وكان الله إذا بعث النبيّ جعله شهيداً على قومه
وكان الله إذا بعث النبيّ جعله شهيداً على قومه
Featured Article
Shaykh Gibril F Haddad wrote this introduction to the following elaborate fatwa:
The Shaykh authored it in a few days, after I asked him to offer some guidance on the issue of targeting civilians and civilian centers by suicide bombing in response to a pseudo-fatwa by a deviant UK-based group which advocates such crimes ... [more]
The generous muslim feeding the people
Prophet Muhammad :
The BEST OF CREATION
The Prophet and Prophetic Tradition
From the Life of the Prophet
On Loving the Prophet
On Following And Loving the Prophet
Love Of The Prophet & Following
The Hand of the Prophet
From his Sermon in the First Jum`a
Advice by the Messenger of Allah
Study the Qur'an ...
From his last Sermon ...
Advice in one word by the Prophet
Selected Sayings: on fighting, the Hour, the poor
Hadith: on the cure of hearts, love, strength
Take benefit of five before five, and other advice
Abu Dharr Asked The Messenger of Allah For Advice
Allah's peace and blessings upon Sayyiduna Muhammad.
Contemporary Issues
The idea of a nation-state is a modernist idea, not an islamic concept. The only valid islamic state "is essentially a universal state, a state without borders." The muslims do live of course in de-facto nation-states, but they should not accept in principle the division of the world into nations and states. Otherwise "their main concern would be more the preservation of the integrity of the borders (of any land area) rather than the integrity of Islam," - may Allah forbid! [The Illusions Of Fundamentalism]
WARNING! Do not join Daesh ("IS") HARAM!
They accuse every other Muslim (who does not follow their bigoted, anti-traditional interpretations) to be an apostate ( takfír ). It is not Islamic to establish an islamic khalifate & laws in their way. And it is against the intention of the Holy Prophet to misinterpret Quran and hadith!
Three Things In This World:
Imam Shafi`i said: 3 things in this world have been made lovely to me: avoiding affectation, treating people kindly, and following the way of tasawwuf.*
He also said: I accompanied the Sufis and received from them but three words: their statement that time is a sword: if you do not cut it, it cuts you; their statement that if you do not keep your ego busy with truth it will keep you busy with falsehood; their statement that deprivation is immunity.
On Extremism, Terrorism
There is no legal precedent in the history of Sunni Islam for the tactic of attacking civilians and overtly non-military targets.
The reasons why we deem suicide or 'martyrdom'-operations and the killing of civilians as unlawful and cursed, constituting without exception a reprehensible innovation (bid`ah) in Islam and a crime in general, will be shown below, with proofs and various texts presented, but also diverging opinions for references. [more]
The war on and occupation of Iraq was wrong, illegal; against Islamic law as well as against international law, as lawless an endevour as were the attacks on Afghanistan with the subsequent occupation and negative for international relations between the US and the Muslim World. [more]
Comment by Dr Gibril Fouad Haddad, 2013
"As we have said time and again shaytan and its followers always want Muslims to make less Dhikr of Allah Most High, less Salawat on His Prophet (upon him blessings and peace), less Tarawih in Ramadan, less respect of Awliya, less Tawassul through the Prophet and Salihin, and less pursuit of all the blessings and spiritual knowledge and practice that Allah has made available to this Umma.
Even when the Umma is being physically attacked and slaughtered East and West, these enemies have no shame in continuously trying to divide Muslims, eviscerate the Deen from its spiritual content and weaken Da`wa as much as they can."
"They wish to extinguish Allah's light by formalizing His religion, encouraging secularism, and dissociating Muslims from their emotional attachment to Allah and His Prophet and Awliya which is the basis of strong faith.
They are trying instead to produce automatons who force themselves and others to follow rules without understanding. This is the exact recipe of extremism that is now devastating the world.
Whenever we see someone trying to push such an agenda we should recognize them for what they are - Wahhabi "Salafis", modern offshoots of Kharijism - and send them packing, just as each generation of Sunni teachers did in their time and just as the true scholars of Ahl al-Sunna have always done and will continue to do. Wa-min Allah al-Tawfiq wal-Hidaya."
La illaha ill-Allah - There is no divinity except Allah (swt)
The Meaning of Peace
Advice by Shaykh Ahmad Zarruq -
For Shaykh Ahmad Zarruq meditation is of the concious part of the soul which is prepared to go through the Way of the Truth. When a man investigates himself and discovers his vices and tries to get rid of them, he must not neglect meditation lest he lose his contact with existing objects and become like an animal deprived of the delight of thinking and discovering what is behind the appearances of Existence. 177
A deeper look inside ourselves and at phenomenal existence will make clear our entire dependance upon God, not only in existence but also in the continuation of this existence. God created us and He preserves our existence, and it is up to His absolute will to do whatever He wishes for us and all creation. 150
Organise your time, in a matter appropriate to the times specific needs using gentleness and toleration and be very wary of either harshness or laxity. This is so because too much laxity concerning permissible matters pulls the heart backwards in its journey; until even a man of resolve ends up like a foolish boy.
Muhammad - When They Insult Our Prophet (pbuh) by Nouman Ali Khan
About Us: This is a Sunni site. We believe tasawwuf is one of the Islamic sciences among others, such as the fiqh and the hadith sciences. We believe that those who adhere to the Salafi ideological and theological view are part of Ahlu-Sunna wal Jamá`a. Although they hold different views they are our brothers and sisters in Islam. Regarding the Shia, we accept them as Muslims and no comment after that. When it comes to people of Al-Qaeda, Daesh /"IS" and other extremist Muslims, we do not agree with them on their views on Jihad, state-building etc. nor do we condone their actions. On this site we have rectified various misconceptions and aberrations which are often propagated by those who should know better.
And Allah (may His Majesty be Exalted) knows most and best.
Assisted by the Angel Gibril (a.s.), the holy Prophet (pbuh - who may not be depicted - and who is here represented by an artistic figure) travelled one night on a miraculous horse from Madina via Jerusalem (Quds - where he prayed with those other prophets) to the seven heavens and brought with him sacred knowledge for the benefit of mankind.
Islam has authentic traditions with chains of transmissions, thoroughly examined by Muslim scholars preserved and taught to the present day.
Two centuries ago, if Westerners or others were to study Islam,
they would have encountered but a single Islamic tradition.
The name Salaf has been usurped by a movement which seeks to impose its narrow interpretation of religion towards a re-fashioning of the teachings of Islam.
The ISIS or IS project is nothing but a pretext to upset, destroy and control the Middle East. link
It is established that the Prophet used to exhort his Community
to hold on to his Sunna and warn them not to contravene it.
"They (Khawarij = those outside) transferred the Qur'anic verses meant to refer to unbelievers and made them refer to believers."
Said the Prophet (saws). link
One charactersitic of modern thought is the loss of the sense of the sacred.
The reduction of intellect to reason has made sacred knowledge inaccessible and to some even meaningless.
It is not difficult to trace the confrontation betw. traditional and modern elements in the Islamic world to the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance. link
Daesh (not 'IS'): You have misinterpreted Islam into a religion of harshness, brutality, torture and murder. This is a great wrong and an offence to Islam, to Muslims and to the entire world. Cease it! link
For fundamentalism to match its aim, it would need its supporters not being themselves corrupted by the anti-traditional mentality of the modern world. link
WARNING! HARAM to join Daesh (Not: "IS")!
They accuse every other Muslim (who does not follow their interpretation) to be an apostate ( takfír ). It is anti-Islamic now to establish islamic laws in that way. And it is against Islam to misinterpret Quran in a literalist way!
[This is Not the Path to Paradise - Response to "IS"]


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Mechanisms Responsible for Hypoglycemia Associated Autonomic Failure (HAAF)
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Many studies have demonstrated that when people with diabetes are intensively treated with insulin in order to maintain their glucose within the normal range, all the complications of diabetes can be prevented or delayed. However, such treatment carries a significant risk of severe hypoglycemia (excessively low blood glucose levels), which may be life-threatening. Thus, ideal treatment with insulin in patients with diabetes can be seen as a double-edged sword: intensive treatment will delay the complications but is also associated with an increased risk of disabling hypoglycemia. In normal conditions, when hypoglycemia occurs, the body responds by secreting a variety of hormones and by activating the autonomous nervous system which ultimately will result in increasing the blood glucose to normal levels. Patients with diabetes, lose this capacity to effectively respond to hypoglycemia and become more susceptible to a fall in plasma glucose. Paradoxically, repeated episodes of hypoglycemia—especially in the most vulnerable persons with type 1 who need insulin for life--induce a metabolic deterioration that further increases the risk of developing hypoglycemia.
Our proposal focuses on understanding the mechanisms the body uses in order to respond to hypoglycemia and on potential tools (medicines) that may be used in order to prevent this metabolic deterioration associated with repeated episodes of hypoglycemia.
Based on previous data generated in our laboratory (and others), we propose that repeated episodes of hypoglycemia are associated with a deterioration in the "body sensor" for hypoglycemia in diabetes. Moreover, since many studies have shown that such deterioration in the response to hypoglycemia can be induced also by exercise (patients with diabetes are at greater risk for hypoglycemia after exercise), we propose that exercise (and other stresses) affect the hypoglycemia response by endorphin release (endorphins are proteins responsible for inhibition of the neuroendocrine response system).
Developing a method that will decrease the incidence of severe hypoglycemia will result in safer control of blood glucose, a decrease in the complications of diabetes, and ultimately in a better quality and longer life for many patients with diabetes.
Diabetes Mellitus
Autonomic Failure
Drug: naloxone
Dietary Supplement: fructose
Behavioral: exercise
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Basic Science
|Official Title:
|Mechanisms of Hypoglycemia Associated Autonomic Failure
- Change in the counterregulatory responses to hypoglycemia compared to controls [ Time Frame: Next day after the intervention ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:
|March 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2013
|Primary Completion Date:
|May 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1
Healthy individuals and patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus
Drug: naloxone
Administering fructose or naloxone or exercise on Day 1, and quantifying the counterregulatory responses to hypoglycemia on Day 2.
Other Name: NarcanDietary Supplement: fructose
Administering fructose or naloxone or exercise on Day 1, and quantifying the counterregulatory responses to hypoglycemia on Day 2.
Other Name: InsulinBehavioral: exercise
Administering fructose or naloxone or exercise on Day 1, and quantifying the counterregulatory responses to hypoglycemia on Day 2.
Detailed Description:
Severe hypoglycemia (SH) is the major limitation of intensive insulin treatment in type 1 diabetes (T1DM), and the near-term prospects for perfected insulin therapy without this risk are dim. Intensively treated T1DM patients suffer from impaired counterregulation of hypoglycemia (HYPO)—ie, HYPO-Associated Autonomic Failure (HAAF) and HYPO unawareness (HU)—which enhance their susceptibility to SH. The precise mechanisms of HAAF and HU, however, have not been clarified, though multiple redundant control systems are implicated. Experimental HYPO and exercise in normal and T1DM subjects reproduce HAAF and HU, providing a robust experimental paradigm of these disorders. We have shown that fructose, infused in a catalytic dose for modulating glucokinase activity, results in augmentation of the counterregulatory responses to HYPO in nondiabetic and in T1DM individuals. We hypothesize that an equivalent infusion of fructose will prevent HAAF in nondiabetic and in T1DM persons. Furthermore, since both HYPO and exercise are associated with endogenous opioid (EO) release, and blocking EO improves HYPO counterregulation, we hypothesize that repeated HYPO episodes induce alterations in the modulatory effects of EO on hormonal and glucose counterregulation, ultimately leading to HAAF. We also propose that HYPO autoregulation, and hepatic glycogen metabolism play important roles in the development of HAAF and HU. The specific aims are: 1) to determine the effects of previous modulation of glucokinase activity on the counterregulatory hormonal and glucose recovery responses to subsequent HYPO in nondiabetic and T1DM subjects, 2) to examine the effects of blocking the inhibitory action of endorphins on the central neuroendocrine response system (with naloxone), during recurrent HYPO or exercise, on subsequent HYPO counterregulatory responses in nondiabetic and T1DM subjects, 3) to analyze the effects of recurrent mild HYPO (autoregulation), on subsequent HYPO counterregulation in nondiabetic and in T1DM subjects, and 4) to determine the effects of recurrent HYPO on hepatic glycogen content in nondiabetic and T1DM subjects, and the effects of normalization of liver glycogen content, by means of insulin and glucose administration, on experimental HAAF in T1DM subjects.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|19 Years to 64 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Non-diabetic individuals
- Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant or planning to get pregnant women
- Breast-feeding women
- Children
- Subjects taking pain killers or drug addicts
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00678145
|United States, New York
|Albert Einstein College of Medicine / General Clinical Research Center
|Bronx, New York, United States, 10461
|Principal Investigator:
|Ilan Gabriely, M.D.
|Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
No publications provided by Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Ilan Gabriely, M.D., M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00678145 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|May 14, 2008
|Last Updated:
|July 24, 2013
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
Keywords provided by Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Pure Autonomic Failure
Autonomic Nervous System Diseases
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Primary Dysautonomias
Central Nervous System Agents
Narcotic Antagonists
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Sensory System Agents
Therapeutic Uses
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LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) -- A company's bond-credit rating can provide valuable insight as investors research a stock.
Take this week's announcement by Comcast CMCSK, -0.75% that it's buying AT&T Broadband, a unit of AT&T T, -0.78% for $72 billion. While executives extolled the deal, a look at bond ratings tells a more realistic story.
Moody's Investors Service, a bond-rating agency, downgraded the debt of AT&T Broadband and continued its review of Comcast's obligations with an eye towards lowering Comcast's credit quality as well.
There are two dynamics at play here. On one hand, the combined businesses would have enormous clout in the cable industry -- a fact both companies touted. But it comes at a price: As part of the deal, Comcast is assuming $20 billion of AT&T's T, -0.78% debt.
What should investors do with seemingly conflicting information?
First, understand what bond ratings are and what their proper role in investment research is.
Debt-default police
One way you can look at a bond-rating agency is that they're the debt-default police. Agency analysts examine a company's -- or Uncle Sam's and another country's -- financial vitals to grade the borrowers' ability to meet their short- and long-term obligations.
For long-term debt, Moody's top ranking is Aaa, and goes to Aa, A, Baa, Ba, B, Caa, Ca, and C while rival Standard & Poor's top rating is AAA, then goes to AA, A, BBB, BB, B, CCC, CC, C, and D. The lowest grade they use means the bonds are in default.
Moody's adds 1, 2 and 3 for further distinction (Baa1 is better than Baa2) while S&P appends a plus or minus sign (BB+ is better than BB).
Rating agencies review the grades they give out, especially if there's a material event, such as a merger or restructuring. If the review is positive, they might upgrade the rating on the bonds. If it's negative, they might downgrade the debt. They could also put the bonds under review, with positive or negative implications.
"That's what credit ratings are all about. They warn of the risk of default," said Solomon Samson, managing director of corporate ratings at Standard & Poor's. "We would nudge (the rating) up or nudge it down as things begin to change."
Unlike Wall Street analysts' reports, bond ratings take a longer-term approach. While a 40 percent drop in earnings during a quarter might drive Wall Street to downgrade a stock, such a plunge by itself would be a "non-event" for S&P, Samson said. Bond analysts look beyond quarterly numbers for bigger shifts and changes.
In most cases, he said, the ratings move incrementally (say, from AA to AA-). But sometimes they can plunge dramatically in dire cases such as Enron's ENE, +2.63% financial mess.
Samson said a move within the same letter category (from AA- to A+) is not as problematic as a jump between two letter categories (A- to BBB+). That's because the pool of investors shrinks for each lower category -- some investors won't touch anything below the "A" mark.
A jump from investment-grade bonds to junk -- riskier, more speculative debt -- is the most negative of all. For Moody's, junk bond ratings start at Ba on down while S&P puts it at BB and below.
However, just because a company's bonds are categorized as "junk" -- the less polite term for noninvestment grade -- doesn't mean a firm is going out of business. It just means the investments themselves are riskier.


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Erlang Testing and Debugging
Target Audience: Support and Test Engineers, Software Developers,
Prerequisites: Erlang programming and testing experience. No OTP is necessary.
Objectives: Understand the test and debug strategies needed in finding bugs. Understanding of the debugging primitives so as to be able to implement own tools. Knowledge on the debugging tools available.
Duration: One day
This one-day course gives insight in the less known trace tools and mechanisms available in Erlang. Its contents are up to date with all the latest features in the language, including the trace BIF alongside the so ugly, yet so useful match specifications. Its target audience consists of programmers, testers and support engineers with a few months Erlang experience. Having attended the OTP course is not a requirement. The course contains hand on exercises where users write their own tools to test, monitor and profile the system, or adapt existing tools to a set of predefined requirements. Note that the contents of this course are included in the five day Erlang introductory course for testers and support engineers.
Please note the course will take TWO DAYS with exercises.
Course Contents
Modules and Processes
Crash Dumps
Crash dumps are files generated whenever the Erlang run time systems terminates abnormally. This section describes how these files can be read so as to understand what caused the termination of the virtual machine. The most common terminations are due to physical constraints such as running out of memory or having too many atoms or ets tables in the system. Interpreting the crash dumps is important as in most cases, the emulator or the operating systems can be reconfigured so as to avoid the crash. Should the termination occur because of running out of memory, the crash dump file can point out how large the heap and the stacks of all the processes are, providing valuable clues to where the problem is located.
Modules and Processes
The first section of the course looks at how to retrieve information on processes and modules. The bifs used to retrieve system information can be used to gather information which might give clues in solving a bug or help profile the system. The information includes process states, process heaps (backtraces), call chains as well as memory and processor usage. This data is available even after a process has been terminated through so called 'zombie processes'. This section describes how to activate zombie processes and retrieve information from them.
Trace Bifs
Trace bifs provide a low level trace mechanism. The fact that it can be used with out trace compiling the code makes it useful when tracing garbage collecting, memory consumption, message passing, and other process activities including local and global function calls. This section looks at how to activate and deactivate the different trace flags as well as turning them on for different processes, modules and functions. The understanding of the trace and trace_pattern bifs are important as they give an insight into what exactly is available for low level debugging and are used to build many of the existing tools.
The dbg Tool
The dbg tool is a text based debugger providing a friendly interface to the trace bifs with small impacts on system performance. This section introduces the tool and covers how this tool can be used in a distributed environment or how the output can be redirected on other nodes, log files, ports and sockets.
Match Specifications
This section covers match specifications, an Erlang term providing a low level mechanism which will match and test the arguments passed to traced function calls. If the match is successful, a trace message is issued along side possible user defined events. These match specifications are very powerful in that they allow conditional tracing on specific function calls based on the arguments with out having to recompile or change the code. Due to its neglectable impact on system performance, if used with care, match specifications can be used to detect bugs on live systems.
Sequential Tracing
Sequential tracing is a way to trace a sequence of messages sent between different local or distributed processes where the sequence is initiated by one single event. This section looks at how sequential tracing works, and where it can be used.


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If today turns out to be the end of Bret Favre's 292-game starting streak at QB, then the guy went out the only way he could have. Injured. The Patriots' Myron Pryor almost broke his jaw with a clean sack in the fourth quarter today. Favre went off on a golf cart, a trainer holding a ice pack to his jaw. He received 10 stitches under his chin after the game.
Better to go out injured than suspended by the commissioner for off-the-field issues.
Favre preferred this ending to finishing with a game-losing interception in last year's NFC championship loss to the Saints. The guy has always been a warrior, limping through game after game, protecting his streak, playing more for himself and his legacy in recent years than for his teammates.
The Vikings would have been better off today with the very mobile Tavaris Jackson at quarterback. But the immobile Favre got one last start from head coach Brad Childress. He completed 22 of 32 passes for 259 yards but his one interception turned the game around, even though the ball should have been caught by Vikings receiver Percy Harvin.
The Patriots move to 6-1 on the season and alone in first place in the AFC East. They are a team of players working together towards a common goal. They have no distractions to get in their way. In a way, this team is a throwback to 2001. It has been infused by young players who are revitalizing the older veterans.
Bill Belichick must love the idea that every player on the roster is on the same page. Once Randy Moss left, all the distractions were gone. Maybe that's how you win in today's NFL. Just focus on the game.


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State Civic Education Policy Framework - This framework is intended to guide state policymakers as they address the complexities of preparing students for college, career and civic life. It allows for adaptation to state- and site-specific circumstances and may be adopted in whole or in piecemeal fashion, according to states individual circumstances. (Paul Baumann, Maria Millard, Leslie Hamdorf)... The Progress of Education Reform: The New Civics - This issue of The Progress of Education Reform provides a close look at the new civicshow it differs from previous practices, what it includes, how it is supported by research, and its implications for policy. (Paul Baumann and Molly Ryan, ECS, April 2013)... Network News: Sustaining Service-Learning in Your School: Staying the Course PDF - Over the past year and a half, we have framed issues of Network News around identifying quality service-learning best practices and implementation. In this, our final installment, we look closely at what it takes to sustain service-learning, and offer ideas for how to anchor service-learning in curricula and bolster the wonderful programs taking place in the Schools of Success network schools. (Lisa Guilfoile, ECS, July 2012) ... Service-Learning in the United States: Status of Institutionalization PDF - Inclusion in state statute and code gives service-learning validity and stability, and ensures that it is not subject to the varying interests and priorities of specific leaders, according to a 50-state policy scan conducted by the National Center for Learning and Citizenship in 2011. The commitment of district and school leaders is important, though the priorities of and support from superintendents can differ, the report states. (Ann Rautio, ECS, March 2012)... The Progress of Education Reform: Civic Engagement through Digital Citizenship PDF - This issue of The Progress of Education Reform includes a closer look at the characteristics of digital natives and provides a summary of research about digital natives' civic engagement habits and the implications of this research for education policy aimed at promoting digital citizenship for todays youth. (Paul Baumann, ECS, February 2012)... 12 for 2012 - 12 for 2012 is an ECS read of the field, built on our scrutiny of new reports and research, and our analysis of emerging drivers of change. The 12 policy areas do not represent an exhaustive list of the critical issues for the coming year, nor is this report intended to dictate your education policy priorities for 2012. Rather, 12 for 2012 is intended to stimulate thinking around how best to craft the 2.0 of powerful policy across the states. (ECS, 2012)... The Progress of Education Reform: Citizenship Education PDF - This issue of The Progress of Education Reform examines research on what constitutes citizenship education, how citizenship education contributes to the acquisition of 21st century skills and civic learning opportunity and achievement gaps. (Jennifer Piscatelli, Education Commission of the States, October 2010)... Service-Learning and Hispanic Students: What Works in the Field PDF - This report examines best practices in educating Hispanic students and improving student graduation rates and matriculation into higher education. The author sought to determine whether successful schools implemented different practices for Hispanic students and how successful service-learning was as a pedagogical approach. (Tiffani Lennon, Education Commission of the States, July 2009)... The Progress of Education Reform: Student Engagement - This issue of the Progress of Education Reform features highlights of K-12 research on student engagement, a civic orientation and building resiliency. Taken together, they provide a useful, up-to-date look at evidence on the merits of engaging students for achievement and success. It also includes policy implications based on the research, as well as links to studies and resources on student engagement in higher education. (Education Commission of the States, October 2007)
... Developing Citizenship Competencies from Kindergarten through Grade 12: A Background Paper for Policymakers and Educators PDF - This paper, updated in July 2006 to include new resources and policy information, is designed to help policymakers and education leaders incorporate civic knowledge, skills and attitudes into policies that support effective citizenship education from the early elementary grades through high school. (Judith Torney-Purta and Susan Vermeer Lopez, Education Commission of the States, August 2006)...Civic Education and Deeper Learning - The turn toward deeper learning in education reform should go with a renewed emphasis on high-quality civics education, according to this brief. Not only does deeper learning have great potential to promote civic outcomes and strengthen democracy, but civic education exemplifies deeper learning in that it provides students with challenging, collaborative and engaging experiences. (Peter Levine and Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Jobs for the Future, February 2015)...Getting Civics Right: What It Would Take to Learn What Works and What Doesn't in Citizenship Education - Asserting that civic education receives little meaningful attention within the education policy community, the author considers what a comprehensive study of civic education among U.S. high school students would look like. He writes that research methods should include large, representative samples of adolescents on the state and national levels, with repeated interviews with the same subjects over time.
(David E. Campbell, AEI Program on American Citizenship, November 2014)...Putting Civics to the Test: The Impact of State-Level Civics Assessments on Civic Knowledge - Do civics assessments enhance democratic education? Yes, but only assessments that are required for high school graduation, according to this report. They also lead to greater civic knowledge, but dont foster greater voter participation. African Americans, Hispanic and immigrant youth stand to make the greatest gains in civic knowledge.
(David E. Campbell, American Enterprise Institute, September 2014)...In Service of Citizenship: YES Prep Public Schools and Civic Education - Described by the author as "one of the premier high-poverty/high achievement charter schools," the Houston-based YES (Youth Engaged in Service) Prep focuses on citizenship through service to the community. It is the service aspect which most distinguishes YES Prep from the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP), and the fact that YES Prep has only 10 grade 6-12 schools, all in Houston, while KIPP has 125 campuses in 20 states and the District of Columbia. Distinguishing YES Prep charters from public schools is a 100% high school graduation and college placement rate with credit going to hard-working college counselors, helpful deans and committed parents, among other aspects. (Robert Maranto, April 2013)...New and Alternative Assessments, Digital Badges, and Civics: An Overview of Emerging Themes and Promising Directions - The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) recently released a working paper entitled New and Alternative Assessments, Digital Badges, and Civics: An Overview of Emerging Themes and Promising Directions, that explores digital badges and alternative assessments for civic skills, knowledge, and dispositions. The paper considers digital badges as well as ePortfolios, rubrics, games, simulations, and other assessment and learning tools that might expand options for those committed to improving civic education. ...Civic Education and Charter Schools: Current Knowledge and Future Research Issues - This report examines the status of civic education in both traditional public schools and public charter schools. The report, produced by the Center on Education Policy (CEP) at The George Washington University, uses data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress and other research to learn how the performance of charter school students compares to traditional public school students....Millennials Civic Health Index - This study highlights the diverse ways in which young Americans 18- to 29-years-old are taking action in their communities beyond the voting booth, online and offline, across different regions of the United States. The study, produced by the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), Harvard Universitys Institute of Politics, and Mobilize.org, challenges commonly held beliefs about a generation of young Americans whose votes played a critical role in the 2012 presidential election. ...Guardian of Democracy - This report was produced by the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools in partnership with the Leonore
Annenberg Institute for Civics of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania,
the National Conference on Citizenship, the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and
Engagement at Tufts University, and the American Bar Association Division for Public Education.
This report builds and expands on the findings of the Civic Mission of Schools report, published in 2003 by
the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and
Engagement....Preparing Students for College, Career, and Citizenship - This work is intended to achieve a dual purpose: to provide English-language Arts teachers a civic education context for improving literacy skills and to provide social studies teachers a pedagogical framework for building literacy competencies needed for civic life. Reading, writing, listening and speaking skills are critical to success in all subject areas, hence, this guide provides a methodology that can be easily replicated for teachers of science, mathematics, health education, visual and performing arts, and career technical education....Civic Provocations - This Bringing Theory to Practice monograph consists of informal essays and provocations that support and deepen inclusive and intentional campus-based consideration of an institutions own civic mission and the civic mission of higher education today. The monograph is designed to be used as an aid to educators for their own campus conversationtheir own civic seminar. The monograph features suggestions for how educators could effectively generate a civic seminar, along with guiding questions that could assist those conversations in moving to a deeper leveland, most importantly, lead to institutional actions. (Bringing Theory to Practice, 2012)...Fault Lines in our Democracy: Civic Knowledge, Voting Behavior, and Civic Engagement in the United States - This report from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) examines "fault lines" in U.S. democracy including a lack of civics knowledge among students, and the fact that the likelihood of voting and volunteering is strongly related to one's age, education, literacy and numeracy skills, and income level. The authors offer ideas about how to create an educated and skilled citizenry to keep our democracy vital and strong. (Educational Testing Service, April 2012)
...U.S. Education Reform and National Security - This report finds that the United States' failure to educate its students leaves it unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role. The Task Force proposes three overarching policy recommendations: Implement educational expectations and assessments in subjects vital to protecting national security; make structural changes to provide students with good choices; and launch a "national security readiness audit" to hold schools and policymakers accountable for results and to raise public awareness. (Council on Foreign Relations, March 2012)...Highlights from a Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy's Future - The paper calls for investing in higher education's capacity to make civic learning and democratic engagement widely shared national priorities. The report calls on higher education and many partners in education, government, and public life to advance 21st century conception of civic learning and democratic engagement as an expected part of every student's college education. (National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, N/A)...Civic Health and Unemployment: Can Engagement Strengthen the Economy - This 2011 Issue Brief, released by the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), Civic Enterprises, The Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America, and the National Constitution Center, explores the thesis that civic health matters for economic resilience. (National Conference on Citizenship, September 2011)...Civic Life in America: Key Findings on the Civic Health of the Nation - This fact sheet provides an overview of key national findings from the annual Civic Health Assessment, known as Civic Life in America. The assessment, produced by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) details the ways people get involved in communities across the country and work to make a difference. (National Conference on Citizenship, September 2011)...Contested Curriculum: How Teachers and Citizens View Civics Education - American Enterprise Institute surveyed 1,000 Americans to find out what they believe high schools should be teaching students about citizenship and whether students actually learn those things. The results were then compared to the findings of an earlier survey of high school civics and social studies teachers. Among the findings:
(1) Americans think high-schoolers lack rudimentary knowledge about American history and government; (2) When teachers were asked to rate their confidence that students have mastered important concepts and skills, the results never topped 50 percent for any item. (American Enterprise Institute, June 2011)
...Civics 2010: National Assessment of Educational Progress at Grades 4, 8 and 12 - This report provides a summary of fourth-, eighth- and twelfth-grade students' performance on the 2010 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) in civics. In general, scores for students in fourth grade have risen, eighth graders' scores have remained relatively constant, and twelfth graders' scores have dropped since the 1998 and 2006 NAEP in civics. (NCES/IES, May 2011)...The Civic and Political Significance of Online Participatory Cultures Among Youth Transitioning to Adulthood - Drawing on two large panel studies, the authors find that youth engagement in nonpolitical online participatory cultures may serve as a gateway to participation in important aspects of civic and political life, including volunteering, community problem-solving, protest activities and political voice. (Youth and Participatory Politics and DML Central, February 2011)...Youth Online Activities and Exposure to Diverse Perspectives - Drawing on a panel survey of the online practices of youth (ages 16-21) and on their civic and political echo chambers or divergent perspectives. Rather, most youth are exposed to views that align with and diverge from their own, or they are exposed to neither. Further, students' political interest, particular forms of online participation and digital media literacy eduction can promote greater exposure to these diverse perspectives. (Youth and Participatory Politics and DML Central, December 2010)...Digital Media Literacy Education and Online Civic and Political Participation - The authors of this study sought to understand the relationships between digital media education, media literacy and civic and political engagement. Using survey data they collected in California high schools, the authors argue that digital media literacy education is an important component of schooling because it can help promote students' interest and engagement in political discourse. (Youth and Participatory Politics and DML Central, November 2010)...2010 Civic Health Assessment: Executive Summary - The Civic Health Assessment measures America's civic habits across a wide range of indicators in an effort to strengthen citizen participation in communities, states and the nation. The report is based on research conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Among the key findings: In these tough economic times, Americans are rolling up their sleeves, gathering with neighbors and helping to solve the problems facing their communities. (National Conference on Citizenship 2010)...High Schools, Civics and Citizenship: What Social Studies Teachers Think and Do - This study revolves around the essential question: What are teachers trying to teach our youth about citizenship and what it means to be an American? The findings are based on a national, random sample survey of 866 public high school social studies teachers, an over-sample survey of 245 Catholic and private high school social studies teachers, and three focus groups. Social studies teachers are in the trenches and can report not only on their own attitudes, priorities and behaviors but also on what is actually happening in high schools and school district. (American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, September 2010)...Civic Life in America: Key Findings on the Civic Health of the Nation - This Issue Brief features national statistics, findings and key trends on civic engagement. These statistics, many of which are now published for the first time, are produced through a partnership between the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC). (CNCS/NCoC, September 2010)...International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) - The purpose of the ICCS is to investigate ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens in a range of countries. The study's reports focus on student achievement on a test of conceptual understanding and competencies in civic and citizenship education, and provide data and analyses about student dispositions and attitudes relating to citizenship and civic education. There will be five reports, three are currently available: Initial Findings Report; Extended International Report; and European Report. Links for the Asian and Latin American reports will be added when available. (IEA, 2010)
...No Excuses: Eleven Schools and Districts that Make Preparing Students for Citizenship a Priority, and How Others Can Do It, Too - This report provides an examination of 11 schools and districts that prioritize their civic mission and embed civic learning into the core school experience of every student. Based on comparative analysis of these cases, the authors offer five common elements for sustainable and systemic civic learning that educators, policymakers and advocates can use to help schools and districts meet their civic mission. (Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools, January 2010)...The Classroom-Kitchen Table Connection: The Effects of Political Discussions on Youths' Knowledge and Efficacy - In this working paper, the authors find that the combination of reading news articles and discussing them at home and school related to increased information-seeking and political knowledge among students who were not in advanced placement and honors classes. They also found that students who were assigned to discuss articles at home with parents and who had parents who scored low on measures of political knowledge and efficacy, were the most likely to have increased scores on both dimensions by the end of the experiment. These results could provide guidance for those looking for ways to involve parents in reinforcing classroom experiences by extending political discussions to the home as well. (The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, August 2010)...Inquiry-Based Instruction and Civic Engagement - VIDEO This YouTube video features Ann Cook discussing the importance of inquiry-based instruction for developing the student's ability to hear multiple perspectives on any given issue and to be able to analyze the key elements of each opinion in the process of owning their own opinion....A Five-Year Evaluation of a Comprehensive High School Civic Engagement Initiative - In September 2003, Hudson High School in Massachusetts launched two new civic development efforts - clustering and school-wide governance - providing an opportunity to study the influence of school-wide democratic deliberation on students' civic knowledge and participation. Clusters of 100-150 students met for one hour a week to discuss governance and other school-related issues. Successive classes of twelfth graders have shown improvements on measures of community service and political knowledge and the improvements have been widespread in the student body. (The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, March 2010)...Paths to 21st Century Competencies Through Civic Education Classrooms: An Analysis of Survey Result From Ninth-Graders - Interest is high on the part of business leaders, as well as the general public, in the competencies that young people will need to thrive in an economy that is rapidly changing, global in scope and technology driven. Educators are urged to ensure that young people acquire 21st century skills and competencies by the time they leave school. Students who experience interactive discussion-based civic education score the highest on 21st century competencies, including working with others and knowledge of economic and political processes. (Judith Torney-Purta and Britt Wilkenfeld, American Bar Association Division for Public Education, October 2009)...Democracy for Some: The Civic Opportunity Gap in High School - In a study of high school civic opportunities, the authors found that a students race and academic track, and a schools average socioeconomic status (SES) determines the availability of the school-based civic learning opportunities that promote voting and broader forms of civic engagement. High school students attending higher SES schools, those who are college-bound, and white students get more of these opportunities than low-income students, those not heading to college and students of color. (Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement...Civic Health Index - This report examines the civic-health index in America, measuring 40 indicators over nine categories: (1) connecting to civic and religious groups, (2) trusting other people, (3) connecting to others through family and friends, (4) giving and volunteering, (5) staying informed, (6) understanding civics and politics, (7) participating in politics, (8) trusting and feeling connected to major institutions and (9) expressing political views. The report finds that although there are some signs of civic recovery in the last few years, civic health in the United States shows steep declines over the last 30 years. The most hopeful signs are a rebound in volunteering, especially youth volunteering, over the last decade, and increasing political engagement since the late 1990s. (The National Conference on Citizenship, September 2007)
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