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Everything that happens is for the best. Allah creates interesting events so history will record them, so people in the future will be amazed at them and have proper appreciation. Allah does not desire monotony. There are constant zigzags, divine wisdom, nothing is flat. For example, there were the battles of Badr and Uhad and the Battle of the Trench in the time of the Messenger of Allah (saas). Just when they were about to lose, they won. Nothing is flat, everything is in a state of flux. Allah creates fine detail. Everything is created with wisdom and for the best.
Surat al-Isra' (19)
87- but for a mercy from your Lord. His favour to you is indeed immense.
1987 is the year when I left the mental hospital. 1987 is a year when Islam grew and became very active and vibrant. It is when moves toward Turkish-Islamic Union strengthened and communism retracted. Abjad (numerological) calculation gives a date of 1980.
88- Say: 'If both men and jinn banded together to produce the like of this Qur'an, they could never produce anything like it, even if they backed each other up.'
Human beings and djinn. People have their intelligence agencies, writers, literary specialists and grammarians. They might write something resembling the Qur'an or a few verses. Allah says they could never produce it. The grammatical and literary technique, the music in the Qur'an cannot be replicated. They cannot do it. Allah tells them to do it if they can. But they have been unable to for 1400 years. They have tried many times, but never succeeded. It cannot be done.
89-92 We have variegated throughout this Qur'an all kinds of examples for people, but most people spurn anything but disbelief.
They say, 'We will not believe you until you make a spring gush out from the earth for us;
or have a garden of dates and grapes which you make rivers come pouring through;
or make the sky, as you claim, fall down on us in lumps; or bring Allah and the angels here as a guarantee;
Demanding miracles is a characteristic of polytheists. It is their last point, where they finally go crazy. "Bring Allah and the angels here as a guarantee," they say.
93-94 or possess a house built out of gleaming gold; or ascend up into heaven – and even then we will not believe in your ascent unless you bring us down a book to read!' Say: 'Glory be to my Lord! Am I anything but a human messenger?'
Nothing prevents people from believing when guidance comes to them but the fact that they say, 'Has Allah sent a human being as Messenger?'
He eats, drinks and moves about. How can you be a prophet with physical needs, they ask.
95- Say: 'If there had been angels on the earth going about in peace, We would have sent down to them an angel from heaven as Messenger.'
Because that would do away with the secret of the test. An angel in angelic society is fine. But you cannot have an angel in human society. For example, people do not go to the djinn, and the djinn do not come to us. No envoy from the djinn arrives. Not visibly, not in such a way as joining with them. They did in fact come in the time of our Prophet (saas). They moved around our Prophet (saas), but our Prophet (saas) did not spend his life with djinn. Only for preaching. Djinn enter among people and speak, but that is different.
97- Whoever Allah guides is truly guided. But as for those He leads astray, you will not find any protectors for them apart from Him. We will gather them on the Day of Rising, flat on their faces, blind, dumb and deaf.
Whoever He bestows happiness on, he has faith. But whoever He leads astray is the dajjal (antichrist). They will be flat on their faces, blind, dumb and deaf. In a wretched state, in other words. They cannot hear or speak and are on their faces. Do they not claim they came about by evolution? That is what evolution does. Can one hear through evolution? No. Or see? No. Because one has to have a soul to see. And to hear. They say, "the ears hear." The ear is a system, a machine. One has ears, but one has to have a soul. You deny the soul. So Allah does not let them hear. And they cannot see. But they have a sense of touch. Just enough to crawl along the ground. They just crawl on the ground.
97- Their shelter will be Hell. Whenever the Blaze dies down, We will increase it for them.
The fires of hell die down a little from time to time. Then Allah suddenly stirs them up again. There is calm, and then fierce activity. That is a feature of hell.
98- That is their repayment for rejecting Our Signs and saying, 'What, when we are bones and crumbled dust, will we then be raised up as a new Creation?'
They have concentrated on material things. Can you see matter? You see an image in your brain. What are you talking about? It is not matter on the outside that gives you life. It is Allah Who lets you live. You see a manifestation of Allah. You see the image that Allah creates.2011-07-16 10:07:18


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Well...after some testing I have determined that, if you care at all about high speed shooting or clearing you buffer quickly, YOU DO NOT want to put a card in the SD slot. Why? Because, for some reason unbeknownst to me, Canon decided to build the 5D Mark III with one very fast CF slot which supports the newer UDMA7 protocol and a standard SD card slot which does NOT support the high speed standard (called UHS - for Ultra High Speed). This is really strange because many other cameras have come out with UHS1 compatible slots over the last year. Without UHS support, the top speed that can be achieved by the SD card is 133x. This is true even if you purchase a 600x SD card and insert it in the camera. The best you will get is 133x
At this point, you might be thinking, "why would the SD card slow down all of the data transfer of the camera including the CF card?" It turns out that the camera will default to the slowest card inserted. So, if you have a 1000x CF card in slot one and any SD card in the second slot, the very best buffer clear that will achieve is 133x. When shooting sports or any type of images with burst mode (6 frames per second), this is crippling. I want to shoot a bunch of images, have the camera clear the buffer as quickly as possible, and then keeping shooting more. Why would I want to clear data at 20MB per second when I could be transferring at 90MB per second or better? For this reason, I almost never use the SD slot in the camera. I want to take full advantage of my Lexar 1000x Professional CompactFlash card.
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Accrington St James, Lancashire Genealogy
Chapelry History
ACCRINGTON, a post-town, in the parish of Whalley, union of Haslingden, Higher division of the hundred of Blackburn, N. division of Lancashire, 5½ miles (E. by S.) from Blackburn; comprising the chapelry of Old, and the township of New, Accrington; There are places of worship for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Swedenborgians; also a national school.[1]
Accrington St James is a chapelry, the oldest church in the town founded in 1546, lying within Whalley Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: New Accrington, Old Accrington. Christchurch, also a chapelry in Whalley Parish, was created in 1841.
There are two derivations for the name of Accrington. Both agree that "ton" means "a town or enclosure of", from Anglo-Saxon; however one derivation states that ring means "the people of" and "accr" is a distortion of a family called alker. Nevertheless there is little evidence of this as it would have been the chief or land owner in the area. The alternative derivation states that "accring" is derived from "acorn ringed" which is plausible due to the numerous oak trees which formerly encircled the town but were lost during the industrial revolution. This is still reflected in the name of the district's largest park, Oak Hill Park. Also another source claims the Accrington place name is believed to be derived from a combination of the old English word aecum, meaning 'acorn' and the suffix 'tun' meaning farmstead. The place name would appear to be Anglo-Saxon in origin. The King's Highway which passes above the town was at one time used by the kings and queens of England when they used the area for hunting when it was one of the four forests of the hundred of Blackburnshire.
Accrington Pals
The Accrington Pals was a British First World War Pals battalion of Kitchener's Army raised in and around the town of Accrington in Lancashire. When the battalion was taken over by the British Army it was officially named the 11th Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment.
Recruiting was initiated by the mayor of Accrington following Lord Kitchener's call for volunteers and it took only ten days to raise a complete battalion. The battalion's nickname is a little misleading since of the four 250-strong companies that made up the original battalion, only one was actually composed of men from Accrington. The rest volunteered from other East Lancashire towns nearby such as Burnley, Blackburn, and Chorley. The men from Chorley who formed Y Company were known as the Chorley Pals. The men from Burnley who formed Z Company were known as the Burnley Pals.
The Accrington Pals joined the 94th Brigade of the British 31st Division, a "Pals" division par excellence containing many famous North Country Pals battalions. With the 31st Division, the Accrington Pals were initially deployed to Egypt in early 1916 to defend the Suez Canal from the threat of the Ottoman Empire. The troopship carrying the Accrington Pals was narrowly missed by a torpedo; a fortunate miss because the ship also carried sixty tons of lyddite explosive.
The Accrington Pals next moved to France where they first saw action in the Battle of the Somme. On the first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916, the 31st Division was to attack the village of Serre and form a defensive flank for the rest of the British advance. The 31st Division's attack on Serre was a complete failure though some of the Accrington Pals did make it as far as the village before being killed or captured. One of the battalion's signallers, observing from the rear, reported:
"We were able to see our comrades move forward in an attempt to cross No Man's Land, only to be mown down like meadow grass. I felt sick at the sight of the carnage and remember weeping."
Approximately 700 men from the Accrington Pals went in to action on 1 July; 585 men became casualties, 235 killed and 350 wounded in about half an hour. The battalion's commander, Lieutenant Colonel A.W. Rickman was among the wounded. A rumour that spread around Accrington was that only seven men had survived from the battalion and an angry crowd surrounded the mayor's house, demanding information.
The Accrington Pals were effectively wiped out in a matter of minutes on the first day on the Somme. The battalion was brought back up to strength and served for the remainder of the war, moving to the 92nd Brigade of the 31st Division in February 1918.
Census records
Accrington has been completely indexed and transcribed by several online web sites. Here is a list of some of these web sites--those which provide significant details about our ancestry at no cost:
1881 - FamilySearch
1901 - 1901CensusOnline
The following web sites--all of which are pay-for-view or subscription sites can help you to more quickly find Accrington ancestors in the census records for all years in which census records were kept (1841-1911):
To view copies of original census records, the Family History Library's British collection has the 1841-1891 census records available on microforms, i.e. microfilm or microfiche. Those available are searchable by ordering each film at FamilySearchCenters, as follows:
1841 FHL BRITISH Film no. 306895
1851 Old Accrington p. 301-368 New Accrington p. 369-643 FHL BRITISH Film 87272
1861 FHL BRITISH Film 543072
1871 Old Accrington FHL BRITISH Film 846728
1871 Old Accrington and New Accrington FHL BRITISH Film 846729
1871 New Accrington FHL BRITISH Film 846730
1881 RG 11/4139-4142 FHL BRITISH Film 1341991
1881 RG 11/4143-4145 FHL BRITISH Film 1341992
1891 RG 12/3355 (4 fiches) FHL BRITISH Fiche 6098465
1891 RG 12/3356 (4 fiches) FHL BRITISH Fiche 6098466
1891 RG 12/3357 (4 fiches) FHL BRITISH Fiche 6098467
1891 RG 12/3358 (3 fiches) FHL BRITISH Fiche 6098468
1891 RG 12/3359 (4 fiches) FHL BRITISH Fiche 6098469
Church Records
Online Records
The following Accrington chapelries and their registers exist, and some have been both microfilmed (original records) and some transcribed. To view the years for which chapel registers are extant and available at FamilySearch and/or at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston, click the name of the chapelry; to search online transcriptions of christenings, marriages and sometimes burials, click the years in the columns:
|AC = Ancestry.co.uk (£)
|FMP = FindMyPast.co.uk (£)
|FREG = FreeReg
|FS = FamilySearch.org
|LBMD = LancashireBMD.org.uk
|LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk
The Accrington chapelries' registers of christenings, marriages and burials (pre-1880) have been mostly transcribed and are accessible online at no cost for the following chapelries and their range of years:
|ACCRINGTON CHRIST CHURCH Chapelry (1840) Indexes
|ACCRINGTON ST JAMES Chapelry (1745) Indexes
|1745-1747, 1791-1825, 1831-1861, 1872-1900
|1773-1849, 1880-1900
|ACCRINGTON ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST Chapelry (1868) Indexes
|1868-1900 + part.
|1868-1900 + part.
|1868-1900 + part.
The above chapelries comprise merely a few of Whalley St Mary's numerous attached chapels subdividing its parish boundary. If an ancestor cannot be traced in any of the above chapelries, next search in Whalley St Mary's Parish (see below):
|WHALLEY ST MARY & ALL SAINTS PARISH (1538) Indexes
|1538-1601, 1605-1845, 1848-1860, 1862-1875
|1539-1601, 1605-1647, 1653-1900
|1538-1601, 1605-1840, 1843-1891
|1538-1601, 1605-1653
|1538-1601, 1605-1653
|1538-1601, 1605-1653
If searches in these registers do not prove successful, be certain to search all the church registers of the chapels of ease (chapelries) and the parish registers of the ancient parish of Whalley St Mary & All Saints, which see. Whalley St Mary was one of Lancashire's largest parishes, and in order to conduct thorough research within its boundary, requires searching in all of the registers of its chapels of ease as well as the Whalley St Mary's parish registers! To view their availability, visit the Comprehensive List of Whalley Parish Chapels and Churches.
Civil Registration
Civil Registration of Births, Marriages Deaths - 1837 to the Present
Read about England Civil Registration (vital records) of birth, marriages and deaths on the England main page.
Online Indexes
There are two separate (free) indexes available for Lancashire civil registration of births, marriages and deaths. One index covers all registrations nation-wide, and one index covers the copies of the local registration district office's certificate copies for all registration districts throughout Lancashire, as follows:
- FreeBMD - an online (free) index to the certificates held at the General Registrar's Office, formerly in London, now in Solihull, Merseyside, UK. The years currently covered in this index include July, 1837 to at least 1940.
- LancashireBMD - an online index (free) to the local superintendant's registrar of births, marriages and deaths for all registration districts throughout Lancashire, for the following range of years and their events: births 1837-1974; marriages 1837-2010; deaths 1837-1975.
- Lancashire-OPC.org.uk provides numerous parish and chapel transcriptions online (free) for the post-1837 to 1910 period. Marriages after 1837 provide the same information as the civil registration certificates of marriages provide. However, the marriages in these online offerings are marriage transcriptions only.
FamilySearch's Family History Library British collections holds the quarterly indexes of births, marriages and deaths from July, 1837 to 1983 in microform media.
Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lancashire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Web sites
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A.,A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 5-9
- LancashireBMD.org.uk - 15 million entries for Lancashire
- FreeBMD - over 20 million entries for Lancashire
- Lancashire Online Parish Clerk
- FamilySearch


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|August 6, 1999
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A report from Italy describes a case where breastfed babies were made ill because their mothers were drinking large quantities of an herbal tea that was supposed to increase milk supply [Acta Paediatrica, 1994 vol. 83]. The tea contained licorice, fennel, anise and galega officinalis. It is known that both anise and fennel can get into breastmilk and they contain essential oils that can cause neurological symptoms. Two babies aged 15 and 20 days had been vomiting, became lethargic, had weak cries and poor sucking. One of the mothers also said she was drowsy and weak. Breastfeeding and herbal teas were stopped and babies and the mother rapidly improved. When breastmilk was restarted after two days, both babies were fine.
- AIMS Journal, 7(1), Spring 1995
4) Premature Labor
In identifying the woman at risk for prematurity, the following factors are very important:
- Valerie El Halta, "Too Small, Too Soon," Midwifery Today Issue 36
A few other factors can come into play during pregnancy that put a woman at risk for premature delivery. The most common are:
- Frank P. Manginello, MD & Theresa f. DiGeronimo, MEd, Your Premature baby, John Wiley & Sons, 1991
Depending upon what the diet is lacking, and length of deficiency, labor may begin before or more frequently just after, the point where blood volume should have peaked. A lack of adequate blood volume is why hydration with oral or IV fluids is a temporary stop-gap measure which, in some cases, forestalls the onset of labor. Of course, a well nourished woman may temporarily become dehydrated and in such cases "catching up" on her hydration may calm the uterus down. However, if a contracted blood volume is the real reason the body can no longer support the pregnancy, hydration will offer no permanent solution. Neither will any drug. Bed rest, while widely recommended for preterm labor, is described as ineffective by ACOG. Unless a woman has a cervical anomaly which causes it to open under pressure, bed rest only serves to spare calories by reducing a woman's activity level. This is backward thinking. Instead, salt, calorie and protein intake must be increased to ensure the mother is taking in what she needs for her individual stress and activity levels.
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Q: What have midwives used successfully to slow down/halt preterm labor symptoms, i.e. lots of early contractions in clients as early as 26 weeks? I'm interested in alternatives to tributaline. Bed rest/taking it easy is a given. Has anyone had good results using progesterone creme (external application)? Homeopathy? Other? I myself have used counseling and teaching self-hypnosis techniques occasionally for stress reduction.
- Constance Miles, LM, RN
I have had excellent results with the following: 1500 mg. calcium + 750 mg. magnesium daily. Also include 6 tablets of alfalfa daily and nettles. If contractions come on and are more than normal Braxton Hicks, have the woman take black haw tincture--usually 10-20 drops, one dose; if she is still contracting in 20-30 minutes, repeat the dosage. Combine this with bed rest. She also needs to drink plenty of water daily (more than she wants). Of course, she should be checked by a doctor if the herb doesn't stop contractions.
- Linda Myers, CPM
I have had pretty good luck using vistaril, up to 100 mg orally every 4-6 hours. Opposed to terbutaline, which tends to make the heart race and makes the woman feel anxious, vistaril relaxes *everything* and most women go to sleep (as they should anyway!). I also rule out infections and hydrate with at least 3 quarts/day (unless it's hot, and then I suggest more), but I assume other midwives do these things anyway whether there are preterm contractions or not. I don't call it preterm labor unless the cervix is changing. If it is, I have terrible luck stopping it, even with mag.
- Cynthia Flynn, CNM, PhD
I use several different methods, depending on the woman. But I have had good luck with all of these: Benadryl, cell salt (mag phos), rescue remedy, valerian, vodka, checking for urinary infection (get it treated), and a moist heating pad on mom's lower abdomen, right above her pubic hair. Also if baby is breech or in another malposition that is stimulating the cervix, I give pulsatilla to get the baby moved. I also use bed rest with baby's head off the cervix. Calcium with magnesium also may work. Humor and prayer can work well too.
A doctor in the town where I work (I am an RN, not CNM) advises his patients to drink one or two glasses of red wine if they are having contractions. I do not know the efficacy of this, but I do know we don't get very many of his patients coming in in preterm labor.
- M. Farney, RN
We had women drink a small glass of red wine for prodromal labor and it worked well. We also increased the protein intake to 100 grams a day in moms threatening either preeclampsia or preterm labor. We never saw either.
- Jan Tritten
It's very important to examine existing research as well as consider our subjective perceptions--we will find that the definition of "lots of contractions" doesn't exist. From the earliest weeks of pregnancy, the uterus contracts. Only after the gestation has obtained some indeterminate size; the placental production of hormones has reached a certain blood level; and the gravida herself notices a change in perceived uterine activity does the idea of questionable excessive number of contractions occur. Undoubtedly the norm varies widely.
The major concern is to identify and treat "preterm labor" in order to prevent "preterm delivery." Preterm labor must be understood to consist of cervical changes, i.e. dilitation and effacement in excess of what would be normal for a given gestation. Only preterm delivery is a definite diagnosis, generally considered labor (with effacement and dilitation) leading to delivery of an infant before the 37th week of pregnancy.
...Even more frustrating is that a number of pregnant women will experience "silent" preterm labor, suddenly experiencing advanced labor without any generally acknowledged warning signs such as cramping, bleeding, ROM, backache, or even increased number of contractions Moreover, it is impossible to determine which treatments actually help prevent preterm delivery vs. those that simply appear to decrease the number of contractions.
...Most providers admit that they substantially over-treat "preterm labor." Such chemical agents as terbutaline, magnesium sulfate, and nifedipine appear to suppress uterine contractions by various pathways. But do they truly prevent preterm delivery? This is debatable and very difficult to analyze with good controlled, blind-study research. Are we to risk *not* treating possible preterm labor? How then do we find good controls?
Perhaps the only truly well researched standard of treatment is provision of steroids to the pregnant woman with actual advancing cervical changes. This simple treatment speeds fetal lung surfactant production and can help prevent respiratory distress syndrome in the preterm infant.
My advice would be that a midwife "get to know" and document fully (length in cm., dilitation of os and consistency/firmness) her client's cervix so that actual changes can be readily noted by any provider in future exams. Then, when concern arises regarding the number and strength of contractions, serial cerivical exams--performed very gently--can help determine whether the patient is truly at risk for preterm labor/delivery. Patients (or a chosen friend or family member) can even be taught how to examine the cervix by themselves at home.
To conclude, in a normal singleton pregnancy for a woman with no known risk factors for preterm delivery, the client should receive education regarding all potential pregnancy warning signs, including those specific to preterm delivery, at the most appropriate time in gestation. Should she seek advice regarding any signs of preterm labor--including "lots of contractions"--she should be thoroughly assessed for cervical changes.
Let's get some good, hard prospective studies going so we will have evidence and true justification for any treatment instituted rather than just assuming that we should blindly follow protocols based on fear, not research. And please, let's consider what we are doing to women's lives, families, careers and future health when we blindly advise "bed rest with bathroom privileges." We are asking of them an overwhelming sacrifice with which few can truly comply.
- Patti Warren, CNM
I have had very good luck with the herb vibernum opulus (cramp bark). I use a dropperful of tincture in water as needed (up to every five minutes) to stop contractions (in addition to rest and fluids, of course). I also used the tincture--3 times daily for the first trimester--to prevent miscarriage.
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I am a breastfeeding counselor. I have recently been asked about the risks of continuing to nurse through a pregnancy when the client had a history of preterm labor (requiring a pump and recommendation to stop sexual intercourse). While researching this issue, I was unable to find any concrete evidence of the risks. Most references say that nursing through a pregnancy is not an issue unless one has a history of preterm labor, but no research appears to have been done. Any opinions?
- Claire Eden
The Canadian Childbirth Association (CCA) is seeking to make labor induction a procedure requiring written informed consent by women in the Canadian province of Alberta. Gail J. Dahl, executive director of the CCA, has until Sept. 1 to make as strong a case as possible before presenting her research to the regional medical and health authorities. Says Gail, "I believe I am, after a three year search, close to the actual decision makers who can make an about-face on this. This will be quite a feat, but it is something that must be done to ensure safer childbirth for all women." If the CCA is successful, a critical precedent would be set: written informed consent for labor induction as well as for many other common procedures in childbirth could become a universal reality. Please contact Gail with any information regarding induction's dangers and/or traumas that would further this most worthy pursuit.
I am currently taking Prozac for severe depression. I am also 14 weeks pregnant. Everything I read assures me that Prozac is "safe enough" for pregnancy but not for breastfeeding. I am devastated at the thought of not breastfeeding. I have heard that Zoloft is a safer drug to take while breastfeeding. Does anyone have information that might help me?
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PHOENIX — The Global Market Development Center on Monday announced its 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient: Terry Cox, retired group VP for Kroger.
GMDC annually bestows its prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award upon a person who has contributed significantly to the general merchandise or health/beauty/wellness industries, as well as to GMDC through his or her leadership. Cox, who retired as group VP drug/GM merchandising and procurement at Kroger in 2001, acknowledged the importance of the relationships that Kroger developed through its support of GMDC, and he considered his participation to be an integral part of his successful retail career.
"Terry brought terrific leadership to both GMDC and our industry throughout his years of involvement with the association. His thought leadership was extremely valuable, and as a GMDC board member, he had a great talent for listening to the concerns of everyone and doing what was best for the industry at large," stated GMDC CEO and president Dave McConnell.
Cox joined Kroger in 1962 as a part-time clerk in Columbus, Ohio. He held a variety of merchandising positions in several Kroger retail divisions before becoming director of marketing in the company's grocery merchandising department in 1987. In 1989, Cox was named president of Peyton's, Kroger's drug and general merchandise procurement and distribution subsidiary. Later that year, he was promoted to VP drug/GM merchandising. Cox was promoted to group VP in 1999.
"I can't think of a better organization than GMDC to receive an award like this from," Cox said when receiving his award. "I learned more about the industry and how my company was perceived than I ever could as a result of joining GMDC. This means a lot. Thanks from the bottom of my heart."


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Any new members out there? Please join us from 6 - 9 PM this
Thursday evening, October 27th, as the museum hosts a free New
Member Night event. It is a wonderful opportunity to get a look at
collections and projects that are happening behind-the-scenes.
The Department of Anthropology will feature treasures from the
collection which are normally kept in our storage rooms. Did you
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currently on display? Well here's your chance to get a first hand
look at some of those rarely seen items. Pieces will include
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text: By Erik ShermanLinkedIn is a great place to find a job, but as some users have learned, it can also be a great place to be found -- by a stalker. One, who asked to be identified only as Anna R., claims that a former boss who sexually assaulted her has used LinkedIn to stalk her, as BuzzFeed reported. Unfortunately, given the structure of LinkedIn, completely blocking a single person is virtually impossible. Now some users are asking LinkedIn to improve blocking capabilities so that people don't have to feel the virtual breath of someone over their shoulder. A Change.org petition already has more than 5,700 signers. Here's how Anna R. describes the alleged problem on the petition page: I once was a victim of a sexual assault in the workplace. Being young, it was quite a traumatizing experience for me. Because of this incident, I was forced to leave my position and I never looked back, hoping to leave it behind me for good. Unfortunately, the story was only just beginning. It was the start of a stalking -- something I could have never prepared myself for. E-mails, voicemails; some threatening, some flirty, day after day. I quickly found I could ignore emails, delete voicemails, block Facebook, use privacy settings on Twitter -- yet EVERYDAY I was being looked at on LinkedIn. It really started hitting close to home when he started researching my new connections to see where they where located; if they were in a different area in which I worked for him, he would e-mail me to see if I moved and what I was doing. Little things like that started getting me really scared. The problem that LinkedIn poses for people being stalked is the perceived lack of flexibility in blocking others. If the person has a valid LinkedIn profile, then he or she has the same access that you grant to all who aren't connected to you. Lock that person out and you also lock out potential employers because it is, after all, a professional networking site. Block everyone and you lose much of the benefit. Others have claimed stalking problems as well. One, Lucy Roberts in England had dated a man for 8 months in 2012. The man wouldn't desist when she had broken up with him, so he began telephoning and texting her and then going to her house. She had a harassment notice, roughly the equivalent of a protective order in the U.S., served, which meant he as not supposed to contact her. "The only other means of notifying me of his existence and to say 'Here I am', 'Thinking of you,' or whatever he is trying to achieve is to look me up on LinkedIn where he knows I can see that he has viewed me," Roberts says. "There is no option to block him on this site like I have done with Twitter and Facebook so I phoned the police to see if this can be classed as stalking and they agreed as it made me feel uncomfortable." Not only has he looked up her profile at least twice a week, but he just tried to connect on LinkedIn with her boss.


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I had a cat who was named Asker, she wasnt feeling well for awhile so I took her to the vet and grampy came with me. After tests being done, the vet informed me that she would have to be put down because she was full of tumors. When he gave me my final moments with her and finally came to take her away i naturally broke down in tears. Grampy being the big man who hated to show emotion, said to me, J**** C***** Girl, what you crying for! It's only a cat!
I remember this day so clearly, and it sticks to my mind even more now, because grampy eventually adopted a cat named frisky who was fed better than he fed himself, Frisky was his pride and joy, like one of his children, he would brag about him whenever he got the chance, and liked to show of the scratches he recieved from teasing the poor cat. And when frisky fell sick with a bladder problem, who was at the vet paying crasy vet bills to make frisky better? Grampy :)


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Feds: Blue meth seen in New Mexico
Reality in the illegal drug world is mimicking fiction.
Kevin Abar, assistant special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New Mexico, says distributors are selling methamphetamine tinted blue in the Four Corners region.
That mirrors AMC's hit drama "Breaking Bad," which depicted an Albuquerque-based meth operation that cooked up the drug with a blue hue.
Abar says tinting meth blue is a way for distributors to advertise and brand their product.
But he says the blue meth being sold makes people sick. He says it has been cut with chemicals to make it blue and is not the "pure" product portrayed on "Breaking Bad."
Abar says agents also have stumbled upon red-colored meth.
"Breaking Bad" last year ended its popular run after five seasons.
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Can you believe there are only 12 days until Christmas?!? I am not ready. At all.
I'm going to be doing some major shopping this week. I'm putting together my gift list and all I can think about is what I want. LOL! Of course!
The first thing on my wish list would be 'Bombshell', it's one of my favorite fragrances from Victoria's Secret. I was lucky enough to get a complimentary bottle a few months ago at an event and I've been wearing it ever since. I always get tons of compliments when I wear it too! You can't go wrong with that.
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By: Kristen Meredith
The role of technology in education has been frequently discussed over the past several months. Though the internet is already utilized in many educational settings, many believe that America is on the brink of an education revolution in which new digital platforms will transform our educational system.
Institutions of higher education have been especially eager to position themselves at the forefront of this transformation. Many are taking great initiative to develop their own digital platforms and experiment with different ways of integrating technology and learning. Just this month, twelve prominent universities, including Rice and Johns Hopkins, have announced that they plan to partner with the online education platform Coursera. Founded last year by two Stanford computer scientists, Coursera provides free massive open online courses (MOOCs) and plans to offer over 100 courses available by the fall. This expansion will be a significant addition to Coursera's five original partners (Michigan, Stanford, Princeton, Penn, and the University of Edinburgh). Yet Coursera has already registered 680,000 students in its short life, demonstrating the amazingly widespread reach of online education platforms.
Coursera is just one of many recent promising endeavors in online education. MIT's Open Courseware program already offers over 2,000 online courses; Udacity, founded by Stanford professor Sebastian Thurn, reaches as many as 150,000 students per online course; and the Khan Academy's 3,000 video lessons are widely used tools for both independent and classroom learning. While these recent developments are mostly concentrated in higher education, schools and educational organizations are also in the process exploring how they can use new technology to enhance their offerings.
So how could this impact NFTE? During a conversation with Amy Rosen, NFTE's President and CEO, we discussed just that. She said that NFTE is in the process of examining whether, in the long run, the organization could create a full digital experience. According to Amy, NFTE is essentially asking: "What would it look like if we took our approach, which is highly experiential, and tried to create an online version which would capture that?" Through such an online program, NFTE might be able to expand its reach to many students without access to NFTE classroom programs.
More immediately, NFTE is always looking for ways to integrate technology into classroom programs to enhance the delivery of the NFTE curriculum. For example, students can benefit immensely from online tools and research as they formulate their business plans. One example which Amy gave is that, "Now, with technology that's available, [NFTE] can have kids experiment much earlier on in the business creation process… If they have ideas, they can go online and see if people would buy those kinds of things around the opportunity recognition process, before they decide what they want to do and go into the actual business plan phase." Additionally, NFTE is exploring the possibility of students using online tools at home alongside their NFTE classroom lessons. For instance, the NFTE curriculum incorporates over 200 algebra and pre-algebra lessons. If students could use online tools to help them build this foundation outside of class, this would provide NFTE teachers with more class time for interactive activities.
One major concern, no matter what the digital method of teaching, is how to replicate the experiential learning component of the NFTE experience. Student interaction and mentorship are key to the NFTE classroom model, and Amy emphasized that any online platform needs to offer these same benefits.
Kristen Meredith is a summer 2012 intern at NFTE. She is currently a sophomore at Middlebury College.


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Monday, September 10, 2012 - 9:02 AM
The 2012 La Rioja Drumming Festival
Meinl cymbals and percussion artists Andy C, Juan Carlos Melian, Damien Schmitt, Thomas Lang and Benny Greb were featured at the 8th La Rioja Drumming Festival 2012 held in Logrono, Spain. The event involved masterclasses held by every artist in the afternoon which were attended by approx . 400 people. Late at night the festival climaxed with performances of every drummer at the Palacio De Los Deportes in front of 2,200 enthusiastic drum fans from all over Spain.


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Deadline to enter Mandarin speech contest approaching
The China Post news staff--Those interested in attending the 2012 Mandarin Speech Contest for Foreign Nationals, jointly organized by Radio Taiwan International (RTI) and Hanguang Education Foundation, are advised to register before the deadline of 5:00 p.m., May 11, according to a press release issued recently by the RTI.
The theme of this year's contest will be "Chinese Wit & Humor" (華言俏語). Participants are required to share their interesting encounters in Taiwan, as well as their interests in Chinese language and culture, and whoever can "get people rolling in the aisles" will be the final winners, RTI said.
Those foreign nationals who hold a valid visa or ARC, regardless of their age, and whose native languages are not Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese or Hakka are welcome to register to join the competition.
A total of 25 participants will be selected in the preliminary round of the contest, which is slated for May 19 at Soochow University Downtown Campus Center. And the final contest will be held June 2 at the Core Pacific City Living Mall Gravity Stadium.
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Snickerdoodle Cookie Topped Blueberry Doughnut Muffins by Top With Cinnamon
- Have you heard of snickerdoodle cookies topped blueberry doughnut muffins? Neither had we, but we sure can't wait to try Top With Cinnamon's creation.
- For your vegetarian Thanksgiving guests, Oh My Veggie's quinoa stuffed acorn squash rings are a recipe for success.
- Bourbon makes a lot a lot of things better, including pumpkin pie. A Cozy Kitchen not only has a great recipe, but she has an awesome braiding technique to make the dessert look as beautiful as it tastes.
- Perhaps breakfast is the least of worries on Thanksgiving Day. But for the day after, we suggest Mother Thyme's pumpkin cinnamon rolls.
- For those weary of brining this Thanksgiving, Stick A Fork In It suggests salting your turkey with a dry brine rub instead.
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- Whether you're scrambling for the perfect pie recipe or looking to impress guests with a pretty table setting, we have answers to all of your Thanksgiving questions.
- Looking for more great vegetarian options for the big feast? Watch how to make Good to Know's veggie version of the infamous turducken, the veggieducken.
- Are you guilty of only eating the tops of muffins? Stop wasting the perfectly good and fluffy bottoms, and make these blueberry muffin tops instead.


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A WOLLASTON teenager with a brain condition has helped to raise more than £1,000 for the hospital that treated her.
Megan Lander, aged 14, first realised something was wrong when she began suffering from piercing headaches and getting severe back pain when she sneezed, laughed or coughed.
Following an MRI scan at Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, she was diagnosed with chiari malformation, which has caused the lowest part at the back of her brain, the cerebellar tonsils, to be pushed downwards towards the spinal canal.
Her mother, Kaye Lander, said the condition had caused cerebrospinal fluid from the brain to become trapped in the Ridgewood High School pupil's spinal cord but it is hoped the operation she had at Birmingham Children's Hospital in February will ease the symptoms.
The 37-year-old, of Larkhill Road, added: "The operation made her skull bigger, which will give the brain more room. It can take 12 to 18 months for the brain to move into the position that it should be in and then hopefully the fluid from the spinal cord will start to drain.
"There is no cure, she will always have headaches and back and neck pain but hopefully it won't be as bad as before."
Miss Lander said the condition was "a bit of a life changer" for Megan as the active teen, who was a keen ice skater and dancer before her diagnoses, will now need to take extra care when taking part in sport.
She said when Megan came out of hospital, she wanted to do something to say thank you to the ward staff that looked after her, adding: "Most children can get sponsored for doing stuff but there is not a lot she could so at the moment so we decided to put on a disco."
The event was held at The Brambles, Dudley , on May 17, and a host of activities on the night including a raffle and auction, helped to raise £1,165.
Miss Lander added: "Our goal was £500 so Megan was over the moon."


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The boss of fruit and vegetable delivery company 5ADayBox in Coate praised the community, fire fighters and his staff after their premises were flooded following the torrential rain.
The premises, in Bystone Lane, has been flooded in the past but managing director Ken Mortimer said this time had been the worst they had experienced.
He said: "I have been on this site for 15 years at least and it has been flooded to about a foot deep and once to an inch in the warehouse, but at the weekend it was four feet in the warehouse."
There is a brook 100 feet below 5ADayBox's premises but Mr Mortimer said the flooding occurred due to water running off the nearby saturated fields.
The flooding started on Christmas Eve but was excerebated last weekend and affected two offices and one warehouse.
The worst day was Saturday and fire fighters from Devizes and Royal Wootton Bassett spent more than seven hours at the premises pumping out water. A crew from Devizes returned on Sunday and spent four hours pumping out water.
Staff spent hours moving produce from the warehouse that began to flood to the other warehouse which was dry and the flooding did not stop the company despatching deliveries all over the country.
IT consultant Will Long even stripped off to his underpants and waded through floodwater to retrieve a computer printer preventing it from being damaged.
Mr Mortimer said: "Our staff have been phenomenal and have come in to help. The fire brigade have been phenomenal. We have also had a lot of local support. A builder, who I don't know, turned up with two submersible pumps which kept the office dry.
"Matthew Smith, the landlord of the Bridge Inn at Horton, turned up with another pump and local farmers Keith and Jeremy Stokes used an excavator from Martin Bodman at Urchfont to dig a new culvert so the massive run off of water has somewhere to escape to.
"We've had no disruption to customers, we managed to keep going all the way through. We have a very active Facebook page and customers have been amazingly supportive and thanking us for getting their boxes to them."
Fire fighters attended five other flooding incidents in the Devizes area.
A crew from Devizes were called at 4.40am on Saturday to a house in Southbroom Road where water was coming in through the roof. Fire fighters helped the householder put a polythene sheet in place as a temporary measure.
A crew from Trowbridge pumped out water from a house in Kings Road, Easterton, at 10.30am on Saturday while a crew from Melksham pumped water away from a house in Hawkstreet, Bromham, at 11.45am.
A crew from Devizes pumped out water from a house in Manor Farm Lane, Patney, on Saturday evening and helped the householders mop up.
Fire fighters from Marlborough spent two hours pumping water away from a house in The Green, Poulshot, on Saturday afternoon but due to the rain which continued on Sunday a crew from Devizes were called there at 6.20pm when water got into the house and fire fighters helped pump out water.


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Peyton Manning is the only five-time MVP in NFL history, one of the faces of the league and, at 39, the oldest starting quarterback to lead a team to the Super Bowl.
Slowed by age and injury, he is no longer the record-breaking passer he once was. Most folks figure Manning's fourth Super Sunday appearance will be his last game as a pro.
Cam Newton is at the opposite end of his career, just 26, making his debut in the big game. He also is expected to earn MVP honors for the first time, part of a new breed of dual-threat QBs as good at running as they are at throwing.
Manning is not quite as capable as he was, once upon a time, when it comes to putting the football exactly where he wants it, especially on deep routes.
Newton threw for 335 yards and two TDs, and he ran for 47 yards and a pair of scores, leading Carolina past the Arizona Cardinals 49-15 in the NFC title game. It was the type of dynamic performance he put in all season.
Both of these teams excel at defense. The Broncos led the NFL with 52 sacks and allowed a league-low 283.1 yards per game. No one forced more turnovers than the Panthers, and only five clubs gave up fewer points (the Broncos were one, naturally).
If the Panthers are able to get off to the sort of start they've made commonplace lately, they might not even give the Broncos a chance to make a game of it.


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HOUSTON - Two men suspected of burglarizing a car were killed in a collision during their getaway, investigators said.
Harris County sheriff's deputies said a homeowner spotted the break-in and ran outside. The two suspects saw the homeowner, got into a car and took off, and the homeowner followed them, detectives said.
"We haven't determined at what distance he (followed) to the vehicle," Lt. Quincy Whitaker said.
Investigators said the suspects ran a red light on Bammel North Houston at the Sam Houston Tollway shortly after 2 a.m. and collided with a pickup truck, which rolled over.
One of the suspects, Ricky Zavala, died at the scene, detectives said. The other suspect, Antonio Rivera, was rushed to a hospital, where he died, officials said.
The driver of the pickup truck suffered minor injuries.
The homeowner who followed the suspects stopped at the red light and was not involved in the collision.
Bammel North Houston and the eastbound lanes of the Sam Houston Tollway feeder road were closed while deputies investigated and crews cleared the wreckage.
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