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The law firm of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP announces that class action litigation has been brought on behalf of those who purchased the common stock of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. ("Lions Gate" or the "Company") (NYSE: LGF) between February 11, 2013 and March 13, 2014, inclusive (the "Class Period"). If you purchased Lions Gate common stock during the Class Period, you may move the Court for appointment as lead plaintiff by no later than September 9, 2014. A lead plaintiff is a representative party who acts on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your share of any recovery in the action will not be affected by your decision of whether to seek appointment as lead plaintiff. You may retain Lieff Cabraser, or other attorneys, as your counsel in the action. Lions Gate investors who wish to learn more about the action and how to seek appointment as lead plaintiff should click here or contact Sharon M. Lee of Lieff Cabraser toll-free at 1-800-541-7358. Background on the Lions Gate Securities Class Litigation The actions charge Lions Gate and certain of its senior executives with violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Lions Gate is a film studio that produces and distributes motion pictures and other forms of entertainment. The complaint alleges that by the start of the Class Period, and unbeknownst to investors, Lions Gate was under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") for making false and misleading statements and omissions concerning a series of transactions ("Transactions") conducted to prevent a takeover of the Company by Carl Icahn and his affiliates. During the Class Period, however, defendants misrepresented and/or failed to disclose the fact of the SEC investigation, the prospect of legal proceedings associated with the misconduct under investigation, and the Company's exposure to loss in connection with such proceedings.
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UPDATED: CB&T is collecting clothing and monetary donations for Van Dijk family
(Lander, Wyo.) – UPDATE: Central Bank and Trust is no longer collecting furniture. Gambles has donated several items. The Drive-Thru will be open to collect monetary donations on Saturday from 9am-12pm. However, if you are looking to donate household goods over the weekend, please wait until the following Monday
These are the ONLY items we still currently need:
Clothing for:
For Noelle (wife) 18 pants XL shirts size 10 shoe.
For Feike (Husband): 38 pants XL shirts
For Girl size 10 months.
Cleaning products, pillows, toys, plates, pots and pans, utensils, hangers, soaps, dish soap.
We have enough car seats and cribs. Thank you so much for your overwhelming donations.
If you'd like to do a wire transfer to donate please call us at 307-332-4730. Checks can be made out to "The Van Dijk Fund" and sent to:
Attn: Mary Ann Perez
Central Bank & Trust
285 Main St.
Lander, WY 82520
For the Snyder Family (the home that was lost in Crowheart):
We cannot accept household goods or furniture at this time but we have setup an account to collect donations.
If you'd like to do a wire transfer to donate please call us at 307-332-4730. Checks can be made out to "The Snyder Fund" and sent to:
Attn: Mary Ann Perez
Central Bank & Trust
285 Main St.
Lander, WY 82520
Thank you to this community for your unwavering support.
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Central Bank and Trust is collecting household items, clothing, and monetary donations for the Van Dijk family who lost their home in a fire.
ALL branches can accept monetary donations. All donations will be collected under the "Van Dijk Fund".
Central Bank & Trust encourages you to donate through their branch locations, and not the "Go Fund Me" account online. "Go Fund Me" charges a 5% fee from all of the donations collected. Every dollar donated through CB&T will go directly to the Van Dijk family.
The LANDER branch will be collecting household goods:
Clothing is needed for a 10 month old boy and a 10 month old girl.
Clothing is needed for a 5 year old boy.
Toys, diapers, bedding, etc. will also be needed.
*If you have furniture to donate, we will be accepting some, but please call the Lander branch first at: 307-332-4730 and ask for Mika or April.
Please email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 307-332-4730 for more information.
–Provided by Central Bank & Trust, a County10 Community Partner

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Crisco is just a blend of veggie oils and will make a nice hand cream if you can get past the idea of the shortening. Give this one a try.
Mix together the sunflower oil, coconut oil, and beeswax in a glass measuring cup. Place the cup with the oils--beeswax mixture in a pan of water (about 1 to 2 inches of water), making a water bath. Heat over medium heat until the beeswax is melted (8 to 10 minutes), stirring occasionally.
When the wax is melted, bring the mint solution almost to boiling (put the glass cup with the mint water/borax in the microwave on High for 1 minute, or use a water bath on the stove top).
Remove the oils-beeswax mixture from the water bath. Slowly add mint water/borax to the mixture in the blender and whip.
Allow the lotion to cool completely. The consistency may seem a bit thin, but it will thicken as it cools. The lotion will be pale green in color. You may add the peppermint oil now if you wish.
Pour the lotion into a clean container with a lid. To use, massage a small amount into your skin.
Note: Mint water is made by boiling fresh or dried mint leaves in water and then letting the mixture cool. Strain off the mint leaves. I use 1-cup fresh mint (1/4 cup dried mint leaves) to 1-cup water.
1. Melt group 1 over low heat in a double boiler just till melting. Pour into glass measuring cup and cool to room temp. Add eo/Fo's now. Oils should become thick, creamy, semi solid, and cream colored. 2. Put Group 2 ingredients (room temp.) into a blender. Blend on high while slowly drizzling Group 1 ingredients into the blender.
3. When most of the Group 1 ingredients have been added listen to the blender, when it "coughs" and the cream looks thick turn off. DO NOT OVER BEAT.
4. If any liquid left hand beat it in.
5. Mixture will continue to thicken as it sets up.
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A garden fence can be a wonderful addition to your landscape, providing an attractive border for a flower garden or a functional barrier for a vegetable garden to protect it from wildlife. Before you begin constructing a fence on your property, research the building and zoning codes for your area and secure any necessary construction permits. Most states and communities have regulations regarding how close fences may be placed to property lines, as well as their height.
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In the Name of God: The Extremely and Eternally Loving and Caring
It is no secret that the result of the election was not one for which I was hoping. That said, I am not going to go as far – with all due respect and admiration – to say that Donald J. Trump is not a legitimate President. He is our President, and he was chosen by our people to lead our country. And so, as he is set to take office on January 20, I offer this prayer, imagining what I would say if I was asked to pray at the Inauguration:
Precious Beloved Lord our God:
By Your Eternal Grace and Mercy and Love do we all stand here today
By Your Eternal Grace and Mercy and Love does our democracy flourish
Whereas in so many other places in our world, with people just as honorable as we, there are "Presidents for life," or "Presidents for one billion years," or election results with 99.9% of the vote going to one candidate, we stand here today – in Your Grace and Mercy and Love – witnessing, yet again in our nation's history, the peaceful transition of power.
This is a Grace that cannot be understated, and for this, our Lord, we thank You tremendously.
And so, Precious Beloved, as the new Administration takes the reins of our most beautiful nation, I ask that you bless all of those standing here.
Endow our leaders with wisdom and forbearance; endow them with grace and poise; endow them with the ability to always see each other as brothers and sisters, even if they vehemently disagree.
Bless our leaders with the vision and foresight to do what is right for all of us. Let them always remember that right is might, and not the other way around. Let them always remember that the power they wield is a trust from You, and Lord always keep in their mind's eye that this power should never be abused.
Beloved Lord, there is much division in our country today. Beloved Lord, there is much that tears apart at our fabric as a nation and a people. Please, O Lord, heal us of rancor toward our American brothers and sisters. Protect us from never seeing the humanity of the other, despite our disagreements. Keep away from us the Evil Whisperer, whose very aim is to destroy our unity by making hatred reign supreme among us.
And finally, O Lord, please let us never forget that we, despite all that makes us different, are still one American family, shining ever so brightly under You, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
In Your Most Holy Name do I ask these things. Amen.
In the Name of God: The Extremely and Eternally Loving and Caring
All throughout my life – in various months of the year, in various mosques across the world – I have heard, in beautiful and melodious Arabic, the story of Christmas:
AND CALL to mind, through this divine writ, Mary. Lo! She withdrew from her family to an eastern place and kept herself in seclusion from them, whereupon We sent unto her Our angel of revelation, who appeared to her in the shape of a well-made human being. She exclaimed: "Verily, 'I seek refuge from thee with the Most Gracious! [Approach me not] if thou art conscious of Him!" [The angel] answered: "I' am but a messenger of thy Lord, [who says,] `I shall bestow upon thee the gift of a son endowed with purity.'" Said she: "How can I have a son when no man has ever touched me? – for, never have I been unchaste?" [The angel] answered: "Thus it is; [but] thy Sustainer says, `This is easy for Me; and [thou shalt have a son,] so that We might make him a symbol unto mankind and an act of grace from US. And it was a thing decreed [by God].
At one time, I did not understand the Arabic being recited. As I became older, however, God opened up to me the doors of Arabic understanding, and my admiration and love for the passages in the Qur'an about the birth of Christ only grew in strength. The verse quoted above is only a small part of a longer passage that details the birth of Christ and the scandal it engendered among the people at the time. And that passage also includes the miracle of a newborn Jesus speaking to the people in defense of his mother:
[But] he [Jesus] said: "Behold, I am a servant of God. He has vouchsafed unto me revelation and made me a prophet, and made me blessed wherever I may be; and He has enjoined upon me prayer and charity as long as I live, and [has endowed me with] piety towards my mother; and He has not made me haughty or bereft of grace. "Hence, peace was upon me on the day when I was born, and [will be upon me] on the day of my death, and on the day when I shall be raised to life [again]!"
These verses occur in the 19th chapter of the Qur'an, aptly named "Mary," and it isn't the only place in which the story of the birth of Christ is recounted. There are dozens of verses in the Quran that speak about the miracles of Jesus (5:110), the Last Supper (5:113-115), among many others. His mother, the Virgin Mary, is the only woman mentioned by name in the Qur'an. Christ, in fact, is mentioned more times in the Qur'an than the Prophet Muhammad himself.
If only more people knew this truth about Islam and its deep love and honor for Jesus Christ. If only more people knew that belief in, and love for, Jesus Christ and his mother is an essential aspect of Islamic faith. If only more people knew that no devout Muslim would dare attack and malign Jesus Christ or his mother as some purported followers of Christ have done with the Prophet Muhammad.
In the aftermath of a brutal election, in which the rhetoric against Islam and Muslims was so toxic solely for craven political gain, Christians and Muslims need to come together on areas in which they agree: a common love for Jesus Christ. Ideally, Christians, Muslims, and Jews should be the closest of religious communities, for they have so much in common as the living spiritual children of Abraham.
Yes, there are savages ("barbarian" is too nice a word) who claim to act in Islam's name that commit horrific crimes against Christians, including the recent attacks in Cairo and Berlin. These satanic monsters betray both the letter and spirit of Islam, which teaches deep love for Jesus Christ and respect and honor for his followers.
"Peace was upon me on the day when I was born," the infant Jesus says in the Qur'an. As we approach December 25, the day Christians celebrate this momentous occasion, I pray that this very same peace reigns over our world and over all of us who live on it. I pray that this very same peace reigns over all communities of faith, so that the forces of hatred and division do not win the day. And I pray that this very same peace reigns over our country in the months and years ahead, and that we emerge an even greater people than we already are.
In the Name of God: The Extremely and Eternally Loving and Caring
Beautiful Beloved Lord my God,
You know, better than anyone in this universe, how I would quickly gloss over the horrific images coming out of Syria and Aleppo
You know, better than anyone in this universe, how I would try to always put the thoughts of what's happening there out of my mind
And You know, better than anyone in this universe, that it was because I was ashamed; ashamed at my inability to do anything to help them
There is plenty of blame to go around for the carnage in Syria.
We, the entire human community, failed the innocents in Syria
Yet, worse yet, we – the Muslim community – failed the innocents of Syria even more
You told us that they are our sisters and brothers; You told us that You made their lives sacred
Yet, the Muslim world failed them. And it failed them miserably.
What's worse, as You know, Muslims were actively involved in the carnage.
Savages – posing as Your "warriors" – committed horrific atrocities in Your name
And others – who claim to rule by Your law – fuel the fires of conflict on both sides
The shame of this horrible war is too ugly to bear, O Beautiful Lord, and there is nothing left to say.
Except, O Lord, I am sorry.
Forgive me for my inability to help.
Forgive me for my indifference.
Forgive me for not doing more to help the innocents who suffered so much.
Please, O Lord, do not judge me harshly for my failures.
Please, O Lord, look upon me with Grace, Mercy, and Love, despite my weakness
Please, O Lord, accept me into Your Presence despite the ugliness of my conduct on earth
And please, O Lord, shower Your Grace, Your Mercy, and Your Comfort on all those who are suffering, not only in Syria, but all over the world.
Please, O Lord, grace us with Your Mercy, otherwise we will all be forever lost.
In the Name of God: The Extremely and Eternally Loving and Caring
"My Lord, truly I dedicate to Thee what is in my belly, in consecration. So accept it from me. Truly Thou art the Hearing, the Knowing."
The woman was thinking she was going to have a boy, and thus she wanted to dedicate him to service, as a Priest, in the Temple in Jerusalem. The Lord, however, had other plans because, lo and behold, the child was a girl:
And when she bore her, she said, "My Lord, I have borne a female…and I have named her Mary, and I seek refuge for her in Thee, and for her progeny, from Satan the outcast."
At that time, women were not allowed to be Priests in the Temple. Yet, that did not stop this little girl from becoming one of the greatest women human history has ever seen, the Virgin Mary:
So her Lord accepted her with a beautiful acceptance, and made her to grow in a beautiful way, and placed her under the care of Zachariah. Whenever Zachariah entered upon her in the sanctuary he found provision with her. He said, "Mary, whence comes this unto thee?" She said, "It is from God. Truly God provides for whomsoever He will without reckoning."
These are verses 35-38 of the third chapter of the Quran. As can be seen, they detail in great beauty the birth of the Virgin Mary, one of the greatest events in the spiritual history of humanity.
Elsewhere in the Quran, it is said:
"And [remember] when the angels said, "O Mary, truly God has chosen thee and purified thee, and has chosen thee above the women of the worlds. O Mary! Be devoutly obedient to thy Lord, prostrate, and bow with those who bow." (3:43-44)
What's more, Mary the mother of Christ is hailed as an exemplary believer:
"And God sets forth as an example for those who believe…Mary, the daughter of ʿ Imrān, who preserved her chastity. Then We breathed therein of Our Spirit, and she confirmed the Words of her Lord and His Books; and she was among the devoutly obedient." (66:11-12)
Given all this, I often scratch my head in puzzlement when I hear Christian missionaries claim that they want to "bring Jesus to Muslims." The truth is we Muslims have had Jesus – and his mother – all along. In fact, the only woman to be mentioned by name in the Quran is none other than the Virgin Mary, whose namesake is given to chapter 19.
Yet, there is something I left out in the first passage from the Quran above. Right after the mother of Mary said, "My Lord, I have borne a female," God interjects in the verse:
and God knows best what she bore, and the male is not like the female,
What this means is this: no male child could ever be like this female child Mary. If this child had been born a boy, like his mother thought, he would never have become as amazing, as extraordinary, as truly awe-inspiring as this female child Mary.
As Catholics the world over celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, which commemorates the birth of the Virgin Mary, let this Muslim declare to one and all, far and wide, my love for the Virgin Mary. Let this Muslim declare to one and all, far and wide, my admiration for the strength and power of this amazing mother. Let this Muslim declare to one and all, far and wide, my desire to meet her one day in the Lord's Garden and kiss her hand.
And let this Muslim extend his hand to one and all, far and wide, in brotherhood to all those who share the love of the mother of Christ in his or her heart.
In the Name of God: The Extremely and Eternally Loving and Caring
Out in northwest North Dakota, where the winds hit heavy on the borderline, rural Mountrail County backed Donald Trump, as did all but two of North Dakota's 53 counties. And the city of Ross, population 97, voted a bit more heavily for Trump than the rest of the county and the rest of the state.
That's notable because of the place Ross holds in the history of Islam in America.
It was in this farm town that in 1929 the first mosque purposely constructed as such in the United States was established.
Thus began the column by John Nichols, the national-affairs correspondent for the Nation. I've been a huge fan of his work for a long time, especially because of columns like this one. I have already learned a lot from him, and this column is no different.
I have always known that Islam's history in the United States dates back to before its independence, but I did not know – until John Nichols educated me – that the oldest mosque in America was in Ross, North Dakota.
I doubt that Donald Trump knows there is a Ross, North Dakota, let alone that Muslim immigrants constructed a mosque there before he was born. I doubt that his aides know that Muslims were living and worshiping in the United States before the founders drafted a Constitution that guarded against religious tests and then added an amendment designed to preserve freedom of religion in a country where Thomas Jefferson believed that a mantle of protection should extend to "the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and infidel of every denomination."
But this history needs to be recalled, and respected, as President-elect Donald Trump begins to fill his administration with men like his incoming National Security Adviser, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, who has claimed that "fear of Muslims is rational."
The emphasis was mine. Yet, I cannot agree with him more: "this history needs to be recalled, and respected…"
There are those in our country that seek to "otherize" Islam and Muslims; they seek to make Islam "foreign"; they even cast doubt on whether Islam is a religion. This is wrong, and it tears at the fabric of our unity as a people.
Thank you, John Nichols, for this wonderful piece and reminder of the beautiful and vibrant history of American faith, which includes Islam.
In the Name of God: The Extremely and Eternally Loving and Caring
With the election of Donald Trump and the fear that comes with his picks to essential law enforcement and Homeland Security posts, it is important to highlight the truth about American Islam and Muslims. While there are some in our country who seek to incite fear of Muslims in order to marginalize them, ordinary American Muslims are hard at work making their country a better place:
For 16 years, the Chicago Muslim community has distributed free Thanksgiving turkeys to underprivileged families on the South Side. But this holiday season, the group more than tripled the number of free birds from last year to 5,000 and expanded the project to eight elementary schools in three neighborhoods.
Dr. Sofia Shakir, an organizer of the annual turkey drive, said while plans to expand the effort had been underway for almost a year, it was serendipitous that it all came together after what she considered a discouraging presidential campaign — and now amid fears of being viewed as un-American by the administration of President-elect Donald Trump.
The organizers of this annual drive – to which I have been honored and blessed to contribute for several years – are my good friends, and their work on behalf of the community is truly awe-inspiring. It truly puts me to shame.
Shakir and her husband, Dr. Jihad Shoshara, called the turkey drive a homecoming of sorts. As a student at the University of Chicago, Shakir tutored children after school in Woodlawn. Shoshara attended Chicago public schools. "The turkey drive is a small way in which I feel that I can give back," he said.
"We are all part of the same," Shakir said. "We're not helping others. We're helping our own."
Shoshara said the project puts into practice Muslim teachings and fulfills one of the five pillars of Islam called zakat, or charity. For guidance, he looks to the Prophet Muhammad, who is believed to have said: "He is not a believer whose stomach is filled while the neighbor to his side goes hungry."
But it's about more than feeding the hungry, Shoshara said. It's about giving families a way to make a meal and do something for their children.
"If you can have the turkey in your own home and celebrate like everyone else in America, that gives them a sense of dignity," Shoshara said.
This is the truth of Islam and Muslims. Yes, there are some who are savage murderers. But, they are a tiny minority and are rejected by the overwhelming majority of Muslims all across the words.
The overwhelming majority of Muslims – inspired by their faith – are quietly working to make this world, their world, a better place for all, this annual Chicago Muslim Turkey Drive being only one example. This kind of story does not garner headline coverage – it does not bleed or explode. But it reflects the truth about American Islam and Muslims, and more people need to know this truth.
Join me on Twitter (@GodFaithPen).
In the Name of God: The Extremely and Eternally Loving and Caring
It's about time.
In the wake of the unprecedented election of Donald Trump and his worrying appointments of anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim ideologues, the American Jewish Committee and the Islamic Society of North America have come together.
On November 14, both organizations announced the formation of the Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council. As news reports said,
Though Jewish and Muslim groups have cooperated before, the size and influence of these two particular groups — and the prominence of the people who have joined the council — marks a milestone in Jewish-Muslim relations.
"Our council is coming at the right time," said Eftakhar Alam, senior coordinator at ISNA's Office of Interfaith and Community Alliances.
"We have to show the administration that as American Muslims and Jews — people of the faiths of Abraham — we are uniting to help the administration navigate in the proper constitutional manner, to uphold freedom of religion and constitutional rights for all American citizens."
Robert Silverman, AJC Director of Muslim-Jewish relations, also said:
"The Council's formation shows that American Muslim and Jewish leadership are now working together, focused on domestic developments. This is a first and is good news for the entire country."
This is truly heartening and one of – I pray – will be many silver linings of the election of Donald Trump. Our two communities are natural allies: we worship the same God of Abraham; we both seek to follow in Abraham's enormous footsteps; we are both patriotic American communities of faith which desire the best for our country.
This is in line with the letter and spirit of the Qur'an, which says:
…help one another in furthering virtue and God-consciousness, and do not help one another in furthering evil and enmity… (5:2)
Unto every one of you have We appointed a [different] law and way of life. And if God had so willed, He could surely have made you all one single community: but [He willed it otherwise] in order to test you by means of what He has vouchsafed unto, you. Compete, then, with one another in doing good works! Unto God you all must return; and then He will make you truly understand all that on which you were wont to differ. (5:48)
"Compete, then, with one another in doing good works."
This is what I have always hoped for the American Jewish and Muslim communities. There are so many things that can separate us, and it is easy to let those forces tear us apart.
But, really, we need to work together for the common good: not just the good of our two faith communities, but for the common good of all Americans, either of faith or no faith. We are all one American family. We need each other, now more than ever before.
Join me on Twitter (@GodFaithPen).
In the Name of God: The Extremely and Eternally Loving and Caring
MAKE no mistake about it: the election of Donald Trump has made me fearful. The message sent to me – a born-and-raised American son of Muslim immigrants – by Trump's victory was that I am not welcome here in my country. This feeling stems from the openly racist and xenophobic rhetoric that came from the Trump campaign, and its wholehearted support from openly racist elements of our society. My intellectually lazy conclusion from seeing so many people voting for Trump is that all of his supporters are racist.
But that's my point: the conclusion that "all of Trump's supporters are racist" is intellectually lazy, if not horribly simplistic and ignorant.
So, I searched for answers as to why so many people supported Trump in this election. And my wife gave it to me: this article. It is a long read, but it is well, well worth it. The author, David Wong, explained in great detail what happened:
See, political types talk about "red states" and "blue states" (where red = Republican/conservative and blue = Democrat/progressive), but forget about states. If you want to understand the Trump phenomenon, dig up the much more detailed county map. Here's how the nation voted county by county in the 2012 election — again, red is Republican:
Every TV show is about LA or New York, maybe with some Chicago or Baltimore thrown in. When they did make a show about us, we were jokes — either wide-eyed, naive fluffballs (Parks And Recreation, and before that, Newhart) or filthy murderous mutants (True Detective, and before that, Deliverance). You could feel the arrogance from hundreds of miles away.
"Nothing that happens outside the city matters!" they say at their cocktail parties, blissfully unaware of where their food is grown. Hey, remember when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans? Kind of weird that a big hurricane hundreds of miles across managed to snipe one specific city and avoid everything else. To watch the news (or the multiple movies and TV shows about it), you'd barely hear about how the storm utterly steamrolled rural Mississippi, killing 238 people and doing an astounding $125 billion in damage.
But who cares about those people, right? What's newsworthy about a bunch of toothless hillbillies crying over a flattened trailer? New Orleans is culturally important. It matters.
To those ignored, suffering people, Donald Trump is a brick chucked through the window of the elites. "Are you a**holes listening now?"
I truly did not understand how bad the devastation is for so many of my fellow Americans who live in rural America. I am a city-boy, always have been. Heck, there were towns in Illinois that I did not know even existed until a job change took me to the far Western Suburbs of Chicago.
By the Beautiful Grace of the Beloved, I was spared from the worst effects of the economic downturn. But, so many people were not, and the recovery has not touched them in the least. They are still in a lot of pain, and no one has been listening to them, as Wong explains:
See, rural jobs used to be based around one big local business — a factory, a coal mine, etc. When it dies, the town dies. Where I grew up, it was an oil refinery closing that did us in. I was raised in the hollowed-out shell of what the town had once been. The roof of our high school leaked when it rained. Cities can make up for the loss of manufacturing jobs with service jobs — small towns cannot. That model doesn't work below a certain population density.
If you don't live in one of these small towns, you can't understand the hopelessness.
The rural folk with the Trump signs in their yards say their way of life is dying, and you smirk and say what they really mean is that blacks and gays are finally getting equal rights and they hate it. But I'm telling you, they say their way of life is dying because their way of life is dying. It's not their imagination. No movie about the future portrays it as being full of traditional families, hunters, and coal mines. Well, except for Hunger Games, and that was depicted as an apocalypse.
So yes, they vote for the guy promising to put things back the way they were, the guy who'd be a wake-up call to the blue islands. They voted for the brick through the window.
It was a vote of desperation.
The article goes into much more detail, and I urge my readers to check it out. But it gave me a much better picture of what is really going on in America and a much better perspective on what happened in the election. What's more, it has given me some relief. Trump's (now not so surprising) victory was not because half of the country hates me for my race and religion (although, no doubt, a good many of his supporters probably do). It was because so many people are in suffering in pain, and voting for Donald Trump was their way of giving voice to that pain.
And this gives me – and the rest of the country – a starting point from which we can move forward. The country has spoken: Donald J. Trump will be our next President. But rather than sulk from this reality or cower in fear, we must come together as a people and work for the betterment of our country.
True, we must stand up to the bigots who now feel emboldened by Trump's win and show them – with grace and goodness – that their hatred is not acceptable. But I still believe that we are one American family, we must all work together to relieve the suffering of anyone in this great American family. I hope and pray that President Trump will join us in this quest and help make America even greater than she already is.
In the Name of God: The Eternally and Extremely Loving and Caring
I WAS BLESSED to finally see Hamilton this last weekend in Chicago. It was a birthday gift for my eldest daughter who is gaga over everything Hamilton. I must admit, I wasn't too much into it at first, but as the show went on, it grew on me. Now, I'm a big fan.
One thing I didn't know going into the show was that many of the Founding Fathers – Washington, Jefferson, Madison – were played by African-American actors. I must confess it was a little weird at first. But, I am very grateful to say, as the show went on, the actors' ethnicity didn't matter at all. Each one of them became Washington, or Jefferson, or Madison.
That had a profound effect on me, and it made me think of this horrifically divided election. Our healing has to start now.
Sure, we are different on many levels: socially, economically, religiously, ethnically, to name a few. But just like I was blessed to see through the actors' ethnicities during Hamilton, we must all see through our backgrounds and see each other for who we really are: members of one big American family.
After everything that's been said and done during this election, it will hard to forget that a substantial portion of my American family hates me for my faith, hates me for my background, wants me and my relatives banned from the country. While I can never bring myself to support Donald Trump with my money ever again, I have to begin the process in my own heart to prevent the anger and hurt extend to all those fellow Americans who have supported him through and through.
I must admit, it will be very difficult. But I have to do it, for the good of our people and our country.
Scripture has told me to do so:
But [since] good and evil cannot be equal, repel [evil] with something that is better and lo! he between whom and thyself was enmity [may then become] as though he had [always] been close [unto thee], a true friend! (41:34)
This is the way of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). This is the way of Jesus Christ (pbuh). I must strive – do Jihad – to do the same.
If I wrote this after the election, I suspect many may say: "You talk about healing because your Candidate won." That's why I'm writing this now. We have to start healing our fractures and divisons now, before the results of the election are known.
Several weeks ago, I had a very passionate (read: heated) argument with a cousin of mine about politics. Voices – mainly mine – were raised and tempers – mainly mine – flared. But when it was all said and done, I sent him this message:
No matter how "passionate" I get, you must know my love for you runs very deep…I pray you have no hard feelings. We are blood. And at the end of the day that's all that matters.
I disagree with the politics of many of my fellow Americans. I am distressed that they would support a candidate who spews full-throated bigotry and division. I am saddened that there are Americans who espouse racial or religious hatred.
And while I don't have to agree with them, at the end of the day, they are part of my American family. I pray, Sweet Beautiful Lord, that our people can be healed from hatred, and we can all come together as Your American children. Amen, O Lord, Amen.
In the Name of God: The Extremely and Eternally Loving and Caring
THE RIGHT (and privilege, frankly) to vote has not always universal like it is today. When our country was first founded, slaves were not even considered full human beings. Women were only given the right to vote in this country in 1920, less than one hundred years ago. And when African-Americans were finally freed, they were subjected to terrorism when they asserted their equal rights before the law.
Countless men and women before me have shed their blood and died to give me the right to vote. Too many people sacrificed way too much on my behalf for me to let that sacrifice be in vain.
That is why I cannot countenance, even for a second, sitting out this – or any other – election.
The same should be with the rest of us, most especially my sisters and brothers in the American Muslim community. A full 1/3 of the American Muslim community is African-American, and so they know all too well the sacrifices made for the good of the country. But many in the American Muslim community are immigrants or the sons and daughters of immigrants, hailing from countries where the rulers in power win "elections" by 99.999% of the vote.
That is why, in my mind, no American Muslim should EVER sit out an election. Too much is at stake for American Muslims to not make their voices heard. As it has been said by many, "If you not at the table, then you are on the menu."
We cannot afford to be on the menu; especially not this year.
For far too long, American Muslims – among many other groups in America – have been used as subjects of fear and hatred for cynical political gain. For far too long, innocent American Muslims – among many other groups in America – have been the subject of hate crimes and physical attacks as a result of that fearmongering. For far too long, American Muslims – among many other groups in America – have suffered senselessly.
That is why American Muslims cannot countenance, even for a second, siting out this – or any other – election.
Writer Bob Cesca tweeted this recently:
Trump's campaign is a war on women, minorities, decency, good taste, intelligence, rationality, honesty & peace. He MUST lose — decisively.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) October 14, 2016
And so I replied this way:
Then…the Gauntlet has been thrown. We ALL must vote. https://t.co/b06Sh9OBVq
— Hesham A. Hassaballa (@GodFaithPen) October 14, 2016
Too much is at stake for us to stay home on November 8. We ALL must get out and vote and make our voices heard. And that ESPECIALLY MEANS YOU, American Muslims. That especially means you.
Join me on Twitter @GodFaithPen.


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Notebook: Toshiba Classic, Round 2March 16, 2013
By Phil Stambaugh, Champions Tour staff
-- David Frost's 18-foot eagle putt on the last hole moved him ahead of Fred Couples into the lead after 36 holes of the Toshiba Classic. Both players came to the 18th hole tied for the lead and Frost hit a low running 3-iron second shot through a gap and the ball ended up behind the flag on the par-5 hole, setting up the dramatic putt. Couples then two-putted from 35 feet for a birdie. Both players fashioned 5-under 66s and for Frost, it was his eighth round in the 60s this year of the 11 he's played.
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David Frost (-13)
Fred Couples (-12)
Jim Gallagher, Jr. (-8)
Last Win
2012 AT&T Championship (10/28); searching for second victory on Champions Tour in his last six appearances; also won in Mauritius on the European Senior Tour during this stretch.
2012 Senior Open Championship (7/29); has only played three times on Champions Tour since last victory
1995 FedEx St. Jude Classic on the PGA TOUR (7/2); seeking to end a victory drought of 205 PGA TOUR events/39 Champions Tour events
Last Time In Final Group (stroke-play event)
In the final grouping for the second time this year. Was in the last group at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai and lost to John Cook in a playoff; In his Champions Tour career, has been in the final grouping six times and won once from this position
2012 Charles Schwab Cup Championship; Has been in final grouping 14 previous times and won eight events from this position; this marks his third time in the final grouping in the last four years at the Toshiba Classic.
In the last grouping on Sunday for the first time since the 1995 NEC World Series of Golf where he eventually finished T6 at Firestone CC
2013 season
Among the top-10 in all three previous appearances; best finish a P2 at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai
One previous appearance; fourth at Mitsubishi Electric Championship
Making his third appearance on the Champions Tour this year and was T27 in the Allianz Championship
Champions Tour Wins
None; best career finish a T4 at the 2011 Dick's Sporting Goods Open
PGA TOUR Wins
10, with none in California
Paarl, South Africa
LaQuinta, Calif.
Greenwood, Miss.
Did You
Has held a lead/co-lead going into Sunday four times on the Champions Tour and gone on to win once (2010 3M Championship). Earlier this year, he led the Mitsubishi Electric Championship after 36 holes and finished second; Previous best finish at the Toshiba Classic in three appearances was a T12 in 2011. Has won four official TOUR events in California, including the 2010 Toshiba Classic. Exemption on the Champions Tour from the Career Victory category ends after this week; was T57 last year at the Toshiba Classic Here is how the second-round leaders have fared since the start of the event in 1995. Year Second-Round Leader/Margin Winner/Margin 1995 Tom Wargo/132/+1 George Archer/199/+1 1996 Jim Colbert/133/+5 Jim Colbert/201/+2 1997 David Graham/134/+1 Bob Murphy/207/Playoff 1998 Hubert Green/133/+1 Hale Irwin/200/+1 1999 John Jacobs/134/+1 Gary McCord/204/Playoff 2000 Allen Doyle/136/+1 Allen Doyle/136/+1 (36 holes due to rain) 2001 Terry Mauney/130/+1 Jose Maria Canizares/202/Playoff 2002 Hale Irwin/131/+3 Hale Irwin/196/+5 2003 Rodger Davis/129/+2 Rodger Davis/197/+4 2004 Purtzer/Hatalsky/131 Tom Purtzer/198/+1 2005 Mark Johnson/130/+3 Mark Johnson/200/+4 2006 Purtzer/Thorpe/Eastwood/135 Brad Bryant/204/+1 2007 Jay Haas/129/+1 Jay Haas/194/+2 2008 Bernhard Langer/130/+3 Bernhard Langer/199/Playoff 2009 Bernhard Langer/Mark O'Meara/133/E Eduardo Romero/202/+1 2010 Fred Couples/130/+2 Fred Couples/195/+4 2011 Nick Price/128/+2 Nick Price/196/+1 2012 Mark Calcavecchia/134/+2 Loren Roberts/205/+2 2013 David Frost/129/+1 ----------------
-- Sunday's winner will earn 263 Charles Schwab Cup points. Bernhard Langer, the current Charles Schwab Cup leader, is currently T11. Langer has finished among the top 10 in 17 of his last 18 events and has been among the top 3 in his first three touranments of the 2013 season. John Cook, who is currently in second place in the Schwab Cup race, is well back in the Toshiba Classic standings (T35) through 36 holes. Points are only awarded at each event for top-10 finishes and at the conclusion of the season, the player earning the most Schwab Cup points will receive a $1 million payout.
-- Scott Hoch, making just his second appearance in over a year on the Champions Tour, shot a bogey-free 7-under-par 64, the low round of the day by two strokes and his career-best round on the Champions Tour. Hoch had previously shot 65 four times, including in Round 2 of the 2007 Toshiba Classic. Saturday's round moved him up 32 spots in the standings into a T4. After suffering left hand and wrist problems for the better part of the last two years, Hoch made his return to the Champions Tour at the ACE Group Classic last month and finished T20.
-- Defending champion Loren Roberts carded a 1-under 70 to extend a streak of sub-par scores at Newport Beach Country Club to 12 straight rounds. Roberts is eight shots off the pace and in a T22 after 36 holes this year.
-- Newport Beach Country Club played to a field stroke average of 70.272 (-0.728) vs. 71.123 (+0.123) yesterday. Through two rounds, the course has averaged 70.698 compared to last year when the cumulative average after 36 holes was 71.081. Through two rounds this year, there have been 80 scores under par shot compared to just 62 through two rounds last year.
-- Bogey-Free Rounds --
-- Friday (6): David Frost (63), Chien Soon Lu (67), Peter Senior (68), Mark Brooks (68), Wayne Levi (69) and Olin Browne (69)
-- Saturday (9): Scott Hoch (64), Dan Forsman (68), Peter Senior (68), Fred Funk (67), Bernhard Langer (70), Corey Pavin (68), Jeff Sluman (68), Gary Hallberg (70), Mark Mouland (67)
-- Tommy Armour III and Gil Morgan lead the field in fairways hit with 25 out of 28 ... Armour III also leads the field in greens hit in regulation with 30 out of 36, however, he's ranked T75 in putting with 63 total putts through the first two rounds ... David Frost, the tournament leader, leads the putting stats with 50 putts through the first 36 holes ... Fred Couples leads the field in birdies with 15 for 36 holes.


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by Farrar Straus GirouxHow ridiculous can Tom Wolfe be when he really gets going? Very, very ridiculous. In his first collection of nonfiction in 19 years, Hooking Up (it also includes the novella "Ambush at Fort Bragg"), Wolfe takes upon himself the job, among other things, of supplying a hortatory manifesto for a New American Patriotism that he can't believe hasn't yet taken hold now that we've beaten back the Nazis and Communists and managed to dominate "the world to an extent that would have made Julius Caesar twitch with envy." There's lots of keening blather about the new millennium initiating a second century of a "Pax Americana" that will "last a thousand years," and about the U.S. being "an El Dorado where the average workingman would have the political freedom, the personal freedom, the money and the free time to fulfill his potential in any way he saw fit. It got to the point where if you couldn't reach your tile mason or pool cleaner, it was because he was off on a Royal Caribbean cruise with his third wife."
(I don't know about you, but I take zero pleasure in imagining Julius Caesar twitching with envy because of my country's imperialistic success. I also don't know what the hell Wolfe means by Pax Americana, if you stop to remember that the first century of American "peace," which Wolfe says started in 1900, included Dresden, Hiroshima and My Lai. And if Wolfe thinks the U.S. is an El Dorado for the average worker, he ought to take off that white suit of his and wear a blue or pink collar for a change, the way writer Barbara Ehrenreich did a couple of years ago when she worked for a miserable month as a waitress—that'd wipe that condescending tone off his style right quick.)
Once in a while, he gets so absurd that even he realizes he's making no sense, and so he starts throwing down exclamation points as rhetorical cover, not recognizing that by all rights, he used up his share of that form of punctuation about three decades ago. "The light! The light at the apex of every human soul!" he froths at one point. What's he referring to here? Believe it or not, he's talking about the dissenting Protestant belief in a human soul that can have direct access to God's power, which Wolfe thanks for the birth of the microprocessor, Silicon Valley and the brave new world of the New Economy.
Wolfe's bullshitting us, of course: he doesn't believe in any light in any apex of any soul, not for a second—but he's shameless enough to toss around the hieratic language if he thinks it'll persuade us to start cheerleading along with him in his astoundingly incoherent boosterism. Wolfe loves—or at least is patricianly amused by—just about everything in America except its intellectual culture. Intellectuals he cannot abide. In a dazzlingly woolly-headed and fact-challenged essay called "In the Land of the Rococo Marxists" (which received a collective shrug of indifference from its target audience when it appeared in Harper's awhile back and is reprinted here), Wolfe accuses American intellectuals—by which he means left-leaning academics in the humanities—of being knee-jerk Marxists who have been cowed by European theorists from Germany and France and just can't seem to appreciate how good we've got things in the U.S. of A. What he seems to find most offensive and threatening is poststructuralism—Derrida, Foucault and their American followers—and if I willfully misunderstood poststructuralism as much as Wolfe does, I'd probably find it offensive and threatening, too. (Poststructuralism, basically, tries to think and theorize about things without a concept of truth, center or ground. It's not evil; it's Nietzsche.) It's amazing that Wolfe, who prides himself on painstaking documentation and thorough research, seems to have learned everything he knows about what he most hates about American intellectual life from Deconstruction for Dummies. Of course, what he really hates about American intellectuals is that they don't pay enough attention to him. Wolfe, the author of three huge megaselling books (The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full), whose latest novel The New York Times Book Review said "contains passages as powerful and beautiful as anything written . . . by any American novelist," still feels, well, dissed. This comes through loud and clear in a boisterous, scarily revealing fulmination of an essay called "My Three Stooges," in which Wolfe rails at the American literary establishment—here embodied by John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving (his stooges three)—for not liking A Man in Full. I read Updike's and Mailer's reviews when they came out, and they seemed reasonable enough; they essentially said Wolfe is a great entertainer but not a great artist. He can do old-fashioned Dickensian plots, and he's great on dcor, but he can't do character—especially modern interiority. In Hollywood terms, he's good on structure, and he'd make a fine set designer and wardrobe man. This ticks Wolfe off in a big way. He goes into an elaborate history of literary realism and naturalism, claiming to be a direct descendant of Zola, Dreiser and Steinbeck, and after a while, your jaw just drops because what made those writers great wasn't their superficial notation of a big social canvas (Wolfe's forte), but their ability to use those canvases as backdrops for complex human beings to act out their destinies. That's what Updike and Mailer, in fact, accomplish in the Rabbit series and The Executioner's Song, respectively—books Wolfe couldn't touch if his white cane were a 10-foot pole.
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The embarrassment of Wolfe's braggadocio—"I'm Zola's heir," or to put it in Wolfean terms, "I'm Zola's heir!!!!" —couldn't be clearer when one reads "Ambush at Fort Bragg," the novella Wolfe includes as (one supposes) proof of how great a writer he really is. The thing is as thin as gruel. Ostensibly a fictional expos of the behind-the-scenes machinations of a network news magazine "ambushing" (via hidden microphones and cameras) a group of three soldiers whom they suspect killed a gay soldier at Fort Bragg, the story goes no deeper into the nature of news media than Broadcast News, no deeper into the military mentality than A Few Good Men, and no deeper into the psychology of homophobia than Will & Grace. The major characters are given about two traits each, and everything they do from there is totally predictable. The only good thing about the novella is Wolfe's absolutely hilarious reproduction of hicks talking about homosexuality: "That's what they ain't abaout to tale you when they's talking about gay rats and legal madge between homoseckshuls and all 'at sheeut." But even that, in the end, is distracting: you laugh like crazy over the dialogue and forget that these guys are vicious murderers. That Wolfe seems to miss this effect reveals, as much as anything else, that in the end, he's certainly not a great novelist, not a deep thinker, but a quick, witty, bitter satirist starved for attention—not Zola's heir, but H.L. Mencken's.
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TAMPA — He may not have his red leather jacket anymore, but this 14-year-old can stomp, snarl and shake his hips just like any other zombie in a Vincent Price-narrated music video.
Just call him Alonzo Jackson.
No, seriously, that's his name.
Though he's not related to Michael Jackson, the Orange Grove Magnet Middle School student and his mother are paying tribute to the late pop icon by teaching Hillsborough fans the steps to the famous Thriller video.
Their efforts are part of a worldwide party called "Thrill the World," in which thousands, including hundreds locally, will dance simultaneously to the song at 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
Earlier this month, 400 had signed up to participate in the event at the Pier in St. Petersburg. In Hillsborough, one dance site will be the North Tampa Branch Library, 8916 N Boulevard, where the Jacksons' group will perform. Another group, organized by Shannon Thigpen, of Salsa and Soul Fitness, will perform at the Northwest Hillsborough Family YMCA, 8950 W Waters Ave.
Thrill the World got its start in 2006 in Canada. Last year, 4,179 people from 10 countries reenacted the video's dance moves. The event has attracted even more interest since Michael Jackson's death in June. Anywhere from 10,000 to 50,000 dancers of all ages are expected to participate this year. Florida has nearly 20 sites.
But first, people must learn the steps.
Natalie Jackson, Alonzo's mother and the founder of Kuumba African Dancers and Drummers, led the training session at the College Hill Library last week. She has trained bay area dancers for more than two decades, but didn't take the Thriller tutorial too seriously.
After a quick warmup, she followed a YouTube video created by the founders of Thrill the World. Rather than counting steps, the dance moves are broken down by words, such as "hip n' roar," where dancers sway hips from side-to-side before curving their hands into claws and walking to the right.
Thriller wannabes nervously giggled as Jackson taught them to "booty bounce."
"Put your personality into it!" she shouted as they thrust their hips.
Jackson emphasized that Thrill the World is a lighthearted event, not a nerve-racking audition or major production. "If you make a mistake, just keep going and have fun with it," she said.
At 7 p.m. Saturday, mother and son will teach one more class at the North Tampa Branch Library, before joining people around the world to perform Jackson's classic moves in unison.
Participants are encouraged to dress the part, right down to the sallow face paint and tattered clothes.
"I might dress up like Michael," said Alonzo, who also plans to chemically treat his hair and add gel to mimic the King of Pop's loose, Thriller-era coif. "I'd love to do the full ghoul makeup, but I think I might just get a mask and be done with it."
The rest of his costume will likely involve a couple of items borrowed from his father's closet. Alonzo used to have a Thriller jacket and tight, black pants, he said, but his mom gave them away when he outgrew them.
"I have some church shoes and white socks that could work, but I'll have to see if I can use my dad's funeral hat," he said.
Each Thrill the World location must agree to play the same version of Thriller — the one that's 5 minutes and 58 seconds long, give or take a second. About 20 people attended last Saturday's rehearsal, but many more still could register, said Darlene Harris, adult programming coordinator for College Hill Library.
"Dance and music brings people together — it doesn't matter who you are or how old you are," Jackson said. "This event connects people throughout the world."
Carol Ransom, 52, of Tampa, has organized a ladies' night out of sorts around the event.
"There's no way I'm going to remember it all, but I'm going to go home and practice," Ransom said last week. "My friends and I are always working or doing things for the family and running around, so I think it'd be good to get us all together and do something that's strictly fun."
The Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative initially wanted to sponsor the event for teens, but Harris decided to make it a family event.
As the first Thrill the World since his death, the dance holds a special meaning for some.
"We want celebrities — their essence, their charisma — to be immortal," said Ransom. "One of the most exciting things about this event is that it brings that essence back and unites people. Michael Jackson was always about the world, always about bringing people together."
The event also introduces the millennial generation to Jackson's earlier work. Before the rehearsal, Jamaria Graham, 10, and her younger sister, Jania, 8, had never heard of Thriller.
"I wanted to learn how to dance like Michael Jackson," said Jania. "It wasn't very hard. It was fun."


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Ever since the first modern translations were published more than one hundred years ago, the Gilgamesh epic has been recognized as one of the great masterpieces of world literature. One of the early translations, by the German Assyriologist Arthur Ungnad, so inspired the poet Rainer Maria Rilke in 1916 that he became almost intoxicated with pleasure and wonder, and repeated the story to all he met. 'Gilgamesh,' he declared, 'is stupendous!' For him the epic was first and foremost 'das Epos der Todesfurcht', the epic about the fear of death.
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Developing Rapidform from the users point of view, we have focused on three main themes: Automation, Performance and Superior User Experience, explains Calvin Hur, CEO of INUS Technology. Simplification through automation makes it easier than ever to create feature-based CAD models from 3D scans. This new version of Rapidform XOR can cut the time needed to reverse engineer a scanned part by as much as half.
New technologies in Rapidform XOR3 SP1 save more time in creating parametric solids from 3D scans, maintaining its reputation as the fastest path to CAD. Unlike other reverse engineering software, XOR makes real CAD features with parent-child relationships and design intent parameters. 3D models created in XOR are higher quality, easier to transfer into CAD, and are more easily edited than surface-based models.
With this new release, XOR offers several new features to increase automation and efficiencies in the reverse engineering process. New features in Rapidform XOR3 SP1 include:
Quick Modeling, a new way to create parametric feature based models using advanced technology that identifies and creates extrusions, revolutions, lofts, sweeps and pipes automatically;
Autodesk Inventor LiveTransfer to save native models in Inventor with complete feature trees;
Improved Auto Sketch to make accurate sketches easier and at least 50% faster;
CAD to Scan Alignment providing significant time savings on modeling arbitrary patterns.
Surfacing has also been improved in the upcoming release. Available in both Rapidform XOR and XOS, improved Auto Surfacing provides the convenience of automation with the control of manual surfacing. A new layout editing interface makes it easier to edit patch layout before completing the surfacing process, saving time and rework effort. Rapidform XOS3 SP1 will be available in May 2012.
The latest versions of XOR and XOS are available in English, German, Chinese, Korean, Italian and Russian.
For detailed information, overview videos and online training about these new features, visit the Rapidform website.
About INUS Technology, Inc.
INUS Technology (rapidform.com) helps companies unlock the power of 3D scanning. The company's software solutions are the most widely installed products for reverse engineering, 3D imaging and inspection using 3D scan data around the globe. Rapidform makes 3D scanning an extremely powerful tool for a variety of applications and is used in fields such as manufacturing, R&D, quality inspection, medical research and civil engineering. Leading companies including Audi, Ford, Hyundai, Toyota, Rolls Royce, Volkswagen, Hitachi, Panasonic, Oakley, Samsung, Sony, Alcoa, and Benteler use Rapidform's advanced technology to innovate throughout their research, design, manufacturing and quality control processes.
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Get an overview of this hotelHotel in Wesley Chapel with free breakfast and outdoor pool
Popular property highlights
Situated in Wesley Chapel, this hotel is 1.7 mi (2.8 km) from Tampa Premium Outlets and 2.4 mi (3.8 km) from Shops at Wiregrass. Pebble Creek Golf Club and Quail Hollow Golf Course are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Hotel Features
This hotel features an outdoor pool, a fitness center, and coffee/tea in a common area. Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a business center, conference rooms, and concierge services are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 94 rooms offer free WiFi, premium bedding, and LCD TVs with cable channels. Guests will also find coffee makers, free weekday newspapers, and free local calls.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Overall property condition
- Helpful staff
- Clean guestrooms
Hampton Inn & Suites Tampa-Wesley Chapel
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Hampton Inn & Suites Tampa-Wesley Chapel features an outdoor pool and a fitness center. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. Business amenities consist of a business center, limo/town car service, and meeting rooms. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. This business-friendly hotel also offers a library, multilingual staff, and gift shops/newsstands. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- 24-hour front desk
- Number of floors - 5
- Year Built 2008
- Free breakfast
- Business center
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Fitness facilities
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Free WiFi
- Laundry facilities
- Library
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Meeting rooms 3
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 94
- Picnic area
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free self parking
- Outdoor pool
- Television in common areas
- Free use of nearby fitness center
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Laundry facilities
- Refrigerator (on request)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Free WiFi
- Video-game console
- Air conditioning
- Free weekday newspaper
- Phone
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Designer toiletries
- Desk
- Free local calls
- Hair dryer
- Daily housekeeping
- Iron/ironing board
- Cable TV service
- Premium bedding
- Premium TV channels
- Private bathroom
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Rollaway/extra beds available
Where to Eat
Guests are offered a complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Hotel Name
- Hampton Inn Tampa-Wesley
- Hampton Inn Tampa-Wesley Chapel
- Hampton Inn Tampa-Wesley Hotel
- Hampton Inn Tampa-Wesley Hotel Chapel
- Hampton Inn & Suites Tampa-Wesley Chapel Hotel Wesley Chapel
- Hampton Inn And Suites Tampa-Wesley Chapel
- Hampton Inn Wesley Chapel
- Wesley Chapel Hampton Inn
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Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.


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Rated 0 / 5 stars
some words doen't onsidered words?
I tried biology & it said invalid (actually much more but I'll use biology as an example from many)
upgrades for the gun? normal letters do damage only 1
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wat da hell
it loaded like 2 thirds and then the window turned black
Rated 1 / 5 stars
A broken experience
While the premise is a good one - the broken nature of the game (specifically transmuting letters - I could never get anything to work, are we really supposed to just keep guessing at formulas?) and the addition of trying to get us to purchase letters, destroyed this game's potential.
Swing and a big miss.
Rated 0 / 5 stars
Zero for "micropayments"
Great game, but if you want to try to get people to pay for something, state that up front. Try other ways of profiting from us. We have enough games to play that don't require payment that we're not going to play something where we have to pay to get more than a few levels in.
Rated 4 / 5 stars
Enjoyable, but...
This is a good, game, but the Mochi Coins system needs to go. Mayhaps you could make new bonus letters unlockable for achieving high average word lengths, or getting to a certain, level, et cetera?
Find other advertisements you can post before the game so as not to detract from the overall playability of the game.


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Attenda Limited, the Business Critical IT company, today announced that it is participating in the AWS Enterprise Summit, London, as a Silver Sponsor Partner.
The AWS Enterprise Summit is focused on senior IT leaders in enterprise organisations; designed to provide an authoritative insight into the adoption of AWS cloud technologies, from test and development, to running critical production applications in the cloud.
Commenting on Attenda's sponsorship of the Summit, Clive Grayson, Director of Service Strategy, Attenda explains,"Our partnership with AWS is pivotal to our vision and strategy for Cloud Services. Our innovative decision to integrate AWS cloud technologies into our managed services operations platform puts Attenda in a unique market position, with the capability to provide public, private and hybrid cloud solutions within a common managed services framework."
The enterprise and mid-market is starting to recognise the potential to exploit the growing availability of external resources in the cloud. Attenda (attenda.net) will be profiling its enterprise class AWS Managed Service, launched last year, to IT decision makers and influencers attending the Summit.
As an AWS Consulting Partner, Attenda adopts a consultative led approach to client engagement, helping clients to accelerate their journey to hybrid computing, confident in the knowledge that Attenda will facilitate the right choices and support them at every stage en route. With its focus on application availability, Attenda recognises the importance of being able to harness these types of technologies with others, to deliver clients their desired business outcome.
Clive Grayson adds,"The mid-market is beginning to understand that in order to gain full benefit from the cloud, you have to manage heterogeneous physical and virtual environments and execute complex configuration, provisioning, change management and monitoring activities across a variety of platforms. Often this will require access to skills and experience which is difficult to provide internally, and a fully managed solution is therefore an attractive option, particularly for production environments."
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Amazing. As hard as it is for me to believe, it looks as though I might have spawned another one. One of my regular commenters has decided to dip her foot into the blogosphere. Oddly enough for one of my offspring, the blog concerns motorcycles. (I've only been on a motorcycle a couple of times in my life and never as the driver.) Even so, I'd be a really neglectful blog parent if I didn't give her a plug for Ren and the Art of Motorcycles.
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