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This suffrage cookbook available free online tells a great deal about the women of the movement, their perspectives, and the special place of cooking in family life. When you're planning a meal or special event, find a recipe to make and share the process and results with us at Suffrage Wagon. Holidays are giving us an opportunity to try out some suffrage recipes. To those of you following along, read through the cookbook's section on suffrage and let us know what you think! And then, get in touch: suffragewagon at gmail dot com
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VWRAP is in limbo. Even though I was not involved in it until recently, I feel bad that it may simply disappear. It feels like a massive waste of energy for those involved for longer than I was; but, more importantly, it feels like a missed opportunity for gathering a critical mass of virtual world / virtual reality engineers — a community that seems to be plagued by silos– together with a critical mass of people who have been driving some important protocols on the Web.
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Power Rankings: Potential college football playoff host bowls
A Friday announcement out of the lair of the evolving BCS system brings news straight out of a sports-business Cinderella tale: All non-BCS bowls have been invited to "to consider whether they are interested in submitting a proposal to host the national semifinals and other bowl games"!
First, a reminder on how the postseason will work from the 2014-15 season on:
The Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl have already been chosen to host the first national semifinals of the playoff on January 1, 2015. The Orange Bowl and a yet-to-be named bowl will host the semifinals in the second year of the playoff. The two bowls that will host semifinals in the third year have yet to be named. Bids are being sought for the three to-be-named bowls.
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BCS says 31 bowls may bid for right to host semifinals in playoff. Doesn't matter: 3 open spots will go to Fiesta, Cotton & Chick-fil-A—
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Righto. Will this stop us from creating Power Rankings of the bowl games we most wish to contend for host slots? It will not, because it is both March and Friday:
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2. Capital One/Russell Athletic Bowls. Tasking Florida Citrus Sports' internet-legendary social media team for both the Orlando games with covering a more prominent event worked out well for the Orange Bowl. Let's see it applied regularly on a bigger stage.
3. Holiday/Poinsettia Bowls. When you break down the time in fractions, you don't actually have to spend all that much of it in QualComm Stadium. The rest of the time, you are in San Diego eating burritos and cooing at the baby panda exhibit. QED.
4. Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl. See above re: not having to spend all that much time in the stadium; plus, this will only help convince holdout skeptics that Beef 'O' Brady's is indeed a real place.
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BWW Interviews: Actor and Author Arthur Wooten
There are times when artists cross over onto different artistic paths. Actors become authors. Dancers become directors. That has occurred with New York actor Arthur Wooten who began authoring novels seven years ago. With several under his belt, his latest DIZZY: A FICTIONAL MEMOIR shares stories of the New York acting world along with a truly inspirational story based on the author's actual life. BroadwayWorld talked to the actor turned author about his latest work that uses Broadway as the backdrop for the book.
BWW: Arthur, I'm so glad to talk to you about this book that I absolutely loved! First, tell the readers a little about your background as an actor.
Arthur Wooten: I was a child actor and describe a bit more of that later on. But while attending UMass at Amherst and majoring in pre-veterinarian medicine, I was cast in Dames At Sea. And I didn't catch the acting bug; I was knocked out by the virus. This had to be my life. So I switched my major to theatre and communications and was cast in several other musicals while studying there. Some were comedies/satires like Adaptation/Next others quite dramatic like playing Queenie in Fortune In Men's Eyes.
On weekend evenings I was a singing waiter at the Jolly Bull restaurant. Thank GOD I could sing and entertain because I was the world's worst waiter. We did concert style versions of shows like Cabaret, Godspell and Brigadoon. And each summer while still in college I went off and did summer stock. In DIZZY there is a flashback where Angie talks about her summer stock gig at the Off-Broadway Theatre in Ogunquit, Maine. And I really did survive doing thirteen musicals in repertory within a ten-week period. It was mind-boggling. Honestly, if it was Tuesday, it was Call Me Madam. But what a learning experience. I also spent a summer at Penn State with the American Theatre Festival doing Wonderful Town and Girl Crazy. Not only were they great productions but I met two of my longtime, best friends – Broadway press agent Sam Rudy and actress Mia Dillon.
Once moving to New York City I was first cast in the children's musical Dirty Ferdie Comes Clean playing Lester The Laundry Bag down at the Provincetown Playhouse and then a slew of dinner theatre jobs came my way. I also worked in regional theatre and of course, the infamous bus and truck tours. One of those productions, The Sound of Music, ended up in the book. Then I segued into commercials, soap operas and small bits of film work. Then I retired from acting back in 1985. I never did make it to Broadway but am proud that I never stopped working. Then I discovered a love for writing and my first TV pilot, A New Leash on Life – about a NYC dogwalker, was optioned by Dick Cavett of all people. Next, I found myself at William Morris – and the rest is, as they say, history.
You have such a knack for translating some wonderful backstage stories into your novel. Did you have to change names to protect the innocent?
I hope I did. Minor changes. Some people will clearly pick up on whom I'm really dishing about. But some things like the schools and theatres – like HB Studios, the Off-Broadway Theatre or Production-Center Studios are real places. Like in my novel ON PICKING FRUIT and its sequel FRUIT COCKTAIL, my lawyer suggested I change the names and the dates I "fictionally" wrote about. Actually, I wanted to keep their real names in and convict the guilty. Just kidding. Kinda.
Smart that you did! Did you know you always wanted to be a performer?
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My system is a Dell XPS M1330. I have everything working except the Ethernet & that it hangs on Shutdown and Restart and you have to hold the power button down manually.
I currently have this system running 10.6.6. It updated using the built in OS X update tool.
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For sake of it being a laptop i am going to guess that the system has one HDD.
There are two Cases i will detail in this guide. Dual boot & OSX Only. I currently have Windows 7 Pro & OSX 10.6.6 installed.
CASE 1: Dual Boot (What i did)
1. Boot using Dell Snow Disc by inserting disc and pressing F12 at the splash screen. Then choose to boot from CD.
2. This will get you to the disc selection screen. When you are at this screen, Eject the Dell Snow #1 disc and replace it with an ISO of OSX. Press F5 and make sure the disc name changes. Now select the OSX installation disc. I used a retail version that i purchased from Apple for $30.
3. When you boot into the disc you will be greeted by the typical Apple Installation screen. Format the drive with the Disk Utility. Create two (or more) partitions. I did the first as Win7 and the second as OSX. You will need to make sure that you use GUID partition table (GPT) from options menu.
4. On the two partitions created, Use MS-DOS (FAT) for Windows 7 Partition and use Mac OS Extended (journaled) for the OSX Partition. Give them names according to what they are to make things easier on yourself.
5. Now that you have your partitions, Exit the Disk Utility and Exit the OSX Installation and Reboot. Get you Windows 7 installation media and insert it.
6. Now you will install Windows 7 (or your flavor of Windows) to the partition you created earlier. For help with this comment or email me.
7. Now that you have installed Windows 7, Insert the Dell Snow Disc if needed and get to the disk loading screen. You will see your Windows installation and the Dell Snow disc options. Remove the Dell Snow disc once again as you did before and insert your OSX disc. Press F5 to and make sure the disc name changes. Now select the OSX disc and boot into the OSX installation.
8. You should have your partition created now. Follow the prompts and install OSX.
9. I am working on a fix to make this partition bootable however for the time being you will need to boot using the Dell Snow Disc, You will then choose either you OSX install or your Windows install.
10. Install kext needed for the system to work properly. (I got this part from the Project OS X Forums forum and it was a bit unclear.)
Booter, you will need something to be able to boot. I recommend Chameleon 2 RC3 or newer.
Mandatory kexts; you will find them in the Preboot CD, and the ones that are needed
AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext & ApplePS2Controller.kext or VoodooPS2Controller.kext (to be able to use your keyboard and trackpad)
IOATAFamily.kext (to avoid kernel panic from the 10.6 version)
fakesmc.kext (to be able to run finder and other signed applications)
DSDT patch, dsdt.aml from the Preboot CD, may and should be edited for your CPU if you need power management.
SMBIOS override. The SMBIOS table from the Dell is actually conform, but we want to change it to make it more Mac like. So the smbios.plist from the Preboot CD should be copied.
Update com.apple.Boot.plist
Recommended kexts:
VoodooBattery.kext (for your battery)
VoodooHDA.kext (for your sound)
There are a few parts that is not supported and a few issues that are still unresolved
Broadcom 5906 100Mbit ethernet card
Shutdown/restart when using Nvidia Graphics
PreBoot CDs:
Preboot CDs available from here. Number 1 is most generic, and 5 more specific. Use a number lower if the one you try is not working
1. Use boot process from Step 1 & 2 above.
2. Make one disc partition using the Disk Utility. Mac OS Extended (journaled) GUID partition (GPT) in options menu.
3. Install OSX and follow Step 10 above.
Guide i used to create this post: Dell Xps M1330 Guide - Project OS X Forums
Support for this guide has come and gone at that link so i want to carry it on here for all to benefit from.
My Goals:
1. Built in boot so i dont have to use the disc to boot every time
2. fix ethernet
3. fix shutdown and restart hang
If you liked this please take a minute to say so. I have several other guides that i will post if there are people who want them.


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At Spanish Springs, three former players are currently lending a coaching hand with the girls basketball program. Megan Hildebrand and Kyle Molino, who graduated in 2004 and 2005, respectively, are coaching the JV team while Nicole Raymond, a 2007 grad, is an assistant coach for the freshman girls team. Spanish Springs head varsity coach Christine Eckles said she has enjoyed having her old players return in a new role.
"It's just nice seeing kids that played for you come back and want to be there and be a part of the program and continue to want to be around you," Eckles said. "It's fun to watch them grow up and become responsible women. It's been real nice for me.
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Reed girls coach Sara Schopper echoed the same sentiments for her JV coach Sara Johnson, a 2005 Blue and Gold graduate.
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"The kids love him. He's young and they relate to him. He's been in the same situations not too long ago, so he relates well to them. He's great to have around. He wants to learn the game even more and he's a real student of the game. He's a great addition."
Similar to the returners at Reed, the ex-Cougars didn't have a tough time deciding whether to return to Spanish Springs or begin their coaching careers elsewhere.
"I never really had a thought about going to another school," Molino said. "I enjoy Spanish Springs because Christine Eckles is still there and I really look up to her. It was just a nice fit to go back to Spanish Springs. I don't really see myself anywhere else."
Seeing so many former players return, Eckles said she believes it says a lot about the program.
"I think it shows that they had a good time and that they believe in what you do and that you had strong relationships with them," she said. "For me, I played at Reed and then I went back and coached under Ed Shepard and it was just an honor to be able to do that back then because Shep was one of the most positive influences I had in my life after my parents. The things that athletics taught me and the things that he taught me I wanted to give back and be a part of so I hope that's the same feeling that Megan, Kyle and Nicole are having doing that with me. It's just an honor and you have a little bit more pride when you're working for somebody that you know and care about."
Being a part of their old schools' tradition and program was not the only deciding factor for the former players.
"I love the game, but more the fact I love knowing there's kids out there that share the same passion as me and they want to be there," Molino said. "It is awesome being around the kids and teaching them the game. Teaching them how basketball can also be interpreted into life situations. There's some times you think that you don't want to be there because you had a bad day, but it's about the kids and just being there takes all the problems you had away. I enjoy going to practice every day, even after having a bad day."
Johnson reiterated these sentiments.
"It's a lot of fun because I get back into basketball. It's made me realize how hard it is to coach. I like being a positive influence on the girls and trying to help them out and teaching them what I've learned. It's just a lot of fun."
Although they are no longer playing, the coaching alumni are still learning as well, on and off the court.
"It's definitely a lot different," Powell said. "It's unique. I guess the coolest part about coaching is being seen as more of an equal from a coach-to-coach relationship rather than a player-coach relationship. You can kind of learn from each other and share your experiences. The most rewarding part of coaching is after putting in the time the players and then seeing in a game how they react and just watching their growth over the year.
"It's definitely taught me a lot about the work ethic I need to have not as a coach, but more as a student and player because when you teach your kids that they need to work hard and push forward through all of the adversities, you kind of learn yourself that you have to apply that to your life as well. It's really helped me in my life outside of basketball."


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This is an EXCELLENT article from Time magazine (never thought i'd ever say those words
lol.. .anyways read it, it's almost dare I say it poetic!!
Updating the Mosque for the 21st Century
The whole world is a mosque, the Prophet Muhammad once said. With pious intent, a faithful Muslim can conjure a mosque almost anywhere, transforming a desert sand dune, airport departure lounge or city pavement into a sacred space simply by stopping to pray. The first mosque was Muhammad's mud-brick house in Medina, where a portico of palm-tree branches provided shade for prayer and theological discussion. As the young religion spread, Arabs — and later Asians and Africans — developed their own ideas of what made a building a mosque. But that innovative spirit has slowed in recent decades, leaving most Islamic skylines dominated by the dome-and-minaret design that first appeared centuries ago.
That's now changing. A new generation of Muslim builders and designers, as well as non-Muslims designing for Muslim groups, often in Europe or North America, are updating the mosque for the 21st century, sparking not just a hugely creative period in Islamic design, but one riven by controversy. The disputes over modern mosques echo larger debates taking place in the Islamic world today about gender, power and, particularly in immigrant communities, Islam's place in Western societies. Even the simplest design decision can reflect questions that are crucial to Islam and its adherents: Should women be allowed in a mosque's main hall or confined to separate quarters? Are minarets necessary in the West, where laws on noise levels mean they are rarely used for the call to prayer? What should a mosque attended by Muslims from different parts of the world look like? The boldest of the new mosques try to answer such questions but are also powerful statements of intent. "Islam wants to proclaim itself," says Hasan-Uddin Khan, an architecture professor at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. "These new mosques are saying, 'We are here, and we want it to be known that we are here.' "
Designs for Life
As the number of European Muslims grows — from 12 million a decade ago to 20 million today — so does the need for mosques. A 2007 report by the Italian Department for Security Information found the number of mosques in the country had grown from 351 to 735 in a mere seven years. Mosque numbers in France and Germany have also exploded. While Europe's churches sit empty or are converted into luxury lofts and schools, Muslims are building mosques in old nightclubs and supermarkets, in former sauerkraut and pharmaceutical factories and, yes, abandoned churches. As Muslims get wealthier, more confident and more geographically diffuse — almost a third of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims live in non-Muslim-majority states — their mosques are no longer just monuments to the rulers whose names they bear. Increasingly, they symbolize the struggle to marry tradition with modernity and to set down roots in the West. The most daring buildings are dreamt up by second- and third-generation Muslim immigrants, who have the confidence and cash to build stone-and-glass symbols of Islam's growing strength in places like Europe. Simply importing traditional mosque architecture "doesn't express loyalty to your current surroundings," says Zulfiqar Husain, honorary secretary of an innovative new eco-mosque in Manchester, England. "It almost expresses that you want to be separate from the society you live in."
The designers behind the best of the mosques take the opposite view: they may be making statements but they are also sensitive to local concerns and aesthetics. The mosque that Husain helps administer, in a gritty working-class Manchester neighborhood, uses reclaimed wood and solar panels on the roof to power its under-floor heating. Inside, peach carpeting and plasma TVs give the air of a prosperous suburban English home, while the prayer hall has carvings inspired by the 10th century North African Fatimid dynasty.
In Singapore, the architects of the Assyafaah Mosque, which was finished in 2004, cater to the country's multicultural population by creating an aesthetically neutral space, sleek and futuristic, where the island's Malay and Chinese Muslims can both feel comfortable.
Innovation also blooms in unlikely places such as southern Bavaria. In the town of Penzberg, the Islamic Forum, built in 2005, last year won a Wessobrunner Architekturpreis, an award granted every five years for outstanding Bavarian architecture. A simple block of glass and pearly stone, the Forum beckons Muslims and non-Muslims alike to enter through two doors built to resemble an open book. "It's a place of communication," explains its Bosnian-born architect, Alen Jasarevic, in an e-mail. "Vast windows and openings in the façade, even in the prayer room, invite the citizens of Penzberg to become acquainted with Islam and its people." The delicate minaret, lace-like from a distance, is a calligraphic representation of the words of the call to prayer, punched out of steel plates. "It doesn't call for prayer five times a day, but 24 hours a day," observes Jasarevic. "Without disturbing the neighbors."
Shaping the Skyline
But mosques, and their neighbors, aren't always so quiet. Particularly in Europe, mosques have become the architectural equivalent of the veil: visible signs of Islam's presence and thus sites for tension between Muslims and non-Muslim traditionalists. A recent report from the London-based Institute of Race Relations chronicles scores of campaigns against plans to build mosques across Europe. In 2007, a petition posted on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's website calling for the government to scrap plans to build a mega-mosque on an 18-acre (7 ha) plot near the site of London's 2012 Olympics drew over 275,000 signatures. That same year, members of Italy's anti-immigrant Northern League party "blessed," as they called it, a site reserved for a mosque in Padua by parading on it with a pig, an animal deemed unclean by Muslims. A 2004 Dutch opinion poll found that mosques, which in the 1990s had been lauded as "enrichments to the urban landscape," were now derided as "unimaginative," "ugly" and "cheap imitations."
One aspect of mosque design provokes more anger than most: the minaret. Across Europe, minarets on city skylines have become a political issue. In the Netherlands, Filip Dewinter, a leader of the right-wing Vlaams Belang party, decried a new Rotterdam mosque because its minarets were higher than the lights of the city's soccer stadium. "These kinds of symbols have to stop," he told Radio Netherlands Worldwide. In 2007, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that minarets shouldn't be "ostentatiously higher than church steeples."
Debate is playing out within Western Muslim communities, too. "The immigrant Muslims often want [a minaret], because for them it symbolizes a mosque," says Omar Khalidi, an archivist at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "But they cost a lot, and there are others who argue that [economically,] they're a luxury Muslims can't afford."
For Paul Böhm, a German architect behind a new mosque planned for Cologne, minarets are a crucial part of designing a proud and honest building. "We believe this building should show its intent, and the minarets can help it do that," he says. "The Muslims of Germany have, over the last 40 or 50 years, been hiding in basements and [abandoned] manufacturing areas to pray. [Many Germans] have never recognized that they are part of society. Giving them a building which brings them up to the same status [as other faith groups] can help us understand and accept them."
But some Cologne residents disagree. Members of the right-wing Pro Cologne group have protested the $20 million mosque, arguing that the two 166-ft. (51 m) minarets will spoil the skyline, now dominated by the city's famous Gothic cathedral. Construction is going ahead, and Böhm hopes his design will foster an openness that will one day silence the critics. His plan for the complex, due to be completed in 2010, calls for a piazza with a fountain and a cafe, designed to draw non-Muslims to the site. The local Muslim elders hope that, once there, visitors will browse in the library, check out the art gallery or spend in the shopping mall, which Böhm envisions as "a modern souk with the quality of the traditional souk." The mosque's prayer hall consists of shells of textured concrete connected by glass panels, to create "ideological and architectural transparency," says Böhm. Far from a nod to tradition, the minarets are a declaration that the building is "not a sports hall, a concert hall or a museum, but a mosque."
Respect Tradition, Embrace Today
Like many architects designing mosques, Böhm grappled with how much access women should have to the most important parts of the building. Traditional mosques tend to keep women hidden by walls or curtains. In newer, more progressive buildings, prayer areas for men and women often remain separate — but equal. After much debate, the Cologne mosque committee agreed that women and men should pray in the same room, but with women confined to a balcony. Böhm's design is flexible enough that one day both sexes could end up on the same level. "I'm an architect, not a politician," he says. "But I've included little details — like allowing men and women to come through the same doors — that allow for evolution. It's a process that'll take time, just as in the Catholic Church. My father could remember women sitting on the upper level in the church, and men downstairs."
Unsurprisingly, it's immigrant Muslim communities that are pushing the biggest changes. "The Western mosque is fast becoming the site of contestation between the kind of Muslims who espouse the traditional mosque, and those who want to win proportionate space for women," says MIT's Khalidi. "The second generation are the ones demanding, and often getting, that kind of space." Architectural historian Khan estimates that until recently, North American mosques gave only about 15% of their space to women. Over the past five years or so, the space women have access to has increased to at least 50%.
The new architecture and the break with traditions are beginning to influence designers in Muslim nations as well. Sometimes the change is simply a return to the religion's roots. Architect Zeynep Fadillioglu drew on her own experiences praying in mosques when designing the ultramodern Sakirin Mosque in Istanbul. "In the Prophet's time, men and women prayed next to each other," she says. "Lately, with the rise of political Islam everywhere, the women's sections have started to be covered up and boxed off. I've been in mosques like that, and I felt very uncomfortable."
Fadillioglu's women's section is an expansive balcony overlooking the central hall and divided only by crisscrossed railings. An airy and luxurious sensibility pervades the building. The facilities for preprayer ablution have blond-wood and Plexiglas lockers. In the main hall hangs a bronze chandelier, dangling with hand-blown glass raindrops — a visual allusion to the Koranic verse that says Allah's light should fall on believers like drops of rain. The mihrab, which indicates the direction of prayer, is tulip-shaped and turquoise — "an opening to God," says Fadillioglu.
God is celebrated in a different way in the Floating Mosque currently under construction off the coast of Dubai. Designed by Dutch firm Waterstudio.NL, the arresting building, which is due to be finished by 2011, resembles a futuristic submarine rising from the Persian Gulf with minarets so short and slender they could be periscopes. Built of floating modules of concrete and foam, it will be cooled by seawater pumped through the roof, walls and floors.
Back in Europe, a group of young Dutch architects led by Ergün Erkoçu wanted their concept for the Polder Mosque to achieve a similar level of cool. Riffing on the Dutch idea of seeking consensus, their design features not minarets but windmills. Inside, they planned space for a hammam (or bathhouse) and a row of shops. The mosque was never meant to exist but to generate discussion. Mission accomplished: elders have sniffed that it isn't traditional enough and Dutch-born Muslims eager to see the mosque's role expand beyond prayer have applauded it.
The design also earned Erkoçu a commission for the An-Nasr Mosque in Rotterdam, where again he is tweaking tradition. An-Nasr's minaret will be glass — transparent and subtle, rather than dominating the skyline. The call to prayer will be broadcast in lights, pulsating to the rhythm of the muezzin's voice. Once the mosque is built, Erkoçu hopes Rotterdam's citizens will see the call to prayer beamed across the sky. Muslims will be able to look up and, no matter where they are in the city, turn their thoughts to prayer.
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This is really interesting. When hubby and myself travel, we love (him especially) to go visit as many mosques as we can in the particular area we're exploring. So this article's really useful for us. There are certain places I've never particularly been drawn towards though, like Germany (it just doesn't interest me
), but after reading this, I'm actually thinking it'd be nice to go check out the mosque
, so I might well plan us a trip there insha'Allaah.
Thanks for the article.
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Great Article! Thanks for posting - It's nice to have something to cheer us up with...
Another solution to the mineret issue that has being implemented in at a few mosques in Toronto is a low frequency broadcast over either FM or AM radio - similar to modern drive in theatres. You simply tune your radio to a specific station to hear the Athan/Azan. The broadcast could potential travel few hundred feet or more from the source, reaching a larger area - especially in noisy urban areas. More importantly, a broadcast license is not required. The cost of this item is less than $2000 (even cheaper for those Radio Shack buffs) vs tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for a mineret.
Athans are broadcast to the local area - so that community knows when to come to the mosque to pray. Also women love it during Ramadaan so that they can come to the Masjid for Tarawid (spelling mistake, i know) prayers and finish any work they have after iftaar.
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Rowanclere Castle and its inhabitants have their own problems. Angus Brodie, old and frail, has decided to sell the place to ensure his three grandnieces, twins Gillian and Flora plus young Robbie, are provided for. The problem is that the only interested buyer wants a haunted Scottish castle and Rowanclere is unfortunately not. So Gillian decides to play resident ghost, and she plans to test her haunting abilities on the visiting Texan.
Gillian's initial haunting is a disastrous (and humorous) episode that nearly blows the lid off the whole scheme. But she does accomplish stirring Jake's curiosity - and a whole lot more. What started out as a cold, boring trek to the Scottish Highlands, soon has Jake chasing after a beautiful "ghost" he's hoping is all too human.
Sizzle All Day is a playful historical romp full of sexual tension. Not only does Gillian have to play the ghost, but she also has to masquerade as the pregnant Flora to keep Jake in the dark. Jake is immediately confused since he finds himself, at times, attracted to a married pregnant woman and fears the foul Scottish weather has pickled his brain. Add to the mix a handicapped dachshund named Scooter, young mischievous Robbie, plus a cantankerous great uncle with a deep love for Texas and there are plenty of hijinks afoot.
Jake is an adventurous man, anxious to see the Declaration business settled so he can fulfill his dream of traveling the globe. His attraction to Gillian, plus her family's need to sell their home, put a serious kink in his plans.
Gillian, of course, finds herself equally attracted to the handsome Texan, but past experience has taught her to be wary of charming men. Her ex-fiancé, her first and only lover, ran off and married another woman. Heartbroken and betrayed, she has serious trust issues to overcome, and her opinion on men is anything but rosy. On top of this, she's a serious homebody, and Jake's dreams of adventure clash with what she wants out of life.
While an enjoyable and entertaining story, I did have some minor quibbles with the prose. Dawson occasionally uses a thick brogue for the Scottish characters, and I often had no clue what the heck they were saying. Also, with Jake being a Texan, his speech is peppered with lots of American expressions and slang. I had no initial problem with this until his use of "pecker," "johnson" and "swapping spit" - all of which just didn't ring true to my ear for 1884.
Aside from that, I really enjoyed this sequel to Dawson's earlier book Simmer All Night. Dawson provides a nice segue into a possible future story featuring Gillian's brother, Nicholas, which will no doubt please quite a few romance fans. Readers looking for some laughs, smiles, and pure entertainment will find plenty in this charming installment.
--Wendy Crutcher


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Guard Sharane Campbell's layup off a full court assist by point guard Morgan Hook allowed the Sooners to close within the single possession, but then a costly foul by guard Jasmine Hartman enabled the Bruins to unorthodoxly squeak it out at the free throw line.
UCLA forward Jasmine Dixon converted a pair of critical foul shots to put it away, the rare exception on a night where both teams combined to make just 19-of-33 attempts or 57.6 percent.
The Sooners scored once more on Hook's layup but could never draw closer than three again down the stretch.
While poor free throw shooting was one of the major stories--OU managed just 19-for-31 or 61.3 percent--rebounding proved to be the biggest key.
Any time the Sooners needed one, they couldn't get it.
In fact, the Bruins dominated the glass 56-34 with 24 offensive rebounds; OU only came up with eight.
"I felt like it was not responding to the physical play," said OU head coach Sherri Coale.
At times it really seemed like the Bruins were simply outworking the Sooners on the glass and all over the court, for that matter.
"I'm disappointed with our effort and our response to the physical play," Coale said. "If that's the way they're going to play then we have to adjust to it, and we have to fight back and be just as physical as they're being. I didn't think we responded in the right way."
The Sooners were mainly in it thanks to the shooting of guard Aaryn Ellenberg, who poured in 20 points on a perfect 6-for-6 from beyond the arc in the first half.
She finished with a game-high 24.
"I don't really know the exact words for it," Ellenberg said. "When we're out running and I get the ball, I'm going to try to shoot it. I was making them and just feeling good, I guess."
Guard Whitney Hand, one of three other Sooners in double figures, finished with 19 on 7-for-11 field goal shooting.
Campbell and center Nicole Griffin each added 12 for the Sooners.
Four Bruins ended up in doubles, with guard Thea Lemberger leading the way with her 18 on 7-for-12 from the field.
Forwards Markel Walker, Alyssia Brewer and Dixon netted 16, 15 and 11 for a balanced Bruin scoring attack.
UCLA barely outshot the Sooners 43.8 to 43.1 percent, but managed 23 second chance points thanks to their massive offensive rebounding advantage and had a 46-24 advantage in the paint.
"As a team, we didn't get ourselves ready for that, and that's on us," Hand said. "We were just soft. We've played teams before like Texas A&M who are 20 times more physical than they are. We just didn't respond well."
The Sooners will look to respond off the loss when they get back to action at 2 pm. Sunday at Lloyd Noble Center against Saint Louis.
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More hype than substance – The food was ok, but not what I thought it would be.
Went because heard they were supposed to be so good, saw lines, so thought they had to be great.
It was a decent burger, but not the best I have ever ate.
When I go for a burger, I want something that is a little better than what I could make at home, and it wasn't.
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You MUST try the fried pickle slices and the boneless wings with garlic sauce! Beers a good too. Fries were lackluster, nothing special. My friends enjoyed the oysters that came…
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I went in to Chilis in Apex, NC and was disappointed. I walked in and waited 5 min before being seated. Then the hostess threw the menu on the table and walked away. I waited…
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Coming here since opening Day!! A great place to meet new friends and have a great time. Enjoy Poker nights on Thursday & Saturday the competition is challenging but the best part…
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Beer was warm at best. They used the same glass when I reordered! My brother in law ordered am appetizer of potato skins and when they arrived we laughed pretty hard. They were so…
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I can't believe that I'm the first person to write a review of this place. Located in the corner of the shopping center, you might not notice it if you aren't aware of all of the…
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