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WASHINGTON — For all the differences between the sexes, here's one that might stir up debate in the teacher's lounge: Boys learn more from men and girls learn more from women.
That's the upshot of a provocative study by Thomas Dee, an associate professor of economics at Swarthmore College and visiting scholar at Stanford University. His study was to appear Monday in Education Next, a quarterly journal published by the Hoover Institution.
Vetted and approved by peer reviewers, Dee's research faces a fight for acceptance. Some leading education advocates dispute his conclusions and the way in which he reached them.
But Dee says his research supports his point, that gender matters when it comes to learning. Specifically, as he describes it, having a teacher of the opposite sex hurts a student's academic progress.
"We should be thinking more carefully about why," he said.
Dee warns against drawing fast conclusions based on his work. He is not endorsing single-sex education, or any other policy.
Gender gaps in middle school
Rather, he hopes his work will spur more research into gender's effect and what to do about it.
His study comes as the proportion of male teachers is at its lowest level in 40 years. Roughly 80 percent of teachers in U.S. public schools are women.
Dee's study is based on a nationally representative survey of nearly 25,000 eighth-graders that was conducted by the Education Department in 1988. Though dated, the survey is the most comprehensive look at students in middle school, when gender gaps emerge, Dee said.
He examined test scores as well as self-reported perceptions by teachers and students.
Dee found that having a female teacher instead of a male teacher raised the achievement of girls and lowered that of boys in science, social studies and English.
Looked at the other way, when a man led the class, boys did better and girls did worse.
The study found switching up teachers actually could narrow achievement gaps between boys and girls, but one gender would gain at the expense of the other.
Dee also contends that gender influences attitudes.
For example, with a female teacher, boys were more likely to be seen as disruptive. Girls were less likely to be considered inattentive or disorderly.
In a class taught by a man, girls were more likely to say the subject was not useful for their future. They were less likely to look forward to the class or to ask questions.
Dee said he isolated a teacher's gender as an influence by accounting for several other factors that could affect student performance. But his study is sure to be scrutinized.
"The data, as he presents them, are far from convincing," said Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the National Women's Law Center, which works to advance the progress of women.
Greenberger said she found Dee's conclusions to be questionable and inconsistent. More broadly, she said, boys and girls benefit by having male and female teachers as role models.
"I don't think there are many parents or students, looking back over their educational careers, who haven't been inspired by a teacher of the opposite sex," she said.
"And many have had very unhappy experiences with teachers of the same gender that they are. We have to be careful of too many generalizations," Greenberger said.
Student success cannot be narrowed to the gender of the teacher, said Reg Weaver, president of the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers' union.
Experienced teachers, good textbooks, smaller class sizes and modern equipment all influence how boys and girls do in class, Weaver said.
'Just one variable'
"Students benefit by having exposure to teachers who look like them, who can identify with their culture ... but this is just one variable among many," Weaver said.
Dee said his research raises valid questions.
Should teachers get more training about the learning styles of boys and girls? Should they be taught to combat biases in what they expect of boys and girls?
In the nature-nurture debate, he said, teacher gender belongs.
"Some people will react strongly to this," he said. "But I've taken pains to explain that we need to be cautious about drawing policy conclusions. As provocative as this all might seem, I really haven't gotten that much negative feedback."
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In general, tapering of medications should be slow and methodical, to identify the lowest dose of medicine needed to control the disease and to minimize flares with tapering (e).
The list of complications from pemphigus and from its therapy is extensive and weight gain, anemia, hypertension, diabetes are not uncommon; secondary infections by candida (oral) and herpes simplex virus are also seen. (ddd)
Corticosteroid management:
- Chronic Steroid Usage: Chronic dermatologic diseases such as pemphigus vulgaris, and bullous pemphigoid often require long-term therapy with oral corticosteroids. Such chronic systemic steroid use poses significant health concerns, including adrenal suppression, cushingoid morphology, hypertension, fluid retention, bone mineral density (BMD) decline, diabetes, ulcers, cataracts, glaucoma, increased susceptibility to infections, and reactivation of tuberculosis.
- Attempt to use the lowest successful dose of corticosteroids (see earlier).
- Consider early use of 'steroid sparing' medications (such as the immuno-suppressive medications).
- Consider medical monitoring (see section on diagnosis earlier), and other medical preventive measures (such as low salt and low sugar diets) in patient on steroids.
- Prevention of Osteoporosis: Thinning of the bones or osteoporosis is of particular concern because it silently and progressively increases the risk of pathologic bone fractures and there are ways to minimize this risk.
- Many dermatologists remain unaware that patients receiving long-term oral corticosteroid therapy should routinely be receiving concomitant bisphosphonate therapy (tt).
- These risks are increased in the elderly; a study of long-term corticosteroid use demonstrated that 28% of patients had at least 1 vertebral deformity and 11% had 2 or more vertebral deformities, with patients aged 70 to 79 having a 5-fold increased risk of deformity compared with patients younger than 60 years (ss).
- TheAmericanCollegeof Rheumatology (ACR) recommends the addition of bisphosphonate therapy for patients taking long-term (longer than 3 months) oral corticosteroids, at a dose of more than 5 mg prednisolone/day (or equivalent steroid) (uu). The one exception is for women of child-bearing potential who plan to have children.
- The ACR notes that "Bone mass measurement is reimbursed by Medicare for "patients receiving long-term glucocorticoid therapy at doses of 7.5 mg/day or greater". The Committee recommends "obtaining a baseline measurement of bone mineral density (BMD) at the lumbar spine and/or hip when initiating long-term (i.e., >6 months) glucocorticoid therapy. Longitudinal measurements may be repeated as often as every 6 months for monitoring glucocorticoid-treated patients to detect bone loss. In patients who are receiving therapy to prevent bone loss, annual follow-up measurements are probably sufficient."
- Use of Dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) can help determine fracture risk for patients taking glucocorticoid therapy and for those starting therapy (vv).
- The ACR also recommends supplementation with both calcium and vitamin D should be required for glucocorticoid-treated patients.
- Corticosteroids also suppress clinical signs of infection and may allow diseases such as septicemia or tuberculosis to reach an advanced stage before diagnosis, and are associated with osteoporosis, adrenal insufficiency, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia. In addition, myopathy, glaucoma, cataracts, stomach ulcers, weight gain, skin thinning, avascular necrosis of the hip, hirsutism, anxiety and depression and other side-effects have been documented.
Other medication complications include (not an exhaustive list) (ccc)
- Bone marrow suppression has been reported in patients receiving immunosuppressants, as has increased incidence of leukemia and lymphoma.
- Secondary infection, which may be either systemic or localized to the skin, may occur because of the use of immunosuppressant and the presence of multiple erosions.
- Malignancies resulting from immunosuppressant have been reported.
- Growth retardation has been reported in children taking systemic corticosteroids and immunosuppressant.
- Immunosuppressants are also associated with myelosuppression, hepatitis, gastrointestinal disturbances including hemorrhage, impaired immune responsiveness, and hemorrhagic cystitis, bladder cancer and infertility (cyclosphosphamide), reduced kidney function and hypertension, and tremor (cyclosporin).
- Gold has been associated with rashes, mouth ulcers, nephrotic syndrome, and myelosuppression.
- Methotrexate has been associated with bone marrow suppression, hepatitis and cirrhosis, and pulmonary fibrosis.
- Laboratory monitoring of these drugs is required as specified by each drug's manufacturer.

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Adams's photograph The Tetons and the Snake River has the distinction of being one of the 115 images recorded on the Voyager Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecraft. These images were selected to convey information about humans, plants and animals, and geological features of the Earth to a possible alien civilization. These photographs eloquently mirror his favorite saying, a Gaelic mantra, which states "I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds."
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First Choice Bank Golf Classic donates $39,000 to local charities: Hamilton Area YMCA, The Parkinson Alliance, Advancing Opportunities.
HAMILTON, NEW JERSEY – December 12, 2012 – First Choice Bank presented 3 local charities today with donations raised at their 3rd Annual Golf Classic in September. The event held at Cherry Valley County Club in Skillman was held on September 10, 2012 and hosted over 200 golfers for a beautiful day on the links. First Choice Bank organized the outing to benefit 3 local Mercer County non profits. The Hamilton Area YMCA, Advancing Opportunities and The Parkinson Alliance all received $13,000 from the proceeds of the event.
"These organizations serve their membership and clients with the utmost respect and attention and First Choice Bank wanted to recognize this." said Randy Hanks, First Choice Bank's CEO, "This is our 3rd year and each year the event grows to support the non profits that do such wonderful work here in Mercer County."
First Choice Bank has donated over $75,000 to 8 local organizations over the past 3 years from the outing's proceeds.
"As a community bank it is our mission to be involved and support the community that we serve" said Hanks, "We are always looking for opportunities to support the communities that we are a part of and truly appreciate the work that these non profits do."
First Choice Bank opened its first branch in Lawrenceville in 2007, the first community bank to open in the area in 40 years. Since then, they have grown steadily, opening five additional branches in Mercer County and most recently their sixth location in Kingston, NJ. In 2009, they opened a mortgage services division, First Choice Bank Loan Services Inc., allowing them to offer customers highly competitive loan rates. They strive to service every community in which they do business.
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Jim Fell – CEO Hamilton YMCA, Randy Hanks – CEO First Choice Bank, Carol Walton – CEO The Parkinson Alliance, Jack Mudge – CEO Advancing Opportunities


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Bond was set at $300,000 Wednesday, for a 31-year-old ambulance driver, accused of crashing broadside into a vehicle with his lights and sirens screaming, while he was legally drunk.
Police say John Lara's blood alcohol level tested at .271 after the accident Monday morning at Clark and Montrose, more than three times the legal limit.
"He had called his partner from the ambulance prior to the crash, indicating he was on his way to pick up his partner, and his partner did notice that his voice was slurred," prosecutor Lorraine Scaduto said. "There were no patients in the ambulance at the time. The defendant was alone."
In court, Scaduto told the judge that Lara, who was traveling south on Clark, ran the light at Montrose, and slammed into a black pickup, which was in the middle of the intersection and had the green light.
Evanston chiropractor Nicholas Mendez says he was waiting for the light at Clark, saw Lara coming fast behind him, and even motioned for him to slow down.
"With the high rate of speed, I knew that he was not going to be able to clear the traffic without hitting somebody," Mendez said.
"The ambulance was going about 40 miles an hour," Mendez says. "Myself, and I'm sure all the other bystanders watching, knew there was going to be an impact."
It was not Lara's first brush with the law. Court records show an arrest for forgery in 2002, and two cases of impersonating a police officer from 2005. State driving records indicate he has had his license suspended at least four times.
Mendez said despite the ambulance driver's profession, he never offered to render aid to the injured motorist in the other vehicle.
"Never got out of the ambulance until a second ambulance came to pick him up," Mendez said.
The Evanston doctor says he ran to the other driver's aid and put him in his own car to keep him warm.
"The last thing you would think on a Monday morning at 10 am, is that you are getting broadsided by an ambulance driver, intoxicated," he said.
Lara is charged with aggravated driving under the influence, disobeying a red light, failing to reduce speed, and negligent driving.
Suburban Ambulance Driver Charged With DUI in the Vehicle
Bond was set at $300,000 Wednesday, for a 31-year-old ambulance driver, accused of crashing broadside into a vehicle with his lights and sirens screaming, while he was legally drunk.


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ASUS My Cinema-EHD3-100
The switch to digital television has finally come into action. Those who want to watch over the air TV at all must either purchase a TV with an ATSC tuner installed or purchase one of the signal conversion boxes for sale. For the HTPC crowd, it means that their tuner card must support ATSC just the same. Otherwise, their computer-based DVR systems will receive very little video anymore.
Though, because the ATSC specification is completely digital most cards out there are going to produce video results that are exactly the same, especially considering the signal and quality are more a factor of antenna reception than card quality. So, what's to make someone decide on one TV tuner over another?
The ASUS My Cinema-EHD3-100 answers this question by going one step further than most cards out there to be your all-in-one media center card. It fully supports the ATSC and QAM digital TV specifications allowing you to access digital TV in high definition resolution. It also fully supports analog NTSC TV, analog video and radio. Plus, its on-board mpeg-2 encoder chip helps on-the-fly video recording. Is the My Cinema-EHD3-100 your HTPC answer? Benchmark Reviews will fill you in!
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In 2007, one in three desktop PCs sold was powered by an ASUS motherboard; and the company's 2007 revenues reached US$6.9 billion.
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With unyielding commitment to innovation and quality, ASUS won 2,568 awards in 2007, meaning on average, the company received over 7 awards every day last year. BusinessWeek has ranked ASUS amongst its InfoTech 100 for the 10th straight year; and the company is ranked as No.1 in quality products and services by the Wall Street Journal. ASUS has also achieved the number one title on the annual league table of Taiwan Top 10 Global Brands with a brand value of 11.96 billion US dollars."


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To prepare for the veritable orgy of meaningful games to come, we've gone through the matchups to determine who's good, who's evil, who we'll be rooting for and why.
First up, the American League.
Red Sox, the Good: Fenway Pahk; the best unis in MLB; Big Papi; Manny being Manny; Tim Wakefield' knuckler; Good Canadian Boy™ Eric Gagné.
Red Sox, the Evil: They're AL East rivals; Curt Schilling's ego; the stupendous payroll; Massholes; the endless self-satisfaction with the whole "Sweet Caroline" thing; our good friend constantly telling us "they look really good"; Fat Wisconsin Boy™ Eric Hinske.
Angels, the Good: Vlady; Howie Kendrick; Mike Scioscia looking tubby and intense; John Lackey bringing heat; that amazing bullpen.
Angels, the Evil: That whole "Los Angeles of Anaheim of Orange County of California of the U.S. of Planet Earth" tomfoolery; excessive shots of the Rally Monkey; the fact that Dick Griffin loves their "small ball" approach.
Verdict: It pains us to say it, but we can't really root for the Angels if it means making a smug Dick exponentially more smug (smugger?). Therefore, we're supporting the Red Sox, but with great fundamental reservations.
Indians, the Good: That lineup; Pronk!; V-Mart's offense; the one-two punch of C.C. and Fausto; a really good bullpen (with one notable exception).
Indians, the Evil: The insensitive name; the offensive logo; V-Mart's defense; their dubious closer.
Yankees, the Good: It's good to have a villain in the postseason; Yankees Stadium in October is intense; possible matchup with Red Sox in second round would be fun.
Yankees, the Evil: A-Rod, Absurd payroll; AL East Rivals; Herpes; hearing about the "Joba Rules" on an endless loop; pretty much everything else, really.
Verdict: The Tribe's our team this postseason, and we want them to crush the Yankees' heads. Crush crush crush.


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So maybe, just maybe, "Megamind" won't be the crushing disappointment we feared it would be.
The trailer that came out in May (below) featured a tiresome tongue-in-cheek use of AC/DC's "Highway to Hell," and Will Ferrell voicing a stock villain. Co-stars Brad Pitt as Metro Man, Tina Fey as Roxie Ritchi and Jonah Hill as Titan -- or maybe it's Tighten -- seemed OK, but overall the trailer left us cold.
At the time we checked the synopsis on the movie's site and learned that "Megamind actually kills (Metro Man) in the throes of one of his botched evil plans." Clever monkeys that we are, we said we had "a sneaking suspicion that Metro Man actually survives."
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The new trailer looks decidedly better, teasing a very different story than the first and more or less confirming our suspicions about Metro Man's fate.
Anyway, the old trailer just made us sad, and this one has renewed our hope. We'll decide once and for all when "Megamind" arrives Nov. 5.


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Basically I need to optimise my code allot. I'm trying to use a single super texture with all my textures in it and just one draw call. For simplicity the problem comes down to this. I have 3 squares squares in a row that are connected. There are 8 vertexes, 4 of which are shared, triangle_strip seems the best method to draw them but I could just use triangles. The super texture is just a square split into 4 squares. I want to assign the squares a texture at random.
From what I've read gltexcoordpointer assigns the tex coords to the vertex points, so it's not possible do what I want due to the shared vertexes? This seems wrong since I see people talking about using texture atlases everywhere.
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News and notes from the Twins interdivision rivals:
ANALYSIS: This trade signals the end of the Scotty era on the South Side. Podsednik gave Chicago decent production on top of the lineup, hitting a career best .304/.353/.412 in 132 games. After the season the 34-year-old veteran free agent was seeking a multi-year contract, one that the White Sox balked at giving him. Considering his offensive contributions exceeded his career numbers, Podsednik was easily a candidate for regression and a risky multi-year proposition. The Tigers, Giants, Cubs and Royals have all expressed interest in his services.
ANALYSIS: Pierre, meanwhile, has a very similar skill set to Podsednik but at a much higher cost. Using speed and contact as his main weapons, Pierre put together a strong first-half of the season in Manny Ramirez's absence, hitting .328/.387/.417 with 19 extra base hits in 289 plate appearances. This was followed by a very significant drop-off in the year's second-half as he hit a paltry .264/.318/.339 with 5 extra base hits in 136 plate appearances. Pierre has been a plus-defender (5.6 career UZR/150 in OF) but has a wet noodle of an arm, allowing runners to advance on balls hit in the gaps. He is serviceable as a starter but with $8 million total committed to Pierre in 2010 and 2011, he will have to bring value in the form of his glove but expect a decline in his offensive numbers upon his relocation from the NL.
During the Winter Meetings, Chicago added free agent reliever JJ Putz to the roster. The White Sox signed Putz to a one-year, $3 million deal that can reach $6.25 million if he winds up being a closer. Because the Sox's interest in Putz was leaked from the front office, Chicago GM Kenny Williams said the club was forced to add another $500,000 to the base salary. "Let's just say it didn't make it any easier," Wiliams said in a conference call with local media. "You have your jobs to do, and we have ours. Certainly understand what we're up against when things become public. That's why we try to operate, at least since I've been here, at a more discreet level. And it has served us well. The times things have gotten out, publicly there have been some residual effects as a result of it, and in this case there was."
ANALYSIS: Putz's 2009 ended after 29 innings, shutdown because of forearm pains that an MRI revealed was fraying and tearing. He did not require surgery although his season was ended as a precautionary measure. Prior to that, his fastball's velocity was down (from 95.0 to 93.5 mph) and hitters were not chasing any of his pitches out of the zone (17.9% down from 24.7% OoZ swing). The Sox are hoping that he rebounds to the point where he is still a detriment to righties, who have slugged a career .298 off of him (though some of that minuscule power number can be attributed to playing in Safeco for six years), but since he will not even begin to throw off the mound until Christmas break its hard to say how the 33-year-old's arm will respond with the time off.
The White Sox decided not to tender a contract to right-handed reliever, DJ Carrasco, who made just $440,000 with Chicago last year. In 49 games, Carrasco went 5-1 with a 3.76 ERA and a 62/29 K/BB in 93.1 innings pitched.
ANALYSIS: Carrasco gave the Sox a versatile arm out of the bullpen, averaging almost two innings per appearance, but was used mainly in low leverage situations. He might give a team that is interested in keeping the ball in the park a decent option at less than a million (Colorado, perhaps?). This past year, the righty increased his usage of his 89-mph cutter (from 29.4% to 46.7%) and threw a straight fastball far less (from 41.0% to 30.4%). The results of which witnessed far fewer long flyballs and more infield flys as opponents made less heavy contact:
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ANALYSIS: Reyes was a promising pitcher in the Cardinals organization but the talent never manifested itself in St Louis so he was flipped to the Indians for Luis Pedermo. In the early stages of his career, Reyes had several minor injuries to his shoulder. In 2007, Chris O'Leary wrote a piece on the dangers of scap loading (the act of bringing the arm behind the driveline and attempt to pinch your shoulder blades together). There is extensive debate on what the proper method is (if at all) but there a somewhat accepted conclusion that a pitcher should not raise their elbow above their shoulder when in the cocked position - this puts undue stress on the joints. O'Leary notes that Reyes was a big perpetrator of this, suggesting that Reyes will experience some elbow issues. By 2008, Reyes began to miss time due to elbow soreness and in October 2009, doctors determined that Tommy John surgery was necessary. Reyes will miss almost all of 2010 and will stand reminder of why scouting departments need biomechanics analyzing motion of pitchers.
ANALYSIS: After being traded to the Giants from Cleveland in July, Garko struggled in the National League. In 127 plate appearances, he hit .235/.307/.330 with just 2 home runs but some of the production drop can be attributed to a level of bad luck has he had a low BABIP (.243) despite hitting a wealthy portion of line drives (18%). While advertised as a corner outfielder, Garko's fielding prowess should tether him to first base. Currently, the Mets, Nationals, Orioles and Rangers are all potential suitors for Garko.
ANALYSIS: Granderson's offensive woes against left-handed pitching reached a point where the Tigers did not feel comfortable playing their starting center fielder when a southpaw was on the mound. In 199 plate appearances, Granderson hit just .183/.245/.239 while striking out 21.1 percent of the time. As a player that was reaching the later stages of his peak playing years with a reasonable contract signed through his age-32 season, Detroit opted to remove what would be at least a $20.25 million obligation to a player they started to view as a platoon candidate. In New York, Granderson's lefty problems and escalating costs is not a cause for concern as it is for Detroit needs to replenish a farm system and cut payroll, but his left-handed power will play well with Yankee Stadium's achievable right field seats and his defensive numbers should look better as the amount of real estate to cover is smaller in the Bronx.
The 23-year-old Austin Jackson is a somewhat overrated talent. While a good defender, his offense in the past two seasons clouds his projections. Since hitting .345/.398/.566 in High-A, Jackson's seen his power numbers and walk rate drop and his strikeout rate swell from 16% to 22%. The Tigers have said that they plan on using Jackson as an outfielder in 2010 so given his history, Detroit can expect some struggles as he adapts to the higher level.
Max Scherzer's power arm fits in well with the Tigers model however as pitching coach Rick Knapp worked hard to reduce the number of walks allowed, Scherzer's control will give Knapp a new project not unlike the challenge the departed Edwin Jackson presented. If that can be corrected, Scherzer could be a very dangerous compliment to Justin Verlander and Rick Porcello. With a 94-mph fastball and a 85-mph slider, his 2009 3.88 xFIP suggested that Scherzer could have a sub-4.00 ERA in 2010.
After increasing their payroll steadily since 2004, raising the total from $64 million to a high of $137.6 million in 2008, the Tigers have started to attempt to recoup on some of the trades made from 2007 to 2009. Especially after emptying out the system for Edgar Renteria, Maggilo Ordonez and Dontrelle Willis.
ANALYSIS: Gregg has been one of those closers whose value and perceived value was overinflated by the save statistic. After being traded from the Angels to the Marlins, Gregg saved 61 games while allowing a lot of baserunners (1.25 WHIP, 4.5 BB/9). When arbitration costs pushed his salary north, the Marlins traded him to Chicago for a hard-throwing closer prospect Jose Ceda. In Chicago, Gregg increased his strikeout rate but saw a high number of flyballs slip over the fence (15% HR/FB) and eventually lost his closer job to Carlos Marmol. As a fly ball pitcher (44.3% in 2009) an environment like Comerica would be beneficial, similar to how it played for Brandon Lyon. The Orioles seemingly are the only competition for Gregg.
Joel Zumaya, although once considered the Tigers closer of the future back in 2006, has spent 353 days on the disabled list since then. Most recently, Zumaya had surgery on August 21st to repair a non-union stress fracture in his shoulder. While his stuff is still electric - averaging 99-mph in 31 innings of work and getting a swing-and-miss 26.4% of the time - shoulder surgeries are usually a long healing process that can zap a lot of the velocity. Said GM Dave Dombrowski "He's never going to have a 100-percent shoulder. It's just not going to happen. He had major surgery in his shoulder, and so it's not going to be 100 percent. So they have said that everything will be fine, but you still have to see it."
Ryan Perry, 23 years and 89 professional innings old, is another potential candidate. He throws was is classified as a heavy 95-mph fastball and a 85-mph change up that mixes up opponents. On Perry, Dombrowski commented that the righty "has the mentality to do it. He's going to have to develop a little more consistency, which doesn't surprise you, because he's only been pitching professionally for a little more than a year."
ANALYSIS: Instead of re-signing either John Buck or Miguel Olivo - a combo that helped the team's catchers hit a combined .814 OPS - the Royals committed two seasons to an aged product who has not had a wOBA above .300 since 2006. I've long given up attempting to figure out if there is strategy or if these maneuvers come to Moore in some hallucinations that he must fulfill. Moore seems to be basing this on Kendall's ability to squat for 130-games but at 35, odds are that he won't quite reach that milestone in 2010 and probably even less in 2011.
ANALYSIS: From miles away, this was a disastrous move. Jacobs, a low on-base (.318 OBP)/high strikeout (21.5% K%) hitter, spent 2008 hitting a career-high 32 home runs and in the process raising his arbitration value. Not willing to write those checks for just power alone, the Marlins flipped him for reliever Leo Nunez. The Royals quickly discovered why due diligence is necessary in baseball. Of Jacobs 32 home runs, 14 (or 43.7%) were classified as "Just Enough". Almost half of his home runs barely cleared the fence in 2008. Couple that with relocating him to a stadium that mutes home run power and it is only expected that his totals would decline.
ANALYSIS: These are the kinds of low risk, medium reward deals you take on when you have finished at the bottom of the division perennially. Optimistically, he might find a role in the bullpen but has not shown that he is capable of being a main component. There might also be the outside possibility that he is injured. For the past three seasons in the minors, Humber opponents have made better contact while he has struck out less and has walked more:
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CA Homecoming - Then and Now
One important factor for a Concordia Academy football player in the late 90s, when I attended CA, was if a girl on the sidelines was wearing his jersey or letter jacket. The days before a game were a flurry of inquiry, arranging, gossip, and swooning in regards to sporting a player's garb. For good or for bad, this tradition seems to have gone by the wayside.
As both a former CA student and current CA English teacher, it's fun to look at homecoming now versus homecoming during the era of dial up, Beanie Babies, and the Macarena.
The older or younger Kuseske, Berner, or Aurich is there to greet you.
- Beware of sitting behind the student section—they proudly stand most of the game in support of the team.
- The grill is fired up and ready to go.
- Dave Boll flies a radio-controled plane, usually to Star Wars music, as part of the half-time show.
- The team and school continue to be small but mighty.
- The air is crisp, grass green, and autumn color brilliant.
- New food choices are offered in a new building on the new Carlander & Koepke Family Alumni Plaza patio.
- The pre-football game activities, including a middle school dodgeball tournament and family carnival, fill a majority of the school building and outdoor area with noise and fun.
- Facilities, team uniforms, and the marketing "face" of CA all have a familiar yet fresh look.
- Homecoming is more than the football game; boys and girls soccer, cross-country, and volleyball each have a well-attended homecoming game.
- Sadly, we are still waiting for the pep band to make a comeback. Perhaps this will be the year?
CA continues to be a community woven together by the present and the past. We have the same mission and emphasis on "Honoring God Through Excellence," but with improved facilities, a greater offering of advanced programs, and a stronger commitment to serve the Twin Cities. Come to the homecoming game on Friday, September 29, and see for yourself!
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Bundy to start throwing program Thursday
BOSTON -- The Orioles got good news Wednesday on a trio of pitchers on the mend at the team's spring facility, including top pitching prospect Dylan Bundy, who will start a throwing program on Thursday.
Bundy was placed on the Minor League disabled list with right elbow discomfort and has been playing catch pain-free. He will continue a progression under pitching rehab coordinator Chris Correnti down in Sarasota, Fla.
Right-hander Steve Johnson (lat strain) is slated to throw a game in extended spring on Saturday, and he will go either three innings or around 55 pitches. Tsuyoshi Wada, who is coming off Tommy John surgery, has thrown two batting practice sessions could join Johnson on Saturday depending on how he's feeling, said manager Buck Showalter.


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I really like what you've done with the site--especially changing the Keats poem that had been on the main page for ages. I wonder, could you rotate the poem more often? It would be wonderful to see a different Keats poem (or part of a poem) quoted once a month, for example.
Since it is now Autumn, how about we replace "This Living Hand" with part (or all) of "To Autumn" in honor of the season?
Mahalo (thanks ) for considering my idea.


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Lamb meatball & pea pilaf
Meatballs aren't just for pasta dishes. Experiment with this tasty pilaf - a winner for any meatball fan
Nutrition and extra info
- raw or cooked meatballs only
- Easily doubled / halved
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal496
- fat10g
- saturates4g
- carbs72g
- sugars5g
- fibre4g
- protein33g
- salt1.34g
- 400g pack lean minced lamb
- 3 garlic cloves, crushed
- 2 tsp cumin
An aromatic spice native to eastern Mediteranean countries and Upper Egypt. This warm,…
- 300g basmati rice
- enough lamb or vegetable stock to cover the rice, from a cube is fine
- 300g frozen pea
- zest 2 lemon, juice of 1
Oval in shape with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile…
For the cucumber yogurt
Mix the lamb with half the garlic and 1 tsp of the cumin, then season and shape into about 16 balls – it's easier if you wet your hands. Heat a large frying pan (with a lid for later), then fry the meatballs for about 8 mins until golden and cooked through. Remove from the pan, set aside, then tip in the rice, final tsp of cumin and remaining garlic. Fry for 30 secs, stirring, then pour in enough stock to cover. Cover and simmer for 10 mins or until almost all of the liquid is absorbed.
Stir in the peas, return the meatballs to the pan, then warm through for a few mins until the peas are tender. Meanwhile mix the cucumber, yogurt and half the mint together, then season. To finish the pilaf, stir in the lemon zest and juice with some seasoning and the remaining mint. Serve with a good dollop of the cooling cucumber yogurt.
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TipFor an even healthier version, substitute the lamb for turkey mince – it's a good source of protein and low in saturated fat.


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Airbus A330-300
Kid Sister with Two Engines
Airbus A330-300
When Airbus started building its first long-haul plane back in the 1990s, the company designed two versions more or less in parallel. The A330 is a two-engine sister of the four-engine A340 – and one of the world's most reliable commercial aircraft.
They both have the same wings, tail assemblies and fuselage modules. Their basic models are of identical length. They also have practically the same load capacity and accommodate practically the same number of passengers. But Airbus had its reasons for designing two versions of the same aircraft – the A330's two engines consume less fuel than the four powering the A340, but the latter has a greater cruising range.
The A330 – like all twin-engine aircraft – is subject to certain restrictions. These are spelled out in the international regulations entitled Extended-range Twin-engine Operational Performance Standards (ETOPS). ETOPS stipulate that two-engine aircraft must operate on flight routes enabling them to reach the nearest airport within a specified time, the so-called ETOPS time. This is to ensure that they can land safely even if only one engine is still functioning. Back in the 1950s the ETOPS time was around 60 minutes, and this meant that many transatlantic and transpacific routes could only be flown by four-engine aircraft.
Advances in engine design have now made it possible to prolong the ETOPS time for two-engined aircraft. The A330 was even able to demonstrate its reliability by flying across the North Atlantic on one engine only in six hours. Its ETOPS time was 90 minutes when it came into service and was later extended to 180 minutes. And in 2009 the A330 was the first model to be licensed by the European Aviation Authority EASA for routes with an ETOPS time of 240 minutes to the nearest airport.
Lufthansa has cast its A330 and A340 aircraft in very clearly defined roles. The four-engine A340 mainly flies the classic long-haul routes with an average length of around 6300 kilometers (3915 miles) per flight, while the A330 is usually reserved for shorter routes covering an average length of 4300 kilometers (2672 miles) per flight.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 106 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
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We need a quickly recognizable logo to put on our trucks, something that consumers get recognize from a distance or while driving by our work sites.
We would like something out of the box, different and unique. Keeping it simple and clean at the same time. Attached is our current logo. We would like the new one to speak more of what it is we do (google trenchless sewer repair), the main word needs to be Empipe, solutions LTD should be added in somewhere but does not have to be too visible. Most of our competitors use blue in their logo for obvious reasons when dealing with water. We would like to keep ours green if possible but still give it that clean feeling.
Empipe positioning: approachable, professional and authoritative.
We will be providing as many comments as you request. thank you for taking the time to read this, we look forward to your designs blowing us away.
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Samsung has been trying to squeeze as much storage as it can into its latest flash chips, and it's done a good job: these 128-gigabit chunks of siliocn are, apparently, the industry's highest density memory storage available.
The new chips use super-compact three-bit multi-level-cell, 10 nanometer process technology to pack the storage in. Sounds awful, but really it just means that these chips manage to squeeze more memory into the same dimensions as usual flash storage.
The high density doesn't just make these things compact, either: they can swap data at a lightning fast 400 megabits-per-second. The new chips will feature in a range of new, high-capacity memory cards and SSDs in the coming months.


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We are proposing three "Forest Walks" as journeys through the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Jeju, Korea. The attached document details the walks.
These three "Forest Walks" through IUCN's 2012 Congress consist of only some of the many forest-related sessions and posters taking place at the upcoming meeting in Jeju, South Korea, this September. The journey was selected by the IUCN Secretariat, in consultation with IUCN Commissions, Members and other partners and aims to provide three themed trajectories in line with the 3 pillars of work in IUCN Global Forest and Climate Change Programme's new programme of work.
With such a vast array of forest and climate change-related sessions taking place at the World Conservation Congress this year, these selections were made to focus mostly on global and regional-focused sessions. An attempt has been made to balance sessions with regard to their individual organisers: IUCN secretariat, commissions, members and partners. Any forest or climate change related sessions in Jeju not reflected here have certainly not been left out due to judgements on quality – and we encourage all delegates and attendees to wonder far beyond these Forest Walks as they explore Jeju 2012.
More information can be found on the IUCN congress website and by following the links provided for each session.
Happy walking!
IUCN Global Forest and Climate Change Programme


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Tokyo, Japan, November 2, 2010 - Undefeated Serbia kept their momentum going against Algeria on Tuesday, notching their fourth win (25-15, 25-12, 25-21) from as many matches at Yoyogi Stadium in the first round of the FIVB Women's World Championship. Clearly outclassed on the day, Algeria continued to struggle in a tough Pool A, their fourth consecutive loss extinguishing any hope the African champions had of qualifying for the second round.Serbia were led by Sanja Malagurski and Dragana Marinkovic with 10 points each while Algeria's Faiza Tsabet and Zohra Bensalem scored eight points apiece. For Algeria, all eyes turn to their final match of the tournament against Poland on Wednesday to see if they can at least win their first set of the competition, while Serbia can look forward to a meeting with the hosts Japan..
FIVB Women's World Championship Japan 2010 official pageSerbia were in control from the start, going ahead of Algeria early on. Algeria managed some counter-attacks on the left with Bensalem dropping some good attacking spikes but Serbia kept their composure, going 15-10 up after an ace from Maja Ognjenovic that Bensalem could not pick up. Jovana Brakocevic was prominent in attack throughout the set, racking up seven points including a spike that gave Serbia set point. Marinkovic finished it off at 25-15 with a tip at the net.The second set was a little closer early on, with Bensalem continuing to catch the eye and her spike took Algeria to within one point of Serbia at 8-7. But solid attacking play by Milena Rasic and good serving from Jovana Vesovic took Serbia on a 7-1 points run to take control at 15-8. Outstanding blocking by Marinkovic in the tramlines, including a great effort to thwart Safia Boukhima, helped the girls in blue take the set 25-15 for a comfortable two-set lead.Serbia appeared unfocused at the start of the third set, allowing Algeria to take a slight lead with Lydia Oulmou tipping over the net to put the Africans 8-4 up, a lead they managed to extend to 12-6 after a block by Tassasit Aissou on Vesovic. But Serbia eventually woke up, taking eight of the next nine points thanks to a flurry of unstoppable attacks from spiker Sanja Malagurski to go 14-13 ahead. Algeria stayed close until late on, when they were plagued by errors. Amazingly Malagurski scored all her 10 points in the final set, driving Serbia to victory at 25-21.


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HuffPost Live's Ahmed Shihab-Eldin hosted a great segment on Wednesday that explored the experiences and challenges of Black gay men who came out to their families. The conversation was inspired by Chase Simmons' new documentary Dear Dad: Letters From Same Gender Loving Sons. The panel included Simmons, R20 friend and poet/performance artist/teacher Yolo Akili and pop culture journalist Deron Dalton. Akili interviewed Chase Simmons at the Huffington Post in September.
Deron Dalton made interesting comments on the perceived notions of masculinity that is omnipresent across Black communities. " "You're already a minority so it makes it a little bit harder," said the writer. "There is a lot of hyper-masculinity and there is also the Black church."
"Very masculinity in America is very rigid," added Yolo Akili. "When you are African-American because of the history of slavery and racism that is even more rigid. So when you come out, historically that is not connected to 'masculinity'. Masculinity is seen as rigid."
Bravo Yolo, Deron and Chase. It's a great conversation especially the voices that are featured are not the "usual" go-to voices we often see/hear when discussing Black gay men. Watch the segment as well as the trailer and the film by Chase Simmons AFTER THE JUMP ...
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It was a hot one at Fifth-Third Bank Stadium today (95 degrees) but that didn't scare away the fans which included many families out there enjoying some Minor League Baseball. The wind was blowing straight out and the players came to the park with their good bats. It was 5-4 Snappers by end of the 3rd inning and the two teams played see-saw until the bottom of the 9th when Cougar Orlando Calixte hit a 2-run HR to left field which tied the game up at 9 a piece. The two bullpens then pitched a couple of scoreless innings each before the Snappers blew it wide open in the top of the 12th, plating 6 runs, capped off by a monstrous center-field moonshot off the bat of Miguel Sano, his 12th of the season. I'm telling you, this homerun hit off the top of the scoreboards in center, he absolutely mauled it.
One cool sidebar from the game: a row in front of us and a few seats down was a kid sitting with his dad. He was wearing a Yankees hat, but as the game went on I noticed that he was rooting for the Snappers. Eventually he and I realized that we were both cheering for the road-team and for the rest of the game I had a cheering buddy. Every time the Snappers would do something good, he would look over and give me a thumbs-up. It was cute. When I left I gave him a high-five and a "Go Twins".
Getting back to Sano, he was pretty unimpressive for most of the game. Up until his HR in the 12th he was 0-for-6 and committed an error at 3rd. His body type reminds me of Hanley Ramirez. He has a big athletic figure, but he also has speed evidenced in the game by a close play at 1st when he grounded to the shortstop. I knew that he had been slumping of late at the plate so I didn't have a whole lot of expectations but was very happy to see him hit a homerun. A couple of other players that caught my eye were Eddie Rosario (2B) and Adam Pettersen (SS) who went 3-for-7 in the game with a triple, 3 runs and an RBI. He has good energy and though he is small, he has a quick bat and plays a decent shortstop. In looking at his numbers on Baseball-Reference he doesn't have a very impressive resume and lacks any real power, but he's only 23 years old and has good energy. I know that last remark isn't all that informative but hey, I only saw one game.
Pitching-wise there was nothing all that impressive. Snappers starter Matt Summers pitched pretty well (5IP, 4R, 1ER, 7H, 8K, 1BB) but didn't look overpowering or as dominating as those 8Ks would suggest. His fastball looked to be topping out at about 92mph. After having himself a nice season in Rookie ball last year, he has failed to translate that success into the Single-A level, carrying a 4.21 ERA into the game with a paltry 5.1 K/9 ratio.
All in all, it was a great time. If you haven't had a chance to see some Minor League baseball, I highly recommend it. It's very family-friendly stuff and it's cool to see players like Sano and Rosario who might make it to the Bigs one day. Kinda like getting a glimpse of the future...or at least the potential that the future may hold.
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Live Chat User Appreciation Awards (Jan - Sep 2013)
Inside of CC there's no place quite like Live Chat. It is that place where you can get immediate answers to your questions, arrange games, talk about lots of fun things, plan your clan strategy or even play a live mafia game.
This would not be possible without the mods that help with all aspects of Live Chat but neither would it be possible without the users who also do their part in making it such a great place.
As a result the Chatters have come together to collectively reward those that make live chat the place to be and those that regularly help those players (new and experienced) that come in asking for help/advice.
The following users are hereby awarded 3 months premium and a general contribution medal for their efforts:
Congratulations to the following users who are also awarded a general contribution medal:
Our Awardees are decided upon based on feedback from members of live chat and consultation with all members of the Live Chat Moderation Team. I hope you all are ready for some more action though because we have some more fun and games coming up for you... Are you ready for a SMACing good time?


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Abstract: We argue that formal schooling and wage-work experience are complementary types of human capital for entrepreneurs. Strong empirical support is found for this hypothesis as the interaction term between schooling and actual wage-work experience enters positively and significantly in a Mincer equation, whereas the effect of schooling in the absence of wage-work experience is insignificant. These results are extremely robust towards more flexible specifications, including fixed-effects estimations dealing with unobserved heterogeneity. For wage workers, the interaction term is negligible, confirming that the complementarity is a distinct characteristic of entrepreneurial human capital. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7990
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Abstract: The returns to education in self-employment are addressed in four different specifications of the relationship between log income and years of schooling. The specifications range from a standard Mincer equation with a constant percentage increase in income to an additional year of schooling to the most flexible specification with dummy variables for the different number of years of schooling split into different types of education. Based on the more flexible specifications, important non-linearities and heterogeneity in the returns to education in self-employment are found. These results are robust across different estimation methods: OLS; Heckit correction models to handle sample selection; and IV to deal with the potential endogeneity of years of schooling. Moreover, the results are insensitive to the use of different sample years, different definitions of self-employment, and different income measures for the self-employed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8225
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The first Friday sermon of the year focused on how peace can be attained and how the world can liberate itself from the many conflicts that are taking place, mostly on the pretext of God.
Huzoor (aba) drew attention to the fact that this Friday was the first of both, the lunar and the solar calendars. The commencement of these calendars may have coincided at an earlier occasion as well, but for it to happen during the centenary year of Khilafat of the Promised Messiah (as) surely has never occurred in the history of mankind. May Allah make this a source of great blessings for the Jamaat Ahmadiyya worldwide, Ameen.
Huzoor (aba) said that he would like to take this opportunity to draw the attention of Ahmadis around the world to intensify their supplications to God. He reminded us that the importance and significance of Friday is related to the Messiah of the latter days' era, when non-Ahmadi Muslims will have turned towards worldly and materialistic gains and will not revere this day as it is meant to be. In Surah Jumma'a, Allah Almighty has specified that Muslims should leave all types of businesses of the world and congregate to offer Jumma'a prayers. The same Surah also contains the glad tidings of the Messiah of the latter days, who was to resume the mission of the Holy Prophet (saw), spread the true teachings of the Holy Quran, show the way to purification of the soul and proliferate the Islamic wisdom to unite the world's nations under one banner, all to gain the nearness and to win the pleasure of Allah. The Promised Messiah (as) has explained that the era of the Holy Prophet (saw) was "the perfection of guidance" (takmeel-e-hidayat) i.e. the complete and perfect Book was revealed to him, after which a new Law is not needed, and the universality of which shall remain till the end of days, and which contains the prophecies about all future discoveries; in short, it is The Book that contains perfect guidance for all humanity. The Promised Messiah (as)'s era, i.e. the present day, is the era of "perfection of propagation of the guidance" (takmeel-e-isha'at-e-hidayat) which means that the complete guidance that was revealed to the Holy Prophet (saw) will be spread to the corners of the world. We are witnessing this today that technological advancements are being used for this purpose. From the "press" in the age of the Promised Messiah (as) to the satellite, etc. today, all are being used to proliferate the true message of Islam. This becomes a source of increase in faith for the Momin (believer) who witnesses this in his lifetime. [As a side note, Huzoor (aba) mentioned that Dr. Professor Abdus Salam based his own research on Quranic teachings and found approximately 700 verses of the Holy Quran were related to science or scientific information. Muslim researchers should benefit from the treasures that the Holy Quran contains and reveal to the world the miracles of this Divine Book.]
Drawing attention again to the fact that both the lunar and the solar calendars are actually systems created by God, Huzoor (aba) re-emphasized the importance Ahmadis should pay to their supplications. May Allah grant prolific victories in worldly and spiritual advancements to Jamaat Ahmadiyya so that the entire world is a witness to the glorious favors that Allah has bestowed on this Jamaat. Huzoor (aba) said that these victories cannot be achieved unless and until each Ahmadi and each Jamaat turns its attention towards implementing the teachings of the Holy Quran in their own lives and spreading these teachings to the world around them with a greater zeal and effort, so that they truly become deserving of being named "khair-e-ummat" i.e. the best of nations. This is an immense responsibility placed on the shoulder of every Ahmadi, and if it is not carried out, we may fail to receive the favors of Allah. We must remember that God's help and succor is always near, and His favors continue to increase after every adversity, on the condition that we turn towards Him and plead for His Mercy. Huzoor (aba) appealed to the entire Jamaat worldwide to bring about a new fervor and a renewed spirit in their efforts to implement Islamic practices in their lives so that God bestows His love on us and accepts our prayers to raise high the flag of Islam in the world.
The Holy Prophet (saw) and the Promised Messiah (as) have both guaranteed that the recitation of Durood is the formula for acceptance of prayers. But the recitation of Durood is not sufficient; we must meet the standards to become the recipients of the blessings of Durood.
Huzoor (aba) related a Hadith that Hadhrat Anas bin Maalik (rz) narrated that the Holy Prophet (saw) said: for every Durood Shareef that you recite, ten sins are forgiven, ten good deeds are entered into your sheet of actions and elevates his status by ten degrees (Nisai). In view of this Hadith, each and every one of us should strive to attain these blessings by abundantly reciting the Durood.
Hadrat Abu Bakr Siddiq (rz) said that I heard the Beloved Prophet (saw) say that he would intercede for anyone who recites Durood Shareef upon him, on the Day of Judgement. In light of this hadith, it is important to remember that not every person will be deserving of this intercession; only those whose hearts are pure and contain no malice or rancor will be the recipients of such an intercession.
The Holy Prophet (saw) came to the world as a Messenger of peace and unity. Are the Muslims of the world reflecting these teachings of the Prophet (saw)? We hear in the news every day that one Muslim sect has assaulted another, a Muslim suicide bomber has killed so many other Muslims, and so forth. All these groups are Muslims, all recite the Durood, but who will be the recipient of the blessings of reciting Durood? This is a detail we must ponder and reflect upon!
It is also a duty of those who recite the Durood to increase in their love for the Holy Prophet (saw) and his family (blood relatives as well as spiritual relatives i.e. his companions (contemporary and those who were to follow his teachings in the future)), and to also pray for the Ummah to truly understand and reap the benefits of reciting Durood. We can all become closer to Allah by following the example of the Holy Prophet (saw) and the example of those who loved the Holy Prophet (saw). If the Muslim Ummah understands this concept, all conflicts will be resolved. The responsibility of an Ahmadi, however, is to continue to pray and supplicate, and to recite Durood, and to beg for protection and mercy, and to strive to increase in love for the Holy Prophet (saw) and his dear ones, and to exhibit an unparalleled love for them. The Promised Messiah (as) has written abundantly on the truly saintly attributes of the Companions of the Holy Prophet (saw), (Huzoor (aba) read some extracts regarding the virtues of Hadhrat Imam Hussain (rz), Hadhrat Abu Bakr (rz), Hadhrat Umar (rz), and we regard and revere them as the spiritual and physical lineage of the Prophet (saw)).
Huzoor (aba) also mentioned the conflict that is taking place between Israel and Palestine at this time as imbalanced and disproportionate in every sense. The Palestinians should mend their ways and bow before God and beg for His help and implore His Mercy, and recognize the Imam of the present day. If the conflicts in the Muslim world today are not resolved in order to attain peace, Huzoor (aba) says that he foresees a world war not too far into the near future.
May Allah enable Ahmadis to vigorously pray for world peace and protection from war and enable the Ummah to become united, Ameen. Huzoor (aba) prayed for a successful and prosperous year full of blessings for all Ahmadis.
The Jumu'ah (Friday) prayer is one form of congregational worship in Islam. It takes place every Friday. Regular attendance at the Jumu'ah prayer is enjoined on the believer. According to a Saying of Muhammad(sa) this congregational prayer is twenty-five times more blessed than worship performed alone. (Bukhari)
"O ye who believe! When the call is made for Prayer on Friday, hasten to the remembrance of Allah, and leave off all business. That is best for you, if you only knew." more
"… (He who) offers the Prayers and listens quitely when the Imam stands up for sermon, will have his sins forgiven between that Friday and the next" (Bukhari)


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Kirb wrote:Everytime you draw a Gen-Chan, a Space-Chan dies.
Pillywiggin wrote:Couldn't we just replace the logo on her chest???
starline wrote:I posted this in the naming thread. Might as well post it here too.
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Jops wrote:Gen-chan pwning Space-chan
Kirb wrote:Couldn't resist. >_<
Quick sketch.
Oh noes! Who will win?
corgan_dane wrote:Kirb wrote:Couldn't resist. >_<
Quick sketch.
Oh noes! Who will win?
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Free FBML Template for Facebook Fan Pages
With over 400 million people using Facebook, you start to recognize how important it is to have your business brand on Facebook. For real estate, a business fan page is critical, but the fact is, most real estate professionals do not utilize the features and functionality of the page to the best of their ability.
One of the most important things you can do extend your brand on Facebook is to use the FBML application to create a custom look for your page.
Add a custom welcome page and/or IDX search page by adding the FBML application.
Landing on a Facebook "wall" is just boring. It is a wall of information that really doesn't give people the full picture of your real estate business.
And let's face it, most of the real estate content out there is somewhat boring, so create a custom Welcome page that uses proven conversion psychology to call visitors to action to fan your page and push over to your website and lead generators.
See the Arbour Realty example here on the right (and notice the new tab to the right of Wall and Info called "Welcome"). Here are my 2 real estate specific templates. See another real estate FBML example. Here is a live demo for you to view as an example.
Include a brief bio, all your contact information and call to actions to your lead generation tools like property search, market reports, contact form and even community profiles. Resources for buyers and sellers would also be helpful.
For Technical Information (Templates): You MUST have some knowledge of HTML and CSS (box model table-less design) in order to properly customize these templates. You will want to host images on your own server or a service like Photobucket. You will also want to include at least 250 words of keyword rich text, add ALT tags to images and keyword rich anchor text into any links for SEO purposes as Facebook Fan Pages are fully indexed by Google. You will also need to use this tutorial to fix an outstanding bug Facebook introduced in IE8 which requires you to load the CSS externally.
Tutorial: Fix to Facebook's CSS Issues with Internet Explorer 8
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Size of templates conform to new Facebook business page size requirements of 520 pixels.


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Last month in our preview of the third installment of 'Kiss Meets Archie,' Archie had been turned into a zombie and it was up to Kiss to save the day. Which, of course, they did! This time around, it looks like Kiss are the ones in trouble — will they be OK?
Kiss arrive in Riverdale ready to battle evil with the immortal power of rock music — and that's exactly what they do, hitting the stage and busting out a version of 'Rock and Roll All Nite' for their newest fans. But things quickly turn ugly as some uninvited guests show up at the gig. Is the party over, or will Kiss survive to rock another day?
Go ahead and read more about the 'Archie Meets Kiss' project here, and then enjoy our preview into the latest issue of this four-part tale. 'Archie Meets Kiss' issue four hits comic book store shelves on Wednesday, Feb. 22.
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WARSAW, Poland —
An official says the only synagogue near the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz may crumble if the sloping ground it stands on is not reinforced soon.
The Lomdei Mishnayot Synagogue is the only one still in existence in Oswiecim, the southern city where Nazi Germans ran the Auschwitz camp during World War II. It was rededicated in 2000 to try to rekindle the Jewish life that was vibrant in the city before the war.
The head of the related Jewish Center, Tomasz Kuncewicz, said Tuesday that the building is on unstable ground. Work to shore the ground up will start in the spring, but organizers are seeking $330,000 for the effort.
Some 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, were killed at Auschwitz.