Oman is emerging as Iran's Trojan Horse trying to destroy the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) from within.
Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the monarch of Oman since 1970, reportedly played a key role in facilitating the secret U.S.-Iran talks leading up to the November 24 "historic" nuclear deal, according to The Associated Press.
Oman is isolated from much of the rest of the Arabian Peninsula by a formidable mountain range, while Iran is just across the narrow Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway for global oil shipments that has at times raised tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
As early as 2009, according to Wikileaks, the sultanate offered to arrange talks between the U.S. and Iran – which hadn't had diplomatic relations for 30 years – on condition that they were kept quiet. But it was reportedly the hostage crisis of three American "hikers" that brought him into a mediating role between the two sides and helped win the release of the three Americans, who were arrested and accused of spying while hiking along the Iran-Iraq border.
With that success in his pocket, Sultan Qaboos offered to facilitate a U.S.-Iran rapprochement, the AP reports. In March, U.S. and Iranian officials met in Oman, Secretary of State John Kerry followed up in May, and the talks took on a momentum of their own after Hassan Rouhani replaced Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran's June elections.
Sultan Qaboos wasn't in front of the cameras in Geneva, but a news report in the Saudi daily al-Hayat this morning speaks of "fears within the GCC of Iranian-Omani efforts to break up" the six-member club grouping Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman.
Oman and Saudi Arabia bickered publicly over the GCC's future last week at the three-day Manama Dialogue in Bahrain, a forum on Middle East security.
A much-anticipated Gulf union is inevitable and will happen because people in the region are keen on it, Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's former Intelligence Chief who also served as ambassador in both the United States and United Kingdom, told the conference.
He was commenting on remarks made Saturday by Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, the Omani foreign minister, who said his country rejected the Gulf union and would pull out of the club if the union were approved.
"Everyone has the right to express their opinions," Prince Turki retorted. "However, this will not prevent the union from happening. Oman can join it then or later, or not at all," he said.
On the nuclear talks in Geneva last month between the 5+1 world powers and Iran, Prince Turki said they lacked a "very important factor" – namely, the participation of Iran's Gulf neighbors.
"I don't know the reasons for that… because eventually we are the ones that will be affected by anything -- a military event or a nuclear leak or any earthquake that may hit the [nuclear] sites in Iran," he remarked.
The six GCC partners hold their annual year-end summit in Kuwait, tomorrow, Tuesday.
The region is unlike the one that existed three years ago.
Iraq's disintegration is an undeniable fact. The dismemberment of Yemen is flagrant. What looked like a Syrian intifada turned out to be a sectarian war feeding tension into the neighbors' arteries.
Today's world is much more dangerous than the world that witnessed the birth of the GCC in 1981.
Bar Israel, four key regional states will play a dominant role in this difficult phase depending on their respective internal stability, resources and alliances.
They are Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran and Turkey.
GCC leaders who meet in Kuwait tomorrow are aware of the magnitude of the threats to stability and roles. They know the importance of adapting to change.
Oman's attitude clearly unveiled that the Gulf union's journey won't be trouble-free.
But sensitivities should not forestall attempts to reconcile views of the various GCC member states on how to handle this phase of containing risks and assigning roles.


Babysitting is one of the easiest ways to make money whilst still performing a convenient and necessary task. Furthermore, if you are a high school or university student (which most babysitters are) you can babysit for parents that go out for the night. This means that after you feed, entertain and tend to the needs of whoever's child you are taking care of. You can then put them to bed, open up your laptop, and study for an exam or write a paper. This technique can make it easier to balance school work with financial gain.
You may be asking yourself, "how does one find parents who are in need of a babysitter?" It's actually quite simple. You might know friends and/or friends of friends or maybe a neighbor who has kids. If this is the case its as easy as asking them if they need help with their child/children. Another easy way to land a job as a babysitter is to advertise yourself on craigslist, or if you wanna take it one step further, you can join a babysitting agency. This option is less personal but it might be more fitting to your lifestyle.
If you do go to a university or high school there is an even better opportunity. Parents of small children who are looking for child care are always looking for people they can trust, and if you go to a school there is a high chance that there are parents who have younger children who are looking for child care. Who knows, maybe you can land a job looking after your classmates little sibling. The easiest way to reach out to parents in your school community is by putting up a flyer on campus or on designated bulletin boards within your building. Parents will also prefer a member of the school community over a random stranger so if you have this opportunity I highly advise you give it a try.
How much can you make babysitting?
If you are wondering how much babysitting pays, it depends primarily on a couple of factors, these being how financially stable the family you're working for is and what kind of child care that you are providing (overnight, daycare, etc). My golden rule is that you should never be paid less than 10 euro/dollar/pound an hour, unless you're helping out a friend of course. In closing, Babysitting can be some of the most rewarding work, especially if you enjoy the company of children and you like helping people out. A ready and able babysitter can help save the night of a parent in need.


The Angry Young Man is no longer as angry or young. Like a fine wine, aged and mellow, corked, turning to vinegar, the sediment rests on the bottom of the bottle until it is stirred, not shaken. Hardstock 08 was everything and more, raising more money for Scott than even we thought we could (almost $25,000). But on a deeper level, it brought people out from the shadows and grips of the computer and television screens and lawn mowing, and bathroom cleaning that is their everyday life. People were given the opportunity to reconnect with friends in a far more personal way than even Facebook. I say that without sarcasm, as Facebook is quite amazing in its ability to reconnect, and to bring together people who really don't know each other. We now have friends, and Facebook friends. And often, the Facebook friends become real friends. This is the real gift and purpose of these shows. Networking sounds like something that only guys in suits can do; in reality, we all are linked in so many ways. Often we just need a small push in the right direction, and then the magic happens.


Area 51 is code name of secret military air force base. Area 51 is a secret military Air Force base of United State Air Force (USAF) located about 90 miles about Las Vegas, Nevada. According to CIA the correct name of Area 51 is Homey Airport. It is also know as Groom lake .The size of the base is six miles wide by ten miles long. Recently the Federal government has seized an additional 85,000 acres surrounding the base to keep observers at a distance.
Former Deputy CIA Director and a bunch of other high military positions. If you know anything about the military, you know who this guy is.
Former Deputy Director of the CIA.
Former DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Director.
Area 51 was first opened in 1955 as a testing facility for the U-2 spy plane being developed by Lockheed Aircraft. Area 51 has since become a popular symbol for the U.S. government Alien/UFO cover-up. Area 51 is supposedly where recovered alien spacecraft are being tested and reversed-engineered to learn how they work.
S-4 is a parcel of land that is a part of Area 51. The most secret research actually takes place there. Or so we've been told.
Secret? Hardly. This military base is so well known that every school kid in America recognizes its name. It has been a part of most UFO researcher's vocabulary for decades. Every military power in the world is aware of Area 51. As part of an international treaty called the "Open Skies Treaty," the United States Government is required to fly other countries over the base upon demand. The U.S. government has reciprocal privileges for their bases. Not only that, but Area 51 is not just a U.S. base, it is an international base being run by a consortium of many countries.
Partly as a result of this arrangement there are literally thousands of air surveillance and satellite photographs available of this "secret" base. Russian surveillance photographs taken from their satellites of Area 51 are available to anyone over the Internet any day, anytime, for free! I have even included one for you in this chapter. This base may be many things, but one thing it's not is secret!
In April 1994 Popular Science magazine featured a satellite photo of the Groom Lake base on the cover. The issue contained an article on the base and its history. This ignited mainstream media interest in learning more about Area 51. Even TV personality and broadcaster Larry King has gone to Area 51 and done a whole show from a set just outside the perimeter. If Larry King knows, how secret could it be?
When I say Aurora, I'm not talking about your dad's Oldsmobile. The Aurora is a new kind of supersonic plane that allegedly flies out of Area 51. Its estimated cost: $15 billion! It runs on controlled explosions of cryogenic (real cold) methane or ammonia. Estimated speed: eight times the speed of sound, or around 6,000 miles per hour. It leaves a vapor trail from the engine's explosions that resemble donuts strung on a rope.
The aerodynamics of the Aurora are reported to be very different from conventional aircraft. Thus, the Aurora is a very dangerous craft to fly and has had an exceedingly high casualty rate.
As reported in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and on CBS's "60 Minutes," Area 51 is being sued. A number of workers at the base have exhibited strange symptoms, such as watching their skin turn flaming red and then fall off. Several have died recently and their relatives are suing the U.S. government. Other employees have come forward and stated that the base has engaged heavily in illegal toxic waste dumping and burning, resulting in the employee deaths.
The lawsuit and the allegations are serious. The government is afraid the veil of secrecy about the very existence of this base could be lifted and is arguing that any disclosure about Area 51 could pose a "serious risk" to national security.
Bill Clinton has signed an executive order exempting Area 51 (Groom Lake) from releasing its environmental reports to the public. See the full text of Clinton's executive order in the 'Documents' section.
Bob Lazar says that nine alien saucers are housed there to learn how they work. (That's reverse-engineering, for all you techno-geeks.) Lazar's saga is long and controversial. After coming forward and making his statements, Lazar's records of employment and evidence of his attending school all disappeared. He was later indicted and plea-bargained on a charge of pandering and solicitation.
However, Lazar was working as a bookkeeper at the time. One of his clients was running a prostitution ring on the side. It was well established that Lazar was bookkeeping only for the client's legitimate business and was not involved in his client's shady side business. It was evident from the beginning that the real target was Lazar.
Another Area 51 worker who goes by the name of Jarod 2 confirms Lazar's story. Supposedly, Jarod (pronounced Jay-rod) was the name given an alien who was housed at the base. The alias, Jarod 2, is a reference to this alien being.
Jarod 2 is a seventy-year old retired engineer. He says he worked for thirty years designing reproductions of alien flying saucers. He also says he has seen gray alien beings during his work on the project. Jarod 2 says his former employers have given him permission to speak semi-publicly about his experiences in order to help prepare the American public about the truth of alien existence. Jarod 2 states that the project is even more advanced than Lazar was aware of.


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JOURNAL of an expedition to the Molucca Islands under the command of Admiral Rainier. Madras, October In consequence of the unforeseen success of the French in overturning the Government of Holland, and from an apprehension of the Dutch colonies falling under the dominion of that power, an expedition was fitted out at Madras, by orders.
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The expedition to the Molucca Islands was accompanied by the Jesuits; there are many Christians there, who are oppressed by the Dutch heretics. Page 13 Many of the reports in this document mention miraculous cures, and deliverances from danger; and state that in many cases the Indian converts practice scourging as a token of devotion.
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Navy Seal Special Operation team traveled to Antarctica to investigate a perfectly geometric 8-sided octagon structure discovered by ground penetrating radar near Beardmore Glacier, about 93 miles from the American McMurdo Station. Inthe Nassau Fleet, sailing from the Island Guahan for the Molucca Islands, saw two Islands, one of them in latitude 10° 18' N, according to their reckoning; the other in 9° 45' N.
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pearl harbor to guadalcanal history of u. s. marine corps operations in world war ii volume i. by lieutenant colonel frank o. hough, usmcr major verl13 e. ludwig, usmc. History is filled with brave explorers who tirelessly sought to fill out the edges of our known world.
Often these expeditions have taken years of determined wandering into uncharted territory. Here is a list of the top 10 famous explorers who have returned as heroes, whose names echo out in history as the greatest explorers of their time: Author: Loni Perry.This book was written by a Marine Corps information officer who was present.
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In this one-hour instructional DVD (with 24-page book) James Alan Shelton and George Shuffler demonstrate and teach the guitar techniques that helped change the role of the guitar in bluegrass music. The music of the Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys has featured lead guitar work since Bill Napier and George Shuffler brought the guitar to the forefront of the Stanley's music in the late 1950s. This video begins with James Alan Shelton, the current lead guitar player for Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, picking a tune with the legendary George Shuffler. James then interviews George regarding the development of his "crosspicking" guitar technique. George demonstrates the technique and provides a guitar solo to one of the tunes he helped to make a bluegrass standard, "Will You Miss Me." George and James then pick "Katy Dear" together and demonstrate their crosspicking talents.
The instructional portion of the video begins with James Alan Shelton demonstrating the crosspicking roll and providing several exercises which will serve to train your right hand to gain skill with the crosspicking technique. James then teaches a "turnaround" to "Rank Stranger" which utilizes the crosspicking technique to "fill in the gaps" between vocal lines. He then shows how to take the simple melody line of a song, "Uncloudy Day," and incorporate the crosspicking technique between the melody notes. Next, James teaches a crosspicking break to "Bury Me Beneath the Weeping Willow" and follows that tune by demonstrating how to transform a Carter style guitar solo into a crosspicking solo using the song "Wildwood Flower" as an example. The next section of the video features James teaching two of his original flatpicking tunes "Road to Coeburn" and "Tom's Creek." This is followed by a fingerstyle performance of Ralph Stanley's favorite guitar number, "Cannonball Blues." James concludes the instructional portion of the video by talking about his selection of guitar strings, picks, and capos and provides "tricks of the trade" to help you keep your flatpick in good shape. George and James both talk about their signature model Huss & Dalton guitars and the video concludes with George and James picking "Banks of the Ohio" together. All of the songs that are taught in the video are transcribed in the accompanying transcription book.
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Surah Al-Mu'minun Ayat 7 (23:7 Quran) With Tafsir
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Surah Mu'minun Ayat 7 in Arabic Text
فَمَنِ ٱبْتَغَىٰ وَرَآءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْعَادُونَ
Famanib taghaa waraaa'a zaalika fa ulaaa'ika humul 'aadoon
But whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the transgressors –
But those whose desires exceed those limits are transgressors;-
As for those who seek beyond that, they are transgressors"
But whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the transgressors;
But whoso craveth beyond that, such are transgressors –
Then whoever inequitably seeks beyond that, then those are the aggressors themselves
but anyone who seeks more than this is exceeding the limits––
For those looking for commentary to help with the understanding of Surah Mu'minun ayat 7, we've provided two Tafseer works below. The first is the tafseer of Abul Ala Maududi, the second is of Ibn Kathir.
(23:7) As for those who seek beyond that, they are transgressors"[7]
7. This is a parenthesis which is meant to remove the common misunderstanding that sex desire is an evil thing in itself and satisfying it even in lawful ways is not desirable, particularly for the righteous and godly people. This misunderstanding would have been strengthened, had it been only said that the believers guard their private parts scrupulously, because it would have implied that they live unmarried lives, away from the world, like monks and hermits. Therefore a parenthesis has been added to say that there is nothing wrong in satisfying the sex desire in lawful ways. What is evil is that one should transgress the prescribed limits for satisfying the sex desire.
Here are briefly a few injunctions which are based on this parenthetical clause.
(1) Two categories of women have been excluded from the general command of guarding the private parts: (a) wives, (b) women who are legally in one's possession, i.e. slavegirls. Thus the verse clearly lays down the law that one is allowed to have sexual relations with his slave-girl as with his wife. The basis being possession and not marriage. If marriage had been the condition, the slave-girl also would have been included among the wives, and there was no need to mention them separately. Some modern commentators, who dispute the permissibility of having sexual relations with the slave-girl, argue from (Surah An-Nisa, Ayat 25 )to prove that one can have sexual relations with a slave-girl only after entering wedlock with her, because that verse enjoins that if a person cannot afford to marry a free Muslim woman, he may marry a Muslim slave-girl. But these commentators have a strange characteristic. They accept a part of a verse if it suits them, but conveniently ignore another part of the same verse if it goes against their wish and whim. The law about marrying the slave-girls as enunciated in (Surah An-Nisa, Ayat 25) reads: You may marry them with the permission of their guardians and give them their fair dowries. Obviously the person under reference here is not the master of the slave-girl himself but the person who cannot afford to marry a free Muslim woman, and therefore, wants to marry a slave-girl, who is in the possession of another person. For if the question had been of marrying his own slave-girl, who would then be the guardian whose permission would have to be sought? Then, the interpretation they give of this verse contradicts other verses dealing with the same subject in the Quran. A sincere person who wants to understand the Quranic law in this regard should study (Surah An-Nisa, Ayats 3, 25); (Surah Al-Ahzab, Ayats 50, 52), and (Surah Al-Maarij Ayat 30 )together with this verse of Al-Mominoon. (For further explanation, see (E.N. 44 of Surah An-Nisa)
(2) The law prescribed in the parenthesis is only applicable to men as is clear from the text. A woman in the time of Umar did not understand this fine point of the language and indulged in sexual gratification with her slave. When her case was brought before the consultative body of the companions, they gave the unanimous decision: She misinterpreted the Book of Allah. Nobody should entertain the doubt that if this exception is meant for the men only, how could then the husbands become lawful for the wives? This doubt is unjustified because when the husbands are exempted from the command of guarding their private parts in regard to their wives, the wives automatically stand exempted from the command with regard to their husbands, and there is no need to grant them exemption separately. Thus the command of exemption remains applicable and effective only in respect of the man and the woman legally in his possession, and the slave becomes unlawful for the woman possessing him. The wisdom of why the slave has been forbidden to the woman is that he can only satisfy her sexual desire but cannot become guardian and governor of herself and her household, which leaves a serious flaw in the family life.
(3) The sentence "Then whoever seeks beyond that, so it is they who are the transgressors" has made satisfaction of sex desire in other ways unlawful, whether it be through fornication, homosexuality, sex gratification with animals, or some other means. The jurists differ only with regard to masturbation. Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal regards it as lawful, but Imams Malik and Shafai regard it as absolutely unlawful: and though the Hanafites also regard it as unlawful, they give the opinion that if a person indulges sometimes in masturbation under the fit of passion, it is expected that he will be forgiven the error.
(4) Some commentators have proved the prohibition of mutah (temporary marriage) from this verse. They argue that the woman with whom one has entered into wedlock temporarily, can neither be regarded as a wife nor a slavegirl. She is obviously not a slave-girl, and she is also not a wife, because the legal injunctions normally applicable to the wife are not applicable to her. She cannot inherit the wealth of the man. Likewise, the man cannot inherit her wealth. She is neither governed by the law pertaining to Iddah (waiting period after divorce or death of husband), divorce, subsistence, nor by that pertaining to the vow by man that he will not have conjugal relations with her, false accusation, etc. She is also excluded from the prescribed limit of four wives. Thus, when she is neither a wife nor a slave-girl in any sense, she will naturally be included among those "beyond this", whose seeker has been declared as a "transgressor" by the Quran.
This is a strong argument but due to a weakness in it, it is difficult to say that this verse is decisive with regard to the prohibition of mutah. The fact is that the Prophet (peace be upon him) enjoined the final and absolute prohibition of mutah in the year of the conquest of Makkah, but before it mutah was allowed according to several authentic traditions. If mutah had been prohibited in this verse, which was admittedly revealed at Makkah, several years before the migration, how can it be imagined that the Prophet (peace be upon him) kept the prohibition in abeyance till the conquest of Makkah? The correct position therefore is that prohibition of mutah is not based on any express law of the Quran but is based on the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace be upon him). Had it not been prohibited by the Sunnah, it would have been difficult to declare it as prohibited only on the authority of this verse.
It would be worth-while to clarify two other points in connection with mutah:
(a) lts prohibition is based on the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and therefore it is wrong to say that it was prohibited by Umar. As a matter of fact, Umar only enforced it as a law of Islam and publicised it among the people. This had not been done earlier because the Prophet (peace be upon him) had forbidden mutah only during the latter part of his worldly life.
(b) The Shiite view that mutah is absolutely lawful and permissible has no sanction and support in the Quran or Sunnah. The fact is that a few of the companions, their followers and jurists who regarded it permissible in the early days of Islam, did so only in case of extreme necessity and need. None of them held the view that it was absolutely lawful like marriage and could be practised in normal circumstances. Abdullah bin Abbas, who is generally cited as a prominent supporter of the view of permissibility, has himself explained his position thus: It is just like carrion which is lawful for a person only in extreme necessity. Even Ibn Abbas had to revise his opinion when he saw that people were abusing permissibility and had started practising mutah freely regardless of genuine need and necessity. Again, even if the question, whether Ibn Abbas and the few likeminded jurists had revised their opinion or not, is ignored, the fact is that the supporters of mutah allow it only in case of extreme necessity. Holding mutah as absolutely permissible, practising it without any real necessity, or resorting to it even when one has a legally wedded wife or wives is a kind of licence which is abhorred by good taste, much less it be attributed to the Shariah of Muhammad (peace be upon him) and imputed to the learned jurists of his family. I think that among the Shiite Muslims themselves no respectable person would like that somebody should ask for the hand of his daughter or sister not in marriage but for the purpose of mutah. For, if mutah is held as absolutely permissible, it would imply that there should exist in society a low class of women, like the prostitutes, who should be available for the purpose as and when required, or if not that, mutah be restricted to the daughters and sisters of the poor stratum of society and the well-to-do be given the freedom and right to exploit them as and when they like. Can such an injustice and discrimination be expected of the divine law? And will Allah and His Messenger permit an act which every respectable woman would regard not only disgraceful for herself but shameful, too?
The tafsir of Surah Al-Muminun verse 7 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Muminun ayat 1 which provides the complete commentary from verse 1 through 11.
Surah Mu'minun
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Lacey Thomas
Lacey Thomas is a native New Yorker who began training at the Dance Theatre of Harlem School under the direction of the late artistic director emeritus Arthur Mitchell; she received a graduate certificate from the Professional Training Program in 2013. She became a member of New York City Opera Children's Division at age 12, performing in Verdi's Macbeth, Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, and Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Ms. Thomas has also studied modern, jazz, tap, and African genres, and, while majoring in business management at the City College of New York, she continued her professional training with the Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble. She joined Charlotte Ballet II in 2013 and performed in works including Balanchine's Western Symphony and Jean-Pierre Bounefoux's Cinderella.
Ms. Thomas has performed as a guest artist for the Albano Ballet Company in Hartford, Connecticut, and at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and she was featured as a ballet dancer and instructor in the documentary Black Ballerina. After starting her own open hip hop classes she founded her own dance company, LEGACY, in 2018. The hip hop–based company uses her ballet background in training aspiring professionals as versatile dancers. Lacey Thomas is the first hip hop faculty instructor at the Dance Theatre of Harlem School, and she leads the dance department at Urban Academy Laboratory High School.
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Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition will include everything from the original release of Street Fighter V, along with the addition of brand new gameplay-related content including Arcade Mode, Extra Battle Mode, Gallery, New V-Triggers, a completely redesigned User Interface and more. Current Street Fighter V players will also receive all of this new content for free via an in-game update when Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition releases. In North America and Europe, the new version will be available physically and digitally on PlayStation 4 and as a digital download on Windows PC.
Current players of Street Fighter V and future owners of Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition will be placed into the same player pool, with PS4 and PC cross-platform play continuing to unite fans into a unified player base. The initial Street Fighter V purchase is still the only one that consumers need to make to ensure they always have the most up-to-date version of the title. All of the post launch gameplay content, such as the DLC characters in Street Fighter V, is earnable completely free of charge through completing various in-game challenges and receiving earned in-game currency, called Fight Money. For those who just can't wait to unlock each piece of new content, content can also be obtained instantly using purchased in-game currency.
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CHESTERTOWN — Though this year's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast will look different, with the theme of "We're All in This Together," keynote speaker Bishop Ronald Fisher said he still sees the event as an opportunity to speak directly to the community.
"It gives me the opportunity to provide some hope, direction and some insight to the myriad of challenges that we are certainly facing today," Fisher, pastor at Faith Life Church in Chestertown, said in a telephone interview Monday. "And to help speak to the racial disparity that unfortunately that we are still grappling with in 2021."
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the annual breakfast that is typically held at the Rock Hall firehouse will move to a virtual format this year.
The event will be live streamed at 9 a.m. Monday, Jan. 18 on the YouTube channel for the Presbyterian Church of Chestertown. A direct link will be published before the event.
Though the event is free to watch, donations are being accepted to raise funds for local charities. Donations may be sent to: Chester Valley Ministers Association with the memo: MLK Jr. Breakfast, P.O. Box 227, Chestertown, MD 21620.
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In light of the pandemic, this year's Humanitarian Award recipients will be given to essential workers during the pandemic. Recipients include health care workers, those who aided in food distribution efforts, first responders as well as other essential personnel.
Grants also will be announced during the breakfast for the Vincent Hynson Scholarship fund at Washington College, the Kent County Food Pantry, the Good Neighbor Fund and the Samaritan Group.
Fisher, a graduate of Queen Anne's County High School who earned his doctorate from the National School of Theology, has been involved with Faith Life Church since 1976. He became senior pastor there in 1990, but began his tenure as assistant pastor.
Fisher said, though much of everyday life has been impacted by the coronavirus, there are still ways to reach out to the community and serve his congregants.
"This year will be probably like no other," Fisher said. "We have an assignment. The pandemic — although it has changed our method, it has not in any way changed our message. So it has created new ways of thinking and different approaches to how to reach people, because we're in the people business."
Despite in-person services being limited right now due to social distancing orders, Fisher said Faith Life Church's virtual platform has allowed him to preach to a larger audience than he likely ever reached on a weekly basis.
"We took on the challenge of learning new ways of communicating and stepping outside of our normal," Fisher said.
Fisher said serving as the keynote speaker for the breakfast gives him the opportunity to "stand on the shoulders" of the great leaders who came before him.
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Q: Swift: Substring based on a character I'm getting information from an API and one of the fields is a DateTime in this format:
2014-12-12T14:44:18.973
I would like to remove the "T" and anything after it so in the end, I get:
2014-12-12
Any ideas or leads on how to do this with Swift? Unfortunately, I can't just create an NSDate out of directly as it throws an Exception.
In the end, I want to have something like 12-12-2014 in a string format.
Thanks!

A: This actually isn't too bad. What you're looking for is rangeOfString() to find out where "T" is. If you call .startIndex on that, you can find out where the first occurrence of that "T" is.
Once you have that, you can just create a substring from the beginning of the string to that point like this:
let date: String = dateTime.substringWithRange(Range<String.Index>(start: dateTime.startIndex, end: dateTime.rangeOfString("T")!.startIndex))

If you wanted to take that and turn it into an NSDate, you could use an NSDateFormatter:
let formatter: NSDateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"

let newDate: NSDate = formatter.dateFromString(date)! // "Dec 12, 2014, 12:00 AM"

If you don't want that time piece at the end and just want to output the date in a different style than that returned by the API, you could add this:
formatter.dateStyle = .ShortStyle // Change this to modify the style of the date that is returned in the next line
let formattedDate: String = formatter.stringFromDate(newDate) // "12/12/14"

A: Fortunately, You CAN just create an NSDate out of it directly as follow:
extension String {
    func toDateFormattedWith(format:String)-> NSDate {
        let formatter = NSDateFormatter()
//      formatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone(forSecondsFromGMT: 0)  // you can set GMT time
        formatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone.localTimeZone()        // or as local time
        formatter.dateFormat = format
        return formatter.dateFromString(self)!
    }
}

There is many ways to pick just the date from that string. I would use the following approach:
let myDate = "2014-12-12T14:44:18.973".componentsSeparatedByString("T")[0].toDateFormattedWith("yyyy-MM-dd") // "Dec 12, 2014, 12:00 AM"

You can also create an extension to extract that info from the Date object:
public extension NSDate {
    var day:    Int { return NSCalendar.currentCalendar().components(NSCalendarUnit.CalendarUnitDay,    fromDate: self).day    }
    var month:  Int { return NSCalendar.currentCalendar().components(NSCalendarUnit.CalendarUnitMonth,  fromDate: self).month  }
    var year:   Int { return NSCalendar.currentCalendar().components(NSCalendarUnit.CalendarUnitYear,   fromDate: self).year   }

    var dateAt12am: NSDate {
        return NSCalendar.currentCalendar().dateWithEra(1, year: year, month: month, day: day, hour: 0, minute: 0, second: 0, nanosecond: 0)!
    }
}

let myDate1 = "2014-12-12T14:44:18.973".toDateFormattedWith("yyyy-MM-dd\'T\'HH:mm:ss.SSS").dateAt12am

println(myDate1)  // "2014-12-12 02:00:00 +0000" (12am local time)

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I held my first Avebury workshop of the year last Saturday (Jan. 10), and a group of us turned out to start our journey through 2015 – with healing and inspiration from the stone circle. The wind and cold didn't matter, it was just part of being there outside for the day.
We were all given either a message, a gift, or homework by stones chosen by each of us individually, all of which are living conduits for the love we are held in by the universe. The day was meant to give each one of us something to take away to build on and grow.
There are spaces left on the next two workshops on 31 Jan and 28 Feb. (www.candacecaddick.com/calendar/avebury-i-flyer-jan-10-31-and-feb-28/)If you are interested in coming. Please read http://www.spirit-horse.net/blog/avebury-workshop to read an account of one participant's experience!