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20 May 2008, 12:10 am
This is part of the wealthy automobile mecca of SantaMonica, Westwood and of course Beverly Hills. [read post]
31 Mar 2008, 6:12 pm
Muslims on a pilgrimage to Mecca, but when is the Hajj? [read post]
24 Feb 2008, 9:06 pm
A weekly (or thereabouts) collection of news about counterfeits, fakes, knockoffs, replicas, imitations, and the culture of copying in general around the globe: Knockoff Oscars: 2008 Plagiarius awards announcedNo touch of mink: TTAB rules that "Mink" is misdescriptive for synthetic shoesOne ring to rule them both: PA court rules c.z. engagement ring didn't invalidate prenupBrutta figura: Fakes, immigrant sweatshop labor cheapen "Made in Italy" labelItalianate… [read post]
22 Feb 2008, 3:10 pm
I think a lot of people view the Library of Congress as sort of a mecca for the librarian profession, and I try to do my best to cater to the diversity of audiences that the library itself serves. [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 8:36 pm
Today I visited Wisconsin's cheese mecca, Monroe, home to the Monroe High School Cheesemakers. [read post]
9 Feb 2008, 11:00 pm
One false variant seems to include defining Yamanaka as a CIRM grant recipient ("he's one of us") or as drawn to California by Proposition 71 ("we're the mecca. [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 8:10 pm
So with fellow legal blawgers Brett Burney (Burney Consultants and EDiscoveryInfo.com and Jeff Beard (from LawTech Guru), who happened to be staying in the same hotel, we trekked up from W. 49th to the Cholesterol Mecca of the Western World, the famous shrine to corned beef, pastrami, knishes and the most spectacularly perfect sour pickles on the planet, Carnegie Deli at 55th and 7th Ave. [read post]
13 Jan 2008, 1:43 am
Orlando, Florida As home to Disney World, the United States' single most annoying vacation spot, this cultureless mecca would supply any interested monster with the maximum amount of obnoxious picture-snapping, kneesock-wearing tourists to decapitate. [read post]
20 Dec 2007, 11:14 pm
Internal Security Ministry official Che Din Yusoff says that there are also three other Malay words that may not be used by other religions: "solat" (prayers), "kaabah" (the place of Muslim worship in Mecca) and "baitula" (the house of Allah). [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 5:04 pm
Al-Jazirah newspaper quoted a Saudi Justice Ministry official saying King Abdullah issued a royal pardon Monday -- the same day that the Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, begins in Saudi Arabia. [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 11:00 am
Both Clark County and Atlantic City are gaming meccas, a point not lost on Victor Schwartz, the GC of the ATRF and a partner at Shook Hardy. [read post]
12 Dec 2007, 8:00 am
Officials are still trying to determine what caused the early morning crash, which occurred in a farming community in small-town Mecca. [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 12:57 pm
I opined at the time that this seemed, well, unseemly, never imagining that it could get worse.Silly me:"OVERWORKED nurses have been ordered to stop all medical work five times every day to move Muslim patients' beds so they face towards Mecca. [read post]
21 Nov 2007, 2:09 pm
I'll be there in a few weeks and give you a report, but for the long run much of the smart money is on Shanghai or even other meccas in Southeast Asia such as Singapore. [read post]
21 Nov 2007, 12:25 pm
The explosions will be near simultaneous with the city specifically chosen in different time zones to allow for multiple attacks at the same time.The 22nd of October will mark the final day of Ramadan as it will fall in Mecca, Al-Qaeda will automatically be blamed for the attacks later through Al-Jazeera, Osama Bin Laden will issue a video message claiming responsibility for what he dubs "America's Hiroshima". [read post]
20 Nov 2007, 9:25 am
Must be nice.According to a Daily Record cover story about the construction of the mixed-use Mecca, "National Harbor will include (PDF) the Gaylord resort, five other hotels, 2,500 residential units, 1.5 million square feet of commercial space, four piers and two marinas. [read post]
22 Oct 2007, 4:02 pm
I love Mount Vernon, but is it really a mecca for migrating senior citizens? [read post]
22 Oct 2007, 5:10 am
Coleman, 305 AD2d 151 [1st Dept 2003]; Mecca v. [read post]
22 Oct 2007, 1:23 am
Over the last year or so I've struggled with some health problems that caused my doctor to prescribe one of the medicines now named by drug enforcers as a primary target, according to the Houston Chronicle ("Southeast Texas called 'mecca' for pill pushers," Oct. 22). [read post]
19 Oct 2007, 12:10 am
The EEOC has filed a lawsuit in a Tennessee federal court against Southern Hills Medical Center in Nashville alleging that it refused to accommodate a Muslim employee's request to use earned vacation time to make his Pilgrimage to Mecca. [read post]
