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AMORE RESTAURANT, 223 Northern Blvd., Clarks Summit: Saturday, Music For Models; Sunday, Karaoke featuring Honey Do.
APPLEBEE’S NEIGHBORHOOD GRILL & BAR, Viewmont Mall, Dickson City: Wednesdays, Tony Vergnetti.
BLUE PELICAN, Dalton Road, Lake Winola: today, Chris Gratz.
BLUES STREET, Ritz Building, 222 Wyoming Ave.: today, The Sw!ms, Bottle-Up & Go and the Shackeltons; Saturday, Clarence Spady Band.
COSGROVE’S CLUBHOUSE AND TAVERN, 315 Green Ridge St.: today, Music For Models; Saturday, Dashboard Mary; Monday, Quizzo.
E STREET PUB AND EATERY, 223 W. Market St.: Saturday, DJ Karaoke with Missy.
GRESHAM’S CHOPHOUSE, Hawley: Saturday, Indigo 6.
GUBBIO’S, 411 Chestnut St., Dunmore: today, High Tension Wires; Saturday, Bill and Donna Arnold.
GYPSIES NIGHTCLUB AND LOUNGE, Mount Airy Casino Resort, Mount Pocono: today, Tandem; Saturday, Picture Perfect.
HARRY AND BILLY’S RESTAURANT, 1822 Bundy St.: Thursdays, Tony Costa Trio.
LABS FROSTED MUGS, 1369 Adams Ave., Dunmore: Thursdays, open mike with Fud.
MANHATTAN DRIVE JAZZ CLUB, Holiday Inn Scranton East, 200 Tigue St., Dunmore: Saturdays, The Girlz; Wednesdays, Tony Costa Trio.
MERT’S, 302 Penn Ave: Saturday, John Quinn.
THE NEW PENNY, 1827 N. Main Ave.: today, The Mess; Saturday, Limerence.
PJ’S PUB, Hilton Scranton and Conference Center, 100 Adams Ave.: today, The Third Nut; Saturday, Jim Taylor.
ROCKY’S, 141 Jefferson Ave.: today, Destination West; Saturday, DJ Jason Miller.
SCRANTON WISECRACKERS CLUB, Clarion Hotel, Meadow Avenue: Wednesdays, open mike.
SKYTOP LODGE, Skytop: Saturdays, Doug Smith Orchestra.
STATE STREET GRILL, 114 S. State St., Clarks Summit: Wednesdays, Marko Marcinko Latin Jazz Group.
STATIC NIGHT CLUB, I-81, Scott Exit 199: Thursdays, DJ and karaoke with Deborah; Friday and Saturday, DJ Karaoke with Music Sensations.
TRAILSIDE INN, Route 11, Factoryville: Thursdays, Gypsy Park.
TRAX, Radisson at Lackawanna Station hotel, 700 Lackawanna Ave.: John and Rick of Nowhere Slow and DJ Chris Price; Saturday, Ben O’Leary.
WHISTLE’S PUB AND EATERY, 126 Franklin Ave.: Thursdays, karaoke with Tony Piazza; today, Absolute Trust; Sundays, karaoke with DJ WJOY.

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Andrea Marcovicci presents “I’ll be Seeing You…Love Songs of World War II.” Two shows: 6p.m. and 8:30p.m. Saturday, June 14, at Hidden Valley Music Seminars, Carmel Valley Road at Ford Road, Carmel Valley. Benefits a new theater roof at Hidden Valley. Tickets: $45 for theater seating, $1,000 for two tickets at a table or $1,500 for eight tickets at a table. Table seating includes complimentary wine and appetizers. 659-3115.
Girl Scouts Dreambuilders fundraising breakfast. 9:30-11a.m. Saturday, June 14, at the Inn at Spanish Bay, 2700 17 Mile Drive, Pebble Beach. Featuring the Girl Scout Choir in vintage uniforms. Free. Donations welcome. Reservations required. Mark Boos at 633-4877 ext. 110 or mboos@gsomb.org.
Grand Victorian ball in San Juan Bautista. Dance begins at 7p.m. Saturday, June 14, at the San Juan Bautista Community Center, San Jose Street east of Second Street, San Juan Bautista. Tickets include dance instruction from 2-3p.m. in the Saloon at San Juan Bautista State Historic Park. Dessert buffet at 11p.m. Victorian dress encouraged but not required. Benefits the Plaza History Association and San Juan Bautista State Historic Park. $50 per person. Irene Schultz at 902-0728 or irene@sanjuanwoodworks.com.
St. Matthias’ Episcopal Church rummage sale. 8a.m.-1p.m. Saturday,
June 14, at St. Matthias’ Episcopal Church, corner of Kimball and Noche Buena, Seaside. Featuring a large selection of collectibles. 624-7268.
Multiple Sclerosis Community Services fourth annual yard sale. 8a.m.-3p.m. Saturday, June 14, at 546 Abbott St., Salinas. Selling furniture, appliances, clothes, toys and more. Jan Wermuth at 758-1663.
Paul Porter Memorial Tournament and Barbecue. 12:30p.m. registration, 1:30p.m. tournament and 5:30p.m. dinner on Monday, June 16, at Poppy Hills Golf Course, 3200 Lopez Road, Pebble Beach. Golf tournament, putting contest, tee prizes, barbecue dinner and a hole-in-one chance to win a new car. Golf tournament and dinner: $175 per person. Dinner only: $50 per person. Benefits Carmel schools. 624-2832.

montereyherald.com

As the rising sounds of oriental percussion and lutes resonated around him, the frail Sufi chanter struck a glass with prayer beads in fast repetitive movements. His vibrant voice sang love for the prophet Mohammed.
The man featured at a cultural center in Cairo was Sheikh Ahmad Al-Tuni, one of Egypt’s emblematic figures of Sufism, a school of Islam with mystical dimensions. Al-Tuni represents an old line of performers of musical and singing traditions transmitted orally from generation to generation.
Sufis believe they can transcend into a state of altered consciousness and experience closeness to Allah, or God. This is usually achieved through a set of rituals that involve whirling the head or the body to intense rhythmic music and repetitive chanting of divine names.
Sheikh Ahmad al-Rifai, a founder of a Sufi order in Iraq in the 12th century, described the relationship between God and a Sufi man:
"Who loves Allah, allows himself to become modest, and does not like anything other than Him. Servitude to Allah is an attribute that who has it does not esteem anything other than Him. The perfection of servitude is freedom, which means salvation from submitting yourself to things other than Allah."
Sufi musical traditions are still often performed in Egypt during religious ceremonies, called "Mulid," which celebrate the birthday of ancient notables or religious figures. These ceremonies marked all over Egypt involve mystical chants, dance and other performances.
—Raed Rafei in Cairo
Video: one of Sheikh Ahmad Al Tuni’s chants featured in the 2000 film "Vengo," shot in the Spanish region of Andalusia by French director of Gypsy ethnicity Tony Gatlif.

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RAMADI, Iraq (AFP) — Iraqi police on Wednesday arrested a senior militant and close aide of Al-Qaeda in Iraq chief Abu Ayyub al-Masri in western Iraq’s Anbar province, the provincial police chief said.
Major General Tareq al-Youssef said Nazal Sabar al-Jughaify, also known as Abu al-Jarrah, was arrested in the town of Haditha after police ambushed him following a tipoff from local citizens.
“Abu Jarrah is one of the main financiers of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and also a senior lieutenant of Abu Ayyub al-Masri,” Youssef told AFP in the provincial capital of Ramadi.
Youssef said Jughaify, an Iraqi, had returned recently from Syria.
Anbar province was a former stronghold of Al-Qaeda-led insurgents fighting US forces.
But since September 2006, the local Sunni Arabs from the province, who were the main supporters of the militant group, have sided with the US military in fighting the group.

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GREG KAHN / Daily News
U.S. Senator and Republican Presidential nominee John McCain, left, steps off of a Jet Blue airplane with Florida Governor Charlie Crist behind Private Sky Aviation at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers on March 6, 2008. McCain, fresh off his primary victories in Texas and Ohio to clinch the Republican nomination, was headed to the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in Naples for a fundraising luncheon with tickets costing $2,300 per person. Greg Kahn/Staff
Sen. John McCain has left the fundraiser in Naples and is headed to Fort Myers.
Sen. John McCain arrived at noon today to address about 200 people expected to attend a fund-raising luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort at Tiburon.
The Ritz-Carlton increased security and began restricting access to the property around 11 a.m., when the first guests began arriving for the fundraiser for the Republican presidential nominee. The event is closed to the media at the request of the client, said Lauren Rotchford, public relations director for both Ritz-Carolton hotels in Naples. Governer Charlie Crist escorted him off the plane.
Tickets for the $2,300-per-person event were still available minutes before McCain arrived.
McCain arrived on time for the noon event and he expects to be at the Ritz-Carlton until 1:30 p.m., said Lauren Rotchford, public relations director for both Ritz-Carlton hotels in Naples.
As McCain arrived in a white van as part of a four-vehicle caravan, he waved to the media.
U.S. Sen. and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain will come to Naples today for a private fundraiser.
The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort at Tiburon is hosting the luncheon event with tickets costing $2,300 per person.
This morning before the Naples luncheon, McCain has a public campaign event at Howley’s Restaurant and Diner in West Palm Beach.
McCain will be landing at Private Sky, at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers.

naplesnews.com