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From then on, I always ridiculed and criticized the clergy ‘doctors’ who are supposed to have come up with something new to be added to the doctrine. As it is known to the public, religion is complete, so how did they come up with something new?
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"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man."
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Published: May 11, 2014 12:00 am Updated: May 11, 2014 9:15 a.m.
In this Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013 file photo, Egyptians attend the funeral of a dozen policeman and a civilian killed from an explosion at a police headquarters, in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, 110 kilometers (70 miles) north of Cairo, Egypt. On Saturday May 10, 2014. Egypt's chief prosecutor's office says it has charged 200 suspected militants with carrying out terrorist attacks that killed 40 policeman and 15 civilians, and of conspiring with al-Qaida and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in one of the country's largest terrorism-related cases.
CAIRO — An Egyptian judge sentenced Sunday 36 students from an Islamic university in Cairo to four years imprisonment for taking part in a protest against the overthrow of the former Islamist president that turned violent, court officials said.
The verdict against the students is part of a government campaign to crackdown on protests following the military ouster of Mohammed Morsi in July in the wake of massive rallies against him. The crackdown has largely affected Islamist supporters of Morsi— but the dragnet has been widened to include secular and non-Islamist critics of the current government's campaign to quell dissent.
Thousands of Morsi supporters and leading figures in his Muslim Brotherhood group are behind bars on charges varying from holding illegal protests to inciting and carrying out violent attacks and cooperating with foreign militant groups to destabilize Egypt. More than 1,300 were also killed in the security crackdown on protests.
The Brotherhood denies it adopts violent means and accuses the government of seeking to smear its name.
Students have been at the forefront of the protest against Morsi's ouster, mostly in the Islamic university of Al-Azhar, but also other Egyptian universities.
The 36 students were arrested in December following protests on and outside the Cairo branch of Al-Azhar University. They were accused of blocking roads, attacking security and setting tires on fire. The students were also fined $4,300 each.
Judge Mahmoud Magdali acquitted one of the arrested, a journalist, the court officials said speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
The Al-Azhar students' spokesman, Mahmoud al-Azhari, denounced the ruling on Facebook, calling it part of a "farce."
"The military is using the honorable judiciary to terrorize the free students thinking that this will quell the student movement," he wrote.
The officials said militants believed to be members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, or Champions of Jerusalem, an al-Qaida-inspired group, opened fire on the convoy south of the town of Sheikh Zuweyid and fled the scene. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren't authorized to speak to journalists.
On Saturday, Egyptian prosecutors charged 200 suspected members of the group with carrying out over 50 terrorist attacks that killed 40 police officers and 15 civilians in recent months.
Associated Press writer Ashraf Sweilam contributed to this report from el-Arish, Egypt.
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Remy Ma has ended rival Nicki Minaj's seven-year winning streak at the 2017 BET Awards, a show highlighted by '90s R&B and groups popular in that decade.
Remy Ma has ended rival Nicki Minaj's seven-year winning streak at the 2017 BET Awards, a show highlighted by '90s R&B and groups popular in that decade, as well as five wins for Beyonce.
Ma, who was released from prison in 2014, won best female hip hop artist Sunday in Los Angeles, an award Minaj has won since 2010. Ma last won the prize in 2005, and was sentenced to prison three years later after she shot a former friend after accusing her of theft.
"I wanna thank God first and foremost," said Ma, who named two correctional facilities in her speech and thanked her mentor Fat Joe and husband-rapper Papoose. "You can make mistakes and come back."
In March, Ma released the hostile diss track Shether, which earned praised from critics and rap fans. Minaj never officially responded to the song.
At the live show at the Microsoft Theater, '90s R&B favorites New Edition and Xscape were the most welcomed performers of the night.
New Edition, whose three-part biopic was a white-hot ratings success for BET earlier this year, earned the lifetime achievement award and received a lengthy tribute. It started with the child actors from the movie singing Candy Girl, later followed by the older actors for some of the band's hits apart from the group, including Bell Biv DeVoe's Poison and Ralph Tresvant's Sensitivity.
The real group then hit to stage to sing Can You Stand the Rain and Mr. Telephone Man. The actors later joined New Edition for If It Isn't Love.
Girl group Xscape, set to launch a new reality show on Bravo, reunited at the BET Awards and sang the popular hits Just Kickin' It, 'Understanding and Who Can I Run To? The crowd was in awe, singing along and filming the performance with their phones.
Bruno Mars, whose new album was heavily inspired by '90s R&B, also shined Sunday. He and Beyonce tied for video of the year — the top prize but not televised — with their hits 24K Magic and Sorry. Mars also won best male R&B/pop artist and kicked off the show with a fun and funky performance of the song, Perm.
"To the fans, you know I love you. My first BET Award," he screamed.
Kendrick Lamar surprised the audience when he performed with Future and won best male hip hop artist. He gave a shout-out to fellow nominee Chance the Rapper, who earned the humanitarian award at the age of 24. Chance also won best new artist and best collaboration.
In a taped message, Michelle Obama honored Chance, who has raised $2 million dollars for Chicago public schools. The former First Lady said she and Barack Obama knew Chance "since he was a baby rapper."
"Chance is showing our young people that they matter," she said. "Because of you, countless young people will grow up believing in themselves."
Beyonce, who reportedly had her twins earlier this month though she hasn't commented on the topic, was the top nominee with seven. When it was announced that she won the viewer's choice award, Chloe x Halle — the young duo signed to Beyonce — recited a speech given to them from the pop star. Queen Bey was the big winner with five, also taking home album of the year for Lemonade, best female R&B/pop artist and video director of the year for Sorry.
Solange, Beyonce's younger sister, also had a big night: She won the Centric award and called Sunday "the best birthday ever" (she turned 31 on Saturday).
"My arm pits are sweating so much right now," said Solange, who thanked BET for showing her "queens" like Aaliyah, Missy Elliott, Erykah Badu and others during her teenage years.
Solange held a moment of silence later on, and the show also honored some of the minorities who died at the hands of police officers, including Trayvon Martin, Philando Castile, Eric Garner and others.
Other winners included gospel rapper Lecrae and Migos, who took home best group. The hip-hop trio also won over the audience with its performances of the hits Bad and Boujee, 'T-Shirt and Congratulations, with Post Malone. Chance the Rapper, and his mom, danced during the long set; as did Queen Latifah, Cardi B., Stranger Things actor Caleb McLaughlin and black-ish actress Yara Shahidi, who won the YoungStars award.
Though most of the performances were upbeat, others charmed with slower songs: Tamar Braxton and Maxwell gave vocally impressive performances, and Mary J. Blige sang songs from Strength of a Woman, her recent album that includes emotional tunes about her divorce.
"Mary J. got that break up body. Whoa," screamed Jamie Foxx, who presented an award after Blige's performance.
Leslie Jones of Saturday Night Live hosted the four-hour show. El DeBarge and Kamasi Washington performed Careless Whisper in honor George Michael, who died last year on Christmas Day, while Janelle Monae collaborator Roman GianArthur excitedly sang Johnny B. Goode in tribute to Chuck Berry, who died in March.
New York rapper Prodigy, who died last week, was remembered in words by his Mobb Deep partner Havoc and Lil Kim, who appeared on the remix of the memorable Mobb Deep hit, Quiet Storm.
Former BET executive Stephen Hill, who the network said was stepping down in March, was praised throughout the night with kind words from Mars and Bobby Brown.
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Twitchcon today yields three new games from an unlikely source: Amazon. The online retail and other stuff company's newish gaming division is currently working on a unique sports title, a sandbox MMO, and a survival MMO.
Breakaway is the sports title and features the basic 'put the ball in the hole' premise, except players can fight each other, place structures, and use various abilities and items along the way. As well, the ball will behave differently depending how long you hold it. Amazon is giving it the eSports push, too -- it will be exciting to see if it takes hold or not.
Next is New World, a sandbox MMO with a supernatural 17th century theme. In it, you work with others to build societies or lone wolf it while fighting off monsters and bandits; dynamic weather, time of day, and different seasons keep it interesting.
And lastly, there's Crucible. Described as a survival MMO, it features hero customization, alliances, dynamic events, and more.
All of the titles will feature Twitch integration, which should help them hit the ground running.
It's every music fan's air-guitar fantasy. You're playing a massive solo in one of your favourite songs, when your favourite pop star approaches and says, "Okay, you're in the band."
It really happened to Judy Kang, the Canadian classical violinist who has been playing with Lady Gaga on her Monster Ball tour for the past year (they play Toronto's Air Canada Centre March 3. Kang, who played Brahms's Violin Concerto at Carnegie Hall last summer, heard from a friend that Gaga was looking for new musicians, and decided to flex her fandom by auditioning.
"To be honest, I just really wanted to meet her," says Kang. "I didn't even think about what it would be like to tour with her."
One year and 125 shows later, the 31-year-old violinist from Edmonton has had plenty of time to think about what it means to play in one of the biggest shows in pop. The Monster Ball has changed her life, she says, in ways that extend far beyond her identity as a still predominantly classical musician.
She auditioned in New York, dressing up "in Gaga gear" as instructed (most of it from American Apparel) and playing virtuoso versions of Speechless and Bad Romance for members of Gaga's team. Two callbacks later, Gaga herself arrived, and the mood became "very intense and serious," Kang says.
"When I played for her, there was so much positive energy there. I felt like there was something really good about this connection, like I was feeding off her. She had her whole crew there, and when I was playing, they were reacting, they were cheering me on and dancing."
Gaga picked her out of the pack, and within a few days she was offered a place in the band for a tour of indeterminate length, starting in three weeks. (Her contract bars her from sharing personal information about the star.) Kang's fan fantasy became real, and so did its consequences.
"It was more a sinking feeling than anything," she said. "I was so excited to that point, I really wanted it, but then I realized I had all these [classical]concerts booked already, and I needed to change everything. I was satisfied, but I also felt bad, because there were other people affected."
She had to adapt quickly, to an electric violin, to pop rhythms and to dancing while she played. She had to learn how to perform on a huge stage with a mainly male band unaccustomed to dealing with female conservatory grads.
"Gaga asked me where I went to school, and I said, 'I went to, like, Juilliard,' and that was a big thing for her," says Kang. "But everyone else was like, 'You went to Juilliard, so maybe you think you're better than us.' There were a lot of challenges in communication. I'm learning so much about relational things, about humility, about dealing with people. And that's really worthwhile for me. In the classical world, I didn't have so many chances to grow quickly as a person."
The initial 2010 spring tour ran through the summer, was extended through this winter, and is now set to continue through May. Kang, a devout Christian, has come to see her Gaga adventure as something more significant than a temporary detour into the pop world.
"I'm a professional musician, and I'm doing a job, but I also feel like I'm serving a purpose that's bigger than me," she says. "I feel like God is guiding me through this. There's a lot of spirituality in the energy of this group. It's such a strong force, and everyone's very attuned to it."
Gaga is also about transformation, she says, referring to the constantly evolving nature of the shows but also to the way that Gaga presents herself, as a human work in progress. Kang found she could connect her own history with Gaga's personal myth, of the misfit who overcomes, and even feeds on, other people's preconceptions about her.
"She described us all as that freak, that nerd in school that no one can like, that everyone makes fun of," Kang says, referring to an early meeting with the band. "She said that now we're onstage with her, making nerds popular and representing for them. That was a big comment for me. I thought more and more about incidents in school when I was a total outcast, but I didn't realize it at the time, or maybe I did but it was blocked. All the dancers and the band players, and Gaga too, we all had struggles that were similar."
She doesn't know about whether she'll continue with Gaga after the next album, and is eager to get more classical dates in her calendar, and more performance time with the $4-million Stradivarius on loan to her from the Canada Council's instrument bank. She has a concert at the Brooklyn's Bargemusic in September with the piano trio Trio21, and will make a record with the group then too. More solo recitals are planned through 2012, as well as shows with her new-music ensemble F.I.R.E.
In the meantime, she'll continue playing for the "little monsters" (Gaga fans), and waiting for the next stage of the divine plan to unfold. As Gaga sings in Born This Way, "God makes no mistakes."
Lady Gaga's Monster Ball tour plays the Air Canada Centre in Toronto on March 3 and Ottawa's Scotiabank Place on March 6.
Microsoft's Andromeda project reveals a Surface phone with dual screen and a pen, that could launch later this year. This is what we know of the company's latest concept device.
Microsoft hasn’t achieved any major success when it comes to making smartphones. It has always struggled to make a dent in the mobile phone market: despite its Nokia acquisition, the Windows Phone was doomed by the smartphone revolution. But Microsoft wants to give another shot at the mobile market with its ambitious ‘Andromeda’ project, which has been in the making for years. Although details are limited, many believe the device could be a Surface Phone, or a foldable PC. Certainly, there’s a lot we still don’t know about this secretive product, and we expect more information should land in the coming months. Here are five things we know so far about Microsoft’s Andromeda project.
Based on several patents filed by Microsoft, Andromeda appears to have a clamshell design, sticking with the dual-screen approach. Since Andromeda doesn’t appear like a standard smartphone, it will be interesting to see how Microsoft will add phone capabilities to the device. And yes, it will heavily focus on pen support, something the iPhone X lacks.
Whether it will be a smartphone or a PC, Andromeda will be launched on the market as a Surface-branded device. Evidently, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President Panos Panay has been given the responsibility to oversee the Andromeda project. Panos recently sent out a tweet thanking the folks over at LG Display with the photo of two wooden frames connected by the hinge frame mechanism. This shows that Panos is deeply involved in the Andromeda project – and Microsoft is serious about the new type of device it is currently developing.
Microsoft owns the domain name surfacephone.com, which is an indication that the company wants to build a Surface Phone in the near future. Back in 2016, Microsoft had snapped up the domain name, and it has been claimed ever since that a Surface Phone is in development. While owning the domain name cannot prove the possibility that a Surface Phone exists, the rumours from the past few years do not deny these claims either.
The long-rumoured Surface-branded device will run Andromeda OS, which is said to be an upcoming version of Windows 10, that will be a modular operating system. This will allow Microsoft to customise the OS based on the device that runs this OS. Twitter user WalkingCat recently spotted a reference to “Factory OS Andromeda device” within the Windows 10 code. The code suggests that the company could be testing the final hardware. According to the code spotted by WalkingCat, Andromeda will support both ARM and x86 Hardware.
It is worth noting here that ARM hardware usually powers mobile devices, while x86 is more suited for computing devices. German blog WinFuture claims that Microsoft is currently testing Qualcomm’s yet-to-release Snapdragon 1000 chipset internally, further hinting that Surface Phone could be powered by an ARM hardware.
Microsoft Andromeda: Will it launch in 2018?
Microsoft’s Andromeda dual-screen device could launch later this year, most likely this fall. The tech news site Thurrott, who accessed leaked internal documents earlier this month, claimed that Andromeda is ‘scheduled’ to launch in 2018. This might not be a confirmed deal, though, as the Andromeda project is still in development, and Microsoft has a tendency to cancel projects at the last moment. Andromeda was reportedly a brainchild of Terry Myerson, who was in charge of Windows and devices before leaving the company earlier this year.
SAN CARLOS — At the age of 10, Angel More held the record for youngest girl to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest point in Africa.
Her sights this summer are set on something tougher: the California Triple Crown of Marathon Swimming.
The 15-year-old junior at Menlo School in Atherton dove into open water off Santa Catalina Island at 10:30 p.m. on Sunday and roughly 14½ hours later reached dry land on a rocky beach off the coast of Rancho Palos Verdes at 12:59 p.m. on Monday.
In August of 2017, she swam the Santa Barbara Channel, a stretch of just over 12 miles from Anacapa Island to Oxnard.
All that’s left to complete the California Triple Crown is a 21.3-mile swim across the lengthwise axis of Lake Tahoe, which she will attempt on Aug. 24.
The 5-foot-4 dynamo from San Carlos joined the Otter Swim Club at the age of 5 under the tutelage of head coach Fred Farley at Carlmont High in Belmont.
She’s not the fastest swimmer in the pool, falling short of qualifying for the Central Coast Section swimming and diving championships last month in the 500-yard freestyle and 100 breaststroke, her preferred events.
Instead, it’s her perseverance that stands out.
More took the plunge from Alcatraz to shore for the first time as an 11-year-old and has done it 50 more times since.
She dabbled with triathlons for three years and in 2014 attempted to become the youngest girl to climb Mt Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest mountain outside of Asia.
“The thing is with hiking you can sit down and rest, but I do not like the altitude and I don’t like walking at night that much, so I would say hiking is harder for me,” More said.
Sea level seems to suit her best.
It’s just not a genetic trait she shares with her father.
For Angel, her life currently revolves around open water and marathon swimming.
She wakes up at 3 a.m. every Thursday to meet her coach at Aquatic Park in San Francisco for a two-hour swim while Morrison monitors her on a kayak.
“Not many people understand what it is and what effort it takes to do it,” said More, who swam 30 kilometers per week to train her most recent endeavor.
Her first marathon swim took place at the age of 13, soon thereafter undertaking a 12-mile roundtrip between Santa Cruz and Capitola.
On top of mountain climbs in Africa and South America, the list of international open-water swims extends to England, Sweden and South Africa — each requiring special permission due to her age — plus Chile.
“My mom found this list of a bunch of the top open-water swims in the world and we love to travel as a family,” More said.

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