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Home Comparative Religion Where Religions Differ
Published: 21 February 2009 | Written by Nashid Abdul-Khaaliq | Print | Email
The media has done a lot to demonize Islam and create hatred between Christians and Muslims. When you consider that the purpose of religion should be to bring peace, when war and hatred replace love in the name of religion, it should really make the thinking mind wonder.
The American Muslim leader, Imam Warith Deen Mohammed said,
"When we read the Qur'an and Bible with proper understanding, we can clearly see that these great religious leaders were not divided one against the other. Jesus not only supported the scripture that Moses taught, but he interpreted it and explained it so that the people could get more light on what Moses had taught them. When Prophet Muhammad of Arabia came behind Jesus, he did the same thing. He spoke from the scriptures that Jesus had left and he explained and interpreted what Jesus left. If our great heroes in religion have not divided themselves one against the other, and if they have shown us that they belonged to one unified family, why are we divided?"
Obviously the message that each religious leader brought supported each other from Moses to Jesus and to Muhammad. But the history of the followers of these religions have not been peaceful. Today Islam is being accused of the worst things. Along with that, Qur'anic verses are being deliberately taken out of context and misquoted to give the impression of endorsing war and the source for terrorist actions. These misquotes, out of context remarks and mis-translations do not in any way accurately reflect what Islam teaches.
I will list some accusations made against Islam (indeed there are many) by leading Christians and Christian Zionists starting with the most recent remarks from The Pope and then I will respond:
“Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached'." Pope Benedict XVI quotes Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II.
“Islam is simply "a religion of war." You may protest that your Islamic neighbor down the street could not possibly be a threat. Free Congress says you should bear in mind that "there are lax Islamics.” Or to put it another way, the peaceful individual Muslims are out of step with their religion. They are outsiders looking in.” Statement by the Free Congress.
Franklin Graham, fundamentalist preacher son of Billy Graham, pronounced on NBC Nightly News November 16, 2001:
"The God of Islam is not the same God. He's not the son of God of the Christian or Judeo-Christian faith. It is a different God, and I believe it is a very evil and wicked religion."
Pat Robertson, said on the "700 Club" television program on February 21, 2002 that
"Islam is not a peaceful religion that wants to coexist. They want to coexist until they can control, dominate and then, if need be, destroy."
Nobel literature prize winner Elias Cannetti has defined Islam as:
"a religion of war – literally a killer belief." "Islam has made war on Christendom and Christians since it first swept out of Arabia to conquer much of the Christian Mediterranean world."
Ann Coulter boldly wrote that the US should conquer the entire Muslim world and convert them to Christianity. She pronounced these words of war and conquest with no criticism or outcry by “turn the other cheek” Christians. In fact she is loved and encouraged by them.
Conservative Baptist Evangelist, Jerry Falwell, in an interview on the CBS news program 60 Minutes (October 6, 2002) said," I think Muhammad was a terrorist. I read enough of the history of his life written by both Muslims and non-Muslims, (to know) that he was a - a violent man, a man of war".
Not to be outdone by the Christians and fueling the flames of hatred, especially Muslim-Christian hatred, have been leaders amongst the Jews. Israel now enjoys major support and major endorsement by more than 30 million Christian Zionists and Evangelicals who believe that Islam is their enemy and that they must support Israel against Muslims.
In their fundamentalist vision of the world, the Evangelicals see supporting Israel , right or wrong, as the best way to fulfill -- and even speed up -- the Bible's doomsday plan for the world. The founding of Israel in 1948 was the first step in the Biblically-mandated series of events leading to Armageddon and the return of Jesus. They are preparing for a period of extreme violence costing millions of lives including many Jews. Those who remain will embrace Jesus as Savior.
The Israelis are enjoying this because despite the Christians claim to a future beneficial outcome for Christians, the Israelis are reaping the benefits TODAY of strong Christian support against their enemies. They have even predicted a future Christian crusade against Muslims as in the following statement:
"Within a few years a Christian crusade against Islam will be launched, which will be the major event of this millennium...” Benny Elon, Israeli Tourism Minister and high level envoy.
http://www.thedailystar.net/2003/05/29/d30529150280.htm
At the same time many in the leadership of Judaism don’t see the world of Christianity as a threat. They view the Christian world as a civilization that has already been conquered with their only remaining challenge being the Muslim world. This is reflected in the following statement:
“The Jews are not a nation, neither a religion,” he said. “They are a civilization, and they have their civilizing mission. They cannot tolerate the competing civilization of Islam, as they could not tolerate Christendom or Communism. That is why the war with Islam is unavoidable.” Yehuda Bauer, director of the Holocaust Memorial Institute Yad va-Shem in Jerusalem
http://www.israelshamir.net/English/midasears.htm
The turmoil brought on by hatred and wars between Christians and Muslims works well for these Jews. Without lifting a finger they gleefully enjoy how the Christian Zionists are fighting Muslims for them. Through the ownership of the world's media they also help in the propaganda war against Islam by painting it to be a religion of violence and terrorism.
In response to these charges and which religion is the religion of violence and war, I would like to mention that "people who live in glass houses should never throw stones."
It was not Muslims who went to Christian lands to wage 8 successive Crusades to take their land away from them as directed by their Islamic leaders as Christians were, following the direction of their Popes.
It was not Islam whose leadership claimed that the purpose for the first crusade was (1) to rescue their brothers of the faith in the East from Muslim hordes and (2) liberate Jerusalem. But lo and behold then by the second crusade their Christian brothers in the East – who supposedly needed rescuing from the Muslims – joined the Muslims to fight against the crusaders due to the savage, barbarous and cruel behavior of their “rescuers”.
It was not Islam that went conquering people all over the world and colonizing them as Christians did forcing defenseless people to embrace Christianity after being militarily defeated by the more powerful Christian armies of Europe . These actions are being repeated in this time with the military conquest of Iraq by America and Britain only to be followed by enthusiastic Christian Zionists seeking to convert Muslims to Christianity. "The opportunity for broadcast expansion in post-war Iraq is phenomenal," enthused Don Black, Vice President of In Touch Ministries in Atlanta , in an interview with the web site Salon. Samaritan's Purse, a relief headed by Franklin Graham, is another group planning to proselytize the people of Iraq . All these groups are doing it under the guise of providing aid to the Iraqi people. Of course this is strongly encouraged and supported by the Bush administration which claims “it's not the administration's responsibility to determine which groups can provide aid to Iraq.”
http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/showthread.php?t=32135
It was not Islam, whose Holy Book teaches “make no graven images” yet portrays the son of God as a Caucasian crucified savior on a cross for all the races in the world to worship. Then to also portray his virgin mother, apostles, and all the saints as Caucasians, belonging to the ‘divine white race’ for all to revere and love. This fostering of white supremacy in religious form caused Caucasians to feel superior over the non-white ‘un-Godly’ races thereby justifying the colonization and subjugation of other human beings. As a result of worshiping a Caucasian-looking God, it caused non-white races to feel inferior and Caucasians to feel superior, bringing about serious racial inferiority complexes among the non-white races and inspiring the rise of cruel inhumane organizations like the Ku Klux Klan, that committed lynching, murders and other racial atrocities.
It was not Islam that encouraged the slave trade in Africa declaring it was OK because the heathen Africans were having their souls saved by being converted to Christianity. It was not Islam that cursed a whole race of people and described them as inferior, children of Ham because of the color of their skin. Then to add further humiliation and deepen racial tensions have this story embellished showing ridiculous origins of African features as done by Rabbis in the Jewish Talmud.
It was not Islam which caused the decimation of over 50% of the population of the Congo as was done by the Belgian Christian King Leopold (11 million massacred out of a population of 20 million).
It was not Islam that attempted to Frenchify Algeria at the cost of over a million Algerians (which at the time represented over 10% of the population) as Christians from France did to this defenseless country in Africa .
It was not an Islamic nation that uttered the arrogant and conquering statement "the sun never sets on the British Empire " as was done by a leading conquering Christian nation.
It was not Islam which dominated and conquered the world, not as a result of superior ideas and excellent examples of humanity, but as a result of superior weapons of war possessed by Christian nations used against weaker nations, as we see being done by Christian America today against Iraq and Afghanistan, and tomorrow against Iran, Syria and other Muslim countries.
It was not Islam whose history is mired with constant cycles of vicious wars and hostility as experienced for Centuries by the Christian nations of France , England , Spain , Portugal, Germany , Russia and others.
It was not Islam that went to the Far East and conquered Asians and as part of the Asians’ humiliation and subjugation introduced addictive drugs into their societies, forcing those countries to fight Opium wars to free themselves from Christian tyranny.
It was not Islam that caused the misery, suffering and whole scale deaths of millions with mass destruction of cities like the Christian nations did in WWI and WWII. During one night on February 13, 1945, the allied armies -- Britain and US -- bombed the city of Dresden in Germany, and it is estimated that as many as 350,000 - 600,000 victims were incinerated beyond being identifiable or even recognizable as human remains in that Holocaust. Only 35,000 could be identified. Then the Christians culminated this death and destruction by dropping atomic bombs on Japanese cities killing an estimated 115,000 victims, and many later with radiation sickness, disfigurement and permanent damage to thousands of innocent people.
It was not Islam that persecuted and murdered thinkers and scientists, like Galileo, Copernicus and the great female scientist Hypatia in the worst way because they dared to state their scientific findings that differed from Catholicism. It was not Islam that defied scientific facts and insisted for years that the universe was Geo-centric rather than Helio-centric simply because Muhammad lived on earth as Christians did with Christ and persecuted anyone who dared to say different. During the recent invasion and occupation of Iraq , US occupation forces detained more than 600 top Iraqi scientists, whose fate is totally unknown. Before this invasion, an American scientist, David Albright, wrote an article " IRAQ : Resettle the Scientists," in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (page 17, Jan/Feb 1998) foretelling the US plans.
It was not Islam that kept its followers in perpetual ignorance, superstition and barbaric filth during a period of time known as the Dark Ages. It was not Islam that allowed its people to live in the most un-hygienic ways, discouraging cleanliness and baths and causing them to suffer Bubonic Plagues and other life-threatening diseases for centuries. This Bubonic Plague was responsible for decimating 25% of the European population at that time which was approximately 137 million people.
It was not Islam that instituted the Inquisition that punished millions of "heretics" for several centuries who did not go along with the official version of Christianity with imprisonment, torture and death. Then in the 1500’s, the Christian Spaniards brought the Inquisition to the Americas demanding instant conversion by the Indians and death to any Indian daring to refuse.
It was not Islam that caused people to flee religious persecutions as Christianity did in Europe causing Europeans to find and establish religious freedom in a new land. Then due to the horrible, inhumane experience with Christianity the country formed in the new world said “never again”. Never again would we let the ignorance and cruelties of the Christian religion rule our government. We insist and we legislate that there will always be a separation of church and state!
It was not Islam that encouraged the ethnic cleansing of Native American Indians and ruthless theft of their lands as done by Christians from England , France and Spain . The number of deaths caused by European Christians on poor hapless American Indians was upwards of 250 million.
It is not Islam whose countries are decaying from within because of high crime rates, immorality, corrupt leaders, high divorce rates, social unrest, rampant accepted homosexuality like in Sodom and Gomorrah , destruction of the family, extreme selfishness, greed and other ills that plague Christian nations today.
It is not Islam which has championed the cause of another people's religion identifying them as "God's chosen people" and then provided the means for these people to steal Palestine and ethnically cleanse innocent Palestinians including fellow Christians. The war crimes committed, barbarism, cruel and inhumane treatment of Palestinians and the Israelis’ in brazen defiance of UN resolutions are rewarded by the most powerful Christian nation in the world with free money, undying support and special consideration.
It is not an Islamic nation that has imposed sanctions on another nation that has caused deaths of mainly innocent children in the range of 4000-5000 per month. Then to add insult to injury threaten and attack that nation – killing more than 2,000,000 CIVILIANS -- on false pretense causing millions more to live in squalor and misery as the great Christian nation of America is doing to Iraq. Now that the WMD claim for attacking Iraq proves to be false, this Christian nation changes the rules and claims that the WMD reason to attack Iraq does not matter.
It was not an Islamic nation that has brutally massacred more than 1,000,000 innocent Afghans and threw the Geneva Convention out the window in their inhumane, barbaric treatment of Afghan prisoners as the great Christian nation of America has in its false war on terrorism against Afghanistan . While the world, including Islamic nations, mourned the innocent deaths of about 3000 Americans on 911, the great Christian nation of America degrades the dignity of human beings by describing the innocent Afghans killed as collateral damage.
It is not an Islamic nation that already has a plan mapped out known as A Project for the New American Century (PNAC) whose National Security Strategy - promulgated as late as September 2002 - now includes pre-emptive attacks on possible future competitors first, assuming regional hegemony by force of arms in the Middle East, controlling energy resources around the globe, maintaining a permanent war strategy, and more as Christian America does. It is easy to surmise that Christian America is after oil, but not one of the Muslim nations, not even Iraq , has denied America the purchase of its oil. The Christian nation of America does not care. It is bent on pursuing a warlike imperial foreign policy and is chomping at the bit to attack Iran next.
Need I say more? I could go on and on.
While the Zionists and Christian Zionists write and talk about Islam being warlike, the above information proves that Christians are the ones who are truly warlike. More evil has been committed in the name of Christianity than has been committed by any other religion in human history. Their history has been one of a people who have “the mark of the beast” in their hands or actions. But the elite Jews who are rejoicing and reaping the benefits of the turmoil caused by Christians are the ones with the “mark of the beast” in their foreheads. After all they gave Europeans their version of Christianity and even boast about it as in the following:
We conquered you as no empire of yours ever subjugated Africa or Asia . And we did it all without armies, without bullets, without blood or turmoil, without force of any kind. We did it solely by the irresistible might of our spirit, with ideas, with propaganda.
We made you the willing and unconscious bearers of our mission to the whole world, to the barbarous races of the earth, to the countless unborn generations. Without fully understanding what we were doing to you, you became the agents at large of our racial tradition, carrying our gospel to the unexplored ends of the earth.
Marcus Eli Ravage, Jewish Scholar and Official Rothschilds Biographer
Muslims will never say, as some Christians do, that the evils done by Christians were due to the teachings of the Noble Christ. Muslims will never blame good God conscious Christians for those evils. No, Muslims will put the blame where it belongs and that is on evil people who used the name of Christ to accomplish their wrongs. Evil men and women dirtied the name of Christ with their evil deeds. Now these same evil, war mongering, hypocritical false people are trying to smear and falsify Islam. They are at it again. They want war and they are using the name of Christ and smearing the name of Muhammad (saaw) to achieve it.
M. Pickthall an Englishman said around the turn of the Century: "In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western nations broke away from their religious law that they became more tolerant, and it was only when the Muslims fell away from their religious law that they declined in tolerance and other evidences of the highest culture." To see this let us look through the eyes of history as to the behavior of Christians when they conquered Jerusalem and of Muslims when they conquered Jerusalem at two different points in history:
"To turn to the Christians, the story of the triumphal entry of the Khalifah Umar ibn al-Khattab into Jerusalem has been often told, but I shall tell it once again, for it illustrates the proper Muslim attitude towards the People of the Scripture....The Christian officials urged him to spread his carpet in the Church (of the Holy Sepulchre) itself, but he refused saying that some of the ignorant Muslims after him might claim the Church and convert it into a mosque because he had once prayed there. He had his carpet carried to the top of the steps outside the church, to the spot where the Mosque of Umar now stands -
"From that day to this; the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has always been a Christian place of worship, the only things the Muslims did in the way of interference with the Christian's liberty of conscience in respect of it was to see that every sect of Christians had access to it, and that it was not monopolized by one sect to the exclusion of others. The same is true of the Church of the Nativity of Bethlehem, and of other buildings of special sanctity.
"When the Crusaders took Jerusalem they massacred the Eastern Christians with the Muslims indiscriminately, and while they ruled in Palestine the Eastern Christians, such of them as did not accompany the retreating Muslim army, were deprived of all the privileges which Islam secured to them and were treated as a sort of outcasts. Many of them became Roman Catholics in order to secure a higher status; but after the re-conquest, when the emigrants returned, the followers of the Eastern church were found again to be in large majority over those who owed obedience to the Pope of Rome. The old order was reestablished and all the Dhimmis once again enjoyed their privileges in accordance with the Sacred Law (of Islam)."
Here is another rendition of the same period of history from the article, "The Crusades: Then and Now" by Robert B. Ashmore:
"Reaching Jerusalem in June, 1099, the Crusaders lay siege to the city. Successfully defeating its defenders, the Crusaders flooded into Jerusalem on July 15. "Men, women, and children were put to the sword until the streets were littered with corpses. Even Jewish inhabitants were killed."[6] Arabs would long thereafter recall the difference between how the Franj took Jerusalem and the earlier taking of Jerusalem by Calif Umar in 638 A.D. Upon entering Jerusalem Umar had assured the Greek patriarch that lives and property of the inhabitants would be respected. Escorted to the site of the Holy Sepulchre, Umar insisted on not praying inside the site, lest Muslims appropriate it. Instead, he unrolled his prayer mat outside. By contrast, the Arab historian Ibn al-Athir reported concerning the Crusader victory of 1099, "The population of the holy city was put to the sword, and the Franj spent a week massacring Muslims." Ibn al-Qalanisi adds, "The Jews had gathered in their synagogue and the Franj burned them alive." Maalouf writes, "Not even their coreligionists were spared. One of the first measures taken by the Franj was to expel from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre all the priests of Oriental rites. They arrested the priests who had been entrusted with custody of the Cross and tortured them to make them reveal the secret [of its whereabouts]."[7]"
The great Bertrand Russell gives his views on the warlike origins of European Christianity as follows:
"It was the conversion of Constantine to Christianity that first gave occasion for the full _expression of those persecuting impulses by which Europe has distinguished itself from Asia. During the last hundred and fifty years, it is true, there has been a brief interval of liberalism, but now the white races are reverting to the theological bigotry which the Christians took over from the Jews. The Jews first invented the notion that only one religion could be true, but they had no wish to convert all the world to it, and therefore only persecuted other Jews. The Christians, retaining the Judaic belief in a special revelation, added to it the Roman desire for worldwide dominion and the Greek taste for metaphysical subtleties. The combination produced the most fiercely persecuting religion that the world has yet known. In Japan and China, Buddhism was peaceably accepted and allowed to exist along with the Shinto and Confucianism; in the Mohammedan world, Christians and Jews were not molested so long as they paid the tribute; but throughout Christendom death was the usual penalty for even the smallest deviation from orthodoxy."
Bertrand Russell (Eng. philosopher, mathematician, 1872-1970): In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays [1935] viii, "Western Civilization"
Lastly, I would like to address verses in the Qur'an that Zionists and Christian Zionists take out of context and mis-quote in order to present a false picture of Islam. It is truly amazing to witness the vigor by which these deceivers attempt to push false information. When confronted they attempt to present themselves as experts knowing more about Islam than Muslims. But their arguments are weak and can easily be dispelled. There are quite a few Qur'anic verses that they mis-represent. I will address a few to show how easy it is to dispel their lies.
The following are three verses that the Zionists and Christian Zionists like to use to discredit Islam:
"Fight those who believe not in God nor the last day…Nor acknowledge the religion of truth, (even if they are) of the people of the Book (Christians), until they pay Jizya (taxes) with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." Surah 9:29 (Qur'an)
"But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem; but if they repent and establish regular prayers and practice regular charity then open the way for them." Surah 9:5 (Qur'an)
"The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and his apostle, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifiction, or the cutting off of the hands and feet from opposite sides or exile from the land…" Surah 5:36 (Qur'an)"
The translations for these verses are not accurate and they are taken totally out of context by not showing the full statement in the verses and what came before and what came after. But even with the bad translations and missing statements I will respond to them. Mostly these verses are not directed towards a specific faith but to people whom the Muslims were at war with. There are historical references to these verses detailing a time when Muslims were being persecuted and brutally mistreated by the pagans of Mecca. The phrase "People of the Book" refers to both Christians and Jews. The reference here is not to the sincere Christians and Jews of whom the Qur'an says:
"...whoever believes in God and the Last day and does righteous good deeds shall have their reward with their Lord..." Sura 2:62.
The verse is referring to the corrupt evil doers among the Christians and Jews " who permit evils and wrong doing that were forbidden by God". It is referring to those who commit evil deeds in the name of their religion as in the examples I gave above. These are hypocritical Jews and Christians "who believe not in God and the Last day." This is in direct contrast to the verses that promises heaven to Christians and Jews who believe in God and the Last Day.
One of those verses is as follows:
Those who believe (in the Qur’an) And those who follow the Jewish (Scriptures) And the Christians and the Sabians, - ANY who believe in God And the Last Day, And work righteousness, Shall have their reward With their Lord: on them Shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve. (Sura 2:62)
The verses quoted above to show Islam as warlike and hostile towards Christians and Jews, when read in context and with historical understanding show that war is permitted in self-defense and under well defined limits in Islam. When undertaken it must be pushed with vigor, but only to restore peace and freedom for the worship of God. In any case strict limits must not be transgressed: women, children, old and infirm men should not be molested nor trees and crops cut down, nor peace withheld when the enemy comes to terms.
The following example in the life of Prophet Muhammad (saaw) demonstrates his regard for the protection of innocent lives. There was an incident during one of the battles where children of the enemy were killed by mistake. Muhammad the Prophet was observed with tears in his eyes, in pain because of the killing of innocent children. Some of his followers tried to sooth the Prophet by saying, "They were only the children of Kafirs (disbelievers)" The Prophet turned to the one who spoke, and he was visibly angry, our Prophet said, " Aren't you the child of a Kafir also?"
In general, it may be said that Islam is a religion of peace, good will, mutual understanding, and good faith. But it will not acquiesce in wrong doing, and its men will hold their lives cheap in defense of honor, justice and the religion which they hold sacred. They know that war is an evil, but they will not flinch from it if their honor demands it and it serves the needs of righteousness and justice.
Another mis-quote is:
"Ye muslims are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind…" Surah 3:110 (Qur'an)
The correct translation showing the rest of the verse that was left out is:
"Ye are the best of Peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in God..."
Isn't the best of us those who encourages and act on what is right? The Jews believe they are God's chosen people. They forget the other part of the sentence given to them by Moses. That is "if they obey God and keep His commandments." This verse is similar to what Moses said but it applies to all human beings. We are not evolved and we are not chosen until we "enjoin what is right, forbid what is wrong and believe in God." This is put in simple language that anyone can understand. The Qur'an also says that "God created the human being in the most excellent of forms." This applies to all human beings. This is no narrow racist, sectarian view of humanity. It is a universal view recognizing the innate dignity of all human beings.
"O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors. They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them is one of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust." Surah 5:54
This is one of the most common misstatements about the Qur'an: "Take not Jews and Christians for friends . . . " If the writers of this had taken the time to study the Arabic language they would have come to a better understanding. In Arabic the common word for friend is "Siddiq". The Qur'an did not use that word in this verse. The word used is "wali" which means protecting friend or guardian. The Qur'an is telling Muslims in this verse that they should not take Jews and Christians as protecting friends to protect their interest in Islam. Why? Because Jews and Christians do not know or are sensitive to the special interest of Muslims that are unique to Islam. Would a Christian go to a Buddhist and say "Mr. Bhuddist here is my Bible I want you to be it's guardian and protect the special interest that the Bible has for Christians." No! That can only be done by a fellow Christian who shares that interest. This was taken totally out of context. There are too many places in the Qur'an that enjoins closeness and unity to God fearing Christians and Jews. Here are few references to words from our Prophet and Qur'anic verses addressing Muslims interaction with non-Muslims:
"He who believes in God and the Last Day should honour his guest, should not harm his neighbour, should speak good or keep quiet." (Bukhari, Muslim)
"Whoever hurts a Non-Muslim citizen of a Muslim state hurts me, and he who hurts me annoys God." (Bukhari)
[7:159] “Among the followers of Moses there are those who guide in accordance with the truth, and the truth renders them righteous.”
[3:113-114]. “They are not all the same; among the followers of the scripture, there are those who are righteous. They recite God's revelations through the night, and they fall prostrate.”
”They believe in God and the Last Day, they advocate righteousness and forbid evil, and they hasten to do righteous works. These are the righteous.”
Here is another verse that is often taken out of context by the enemies of Islam:
"If anyone desires a religion other than Islam, never will it be accepted of him; and in the hereafter he will be in the ranks of those who have lost." Surah 3:85 (Qur'an)>
Anyone reading this should ask the question "what does Islam mean and how do Muslims understand this verse?" The word Islam means anyone who submits their will to do God's Will. In other words to submit what you want to do for what God say do. So if an urge rises up in me to lie and God says "thou shalt not lie", then to be a Muslim I must put aside my desire to lie and follow what God says. This is true of other desires like killing, stealing, adultery, etc, any evil desire I may have that does not agree with God's edicts I must put them aside and follow God if I want to be a Muslim. Why is this important? It is because everything in nature and the universe obeys the laws by which they were created in. The human being has free will. Unlike an animal, that depends on instincts or an inanimate object that are governed by laws, the human being has a choice. By living according to the purpose for which God has created him the human being joins the plants, animals, stars and everything in the universe by living in tune with his nature.
This is the same as when Jesus said "Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven" or "I do nothing of myself but of Him who sent me!" If this verse was meant to refer only to those who identify with orthodox Islam, the Qur'an would not have revealed that "ANY who believe in God and work righteousness will receive their reward from their Lord. On them shall be no fear nor shall they grieve". It is saying that if anyone desires a religion that does not teaches obedience to God and righteousness it will not be accepted. Those people who teach evil and racism in their religion will not be accepted by God. The hideous teachings of the Talmud is a good example of this.
The Muslim position is clear. The Muslim does not claim to have a religion peculiar to himself. Islam is not a sect or an ethnic religion. In its view all religions are one, for the truth is one. It is the continuation of the religion preached by all the earlier Prophets. It is the Truth taught by all the inspired Books. In essence it amounts to a consciousness of the Will and Plan of God and a joyful submission to that Will and Plan. If anyone wants a religion other than that, he is false to his own nature, as he is false to God's Will and Plan. Such a one cannot expect guidance for he has deliberately denounced guidance. In the words of the Qur'an:
"Say, We believe in God, and in what has been revealed to Abraham, Ishmail, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and in (the Books) given to Moses, Jesus and the Prophets from their Lord; We make no distinction between one and another among them, and to God do we bow our will (Islam)."
I could list more mis-quotes and answer them, but I will stop here. Instead I invite the reader to study Islam for his or her self. Islam is an open religion. We don't have anything to hide. The Qur'an and Hadiths are in just about every library. Regarding religious propagation the Qur'an says, "Let there be no compulsion in religion. Truth stands out clear from error." To Muslims the Qur'an teaches, "Your duty is only to deliver a clear message. Only God can touch the heart." Islam is against the forcing of religion on others and the killing of those who change their minds. Every life is a sacred gift bestowed by God. Muslims believe that God is the Giver of life and only He should take life or give the circumstances by which a life could be taken. There are no big I's and little you's in Islam. As such every life is sacred. Punishment is meted out to anyone who take a life in a way not ordained by God. Justice must be meted out with no prejudice or consideration to partiality. In the words of the Qur'an:
"O ye who believe! stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses to God, even as against yourselves, or your parents, or your kin, and whether it be (against) rich or poor: for God can best protect both. Follow not the lusts (of your hearts), lest ye swerve, and if ye distort (justice) or decline to do justice, verily God is well- acquainted with all that ye do." (4:135)
+4 #1 Caowinhim 2011-09-20 18:36
Right? It's ridiculous how the media portrays Islam as so badass when really it's a religion for little girls. I mean, it gets your hopes up, that FINALLY there's been a religion dedicated to explosions and awesomeness, but then when you look it up it's all about peace and kindness. I talk about my disillusionment here: publicunintellectuals.blogspot.com/2011/09/caowins-editorial-on-islam_20.html
#2 bossman — chris 2014-12-18 22:15
Part of your article is incorrect see what happened in 630 AD I believe the first real crusade or "holy war" was actually a Muslim crusade.
#3 630 AD — Nashid 2014-12-24 19:49
What you "believe" is not objective fact. The objective fact is that there never was any Muslim crusade against Christians or anyone of other religions in 630. We have to face reality and go with facts rather than what you claim to believe.
#4 Source of a hadeeth in one of your articles — Syed Naqi 2015-10-02 18:45
Can you share the source of this event:
#5 Hadith Source — Nashid 2015-10-11 07:44
ASA Naqi,
That Hadith was told to me by one of the Muslim Imams in the US. Insha ALLAH I will also try to locate the source online as well.
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International Songwriter INTERVIEW OF ANDREW GOLD BY JOE MATERA (Year: 2000)
Joe Matera, International Songwriter, 2000
Joe Matera: Tell me a bit about your background. You started writing songs at 13?
Andrew Gold: Yeah, I started around then (13). My first song was called 'Where Is The Love', not to be confused with the 70's hit by the same name. It was a dark minor song waltz.....
JM: Your most known song is 'Lonely Boy' (1976). How did you come to write that song and what was the process of recording it? I love the way you took the basic A, D, and E chords and put the 3rd in the bass, in the verses?
AG: Actually, It's kind of a semi rip off of a section of a Ry Cooder song, 'How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live'...but barely....I just wrote this song one night in Hollywood in my little apartment, and thought it should be an 8 minute opus....but got bored after 3 and a half....
JM: You are also a multi-instrumentalist and producer, having worked with such artists as Linda Ronstadt and 10cc?
AG: Yes, I have always had a knack for playing many instruments.....and arranging ideas come easy.
JM: Did you play that classic guitar solo in Linda's 'You're No Good'?
AG: Yes, me and Peter Asher and Val Garay stayed up one night recording it and we were very proud at the end. However, the next day Linda heard it and didn't know if she liked it or not....I showed up and Peter was laughing because by the time I got there she had decided she did...thank God.
JM: What inspires you to write?
AG: Money....Okay, no, I get inspired when I hear something by someone else I like...I feel like...Hey! I want to write something great like that!
JM: What sort of gear do you use?
AG: Recording wise, I use Pro Tools alot these days...love the ability to change stuff, move it around, reverse it, affect it, tune it..etc etc. Guitars: mainly Fender's and Rickenbackers, (and Martins) but also Gretsch and Gibsons occasionally. Keyboards, I use a Roland A-80 with many synths and samplers, but often I just use a piano to write on or an acoustic guitar.
JM: Do the songs change much from the first draft to the finished product?
AG: Sometimes, not much though...just that it goes from one instrument to many.
JM: With the internet these days and the technology available, where one person can co-write with another without ever meeting, do you think this has made things easier for someone to get their music out and to a bigger audience, or is it the same as it's been before, in the sense of trying to succeed?
AG: Hard question...I think in some ways its the same... except you can send someone an MP3 easily so they can hear it better than by the phone...or slow like mail.
JM: What are some tips you would like to share to help us songwriters write songs that are hit material?
AG: If I knew I'd be much richer! But stick with it, listen to other songs and try and analyze it...but also be original....mainly make sure that your recording is what you heard in your head....or better.
JM: What are your current projects? You have a new album coming out soon?
AG: I have two new albums coming out: one, The Spence Manor Suite, is a semi-country album of new original songs. The other is Bikini, an album of Wax rarities. (Wax is Graham Gouldman and myself).
JM: Who are your favourite songwriters and songs?
AG: Well, Lennon and McCartney, Jobim, Brian Wilson, James Taylor, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Debussy, Gershwin, Randy Newman, Carole King, too many to list.
JM: One last question, what is your view on the '70s and '80s. I can hear a lot of that era's sound in today's music and think that it was one great period of history that produced some memorable songs like 'Lonely Boy'?
AG: I think the '60s and '70s was the peak period for the singer songwriter for sure....people like Cat Stevens, Randy Newman, Jackson Browne...whew...good songs...nowadays, its a slightly different thing, with the recording and arrangement more important than the song....which is why they won't last as oldies. But I'm not bothered by it...it's a phase and its new. So I don't want to be like my grandparents saying, 'This isn't good like in our day!'. I like everything including Rap ...I just think its too narrow these days. I'd like to see Rap and songs, and not just R & B....anything, be successful...but...its the teenagers thing, so viva whatever is going on, you know?
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Big Weekend Ahead For BU Mens Hockey
The BU mens hockey team are right where they want to be. Tied atop the Hockey East standings and ranked No. 2 in the country, the Terriers are in prime position as they go deeper into the second half of the season.
This weekend is crucial for coach Quinn’s club as they look to continue to control their destiny. It begins Friday night at Agganis Arena, when archrival BC visits, and continues Sunday when two-time defending conference champ UMass-Lowell — who BU shares first place with — visits Agganis for a Sunday matinee.
The Eagles (12-7-2, 5-4-2 HE) sit four points behind the Terriers (12-3-4, 7-1-2) in the conference standings. BC is unbeaten in their last seven (5-0-2). They haven’t lost since November 29, a 1-0 setback to Providence. The Eagles have outscored opponents 23-11 over that stretch. Goaltender Thatcher Demko has stopped 164 of 172 shots (.953) in five games over that streak.
BU got the better of their friends from the other side of Comm Ave. in their initial meeting this season on November 7, when the Terriers prevailed, 5-3. However, this is a much different BC team than the one BU faced earlier in the season. The second semester is always the time of year when Jerry York has his team playing the brand of hockey that has made him the all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division 1 hockey. This season appears to be no different.
The River Hawks, ranked sixth in the USCHO.com poll, is 7-1-2 in league play. Their lone blemish came last Saturday, when the ever-pesky UConn Huskies took a 2-0 decision in Hartford. Lowell has won the last two Hockey East championships and looks like a team that could win a third. The River Hawks rank second in the conference in offense behind BU (3.8 GPG) with 3.7 goals per game, their 1.8 goals allowed per game is bettered by only Providence (1.36). Their power-play ranks third in the conference with a 19.5 percent success rate.
Womens hockey takes trip down the Green Line
The sixth-ranked BU womens hockey team travels to Northeastern on Sunday. The Terriers have lost two of their last three. The Huskies (6-11-4, 5-6-1 HE) are winless in their last six games (0-5-1). Sunday marks the third meeting between the two schools this season. BU took the first meeting 3-2 on Oct. 28, before Northeastern got the better of the second matchup on Nov. 11 with a 6-3 win.
Womens basketball looks for two in a row
The BU womens basketball team snapped a nine-game skid Wednesday night with a 58-53 win over Colgate. Saturday they will aim for their first consecutive wins of 2014-15 when they host Loyola-Maryland Saturday afternoon at The Roof. The Terriers are 3-0 against the Greyhounds all-time. All three of those matchups came last season, BU’s first in Patriot League play. Two of them came at BU, the Terriers winning 74-55 and 40-35, the latter win coming in the first round of the conference tournament.
Mens basketball tries to get back on track
League play began as good for the BU mens basketball team as coach Joe Jones could draw it up.
The Terriers started Patriot League play with a 3-0 record, but have lost two straight since, dropping one-point decision to Lafayette, 63-62, before losing 62-53 to Colgate. They’ll travel to Baltimore to try to get back on track, when they face Loyola. The Terriers took both contests last season with the Greyhounds, 72-58 and 87-72.
As it usually seems to be the case, the BU/BC game Friday night will be televised on NESN. Coverage begins at 6:30.
During commercial breaks and between periods, be sure to flip to NBC Sports Network and check in on Notre Dame/UConn, which will be televised on the network. The Fighting Irish sit in sixth place in the league standings (4-2-2) while the Huskies sit one point behind in seventh and have racked up impressive wins against Quinnipiac, BC, Vermont, Union and UMass-Lowell. They tied BU at Agganis on November 8, 4-4. Both teams should have a big say in how things shake up come March.
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Rube Foster
Andrew "Rube" Foster overcame childhood illness to become an outstanding pitcher, a shrewd manager, and the dominant executive in black baseball. As a 6'4" 200-lb teenager, he joined the Yellow Jackets, a traveling black team in Texas. John McGraw saw Foster during spring training of 1901 (or thereabouts) and wanted him and other blacks for his New York Giants. But, unable to use them, he instead asked Foster to tutor the Giants' pitchers. Christy Mathewson reportedly learned his "fadeaway" pitch (a screwball) from Foster.
Foster then joined the Chicago Union Giants, pitched a shutout in his first start, but soon lost his effectiveness. He regained his form while with a white semi-pro club in the Michigan State League, and defeated every team in the circuit. Because of his difficulties, he had become a keen student of the game, and a wily pitcher. By 1902 he was with the black Cuban Giants.
In 1903 Foster was the top black pitcher in the country. He pitched the Cuban X-Giants to the black championship, and was the winner in four of their five victories over the Philadelphia Giants in the Black World Series. The following year, he pitched the Philadelphia Giants to the title, and recorded both victories in a best-of-three series against the Cuban X-Giants.
It is difficult to distinguish fact from fiction in Foster's pitching career; he is credited with a 51-4 season early on. Documentation does exist for a 1904 no-hitter he tossed against the Camden, NJ team. He reportedly gained his nickname by defeating the Athletics' Rube Waddell in 1902, and is reputed to have fared well in duels with major league pitchers Chief Bender, Mordecai Brown, and Cy Young. Frank Chance called him "the most finished product I've ever seen in the pitcher's box," and Honus Wagner said he was "one of the greatest pitchers of all time...smartest pitcher I've ever seen..."
Foster began managing in 1907, when he guided the Chicago Leland Giants to a 110-10 record. Their record was 64-21-1 in 1908. In 1909 Foster challenged the Chicago Cubs to a series, which the Cubs won in three close games. Foster pitched the second game and took a 5-2 lead into the ninth inning, but lost 6-5. Mordecai Brown won the first and third contests. There is no record of any major league club coming forth to answer Foster's challenge in 1910, when his team went 123-6.
In 1911 Foster left the Lelands to form a partnership with Chicago businessman John C. Schorling. From this union came one of black baseball's strongest teams, the Chicago American Giants. They dominated both the Chicago semi-pro scene (regularly winning the championship) and national black baseball, capturing Negro League titles in 1914 and 1917 and sharing the 1915 championship with the New York Lincoln Stars. Competing against white major leaguers following the 1915 season, they won the California Winter League crown.
In the winter of 1919 Foster organized the first viable black major league, the Negro National League, which operated in the Midwest and the South from 1920 through 1931. He served as president of the new league until 1926, and ruled it completely. An Eastern counterpart was organized in 1923 and Black World Series between the two leagues were held from 1924 through 1927.
Foster continued to manage through 1925, and won the Negro National League's first three pennants (1920-22). He made use of psychology and speed, invented the bunt-and-run, and intimidated opponents. White major leaguers often attended his games to learn his tactics. Though he made few rules, he expected his players to follow them. He ran the games as he ran the NNL - in total control - and once hit a player across the head with his pipe for tripling after he was given the bunt sign.
Foster's last known public meeting was in 1926 with lifelong friends Ban Johnson and John McGraw, through whom it is believed he was trying to schedule white major league teams to play his American Giants. Shortly thereafter he began to lose his mind, and spent his last four years in the Kankakee, Illinois State Hospital.
Courtesy of Baseball Library.
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Ray Chapman
Ray Chapman is the only modern major leaguer to have died as a direct result of being hit by a pitch. At the Polo Grounds on August 16, 1920, Chapman, crowding the plate as usual, was struck in the temple by a pitch from Yankee submariner Carl Mays that barely missed the strike zone. Chapman was taken to a hospital, never regained consciousness, and died twelve hours later. Rookie Joe Sewell replaced Chapman at short, beginning a Hall of Fame career. Cleveland players wore black arm bands, and manager Tris Speaker rallied his dejected men to win the first World Championship in club history.
The popular Chapman led the Indians in stolen bases four times, setting a team record with 52 in 1917 that stood until 1980. He led the AL in runs scored and walks in 1918. He was hitting .303 with 97 runs scored when he died. It is baseball analyst Bill James's opinion that Chapman was "probably destined for the Hall of Fame had he lived."
Courtesy Baseball Library.
Sand Hooters
From Bob Harris at This Modern World.
All over the world, wars and languages and cultures may divide us, but humanity still seems united by one powerful force: teenagers always seem to get a big kick out of sand hooters.
Below: The first picture is from Columbia and the second from Singapore.
Fred Merkle
On occasion, this blog will highlight a player from baseball history. Courtesy of Baseball Library.com.
Fred Merkle is forever famous for his bonehead play on September 23, 1908, which cost the Giants a critical victory and made possible the Cubs' pennant-clinching victory when the game was replayed at the end of the season. The play itself was clouded by contradictory affidavits by players, conflicting opinions by various baseball officials, and protests lodged by both teams over the umpires' handling of the incident.
The confusion started when Merkle, the runner on first, failed to touch second after an apparent game-winning base hit. Instead, he turned back toward the dugout, as was customary at the time, when he saw the run cross the plate. As the happy Polo Grounds crowd filed across the field towards the centerfield gate, second baseman Johnny Evers got the ball and stepped on second, claiming a forceout which negated the winning run. With the fans already crowding the field, the game could not be played to a decision, and had to be replayed.
When the season ended with the two teams tied, a group of Giants, led by Christy Mathewson, went to owner John T. Brush. They claimed they shouldn't have to play another game for something they had already won. The gravely ill Brush expressed disappointment at their attitude, and they played and lost. Whatever the merits of the case, it was one of baseball's most controversial plays and it haunted Merkle not just for the rest of his playing days, but all his life. He bitterly refused requests for interviews in later years because he didn't want to relive the incident.
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Queer women are ignored in HIV research: this is a problem and here is why it matters
Published date February 23, 2016 • By Author By CATIE
By Carmen Logie
Lesbian, bisexual and queer women are rarely included in HIV research. Women who have sex with women, and their HIV infection rates, are not captured anywhere because women cannot report having a woman as a sexual partner in Canada’s HIV statistics. The current record only allows women to report HIV exposure either through injection drug use or heterosexual sex. This contributes to the erasure of women’s sexual and gender diversity and fluidity in HIV research. Queer* women are ignored in HIV research: this is a problem and here is why it matters.
Queer women have a range of sexual practices and partners: There is a sexual and gender fluidity that is missed by current epidemiological categories, and subsequently in the majority of HIV research. People’s sexual identities may not always reflect standard understandings of sexual practices. For example, persons identifying as lesbians may have sex with cisgender or transgender men. Lesbian, bisexual and queer women may use drugs and may share needles; some research indicates that women who are queer and use drugs may in fact have elevated rates of exposure to HIV. We know homophobia can contribute to poverty, social exclusion and mental health challenges, including substance use, so keeping our mind open to the fact that queer women may use drugs to cope with homophobia can allow us to move beyond the assumption that all women who use drugs are straight. Queer women can also be transgender, and transphobia has negative impacts on wellbeing.
Queer women experience stigma, discrimination and are more likely to report sexual violence: For the last five years there is an increasing focus on social drivers of HIV, in particular stigma, discrimination and violence. There is emerging literature, from South Africa and in forthcoming data from a national Canadian study conducted by the Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS), that demonstrates forced sex as a risk factor for HIV transmission among women, and among queer women in particular. Homophobic rape, often known as ‘corrective rape,’ targets queer women across the globe. Categorizing HIV transmission from homophobic rape as ‘heterosexual sex’ misses the point that it was violent and homophobic. It misses the point that queer women can be at risk for HIV just for being who they are. Applying a lens that looks at the intersection of stigma and discrimination based on sexuality, race, gender identity, class, and nationality, among others, shows the complexity that needs to be considered when we think of the lived realities of queer women.
Queer women have the same—or higher—rates of other sexually transmitted infections: There is an abundance of research that shows queer women have the same, and sometimes even higher, rates of other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) than heterosexual women. There are also differences in STI risks between women who have sex with women, with several studies showing women who report having cis men as sex partners having higher rates of STIs. Despite these STI risks, queer women have a low perception of risk, and limited uptake of safer sex strategies. Research that I conducted shows linkages between a lifetime history of STIs among queer women and sexual stigma, forced sex, and women believing that their healthcare provider was uncomfortable with their sexual orientation. My forthcoming research also shows that homophobia reduces safer sex practices among queer women with low social support and low coping skills. We know having another STI elevates HIV infection risks, so this is another reason to include women’s sexual identity and partners in our research.
The solution is quite simple. Why don’t we just ask women about their own, and their sex partners’ sexual and gender identities?
* I use ‘queer’ to convey asserted, non-heterosexual identities and affiliations claimed by women across multiple contexts/interactions
Carmen Logie is an assistant professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto. She is also the adjunct scientist for Women’s College Research Institute at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto.
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DrLogie nails it!!
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Felixprinters Assists In Commercialization Of Vegan-Friendly 3D Printed Salmon
FELIXprinters has established itself as a key player in the supply of mid-priced highly accurate industrial additive manufacturing (AM) machines. The company’s reputation is built upon the Pro 3, Pro L, and Pro XL platforms, which are used throughout an array of industry sectors for challenging AM production applications.
FELIXprinters recently introduces the BIOprinter which was developed on the chassis of the established FELIXprinters product line, meaning that at its heart is the tried and tested technology that has already been serving manufacturers for years. The printer is characterized by key features that are specifically designed for medical, scientific, and research applications, including syringe cooling, print bed cooling and heating, a dual head system, easy syringe positioning (ergonomic access to the machine supports researchers in their work), and automatic bed levelling.
However, in recent months a group of international students has developed a 3D printing technique that enables them to print complex binders and proteins into plant-based fish alternatives, and at the heart of this research is the FELIX BIOprinter.
The trio of students from The University of Gothenburg, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) started to work together on an EU-led project in 2017. During their work research as part of Training4CRM, a research project which uses 3D printing to develop treatments of neurodegenerative disorders, the team realized that similar techniques could be applied to 3D print plant-based proteins. Identifying a gap in the market within the seafood sector for more structured vegan-friendly fish-based products, the team began developing its plant-based alternative.
The process is now set to be launched commercially under the trading name Legendary Vish with the aim of providing a healthier and tastier alternative to existing vegan-friendly fish substitutes.
The step forward in the technology is the ability to create seafood products with complex structures that is impossible using traditional extrusion technologies, and this was achieved through the use of the FELIX BIOprinter.
The key driver behind the use of 3D printing for fish production centres around sustainability issues, addressing the fact that many of the world’s fisheries are at the moment pushed beyond their biological limits. In addition, 3D printing fish rather than relying on traditional fishing methods reduces greenhouse gas emissions, destruction of the oceans, and negates the need to use antibiotics, a common necessity to “aquacure” salmon in fish farms.
In an attempt to tackle these environmental challenges, the student team built on the extrusion-based 3D printing technique they’d developed as part of project Training4CRM, to 3D print fish instead of medicinal products. Using the FELIX BIOprinter, the AM method works by extruding a range of plant-based bio-inks, the BIOprinter allowing the extrusion of different plant-based ingredients (basically “food-inks”) through different print heads. This allows the production of the complex appearance of salmon fillets, showing the realistic distribution of orange/red meat tissue and white connective tissue.
Wilgo Feliksdal, Co-Founder of FELIXprinters comments, “The BIOprinter consists of an adaptable and flexible ecosystem to ensure that it can meet a wide range of researchers’ needs without generating unnecessary costs, and we are delighted that it has been at the core of the work undertaken at Legendary Vish. One major advantage is the source control system which enables the user to use standard slicing software and make changes themselves if needed. Also, syringes are not restricted to expensive brand-specific or in-house produced products that essentially drive up operating costs. The machine instead has been designed to use a standard 5ml syringe, and standardized petri dishes and culture plates, so there are no limitations on auxiliary parts and materials.”
“The FELIX BIOprinter is appropriate for all types of bio-printing research, and is equipped with strong motors that can extrude a range of different viscosity of materials which was invaluable when being used to simulate the look and feel of salmon. In addition, the BIOprinter has been designed to be easily upgradeable, which means that the lifecycle of the machine can be extended without compromising quality, reliability, and productivity,” Feliksdal concludes.
About FELIXprinters
FELIXprinters is headquartered in IJsselstein, the Netherlands, and was established in 2010, and provides top-end, robust, reliable, and competitively priced 3D printing solutions for industry users. Beyond the optimisation of its industrial range of printers, however, FELIXprinters has extensive engineering and R&D capabilities, which it is able to utilize to provide specific services in the development of tailor made, customised 3D printing platforms — working in partnership to produce new and innovative solutions.
Wilgo Feliksdal
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NASA Astronauts Safely Splash Down after First Commercial Crew Flight to Space Station
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Two NASA astronauts splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday for the first time in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft, returning from the International Space Station to complete a test flight that marks a new era in human spaceflight.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, carrying Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, splashed down under parachutes in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida at 2:48 p.m. EDT Sunday and was successfully recovered by SpaceX. After returning to shore, the astronauts immediately will fly back to Houston.
“Welcome home, Bob and Doug! Congratulations to the NASA and SpaceX teams for the incredible work to make this test flight possible,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. “It’s a testament to what we can accomplish when we work together to do something once thought impossible. Partners are key to how we go farther than ever before and take the next steps on daring missions to the Moon and Mars.”
Behnken and Hurley’s return was the first splashdown for American astronauts since Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand, and Donald “Deke” Slayton landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Hawaii on July 24, 1975, at the end of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 test flight launched May 30 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After reaching orbit, Behnken and Hurley named their Crew Dragon spacecraft “Endeavour” as a tribute to the first space shuttle each astronaut had flown aboard.
Nearly 19 hours later, Crew Dragon docked to the forward port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module May 31.
“On behalf of all SpaceX employees, thank you to NASA for the opportunity to return human spaceflight to the United States by flying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley,” said SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell. “Congratulations to the entire SpaceX and NASA team on such an extraordinary mission. We could not be more proud to see Bob and Doug safely back home—we all appreciate their dedication to this mission and helping us start the journey towards carrying people regularly to low Earth orbit and on to the Moon and Mars. And I really hope they enjoyed the ride!”
Behnken and Hurley participated in a number of scientific experiments, spacewalks and public engagement events during their 62 days aboard station. Overall, the astronaut duo spent 64 days in orbit, completed 1,024 orbits around Earth and traveled 27,147,284 statute miles.
The astronauts contributed more than 100 hours of time to supporting the orbiting laboratory’s investigations. Hurley conducted the Droplet Formation Study inside of the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG), which evaluates water droplet formation and water flow. Hurley also conducted the Capillary Structures investigation, which studies the use of different structures and containers to manage fluids and gases.
Hurley and Behnken worked on numerous sample switch outs for the Electrolysis Measurement (EM) experiment, which looks at bubbles created using electrolysis and has implications for numerous electrochemical reactions and devices. Both crew members also contributed images to the Crew Earth Observations (CEO) study. CEO images help record how our planet is changing over time, from human-caused changes – such as urban growth and reservoir construction – to natural dynamic events, including hurricanes, floods, and volcanic eruptions.
Behnken conducted four spacewalks while on board the space station with Expedition 63 Commander and NASA colleague Chris Cassidy. The duo upgraded two power channels on the far starboard side of the station’s truss with new lithium-ion batteries. They also routed power and Ethernet cables, removed H-fixtures that were used for ground processing of the solar arrays prior to their launch, installed a protective storage unit for robotic operations, and removed shields and coverings in preparation for the arrival later this year of the Nanoracks commercial airlock on a SpaceX cargo delivery mission.
Behnken now is tied for most spacewalks by an American astronaut with Michael Lopez-Alegria, Peggy Whitson, and Chris Cassidy, each of whom has completed 10 spacewalks. Behnken now has spent a total of 61 hours and 10 minutes spacewalking, which makes him the U.S. astronaut with the third most total time spacewalking, behind Lopez-Alegria and Andrew Feustel, and the fourth most overall.
The Demo-2 test flight is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, which has worked with the U.S. aerospace industry to launch astronauts on American rockets and spacecraft from American soil to the space station for the first time since 2011. This is SpaceX’s final test flight and is providing data on the performance of the Falcon 9 rocket, Crew Dragon spacecraft and ground systems, as well as in-orbit, docking, splashdown, and recovery operations.
Crew Dragon Endeavour will return back to SpaceX’s Dragon Lair in Florida for inspection and processing. Teams will examine the spacecraft’s data and performance from throughout the test flight. The completion of Demo-2 and the review of the mission and spacecraft pave the way for NASA to certify SpaceX’s crew transportation system for regular flights carrying astronauts to and from the space station. SpaceX is readying the hardware for the first rotational mission, called Crew-1, later this year. This mission would occur after NASA certification, which is expected to take about six weeks.
The goal of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is safe, reliable and cost-effective transportation to and from the International Space Station. This could allow for additional research time and increase the opportunity for discovery aboard humanity’s testbed for exploration, including helping us prepare for human exploration of the Moon and Mars.
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don l lind
Don L. Lind is an American astronaut.He was born on May 18, 1930 (89 years old) in Midvale Utah.. About.
He received his Wings of Gold in 1957 and served four years on active duty with the Navy at San Diego and later aboard the carrier USS Hancock. There is a real world around me.
I see it. He helped to develop the Apollo 11 EVA activities, and served as CAPCOM for the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions. Following his military service obligation, he earned a Ph.D. in high-energy nuclear physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. Don Leslie Lind (born May 18, 1930), (Cmdr, USNR, Ret. I’m alive. It has never failed to do so. Awards (1). Awarded NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1973 .. Education Don Leslie Lind, Ph.D. is an American scientist and a former naval officer and aviator, and NASA astronaut. Following his military service obligation, he earned a Ph.D. in high-energy nuclear physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964.
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He graduated from the University of Utah with an undergraduate degree in physics in 1953. I’m here. During that time Lind logged more than 4,500 hours of flight … După efectuarea stagiului militar, acesta a obținut doctoratul în fizică nucleară de … Lind was then assigned as backup Pilot for Skylab 3 and Skylab 4 and nearly flew on the proposed Skylab Rescue mission. ), is an American scientist and a former naval officer and aviator, and NASA astronaut.
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Lind held the rank of Commander in the Naval Reserve.
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He graduated from the University of Utah with an undergraduate degree in physics in 1953.
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5 MW Lithium-Ion Energy Storage System Unveiled In Oregon — Will Provide Storage For Intermittent Renewable Energy Sources
A new, state-of-the-art, 5 MW lithium-ion energy storage system was recently unveiled in South Salem, Oregon. The new energy storage system — which is a demonstration project — will allow the storage of the excess electricity occasionally produced by some intermittent renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, as well as providing other services.
The energy storage system is integrated with a localized power zone — a microgrid — which means that about 500 customers in the area will be able to retain power even during regional electrical blackouts. The microgrid, and the new energy storage system, are both a part of the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project — a project designed with the intention of testing out innovative technologies and energy solution methods in the real world, and potentially spurring their wide-scale adoption.
“The Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project is a successful public-private partnership involving 17 organizations across five Northwest states,” said Patricia Hoffman, assistant secretary for DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, which oversees regional smart grid demonstration projects. “It is a highly innovative project demonstrating transactive energy management, which is a promising, cost-effective way to integrate variable renewable energy, energy storage and demand response at scale. The celebration of the Salem Smart Power Center makes it clear that Oregon is helping to lead the way on energy storage commercialization and grid modernization.”
The 5 MW lithium-ion energy storage system was developed by Portland General Electric as part of its contribution to the Battelle-led Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project. Half of the facility’s development cost of $23-million-dollars was covered by the US Department of Energy. As a whole, the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project is a five-year, $178-million project that launched in 2010. More
New Date For Jamaica's 115MW Renewable Energy Plant! - Aug 2016
The country will have to wait more than three years before the proposed 115 megawatts (MW) of energy from renewable sources is added to the national grid.
The introduction of the renewable energy should cut Jamaica's oil bill substantially (US$55 million at current prices) but the three-year wait will mean a painful delay for Jamaicans desperate for lower electricity bills.
The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) last week accepted 28 proposals for the development of projects aimed at generating the renewable energy.
The submissions, from 20 local and overseas companies, were revealed during a public opening of bid documents last Monday.
The proposals included two for wind projects, one for biomass, and 25 for solar energy.
Eight of the proposals were received from local companies.
The bidders include the local entities Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ); Wigton Windfarm Limited; Blue Mountain Renewables, and BNRG Renewables Jamaica.
In its proposal, the PCJ submitted a 20.98-megawatt photovoltaic solar-generating project at a cost of approximately US$63.16 million.
Wigton Windfarm submitted a proposal for a 24-megawatt wind energy power generation project, at a cost of US$45 million.
Blue Mountain Renewables submitted a 34-megawatt wind power generation project for approximately US$77 million.
The overseas investors include Wirsol AG and Roc Energy, which have tendered a proposal for a 78-megawatt solar park power generation project at a cost of some US$140 million; and New York-based entity, Roraima Consulting Incorporated, which submitted a bid for a 24-megawatt solar power generating project, at a cost of approximately US$59 million.
Project manager at the OUR, Peter Johnson, said the high level of interest in supply renewable energy was very encouraging.
"We are hoping that these proposals will actually bear fruit and that we will get some good solutions out of (them)," stated Johnson.
"This is the first tranche of that and we're very excited with what we have seen."
According to Johnson, with the bids in hands, the OUR will now move towards the evaluation processes, which should be completed by August 5.
"The evaluation will look at the best proposals in terms of the best reliability, the best price (and) will also look to see if one proposal or a combination of proposals will best fit the needs of the country."
The highest-ranked applications will be notified on September 11, with the OUR looking to complete the negotiation of project agreements by June 18, 2014.
The selected applicants are expected to post their performance security deposit by June 28, 2014, and begin construction in August 2014.
The proposed commissioning date of the new renewable energy plant is August 2016.
A request for proposals was issued by the OUR in November 2012, when it invited interested entities to submit bids for the supply of up to 115MW of renewable energy electricity generation to the national grid on a 'Build, Own and Operate' basis.
The Impending Deluge
Fifty thousand drowned, steamships aground with their bows among trees, cattle rolled head over heels by gigantic waves — stories of great sea surges from past centuries abound. Many of them cascaded ashore when coastlines were relatively stable, killing everyone in their path. Today, we live in a warming world of rising sea levels, where tens of millions of us live a few meters above the ocean. The potential for sudden cataclysm is greater than ever.
The record of history is sobering. On Jan. 16, 1362, a severe southwesterly storm swept across the British Isles. The wooden spire of Norwich cathedral in eastern England collapsed.
Hours later, the Grote Mandrenke, “The Great Killing of Men,” descended on the Low Countries at high tide. Huge waves carried everything before them. “An infinity of people perished,” fishing fleets became matchwood, entire herds of cattle and sheep perished in the raging waters. Three centuries later, in 1634, another cataclysmic storm surge brought sea levels four meters above normal to the Strand Islands off northern Germany. As many as 15,000 people and 50,000 livestock drowned.
These were but two of the savage attacks on the low-lying coasts of the North Sea, this from a patch of ocean that was largely dry land less than 8,000 years ago. The geologists call it Doggerland, a sunken landscape that once formed the North Sea. It was a land of sluggish rivers, lakes and extensive wetlands. A few thousand hunters thrived there, living off fish and small game, using antler-tipped spears.
We know this because a trawler dredged one from the seabed in 1932. Doggerland slowly vanished in the face of sea level rise caused by thawing ice sheets, an ever-changing world for those who lived there. By 5,500 B.C., Doggerland had disappeared under the chilly waters of the North Sea.
The inhabitants of the Low Countries have been battling the ocean ever since. For over a thousand years, they have tried to wall off the ocean. Today, millions of people live in densely occupied coastal landscapes behind great barriers. The Dutch government’s hideously expensive Delta Works was the culmination of centuries of defense work, but the authorities never relax in the face of a warming future with predictions of more extreme weather events. They are planning for at least 10,000-year storms in a world of rising sea levels.
It’s hard for us to imagine what the world was like at the end of the Ice Age, when sea levels were about 220 meters lower and the North Sea was dry land.
Take the Nile, which flowed into the Mediterranean through narrow gorges. As the ocean rose, the now silt-heavy Nile formed a fertile delta that became the granary of the pharaohs. All was well two thousand years ago, when Alexandria had only 300,000 inhabitants. Today, the Aswan Dam far upstream has drastically reduced silt flow. Nearly 10 million people live in Alexandria and Cairo. The delta is slowly vanishing under rising sea levels, its groundwater contaminated by saltwater, the soils depleted. The delta is no longer a balanced system. Perhaps 7 million people will suffer regularly from starvation by 2100.
The world’s sea levels have risen since the 1860s, with no end in sight. Skeptics argue that this is a long-term problem, measured in centuries rather than generations, that there is plenty of time to adapt to changing shorelines. But they forget about the more frequent extreme-weather events with their sea surges predicted for the future.
Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012 were both wake-up calls for Americans living near sea level. Katrina devastated New Orleans, leaving 80 percent of the city underwater. Levees broke, over 1,500 people died, and thousands were stranded, especially poorer people. Sandy’s surge flooded Lower Manhattan and the New Jersey Shore. Subways flooded, thousands of houses became rubble. With $60 billion of damage, recovery will take years, while a debate over long-term solutions sputters along. Does one wall off New York, force people to build on higher ground, or restore protective mangrove swamps? The answers will be long in coming, but meanwhile, as cities like Miami grow, our vulnerability increases every year.
The threat is even more ominous elsewhere. Today, some 200 million people live within five meters of sea level, many of them in megacities like Shanghai. The Netherlands has the resources to wall off the sea, but what about other parts of the world? Small Pacific islands like Tuvalu, Alaska’s barrier island communities, and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean are seriously endangered and may even cease to exist.
Bangladesh, most of which is river delta country, lies at the head of the Bay of Bengal, where intense cyclones and their fast-moving storm surges have the potential to kill thousands. And kill they do, in a country with an exploding population, chronic poverty and a long coastline. Cyclone Bhola in 1970 killed over half a million people, at a time when the population was much smaller than today. To its credit, the government has developed early warning systems, erected refuge buildings, and created evacuation strategies that have saved many lives. But these do not answer the longer-term problem of fast-growing urban populations, threats to rice crops, seawater contaminated groundwater, and nowhere to move millions of people forced from their homes by rising seas. More
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Handbook of Mathematical Functions With Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables (AMS55)
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FIRST | PREVIOUS | NEXT | LAST | CONTENTS | PAGE | ABOUT | MEDIUM | LARGE
1. Mathematical Constants (p. 1)
2. Physical Constants and Conversion Factors (p. 5)
3. Elementary Analytical Methods (p. 9)
4. Elementary Transcendental Functions
Logarithmic, Exponential, Circular and Hyperbolic Functions (p. 65)
5. Exponential Integral and Related Functions (p. 227)
6. Gamma Function and Related Functions (p. 253)
7. Error Function and Fresnel Integrals (p. 295)
8. Legendre Functions (p. 331)
9. Bessel Functions of Integer Order (p. 355)
10. Bessel Functions of Fractional Order (p. 435)
11. Integrals of Bessel Functions (p. 479)
12. Struve Functions and Related Functions (p. 495)
13. Confluent Hypergeometric Functions (p. 503)
14. Coulomb Wave Functions (p. 537)
15. Hypergeometric Functions (p. 555)
16. Jacobian Elliptic Functions and ThetaFunctions (p. 567)
17. Elliptic Integrals (p. 587)
18. Weierstrass Elliptic and Related Functions (p. 627)
19. Parabolic Cylinder Functions (p. 685)
20. Mathieu Functions (p. 721)
21. Spheroidal Wave Functions (p. 751)
22. Orthogonal Polynomials (p. 771)
23. Bernoulli and Euler Polynomials, Riemann Zeta Function (p. 803)
24. Combinatorial Analysis (p. 821)
25. Numerical Interpolation, Differentiation and Integration (p. 875)
26. Probability Functions (p. 925)
27. Miscellaneous Functions (p. 997)
28. Scales of Notation (p. 1011)
29. Laplace Transforms (p. 1019)
Subject Index (p. 1031)
Index of Notations (p. 1044)
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Where I Play DAIS
Photo: Ashlea Wessel
By Matthew Ritchie
Like any creative and philosophical person, Sol Guy thinks a lot about the state of art in modern society. But there was one question in particular he couldn't stop pondering in the fall of 2015.
The former music industry professional-turned-TV-producer-turned-content creator was walking around all-night Toronto arts festival Nuit Blanche with former Universal Music Canada CEO Randy Lennox when the then-newly appointed head of Bell Media's Content and Broadcasting asked him what artist development looked like in this day and age.
"But not just for musicians," the former Rascalz and K'naan manager says. "For visual artists, actors, writers, producers, directors — all different disciplines."
What Guy kept coming back to was physical space.
"Sometimes a lot of people just need a space to sit and write, to be quiet, or someone to bounce their ideas off of, or a studio to go into, or they might need an editor, or a little bit of money for production," he says. "Can we build a physical space that can facilitate that?"
The answer was yes.
Last year, Guy and his team took over 1196 Queen Street West, part of a historic building (that also houses the Gladstone Hotel) — nestled right next to Toronto's bustling, burgeoning, arts-focused Parkdale neighbourhood — and quickly transformed it into a multipurpose space for creative types. They named it DAIS. The word (with Latin, Old French and Middle English roots) means platform, but Guy describes the project as more of a "launch pad" designed to "catapult" artists to the next level.
There's no formal application process to use the space. Instead, as word spread about the building and its many amenities — including a full recording studio, radio/podcast suite, 4K video editing room and street-level art gallery/performance/discussion space, to name a few — so too did DAIS's connections to the arts community around them.
When DAIS's partnership with Bell Media was announced in November 2016, industry insiders were quick to compare it to business competitor Rogers Media's similar partnership with Vice the previous year.
But for Guy, DAIS is not so much a content generator, but an "artist first media company," comparing the selection process for collaborators to something like A&R scouting at a record label, and the end product as being the perfect balance between art, commerce and social change (something close to Guy's heart — he did a 2010 TEDx Talk in Toronto about the subject).
"Bringing an artist in, helping develop an idea… there's value in making it, because when that artist's idea gets actualized, maybe 30 people get to work on it, and everybody's skill levels up," he says. "We want to be the add-on to what people are doing. When we add value and things elevate, everybody can share in the success."
And, since opening their doors, Guy says there's been "no shortage of unbelievable ideas."
Previous and current collaborators include: DJ trio A Tribe Called Red (with whom DAIS helped create a four-part music video series with for recent album We Are the Halluci Nation); Canadian hip-hop producer/rapper Rich Kidd (who was working in studio the day of our visit); label/artist management groups Pirates Blend and Cadence; youth-focused arts and business initiative The Remix Project; digital radio station iHeartRadio Canada (which broadcasts a program focused on hip-hop, R&B, soca and Afrobeat recorded in the basement)l; Rakhi Mutta and her Brampton-based romantic web dramedy about life and love in Canada's South Asian community, Anarkali (they're currently editing its third season and hope it gets picked up by CraveTV); and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them star Ezra Miller (whom Guy first met at Burning Man, and is partnering with to create a socially conscious travel-adventure show similar to Guy's previous project 4REAL), to name just a few.
If there's a through-line, it seems to be the proliferation and promotion of artists, issues and narratives that have previously been ignored. (One of DAIS and Guy's biggest successes to date is "I Am a Man," a short film created in partnership with CNN's short-form production house Great Big Story that looks at the American prison system — and its affect on the black community — through a mixture of dance, music and words from social justice activist Bryan Stevenson).
There's also a focus on promoting Canada as a whole. Having spent the past decade or so between Los Angeles, New York and Toronto, Guy says he's seen how our country's art and artists get "absorbed into America."
"People forget who Canadians are," he says. He hopes DAIS can help his collaborators find international success, while also highlighting its country of origin and its other amazing talents.
In some ways, the building's décor — whether it's books by Naomi Klein, a painting of Muhammad Ali, a stack of Black Panther comics, or a chopped and screwed canoe now used as a book shelf and coffee table — seems to represent both focuses and inspire its in-house collaborators at the same time.
Still, DAIS is hard to fully describe, even for its creator.
"I keep trying to explain it, and in some ways I can't," he says. "And that's fine. I'm not disappointed because I can't completely articulate what it's going to be, because, let's be honest, I don't know exactly. I know the purpose, I know the direction, I have the vision. How we get there? That's part of what's fun."
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Home Article MY QUEST OF DISCOVERING QUAID-E-AZAM
“The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men” – Charles Fowler
The man born on 25th December, 1876 changed the destinies of 10 crore Musalmaans, whose past was humiliating, present dismal and future uncertain. He soon carved a place in their hearts and went on to become their true leader, protector, founding father and architect. However, how much do we as a nation know about that remarkable man – our Quaid-e-Azam?
My first introduction with Quaid-e-Azam was probably when I read an essay about him, in 3rd or 4th grade. I learnt that he was the father of the Nation, the founder of Pakistan. At that time, those facts had no impact on me as it was just one of the ‘lessons’. Then whenever one was required to write an essay on “My favorite personality”, either in English or Urdu, teachers would always encourage writing it about him. Though what I wrote was not related to his personality as I didn’t know much, but just memorized bits of information about his life. While all the years that I studied Pakistan Studies, I only learnt that he was an astute politician having high principles and a resolute disposition, and that he without doubt was a born leader. However I was never able to catch a glimpse of who he really was as our course did not include facts such as his exceptional rhetoric skills (in public and in the courthouse), witty sense of humour, debonair smile or his impeccable sense of dressing! Furthermore his valuable legacy in form of speeches, documents and correspondences, which would make a befitting part of our curriculum, have been ignored. Students, especially those studying Law and Political Science could greatly benefit and learn immensely from his knowledge as well as rich experiences, accumulated during a span of nearly half a century.
Who then, was Muhammad Ali Jinnah? My eagerness to get to know him better, lead me onto the path of discovering him and in the past nearly two decades I have learnt a lot by reading various books about him. I found, that not only his personality but the way he lived his life is truly inspiring, and the sacrifices he made for us are beyond our imagination.
Often I have heard our youth complain that they have no contemporary role model whom they could follow. This baffled me, because with a towering personality like Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who else do we need? But after some serious contemplation I found the answer. Among many reasons, a major one is that the media has not played its role in highlighting various aspects of his life, which are so vital for us to know, to truly appreciate him as a person and as our leader. In comparison they regularly propagate every aspect of the personal lives of foreign stars and personalities, who have no national significance.
Anyone who had the honor of knowing him, held him in the greatest esteem. I on the other hand was not so fortunate yet I have come to deeply admire him because he possessed true Muslim characteristics. He had a deep rooted belief in Allah and was greatly influenced by the personality of the Hazrat Muhammad (SAW). In a commemorating speech he said “The Prophet (SAW) was the greatest man that the world had ever seen…”
He was honest and always kept his word. He once said “If ever you make a promise, think a hundred times, but once you make a promise, honor your promise.” He would never acquiesce to anything or anyone, so steadfast was he in his thoughts and actions. These, however are just to name a few of his virtues, but more importantly the lessons I have learnt from his life, have left an indelible impression on my mind. Foremost is that you can achieve anything through hard work and determination. Though the journey isn’t easy and those who look for an easy way out might achieve temporary success, however success accomplished through honest and fair means, by never letting go of your principles is long lasting. Secondly one must face life with courage whatever the circumstances may be. And lastly that one should never give up, strongly believe in one self and above all believe in Allah. He said “Failure is a word unknown to me”.
Even his strongest of opponents’, could not deny his greatness; for on his demise, Surat Chandra Bose, leader of the Forward Bloc wing of the Indian National Congress,summed up his personal and political achievements in a glowing tribute: “Mr. Jinnah, was great as a lawyer, once great as a Congressman, great as a leader of Muslims, great as a world politician and diplomat, and greatest of all as a man of action, By Mr. Jinnah’s passing away, the world has lost one of the greatest statesmen and Pakistan its life-giver, philosopher and guide.”
Though seemingly, we as a nation remember him with great reverence on the occasion of his birth, but does he really mean anything to anyone, anymore? An imperative question every single person should ask themselves. Moreover I feel greatly disappointed in my own generation who don’t seem to have an appreciation and true realization of all that he did for us! One of the major reasons why Pakistan today, is not what Quaid-e-Azam had envisioned is because we never followed his guiding principles and objectives; that would have made Pakistan a great nation.
My quest; however is not over yet, as there so much more to learn about him. And I couldn’t agree more with what Paul Shafer said “The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person … who is worthy of emulation”
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BoA: ‘I Have Challenged Myself for Ten Years As Singer’
Singer BoA (real name Kwon Bo Ah, 24), who has been celebrating the tenth year since her debut, said, “For the last ten years that I have lived as a singer, I have tried to spare as much time as possible.”
She made her debut in Korea in 2000 when she was in the second grade of middle school, and became a role model among Korean singers as she successfully debuted in Japan in 2001. In 2008, she also advanced to the American music industry, so that entire process that she had to complete required a long time, and "twelve months in a year was not enough time for her." She reportedly did not even have time to long for an ordinary life.
As she has lived in a whirlwind of overseas activities, her recently released 6th album entitled “Hurricane Venus” was actually released in Korea after a five year break. In a recent interview, BoA said while smiling, “I have not been bored at all for ten years because I have kept challenging myself for the last ten years. My record of challenges says that I debuted at the age of fourteen, advanced to Japan, completed the first tour concert in Japan, advanced to America, released my 6th album after five years, and will appear in a Hollywood movie soon.”
Even though she had to spend ten years on those challenges, she is still in her twenties. Thanks to her strong image of a “powerful girl,” when she made a debut, she is still remembered as a teenage girl in people’s mind. But, her appearance with smoky makeup on her new album jacket looks very natural now. She said, “I want to have a strong romantic relationship which comes like a strong hurricane. I used to be a shocking girl to the public, but since I cannot stay a teenage girl any more, I just want people to accept my changes as natural.”
-"The moment I came to the USA was the turning point.” -- For the recent two years, BoA has only strived to develop in the American music market. She has not had any noticeable outcome yet, but it is too early to define it as a failure because she is still trying to develop in the market. BoA stressed, “It is like that I silently released an album without a distinct outcome. But, working in the American music market had become a turning point for my life as a singer. It has acted as a stimulus, and I could feel my passion for music again. I could also improve my singing and dancing while working together with famous music producers in the USA. Even though I could not achieve something as a singer, I have received great help regarding developing my ability as a singer. In addition, Lee Soo Man has given new challenges to me whenever I am in trouble.” She continued, “Radio promotion is essential for the American music industry, and one day he made me, who is not a native speaker of English, appear on a live radio program. It was very much like our company (SM), which pursued a Spartan style of training.” She smiled when she said this. As she will have activities in Korea, she might feel like coming back home after long overseas activities, which had given pressure to her and been full of tension. But she unexpectedly said, “I am worried whether I can adjust to the transformed Korean music industry, and I feel like that I become a new singer again.”
-"I hope many women will vibe to my 6th album.” - BoA said, "I was agonized over the same reason when I prepared for producing my 6th album. I had to follow the trend of Korean music industry by adopting electronic sounds and a repeated chorus, and at the same time, I needed to show off a completely new trail like a pioneer in the music market."
She had showcased songs that were composed by foreign music composers so far, but this time she worked together with many famous Korean music composers and singers and songwriters such as Kim Dong Ryul, Kim Jong Wan from the group Nell, and Jinu. BoA said, “I was curious about what kind of music would be produced if I worked with famous Korean musicians. Since I personally like ballad songs made by Kim Dong Ryul and Kim Jong Wan, I asked them to make songs for me. I also decided to work with Jinu after I listened to the song ‘Abracadabra,’ which he produced. For my album, I wanted to find really good songs instead of including many songs.”
In the new album, songs for performances which will produce satisfying visual effects and songs for emotions which will produce satisfying audio effects are both included. Jinu’s songs such as “Game,” "Dangerous,” which features strong sounds of drums and synthesizer, and the electronic pop song “M.E.P” are those songs intended for performances, and Kim Dong Ryoul’s ballad song “Stand By,” Kim Jong Wan’s “Implode,” and the song “Romance,” in which jazz pianist Song Young Ju participated, will give audiences a chance to listen to BoA’s mature vocals.
BoA stated, “I chose the title song ‘Hurricane Venus’ to showcase a splendid performance on the stage, but generally I wanted to make an album that can arouse women’s sympathy. Women in their twenties might want to listen to my songs in various situations: in a car, in a club, and in a situation when their boyfriends upset them. And this is the reason why I included chic songs that women can enjoy cheerfully.”
Two of her own songs are in this album. The song entitled “Let Me,” which expresses her passion towards dancing, and the song entitled “Ordinary Day,” which contains the feelings that we can have in our daily life, are those songs. Her brother, pianist Kwon Soon Hwon, participated in recording the song “Don’t Know What To Say,” for which BoA wrote the lyrics.
BoA explained, “I think that the break worked as a positive effect. I could choose various songs among various selections, so songs in my new album become more diversified.”
-"In a Hollywood movie, I want to immortalize my dance.” - Her new challenge this time is going into Hollywood by acting. She will appear in Duane Adler‘s new movie. Duane Adler, who had been highlighted by writing the movie script for dance movies such as “Step Up” and “Save The Last Dance,” will write the script and direct the movie. The movie will be about dance and based in New York, and the title of the movie has not yet been decided. She said, “My schedule as a singer alone was too tight, so I have not thought about acting, but the movie is about dance and will be produced by the director who made my favorite movie ‘Step Up,’ so I was fascinated. It was an attractive opportunity for me to have my dancing, which I have just presented through TV, immortalized in a movie; it was not just an opportunity to advance into Hollywood.”
She has stayed at the top for ten years as a dance music singer, who tend to have short careers. It seems that she has come over a level road, but actually she has suffered injuries and her body condition has become worse. But, she has a strong feeling that she can perform as a dance music singer until she becomes 35 years old as long as she takes care of herself thoroughly. In this way, she has always shown her attitude as a professional, so she is actually a role model of many junior singers who focus on dancing.
She continued, “Dancing and singing live at the same time on the stage is not easy at all. In contrast to the time in the early 2000s, singers who lip sync are blamed. Junior singers who are singing while dancing have a great ability and they look amazing. Singers do not have to show off their appearance, so it is more important for them to try to improve their singing ability.”
There are many titles for BoA including idol, dance music singer, artist, and performer, but she wants to be called a performer because she has a deep affection for dancing.
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Determination of satellite orbits and the global positioning system
Agrotis, Loukis George (1984) Determination of satellite orbits and the global positioning system. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
An artificial satellite orbit determination (OD) computer program is the most essential tool in satellite geodesy. Such a program has been developed at Nottingham as part of this research and was tested with Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) observations of the Laser Geodynamics Satellite (LAGEOS).
This thesis describes the basic theory behind orbit determination and the software development at Nottingham. It includes details of the adopted force model, coordinate reference frames, and numerical integration and interpolation techniques. It is also explained how several geodetic parameters can be determined. The thesis discusses the results of two separate determinations of the LAGEOS orbit with an emphasis on the solutions for station coordinates and for earth rotation and polar motion.
The NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS) is on schedule to replace Transit as the most important satellite navigation system. When fully operational, in 1988, it will consist of 18 satellites which will provide continuous global coverage. This thesis describes the Global Positioning System and outlines the theory behind the most accurate techniques of adjustment of the CPS observables. It derives the equations for interferometric techniques and shows that, by differencing the observations, several undesirable unknowns can be eliminated.
GPS data from the NAVSTAR Geodetic Receiver System (NGRS) have been provided for Nottingham by the US Defence Mapping Agency (DMA). The thesis describes the software development to analyse these data and gives the results of several solution schemes to derive the absolute coordinates of the NGRS antenna. It is also shown how the software can be modified to incorporate interferometric techniques. Significant improvements over the NGRS solutions can be expected when GPS is fully operational, with refinements in both receiver hardware and software.
Ashkenazi, V.
Artificial satellites for geodesy, Geomagnetism, Cartography
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General)
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"You have no voice!": Constructing reputation through contemporaries in the Shakespeare biopic
Kirwan, Peter (2014) "You have no voice!": Constructing reputation through contemporaries in the Shakespeare biopic. Shakespeare Bulletin, 32 (1). pp. 11-26. ISSN 1931-1427
Official URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/shakespeare_bulletin/v032/32.1.kirwan.html
This article addresses the construction of Shakespearean reputation and legacy in contemporary film through re-evaluation of the much-derided Anonymous (Roland Emmerich, 2011), in addition to John Madden's Shakespeare in Love (1998). In both films, the framing, presentation and performance of Shakespeare's contemporaries (Jonson, Marlowe, Nashe, Dekker and Webster) is key to an understanding of how both films figure what it means to be "Shakespeare" and what it means to be "not-Shakespeare". Viewing Shakespeare and his work through the eyes of his fellow writers, the films position Shakespearean reputation as formed both by and in spite of the observations of his friends and rivals.
In performing Shakespeare's contemporaries, writers and work are elided to create simple caricatures that contrast directly with the expectations of Romantic genius established for Shakespeare. In the cases of Marlowe and Jonson, however, more complex associations between competing literary legacies are brought into play that problematise the nature of the Shakespearean legacy. Emmerich's film, in seeking to rewrite the history of "Shakespeare", employs Jonson as its protagonist in order to question the nature of memorialisation, recognition and connoisseurship in preference to unquestioning fandom. In so doing, Anonymous provides a model for understanding the anti-Stratfordian experience through the overshadowing of other early modern dramatists.
film, Shakespeare, Jonson, authorship, Anonymous, Shakespeare in love
University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Arts > School of English
https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2014.0009
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Internet sources, hardware, and software elements are the target of felony or malicious attempts to gain unauthorized management to cause interruptions, commit fraud, have interaction in blackmail or access private info. The spread of low-cost Internet access in creating nations has opened up new possibilities for peer-to-peer charities, which permit people to contribute small amounts to charitable tasks for different people. Websites, similar to DonorsChoose and GlobalGiving, enable small-scale donors to direct funds to individual projects of their alternative. A popular twist on Internet-based mostly philanthropy is the usage of peer-to-peer lending for charitable purposes.
An Internet blackout or outage can be attributable to local signalling interruptions. Disruptions of submarine communications cables may trigger blackouts or slowdowns to massive areas, corresponding to within the 2008 submarine cable disruption. Less-developed countries are more weak due to a small number of excessive-capacity links. Land cables are also weak, as in 2011 when a girl digging for scrap steel severed most connectivity for the nation of Armenia.
“Individuals utilizing the Internet 2005 to 2014” Archived 28 May 2015 on the Wayback Machine, Key ICT indicators for developed and developing countries and the world (totals and penetration charges), International Telecommunication Union (ITU). “Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI). 2015. Models of Mobile Data Services in Developing Countries. Research temporary. The Impacts of Emerging Mobile Data Services in Developing Countries”.
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In the early 1970s Mr Pouzin created an revolutionary knowledge network that linked locations in France, Italy and Britain. Its simplicity and efficiency pointed the way to a community that could connect not just dozens of machines, however millions of them. It captured the creativeness of Dr Cerf and Dr Kahn, who included elements of its design within the protocols that now energy the web. “So, who really did invent the Internet?” Archived three September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Ian Peter, The Internet History Project, 2004. “Who owns the Internet?” Archived 19 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Jonathan Strickland, How Stuff Works.
The volume of Internet visitors is troublesome to measure, as a result of no single level of measurement exists within the multi-tiered, non-hierarchical topology. Traffic knowledge may be estimated from the combination volume by way of the peering factors of the Tier 1 community providers, however traffic that stays local in giant provider networks is probably not accounted for. As the Internet is a heterogeneous network, the physical characteristics, together with for instance the information switch charges of connections, differ widely. It displays emergent phenomena that depend on its massive-scale group.
Major improvements like synthetic intelligence, blockchain, machine studying, web of things, and digital reality have started to completely transform the world and the character of work. Technology has evolved and formed our workplaces in some ways, by way of the adoption of tools like the internet and email for communications, word processing, spreadsheets and presentations for office productiveness, electronic databases for report preserving, and robots and artificial intelligence for automation. World Internet Usage Statistics News and Population Stats Archived 19 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine updated for 30 June 2010.
The Internet’s technologies have developed enough in recent times, particularly in using Unicode, that good facilities are available for growth and communication in the world’s broadly used languages. However, some glitches similar to mojibake (incorrect display of some languages’ characters) nonetheless remain. ] a couple of VoIP suppliers present an emergency service, however it isn’t universally available. Older conventional phones with no “additional features” could also be line-powered only and function throughout a power failure; VoIP can by no means do so and not using a backup power supply for the cellphone tools and the Internet entry gadgets.
Kiva pioneered this idea in 2005, offering the primary web-primarily based service to publish particular person loan profiles for funding. Kiva raises funds for local middleman microfinance organizations which post stories and updates on behalf of the debtors.
Although many governments have tried to limit both industries’ use of the Internet, in general, this has did not stop their widespread popularity. After English (27%), the most requested languages on the World Wide Web are Chinese (25%), Spanish (eight%), Japanese (5%), Portuguese and German (4% each), Arabic, French and Russian (three% each), and Korean (2%). By area, 42% of the world’s Internet customers are based in Asia, 24% in Europe, 14% in North America, 10% in Latin America and the Caribbean taken collectively, 6% in Africa, 3% in the Middle East and 1% in Australia/Oceania.
Lenders can contribute as little as $25 to loans of their choice, and receive their a reimbursement as borrowers repay. Kiva falls wanting being a pure peer-to-peer charity, in that loans are disbursed earlier than being funded by lenders and borrowers don’t communicate with lenders themselves. While much has been written of the financial advantages of Internet-enabled commerce, there may be also proof that some features of the Internet similar to maps and site-aware services may serve to bolster financial inequality and the digital divide. Electronic commerce could also be answerable for consolidation and the decline of mom-and-pop, brick and mortar businesses resulting in will increase in income inequality. Lonely individuals tend to make use of the Internet as an outlet for his or her feelings and to share their stories with others, such as within the “I am lonely will anyone communicate to me” thread.
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InVivo Therapeutics Announces $3.0 Million Registered Direct Offering Priced At-the-Market under Nasdaq Rules
April 15 2020 - 07:30PM
InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. (NVIV) today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements with several institutional investors for the purchase and sale of 1,715,240 shares of its common stock at a purchase price of $1.75 per share in a registered direct offering priced at-the-market under Nasdaq rules. The Company also agreed to issue to the investors unregistered warrants to purchase up to 1,715,240 shares of common stock. The warrants have an exercise price of $1.62 per share, are exercisable immediately, and will expire five and one-half years following the date of issuance. The closing of the offering is expected to occur on or about April 17, 2020, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
H.C. Wainwright & Co. is acting as the exclusive placement agent for the offering.
The gross proceeds to the Company from the registered direct offering are expected to be $3.0 million, before deducting the placement agent’s fees and other offering expenses payable by InVivo Therapeutics. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for working capital, business development activities, and general corporate purposes.
The shares of common stock (but not the warrants issued in the private placement or the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants) are being offered by the Company pursuant to a “shelf” registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-234353) previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, and declared effective by the SEC on November 14, 2019. The offering of the shares of common stock will be made only by means of a prospectus, including a prospectus supplement, forming a part of the effective registration statement. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the shares of common stock being offered will be filed with the SEC. Electronic copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus may be obtained, when available, on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov or by contacting H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, 430 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10022, or by telephone at (646) 975-6996, or email at placements@hcwco.com.
The warrants described above were offered in a private placement under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Act, and Regulation D promulgated thereunder, and the warrants and the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants have not been registered under the Act or applicable state securities laws. Accordingly, the warrants and shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Act and such applicable state securities laws.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities described herein, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
About InVivo Therapeutics
InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. is a research and clinical-stage biomaterials and biotechnology company with a focus on treatment of spinal cord injuries. The company was founded in 2005 with proprietary technology co-invented by Robert Langer, Sc.D., Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Joseph P. Vacanti, M.D., who then was at Boston Children’s Hospital and who now is affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital. The publicly traded company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.
Any statements contained in this press release that do not describe historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements can be identified by words such as “believe,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “estimate,” “will,” “may,” “should,” “expect” and similar expressions, and include statements about the anticipated completion of the registered direct offering. Any forward-looking statements contained herein are based on current expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual future results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to, satisfaction of the closing conditions related to the proposed offering, risks and uncertainties relating to the Company’s ability to successfully open additional clinical sites for enrollment and to enroll additional patients; the timing of the Institutional Review Board process; the Company’s ability to obtain FDA approval to commercialize its products; the Company’s ability to develop, market and sell products based on its technology; the expected benefits and efficacy of the Company’s products and technology in connection with spinal cord injuries; the availability of substantial additional funding for the Company to continue its operations and to conduct research and development, clinical studies and future product commercialization; and general economic and market conditions and other factors discussed in the “Risk Factors” section of the prospectus, including a prospectus supplement, that forms a part of the Company’s registration statement on Form S-3 relating to the offering of the shares of common stock and the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, and its other filings with the SEC, including the Company’s Form 10-Qs and current reports on Form 8-K. The Company does not undertake to update these forward-looking statements.
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House Demolition in Jerusalem 2007
Type of violation Demolition/destruction
Date 01 January 2007
City Jerusalem
Brief narrative The demolition and evacuation of 111 Palestinian houses and other structures in Jerusalem during 2007 Land Research Center 02 January 08 The Israeli occupation authorities continued to violate the individual and collective rights of Palestinians in the occupied Jerusalem, in general, and the right to proper housing and land, in particular, during the year 2007 under various pretexts such as the construction of the Segregation Wall, bypass roads, archeological excavations, building of colonies and un-licensing. This policy of ethnic cleansing which commemorates the 40th anniversary of the occupation of the city is accompanied by a continuous building of new colonies and the expansion of the existing colonies in and around the city, such as Abu Ghuneim (Har Homa), Psigat Zeev, Givaat Zeev, Nof Zion, Kadamat Zion …etc, as well as the ongoing diggings and excavations in various parts of the old city, including the Haram Al Sharif compound. The Land Research Center (LRC), a Palestinian NGO and member of Habitat International Coalition, as part of its mandate of monitoring, documenting and writing about human rights violations, including the right to proper housing and land ownership, has documented the following housing violations at the hands of the Israeli occupation authorities in Jerusalem during 2008: • The total of 97 housing units have been demolished and their occupants forcibly evicted. These housing units have the total surface area of 9946 square meters and the total of 373 rooms. As a result, 529 people were made homeless after being forcibly evicted from their homes, of whom, 311 are children under the age of 18. • The total of 43 other structures, including stores, farms, pens, barracks and walls have been, also, demolished during the year 2007. • Compared to 2007, LRC had documented the demolition of 78 housing units during 2006. In addition, it had documented the demolition of 606 housing units during the period 2000–2006. The destruction of property and demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied Jerusalem by the Israeli authorities is contrary to international humanitarian law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, and incompatible with article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Israel has signed and ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1966, and went in force in 1976. Israel, therefore, is obliged to apply its provisions in relation to the occupied Palestinian Territories, including Jerusalem. And Israel is also obliged, as the occupying military power, to abide by the provisions enshrined in the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, on the protection of civilians under occupation. The Land Research Center determined to call on Israel, the occupying power: (1) To put an end to violations of international humanitarian law and principles of the International Bill of Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the occupied city of Jerusalem. (2) That Israel stop the policy of Judaization, displacement and ethnic cleansing practiced against Palestinians of occupied city of Jerusalem, lift the closures and blockades on the city, stop the separation and dispersal of Palestinian families, institute family unification policy for Palestinians, cease and reverse all illegal actions and measures that violated the right of families and individuals as a result of the wall construction or other discriminatory measures, and to allow http://www.lrcj.org/Eng/site.php A Statistical report prepared by Land Research Center about the house demolitition in Jerusalem during 2007, at: www.icrj.org.
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It's good to be bad!
So, Star Wars: The Last Jedi released, and Luke Skywalker was right: “This is not going to go the way you think.”
Ok, that’s a big, fat lie. It goes exactly the way you think, except for the parts where it doesn’t. The Last Jedi does . . . or did? Whatever Yoda would say, and how!
This will be a spoiler-free report, so read on without fear or remorse.
Anyone who pans these films just doesn’t know how to embrace the cheese. The movies are fun, but they’ve always been light-fare of a local boy who goes big. They’re space opera, with emphasis on the opera part—big heroes, big fights, big explosions wrapped in a “battle for freedom”.
Lucas forgot this during his “prequel” phase, and we’re well rid of him for these installments. That may be blasphemy to some, and you’re welcome to it. Lucas was always, always, always the “big idea” guy. His ideas have now spanned 45 years, and a franchise that can imagine quite a bit more. He simply could not execute, and as Harrison Ford once told him (paraphrasing), “You can write this stuff, but you can’t say it.”
Thanks for showing us the Force, George. We’ve got it from here.
The Kessel Run? That old thing?
Rian Johnson has impressed the hell out of me since Brick (with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, which everyone should now watch, and then own on Blu-Ray). Taking the reins of the greatest space opera ever has really allowed him to shine. He treats the characters as one should for the second movie in a planned trilogy—he beats the hell out of them. That’s not to say he’s disrespectful. Anything but. Johnson, who is only a few months younger than me, grew up with Star Wars. It’s been a part of our cultural tapestry from the start, a thing that, even if we wanted to, we can’t get away from.
It’s a damn shame that Johnson will not be returning for Episode IX.
That said, The Last Jedi does everything the trailers promised and more. It is visually beautiful and wonderfully exciting. There are enough lightsabers and space battles to fill an Imperial starships—not the local bulk cruisers, mind you, I'm talking about the big Corellian ships. Luke Skywalker is all kinds of in this thing, and Carrie Fisher is just so much awesome it will fill your heart to bursting.
Yeah, the view is great, but look at the location!
Another shame that we won’t get to see her in the next movie.
There was at least one scene that put me right into tears, and another that made my jaw drop at the implication. Johnson did what every Star Wars film should—provided a good story, well told, that left me wanting more. What The Force Awakens began, and Rogue One promised, The Last Jedi has now delivered. See it. See it again. Buy it on disc and add to your collection with pride.
Marketing Covers for Flames of Perdition Part 3
As promised, here is the theoretical cover art for Company of the Damned. This might be my favorite out of all three, as it’s the only book that hasn’t released yet, and thus had no first or second cover to salt the well.
Shaken, but not stirred
Also, as I said, I have some news about an upcoming release. In addition to being picked up by Ellysian Press for the Aubrey Hartmann steampunk books, a side project for Del’s world has been nagging at me. I’ve decided to give in and write a Jane book. Jane was supposed to be a one-note side character, a tough-as-nails member of the shadowy Jaccob/Joshua Smalls group operating out of Salt Lake City that Marrin became enamored of. She ended up growing and her story-arc became more and more prominent—but she’s always been secondary to Del.
Until now!
I’m still working on titles, but the first chapter of the book is written. This will be a stand-alone, outside of the Flames of Perdition series, but still within that world. I’ll keep you posted as the work moves forward.
Tell me again how to make your drink!
Back in the day, I loved, loved, loved Show & Tell time. Mostly, I loved to show and tell. Probably we all did, but I don’t recall a thing anyone showed and told about during Show & Tell. Probably it was a lot of stuffed animals and real animals and whatnot. I do, however, remember some of my showing and telling.
Writers are often told “show, don’t tell.” It’s one of the first things posted on a request for critique.
Telling actually has a place in writing.
It may seem like blasphemy to the masses of new authors eagerly attending their first conference, but it isn't always practical to show. Some scenes, technical, mechanicals, etc. can't be shown, they have to be told—especially if the character is trying to understand why a thing isn't working in the first place, and they need that thing to work.
But Rob! Why would a character think through all the aspects of a piece of technology?
Well, Slotted Pig, in real life, we do this in our heads all the time without really thinking. When an app fails to load or function correctly, we start to run through all the steps: turn the device off and back on, reinstall the app, check for updates and patches, etc. Some of that is pretty common, so it’s not very interesting to a reader. When dealing with a process, tech, magic, etc. that is not common, or is wholly made-up, then some telling is not only needed, it’s downright necessary.
A simple example that nearly everyone can relate to is “trigger discipline.”
Most people don't know what trigger discipline is, even if they've handled a gun a few times. Books and TV and Hollywood often get it wrong. Tarantino even exploited this hand-waved trope in Pulp Fiction when Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) accidentally shoots Marvin in the back of the car due to his complete lack of trigger discipline.
In the case of trigger discipline you’re actually accomplishing both telling and showing at the same time. You tell the reader what the term means, and in so doing, that your character knows how to properly handle a gun, that she’s a trained and even competent professional.
Certainly, there should be more showing and less telling going on in a story. It's easier to be immersed in the visceral experience of a world that feels real. But to say you should never tell is just not what storytellers should be hearing.
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Where Have You Gone, Sandy Koufax
05 · Issue 5, Archives
It’s not until after the game that Gabe Kapler’s tattoos can be seen. The Boston Red Sox outfielder stands in front of his locker in the guts of Fenway Park, peeled down to his shorts. A Star of David as big as a chocolate-chip cookie brands his bulging left calf. Bruise-blue Hebrew letters in a crescent around the star translate to “strong mind.” The tattoo on his right leg is in English: “Never Again, 1933-1945.”
Kapler, whose throw from the outfield fence helped seal a victory tonight, is touted as one of the most promising Jewish athletes in the world. “A Jewish rookie sensation,” the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix gushed in 1999. A “potential all-star,” effused Slate in a 2001 article called “Jews on First,” which pondered whether the day would soon be upon us when there would be a major-league minyan—10 Jewish players in the big leagues.
There isn’t one yet. There are currently eight Jewish players in Major League Baseball. There are also—as anyone can learn by reading one of the dozens of websites, magazines and books devoted to Jews in sports—five sons of Abraham in the National Hockey League, six in the National Football League, and about a dozen playing world-class soccer.
Muscular, intense-eyed Kapler, 28, is a big deal in the world that hungrily tracks such things, a gung-ho Semitic slugger whose four home runs in the 2003 season and 55 since his 1998 debut are chronicled as assiduously as Shylock tallied each ill-gotten ducat.
Nevertheless, word of Kapler’s stature in the hearts of Jews obsessed with Jews in sports has apparently not filtered down to the men he plays with every day, men who, in locker rooms and showers and weight rooms before and after their 162-games a year, have ample opportunity to see his giant Hebrew tattoos. When Pedro Martinez, the famous ace pitcher for the Red Sox, is asked if he thinks Kapler might be a symbol of pride to Jews just as Pedro is to people from his homeland of the Dominican Republic, the pitcher seems surprised and asks, “Kapler is Jewish? I didn’t know that. I thought Kapler was just American.”
Four decades after Los Angeles Dodger Sandy Koufax refused to pitch on Yom Kippur during the World Series and ignited Jewish pride, the Jewish-athlete-obsession business is red hot. But times have changed since 1965. Now every Jew who lifts a dumbbell at a Muscle Beach competition or warms a bench as a third-string professional is benighted by fanatic sports fans as a mini-Koufax.
There are 18 Jewish Sports Halls of Fame in the United States, dozens of websites on Jewish athletes, a bear market in Jewish sports memorabilia ($535 for a baseball signed by 1940s Detroit Slugger Hank Greenberg), a newly issued set of Jewish Major Leaguers baseball cards covering the years 1870 to 2003 and a new Judaica Sports Collectibles Library from New York City-based S.p.i. Books, which includes the forthcoming title The Big Book of Jewish Athletes: Biographies & Anecdotes of Great Jews in Sports.
This is serious business to many people. Few things raise the ire of brissed-out ball fans more than jokes like the one in the 1980 movie Airplane:
“May I offer you anything to read, ma’am?”
“Do you have anything light?”
“How about this leaflet, Famous Jewish Sports Legends?”
There is nothing light about the Jewish Sports Review, a bi-monthly publication with 1,000 subscribers that seems to catalog every athletic feat by every Jew from junior high school through senior citizens’ leagues.
Readers of the $6, 24-page Sept/Oct issue can find among its hundreds of rapid-fire tidbits:
“DAVID MANSOUR (Eng) captured the foil event of the 2003 British Fencing Association Championships. He is the first Jew to win the senior foils since ALAN JAY in 1963.”
“We just learned that DEDE COHEN of Houston’s (TX) Memorial H.S. enjoyed an outstanding sophomore season as a shooting guard.”
“CAROLYN WARHAFTIG (P) (Soph) – Colgate – from Wyckoff, NJ. Carolyn fed for an assist for one point as she started 17/17 contests.” [This from the Women’s 2003 College Soccer Preview, a special section in the issue]
The (P) after a name means that only an athlete’s father is Jewish. If there’s no (M), meaning only the mother is, or (C), indicating a conversion, the athlete is 100-percent full-blooded Yid.
Manhattan-based Shel Wallman, 66, a retired high school dean, and his co-publisher, Ephraim Moxson, a 61-year-old parole agent administrator in Los Angeles, pore over the sports pages in newspapers from around the country, and every time a Stein, Rosenberg or Cohen appears, they play “is he a Jew?” with gusto, chalking up members of the tribe like a marlin fisherman notches his rod to count catches.
“Last year,” JSR notes, “we mentioned ANITA MARKS, QB for the Florida Stingrays of the Women’s Professional Football League. We can now include her teammates, DT ALISON KATZ, DE BONNIE LEVY and OL MELISSA GREEN.” (Marks, incidentally, posed for the September, 2002 issue of Playboy, wearing shoulder pads, a wrist guard and little else.)
Why do Wallman and Moxson do it?
“People were always asking, ‘Is this guy Jewish, is that guy Jewish?'” Wallman says. “We decided we would find out and that’s what we’ve done for five and a half years. We find out, and people who want to know, they subscribe to our magazine.”
And legions do want to know. So many people visit the Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame—literally a hallway inside the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit—that the 56 plaques are being moved from a back area near the inline hockey center to a more prominent renovated hallway near the health-club entrance. The new wall will also contain an interactive touch-screen where visitors can watch videos on the inductees. Among them: Julius Spielberg, who, when he was inducted in 1999 at age 98, was the premier Senior Olympics speed walker in his age class; Hank Greenberg (“the best,” says Steven Simmons, who runs the hall); and Benny Friedman, an all-American at Michigan in the 1920s who is also in the NFL Hall of Fame.
The Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, founded with a $100,000 donation from the Rose and Adolph Levis family, who continue to give about $10,000 a year, completed an expansion in 2003 from one room to two. The 5,000 annual visitors can now peruse 22 Plexiglas-sealed lockers displaying memorabilia such as a basketball uniform from the 1930s-era South Philadelphia Hebrew Association. New inductees include “Dynamite” Dave Smukler, a college and pro football player in the 1930s, and Ed Lerner, a college basketball player in the 1940s.
But those are the minor leagues. The Jewish sports hall of fame which claims to be the national Jewish Sports Hall of Fame is in Commack, Long Island. It was, until recently, also just a hallway filled with plaques leading from the gymnasium to the pool in a Jewish community center. By early 2004, the hall of fame will have moved to its own airy room, where visiting Hebrew school groups will be able to view illustrated timelines of the Jewish experience in the Olympics and other sporting events. The new room was designed by Frank Cirillo, who also created the Yogi Berra Museum in Montclair, New Jersey.
This effort is worth it, director Alan Freedman explains, because with so many Jewish kids pinning posters of Barry Bonds and LeBron James on their walls, we need to make sure they know that Jews can make it as big-time athletes, too.
“When it comes down to it,” he says, “we’re showing that maybe there isn’t as much difference between people as we all think, and all the jokes about Jewish athletes and Polish scientists and Italian war heroes aren’t true. I’m not making it out that Jews are better. All I’m trying to say is we’ve responded in sports just like everywhere else.”
Not all athletes whose faces are cast in bronze or whose names are uttered lovingly by the Freedmans and Wallmans of the world are playing along. When the spokesperson for Olympic ice skater Sasha Cohen, a gold medal favorite for 2006 who is profiled and pondered in nearly every publication devoted to Jewish athletes, is contacted for an interview request, the spokesperson declines with a polite e-mail explaining that Sasha “does not practice Judaism and would not want to lead people the wrong way.”
Right now, the best the tribe has got is Jay Fiedler, the starting quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. He’s full-blooded—no (M), (P) or (C)—and took the time to show up in Commack, near his native Oceanside, for induction into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.
Dolphins spokesman Neal Gulkis, however, doesn’t sound optimistic about setting up an interview with Fiedler, even after I explain that I don’t want to discuss his faith, but rather, how he feels about those preparing to engrave his image into some sort of Jewish Mt. Rushmore next to Koufax, Greenberg and swimmer Mark Spitz—if only Fiedler can win a Super Bowl.
Gulkis says he gets a lot of calls for interviews with Fiedler about being Jewish.
After two weeks of back and forth, Gulkis finally says, “At this point, he doesn’t have much of an interest. What with the season happening and everything ….”
When Freedman at the Commack Hall of Fame is told about Fiedler’s lack of interest, he quickly reminds me of Miami’s third-string quarterback, Sage Rosenfels, a 6’4″ blue-eyed buck from Iowa. “We lead the league in Jewish QBs,” a Dolphins fan wrote in the finheaven.com chat room.
Gulkis sounds tired when phoned two weeks after the Fielder rejection for an interview with Rosenfels. “He’s not Jewish,” Gulkis sighs. “His father is Jewish. [(P)] He acknowledges that he’s half-Jewish, but he’s raising his children …” Gulkis pauses. It sounds like he might have begun uttering a word that begins with “C,” which would make sense since Rosenfels’ wife’s name is Maria, but then Gulkis seems to remember his public relations training—saying less is always better than saying too much—and regathers himself, continuing without elaboration. “He’s not raising his family Jewish.”
Is this enough to disqualify the bench-warmer Sage—who has thrown 9 passes and rushed for negative 10 yards in his entire NFL career—as a symbol for a people he doesn’t even to want to be a part of? Not likely. The Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inducted him in absentia in 2002.
Some Jewish athletes will never even know they’ve been drafted as eternal symbols into the Jewish sports canon. Boston publisher Martin Abramowitz earned some column inches in the Boston Globe and other papers for his set of Jewish Major Leaguers baseball cards, which purports to be as complete a compilation as possible of every Jew ever to play big-league ball. Working from his kitchen table, Abramowitz secured funding from the American Jewish Historical Society, arranged photo rights with the Baseball Hall of Fame and the Players Association, and convinced the venerable card company Fleer to print 15,000 sets of the 142-card collection at cost. Â
Forty of these players, most from the early 20th century, most dead, never before appeared on a baseball card. Jesse “Tiny” Baker, whose major-league career consisted of appearing at shortstop in one game in 1919, from which he was removed after being spiked by Ty Cobb. Baker’s name at birth was Michael Myron Silverman.
Within a few days of the Globe article, the AJHS, which is offering the cards as a premium for those who donate at least $100, had received orders for 1,000 sets. Within a month, the JML sets were being sold on eBay next to such items as a Koufax-autographed limited-edition oil painting listed for $1,200, and a muddy postcard photo of boxer Sammy Dorfman, who went undefeated in 1925 and 1926, going for 40 bucks.
This current wave of Jews-in-sports mania isn’t the first. In 1965, The Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports was published, and in 1983, perhaps as a direct answer to the Airplane “light reading” joke of three years earlier, Robert Slater and Red Auerbach’s 352-page tome Great Jews in Sports first appeared. An expanded and updated version hit shelves in November, 2003.
But there’s no longer a need to rely solely on arcane history books. Peruse the stunningly thorough jewsinsports.org—which recently posted a feature on Sasha Cohen—and there, listed alphabetically in the football section between Hal Seidenberg, an all-Ivy League fullback at Cornell in the late 1940s who later became a lawyer, and Robert Seigal, a player with the 11th-place Canton Bulldogs in 1925, is Mike Seidman, the current starting tight end for the Carolina Panthers. His bio informs readers that he was raised in Westlake, California and that in 2003, Mike “was the highest Jewish player selected in the NFL draft.”
The Panthers are happy to put their rookie on the phone. So how does it feel to be a Jewish sports hero? “If it makes people happy, then good for me, I guess,” Seidman (M), 22, says cheerfully. Asked if he might marry a Jewish woman, even though he wasn’t really raised in the faith, he replies, “My girlfriend is half-Arab. From Westlake. I didn’t even think anything of it. People would tell me, ‘She’s half-Arab. They don’t like Jewish people.’ I met her dad. He’s cool.”
Muscles bulging as he grabs his duffle bag on his way out of Fenway Park, Gabe Kapler tells me, “I’ve always been intrigued by the stronger, more powerful Jewish role models versus—not that these guys aren’t interesting people—role models like Jerry Seinfeld and Billy Crystal.”
A month later, on the phone from his off-season home in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, he continues, “The portrayal of Jews is as weak, and that fires me up. It’s our own fault. It’s kept up by the parents of Jews because they stress education so hard rather than letting a person develop into whatever they are.”
He says that if he were a big star, he’d make an even bigger deal about being Jewish, trumpeting it from every magazine cover and TV show he could.
Before he gets off the phone to spend time with his wife Lisa and their two young children (P), Kapler gives his bottom line: “I don’t like our stereotypes. I think our stereotypes are bullshit.” He says some Jews don’t like the histrionic professional wrestler Goldberg, but to him the loudmouth is a modern Koufax. “He’s charismatic and interesting and he’s a stud. We need a stud.”
More strident studs do seem to be stepping forward and volunteering for duty—but those obsessed with Jews in sports aren’t necessarily welcoming these new arrivals into the fold. In 1999, German tennis great Boris Becker told Inside Tennis magazine that his mother has a “Jewish background,” and had fled Czechoslovakia in her youth. Then in 2003, international soccer superstar (and Posh Spice husband) David Beckham revealed to OK! magazine that his mother’s father is Jewish.
“Beckham is a quarter Jewish, but doesn’t practice Judaism,” scoffs Ephraim Moxson of the Jewish Sports Review. “Becker’s a crock. I don’t think there’s anything to that at all. It’s like that Buffy Sainte-Marie song from the ’60s where everyone claims to have Indian blood. Now everyone’s claiming to have Jewish blood.” Moxson also sniffs at claims by Russian ice skater Oksana Baiul that she is Jewish. “At best, one-eighth,” he says. For the JSR, only one-half or better, or a convert who actively practices the faith, will do.
But there is hope on the horizon—the next Koufax may arrive in the guise of a basketball player.
“Not like this guy from Maryland a few years ago, who Sports Illustrated called ‘the Jewish Jordan.'” Moxson says. “We knew from the beginning he wasn’t good. Now he’s playing B-level ball in Israel.” Moxson can’t even remember that player’s name anymore. (It is Tamir Goodman.) But you can hear the raw excitement in his voice when Moxson talks about his great hope: Jordan Farmar, a senior basketball player at Taft High School (Kapler’s alma mater) in the San Fernando Valley, who has already committed to attend UCLA in fall 2004.
“He’s half-Jewish, half-black. Bar mitzvahed. Not only is he good, but he’s the number one high-school shooting guard in the nation, according to two national ratings guides. Two!” he exclaims, underlining the veracity of his claim. “He is the real deal.”
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I agree with the author that there is great interest in Jewish athletes. I think that as more Israeli athletes become world class, there will be more recognition and acclaim. An Israeli basketball player from Maccabi Tel Aviv was selected in 2009 to join the NBA Sacramento Kings. The Israeli Davis Cup team is currently in the semi-final round for the first time in history- a significant victory since the Israeli team has finished ahead of the USA, Australia, France and Britian.
The decision a few months ago of the Dubai tennis tournament to discriminate against Shahar Peer of Israel led to a pouring of support and acclaim for her.
The Israeli athletes, by the way, are all very proud to be both Israelis and Jews. I think the interest in Jewish athletes will continue to grow.
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Home > FTC launches fair competition probe of Post to Post deal
Published:Friday | August 2, 2019 | 12:00 AMMcPherse Thompson - Assistant Editor-Business [1]
The Fair Trading Commission, FTC, has initiated an investigation into whether the acquisition of Post to Post Betting Limited by Supreme Ventures Limited, SVL, is likely to adversely affect competition in the bookmaking market.
Supreme Ventures gained control of Post to Post on July 1, having completed the $572.2-million deal in mid-June. The gaming conglomerate told the Financial Gleaner that it was cooperating with the fair trade regulator to provide any information requested in what it described as FTC’s due diligence process.
FTC Executive Director David Miller says his agency’s investigation is expected to wrap up in August.
Stakeholders approached by the competition watchdog to weigh in on the acquisition include market participants Capital Betting and Wagering Limited, Ideal Betting Company Limited, Island Bet and Jamozzie/BetCris and the sector’s regulator, the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC), which maintains records on the market’s sales, payout and gross profit.
Bookmaking services can be described as any business that accepts bets on the outcome of sports contests and pays winners based on the mutually agreed odds, said the FTC. Sales in the bookmaking market, as reported by sector regulator BGLC, was over $4.9 billion in fiscal year 2017.
In its July 2019 newsletter, FTCNewsLine, the competition agency said it learned of the proposed acquisition of Post to Post through media reports in May.
“Should this proposal materialise, it would represent a substantial change in market structure of the bookmaking services industry, as two of the island’s largest bookmakers would become one,” the FTC said.
Supreme Ventures previously disclosed to the market that the acquisition of a 51 per cent stake in Post to Post was completed on June 14, and that it had nominated three directors to the bookmaker’s board – namely SVL President & CEO Ann-Dawn Young Sang, Ansel Howell and Xesus Johnston.
Post to Post Betting itself arose from the 2013 merger of Jamaica’s largest bookmaking companies – Champion Betting, Track Price Plus Limited and Markham Betting. At the time, the three firms operated about 188 betting shops across Jamaica.
Supreme Ventures said this week that the Post to Post chain now comprises 35 shops. Asked about the apparent shrinkage of the network, the gaming company said it could only speak to the operations of the business since its acquisition
Bookmakers take bets for events such as horse racing, simulcast racing and other sports such as football and the National Basketball Association or NBA games. They then pay betters according to their odds.
Any Bet is said to be Jamaica’s largest sports bookmaker. It controls some 73 per cent of the bookmaking market, based on sales, according to data published by the BGLC in its annual report for the year ending March 2017.
SVL also owns and operates the sports-betting game JustBet. The gaming company holds about 19 per cent of the bookmaking market through its wholly owned subsidiary Prime Sports, according to the BGLC data.
Supreme Ventures is the leading player in the lottery-gaming market and is owner of Jamaica’s only horse-racing track, Caymanas Park, which it acquired from the Jamaican Government in 2017.
The gaming company earns most of its revenue from its lottery operation, which accounted for $9.2 billion of the $18.6 billion of revenue collected over the period January to June 2019. Horse racing accounted for $3.5 billion in the same period, while sport betting contributed just $158 million to group sales.
Over the past two years, the sports betting segment has averaged 6.7 per cent of total SVL revenues.
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HomePoliticsBeto O’Rourke Once Supported an El Paso Real Estate Deal. Barrio Residents Remember.
Beto O’Rourke Once Supported an El Paso Real Estate Deal. Barrio Residents Remember.
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EL PASO — At a special City Council meeting in 2006, a billionaire real estate investor unveiled his vision for redeveloping downtown El Paso. To replace tenements and boarded-up buildings, he proposed restaurants, shops and an arts walk rivaling San Antonio’s River Walk.
Representative Beto O’Rourke, one of hundreds attending, wasn’t exactly a disinterested party.
Not only had he married the investor’s daughter, but as a member of City Council he represented the targeted area, including a historic Mexican-American neighborhood.
Calling downtown “one piece of El Paso that was missing on the road back to greatness,” Mr. O’Rourke, now the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas, voted to take the first step forward with the plan.
Over the next two years, Mr. O’Rourke would defend the plan before angry barrio residents and vote to advance it. At other times, he would abstain. Business owners who opposed the plan accused Mr. O’Rourke of a conflict, citing the involvement of his father-in-law, the billionaire developer William D. Sanders.
Twelve years later, Mr. O’Rourke is championing progressive causes, attracting millions of dollars from small donors across the country and eschewing political action committee money in what he calls a grass-roots effort to unseat Ted Cruz, the Republican incumbent, in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the midterms. Polls show Mr. Cruz with a modest lead.
Yet, as Mr. O’Rourke’s national popularity grows — there is even speculation he may run for president in two years — his involvement in the proposed El Paso redevelopment highlights a side of his record that, on its surface, seems to contradict the populist image he has cultivated in Texas and nationally.
Mr. O’Rourke was perceived by many as siding with the moneyed elite against angry barrio residents, small business owners and even the Jesuit priests who ministered to the immigrant community at Sacred Heart Church.
“Mr. O’Rourke was basically the pretty face of this very ugly plan against our most vulnerable neighborhoods,” said David Dorado Romo, a local historian who says the episode resurrected longstanding race and class divisions in the city.
Barrio residents feared they would lose their homes through eminent domain, and a city-funded branding study suggested that the residents of El Paso were perceived as “dirty” and “lazy.’’ Among some constituents, the hurt feelings have lingered.
One of them is Guadalupe Ochoa, 75, who owns a home near the redevelopment area. “We had voted for Mr. Beto, and now that he got to the top, and close to the power, he turned things around on us,” Ms. Ochoa said through an interpreter, Dr. Romo.
Mr. Cruz and the super Pac that supports him have seized on that chapter of Mr. O’Rourke’s career to attack him as elitist, accusing him in ads of “displacing poor families to enrich his own,” something that never happened — the plan itself was ultimately abandoned.
Mr. O’Rourke declined requests to be interviewed for this article. In response to claims that he favored developers over barrio residents, he has said in the past that he never voted for eminent domain, that no property was ever taken by the city through eminent domain and that he had no financial interest in the project.
Despite the resentment among some over the development plan, Mr. O’Rourke has broad support in his home city, where 80 percent of the residents are Hispanic but still regard Mr. O’Rourke, who is white, as a favorite son. “Beto” signs, T-shirts and lapel buttons are everywhere. Even many who objected to Mr. O’Rourke’s support for the redevelopment plan say they will vote for him.
Once a bustling city with 50,000 manufacturing jobs — and nicknamed the “jeans capital of the world” for its thriving garment industry — El Paso was hit hard by the North American Free Trade Agreement. As jobs moved to Mexico in the 1990s, the city’s strong retail trade also declined.
Mr. O’Rourke’s father-in-law, Mr. Sanders, now 77, had grown up in El Paso, attended Cornell, then started the national real estate company LaSalle Partners, headquartered in Chicago. The firm later merged to form Jones Lang LaSalle.
Bloomberg News once called Mr. Sanders the Warren Buffett of the real estate industry and estimated the value of his portfolio at $20 billion. He developed expertise in establishing real estate investment trusts, which pool money from investors to purchase and operate real estate.
“When I spoke to kids in El Paso, I would tell them that someday you can become Bill Sanders,” said Tanny Berg, an El Paso businessman.
By the early 2000s, Mr. Sanders had returned to the El Paso area, where he was asked to help redevelop the downtown.
The vehicle for the renewal was the Paso del Norte Group, a nonprofit organization. Made up of more than 300 leaders from both El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, across the river in Mexico, the invitation-only organization received both city funding and a federal grant to devise its plan.
For a time, its membership included Mr. O’Rourke as well as Amy Sanders, Mr. Sanders’s daughter, who had married Mr. O’Rourke in September 2005, just months before the plan was made public.
Mr. Sanders unveiled the proposal, focusing on a 300-acre swath of downtown, in a meeting in March 2006. What might not have been entirely clear to everyone at the meeting was that the plan’s success was largely dependent on the city’s ability to convince property owners in the most blighted areas to turn over their holdings to the private trust. In the case of recalcitrant owners, eminent domain would be used.
“We don’t want to do that, O.K.?” Mr. Sanders told the gathering, saying the first option was to convince owners to merge their properties into the trust.
The plan immediately caused controversy.
Much of it involved the proposed demolition of portions of Segundo Barrio, which means Second Ward, near the Rio Grande border crossing to Mexico. The neighborhood has served as the entry point to the United States for generations of Mexican-Americans.
The barrio retains much of its appeal despite efforts to “de-Mexicanize” it. In the early 1880s, many of the adobe buildings were torn down, removing what newspapers called “their bad associations,” an effort Dr. Romo described in his 2005 history, “Ringside Seat to a Revolution.”
Street murals depict colorful scenes evoking Roman Catholicism and the Mexican immigrant experience. Retail strips cater to both the Mexican-American community in El Paso as well as day trippers who cross the bridge by foot from Mexico.
The plan aimed to relocate the residents of nearly 500 apartments, many of them in the barrio. Even though new housing was to be built, some residents worried they would not be able to find affordable housing.
Outrage in the barrio was heightened with the release in 2006 of a city image study, developed by an outside vendor, apparently intended to set the stage for the redevelopment. The study included headshots of the actors Penélope Cruz and Matthew McConaughey, interpreted by the some as the theoretical new faces of El Paso, with notations like “educated” and “bilingual” and “30-40,” a reference to a desired age range.
The old face of El Paso, by contrast, was an older man wearing a cowboy hat along with the notations: “speak Spanish,” “dirty,” “lazy” and “uneducated.”
Barrio residents gave Mr. O’Rourke a piece of their mind in a meeting at Sacred Heart Church.
One of them was Ms. Ochoa. “We used to be happy here in our barrio,” she told him, “even with all its defects.”
“There are a lot of people who are working very hard to frighten the people who live here,” Mr. O’Rourke told the residents, speaking in Spanish, in an effort to reassure them that the results would not be so dire.
Mr. O’Rourke abstained from votes establishing a tax zone that would set the stage for eminent domain, and voted for a temporary moratorium; he later voted against an effort to limit its use.
While the branding study inflamed opponents in the barrio, business owners with properties in the redevelopment zone formed an organization called Land Grab Opponents.
In an ethics complaint, they asserted that Mr. O’Rourke’s company, Stanton Street Technology Group, had provided information technology services to the Paso Del Norte Group.
They also questioned whether Mr. Sanders — and by extension Mr. O’Rourke — would be enriched by the plan. Though Mr. Sanders had said he would donate the dividends from his investment to a nonprofit organization, “his financial involvement only crystallizes the conflict of interest for Representative O’Rourke,” the complaint stated.
The city ethics commission rejected the complaint. Stuart Blaugrund, the Dallas lawyer who represented the Land Grab Opponents, said in an interview that Mr. O’Rourke was “tone-deaf” to the appearance of a conflict.
“He ultimately recused himself and did the right thing, but it seemed to me to be unnecessary for us to have to generate such ire among his constituents in the interim period,” Mr. Blaugrund said.
“Even if he didn’t have an actual conflict, the optics were terrible,” he added. According to Mr. Blaugrund, the plan was eventually abandoned, partly because of a state ballot initiative in 2009 prohibiting the use of eminent domain to take property for private use.
In an interview with The New York Times Magazine in 2011, Mr. Sanders said he had intended nothing nefarious in the plan, describing it as an effort to put together “a civic system here that weaves together the whole city.”
Mr. Sanders was among investors in late 2006 who formed Borderplex Community Trust, a trust that was to spearhead the redevelopment by taking control of downtown property.
By February 2007 — before it became clear the plan would fall apart — Borderplex had started buying up major El Paso buildings. Recent documents showed Borderplex’s assets at $82 million, including two major office towers in downtown El Paso, with Mr. Sanders owning 1.7 percent.
“Did he contribute the profits to charity as he pledged?” Mr. Blaugrund wondered.
Mr. Sanders did not respond to requests to be interviewed.
Six years after the redevelopment plan was proposed, Mr. Sanders appeared to step in to help his son-in-law’s first race for Congress. One of his companies contributed $37,500 to a PAC that, in turn, spent $240,000 to defeat Mr. O’Rourke’s opponent, the eight-term Democratic congressman Silvestre Reyes.
Mr. O’Rourke won by 3,000 votes.
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Home Non-Fiction Britain Militant Liverpool: A City on the Edge
Militant Liverpool: A City on the Edge
In May 1983, in the wake of her victory in the Falklands, Mrs Thatcher won the second of her three general election victories. Liverpool, going not for the first or last time against the grain, elected a Labour council that vowed to be different. In an environment of mass unemployment in which Liverpool felt abandoned by an indifferent government, the council resolved to join others across the land in refusing to set a budget that would hurt the poorest. It was at first wildly popular, but the scene soon became set for a battle between the city and central government that would shape the future of Liverpool.
Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the 1983 election, Militant Liverpool: A City on the Edge sets out an even-handed assessment of events with oral testimonies from many of the key protagonists. Thirty years on, Liverpool has to some extent reinvented itself as a visitor destination, but it is again facing major spending cuts while its deep seated social problems remain. This book sheds new light on what is for some a dark period in the city’s past, best forgotten, while for others is a memory of the city that refused to lie down and die and a continuing inspiration.
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Author Frost, Diane & North, Peter
Publisher Liverpool University Press
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Memorable Manitobans: Charles Harold “Steppy” Fairman (1894-1965)
Journalist, athlete.
Born at Portage la Prairie on 12 December 1894, son of Charles Richard Fairman (1862-1944) and Jessie Devlin (1870-1970), in 1910 he was a founding member of the Winnipeg Toilers Basketball Club. He also captained the Rowing Club team to intermediate rugby championships and played intermediate baseball with the Arenas. He worked as a clerk prior to the First World War and, following his enlistment in July 1915, he served overseas with the 79th Battalion. He played for the unit’s football association in military league competition. Returning from military service, he was a sports writer for the Winnipeg Tribune for several years before taking positions with the Regina Daily Star (Sports Editor), Regina Leader-Post, and Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, and also wrote a Western Producer column, eventually retiring around 1962. He was badly injured in a crash near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in October 1935. He, along with his friend and fellow Toiler, Walter McLaren ”Waddy” Ferguson, owned the property which has since been been commemorated as Toilers Memorial Park. He died at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on 3 September 1965.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Attestation papers, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Library and Archives Canada.
“A letter from “Steppy” Fairman,” Winnipeg Evening Tribune, 27 November 1915, page 19.
“Pte. Harold ”Steppy” Fairman,” Winnipeg Evening Tribune, 28 April 1917, page 27.
“Regina sports editor injured in auto crash,” Winnipeg Free Press, 25 October 1935, page 18.
“Regina sports editor in critical condition,” Winnipeg Evening Tribune, 29 October 1935, page 1.
“Charles R. Fairman to be buried Monday,” Winnipeg Free Press, 8 January 1944, page 4.
“Steppy Fairman dies in Saskatoon,” Winnipeg Free Press, 6 September 1965, page 18.
Obituary [Jessie Fairman], Winnipeg Free Press, 30 July 1970, page 35.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 14 December 2014
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Augusta Hotel Marks 100th Birthday
The 100th birthday celebrations of the Augusta Hotel this coming weekend are expected to bring back to life some of the old tales associated with the town. Founded by the Ellis family, the hotel has always been a major landmark in the area.
The news article “100 years for Augusta Hotel” has full details on this story. It says the following about the hotel: “Over the century almost everybody who grew up in Augusta has, at some stage, had something to do with the hotel – it was where football, cricket and lawn bowls wins were relived, birthdays and anniversaries celebrated, babies’ heads wet. It was also a source of relatively scarce local jobs. Many of the characters, from both sides of the bar, will be back for the celebrations to reminisce and regale.” http://www.margaretrivermail.com.au/story/272524/100-years-for-augusta-hotel/?cs=1429
Though the Augusta Hotel’s building and range of amenities available have changed considerably in 100 years, the thick limestone walls of the original building still exist. The foundation stone that was laid by Toby (Henry) Ellis and his sisters in the wall next to the original front door back in August 1912 still exists under the veranda situated between the hotel’s main entrance and bottleshop.
A weekend of activities has been planned for the Augusta Hotel’s birthday celebrations, beginning with a long luncheon on Friday 1.00-4.00pm, with an official welcome, memories and music, the inauguration of the time capsule, brief historical presentations and of course, cutting of the birthday cake. Friday night will start at the pub with happy hour 5.00-6.00pm, with prizes, giveaways and chook raffles throughout the evening, music from 8.00pm and football on the giant screen.
Saturday will be a community day at the hotel noon-5pm with face painting, bouncy castle, sausage sizzle and kids’ fun on the lawn. Also, there will be TAB promotions, Happy 100 Minutes of drink specials, giveaways and prizes, football on the giant screen, chook raffles and happy hour 4.00-5.00pm. A twilight dinner Saturday 6-11pm will feature a 4-course meal with matching wines, brief historical presentations about the Ellis, Percy, Robinson and Stanes families who have been the owners of the hotel.
The hotel will have a brunch on Sunday 9.00-11.00am, made to order from the day’s specials. Some of the well known faces will be back behind the bar over the weekend and if you are an old timer, you may be able to identify others reprising their former roles. Tickets to all the events can be purchased from the hotel’s reception.
The birthday celebrations of the Augusta Hotel are sure to offer a remarkable experience that you can’t afford to miss.
www.augustahotel.com.au/
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About Benji
I am married and live on a farm near Margaret River with my wife, daughter and son. I set up The Margaret River Guide to assist people coming to Margaret River Western Australia to easily find what they are looking for. I also wanted to allow people to find activities they did not know about and to be able to openly comment on/ review businesses.
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Technical Analysis on Communication Equipment Equities -- Ericsson, Ciena, JDS Uniphase, ADTRAN, and Infoblox
By: www.equityresearchinstitute.com via PR Newswire
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Equity Research Institute has initiated coverage on the following equities: Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), Ciena Corporation (NYSE: CIEN), JDS Uniphase Corporation (NASDAQ: JDSU), ADTRAN Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN), and Infoblox Inc. (NYSE: BLOX). Free research report on Ericsson can be accessed at https://www.EquityResearchInstitute.com/reports?keyword=ERIC. On Tuesday, July 28, 2015, the NASDAQ Composite ended at 5,089.21, up 0.98%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 1.09%, to finish the day at 17,630.27, and the S&P 500 closed at 2,093.25, up 1.24%. The gains were broad based as all the sectors ended the session in positive. Register for your complimentary reports at the links given below.
On Tuesday, shares in Ericsson ended the session 1.49% lower at $10.59. The stock reported a trading volume of 4.93 million shares, above its three months average volume of 3.73 million shares. Shares of the company traded at a PE ratio of 28.62. Ericsson's shares have lost 2.93% in the last one month, 6.70% in the previous three months and 9.72% on YTD basis. The stock is trading 3.54% below its 50-day moving average and 9.18% below its 200-day moving average. Moreover, shares of Ericsson have a Relative Strength Index (RSI) of 44.69. Sign up and read the free notes on ERIC at:
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Ciena Corp.'s stock edged 0.04% lower, to close the day at $25.01. The stock recorded a trading volume of 2.06 million shares, below its three months average volume of 2.92 million shares. Over the last one month and over the past three months, Ciena Corp.'s shares have gained 2.63% and 11.90%, respectively. Furthermore, the stock has surged 28.85% since the start of this year. The company's shares are trading 2.07% above their 50-day moving average and 22.98% above their 200-day moving average. Additionally, Ciena Corp. has an RSI of 52.80. The complimentary notes on CIEN can be downloaded in PDF format at:
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On Tuesday, shares in JDS Uniphase Corp. recorded a trading volume of 3.38 million shares, higher than their three months average volume of 2.29 million shares. The stock ended the day 0.63% lower at $11.02. JDS Uniphase Corp.'s stock has lost 8.24% in the last one month, 17.39% in the previous three months and 19.68% on YTD basis. The company is trading below its 50-day and 200-day moving averages by 9.34% and 14.75%, respectively. Furthermore, shares of JDS Uniphase Corp. have an RSI of 35.15. Register for free on Equity Research Institute and access the latest research on JDSU at:
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ADTRAN Inc.'s stock edged 0.25% lower, to close Tuesday's session at $15.92. The stock recorded a trading volume of 0.53 million shares, below its three months average volume of 0.69 million shares. Over the last one month and the previous three months, ADTRAN Inc.'s shares have fallen by 2.63% and 0.76%, respectively. Additionally, the stock has lost 26.27% since the start of this year. The company is trading 4.48% and 17.19% below its 50-day and 200-day moving averages, respectively. Furthermore, ADTRAN Inc.'s stock traded at a PE ratio of 32.49 and has an RSI of 39.87. The complete research on ADTN is available for free at:
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Infoblox Inc.'s stock finished Tuesday's session 0.37% lower at $23.96. A total of 0.65 million shares were traded, which was close to its three months average volume of 0.69 million shares. Over the last one month and the previous three months, Infoblox Inc.'s shares have declined 11.98% and 2.60%, respectively. However, the stock has gained 18.56% since the beginning of 2015. The company's shares are trading above their 200-day moving average by 10.29%. Infoblox Inc.'s stock has an RSI of 30.69. Free in-depth research on BLOX is available at:
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