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Entering a Church
I am a university student and have a perplexing problem. Our Hillel House is going to be torn down next year, and while it is being built the students will be using a Catholic church for Shabbat dinner and services. I feel it would be very uncomfortable for me and I think it is wrong for a Jew to pray in a Church. How should I handle this if I cannot persuade the rabbi to find another place for Shabbat services?
Also, what is the permissibility of entering church buildings for secular purposes, like voting or a musical performance? This is an issue that comes up here in Boston on "First Night," a New Year's Eve celebration when there are many performances held in various church-related buildings downtown.
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The Torah declares that a Jew is not allowed to benefit from anything associated with idolatry. This would include a church, because the worship of a physical form (Jesus) as God this constitutes a violation of the Ten Commandments prohibiting idolatry. (sources: Avney Yashpeh 153:1; Darkey Teshuva 150:2)
I think it is important to understand why, throughout the centuries, that our Jewish ancestors chose to be killed rather than convert to another religion (e.g. in the Spanish Inquisition). Why didn't they just "fake it" – i.e. pretend to convert, but really remain Jewish in their heart?
The reason is that one must not even give the impression of subscribing to another religion. We don't live in an isolated, compartmentalized world. Rather, we are a community and a nation – and that puts each of us in the position to inspire others and lift the baseline of behavior. One person's actions – even those misconstrued – can generate either good or bad PR for God and the Jewish people.
This has implications for a variety of situations, including entering a church. I suggest that you discuss your concerns respectfully with the rabbi. If he cannot appreciate the problem, that may be a sign you should find another place to spend Shabbat.

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I don't know if this is really a problem cause i'm newbie in Solaris 10. I installed OSS and all seems to be ok (I mean "soundon" "osstest"), but still no sound. In the tray i get "No audio device" and when i click "Couldn't open mixer device /dev/audioctl". Maybe i didn't configure somethig right. The sound card is detected :
Card config:
Sound Blaster Live at 0xdf80 irq 11
Audio devices:
0: SB Live (DUPLEX)
1: SB Live playback 1 (front)
2: SB Live playback 2 (surround)
3: SB Live playback 3 (center/lfe)
4: SB Live playback 4
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7: SB Live playback 7
8: SB Live 5.1 output device
Synth devices:
Midi devices:
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0: SB Live (STAC9758)
dsp6: pid 1093 OUT
dsp7: pid 1093 OUT
dsp8: pid 1093 OUT
dsp0: pid 1103 IN OUT
dsp0: pid 1146 OUT
I would be grateful for any suggestions
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|If you share a block in the same location with several matches you likely share a common ancestor. This is true even if the blocks overlap each other.
The easiest way to understand the FT DNA autosomal results is to start with a definition of cM. It's a genetic measurement and it measures genetic distance. According to Wikipedia "A centimorgan (cM) is a unit that describes a recombination frequency of 1%. In this way we can measure the genetic distance between two loci, based upon their recombination frequency." When you are using the Chromosome browser at FT DNA the higher the cM number you select the larger the segments will be for comparison. 5 cM and over signifies a relationship, and over 10 cM conclusive proof of a relationship. The shared cM numbers on your match pages present a different indicator. The higher the number of shared cM in the match section of your results signifies a higher likelihood of recombination for the shared block. The higher the likelihood of recombination the more likely your match is a close relative. Lower shared cM numbers mean that segment does not recombine as often so your match may be more distant in time. I found this page at FT DNA to be the best explanation of the whole autosomal DNA process http://www.familytreedna.com/faq/answers/default.aspx?faqid=17
- The longest block. The longer the block the more likely you are to be related.
- Shared cM. The higher this number the more likely your relationship is recent (closer cousin) a lower number could mean your match shares a more distant relationship with you (more distant cousin).
- The Chromo Browser setting number relates to the size of the shared block. The higher the number you set it to the larger segment will be for comparison to one or more matches. You may share many smaller segments of DNA with someone also, so you can set the browser to show segments as low as 1 cM.


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Rome, Italy, Mar 4, 2013 / 01:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley listed clerical sex abuse, reforming the Church's administration and Christian persecution as some of the issues he thinks the next Pope will have to tackle.
"The new Pope will also need to face the sexual abuse crisis that is really worrying our people," he stated in a March 4 interview with CNA.
Another issue on his radar is the need to improve the relationships between the various departments of the Church's central governing body, as well as with the universal Church.
"The relationship between the Church and the Muslim world is very important as well as the Church's persecution in many countries and the lack of education in others," Cardinal O'Malley added.
But Cardinal O'Malley also sees that there are positive developments for the Church, since it is "growing and flourishing."
"We know that this is true since four million young people are hoping to meet with the new Pope in this summer's World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro," said the cardinal.
Cardinal O'Malley of Boston is currently attending preliminary meetings with fellow cardinals in preparation for choosing the new Pope. The gatherings include both cardinals who can vote for the next pontiff and those who are above the age limit of 80.
At the first general meeting this morning, 142 cardinals were present but 12 had not yet arrived in Rome.
"The meetings are very important because they give us the opportunity to know us better and to share information about the Church's situation in different parts of the world," Cardinal O'Malley explained."They also help us discuss about the Church's governing body and the characteristics we should look for in a possible papal candidate," he added.
And it's important that cardinals with a "very rich experience and wisdom" share it with those participating in a conclave for the first time, including himself, Cardinal O'Malley said.
The assemblies are also a "spiritual retreat" that carry "a prayerful atmosphere, of deep reflection and of a searching of God's will," he explained.
As he and his brother cardinals continue to meet and prepare for the conclave, Cardinal O'Malley is hoping that it will be like a novena.
"This needs to be like the novena before Pentecost so that the Holy Spirit can pour over us to help us find our new Peter," he said.
In his view, the most important thing Catholics can do now is to pray so that the Holy Spirit guides the cardinals in the upcoming papal election.
"It's important to pray with a lot of faith and to try to do our duty of being spokespeople of the Gospel and to try to live the New Evangelization, inviting others to follow Christ," he said.
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Vocal sensations and winners of season 3 of NBC's The Sing-Off, Pentatonix are taking instrument-free music far beyond anyone's wildest expectations. Named after the world's most widely recognized five-note musical scale, this vocal quintet has transformed one of pop music's purest and most soulful expressions into an exciting future, filled with limitless sonic possibility. Pairing their intricate arrangements with cleverly re-imagined pop songs, Pentatonix have quickly cultivated a sound and style that is entirely unique and undeniably infectious.
Pentatonix is comprised of lead vocalists Scott Hoying (21), Kirstie Maldonado (20) and Mitch Grassi (20), vocal bass Avi Kaplan (23) and beatboxer Kevin "K.O." Olusola (24) and, while the individuals would maintain that each of their fellow band members is irreplaceable, the fact remains that 24-hours before their audition for The Sing-Off they still hadn't all officially met.
A freshman at The University of Southern California, Scott decided to audition for the show and enlisted childhood friends and fellow Arlington, Texas-natives Kirstie and Mitch. As a high school vocal trio, they had found success both locally and online thanks to their cover of Lady Gaga's "Telephone." Determined to add depth and a distinctive dynamic to the group, Scott set out to add more vocalists, first adding Avi, who'd built himself a reputation as one of the most talented vocal basses in Southern California, and eventually took to YouTube where he found the video for "Julie-O," featuring Kevin's cello-boxing (simultaneously beatboxing and performing the song on his cello).
Finally a fully formed group, Pentatonix perfected their sound (and their chemistry) throughout the season, naturally developing a signature style and a knack for arranging songs that pulled equally from the five individuals' strengths. Despite drawing from a dizzyingly eclectic set of musical genres – the group cites pop, jazz, r&b, indie, folk, dubstep and electronica as just a few of their inspirations – the quintet seemed to mesh magically, evident in their modern interpretation of The Buggles' "Video Killed The Radio Star," or their epic adaptation of Florence and the Machines' "The Dog Days Are Over." Before long, Pentatonix had become a legitimate musical force, armed with a collective confidence and swagger that would eventually propel them to win the competition.
Now a year removed from The Sing-Off, Pentatonix – who have all relocated to Los Angeles – have continued to build upon their already fiercely loyal fanbase, introducing a slew of new material via their YouTube channel, including covers of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know," Fun's "We Are Young," and Psy's "Gangnam Style." The three videos – featured by Perez Hilton, The Huffington Post, RyanSeacrest.com and
Nightline – have eclipsed 17 million views, collectively, while the channel has quickly reached 30 million views, buoyed by its roughly 250,000 subscribers.
On June 26, Pentatonix released their debut EP – PTX Volume 1 – courtesy of Madison Gate Records and debuted at #14 on the Billboard Top 200 selling nearly 20,000 copies in its first week. The EP includes 4 covers, highlighted with the group's Gotye track, as well as Nicki Minaj's "Starships," Imogen Heap's "Aha!" and Jasmine Sullivan's "Love You Long Time." Additionally, the EP also includes two original songs, "The Baddest Girl," written by Scott and Pentatonix producer Ben Bram and "Show You How To Love," written by Avi and Kevin.
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Need for Speed
Another video game adaptation which sees little need to go beyond its gaming roots. Fans have acclaimed director Scott Waugh for setting a new benchmark in automotive stunt photography, and in the course of the film's grueling 131 minutes, you certainly have plenty of opportunities to become familiar with his style. Unfortunately, Waugh is not so strong on other elements like storytelling, and Need for Speed makes Vin Diesel and the Fast and Furious franchise look like a Chekhovian character study by comparison. This is despite the presence of two outstanding actors, Aaron Paul (from Breaking Bad) and Dominic Cooper (The History Boys) who are simply all wrong for the parts they play. A street racer (Paul) who was framed by a wealthy business associate (Cooper) joins a cross country race with revenge in mind. Plenty of cars get destroyed in the process, and the film as a whole is little more than a monumental car crash.
12 Years a Slave
From the hand of Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave picked up three Oscars last week, including the big one: Best Motion Picture. It is the film of the moment and tells the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, who is abducted and sold into slavery. He sees and experiences a litany of horrors that is the fate of a black man in the unreformed Deep South. The material is powerful in its own right, and McQueen brings his radical showmanship to the telling of a shocking story that pulls no punches. With a track record that includes Hunger, the tale of Irish republican Bobby Sands' hunger strike, and Shame, a story of sex addiction, McQueen is familiar with handling highly charged materials. He is working with an excellent cast, including Chiwetel Ejiofor as Northup. Despite almost universal acclaim for the acting and directing, there is also an unrelenting hectoring about the horrors of slavery that does not let up throughout the over two-hour film.
Only Lovers Left Alive
A new film by Jim Jarmusch is definitely something to celebrate, and Only Lovers Left Alive provides a wonderful alternative to Twilight and its unholy spawn of teen vampire movies. This is a mood and tone piece with a slight story held together and enhanced by beautiful visuals and indulgent emotions. It is something like In the Mood for Love except with vampires. In this case, the central couple are Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton, who are perfect as two ancient, world-weary souls inhabiting hot bodies and getting off on retro cool. Their lives become rather more complex when rock-chick Ava (Mia Wasikowska) drops in and things begin to go badly wrong, but this dramatic framework is really little more than an excuse. Only Lovers Left Alive is all about style, but what style! Bella Swan and Edward Cullen can learn from Hiddleston and Swinton how grownups go about being undead.
The Monuments Men
What a cast! What a story! It's such a pity that The Monuments Men does not quite live up to its own sense of self-importance. Written, directed and starring George Clooney, the film tells the story of a military unit during WWII tasked with rescuing the art masterpieces stolen by the Nazis. Inevitably, the unit is filled with some unlikely characters, and the likes of Matt Damon, Bill Murray, and John Goodman ensure that this riff off a well-worn theme plays out in entertaining fashion. Direction is tight, the script more than adequate, the production as slick as you could want, but somehow the film is lacking heart. Its ponderous message that destroying art is destroying the heart of a people drips with high-minded seriousness that only succeeds in making a perfectly legitimate message sound trite, or worse, bogus. As a director of Good Night, and Good Luck Clooney has proved he can deal with complex historical events, but in The Monuments Men he has become caught up in the trite cliches of mainstream Hollywood entertainment.
Non Stop
Liam Neeson has never been averse to slumming it in the B-movie mainstream. With Taken and its sequel, he has virtually made this his calling card, and now with Non Stop he is taking that very successful formula of badass agent to new heights, this time adding a couple of twists. An air marshal (Neesan) springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages that put his fellow passengers at risk unless a ransom is paid. The confined space of the aircraft helps build the tension, and director Jaume Collet-Serra makes sure that the audience knows that the action is not meant to be taken too seriously. Which is a good thing, as this is a story in which drama and action are far more important than narrative cohesion or indeed the laws of physics, and Neeson manages to get up to some pretty improbable high altitude acrobatics.


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An international murder warrant was issued two weeks ago in Chile for Pedro Pablo Barrientos, 64, who served under a dictator, The Associated Press reported.
A former Chilean military lieutenant wanted for murder in his home country is now living in Deltona.
An international arrest warrant was issued two weeks ago in Chile for Pedro Pablo Barrientos, 64, who served under a dictator after the country was overthrown in the early 1970s, The Associated Press reported. He is charged in the killing of a singer during an interrogation 40 years ago.
Barrientos couldn't be reached for this story, but has denied the charges in news reports. He claimed in a complaint filed last month with law enforcement that the FBI has cleared him in the killing.
Barrientos served under dictator Augusto Pinochet, who overthrew the country's democratic government in 1973. Today, Barrientos lives at 1584 Brady Drive in Deltona.
Barrientos is the only one of eight former army lieutenants charged in the killing of famous musician Victor Jara who has not been arrested, The Associated Press reported.
A Mercedes-Benz sat outside the Deltona home one day this week. No one answered the door during two recent visits to the house near the intersection of busy Saxon Boulevard.
But Barrientos recently wanted to speak with Volusia County sheriff's deputies.
On Dec. 31, Barrientos filed a report with the Sheriff's Office, claiming he has received death threats by email from another country. In the report, Barrientos said he used to be a lieutenant in the military in Chile. He told deputies that while he was an officer in the military, a famous singer from their country was murdered, but he was cleared of any wrongdoing by FBI agents and Chilean authorities, the report states.
FBI Special Agent Jeff Westcott in Jacksonville declined to comment on Barrientos' case and said he couldn't confirm whether FBI agents have spoken to him.
Westcott referred questions about Barrientos to the U.S. District Attorney's Office in Tampa. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney, William Daniels, could not be reached for comment.
Barrientos is accused of killing Jara in September 1973 after a U.S.-backed Pinochet toppled the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
Jara was a popular singer, theater director and university professor who was rounded up with his students and tortured inside Estadio (Stadium) Chile, now named the Estadio Victor Jara.
Chilean native Roberto Leni, an academic advisor at the University of Southern California, said reports from the time indicated that the butts of guns were used to smash Jara's fingers until they were severed. He was a guitarist.
"Victor Jara started a musical movement that helped elect Salvador Allende and his democratic popular unity government," Leni said in a telephone interview. "His songs catapulted people to vote and Allende, a socialist, is the first to get the presidency through the vote in Chile."
As part of the torture, Jara was beaten in the head. His body was riddled with at least 44 bullets and dumped on the outskirts of Santiago as a warning to those who challenged Pinochet's rule, Leni said.
Leni's father, Hugo, was a political prisoner who was also tortured and beaten, he said. Roberto Leni was in eighth grade when soldiers broke into his home and whisked his father and four older brothers to concentration camps.
"Seven or nine of them with their faces painted black, in full gear, with their fingers on the triggers of M-16s stormed through the door and told my mother that she should take the young children out of the house," Leni said in an email. "My mother held my younger brother in her arms, while my little sister and I grabbed onto her dress with stiff fingers and eyes open wide with fear."
His family survived the atrocities of Pinochet's dictatorship, but many, like Jara, suffered horrible deaths, Leni said.
Jara's widow, Joan Jara, last week extended her request to the U.S. government to help Chile extradite Barrientos. The countries do have a mutual extradition treaty in murder cases.
In an essay Joan Jara titled "An Unfinished Song," the widow described how the death of her husband affected her.
"His clothes were torn, trousers round his ankles, sweater tucked up under his armpits, his blue underpants hanging in tatters round his hips as though cut by a knife or bayonet ... Part of me died at that moment, too," Joan Jara wrote.
Joan Jara is being helped by Nelson Caucoto, a human rights lawyer, who is pursuing the extradition on Barrientos. Caucoto has asked the Chilean Supreme Court to direct that country's government to ask the United States to hand over Barrientos, now a U.S. citizen.
It is unclear where Barrientos lived in the years after Pinochet was ousted from office. He bought the Deltona home in April of last year for $24,900 in a distress sale, Volusia County Property Appraiser records show. He claims a homestead exemption, making the home his primary residence.
During Pinochet's 17-year dictatorship, at least 3,000 people — political prisoners and supporters of Allende — were tortured, murdered or disappeared, Leni said.
Leni, whose father spent 1,001 days in prison, believes it is necessary to extradite Barrientos because Pinochet himself was extradited from Spain and brought to Chile for trial.
In 1988, Pinochet lost the presidency and became a senator, making him immune from prosecution. But during a trip to London, he was arrested and later in 1998 extradited from Spain to Chile.
When he arrived home, authorities in Chile stripped him of his parliamentary immunity and proceedings against him began. Eventually, in July 2001, the Chilean courts decided to suspend the investigation on grounds of "dementia." Pinochet died on Dec. 10, 2006.
Many Chileans in the United States and Chile would like to see Pinochet's lieutenant face justice, Leni said.
"Just like the United States supported the prosecution of Nazi war criminals, it should listen to the petitions of Chileans so that justice, which has evaded us for 40 years, can finally be done."


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Worth County fans long for the days when the Rams football program has winning seasons like they did under former coach Milt Miller 25 years ago.
New Rams football coach Jason Tone learned alot of the game from Milt Miller during his playing days at Lowndes High in the 1990's.
The Worth County Board of Education approved Jason Tone for the Rams head coaching job at their monthly meeting Thursday night.
Jason Tone has been an assistant coach at Camden County for the last six years.
He plans to bring everything including the wing-T offense from Camden to Worth County.
Jason Tone is excited his first head coaching job is at the school where his high school coached once worked.
"In fact he sent me a text saying congratulations this morning. That means a lot of hear from him. Playing for him it has always been a dream of mine to be head coach. To come back here where he coached it is an honor," said Jason Tone.
Jason Tone will debut as the Worth County head football coach at Swainsboro in August.
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New Train Conductor Levels Coming With Next Update
In a free update coming in late April, the Australian time-management strategy game Train Conductor will introduce three new levels set in the United States. We got to play two of these levels at GDC: New York City's subways and tracks that span the Grand Canyon.
In the New York levels, large pillars will block off certain sections of the track, preventing you from crossing your trains over at certain points in time. In the Grand Canyon, the entire central section of the track is missing, so you have to be extra careful when crossing tracks over each other. A third USA track has not been revealed yet, and there may be more USA tracks available as downloadable extras.
Check out our hands-on video of the Train Conductor update at GDC, and you can read our review here.


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There's an app for that...
It's called iDie.
I hear that it's the next big killer app.
Okay, okay. iUnderstand iStopNow else iDie.
Ha, iKillMe.
I don't like playing cultural imperialist, but something about current Asian cultures seems to me to be broken: this isn't exactly the first suicide of its sort, or even an uncommon phenomenon, just one of the more high-profile cases (since it's Apple, and a senior guy). Western culture isn't immune to these effects either (cf. high-profile financial advisors committing suicide in 2008-2009), but I understand that it's significantly more of an issue in Asia. I'd hazard that it's something in the common implementation of 'honor' and self-value that predisposes people towards a massive breakdown in the face of 'public disgrace'.
Not that Americans couldn't use a bit more of the right sort of Honor in their regimen, mind you.
Just an FYI, in Asia most suicides are classified as something else in true crime rates. In order to affect a lower suicide rate in the overall data trending. European data trending can be higher because they sometimes include 'other' crimes into their suicide figures during data reporting.
Never trust data, unless you see the raw data sets yourself.
Your top five are not in Asia. You may not think of it as such, but Kazakhstan is most definitely an Asian country.
in South Korea, the time of year when students get their report carts is known as 'jumping season'
I don't like playing cultural imperialist, but something about current Asian cultures seems to me to be broken
It's not the culture, it's the demographics.
Take China. Population 1.3 billion. But only 500 million of those are really taking part in the new economy. The other 800 million live in rural poverty. In fact, most of the 500 million who aren't, typically don't fare much better.
What does this mean in practical terms? It means that unless you are incredibly well educated, connected or monied, you are very, very expendable. There are literally ten people lined up behind you waiting for the same job, which means unless you are prepared to work enormous hours, under extreme pressure, in terrible conditions, you won't get it.
I had a talk with someone recently back from a business trip to Shanghai. Their group took a short walk through the city one evening, between the rows of shining new skyscrapers that carpet the metropolitan area. As they walked, they could see into offices where employees could be seen through the windows, sleeping on the desks they had been working at all day. How are you supposed to compete with that?
China is witnessing the kind of rapid capitalism not seen in the world since the 1890's. An economy where labour is cheap and people are treated worse and paid less because there are so many others, literally hungry enough to so the same for even less than that. The kind of capitalism that gave rise to theories like Say's Law [wikipedia.org], which held you could never have massive unemployment because there would always be people willing to work for a bowl of rice a day.
And do you know what the most ironic thing about this whole state of affairs is? China has never actually had a communist revolution.
If we have more protection of employees, higher salaries, less working hours, it will definitely make massive unemployment.
I think this a fallacy promoted by those who want to maintain profit margins. If this were true, then we should expect to see mass unemployment in most western countries where these protections apply. But we don't. And while it's true that many jobs have gone to China, one could make the case that the average Chinese worker is actually worse off in terms of quality of life compared to the western worker, who is only marginally so, if at all.
The great paradox of the Chinese economic boom is how it has so failed to significantly raise the living standards of the population as a whole. The reason it has failed is because of lack of protection and fair compensation for employees. There is little domestic demand for goods as people have little money and less time to buy them. Western economies were similar for decades, with successive booms doing little to improve the lot of the average man until labour laws came into force, primarily after the second world war.
Industrial relations are an extremely important part of any economy, and it is vital that a balance be achieved there. China has so far failed to achieve this balance. The consequences for failing to do so may be dire indeed.
"current Asian cultures seems to me to be broken"
Good going, dude. Please, point us at your published works on philosophy. Seems to me that OUR WAY is as broken as Asia's way, maybe worse.
Remember the financial meltdown on Wall Street, recently? There should have been hundreds of bodies hitting the sidewalk. Not for their own lost fortunes, but for the billions and billions of dollars lost that WEREN'T THEIR'S to lose.
Buncha low lifes.....
It's not that Asian work culture is broken; it's just very, very different from what we in Western cultures are accustomed to. Let's take Japan as a (very overused, but perfect) example. Japanese students begin training for an entrance exam from the 5th grade. The grade on that entrance exam is, for all intents and purposes, the difference between a Japanese student landing a decent job and living a very difficult life.
On top of that, the Japanese hold very high regards to their workmanship, and many employ
Illegal searches, intimidation, then "suicide"... Uh huh... yeah...
If people in the west think that this sort of thing is limited to low level Chinese citizens they'd be wrong as well.
Witness the latest Rio Tinto troubles - they've "arrested" an Australian Rio Tinto (a major aussie-uk mining company that operates in Aus) employee on "suspicion" of "economic espionage" - holding him without charge for two weeks now. WTF is "economic espionage"? It's upsetting strategic Chinese interests in the course of doing business with said interests is what it is.
See apparently it's j
There is now another liver available for transplant.
Nope, Damaged by impact. They'll fire up the execution vans when they need some fresh ones.
"We require our suppliers to treat all workers with dignity and respect"
Because nothing says dignity and respect like working in a sweatshop and being paid pennies an hour...
Because nothing says dignity and respect like working in a sweatshop and being paid pennies an hour...
Welcome to your "free trade" competition. This is the world that business lobbyists want, and they aren't going away, so get used to it. Democracy, my ass.
When it didn't turn up, he reported the incident to his boss, who ordered his apartment searched. There are reports of physical intimidation by Foxconn security personnel.
The question is, will this lead to companies being less, or more likely to look upon Foxconn positively when considering an OEM who will keep their new prototype under wraps?
It depends on whether or not they get the prototype back, doesn't it?
"The iPhone 4 - you'll be in seventh heaven"
Yeah, he jumped off a balcony...on to some bullets.
So, on the one hand, skepticisim is healthy.
On the other hand, this isn't skepticism, this is just a different sort of gullibility. And if you allow yourself to believe so many things for which you have absolutely no evidence whatsoever, you draw yourself into a world that is not entirely like the real world, and approach insanity.
This is the high pressure culture of secrecy taken to its logical conclusion in a country with little worker protection. I highly doubt Apple has any legal responsibility in this, but they do share a portion of the moral culpability along with the management of Foxconn. Did the senior management of Foxconn push the man out a window? No, but they created the corporate culture in which it happened. Likewise, Apple have worked with Foxconn for years now; they created the high pressure culture of secrecy and then turned a blind eye to how Foxconn enforces it.
Many people think the way you seem to, which is that "opting out" is impossible. This is an uninformed opinion, it would seem, since options abound. You just have to decide to A) look for them and then B) choose them. Moral backflipping also seems to allow people to continue to sleep at night while their conveniences are paid for in blood by their fellow man in other countries.
There are a few lines of New Balance shoes made in the USA of >70% USA-origin materials (such as the 991/992/993 line), and several more lines made in USA of 70% USA materials. Basically, as New Balance has grown over the last 10 years, they have expanded by importing rather than by building new factories in the USA.
Half-false. There are New Balance factories in the US.
However, when I went looking for a way to find a New Balance shoe that was made in the US, I failed. All the New Balance shoes I've ever seen were stamped "Made In China."
They seem to have greatly fixed up their website now, though. There's now a "Made In USA" section for men's [nbwebexpress.com] and women's [nbwebexpress.com] shoes. So if you want to buy one of the small fraction of shoes that are made in the US, you can.
New Balance shoes are made in the US and UK
The "Made in China" label on my 622s says otherwise.
Your local farmer's market would be happy to sell you all the fixins' of a Big Mac, and you can get a good idea about how sustainable their operation is by actually talking to the people who farm it.
I've never heard anything about farm life -- either from people who used to do it or less directly -- which suggests it's any better than sweatshop labor.
True to a certain extent. But I would suggest that there is a lot more due diligence required when you're in a billion dollar partnership than if you're a consumer on the street spending a hundred bucks on a gadget.
The "due diligence" you speak of for the multi-billion dollar company has more to do with an investigation into the finances of a potential partner, and has very little to do with any kind of analysis of a partner's ethical fortitude.
One might say the consumer's "due diligence" is exactly the opposite and subsequently far, far more important.
They do tend to take more responsibility for their actions than we do in the West.
Or, rather, they are more likely to make scapegoats pay the ultimate price.
Do you think executing the head of their FDA-equivalent solved the underlying problems that led to so many public disgraces due to contaminants? Do you think that person was solely responsible for those problems?
Executing that man was PR. Nothing less, nothing more. It's the other actions they have, or have not, taken that would truly demonstrate whether they have taken responsibility.
Perhaps PR. Or lip service, let's call it. Here in the US, we don't even bother to pay lip service. Shit hits the fan, we railroad a schmuck from the mail room, and then pretend that all's sorted out. It's like the politicos saying "I take full responsibility" with absolutely no consequence. The term "responsibility" must have changed their meaning some time while I wasn't looking.
What the hell am I rambling on about? Gotta take my senility pills.
Also part of the reason it may have been a problem in this particular case is because of Apple's love for secrecy. Foxconn is a major electronics provider and works with all kinds of companies, in addition to selling under their own brand. Now of course like any contractor, they want to keep the people they work with happy. Well for many companies, this wouldn't have been such a big deal. After all frequently companies post pictures of prototype hardware on the web, or send prototype samples to reviewers. Motherboards would be a good example. You usually see a picture of and get a story on a board a month or two before you can buy it. Thus a leak might not be a big deal. They get informed of a leak and they say "Oh well, it's public info anyhow." However Apple has an irrational obsession with secrecy. Nothing can be known by anyone until it is unveiled with big fanfare at some event. They vigorously go after sites that post info on upcoming products and so on.
Ok well Foxconn knows this, and thus wants to keep Apple happy and maybe responds in a stronger way than normal because of who their customer is. They know that a leak of a prototype, even just the pictures, could be reason for Apple to stop doing business with them since in Apple's world information must be tightly controlled.
It give me the creeps knowing how Apple does business. It is obvious that this busniess partner is evil and they continue to work with them.
In all fairness I believe both HP and Dell get motherboards and laptops made from Foxconn as well. But certainly Apple's business practices are less than stellar. For every evil business practice we hate Microsoft for, usually Apple follows the same practice and somehow gets a pass.
Among other things, Foxconn produces the Mac mini, the iPod and the iPhone for Apple Inc.; Intel-branded motherboards for Intel Corp.; various orders for American computer manufacturers Dell and Hewlett-Packard; the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 for Sony; the Wii for Nintendo;the Xbox 360 for Microsoft, cell phones for Motorola, and the Amazon Kindle.[2][3] [4]
Bottom line.. if you like electronic devices, you have to go some way to avoid Foxconn. Apple is known for its secrecy, but we documented evidence that Apple was involved in this intimidation in anyway, you have to assume that Foxconn, and only Foxconn is responsible.
"Bottom line.. if you like electronic devices, you have to go some way to avoid Foxconn. Apple is known for its secrecy, but we documented evidence that Apple was involved in this intimidation in anyway, you have to assume that Foxconn, and only Foxconn is responsible."
But Apple must be a contributory party if they keep their Foxconn involvement secret.
It seems to me that if we really want to eliminate economic exploitation, we have to outlaw commercial secrecy. Outsource if you must, but insist that ALL ou
Who are you going to buy instead? Everyone gets their systems built in China, under these conditions. Foxconn is probably one of the better ones.
It's the cost of cheap, disposable goods in the West.
Used to be you'd buy a fridge built in your country, a TV, a car, a washing machine, everything, and it would last years and years. But they were expensive, and major purchases. They kept an economy alive, with people being paid reasonable wages. The electronics industry in a rapid speed to be competitive has changed this. We could have a computer that lasted 10 years, but it would really hold things back if you gamed, or did real work. So it drove an industry of rapid upgrades for computers and personal electronics, that don't last long. Western design, eastern construction.
But these eastern companies don't have the same standards of construction, of employee care, or values, as we do. Additionally the stresses of overwork are immense, they don't have cushy offices, free coffee and 9-5 hours like many of us. Also their upbringing is different. Coupled together, it will add up to a situation where people burn out rapidly, or worse commit suicide if something goes wrong. Many people to replace them of course. Nothing like your own company breaking into your own living space and scaring the bejesus out of you.
Fucking killing yourself over a front-facing camera, or an OLED screen, or whatever the iPhone 4 will have. Hell, it was probably an iPod Touch 3 for all we know. That shows a massive failure of the value system. Hell, it'll turn out to be the iPhone clone rip-offs that Foxconn probably make on the side won't it? As long as the Chinese elite bosses are okay, that's all that matters. Everything else is a meatgrinder. It's 18th Century with hi-tech, and it won't improve until we stop feeding it.
Hah! Like Apple treats its iphone app developers ?
This guy in china is a perfect example of such wonderful Chinese engineering.
Not sure how illegal a search of the guy's apartment would be if they own the place.
I seem to remember an article on here about foxconn "city", everyone ate,worked and lived on the foxconn campus.
apple needs to make them to fallow china labor and other laws as well going beyond them and not working people to death.
"We require our suppliers to treat all workers with dignity and respect."
Yeah right. Thats why Apple employs chinese workers who fear for their lives. Chinese labor is employed because its virtually slave labor. Its cheap, easily controlled, and cut throat business practices allow them to dispose of workers at will.
Either this guy was a spy, or he made an honest mistake. Whatever the case may be, its said that he took his life.
I still find it sick that Apple can say they require their suppliers to treat workers with dignity and respect in one breathe, but in practice they really do not care because look at who they employ!
Why isn't the difference in workers' rights and environmental abuse priced into free trade agreements?
I have no problem with work going to China, as long as the employers there also have to pay for health care, disability, U.S. minimum wages, and safe workplace enforcement; cannot dump their waste into rivers, etc.
Without those restrictions, U.S. workers cannot hope to compete based on price.
So work done in those countries, and items manufactured in those countries, should probably incur tariffs big enough to compensate for all those other disparities.
I've got a bad feeling about this.


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The IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC) has just released the Spanish version of the publication "Legal Frameworks for REDD: Design and Implementation at the National Level". This publication identifies and analyses issues relating to the formulation and execution of laws and regulations for REDD at the national level. It was developed in collaboration with international and national REDD legal experts and includes case studies from Brazil, Cameroon, Guyana and Papua New Guinea.
Since 2007, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) has become a major focus of negotiations towards a post-2012 agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC). However, many high-deforestation countries likely to host a majority of REDD projects also have the weakest forest governance records in recent decades, resulting in large part from inadequate design and implementation of forest laws.
Building upon ELC experience in areas such as Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), and Land Use, Land Use Change Forestry (LULUCF) under the UNFCCC, this publication gives a detailed overview of legal and institutional issues relevant to REDD and is written specifically for a non-lawyer audience.
After the English version of EPLP 77 was published in 2011, it is expected that the Spanish translation will make it even more accessible to interested readers around the world.
The publication is available here. Information about receiving complimentary copies is available from IUCN ELC at email@example.com


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no... I am not talking about long lift lines for skiiers or snowboarders!
this is mention of WISP and its LIFT ACCESS for mountain biking
Big Daddy Mike of DCMTB sent out this link for SICKLINES
yes... it is SKI SEASON
yes... I need to take the boys to WISP, Whitetail, or even Canaan Valley!
but it is hard to get my head around the cost of a lift ticket
while it is also hard for me to think about depriving my boys of the experience of skiing... which is one of their favorite sports
favorite and most expensive
for the price of a week of skiing I could get the boys each new bikes... righteous bikes
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Following comments from last week that Electronic Arts has no games currently in development for the Wii U, another voice from the company has seemingly contradicted that claim. EA CFO Blake Jorgensen says they are making games for the Wii U -- it's just not concentrating as heavily on Nintendo's platform as it is the other two.
"You know, I think Nintendo's business was more [an] extension of their last console," Jorgensen said at the Stifel Nicolaus 2013 Internet, Media and Communications Conference, reported by Polygon. "We are building titles for the Nintendo console, but not anywhere near as many as we are for PS or Xbox. I think what the consumer will find is a lot more powerful gameplay with the new boxes that are coming out, and a lot of excitement, but it'll remain to be seen as to the services associated with those as to how consumers decide which direction they might want to go."
EA has said it isn't bringing Madden 25 or FIFA 14 to the Wii U. It also hasn't used Frostbite yet on the console, and the company on the whole is moving toward using that engine for many of its games.
Jorgensen could be referring to the company's philosophy, that it is willing to develop games for the Wii U. The previous statement simply claimed that no titles were currently in development.


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From ABC:
* ABC ranked as Daytime's #1 network for the 5th week in a row in Women 18-34 (0.6 rating/197,000) and was also the #1 network in Women 18-49 (0.9 rating/566,000 - tie).
* In Women 18-34, THE VIEW (0.7 rating/232,000) and GENERAL HOSPITAL (0.7 rating/231,000) tied as the Top 2 programs in Daytime. Impressively, this marked THE VIEW's 3rd consecutive week standing as the #1 program in Daytime in Women 18-34 and its most-watched week in nearly 5 months in the demo - since week of 5/21/12.
* In its third week at 2 o'clock, GENERAL HOSPITAL tied THE VIEW as the #1 program in Daytime in Women 18-34 (0.7 rating/231,000), and, notably, recorded its most-watched week in a one-and-a-half years in Total Viewers (2.71 million), in more than a year in Women 18-34 (231,000) and in more than 4 months in Women 18-49 (663,000) and Women 25-54 (844,000), since weeks of 3/28/11, 8/15/11 and 5/28/12, respectively.
* THE CHEW delivered its most-watched week in nearly 5 months in Total Viewers (2.25 million - since week of 4/23/12), spiking by a hefty 27% over year-ago levels (vs. 1.78 million).
Source: NTI, Week of 10/1/12, Live + Same Day; PRICE IS RIGHT is average from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. All ranks/ties based on rating unless otherwise noted.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Last week was GH's fourth week at 2 not third.
From CBS:
CBS's THE TALK posted across-the-board increases in viewers and key women demographics versus the comparable week last year, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Oct. 5.
THE TALK was up +23% in viewers (2.25m from 1.83m), +13% in women 25-54 (0.9/06 from 0.8/05), +17% in women 18-49 (0.7/05 from 0.6/04) and +25% in women 18-34 (0.5/03 from 0.4/02).
Season-to-date, THE TALK is up +21% in viewers (2.29m from 1.90m), +11% in women 25-54 (1.0/06 from 0.9/05), +25% in women 18-34 (0.5/03 from 0.4/02) and even in women 18-49 (0.7/05).
From SON:
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS was No. 1 among daytime soap operas in Total Viewers with 4,418,000. THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL was second with 3,189,000. GH third (see above). DAYS OF OUR LIVES was fourth with 2,399,000.
Y&R had 856,000 W18-49 viewers with a 1.3 rating/9 share. GH, Y&R, B&B and DAYS were all up in the Women 18-34 demo over the previous week with GH No. 1.
From KATIE:
Based on National ratings for the week of October 1, 2012, KATIE delivered the No. 1 position among all freshman and sophomore syndicated talk shows for the 4th straight week with Households (1.7 rating), Total Viewers (2.3 million) and Women 25-54 (1.0 rating).
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Islamabad: Pakistan and India traded accusations on Sunday of violating the LoC dividing the two sides' forces in the disputed region of Kashmir. Pakistan said an Indian cross-border raid on LoC post killed one of its soldiers, while India said its troops had fired into Pakistan to retaliate for shelling that destroyed a home.
The accusation of a cross-border raid resulting in military deaths is rare in Kashmir where a ceasefire has held between these two wary allies for a decade. Tensions over the disputed region are never far from the surface, however, as the two nuclear-armed nations have fought two full-scale wars over Kashmir.
The Pakistani military's public relations office said in a statement on Sunday that another Pakistani soldier was critically wounded in the incident.
They said troops were still exchanging gunfire after a raid crossed the "line of control'' in Haji Pir sector and raided a checkpost called Sawan Patra, the military said. The remote area where the incident occurred is up in Himalayan mountain peaks.
Colonel Brijesh Pandey, a spokesman for the Indian army in Kashmir said that Pakistani troops "initiated unprovoked firing'' and fired mortars and automatic weapons at Indian posts early Sunday morning. He said Pakistani shelling had destroyed a civilian home on the Indian side.
"We retaliated only using small arms. We believe it was clearly an attempt on their part to facilitate infiltration of militants,'' Pandey said.
India has consistently accused Pakistan of sending militants into the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir, often under cover of these types of skirmishes.
A 2003 ceasefire ended the most recent round of fighting.
Each side occasionally accuses the other of violating it by lobbing mortars or shooting across the LOC, but accusations of cross-border raids are rare.


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Hemochromatosis is the most common single gene disease in the United States, more common than cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease, and muscular dystrophy combined.
As many as one in two hundred Americans have the genes for it, yet it is strikingly unknown and frequently undiagnosed. It's a disease of iron overload, in which the body cannot shut off its storage of iron. Healthy people store two to four grams of iron, mostly in their bone marrow, but hemochromatosis leads to the storage of twenty or more grams.
The body squirrels the extra iron away in its vital organs, starting with the liver. Once the liver is full, the iron is packed away in the pancreas, heart, and pituitary gland. Excess stored iron is a toxin that leads to a number of miserable consequences. In the liver, the excess iron causes cirrhosis and liver cancer.
Iron-caused damage to the pancreas leads to diabetes, called "bronze diabetes" because the skin is tinted by the excess iron and has a bronze or gray tone. In a 1999 study, diabetes was found in forty percent of people at the time their hemochromatosis was diagnosed. And some sources recommend that everyone with diabetes be tested for hemochromatosis.
Hemochromatosis is an inherited disease that occurs in people who have two copies of the mutated gene that causes it, one from each parent. Among Irish-Americans and African-Americans, one in every hundred people has two copies of the gene.
If you've inherited only one copy of the mutated gene, you are called a "carrier" because you can pass that mutation on to your children. Thirteen percent of the population are carriers of the mutation. Among Irish-Americans and African-Americans, a full twenty percent are carriers.
Because most people with hemochromatosis don't know they have it, it is sometimes called "the silent killer." The symptoms, including deep fatigue, joint pain, hair loss, and abdominal pain, usually don't surface until the middle years of life, when people tend to blame them on the advancing decrepitude of old age.
If not caught early enough, hemochromatosis leads to diabetes, liver disease, erectile dysfunction, liver and pancreas cancer, jaundice, heart disease, and thyroid disease. The key, therefore, is to catch it before such damage is done. And the best way to do that is with a blood test that, because it is not part of the standard test battery, must be specifically requested by your doctor.
Hemochromatosis is diagnosed by blood tests called serum iron and total iron binding capacity (TIBC) tests. The serum iron (iron in the blood) is divided by the TIBC to give a ratio called the transferrin saturation. (Transferrin is a protein that transfers iron in the blood to the liver, spleen, and bone marrow.)
If the ratio of serum iron to TIBC is over 45 percent, a serum ferritin test is done. (Ferritin is the storage form of iron and directly relates to the amount of iron stored in the body.)
If you have relatives with hemochromatosis, these tests should be part of your yearly health check-up. If caught early enough, the disease can be rendered completely harmless by a program of, oddly enough, old-fashioned blood-letting.
These days it's called phlebotomy instead, but it still consists of draining blood from the body, just like when you donate to a blood bank. Every bag of blood contains between 200 and 250 milligrams of off-loaded iron. Phlebotomies are carried out weekly until the ferritin levels are down where they should be, which could take as long as three years. After that, the process need happen only every few months.


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OK just kidding. I have 11 rescued pot-bellied pigs and none of them would tolerate me using them for training.
I've been keeping my log on paper since I started the 5x5 stronglifts. After injuring my lower back a few weeks ago doing squats, I took 2 weeks off. Last week I finally got back into the training.
Squats made me nervous. reason being is that I've always been a very inflexible person. My chiropractor told me a few yrs ago that my lower vertebrae were pretty much fused and that's a reason i have trouble touching my toes. from an injury as a kid where i fractured my pelvis. So squats are hard to do 100% because when i get my hips below or parallel to my knees, my back begins to round over. I am sure that is how i re-injured my back again. felt that POP in my lower back.
anyhow, now i just focus on getting parallel with my squats without rounding my back.
getting back in the game, i decided to log my progress here. I stepped my weight back to get back in the swing of things. I'll likely post a weeks worth at a time.
** oh i have no scale, but i'm guessing i weight about 190lbs, 6'2"
here goes....


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Islam 2011, Islam in 2011, Islam in Zambia, Islam making in-roads in Zambia, Life as a Muslim in Zambia, Mosques in Zambia, Muslim population in Zambia, Muslims in Zambia, Zambia's gateway to Islam
Rivalry between religions is common now-a-days. Yet, many family members belong to different religions in Africa. Those accustomed to such co-existence of religious faiths make adjustments easily. Mutual understanding is a blessing in the religious field. Yet, religions find it hard to stave off the Hydra of proselytism. More than a decade ago President Chiluba of Zambia declared Zambia a Christian state. Now with cash from Arab countries Muslims in Zambia are exploiting the appeal of education to go all out to make their religion thrive in Zambia.
19 July 2006 – Frank Jomo
Despite the declaration by the former president of Zambia Fredrick Chiluba that the country was a Christian state, Muslims in Zambia in this southern African country defied all odds in trying to make their religion thrive just as in other countries in this part of Africa. The country has seen a rapid development in the construction of mosques both in Moslem dominated areas as well as in areas chiefly dominated by Christians.
A recent report by a Christian organization, Frontline Fellowship, which spearheads the growth of Christianity in Africa, indicates that Islam is growing at a fast rate in this impoverished continent. Frontline Fellowship says one of the concerns in Africa in as far as growth of Christianity is concerned is the spread of Islam into southern Africa and Zambia in particular. It says Islam is growing twice as fast as Christianity in Africa. Much of this growth Frontline Fellowship says is due to the large amounts of money from the oil-rich Arab countries that are being funnelled into African missions.
Muslims are building primary and secondary schools in Zambia in an effort to convert the next generation of Zambians. Zambia now sits right at the edge of this Islamic advance into southern Africa, Frontline Fellowship says in its report. It adds, Muslim mosques and madrassas have been built all over, and there has been a concerted attempt to convert Zambians to Islam. Funded by oil money from Middle Eastern governments, Islamic Propagation Societies are offering "free education" to impoverished rural populations. Many Christian families have sent their children to these Muslim schools in the hope that an Islamic education is better than none. Others have said that they would no sooner send their child to an Islamic school than sell them into Islamic slavery.
Construction of mosques measured against Islamic growth
Responding to a questionnaire sent by this reporter, a Roman Catholic cleric in Zambia, the Reverend Benjamin* who belongs to a Christian missionary congregation confirmed that Zambia has seen scores of mosques being built in the country. But he was quick to say this alone can not be a genuine yard stick to measure the growth of the Islamic faith in the country. He said mosques have been built in different parts of the country but especially in Eastern and Lusaka provinces. He says the construction of mosques follows the pattern of already dispersed existing Muslim communities of the Yao tribe, chiefly, and cannot be termed as a deliberate venture into non-Muslim territories – with the exception of Lundazi and Petauke where the construction of mosques, spearheaded by the Indian Muslim communities, has led to the foundation of new Muslim communities.
Although the tendency has slowed down, it is surely continuing, sustained by material resources provided by both the local Asian community and external donors not identified by the local beneficiaries. There is a more steady, progressive visibility of the Muslim community among Yao adherents than there is net growth in terms of new converts, said Rev. Benjamin in an e-mail response. He confirmed that there were deliberate programs such as paying school fees for students and opening of orphanages that could be considered gimmicks to convert people to Islam. Such gimmicks have at times been denounced by Christians who used the same gimmicks themselves to garner support for their faith. Rev. Benjamin says that for an ever-growing number of Zambians Islam has become a real religious alternative to both Christianity and traditional religion .
The lead taken by Muslim associations in organizing the Muslim community locally has to be evaluated against the background of Islamic networks outside the country such as the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission (AMM), the African Muslim Agency (AMA), in Iran (through a network of Islamic university graduates, particularly from Razavi University) and Islamic universities in Arab and Asian countries that give more global discourse to local Islam, he said. Rev. Benjamin adds that Muslim networks outside the country have been able to exert influence on the development of Islam in Zambia through their close collaboration with local associations and the provision of necessary spiritual and material resources.
Islam in Zambia has not developed in total isolation from external influence. Its local development has been largely marked by contact with Muslims from outside the country. Such contacts reveal not only the great potential of local Muslim associations to respond to a global Islamic discourse but also the impact of the trans-national associations on the local Islamic discourse.
Muslim population in Zambia
There is a general consensus that Muslims represent only one percent of Zambia's 10 million people. However, the real figure according to Rev. Benjamin should be pegged at three percent. He says, although initially an insignificant minority group, within the past thirty years the Muslim community has undoubtedly become a non-negligible component of the Zambian society.
Through a more organized structural visibility such as mosques, schools, local associations and an ever-increasing number of indigenous converts, Islam has come to represent a significant change in the religious landscape of the country. It now constitutes a real alternative to tradition religion and indeed to the long established Christian churches, he says. That Islam has become an important component of the religious reality in Zambia is no longer questionable. Despite the National census of 2000 that puts Muslim population in Zambia at 41, 932 out of a total population of 9.4 million inhabitants, figures obtained from Muslim leaders peg it at 300, 000.
Influence of African immigrants on Zambia's gateway to Islam
Islam's gateway into Zambia has also been influenced by some African immigrants -especially those from the East and West African countries of Somalia, Tanzania, Congo, Senegal, Mali, Ghana and Nigeria. Most of these stay in the country as illegal immigrants, according to Rev. Benjamin. Illegal or not, they do not come with their spouses and end up marrying Zambians, converting some along the way.
The typical way for women to embrace Islam has been through marriage with Muslim spouses. Some western African Muslims married local women. Although it is not an absolute pre-requisite of Islam for non-Muslim women to embrace Islam upon marriage, the majority of indigenous women married to Muslim spouses end up becoming Muslims, either by indirect coercion or for the sake of family unity. Associations such as the Lusaka Muslim Women Trust have helped women to come out in the public and present themselves in a way that has attracted other women to embrace Islam, says Rev. Benjamin.
On youths he says different reasons have motivated some without any Islamic background to embrace Islam. Firstly, he says, it has been a common occurrence in the past three decades for young people to break away from their traditional religious affiliations in favour of new ones. Embracing Islam is just one example of that. He says though scholarships to study abroad, mainly in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan etc offered to whoever declare themselves Muslims, hundreds of young men entered into the fold of Islam in the 1980s.
In addition, Muslim clerics have made sure Islamic literature is available for people to read and learn about the faith. This has also greatly contributed to the spread of the Islamic faith. The pattern experienced in Zambia is the same in Malawi, giving credence to the belief that the Islamic faith is indeed making strides in southern African states.


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WANNA feel old?
The albums on this list all celebrated their 10th anniversary this year - that's right, these records are a decade old.
So here is a hastily-thrown-together-in-the-pre-Christmas-rush list of the best albums of 2002.
Songs For The Deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age
WITH Dave Grohl pounding the skins and Mark Lanegan and Dean Ween helping out, QOTSA belted out the coolest and toughest rock album of the '00s. Framed as a flick through radio stations while on a cross-country journey, this is top-notch driving music - just try not to put your foot down and burst through the garage door to opening salvo You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar.... A rhythmic onslaught, this features Josh Homme's best song ever - the distorted jive and freakout of No One Knows - but once again his best trick is to prove you can rock hard with only one chord (A Song For The Dead, the faux-glam Do It Again, the bent-time Hangin' Tree). His guitar sounds are so muscular and nuanced it's no wonder he keeps his set-up a secret, but one oft-forgotten ingredient in this mix is Nick Oliveri, who left the band after this album, robbing QOTSA of a malevolent punk danger that helped make this such a ball-tearer of an album. Also best not forgotten in the maelstrom of Grohl's percussive brilliance and Homme's guitar wizardry are the glorious melodies throughout - First It Giveth, No One Knows, Go With The Flow, Do It Again all have first-rate singalong choruses. Songs For The Deaf swaggered, crooned and, occasionally, it rocked so hard it punched you in the face. In a good way.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
WILCO'S fourth album is filled with relatively straight-forward acoustic rock songs. Then the band took those and threw them in some kind of sonic blender, coming up with a wonderfully unique and challenging record that takes abrupt left-turns, buries its hooks in noise and generally goes about tearing up the rule book and then setting it on fire. The songs are strong enough to survive what their label saw as a kind of self-sabotage but it's actually nothing of the sort - this is a band following its artistic goals and merging bold experimentation with intelligent songwriting, as best illustrated by the otherworldly I Am Trying To Break Your Heart and War On War, and adding to the mood of each piece in just the right way. The proof is also in the mostly untampered-with gems like Kamera, the charmingly nostalgic Heavy Metal Drummer and Jesus, Etc - these guys knew what they were doing and when to do it.
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
THEIR spectacular 1999 record The Soft Bulletin brought The Flaming Lips in from the fringes of lunacy and led to Wayne Coyne and his cohorts being crowned the current kings of psychedelic pop. Yoshimi was the confirmation that they deserved the throne - it's a lush, beautiful and wonderfully strange album that takes you on an LSD-fuelled journey through the rabbit-hole. It's been suggested it's a concept album about a sick young girl who escapes into her imagination, but its kindred spirit is Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon (which the Lips covered in 2009). Like a futuristic metaphysical version of Floyd's epic, Yoshimi tackles some big life stuff, from violence (Fight Test) to mortality (Do You Realize??), from fate (In The Morning Of The Magician) to living in the moment (All We Have Is Now, Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell). Oh, and robots. With an increased reliance on electronics, bizarre noises and moody keyboard flourishes, the album is a passport to a weird new place that gives you plenty to think about as you take the journey. Do You Realize?? alone is enough to make your head explode when mixed with the right level of hallucinogens as Coyne reminds us in his tremulous voice that we're all just floating in space and only here for a moment, but we're all still beautiful creatures. It's new millenial hippie, but it's still a nice sentiment and an amazingly powerful song.
Sea Change - Beck
APT title that. Once a wise-ass, sample-happy, indie loser, Beck got introspective in the wake of split from his long-time girlfriend and ending up penning the break-up album of the decade. He rarely shifts his voice out of first gear as it crackles with honesty over the top of country-esque ballads and down-tempo pop numbers. That's not a bad thing - the album's a bit of a downer and Beck sounds like he's on a downer, so it's a perfect fit. He lays bare his soul with frightening honesty and comes out of his darkness with a beautiful and moving album that rolls from country-tinged to cinematic. Nigel Godrich's production adds tasty dressing and sombre touches to the straight-ahead arrangements, but listen to his previous sex-funk album Midnight Vultures and then this and you'd never know it was the same guy - who knew Beck had it in him? There are so many tasty moments, particularly the alt-country duo of Paper Tiger and Guess I'm Doing Fine, but this is definitely the soundtrack for crying into your gin. It is the sound of a breaking heart and the moments of enlightment and hope that can be found when picking up the pieces. Those few who still thought of Beck as a smirking slacker were proven wrong once and for all.
Source Tags & Codes - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
THE critical darlings with the absurdly long name crossed over to a major label and released their magnum opus, a stirring collection of dark guitars and grandiose ambition. That they pulled it off and managed to make an epic album that wasn't necessarily long was an achievement in itself. The secret of the success is in the layer of dust that coats those dirty duelling guitars, crashing crescendoes and wonderfully constructed songs - lo-fi yet somehow still rich. Highlights include the not-quite-punk Another Morning Stoner, the rollercoaster of How Near How Far, and the Sonic Youth-meets-Supergrass of Baudelaire. There are noisescapes aplenty, but they just serve as moments to build the tension before the next cool riff.
Honourable mentions: Maladroit - Weezer, Power In Numbers - Jurassic 5, A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay, American IV: The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash, Lost In Space - Aimee Mann, Phrenology - The Roots, Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol, Up The Bracket - The Libertines, ( ) - Sigur Ros, The Eminem Show - Eminem, Audioslave - Audioslave, Original Pirate Material - The Streets, The Music - The Music, In Search Of - N*E*R*D, Alice/Blood Money - Tom Waits, One Beat - Sleater Kinney, Yanqui U.X.O - Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Guest - Phantom Planet, Geogaddi - Boards Of Canada, Blazing Arrow - Blackalicious, Deadringer - RJD2, Come With Us - Chemical Brothers, Kill The Moonlight - Spoon, The Big Come Up - The Black Keys, Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone - The Walkmen, Mclusky Do Dallas - Mclusky, One By One - Foo Fighters, By The Grace Of God - The Hellacopters, The Last Broadcast - Doves, Behind The Music - The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, The Datsuns - The Datsuns, Lack Of Communication - The Von Bondies, B.R.M.C. - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.


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Counterfeit Gangster
|Counterfeit Gangster
Destroying Chan's counterfeit goods.
|GTA Chinatown Wars
|Chan Jaoming
|East Island City, Dukes, Liberty City
|FIB discovers Chan's goods.
|Slaying With Fire
|Unlocked by
|One Shot, One Kill
Counterfeit Gangster is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars given to protagonist Huang Lee by Chan Jaoming.
Chan Jaoming has got some problems with the FIB. They will be coming to search his "Goods" and when they find out they are counterfeits they will arrest Chan again. Chan wants Huang to dispose of his "Goods".
This mission is pretty straight forward. You need to destroy all of Chan's goods before the FIB discover them. This mission is timed: you have 6 minutes and 15 seconds to complete it. The first bunch of "Goods" are right in front of Chan's place. Shoot, run over, or blow them up to destroy them. There are some Molotov Cocktails around the corner. Next take a vehicle and head to the nearest bunch of goods near the docks. Destroy these crates and then head to the next bunch. These are cars, you will need to use a crane to pick them up and dump them in the water. The Crane controls are pretty simple. Use the black joystick to move the crane around and pick cars up, dumping them in the water. The next part involves pushing a number of cars into the water using a Bulldozer. After they are all gone the mission is complete.
(At Chan's Garage)
Chan: Huang, this is outrageous! On the one hand, I'm free, and on the other, I'm having business I stole in good faith taken away from me. The Feds are raiding all of my counterfeiting operations!
Huang: What do you want to do? Blackmail one of them? Threaten to kill someone's family?
Chan: No, screw them! I'm going to party anyway!
Huang: Chan, if the Feds link you to any of that fake merchandise you're finished. They'll use it to put you away for 100 years.
Chan: They're not going to find any fake crap, Huang, because you're going to destroy it all for me.
Huang: Yes, because I was bored and really wanted a favor to do for you.
Chan: Man, I love having you in my life. I'm going to blog about you when I wake up tomorrow.
Mission Replay description
"The FIB were set to raid Chan's businesses.
I had to race around, getting rid of anything that could have been incriminating.
NB: Chan's convinced that Zhou is ratting out the Triads."


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Wayne Rooney has reiterated his belief that Arsenal playmaker Mesut Ozil is a "fantastic player".
Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson revealed in his latest autobiography that Rooney urged him to sign Ozil after the 2010 World Cup finals.
However, Ferguson did not take Rooney's advice, and the Germany international subsequently joined Spanish giants Real Madrid.
Now he's at Arsenal - and Rooney is still just as impressed three years down the line.
"He's a clever player," the United striker was quoted as saying by the Manchester Evening News. "He doesn't stick to one position, he moves along the line. He moves in behind positions in midfield, he can score and assist goals. He's a fantastic player."
David Moyes, Ferguson's successor at Old Trafford, recently revealed that he too rejected the opportunity to sign Ozil.
"We weren't close to buying him although something was mooted," Moyes commented. "But we had Shinji Kagawa and Wayne Rooney. It wasn't something we required at that time and we were looking at different positions."
Ozil has enjoyed a positive start to his Gunners career since leaving the Bernabeu at the end of the summer transfer, scoring three goals and contributing a handful of assists in his first 13 appearances for the club.
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Bad news Duke Nukem fans: Gearbox has made the long-awaited return of the 90s video icon both serious and somber. If you're looking for proof, look no further than the two recently released gameplay trailers for Duke Nukem Forever.
In the video series entitled "What Would Duke Do," the game's titular hero shows his age and Gearbox Software's new serious direction when he questions his own motives behind the picking up and throwing of randomly discovered excrement.
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It seems pretty clear the entire thing is ruined because the Duke we knew wouldn't bat an eye at the prospect of throwing feces around the universe. The second video features Duke hijacking a jetpack. We're not sure who Gearbox ruined that part, but we're sure they did somehow.
You've disappointed us, Gearbox.
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Duke Nukem Forever will launch for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 on June 14 in North America.


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As a follow-up to my post overnight about a recently resurrected discussion on the role of HBCUs in modern higher education, I wanted to repost what is actually a repost of my longer essay and blogosphere survey of attitudes toward HBCUs by the African-American education community.
This post appeared originally on 3 September 2009 at the ScienceBlogs home of my original blog, Terra Sigillata.
In the United States, this is currently National HBCU Week (presidential proclamation here) and yesterday marked the end of the annual academic conference on HBCUs ("Seizing the Capacity to Thrive!") in Washington, DC. HBCUs span from Michigan and Ohio to Texas, Florida, and the US Virgin Islands – see here for the complete list and links to HBCUs.
Don't feel bad if you've never heard of HBCUs – as noted in my repost from last year, I didn't until I went to college. I've updated the post here and and added a few new morsels of knowledge stemming from my own continuing education about the institutional missions and history of HBCUs.
Of you, always good-looking and erudite reader of Terra Sigillata, I ask that you provide in the comments your own reflections and opinions as well as more current blog links to commentary on the modern relevance of the HBCU. Many of these links are toward the end of this post and I also direct you to last year's comment thread.
When I went away to college after the summer when MTV was first launched, I had never heard of the term, "Historically Black Colleges and Universities." But during the following summer while taking organic chemistry, I lived in a dorm with two visiting HBCU students who were doing internships at a local pharmaceutical company. The gentleman who I grew closest to had come from Hampton University (then-Hampton Institute) in Virginia.
As a Yankee born the same year as the passage of US Civil Rights Act, I had not truly appreciated that African Americans, particularly in the South, had traditionally not been welcome at colleges and universities. As a result, the African American community, sometimes supported by non-black supporters, had to establish their own universities as it was recognized that education was one path to equality. In fact, while nearly all HBCUs are south of the Mason-Dixon Line, the original HBCUs were in Pennsylvania (what is now Cheyney University (1837) and Lincoln University (1854)) and Ohio (Wilberforce University (1856)) and were established by the generosity of Quaker, Episcopalian, and other abolitionist supporters.
I'm still embarrassed by my ignorance back then, in part because my Northeastern high school history classes usually began with the Industrial Revolution and the challenges faced by my post-Civil War, Eastern European immigrant ancestors.
So, I was happy to learn that since 1980, this second week of September (but this first week in 2009) has been designated by the White House as National HBCU Week:
In 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed Executive Order 12232, which established a Federal program "… to overcome the effects of discriminatory treatment and to strengthen and expand the capacity of historically black colleges and universities to provide quality education." Each President since that time has subsequently issued an Executive Order on HBCUs, with President George W. Bush signing Executive Order 13256, Feb. 12, 2002. (Bush's 2008 proclamation can be found here in PDF).
The preamble of President Obama's 2009 proclamation provides a thoughtful reflection on the role of HBCUs in the United States:
For generations, education has opened doors to untold opportunities and bright futures. Through quality instruction and a personal commitment to hard work, young people in every part of our Nation have gone on to achieve success. Established by men and women of great vision, leadership, and clarity of purpose, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have provided generations of Americans with opportunity, a solid education, and hope.
For more than 140 years, HBCUs have released the power of knowledge to countless Americans. Pivotal in the Civil Rights Movement, HBCUs offer us a window into our Nation's past as well as a path forward. Graduates of HBCUs have gone on to shape the course of American history–from W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T.Washington, to Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall. Today, in twenty States, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, these colleges and universities are serving hundreds of thousands of students from every background and have contributed to the expansion of the African American middle class, to the growth of local communities, and to our Nation's overall economy.
This week, we celebrate the accomplishments of HBCUs and look to the future with conviction and optimism. These institutions will play a key role in reaching our ambitious national education goals, including having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020. As our Nation strives toward this goal, we invite HBCUs to employ new, innovative, and ambitious strategies to help the next generation of Americans successfully complete college and prepare themselves for the global economy. During National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week, we recommit ourselves to never resting until equality is real, opportunity is universal, and all citizens can realize their dreams.
Each year about this time, the US Department of Education sponsors a week-long conference in Washington, DC, with specific themes: in 2008, it was HBCUs: Established to Meet a Need, Evolving with the Times, Essential for Today and Tomorrow and in 2009 it's Seizing the Capacity to Thrive!.
The theme implies a harsh reality: that some HBCUs are struggling financially and are fighting to redefine their missions as highly-qualified African Americans now have their pick of the 4,000 or so US colleges and universities. But the continued value of HBCUs is undeniable as pointed out by Michelle J Nealy in Diverse Issues in Higher Education:
While HBCUs represent only 3 percent of all colleges and universities, they enroll close to one-third of all Black students. Forty percent of HBCU students pursue four-year degrees in science, technology, engineering and math, and about half of all Black students in teaching fields attended HBCUs. Three-quarters of all African-American Ph.D.s did their undergraduate studies at an HBCU, and, according to a study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, the total economic impact of the nation's HBCUs in 2001 was $10.2 billion.
Another interesting note I learned from Rochelle Rush is that, "Spelman College and Bennett College produce over half of the nation's African American female doctorates in all science fields."
But to go back further, HBCUs played an essential role in the health care of African Americans. The now-defunct Leonard Medical School and School of Pharmacy at Shaw University trained over 400 black physicians between 1881 and 1918, some of whom went on as founders of other universities and all whom addressed the critical role of health care in underserved populations across the Jim Crow South. (Incidentally, Shaw is the oldest HBCU in the South having been founded in 1865 by an ex-Union Army chaplain, Rev Dr Henry Martin Tupper, who returned from Massachusetts with other Northern teachers to establish an educational institution for emancipated slaves. The institution is named after a New England philanthropist, Elijah Shaw.)
Here's a pretty impressive list of well-known HBCU graduates including this Chicago businesswoman, a graduate of Tennessee State University.
Kim Clark noted in her February 2009 US News & World Report article that HBCUs represent a fabulous and cost-effective opportunity for all students, regardless of ethnic and geographical background:
Milton Brown, now a professor of experimental therapeutics at Georgetown University, says he knows firsthand how HBCUs like his alma mater, Oakwood University in Alabama, "take students other schools will not accept, and from that pool can rise very talented students who were late bloomers or came from single-parent homes or backgrounds of poverty."
By the way, Milton Brown, MD, PhD is not just a professor at Georgetown but he is Director of the Drug Discovery Program of the Lombardi Cancer Center at the Georgetown University Medical Center.
Nevertheless, the Afrosphere is full of students and alumni debating whether HBCUs have relevance today. As New Orleans-based journalist blogger, Raving Black Lunatic, noted recently:
At any gathering of black people, either in person or on the web, the issue of whether it's better to attend a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) or a mainstream university is pretty much guaranteed to come up at some point.
Being of Eastern European heritage as I noted above, I feel that it would be presumptuous of me to take a side in this issue, although whiteness hasn't prevented some others from doing so (see On My Mind for a couple of video examples.) So, here are just a few of the blogosphere posts on the topic:
Bourgie Adventures is written by one graduate of a large state university describes how she didn't miss out on "THE black experience" by not going to a HBCU.
Albany State graduate student dc1128 describes some of her/his frustrations with HBCUs and closes as follows:
I had a road rage incident where I shouted at the other driver. My daughter said, "Daddy, why do you yell at your own people?" I replied, "Your own people are the ones that do you the worst." These incidents are not dispelling that theory.
AverageBro.com is kind of in the middle with, "Are HBCUs Obsolete?," but leans in support of his own experience. This post is probably the most informative of all, with nearly 30 reader comments.
On the other side, one of my new favorite blogs, Keeping up with the Jonzee, makes a strong case about the need for HBCUs beginning with this statement:
I stand by my conviction that HBCU's are necessary, important and valuable. And this comes from a woman who went to a majority, expensive-ass "elite" school.
Judge Joe Webster at Making a Difference at Howard U cites the importance of HBCUs throughout his career.
In the peer-reviewed literature, this Cell Biology Education article by Dr Steve Suits notes that HBCUs "are meeting a national science imperative." This post at Historiann cites a NSF study that points to the importance of HBCUs in producing African American STEM Ph.D.s
The discussion thread on this post at The HBCU Republication Connection (yes, HBCU Republicans) provides more insight on this question.
But the best quote I found came from a magazine, not a blog. George E. Curry wrote last year in the Chicago Defender,
Do we still need Historically Black Colleges and Universities? It's a question that even some Blacks are asking. Interestingly, those same people never ask whether Catholics still need Notre Dame or whether women still need Wellesley College?
For more information on National HBCU Week, please go to the US Department of Education webpage devoted to the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
More 2009 HBCU links:
US Coast Guard HBCU Partnership – iCommandant by USCG Admiral Thad Allen
2009 Lecture Summary of White House HBCU Initiative Executive Director, John S Wilson – The Academy Speaks by Dr Marybeth Gasman – Diverse Issues in Higher Education


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"The best part about this raffle is that anyone can participate, and it's going to help us raise a lot of money for at-risk kids who need the help," Welker said in a press release. "Matt and I were teammates in New England and together we've enjoyed coming up with ways to support our favorite causes."
The lucky raffle winner and three guests will attend the game in Denver at Sports Authority Field, where they will get the chance to meet Wes Welker for photos and autographs. Hotel accommodations at the Ritz-Carlton, Denver, are also included, as is dinner at Elway's Steakhouse. The winners will be awarded an allowance of $2,600.00 for roundtrip airfare to Colorado, if needed.
Tickets to the online raffle can be purchased by clicking here. Tickets are $2.00 each and there are no limitations to how many tickets can be purchased per person. Tickets are available until 3:00PM ET on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. The drawing will be held and the winner will be notified after the raffle closes and the winner is drawn.
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- Winner and 3 guests will enjoy 4 tickets to the AFC Championship Game between the New England Patriots and Denver Broncos (Sports Authority Field, Sunday, January 19th, 1:05 PM MT Kick off)
- Winner and 3 guests will meet Wes Welker for photos and autographs
- Winner and 3 guests will receive round trip air airfare (if needed, if used, $2,600 maximum)
- Winner and 3 guests will enjoy two night's hotel accommodations at the Ritz-Carlton, Denver (Saturday, January 18, 2014 & Sunday, January 19, 2014)
- Winner and 3 guests will each enjoy a 25-minute Ritz-Carlton Spa Treatment
- Winner and 3 guest will enjoy dinner at Elway's, John Elway's downtown Denver steakhouse
- Winner will receive a "Keep the Keel Spirit" Gift Basket from Matt Light owned KEEL Vodka
- Winner will receive a $500 allowance for ground transportation meals, and other expenses
- Winner will be awarded a cash prize in the amount of $$3,690.75 to mitigate the winner's tax liability that results from winning the raffle. This prize is withheld and paid, on behalf of the winner, directly to the Internal Revenue Service ($3,108.00) and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ($582.75). CFC reserves the right to adjust the value of this prize item depending on the actual value of prizes received


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SARATOGA SPRINGS >> Up to a foot of snow was expected in some parts of Saratoga County when a snowstorm that blanketed the region was through dumping snow Wednesday night.
Reports in the early evening indicated that between 5 and 10 inches of snow fell in different parts of the county, with the highest totals in Clifton Park.
The storm closed schools throughout the area and forced many municipal meetings to be rescheduled. The Saratoga Springs police and Saratoga County sheriff's departments reported there were no major accidents caused by the snow in the city, though traffic was slow-going at times.
The snowfall broke records at Albany International Airport, where as of 4 p.m., 8.5 inches of snow had fallen; 8.1 inches was the record set in 2001. That put the seasonal snowfall at 45.6 inches.
Snow was expected to taper off into Wednesday night, but meteorologists at the National Weather Service say the temperatures expected in the coming days mean the snow is here to stay.
"It is going to be pretty cold for the foreseeable future," meteorologist Luigi Meccariello said Wednesday. "(The snow) is not going anywhere for a while."
Temperatures will remain in the low 20s for the next several nights, dropping into the low single digits at times, but the days will remain clear.
In Saratoga Springs, the Code Blue emergency overnight shelter for the homeless is scheduled to be open through Feb. 12 with the exception of Sunday, when forecasts show a warmer night.
The shelter opens whenever the temperature is expected to be below 10 degrees or there is more than a foot of snow in the forecast.
Saratoga Code Blue Coordinator Cheryl Ann Murphy said the shelter was at capacity the last two nights the shelter was open at the end of last week.
"We have 15 beds and we actually had a full house," she said. "It's been steadily increasing."
Murphy said with the anticipated cold over the next few nights the shelter will likely be running close to capacity each night.
Maccariello said long-term forecasts show there may be more snow at the end of the weekend into early next week, but he said it is too early to tell for sure.