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My friend Catherine recently told me about a 50-year-old friend of hers who'd been a member of a sewing circle for 10 years and was now dying of brain cancer. "I labored and sweated over my crooked stitches," her friend said. "And I always felt ashamed for not making stitches the right size or shape. As if making straight stitches actually meant something about me or my life. Now, the doctors say I have six months to live, and when I think about the time I wasted worrying about those crooked stitches..." She left the sentence unfinished.
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I was in a car accident recently. We were burbling away, two friends and I, on our way to a party, when suddenly we got sideswiped a few times by someone who ran a red light. After our car crashed into two lampposts, three other cars, and one stop sign, it came to a total standstill. I crawled out of the hole in the side that used to be the door and, although my ankle throbbed, my head felt as if a brick had fallen on it, and I couldn't breathe very well, I was alive. And suddenly, just being alive was enough. Was miraculous. Suddenly nothing was important except the fact that I was still breathing.
I needed a wheelchair for six weeks because of a sprained ankle and a set of bruised ribs, and sometimes, when my husband was busy and couldn't transport me from the dining room to the living room, I'd sit outside and stare at the feast in my backyard. It wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Just the usual: clouds, trees, sun. Dog barking. Birds trilling. Wind blowing. The everyday jubilee I'd been passing on my way from desk to kitchen to desk as I worried about the stitches of work, family, errands, responsibilities. As I rushed frantically to keep up with the pace of e-mails, text-messages, book deadlines. But since I had a concussion and couldn't think clearly, and since my usual mode of running around was impossible, I had a good excuse to stop everything and contemplate the little things. Like living and dying. There is nothing like a brush with death to get a girl thinking.
The first time I taught my retreat after the accident, I asked my students to make a list of 10 things they loved most about being alive. They wrote down things like: "reading to my daughter before bed," "swimming with my son," "holding my husband's hand," "being in the forest," "taking a hot bath." Then I asked them what they would spend their time on if they knew they had only a year to live. All of them elaborated on different versions of doing what they loved and of loving the people they cherished. Not one of them mentioned losing weight, although some of them did say that they would eat only what they really, really liked. Which brings me to the subject of dieting and weight loss and being fully alive.
Recently, I read a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in which 300 "moderately obese people" were followed on three different diets: the low-carb diet, the low-fat diet, and the Mediterranean diet (healthy fats, some dairy products, abundant fruits and vegetables). After the first five months of tightly controlled dieting, the dieters lost an average of 10 to 14 pounds.
However, by the end of the two-year study, all the participants gained back some of the weight they had lost. Two years of strict dieting and the end result is that you lose 10 pounds and gain back four? Hmm. There's gotta be a better way to spend your time.
There is. It's called: Live the life you have. Love the body you've got. (This is not the same thing as: Give up and binge.)
Part of the reason that diets don't work is that when we are obsessively focused on how much we weigh, we are not focused on doing what we love or on loving what we love. We are thinking about what we will look like when we lose weight. We are spending our days counting calories or fat grams, as if we have forever to be alive, forever to turn to what we truly love.
When the late Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch's last lecture swept across the Internet, when he spoke about having pancreatic cancer and six months to live, he spoke as a man whose priorities were clear. He wanted to spend every second he could with his family; he wanted his kids to have a visible record of his love. "I am maintaining my clear-eyed sense of the inevitable," he said. "I'm living like I'm dying. But at the same time, I'm very much living like I'm still living."
Every one of us has a terminal illness: It's called life. Although we want to believe that death only happens to other people, it only takes a second or two to realize that the D word is going to happen to us, too. A car accident. A serious illness. An iffy mammogram. Suddenly, it's our life that is at stake. Our life whose stitches are numbered.
Ask yourself how you want to live.
Ask yourself what you would do with your time if you found out that your days were numbered. (Because they are. You just don't know what the number is.)
And, oh, ask yourself what you would eat.
While you might be tempted to say, "I'd eat pizza and cheesecake nonstop, because who cares about clogged arteries when time is limited," ask yourself if that's true. If life is so precious, why would you spend one minute of it making yourself sick?
When I was 19, my college roommate and I were traveling from Pisa to Rome in a rickety airplane. We were convinced that it was going to crash and in the last few minutes of the flight, I figured that as long as I was going to die, I might as well die eating chocolate. Despite the turbulence, I managed to polish off the entire five-pound box I'd bought for my mother. If I had died, I would have gone out burping and in a sugar coma. Not exactly a graceful exit.
Rather than focusing on dieting and depriving yourself, which we all know does not work, turn your attention to what you love. Because if you love your life, you want to take care of your body. Even if you knew you only had six months to live, you might eat differently, you might even begin exercising every day, but it wouldn't be because you were ashamed of your body. It wouldn't be because your thighs weren't thin enough or the stitches of your life weren't good enough. It would be because you didn't want to miss a minute of the time you had left.
Why wait? Why not cherish every crooked stitch of your life before another moment passes?
Geneen Roth is an international teacher, speaker, and writer of best-selling books on emotional eating. You can visit her at geneenroth.com.
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1st time Hampton U. student voters vowed to watch presidential debate
By Sydni McCutchen, Jada George and Donald Huskey
Hampton University students packed two student venues in order to watch first Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump U.S. presidential debate. Public viewing plummeted for debate No. 2, which aired on Oct. 9, the night of the Homecoming week bonfire.
Before Wednesday's third and final debate, campus reporters asked six students,
a.] did they plan to watch, and
b.] did they intend to vote on Tuesday, Nov. 8:
"Probably not," said Kalijah Stokes, a sophomore, sports management major from Brooklyn, New York. "I watched the first one. It will be a repeat of the same petty going back and forth"
"Yes," Stoked intended to vote: "I registered to vote with the people walking around campus."
"I have to [vote]," said Diamond Broughton, a sophomore, journalism major from Newport News. "It's my first time voting so I'm kind of excited, although I have no choice but to choose Hillary [Clinton].
"Yeah, I'm going home to vote. I don't trust absentee ballots"
Natalie Jennings, a sophomore political science major from Maryland, said, "Yes I will most definitely be watching the debate tonight. I am going to be in my apartment and I am inviting some friends over.
"Yes I will be voting!"
Amber Smith, a sophomore journalism and communications major, from Maryland, said, "No, I will not be watching the debate tonight because I have practice for a modeling troupe. I am sure I will see important and memorable pieces and clips on social media though."
"I will be voting, especially because it will be my first time!"
Samuel Gavin, a business management major from Herndon Virginia, said he did not plan to watch Wednesday's third and final presidential debate, however, "Yes, of course," when asked if he planned to vote Nov. 8.
Where? "In Hampton, Virginia. My hometown is too far away."
Charles Bert, a business management major from Grand Rapids, Michigan, said "No, I don't care to watch the debate," but he said "yes" to voting from Hampton, Virginia.
The writers are students in the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications.
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Giants back in swing of things / Offense clicking with Aurilia ready to return
Published 4:00 am, Tuesday, June 4, 2002
2002-06-04 04:00:00 PDT San Diego -- Rich Aurilia need not assume the role of offensive savior now that the Giants have rediscovered the art of hitting.
Aurilia is expected to come off the disabled list and return to the lineup tonight after missing only 15 days following elbow surgery. In his absence, the Giants were 3-8 before winning two in a row, including Monday night's 11-3 rout of the Padres.
The Giants collected a season-high 20 hits, including home runs by Benito Santiago, Tsuyoshi Shinjo and Marvin Benard, so perhaps it's time to call off that Aaron Fultz-for-Todd Helton trade.
"We were due for something like that. Overdue," batting coach Gene Clines said. "We were waiting for that for a long time, and I hope it's the start of something big. Richie will be an added bonus, and all he has to do is blend in. "
Now that the offense is breathing again, the pressure isn't on Aurilia to pump life into the lineup. He should still help, though. He said he felt better in recent batting practices than he had early in the season, before his May 22 elbow surgery, which was supposed to sideline him at least four weeks.
"I don't expect to be right back in the swing of things," said Aurilia, who hopes to eventually regain his
2001 stroke (.324, 37 homers, 97 RBIs) and forget about his 2002 numbers to date (.259, 3, 11). "It certainly changes the look a little bit and maybe puts in a little more threat of offense."
For the Giants, the more the merrier.
They struck in the third inning for six runs, all with two outs. Jeff Kent's bases-loaded single and Santiago's three-run homer gave the Giants something they haven't had much recently: comfort. At least not before Sunday, when they snapped a four-game losing streak by whipping Colorado 9-2.
Then they added a five-spot in the eighth, an inning highlighed by Shinjo's solo homer and Benard's three-run shot. Benard, who went 3-for-6, wasn't even supposed to play but learned a half-hour before game time that he was replacing Reggie Sanders, who was shelved with a finger contusion.
"Go be happy," a joyful Shawon Dunston screamed across the clubhouse at Benard after the game. "You're going to sleep like Tony Gwynn tonight. Go ahead, Marvin, enjoy it because you ain't gonna play for another 10 days."
Dunston was cracking up the room, Benard included. Benard raised his average from .229 to .250. Dunston, who didn't play, is at .135.
"You know how Tony Gwynn sleeps? Like a baby," Benard told reporters. "I've been sleeping like Shawon Dunston lately, tossing and turning all over the place."
The six-run rally matched the Giants' season high for an inning (last accomplished on May 22) and permitted Russ Ortiz room to be a little rough- edged along the way to his fifth victory. He threw 122 pitches and allowed baserunners in each of his six innings.
Ray Lankford answered the Giants' big third inning with a two-run single in the Padres' half, making the score 6-2. It became 6-3 in the sixth, when Ortiz walked Bubba Trammell and advanced him with a wild pitch. Trammell was sacrificed to third and scored on Wiki Gonzalez's sacrifice fly, barely beating a solid throw by Benard in right field.
Former Stanford pitcher Jason Middlebrook started for the Padres and was extra cautious with Barry Bonds for three reasons: No. 65, No. 66 and No. 68. Those were the home runs Bonds hit off Middlebrook on his way to 73 last season, and Middlebrook wanted no piece of him in their first clash of 2002.
He issued two walks in four innings, and both were to Bonds. The first was intentional. The second was all but, and it loaded the bases for Kent, who drove in the game's first two runs.
With Aurilia on the DL and Ramon Martinez still getting headaches after sustaining a mild concussion, David Bell played short the past two games. Aurilia's return will move Bell back to third and possibly send Martinez to the DL; he had an MRI exam and was checked by a neurologist Sunday.


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International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Volume 2006, Article ID 35290, 11 pages
Optimization of Spiral MRI Using a Perceptual Difference Model
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
2Department of Radiology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7055, USA
Received 27 August 2005; Revised 26 June 2006; Accepted 6 July 2006
Academic Editor: Yibin Zheng
Copyright © 2006 Donglai Huo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- Donglai Huo, and David L. Wilson, "Robust GRAPPA reconstruction and its evaluation with the perceptual difference model," Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 1412–1420, 2008. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
- Jun Miao, Donglai Huo, and David L. Wilson, "Quantitative image quality evaluation of MR images using perceptual difference models," Medical Physics, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 2541, 2008. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar


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Bringing together various regional entities to conclude the preparation of all necessary processes and requirements to conduct Command Post Exercises.
ACCORD/TfP participated in a SADC Exercise Planning Meeting that took place in Lilongwe, Malawi from 23 to 27 April 2018. This Planning Meeting was a 3rd in a series of earlier meetings with one more which is due in July 2018, that have been planned in preparation for the regional Command Post Exercise (CPX) taking place at a selected location in Malawi from 26 September to 17 October 2018. The CPX has been conceived following the announcement by the African Union Commission (AUC) that in line with the standby roster for conflict response on the continent, SADC will be next in for standby as of 01 January to 30 June 2019.
The Exercise Planning meeting brought together the following regional entities: the SADC Secretariat Planning Element constituting of the civilian, police, military and prisons/corrections planners, planners from the SADC Member States, the host government, Malawi planners, civil society organisations and specially invited local and regional private sector companies. The planning meeting focused on developing and concluding preparation of all the necessary documentation, processes and requirements that are central to the conduct of a CPX or any other exercise. The meeting also focused on ensuring that there is full and wide coordination, cooperation and consultation among all stakeholders to the exercise to guarantee the successful conduct of the event.
Participation in activities such as Ex UMODZI is in line with ACCORD/TfP Programme's strategic goal of supporting efforts at strengthening the AUC and regional capacity and capability to plan, manage and implement Peace Support Operations (PSOs) on the continent through the enhancement of the ASF capacities. This initiative also seeks to contribute to improved sustainable capacity for the conduct of peace operations on the continent through ensuring effective functioning of organizational systems in the AU/RECs/RMs.
The Training for Peace Programme at ACCORD is an initiative funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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I wanted your in depth opinion on a particular observation. Muslims, historically speaking, have been responsible for hundreds and thousands of scientific discoveries. What happened to us? Why are we in the stage we are?
Only 100 years ago, which is just a little more than one human lifetime, the Ottoman Empire was a sovereign Muslim nation that could stand up to any Western power. No Jewish colonizer would have dared to terrorize and massacre Palestinians when the Ottoman Empire was there to protect its citizens.
While many Muslims, including scholars, think that Muslims were always powerful, capable and thriving throughout history until modern times, this is mostly a romantic fairy tale told to console and encourage.
The Crusaders were able to take Jerusalem and other parts of the Levant from Muslims in 1099 CE and ruled it for nearly 100 years. Where were the great Muslim powers in this time that they couldn't take it back? The Middle East was a mix of weak and fractured "Muslim" powers, who were only Muslim in name but in general acted like any modern power, killing and destroying while using religion to justify their actions, and while being under the influence and sometimes control of foreign non-Muslim powers.
The current weakness and powerlessness of Muslims is similar to their state during the Mongol invasions. Some Muslims thought the end of the world had arrived, thinking the Mongols were the promised Ya'jooj and Ma'jooj (Gog and Magog) mentioned in the Quran. The Mongols utterly destroyed the Sunni Muslim Khwarezmian Empire which controlled nearly all of Modern Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and parts of Afghanistan and Kazakhstan, and which had existed for 150 years, through the wholesale slaughter of men, women and children. After that, they went on to destroy Baghdad and Damascus, although the Abbasid Empire had been in decline for centuries before the Mongols arrived.
On the other side of the Medieval world, Muslims ruled nearly half of Spain for nearly 800 years, until 1492 CE (which is also the year the Americas were discovered). Just as they threw Muslims out of Spain, Christians went on to conquer two continents, spread Christian rule all over them, and eventually built the world's most powerful nation there.
The Myth of Continuous Power Increase
There is a myth among Muslims that since they belong to God's chosen religion, they should have been able to establish a globally dominant power that ruled the world forever. But God doesn't promise us that. He promises that we will be tested:
You will be tested through your possessions and your persons; and you will hear from those who received the Scripture before you, and from the idol worshipers, much abuse. But if you persevere and lead a righteous life—that indeed is a mark of great determination.1
God also threatens us with His ability to remove us from power and replace us with others if we do not follow His guidance:
131. To God belongs everything in the heavens and everything on earth. We have instructed those who were given the Book before you, and you, to be conscious of God. But if you refuse—to God belongs everything in the heavens and everything on earth. God is in no need, Praiseworthy.
132. To God belongs everything in the heavens and everything on earth. God suffices as Manager.
133. If He wills, He can do away with you, O people, and bring others. God is Able to do that. 2
Verse 131 above mention's God's warning to the People of the Book. The Old Testament contains many promises by God that if His people disobey, He will abandon them to whatever that may happen to them, and that He will make others dominant over them. In the Book of Deuteronomy (part of the Old Testament, and part of the Torah), prophet Musa (Moses) says:
25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:
26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
27 And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you.3
The Quran, too, mentions prophet Musa saying similar things:
6. Moses said to his people, "Remember God's blessings upon you, as He delivered you from the people of Pharaoh, who inflicted on you terrible suffering, slaughtering your sons while sparing your daughters. In that was a serious trial from your Lord."
7. And when your Lord proclaimed: "If you give thanks, I will grant you increase; but if you are ungrateful, My punishment is severe."
8. And Moses said, "Even if you are ungrateful, together with everyone on earth—God is in no need, Worthy of Praise." 4
Our relationship with God is not one where He constantly supports us just because we say we are His nation, unlike some Muslims and many Jews think. Here is the Jewish feminist author Naomi Wolf expressing her surprise at finding out (by reading the Hebrew Bible) that unlike what many Jews think, God does not promise them never-ending support just because they are "His chosen people":
He never says: "I will give you, ethnic Israelites, the land of Israel." Rather He says something far more radical - far more subversive -- far more Godlike in my view. He says: IF you visit those imprisoned...act mercifully to the widow and the orphan...welcome the stranger in your midst...tend the sick...do justice and love mercy ....and perform various other tasks...THEN YOU WILL BE MY PEOPLE AND THIS LAND WILL BE YOUR LAND. So "my people" is not ethnic -- it is transactional. We are God's people not by birth but by a way of behaving, that is ethical, kind and just. And we STOP being "God's people" when we are not ethical, kind and just.5
She is not quite correct when she says "my people" is not ethnic. Jews are God's chosen, what they don't generally realize is that being chosen doesn't necessarily mean one is chosen for a good thing. Jews are God's chosen in that He gave them many scriptures and throughout the centuries continuously sent them new prophets to guide them back to the Straight Path. He chose them for a specific test. Their being chosen is not just a privilege, it is both a privilege and a heavy burden. If they reject God despite being chosen, God sends the most terrible punishment on them, like He has done many times throughout history. Many Jews forget the burden and choose to enjoy the privilege of thinking of themselves as God's chosen elite.
Our relationship with God is contractual. If we obey, He supports us. If we disobey, He stops supporting us and subjects us to unfriendly powers.
The story of the Jews is a good lesson for us. Many times in their history they were extremely powerful. After they left Egypt, they entered Canaan around 1446 BCE. They disobeyed God when they were about to overtake a city and live in it, so God punished them by having them wander in the desert for 40 years. They finally entered Canaan in 1406 BCE and completely conquered it by 1399 BCE. Once they become a sovereign power, they soon start to do evil, abandoning God, worshiping Baal or the Calf, practicing usury or allying themselves with irreligious foreign powers. For this reason, as they rejected and sometimes even killed their prophets, every few generations God would send a powerful foreign power to destroy many of their cities and slaughter many of their people.
When they continued to reject God, He sent Babylon to conquer their lands and sent them into exile for 70 years. After that the Persian emperor, whose empire had conquered Babylon, allowed the Jews to return to their lands and reestablish themselves there. Their story continued the same as before, with them doing evil and being punished for it. In 70 AD, a few decades after they rejected Jesus and tried to kill him, they tried to escape the rule of the Roman empire. In return they had their city of Jerusalem utterly destroyed and hundreds of thousands of Jews killed.
Titus, the Roman commander who was in charge of the Roman victory over the Jews, is supposed to have refused to wear a wreath after the victory, saying that he was only acting as a tool of God's wrath over the Jews. Perhaps this was God's punishment on them for their rejecting God's prophet.
Another recent example from Jewish history is Germany in the first few decades of the 20th century. In 1920, Jews owned most of Germany's media, banks and large corporations and controlled Germany's academia. They continually promoted homosexuality and sex outside of marriage in books, plays and films in the name of progress. In short, they acted exactly the way they act today in the United States and Europe.
That ended abruptly with the rise of Hitler, who utterly destroyed everything the Jews had worked for.
In Jewish history there is an important historical lesson; that just because a nation associates itself with God and claims to be His people does not mean they will always have God's support.
Muslim nations have had a history similar to that of the Jews. Many powerful Muslim states have risen and fallen throughout history, and this process is not going to end. If we establish a caliphate like some Muslims dream about, and even if it rules the world for 1000 years, if most of the population abandons Islamic values and Islam becomes largely culture and tradition and not faith, then that caliphate too will fail. God will enable another Mongol invasion, or another invasion by the British and the French, to come and divide their caliphate and do with it as they please.
Christianity's Place in Islamic History
Just as Islam faded in the Middle East and became little more than cultural tradition and ceremony, Christianity rose in the West. The Christians who conquered the Americas thought they were doing it for God's sake. They read the Bible daily, they established Biblical law in their colonies, and they braved many dangers in order to establish families, villages and cities in empty and hostile lands.
God's promise in the Quran came true for them for their deeds:
65. Had the People of the Scripture believed and been righteous, We would have remitted their sins, and admitted them into the Gardens of Bliss.
66. Had they observed/enforced the Torah, and the Gospel, and what was revealed to them from their Lord, they would have consumed amply from above them, and from beneath their feet. Among them is a moderate community, but evil is what many of them are doing.6
While it is common for many Muslims to think of Christians as nothing but heathens who should magically disappear now that Islam has come, Christians are as much God's people as Muslims are, that is, they too have a contract with God, and if they uphold their contract with God, God will uphold His contract with them. If a Christian nation is more faithful, more eager to serve God, and more observant of God's laws, then we shouldn't be surprised if God gives them His full support.
This was the case in the Americas and much of Western Europe until 1900 CE. With all of the corruption present, the average person's actions and thinking were still largely controlled by Christian ideals.
Today, things are different. The West has finally abandoned the religion that made it great. The only reason the West is great today is the momentum of the past. A Muslim may lose hope when they look at the United States and see its immense capacity to dominate and do evil throughout the world. But the United States is already past its prime. It is desperately trying to hold onto its past power, constantly threatening Russia, China and Iran, but incapable of doing anything about them as they continue to rise.
The United States has had a below-replacement fertility rate since the 1970's. If it wasn't for their continuous importation of immigrants, their population would have been shrinking by now. A decades-long below-replacement fertility rate is all that is needed to illustrate that a nation is failing.
It is a country's population that gives a nation its economic, technological and military power, and once the population starts to shrink, its power will decrease, because there will be fewer people to innovate, and fewer people to consume the fruits of these innovations and in this way pay for further innovations. Today the United States can afford to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on military spending every year, and it is this spending that enables various military companies to continue innovating. But as the American tax base and economy both shrink, with it its power to spend will shrink. America is on a trajectory to become the next Portugal, once a global superpower, now a complete non-entity.
One illustration of the continuing fall of the United States is that of the world's top 15 skyscrapers (those higher than 350 meters) finished in the past 3 years, 10 are in China, and only one in the United States. China continues to rise, the United States continues to stagnate and fall. America's failing economy has no need for new office buildings, hotels and restaurants, since it already has more than its shrinking economy needs.
The answer to the question of why Muslims are so powerless compared to the West these days is that Islamic history ran into Christian history. Christian power was still rising went it clashed with an Ottoman Empire that was already past its prime, so the Ottomans didn't stand a chance.
Today, Christian powers too are past their prime, and great change is coming.
The United States is unlikely to become a Portugal any time soon, and if Islam continues to spread, it might change into a new type of superpower without becoming irrelevant.
It should be noted that while China's rise will probably be a good thing in the short-term, as its rise to power will probably prevent further significant US excesses for the next few decades, once it is firmly established as the world's most powerful country, it could start acting like the US, forcing every other country to either become a de facto client state or get turned into a war zone.
Islam in the West
There already are tens of millions of Muslims living in the United States and Western Europe. Just as the native populations of these countries continue to shrink, the Muslim population continues to increase.
At the moment, of course, Muslims are extremely poor and powerless in the West. But demographics decides the destiny of a nation. It is this fact that is terrifying Zionist career Islam-haters like Robert Spencer, Geert Wilders, Daniel Pipes and Pamella Geller and the billionaire Jews supporting them.
They know that it is only a matter of time before Muslims have the political power to affect the foreign policy of these nations, and that means they will have the power to affect the policy of these nations toward their beloved Israel.
Ten years ago, in 2007, every terrorist attack and every crime that could potentially be blamed on Muslims would be plastered all over the Jewish-owned or operated Western media (which is nearly all of the West's media) for weeks on end. It appears that some time between 2014 and 2016 the Jews decided that it was more in their self-interest to protect Muslims and promote unfettered Muslim immigration to the West, to prevent white Christians from ever gaining total control of a Western country and in this way having the power to dictate Jew-unfriendly laws, as happened in Nazi Germany. Their media today does its best to hide the identities of terrorists, and whenever a terrorist attack occurs, Jewish-operated companies like Google can be seen promoting articles (in this case, in search results and on Google News) that blame these attacks on white people rather than on Muslims.
The Jewish-owned and operated Salon Magazine, a leftist publication, is a big defender of Muslims at the moment. This is a magazine that hasn't made a profit in the past 20 years, it is entirely a tool of propaganda for leftist Jews. If they pretend to care about us, if they defend us, should we celebrate and join forces with them?
In ten years, when winds change again and the Jews7 decide, like they did in the first decade of the 21st century, that it is in their best interest to promote a negative image of Islam in the West, then they will do that all over again. We in the West are on a collision course with Jews. As our population, and thus our political power, increases, so will our power to sway Western governments against Israel. And when that happens, when we become a threat to Jewry's beloved Israel, they will turn around overnight, attacking us left and right and portraying us as evil barbarians intent on destroying Western civilization, like they were doing 24/7 a few years ago, and like so many Jewish Islam-haters and "conservative" Jewish media outlets like Breitbart continue to do today.
We must learn to develop long memories, and our best help in this regard is the study of history. We must never ally ourselves with an evil force that has decided at the moment it is in its self-interest to defend us, because tomorrow it can decide that it is in its self-interest to attack us. We must never justify evil for the greater good, and we must never lose our moral integrity for the achievement of political goals.
Islam might go on to become the dominant religion of the West in 100 years, as non-Muslim white people continue to die out, and as white people who convert to Islam continue to increase and have higher fertility than non-Muslim whites. And of course, there are the millions of Muslim immigrants currently residing in the West.
While Muslims continue to be strangers in the West at the moment, this is going to change soon. Today it is still common for us to be viewed as barbarians and outsiders. But a point will be reached when everyone will know a few Muslims and accept them as ordinary citizens, and when that happens, the number of conversions to Islam could multiply very fast, because these people will finally see that Islam is nothing but an updated and improved version of Christianity.
The Long View of History
Even if Muslims establish a new global superpower that lasts for hundreds of years, it too can eventually fail and get conquered by non-Muslim powers. Imagine if this world continues to exist for the next 100,000 years. The story of Muslims being powerful then weak then powerful again might play out fifty or a hundred times more.
We humans wants safety and security. We want to establish Paradise on Earth once and for all and then go on living in it. But that is not the purpose of this world, and dreams of establishing a Paradise on Earth are naive and futile.
We are taught over and over again in the Quran that this world is worthless, that it will soon be over, that none of our deeds done in this world will last. The Quranic character Dhul Qarnain shows his appreciation for God's message when he says the following right after completing building a structure for God's sake:
He said, "This is a mercy from my Lord. But when the promise of my Lord comes true, He will turn it into rubble, and the promise of my Lord is always true."8
For us Muslims, it is always about the journey, not the destination. It doesn't matter what we accomplish in this world. What matters is the record of our deeds. No matter what we build, no matter how much power we have, we could see it all destroyed tomorrow. This has happened over and over again in history, though sadly we continue to fail to learn the lesson.
Why did God let the Mongols destroy Baghdad and Damascus if our purpose was to continue to gain power, wealth and fame in this world? Why did He let the Ottoman Empire, the last truly sovereign Muslim power, be invaded and destroyed? Why did He not allow the Arab powers to defeat Israel during their multiple wars?
Because this world is a test. It is not our purpose to build Paradise on Earth. Our purpose is khilafah, literally "to be stewards". We are stewards of the earth. Our purpose is to take care of it by enjoining good and admonishing against evil, so that humanity continues, and so that the the earth does not become entirely corrupted.
A steward takes care of a farm until the owner returns, continuing the running of the farm as best they can. It is the owner's business what they do with the farm. In the same way, our job in this world is to continue be God's stewards, God's agents for good in this world, but it is His business what He does with this world, and whether He gives us power or takes it away from us. All that we can say is, "We hear and we obey."
We are not seekers after power. The Prophet did not seek power, it was given to him. Neither did any of the righteous Rashidun caliphs. We do not seek to establish global dominance, or to carry out global war. Our job is to be God's stewards, to walk on the Straight Path.
Being on the Straight Path does not require gaining power, and in fact the seeking of power is directly opposed to it, for the seeking of power always requires that one abandon one's moral integrity "for the greater good". This is the story of every political party that starts out with high moral ideals only to become a nest of corruption and evil.
It is God who gives us power if we deserve it, and if the time is right, for His own purposes, and as long as it pleases Him, until He can take it away from us. As for us, we must be thankful and content throughout all of this:
No, but worship God, and be among the thankful ones.9
It is God who manages history for us. We are not in charge, God is.
No calamity strikes except by God's permission. Whoever believes in God, He guides his heart. God is Aware of everything.10
No calamity occurs on earth, or in your souls, but it is in a Book, even before We make it happen. That is easy for God. That you may not sorrow over what eludes you, nor exult over what He has given you. God does not love the proud snob.11
God does not change the condition of a people until they change what is within themselves. And if God wills any hardship for a people, there is no turning it back; and apart from Him they have no protector.12
God has promised those of you who believe and do righteous deeds, that He will make them successors on earth, as He made those before them successors, and He will establish for them their religion—which He has approved for them—and He will substitute security in place of their fear. They worship Me, never associating anything with Me. But whoever disbelieves after that—these are the sinners. 13
Our job is to do good wherever we find ourselves, to worship God, to be kind and just, to follow His commandments as best as we can, and it is God who will establish us on Earth when He pleases:
God has promised those of you who believe and do righteous deeds, that He will make them stewards on Earth, as He made those before them stewards, and He will establish for them their religion—which He has approved for them—and He will substitute security in place of their fear. They worship Me, never associating anything with Me. But whoever disbelieves after that—these are the sinners.14
We can, of course, be political activists and critics. We can constantly work toward social justice and the lifting of poverty. But instead of doing these by seeking power first, we do them without seeking power. We do what is right and just and kind toward everyone, and God, if He wishes, can give us power any time He wants.
Ibn al-Jawzi says in his Sayd al-Khaatir ("Quarry of the Mind"):
I reflected upon the envy that exists among scholars, and saw that its source is the love of the worldly life, because the scholars of the afterlife engage in love and do not envy others. What separates the two groups is that the scholars of the worldly life seek power and leadership in it, and they love to accumulate wealth and praise, while the scholars of the afterlife live in seclusion from these things, they fear them and have mercy toward those who are being tested by them.
Truly good and kind people, who fear God and take the afterlife seriously, do not seek power in my experience. Sometimes the right situation arises for a good person to rise and become powerful, as it happened with Saladin. Saladin wasn't a revolutionary who grabbed power, or a politician. He became powerful as part of his job as a military commander, and one thing led to another until he became a powerful ruler.
The writer Frank Herbert says the following in Chapterhouse: Dune, and I find them true from all that I have seen:
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological
personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it.
Scientific vs. Divine Explanations for Islam's Decline: Islam, Christianity and Indo-European Genes
Islam's great revolution in science and scholarship came from Sunni Persians. Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawood, Tirmidhi, al-Nasaa'i, and Ibn Majah were all Persian. The first formal grammarian of the Arabic language was Sibawayh, a Persian. Some of the greatest names in Islamic history, such as al-Khawarazmi, al-Ghazali, Abu Sinaa, al-Biruni and Ibn Hayyan were Persian.
Persians are an Indo-European race, and to this day have continued their superiority in learning and scholarship over Arabs. In Iran over 70,000 books are published per year, compared to less than 20,000 per year in the entire Arab world.
It appears that historical events like the Mongol destruction of the Khwarezmian Empire, Shiite rule over Iran, and the centuries of conflict between the Persians and the Ottomans, caused Persian populations to shrink and become isolated, and in this way they fell out of the mainstream history of Islam. This might be the single most important historical reason for the decline of Islamic science.
Just as Islam lost its main source of Indo-European genes, Christianity acquired a tremendous new source in northwestern Europe. Christianity went through a similar process to that of Islam's scientific rise, inspired by Greek philosophy and carried forward by religious thinkers like Thomas Aquinas. Christianity had far better access to Indo-European genes for many centuries compared to Islam, therefore the scientific revolution happened in Christendom. Christianity continued to ensure above-replacement fertility rates, Christian ideals continued to inspire and motivate people, and Indo-European genes supplied the high IQ needed for scientific progress.
This might be the scientific explanation for why Christianity overtook Islam after the Middle Ages.
A mistake many people make, both religious and irreligious, is that when they discover a scientific explanation for something, they start to think that it means that thing is not from God. But it is a principle of God that He will never allow us to have direct evidence of His existence, therefore when God does something, it is always through scientific means, or He makes it appear to be that way. God will not carry out miracles that can be recorded and published on YouTube. The only time that we will have direct proof of the existence of God and the rest of the Unseen is at the end of the world. When the pagans requested that they see an angel before they believe in God, God's reply was this:
Had We sent down an angel, the matter would have been settled, and they would not have been reprieved.15
If we ever had direct evidence of God's existence, then there would be no need for faith in God. God does not want that to happen, therefore everything that happens to us must have logical scientific explanations. We can examine Islamic history to find out where things went wrong. But even if we discover every single cause and try to cure it, our success is not guaranteed.
The divine reason for the fall of Muslims is that they abandoned Islam in their hearts, while the scientific reason is the above. The divine reasons precede the scientific reasons. If we disobey God, God will bring about logical and scientifically-explainable reasons for our destruction. And if we obey God, and carry out our stewardship in the best manner possible, God will inspire us toward whatever will give us success and power in this world.
Today, mainstream Islam is again acquiring Indo-European genes in the form of European converts to Islam. As these people increase in number, just as the number of seculars and Christians dwindles, among them will come great scholars and scientists, and soon (within a lifetime or two) Muslims could be responsible for half or more of the West's scientific output.16
As Muslims, our goal in life is not to acquire power, glory or supremacy in this world. Our goal is not to establish Paradise on Earth. We can appreciate technological and scientific accomplishments, and we can work toward them as part of our stewardship on Earth, but we must never lose sight of the fact that ultimately, everything we do is meant to serve God, and that a day will come when all of our worldly works will be destroyed as if they never existed.
In this world, we are stewards of a temporary farm, a farm whose Owner has promised to destroy in the end. We must never get attached to this farm, or seek its improvement or power over it as a goal in itself. We must never get attached to the idea of establishing a global power. Even if we establish one, it too can come and go like every other Muslim power in history. History will continue going in cycles, Muslims will rise to power, fall, and rise again. The only people who achieve success are those who fear God and serve Him in the best way possible. It is only the record of our deeds which lasts forever, everything else is temporary.
If Muslims are weak today, look again in 500 years, and they may be the strongest and most technologically advanced power on Earth. Look again in 1500 years, and they may again be weak, oppressed and backward. It is God who gives and God who takes. If we are thankful and obedient, He will increase us and improve our station in life, and if we are ungrateful, He can always take it all away from us and subjugate us to others, like He did to the Andalusian Muslims.


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3) While holding the Power button, press the Resume/Cancel button three times, and then release the Power and Resume/Cancel buttons. (Each time the Resume/Cancel button is pressed, the LED lights alternately in either orange or green, starting with orange.) During initialization, the LED blinks in green.
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Berry Civic Center Activities: Jan Hegoshi, Paul and Ruthie Busby and Robert Yerby playing and singing from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at Berry Civic Center. Dominoes and card games at noon.
Lake Tuscaloosa Opry: 7-11 p.m. at Giles Repair, 12020 Lester Taylor Road in Northport. Admission $4. Call 205-339-5028.
Crimson Pride Barbershop Chorus Rehearsal: 7 p.m. at First Christian Church, 627 Paul W. Bryant Drive. Call 205-758-9711 and leave a message.
Town Hall District 1 meeting: 5:30 p.m. at Oakdale Elementary School. Meet and greet from 5:30-6 p.m. for citizens to address city and district matters; 6 p.m. Mayor Walt Maddox will give an overview of the latest happenings throughout the city. Q&A session from 6:20-7 p.m. Call 205-248-5311.
Tuscaloosa Garden Club: 9:30 a.m. at 11991 Grandview Drive., Northport. Program is "Veggies in the Landscape" with lunch afterward. Call 205-507-0392.
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West Alabama Dance: 6:45-9:45 p.m., Northport Community Center, 2001 Park St. in Northport. Music by the Echoes. Admission $5. Call 205-562-3220.
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Model Train Exhibit: 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at the historic Northport Train Depot, 725 25th Ave. in Northport. Extensive model train display presented by the Black Warrior Model Railroad Society. Free admission.
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A Land Twice Promised: 8 p.m. at the Tuscaloosa River Market, Jack Warner Parkway. The Sisterhood of Temple Emanu-El presents Israeli storyteller Noa Baum. Cocktails at 6:30 p.m.; Dinner at 7 p.m. and the performance starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $50 per person, cash bar. Ticket deadline Jan. 6. Call 205-616-8320 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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UNP, SLFP Marriage Will Continue – Rajitha Senaratne
by Ashanthi Warunasuriya
Excerpts of the interview:
Q: The agreement between the two main parties is expected to end shortly and what next?
A: We will extend the agreement and other than that nothing is going to happen.
Q: The Government promised to provide solutions to the problems facing the people of the North and East, but why has nothing been done so far?
A: No one can say that there have been no solutions to their issues. The main thing is that they are all living freely now unlike before. This is why there are so many picketing campaigns, protests and various other forms of campaigns. During the Rajapaksa regime no one would have even thought of doing these. We have given back part of the lands but I do admit that the mechanism for releasing lands is rather slow. At the last meeting I had with the President it was discussed to address the issues pertaining to the disappeared and the releasing of political prisoners who do not have charges filed against them. As for those who have charges against them, they should have their cases taken up in court and resolved. We should not look at these political prisoners in the same manner we did in the past. When we read Thamilini's book she says no Tamil youth took up arms. Had she been killed we would never have had the chance to read that book and understand the mentality and issues of the Tamils. Hence, these Tamil prisoners should be released. However, it is a little harder to find those reported missing, because even those reported missing in '78 and '88 are still missing and cannot be traced. In fact I spoke to some of the family members of the disappeared in the North and they are urging us to find out what happened to their children. However, the President promised to come to the North every month and look into the progress of the investigations with regard to those who were reported missing during the war.
Q: How prepared is the government for the next Geneva conference?
A: They have given us a time period and during that period we will see about it. At the last Geneva session they expressed satisfaction at the progress we have made and that, I think, is very important.
Q: With the current trend of student uprisings, there is a fear that like in '83 the students might take up arms if this is allowed to continue. What is your view?
A: A CID investigation in this regard is underway and we are also planning on bringing in a new Act to deal with those who are trying to create unrest in the country. In fact the punishment for such acts will be not less than 10 years rigorous imprisonment. These measures are being taken to prevent such incidents such as in '83 ever taking place in this country again.
Q: With the SAITM issue and the GMOA clashes, is it true that there could be other medical officers associations sprouting?
A: What we said about SAITM from the start was the government's stance and there were no personal decisions with regard to SAITM. Although Padeniya goes and makes all these statements about SAITM, they are the ones who got together with Gotabhaya and established SAITM. Now what we are trying to do is figure out what to do with this issue that they created. There were several ministers who told the President not to meet with the GMOA and now they are changing their word. There are enough of doctors who are against the GMOA actions. These groups wanted to oppose the GMOA actions and I am the one who urged them not to break up the GMOA. Otherwise the GMOA would have been split up a long time ago.
Q: Whenever there is an issue in the country, usually the government takes a step back, but now we don't see that happening. Why?
A: How much more can we accede to them. As a government we have done the best we could and given them all the freedom they need. They should not abuse that freedom.
Q: With such clashes, don't you think the reputation of the medical profession is being tarnished?
A: All this is simply because of the petty-minded actions of just a few of them. But many of the unions are with us and they are willing to work with the government for a better future.
Q: What measures has the government taken to address the dengue epidemic in the country?
A: Dengue has been increasing in many parts of the world and the World Health Organisation has said that climate change is the main reason for it. This is not like Malaria. Dengue mosquitoes breed in households and that is why I said it has increased with rapid urbanisation. However, the primary responsibility of the Health Ministry is to take care of the patients that have been infected with the dengue virus. We have taken all measures to deal with this situation and I think we have handled the situation pretty well. Not just the Health ministry and the related organisations, even the Provincial Councils and all Local Bodies have come together to tackle this situation. In Cuba, they tackled the dengue outbreak by flattening houses and taking those who had mosquito breeding places in their homes into custody. However, we cannot resort to such drastic measures as we are a democratic country. However, we can devise a plan to reward those who bring in samples of mosquito larvae, as it was done in some countries.
Q: What new measures would be taken to uplift the health sector in the country?
A: We have taken measures to produce around 90% of the total drug requirement locally, construct new hospitals, improve the mobile medical services, and implement more medical higher education facilities etc by the end of 2018. However, although there is much that has to be done, because of these obstructions the whole mechanism is being affected. With regard to many of the illnesses, there are many new treatment methods that can be introduced locally such as personal life medicine. We must keep up with the world's advancement in medical facilities and treatment. But some people only have these petty ideas in their heads and they are trying to destabilise the progress that we are making. The government is also spending so much on their education and they need to make full use of it.
Q: But there are allegations that even the Cancer hospital lacks the much needed PET scanner and in such an instance how can you say all facilities have been provided?
A: We have already installed a PET scanner in Colombo. We only purchase these in the event it is deemed highly essential due to the many side effects that these machines cause. We have been spending unlimited amounts of money for the upliftment of the health sector. Even in the event we run short of funds the moment we notify the Finance Ministry they give us the funds.