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Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
Wagner was a remarkable innovator in both the harmony and structure of his work, stressing his own concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk, the 'total work of art', in which all the arts were brought together into a single unity. He was prepared to sacrifice his family and friends in the cause of his own music, and his overt anti-Semitism has attracted unwelcome attention to ideas that are remote from his real work as a musician. In the later part of his career Wagner enjoyed the support of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and was finally able to establish his own theatre and festival at the Bavarian town of Bayreuth. He developed the use of the leitmotif (in German Leitmotiv – 'leading motif') as a principle of musical unity, his dramatic musical structure depending on the interweaving of melodies or fragments of melody associated with characters, incidents or ideas in the drama. His prelude to the love tragedy Tristan und Isolde led to a new world of harmony.
Operas and Music Dramas
Wagner won his first operatic success in Dresden with the opera Rienzi, based on a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. This was followed a year later, in 1843, by Der fliegende Holländer ('The Flying Dutchman'), derived from a legend recounted by Heine of the Dutchman fated to sail the seas until redeemed by true love. Tannhäuser, dealing with the medieval Minnesinger of that name, was staged in Dresden in 1845. Wagner's involvement in the revolution of 1848 and subsequent escape from Dresden led to the staging of his next dramatic work, Lohengrin, in Weimar, under the supervision of Liszt. The tetralogy The Ring—its four operas Das Rheingold, Die Walküre ('The Valkyrie'), Siegfried and Götterdämmerung ('The Twilight of the Gods')—is a monument of dramatic and musical achievement that occupied the composer for a number of years. Other music dramas by Wagner include Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ('The Mastersingers of Nuremberg'), and his final work, Parsifal.
Orchestral Music
The best known of Wagner's orchestral compositions is the Siegfried Idyll, an aubade written for the composer's second wife, Cosima (illegitimate daughter of Liszt and former wife of Wagner's friend and supporter Hans von Bülow). His early works also include a symphony.
At the root of Wagner's drama of forbidden love, Tristan und Isolde, was his own affair with Mathilde Wesendonck, wife of a banker upon whose support he relied during years of exile in Switzerland. The five Wesendonck-Lieder are settings of verses by Mathilde Wesendonck.


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Little ones from the Cariboo-Chilcotin born during July and August are part of a group called Summer 2017 Fire Babies.
It's a name fire baby mama and wildfire evacuee Amy Emery came up with after she was one of many women who gave birth during the summer's wildfires.
"I made jokes after our son Carver Emery was born, saying all the little fire babies should get together when they get older and start a rock band," Emery said. "After that I started thinking about all the people that did have babies and seeing posts on Facebook and thought we should actually start a group and get together."
The fire babies should get to know each other and stick together as they grow up, Emery added.
READ MORE: Williams Lake barber provides free hair cuts for firefighters, military and other wildfire teams
"They were part of something so big. They were little blessings that came out of such devastation I feel."
So far 25 moms have joined her Summer 2017 Fire Babies Facebook page.
On Friday, Sept. 8 the moms and babies will be getting together for a group photo taken by Williams Lake photographer Laureen Carruthers.
"It might not be the perfect picture but we will fit them all in there," Emery said of the group photo.
The majority of the babies were born the in Prince George, but some were born in Kamloops, Kelowna, Langley, Quesnel and Williams Lake.
Emery was due Aug. 2 but had gone into Cariboo Memorial Hospital from her home in 150 Mile House on July 6 because she thought her water had broken.
When the fires began on Friday, July 7, and it looked like it was not going to be safe to return home, Emery's wife Danielle Biggar picked her up at the hospital with their two brothers, their dog and two cats and they drove to Prince George even before the evacuation order came down for 150 Mile House.
"The first day we got to Prince George there was hardly anything available so we stayed in a one-bedroom hotel room for two nights and then through a Facebook page were offered a place to stay by Elissa Meiklem," Emery said. "We stayed there for about 25 days and then we went to a friend of hers, Sue Judge, that was going to be gone for a month."
Emery gave birth to Carver Emery on Aug. 10 at l:25 p.m. He weighed eight pounds, 15 ounces.
Shaylene Dahl said Emery's idea to create the Summer 2017 Fire Babies group was awesome.
"I was thinking myself that I would like to get together with some other fire babies," she said. "It was a pretty exciting time."
Her son, Thomas Asher Ziggy, will grow up with friends that are fire babies and they will have unique stories, she added.
"It was not the ideal way that we wanted to welcome him into this world, but it will still be a really cool story to tell him. That's why his middle name is Asher."
Dahl and her husband Lee grew up in Williams Lake and after moving away returned last September.
They evacuated to Prince George on July 9 after the hospital call ed them and encouraged them to leave Williams Lake.
She almost had Thomas in the car because the nurses didn't think she was ready to deliver and told her to come back later.
Shaylene insisted Lee take her back inside because she felt she was ready.
"I was 9.5 centimetres dilated and gave birth an hour later at 4:06 p.m. on July 28," she said. "But it went really well and I had no complications. He was eight pounds, eight ounces and 22 inches long."
When Thomas was two days old, the Dahls drove to Kelowna to stay with family because of the smoke in Williams Lake. They returned home the third week of August.


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Maxthon is in my view the best alternative to Internet Explorer. Firefox and Opera are doing a great job (both in product and buzz) but they just don't catch up with Maxthon.
Founded by the very young and brilliant Jeff Chen in 2003 in China (under MyIE name), Maxthon became very quickly popular in Asia (awarded last year in Red Herring Asia ) and all over the world. The big difference with other browsers is that Maxthon is based on IE code which makes the software very familiar from the beginning but with a few twists. Unlike IE, it is very fast, safe and very stable and brings a unique browsing experience as it enables you to customize nearly any part of the software. Like Firefox, Maxthon brings tab browsing, embedded RSS and podcast reader (a very cool one), search bar… but without necessity to add any extension.
The key strength of Maxthon is that it enables you to customize totally your browsing experience with extreme simplicity. A few examples: URL shortcuts. Instead of typing a URL or clicking a bookmark (ok it takes less than 2 sec but still) you can set up a URL alias ("2" for instance) and type directly in the URL bar which will lead you to the URL of your choice (eg: your flickr page). You can change easily skins, a wide choice is offered. Mouse gesture is also great just like super drag and drop features to save an image or initiate a search on a given word within web page.
There are too many features to cover them all here. I believe you should play with it first (tip: use your right click nearly anywhere). All those I know who tried it loved it. It sounds maybe too much like FireFox in some way but again it is not. To better understand the pros of Maxthon read this article from Internet Week.
Maxthon 2.0 exclusive screenshots
We could get exclusive intial screenshots and news on next 2.0 version to come up soon. I believe Maxthon will become even better. They are building right now a better interface with greater possibilities of customization, data sharing, multi window browsing, cool blogging features and many other things kept secret for now.
Great quality leads to great popularity and Maxthon just passed 50 million downloads (announced on their blog but also on Daily OM)
Beyond a good product and critical size, Maxthon has great assets for success: first a great team including Netanel Jacobsson as SVP Bus. Development (ex AOL/ICQ guy). Second, strong shareholders including Morten Lund (a Skype early stage investor) and WI Harper.
Maxthon is not yet very popular in the US, but i bet it'll change soon.
Now let's see if this post can generate a debate just as hot as the one from the original post in TechCrunch France :)


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1/21/14 – Downtown LA
Come one, come all to a party with [Brian], me, and the Hackaday readers who live in the Los Angeles area. Tickets are free, as is the beer, food, t-shirts, stickers, and other swag which you won't find out about unless you show up in person.
This is the first official live Hackaday meetup and is open to all ages. During the summer we talked about making Hackaday a virtual hackerspace, and this event is one part of that initiative. We'll let you in on some stuff we've been planning, but in return I expect you to tell us your thoughts on how the Hackaday community can get bigger and better. We're also using the attendance at this event to judge if we should host more live events (possibly in other cities too). So if you're in LA get your ticket now and make sure your friends do the same!
UPDATE 3: Get your name on the waiting list…
It took just over 24 hours to give away all 450 tickets. But never fear, you can still add your name to the waiting list by going to the link above. If anyone who already registered changes their mind they can release their ticket and it will be offered to whomever is on the top of the waiting list.
UPDATE 2: Holy cow, we blew through 300 tickets. But we've released more. Get yours now, then keep reading below.
What a wild ride! My original plan was to offer Early Bird Tickets for one week, then release more if we needed them after that. But we blew through all 300 in about ten hours. This is going to be awesome. We really do want to pack the house so I've released the addition 150 "hold" tickets. There's no difference in the tickets, but this really is all we have left so get yours NOW!
UPDATE 1: Just over 3 hours and we've given away well over 100 tickets!


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I thought today I would show some pictures of my little haven in the mountains.
Whenever I go up to Fishcreek
(our forty acres about seventeen miles up a canyon),
I am usually welcomed by one of our horses.
This is Molly.
Whenever I go up to Fishcreek
(our forty acres about seventeen miles up a canyon),
I am usually welcomed by one of our horses.
This is Molly.
Below is the view out the door of the shack.
This has got to be my favorite place in the entire world.
It is so close to home, and yet it seems like you are in the middle of nowhere.
Actually...you ARE in the middle of nowhere!
Oh looky here...Bella would like a little camera time as well!!!
She's standing right behind the little shack, about four foot away from the rear wall.
I think she was sneaking up on me.
Which reminds me of a funny story.
A few years ago, I came up to spend the night here ALONE,
and I have to be honest....
sometimes I'm not very brave.
Well I spent the evening hiking around the property and then
came in to settle down for the night. I didn't hear anything outside
because I was watching a movie, when the next thing I know, there was a figure out the door.
It scared me to death and I was afraid to even move.
Because the light was on inside, I couldn't
make out the figure, so I turned the light
out so that whoever was there couldn't see me as easily
.(like, where was I going to go if they decided to come in)LOL!
And there in full glass door
(crazy I know), in the middle of nowhere to have a full glass door with no curtain))
was a horse staring at me!!!
I think he was enjoying the movie too.
I now have a curtain!
The horses have a well worn path down this fence because
we have the property on both sides of the road,
and we pasture the
naughty horses on one side and the not so naughty horses on the other.
(not really)
But we do separate them for various reasons.
So now brace yourself! This is not pretty!
We will get to the pretty part in a minute.
Yep...this is it.
Hopefully later this Fall, the shack won't be this ugly on the outside.
I'm planning on giving it a little face lift.
I would like it's outside to match it's inside.
Guess what color I want to paint it?
of course!
On the inside it has a different feel.
I love coming up here and just sitting and reading my stash of Country Home magazines
that I keep up here. Lots of issues dating back over ten or so years.
Sometimes I take a long nap.
Sometimes I do both.
Now I'm going to shut up for awhile and just show a lot of pictures.
The little shack has a lot of mirrors.
I love reflections.
The green chippy bed my husband found at the landfill almost a dozen years ago.
So that is my little shack in the woods this year.
I posted about it last year too,
but wanted to do another post about how it looked this Summer.
I think it is funny that my husband and sometimes my son-in-laws
stay in here from time to time.
I wonder if they feel a little uncomfortable around all the foof?
So far they haven't complained.
I guess they could always sleep outside with the horses!
Here is a view to the other side of the road.
As you can see it is getting quite dry here this time of year.
The grass in the bottom is getting scarce so
we will be putting the horses on the hillside until snow flies.
And now Bella wants to say...


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Toronto, ON – Carlos Villanueva seems to be getting used to his role as a starter in Toronto.
If he pitches like he did on Sunday, it means trouble for some of the other American League clubs.
Villanueva pitched six shutout innings for the second consecutive outing, and the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Cleveland Indians, 3-0, to win a three-game series at Rogers Centre.
"He made a number of big pitches to squelch any threat," Blue Jays manager John Farrell said. "We bunched a couple hits together to manufacture the three runs in the third."
Injuries to Toronto's rotation forced Villanueva (4-0) to take a starting role, and his last three appearances -- Nos. 23, 24 and 25 this season -- have been his first starts of the season. After allowing three runs in five innings on June 29, he's put together a 12-inning scoreless streak.
He allowed only three hits and five walks on Sunday along with a career-high eight strikeouts to help the Blue Jays win for the third time in four games.
Colby Rasmus continued his solid production for Toronto, driving in his 33rd run in the last 35 games. Darren Oliver picked up his first save of the season and the sixth of his 19-year career.
Derek Lowe (8-7) allowed three runs on three hits and four walks in six innings, not enough to help the Indians avoid their third loss in four games.
Michael Brantley had two doubles for Cleveland.
Toronto got all its offense in the third inning, the only frame in which the team sent more than four batters to the plate.
Kelly Johnson walked and moved to third on an attempted steal of second when the play went awry for Cleveland. Two batters later, Johnson scored the game's first run on J.P. Arencibia's single to center.
Arencibia advanced to second on a groundout, and Rasmus put Toronto ahead by two with an RBI single. The two-out rally continued with Jose Bautista's single, sending Rasmus to third, and Edwin Encarnacion walked to load the bases.
Lowe failed to get out of the jam, walking Adam Lind to force home the third run of the inning.
"Obviously, (there were) hits and walks," Lowe said. "I think three of them. Walked in a run. That was the game. Pretty much sums it up."
The Indians, despite their lack of runs, threatened more often than the Blue Jays. They put two runners on in two of the first four innings, but failed to capitalize against Villanueva.
In the sixth, Carlos Santana and Brantley worked back-to-back two-out walks, but Casey Kotchman waved at a 2-2 pitch to end the threat.
Cleveland never sent the tying run to the plate again.
Game Notes
Toronto won the season series, 4-2 ... Both teams totaled five hits in the game ... Villanueva had previous struck out seven batters in a game three times ... Oliver pitched two scoreless innings, allowing only one hit.


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NEW YORK -- Marin Cilic, the 2014 US Open champion, needed eight match points to recover from a two-set deficit and eventually edge 19-year-old Alex de Minaur 4-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 at 2:22 a.m. ET on Sunday, four minutes shy of the latest finish in the tournament's history.
"This is a moment to remember, absolutely," Cilic said.
As for de Minaur's state of mind afterward?
"Not going to lie, pretty devastated," he said.
The No. 7-seeded Cilic and 45th-ranked de Minaur didn't even start their third-round match at Louis Armstrong Stadium until after 10 p.m. because of day-session matches that ran long Saturday.
Less than 1½ hours in, Cilic double-faulted to get broken for the fifth time in 10 service games and fall into that big hole. This was the sixth time in his career that the 29-year-old Croat won a match after dropping the opening two sets.
De Minaur was playing brilliantly, showing how speed can overcome power by racing this way and that along the baseline, showing off terrific instincts and reflexes.
But Cilic worked his way back into the match, serving better as it wore on and using the experience that has carried him to runner-up finishes at Wimbledon in 2017 and the Australian Open this January, in addition to his Grand Slam title at Flushing Meadows.
De Minaur, meanwhile, was playing in a third-round match at a major for only the second time and has now lost both.
"A great learning experience for me," the Australian called it.
The match had appeared to definitively swing Cilic's way when he ran off four games in a row to go ahead 5-2 in the fifth set.
He held five match points in the next game as de Minaur served but couldn't convert any.
Serving for the victory at 5-3, Cilic held a sixth match point, but that one was wasted, too. De Minaur broke there to get back on serve, then held for 5-all.
After Cilic held for 6-5, he got to love-40 -- but de Minaur still would not go quietly. The seventh match point ended with a backhand into the net. Finally, Cilic came through on No. 8, smacking a forehand winner.
The US Open's late-finish record of 2:26 a.m. was set by Mats Wilander's victory over Mikael Pernfors in 1993, then equaled when Philipp Kohlschreiber beat John Isner in 2012, and again when Kei Nishikori got past Milos Raonic in 2014.
"Didn't manage to finish it off," de Minaur said, "but I left it all out there."


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One of the most important service Barbaros Yachting provides is Gulet Rental. The company owns gulets which are woden, traditinal handmade boats that vary among 15 to 44 meters. The cabins vary among 2 to 16 cabins. There are 4 classes of Yachts that has the capacity of maximum 36 people. Standard with out A/C, Standard with A/c, Luxury and Ultra Luxury. All the Yachts have a high standard of safety and comply with local government and international regulations. These regulations are monitored thoroughly by the coastguard and harbor masters.
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Datca was founded by the Dorians who came from Aegean Sea to the southern coast of Ionia in the 7th century B.C. The island has no humidity at all and has fresh air with plenty of oxygen. The historian Strabon was right when he remarked of Datca's weather: "God would send his beloved servants to Datca to live longer." According to a myth, while the Spanish pirates were passing by the coast of Datca, they disembarked people with Hansen's disease in Sarýliman Bay and these abandoned people recovered from their disease with the help of the clean weather of Datca.
Datca Peninsula is a prized location for tourists visiting Turkey, especially by sea, with the beauty of its many coves and larger bays, which are favoured ports of call for those undertaking the celebrated Blue Cruise along Turkey's spectacular southwest coast.
Bencik is located at the narrowest part of the peninsula that divides the Hisaronu Gulf from the Gokova Gulf but it is located on Hisaronu side. In 550s B.C. the Cnidus people wanted to dig a tunnel in the narrowest land piece of the peninsula between the Hisaronu Gulf and the Gokova Gulf as a defence line against the Persians. In that way, they would make two peninsulas one island and the defence would be easier. They started with diligence and put in a lot of effort; however, in the end they could not manage and the city was conquered by the Persians.
Although quieter than Marmaris bay's two centers of tourism of international renowned (Turunç and Ýçmeler), Bozburun is a precious discovery for visitors due to its natural beauties and the exceptional flora. Its thyme honey is famous across Turkey. It has a small yet lovely harbor which is one of the key stops on the popular nautical tourism route of Blue Cruise. It's pristine sea is surrounded by coves. This area was popular and suitable for sponge-diving but nowadays the people of the island are no more interested in sponge-diving as it is not financially beneficial and is dangerous. In recent years sponge-diving has been replaced by gulet tourism and nowadays Bozburun gulets take their place in this sector.
Cnidus was a developed city in science, art and architecture. Eudoxos; a very popular astronomer and maths professor, Dr. Euryphon, Polygontos; a popular painter, Skopas and Bryaksis of Faros; the most famous sculptors of the era, Sostrates; the architect of Alexandrian light house -one of the seven wonders of the World- and Ktesias; the doctor who saved the life of a Persian king from a disaster lived on this island. Dr. Euryphon and his students founded the second biggest medical science school in Cnidus. The island also hosts the largest sun clock of its time which was erected by Eudoksos. Cnidus was the home for Aphrodite's monument and in those times the city was famous for brothels and became popular among sailors and Arabic tradesmen. You may also take a walk on the shore to see the ruins.
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28 Nights | EUROPEAN QUEST
You will visit the following 23 places:
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark. This "friendly old girl of a town" is big enough to be a metropolis with shopping, culture and nightlife par excellence, yet still small enough to be intimate, safe and easy to navigate. Overlooking the Øresund strait with Sweden just minutes away, it is a cultural and geographic link between mainland Europe and Scandinavia. This is where old fairy tales blend with flashy new architecture and world-class design; where warm jazz mixes with cold electronica from Copenhagen's basements. You'll feel you've seen it all in a day, but could keep on discovering more for months. Copenhagen is considered a very liveable place because of its cleanliness. It's considered as one of the very environmentally friendly cities because its harbour can be swum in and about a third of the city's people use bicycles as their means of transportation. In their downtown area, the places to visit and to be entertained at are the Tivoli gardens and the Town Hall Square. If you want the very cultural and scenic areas the places to see are the Marble church, the Rosenborg castle, and the Christiansborg.
Bilbao is a municipality and city in Spain, a major city in the province of Biscay in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. It is the main urban area in what is defined as the Greater Basque region. Situated in the north-central part of Spain, its main urban core is surrounded by two small mountain ranges. After its foundation in the early 14th century by Diego López V de Haro, head of the powerful Haro family, the city was a commercial hub of the Basque Country that enjoyed significant importance in Green Spain. This was due to its port activity based on the export of iron extracted from the Biscayan quarries. Throughout the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, Bilbao experienced heavy industrialisation, making it the centre of the second-most industrialised region of Spain. Today, Bilbao is a vigorous service city that is experiencing an ongoing social, economic, and aesthetic revitalisation process, started by the iconic Bilbao Guggenheim Museum, and continued by infrastructure investments, such as the airport terminal, the rapid transit system, the tram line, the Alhóndiga, and the currently under development Abandoibarra and Zorrozaurre renewal projects. Bilbao is also home to football club Athletic Club de Bilbao, a significant symbol for Basque nationalism due to its promotion of Basque players and one of the most successful clubs in Spanish football history.
St Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject (a federal city) of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. In Russian literature, informal documents and discourse, the word "Saint" is usually omitted, leaving "Petersburg". The city is often described as the most Westernized city of Russia, as well as its cultural capital. It is the northernmost city in the world with a population of over one million. The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city is home to The Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world. A large number of foreign consulates, international corporations, banks, and businesses have offices in Saint Petersburg. Talking of churches, Church of the Savior on the Blood is said to be the most beautiful church in St. Petersburg. Built of beautiful mosaic and stonework, the church gives you an indication of how ancient Russia looked like. The church is built at an equally historic spot. This is where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in the year 1881.
Gdynia is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland and an important seaport of Gdańsk Bay on the south coast of the Baltic Sea. Gdynia, together with nearby Gdańsk and Sopot are often referred as Tricity (pl: Trójmiasto). Gdynia was first mentioned in the 13th century as a fishing village. Its career began after World War I, when it became Poland´s main harbour and the big sea port at the Baltic Sea, which it still is. Gdynia is one of the youngest and modern cities in Poland. In the early 1900s it was a little village, but after WW1 and establishing the Free City of Gdańsk, the Polish Government decided to build a deep-sea port. Construction began in 1921. The city rose fast in the 1920s and 1930s, so architecture and planning reflect European trends of the day - Modernism. The city continues to grow to this day. Today, Gdynia is a modern city with a population of a quarter-million and is the second major polish port in the Baltic Sea after Gdansk.
Oslo is a county and municipality, as well as the capital and largest city in Norway. Oslo was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III "Hardraade" of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The Danish–Norwegian king Christian IV moved the city, rebuilding it closer to Akershus fortress, as Christiania (briefly also spelt Kristiania). In 1925, the city reclaimed its original Norwegian name, Oslo. The diocese of Oslo is one of the five original dioceses in Norway, which originated around the year 1070.
Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia, a major industrial, commercial, cultural and financial centre of the Baltics, and an important seaport, situated on the mouth of the Daugava. With 706,413 inhabitants (2010) it is the largest city of the Baltic states. Riga's territory covers 18.60 square miles and lies between 1 and 10 metres (3.3 and 33 ft) above sea level, on a flat and sandy plain. Riga's historical centre has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the city is particularly notable for its extensive Jugendstil (German Art Nouveau) architecture, which UNESCO considers to be unparalleled anywhere in the world.
The Convent Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the capital of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is the country's largest city and its financial, cultural, and creative centre. Many large Dutch institutions have their headquarters there, and seven of the world's 500 largest companies, including Philips and ING, are based in the city. In 2012, Amsterdam was ranked the second best city in which to live by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and 12th globally on quality of living for environment and infrastructure by Mercer. Amsterdam derives its name from the city's origin as "Dam" of river "Amstel". In the past, the name was "Amstelredamme" which later changed as "Amsterdam". The city is one of the most popular destinations in Europe, attracting over 7 million international travellers annually. The city is colloquially known as ''Venice of the North'' because of its lovely canals that criss-cross the city, its impressive architecture and more than 1,500 bridges. There is something for every traveller's taste here; whether you prefer culture and history, serious partying, or just the relaxing charm of an old European city!
The capital of Portugal, Lisbon (Portuguese: Lisboa) has experienced a renaissance in recent years, with a contemporary culture that is alive and thriving and making its mark in today's Europe. Perched on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, Lisbon is one of the rare Western European cities that faces the ocean and uses water as an element that defines the city. Lisbon enchants travellers with its white-bleached limestone buildings, intimate alleyways, and an easy-going charm that makes it a popular year-round destination.
Málaga is a large city in the southern Spanish region of Andalucia and capital of the Malaga Province. The largest city on the Costa del Sol, Malaga has a typical Mediterranean climate and is also known as the birthplace of famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The city offers beaches, hiking, architectural sites, art museums, excellent shopping and cuisine. While more laid back than Madrid or Barcelona, Malaga is still the center and transport hub for the hugely popular Costa del Sol region, which is flooded with tourists in the summer, and the city has certainly cashed in on the sun and sand, with lots of new construction as well as hotels and facilities geared to tourists. However, Malaga also offers some genuinely interesting historical and cultural attractions in its old city and its setting on the coast is still beautiful.
Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in southwest France, with an estimated (2008) population of 250,082. The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called Bordelais. Bordeaux is the world's major wine industry capital. It is home to the world's main wine fair, Vinexpo, while the wine economy in the metro area moves 14.5 billion euros each year. Bordeaux wine has been produced in the region since the eighth century. The historic part of the city is on the UNESCO World Heritage List as "an outstanding urban and architectural ensemble" of the 18th century.
Stockholm - Sweden's capital and largest city, and the most populous city in the Nordic region. Without a doubt, Stockholm is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. The city is made up of 14 islands connected by some 50 bridges on Lake Mälaren, which flows into the brackish Baltic Sea, and passes the Stockholm archipelago with some 24,000 islands and islets. The city is a cosmopolitan place with both classical and modern architecture, and a captivating Old Town, Gamla Stan. Today, the area is an atmospheric mixture of buildings surrounded on all sides by a latticework of medieval lanes and alleyways.
Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of 159.2 km2 (61.5 sq mi) with a population of 412,144. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, 80 km (50 mi) south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Tallinn is ranked as a global city and has been listed among the top 10 digital cities in the world. Tallinn is a European Capital of Culture for 2011, along with Turku, Finland.
Porto (also known as Oporto in English), is the second largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian Peninsula. The urban area of Porto, which extends beyond the administrative limits of the city, has a population of 1.4 million (2011) in an area of 389 km2 (150 sq mi), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. Located along the Douro river estuary in Northern Portugal, Porto is one of the oldest European centres, and its historical core was proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. The western part of its urban area extends to the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. Its settlement dates back many centuries, when it was an outpost of the Roman Empire. One of Portugal's internationally famous exports, port wine, is named for Porto, since the metropolitan area, and in particular the caves of Vila Nova de Gaia, were responsible for the packaging, transport and export of the fortified wine. In 2014, Porto was elected The Best European Destination by the Best European Destinations Agency.
Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. Finland's major political, educational, financial, cultural, and research center as well as one of northern Europe's major cities, Helsinki was ranked the most liveable city in the world, in 2011. Approximately 75% of foreign companies operating in Finland have settled in the Helsinki region. The nearby municipality of Vantaa is the location of Helsinki Airport, with frequent service to various destinations in Europe and Asia. Today, Helsinki pulls off the trick of being something of an international metropolis while still retaining a small-town feel. The best time to visit is in summer, when Finns peel off their overcoats and flock to outdoor bars and cafes to enjoy the sunshine.
Barcelona – Spain's enchanting capital, second largest and most populous city. It is a huge city that vibrates with life, and there's certainly not another city in the country to touch it for its sheer style, looks or energy. It is one of the world's leading tourist, economic, trade fair and cultural centers, and its influence in commerce, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities. Barcelona is home to masterpieces of many great architects – the most famous of which is Antoni Gaudí.
Le Havre
Bornholm Island
Warnemünde is a seaside resort and a district of the city of Rostock in Mecklenburg, Germany. It is located on the Baltic Sea and, as the name implies, at the estuary of the river Warnow. Founded in about 1200, Warnemünde was for centuries a small fishing village with minor importance for the economic and cultural development of the region. Today, it's known for its long beachfront and marina, a cruise-ship stop.


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New Podcast2Radio functionality automatically turns podcasts into live Internet Radio stations and provides detailed analytics on growing listenership
BAYSIDE, CALIFORNIA — Podcasting pioneer Blubrry has partnered with StreamGuys to enable podcasters to expand their audience and reach through internet radio streaming. Leveraging powerful tools from StreamGuys' comprehensive software-as-a-service (SaaS) toolset, the new Podcast2Radio option lets Blubrry customers effortlessly convert podcasts into linear internet radio streams delivered to new audiences through StreamGuys' robust, cloud-based content delivery network. This increased distribution is complemented by rich analytics and statistics from StreamGuys that enhance the ability for Blubrry users to measure and track their growing listener base.
The new Podcast2Radio service provides a powerful new medium for distribution of podcasters' already-produced content, expanding their reach to internet radio listeners across an even broader range of consumer devices and platforms. StreamGuys' alliances with internet radio aggregation directories such as TuneIn and SHOUTcast further the field of prospective listeners, and increase the opportunities for podcasters' content to be found.
"As more content producers adopt on-demand podcast distribution, it becomes harder for podcasters to be discovered and grow their audiences," said Jonathan Speaker, COO of StreamGuys. "With the Podcast2Radio service, podcasters can massively increase their distribution and multiply their exposure without any additional effort. We're excited to partner with Blubrry to help their customers reach a whole new set of listeners."
"Our partnership with StreamGuys makes it exceptionally easy for customers to instantly extend their reach through internet streaming," said Todd Cochrane, CEO of Blubrry parent company RawVoice. "StreamGuys' robust, cloud-based infrastructure meets the high standards for reliability and scalability that our customers demand, while its extensive analytics capabilities bring additional value to our customers. As pioneers and innovators ourselves, we're thrilled to be working with the like-minded experts at StreamGuys."
Taking advantage of the new Podcast2Radio offering will be straightforward and simple for Blubrry customers. Once users sign up for the service through the Blubrry portal, it will automatically turn their latest podcasts into a looping, continuous, linear stream through a specialized configuration of StreamGuys' Remote Encoder Lite high-quality, multi-format encoding software. As new podcasts are added to customers' RSS feeds, Podcast2Radio automatically adds them to the internet radio stream in place of older content, all without playlist editing or other manual user intervention.
StreamGuys' powerful analytics and statistical toolset also provides Podcast2Radio users with deep insights on audience growth. Access to StreamGuys' SGmon live monitoring service gives podcasters granular metrics about concurrent listeners, while weekly SGreportsemails provide detailed use statistics including unique listeners, geographic location, listening duration and more. Such data is invaluable to podcasters, particularly those looking to monetize their content by directly offering advertising opportunities to potential sponsors.
The new Podcast2Radio capabilities will be available to Blubrry users beginning this summer.
About Blubrry
Blubrry is a podcasting community and directory that gives creators the power to make money, get detailed audience measurements and host their audio and video. Whether you are a media creator, advertiser or media consumer, Blubrry is your digital media interface.
About StreamGuys, Inc.
In business since 2000, StreamGuys is an industry-leading service provider of live and on-demand streaming, podcasting delivery, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) toolsets for enterprise-level broadcast media organizations. The company brings together the industry's best price-to-performance ratio, a robust and reliable network, and an infinitely scalable cloud-based platform for clients of any size to process, deliver, monetize and playout professional streaming content. StreamGuys supports many of the world's largest Podcasts, global TV and radio broadcasters, video and audio production companies, houses of worship, retail and hospitality businesses, government organizations, medical and healthcare services, and live venues for sports and entertainment. The company excels in developing and deploying technologies for business growth and revenue generation, including dynamic ad insertion, mobile streaming and detailed business and data analytics.


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Recession-hit Spain needs two more years to meet budget targets agreed with the EU, the government said Friday, presenting a new challenge to the region's austerity drive.
Unveiling a program of structural reforms aimed at reviving the economy, the Spanish government said gross domestic product was likely to shrink by about 1.3% this year, after suffering a similar contraction in 2012, before returning to growth in 2014.
It also published new estimates of government borrowing, revising up sharply the budget deficit for 2013 to 6.3% of GDP from 4.5%. The deficit should fall to 5.5% next year but won't be brought under the 3% EU target until 2016, two years later than originally planned.
Spanish government debt would hit almost 100% of GDP in 2015.
The European Commission said earlier this month that Spain's high level of domestic and external debt continued to pose "serious risks for growth and financial stability", and the government's response would be assessed by EU officials at the end of May.
Related: Unemployment misery deepens in Spain, Greece
But EU budget hawks have been under pressure this week as criticism that rigid adherence to a policy of austerity is self-defeating has grown louder.
Spain's new timetable for debt reduction won immediate and unequivocal support from the International Monetary Fund, which has been warning for some months that some countries are trying to cut too fast in the face of weak or non-existent growth.
"I strongly support the Spanish government's objectives of restoring a sound fiscal position while securing a recovery and creating jobs," IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said in a statement.
"Today's announcement to pursue a more gradual consolidation path is a welcome step toward meeting these goals, building on major reforms and structural fiscal improvements last year."
EU officials have signaled this week that they may be prepared to give some countries more time to bring down borrowing, given the dire economic backdrop, but insist that the eurozone must not stray from its goal of sound finances.
The government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is still grappling with the fallout of a real estate and banking crisis that tipped Spain back into recession in 2011. An austerity drive since then has accelerated the decline.
It was forced to bail out several banks, with EU assistance, but has so far managed to avoid following Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Cyprus in requesting a full-blown sovereign rescue.
Spain has been helped by a sharp decline in borrowing costs after the European Central Bank's announcement last year that it would backstop weaker eurozone states, as well as the banking sector assistance.
GDP figures due next Tuesday are expected to confirm that the Spanish economy shrank by 0.5% in the first quarter. That would be the seventh straight quarter of contraction in the eurozone's fourth-biggest economy and underscore the difficulty heavily indebted European states face in bringing down debt while their economies are going backwards.
Unemployment has hit a eurozone record of 27.2%, and more than half of all young Spanish workers under 24 are without a job. The government said it expected the jobless crisis to begin to ease in 2014.


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Nokia exclusives: Picnic Wars now available, Spy Mouse debuts on Windows Phone 8
You might have noticed that yesterday's editorial/news piece about the extended Xbox release drought Windows Phone is currently experiencing made no mention of Nokia exclusives. After all, those exclusives don't do people who own non-Nokia devices any good. Not one Nokia Xbox game has become available for all Windows Phone devices so far, even six months after the debut of Mirror's Edge.
Still, in times of release famine, Nokia really does seem to come through for its customers. First they published iBomber Defense back in December, and now they've surprised us with another new Xbox game. Picnic Wars from Chillingo is now available for all Lumia devices running Windows Phone 7 or 8. As if that news wasn't good enough, Nokia exclusive Spy Mouse is now available on Windows Phone 8 devices.
Food fight
Picnic Wars tells the silly tale of two armies of anthropomorphic food waging battle against each other. The game consists of two campaigns with 32 levels a piece, though the second campaign takes place on the same levels with different units, so we might not consider that 64 levels.
Nokia's latest exclusive plays just a little bit like Angry Birds and Wreckateer in that the player's objective is to destroy an army of stationary enemies by launching objects at them. Still, the actual gameplay more closely resembles the action and strategy genres than a physics puzzler. You'll command between 1-5 catapults simultaneously, adjusting their positions and firing shots at a rapid pace.
The enemies actually fight back and can destroy your catapults, so dodging comes into play as well. There is some resource management as players choose between more costly types of ammo and strive to collect new ammo and upgrade points by hitting specific targets.
One thing Picnic Wars has going for it is a vibrant and cute art style. The food fighters display a lot of personality in both the cinematics and their sprite forms. The actual sound effects and voices grate my nerves like cheese, but don't really spoil the fun.
Picnic Wars costs $2.99, just like all Nokia Xbox exclusives. You can view its Store page here, but it must be purchased from a Lumia phone.
Secret agent… Mouse
Spy Mouse originally debuted on November 20th, at which time it could not be purchased for Windows Phone 8 devices. Less than two months later, the version 2 update provides full compatibility with Microsoft's latest mobile OS. This means that only three Nokia exclusives remain incompatible with Windows Phone 8: Trivial Pursuit, Parking Mania, and iBomber Defense (the latter two got pulled within the last week).
The game's developer Firemint is best known for popularizing the line-drawing genre with Flight Control. In Spy Mouse, they've utilized that line drawing tech to make a stealth game. Players control the titular mouse by drawing a path around each level. He'll need to grab cheese and reach the level exit without being nabbed by patrolling cats.
Each level has three optional goals such as not being spotted, drawing only one continuous path, and finishing within a certain time limit. Completing every level with those goals completed will net some tasty Achievements.
Spy Mouse costs $2.99. You can view its Store page here, but it must be purchased from a Lumia phone.
Bright future for Nokia customers
Clearly, Nokia's commitment to funding the development of games for its Windows Phones continues to pay off. In fact, Nokia is doing exactly what Microsoft seems to have dropped the ball on – investing in games and apps in order to attract new customers and keep existing customers contented. We're still waiting on several exclusive heavy hitters like Dead Space, FIFA, and Madden. With so many EA exclusives released so far, it's only a matter of time until those more technically intensive games show up as well.
Thanks to Mark Tepper for the tips!
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Breastfeeding Mom Jamie Lynn Grumet -- The Breast Mother's Day Ever!
Jamie Lynn Grumet The Breast Mother's Day Ever!
TIME covermom Jamie Lynn Grumet put away her breasts for Mother's Day and hit up a park in Beverly Hills with her husband and two sons.
Grumet made headlines last week when she appeared on the cover of the mag with her 3-year-old son ... who, let's say, was enjoying his lunch at the time.
The 26-year-old enjoyed her day at Coldwater Park in Beverly Hills with her husband Brian and her two sons -- coverboy Aram, and her 5-year-old adopted son Samuel.
On her way out of the park, she told a photog she's been shocked by all the attention she's received.


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WASHINGTON – Mohamad Anas Haitham Soueid, 47, a resident of Leesburg, Va., has been charged for his alleged role in a conspiracy to collect video and audio recordings and other information about individuals in the United States and Syria who were protesting the government of Syria and to provide these materials to Syrian intelligence agencies in order to silence, intimidate and potentially harm the protestors.
The charges were announced by Lisa Monaco, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Neil MacBride, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; and James McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI Washington Field Office.
Soueid, aka "Alex Soueid" or "Anas Alswaid," a Syrian-born naturalized U.S. citizen, was charged by a federal grand jury on Oct. 5, 2011, in a six-count indictment in the Eastern District of Virginia. Soueid is charged with conspiring to act and acting as an agent of the Syrian government in the United States without notifying the Attorney General as required by law; two counts of providing false statements on a firearms purchase form; and two counts of providing false statements to federal law enforcement.
Soueid was arrested on Oct. 11, 2011, and will make an initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa C. Buchanan today at 2:00 p.m. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison on the conspiracy and foreign agent charges, 15 years in prison on the firearms purchase charges and 10 years in prison on the false statement charges.
"Today's indictment alleges that the defendant acted as an unregistered agent of the Syrian government as part of an effort to collect information on people in this country protesting the Syrian government crack-down. I applaud the many agents, analysts and prosecutors who helped bring about today's case," said Assistant Attorney General Monaco.
"The ability to assemble and protest is a cherished right in the United States, and it's troubling that a U.S. citizen from Leesburg is accused of working with the Syrian government to identify and intimidate those who exercise that right," said U.S. Attorney MacBride. "Spying for another country is a serious threat to our national security, especially when it threatens the ability of U.S. citizens to engage in political speech within our own borders."
"Our national security is threatened when foreign governments use unregistered agents in an attempt to influence and intimidate those who live here lawfully," said FBI Assistant Director in Charge McJunkin. "Their alleged acts desecrate the values cherished in our fair and open society. The FBI will be counted on to detect and deter unregistered agents who attempt clandestine activities on behalf of a foreign political power and work to bring them swiftly to justice."
According to the indictment, since March 2011, Soueid has acted in the United States as an agent of the Syrian Mukhabarat, which refers to the intelligence agencies for the Government of Syria, including the Syrian Military Intelligence and General Intelligence Directorate. At no time while acting as an agent of the government of Syria in this country did Soueid provide prior notification to the Attorney General as required by law, the indictment alleges.
Under the direction and control of Syrian officials, Soueid is accused of recruiting individuals living in the United States to collect information on and make audio and video recordings of protests against the Syrian regime – including recordings of conversations with individual protestors – in the United States and Syria. He is also charged with providing the recordings and other information to individuals working for the Mukhabarat. According to the indictment, Soueid and others conspired to use this information to undermine, silence, intimidate and potentially harm those in the United States and Syria who engaged in the protests.
The indictment states that in late June 2011, the Syrian government paid for Soueid to travel to Syria, where he met with intelligence officials and spoke with President Bashar al-Assad in private.
He returned to the United States in early July 2011, and he was searched and questioned at Dulles International Airport upon his arrival. The indictment states that Soueid communicated with his "boss," an unindicted co-conspirator (or UCC-1) who was working for the Mukhabarat, soon after to alert him of the search and questioning and to assure the individual that the airport encounter would not "stop the project."
In addition to the recordings, Soueid is accused of providing the Mukhabarat contact information, including phone numbers and email addresses, for protestors in the United States. In a handwritten letter sent to UCC-1, Soueid allegedly expressed his belief that violence against protestors – including raiding their homes – was justified and that any method should be used to deal with the protestors. The indictment also alleges that Soueid provided information regarding U.S. protestors against the Syrian regime to an individual who worked at the Syrian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
On Aug. 3, 2011, FBI agents interviewed Soueid, and the indictment accuses him of lying to the agents when he denied that he had collected information on U.S. persons and transmitted that information to the government of Syria. In addition, Soueid allegedly made further false statements when he denied to FBI agents that he had directed someone to audio or videotape a conversation, meeting, rally or protest, or that he was aware of any individual taking photographs or videotaping people. He also allegedly made false statements when he denied that he had ever been an agent of the Syrian government or a foreign intelligence officer.
The indictment states that the day following the interview, Soueid asked UCC-1 to inform the Mukhabarat about his FBI interview.
In addition, the indictment alleges that, when purchasing a Beretta pistol on July 11, 2011, Soueid listed a false current residence address on a firearms purchase application and in records that were kept by a licensed firearms dealer.
This investigation is being conducted by the FBI's Washington Field Office with assistance from the Loudon County, Va., Sheriff's Office. The prosecution is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Dennis Fitzpatrick and Neil Hammerstrom of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and Trial Attorney Brandon L. Van Grack of the Counterespionage Section of the Justice Department's National Security Division.
The public is reminded that an indictment contains mere allegations and that a defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.


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The fourth Imam addressed the people of Kufa and delivered a sermon before them. After making a sign to them to keep silent, he said: \"O people! Whoever knows me knows me, and he, who does not know me, should know that I am the son of that person, who was dishonored and whose entire belongings were looted and plundered, and whose women and children were made prisoners......... \"
Of course, if the fourth Imam had not mentioned the plundering and maltreatment by the enemy, and had not revealed openly the details of the event one or two days after it had taken place, when the agents of the regime were still jubilant on account of their apparent success, and did not know that they had dug their grave with their own hands, it was not unlikely that the matter might have been given a different color in the history of Islam, and it might have been said that the Ahlul Bayt were taken to Kufa and Syria with a view to showing them honor and consoling them, and no constraint or force was involved. However, the fourth Imam depicted the true scene of the tragedy of Karbala in the very first sentence of his sermon and imprinted it on the hearts of the people. Eventually these very speeches and writings were recorded in the third century in reliable Islamic history books and it became impossible even for the succeeding Ummayyad dynasty to change even one line of it, in spite of all their power, or at least to delete from the pages of history the incident of the plundering of the tents and stripping the body of the Imam. They could not make the Muslims forget these shameful deeds.
The Ahlul Bayt (family) of the Imam, who had been made prisoners, deprived Bani Umayya of even this power, and performed such a glorious deed that it not only became impossible for the enemy to tamper with the facts, but minute details of the hideous acts of the murderers of the Imam were also recorded in history.
Have not Shaykh Mufid and Tabari written that whatever dress was there on the body of the Imam was plundered after his martyrdom? The Imam\'s shirt was removed from his body by Ishaq bin Haiwa. His vest was taken away by Bahr bin Kāb Tamimi. His turban was taken by Akhnas bin Marthad. His sword was taken by a man belonging to the tribe of Bani Dārm. Qays bin Ashath bin Qays took possession of his Qatifa (mantle). Qays was later known in Kufa as Qays of Qatifa. The Imam\'s shoes were removed from his feet by a man named Aswad, who belonged to the tribe of Awd. Then they made a rush on the tents and plundered everything including clothes and camels. They displayed their utmost meanness by removing even the head-dresses of women. Who wrote and recorded these detailed historical facts? It was these very speeches and addresses of Ahlul Bayt which transferred the true facts of Āshura clearly and explicitly to the pages of history. History has not only recorded that Ibn Ziyad gave orders to Ibn Sād to let the body of the .Imam be trampled upon by the horses, but has also given full details of this proceeding.
Shaykh Mufid, Tabari and other historians have written that Ibn Sād reached the tents, when some persons wanted to kill the fourth Imam. He, however, ordered that none should molest the ailing person or inconvenience the bereaved women in the tents. And when it was brought to his notice that the tents had been plundered he ordered those who had taken away something from them to return it. However, not a single person returned anything. Then to comply with Ibn Ziyad\'s orders, Ibn Sād called the volunteers to trample upon the sacred body of the Imam. He was perhaps also cautious in the matter and he did not himself nominate some persons to carry out the orders lest they should decline to undertake such a shameful act. However, this precaution was unnecessary and the possibility was quite remote. As said by great historians ten persons volunteered themselves for the purpose. They mounted their horses with great enthusiasm and performed the job according to his wishes. What is surprising is that the names of these heartless bastards have also been recorded in history and the Islamic historians have mentioned the names and particulars of all of them. Tabari and Mufid have mentioned their names only and recorded that one of the aforesaid ten persons was Ishaq bin Haiwa Hazrami who looted the shirt of the Imam and the other was Akhnas bin Murthad, who took away his turban from his head.
If Imam Sajjad had kept quiet on account of his illness, fatigue caused by the journey, captivity and dejection, and had not proclaimed in the bazaar of Kufa what he had seen on the day of Āshura, and if Umme Kulsum and Zaynab, daughters of Imam Ali and Fatima and daughter of Imam Husayn had also not spoken in the bazaar of Kufa, and had not checked the enemy of an opportunity to tamper with history, how could Bani Umayya permit that the story of their indelible shame and disgrace should form a part of the history of Islam and Bani Hashim should expel their rival for ever from the field of humanity, virtue and piety.
When these speeches were being delivered and these addresses were reaching the ears of the people it was the speakers themselves who knew very well what they were saying and doing, and they made no mistake in assessing the value of their words. Other people could not, however, realize as to what power the speeches of Ahlul Bayt, which were being delivered at times in the bazaars, at the doors and in general gatherings and at times in the masjids, would give to the tragedy of Karbala and to what extent they would change the thinking of the people in the course of time. Most of the people did not understand more than that the persons, whose father had been killed, and who were bereaved, were telling the tale of their woe, crying and shedding tears owing to the calamity which had befallen them. They had no idea that the Ahlul Bayt were in fact performing their part in the Divine mission of this rising.
The task undertaken by the Imam could not be completed without the explanation and interpretation which was being given by them. There was a real danger that this Divine campaign which had been led by the most sacred personalities of Islam might, at a later stage, be made to appear a material movement prompted by worldly motives and the factual position might be concealed from the Muslims and their future generations for ever, leaving them with a few pages of history containing fabricated tales. It was for this reason that Ali bin Husayn ignored his illness and mourning, and lady Zaynab, her sister, and nephew also forgot their captivity and bereavement. Instead of assuming the posture of helpless and bereaved persons or flattering the enemy, they commenced their mission of informing the people of the true facts with perfect determination, and I availed of even the smallest opportunity to achieve their end. So much so that even if anyone abused them on account of ignorance or perversion, they considered it to be a valuable opportunity I and made it an excuse to talk with him. By this means they changed the heart of the reviler in such a way that he repented immediately, became a supporter of Ahlul Bayt and expressed regret for what he had said.
The Ahlul Bayt acted so intelligently that they benefited even from the abuses hurled upon them. Even if someone addressed them slanderously or tauntingly they considered it an opportunity to talk to him and to remove misunderstandings from the minds of the people.
After mentioning the misconduct of the enemy in a few words which were recorded in history , Imam Sajjad said thus while addressing the people of Kufa: \"I am the son of the man who was beheaded on the bank of the Euphrates although he had not shed the blood or usurped the right of anyone. (i.e. he was killed without any offence committed by him). I am the son of the man who was attacked by a huge number of people and martyred when he was no longer capable of fighting and had fallen on the ground owing to weakness. This is sufficient honor for us\". By uttering these words the fourth Imam obliged the people to make more investigations about the heart-rending martyrdom of Imam Husayn, because merely being killed cannot be reckoned to be an honor, particularly an honor in the presence of which no other honor should be needed. Imam Zaynul \'Abidin said: \"It is a sufficient honor for us that our blood was shed, our property was looted, we were insulted and our women and children were made prisoners\". The Imam wanted the people to ponder as to what the object of this rising was, what its leader desired, and what he did. If he wanted to become the ruler, and as another person had attained to this office he was unhappy, and sacrificed his life and property in an effort to achieve his object, being killed in this way can never be a source of pride, rather it would be a matter of shame. Then how could the fourth Imam feel proud of it and say: \"This honor is sufficient for us?\"
On hearing these words the people must have wondered as to how this event could be a source of pride. They might have thought: \' Are people not killed? Are there no casualties in political wars? Is there little loss of property and life in social disturbances? What sort of honor is it that one\'s property is looted, his tents are set on fire and his near ones are killed. These are afflictions but not a source of pride\'. But the words of Imam Sajjad obliged the people to make a deeper study and investigation to assess the importance and value of this rising in the history of Islam and to find out what these persons were saying and what weight their words carried and why they were not calm and quiet like other people and why they were not willing to accept any offer made by the ruler in power.
What was the harm if Imam Husayn had taken the oath of allegiance to Yazid and lived honorably among the Muslims with- out losing his friends and his own life? These very expressions of the fourth Imam prepared the people to hear, stimulated their thoughts and roused them from slumber. Possibly many persons might have been saying: \"It is good that these people have been killed, life has returned to normal, the roads to Iraq which were blocked for some days have been re-opened and the traffic and transportation which had become difficult has returned to its usual course\'.
While the people were thinking on these lines the fourth Imam cried suddenly: \"They killed us and plundered whatever we had and this is a sufficient honor for us\". This interpretation gave a jerk to the people and created in them a desire to make further investigations.
Then Imam Sajjad said: \"O people! I put you on your oath to tell me in the name of Allah, whether you know that at one time you wrote letters to my father and then deceived him. You made firm promises with him and then rose to fight against him. May Allah destroy you, may you reap the harvest of your misdeeds in both the worlds, and may you be disgraced for the indecent policy which you have adopted. How will you face the Prophet of Allah when you are brought before him on the Day of Judgment and with which eyes will you look at him? At that time the Holy Prophet will tell you: \"You have killed my children and behaved towards me dishonorably. You are not my followers\".
These few sentences of the Imam changed the thinking of Ii the people of Kufa and the smiling faces of those persons who had mostly come to see the prisoners blushed with shame. They tried to control themselves but could not do so. At last the groanings and lamentations of the people could be heard from different sides. They began reproaching one another. One of them said: \"What an evil thing you have done! You annihilated yourselves\". Another replied: \"But what can we do now?\"
While the people were weeping and sighing the Imam addressed them once again in these words: \"May Allah bless those, who accept my advice and put into practice my recommendations about their duty to Allah, the Prophet of Allah and the Progeny of the Prophet, for it is incumbent upon us to follow the Prophet of Allah\".
This brief address brought about such a turn in the minds of the people that they cried: \"O son of the Prophet of Allah! All of us will hear what you say and obey your orders. We will honor the promises made with you. We will not forsake you and will not side with anyone else. We are ready to act upon whatever you say. We will fight with him, against whom you fight, and will make peace with him, with whom you make peace. We are prepared even to take steps to arrest Yazid. We hate those who oppress you\".
It would appear from these statements of the people as quoted by Ibn Tawus that they had not yet understood the object of the Imam. They perhaps thought that he intended to fight and wished to mobilize an army for the purpose. They did not know that part of the movement which involved armed rising and martyrdom had already been completed, and there was no need any longer of warfare and bloodshed. What remained to be accomplished were these very speeches, sermons and addresses which were the only means of reflecting the events of Āshura in the history of Islam and in the minds of the Muslims. Moreover, the promises, which they were making with the fourth Imam, and the assurances, which they were giving him, were not dissimilar to the assurances and promises, which they had held out to Imam Husayn. As such the assurances given by them had no value and could not be relied upon. They fell in the category of the oath of allegiance taken by them to Muslim bin Aqil and the letters written by them to Imam Husayn.
Hence, Imam Sajjad said: \"O unfaithful and inconstant people! You will never succeed. Do you want to be have towards me in the same manner in which you behaved towards my forefathers? N O, it cannot be so. I swear by Allah that the wounds of my heart have not yet healed up. Yesterday my father and his companions met martyrdom. I have not yet forgotten my being bereaved of the Holy Prophet, my father and my brothers have not overcome this grief. What I want you to do is that you should neither support us nor oppose us. Husayn bin Ali\'s being martyred is also not surprising. Was not his father Ali better than him and was he not assassinated? O Kufians! It was you, who killed Ali. May I be sacrificed for my father who was martyred on the bank of the Euphrates. The punishment for his killers is Hell\".
Then he added: \"We shall be perfectly satisfied with you if you give up the practice of siding with us on one day and opposing us on another day\".
The fourth Imam did not speak more and could not get an opportunity to speak till the Ahlul Bayt were brought one day before Ibn Ziyad in a public assembly. There also he availed of the opportunity to speak. By uttering a few sentences though they were brief, he impressed the gathering.
\"A Probe into the History of Ashura\"
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— Sakmongkol AK47
The Malaysian Insider
May 15, 2012
MAY 15 — Readers who are interested in reading more vigorous analyses on FGVH are advised to read The Pirates of Putrajaya in the English language here and in Bahasa Malaysia here. I am offering a less rigorous analysis here as I feel not as competent as the Pirate in technical matters.
Here is what irks me and I hope it does others too. FELDA settlers have given nothing but each FELDA household is promised and given RM15,000 each. For what? In return for a promise to vote UMNO and BN in the next elections? And a gnome of the FELDA chairman says it's not corruption. The RM15,000 must be called as what it really is: the price of each settler as seen by the PM. It's bloody corruption.
If not, how do you explain why the PM gives out the 15,000? Does he do it for purely philanthropic reasons?
What is it that FGVH offers for sale? Remember, as the Koperasi Permodalan FELDA hasn't parted with its 51 per cent, what FGVH offers to the public is its 49 per cent interest in FELDA Holdings. It can't and doesn't have the capacity to offer 100 per cent of FELDA Holdings. But you can be sure the PM and his macais are rounding up the deep-pocketed boys and telling them: don't worry boys, we will chop off the heads of the KPF leaders one by one. We will deliver you 100 per cent of FELDA Holdings.
Or perhaps we haven't uncovered yet the devilish plans they have in store for the 51 per cent which KPF owns in FELDA Holdings?
It's shortchanging the investing public when it can only offer 49 per cent of its interest in FELDA Holdings and their valueless businesses abroad which did not make money anyway.
Now, FELDA holdings is a different cattle of fish. It is one of Malaysia's largest, and most diversified agro-based enterprises which run the commercial business related to the Federal Land and Development Authority (FELDA), and the vast 880,000-hectare plantation land bank associated with it. It owns 360,000 hectares of land directly and manages 520,000 hectares of land belonging to settlers.
FELDA Holdings became a public company on October 3, 2003. Today, its total capitalisation exceeds RM5 billion with RM220 million in paid-up capital. It employs a dedicated workforce of almost 19,000 employees, complemented by a labour force of 46,795 workers at some 300 estates, 70 palm oil mills, seven refineries, four kernel crushing plants, 13 rubber factories, manufacturing plants and several logistic and bulking installations spread throughout Malaysia and several locations overseas.
Its assets include more than 50 active subsidiaries, associated companies and joint-venture companies. It provides technical advice and support to the FELDA Group. It has facilities to process rubber and cocoa products, manufacture fertilisers as well as operate several successful auxiliary businesses. Among these are IT, engineering, security, storage and logistic services.
It also does business at the international level; it supplies eight per cent of world palm oil in 2009. It has joint-venture partnerships with large multinationals such as Procter & Gamble and Iffco. It has growing interests in businesses in the United States, Canada, Australia, China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and South Africa.
But the most important thing to remember is this: FGVH holds only 49 per cent of all these. But they have an important partner in crime — the holder of the one golden share. The Ministry of Finance.
The non-FELDA citizens of this country do not get any cash handouts. But they have the same stature as FELDA settlers who have given nothing to Umno and the government. So, they deserve the same cash handouts as settlers do. Why should the settlers be treated any differently? If ordinary citizens are wrongly treated they should respond the only decent way they can — by not voting in this corrupt government.
The minister in charge of FELDA is going ahead with the listing of FGVH. He has called those who opposed the listing as accursed bastards — haram jadah. He has described them as thick-skinned if they take the RM15,000 inducement. By doing so, he has displayed his inherent nature which I have been saying all this while — that Najib solves problems by paying his way through. He is not a leader who inspires the citizens with ideas and ideals.
There is a vast and barren void that lies between his ears. — sakmongkol.blogspot.com
* Sakmongkol AK47 is the nom de plume of Datuk Mohd Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz. He was Pulau Manis assemblyman (2004-2008).


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Two Book Prizes in American Legal History for Books Published in 2010
Two book prizes for American Legal History have been announced. The John Phillip Reid Book Award of the American Society for Legal History and the Cromwell Book Prize of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation are mutually exclusive. The Reid Award is for a book by a mid-career or senior scholar, and the Cromwell Book Prize is for a 'first book' by a junior scholar. For advice where the distinction is doubtful, please consult Gerald Leonard, chair of the ASLH Committee on the John Phillip Reid Book Award, and Daniel Ernst, Chair of the Cromwell Book Prize Advisory Subcommittee.
John Phillip Reid Book Award
Named for John Phillip Reid, the prolific legal historian and founding member of the American Society for Legal History, and made possible by the generous contributions of his friends and colleagues, the John
Phillip Reid Book Award is an annual award for the best monograph by a mid-career or senior scholar, published in English in any of the fields defined broadly as Anglo-American legal history. The award is given on the recommendation of the American Society for Legal History's John Philip Reid Prize Committee.
For the 2010 prize, the Reid Award Committee will accept nominations from authors, presses, or anyone else, of any book that bears a copyright date in 2010. Nominations for the Reid Award should be submitted by 27 May 2011, by sending a curriculum vitae of the author and one copy of the book to each member of the committee:
Professor Gerald Leonard
Chair, ASLH Committee on the John Phillip Reid Book Award
Boston University School of Law
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University of Minnesota Law School
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Schulich School of Law
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Department of Law
Queen Mary College, University of London
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Yale Law School
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The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation was established in 1930 to promote and encourage scholarship in legal history, particularly in the colonial and early national periods of the United States. The Foundation
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The Cromwell Foundation awards the prize on the recommendation of the Cromwell Prize Advisory Committee of the American Society for Legal History. The Committee will consider books published in 2010. The Society will announce the award after the annual meeting of the Cromwell Foundation, which normally takes place early in November.
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Danish Boy (looking out the front door window): Woah, how weird is that!?
AG (doing dishes): How weird is what?
DB: The fog!
It's SO thick!
AG (looks out the kitchen window, which looks into the back yard): Uh, there's no fog here.
DB: Weird! It's
really thick over here! I can't see
the next field. (Pause) Maybe it's smoke
and there's a HUGE fire!
AG: Well, I got nothing over here.
DB: So weird!!
AG: Right, so as soon as I finish these glasses I'm going to
have a look.
DB: Oh don't bother, its just fog.
(Long pause as AG works this through her head)
AG: So you are telling me not to look at the really weird
fog that has so impressed you so much that you keep talking about it?
DB: Uh… (laughs)
AG: (does "dumb boy" voice) Wow, this fog, man, it's the most amazing fog ever! No, don't bother looking. It's only really really interesting. But you don't need to see it.
DB: Heh.
AG: (switches "dumb boy" voice for high sarcasm) YUM, wow, I'm eating the best food ever! It's amazing! The taste is just FANTASTIC! No, I'm not going to give you a taste, you don't need to
taste it. You just need to know
that I'm having the most amazing food ever!
DB: Okay, I get your point.
DB: Yes, yes.
Enough already.
AG: Yes, but NOW it's FUNNY!
(Finishes washing the glasses and goes to the front door.)
DB: Huh?
AG: There's no fog.
No smoke. Nothing!
DB: Weird! I
swear you couldn't see the trees over there!
AG: Hey, Spawn, come see the fog that isn't there!
DB (anguished): I swear there was fog!
AG: What a let down.