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Ron Mueck's "Big Man" is BIG
The Hirshhorn's sculpture is compelling and confounding. Is he pouting like an over-grown child, or is he angry?
At almost seven-feet-tall, it's hard to miss Ron Mueck's sculpture Untitled (Big Man) on view now at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture garden. Visitors find Big Man, as he's affectionately called, compelling. Is he pouting like an over-grown child, or is he angry?
The sculpture is one of the museum's main attractions.
Ron Mueck is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in Great Britain. Untitled (Big Man) (2000) was sculpted using pigmented polyester resin on fiberglass. The work has been a part of the museum's collections since 2008 2001 and is currently showcased until November 15, 2009 in the exhibition, Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection.

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dungeon (text adventure game)
This "mainframe zork" has everything contained in the commercial ZORK I,
part of ZORK II, and the endgame from ZORK III. Some mainframe computers
don't have this full version, so if your mainframe doesn't have the
endgame, the Bank of Zork, and the puzzle room, you are in for some
new challenges.
This version of Dungeon seems to be earlier than any of the ones available
at www.if-archive.org. It was posted to USEnet ages ago. This build
uses slightly modified sources, needed to get modern GNU Fortran to
compile them.
BTW, the source files say copyright INFOCOM, but allow non-commercial use.
This was the last version before INFOCOM went commercial.
This build includes the game map in /usr/doc/dungeon-$VERSION
You can build a debugging (aka cheating) version of Dungeon by passing
DEBUG=yes in the script's environment. This enables tracing and the
GDT command.
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I have a set of dumbbells that I would like to use in the new year. Is there a handy list somewhere (preferably with pictures) of beginner exercises I can do with my dumbbells? I do not have a weight bench, so I'll need something bare-bones. I'd preferably like something very easy to start out with; I'm more likely to stick with something easy, so that's a good starting point for me.
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When Major General David H. Petraeus, commander of the 101st Airborne Division met Lieutenant General William Wallace, commander of the U.S. Army's V Corps on 27 March 2003 at a site near Najaf, only five days after American forces began the attack to Baghdad Petraeus and Wallace were deeply pessimistic. They concluded, "The war was in dismal shape." Petraeus, an officer who had risen to Major General and Division Command with no previous combat experience, was deeply worried about the level of Iraqi resistance.
The fact that 3rd Infantry Division (mechanized), an armored force of hundreds of tanks and armored fighting vehicles was already 50 miles south of Baghdad and poised to attack the city did not seem to matter. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. would have flown into a rage and fired them on the spot. Yet both men went on to four stars.
Was General David Petraeus the heroic figure his press releases suggested or a piece of fiction created, packaged and presented to the American people by the Bush Administration and its Neocon allies in the media and academia as the poster boy for counterinsurgency? Was he simply a world class aid de camp, military assistant and speech writer, a slick briefer who successfully cultivated dozens of Army four stars and political appointees on the ladder to four stars? Or is Petraeus simply the victim of his own press releases?
Consider these points: The Shiite dominated government of Iraq is not only more corrupt today than its secular Baathist predecessor. It's also among the most corrupt states in the world, far worse than North Korea or Russia. And, unlike Saddam Hussein's Iraq it is unambiguously tied to and aligned with Iran. In Afghanistan, Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) continue to run from fights with pathetic Taliban in bed sheets and flip flops and more Afghan civilians died during the 18 months of Petraeus's "Afghan Surge" than at any time in the previous ten years.[i] How did these things come about? Who is responsible for this debacle?
How many times have Americans read the flattering assessments of Petraeus on the editorial pages of The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal or heard Journalists repeat Petraeus's assertions of "progress" and "success" on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC? Whenever Petraeus wanted to show that his alleged "counterinsurgency" strategy was delivering significant progress in Iraq or Afghanistan, the mainstream media offered unconditional support for whatever narrative Petraeus provided.[ii]
Vacuous statements removed from the facts were routinely treated like sermons on the mount, "It's about being comfortable with a degree of chaos," he [Petraeus] said in the interview. "And the whole point is that I am comfortable with that kind of situation. What you want to do is constantly push the envelope in every respect."[iii] Huh???
When the Surge in Iraq began, no one in Washington was interested in explaining why the world's most powerful military establishment led by Petraeus was buying off its Sunni Arab opponents with hundreds of millions of dollars, effectively supplanting counterinsurgency with cash-based cooptation.[iv] When the Surge in Iraq ended, no one in Washington wanted to discuss why Tehran's Shiite allies in Baghdad restrained their fighters, and waited until the U.S. occupation ended before consolidating their control of Arab Iraq. In 2009, an Iraqi journalist described the outcome in terms no serious observer of the conflict could ignore:
"Observers not steeped in Iraqi history might be bemused to find that six years after the toppling of a dictator, after the death of several hundred thousand Iraqis, a brutal insurgency, trillions of wasted dollars and more than 4,000 dead US soldiers, the country is being rebuilt along very familiar lines: concentration of power, shadowy intelligence services and corruption."[v]
A year later, Al-Qaida together with its Sunni Islamist affiliates in Iraq was also making a comeback recruiting scores of Sunni Muslim Arabs to rejoin the fight against the "crusaders and the Shiites" by paying them more than the monthly salary they received from the Maliki Government.[vi] Petraeus had brought the country back to where it started. Members of the House and the Senate privately acknowledged Iraq was a failure,[vii] but this tragic outcome did not obstruct the Petraeus proposal to repeat the folly of Iraq in Afghanistan.
On 7 October 2009 before the surge in Afghanistan began, Marc Sageman, a veteran intelligence officer with years of experience in Pakistan and the region warned the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "The proposed counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan is at present irrelevant to the goal of disrupting, dismantling and defeating al Qaeda, which is located in Pakistan. None of the plots in the West has any connection to any Afghan insurgent group, labeled under the umbrella name "Afghan Taliban."[viii] Reason and facts took a back seat. Sageman was ignored.
A year later, when I asked a field grade officer in Washington, DC with experience in Afghanistan if the simultaneous departure of General Petraeus and Ambassador Eikenberry from their posts in Kabul at the start of the security transition and after two high-profile assassinations (Jan Mohammad and Ahmed Wali) would undermine the Afghan population's confidence in the U.S. leadership, he answered, "Absolutely not! There is no public confidence to lose. Read the local media translated every day in opensource.gov. The matter is absolutely irrelevant to the population-Uzbek, Tajik, Huzzara or Pashtun."[ix]
Sadly, what happened in Afghanistan was also irrelevant to the American people. By now, Americans had figured out that large-scale U.S. military occupations of non-Western societies to transform them into images of the West inevitably provoke resentment and breed violence; even when the U.S. pays $25 million a month in hard cash to its enemies not to fight.
Why did these things happen?
The short answer involves the skillful use of data and information to create a false picture of military action in faraway places. It's not a new practice,[x] but in Iraq, Petraeus elevated it to an art form. With the backing of the Bush Administration, Petraeus created a narrative based on the illusion the he, David Petraeus, had "discovered" a military solution to Iraq's societal misery in the form of counterinsurgency.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson said it best, "Americans are suckers for good news." And P.T. Barnum insisted, "A sucker is born every minute." Both were right.
However, in Afghanistan, Petraeus overestimated his ability to control the narrative even with a friendly U.S. press. True, the chronic absence of accountability for lost funds and failed nation building projects persisted as they did in Iraq,[xi] but when Marjah, the alleged test case for the Afghan Surge faltered badly, IED strikes multiplied and U.S. casualties rose, the Afghan narrative fell apart.[xii] Unfortunately for General Stanley McChrystal, he arrived in Kabul just in time to embrace Petraeus's false counterinsurgency strategy and supporting narrative, an act that brought him down as much as any imprudent remarks he made under the influence.
When Petraeus finally left joined the CIA, a place from which he could direct black operations that are largely unmonitored and uncontrolled by the president and congress, Americans simply tuned out operations in Afghanistan that were going nowhere. If such disastrous leadership did not result in the pointless loss of American life in uniform,[xiii] undermine American strategic interests abroad, and empty the U.S. Treasury of its hard earned tax dollars,[xiv] it would almost be comedic.
Of course, these observations still don't completely explain the meteoric rise of Dave Petraeus, or how his carefully crafted image swayed American public opinion. One reason is very that few Americans know much about the military. Most are conditioned to see generals through the prism of Hollywood films. They are easily persuaded that today's generals are indistinguishable from the battle-hardened leaders of the Second World War or the Korean conflict. Nothing could be more inaccurate.
Directing air strikes, raids and patrols from the safety of the Green Zone, a place that compares favorably with any number of elaborate shopping malls and motels in the United States, is not waging war. Suppressing hostile Muslim populations that resent Western occupation is not the same as confronting the Waffen SS in the Ardennes or hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops on the Korean Peninsula. In Iraq and Afghanistan, there are no opposing armies, air forces or air defenses.
In truth, only a fraction of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who deploy, are ever under fire. Their courage and devotion are never in question, but confusing them with generals is tantamount to equating senators and Wall Street Bankers with American citizens struggling to survive the economic meltdown. In such an artificial war environment, sacred cows like Petraeus are never slain, they simply vanish.
In addition, Petraeus made a common mistake that is all too common in the Army's four star ranks. He concluded he was the smartest guy in the room and he made sure everyone in the room knew it. Petraeus was always one of those guys who wanted to be a general for the sake of being a general and he was prepared to do anything to secure the stars,[xv] the product of extreme careerism coupled with the façade of false humility. President Bush and the Neocons in his administration needed a "hero," an alleged "great captain" to make the case for victory in Iraq when there was none.
Petraeus was eager to play the role and, the otherwise unknown Paula Broadwell, a former Army officer and West Point graduate, was anxious to tell Petraeus's story. Broadwell and Petraeus were simply two people with converging agendas.
Petraeus wanted a biographer who would cultivate the myth he worked so hard to create, someone who would glorify him, his "surges" and legitimate the Neocon policy of occupation and nation building with which he identified himself. Broadwell wanted the fame and fortune that access to Petraeus and his narrative would bring. Both got what they wanted, at least, for a while.
However, given that amateur hour in Benghazi is taking center stage on Capitol Hill, there's little reason for the Obama Administration to keep up appearances with its generals. The latest revelations cast doubt on General John Allen's future.
It turns out that in two years Allen sent approximately 30,000 pages containing hundreds of emails to Jill Kelley, a volunteer social organizer at the MacDill Air Force Base, in Tampa, and a bit player in the Petraeus-Broadwell affair. How many emails a day is anyone's guess, but how could Allen have any time left over to focus on operations in Afghanistan when he was sending so many messages to the magnetic Mrs. Kelley!!!
None of the generals' peccadillos is newsworthy, but for its commentary on the generals. The affairs are genuinely irrelevant. But the events demonstrate that the readiness of four stars like David Petraeus and John Allen to enthusiastically push utterly foolish and self-defeating policies conceived in Washington, DC is not the result of individual failures, but the crisis of an entire institution.[xvi]
Americans must wake up. The contemporary American military is not led by a Roman or Prussian class of hardened professionals. On the contrary, for the most part, the senior leadership is really an overgrown bureaucracy committed to jobs for generals. But these bureaucrats in uniform have gone too far. They are now responsible for the extraordinary loss of American blood, treasure, as well as, strategic ground in Iraq and Afghanistan at a point in time when the American people just cannot afford it.
Douglas Macgregor is a retired Army colonel, a decorated combat veteran, a PhD and the author of four books. His latest work, Warrior's Rage from Naval Institute Press describes the generals' failure in 1991 to exploit the victory in the Battle of 73 Easting and destroy the Iraqi Republican Guard.
[i] http://www.afgnso.org/2011/ANSO%20Q2%202011.pdf
See the first paragraph on page 1, then, look at the charts on page 7 showing the overall trends in violence. See the graphic on page 8 and note the information on RC-Southwest (and, in fact, all of the regional commands). Page 9 provides a province by province breakdown. Once again, Petraeus and his staff did not tell the truth.
[ii] David Wood, "Auditors Despair over Pentagon's Books," San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2004, page 1.
[iii] Yochi J. Dreazen, "The General's Playbook," National Journal, 30 October 2010.
[iv] Michael Vlahos, "Fighting Identity: Why we are losing our wars." Military Review, November-December 2007, 7.
[v] Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, "Six years after Saddam Hussein, Nouri al-Maliki tightens his grip on Iraq," The Guardian, 30 April 2009.
[vi] Martin Chulov, "Fears of al–Qaida return in Iraq as US–backed fighters defect. American allies the Sons of Iraq being offered more money by al–Qaida to switch sides," The Guardian, 10 August 2010, page 2.
[vii] Daniel Tencer, "GOP congressmen: Everyone agrees Iraq war a 'horrible mistake," The Raw Story, 19 March 2010.
[viii] Marc Sageman, M.D., Ph.D., Testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 7 October 2009, "Confronting al-Qaeda: Understanding the Threat in Afghanistan and Beyond."
[ix] The officer declines to be identified for obvious reasons.
[x] Robert Maginnis, "Distrust Corroding The Military," Washington Times, 2 March 200, page 11.
[xi] Marisa Taylor, "U.S. Spending In Afghanistan Plagued By Poor U.S. Oversight," McClatchy Newspapers (mcclatchydc.com), 15 January 2010.
[xii] Alex Strick van Linschoten, "Five things David Petraeus wants you to believe," Current Intelligence, 22 November 2010.
[xiii] Pauline Jelinek, (AP), "Army's Suicide Rate at 26-Year High," Boston Globe, 16 August 2007, page 1. The failure to devise a more humane rotational system is a case in point. Jelinek writes: "In addition, there was a significant relationship between suicide attempts and number of days deployed' in Iraq, Afghanistan, or nearby countries where troops are participating in the war effort, it said. The same pattern seemed to hold true for those who succeeded in killing themselves."
[xiv] Paul B. Farrell, "America's Outrageous War Economy! Pentagon can't find $2.3 trillion, wasting trillions on 'national defense,"MarketWatch, 28 August 2008, page 13.
[xv] Thom Shanker, "Concern Grows Over Top Military Officers' Ethics," New York Times, 13 November 2012, page 2. Also see:David Barstow, "One Man's Military-Industrial-Media Complex," New York Times, 30 November 2008, page 1.
[xvi] LTC Paul Yingling, "A Failure in Generalship," Armed Forces Journal, May 2007, page 27.


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The USGS is expanding its crowd-sourcing of geographic data and is seeking more volunteers to contribute structures information to 16 more states.
The mapping crowd-sourcing program, known as The National Map Corps (TNMCorps), encourages citizens to collect structures data by adding new features and/or correcting existing data within The National Map database. Structures being mapped in the project include schools, hospitals, post offices, police stations and other important public buildings.
The 16 recently added states needing help with structures are: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming, bringing the total number of states available for updating to 35. The final release of states by the end of the year will open up the entire country for volunteer structures enhancement.
Preliminary results of the effort have been very promising. As part of the project pilot, The National Map Corps had 143 volunteers who improved data for more than 6,400 structures in Colorado. The quality of the volunteer data collected met the USGS standards for position, attribution, and completeness.
The release of 19 states last April resulted in an increase of 154 new citizen geographers who have contributed their skills and local knowledge to The National Map.
"We are excited to open the next series states of our volunteer data project" said Elizabeth McCartney, the Volunteer Geographic Information Project Leader. "The response from the original set of states has been encouraging and we hope to have volunteer participation across the entire nation by the end of the year".
The tools on TNMCorps website explain how a volunteer can edit any area, regardless of their familiarity with the selected structures.
The citizen geographers/cartographers who participate in this program will make a significant addition to the USGS's ability to provide accurate information to the public. Data collected by volunteers become part of The National Map structures dataset which is available to users free of charge.
To show appreciation of our volunteer's efforts, The National Map Corps has instituted a recognition program that awards "virtual" badges" to volunteers. The badges consists of a series of antique surveying instruments ranging from a surveyor's chain (25 – 50 points) to the yet to be achieved theodolite (2000+ points). Additionally, volunteers are publically acclaimed.
In a recent development, the 4-H National Headquarters has announced that this year's 4-H National Youth Science Day planned for October 9, 2013 will feature geographic technology projects that are part of The National Map Corps data collection efforts.
Becoming a volunteer for TNMCorps is easy; go to The National Map Corps website to learn more and to sign up as a volunteer. If you have access to the Internet and are willing to dedicate some time to editing map data, we hope you will consider participating!
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Genes from genetically-engineered corn have been found in traditional crop strains in Mexico, according to a new study likely to reignite a bitter controversy over biotech maize.
The paper, by scientists from Mexico, the United States and the Netherlands, backs a 2001 probe that sparked a row over the safety of genetically-modified (GM) crops.
Green activists say GM crops are a potential hazard, arguing that their genes could spread to related plants through cross-pollination.
Their campaign has helped drive bans on GM crops in some countries, including Mexico itself, the ancestral home of maize, as corn is also called.
In the 2001 study, published in the prestigious British journal Nature, researchers reported finding transgenes in samples of corn taken from the Sierra Juarez region of Oaxaca.
But this study was blasted for technical inaccuracy and choice of samples. In an exceptional slap, Nature distanced itself from the paper, saying the evidence had not been strong enough to warrant publication.
This damning verdict was underscored by a further study, carried out in 2005 by a different team, that was unable to replicate the results.
But new research now says the original study was right.
A team led by Elena Alvarez-Buylla of the National Autonomous University in Mexico City looked at nearly 2,000 samples from 100 fields in the region from 2001 and 2004, and found that around one percent of the samples had genes that had jumped from GM varieties.
"We confirmed that there was contamination in 2001 and also found contamination in 2004, which means that it either persisted in the local maize that we sampled or that it was reintroduced, which is less likely," Alvarez-Buylla told AFP.
She said the difference between previous studies and her research lay in the samples chosen for gene sequencing and in the molecular technique for decrypting the DNA.
The investigators looked for two specific genes that had escaped from biotech corn, and found them in some fields but not in others.
Alvarez-Buylla said the evidence shed stark light on the failure of efforts to shield Mexico from unauthorised GM corn.
The country imposed a moratorium on the planting of transgenic maize in 1998 in order to protect genetic diversity. It is the home of about 60 traditional domesticated strains, also called landraces, as well as several wild strains.
Transgenic seeds are entering the country, most probably from the United States, and getting mixed with local seeds in trade among small farmers, Alvarez-Buylla believed.
"It is very hard to avoid gene flow from transgenic maize to non-transgenic maize in Mexico, even though there has been a moratorium," she said.
"It is really worrying that the government of Mexico has not been efficient enough in biosecurity monitoring," she said, accusing watchdogs of failing to establish rigorous molecular monitoring that was independent of data provided by biotech giants.
Alvarez-Buylla's team did not explore the impact of the escaped genes on the native corn, on the local environment or human health, nor did it test whether the foreign genes passed on to progeny plants.
The study appears in the latest issue of Molecular Ecology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Britain's Blackwell group. It has been endorsed by a lead author of the 2005 paper.
GM crops have had genes inserted into them to produce benefits for farmers. For instance, they exude natural toxins that kill off pests, or are resistant to herbicides, enabling a farmer to spray a field in one go and not kill the crop.
GM producers say there is no evidence of any threat to human health or the environment. The overwhelming view of scientists is that, so far, this is true.
But suspicions remain strong in many countries, especially Europe, where several governments retain safeguard measures against GM corn despite EU-wide approval.
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The land has been at peace for fourteen years, since the defeat and banishment of the Demon King. Young KiKi's parents, who were among the group of legendary Heroes that went to face the Demon King, never returned. But the peace is becoming increasingly uneasy; creatures are beginning to terrorise peaceful townsfolk and villagers, and there are rumors of an ancient evil emerging in a distant land.
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Just essential, you know, I mean Mark [Wahlberg] was always leagues ahead because he'd been training for this for so long anyway; he has his own boxing ring in his house. For me it just was a wonderful opportunity to hang out with Micky and Dicky, get to know them, get to understand their fighting styles to use it as a means of dropping the weight that I needed to lose in order to look like a welter weight and then a crack head. I just enjoyed it immensely, I enjoyed their company.
How did you transform to get into your role?
Same with anyone you know, you kind of start off and you go, "yeah I like this story" and then you go "holy crap, how am going to do it, I've forgotten how to do this". I never took any classes, I just go like "I better wing this one again and make it up!" Slowly, you find ways brick by brick of building it up, and it feels like hard work and you feel like you're going to fail everybody. Then eventually it's just kind of happening and it's slipping in, then you forget that you went through the hard work and you think it was all easy.
What is the movie about and what are the main themes that emerge in The Fighter?
The Fighter is about brotherly love, it's about loyalty, about family, family dysfunctions, the need to change, the pain of change, but ultimately, the triumph of people who love each other, managing to find a healthy way to unite and that they're unstoppable at that point.


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Hot off the press from China, it looks like Motorola might not be done with Windows Mobile just yet. We can't say much about this tiny touchscreen handset for the time being but the Windows key in the bottom left corner is unmistakable — the A3300, should it actually reach market, will be a WinMo smartphone through and through. Beyond the OS, the only other noteworthy tidbits gleaned from these leaked images are the full touchscreen form factor, touch sensitive buttons beneath the display and the presence of a 5 megapixel camera with an LED flash. Beyond that, odds are good that if this little guy is real it will likely be confined to the Chinese market. Hit the jump for a shot of the back.
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This post is my attempt to distill together many different threads into a common tapestry. There is a lot of turbidity in the publishing, podcasting, music, film, television worlds right now. I have these feeling that every bit of this is all part of a larger whole and I'm going to take a stab at defining it. This post will either be awesome because it succeeds or a miserable failure. There is no middle ground. Off in to it. This will be long, you have been warned.
First, let me inventory the raw materials that got me thinking this way. Recently JC Hutchins posted that he had been dropped as an author by St. Martins Press and that they would not be publishing the 7th Son sequels. The post lives between a gut-check and a crisis of faith from one of the pioneering new media creator/ novelist hybrid guys. He also posted about monetary realities of writers pubishing via ebooks. Not that long before this, I had listened to JC's Hey Everybody interview with Pablo Defendini and Ami Greko from The New Sleekness blog. It's a really interesting discussion about the future of book publishing by industry professionals young enough in their careers to be less invested in the status quo and more willing to help a new future emerge. (Side note 1: I met Pablo and Ami at last year's Dragon*Con in the classic SF con fashion – I wanted to meet them, saw them in a hotel bar, asked if I could sit with them, introduced myself and hung out for an hour. Try it, it works! ) Much in my thinking was informed over the last month by the Amazon/Macmillan ebook pricing wars of far too large a trail to link to anything. In that debate I did first run across Joe Konrath, his fiction and some of his posts with amazingly open and detailed statistics of what he sells and what he makes from digital publishing. (Side note 2: I bought, read and enjoyed his book Whiskey Sour as fallout from the debate).
There are many other bits of thought in the mix, such as my feelings about beginning my own novel during NaNoWriMo and thinking about hiring my friends at Sterling Editing to work on it and what I might choose to do with such a book when)it is finished. That's enough of a prelude, though. Time to hit it.
JC Hutchins struck a nerve when he basically waved the white flag on his current way of working.
Creating podcast fiction does does not generate direct revenue for me. Based on anecdotal and statistical data, very few people are willing to pay for general podcast content, much less podcast fiction. Since my goal is to make a living wage with my words, the current monetization models — including in-show advertisements — will not deliver this. Dedicating time and effort to my non-fiction podcast projects will deliver equally underwhelming monetary results.
It is also apparent to me that using the Free model to promote a tangible product, such as I did with 7th Son: Descent and Personal Effects: Dark Art, does not deliver sustainable sales results. I have friends — some of whom are my best friends, the most talented people I've had the privilege to know and work with – who have absolute faith in this model. I treasure their trailblazing efforts and enthusiasm. My faith, however, has been fundamentally rattled.
Put simply: The new media model viably supports only the most blessed and talented of authors. The time, effort and money I invest in entertaining you for free pulls my attention and talent away from projects that can generate revenue. While podcasting, podcast fiction, and — most importantly — your support and evangelism has positively impacted my life and career in ways I'll never be able to fully express, I cannot continue to release free audiofiction if I wish to make a living wage with my words.
This is pretty big stuff in the world of podcast fiction. Hutch was one of the pioneers of the form and his getting picked up by St. Martins was considered a watershed and a validation for the medium. So if he can't make it in this world, what does that say about all the other podcast novelists who are less engaged, have less of a fan base, less sheer horsepower? Does it mean this medium is screwed?
I am positing that Hutch had a terrible misfortune of timing, that he arose as a viable author at exactly the wrong moment in publishing history. As he started down his path it seemed like the end game was to get a book deal with a major publisher. For writers of the last 100 years, this was the reasonable career success path for authors, and practically the only one. In the last few years though a sea change has happened so rapidly and thoroughly to flip that Hutch got his boat capsized in the process and he will be far from the only one. As crazy as it may sound, for a certain kind of author at this point I think a major publishing contract may seem like winning the game but is in fact losing it.
The red flags I got from the JC Hutchins post started here:
Examining the lead up to, and release of, the novel, I cannot see how I could have promoted it any better than I did. I literally went broke promoting this book and Personal Effects: Dark Art (another novel that will not have a sequel; it also underperformed). I conceived numerous brand-new online marketing campaigns that dazzled you and others. I asked you to purchase the novel, and many of you did.
If JC is literally going broke promoting 7th Son and Personal Effects book, I think a reasonable question to ask is "What is St. Martins Press' role in this?" If JC is willing and able to put so much of his own time and money into the promotion of the books, what value is he getting from the big publisher that is worth giving away 90% of the sale of the book to them? 50 years ago, and 20 years ago and 2 years ago, this made sense. It was pretty much impossible to get a book published and into the hands of the world in any significant way – especially in a way that a writer could make a full-time living – without a major publisher contract, especially one paying advances at a level to be a livable wage. Nowadays, especially due to the markeplace enabled by the Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader et al, that's a different equation.
Joe Konrath's post about the money he makes from the Kindle store shows a really clear pattern that he summarizes with:
My five Hyperion ebooks (the sixth one came out in July so no royalties yet) each earn an average of $803 per year on Kindle.
My four self-pubbed Kindle novels each earn an average of $3430 per year.
If I had the rights to all six of my Hyperion books, and sold them on Kindle for $1.99, I'd be making $20,580 per year off of them, total, rather than $4818 a year off of them, total.
So, in other words, because Hyperion has my ebook rights, I'm losing $15,762 per year.
For a writer with an engaged audience, like JA Konrath has and like JC Hutchins has, there may well be more money in their books self-published primarily through the Kindle and other ebook stores. An interesting bit from the Konrath numbers above, that's from making 35% of the sales price for his direct books. When it changes to 70%, he'll be making twice as much per book as he posted above for the self-published ones.
Let me say it again: for a writer who is engaged with their audience and reasonably prolific (because you need new books to keep this engine turning), we may be at the turning point where a better living is available through self-publishing than a big New York publisher book deal.
There are certainly authors that this model will not work for. During my preparation for last year's "Podcasting for Working Writers" panel at Dragon*Con I talked to both James Patrick Kelly and Kelley Eskridge on this topic and they both raised the point that for a number of old school writers, the idea of engaging at the level of podcasting and doing large parts of their own publicity is anathema. A reasonable chunk of authors don't want to get out in the limelight and picked this career specifically so they don't have to engage. They write their books, maybe do a few conventions a year, do some bookstore events and that's it. Back to the keyboard where the serious work happens. That's fair enough and those writers will always need a publisher to do the parts of this business that would make them unhappy to pursue.
I think of the classic big publisher and big record label model as basically serving the function of the bank or maybe as VC. The manufacturing and distribution of the creative work was too capital intensive for an individual so this company would lend that money to the process, make the books or records show up in the store, do some publicity and keep most of the money. They insulate the creator from the process and from the retailers and fans. What publicity efforts exist, the big media company acts as a semi-permeable membrane to let a little of the public through, but not a lot. Ultimately in this model, the relationship with the fans of the buying public is owned mostly by the retailer and the publisher or label, very little by the writer or musician. For the author that doesn't want to feed and water that relationship, that's perfect.
For the other kind of author, a JC Hutchins or Mur Lafferty or Scott Sigler, going with a major publisher outsources to a third party a relationship with their fans that these writers are really really good at maintaining. When Hutch is paying his own money to publicize his books and his his own direct line into his own fanbase, what can the big publishers do for him? They could give him large enough advances to keep his bills paid while future books are written, but obviously they aren't willing to do that because sales aren't high enough. JC's books earn money, but not enough money to keep him in that system. For me, the real question is "Did St. Martins Press do 9 times the work than JC did to get the work promoted?" If not, what did they do to deserve a 90/10 split?
Last November for NaNoWriMo I began a novel that I have literally been thinking about since 1991 when I was 23. While I came nowhere near finishing it that month and am nowhere near finished now, I have a goal to finish this novel in 2010. I've already been thinking about what happens when I finish the book. Do I try to find an agent and then try to have them place it with a major publisher? Since I don't have any plans beyond that one book and thus don't necessarily have a writing career in mind, how does that affect my decision making? At the moment I'm leaning towards not bothering to place the book with any publisher at all. I'll pay Nicola and Kelley at Sterling Editing to work with me to get it publishable and hire a book designer and/or artist to hone the final product and then publish it to the Kindle store, Smashwords, the Nook store and whatever else seems reasonable at the time. I'll probably release it via Podiobooks.com at the the same time, do my publicity via that and the other usual online suspects and let it ride. The key point to me is that the energy I could spend in placing my book at a big publisher could be spent selling the book to readers and I'll probably make more money that way in the long run. This isn't the way things worked for the 19th and 20th century and it may not be the way it works in the future, but March 2010 it is the way it looks to me now. The validation of having a "major publisher" decide I'm their sort of writer doesn't do anything for me. I don't need the book contract to pay my living, I'd end up doing mostly my own publicity anyway so what the hell does the publisher have to offer me anymore? Rather than have them put out a $15 Kindle book that I see a buck or two from and no one buys with a print version that is on and off the shelves in head-swimming time on a death march to the warehouse remainder store, I'd rather put out a $5.99 ebook version that I see $4 from each one and more people buy. I have a whole rant on how the true function of ebook platforms is to enable impulse buys, but this current post is already too long. That must come later.
When I interviewed Cory Doctorow in 2006, one of the things he said is that the generation coming of age now is the first one to arise "without a stigma attached to self-publication." Since I've been paying attention to the world of science fiction and writers in general, a giant shift has happened. When I joined GEnie in 1992, the notion of self-publishing your work meant that it was unreadable tripe and the very thought of it was risible to any serious author. Nowadays, it might well be the most rational economic choice available. If you aren't already in the system and earning livable wages from advances on your books, and you are the sort of writer and person with that drive – a JC Hutchins, a Scott Sigler, a Tee Morris, a Mur Lafferty, an Alec Longstreth, someone willing to do more than thrown the manuscript over the wall and wait for finished copies to return – it might be time to take the reins yourself and just do this. The costs are low which means the cost of failing is low. The traditional publishers aren't paying that much anyway so the opportunity costs are low. Just do it. Lynne Abbey, CJ Cherryh and Jane Fancher did. The writers at Book View Cafe did. I will. Don't pin your hopes on a big publisher with economic drivers that are different than yours. Just do it yourself, work the people yourself and keep as much of the money as you can.


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Commonwealth Edison says electricity rates for its residential customers are rising 38 percent on June 1.
The company says the Illinois Power Authority set the company's cost per kilowatt hour at just over 7 ½ cents, up from 5 ½ cents in 2013.
ComEd spokesman David O'Dowd said the power authority buys electricity on behalf of the northern Illinois utility.
Power costs represent about two-thirds of a customer's bill.
The other portion deals with delivery costs, which also have been rising. The average bill increased an average of $5.50 per month in January after ComEd received permission to charge more for distribution to help offset its costs to modernize the power grid.
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Just the other day we were reading a Reddit thread asking about how to control a television with a smartphone. The conversation started by talking about adding an IR LED to the phone. Then it was suggested that there should be standalone Bluetooth devices that convert commands to IR, and came around to the ideas that TV's should ship with native Bluetooth hardware. We couldn't agree more but we're also not about to replace our TV just for this option. That's why we were delighted to find this project waiting on our tip line. It's a method of controlling a camera shutter from a smartphone using Bluetooth. But the technique will work for any device which uses an infrared remote control.
The video after the break shows two different devices controlling the camera shutter. As you can see in the diagram above, the iPhone is the master controller, connecting to a Bluetooth headset mounted on the camera. That headset was altered to feed the speaker connections into an IR LED pointed at the camera's receiver. The iPhone plays an encoded audio track matching the IR remote command, resulting in the properly formatted message flashing on the LED. The watch doesn't have the ability to playback audio, but it can send a message to the phone, which then plays the proper audio track through the headset.


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Artichokes, garlic and onions also contain beneficial fructans, researchers say
An ingredient in agave -- the plant used to make tequila -- may help fight bone-weakening osteoporosis and other diseases, Mexican researchers say.
Agave, artichokes, garlic, onions and chicory are rich, natural sources of fructans -- nondigestible carbohydrates consisting of molecules of fructose linked together into chains, according to background information in a news release from the American Chemical Society.
"Experimental studies suggest that fructans may be beneficial in diabetes, obesity, stimulating the immune system of the body, decreasing levels of disease-causing bacteria in the intestine, relieving constipation and reducing the risk of colon cancer," Mercedes Lopez, of the National Polytechnic Institute in Guanajuato, said in the news release.
Previous research has also suggested that fructans stimulate the growth of beneficial bacteria in the large intestine in a way that increases the body's absorption of minerals, including calcium and magnesium, which are needed for bone growth.
In this study, Lopez and colleagues tested the effects of agave fructans on bone growth in mice. Compared to other mice, those fed agave fructans absorbed more calcium from food, excreted less calcium in their feces, and had a 50 percent increase in levels of a protein associated with the build-up of new bone tissue.
"These results suggest that the supplementation of the standard diet with agave fructans prevented bone loss and improved bone formation, indicating the important role of agave fructans on the maintenance of healthy bone," Lopez said. "They can be used in many products for children and infants to help prevent various diseases, and can even be used in ice cream as a sugar substitute."
But drinking tequila won't help, the study authors noted. The fructans turn into alcohol when agave is processed into tequila, they said.
The study was to be presented Tuesday at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco.
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Melbourne scientists studying the impact obesity has on pregnancy, are urging men to get 'match fit' before conceiving to assist with fetal development.
Reproductive experts from the University of Melbourne's Department of Zoology have discovered that a father's obesity negatively impacts sperm, resulting in smaller fetuses, poor pregnancy success and reduced placental development.
While the health risks surrounding obesity and pregnancy have largely been centred on overweight mothers, scientists from the University of Melbourne are putting the onus on men to shape up.
Word Health Organisation figures showing 75 per cent of Australian adult males are overweight or obese, greatly exceeding the global average rate of 48 per cent.
"Australia has a weight problem; the rate of obesity among men of reproductive age has more than tripled in the last three decades," Professor Gardner said.
"A lot of men don't understand what contribution they're having, but they need to be healthy before conceiving. Sperm needs to be match fit for the games of life and creating life is the biggest thing that we can do."
The study used in vitro fertilisation (IVF) on animals to determine the effects of paternal obesity on embryo implantation into the womb and fetal development.
PhD candidate Natalie Binder generated embryos from both normal weight and obese male mice – the latter had been fed the equivalent of a western fast food diet for ten weeks.
"We found that development was delayed in the fetuses produced from obese fathers. The rate of embryo implantation into the womb and fetal development decreased in these animals by up to 15 per cent," she said.
"Furthermore, placental weight and development was significantly less for embryos derived from the sperm of obese males.
"These findings indicate that paternal obesity not only negatively affects embryo development, but also impacts on the successful implantation into the womb.
"This then results in a small placenta which impairs fetal growth and development with long term consequences for the health of the offspring.
"Our study provides more information about the impact of obesity in men and their ability to start a family and the need to shed kilos in preparation to conceive."
Source: University of Melbourne


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After spending many years in Asia, I wasn't particularly shocked to discover that alongside North America and Western Europe, Asia Pacific is one of the three largest geographic markets by consumption in the retail and wholesale market.
Saying that, I was shocked to learn that as of 2017, Asia Pacific accounted for $9.5 trillion of the overall market.
Crazy, right?
In this definitive guide to all things wholesale, you'll learn everything you need to know to help you navigate the wholesale market, so you can buy inventory quickly, easily, and safely.
Equally importantly, you'll discover what your legal obligations are as an ecommerce business owner – so you don't fall foul of the law, plus much, MUCH, more.
So let's get started.
In this chapter, we'll first establish a clear wholesale definition and meaning, by examining the different types of wholesalers you'll run across as you develop your ecommerce business.
As you'll see, there are a wide variety of wholesalers out there. In order to make sure you get the best product at the best price, as quickly as possible, you need to have a thorough understanding of the wholesale marketplace in its entirety.
Next, we'll look at look at emerging trends within the wholesale market and ecommerce industry, such as the simplification in global shipping with the introduction of services like ePacket, and many other improvements that will see this industry continue to grow.
This is all good news if you're planning to launch or grow your ecommerce business any time soon. So let's get started.
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Before we dive into those marketplace trends, let's take a look at the differences between wholesale vs retail. They both operate a little bit differently.
Retailer vs Wholesaler Definition
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Wholesale Characteristics | Retail Characteristics |
A wholesaler sells large quantities of products to retailers for a profit | A retailer sells products directly to their customers for a profit |
You must have a licence to shop with a wholesaler | Anyone can shop with a retailer |
There are minimum order quantities when buying from a wholesaler | You can buy any amount of product you want when buying from a retailer |
Wholesalers operate a B2B (business to business) business model | Retail is a B2C (business to consumer) business model |
Some brands operate a wholesale and retail arm of their business. This might even be something you want to consider as your business grows.
Let's examine a few ecommerce and wholesale market trends and how they might affect you.
Improved Automation
Business owners are demanding to work more effectively and efficiently, leading to great improvements in automation and tracking options. One reason myself and many others love Shopify is they have a wide range of apps that will help you streamline and optimise operations.
Up until a few years ago, wholesale business operations and logistics used to be done manually. If you found a wholesale supplier who had an API you could connect to – to help you streamline your orders, stock numbers, returns and pricing it would feel like you'd hit the jackpot.
In 2018, this type of automation is becoming somewhat mandatory. And developments in AI and machine learning will only see these processes become even more streamlined and predictive of your needs.
In the long run this will allow for improved planning, cheaper operational costs, and easier operations management.
Buyers Are Attending Fewer Trade Shows
Back in the day, everyone knew you had to attend the popular wholesale trade shows if you wanted to get your hands on the best products.
At that point, even the big players in the wholesale marketplace had user-unfriendly and unattractive websites. The only way to really see what was on offer was to put your best walking shoes on and get to the trade show early.
While trade shows are still a crucial element of the wholesale marketplace, vendors no longer need to solely rely on them to find merchandise.
Yes, lots of crummy websites still exist in the wholesale marketplace. As you'll see below, this toy wholesaler doesn't exactly fill you with excitement and optimism. Luckily, if you do your research, it is possible to find many cool vendors from the comfort of your own home.
Change in Buyer Cycles
Wholesale buying is no longer a seasonal affair, with a mad rush at some times of the year and huge slumps at others.
The way consumers buy has changed. This change in how we spend money has caused the rapid increase in ecommerce conversions that business owners are enjoying right now.
Traditional fashion buying cycles of spring/summer and fall/winter are now a thing of the past, and many retailers are opting to introduce new lines all year round. This creates the need for an expanding pool of new and innovative merchandise, so retailers can have something fresh to offer their customers.
Manufacturers and wholesalers in the wholesale market are responding to this demand by improving the quality and diversity of their product lines, and offering improved shipping options.
1.2 Wholesale Meaning: What is a Wholesale Manufacturer?
Let's look at the differences between a wholesaler, a distributor, and a manufacturer.
Manufacturers and producers are pretty much the top of the pyramid.
While they do work with wholesale-to-retail businesses, depending on what they sell and how much of it, they may only work with distributors and sales reps.
The reason for this is, many manufacturers are not equipped to manage the logistics of retail sales, and working with trusted distributors removes that responsibility. More on distributors in a moment.
Unless you're developing a private label brand or launching a new product line, you'll most likely work with retail or merchant wholesalers, rather than manufacturers.
1.3 Wholesale Meaning: What is a Wholesale Distributor?
The role of the wholesale distributor is often overlooked. Wholesale distributors are important because they make sure merchant wholesalers get access to the latest and best products for the best prices.
Without them, it would be a lot trickier to get vital commodities and goods to the marketplace such as foodstuffs, furniture, and industrial supplies.
Sure, some manufacturers have a separate arm of the business which focuses purely on distribution. But most work with distribution centres to get their products to the right people. It's also not unusual for distributors to insist on an exclusivity agreement which puts limitations on the factories they partner with.
1.4 Wholesale Meaning: What Makes Distributors so Important?
Certified wholesale distributors manage shipments for the manufacturer of a product. With a warehouse and fulfillment team behind them, they ship bulk orders direct to the merchant wholesaler, and also direct to larger retailers.
Because wholesale distributors absorb the shipping costs of the manufacturer to the retailer – this means they're incredibly sensitive to things like changes in the cost of fuel and transportation costs.
The key to successful wholesale distribution is the ability to acquire high quality, high demand merchandise at low prices.Then, resell this product in volume– adding a profitable markup.
Working with a network of sales reps, the wholesale distributor is the proverbial middleman as they are the vital link between manufacturers and retailers.
[highlight]Expert Tip: If at all possible work directly with a certified wholesale distributor as this is where you'll get the absolute best wholesale prices.[/highlight]
1.5 Wholesale Meaning: What is a Retail Wholesaler?
The full service wholesaler offers an end-to-end service, selling any and everything from bed linen to wholesale party supplies. Wholesalers bulk purchase products directly from distributors, benefiting from better prices and payment terms as they repeatedly make high volume purchase orders.
These bulk purchase orders are then resold to ecommerce business owners with either a retail location or an online store, many have both. Up to about a decade ago, this was the most established type of wholesale, meaning your options where limited.
But with the growth of online shopping and social media, a new type of wholesaler has emerged: the merchant wholesaler. We'll look at how they work shortly.
[highlight] Expert Tip: Don't assume that a wholesaler will give you a line of credit straight away. Pay upfront for a few months before requesting a line of credit. [/highlight]
1.6 Wholesale Meaning: What is a Limited Service Wholesaler?
Limited service wholesalers often buy overstock from other wholesalers or manufacturers. With only a couple of sales channels and limited inventory levels, the limited service wholesaler serves a specific sector of the market. Often those too small to work directly with larger more established wholesalers.
Limited service wholesalers are not in the position to offer transportation, financing, shipping, and other benefits offered by a full service retail wholesaler. They compete by offering their customers more flexibility around minimum order quantities. The traditional cash-and-carry store would also be classed as a limited wholesaler.
1.7 Wholesale Meaning: What are Broker and Agent Wholesalers?
A working definition of the difference between a wholesale broker and a wholesale agent, is that a broker works with you to secure one deal while a wholesale agent is a long-term business partner who helps you to repeatedly secure the best purchasing deals for your company across the board.
Taking responsibility for brokering the best deal on high quality products for the best price for their client, wholesale agents generally work with companies buying in very high volume.
Some industries where agents and brokers are commonplace are manufacturing, chemical, consumables and real estate. Agents make their money by taking a % cut on the overall deal.
1.8 Wholesale Meaning: What are Specialized Wholesalers?
An example of a specialized wholesale supplier would be a vendor who only sells towels. They are knowledgeable experts in their space, and only want to be known for selling that one specific product.
As the ecommerce industry grows, I've noticed that consumers are growing in their expectation of brands and retailers. Business owners are adapting to this demand by improving their product offerings and seeking out niche specialists to work with.
With this in mind, I predict there's going to be a massive increase in demand for this type of specialist wholesaler.
The thing is, specialists in any industry tend to be more in demand than generalists. And this can mean they have stricter criterion for who they work with, and tend to be harder to engage than some other types of supplier.
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The merchant wholesaler is currently the most common type of wholesale supplier, especially in the rapidly growing private label industry. If you're not careful, this type of wholesaler can also become your biggest competitor and an ever-present threat.
Let me explain.
Merchant wholesalers purchase bulk inventory directory from the manufacturer or distributor, holding this inventory within their own warehouse. They differ from traditional retail wholesalers because they take advantage of all the different sales and marketing channels currently available.
Let's take a look at one notorious merchant wholesaler example, Shein.
As you'll see they have no qualms in leveraging every sales channel available to them. They also operate under a number of different brand names, at least three that I've been able to find.
Shein selling retail on Poshmark.
Shein selling retail on Ebay
Shein selling retail on their own B2C ecommerce store.They also have a US store.
Shein selling retail on Amazon.
And here's where it gets really crazy and confusing. It would seem that there are 398 gold verified wholesalers on Alibaba all selling Shein.
Shein selling wholesale on Alibaba
They also operate under a number of different names, selling primarily the same products with tiny variations in price depending on which brand name they're operating under.
Shein are also Emma Cloth.
Just to confirm my suspicions and research were correct, I reached out to Shein regarding opening a wholesale account and was directed to create my wholesaler account over on a different website called Emma Cloth.
I see this happening all the time, so before you decide on a wholesale supplier make sure you know whether they're directly competing for the exact same customer that you are.
[highlight] Expert Tip: Ask your wholesaler if they're retailing the same products on their own website or other channels like Amazon, Ebay, Poshmark, etc.[/highlight]
You need to be mindful of this even if you don't plan to use open-source sales channels like Amazon.
Customers often look at sites like Amazon and Ebay as a way of price shopping. And if your supplier is selling the same dress as you on Ebay for $25 cheaper, that's where many of your potential customers will end up buying it.
Where at all possible, you really want to avoid competing against your wholesale supplier. Because, unless you have deep advertising pockets and a strong sales funnel to increase your order value from each customer, they will price-cut you out of business.
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In order to understand Islam it is necessary to know the meaning of certain key terms and the identity of some proper names. Most of them are in the Arabic language, and there is often no equivalent in English or in other tongues.
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- This is a verse from the Qur'an that Muslims recite and say many times per day. Other than being recited daily during prayers, a Muslim reads this expression in every activity of his daily life. The meaning of it is: "Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds."
A Muslim invokes the praises of Allah before he does his daily work; and when he finishes, he thanks Allah for His favors. A Muslim is grateful to Allah for all His blessings. It is a statement of thanks, appreciation, and gratitude from the creature to his Creator.
- This statement is said by Muslims numerous times. During the call for prayer, during prayer, when they are happy, and wish to express their approval of what they hear, when they slaughter an animal, and when they want to praise a speaker, Muslims do say this expression of Allahu Akbar. Actually it is most said expression in the world. Its meaning: "Allah is the Greatest." Muslims praise Allah in every aspect of life; and as such they say Allahu Akbar.
- This is an expression Muslims say whenever they meet one another. It is a statement of greeting with peace. The meaning of it is: "Peace be upon you."
Muslims try to establish peace on earth even through the friendly relation of greeting and meeting one another.
The other forms are: "Assalamu 'Alalikum Wa Rahmatullah," which means:"May the peace and the Mercy of Allah be upon you," and "Assalamu Alalikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh," which means :"May the peace, the mercy, and the blessings of Allah be upon you."
- This is an expression used by a Muslim when he wants to ask Allah forgiveness. The meaning of it is: "I ask Allah forgiveness." A Muslim says this phrase many times, even when he is talking to another person. When a Muslim abstains from doing wrong, or even when he wants to prove that he is innocent of an incident he uses this expression. After every Salah (payer), a Muslim says this statement three times.
- This is an expression and a statement that Muslims have to recite before reading to Qur'an, before speaking, before doing any work, before making a supplication, before taking ablution, before entering the wash room, and before doing many other daily activities. The meaning of this phrase is: "I seek refuge from Allah from the outcast Satan." Allah is the Arabic name of God.
Satan is the source of evil and he always tries to misguide and mislead people. The Qur'an states that Satan is not an angel but a member of the Jinn, which are spiritual beings created by Allah. So the belief that Satan is a fallen angel is rejected in Islam.
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- This is an expression which means: "May the blessings of Allah (be upon you)." When a Muslim wants to thank to another person, he uses different statements to express his thanks, appreciation, and gratitude. One of them is to say "Baraka Allah."
- This is a phrase from the Qur'an that is recited before reading the Qur'an. It is to be read immediately after one reads the phrase: "A'uzu Billahi Minashaitanir Rajim."
This phrase is also recited before doing any daily activity. The meaning of it is: "In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful."
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- When a person wishes to plan for the future, when he promises, when he makes resolutions, and when he makes a pledge, he makes them with permission and the will of Allah. For this reason, a Muslim uses the Qur'anic instructions by saying "In Sha ' Allah." The meaning of this statement is: "If Allah wills." Muslims are to strive hard and to put their trusts with Allah. They leave the results in the hands of Allah.
- When a Muslim is struck with a calamity, when he loses one of his loved ones, or when he has gone bankrupt, he should be patient and say this statement, the meaning of which is : "We are from Allah and to hom we are returning."
Muslims believe that Allah is the One who gives and it is He takes away. He is testing us. Hence, a Muslim submits himself to Allah. He is grateful and thankful to Allah for whatever he gets. On the other hand, he is patient and says this expression in times of turmoil and calamity.
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- This is a statement of thanks and appreciation to be said to the person who does a favor. Instead of saying "thanks" (Shukran), the Islamic statement of thanks is to say this phrase. Its meaning is: " May Allah reward you for the good."
It is understood that human beings can't repay one another enough. Hence, it is better to request Almighty Allah to reward the person who did a favor and to give him the best.
Talk or speech as in "kalamu Allah"; has also been used through the ages to mean logic or philosophy.
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- The meaning of this expression is: " There is no power and no strength save in Allah." This expression is read by a Muslim when he is struck by a calamity, or is taken over by a situation beyond his control. A Muslim puts his trust in the hands of Allah, and submits himself to Allah.
- This expression is the most important one in Islam. It is the creed that every person has to say to be considered a Muslim. It is part of the first pillar of Islam. The meaning of which is: " There is no lord worthy of worship except Allah."
The second part of this first pillar is to say: "Muhammadun Rasul Allah," which means:"Muhammad is the messenger of Allah."
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- This is an expression that Muslims say whenever they are excited and surprised. When they wish to express their happiness, they use such an expression. The meaning of "Ma sha' Allah" is: "Whatever Allah wants." or "Whatever Allah wants to give, He gives." This means that whenever Allah gives something good to someone, blesses him, honors him, and opens the door of success in business, a Muslim says this statement of "Ma Sha' Allah."
It has become a tradition that whenever a person constructs a building, a house, or an office, he puts a plaque on the wall or the entrance with this statement. It is a sign of thanks and appreciation from the person to Almighty Allah for whatever he was blessed with.
- This statement is the second part of the first pillar of Islam. The meaning of this part is that Prophet Muhammad is the last and final prophet and messenger of Allah to mankind. He is the culmination, summation, purification of the previous prophets of Allah to humanity.
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- These letters are abbreviations for the words Peace Be Upon Him which are the meaning of the Arabic expression " 'Alaihis Salam", which is an expression that is said when the name of a prophet is mentioned.
This expression is widely used by English speaking Muslims. It is to be noticed here that this expression does not give the full meaning of "Salla Allahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam". Therefore it is recommended that people do not use (p.b.u.h.) after the name of prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.); they should use "Salla Allahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam" instead, or they may use the abbreviated form of (s.a..w) in writing.
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- This is an expression to be used by Muslims whenever a name of a companion of the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) is mentioned or used in writing. The meaning of this statement is: "May Allah be pleased with him."
Muslims are taught to be respectful to the elderly and to those who contributed to the spread and success in Islam. They are to be grateful to the companions of the prophet (s.a.w.) for their sacrifices, their leadership, and their contributions. Muslims are advised to use this phrase when such names are mentioned or written.
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- This is a statement of truth that a Muslim says after reading any amount of verses from the Qur'an. The meaning of it is: "Allah says the truth."
The Qur'an is the exact words of Allah in verbatim. When Allah speaks, He says the truth; and when the Qur'an is being recited, a Muslim is reciting the words of truth of Allah. Hence, he says: "Sadaqallahul 'Azim."
- When the name of Prophet Muhammad (saw) is mentioned or written, a Muslim is to respect him and invoke this statement of peace upon him. The meaning of it is: "May the blessings and the peace of Allah be upon him (Muhammad).
Another expression that is alternatively used is: "Alaihissalatu Wassalam." This expression means: "On Him (Muhammad) are the blessings and the peace of Allah."
Allah has ordered Muslims, in the Qur'an, to say such an expression. Muslims are informed that if they proclaim such a statement once, Allah will reward them ten times.
S.A.W. These letters are abbreviations for the words "Salla Allahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam".
- This is an expression that Muslims use whenever the name of Allah is pronounced or written. The meaning of this expression is: "Allah is pure of having partners and He is exalted from having a son."
Muslims believe that Allah is the only God, the Creator of the Universe. He does not have partners or children. Sometimes Muslims use other expressions when the name of Allah is written or pronounced. Some of which are: "'Azza Wa Jall": He is the Mighty and the Majestic; "Jalla Jalaluh": He is the exalted Majestic.
S.W.T. These letters are abbreviations for the words of "Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala".
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- This is an expression that a Muslim is to say as an answer for the greeting. When a person greets another with a salutation of peace, the answer for the greeting is an answer of peace. The meaning of this statement is: "And upon you is the peace." The other expressions are: " Wa Alaikums Salam Wa Rahmatullah." and "Wa 'Alaikums Salam Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh."
This key to terms has had its beginnings from the information contained in the booklet Introducing Islam to Non-Muslims by Hussein Khalid Al-Hussein and Ahmad Hussein Sakr. Additional information from
- ISLAM: A PRIMER, by John Sabini
- Institute of Islamic Information and Education (III&E)


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BadVista.org: FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista
Boston, MA—December 15, 2006—The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched BadVista.org, a campaign with a twofold mission of exposing the harms inflicted on computer users by the new Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free software alternatives that respect users' security and privacy rights.
"Vista is an upsell masquerading as an upgrade. It is an overall regression when you look at the most important aspect of owning and using a computer: your control over what it does. Obviously MS Windows is already proprietary and very restrictive, and well worth rejecting. But the new 'features' in Vista are a Trojan Horse to smuggle in even more restrictions. We'll be focusing attention on detailing how they work, how to resist them, and why people should care", said FSF program administrator John Sullivan.
The campaign will organize supporters into effective and unusual actions drawing attention to this daylight theft of computer users' rights, aggregate news stories cutting through the Vista marketing propaganda, and provide a user-friendly gateway to the adoption of free software operating systems like gNewSense (http://www.gnewsense.org) and Ututo (http://www.ututo.org).
Peter Brown, executive director of the FSF said, "Whilst Microsoft embarks upon its largest ever product launch, its marketing dollars will be spent in an effort to fool the media and user community about the goals of Vista. Our campaign will ask the important questions. Can you set yourself or your company free? Can you ever be free from Microsoft? As with our campaign against Digital Restrictions Management, we aim to demonstrate that technologists can be social activists, because we know the harm that Vista will cause".
Among other harms, BadVista.org will focus on the danger posed by Treacherous Computing in Vista. Commonly called Trusted Computing in the industry, it is an attempt to turn computers from machines controlled by their user into machines that monitor their user and refuse to operate in ways that manufacturers don't authorize.
Supporters can sign up to receive more information and participate in the campaign at http://badvista.org.
The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software—particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants— and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software. Their Web site, located at www.fsf.org, is an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support their work can be made at http://donate.fsf.org. They are headquartered in Boston, MA, USA.
Press Contact: For more information about this announcement or to schedule an interview, please contact Peter Brown or John Sullivan at +1-617-542-5942 or <firstname.lastname@example.com>.
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