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Unlike so many games before it in which the Jayhawks drubbed good opponents at Allen Fieldhouse, Sunday's 69-62 victory against Temple was a dog fight from start to finish.
The Jayhawks built a lead of as many as 11 points in the first half but Temple refused to go away and actually spent several minutes in the second half playing with the lead.
But when the game was on the line, KU seniors Kevin Young and Jeff Withey came up big on both ends of the floor. Travis Releford, who sat for most of the second half with four fouls and eventually fouled out, also buried a three-pointer that put KU up seven with just over a minute to play.
Withey finished with eight points, 11 rebounds and nine blocks, and Young chipped in with another high-energy, high-output game, finishing with 16 points and 10 rebounds to push the Jayhawks to 12-1 on the season.
Temple turned the ball over just three times and was led by 26 points from Khalif Wyatt, who tallied 17 of those in the second half, including 11 straight at one point.
Here's a quick look back at some of the action.
The game turned when: KU senior and designated defensive stopper Travis Releford picked up his fourth foul at the 15:32 mark of the second half. With Releford on the bench, Temple took control, but the Jayhawks overcame Releford's absence and earned the hard-fought victory in the final minutes with the senior starter back on the floor.
Offensive highlight: With Temple leading by three and KU struggling on the offensive end, Elijah Johnson fired a high pass to Ben McLemore, who got a nice back screen from Kevin Young and rose high above Temple's Anthony Lee and Rahlir Hollis-Jefferson to throw down the alley-oop and pull the Jayhawks to within one point, 46-45, with 11:49 to play.
Defensive highlight: Although Ben McLemore's first-half blocked shot, which he caught with both forearms, might have been the most athletic defensive play, it was the red-shirt freshman's steal and two-handed, double-pump dunk that put the Jayhawks ahead 58-57 with 2:45 to play that seemed to be the most significant defensive play of the day for Kansas.
Key stat: Turnovers. The Owls committed just four turnovers the entire game (including just two in the second half), and the Jayhawks gave the ball away 14 times.
Up next: The Jayhawks will kick off the Big 12 portion of their schedule Wednesday when they take on Iowa State at 6 p.m. at Allen Fieldhouse.
Nice tough game. Rock Chalk. And if Wichita State handles their business, it'll be another wknd of Kansas teams sweeping.
Speaking of Wichita State... When is KU going to start playing them? It would be a good RPI game for both teams.
We had ten more turnovers than the Owls - not good. But, we also had eleven more rebounds and ten more blocks than they. That did even it out. I'm not sure why we were making some of those turnovers. We seemed lost at times. It looked like they might have had too long of a break.
Sloppy, strange, comatose plays by the Jayhawks! Did Self just sit and watched - just to see what they could do on their own? Testing their will to win?
Jaybate, what happend? What are the missing holes does this team need to fill? Temple didn't have a blowout performance today, did they? Thanks!
Give Jaybate some time it takes a wile to filter threw notes, game logs, and game tape to decipher what just happened.
Tough teams win tough games! How is Temple NOT ranked? I don't think you gave Temple its due...let Missery meet them in the NCAA
What didn't Self do? If you think he sat and watched, you were watching a different game. I did't see any big holes..just a lack of consistency.
jh - do these numbers tell you anything - ie holes? Do you think Temple was that good based on these numbers?
Temple v KU
FG 19-63, 30% v 24-55, 43% FT 20-26, 76% v 16-18, 88% 3-P 4-17, 23% v 5-14, 35% OR 11 v 9 DR 20 v 33 TR 31 v 42 Assists 8 v 17 Blocks 2 v 12 Fouls 15 v 17 Steals 8 v 1 TOs 4 v 14
Temple is a team that you can't judge based on stats alone. They are a team that likes to make games as muddy and ugly as possible. They are the kind of team that can cause havoc in the NCAA tournament. Temple is the team that can make your "A" game look like a "C" game.
What didn't Self do? All I know is that McLemore could have and should have dominated this game - and he did show up but not the way he could have. How many set plays did you see for McLemore? Our guards didn't use him. And, Temple wasn't all that where I felt they'd have walked away with a W because our seasoned seniors knew better. But still, the team was incoherent today. My two cents.
Temple isn't ranked because they lost to conisius or something like that! They have now played three games, got blown out by Duke, beat an untested Syracuse team, and now KU. If they had beaten KU they may have become ranked. Now they will have to do solid in their conference in order to even make the tournament.
kevin young pulled our fat out of the fire with those late free-throws.
jaycon11 gets my "nailed it" comment of the game here. Rough officiating and KYo has to go to the line on a "before the shot" foul? late in the game when there was obvious goal-tending on a shooting foul as he was hacked in the air, then hits two more after he got a great hustle but possibly over-the-back rebound on the defensive end. Sealed it up plus a few other solid plays late, but mostly Kevin Young. He was the only positive to take away from this game and maybe the fact that the refs called it for Temple the first 15 mins of the 2nd half and KU was able to hang around. Other than that who on this team wants to learn from mistakes and improve for the future? Traylor and Ellis both played hard for certain, but as far as I can tell this team has peaked, BMac won't go out of his comfort zone and risk his NBA draft positioning to make something happen, everyone wants to make lame telegraphed turnover-proned passes, things have come to easy thus far in the season, and the rest of these guys don't want to improve and compete for a national title? Not good, based off today I'd say we'll get a 33-34 win season with a sw16 or EE outing come March.
I still don't understand that call. The announcers said it wasn't goal tending because it was on the ground, or like you said, it was a "before the shot" foul. But we were in the single bonus at that time, and when he went to shoot, he was shooting two, not one and one. That means it must've been a shooting foul, and if it was a shooting foul, how do they not call goal tending?
TRelly and Jelly came back around 6:00 and added ENERGY!
Tim Brando has now done play-by-play for 14 KU games (including the recent Ohio St game). He is now 14 for 14. KU has never lost a game he's broadcast. I like Tim Brando!
Better results than we had with Gus Johnson.
Yeah..I couldn't figure out the officiating either.Maybe unintentional but very inconsistent.
You couldn't ask for a better game leading into conference play. Iowa state is one of the highest scoring teams in the country. We better be ready. The fighting Hoibergs will.
Elijah had too much TyShawn in him tonight. He needs to protect the ball each possession. Travis needs to be on the court when times get tough. Glad they pushed through and finished things off.
Really? I've always wondered why people think we should play Wichita State. Outside of the state of Kansas would anybody know that we played WSU? We need to continue to play in areas that aid in our recruitment, such as Chicago, Las Vegas, Maryland, New York, etc.
Wichita State is ranked 18 in RPI. The only other team KU played with a higher RPI is Colorado. Wichita State's RPI is higher than all other Big 12 teams (other than KU of course).
RPI means absolutely nothing this time of year.
RPI is cumulative.
We do get those recruits without playing right in Wichita.
I'm sure when you are recruiting big time players and you say, we get to go to Wichita on a road trip, the eyes in the young recruits get so excited.
At least Releford's foul trouble got Andrew White some PT.
Really? :)
We get it inside plenty enough, but I think the only thing that is missing from "our game" is our inability to drive (or try to drive) the lane. We will be short on free throw attempts without it. Comment?
EJ had a couple nice moves inside when KU was down late, which was nice to see
I just wrote three part post that explained everything and lost it when I accidentally slid back a page, then it disappeared on me when I slid forward. Grrrrrrrrr!
I am too frustrated to write it all again, so here are the Cliff's notes.
Dunphy stopped the new "slide off the spots offense" by hooking everyone before they could slide off the spots; this is why everything looked so gummed up so much of the time.
Self, for his part, was doing what he does every last non conference of every season. He was forcing his team to labor without any coaching wrinkles until the last seven minutes. This compounded Dunphy's defensive hooking strategy that gummed KU up on offense; Self let his guys try to find a way out of the bag until he finally had to give them some edges at 7 minutes to win the game.
Defensively, Self tried something I've never seen done on a basketball floor ever. It was as big of an inversion on defense as was the inversion of the offense 7 games ago with "slide off the spots." He told the guys not to pressure on ball...EVER! The idea was simple. Withey can shut these guys off inside. And Kevin can drive them nuts inside. That combination resulted in Temple shooting 29% FG overall. Out on the perimeter, Self reasoned that the only way Temple could beat them on the perimeter was by passing and driving the ball off the catch on a good angle at Withey that gave Jeff little time to react. So: the solution was to NOT PRESSURE THE BALL EVER. AND DON'T TRY TO STEAL IT.
Temple's strength was ball handling and driving off the catch on the perimeter. So Self just told the guys to take away the pass and catch by pressure off ball, and on ball crowd the trey and then encourage the guy with the ball to put it on the deck...but the opposite direction of his comfort zone.
Didn't anyone wonder why we were guarding the stripe so hard against such a lousy trey shooting team? The idea was: actively force the ball into Jeff. Don't even take a chance on their trey shooting getting hot for a while. Never pressure the ball except not to take the trey. Crowd the the guy with the ball into driving into Jeff. This is why there were no steals and there was no conventional Self Defense pressure until at 7 to go, when Self told them to get after them everywhere and then gave them a few obvious wrinkles to run on offense.
Boom. A small lead finally opened, and if KU had not put on the most incomparably bungling display of offensive basketball from 5 to 1:30 to go, KU would easily have won by ten, which was what I predicted.
But suddenly it was like and offensive grand mal seizure spread through every player.
Each player would make a phenomenally stupid play and then follow it up with a great play.
It was like the offense endured a psychotic break.
Self seemed to understand that he had cracked his own team by waiting so long, letting them labor for so long, to help them get a win.
Jeff little time to react. So: the solution was to NOT PRESSURE THE BALL EVER. AND DON'T TRY TO STEAL IT.
Hmmmmm, but I heard Self lamenting after the game about having only one steal
I'm not disagreeing w/ necessarily, but I just find it hard to believe that Self would reroute from a basic tenant of his coaching philosophy to instruct in-game. Practice maybe. We all know HCBS coaches to win the game that's in front of him.
Self just said his prayers and hoped his short circuited team would make one more good play than awful play and they would escape with a win.
He clearly thought they could turn it on at the end and separate anytime they needed to.
But he guessed wrong about how much labor they could take before cracking.
So the better team won by 7 the hard way, which is probably close to what he wanted anyway.
He is always willing to lose that last nonconference game if that's what it takes to avoid over confidence entering conference play.
Offensive inversion of slide off the spots stopped by defensive hooking and holding.
Defensive inversion of pressuring off ball and not pressuring on ball suckered Temple into putting it on the deck to much, and not running their stuff enough, and Fran never figured it out.
KU wins another.
Self gets exactly what he wants again.
His team wins with an inverted defense--calculated under pressure on the balll--the weirdest flipping defense yet.
His team short circuits at the end on offense trying to run the slide of the spots offense, that Fran figured out, but still makes enough plays to off set the brain seizures, once Self gave them a few wrinkles to run.
Two more things.
Kevin Young made two of the worst plays I've seen a in a long time down the stretch, but both times he immediately made a play that made up for it.
And the rest of the game he was the volatility and explosiveness and emotion to Jeff's steady coiling and uncoiling that chokes off opposing offenses from ever getting any good looks inside.
Kevin was an absolute man today.
Next, Jeff Withey was an absolute man also. He was finally getting the kind of ruthless attention that TRob got last season from this time onwards. And Jeff didn't ever lose his cool or focus. Great job Jeff.
P. S.: Trav played a great game until he made that incredible bone head play to de-ice the game and foul out. Wow! That's one to remember and not repeat, Trav. But of course it was Trav's oh so beautiful trey that got us some real separation.
Thanks JB. Sorry you lost 3 posting! But I will take your analysis anytime. I don't know enough about the game, but knew it looked messy and confusing to watch - that's me trying to make sense of it all. The clouds are gone and sun is out, all thanks to you. Now that Dunphy exposed Self' new offense strategy, what are your thoughts on what Self will do to modify and/or improve?
I'll agree with you that with a down-Big12 and things having come too easy so far Self had to be happy to see this team get pushed and get called out on lacksidasical (no idea about his word) passing (lack-si-dazi-icle? anyway). Probably didn't argue with the refs too much 'cause he wanted to see his team respond (even though they were as lopsided as they come for the 1st 15 mins of the 2nd half). KU needs to be challenged to want to improve and become a title team. Right now they are a team that could win the title, Misery and KSU and Baylor pushed them in the B12 last year to be great and they responded and were great in the post season. Won't find that inspiration in conference this year so they better get it where they can.
So......not a great game but I give them credit......they won. And Temple is a pretty good team. Get rid of the turnovers and we will be just fine.
Nice to see EJ come through in the 2nd half.
edgy game; glad to see them battle all the way, not give up and pressure Temple ...
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- Want some company? She asked Suddenly, I was so embarrassed and I began to cry. Leslie sat on the bed, put her arms around me.
- It's all right, Mary she said. I know that you want me.
- The fact is, I want you, too. You really turn me on. Now just relax and let me make love to you. Even though I was nervous and scared about the whole thing, I was also excited and aroused. I told Leslie I would try. She had a bag with her that read Le Sex Shoppe. I asked her what's in the bag? - It's a surprise, Leslie replied as she got into bed next to me. I told Leslie, even though I've fantasized many times about making love with another woman, this will be the first time that I've actually done it, so if I don't respond right away, it's from nervousness and anticipation. Leslie took me in her arms, and as we held each other tight, - Don't worry, she said. Nothing will happen that you don't choose. Then, our lips met in a long, sincere, passionate and beautiful kiss. She then moved her tongue down my body to my breasts and caressed and fondled them ever so gently. She then ate my pussy better than my husband ever did. After that we kissed again.
- Did you enjoy that? Leslie asked me, - I loved it. She then asked me, - Would you do that to me now? - Why not? I replied. I climbed on top of Leslie and caressed her all over. There wasn't a part of her beautiful body that my lips didn't touch. Then, I ate pussy for the first time and I liked it better than sucking my late dear's cock. After we lay in each other's arms, caressing and fondling each other, Leslie got up, brought over her paper bag and opened it. Inside were a seven-inch strap-on dildo and a small tube of Vaseline. I watched with burning excitement as Leslie quickly put the dildo on. It looked like a genuine cock sticking out from her pussy, and I was eager to have her fuck me with it.
- Hurry up and fuck me, I can't wait, I said.
- First things first. Said Leslie - I want you to suck my cock. I deep throated all seven inches of Leslie's plastic cock and made like Linda Lovelace. I got so heavily into the fantasy that I expected Leslie to come in my mouth. Leslie then pulled out of my mouth and turned me over. She then inserted her cock in my cunt from behind and began to fuck me really good. I enjoyed feeling Leslie's cock going in and out of me. With her hands placed firmly on my rear, Leslie gave me a good rear end screw.
- Would you do something for me? I asked - Baby, you don't have to ask. Just tell me.
- Okay. I want you to fuck me in the ass. Leslie withdrew from my cunt, and lubed up her cock and my rectum with the Vaseline. She ever so slowly penetrated my asshole. She went real slow at first. Being fucked in the ass was very painful. But at the same time, I was getting excited and aroused. When Leslie saw that I was enjoying myself, she increased the tempo of her thrusts. Leslie then bent down, gripped me tight around the stomach and began to thrust into my ass hard. The harder she fucked me, the better I liked it. We kept this up for a long time. Leslie slowly withdrew from my rectum, unstrapped the dildo, placed it on the floor, rolled me over, took me in her arms, and we held and kissed each other until we fell asleep.
When we woke up, Leslie and I made love again. Then I strapped on the dildo and fucked Leslie from behind, First in her pussy and then in her ass. Afterwards, Leslie asked me, - Well, was it what you thought it would be? - Yes. It was better than I ever dreamed of I replied. We could hear Ellie getting up, so we dressed and started to make breakfast. Tuesday nights are very special to Leslie and I. That's when we get together for a wild night of passion, which ends with one of us fucking the other with a strap-on dildo. A month of these Tuesdays has gone by, and we have made a discovery: we're in love. Now comes the hard part: how to tell this to Ellie. I'm not sure how she'll take the news. We'll just have to cross that bridge when we come to it.


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At his Consumer Electronics Show keynote, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)CEO Brian Krzanich announced his company wants to take on the diversity gap, not just at his company, but in the greater tech industry. For unfamiliar readers, diversity in technology has been hard to come by. For example, in Google's recently released diversity report, the company reported a workforce that's only 30% female, 2% African-American, and 3% Hispanic.
And it's not just Google: Yahoo, Apple, and LinkedIn, among others, are woefully lacking when it comes to diverse workforces. According to the last U.S. Census population projections, African-Americans are 13.2% of the United States' population, Hispanics/Latinos are 17.8%, and women are a little over 50%. Of the mentioned companies, LinkedIn "leads" on women employees with 39%; Apple takes top spot with 7% African-American and 11% Hispanic employees, although it should be mentioned Apple has a large, "technology-lite" retail workforce.
To be fair to these technology giants, they correctly note the problem is centered in a lack of qualified candidates seeking positions in technology. But a conversation is happening in Silicon Valley, and that's a good thing. And for Intel to donate money to this cause is admirable.
But when I heard what the company's $300 million is going toward, I was left thinking the company's either not serious about addressing this concern, or simply not thinking of the most direct way to solve this problem. Personally, I think Intel could use this money more effectively.
A new pipeline is needed
According to The New York Times, the company plans to use that money to fund engineering scholarships and to "support" historically black colleges and universities. And, again, these are both admirable goals, but it's a rather indirect way to solve the problem -- not to mention the scholarship route has been done before. Intel, working in concert with these other tech firms, has the potential and financial wherewithal to institute a new and effective pipeline to address the diversity gap: an on-the-job-based apprenticeship program consortium with specific skill training.
Let me be clear, this is not to demean historically black colleges -- or any college, for that matter. This is to address the underlying economics of a college degree; economically, a degree is merely a signal an employee has the potential to learn -- and more recently, an expensive signal at that. And in the fast-moving fields of technology, in many cases a degree is not a hard requirement for success -- if you don't believe me ask Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates.
And this isn't just my opinion, many are questioning the current value of a four-year degree over direct, applicable skills and training. Andrew McAfee wrote an intriguing article, "Stop Requiring College Degrees," that outlined there may be better ways to gauge a prospective employee's aptitude. But the real story is where the article was published: The Harvard Business Review, essentially the bastion of higher education.
Why this matters for all stakeholders, including shareholders
On the surface, there's a large contingent that appears to be unaffected by homogeneous workforces. However, that's a rather myopic way of looking at the problem. For example, in the field of banking a recent MIT Sloan Business School study found that "ethnic diversity leads all traders, whether of majority or minority ethnicity, to price more accurately and thwart bubbles." The study concluded that "overpricing was higher in homogeneous markets because traders are more likely to accept speculative trades."
Therefore, it's entirely possible a more diverse Wall Street could have predicted the risk more effectively in the lead up to the housing bubble, and the $700 billion check taxpayers cut it in 2008 could have been lessened -- or avoided altogether. In addition, more effectively aligning a prospective employee to a career they truly desire has the potential to keep that employee a motivated, productive member of society that leads to more tax dollars and GDP-boosting spending power, among other benefits.
Building upon that fact, shareholders have even more to benefit from a diverse workforce and leadership. Nonprofit firm Catalyst found that companies with the most women on its board of directors outperformed those with the least women 16% in return of sales and return on invested capital by 26% in a 2011 study, although it is important to note correlation is not causation here.
This outperformance probably has to do with a diverse field of experiences to pull from. Matter of fact, a study published at the National Academy of Sciences found that groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of homogeneous higher-ability problem solvers.
Finally, as an added benefit, diverse employees have the ability to quickly act on hidden trends in their communities, giving employers insight into minority markets that are experiencing increased buying power at an "exponential rate."
But first, we need a new conversation
Unfortunately, discussions about diversity anywhere -- not just in the workforce -- seem to take on the form of relitigating the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was signed into law over 50 years ago. In order to address a new economy, we need to embrace new thought on the subject. Diversity needs to be from a broader lens, and economic upbringing and current opportunity gaps need to be considered, in addition to race and sex.
Personally speaking, as an African-American raised in an economically depressed area, I can truly say both are barriers to long-term wealth and should be addressed. Merely discussing this subject in terms of race, and not in the broader context of economic opportunity and background, has the potential to turn many off and might not provide the ladder to success for those who have the greatest need.
As a sad commentary of American psyche today, many Americans feel their children's standard of living will be worse off than theirs, crushing the real American Dream. Investing in these communities could do a great deal for those the postrecession economic recovery forgot.
So, Intel, the ball is in your court. After spending up to a reported $5 billion for the Fab 42 factory that does not appear operational, how about you spend some money filling it -- or another U.S. factory -- with economically diverse, well-trained employees? In the end, technology has the potential to solve these long-term, complex issues that have beguiled governments and legislatures for decades. Intel and other tech firms can help fix this problem, but not by taking a page from the "cut a check; clear your conscience" playbook of yesteryear.


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My grandma passed away two days before Christmas.
She was my last living grandparent. She taught me to knit, to bake, to love old musicals & baseball, and gave me one week every summer in which I was the only priority. She came to every piano recital, every choir concert, and every birthday party. She made literally hundreds of cookies for Christmas every year, and relished having the entire family over for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and Mother's Day. She certainly had her flaws, but as a grandma she was pretty much amazing.
For the last ten years or so, she had no idea who I was, who any of her grandchildren were, and when she recognized my mother, it was only as the woman who took care of her. After a stroke several years ago, her memory deteriorated even more, and she was scared, anxious and sad all the time. I've been praying for years for her to be released from that particular hell, and now her passing has hit me much harder than I expected.
But I also have comfort that not everyone is able to access on their own.
Shortly after she passed, around 6:15 am, my mom called to tell me. After we hung up, I rolled over, wondering how I would get back to sleep. Grandma showed up near the foot of my bed and started singing. She sang the lullaby that her mother had sung to her, she sang to my mom, and both she and my mom sang to me when I was little. I can never remember the words (I tried to sing it to my fussy baby cousin and ended up singing "la la la" and making up words), but there they all were, in grandma's familiar voice.
I really wish I could say I was lulled back to sleep, because that would be poetic and beautiful. I wasn't. I was comforted. I was glad to see her as I remember her, and not as she looked in the memory care unit. I was glad to hear her voice for the first time in years. I was glad to see her at peace. And after a while longer, I rolled out of bed, took a shower, and baked her Christmas cookies.
Being a medium changes grief. It doesn't erase it – there is always comfort in having those we love physically present with us on this plane. When they pass, grief comes because I miss the physical contact, seeing a solid human form, and hearing a voice outside of my head. I grieve the relationship as it was.
But there is also comfort in knowing, not just hoping or believing, but truly knowing she is okay – at peace, no more pain, no more fear or confusion. There is comfort in be able to see that she recognizes me, remembers the time we spent together when I was young, and loves me.


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Saeed al-Masri
|Saeed al-Masri
|February 27, 1955[1]
May 21, 2010 (aged 55)
Boya, North Waziristan, Pakistan
|Other names
|Sheikh Saeed al-Masri
Mustafa Ahmed Muhammad Uthman Abu al-Yazid (مصطفى أحمد محمد عثمان أبو اليزيد), better known as Saeed al-Masri (سعيد المصري) or simply al-Masri (المصري = the Egyptian), (February 27, 1955 - May 21, 2010) was an Egyptian who was alleged to have acted as the financial chief for al-Qaeda.[2][3] Along with Mahfouz Ould al-Walid and Saif al-Adel, al-Masri was believed to have opposed the September 11 attacks two months prior to their execution.[4] He was killed in a targeted killing drone airstrike in Pakistan on May 21, 2010.
In Pakistan
He was initially arrested among hundreds of others following the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981.[5] He was imprisoned for three years in Egypt, and shortly after he joined Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and in 1988 went to Afghanistan.[6] He had two wives and several sons and daughters, including one married to the son of Sheikh Omar Abd al-Rahman.[6]
As of 1991, al-Masri was working as the financial chief for al-Qaeda, running the Mektabh al-Muhassiba (accounting office) in Peshawar. He was alleged to have appointed Ibrahim al-Qosi as his deputy to handle money destined for NGO projects.[7]
In Sudan
Al-Masri set up a financial office on McNimr Street in Khartoum on June 9, 1993, from where he managed al-Qaeda's payroll. al-Fadl aided al-Masri until he was replaced by Abu Dijana al-Yemeni and Abdallah Lubnani.
After receiving his pilot license, L'Houssaine Kherchtou returned to the Sudan in December 1995, but was appalled to find that his wife, heavily pregnant and in need of $500 for a cesarean section, was begging on the streets for money to allow her entrance to Khartoum's general hospital. Kherchtou went to al-Masri and asked him to cover his wife's medical bills, and was upset upon being informed there was no money to spare and al-Masri suggested he take her to a Muslim charitable hospital for free treatment. He angrily demanded to know "if it was your wife or your daughter, you would take her there", and later recounted that he was angry enough to have shot al-Masri if he had had a gun at the time.[8][9][10][11][12]
Return to Pakistan, claims of death
|There is nothing that is worth mentioning about [al-Masri] and we cannot classify him as being one of the well-known leaders that rotated within Al-Qa'ida during at least the past ten years... he is not one of the well-known leaders.
|— Muntasser al-Zayat commenting on the 2007 video[13]
In May 2007, al-Masri released a video promising Americans that al-Qaeda troops had been training through the winter and were ready to begin a fresh summer offensive in Afghanistan.[13]
In December, al-Masri was said to have claimed responsibility for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, telling Adnkronos International that "we terminated the most precious American asset which vowed to defeat mujahideen".[14] The Asia Times Online also reported that it had received a claim of responsibility from al-Masri by telephone.[15]
al-Masri allowed himself to be interviewed on Geo Television in July 2008 following the Danish embassy bombing, which he claimed were carried out by a Saudi follower of al-Qaeda.[16][17]
Pakistan's DAWN reported him killed on August 13, 2008 in an airstrike in Bajaur.[18][19] Tehrik-i-Taliban spokesman Maulvi Omar, himself captured five days after the attack, denied the claim that al-Masri had been killed.[19][20] Others suggested that the report of his death was a Pakistani attempt to refute recent American accusations that sections of the ISI were still assisting al-Qaeda.[21][22]
On February 9, 2009 the Indian government received a video from al-Yazid in which he reiterated the promise of Pakistani retaliation if India launched a first strike. This video took everyone by surprise as he was presumed to be dead.[23]
Confirmed death
He was reported as having been killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan on May 21, 2010 along with his wife, three daughters and granddaughter. His death was confirmed by US officials and al-Qaeda.[24][25][26]
See also
- ↑ https://www.un.org/press/en/2012/sc10697.doc.htm
- ↑ Whitlock, Craig; Ladaa, Munir (2006). "Al-Qaeda's New Leadership". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 28, 2007.
- ↑ "Shaikh Saiid al-Masri". Global Security. Retrieved February 7, 2007.
- ↑ 9/11 Commission p 251
- ↑ Fox, Senior al-Qaeda commander killed in Pakistan, August 12, 2008
- 1 2 Michael Scheuer (July 3, 2007) Al-Qaeda's New Leader in Afghanistan: A Profile of Abu al-Yazid Terrorism Focus Volume 4, Issue 21. The Jamestown Foundation. Washington, DC. p. 5-7.
- ↑ Charge sheet, United States of America v. Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi
- ↑ Benjamin, Daniel & Steven Simon. "The Age of Sacred Terror", 2002
- ↑ Hirsch, Susan F. "In the moment of Greatest Calamity", 2006
- ↑ Wright, Lawerence. "The Looming Tower", p. 197
- ↑ Vest, Jason. American Prospect, Pray and Tell Archived 2010-02-06 at the Wayback Machine., June 19, 2005
- ↑ Bergen, Peter. "The Osama bin Laden I Know", 2006. p. 141 & 154
- 1 2 Al-Jazirah carries video remarks by 'new' al-Qa'ida official in Afghanistan, May 27, 2007. Archived August 18, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Pakistan: Al-Qaeda claims Bhutto's death". Adnkronos. December 27, 2007. Retrieved December 27, 2007.
- ↑ Shahzad, Syed Saleem (December 27, 2007). "Al-Qaeda claims Bhutto killing". Asia Times Online. Retrieved December 27, 2007.
- ↑ Asharz Alawsat, Senior al-Qaeda leader killed in Pakistan, August 12, 2008
- ↑ Zulfiqar Ali, Laura King (August 13, 2008). "Al Qaeda Official Is Said To Be Dead". Los Angeles Times. p. 6. Archived from the original on August 30, 2008. Retrieved August 30, 2008.
- ↑ Daily Telegraph, Al-Qa'eda's Abu Saeed al-Masri 'killed on Afghan border', August 12, 2008
- 1 2 DAWN, al-Qaeda leader among 18 killed in Bajaur, August 13, 2008
- ↑ Pakistan Captures Aide of Taliban Commander
- ↑ Cogan, James (August 16, 2008). "Hundreds dead in fighting along Afghanistan-Pakistan border". World Socialist Web Site. Retrieved August 24, 2008.
- ↑ Mohamed al Shafey (August 29, 2008). "Sheikh Said: Al Qaeda's Financier". Asharq Alawsat. Archived from the original on August 30, 2008. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
- ↑ NDTV Correspondent (February 9, 2008). "Al-Qaida warns India against any attack on Pakistan". NDTV. Archived from the original on February 11, 2009. Retrieved February 9, 2008.
- ↑ http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/officials-al-qaeda-no-3-killed.html%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D
- ↑ "Group: Al Qaeda says top leader in Afghanistan dies". CNN.
- ↑ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37440747


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You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
*photographs courtesy of Google Chrome
Monthly Archives: July 2016
Tugging at Heartstrings
In deciding what books to keep or donate before my move, I came across a small volume of poetry I hadn't seen or touched in quite some time. A small hardcover, it cheerfully greeted me with a child's colored hearts in red, pink and yellow on a cover of white. The title is, Journey Through Heartsongs, by Mattie J.T. Stepanek, published in 2001.
For those of you who don't know, Mattie Stepanek, (July 17, 1990-June 22, 2004) wanted to be remembered as "a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played." He was an amazing child who published seven best-selling books of poetry during his short thirteen years of life. Mattie had an innate sense of being, an intuition far beyond imagination which he brought not only to his poetry but to everyone he met. I urge all of you to read about his life at the following link. Quite simply, he was a remarkable being. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattie_Stepanek
Mattie lived with the Chronic Condition of Muscular Dystrophy and left us all with gifts unimaginable. My own heartstrings sing a melody of lyrics thanks to his writing. It's no accident that I rediscovered the jacket of this dusty book. I stopped to read it from cover to cover this morning, carefully placing it in a box next to some of my very favorites, marked, "Library."
Crystal Celebration
Sunrise is like a heavenly crystal ball.
In the little bit of time between night and day,
The angels look at the earth
To see how things are going and
To see how things will be.
The sky changes from dark
Into Angel-whites and Angel-golds.
The blackness of trees starts to glow with
Pinks and purples and oranges from their hearts.
And during each dawn,
All the Angels gather up and have
A celebration in God's honor!
And sometimes,
You can even watch
And join them in the celebrating.
Just look out into the sunrise,
Then jump into your own heart,
Float into the air like in a dream,
And pray with love and thank-yous
For your life, for your spirit, for your sunrise…
And for being a part of this heavenly crystal ball!
Mattie-Age 6
*painting courtesy of Google Chrome
The Magic Glass
Before I left Arizona last week, I saw my Great-Aunt one last time to say, "Good-By." I picked her up from my relative's house where she lived and slept. She had combed her short blonde hair pretty and straight, scrubbing her face shiny to glow in the sun. "Are you ready, Aunt Shirley?" "Oh, heaven's yes," she answered, her sparkling blue eyes twinkling.
As we drove to one of her favorite restaurants in town, we passed familiar cactus in the wide open desert together with several stray dogs roaming on the street. Aunt Shirley's frail hands were folded in her lap. She fidgeted, knowing it was our last visit, for this trip at least. When would I be coming back? That's what she was thinking, as I read her silent senior mind. My visits were one of the things that she most looked forward to.
It's hard for me to leave, harder still for her to see me go. At 88 years old, she gets lonely. She is loved where she lives it is true, but for her, it is nearly the same every day. She can no longer see well enough to read her dear books or to be independent. She is unable to drive her fanciful convertible car, or even to simply walk her beloved dog, Bunky. Yet she is not one to ever complain. She's lived a good life. She lives it still.
We stopped at a restaurant she most frequents named, J.B's. It has a Senior menu that offers a little of everything. Aunt Shirley is very frail, and as usual, wasn't very hungry. I mulled over the menu for a minute. Ordering for her is a challenge as I am forever trying to fatten her up. A nice waitress came by with a smile on her face and a pony tail in her hair with a big blue bow. She brought us water and coffee with cream. "Ahhhh!" There on the menu was the perfect picture of an item for someone not hungry, yet one that needed calories. A malted milkshake! "We'll share it, please," I said to the nice girl, the one with the big blue bow in her hair. "I'd like it extra thick, made with hot fudge and malted milk powder if you have it." She smiled at me, glancing at Aunt Shirley while writing on her green tablet with a red colored pen.
Soon the waitress came back with a tall clear fountain glass. It spilled over the brim, dripping with scoops of chocolate ice cream, cocoa-colored milk, and thick hot fudge. She brought an extra matching glass, two striped straws wrapped in cream paper, and extra long silver spoons that made clinking sounds against the glasses. I started to pour half of the drink into Aunt Shirley's tall glass before beginning to laugh. One clear glass was nearly full with the delicious confection while the other was still rising to the top! How could it be?
I examined my fountain glass like a science experiment, stirring it up with one of the extra long spoons. Was I missing something? Was it a bottomless glass? I peered at my Aunt to see her expression. She pondered me, her eyes wide with wonder, her pink lips parting in a smile as she scooted up to look deep into the vessel. We laughed. Was this a joke or something? Then we gave up. We drank our milkshakes, held hands, lived and loved. It was the perfect ending to our perfect visit.
It was The Magic Glass.
Save a Child Today
Indeed, one of the most horrible of all Chronic Conditions, if you will is perhaps Child Sexual Abuse.
Although I am in the midst of relocating, together with all that it entails: sorting, packing, boxing items for selling and hauling, etc., I discovered a most important post Reblogged a couple of years ago. Definitely worth repeating as sadly, child sexual abuse is never-ending.
Together, let's speak for little voices who are silenced by brainwashing or fear. Believe in what you may see or feel, the goosebumps prickling at the back of your neck together with your inner instincts that may gnaw at the pit of your stomach. When something does not appear quite right there is usually a reason.
Save a child today.
Boz Tchividjian – a former child abuse chief prosecutor and the founder/director ofGRACE – expounds upon five of the most common characteristics of child predators (linked above):
1. Offenders may have many victims.
2. Offenders can be the most unsuspected people.
3. Offenders are not strangers.
4. Offenders often prey upon trusting and vulnerable young people.
5. Offenders minimize their criminal actions [i.e. victimize themselves].
For more from Boz Tchividjian, read "7 Ways to Welcome Abuse Survivors in Our Churches"
Related Posts:
The Sexual Predator's Greatest Asset
Maureen's Story: "I Married a Sex Offender"
Resources for Talking with Your Kids About Local Sex Offenders
How to React to Local Sex Offenders
Caterpillar Wishes and Butterfly Dreams
A bug on the ground, never seen before
Long and round, so different
Moving now, it floats on top of bricks
No legs in sight, scary I think
Fuzzy, crawling towards me
Slowly at first, like babies do
I'm kneeling down, not quite trusting
Sizing it up, close and cautious
Brown with yellow, it looks soft to me
Grandma says, "It's okay to touch"
Gentle, with a whispered finger
Careful not to hurt
Guess what? It's a caterpillar
Soon to be a butterfly
How can this be?
God's magic, it's a miracle
Crawling creature, soon to be ruffled wings
Lots of questions….
When will this happen? Is it true? Will the butterfly be blue?
Does it eat from a flower or drink from the fountain?
Will we see it dance in the garden or flutter near a rock?
Tell me, Grandma. Please, Grandma, P.L.E.A.S.E?
Sigh….Butterfly, I will see you in my dreams
Up..up..up, high in the sky where angels sing
Please wave to me with wings of blue on clouds of cream
'Till then, I'll never forget this lesson of bugs and miracles of God
Good-bye, Caterpillar, I love you, Butterfly…..
Through the Looking Glass
Faces are hidden in a mirror
Far below a peaceful bridge
Masked among nature's beauty.
Fallen through the looking-glass
Eyes serene, soft of green
With voices, that whisper our way.
Fingers of leaves brush nearby branches
Grasping hands regardless of color
Hear the wails within the wind?
Gaze beneath still waters
Where all of life coexist, do you see?
Why not us? Can't we try? I wonder why?
Look closing to see mirrored images
Cup your ear to hear what they say
Our hearts appear within the looking-glass
Beating proudly for all mankind
Future reflections of what may be?
Lying beneath a peaceful bridge
Eyes serene, soft of green
With voices, that whisper our way.
Sounds In Night
The skies were angry last night. Winds whistled through swaying trees. In the darkness, the sound of small quakes could be heard together with the padding of drums. Slow at first then faster beating in a rhythm that nearly shook my bed. Softer then louder. A rumble that reminded me of throw rugs my mother used to jar outside a long ago back door. Dust bunnies blowing away in the breeze…..
Listening, my eyes were closed to everything. I'm in a world full of black nothingness. Suddenly, a sense of hearing bloomed as if for the first time. An awakening in a world others would consider silent at that hour.
My husband's back lay close beside. Even breaths. First in…then out. Soothing to me. The flat of my hand felt his warmth through the cool of fresh, crisp sheets.
An electric clock atop our nightstand. A snapshot within my mind. Glowing hands in fluorescent moved with every second. More sounds to my ears. Tick, tick-tock, tick-tock. Each second turning into minutes. turning into hours. turning into middle night foreverness.
Doodle dog slept near the end of our bed. I heard him roll over. A silver metal disk on his collar made a clinking sound against a matching buckle. He sighed, breathing out through the black of his nose with the pink spot on top. He slept. Even breaths from him with a touch of snoring. Yes, from Doodle dog!
Humming…the sound of a motor, followed by gusts of swirling fresh. An air-conditioner installed on our outside wall had kicked in. From the stark cement basement below, the sound of wafting breezes could be heard. Pushing up…blowing cooler air to our floor above. Maple stained in cinnamon color through bronze, grated vents directing the flow. Summer relief was felt.
A car drove by the front of our house. Not a truck or a motorcycle, but a car. It was small and drove by very slowly. The sound of it told me so. Smooth of four tires on a frame of metal. Small of crunch on a bleached, chip-sealed street. Not long before it was gone.
In the adjoining bathroom, sounds of a dripping faucet. How long has this been going on? I never heard or noticed it before. Small drops barely plopping to the bottom of a speckled sink the color of toast. Droplets falling in slow motion with an echo heard upon landing. So long before the next one fell, it seemed. Soon, seconds were counted together with our friendly electric nightstand clock. Anxiety began to build.
In the woods out back, sounds of the wind picked up again. A whoosh together with a dog howling. Or was it a coyote? We have them here you know. Hiding in the woods. Suddenly, the skies became angrier than earlier. Thunder rumbled, flashing with lightning in the distance. My eyes opened at the crack of it. Rain pounded into the patio and beat into flower beds with all of Heaven's vengeance. Once my vision adjusted to surrounding shadows, no other sounds were heard again.
Sleepiness finally came.
*photo courtesy of Google Chrome
Take Time to Play
Ohhh, if only I could have captured the playful dance scampering in the rain among the thatch of green! So mesmerized, I couldn't look away. A silent whisper to my ear. "Do not move, for in a second the beauty of this may disappear."
Gray skies hovered above flowered fields altering between drizzles and downpours during all of this past week. Temperatures fluctuated from the tip-top of hot before crashing to cool.
As I gazed out the glass to the back of my yard, sheets of light, steady rain continued to fall, creating a small stream. The shallow water swirled around a row of tall pines toward the willow tree. Suddenly a flash of colored honey caught my eye.
As if Walt Disney himself waved his magic wand from above, a family of four left their little forest land to wander upon the soft carpet of my lawn.
One by one, a young buck of fuzzy horns, together with his beautiful doe and two spotted fawns slowly began to eat foliage while heaven's showers fell upon their backs. She was on high alert, eyes darting in all directions while twins bounded out of sight. Suddenly, spindly legs scampered around the corner.
The doe came closer to my patio, trying to reel her babies in, but they were having none of it. Instead, they began to tease her with play. She did not appear happy. Her tail of white raised straight up while she stomped her right front hoove. The fawns continued running back and forth in a zig-zag pattern right beneath the wet of their mother's shiny black nose.
Finally, the doe did something I had never seen before. She began to PLAY with the twins, imitating them two or three times by taking a few steps forward before backing up to wait for them to do the same. Which they did, before playfully running to and fro in front of her.
The rain continued to fall, steady drops from the sky soaking all below, incouraging life to survive and thrive….and yes, even take time to play.
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Great culinary talents were unveiled at Masters 2013 Suppliers Event on August 29. This year, over 130 participants donned their aprons to take on the BBQ Challenge a competition worthy of the best culinary reality shows. With creativity and much talent, the teams competed to put together a Gourmet BBQ meal fit for a 5 Star restaurant.
A special guest was also part of the menu: none other than the "grill master" himself, Chef Steven Raichlen, internationally renowned BBQ specialist. Mr. Raichlen advised the participants throughout the competition and, alongside our President, Louis St-Laurent and CEO, Michel Ringuet, tasted each dish to determine the winning team. The event also helped raise donations totaling $2,500 for the Tel-Jeunes foundation


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Shauna is an artist that combines traditional art mediums with nontraditional subject matter and composition. She is interested in painting subjects from the natural sciences in constructed or fantastical settings. Her work addresses ideas about history, natural disasters, and violence in a humorous way to question the depiction of history and one's personal experience with it. She examines anthropomorphization, portraiture, and context.
Shauna is involved with the Ligo Project Art of Science program, which is a 6-month artist-in residence program that allows artists the opportunity to interact with scientists, learn about research and create a piece of science-inspired art.
She currently works at Open Source Gallery, a Brooklyn arts organization with a focus on socially engaged work and accessibility.
Shauna received her BA in studio art from Wagner College. She is pursuing an MA degree in modern and contemporary art history at CUNY Hunter College. Her thesis focuses on the ceramic works of Asger Jorn.
What the @#$% Happened?!, 2009, Solo Exhibit in Wagner College's Spotlight Gallery.
Introduction, 2014, exhibit catalogue, Emanuele Cacciatore's A Conversation with Consequence
Sorensen on Bann, 2013, Journal of Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Book review of Stephen Bann's Distinguished Images (2013).
Gilgo Beach: A Physical Absence, 2012, NY Arts Magazine, Review of Nick Kline's Gilgo Beach.
Primitivism in the Works of Gauguin and Baudelaire, 2010, Wagner College Forum for Undergraduate Research.


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The rather excellent Electric River (who I interviewed when they opened for Lit recently) are touring again supporting Toseland. To celebrate, they're launching another single, "Keep the Engine Burning", the video for which you can see down below.
Their album, The Faith & Patience, is – frankly – one of the best straight rock albums I've heard in a long time, so if that's your kind of music you really should check them out.
- Sun 21st – Portsmouth (Wedgewood Rooms)- w/Toseland
- Mon 22nd- Bristol (The Fleece) – w/Toseland
- Wed 24th – Glasgow (Stereo Cafe Bar) – w/Toseland
- Thurs 25th – Aberdeen (The Tunnels) – w/Toseland
- Friday 26th – Gateshead (The Blackbull)
- Sat 27th – Nottingham (Rock City Basement) -w/Toseland
- Sun 28th – Wolverhampton (Slade Rooms) -w/Toseland
- Mon 29th – Cambridge (The Portland Arms) -w/Toseland
- Tues 30th – Manchester (Academy 3) -w/Toseland
- Weds 1st – Keighley (The Gassienda)
- Thurs 2nd – Northampton (The Roadmender)-w/Toseland
- Fri 3rd – London (The Barfly)- Headline show
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Stephen Nunns, author, playwright, theatre director, actor and Director of the MFA Program in Theatre Arts at Towson University, takes us to India with 1995's Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (aka The Brave Hearted Will Take Away the Bride or DDLJ).
This romatic, comedic and musical debut by writer and director Aditya Chopra is a Bollywood extravaganza. A worldwide blockbuster, it was one of two Hindi films on the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die list. DDLJ is twelfth on the British Film Institute's list of top Indian films of all time and is considered a "must watch" for Bollywood fans, and also for those seeking an introduction to Bollywood.
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1. chicken tikkas, fennel-scented spinach samosas, spicy cilantro chutney, cucumber-mint raita
2. mulligatawny soup, tomato dal soup, grilled herbed naan
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42nd Street-6th Avenue
Tatiana Arocha
Wind Spirits
Tatiana Arocha's rainforest landscapes are rooted in her native Colombia's landscape, where she spent her childhood exploring on family anthropology expeditions. In Wind Spirits, Arocha reinvents a rain forest scene with Harpy eagles, the largest and most powerful raptors found in the Americas, but also an endangered species. The layered digital paintings and collages form an immersive environment exploring the duality of nature and its creatures' strength and vulnerability, which serve as a metaphor for Earth's power and fragility.
The installation is located below one of the City's most verdant greenspaces at Bryant Park, and Arocha has created a panorama for the lightbox exhibition. The captivating imagery is constructed from hundreds of layered images, textures, and patterns that Arocha sourced from specimens in nature and in libraries. She creates a digital archive from which she recreates the natural Colombian landscape. Her monochromatic palette references early photography and engraving, and acts as a reminder of the endangered natural world, as if its best days are in the past – while her gold elements evoke the material world, and its alluring dangers. With her large landscapes, Arocha aspires to bring nature to the forefront, reminding us of endangered ecosystems.
The work also gently references the permanent mosaic art at the station by Samm Kunce, with its own ecosystems of nature and knowledge, that extend the park above into the station environment. The impact of the new digital art provides a thought provoking pause in the daily commute for all who use the station. The transparencies of the lightbox exhibit are supplemented by two art panels installed in windows of an unused space at the station's north end. Collectively, the work is haunting and elegiac as we ponder our environment and its future.
Tatiana Arocha is a visual artist from Bogotá, Colombia based in Brooklyn, NY. A graphic designer by training, she works in disciplines including illustration, motion graphics, live action production, curating, and public art. She is founder of Servicio Ejecutivo, an online gallery for emerging artists.
The exhibit was generously sponsored by Duggal and Kodak/alaris.
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Sarah Silverman
Many celebrities have been speaking out, in different forms, on the recent influx of suicide deaths by homosexual children in the United States. Its been something that has really shaken many people up, and been the catalyst behind things like the "It Gets Better" campaign.
For some reason, I dug the shortest video I saw the most. Above is the post that Sarah Silverman did. It addressed America, dead on, about its own internal shit.
A few days ago, i was having a conversation with someone in Thailand and really gave this South East Asian country a lot of credit. Thailand is known for the lady boys population here. Namely, the fact that they make up a big portion of the prostitution population.
Yet, and still, I give Thailand all the credit in the world because they openly accept this fact. You can see a trasvestite working as a clerk at your hotel, as a conductor/waiter on your train, behind the cashier at the supermarket. They are fully integrated into the community, for what they are, people. If anyone is making fun of them, of giving them a hard time, it's usually foreigners, because we aren't used to this.
Thailand may be a developing country, yet in that regard, they may be more developed than the United States. For that, I tip my hat to Thailand.
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Neil wrote:Well I seem to have trouble finding them, even in churches, so I would appreciate an answer.Everyone talks about Jews, but few seem able to define what one is, at least in a way answerable to the Torah. Even those who identify with Judaism seem unable to agree on an answer, if Wikipedia is any indication:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3F
By the way, you still think Saturday has some special meaning? Oh yeah, I believe you're also an "unknown tongue hubba-bubba clucker." You still got that spirit in you? How about that beard? Still shaving it off?
Let me know.
Maybe we can then discuss some more of your Satanic/Vaticanist doctrines.
Much more peaceful without all your Protestant earthly-kingdom-building babble.
But I do think the community clubs (wanna-be churches) are making up for the losses. Very sad.
Or maybe just take a Calgon bath?
Ask your buddy Jim if you need help.
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While reading the great book from 37 Signals Rework I came across an interesting suggestion, "Don't write down feature requests." This seemed to go against my natural instincts to write down all suggestions, because if some wants it, I should put it in right?
Well as Traceroute Pro went out to the public and I started hearing back from users, I didn't listen to the suggestion and started writing down all the feature requests. "I think there should be a dancing unicorn in the background to entertain me while I wait for the results." Err ok...
So needless to say after getting a few crazy requests, Jason's words started to resonate with me.
What I've found is that the best way to approach it is to just read all requests, and then throw them away. If they are good ideas and valid suggestions, you will hear them a few times and they will stick.
I used this approach with the latest update for Traceroute Pro. No it doesn't have that dancing unicorn, but it does have the ability to save sites to your favorites and maintains a full history of your past tests. These are two of the most requested features that I heard from my users and after I implemented them, I couldnt imagine having created the application without them.


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The dramatic move by central banks of the major industrialized nations to shore up the falling euro is being driven by complex economic and political calculations - and poses new risks on both sides of the Atlantic.
While many analysts doubt the action taken on Friday will have much effect, the synchronized move by the US and other industrialized nations shows how serious the economic consequences could be if Europe's common currency continues to drop.
In Europe, officials are worried that a weak euro will stimulate inflation as imports become more expensive. The high price of crude oil is compounding the inflation threat.
For the US, major American multinational companies could find their overseas' earnings hit if the euro continues to fall, sending stock prices down. High stock valuations have bolstered consumer purchasing in recent years. A plunge in the stock market, it is feared, may dampen the economy right before the presidential election Nov. 7.
That, at least, is the apparent concern of Vice President Al Gore. Analysts say he was instrumental in getting the US to go along with other central banks Friday in buying up billions of dollars worth of euros in hopes of stabilizing the currency. "[Vice president Al] Gore got frightened," says Washington economic consultant Harald Malmgren.
Earlier this month, the European Central Bank intervened itself in the markets to drive up the euro and sought the help of the US - without success. Any such action was opposed by the Federal Reserve under Chairman Alan Greenspan and Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. They welcomed a strong dollar. But the Clinton administration changed its mind last week.
By Friday, the euro had slipped 28 percent against the US dollar since its peak shortly after its creation at the start of 1999. The baby currency was worth only 86 cents just before the coordinated intervention.
The European Central Bank, along with the US and Japan, explained their move as a result of "shared concern about the potential implications of recent movements in the euro exchange rate for the world economy." Britain and Canada also helped out.
The action is a high-risk move. Interventions in foreign-exchange markets by governments have a high failure rate. With perhaps a trillion dollars of currencies traded daily on these markets, even a multibillion intervention may not do the trick. Reports from Europe suggest $10 billion was used to bolster the euro on Friday.
Though significant, it was small compared with some past efforts. The Group of 7 industrialized nations spent far more in driving down and stabilizing the US dollar in the mid-1980s.
Market participants will be watching closely today to see if there is further joint intervention, or whether it was a one-shot action. There is considerable skepticism in London and New York that Friday's action will do the trick. One analyst talked of a euro worth a mere 80 cents. That would be embarrassing for the governments involved.
American officials have been telling their European counterparts that more economic reforms are needed before the US would give any help to the euro. Four hours after the intervention, Mr. Summers told a press conference in Washington that longstanding US policy calling for a strong dollar is unchanged.
"A strong dollar is in the national interest of the United States," Summers said.
That left foreign-exchange traders puzzled. If the euro strengthens, the dollar of necessity weakens. Traders are uncertain whether the central banks will step into the market again this week, should the euro fall.
Summer's statement "doesn't compute," says David DeRosa, an economist at the Yale School of Management in New Haven, Conn. A former foreign-exchange trader himself, Mr. DeRosa added, "If he thinks that is going to fly..., he is wrong."
Insiders in London say perhaps 60 percent of traders figure the euro will weaken again. Thus they will bet against it in their foreign-exchange positions. A minority in the market maintain the allied central bankers will support the euro further - thereby allowing a weaker dollar.
If they do, there's a danger the dollar will plunge further than Washington desires. Foreign investors in US stocks and bonds could start selling their massive American investments.
That would be bad news for Democrats, proud of the strength of the American currency. The sales would also depress bond and stock prices. It would make imports and European travel more expensive. Eventually, it would trim the huge US deficit international payments.
Views differ sharply on whether the major industrialized nations should be propping up the euro at all.
DeRosa, for one, regards it as nonsense that a weak euro would seriously damage the world economy. Intervention, as he sees it, was an unnecessary move to please the Europeans. He would prefer that the price of the euro be left to demand and supply forces on foreign-exchange markets.
Contrariwise, Robert Solomon, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, says "it makes sense for the US to cooperate with Europe" and help out the euro.
To DeRosa, the explanation for the decline in the euro to a record low last week was largely the disarray in European politics. The ECB wants a strong euro. Top IMF officials also hint that the euro should be supported. Managing Director Hans Koehler calls it "heavily undervalued."
But earlier this month German Chancellor Gerhard Schrder cheered the weak euro as good for Europe's exporters.
"These guys haven't got their act together," says DeRosa.
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Drunken youths are acting in an anti-social manner and leaving empty bottles strewn across the streets of Featherstone.
Featherstone town councillor John Jackson says the teenagers spend most nights drinking at the bottom of Station Lane and around the Girnhill Lane precinct near the Lidl store.
CounJackson said the youths were making a nuisance of themselves by shouting and swearing and that the problem has recently been getting worse.
He is also concerned that the number of incidents will increase as the warmer, summer months approach.
He said: "This has been going on for the last few months. Officers stepped up patrols and things got better. But now the young people are back. They are drinking, swearing and shouting, they leave their lager cans and bottles all over the place.
"It is every night of the week practically.
"It is a minority of the group who are causing the problems but a big group of drunk teenagers is intimidating to many people. Lots of elderly people won't like walking past them and that isn't right.
"The other question you have to consider is where are the young people getting the alcohol from in the first place? They are obviously getting it from somewhere and this is an issue that needs resolving as well.
"This problem needs sorting before the nights get lighter and warmer otherwise it will only get worse.
"The police are doing what they can – but whoever is giving the kids the booze needs to consider what they are doing. Parents also need to make sure they know where their children are."
The Normanton and Featherstone neighbourhood police team (NPT) has made the issue a PACT priority. Anyone who has any information about who supplies alcohol to underage drinkers should call the NPT on 101.


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What sparks your soul?
What stirs your phoenix within?
// on my bookshelf:
- Nayyirah Waheed's salt. Nothing is wasted here. Every poem is a gasp, a heart-gallop, a shout of yes.
- Cheryl Strayed's Wild. Life-changer. I don't yet have words to describe how much this wildness has shaken loose within me. Just go. Read.
// on the web:
- our beloved regular contributor, Beth Morey, has launched a brave & bold new sanctuary: She of the Wild. Oh, how I love this woman and her wildness, her willingness to bare it all because she knows no other way to live. She "thinks deep, in the crevices where most people are afraid to go"--just how we phoenix souls prefer it!
// on Spotify:
- Rising Appalachia: "I'll Fly Away"
- LP: "Heavenly Light"
- Elizaveta, "Dreamer"
// on tv:
- "The Skeleton Twins," with Kristen Wiig & Bill Hader. Raw. Truthful. Messy. This is a story of pain and breaking free, losing yourself and finding your way back--with the help of your misfit tribe. So much good here. Not an easy watch by any means, but one filled with meaning.
What's sparking your soul these days, kindred? Share with us in the comments!


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