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LPD Homicide Arrest Press Conference - 10:00am
On February 22, 2014, at approximately 3:17 a.m. Tiffany Powell Humphries reported her son, Damarco Powell missing to the Lakeland Police Department. On the same date, at approximately 5:07 a.m. Officer Ryan Back located Damarco Powell's deceased body in the wooded section of the 1300 block of Atline Road. The decedent suffered an apparent gunshot wound to the back of the head and was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS personnel.
On February 24th, the Defendant's Taqiy Lewis and Tyler Knight were arrested in the late evening hours and charged with their involvement in the murder of Damarco Powell:
1) Tyler M. Knight, B/M, 16 yrs old, 324 W. 10th Street, Lakeland, Fla.
Charge – First Degree Murder w/Firearm View Arrest Affidavit
2) Taqiy Malik Lewis, B/M, 16 yrs old, 2211 Dillie Street, Lakeland, Fla.
Charge – False Reports to Law Enforcement Concerning a Capital Felony View Arrest Affidavit
According to witnesses, the decedent and Tyler Knight were part of a gang known as Armed And Dangerous (AAD). The investigation revealed that Knight and another witness allegedly received threats form the decedent that he was going to set them up. Witnesses stated that as they walked through the wooded area off Atline Road with the decedent, Knight pulled a handgun and shot the decedent in the back of the head. During the investigation, Taqiy Lewis provided false information to detectives which results in him being charged with false report to a law enforcement concerning a capital felony.
Tyler M. Knight
Taqiy Malik Lewis


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Hey all. This one goes out to all the mega accurate and detail wanting Fetts.
I have been studying pack photos and there seems to be a soft curve between the horizontal top deck (where the beacon and stabilizer are) and the vertical up stand on the back. This is a detail I don't seem to notice on currently available 'fan made' packs.
So is this a missing detail, or simply something that changes from pack to pack?
Here is a stunt pack which is about one of the best photos I could readily find to show what I mean.......mostly it is what you can't see - a defined line.
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/i...Jet Pack17.jpg
Also, seen here on the ESB pack.
Any thoughts?

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There are people who are religious and there are people who are religious for all the wrong reasons. Two women in Paraguay had themselves be crucified to crosses and carried around the capital city as part of a protest against the government. The two women were members of homeless organizations and wanted to call attention to their demands for the government to give them $1.5 million in order to purchase land to build homes for the homeless. Several men heaved the crosses on their shoulders and bore the women through the streets of Asuncion where they were met by other protestors.
Pablino Caceres who heads the government Social Action agency, said: "In previous governments the leaders of the homeless groups controlled the money, but not now." The question is whether the fight was over who controlled the money or whether housing would be built.


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Peavy, Konerko, White Sox end skid, beat Indians
Credit: The Associated Press
Credit: The Associated Press
CLEVELAND — The Chicago White Sox finally found the formula to win on the road.
Jake Peavy struck out 11 in seven innings, Paul Konerko homered and the White Sox defeated the Cleveland Indians 3-1 Sunday.
Not only did the White Sox break their five-game losing streak, they won for the first time this season away from U.S. Cellular Field.
Chicago began the day as the majors' only winless team on the road. The White Sox were swept three games in Washington before dropping the first two against the Indians. Chicago avoided its first 0-6 start on the road since 1968.
"In this five-game skid, we've had a chance to get that big hit and make that big pitch and we just haven't been able to do it," Peavy said. "It's not like we've been getting boat-raced every night."
Peavy (2-1) gave up a home run to Michael Bourn on his first pitch of the game — a line drive that landed in Chicago's bullpen — but held the Indians to five hits overall and didn't walk a batter.
"I didn't expect Bourn to swing there," Peavy said. "He got me."
Indians manager Terry Francona gave full credit to Peavy, who retired 12 straight batters at one point and improved to 4-0 in five career starts against Cleveland.
"Bournie kind of ambushed him the first pitch of the game, but after that we didn't have many opportunities to score until late," Francona said. "He's just a really good veteran pitcher."
A day after watching left-hander Chris Sale allow a career-high eight runs in 4 1-3 innings, White Sox manager Robin Ventura liked what he saw from Peavy.
"He was just sharp today," Ventura said. "It was one of those (games) where he just seemed to be hitting the glove."
Bourn left in the eighth with a cut on hand that needed five stitches to close and is expected to sideline him for several games.
First baseman Adam Dunn fielded Bourn's slow grounder and tossed to pitcher Matt Thornton, who was covering on the play. Bourn made a headfirst into the bag for an infield hit, but Thornton stepped on his hand.
Francona and a trainer examined Bourn, who was removed because of the cut on the index finger of his right hand.
Addison Reed pitched the ninth for his fourth save, retiring Jason Giambi with a runner on to end the game.
Konerko's two-run homer ruined a solid effort from Brett Myers (0-2), who took a shutout into the sixth. Cleveland's right-hander allowed 14 earned runs, including seven homers, in 10 1-3 innings in his first two appearances, but held the White Sox to four hits through five.
After Jeff Keppinger reached on third baseman Lonnie Chisenhall's error to begin the sixth, Alex Rios bounced into a double play. Dunn walked and Konerko hit a 3-1 pitch into the bleachers.
The home run was the second of the season for Konerko, who has hit 30 or more home runs seven times in his career.
"I feel like I'm climbing a little bit," he said. "I feel better. I wouldn't say I'm clicking on all cylinders, but just trying to grind through here. Early on, you're playing in tough weather, tough pitching and all that stuff. And it doesn't come easy."
Said Peavy: "We knew it was a matter of time that somebody was going to come up with a big hit. Who better than our captain?"
Konerko has 16 career home runs and 75 RBIs at Progressive Field.
The White Sox have made a habit of playing close games in the early going. Chicago has played 12 games, with 11 being decided by three runs or less. The exception was Saturday's 9-4 loss.
"It looked like after that first few innings it was going to shake out to be a tight ballgame, as it was," Peavy said. "We were fortunate enough to come out on the right side of things."
Giambi made his first appearance for the Indians, starting as the designated hitter and going hitless in four at-bats. He began the season on the disabled list with a strained back and was activated Friday.
The Indians again played without second baseman Jason Kipnis (sore left elbow) and catcher Carlos Santana (bruised left thumb) in the starting lineup. Kipnis was also out on Saturday while Santana, who walked as a pinch-hitter in the ninth, had missed three straight games.
The Indians are off Monday and begin a three-game series Tuesday against Boston at Progressive Field. Francona will face the Red Sox, the team he managed for eight seasons, for the first time since being replaced following the 2011 season when Boston collapsed down the stretch. Francona led the Red Sox to World Series titles in 2004 and 2007.
NOTES: Chicago, which is on a 10-game road trip, begins a four-game series in Toronto on Monday. The White Sox will face former teammate Mark Buehrle in the opener. RHP Gavin Floyd (0-2, 5.56) will start for Chicago. ... The White Sox placed INF Angel Sanchez (strained lower back) on the 15-day disabled list and purchased the contract of INF Tyler Greene from Triple-A Charlotte. LHP Charlie Leesman was designated for assignment to make room for Greene on the 40-man roster. ... RHP Ubaldo Jimenez (0-1, 6.97) will pitch the opener of the Boston series on Tuesday.


text: Is there something you particularly don't like when figure skaters do something during their performances? Costume, gestures, habits, whatever... Let's talk about what you don't like or something that bothers you. Personally I don't like the habit of making a 4-shaped leg when skaters jump. 4-shaped leg meaning when they jump, they bend one leg so that it literally looks like "4". (See Ito Midori or Yukari Nagano's jumps) Looks like they are trying to get a lift force to stay in air longer... like helicopters LOL Some people don't like it when skaters cover their boots but I don't mind that I will add more if something comes up to mind..


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I carried a CW9 for years and now my wife has taken control of it. If she will carry it I will gladly give it up for her. It is a great gun. I love mine and am very glad my wife has adopted it The grip is her favotite part of teh gun.
It shoots holes in the last holes you made and you truly will not realize you have it on.
300 bucks for a CW9 is a great deal......congrats it will bring you much happiness.


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Second Year Scholar
Born: 07/04/1994
Position: Forward
Height: 5ft 11ins
Weight: 12st 5lb
By Lambros Lambrou
Everything the striker touches turns to goals. He was barely on the pitch a few moments against Chelsea at the start of October before firing home two goals in two minutes to follow his goal against Fulham the previous week.
"I am feeling very confident right now and I think I have a more calm approach to my game, compared to last season," Roberts said. "It is all down to the work being done in training and the extra finishing practice that we do, especially recently. I go on to a pitch believing I will score because I am prepared and that is why we work on finishing, runs and team play all week,
The 17 year-old is reaping the benefit of his hard work, but also patience. The youngster fractured one of his metatarsals last season and was out for over three months.
"I broke my foot in training. I went to make a pass and tripped, went over on my foot and broke it. It came at a time when I was getting a run in the team but there was nothing I could do. I had to be patient. I was only on crutches for a couple of weeks and then I was working in the gym and after a while it became routine and so the time didn't drag on as much in the end.
"It was not only the physical injury but I had to handle things psychologically too," he continues. "I remember that when I came back, I was protecting it and even adapting the way I moved to put less pressure on it, which started causing my knee to tighten up. I realised that I was being too protective, to the point that I was reluctant to go into tackles. After a while though my foot became less of a concern and with more work it strengthened up and I began using it properly so that my knee got better too.
"Also," the youngster adds, "on the advice of the doctor I changed football boots as he said that the ones I used to use did not support the foot well enough. The result is that I am now back, playing freely with a lot of confidence and as a result I have scored five times in about as many games this season."
That feeling of confidence is also prevalent in the Under-18s team this season, says Philip. "We seem to have settled now. There is a more relaxed atmosphere this season as I think everyone has got used to the set up and what is expected. "There are also a lot of new very talented players in the team and we are all integrating well and the second years do as much as possible to help them settle in."
Phil joined Arsenal from Norwich at the beginning of last season and is not surprised that the Canaries are now in the top flight.
"I could see that Paul Lambert was going to turn the club around as soon as he joined Norwich and they are very much there on merit. I still keep in contact with some of the lads I was in their Academy with and they are feeling very positive about things and I do hope that they do well in the Premier League this season," says the attacker.
The academy scholar has yet to secure a professional contract and that is clearly his main target: "I am here and doing what I can to secure a professional contract with Arsenal and my focus is to give everything," he confirms. "I also want to play my way in to the FA Youth Cup team and play regularly for the Reserves. I am playing well at the moment but my aim is to continue to improve and do well with Arsenal and," he concludes, "my hope is that everything else will follow".
Teams you played for before Arsenal?
Norwich City, Leyton, Lakeview
Best advice ever?
If a task is once begun, never leave it till it's done, be the task great or small, do it well or not at all
Best football moment before joining Arsenal?
Scoring against Arsenal when I played for Norwich
Supported growing up?
Who did you pretend to be on the playground?
Thierry Henry
Favourite kids' TV show growing up?
Dragon Ball Z and Power Rangers
Favourite teacher at school?
Mr O'Brien at Ilford County High School
Other sports good at?
Most influential on your football career so far?
Cyrille Regis
Other clubs interested before signing for Arsenal?
Liverpool, Aston Villa, Reading and Tottenham
Fave item of clothing?
Dream car?
Aston Martin Vanquish
Current player who's a role model?
Robin van Persie
Best thing about being part of the Academy?
The banter
Three words to describe you as a player?
Fast, strong, brave
Three words to describe you as a person?
Funny, lively, chilled out
Fave comedian?
Michael McIntyre
Most talented team-mate?
I can't separate them
Who do you follow on Twitter?
Giggs (the rapper), Piers Morgan, Nicki Minaj


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Got a question for you fellas. Are there any birds around fairbanks? Got a buddy that just moved up there, and I'm lookin at movin up there for a year or two once I get out of school. Really would just be moving for the scenery and duck hunting. What would an average hunt in the area be like? How many birds do yall normally see in a morning? just trying to get a feeling for what the setting would be like.
Bein from Georgia, we don't have many ducks. I'm used to havin to work my butt off to see 50 birds other than woodducks in a morning. But we work hard, and its what I love to do, and we do well for the area. Typically we kill about 500ish birds a year out of my boat, with 3 or 4 guns. I guess what I'm saying is, take my experiences in kansas for example, some of the locals say that SE kansas doesn't have anybirds, but in fact its just cuz they are from W Kansas and see 100k in a morning instead of 5k. Those same guys couldn't pull a bird out of their butt if they are only seein a few thousand in a morning. But me I get up there and I'm in hog heaven, and typically kill limits in those bad areas. So, if you would keep in mind the duckless region that I am coming from, when yall respond. thanks for the info


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Been working on our KickStarter & IndieGogo campaign for a couple of weeks now as a part of our game development campaign.
Almost everything is already prepared, We are ready & approved in IndieGogo, but in kickstarter we haven't submitted our campaign yet coz we are finalizing our video. Our project is 3rd Person View Online Game, which has a new twist. You may check our FB page, Twitter and site.
We are looking for more supporters before we launch our campaign, hope you guys would support us.
I might post new thread for our campaign, i hope mods will not mind it though its game related.
Cheers lads,


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A9 TV; 11 September 2011
Turkish-Islamic Union is everywhere. Look at the press. Look at the speeches and Turkish foreign policy. Have you ever seen anything like it in the previous 40-50 years? The last 60-70 years? You never will have. That is Turkish-Islamic Union. As early as 2011. Just imagine how it will be in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 or 2017. It will grow every year. But there will be plots against the supporters of Islamic Union and Turkish-Islamic Union. But Turkish-Islamic Union will still come about despite that, insha'Allah.
(About the September 11 attacks)
This is something set out in the hadiths. A corruption of smoke and dust. The way the buildings collapsed was miraculous. It is for the moment inexplicable. There is no explanation for it. A miracle took place before people's very eyes. But since it did not happen in such a way as to eliminate free will, people regard it as quite unextraordinary. A huge building melted away like a candle and collapsed in a matter of seconds. Everyone regards that as normal. A building made of steel and concrete. It is extraordinary, a clear miracle. But because of the way it was presented it does not eliminate people's free will when it comes to interpreting it.
(About a report on the Israel National News web site considering Turkish-Israeli relations and including statements by Mr. Adnan Oktar)
We do not want tension or conflict in the region. We are pleased at Israel's presence in the region. They are servants of Allah. Where are they supposed to go? They have to settle and live somewhere in the world. One cannot tell them just to go away when they come. That is unfitting. What we really want is for that tension to be lifted from Israel and from Palestine. There is unnecessary conflict and tension. The land there is vast. Boundless. And only a handful of people live there. The numbers of Palestinians and Israelis are very low. But the land is vast. The land is broad and fertile. Money is being spent on armaments, and on conflict and tension. That prevents Israel and Palestine becoming wealthy. There are walls, thick walls. These must all be eliminated. Israel must be able to relax and rejoice. As must Palestine. Let us do away with conflict. "What is the problem? What is it that cannot be settled?" we will ask. There is nothing that cannot be settled. If the problem is land, then help yourself and settle where you like. If that happened, Israel would be one of the richest states of the region. Palestine would be one of the richest states of the region. I already regard Palestine as a state. There is a state there. They must therefore embrace one another … Let them work in one another's workplaces. Let them send doctors and engineers to one another. The area could be like paradise. There is no need for conflict or tension or unease. A dead-end has grown up, and satan is just encouraging it. We will do away with that, insha'Allah, by Allah's leave. And we will ensure that all our Palestinian brothers are free, insha'Allah. I refuse to accept even one Palestinian in prison. In the case of murder, then that is different, of course. Those responsible must be punished, there can be no excuses. But I want to see no political detainees. I want Israel to live in complete peace. They have suffered for hundreds of years. They have never been at ease. Hitler came as a plague on them. They have suffered everywhere. They made them suffer in Spain. This will be the first time ever they can live in peace. For good, insha'Allah. We will strive with all our means to bring that about. My dear Palestinian brothers are also literally suffering the pains of hell. We will bring a festive atmosphere to the whole of Palestine. The whole region will be theirs. They will be totally free enter and leave wherever they wish, insha'Allah. Through the Qur'an, the Sunnah of our Prophet (saas), love, affection, science and reason. That is so easy, yet satan keeps stoking the flames. Satan first creates an impasse. There is a verse about it. Almighty Allah says, "from the evil of women who blow on knots" They first create an impasse and then stoke the flames. We will also resolve this and not allow them to stoke the flames any more. Insha'Allah, by Allah's leave. As followers and the vanguard of Hazrat Mahdi (as).
Hazrat Ali said the following about the titles of Hazrat Mahdi (as);
"His providing a shelter," a place of refuge in other words, "is broader than all of you providing a shelter;
In other words, he is saying that no matter how much you strive you can never have a shelter like him. Such are the opportunities he will provide for you.
His knowledge will be greater than that of all of you;
Because he will have secret knowledge. Knowledge from the mind of Allah.
His relations with relatives will be greater than that of all of you...
In other words, his relations with those he loves will be much stronger.
"How I long to see him," says Hazrat Ali. Since he is his descendant.
Imam Sadik said;
How can this Ummah (Islamic community) deny that just as Allah treated Hazrat Joseph (as) He will treat His own Hujjat (evidence) [that is Hazrat Mahdi (as)] and his [Hazrat Mahdi's (as)] strolling around the market and setting foot in fairs [without being recognized] until Allah makes him appear!
He will be just like the Prophet Joseph (as). The Prophet Joseph's (as) brothers failed to recognize him. In the same way, they will fail to recognize Hazrat Mahdi (as). "Hazrat Mahdi (as) will move through the marketplaces. He will travel about. Hazrat Mahdi (as) will look them in the eye. And they will look Hazrat Mahdi (as) in the eye, but will fail to recognize him," he says. The Prophet Joseph's (as) brothers failed to recognize him. Eventually they even asked, "Are you Joseph?" They were unable to place him.
Imam Sadik said;
"People will seek their own imam. Yet Hazrat Mahdi (as) will participate in the pilgrimage ceremonies in the pilgrimage season, and they will see him. But they will be unable to see him." Insha'Allah.
Hazrat Mahdi (as) will also go on the hajj.
Hazrat Ali, the lion of Allah, said;
"Hazrat Mahdi (as) will enter Jerusalem and will pray with the people as their imam... Jesus (as) will also pray behind him and swear allegiance to him."
Imam Sadik said;
"When the Mahdi appears he will wear the robes of Hazrat Ali and will act on the basis of his virtues."
In other words, he will be just like Hazrat Ali. Hazrat Mahdi's (as) virtues will be reminiscent of those of Hazrat Ali. He will be descended from him, and will of course resemble him, his forebear.
Hazrat Ali said;
"... He (Hazrat Mahdi (as)) will place his hand on his servants' heads. In this way, the hearts of all believers will be stronger than iron."
In other words, Hazrat Mahdi (as) will touch those whom he loves with his own hand.
He saysthey will be stronger than iron.
That spiritual electricity from Hazrat Mahdi (as) will cure them, insha'Allah.
"and Almighty Allah will give him the strength of forty people."
"They will become very strong people," Allah says.
Imam Sadik said: "Hazrat Mahdi (as) will expose the hidden aspects of what every people does, and will distinguish friend from foe with his insight."
In other words, he will report the true facts. He has a great ability to receive news. He may receive news from his friends in the djinn. Like the Prophet Solomon (as). We cannot know.
And will distinguish friend from foe with his insight."
"He will recognize them when he looks in their eyes," he says.
He says, "Hazrat Mahdi (as) will analyze states." He will analyze what is true and false and mistaken about them.
Human beauty is the greatest blessing in the world, there is nothing greater. We have flowers, but this is a billion or trillion times lovelier. Human beauty is incomparably lovelier. It delights me enormously and instills a feeling of great well-being in my heart, insha'Allah. I am filled with love of Allah. Because Allah manifests Himself in the other person. Allah manifests Himself in human form. And I look with amazement on that beauty and give thanks to Allah, insha'Allah.
The words of great and worthy scholars, esteemed individuals in the End Times, about Islamic Union and Hazrat Mahdi (as) are like sulfuric acid thrown in the faces of the hypocrites and hurt them enormously. I keep on repeating them so they will suffer a bit more. That came as a huge slap in the face to them just as they were saying, "We have covered it up and put an end to the matter." Almighty Allah has suddenly raised the matter of the way of the Mahdi in the End Times. Everyone has become aware of it and learned it by heart. So their efforts to keep it under wraps were all in vain. Allah has thwarted their snares with a spiritual slap in the face, alhamdulillah.
Surat al-Zumar, 32:
"Who could do greater wrong than those who lie about Allah and deny the truth [the Qur'an] when it comes to them? Do the unbelievers not have a dwelling place in Hell?"
"I speak on the basis of the Qur'an," you say. But they say, "That is not enough." "So what is to be done?" "Let us add an idol and speak on the basis of that idol, too" they say. Allah has set it all out in the Qur'an. He says He has left nothing out. But some people still say the Qur'an is deficient. "How are we to complete it?" we ask. "With an idol," they say. Allah will turn that idol against him. "Do the unbelievers not have a dwelling place in Hell? He Who brings the truth and He Who confirms it"
As for those who see the sufficiency of the Qur'an, "…those are the people who are heedful." If they say, "the Qur'an is sufficient," then Allah says they are heedful, insha'Allah. "They will have anything they wish for with their Lord. That is the recompense of the good-doers.""Is Allah not enough for His servant? Yet they try to scare you with others apart from Him." I once opened the Qur'an in times of trouble and this verse appeared before me, insha'Allah. "If Allah misguides someone, he has no guide."
They tried really hard to prevent me talking about materialism and Darwinism. When I first spoke about the way of the Mahdi the fanatics all went crazy. They threatened and pressurized me. But I kept right on talking about it, and am still doing so. They cannot and will not stop me. "And if Allah guides someone, he cannot be misguided. Is Allah not Almighty, Exactor of Revenge?"
Now they praise themselves. Who should you praise? Allah. Allah has two effects. He creates, and He also creates the appreciation of what He creates. He creates beautifully, and creates fervor out of beauty. He creates an effect and the appreciation thereof. All three belong to Allah. That is a beauty beloved of Allah. And that is what Allah will apply in paradise, insha'Allah.
Surat ar-Rum, 33:
"When harm touches people they call on their Lord, repenting to Him."They pray, saying, Lord, lift this affliction from me, take this sickness from me. "But then, when He gives them a taste of mercy from Him, a group of them immediately associate others with their Lord."
Then they say, "I did it." Whereas in fact Allah does it. They forget Allah there. All right, you say that Allah sent sickness and afflictions. And then? "I came by them by myself," they say. That is ascribing equals to Allah. One must know to regard an afflict bestowed by Allah as a blessing, that Allah also created that as an opportunity. Otherwise, one is ascribing equals to Him, and that is most dishonest behavior.
Surah Al 'Imran, 139
"Do not give up and do not be downhearted. You shall be uppermost if you are believers."This is a miracle. This verse also refers to Hazrat Mahdi (as). Because there must be no defeatism or despair. You have faith and are determined, and "you shall be uppermost," says Almighty Allah. Whoever behaves in that way. Even if they are just one person, they will be uppermost, insha'Allah.
Surat ar-Rum, 35:
"Or have We sent down some authority to them, which advocates associating others with Him?"
What does Allah say is the source of that nonsense produced by unbelievers? "Have I sent down some authority," He says. Has a sign been sent down? Where did they get this from? "When We give people a taste of mercy, they rejoice in it,"and they really do jump up and down from joy. "…but when something bad happens to them because of what they themselves have done, they immediately lose all hope."
Let us imagine that someone does wrong, and Allah sends him an affliction as punishment. Then you see people who once leapt for joy now sitting alone in a corner, or weeping and trembling, their hands and faces in a dreadful state. Yet it is Allah Who does both. It is Allah Who causes people to jump with joy and also Who brings about the other thing. The thing to do is to place one's trust in Allah with a fine submission. For example, Allah sends me all kinds of troubles, but He also sends me pleasures and compensations. They all come from Him, thanks be to Allah, masha'Allah.
Love is so fine, alhamdulillah. What a fine blessing Allah has bestowed on the human soul. Lovelessness is terrible. Allah sends a loveless person crazy, or makes him imbalanced. They become egotistical and selfish. They become aggressive, difficult, ruthless, unfeeling and ignorant of art, science and beauty; ugly creatures devoid of beauty and cleanliness. But with love, people literally become radiant and very lovely through love of Allah.
If you keep repeating the views on life of unbelievers and fanatics, then you will continue with the same problems, to wade through the same mud. There is a system established by the fanatics. And that system has made Muslims as they are now. Since the fanatics have taken over many key positions they have inflicted disaster on Muslims. You say, let us continue striving in the same way with the system of the bigots. But you will continue suffering afflictions in the same way, then. Allah will continue to afflict you so long as you apply the system of the bigots and the unbelievers. And you will begin struggling through troubles and difficulties, and you will never see the end of them. "Why do we not live like the bigots?" you ask. That is like saying, "Why do we not seek out afflictions?" The fanatics brought about the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. If you continue with the same vile, dark and muddy system, the same problems will repeat themselves. Nothing else is possible. What is the way of the Mahdi? The exact opposite of that. The exact opposite of the bigots' system. Let us be followers of Hazrat Mahdi (as). Let us return to the time of our Prophet (saas). Let us be Muslims of the Age of Felicity, insha'Allah.
If bigotry prevails, the Islamic community will be ruined. Nothing will be left of Islam, the Qur'an, the faith, Allah or scripture. You are unknowingly serving the dajjal [antichrist], the way of the dajjal. Bigotry is the sword of the dajjal. And bigotry brought down the Ottoman Empire. The reason why Europeans are so uneasy about Islam is again bigotry. Islam is light, beauty, but you have depicted it as a system that terrifies people. You have produced a terrible scourge and corruption. I am trying to clean that corruption up, to clean up what you have soiled.
Surat ar-Rum, 29-32:
"However, those who do wrong pursue their whims and desires without any knowledge."What is knowledge? The Qur'an. They have gone along with inventions produced by pagans, not based on the Qur'an. "Who can guide those whom Allah has led astray? They will have no helpers."
"So set your face firmly towards the religion [the Qur'an], as a pure natural believer, Allah's natural pattern on which He made mankind. There is no changing Allah's creation. That is the true religion – but most people do not know it –"
The religion described by the Qur'an. "…but most people do not know it." Allah says that the bigots do not know it now. "…as a pure natural believer,"in a pure form, adding nothing to the Qur'an. "...turning towards Him. Have fear of Him and establish prayer." Pray in the proper way. Not as the unbelievers describe. "Do not be among the idolaters:"People say, "But that does not refer to me." But it does refer to you. If you make additions to the Qur'an, heed idols and idolaters, if you say, "this polytheist and that idol said this or that against the Qur'an," them you are also one of the idolaters. "…those [polytheists] who split up their religion;"yet people still say that does not refer to them. But it does. "…and form into sects;" Who does it refer to then? "Not to us," they say. "…each faction exulting in what they have." "I am the best of all," they say. "I am one of the saved." But Allah sets it out quite explicitly. "…and form into sects;" He says they are divided into separate factions among themselves. "…each faction exulting in what they have." Allah says they say they are the best. They say the verse does not refer to them. But it does. To maintain that the Qur'an is insufficient is to declare war on Allah. To say the Qur'an is insufficient is to insult the Qur'an, it is to declare war against Allah's religion. But they regard the insufficiency of the Qur'an as a minor thing. Though issues many threats regarding the Qur'an. Allah says we will be held to account for the Qur'an alone, and nothing else. One will not be held to account for the nonsense dreamed up by unbelievers, only for the Qur'an. He says that people say they will also be called to account for the nonsense of unbelievers. There is not holding to account for idols or what idols say. Only for the Qur'an. What can we say if people refuse to believe it? Allah says, and the verse is totally explicit; Is that not clear enough? Allah is not talking about any other book. In the form transmitted by our Prophet (saas), insha'Allah.
The true parts of the Gospel are valid, and it does contain the most perfect accounts. The true parts of the Torah are also valid, and it also contains the most perfect accounts. No rational Muslim can engage in bigotry on that subject. Allah sets out the commandments of the Qur'an and the Gospel inside the Qur'an. The true parts of the Gospel are valid. They have not ceased to apply. But there are also wrong parts. Of course, a Muslim must look through the light of the Qur'an and distinguish between right and wrong and evaluate them accordingly, insha'Allah.2011-10-21 21:01:39


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Ryo has been added to Arsenal's squad for the Champions League Play-Off Round.
Earlier this month the Club submitted an A list (List A) and a B list (List B) of players, all of whom will be eligible for the Play-Off Round tie with Udinese.
A single change to the squad can be made after the date it is originally submitted and the Club have opted to add Ryo to List A.
Should the Club progress to the Group Stage of the competition, an updated List A will be submitted by September 1, which will apply for the remainder of the competition.
Under UEFA rules, Arsenal is eligible to register 25 players to List A for the Play-Off Round and an unlimited number of players to List B.
A player qualifies for inclusion in List B if he was born on or after January 1, 1990 and has been eligible to play for the Club for an uninterrupted period of two years or more since his 15th birthday.
Arsenal's Champions League squad:
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Manuel Almunia
Andrey Arshavin
Nicklas Bendtner
Marouane Chamakh
Abou Diaby
Johan Djourou
Lukasz Fabianski
Kieran Gibbs
Carl Jenkinson
Laurent Koscielny
Vito Mannone
Samir Nasri
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Tomas Rosicky
Bacary Sagna
Alex Song
Sebastien Squillaci
Armand Traore
Robin van Persie
Carlos Vela
Thomas Vermaelen
Theo Walcott
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Aaron Ramsey
Wojciech Szczesny
Jack Wilshere
Benik Afobe
Chuks Aneke
Zak Ansah
Daniel Boateng
George Brislen-Hall
Francis Coquelin
Craig Eastmond
Luke Freeman
Emmanuel Frimpong
Sead Hajrovic
Conor Henderson
Gavin Hoyte
Jernade Meade
Ignasi Miquel
Rhys Murphy
Nigel Neita
Oguzhan Ozyakup
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Expect is quickly becoming a part of every UNIX user's toolbox. It allows you to automate Telnet, FTP, passwd, rlogin, and hundreds of other applications that normally require human interaction. Using Expect to automate these applications will allow you to speed up tasks and, in many cases, solve new problems that you never would have even considered before.For example, you can use Expect to test interactive programs with no changes to their interfaces. Or wrap interactive programs with Motif-like front-ends to control applications by buttons, scrollbars, and other graphic elements with no recompilation of the original programs. You don't even need the source code! Expect works with remote applications, too. Use it to tie together Internet applications including Telnet, Archie, FTP, Gopher, and Mosaic.Don Libes is the creator of Expect as well as the author of this book. In Exploring Expect, he provides a comprehensive tutorial on all of Expect's features, allowing you to put it immediately to work on your problems. In a down-to-earth and humorous style, he provides numerous examples of challenging real-world applications and how they can be automated using Expect to save you time and money.Expect is the first of a new breed of programs based on Tcl, the Tool Command Language that is rocking the computer science community. This book provides an introduction to Tcl and describes how Expect applies Tcl's power to the new field of interaction automation. Whether your interest is in Expect or interaction automation or you simply want to learn about Tcl and see how it has been used in real software, you will find Exploring Expect a treasure trove of easy-to-understand and valuable information.
Don Libes is married to Susan Mulroney, a professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Sue performs research in the area of kidney growth and development. Their well-hydrated daughter, Kenna, has two lovely kidneys.
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Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal featured on the cover of Exploring Expect is a chimpanzee, a primate of the Pongidae family, which also includes orangutans and gorillas. The chimpanzee is the mostly closely related to man of all animals, biochem ically, physiologically, behaviorally, and in brain structure. Chimpanzees are known to express emotions similar to those commonly associated with humans, including anger, affection, sadness, and happiness. They also display behavior similar to that of humans in their ability and inclination to pick up, examine, and manipulate objects. Until recently it was believed that humans are the only animals able to build tools. It has since been discovered that chimpanzees often build simple instruments to help retrieve food from holes in the ground, logs, or other hard-to-reach places.Chimpanzees use a vast array of facial expressions, postures, and gestures to communicate with each other, in addition to at least 32 different sounds. There is some evidence to suggest that chimpanzees are able to learn symbolic languages.The natural habitat of the chimpanzee is western Africa, from Sierra Leone to the Great Lakes east of the Congo. Living primarily in forested areas, chimpanzees will spend 50 to 70 percent of their time in trees. They are omnivores, eating primarily fruits and vegetables, but they will also hunt and eat small animals. They live in family groups, which consist of about twice as many females as males. While adult chimpanzees are not monogamous, there is a close bond between a young chimp and its parents, and this bond remains unbroken for life. Chimpanzees are very sociable and affectionate animals, and frequently hug, kiss, stroke each other, or hold hands. Violent fights often break out within a social group. The loser of the fight makes up to the winner by displaying submissive behavior and conciliatory gestures. In this way they maintain the social harmony.Though able to, the chimpanzee rarely walks erect on both feet. Short arm muscles prevent simultaneous extension of the wrists and fingers. Because of this, chimpanzees are unable to walk with their hands flat; when walking on all fours, only the knuckles of their hands touch the ground. Unlike human feet, chimpanzee feet also have an opposing toe, but it is used mainly for climbing and for walking on precarious footing. The foot is rarely used for picking up objects. UNIX and its attendant programs can be unruly beasts. Nutshell Handbooks help you tame them. ... Edie Freedman designed this cover and the entire UNIX bestiary that appears on other Nutshell Handbooks. The beasts themselves are adapted from 19th-century engravings from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover layout was produced with Adobe Photoshop 2.5 and Quark XPress 3.3 for the Macintosh, using the Adobe ITC Garamond font.The inside layout was designed by Edie Freedman and Jennifer Niederst and implemented by Mike Sierra in FrameMaker using Adobe ITC Garamond and New Courier fonts. The figures were created in FrameMaker by Don Libes. The colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary.
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Very useful, methodical book
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I purchased this book way back in 1996 and have used it regularly ever since. I use it to automate Linux, Cisco router, and MikroTik router configuration. What prompted me to write this review now was I noticed it hadn't got much praise and I think it is one of the best of the O'Reilly books.What this tool does is allow you to automate tedious everyday tasks that involve logging on to other Unix machines or routers to carry out a series of commands. That sounds simple, but sophisticated things can be done such as controlling multiple processes at once, and using the output of one to feed into another. A great example of this is to make two chess processes play each other, as shown in the book. Small Expect scripts can also be used to enhance everyday Unix programs such as the ping program, also shown in the book.I love starting Expect scripts and watching them logon to 30 or 40 routers and do tedious stuff such as changing firewall rules, backing up files, changing bunches of passwords, etc. One particularly useful thing I get Expect to do is log on to a Cisco router, enable debugging, capture the output to a file, and then turn debugging off after a few seconds. If you've ever run debug on a Cisco router you'll know it can get quickly out of hand and lock up your router, and be hard to turn off. The script alleviates this issue.Because Expect is actually a TCL extension, you have all the power of that scripting language at your disposal. John Ousterhout's book TCL and the TK Toolkit is a great way to get started with TCL if you need help. Contrary to what one of the reviews said, I think this book is OK for a beginner. It would definitely help though to be familiar with TCL and regular expressions. That said, I think the book is itself a great tutorial on regular expressions. The book is very methodical and has many well explained examples. To me it is reminiscent of Richard Stevens' networkng and Unix books.Definitely take a look at this book. It is very interesting, it's written in an engaging style, and it could save you a *lot* of time. Oddly enough it doesn't even need a second edition, everything is still the same as far as Expect goes, even after 17 years. I have since upgraded to the ebook version though.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Great Reference!
By Russell Chapman
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Written by the author of the program, this book is exactly what I expected, and more.If you enjoy automating tasks and writing scripts, Expect is a great addition to your toolbox, and this book is a great companion and welcome addition to your reference shelf.In performing many UNIX administration tasks, one which my current job allowed me the opportunity to automate is a means of maintaining passwords on many servers. In particular, we have a requirement to change root's password on some 1600+ servers monthly, as well as our own passwords on hundreds of servers. We have every flavor of UNIX and more variations of what to expect interacting with ssh, telnet, Sun, HP, Linux, AIX, NCR, and as many differences among the system prompts. After buying this book, I found much of my learning curve easier. The examples and the overview of Tcl are priceless.The Expect man pages are good, but having this book handy, with the program author's colorful and descriptive explanations has been a great help in the above and other successful tools using Expect.This may seem as much a rave of Expect as well as this book, but as a fan of both and a person who prefers a good reference manual, Exploring Expect earns my recommendation.
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not for beginners
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I have tried using this book to learn expect and are failed. Have given up learning expect since it seems there is no other book about expect. like a gentle introduction to expect. if u are a beginner dont bother with this
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I much appreciate the author's efforts in writing such a wonderfull program but speaking about the book... I found it to be a bit hard to follow. The systemization in introducing this technology leaves much to be desired.Most of the O'Reilly books you can literally can start reading and actually using them without of any prior experience in whatever the subject is, unfortunately it does not apply to the Exploring Expect book.For example right now I need to find out how to programm cursor movemets via expect in order to navigate menu driven telnet interface, and quess what - the only mentioning of the arrows is on page 286, which asks me to write code, which will do it. SO I an surfing the WWW for the answer. I would think that would be quite common question, but for some reason it is not answered in the book.Having said all above it is still a-must-to-have for any unix sysadmin it's O'Reilly book after all.
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Among the most brutal experiences in Japan's history was its abuse of women in conquered nations during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of women were forced into sexual slavery by the invading Japanese forces and still to this day most of neither received an apology or financial compensation for their mistreatment. Azuma Konno, of Japan's Democratic Party, said, his "government has kept its eyes shut and ignored the issue." He spoke at the ninth Solidarity Conference for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan which met in the continual effort to awaken Japan's conscience for past misdeeds. "To build our future," said Konno, "we cannot remain blind to the past."
The conference brought together both victims of the mistreatment and concerned Japanese who want their nation to atone for past behavior. They want an official government apology and rewriting of school history books to teach children about the past. In so doing, Japan restores its dignity.


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08/05/2013 , 8:55 PM by Leonie Harris
Each week on Drive... the unstoppable Jess McGuire brings us gold that she's dug up from the world wide web.
Speaking of unstoppable... she's also running to raise money for a charity that is close to her heart and you can sponsor her here: https://register.eventarc.com/sponsor/view/172217/jess-mcguire
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UK comedian, Steve Coogan, has a character he calls Alan Partridge who lost his once big career on the telly & has comeback as a desperate dj on a digital only radio program. Now through the magic of the internet he's been funked up a little:
If you ever make it to Las Vegas and wonder why it doesn't look the way it used to .. head south on the Strip where'll you'll find a fascinating graveyard of sorts: http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/las-vegas-neon-museum.php
Late in March a man's wife drank a bottle of wine and then started to tell him a joke: http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/05/03/wife-gets-drunk-and-tells-a-tortilla-joke-husband-records-and-animates-it/
Sometimes when you look into a crowded scene you don't actually see the crowd .. your eye may instead see just one small thing in that crowd .. check out the photography of Nicolas Ritter: http://www.nicolasritter.com/filter/photography#One
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Brazilian football portal sambafoot.com has launched its third annual Samba Gold poll to discover the best Brazilian footballer playing in Europe - and Arsenal midfielder Denilson has been shortlisted.
The midfielder is named on a 30-strong shortlist alongside previous winners Luis Fabiano and Kaka, as well as Premier League rivals Rafael da Silva (Manchester United), Lucas (Liverpool), Alex (Chelsea) and Ramires (Chelsea).
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Stacey Cole's Nature Talks: Report says wild turkey poult numbers are 'respectable'
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Although a great many of the hawks that nest in New Hampshire have left us for their winter quarters to our south we may not have noticed that some of the smaller birds have or soon will be joining them. What about our smallest bird visitor, the ruby-throated hummingbird? According to the New Hampshire Audubon Society in its summer "Afield" publication: "Hummingbirds migrate south at year's end. Adults will usually migrate first, often as early as the beginning of August. The young usually stay longer and are gone by the end of September. Research has shown that hummingbirds will migrate regardless of whether there is food present, so you can leave your feeder up until the weather turns colder and the hummingbirds are gone." Late migrants from the north often stop for a sip.
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Murray and Ryan Budgets Offer Divergent Visions for Access to Postsecondary Education and Student Financial Aid
Mar 15, 2013
By Marcie Foster
This week, two FY14 budget proposals emerged from Congress that presented contrasting views of education and economic opportunity in the nation. Rep. Paul Ryan's budget, once again titled Path to Prosperity, echoes similar themes from last year's House budget, slashing critical higher education investments and cutting access to college for millions of low-income students. These and other draconian cuts are starkly different from Senator Murray's proposed budget, Foundation for Growth, which improves college affordability and makes smart investments in postsecondary education to ensure that U.S. students and workers have the skills and education needed to support continued economic growth. The Ryan budget was passed by the House Budget Committee on a party line vote and is expected to be taken to the House floor for a vote next week. The Senate Budget Committee also passed its budget on a party line vote and the full Senate will consider the resolution next week.
Ryan's budget proposes deep and alarming cuts to student financial aid, particularly for those most in need. The budget severely cuts the Pell Grant program, eliminating its mandatory funding portion, which would significantly drive up the discretionary costs and threaten adequate funding in the future to aid all needy students. Further, it eliminates eligibility for students who have to reduce their course load to less than half time (less than 6 credit hours) due to unavailability of courses, heavier or inflexible work schedules or family obligations. This short-sighted cut risks losing these students altogether and reducing college persistence and success rates precisely when the nation needs to be increasing them. It also freezes the maximum grant amount to the current award level ($5,645) for the next ten years, preventing the program from keeping up with rising tuition costs and inflation. Even with current funding, Pell Grants are losing substantial purchasing power, disproportionately impacting college access for low-income and disadvantaged students. Keeping the Pell Grant at current levels for 10 years would considerably lower its purchasing power to cover only 17 percent of the cost of college by 2023—the lowest share since the start of the program. Ryan uses misguided evidence to support these cuts, claiming that Pell Grant spending is on an unsustainable path. In fact, Pell Grant costs have declined since 2010 and are projected to remain level over the next 10 years after adjusting for inflation. Furthermore, the program has suffered massive cuts from recent budget agreements which have already slashed Pell spending by $56 billion over the next ten years.
The Ryan budget also makes significant eligibility changes to the formula for calculating student financial aid; these changes reduce eligibility for all types of aid–including Pell Grants, student loans, and other aid–and would hit nontraditional, working, adult students especially hard. These students can least afford these cuts at a time when college costs have increased nearly four times faster than median family income over the last three decades. The budget also targets new funding made available through the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program (TAACCCT) by moving it from mandatory to discretionary funding. Funds from this program are designed to assist community colleges deliver training for high-skilled occupations to workers through career pathways and other innovative strategies.
By contrast, Murray's budget takes a balanced approach to deficit reduction and strengthens the nation's commitment to postsecondary education for low-income students. Citing rising college costs and declining state support of public higher education, Murray prioritizes investments that aim to keep college affordable, particularly for low-income and underrepresented students. To strengthen Pell, the budget assumes that Congress will carry over the current FY13 surplus of $9.2 billion to FY14, resulting in a surplus for FY14 of nearly $4.5 billion. Murray's budget also bolsters the discretionary portion of Pell for FY15 and future years. The proposal calls on Congress to take action to reduce college costs through the enactment of legislation, and supports this effort by providing a "deficit-neutral" reserve for this purpose. Murray also calls for $10 billion in training investments for adults and youth seeking to improve their skills and obtain jobs in sectors with immediate openings.
These two budgets paint distinctly divergent views of access to postsecondary education and student financial aid in the U.S. Ryan's proposals are deep, damaging, and would undermine the nation's growth by limiting student access to postsecondary education. By contrast, Murray's budget continues investments in student financial aid and seeks to slow the growth of skyrocketing college costs.
Every cut to the Pell Grant program, which is already well-targeted to needy students, reduces students' access to credentials, which results in America's workforce falling behind our competitors and our economic engine slowing. Before proceeding with the House budget proposal, federal policymakers should first get their Pell Grant facts straight, and then carefully consider the long-term economic costs of reducing investments in the program and in our shared economic future.
For more information on the benefits of the Pell Grant program see the CBPP and TICAS factsheet Pell Grants Help Keep College Affordable for Millions of Americans.
See also previous CLASP posts on these issues: College Costs Rising Four Times Faster than Income, Two and a Half Times Faster than Pelland Financial Pressures Drive Down College Completion
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Since I have started reworking my entire custom suit I decided to make new weapons. I figure that there are too many mandalorians with blasters. So in light of that I've decided to make dual vibro-daggers as my weapons. Here is a concept pic I made. Tell me what you think.
I plan on using pvc for the handle, bar aluminum for the blade and various bolts and fittings for the vibro cell on the blade. So what does everyone think?


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This is a toy battle, have a sense of humor. Besides the letters are dope
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Louisvillian Raoul Cunningham was a 22-year-old college student when he participated in the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Half a century later, Cunningham, who now heads the Louisville NAACP, questions how much the march improved employment or equality for African-Americans in the years since.
This weekend, thousands will caravan to Washington, D.C., to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the monumental civil rights event. Nearly 250,000 people crowded together on the National Mall on August 28, 1963 to peacefully demonstrate for racial equality in rights and economic opportunities. For Cunningham, participating in the march was a natural extension of his activism that began when we has a teenager. During the civil rights era, Cunningham was arrested on several occasions at demonstrations he helped organize.
"At that point, civil rights was in the forefront and on every African-American college student's mind," says Cunningham. "You didn't know that we would be sitting here today talking about a commemoration of the March on Washington. We didn't know it was the mother of all marches at that time," he added.
The most dramatic outcome of the march came less than a year later when Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. You can watch excerpts of the signing ceremony and President Lyndon B. Johnson's remarks here.
Recent events have prompted some to question the flat-lining or even regression of equality: U.S. Supreme Court rulings rolling back affirmative action and pre-clearance provisions of voting rights laws; disproportionate incarceration of minorities; higher than national average jobless numbers among blacks; and even the verdict in the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
Howard Fineman of the Huffington Post Media Group has been examining the state of black America. I spoke with him last month in Washington and he explained what prompted the Huffington Post to investigate civil rights progress since the 1963 march.
This weekend on Connections with Renee Shaw, we'll reflect on the March on Washington and the dramatic events that precipitated it. Former Kentucky State Senator Georgia Davis Powers tells how the Washington march inspired planning for a civil rights march on Kentucky's capitol that would occur seven months later. Independent journalist and adjunct professor Betty Baye shares her memories and the importance of studying the movement for a deeper perspective on current issues.
Connections with Renee Shaw airs Friday at 5 p.m. on KET2 and Sunday at 1:30 p.m. on KET.
PBS will mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington with a full week of special programming. A highlight includes a new documentary that reveals the dramatic story behind the massive demonstration. It features interviews with Harry Belefonte, Julian Bond, Oprah Winfrey, Andrew Young, and more. The March premiers Tuesday at 9 p.m. on KET. Learn more about the PBS coverage and online events at pbs.org/marchonwashington.
Raoul Cunningham says he's excited about the celebrations, but is eager to see if the commemorations will inspire new efforts to expand the franchise of civil rights. In his words, "there is still a civil rights battle."


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COBRA (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act); 29 U.S.C. §§ 1161
This law is designed to allow a person to keep group health care insurance through the employer under certain circumstances. The law does not require the employer to provide a group health care plan for the workers. However, if the employer has more than 20 employees and decides to provide group health care insurance as a fringe benefit of employment, this law may allow you to continue your group health care insurance after you no longer have a job with the employer.
If you are fired from your job for "gross misconduct," there is no right to seek continued group health care coverage. Other events may qualify you and your dependents for continued health care coverage. Job loss without fault, death, divorce and dependent child reaching majority are 4 typical reasons that a person may loose group health care insurance through no fault of their own.
If the employer knows that an event has occurred making someone no longer eligible to participate in the group health care insurance such as job termination or death of an employee, the employer must notify the former employee or their dependents that COBRA coverage is available. If an event happens that the employer is not likely to know such as divorce or dependent child reaching majority, the person losing health care coverage must notify the employer of the event.
The person wishing to continue health care insurance coverage under COBRA has to notify the employer that they wish to continue insurance coverage. They can make this election at any time between the date of the qualifying event and 60 days after they receive notice from the employer that they are eligible for COBRA coverage. The notice from the employer should tell you how much the monthly insurance premium will cost and when and where it should be paid. Health insurance coverage can continue for up to 18 to 36 months as long as you pay the insurance premium. The employer can not be required to pay the insurance premium for you. The employer retains the right to alter or terminate the health care plan that is available to employees.
ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act);
The Family Medical Leave Act; 29 U.S.C. §§ 2611 et. seq.
Under normal circumstances, if you are unable to go to work and perform your assigned job duties, the employer can fire you. This federal law provides for extended leave of absence from work without the loss of your job under certain circumstances. Although you can not be fired for absenteeism, the employer is not required to continue your pay and all benefits while you are out.
The employer must have at least 50 employees. If the employer has several work locations, all workers within 75 miles are counted. You must have been employed for 12 months or worked at least 1260 hours on the job. You must have a newly born or adopted child OR you, your spouse, child or parent must have a serious health problem.
A serious health problem is a mental or physical illness or injury that requires inpatient treatment OR continuing treatment.
If you notify your employer that you have a new child or a serious health problem, you can be absent from work for up to 12 weeks in any 12 month period and still maintain your job rights. The 12 weeks can be used all at once or a little at a time. The employer should tell you that any time taken off from work will count against your FMLA time. The employer can require that you use up all leave or vacation time that you have available. If the employer pays the full group health care insurance premium, they must continue your health care coverage during your absence. If employees are required to contribute to the insurance premium, then you must send in your monthly portion to your employer in order to keep your health care benefits coverage during your absence.
If your job position is eliminated by reorganization during your leave, reinstatement is not required. If you are unable to return to work after the 12 weeks of FMLA leave, the employer is free to fire you.
The employer has the right to require documentation that the medical condition is serious. The employer can require information about when the condition started; the diagnosis, the expected duration, and, if essential job duties are identified, whether the employee is unable to perform any of those duties. The employer has the right to require that the employee produce a certificate from the doctor authorizing return to work IF that requirement is made known to you at the time FMLA leave is requested.


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Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Further readings for the Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
To provide photographers with a broader perspective about mobiles, lenses and cameras, here are links to articles, reviews, and analyses of photographic equipment produced by DxOMark, renown websites, magazines or blogs.
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Today we take a look at a versatile old lens, the low-price trans-standard Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM, which first appeared in 1996. Despite its age, this full-field lens is still very useful and will allow you to take many different kinds of shots, from landscape to portrait.
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24-85mm performance
I do not understand or accept the sharpness, nor the vignetting rating for this lens, which I used for years on 1Ds and 1Ds MkII bodies. I had a good sample adjusted for focus errors by Canon, and it was as sharp as the old 24-70mm lens, without the dehumanizing curvature of field of that implement. It was worst at 35mm where at F5.6 the border areas even centre-stage were not exactly unsharp, but distorted slightly. Other than that, it is, or mine was, an excellent machine-much better than the current AFS VR and/or G Nikkor copies.
Its only limit was speed, and the border issue at 35mm and softer sides wide open at 85mm, and a lesser contrast than has the old and excellent 28-70mm f3.5-4.5 II Eos lens, whose resolution and contrast is higher, but only by a little bit.
This lens can certainly manage more than your claimed 6Mp resolution at the longer focal lengths (all that yellow in the "sharpness" page baffles me.
As a newcomer, am I misreading the charts? I was looking at the same sharpness chats for the 17-55mm f2.8 Nikkor, which you appear to be claiming has around 1-5 Megapixel resolution on a Nikon 7100!! Your chart shows a thick yellow band going into the red all around the 17-55mm Nikkor's sharpness at anything anyone buys the lens for, which disturbs me. Do you not manually focus for your tests, and is this focus error? as noone buys them for 1-5MP resolution.
There are dozens of these lenses here now in the UK secondhand, and is this true and why, or are people getting rid of them because they genuinely have almost no resolution at all, at the longer focal lengths?
Will I be returning the one I have on order then. How can it have such a dreadful performance, when surely it should be as good as it gets??


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text: ADNAN OKTAR: There is currently a Darwinist, materialist intellectual dictatorship in the world. This also manifests itself as a social dictatorship. Darwinism has established a hugely oppressive regime. Although the theory is a deception and a lie, it is officially protected all over the world. Ninety-five percent of countries protect Darwinism. It is under official protection, and this is the first time in the history of the world that such an ideology, a theory, is officially protected all over the world, by around 95% of countries. There are 100 million fossils that prove Creation and show that human beings were created. But Darwinism has not a single example of what they describe as transitional fossils. I have even said I will give 10 trillion [Turkish] lira to anyone bringing a single such piece of evidence. A protein cannot come into being by chance, their skulls are hoaxes, the fossils they use as supposed transitional forms actually prove Creation, and I have proved all this in my book. This is a great deception and imposition. Students who reject it have to repeat the year again, while professors who reject it are sacked and authors find their books banned, as happened with me. A completely anti-democratic dictatorship has grown up inside democracy, the Darwinist dictatorship. This must absolutely be torn down, and that is my first duty. But Muslims' real aim, of course, must be to earn Allah's approval. This is one of my first activities on the way to attaining Allah's approval. But I also have second and third objectives, of course. I also have ideals such as the foundation of the Turkish-Islamic Union, for all Turkic and Islamic countries to join together to live in peace, well-being, security and brotherhood, and these are things that have a 100% certainty of happening, insha'Allah... It is technically impossible for anyone reading my books, any rational person, to still believe in Darwinism. I cannot conceive of such a person. They will definitely abandon it. But some people still insist on and maintain these ideas, either out off pride, or ignorance or because I have not yet managed to reach them. But I believe that these will also come round in the end, that they will see the true path, and will see that Darwinism is a ruse, a pagan religion and a deception.2009-03-04 16:31:03


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text: Hey everyone, I was just wondering if anyone could think of any music suitable for a male skater making a higher level program (junior/senior length so around 4 min. - 4:30). Something that isn't too overused (i.e. no requiem for a dream/POTC), but powerful, fast, and strong (can have some slow music for the slow part of the program though). It could range from classical, to movie soundtracks to instrumental/new age, to tango/flamenco which is sort of in the classical category, just need some ideas (no jazz or bluesy type of music though!). So for example stuff that could sound like Pirates, or Chronicles of Narnia, except the former is overused, and the latter I've skated to it before Thanks in advance!


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'"It's a mixed feeling," Sabres defenseman Jay McKee said. "We're happy with a point on the road, but it's a divisional rival we don't want to give any points up against. But after the start we had, to pull off another point, was a big achievement."'
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Singing the primal mystery
"The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal." With these words, soprano Claron McFadden invites us to explore the mysteries of breathing and singing, as she performs the intriguing modern song "Aria," by John Cage.
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text: German skaters in the 1980s and 1990s were everywhere. Of course, a lot were from the East, which had a legendary state funded sports machine. But what happened? Today Germany has a talented pairs coach, Ingo Steuer, and a brilliant pairs team, the star of which is imported from Ukraine. It has some other pairs teams who are good. It has a notable dance team, but its star is likewise imported directly from Russia. Who do they have in ladies and men's? Sarah Heichen is not on anybody's list to become a world contender. I am not saying there is anything wrong with Germany bringing together teams with talented skaters from outside Germany, but I am questioning whether this means Germany has insufficient participation or interest in its boundaries to field talent for top competitors. 2004 Worlds in Dortmond were the last German Worlds. They were the last held in Germany and the last where Germans won medals in two skating disciplines, men's and dance. Incidentally both Stefan Lindemann and Winkler and Lohse, who won 2004 bronzes, had upbringing in the pre-unification East. How much that mattered I do not know. If I recall correctly, Jutta Mueller, the famous East German coach of Jan Hoffman and Katarina Witt, was working with Stefan Lindemann prior to 2004 worlds. So what is going on in Germany? The Nations Cup used to be a marquee event. Now is is still held? Have German singles competitors never gotten over the loss of the figures. Did their big, strong German bodies somehow give them an advantage in that discipline? What is Germany doing differently from what it used to do to 1) fund and support skaters for training, and 2) promote popularity of the sport among Germans and especially German youths.


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By Nick Teale
Arsène Wenger believes Liverpool fans will respect Michael Owen when he returns to Anfield on Sunday.
The striker scored 118 goals for the Merseyside club but, following spells at Real Madrid and Newcastle United, signed for their bitter rivals Manchester United over the summer.
However, Wenger believes Reds fans will show their respect to a player he says is 'loved' at Anfield.
"Generally they respect that Owen is loved at Liverpool and he will be welcome," said Wenger, before explaining that the Englishman's decision to go to Old Trafford wasn't made in disrespect to his former club.
"He didn't go to United because Liverpool wanted him as well. He was at Newcastle going down to the Championship and United was one of the few opportunities that he had."
The Arsenal manager also revealed why he chose not to try and sign the 29-year-old.
"I didn't consider him because I had Eduardo coming back in a similar position to Owen."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Hello all ,
i recentlly added a radio controled servo to my range finder . thanks to all at tdh for the ideas . i was hearing that you should put the r/c controls in a pocket , but i thought " let's make it look real " i put the controls inside my left gauntlet and when i push the buttons on the calc. pad it seams that they are controlling the range finder . i just gutted the little r/c car's control box and put it all back together again .it was easy to do and hides it from the outside world . here is a pic , later , cory


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Mamelodi Sundowns' emphatic CAF Champions League final first-leg victory over Zamalek at the Lucas Moripe Stadium in pictures.
Kaizer Chiefs fans at FNB Stadium vented their anger after the team's fourth defeat in a row, 1-0 to Jomo Cosmos, as Steve Komphela had to be escorted...
Mamelodi Sundowns beat Kaizer Chiefs 3-1 in the Telkom Knockout Final - this way for the best pics from Moses Mabhida Stadium.
Orlando Pirates lost 1-0 to Etoile du Sahel in the decisive leg of the CAF Confederation Cup Final - this way for all the choice pics from Sousse.
South Africa's greatest ever striker Benni McCarthy has turned 38. Check out some of his more jovial recent moments in SA.
Kick Off together with Scottish Leader Whisky celebrated Orlando Pirates captain Lucky Legwathi's crowning as the 'Greatest Ever Leader' voted by...
KICK OFF Footballer of the Season Tefu Mashamaite was the big winner at the PSL's annual awards. This way for all the best pics from the glittering...
Kaizer Chiefs were finally allowed to lift the Absa Premiership trophy and were officially crowned 2014/14 champions after their 2-0 win over Chippa...
KICK OFF remembers the stellar career of one of South Africa's greatest ever players and a true gentleman, John Lesiba Moshoeu.
Bafana Bafana drew 1-1 with Nigeria in a friendly on Sunday - recap the action with the best pics from Mbombela Stadium.
Bafana Bafana maintained their perfect record over Swaziland with a 3-1 victory in Mbabane on Wednesday night - re-live the action with some choice...
No goals, but the action was memorable in the 155th Soweto Derby between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates.
Check out some of the new signings made during the PSL January transfer window as they turn out for their new clubs.
Bafana Bafana went down 3-1 to Algeria in a riveting Afcon Group C clash - re-live the action with the best pics from the Estadio de Mongomo.
Bafana Bafana train ahead of their Afcon 2015 opener against Algeria in Mongomo, Equatorial Guinea.
Bafana Bafana are in camp as they prepare for the 2015 Afcon. Check out some of the latest pics!
Kaizer Chiefs claimed the points and the bragging rights after a 2-0 victory in the December Soweto Derby.
Bafana Bafana won the Nelson Mandela Challenge with a 2-0 victory over Ivory Coast at Mbombela Stadium.
Bafana Bafana ended their successful Afcon qualifying campaign with a battling 2-2 draw against fallen champs Nigeria in Uyo.
Orlando Pirates Legends drew 2-2 with Manchester Football Legends, with Manchester winning 5-4 on penalties.


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Hurricanes and Global Warming – Is There a Connection?
In the particular simulation shown above, the frequency of the strongest (category 5) hurricanes roughly triples in the anthropogenic climate change scenario relative to the control. This suggests that hurricanes may indeed become more destructive (1) as tropical SSTs warm due to anthropogenic impacts.
But what about the past? What do the observations of the last century actually show? Some past studies (e.g. Goldenberg et al, 2001) assert that there is no evidence of any long-term increase in statistical measures of tropical Atlantic hurricane activity, despite the ongoing global warming. These studies, however, have focused on the frequency of all tropical storms and hurricanes (lumping the weak ones in with the strong ones) rather than a measure of changes in the intensity of the storms. As we have discussed elsewhere on this site, statistical measures that focus on trends in the strongest category storms, maximum hurricane winds, and changes in minimum central pressures, suggest a systematic increase in the intensities of those storms that form. This finding is consistent with the model simulations.
A recent study in Nature by Emanuel (2005) examined, for the first time, a statistical measure of the power dissipation associated with past hurricane activity (i.e., the "Power Dissipation Index" or "PDI"–Fig. 2). Emanuel found a close correlation between increases in this measure of hurricane activity (which is likely a better measure of the destructive potential of the storms than previously used measures) and rising tropical North Atlantic SST, consistent with basic theoretical expectations. As tropical SSTs have increased in past decades, so has the intrinsic destructive potential of hurricanes.
Figure 2. Measure of total power dissipated annually by tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic (the power dissipation index "PDI") compared to September tropical North Atlantic SST (from Emanuel, 2005)
The key question then becomes this: Why has SST increased in the tropics? Is this increase due to global warming (which is almost certainly in large part due to human impacts on climate)? Or is this increase part of a natural cycle?
It has been asserted (for example, by the NOAA National Hurricane Center) that the recent upturn in hurricane activity is due to a natural cycle, e.g. the so-called Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation ("AMO"). The new results by Emanuel (Fig. 2) argue against this hypothesis being the sole explanation: the recent increase in SST (at least for September as shown in the Figure) is well outside the range of any past oscillations. Emanuel therefore concludes in his paper that "the large upswing in the last decade is unprecedented, and probably reflects the effect of global warming." However, caution is always warranted with very new scientific results until they have been thoroughly discussed by the community and either supported or challenged by further analyses. Previous analysis of the AMO and natural oscillation modes in the Atlantic (Delworth and Mann, 2000; Kerr, 2000) suggest that the amplitude of natural SST variations averaged over the tropics is about 0.1-0.2 ºC, so a swing from the coldest to warmest phase could explain up to ~0.4 ºC warming.
What about the alternative hypothesis: the contribution of anthropogenic greenhouse gases to tropical SST warming? How strong do we expect this to be? One way to estimate this is to use climate models. Driven by anthropogenic forcings, these show a warming of tropical SST in the Atlantic of about 0.2 – 0.5 ºC. Globally, SST has increased by ~0.6 ºC in the past hundred years. This mostly reflects the response to global radiative forcings, which are dominated by anthropogenic forcing over the 20th Century. Regional modes of variability, such as the AMO, largely cancel out and make a very small contribution in the global mean SST changes.
Thus, we can conclude that both a natural cycle (the AMO) and anthropogenic forcing could have made roughly equally large contributions to the warming of the tropical Atlantic over the past decades, with an exact attribution impossible so far. The observed warming is likely the result of a combined effect: data strongly suggest that the AMO has been in a warming phase for the past two or three decades, and we also know that at the same time anthropogenic global warming is ongoing.
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text: Really glad it all worked out for you. :)As a brand new beek with no bees yet I can only imagine how you felt. Had me worried and I had nothing to worry about.Still this is exciting stuff. Kinda looking forward to getting my bees but also scared to death.It is really nice to know that we as new beeks have you guys here to help and guide us.Glad everythings good..... for now. :) lol You'll have to get used to it. You will also kill bees. We all kill bees. Good beeks and bad beeks both kill their share. There's no way around it.


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As a part of her leadership victory last week, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced she would create a National Disability Insurance Scheme, but not everyone is convinced.
David Holst, chairman of the Intellectual Disability Association of SA, spoke to Tim Brunero to discuss the Scheme, and whether it will benefit those who need it most.
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I am researching an improved design for my PKM trigger group.
I have planned to build what I would call a "swing hammer" or a "side hammer" that contacts a striker plate which in turn touches the firing pin. In my mind I see an old-time howitzer breech where they close the door, and someone pulls on the rope attached to a striker to hit the primer. Along those lines, put the "striker plate" over the firing pin, and instead of a rope (:) ) put a hammer.
The beauty of this is that the room behind the carrier, and in front of the back end of the PKM receiver (when the carrier is in battery) will let me put a hammer "beside" the carrier so that I can modify AK parts. :brows:
Another advantage is that since this is not based on the M60 semi-only conversion, it will not need a tube for the striker. Which is OK for a fixed stock, but on the skeleton stock of a PKM the tube is exposed (as is the case with the one commercial design I've seen).
It appears that Swiss use the side hammer design with a striker plate or transfer arm on at least one of their designs. I think it is the STG-57, but I can't be sure.
Can someone enlighten me on the Swiss design? I've looked around and can't find good information about the action.


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Revision as of 17:41, 26 May 2009
July 24-26, 2009
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1 About
Hac φ, to be held July 24-26 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is in the early planning stages. It will be an informal Haskell hackathon/get-together for the eastern US (although people are welcome to come from elsewhere too!). Watch this space for more details as they are decided.
2 News
3 Registration
If you will be attending, please register.
4 When
- July 24-26, 2009
5 Location
5.1 Getting to Philadelphia
More on this coming later today (May 26).
5.1.1 Air
Philadelphia International Airport is the closest major airport. Take the SEPTA Airport Express Train (R1) to Amtrak 30th Street Station and from there follow the train directions below. The fare is $7.00 and the train leaves 9 minutes after every half hour.
5.1.2 Train
5.1.3 Car
5.2 Public transportation in Philadelphia
5.3 Accommodation
6 Map
7 Preparations
7.1 What to bring
- A laptop
- Wireless card if necessary. There will be wireless network access. Ethernet access will probably not be available. If you really need ethernet access, please contact the organizers.
- Mobile phone
7.2 Before you arrive
- Pick out a couple of projects to work on and familiarise yourself with them, or bring your own project(s) to work on. See the projects page for a list of projects people plan to work on.
- Install an up to date Haskell toolchain (preferrably ghc-6.10.3).
8 Contact
For any questions or emergencies, you can always call Brent Yorgey at (202)-531-8646 or Daniel Wagner at (650)-353-1788.
9 Possible Attendees
A page for more definite registration is coming soon; for now, put your name below if you might be interested in attending so that we can gauge the level of interest.
- Daniel Wagner (dmwit)
- Brent Yorgey (byorgey)
- Andrew Wagner (chessguy)
- Jake McArthur (jmcarthur/geezusfreeek)
- Bjorn Buckwalter
- Chung-chieh Shan
- Don Stewart (maybe, I'm in PDX).
- Sterling Clover
- Austin Seipp (thoughtpolice)
- Tom Moertel (tmoertel)
- Chris Eidhof (maybe)
- Dmitry Golubovsky
- Dan (dmead)
- Daniel Peebles (pumpkin)
- Doug Beardsley (mightybyte)
- Matthew Gruen (gracenotes)
- Tracy Wadleigh (twadleigh)
- Raymond Pasco (ray)
10 Organization
The organizers of Hac φ:
- Daniel Wagner (dmwit)
- Brent Yorgey (byorgey)


text: Mihai Radut is a Sporting Lisabon product who shows that he definately learnt something there. Technically one of the safest players in Romania, he's brave in his movements and dribbles and doesn't hesitate to take over responsibility despite his young age. Being captained after a few games in Liga1 he slowly starts to develop into a leader in midfield with a good appetite for scoring goals. Although not as clinical as Vezan he still scored a few goals already and has become an irreplacable component of Inter Curtea de Arges.


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Eakin to display senior art show
Release Date: 4/18/2013
University of the Ozarks art student Dylan Eakin will present his senior ceramics showcase, "To Make the World," in the Stephens Gallery on April 21-26. A reception to meet the artist will be held in the gallery from 6-7 p.m. on Sunday, April 21.
Eakin, from Lamar, Ark., originally planned to pursue a career in portraiture. He only recently discovered his love for ceramics and sculpting.
U of O art student Dylan Eakin's sculpture, "The Cold Woman," will be one of the pieces on display in his senior art exhibit "To Make the World," scheduled to be on display from April 21-26 in the Stephens Gallery.
"I have an obsessive fascination with the figure," Eakin explained in his artist's statement. "For as long as I can remember, I've anthropomorphized the everyday things I see around me, from wood grains to disheveled clothes in a closet. In my junior year I discovered ceramics, and a figurative obsession joined hands with a ceramic obsession. I fell in love with the feel of wet clay, and the ability to shape it into whatever I could imagine. It, more than any other medium, felt limitless in potential. I realized that my two-dimensional portraiture was simply preparation for the sculptures I now create."
Eakin sculpts mainly faces, and many of his pieces feature older or weathered countenances.
"I sculpt forms that I find most exciting. I adore portraits of the weathered and old. I relish the wrinkles in their faces. I love to see a sadness or sickness in my forms. Though not all of my sculptures meet these qualifications, those are the ones I find the most joy in. I want the viewer to empathize with them, to feel sadness for them. Through them, I hope to achieve a more complete understanding of what it is to be human," Eakin said.
The gallery is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. throughout the week. There is no charge for admission.