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Global Agenda developer Hi-Rez Studios is prepping for the beta of their next upcoming shooter, Tribes: Ascend. As with any beta, the devs need a few good testers. The first phase of the Tribes: Ascend beta will begin within the next few weeks. The testing phase will include access to twelve playable classes, four of the games multiplayer maps, two game modes and three vehicles with up to 32 players.
Tribes: Ascend is targeting a Q1 2012 release. You can sign up for the closed beta on the Tribes: Ascend website.
Tribes: Ascend Prepares for Beta, Accepts Applications
Highly-anticipated free-to-play shooter to begin Closed Beta within the next few weeks
ATLANTA - September 14, 2011 - Hi-Rez Studios, developer of AAA free-to-play online games, today announced that the first phase of Tribes: Ascend closed beta will begin within the next few weeks. Players can apply for this initial phase at www.tribesascend.com as Hi-Rez Studios will be granting access to thousands of hand-selected players worldwide.
Tribes: Ascend, the fast-paced jetpack-enabled multiplayer shooter, was recently playable at PAX Prime where it won Best Multiplayer from FPSGuru and was listed as Favorite Game of the Show by PC Gamer.
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I was at this mill last week (didn't even know it existed, until I took a walk after a business meeting). They sold a seperate box with 'gluten' but they could not tell me why I would want to buy that (the miller was out). Can TFL tell this amateur?


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VATICAN CITY — The speculation is finally over. Today the Vatican announced that Pope Benedict XVI's long-anticipated social encyclical will be released next Tuesday, July 7th.
Journalists accredited to the Vatican will be given a copy of the encyclical, "Caritas in Veritate" (Love in Truth), at 9 a.m. Tuesday with an embargo on the text until noon Rome time. Expect full coverage from CNS!
Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and Cardinal Paul Cordes, president of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum," will present the encyclical during a Vatican press conference at 11:30 a.m.
They'll be joined by Archbishop Giampaolo Crepaldi from the justice and peace council and Stefano Zamagni — an economic policy expert from the University of Bologna, who is also an adviser for the Vatican justice and peace council.
As we have written in several stories, the encyclical met with many delays, primarily because the pope wanted to go back to the text and make sure the document thoroughly dealt with the crippling global economic crisis that erupted while he was writing it.


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Ohio Race Plows Ahead on Stump, Airwaves
Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama battle for Ohio as Mr. Romney closes the gap between them. He and the President each carried 49% of likely voters in a survey, conducted for a consortium of Ohio newspapers and made public Sunday. Photo: AP.
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... the the ... cheese has ... a presidential campaign schedule steel is President Obama canceled stops in Ohio and Virginia ... and Colorado while Mitt Romney Council stops in Virginia and New Hampshire ... Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau chief Jerry Sithe joins us from Washington for the latest update in the presidential race cheery good morning ... morning ... so ... let's actually focus on Ohio it's it's in our neck connection here ... with that was it was it was a ten point ... gap or something not too long ago ... what happened ... well ... most polls still ... present Obama ahead by a couple points there was one over the weekend that showed even its closer that's that's what you do know it yet they both campaigns think that present Obama still has a slight advantage in Ohio ... which is crucial to the overall electoral college math obviously so ... the question is is the president maintained a slight of the ... war does Apple over the weekend that shouldn't even to sell you something about momentum in Ohio ... not clear the one thing that you know for sure is is to be a lot a candidate time unlock an eight dollars and Ohio the last seven days this campaign in TNG speaking of ... Ohio ... the auto bailout ... is using as a key issue there given all of the auto production parts parts companies that they're in Ohio ... but ... but Mitt Romney's actually running in commercial it's ... trying to really ... sleep on its head what the president thinks is an advantage of is only one Iran that commercial quickly ... who will do more for the auto industry ... Barack Obama ... said checkers confirmed his attacks on Mitt Romney ... ourselves ... the truth ... Mitt Romney has a plan to help the auto industry ... he supported by unreal and Coke and the Detroit News ... Obama to GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy ... unsold Chrysler to Italian score going to do in jeeps ... in China ... Mitt Romney will fight for every American jobs ... Mitt Romney that read this passage ... did did the commercial mention is that ... both Obama took into bankruptcy but I'd I think that Romney obviously one of the prepackaged bankruptcy is well under what you make of the commercial Jerry ... well what it tells you is that the reason that may Romney as a hard time catching up in Ohio is the fact that the auto bailout is relatively popular Ohio it's the hell the president instead of chicken or that you're the state where there's not a Lordstown ... auto plant a lot of auto parts plants ... and this is an attempt by the Romney campaign to fight back ... up that the Democrats in the rate that we're quite annoyed by this add chicken because this implication that ... a Jeep is going to be somehow moving operations to China ... in it they are there is the conversation away BTC out which is prices parent ... ahh and Chrysler and ... and Chinese manufacturers to set up a plant there to service the Chinese plant ... at the same time the odd that the rate of use and Democrats are pointing out cheap is also investing more money in its plants in ... Toledo and Detroit and so they're going to be more jobs in Ohio at the same time so ... I know that they're a lot of attempts conflicting claims and counter claims about the auto bailout ... I think that the harder the matter is that this is the one thing that still present Obama ... did it in good standing in Ohio it's one of the reasons he looks better there than this of the other swing states ... in a lot of the last week is gonna be to try to the attempts by the Romney campaign to try to add to that ... as as we said before I was particularly important ... for the electoral map for for Mitt Romney ... Jerry briefly before we before we and I wanted to ask about the jobs report on Friday ... is again economy healthy is that for the campaigns are succumbing to later are undecided basically decided at this point ... you know it's probably ... not can it be a huge factor losses are real shocker I think the general stated the economy is headed and baked into the cake at this point you know there was a modestly good economic growth figure on Friday I should thank goodness for present Obama not a no particular indication moved anything ... 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LONDON — Hampton's Francena McCorory will return to the states with an Olympic gold medal.
Her 49.39-second performance on the third leg of the 4x400 relay helped key Team USA to a first-place finish over Russia on Saturday at Olympic Stadium.
The U.S. finished in 3:16.87. Individual 400-meter bronze medalist DeeDee Trotter led off the relay in 50.5 seconds, 200-meter gold medalist Allyson Felix ran the second leg in 47.80 seconds before handing the baton to McCorory, who ran her fastest 400 time in her career. Individual 400-meter gold medalist Sanya Richards-Ross anchored the U.S. in 49.10.
Russia grabbed silver in 3:20.23 and Jamaica bronze in 3:20.95. Ukraine (3:23.57) and Great Britain (3:24.76) rounded out the top five.
"I just wanted to play my part," said McCorory, a Bethel High and Hampton University graduate. "It was exciting to be part of this great team. We were pumped up."
The U.S.'s time was the third fastest 4x400 relay in Olympic history, topped only by the 1988 Soviet team's world and Olympic record 3:15.17 win at Seoul in 1988. A U.S. team anchored by Florence Griffith-Joyner ran second in 3:15.51.
It was the perfect Olympic ending for McCorory, who placed seventh in the individual 400, and her teammates.
"It was great running with these girls," said Felix, who'll leave London with three gold medals (she also ran in the world-record 4x100 relay). Her gold medal count is bested in women's track and field only by the famed "Flying Dutchwoman," Fanny Blankers-Koen, who won four at the 1948 London Games.
"My goal was to go out fast, we were going for some records," Trotter said. "I'm so proud of my teammates. We're a great team."
Natalya Antyukh, the Russian anchor, already had struck gold in the 400-meter hurdles, and clocked a 49.67 lap in this one. She got the baton from Tatyana Firova, who ran 49.88.
"It is not easy to beat the Americans," Firova said.
It was Team USA's fifth consecutive Olympic win in the women's 4x400. Last loss was to The Soviet/Unified Team at Barcelona in 1992, when the U.S. earned silver.
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A 'Bad Nerd' was the core inspiration of our Pre-Fall 16 collection, building on this the FW16 theme plays with an evolution of the characters.
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A winner was selected from 80 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
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This is a conference title. It is a Dutch conference.
It means: 'new ways of connecting"
It is NOT an IT conference, rather a philosophical get together for conference organizers. We want to challenge the participants to connect their delegates with eachother and eachother's ideas.
The conference is a client event for our company. Preferrable the conference logo refers to our corporate identity, please check our website http://www.actorfactory.com We use orange and light grey.
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Book Review: WALT DISNEY'S DONALD DUCK: THE OLD CASTLE'S SECRET by Carl Barks (Fantagraphics, 2013)
"The Old Castle's Secret" has its share of weaknesses -- overly convenient happenings, frankly bizarre "red herrings" strewn across the reader's path -- but has remained a favorite of Duck fans for years simply because of its legitimately spooky ambiance and (of course) the return of Scrooge. Throughout much of the adventure, Barks maintains some humorous continuity with "Christmas on Bear Mountain," specifically, with that story's theme of "who really is/isn't a brave man." Both Donald and Scrooge talk good games about braving ghosts to search the ancestral McDuck Manse, but, just as they did in "Bear Mountain," they both fold like accordions in the face of either real or perceived danger. Oddly enough, as the story begins, Scrooge appears to have forgone his post-"Bear Mountain" belief that Donald really is a brave man; he doesn't even make particular mention of Don's initial attempt to sneak out of his responsibility. This incident must have left a mark, though; later, when Scrooge and HD&L are trapped on a castle battlement, Scrooge dismisses the idea that Donald will come to rescue them. Donald and Scrooge's ultimate participation in the solution of the mystery (with the Nephews, of course, doing the lion's share of the work) might thus be considered a final resolution of the whole "brave man" controversy. The two older Ducks may not be as brave as they make themselves out to be, but they turn out to be brave enough to contribute to the successful completion of a peril-filled task.
Luck of the North." Fittingly, the two characters are pretty much on the same moral plane in these early stories, engaging in constant bouts of one-up-duckship. "Wintertime Wager" does provide a small hint of the future, however, by showing Gladstone as being ruthless enough to want to kick Donald out of his house on "the coldest day of the year" on the basis of a silly summertime bet. Already, Barks seems to have the idea that, however often Donald may bring his problems upon himself, the reader should somehow want Donald to get the better of his cousin. The contest simply hasn't entered the realm of the metaphysical as of yet.
Sheriff of Bullet Valley" and "Darkest Africa," the latter of which has at long last been "fully restored" to something approaching the original version that appeared in MARCH OF COMICS. All praise to Fantagraphics for this long-overdue reclamation job, but the story isn't particularly great; I actually prefer the "Forbidden Valley" remake. "Bullet Valley"'s clever satire of the gap between Wild West movies and technology-augmented Wild West reality, by contrast, still holds up extremely well. Most of the 1948 ten-pagers are still taken up with the crowd-pleasing theme of Donald's braggadocio and overconfidence getting him into trouble, and it's noteworthy that the best of the lot, the Dr. Spock-spoofing "Spoil the Rod," turns the template on its head, with Donald's humility and willingness to defer to an "expert" leading him to follow Professor Pulpheart Clabberhead's advice and let HD&L do what they will in what would today be called the boys' effort to "find themselves." As with all good satire, you don't have to be aware of the specific idea being joshed in order to enjoy this story, but it helps. Between the successful satire of "Spoil the Rod" and "Bullet Valley" and the important additions to the Barksian cast of characters, this volume, while far from Barks' best work, gives more than a few hints of the glories to come.
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- ramapith said...
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It's a shame about "Darkest Africa"; we had to bend over backwards to restore it, and yet—as you point out—it just isn't that special as stories go. If one forces oneself to overlook the ethnic/racial aspect of the natives (a hard task in itself), one wishes for more conflict between them, McFiendy, and Donald; as threatening as both the natives and the wild animals are perceived as being, there is little in the way of the scares, conflict, and harrowing escapes that their presence would suggest. Just a lot of back-and-forth chasing and sabotaging, almost all by the Ducks and McFiendy, upon which the African setting feels like so much window dressing.
- May 20, 2013 at 1:43 AM
- Chris Barat said...
That's a very good point -- Barks just basically uses the African setting as a backdrop; the story could have been set anywhere (where there are rare butterflies, that is). Compare "The Second-Richest Duck," in which the African veldt becomes a battleground of sorts for the Scrooge/Glomgold contest. Africa seems more of a "place" in that story.
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-- Nils 08:48, 6 Apr 2004 (EDT)
Alright, though I'd argue that Earth orbit should definitely be included. Sort of like how you include territorial waters with a nation. If we ever get tourism to the Moon and Mars, we'll have to redefine anyway. And Space is a tourist destination. Until then, I'll be careful not to mention satellite phones. ;) -- Nils 11:04, 6 Apr 2004 (EDT)
Fair enough, although we do link some factbook imports on the mainpage as well outer space is a bit out of place there. I was quite aware of this... "Other Destinations" didn't have a subpage, however, tho and I didn't want to create one. Might make sense to do that. Among other things, we could list oceans on there too. (You have to link it somewhere). -- Nils 11:14, 6 Apr 2004 (EDT)
Japanese Sidebar
Um... somebody came along and added the cross link to the Japanese language page today. Suddenly, though, the left sidebar is now completely in Japanese. Any ideas? -- Ilkirk 14:29, 24 Oct 2005 (EDT)
On the Earth -- in or out?
Hmm -- should the "On the Earth" section stay in "Get in", or move to "Get out"? Jpatokal 00:09, 9 June 2007 (EDT)
Space Adventures
Jani, did you mean to remove them from Zero-G? Their website still lists it as a possibility... – cacahuate talk 04:21, 14 June 2007 (EDT)
This has got to be the most controversial thing
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I deleted the Edge of Space flights in the MiG-25 Foxbat. They stopped in June 2006 like all flights on Zhukovsky airbase. Space adventures stopped selling jet flights even before.


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Kenseth passed Bowyer for the lead on Lap 249, but one lap later, Kenseth relinquished the top spot when he brought the No. 17 Ford to pit road.
With Kenseth bearing down, Bowyer had made a spectacular save a few laps earlier after his car slid sideways as he tried to pass the lapped car of Brian Vickers.
"Dang it," Bowyer said. "That was my fault, totally my fault. You come up on those lappers, and they hold you up so bad. Matt started to catch me, and I was pressing, trying to get around [Vickers]. He gave me room. I just slid up and got into him.
"Man, I thought it was going to end our day completely."
Kenseth's pit stop on Lap 250, necessary because his car hadn't taken on a full load of fuel on the previous stop, started a parade to pit road that lasted 26 laps. Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch pressed the issue by staying out as long as possible, hoping for a caution.
Busch pitted on Lap 270. Stewart waited until Lap 276, opening a fuel window that would allow him to finish the race without another stop -- or so he thought. But Stewart was penalized for speeding on pit road and then ran out of fuel on the last lap, finishing 12th, the last car on the lead lap.
Bowyer had just grabbed the lead after a restart on Lap 214 when a bone-jarring wreck on the backstretch sent the cars of Martin Truex Jr., Mark Martin and Regan Smith to the garage. Brad Keselowski checked up in front of Truex, who did likewise, and the chain reaction turned Truex sideways after slight contact from Kevin Harvick.
Martin and Smith were innocent victims, but their cars were crippled nonetheless.
Edwards regained the series lead by nine points over Kyle Busch, who finished 16th. Kenseth moved up six spots to third.
Earnhardt climbed two positions to sixth in the standings, his highest ranking since he finished second in the 2010 season-opening Daytona 500.
The 169 laps Kenseth led were 61 more than he led all last year.


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ripanti needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 43 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
Yiid it! - the universal like button
Startup company from Germany (Yiid.com) trying to bring the building blocks of the "Open Web" to the community.
The Yiid it! button aims on automating likes (optionally also dislikes) for a whole range of popular social platforms through a single push of a button.
Professional webmasters of online media and ecommerce sites.
Design, design, design. This means, please create a web page that is...
- .PSD only!
- clean, minimalistic, stylish, professional
- colors as seen in the attached logo
- elements (text, form) as in the wireframe screenshot
- placement of the elements is up to you, just push it around on this widget generator page to whatever you think that looks good
No need for html, slicing etc. - just focus on a great design!
A nice example from a similar service (but with different functions and form elements) can be found on http://sharethis.com/publishers/getbutton
Looking forward for you to submit to this awesome contest! Thank you!


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leafgak wrote:Well folks, I am about to attempt this project as well. However, the 2016 Radio I found//Bought on eBay, looks nothing like the one in my LEAF. (Appears to be the same size, but it has knobs)
Any ideas?
I should have it in my hot little hands by next week. Looking at the pictures, the wiring harness looks a bit different, but the radio does have the "Pig Tails" still plugged in.
The reasons I'm doing this is 'cause (1) The Radio is Cheaper than the 3G upgrade, and (2) I really miss the Android Radio I had in my last car.
Time will tell.
Me thinks you don't know what you're doing:
1) Sounds like you bought an "S" trim head unit (with knobs) to put in an "SV/SL" trim (touchscreen)
2) The "radio" (head unit?) has nothing to do with the TCU/modem 3G upgrade (other than providing wireless access); CarWings/NissanConnect still will not work!


text: Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-1869) was a lawyer and politician who served as Abraham Lincoln's secretary of war during the Civil War (1861-65). A native of Ohio, Stanton briefly served as attorney general under President James Buchanan before succeeding Simon Cameron as the U.S. secretary of war in January 1862. Stanton proved an influential force in managing the Union war effort and eventually became one of Abraham Lincoln's closest advisers. He would continue to serve under President Andrew Johnson from 1865 to 1868 but was bitterly opposed to Johnson's lenient Reconstruction policies in the South. Johnson attempted to replace Stanton in 1867 and 1868, and Stanton later supported radical Republican efforts to remove Johnson from office. Stanton resigned as secretary of war in May 1868. He was later appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in December 1869 but died only days later at the age of 55.


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TMZ has learned ... the FBI is now in possession of threatening and harassing messages sent to Lindsay Lohan and other members of her family.
As we first reported, Lindsay has been receiving a variety of ominous messages ... some of which her people believe came from Britney Spears' ex BFF, Sam Lutfi.
Sources tell us Dina Lohan and Michael Jr. have also been receiving strange messages -- some of which badmouth Dina, others warning them to stay away from Lutfi and Michael Lohan.
We're told DiLo has passed along the info to the FBI -- the agency that worked with her on Ali Lohan's identity theft case -- and they're "looking into it."
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Cases may let us mix up what our iPads look like on the outside, but to keep things fresh and fun on the inside, we need awesome iPad wallpapers for the Lock screen and Home screen. And we need them in Retina display resolution (that's 2048x2048 in this case -- needs to be rotatable). Sure, Apple provides a lot of really high quality, really beautiful looking wallpapers built right in, but for some of us, there are never enough.
Apple's also tend to focus on nature and texture, which is great (the new ones released in iOS 5 are all water-themed). But some people prefer more tech-styled, electronic wallpapers. Some prefer photos of family or friends, or favorite movies, TV shows, or musicians. Some even like their iPad wallpapers a little more naughty than nice (hey, we're not here to judge!)
Whatever your tastes may be, we've updated our official iMore wallpapers for the new iPad retina display, and created a new thread in the forums where you can share and find great new iPad retina wallpapers every day.
To grab the wallpaper above, and the more subdued gray version -- I prefer color on my Lock screen, gray on my Home screen so it doesn't clash with icons -- just hit the link below. (You have to be logged into the forums to download images, but membership is fast and free and also lets you post your own wallpapers -- please do! -- and engage with the best damn iOS community on the plant!)


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CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- Public health officials in Chicago said Monday that they have tested at least 10 family members of the medical intern linked to a tuberculosis scare in the city.
Chicago's department of public health said it tallied just 214 TB cases last year, an all-time low.
None of the results has come back positive for the disease, they said.
Officials continue testing hundreds of patients and staff members at three area hospitals.
The infected first-year pediatric resident, who is in her 20s, on Tuesday was found to have confirmed tuberculosis, said Tim Hadic, a spokesman for the Chicago Department of Public Health.
"Right now, the three hospitals are going back into their records and contacting anybody who may have had significant contact with her, from November to April 1," he said. "They're contacting literally hundreds of people, just alerting them to the situation."
He added, "it's a cause for concern but certainly not a cause for alarm."
The woman was hospitalized for several days but has been discharged and is recovering at home, he said. She has not been identified publicly.
Preliminary testing indicates that the woman does not have a drug-resistant form of the bacteria, though testing had not been completed, officials said.
The woman recently began showing symptoms and sought testing, which resulted in the diagnosis and the scramble to alert people who may have been exposed, Hadic said.
The institutions are Evanston Hospital, which is part of the Northshore University Health System and is in a suburb north of the city, and Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Children's Memorial Hospital, both of which are in the city.
At Evanston, the resident worked from February 11 to March 12 in the infant special care unit, spokeswoman Amy Ferguson said.
"We have started to contact the 80 patients that she had been treating through that month," she said, adding that the infants' immediate family members are also being offered testing.
Another 30 to 40 health workers are being contacted, she said.
At Northwestern Memorial's Prentice Women's Hospital, the woman was working from November 3 to November 21, the hospital said.
"We are in the process of contacting patients who may have been affected and believe that number to be 17," it said in a news release. "In addition, we are evaluating another 100 patients who may have received care from this health worker to determine their risk."
The hospital's neonatal intensive care unit was not affected, it said.
At Children's Memorial, the resident worked between November 20 and April 3 with various populations, though newborns were not among them, spokeswoman Kathleen Keenan said. In all, 122 patients and 300 staff may be at risk, she said.
Keenan said the possibility that any patients would have been infected was "highly unlikely."
The city's department of public health said it tallied just 214 TB cases last year, an all-time low.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also involved in the investigation.
All About Tuberculosis • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


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Zoome is a jQuery plugin to help you zoom images with hover effect(grayscale,blur,transparent) and you can zoom-in or zoom-out use mousewheel.Find more in the live demo
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My father is Syrian and my mother is Emirati, and we live in the Emirates. The Emirates government gives assistance to divorced Emirati women and also gives a loan, to be repaid in instalments, to build a house. Can my father divorce my mother in the court, not with the intention of really divorcing her (talaaq), but only in order to obtain this assistance and to get the loan to build a house, because we are a big family and my father has two wives, and we are twenty people. My father's intention is not really to divorce my mother; rather it is for the purpose of obtaining the assistance. If it is not halaal, he will divorce her and make that sacrifice so that we can get the house, because life is full of difficulties.
Praise be to Allaah.
Allah has ordained divorce (talaaq) to dissolve the marriage contract, which is a firm and strong covenant. Allah says (interpretation of the meaning): "and they have taken from you a firm and strong covenant" [an-Nisa' 4:21].
No one has the right to use divorce except in a serious manner and for a reason.
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The Lawgiver forbids treating the verses (laws) of Allah as a jest or to speak of the verses of Allah that are covenants, except in a serious manner that shows commitment to the shar'i conditions and obligations. Hence it is forbidden to take them as a jest as it is also forbidden to engage in a tahleel marriage (in which an irrevocably divorced woman marries another man with the intention of getting divorced so that she can go back to her first husband). This is indicated by the words of Allah (interpretation of the meaning): "And treat not the Verses (Laws) of Allah as a jest" [al-Baqarah 2:231]. And the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon) said: "What is wrong with people who play with the limits of Allaah and take His verses (laws) as a jest, and one of them says, 'I divorce you, I take you back, I divorce you, I take you back'?" Thus it is established that tampering with them (the laws and limits set by Allah) is haraam.
End quote from al-Fataawa al-Kubra, 6/65
The hadeeth was narrated by Ibn Maajah, 2017; classed as hasan by al-Busayri in az-Zawaa'id; classed as da'eef by al-Albaani in Da'eef Sunan Ibn Maajah.
Based on that, your father does not have the right to pretend to divorce when he does not really want to divorce in a real sense.
Moreover, this pretence is a trick to consume wealth unlawfully. The state only gives this assistance to women who are really divorced, and using a trick to obtain it is haraam.
If divorce (talaaq) takes place with a clear statement using the word talaaq or its derivatives, then the divorce counts as such even if he did not intend it to do so.
If it is written and not spoken, the basic principle is that it does not count unless it was intended as such. But if that occurred in court, then some of the scholars say that it does count as such even if the intention was not there.
See the answer to questions no. 72291, 125215 and 126378
If your father is unable to spend on his wife's maintenance and he thinks that divorcing her in a real sense will enable the wife and her children to get this assistance, then he may do that. But he should bear in mind the implications of doing that, such as cancelling out the right to inherit from one another and other rulings. Our advice is to look for another means of earning a livelihood and spending on his family; that is better for him than divorce. May Allah grant him relief and a way out from this problem.
And Allah knows best.
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Sony Computer Entertainment this week announced that the cumulative sales of PlayStation 2 video game system reached 150 million units worldwide, as of January 31, 2011. This once again proves that Sony's PS2 is the best-selling game console ever and it remains to be seen whether its sales record will ever be beaten.
This incredible milestone - 150 million units sold-in - was reached in 10 years and 11 months since PlayStation 2s release in Japan on March 2000. PlayStation 2 features a vast library of more than 10 828 software titles, representing a broad range of game genres that appeal to everyone in the family. More than 1.52 billion units of PlayStation 2 software have been sold worldwide.
PlayStation 2 was the first home computer entertainment system to integrate DVD technology, and the rapid growth of the install base helped establish DVD as the standard optical disc media format worldwide.
Despite almost entering its 12th year since launch, PlayStation 2 system continues to serve as the entertainment centerpiece in many living rooms and is strongly supported in countries and regions, particularly in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and South America.
Source: Xbit Labs


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TQ7635 : Dingleden Barn Farm, Cranbrook, Kent
taken 11 years ago, near to Cranbrook, Kent, Great Britain
Dingleden Barn Farm Oast
Single square kiln, attached to earlier aisled barn.
Oast Houses
An Oast House is a building used to dry fresh hops before they are sent to the brewers, to be used for flavouring beer. A traditional Oast House consists of the 'oast' and the 'stowage'. The oast was a kiln, with a plenum chamber fired by charcoal at ground floor and the drying floor directly above. The steep pitched roof channelled the hot air through the hops to the top. The stowage, was the barn section, it had a cooling floor and press at first floor and storage area at ground floor. Read more Link
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Go Red for Women
Oman malls test 400 women for heart disease
City Centre Muscat and City Centre Qurum, leading shopping malls in Muscat, recently conducted complimentary heart health testing for more than 400 women over a span of two weekends. The drive was part of a global awareness campaiMore…
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Bahrain City Centre (BCC), the largest shopping mall in the Kingdom, is taking part in a global awareness campaign on the prevention of heart diseases amongst women. Go Red for Women will be held within the mall premises on May 23More…
Deira City Centre backs 'Go Red for Women' drive
For the second year running, Deira City Centre has partnered with the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) to support the Go Red for Women campaign. The initiative is run by foundations and cardiology societies in more than 30 countries worMore…


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The Koshland Science Museum received the 18th Annual Communicator Awards' Award of Distinction for the advertising campaign, Interact with the Issues. The campaign was a collaboration between the museum and Levine and Associates, Washington, D.C.
The Interact with the Issues campaign invites teens and adults to use science to solve problems in their communities. The goal is to spark critical thinking about the issues and encourage decision making and other 21st century skills. The series ties directly to the museum's central exhibits, the Life Lab and Earth Lab galleries, and poses questions that are complex and have no single answer.
The Communicator Awards is an international program that recognizes big ideas in marketing and communications and honors work with a lasting impact. Each year, the Communicator Awards receives more than 6,000 entries from organizations worldwide. The Award of Distinction is presented for projects that exceed industry standards in quality and achievement. The Communicator Awards is judged by the International Academy of Visual Arts, an invitation-only group consisting of professionals from media, communications, advertising, creative and marketing firms.


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A MAN has been found guilty of abducting two teenage girls and raping one of them.
After more than four hours of deliberations, a jury agreed that Imran Khan, 36, had picked the youngsters up in a car driven by Zhaid Mohmmed, 45, in Blackburn town centre, taking them to a house where they were both 'sexually exploited'.
Mohmmed was convicted of sexually assaulting the rape victim's 14-year-old friend after they were deliberately separated at the house in Chester Street, Blackburn.
The pair had denied all the allegations.
Robert Golinski, prosecuting at Preston Crown Court, had told the jury: "They were offered drink and drugs then separated by the men, each of them taking one of the girls.
"The prosecution say this was a deliberate policy by the defendants to get each of the girls alone."
The 14-year-old girl was then assaulted by Mohmmed, of Boardman Street, Bolton, while the other, who was 15, was raped in an upstairs bedroom by Khan, of Tenby Close, Blackburn. It had been put to the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, that she made up the rape allegation to get out of trouble at school, which she had strongly denied.
Khan was found guilty of rape and two counts of abducting a child. Mohmmed was also convicted of two charges of sexual activity with a child and two of abducting a child.
Judge Heather Lloyd adjourned sentencing until May 9 to allow for the preparation of reports.


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The 'slave labor' behind Kim Jong Un's new utopia
Britain's Labour splits over Brexit, anti-Semitism
U.S. lawmakers warn against Trump 'emergency'
Acting Pentagon chief not yet sure on wall funds
Spain warship stands-off with UK navy in Gibraltar
Nigeria presidential election postponed by a week
UK lawmakers say Facebook needs regulation
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Books with paranormal elements are some of my most favorite to read. Whether it is about unsettled ghost encounters to alien take-overs, all the way to full blown super powers or angsty glittering vampires... Paranormal is a world I love to dive into time after time and seldom want to leave.
To celebrate the awesomeness of paranormal elements, I have decided to give away one of three amazing books. I have read all three, and absolutely loved all three.
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This Service Level Agreement ("SLA") is subject to the terms of the Terms of Service for the VMware Identity Manager Service Offering(s) listed below. Capitalized terms not defined in this SLA will have the meanings specified in the Terms of Service. We reserve the right to change the terms of this SLA in accordance with the Terms of Service for the Service Offering.
VMware will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the service purchased for an identified user of an instance of a Service Offering ("you" or "Customer") is "Available" during a given calendar month equal to the "Availability Commitment" provided in the table below.
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If the Availability of the service that you purchase is less than the associated Availability Commitment, then you may request Service Credits for that affected service. Availability in a given month is calculated according to the following formula:
"Availability" = ((total minutes in a calendar month – total minutes Unavailable) / total minutes in a calendar month) x 100
Unavailability and SLA Events
The Service Offering will be considered "Unavailable," subject to the Service Level Agreement Limitations set forth below, if VMware's monitoring tools determine one of the following events has occurred ("SLA Event"). The total minutes that the Service Offering is Unavailable for a particular SLA Event is measured from the time that VMware validates the SLA Event has occurred, as defined below, until the time that VMware resolves the SLA Event such that the Service Offering is Available to you. If two or more SLA Event occurs simultaneously, the SLA Event with the longest duration will be used to determine the total minutes Unavailable.
1. Each of the following will be considered an SLA Event for the Service Offering:
a) Any of the network interfaces of the Service Offering Network are unavailable for more than three (3) consecutive minutes. The "Service Offering Network" means the network that extends from the network interfaces of physical host servers of the Service Offering to the outside network interfaces providing the Service Offering's public internet connectivity.
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If the Availability of the Service Offering is less than the associated Availability Commitment in a given calendar month, you may request one (1) SLA Credit, and one (1) additional SLA Credit for each additional 300 minutes the service was Unavailable, up to a total of three (3) SLA Credits in a given calendar month. An "SLA Credit" is an amount equal to 10% of the monthly Service Offering recurring or metered (as applicable) subscription charges invoiced by VMware for service in the calendar month for which the SLA Credit is due.
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If you are eligible to receive an SLA Credit or a Chronic SLA Credit in three (3) consecutive calendar months and all the credits are related to the same SLA Event type, you may request a Repetitive SLA Credit. A "Repetitive SLA Credit" is an amount equal 100% of the largest monthly Service Offering recurring or metered (as applicable) subscription charges invoiced by VMware for the service, in one of the calendar months in which the SLA Event occurred. If an SLA Credit or a Chronic SLA Credit was already received in the Repetitive SLA Credit period, the amount of the Service Credit that you may request will be the difference between the aggregate amount of Service Credits received and the Repetitive SLA Credit.
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You will not be eligible to receive a Service Credit if: (i) your service account has any payments for the Service Offering delinquent, (ii) you are in violation of Section 3 of the Terms of Service during the time of the SLA Event, or (iii) the SLA Event was due to your failure to meet your security responsibilities as set forth in the Terms of Service.
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Back when I was married there were a number of my wife's friends from D.C. who couldn't make it to our wedding. A few, I had never met, so we'd get together for dinner, usually in Old Town Alexandria, where we had a favorite Chinese place on King Street. One of my wife's friends was a stewardess for American Airlines.
Even though we were seated at a table, I couldn't help but notice how tall my wife's friend was, at least six feet. Without any makeup she was utterly striking. Light brown hair, high cheek bones... I don't think it's an exagerration to say she resembled Marisa Berenson in Barry Lyndon. And like Berenson, she had an exceptional body.
I was trying not to look at her, less I stare in front of my new bride, and found distraction by slathering plum sauce on a Moo Shoo pork pancake. Head down and focused on my plate, she and my wife discussed her recent illness and inability, the stewardess thought, to shake a cold due to a confined
My wife asked if she had seen a doctor as I greedily brought the Moo Shoo filled pancake to my mouth, took a bite and chewed while focusing my attention on my Tsingtao label. "I really don't like seeing my doctor," she said. My wife asked why not. She said every time she saw her doctor he would have her disrobe and run in place for about a minute, after which, he would take her pulse.
I stopped chewing, slowly looked up from my beer label and saw the stewardess shift uncomfortably in her chair. My wife placed a hand on hers and asked, or confirmed, that the running was done naked. The stewardess nodded and added it was part of the exam - according to her doctor. I asked how old her doctor was. She wasn't sure but thought he looked a lot like Ben Franklin. I asked what the doctor did while she was running in place. She said he did nothing -- He just sat in front of her and watched.
It seems everyone in NYC has a cold or the flu. I'm not sure I can run in place for a minute. These days, I get winded rolling over in bed. Still, as old Ben would say, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."


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Smith County Man Sentenced For Loan Fraud
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TYLER, Texas – A 60-year-old Tyler, Texas man was sentenced to federal prison for making false statements on a loan application in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
Bobby Gene Loggins pleaded guilty on Dec. 5, 2013 to making false statements to a bank and was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison on July 22, 2014 by U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis. Loggins was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $2,773,371.52.
According to information presented in court, Loggins has been affiliated with Loggins Meat Company (LMC) in Tyler for more than 30 years. During most of that time, Loggins served as President and Chief Executive Officer of LMC. The company was founded in 1940 by Loggins' father and operates as a wholesaler, retailer, and processor of meat and meat products. In March 2009, Loggins applied to Bank of Tyler for a revolving line of credit. In connection with the loan application, Loggins provided fraudulent financial information for LMC. Following approval of the loan, Loggins continued to provide false financial data when seeking advances on the credit line. Ultimately, LMC ceased operations in about August 2010.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Coan.