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The Tears Of Ibn Baaz: When Ibn Jibreen and Salmaan al-Awdah Debated Ibn Baaz
By Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid 4-2-2014 Aqeedah, Politics
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Ibn Baaz (rahimahullaah) said:
There is no happiness for the servant, nor guidance or salvation in this World or in the Hereafter except by having the utmost respect for the Book of Allaah and the Sunnah of His trustworthy Messenger (salallaahu `alaihi wassallam), [adhering to that] in belief, speech and action to be steadfast and patient upon that until death..From The Tape Ad-Dam`at al-Baaziyah. (The Baazee Teardrop) i.e. The Tears of Ibn Baaz.
The story behind the tape:
The pious eminent Shaikh, the Imaam, the Scholar, `Abdul-`Azeez Ibn `Abdullaah Ibn Baaz (rahimahullaah) delivered a lecture to a group of teachers and students from the Department of Sunnah and Foundations of the Deen at the University of Imaam Muhammad Ibn Sa`ood in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in early to mid 1990′s. In this lecture, he encouraged with seeking knowledge and giving da`wah. He is also spoke concerning his own Shaikh, the Muftee, Muhammad Ibn Ibraaheem Aalush-Shaikh (rahimahullaah), and the concern he would have over his students in terms of their learning and manners and other than that. And as Shaikh Ibn Baaz (rahimahullaah) remembered the manners, behaviour, knowledge and good treatment of Shaikh Muhammad Ibn Ibraaheem (rahimahullaah), Shaikh Ibn Baaz started to weep due to the immense love for his Shaikh. As he continued talking, he cried further until he can be heard on the audio tape weeping. For this reason, the one who recorded the lecture entitled it, The Baazee Teardrop, or maybe more eloquently in English, The Tears Of Ibn Baaz.
Once Shaikh Ibn Baaz finished his lecture, he took questions from those present, covering various topics such as the science of hadeeth, the ruling upon those who abandon the prayer, and so on. Side A of the audio tape finishes there. Then side B begins, and the crux of that revolves around the topic of: The disbelief of the Rulers who exchange the Sharee`ah. So the questions begin concerning the verse:
And whomsoever does not judge by that which Allaah has revealed, then such are the unbelievers. (al-Maaidah)So the one who introduced the lecture of Shaikhul-Islaam Ibn Baaz (rahimahullaah) was `Abdullaah Ibn Jibreen. This whole debate was orchestrated by those affected by ideas of Sayyid Qutb in the hope that they could convince or overpower Shaikh Ibn Baaz (rahimahullaah). From this discussion you will see how this Imaam of the Sunnah was not swayed by some of these heads of hizbiyyah, Qutbiyyah, and misguided political ideologies. Those most ardent here in front of Shaikh Ibn Baaz were the likes of Salmaan al-`Awdah, `Aaid al-Qarnee, and others. The Shaikh remained steadfast, firm and resolute as they threw question after question knowing that his position was the truth, may Allaah have mercy upon him.
What is quite astounding is the fact that even after this and other discussions with the great scholars of the era, the likes of al-`Awdah, al-Qarnee, Safar al-Hawaalee, and even Ibn Jibreen did not take on board the guidance of these eminent scholars. So they became well-known for their defence of the Jihadist ideologues such as Sayyid Qutb, and embraced these false doctrines, teaching that to the youth. The end result of which was mayhem and chaos amongst the Muslim youth; the proliferation of street demonstrations, rebellious speeches from the pulpits, increase in terrorist plots, open belittlement and disrespect towards the Rulers, little attention paid towards teaching the youth the basics of Tawheed and Sunnah and great exaggerated emphasis placed upon entry into the political arena, parliaments and democratic elections. The fruits of this false doctrine we see in full fruition today within Muslim communities. This also shows the immense insight of the Scholars of the era that is not seen by the hasty agitators who seek to cajole the youth into wasting their lives in futile causes whilst those who direct them sit comfortably in their homes watching the anarchy unfold on the news channels.
So here is the first instalment of the transcript that I have translated. Please take time to read it carefully and also the notes I have added at the end to show clearly the correctness of the speech of Shaikhul-Islaam Ibn Baaz (rahimahullaah).
Ibn Jibreen asked: The explanation of Ibn `Abbaas of the verse concerning the verse: And whomsoever does not judge by that which Allaah has revealed, then such are the unbelievers, that it is unbelief lesser than the unbelief that exits a person from Islaam (kufr-doon-kufr)?
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: So long as he does not make [that judging] to be permissible for himself. Meaning: he judges with bribery upon his enemy or in favour of his friend, then this is kufr-doon-kufr (unbelief which does not exit the doer from Islaam). However, if he makes judging by other than Revelation to be permissible, if he makes the abandonment of the Sharee`ah permissible, then he is an unbeliever with the major kufr [that exits him from Islaam]. So the verse refers to kufr-doon-kufr, similar to what was said by Ibn `Abbaas (radiyallaahu `anhumaa), Mujaahid and others.
An attendee: That is a major problem at this point, may Allaah pardon you, that is the issue of exchanging the Sharee`ah Rulings with [foreign] constitutions
Shaikh Ibn Baaz interrupts: This is a point of investigation, if he does so (i.e. exchanges the Sharee`ah) making it permissible (istihlaal)
The same attendee interrupts: He may claim that he is not making permissible this act?
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: If he does so, making that permissible, then he has disbelieved [exiting Islaam]. But when he does so to please his people, or other than that, then it is kufr lesser than [major] kufr, that does not exit from Islaam. So it is obligatory upon the Muslims to fight [the one who makes permissible (istihlaal) exchanging the Sharee`ah] if they have the power to do so, so that he adheres to the Sharee`ah. So whoever changes the Religion, whether it be the Zakaat or other than that, then he is fought until he adheres.
The same questioner: He has exchanged the Prescribed Punishments, he has exchanged the prescribed punishment for fornication and other than that.
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: Meaning that he does not establish the Prescribed Punishments (al-hudood), so he applies a discretionary punishment in place of execution.
Ibn Jibreen: Or imprisonment.
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: Or imprisonment.
Questioner: He institutes a constitution, may Allaah pardon you.
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: The origin is not declaring [major] kufr upon him until he makes that permissible. He is a sinner he has committed a major sin and is deserving of punishment. It is kufr-doon-kufr until he makes that permissible.
Questioner: Until he makes that permissible (istihlaal)??!! But whether someone has made something permissible is in the heart, and we do not know about that?!
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: That is right. If he claims that, if he claims that he has made that permissible (i.e. made it halaal).
Ibn Jibreen: If he permits (makes halaal) fornication so long as both parties are pleased..
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: Yes, that is [major] kufr.
Ibn Jibreen completes: A woman is free to do as she pleases with herself.
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: If they make that halaal with pleasure, then it is [major] kufr.
Salmaan Al-Awdah: Even if he judges by an abrogated law such as the law of the Jews? And he obligates that upon the people, and he makes that into generalised legislation, and he punishes whoever rejects that with imprisonment, exile and death and such things?
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: Does he ascribe that to the Sharee`ah or not?
Salmaan Al-Awdah: But he judges by it without commenting on it. He has made it a replacement!
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: If he ascribes this law to the Sharee`ah, then it is kufr.
Salmaan Al-Awdah: Is that major kufr or lesser kufr?
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: It is major kufr if he ascribes that to the Sharee`ah, but if he does not ascribe that to the Sharee`ah and it is a law introduced legislated by himself, then it is not major kufr, such as the one who lashes the people without a legal Sharee`ah reason. He lashes the people or kills them due to his own whims and desires. He may kill some people due to his desires overcoming him.
Salmaan Al-Awdah: May Allaah preserve you so there is no distinction between a specific case with respect to an event that takes place, or a particular situation and between the situation wherein a ruler introduces a generalised law or constitution for all the people?
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: If he ascribes that [law or constitution] to the Sharee`ah, then he has disbelieved. But if he does not ascribe that to the Sharee`ah, and sees it as a law that is suitable for the people, whilst he holds that it is not Shar`ee and that it is not from from Allaah, nor from His Messenger, then it is considered a crime, but it is not major kufr. That is what I believe.
Salmaan Al-Awdah: O noble Shaikh, [but] Ibn Katheer cites in al-Bidaayah wan-Nihaayah the consensus (ijmaa`) upon the kufr of such a person, with major kufr.
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: Maybe he intended if one ascribes that to Sharee`ah.
Salmaan Al-Awdah: No! He said: The one who judges by other than the Sharee`ah of Allaah, even a Sharee`ah that was revealed but abrogated, then he is a unbeliever. So how about the one who judges with other than that: with the opinions of the humans? There is no doubt, such a one is an apostate.
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: Even if he said that. Ibn Katheer is not infallible. This requires thought and insight. He can be wrong. Him and other than him. Most of what is reported as ijmaa` is not ijmaa`.
Ibn Jibreen: They introduce these laws in replacement of the Sharee`ah. They say: This law is better and more beneficial for the people. And they ascribe that to the regulations of the Sharee`ah.
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: This is kufr on its own. If he said: This affair is better than the Sharee`ah, or the same as it, or he says that it is permitted to judge by other than what Allaah has revealed, then that is major kufr.
An attendee: Those who declare the constitution to be kufr and they say: the people are not declared to be unbelievers. Meaning, they make that distinction in their writings, so they say: The constitution is a kaafir, but we do not call individuals unbelievers.
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: If he makes permissible judging by other than what Allaah has revealed, then it is unbelief, even if that refers to a person. Meaning he himself has committed kufr. It is said: So and so is a kaafir, if he makes permissible (halaal) to judge by other than what Allaah has revealed, or if he makes halaal fornication and similar to that which is considered as kufr, such as whoever the Sahaabah declared to unbelievers specifically, those who abandoned [Islaam]. Musailamah is declared as an unbeliever specifically. Talaihah before he repented was declared an unbeliever. Likewise for the one who mocks the Religion is declared an unbeliever specifically. Whoever is found to have nullified his Religion is declared an unbeliever specifically. As for killing, then that is a different matter, meaning killing requires repentance [and one does not exit Islaam].
An attendee: However, if he ascribes that to the Sharee`ah, is it not judged that that he is from the liars (al-kaadhibeen).
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: Yes, from the liars.
[Some unclear speech. Then, a few questions later]:
`Aaid al-Qarnee: Ok Shaikh, some of them say: Umar (radiyallaahu `anhu) left off the prescribed punishments in the year of the famine?
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: This ijtihaad of his has a valid reason because a person may be forced to take something or steal out of necessity.
Salmaan Al-Awdah: The evidence for the fact that the kufr mentioned in the Quraan is lesser kufr: such are the disbelievers. What is the indication that shows that there in this verse a restriction [to lesser kufr]?
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: It is taken to mean that [one is a kaafir] if one makes the judgement by other than Revelation permissible (halaal), in the most correct saying. If it understood to mean other than making it halaal and what Ibn `Abbaas (radiyallaahu `anhumaa) said, that it is understood to mean kufr lesser than the kufr that exists one from Islaam. Otherwise the origin would be that they unbelievers.
One of the debaters: There is no evidence for that in the speech of `Ibn Abbaas. There is not in his speech that one makes judging [by other than Revelation] permissible.. (unclear)
Salmaan Al-Awdah interjects: Yes, meaning what makes us change the text from what is apparent?
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: Because he has made that judging permissible for himself. Likewise, the unbelievers who judge by other than what Allaah has revealed. They judge that the dead animal is halaal to eat, and what is similar to that. However if Zaid or `Amr (i.e. Muslims) were to judge with bribery, do we say that is kufr?! They do not become disbelievers with that. Or that he judges that Zaid should be killed without due right based on his whims? No, he does not become an unbeliever due to that judgement of his.
[After a short silence] Ibn Baaz: So upon the principle. Making something haraam or making something halaal has great significance. For example, the fornicator, does he fall into major disbelief?
Salmaan Al-Awdah: No, he does not fall into disbelief.
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: But if he were to say, It is halaal [to fornicate]?
Salmaan Al-Awdah: Then he has disbelieved.
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: There you have it.
Salmaan Al-Awdah: Yes, he has disbelieved [by making it halaal] even he himself does not fornicate.
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: [Yes], even if he [himself] does not fornicate [but holds it to be halaal].
Salmaan Al-Awdah: We desire, our eminent father, concerning the verse: And whoever does not judge by that which Allaah has revealed.. So the Judgement is connected to the abandonment of judging [by what Allaah has revealed].
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: Judging by other than what Allaah has revealed, meaning, making that halaal to do. It is understood in that light.
Salmaan Al-Awdah: This restricted understanding is taken from where?
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: From other evidences that prove that. Evidences that prove that the sinner [who judges with sin] is not judged to have committed [major] kufr. So long as he does not make that sin halaal, he does not become a kaafir.
[unclear question]..
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: A faasiq (open sinner), dhaalim (transgressor) and kaafir.
[He is a kaafir] only if he makes that [sin] permissible (halaal). Or that he views that the Judgment [of Islamic Law] is unsuitable, or he holds that judging by other than the Islamic Law is better. So the point here is that the issue revolves around whether he makes it permissible [to judge by other than the Islamic Law]. Or the one who goes further than merely claiming that it is halaal, he claims it is better than the Judgement of Allaah. However, if he judges by other than what Allaah has revealed due to his whims, then he is a sinner just like the one who fornicates due to following his whims and desires and not holding that fornication is permissible. Or the one who is undutiful to his parents, due to following his whims, or one who kills another due to his whims these are sinners. However, if he kills another holding that to be permissible, then he has disbelieved. Or the one who disobeys his parents whilst holding it permissible to be undutiful to them, or the one who fornicates whilst making that halaal, then he has disbelieved. It is based upon this that we go against the Khawaarij. We separate and distinguish ourselves from them and between us and them there is huge gulf otherwise, we would have fallen into that which they fell into. So this is what resembles the Khawaarij, this affair of broad sweeping generalizations.
Salmaan Al-Awdah: This affair is an issue for many of the brothers, so there is no problem if we take some time?
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: No problem. It is important, hugely important.
Salmaan Al-Awdah: You mentioned the affair of takfeer (i.e declaring to be an unbeliever) of the sinner or the one who falls into major sin. This is not the point of differing.
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: No. What is the issue, the main issue of the Khawaarij? That is the underlying cause of the Khawaarij. It is indeed these broad generalizations they abandon the restrictions and they take to broad generalizations and by that, they declare people to be unbelievers. The Prophet (salallaahu `alaihi wassallam) said regarding them: They will shoot out of Islaam, and they will not return to it.
Salmaan Al-Awdah: The fornicator and thief, O Shaikh
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: They are disbelievers according to the Khawaarij.
Salmaan al-`Awdah: With the Khawaarij. However, Ahlus-Sunnah are agreed that they are sinners.
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: Yes, so long as they do not make those sins permissible.
Salmaan al-`Awdah: They do not exit Islaam.
Shaikh Ibn Baaz: So long as they do not make [those sins] halaal.
To be continued inshaaAllaah.
Explanatory Notes:
Imām Ibn ʿAbdul-Barr (died 463H) said:
The scholars are in agreement that tyranny and oppression in rulership is from the major sins for the one who purposely, knowingly does that; and many severe texts have been reported from the Salaf regarding that. Allāh, the Mighty and Majestic, stated:
And whosoever does not judge by what Allāh has revealed, such are the unbelievers (kāfirūn).[1]And:
And whosoever does not judge by what Allāh has revealed, such are the wrongdoers (dhālimūn).[2]And:
And whosoever does not judge by what Allāh has revealed, such are the disobedient (fāsiqūn).[3]These were revealed concerning the people of the Book (the Jews and Christians). The Companions Hudhaifah and Ibn ʿAbbās stated, These [verses] are general upon [all of] us.
They also said, It is not the disbelief (kufr) that takes the person out of the Religion if a person from this Ummah was to do that (i.e. judge by other than what Allāh has revealed), unless he disbelieves in Allāh, His Angels, His Books, His Messengers and the Final Day.
And this meaning has been narrated from a group of scholars in their explanation of the Qurān; from them Ibn ʿAbbās, Tāwūs and ʿAtā.[4]
[1] Al-Māidah: 44.
[2] Al-Māidah: 45.
[3] Al-Māidah: 47.
[4] At-Tamhīd of Ibn ʿAbdul-Barr, 5/74-75.
Ibn Taymiyyah (3/267 of Majmūʿ ul-Fatāwā):
And when a person declares a unanimously agreed unlawful matter to be lawful or a unanimously agreed lawful matter to be unlawful or replaced the Sharīʿah (baddala ash-Sharʿ) that [from it] which is agreed upon he is a disbeliever, an apostate by agreement of the jurists. And it is with regards to the likes of this that the following (verse) was revealed, according to one of two opinions: And whoever does not rule by what Allah has revealed then they are the disbelievers (al-Māidah 5:44) meaning that he declares it to be permissible to rule by other than what Allah has revealed.Imām an-Nawawī said in Sharh Sahīh Muslim (12/229):
And as for revolt meaning against the rulers and fighting them, then it is forbidden by unanimous agreement (ijmāʿ) of the Muslims, even if they are sinful oppressors. And the Prophetic narrations are abundantly overwhelming with the meaning that I have mentioned. And Ahlus-Sunnah are united that the ruler is not to be removed, on account of his sinfulness.As for the angle that has been mentioned in some of the books of jurisprudence of some of our associates, that he is to be removed, and which is quoted from the [deviated] Muʿtazilites, then this is an error on behalf of the one who says it and is in opposition to the unanimous agreement. And the Scholars have said that the reason for the prevention of his removal and the forbiddance of revolting against him is due to what arises from that of tribulations, and shedding of blood, and also corruption that is evident. Hence, the harm from his removal is greater than from him remaining in place.Due to the weightiness of this affair, the great learned Scholar and jurist Shaikh Ibn ʿUthaimīn (rahimahullaah) stated an advice to the Muslims:
And that which I hold is that the youth should not occupy themselves with the likes of this matter, whether a ruler is a disbeliever or not a disbeliever and whether it is permissible for us to rebel against him or not. The youth must occupy themselves with the worship that Allāh has made binding upon them, or has made recommendable to them, and they should abandon what He has made forbidden for them, either due to its being disliked or being prohibited. They should rush towards making agreement between themselves and to have unity; and they should know that having disagreements in the affairs of the religion and knowledge occurred during the times of the Companions, however it did not lead to separation [due to the fact that] their hearts were one and their methodology (manhaj) was one.
As for what is connected to the issue of ruling by other than what Allāh has revealed, then it is, as occurs in the Mighty Book (Qurān), divided into three types: that which is disbelief, that which is oppression and that which is sinfulness all in accordance with the various reasons upon which each judgment is made:
1. So if a person judges by other than what Allāh has revealed due to following his desires, alongside his knowledge that the truth lies in what Allāh has decreed, then such a one does not disbelieve, however he is either a sinner or an oppressor.2. When he legislates a general ruling which the nation [adopts and] traverses upon, and he considers this to be of benefit, and he is caught up in it, then he does not disbelieve either, because many of the rulers have ignorance of the knowledge of the Sharīʿah and the one who does not know the Sharīʿah ruling is often by their side, and they (the rulers) consider such a one to be a great scholar, and opposition [to the Qurān] occurs as a result of all of this.It is this one who is a disbeliever because he is a denier of the statement of Allāh, the Blessed and Almighty, Is not Allāh the Best of all Judges? and also His saying, Is it the judgment of the times of ignorance they seek? And who is a better judge than Allāh for a people of sure faith?
3. And if he knows the legislated Sharīʿah, however he judges by this (his own law) or he legislates this [law] and then makes it a code of law (dustūr) to be followed by the people, believing that he himself is an oppressor in all of that, and that the truth is what has come in the Book and the Sunnah, then we are not able to declare such a one to be a disbeliever.
4. But we do declare as a disbeliever the following:
i. The one who holds that legislation other than Allāhs is more appropriate for the people to be upon.
ii. Or the one who believes that this legislation is equivalent to the legislation of Allāh, the Mighty and Majestic.
Then [even] these matters do not mean that when we declare someone to be a disbeliever, that it is now obligatory to rebel against him, since great evils result from this rebellion [1]
[1] Source: From an audio recording dated Tuesday, 22nd Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 1420H, taken from: takfiris.com
>>You can download the full tape from here<<
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Two years passes way too quickly…
The following is a tribute I wrote for the News Virginian two years ago:
There are some columns one would prefer never to write. This is one of them.
Please indulge me as I reflect on two people who are no longer with us. Not to mourn their loss so much as to celebrate their lives.
On Tuesday morning one of my very closest friends lost his battle with cancer.
He was like a brother to me. The best man in my wedding, a hunting and fishing partner of many years and the voice on the other end of the phone keeping me strong when trouble came. And oh, the whiskey we drank.
Many of you have never heard of James D. Range. But all of you have been touched by his work. He was a conservation hero. Embodying a conservation ethic on the scale of Roosevelt, Leopold, Muir and Pinchot.
One of my most cherished memories, from many years ago, is standing with him in my dining room one night. We got choked up looking out at the fields and woods where I lived.
He told me that not a lot of folks were willing to protect the things he, I and many of you love so much like fish, wildlife and the wild things of this earth. He said, "Tommy we have to protect the wild things. If we don't do it, it won't get done."
Tears streamed down our faces. Big men do cry.
Range was a modern architect of natural resource conservation. A skilled bipartisan policy and political genius with an extraordinary network of friends and contacts.
Range had wonderful oratorical gifts, a way of always speaking from his heart, sometimes in language not fit for a family newspaper. You may not have liked what he said but you surely knew what he thought.
He was the personification of "if they don't see the light, we can surely make them feel the heat."
Range's fingerprints are all over the nation's conservation laws, including the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act. His championing of conservation tax incentives earned him a profile in Time magazine.
He ably chaired the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership's Board of Directors pouring his enormous energy into its resurrection.
He served with distinction and candor on the Board's of Trout Unlimited, the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation, the American Sportfishing Association, Ducks Unlimited, the American Bird Conservancy, the Pacific Forest Trust, the Valles Caldera Trust and the Yellowstone Park Foundation.
Range was an original board member of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, helping to chart the outstanding course it is on today. He also held presidential appointments to the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin and the Sportfishing and Boating Partnership Council.
In 2003, Range received the U.S. Department of the Interior's Great Blue Heron Award, the highest honor given to an individual at the national level by the Department.
He was also awarded the 2003 Outdoor Life Magazine Conservationist of the Year Award and the Norville Prosser Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sportfishing Association.
Range's greatest love was the outdoors. He fished and hunted all over the world. I suspect he was happiest however, at his place on the Missouri River near Craig, Mont.
Flyway Ranch was his sanctuary. A sanctuary, which, in typical Range fashion, he shared with friends and colleagues so they too could enjoy a respite from challenges both personal and professional.
Beside his multitude of friends and admirers, Range is survived by his father, Dr. James Range of Johnson City, Tenn., brothers John Neel, Harry and Peter, twin daughters Allison and Kimberly, and loyal bird dogs Plague, Tench and Sky.
Range may be gone but we will be telling stories about him for the rest of our lives.
The Valley lost another friend recently as well. She was one of Range's favorite people and the mother of his girlfriend Anni.
Jean Marion Gregory Ince, died on Jan. 12 at the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville. She and her husband Eugene St. Clair Ince, Jr. and her beloved golden retriever "Meg" were residents of Madison.
Like Range, Jean Ince was a giver. She and Meg, a certified therapy dog, worked with patients at the Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center in Charlottesville and at the Augusta Medical Center in Fishersville.
Anni told me her mom, like Range, loved the outdoors and animals, particularly horses and dogs. She said that love was passed on to her children and grandchildren as well.
Jean and Bud enjoyed a special relationship. They wrote about it in the December 1978 issue of GOURMET Magazine. An Evening at the Waldorf chronicles the evening of their engagement.
It is a wonderfully engaging story of a young couple, a special hotel, and a time when doing for others was a common practice.
I hope you will take a moment to read it. It is a gift that will make any day a better one.
You can find a copy of An Evening at the Waldorf at http://www.usna.org/family/waldorf.html.
Jim Range and Jean Ince have made our world a better place. Their friends and families miss them but their memories will warm our hearts forever.

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A-Z of Car Stuff provides links to a series of posts on cars, drivers, designers etc. that have interested me over the years.
The posts attempt to distill what triggered my interest and why this has been maintained. I'll add new posts and I'll refine old ones with corrections and more information over time.
A number of the items are a work in progress and will become accessible as soon as I complete and publish them as posts with selection from the A-Z of Car Stuff page.
In essence – I've bored my friends and family with this stuff for years – now it's your turn!


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The Unit has always been closely tracking the evolution of technologies within the ICT infrastructure and strategies in the United Nations system. Ranging from proposing a telecommunication strategy in 1995 to recommending improvements to the United Nations knowledge management strategies and policies in 2016, JIU intends to stay up-to-date with ICT developments and ensure that policies and strategies remain effective, efficient and coordinated throughout the United Nations system. Some flagship publications in this regard are the report on ICT governance and the comparative system-wide review of the organizations' Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) systems.


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It's a problem that's affecting many farmers. Eventually, a lack of water and fallowed crops will be a problem that impacts what produce you'll find at your grocery store.
Standing in the very field he just destroyed, Joe Del Bosque said it was a painful decision to make.
"The crop in that video is asparagus is right here behind me. It is organic asparagus, and it was six years old, and asparagus here lives to 9 or 10 years old."
Del Bosque said he doesn't have the water he needs.
"It feels terrible," Del Bosque said. "First of all, it's a producing field. It could have gone another three years, but what hurts is we had about 20 people working this field, and we have to tell them there's no work for them next year."
Joe owns Del Bosque Farms, which is situated in California's Central Valley.
"Because this asparagus uses more water than melons, I decided to destroy this one and save the water that would have gone to this field for the melons."
Del Bosque tells us he's "just a farmer," but in reality, he's been farming since the 1980s.
He grew up on this land, and presidents have sought out his knowledge. Former President Barack Obama visited in 2014 as drought was a problem back then too.
"You don't see drought as a natural disaster where something is falling, cracking open, or washing away what you see out here in a drought is nothing," Del Bosque said. "Bare land. No crop, no water, and no people are working. It's just silence. That's what a drought is here, no food. It's deafening and disheartening."
Del Bosque says you'll notice it in the stores.
This is yet another drought year for California, and it highlights the state's complicated water system.
"Water service contractors, agriculture contracts are at zero, and our municipal and industrial for cities are at 50%," said Ernest Conant, the Regional Director for the Great Basin Region of the Bureau of Reclamation. "The bureau of reclamation operates in 17 western states, and its primary mission is to deliver water and produce power while economically complying with environmental laws."
It's the Bureau that decides who gets what amount of water and when.
It's a confusing and complicated job. There are contracts and water rights, some of which date back to the Gold Rush Days.
"The problem is for the economy to operate, there has to be some certainty of expectations as to what water supply is available," Conant said.
In drought years, he says, they do what they can to help farmers like Del Bosque get the water transferred from other places.
He says the Federal and State Governments are working on repairing canals and building additional reservoirs, but it's at least five to 10 years from happening, and he says they have no choice but to abide by that time frame.
Water diversion for environmental reasons is also a challenge because it takes water away from farms to support wildlife.
Del Bosque says farms and people will have a significant problem on their hands if water systems and processes are not improved upon, especially as this isn't the first.
It certainly won't be the last drought in California.
"We've got to keep this agriculture industry in California alive the rest of the country needs the food we produce here," Del Bosque said.


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Zack's Kernel News
Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.
Bug Hunt
Compiler bugs are rough on the Linux kernel because the kernel needs to compile on as many different systems as possible. The more constraints Linux imposes on the toolchain, the more difficult it becomes for absolutely anyone to build a kernel on their strange and unpredictable hardware setup. Traditionally, Linux makes a big effort to avoid losing compatibility with any version of the GCC compiler.
Fengguang Wu recently reported a memory paging error in the kernel and used git bisect
to trace the problem to a patch by Peter Zijlstra. Peter had implemented an optimization suggested by Linus Torvalds to use the asm goto
instruction in the modify_and_test()
functions. In theory, asm goto
was cleaner than the previous implementation, which needed an extra hardware register.
All seemed well until Fengguang reported that surprising memory error. Peter wasn't able to reproduce the bug on his system and couldn't see anything wrong with the patch itself. He suggested Fengguang test whether other compilers produced the same problem. Apparently, Fengguang had compiled the broken kernel under GCC version 4.8.1; he also tried the earlier GCC 4.6.1 but was able to reproduce the breakage.
Linus Torvalds also couldn't find anything wrong with the code. Like Peter, he thought a compiler bug was possible. He suggested a test for Fengguang that might confirm the bug but also suggested simply disabling the use of asm goto
, and seeing if that had any effect.
Fengguang replied that indeed, disabling asm goto
fixed the problem. Linus said:
Ok. So it looks very much like 'asm goto()' is simply buggered. Too bad, since it generated nice clear code.
I suspect it's the memory clobber – maybe it only marks memory as clobbered for the fall-through case, and the actual 'goto' case might used old cached values? What do I know, it's just a theory.
We do have 'asm goto' with memory clobbers elsewhere (our x86 version of __mutex_fastpath_lock()), but that use is very limited and only gets expanded in a single place. The new bitop cases get expanded *everywhere*, so if there is something subtly wrong wrt code generation that requires some particular pattern, they'd trigger it much more easily.
Linus also admitted not knowing what the true underlying problem was and asked if anyone else had better ideas.
Jakub Jelinek remarked that the patch was "just an optimization, where object files compiled without and with the patch should actually coexist fine in the same kernel." He suggested that by selectively disabling each occurrence of asm goto
, it might be possible to narrow the problem down to a single object file, and a single code routine, at which point a suitable one-line test could be written, instead of using the whole kernel to confirm the bug each time.
Linus replied that Jakub was correct in theory, but that regarding narrowing down the problem to a single code routine, "we don't have any sane way to really do that."
Linus tried to reproduce the problem on his own hardware but was unable to and remarked at one point that, "Fengguang is the only one seeing this in his automated tests."
Meanwhile, Fengguang tested the problem using the older GCC version 4.4.7 and discovered that the problem went away. He posted the diff
output between the source code of those two versions (it was surprisingly small). Peter took a look and noticed that GCC 4.4.7 simply didn't support asm goto
, so the code automatically failed over to using the previous known-to-work implementation. His discovery offered a further indication of a compiler issue directly related to asm goto
Oleg Nesterov also looked at Fengguang's output and identified a snatch of asm code that looked wrong to him and that might explain Fengguang's memory error.
Meanwhile, Ingo Molnár was trying to reproduce the bug on his own system with no success. He suggested, "Unless my testing is off it might be a bug in GCC 4.8, or a pre-existing bug gets exposed by GCC 4.8."
Peter was finally able to reproduce the bug on his own system, under GCC version 4.8.1 using some test code from Fengguang. He found that if he forced a 64-bit build instead of a 32-bit build, the problem would go away. Ingo replied, "this at least opens up the possibility that we can create a not too painful quirk and only use the 'asm goto' optimization tricks on 64-bit kernels."
Peter did some more testing and found that, like the 64-bit build, compiling for i386-SMP also would not reproduce the bug. Later, he identified the -march=winchip2
GCC option as a means to trigger the bug.
Ingo finally managed to reproduce the bug under GCC versions 4.7.3 and 4.7.2. He suggested, "I think we might need to turn off asm goto for all things 32-bit x86."
Jakub confirmed that the problem was indeed a GCC bug. He gave a link to the newly created bugzilla ticket [1], which he had also been assigned to fix. He confirmed that all GCC versions from 4.6 through 4.9 had the same problem: asm goto
produced bad code.
At this point, Linus also confirmed that the problem did indeed show up on his 64-bit system. He said, "Apparently we just have a harder time hitting it in practice in the kernel on x86-64." He added, "Too bad. It makes me nervous about all our _traditional_ uses of asm goto too, never mind the new ones."
Ingo asked Jakub to please let the kernel folks know when the bug was well-enough understood to implement a decent workaround in the kernel, and the discussion migrated to considerations of possible workarounds. In a later thread, various folks posted patches to fix all occurrences of asm goto
to add the workaround, and it looked as though GCC 4.8.2 would no longer have the problem. Because of the small number of problem cases, the workaround ended up adding no bloat at all to the kernel.
Later, when announcing Linux 3.12-rc5, Linus said, "the most excitement we had this week wasn't even a kernel bug, it was a compiler bug wrt 'asm goto' that was found because of code that is pending to be merged in 3.13. But the (happily fairly straightforward) workaround for the bug was merged early, because we _do_ use asm goto, and it's unclear whether our existing use might already trigger the bug, just not enough to be as obviously noticeable."
A day or so later, Greg Kroah-Hartman fed the fix down into the 3.11 stable tree.
No Longer Registering Internal Filesystems
Al Viro wanted to clean up some legacy interface issues that he thought no one would miss. He said the kernel required code to call register_filesystem()
before mounting a filesystem, so the kernel could identify it by name and understand how to deal with it. For userland filesystems, Al said this kind of registration was important because it allowed user code to look up the internal filesystem type on the basis of the filesystem's name.
However, for internal filesystems, such as ia64 pfmfs, anon_inodes, bdev, pipefs, and sockfs, Al said register_filesystem()
had been superfluous for about 10 years already, and he wanted to get rid of it for those cases. He pointed out that for those filesystems in recent years, "kern_mount() takes a pointer to file_system_type and doesn't bother with searching for it by name."
He added that the kern_mount()
thing by itself wasn't quite enough to justify his proposed change, although it helped. Also, register_filesystem()
traditionally initialized a crucial data structure belonging to each filesystem type. A couple of years ago, he said, that data structure was reworked to no longer need register_filesystem()
. He continued, "These days there's no reason to register the filesystem types that can only be used for internal mounts."
Al added, "The only user-visible effect of dropping those register_filesystem() would be shorter /proc/filesystems – that bunch wouldn't be mentioned there anymore."
He posted a short patch, saying that this could only cause a problem if any user code depended on seeing those internal filesystems listed in /proc/filesystems
, which he doubted.
Linus Torvalds replied that he liked the patch but did worry that /proc/filesystems
would no longer contain a complete list of filesystems on any running system and that nothing else had that list either. The /proc/modules
would have the information, but only if the filesystems had been compiled as modules.
Linus concluded, "These particular filesystems I really don't think people would ever possibly check for, so I think it's fine."
Support for Programmable Instruction Sets
Michal Simek submitted a new version of his FPGA (field-programmable gate array) subsystem for consideration. FPGAs are CPU chips whose instruction set can be configured by the user after manufacture. The goal of Michal's code was "to unify all fpga drivers which in general do the same things."
He added that after a discussion with Greg Kroah-Hartman, the subsystem would support a firmware interface to load instruction sets into FPGA chips. To this, H. Peter Anvin replied, "As I have previously stated, I think this is a mistake simply because the firmware interface is a bad mapping on requirements for an FPGA, especially once you account for the vast number of ways an FPGA can get loaded and you take partial reconfiguration into account."
Later, Peter said, "The essential question is if the firmware interface really is appropriate for FPGAs. It definitely has a feel of a 'square peg in a round hole', especially when you consider the myriad ways FPGAs can be configured (some persistent, some not, some which take effect now, some which come later, some which involve bytecode interpreters …) and considering reconfiguration and partial reconfiguration."
Michal replied:
If you look at it in general I believe that there is [a] wide range of applications which just contain one bitstream per fpga and the bitstream is replaced by [a] newer version in upgrade. For them [a] firmware interface should be pretty useful. Just set up [a] firmware name with [the] bitstream and it will be automatically loaded in [the] startup phase.
Then there is another set of applications, especially in connection to partial reconfiguration, where this can be done statically by pregenerated partial bitstreams or automatically generated on [a] target cpu. … doing everything on the target firmware interface is not the best because everything can be handled by user application[s,] and it is easier just to push this bitstream to do device and not to save it to the fs.
I think the question here is if this subsystem could have several interfaces. For example, Alan is asking for adding char support. Does it even make sense to have more interfaces with the same backend driver? When this is answered, then we can talk [about] which one[s] make sense …. In v2 is sysfs and firmware one. Adding char is also easy to do.
Alan Tull clarified, "I'm asking for just one way to write the fpga image data, not two or three. I like being able to directly write the fpga image buffer from userspace; that will support the superset of use cases."
To Michal, Peter agreed that "the firmware interface makes sense when the use of the FPGA is an implementation detail in a fixed hardware configuration, but that is a fairly restricted use case." He asked for Greg's input.
Greg replied:
I thought this would be just like 'firmware'; you dump the file to the FPGA, it validates it and away you go with a new image running in the chip.
But, it sounds like this is much more complicated, so much so that configfs might be the correct interface for it, as you can do lots of things there, and it is very flexible (some say too flexible …).
A char device, with a zillion different custom ioctls is also a way to do it, but one that I really want to avoid as that gets messy really quickly.
Peter replied that it might not be necessary to implement a full zillion custom ioctals. But he said, "we really need to get a better understanding of the various usage cases," including cases where an FPGA driver wasn't needed at all.
Jason Gunthorpe also replied to Greg, saying that Greg's initial concept (dumping the file to the FPGA and away you go) accounted for virtually all use cases. Everything else, he said, was "fringe."
Jason added:
I've been doing FPGAs for >10 years and I've never once used read back via the config bus. In fact all my FPGAs turn that feature off once they are loaded. Partial reconfiguration is very specialized, and hard to use from a FPGA design standpoint.
I also think it is sensible to focus this interface on simple SRAM FPGAs, not FLASH based stuff, or whatever complex device required a byte code interpreter.
But, Peter replied, "Every FPGA toolchain I know of has a way to emit JAM/STAPL bytecode files … and a fair number of programming scenarios need them."
Jason said, "but now you are talking about JTAG. JTAG is a very different problem than configuring over the configuration bus. I don't think it makes much sense to try and combine those two things into a single subsystem. The majority use of JAM/STAPL output is for manufacturing automation. In system, in field programming of SRAM FPGAs via JTAG is uncommon."
But Peter replied, "I do it all the time. JAM/STAPL seems to me to be more used for exotic connections to serial flash for persistent programming."
Michal asked Peter to share some of his code to be a test case for further FPGA development, but Peter replied that the code was owned by his employer and couldn't be shared. They continued discussing the technical details in general terms, though, identifying a variety of use cases.
In general, the level of interest among people like Peter and Greg seems to indicate that an FPGA is likely to get into the kernel at some point, in one form or another. There also seems to be general interest in casting as wide a net as possible in terms of the feature set. (In spite of Jason's warning that "… loading the wrong FPGA could permanently destroy the system. This is why we have meta-data encoded with the bitstream.") At the same time, there's a reluctance to support absolutely every possible case if a more general interface could accomplish the same thing.
The discussion continued along technical line but without settling on anything. Michal's patch likely will have to go through some more iterations to figure out the right scope.
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One of the greatest challenges in curating the global online conversation is translation. To present ideas and reflections from one language and culture to another is no easy task and often ends up taking more time than writing the original post. Still, Global Voices is committed to presenting a plethora of voices in as many languages as we can. You may have noticed increased coverage of the Francophone blogosphere by Alice Backer, Arabic-speaking bloggers by Haitham Sabbah, as well as my own translations and those of numerous volunteers from Spanish into English. Likewise, Global Voices posts are frequently translated into other languages such as Portnoy's volunteer translations into Chinese and Miguel Esquirol's weekly translation of Eduardo Ávila's Bolivia coverage.
As chance would have it, yesterday was UNESCO's international Mother Language Day with this year's theme fittingly devoted to "languages and cyberspace." It stirred little conversation in the blogosphere, but the website is full of interesting and informative resources including links to related projects and the newly revised Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing (how many bloggers do you know writing in Wayuu?)
Another initiative promoting multilingualism online, however, does seem to be gathering some major steam. Liz Henry of the American Literary Translators Association Blog is the driving force behind this year's first annual Carnival of Blog Translation which will take place on Tuesday February 28th.
On the day of the Carnival, a participant translates one post by another blogger, and posts it on her own blog with a link to the original. She would need to email me, or post in the comments right here, and I'll compile one big post on the day of the Carnival with links to all the participants. You can translate any blog entry that was posted in the month of February 2006. It can be your own blog entry, if you like.
Henry says the idea came from a conversation about bilingual blogging at the last BlogHer conference. Among the numerous participants are Patrick Hall who says he will translate a post from Welsh to English and Darren Kuropatwa, a math teacher in Canada who uses weblogs in the classroom and notes "the students in my school collectively speak over 50 different languages so I'm very interested in increasing accessibility to the students work in their parents native tongues.
If you are interested in taking part in the Carnival of Blog Translation, make sure to visit Liz Henry's announcement post. If you are interested in volunteering as a translator for Global Voices, please leave a comment below.
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Surprising that nobody else has commented here yet.
I'm generally willing to do translations from Russian or French into English – I probably can't spend more than a couple of hours a week on it, but keen to help nonetheless!


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I developed a series of reasonably successful sites for which "keyword in the domain name" was a key strategy. I think it helps, both in getting that coveted #1 spot and in getting traffic early in the development of a site.
Last year I stared a project which involved a three orders-of-magnitude scaling in terms of my content generation technology and linkbuilding and I decided to focus on a brand building strategy, because the primary threat to this project is the possible perception that some people could have that this site isn't 'legitimate' just because I've built an A.I. that cuts back drastically on the amount of human labor that is used to make the site.
I picked a name that sounds like a startup company that might get mentioned on TechCrunch and I've put a lot of effort into quality and into dressing the site up into nice clothes so it makes a good superficial impression. I'm still spending a lot of effort on this because I'm still in a race between "getting noticed" and "getting negative attention".
Although the #1 and #2 ranks for the kind of "short tail" searches I'd like to dominate have keywords in the domain, it's unusual to see keywords in the domain in #3 and below. In all other aspects, it's like they brought a knife to a fight where I brought a machine gun, and they can't touch me at all when the tail goes from medium to long.


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Celtic/Rock for the masses
Brynmor (Welsh for great hill) originated in 2010 after Robert Gabb craved to return to his Celtic musical roots. He had been playing in Wales and Ireland prior to moving to the United States in 1998. He knew a slew of great musicians but wanted just the right ones, those who were talented and capable of adding a rock edge to the music. He knew the instruments he needed in the band- fiddle, tin whistle, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass and drums. Stanley Widener, lead guitarist extraodinaire, was already on board, and North Carolina School of the Arts alumni Sharon Fogarty joined playing whistle and flute. It is difficult to find a quality Irish fiddle player in this area but he knew of one, Rex McGee, with whom Robert had played music with in the past. Rex joined and brought his cousin Tim Hill, a master bass player. Now he needed a solid drummer. Robert knew one of the best, but he lived about 4 hours away in central Virginia. Slinky Cobblestone had played music in the past with Robert and Rex. Slinky visited Robert, heard some tracks recorded by the band, and was sold.
Thus Brynmor was born!


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It's no surprise the science blogging community, even the "mainstream media" parts of it like Scientific American, intersects heavily with the community of atheists and freethinkers that make up the skeptical and atheist communities. Not all the members of the science blogging community, though, have any inclination toward being part of the atheist/skeptical communities. In fact, a surprising number of people who are out as atheists couldn't give half a damn about these secular online communities, what with our acrimony, our pockets of outright hatred and our various unevidenced delusions. A large number of them have given up on our communities over the very same fights that FtB features heavily in — fights in which vocal minorities claim that we, the people who try to hold others' feet to fires for believing in and for saying and for doing objectively harmful and antisocial things to one another, are the ones who are truly evil, with their cries of "witch hunts" and "political correctness" and "fascism" and their cries that they're defending "free speech", as though they even knew what the term meant.
The result of this divergence in community makeup is palpable this past week.
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Renowned Astrologer Dr Sohini Sastri Was the Chief Guest at The Trendsetter 2022 Maharashtra Time Event
Famous Vedic Astrologer Dr. Sohini Sastri Was Chief Guest at Maharashtra Times Trendsetter 2022 Ceremony
September 3: The much-awaited International Glory Awards event at Novotel, Juhu, in Mumbai on 27th Aug 2022 witnessed the who's who from Tinsel Town and other parts of India and was indeed a gala night. The Chief Guest, famous Bollywood actress Mrs Shilpa Shetty Kundra, and the Guest of Honor, Dr Sohini Sastri, felicitated different achievers in diverse fields like entertainment, healthcare, fashion, entrepreneurship, NGO and so forth.
The event was lightened by Guest of Honor Dr Sastri and other dignitaries. Many other celebrities, Socialites, Bureaucrats, and corporates graced the glittering event. The ceremony was anchored by Siddharth Kannan, an IIFA famed anchor, assisted by the Kolkata-based celebrity anchor Ranbir Singh.
Many popular faces from the Television and Entertainment industry won big at the event. Some prominent names included the evergreen star lead of Maine Pyar Kiya fame Bhagyashree, popular actor on OTT platform Akshay Oberoi, Aajtak Journalist Mr Amith Tyagi, Ashish Tiwari, Managing Editor of First India Group, India News Journalist Mr Ashish Ranjan, Actor Sikandar Kher, Comedian Mr Jayvijay Sachan and many more.
The Chief Guest and Guest of Honour, Dr Sohini Sastri, congratulated all awardees on winning the prestigious trophy and wished them the best in their future endeavours. All recipients were overwhelmed and felt privileged to receive the felicitation from the hands of two famous personalities who have established themselves as true examples of Nari Shakti.
The chief guest, Mrs Shilpa Shetty Kundra, is an Iconic star and fitness expert. Her commitment to words and work was seen when despite being injured during a film shoot recently, she attended the event to motivate the achievers. The celebrity actress is suffering from a fractured leg currently. However, her evergreen smile was inspiring for all.
India's finest astrologer as Guest of Honor, Dr Sohini Sastri, was shining at the star-studded event. Dr Sastri has decades of experience in Vedic Astrology, Palmistry, Vaastu Shastra, and Numerology. The top astrologer has been complemented and accredited by none other than the President & Vice President of India, Governors of three states, for her contribution to astrology and society. Her work has been recognized by different portals and media houses worldwide.
Considered the Best Astrologer in India and among the top 10 astrologers in the world, Dr Sohini Sastri is also a philanthropist & life coach. She has written many books on astrology and is a regular columnist in many popular magazines. In addition, her TV shows are very popular among viewers of all strata.
Overall, the prominent personalities' turnout left very much an effect on all the attendees. The memorable award event was quite an enriching affair for all. Website – www.sohinisastri.com
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We have the answer for Lotta money crossword clue in case you've been struggling to solve this one! Crosswords can be an excellent way to stimulate your brain, pass the time, and challenge yourself all at once. Of course, sometimes there's a crossword clue that totally stumps us, whether it's because we are unfamiliar with the subject matter entirely or we just are drawing a blank.
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A clue can have multiple answers, and we have provided all the ones that we are aware of for Lotta money. This clue last appeared January 29, 2023 in the NYT Crossword. You'll want to cross-reference the length of the answers below with the required length in the crossword puzzle you are working on for the correct answer. The solution to the Lotta money crossword clue should be:
- MIL (3 letters)
Below, you'll find any keyword(s) defined that may help you understand the clue or the answer better. Find all the solutions for the puzzle on our NYT Crossword January 29 2023 Answers guide.
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- MIL (noun)
- a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
- a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter
- MONEY (noun)
- the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender
- the official currency issued by a government or national bank
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Rebecca Nagle sometimes finds herself asking the question: What would Hugh Hefner say?
"The only sex that is good is when it's good for everyone," she says, laughing. "And I've only ever had good sex."
Hefner didn't actually say that. Nagle wrote it.
"But you can really imagine Hugh Hefner saying that," she insists.
Nagle has spent a lot of time studying Hefner. She's one of the directors of a Baltimore-based group called FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture. The group is interested in promoting consent — communicating clearly with your partner about if, when and how to have sex. FORCE argues that the way Playboy talks about consent is problematic — including the magazine's annual list of top party schools.
"The way they describe women on the list [makes them sound] like campus perks," Nagle says. "Sort of alongside things like good bars and a good football stadium."
FORCE wanted to change the message, so last September the group created a fake Playboy website. But instead of listing party schools, the site highlighted colleges working to promote consent. Nagle says it's not hard to imagine Hefner getting behind that.
"If you're somebody who's all about sexual pleasure," she says, "it makes total sense that you're somebody who's all about consent."
The website looks like it could have been created by Playboy; there's the bunny logo and language with just the right amount of smugness. FORCE also created fake reports on the fake list from several online outfits, including the Huffington Post and BroBible.com.
Playboy hasn't responded publicly to the prank — but BroBible, a site aimed primarily at college-age men, did. Associate Editor Andy Moore agreed with FORCE's message that consent and party-school lists can coexist.
"They didn't say 'Don't have a good time,' " Moore says. "I think there's a way to rank these schools and talk about this while keeping in mind that any sort of terrible behavior is not allowed."
That's something the organizers are hoping more people will think about — and not just those who read Playboy or BroBible. They've used other brands — notably Victoria's Secret — to get that message across.
"Victoria's Secret, in a lot of ways, publicly owns the idea of sexuality," says Hannah Brancato, another director of FORCE. She says the group was concerned with some of the messages Victoria's Secret was placing on its underwear, like "stop staring" and "no peeking."
"The words 'stop' and 'no' are being used as a way to flirt, instead of a way to set boundaries," Brancato says.
So FORCE created a fake Victoria's Secret website and announced the release of a new line of consent-themed underwear.
"Victoria's Secret was apologizing for past styles," she explains. "And instead they were releasing this line promoting consent culture — the idea of loving your body, communicating about sex, asking first, no means no."
The hoax fooled a lot of people, including 19-year-old Cinneah El-Amin from Baltimore. She was especially pleased to see models of all shapes and sizes wearing the underwear.
"Being able to look at this prank and see someone who looks like me, who was standing in front of the Victoria's Secret logo, you know, meant a lot," El-Amin says.
The fake Victoria's Secret website received hundreds of thousands of hits. That's comparable to other corporate-targeted pranks. And the Playboy spoof? According to the social-media metrics on Facebook and Twitter, as of last week, FORCE's list had been shared more times than the actual party-school list. Brancato says that shows this kind of activism can be effective.
"We need to change attitudes, and this is how you change attitudes," she says. "By changing the culture we're consuming on a day-to-day basis."
Until that change happens, Nagle and Brancato are planning to keep it up. They have other pranks in the works.
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Although the process of growing and caring for a tree is generally
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Brody Jenner Releases Statement to 'Set the Story Straight' About His Ex-Wife Kaitlynn Carter
Brody Jenner is singing another tune after he joked about his ex-wife Kaitlynn Carter's relationship with Miley Cyrus.
Jenner posted a statement about his relationship with Carter on his Instagram page.
"There is far too much negativity being directed at someone who I love and care about very much," Jenner shared.
"I feel the need to set the story straight. Kaitlynn and I have been best friends for 6 years, and we continue to be. We, like many others before us and many after us, grew in different directions over those same 6 years," he continued.
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Bot Libre bots are not like other chat bots. They are not limited to simple response searching, or scripted responses. Bot Libre bots have a real brain that functions similar to a human brain.
Their brain stores everything about every conversation, and they are always analyzing everything. When you chat with a bot it remembers what was said, who said it, what it was in response to, when it was said, what the words were in each sentence, and in what order, and which words came before/after which other words. All of this information is stored in the bot's memory in a database. The bot's memory is structured similar to a human brain with nodes and relationships, similar to neurons and dendrites. The nodes and relationships know how many times they have been accessed and when they were last accessed. The relationships know their probability of correctness, and take precedence over other relationships the more their correctness is reinforced.
The bots have thoughts, senses, a consciousness, a mood and emotions. When you chat with a bot, it will try to understand your question, and it will analyze your responses to it to search for linguistic patterns, and language rules.
The bot's have two stages of learning. These include mimicry, and comprehension.
When a bot does not know how to respond to a question, it may ask the user how it should respond. It will then remember and learn this response, and answer the same question, or similar questions with the same response. The bots learn in context, so if they know multiple responses to a question, they will choose the one that is the most appropriate for the context, taking into account what was said previously, and the bot's consciousness state (if you were talking about apples, it might choose the answer most related to apples).
The bots also learn grammar. You may notice their grammar starts off not very good, but they will quickly adjust their responses the more they learn about grammar (provided you talk to it with good grammar, they will also learn bad grammar and slang). They don't learn grammar by rules, but by what 'sounds' right based on the context (the same as humans do).
If a bot gives a bad response to a question, you can correct its response by clicking correct, and providing the response it should have said.
You can control who your bot learns from. You can configure it to only learn from administrators, connected users, members, or everyone (default). You can also control who can correct your bot's responses.
You can also train your bot by uploading chat logs. The chat logs should have the format,
user:Can you help me? admin:What would you like help with? user:My computer. admin:Have you tried rebooting it? user:Hello admin: Hello user, how may I help you?
Each question/response must be on a new line and prefixed with the speaker. The speaker's names are important, as if the name appears in the sentence, the bot will create a formula response that replaces the name with the current users name. Also, if your bot only learns from administrators, the speaker you want your bot to learn from in the chat log must be named admin. Each conversation must be separated by a empty line, this designates a new conversation. This is important because the bots learn in context, so you must be clear on when one context ends, and another begins.
You can review your bot's conversations, and responses from the Training & Chat Logs page under Admin. The chat logs page allows you to search, review, correct, and invalidate your bot's responses.
The second stage of learning is comprehension. The bot will analyze its conversations in the background, and attempt to identify linguistic patterns and rules.
A basic rule it may define is when it says "Hello" and you say "Hello Hal" and it knew that its name was Hal, then it would learn it should respond to "Hello" with "Hello [target]". Other rules can be much more complex. Such as if you repeatedly answer "Do you like [noun]?" with "Yuck, I hate [noun].", then it will respond to any such question with the response.
You could also start counting, and correct its response to be the next number, then it will learn to respond to "[number]" with "[get #next from :number]". It also learns in context, so can learn to only respond with the next number when the previous reply was the previous number.
You can write your own scripts with your own rules, and the bot will process them the same as the ones it wrote itself. You can add your own scripts, view the ones that are bootstrapped, or the ones the bot wrote itself, from the Scripts page under Admin.
A new bot currently comes with several bootstrap scripts:
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- Self : This starts as an empty state machine, and is programmed by the bot.
You can also import scripts defined in the Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML). You can import them either as chat logs, for your bot to learn from, or as program scripts. AIML makes it easy to define search based rules, such as "* travel *" -> "Where would you like to travel to?".
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The Bot Libre bots can be trained to be very intelligent, and provide valuable expertise in the domain that they are trained in, but we are just getting started. The Bot Libre AI engine is constantly under development, and the bots become smarter with every update.
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James 3:1
3:1 masters. "Masters" here means "teachers." The gift of teaching (I Corinthians 12:28) is from God and involves great responsibility. It is presumptuous for anyone to try to teach God's Word unless he has been called and prepared by God to do so in its truth and fullness. He must first believe in its absolute authority and perspicuity, be a diligent student of the Word (II Timothy 2:15), and be "apt to teach" (II Timothy 2:24-25).


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Don't Screenshot Facebook Messenger Chats Unless You Want To Get Caught
Warning: Do not screenshot that private Facebook Messenger chat unless you want the other person to know you did.
Facebook — now Meta — CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a few new major changes for Facebook Messenger aimed to dramatically increase privacy on the social media platform.
Notifications will soon be sent to someone if you screenshot a disappearing message that's part of a Secret Conversation, due to end-to-end encryption.
Zuckerberg shared the news via Facebook.
"New update for end-to-end encrypted Messenger chats so you get a notification if someone screenshots a disappearing message," Zuckerberg wrote. "We're also adding GIFs, stickers, and reactions to encrypted chats too."
This means a copy of your chat will exist even if the messages have disappeared in the app, so someone will potentially always have receipts of what you said.
The 37-year-old mogul provided a demonstration on what will appear if you screenshot a message by having a conversation with partner Priscilla Chan.
Chan captured a screenshot of Zuckerberg making a dad joke about a supercomputer, showing how the notification will operate once vanishing messages are enabled.
Facebook users applauded the company's changes, even making a few jokes in the process.
"I really needed this feature in 2009 when I used to drunk message," one person wrote, while another gave their suggestion on what feature the platform should add next: "We need voice note on comment section…"
Facebook Messenger users can now also reply to Messenger DMs by swiping the message or simply touching and holding it to select "Reply."
Facebook introduced disappearing messages in November 2020, on both Messenger and Instagram. The social media giant made the move in part to provide additional protection to users.


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paper christmas tree ornament tutorial
a paper christmas tree ornament
This as simple as it gets. A few scraps of paper, one seam and in minutes you've make a pretty, handmade ornament. I used paint chips (in lovely martha stewart colors) from the hardware store because I had them on hand, but cardstock or thin cardboard or old christmas cards would all work well.
Cut out one star and three to five strips of paper. If you'd like to use the same measurements I used, you can download the pattern pictured below. If you would rather do it freehand, cut progressively longer strips for the tree, as wide as you like, and cut a good size trunk.
You are going to sew a seam down the middle of everything on your sewing machine. Sewing on paper is really not that much different than sewing on fabric, except that you use a slightly longer stitch and it's ok to use a dull needle. If you are anything like me, there is one in your machine right now! Make a bunch of paper tree ornaments with that perfectly dull specimen and then do yourself a favor: take it out! And get a nice, new sharp one in there for the rest of your christmas sewing.
First make sure you have about three inches of slack from the bobbin and past the needle before you begin sewing. Then place the star under the presser foot of your machine take one stitch forward and then one stitch back (a little sewing dance!) to secure the thread and then sew down the middle of the star. Before you get to the bottom nudge the shortest strip of paper under the presser foot and sew down the middle of it. And so on, with the rest of the strips and the trunk.
When you get to the bottom of the trunk, sew back and forth a few times to secure the thread again. Tie the ends on top of the ornament together, so it makes a loop for hanging. Snip the thread ends on the bottom of the trunk and you're done!
I included a pattern for a snowman in the PDF pattern as well, but a million other things are possible: candy canes, bells, santas, pretty much anything you can think of to cut out and sew together!
a christmas present for my lovely readers: a week of handmade ornament tutorials!
- monday: straw and pompom garland
- tuesday: paper christmas tree ornaments
- wednesday: felt dove ornament
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Recently, a person registered for one year, submitted his thirteenth question. This question featured a piece of code which:
Is badly indented (which makes it quite misleading sometimes),
Has no consistency whatsoever (sometimes there is a space, and three lines later, there is no space in a similar context, etc.),
Has poor naming conventions,
Is overly complicated, especially since it contains useless code (like an empty
loop),Mixes HTML with PHP.
While not providing any answer, I downvoted the question, and since it may not be obvious to the author why he received the downvote, I explained it through the comment:
-1 for unmaintainable code with ugly formatting and poor naming conventions. Why not doing a basic cleanup before posting your source code publicly?
The author seemed particularly unhappy with my comment:
-1 for posting a code im having trouble with, that i didnt write myself .. thanks dude .. if you are not going to help then please dont post, telling me my code is "unmaintainable" or ugly is not a big help, and even so you didnt even focus at the question, but more at the code formatting.. im not good at php and still learning, so please be nice or i will find another community to ask...
For me:
The "it's not my code" argument is irrelevant. He's working on this piece of code, so it's his professional obligation to start by re-factoring it and cleaning it up. Even if he's explicitly asked to keep the code unmaintainable, he could have cleaned it up before posting it on Stack Overflow, where the code will be read by dozens or hundreds of programmers.
The "I'm not good at PHP" argument is irrelevant as well. Even a beginner should be able to fix indentation. The fact that he's posting the code as-is is more a sign of laziness than lack of language skills.
Am I an unlikely person (well, I know the answer to this one) and my comment was both unkind and useless?
More importantly, should I have formulated my comment differently? How?
How to help users like the original poster to improve their questions (on 13 questions, only one is upvoted, four being downvoted), without offending them?


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Home Page Chess Life Online 2007 November Spice Cup Kicks Off
Spice Cup Kicks Off |
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The Spice Cup kicks off on November 9, Friday in Lubbock, Texas, hosted by Texas Tech. Tournament organizer GM Susan Polgar hopes that all the participants play well, but hopes someone comes home for Thanksgiving with a norm. " I hope that Irina Krush, Dmitry Schneider and
Blas Lugo will be able to get their GM norms." You can watch the games live on Monroi.com or the ICC . The games start at 5 PM EST except for the final round on November 16, which begins at 11 AM EST. You can access the full schedule here. Also check Susan Polgar's blog for more information. Spice Cup 2007 (November 9-16) 1. GM Kamil Miton 2628 POL 2. GM Boris Gulko 2571 USA 3. GM Julio Beccerra 2568 USA 4. GM Imre Hera 2544 Hungary 5. GM Gilberto Hernandez 2536 Mexico 6. GM Eugene Perelshteyn 2536 USA 7. IM Dmitry Schneider 2502 USA 8. IM Manuel Leon Hoyos 2495 Mexico 9. IM Irina Krush 2475 USA 10. IM Blas Lugo 2411 USA |


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Download and print this fun and FREE Princess Jasmine pattern paper to decorate parties, posters and signs, bulletin boards, scrapbooks, and more!
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