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Healers Fluorite with Rare Earth Element Yttrium. I admit, I have absolutely no idea if this stone actually has any yttrium in it: See below for a sample that is actual pure yttrium. Honestly, just between you and me, I really just bought this one for the description the seller gave it on eBay: That alone is worth twice the price I paid! And here it is, verbatim from the auction: Healers Fluorite with Rare Earth Element Yttrium. Tremendous Healing Energy! This Beautiful Little Stone Being is a Light Lavender/Peach, looking Peach as the Light Shines through her. Lavender in the Shadow! Fluorite Stimulates Third Eye Awakening and Understanding! It helps us to See Past the Veils of Illusion to the Beauty and Truth of Awareness. Fluorite Provides Integration of Dark and Light Clearing Us of Heavy Out Dated Energy. This Combination Stone Being offers Tremendous Healing Energy to her Keeper. She Amplifies our Aura and Helps us Channel Higher Frequency Energy. She helps us Reach the Deep Peace Within enabling us Access to the Higher Knowledge which is Our True Birth Right. Very Valuable for Teachers and Healers. Upon first holding these Stone Beings I was amazed at the Hot Flow of Energy they Generate. A Pure Loving Embrace. The Wonderful Folks who supply these, and myself, feel these Stone Beings need to Get Out in the World. Therefore, starting bid on these will be my cost. Blessings! From Mexico or Nevada. Size is 1 7/8" x 3/4" x 1 1/8" We are Divine Intelligence. Love. It is All There Is. Think of Yourself as a Tiny Cell of Divine Light and Wisdom. ALL BEINGS are Part of The Great Whole. We Carry the Same Cellular Light Memories as The Stone People. WE have Simply (SIMPLY!?!) Forgotten how to Remember! The Stone People are not Complicated with Human Perception. They Simply Are. The Stone People Bring these Memories to Consciousness as We are Ready to Receive them. We Are the Hands of Spirit, the Stone People are Waiting for Us. They are Here to Help Us do the Work of Spirit. We Love the Stone People. They are as Individual as you and I. Yet, we are all One. I am finding, as a I look/feel each One, such a Great Love and Open Heart. Each Being, overwhelms me with Its Unique Beauty and Wisdom. I wish you could feel them at that moment as I do. I do not mean that in a Sense that you can't. What I mean is: You know how you feel when your Heart is Wide Open and you want to Share that Energy of Beauty and Joy Everywhere? We Can, you know! According to Theory it Takes 20% of the Human Population to Make the Shift! Anyway... It is difficult to share what each Being Says. It is only what I hear from the Stone Being and What you Hear may be quite Different. I don't want to quote endless pages from books. I use as a resource and recommend Melody's "Love is in the Earth" for further learning. Really, what I recommend is Feeling their Unique Wisdom, Beauty and Endless Gifts! The Intricacies of Each Being is Quite Amazingly Overwhelming! They come to Us for a Reason. To Our Light Within. May Its Brilliance Shine! Wow. For what it's worth, analysis by x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy at the Center for Microanalysis of Materials, University of Illinois (partially supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under grant DEFG02-91-ER45439) indicates no measurable quantity of yttrium. A tiny bit of strontium, yes, but no yttrium. Source: eBay seller stonepeoplesongs Contributor: Theodore Gray Acquired: 2 August, 2002 Text Updated: 11 March, 2007 Price: $16 Size: 1.75" Purity: 0% Sample Group: Medical | |||


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Facebook and Twitter said Tuesday that they had removed accounts linked to Russian state actors who tried to spread false stories about racial justice, the Democratic presidential campaign of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and President Trump's policies.
Researchers who have examined the operation said it attempted to steer left-leaning voters away from the Biden-Harris campaign in an way that echoes the Russian disinformation tactics that sought to depress progressive and minority support for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
"Russian actors are trying harder and harder to hide who they are and being more and more deceptive to conceal their operations," said Facebook's Head of Cybersecurity Policy Nathaniel Gleicher in an interview with NPR. "But there was very little attention paid to this operation."
Facebook said the Russian agents set up a site posing as an independent news outlet and managed to recruit "unwitting freelance journalists" to write stories that were shared by dozens of social media accounts created through artificial intelligence.
On Facebook, the stories from the pseudo news site were posted to groups that appeal to progressive causes.
"It was very much a strongly left-leaning constituency they were aiming at. It looks like that was audience-building," Ben Nimmo, head of investigations at research firm Graphika, which analyzed the operation, said in an interview with NPR. "But there were indeed pieces that said Biden and Harris are much too far to the right."
The Russian operatives, according to Facebook, primarily used a website called PeaceData. It billed itself as a news site that aimed to shed light on corruption, abuse of power and human rights.
Both Facebook and Twitter detected and removed accounts associated with the site before any of them had gathered a large following.
Facebook said it removed 13 accounts and two pages that together had gained 14,000 followers. Twitter said it had suspended five accounts and will continue to block any content connected to the PeaceData website.
"Regardless of the low-level impact in this case, governments around the world must stop these practices. They're antidemocratic. Attempts to manipulate our service to undermine democracy — by both foreign and domestic actors — will be met with strict enforcement of our policies," Twitter said in a statement.
Facebook said its investigation was launched after receiving a tip from the FBI about accounts controlled by the Kremlin-backed Russian Internet Research Agency, which American intelligence agencies have said interfered in the 2016 election to help then-candidate Trump.
While Facebook has drawn criticism for not doing enough to limit the spread of disinformation from accounts associated with conspiracy theories like QAnon, Gleicher said Tuesday's take-down of the Russian-linked accounts shows that partnerships with law enforcement and research groups can pay off.
"We still need to be vigilant, but the whole of society defense, where we have government, civil society and the tech platforms together, is working," Gleicher said.
With the presidential election two months away, social media companies, including Facebook and Twitter, have been under heightened pressure from Congress and outside groups to step up efforts to curb the spread of disinformation, which often moves rapidly across the platforms before moderators respond.
Both Facebook and Twitter have announced new policies, including labeling posts that are misleading or contain manipulated media, attempting to add context to trending stories and, when content brazenly violates their rules, removing the posts altogether.
Social media analysis firm Graphika said the accounts appears to reveal new tactics that Russian operatives are employing on social media ahead of the 2020 election, including the use of artificial intelligence to create social media profiles.
"This is the first time we have observed known [Internet Research Agency]-linked accounts use AI-generated avatars. However, the website employed real and apparently unwitting individuals, typically novice freelance writers, to write its articles," Graphika researchers found in a new reporton the Russian-backed accounts.
"The freelancers are really the victims here. They didn't know what they were signing up for," said Nimmo of Graphika, in an interview with NPR. "The youngest were fairly soon out of college," he said. "Some were copywriters from South Asia, but they really came from all over the world, including the U.S."
Between February and August, the website published more than 500 articles in English and about 200 in Arabic that were shared on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, according to Graphika.
The researchers quote one article by a guest writer that accused Biden and Harris of "submission to right-wing populism [...] as much about preserving careers as it is winning votes." Another story, according to Graphika, accused Harris and other Democrats of "deliberately avoid[ing] being held accountable by setting no moral standard for the public to hold them to."
The operation attempted to enlist a left-wing audience and then serve up articles attacking the character and policy positions of Biden and Harris, something Graphika said is consistent "with the original [Internet Research Agency's] attempt to depress support for then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton by infiltrating and influencing progressive audiences."
The report supports America's top counterintelligence official, whosaid last monththat Russia is spreading propaganda on social media and on Russian television to try to undercut Biden ahead of the November election.
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The papers (1703-1906) of the Stoddard family of Litchfield, Conn., including correspondence, deeds, documents related to estates, legal documents, financial records, and other items. John Stoddard (1674/5-1727/8) of Wethersfield, Conn., was one of the original proprietors of Litchfield. He married Sarah Camp. Their children were Lydia, Moses, Sarah, Jerusha, Mary, John, Abigail, James, Josiah, and Prudence. Moses Stoddard (1700/1-1777) married Ruth Goodwin. Their children were Hannah,...
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Mankind's Debt To The Prophet
by Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi
In certain parts of the world, people enjoy freedom of conscience and choice, are free to lead their lives in peace and amity, to devote their energies to teaching and preaching, researching and making new discoveries. Yet even these parts of the world have not always been so tolerant, nor free from strife, nor disposed towards the co-existence of different peoples, sects and groups, still less sufficiently broad-minded, to accommodate differences of opinion.
Mankind has seemed, many times, to be bent upon self-destruction, and passed through stages when, by its own misdeeds, it has forfeited any right to survival. Men have sometimes behaved like crazed and ferocious beasts, flinging all culture and civilization, arts, literature, decency, the canons of moral and civil law, to the winds.
All of us know that the writing of history is of a relatively recent origin. The 'pre-historic' era was very much longer. The decline of mankind when it relapsed into savagery was by no means an agreeable task for historians and writers to record. Nevertheless, we do find narratives of the downfall of empires and the decay of human society, told at long intervals in the pages of history. The first of these date from the fifty century A.D. some are briefly touched and upon here.
H.G. Wells, the well-known historian, writes about the decay of the Byzantine and Sassanid Empires as follows:
Science and political philosophy seemed dead now in both these warring and decaying empires. The last philosophers of Athens, until their suppression, preserved the texta of the great literature of the past with an infinite reverence and want of understanding. But there remained no class of men in the world, no free gentleman with bold and independent habits of thought to carry on the tradition of frank statement and inquiry embodied in these writings. The social and political chaos accounts largely for the disappearance of the class, but there was also another reason why the human intelligence was sterile and feverish during this age of intolerance. Both empires were religious empires in a new way, in a way that greatly hampered the free activities of the human mind.1
The same writer, after describing the onslaught of the Sassanids on Byzantium and their eventual victory, comments on the social and moral degradation to which both these great nations had fallen:
A prophetic amateur of history surveying the world in the opening of the seventh century might have concluded very reasonably that it was only a question of a few centuries before the whole of Europe and Asia fell under Mongolian domination. There were no signs of order or union in Western Europe, and the Byzantine and Persian empires were manifestly bent upon mutual destruction. India also was divided and wasted.
Another writer, Robert Briffault strikes a similar note:
From the fifth to the tenth century Europe lay sunk in a night of barbarism which grew darker and darker. It was a barbarism far more awful and horrible than that of the primitive savage, for it was the decomposing body of what had once been a great civilization. The features and impress of that civilization were all but completely effaced. Where its development had been fullest, e.g., in Italy and Gaul, all was ruin, squalor and dissolution.
The Civilizations nurtured by ancient religions were disintegrating; this according to J.H. Denison. In Emotion as the Civilization, he writes:
In the fifth and sixth centuries the civilized world stood on the verge of chaos. The old emotional cultures that had made civilization possible, since they had given to men a sense of unity and of reverence for their rulers, had broken down, and nothing had been found adequate to take their place ...
It seemed then that the great civilization which it had taken four thousand years to construct was on the verge of disintegration, and that mankind was likely to return to that condition of barbarism when every tribe and sect was against the next, and law and order was unknown ... The old tribal sanctions had lost their power ... The new sanctions created by Christianity were working division and destruction instead of unity and order. It was a time fraught with tragedy. Civilization, like a gigantic tree whose foliage had overarched the world and whose branches had borne the golden fruits of art and science and literature, stood tottering ... rotten to the core.
At a time when mankind and human civilization were on the edge of destruction, the Lord and Creator of the word caused a man to be born in Arabia who was entrusted with the most difficult task: not only to rescue mankind from imminent destruction but also to raise it to sublime height, heights hitherto beyond the knowledge of historians and the imagination of poets. If there were not incontrovertible historical evidence to demonstrate his achievements, it would be difficult to believe such greatness. This man was Muhammad (peace be upon him) who was born in the sixth century. He saved mankind from imminent danger, gave it new life, new ambition, fresh energy, a revitalised sense of human dignity and intellect, as also a new found idealism. It was because of him that a new era came about, an era of spirituality in art and literature, of personal sincerity and selfless service of others, all of which produced an ordered, graceful and kindly culture. His most precious gifts to man were his devotion to righteousness and aversion to evil, his hatred of false gods and a passion for establishing justice and morality, and a readiness to lay down one's life for these righteous goals. Such goals ultimately are the fountainhead and incentive for all reforms and improvements. Whatever great and sublime heights man has attained have been the result of such noble sentiments — indeed, all material resources, means and methods owe their existence to human will and determination. That great benefactor of humanity replaced barbarism and brutality with the milk of human kindness, magnanimity and courtesy. He struggled unceasingly for the propagation of his noble teachings with complete disregard for his own self, his life or prestige.
Precisely because of this struggle, there arose from among an uncivilized and ill-mannered people noble-hearted men who led a graceful and kindly life, men who started a new era of courtesy and warmth in human history, who engendered gentleness and goodness in those around them. The world obtained a fresh lease of life; justice and fairness became its hallmark; the weak were emboldened to claim their rights from the haughty and strong; mercy and kindness became the norms. It was a time when humanitarianism became a driving force, faith and conviction captured human hearts, mankind began to take pride in selflessness, and virtuous behaviour became habitual with people.
We list below, in brief, the precious gifts of Islam which have played a key role in the advancement of human values and culture. A new and bright world, quite different from the decaying and disintegrating humanity at the time of its advent, came into being as a result of these Islamic contributions:
1. The clear and unambiguous creed of the Oneness of God.
2. The concept of human equality and brotherhood.
3. The concept of human dignity and man being the masterpiece of God's creation.
4. Acknowledgement of the proper status of women and the restoration of their legitimate rights.
5. The rejection of despair and the infusion of hope and confidence in human beings.
6. The fusion of the secular and the sacred, the refusal to accept any cleavage between them.
7. The integration of religion and knowledge, making one dependent on the other and raising respect for knowledge by declaring it a means of attaining nearness to God.
8. Emphasis on the use of intellectual faculties in religious and spiritual matters and encouraging the study and contemplation of natural phenomena.
9. Charging the followers of Islam with the responsibility of spreading virtue and goodness in the world, and making it a duty incumbent on them to restore truth and justice.
10. The establishment of a universal creed and culture.
I will not elaborate upon these points here. Instead, I would rather cite a few eminent western thinkers and writers who have acknowledged these virtues of Islam. one of the bases of culture and civilization — something that enhances gentility, and refinement, civility in conduct as well as in literature — is the acknowledgement of a truth, appreciation of the great achievements of others and returning thanks to those who have done us any favour. The day this noble sentiment is expelled from our lives, literature, ethical standards, intellectual labours, even the right of expressing our thoughts freely, will become meaningless. It will not be a world to live in and die for. It will be a world of beasts and brutes where the ruling passion is to fend for oneself alone. No sentiment will remain except the fulfilment of carnal desires. All rightly ordered relationships between teacher and taught, benefactor and beneficiary, physician and patient, even between parents and children, will peter out and lose their significance.
Gratitude, as defined by William H. Davidson, a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, is a spontaneous and natural sentiment generated by the kindness and benefit conferred by someone. It is a human virtue, at once abiding and universal. Davidson in this respect says:
Gratitude has been defined as that delightful emotion of love to him who has conferred a kindness on us, the very feeling of which is itself no small part of the benefit conferred. Gratitude is an unselfish joyous response to kindness — a response that is immediate and spontaneous; the ultimate meaning of which is that human nature is so constituted that affection and unity between persons is the foundation of it, ill-will and enmity (all indications to the contrary notwithstanding) being abnormal and depraved.5
Ingratitude is, thus, a moral depravity and a perversion of human nature, a sign of benumbed human conscience. The lowest depth to which this immorality can fall is the ingratitude shown to founders of religion, the teachers of morals and the greatest benefactors of humanity. Grotesque parody in deliberately offensive language is not appropriate from anyone, let alone of those noble souls who have founded religions, for it hurts the feelings of millions who not only follow them but who are also willing to lay down their lives for them. Efforts at such offensiveness also entail a denial of truth. No cultured people, country or society should tolerate or defend anyone so depraved and unmannerly, who possesses no conscience.
Now let us refer to the compliments paid to the greatest benefactor of humanity by a few eminent men of letters from this part of the world where I am speaking. One of these candid men, Lamartine of France, says in his tribute to the prophethood of Muhammad (peace the upon him):
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammed?
The most famous men created arms, laws and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and souls. On the basis of a Book, every letter of which has become law, he created a spiritual nationality which blended together peoples of every tongue and of every race. He has left us as the indelible characteristic of his Muslim nationality, the hatred of false gods and the passion for the One and immaterial God. This avenging patriotism of Heaven formed the virtue of the followers of Mohammad; the conquest of one-third of the earth to this dogma was his miracle; or rather it was not the miracle of man but that of reason. The idea of the unity of God, proclaimed amidst the exhaustion of fabulous the genies, was in itself such a miracle that upon its utterance from his lips it destroyed all the ancient temples of idols and set on fire one-third of the world.
John William Draper, the reputed author of A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, writes:
Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia, the man who, of all men, has exercised the greatest influence upon the human race.
He says further:
Muhammad possessed that combination of qualities which more than once has decided the fate of empires ... Asserting that everlasting truth, he did not engage in vain metaphysics, but applied himself to improving the social condition of the people by regulations respecting personal cleanliness, sobriety, fasting and prayer.
The great historian-philosopher of this century, A.J. Toynbee, is on record as saying that:
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.9
It is a strange coincidence that over a hundred years ago Thomas Carlyle chose Muhammad (peace the upon him) as the supreme hero, and now, in the closing decades of the twentieth century, Michael H. Hart of the United States of America has prepared a list of 100 most influential persons in history, placing the Prophet at the top.
The Prophet of Islam and his followers conferred favours on humanity which have played an unforgettable role in the promotion and development of culture and civilization. We will mention here only two of these, amply supported by historical evidence.
Students of history are aware that in the thirteenth century the civilized world, divided by the two great religions,Christianity and Islam, was suddenly confronted with a situation which threatened the imminent destruction of both the then vast empires, their arts and sciences, their cultures and morals. In short, all that the human race had laboriously achieved during the past hundreds of years once again faced its reduction to barbarism. This was brought about by the sudden rise of Genghis Khan (Tamuchin), a chieftain of the nomadic Mongol tribes, who possessed remarkable qualities of leadership and was able to subdue all that sat in his way. In 619/1219, Genghis Khan turned towards the western and northern civilized countries, ravaging them with fire and sword. How severe a blow the Mongol invasion dealt to all social and cultural progress can be gauged by a few graphic descriptions of Mongol rapine and slaughter, as given by Harold Lamb, Genghis Khan's biographer:
"cities in his path were often obliterated, and rivers diverted from their courses; deserts were peopled with the fleeing and dying, and when he had passed, wolves and ravens often were the sole living things in once populated lands.
And consternation filled all Christendom, a generation after the death of Genghis Khan, when the terrible Mongol horsemen were riding over western Europe, when Boleslas of Poland and Bela of Hungary fled from stricken fields, and Henry, Duke of Silesia, died under the arrows with his Teutonic Knights at Liegnitz12 — sharing the fate of the Grand-Duke George of Russia.13
Such details are too horrible to dwell upon today. It was a war carried to its utmost extent — an extent that was very nearly approached in the last European War. It was the slaughter of human beings without hatred — simply to make an end of them.
Unchecked by human valour, they were able to overcome the terrors of vast deserts, the barriers of mountains and seas, the severities of climate, and the ravages of famine and pestilence. No danger could appeal them, no stronghold could resist them, no prayer for mercy could move them.
His achievement is recorded for the most part by his enemies. So devastating was his impact upon civilization that virtually a new beginning had to be made in half the world. The empires of Chathay, of Prester John, of Black Cathay, of Kharesem, and — after his death — the Caliphate of Baghdad, of Russia and for a while the principalities of Poland, ceased to be. When this indomitable barbarian conquered a nation all other warfare come to an end. The whole scheme of things, whether sorry or otherwise, was altered, and among the survivors of a Mongol conquest peace endured for a long time.
Harold Lamb correctly says that the impact of the Mongols, brought about by Genghis Khan, has been well summed up by the authors of the Cambridge Medieval History in these words:
This 'new power in history' — the ability of one man to alter human civilization — began with Genghis Khan and ended with his grandson Kublai, when the Mangol empire tended to break up. It has not reappeared since.
The terror of the Mongol invasion was not confined to Turkistan, Iran and Iraq alone.Mongol atrocities provoked trembling even in far-off corners of the world where they could hardly have been expected to carry their arms. Edward Gibbon writes in his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
The Latin world was darkened by this cloud of savage hostility; a Russian fugitive carried the alarm to Sweden; and the remote nations of the Baltic and the ocean trembled at the approach of the Tartars, whom their fear and ignorance were inclined to separate from the human species.
The Mongols first attacked Bukhara and razed it to dust. Not a single soul was spared by them. Thereafter, they laid Samarkand to ruin and massacred its entire population. The same was the fate of other urban centres in the then Islamic world. The Tartars would indeed have most probably devastated the whole of Christendom (then divided politically and suffering from numerous social evils), as stated by H.G. Wells:
A prophetic amateur of history surveying the world in the opening of the seventh century might have concluded very reasonably that it was only a question of a few centuries before the whole of Europe and Asia fell under Mongolian domination.
Harold Lamb also writes:
We only know that the German and Polish forces broke before the onset of the Mongol standard, and were almost exterminated; Henry and his barons died to a man, as did the Hospitallers .. In less than two months they had overrun Europe from the headwaiters of the Elbe to the sea, had defeated three great armies and a dozen smaller ones and had taken by assault all the towns excepting Olmutz.
Then a miraculous event changed the course of history. It not only allowed the civilized world to heave a sigh of relief but also permitted culture and civilization to be built afresh. The hearts of the indomitable Mongols were captured by the faith of their subjects who had lost all power and prestige. Arnold writes in The Preaching of Islam:
In spite of all difficulties, however, the Mongols and savage tribes that followed in their wake were at length brought to submit to the faith of those Muslim peoples whom they had crushed beneath their feet.
The names of only a few dedicated servants of Islam who won the savage Tartars to their faith are known to the world, but their venture was no less daring nor the achievement less significant than a great and successful reform movement. Their memory shall always be cherished as much by the Muslims, as by Christendom, or rather by all mankind, since they rescued the world from the barbarism of a savage race, the insecurity of widespread upheaval, and allowed it to once again devote its energies to the establishment of social and political stability. Normalcy thus restored, the world was allowed to resume its journey of cultural development and the promotion of arts and crafts, learning and teaching, preaching and writing.
After the death of Genghis Khan, his vast conquests were divided into four dominions headed by his sons' children. The message of Islam then began to spread among all these four sections of the Mongol empire and before long all were converted to Islam.
The Tartars not only accepted Islam but a number of great scholars, writers, poets, mystics and fighters in the way of God, rose from amongst them. Their conversion to Islam completely changed their outlook and disposition as also their attitude towards humanity and civilization. This, in turn, benefited not only the Islamic East but also Christendom and even India. The Tartars made nine or ten attempts to capture India during the thirteenth century but the Sultans of Turkish descent, among whom Alauddin Khilji (d. 716/1316) and his commander Ghiyathuddin Tughluq (d. 716/1316) and his commander Ghiyathuddin Tughluq (d. 725/1324) were the more prominent, repelled them on each occasion. It was on account of them that the cultural and intellectual heritage of this ancient and prosperous country was saved from destruction and the two great religions, Islam and Hinduism, continued to flourish there.
This achievement of Islam, the transformation of the Tartars into a civilized people, was a service of a defensive nature rendered to humanity in general, and to the West in particular.
Another accomplishment of Islam, in contrast to the one just described, was its introduction of a new way of thinking and learning. It was like a flash of light in the Dark Ages of Europe one which paved the way for its Renaissance. It transformed not only Europe but helped the entire human race to benefitted from new researches and discoveries. A new era of empirical sciences was inaugurated which has changed the face of the earth. The intellectual patrimony of the ancients (consisting of philosophy, mathematics and medicine) found it way to Europe through Muslim Spain. This intellectual gift consisted of observation and experiment a replacement of inductive logic with deductive logic where by Europe's whole way of thinking was changed. Science and technology were the main fruits. All the discoveries made by European scientific explorations — in short, whatever success has so far been achieved in harnessing the forces of nature — are directly related to inductive reasoning, not known to Europe until it was bequeathed to it by Muslim Spain. The noted French historian, Gustave Ie Bon, writes of the Arab contribution to Modern Europe:
Observation, experimentation and inductive logic which form the fundamentals of modern knowledge are attributed to Roger Bacon but it needs to be acknowledged that this process of reasoning was entirely an Arab discovery.
Robert Briffault has also reached the same conclusion, for he says:
There is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic civilization is not traceable.
He further says:
It is not science only which brought Europe back to life. Other and manifold influences from the civilization of Islam communicated its first glow to European life.
Those who have studied the history of the Catholic Church and the Reformation are aware of the profound effect Islamic teachings had on the minds of those who initiated reform in Christendom. We can, for example, see the influence of Islam reflected in the thought of Martin Luther's (1483-1546) Reformation movement. The revolt against autocratic leadership in the Catholic Church in medieval Europe also reveals the influence of Islam, which had no organised church.
It is, thus, our moral duty to acknowledge both these great favours conferred by Islam which have had a revolutionary impact on the world. When we speak of those who conferred these gifts or reassess their achievements we must at least keep in mind the rules of courtesy which have been accepted by all nations and cultured peoples and schools of thought. We should not abandon the norms of politeness, moderation, dignity and truthfulness, for these have been commended by the scriptures of all religions, moral treatises, as also by great writers and critics. It is on such civilized behaviour that good relations between different religions, communities and peoples depend, such behaviour alone makes possible a purposeful dialogue between people holding different views. In its absence, all serious writings, critiques and reviews must degenerate into obscene and sensational novels, vulgar and outrageous parodies. Such writings can unleash negative and disruptive forces, not only contemptible in themselves and harmful to serious intellectual endeavour, but also likely to embitter relations between different nations and countries.
The argument that any restraint placed on freedom of expression amounts to coercion, restriction of personal freedom, or interference in the rights of individuals under the constitution of an independent country, is simply untenable. The obscene and offensive description of the benefactors of mankind, prophets and reformers, particularly if such narration is against the established facts of history, hurts the feelings of millions who respect and revere them and is also likely to cause disharmony between different groups within a country or even between countries. It is an intolerable infringement of moral values, an offense against humanity, that should not be overlooked by any peace-loving nation upholding the value of harmonious co-existence between its different ethnic and religious communities. Western political thinkers, too, do not subscribe to such an unlimited right of freedom of expression. They have argued that such unlimited liberty would be even more harmful than the limits placed on freedom of expression. The subject might be treated at great length, but I will cite here only two authorities who have explained why limitations on freedom of expression are essential for the maintenance of public order.
Isaiah Berlin explains the two concepts of liberty in these words:
To protest against the laws governing censorship or personal morals as intolerable infringements of personal liberty presupposes a belief that the activities which such laws forbid are fundamental needs of men as men, in a good (or, indeed, any) society. To defend such laws is to hold that these needs are not essential, or that they cannot be satisfied without sacrificing other values which come higher — satisfy deeper needs — than individual freedom, determined by some standard that is not merely subjective, a standard for which some objective status — in principle or a priori — is claimed.
The extent of man's or a people's liberty to choose to live as they desire must be weighed against the claims of many other values, of which equality, or justice, or happiness, or security, or public order are perhaps the most obvious examples. For this reason, it cannot be unlimited.26
A speech delivered in the American Senate by Blackstone in 1897 and which forms the basis of American law on the subject, says about freedom of expression:
Every free man has an undoubted right in law to air what sentiment he pleases before the public; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press : but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity. To subject the press to the restrictive power of a licenser .. is to subject all freedom of sentiment to the prejudices of one man, and make him the arbitrary and infallible judge of all controversial points in learning, religion and Government. But to punish .. any dangerous or offensive writings which when published, shall on fair and impartial trial be adjudged of pernicious tendency, is necessary for the preservation of peace and good order, of Government and religion, the only solid foundations of civil liberty. Thus, the will of individuals is still left free; the abuse only of that free will is the object of legal punishment.27
I would like to conclude my talk with an exhilarating poem by Iqbal, the poet of the East, as he is known in the Muslim world, in which he enchantingly depicts the great favours conferred on humanity by the prophethood of Muhammad (on whom be the peace and blessings of God) favours which are unique and unparallaled:
Touched by the breath of the unlettered one,
The sands of Arabia began to sprout tulips.
Freedom under his care was reared
The 'today' of nations comes from his 'yesterday'.
He put heart in the body of man,
And from his face the veil he lifted.
Every god of old he destroyed.
Every withered branch by his moisture bloomed.
The heat of the battle of Badr and Hunain,
Haider and Siddiq, Farooq and Hussain.
In the thick of battle the majesty of Azan, The recitation of As-Saffat28 at the point of sword.
The scimitar of Ayub, the glance of Bayazid,
Key to the treasures of this world and the next.
Ecstasy of heart and mind from the same goblet,
Fusion of Rumi's rapture and Razi's thought.
Knowledge and wisdom, faith and law, polity and rule.
Yearnings hidden within the restless hearts.
Al-Hamara and Taj of beauty breath-taking.
To which even angels pay tribute.
These, too, a fragment of his priceless bequest,
Of his glimpses just one glimpse.
His exterior these enthralling sights,
Of his interior even the knowledge unaware.
Boundless praise be to the Apostle blessed,
Who imparted faith to elevate a handful of dust.
Reference: http://www.nadwatululama.org/academy/books/mankind.htm


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Your most valuable asset has nothing to do with information or data you store, but rather within your human resources departments – which may also be your greatest weakness.
Cybercriminals don't sleep. Nope. In fact, it's when we sleep that cybercriminals are the most active! There is a good stretch of time during which they can cause significant damage before we rise to start our day, much less notice. While the rest of us are sleeping, cybercriminals are like attendees at an all-night rave with glow-in-the-dark colors splashed about the otherwise-pitch-black room, in the form of paint, black lights, and glow sticks worn by the party goers. Loud music pumps up the energy well into the wee hours of the morning, until just before Average Joes rise at the sound of their alarm clocks to prep for the workday.
Unlike the revelers at the rave, cybercriminals – hackers – aren't dancing the night away in black leather and copious amounts of hair gel, although we can't guarantee their wardrobe or style choices. What we can guarantee is their activity: seeking a network with even the tiniest cybersecurity vulnerability which they plan to exploit to their every advantage. This is where your greatest asset comes in: human resources. These human resources are not the team members that oversee onboarding, payroll, benefits administration, or anything like that. We literally mean the resources on your staff that is human! The people that get the daily tasks done are an organization's greatest asset, even more so than the most dedicated and loyal customers that spend the most money.
Think of these human resources like cheerleaders in a human pyramid: the company is only as strong as the weakest link. This group of individuals is the frontline of defense when it comes to a network's cybersecurity, and no individual is foolproof. That's the goal of any hacker, to find that one email address or Internet user that isn't as solid on defense and wriggle inside with covert tactics.
Most professional organizations install some form, or multiple forms, of antivirus protection at the user-level, as just one of the methods to safeguard against cybersecurity vulnerabilities. End-user antivirus software has remained one of the most effective and reliable methods to protect against infiltration, but antivirus programs have three major faults:
- Antivirus programs are only as "good" as the programmers that designed them.
- Antivirus programs are only effective when installed and used properly by the end user.
- Criminals don't follow the rules.
That last part is the most important of everything you need to keep in mind for your cybersecurity needs. Hackers have their own set of rules, and those rules change faster than anyone can keep up – including antivirus software developers.
How does antivirus software work? Software installed to protect at the user level, known as endpoint protection, is design to detect and block a virus or malware from taking root on a user's computer, or worse, accessing a network to which the user is connected. If a user encounters a threat, the antivirus software detects the threat and blocks it using a string of text – an algorithm – it recognizes as a known virus. The virus file tries to take one action or sequence of actions, known to the antivirus software, and the algorithm recognizes this behavior and prompts the user to take action against the suspicious behavior.
The threat landscape is evolving, and new viruses and threats are constantly emerging – faster than antivirus software programs can keep up. Increasing security challenges present ongoing opportunities to strengthen cybersecurity. Brand new viruses emerge and antivirus programs react with new updates to maintain optimal protection for the user's computer or network. The problem is that the antivirus software industry is in a constant reactive state. Detecting in advance is more proactive, but it relies on predicting criminal behavior. The good news is some viruses behave similarly because of their design, and this helps antivirus programs detect "families" of viruses, including some newer versions.
The trouble is like we mentioned before, is that criminals don't follow rules. Cybercriminals already know how antivirus software programs work, and the most effective means by which to ensnare a victim to gain access to a network. The number of new viruses being detected each year drastically decreases, which poses the question of whether fewer viruses are being created or antivirus software programs are less effective. It's not a great position to be in, and a question no business owner ever wants to be forced to answer.
There are many arguments that claim virus detection software programs aren't as effective in the last 12 months as compared to the previous time frame. Current overall detection rates for the last 12 months are averaging right near 70% of the time. Considering this number is nearly three out of every four instances where a threat is detected before it has the chance to impact a user or network, it's not a terrible statistic, but it's still incredibly scary. The potential damage a virus that slips through these cracks can cause is immeasurable.
- Reports have shown the average number of professional emails received per day is near 125. Of these, about 75 are legitimate, which means that roughly half of all emails received are spam. These only represent the number of messages that clear security filters.
After digesting these scary numbers, consider an even scarier number: the IT budget for an organization. This is the number by which an organization's ultimate cybersecurity strength is measured.
- Do enough resources get allocated to training end users?
- If your human resources – end users – are those responsible for not falling victim to a cyber-attack, help prevent them from being the weakest link that allows access to your network.
- Does enough of the budget account for emerging cybersecurity needs?
Your human resources are your greatest asset, but only if properly armed with the right tools and knowledge to protect themselves, a network, and the organization for whom they work. The right cybersecurity awareness training and education can be the thin line between an organization's success – and failure.


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EeeeGbam: Dremo Sends Major Warning To Wizkid
Few hours ago DMW rapper,
Dremo took to his Instagram account to announce his new single that will be the biggest song in 2018.
Dremo who recently released his EP titled ' CODENAME ' vol 1 and has been receiving airplay with the success of a track off the EP ' Kpa ' featuring DMW Boss,
Davido ; is ready to keep it topnotch with this big announcement of his incoming hit.
Dremo made the announcement of his incoming single in a video he posted on his Instagram page. In the Instagram video Dremo warns all A-List, B-List and C-List artistes that wants to drop their single on Friday, should back off as he is about to hit and shake the industry with the biggest song of the year.
This announcement was made by Dremo after Wizkid has announced that he will be dropping another stew which ready to flood everywhere on Friday. Could this major announcement from Dremo be a warning for the Starboy against Friday or a Dare to Wizkid?


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Talent to the top
Leiden University wishes to attract and retain talented researchers, both male and female. This is not something that happens by itself, which is why we prioritise the theme of diversity.
Female talent should not be lost
The number of female researchers in the Netherlands has increased over the past twenty years, but in our opinion this is not yet sufficiently apparent among the top echelons of our own academic staff. The average national percentage of female professors is a little above 17%. With its 23%, Leiden University may score best among the large Dutch universities, but our aim is to reach a percentage of 27% by 2019. See the monitor at www.lnvh.nl.
Talent to the Top Charter
Since 2009 we have been affiliated with the 'Talent to the Top' Charter. A public commitment that demonstrates that we aim at a growing inflow, promotion and retention percentage of particularly female talent in top positions.
Grant possibilities for female researchers
The University offers female researchers a number of regulations and grant possibilities to facilitate their academic career.
For more information on this topic, please contact your Faculty's personnel adviser or Monique Oomes, Policy Adviser at the HRM department.


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Princeton University was number one in this year's US News & World Report ranking of best national universities, but it may not be your best choice if you're looking for a top salary down the line.
Graduates from Harvey Mudd College, the science and engineering school in Claremont, Calif., reported the highest median salary by mid-career of any school, according to a new survey from salary-information company PayScale.
Graduates with ten or more years of work experience reported a median salary of $143,00. Princeton graduates, the top ivy League school on the list, reported the sixth highest figure, at $121,000. The data include responses from 1.4 million college graduates from 1,016 schools without advanced degrees.
Here are the top ten mid-career salaries by school:
1. Harvey Mudd College: $143,000
2. United States Naval Academy at Annapolis: $131,000
3 – Tie. California Institute of Technology: $124,000
3 – Tie. Stevens Institute of Technology: $124,000
4. Babson College: $123,000
5. Princeton University: $121,000
6. United States Military Academy at Westpoint: $120,000
8 – Tie. Stanford University: $119,000
8 – Tie. Harvard University: $119,000
8 – Tie. Brown University: 119,000
See the full survey here.


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ASP Customer Service and Technical Support
This chapter discusses
- Service provision
- Implementation estimates
- System sizing
- Platform preparation
- Client preparation
- Customization
- User policies
- Data conversion
- Testing and quality assurance (QA)
- Training
- Going live
- Maintenance and upgrades
- Monitoring and reporting
- Call centers
- Billing and mediation
Several factors contribute to the unique nature of ASP customer support. To begin with, in the ASP business model, the ASP guarantees near-bulletproof operation of the hosted application. So you expect that very little will go wrong and, if it does, that it will be fixed without untenable interruption of your core business. Obviously an ASP must support more than an application. It's also responsible for servers, the enabling software platform, storage, network, and physical infrastructure such as the data center.
The scope of support is much greater than for a conventional IT company like a software vendor, whose help desk personnel need address only a fairly predictable set of problemsthings like software patches, hardware compatibility, upgrades, and so forth. With installed applications, especially mission-critical ones, the customer usually keeps support staff on-site or on-call around-the-clock to enable prompt troubleshooting. For the most part, ASP support personnel are not located on-site at the customer premises. In an ASP virtual support environment, staff are much more dependent on monitoring and remote support equipment to solve problems quickly. Obviously, that equipment, as well as the hosted application and other components of the total ASP solution, must also be absolutely dependable. Of course, because an ASP is the sum operation of multiple software, network, and other players, the partners are dependent on each other for reliability. And although partners typically have equity relationships or SLAs that provide them incentive to promote top performance, nevertheless, one broken link in the ASP chain can undermine all others. Players like telcos partnering with software vendors, for instance, might not be expert at supporting complex software, even though they are extremely qualified at troubleshooting problems with voice networks.
To complicate matters, the nature of IT support in general has become multidimensional. Call centers, for instance, increasingly handle queries by phone, e-mail, fax, and whatever other medium the customer prefers. They prioritize problems and address them accordingly. They use workflow and other systems to route specialized queries from the customer service representative (CSR) to, say, a database expert. They are increasingly aggressive in marketing their products and services to customers at every opportunity. For instance, if a CSR knows a new software release is ready, he may refer a customer to the sales department to buy an upgrade for $50 instead of to a database administrator for temporary troubleshooting. Yet customers expect all queries to be handled promptly and efficiently. And, with comparable IT functionality becoming more generally available from multiple vendors, vendors now realize that customer service is a key competitive differentiator.
Compared with traditional customer service and technical support, ASP customer support is complex. But to you, the customer, it should never seem so. Most of you want to call one number and have problems fixed quickly. When you call, you should be able to explain the problem very easily and have the support person understand and deal with it. For instance, you don't want to be on the phone for 30 minutes trying to explain a database problem to a network specialist because the CSR misdiagnosed the problem and transferred you to the wrong expert.
However, with more than 1,500 ASPs operating worldwide, not all of them understand or offer full-featured virtual customer service and technical support. This is especially true of small ASPs specializing in one or two very focused applications. Often these companies were service bureaus or VARs with modest sales and support programs, and they may tend to trivialize this aspect of an IT operation. This is not to say these smaller ASPs are necessarily slipshod when it comes to support. Indeed, their narrow focus may require fewer value-added services like complex support.
On the other hand, customer servicelike security, storage, and infrastructure back endswill likely become more outsourced and specialized as the industry matures. One call center may support six different ASPs by using the ASP's staff or by training their own. Such personnel could easily handle these low-level problems and pass on more difficult ones to an in-house support department at each ASP. Infrastructure service providers and MSPs will also absorb many platform monitoring and maintenance tasks from ASPs. It's not unlikely that they will specialize in supporting certain ASP operating systems, hardware platforms, networks, applications, and, possibly, vertical markets. However, although diversification and specialization are inevitable in any industry, the ASP industry will have to counterbalance that tendency with its marketing promise of providing a simple, all-in-one solution on a single bill.
Up-front Customer Service
ASP customer service starts as soon as you log on to the ASP's Web page or call its sales department to inquire about leasing an application. If you are inquiring about pricing and deployment time and it's not clearly conveyed by the Web site or by the sales rep, then that shortcoming may be indicative of the service your hosted application will receive later.
If you decide to lease, you can subscribe to out-of-the-box applications, like hosted e-mail, usually right on the Web site by virtually signing up and choosing your price/service level like Silver, Gold, or Platinum. Service can be up the same day. More complicated enterprise applications that require integration may take months. Many turnkey enterprise applications, though, require much less preparation, and subscribing is relatively quick and painless. Part of the subscription process also involves defining the terms of the SLA. Many ASPs offer standard SLAs that you can't amend, whereas others will negotiate special terms.
Then the ASP must provision the service by setting up, turning on, or ordering the following components before deploying the application:
NetworkCapacity, quality of service, connection to customer via local provider, and so on
System platformExtra storage devices, client installation/upgrade, middleware, and so on
ApplicationUser names, and so on
ServersShared or dedicated, disk capacity, chip power, and so on
BillingCustomer billing data, and so on
Reporting/monitoringReal-time or historical, the metrics to be monitored, and so on
SecurityUser profiles and policies, and so on
This activity, however, is still preliminary to the service relationship between you and the ASP throughout implementation.


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Welcome to Niagara's Finest Steak and Seafood restaurant - Remington's of Niagara. Our casual fine dining atmosphere, award winning menu and unique servers are what sets us apart from other Niagara Falls restaurants. Located in the heart of Niagara Falls tourist district, our Steakhouse and Seafood Restaurant is the perfect choice for a romantic dinner or a night out with the family in Niagara Falls.
From your first step in the door, you will notice the pride we take in bringing forth the most amazing dining experience. We are home to a prized collection of Fredrick Remington bronze statues. Sculpted in the 1800's, these works of art help set the mood for an award winning dinner.
Our Reputation
Remingtons has an enviable reputation as Niagara Falls' best steak and seafood house. We are known for our Prime Rib, Steaks, and Seafood dishes! The secret to our success is simple: we use nothing but the finest and freshest ingredients in all of our cooking. We work closely with local and international farmers and suppliers to bring the best of the world to your table! From our skilled master chef to our impeccable service team, we are committed to your absolute satisfaction. We also offer The Ultimate Couple's special that will satisfy any taste bud. Enjoy a three course, gourmet dinner with wine for two!
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A federal judge ordered Facebook Inc to face most of a nationwide lawsuit seeking damages for letting third parties such as Cambridge Analytica access users' private data, calling the social media company's views on privacy "so wrong."
While dismissing some claims, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco said users could try to hold Facebook liable under various federal and state laws for letting app developers and business partners harvest their personal data without their consent on a "widespread" basis.
He rejected Facebook's arguments that users suffered no "tangible" harm and had no legitimate privacy interest in information they shared with friends on social media.
"Facebook's motion to dismiss is littered with assumptions about the degree to which social media users can reasonably expect their personal information and communications to remain private," Chhabria wrote. "Facebook's view is so wrong."
A Facebook spokeswoman said the company considered protecting people's information and privacy "extremely important," but believed its practices were consistent with its disclosures and "do not support any legal claims."
Lesley Weaver and Derek Loeser, two of the plaintiffs' lawyers, said in a joint statement that they were pleased with the decision, and "especially gratified that the court is respecting Facebook users' right to privacy."
The litigation followed a series of data privacy issues involving Menlo Park, California-based Facebook.
These included the 2015 breach that allowed Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm, to access data for an estimated 87 million Facebook users. That breach was not revealed until March 2018.
In their 414-page complaint, users said Facebook misled them into thinking they could keep control over personal data, when in fact it let thousands of "preferred" outsiders such as Airbnb, Lyft and Netflix gain access.
Chhabria faulted Facebook for treating privacy as an "all-or-nothing" proposition, where users would forfeit their privacy by sharing data even in a "limited" fashion.
He said Facebook had taken different positions elsewhere, including in a California case where it likened information kept on social media accounts to information stored on smartphones, where privacy concerns might be greater.
That position is "closer to the truth than the company's assertions in this case," Chhabria wrote. "Sharing information with your social media friends does not categorically eliminate your privacy interest in that information."
The litigation covers Facebook users in the United States and the United Kingdom whose information was shared with third parties without their consent since 2007.
The case is in re Facebook Inc Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 18-md-02843.
— Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Additional Reporting by Aishwarya Nair; Editing by Dan Grebler


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Dior has produced a fragrance called Sauvage since the mid-1960s and used Johnny Depp in recent years to promote it. But a new advertising campaign that paired them with Native American imagery deepened wounds among a population whose ancestors were called savages and systematically killed.
The French luxury goods company posted a trailer Friday with a Lakota dancer in colorful clothing that it said embodied modern Native American culture and promised more details on the fragrance Monday. The videos were removed from Dior's Instagram and Twitter accounts hours later, although they still appeared on some unrelated accounts devoted to Depp.
The trailer and videos continued to generate heavy criticism. Sauvage in French has a variety of meanings, including wild, unspoiled and savage.
"That takes it to a whole other level of ignorance and racism," said Dallas Goldtooth of the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota. "You should be well aware of the implications of that word."
Dior worked with Americans for Indian Opportunity, a respected but sometimes controversial consulting firm based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the campaign. It's the same group that ceremoniously adopted Depp as an honorary member of the Comanche Nation while he was filming the 2013 adaptation of "The Lone Ranger."
Executive director Laura Harris said she expected the backlash but wanted to ensure Native Americans were part of the production, that it would educate people on indigenous values and philosophy, and that the Native components of the shoot were done tastefully and respectfully.
"Our aim was hopefully that the controversy would do exactly what it's done on social media and raise people's awareness," she told The Associated Press.
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Harris said Dior will not change the name of the fragrance or cancel a commercial shot in southern Utah called "We Are the Land" starring Depp. Marketing materials describe it as an "ode to Mother Earth" and say the inclusion of the dancer is meant to be a "powerful tribute to this culture, portrayed with immense respect."
Neither Dior, a representative for Depp nor the dancer — Canku OneStar, an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota — responded to messages seeking comment.
Dior had posted trailers and other images from its new Sauvage campaign earlier in the week, but they did not generate similar reactions.
Crystal Echohawk, executive director of IllumiNative, said Dior did the right thing by working with a Native American consulting group but was ignorant in tying the fragrance to Native imagery.
"It shows that a well-intentioned collaboration can inadvertently be exploitative and racist, and I think that's what happened here," said Echohawk, who is Pawnee. "I think it's an important lesson learned. They need to pull the entire national campaign."
Robert Passikoff, president of the New York-based customer research firm Brand Keys Inc. said hiring a minority firm isn't enough, and there's no excuse for companies appropriating cultural aspects and leveraging them for profit.
"One just needs to be very, very careful these days about what is politically correct, culturally correct ... and at least racially balanced," he said.


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Isn't this little girl just precious? Let me introduce you....
Lauryn was diagnosed with Leukemia on March 27, 2014. She is currently hospitalized in the DC area undergoing chemotherapy to fight this terrible disease. Lauryn is Linda Payne's granddaughter...many of you in the stamping community probably already know sweet Linda!
As news of Lauryn's illness spread via social media, many of you have asked if there is anything you can do to help, so we have come up with a plan. We decided to have a Card Drive and would like to invite YOU to help by sending "happy mail" to Lauryn and her family.
Please create cards to share your love and encouragement for Lauryn and her family. Lauryn's parents are Josh and Elizabeth and she has two older siblings: Lily and Logan. We thank the Lord for this dear family and need to pray for them as they are seeking to glorify the Lord throughout this trial.
Cards can be mailed to:
Children's National
Hematology/Oncology RM 437
Lauryn Newsome
111 Michigan Ave NW
Washington DC 20010


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Pre-Symposium Excursion – A Journey through the Historical Gardens of Northern and Central Portugal
2nd – 5th May 2018
This four-day trip will enable you to discover the landscape art of the historical and botanical gardens of Northern and Central Portugal. You will discover recreational estates, monastic grounds, manor gardens and botanical gardens (Porto and Coimbra) and the Alto Douro Vinhateiro landscape – notable examples of the cultural and artistic expression of various periods and styles ranging from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
Day 1 |
Day 2 Thursday, 3rd May |
Day 3 Friday, 4th May |
Day 4 Saturday, 5th May |
8 a.m. Departure to Porto12 p.m. Visit to Parque de Serralves, Porto1.30 p.m. Lunch in Parque de Serralves, Porto 3 p.m. 4.30 p.m. 5 p.m. |
9 a.m. Departure to Vila Real – Mateus10.30 a.m. Visit to the Gardens of the Solar de Mateus Continue to the Douro Valley – Pinhão 1 p.m Boarding for a 'Rebelo' boat ride with a picnic on board. This mini-cruise along the river will pass by the Alto Douro Vinhateiro, a UNESCO cultural heritage landscape. 3 p.m. 4 p.m. 5.30 p.m. 9 p.m. |
9 a.m. Departure from Guimarães 9.30 a.m. Visit to the Grounds and Monastery of Tibães, Braga11.30 a.m. Brief stop at Bom Jesus do Monte 1 p.m. 3 p.m. 4 p.m. 5.30 p.m. |
9 a.m. 11 a.m. 12.30 p.m. Lunch at the restaurant in Quinta das Lágrimas 3 p.m. Return to Lisbon |
PRICE PER PERSON = €750 (20% to be paid by 31st January, non-refundable, 80% to be paid by 9th March), for single room the value will be increased by 100 euros per person
- 3 nights at Hotel do Toural, Guimarães, breakfast included
- 1 dinner at Casa do Juste, drinks included
- 4 lunches, including one picnic, drinks included
- Luxury bus according to itinerary
- 'Rebelo' boat ride on the Douro
- All the visits mentioned in the programme
- Port wine tasting in Quinta do Bonfim
- Tour Leader: Prof. Ana Luísa Soares
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE GARDENS INCLUDED IN THE ITINERARY: link
A mid-symposium excursion is included with your registration. Additionally, you can choose to attend a pre-symposium and/or post-symposium excursion (additional fees apply).
Mid-symposium excursion (more info will be added) will be held in Sintra. Cultural Landscape of Sintra was classified World Heritage by UNESCO in 1995.
Parques de Sintra-Monte da Lua S.A. (PSML) has, among other missions, the responsibility to manage the most important natural and cultural values located in the area of the Cultural Landscape of Sintra and in Queluz: the Park and Palace of Pena, the Gardens and the Palace of Monserrate, the Moorish Castle, the Convent of the Capuchos, the Garden and Chalet of the Countess of Edla and, since 2012, the National Palaces of Sintra and Queluz and the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art based at the historic Gardens of Queluz, with performances and training sessions open to the general public at the Henrique Calado Riding Ring (Belém).
The management of these properties involves their restoration, requalification, revitalisation, conservation, research, publicity and operation, opening them to public fruition and enhancing their touristic valour.
For the excursions, please bring with you trekking shoes, windbreaker, sun-protection cream and sun hat. Lunch boxes and water will be provided. The temperatures can range between 15 and 22 °C, with very little probability of rain.
12th–18th May 2018
Post-symposium excursion to Azores islands. Located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the archipelago of the Azores is the westernmost part of Europe and the meeting point of unique plant species. Of recent volcanic origin and a temperate oceanic climate, the Azores are an isolated archipelago spread in 9 islands along 600Km. The rich natural history associated with a recent but intensive human settlement, show a diversity of habitats and landscapes where colonization, adaptation and speciation processes are evolving before our eyes. From peat bogs to lava flows of chasmophyte vegetation and Laurel forest, Azorean endemic vegetation is an interesting and beautiful starting point for a visit to one of the hidden gems of the Atlantic.
The fee includes accommodation, meals, airflights, bus transfers.
A journey across three Azores islands
This seven-day trip will enable you to discover the landscape and gardens of Faial, Flores and S. Miguel, Azores islands.
Day 1 |
Day 2 Sunday, 13th May |
Day 3 Monday, 14th May |
Day 4 Tuesday, 15th May |
Day 5 Wednesday, 16th May |
Day 6 Thursday, 17th May |
Day 7 Friday, 18th May |
3 p.m Departure from Lisbon to Faial4.45 p.m Arrival at Horta airport and private transportation with local assistant of hotel unit in the city of Horta, Hotel do Canal 4 *, check-in procedures, accommodation, free dinner. |
Buffet breakfast in the hotel restaurant 9.30 a.m |
Buffet breakfast in the hotel restaurant 10.15 a.m 11.00 a.m |
Breakfast at Aldeia da Cuada 9.30 a.m |
Breakfast at Aldeia da Cuada 11.25 a.m 1.25 p.m 2.30 p.m |
Breakfast at the hotel 9.00 a.m |
Breakfast at the hotel. Morning and lunch free. 3 p.m 6.10 p.m |
PRICE PER PERSON = €1175 in double room (20% to be paid by 31st January, non-refundable, 80% to be paid by 9th March). Supplement for single €252.
- Flights: Lisbon – Horta – Santa Cruz – Ponta Delgada – Lisbon
- 4 nights hotel accommodation
- 2 nights at Aldeia da Cuada (houses with 1-2 rooms, for 1-4 persons)
- 3 lunches, drinks included
- Bus according to itinerary
- All the visits mentioned in the programme
- Local guide
- Tour Leader: Dalila Espírito Santo or a local Botanist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ITINERARY: link


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Adam Lambert Confirms His Performance With Queen
After what seems like countless rounds on the rumor mill — and just as many denials — the worst-kept secret in pop music has finally been officially confirmed: Adam Lambert will perform with Queen this year.
"As many suspected, I can finally confirm: I have been invited by Queen to sing one very special concert!" tweeted Lambert. And he wasn't kidding about that "special concert" part, either — he went on to reveal the location and date: "Sonisphere at Knebworth July 7th!"
"Sorry to be coy about the details the past few weeks, but I made a promise to keep it under wraps as best I could," Lambert added. "Gonna be a surreal night!"
"Judging by my incoming mail, this decision will make a lot of people very happy," said Queen guitarist Brian May in a press release. "It's a worthy challenge for us, and I'm sure Adam would meet with Freddie's approval! And what better place to revisit, and walk those emotional paths than Knebworth? It will be a rush."
"I'm completely in awe of the Queen phenomenon. The thought of sharing the stage for a full set is so beautifully surreal," added Lambert. "I'm honored to be able to pay my respects to Freddie's memory. He's a personal hero of mine and I am deeply grateful for the chance to sing such powerful music for fans of this legendary band. I know the evening will be a huge milestone for me, and with the support of Brian, Roger and the rest of the band I know magic will be on display."


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Safety Behavior
The dilemma of safety is that people often find unsafe behavior is 'rewarding' in some way (e.g. they get the job done quicker, they are more comfortable not wearing PPE, etc), whereas 'Safe behavior' is often punishing (e.g. wearing the supplied PPE is uncomfortable, jobs take longer, etc).
The Antecdent-Behavior-Consequence diagram shows that 'Safety Behavior' is affected by the availability and quality of policies, job plans, materials, equipment and manpower as these trigger people's behavior 'on the job'. For example, if the right equipment was missing at the job site, people will get innovative and either use 'home made' equipment, or take 'short-cuts' just to get the job done. In other words, behave unsafely.
Behaviors are the 'ingredient' that pulls everything together to lead to job completion. If a job goes well despite people behaving unsafely, their 'unsafe' behavior would be rewarded and repeated in the future. If it goes badly, with unwanted injuries, people would find the unsafe behavior punishing. Often, however, people do not get hurt when behaving unsafely, which reinforces the very behaviors most likely to hurt them.
This is a difficult behavioral pattern to break, but we are very successful at improving safety behavior in a wide range of sectors, countries and cultures.
B-Safe® is our fully flexible IOSH award-winning Behavioral Safety approach that helps companies to promote desired safety behaviors, while simultaneously reducing the frequency of unsafe behaviors and injuries. With an enviable track record of success over the last two decades, B-Safe® has helped many companies to reduce unwanted incidents to Zero. Again, the scores obtained from B-Safe® can be used to help determine a company's Safety Culture Profile®'
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