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Am I seeing right or did woot just get out wooted?
@bigfrank: In general, a full or queen mattress (which is what is on woot.com) or a king (home.woot.com) will cost more than a twin (which is what's here on moofi.woot.com). So, you're seeing right but you're not properly processing what it is that you're seeing.
@cleverett: Is a Twin not the same as a full
Twin = Single
Full = double
Queen bigger than Full
King bigger than Queen
I don't know why Twin can't fit two people... Well it can, but you'd better be CLOSE friends.
I've shared a twin bed before with my wife, sure... but when there are two people on a twin bed, be prepared to stand up when you need to roll over.
@bigfrank: Creative photography, double-check the fine print. :)
the 'cool' part is interesting, considering the memory foam I've slept on previous holds heat like a - like, you know, something that holds heat really well. like it's heat-memory foam, in addition... to... yeah.
those things get hot.
2xtwin = king. So would 2 of these be a better option than a single king in terms of longevity, displacement, and comfort?
There are things in the world where price does not matter, like gasoline whether it says Exxon or Moe's it all came from the same place you are just paying extra at one because of perception. That is not true of foam mattreses, there are different grades of foam and different kinds as well... If you get a cheap one you might get a few weeks or a couple of months of use out of it before it starts to wear out.
When it does start to wear out be ready for back pain beyond belief. You have been warned.
@thomas998: As someone who has purchased one of the "cheap ones" from Woot in the past, I will have to disagree with you. We got a King size "convection cool" mattress last year and it is fantastic. No back pain at all and I sleep like a log. We are very happy with it.
"convection cool"? Does it have a built-in fan, or would that be marketed as "forced convection cool"?
@curvin777: No, 2x twin is not a king. 2x twinXL = king. A king is 76 x 80, and 2 twins would be about 72 inches wide if put together, and much shorter than 80 inches long.
@curvin777: In addition, these are probably built to resist sag on their edges, so stacking two side-by-side might result in a sort of ridge down the center of your double-wide bed.
This thing has an odor. Does this possibly go away over time? It has been 3 days.


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WINTERSVILLE - Think of Wintersville's Morningside Woods as a leap of faith. A big, expensive leap of faith that's already paying off for longtime contractor/developer Ralph Freshwater.
Freshwater ponied up more than $200,000 to develop infrastructure to portions of a 33-acre parcel he'd purchased decades ago off Longvue Drive. By the time he and daughter Dianna Vadeborne decided it was time to do something with the acreage, the economy was in shambles and the nation was in the depths of a housing crisis. The market was flooded with foreclosures, and money for new constructions was hard - if not impossible - to come by. While conditions have improved somewhat, they're still not where they ought to be. Still, Freshwater and his daughter pressed ahead, mapping out 10 good-sized building lots.
"Back in the 1970s, I bought most of this land, 33 acres here and 22 acres later on," he said. "I'd hoped to develop it, and I did build 30 townhomes. Then recently, around 2009, I talked it over with my family and we decided to lay out some lots, take a chance."
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CONSTRUCTION — Morningside Woods, a new subdivision in Wintersville, features level lots and a wooded, scenic view. Houses are up or under construction on five of the 10 lots in the subdivision. A crew from Davis Homes works on a house in the subdivision. -- Linda Harris
LEAP OF FAITH – Longtime contractor/developer Ralph Freshwater took a leap of faith when he invested some $200,000 bringing infrastructure to Morningside Woods, part of a 33-acre property he'd purchased decades ago off Longvue Drive in Wintersville. Freshwater and his daughter, Dianna Vandeborne, mapped out 10 lots, five of which have already sold. -- Linda Harris
Houses are up or under construction already on five of the 10 lots in the subdivision: Three are occupied, another is under roof with the exterior almost complete and construction on the fifth is in progress.
"It was a huge investment, an enormous amount of work," Vandeborne concedes. "But we've already sold five, and we'll sell the other five sooner or later."
Freshwater's grandson, Don Vandeborne, concedes that spending that kind of money in this economy is a gamble, pointing out the goal on a project like this is, obviously, to at least break even. He said it's his grandfather who deserves credit for taking a chance.
"Hopefully, his investment pays off," he said. "He's developed, I think, probably eight subdivisions in his lifetime. ... In his mind, I'm sure he could justify the (price tag) because of his experience. In his mind, he's confident it will pay off in the end, that the lots will be sold."
Don Vandeborne, who served as foreman at the Morningside Woods worksite, and his wife built the first house in the subdivision. He said they'd shopped for a building site for about seven years before the subdivision opened up. "There was nothing, really, around," he said.
Morningside Woods features level lots and a wooded, scenic area, qualities that are hard to come by in the Upper Ohio Valley.
"We have the country setting, but we're still a couple minutes from town," Don Vandebourne said.
The lots cost around $45,000, and the minimum price for a house in Morningside Woods is $120,000 plus the price of the lot.
Freshwater got his start in the building business after World War II when he joined the carpenter's union local.
"After a couple of years I left and started my own contracting and developing company," he said. "Over the years I've probably built six or seven subdivisions, not just in Jefferson County but also in Belmont and Columbiana counties. I've built several hundred apartments, I've built churches and warehouses. I've built subdivisions and I've built homes, too. But I didn't want to get into homebuilding again, so I'm just selling the lots and people get to choose their own contrator. I like to think I'm retired, but I'm still involved."
Vandeborne and her sons, Don and Kurt, now own and operate the family business.

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Which of the following expressions is grammatically correct:
I will let you know if I come across any requirement.
I will let you know if I come across any requirements.
Which of the following expressions is grammatically correct:
Either should be syntactically correct, but if you anticipate that there may only be one requirement (e.g., "The class for your child didn't specify a minimum age, but I will let you know if I come across any requirement.") the singular would be preferred. Whereas if it's open-ended and could be any number of unknown requirements, the plural would be the way to go.
Both of the following are grammatically correct:
(See comment below regarding quotation marks.)
Each has a context in which it makes sense; as Ben notes, singular vs plural is one determiner. If the sentence is a reply, the form of the question asked is important. For example:
Note regarding quotation marks: Every sentence of the following form is grammatical, no matter what letters and spaces you substitute for XYZ. Placing XYZ in quotation marks indicates that it is a literal quotation, so it doesn't affect grammaticality of the sentence as a whole.


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I just watched one of the episodes today. It is absolutely stunning on Blu-ray! This is well worth $20.
This is a GREAT price, and as @davidschronic points out, this is the original BBC version with Sir David Attenborough narrating which many believe to be superior to the typical US version.
Great price for the few blu-ray lovers that don't already own this! BBC production is definitely the way to go.
If you're a Costco member, you can find this set (BBC version) for less in stores.
You can't find the Blu-ray at Costco for less than $20. The standard version is $19.99, I just looked at it there the other day. I really wish people would learn how to read.


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yes, we are
I found few signs of London-style radicalism among Muslims in the United States. At the same time, the real story of American Muslims is one of accelerating alienation from the mainstream of U.S. life, with Muslims in this country choosing their Islamic identity over their American one.
Emphasis mine, which I think rather undercuts the headline. We ARE as assimilated as you might think; we are not a radical community. The real complaint here seems to be the issue of Islamic "identity". I see no evidence in the article that muslim americans are "choosing" their Islamic identity "over" the American one; in fact if anything there is an ongoing synthesis of the two, which is really the entire point of America. The truth is that yes American muslims are religious, but so are Christians here by and large, more so than in Europe. Few would argue that Christian Americans are choosing Christian identity over their American identity, after all. Muslims in America do not have to be Irshad Manji-style "refuseniks" to be moderate; if anything the history of America teaches us that here (and almost exclusively here!) can the persecuted peoples of the world find sanctuary to practice their faith as they see fit. American muslims do not and should not have to be secular in order to be moderate.
The truth is that muslim americans are a different demographic and have a different history than their European counterparts. I discussed this issue at length in an earlier post titled "muslim citizens, not citizen muslims" and provided quite a few links therein that address this point. Also see publius' comments on the WaPo article above, in which he makes much of the same economic and class-based arguments.
However, the sense of alienation that Muslims feel is a very real thing. What do you expect when we have talk of muslim-only airport lines? For the most part American muslims have borne the increased scrutiny without complaint. We do as a community understand why we are being singled out - but that doesn't take the sting out of "flying while muslim" in any way. But is alienation and resentment equivalent to anti-assimilation? No, though they certainly could be the seeds for it in the long run. However I have great faith in America and I do not think this will come to pass.
The whole issue of identity is really not as critical as that of modernity. Its reconciling tradition with modernity that is tricky. We all have multiple identities and we rarely "choose" one over another, but the conflict between modernity and tradition is sometimes trickier to navigate. The way in which my own community (the Dawoodi Bohras) achieves this feat was nicely described by Jonah Blank in his book, Mullahs on the Mainframe, of which you can read an excerpt here and which I myself reviewed here.
So, I'd like to think that's the direction we're headed. Here's my sheep/goat separating question, though:
Are American Muslims (or any Muslims) ready to renounce the apostasy doctrine they've embraced all this time?
I don't see how any acceptable form of assimilation can occur without that.
For the record, to this point, I've never found any clear statement from any Muslim about this.
(Sorry Aziz, this will be a little off topic)
I have to say that I agree with you that this is amajor problem. How integrated can a population within the US be if they believe that freedom of religion is only a one way street? Do we want folks like that to be, for instance, elected to public office where they will be empowered to write laws?
Not one, not one, famous or prominent American muslim or muslim organization said a thing about Abdul Rahman. Where were the famous western converts like Ali? Where was CAIR? Did any of them defend the right of Rahman to be a Christian in his own country? Did any of them cite chapter and verse disproving the sentence of death for apostasy?
The silence was deafening and until I see prominent, activist, muslim public figures denouncing the practice which is absolutely contrary and incompatible with the deepest beliefs of our nation, I will remain unconvinced as to their integration here.
I welcome new readers but really I am not inclined to rehash things I've said numerous times. I've heard it all before. muslims do not condemn terror. (they do). The Qur'an calls jews apes and pigs. (it doesn't). Islam is anti-free will. (it's not). Islam was forced upon people at the point of a sword. (it wasn't - context). The Qur'an calls for violent jihad against unbelievers. (it doesn't - quite the opposite). Jews suffered immensely under muslim rule. (they didn't - as related by jewish sources). Islam needs a Reformation. (it already has one).
thats just a sampler. I really hope that new readers will give me some benefit of the doubt here - and also pay me some basic courtesy here in my bloghome - by taking the time to read the links I've compiled for you above, so that we can move the discussion forward rather than get bogged down on (truth be told) very old talking points.
I felt the same way you did, Aziz, when I read the article. For the most part, what I read was an accurate representation of most of the Muslims I met when I was still in college. They did not wish to be seperate from other Americans, just have an additional identity within the American identity (as many Christian groups have).
The danger is not when Muslim youth decide to say their prayers and wear a head covering (which, the article says, is becoming more common in the US). The danger is when they decide to blow up buildings (which the article admitted is not at all common in the US). I think it was interesting that the article noted that Muslim economic activity in the US is well integrated, with a higher average income than the US average. This is in direct contradiction with the condition of Muslims in other countries and seems to indicate that Muslims are more integrated into one of the most important aspects of American society.
For God's sake, I get really tired of this "the silence is deafening" stuff when anyone who spends a moderate amount of time reading muslim blogs or looking at statements from moderate muslim groups knows damn well they weren't silent.
How do I know? I just now took five minutes out and did an internet search on "muslim apostate." I found this article and this one immediately. I wasn't even trying hard.
Harry, get your head out of Little Green Footballs and Jihadwatch please, and try actually looking around and talking to some actual muslims. Yeesh.
I thought the same thing when I saw the article about British Muslims "choosing" their Muslim identity over their "British identity. As an American and a Christian, if I were asked which came first, I'd say "Christian." The only people that might surprise are those who have no religious identity to choose from. Which, unfortunately, is pretty much true of a lot of non-Muslim western Europeans.
I think young Muslims face some barriers to integration that other groups may not. While taking a class at my local community college, I befriended a young Muslim man who recently immigrated to the US from Tunisia. I sensed that he wanted to participate in our culture, but found that many of the entertainment activities that young Americans engage in were incompatible with his religious convictions, and as a result tended to socialize with other Muslims exclusively. I can relate to this social isolation myself since I gave up drinking alcohol and all of the related activities in my early 20's.
Another thing I wonder about, living as I do in San Francisco, is the effect of the anti-US rhetoric that predominates much of the left-of-left-of-center ideology that is common here and in certain academic and "intellectual" circles. I think the crisis of confidence that the US and the West in general is experiencing is creating an environment that makes assimilation much less appealing to immigrants from other cultures.
I took your advice and read your review of Jonah Blank's book, Mullahs on the Mainframe.
I suppose I should be comforted to learn that Islam has it's own branch of liberal presbyterian-types, such as yourself. But I'm not convinced that your version of the religion is ascendent, or is ever likely to be.
My advice is that you accommodate "The West" by giving up on a sinking-ship of a religion that will drag your obviously enlightened heart down with it as it descends to the darkness of its core doctrines. You remind me of the Marxist apologists of the last generation that persisted in claiming that communism was a great and noble ideology, that had been unfortunately perverted by the backward Russians.
You still need to answer Harry Eager's question and not patronise your readers by suggesting that they read more of your stuff. What is a non-Muslim to make of the constant reiteration by Muslim clerics that it is not possible to leave the faith? "This is not man's will, but Allah's," we are told. This is not compatable with a marketplace approach to human ideas and culture. You can't proclaim Islam is a liberal religion when in the background a murderous ideology relies on coercion to maintain the faith.
Having said that, I still wish you well in trying to pacify your co-religionists. A bit less on convincing non-Muslims how nice Islam is, and a bit more on what is specifically problematic with aspects of Islamic thought and democratic culture - that would be refreshing, and brave, for a Muslim to write about.
On the one hand, I've met enough muslims to agree with you.
On the other, two years ago, literally soaked to the skin in the freezing winter rain, I could literally not get a muslim woman to acknowledge me long enough to tell me if she knew where an ATM was so I could buy a train ticket and maybe not freeze to death. And although this sounds odd when I type it myself now, the context was perfectly clear at the time.
Other times I have had perfectly normal interactions with both men and women.
I'm not talking about some random mufsidun in one of the world's dark kingdoms, but everyday life. It is part of my culture to offer courtesies to women. Do I hold back and not open a door for a woman because she is a muslim and (as I have experienced) likely to be offended at the attention? How am I supposed to regard Muslims as integrated, if I must always be on eggshells not to cause meaningless offense?
Personally I think Christians can learn from the Muslims who take a critical stance toward assimilation with American culture. After all, if American Christians are going to critique our country (which we have been doing for a long time, from various points of view), we ought not at the same time consider unquestioned acceptance of all its ways a virtue. My comments on Abdo's piece are at http://sequimur.com/banditsnomore/?p=487
I was talking with a Pakistani friend who is an assimilated and non-religious Muslim. He was talking about growing up in Pakistan. He mentioned the amusing factoid that he wasn't able to see Porky Pig growing up because Porky was blurred out when shown on Pakistani TV. Kind of funny. Being Jewish I thought that was very extreme to find even the image of a pig anathema. He then was talking about how the Pakistani version of a fake ID for underage drinking was a Non-Muslim card. My fiancée laughed and said "so you have to get a card saying you are a Christian or a Jew?" He looked uncomfortable and said, "Not a Jew ... no, they'd kill you".
My friend is a good guy. Married an Asian Buddhist girl who faux converted for his parents. He uses the rationalization that Islam is a young religion to explain the intolerance that besets Islam. I think claiming youth is a cop out but wouldn't say that to him.
He said more moderate versions of Islam don't exist as an organized thing. I said that is a shame as it forces a Muslim to choose between devout practice and living a modern western life - it is a tough choice. He said Muslims do as they like in terms of drink and sex and other things but that if someone tried to officially create a "reform" style Islam they'd be killed. It was unclear if he meant here in the west or just in Pakistan although I suspect it wouldn't be easy even here in the USA.
A Palestinian couple I was good friends with when I lived in Philadelphia who were pretty western (although it was an arranged marriage - boy did he luck out compared to her I don't think he could have gotten her in a free choice situation - lol) engaged in an odd relationship with their religion. They didn't tell me that Islam didn't promote this or that idea that couldn't be squared with enlightenment values - they all said that the Mosque was irrelevant to their politics or morals. That it was more about community than ethics, morals or politics.
Good Stuff and nice to see. I followed the link to the Apostasy article and an an analysis via the Qur'an. I've bookmarked this site and will study your arguments in greater detail later. Still, this is a start. Best Wishes, Traveller
Regarding "apostasy" and those of you calling on the writer to renounce this doctrine, there seems to be the assumption that the inability to leave one's faith is a Muslim, or particularly Muslim, idea. It is not. As a Jew who grew up attending a Conservative Movement Jewish school, I can say that a similar concept was imparted to me: you can't "convert" away from Judaism. Even if you did convert, you were still a Jew. This idea wasn't "taught" so much as casually brought up in other contexts, such as discussing Bob Dylan or the Jews for Jesus movement and its recruiting efforts in the Jewish community.
At that time, this example of defining Judaism up seemed less sinister than the racialist arguments of those attempting to define Judaism down (this was during the 1980s Russian Jewish exodus, and arguments about "who's a Jew" as regards the right of return and civil rights in Israel).
So it's not the apostasy (stupid). Demanding that Aziz present examples of Muslim renunciation of this "doctrine" is silly and insulting. The matter is, however, about what happens to the apostates. If you start reading about Muslim to Christian converts in America being executed or otherwise tormented, you might rightfully seek Muslim condemnation of that, and I believe and hope that you'd get it.
Well - that Fox news reporter could speak to the forced conversion thing. He should proclaim his faith in Christ, or Adonai, or Buddha or whatever his actual religion is at some American mosque to cheering American Muslims. That would get some headlines. I'd love to see it. Although I suspect he has better things to do immediately like see his family.
Are American Muslims just inept at PR in terms of staging something like I suggest above or is there really a filter on the media? The fact that most Muslims condemn terrorism isn't enough in a political and ideological fight. It doesn't take a genius to realize that one needs to do things to command media attention if you actually want to have an effect. I wish the moderate Muslims in America were more politically astute if that is the problem.
I should have said apostacy instead of terrorism in the post above. Sorry. Although my point is transferable. I wonder if the media is filtering moderate muslim messages or if moderate muslims arent working the system to get their message out there. MSM is pretty lazy and looking for cheap thrills - if you want to get on the news you have to stage events that command attention. If you don't you should expect to be ignored.
I find the concept that it's frightening to choose religion over country kind of bizarre, given that the United States was founded by those who left their home countries because those countries wouldn't let them worship as they chose. If that's not choosing religion over country, I'm not quite sure what would be.
It appears to me that we shouldn't set up the issue as "country" vs "religion", but rather "killing to meet a goal is okay" vs "killing to meet a goal is not okay" - regardless of whether religion is in the mix. Some non-religious types are very sanguine about hurting people in the process of meeting their goals - radical environmentalists for one. And you have the problem of failing to denounce such behavior in secular contexts too - some environmentalists, to continue that analogy, hesitate to decry the more violent arms of their movement. You have the whole gamut of behavior and acceptance in both religious and non-religious contexts, cutting across race, country and culture. Religion as a whole only frightens those who don't understand it.
As a Christian, I can say unequivocally that I choose God and my service to Him over my country. It's not even a contest. BUT! The Bible teaches me to respect the leaders of my country, to pay my taxes, to obey the laws as long as they don't contradict His laws, etc. My Christianity is a blueprint for good citizenship. And the more devoted I am to God, the more likely I am going to be careful about being a good citizen. While I (obviously) have major theological differences with Muslims, I'm not at all distressed or frightened to learn that many Muslims are becoming more devoted or that they would choose Islam over America. The problem isn't level of devotion. The problem is the teaching of hate and the tolerance for violent behavior, which is not exclusive to radicalized segments of Islam.
We as a country should make it clear that violence toward our citizens will absolutely not be tolerated from any person, group or country, regardless of their reason, and no one can hide behind theology, belief systems or rhetoric that to their mind makes it okay. But we shouldn't put devotion to country in opposition to devotion to God.
Poll: Americans Back Profiling
It's taken five years, but the US public is beginning to rebel against the pointless random security measures forced down its throat by special interest groups: Americans back anti-terrorism racial profiling: poll.
BOSTON (Reuters) - Most Americans expect a terrorist attack on the United States in the next few months and support the screening of people who look "Middle Eastern" at airports and train stations, a poll showed on Tuesday.
The Quinnipiac University Polling Institute said 62 percent of Americans were "very worried" or "somewhat worried" that terrorists would strike the nation in the next few months while 37 percent were "not too worried" or "not worried at all."
The poll of 1,080 voters, conducted August 17-23, comes as many Americans are jittery after British authorities foiled a plot to blow up planes but is broadly in line with other surveys on expectations for another attack since September 11.
By a 60 percent to 37 percent margin, respondents said authorities should single out people who look "Middle Eastern" for security screening at locations such as airports and train stations — a finding that drew sharp criticism by civil liberties groups.
As with any story even remotely related to profiling, Reuters makes sure to call the PR flack for CAIR to get the Islamist point of view.
"It's an unfortunate by-product to the fear and hysteria we're hearing in many quarters," said Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights and advocacy organization.
"It's one of those things that makes people think they are doing something to protect themselves when they're not. They're in fact producing more insecurity by alienating the very people whose help is necessary in the war on terrorism," he said.
Belittle the threat from terrorism: check.
Issue veiled threat: check.
The author of the WaPo article mentions Dearborn. I've lived in Dearborn 20+ years, went to High school and have worked with Arabs.
In school and up into the mid 90's, the Middle Eastern residents of Dearborn were overwhelmingly Arab Christian or Chaldean. They were assimilations par excellence, if a little insular.
But that has changed since the first Gulf War, and Dearborn has had a large influx of Muslim immigrants. Without question, their attitudes are different. I disagree with Aziz on this point. Dearborn Muslims are not very well integrated and this is of their own choosing. I also find it odd that Aziz speaks for *all* 6 million Muslims. That's impressive.
Assimilation has, imo, very little to do with being 'radical'(whatever that means). Its has much more to do with how you adopt the cultural memes of the country you call home.
I read an article the other day where a Turkish woman was quoted as being puzzled by the apparent inability of European authorities to identify the radicals in their midst. She simply said, 'See what they are wearing.'
It's my understanding that because Sharia conflicts with the American law of separation of Church and State that Muslims must choose one identity over another.
Either you are for Sharia, which makes you against democracy, freedom of religion, and secular government, or you are for the First Amendment, which forbids anything like Sharia.
Am I missing something?
Susanna in Alabama and Laika's Last Woof have posts that taken together are instructive. Susanna says "The Bible teaches me to respect the leaders of my country, to pay my taxes, to obey the laws as long as they don't contradict His laws, etc. My Christianity is a blueprint for good citizenship."
Laika says "It's my understanding that because Sharia conflicts with the American law of separation of Church and State that Muslims must choose one identity over another."
Any Christian who thinks His laws make a perfect blueprint for secular American citizenship is my kind of Christian. Same for any Muslim or Jew who feels that way. They're also a bunch of hypocrites, in the best sense. Long live that brand of hypocrisy.
Time will tell. I think Abdo and the WaPo are right - and it will get worse.
The fact is that the problem is Islam. The problem is the anger and violence in the Quran and in the life of Islam's prophet - you cannot be against terror and for Mohammed. Think about that. Deny it, pretend it is not there, make excuses, whatever...
You cannot be for freedom and equality AND Islam. The so-called 'moderate' Muslims will always lose to the radicals, because their arguements are stronger. Both Americans and Muslims are sadly mistaken if they think that Islam, democracy and freedom can exist side by side. Muslims who want to believe in a peaceful, benevolent Islam are blind to reality. Look at Islamic societies, if you will. Ask questions. Think.
So Muslims feel alienated? So the problem is airport lines? It is always somebody elses fault, isn't it? Perhaps Muslims have not noticed, but all of us have to wait and endure stupid airport lines - and it isn't because of people named Lee, Wong, Joe or Shikorski or Lopez either. All of us suffer because of a few bad apples - Muslim apples - often named Mohammed. And they still can't figure it out. Why does violence come so easily to Islam?
No, Muslims are not silent, but they are not honest either. Most probably just can't figure it out. I have talked to them and it is sad. Words mean nothing except what they want them to mean. When asked to explain certain verses in the Quran, they go off in a tangent. When asked about vile actions of their prophet you get "You don't understand" "That was then" "bad translation" "out of context" and so on.
People will find out the truth about Islam the hard way. It will get worse.
John Kactuz
In the excerpt you linked to, the author was commenting on what perceptions Fay Weldon would have likely come away with had she actually read the Qu'ran. (sic) Which version are we to read exactly? Are there not many that have entirely different translations than what is available in English?
OK. This is interesting. Say more.
I am no more disturbed by Muslim fanaticism than I am by Christian (Jewish/Buddhist/Hindu) fanaticm. It's all of a piece, racist and intolerent. I don't like fanaticism of any type. People get killed. Kids get killed. If you kill my kids you won't like what happens after that.
America is not about racism or intolerence. Like the sign says, "Love It Or Leave It".
Your links did not address the apostacy issue or the common punishments for the "crime" Banishment, loss of income, loss of family are all just as bad for the normal person and just as much against free choice (not free will) and the free exercise of conscience for muslims wishing to change their religion.
The very existence of any punishment or any pressure applied to the apostate to recant their conversion to another faith completely contradicts the no compulsion verse and this contradictory compulsion comes from the teachings of islams holiest sources.
Yes, i am a new reader but i am by no means a stranger to the arguments of liberal and progressive muslims. I am as unconvinced by the arguments of moderate muslims as I am of extremist ones. Islam is in many ways fundamentally flawed and inimical to true freedom and liberty and morality. That is not to say that it is wholly wrong. Are you picking up on that? I am saying that it has fatal flaws which attest to ita lack of divinity.
If you had also read my comments carefully you would have seen that I made specific reference to famous, prominent, public figures and national groups. Please note that I did not include ordinary individuals.
The silience I speak of was the absence of the use of moral authority and global celebrity among muslims by famous muslims. There were no muslims flying to Rahman's side, spending their celebrity capital in a very visibly way to save the man's life and to declare that it is/was wrong to require the man to flee his own country.
There were no famous muslim mugs standing by the man. That to me is a very telling thing.
BTW, since I may come here now and then, just know that I first learned about islam from muslims themselves. Most of my education in islam was from muslims prior to 9/11. I dont get all my info from places like jihad watch.
Dean, you could possibly avoid the over generalizations regarding someone like myself if you want to start preaching.
Of course, for me personally, it was the Fatwa against Salma Rusdie that I would have gone to war with Iran and the entire Islamic world over.
Freedom of Conscience is the sine qua non of every living human being. To put a bounty on a man's head, to call for his murder, to force him into hiding for 10 years, to burn book stores that dare carry the Satanic Verses...well I've been angry about that ever since.
And there were no Muslim's standing up for Rusdie's freedom to write, either.
It is to be noted that the Fatwa was re-affirmed in 2005 by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a message to Muslim pilgrims making the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
There are things like this that just must be opposed body and soul by every thinking Muslim.
In my humble opinion...lol
Best Wishes, Traveller
Who`s God is this ?
Is it Christian?
Is it Budhist?
Is it Hindu?
or None of the above?
I am a good god,, today i instruct my prophet to go kill 900 men Jews,, then my prophet and his followers take everything the men Jews own including the women,,,if you want to join my religion you can but if you want to leave i get my prophet and his followers to kill you,, If you think i am bad god just shut yer mouth or i kill you,,,,i make a law to keep yer gobs shut,,
If anybody thinks this maybe the (good)god of your religion ,,i would advice you seek help as soon as possible you have obviously been misguided in your up bringing ,,or lied to,, nobody goes to heaven for murder,, including prophets,,,
It's awful hard to cut through the grievance narrative in the WaPo piece to find out what's really going on.
Take the language selected by the writer:
"But the Sept. 11 attacks also had the (dual) effect of making American Muslims feel isolated in their adopted country . . ."
"American Muslims are becoming a people apart."
"Almost without exception, they recall feeling under siege after Sept. 11, with FBI agents raiding their mosques and homes, neighbors eyeing them suspiciously and television programs portraying Muslims as the new enemies of the West."
Really? This 'recollection' (read: rewritten history) doesn't seem to square with the fact that the 'anti-Muslim backlash' was, like the 'brutal Afghan winter,' a media-constructed bogeyman.
On the contrary, any attempt to talk frankly about the source of terrorism led quickly to charges that an entire religion was being tarred.
"But not everyone understood . . ."
Go talk to evangelical or fundamentalist Christians about the way they are "understood" by popular culture and the media.
". . . described the challenges many Muslims face as they carve out their identity in the United States . . ."
As if this were a completely new phenomenon, never faced by other Americans.
". . . Muslims who dared to show pride in their religion in a non-Muslim setting."
No specifics about when or where this was ever discouraged. Again, talk to those offended by the forced removal of their religious identity from public life.
"I don't think Muslims have to assimilate. We are not treated like Americans."
As pure a distillation of the effect of the grievance culture as you're likely to find. No thanks to the media's parroting of CAIR's victimology.
And how, specifically, is this woman not treated like an American? No proof beyond her sense of alienation is offered.
"At work, I get up from my desk and go to pray. I thought I would face opposition from my boss. Even before I realized he didn't mind, I thought, 'I have a right to be a Muslim, and I don't have to assimilate.' "
This is a metaphor for the entire article, in that the presumed grievance was nothing of the kind.
Within the Islamic world, and in MENA primarily, apostasy could have severe consequences and regularly does, however outside of MENA, in the West, South Asia, and even the Islamic island nations in southeast Asia, apostasy does not carry the same weight as it does in MENA. That's not to say that horrible things don't happen and that death threats aren't issued, it's just not nearly as common, even in countries with large Islamic minority populations. The reasons for this could be legal (ie, worried about the consequences that may happen if an apostate is attacked) or environmental (increased levels of religious tolerance / lack of massive peer pressure in an ultra-Islamic area) in nature. I'm not sure which of the two that is.
Whether Islam was forced at the point of the sword is a matter of geography... in some areas, it was, especially in MENA during the great Islamic military expansion after the death of Muhammed; in other areas it was spread primarily via Islamic traders evangelizing. I would say the majority of Muslims today, if their religious family histories were traced back far enough, would far under the latter (most Muslims are located not in MENA, but in South and Southeast Asia).
But then, I'm not a Muslim, so apparently, according to Aziz, I am not allowed to comment on Islamic matters... only Muslims know the truth and unless I convert I know nothing and am irrelevant.
I guess you have never read the Old Testament? Pretty brutal stuff in there, too, just nobody follows it anymore, except for a stray Kahanist here and there.
Heck, just look at what happened to the Amalekites. Not that they didn't deserve it, but still, you're being a bit ignorant here...
As far as the treatment of Jews under Islam is concerned, Aziz is EXTREMELY selective in his choice of links, since that link uses only ONE source for all of their statements. Of course, he tries to justify it because the authors are Jewish, but that's akin to saying that Susan Sontag is right about white people being "the cancer of human history" because she, as a white person, said it. It's totally bogus. There are books out there, I kid you not, that claim that Jews were not mistreated by Hitler. It's bogus, of course; you can't go around selectively quoting just the stuff you want to hear.
I think, in general, treatment of the Jews in Islamic countries was no worse than the treatment of Jews in Christian Europe at the time... sometimes they had it pretty good, other times they were getting expelled and brutalized in pogroms. In medieval Europe, I don't think there was ever a kingdom or state of some sort that didn't expel the Jews or mistreat them at least once. Jews only became protected by the states once they discovered their usefulness, ie, as traders, scholars, and bankers. Christians were not allowed to practice usury back then... Jews were, which gave them vast assets from which to give Christian rulers loans to extend their power. Even once the usefulness of Jews to these states was discovered, it still didn't end anti-Semitism and the pogroms (especially in East Europe and Russia).
I HATE to say this, but I think the hardcore anti-Semitism that we see in the Middle East today can be partly traced back to the founding of Israel; this DOES NOT justify it, but it does give context.
So, I somewhat reject claims that Jews were treated any better or worse in Islamic countries back in the day than in Christian countries... I think, generally, that Jews were not liked at all for almost all of their existence. Unfortunate, yes... although I will say that TODAY, Jews are much better off and safer in Western countries than in Islamic ones. No question about that fact.
Well, we'll see now whether the very tolerant A.P. will delete this post like my last one.
Dean, thank you for my laugh of the week. I followed your link which was going to show that killing apostates is not Islamic practice, and what it said was that the apostate survived BECAUSE HE LIVED IN INDIA.
Had he lived in any country where Islam controls the civil power, he would have been murdered.
Keep trying, guys. I'd LIKE to find a Muslim who frankly condemns murder for apostasy.
You summed up my sentiments after reading the article very neatly.
I wrote to the WaPo article author referring her to your entry & she replied:
"Thank you for writing. This is the subject for a long conversation. But I will say briefly that I was very disappointed with the headline and the Post did simplify my article. My book takes a different approach and the argument presented there is one I think you would agree with. I urge you to read it.
Geneive Abdo"
Her book is Mecca & Main street
It troubles me that journalists may be selectively hearing what Muslim communities have to say and that that is further filtered to fit into what the majority of Americans believe by the editorial process.
I hope you sent your entry in to WaPo as a letter to the editor?
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ST. JOE - The fact that Bellaire is now 6-0 in softball action following a 7-2 triumph over visiting Barnesville Thursday afternoon is sweet.
However, the fact that veteran head coach Melissa Lahna recorded her 100th victory made the win on the Bellaire Middle School diamond even sweeter.
"It's not about me at all," Lahna downplayed the milestone after being presented with a cake and a sign signifying 100 wins, which drew tears to her eyes. "It's about all of the girls that have played for me in the past and the present."
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BARNESVILLE CATCHER Blair Thompson concentrates as she tags Bellaire's Megan Ging out at the plate Thursday night. Ging was trying to score on a fly out, but was doubled up. The Big reds won, 7-2, however, to go to 6-0.
Bellaire, which is off to its best start in quite some time, didn't waste any time in jumping ahead. Winning pitcher Megan Ging ignited a first-inning outburst with a 1-out walk. She went to second on a wild pitch and scooted to third when Mary Garloch struck out, but reached first when the ball got away from the catcher.
On the first pitch to Mackenzie Conroy, Garloch broke for second and drew the throw as Ging started for home. The throw was cutoff and relayed back to the plate, but Ging scored on the back-end of the double steal to make it 1-0. Garloch came around on Conroy's bad-hop double to center for a 2-0 lead.
The Shamrocks (1-3) finally solved Ging when Marrissa Burga drilled a solid 1-out single to left in the top of the third. She was sacrificed to second and went to third when Paige Gibbons' grounder was misplayed.
Barnesville then executed its own double steal as Gibbons swiped second and Burga sprinted home.
It looked as though the Big Reds would add to their margin when Ging led off the bottom of the third with a single to center. The ball skipped past the centerfielder as Ging raced around to third. Garloch's fly ball to left wasn't deep enough to score Ging as Hunter Weiss's throw to catcher Blair Thompson just beat the runner on a bang-bang play.
A 4-run fourth bumped the count to 6-1. Taylar Canter struck out but reached when the ball got away leading off. Elisha Gillespie singled and Megan Maffe walked to load the bases. Canter scored on Morgan Runyan's single to center. Gillespie sprinted home on a wild pitch. Maffe crossed the plate on Dallas Messenger's single to left and Runyan accounted for the final run of the frame when she raced home on an error.
A groundout by Weiss chased home P. Gibbons in the seventh. Gibbons led off with a double to the fence in right-center.
Messenger reached on a bunt single with one out in the bottom of the sixth. She would round the bases on Ging's triple to deep center.
Despite the setback, Barnesville head coach Matt Johnson is pleased with his team's progress.
"We've only been outside four days, but everyone is going through that," he said. "But when we come to play and play defense, we'll be alright. I like where we are at right now."
Ging finished with five strikeouts and no walks. She allowed four hits.
"We're playing really good ball right now," Lahna said. "Our hitting has been our weakness thus far, but today it picked up."
Bellaire will remain at home today as Monroe Central visits for a 4:30 p.m. twinbill. Barnesville hosts Caldwell today.
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~Cupid's Valentine Exchange~ - 01-31-2010, 07:57 PM
I see that the month of Love has arrived again, along with plenty of new faces! For those who do not know, I am Cupid and I am making a special visit here to host the first annual Valentine Exchange event!
What is the Valentine Exchange event?
This event was born from the Secret Santa concept which started Christmas of '08 to help bring the forums together as a community. It went very well with only a few drop outs, so it is being introduced for the month of February to bring some Love and happiness into all of our Valentines day!
Basically, you sign up in this thread and I will assign you a person to make a personal Valentine for once sign ups are done. It can be anything--a doll, pixel art, drawings, graphics... You decide, but you must keep in mind that this is about giving and it should be something the other person will appreciate and enjoy.
How does the event work?
There are some steps to the process, so make sure you pay attention! Please only sign up if you are certain you have the time for this event.
1. Sign up for the event in this thread. Basically, post! In that post you should indicate that you want to participate and include a small list(3-4 items) of things you like. Examples would be "the colour gold", "Lady GaGa", "50s fashion", etc. This list should be reasonable for all users! Also, if you are interested, you can volunteer to be a Cherub (Cupids Helpers) as well in the event someone backs out.
2. Once sign ups close, you will be assigned a person to make a gift for. It is recommended that you look at their list of things here so you can make a nice personal gift, although genric Valentines are acceptable as well. To emphaszie, please do not make Valentines before you are assigned! Some people did this in the SS events and it really loses its personal touch if you do.
3. Once you are done, send your Valentine to me through PM! If you don't know how to do this, ask any of the staff members and they will be happy to point you to threads about it or even explain it personally. Also, please make sure your Valentine is hosted on a reliable image host. This would be like photobucket or imageshack. I do not save the Valentines, so if yours goes missing(is deleted, moved, etc), you may have to remake it or one of our special Cherubs may have to step in.
4. Once I get all of the Valentines, I send them out! Everyone can then gush here about their Valentines and try to guess who was their Secret Valentine. You don't have to tell who you had if you don't want to though.
What happens if I need to back out? Can I help if other people can't make their Valentines?
There is a special group of people who will step in to make sure your assigned person still gets a gift. Anyone can sign up to be a "Cherub" when they sign up for the event, though hopefully we will not have to do this.
Important Dates!
January 31st-Valentine Exchange begins; Sign ups can start!
February 6th-Sign ups to participate end! Special exceptions may be made within reason, so contact me in PM if you fall outside this date.
February 7th-Assignments are handed out; Valentine making begins!
February 12th-All gifts are due!
February 13th-Cherubs are asked to step in to make Valentines. There is a 24hr or less time limit, so be sure to be online this day and have time to make Valentines if you want to be a Cherub!
February 14th-Valentines are sent out and gushing begins.
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When I click manage permission button in ecb menu in a list a new user.aspx page is opened. I want to open this page in modal dialog. How can I do it? I know about msdn and this solutions, but the second doesn't work for me. I want to open user.aspx page in modal dialog only for one application page.
This should get you going.
Here try this site http://kancharla-sharepoint.blogspot.com/2012/07/sharepoint-model-dialog-from-ribbon.html
Here is how I have done it in the past:
1)Include a script on your page which will attach a custom "click" event on all the ECB buttons (the ones with the downward arrow image). The class you can use as selector for the ECB button is
2) Inside that custom event, write another function which will look for the "Manage Permissions" span with id as
The way this will work is that the ECB menu is loaded on the page only after the ECB button is clicked. So we will be able to get it using jQuery only after the click event of the ECB is fired.
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Barnesville Hospital lays off 17
June 28, 2013
BARNESVILLE — Seventeen members of the Barnesville Hospital staff are now on the hunt for new jobs as the hospital was forced to make a staff reduction....
This establishment has been overstaffed for years. Do you realize that at times they have only 8 to 10 admitted patients? If you go out there as a visitor or client, you will see staff tripping over each other, visiting , and snacking.
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Thank your current Washington Administration for this. You fools voted him in. First our coal mining jobs and now health professionals. Don't act surprises people, we all knew it was coming. That is everyone except the liberals with their heads in the sand. And it's only going to get worse so be ready for it.
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Why is a privately owned form profit hospital dependent on the government? Maybe it's time some did cut the purse strings.
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Unanswered: Extjs Chart in the example not available
When you look the chart examples, there's one I'm very interested in but when you select this one it shows up another chart and I can't find anywhere an example of how to do it.
The example I'm talking about is called Theme line charts: we see a chart at the top composed by different colours. I would need this one, but I can't find anything about it.
Anyone knows if it has already been developed ?
8 Dec 2012 4:48 AM #2
all the examples also have code. you can click on View Source link on the example and look at the ExtJS code. this might help you in implementing the chart for yourself.
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There is no interest to look the code as i already said before when you click on the link to see the example called thème chart it displays something different...


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Can the drama of Tuesday's Barca-fest be captured here on Wednesday.
First, in what today can be considered a junior competition, Everton faces of with Birmingham in the Barclays Premiership. Birmingham is steaming having dropped only one game since they got thrashed by Manchester United, 5-0, back in late January.
A tough challenge here at Goodison for the Toffees as captain Phil Neville is out, as are central middies Tim Cahill and Fellaini (out for the rest of the campaign). Jack Rodwell will need to step and play big for Tim Howard's friends to hold serve at home.
In the undercard–as we sit–it's Schalke vs. Valencia in Bavaria. Unfortunately, the story here is still the cliched Raul vs. the Spanish as the graying forward has been putting it together for the up-and-down Schalke side.
Meanwhile, Valencia has been rocketing through La Liga play with a recent 1-0 loss to Barca the only blemish on their record over the last three weeks.
With Schalke tenuously clinging to a slight away goal advantage in a 1-1 draw a few weeks ago in Spain, and Valencia welcoming back both David Albelda and Joaquin, the Germans are going to have to muster every bit of collective pride to take down Valencia even though they're home.
Do they care to not see their coach Felix McGrath in the papers for the wrong reason Thursday?
And the marquee match-up: Milan vs. Tottenham.
Oh what festivities await. Easy to argue that both Gareth Bale and Spurs have been better–and perhaps the most entertaining team not from Catalan–in the Champion's League.
A slug-it-out, drag-it-down affair last time, saw Mathieu Flamini two-foot Vedran Corluka putting him out of commission for a short lunar cycle (and draw the ire of The Shin Guardian).
An odd strategy by Milan, trying to make it an ugly match at home, and it didn't work as the San Siro saw Spurs leave as victors. Since then, the Rossoneri have been surging and they'll need to fire on the road to move on.
As for the Londoners, they'll likely continue with the same game plan albeit with different pieces. Last time out, Tottenham played through Aaron Lennon who, like a boxer repeatedly shooting jabs at the side of his opponent, continually flummoxed of Luca Antonini on the Spurs' right flank. Lennon's play pushed Milan back and ultimately decided the game.
This time, the Spurs add visionary Rafael Van Der Vaart to the attack and, if Bale's back healthy, you have to like the home sides chances of spreading the field even further and finding their way through, despite a sub-standard striking ability. (Yes, Jermain Defoe had two goals against Wolverhampton this past weekend, but he missed a few sitters that could have earned the victory away.)
It will be interesting to see how Milan counter in the absence of Gennaro Guttuso, suspended quite frankly for being an idiot, and needing to attack. You'll likely see Pato introduced as he and Robinho try to catch the Spurs on a counter when they give up possession on the flanks.
The one to watch, even though TSG expects Spurs to prevail.
By the way, Spurs fans, why isn't Roman Pavlyuchenko either a star or more favored by Harry Rednapp? He's got the game "just missed" complex, as the rest of the Spurs' strikers, but his first touch to open up his shooting foot might be the best, or near the best, in the Premiership.


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The Importance of Chores
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Here's the reality, and American society's dirty little secret-many kids don't learn how to wash their clothes, cook a meal, mow a lawn, make a bed, or even effectively wash a dish until they've moved out of the house. (In other words, you're not the only one with a demanding slug for a child!) Yet, most people agree that kids do benefit from having a role in the daily operations of the family.
Figuring out the right amount of responsibility is a balancing act. Kids work very hard. Between schoolwork, learning to deal with social situations, and, for many kids, their many extracurricular involvements, kids have very little "down" time. They need a chance to play, relax, daydream, nap. At the same time, teaching children life skills (and I'm talking kids of both sexes here, by the way) has a number of benefits:
It's a Good Idea!
Think about the benefits of family responsibilities as more than just learning survival skills. It's the participation that matters. Participating in family responsibilities helps a child develop essential social skills.
- A person who enters college, or an independent living situation, with life skills will have a far easier time living with roommates.
- Family responsibilities teach basic discipline.
- The skills learned from having family responsibilities include time management, prioritizing tasks, and general organizational abilities.
- With family participation, the parents don't have to slave their life away serving the royal offspring.
- Most importantly, the child understands that he is part of a community (your family) and that as a member of the community, he needs to share responsibilities to keep the community going.
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7 Memes That Went Viral Before The Internet Existed
#3. The Three Hares
Of course, all of these examples so far are from the modern, globalized world, where planes and inexpensive travel allow people and ideas to spread overnight. But there are memes that predate all of that. Go back 1,500 years or so ago, and at some point you'll probably come across LOLcats' great-great-great-grandfather, the three hares.
Via Wikipedia/Stefan Flöper
Memes then were just as funny as they are now.
A very popular image that was probably spawned during the Sui Dynasty in China, the three hares is an image of, well, three hares, chasing one another in a circle with their ears attached in the kind of lame optical illusion that entertained people back then.
Via David Singmaster
Cave 407, Dunhuang, China, Sui Dynasty, 589-618
The image broke out of China and spread, where it eventually became a popular architectural feature in medieval Europe.
Via Zefram
Paderborn, Germany
Eventually it ended up in Britain, where it became such a viral sensation that it started popping up on buildings every damn where. Fifteen centuries later, they're still sticking it on buildings.
This really demonstrates the amazing ability of simple images to persist across time and cultures. Imagine you get cryogenically frozen, and when you wake up, it's the year 3,568. Humans have colonized other solar systems. We are flying with bioengineered wings and storing our consciousness on embedded neural processors. All goods are manufactured instantly with superintelligent nanobots. And then you walk by a building and see that the Rage Face Guy is etched into the bricks:
But that's not even our oldest example ...
#2. Abracadabra
You probably learned this word alongside "alakazam" back when you got that amateur magic kit for your eighth birthday. Watch any cartoon where the character is about to pull a rabbit out of a top hat, and he'll preface the magic trick with "Abracadabra!"
Moments later things got X-rated.
But what the hell does it mean?
Well, this nonsense word has been repeated as a sort of running joke going all the way back to the freaking Roman Empire. And yes, it originally was used as a real magic word by magicians back in the day.
"Abracadabra" is first attributed in print to Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, a second/third century Roman sage/white wizard who reported on its healing properties. The idea was that if you said "abracadabra" multiple times in succession, dropping one letter each time, by the end you would be cured of whatever ailed you. Kind of like saying "Bloody Mary" in the mirror, except with less grisly death.
Apparently, even this spell was deemed too demanding for Gandalf's lazy ass.
The etymology of this nonsense word is difficult to pin down, but a popular theory is that it began as the Aramaic avda kedavra, which roughly translates into "create as I say." Wait, isn't that the spell from Harry Potter that kills people?
#1. The Sator Square
And now we arrive at probably the oldest meme in history, and it's interesting to note that it's every bit as nonsensical as "all your base are belong to us."
Via Eusebius
You all just got ancient-world rickrolled.
The phrase "SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS" roughly translates to "The sower is at the plow," but nobody has cracked a better translation because we don't know what "arepo" means. Keeping with the theme, we're going to go with "cheezburger."
The phrase is a palindrome and can be read in any direction, including upside down and backward, so our best guess is that some Roman simply thought he was incredibly clever, and the rest of the ancient world thought it was cool enough to continue sharing with strangers ... for the next 2,000 years.
In Oppede, France ...
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... and Cirencester, England ...
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... and the Abbey of St. Peter ad Oratorium in Capestrano, Italy ...
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...and [Unknown],circa 323 B.C.-A.D. 256...
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Maybe the true meaning of this is something incredibly insightful, but we're rather more convinced it was just mindless trolls from old-timey IVchan playing pranks on the world.
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What exactly is Latin Dance Fitness? Latin Dance Fitness is a fitness trend that is growing in popularity and a great way to get in shape for the summer. Find out the history behind this trend, as well as some basic Latin Dance Fitness moves to get you started!
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Cliques and Fitting In
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There is a difference between social acceptance and personal acceptance. Finding one's personal identity is different than living with one's social identity. To distinguish between the two during early adolescence, kids need their parents' guidance.
The "Who am I?" quest is a personal assignment. What the peer group decrees is not the final verdict. "Who are you?" is a process of self-discovery.
Being alone -- not part of a clique -- is a reality that our sons and daughters likely are not comfortable with during early adolescence. It's up to us to help make them more comfortable. Talk about individual goals and performance. Inspire self-discovery. Define integrity as personal character and living according to a code of values. Integrity and personal dignity are commodities that cannot be taken away by anyone, even the most popular or powerful peer.
Social acceptance is another important issue for young adolescents. In your talks, your middle-schooler should get the message that "fitting in" actually hinges on conformity.
To your child, peers are the jury. But while he may often feel like the plaintiff, he is really the judge. While your child struggles with this need to belong and wrestles with balancing his personal and social selves, you can provide an invaluable framework. Your family, your home life, your child's bedroom -- these are domains that also deliver that sense of belonging he craves. Belonging counts, but so does personal acceptance. A child needs both.
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This solve works in normal python console application but when i using in Google App Engine Project it isn't work because Google App Engine can't find some functions in urllib.
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I have a set of images of up to 20mb each, and I want to reduce the file size without losing quality.
How can I do it?
I have a set of images of up to 20mb each, and I want to reduce the file size without losing quality.
How can I do it?
Reducing the size is possible if your 20mb images are in an uncompressed format (RAW, BMP etc.). If you need to maintain the quality, you will need to use a so-called lossless compressor such as TIFF with LZW, PNG etc. JPEG will remove information and therefor also quality.
If you mean reducing the pixel size of an image it will always remove information, hence also remove quality. So this is not possible. You can apply techniques such as sharpening convolution to make it appear as if it is the same quality, but technically it will not be.
In either case you can create a batch script in Photoshop to do this for you. There are plenty of resources and tutorials on the net for this, so I won't write a new one. But have a look at for example this one:
Additionally, if you need this for storage purposes (I didn't get that impression, but this can serve as a tip), look into the open-source (and free) 7-zip compressor. This can compress any file type, but will also compress none-JPEG image files a little more as well as allowing you to use encryption on the resulting archive. Ideal for transporting in the cloud.
Simply put, you can't.
Imagine you have a dumpster full of tennis balls. You want to take all those tennis balls and put them into a 50 gallon barrel. They simply won't all fit. This holds true for pixels in images. In order for the image to fit into a smaller container, you're going to have to discard some pixels (information).
Now you may be able to reduce the container size with an acceptable amount of loss. For example, if you have a 20MB image in .tiff format. You may be able to save that image as a jpg set to 12 quality and find the resulting jpg, while much smaller, appears very much the same as the tiff.
In general, saving an image as a jpg with the highest quality setting will dramatically reduce the files size. While using the jpg format will in fact throw away image data, at the highest quality setting that data is often an aceptable loss.
Just be aware you can only do this once. Never, ever, save a jpg image as a jpg again. You immediately start drastically degrading any image when you do so.
In reality there's not a whole lof of information provided in your question - current format, image uses, types of images, are you editing the images, source of the images..... The actual question mentions 'resolution' but your post only refers to 'size'.
If the images are in JPEG or PNG format, then you can use lossless image optimizers such as
Those tools re-compress images and spend extra CPU time to apply heavier compression. With 20MB files this could take several minutes per file though.
Try the SuperPNG plugin for Photoshop.
On Mac there's ImageOptim that combines all those tools. For Linux there's Trimage and for Windows punypng web service.
In short, you can't. What you can do though is:
If you have images in a loss-less format (like TIFF), you could try compressing the PSD file (ZIP is ok, but BZ2 should do a better job).
https://tinypng.com/ works great by reducing unseen color data.
use InDesign..it helps me better always
best, gauri
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I have a series of points representing animal observations. Many of them overlap, having the exact same coordinates, and this is causing me trouble when I want to run some analytical tools which requite no identical points. I was wondering if there's any tool that can add some "noise" to the coordinates, that's to say, adding some random decimal values at the end in order to obtain slightly different coordinates which are still close enough in space so as to not really modify the observation. I've heard about such a tool, but I can't find it, at least in ArcGis 10. Maybe there's another software that can do it? Thanks!
The Generate Conditional Random Points tool from Geospatial Modelling Environment should do the job for you. If you specify the
Alternately a similar operation can be performed from within ArcGIS standard commands if you have an ArcInfo or Spatial Analyst or 3D Analyst license;
I think you could do it simply in the attribute table. Firstly add fields with existing X and Y coordinates (if you don't have them already) by Add XY Coordinates (Data Management tools). Then you can add a new field and using Field calculator turned to Python you can create random values which you wish by the arcgis.rand() function (described in the help Calculate Field (Data Management) and Create Random Value Generator). Then you just add two new fields X_rand, Y_rand and calculate them adding or subtracting these random numbers from initial X and Y.
Here is a quick python script which uses arcpy and python's random number generator to create an X and Y coordinate field in the dataset and then add a small random value to each coordinate value.


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I need to edit my OpenOffice documents.
Is there any version of LibreOffice for Android?
Is there any ODT texteditor app for Android?
I need to edit my OpenOffice documents.
Is there any version of LibreOffice for Android?
Is there any ODT texteditor app for Android?
There is AndrOpen Office
Currently there is not a single solution on Android for editing ODF files. But keep your heads up: The LibreOffice team is working hard on an Android version of the entire office suite!
Though this is already "old news", and has been heard about for at least half a year, the screenshots look very promising -- at least with a tablet in mind.
Which leaves us with the question: When Libre Office will be available for Android Smartphones? If you read the information on the linked page (which hopefully will be updated with more details when available), it very much looks like the standard Debian answer: It's ready when it's ready.
Strictly speaking, not really an ODT editor, but Google Docs accepts ODT and you can edit Google Docs on Android. The file would have to be converted to Google Docs internal format then exported back to ODT though.
Zoho Writer seems to support viewing & editing ODT files (only tested with a very simple document):
Though it seems to work awkwardly:
OpenDocument Reader is worth checking out. It will be really good but the save function doesn't work yet. They are still working on it so when that gets updated it will be far better than AndrOpen as the interface isn't cluttered so you can actually type on it easily! You will be able to then save to dropbox, Google Drive, your email or where ever...
update: not sure the programmers are ever going to fix it. They seem a bit odd.
A Quick note, default app on android phone such as "QickOffice" should work. try opening the doc as 'open As' then select quick office if available on your device.


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I know what my symbol or character looks like, but I don't know what the command is or which math alphabet it came from. How do I go about finding this out?
The above techniques provide an adequate way of finding symbols but are not necessarily foolproof since you sometimes need to know what you're looking for in order to find it. For example, in Typing Following notation in Latex it may not be apparent that "vector fields in differential geometry" are somehow related to "bowties". To that end, searching for a symbol rotated 90 degrees or flipped horizontally, say, might lead you in the right direction.
Theres lots of ways of doing this, but the two I've found to be most useful are these:
The old school way is to look it up in the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List (warning: 4 MB PDF file).
The new hotness is to use DeTeXify which uses handwriting recognition to look the symbol up for you.
DeTeXify even comes in an iPhone/Andriod app- you can get a free version or pay for one. The only difference is that with the paid app you are making a donation to the developer- the feature set is exactly the same.
The author is planning to work on a mobile version of the website that will supplant these apps.
I often look up the relevant topic on Wikipedia, (e.g. Set theory) and look at the source there. Wikipedia uses LaTeX for math markup as well.
For uncommon symbols, instead of search documentation on-line or in a big PDF to find packages and commands to include in my code, I have found useful sometimes to compile the whole table of characters of a font (even in the working document) to quickly find, for example, the skull of the
You can also search for a skull the in Comprehensive LaTeX symbols list, or paint a skull in Detexify, or remember the easy command "
There's also an iPhone app for Detexify, which I've used occasionally, for some reason ...
Links (on the US iTunes App Store): free version and supporter version ($0.99, same functionality).
I've just come across this list http://milde.users.sourceforge.net/LUCR/Math/unimathsymbols.pdf which lists characters using unicode numbers, their representation, and their (La)TeX command, together with other useful information.
Here's a random sample of what it looks like:
This reference has yet to fail me; it has all the symbols typeset along with the
Direct link to the online service
This service allows classification by drawing (even works on mobile devices!) and by text:
Some information
The handwriting recognition toolkit (
The installation is explained in the documentation. If you have trouble or have an idea how to improve it, just leave a comment or write an email (email@example.com).
This is a part of my bachelor's thesis. The thesis, some presentations and links to all software projects are on http://martin-thoma.com/write-math/
The LaTeX wikibook Mathematics section has been very helpful for me.
Some utilities for lookup symbols in Unicode:
I use the Daum Equation editor then just copy and paste the code at the bottom (you can specify Tex,LaTeX, etc.) and even favourite the equations/symbols to avoid having to re-look them up every time you use them. Not sure if they have EVERY symbol, but it has been a good reference for me so far!
In case you are using TeXstudio or Texmaker, you can browse the built-in catalog of symbols and find the symbol you need in the appropriate category of symbols (see the image below). It is very convenient, as by clicking on the symbol it gets automatically inserted into your document.
Moreover, if you're using TeXstudio on Windows, you can use
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