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On hand for SeaComm's recent donation to Fort de La Présentation were, from left, Fort de La Présentation Board Director Dallas Robinson, SeaComm Branch Manager Danielle Uppstrom, and Fort de La Présentation Board Director Marsha Hough. Photo submitted by SeaComm.
OGDENSBURG -- SeaComm Federal Credit Union recently donated $1,000 to Fort de La Présentation in Ogdensburg.The funds will be used to support the upcoming events taking place throughout Founder's Day weekend, July 20 and 21.
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The hunter is now the hunted.
Zoey Daniels is becoming the very thing she once despised. Fae.
After Zoey and Ryker finally found their way to each other they are torn apart by an ex-girlfriend, a stone, and mortality. Ryker's powers have fully adapted to Zoey, slowly killing him.
Now the mysterious feared demon, Vadik, has discovered their location in Peru and has taken Ryker and sold Zoey back to DMG. The very place which gave her life now might take it away. Or someone she loves… Dr. Rapava is so obsessed with building an army against the fae he will do anything to control Zoey and her new found powers.
Zoey's has to become an unfeeling brainwashed soldier to survive. But when her survival depends on torturing one to keep another alive, she is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice.
She grew up in Northern California, where she ran around on her family's farm, raising animals, riding horses, playing flashlight tag, and turning hay bales into cool forts. She volunteers helping animals and is eco-friendly. She feels all animals, people, and environment should be treated kindly.
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In addition to the economic analysis, CHPA released a survey of primary-care doctors. A vast majority — 88 percent — said they recommend that patients try over-the-counter drugs and other at-home treatments before turning to a professional.
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This book is another nail in the coffin of evolution that I think most evolutionists scientists would prefer not to acknowledge. After reading my review you will understand why.
Danzil Monk
Dr. David L. Abel is without a doubt one of the greatest scientific thinkers of our day. An experienced researcher in the fields of Molecular Biology and Information Systems and Management, he is the father of the scientific disciplines of ProtoBioCybernetics and ProtoBioSemiotics and the director of the worldwide Gene Emergence Project. Indeed, he is an extraordinary life-origin specialist.
This book makes it clear why he is established as a champion of true science thought and a nightmare to those who would pollute real science thinking with naturalistic agendas.
The introduction alone will no doubt send chills down the spines those who for many years have striven to separate and ignore the relationship between the question of origin and the story telling upon which some so called "science" is based. In the introduction he makes this gripping statement:
"Why would a prebiotic environment have "cared" whether anything functioned? How could inanimate nature have recognized, valued, pursued or worked to preserve the "usefulness" of certain molecules? Undirected evolution has no goal. Natural selection favors only the fittest already-programmed, already-living organisms. Evolution cannot program at the genetic level.
"Survival of the fittest" does not explain the generation of the very first organism, fit or unfit.
Even bacteria depend upon highly integrated circuits and metabolic schemes regulated by DNA instructions and RNA controllers. Genomic prescriptive information is now known to be multidimensional. How did thousands of molecular machines, biochemical pathways and cycles get integrated into such a sustained, cooperative, goaloriented, holistic metabolism? Can physico-chemical propensities and/or mutations program logic gates and integrate circuits? How could chance and/or necessity (the fixed laws of physics) have computed the formal algorithms needed to organize life?
While some scientists might wish to sweep these questions under the rug for being too "metaphysical," they are as foundational to the science of biology as mathematics is to physics. Addressing such questions is the only path to understanding the emergence of the first genetic instructions, metabolic regulation, and life itself."
If the introduction does not sufficiently grip those guilty of polluting science with pseudo-science and out right deception, while at the same time giving hope to those sincere science advocates who have been discouraged by the prominence of just so stories being pushed as science, then Dr. Abel's dedication should serve as both a potent warning of what is to follow as well as a word of encouragement:
"This anthology is dedicated to all those challengers of Kuhnian Paradigm Ruts who risk their careers and reputations raising an eyebrow of skepticism over theories that are pontificated to be fact by a thoroughly entrenched hierarchy and majority, but which are in fact unfalsifiable, completely unsubstantiated empirically, lacking a single prediction fulfillment, and not even logically defensible."
This powerful statement is promptly followed by a Table of Contents that would convince the hostile scientist who does not want to be convinced to read no further and just claim ignorance of the book's existence, while inspiring the true seeker of origins understanding to set aside some quality time to take this journey.
The chapter titles are:
1. What is ProtoBioCybernetics?
2. The Three Fundamental Categories of Reality
3. The Cybernetic Cut and Configurable Switch (CS) Bridge
4. What utility does order, pattern or complexity prescribe?
5. Sequence Complexity in Biopolymers
6. Linear Digital Material Symbol Systems (MSS)
7. The Genetic Selection (GS) Principle
8. The Birth of Protocells
9. Examining specific life-origin models for plausibility
10. What might be a protocell's minimal "genome"?
However, the chapter titles do not give the best hint of what the reader will be exposed to; it is the five to seventeen subtitles in each chapter that really tells the reader how extensive this examination will be. Some of the subtitles are: "Chance Contingency", "Constraints vs. Controls", "Laws vs. Rules", "Exploring the birth of Control", "What is Complexity?", "Pattern vs. Noise", "Structure vs. Chaos", "What about Neural nets?", "Functional Sequence Complexity", "Is the hypothesis of self-organized emergence falsifiable?", "Emergence of spontaneous controls", "What is the Cybernetic Cut?", "Can spontaneous combinatorial complexity generate organization?", "Genetics is a linear digital Material Symbol System", "Can a computer analogy be applied to life?", "Physical Science Limitations" and "Is Physicality chaotic or organized?".
Having given fair warning to the reader, Dr. Abel and his colleagues, (Dr. Donald E. Johnson, Chapter 10, Dr. Kirk K. Durston & Dr. David K.Y. Chiu, Chapter 5), embarks on an amazing exploration and examination of the question of origins with an insight and frankness that is both refreshing and gratifying and which offers a level of edification far too rarely seen in this field of science.
In the introduction he states:
"Evolution theory is quick to offer an explanatory model for how existing Prescriptive Information (PI) in genomes could have been progressively modified:
Extremely rare beneficial genetic mutations can occur and be preserved through differential survival and reproduction of the fittest phenotypic organisms.
Painfully lacking within evolution theory, however, is an explanation for how any Prescriptive Information (PI) got written or programmed into the genome in the first place. The origin of initial genetic/genomic instructions and epigenomic regulation is typically side-stepped by life-origin science. The whole point of The Origin of Life PrizeTM was to stimulate research specifically into this neglected area. After over a decade of submissions to the Origin of Life PrizeTM, no submission has made it past the first tier of naturalistic scientists screening the submissions and judging their relevance.
The origin of control and regulation in nature is the subject of this anthology. It is also the focus of a new scientific discipline known as
ProtoBioCybernetics. "Cybernetics" is the study of various means of steering and organizing controls, not just the effects of mere physicodynamic constraints....
A closely related new field is ProtoBioSemiotics. Controlling messages would have had to be sent, received and understood at their destination in any early protocellular metabolic scheme or system. Constructive controlling messages are meaningful and functional. Such messages steer events toward computational success or algorithmic optimization; they are not just meaningless, redundant, extremely low-informational signals such as pulsars give off.
How did a prebiotic natural environment of mere mass/energy interactions generate meaningful, functional messages? How did chance and necessity prescribe the ability of the receiver to follow arbitrary rules required for decoding? How could the laws of physics and chemistry have enabled molecules to understand linguistic-like symbol systems, and act on such messages within the first protocells? This is the subject of ProtoBioSemiotics.
This anthology specifically addresses questions that for all too long have been swept under the rug of honest scientific investigation. The result has been prolonged entrapment in the greatest Kuhnia paradigm rut in the history of science."
As demonstrated above Dr. Abel seems unafraid to boldly address issues that have been rendered taboo by many in the scientific community. This lack of intimidation is further evident in statements as this on page 28:
"Chance and necessity are completely inadequate to describe the most important elements of what we repeatedly observe in intra-cellular life, especially. Science must acknowledge the reality and validity not only of a very indirect, post facto natural selection, but of purposeful selection for potential function as a fundamental category of reality. To disallow purposeful selection renders the practice of mathematics and science impossible."
This is an amazing acknowledgement coming from a prominent (in my opinion) member of the science community.
On page 33 we fine another example of Dr. Abel's bold frankness and piercing insight as he states:
"Choice Contingent Causation (CCC) can generate extraordinary degrees of unique functionality that has never been observed to arise from randomness or necessity. Highly pragmatic choice contingency is consistently associated with purposeful steering toward potential utility.
The kind of contingency associated with sophisticated cybernetic function is invariably associated with what philosophers of science call "agency." The hallmark of agency is the ability to voluntarily pursue and choose for potential function. Potential means "not yet existent." If anything is repeatedly observable in science, it is abundant evidence of agency's unique ability to exercise formal CCC in generating potential formal functionality.
The only exception to human agency's unique ability to do this is life itself, which is of course what produces agency. Life itself is utterly dependent upon cybernetic programming--a phenomenon never observed independent of agency. Thus we are confronted with still another chicken-and-egg dilemma of life-origin science. Whatever the resolution of this riddle, one thing is for certain. We are forced to consider two kinds of contingency, 1) Chance contingency and
2) Choice contingency as fundamental categories of reality along with law-like necessity."
On page 307, the end of chapter 8 where Dr. Abel's masterfully examines "The Birth of Protocells", he asks this question:
"By what supposedly "natural" process did inanimate nature generate phenomena like
1) A genetic representational sign/symbol/token system?
2) Bona fide decision nodes and logic gates (as opposed to just random "bifurcation points")?
3) Physicodynamically-indeterminate (dynamically inert, incoherent) configurable switch-settings that instantiate functional "choices" into physicality?
4) formal operating system and the hardware on which to run suchsoftware?
5) an abstract encoding/decoding system jointly intelligible to both source and destination?
6) many-to-one Hamming "block codes" (triplet-nucleotide codons prescribing each single amino acid) used to reduce the noise pollution in the Shannon channel of genetic messages?
7) the ability to achieve functional computational success in the form of homeostatic metabolism?
His conclusion:
"All of these attributes of life are nonphysical and formal, not physical and natural. They cannot have a materialistic, naturalistic explanation."
While the book, (529 pages), is a fascinating read, it is clearly not for everyone. In fact only scientists and science educators or the true lovers of science will even bother to work their way through it.
Although the book contains a helpful glossary that defines and expounds on many of the technical terms used, it may still be quite difficult for someone unfamiliar with the language to get through with any real comprehension without reading each paragraph several times, (With the glossary nearby).
Be that as it may, what Dr. David L. Abel and his colleagues have accomplished by producing a book like "The First Gene" is opened the wound of evolution ever wider and more completely exposed the infectious cancer of the science community. While it may take time for the benefit of this work to trickle down to the layman and the general public, it will surely cause massive reactions within the science community (if they bother to review and discuss it), not only enlightening many scientists who are still hypnotized by the rhetoric of evolution in the science magazines, documentaries and textbooks, but also challenging those who are the gatekeepers of the "Kuhnian Paradigm Ruts".
Pure science research and analysis reporting by competent, reputable scientists has always been the greatest nightmare and the most potent enemy of falsely named science and those who knowingly propagate it.
Dr. David Abel and company has done the science community a great service with this brilliant work. I can only imagine the outcry and praise that is sure to follow.
Will it be the last word on the origins issue? Definitely not, but you can be sure that its conclusions will not be scientifically refuted. Given the complexity and other extensive aspects of what constitutes life, scientists will work in vain to come up with a better explanation for life than GOD.
The First Gene: The Birth of Programming, Messaging and Formal Control (Paperback)
(LongView Press TM-Academic Biological Research Division New York, N.Y.)
© Copyright 2020 Danzil. All rights reserved.
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Definition of a Cult
Originally, the word "cult" suggested worship and was not pejorative. In modern usage the word took on negative connotations. The critical meaning of cult is, I believe, in part the result of the mental development of humanity, where the mind begins to see devotion in its glamorous or illusory expression. Humanity turns toward the external, complicating the problem. We humans, in this devotional cycle, become hero worshipers and sadly, often in the sense of idol worship.
The pure devotion of the soul descends into the personality, becoming superficially ritualistic, superstitious, exaggerated, and exclusive–in other words, we become false and cultish. Even the word "cult" itself is used in a cultish way, e.g. a cult is what we call the religious brainwashing down the street from where we receive our own religious brainwashing. "Wash" is the apt term, because water is the symbol of emotionalism.
Group-think is strong. Reflecting on the list of attributes of cults, one might ask, "Are not most religions and new age movements cults?" Have we not all struggled through life under the binding spell of one cult or another?" We can look at this question in the light of useful concept: degrees. Applying it, we see there are not two categories: "cult" and "not a cult." Rather we find that a great deal of human activity, particularly in the religious, metaphysical, and political fields, is cultish to some degree. And the presence, to some degree, of one or a few cult-like attributes–and especially the less crucial ones–would not be justification for the strong label of "cult." As an exercise in critical thought, we could rate a given movement, assessing the prominence of each cultish tendency, on a ten-point scale.
The Size and Age of Cults
Some definitions of "cult" relate the word to small groups, but it is not the smallness of the group that is determinative, but smallness of mind. There is tendency to think of cults as relatively small groups or minor swirls of activity within human society but sometimes small groups can be closer to the truth than large ones. So size is not always relevant to cult status–there are large and small cults, and very new and very ancient ones. Society may perceive a cult as something always outside normal or established human society, but large and long established cults also exist as an accepted part of society, even while not recognized as such by most people. Actually, numerous large cults are imbedded in the fabric of accepted society. Some of these have benevolent and attractive aspects, but careful thought shows how the dark threads of cult consciousness are woven in with the brighter threads of high ideals and humanitarian endeavor.
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There are individuals beyond us in the scale of development and insight. There are always those to whom we can look for inspiration and those to whom we can offer our help, however large or small that gift may be. But we should not try to shift responsibility for the course of our lives to a group or a leader. We should not—to put it in psychological terms–expect a leader or group to take the place of the ideal parent or family that we never knew, while we assume the role of a dependent child. There is nothing inherently wrong with the fact that we are at a relatively undeveloped state compared to some ahead of us on the path of life. The problem arises when psychological immaturity, left over from an unfortunate early life, leads us to surrender ourselves to an individual or group, instead of using relationships as the catalysis for the evolution of thought, love, and divinity within us.
A pseudo-teacher engages in a conscious or unconscious game of power, and is dependent on the weakness and worshipful attitude of followers. That which is often most attractive to members of a group, a charismatic leader, tends often to encourage unhealthy dependency and hero-worship. The development differential between a teacher and ourselves is an opportunity for an apprentice/master relation, and not an occasion for uncritical submission to authority. Moreover, the Teacher and the Teaching are always as much within as outside us. And it follows that without the inner teaching, the external is rendered a meaningless illusion. It follows also that a good teacher is one who encourages competence and independence in us, so reducing the distance between pupil and teacher. Such a relationship is the antithesis of cultism.
The Active Enzyme Lemon-Freshened Junior High School Witch
You've probably not met The Active Enzyme Lemon-Freshened Junior High School Witch. Maybe she's alive and well on a planet a constellation near Andromeda; we don't know for sure and humility prompts us to realize that there are a few corners of the universe we've not yet visited. But she has such a charming name that, in a serendipitous mood, we might be half-convinced that she is quite real. In any case, a book for children was written about her, but unlike many related texts it does not purport to be anything other than fiction. Fiction often overlaps with fanciful abstractions and the real and unreal are intricately interwoven. We also know that many abstract words are only "shadows hiding a vacuum." And what we know about the "The Active Enzyme Lemon-Freshened Junior High School Witch," is that she is a high-flying abstraction pieced together from things that we do have knowledge of.
The thing about the witchery of high-flying language is its emotional appeal. It is glamorous, and at the same time often touches on matters of real importance: God, love, death, humanity, finding the right path, our place in cosmos, our true nature… These are so important, so luminous in the depth of consciousness that we may find them compelling even when badly expressed and mixed with all manner of invented balderdash. So when we encounter a truth that is distorted, watered-down, and morphed with extraneous material of all sorts–even then–we may find this pseudo-truth attractive and absorbing. The words we hear and the associations they evoke work magic so that anything with some real truth in becomes a challenge. And like the Active Enzyme Lemon-Freshened Junior High School Witch, the name can be so charming that we may be half-convinced by the name alone. This particular witch is an abstraction, selected and composed from a wide array of things.
The root meaning of the word "abstract" is to "draw away," in essence to draw away from the things physical, concrete, and specific. If one were aspiring to things spiritual, this would seem, at first thought, to be a good idea. But some mentally unhealthy conditions are also characterized by withdrawal. So what are the differences between the benign metaphysician and the neurotic?
One difference, semantically defined, is what we might call word/reality split. It is the disunion between the words and the things or realities that they stand for. Often, we listen to someone using high-level abstract words, and we don't know what they're talking about. In such cases, there are at least two possibilities: either our experience is too limited or uneducated for comprehension, or they actually don't know what they're talking about. In this latter case the person who has "lost touch" doesn't know it and are quite sure that they know what they're talking about. They may be proud of their language and love the associated emotions.
We live in a "New Age" of information and misinformation overload, and this poses special challenges for us. In the metaphysical and philosophical world, there are thousands of competing verbalizations with contradictory pronouncements. If we gulp down lots of metaphysics, unless we're an exceptionally well-rounded and clever, we're apt to wind up with fine case of muddle-de-physics.
Naturally, many of us think—prematurely–that we're exceptionally well rounded and clever, and so are quick to get into trouble. Which brings up the next notable difference between a metaphysician and neurotic: ego. Knowledge of a special language makes us feel special. Familiarity with lofty terms seems to elevate us, and set us apart from the crowd. We may become part of a world saving in-group. We are trying to be less lonely and be recognized for our knowledge and high status. Salvation of the world is, of course, an essential and admirable pursuit. And it would benefit all of us if more of those enthusiastically engaged in this activity did know what they were talking about, and if they actually could fly as high as the witchery their words suggests.
"It is inherent in our intellectual activity that we seek to imprison reality in our description of it. Soon, long before we realize it, it is we who become prisoners of the description." —Aneurin Bevan
"Great God, what a universe! And we discuss it over our teacups as though it were a thing we carried in our waistcoat pockets." –L. P. Jacks
"Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason." –Bacon
"The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath."—Pascal
Flowers, Fanatics, and other Distances from Divinity
Some measure of evil, or not Life, is born with incarnation, with the taking of form, with leaving the "father's home," with separation from divinity. Illusion, the virtual synonym, comes into being with this separation. And so it is said that everything external is maya, being other than the pure light of source. This formulation has a certain value, but by it alone we cannot find our place between the candle and the star because all manifestations are relative.
A flower is not as remote from divinity as the cruelty of fanatics. Yet both are manifestations other than or apart from absolute Life or divinity. We may say the flower and the cruel man are illusions, and so they are, but they are not equal. So we find that the most abstract concept of good and evil, yielding as it does a simple binary, corresponds poorly to daily life and required decisions. We must, standing somewhere between the candle and the star, bring righteous to decisions.
In love and wisdom there is movement toward life and light. This orientation is the antithesis of evil and the basis of right choice.
Teachings as Catalyst
Teachings are not the truth, but a catalyst to aid in approach to the truth. There are limitations to be found in every verbal formulation and in those who give them. Good teachings have merit as general guidelines and as stimulus to thinking and reflection. Also, even in a great teaching, the specifics and their application to any time and space involve much ambiguity and vagueness. So, in this sense, we are always on our own, in other words a good teaching or teacher stimulates independent thought.
Finding our Work
In the atmosphere there are fire flowers of luminous things. Billions of these flowers hover in the to-be-done regions, waiting for a body. The trick is taking on the ones that truly belong to us, and refraining from appropriating those that do not. There are many wonderful things hovering in the air that are not our work and for which we may not be suited. Many of these are of stunning beauty and have a Siren quality, hence the excitement and the danger, for contact with them tends to inspire action. We must find each days work within a universe of infinite possibilities.
Transpersonal Semantics
Semantics is the study of meaning in language, thought, and communication. Our thoughts are embodied in language and images. We give our thoughts bodies; we create these bodies in the act of forming words and pictures. We incarnate in our thoughts and words and become identified with them. This identification is apt to create an illusion in that we feel we have hold of reality whereas in fact, we often only have hold of the words, some mental pictures and associated intellectual constructions.
The soul of words is the meaning, the experience that our words point to, or should point to. It is this living experience, the consciousness behind the forms that ensouls words. By this understanding of the nature of our verbal and conceptual incarnations we arrive at the possibility of Transpersonal Semantics. The word "transpersonal" points to that which is beyond the personal. "Semantics" refers to the meaning of words.
Let us define Transpersonal Semantics as spiritual-perspective-semantics. It is a way of thinking about body and soul with special reference to the way we humans use language in thinking and communication. So, a certain approach to semantics becomes an art of spiritual interpretation–a way of thinking and talking about spiritual and material problems and their solutions. In this sense, a key to better thinking is found by constant awareness of the difference between form and essence, between word and reality, between thought and the silent reality behind thought.


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As an adult, you would want a stylish and mature look for your first apartment. Thus, avoid going too loud and crazy and go for the right blend of fun and proper. Start with a neutral base then try to mix in some colours. The goal is just to avoid making your apartment look like a box of melted Crayolas. If your apartment is too small, you can go for lighter hues like the classic white to make your space look bigger.
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A steady stream of income – for life. Sound good? You don't need to be ultra-rich or even moderately wealthy to look toward your nest egg for income. Jason Brady, author of Income Investing, helps manage billions of dollars at Thornburg Investment Management, and now he shares his knowledge with investors like you. He'll discuss the risks and rewards of using your savings to build a steady income stream and compound returns over time. Topics will include how to tap into the money-making potential of bonds, reinforcing your portfolio with income-producing assets, understanding how options affect your investments, avoiding adverse outcomes, and planning your retirement to reach your long-term goals. Whether you're a Baby Boomer, Gen Xer planning for the future, or an investor looking to learn more about trying to optimize your income, this segment will provide useful information for you. For more information: http://www.mhprofessional.com/product.php?cat=106&isbn=0071791116.
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Hayya 'alal falaah (come towards success)
The Milli Gazette
Published Online: Sep 15, 2015
Print Issue: 16-30 September 2015
The muezzin calls Adhan five times a day and the words are also repeated during iqamah in salaat. This started soon after the advent of Islam and would continue till the Day of Judgment. We listen to the adhan and respond to it by going to the mosque for obligatory prayers and our religious scholars often speak about the virtues of adhan, but have we really been able to comprehend the wisdom behind the wordings of adhan? I believe that it cannot be just an invitation to visit the mosque for prayers, but is much more than it.
The words of adhan are marvellous, beautiful and full of wisdom, which pull at the heart. The Muezzin calls: "Hayya 'alal falaah", that is, come towards success. One wonders as to which success one is called to.
The Qur'an tells us to pray for, "fidduniya hasanah wa fil akhirati hasanah…" that is good in the world and hereafter. The 'success' as promised in the adhan also means both the successes. Surely, we all know that by performing obligatory acts prescribed by Islam we can attain success in Hereafter, but how does it give us success in this world? Let us analyse the areas where a Muslim is seeking success in this world. We all strive hard to succeed in finding solutions to our basic problems of education, employment, legal help, career guidance, marriage counselling, safety and security, financial wellbeing, civil disputes, etc. These are the "worldly" problems that each Muslim, irrespective of nationality, is trying to solve.
Is the role of mosque limited to that of a prayer hall only? Did mosques function as only prayer halls during the time of our Prophet? Was it so at the time of Khulfa-e-Rashida? The fact remains that mosques have played many roles besides that of prayer halls. The Prophet's mosque in Madinah was a Centre of learning, administrative headquarters, public place and much else. Later mosques put on more roles as schools, dispensaries, courts, military headquarters etc.
On the muezzin's call we visit mosque to find solutions to all our problems. Five times a day the muezzin calls believers to not just a place of worship, but a community centre, where solutions to every problem of the Ummaare sought.
We have forgotten the true meaning of Hayya 'alal falaah, that success is associated with Salat as well as the mosques. Allah SWT has associated success with Masjid. It is quite understandable that Allah also wants us to be approachable by fellow Muslims and wants his House (mosque) to be a place where every person can expect love, compassion and help for their problems. The holy Prophet is reported to have said, "None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself".
We have accepted that mosques belong to Imams, Muezzins and a handful Masjid committee members. We need to revive our mosques from a place of worship to a community centre for Muslims without expecting that ulama would do that. Such transformation would sustain our habit of prayer and also integrate Muslim society.
Muslims in North America and Western Europe have already organised their lives around mosques functioning as community centre for learning, education, community development, marriages and charity, to name just a few activities. Let the Subcontinent's Muslims revive this model established by the Prophet (PBUH).
Qutub Ahmed Siddiqui
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Linda Hawj invited you to "3rd and Final TXUJ CI SHOWCASE- UNLIMITED EDITION", the 3rd and Final TXUJ CI SHOWCASE- UNLIMITED EDITION on Wednesday, May 2, 6 p.m., at The Whole Music Club- Coffman Union (U of M).
This Night of Local Asian American LGBTQ & Ally Artists Unlimited Edition is the Txuj Ci Showcase, originally a night where Hmong LGBTQ and their allies came together to showcase their talents and to build community and space together.
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Vietnam, a one-party Communist state, has one of south-east Asia's fastest-growing economies and has set its sights on becoming a developed nation by 2020.
It became a unified country once more in 1975 when the armed forces of the Communist north seized the south.
This followed three decades of bitter wars, in which the Communists fought first against the colonial power France, then against South Vietnam and its US backers. In its latter stages, the conflict held the attention of the world.
The US joined the hostilities in order to stem the "domino effect" of successive countries falling to Communism.
The war produced heavy casualties on both sides, atrocities against civilians, and the indiscriminate destruction and contamination of much of the landscape.
A visit to Vietnam by US President Bill Clinton in November 2000 was presented as the culmination of American efforts to normalise relations with the former enemy.
Vietnam struggled to find its feet after unification and tried at first to organise the agricultural economy along strict collectivist lines.
But elements of market forces and private enterprise were introduced from the late 1980s and a stock exchange opened in 2000.
Foreign investment has grown and the US is Vietnam's main trading partner. In the cities, the consumer market is fuelled by the appetite of a young, middle class for electronic and luxury goods. After 12 years of negotiations the country joined the World Trade Organization in January 2007.
But the disparity in wealth between urban and rural Vietnam is wide and some Communist Party leaders worry that too much economic liberalisation will weaken their power base.
Despite pursuing economic reform, the ruling Communist Party shows little willingness to give up its monopoly on political power.
Vietnam actively suppresses political dissent and religious freedom. Rights groups have singled out Hanoi's treatment of ethnic minority hill tribe people, collectively known as Montagnards.
The human rights advocacy group Amnesty International says in a 2011 report that ''more than a dozen activists were convicted in faulty trials simply because they had peacefully voiced criticism of government policies''. A new wave of subversion trials began in 2013.
Head of State : President Truong Tan Sang
Head of Government : Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung
Capital : Ha Noi
Language : Vietnamese
Currency : Dong
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam Website: www.mofa.gov.vn
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I need to give you an important hint for Part 3. In Part 1, you plotted $|F_r|$, which is a real value (magnitude). In reality, however, all of your $F_r$ are complex numbers. In part 3 it is crucially important that you use the full complex number in the inverse DFT summation. If you look at your spreadsheet, you'll most likely see that the full-period sine wave gives you $F_1 = 0 – j/2$ (check the real = cosine part and the imaginary = sine part).
Moreover, you also have $F_{-1} = 0 + j/2$, which you plotted as $|F_{N-1}|=0.5$. Side note: The Fourier transform of a real and even function is real and even. The F.T. of a real and odd function (e.g., sine) is imaginary and odd.
Only when you use the full complex values of $F_r$ will the summation in the inverse DFT resolve to a real-valued sine function of amplitude 1. Otherwise, the $j$ will not cancel out. Also note that you'll make use of the odd symmetry, $\sin(-x) = -\sin(x)$ at one point.


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The capped race filled more than two months before race day each of the past two years, and organizers expect it to fill even faster in 2015. Last year's race drew 2,700 runners to enjoy the unmatched beauty of Peninsula State Park.
The race has been called one of the best in the Midwest by Runner's World writer Jenny Hadfield,Competitor magazine, and Active.com. Writer Tom Held of The Active Pursuit likened the course to "running in a wooded cathedral." Such praise, plus Door County's reputation as one of the premier vacation destinations in the country, has made the race a must-run on the nation's half marathon circuit.
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A teacher from the US has amazingly come up with and memorised individual handshakes with every child in her class.
Some teachers struggle to just to remember the names of each member of their classroom. We've all seen the cheat sheets they use – aka the register – often with our student pictures next to our name to help identify us.
While the ones who are able to recall what we're called could offer us a handshake if we really wanted, they probably wouldn't be anywhere near as impressive as Jerusha Willenborg's fantastic array of greetings.
The third grade teacher from Kansas managed to come up with and remember individual handshakes for every one of her students.
Watch the brilliant video here:
Miss Willenborg's unique welcome into the classroom stemmed from just one child asking her if they could share a special handshake four years ago.
Understandably, one third grade child having a secret routine with the teacher quickly started a trend, and soon more and more children wanted to come up with the elaborate shakes.
The video shows Jerusha completing 20 handshakes, one for each of her 20 students – though simply calling them 'handshakes' might be a bit of an understatement.
The routines often involve feet, elbows, dance moves and dabbing, and each ends with a hug between student and teacher.
I wonder if this was all actually an elaborate plan from the children to get them out of a few extra minutes of learning.
Having her own little connection with each child seems to have had a positive effect on the third grade class and their feelings towards the teacher.
Jerusha spoke to CNN about what drove her to memorise the range of greetings, explaining that the personalised handshakes help the relationships with her students develop and grow.
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Their face. I just look at their face and I know it builds that relationship. It's just between me and them and it's special.
One student added:
It makes me feel like Miss Willenborg has my back.
Jerusha has made a tradition out of the handshakes, and makes sure that each new arrival gets the appropriate welcome.
Videos of the teacher have been shared on YouTube, showing her handshakes through the years.
Jerusha's speciality subject must be maths – she obviously has a sharp memory for patterns and sequences.
Miss Willenborg hasn't just stopped at handshakes to connect with the children, either. The creative teacher also has a series of chants which she calls out in order to get the kids' attention when they're being too noisy.
The chants work as a call and response, with many of them including lyrics from songs.
Jerusha will call out lyrics to, for example, Drake's God's Plan, French Montana's All The Way Up, or the Baha Men's Who Let The Dogs Out, and the children will respond, completing the lyric.
That system is certainly a lot more fun than 'hands up and quiet please'.
I'm jealous that Miss Willenborg wasn't my teacher.
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Open banking initiatives are changing the way banks operate and engage with third parties and partners. However, those are not the only changes the movement is causing — it's also having an unexpected side effect of pushing banks to reimagine their traditional roles as financial institutions (FIs).
Now, several major financial giants are encouraging industry-wide collaborations with the launch of B2B market platforms. In the latest edition of the B2B API Tracker™, PYMNTS explores the newest developments in the financial services space, including the debut of platforms designed to help legacy banks and emerging FinTech firms more effectively collaborate on new products for clients.
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In Russia, for example, Sberbank unveiled a new platform specifically designed to make B2B payments more efficient. The retail bank's new platform, known as "B2B Payments," was developed in collaboration with Yandex.Checkout. The platform works to automatically generate invoices, allowing companies to accept online payments from corporate clients.
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I look at the first verse of this scripture passage as an introduction, as if Paul is saying, "this is how you become strengthened with the Spirit's power:" Everything that follows describes the process that leads us to walking in God's fullness. It is a progression that begins with trusting Jesus, then experiencing his love and then being immersed in it. For this to happen, we must have a mindset of submitting ourselves to God, letting Him live through us rather than our living (and doing) for God apart from submission.
Being filled with God's fullness is the result of being progressive strengthened with the Spirits power. As we become stronger and stronger in the Spirit and his revelation of Jesus' love, we experience that love to such a degree that we are immersed in it. We become aware that his love is above us, below us, in front of us, behind us, and on each side of us.
These verses are a bit complicated but the foundational truth is that this process of strengthening and being filled with God's fullness occurs as we invite Jesus into our lives day-by-day, moment by moment. This is done by faith, not feelings. Faith rises in our hearts as we choose to trust Him one problem and one issue at a time.
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