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With two parts under our belt, let's do a little review.
You've found some keywords with some decent traffic and sites that are "reachable" because of a lack of on-page optimization. You then began to build your own site, optimizing for your keywords. You're using <h1>, <h2> and so on, tags, you've got a site map (also uses <h1>, <h2> and such), you've got an OPML file for your pages, and you've got a keyword density somewhere around 2.5 percent.
You then went out and obtained text links (probably using a text link broker) to your site, and those links use your keywords. On top of that, you've followed other bits of advice in other articles I've written here on SEO Chat, and your site has an RSS feed, and it has a blog (with an RSS feed of its own).
Finally, you are regularly and consistently adding new content to your site so that Google and Yahoo feel the need to come back and respider your site often.
Doing all of the above will allow you to absolutely crush the competition for your "lower level" keyword such as "dog training."
At this point however, what if you want to be at the top for a major "base" keyword like "dog" that garners massive amounts of traffic? Getting there is much easier than you might think, and it all starts with this first website that we built.
{mospagebreak title=A bit of bootstrapping}
You see, by following my advice, and funnelling some money into text links, you could (and should) have a page rank sitting around a 5.
All you need to do then is create another website in another similar market, but in a slightly higher category (dog trick perhaps). You follow the same model, but build another site. You get it up to a page rank 5 as well.
Now you have two page rank 5 sites in similar markets, both hitting the top or very near the top of Google's listings. Both are getting some fantastic traffic, and both are generating even more fantastic sales for you.
Now, at this point you need to know that Google and Yahoo are both very content sensitive. By that I mean that both of them place a very high value on a site that has lots of content (words) … and lots of pages as well.
Both of these engines truly like sites that are "authoritative" for a given keyword and will place such a site higher than a corporate, store, or "mall" type website.
If you want to get to the top of the big keywords, the easiest way to do it, without busting the bank buying multiple thousands of dollars worth of text links, is to build an authoritative website.
So your next step is to build a website that will grow to become the authority on all things dog.
{mospagebreak title=You're not exactly going head-to-head}
Now you may be thinking that such a site exists already. So what? You aren't going to exactly go head to head with them. Instead, you are going to "sneak" by them … stealing their secrets even … and rocket right by them before your competition even knows what hit them.
You see, this authority website will start by being an authority only for your already chosen keywords, which in our example are Dog Training and Dog Trick.
You'll add content regarding those items first. You'll link to this new website from your other two sites (thus giving it good rankings thanks to two other PR 5 sites linking to it).
This authority site will begin to obtain traffic of its own, and of course it will be recommending your products. Remember though, the idea here is for this site to be an authority, not simply a "salesperson."
You'll set your site up similar to the others, giving it an RSS feed of its own.
Finally, you'll pull up the tools mentioned in the previous two parts of the series and begin to steal from the top two or three players in the market. Here are two important questions you need to ask as you go about your work:
Who's linking to them and what link text is being used?
What can you do to improve on that?
Keep in mind that by optimizing what is now three sites, one specific to dog training, another specific to dog trick, and an authority website that hits both keywords, you'll actually be driving traffic, page rank, and rankings, up for all three because of the cross linking that you can do.
{mospagebreak title=And what about content?}
Now, for content, you'll certainly want to begin finding other authors who will simply give you content. Often (especially for a keyword like "dog"), you can easily find people who will do this in the newsgroups and discussion forums related to your keyword. You may even find the content you need in the postings themselves.
In other words, your strategy here is to utilize your "authority" status (and again, Google will automatically rank you higher for being such a site) to get other "experts" in the field to give you articles simply to be associated with you.
In fact, one of the top ranked sites for "dog" in Google is http://www.dog-play.com. By all means, take a look at everything they are doing.
Even better is the operation being run by http://www.dogbreedinfo.com.
Both are little more than authority sites. The thing is, as authority sites go, they are weak. The sites aren't updated very often, and what little is there isn't very detailed, or simply links off to some other site.
Further, both are missing several on-page optimization secrets I've taught you, and are relying very heavily on their backlinks to keep them ranking high. In short, these sites are absolutely ripe for the picking, and they garner top rankings for one of the planet's most searched for keywords!
{mospagebreak title=Barking up the right niche}
In other words, if you want to get to the top, you get there by finding a niche you can go after and win. Then you build another site in a slightly higher market, and win in that one too.
Then you build an authority site … and you completely clean up. It should be noted that you can quite easily build the authority site immediately following, or better yet in tandem with, the creation of the initial site. This will give you a much longer amount of time to get content added and truly build the site up.
Your competition simply will not be able to compete against that.
By being #1, you'll be getting tons of traffic, and that traffic will be hitting your authority site. That means that you will be thought of as the authority in the eyes of the customer. When you, as an authority, make a product recommendation, it'll be listened to.
You see, becoming #1 on Google isn't that hard. Use the right optimization factors and you too can be like dogbreedinfo.com and sit at the top.
However, if you want to truly build business, then you've got to think of Google, Yahoo, and MSN in a whole new light. You've got to be thinking search engine marketing instead of just search engine optimization. You see, any idiot can optimize a site and buy some links to drive a site to #1. A smart business, however will be as concerned with how a potential customer views the business, as they are with how it is found.
Let me ask you something. Do you think traffic that arrives at your site thanks to a beneficial "review" in … oh, lets say the New York Times … would be better, and more likely to result in sales, than someone simply "showing up" at your site from a search engine?
The reason that authority websites are so powerful, and so directly translate into improved sales, has to do with that previous paragraph. The New York Times is viewed as an objective authority.
That means that, if you build an authority website yourself, you too can drive traffic to your "product" sites. You too can drive hungry traffic just itching to give you their wallet. You too can be the authority, letting people know which products to buy (yours of course) and which sites are the best to buy from (yours of course).
Now before this article generates a ton of flame responses, let me say now that you do not want to misrepresent yourself. Your authority website should say that it is being run by you and that you own the other sites. You don't need to hide that fact. After all, you had to become an authority somehow, didn't you?
Further, by being upfront with the fact that you own those sites, people that do view you as an authority will buy from your sites over others simply because they're your sites. You'll actually get more sales by letting people know that "you" the authority and "you" the owner of the web business are one and the same.
You'll be tying your good name and reputation, built and made stronger by the authority site, into the other businesses.
In part four we're going to talk about how to actually get listed above the number 1 spot in Google … and no, I'm not talking about Google Adwords either. What I'm talking about is better than that.


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merry xmas!
Posted by christian may at 12/24/2011
4 comments:
- MJH Design Arts said...
He is such a good boy--even let Santa hold him. What did Richard and Ted get for Christmas this year? Wishing you the best for today and the New Year. Mary
- Sunday, December 25, 2011 at 3:48:00 AM PST
- Ivy Lane said...
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours M21!
I have enjoyed all your wonderful posts on FB! Keep 'em coming!
- Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 12:01:00 PM PST
- Suzy said...
Hope you 3 had a great Christmas! All the best for 2012! Suzy x
- Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 6:24:00 PM PST
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Love the Santa Pic. What on earth? Richard is a perfect poster boy for getting Santa treats. Have a Happy New Year! Jen
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upeksonly driver supports devices based on the UPEK TouchStrip chipset (sensor-only version).
upeksonly is part of libfprint and is developed/maintained by Daniel Drake.
Supported devices
This driver supports fingerprint readers found embedded into many commercial laptops, including some System76 laptops and IBM/Lenovo ?ThinkPads. The device sits on the USB bus with USB ID 147e:2016.
The driver does not support the ?TouchStrip variants which include a biometric co-processor. The co-processor variants have a different USB ID and are instead supported by the upekts driver.
Driver history
This driver was developed by Daniel Drake, based on bus traffic analysis of a pre-release of UPEK's BSAPI Linux SDK. The hardware was donated by System76 - thanks!
Device operation
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Being a sensor-only device, this is an imaging device. The device repeatedly sends greyscale image rows of width 288 pixels, sampled at very high frequency. The high frequency means that there is a lot of bus traffic generated and there is a lot of similarity between one row and the next. As a result of this, most rows are discarded by the driver - only ones that differ significantly from the previous one are kept. The combination of high frequency row sampling and driver-level change detection allows the resultant fingerprint image to be smooth and proportional even when finger swipe speed is significantly altered during the scan.
The hardware has finger-on-sensor detection which is used by this driver. I don't think there is any hardware-based finger removal detection, so the driver just looks for a significant number of blank lines before reporting finger removal.
There is some fuzz in the image, which could potentially be eliminated by some post-processing algorithms.


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A few thoughts to jump start your Wednesday morning.
Florida's fabulous freshman cornerback Vernon Hargreaves III capped off a brilliant first season of college football Tuesday by being named third team All-American by the Associated Press. Hargreaves is that rare talent who came to school ready to play from day one and proved on the field that he was more than up to the hype. Looking back on his freshman year, there weren't many times when he was fooled and there wasn't a single game in which he looked ill-prepared to play.
There is a reason Mike Novell has quietly removed his name from the Florida offensive coordinator search. He has interviewed for the vacant Arkansas State job and there is a lot of sentiment that he will get it. Norvell is a graduate of Central Arkansas, the same school that produced Charlie Strong, and a protégé of Gus Malzahn, the Auburn coach who was the head man for one year Arkansas State two years ago. Arkansas State paid Bryan Harsin $850,000 but he left for Boise State after one season. Harsin had to pay Arkansas State $1.75 million to buy out his contract, money that will be used to offer Norvell or whoever lands the Arkansas State job a $1 million per year contract. If Norvell doesn't get the Arkansas State job, Arizona State head man Todd Graham is planning to make Norvell a reworked contract for at least $800,000.
North Carolina offensive coordinator Blake Anderson was also on Florida's A list just a week ago. Like Norvell, he has interviewed for the vacant Arkansas State job and if Norvell doesn't get it, there is a very good chance Anderson will. UCLA offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone supposedly has withdrawn his name from consideration at Florida and taken a $125,000 a year raise to remain in Los Angeles. Tim Beck of Nebraska, who was also thought to be on the Florida A list, makes $700,000 a year so he might be too pricey, considering Florida just paid Brent Pease a $1.2 million contract buyout.
Right now it would appear that USC interim head coach Clay Helton could be the last man standing. He will not be retained by new coach Steve Sarkisian so he will be jobless after Southern Cal faces Fresno State in Saturday's Las Vegas Bowl so he is very available. While certainly not Florida's first choice, Will Muschamp cannot afford to have an open offensive coordinator job beyond January 1 for recruiting purposes. In particular, Miami Central stud Dalvin Cook will announce his college decision at the Under Armour All-American Game in St. Petersburg on January 2 and the Gators chances to land this difference-maker will be hurt if there isn't an offensive coordinator in place.
Now, who would have thought that possible a couple of years ago when Prather seemed so eager to play that he was a turnover looking for a place to happen? The wild, out of control Prather has been replaced by a calm, calculating senior who understands how to pick and choose his moments. For the second straight game, it was Prather's free throws that provided the margin of victory for the Gators. He went 10-12 a week ago in a win over Kansas and Tuesday night he was 6-6 in Florida's 77-75 against Memphis at Madison Square Garden, part of a 22-point effort. Prather has scored 20 or more points four times in Florida's first 10 games and he already has more points (187) this season than he had in 29 games last year (181). In spite of riding the pine his first two years before emerging as a sixth man last season, Prather has never lost confidence and never once considered transferring out. He is a testament to patience and self-confidence.
This started out as idle chatter but a lot of people who know Jimbo Fisher say that he really is seriously looking at the Texas job. There is no question that Texas is looking seriously at Fisher. Why would Fisher would leave FSU after a season in which he has the Seminoles in the national championship game with a Heisman Trophy quarterback returning next season along with 35 others on the 44-man two-deep? The answer might be in the lack of haste to extend his contract and raise his pay to $4.25 million. Texas is likely to offer $6 million.
In addition to Fisher, the most prominent name being heard is Baylor coach Art Briles but Briles just signed a 10-year extension that starts at more than $4 million a year and next season Baylor moves to a brand new state of the art stadium that will make it that more attractive for potential recruits. Beyond Fisher and Briles, the name Urban Meyer has surfaced as a potential target. Had the Texas job opened up at the same time Ohio State did a couple of years ago, there is no question that Meyer would have leapt at the job in Austin. Sporting News mentioned Mark Richt's name, but he's another one I can't imagine going anywhere. I think he will be at Georgia until he retires. One name that should get everyone's attention is Vanderbilt coach James Franklin. If he can take Vandy to three straight bowl games, imagine what he could do with the money, facilities and resources of Texas. If I were the guy doing the hiring at Texas, that's who I would be focused on.
Jeremy Mincey, waived last week by the Jacksonville Jaguars, passed his physical and was signed by the Denver Broncos Tuesday. It's a second chance for Mincey, whose production has fallen off considerably and whose attitude went south since signing a four-year deal front loaded with $9 million last season. While he won't make nearly the money he made with the Jaguars, it's a chance for Mincey to get his head together for one last shot of getting into the playoffs and perhaps earning a Super Bowl ring.
If you've followed the career of The Doobie Brothers, then it's like two bands sharing the same name. The Doobies of the early to mid-1970s were Tom Johnston's band, the band of choice of the Hells Angels. When Johnston got sick, the band had contracts for a couple of albums and didn't have its creative genius to write the music so The Doobies turned to Michael McDonald, who played keyboards and sang background vocals for Steely Dan on three albums including "Aja." With McDonald, the Doobies went to a more soulful sound until 1982 when they disbanded. The Doobies have reunited at least four times since but they were at their best from 1970-82. This is "It Keeps You Running" from the years when McDonald was the face of the band.


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InnoDB and XtraDB use a special feature called the doublewrite buffer to provide a strong guarantee against data corruption. The idea is to write the data to a sequential log in the main tablespace before writing to the data files. If a partial page write happens (in other words, a corrupted write), InnoDB and XtraDB will use the buffer to recover the data. Even if the data is written twice the performance impact is usually small, but in some heavy workloads the doublewrite buffer becomes a bottleneck. Now we have an option to put the buffer on a dedicated disk in order to parallelize I/O activity on the buffer and on the tablespace.
This feature allows you to move the doublewrite buffer from the main tablespace to a separate location.
This option is for advanced users only. See the discussion below to fully understand whether you really need to use it.
The following discussion will clarify the improvements made possible by this feature.
InnoDB and XtraDB use many structures, some on disk and others in memory, to manage data as efficiently as possible. To have an overview of the different components see this post. Let's now focus on the doublewrite buffer.
InnoDB / XtraDB uses a reserved area in its main tablespace, called the doublewrite buffer, to prevent data corruption that could occur with partial page writes. When the data in the buffer pool is flushed to disk, InnoDB / XtraDB will flush whole pages at a time (by default 16KB pages) and not just the records that have changed within a page. It means that, if anything unexpected happens during the write, the page can be partially written leading to corrupt data.
With the doublewrite buffer feature, InnoDB / XtraDB first writes the page in the doublewrite buffer and then to the data files.
If a partial page write occurs in the data files, InnoDB / XtraDB will check on recovery if the checksum of the page in the data file is different from the checksum of the page in the doublewrite buffer and thus will know if the page is corrupt or not. If it is corrupt, the recovery process will use the page stored in the doublewrite buffer to restore the correct data.
If a partial write occurs in the doublewrite buffer, the original page is untouched and can be used with the redo logs to recover the data.
In usual workloads the performance impact is low-5% or so. As a consequence, you should always enable the doublewrite buffer because the strong guarantee against data corruption is worth the small performance drop.
But if you experience a heavy workload, especially if your data does not fit in the buffer pool, the writes in the doublewrite buffer will compete against the random reads to access the disk. In this case, you can see a sharp performance drop compared to the same workload without the doublewrite buffer-a 30% performance degradation is not uncommon.
Another case when you can see a big performance impact is when the doublewrite buffer is full. Then new writes must wait until entries in the doublewrite buffer are freed.
In a standard InnoDB / XtraDB installation, the doublewrite buffer is located in the main tablespace (whether you activate the innodb_file_per_table or not) and you have no option to control anything about it.
The feature adds an option (innodb_doublewrite_file) to have a dedicated location for the doublewrite buffer.
Basically if you want to improve the I/O activity, you will put the doublewrite buffer on a different disk. But is it better on an SSD or a more traditional HDD? First you should note that pages are written in a circular fashion in the doublewrite buffer and only read on recovery. So the doublewrite buffer performs mostly sequential writes and a few sequential reads. Second HDDs are very good at sequential write if a write cache is enabled, which is not the case of SSDs. Therefore you should choose a fast HDD if you want to see performance benefits from this option. For instance, you could place the redo logs (also written in a sequential way) and the doublewrite buffer on the same disk.
Prior to release 5.1.53-12.4, it was necessary to recreate your database and InnoDB system files when a dedicated file to contain the doublewrite buffer was specified. Beginning with release 5.1.53-12.4, you no longer need to do this.
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Ault man to serve 20 years in prison after drug conviction
September 18, 2013
An Ault man convicted of planning to distribute methamphetamine was ordered on Thursday to serve 20 years in prison.
Harry Ervin Cozad, 47, pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute as part of an agreement, according to a news release from the Weld District Attorney's Office. Cozad was arrested after officers found methamphetamine and paraphernalia in his vehicle, and investigators later found a large amount of drugs in his home, near Ault High School, the release states.
Officers found meth, scales, empty baggies and other drug-related items in Cozad's vehicle. They found 110 more grams of the drug at his home, along with marijuana, according to the release.


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Successful people know the secret -- the trick to staying on top of your game is organization. Placed where the family naturally congregates, this fridge must-have is a great way to remember to pick up kibble or whose turn it is to walk the dog.
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A period where one is without insurance, i.e. your health, well-being, and/or investments are solely your risk
I was fired from my job and COBRA is too expensive. I guess I'll have to give up Ultimate Unicycling during this insurancelessness.
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when you don't have health insurance and you are sick and need to see a doctor or dentist and you know that once you do, you will be living to pay them off, leaving you with no money for recreation whatsoever and you then in return despise the health insurance policies in the USA and continue to live like a pauper.
boy- i just spend $1000 out of my pocket for a root canal and now i'm broke.
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Artist Max Fiedler's series of "Cover Cover" images take the box art of games he loves and reimagines them as...almost the same thing. In exactly the same way. Only in his own style.
Begun last year, Max has recently added a couple of new pieces
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My question is regarding the order in which the quran should be recited in a prayer, either outloud or quietely.
Should the wroshipper recite the surahs or ayahs in the order that they
are presented in the quran. For example, is it permissible to recite surah Al-Nas in the
first rakah followed by surah Al-Kawthar in the second rakah, or ayah 50-60 in surah al
Baqara (for example), followed by ayah 10-20 in the second rakah.
please clarify this and explain why so.
Praise be to Allaah.
Reading later parts of the Quraan before earlier parts is called Tankees (inversion). There are different types of Tankees:
Tankees al-Huroof (inversion of letters)
Tankees al-Kalimaat (inversion of words)
Tankees al-Aayat (inversion of verses)
Tankees al-Suwar (inversion of Soorahs)
Tankees al-Huroof (inversion of letters) means putting a later letter before a previous letter in one word, for example, instead of Rabb one reads Barr
Undoubtedly this is haraam, and invalidates a person's prayer, because it changes the Quraan from the way in which it was spoken by Allaah, and usually alters the meaning in a drastic manner.
(Al-Sharh al-Mumti by Ibn Uthaymeen, 3/110)
Tankees al-Kalimaat (inversion of words) means putting a later word before a previous word, for example, instead of Qul huwa Allaahu ahad, one reads Ahad Allaah huwa qul!
This also is undoubtedly haraam, because it changes the Quraan from the way in which it was spoken by Allaah.
(Al-Sharh al-Mumti, 3/110)
Tankees al-Aayat (inversion of verses) means reciting a later aayah before a previous aayah, for example, reciting min sharr il-waswaas il-khannaas before ilaah il-naas!
Concerning this, al-Qaadi Ayyaad (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:
There is no dispute concerning the order of the aayahs in each soorah. This is something which is Tawqeefi, i.e., based on revelation [and is not open to ijtihaad], and the order is that which now appears in the Mus-haf, and this is how the ummah transmitted it from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).
(Sharh al-Nawawi, 6/62. This was also the view of Ibn al-Arabi, as stated in al-Fath, 2/257).
Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen said:
Tankees al-aayaat (inverting verses) is also haraam according to the most correct view, because the order of the aayahs is tawqeefi (something which is based on revelation [and not open to ijtihaad]). The meaning of tawqeefi is that it was dictated by the order of the Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).
(al-Sharh al-Mumti, 3/110).
Tankees al-Suwar (inversion of Soorahs) means, reciting later soorahs before earlier ones, for example, reciting Aal Imraan before al-Baqarah.
The ruling on this:
Those scholars who say that the order of soorahs is not tawqeefi do not see anything wrong with this.
Those who think that it is tawqeefi or that the consensus of the Sahaabah on the order of soorahs is evidence, do not think that it is permissible.
The correct view:
Is that the order of soorahs is not tawqeefi; it is the result of ijtihaad on the part of some of the Sahaabah.
There was no ijmaa (consensus) among the Sahaabah on the order of soorahs; the order in the Mus-haf of Abd-Allaah ibn Masood for example is different from that in the Mushafs of others.
In the Sunnah there is evidence that supports the view that it is permissible:
(A) Hudhayfah said: I prayed with the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) one night, and he started to recite al-Baqarah. I thought, he will do rukoo when he reaches one hundred aayaat, but he kept going. I thought, he will complete it in one rakah, but he kept going. I thought, he will do rukoo now, but he started to recite al-Nisaa, and he recited all of it, then he started to recite Aal Imraan and recited all of it (Narrated by Muslim, 772).
The evidence in this hadeeth is that he recited al-Nisaa then Aal Imraan.
Al-Nawawi said:
Al-Qaadi Ayyaad said: this contains evidence for those who say that the order of soorahs is the result of ijtihaad on the part of the Muslims when they wrote down the Mus-haf. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) did not dictate the order of soorahs; he entrusted this task to his ummah after his death. This is the view of Maalik and the majority of the scholars, and was the view favoured by al-Qaadi Abu Bakr al-Baaqillaani. Ibn al-Baaqillaani said: it is the more correct of the two views, although both are possible.
He said: what we say is that the order of soorahs is not binding when writing, praying, studying, teaching or learning. There is no report from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) concerning that which would make it forbidden to differ from it. Hence the order of soorahs in the various Mus-hafs differed, before the Mus-haf of Uthmaan.
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and the ummah after him in all ages regarded it as permissible to differ from the order of soorahs in prayer, and when studying and teaching.
He said: with regard to the view of those scholars who say that (the order of soorahs) was set by the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and that he put them in the same order as appears in the Mus-haf of Uthmaan and that the different orders came about before they heard of his ruling and his final review of the Quraan with Jibreel they interpret the fact that he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) recited al-Nisaa first and then Aal Imraan as meaning that this happened before the final ruling was dictated, and these two soorahs appear in this order in the Mus-haf of Ubayy.
He said: there is no dispute concerning the fact that a person who is praying may recite in the second rakah a soorah which comes before the soorah which he recited in the first rakah; but it is makrooh to do this in one rakah, or when reciting Quraan outside of salaah.
He said: but some of them permitted this.
The prohibition of the Salaf against reading the Quraan backwards is interpreted as referring to those who read from the end of a soorah to the beginning.
He said: there is no dispute concerning the fact that the order of aayaat in each soorah is based on revelation from Allaah and is as it now appears in the Mus-haf and as it was transmitted by the ummah from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).
(End of the comments of al-Qaadi Ayyaad). And Allaah knows best.
(Sharh Muslim, 6/61, 62).
Al-Sindi said:
The phrase [in the hadeeth of Hudhayfah] then he started to recite Aal Imraan means that it is not obligatory to follow the order of soorahs when reciting.
(Sharh al-Nisaai, 3/226).
(B) It was reported from Anas ibn Maalik (may Allaah be pleased with him) that a man from among the Ansaar used to lead them in prayer in the mosque of Qubaa. Every time he led them in prayer, he would start his recitation with Qul huwa Allaahu ahad, then when he finished it, he would recite another soorah. He did that in every rakah. His companions spoke with him and said, You always start with this soorah, then you do not think it is enough and you recite another. Either you should recite this soorah alone, or you should leave it and recite another. He said, I am not going to stop reciting it. If you like, I will lead you in prayer as I have been doing, and if you do not like it, I will leave you. They felt that he was one of the best of them, and they did not want anyone else to lead them in prayer. When the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) came to them, they told him about this. He said, O So and so, what is stopping you from doing what your companions tell you? What makes you keep on reciting this soorah in every rakah? He said, I love it. He said, Your love for it will grant you admittance to Paradise. (Narrated by al-Bukhaari muallaqan, and by al-Tirmidhi with an isnaad similar to that of al-Bukhaari, 2901).
The evidence in this report is the fact that the man recited Soorat al-Ikhlaas in his prayer before any other soorah that comes before it (in the Mus-haf), and the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) approved of that.
(C) This is the action of Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him).
Al-Imaam al-Bukhaari said:
Al-Ahnaf recited al-Kahf in the first rakah and Yoosuf or Yoonus in the second, and he said that he had prayed Fajr with Umar and he had done the same.
(Baab al-Jam bayna Sooratayn fil-Rakah, in Kitaab al-Adhaan).
With regard to the latter part of your question, we say:
It is permissible to recite aayahs 50-60 of al-Baqarah in the first rakah, then to recite aayahs 1-20 of al-Baqarah in the second rakah, because then the meaning of the passage will be complete.
But reciting aayahs 10-20 means that one is cutting off the meaning, so it is better not to do this. Perhaps you mentioned the numbers only by way of example and you did not mean these particular aayaat. And Allaah knows best.


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I'd like to know your favorite method for weaving in—as you go, at the end, or whenever. I'm always nervous when I give one of my handknits to a friend or family member, knowing there are little ends in there, itching to pop back out.
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Good lord, are you trying to start a war here? Ends are a deeply personal thing. Like religion, politics, or recipes for deviled eggs, this is dicey stuff. The minute we tell you about the method that we feel is the One True Way to hide an end of yarn, or whether a person should hide the ends during or after the knitting of a project, an avalanche of contrary opinion will follow. We could suggest, for example, that a truly careful knitter leaves four-inch ends, uses a bent-end Clover tapestry needle, and weaves each end in for six stitches along the wrong side, inside the purl bumps. And she does the ends only after a project is finished, when there are many excellent seams available for hiding an end. This sort of suggestion (which is, by the way, the correct and only method) would immediately bring howls of protest, banging of pie pans, hard-hearted Ravelry threads, and emails with photos of ends woven in vertically or spit-felted or for cripe's sake tied in little knots.
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MOSCOW, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Russian lawmakers on Friday backed a law which would ban smoking in bars, cafes and other public spaces to promote healthier living in the world's largest tobacco market after China.
Supported by President Vladimir Putin, who likes to present a healthy, active image, and has previously rebuked ministers for smoking, the bill was voted through in a second reading in the State Duma, the lower house of parliament.
The law - which must go through one more reading in both the lower and upper houses before being signed off by Putin - would also ban tobacco advertising entirely and restrict sales from kiosks.
The bill signals a culture shift in Russia, where cigarettes typically cost 50-60 roubles a packet (around $2) and bars and restaurants often lie under a thick blue haze of smoke.
Deputies applauded as the bill sailed through the State Duma, with 442 votes in favour, one against and one abstention.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has also spoken out in favour of the law in a personal video blog. He said that 44 million Russians, nearly one in three, are hooked on smoking, and almost 400,000 die every year of smoking-related causes.
However, the bill is controversial with Russian smokers.
"This bill is a veil, behind which they want to bring in another prohibition, only this time for tobacco," Andrei Loskutov, director of the All-Russia Movement for the Rights of Smokers, told Reuters.
"Let us act with understanding towards half of the adult population. Let us educate about giving up smoking with persuasion and education, and not throw out into the cold people who have spent their own money on a legal product."
Kiosk owners have said many could be driven out of business by the proposed changes. They have already been hard hit by a ban on selling alcohol last year.
The law is also opposed by tobacco companies such as British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco, and Philip Morris, which together control more than 90 percent of Russian sales and have been lobbying to soften the proposed legislation.
The Russian cigarette market was estimated to be worth around $22 billion in 2011 by Euromonitor International.
If passed, the restrictions will be phased in and are expected to be fully in force by 2016.
The Finance Ministry has also previously announced plans to increase excise duty on tobacco by around 40 percent for 2013 and 2014, and by 10 percent a year after 2015. The Health Ministry supports a greater increase in duty.
Putin, a judo black belt, lobbied successfully for Russia to host the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2018 soccer World Cup.
Russia also needs to improve public health to restore population growth after measures to boost the birth rate and improve healthcare stemmed a steep decline after the collapse of the Soviet Union.


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Amazing half-court shot and a slam dunk of generosity
June 25th, 2013 | Paul K. Logsdon
If you've ever wondered about the power of a scholarship, here's a true story for you.
Justin Dougherty is a 2012 graduate of Evangel University, where he studied Broadcasting. As a senior, he got the opportunity to join Springfield's CBS affiliate, KOLR-10, and has developed a following as a warm, personable and accurate broadcaster.
And then one day he got another opportunity. On March 24, he was invited to take a half-court shot at an Oklahoma City Thunder NBA basketball game. The prize was $20,000. He made the shot.
Last week, Justin showed up in my office. He had a check in hand and said he wanted to give a one-time scholarship to an Evangel student. He sat down and told me, "When I was a student, I received a scholarship. It meant so much — it encouraged me, and made me feel like someone had noticed me and cared about my future."
I started to tell him how I understood, and how my father had established an Evangel scholarship after the death of my mother 15 years ago. All of my siblings and I add to it, and Evangel is able to award several scholarships out of the proceeds.
He stopped me and said, "It was your scholarship that I received."
And then I remembered. He had come in personally to thank me, and sat in my office three years ago, just as he did now, to tell me what it meant.
I held it together while we talked, but later that night the emotions rose to the surface when I told my wife the story. How pleased my mom would have been; how sometimes we never know the difference a gift to Evangel can make; and that I'd just been given a gift in return.
That's the story of an Evangel scholarship. Two scholarships, in fact, and the impact a commitment to helping young people can have.
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Cease & Desist
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A Cease and Desist (C&D) is a letter demanding that someone stop doing something, or face legal consequences. For fans, this most often means a letter sent by a legal representative of a corporation, demanding that the fan shut down a fan website, remove fanfiction, remove fanvids, remove images, etc., that the corporation believes infringes on its rights.
Since most fans don't have the financial means to risk a court case -- and may well agree that their work was infringing, even if not maliciously meant -- C&Ds are usually obeyed. Fan sites/fanworks come down, either permanently or to be moved quietly to a new location, possibly under a different name.
More recently, U.S. corporations have also begun turning to DMCA notices sent to U.S.-based ISPs and webhosting companies, who are obligated by law to comply and remove or block the "infringing" content without investigating any further -- the default assumption is that any DMCA claim is legitimate. It's then up to the fan to contest the claim (assuming they even find out who submitted it), which again, most fans don't have the resources to do.
Notable C&Ds sent to fans
- Dreadnought Explorations, a Star Trek zine that Paramount threatened (1970s)
- 20th Century Fox shutdown of X-Files websites in the mid-1990s. (see X-Files Cease & Desist for more details)
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro regarding The Holmesian Federation (1991) [1]
- Marion Zimmer Bradley (1992) [2]
- Knightwriter case and Rat Patrol (1997) (See Knightwriter for more details)
- Mercedes Lackey previously allowed fans to write fan fiction in her Valdemar universe only if they signed a release form and only if the fan fiction was not posted online [3]. More recently, she has announced that fanfic in her original worlds is permissible under a Creative Commons license.[4]
- On Holy Ground, a Forever Knight charity zine (2000)
- In October 2000, Fandom, Inc. sent a C&D to Carol Burrell claiming that her domain, fandom.tv, infringed on their (non-existent) trademark of the term "fandom", and demanding that she transfer the domain to them and never use the word "fandom" in a domain name again. Burrell chose not to comply. (See Fandom, Inc. for details.)
- Early 2000s, TBQ remembers Anne Rice sending C&Ds to fanfic authors, who took their stories down
- Restricted Section, an adult Harry Potter fan fiction archive (2003)
- Lionheart Press in 2005 by Warner Brothers, forcing the fanzine publisher to stop selling fanzines[5]
- In 2005, the MPAA sent letters to several Harry Potter fan fiction archives [6] [7] for their use of PG-13, R and NC-17 ratings on the fan fiction. [8] [9]
- In 2007, Funimation sent C&D letters to two fansub groups working on Gonzo's RomeoxJuliet. Both groups complied.[10] This was the first publicized C&D sent to a North American fansub group while an anime series was still airing in Japan.[11]
Other examples may be in the fanlore articles that link to this page
Fans Policing Fans
A example of a fan policing their own is at this 2005 discussion: "I just thought that I would let you guys know as well as our dear creator that her characters are being used." I Found Melanie Rawn Fan Fics On The Net, Archived version
There are organizations to help fight inappropriate C&Ds.
- The Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit fannish endeavor, has a legal committee that will listen to any fan who's received a C&D or DMCA notice, and will connect them to other organizations that can offer direct help, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation, while not specifically fannish, is dedicated to protecting online civil liberties.
- ↑ Fan Works Inc. Fan Fiction Policies >> Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn (accessed 14 Mar 2010)
- ↑ Fan Works Inc. Fan Fiction Policies >> Bradley, Marion Zimmer (accessed 14 Mar 2010)
- ↑ "Queen's Own Fan Fiction Guidelines (accessed 14 Mar 2010)
- ↑ Worlds of Mercedes Lackey - News (bottom of page) Accessed March 14, 2010.
- ↑ Incognito a Man from UNCLe slash ezine > links (accessed 14 Mar 2010)
- ↑ Copy of original c&d letter to netroenterprises.com (accessed 14 Mar 2010)
- ↑ carissa_lynn received a C&D letter for the use of MPAA ratings on Time Turner.net. Copy of the original c&d letter at her LiveJournal, posted 20 March 2005 (accessed 14 Mar 2010). Also posted at at Lumen (formerly Chilling Effects).
- ↑ "The MPAA goes after fandom": Fanthropology Livejournal Community (accessed 14 Mar 2010)
- ↑ Legal discussion of the MPAA's actions: Fandom Lawyers Livejournal Community (accessed 14 Mar 2010)
- ↑ Gonzo Halts Romeo×Juliet Fansub with FUNimation's Help posted Sept. 28, 2007. Accessed Nov. 25, 2012.
- ↑ Romeo x Juliet "To my knowledge this is the first occurence of Japanese company actually sending a C&D during an ongoing anime" posted Sept. 27, 2007. Accessed Nov. 25, 2012.


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Miranda also has a beauty guide called "Treasure Yourself" coming out, which is being published by an "herbal" publishing company.
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DETROIT - The Detroit Pistons seem to be slipping from great to good, leading to questions about a nucleus that has been kept together since winning a title in 2004 and a coach that had a tough act to follow.
Detroit dropped out of the playoffs on the road in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals for the second straight year after consecutive trips to the NBA finals.
"The season's a failure," Rasheed Wallace said after the Cleveland Cavaliers eliminated Detroit with a 98-82 win Saturday night.
Wallace's teammates and the rest of the franchise would probably agree with his blunt assessment.
The Pistons earned top seeding in the Eastern Conference playoffs for the second straight year and seemed to be rolling with a 7-0 start, matching a franchise record.
Then, they lost two of the last three games against the Chicago Bulls in the second round and collapsed against the Cavs, blowing a 2-0 lead in the conference finals for just the third time in NBA history.
"I don't really care about that," Chauncey Billups said. "I'm just mad we lost four straight games to a team that I felt wasn't better than us.
"But obviously, they were better than us this week."
Next year, the up-and-coming Cavs and Bulls will likely improve.
To keep up with their Central Division rivals, the Pistons might be forced to shake up a roster that has had a lot of success. Wallace, Billups, Richard Hamilton and Tayshaun Prince created the kind of continuity rarely seen in professional sports.
The Pistons won a championship, fell just short of repeating, and advanced to the conference finals five straight years - a streak trailing only one team over the past 20-plus years.
"I think its unbelievable," New Jersey Nets coach Lawrence Frank said during this postseason. "They've had three different coaches. Their core has stayed together for the most part. They lost (Ben) Wallace, but it is such a tremendous credit to that organization to be at such a high level year in and year out."
But Pistons president of basketball operations Joe Dumars was unhappy about the way the season unraveled in the playoffs, and he's an executive with a history of making bold moves.
Dumars fired Rick Carlisle after two successful seasons and bought out Larry Brown following two straight trips to the NBA finals.
Coach Flip Saunders set a franchise record by winning 117 games in his first two regular seasons, beating Brown's mark by nine games and Carlisle's by 17. But the Pistons fell short of expectations and their goals in both of their postseasons with a coach that struggled in the playoffs with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
"He's in a tough situation," Billups said. "Could he have done some things differently? Probably so. Could I? Yeah. So could Sheed and Tay and go down the line. It's unfair to point the finger at one person."
Billups was the NBA finals MVP three years ago and an All-Star in each of the next two seasons, but his lackluster play in the conference finals the last two years was tough for the team to overcome.
"I played as hard as I could, but I didn't play that great," he said after averaging 15.3 points, 3.5 assists and 3.8 turnovers against the Cavs. "I'm sure some other guys in this locker room could say the same thing."
Billups, who will be one of the NBA's top free agents this summer, wants to return to Detroit if its offer is competitive with other offers.
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