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They were teddy bears on wheels. The Volkswagen Beetle, affectionately known as the Bug, was as much a part of the '60s uniform as granny glasses and Army surplus. Bug owners were marked as nonconformist and counter to everyday culture.
"I rode in one once," a colleague of mine told me. "Could you always see the highway through the floorboards?"
He was talking about a used Volkswagen Beetle. The company stopped production more than 20 years ago, and more than 4.7 million were sold in the U.S.
Next month, after no Bug production in two decades, Volkswagen is bringing back the Beetle in a new '90s style. Prototype models have shown at numerous auto shows throughout the country with huge fanfare.
"It's more power and less flower," said the chairman of Volkswagen, because the new Beetle will sport a new rounded look. Gone is the traditional rear engine configuration.
There are other features on the new Beetle, such as water cooling instead of air cooling, heat and air conditioning instead of only heat in the summertime, The new Beetle also has a six speaker stereo system with a cassette player.
But most important, how can this new Beetle replace the good karma the old Beetle provided?
Volkswagen Beetles were things of constant wonder that achieved a personal love that's hard to replace. A political friend of mine, former Cupertino Mayor Gary Stokes, loved his blue Bug. He kept it for 12 years and still has an unrelenting love for the car.
"It was easy to park, I never had a problem, never had to buy tires and you could fill it up with gas for less than $3.50," Stokes said. "The kids loved to crawl through the hole to ride in the back, but best of all, I never had to check the water."
The Beetles of the '60s were affordable. In yesterday's culture, Beetle owners flew the pennant of "less is more." They endorsed the sufficiency the same as today's sport utility vehicles do, but sport utilities waste gas and dirty the air more than the Beetle did.
The Beetle was the Discovery Channel of today. It was transportation, and the style stayed in vogue for 20 years. It competed against a crazy car world that was loaded with chrome and big fins. When you were trying to thumb a ride you could always count on VWs. They'd stop.
The Beetle was the first car many people owned. Most cost around $1,700 back then, which is under $10,000 in today's dollars. Gas gauges and passenger-side sun visors were options.
When my daughter, Candace, graduated from college, she had her choice of a new car or free tuition for a master's degree. She chose a new green Volkswagen.
She kept the Bug for 21 years and 325,000 miles. She sold it to a student when she purchased a new Acura. The green Bug is still making the trip to UCLA and back.
"It was fun beating out everyone at the traffic light" she said. "On the freeway it was slow, but it got me where I was going - Eugene, Seattle, Los Angeles. And a friend of mine drove his clear across country in 2 1/2 days. My Bug was egalitarian, to a fault."
As for the new Beetle that will be in car showrooms in April, nothing can be as simple, as pure or uncomplicated.
The new Beetle might pretend, but too much rubber has hit the road. You can't go home again and neither will the new Beetle, which has more power and less flower. Base price will start at $15,200 with many additional options and it will compete with the Ford Taurus, Toyota Camry and Honda Accord.

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Dive With The Big Fish in Secluded Belongas Bay, South Lombok
On the south western coast of Lombok Island, beyond Sekotong Bay and about 2 hours drive west from Lombok's Kuta area lies Belongas Bay facing the Indian Ocean. This is another exciting pristine diving destination that offers the opportunity to meet some of the big fish in the Indonesian seas. The star in these waters is the fascinating Hammerhead Shark.
The bay itself is fairly large and is sheltered and scenic with long sweeping white sand beaches and rolling green hills. But pass the narrow mouth around the tiny Gili Wayang island where the dive sites are, the sea gets rougher with a strong surge. Therefore, this is the place to be for the relatively larger marine life such as Tuna, White and Black tip reef Sharks, Barracudas, Eagle Rays and schooling Hammerhead Sharks. Considering the water's conditions, the bay may only be fit for advanced and experienced divers who are used to strong surge, up and down currents and negative buoyancy of water entries.
Currently, this area is only accessible via a pretty rough road over the hills and through numerous small villages. However, for the adventurous soul, the splendor that awaits at the bay is more than just worth the trip.
An unspoilt underwater paradise with pristine reefs, an intact environment, and impressive diving with huge marine creatures: these are what dive sites around Belongas Bay have to offer.
'The Magnet', is the name given to the furthest and most prominent dive site around the bay. This is the site where divers can encounter schools of hammerheads, as well as grey reef sharks and white tip sharks. Bear in mind that there is a season for hammerheads sighting: from June to early November. This pinnacle can be reached by boat in half an hour and is located in the open sea, rising up to the surface from 80 meters with waves crashing on top and over it creating a big surge that can be felt down at 15 meters. Divers need to enter the water negatively buoyant so they can go down fast to 20-25 meters where the spectacle starts. Tuna, Barracuda, schools of Mackerel swirling around, and a lot of White and Black tip reef Sharks will certainly create an awesome spectacle. It is an adrenalin rushing site only for the experienced diver.
Just a little to the east off the bay lies the tiny island of Gili Anak Ewok and also another magnificent dive site interestingly named 'The Cathedral'. It's the second most famous dive, and features a large pinnacle with 2 main peaks. This site is notable for the schools of eagle ray sightings and other big fish such as White, Black tip and Grey reef Sharks, Tunas, Mackerels and Barracudas. There are also a lot of sea snakes gliding around, thus it is not surprising when a diver spots as many as 15 sea snakes during a single dive.
Minimum Prerequisites for diving the "Magnet" and the "Cathedral" are an advanced certification and, from November until end April, 50 logged dives, while from May until end October, 100 logged dives. The dive center reserves the right to ask for a check certificates before diving at these sites.
Aside from the Magnet and the Cathedral there are also other dive sites around the bay that offer equally fascinating splendors. Next to big fish sightings, the Gili Sarang site by the Magnet, also features incredible small creatures such as Nudibranchs, Shrimps, Scorpion fishes, Sweet lips and Surgeon fish. As the name suggests, the Boulder City in the east features a lot of big rocks that form hundreds of swim-troughs for various fish and other sea creatures.
The Coral garden in the west is sheltered from the big waves and offers a relatively easy dive. All pinnacles here are covered completely with soft colorful Corals in yellow, orange and purple. Beautiful Gorgonian fans, Whip Corals and Anemones along with the sea creatures that dwell can be found here. Wollis Pinnacle is actually the closest site to the coast, and the first one divers encounter coming out of the secluded bay. It is a large rock that rises up from the sandy bottom at 20 meters until 5 meters beneath sea level and home to Nudibranches, Frog fish and Ribbon Eels, and other sea dwellers.
The nearest and only accommodation within the vicinity of the area is "The Lodge @ Belongas Bay" which is located on the scenically rugged south coast, in a secluded and shady beach side oasis of coconut palms, and accessible only by boat. The Lodge at Belongas Bay consists of one double bedroom and two single bedroom bungalows. Designed and situated to take the most advantage of the sea breeze and the spectacular panoramic views over the bay and the surrounding area. The accommodation is constructed from a variety of local materials that add rustic, seaside ambience. Alternately you can also browse for accommodation options around the nearby Sekotong area, or in the capital Mataram or at Kuta Beach, Lombok.
Garuda Indonesia, Lion Air and a number of domestic airlines fly to the Lombok International Airport located in Central Lombok. SilkAir flies to Lombok from Singapore. From the airport it you can stay at Kuta Beach or stay at Sekotong Beach, closest accommodation to Belongas Bay.
Belongas bay is located around 50 km from Mataram, capital of West Nusa Tenggara and can be reached by a 3 hours drive by car. You can take the route from Mataram to Cakranegara-Banyumulek-Gerung-Lembar-Sekotong Tengah-Belongas.
Alternately -if you feel adventurous enough- you can also use public transportation with the similar route but finish at the Sekotong terminal. Using public transportation, you have to 'hop' from one route to another starting with Mataram-Cakranegara route (IDR 3,000), Cakranegara-Gerung (IDR 5,000), and Gerung -Sekotong Tengah (IDR 6,000). From Sekotong, motorbike taxis are the only available options to get to the bay.
Bear in mind that you will find some parts of the road still rough and quite bumpy, so better prepare your vehicles and obviously yourself.
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Cambridge, UK –Mar. 30, 2009 - ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMH)] today announced at Embedded Systems Conference, San Jose, Calif., expansion of its Fast Models portfolio with the introduction of two new models for the Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ multicore processor and for the Cortex-M3 processor.
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The Fast Models for the Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processor and Cortex-M3 processor are the latest examples to be added to the ARM® Fast Model portfolio. They complement an already wide range of very fast, validated models for ARM CPUs, ARM PrimeCell® peripherals, such as the new PL310 L2 Cache Controller, and generic interfaces Included with the product are Fast Model Tools that enable the creation of custom Virtual Platforms or Exported Virtual Sub-systems. Fast Models can achieve speeds of up to 250MHz to enable real-time execution of software which can be analyzed using the ARM Profiler tool.
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Samantha Gridley won at No. 5 singles to help Harvard win its second Ivy League match of the season (photo Christopher M. Hill).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard women's tennis team completed an undefeated weekend Saturday with a 4-3 win over Ivy League opponent Columbia. The win is the Crimson's second straight Ancient Eight victory to start the conference schedule.
Harvard dropped the doubles point, as Hideko Tachibana and Kelly Whelan was the only duo to come out on top for the Crimson. Tachibana and Whelan used a tiebreaker to beat Bianca Sanon and Tiana Takenaga, 8-7 (5).
The other two matches, featuring Kristin Norton paired with Hannah Morrill at No. 2 and Samantha Gridley and Camille Jania at No. 3, had Harvard falling 8-6.
The Crimson quickly swung the momentum by winning the first three matches to finish in singles play. Camille Jania (No. 3), Samantha Gridley (No. 5) and Hanah Morrill (No. 6) gave Harvard wins in individual contests.
With Harvard on the brink of victory, Natalie Blosser closed out Crystal Leung in the No. 4 position. The Harvard sophomore dropped the first set, 6-3, but rebounded with a 6-4 win in the second set and a 6-3 victory in the deciding set.
Harvard will resume its Ivy League slate next weekend with matches at Penn (April 14) and Princeton (April 15).
Doubles (2-1 Columbia)
1. Tachibana/Whelan (H) def. Sanon/Takenaga (C) 8-7 (5)
2. Bartnik/Alecsiu (C) def. Norton/Morrill (H) 8-6
3. Kovacevic/Leung (C) def. Gridley/Jania (H) 8-6
Singles (4-2 Harvard)
1. Nicole Bartnik (C) def. Hideko Tachibana (H) 5-7, 6-1, 6-5 (5)
2. Bianca Sanon (C) def. Kristin Norton (H) 6-3, 6-3
3. Camille Jania (H) def. Iani Alecsiu (C) 6-1, 6-2
4. Natalie Blosser (H) def. Crystal Leung (C) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
5. Samantha Gridley (H) def. Katarina Kovacevic (C) 6-2, 6-3
6. Hannah Morrill (H) def. Tiana Takenaga (C) 6-0, 6-4


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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A British shoe bomb-plotter-turned-government informant, who once conspired with Osama bin Laden, has become a key witness for U.S. prosecutors seeking to give American juries a taste of life inside al Qaeda, court documents, U.S. and British officials and lawyers say.
Saajid Badat, 33, has already testified via video link at the trials in New York of two alleged al Qaeda militants, and he is scheduled to give testimony at the trial of Abu Hamza al Masri, a fiery, one-eyed Egyptian preacher with hooks for hands whose terrorism case began this week.
Still, Badat, who has served a prison term and lives under a new identity in Britain, refuses to come to the United States to testify because he is wanted by American authorities on shoe-bombing charges.
Defense lawyers faced with countering his damaging testimony accuse prosecutors of trying to have their cake and eat it too.
The government is using Badat as a witness in U.S. courts, they say, in violation of an agreement with British authorities that he would testify "in the United States" - where he could be confronted by defense lawyers during cross-examination - while leaving the indictment against him in place indefinitely.
"The government has created the situation that's allowed him to be unavailable," said Jeremy Schneider, a lawyer for Abu Hamza.
Badat's British lawyer did not respond to requests for comment.
UK investigators call Badat a "supergrass," a British colloquialism for a prolific informant.
He struck a formal deal with British authorities to give information and testify against fellow militants in return for a reduced prison term.
In a 2012 statement posted on its website, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said Badat was the first-ever "UK convicted terrorist" to agree with authorities to "give evidence in a trial against other terrorists."
The service said that under the deal, Badat explicitly agreed to give evidence "in the United States" against an alleged al Qaeda plotter, the first time British authorities had ever entered into such an agreement.
Most of the testimony Badat has given so far in U.S. court cases has focused on his interactions with bin Laden and other Qaeda commanders while training in Afghanistan, helping prosecutors build a picture of how al Qaeda operated without directly incriminating specific defendants on trial.
Late last week, Badat gave a video deposition in the U.S. case against Babar Ahmed and Syed Talha Ahsan, former residents of south London who once operated pro-Qaeda websites. The two pleaded guilty to terrorism support charges in Connecticut after spending years in British jails fighting to avoid extradition.
In an April 1 court filing, their lawyers questioned why the government wanted Badat to testify at their sentencing hearings when there had not previously been even a "fleeting reference" to him in 10 years of extradition litigation.
Defense lawyers and prosecutors have more recently been arguing over how relevant, and appropriate, his testimony is to the case of Abu Hamza, which opened in New York on Monday.
Lawyers for Ahmed and Ahsan accused U.S. authorities of playing games by keeping the criminal case against Badat alive, making it impossible to question him in front of jury members.
As long ago as 2009, they said, a U.S. Justice Department official told Badat's lawyers in writing that the department had agreed to consider whether his cooperation might lead to a resolution of the U.S. case against him.
The Justice Department official said she was "hopeful that we will have an answer to you shortly." However, in a letter to a federal judge last month, lawyers for one of the British militants said that five years later, the United States still has not resolved its case against Badat.
Badat testified by video about life in al Qaeda training camps at the 2012 trial in Brooklyn of Adis Medunjanin, an alleged associate of Najibullah Zazi, who pleaded guilty with a third man to plotting to bomb the New York City subway system. Medunjanin was convicted on charges related to the plot.
Badat also testified by video link at the recent trial in Manhattan of Suleiman Abu Ghaith, bin Laden's son-in-law, who made threatening speeches after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
At the trial of Abu Ghaith, Badat said he and Richard Reid, a Briton who was jailed after trying to attack an airliner with a shoe bomb in December 2001, had been plotting shoe bombings around the time Abu Ghaith was recording videos warning of further al Qaeda attacks against the United States.
Badat said he could not recall ever meeting Abu Ghaith and did not know if he had been told of the shoe bomb plan. While Reid went ahead with his shoe bomb attempt, Badat had second thoughts. He said he dismantled the bomb given to him by a top al Qaeda commander and hid the parts in his home, where they later were recovered by British investigators.
Abu Ghaith was convicted last month.
During his U.S. court appearances, Badat has testified that bin Laden, who was killed three years ago in a U.S. commando raid on his hideout in Pakistan, personally gave him pep talks as part of his preparations for becoming a shoe bomber.
Badat's refusal to come to the United States sparked heated debate as lawyers prepared for the trial of Abu Hamza, the Egyptian-born preacher who reportedly suffered his disfiguring injuries while training with militants in Afghanistan.
Abu Hamza, also known as Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, is accused of conspiring in a 1998 kidnapping of tourists in Yemen that resulted in the deaths of three Britons and an Australian. He is also charged with plotting to set up a training camp in Oregon and providing material support to al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest to allow Badat to testify live on closed-circuit television. Initially, Forrest criticized the Department of Justice for failing to press Badat "with vigor" on his refusal to come to the United States for fear of arrest.
At a hearing last week, Forrest noted Badat's agreement with Britain called for him to testify "in the United States."
Prosecutors argued that the phrase only required him to testify but did not require his physical presence on U.S. soil. Lawyers for Abu Hamza said the government was trying to use Badat without requiring him to fulfill his British agreement.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ian McGinley said U.S. authorities were still mulling Badat's shoe-bombing charges.
"My understanding is it's still an ongoing process, but I'm not privy - that is a District of Massachusetts decision," McGinley said at a recent court hearing.
The judge suggested U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder might have to sign off on any decision.
"I would assume this decision would have to go straight up to Holder, right?" she asked.
"I would assume," the prosecutor replied.
As the trial opened, the judge announced her decision to allow Badat once again to testify by remote video link.
(Reporting by Mark Hosenball and Joseph Ax; Editing by Jim Loney and Bernadette Baum)


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Lon Kruger Has His Sooners On the Right TrackPosted by rtmsf on November 29th, 2012
Eli Linton is the RTC correspondent for the Summit League. He filed this report from Oklahoma's visit to Oral Roberts last night in Tulsa.
While most of America was focused on the top-10 match-up in North Carolina, there was a battle going on in the heart of Oklahoma between the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles and the Oklahoma Sooners, a once-proud program that Lon Kruger is leading back into the national spotlight. The Sooners escaped in a 63-62 slugfest to improve to 5-1 on the season, but it might have been the way they won that spoke louder than their surprising record.
Facing ORU in Tulsa is no easy task. Before the contest, the Golden Eagles had won 24 straight regular season games in the Mabee Center. Scott Sutton has worked for years to give ORU a place at the table reserved for the mid-major contenders, and they nearly accomplished it with a 27-win season last year and at-large consideration. Despite the rise of ORU over the last decade, it still has not managed to climb Boomer Mountain. The Sooners had won 13 straight meetings between the two schools coming into last night's game. Even in the leanest of years, OU found a way to top the Golden Eagles. But Wednesday night, for at least the first 33 minutes of the game, it looked like ORU was finally going to shake off that long-time losing streak. The Golden Eagles held a steady lead from early in the first half, and they pushed it to a 10-point advantage with less than seven minutes to go in the game. But this Oklahoma team is a little different than the one we are used to seeing the past few years.
This is not the same Sooner team that finished with less than 15 wins in back-to-back seasons from 2010-12, and in case you are the skeptical type, it's not even the same team that started hot last season before fading down the stretch. The comeback in Tulsa, while facing a hostile crowd in a building that has claimed bigger giants than the Sooners, was the proof that many OU fans needed to start believing that this Lon Kruger team may have turned the corner. Even in a game where they were outplayed, OU came away with a win. "We were fortunate to learn a lot from this ballgame and still have it be in the [win] column," said Kruger. "We have a lot of work to do."
Sure, OU has a long way to go before they get to where they want to be. It seems like a 100 years ago since Blake Griffin was leading them to the Elite Eight, but this team has bought in to Kruger's system and they like what they have right now. "I feel our team has a great ability to show up in the clutch," said Amath M'Baye, who led OU with 12 points and nine rebounds. "It was a tough game, but we just battled back. I will take the win any day of the week. That's something we need. It's something we love."
Kruger is no stranger to bringing struggling schools back into the national conversation. In 27 seasons he has taken 18 teams to the NCAA Tournament at six different schools. At each of the previous five stops, Kruger has made steady improvements every year and qualified for the NCAA tTournament by at least his second season there. When Kruger was hired at Oklahoma, it was for his pedigree, and wins like Wednesday is exactly what OU fans were hoping for when he took the job. Now in his second season at the helm, OU is 5-1. Don't look now, but basketball may be alive and well in Norman once again. "We are coming off a weekend where we felt we have gotten a lot more physical and a lot more aggressive, especially on the boards," said Kruger. "We have to understand that [this game] is about every possession every night, and we will keep learning and keep getting better."


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text: Delving deeper into social data By John Obrecht. Published on September 17, 2012. In a study released earlier this year, BtoB found that 32% of b-to-b marketers consider themselves to be "very" or "fully" engaged with social media marketing. That was up from just 21% a year earlier. Better still, the study, "Social Media Marketing: A Surge in Adoption," projected that 53% of marketers will be very engaged next year. Those are great numbers, certainly. But while b-to-b marketers are flocking to social media marketing in ever-increasing droves, the question remains: Are they making the most of these channels? A recently released report from Forrester Research, "Uncovering the Value of Social Intelligence for B2B Companies," indicates they have much room for improvement, especially compared with their b-to-c counterparts. The report was based on an online survey of companies with social media listening platforms. Among the findings: 26% of b-to-b companies spend less than $500 per month on listening platform technology, compared with just 11% of b-to-c marketers. B-to-b companies also tend to have fewer dashboard seats. "Simply put, social intelligence is not a priority for many b-to-b companies, requiring fewer employees to have access to social data," Forrester said in the report. Forrester recommends that b-to-b companies step up their listening initiatives by adopting what it calls the four P's of social intelligence: "Turning social data into actionable business insights takes the right people, a clear and measurable purpose, a fine-tuned listening platform, and a repeatable business process. But many b-to-b brands find themselves behind the curve of b-to-c brands' maturity because they overlook one or more of those facets." Among Forrester's specific recommendations: B-to-b companies should look beyond brand tracking in their use of social data. "While that's a great start, they may miss the bigger value of social media by only monitoring it reactively," Forrester said. "B-to-b companies should evaluate their existing goals to find ones that social data can support." They should also be more focused in how they use their social listening platforms. Forrester found that 18% of b-to-b marketers track "a staggering 200 or more topics"—more than twice the percentage of b-to-c companies that take such a wide approach. "B-to-b companies' unfocused listening platform tactics and the small amount of dashboard seats b-to-b companies staff mean that there are too few people tracking too many things," Forrester said in conclusion. "Although simplifying the dashboard use and bringing in outside help will make the job easier, b-to-b companies must plan their social intelligence strategy around scalable processes. Look within the organization for existing decision trees and work flows, then determine where social intelligence fits before blindly collecting insights." So there you have it. While getting into the social media marketing game is great, it's what you do once you're there that really counts. John Obrecht is editor of BtoB and Media Business. He can be reached at [email protected] Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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Sweet Potato & Black Bean Stew
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This main dish stew is savory as much as it is sweet. The sweetness of orange sweet potatoes is dressed in the robustness of black beans.
- Prep Time:30 minutes
Serves: 6
Cups of Fruits & Vegetables per Serving: 2 1/4
2 Tbsp vegetable oil
1 1/2 cups onion, chopped
1 1/2 tsp ground cumin
2 cups Swiss chard, frozen and chopped
3 cups sweet potatoes, peeled, cut into ½-inch cubes
6 cups black beans, low-sodium, drained and rinsed
1 1/2 cups (12 oz) 100% orange juice
2 cups (16 oz) chicken or vegetable stock, low-sodium
2 tsp red wine vinegar
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
- Heat oil and briefly. Saute onion until they smell sweet. Add the cumin and saute until it smells toasted. Add the chard and heat through.
- Add sweet potatoes, black beans, orange juice, and vegetable stock. Bring to a boil and turn down to a simmer until the potatoes are tender, about 20 minutes.
- Add the vinegar, salt and pepper. Serve as a stew or over brown rice or couscous.
Nutritional Information
- Calories: 360
- Carbohydrates: 62g
- Total Fat: 5g
- Cholesterol: 0mg
- Saturated Fat: 0.5g
- Dietary Fiber: 16g
- % of Calories from Fat: 13%
- Sodium: 490 mg
- Protein: 18g
- Recipe Credit
- Recipe courtesy of Challenge.gov Recipes for Healthy Kids.
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In our city there is a group of committed brothers, but they differ from us with regard to some matters, such as fasting in Ramadaan. They do not fast until they see the moon with the naked eye. Sometimes we fast two or three days before them in Ramadaan, and they break their fast one or two days after Eid al-Fitr. Every time we ask them about fasting on the day of Eid they say, "We do not break our fast or start to fast until we see the new moon with the naked eye, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, 'Fast when you see it and break your fast when you see it.'" But they do not recognize the sighting of the moon with instruments as you know. They also differ with regard to the time of Eid prayer, and they do not pray until after Eid according to their sighting. Similarly on Eid al-Adha they differ from us with regard to offering the sacrifice of Eid and the standing at 'Arafaah. They celebrate two days after Eid al-Adha, i.e., they do not offer the sacrifice until after all the Muslims have offered their sacrifices. Is what they are doing correct? May Allaah reward you with good.
They should fast with the people and break their fast with the people, and they should offer the Eid prayer with the Muslims in their city because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Fast when you see it (the new moon) and break your fast when you see it, and if it is cloudy then complete the number (of days – i.e., assume the month is thirty days)." (Agreed upon). What is meant by this command to fast and to break the fast is if the sighting is proven by the naked eye or by means that help the eye to see, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Fasting is the day when you (i.e., the Muslim community) fast, iftaar is the day when you (all) break your fast and adha is the day when you (all) offer your sacrifice." Narrated by Abu Dawood, 2324; al-Tirmidhi, 697; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Tirmidhi, 561).
And Allaah is the Source of strength. May Allaah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and companions.


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Texas Student-Athlete Spotlight: Nate Boyer
November 07, 2013
Big 12 Campus Correspondent
Long snapper Nate Boyer determined the Longhorns' theme for this season: for the man on my right and the man on my left.
The relevance to football is clear, but the phrase means more to Boyer than the rest of his teammates as it stems from his experience in the Army.
"What that means to us in the military is all the training you're going through, everything that you're doing when you're in combat or in a situation, it's about making sure the guy next to you is successful, keeping him safe, keeping him alive," Boyer said. "When you're deployed, something goes down, immediately all you think about is, 'What can I do so I don't let the guy next to me down?'"
Boyer joined the Army partly in response to the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 at age 20. He joined the Green Berets Special Forces Unit after basic training and spent six years on active duty, earning a Bronze Star for his service. He remains active with the Texas National Guard and spends his summers on missions abroad.
He doesn't talk very much about his military experience, but the work ethic he learned while serving translates to the football field and he was determined to make a difference on the Texas football team.
Boyer chose to come to Texas because of the competitive level of the football program. He wanted to be surrounded by the best, which is also why he decided to join the Special Forces.
"I wanted to be in the Army and serve my country but I wanted to do that with the best guys around me in the best possible situation," Boyer said. "I'm going to learn more from guys that are the best at what they do. I put myself around them and I'll be the best that I could possibly be."
He walked on to the football team in 2010, even though he had never played organized football. His high school didn't have a football team, but he played on the baseball and basketball teams.
Boyer chose long snapping because both of Texas' long snappers were graduating and he felt that was the best way he could help the team. Some of the experiences he had while serving in the military helped him master the art of long snapping.
"It was just repetition," Boyer said. "I remember when I was training, learning to shoot a pistol, it was just you dry fire it for hours before they even let you shoot a round. Then once you shoot a round, it's one at a time, everything's real slow and just perfect practice, perfect reps and it was the same thing for me in snapping."
This work paid off for Boyer as he was awarded scholarships for both the 2012 and 2013 seasons and holds the starting spot. He also earned the Lorene L. Rogers Scholar-Athlete Award and graduated in May, but missed commencement because he was on active duty overseas. His work ethic inspires his teammates, who often refer to him as "Army" or "America."
"I just look to Nate as a leader," said senior offensive lineman Trey Hopkins. "If I never knew anything about Nate's military background he would still be a strong leader, just because he's a great guy. He just genuinely cares for people. He's an older guy who knows the system. He came in as a walk on and he just busts his tail and works harder than a lot of guys on this team."
Though Boyer is somewhat shy, he uses his military background to motivate the team. When his teammates are discouraged by grueling practices, he puts their struggles in perspective and pushes them to be better players and teammates.
"He says that what we do here is similar to what the military does except your worst day here is better than their best day there," said head coach Mack Brown. "He says you have no clue and I don't want to hear you crying. He also says that when you're at war in football, you need to know what the guy on your right's going to do and you need to know what the guy on your left is going to do and you need to trust him. At war they die if you make a poor decision. You die if they make a poor decision. We're talking about a game here. We're not talking about life and death."
Others have taken notice of Boyer's leadership skills. He was named the 2012-2013 Big 12 Sportsman of the Year and was the recipient of the 2012 Disney Spirit Award, given annually by Disney Sports to college football's most inspirational figure.
In addition to his role as a leader and deep snapper, Boyer is entrusted with another important duty: leading the team out onto the field each game while carrying the American flag.
"I know that it's possible that you can literally do anything in this life if you believe in yourself and work harder than everybody else around you," Boyer said. "Definitely my time in the military helped with that belief."


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Adam Scott earns first spot in 2013 PGA Grand Slam of Golf
First, it was a remarkable 20-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole to take the clubhouse lead at 8-under par. Then, it was a scintillating two-hole, sudden-death playoff with Argentina's Angel Cabrera.
But, when it was all said and done, Adam Scott claimed his first major championship at Augusta National, becoming the first Australian to win the Masters.
With the victory, Scott became the first player to qualify for golf's most exclusive foursome, earning a spot in the PGA Grand Slam of Golf to be played Oct. 14-16, 2013, at Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton, Bermuda.
Scott began the final round of the 77th Masters trailing Cabrera and Brandt Snedeker by one shot.
In what will go down as one of the biggest putts in Masters history, Scott nailed a 20-footer for birdie on the 72nd to post a 3-under 69 for the final round and an 9-under 279 total for a short-lived clubhouse lead.
Cabrera answered by sticking his second shot on No. 18 to within four feet of the hole and calmly made a birdie putt of his own to force sudden death.
Both players matched pars on No. 18 -- the first hole of the playoff -- before Scott holed a 10-foot birdie putt on the 10th hole, the second of the playoff, for the biggest victory of his impressive career.
The PGA Grand Slam of Golf features a $1.35 million purse, with the winner receiving $600,000, second place $300,000, third place $250,000 and fourth place $200,000.
TNT's prime-time broadcast of the event reaches a worldwide audience of 88.9 million U.S. homes and international viewers in more than 100 countries.The PGA Grand Slam of Golf is hosted by the Bermuda Department of Tourism, Port Royal Golf Course, and the Fairmont Southampton Hotel.
Established in 1979, the PGA Grand Slam of Golf has grown from an 18-hole, single-day charity event to a 36-hole annual showdown that matches professional golf's best against each other.
The remainder of the foursome for the 2013 PGA Grand Slam of Golf features the winners of the U.S. Open, June 13-16, at Merion; the Open Championship, July 18-21 at Muirfield; and finally, the 95th PGA Championship, August 8-11, at Oak Hill.


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The Outer Banks—a strand of narrow barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina—is surrounded by 200 miles of coastline dotted with sandy beaches and rugged dunes. Old lighthouses also line the shore, offering breathtaking views of the Atlantic Ocean. The islands, which get strong winds and waves all year long, are a popular destination for kiteboarders and windsurfers. Located about halfway down the coast on a golden-sand beach, Comfort Inn On the Ocean enjoys a front-row seat for watching windsurfers navigate the rough seas. The hotel is also just 2 miles from the Wright Brothers National Memorial, which commemorates the inaugural flight at its launching point.
Comfort Inn On the Ocean makes the most of its beachfront setting. Oceanfront rooms with private patios look out onto the blue-green waters, and you can catch a view of the sunrise from the hotel's furnished deck.
Every morning, the hotel lays out a complimentary breakfast spread featuring eggs, meat, fresh fruit, and assorted hot waffles. Head back to the lobby in the evening to check out the dinner specials or to enjoy drinks and live piano music from a leather armchair in the cocktail lounge.
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Kill Devil Hills is located near the northern end of the Outer Banks, a resort region comprised of a long string of barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina. Popular legend says the city got its name during the colonial era, when locals scavenged shipwrecks for rum so potent it could "kill the devil," and then buried the bottles in the giant sand dunes. Today, this storied coastline—and specifically Kill Devil Hills—is most famous for being the site of Orville and Wilbur Wright's first controlled, powered airplane flight in 1903. At the Wright Brothers National Memorial, you can visit the brothers' reconstructed living quarters, see a replica of their plane, and stand on the spot where it made four takeoffs and landings.
The nearly 200-mile seashore is dotted with other small communities, including Corolla, where wild horses run free on the beaches. About 6 miles south of Kill Devil Hills in the beautiful town of Nags Head, visitors can climb the largest natural sand dune on the East Coast at Jockey's Ridge State Park. In addition to offering spectacular views of the coast, the ridge is a popular spot for hang-gliding and kite flying.
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god o mighty i wanna lick the big head on ur dick and make u cumm in my mouth and in my ass god ur huge baby
if you have a cock like this you dont need someone to suck it.... "be shellfish".. haha..
Moi aussi, je suis gay. j'aimerai te sucer ...
Waoo is too big for me but I like
Would be great to be able to suck my own dick, and I wouldn`t mind sucking that dick either xD Great vid :D
longest verified cock ever is 23cm. this one is no more than 20cm. get a ruler and measure his hand compared to his dick. isn't it enuf its big without exaggerating it by more than 3 inches?
Oh Cathrine..Wish you were here for me right now
there's something so wrong about this. If all cocks were 8" long and 2" or better in girth, all we women would be very happy. This is just freakish. Penile hypertrophy, it's called
his name is Bitume , an arab who lives in France
is that halal??
you cracked me up! I can't believe he didn't go into shock with all the blood leaving the brain and going there!
I love arabs, walla
Ha ha, he can't even get it up. Only partially and with help from cock rings... useless gay man
Oh my fuckin' god ... Your dick is soooo tasty
this guy doesn't look Arab from any angle.this is stupid and ppl who believe he is Arab also stupid.
So envious I would give anything to be able to suck myself and cum in my own mouth
There's a nice place for him to sit.....on my face
That was soooo fucking hot !
beauty man. so sexy.. n so beauty dick
Hmm, just a gorgeous piece of Arab cock... Love it!
I cut so hard to this with my rabbit. Fantasising about that thick cock being between my legs. Mmmmmmmm
This made my dick nice and hard. Nice long cock and abs. I'd love to get in on that suck session. I'd love to rub and kiss those balls too and drink his hot cum
I am a 21year old mexican dude with a fat juicy natural light brown 23cm cock that thing looks purple
so fucking hot
If I had that cock I would suck it after it came out of pussy
I'd have loved to be able to suck my own dick and his too. I'd love to ride it too and next time make it explode also
impressive! haha .... you would get rich doing porn!!
wow!!! i'm in love!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lástima no sea mujer te amo bb
you are very lucky guy to have a perfect cock.keep it strong for life.
my cock 5 inch who long
It is fucking hot. Arab are the best!
super schön und auch noch ein hübscher Mann .... Wow
WOW 28cm I have 21.5 x 17 which I love to show off and share
fuck me it would be ma sucking that fucker niiiiiice
He's great
goood penis
seems so unreal. wanna see for myself !!
I only thought its the Ugandans and Sundanese but now see some competition in the Arabs.
sexi :)
bellissimo lo vorrei tutto
nice decor.
where was the cum shot??
break me in with this meaty sweet cock
i am french and i was fucked by ana arab boy from tunisia ..i garantie the arab have very hard cocks but they are to convince him to fuck
I like your smiling creamed face
This guy shows everyone what it like to obsessed with your own cock. Stroking hard, gently, tenderly, roughly, taking time to stroke it so every drop of cum shoots out of you when you climax, licking it, showing it off, and finally releasing and eating your own cum. When you got the inches this guy has everyone should witness this act of self love.
aus deutschland??
what is his name?,,,,,como se llama esta actor porno,,,,he visto varias peliculas de el ,,pero no se como se llama
I think i love u,call me.
o.O least we know why them Arab women stay with their men now xD
don't kid yourself. No woman could take that all. He has to service lady elephants!
If I could suck my own dick I'd never leave home!
the fact that you can SUCK UR OWN DICK has me cumming. i really just wanna suck it for you. hmmm making me so fucking horny. and when you were shaking like that at the end made me wanna rip your pants off and fuck you silly. aaaaaaahhhhh came again :)
My cock has nothing to envy to this but I am sudanese
ce jeune homme a un bien bel engin il me tarde de le gouter
if i one like his i wood be sucking it off all the time
I want this guy to impail meon his dick forever. I would just get off to drink his cum. For the moment I'll just make do with wan king mysaef silly every time I see him and drink my own cum.aaaaaahhhhhhhh
ooh my god bb! Is so amazing ur horny big big dick I want u so much. i wish ride u baby people is real no fake.
fucked by this cock must be like heaven on earth. i'm so damn wet now
This guy always makes me wet.. he masturbates perfectly.. wish he made some sounds.. he's really handsome too
OMG!!! k verga mas rica kiero una asi para k me la meta x todos lados...deliciosa;)
thats nice
I suck my cock, I am gay. Sorry girls
i want that thick cock deep in me allllll night!!! mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I want it - now!
Oh God that dick its a shame he dont make more vids and parts of it is skipped. man if I saw the full vid of him taking of his clothes i would never stop watching the boy
,,,,,,,,love to try your cock insde myass.......it would be miind-blowing ,,,fuck me..and my multipke ejaculation . wonder i can ery to break record.breaking HOW MORE U CAN GIVE.....A ND I DEMAND HIGHEST ORGASMIC tallied scores
my pussy is soooo wet & hot watching this dick
haha nice nice ... look like fake, but generally speaking arab guys have huge cocks so it may be real one
delicious cock wish that i could have inside my mouth..
sarap sarap naman!
wow with a cock like that i could blowjob myself the whole day....
Oh yes! that was so hot, especially when he started to get really into it, personal classic for sure.
vive karim et le bombers
i wan you to fuck my ass i want all your cum in my fucking mouth
oh I want your cock so much!!!!I wan to suck that cock,i want to fuck my mouth and my ass and i want all of your cum in my mouth!!!!I am a man and I love a pussy,but I also love big,nice cock like this!!!!
ke polla tan grande yo kiero una asii
i want you in my ass
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From Writers' Favorite Snacks to Cookie Monster's Cookie Recipe: 10 Literary-Themed Posts You Loved This Year
We love getting glimpses into the lives of some of our favorite writers, especially when it comes to their tastes in food! Did you know that Walt Whitman loved oysters and meat for breakfast? Or that Allen Ginsberg had a famous and "uncompromising" Borsch recipe? Read on for these secrets and more, including a roundup of terrific food journals, a peek inside a literary food-themed dinner party, and Beatrix Potter's recipe for gingerbread.
• 1 Literary Drinks: 10 Famous Fiction Writers and Their Cocktails
• 2 12 Great Writers and Their Favorite Snacks
• 3 Fictitious Dishes: What 5 Famous Meals from Literature Look Like
• 4 Writers and Food: From A - Z
• 5 Winter Reading List: 10 Terrific Quarterly Food Journals
• 6 The Favorite Recipes of American Poets
• 7 Beatrix Potter's Recipe for Gingerbread
• 8 Handwritten Recipes: A Collection of Forgotten Recipes Found in Old Books
• 9 Wordy Thirty: A Literary Food-Themed Dinner Party
• 10 So You Know: Cookie Monster's Famous Sugar Cookie Dough Recipe
Welcome to The Kitchn's Best of 2012 roundup!
From December 17 through January 1 we are rounding up some of our favorite (and your favorite) posts from the past year.
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TUSCALOOSA | After more than two hours of presentations, discussion, objections from parents and heated verbal exchanges, the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education unanimously approved the course catalog for the 2013-14 school year.
TUSCALOOSA | After more than two hours of presentations, discussion, objections from parents and heated verbal exchanges, the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education unanimously approved the course catalog for the 2013-14 school year.
A large group of parents from Rock Quarry Elementary School, Rock Quarry Middle School and Northridge High School who attended the meeting were not pleased with the board's decision.
"I'm tired of being talked at and not talked to," said John Fisher, the father of a seventh-grader at Rock Quarry Middle. "I learned in the (joint) City Council (and city Board of Education) meeting that y'all had already decided to do this. It was a done deal."
The issue at hand didn't involve the entire 2013-14 course catalog.
The major changes to the catalog involving the removal of fees from core classes, the addition of an engineering curriculum in middle and high school, expanding health science classes to 10th-grade and reducing the number of high school diplomas to two, weren't contested at all.
The change that parents were upset about was the removal of advanced-level classes from next year's middle and high school curriculum.
Elisabeth Davis, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction for the Tuscaloosa City School System, said for the past several years the system has had three levels of classes in seventh- through 10th-grades and four levels of classes in 11th- and 12th-grades.
In seventh through 10th-grades, the levels were regular classes, advanced classes and pre-AP/honor classes. In 11th- and 12th-grades, the levels were regular, advanced, pre-AP/honor and AP classes. The class levels are also sometimes referred to as levels one, two, three and four.
Now that the 2013-14 course catalog has been approved by the board, advanced (level two) classes will no longer be offered.
Davis said she recommended removing advanced-level classes because the Alabama Department of Education is only issuing two "codes" — class levels — for all school systems in the state. She also recommended the change because the most successful school systems in the state only offer two class levels for middle school and the school system will switch to the Common Core national curriculum next year, which will provide a more rigorous curriculum that makes
regular-level courses as difficult as advanced-level courses.
Parents say they're upset about the change because it would cause students who would normally be in regular level classes to be in the same class as students who would otherwise be in advanced-level classes.
"I'm very concerned about the de-leveling," said Heather Scharfenburg, mother of a third-grader at Rock Quarry Elementary and a sixth-grader at Rock Quarry Middle.
"I feel like they're going to bump some kids up into a more challenging class that they don't need to be in and bump down other kids into a slower class," she said. "It's to the detriment of every child."
Bryan Winter, the father of twin girls in second-grade at Rock Quarry Elementary, said their issue is not about race or economic status. It's about doing what's fair for all children.
"When educating children, you need to find each of their best potential," Winter told the board. "You don't jam all of the kids into one group...A smart kid at Westlawn is going to be held down because he's grouped together with kids who aren't performing as high as him."
Board member Kelly Horwitz told Winter that if he wanted more time to talk with the board about the issue he should have invited the board members and system administrators to a meeting he held with Rock Quarry parents at his office on the subject.
With the parent meeting the system held on the issue a few weeks ago, Horwitz said people have had a lot of time to ponder the changes.
Winter said he was trying to discuss the issue with parents only at the time.
Board member Sena Stewart, who's district includes Rock Quarry, told Winter that, as his representative on the board, she never received one phone call or email from him or any of the other Rock Quarry parents about the issue.
"That's because frankly Ms. Stewart, no one has any faith in your abilities," Winter said.
Stewart told Winter how dare he speak to her that way before board chairman Dan Meissner interrupted the exchange.
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Blake Masters, which sounds like a porn name, has been picked up by Paramount to pen the script for their upcoming big screen adaptation of "Insurrection". The film will focus on a clone who decides to stand up to the corporation who created him and sent his fellow remakes to battle for them. In case you're wondering my porn name would be Jack Hammer.
I've kind of had my eye on the "Silent Night, Deadly Night" remake, simply titled "Silent Night" because I think remakes of horror flicks that were never that good to begin with can be just fine. This one also has Malcolm McDowell in it so it can't be that bad, right? Well we'll all get to find out on November 30th, which just so happens to be the DVD release date the film has been slapped with. It's creepy to hear me say I have my eye on something right? I'm not going to be offended if you tell me you're a little uncomfortable.
I love the "Friday the 13th" franchise just as much as the next guy but at this point I've shelled out enough money for DVD and VHS versions of the films that I kind of feel like Jason should come to my house and cook me dinner. But now that Warner Brothers has acquired the fights to the films it looks like there may be updated Blu-Ray versions of 1 - 8 in the series so I may have to throw down some more cash. If you remember a few years back the flicks did hit Blu-Ray but in a crappy no new features pretty much DVD quality version which made me want to punch things. You probably didn't know the punch things stuff. I mean unless you can read my mind that is. God I hope you can't read my mind.
Jillian Murray of "The Graves" and "Wild Things: Foursome" fame has been added to the cast of "Cabin Fever: Patient Zero", a film I had forgotten was going to be made. This time around we find ourselves with a party cruise that runs ashore on a medical center where a deadly virus has broken out. I'll just say it now... If the film doesn't cast anyone from "Boy Meets World" I'm not watching it. You've been warned.
Nothing wrong with a good old fashion girls in skimpy tops running around a creepy old gas station being chased by a bunch of nut bags. It's a story as old as time and one that looks to play out very nicely in the new with "The Graves" by Brian Pulido. The flick stars a mix of newbie's as well as some seasoned vets like Bill Moseley and Tony Todd.
2010 seems a ways off be we've already got the first trailer for next years "8 Films To Die For" series. Written and directed by independent comic book creator Brian Pulido "The Graves" looks to be one of the best entries to date.


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Cast Watch: New Profiles on Toby Jones, Jessie Cave
Jun 21, 2009
HP Cast
There are two new profiles available today featuring cast members from the Harry Potter films. First is this new interview with actor acclaimed actor Toby Jones. Interviewed for Your Manchester magazine, the article says again what TLC first told you previously that Toby Jones would be back as Dobby in both films of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. You can read the interview with Toby Jones here and here.
Also online is a profile in the Independent with actress Jessie Cave. While the article does not contain any new information about her role as Lavendar Brown in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, it does contain new quotes from the actress about her love of plays, as she is currently appearing in London in the production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. You can see photos of Jessie in the play here via Jessiecave.com.
Thanks so much to Lauren for the scans about Toby Jone!


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HAGART wrote: No matter what, dreams and subconscious thoughts are based on memory and emotion
Im not sure about that, there seems to be other factors going on too.
It doesnt explain people who have a dream of a future event or people who have dreamed up brand new inventions out of the blue. There was one famous invention in which two different unconnected people in different parts of the world at the same time... unknown to each other invented the same thing (sorry I cant now think of what big invention it was.. maybe someone can jog my memory).
I think this could of thing could show an universal consciousness going on out there.


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I have been able to build blender successfully for the subject system
under Linux for gcc-2.95.3 & gcc-3.2; the same procedure should work
for Solaris with these compilers as well (with g++-2.95.2, it will not
because of missing standard headers like <sstream>).
I have built with both Phaeton's autoconf version (SirDude's suggestion
under the redhat 8.0 compile topic), and the CVS tree (24.x.02 version)
along with help from Jochym's Makefile and patch file at <http://rosetta.com.pl/blender>.
Neither build runs "out of the box"; both are straightforward once you get
Here are the problems and comments on solutions.
1. g++-2.95.3 & g++-3.2 are not compatible; this shows up with the
symptoms noted by TheProf in the 'Building for Redhat' topic. The
work-around is present in the autoconf version; for the CVS build
either fix by hand or copy in the autoconf files affected (there are two
files in the 'intern/decimation/intern' directory in CVS).
The solution to this should be to put the changes from the autoconf
version into the CVS tree.
2. (Both versions): Compile gets 'endian-ness' wrong. There are two
problems; both simple to get around.
a. The source uses 'if defined(__sparc)' to determine whether or not
it is being built for a sparc system. gcc-2.95.2 did define such
a symbol; gcc-2.95.3 & gcc-3.2 do not. They define only
As a bandaid to get a correct build, make sure that you compile
with -D__sparc as a CFLAG/CXXFLAG. Correct fix is to add
change 'if defined(__sparc)' to
if defined(__sparc) || defined(__sparc__) || ...
wherever it appears in the source files.
b. In the source/blender/avi directory, it seems that 'endian.c' and
'avirgb.c' want '-DWORDS_BIGENDIAN' in the CFLAGS as well.
3. (autoconf version only). The file source/blender/makesdna/src/dna.c
is incorrect for sparc (another endian problem). As part of the CVS
build, it gets rebuilt for sparc using the makesdna program, and
I jsut copied the results over. If you don't want to do that, you will
need to build the makesdna program yourself and run it (or else
change the blendloader/ source to know that the data string produced
by compiling dna.c needs its endian-ness reversed whenever it is
Best solution is to make sure that the makesdna Makefile rebuilds
dna.c (should be easy to do, but I haven't because I don't need it)
4. CVS only. Don't forget to modify the '*.mk' files for your
environment, noticint that your CPU (on a sun4u at least) will be
'sparc64', not 'sparc', and that you will have to add some targets for
the makefile to build when OS=linux and CPU is a sparc.
That's it. Essentially the only problems arise because of changing compiler
specifications (and an oversight in the autoconf version which you need
a bigendian system to find).
Builds for SPARC (sun4u) (Linux & likely Solaris+gcc)
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OK, to continue. On an Ultra10, Solaris 8.0, g++-2.95.2 system, theFerris wrote:I have been able to build blender successfully for the subject system
under Linux for gcc-2.95.3 & gcc-3.2; the same procedure should work
for Solaris with these compilers as well (with g++-2.95.2, it will not
because of missing standard headers like <sstream>).
autoconf version builds and runs fine. Same comments as in the original
post concerning endian-ness; I simply copied the dna.c file correctly built
for the Linux/sparc systems onto the Solaris system.
I also copied the <sstream> file from the g++-2.95.3 files on one of the
Linux systems into the g++ header directory on the Solaris system.
This particular Solaris system did not have openssl installed so I installed
I do not use any openGL package from Sun; this Solaris system uses
Mesa version 3.4.
Everything else blendercreator-ph needed is installed on the system,
configure found what it needed, and the build went fine.
So, if you take care of the endian problems with appropriate compiler
-D__sparc, etc, and arange to get a correct dna.c file for big-endian
systems, Phaeton's autoconf version, blendercreator seems to build and run fine under Solaris 8.
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Welcome to The Writing Center- CE at Hunter College
Have you ever wanted to meet your favorite authors? Are you looking to improve your knowledge of their work?
The Writing Center hosts a cultural showcase of free literary events during the fall and spring and an annual Writers' Conference to launch every summer that allow you to get up-close and personal with your literary heroes. Past lecturers include Mary Higgins Clark, Gay Talese, Joyce Carol Oates, Barbara Taylor Bradford and Lee Child. Our fall events include Jack Burstyn Memorial and Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas lecturers and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Conner Writers-in-Residence. During the spring, The Writing Center hosts the Best Selling Author series and the Great Thinkers of Our Time series. The Writing Center's annual summer event features distinguished keynote speakers, writers, editors, publishers and literary agents on exciting panels.
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USD Graduates Engineer a Brighter Sudan
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
Inside USD -- Nearly 20 years ago, Mou Riiny was forced to flee his village in southern Sudan during the second Sudanese civil war and walk 500 miles to Kenya before coming to the United States. Now, he and several other University of San Diego engineering graduates have returned to install a solar power system and bring electricity to the village for the first time.
The six-kilowatt system will create a sustainable model that can be repeated for villages throughout the developing world. Electricity carries with it a world of benefits for rural communities, including the alleviation of poverty, illiteracy and opportunities for entrepreneurship. "It will power charging stations so people can charge batteries, laptops and cell phones," said Riiny, one of the "Lost Boys of Sudan" who resettled in Boston, Mass., before attending USD to study electrical engineering. (Full Story)


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Scathing UN report details Iran rights abuses
Oct. 23, 2013
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A special U.N. rapporteur released a scathing report Wednesday detailing widespread human rights abuses in Iran, but he said recent signals from new President Hassan Rouhani have raised expectations for change.
Ahmed Shaheed's report condemned a rise in the number of jailed journalists in Iran over the past decade — including 23 since January — and other restrictions against freedom of expression, including the blocking of up to 5 million of websites. He expressed alarm about a law being considered that would allow a custodian to marry his adopted child. And he said minority religious groups are subjected to discrimination in employment and education, and are often arbitrarily arrested and tortured.
But Shaheed welcomed the recent release of more than a dozen political prisoners and "a number of positive signals" from Rouhani, who has made several calls for change since taking office in August, including lifting restrictions academic freedoms, increasing social media access and urging police not to crack down on perceived violations of Islamic dress codes for women.
"These signals I refer to raise the expectation of tangible and sustainable reforms," Ahmed said in a speech presenting his report.
He called for the release of hundreds more prisoners of conscience and urged Iran to respond to his numerous requests to visit the Islamic Republic.
In a written response, Iran rejected Shaheed's report as "a biased approach" that relied on unconfirmed reports for some numbers and "does not merit public trust or confidence." The country defended its press freedom policies, saying they are carried out with regard to "the fundamental principles of Islam and the public rights" enshrined in Iran's Constitution.
Shaheed's report said 40 journalists and 29 bloggers are serving sentences in Iran for offenses from national security crimes to "spreading propaganda against the state." He said that some 1,500 "anti-religious websites" are closed each month, including those containing content on the minority Wahhabi and Baha'i religions, as well as sites dedicated to news, music and women's rights.
Shaheed said he was especially concerned that 786 people have been executed for drug trafficking offenses in Iran since August 2011, when he became special rapporteur. He also lamented that crimes including homosexual acts and insulting Islamic prophets are considered capital offenses and called on Iran to declare a moratorium on all executions. And he said flogging and amputations remain widespread.
In its response, Iran stood by the punishments in its penal code, saying they are carried out with due process and are based on Islamic law.
He detailed numerous allegations of abuse against religious minorities, including the jailing of 109 Baha'is as of May 2013 and 300 cases of abuse of Baha'i children in schools, where some youngsters are pressured to convert to Islam. Christians and Dervish Muslims faced similar discrimination, Shaheed said.
Iran's government insisted that nobody is expelled from universities or imprisoned merely for holding certain beliefs and accused Baha'i groups of staging a "political and media campaign."
The Baha'i International Community, which says it represents 5 million members of the faith, rejected Iran's defense and said little has changed for Baha'is since Rouhani's election.
"What we see is the continuation of the usual tactics, attempting to delude the international community and to appease the family of nations, even as repression continues at home in full force," said Bani Dugal, the group's representative to the U.N.


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Tens of thousands of people from across the nation gathered at the National Mall Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and to rally for what many believe is the unfinished business of the civil rights battle.
Under picture-perfect blue skies, the throng assembled around the base of Lincoln Memorial – where Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech - and listened to speaker after speaker implore them to become active participants, not bystanders, in the quest of racial equality and harmony.
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Start Meditating
Conclude Meditation
An excerpt from Laurence Freeman, OSB, "Dearest Friends," Christian Meditation Newsletter, Vol. 33, No. 3, September 2009, pp. 3, 4, 5, 6.
It is practice not deprivation that drives the spiritual journey and pushes us to grow beyond our limits.
An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, "Understanding Faith," in FIRST SIGHT: The Experience of Faith (London: Continuum, 2011), pp. 9-10.
Instead of fingers pointing to the moon, doctrine or dogma bend backwards pointing to themselves. Anything that questions belief is then perceived as threatening and what is threatening can exude a kind of strangeness or threat which incites fear.
An excerpt from L. Freeman, FIRST SIGHT: The Experience of Faith (London: Continuum, 2011) pp. 7-8.
Christianity today has embarked on a radicalizing project: of recovering and updating the contemplative dimension in all aspects of life--dialogue with the secular and scientific worlds and with other religions, and also, at home, in its theology, morality, prayer, worship and social action.
From John Main OSB, "The Christian Crisis, "THE PRESENT CHRIST (New York: Crossroad, 1991), pp. 74-76.
The call to the modern person, the call to all of us, is to become spiritual, and to become spiritual we have to learn to leave behind our official religious selves—that is, to leave behind the Pharisee that lurks inside all of us—because, as Jesus has told us, we have to leave behind our whole self.
An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB. "Dearest Friends," WCCM International Newsletter, Winter 2001.
Inner peace is hard to find at times of conflict and fear. We find it difficult to sit still when mind and feeling are in turmoil.
An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, "Dearest Friends" in Christian Meditation Newsletter, Vol. 35, No. 2, July 2011, P. 5.
We are all looking for something. Some have a clear sense of it, at least a conscious awareness of something missing.
An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, "Dearest Friends" in the Newsletter of the World Community for Christian Mediation, Vol. 35, No. 2, July 2011, pp. 4-5.
We can let go of our worries and anxieties as Jesus advises us in his teaching on prayer. These anxieties are manifold, the daily glitches that pass with a good night's sleep, the losses that are still awfully present when we awaken, the deeper patterns of our character with their roots in pre-conscious memory.
From Laurence Freeman OSB, "Patterns and Identities," THE SELFLESS SELF (Norwich: Canterbury), pp. 47-48.
Faith does not make sense, it does not make reality, unless it is repeated, unless it perseveres. What do we persevere in? And how is it that simple perseverance brings about an expansion in depth of life, consciousness and being?
From Fr. Laurence Freeman ' First Sight (Continum, 2011), pp. 34-35.
Faith is a way – a way of life, a way of behaving over time- by which we give. But if we see it only giving, only as commitment and sacrifice, we will find it hard to grow in the many ways that faith enables us to become more fully human.
From Fr. John Main, "Purity of Heart," WORD MADE FLESH (Norwich: Canterbury, 2009), pp. 58-59.
We often think of freedom merely as the freedom to do what we want to do. But even the most rudimentary experience of making contact with the power of Jesus in meditation shows us that freedom is not essentially the power to do but the liberty to be who we are


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Authorities: Fatal Ohio House Fire Not Accidental
Authorities: Fatal Ohio House Fire Not Accidental
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio —
Authorities in eastern Ohio say a weekend fire that killed a man and his three young sons may have been intentionally set.
East Liverpool police Chief John Lane says an accidental fire has been ruled out.
Fire Chief Bill Jones says there are working theories on how and where the fire started in the two-story wood frame home, but he wouldn't elaborate. The state fire marshal has joined the investigation.
The fire early Saturday killed 37-year-old Ulrick Estimot and his sons ages 5, 7 and 11.
The (East Liverpool) Review reports two police officers who arrived at the scene first kicked in a door but were unable to get past the flames to attempt a rescue.