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Islamist group Boko Haram claim church killings
Latest update : 2012-01-07
Nigerian Islam extremist group Boko Haram have claimed responsibility for brutal shootings in two churches that killed at least 20 people Thursday and Friday in the Nigerian towns of Gombe and Mubi, respectively.
AFP - A fresh wave of violence targeting Christians claimed by Islamist group Boko Haram has rocked Nigeria, with over 20 people killed in attacks on mourners and church worshippers.
The deadliest of the attacks hit the town of Mubi in northeastern Nigeria on Friday, when five gunmen opened fire on Christian Igbos at a house as they mourned the death of a friend killed in a shooting the night before.
The sect behind the bombings
Various death tolls were given. Residents and a relief official reported up to 17 dead, while police said 12 were killed, with between two and five people killed the previous night in the same town.
On Friday night gunmen raided an area housing churches in Yola city centre, in the same state as Mubi, and killed at least eight people inside a church, according to a local journalist and a hospital source.
On Thursday evening, gunmen had stormed a church in the northeastern city of Gombe and opened fire on worshippers, killing six people including the pastor's wife.
The attacks further intensified fears that the violence could lead to wider religious clashes in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, which is roughly divided between a mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south.
A purported spokesman for Islamist group Boko Haram, blamed for scores of attacks in Nigeria, had on Sunday issued a three-day ultimatum for Christians to leave the north.
The same spokesman, Abul Qaqa, claimed responsibility for the attacks at the Mubi church and on the mourners, adding they were in response to the ultimatum.
He also said a state of emergency declared in hard-hit areas last weekend by President Goodluck Jonathan would not stop the sect.
"We are responsible for the attacks in Mubi and Gombe," Qaqa, who claims to speak on behalf of Boko Haram, told journalists in the northeastern city of Maiduguri by phone.
"We are extending our frontiers to other places to show that the declaration of a state of emergency by the Nigerian government will not deter us.... We can really go to wherever we want to go."
He called on the federal government to release all arrested Boko Haram members as a condition for attacks to stop.
"The attacks are part of our response to the ultimatum we gave to southerners to leave the north," he added.
Jonathan declared the state of emergency on December 31 in parts of four states hard hit by the attacks blamed on Boko Haram, but there has been no halt to the violence.
Yola and Mubi, located in Adamawa state near the Cameroon border, and Gombe are not part of the areas under the state of emergency decree.
"There was an attack at the Christian Apostolic church this evening. Some gunmen went into the church and opened fire on worshippers killing some people and wounding several others," said a journalist who lives in Yola.
Mobs also fired into the air and explosions were heard in the northeastern city of Potiskum on Friday evening, residents said. Potiskum falls under the state of emergency decree and has previously been hit by heavy violence.
"Gunmen who are, from all indications, members of Boko Haram came in large numbers and have encircled police headquarters. They chanted 'Allahu Akbar' and fired indiscriminately," said a trader speaking not far from the police station.
While Boko Haram has been blamed for increasingly deadly attacks for months, including an August suicide bombing of UN headquarters in Abuja that killed 25, the violence has taken on a different dimension with the recent church attacks.
A wave of Christmas bombings that killed 49 people, most of them outside of a Catholic church as services were ending, led to intense fear and outrage in Africa's largest oil producer.
There have been fears of reprisals from Christians, and Christian leaders have warned they will defend themselves if attacks against them continue.
Boko Haram is a shadowy group believed to have a number of factions with differing aims, including those with political links and a hard-core Islamist faction.
It launched an uprising in 2009 put down by a brutal military assault which left some 800 people dead.
Since the group re-emerged in 2010, it has been blamed for increasingly sophisticated and deadly attacks, including suicide bombings, but its structure and aims have become far less clear.
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Spinning coal into gasoline
Questions hang over promise of clean diesel and energy independence
When Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, D, talks about turning coal into diesel fuel, he speaks in glowing terms. The so-called synfuels will burn cleanly, he says, and building a coal-to-liquid plant will bring jobs to Montana and energy independence to America.
Creating synfuels to power the nation's cars, trucks and military vehicles has become one of Schweitzer's rallying points. The governor has attracted national attention by pushing the Bull Mountain plant, proposed for a site south of Roundup in the south-central part of the state. At the same time, Wyoming is shooting for its own facility near Medicine Bow. Montana has 120 billion tons of coal; Wyoming has 64 billion tons. With climate change making conventional uses of coal less palatable, the two plants could provide a relatively clean future use for it.
But it will take more than Schweitzer's lofty rhetoric and Western charm to make coal gasification a reality in the West. It will take political force to plow through environmental doubts and a daunting permit process, and technological know-how to iron out production glitches. And it will take lots and lots of money: Startup costs for even the smallest plant range from $1 billion to $1.5 billion.
When oil prices hit $70 a barrel, however, all sorts of long-dormant alternative energy schemes leap to life. Getting financing is "definitely doable," Schweitzer says. "I've been to New York and spoken with firms like Goldman Sachs. When you've got shoulders as big as GE and Arch Minerals (providing technology and coal respectively) to stand on, people listen."
New life for an old process
The creation of synfuels involves two major steps. First, coal is heated and converted to gas. Then, using the Fischer-Tropsch conversion process invented by the Germans in the 1920s, the gas is converted to paraffin, then low-sulfur diesel. The process gives off carbon dioxide, but in a form that is easy to re-use, although plenty of questions remain about carbon dioxide transport and storage. Today, nearly 30 percent of South Africa's fuel needs are satisfied by one company, Sasol, which produces 150,000 barrels of fuel per day from coal.
Energy analysts say that coal-to-diesel plants can turn a profit as long as crude oil stays above $40 per barrel; it's topped $40 since 2004, and hit a high of $74 this July. And the Energy Policy Act of 2005 eases the pain of startup costs by providing 80 percent of the financing for coal-to-diesel plants. However, the act also limits its total loans for synfuels to only $2 billion. Given the fact that there are at least six coal-to-diesel plants planned nationwide, each with a price tag as high as $4 billion, the Montana and Wyoming plants will have a lot of competition for limited federal funding.
"We don't know of any coal-to-liquids plant in the U.S. being built without government help," says Bethany Haley of the Houston–based DKRW Advanced Fuels, one of the principals behind both the Medicine Bow and Roundup endeavors. "We plan to finance our projects. It would help if the government would contribute, but we plan to go ahead even if they don't." Schweitzer says that Burlington Northern Railroad and JetBlue Airways have expressed interest in securing long-term contracts to purchase fuel from the plants. This would cover some startup costs and encourage other investors to contribute.
Diesel and water don't mix
Regardless of the costs and the financing, turning the West's coal into gasoline has its drawbacks. The process would encourage more coal mining, with its attendant environmental costs; it uses enormous amounts of water; and it may be limited in its ability to help the U.S. achieve energy independence.
"(The plants are) gold-plated Cadillacs," says Jeff Goodell, author of the recent book Big Coal. "It's about the major contracts to build these billion-dollar plants and make a lot of money off that process. If you really want to displace Middle Eastern oil, there are many better ways to do it, like hybrid cars and bio-fuels."
And the diesel provided would be just a few drops in the barrel: The plant south of Roundup would produce 22,000 barrels of diesel per day, the Medicine Bow plant, 10,000 per day. In 2005, the U.S. consumed 4.1 million barrels of diesel per day. In other words, the country would still need a lot of foreign oil.
It also might need more water: According to a 1998 Department of Energy study, it takes 5 gallons of water to produce one gallon of diesel from coal, meaning the Bull Mountain plant would slurp 1.5 billion gallons of water each year. While proponents of the plant argue that the high-moisture coal will require less water than that, they agree that the process is a thirsty one. That leads to concerns for the already dry area: The nearby Musselshell River is already overused, and bringing water from Yellowstone River would require pumping and pipelines.
"We ultimately think there's a better way," says Patrick Judge of the Montana Environmental Information Center. "We can meet future load growth with renewable technology and sidestep all the harmful side effects. Montana can meet its own needs 70 times over on wind power alone."
Schweitzer's vision needs a lot of work before it becomes a reality. And even if the plants are built, says Ellen Pfister, a rancher from Shepard, Mont., with summer range close to the property, the economic boom will most likely end up in a bust. "After the construction wages go away, most of the money will be going out-of-state," she says.
The writer splits his time between Sheridan and Cheyenne, Wyoming.


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Posted: 12 February 2009 at 11:07am
Wilson: The whole issue of Islamic monotheism, by your explanation, has become clear. The Islamic teaching concerning Jesus also has been made clear. Now I would like a summary of the points on which Islam and Christianity agree in regard to Jesus.
Chirri: Islam agrees with Christianity, in general, on the following points:
1. Islam advocates the holiness of Jesus. As a matter of fact, it is an essential part of the Islamic teaching to revere Jesus and to believe in his holiness, and that he lived in this world as a pure person free of any sin. From the Holy Qur'an:
"When the angels said: 'O Mary! Surely God gives thee good news of a word from Him whose name is the Messiah, Jesus, Son of Mary, worthy of regard in this world and the hereafter, and of those who are highly accepted by God.' " 3:45
2. Islam declares the holiness of Mary, the mother of Jesus. No Muslim can doubt the decency and purity of Mary. She, according to the Qur'an, had been the most noble among the women of the nations:
"And when the angels said: 'O Mary! Certainly God has chosen thee and made thee pure and has preferred thee above the women of all nations. 'O Mary! Be obedient to thy Lord, prostrate thyself and bow with those who bow (in worship).'" 3:42-43
3. Islam declares that Jesus was miraculously born from a virgin mother with no father. From the Holy Qur'an:
"And mention Mary in the book. When she withdrew to a place east of her family. She screened herself from them; then We sent to her Our angel, and he appeared to her as a man in all respects. She said: 'I seek refuge in God against you if you are righteous.' He said: 'I am only a Messenger of Thy Lord to grant to you a pure boy.' She said: 'How can I have a son, and no mortal has yet touched me, nor have I been unchaste?' He said: 'So (it will be). Thy Lord says: "It is easy for Me; and that We may make him a sign to men and a mercy from Us. And it is a matter decreed. Then she conceived him; and withdrew with him to a remote place. And the throes of childbirth drove her to the trunk of the palm-tree. She said: 'Oh, would that I had died before this, and had been a thing quite forgotten. So a voice came to her from beneath her: 'Grieve not, surely thy Lord has provided a stream beneath thee. And shake towards thee the trunk of the palm-tree, it will drop on thee fresh ripe dates. So eat and drink and be pleased. Then if thou seest any human, say: "Surely I have vowed a fasting for the sake of the Beneficent, so I will not speak to any human today." 19:16-26
4. The Qur'an attributes to Jesus many of the miracles which are mentioned in the Gospel. According to the Holy Qur'an, Jesus was empowered by God to cure the sick, revive the dead, and make the blind see:
"... and He (God) will make him (Jesus) a messenger to the children of Israel (saying): 'I have come to you with a sign from your Lord that I fashion for you, out of clay, the likeness of a bird, and I breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by permission of God. I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I raise the dead by permission of God. And I announce unto you what ye eat and what ye store in your houses. 'Lo! Herein verily is a sign for you, if ye are to be believers.' " 3:49
In addition to this, the Holy Qur'an ascribes to Jesus a miracle that is not recorded in the gospels: Jesus spoke clearly while he was in the cradle:
"Then she came to her people with him, carrying him. They said: 'O Mary, thou hast indeed brought a strange thing. O sister of Aaron, thy father was not a wicked man, nor was thy mother an unchaste woman.' But she pointed to him. They said: 'How should we speak to a one who is a child in the cradle?' He said: 'I am indeed a servant of God. He has given me the Book and made me a prophet; and He has made me blessed wherever I may be, and He has enjoined on me prayer and purity so long as I live. And to be kind to my mother; and He has not made me insolent, un-blessed. And Peace be on me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I am raised to life (in the Hereafter).' " 19:27-33
Wilson: The points of agreement, by your explanations, have become clear. I know that the followers of various religions have differed on the issue of Jesus Christ. Some of them can be considered anti-Jesus because they deny his holiness and the holiness of his mother, disbelieve in his miracles and reject his truth; some of them are neutral, neither for nor anti-Jesus; and some of them are pro-Jesus, believing in his holiness and accepting all his teachings and believing in his miracles.
According to your explanation, Muslims ought to be considered pro-Jesus, as well as the Christians themselves. What remains now is to see the points in which the Muslims and the Christians disagree concerning Jesus.
Chirri: The area of disagreement between Islam and Christianity, concerning Jesus, includes the following points:
1. Although Islam accepts the holiness of Jesus, it denies his divinity. According to the teaching of Islam, Jesus is no deity. He is not God, nor is he united with God. He is worthy of reverence and great respect, but he is not worthy of worship. Islam is uncompromising in its Monotheism. God is only One, and there is no God but He, the Almighty, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsistent, the Infinite in life, knowledge, and power. Jesus is not ever-living. He was born less than 2000 years ago, and according to the gospels, he died after a very short life. He is not almighty because he was a subject of persecution; nor was he infinite. He could not be the Creator of the world because the world is over four billion years old, while he was born less than two thousand years ago. He is not worthy of worship because he himself was a humble worshipper of God.
2. Jesus, according to the teaching of Islam, is not a son of God. God does not have any son or child, because He is above that. Bodily parenthood is inconceivable in His case because He is not physical. Spiritual parenthood also is not conceivable, because He is the Creator of every spiritual and material being. The Holy Qur'an is clear on this point:
"And (they) impute falsely, without knowledge, sons and daughters unto Him. Glorified be He and high exalted above (all) that they ascribe (unto Him). The Originator of the heavens and the Earth! How can He have a child when there is no consort for Him, when He created all things and is Aware of all things? Such is God, your Lord. There is no God save Him, the Creator of all things, so worship Him. And He taketh care of all things." 6:100-102
3. Islam denies the crucifixion of Jesus. Jesus did not die on the cross. The Holy Qur'an is clear on this point.
"And because of their saying: 'We slew the Messiah Jesus Son of Mary, the Messenger of God.' They slew him not nor crucified him, but appeared so unto them; and lo! Those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof but the pursuit of a conjecture; for certain they slew him not, but God took him up to Himself. God is Ever-Mighty, Wise." 4:157-158
Wilson: This view is in a sharp contrast with the statements of all the gospels. The four gospels clearly state that Jesus died on the cross. How can we reconcile this with the statement of the Qur'an which denies emphatically the death of Jesus on the cross?
Chirri: There is a way to reconcile the Qur'anic statement with the statements of the gospels: The difference between the two statements could be a difference between appearance and reality. No doubt, some event had taken place at the time of what seemed to be the crucifixion of Jesus and his death on the cross. The life of Jesus was full of miracles, and so could be what seemed to be his death. It could have been that another person (such as Judas, the one who betrayed him) was miraculously likened to him, and he, not Jesus, died on the cross.
There is another way to reconcile the two statements without resort to assumption of any miracle: Suppose Jesus was put on the cross, and that he had fainted, so he appeared dead, while he was still alive.
This assumption is not without evidence from the gospels: The gospels state that Jesus did not stay very long on the cross. He was taken down hurriedly, without breaking his legs, while it was the custom to break the legs of the crucified. The Jews were preparing to celebrate Passover. They did not want him to stay on the cross until the next day, Saturday, on which they are not supposed to do any work such as burial. As Jesus did not stay too long on the cross, he could have remained alive.
The gospels state also that after Jesus appeared to be dead, a man struck at his body with a lance, and that the blood gushed out from his body. We know that blood does not flow from a dead body. This indicates that Jesus was still alive.
The gospels state that Jesus was laid in his tomb, and that a heavy stone was laid above the tomb, and that on Sunday, the body was missing, and that the stone was removed from the mouth of the tomb. We have the right to suspect that some of the disciples of Jesus removed the stone and rescued him. Were Jesus resurrected miraculously, there would have been no need for removal of the stone. God is able to raise him from the grave and keep the stone where it was. The removal of the stone seems to be a human, and not a Divine, work.
In addition to this, the gospels state that Jesus appeared several times to his disciples after the event of crucifixion. All these appearances seemed to have taken place in secrecy, and that Jesus was not willing to appear openly. Were he miraculously resurrected, he would not have had to hide from his enemies. The secrecy of his appearances indicates that he was still living as he did before, and that his life was not interrupted by a short death, and that he was still afraid of the pursuit of his enemies.
The international society of the Holy Shroud has recently concluded that the stains of blood on the shroud of Jesus indicate that Jesus was still living when he was taken down from the cross. Otherwise, there would be no blood on the sheet which covered his body afterwards.
A Christian, believing in the crucifixion of Jesus, would have a hard time reconciling two of the principles in which he believes, namely: Jesus is God, and Jesus was crucified. A crucified person cannot be God because he is unable to protect himself, let alone be almighty.
A Muslim, on the other hand, does not have such a problem. He believes that Jesus is a prophet and no more. A prophet may be persecuted and crucified, because a prophet is not supposed to be almighty. Although Islam does not have the problem of contradiction, it has solved the problem which it does not have. Jesus was not crucified. God had protected him.
4. Islam disagrees with Christianity on the Doctrine of Redemption. The Doctrine of Redemption is based on the Doctrine of the Original Sin: that mankind had been condemned by God because of the sin of Adam and Eve which was consequently inherited by their children. Islam denies the whole Doctrine of the Original Sin; God did not condemn mankind because a sin was committed by a couple at the beginning of time. (This will be made clear in the following inquiry.) There is no original sin; therefore, there is no need for redemption to mankind out of a sin that did not exist.
Furthermore, suppose that there is an original sin. To forgive mankind their original sin, God does not need a sinless person, such as Jesus, to be crucified. He can forgive the human race without causing an innocent person to suffer. To say that God does not forgive mankind unless mankind crucifies Jesus, is to put Him in the position of a ruler who was disobeyed by his own subjects. When the children asked the ruler to forgive the sin of their fathers, he refused to do so unless they kill one of his beloved ones. If they commit such a terrible crime, he will forgive them; otherwise, he will not. I do not think that the advocates of the original sin would be willing to put God in such a position. God, the Most Just and Merciful, does not condemn people because of their ancestor's sin. He may forgive them their own sins without requiring them to commit a bigger one.
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|Posted: 21 February 2009 at 5:49pm
Both the Bible and Quran agree that Jesus is:
Kalimatuhu: God's Word (Ali Imran 3:45 )
Ruhunminhu: Spirit proceeding from Him (Al Nesa 4:171 )
Al-Masih: The Messiah (Al -Nesa 4.157, 171 )
Rahma: Mercy from God to mankind (Maryam )
Zakiyyan: Gift of a holy or sinless son (Maryam )
Salam: Peace on him (Maryam )
Mina al-Saliheen: Upright or righteous shall he be
Nabiyy: Prophet (Al-Ankaboot 29:30 )
Rasul: Envoy, messenger (Al - Nesa 4:157, Al-Ma�-edah 5:75 )
Ibn Maryam : son of Mary , Jesus son of Mary (Ali-Imran )
Min al-muqareeab: Those who are close to God ( Ali Imran 3:45 )
Wadjih: worthy of esteem in this world and the next (Ali Imran 3:45)
Mubarak: Blessed ,a source of benefit for others ( Maryam 19:31. )
Qawl al-haqq: Sure word ( Maryam 19:34.)
Abd Allah: Servant of God (Maryam 19.30)
Aya: A sign unto mankind (Maryam ; ;43:61)
Shahid: A witness on Judgement day ( Al-Nesa 4:159)
Mathal: A Parable or example (Al-Zukhruf 43:57)
IIm: Knowledge of the hour (Al-Zukhruf 43:61)
Hikmah: Bearer of wisdom ( Al-Zukhruf 43:63)
John 3
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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|Posted: 21 February 2009 at 6:13pm
peace to you my friend
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|Posted: 24 February 2009 at 9:17am
Salam Believer
Kalimatuhu: God's Word (Ali Imran 3:45 )
I have a small disagreement. Kalimatuhu means word from Him (i.e God), not Word from God. The capitalization you used for word implies that the word here is God, which is untrue according to Islam. Jesus was God's word, not God's Word.
Ruhunminhu: Spirit proceeding from Him (Al Nesa 4:171 )
Al-Masih: The Messiah (Al -Nesa 4.157, 171 )
Completely agree here. Also I would also quote the reference you gave which clears up the fact that Jesus was not the son of God.
004.171 O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: Nor say of Allah aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) a messenger of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His messengers. Say not "Trinity" : desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is one Allah: Glory be to Him: (far exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs.
Al-Qur'an, 004.171 (An-Nisa [Women])
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Rahma: Mercy from God to mankind (Maryam 19:21)
All prophets were mercy from God, including Jesus
Zakiyyan: Gift of a holy or sinless son (Maryam 19:19)
Actually Zakiyyan only means holy or pure. "Ghulaman Zakiyyan" is holy son. But whose son is it? Let's read the reference you gave
019.016 وَاذْكُرْ فِي الْكِتَابِ مَرْيَمَ إِذِ انْتَبَذَتْ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا مَكَانًا شَرْقِيًّا
019.017 فَاتَّخَذَتْ مِنْ دُونِهِمْ حِجَابًا فَأَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْهَا رُوحَنَا فَتَمَثَّلَ لَهَا بَشَرًا سَوِيًّا
019.018 قَالَتْ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِالرَّحْمَنِ مِنْكَ إِنْ كُنْتَ تَقِيًّا
019.019 قَالَ إِنَّمَا أَنَا رَسُولُ رَبِّكِ لأهَبَ لَكِ غُلامًا زَكِيًّا
Al-Qur'an, 019.016-019 (Maryam [Mary])
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So in the context, the angel is telling Mary that you will have a pure son. The son here is for Mary, not for God.
Salam: Peace on him (Maryam 19:33 )
Mina al-Saliheen: Upright or righteous shall he be
Nabiyy: Prophet (Al-Ankaboot 29:30 )
Rasul: Envoy, messenger (Al - Nesa 4:157, Al-Ma�-edah 5:75 )
Ibn Maryam : son of Mary , Jesus son of Mary (Ali-Imran 3:45)
Min al-muqareeab: Those who are close to God ( Ali Imran 3:45 )
Wadjih: worthy of esteem in this world and the next (Ali Imran 3:45)
Mubarak: Blessed ,a source of benefit for others ( Maryam 19:31. )
Qawl al-haqq: Sure word ( Maryam 19:34.)
Abd Allah: Servant of God (Maryam 19.30)
Aya: A sign unto mankind (Maryam 19:21 ;3:50 ;43:61)
Shahid: A witness on Judgement day ( Al-Nesa 4:159)
Mathal: A Parable or example (Al-Zukhruf 43:57)
I agree with all this. Though the reference 29:30 you gave is incorrect.
IIm: Knowledge of the hour (Al-Zukhruf 43:61)
Ilm literally means knowledge, but in the context, �Ilm usaat� means sign of the hour (i.e the day of judgement), meaning Jesus is the sign of the day of judgement.
043.061 وَإِنَّهُ لَعِلْمٌ لِلسَّاعَةِ فَلا تَمْتَرُنَّ بِهَا وَاتَّبِعُونِ هَذَا صِرَاطٌ مُسْتَقِيمٌ
043.061 And (Jesus) shall be a Sign (for the coming of) the Hour (of Judgment): therefore have no doubt about the (Hour), but follow ye Me: this is a
Al-Qur'an, 043.061 (Az-Zukhruf [Ornaments of Gold, Luxury])
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|Posted: 27 February 2009 at 7:17am
I have been told that there is no use of capitalization in the Quran, is that correct?
Would you agree that 4:171 doesn't say Trinity, but three and implies 3 gods.
You The Book's people, do not exaggerate/exceed the limit in your religion, and do not say on God except the truth , but the Messiah, Jesus, Mary's son God's messenger and His word/expression He threw it away to Mary, and a Soul/Spirit from Him; so believe with God, and His messengers, and do not say: "Three." Stop best for you, but God one God, His praise/glory that to be for him a child; for Him what in the skies/space and what in the earth/Planet Earth, enough/sufficient with God guardian/protector
Did any other messenger in the Quran have GOD's soul or word thrown away to them?
Do you know why some translaters add "only a messenger"or "no more than" when it says GOD's messenger?
Please list verses mentioning other messangers bringing mercies. Thanks.
LOL!! Thanks for the correction on 29:30! If you look at the literal translation ther is no mention of sign of the hour:
And that he/it truly is knowledge to the Resurrection/Time of Resurrection/Hour, so do not doubt/argue with it, and follow Me, that straight/direct road/way.
John 3
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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|Posted: 28 February 2009 at 3:42am
Salam believer
I have been told that there is no use of capitalization in the Quran, is that correct?
Would you agree that 4:171 doesn't say Trinity, but three and implies 3 gods.
The word trinity has been derived from the word trinitas in latin which literally means three. Similarly in arabic Salasa, though literally means three, it metaphorically means trinity. That is pretty much understood. Ask any arab Christian that is Salasa an appropriate translation for trinity and he will agree. Now how does this verse start
O People of the book!
Meaning Jews and Christians. So when God says don't say three, it means that whatever concept of three Christians have regarding God being in three parts, components, person etc, it is wrong. If Christians say that there are three gods, then that is also wrong. It doesn't imply three gods only, it implies three. Whatever concept of three there is in Christianity, it is incorrect according to Islam because God is speaking to Christians here.
Did any other messenger in the Quran have GOD's soul or word thrown away to them?
The answer is Adam. As the Quran says
إِنَّ مَثَلَ عِيسَى عِندَ اللّهِ كَمَثَلِ آدَمَ خَلَقَهُ مِن تُرَابٍ ثِمَّ قَالَ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ (3:59)
213. Here Jesus himself is called 'a spirit from God'. The same idea is also expressed elsewhere in the Qur'an: 'And We supported him with the spirit of holiness' (Surah al-Baqarah 2: 87). The import of both verses is that God endowed Jesus with a pure, impeccable soul. He was therefore an embodiment of truth, veracity, righteousness, and excellence. This is what the Christians had been told about Christ. But they exceeded the proper limits of veneration for Jesus. The 'spirit from God' became the 'spirit of God', and the 'spirit of holiness' was interpreted to mean God's own Spirit which became incarnate in Jesus. Thus, along with God and Jesus, there developed the third person of God - the Holy Ghost. It was this unjustified exaggeration which led the Christians to even greater error. Ironically, however, Matthew contains the statement that: 'But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.' (The Bible, Authorized version, p. 771.) (www.tafheem.net)
Do you know why some translaters add "only a messenger"or "no more than" when it says GOD's messenger?
In the scriptures of Islam, Jesus is no more than a messanger. Although this particular verse does not contain the word "Illa"(i.e no more than) it is used in other places. Quran 43:59
Please list verses mentioning other messangers bringing mercies. Thanks.
No prob.
�And We (God) have not sent you (Muhammad) except as a mercy for mankind.�Qur�an 21:107
If you look at the literal translation ther is no mention of sign of the hour:
And that he/it truly is knowledge to the Resurrection/Time of Resurrection/Hour, so do not doubt/argue with it, and follow Me, that straight/direct road/way.
You cannot take everything literal especially in the case of arabic. And you gave the incorrect literal translation. The correct one is : He is knowledge of the moment. Why have you translated Sa'aa as resurrection/Time of resurrection when it literally means moment. Now since literal translation does not make sense, the true translation is
And (Jesus) shall be a Sign (for the coming of) the Hour (of Judgment): therefore have no doubt about the (Hour), but follow ye Me: this is a Straight Way. (Yousaf Ali)
Here is the explanation given by Moududi (tafheem.net)
*55 Another translation of this sentence can be: "He is a means of the knowledge of Resurrection." Here the question arises: What is implied by "he�? According to Hadrat Hasan Basri and Said bin Jubair it implies the Quran. That is, one can learn from the Qur'an that Resurrection will come. But this commentary is irrelevant to the context. There is nothing in the context on the basis of which it may be said that it refers to the Qur'an. Other commentators almost unanimous]y have expressed the opinion that it implies the prophet Jesus Christ, and this is suitable to the context. Now the question is: In what sense has Jesus Christ been called a Sign or a means of the knowledge of Resurrection? Ibn 'Abbas, Mujahid, `Ikrimah, Qatadah, Suddi, Dahhak, Abul `Aliyah and Abu Malik say that this refers to the second coming of the Prophet Jesus as has been foretold in a large number of the Traditions, and the verse means that when he comes the second time to the world, it wilt become known that Resurrection is not far behind. But in spite of the great authority that these scholars hold it is difficult to believe that in this verse the second advent of the Prophet Jesus has been called a Sign of Resurrection, or a means of its knowledge. For it is contradicted by the next verse. His second advent, indeed, can be a means of the knowledge of Resurrection only for those people who will be living in that future period or will be born after that. How could he be regarded as a means of the knowledge for the pagans of Makkah, who are being asked "not to have any doubt about it"? Therefore, the correct interpretation in our opinion is the one that has been given by some other commentators, according to which the Prophet Jesus' birth without a father and his making a bird out of clay and his raising the dead back to life has been presented as a proof of the possibility of Resurrection. So, the Divine Words would mean: why do you think it is impossible for God to raise you and alI mankind from death when He can create a child without a father and a servant of His can breathe life into an image of clay and raise the dead back to life?"Peace
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OK so in arabic we really don't know if it is GOD's WORD or GOD's word, but we do know that no other on the face of earth had it thrown away to them.
Same with GOD's soul, none other had it literally thrown away to them:
Literal:So when/if I straightened him, and I blew in him from My Soul/Sprit , so fall/land/come to him prostrating.
Literal:Then He straightened Him, and He blew in Him from His Soul/Spirit , and He made/put for you the hearing/listening, and the eye sights/knowledge, and the hearts , little (is) what you thank/be grateful.
Literal:So if I straightened him, and I blew in him from My Soul/Spirit , so fall/come to him prostrating.
Mary's son, GOD"S SON that wasn't my point, but the fact that Jesus was pure and no other "man" has ever been.
Mary's son, GOD"S SON that wasn't my point, but the fact that Jesus was pure and no other "man" has ever been.
Now John the Baptist did have the tool of purification in baptism, but he was not pure:
Now John the Baptist did have the tool of purification in baptism, but he was not pure:
John 3
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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Ali - in verse 3:55 are the words I am, I am really used twice?
When God said: "You Jesus I am, I am making you die and raising you to Me and purifying you from those who disbelieved, and making those who followed you above those who disbelieved to the Resurrection Day, then to Me (is) your return, so I judge/rule between you in what, you were in it differing .
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Seeing the gargantuan presence that is David Ortiz wearing the Dominican uniform while hammering homers gave me a sense of what it must be like to be a fan a team the Red Sox are facing when Big Papi strides to the plate. And that feeling is fear. Absolute total fear.
Absolutely. When he's on your team, he's the lovable, gentle giant, clutch mastah, and embodiment of all that is Red Sox goodness. Looking at Ortiz from the othah side and he's all like some murderous club wielding Orc from Mordor.
I still can't believe the Twins just released Ortiz and any team could have claimed him but it was our own uber-savvy, young Theo Epstein who swept him up and changed the course of baseball history forever.
You know, legend has it that it was Petey who alerted Epstein to Papi and that's why the Red Sox nabbed him.
I so heart the Dominican Republic.
Forget Cabo, forget Cancun, and St. Kitts, and Jamaica and the rest — from now on, New Englandahs looking for a wintah getaway or honeymoon or whatevah should forevahmore consider only one place: The island nation of the Dominican Republic to whom we owe so, so mucho.


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These letters are now on Santa's desk at the North Pole. As in years past, Jamestown Postmaster Charlie Burns makes sure they arrive at Santa's house in time to be answered. Here are three of this year's messages:
I'm Ian's Grandmother and I'm writing this letter for him because he can't write a letter yet. He is 4 1/2 years old. He has been a very good boy. This is what he would like you to bring him for Christmas, if you have any.
Skateboard Snowboard Surfboard
That's all. Thank you very much if you can do this. Hope you have a Merry Christmas, Santa
(signed) Ian"
"Dear Santa,
This year I have been good. This is my Christmas list I would like some spy stuff, legos, the 2007 Hess truck, an i-pod, peace on earth, nutcracker and some surprises. Thank you
(signed) Jackson
R.S.V.P. (phone number)"
"Christmas List: Natalie Toland
Julies Bed & Bedding (AG Dow) Jonas Brothers CD Aly & AJ CD Carrie Underwood Kareoke CD
Sheet music for Carrie Underwoods 'Some Hearts'
Snowpants (black) skateboard and trick helmet microphone & stand Video camera Laptop computer Electric Motocross bike Thanks for everything. (signed) Natalie
Please don't forget the poor and the animals. Thanks.
And, we should do our bit to protect animals and young children during the Christmas season says Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic.
"In the winter we tend to see more problems with household dangers than other times of year. Decorations, like low hanging Christmas tree ornaments, can be broken, stepped on, or eaten by some dogs, while tinsel and ribbons can be eaten by cats and result in emergency trips to the doctor's office. Decorative lights and candles mean more wires for pets to chew on and present a higher risk of burnt fur or skin.
"All those seasonal plants can also pose hazards for pets and young children. The poinsettia has earned a bad reputation as being toxic, and although it will cause stomach irritation, it is not particularly poisonous. Some plants, like holly and mistletoe, have very toxic berries and should definitely be kept away from pets and children. Wisteria and most ivy plants are also toxic and should be kept high and out of the reach of our smaller family members. Any new plant should be researched prior to bringing it home to make sure it is safe for your family and pets."
The most recent edition of Animal Print Magazine, which hit the stands Dec. 7, has Jamestown firemen Lew Kitts and Ken Caswell on the front cover. The photo features them dressed in their Dalmatian dog costumes, driving the antique fire truck, and leading last year's dog parade down Narragansett Avenue. Animal Print highlighted the parade for their holiday issue.
Parade coordinator and town councilwoman Barbara Szepatowski said the publicity should bring off-islanders to the 8th annual dog parade, set for noon on Dec. 23, and result in some after-parade shopping and dining.
"Teens and members of our local Girl Scout Troop will provide pet sitting services after the parade for those who want to visit the downtown area. This year's festivities will be used to rekindle the animal shelter project started some four years ago."
Barbara said she is excited because, now that the Teen Center is ready for its grand opening party on Jan. 4, she can now go back to working on the project which first got her involved in town government - the animal shelter. Copies of Animal Print magazine are available at McQuade's, East Ferry Deli, Slice of Heaven, Baker's Pharmacy, and Jamestown Designs.
In answer to "I'll tip my hat to the new constitution. Take a bow for the new revolution," Larry Lewis replied, "This week's song is 'Won't Get Fooled Again' by The Who. Indeed, it's the opening theme for 'CSI: Miami'." Larry also had the correct answer to our question about "Dialing for Dollars." He named Hank Bouchard, who according to Vern Stromberg, briefly did the TV show on channel 12.
From Ed Silvia, "The name of the song is 'Won't Get Fooled Again' by The Who. I don't know the next two lines but what I have given you should deserve an honorable mention. Could it be 'make my peace with love all around me and won't get fooled again oh no no?"
Elizabeth Mancini called in with the correct title to the tune and also said it is the theme song for "CSI: Miami."
Congratulations to Peter and Rochelle Carnevale, who have just returned from a five-day trip to Disney World in Florida where they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with their four children, their spouses and seven of their eight grandchildren.
Sounds like a pretty happy time, doesn't it? But, two days before leaving, Peter was stricken with Lyme disease and was unable to walk. That didn't stop them though. Rochelle, who is handicapped and makes her way with a scooter, suggested renting an additional scooter for Peter. "We chased and followed our grandchildren all over the four parks of Disney World," Peter said.
Accompanying the couple were son, Peter Jr., his wife, Leena, and grandson, Max; son, Mark, his wife, Karen, and grandchildren Gabriella, Aria and Ceriana; daughter Melissa, her husband, John and grandchildren Jackson and Aliya; and daughter Heather, her husband, Eric, and granddaughter Athena.
Peter said that in spite of his affliction, "A great time was had by all!"
He said they often see two or more deer at a time in their backyard. A life-long runner, Peter is now on an antibiotic program and walking again. "It is the scariest thing that ever happened to me," he said.
Marguerite Elizabeth Grondin, the third great-grandchild of Charlotte and Victor Richardson, was born in Newport Hospital on Dec. 6.
She is the daughter of Marisa and Jimi Grondin of North Kingstown and weighed in at 5 lbs. 11oz and was 18" long. The maternal grandparents are Pamela (Richardson) Jarret of North Kingstown, and Michael Jarret of Charlestown. The paternal grandparents are Beth and Tom Haskins of Ohio.
Charlotte said her new greatgranddaughter is "beautiful."
It's that time of the year again when we ask islanders what they would like for Christmas. We tell them money is no object and urge them to be as materialistic as possible.
Jeremy Wigton - New turntables for his DJ set-up.
Becky Hall - A retreat house in Sardona, Arizona.
Felicia Tutsch - A trip to Italy.
Connie Rainone - A new male admirer.
Tony Rafanelli - A 120' motor yacht.
Cathryn Jamieson - To never have to clean my house again.
Polly Alfonso - A jolly good time with my family.
Ela Gamble, 7, and Maya Gamble, 5 3/4, - Webkinz.
Robin Costello - Warm boots.
Rosemary Tutsch - Anything that sparkles.
Elizabeth Mancini - A yacht.
Bonnie Jamison - A shack on any island in the Bahamas.
*** If this isn't love, then........
Rumor on the Avenue is that "Fiddler on the Roof" will be the Jamestown Community Theatre's next musical.
Children of all ages are invited to gather around with Christopher "Kavi" Carbone, the "musical troubadour of light and warmth" and participate in music, rhythms, movement, songs and more.
It happens on Saturday, Dec. 22, at 11 a.m. at the Jamestown Philomenian Library in celebration of the winter season.
Registration is not required for this free program sponsored by the Friends of the Jamestown Library.
On the same day, a gingerbread house workshop for children ages 7 to 11 will be held at the library from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Registration is required for this program. Call 423-7280.
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[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 113th Congress] [113rd Congress] [House Document 112-161] [Jeffersons Manual of ParliamentaryPractice] [Page 204] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov] sec. xxiii--bills, leave to bring in
|Sec. 398. Obsolete provisions as to introduction of bills.
|When a Member desires to bring in a bill on any subject, he states to the House in general terms the causes for doing it, and concludes by moving for leave to bring in a bill, entitled, &c. Leave being given, on the question, a committee is appointed to prepare and bring in the bill. The mover and seconder are always appointed of this committee, and one or more in addition. Hakew., 132; Scob., 40. It is to be presented fairly written, without any erasure or interlineation, or the Speaker may refuse it. Scob., 41; 1 Grey, 82, 84.


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Sony updates Nex camera firmware
Better support for Alpha lenses
Sony has posted a firmware update for its Nex compact cameras.
The patch, available now from Sony's support site, gives the Nex-3 and Nex-5 the ability to automatically focus any one of 14 lenses designed for the company's Alpha digital SLRs and connected by the Nex cameras' E-mount to A-mount adaptor.
The compact cameras with DLSR-size sensors also gain an aperture priority setting for use with video shooting. Sony said the update also improves the manual focus assist mode, speeds up the use of the main meni, and allows you to customise soft-key functions. ®


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If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti
Is the worst of the risk asset selling over or was Tuesday's trading activity just a bit of short covering rally in a broader downtrend that is just getting underway? Tuesday's trading session saw a partial recovery in equity values in selective market like the U.S. with Europe closing lower and Asia getting ready to start a new session. As is normally the case, the market sentiment tends to quickly react to changes in the status of the global economy as has been the case for the last several days.
As far as the oil complex is concerned the cloud of uncertainty began to emerge last week when the IEA, EIA and OPEC all lowered their projections for global oil demand growth based on a view that the global economic recovery may be starting to slow. The magnitude of the reductions were not very large, but it put the market on notice that oil demand growth may be a larger issue in 2013 than supply.
The second shot over the bow hit Sunday night (U.S. time) when the China's first quarter GDP came in 0.2% below the fourth quarter level and 0.3% below the market expectations. China is the main economic and oil demand growth engine of the world and if its economy is entering into a slowing pattern the cloud of uncertainty will grow very quickly and have negative implications on other economies around the globe as well as on the broad based commodity markets as China is one of the largest consumers of commodities including oil.


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When photographer Julia Lopez moved from Albuquerque to Seattle, her pictures changed.
"My work got so much darker and drearier," Lopez notes. "Here in Albuquerque, it's sunny, and serotonin levels have definitely affected my work. Seattle is gloomy as hell."
Lopez and fellow artist Nick Etre say Albuquerque has always felt like home. They both moved to Seattle after spending most of their lives in the Duke City. But Albuquerque still courses through their veins. For Lopez, the pull of Burque was so strong that she decided to leave Seattle and stay here for a while longer. Etre is leaving the Pacific Northwest for New York this fall. Etre and Lopez decided to put together an art show with three other former residents of the city who moved to different locations. Whether they now reside in Florida, New York, Spain or El Salvador, each artist's inspiration is still drawn from Albuquerque. That's the focus of Duke Sweet Duke at The Trillion Space. "The show is about how Albuquerque has shaped the artists' own identities," Etre says. "Albuquerque is constantly apparent in the work that they're creating."
Along with Etre and Lopez, fellow Burqueños Anna Dinallo, Arman Ortega and Kevin Vigil will show photographs, video and painting in Duke Sweet Duke.
In his time in Albuquerque, Etre's become fascinated by the Duke of Albuquerque. "This figure has become very popular," Etre says. "But there's not that much information about him. We've kind of lost our history and that got me thinking about how much of who I am is going to be lost in history."
Etre contends that Burque has shaped his sculpture and prints, but it's also informed his sense of who he wants to see his art. The city's strong sense of community pushes Etre to show his work to as many people as possible. "A lot of the work I do is very interactive," Etre says. "I like to get the community involved in my work because I feel like you're reaching a much larger audience and having a much greater effect if you're not just pigeonholed into a small art-world group."
Etre says not every city is lucky enough to be inhabited by people unconcerned with maintaining social cliques and excluding outsiders. "In Seattle and Portland, people were really shut off from one another," Etre says. "They're all doing their own thing and there's no real sense of shared space."
Etre uses the city he grew up in as the place to start exploring his craft and his own persona. "I felt like if I could pinpoint Albuquerque and focus on the space I grew up in, I could try to come to terms with who I am and what my identity is," Etre explains. "It's kind of a jumping off point to help me find out what's made me who I am today and how this particular space has made me unique."
Etre says part of his love for Burque comes from being a place he knows well. "Is it Albuquerque specifically that I'm in love with, or is it just the fact that I know where everything is?" Etre asks. "I feel comfortable in this environment, so I feel at home here."
Though he knows he'll always feel his hometown's influence wherever he goes, Etre says he wants to travel to other destinations, live elsewhere and discover the ways new locations can shape his art. "I really do want to move around a lot," Etre asserts. "I want to get a bunch of different experiences and then move back here."
Etre says if the show accomplishes its aims, people who take in Duke Sweet Duke will feel the show depicts our fair city accurately. "I hope people see the show and say, This is the place we've grown up in, or, This is where we moved to and fell in love," Etre says. "I hope they say, This is a representation of our home."


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NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow drifted lower Thursday, but stayed on track for its best start to the year in more than two decades.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 23 points to 13,887 as of 11:51 a.m. The index has gained 6 percent so far this month, putting it in line for its best January performance since 1989, according to data from S&P Dow Jones Indices.
The Standard and Poor's 500 fell 3 points to 1,498. The Nasdaq composite fell a fraction to 3,141.
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THE MARCH READ: A new editor in chief gives publishers a new selling point for their magazines. This year, four new editor in chiefs are sending out their important March issues, so what kind of bump did Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, WSJ. and T: The New York Times Style Magazine manage to achieve?
Among the two Hearst Corp.-owned monthlies, Marie Claire, under publisher Nancy Berger Cardone and new editor in chief Anne Fulenwider, built on last year's successful issue and was up 15 percent for 207 pages, the magazine will report to Publishers Information Bureau.
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Cosmo, which is now led by Marie Claire's former editor Joanna Coles, and longtime publisher Donna Kalajian Lagani, saw a hefty increase as well — 13 percent to 130 pages. Traditionally, March hasn't been as important to Cosmo as to the other titles, but Coles, who brought high fashion to Marie Claire, is likely to steer the magazine in that direction.
For March, Coles did three covers with Miley Cyrus, who'd previously been a winner for her at Marie Claire — her March 2011 cover was that magazine's third-best seller of the year.
The luxury style magazines from the daily papers are seeing strong fashion issues, which will be out Feb. 16 for WSJ. and Feb. 17 for T The New York Times Style Magazine. T, now under Deborah Needleman, surged 23 percent to 132.5 pages, surely in no small part thanks to the buzz surrounding Needleman's hire. WSJ., now run by Kristina O'Neill, formerly of Harper's Bazaar, saw a 29 percent spike, to 65 pages.
At the other major fashion titles, March is a mixed bag, though the news is mostly good. Vogue is again a behemoth with 457 pages, up almost 3.5 percent. No word yet on who landed the cover, although if history is a guide, it'll likely be a pop star — Adele and Lady Gaga took the last two.
Not too far behind is InStyle, lately Time Inc.'s only reliable bright spot — the issue, which features Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, and Mila Kunis, stars of an upcoming revisionist version of "The Wizard of Oz" — has 361 pages, up 4 percent. Also at Time: People StyleWatch, which has Blake Lively on its cover, has 172 pages, up 27 percent.
Elle, now officially Hearst's biggest business behind Cosmo, has 338 pages, up 7 percent. On the editorial front, Robbie Myers and Ariel Foxman are also competitive — Elle has snagged Samira Nasr, InStyle's style director, to be its new fashion director. Carol Smith continues to tell a good story at Harper's Bazaar, which was up 21 percent to 330 pages.
W, under new publisher, Lucy Kriz, reports 210 pages, up 3 percent.
Teen magazines are seeing surprising growth — Teen Vogue has 124 pages, up 30 percent, while its Hearst rival, Seventeen, saw a larger margin of growth, 66 percent, bringing its page count to 92.
The news was less flattering at Town & Country, which lost publisher Valerie Salembier in September and is now run by Jennifer Levene Bruno — it's down 13 percent to 75 pages. Glamour is also down, 12 percent at 161 pages, but the magazine was coming off the strong numbers of its redesign issue last March, whose overall page count was the largest in four years. Separately, it is also publishing a supplement aimed at Hispanic readers, Glam Belleza Latina, which has 27 ad pages. Former Lucky publisher Marcy Bloom closed March with 103 pages, down three percent.
"Coming after the Christmas season, which wasn't so good, I'm pleasantly surprised," said Steve Cohn, editor in chief of Media Industry Newsletter, which tracks ad pages. "The numbers show domestic fashion advertising is still strong, continuing from 2012 when fashion was strong but the rest of the magazine sector was weak."
The trend wasn't lost on Wired publisher Howard Mittman, who has been pursuing brands that wouldn't normally advertise with the technology bible. Fashion contributed to a 16 percent bump in pages in the March issue, which clocks in at 52 — Hermès and Ralph Lauren have the back covers in March and April.
"We recognize, just to be candid, we're not going to be going after a significant amount of runway business. But we felt like we had a really strong case to hang on to our endemic base of advertisers while also using that as a platform for other areas, like fashion," he said.


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National Prayer Breakfast Draws Criticism From Religious and Secular Communities
President Barack Obama will sit down with religious and public figures for the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday morning amid concerns from both religious and secular groups that the event should be amended.
The Fellowship Foundation held the inaugural National Prayer Breakfast in 1953. It has become precedence for the U.S. President to attend the event – usually held in a Washington D.C. area banquet hall – and public figures like Bono and Mother Theresa have previously attended the breakfast.
But while the gathering's intention is to call attention to the power of prayer, secular groups say the event comes dangerously close to blending church and state affairs while some religious figures think the event has become a token, meaningless gesture.
The Rev. Grayland Hagler, a pastor at Plymouth Congregational Universal Church of Christ in Washington, D.C., said the event could benefit from some spiritual guidance.
"For me, it was a theologically cold event," Hagler told Voice of America. "And when I say theologically cold event, it was the perfunctory engagement of prayer and not the substantial engagement of prayer that I would hope to see."
Robert Boston, senior policy analyst at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, acknowledged Hagler's point and added that the event reeks of false piety.
"There's always the suspicion that government officials will attend these events to appear to be pious and win votes. I believe it was the book of Matthew where Jesus warned of people who pray in public just to appear religious," Boston said.
"A truly devout person doesn't need to make a big show of it. People who wear religion on their sleeves can be accused of doing so for political reasons," he added.
Boston added that though the event is not an outright violation of religion and state mixing, Americans United is concerned about the perception created by such an event.
"The prayer breakfast creates the impression that there's some kind of quasi state religion and increasingly we are being told that it extends to both Christian and non-Christian faiths, but that still leaves out non-religious people. And many devout people are offended by these canned peas prayers," Boston said.
In its 60th year, the National Prayer Breakfast is an invitation-only event that collects dignitaries, religious leaders and celebrities from around the U.S. and abroad. Former President George W. Bush and current President Obama have each expressed their personal connection with prayer at past events.
"I believe in the power of prayer because I felt it in my own life," Bush said in 2008. "Prayer has strengthened me in times of personal challenge."
Obama carried on the tradition by telling the event's patrons that prayer "can touch our hearts with humility. It can fill us with a spirit of brotherhood. It can remind us that each of us are children of an awesome and loving God."
Boston thinks lawmakers already have enough outlets at their disposal to express their religiousness if they so choose.
"Certainly there's no lack of religious expression from members of Congress," Boston said. "Both the House and Senate in fact have chaplains. For those political leaders who feel the need for spiritual guidance there are many outlets."


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When it comes to Ice Cream Sandwich on the Galaxy SII there's two general routes you can take: Samsung's stock ICS ROM or modified versions thereof, or the nightly CyanogenMod 9 builds. It may surprise you, but a team of open source hackers who are at a severe disadvantage compared to Samsung's own engineers produce a far superior user experience. If you have a Galaxy SII and even have only a modicum of technical knowledge or know someone that does (it's insanely easy), there's honestly not a single logical reason not to move to the nightly CM9 builds.
Samsung's Ice Cream Sandwich ROM is a total and utter disaster. It's not a single bit faster or more responsive than the Gingerbread ROM, which, as far as I can tell, is an achievement in and of itself. Worse yet, it has a Frankenstein-esque user interface that combines the beautiful Ice Cream Sandwich design with old Gingerbread bits and large swathes of TouchWiz crap, leading to a very schizophrenic back and forth between different styles. It lacks most of the stock ICS applications, replacing them with Samsung's own crap, and, of course, it's a given that it comes to laden with crapware.
So, I decided to try out the countless modified versions of the stock ROM that have sprung up. While some are trying very hard to make it all look like stock Ice Cream Sandwich as much as possible, they all basically just apply a blue theme to the same Gingerbread applications, and as we all know, a different theme colour does not a new interface make. I mean, I won't score a date with Heather Graham just because I'm wearing a Brad Pitt mask.
Frustrated by this state of affairs, I decided to settle for nothing less but stock Ice Cream Sandwich. All that beautiful blue ICS design that Google's been dangling in front of my eyes was going to be mine. There was only one way to get there: CyanogenMod 9. CM9 is still only available as nightly builds, which scared me a great deal, but after sifting through the XDA forums it became clear to me that for all intents and purposes, the only thing not working was video recording (due to missing kernel sources). I can live with that.
I downloaded the latest nightly and Gapps package onto my SD card, flashed them with CWM, did a full wipe/factory reset, and rebooted. I then found out what Android is really all about.
The difference between the stock Samsung ROM and CM9's AOSP experience couldn't be bigger. Suddenly, I was looking at a highly consistent, beautiful, and distinctive interface. The rough edges, present in both the stock Gingerbread and ICS ROMs, were gone. The occasional stutter or interface lag are nowhere to be found. And boy, is it fast. It's like I've gotten a hardware upgrade. Opening and closing applications, browsing, multitasking - it's all near-instant.
It's full of cool little touches, like the CRT screen-off animation and the blue overscroll effect (which replaces bouncy scrolling). The white text on black background, augmented with the distinctive ICS blue (FF33B5E5), looks gorgeous on the SII's SuperAMOLED+ display, as if it's been specifically designed for it. It's clear Google spent a lot of time on creating a more coherent and, for the lack of a better term, digital experience. ICS moves away from iOS' horrible skeuomorphic UI elements, taking baby steps towards the Metro side of the spectrum. Less chrome and childish fake leather, more content and cleaner presentation.
Now, it's important to remember that CM9 is still in alpha, meaning it could contain all sorts of untold nasties. So far, however, I have yet to encounter any issues, but two days of use is of course anything but a definitive test. I am planning on doing an actual review of CM9 - but not until it hits stable (somewhere after Samsung releases the kernel source code).
The question all this raises is a rather straightforward one: how is it possible that a group of open source engineers can create this wonderful package that Samsung, despite all its resources, technical documentation, and inside knowledge of their own device, can't even come close to? What the heck are they doing back in South Korea?
These past few days, one thing has become very, very clear to me: Samsung, HTC, and all the other Android OEMs are ruining it for Google. Not only that, they're wasting considerable resources on useless and ugly crap that does nothing to benefit consumers. Android may have needed customisation a number of versions ago - but not today. ICS is ready as-is. TouchWiz and Samsung's other customisations add nothing. Zero. Nada. They only make the device slower, uglier, and less appealing.
It's high time Android vendors stop with all the customising, and just ship plain CM on their (future) devices. Differentiate with hardware instead. Work together with the CM team, and make sure the CM team works together with Google. Supply them with devices, hardware specifications, driver source code, and so on, and provide them with servers for distributing updates. Not only will it create a better user experience, it also relieves some of the software development pressure from the Android vendors. On top of that, it could alleviate some of the fragmentation concerns.
It's a win-win-win-win-win.
If you have a supported Android device, you owe it to yourself to check out CM9. You won't regret it. This is what Android should be - and it's good.


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George Zimmerman's wife may find out the date of her perjury trial Wednesday.
In July, Shellie Zimmerman pleaded not guilty to one count of felony perjury.
She was arrested last year after the judge in her husband's case found that Shellie Zimmerman deceived the court by failing to reveal the existence of a six figure defense fund the couple controlled.
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(Sinclair Broadcast Group) - According to the National Highway Safety Administration website, Hyundai and Kia are issuing a recall on some of their most popular models.
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(AP) - Kelly Johnson started the day with a home run against Tom Glavine and finished off the New York Mets with another homer off Aaron Heilman.
Johnson homered on the first pitch of the game, then hit a tiebreaking, three-run drive in the eighth inning to send the Atlanta Braves to a 9-6 victory Sunday afternoon.
A sellout crowd of 55,671 came out on a sunny spring afternoon to watch Glavine face John Smoltz, his golfing buddy and former teammate.
Jose Reyes' three-run triple in the sixth put Glavine and the Mets ahead, but Edgar Renteria erased a 6-3 deficit in the seventh with a three-run homer off Scott Schoeneweis.
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As your database grows in size, Analysis Services cubes that use that database grow along with it. As such, one thing that can improve performance of your cube is partitioning (splitting up) your measures. In this post, I am going to quickly show you how to switch from a table binding partition (default) to a query binding partition using a cube that I have built off of the AdventureWorksDW2008R2 database. In the end, you'll know how to split your large measure groups into smaller chunks of data based on the year.
When you have your cube opened, navigate to the Partitions tab. A screenshot of what this tab looks like is shown in figure 1. You can have a partition set up for the entire table (not split up) or you can write queries that would return the data you want to be included in that partition.
Figure 1: Partitions Tab
For my example, I am going to break out my Internet Sales measure by years. Which for the AdventureWorksDW2008R2.dbo.FactInternetSales table, we have 2005 – 2008. So, I'm going to create four partitions starting with 2005. To switch the default table binding partition to query mode, select "Query Binding" binding type as shown in figure 2 below.
Figure 2: Switching the Binding Type
After you switch it to query binding, you'll be shown a query that you want this partition to contain. Since the first set of Internet Sales records were in 2005, I am just going to update the script to contain "WHERE OrderDateKey <= 20051231" as shown in figure 3.
Figure 3: Update the Script
After modifying the name assigned to my new partition to "Fact Internet Sales 2005" and choosing to design aggregations later, I now have the results shown in figure 4.
Figure 4: Partition Created for 2005
Now, I need to click on the "New Partition…" link to create my other partitions in a similar fashion. The slimmed down scripts used to create each of these partitions are shown in script 1.
Script 1: Queries to Partition by Year
--2005 Internet Sales Partition Query
FROM [dbo].[FactInternetSales]
WHERE OrderDateKey <= '20051231'
--2006 Internet Sales Partition Query
FROM [dbo].[FactInternetSales]
WHERE OrderDateKey >= '20060101' AND OrderDateKey <= '20061231'
--2007 Internet Sales Partition Query
FROM [dbo].[FactInternetSales]
WHERE OrderDateKey >= '20070101' AND OrderDateKey <= '20071231'
--2008 Internet Sales Partition Query
FROM [dbo].[FactInternetSales]
WHERE OrderDateKey >= '20080101' AND OrderDateKey <= '20081231'
The results after creating all of these partitions should look like that shown in figure 5 below.
Figure 5: All Yearly Partitions Created
That's all there is to creating partitions. So, after assigning these partitions to my AggregationDesign as shown in the example above, deploying and reprocessing, accessing the data within the partitions should be much quicker than having to search through a massive table containing hundreds of millions of records.
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ARLINGTON, Va. -- On the eve of the 2018 Operation Homefront military child of the year gala -- an event created to recognize the accomplishments of seven outstanding military kids -- Rebekah Paxton was overwhelmed with emotion as a result of her father's absence.
Just a week prior to the Thursday event, Paxton, this year's Army recipient, was hard at work. Around then, her uncle came in with some horrible news. Rebekah's father had tried to take his own life and was in a hospital on life support.
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Washington (AFNS) -- Eighteen-year-old Jamal Braxton has a busy schedule. The high school senior holds various leadership positions with the Red Cross, participates in multiple varsity sport programs and is a lifeguard. He accomplishes all this as a military child and the challenges inherent in military family life.
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Joy, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, lost her business amid the 2008 financial crisis, and was forced to live out of her van. Being homeless made even relatively simple tasks complicated, but over time, Joy found that she was growing accustomed to homelessness, making it even harder for her to get back to work. It wasn't until Joy enrolled in the Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency's Homeless Veterans' Reintegration Program, or HVRP, that she was able to get back on her feet. The center helped her find a home and a sense of purpose, and even hired her as a veteran outreach specialist.
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WASHINGTON, April 6, 2017 - The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments are introducing to service members who have Servicemembers Group Life Insurance an online enrollment system called the SGLI On-line Enrollment System that enables active duty and eligible reserve and National Guard members to manage their group and family coverage online.
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WASHINGTON, April 12, 2016 The Defense Department knows that the whole family serves when a military member serves.
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Much like "Sex and the City" and late 1990s Manhattan, or "500 Days of Summer" and post-redevelopment downtown Los Angeles, "La La Land" portrays a vibrant metropolitan playground inhabited almost exclusively by young white characters, with a token sprinkling of supporting Black roles… and very little else. To be sure, this is hardly an issue specific to 'La La Land'. If anything, the film feels like it's lightly following in the footsteps of recent television shows set in L.A., especially the faux-eastside troika of Silver Lake/Los Feliz/Echo Park, aka "
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Admittedly, it was cool to see a few scenes set in Skylight Books in "You're the Worst" and I certainly wasn't expecting to see the Watts Towers pop up in "La La Land" (albeit for a literal second). And sure, it's refreshing to see fewer establishing shots of the same palm tree-lined Beverly Hills streets or more b-roll of the beach. However, the relative homogeneity in casting and narratives between these various productions make the shifts in locale feel cosmetic; it's an on-trend swap of Hollywood's gauche glamour for the haute hipsterdom of Northwest Los Angeles. Power lunches at Le Dome have turned into weekend brunch at Sqirl.
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Order a drink, or one of the excellent main courses like risotto with shrimp and asparagus, and enjoy the water views form this café. www.cafepermare.it/home.
This beautiful tome is devoted to the Ligurian coast and its mountainous interior.
Stone steps, pools and fountains dot this 45-acre botanic garden, which is overseen by the University of Genoa. www.giardinihanbury.com.
The town's oldest restaurant dates back to 1919; the gazebo, surrounded by orange trees, looks out on the docks. www.lapignese.it.
Set high on a hilltop in La Pigna, this church long served as a navigation point for sailors.
Empress Maria Alexandrovna vacationed in Sanremo—as did many members of the Russian aristocracy—during the early-20th century. This church is her legacy.
This villa—now a museum—belonged to Alfred Nobel, founder of his namesake prizes. www.villanobel.provincia.imperia.it.
Step aboard one of this renowned company's ten vessels to spot whales and dolphins. www.whalewatchimperia.it.
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