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WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk on Wednesday expressed hope a dispute over China's support for domestic wind turbine manufacturers can be resolved before a World Trade Organization panel hears the case.
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With the new year comes new year resolutions. If you are like most of the people I know here in Southern California then new year's leads to intending to eat better. To help you out, I have a few healthy eating tips for your new year.
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Eat Your Veggies
Exciting Salads – Dieting always seems to equal more salads. Leafy greens are aplenty when trying to lose weight, but honestly, after a few days of greens it can get a little boring. Looking to jazz up your salads and avoid snoozeville at lunch? Try these Mason Jar Salads to add a little pizzazz to your lunch. With more salad recipes than you will know what to do with, you are such to find at least one that will shake up your lunch. I love the pomegranate and pear salad as well as the quinoa and spinach.
Glowing Green Juice – Everybody's doing it, or saying that they are doing it: Juicing. Don't let the trendiness and expensive in-store juices give you pause about this awesome and easy way to add veggies to your diet. The recipe I tend to follow comes from Kimberly Snyder and it is her Glowing Green Smoothie. By doing a smoothie versus a juice you won't have to buy any special equipment, just has your blender at the ready. I do like my mason jar blender, but you can use any one you have.
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Low Calorie Cocktails – Don't want to give up the cocktails but still want to lose weight? The easiest way is to cut out the sugar filled mixers or cream bases. I have a TON of low calorie cocktail recipes but like I said the easiest thing to do is just cut out the mixer calories. Use club soda, low calorie sparkling sodas and limit yourself to one at your party. Your waistline will thank you.
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Gove welcomes reappointment of Amanda Spielman as Chair of Ofqual
Education Secretary Michael Gove today announced the reappointment of Amanda Spielman for a further 5 years.
Amanda Spielman was first appointed as the Chair of Ofqual (the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation) in 2011.
Michael Gove said:
Throughout her tenure, Amanda has proven to be a respected chair of the Ofqual board, ensuring that Ofqual has been a strong regulator, driving up standards in exams and increasing confidence in the system. Under her guidance Ofqual has retained its focus and rigour, making sure that our examinations push pupils to reach their full potential, and I am delighted she will be continuing as chair.
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I am delighted and honoured to be continuing my role as Ofqual Chair. Over the past 3 years we have seen Ofqual develop and grow as an organisation, while working hard to tackle important issues such as grade inflation and quality of marking, not to mention moving forward with the reforms to GCSEs and A levels.
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The Education Secretary today also confirmed the reappointment of 3 Ofqual board members: Neil Watts and Tim Balcon, who will serve a further 3 years, and Ray Coughlin, who will serve 1 additional year on the board.
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Rustic Cake Recipe for Tres Leches Cake
May 27, 2012
You will need to preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare 3 9″ cake pans by spraying the bottom of the cake pans and lining them with rounds of parchment.
Sift and set aside:
4 cups of All Purpose Flour
1 Tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon baking powder
12 whole eggs ( the whites will go into the bowl of a heavy duty 5 quart mixer)
4 cups granulated sugar
1 cup whole milk
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
In the bowl of a heavy duty 5 quart mixer, whip the egg whites to a soft peak. Slowly and gradually start adding the sugar in a thin stream. If you add the sugar too quickly, the egg whites might collapse from the weight of the sugar so it is best to add sugar very gradually. This egg white/sugar mixture should become quite stiff and shiny and hold a peak when the whip attachment is turned upside down. It will take at least 15 minutes to whip the whites with the added sugar so it is best to use a stand mixer.
Add the 12 egg yolks a couple at a time making sure they are well mixed into the whites.
Alternate the addition of the all purpose flour/baking powder with the milk by starting with the flour and folding it into the whites. Then adding half of the milk, followed by a third more flour and folding those in well but not completely. Add the other half of the milk and fold that in then add the last of the flour. Fold all thoroughly and if need be use a whisk to allow the batter to fall through eliminating the lumps of flour if any. Scrape the bowl well with a rubber spatula.
Pour into the prepared cake pans and bake at least 25 minutes. Remove from the oven when golden brown. Cool for about 5 – 10 minutes, poke holes in the cake with a bamboo skewer or other similar instrument and then brush the soaking milk over each cake in an equal amount. Cool and then remove from the cake pans. Chill the cakes thoroughly before filling them.
Soaking Milk:
1 can evaporated milk
1/2 cup dulce de leche
Blend well and soak cake layers with a brush or use a squeeze bottle if you prefer.
Best filled with Dulce de Leche flavored Bavarian Cream, Bavarian Cream or French Vanilla Cream. If you are stacking the Tres Leches Cake as for a wedding cake, the French Vanilla Cream has to be stabilized with gelatin and stabilized with gelatin especially if you are adding sliced strawberries in the filling or any fresh fruit for that matter.
57 Responses to "Rustic Cake Recipe for Tres Leches Cake"
July 11, 2012 at 1:18 am
I have to make a tres leches wedding cake and I was really nervous about it until I saw your recipe. I'm hoping you will answer a few questions. If I double the recipe to make 2 12 inch layers should I double the soaking liquid as well? Can I use the French Vanilla Cream to ice and decorate the cake? Finally would I need to double the recipe to frost and fill a 12 inch layer?
Thanks so much for your help
July 12, 2012 at 1:15 am
Thanks so much for your reply. I just want to be sure I understand. What I'm trying to make is a 12 inch layer cake to serve approximately 35 people. The recipe said to use 3 9 inch pans so I thought I would need to increase the recipe for 2 12 inch layers Would you saythe recipe makes enough batter for the size cake i need? Or do I need to increase it? And if I double the recipe each doubled recipe should be split into 3 12 inch pans so the tier would be 6 12 inch layers? Sorry for so many questions. I really appreciate your help
July 21, 2012 at 2:56 am
Hi thank you for your post! I wanted to make a three tier tres leche cake for a friend's baptism party. 🙂 each layer filled with strawberry. You suggested french vanilla cream with strawberries, I like the idea.. When you say French vanilla creme do you mean a vanilla pudding or is it the same thing as bavarian creme… do you have a recipe you could share? I was however concerned about the stacking of the cakes..can i use wooden rods and round cardboard bases? Also is the picture you posted a tres leche cake that's beautiful! It looks like its covered in fondant. Do you know of any tres leche frosting recipes? I was thinking 10 – 8 – 6 inch tier or 12 – 10 – 8 inch tier. So is im glad a found someone that responds to their posts. Thank you thank you.
February 22, 2014 at 9:02 am
Thank you for posting this recipe!! I am trying to make my daughter's 1st birthday cake a tres leche tiered with canned mandarin oranges. I would love to create your recommendation of using a dulce bavarian cream filling, but I can not find a recipe for that combination. If I make the dulce, can I just combine it into the bavarian cream and lessen other ingredients appropiately? Do I just top the cream with my oranges? Thank you for the great instructions!! -Jessica
March 23, 2014 at 9:21 pm
Would I need to do anything different if I were doing cupcakes? Does this cake freeze well? I would like to make this ahead of time, then frost the day of the wedding.
Do I need to poke holes before soaking? I am planning on one 3 layer 9 inch cake and 30 cupcakes.
May 4, 2014 at 9:25 pm
If I were to make this cake ahead of time and freeze, would I need to wait and soak with milk after I have thawed, or soak before I freeze the cake?
May 14, 2014 at 11:55 am
I just want to cry! The center of my cake either fell or never rose correctly, HELP WHAT DID I DO WRONG?
June 17, 2014 at 3:20 am
i'm so happy i found this blog! i have a tiered tres leche this weekend. i've never made one before so i'm kinda nervous. she was asking for the traditional fruit filling but so i was thinking maybe bavarian cream with some fresh fruit in it? its going to be a 9′ bottom. i asked on one of my cake groups and everyone said tres leche would not work for tiered cakes and especially decorated!! so is this possible? i would use american buttercream and fondant petals for bottom decor. thanks so much
June 26, 2014 at 4:11 am
thanks for the comments. i have just been experimenting and have frozen a dry cake to see what happenes if I warm it slightly and then soak it, also a soaked cake to see if the fluid seperates and I have also frozen some tres leches fluid to see what happens it is. Then I will make the cakes according to the answers. I intend to use italian meringue icing cos the butter here ( Tenerife, Canary islands) isnt the same as in Soctland ( Im Scottish) and the butter version didnt taste nice at all. However whatever happens because the wedding is in August, our hottest month when it can also be quite humid I am goign to make a large cake fo the caterers to keep int he fridge to serve cos I dont want the tres leches to go off at all! Anymore tips would be great. Thanks to date
September 12, 2014 at 3:52 am
Hi there, I wanted to try this recipe for this Saturday. I looked up the recipe for Bavarian creme but missed seeing the part on how much dulce de leche to add for your one recipe.
Also since your Bavarian creme is also meant for soaking do I need to alter the proportions of soaking liquid?
September 13, 2014 at 4:06 am
Hi I was planning to make this cake and was hoping you could tell me the proportion of Bavarian cream to dulce de leche to get the right taste. Also in your Bavarian cream recipe you mention it is liquid so does that mean we have to reduce the amount of soaking liquid of tresleches
Thanks in advance
October 23, 2014 at 1:15 pm
Hi there. As many of thee others have said, I AM SO GLAD I FOUND THIS!! I have a castle cake to make that needs to feed 70. She wants the tres Leches cake. I am self taught and stressing out!!! My question is if you use the Bavarian cream to crumb coat the cake before putting the fondant on. And… I read through the comments but I am still worried about the tier holding up since this cake is so moist. I'm questioning my ability to pull this off!!!
October 23, 2014 at 1:17 pm
Sorry also, I was thinking either 2 tier or 3 tier with 2 2 inch layers making each tier.
April 11, 2015 at 7:55 am
I have read this recipe about 120 times and I'm happy to see other bakers have asked the questions I had about this cake. Hopefully my cake comes Out good !!
April 19, 2015 at 6:23 pm
I'm trying to make 2/3 of this recipe as I only want to use 2 10″ pans for it instead of 3 9″, any suggestion or advices? I have already converted the recipe but I don't want to mess it up
August 17, 2015 at 8:36 pm
how much batter does this recipe yield. I am trying to make a 2 tiered cake, 9 inch and 6 inch cake pans. Trying to decide on layers depending on how much batter I get out of one recipe.
September 25, 2015 at 12:21 am
Hi!! Thank you for sharing this recipe!! It came out amazing!! And it's so nice to see someone who responds to comments- so thank you!!
I have a couple questions, I hope you'd be willing to help me with:
1) could you substitute the whole milk for evaporated milk?
2) Why is no butter/magarine used?
3) Idk if you have heard of "ponque"/bizcocho mojadito/ Puerto Rican rum cake.. But if you have- could this cake batter recipe be used and using a syrup to soak the cake instead of milk?
Thank you again for sharing your knowledge!! 🙂
September 21, 2016 at 9:16 pm
I am baking my brother's wedding cake in 2 weeks and I'm so very happy to have found this blog, I do have one question, can I use something else besides buttercream icing to do the crumb coat and final icing coat? 3 leches cake is already sweet and I don't want the buttercream to make it overwhelmingly sweet. Thanks!
September 23, 2016 at 8:42 pm
I plan on serving 30-40 people because some other family members are making cupcakes


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Tatyana Vysokogorets-Dostoevskaya, 63, never leaves her second-floor flat, within an ageing concrete block, which was assigned to her a few years ago when she could no longer meet the rent on her old home.
She has done what she can to make the room bearable. A fraying blanket has been thrown on the floor in place of a carpet. Rows of plastic pill containers and medicine bottles are lined tidily on the shelves alongside two sepia postcards of the novelist and sickly geraniums. Orthodox icons made from paper have been placed in the corner.
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'Dostoevsky wrote beautifully about the poor, and it's obvious he really felt for them. But I think even he would have been horrified to see how his descendants are living,' she said, dropping ash from a strong Russian cigarette into an empty sardine tin.
Recently she appealed for help in an open letter to a Russian weekly newspaper which prompted public dismay and a flurry of small personal contributions from Dostoevsky-lovers - many of them equally impoverished pensioners - totalling around 2,000 roubles (£50). But there was no official response.
While moved by these gestures, Tatyana feels the Russian government - which she says has indirectly benefited from her great-grandfather's work - should keep her off the breadline. 'It isn't just our family. All over the city people are living with just as much difficulty now as they did in Dostoevsky's time. What he described has returned in a horrible new form. He foresaw it all.'
Hunched in her chair, wearing layers of darned clothes to keep out the cold, Tatyana makes a convincing Dostevskian figure: defenceless and despairing, an ordinary person bewildered by how society has treated her.
There are just six direct descendants of Dostoevsky still alive: Tatyana, her son and grandson, her brother Andrei Dostoevsky (who scrapes together a living as an unregistered taxi driver), his son and granddaughter. All of them live in St Petersburg, struggling to survive.
For most of her early life Tatyana was oblivious to the status of her great-grandfather. With the tightening of ideological controls in the 1930s, his writings were excluded from the school curriculum and his novels published rarely until the 1970s. The anti-revolutionary and deeply religious convictions at the heart of his philosophy were deemed unconstructive. 'He was considered an obscure writer. Even before I got married and took my husband's name, people rarely commented on my surname,' she said.
She developed no particular interest in literature and studied at a technical college before working first as a telephone engineer and then as a state central heating official. 'When we were children, our father used to read the books aloud to us, but I found it much harder when I started reading them myself. He has a very difficult style,' she said.
Throughout the 1960s her father campaigned to have Dostoevsky's reputation restored and helped to persuade officials to open a museum in the building where the writer died. Just before her father's own death, she helped him to take those heirlooms which were not lost along with the family property and savings in the Revolution - a few pieces of furniture and clocks - from their flat to be displayed in the new state museum.
In her more desperate moments, she fantasises about the price they might have got if they had sold these belongings instead. In this same mood, she feels envious of Leo Tolstoy's offspring, who made themselves rich in the West; she wonders why no one has ever invited her to attend a Dostoevsky literary conference; she wants to know why the money still being generated by his writing never filters back to help her family.
Natalia Ashimbaeva, the Dostoevsky museum's new director, is sympathetic. 'We know how much she needs help,' she said, adding that staff had done what little they could to support her, given their own battle against underfunding.
But she was perplexed by the idea that the state had a moral obligation to support the writer's relatives. 'She needs an increase to her pension - but if the state helps her just because she is Dostoevsky's great-granddaughter it would create a dangerous precedent. They'd have to start helping Chekhov's relatives and then Glinka's - there would be no way of stopping.'
When she is feeling more rational, Tatyana concedes that her problems are common to everyone her age. Russia's pensioners are a neglected generation. Having spent most of their lives working for a system which collapsed dramatically in their old age, they have been left without the social support the old regime would have guaranteed them. Stripped of their savings in the financial crises of the 1990s, those who do not have families to look after them find their pensions utterly inadequate. Many go on the streets to sell their possessions or trade cigarettes. Some 12 million pensioners across Russia are thought to be battling poverty.
'People of my age are no longer living, they are simply existing,' she said. 'Old people are hungry and can't afford to buy themselves medicines.'
She is ashamed she only developed an interest in Dostoevsky late in life, but says she was guided by other priorities.
'My father used to say, "Never forget you are the great-granddaughter of a great writer". But I forgot. I married a sailor and became a worker. I believed in the socialist goal. I believed we were working to build a wonderful future. The reality has turned out to be nightmarish.'


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Winnipeg Spring Break Camps!
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It's hard to believe that we are already into March! Seems like yesterday that I was just taking down the Christmas tree! We are only a few weeks away from Spring Break. Below is a list of Winnipeg Spring Break Camps for 2018. Please let me know if I have missed anything and I would be happy to add. Learning from experience...most of these fill up rather quickly. Take a look and get registered to avoid disappointment!
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Chigwell School
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Chigwell is a co-educational school for pupils aged between 4 and 18 set in 100 acres of beautiful grounds. We offer a balanced education in a stable, traditional environment, but one nonetheless focussed on the future. Renowned for our high academic standards, we set equal store by our wide range of activities and our well developed sense of pastoral care. We aim to ensure that children have a happy and busy time at School but are well prepared for the 21st century world when they leave us.
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The 4 Best Travel Steamers For Your Next Trip
As far as chores go, I consider ironing to be right up there with dusting as something I'd rather just avoid. But when special events like weddings or job interviews come around and having fresh and wrinkle-free clothes is essential, the best travel steamers can really come in handy.
Unlike ironing, which can be complicated and — if you're as certifiably clumsy as I am — likely to result in damage to either your clothes or yourself (or both), steaming is a relatively simple process that's kind of hard to mess up. A good travel steamer basically does all the work for you, and since most travel steamers are designed to be lightweight, compact, and easy to pack for your vacation or trip, they're a real must-have when you're living out of a suitcase. Most importantly, they can save you from looking like you just rolled out of that suitcase yourself.
Whether you're looking for powerful performance, versatility and value, or easy maintenance, there are plenty of great options on the market that can help make your next trip completely wrinkle-free. No matter your needs or your budget, you'll find a few of the most popular and highly-rated models available now below.
1. A Compact, Affordable Travel Steamer With The Most Five-Star Reviews
When it comes to travel steamers, the URPOWER Garment Steamer is one of the best overall models on the market, and not just in terms of value. Not only is this compact, handheld steamer really affordable at $20, but it comes with a nozzle design that distributes steam evenly to remove even the most stubborn wrinkles. It heats up in just two minutes and the 130-milliliter water tank runs for about 7 to 10 minutes of continuous use each time you fill it up. Plus, it even has an automatic shut-off function if it gets too hot or runs out of water. With more than 4,000 reviews on Amazon, this is one of the most popular and well-rated models around and reviewers say it even works as an alternative to ironing when you're in a bind. If you've never used a travel steamer before, this is one of the easiest, most efficient options to use that won't break the bank.
2. A Portable Travel Steamer With A Collapsible Handle For Easy Storage
Like the URPOWER Garment Steamer, the Travel Smart from Conair is incredibly affordable and offers terrific handheld functionality. But one of the major differences between the URPOWER and the Travel Smart — and the thing that may be a deciding factor for some — is that this option has an awesome collapsible handle that makes packing it away super convenient. Although it's small, you can steam at any angle for 10 minutes at a time using the Travel Smart. Since it's also equipped with worldwide dual voltage, it'll work basically everywhere and has multiple attachments that will ensure your outfit looks flawless. One reviewer described taking it on a trip to Europe, where it was a "life saver." The reviewer added: "I like it better than the [full-sized steamer] we have at home and when I just need to steam one or two items I will definitely use this over our large one."
3. The Smallest and Most Lightweight Travel Steamer That Doubles As An Iron
Size doesn't always equate to power, and that's definitely the case with this tiny steamer from PurSteam, which is one of the smallest yet mightiest options on the market today. It comes equipped with dual voltage, so you can literally take it around the world, and it's the perfect pick for someone with limited luggage space at their disposal. At 420 watts, it's got a high capacity, produces up to 30 percent more steam flow than comparable models, and comes at a fraction of the cost.
4. A Handheld Garment Steamer That Lasts Longer Than All The Rest
Eager to freshen up your clothes when you're on the go? If so, then this powerful steamer with a 1,200-watt capacity and an ultra-large, 8.7-ounce water tank is a terrific investment. It comes with a continuous steam function that is ideal for steaming large items, and it comes equipped with an automatic shut-off so you'll never burn or blister your hands when it's in use. However, there are two unique features that set this steamer apart from other options. It preheats in just 35 seconds and can run continuously for 14 minutes, making it one of the longest continuous running steamers on the market. Another terrific perk with this appliance is that it can be used vertically and horizontally with no leaking, so it offers the maximum amount of flexibility, especially when you're trying to steam clothes, tablecloths, sofas, and other heavy fabrics. Along with the attachments, including a fabric brush and lint brush, you'll get everything you need to maintain your attire with this one.
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BRIDGESTONE AWARD "Best in Ireland 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Names from left to right: Jim Kennedy, Bartley Ryan, Enda Costello (Club Chairman), Angela Spain (Irish Red Cross), Mary Jo O' Reilly, Catherine Kennedy, Noreen Kelly Ryan, Liam Quinn, Phil Hennessey, Pat Dunne (Irish Red Cross), Deirdre Ryan (Irish Red Cross), Roisin Griffin (Irish Red Cross ), Caroline Prout (Irish Red Cross), Jim Nagle, Shane Connolly and Kevin Tucker.
Recently the Nenagh Éire Óg GAA club organised and ran a "First Responders" defibrillator training course, in conjunction with the Irish Red Cross, in MacDonagh Park. The club congratulates all of those who successfully completed the course especially Bartley Ryan who arranged this vital training and the Irish Red Cross for all their time and efforts.


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Sleep disorder is one of the worst issues we face today. There are a number of reasons behind it.
Let us discuss some of the issues related to sleep disorders today through this post.
Sleep schedule
Reading a number of helpful posts online and after gaining a deep knowledge, we have made a sleep schedule for you all. However, we see that most of us don't follow it or stick to it. For those who break routine fall in the way provided below:
- Some people have a different schedule for their weekdays and a completely different schedule for their weekends. This is an issue because coping up with the changes on a regular basis is difficult. So, stop doing it and start following your sleep schedule seven days a week.
- Careless about it. There are people who do not follow their sleep schedule. If you do not follow it, then why do you have one?
So, have a sleep schedule and follow it.
Before sleeping, you need to keep your mind away from unnecessary issues that can cause excitement, anxiety or stress. There are a number of thoughts that can create stress in our minds. So, we need to stay away from it.
Apart from our thoughts, external environment even can be irritating. For example, while sleeping, if bright lights are lightenup in your room, you can expect your sleep to be disturbed because it keeps you away from the excitement, anxiety or stress that can prevent you from getting sound and deep sleep.
Tech gadgets
This is one of the biggest reasons for sleep disruptions. Your smartphones, laptops, and other smart gadgets are distracting you and forcing you to compromise your sleep hours for unnecessary chatting, scrolling, and other ways by which you are lossing control over your sleep. So, our advice would be you avoid these gadgets and be happy with your sleep.
If possible, either switch them off or keep them on silent so that there is no distraction.
Mattress and pillows
One should sleep on comfortable and supportive mattresses. For pillows, choose one that makes your room attractive and invites you to sleep.
Heavy meals
One should avoid heavy meals before sleeping. Eating big can cause discomfort and make it difficult for you to sleep. If you are planning to eat large meals, eat it at least three hours before you go to sleep.
Design your sleep environment
Do it in a way so that you can establish good conditions for one's sleep. Ideally, you should make sure that your room's temperature is between 60 and 67 degrees.
Also, your room should be free from any noise that can ruin your sleep.
Snoring is one issue that can ruin your bed partner's sleep. So, if your bed partner snores, look for remedies that can control their snoring and help you sleep well.
There are a number of anti-snoring devices which are available online. You can buy them at Overstock.com and you can save your money by using special overstock promocodes. Make sure that you choose coupons that are not expired.
Note: Overstock.com has a number of offers listed on its store. So, before choosing coupons, make sure that you can use them with the offers listed on Overstock.com.
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The waiting game, originally uploaded by nicklwc.
Another interesting culture that you never see here is motorcycle-cabs. That is right! Since the easiest way to travel in Hanoi is via motorcycle, its only natural there will be 2-wheel version of a cab.
Natural wind, possibly no jam, and the ride of a lifetime. What more can you ask for?
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|Pan, Zhaoguang, Wu, Jianzhong, Sun, Hongbin, Guo, Qinglai and Abeysekera, Muditha 2019. Quasi-dynamic interactions and security control of integrated electricity and heating systems in normal operations. CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems 5 (1) , -. 10.17775/CSEEJPES.2018.00240
|Bastida, Hector, Ugalde Loo, Carlos E., Abeysekera, Muditha, Qadrdan, Meysam and Wu, Jianzhong 2019. Thermal dynamic modelling and temperature controller design for a house. Energy Procedia 158 , pp. 2800-2805. 10.1016/j.egypro.2019.02.041
|Bastida Hernandez, H, Ugalde Loo, Carlos, Abeysekera, Muditha, Qadrdan, Meysam, Wu, Jianzhong and Jenkins, Nick 2019. Dynamic modelling and control of thermal energy storage. Energy Procedia 158 , pp. 2890-2895. 10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01.942
|Abeysinghe Herath Mudiyanselage, Sathsara Madumali, Wu, Jianzhong, Sooriyabandara, Mahesh, Abeysekera, Muditha, Xu, Tao and Wang, Chengshan 2018. Topological properties of medium voltage electricity distribution networks. Applied Energy 210 , pp. 1101-1112. 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.06.113
|Pan, Zhaoguang, Wu, Jianzhong and Abeysekera, Muditha 2018. Quasi-dynamic interactions between electricity systems and heating systems in normal operation. Presented at: 2017 IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration (EI2), Beijing, China, 26-28 November 2017. 2017 IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration (EI2). IEEE, pp. 1-6. 10.1109/EI2.2017.8245725
|Bastida, Hector, Ugalde Loo, Carlos E. and Abeysekera, Muditha 2017. Dynamic modelling and control of a reciprocating engine. Energy Procedia 142 , pp. 1282-1287. 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.486
|Foulds, Edward, Abeysekera, Muditha and Wu, Jianzhong 2017. Modelling and analysis of a ground source heat pump combined with a PV-T and earth energy storage system. Energy Procedia 142 , pp. 886-891. 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.142
|Bastida, Hector, Ugalde Loo, Carlos E., Abeysekera, Muditha and Qadrdan, Meysam 2017. Dynamic modeling and control of a plate heat exchanger. Presented at: 2017 IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration (EI2), Beijing, China, 26-28 November 2017. 2017 IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration (EI2). IEEE, 10.1109/EI2.2017.8245736
|Abeysekera, Muditha, Wu, Jianzhong, Jenkins, Nicholas and Rees, M. 2016. Steady state analysis of gas networks with distributed injection of alternative gas. Applied Energy 164 , pp. 991-1002. 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.05.099
Abeysekera, Muditha
Combined analysis of coupled energy networks.
PhD Thesis,
Cardiff University.
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|Chaudry, Modassar, Abeysekera, Muditha, Hosseini, Seyed Hamid Reza, Jenkins, Nicholas and Wu, Jianzhong 2015. Uncertainties in decarbonising heat in the UK. Energy Policy 87 , pp. 623-640. 10.1016/j.enpol.2015.07.019
|Abeysekera, Muditha and Wu, Jianzhong 2015. Method for simultaneous power flow analysis in coupled multi-vector energy networks. Energy Procedia 75 , pp. 1165-1171. 10.1016/j.egypro.2015.07.551
|Nan, Xiaodan, Abeysekera, Muditha and Wu, Jianzhong 2015. Modelling of energy demand in a modern domestic dwelling. Energy Procedia 75 , pp. 1803-1808. 10.1016/j.egypro.2015.07.148
|Qadrdan, Meysam, Abeysekera, Muditha, Chaudry, Modassar, Wu, Jianzhong and Jenkins, Nicholas 2015. Role of power-to-gas in an integrated gas and electricity system in Great Britain. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 40 (17) , pp. 5763-5775. 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2015.03.004
|Fuso Nerini, Francesco, Valentini, Francesco, Modi, Anish, Upadhyay, Govinda, Abeysekera, Muditha, Salehin, Sayedus and Appleyard, Eduardo 2015. The Energy and Water Emergency Module; A containerized solution for meeting the energy and water needs in protracted displacement situations. Energy Conversion and Management 93 , pp. 205-214. 10.1016/j.enconman.2015.01.019
|Rees, Marc, Wu, Jianzhong, Jenkins, Nicholas and Abeysekera, Muditha 2014. Carbon constrained design of energy infrastructure for new build schemes. Applied Energy 113 , pp. 1220-1234. 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.08.059
|Abeysekera, Muditha, Rees, M. and Wu, Jianzhong 2014. Simulation and analysis of low pressure gas networks with decentralized fuel injection. Energy Procedia 61 , pp. 402-406. 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.1135
|Abeysekera, Muditha, Rees, Marc and Wu, Zianzhong 2014. Simulation and analysis of gas networks with decentralized fuel injection. Presented at: International Conference on Applied Energy, ICAE 2014, Taipei, Taiwan, 30 May -2 June 2014.


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Helping people to make decisions about their privacy-sensitive data.
The Internet is increasingly sprawling with social networks that allow users to share a variety of content with each other, and personalized services that provide users with content tailored to their context and personal preferences. However, not all users are comfortable providing their private information to these systems. They thus have to make a trade-off between possible privacy threat of providing the data and the benefit they may incur when the system can use the data, a process that has been dubbed privacy calculus. The goal of this project is to help users with this decision process.
To effectively make privacy trade-offs, users need take control over their information disclosure decisions, which can be a burden that they may try to avoid. For example, in one study I found that form auto-completion tools (which have become a standard feature in most modern web browsers) make it so easy to submit a fully completed form that users seem to skip the privacy calculus altogether. We developed two auto-completion tools that make it easier for users to control their disclosure.
It is easy to go overboard on control, though: Facebook, for instance, has resorted to "labyrinthian" privacy controls to satisfy the wildly varying privacy preferences of their user base. As a result most Facebook users do not even seem to know the implications of their own privacy settings! In my thesis I try to solve these problems by analysing users' decisions and then giving them smart default settings. These defaults are tailored to the specific user and the specific situation in which the decision is being made. This personalized solution is simplfied by some of the regularities in users' behaviors that we have discovered in our research: there are several broad dimensions of private information, and there seems to be a limited set of distinct privacy profiles of people that seem to disclose similarly along these dimensions.
Another solution is to give users good justifications for providing (or not providing) the system their personal information. The content of such justifications can range from explaining the reason for the request (e.g. how the system would use the data), the benefits of disclosure (e.g. how much better the recommendations of a recommender system will be), or an appeal to the social norm (e.g. how many other users disclosed the information).
Interestingly, though, it seems that these justifications do not always have the intended effect. Although users in our online study felt that the justification messages were helpful, the messages actually decreased their overall trust and satisfaction, as well as their level of disclosure! This may happen because the system disappoints the user with the justifications, as they will at times inevitably predict low benefits. Another explanation could be that the mere presence of a justification sensitizes users to privacy-related issues. Does this mean that justifications just do not work? It could be that I just have not found the "ultimate" justification yet. Another option is that these justifications work for some users, but not for others. We explore this option in our IUI paper.
Wisniewski, P., Knijnenburg, B.P., Richter Lipford, H.: Making privacy personal: Characterizing social network users by their privacy proficiency and management strategies. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), download here.
Dong, C., Jin, H., Knijnenburg, B.P.: PPM: A Privacy Prediction Model for Online Social Networks. Poster paper at the International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo), download here.
Knijnenburg, B.P., Cherry, D.: Comics as a Medium for Privacy Notices. Paper presented at the SOUPS2016 Workshop on The Future of Privacy Notices, download here.
Bidgoli, M., Knijnenburg, B.P., Grossklags, J.: When Cybercrimes Strike Undergraduates. Full paper at the Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), download here.
This paper won the best paper award (among 11 accepted papers)
Kobsa, A., Cho, H., Knijnenburg, B.P.: The Effect of Personalization Provider Characteristics on Privacy Attitudes and Behaviors: An Elaboration Likelihood Model Approach. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), DOI: 10.1002/asi.23629, download here.
Knijnenburg, B.P., Bulgurcu, B.: Form Auto-completion Tools Designed for Elaboration: Overcoming the Deleterious Effects of Decisional Heuristics on Users' Privacy. Paper accepted to the 2015 Dewald Roode Information Security Workshop, available upon request.
Knijnenburg, B.P.: A User-Tailored Approach to Privacy Decision Support. PhD dissertation.download here.
Li, Y., Knijnenburg, B.P., Kobsa, A., and Nguyen, M-H.C. (2015): Cross-Cultural Privacy Prediction. Paper presented at the SOUPS2015 2nd Annual Privacy Personas and Segmentation (PPS), available upon request.
Dong, C., Jin, H., Knijnenburg B.P.: Predicting Privacy Behavior on Online Social Networks. Full paper with oral presentation at the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) 2015, download here.
Acceptance rate: 19%
Wisniewski, P., Islam, N., Knijnenburg, B.P., Patil, S.: Give Social Network Users the Privacy They Want. Full paper at the ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2015, DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675256, download here.
Acceptance rate: 28%
Knijnenburg, B.P., Kobsa, A.: Increasing Sharing Tendency Without Reducing Satisfaction: Finding the Best Privacy-Settings User Interface for Social Networks. Full paper at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2014, download here.
Knijnenburg, B.P.: Information Disclosure Profiles for Segmentation and Recommendation. Paper at the SOUPS2014 Workshop on Privacy Personas and Segmentation (PPS) 2014, download here.
Wisniewski, P., Knijnenburg, B.P., Richter Lipford, H.: Profiling Facebook Users' Privacy Behaviors. Paper at the SOUPS2014 Workshop on Privacy Personas and Segmentation (PPS) 2014, download here.
Wu, H., Knijnenburg, B.P., Kobsa, A.: Improving the prediction of users' disclosure behavior... by making them disclose more predictably? Paper at the SOUPS2014 Workshop on Privacy Personas and Segmentation (PPS) 2014, download here.
Kobsa, A., Knijnenburg, B.P., Livshitz, B.: Let's Rather Do It at My Place? Attitudinal and Behavioral Study of Privacy in Client-Side Personalization. Full paper at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI) 2014, DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557102, download here.
Acceptance rate: 23%
Knijnenburg, B.P., Kobsa, A., Jin, H.: Counteracting the Negative Effect of Form Auto-completion on the Privacy Calculus. Full paper at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2013, download here.
Acceptance rate: 26%; also presented as a poster at SOUPS 2014
Knijnenburg, B.P., Kobsa, A., Jin, H.: Dimensionality of information disclosure behavior. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2013.06.003, download here.
IJHCS is ranked #1 among 26 HCI journals (Microsoft Academic Search)
Knijnenburg, B.P., Kobsa, A.: Helping Users with Information Disclosure Decisions: Potential for Adaptation. Full paper at the conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2013, DOI: 10.1145/2449396.2449448, download here.
Acceptance rate: 22%
Knijnenburg, B.P., Kobsa, A: Making Decisions about Privacy: Information Disclosure in Context-Aware Recommender Systems. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), DOI: 10.1145/2499670, download here.
Knijnenburg, B.P.: On the dimensionality of information disclosure behavior in social networks. Position paper at the CSCW2013 workshop on Measuring Networked Privacy, download here.
Knijnenburg, B.P., Kobsa, A., Saldamli, G: Privacy in Mobile Personalized Systems: The Effect of Disclosure Justifications. Short paper at the SOUPS 2012 Workshop on Usable Privacy & Security for Mobile Devices (U-PriSM) 2012, download here.
Knijnenburg, B.P., Kobsa, A., Moritz, S., Svensson, M.: Exploring the Effects of Feed-forward and Feedback on Information Disclosure and User Experience in a Context-Aware Recommender System. Full paper at the UMAP 2011 Workshop on Decision Making and Recommendation Acceptance Issues in Recommender Systems (DEMRA) 2011, download here.
Program committee member of PACIS 2016, special track on User-Centered Decision Support Systems in the IoT Era.
Program committee member of the International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC) 2016.
Program committee member of the International Conference on HCI in Business (HCIB) 2016.
Program committee member of the iConference 2016.
Program committee member of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2015 and 2016.
Associate Editor for the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2015.
Student volunteer co-chair of the iConference 2015.
Keynote speaker of the workshop on Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems (Decisions@Recsys2013), read the 2-page abstract here.
Keynote speaker at the CSCW 2013 workshop on Measuring Networked Privacy".
Editorial Review Board member of the special issue on Reframing Privacy for the International Systems Journal (ISJ).
Program committee member of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) 2013.


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In the following article we reveal the 5 biggest mistakes made when transitioning out of Defence, and what you can do to avoid them. If you follow our advice you'll be ahead of the pack when it comes to establishing yourself in a civilian career, and making the process as stress free as possible for you and your family.
We have heard it time and time again: "I left my documents in the Defence. I can't gain access to them now. Is that a problem?"
Yes. This presents a big problem. Leaving it too long to gather those documents leaves you at risk of getting yourself locked out from accessing the documents that showed your full defence career.
In a world where you must prove your worth, having evidence of your skills and experience is essential. Too many defence personnel have found out the hard way. They miss their opportunity to gather evidence and then end up with lower level qualifications than they're actually eligible for. Or else they end up having to spend time and money studying what they already know, because they don't have the evidence to show it.
Make sure you collect ALL the documents and examples that paint the highest level of your skills and experience in the military BEFORE you leave.
Here's the immediate steps to take:
Veterans who haven't looked at the available defence transition funding before leaving all tell us they made these three mistakes:
When you head out the door of defence, you realise it is a labyrinth of options and decisions.
When you take the approach of hurling yourself straight into the labyrinth without a clear plan of attack, you're going to strike these problems …
Start by getting some clarity, building a basic plan for where you want to head after leaving the military.
When you get clarity, you'll find that:
This is where talking to a Military RPL Mentor can really help. The team at Churchill are always here to help with these conversations and point you in the direction of the 5 Questions you should answer in every transition.
People getting out of Defence can make the mistake of labelling their career in military terms: military ranks, military skills and military qualifications. They expect civilians to understand their defence career, and the reality is they don't.
Labelling puts you behind in the race for positions because you are categorised too easily by your past employer rather than your skills and knowledge.
Computerised recruitment and resume readers will disregard your applications, because they won't be able to find the keywords and terms they're programmed to look for.
The right position titles, skills descriptions and qualifications for the civilian job market MATTER.
Instead, you want to put your defence service through a translation machine – take the defence labels and turn it into labels that make sense on Civvy Street – on your resume, in your cover letters and through converting your defence experience into civilian qualifications through recognition of prior learning.
…And see how it opens up the job market to you.
When you haven't taken the time to look at your resume, get that interviewing advice, talk to qualification specialists who understand what qualifications are opening doors or setting standards in which industries, well, you are going to be limping out of the gate while other people run for the prize.
Preparing to enter a new career requires new skills – resume, applications, interviews, LinkedIn profiles and building connections in a totally different world – a civilian world.
It means building a good team around you who are all focused on helping you transition.
There are some great career experts available to help veterans transitioning to Civvy Street.
The smart money is on the veterans who get help with:
You are not the first person to transition from Defence and you won't be the last.
So, avoid these mistakes by tapping into the best support you can get.
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Death of single-screen theatres in Patna
New Delhi: As the rugged hands of labourers clear away the last of the debris of the fallen 'Pearl Cinema' they also collect with them the coffin of the single-screen theatres in Patna, which demolition has put virtually the last nail to.
"With the long-closed but still standing theatre now being dismantled, it is not just the death of 'Pearl' but practically that of the single-screen theatres themselves in Patna," says ex-District Magistrate (Patna) and president, Cine Society, Patna, R N Dash.
Patna, which once boasted and took pride in its single- screen theatres has silently given way to multiplexes.
"The lure of the multiplex and the onslaught of video piracy has killed the single-screen. But, do people of Patna care," asks Dash who has now hardened himself after seeing so many theatres vanish over years.
Cinema experts and critics point out that the government instead of formulating policies to save and restore the city's vulnerable heritage has given incentives to theatre-owners to dismantle and replace them with "modern" structures".
The current political regime in Bihar which assumed power in 2005 drastically reduced entertainment tax, from 110 per cent to 50 per cent, besides giving its nod to proposals extending tax holidays for modernisation of cinema halls and construction of multiplexes.
"This tax benefit, in the name of growth, offered these theatrewallahs incentives to dismantle their old structures to make way for the 'modern' ones, even though some of them were historic in nature and still in good shape," says National- Award winning film critic, Vinod Anupam.
"Single-screens also offer opportunity for small-budget films like "Gangs of Wasseypur" to find audience in a cut-throat multiplex market. Now, mega-budget films like "Ek Tha Tiger" have dislodged "Wasseypur II" from virtually all exhibition venues," says Anupam.
bout one-and-a-half year ago, Patna's oldest and the most historic theatre, the "Elphinstone Picture Palace" built in early 1900s succumbed to the hammer of "modernity" and commercialisation.
The theatre was where Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore performed with his troupe, dance-drama 'Chitrangada' in 1936 during his visit to Patna.
Such was the charm that these single-screen halls once held, and Dash informs that 'Elphinstone' "then owned by the 'Elphinstone Bioscope Company' began as a theatre and only later was it converted to be used as a cinema hall as well".
Noted photographer from Delhi Ram Rehman says, "Heritage does not form part of the core values of our society. New generations are being raised to appreciate only real estate and not history and heritage. Like other small cities, Patna too, is falling into that commercial trap in a bid to become a Gurgaon or Noida, concrete jungles, which have absolutely no soul."
Unlike in the western countries where old theatres are well-preserved in their original form and are still popular, their Indian counterparts always end up losing the battle to commercial 'viability'.
"Why can't these old beautiful theatres be used for showing documentaries, and old classic films. But, who cares for history and heritage and good cinema in the city, anyway," asks Patna-based young filmmaker Nitin Chandra.
'Pearl Picture Palace', the iconic, old theatre, located opposite the historic Patna General Post Office (GPO) had already faded off people's consciousness after it was caught up in legal wrangling between the government and various parties, reportedly leading to its closure, about thirty years ago.
Old-timers may still fondly indulge in the nostalgia and love that old theatres like 'Pearl' once earned from the city and its citizens but the current, abject "lack of patronage" has "killed all old cinema landmarks" in the historic city.
"Lacking patronage, 'Elphinstone' sustained itself by running adult movies and highly commercialized Bhojpuri films before before being dismantled," the film critic adds.
Other theatres like 'Rupak', 'Vaishali', 'Chanakya', have become history, all but awaiting a new concrete avatar. 'Ashok Cinema' branded and known famously as the "Pride of the Capital" lost its 'pride' to commercialization as its owners didn't see any profits in running the old theatre anymore. Many still recall its famous rose-garden.
With international movie exhibition chain 'Cinepolis' registering its multiplex presence in the first ever mall in Patna, and more such malls coming up in the city, it seems to signal the end of single-screen theatres in Patna.


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SECRET OF THE TWO EYES – Part 1
LIGHT AND ETERNITY – Al Noor in Al Rahman , Al Hay – in Al Raheem اَلرَّحْمَـٰنُ وَ اَلرَّحِيمْ
Balanced Vision vs. Dajjal's System –
Why is The Man of Deception a One Eyed Demon?
Series of "Secret of the Eyes" Part 2 – Compassion and Mercy
From Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani's teachings As Taught By Shaykh Sayed Nurjan Mirahmadi
اَعُوْذُ بِاللهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيْمِ
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيْم
A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
I seek refuge in Allah from Satan, the rejected one
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
The way of ma'refa and the way to realities, is the fountain flowing from the heart of prophet (saws) to the heart of Sultan al Awliya Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Haqqani, and his representative Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. We are asking for their Madad and support for the realities. These realities are important for the last days.
From every holy hadith of Prophet (saws), Awliya (saints) can open tremendous understandings. One in the way of ma'refa (reality) is that "who knows himself, will know his lord".
من عرف نفسه فقد عرف ربه
Man 'arafa nafsahu faqad 'arafa Rabbahu
He who knows himself knows his Lord." Prophet Muhammad (saws)
The knowing of the self is an understanding towards the reality which Allah (aj) is dressing Insaan (Human being). Wa laqad karramna banee Adama. (We have certainly honored the children of Adam.")
وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِي آدَمَ وَحَمَلْنَاهُمْ فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ وَرَزَقْنَاهُم مِّنَ الطَّيِّبَاتِ وَفَضَّلْنَاهُمْ عَلَىٰ كَثِيرٍ مِّمَّنْ خَلَقْنَا تَفْضِيلًا ﴿٧٠﴾
17:70 – "Wa laqad karramna banee adama wa hamalnahum fil barri wal bahri wa razaqnahum minat tayyebati wa faddalnahum 'ala katheerim mimman khalaqna tafdeela. (Surah Al Isra)
"And We have certainly honored the children of Adam and carried them on the land and sea and provided for them of the good things and preferred them over much of what We have created, with [definite] preference. (Holy Quran, The Night Journey 17:70)
What an honor and dress Allah (aj) has given to Human being. In the understanding of just the eyes of Insaan (Human being); what lights emanates from the holy eyes and the reality in which the eyes serve. Everything about ourselves is a sign of the divinely presence, and everything within ourselves is a sign of the divinely presence. To gain an understanding Allah (aj) says, "I will teach you about my signs upon the horizons and within yourself."
سَنُرِيهِمْ آيَاتِنَا فِي الْآفَاقِ وَفِي أَنفُسِهِمْ حَتَّىٰ يَتَبَيَّنَ لَهُمْ أَنَّهُ الْحَقُّ ۗ … ٥٣
41:53 – "Sanureehim ayatina fil afaqi wa fee anfusihim hatta yatabayyana lahum annahu alhaqqu, …" (Surat Al Isra)
"We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth…" (The Night Journey 41:53)
The Balanced Life
Awliyaullah (saints) and pious people come to teach us to reflect and contemplate and begin to understand. One example in the secret of the eyes is the understanding of living a balanced life and what is the difference between a balanced life and imbalanced life.
For example, we are holding something holy such as this holy Quran. We hold the holy Quran here and you point to it. This is a hands-on demonstration.
- Point your finger towards the holy Quran (or another stationary object)
- Focus your both eyes on your finger and the finger pointing towards the Quran. You have to have the focus of your finger between two eye sights and the holy Quran; so they are all lined up.
- Now close your Right eye.
You will see that the point that you were focusing on, moves
- Open back your eyes
- Close your Left eye. The point moves again.
The Quran didn't move, your perception of it moved. Depending on whether you see with the right eye or the left eye, there will be a different understanding. It means the truth is one and the truth is there. How we perceive it, is the way of ma'refa and the way of reality. Allah (aj) says, the truth doesn't keep changing between people. But, based on their level of understanding and their level of realities; their perception of the truth is either expanding or contracting. The truth remains one.
They begin to teach us that the truth is right there in the center. When life is imbalanced and one eye is not functioning; it is as if the target moves. If the other side is not balanced, again the target moves. It requires both eyes to look on and to keep the center way and to keep the balanced path.
In our physiology of the self, Allah (aj) is describing, your two eyes are responsible for keeping your path balanced. If you are using one eye (left eye), it will have a different imbalance than the right eye.
Attributes of Al Noor النور (the Light) & Al Hay الحى (the Ever living) Give us Firasah (Spiritual Vision)
Then they begin to teach us from Allah's attributes, which are the essences. الحى Al Hay (Ever living) و النور wa al Noor (Light). They first teach us in the way of the ma'refa (reality), then we come to the understanding of the disbelief and unbeliever and great deceiver that is opening within dunya (material world).
The Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam, said:
"Beware of the firasah (Spiritual vision) of the believer, for he sees with the light of Allah," then he recited the verse, "
"Surely! In this are the signs for the mutawassimeen." (Tirmidhi) The firasah of the believer is always truthful.
In the way of the belief, they begin to teach us that Quran and hadith are one. But how you perceive it is going to be based on the light within your heart; the light within your heart that emanates النور Al Noor (light) and the light within your heart that emanates from the sifat (attribute) الحى al Hay (ever-living). It means these two divinely attributes are responsible for the quality of your ferasah (spiritual vision) and your physical vision. It means everything has to be balanced.
The Al Noor (The Light) dresses you when you Belief
There are people who are coming to belief, immediately Allah (aj) grants them a Noor (light). It is a Noor but not yet from the ocean of realities of Hayat (life), complete. These are like two cups and we are asked to fill them. As much as we fill them from Allah's attributes; it's endless. It is never enough. It never takes anything from Allah (aj). But they begin to teach us the perception and understanding. Somebody comes to belief, they are granted a Noor (light). Within their eyes they have a light. They read holy Quran and they only understand something very basic. Where we understand that in technology? In a CD.
The Noor (Light) is what reads the CD:
CD is a plastic like a mirror but encoded with millions of information. There is a reader that hits the CD to get the information. Based on the quality of that light, it hits that mirror (CD) and retrieves information. It begins to teach that when Allah (aj) begins to send a Noor (light) to the heart, that Noor (light) begins to reflect through the eyes. At the entry level, the eye has very little light; it is still struggling just to flicker. When that eye looks, it pulls information; reads holy Quran and mainly at the level of Furqan. Furqan, is right and wrong. Then they become, may be mo'men (believer) and may be an Imam (leader). They have more light into their hearts.
If they don't keep the way of tazkiya (purification), tasawwuf (purification of the heart), and the ways of purification; they won't be drinking from the oceans of Hayat (ever-living). But, because of their 'amal (action) and their action, they will be granted Noor (light), Noor, Noor. Again they look and their perception of holy Quran and holy hadith, and everything else is at a different darajat (level). Because there is a light reflecting and that light is hitting the letters; Allah (aj) is reflecting back, to the level of their heart and their beliefs. It can't be more than the level of beliefs because it crashes. It's a power, it is qudrat (power) from Allah (aj)'s divinely presence.
Knowledge of regular Scholars vs. Awliyaullah (Saints)
They begin to teach so we understand that there are darajats (levels). These levels are based on the Noor (light) in their hearts. It means you come across very pious scholars. Again their practices, their 'amal (action) has been granting them light, and may be little bit of Hayat. Because Hayat (ever-living) when we go into; is a completely different practices. The 'amal and actions grant you a light. They speak again as if they read the interpretations of Quran and they speak nicely and give you out the interpretations. Not from the oceans of realities. They mix the English, the Arabic, and give you back an explanation with a little bit of knowledge here and there.
You can see them throughout the youtube; every type of scholar and knowledgeable person. Again it is based on the light within their heart. Now it is the perception, like the test we gave at the beginning of this suhbat (association). When working only with one eye and the light of faith is entering that heart and the eye is shining a Noor (light); their perception of reality is a bit off center. They are pulling out information but, not at the level of Awliya ullah (saints).
Pious saints are drinking from the fountain of Hayat (ever-living). It means their (saints) whole life is in zikrullah (remembrance of Allah) and in praising upon Sayyidena Muhammad (saws). Their whole life is in tazkiya (purification). As a result of that, they are drinking from the oceans of Kawthar (fountain of abundance), they are drinking from the oceans of Hayat (ever living). They are now two winged. What is emanating from their hearts is the ocean of Hayat, the oceans of the ever living reality and the oceans of Noor (light). When the ocean of Hayat and Noor begin to look at something, it means they pull out the reality in which Allah (aj) wants to dress them. They (saints) speak at the levels of realities that are far beyond the abilities of others.
When people say I haven't heard those realities and other people speak from different realities and at different levels. They begin to teach, those who know themselves, they know that if the practices of that one (regular scholars) is not strong enough and not opening the ocean of Hayat; they are merely through their 'amal have been granted Noor. Their Noor (light) can only retrieve so much information. Then you have Furqan. (The book of right and wrong.)
Ashabul Kahf (People of The Cave)
You have now Quran. Quran is from the heart of the Arabic Messenger. It means that the light and love of Sayyidina Muhammad (saws) must be emanating within your heart. That is the ocean of Hayat. He (saws) is the servant of Al Hay (the ever living). When Allah (aj) wants to describe al Hayat, it is not through Allah (aj). Allah is La Sharika lah (without any partner); don't make example of Allah (aj). Allah is not حى Hay (life) and He is not Mayit (dead), He is not life and He is not dead. Allah is beyond the ocean of understanding.
But when we want to describe, who is the ever-living servant of Allah (aj)? It's Sayyidina Muhammad (saws). It means the lovers and 'Ashiqeen of Sayyidina Muhammad (saws) are the people of Hayat. Allah (aj) describes them as Ashabul Kahf (people of the cave). That's why the number 18th. Next month is the month of safar (2nd month of Islamic Hijri Calendar.) {2X9=18. The 18th chapter of holy Quran is named Surat alKahf (the Cave) and it is about the people of the cave.} These are the realities of Ashabul Kahf. The real Ashabul Kahf are the ones who accompanied Prophet Muhammad (saws) to the holy cave. It means the Ashabul Kahf from before were the imitation for the arrival of Muhammad (saws). They are the exemplars to teach us about the characteristics of Ashabul Kahf, the people of Hayat.
We know that every 'amal and every action has a Noor (light). Therefore, people of Noor will be granted a light but, it doesn't mean they will be granted Hayat (ever-living). They don't reach to those oceans of eternity.
The example of that servant was Sayyidina Khidr (as). Sayyidna Khidr (as) was asking: Ya rabbi (O my lord), let me drink from the fountain of the ever-living and to reach eternity. The eternal ocean of ever-living is oceans of holy kawthar. He reached the holy kawthar, drank from that reality, and now he reached eternity. It means al Hayat is never dying.
اَلرَّحْمَـٰنُ وَ اَلرَّحِيمْ
Al Noor (The Light) and Al Hay (The Ever-Living)
Ar Raheem اَلرَّحِيمْ (The Merciful) – رحى م RA He Ya Meem
The souls that are dressed from the Al Hayat (ever-living), swim in the zikr of حى Hay (ever-living); under the sufat اَلرَّحِيمْ Ar Raheem (The merciful) رحى م Ra Hay Meem. Who are the م Meem? These are the مُحَمَّدَاً Muhammadan, whose hearts are حى Hay (ever-living).
رحى م Ra Hay Meem
Meem م – They are Muhammadan مُحَمَّدَاً
Hay حى (ever-living) – Their hearts are Alive
Ar Rahman الرحمن (The Beneficent)
They have been granted Noor (Light) from الرحمن Rahman (The Beneficent), because of ن Noon (representing Noor (light)). They have نور Noor of رحمن Rahamn, حى Hay of رحيم Raheem. Salamun Qawlam mir Rabbir Raheem.
سَلَامٌ قَوْلًا مِّن رَّبٍّ رَّحِيمٍ ٥٨
36:58 – "Salaamun qawlam mir Rabbir Raheem. (Surat Yaseen)
"Peace," a word from a Merciful Lord. (Holy Quran, 36:58)
Why? Because they are in the heart of Yaseen (saws). It means they love prophet (saws). They follow the way and the example; the sunnat of Muhammad (saws). Not only the external 'amal (action) but, their internal tazkiya (purification), their internal adab, and their internal characteristics. They don't talk, they are very quiet, and they are very pious, very humble. They are in constant zikr (remembrance) and constant purification. Never glorifying themselves but, constantly humiliating and humbling themselves. As a result, Prophet (saws) grants them an access towards that ocean and they become from the Ashabul Kahf (people of the cave).
Awliya (Saints) are People of the Kaaf ك and Kawthar
Then Mawlana Shaykh teaches, that Ashabul Kahf is to be from the people of ك Kaaf [letter of Arabic Alphabet]. What is ك Kaaf? It is كوثر Kawthar; to be from the people of the Kawthar (fountain of abundance), from the كثير Katheer (many). Allah (aj) says, we have given you from the fountain of abundance and Kabeer (great), the Ocean of greatness. They drink, they bathe, and they nourish their souls from that ocean. Everything about them is how much their souls can move into the kawthar (fountain of abundance) and how much they can swim in the ocean of kawthar. Like a fish they try to absorb as much as they can from prophet (saws); from what Allah (aj) is dressing Sayyidina Muhammad (saws). The owner of the holy kawthar that flows to the Zamzam, is Sayyidina Muhammad (saws).
إِنَّا أَعْطَيْنَاكَ الْكَوْثَرَ ١
108:1 – "Inna 'atayna kal kawthar." (Surat al Kawthar)
"Indeed, We have granted you (O Muhammad) the Fount (of Abundance)." (The Abundance 108:1)
Allah (aj) said; "We have given you the fountain of abundance." It means everything within it and every life emanating from it. And be from the Ashabul Kahf (people of the cave) and be from the people who are seeking the Kawthar. They drink Zamzam in dunya to reach the reality of Kawthar of Akhirat; to reach to the ocean of Hayat.
People of Hayat (Ever-living) are taught by Noor of Ar Rahman
They begin to teach us that people of Hayat are different from the people who have certain 'amal (action). That 'amal has a perception that is off target but, it is still good. But when the heart is filled with the ocean of Hayat and filled with ocean of Noor; they are looking withالحى و النور Al Hay wa Al Noor; like a CD, that whatever they focus their heart on, begin to retrieve information. Why? Because they are now under the reality of الرحمن Ar Rahman. What Allah (aj) describes them in سُورَةُ الرَّحْمَـٰنُ Surat ArRhaman?
عَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ ﴿٢﴾ خَلَقَ الْإِنسَانَ ٣
55:2-3 – "'alamal Quran. Khalaqal insaan." (Surah ArRhaman)
It is He Who has taught the Qur'an. He has created Man. (Holy Quran,The Beneficent 55:2-3)
'alamal Quran. Khalaqal insaan. It means, that which you are looking for of the realities; that your soul is dressed from al Hayat, your soul has reached my Noor. Whatever your soul looks at, it's going to now remember what I taught you, when you were in the world of souls. I taught you Quran ('alamal Quran). Allah (aj) is saying anciently, I taught you these realities. I burned them all onto your soul like your CD. Your duty was to come in to this world and to reflect, to reflect, to reflect. Take your vision from outside and look inside. Outside is the filthiness of dunya (material world). What you are looking for, God in the market and in the shops? You are not going to find Allah anywhere. That's what prophet (saws) said to tafakkur (contemplate). One hour contemplation is like a life time of 'ibadat (worship).
تَفَكُرْ سَاعَةٍ خَيْرٌ مِنْ عِبَادَةِ سَبْعِينْ سَنَةً
"One hour of contemplation is more valuable than seventy years of worship" Prophet Muhammad (saws)
One hour of tafakkur like 70 years of worship. Why? Because you just have Noor. But the servant who has Noor and Hayat is like an ocean and mountain of difference in their reality. All that reality within their heart, whatever they contemplate to their ability and the strength of their soul; Allah (aj) would remind them what Allah (aj) has taught them. Now their darajats (levels) is going higher, higher, and higher. It's unimaginable what Allah (aj) has taught. Nobody can put a limit on Allah (aj). Nobody can come and say that no, Allah (aj) didn't teach that.
Sayyidena Khidr (as) steps forward and describes to us that Allah (aj described in holy Quran. That "he (Khidr) attained a Rahma (mercy) and then we taught him." Not he taught and then he attained a mercy.
فَوَجَدَا عَبْدًا مِّنْ عِبَادِنَا آتَيْنَاهُ رَحْمَةً مِّنْ عِندِنَا وَعَلَّمْنَاهُ مِن لَّدُنَّا عِلْمًا ٦٥
18:65 – "Fawajada 'abdan min 'ibadinaa ataynahu rahmatan min 'indina
wa 'allamnahu mil ladunna 'ilma." (Surat al Kahf)
And they found a servant from among Our servants to whom We had given mercy from us and had taught him from Us a [certain] knowledge. (The Cave 18:65)
He attained a Rahma (mercy). Who is Rahma (mercy) of Allah (aj)? Rahmatal Lil'alameen (mercy to the worlds) Sayyidena Muhammad (saws).
وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِّلْعَالَمِينَ ١٠٧
21:107 – "Wa maa arsalnaka illa Rahmatan lil'alameen." (Surat al Anbya)
"And We have not sent you, [O Muhammad], except as a mercy to the worlds." (The Prophets 21:107)
He (Khidr (as)) attained the love and the nearness of Prophet (saws), as a result We taught him. Because he is near the Habib (beloved), he is in the divine heart of Yaseen (saws). And he was granted, Salamun Qawlum mir Rabbir Raheem.
سَلَامٌ قَوْلًا مِّن رَّبٍّ رَّحِيمٍ ٥٨
36:58 – "Salaamun qawlam mir Rabbir Raheem." (Surat Yaseen)
"Peace," a word from a Merciful Lord. (Holy Quran, Yasin 36:58)
A Salaam (Peace) from Raheem (The Merciful) means the activation of the heart of Hayat (ever-living). That heart now is alive, eternally alive. That which Allah (aj) gives eternal life; is never dead. It can never go wrong; it is mahfooz (protected), Allah guards it. Allah doesn't take away what he gives. We give a gift, we may take it back. Allah (aj) waits, waits, waits but, when Allah (aj) gives, he never take it back. They are now حى و نور Hay wa Noor. What they say and what they teach are oceans apart (from other scholars). What they say and what they teach through their eyes, will dress you from the ocean of Hayat and dress you from the ocean of النور Al Noor. Because they are alive! There is a frequency and energy being transmitted from their souls. It's very different; there is energy moving.
Kawthar (Fountain of Abundance)
This is a balanced life. This is the life that Torooq (sufi paths) comes to teach; to seek the reality of prophet (saws). Reach to his nearness. He (saws) is going to grant the ever-living fountain and quench our thirst at the Kawthar (fountain of abundance). The whole creation was looking for that fountain. It is held in the hand of Sayyidina Muhammad (saws).
They make movies looking for a special cup. The whole world is flipping around for a cup. Prophet (saws) says, I have it in my hand, come! That which you seek, is not from this world but it's the divinely presence. Drink from the Zamzam. Drink from my kawthar.
فَصَلِّ لِرَبِّكَ وَانْحَرْ ﴿٢﴾ إِنَّ شَانِئَكَ هُوَ الْأَبْتَرُ ٣
108:1-3 "Fasali li rabbika wanhar. Inna shani-aka huwal abtar." (Surat al Kawthar)
"So pray to your Lord and sacrifice [to Him alone]. Indeed, your enemy is the one cut off." (The Abundance 108:1)
Fasali li rabbika wanhar. Pray onto your lord and sacrifice yourself (not physically but sacrifice your desires). Inna shani-aka huwal abtar. And Allah will obliterate everything that tries to stop you from that reality. If you sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, Allah (aj) dresses you from Al Hayat and Allah (aj) dresses you from النور Al Noor. At that time He obliterates anything of the Shayateen (satans) that is coming to take us from that. Because they become Mahfooz, become guarded by Allah (aj).
Zikr of حى Hay
This is the reality that they are asking us to seek. When we begin to understand that reality, we understand why certain people; even with belief they speak at different level. They have Noor but, they are not from people of حى Hay. The people of حى Hay are busy with saying حى حى حى Hay, Hay, Hay. It's not a question. You see the little kids of حى Hay. They go home and keep saying حى حى حى Hay, Hay, Hay. How can someone say I am from Hayat but never make zikr of حى Hay. It means their (people of Hayat's) whole existence is حى Hay, حى Hay, حى Hay. Their whole reality is in that ocean.
Dajal's System/ Deception
Now we look at the Other side. To understand how this is implemented is the Dajal's (Man of Deception) System. Whether the people say the Dajal (Man of Deception) is here or that he is coming, that doesn't matter. The system which prophet (saws) wants us to understand is that the Dajal (Man of Deception) has a corrupt vision of dunya (material world). His one eye is damaged. It means the eye that is damaged is the eye that has no Noor light of faith Hayat (ever-living). As a result the Light from his other eye doesn't emanate but it pulls the light of faith. To understand the importance of the Dajal system in dunya (material world) is that there is no Hayat.
The men of God comes to increase the ever-living; that you think about your soul and live for eternity in Allah's ocean of power. And Dajal (Man of Deception) comes and says there is no Hayat (ever-living); live life to the fullest. Isn't that his logo on every commercial? You see somebody is running. Where the heck you running to? You are not going to live 5 minutes longer. You are wasting your time and you are hurting your knees. He says live life to the fullest! What full? Dajal's (Man of Deception) system says don't believe in heavens. You live life here, you enjoy here, you celebrate here, and here the party ends. Everything from that system is based on only focusing here. His other eye is to take away all faith. Every TV show that comes out, you look at it; you lost your faith. Every movie that comes out, you watch it; you lost your faith. Every music that you hear, you listen to it; you lost your faith.
Shaytan takes away Iman (faith) Brick by brick
Brick by brick Shaytan (Satan) takes away faith, takes away faith, takes away faith; until they are faithless people. Take away the light and now you have darkness. It is opposites; either you are moving to the light and you feel the warmth of the light or you have turned from the light, and you feel now a coldness of darkness.
The Dajal system is to take away the light. Don't let anybody who speaks, speak of the faith. Have them speak and question the divine and take away faith. Have them curse and take away faith. Everything from the Dajal system is to take away faith. Take away the concept of Hayat; I should just live life and party and do everything and I am going to die and it is finished.
They begin to teach, that is the system that is moving on this earth now. To understand the Man of Deception system is very much active. Its understanding is to take away all concept of Hayat and you live life to the fullest. Take away all signs of faith; that everything to be based on darkness. As a result the eye is corrupt and there is an imbalance in the formula. It's not the middle way.
Where Allah (aj) said you live life on the middle way. It means your both eyes; your both realities are focused. When they are focused, you will find your life at very even key. If you follow his (satan's) example of Hayat of dunya (material world), you will fall and become Blindsided. Because your whole desire would be dunya (material world) and you will be devoid of any light and you will find yourself tipping.
Everything is based on that reality; to seek the Hayat of the heavens and to seek the Noor of the heavens is our way. It means the concept of a balanced life and the understanding of this life and the understanding of darajats (levels). Even amongst the pious people, how they speak at a level that other people don't speak. Their characteristics are beyond the characteristics of other people because they are men and women of Hayat and the oceans of reality. They are in existence to prepare people for the difficulties that are opening in dunya. And the extreme amount of power that now Dajal is emanating in this dunya; to take away these lights, to take away faith, to take away all of it.
Pray that Allah grant us from these lights and these blessings; and love of Sayyidina Muhammad (as), love of Ahlul Bayate Nabi and ashabun Nabi (saws), love of Awliyaullah (Saints), especially love of Sultanul awliya Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Al haqqani, Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani, Shaykh Adnan Kabbani, Haji Mehmed, wa sayeri sadatina was Sidiqeen.
Bi hurmati Muhammad ul Mustafa wa bi sir surat al Fatiha.
Related Articles by Mawlana Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi:
- Secret of the Eyes – Part 2 – Compassion and Mercy
- Ar Raheem is the Power of Ar Rahman – All Atoms Seek Salaam from Rabi Raheem
- Awliya are Walking Hadith un Nabi – Allah opens their senses
- Ashabul Kahf (People of The Cave) Secrets of Safar
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ALTERNATIVE: 2017 Simulation draft pool analysis
By Matthew Beagle January 24th, 2017 12:03am
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