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Huzur said with the grace of God it is just two days ago that he returned from his tour of Germany. Due to the early arrival of Ramadan this year, the German Jalsa had to be scheduled early as well. In this way the engagements of the German Jalsa started on the heels of the UK Jalsa. Huzur said after the conclusion of the UK Jalsa, it is traditional for meetings with the various guests to ensue. Many delegates from around the world are in attendance as well as our missionaries, representatives and members of the Community and meetings are held with all of them. In this way, Huzur said, his Jalsa is extended by many days. This year, due to the early German Jalsa, the engagements in UK continued until the day of travel. Huzur said it is a great blessing of God that neither of the two Jalsas nor the post-Jalsa engagements were arduous for him.
Huzur said the rest of the Ahmadis also experienced the continuity in the Jalsa atmosphere due to the two Jalsas held close together. Someone wrote to Huzur that as they watched the proceedings at home, creating the ambiance by cooking similar food etc., such was the continuity that it seemed as if the UK Jalsa had not quite finished. Huzur said if this feeling of continuity is missing then one is not truly benefitting from the objectives of Jalsa. The purpose of a believer's life is to seek God's pleasure through worship and bringing pious changes in oneself. The objective for which the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) initiated the Jalsa Salana was to gather in one place and aspire to train our thoughts on this principle and then to ruminate on the spiritual gains all year around. Huzur said we should not savour the continuity only because of the closeness of the UK and the German Jalsas, rather this continuity has to be maintained till the next Jalsa. When this is attained one may consider one has achieved one's purpose.
Huzur said the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) also enjoined continuity when he mentioned that the time between each of the five daily Prayers prevents one from sin, just as one Friday Prayer prevents one from sin till the next Friday Prayer and one Ramadan till the next Ramadan provides atonement. Huzur said InshaAllah Ramadan starts in two days time to maintain our spirituality. While at Jalsa we enjoy spiritual food while partaking material food during Ramadan the material food has to forgone and only spiritual sustenance is sought. We try and specifically focus and try with our God-given ability to attain His pleasure. May God enable us so.
We are fortunate that by initiating the Jalsa Salana the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) has provided us with an additional 'training camp' where attention is drawn to all kinds of virtues. Attention is drawn to reformation. Huzur said soon after the conclusion of Jalsa he receives letters from sincere people who, having reflected on themselves, have tried hard and brought about pious changes. They write seeking Huzur's prayers most heart-wrenchingly that they may remain steadfast. Huzur said this is a distinct beauty of the Community of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) who thought very highly of his followers. His assumption about his Community was so good that it should shake us into thinking and indeed taking practical steps to better ourselves. Huzur said the other benefit of the Jalsa is that having heard and seen the tremendous blessings of God on the Community, feelings of thankfulness are generated. May God always enable us to be grateful. Huzur said traditionally, he always speaks about the Jalsas that he graces. This he does in thankfulness to God as well as to express his thanks to the volunteer men and women. Huzur said the volunteers also wish to hear about the Jalsa. This is not at all because they look for praise. They work extremely selflessly and devotedly and the passion with which they work is not done for any worldly returns. It would be grossly unfair to presume so. The volunteers do not simply look out for any praise, rather, they are always eager to be informed of any critique. Indeed, they keep a 'Red Book' for this very purpose. It is due to their connection to the Khalifa of the time that they wish to hear his views. If they are praised, they are thankful and if there is critique even then they are thankful to have the blessing of Khilafat. They are grateful to be shown the high standards that a Khalifa of the time guides them to. May God take the connection of Khilafat and the Community from strength to strength.
Huzur said he thanked the German volunteer workers, they had indeed tried their utmost in serving the guests of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace). Huzur said they have achieved a level of maturity in discharging their respective Jalsa duties and one would be hard pressed to fault find. Indeed, nothing can operate with perfection but the volunteers make an effort as much as human endeavour allows. The entire organisation is done without any formal training for any of the tasks that they do. Huzur said, just as he had said about the UK Jalsa, the volunteers from all walks of life take on varied responsibilities at Jalsa. Watching them work one's heart is filled with praise of God and thankfulness. Attendees of Jalsa should also be grateful to them. Huzur said this year the German Jama'at worked extremely hard in a short time. For the pre-Jalsa work they always turned up in greater numbers than expected. Huzur said a few days before the German Jalsa, due to some reasons, he made some changes in the higher management and had changed the Officer Jalsa Salana. Huzur said any previous critiques were paid heed to and the good points of the UK Jalsa were kept in view. Huzur said a believer adopts whatever is good, rather than criticise and be jealous. Be it individual or communal, if instead of admiring something and learning from it, there is jealousy, it would be devoid of blessings. A believer always helps the other believer and learns from the other believer and if sees a drawback, then he tries to cover it. Huzur said full efforts were made in Germany regarding the instructions that he had given after the UK Jalsa about the residential tent area. The volunteer worker, both men and women, majority of whom were young, had proved through their diligence that whoever the Khalifa of the time appoints as the Officer Jalsa, they would work with him and they would so all this to attain the pleasure of God. Huzur said he once again thanked all the men, women, girls and boys who worked at the German Jalsa. MTA Germany also worked very hard and fully cooperated with the MTA team that had gone from London.
Huzur said each year he mentions some young men from Germany who work under the department of Langer (food/catering). These are three brothers who work very assiduously. They have invented a machine that washes the huge pots. This year they had further improved the machine and had computerised it. May God reward them and enhance their ability. This year they had two technicians working along with them.
Huzur said people like to hear about those aspects of Huzur's travels that are not shown on MTA. Huzur said for everyone the journey to Jalsa is a journey to attain God's pleasure. God gives glad-tidings to people who make such journey. In the Holy Qur'an in verse 112 of Surah Taubah it is stated: 'They are the ones who turn to God in repentance, who worship Him, who praise Him, who go about in the land serving Him, who bow down to God, who prostrate themselves in prayer, who enjoin good and forbid evil, and who watch the limits set by Allah. And give glad tidings to those who believe.' (9:112). Huzur said God blesses any journey that is taken for Him in line with all that the verse states.
Huzur said en route Germany, they stopped over at Belgium for one night. There is no mosque in Belgium but there is a mission house and two small halls that are used for Prayers. The mission house is in a town outside Brussels. The mayor of the town came to see Huzur and said that personally he had no problem with the building of a mosque. He said although the local people and members of the local council do not see the Jama'at in a negative light and have no opposition to their gatherings etc. they are against the building of a mosque. Huzur said he has now instructed the Jama'at to look in Brussels for this purpose. Huzur said may God fulfill his wish to have a mosque in every European country in the next five to six years. He said the lady MP from Belgium who had attended the UK Jalsa has agreed to help with the mosque. She is indeed most impressed with the Community. She was present to receive Huzur at this trip. May God open her heart further to accept Ahmadiyyat. She advised Huzur on how to conduct Tabligh to the Moroccan and Algerian communities in Belgium. Huzur said it seems that in heart she is an Ahmadi but has not openly said so. Huzur said he met a person of Indonesian origin who has lived in Belgium for decades and whose wife is Belgian. He attended UK Jalsa and had come into Ahmadiyyat just a few days earlier. He told Huzur that he did not believe in the existence of God but after reading our books and talking to our missionary he believed. After this he had no option but to accept Ahmadiyyat. Huzur also met a Moroccan young woman who has accepted Ahmadiyyat. She raised some 'traditional' objections that had come from her parents. Huzur also met a young man who became a doctor last year. Our missionary told Huzur that he was close to accepting Ahmadiyyat but had not done bai'at. To this, the young man said he had indeed done his bai'at when he watched the UK Jalsa. Later, did a bai'at on Huzur's hand.
Huzur said everyone saw that with the grace of God the German Jalsa was successful. Huzur said his and the Ameer sahib's estimate was that this year the attendance number would be less than last year as that had been the Centenary Jalsa. However, with God's grace, estimations notwithstanding, the attendance was in excess of 32,000. Huzur said the spiritual and the academic gains made at the Jalsa should become part and parcel of our lives. In doing so, may we adopt all the virtues the aforementioned verse states.
Huzur said one highlight of the German Jalsa was that ten European countries were represented there. Some of this representation was by Ahmadis, some non Ahmadi Muslims and some non Muslims. A communal meeting had been arranged for them to meet with Huzur. However, Huzur felt he should meet them all separately. Huzur said they all expressed amazement at the arrangement of the Jalsa and each one of them said that now that they have been introduced with the Community they will keep in touch. They were astonished how such a huge crowd was managed/controlled. Huzur said as they were worldly people they did not realize that God Himself manages the multitudes. They found the peaceful and affectionate atmosphere extraordinary and were amazed at the way everyone was served food with ease. They also found the sense of sacrifice for each other amazing. Huzur said thus is the silent Tabligh that each person attending the Jalsa does. Where big arguments and proofs do not work, such a practical example does.
Huzur said in spite of the huge opposition of the Mufti of Bulgaria a large number of people from there attended the Jalsa. This shows that the opposition has increased people's curiosity and many of the visitors were Christians. A father and daughter wanted to meet Huzur separately. The father told Huzur that he had also attended last Jalsa accompanied by his son. The son who worked in the Bulgarian secret service was dismissed from his job soon after his return to the country. It was cited that as he had attended the Ahmadiyya Jalsa he had rebellious tendency. Huzur said he told him to tell his son to be careful but the father replied that his son saw truth in Ahmadiyyat and felt they were persecuted, so he would support them. Huzur said may God open their hearts soon, the family seem very close to Ahmadiyyat. They are on friendly terms with the only Ahmadi family in Bulgaria. The daughter helps with translating our literature and in the process has picked up Urdu. Huzur said as he spoke to her father [in Urdu] via the missionary sahib, the daughter kept nodding her head as she understood what Huzur was saying. Huzur said it made him think that those who have not even done their bai'at are learning Urdu, whereas those whose parents' language it is are forgetting it. Huzur said the delegations had many journalists as well and they were introduced to the Community. Huzur said he informed them of all the humanitarian services we do and they promised to write about it.
After the Jalsa, Huzur met with the Germans as well. Two ladies did their bai'at, one was indigenous German and the other of Egyptian origin. The German lady was overwhelmed with emotion and kept bursting into tears. Huzur said the new Ahmadi lady said that she will soon leave her current job where there is sale of pig meat and alcohol. Huzur said he told her that if she was not directly involved with the sale of these products there would be no restrictions but otherwise no chanda (financial contribution) could be accepted from her earnings. A German and a Hungarian man also did bai'at in an emotional atmosphere.
Huzur said he wished to clarify that during the UK Jalsa he had mentioned Lithuania among the new countries where Ahmadiyyat has blossomed. This was received with some criticism that Lithuania had joined during the period of Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih IV (may God have mercy on him). Huzur said Lithuania had first joined Ahmadiyyat in 1992 but after some opposition those who had accepted Ahmadiyyat withdrew. We had to have our missionary taken out of the country. In 1995 Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih IV (may God have mercy on him) struck off Lithuania from the list of the countries with Ahmadiyyat. The task to take Ahmadiyyat there was given to German Jama'at. Now, after fourteen years, Ahmadiyyat has been introduced there once again. A Lithuanian lady has accepted Ahmadiyyat.
Huzur said in two days Ramadan will begin and we should maintain the continuity of the spiritual ambiance. We should focus greatly on prayers during this time, may God continue to facilitate our spiritual development and may He make the changes we bring about permanent due to the special ambiance. May He enable us to comprehend this point and pray for ourselves that may this Ramadan be the source to bring about a permanent pious change in us. Huzur urged to pray for the Pakistani Ahmadis. He said onset of Ramadan heightens the persecution in Pakistan. He said prayers should be made for all the places that face opposition that may God keep each Ahmadi there in His refuge. May this Ramadan bring countless blessings for the Community and may we benefit from it in the real sense.
The Jumu'ah (Friday) prayer is one form of congregational worship in Islam. It takes place every Friday. Regular attendance at the Jumu'ah prayer is enjoined on the believer. According to a Saying of Muhammad(sa) this congregational prayer is twenty-five times more blessed than worship performed alone. (Bukhari)
"O ye who believe! When the call is made for Prayer on Friday, hasten to the remembrance of Allah, and leave off all business. That is best for you, if you only knew." more
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A third lawsuit has been filed in Philadelphia by retired NFL players over brain injuries allegedly caused by on-field concussions, a week before U.S. judges decide whether to consolidate similar cases filed around the country.
At least eight related lawsuits have been filed in New York, New Jersey, Georgia and Florida. The lawsuits claim the National Football League hid evidence linking concussions to permanent brain injuries and seek millions in compensation.
Two-time Super Bowl champion Jim McMahon and hundreds of other players have signed on. Many cite symptoms ranging from occasional memory loss to depression to degenerative brain disease, while others are asymptomatic but want to be monitored for brain-related health problems they fear they will develop.
"Rather than warn players that they risked permanent brain injury if they returned to play too soon after sustaining a concussion, the NFL actively deceived players, by misrepresenting to them that concussions did not present serious, life-altering risks," the suit filed Wednesday charges.
The plaintiffs -- former Philadelphia Eagles Ron Solt, Joe Panos and Rich Miano, along with four other players and four spouses -- alleges an NFL conspiracy to conceal information and seeks at least $75,000 per person.
A similar lawsuit filed earlier this month in Philadelphia seeks more than $5 million for more than 100 former players.
The NFL hopes to consolidate the various lawsuits being filed in Philadelphia, where the first complaint was filed last year. That suit has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody, who has experience handling multi-district litigation and whose potential role has been blessed in court papers by both the NFL and the Philadelphia-based lawyers who filed the first suit.
At the same time, the league is fighting to have that suit dismissed on grounds the claims are barred under the players' collective bargaining agreements.
They've also moved to block the other side from taking wide-ranging depositions, at least early on, as the players seek to gather enough evidence to keep the case from being thrown out.
"Plaintiffs may not seek extensive, merits-based discovery in order to salvage their insufficiently pleaded claims," the NFL wrote in a filing this month.
The players involved in that suit include former Minnesota Vikings offensive lineman Brent Boyd, said by his lawyers to be the only living player diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The degenerative brain disease, known as CTE, has typically been found in autopsies of people who have had multiple head injuries, including more than a dozen former NHL and NFL players.
Boyd has started an organization called Dignity After Football to help retired players who are disabled or lack league pensions.

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Co. Design has a story about New York designer Deroy Peraza's latest project, in which he has created visual representations of the result of every NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA postseason in history. Each season is represented by a simple, radial infographic that have the power to evoke vivid memories of the season they represent despite their sheer simplicity.
Be sure to spend some time perusing Peraza's project, it is extra cool.
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loups58 necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 19 design presentati da 8 designer.
Create a new logo for Grover Vineyards
Grover Vineyards
Desired Color Scheme:
Gold and Royal blue
Desired Style:
Clean design with typical french wine ornements
Accepted File Formats:
Adobe Illustrator
The idea is to create a logo for Grover Wine.
The logo will be used on the brochures, the bottles, the labels...
The actual logo is the following :
What has to be written on it :
The letters : GV
Guideline : We need to have global logo that looks like the following example :
The background colors don't need to be kept.
The spirit of the logo with a lot of ornements needs to be kept. Feel free to design your own ornements.
For some examples of ornements : http://www.75cl.com >> this website will give you a good overview of logo for french wines...
The licorns should become 2 Peacocks which are symbolic of indian culture....
The coulours have to be gold and royal blue. Mostly gold.
The overall design theme must be classy, and very clean design (more than the example)
In the center we would to have the two letters : GV
On the bottom we would like the sentence : Grover Vineyards
It should be reproducible at any size and resolution without quality loss or pixellation, so in other words a vector file is needed, preferably in Adobe Illustrator format.
The logo will be used on the website and for future printing.
You can use the following element to put your logo on it :
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Windguru for Windows Mobile
This application is available for free for Windows Mobile 6.5 Touch Screen devices.
Supports the following Windguru features (version 1.3):
- Free and Pro accounts
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FAQ and more info on fanetic.com website
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- Windows Mobile 6.5
- Touch Screen support only for the moment however if there is sufficient demand it can be extended to support non-touch screen devices.
Download: windguru_winmobile_1.3.cab (552.4 KB)
Installation Instructions:
- Download the windguru_winmobile.cab file from your phone and save locally. Tip: Sometimes it is easier to email yourself the hyperlink and click it from within your email program (http://www.windguru.cz/downloads/winmobile/windguru_winmobile_1.3.cab)
- Touch Screen support only for the moment however if there is sufficient demand it can be extended to support non-touch screen devices.
- On your phone, choose Start / File Explorer.
- Navigate to the location you saved the installation file.
- Select the file – it should start to install.
- Choose "yes" to install an application from an un-trusted publisher.
- If asked, select either the Device or Storage Card for installation – wherever you have the most space.
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You may receive a message saying you need a newer version of the .NET Compact Framework. If this is the case then you need to get a copy of the NETCFv35.wm.armv4i.cab installation file. This can be done by following any of the following 3 methods:
- Following the installation instructions provided by Microsoft, although this is more complicated than the next option.
- The easiest approach is to download the file directly, details are available here
- If the above two options don't work, search for NETCFv35.wm.armv4i.cab in your favourite search engine and find a link to installation instructions.
We are unable to provide a link to the download directly as we are not licensed to distribute the software.
The application has been tested on a HTC HD2 however it is known to work on other touch devices. If you successfully run it on another device, please let us know so we can include it in the list.
Known issues:
You may get an "Unable to read data from the transport connection. Unknown error (0x0)" error even when your data connection is active and strong.
This appears to be a problem with the Microsoft Compact Framework dropping packets when connecting to the type of web server that Windguru uses. This issue is under investigation. If you encounter the error, you can usually just attempt the action again and it will typically be successful.
Windows Phone 7 version:
Now available on Windows Marketplace!
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The Windguru for Windows Mobile application was developed by Justin Drerup (fanetic.com) in his spare time.


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A couple of camo Humvees were parked on Lexington Avenue outside the 69th Regiment Armory, giving a jaunty pop air to the already supersized pop festival known as the Fountain Art Fair, Mar. 9-11, 2012. Among the fair's 60 exhibitors were plenty of independent artists, many of them of the Street Art variety, as well as several scrappy Brooklyn galleries, giving the goings-on a distinct DIY feel. Exhibitors included 5 Pointz Art Space, Bushwick Gallery, curcioprojects, Evo Love, Front Room Gallery, Kesting / Ray, Lambert Fine Arts, Mighty Tanaka and the Marketplace Gallery. Looming over the floor like a pagan god was a giant inflatable pink bunny by artist Ryan Cronin.


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globus (glō'bəs): Latin word meaning the world Globus取自于拉丁语,有"环球"之意。
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The wines we represent are crafted by boutique producers, showing the best of their particular region. Our portfolio has over two hundred wines from more than thirty artisans, all of which are shipped and stored in temperature controlled facilities. 我们代理的葡萄酒都来自各个产区最具代表性的精品酒庄。我们的酒单有来自 30多个精品酒庄的超过200多款葡萄酒,全程采用温控运输和储藏方式。
From our offices in Shanghai and Beijing we have formed distribution networks servicing all major cities in China. Globus Wine also owns, and operates, two wine shops in Shanghai, giving us a chance to meet new customers everyday.我们的办公室团队已经在中国大部分城市建立了分销网络。同时,阁乐葡还在上海开设了 2家精品葡萄酒店铺,能让我们有机会认识更多的葡萄酒爱好者。
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A massive blackout left as many as 53 million Brazilians in the dark late on Thursday and early Friday, the latest in a string of energy shortages that have raised questions about whether Brazil's infrastructure is keeping pace with economic growth.
Officials said a fire in a substation in the Amazon knocked out the whole northeastern electricity grid in the region's worst blackout since 2001. The outage, which follows two other big blackouts in Brazil in as many months, lasted up to four hours in some places and brought major industries to a halt.
The blackouts come as soaring use of Brazil's old infrastructure is congesting cities and major highways, causing delays and shutdowns at some of its biggest airports, and creating chronic logjams at seaports and rail yards.
The problems have cast doubt on the country's ability to accommodate economic growth in recent years and are prompting concerns Brazil will not be ready to host two major global sports events — the World Cup soccer tournament in 2014 and the 2016 Olympic Games.
"This is unacceptable for modern industrial production," said Jose de F. Mascarenhas, head of the Federation of Industries of Bahia State, in the region darkened by Thursday's failure. "It's a disaster and it's happening repeatedly."
Bahia's largest industry, petrochemicals, will not be able to restart for days, he added, lambasting the government for poor maintenance of transmission lines.
Meanwhile, residents across the 11 states hit by the blackout were left without air conditioning and ventilators. Many complained they could not sleep due to heat and mosquitoes.
Energy Minister Marcio Zimmerman, in comments to reporters on Friday, called the failure "a total collapse of the northeastern grid."
He said the recent woes are "not normal" and called the second emergency meeting in five weeks.
Two previous blackouts darkened Brasilia, the capital, and much of Brazil's southeast, including parts of San Paulo, the country's industrial and financial center. Though some government officials sought to characterize each outage as "isolated," both blackouts created shortages that affected consumers in areas beyond the site of malfunction.
As such, critics are once again questioning the strength of an overall system that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, as energy minister in a predecessor government, helped oversee and which she promotes in her bid to modernize Brazil's economy.
Brazil went through a so-called "blackout crisis" in 2001 and 2002, when a drought limited the output of hydroelectric dams. In response, the government rationed electricity in certain regions, severely crimping economic growth.
While Brazil has invested heavily in electricity generation since then, it still has a long way to go. The government plans to build as many as 48 new hydroelectric plants by 2020 to keep up with the energy demands of rapid economic growth.
A decade of rapid expansion during the government of former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva saw many new industries built in northeastern Brazil, plus the lifting of 30 million Brazilians from poverty. The surge in usage of millions of new TVs, refrigerators and other domestic appliances strained supply.
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Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
God hath treasures beneath the Throne,
the keys whereof are the tongues of poets.
– a saying of the Prophet (pbuh)
Welcome to the 3rd Annual Sufi Poetry Carnival, co-hosted by our brother Sadiq of the highly acclaimed Technology of the Heart blog.
The Carnival will run from April 7th to April 30th, during National Poetry Month in the US, and will be posted on our blogs on May 7th, inshallah. The Sufi theme this year is:
The Mystic Heart
If you have a blog or website, you can submit a direct link of your poem. If you don't have a blog or website, you can email your submission to the address below, with the subject line: Sufi Poetry Carnival
All May Enter: We are all spiritual beings having a human experience, so may submit their poetry, whether a Sufi or not, as long as the poetry is in English and the Mystic Heart theme is followed.
Send your links and entries to me at: email@example.com
And please send a duplicate copy to Sadiq at firstname.lastname@example.com
We will then each post a selection of the poems chosen :)
In your light I learn how to love,
in your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you,
but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
– Rumi
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Who is the top pound-for-pound fighter in the world? Has UFC light heavyweight titleholder Jon Jones surpassed Anderson Silva?
While fans and media debate it, Jones says it is Silva, hands down.
Jones (18-1) is fresh off a dominating win over Chael Sonnen on Saturday at UFC 159 and was asked during the post-fight press conference if he thinks that he should be atop the pound-for-pound rankings.
"No," replied the 25-year-old New Yorker.
"That would be extremely disrespectful of me to try to disregard what Anderson has done outside of the Octagon and inside of the Octagon," he said.
Jones has made a strong case for himself through accomplishment, but it's the longevity of Silva that stands out.
"I celebrated my two year anniversary of being champion this year, and Anderson has been doing it for about six. That's phenomenal. That's phenomenal pressure that he's been able to uphold and continue moving forward with it, so I admire him so much," said Jones.
"Yes, I've had some great fights, and I've had a great career, but Anderson is still an amazing guy. He's still my idol and I'm not going to disregard what he's done."
Silva (33-4) is scheduled to face Chris Weidman on July 6 in the main event of UFC 162 in Las Vegas. Weidman could put an end to the debate with a win, or it could be settled in a superfight between Jones and Silva if Silva successfully defends his title for the eleventh time with a win over Weidman.
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ECO Backs Greens Emissions Policy
Policy Stability, greater economic efficiency and better environmental outcomes expected from Green's climate policy package
The Green's climate policy is an important proposal to reduce New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions, the most important issue for the future which all political parties should be treating seriously, the Environment and Conservation Organisations (ECO) said today.
University policy economist, Cath Wallace, and ECO Vice-Chair, Policy, has welcomed the Green Party's new policy package for greenhouse gas emission reductions and its fostering of better economic efficiency.
"The policy ticks the boxes for economic orthodoxy, for economic efficiency, for providing clear incentives to de-carbonise investments, and to help households with tax cuts that provide an increase in income that more than compensates for any price rises." "It is good policy," says Wallace.
"The Green's policy would re-set incentives to get New Zealanders to reduce ouremissions which have been rising relentlessly even though we have promised the international community to reduce them.
"The policy would increase economic efficiency by starting to internalize the harm from climate-destabilising emissions and resetting investment incentives to lower emissions. Significantly, because of both household income tax rate reductions the policy would also increase the average household's income by a predicted net $319 each year according to the accompanying BERL assessment."
"A proposed 1% reduction in company tax rates, and the income tax cuts for households will offset of any demand reduction in the macro economy and position the economy for more choice to lower carbon emissions."
"The Green's proposals would substitute a carbon charge of $25/tonne of CO2 equivalent emissions for the flawed Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) which is largely ineffective and has lined the pockets of some. With a concession of a charge of only $12.50/tonne for dairy emissions, dairy farmers will be facing at least some incentive to reconfigure their farming operations to reduce emissions."
"The provision of no charge for beef and sheep farm emissions is a huge concession which will be appreciated by those farmers whom for environmental reasons have resisted the temptation to convert to dairying despite the much higher returns."
"The Green's move to a carbon charge is a good idea because the ETS has failed to send the price signals needed, and we have had mis-directed dairy investment as a result. The carbon charges will provide for much more effective and settled policy which up to now has been ineffective and subject to on-going policy flip-flops, particularly those affecting the forestry sector."
"The Government's budget move to stop the arbitrage between very low cost international emissions units worth about 20c/tonne being in effect swapped for NZ Unit credits was sensible but applied only to the forestry sector – other industries have been left to continue the rort.
Cath Wallace said This is not fair on the public purse or the forestry industry and fails to incentivize any move from fossil fuels. "Forestry under the Green's scheme will be rewarded by $12.50 tonne of CO2eq sequestered and will pay the same for deforestation emissions."
"The policy package has many other companion policies which farmers will welcome and so will others with a concern for the environment: certification schemes for farmers who do on-farm emissions reductions or offsetting such as fencing and riparian planting and pest control. These will be very welcome."
"The Green's Climate Commission is a good idea to de-politicise climate protection policies. The setting of regular carbon budgets and emissions reduction targets, charting the path for this, and the transparency of the charges will provide greater policy stability which will help both farm and non-farm investors to know where they stand."
"This policy shows how economic mechanisms can be used to help the environment, to improve economic efficiency by pricing pollutants and can achieve greater equity by implementing the polluter pays principle. The complementary policy measures add to the robustness of the commitment to reduce emissions. The income and company tax cuts will protect aggregate demand in the economy, while positioning both the economy and New Zealand's international standing better for the future."
"The accompanying BERL analysis provides substance to the policy, but the reliance on average outcomes, forced by an apparent lack of data for impacts on the median and quartiles of households, is a weak point in the analysis. The BERL analysis notes this, and notes that a General Equilibrium model would be hugely more complex but would give the opportunity to see how both consumers and producers would adjust."
"Overall, the policy is economically sound, would provide much improved policy stability, is much fairer and would protect the most vulnerable farmers – those in the sheep and beef sector."
Cath Wallace said the question is now, where do the other parties stand on this?


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MAC?! I'm featuring a MAC product? Well, yes, I am!
First off this foundation is the newcomer in this list. This is totally not a base for everyone, but I still think as far as cream foundation goes, it works pretty well.
MAC Mineralize Foundation SPF15 is a creamy, rich base which is super soft, doesn't need any warming up and gives a medium coverage that is buildable. It really covers flaws so for days when you can't be bothered (most days!) you can slap this on quickly with a sponge and you're done.
And that, is why I really like this base!
Yet it comes with is flaws – it is so rich that it needs setting otherwise it's sayonara by lunch time. It's most definitely for drier skins – it feels so comfortable when your skin if feeling parched, BUT on the t-zone it tends to slide off.
Still I like it – it's my current in a rush, go to base. Especially nice applied with a stippling brush.
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The usual MAC selection from NC15 to NW55.
For Skin Types:
Dry and Dull.
Cream, feels a little oily when first applied but sets.
Medium, can be built up.
So-so. On very dry skins, it may last longer, on combination skin it slides off mid day and need topping up.
Quite a glowy base, due to the fact it's quite a hydrating product. Use too much and it looks greasy.
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Hydration and leaving the skin feeling soft and comfortable.
Main Con:
Doesn't last too long
Score: 3.5/5
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As was widely expected, Warner's Focus debuted in first place this weekend with an estimated $19.1 million. However, the romantic heist film starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie did perform slightly below pre-release expectations. Focus opened a lackluster 31 percent below the $27.52 million start of 2013's After Earth, though it should be noted that Focus was far less expensive than After Earth and will likely hold up significantly better than After Earth did after opening weekend. With that said, the debut of Focus further suggests that Smith's drawing power at the box office is nowhere near the level it once was.
Focus debuted with $6.47 million on Friday (which included an estimated $900,000 from Thursday night shows), increased 18 percent on Saturday to take in $7.66 million and is estimated to decline 35 percent on Sunday to claim $4.98 million. That places the film's estimated opening weekend to Friday ratio at a very solid 2.95 to 1 (though it should be noted that Friday's grosses were deflated a bit in general by winter weather in parts of the country). The film received a respectable B rating on CinemaScore. The audience breakdown for Focus skewed towards female moviegoers (53 percent) and heavily towards moviegoers over the age of 25 (88 percent).
Focus took in $2.08 million from IMAX locations, which represented 10.9 percent of the film's overall gross this weekend.
It was a tight race for places two through five this weekend, as second place and fifth place were separated by just an estimated $1.15 million.
Fox's Kingsman: The Secret Service took in an estimated $11.75 million to claim second place for a third consecutive weekend. The Matthew Vaughn directed graphic novel adaptation starring Colin Firth was down a very solid 36 percent from last weekend. Kingsman: The Secret Service continues to inch closer to the $100 million domestic mark with a stronger than expected 17-day take of $85.69 million. That places the film an impressive 46 percent ahead of the $58.82 million 17-day gross of 2010's Red.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water held steady in third place this weekend with an estimated $11.2 million. Thanks in part to facing no new direct competition for family audiences, Paramount's 3D animated film stabilized nicely this weekend, as it was down 32 percent from last weekend. The SpongeBob Movie continues to exceed expectations with a strong 24-day take of $140.32 million and is running 32 percent ahead of the $106.34 million 24-day take of 2011's Rango.
After leading the box office each of the past two weekends, Fifty Shades of Grey fell three spots to land in fourth place with an estimated $10.93 million. Universal's successful erotic romantic drama was down a sharp 51 percent from last weekend, but showed relative signs of stabilization after last weekend's massive percentage decline. While it's proving to be very front-loaded, Fifty Shades of Grey has grossed a very strong $147.76 million in 17 days, which places it a sizable 48 percent ahead of the $99.92 million 17-day take of 2010's Valentine's Day.
The Lazarus Effect debuted in fifth place with an estimated $10.6 million. The low-budget PG-13 rated horror film from Relativity had been widely expected to open slightly higher, but was still off to a solid start this weekend given its cost. It should also be noted that online activity levels before the film's release were soft by horror film standards. The Lazarus Effect opened 12 percent below the $12.01 million start of Relativity's Oculus last April.
The Lazarus Effect opened with $3.8 million on Friday (which included an estimated $350,000 from Thursday night shows), increased a healthy 15.5 percent on Saturday to take in $4.39 million and is estimated to decline 45 percent on Sunday to gross an estimated $2.41 million. That gives the film an estimated opening weekend to Friday ratio of 2.79 to 1, which is very promising for a horror film. On the other hand, The Lazarus Effect received a C- rating on CinemaScore, which isn't the greatest early sign (even by horror film standards).
Disney's McFarland, USA held up very nicely in its second weekend, as it was down just 29 percent to place in sixth with an estimated $7.79 million. The sports drama starring Kevin Costner continues to perform on the high end of expectations with $21.98 million in ten days. That places the film 13.5 percent ahead of the $19.36 million ten-day take of last year's Draft Day (which fell 42 percent in its second weekend to gross $5.71 million). This weekend's hold is a strong sign for McFarland, USA going forward.
Warner's American Sniper continued to hold up very well this weekend with an estimated seventh place take of $7.7 million. The blockbuster Clint Eastwood directed Best Picture nominee starring Bradley Cooper was down a slim 23 percent from last weekend. American Sniper has grossed a massive $331.11 million to date and is now on the verge of surpassing the $336.71 million current total gross of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 to become the highest grossing release of 2014 domestically.
The DUFF also held up well this weekend with an estimated eighth place gross of $7.15 million. The low-budget PG-13 comedy from CBS Films and Lionsgate was down 34 percent from last weekend's stronger than expected start. The DUFF continues to exceed expectations with $20.05 million in ten days. That places the film 21 percent ahead of the $16.55 million ten-day take of last year's That Awkward Moment (which fell 40 percent in its second weekend to gross $5.24 million).


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Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit, Luxury Collection Hotel, Bangkok, Bangkok
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What's around Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit, Luxury Collection Hotel, Bangkok, Bangkok
- In Sukhumvit
- Soi Cowboy - 4 min walk
- Terminal 21 Shopping Mall - 5 min walk
- Emporium - 16 min walk
- Erawan Shrine - 27 min walk
- Lumphini Park - 28 min walk
- CentralWorld Shopping Complex - 29 min walk
- Siam Paragon Mall - 35 min walk
Getting around
- Bangkok (BKK-Suvarnabhumi Intl.) - 20 min drive
- Bangkok (DMK-Don Mueang Intl.) - 18 min drive
- Asok Railway Station - 24 min walk
- Bangkok Makkasan Station - 4 min drive
- Bangkok Khlong Tan Station - 5 min drive
- Asoke BTS Station - 4 min walk
- Sukhumvit Station - 6 min walk
- Nana BTS Station - 6 min walk
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 420 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 33 floors
- Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check-in
- Credit card, debit card, or cash deposit required for incidental charges
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- Babysitting/childcare
- No pets or service animals allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
- Free self parking
Payment types at the property
- Cash
In the hotel
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- 7 restaurants
- 2 bars/lounges
- Poolside bar
- 24-hour room service
- Outdoor pool
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Fitness classes on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Steam room
- Sauna
- Business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 12
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Hair salon
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Elevator
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Designated smoking areas
- Garden
- Library
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Wheelchair accessible
- Wheelchair-accessible path of travel
- Wheelchair-accessible parking
- Wheelchair-accessible public restroom
- Wheelchair-accessible concierge desk
- Assistive listening devices in meeting rooms
- Wheelchair-accessible van parking
- Wheelchair-accessible registration desk
- Wheelchair-accessible pool
- Wheelchair-accessible fitness center
- Wheelchair-accessible meeting spaces/business center
- Wheelchair-accessible on-site restaurant
- Visual alarms in hallways
- Lowered electrical outlets in bathroom
- Grab bar - near toilet
- Grab bar - in bathtub
- Visual fire alarm
- Lever door handles
- Chinese
- English
- Japanese
- Korean
- Thai
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Bathrobes
- Slippers
- Iron/ironing board
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Turndown service
- Premium bedding
- Private bathroom
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Pay movies
- Premium TV channels
- DVD player
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
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Special features
The onsite spa has massage/treatment rooms and couples treatment room(s). Services include hot stone massages, Swedish massages, Thai massages, and facials. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and hydrotherapy.
DiningBasil - This restaurant specializes in Thai cuisine and serves dinner only.
Barsu - This tapas bar specializes in international cuisine and serves dinner only. Open select days.
Rossini's - This restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Reservations are required. Open select days.
The Sala - This poolside theme restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Reservations are required. Open daily.
Dine in the Dark - This theme restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves dinner only. Reservations are required. Open select days.
Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit, Luxury Collection Hotel, Bangkok, Bangkok's small print
Also known as
- Grande Sheraton
- Sukhumvit Sheraton
- Grande Sheraton Sukhumvit
- Sheraton Grande
- Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit
- Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Luxury Collection
- Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Luxury Collection Hotel
- Sheraton Sukhumvit
- Sheraton Sukhumvit Grande
- Sukhumvit Grande
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wongck wrote:Hate it. Hate it.
When someone masquerade as someone else to get what they wanted.
Unfortunately always happening everywhere on the Net.
Especially when an account is so easily obtainable.
Even more difficult accounts needing SIM card it happens, I seen people who uses spare/dummy SIM cards to get 1st ride benefits on Uber and Lyft.
AtariZoll wrote:Look that CPU comparison thread. It is now thread: what PC could not, and how Falcon is superior. Despite it was clearly said that CPU and computer is not same. Chain is always weak as it's weakest part. So is with computers. If OS is slow, it will work slow regardless from how fast CPU is.
Atarieterno wrote: but I suppose that the administrator will have access to the IPs, e-mail and other data of each registered user: it should not be very difficult to detect a user with several names.
calimero wrote:Except if they use Tor
AtariZoll wrote:Please don't be ridiculous. We are not Hemingways.
Atarieterno wrote:calimero wrote:Except if they use Tor
I do not see logic between the effort of using proxy or simulating multiple users and the achievement that can be obtained.
Atarieterno wrote:Maybe it's the difficulty of the language, but ...
Who is interacting with multiple accounts ?, the Amiga user? The Spaniard who speaks good English or who speaks badly? (XD).
Atarieterno wrote: ... and now I'm going to put a SCSI adapter in my Mega STe: I guess it's just plug and play but if there is anything else I appreciate any information.
AtariZoll wrote:Try with search for start. There is plenty of it already discussed.
Just 2 things: drive must support parity off mode. Max 1GB can be accessed with original adapter. Good termination may be necessary. Ops ... it was 3, sorry
AtariZoll wrote:Good termination may be necessary.
joska wrote:AtariZoll wrote:Good termination may be necessary.
When I replaced my Mega STE's original 48Mb Seagate drive with a Quantum LPS 105 it would not work at all. Strange, because it worked perfectly via my ICD Link which also did not support parity. I called Atari Norway (yes, there was such a thing back then) and talked to their tech guy, and he told me to not terminate the SCSI drive. In fact, it could cause damage to the SCSI adapter he said. So I removed the terminating resistor packs from the drive and sure it worked
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Check out of your hotel and depart Queenstown this morning and drive through the Kawarau Gorge to the fruitgrowing region of Cromwell and across Lake Dunstan and on through Central Otago to the Lindis Pass and climb up into the MacKenzie High Country and on to New Zealand's highest mountain – Mount Cook. There will be time here for an Optional scenic flight over the Southern Alps with a snow landing on the Tasman Glacier subject to the weather conditions on the day. (Please note that scenic flight is not included in tour costs.) Depart Mt Cook and follow the shores of Lake Pukaki and on to Lake Tekapo and the "Church of the Good Shepherd", before descending Burkes Pass to Fairlie. Drive across rolling hill country to the farming servicing centre of Geraldine and then follow the long straight roads across the Canterbury Plains to the "Garden City" of Christchurch. The rest of the day is at leisure to relax or perhaps time for some last minute shopping.
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It has been a little while since I last saw an attempted internet meme—your favorite five this or that; your first posts of each month, or the photo out your front window—and I thought I'd try my hand. Besides, if it works, I get to read a whole lot of wonderful writing, on a topic well worth writing about.
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First, read Roger Ebert's amazing, moving essay "Nil By Mouth". Take your time. Have tissues on hand. (To, er, whet your appetite, Ebert's essay is about what he does and does not miss, now that he is unable to eat, drink, or speak. It is eloquent and beautiful, and will change your life forever. I'd quote the last paragraph here, but that would spoil your pleasure.)
Second, take some time to think. You're gonna want that. You're gonna need that. You're gonna enjoy that.
Third, write. What was the best dinner (or two, or three, or… I have chosen to write about one, because iambic pentameter gets old fast) you ever had, by the criteria inspired by your reading of Roger Ebert. You do not have to follow my example (you especially should not bother writing in rhyme, unless you share that particular disorder with me).
Fourth, tag some others with the meme. Who? Your dinner party, that's who. If these blog posts are dinners with friends, who are you inviting? One person? Several?
I had entirely too many meals to choose from, but one kept coming to mind again and again, so here it is. Every bit of it is true; all I did was write it down. I could have gone into much more detail, but then we'd be in epic poem territory, and I kinda wanted to get it posted this year.
The cook leaned up against the no-smoking sign,
Lit one cigarette from another, and gave us a look.
It was late, near closing; his friends were leaving to find
A party somewhere, and couldn't wait for the cook.
We were four Americans; the cook must have guessed
We were better entertainment. He turned, re-lit the grill,
And asked us what we wanted. "What's your best?"
So, burgers it was—but no run-of-the-mill
Ground beef; we could choose chicken or pork,
With mayonnaise, fried egg, and yellow cheese
For condiments, and french fries to eat with a fork.
"To drink?" "Four large diet cokes, if you please."
We sat, the four of us, and ate, and drank, and talked.
The cook looked on, amused by us, no doubt;
Once strangers, now our group of friends had walked
Through Greece and Bulgaria together, and were just about
To say goodbye, perhaps for good. We knew
Each other, loved each other, and this perfect night
Was ours. We ate our meals and looked back through
The past five weeks. I complained that the flight
Back home was coming all too soon for me.
We would have stayed there talking through the night
If we could have; the cook's face said we should go.
We left—so very happy, so very sad.
Sure, it probably was the company, but I know…
That was the best damn cheeseburger I ever had.
(This is the place. If you are ever in Sofia, Bulgaria, there are scores of better places to eat. Unless you are with friends, and have walked the whole town looking for just the right place for a pork burger with mayo, yellow cheese, and fried egg, on a soft white roll. In which case, this is the very best place on earth. It's on Shipka street, about a block from the University.)
Now, the really tough part. My dinner party. I am going to start small, so as not to deplete the blogospheric resources too much. My reasons for choosing each are my own, and I will not share them, other than to say that I chose individuals, without much care as to how they combine. I do think having these people around my table would make for a wonderful evening (for me, at least). I am very grateful to each of them for the privilege,, according to Ebert's criterion, of having dined at their tables so many times already. In no particular order…
Greta Christina (Greta Christina's Blog)
Cath (VWXYNot?)
SC (Salty Current)
Bronwen Scott (Snail's Eye View)
The Ridger (The Greenbelt)
Martin Rundvist (Aardvarchaeology)
And hey, if you are not at the table, but like the idea, consider yourself invited! Write your own, and invite your own people to your table! Oh, and link back here so I can read it!
Edited to add: More and more, I hate the notion of choosing just a few people to send this to. I have already though of a couple dozen people I wish I had "invited" to my table, and I have no doubt I will think of many more before bedtime. So. If you have read this far, you are officially tagged, and asked (politely) to write up your own Ebert Dinner. To keep with meme tradition (is that metamemology?), I will keep my dinner choices, but I have just called up the Intarweb Virtual Caterers and ordered a tent that can fit all of you. You are invited.
Don't thank me. Thank Roger Ebert.
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My Dinner With Roger
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It's quick and a bit rough, but I did eventually get around to this. As requested, an elegant and finely-crafted link.
- Cuttlefish said...
Wow, ddpej, that's a really nice verse! Thanks for the link!
(For others--It certainly doesn't *have* to be verse, but as ddpej shows, that is always a great way to do it!)
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