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Wine column: A Valentine's wine list for pet lovers
Valentine's Day is a delicious day to celebrate love. For those who have been blessed with a charming and romantic partner, it's not difficult to find a way to spend Feb. 14 together. A huge industry is ready to reinforce your every passionate instinct by selling you roses, chocolates, Champagne — even diamonds. I can suggest a roster of appealing wines, too, depending on your pocketbook and proclivity, from insincere Prosecco to hearts a-flutter Côtes de Nuits burgundy to seal-the-deal Roederer Cristal.
But what if Valentine's Day is difficult for you? If you are on your own, without a honey, this can be the loneliest day of the year. One solution is to get together with friends and drown your sorrows with beer. Another, if you are a true homebody who prefers an evening with your pet to a night out at Applebee's, is to mellow out chez vous in sweet harmony with your furry, feathered or scaly pet companion. You'll have a good time; the pet can watch you, and you won't have to share the bottle because pets don't drink alcohol.
Here is a guide to what type of wine to choose depending on what sort of pet you have, including specific suggestions from local wineries and/or faraway vineyards.
1. A sweetheart kitty who follows you around trilling: Raphael's full-flavored but youthful 2010 Sauvignon Blanc; Guy Saget's Les Perrières (Loire).
2. An irascible, hair-raised, skittish kitty: Peconic Bay 2010 Dry Riesling, with plenty of zesty acidity but enough enticing aroma to calm everyone down; Ravines Finger Lakes 2010 Riesling.
3. An old tomcat who would rather not sit with you but will just this one time: Grapes of Roth 2004 Merlot, dark and tenacious and extremely lovable despite its challenging character; Ridge Vineyards California Zinfandel.
4. A soft and purry cat who will sit on your lap but is somewhat elitist: Bedell Cellars 2007 Musée (Bordeaux blend), if you can find it, or a Chateau Beychevelle 2005, which is as velvety as your cat but far more expensive.
5. A playful kitten who will entertain you no matter what you drink: Channing Daughters 2008 Cuvée Tropical, a blend of chardonnay and muscat that reflects the playful nature of the winemaker, Christopher Tracy, or a light Prosecco, like Valdo Brut from Italy. It's fizzy, fruity and not too, too sweet.
6. A fat, indolent Persian window-sitter: Pellegrini Vineyards' Vintner's Pride Finale, an "ice" wine made of gewürztraminer and sauvignon blanc, with the kind of satisfying sweetness that will help you fall gently to sleep; Vignobles Dauré, Les Clos de Paulilles Banyuls (south of France) which has similarly sybaritic qualities in a dessert wine.
1. A panting, wag-tail retriever: fresh, enthusiastically citrusy Castello di Borghese 2010 Chardonnay or Domaine William Fèvre 2009 Chablis (as energized as the pooch).
2. A protector dog, like a bull mastiff or German shepherd: There aren't any Long Island wines I know of leathery or tough enough for this, but how about an earthy Napa cab like Chappellet? Or an insurmountable red blend, Orin Swift's "The Prisoner"?
3. A jubilant, gamboling and uncontrollable Irish setter: frizzante sparkling merlot rosé from Croteaux or an aromatic Crémant d'Alsace sparkler like Lucien Albrecht's Brut Rosé.
4. A wise, humorous standard poodle: the joyfully effervescent Sparkling Pointe Brut or the sophisticated but also joyful Pol Roger Champagne.
5. A hyper-blissful, peppy Jack Russell terrier: the lean, delicate and searingly fresh, disarmingly honest Macari Vineyards 2010 Early Wine or the Alto Adige Abbazia di Novacella Gruner Vetliner.
6. An old, faithful Labrador: choose the steady, reliable, fully satisfying 2007 Leo Family Red (mostly merlot) or the tummy-warming Château de Beaucastel from Châteauneuf-du-Papes' sunny slopes.
Birds, Turtles and Fish
1. Tweetie Bird: This bright, cheery oiseau needs an equally happy wine: Lieb Cellars' Pinot Blanc or Schloss Johannisberg German Riesling.
2. Turtle: The theme here is "slow and steady wins." I choose Martha Clara "Bernie's Rose," a nice sipper even if it does have a dog on the label.
3. Goldfish, swimming mesmerizingly in a circle: Laurel Lake's spicy 2007 Cabernet Franc will help you meditate with the fish.
4. Assorted tropical fish: If they're frisky, try Palmer Vineyard's lively 2009 Gewürztraminer; if languid, drink the blowsy St. Jean de Minervois Muscat.
5. Piranha: Do you have one? Really? Then get a bottle of Channing Daughters' bizarro fortified "Pazzo." If you can't find it, try any big ol' Australian shiraz.
6. Japanese fighting fish: No wine. Go for the LIV potato vodka. And btw, this is why you don't have a girlfriend.
Ms. Hargrave was a founder of the Long Island wine industry in 1973. She is currently a freelance writer and consultant.


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I wanted to throw out my thoughts on this and hear what everyone has to say in return.
The idea of the goaless goal has often confused me and others but from what I've been able to understand thus far, it is important to have both. We had to have a goal to find Buddhism, for most of us, we weren't raised Buddhist but are converts to the Way, and we went looking because something was lacking from our understanding before. Even Buddha went looking for something when he left his palace, he too had a goal in mind. Deshimaru Roshi has said that it is necessary to have, at least at first, a little selfishness in begining the practice of the Way, because without attending to our own suffering, how can we help others with theirs? I think that this "initial" goal is almost a requirement. It's after we've been practicing a while and learning to follow the Way that we learn that the missing thing we were searching for in the first place, was a kind of understanding. We created the "missing element" to life when we said, "something's missing". It is only after practicing the Way that we understand that what was missing was the understanding that nothing is missing. All the masters agree, Deshimaru, Suzuki, Dogen, that this life is without "too much" or "not enough", but I think that this isn't saying that our practice couldn't help what is already there grow into a new pattern, one that is beneficial to all beings. That is a kind of goal too, but one that doesn't say that something is missing, rather that all the pieces of the puzzle are already in front of us, so let's put it together and see what the picture is.
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Qubit Launches Behavioral Attribution API to Simplify Integration with Business Intelligence and Understanding of Customers on Daily Basis
Piloted with Tableau Software, Data Visualization Coupled with First-To-Market Attribution API Provides Daily Analytics for Complete 360-Degree Customer View
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, Customer Experience Management (CXM) leader Qubit opened up its proprietary behavioral attribution platform to data visualization solutions for an integrated approach in advanced analysis, reporting and data visualization. Piloted with Tableau Software, the API allows retailers and marketers, working alongside the extensive range of targeting criteria that Qubit solutions enable, to now better see and understand their customers and data.
Providing automated powerful daily reporting and analytic visualizations on large data volumes and diverse data types, Qubit's Behavioral Attribution API allows marketers to upload and unite data through business intelligence, including offline data, to make visual, easy to understand connections of online-to-offline conversion paths.
"We're not only easily and more efficiently connecting consumer data through the API, we're also now increasing the analytical maturity of our clients by demonstrating the benefits of merging online behavior data with additional customer data sources in a simple, easy-to-digest format," said Graham Cooke, CEO of Qubit. "Providing complete 360-degree insight into consumer behavior on a daily basis will better enable marketers and retailers alike to react to customer behavior and faster implement promotions and offers that more quickly translate into conversion."
Qubit has a rich heritage in helping marketers and retailers unify the view of their desired consumer audiences through a variety of technologies including Conversion Optimization and Tag Management.
Since 2010, Qubit customers have grown their success rates to an average 20% incremental increase in conversion rates with their own customers.
"We are seeing a growing need for self-reliance and agile business analytics. Our integration with Qubit makes it easier for retailers and marketers to unite data from disparate sources more effectively helping users understand and respond quickly to customer demands, behavior and new opportunities that present themselves in the market." said Jonathan Honey OEM manager for Tableau EMEA.
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Qubit lets an ecommerce business act on an insight by helping them make real time web design and messaging changes for 1000s of webpages in just a few minutes. Its technology helps marketers create personalized website experiences to drive enhanced conversion rates.
Qubit's products collect huge amounts of information about users' interactions with a website and analyze this to identify patterns of behavior. They then use this understanding to deliver live personalization, driving improved conversion rates and increased customer satisfaction.
The company's suite of products brings together visitor analytics, tag management, AB testing and personalization within a single integrated platform. This allows marketers to optimize and test websites in real time, without the need for specialist IT resource, helping to drive rapid and sustained ROI.
Founded in 2010 by four ex-Googlers, Qubit is headquartered in London with offices in New York. Qubit works with some of the world's leading ecommerce businesses, including TopShop, Staples, John Lewis, Farfetch and Harveys Furniture. The company received $7.5 million funding from Balderton Capital in December 2012.
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A new bicycle parking facility was installed on the northeast side of Interstate 5, near the San Diego Trolley station.
The US/Mexico border between San Diego, CA and Tijuana in Mexico is the busiest land border crossing in the world. Over 30 million vehicles and 18 million pedestrians cross annually, with the border gateway at Interstate 5 suffering significant congestion. Additional delays and safety issues were caused by large numbers of nonmotorized travelers coming into conflict with cars and trucks at the crossing.
The California Department of Transportation initiated the International Friendship Plaza project to address these issues, and to transform the crossing at Interstate 5 from one more large piece of ugly infrastructure to a human-scale, comfortable, interesting, and clean border crossing experience. The project created a new plaza and promenade on the California side of the crossing, improved circulation through transit and private-vehicle drop-off areas, accessible pathways and turnstiles for disabled travelers, bicycle parking facilities, and formal pedestrian street crossing routes. Public art, historic interpretation, trash receptacles, lighting, and plantings all enhance the experience for travelers passing through the crossing.
The project was funded in part through $2,246,000 in federal TE funds in 2003. In 2008, the completed project was recognized as outstanding with an Exemplary Human Environment Initiatives (EHEI) award by the Federal Highway Administration.
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UnNews:Greece plans financial consolidation by earthquake
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29 January 2010
ATHENS, Greece -- Greek politicians feel a surge of envy these days whenever they consider the enormous sums of money the world is sending to Haiti as aid for rebuilding the country. Facing their own disastrous budget Greece would definitely prefer its EU neighbours to send their spare Euros due south to their needy fellow Europeans.
In an interview with UnNews, Greek minister of economic affairs Stavros Insolveou said that Greece's budget emergency is sort of a natural disaster itself. "The hole in our budget is so large that the Athens metropolitan area might disappear in it any day. We desperately need humanitarian help."
If this line of reasoning does not succeed, more radical measures might follow. Greece possesses a number of more or less active volcanoes and areas of tectonic unrest which need just a little encouragement. This could trigger earthquakes at least equal to the Caribbean disaster - and what's more, the numbers on the Richter scale are only numbers, and Greece has unique number manipulation skills. This was last proven when Greece presented its qualification for the Euro currency. Therefore it should be easy to take advantage of the world's current donating mood.
However, if the money does not flow in fast enough, the country has some more creative ideas to find funding. Greece has thousands of islands, so it should be no problem to spare some of them and sell them to other interested nations. Germany is a likely candidate for buying Crete, since the country has recent experience in incorporating new provinces into its territory. And Crete has many things Germany is currently lacking, for example culture, sunshine and nice people.
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- Anthony Alto "Greeks take a tip from Haiti, plan their own disastrous earthquake" AA Newsletter, January 29, 2010


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The traditional method for flattening a workbench is to use hand planes and winding sticks. While some folks truly relish this labor of love, others prefer to delegate this grunt work to power tools. The power tool method is very similar to the action of a CNC machine. A router is placed inside a sled that rides along two parallel rails that are attached to the sides of the bench. The router sled is very easy to make from scrap 3/4″ plywood. The rails can be made from 2×6 construction-grade lumber. Cheap and simple!
The only tricky part of this process, if there is one, is making sure the two guide rails are not only parallel to one another but also roughly parallel with the top. Fortunately, there is a very cool trick you can employ using string or thin cable.
Once the rails are in place, the router is dropped into the sled and the bit is plunged down. Ideally, you want to set the bit at the lowest part of the bench. One way to do this is to plunge the bit until it just touches the bench. Move the sled and router to various parts of the bench (with the power off) to see if the bit catches or slides freely. If it slides freely at any given point, you have just found a location that is lower than the original spot. Reset the router plunge depth at this new setting and continue to scan the bench. Once you have the bit set at the lowest point, bring the sled back to the end of the bench and start the routing process. Anything higher than that low point will be routed away and you'll be left with a nice flat surface.
Here are two options for router bits. They have the same specs (1 3/4″, 2-flute straight bits) but the Freud will save you a few bucks:
Amana – 45453
Freud – 12-194
Perhaps one of the best parts about this jig is that you can re-use it for other things. Have an end grain cutting board that needs flattening, but you don't want to send it through your planer? Have an oddly-shaped natural edge slab that is just too large for your tools? Both situations can be handled with a setup like this. And if you plan on using it a lot, you can get as elaborate as you want with the design of the jig. The version I show you here is stripped down to the absolute basics.
I should add that this technique is nothing new. I first learned about this in a forum about 10 years ago and later found out that it came from a technique publishes in one of Tage Frid's books: Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking. A worthy read for ANY woodworker!
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A University of Connecticut research team has found a way to stabilize hemoglobin, the oxygen carrier protein in the blood, a discovery that could lead to the development of stable vaccines and affordable artificial blood substitutes.
The team's novel approach involves wrapping the polymer poly(acrylic acid) around hemoglobin, protecting it from the intense heat used in sterilization and allowing it to maintain its biological function and structural integrity.
In addition to having potential applications in the stabilization of vaccines and development of inexpensive artificial blood, the stabilizing polymer also allows vaccines and other biomedical products to be stored for longer periods without refrigeration. It could also have applications in biomaterials, biosensors, and biofuels.
"Protein stability is a major issue in biotechnology," says Challa V. Kumar, UConn professor of chemistry and biochemistry and the primary investigator on the project. "What we've done is taken this protein molecule and wrapped it up in a polymer chain in order to stabilize it. In thermodynamics terms, we have restricted the entropy of the denatured state of the protein and stabilized it beyond our expectations. The system also exhibits a high degree of reversibility. The protein can be denatured and renatured many, many times. This is the very first example of its kind in the literature of all protein science. No one has ever been able to achieve this kind of stability for proteins."
A popular example of denaturation can be found in the protein present in eggs. As the egg is cooked and the protein around the yolk turns white, the protein in the egg is denatured and cannot return to its prior, natural state. Likewise, when proteins in a living cell are exposed to heat they become denatured, which disrupts their activity and can lead to cell death. When protein is a critical element in a vaccine and breaks down, the product becomes useless.
In searching for a viable material to serve as a protein stabilizer, Kumar's team found one that is readily available, inexpensive, and can be modified chemically for further improvements.
The poly(acrylic acid) used in the study is the same material found in disposable diapers, and one of the most abundant synthetic polymers on the planet. This particular polymer, says Kumar, is very hydrophilic, meaning it likes water. The polymer naturally binds to hemoglobin, creating a tight seal that protects the protein molecule and allows it to retain its structural integrity even after heating it to 120˚C for extended periods of time (steam sterilization).
Joining him on the project was Rajeswari Kasi, associate professor of chemistry, an expert in synthetic polymers and hybrid materials. The research team also included graduate students: Vamsi Mudhivarthi, Kyle Cole, Inoka Deshapriya, Caterina Riccardi, and Yuxiang Zhou, as well as undergraduate students Marc Novak and Westley Kipphut.
Kumar is proud of the fact that undergraduates participated in such a major research endeavor. "One of our missions at the University is to train undergraduates in research," he says, "and we take that very seriously."
The team tested various protein-polymer compositions using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and optical spectroscopy techniques. The research was supported by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, topping $3 million over the past 10 years.
In a paper published last year in the Journal of Materials Chemistry, Kumar and his team showed how hemoglobin wrapped in low molecular weight poly(acrylic acid) formed nanoparticles that retained their natural state and structure, even after they were subjected to the harsh conditions of steam sterilization. Under the same conditions, hemoglobin samples that were not wrapped in the polymer lost the majority of their structure and function.
Kumar said these test results signaled the project's breakthrough moment.
As part of its research, the team chose to examine the feasibility of using hemoglobin as an artificial blood substitute. Hemoglobin, when extracted from blood, breaks down and is toxic in its pure form. Since hemoglobin is the critical oxygen carrier protein in blood, Kumar and his team are looking at ways of stabilizing hemoglobin in its natural form so that it retains its activity and stays harmless when administered as a transfusion agent. This could lead to a new substitute for human blood, which is frequently in short supply. Blood shortages are expected to get worse in coming years, as more and more people in the world are likely to need blood transfusions, Kumar said.
The research has caught the attention of scientists at Merck, a global leader in prescription medicine, vaccines, and biologic therapies.
"Being able to control the placement of proteins in polymer matrices of defined size brings exciting opportunities for producing potent and heat-stable vaccine antigens," says Henryk Mach, a senior investigator with Merck's vaccine drug product development division. "Prof. Kumar's work may well provide technologies for vaccine delivery in the developing world."
The abundance of the polymer, the flexibility of the process, and the simplicity of the approach enhances its potential for mass production, Kumar says. Kumar and the rest of the UConn research team are working with the University's Technology Partnerships and Licensing group of UConn's Office of Economic Development and a U.S. patent application has been filed for the new technology.
Read more about the team's research at the Journal of Materials Chemistry: Ultra-stable hemoglobin–poly(acrylic acid) conjugates.
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The diversity domain seems currently in a struggle, having critical debates about the future direction of diversity studies as well as diversity programs and actions. It seems to have neglected theoretical reflections on notions of 'diversity,' 'difference,' or the 'other.' The purpose of this paper is to think theoretically about diversity, arguing that it is the thinking itself that has to become different and that a different thinking will make a difference in addressing policies and actions. The main point we try to make is that diversity is not a matter of constructing identities but of a moving alterity. We will depart from the current debates in diversity management, in which we identify mainly four issues: a narrow or broad definition of diversity, a stable or dynamic conception of identity, the role of power, and the importance of the socio-historical context. With the discussion of these four issues, we will try to indicate the implicit 'theoretical' choices prioritizing the concept of 'identity', turning the issues of diversity into a managing of individuals and 'their' identities. Rather than pursuing the route of identity, we try to explore another route, paving a possible way of conceiving the other from the position of the other and not from fixed norms and possibilities. We therefor turn to the concept of 'alterity.' The aim of the paper is then to develop an alterity-thinking by connecting and relating to the philosophical work of Deleuze and Guattari, and Serres; the writings of Collins on the Black-feminist standpoint, and recent political studies on democracy. The qualifications that we connect and associate to alterity, are: its relation to an ontology of becoming, its crossing out of the identifiable into becoming anonymous, its dependence on safe, social-cultural spaces, and on open, empty public spaces. To conclude, we reflect on the different ways in which this alterity-thinking is related to the four critical issues of the diversity literature and discuss its qualifications as possible conditions for what we might sum up as an 'alterity politics.'
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Bill Hill has posted an article about "font embedding" on the Web, pushing Microsoft's "Embedded OpenType" format as the only way to do font embedding that's acceptable to font foundries. The theme is that "font linking" as implemented by Safari (and soon Gecko and Opera) is likely to get people sued and would lead to widespread font theft, and EOT is a much better approach that is endorsed by Microsoft and other font vendors. Chris Wilson followed up.
One huge problem with Microsoft taking this position is that Silverlight does not support EOT but does support direct font linking. It is very hard to take Microsoft's EOT arguments seriously when their own Silverlight division is obviously not convinced. It is especially galling for Microsoft people to practically demand that other browsers adopt EOT, and scold Apple, while Silverlight is not mentioned. It's plain hypocrisy. We need to keep pressing Microsoft hard on this issue.
Another big problem is that EOT is oversold. It is nothing more than trivial obfuscation of the font file plus some metadata asking the client to limit the domains in which the font file can be used. EOT proponents tout its font-subsetting features, but plain OpenType font files also support subsetting. The Ascender/Microsoft advocacy site suggests "EOTs are bound to a specific web page or site", which overstates the case; it's trivial for someone to unpack an EOT to obtain an unrestricted font, or to modify the domain list, or to modify a client application to ignore the domain restrictions.
The only protection of value is the ability to prevent site A from directly linking to fonts on site B, and that can also be obtained with bare font files, simply by imposing a same-origin restriction on font linking. (Even this won't be a big deal in practice; no commercial site is going to link to fonts on a random server which could be replaced with obscene glyphs at any time!) Safari 3.1 doesn't impose such a restriction but I'm in favour of it for Gecko. (We could support Access Controls for fonts so site B could permit less restrictive linking.)
The strongest argument for supporting EOT is that font foundries will sue Web authors who serve bare font files but they won't sue EOT users. That's a weak argument, since in the absence of meaningful practical differences it boils down to "font foundries are stupid" and I hope they aren't. But if that turns out to be the case, we may end up having to support EOT. Ick.
Another thing about this discussion that bugs me is the "embedded" vs "linking" terminology. "Embedded" sounds more tightly bound to particular documents than "linking", and therefore "better" ... but of course you do link to EOT files and the difference is illusory --- especially if we have a same-origin restriction on @font-face.
Update Chris Wilson comments "[Silverlight] needs the fonts to be in a package starting with SL 2.0, and that package would need to be opened (i.e. you can't just link to fonts on other people's systems".
Silverlight has always imposed a same-domain restriction for font loading, and I've never claimed otherwise. As for the package requirement, in March, that wasn't true. I haven't been able to determine whether direct font linking as described in that post was removed in June's beta 2 (apparently the idea you should be able to create Silverlight apps using a text editor has fallen by the wayside), but it's not mentioned in the list of breaking changes in beta 2 (or here). So I dunno. Even if they've removed that, you can probably still use FontSource and WebClient to load a bare font file. Anyone want to experiment?
Anyway, requiring fonts to be placed in the application XAP file (which is actually just a ZIP file!) is a negligible increase in protection over the same-domain restriction Silverlight already had --- I don't see the point.


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CNN.com: Cleric in Islamabad: 'It's the beginning of the revolution'
Cleric in Islamabad: 'It's the beginning of the revolution'
By Shaan Khan and Jethro Mullen, CNN,
January 15, 2013 -- Updated 0307 GMT (1107 HKT)
Islamabad (CNN) -- A Muslim cleric leading a self-proclaimed movement to clean up politics in Pakistan by throwing out the current leaders in favor of a caretaker administration called on thousands of supporters to join his campaign.
"It's the beginning of the revolution," Tahir ul Qadri told a rally in Islamabad. "Dissolve federal and provincial governments by tomorrow morning; otherwise, the public will force them to step down!"
Qadri urged the demonstrators to remain in the capital until they achieve their goals. "Now and onward, you have to take care of Islamabad," he said.He referred to President Asif Ali Zardari as ex-president and to Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf as ex-prime minister. "Today, the president and the prime minister have become ex as (they) won't have their government tomorrow," he said.
The rally was held Monday night in Islamabad's "blue zone" in the center of the capital. Qadri spoke early Tuesday.
The group's numbers fell far short of what organizers of the "Million Man March" had predicted, with witnesses estimating that some 20,000 people took part.
Many more followed the event on television as the participants, led by Qadri, headed toward Islamabad with police and soldiers lining the rally route.
Video showed a convoy of buses, vans and cars packed with participants waving the national flag en route to the capital. Some joined the procession on foot.
Qadri, who traveled in a bulletproof van, has promised a Pakistani equivalent of Egypt's Tahrir Square protests.
When the marchers arrived at the rally site, near Parliament and the presidential home, they joined more than 1,000 other protesters who had arrived earlier in the day as part of a demonstration calling for cleaning up national politics before elections this year.
"We want change in the establishment and we want to save our country," one man told CNN affiliate GEO TV.
Read more: Muslim scholar's fatwa condemns terrorism
After eight years in Canada, Qadri returned last month to Pakistan, where he is waging a campaign against the political elite.
Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik, who visited rally sites Monday by helicopter, said the turnout numbers showed that Qadri's event had "badly failed."
Read more: Islamic scholar who condemned terrorism: 'I am not afraid'
"We want change! We want change!" chanted some demonstrators prior to Qadri's speech.
One man in a male-only area told GEO TV viewers watching at their homes that change does not occur while sitting down.
"We all must rally and come together for change and a better future and stronger Pakistan," he said.
One female protester, rallying in the space provided for women and children, said she was prepared for a long demonstration.
"We have come here with our bedding and food supplies," she told GEO TV. "We will stay here for as long as it takes to change the present situation in Pakistan."
Qadri has called for a caretaker administration to replace the current government and to carry out election reforms.
His suggestion that the judiciary and the military weigh in on the composition of the interim government has raised concerns in a country where military leaders have repeatedly seized power and ruled for long periods of time.
Some Pakistanis, noting that Qadri served as a lawmaker in the early 2000s, when Gen. Pervez Musharraf was leading the country, have suggested he may be working on behalf of the military.
Read more: Why Karachi's violence shouldn't define city
Qadri maintains that he is simply seeking to ensure a corruption-free electoral process.
The current government and opposition have both rejected his requests for a caretaker administration, insisting that nothing will stand in the way of timely elections and the democratic process.
"We will not succumb to these illegal demands," Malik said last week.
Party withdraws support
The only political party that had supported Qadri's demonstration, the Mutahida Qaumi Movement, withdrew that support last week. The movement is a coalition partner in the current government.
If this year's elections take place without major difficulties, it would represent the first time in Pakistan's history that a civilian government would have made it through a five-year term.
Supporters say that Qadri aims to effect positive change.
Corruption is widely considered a chronic problem in Pakistan's political system; President Zardari has served prison time on corruption charges.
The problem appears to be regional. Qadri's campaign comes more than a year after anti-corruption demonstrator Anna Hazare roiled Indian politics with a hunger strike that called for the introduction of strong anti-graft measures.
Qadri gained worldwide attention in 2010 when he declared a fatwa, or religious ruling, on terrorism and said it "cannot be permissible in Islam."
That occurred during his time in Canada, when he spoke out in videos and books.
His supporters also point to his Lahore-based religious welfare organization, Minhaj ul Quran, which promotes "true Islamic teachings."
According to its website, it has up to 280,000 members worldwide and works to build schools around the country to teach the Quran.
CNN's Shaan Khan reported from Islamabad and Jethro Mullen wrote from Hong Kong, and Mark Morgenstein updated from Atlanta. CNN's Aliza Kassin, Saima Mohsin and Nasir Habib also contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON — For better than a month, the Obama administration has been dodging and weaving over what actually transpired in Benghazi, Libya, on the night of Sept. 11-12. Questions have been posed about why Ambassador Christopher Stevens was there and not at his embassy post in Tripoli.
Congressional investigators have asked why he had no security detail, why the State Department decided not to send in U.S. Marine embassy security guards when they were offered months before, why contingency plans were not in place on the anniversary of 9/11 and why the O-Team insisted for so long that the attack on our U.S. diplomatic post was a "spontaneous event" and not an act of terrorism.
By now, all should realize that truthful answers to these inquiries will not be furnished by the White House or State Department until after the presidential election on Nov. 6. But there is an even more important question that should be asked and answered now: Once the White House knew about the attack in Benghazi, what action did the president take to protect or save the lives of Americans?
"We the People" need to know the answer because we are about to hire — or rehire — a commander in chief. The response is crucial to determining whether the incumbent is competent enough to fulfill the responsibilities of the job or whether he should be replaced. Fortunately, we have a standard of behavior for a commander in chief in a previous well-documented terror event: Ronald Reagan during the Achille Lauro incident.
On Oct. 7, 1985, four radical Islamic terrorists — members of the Palestine Liberation Front, the organization now calling itself Hamas — hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. They then murdered Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound American passenger. His only offense was that he was an American citizen and a Jew. That was offense enough to spark what the current administration might well call a "spontaneous event."
Within minutes of the CIA alert that Americans were at risk — and before it was known that Klinghoffer was dead — a National Security Council-led counterterrorism task force was convened by secure conference call.
From Air Force One en route to Chicago, President Reagan approved the first recommendation of the task force — deployment of a specially trained and equipped unit from the Joint Special Operations Command to the region. While the JSOC team was heading east from the U.S., Reagan ordered every available U.S. military and intelligence asset in the eastern Mediterranean to find and track the vessel — and asked every littoral government in the area to deny port access to the hijackers. Despite abysmal weather conditions at sea, U.S. Navy and Air Force units located the cruise ship and followed it to Alexandria, Egypt.
When Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak lied to President Reagan about the terrorists having escaped, we knew better. In those days, our relationship with the Israeli government was so good that members of it contacted us to tell us where the perpetrators were, the tail number of the EgyptAir commercial aircraft Mubarak had provided to fly them to Tunisia and the takeoff time.
The president immediately approved a plan crafted by the task force, the Joint Chiefs, the JSOC and the U.S. Navy's 6th Fleet to intercept the civilian airliner and force it to land at the NATO air base at Sigonella, Italy. Less than four hours later, the terrorists and their ringleader — Abu Abbas, head of the PLF — were captured.
Contrast this scenario with what we now know from previously undisclosed emails exchanged among various Obama administration officials about what transpired in Benghazi. The White House apparently was notified within minutes of the attack's being launched on our consulate. From ground-based FLIR cameras and live imagery from at least one unmanned aerial vehicle overhead, officials at the CIA, Pentagon, State Department and White House could see with extraordinary clarity what was going on as military assaults were mounted against the U.S. Consulate and then a nearby annex over the course of more than eight hours.
Unlike those during the Achille Lauro incident, the O-Team's decision-makers knew precisely what was happening in real time in Benghazi. Yet apparently, they did little more than wring their hands and stare at their widescreen monitors as Americans were dying.
In 1985, we had no real-time information other than what was provided by the Israelis or the scant information gleaned from the ship-to-shore radiotelephone calls by the terrorists to their chief, Abu Abbas. We had no UAVs or live coverage. We had no prepositioned forces on the ground; the JSOC unit that captured the hijackers and turned them over to Italian authorities had to be flown to Sicily from the U.S.
On Sept. 11, 2012, there were dozens of U.S. military aircraft stationed within an hour's flight time of Benghazi. A U.S. Marine contingent and a U.S. special operations unit were less than two hours away by air, remarkably enough in Sigonella — the very place the Achille Lauro terrorists were captured.
White House spokesman now claims that the O-Team couldn't commit military force without "diplomatic clearance" from the Libyan government. Good thing that provision of international law doesn't apply in Pakistan or Yemen.
Our current commander in chief cannot answer the question, What did you do to save and protect American lives? On Nov. 6, we need to fire him and hire a new one who is up to the most important responsibility for the president of the United States.
Oliver North is the host of "War Stories" on Fox News Channel, the founder and honorary chairman of Freedom Alliance, and the author of "Heroes Proved." Join Oliver North in Israel by going to http://www.olivernorthisrael.com. To find out more about Oliver North and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.


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A government whistleblower recently stated that officials are baffled as to why numerous extraterrestrial crafts have docked themselves on the opposite side of the moon.
Dr. Eric Norton, an outside consultant for the NSA and NASA for the past 12 years, was hired to track various object in space including meteors, comets, etc.. but recently has been following a number of unidentified aircrafts that were heading towards Earth.
On January 22, 2012, Dr. Norton was called to the MacDonald Observatory in Texas and saw "massive, three dimensional black structures in space, in straight line formation advancing in the direction of planet Earth. The object seemed to be emitting some sort of force field that deflected space particles from touching their surface, almost like the magnetic field around the earth. The objects were getting so close that, with our telescopes, we could see the structural features of these things in high detail. They were shaped as a three dimensional "L" shaped craft. By January 2013, the objects had been tracked to about 200,000 miles past the planet Mars. Once they reached this point, almost instantaneously, the object vanished from our telescope lenses as if they had activated some sort of invisibility shield at the flick of the switch. I knew that the upper echelons of government were worried about these things because I was under a constant 24/7 guard by Secret Service agents. For nearly the entire year of 2013, we watched the skies in disbelief. We didn't know what was going on or where these things were. According to my calculations, these things would have been so close to us by now that we would have no problem seeing them in the night sky had they stayed visible to us. We didn't know if they were still coming or had left the solar system."
Dr. Norton was sent home and was awaiting additional order, if needed, but had not heard anything else about this situation for approximately 6 months. Upon all of the commotion around the government shutdown as well as the shutdown of numerous space monitoring programs, Dr. Norton finally made a call to a close friend who he worked with confidentially who told Norton that "the objects reappeared and had repositioned themselves behind the moon" in a circular type of alignment, which allowed them to dock to the backside of the moon in order to remain invisible to skywatchers.
Norton added that the blackout of all space monitoring programs was essential in "keeping the lid on what had happened."
"We don't know what they are, what they are doing or what they're going to do. We do know that there have already been fluctuations in Earth's gravity field and the gravity field which links the moon to the Earth."
According to Dr. Norton, if this information were to be revealed to the masses, it would cause a breakdown of all religions as well as the "breakdown of society, itself".
It is this writers opinion that our society is ready to acknowledge the existence of other forms of life other than what is already on our planet. The biggest fears would be from those who have kept us living as economic slaves for millennia through subservience, control and conformity as their illusion of their fiat currency falls apart. They will continue to grasp on to this illusion for as long as possible while keeping the rest of us in the proverbial dark until the last possible second in order to maintain their illusion of power.
If the extraterrestrials are changing the magnetic waves in the gravitational field of this planet, it could have implications on what that might do to our brains and more specifically, what we are capable of doing.
For example, a slight change in the magnetic field may affect the Schumann Resonance where the frequencies are more derived from pure love or as some may call it, "Christ Consciousness". It may also open up our minds to their fullest collective capacity where we all have instantaneous abilities, such as telekinesis, ESP and other psychic or metaphysical abilities.
The Earth is currently undergoing a magnetic pole shift, which has not occurred in at least 700,000 years on this planet, so perhaps this visitation has something to do with that?
Many people believe that the moon is a large satellite, so the possibility remains that those who placed it here have returned.
While much of this is speculation, no one truly knows who they are or why they are on the moon. Only time will tell!
Who do you think they are and why do you think they're here? Comment below!
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Gregg Prescott, M.S. is the founder and editor of In5D andBodyMindSoulSpirit. He hosts a weekly spiritual show on In5D Radio and promotes spiritual, metaphysical and esoteric conferences in the United States through In5dEvents. Gregg is currently working in collaboration withMichelle Walling, CHLC, in opening a holistic walk-in clinic called Alternative Holistic Healthcare (AHH) in Sarasota, FL with subsequent subsidiaries around the world based upon this model.


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WESSON Pearl River will be gunning for an MACJC state basketball championship repeat here Thursday against Mississippi Gulf Coast after the Wildcats eliminated the seventh-ranked East Mississippi Lions 61-52 in the state tournament semi-finals here Wednesday. South No. 2 seed PRCC will face off with South No. 1 MGCCC for the third time this season at 7:45 p.m. in Graydon L. Mullen Coliseum on the Copiah-Lincoln campus after the two arch-rivals split in their previous regular-season meetings. The Bulldogs defeated the Wildcats 82-77 Jan. 20 in Perkinston before The River pulled off a dominating 86-58 victory Feb. 14 in Poplarville. Gulf Coast will enter the title bout off a day rest as its Wednesday semi-final foe North No. 2 Mississippi Delta was ousted from the tournament after it was discovered the Trojans were playing an ineligible player. MGCCC got a forfeit win and a berth in the championship game. Twentieth-year Wildcat head coach Richard Mathis has won five MACJC champions 1995, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2010 since arriving on the Poplarville campus, as well as a men title at Northeast Mississippi and women championship at East Mississippi. Both the Wildcats and the Lions are 21-4 overall after Wednesday meeting. East Miss managed only two leads the entire game, while the score was knotted up five times in the first half. The Lions led for the first two minutes of the contest, but Pearl River went up 6-4 at the 15:59 mark and didnt relinquish its lead until EMCC Jonathan King sank a foul shot with just under five minutes left before the break to briefly put the Lions up 21-20. A minute later, Daron Bell of Bay High answered with one of his five treys on the night; kicking off a 9-2 run to put the Wildcats up 29-23 at the intermission. Troy University signee Emil Jones of North Forrest High sank a three with 12:25 left to give PRCC its first double-digit advantage at 41-31. The Wildcats built their lead to as much as 12 points three times in the second half its last at 61-49 with 1:27 left but EMCC took three trips to the foul line in the final minute to cut The River to nine as the game ended. Bell paced the Wildcats with a game-high 18 points (four steals), while Kentari Nettles out of LeFlore High in Mobile, Ala., added 15 (eight rebounds). Phillip Crawford out of Murphy High in Mobile, who was tagged with two fouls in the opening minute of the game and didnt return to the court until late in the first half, scored 13, Jones 11 (11 rebounds, six assists, three steals), and Calvin Johnson of Ridgeland High and LaKendrick Maye of Prentiss High, two each. Pedro Maciel, a Centenary College (La.) transfer who prepped at St. Stanislaus in Bay St. Louis, had six assists for the Wildcats. D.J. Evans led the Lions with 13 points, while Jonathan King scored 12 and hauled in a game-high 19 rebounds. Deonte Alexander added 10 (three steals), Deon Bedford seven, Donovan Walker six, and Millaun Brown four (11 rebounds). Pearl River hit 43.8percent (21 of 48) from the field to East Mississippi dismal 31.5 percent (17 of 54), while the Wildcats were six of 14 (42.9 percent) from three-point range to the Lions five-of-16 (31.3 percent) effort. PRCC was 13 of 19 (68.4 percent) at the foul line, while EMCC was 13 of 28 (67.5 percent). East Miss had a slight edge in the rebounding battle with 39 boards (15 offensive, 24 defensive) to Pearl River 38 (eight offensive, 30 defensive). In other action Wednesday, South No. 2 Jones County eliminated South No. 4 Mississippi Gulf Coast 72-59 to cop a berth in the women championship game against South No. 1 and tournament host Co-Lin, which defeated North No. 2 Itawamba 85-72. The women state championship game will tip off at 6 p.m.
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REO Speedwagon (originally styled as R.E.O. Speedwagon) is an American rock band. Formed in 1967, the band cultivated a following during the 1970s and achieved significant commercial success throughout the 1980s. Hi Infidelity (1980) contained four US Top 40 hits and is the group's best-selling album, with over ten million copies sold.
Over the course of its career, the band has sold more than 40 million records and has charted thirteen Top 40 hits, including the number ones "Keep On Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling". REO Speedwagon's mainstream popularity dissipated in the 1990s but the band remains a popular live act.


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Aug. 19, 2012— -- Diana Nyad is swimming her way back to America in a new attempt to become the first person to swim to Florida from Cuba without a shark cage.
Nyad, 62, started the 103-mile journey late Saturday night from Havana, Cuba, where she encountered box jellyfishes and has been stung at least four times already.
"Diana is swimming backstroke right now leading with the cap-covered part of her head to minimize contact. There are so many jellyfish..." a member of Nyad's team posted to her Twitter account.
Observer Steve Munatones said on Nyad's official blog that it will be a long, tough journey for the endurance swimmer.
"If this swim is the equivalent of five English Channels, and I think it is, in terms of time, she's just swum one English Channel, 25 percent of it backstroke," he wrote.
Nyad is still swimming at her regular pace of 50 stokes per minute.
"Today is more like swimming. I don't know what you would call last night ... probably surviving," Nyad said according to her blog.
Nyad ended her last attempt in September 2011 after more than 40 hours and 67 nautical miles of swimming, and two Portuguese Man-of-War stings.
"The medical team said I should not go another two nights in the water and risk additional likely Man-of-War stings which could have a long term cumulative effect on my body. But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line? This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues," Nyad called out to her flotilla of four escort boats from the water, according to her website at the time.
If she had completed that swim, she would have broken her 1979 record, when she swam 102.5 miles from the Bahamas to Florida.
ABC News' Enjoli Francis, Eric Noll, ABC News Radio and The Associated Press contributed to this story.


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As I reach the halfway point in my internship, things are beginning to pick up at Verité. Deadlines are rapidly approaching for some projects, while other projects are just being started. My fellow interns and I have finally become fully comfortable with our roles and responsibilities at Verité, and have learned how to manage our time surrounding those responsibilities.
I have lived in Amherst, MA, for the majority of my life, so I did not expect to experience it differently throughout the course of my internship. However, the research I have done this summer has altered how I view the world, including how I see my small hometown. After being at Verité, I have become more inclined to take into account the nature and extent of each individual's rights, specifically labor rights, whether I am buying produce from a local family farm or am buying food at a mega supermarket chain.
My emotions at the office are more dichotomous. On the one hand, I spend my time at work researching abhorrent topics such as child labor and human trafficking in an attempt to eventually contribute to the eradication of those human rights abuses. Read the 2016 Trafficking Report here
On the other hand, the people who surround me at Verité are not simply co-workers; rather, they are a community of people who provide one another with support—whether it is career-based or emotional. I am incredibly thankful to be surrounded by such genuinely good and caring people, who not only push me to learn new skills and information, but who also take the time to sit down with me and hash out any questions I may have.
I have found both similarities and differences in the world of work in comparison to university and academic life. The main similarity is that research plays a major part in both settings. However, in a university setting, the research goes into some kind of project or paper, which is demonstrative of my academic capabilities and displays what I have learned. In the world of work, my research is for other people. Rather than hoping to get a good grade, I am instead striving to help others. The effects of this research are more immediately impactful. When at school, if I lose focus or procrastinate, it is generally only myself who is affected by it. If I poorly managed my time at my internship, I would be guilty of negatively affecting many. At Verité, each individual comes together to form a community. We work together on projects and ideas, so losing focus is not an option if one wants to keep up. (Check out Verité's monthly newsletter!)
My time at Verité has allowed me to expand my skillset. This internship has been my first office job, so spending all my time at a computer has been an adjustment. Prior to Verité, I often had trouble managing multiple projects and tasks, and would become overwhelmed. However working in an office has taught me effective ways to organize myself and manage my time. While working in an office is not necessarily what I want to do in the future, it has been an important and valuable experience.
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MILWAUKEE – Matt Garza took a shutout into the seventh inning and Mark Reynolds hit a two-run homer, sending the Milwaukee Brewers to a 6-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Monday night.
Garza (3-4) scattered six hits over 6 1-3 scoreless innings against the team that brought him to the big leagues in 2006. The right-hander, signed to a $50 million, four-year deal as a free agent in the offseason, struck out eight and walked two for his first win since May 5.
Kyle Gibson (4-5) allowed four runs and six hits in six innings. Gibson has won just one of his last eight starts after winning his first three.
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Item No: ATMD-016
Size: life size or custom as your requirement
Material: Fiberglass
Color: custom as your requirement
MOQ: 1 Pcs ( Pls contact us for the accurate information)
Design: We also supply custom-made service based our cusotmers' requests
Package: Strong wooden crate with waterproof and shockproof foam inside
Advantage: Foundry Supplying Directly
This letters sculpture is full of vitality and colorful. Each letter has a different shape and size, and they are cleverly arranged
and stacked together to form a dazzling three-dimensional structure. Rainbow like colors sparkle in the sunlight, attracting
people's attention. The arrangement of letters seems to have no clear rules, which adds an abstract aesthetic that allows the
audience to freely associate and explain.
This colorful letter sculpture has multiple functions in decoration. Firstly, it is a striking focal point suitable for use in public
spaces, art exhibitions, or urban landscapes, attracting people's attention and adding an artistic atmosphere to the environment.
Secondly, it represents creativity and diversity, conveying information about the diversity of culture, language, and art. Most
importantly, this sculpture evokes people's thinking about words, communication, and expression, triggering deep thinking and dialogue.
Colored letter sculptures are made of fiberglass, which allows them to exhibit color stability in outdoor environments. Producers are
free to choose the color, shape, and arrangement of the letters. Sculpture has a high degree of creative freedom and can be customized
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display needs. We still has Stainless Steel Letters for you choose from.
|Step1 Design Communication:
|You supply us with several photographs with dimensions.
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|We will make 1:1 clay, or 3D mold,when finished mold,we will take photos for your reference, the mold can modify any details till you're satisfied with it
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|Step 6: Polish the surface and patina
|polish the surface of statue and paint or electroplate the color as you want
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1. Are you a factory or trading company?
We have our own sculpture foundry (factory), we make clay mold and cast all in our own factory. Our customers are always welcomed to visit us for communicating and inspection
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our custom-made service range includes design, size and surface color. we are also specialized in custom statues, pls click here to see our custom statue projects.
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Yes, we do accept retail order. Half of our customers are private customers. Our sales team and service team have gathered rich experience in serving private customers.There is minimum order quantity, but as we all know, the more you order the better prices you will get.
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Our price is decided by the design, size and quality level, contact us the first time, our sales team will provide you with professional quotation sheet, where you will find all related information you need.
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Before we quote, we usually have to collect related information such as the design you like, its dimension and stone color. It is better if you can supply us with all related information . If you can not, it is also no problem. Our sales team will have you to decide or just directly send you detailed quotation with our recommended information according to your usage.
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1) Our common-used of payment term is 30% amount paid by T/T as advance payment; the balance should also be paid by T/T after buyer's inspection and before shipment.
2) For customized order, the advance payment should be 50%.
8. How long it will take for production and delivery?
Usually 30-45 days for production and 15-30 days for delivery.
9. What's the production process of your products?
1) For some marble sculpture, before its carving, we may need to make a clay mold and then turn it into resin mold. Our carvers will carve the marble sculpture according to the resin mold.
2) Most of marble carvings do not need a mold, so their production process is simple, Block cutting → Rough Carving → Details Carving → Trial Installation → Adjustment Carving → Finishing → Packing.
3) For bronze sculpture, its production process is more complicated Clay mold → Gypsum mold → Wax mold → Sand mold→ Bronze casting → Welding → Polishing → Patina → Packing.
4) About Stainless steel sculptures, as for mostly made by forging, their production process is simple. Structures → Wrap Stainless steel board → Welding → Polishing → Packing
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1) We have strict purchasing system to assure good quality of marble being used for your order.
2) We have professional quality supervision staff to control the quality, the pictures will be sent to you to confirm every 2 or 3 day.
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1) Usually we don't supply installation service, but the installation manual will be sent to you along with your goods. With our installation manual, it will be very easy for your workers to install.
2) For large projects, such as large size bronze sculpture and large stainless steel sculptures, if customer need us to install on site, we can also send our workers to installation place, but the customer has to prepare any necessary tools. Of course, we will communicate with our customer what we need
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We can supply door-to-door delivery to most countries around the world. Please contact us to confirm how many days and how much it may take.
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1) Sea Shipping: this is the most common used way by the clients, which is the cheapest way and will take 30-45days.
2) Express: this is the fastest way, usually it will just take 3-7days, but the cost will a little high.
3) Railway: this way is more suitable for some inland area , such as Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Russia etc.
14. Is your transportation safe?
There are ways for us to protect your sculpture 1) very strong and professional shipping packaging 2) Full insurance.


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Looking at the excellent Julia manual, it becomes clear that Julia is a descendant of Common Lisp. While Common Lisp has many detractors (and not entirely without reason), nobody can claim that the family of languages it spawned aren't well designed. On the contrary, languages like NewtonScript, Dylan, [Cecil and Diesel,] Goo, PLOT, and now Julia all have a hard to grasp quality without a name that makes them an improvement over many of their successors.
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(NECN/NBC News: Tracie Potts, Washington) - It's shaping up to be a busy week in Washington - guns, confirmations, and the debt ceiling all on the agenda.
Technically, we already hit the debt ceiling last month, but the administration put off some retirement and disability payments to keep things afloat while congress deals with that, and a push for more gun control.
With inaugural rehearsals underway, the NRA and lawmakers are weighing in on whether congress will pass a ban on assault weapons.
"The likelihood is that they are not going to be able to get an assault weapons ban through this Congress," said NRA President, David Keene.
"Stand alone ban on just gun alone will not in the political reality that we have today will not go anywhere," said Senator Joe Manchin, (D) West Virginia.
Vice President Biden's sitting down with cabinet members Monday to finalize recommendations he would present Tuesday.
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Also ahead: Senate confirmation hearings... With Democrats and Republicans still troubled by Defense Nominee Chuck Hagel's views on Iran and israel.
"These are legitimate questions that need to be asked," said Senator John McCain, (R) Arizona.
"Chuck Hagel is a solid guy who speaks his mind. He is a good supporter of Israel. He has been there and the record will show that but he is not reluctant to disagree when he thinks disagreement is appropriate," said Former Secretary of State, Colin Powell.
The House is back Monday. They'll soon have to make decisions on whether America can borrow more money.
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Muslim review of "The Passion"
The Pros; The draw to this film for me was unavoidable, I have strongly admired Mel Gibson since listening to his surprisingly intelligent commentary on the DVD "Brave Heart" which he heroically directed and starred in.
The attraction to "The Passion" was also strong because in a somewhat sadistic way, I wanted to see all the hype about this film causing a crack in the Jewish-Christian relationship (which is natural I believe since the two groups have been ganging up on Muslims for some time now).
The third magnetism of this film was Jesus himself (who is so important to so many people). Although it is a sin in Islam to see graven images of Prophets, I have been raised in America, thus it is a sin I commit having been most recently impressed by Martin Scorsese's "The last temptation of Christ".
I am considered in some circles as a comparison religion scholar and as such, I have been called to and prayed for to accept Christ much more than the average neighbor. I have felt the spirits in Churches and once in a while, the images of Jesus pops up in front of me, all I attribute to the hundreds of Christian scholars I've debated, and who pray for Jesus to enter my heart, and I do believe there is power in those prayers, similar to a clairvoyant conjuring the dead.
Of course as a Muslim, it is very easy to reject Trinity, but "the Passion" ambushes a skeptic from an altogether different angle. Mel Gibson's selective explanation of Salvation through Christ was more powerful and more clear then any Christian scholar I've encountered (and I've dialoged with Presidents of Christian Universities such as Norman Geisler). Jesus is not referred to as God at all, (so your defenses are bypassed), instead Jesus is portrayed as a beautiful volunteer to carry our burdens.
Yes, some parts were so real, I felt I was looking at Prophet Jesus and yes, I sobbed a few times through the film, which is unavoidable even for a non-Christian to see the pain and suffering of another human paralleled to his mother (Mary) watching her son suffer as well.
Other positive parts of the film were that it was in Aramaic, which if you can speak Arabic, you can understand several words in the film, and one part I was taken aback on was Jesus predicting Prophet Muhammad by saying 'the helper will come to teach you about "Allah"' (the Arabic/Aramaic name for God) [Although the overly censored subtitles did not say God, I understood].
I also feel this film will be a good thing for the exterior stereotypes of Muslim men and women. The image of Muslim men; because Jesus is portrayed as a dark haired brown eyed man, as well as his companions, so the myth of a blond haired and blue eyed Jesus is dispelled. Furthermore, it was surprising that Jews in those days wore Islamic caps similar to Muslims today. For the Muslim women, this film reaffirms what modern Christians have evolved into denying, that Mary, the mother of Jesus, wore a veil as well. I would not be surprised if some Christian women revert to wearing veils after this film.
The last constructive aspect of this film is that those who were causing the graphic pain to Jesus were so demonized, that this film may very well lower the rate of violence nationwide. Yes, the message of love was clear in this film as Jesus prayed for his persecutors.
The Cons; Although I went in wanting to see a clean boxing match between Jews and Christians, instead it was overly demonizing Jews, in a "cursing to damnation of Hell" manner, where Judas is chased by demons into his suicide for betraying Jesus and the Jews are surrounded by engulfing fire images after sentencing Jesus to death.
Although I look forward to listening to Gibson's commentary when the DVD of "the Passion" is released, I would barely be able to stomach or tolerate seeing a man forced to bleed for nearly 2 hours again. The graphic violence added a powerful emphasis on the message like no other Christian film before it, but I believe can be emotionally and perhaps psychologically distressing if viewed more than once.
Lastly, as a Muslim who is active in inviting Jews and Christians to Islam, I believe overall this film is Satanic, yet with the most sincere and divine intentions. As the devil was tempting Jesus throughout the film to loose his faith in God, this film too was tempting to loose my sins in Christ. As we all carry sins, this film was a major invitation to unload your weight on Jesus, as Jesus volunteered to be tortured for our sins in this film so that we don't incur the torture in Hell.
It is also very tempting to dump garbage in someone else's property, to blame others for our actions, or to avoid liability. Instead, I will bear my own sins and be accountable for the good and bad I have done in this brief life, and not scapegoat Jesus as I have witnessed why it is so easy to do. Mel Gibson has made the best effort I've seen to show how Jesus loved us and died for the sins of the world, and although it is a enchanting thought, it only adds sins to this world because Christians no longer feel responsibility, which is what the Devil wants. Amen.
Mohamed Ghounem is the founder of Jews for Allah and author of200+ Ways the Quran Corrects the Bible.


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