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Women who report sexual violence on college campuses seldom see their accused attackers arrested and almost never see them convicted, according to a Tribune survey of several Midwestern universities.
The survey of six schools in Illinois and Indiana found that police investigated 171 reported sex crimes since fall 2005, with 12 resulting in arrests and four in convictions. Only one of the convictions stemmed from a student-on-student attack, the most common type of assault.
The rate of arrests and convictions is far below the average for rapes reported nationally.
The trend leaves untold number of college women feeling betrayed and vulnerable, believing that their allegations are not taken seriously. The Tribune's findings also raise fresh questions about the way college administrators and law enforcement officials handle the allegations, even as the Obama administration calls attention to the issue with a series of initiatives and investigations aimed at better protecting students from sex crimes.
Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights in the U.S. Department of Education, said the Tribune's findings are in keeping with anecdotal evidence her office has gathered from victims.
"I say this, albeit, with a very heavy and saddened heart," Ali said. "These kinds of data are illustrative of the disturbing and alarming trend we are seeing across this country."
For its survey, the Tribune selected public and private colleges with varying student enrollments in Illinois and Indiana. The Tribune compiled its information from crime data that campuses are required to report under federal law, and then checked with college administrators, prosecutors and others to obtain arrest and conviction information.
Three of the six schools surveyed by the Tribune had zero convictions from their 63 reported cases. For instance, the University of Notre Dame has had 34 reported sex crimes during the last six school years with four arrests and no convictions, and Northwestern University had 21 reported cases with no arrests or convictions at its main campus in Evanston.
Indiana University has seen only one conviction from its 69 allegations of sexual attacks reported to police during that time period. On Thursday, a Monroe County judge accepted Hai Yu's guilty plea to sexual battery and criminal confinement, making him the only one convicted of a student-on-student sex crime in the Tribune survey.
The university's numbers do not surprise Margaux Janda, a suburban Chicago woman who accused a fellow Indiana student of rape after she had a night of drinking in 2006. Police declined to press charges against her alleged attacker; the university eventually suspended him for a year.
Though the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights investigated her complaint during the Bush administration and found that the university acted "promptly and appropriately," Janda still left the school rather than share a campus with the man.
"Part of me wonders why someone would even bother making a report," she said. "What's the point in going to police if they don't do anything about it? It almost makes me feel worse."
Kim Lonsway, director of research for the nonprofit group End Violence Against Women International, worries that low arrest and prosecution rates could discourage future victims from coming forward, leaving them with the impression that reporting a sex crime is pointless and only serves to cause further pain and humiliation.
"If you're a parent or student looking at those numbers, it suggests rapists can commit their crimes with impunity," she said.
The Department of Education currently is investigating a number of colleges for how they have handled sex offense reports, including Yale University, Ohio State University and Notre Dame. The department began looking into the pre-eminent Catholic university in November following a Tribune story about a student who killed herself shortly after telling campus police that a male student there sexually attacked her.
The department this year also began a new initiative to push educators, police and others to aggressively pursue reports of sexual violence on campuses, where nearly 1 in 5 women will be a victim of an attempted or actual sexual assault during their college careers, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
By their very nature, campus sex crimes are difficult cases to investigate and prosecute. They often involve alcohol and conflicting accounts on whether the physical interaction was consensual, making it difficult for law enforcement to sort out the truth.
About 1 in every 4 rapes reported nationally results in an arrest, statistics show. Of those arrested, about 62 percent are convicted, according to a Justice Department study. The FBI, which annually compiles crime statistics, does not track arrest and conviction rates for sex offenses on college campuses.
The Tribune's analysis found that at the six Midwestern universities surveyed, law enforcement made one arrest for about every 14 alleged sex crimes — including rape, attempted rape, sexual battery and sodomy — reported on campus. The conviction rate of those arrested was 33 percent.
Roger Canaff, a former prosecutor who now trains and advises military prosecutors on how to handle sex crimes, said he believes that the newspaper's numbers mirror arrest and conviction rates at other colleges and universities.
"Unfortunately, I think you'd find the same thing at campuses across the country," Canaff said. "It's something that needs to be changed, but it's not an easy fix."
Society compounds the problem with antiquated views about what constitutes a sex crime and who commits it, experts said. The public — and therefore potential jurors — is generally comfortable with the idea of convicting a masked rapist jumping out of a dark alley. It's harder, they said, to convict a clean-cut college student of assaulting a classmate after a night of drinking.
It's against that backdrop that prosecutors and detectives decide whether to move forward with a case. Their hesitance often is reflected in police investigations, where victims say they frequently feel like they must prove their innocence.
"It's not so much that successful convictions cannot be obtained; it's just that these crimes are complex and require enhanced awareness and training given the dynamics involved," said Gary Margolis, managing partner at Margolis Healy & Associates, which focuses on higher education safety.
The University of Illinois at Chicago noted in a 2010 report to the federal government that "it has been very difficult to get sexual assault cases" prosecuted by the Cook County state's attorney's office. UIC filed the report as part of a federal grant program to reduce dating violence and sexual assaults on college campuses.
Rebecca Gordon, director of UIC's Women's Leadership Resource Center and the Campus Advocacy Network, said the state's attorney's office has not prosecuted a single sexual assault that occurred on campus during the last six years — a fact confirmed by prosecutors.
"It has been very challenging," she said. "Our police are aggressive. We don't have a problem with our police making arrests."
The Tribune asked UIC police June 6 for their arrest numbers, but the university has not yet provided them. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provided the data for its campus.
Gordon said UIC staff, police and county prosecutors will be undergoing additional advanced training this month on investigating and prosecuting "alcohol-facilitated" sexual assault cases.
"We're making progress," she said. "I can't say we have gotten any more cases through felony review, but they are aware of the issues."
Sally Daly, spokeswoman for Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, said prosecutors do not treat campus sexual attacks differently than any other sexual assault case in deciding whether to file charges.
"Non-stranger sexual assault investigations are among the most challenging to effectively prosecute because there is often a relationship between the individuals, the use of alcohol might be involved, and there are typically no witnesses to the incident," Daly said.
"Even if UIC perceives that there are challenges in this process, our response has been to work with university officials to enhance communication and make them aware of the factors that must be considered when reviewing a case and what evidence prosecutors need, not just to charge a sexual assault case but also to ensure that the case can be prosecuted effectively," she said.
At Illinois State University, police handled 20 reported sex offenses, but the victims in slightly less than half of those cases declined to press charges, records show.
Rather than endure police investigations, some students have pursued the matters with their universities' administrations. As part of a two-tiered justice system offered at colleges and universities nationwide, administrative hearings provide students with a private, less demanding counterpart to the criminal justice system — though national studies suggest women who opt for the internal process face disappointing outcomes nearly as often as those who go through law enforcement.
ISU police Chief Aaron Woodruff said victims sometimes decline to move forward at all because they are concerned about seeing the offender around campus or fear being ostracized by friends who know him.
"You will see in our cases that the victims themselves don't wish to prosecute and don't want to relive the experience," he said. "There are a lot of social issues because they know the acquaintances. … It can affect a lot of their friendships and other things in their lives."
Woodruff said campus officers take every reported sexual assault seriously and conduct aggressive investigations.
While investigating a 2007 rape allegation, police used an "eavesdropping device" to secretly record a conversation between the victim and the suspect, records show. Woodruff said the use of such equipment is rare because it relies on the victim's willingness to participate.
"You are basically asking them to confront the offender, and if they are not willing, we will not force them," he said.
At Notre Dame, four people have been arrested during the last six school years for sex crimes, three on misdemeanor charges and one felony rape. Eventually, charges were dropped against the defendants in all four cases.
Dennis Brown, the university's spokesman, said campus police sent another 16 cases to the prosecutor's office during that time, but the St. Joseph County, Ind., prosecutor's office declined to bring charges.
"Our sincere hope is that in every case of sexual misconduct, justice will prevail — that those who are guilty face appropriate punishment and those who have been violated find hope and healing," Brown said.
St. Joseph Prosecutor Michael Dvorak told the Tribune that in many college cases, students file police reports in good faith but do not understand what rises to the level of a sex offense. In a lot of cases, he said, the women do not realize that rape means the victim was compelled to submit by force or threat of force.
Though Indiana statutes also state an individual cannot knowingly consent to having sex if they're drunk, Dvorak said students must reach a high level of intoxication before any sexual activity crosses that criminal threshold. He has seen rape reports in which students say they had "two or three beers and then were talked into having sex," but he does not consider that a crime under the law, he said.
"We want to prosecute people who rape women. And we have," he said. "But college campuses present a unique set of challenges. The students are drinking and doing things at night that they normally wouldn't do when class gets out at 3:30 in the afternoon. But those ingredients, per se, don't mean that a rape has occurred."
Some families and victim advocates, however, have taken issue with how Notre Dame police and Dvorak's office respond to and investigate sexual attacks on the South Bend campus. They have criticized the agencies for, among other things, failing to gather key evidence, not trying to build winnable cases and waiting more than a week to interview suspects.
The Tribune earlier recounted the frustrations of Tom and Mary Seeberg, a suburban Chicago couple, and of an East Coast family who said Notre Dame failed to adequately investigate their daughters' allegations last school year. The Seebergs' daughter, Elizabeth "Lizzy" Seeberg, killed herself nine days after reporting to police that she was sexually attacked.
Dvorak declined to file charges in both cases.
After reading about those cases, another woman, a 21-year-old St. Mary's College student, spoke with the Tribune about her experience. Her story is reminiscent of many reported sex offenses on college campuses, as it involves another student, alcohol and an alleged sexual attack that resulted in no arrest.
The woman and other witnesses say she had passed out in a male friend's room at Notre Dame after she and her date had been kicked out of a social event at nearby St. Mary's for being intoxicated. She said she awoke a few hours later to find a third male student — who did not live in the room — on top of her. He then took her to his own room, where she says she tried to fight off the attack until she passed out again.
A friend later found her with blood running down her legs in a dormitory hallway, according to interviews and documents reviewed by the Tribune.
The woman reported the incident to campus police two days later and consented to a DNA test done at a local hospital.
She quickly began to have doubts about having gone to police, she said. Witnesses submitted written statements via email, but campus police never questioned them face to face, those witnesses said. Her alleged attacker told school officials that she had been the aggressor and he had woken up in a room that wasn't his own to find her kissing him, a document shows.
Authorities declined to file charges, and Notre Dame administrators cleared the alleged attacker of any wrongdoing through the school's disciplinary process.
The male student said in an email to the Tribune that the accusations caused him "great pain given my unblemished record."
"Through a very thorough and detailed process, it was confirmed on several levels that allegations levied against me were unfounded and without merit," he said.
The woman's father called the Rev. Thomas Doyle, a high-ranking Notre Dame administrator, to express his anger. After listening to his concerns, Doyle suggested they pray together over the telephone, the father said.
"We're as Catholic as they come," the woman's mother said. "But are you serious? Pray on this? That was not good enough."
The woman now wonders if she should have ever reported the incident to police. An estimated 95 percent of college students who are victimized do not report sexual-related crimes to law enforcement, according to a study funded by the Justice Department.
"It's a long, painful process, and in the end, nothing happened," she said. "The only way a boy would be guilty is if he said, 'Oh, yes, I did rape her.'"
Women who report sexual violence on college campuses seldom see their accused attackers arrested and almost never see them convicted, according to a Tribune survey of several Midwestern universities.


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Here is the blogtalk link for the 5th July show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/matrixfile ... body-intel
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I will go over the nuggets of gold for the last two weeks.
Then we will get right into the topic of today's show. We have Elrisse back on today and she will be answering questions and talking about the Body's Intelligence.
The Body itself has 75 trillion cells, or thereabouts, and each of these cells has an intelligence that 'looks after it'. There are also more senior intelligences that look after a particular part of the body. Elrisse will be talking about this discovery and how this discovery can be utilized by anyone who is willing to start consciously communicating with their own body.
You really have no idea who you are or what your potenial is until you start to learn about these little beings who actually run your body and keep you healthy and functioning properly (and even then it can be a long road to getting to know yourself). Your relationship to these intelligences or little beings can be greatly enhanced if you apply what you learn after listening to this show.
You will learn many things about your body that some scientists are starting to observe and many spiritual people and body workers are also tuning into in different ways.
This is a show dedicated to each and every one of your own amazing Body Intelligences and the beings that try and keep the body functioning properly.
They need your conscious help now with all the attacks that are being directed at them (chemtrails, fluoride, poisoned or low quality food, poisoned or low quality water, poisoned or poor quality air, electronic/EMF attacks, artificial radiation, etc).
Tune in and have a great learning experience!
Nuggets of Gold
- We created the Body Intelligence a very long time ago to be a chauffeur for the body, so to speak.
- The 10,000 beings are the management team for the body overseeing the 75 trillion or so cells.
- Chiropractors and alternative therapists are very aware of the fact that the body speaks to them.
- A lot of 'stuff' has happened to the body intelligence which can make it difficult for us, the humans, to live.
- Plenty of sleep is crucial.
- Body Talk is like a surgical knife - very precise.
- When dealing with your body intelligence, put aside your ego, your judging and your agendas - be able to listen, acknowledge and be there.
- The optimum way of living is to spread out and not be living in cities.
- Not following your body's requests or needs can make you end up dead.
- 3 maintenance cycles have to happen before a repair cycle can occur.
- If you can't sleep, get up and go take a walk outside and look at things even though its dark, then come back and go to bed.
- There is actually a shortage of bodies on this planet.
- Anti-Social people have no understanding of the consequences that they create.
- Michael Jackson was a light bearer, or Being of Light.
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Bruce Lipton - Bruce H. Lipton, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. Stem cell biologist, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief and recipient of the 2009 Goi Peace Award, he has been a guest speaker on hundreds of TV and radio shows, as well as keynote presenter for national and international conferences.
Body Talk - BodyTalk is a simple, safe and astonishingly effective system of integrative health care. BodyTalk is a holistic approach to healing, based on proven principles of energy medicine. The body is a complex ecosystem with a delicate balance between physiological biochemical functions, emotional and mental interactions, environmental influences, and hereditary and genetic restrictions. BodyTalk helps synchronize the body's natural functions - to achieve and maintain healing and growth on all levels: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
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E-cigarette use should be banned on domestic flights and those to or from the United States, seven US senators said on Tuesday in a letter urging the Department of Transportation to finalize rules proposed almost three years ago.
"While many major carriers have decided to prohibit the use of electronic cigarettes, federal regulations still allow these products to be used during flight," the lawmakers, all Democrats, wrote to Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.
Regulators first proposed a ban on "vaping" on US flights in September 2011.
At the time, the DOT noted that releasing a "vapour that may contain harmful substances or respiratory irritants in a confined space, especially to those who are at a higher risk, is contrary to the purpose and intent of the statutory and regulatory ban on smoking aboard aircraft."
In their letter to Foxx, the senators included examples of advertisements that feature or imply the use of electronic cigarettes on airplanes.
"Numerous electronic cigarette companies have marketed their products as offering the freedom to break the rules or smoke in places where traditional cigarettes are banned, such as airplanes," the senators wrote.
Signing on to the letter were Barbara Boxer of California, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Tom Harkin of Iowa, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Jack Reed of Rhode Island and Edward Markey of Massachusetts.
Separately, the American Medical Association, the nation's largest physician organisation, adopted on Tuesday a new policy backing stricter limits on the sales and marketing practices used by the makers of electronic cigarettes.
In addition to restrictions on the sale and marketing of e-cigarettes to minors, the AMA said it supports child-proof and tamper-proof packaging and design, enhanced product labeling, and restrictions on flavors that appeal to minors, like tutti-frutti and chocolate.
It also backed prohibition of unsupported marketing claims that the products can be used as smoking cessation tools.
In April, the US Food and Drug Administration proposed rules that would ban the sale of e-cigarettes to people under the age of 18, but would not restrict flavored products, online sales or advertising.
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said at the time that the proposals represented the first "foundational" step towards broader restrictions if scientific evidence shows they are needed to protect public health.


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Jazz is surely a music of improvisation. But its history of in-the-moment inspiration runs parallel with that of the songs that (usually) provide a runway for those flights of improvisation.
An ambitious event at Berklee College of Music, billed as a symposium and concert series, will take a look at the current state of jazz composition. A long list of guest artists will be on hand to explore the topic from all angles. Beginning on Tuesday and running for six days, it offers a generous series of panel discussions, musical demonstrations, lectures, and full-on concerts. Most events are free, though attendees are asked to register in advance on Berklee's website.
Pianist/composer Eric Gould, who joined the Berklee faculty in 2012 as chair of its jazz composition department, conceived of and programmed the event. "Jazz and the rest of the music industry is in a period of rethinking. A lot of what we're doing is basically taking the pulse right now of what is happening in jazz in America and beyond," he says. "The music is evolving, the culture is evolving, the industry is evolving. How are we responding to it?"
It can be hard to separate improvisation from composition in jazz. There's a whole category of swing and bebop classics built on "rhythm changes" — melodic improvisations played over the well-known chord changes of George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm."
Nor is there only one way to be ambitious about jazz composition. Louis Armstrong's greatest songs are admired for their concise emotional wallop; Duke Ellington took advantage of the LP format to write extensively detailed song suites. A younger artist like Darcy James Argue is busy these days updating a tightly choreographed big-band style with contemporary sounds, while Ambrose Akinmusire is exploring how to integrate string sections with the freewheeling openness of a small jazz combo — and taking cues from Chick Corea's efforts in that direction decades ago.
Don Was, the bassist and producer who became president of Blue Note Records in 2012, will give the keynote address of the Berklee event on Thursday. He says he's encouraged to see the school approaching jazz composition from such an inquisitive angle.
"The danger with what they do is that they could be teaching: This is how it's done, this is what a jazz composition is. And that by definition is not a jazz composition, if you figure that improvisation and change are fundamental to the music," Was says. "I love the fact that they basically have a symposium that makes the point that the rules are there to be broken, and that you must adapt to and reflect your times, and bring who you are to it."
The State of Jazz Composition Symposium and Concert Series will drill down into specific areas — like incorporating strings into jazz, the future of large ensembles, and writing for film. The schedule runs the gamut from formal concerts by Terence Blanchard (April 27) and the Maria Schneider Orchestra (April 26) at Berklee Performance Center (among the few events with an admission fee), to a musical demonstration by pianist Geri Allen (April 24) in the intimate Cafe 939 and a lecture by rising pianist Vijay Iyer called "The Biological Foundations of Music: Embodied Cognition, Empathy, and Listening" (April 22).
The perspectives on jazz composition to be shared will likely be as varied as the experiences of the symposium's many participants.
Pianist Billy Childs, who records with a 10-piece group (including string quartet) he calls the Jazz Chamber Ensemble, says there is ample room these days to explore the overlap between jazz and European classical styles. He'll sit on a few panels, and give a quartet performance at the David Friend Recital Hall on Thursday.
"I think there are many more composers that are using string quartet in jazz situations. By the same token," he says, "there are a lot more string players who can improvise like jazz musicians. And you have jazz musicians who can read anything too, like classical musicians. So it's kind of going both ways."
Childs says younger musicians today enter the professional world with a greater technical skill than was once the case. "I got my master's degree learning on the bandstand. Now it's shifted away from the mentor system to where the place you learn is in schools. As a result, it's a very trained group of new jazz artists."
Allen's work has ranged from recordings with free-jazz icon Ornette Coleman to composition commissions from the likes of Jazz at Lincoln Center. She also notes the technical skill of young musicians coming through the ranks of music schools, and says they're continuing to advance the global reach of jazz. "These young people have a very solid preparation but also an open-mindedness about collaboration. There's a global accessibility, and openness to many ideas about music-making from different cultural perspectives," she says.
For his part, Gould insists the state of jazz composition is strong.
"I think there are some extremely encouraging things happening out there. The music is very much alive and well."
But that still leaves plenty to talk about — and listen to.
Jeremy D. Goodwin can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @jeremydgoodwin.


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Pentagon, industry seek answers on issue that grounded F-35B
Pentagon and industry officials worked through the weekend to determine what caused the failure of a fuel line on the Marine Corps version of Lockheed Martin Corp's s F-35 fighter jet that prompted the plane's grounding on Friday.
A spokesman for Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp that builds the engines for the jets, said those involved included officials from Stratoflex, a unit of Parker Hannifin Corp that built the fuel line.
No comment was immediately available from Stratoflex.
Joe DellaVedova, spokesman for the Pentagon's F-35 program office, said on Tuesday it was too soon to say when the short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) model of the radar-evading new jet could return to flight, since the investigation was continuing.
"We'll return the STOVL variant to flight once any causal and contributing factors are understood and mitigated," he said.
The Pentagon's F-35 program office announced the grounding of all 25 F-35B model jets on Friday after a fuel line associated with the B-model's exhaust system failed prior to takeoff during a training flight.
The fuel line in question enables movement of the exhaust system, a weight-saving innovation that replaces traditional hydraulics.
The incident came just days after the Pentagon's director of testing and evaluation released an 18-page report detailing an array of problems which he said underscored the "lack of maturity" of the $396 billion fighter program.
A team of experts first examined the failed part at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, where the incident occurred during a training flight on January 16, and then headed to the East Hartford, Connecticut plant where Pratt & Whitney builds engines for the jets.
DellaVedova said it was unclear if the incident would have any impact on the busy flight test schedule for the new warplane, but said a recent restructuring of the program had added time to the schedule to address any issues that arose during testing.
"We now have a program that has resiliency built into it," DellaVedova said. "That was the whole point of the rebaselining."
Matthew Bates, spokesman for Pratt & Whitney's military engines division, said investigators worked "diligently" through the holiday weekend, along with officials from Stratoflex.
Lockheed is building three different models of the F-35 fighter jet for the U.S. military and eight countries that helped pay for its development: Britain, Canada, Italy, Turkey, Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia and Norway.
The Pentagon plans to buy 2,443 of the warplanes in coming decades, although many analysts believe U.S. budget constraints and deficits will eventually reduce that overall number.
(Reporting By Andrea Shalal-Esa; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)


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If you're an athlete based in Asia, a wealth of convenient races awaits. If you live elsewhere, this translates to exciting international adventures and memories to last a lifetime. Regardless of what draws you to racing in Asia, you'll find venues rich with culture and tradition, undeniable natural beauty, warm and welcoming locals, and to-die-for food.
But which Asia race is best for you? It depends on a number of factors—logistics like the date and course, as well as the attributes that give each event its unique "oomph."
Is the swim in a lake or in the ocean? Is the water generally calm? Are the bike and run flat and fast, or hilly and hard? Is the climate hot and humid? (Let's be real—in Asia, the answer is always "yes.") Is it a new race, or is it an iconic favorite? How many slots are available to world championship events? Lastly, what makes each venue stand out in terms of natural beauty, cultural interest, and post-race fun?
We've put together a list and slideshow above to help you choose which race might suit you best. But first, let us share some tips on preparing for and racing well in Asia's trademark heat and humidity.
Racing in Asia: Humidity and heat
If you live in the Asia-Pacific region, you automatically have a leg up on your European and North American competitors. If you live and train in a cool or temperate climate, racing in heat and humidity may cause you to struggle. Here's my take on how to beat Asia's unique sort of heat, and why I actually enjoy traveling from my arid mountain home to race there.
There's something oddly special about racing in sweltering conditions. It's tough, no doubt—but nobody said triathlon should be easy. You sweat so much in hot, humid conditions that you literally leave a part of yourself on the course. You feel gross, gritty and oh-so-accomplished by the time you reach the finish. You dig deeper than deep. And that, after all, is what most of us aim for in our IRONMAN experience.
While you're not likely to clock a PR while running in a sauna, here's the deal: the race, and the run in particular, becomes a battle of attrition. Athletes will struggle, slowing to a walk or a stop. It's your job to try not to be one of them. Here's how: Just keep moving. I repeat: just keep moving. Make that your mantra. Jog if you have to, but move steadily ahead. And as you move, keep hydrating and cooling. I mean, drink everything you can get your hands on at each and every aid station, more than you think you need to. Stuff ice down your top and shorts, all the while moving forward.
Do that, and you're pretty likely to do A-OK. You may not reach the finish quite as fast as you hope, but you'll reach it—in all your gross, gritty, oh-so-accomplished glory.
Now, onto the races.
IRONMAN 70.3 Taiwan, Taitung, Taiwan
Winner of the 2016 IRONMAN 70.3 Athletes' Choice "Will Attend Next Year" Award, IRONMAN 70.3 Taiwan offers plenty for athletes and spectators to love. The artsy, outdoorsy, laid-back atmosphere of coastal Taitung makes for a perfect holiday venue; this mini city is a favorite getaway for Taiwanese and tourists alike. The swim in the crystal-clear water of Flowing Lake is calm and low-stress. The bike traverses a flat, scenic stretch of coastline, passing pineapple fields and panoramic vistas. And the run leads athletes through two flat loops of lush Forest Park, where you'll be energized by throngs of fans cheering, "Jaiyo! Jaiyo!"
IRONMAN Taiwan, Penghu, Taiwan
Penghu, also known as the Pescadores, welcomes IRONMAN Taiwan for the second time in 2017. Penghu is a group of islands often referred to as "pearls scattered on the sea," and with good reason; the archipelago is known for its natural beauty, including sandy beaches and unusual coral and lava rock formations. Glorious temples and traditional fishing villages add to Penghu's allure. The two-loop ocean swim is broken up by a brief beach run in between laps. The three-loop bike course climbs several short hills, with stunning scenery to soothe any pain. A highlight of the hilly run is historic Bei Ji Temple, which you'll pass on each of two loops.
IRONMAN 70.3 Vietnam, Danang, Vietnam
Flat and fast racing, plus an award-winning after party, await athletes in Danang (the 2016 race won the IRONMAN Athlete's Choice Best Post-Race Celebration Award). The ocean swim takes place off a pristine white sand beach. Athletes will fly through the flat, two-loop bike on smooth, well-paved roads. The equally flat out-and-back run hugs the beachfront in Danang's resort area. And if a stunning coastal race and off-the-charts celebration are not enough to entice you, the charm and history of Hoi An Ancient Town, the Imperial City of Hue, and the My Son ruins—three nearby UNESCO World Heritage Sites—will surely seal the deal.
IRONMAN 70.3 Bintan, Bintan, Indonesia
Easily accessible from Singapore, Bintan fulfills every dream of an island paradise: beautiful beaches, luxurious resorts, world-class golf, a variety of water sports, and a hard-earned IRONMAN finish line. IRONMAN 70.3 Bintan, winner of the 2016 IRONMAN Athlete's Choice Award for Overall Satisfaction, starts in a protected bay in the South China Sea, with water that's as warm and clear as a pool. The rolling bike course takes athletes on a tour of the island to see tiny villages, dense green forest, and spectacular coastal views. The new two-loop run is flat and spectator-friendly. A trip to beachy Bintan, including a stopover in bustling Singapore, gives athletes the best of both worlds in a single race experience.
IRONMAN 70.3 Thailand, Phuket, Thailand
Phuket, home of Asia's first triathlon more than two decades ago, continues its iconic endurance sport history with IRONMAN 70.3 Thailand. The venue is known and loved among triathlon athletes and fans, with a few new changes that make the race more competitive than ever. Athletes rave about the buoyant, crystal-clear water off Bangtao Beach, which now hosts the entire single-loop swim course. The bike course is relieved of its previously quad-crushing climbs, instead enjoying a fast, flat, out-and-back route, with a unique dismount to twice traverse a highway overpass. The two-loop run covers the luxurious Laguna Phuket resort property, and is sure to be packed with warm smiles and support from triathlon-loving locals. Beyond the race, Phuket offers a range of sights, sounds, and distinct flavors that make a trip to Thailand a bucket-list event.
IRONMAN 70.3 Langkawi, Langkawi, Malaysia
New in 2017, IRONMAN 70.3 Langkawi offers a half-distance option as part of the IRONMAN Malaysia race that countless athletes already adore. A picturesque ocean swim precedes a challenging bike, which covers a cross-section of Malaysian culture, passing traditional villages, tropical vegetation, waterfalls, mangrove clusters, and rainforest vistas before returning to an air-conditioned transition area. Yes, we said AC. Exiting the comfort of artificial cooling, athletes will gain a boost from the beauty of the run course and the finish on Cenang Beach. Post-race, relaxation is on-trend in this popular island paradise; try a spa treatment, a lazy day at the beach, or even a ride on a cable car to walk across the Langkawi Sky Bridge, suspended high above the jungle.
IRONMAN Malaysia, Langkawi, Malaysia
Double the distance and double the fun of IRONMAN 70.3 Langkawi by tackling IRONMAN Malaysia. Running concurrently, both races boast a rolling swim start and a unique, air-conditioned T2. Competitors in the full IRONMAN complete two laps of each race leg, enjoying warm ocean water, a challenging and spectacularly scenic ride, and a flat run that takes full advantage of the tropical coastal venue. The luckiest athletes are those who reach the finish on Cenang Beach just in time for sunset—imagine the photos! Malaysia delivers big both as a premier race destination, and as a paradise where family and friends will happily chill on the beach after cheering their favorite athlete.
IRONMAN 70.3 Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
An historic port at the center of ancient east–west trade routes, Colombo is now a cosmopolitan coastal city—and you'll race right in the midst of its vibrant, inviting energy. The single-loop ocean swim should be warm enough to forgo wetsuits. The three-lap bike is flat and furiously fast, hugging the coast and passing through the Port of Colombo. Likewise, the flat 1.5-lap run clings to the coast and promises beautiful views of the Indian Ocean and several city landmarks. Be sure to allow time to enjoy all that Sri Lanka has to offer, from the buzzing city to ancient Buddhist ruins, dazzling white sand beaches to tropical rainforests, or even a national park safari in hope of a leopard sighting.
IRONMAN Philippines, Subic Bay, Philippines
New for 2018, IRONMAN Subic Bay builds on the success of IRONMAN 70.3 Subic Bay and the growing popularity of triathlon in the Philippines. A holiday destination with an eco-tourism focus, Subic Bay was formerly a major U.S. Navy base. Military personnel learned jungle-survival skills in the dense mountains that frame the bay, aided by indigenous locals. That legendary toughness and savvy is sure to inspire athletes tackling the full IRONMAN challenge. Also inspiring is the venue itself: a calm ocean swim and flat, fast bike, followed by a hilly two-loop marathon. The run will certainly test your physical and mental strength, but the coastal views will help buffer the hurt.


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Ever wish you could throw your child a bash that even the celebrity kids would envy? Well thanks to Solei Moon Frye, you'll soon be able to.
The actress and mom of two announced that she is writing a how-to party guide full of tips on how to throw affordable, stress-free, and kid-friendly get-togethers. The book, set to launch next fall, features kid-approved recipes, easy crafts and party ideas.
"I love putting together parties for our family," Solei told People magazine. "I get super excited at any chance to celebrate."
Solei has always had a creative side. As a child, she and her mother would make Halloween costumes from items around the house. She has continued that tradition with her two daughters Poet, 7, and Jagger, 4.
"Last year, Poet was "another being." She had black wings and we sprayed on streaks so it looked like she had wings," Soleil told The Bump at Target's Halloween Party. "It was crazy and amazing! She looked like she landed from another planet or something."
We look forward to launch of Solei's book and can't wait to test out her tips.
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Median household income in the United States declined for the second straight year, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau last month. The national median income was $50,502 in 2011, more than 8% below the 2007 pre-recession peak. The country's largest cities followed the same pattern, with income falling in some cases by more than 10%. Even in the country's wealthiest metropolitan areas median household income fell in many cases.
Read: America's Poorest Cities
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What has not changed much is the gulf that separates how much people make, depending on where they live. In McAllen, Tex., the median household earned just $31,077 in 2011. In the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, the median household earned close to three times as much. These differences reflect vastly different economies and demographic makeups. Based on the 2011 Census Bureau American Community Survey, 24/7 Wall St. identified the cities with the highest and lowest incomes.
The biggest factor in determining a city's income, according to Alex Friedhoff, a Research Analyst at Brookings Institute's Metropolitan Policy Program, is the underlying industries that employ the most residents, as well as the type of jobs. High-tech jobs, particularly those related to computers and information technology, tend to pay higher salaries and are more likely to be located in areas with affluent residents. On the other hand, most of the jobs in the lower-income metro areas tend to be in retail, service, agriculture and low-tech manufacturing.
A review of the employment characteristics of the different cities confirms this. Included among the richest cities are the information technology centers of Boston and Boulder, the finance hub of Bridgeport-Stamford, and the San Jose region, better known as Silicon Valley, home to some of the largest chipmakers and computer parts manufacturers in the world. Nationwide, 10.7% of workers are employed in professional, scientific, and management positions. Of the 10 wealthy metro regions, nine have a larger proportion of workers in that sector. In Boulder, 21.9% fall into that category.
In the poorest economies, there is a much higher proportion of low-end manufacturing and retail jobs. In the U.S. as a whole, 11.6% of workers are employed in retail. In the 10 poorest metro areas, eight exceed that number by a wide margin, including Hot Springs, Arkansas, where 17.3% of its workforce is employed in retail.
Elizabeth Kneebone, a fellow at the Brookings Institute, explained that these poor areas are seeing an increase in low-wage jobs. "That is something we've seen in this recovery. Over the decade, the kinds of jobs we are growing are in lower-skill, low-wage industries like hospitality, food service, and retail. Those are jobs that don't tend to pay the kinds of wages that the jobs we lost did."
Other key indicators released for 2011 show the disparity between these rich and poor cities. Poverty rates in some of the poor cities are well above the national rate of 15.3%. In McAllen, Tex., more than 35% of residents lived below the poverty level in 2011. In Washington, D.C., one of the wealthiest cities, just 8.3% of residents lived in poverty.
To identify the U.S. metropolitan statistical areas, or MSAs, with the highest and lowest median household income, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed city data on income, poverty rate, median home price and health insurance from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2011 American Community Survey (ACS). Based on Census treatment, median household income for all years is adjusted for inflation. We also reviewed unemployment data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Census Bureau breaks out the data only for the 366 MSAs with 50,000 people or more. All ranks are out of those 366 metropolitan areas, except for unemployment, which is out of 372 areas.
These are America's poorest cities.
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Citizen Groups and Government Oversight
The enactment of hazardous waste regulations in the 1970s was largely a result of efforts by citizen groups who joined together as a result of the environmental horrors at Love Canal, New York, Times Beach, Missouri, and other locations across the country. The efforts of homeowners and citizens affected by pollution led directly to the national media attention and public awareness for the need to manage hazardous wastes. In contrast to Love Canal and Times Beach, numerous incidents occur where citizen groups overreact to perceived environmental risk purely as a NIMBY (not in my backyard) prejudice. The burden to differentiate between real and perceived risks often falls on local, county, and state government and the court system to decide on the amount and degree of regulation needed to assure that citizens are not affected by environmental risk.
What Power Do Citizens Really Have?
Many believe the degree of citizen involvement at Woburn was extraordinary. Shortly after her son Jimmy was diagnosed with leukemia, Anne Anderson began noticing other common illnesses throughout her neighborhood. It was Anne Anderson, Donna Robbins, and their neighbors and friends who first identified the potential cancer cluster. Anne Anderson was one of the first to suggest publicly that there might be a connection between Woburn's terrible tasting ground water and the childhood leukemias and other illnesses that plagued east Woburn. As the families in Woburn actively pursued trying to identify the cause of their illnesses, they often expressed frustration with the lack of cooperation provided by state and city officials. The authors of "No Safe Place," Brown and Mikkelsen 1990 , describe and evaluate the Woburn problems and suggest that the persistence of the Woburn citizens in identifying the problems and seeking resolutions was unique compared to other major hazardous waste sites where citizens were involved in trying to establish justice.
Woburn Citizens and the Toxic Trial
The plaintiffs comprised a group of residents in east Woburn who believed the health of their family members had been severely affected by the consumption of the contaminated drinking water from wells G and H. The toxic contaminants, TCE and PCE were first identified in wells G and H May 1979.) These citizens had compelling stories relating the illnesses of their family members and their perceived connection to the contaminated drinking water, which largely was distributed only in east Woburn. The story of the Woburn children captured the nation's attention and raised public awareness regarding the connection between ground-water contamination by improper disposal of hazardous wastes and public illness (read the early newspaper articles in the Woburn Daily Times Chronicle.
Jan Schlichtmann, the plaintiffs' attorney, believed he could secure a large award against the defendants if he could get the plaintiffs families to testify in the trial. Since none of the plaintiffs were experts in the field of ground-water pollution or medical science, their testimony could only be used to validate the pain and suffering. Recognizing this weakness in their case, the defense attorneys were ecstatic when Judge Skinner made one of his controversial rulings and divided the trial into phases. The first phase of which would decide whether either or both defendants was responsible for the contaminants measured in wells G and H (see Woburn trial chronology). This greatly undermined Schichtmann's trial strategy by removing the emotional stories of the family members from the trial.
Citizens Groups, Government in a Mock Trial
It may be appealing for students representing the plaintiffs in a mock trial to utilize members of the plaintiffs families as part of the trial strategy. Keep in mind that the rules of evidence would prohibit them from providing opinions regarding the source of the contamination or the medically related affects of the contamination. Their testimony would have to be strictly limited to visual observance or description of the conditions of the victims' health. Any opinion regarding the source of the contamination and its effect on human health would be strictly hearsay that would be sustained upon objection. If a mock trial would proceed to the third phase in which damages were evaluated, the citizens' issues related to property values, quality of life, and lost earnings would all be pertinent and important.


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Farming in the City XIII (Backyard Chickens X)
In November 2009, a panel discussion on urban agriculture was hosted by Backyard Bounty and the University of Guelph. The event was called Opportunities for Action: An Urban Agriculture Symposium and Deconstructing Dinner partner station CFRU recorded the panel. This episode hears from two of the panelists who both share innovative urban agriculture projects: the Carrot City exhibition – a collection of conceptual and realized ideas for sustainable urban food production, and the Diggable Communities Collaborative – a community garden initiative that demonstrates the importance of partnerships and the ways in which regional health authorities and local governments can support and implement local food system and urban agriculture planning. Rounding off the show – regular contributor Bucky Buckaw and his Backyard Chicken Broadcast. Bucky dispels the myth that backyard chickens attract rats and he shares insights on raising roosters – an often prohibited presence even within municipalities that do allow backyard chickens.
Updates on 'Norway, British Columbia' & 'A Dinner Date With the Olympics'
Much has transpired since our previous episodes of our Norway, British Columbia series on BC salmon farms. Updates include news of the transfer of regulatory power between the Province and the federal government; criminal charges filed against Marine Harvest and upcoming rallies/events in Vancouver. Also updates on the Coca-Cola torch relay which passed through Deconstructing Dinner's hometown of Nelson, BC shortly after our January Olympic broadcast.
Mark Gorgolewski co-curator, Carrot City (Toronto, ON) – Mark is a Professor and Program Director for the graduate program in building science in the Department of Architectural Science at Toronto's Ryerson University. He is a Director of the Canada Green Building Council and has worked for many years as an educator, architect, researcher and environmental consultant to the construction industry in Canada and Europe. Recently he was co-curator of the exhibition Carrot City – Design for Urban Agriculture. He has also coordinated one of the winning teams in the CMHC Equilibrium Housing Competition to design a sustainable, net zero energy housing development, and is co-recipient of the 2007-2008 ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award.
Katherine Pigott manager, healthy communities & policy team, Region of Waterloo Public Health (Kitchener, ON) – Katherine has worked at Region of Waterloo Public Health since March 2000. A key part of her role has been the development of a comprehensive local food systems planning approach in Waterloo Region as Manager of the Healthy Communities and Policy Team. Katherine has over twenty years experience in community based program development, planning, and systems change that has spanned economic development, health promotion and environmental planning. She serves of the Board of Directors of the Association of Health Centres of Ontario and on the Steering Committee of Food Secure Canada.
Bucky Buckaw – host, Bucky Buckaw's Backyard Chicken Broadcast (New York, NY) – Bucky Buckaw gives advice on raising backyard chickens as just one example of how a locally based economy can work. Through this segment, he informs listeners about the downside of factory farming and what kinds of toxic chemicals you can expect to find in the resultant livestock. He promotes organic gardening and composting, and supporting local farmers.
Alexandra Morton – scientist/researcher, Raincoast Research Society (Echo Bay, BC) – While studying orca whales up until the 1990s, Alexandra watched as the salmon farming industry appeared in the Broughton Archipelago where she calls home. As she observed the arrival of industrial salmon farms, the whales she studied disappeared. She believed the cause was salmon farms, and when 10,000 pages of letters to all levels of government failed to elicit meaningful response, Alexandra realized that she would have to scientifically prove that salmon farming had driven out the whales and caused epidemic outbreaks of bacteria, viral and parasitic infections in wild salmon. By partnering with international scientists and in some cases commercial fishermen, Alexandra has documented the loss of the whales, thousands of escaped farm salmon, lethal outbreaks of sea lice, and antibiotic resistance near salmon farms.


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From the apparent signs of condemning is: Exposing someone's evil and propagating it under the pretense of advising, while claiming that it is only these defects that are making him do it, general or specific. Meanwhile, on the inside, his aim is only to condemn and cause harm. [1] So he is from the brothers of the hypocrites, those whom Allaah has disparaged in His Book in many places, for indeed Allaah disparages those who outwardly display a good action or saying, while intending inwardly to accomplish a mischievous and evil goal. And He has counted that as one of the aspects of hypocrisy, as is stated in Surah Baraa, [2] in which He humiliates the hypocrites and exposes their despicable attributes:
"And as for those who set up a masjid in order to cause harm, (spread) disbelief, disunite the believers and to make it as an outpost for those who made war against Allaah and His Messenger since aforetime, they will indeed swear that their intention is nothing but good. But Allaah bears witness that they are certainly liars." [3]
And Allaah says:
[quraan]"Think not that those who rejoice in what they have done, and love to be praised for what they have not done – do not think that they are rescued from the torment. And for them is a painful punishment!" [4][/quote]
This ayah was sent down concerning the Jews, when the Prophet, (صلى الله علیه وسلم), asked them about something and they concealed knowledge of it informing him instead of something else. Yet they showed to him that they had indeed informed him about what he had asked them. And they sought praise from him, (صلى الله علیه وسلم), because of it and became joyous at what they gained by concealing it and because he, (صلى الله علیه وسلم), asked them. This is what Ibn 'Abbaas, (رضي الله عنه)maa, stated and his hadeeth concerning that is transmitted in the two Saheeh collections. [5]
Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudree, (رضي الله عنه)maa, said:
"There was a group of men among the hypocrites who when the Messenger of Allaah, (صلى الله علیه وسلم), would go out to fight in the (military) expeditions, would refrain from going with him. And they would be happy with opposing the Messenger of Allaah, (صلى الله علیه وسلم), with their sitting (instead of fighting). So when the Messenger of Allaah, (صلى الله علیه وسلم), would arrive, they would make excuses for themselves and swear to him. And they loved to be praised for that which they did not do. So this ayah was revealed." [6]
Therefore, these characteristics are the characteristics of the Jews and the hypocrites. And it is that someone outwardly displays a saying or an action, while presenting an image in which he appears to be upon good. Yet his intention in doing that is to accomplish an evil goal. So he is praised for what good he has made manifest outwardly, while accomplishing by it, the evil goal he has kept hidden inwardly. And he basks in the praise he receives for that which he has outwardly portrayed as being good, which is in fact evil on the inside, and he is happy that his evil hidden objective has been achieved. So his benefit is perfected for him and his scheme is carried out effectively by this deception!!
Anyone with this characteristic definitely falls under the (threat) of this ayah - thus he is threatened with a painful torment. An example of this is: When someone desires to defame a man, belittle him and expose his faults so that people turn away from him. This is done either because he loves to cause harm to him, because of his enmity towards him, or because he fears him due to a rivalry that exists between them with regard to wealth, leadership, or other blameworthy causes. So he does not find a way towards accomplishing his goal, except by publicly degrading him due to some religious reason. For example, someone (i.e. a scholar) has refuted a weak opinion from the many opinions of a well known and famous scholar. So this (evil) individual spreads that amongst those who respect that scholar, saying:
"This person (that did the refutation) hates this scholar, and is only defaming and criticizing him."
So by doing this, he (the evil person) deceives all those people that hold that scholar in esteem, making them believe that such a refutation was done out of hatred and with insult on the part of the one refuting, and that his deed was full of audacity and arrogance. So he (the evil person) is (outwardly) defending this scholar and uplifting the abuse from him - and that is an act pleasing to Allaah and in obedience to Him. So he combines this outer facade of advising with two disgusting and forbidden things: [7]
First: The insinuation that this scholar's refutation of the other opinion was done out of hatred, seeking to belittle (the other scholar), and as a result of following his desires. But (in reality) he only desires by it to advise the believers and to make known some aspect of knowledge that is unlawful to keep concealed.
Second: He (the evildoer) manifests and magnifies the (scholar's) criticism (for the other scholar), so that he can fulfill his desire and achieve his evil goal under the pretense of advising and defending the scholars of the Religion.
This type of evil plotting is similar to the injustice and oppression displayed by the tribe of Marwaan and their followers, who won the people's affection and at the same time, turned these people's hearts away from 'Alee Ibn Abee Taalib, Al-Hasan, Al-Husain and their offspring, may Allaah be pleased with all of them.
When 'Uthmaan, (رضي الله عنه), was killed, the Muslim nation did not see anyone possessing more right to succeed him other than 'Alee, (رضي الله عنه), so they pledged allegiance to him. So those who sought to turn the people away from him set about their goal by manifesting the outrageous and scandalous murder of 'Uthmaan. And it was just as they said it was. But then they added to it that the one who conspired his murder and carried it out was none other than 'Alee, (رضي الله عنه). And this was a lie and a slander against him!
And 'Alee, (رضي الله عنه), would swear and reaffirm his oaths in denying this accusation - and he was truthful and innocent in his oath, may Allaah be pleased with him. But they began to fight against him, claiming that their struggle was for the sake of the Religion and that it was pleasing to Allaah, and then they began to fight with his children. These individuals strove hard in publicizing this (lie), propagating it on the mimbars on the days of Jumu'ah, as well as on other occasions in which there were large gatherings. This continued until it settled into the hearts of their followers that the matter was as these individuals said it was, and that the tribe of Marwaan had more right (to the Khilaafah) than 'Alee and his children due to their closeness to 'Uthmaan, and that they had more right to avenge his, (رضي الله عنه), death. So in doing this, they were able to unite the hearts of the people against 'Alee and his sons and to turn the people to fight against him and his children after him. This asserted the kingship for them and their rule became established as a result of that.
While in privacy, one of them would say to those he confided in, something with the meaning:
"No one amongst the Companions was more restrained from (causing harm to) 'Uthmaan than 'Alee."
So it would be said to him:
"Then why did the people revile him?"
So he would respond:
"The kingship (i.e. end of the Khilaafah) would not be established if it weren't for that."
The meaning of this is that if they did not turn the people's hearts away from 'Alee, (رضي الله عنه), and his children, and if they didn't attribute the injustice done to 'Uthmaan to them, the hearts of the people would not feel sympathy for them (later), due to what they knew of their beautiful attributes and honorable qualities, for they used to rush to follow them and pledge allegiance to them (in the past). And because of this, the Umayyah dynasty came to an end and the people ceased obeying them. [8]
[1] This is from the actions of the heart which no one has knowledge of except Allaah, the Most Perfect and Exalted.
[2] Translator's Note: He means Surat-ut-Tawbah
[3] Surat-ut-Tawbah: 107
[4] Surah Aali 'Imraan: 188
[5] Reported by Al-Bukhaaree (9/301), Muslim (17/123), Ahmad (1/298) and Ibn Jareer (4/207).
[6] Reported by Al-Bukhaaree (8/233), Muslim (17/123) and Ibn Jareer (4/205). It must be noted here that Al-Haafidh Ibn Hajr mentioned in Al-Fath (9/301) that it is possible to combine these two causes for the ayah's revelation found in the two hadeeths by saying that it was revealed with regard to both of these groups (Jews and hypocrites). Shaikh Muqbil Ibn Haadee Al-Waadi'ee said in his As-Saheeh-ul-Musnad (pg. 35):
"If the hadeeth of Abu Sa'eed is more established then that takes more precedence because the hadeeth of Ibn 'Abbaas is from that which the two Shaikhs have been criticized by, as has been stated in Muqaddimat-ul-Fath (20/132) and as is stated in Fath-ul-Baaree (9/302). And there is no point in restricting it to only the People of the Book..."
[7] Translator's Note: We ask the noble readers to consider these precious words stated by the Shaikh of our glorious past and compare them with the likes of the situations we find today. No doubt the scholars of the Sunnah in these days are accused in such a manner. Such an example can be found in Shaikh Muhammad Naasir-ud-Deen Al-Albaanee (rahimhullaah) and the lies and attacks that were launched against him by Hasan Saqqaf, Kabbani and their likes, who make themselves appear as though they're advising the Muslim ummah. But yet in reality they are doing no more than discrediting, defaming and belittling a scholar. And the claims that come from them are well known in that these scholars, such as Al-Albaanee, who warn against "blind-following" are labeled as deviants who hate the four Imaams and who want to do away with their teachings! May Allaah give us the ability to see through the false accusations of the ignorant and the unjust.
[8] See Al-'Awaasim min-al-Qawaasim of the Qaadee Ibn Al-'Arabee Al-Maalikee (رحمه الله) for in there is what is sufficient for one who seeks the truth about this subject, with the Will of Allaah.


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James Harrison
Unless he's watching his kid, Greg Lloyd doesn't watch much football anymore. Not the NFL. It's turning into flag football, he says. "Very, very boring," is how he sees it.
But he's seen enough to believe that the man who replaced him as the heart, soul and bad boy of the Steelers defense can help give the Bengals some nostalgic new blood.
"I think the kid will be fine," Lloyd said of James Harrison, resurfacing as he always does this weekend for the Marvin Lewis Golf Classic. "I think he's going to bring some spark. Kind of like Ray Lewis brought to the Ravens. He's one of the guys who never was in any trouble in Pittsburgh. The guy played football. His only trouble was when he knocked people out. As a coach, I don't have a problem with that."
Lloyd, 47, last took a snap in the NFL in 1998. He last took a snap for Marvin Lewis in 1995. But the bond between the two is framed for posterity in the picture in Lewis's office of the famously surly Lloyd in his prime wearing the shirt that reads, "I wasn't hired for my disposition."
Lloyd had more than half of his 54.5 career sacks when Lewis was his linebackers coach in Pittsburgh for four seasons. But truth be told, it was Lloyd that broke Lewis into the NFL, showing him how dedication, toughness, attitude and professionalism trumped everything ranging from scouting reports to Xs and Os.
Get Lewis and Lloyd together, like after Saturday's practice run at Shaker Run Golf Course in Lebanon, Ohio, and later that night at the VIP party in downtown Cincinnati, and the stories flow like info coming from the neighboring IRS office.
That's the charm of the 10th annual event, culminating Sunday at Shaker for the celebrity tournament that raises the money for the $20,000 college scholarships from the Marvin Lewis Community Fund that he'll present to five Tri-State high school seniors.
Fitting, really, that Lloyd should be talking about Harrison because the event always does such a nice job mixing old and new. Isaac Curtis, the first Bengals draft pick from 40 years ago who went on to become the team's greatest wide receiver, hustled back Saturday night from former Steeler Andy Russell's tournament in Pittsburgh. If he looked on the auction table, there was a signed football from this year's Bengals No. 1 pick, Notre Dame tight end Tyler Eifert.
In the middle of the meet-and-greet Saturday night, Lewis, as usual, balanced huddling with celebs like Ohio State coach Urban Meyer along with thanking the donors. In between, he acknowledged Lloyd and Harrison have more similarities than just playing the same outside linebacker spot in Pittsburgh.
"Both no-nonsense guys," Lewis said. "That's how they approach the game."
Lloyd became well-known for being a guy that didn't suffer fools when it came to the game. The stories are stocked with how he practiced at the same speed as he played ("The only difference was he wore shoulder pads on Sunday," Lewis says) and how the sixth-rounder from Fort Valley State tortured the high draft picks when they just didn't have it.
"My shirt said it all," Lloyd said. "I was hired as an outside linebacker. Shaking hands, talking, and trying to be friends with people, if you got that from me, it was a bonus. I'm not one of those guys, you put the microphone in front of my face and he'll be nice to you. If I had a bad game, stay away from me. I think this guy is like that.
"But there are those guys, we care about the game. Some guys don't care about the game. Some guys care only about what's in their bank account or what kind of house they've got. We cared about the game. This guy plays like that, so he's kind of an old throwback a little bit."
Lewis shakes his head. The 6-2 Lloyd played at 228 pounds and when he got to 233 he would tell Lewis he was too heavy. He played with a frightening ferocity, much the same way Harrison does, another guy supposedly too small—at 5-11—to make it.
Lloyd, as you would expect, has no problems with the way Harrison plays the game and defends his numerous fines from the league office.
"You don't ever take a play off. You don't ever pull up on a guy because you think you're going to get fined. When you start doing that … it's not the commissioner you have to answer to," Lloyd said. "Because back when I played, the commissioner didn't sign my checks. (Steelers owner Dan) Rooney signed my checks. As long as Mr. Rooney didn't have a problem with it, I didn't care what the commissioner said.
"That's what James Harrison's mentality is. We respect the commissioner. He has a job to do. But when I'm out on the field, and I think this guy feels the same way, I have a job to do."
No surprise here, either, that Lloyd thinks Harrison can make the switch from a 3-4 outside baker to a 4-3 SAM. He repeats the Lewis Law: a linebacker is a linebacker.
"If you don't have four good linebackers, you don't have a good 3-4. When you're in a 4-3, it's more about defensive linemen than outside linebackers," Lloyd said. "That being said, I think Cincinnati has a better group of defensive linemen than they will have backers."
But for Lloyd, it all comes down to the shirt.
"What James Harrison brings to the table is, the kid can play. He plays with this uncanny ability to go to the football," he said. "If Cincinnati wants to play with the Steelers and play with Baltimore, they're going to have to do that. I think this guy is one of the guys that will come in and he'll set that tone for the kind of football that is supposed to be played, whether it's 3-4 or 4-3."


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Sugar design review 2
- Experiment with ideas about social presence
- Experiment with ideas about how to chat and share information
- Start figuring out our visual design and strategy
- Dan Williams
- Diana Fong
- Bryan Clark
- Marco Pesenti Gritti
- Please know that clicking on a picture shows a larger display of it.
Social presence
Sharing, chatting, play, etc. require finding other people to interact with. Sugar tries to do this through shared "spaces", of which there are two kinds: quick chats, and shared documents.
Quick Chats
You don't always want to have to create a shared document or some other context just to have a really quick chat with your friend Meike. So Sugar supports "quick chats" that aren't tied to any particular context. They don't stick around after you close them, and they probably won't be logged in any way. There should (eventually) be a way to create some sort of context around them after-the-fact, but we'll punt that for now.
You can create a quick chat by double clicking on a buddy from the presence pane.
A new tab will open where you can text chat with your buddy and/or send sketches you have drawn.
The buttons at the bottom of the presence window allows to invite more friends into the chat.
Shared documents can be web pages, drawing canvases, wiki pages. These are the starting point, and you can form topical chats around these shared documents as well. Imagine a "History Class" wiki page containing assignments, useful links, teacher's notes, etc. This class wiki page, like any shared document, can have a chat associated with it.
You find shared documents through a few means:
- A well-known location or name. Ideally not an actual URI, but an easily remembered named resource.
- Someone shares the location with you through chat
- The teacher writes the location on the classroom board or other writable surface
- Through the Everyone page's shared document list (see below)
The Everyone page is like a homepage. For the moment, it contains a list of all the documents/links/whatever that others have shared with everyone. For example, if the teacher wishes the class to go to the "History Class" wiki page, he/she shares the History Class page with everyone. Students then go to the Everyone page, and click the link that the teacher shared.
(We realize this doesn't scale that well, but we're starting with here anyway.)
From the Everyone page, you click on a shared document, which opens that document in a new tab.
The presence pane is available from each shared document too, and allows you to invite more people to see the document (via the "Friends" and "Everyone" parts). From here it's also possible to make a chat window slide in and talk with people that are currently viewing this document ("Who's Here Now").
New components
Presence pane
The presence pane is now a slide-in window globally available. Its content is contextual to the currently activated tab.
It features:
- A list of people participating in the active activity (i.e., a web page, chat room, shared document, etc...)
- A list of your friends. We didn't discuss how to build this list in detail. It could be automatic (serendipity/who you talk to most), manual (you add and remove buddies from the list) or a mix of both (for example serendipity but still allow to add and remove).
- A searchable list of all available buddies.
- A button to invite other buddies on the activity (how is the invitation displayed?)
- A "Send to everyone" button (need to figure out what Bryan had in mind exactly here... Share? Send invitations to everyone?)
Everyone page
- Allow to search the shared documents and the web to replace the google search activity (?)
- Deskbar[1] (a Gnome panel accessory) could be used to replace the google search area. It lets you launch applications[2], search your computer, and search files all from one auto-completing text box[3]. Non-tech folks love it, as you can get to everything from one spot. Deskbar is in Python and gtk+ (etc). Flash movie of Deskbar[4] (old version). The interface works well with a large number of items.
- Show a list of the shared documents and allow to open them, perhaps with a folder-like ability to sort by name/date/type/size.
Chat window
Just like the old chat window but globally available (sliding in) and contextual to the activity.
Visual design
- Diana is working on mockups of the Sugar visual appeareance (yay!).
- We are going to need to evaluate this and see how much of it is doable within our current platform.
- The implementation is probably going to be a mix of custom (cairo drawn) and traditional widgets.


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Thursday, September 29
Recipe: Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread Made with Fresh Tomatoes and Basil & a Few of My Favorite Bread Books
4 comments:
I haven't read any novels that feature baking or bread. I just looked at "Bread Alone" on Amazon, sounds like a really good read!ReplyDelete
My favorite bread book is "Great Whole Grain Breads" by Beatrice Ojakangas. A LOT of my bread recipes for the Farmer's Market started from recipes in her book.
I love the smell of fresh bread and that sourdough looks heavenly. I cheat and use a bread machine. Not the same but still good.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9/30/2011 8:52 AM
Hi, I read the two novels at your suggestion and enjoyed them also. Wish there was another sequel as I hate to say good bye to characters I like. Thank you for all your bread tips. I am a struggling bread baker that has success and then flops, maybe it's the weather. Blessings. Abiga/KarenReplyDelete
I luv the smell of bread baking.ReplyDelete
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Vickie Estep, of Peachtree, Georgia, emailed us recently with photos and a glowing note about how much she enjoys boating in her Sea Eagle 330 Sport Kayak. Only upon speaking with Vickie did we learn that the relaxation she enjoys through boating in her Sea Eagle is a key part of her recovery from cancer.
Stress relief is essential
"Relieving stress and having some form of relaxation is very important for any cancer survivor," Vickie told us. "Relaxation plus exercise, health, fitness, and diet are all very instrumental." Vickie chose boating and says, "Boating is absolutely helping my recovery from cancer."
Vickie has run a daycare center for the last 18 years. "Taking care of kids all day long can be very stressful at times. Being able to jump in the car and run to the lake and go paddling for awhile, keeping quiet, looking at and enjoying Nature, is very peaceful and relaxing for me. It's the way I relieve stress."
"Of all the boats I've owned, this is my favorite."
She bikes and hikes, too, but boating was a natural choice for Vickie. "Boating is something I've always done. My family had a lake house when I was growing up so I was always around the water," she says. "I love water." She explained further, "I've had power boats, ski boats, and canoes. But this time I wanted something I could handle on my own. I need to exercise and the Sea Eagle was perfect."
"The maneuverability of an inflatable is great," says Vickie. "I need something I can handle on my own and this works. Of all the boats I've had, this really is my favorite. That's why I wrote to you. I very rarely write any company but I'm really impressed with the Sea Eagle. It's my favorite because it's so convenient, so maneuverable, it does what I need it to do, it gets me in and out of the same places my son goes in his hard hull kayak. He was skeptical about my Sea Eagle when I got it but when we took our first trip together he said, 'Mom, that's pretty cool.'"
Online research
Like so many shoppers, Vickie went online to research boats. "I was looking at inflatables online. The reviews of Sea Eagle boats are great, the testimonials on your site are great, and I said, 'OK, that's what I'm going to go for.' I got my 330 and it's so easy to carry, inflate, and maneuver in the water. It's perfect for me." She added, "My son has hard hull kayaks and big racks on his car. He has to strap everything down. I just throw my Sea Eagle in the trunk. It's just great."
"I Googled 'inflatable boats' and ended up on a site that recommended Sea Eagle. I compared it to other inflatables and it seemed like a good value. Sea Eagles come with everything — oars, seats, pump, repair kit, everything. And everything fits in one bag that can go in my trunk. That's perfect. Other inflatables don't include everytingt – you have to buy everything separately. With Sea Eagle, I just had to buy a life jacket."
"I'm going for the tranquility"
A friend saw Vickie's 330 and ordered one, too. Now they go boating together on the nearby Chattahooche River. "It's flat water with just one or two shoals. That's why I prefer it. I'm going for the tranquility. As a breast cancer survivor, I need to de-stress. The tranquility is what I'm after. On a recent boat trip, we saw only 4 people in 8 miles in the river. I like the tranquility and peace and quiet. You get to see lots of wildlife and it helps me de-stress."
Vickie's an enthusiastic Sea Eagle owner, too. "I brag about my Sea Eagle every time it go out and I've probably sold 10 or more for you. It never fails. Recently, a couple and their child came up and asked about it. They said they'd seen ads for Sea Eagle but asked if they can trust the ads. I said, 'Absolutely!''
We asked Vickie if she had any regrets. "I only wish I'd gotten it a long time ago," she said. "I'd have gotten one earlier if I'd known about it!"
Do YOU have a Sea Eagle story and photos to share? Email us. Our blog visitors want to know!


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Actor Michael Clarke Duncan died Monday from complications of a heart attack, and his death was reported in the A block of most East Coast 11pm newscasts.
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Buffalo NBC affiliate WGRZ, however, ran into some problems. Clearly confusing Duncan with singer (and estranged Klum husband) Seal, the station ran photos of the latter from Getty Images during the report. Maybe Getty has their images mislabeled, we don't know. But WGRZ ran multiple Seal photos, meaning something got screwed up very badly. Remember, WGRZ: Seal is known for the song "Crazy," while Michael Clarke Duncan played the criminal madman Kingpin in those Marvel Comics movies and wasn't technically "crazy."
h/t to Matthew


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The Brief: Aug. 25, 2014
Mindy Montford, a former candidate for Travis County DA and daughter of former state Sen. John Montford, confirmed on Sunday that Gov. Rick Perry called to see if she was interested in replacing District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV reported.
The Big Conversation
Mindy Montford, a former candidate for Travis County DA and daughter of former state Sen. John Montford, confirmed on Sunday that Gov. Rick Perry called to see if she was interested in replacing District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV reported.
The conversation to gauge her interest took place in June 2013, before Perry's threat became public to veto funding for the public integrity unit if Lehmberg did not resign. "The revelation shows the level at which Perry was directly involved in attempts to force Lehmberg's resignation and appoint a successor in the days leading up to his June 14 veto — rather than high-level aides coordinating the effort and briefing the governor," wrote the Statesman's Tony Plohetski.
Perry's reaching out to a Democrat "also indicates the governor's effort to possibly be bipartisan in naming a Lehmberg replacement." Montford ran for DA in 2008, losing in a party primary runoff against Lehmberg in the contest to succeed Ronnie Earle.
This would not be the first time Perry has pushed for a position for a Montford. In 2009, Perry backed Montford's father for UT System chancellor, a post eventually given to Francisco Cigarroa.
The Day Ahead
• The House Energy Resources subcommittee on seismic activity meets at 1 p.m. in the Capitol Extension to take testimony from the Railroad Commission of Texas. (agenda)
Trib Must-Reads
Thousands Lose Cars Amid Calls for Loan Restrictions, by Corrie MacLaggan
West Texas Energy Bills Show Boom's Unexpected Costs, by Jim Malewitz
Analysis: Crime, Politics and Travis County, by Ross Ramsey
Environmental Justice Advocates Question Houston's Recycling Plan, by Neena Satija
Rosemary Lehmberg at center of Perry defense firestorm, San Antonio Express-News
Rick Perry seizes advantage after indictment, but will it last?, Austin American-Statesman
Rick Perry's future tested by his past in New Hampshire, Washington Post
Krugman: Wrong Way Nation, The New York Times
Experts cast doubt on Davis rape statute plan, Houston Chronicle
Fears mount of ISIS infiltrating America, The Hill
Central American immigrants putting brakes on a dream, The Dallas Morning News
Quote to Note
"We need to look at the states, which are lavatories of innovation and democracy, reform. We need to unleash the competition between the states for jobs, innovation and opportunity."
— Gov. Rick Perry speaking at an Americans for Prosperity event on Friday in Manchester, N.H.
Today in TribTalk
How start-up culture is changing Mexico, by Antonio Garza
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• A Conversation With U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, on Sept. 24 at the UTSA Downtown Campus in San Antonio.
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In Algebra II, the binomial theorem describes the explanation of powers of a binomial. When expanding a binomial, the coefficients in the resulting expression are known as binomial coefficients and are the same as the numbers in Pascal's triangle. By using the binomial theorem and determining the resulting coefficients, we can easily raise a polynomial to a certain power.
So factorials are a different way of writing a product. Okay? A series of multiplications. And factorial's basically a exclamation point. So whenever you see something exclamation point, you don't have to yell it out you just have to multiply it by everything below it.
So, n factorial is just that number times a number one less than that times the one number number less than that so on so forth all the way down to the number 1. Okay? So let's take a look at an example.
If I gave you 5 factorial, okay? We start at the number 5 and we just go down multiplying 5 times 4 times 3 times 2 times 1, the one doesn't really matter because anything times 1 is just itself but we always just throw it in there just to be sure we have it. So multiplying this out 5 times 4 is 20 times 3 is 60, times 2 is 120. So 5 factorial is 120. Okay.
We can also have expressions with more than 1 factorial. So say we look at 6 factorial over 4 factorial, 2 factorial. Okay? 6 factorial tells us we are looking at 6 times 5 times 4 times 3 times 2 times 1. 4 factorial tells us we're looking at 4 times 3 times 2 times 1 and 2 factorial is just 2 times 1. Okay.
Now we could multiply this all out but if you look at it a little bit closer, we can actually cancel a lot of things, okay? So 6 factorial is 6 and down and 4 factorial is 4 and down. So those actually share 4, 3, 2 and 1. So right there we know we can cancel out 4, 3, 2 and 1 from the 4 and the 6. Leaving us with the 6 and the 5 in the top, the 2 in the bottom. Again we can cancel like terms, not like terms, what we can factor okay. Take out the contractor. 2 goes into 6. So we're left with 3 times 5 in the top, nothing in the bottom. So this expression is just equal to 15.
So definition of factorial, just taking that number, multiplying it by everything and down and easier way is to simplify it out.