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The New Muslim Invasion – Victimizing Israel
Israel is in the spotlight of the self-proclaimed humanitarian World society again. As a Judeo-Christian I could give you hundreds of Bible Verses proving the fact that God in Heaven has given Israel to the Jews as Promised Land. But for this blog that would be counterproductive using only the point of view of a believer. What is necessary here are hard historical facts and that is what I am determined to deliver.
The assassination of the Hamas leader and "Minister of Cultural Affairs" (a contradiction in terms) Mahmohud al-Mabhouh on February 26, 2010 in Dubai, as well as the latest riots at Jerusalem's Temple Mountain gives the world once again another reason to put blame on Israel – considering the Jews as the aggressors in the Middle East. And yet they overlook the danger that is going out from the real aggressors, the Arab nations, who are threatening not only Israel, but Western Civilization in its entirety.
On March 9, 2010 Vice President Joe Bidden's feeble attempt of Peace negotiations and his one-sided demands to Israel had to be a failure.
The major problem here is that the world does not seem to be able to grant Israel the right to exist and defend itself.
Muslims these days, or better yet the Arab Nations might as well be considered antiquated compared to Western civilization, but it would be a huge mistake to underestimate their intellect.
Historic Sum up
Though they never really prevailed, throughout history the Muslim Nations have forever attempted to conquer the Western Civilization with lethal force. The Muslim Conquest (Arab: Fatah) started with the Tartars (632 – 732; Only 10 years after founding Islam) and continues until present (http://is.gd/a7cld). It is in their religious beliefs, and considered their Muslim duty, to turn the world into a Muslim world no matter what, supported by meaningful speeches of well trained PR professionals. Anjam Chaoudry, Head of "Islam4UK" declares clear in an Interview given on February 3, 2010 the attempt of Islam to conquer the world and transform the Western civilization they hate into a Muslim world and how they use our own Advantages against us.
But they have learned, and today they know very well, that an invasion of the higher advanced Western Civilization with Military Force is an impossible Endeavour.
Europe is rather practicing inappropriate Diversity trying to reason with those radicals and hoping that, by accepting their hatred, the Muslims will back off on their own and accept their hosting countries in gratitude (a very dangerous tactic). But there are two major obstacles keeping Islam from conquering the world, Israel, and its strongest Ally the United States of America.
Europe and their Christians, under the influence of the Roman Catholic Church are way too scared of acting upon the Islam influence and defending the birthplace of Christianity and our Mother-Faith Judaism. Muslim Public relations work perfectly. As soon as Christians or Jewish supporters stand their ground – Islam pounds on the Crusades and the crimes committed back then to evoke feelings of guilt among the Christian Society and to put itself (Islam) in the position of the victim in order to conceal their own crimes.
The timeline in history shows that there was not a Muslim nation or a Muslim Faith until 622 AD when Islam was founded by Hijra of Muhammad. But the evidence proves without a shadow of a doubt the Jewish existence in the entire region dating back 1200 years before Christ. The entire Region has always been called Judea. There was not a Palestine until 135 AD (http://is.gd/a86gR).
The area was renamed and changed on the maps by Hadrianus Caesar. At that time, after the second Jewish revolt under Bar Kochba, Jews were forced to leave Jerusalem to avoid another revolt against the Roman occupancy.
So what makes the Muslims think they have more rights to the City of Jerusalem and the Temple Mountain than the Jews? Especially, since the "Holy considered" Mosque (Haram al-Sharif / Noble Sanctum) is nothing more than a manmade memorial to their prophet Mohamed.
The entire conflict is a mix of economical and religious conflict. One needs to visit that area to understand what I am talking about. The Weapons hold status between Syria and Israel has been taking place now since 1973 and while Israel has prospered, and the country has transformed into a jewel Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine are basically still nothing but a burned up desert.
After the Jews had been scattered from their rightful home land to places all over the world during the 7th century, the rising of Islam destroyed the churches and Jewish Synagogues of Jerusalem during the Fatimid conquest in 936.
In the centuries to follow the Jews lived as hunted people being forced to live in foreign lands and away from their rightful home.
It would be too much, and too big of a blog to state all occurrences here and name all attacks of Muslim on Jews and Christians, such us the Arab Riots and the Massacre in Hebron in 1929. It is a very long list of murdering and mutilating Jews all over the place to avoid emigration of Jews to their own homeland.
In 1948 Israel declared its independency, after the UN declared the rightful State of Israel in 1947.
In 1964 the PLO (Palestine Liberty Organization), a Terrorist Organization under Yasser Arafat, was founded with one purpose only – to destroy Israel. The PLO specialized in Suicide Bombs, Airplane high jackings, and Terror attacks on Jews and U.S. Citizens all over the World. Hamas and Hezbollah are descendents of the PLO.
In 1967 the conflict culminated in the sick attack of the Arab Nations towards Israel where Israel in a counterstrike occupied Sinai, Gaza, and then the West Bank from Jordan and the Golan Heights from Syria. UN Resolution 242 forced Israel to withdraw to the established places.
In 1973 in a surprise attack the Arab Nations started the Yom Kippur War. Re-supplied by the U.S. and Soviets Israel pushed Syria back to Damascus and crossed the Suez Canal. UN resolution 338 called for a cease fire and negotiations for peace which is an ongoing process until today.
That was when the Arab Nations surrounding Israel recognized the fact that they would never have a chance to defeat the Israeli Military who had the support of the United States and the British Empire. As of here Israel found itself under permanent attacks from Terrorists.
Europe, still ashamed of its own historical failure on humanity, has become insensitive to the needs of Israel. Its desperate attempts to perform a "balancing act policy" have failed. This posture does not help Israel, it only shows the Arab world the growing weakness Europe has which they (Muslims) continue to exploit.
The truth of the matter is, the Arab Nations have recognized that with Military force or Terror alone they will not be able to spread Islam across the world.
Yasser Arafat was the first to recognize that Terror alone will not get him anywhere. He did the same as the IRA in Ireland turning the PLO into three parts; the militant wing who continues its Terror attacks and a Political wing acting as honorable Diplomats and collecting financial sources throughout the world and from supporters.
Those supporters are the third part – those are emigrants into the western civilizations such as U.S.A, Europe, Australia, and so forth. There they prosper financially and have their youth educated in all the important aspects (Physics, Chemistry, and Financial, Law, etc.) to tighten the organization. Here, they also learn very quickly that slipping into the role of "Victim" will get them further than arrogance. Here, they can use our own constitutions, and our own laws and freedoms (everything they hate and despise) against us, riding our system and undercutting the Western World.
Freedom of Religion allows them to spread their hatred in the Mosques while well appointed speakers solicit their alleged peace loving religion and their willingness to integrate in the hosting country through the Media. Of course, this is a Public Relations act but so far it has worked brilliantly, because the left wing liberals and humanitarians feel the need to support them.
And those Organizations like the PLO, Hamas and Hezbollah, supported and trained by our own Left wing politicians have learned about our weaknesses and how to play the Media and how to blame Israel.
The terrorists know that all it takes is a simple paramilitary tactic to appear as the "Victim": After they attack Israel with suicide bombers and RPG's a counter strike by Israel is a guaranty, and it will come swiftly and without long lasting strategic planning. Now, all the terrorists have to do in order to continue the appearance of the "Victim" is to launch their RPG's at close range, or directly from civilian settlements and /or UN stations, so when the counterstrike comes civilian or innocent casualties, in absentee of planning, are a forgone conclusion. Conveniently, the Al-Jazir Network is always nearby to film in HDTV the "poor victims" of "alleged Israeli aggression".
These tactics actually work and the world is dumb enough to believe it.
Bottom Line is: You can put a Killer or a Mafiosi in a fine 10,000 Dollar Suit, but he will still be a Killer and a Mafiosi. Put a Terrorist in a 10,000 Dollar Suit and he is nothing but a well dressed Terrorist.
Mahmohud al-Mabhouh might wear a suit and have diplomatic Status today, but he still is what he always has been – a leading member of a Terrorists Organization.
European Liberal Newspapers call Hamas a political organization today and ignore the fact that the militant arm of the Hamas still calls for the destruction of Israel, the U.S.A., and the western democratic world, and perform Terror Attacks all over the world in cooperation with Al-Qaida, financed by Iran. Sooner or later this dangerous mind set will come to haunt them because Europe is also considered part of the Western Civilization and is part of the target plan of Islam.
It's interesting that there is no real physical evidence proving that Mossad is the Mastermind of the assassination of al-Mabhouh, but Dubai immediately placed blame on Israel again spreading the hatred against our Jewish brethren.
Another question that arises here is the eligibility of the assassination of al-Mabhouh. The bottom line is that he might hold a diplomat status, but he still is a leader of one of the most dangerous Terrorist Organizations.
So, what is better, a major Military strike with civilian casualties or a cancer-surgery single liquidation? Either way it is self-defense. If you want to kill a snake you have to cut off the head, if you want to weaken a Terror organization you have to kill the leader.
And while we (Christians/Jews) are not even allowed to look wrongfully at the Muslims or dare to criticize them without being in fear of our own life (they quickly set out a bounty and call for our head) radical Muslims take the right to murder, slaughter, and mutilate Christians and Jews wherever and whenever they please.
Just last week Muslims attacked Jewish people praying at the wailing wall in Jerusalem with rocks, and when Israel answered with a major Police riot cleaning the spot the World Press blamed Israel for their actions. So who is attacking who here and who is defending itself?
In the same week in Turkey, a country with constitutional segregation of religion and Government, Governmental Police Forces interrupted Christian and Jewish church sermons harassing the very same and prohibiting Jews to participate in public schools (Dr. Melissa Couthier: Do the Jews in Turkey Ignore the Rise of Islamism at their own Peril? http://is.gd/a9yJs).
On March 08, 2010, Turkey who has the current lead in the OIC (Organization Islamic Conference) declared that it will work closer with Iran and Ahmedinejad. This is the very same Turkey that demands a membership in the European Union. That would mean giving Terrorists a free pass into Europe, allowing them to live and move as they please, and free access to the United States as European Citizens.
Muslims demand a stop of building Jewish settlements in questioned areas in order to show willingness to peace negotiations. VP Joe Bidden (a very good Obama soldier, Muslim lover and Jew hater) of course demanded the same.
But last time Israel withdrew from Lebanon to international borders in compliance with UN Resolution 425, even forcefully removing its own citizens from the settlements, Hezbollah did not see this as sign of peace and grounds for negotiations – NO – they cheered in victory, hailing the weakness of the West and Israel, and called for the final and total destruction of Israel.
On March 10, 2010 In Nigeria Muslims slaughtered over 500 Christians; mainly women and children with machetes in the Name of Allah for Water, Oil, and pasture land.
Do you wonder what the Muslim world would do if the shoe were on the other foot and Christians would have murdered 500 Muslims? I tell you – the uprising and Terror around the world would be unbelievable.
Fact of the matter is, if we want to survive, if we want to keep our freedom, if we want to preserve our heritage, we have to take a stand, close the gap, join forces with Israel, and defend what is ours by striking first. We have a right to our heritage and if we do not act now we have lost all along.
Shalom Israel


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More than 200 million eggs -- some that were sold in New York and New Jersey -- are being recalled for possible salmonella contamination.
Rose Acre Farms of Seymour, Ind., is voluntarily recalling 206,749,248 eggs due to possible contamination with the bacteria.
Twenty-two illnesses were reported as of Sunday, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
The eggs were distributed from the North Carolina farm to consumers in New Jersey, New York, Florida, Colorado, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, West Virginia and Virginia, along with retail stores and restaurants.
The eggs were sold under names including Country Daybreak; Crystal Farms; Coburn Farms; Sunshine Farms; Glenview; Great Value; and in Walmart and Food Lion stores.
The recall was a result of some illnesses reported on the U.S. East Coast, which led to extensive interviews and eventually a thorough FDA inspection of the Hyde County farm, which produces 2.3 million eggs a day.
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EVENT: Tour de South Shore
This is a 25-mile and 50-mile fundraising bike ride that will start and finish at Wompatuck State Park and travel through the towns of Hingham, Cohasset, Scituate and Norwell. This is not a race, but rather a great way to support much needed research for Alzheimer's and Multiple Sclerosis. Rain or Shine.
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Thumbs down to arthritis
What separates humans from the apes is our ability to use our thumbs to hold and pinch a wide variety of shapes and sizes.
The thumb is made up of three joints which work together to allow us to perform a multitude of tasks. The basilar or carpometacarpal joint has the greatest freedom of movement.
While this movement is necessary for our daily tasks, it also sets us up for the pain and disability of arthritis due to overuse. Many of us use our hands and in particular our thumbs as tools. As we age, this wear and tear soon leads to the pain associated with arthritis. One way to prevent or alleviate the pain associated with arthritis of the thumb is practicing joint protection principles. Joint protection principles follow planning, preparation, frequent rest breaks and using the larger joints of the arm to perform the activity. This protects the smaller joints of the thumb.
Wearing a splint is another way to protect the joint. The splint provides support to the joint decreasing the stress on the joint from activities such as pinching small objects or holding wider objects
If arthritis of the joint has progressed and is not responding to practicing joint protection and splinting, your doctor can refer you to a certified hand therapist for specific treatment for your thumb. Treatments will include a variety of modalities for pain control and exercises to strengthen your thumb and hand.
Your doctor has other treatment options such as medication, injection and surgery.
About The Author
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"The 'TOPS' in Tops!"
At Formatop, they have the most experience building countertops. Formatop employees total over 300 years of experience building countertops. Their employees take pride in every countertop they build. They are all trained to build that countertop as if it were being installed in their own home. They have very little turnover of employees, which means your countertop will be built right the first time.
Come to the area's leading manufacturer of countertops for over 50 years. They have been selling to builders, cabinet shops, lumber yards, and the general public since 1960 when Formatop was founded. They take pride in being family owned and operated. Formatop is a third generation family business. Oliver joined the company as an owner in 1964 and retired in 2008. Mark started in 1974 and serves as President. Ryan came on board in 2001 and is the marketing manager, does Autocad drawings, and just about anything else that needs to be done.
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A unanimous All-American in 1963, Bob "Boomer" Brown used his massive size for his day and age (6-5, 260 pounds) and his relentless aggressiveness to help turn the Nebraska football program into one of the best in the nation.
Brown led Coach Bob Devaney's second Nebraska team to a 10-1 record and its first-ever Big Eight championship, the Huskers' first conference title since 1940.
Brown also played linebacker for the Huskers and recorded 49 tackles, a pass interception and two fumble recoveries.
Brown's accomplishments as a collegian led to his induction in the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind., in 1993.
As a professional player, Brown was one of the most feared offensive tackles in the NFL. In his 10 professional seasons, Brown earned six trips to the Pro Bowl and was named first-team All-NFL seven times.
He was named to the NFL's All-Decade team during the 1960s, and was named the NFL/NFC Offensive Lineman of the Year three times.
Brown was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles with the No. 2 overall pick in the first round of the 1964 NFL Draft. He spent his first five seasons in the NFL with Philadelphia, before spending two seasons with the Los Angeles Rams and three seasons with the Oakland Raiders. He played in 126 career NFL games.
Brown's accomplishments as an NFL great were honored with his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, in 2004.
Brown is one of just 10 players among Big 12 Conference schools to earn enshrinement in both the College and Pro Football Hall of Fame. He is also one of two Huskers to share that honor, joining Guy Chamberlin, an All-America end for the Huskers in 1915.
A graduate of East Technical High School in Cleveland, Ohio, Brown was the first African-American to earn All-America honors at Nebraska, and the first All-American to play for Devaney and the Huskers.
Brown, whose No. 64 jersey joins Tom Novak's No. 60 as the only two numbers permanently retired at Nebraska, is the most recent of the 16 Huskers to have his jersey retired. Brown's jersey was retired during the Colorado football game in 2004.
Offensive lineman Kurt Mann from Grand Island, Neb., a junior on the 2005 squad, was the last Nebraska player to wear No. 64.


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Botanical Garden celebrates magnolias
home & garden S.F. Botanical Garden showcases magnolia collection
Science gets intoxicated on beauty and conceives conservation. At the San Francisco Botanical Garden, the result is the most important magnolia collection outside China. From now through March the garden is showcasing its "Magnificent Magnolias" with special events, including tours and a magnoliafied mixology class. These "aristocrats of ancient lineage," as legendary plant-hunter Ernest Wilson called them, are celebrated for their spectacular pink and white blossoms, glossy leaves and seductive fragrances: One species is banana-scented.
The garden boasts nearly 100 varieties and species, including nine red-listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. A few are near extinction: Zen's magnolia is down to 18 unprotected individuals on a mountain in China's Jiangsu province. "That makes well-documented collections ever more valuable in the conservation of these trees," curator Don Mahoney said.
In March, assistant curator David Kruse-Pickler will revisit China, the heartland of magnolia diversity. He and Ya-Ling Wang of Fairy Lake Botanical Garden near Hong Kong plan to locate wild populations of sensitive species, record their GPS coordinates and in fall 2014 return to collect seed for propagation.
Magnolias, wrote naturalist Donald Culross Peattie, "have come down to us, by the winding ways of evolution, from an unimaginable antiquity."
Fossilized leaves
Their leaves occur in fossil deposits from the Cretaceous, the era of tyrannosaurus and triceratops. Beetles pollinated them (bees and butterflies did not yet exist) and still do.
The ancient family spread from North America across the Northern Hemisphere during a global hothouse era. Then the magnolias of Europe, Siberia and the American West succumbed to a colder world. In warmer regions of the Appalachians, southern China and the American and Asian tropics, survivors diversified; about 245 species exist today. New forms are still being described.
The garden has some handsome Southern magnolias and a few Central American prizes, but its focus is Asian species. Most were introduced to the West by European collectors in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Some, like Père Armand David (who also discovered the giant panda), were missionaries who botanized on the side. Others worked for botanical gardens, arboretums or commercial nurseries.
Plant-hunting in the Sino-Indian borderlands was no stroll in the park. David and his successors found rough terrain, extreme weather, disease, leeches, suspicious local rulers, rogue generals and bandits.
Risking life and limb
George Forrest survived alone when Tibetan lamas outraged by a British military incursion massacred his party; he hid in the jungle for 10 days, subsisting on a handful of grain.
On a narrow trail along China's Min River gorge, a falling boulder broke Ernest Wilson's right leg in two places. With the leg splinted with a piece of tripod, Wilson had to lie immobilized on the ledge as 50 passing pack mules, with nowhere to detour, tiptoed over him.
Along with danger, they found extraordinary beauty. In his memoir "Plant Hunting on the Edge of the World" (1930), Frank Kingdon-Ward describes Magnolia campbellii: "we see scores of trees, some with glowing pink, others with ivory-white flowers. From our giddy ledge we look down over the wide waves of the forest beating against the cliff, where the magnolia blooms toss like white horses, or lie like a fleet of pink water lilies riding at anchor in a green surf."
Hybridizers' grail
Mahoney calls campbellii one of Strybing's glories: "A 50-foot tree with thousands of large pink flowers held upright against a blue sky is a sight one will remember for the rest of one's lifetime."
Horticulturists played with Asian magnolias as early as 1827, when the saucer magnolia (M. x soulangeana) was developed in Paris. The late Todd Gresham of Santa Cruz created 15,500 hybrids including his "Buxom Nordic Blondes" and "Svelte Brunettes." Nowadays, says Mahoney, most of the hybridizing action is in Britain and New Zealand. The breeders' holy grail: a true yellow magnolia.
Former garden director Eric Walther imported a batch of campbellii seed from Darjeeling, India, in 1934. Most produced typical pink cup-and-saucer blossoms, but one lone tree had white flowers with pendant outer petals. Christened 'Strybing White,' it grew to an estimated 80 feet, the garden's tallest tree.
Younger trees have joined Walther's pioneers, including Asian and neotropical rarities from UC Berkeley's Botanical Garden and Sonoma County's Quarryhill, and one from the Shanghai Botanical Garden via Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
Bay Area hybrids
Grandiflora and the hybrid soulangeana are widely used in the Bay Area. Mahoney suggested alternatives: "Stellata and denudata are both small deciduous trees with fragrant flowers that are easy to grow in our climate and soils. There are many new michelia introductions that thrive in our area; most have wonderful fragrances." Pickler-Kruse is also a michelia fan: "They're great street trees as long as you provide some water."
Magnolia celebration
Highlights of the "Magnificent Magnolias" celebration through mid-March at the San Francisco Botanical Garden, Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Way, Golden Gate Park. www.sfbotanicalgarden.org.
Self-guided tours of the magnolia collection. Download the maps at www.sfbotanicalgarden.org or pick up a copy at the ticket kiosk.
Guided tours with curator Don Mahoney, 1-3 p.m. Feb. 16 and docent Dr. Joseph Barbaccia, 1-3 p.m. March 3. $15, tickets available at www.sfbotanicalgarden.org.
Magnolias by Moonlight Walk, 6-8 p.m. Jan. 25, Feb. 25, March 25. Yes, it's a full moon. Register by calling (415) 661-1316, Ext. 400. Rain cancels. $15 payable at the start of the walk.
Magnolia Mixology, 5-7 p.m. Jan. 31. Hands-on class with Elixir owner H. Joseph Ehrman, inventor of the Strybing White and M. Zenii cocktails (21 and older). $125. (415) 661-1316, Ext. 412.
Drawing Magnolias, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Feb. 21. Pencil-drawing class with botanical artist Nina Antze. $90. San Francisco County Fair Building. (415) 661-1316, Ext. 412.
Joe Eaton and Ron Sullivan are naturalists and freelance writers in Berkeley. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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The mother of a girl involved in the case of a 6-year-old Cañon City school boy being suspended for a second violation of giving a classmate unwanted kisses said she feels the school district has done a "great job" in protecting her daughter "from sexual harassment."
Cañon City School District officials defended their decision Tuesday to impose a recent two-day suspension on a first-grade student at Lincoln School of Science & Technology after his mother, Jennifer Saunders, said he kissed a female classmate on the cheek in November and then kissed the same girl on the hand Dec. 4.
The girl's mother, Jade Masters-Ownbey, spoke out on a Facebook page and gave permission to the Daily Record to publish her response.
"Not once, but over and over...not with her permission but sneaking up on her...not without warning and consequences prior to suspension," she stated.
Superintendent Dr. Robin Gooldy said under the district's sexual harassment policy, the fourth definition fits both circumstances, which reads, "Unwelcome touching, such as patting, pinching or repeated brushing against another's body."
Ownbey stated there originally were two boys who had "kept her (daughter) from playing with other kids and fought with each other."
"After they got in trouble, one boy stopped but the other boy apparently didn't get it," she stated. "I had to put restrictions on her about which she was allowed to be around at school. I've had to coach her about what to do when you don't want someone touching you, but they won't stop."
Lincoln Principal Tammy DeWolfe said Tuesday that any time a misbehavior or a violation of school conduct is reported to a teacher or a principal, she moves forward with an investigation to gather accurate information about what really happened.
"Then we continue to work with the families," she said. "Our goal is to ultimately get that inappropriate behaviors to stop."
She said the school would "never suspend a student for one minor little violation," adding that typically there are things that build up to suspension level where the behaviors have not changed over time and/or they continue.
"Our job as a school is to basically maintain a safe learning environment for all children in the school, and that's certainly what we're trying to do here," she said.
Ownbey stated her daughter's older brother has felt like he needed to protect her at school.
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They were together just three seasons. It seems like they ganged up on opponents for longer, but, no, just three seasons of sending scoreboard operators to the injured list with finger and hand disorders, before a trade brought things to an abrupt end, followed by a lifetime of wondering what could have been if Golden State's Run TMC era had remained intact.
There was always something forever about the Warriors of T(im Hardaway), M(itch Richmond) and C(hris Mullin) and Don Nelson the mad-scientist coach, encouraging, not merely allowing, Manute Bol to fling 3-pointers from about the back of his neck. Now there officially is.
The Hall of Fame is expected to reveal Monday that Richmond, along with Alonzo Mourning, will be part of the Class of 2014. This comes after the February announcement that favorite TMC sidekick, Sarunas Marciulionis, will also be enshrined this summer. He'll join Mullin (a 2011 Hall of Famer) and Nelson (2012) in Springfield, Mass.
Three players and the coach from the Warriors of 1989-90 and 1990-91 will be in the Hall. It is the kind of rarified air usually reserved for the Lakers and Celtics, with a strong case to be made that the point guard Hardaway could be the fourth player to go with the shooting guard (Richmond), small forward (Mullin) and reserve swingman (Marciulionis). Even better for Golden State? This party will include former coach and current community ambassador Al Attles, as beloved within the organization as any person is with any franchise in the league. He'll be there to receive the John W. Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honor from the basketball museum short of enshrinement.
For all the historical significance, those Warriors who tried to lure opponents into track meets and cause trouble with freakish matchups — 6-foot-7 Tom Tolbert on 7-foot-1 David Robinson, anyone? –went just 37-45 and 44-38 and won one playoff series. The defense, or what passed for one, wasn't going to allow any long postseason runs, a common theme for years to come in Oakland. But what has turned into a near-annual statement from the anonymous Hall voters suddenly puts the Dubs of the late-80s/early-90s into a unique stratosphere.
"It's a hotbed of basketball," Mullin said of the Bay Area. "It really is. It's great for the fans because a lot of nights and a lot of years, they cheered us on unconditionally. I would say this, though. That wasn't a bad culture after all. You hear about 'New culture, new culture.' That wasn't too shabby. Mitch hopefully is in. I'm sure Tim's going to get in through this process. That's not a bad culture. I think that's a very proud franchise through the years, from Wilt Chamberlain to Nate Thurmond to Al Attles, to Rick Barry, Tom Meschery. You talk about the last championship, it was Al Attles (as coach). Let's not forget that. The guy's still there. So it's a rich, proud franchise. I think we should praise what's going on now. But it wasn't too shabby."
Just Mullin saying hello to Joe Lacob.
Lacob bought the team in 2010 with declarations about a fresh start, comments Mullin understandably took personal since he had been the general manager who put together most of the Warriors of the time. Lacob was talking about the management team led by predecessor Chris Cohan and the annual disappointment in the standings. But Lacob also had frequent references to building a roster around toughness and defense while getting away from the run-and-gun crew from Mullin's days as basketball operations boss. So point taken. There was never a shot at the history of the franchise and, in fact, it was Lacob who provided the long-overdue honor of retiring Mullin's jersey No. 17.
But three players and the coach from the same team in the Hall of Fame is a rare sighting, even if Marciulionis is there for his international play with the Soviet Union and Lithuania. The part about the basketball hotbed is about the Bay Area as a whole, from the youth leagues to the pros, a history underlined in Springfield as well: enshrinement for Richmond, Marciulionis and former Philadelphia and San Francisco Warrior Guy Rodgers this year.
Oakland native Gary Payton (2013), Nelson, former Warrior Jamaal Wilkes and Berkeley native Don Barksdale (2012), and Mullin and Stanford women's coach Tara VanDereveer (2011). And that doesn't count Mullin as part of the collective Dream Team induction (2010) or ex-Warriors Ralph Sampson and Bernard King.
Moving forward, Hardaway will be high on the rankings for most deserving in the next election, along with Kevin Johnson, who played practically next door to Oakland at the University of California, and, if someone nominates him, ex-Warrior Chris Webber. Jason Kidd, an Oakland native who also played at Cal, will get his ceremony in 2018, barring unexpected developments.
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Of the patristics, several accepted Shepherd of Hermas as part of the canon. Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, and Didymus the Blind all three quoted it as Scripture. It is also included in Codex Sinaiticus. The Epistle of Barnabas is also found in Sinaiticus, as well as advocated by Didymus. If Sinaiticus is a better text, one representing the rules of textual criticism, then Shepherd of Hermas and The Epistle of Barnabas should be considered Scripture.
If Jesus actually did quote from the Septuagint, like many critical text advocates believe, then we also need to consider that the Septuagint included the apocrypha. Jesus therefore would have supported a canon with the apocryphal books part of their number. If it is true that the apostles quoted from the Septuagint, then the Septuagint, along with its apocryphal books, was the Old Testament of the apostles. Why should it not then be our Old Testament? And if Jesus' use of the Septuagint evinces the acceptability of a Bible laced with faulty words, then consistency requires the acceptance of a Bible with several more than sixty-six books.
Arguments for the Canon
And yet we have heavy evangelical support for a sixty-six book canon. What are the arguments? F. F. Bruce wrote in his The New Testament Documents:
The historic Christian belief is that the Holy Spirit, who controlled the writing of the individual books, also controlled their selection and collection, thus continuing to fulfil our Lord's promise that He would guide His disciples into all the truth.He saw the Holy Spirit as leading His disciples to the correct books. Greg Brahnsen wrote:
[W]e know from God's Word (1) that the church of the New Covenant recognized the standing canon of the Old Testament, and (2) that the Lord intended for the New Covenant church to be built upon the word of the apostles, coming thereby to recognize the canonical literature of the New Testament. To these premises we can add the conviction (3) that all of history is governed by God's providence (". . . according to the plan of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will," Eph. 1:11).His main argument is for us to look what the church agreed was the Word of God. M. James Sawyer says we look at usage.
The common evangelical view of the development of the New Testament canon sees the canon as having arisen gradually and through usage rather than through conciliar pronouncement which vested the books of the New Testament with some kind of authority.Charles Briggs in General Introduction to the Study of Holy Scripture argued that there was a three-fold program for canon determinations, the first being the testimony of the church (p. 163). He explained that this was the evidence of general consent, although given under the leading of the Spirit. It was from this general consent that conciliar pronouncements were made. Briggs final determining factor and highest principle of canon determination was that of the witness of the Spirit. He stated, "The Spirit of God bears witness by and with the particular writing . . . , in the heart of the believer, removing every doubt and assuring the soul of its possession of the truth of God" (p. 163).
Thiessen wrote in his Introduction to the New Testament:
The Holy Spirit, given to the Church, quickened holy instincts, aided discernment between the genuine and the spurious, and thus led to gradual, harmonious, and in the end unanimous conclusions. There was in the Church what a modern divine has happily termed an 'inspiration of selection'.We see repeatedly this understanding that the Holy Spirit revealed the canon through the church. Churches, genuine believers, settled on the sixty-six books of the Bible.
In addition to this, we see that canonicity was still being discussed into the Reformation period. Sawyer writes: "The canon of the New Testament was not closed historically by the early church. Rather, its extent was debated until the Reformation." In other words, the canon was sixty-six books, but there was continued validation and verification of that through agreement of believers into the printed edition period of Scripture. We have the same thing with preservation. The printed edition period affirmed the textus receptus as the text of the New Testament.
Why 66?
We hear and read many evangelicals who agree that the church was led to the exact number of books by the Holy Spirit. Why would they think we have sixty-six? It isn't because Scripture says anywhere that we were going to receive sixty-six. The Bible tells nowhere how many books there would be. It doesn't even tell us that we would get several books. We knew it was books and that those books were the right books because those were the ones that the churches settled upon.
Agreement upon the words of Scripture is even plainer. Revelation 22:18-19 is commonly referred to in discussions about canonicity and they don't refer to books.
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.You see "words" here, not books. Speaking about canonicity in his theology, Wayne Grudem writes (p. 65):
The severity of the punishments in Revelation 22:18-19 that come to those who add or take from God's words also confirms the importance of God's people having a correct canon.He also references passages with "words" as a basis of canonicity and says:
We know that God loves his people, and it is supremely important that God's people have his words, for they are our life (Deut. 32:47; Matt. 4:4).If non-preservationists were to be consistent, they would savage this writing by Grudem because he refers to Matthew 4:4 as a text that is speaking about the written Word of God. Of course, he doesn't get that kind of treatment, because canonicity is not such a controversial issue.
There is an attack today on the books of Scripture. Bart Ehrman, well-respected scholar and published author, in his popular Misquoting Jesus says that we read and use the books we do because a particular group of Christians were in the majority and they won out over the others, so it was they who decided what the Christian creeds would be. According to him, they established themselves to be right and then determined what future Christians would believe about Jesus. We only read their version of things because they had defeated the other groups. Many, many other books had been written about Jesus and were not much copied or preserved because, in his opinion, they didn't contain the popular teaching. Ehrman also believes that the books that we do have were fiddled with in order to align them even more with the orthodox and politically correct teaching.
So why isn't Ehrman right? We do still have those disputed and rejected books to which he refers. And many of them are very old, even though they are in the minority of manuscripts. Evangelicals reject what Ehrman says based upon what was preserved by the saints. Those are the books and history that we have. We have a bias toward those books which present the consistent and historic view of Jesus Christ. The other books passed by the wayside. We still have them, but just because they were preserved somewhere, doesn't mean that they should come up again for reconsideration. And yet, because we find an old manuscript, like Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, and we have rationalistic laws of textual criticism, we reject the text agreed upon by believers led by the Holy Spirit. This clashes with the evangelical approach to canonicity. The two positions, canonicity and preservation, should be consistent.
Canonicity and Preservation
What I am describing about books is also the historic Christian position about the Words as well. I've often referenced these quotes here and other places, but as an example, Richard Capel, wrote in 1658:
[W]e have the Copies in both languages [Hebrew and Greek], which Copies vary not from Primitive writings in any matter which may stumble any. This concernes onely the learned, and they know that by consent of all parties, the most learned on all sides among Christians do shake hands in this, that God by his providence hath preserved them uncorrupt. . . . As God committed the Hebrew text of the Old Testament to the Jewes, and did and doth move their hearts to keep it untainted to this day: So I dare lay it on the same God, that he in his providence is so with the Church of the Gentiles, that they have and do preserve the Greek Text uncorrupt, and clear: As for some scrapes by Transcribers, that comes to no more, than to censure a book to be corrupt, because of some scrapes in the printing, and 'tis certain, that what mistake is in one print, is corrected in another.He was referring to the words of the textus receptus of the New Testament. This fit right in with the Westminster Confession (1646) and the London Baptist Confession (1689):
The Old Testament in Hebrew . . . , and the New Testament in Greek . . . , being immediately inspired by God, and by his singular care and providence kept pure in all ages, are therefore authentical.The church already settled on the text of Scripture. They believed God perfectly preserved it. Something new couldn't be Scripture, just like a new canon couldn't be the canon. We aren't open to a new canon and we aren't open to new words of Scripture. Opening up criticism and discussion to new words would be akin to opening it up for a new canon. This isn't a historic, orthodox position in either case.
Some have charged those who believe the perfect preservation of Scripture with the name fideist, used in derogatory fashion. Fideism is supposedly a kind of baseless faith position that detaches itself from evidence. They say that since Scripture never promises preservation in a particular text type, we can't really apply verses on preservation to any particular text of the New Testament. Well, since the Bible never promises a sixty-six book canon, we can't really apply verses used for canonicity to the canon of Scripture. I say no to both of them. If I'm a fideist to believe in sixy-six books based upon biblical presuppositions, then I guess I'm a fideist then.
God inspired every Word of Scripture and all of Scripture (2 Timothy 3:16). Hebrew copyists took this so seriously that they counted every Word so as to never miss one. Every Word was important, not just the doctrines or the message of Scripture. The attacks on preservation of the Bible for centuries and especially today provide the foundation for the postmodern uncertainty in churches and theological circles today. The devaluation of doctrine, that so many evangelicals talk and write about, has come in a major way because of their carelessness about the preservation of God's Words. Even the reformed have left in this their Reformation doctrine of sola Scriptura.
R. C. Sproul decries this in a recent publication on canonicity by his organization:
Beyond the radical reductionism of Bultmann, we have seen more recently attempts among professing evangelicals, and even within the Reformed community, to seek a different type of reduction of Scripture. We have seen views of so-called "limited inspiration" or "limited inerrancy." That is to say, the Spirit's inspiration of the Bible is not holistic, but rather is limited to matters of faith and doctrine. In this scenario, proponents suggest we can distinguish between doctrinal matters that are of divine origin and what the Bible teaches in matters of science and history, and, in some cases, ethics. Therefore, there are portions within the Bible that are not equally inspired by God. In this case, we see the reappearance of a canon within a canon. The problem that arises is a serious one. Perhaps most severe is the question, who is it who decides what part of the Bible really belongs to the canon? Once we remove ourselves from a view of tota Scriptura, we are free then to pick and choose what portions of Scripture are normative for Christian faith and life, just like picking cherries from a tree.Tota Scriptura?
To do this we would have to revisit the teaching of Jesus, wherein He said that man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. We would have to change it, to have our Lord say that we do not live by bread alone but by only some of the words that come to us from God. In this case, the Bible is reduced to the status where the whole is less than the sum of its parts. This is an issue that the church has to face in every generation, and it has reappeared today in some of the most surprising places. We're finding, in seminaries that call themselves Reformed, professors advocating this type of canon within the canon. The church must say an emphatic "no" to these departures from orthodox Christianity, and she must reaffirm her faith not only in sola Scriptura, but in tota Scriptura as well.
What Sproul describes here is all over the place in evangelicalism. In a recent debate with Frank Turk at his blog on the preservation of Scripture, he wrote this:
Because we receive the NT in translation (for example, in the KJV), we must insist that the perfection of Scripture today is found in the message and not the words.Later at another one of his blogs, he wrote this comment in bold print:
All believers at all times have sufficient special revelation to make a saving confession of faith; in this, their confession of faith is not dependent on any particular text type or even the perfection of any particular manuscript.Professing fundamentalists also chime in with this view of the Bible. Paul W. Downey in God's Word in Our Hands writes (p. 376):
God's Word transcends written documents, even the physical universe, and will be completely and ultimately fulfilled if not one copy remains. The power and effectiveness and duration of the Word of God, and man's responsibility to obey it, do not demand the presence or even the existence of any physical copy.Speaking of God and the preservation of Scripture, Kevin Bauder writes this (pp. 159-160) in One Bible Only?:
He might preserve some words and He might permit some to be lost, depending upon His own purpose.Unless we define God's Word as the message or the concepts or the doctrines, we don't find tota Scriptura in those statements. This is not the historical position of the church. Men of the past believed that Scripture was preserved in the very Words and they believed that the Words in the copies they possessed were identical with the original manuscripts. Their bibliology applied to both the doctrines of canonicity and of preservation.
It really comes down to believing in the greater providence or greater miracle depending upon how someone defines providence or miracle. The first known historical account of the 27 books of the New Testament comes in 376BC. And yet, we believe that the saints had the books of the New Testament. The same Holy Spirit that led them could also lead them to the words. There really is no reason why He could not. Some might say that we don't have a historical basis to believe that they had all of them, but we do. The saints of the reformation period, who were still talking about canonicity too, agreed on the books and the words. Scripture was settled. It still should be.


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Integrated pressure sensor 15 to 115 kPa (2.2 to 16.7 psi), 0.2 to 4.8 V output.
The MPX4115A series is designed to sense absolute air pressure in altimeter or barometer (BAP) applications. Freescale's BAP sensor integrates on-chip, bipolar op amp circuitry and thin film resistor networks to provide a high level analog output signal and temperature compensation.
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Also from the OHL, Gregg Sutch recorded an assist as Mississauga (5-1-0-0) needed a shootout to defeat Brampton, 5-4. The Majors' checking forward now has three assists through five games. Barclay Goodrow ('11) had a pair of goals to pace the Battalion.
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Synopsis: ENSO-neutral conditions have returned and are favoured to continue through at least the Southern Hemisphere fall 2017. La Niña conditions are no longer present, with slightly below-average sea surface temperatures (SSTs) observed across the central equatorial Pacific and above-average SSTs increasing in the eastern Pacific. The latest weekly Niño index values were -0.3°C in the westernmost Niño-4 and Niño-3.4 regions, and +1.5°C in the easternmost Niño-1+2 region. The upper-ocean heat content anomaly increased during January and was slightly positive when averaged across the eastern Pacific, a reflection of above-average temperatures at depth. Atmospheric convection remained suppressed over the central tropical Pacific and enhanced over Indonesia. The low-level easterly winds were slightly enhanced over the western tropical Pacific, and upper-level westerly winds were near average. Overall, the ocean and atmosphere system is consistent with ENSO-neutral conditions. Most models predict the continuation of ENSO-neutral (3-month average Niño-3.4 index between -0.5°C and 0.5°C) through the Southern Hemisphere winter. However, a few dynamical model forecasts, including the NCEP CFSv2, anticipate an onset of El Niño as soon as the Southern Hemisphere fall (March-May 2017). Because of typically high uncertainty in forecasts made at this time of the year for the upcoming fall and winter, and the lingering La Niña-like tropical convection patterns, the forecaster consensus favors ENSO-neutral during the fall with a ~60% chance. Thereafter, there are increasing odds for El Niño toward the second half of 2017 (~50% chance in September-November). In summary, ENSO-neutral conditions have returned and are favored to continue through at least the Southern Hemisphere fall 2017.
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ROXBURY -- Like most seniors, Peter Pappas, 76, enjoys spending time with his family and leisurely weekends at home.
But unlike most seniors, Pappas bikes 50 to 75 miles a week. For the fifth year, he is taking part in this weekend's 10th annual CT Challenge bike ride, which raises money to benefit programs for cancer survivors.
Challenge co-founder Jeff Keith said Pappas is not only the oldest cyclist in the event, but one of its champion fundraisers.
"He's just a stunning example for all of us," Keith said. "You look forward to getting older when you look at Peter."
Pappas, a full-time aviation executive, has raised just under $50,000 for the cause. This year, he is nearing his goal of $15,000, which ranks him third among all individual participants.
Pappas rode the first time after seeing fliers in the Roxbury Market.
"Like most people, I have lost friends to cancer," Pappas said. "There are so many people these days winning the battle and surviving cancer, so I looked into it."
Pappas used to bike as a child, but it was not until he met Trevor Glander, a South African businessman and regular rider, that he got serious about cycling. They biked together every weekend until Glander was diagnosed with brain tumors, which proved fatal.
"It was such a tragedy," Pappas said. "He was so physically fit. No one expected it."
He uses the memory of Glander to motivate him during the bike challenge. Each year, he keeps a photo of them together in his back pocket while he rides.
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The challenge's main beneficiary is the Center of Survivorship in Fairfield, which Keith described as the organization's "epicenter" of health care for cancer survivors.
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Pappas normally rides 25 miles in the challenges. Last year, however, he was forced to withdraw after he fractured a bone in a fall from his bike.
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You can compare what happened in the tiny Oregon logging town of Vernonia to some of the small communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina. In the winter of 2007, a series of tremendous rainstorms caused the ordinarily lazy Nahalem River to flood the town, destroying half of the community's housing stock, many of the downtown businesses, and the entire school district: elementary, middle, and high schools. The total damage was more than $100 million.
Rendering of new Vernonia school to include a 60 kW solar system
Without the schools – the heart of the community – the fate of the town was uncertain at best. But the town residents would not let Vernonia die. The 2,500 citizens passed a bond levy of $13 million, taxing themselves to build a new school, and Oregonians rallied to the cause. Business leaders from around the state joined with elected officials to re-build Vernonia, starting with the school. They began planning immediately to move the physical location of the school to higher ground out of the floodplain, and they developed a plan for a school that would anchor the community firmly in the future: a school that could serve as a model for rural communities across the nation, trying to adapt to new economies, when traditional economic engines like logging or mining wither away.
SolarWorld's Gordon Brinser onsite at the construction of the new Vernonia school
SolarWorld's Hillsboro facility is located just 33 miles away from Vernonia, and some of our employees are residents of that community. As Community Relations Manager at SolarWorld, I saw our involvement in this project as almost inevitable…it was just something we needed to do.
When I learned that the new school was intended to be the first LEED-platinum certified K-12 school in the U.S., the case was made for me. Solar panels were in the plan, and I was determined that they were going to be our panels. A couple of phone calls and a few meetings later, we had an agreement with the school district, the contractors, and the electricians. SolarWorld would provide sharply discounted prices for our panels, saving the school district approximately $50,000, and we would also make an in-kind contribution of an additional $20,000 worth of materials.
This morning, SolarWorld president Gordon Brinser and I participated in a small announcement ceremony at the site of the new school. Gordon spoke about how proud we are to be a part of the future of the community, and how the town is tying its natural resource-based history to an sustainable, technology-based future.
SolarWorld's Gordon Brinser speaking at Vernonia school
Waving a "Sun at Work" sign, Oregon State Senator Betsy Johnson thanked SolarWorld for our partnership, reminding the audience that if the community hadn't stood up first to rescue their town, no one else would have. "You've made this happen, " she said, gesturing to the construction behind her.
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And then, addressing the students in the audience, she pointed out, "The future is not the building behind me. It's you. You're Vernonia's future." The senior class of Vernonia High School hopes the gym in the new building is complete by June, for their graduation ceremonies. The new Vernonia School will welcome its first students in September 2012, and SolarWorld will be there.
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10 years of experience at the professional level is what Ashampoo has to offer in what is a very important topic for daily PC use, namely, Windows optimization. This extensive pool of knowledge is now the basis for the new and completely improved Ashampoo WinOptimizer 5. The program is designed to enable both novice and advanced users to cleanse and optimize their Windows system and adapt it to their own needs. The tool feels equally at home optimizing the Windows XP and 2000 operating systems as it does under Windows Vista.
The extremely easy-to-use menus present the individual modules of Ashampoo WinOptimizer 5 and make it possible to measure system performance, deactivate annoying autostart entries, or delete unnecessary files, all with a click of the mouse.
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Many users move icons around on their desktop to make their daily work as efficient as possible. Unfortunately, this icon arrangement is very easily lost. All it takes is switching the screen resolution. Icon-Saver keeps track of the arrangement of icons on the desktop and can restore them at any time. The module can keep track of several stored desktop configurations.
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Previously referred to as the Registry Cleaner, this module scans the Windows registry. Ashampoo WinOptimizer 5 finds broken links that have empty references and automatically either eliminates or immediately repairs them. The integration with real-time backup here ensures that it is always possible to restore the original condition of the registry.
Under Windows Vista, all the cleaner modules of Ashampoo WinOptimizer 5 can be launched from this gadget. Even One-Click Optimization can now be run from the gadget. Users can also view a graphic representation of processes with the gadget and have the available capacity of their hard drives displayed.
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* Tweaking Tools: Hundreds of settings can easily be switched on and off in this module with a click of the mouse. Not only the visual appearance and general behavior of Windows in certain situations is addressed here, but also topics such as security, Internet, and multimedia. The integration with the real-time backup makes it possible to undo all changes at any time here as well.
* Process Manager: Now, frozen windows from crashed applications are no longer a problem. The Process Manager deals with these applications in short order, kicking them out of memory and off the screen. Suspicious applications can also be immediately terminated in this manner. What's new is that the module not only lists all active processes, but also provides corresponding information on them. A new visual aid also shows which system processes are absolutely necessary so that they are not deleted.
* StartUp Tuner: This module displays all autostart entries, allowing users to deactivate irritating programs so that they are no longer executed when Windows starts up. This module also now names the autostart entries that are absolutely necessary and should not be switched off by the user. An overview and recommendation for unnecessary services is now also available for Windows Vista. Requested by many users: Now, Internet Explorer plug-ins can be viewed and deleted if necessary.
* File Wiper: When Windows deletes files, they're not really removed, but rather made available for overwriting. In short: Any data thief can easily restore them. The File Wiper deletes data with sensitive contents completely, making it impossible to restore them even with specialized programs. The new version is fully integrated into the Windows Explorer context menu and can accordingly be opened from that location without starting the main application. In addition, performance has been noticeably improved.
* One-Click Optimization: No time for anything? One-Click Optimization cleans up any area desired with the single click of a mouse. What's new is the ability to optionally display lists of results.
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* Visual Styler: It's important to many users that their Windows system has its own unique look. That's where the visual styler comes in. The module can switch out existing icons for new ones and make the individual windows look transparent.
* Hard Drive Defragmenter: This module also runs under Vista, reconnecting files which have been broken into fragments to restore them to their original form. This increases performance when working with Windows.
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