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On behalf of JewishGen, we wish a hearty Mazal Tov and congratulations to fellow Jewish Genealogy blogger Schelly Talalay Dardashti, upon receiving the "Excellence: Genealogical Methods and Sources" award at the recently concluded National Genealogical Society conference.
Schelly's article that earned her the nomination was entitled "Ties That Bind" (published in the September 2009 issue of Family Tree Magazine), and focused on Jewish Genealogical research methodology and strategy.
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There are no shortage of subplots surrounding the Washington Redskins these days. This made for nice timing Thursday, when general manager Bruce Allen made himself available to reporters.
The health and rehab of quarterback Robert Griffin III remains the chief subplot surrounding the team, and Allen provided another positive update.
"He's progressing well," Allen said, via Grant Paulsen of WJFK-FM. "He's on schedule or ahead of schedule and it's because of the work ethic that you know he has."
Some other topics hit by Allen:
» Despite the heavy criticism about playing conditions in the playoffs, Allen said a transition from a grass surface to FieldTurf is not an option in 2013. He admitted the team missed its opportunity to re-sod last year.
» Allen is decidedly against the Redskins ever changing their nickname. "It's ludicrous to think that in any way we're trying to upset anybody." ... "We're not a new franchise. We're 81 years old. There's nothing that we feel is offensive."
» Allen is of the belief that London Fletcher is indestructible. "He's got another three or four good years left in him." (Hard to disagree.)
» Allen was optimistic about tight end Fred Davis, recovering from a torn Achilles tendon. "He's progressing well. That's a very serious injury."
» The Redskins are still fighting their salary-cap penalty, despite having had their appeal denied back in May. "I think the penalty was wrong. It was unfair."
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Afternoon of classical song and dance on Mother's Day
The eighth annual Quintessential Classicals, an enchanted afternoon of song and dance, will be held on Mother's Day, May 8, at 2 p.m., at the Haskell Opera House.
This event is a benefit for the Haskell.
Ballet Arts will perform under the direction of Kathleen McCloskey Scott. Ballet Arts' youngest students will bring to life some of the characters from British children's author Beatrix Potter. Using John Lanchbery's original score, the children will enchant the audience with their interpretations of these whimsical characters. This dance was first presented on stage at the Royal Opera House in London, England, in 1992, by The Royal Ballet.
Keeping with classical roots, Ballet Arts will then be joined by Spotlight VT Pointe dancers, under the direction of Shelley Ismail. They will present the "Pas de Trois" from act one of Swan Lake. In addition, Ballet Arts will present the variation "Prayer" from the ballet, Coppélia.
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For more information, call the QNEK box office at 334-2216, or the Haskell box office at 873-3022, extension 205, or visit balletarts.wordpress.com.
This event is underwritten by Ballet Arts and QNEK Productions, performed with permission from American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. — from the Haskell.


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This template file is a Word document, but can be opened in Apple's Pages word processing app as well. Either way, the final document should be sent to the Kindle as a PDF file for best results.


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Let's celebrate the USA on July 4th! How big does the celebration go across America? Across the 50 states, duh. The 48 contiguous, Alaska and Hawaii. But what about Washington DC? And the Indian territories? Puerto Rico? Guam? The Virgin Islands? And let's not get into places you've never heard of like Johnston Atoll and Bajo Nuevo Bank. The truth is the United States of America is an empire with a different name. CGP Grey explains the truth behind the American Empire in his latest video below.
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If you can do it in UCS Manager GUI, you can do it in UCS Manager API!
If I have said it once, I have said it at least a thousand times. No figure of speech here, completely one hundred percent literal. What have I said? "If you can do it in UCS Manager GUI, you can do it in UCS Manager API!" Whatever "it" is.
When do I say this? Whenever I talk about the UCS Manager to customers or coworkers, there is almost always the question, "Can this be done via the API?" To which I always reply "If you can do it in the GUI you can do it in the API." Not sure if that is grammatically correct, but my point is made. That is the power and the ease of the UCS XML API.
The UCS Manager graphical interface is built on the XML API. When developing a script and you're not sure how to do the action, what the call is, what the correct parameters are, etc… Just look at how the UCS Manager does it and you're good. How do you look at how UCS Manager does it? Use Wireshark or some other packet capture tool and see what's going on, what is getting passed from the UCS Manager client to UCS Manager. Done, no secrets, no convolution, no obfuscation.
Now there are several tools available to interact with the UCS where you don't have to write any code. Check these out.
- UCS PowerTool
goUCSHas been deprecated
- PowerShell without UCS PowerTool (not sure why you wouldn't use PowerTool)
I'm going to use a hybrid of UCS PowerTool and .Net to do something that I didn't realize could be done via the API, until I had an aha moment. The aha moment was when I viewed a Server SEL log in the UCS Manager client. I had been asked previously how to retrieve the SEL logs from the UCS, and have shown users how to go into the CLI and get the SEL log and send it somewhere in an automated fashion using expect.
Now, I realize that I was ignoring my own adage, "If you can do it in UCS Manager GUI, you can do it in UCS Manager API!"
I started Wireshark and viewed a server SEL log in my UCS client. Interestingly, this call was not an HTTP POST as normally happens with the UCS XML API, but an HTTP GET. Almost all UCS XML API calls are HTTP POST, so when an HTTP GET shows up I think hmmm, not going to be the usual process, because actually it is not a UCS XML API call. The request is a standard HTTP GET, there is a file on the UCS Fabric Interconnect, go GET it. But what about authentication, don't I need a UCS authentication cookie?
When looked at the captured HTTP GET I do see that there is a header element called Cookie and it is set to "ucsm-cookie=" and the GET URI is a bit different. The GET URI has /../ in its path, this seems to be required because when I attempted to get the SEL without the /../ in the GET URI path I received an error.
This is the GET URI path for Chassis 1/Server 1 /ucsm/../operations/server-1-1/sel.txt For a Rack Mount UCS server that is being managed by UCS Manager the GET URI path for server 1 would be /ucsm/../operations/server-rackunit-1/sel.txt
So this turns out to be fairly simple to do, you'll need a few items
- UCS Authentication Cookie (which means a connection to a UCS)
- The Server number for the SEL to be retrieved
- A .Net System.Net.WebClient Object
That's it, while I'm sure you'll wrap this up is a script with input parameters like username, password, UCS name, output file name, debug flag, the usual stuff. I'm just listing the commands as if entered right at the command line. This example is for Chassis 1/Server 1, I'm using the UCS PowerTool cmdlet Get-UcsPSSession to get the UCS ucs and the UCS cookie attributes from the UCS session object.
Connect-Ucs 10.10.10.10 $httpGet = New-Object System.Net.WebClient $httpGet.Headers.Add("Cookie", 'ucsm-cookie="' + $(Get-UcsPSSession|Select-Object -ExpandProperty cookie) + '"') $httpGet.DownloadString($(Get-UcsPSSession|Select-Object -ExpandProperty uri) + "/ucsm/../operations/server-1-1/sel.txt") Disconnect-Ucs
There also are settings in UCS Manager for moving the SEL files to a host based on time, service profile change, file size, etc.
Just remember "If you can do it in UCS Manager GUI, you can do it in UCS Manager API!"
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STAMFORD -- A former Subway restaurant worker was sentenced to serve a year in prison for hiding a video camera under a bathroom sink in the Noroton Heights store and filming patrons.
Marco Dias 22, of Bridgeport, was sentenced by Judge Richard Comerford Wednesday afternoon after he pleaded guilty to a voyeurism charge.
Dias was arrested in early August after an armored car service driver visited the sandwich shop on July 30 to use the bathroom, according to Dias' three-page arrest warrant.
The driver noticed what he thought was a computer memory stick that had been pushed into insulation wrapped around the drain pipe under the bathroom sink.
After taking a closer look, the driver discovered the device had a lens.
He took the device with him to ensure no one else would end up being recorded in the bathroom, the affidavit said. He gave the camera to his supervisor, who then turned it over to Stamford police.
Police investigators discovered the camera was designed to look like a memory drive, the affidavit said.
Detectives then found a video file that showed Dias setting the camera up in the bathroom; police released a photo from that video file.
They also found films of two men and a woman using the toilet.
"It appears from the angle that this subject had set up the camera that he is more interested in seeing the genitalia of male subjects, which may include minor children as well as adults," the affidavit states.
After determining Dias has been in the country illegally for 12 years, Darien police contacted federal immigration officals,. At the time of his arrest, police said Dias had no prior criminal history.
In return for pleading guilty to one voyeurism charge, Dias -- who has been in jail since his arrest on Aug. 2 -- had two other voyeurism charges dropped.
Comerford took pains to tell Dias that if he pleaded guilty, it may mean he will be deported.
He was given a three-year prison sentence, suspended after one year served and followed by three years of probation.


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What are screenahots?
- Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement. -- Mark Twain
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Still rocking herbstluftwm, seems like I finally found my WM. Only changed my wallpaper and my terminal colorscheme since last month.
The wallpaper can be found here, and the colorscheme is a modified version of jasonwryan's. The most notable change is yellow now looking more like VGA yellow (aka brown).
EDIT: Oh, I also changed the font of my status bar to ohsnap.
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Crosspost from the Xmonad thread.
Hi can you post your wallpaper and do you have it in some other color scheme (like blue) ? thanks
Sorry for my english. It's not my native language..
Hi can you post your wallpaper and do you have it in some other color scheme (like blue) ? thanks
I'm completely useless in anything graphical, so I got the wallpaper here on deviantart. The same user (props to him/her) also has something blue'ish here.
More details, please. ^^
Plasma theme, dock, icons, top panel...
Sorry, but I think this is too awesome.
More details, please. ^^
Plasma theme, dock, icons, top panel...
It's simply two plasma panels. The one on the top has six plasmoids: AppMenu QML, Plasma Menu Bar, yaWC (yet another window control), systemtray, clock and a launcher. The other one has only IconTask plasmoid. Configuring those should be fairly trivial but I made a guide for it awhile back. The plasma theme is Helium One and icons are from Elementary (NM) (menu&shutdown) and kAwOken. The font is Droid Sans with Ubuntu patched font rendering.
Glad you like it
Petite veille d'ivresse, sainte ! quand ce ne serait que pour le masque dont tu as gratifié. Nous t'affirmons, méthode ! Nous n'oublions pas que tu as glorifié hier chacun de nos âges. Nous avons foi au poison. Nous savons donner notre vie tout entière tous les jours.
Voici le temps des Assassins.
Something different for the start of the month
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You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
still dwm
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Monday, February 06, 2012
Me GOP, Me Make Joke, Me Make Racist Ad For Hoek
This year's winner is Michigan Republican Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra, who rechristens his Democrat opponent Debbie Stabenow as "Debbie Spenditnow" via a young Asian woman who parks her bike in a rice paddy (really) to thank "Spenditnow" for selling America out to China in overly-accented "me so horny"-style broken english: "Your economy get very weak. Ours get very good. We take your jobs!"
Yeah, but there's no racism in the Republican Party. Zip. Zero. None at all. All made up by the Liberal Media. Yup.
21 comments:
- Angry Man said...
I also find it hilarious that the dubbing was off. Not sure whether it was intentional like a bad asian movie, or just a technical issue with the video
- David said...
You have to be kidding me...
- 9jack9 said...
You gotta love how petty they get using a what appears to be a stereotype peasant. Forget the image of a modern financial tycoon from Bejing or something even slightly relevant to macro-economics, Nope but fuck those peasant! trying to work their way out of poverty!
- Wendy said...
I notice you didn't pitch a fit about Joe Biden talking with an Indian Accent during a recent speech.
I alos notice you didn't stand up for Colonel Allen West when racist pig of a congressman Jim Moran said West 'Wasn't representative of the african-american community" Funny how the political spectrum that believes in being Pro-Choice doesn't think black folks are allowed to wander off the democratic plantation.
And then there was Herman Cain, a highly intelligent man bashed over the head with sexual allegations so flimsy that Bill Clinton would have laughed them off in the span of a weekend while Monica blew him. Nothing to say there, Bob?
Now, the commercial itself is pretty fucking stupid and insensitive. Doesn't undercut the facts though. I probably shouldn't bring up facts here, though. The best way to anger a conservative is to tell him a lie; the best way to anger a liberal is to tell him the truth.
- Peter T said...
They seriously went there? Ugh.
Yes, because someone doing or saying something stupid is equivalent to paying lots of money to air a thought out and calculated racist ad because you view your base (regardless of their actual beliefs) to be a bunch of uninformed racists.
Typical though, someone does something inexcusably racist on the conservative side so just blame bias.
- Derek said...
I'll note that when Bill Clinton got nailed to the wall over his affair, a dozen other women didn't come out of the woodwork. Cain never wanted to be President - he wanted to sell books and fill his Self-Help lectures. Which is why when the going got tough, i.e., he was subject to the kind of scrutiny to be expected of a Presidential candidate, he quit. And by the way, someone who can't keep track of the President's positions on foreign interventions in the Middle East, and who characterizes former Soviet states as "Uzbeki-beki-stan-stan" in a one-on-one interview, and who answers direct questions by repeating his slogan, and who doesn't understand what a regressive tax system is, doesn't get my vote for sharpest tool in the shed.
Btw, your unequivocal dismissal of liberals doesn't help persuade anyone of the validity of anything you're saying. It just gives me a reason to dismiss your argument out of hand. So, grats!
- Daniel R said...
Oh God!
This can exist?!
You can make a commercial this insensitive and you don't suddenly vanish into the aether!
Yeah, Cain's Sexual Allegation Scandal weren't anything. He just sexually harassed three women, offered a fourth a job in return for oral sex, and denied ever consummating a 13 year affair.
Unlike Clinton who committed the unspeakable act of having sexual relations with that woman.
Say what you will about Bill, at least his allegation was consensual!
- Dave from canada said...
I seem to recall another similar ad posted on this very blog a few months ago.
Never thought I'd see yellow peril come back in my lifetime.
- Wendy said...
I care.
- Sylocat said...
Fun fact: The law firm that Pete Hoekstra is affiliated with is named "Dickstein Shapiro."
If Charles Dickens and Aaron McGruder collaborated on a book, I'm pretty sure this guy would be one of the main villains.
- David (The Pants) said...
1. She's not dressed like someone who'd be out in the rice fields, is she? Because if she isn't then is she going into a city or something?
2. Her accent was too American to be making those grammatical errors. Egregious.
This is a horrible commercial. 2/10
- Mads said...
But, wait...it's...what?
How is this racist exactly? She's the symbol of prosperous china, right?
What would be a non-racist way to symbolize prosperous china and anthropomorphize it? Remember, it's gotta be able to speak.
Just so we're clear on exactly what the error here was.
The most appaling thing about this commercial was the fact that the message is presumptious and misguided.
Fact: China only owns roughly 8% of US debt.
Fact: the candidate in this add helped add to that debt by supporting the Iraq war and both rounds of the Bush Tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
- Benfea said...
Wow, it only took four posts for some knee jerk protofascist to chime in with one of those "libruls iz ezzaklee as bad!!!" double fallacies.
First of all, the examples given are never as bad, and secondly, even if they were, there's still a tu quoque fallacy at the bottom of the argument. Even if liberals were exactly as bad, that wouldn't make the fascists right.
- biomechanical923 said...
@ Mads
" What would be a non-racist way to symbolize prosperous china and anthropomorphize it? Remember, it's gotta be able to speak. "
You dont. You don't use the concept of China being prosperous as a fear tactic in a political smear campaign.
The message by this advertisement is simple. "If you vote for my opponent, China is going to take all your money. Look at the Chinese woman laughing at you"
It's an appeal to emotion and racism, and unacceptable at any time.
- Mads said...
You can safely ignore wendy. I mean, I read her posts, but she doesn't engage in discussions beyond making a comment or two. They're mostly here because Bob is a liberal, she's a conservative, and this is a fine place for practicing political speech; at least that's my guess. Bob has a few such commenters hanging around, people who are exceptionally stringent ideologues. It's the internet, and it's not really that harmful to be exposed to other oppinions than your own, contrary to popular belief, but you'll probably be ok if you just skip what she writes.
Firstly, I'm obviously on the wrong page of the book for even asking that question.
Reddit blew up over this, I scoured the first 20 top comments, and _everybody_ thinks its racist, but for some reason, my mind just didn't sound the alarm bells when I saw the ad. Maybe it's because I live in a country where I've only been exposed to racism targeted at asians maybe 3 or so times in my whole life. I don't know why I didn't react.
So as I said, it's obvious that I'm in the wrong for just presenting such a question; but to most people, the racism is so obvious that they never go into the specifics.
Anyway, so about the ad. I get that it's a political smear campaign and that it's factually incorrect. China only possess 8% of US loans, and the loans don't actually make China prosperous. They are, however, an economic superpower that will soon take over the US in total GDP. And the US does import massively from Asian regions, which does weaken the US economy.
The way I see it, the linking of this to his political opponent, and to government spending in particular, is a smear action and immoral, because it paints a completely false image.
This part, I understand. Now about the racism. In a certain sense, chinese prosperity is a threat to the US economy, in the form of the imports I mentioned. People in the US, by all rights, should be concerned about this development: China is not exactly a democracy, and allowing them to become an economic superpower does pose a threat to the american military hegemony. The Soviet Union, after all, had it's military power undermined by economics. And American jobs _are_ moving to china.
It's a real issue, and I'm not sure why a politician shouldn't try to discuss it as part of his election strategy, per default. I mean, here it's a plot (that's obvious), but if he was being honest about wanting to solve the issue, isn't that fair game?
That's why I asked the question. How do you bring that issue to the table in a political ad?
I mean, suppose it wasn't a smear campaign, for just a second. Suppose he didn't link his political opponent to it, or even government spending and loans to the issue of chinese prosperity. Would it _then_ be racist? Is it racist because it's a part of the smear campaign?
Should he have gone without any person in the add? Should he have filmed a chinese skyscraper instead of a rice paddy? A railroad for the bullettrains they're designing? Because a lot of chinese do look like the woman in the video to westerners, and there is a crapton of rice paddies, and most chinese do speak in engrish or with a clear chinese accent? Is it wrong because people are inherently scared of asian-looking women? Where's the issue with the actual content?
That's the point I feel like I'm missing.
- biomechanical923 said...
@ Mads
First I want to say that I was in no way accusing you of racism. I just wanted to make sure that was clear.
If American businesses were really so concerned about China becoming too prosperous, you would think that they would stop buying so much from China.
The fear of China (or any other country) getting "too prosperous" comes from an antiquated idea that the US should be the only world superpower. It's part of the "American Dream" fairy tale that we keep telling ourselves about American Exceptionalism, that no one else is as fit to rule as we are.
I'm no economist, but I believe there's really nothing wrong with our economic decline. It's a fact that the planet does not contain enough resources to allow for everyone to have the standard of living that is enjoyed in the United States and western Europe. I don't believe it's any coincidence that the standard of living is slowly declining in the "first" world and increasing in places like Brazil, India and China. I think that globalization is causing a sort of equilibrium in the standard of living for everybody involved.
My thoughts are beginning to ramble a lot more than I had hoped. I guess what I'm really saying is that when business owners and politicians start preaching populism that all our money and jobs are going to China, India, etc.., I think it's both disingenuous and predatory, because THEY are the once screwing over Americans because they're butthurt that they have to pay their share in taxes. In this way, corporations are holding the American economy hostage, and forcing the Federal government to come up with the ransom.
The thing that politicians don't seem to understand is that those manufacturing jobs are never coming back to america. Ever. Labor is simply too cheap overseas and american workers would never accept the sort of wages that overseas factory workers get paid. Obama asked Steve Jobs what it would take to bring back Apple's overseas jobs to the US and Jobs flatly told him that it just isn't possible.
FYI the next thing to go will be retail. It's already started in some niche markets with sites like Hobby King that sell products for a fraction of what it would cost at a local RC hobby shop. If they get overseas shipping times down and shipping costs more reasonable then retail for non perishable goods will go down the same road that manufacturing has.
- Sylocat said...
Our economy was doomed the instant we shifted the center of American business power from manufacturing to retail (thanks, Wal-Mart). And now that retail jobs are going to, what we're left with is the "Service Economy."
I'd give it about five years before this country collapses like a wet taco. You cannot base an economy off of people asking each other if they want fries with that. It just isn't possible.
I'm this close to sitting back and WELCOMING our new Chinese overlords, and I pray that when the EU collapses, Scandinavia and Germany can piece themselves back together and form their own union to provide competition.


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Ron Paul Introduced Pro-gun Legislation
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Texas Congressman and GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul continues to champion constitutional rights. His latest endeavor is a bill that would abolish "gun-free zones," ultimately permitting teachers to carry firearms on school grounds. Predictably, anti-gun groups are calling the legislation "extremist."
CNS News reports, "H.R. 2613, the Citizens Protection Act of 2011, would repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 and remove all federally created criminal safety zones."
The Gun-Free School Zones Act was first enacted as section 1702 of the Crime Control Act of 1990. The text of the act reads, "It shall be unlawful for any individual knowingly to possess a firearm that has moved in or that otherwise affects interstate or foreign commerce at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone."
Paul's bill will permit individuals, including teachers, to carry firearms onto high-school and middle-school campuses.
The Gun-Free School Zones Act faced adamant opposition from Second Amendment advocacy groups like Gun Owners of America, which has indicated its support for Paul's legislation.
According to a news release from Gun Owners of America, the Gun-Free School Zones Act protects criminals. The release points to attacks at Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Fort Hood, all of which are "government facilities where the private possession of firearms was prohibited."
The release continues, "It's time to say NO to criminal safe zones. And a great place to start is the blatantly unconstitutional Gun-free School Zones Act."
A number of pro-gun groups argued that the shootings at Columbine High School and Platte Canyon, two high schools in Colorado, necessitated the repeal of the School Zones Act so that campuses would be safer.
Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, said that despite the intentions of the School Zones Act, it ultimately created "target-rich, no-risk environments for monsters who have no fear of encountering an armed teacher or administrator, or a legally armed private citizen who might happen to be in the building."
"This sort of thing didn't happen before the advent of gun-free school zone laws," Gottlieb said. "You never saw such an outrage in the days when high schools typically had rifle teams, and — particularly in the West — where it was common in the fall to find both teachers and students with hunting rifles or shotguns locked in their cars."
Gun control groups, on the other hand, believe Paul's legislation to be dangerous and extreme.
Ladd Everitt, communications director for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, said of the bill, "It's a horrific piece of legislation that will present a direct threat to public safety. 'Gun-free zones,' despite the gun lobby's propaganda, are far and away the safest places in our country."
Everitt asserts that the bill will likely garner support only from extremist groups:
Rep. Paul's legislation is the latest in a series of extreme pieces of legislation to come from the National Rifle Association. Bills like this have no public support whatsoever and seek to elevate the interests of the gun industry and a tiny minority of gun owners over the wishes, well-being, and safety of American families in communities across the United States.
But Gun Owners of America points out that the federal government's efforts have unintended consequences:
No one — including politicians, the police, or the individual citizen — can predict where the next deranged serial killer will attack. And yet politicians continue to create "criminal safe zones" such as schools, churches, parks, restaurants that serve alcohol, etc., where the law-abiding are disarmed.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said gun-free school zones have "disarmed the wrong people and left our schools, and the children inside, vulnerable to this kind of atrocity."
The most recent example may be the developing story at Virginia Tech, where students are on lockdown after three students attending a summer camp spotted what they believed to be a gunman on campus near the student dining facility. Some fear it may result in a repeat of the tragic 2007 shooting rampage that left 33 people dead.
If passed, Paul's legislation could allow students and teachers to be armed and prepared in incidents such as these.
For now, Paul's legislation has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee.


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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests with Rasp
The planned test is a preparation for putting a similar sample into one of Phoenix's laboratory ovens in coming days. The instrument with the oven, the Thermal and Evolved- Gas Analyzer (TEGA), will be used to check whether the hard layer exposed in a shallow trench is indeed rich in water ice, as scientists expect, and to identify some other ingredients in the frozen soil.
The rasp flings some of the shavings that it produces directly into an opening on the back of the scoop at the end of the lander's robotic arm. The test planned for today differs in several ways from the first test of the rasp on Mars, on July 15.
"First, we will scrape the terrain before rasping, to expose fresh terrain for sampling," said Richard Volpe of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., an engineer for the Phoenix robotic arm team. "Second, we will rasp four times in a row, twice the amount previously. Third, the scoop blade will be run across the rasp holes to pick up as much of the tailings as possible."
The test area is in the bottom of a trench about 5 centimeters (2 inches) deep, informally named "Snow White," which is also the planned site for acquiring an icy sample for the TEGA instrument. The team wants to be sure to be able to collect and deliver the sample quickly, and early in the Martian morning, in order to minimize the amount of ice lost to vaporization before the material is sealed into the oven. Today's plans include using the Robotic Arm Camera to check repeatedly for any changes in the collected sample during seven hours after getting it into the scoop.
The Phoenix mission is led by Peter Smith of the University of Arizona with project management at JPL and development partnership at Lockheed Martin, Denver. International contributions come from the Canadian Space Agency; the University of Neuchatel; the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark; Max Planck Institute, Germany; and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. For more about Phoenix, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/phoenix and http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu.
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Cam Newton says the only thing on his mind as the Panthers open training camp is a three-letter word: Win.
Sure, Newton is aware of the $100 million contracts awarded this offseason to fellow NFL quarterbacks Joe Flacco and Matt Ryan - as well as the hefty deal that could await him after the season.
But Carolina's franchise signal caller said a big contract isn't what motivates him entering year three.
On seeing Ryan's five-year, $103.75 million extension, Newton shrugged it off saying, "I didn't think anything. Good for him."
Under the NFL's new collective bargaining agreement Newton isn't eligible for a contract extension until after this season. He's currently under contract through 2014 with a team option for 2015.
To land a big contract, Newton - who is 13-19 as a starter and hasn't led Carolina to the playoffs - first might have to prove he can win consistently at the NFL level.
And that's what he's out to do.
"Right now, we have an opportunity to hone in and sharpen our blades with mechanics and understanding the overall offense and the scheme of things," Newton said Friday prior to the team's first training camp practice at Wofford College. "So, that's my main focus right now."
Fullback Mike Tolbert is among several teammates who said Newton is more ready than ever to take on a leadership role.
Newton has been criticized at times for his lack of leadership skills.
Even teammate Steve Smith ripped into Newton early last season for pouting on the sidelines.
"I definitely see a change in him from last year at this time to this year," Tolbert said. "He's more vocal. He takes more command, as you think a franchise quarterback would. He's just more confident."
Newton said he feels more confident, and that stems from having played two seasons in the league.
"I think as time progresses anybody will start to sink their teeth into something and get confidence," Newton said. "To me it's about that to a degree, but it's also understanding what this offense is about and knowing each and every person's assignment and being a field general."
Tight end Greg Olsen said that growing pains are inevitable with any player, particularly one that comes into the league under the spotlight as Newton did when he was drafted out of Auburn.
"It's just that we all weren't quarterbacks and the No. 1 pick and the Heisman trophy winner," Olsen said. "He's no different than any other young kid in the league. It's just the rest of us didn't get nitpicked for every facial expression and I think that's just the really big difference between him and everybody else who made the transition into the league."
"I think he's going through the process as well as anyone could've hoped and obviously his play on the field has been great and the guys in the locker room are happy with him and the way he's been."
New Panthers offensive coordinator Mike Shula has made accommodations for Newton this offseason.
Shula has simplified the play calls.
One play, for example, that used to be called "Twins Right, Key Left, 631 Smash M" is now simply "Twins Right Tampa."
The hope is that will allow the Panthers to break the huddle quicker and give Newton more time to make more adjustments at the line of scrimmage based on the defensive alignment.
Newton said the Panthers also plan to go with what he called "a more traditional running offense."
The means leaning heavier on running backs DeAngelo Williams, Jonathan Stewart and Tolbert.
"To some degree that takes a lot of pressure off of me in the run game," said Newton, who led the team in rushing last season with 741 yards.
But Newton was quick to add that if the Panthers need him to run the ball, he's always there.
He just wants to win.


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French Culinary Concept ONE65 Scheduled to Open in San Francisco
ONE65, a multi-level culinary concept envisioned by James Beard Award-winning, Michelin Star Executive Chef and partner Claude Le Tohic, offering four distinct modern French cuisine dining experiences under one roof, is slated to begin a phased opening beginning this fall.
Occupying six floors in the heart of San Francisco's Union Square at 165 O'Farrell Street, ONE65 celebrates modern French cuisine with ONE65 Patisserie on the first and second floors for classic French pastries and casual breakfast and lunch offerings, including take-out; ONE65 Bistro on the third floor for lunch and dinner; ONE65 Lounge for cocktails and fine wine and spirits; and fine dining at O' by Claude Le Tohic on the fifth and sixth floors. The first and third floors are slated to open this fall, with the other spaces opening in the following months.
"With ONE65, I wanted to create a morning-till-night, modern French culinary destination, accessible to everyone, without pretense, offering high quality cuisine in a friendly and welcoming environment," said Le Tohic. "Each floor has its own personality, its own food, to please every audience."
ONE65 Patisserie
Located on the street level with additional seating on the second floor, ONE65 Patisserie is a contemporary French grand patisserie with classic bistro seating. The Patisserie will offer modern casual dining and take-away, with convenient breakfast and lunch options. The menu will feature an extensive range of house-made delights, including delectable, freshly baked French pastries, breads, ice cream and chocolates, along with barista service and a selection of wines available by the glass or bottle.
ONE65 Bistro
The Bistro at ONE65, located on the third floor, will serve lunch and dinner menus that showcase local, seasonal fare minimally prepared to allow the ingredients to shine. An open kitchen, featuring a Josper charcoal oven imported exclusively for ONE65 from Spain and the only one of its kind in San Francisco, services the entire building and connects guests to the food preparation. The Bistro menu features contemporary California/French "comfort" food.
ONE65 Lounge
One of the city's few upper floor bars, ONE65 Lounge is a sophisticated destination bar overlooking Union Square and providing sweeping views across its skyline. The lounge will serve an extensive range of cocktails, fine wines and whiskies in a luxurious, intimate setting. A special menu designed for the lounge provides a selection of inviting options designed to enjoy with drinks.
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Taking the O' from O'Farrell reminded Le Tohic of the French "eau," meaning water. From this Le Tohic has personally developed a refined culinary concept and a menu based on the elements of water, fire and earth. Luxurious but not pretentious, O' will offer modern French cuisine with elegant and attentive service.


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Why the World Is Desperately Seeking Linux Talent
Feb 23, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Well, it's been another wild week here in the Linux blogosphere, with the news announcements coming so fast there's scarcely been time for a cape-wearing champion of FOSS to catch her breath.
There's been particular excitement around Ubuntu for Android, of course, but that's a topic for another day. Today, it's time to give another important item the attention it deserves.
Specifically, "Linux talent in high demand" was the headline atop a recent release from The Linux Foundation, and its news was nothing if not exciting.
Above-Average Pay Increases
A few key excerpts from the group's 2012 Linux Jobs Report:
- 81 percent of recruiters say hiring Linux talent is a priority
- 63 percent of employers are seeking talent in Linux more than in other areas
- 85 percent of hiring managers say Linux talent is hard to find
- Roughly one-third of companies are offering above-average pay increases to Linux pros
Bottom line: more jobs, more opportunities, more cash. Need we say more?
As per usual, Linux bloggers have replied in the affirmative.
'M$'s Share Keeps Shrinking'
"A few years ago one could see lots of job descriptions requiring Linux, but now we see lots of jobs requiring Linux only," observed blogger Robert Pogson down at the Linux blogosphere's Broken Windows Lounge. "That's a big change, and indicates lots of organizations are setting up new systems running only GNU/Linux and not that other OS on servers."
Very few jobs target desktop support of GNU/Linux, "but that's OK in a server-centric world of Web servers and terminal servers," Pogson added.
"M$'s share of the world of IT keeps shrinking as IT matures," he concluded. "No one wants to be locked in. No one wants to pay more than necessary for IT. No one wants performance that sucks in hardware, resources and labor to maintain.
"M$ is finally having to compete on price and performance, and the old, fat dinosaur is not fit," he said.
ROI, Not TCO
Chris Travers, a Slashdot blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project, took a similar view.
"Linux and open source are becoming strategic investments in many companies and have been for years," Travers told LinuxInsider. "Indeed, when Microsoft launched the 'Get the Facts' campaign in the early 2000s, I suggested that the data they gathered indeed showed that companies were treating open source platforms as strategic, rather than ordinary, investments, and this alone accounted for the entire additional total cost of ownership.
"Microsoft, of course, tried to spin it as showing that Linux wasn't the low-cost alternative," Travers noted. "The tactic didn't work, IMO, because most decision makers were making decisions based on return on investment, not total cost of ownership."
'The High-Value Alternative'
In other words, companies were spending more because they expected a larger return on investment, not because they had to, Travers opined.
"The idea is that with open source, you can do almost anything, and so companies have an incentive to spend more to develop proper support for their internal business operations," he explained. "Linux -- I think as Microsoft rightly showed -- was not the low-cost alternative, but was actually the high-value alternative."
These latest figures confirm that trend, Travers said.
'Linux Talent Is Just More Valuable'
"Companies continue to be willing to spend more on Linux because they get more out of it," he noted.
"Linux talent is just more valuable to the company than Microsoft talent," Travers asserted. "This means more on consultants and it means more on employees."
It's worth keeping in mind that "Linux is not the 'free as in beer' solution," he added. "It is the 'spend as much as makes sense to you' solution, so this is one more indication of important, lasting value."
'Not Representative'
Consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack had an idea as to why companies report having trouble finding Linux talent: "Their ridiculous requirements of a university degree, even though for most sysadmin tasks a degree will have taught nothing relevant," he told LinuxInsider.
Barbara Hudson, however -- a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site -- took issue with the study's methodology, which she called "fatally flawed."
To wit: "Respondents needed to have hired at least one Linux professional in the last year, or have plans to hire Linux professionals in 2012, to participate in the survey," she pointed out. "In other words, companies that didn't plan to hire people with Linux skills weren't part of the survey."
Any resulting numbers, then, "are not representative of hiring intentions in the IT industry at large," Hudson charged.
'Fakery and Hype'
Then, too, there's the fact that, "even from this cherry-picked subset of employers, only 47 percent are actually hiring," she pointed out. "Simple math says that the majority -- 53 percent -- are either not hiring or are laying off."
Hudson also did a search on Dice.com, which was a partner in the study, and clicked on "Linux" in the jobs category, she said.
"The first page of results listed a Windows QA engineer, a Windows Systems engineer, an IIS engineer, Cisco, Oracle, and Java developers -- LOTS of Java developers," she recounted. "Those aren't exactly 'Linux' jobs ...
"Was my research scientific? No, but my conclusion -- that Oracle and Java are 'hotter' skills than Linux -- is more justifiable than the claims made from the original study," she said. "Such fakery and hype does Linux a disservice.
"You would get just as good an idea of Linux hiring trends by studying the droppings of howling wombats (wombats don't howl)," Hudson concluded.
'Sure They'll Hire More ... IN INDIA'
Last but not least, Slashdot blogger hairyfeet says he would warn against any career in IT, whether it involves Linux or not.
"Suuuure they'll hire more Linux guys -- IN INDIA -- because they can hire that Indian with 5 degrees and 10 years of Linux experience for less than you'd hire a junior coder straight out of Vo-Tech," hairyfeet explained.
"While Linux hiring going up is nice, what really matters is where those jobs will end up, and it's looking like those new jobs simply won't be going to YOU, they'll end up overseas.
"Let's face it -- any job they CAN send overseas they WILL, and programming can be done from anywhere, so why pay an American (US)$100,000 a year when you can get six Indians with similar skillsets for the same price?"
'A Dying Profession'
In the end, IT is "simply a dying profession," hairyfeet opined. "Right now we are roughly where TV and appliance repair was in the mid '80s, where they saw the numbers declining but thought things would pick back up."
Eventually "you'll have auto-deployed disc images and a centralized server keeping all the files while the programming will have one or two local guys whose job it'll be to interact with the Indian teams," he predicted.
"Linux will continue to grow simply because you can use Linux for the OS of that embedded widget and pay $0 in OS contracts, but just as all the chips come from China, all the programmers will either be offshored or H1-Bs," he added.


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Farmingdale State - 2, Maritime - 0
Farmingdale, N.Y. - Freshman forward Joseph Dettori (Bay Shore, N.Y.) scored two second half goals for Farmingdale State as the Rams shutout Maritime, 2-0, this afternoon in Farmingdale, N.Y.
In the first half Maritime (7-4-2, 3-2 Skyline) controlled play as they held a 14-4 shot advantage. Maritime's best scoring opportunity came with 5:21 remaining in the half as senior midfielder Tom Federico (Islip, N.Y.) fired a shot from the top of the box that hit the left post. Two minutes later, Privateers' freshman forward Logan Becker (Garden City, N.Y.) narrowly missed a goal with a header in front.
Dettori broke the scoreless tie with a shot from the top of the box in the 62nd minute. Dettori scored his second goal of the contest off a missed shot that hit the cross bar, capping of a 2-0 victory for Farmingdale State (3-8, 2-2 Skyline).
Farmingdale State freshman goalkeeper Michael Valverde (Huntington, N.Y.) made seven saves in the win, while junior Michael Vanadia (Commack, N.Y.) recorded six saves for Maritime.
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Louisville is hitting the big time!
The red carpet is coming to Louisville this fall for four days of fun, fashion and festivities. The inaugural Waterfront Fashion Week runs Oct. 17-20 and will feature a series of fashion-focused events and fundraisers benefiting Louisville's Waterfront Development Corporation.
Event planner Lisa Cofer and creative director Jo Ross are basing the event on the nationally-known Charleston and New York Fashion Weeks. National models and designers will be in Louisville for four days of fashion shows, competitions, and parties. The events are open to the public with the purchase of tickets.
"With the full support and attendance of Mayor Greg Fischer, the beautiful event location of Waterfront park and the vast pool of talent in models and designers we have available to us, we are confident that we're going to give our area's most fashion-forward citizens a fabulous week that will become a tradition for years to come†said Clinton Deckard, Waterfront Fashion Week Executive Director.
Each evening of the event there will be a fashion show where attendees will be treated to the region's best models wearing fashions from regional boutiques and the country's top designers.
Each evening after the fashion shows, Kentuckiana fashionistas will be able to celebrate long into the night at a series of after-parties.
This project will financially benefit the Waterfront while putting the spotlight on it and the fashion.
For more info, visit WFW's website, www.waterfrontfashionweek.com, for event schedules and to purchase tickets. You'll also find applications for the 2012 WFW Emerging Designer Competition. WFW will select up to six finalists and two alternates to compete in 2012 WFW.
There will also be a Model Competition for all female residents currently living in the continental US.
The announcement of this fabulous event was made last week at a press conference and luncheon at the Kentucky Center and attended by Madeline Abramson, Marlene Grissom, Summer Eliason, Mark Eliason, Julia Carstanjen, Heather French Henry and nationally known hat designer Gabriel Amar for Frank Olive Hats along with other local luminaries.
After the press conference, everyone adjourned to the third floor balcony for a hat lunch. That is what you call a box lunch served in a Frank Olive hat! Each place had a wool Frank Olive hat – each in a different color and design with a plastic liner – filled with a delicious lunch. The ladies had a ball trying on different hats, trying to make up their minds which one looked the best on them!
It was typical of Gabriel Amar to be so generous. He is a charming, unassuming man who can make a plain woman look elegant.
At Theater Square Marketplace on 4th Street they have been celebrating the recent dinner their Chef Dallas McGarity cooked at the prestigious James Beard House in NYC. What an honor! Congratulations!
By the way, The Voice-Tribune will host its monthly Third Thursday party at the venue 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 16. All are invited for the free event.
I had a senior moment last week in the article about the "Salute to the Fillies.†Patsy Allen is the president of the Fillies. Betty Moberly is in charge of publicity. Jo Graves is the ball chair with Lou Ellen Williams as the co-chair.
Everyone is so curious about the spectacular favors this year that the word is out. Louisville Stoneware is making specialized decanters for each couple with horses racing around them for the 54th Fillies Ball, at the Galt House. They are being underwritten by Allied Ready Mix and Louisville Stoneware.
St. Francis High School
Friday evening St. Francis, "the school of thought,†held it's IMAGINE 2012 auction at the Henry Clay. Chairs of the event were Terri Bass and Scott Gregor. Buffalo Construction was the Platinum Sponsor.
It was a wonderful evening of fun to raise funds for the progressive school. During cocktails guests perused the items on the silent auction and chatted up a storm. Then they sat down to a delicious dinner of short ribs, wasabi mashed potatoes, Brussel sprouts and carrots.
They are so clever. They used an electronic bidding system that allows you to follow bidding, up or place bids, and use your credit card at check out time and avoid long lines at the end. WAVE-3's Chief Meteorologist Kevin Harned and Lite 106 midday host Vicki Rogers emceed the event and Harned was also the auctioneer.
Artist-in-Residence, Gaela Erwin, created a special work of art for the school's scholarship fundraiser. Gaela did a pastel portrait of St. Francis sophomore, Kinsey Morrison. Kinsey is a motivational speaker after surviving three life threatening illnesses, including cancer and heart failure.
The Gold Sponsors were Brook and Pam Smith, Brown-Forman, Holt Equipment, Terri and Steve Bass, the Johnson Family and Wehr Contractors.
Silver Sponsors were DMA Attorney and Counselor of Law, First Capital Bank of Kentucky, Kindred Healthcare, Miller Family Foundation, MPI, OB/GYN Associates of Southern Indiana, The Stratford Society of Kentucky Shakespeare and Yum!Brands, Inc.
All proceeds of the evening benefitted the St. Francis High School Scholarship Fund.


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The Full Development Picture
Construction is only one part of the overall software development lifecycle. Figure 2 presents an overview diagram of the Agile lifecycle which encompasses the ideas presented in Figure 1 and extends them to address the full range of software development issues. This lifecycle explicitly includes the concept of phases because the activities that you perform do in fact change throughout the span of a project. I've adopted the normalized terminology described in the sidebar plus other common agile phase terminologymany agile teams refer to project initiation effort as "iteration 0" and transition as the release phase. In the Eclipse Way, the Agile process followed by the Eclipse development team, they use the terms "warm up" and "end game" respectively. In Agile and Iterative Development (Addison Wesley, 2004), Craig Larman uses the terms "pre-game" and "release" for these phases. The Open Unified Process (OpenUP) uses the terms Inception and Transition respectively. Sadly, many people consider the concept of phases to be antithetical to agility, yet in practice they seem to be a fundamental lifecycle concept.
Figure 2 encompasses several critical activities to scale Scrum to meet your real-world development needs:
- You need to do some initial requirements and architecture envisioning at the beginning of the project to address basic questions around scope, cost, schedule, and technical strategy. Few projects are funded without acceptable answers to these issues.
- To ensure the quality of your work, you should have an independent test team that works in parallel to the development team. This team reports change stories back to the team who then treats them exactly like a requirementthey're estimated, prioritized, and put on the work item stack (see "Scaling Test-Driven Development", www.ddj.com/architect/205207998).
- The "work item stack" contains all of the potential items of work that a team may need to address, not just stakeholder requirements. For example, you need to set up people's workstations, fix defects, people attend training, they take vacations, they review the work of other teams, and so on. These are important activities that must be planned for accordingly.
- Iterations can be any length, not just 30 days, and an individual team needs to determine which is best for them. As Dr. Dobb's 2007 Agile Adoption Survey (www.ddj.com/architect/200001986) found, the most popular iteration length is two weeks.
- Effective agile teams prove their architecture with code early in the project (this is the Elaboration part of Elaboration and Construction). Although purists claim that you should prioritize based solely on business concerns, the reality is that it behooves you to address technically risky requirements early in the lifecycle. Luckily, business value and technical risk often go hand-in-hand, so you rarely need to "game" your work item stack much to accommodate this strategy.
- The Transition phase provides time to successfully release software into production. This effort includes training people, finalizing testing, finalizing documentation, pilot/beta testing, and deploying the system; see "The Agile End Game" (www.ddj.com/architect/198800565) for more detail.
- Enhancement requests and defect reports are identified once the system is in production and treated as new work items that must be prioritized.
Since the late 1990s, I've written that effective software development is serial in the large, iterative in the small, delivering incremental releases over time. Over the past few years the rhetoric around agile software development has unfortunately drowned out the "serial in the large" part of the message, forcing many people to rediscover proven techniques and strategies. If the lifecycle of Figure 2 makes sense to you, and you'd like to extend Scrum to address these issues, I suspect that you'll find that the OpenUP, downloadable free of charge at www.eclipse.org/epf, will be of interest to you.


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Note, Hadiths are the sayings of Muhammad piss be upon him,
and now lest start the top 10...
10. Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar:
I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "People are just like camels, out of one hundred, one can hardly find a single camel suitable to ride."
9. Narrated Abu Huraira:
If you want to put on your shoes, put on the right shoe first; and if you want to take them off, take the left one first. Let the right shoe be the first to be put on and the last to be taken off."
8. Narrated 'Abdul 'Aziz:
It was said to Anas "What did you hear the Prophet saying about garlic?" Anas replied, "Whoever has eaten (garlic) should not approach our mosque."
7. Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
The Prophet said, "If anyone of you on having sexual relations with his wife said (and he must say it before starting) 'In the name of Allah. O Allah! Protect us from Satan and also protect what you bestow upon us (i.e. the coming offspring) from Satan, and if it is destined that they should have a child then, Satan will never be able to harm that offspring."
6. Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said, "Allah puts an angel in charge of the uterus and the angel says, 'O Lord, (it is) semen! O Lord, (it is now ) a clot! O Lord, (it is now) a piece of flesh.' And then, if Allah wishes to complete its creation, the angel asks, 'O Lord, (will it be) a male or a female? A wretched (an evil doer) or a blessed (doer of good)? How much will his provisions be? What will his age be?' So all that is written while the creature is still in the mother's womb."
5. Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "Isn't he who raises his head before the Imam afraid that Allah may transform his head into that of a donkey or his figure (face) into that of a donkey?"
4. Narrated Ibn Umar:
Allah's Apostle said, "When the (upper) edge of the sun appears (in the morning), don't perform a prayer till the sun appears in full, and when the lower edge of the sun sets, don't perform a prayer till it sets completely. And you should not seek to pray at sunrise or sunset for the sun rises between two sides of the head of the devil (or Satan)."
3. Narrated Anas:
The Prophet said, "Whoever has seen me in a dream, then no doubt, he has seen me, for Satan cannot imitate my shape"
2. Narrated 'Abdullah :
A person was mentioned before the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) and he was told that he had kept on sleeping till morning and had not got up for the prayer. The Prophet said, "Satan urinated in his ears."
The Prophet said, "If anyone of you rouses from sleep and performs the ablution, he should wash his nose by putting water in it and then blowing it out thrice, because Satan has stayed in the upper part of his nose all the night."
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I used saline solution. Satan was not coming out easily with just regular water.
Do you know what's Thunder & Lightning in Islam?
Prophet Mohamed was asked once (by jews who wants to make sure he is indeed Allah's messenger)
"Oh Messenger! What is this thunder that we hear?"
He Replied:
"This thunder comes from one of the angels, from one of Allah's many angels. Ra'd is the name of the angel that Allah has appointed to drive the clouds with a whip of lightening."
So they again asked:
"Oh Messenger! What is the thunder we hear?"
The Holy Last Messenger, replied:
"You can say it is the voice of the Angel Ra'd."
When the shepherd rounds up the herds of cattle, he produces loud sounds to drive the animals on. So, Ra'd, the angel, also uses a loud sound to drive the clouds on. He also uses a whip made of lightening.
However, this is one of the ancient Greek legends.
Lol, this is pretty great.
Thank you all,
@Hany, Thunder & Lightning yes this is also another comedy :)
here is another Hadith describing winter and summer,
Allah's Apostle (piss be upon him ) said,
"The (hell) Fire complained to its Lord
saying, 'O my Lord!
My different parts eat up each other
(due to intense flaming).'
So, He Allah allowed it to take two breaths,
one in the winter
and the other in summer,
and this is the reason for the severe heat
and the bitter cold you find (in weather).
@Matthew, this sura 67:5 was describing meteors! hilarious!
To be fair, anyone who's been to a mosque (or any other large gathering of people) will tell you that number 8 makes sense. Another version of it mentions onions.
yeah I agree I'm not a fan of onions or garlic! hehe :D
@archaeopteryx So true :)
Hope, are you sure you mean the exact wording of your p.b.u.h.? The two words sound the same but have dramatically different meanings.
@Simon Paynton Exactly! it's = (piss be upon him) of course :P


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Mark Barnett was the dominant AMA 125cc motocross racer of the early 1980s. "The Bomber" won three AMA 125cc National Motocross Championships from 1980 to 1982 and proved his versatility by winning the AMA Supercross Series in 1981. When he retired from racing in 1985, he was the all-time win leader in AMA 125cc Motocross history with 25 national wins in the class and was second to Bob Hannah on the all-time AMA Supercross wins list with 17 stadium victories.
In addition to his four AMA championships, Barnett also had success on the international stage as a member of the winning 1983 Team U.S.A. Motocross and Trophee des Nations squad. He twice won the 125cc U.S. Grand Prix of Motocross.
Barnett, born in 1960, grew up in Bridgeview, Illinois. He learned to ride on a pull-start minibike as a kid and began racing motocross by the age 10 in Illinois and Indiana. He rapidly became the dominant rider in whatever class he competed. As a boy, Barnett was a big fan of Belgium motocross star Sylvain Geboers. He saw first saw Geboers race a factory Suzuki in a Trans-AMA race in Wisconsin.
At 15, Barnett earned national recognition by winning an AMA amateur championship. After he turned 16, Barnett hit the national circuit on a privateer Suzuki.
In his 1977 rookie pro season, the Midwesterner turned some heads by scoring three top-10 finishes in the 125cc nationals and finishing sixth in the final standings. In 1978, Barnett signed his first factory contract with Suzuki, paying him $1,000 per month. Later, at the height of his career, Barnett would sign a three-year, one million dollar contract with the company.
Barnett was one of the few riders from the Midwest to earn a factory ride at the time.
"It was tough to get recognition if you didn't grow up racing in California," Barnett said. "I won some key amateur races at the right time and then went out and raced a season in the nationals on my own to prove myself. I think growing up racing in the Midwest gave me an advantage when the nationals came back East. I was used to the mud, ruts and roots."
On April 23, 1978, Barnett won his first AMA 125cc National riding the factory Suzuki in Houston, Texas. A shoulder injury put an early end to his 1978 campaign and hampered his return early in 1979, but by the end of the year Barnett was fully healed and closed out the season with a string of consecutive victories in the 125 nationals and finished runner up to Broc Glover in the series. Perhaps his biggest confidence booster that year was winning the 125cc U.S. Grand Prix of Motocross at Mid-Ohio against the world's best.
He also scored his first AMA Supercross victory in July of 1979 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in front of 79,000 fans. Barnett called the LA Supercross victory one of the most memorable in his career. In the race, Jeff Ward led early before losing the lead to Gaylon Mosier. Barnett worked his way to the front and passed Mosier late in the race, as did Mike Bell. For the final two laps, Barnett and Bell battled feverishly, with Barnett taking the checkered flag by a bike length over Bell with the throng of fans cheering enthusiastically.
By then, Barnett had moved to his grandmother's 400-acre ranch in Alabama. He quickly became known as perhaps the strongest rider on the circuit, not only from weight training, but also from hauling hay in the hot Alabama summer sun. Unlike many of his peers, Barnett, who had a quiet and polite demeanor, avoided fast cars and high living and lived a uncomplicated life on the farm eating fresh vegetables he grew in his garden and riding countless hours on the practice track and surrounding woods of the ranch.
After chasing Glover for three years, Barnett dethroned the reigning 125 motocross king in 1980. But Glover didn't go down without a fight. The 1980 125 national championship was a battle all the way to the final moto. In the searing August heat of St. Petersburg, Florida, Barnett finally took home the victory and with it the trophy that Glover had a stranglehold on for years. He had just turned 20 when he won the championship.
"I'd say the biggest rival of my career was Glover," Barnett would later say. "He was the rider everyone was shooting for when I came into the sport and we had a lot of great races along the way."
In 1980, his first full season of AMA Supercross, Barnett finished fourth in the series.
While Barnett was coming into his own by 1980, no one could have dreamed he would experience one of the most dominant seasons in AMA Motocross and Supercross history in 1981. That year, he gave Suzuki its first AMA Supercross Championship, winning a series-best six races along the way.
In the 125 nationals, Barnett was simply unstoppable. He won 14 straight motos and seven consecutive nationals en route to the title. He broke his collarbone at home practicing and was forced to miss the final national. That was very likely the only thing that kept him from turning in the first undefeated season in AMA motocross history. As it was, he won 14 of the 16 motos that season. In spite of missing the final round, Barnett set a number of AMA winning-streak records that would stand for over 20 years.
If the 1981 AMA Supercross and 125 Motocross Championships weren't enough, Barnett put an exclamation mark on his unbelievable season by humiliating the Europeans at Mid-Ohio in the 1981 125cc U.S. Grand Prix. He lapped the field up to 10th place in the first moto and was nearly two minutes ahead of the second-place rider at the finish. In the second moto, he came from dead last in a pouring rain to win again. Motorcyclist magazine said the one consolation the Europeans had when they returned home was that Barnett didn't go with them.
Barnett was runner up in the 1982 supercross series and went on to defend his 125 Motocross title in a close battle over Johnny O'Mara. It marked his fourth AMA championship.
In 1983, Barnett finally relinquished the AMA 125 Motocross Championship after he experienced a tough string of mechanical problems with his bike. In the 1983 AMA Supercross Series, Barnett led most of the season, but again had bike problems late in the season and lost the title to David Bailey by just two points.
"That was my most disappointing year," Barnett admitted. "I should have won the '83 supercross championship. I was in a battle all year with Bailey, but the bike broke on me [in the Foxboro, Massachusetts race] and I lost 25 points and it cost me the championship."
In 1984, Barnett moved to the 250 motocross class for the first time. He had some good results, but suffered a knee injury and finished fifth in the final standings. It was then that he felt the desire to stay on top was beginning to wane.
"Maybe I was getting tired or maybe the other guys were just getting better," Barnett admitted. "I won very early in my career and I think it's tough to maintain that level for any length of time."
In 1985, he signed with Kawasaki, but re-injured his knee and never regained the speed he had before the injury. Barnett decided to retire after the '85 season.
During his nine-year professional racing career, Barnett won a total of 43 AMA national events, taking victories in AMA 125cc motocross, AMA Supercross and Trans-AMA. His 25 career wins in AMA 125 motocross would be the record until Ricky Carmichael moved back down to the 125 class after clinching the 250 championship and earned his 26th win in 2001. His riding style was one of the most aggressive of the era, earning him his nickname of "The Bomber." He was also known for his incredible cornering speed, said to be the best of any rider from the 1980s.
After retiring from racing, Barnett honed his skills as a track builder and became one of the leading motocross and supercross track designers and builders in the country. He built many of the private practice tracks for the factory riders of the early 2000s. He continued to live on his family ranch in Alabama.
He was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2002 Racer X Illustrated ranked Barnett sixth on its "25 All-Time Best American Motocross Riders."
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Full article on the NASA website here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/capillarity-in-space.html
The International Space Station's current studies on fluid physics in microgravity are leading to rapid advances in the field, and on May 24, these investigations are part of a noteworthy milestone.
A half a century ago, only four months after John Glenn's historic Friendship 7 flight , the first U.S. fluid physics space investigation took place aboard Aurora 7, the second orbital Mercury flight made by Scott Carpenter. This experiment addressed a critical question for human space flight. How do fluids behave without the presence of Earth's gravity?
Scientists wondered, would fluids break up into small droplets and disperse throughout the container in reduced gravity? Or would capillary forces prevail and spread the fluid across all of the container surfaces? Capillarity is the tendency of a liquid in contact with a surface to flow as a result of surface tension.
In addition, researchers questioned how spacecraft maneuvers such as attitude control or docking would impact the behavior and location of fluids? Even small disturbances in a low gravity environment might cause the fluids to move or shift their position. This could cause, for example, vapor to plug a pump covering a liquid outlet or lead to important liquid or fuel being leaked if the tank's vapor vent is covered with liquid.
The answers to these questions were needed to determine the location of propellants in rocket vehicle tanks, especially cryogenics like liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, as well as other liquids needed for life support, such as water.
"These were new questions to spacecraft engineers in the late 1950's," said Bob Green of the NASA's Glenn Research Center. "Prior to this, engineers depended on gravity to 'mask' these capillary effects and reliably position any liquid at the bottom of a container, such as fuel in an aircraft fuel tank or even in your car's gas tank."
Researchers from the NASA's Lewis Research Center, now known as NASA's Glenn Research Center, devised an experiment for Scott Carpenter to test the effects of capillarity and a piece of hardware to control the motion of the liquid in a tank, called a passive baffle.
The Mercury experiment used a simple cylinder, or standpipe, as a baffle inside a spherical container, which was partially filled with a liquid containing a green dye and a wetting agent. A video camera recorded the motion of the liquid.
"The liquid behaved just as the Lewis scientists predicted," said Bill Masica, an original investigator and former Chief of the NASA's Lewis' Space Experiments Division. "In 1962, it certainly went a long way toward helping eliminate the mystery of how fluids would behave under weightless conditions."
The Mercury investigation was conceived with primarily liquid propellant management in mind, according to Mark Weislogel, Professor at Portland State University, and a principal investigator for fluid physics investigations currently aboard the International Space Station.
"Its successful demonstration added confidence to design engineers in the emerging field of large-length scale capillary flow aboard spacecraft," he said.
Over the ensuing 50 years, early investigations like the Mercury experiment led scientists to perform additional gravity-dependent fluid physics studies in space aboard sounding rockets, Apollo, Skylab, the shuttle, the Russian Space Station Mir, and the International Space Station. These experiments contributed to better understanding of the behavior of liquids in space under varying gravity conditions. Resulting data, detailing the behavior of liquids, led to design improvements for containers and transfer equipment to counteract the challenges triggered by microgravity, acceleration, and changes in direction.
Controlling the motion and flow of fluids is critical to the success of the mission, whether it is fuel, water, or other necessary fluids needed for the operation of the spacecraft or for life support. Results obtained from Weislogel's current series of Capillary Flow Investigations on the space station demonstrate that even slight adjustments to container shape allow the engineer to design equipment that exploits the properties of capillary flow for fluid management on the spacecraft. The shape of the container actually directs the fluids passively to where they are needed most, while preventing them from going where they are not wanted.
Investigations like the Capillary Flow Experiment, or CFE, continue on the space station, as researchers like Weislogel add to the collective knowledge of fluid physics under microgravity conditions.
"One thing I feel very good about is that most of my investigation results can apply in the real world right away," Weislogel said. "Our work has already led to design concepts to improve the performance and reliability of advanced systems, such as condensing heat exchangers and waste-water treatment devices." This data also has direct impacts to projects on the ground.
Many investigations are planned for the space station, and future work should yield important and exciting results. "It's quite remarkable that the physics of capillary flows was an important research topic in 1962 and is still an important topic in 2012," said Fred Kohl of the NASA's Glenn Research Center. "The research results, both then and now, can be directly applied to state-of the-art technologies for use on Earth and in low-gravity environments. Now that the ISS is fully assembled and devoted to utilization, much more time is available to carry out research investigations such as the capillary-flow series."
Photo by NASA of Astronaut Cady Coleman adjusting the fluid volume in the Interior Corner Flow 2 experiment, part of a suite of experiments called the Capillary Flow Experiments-2 directed by Professor Weislogel. Cady performed this experiment on the space station on January 18, 2011.


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The Physics Teaching Resource Agents Fund Supports Physics Teacher Professional Development
Funding through the NSF grant has ended. Your support of this program will ensure that high quality professional development will persist for high school physics and physical science teachers across the US. All gifts to this fund will be used to train PTRAs to provide professional development to their peers. Make your gift online.
The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) initiated the Physics Teaching Resource Agents (PTRA) Program in 1985—with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) —with the mission of improving the teaching and learning of physics and physical science for all teachers and students in the United States. AAPT/PTRA is the leading in-service physics professional development program. It is effective for middle school and high school teachers. It provides professional development on physics content, teaching techniques based on research in physics education, and integration of technology into curriculum.The program maintains a nationwide cadre of more than 150 accomplished high school teacher-leaders who are trained and continually involved in professional development. These teacher-leaders are certified as PTRAs by AAPT to lead workshops throughout the country.
These 150 experienced PTRAs have participated in national leadership institutes where they have developed their skills on a wide range of topics—to assist their fellow teachers. The program has involved more than 30 universities and college physics departments partnering to provide the summer institutes and follow-up sessions.
Potential national PTRAs are selected based on physics content mastery, creativity, successful teaching experience, familiarity with physics education research, and the capacity for professional leadership.
The opportunity for continuity and expansion of training is offered each year at an intense summer institute at which AAPT/PTRA commissioned workshops are developed. What emerges, then, are teachers from within urban districts or rural schools who go out to meet the specific needs of teachers in their local area.
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The PTRA program was awarded the 2011 APS Excellence in Physics Education Award. The award recognizes and honors a team or group of individuals (such as a collaboration), or exceptionally a single individual, who have exhibited a sustained commitment to excellence in physics education.
Because it matters, our program goals are ambitious:
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- To identify outstanding leader-teachers, tap them as PTRAs, and engage them in the annual Summer National Leadership Institutes.
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