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THS announces 2013 Athletic Hall of Fame Class
BOURBON — The Triton High School Athletic Hall of Fame 2013 class will include four athletes, one coach and two contributors, the school's athletic department announced recently.
Athletes Jamie Erwin, Jack Carpenter, Curt Kreft and Julie Lozier will be honored alongside former girls basketball coach Mark Heeter and contributors William Moriarity and Kenneth Keller during halftime of the Triton versus Culver boys basketball game in a boys/girls doubleheader Jan. 11. Tipoff for the varsity girls game is scheduled for 6 p.m.
The THS Hall of Fame festivities will continue during the induction banquet Jan. 12. beginning at 6 p.m. at the Back Forty Banquet Center in Bourbon.
Triton's Athletic Director Mason McIntyre will serve as the Banquet's emcee for the evening and tickets for the banquet can be purchased now in the Triton High School Athletic Office and will also be sold at all home boys basketball games. Tickets are $20 per person and will include a meal. The last day for ticket sales will be Jan. 7.
"The selection committee did an outstanding job selecting the Class of 2013," McIntyre said. "The selection process was difficult, but the committee was able to narrow it down to the group that they felt most deserved to be inducted into the Class of 2013."
The first athlete to be inducted is 1973 graduate Erwin.
Erwin participated in football and wrestling and was a member of the most successful era in Triton football history playing for coach Charlie Smith. Erwin was a member of the first Triton wrestling team in 1971 and went undefeated at heavyweight that season. He finished fourth at regional in 1972 and was the regional champion in 1973, advancing him to the IHSAA state finals. He ultimately finished his wrestling career with a combined record of 43-8.
The second athlete to be inducted is 1981 graduate Carpenter.
Carpenter was an eight-time varsity letterwinner participating in tennis, cross country, basketball and golf who earned MVP honors twice in basketball and three times in golf. He was the first Triton golfer to advance to the regional meet, and in basketball is a member of Triton's 500-point club for single season points with 558 points in 1981.
Carpenter went on to excel in both basketball and golf at Bethel College, where he earned NCCAA and NAIA All-District team awards in both sports. He was also named an NCCAA All-American Honorable Mention player in basketball in 1984 and was inducted into the Bethel College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005.
The third athlete to be inducted into the Triton Athletic Hall of Fame is 1981 graduate Kreft.
Kreft participated in cross country and track for four years, earning four varsity letters in each sport. He received MVP honors in both cross country and track his junior and senior seasons, was the Northern State Conference champion in cross country two times and was the NSC 1600-meter champion his senior year. He still holds records in the 800 meters (1:56.2) and the 1600 meters (4:20.3) and is the former school record-holder in the 3200 meters.
Kreft earned a scholarship to run cross country and track at Liberty University, where he was an NCCAA National Qualifier in both cross country and track and held records in the indoor 1500 meters (3:51), the indoor mile (4:07) and the outdoor 1500 (3:49). He was the Liberty University Track MVP in 1985.
The last athlete to be inducted is 1987 graduate Lozier.
Lozier participated in volleyball, basketball and track. She was named MVP of the volleyball team two times, MVP of the basketball team three times and MVP of the track team two times. She is a member of Triton's 1,0000-point club with a career 1,421 points and earned a scholarship to play basketball at Ball State University, where she is still ranked seventh all-time in career blocks and sixth for most blocks in a single season.
She led the Cardinals in field goal percentage and rebounds during the 1988 and 1989 seasons and was twice named the Mid-American Conference Player of the Week.
Heeter will be the third coach inducted into the Triton Athletic Hall of Fame.
He coached JV volleyball for three seasons and JV girls basketball for one season but is best known for his 14 seasons (1990-2004) as the Lady Trojans varsity basketball coach, where he accumulated a career record of 208-98, making him the all-time winningest coach in Triton girls basketball history. Heeter coached Triton to six NSC championships, five sectional championships, two regional championships, two semistate championships and back-to-back state championships in 2000 and 2001. He retired from coaching at the completion of the 2004 season.
"Bill" Moriarity, a 1943 graduate of Tippecanoe High School, was a contributor to Triton Athletics for many years, spending 49 years driving the school bus before retiring in 2007. Although Bill no longer drives the bus, he can still be found at every boys and girls basketball game.
"Bill didn't drive a lot of athletic trips until after he sold the grocery store," Triton Transportation Director Kris Berger said. "But after that he drove every athletic trip he could."
Kenneth 'Buzz' Keller will also be inducted as a contributor.
He served the Triton School Corporation as a teacher, a guidance counselor and Athletic Director. He was also in charge of the construction of THS' current baseball field, named in his honor as Ken Keller Field. Keller retired from Triton in 1991, but didn't give up his love of sports, continuing to serve his community as an IHSAA official in baseball, basketball, football, cross country and track before he passed away on Oct. 24, just two days after his selection into the Triton Athletic Hall of Fame. Keller will be missed by many, but the Triton Athletic Hall of Fame will allow his legacy to live on.
To be eligible to be inducted as a THS Athletic Hall of Fame athlete, the candidate must be a graduate of Triton High School and must have participated in interscholastic athletics while at Triton. The THS Selection Committee is looking for those athletes who set themselves apart by receiving, among other things, conference and state-wide recognition. In order to be eligible to be inducted as a coach, one must have coached at Triton High School for at least five years and must be inactive at the time of the induction. A contributor is someone who has given of themselves for the betterment of the Triton Athletic Department.


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2009-04-30 / Columns
Walk the Dog, Bring the Kids, Enjoy Nature's Beauty at Kent's White Pond
If you are a dog owner, take your dog here! White Pond is very popular for boaters, fishermen, and dogowners. The lake itself is about 125 acres. The water is very clear (it used to be a resevoir but was transferred to state ownership) though I would think that the weed growth could get pretty bad because it is not a very deep lake.
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To be completely honest I've debated writing on this topic. Just like some readers think I am sexist after this post, there is the potential that I will come off as an elitist a-hole to some in this one. That is not my intention, but as a whole these changes disappoint me in a couple of ways.
- The Yogg-Saron encounter has received the following changes: Death Ray no longer hits players who are under the effect of Malady of the Mind, Guardians of Yogg-Saron no longer use Dominate Mind, the spawn rate of Guardians of Yogg-Saron is more forgiving, and these Guardians will no longer spawn if a player that is protected by Hodir's Flash Freeze hits an Ominous Cloud.
- In the opening sequence of Ulduar you can now see Liquid Pyrite from farther away.
- The Flame Leviathan encounter has received the following changes: the bonus health Flame Leviathan receives per tower has been reduced, the ejection height from Flame Leviathan has been reduced, the snare effect of the Tower of Frost has been removed, and the cannons on Demolishers and Siege Enginers should now break Flash Frozen vehicles in 1 shot.
- The XT-002 Deconstructor encounter has received the following changes: the health of the heart has been slightly reduced in heroic difficulty and the rate at which Gravity Lapse and Searing Light are cast has been reduced.
First and foremost, LoE hasn't attempted the FL or XT hard mode. So they've been nerfed before I had a chance to know if we were up to the challenge, and that bugs me. If the encounter was really to hard then I agree with the nerfs, but I don't think it was. Plenty of guild have done it and I think most people haven't because they want to spend more time on the Keepers so they can get to Algalon. I just wonder if I've missed an opportunity.
The second reason I'm disappointed is I don't think all of these changes are necessary. Take the Yogg changes for example. The trick to phase one is killing all the Guardians on Sara before you get over run with adds. It's a big part of why this fight is tough. Therefore the more "forgiving" spawn rate, and adds not spawning if your protected by Hodir might make phase one to simple.
I don't have a problem with the Death Ray/Malady of the Mind change. Random deaths are stupid. I also go back and forth on removing the MC. It could really screw your raid, but it only really became an issue when you started to fall behind. That said however, I worry that by nerfing phase 1 so much they've really taken the soul out of the fight.
I may catch some heat for this, but I will admit that part of the reason I don't like them is because it will make it easier for other guilds to kill Yogg for the first time. I think for a lot of raiders, raiding is a competition. You want to see who can get there first. Therefore a nerf is a little like providing a short cut for the people behind you.
I'm really proud of my guild. If you look on GuildOx or WowProgress we are ranked 4th on out server, but we raid only 9 hours a week. All of the guilds around us raid 16 to 20 hours a week. So I love that we have similar or better progress with less time spent raiding. Therefore I want to maintain that ranking and nerfs make that a little more difficult.
The final reason I dislike these nerfs is that I think there are bigger fish to fry. WoWRiot recently had an interview with two of Ensidia's Guild Leaders, and one of the questions they asked was which Ulduar Hard Mode do they like best. Both said Mimiron. In fact, both said that Mimiron hard mode was harder than Algalon the Tear Muncher.
I don't have any experience with Mimiron Hard mode on 25man but my guild has been working on the 10man version for a couple of weeks and it is hard. We've rolled through the other hard modes with out much effort and this one is much harder. I'm not saying they should nerf it, but if any fight need it then Mimiron is it.
Anyway, I'm sure some of you disagree with me. Let me know what you think in the comments.


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Last night it rained. A lot. Six inches in some areas, and enough to supply a steady rumble of rain on the roof. But it wasn't the rain that woke me up: it was an insistent tapping on my arm.
"Daddy. Daddy. DAADDDDY! I'm scared Daddy."
The rain came with thunder, and the thunder was loud enough to wake my little kiddo. She does not like thunder. At all.
"Grumph hrmph," I said, gesturing her into the bed.
When my wife was in the hospital, PalKid slept in my bed as often as not (OK, every night), but to have all three of us in one bed, comfortable and without IV lines was worth the lost sleep. We lost a lot of family time time this spring.
But August is our month for family. I don't generally take much time off, and having recently joined a new practice I'm ambivalent about leaving town. But August is mine. I spend two weeks away, each in one of my favorite places.
The first is here:
Me, PalKid, and EldestSis will get in the car before sunrise and drive until the road ends. Once there, I can take out splinters, hug homesick kids, swim in deep, cool waters, and turn off my pager. And of course, paddle.
A month is what I want; a week is what I'll get, and I'll be thankful for it. It's a working vacation, but one with a nice cabin, good food, friends...but I'm bringing my own coffee. I'll drink any coffee, but if I can avoid camp's pishechtz, I'll be much happier (and so will the nurses I'll share it with).
(For those ignorati who think my canoe is tipping over, go study your Omer Stringer and Bill Mason, then get back to me.)
Anyway, despite the pile of work that will await my return, it'll be well worth it. There is nothing like reaching for your belt and realizing that your pager isn't there and you don't need it. After a presumably joy-filled reunion of Pal, PalKid, and MrsPal, and a few late nights at the office, we'll head up to Favorite Place #2, my family's summer retreat for many, many decades (I'm fairly certain my dad first went up there sometime in the 1930's and we've rarely missed a summer).
This is the real-deal Up North summer vacation, with bikes, beaches, fudge, and family. The cast changes from year to year, but the setting does not (although, like every other idyllic place, people always complain that "it's not the same anymore"). Maybe we'll drive down to Sleeping Bear Dunes. Maybe we'll take a ferry to Mackinac Island. Maybe we'll just sit on the porch reading and watching the sun cross the sky.
For me, summer ends when I cross the 45th parallel heading south. The trees are still green, the heat is still there, but the air feels heavy and the fun has gone out of it.


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A look at select electric car makers' sales trends
Better Place is the latest casualty in an electric vehicle market that has struggled to lure consumers who are skeptical of the short battery life, high price, and a lack of infrastructure that can require recharging stops of several hours on long trips. Here's a look at sales trends for select electric car manufacturers:
— Tesla Motors Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif.
VEHICLE: Model S
PRICE: Starts at around $70,000.
SALES TRENDS: The Model S went on sale last summer. Tesla delivered 4,900 cars in the first quarter, beating its guidance of 4,500. This month it boosted its guidance for worldwide deliveries in 2013 to 21,000, about 1,000 more than its previous target. It expects to deliver just over 4,500 cars in North America in the second quarter.
— Fisker Automotive Inc. of Anaheim, Calif.
VEHICLE: Karma
SALES TRENDS: Fisker has sold fewer than 2,000 Karmas, despite early projections of 11,000 sales per year, and it hasn't produced any cars since its battery supplier filed for bankruptcy protection last year.
— CODA Holdings Inc. of Los Angeles
VEHICLE: The Coda.
SALES TRENDS: CODA began producing its five-passenger sedan last year, estimating it would sell 10,000 to 14,000 vehicles in its first 12 months. Instead, it sold around 100. The company filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this month and said it plans to quit the auto business altogether.
— BYD Co. of Shenzhen, China.
VEHICLE: BYD e6, among others, including electric buses.
PRICE: Estimated around $35,000
SALES TRENDS: BYD sold just 1,700 electric cars and 700 electric buses in 2012 and says it expects to triple that this year.
— Nissan Motor Co. of Yokohama, Japan.
VEHICLE: Leaf.
PRICE: Starts at $21,300 including federal tax rebate.
SALES TRENDS: More than 62,000 Nissan Leaf units have been sold worldwide since the launch of the hatchback in December 2010.


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This proposal for the Spiretec competition in New-Delhi by Nicolas Laisné architect has been awarded last Monday. The main idea of the project is to do a modern building with natural cooling systems inspired by Traditionnal Indian Architecture. It is composed by a IT complex with offices, hotel, conference halls and shops.
- Architect: Nicolas Laisné architect – Paris – France
- Project: Nicolas Laisné architect awared project for Two 100 m higth IT buildings in New Delhi
- Locatio: New Delhi, India
- Ranck in Competition: Honorable Mention
- Subject: Two buildings mixed used / It Offices
- Height: 100 m
- Surface: 13700 sq Meters
- Images/movie credits: Nicolas Laisné architect


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The Wisconsin Department of Justice and the Department of Natural Resources are teaming up to promote National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day.
People can drop off their unused drugs on April 26 at collection sites across the state. The day is designed to get unused, expired and unwanted drugs out of people's homes to prevent opiate addictions, which police say often lead to heroin abuse.
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen and DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp have issued a joint statement urging people to use the collection sites.
Van Hollen says the day gives everyone a chance to fight back against heroin. Stepp says using the collection sites means fewer prescription drugs won't get flushed or discarded in a landfill, reducing harm to the environment and wildlife.


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Cakes on Shabbat
May 17, 2013
Every week, Jody Hirsh, the JCC's Judaic Education Director, provides a Shabbat message that is featured at the top of the JCC's weekly email newsletter. Below is the Shabbat message for Friday, May 17, 2013.
Cakes on Shabbat
Historian Muki Tzur tells a great story about Shabbat on the secular Kibbutzim in the early years of the Kibbutz Movement in Israel.[1] It was a tradition to serve coffee cakes for breakfast on Shabbat, rather than the typical kibbutz breakfast. It became a custom for hungry, snack crazed kibbutznicks to break into the kitchen late at night to snack on the cakes that were meant for breakfast. Worried that there might not be any left over for the morning, the industrious kibbutz cooks would hide the cakes on Friday night so the marauders wouldn't find them. Of course, the hungry kibbutz members would search for the cakes every Friday night, forcing the cooks to find better and better hiding places. Muki, in relating the story, always adds, "I have no idea where the idea of cakes on Shabbat morning came from."
Little did the kibbutznicks realize that this custom of having cakes on Sabbath morning in the secular and largely non-religious (if not anti-religious) kibbutzim has its roots in the world of the religious Jews! Religious Jews celebrate the Sabbath by making a point of eating three major meals on the Sabbath: Friday Dinner, Saturday Lunch, and "Seuda Slishit" – the third Sabbat meal late Saturday afternoon before sunset and the ushering in of the secular week. According to Jewish Law, a "meal" is described as a repast in which bread is served, and the traditional blessing over bread is said. Notice – breakfast (the meal eaten on rising in the morning before going to the synagogue for the Shabbat morning prayer) doesn't count as one of those three required meals. THEREFORE, it's thought inappropriate to eat bread during this meal which is considered nothing more than an early morning snack. How do they eat this meal as a snack rather than a meal. Simple . . . don't eat bread. In traditional homes, often cakes are served first thing in the morning rather than bread. So . . . the secular kibbutz world appropriated this custom as a nice way to start their day of rest in a Jewish way. The game of hiding the cakes is but a variation on a traditional Jewish custom.
Shabbat Shalom.


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African American Islam
Herbert Berg
The first Muslims arrived in the American colonies and later in the United States as African slaves. Although a few and noteworthy Muslim American slaves left written records of their lives, Islam was largely extinguished by the white slave owners. Sectarian and racial forms of Islam were introduced into the United States, particularly within urban African American communities, by Ahmadiyya missionaries and the Moorish Science Temple. The rise of the Nation of Islam under Wali Fard Muhammad and Elijah Muhammad and its bifurcation under the latter's son, Warith Deen Mohammed, and Louis Farrakhan deserve special attention, as do the initial appeal of the Nation of Islam's racial formulation of Islam and, decades later, the willingness of most of its members to move to Sunni orthodoxy after Elijah Muhammad's death. The second major, though not entirely separate, strand of Islam in the United States, though often interacting or competing with the first, comes from Muslim immigrants. This group brings unique issues, such as living in a largely Christian society, competing with the Nation of Islam, refuting stereotypes in the media and popular culture, finding a political voice, and coping with post-9/11 Islamophobia, all leading to the consideration of the prospects for a uniquely "American Islam" that reflects U.S. pluralism and (supposed) separation of "church and state."
The Alawis
Stephan Procházka
The ʿAlawis are adherents of an Islamic sect, the origin of which can be traced back to 9th-century Iraq. They are an offshoot of early Shiah Islam with ancient Iranian, Christian, and Gnostic influences. Outsiders often call them "Nusayri," after the sect's founder Ibn Nusayr. Practically all ʿAlawis are Arabs. Their total number is about four million, among which some 2.5 million reside in Syria, where they constitute roughly 12 percent of the population. Many ʿAlawi beliefs and rites are still kept secret by the community, being revealed only to initiate male members. One key element in their faith is the belief in a divine triad that has manifested itself to the ʿAlawi community in seven cycles. Other characteristics are an extraordinary veneration for Muhammad's son-in-law ʿAli, the belief in the transmigration of the soul, and a very large number of holy shrines, which are frequent in all regions settled by ʿAlawis. Because of the esoteric nature of the ʿAlawi religion and the scarcity of authentic written sources, many details of their creed are subjects of vigorous public and scholarly discussion.
For many centuries, the ʿAlawis were an economically weak, socially marginalized, and persecuted group whose heartland was western Syria. The public rise of the community began with the establishment of the French mandate over Syria after World War I and reached its zenith when the ʿAlawi Hafiz al-Assad became president of Syria in 1971. Since then, the disproportionate political and economic influence of the ʿAlawis in Syria has fueled confessional conflicts with the Sunni majority, which culminated in the civil war that began in 2011.
The Alevis
Gisela Procházka-Eisl
The Alevis are a religious community on the periphery of Shia Islam. The name "Alevi" means "Adherents of ʿAli," alluding to Muhammad's son-in-law and cousin ʿAli ibn Abi Talib, who enjoys extraordinary veneration among Alevis. Alevism was developed in Central Anatolia during the 13th century by itinerant Muslim mystics. It includes elements of pre-Islamic Turkish shamanism and aspects of mainstream Shia Islam, which influenced it through cultural contacts with Safavid Iran. Alevism never was a unified and homogeneous community but has always had a variety of sub-groups. For centuries Alevis practiced their rites in secret, which created suspicion and rumor among Sunnite Muslims. Today's Alevis still have to struggle with this distrust, and are often regarded as heretics by the Sunnites. The designation "Alevi" came into use in the early 20th century as a collective term for a number of religious groups such as Bektaşi, Tahtacı, and Abdal, and today is used instead of the former, pejorative term Kızılbaş ("Red-Heads"). The Alevis are the largest religious minority group in the Republic of Turkey, where their estimated number is around 15 million. Large Alevi groups also reside in the Balkan states as well as in Central and Western Europe, particularly Germany and Austria. Roughly two-thirds of the Alevis are Turkish speakers. The other third speak Kurdish and Zazaki.
In the 1980s, the community underwent the so-called "Alevi revival," a process of exposure and openness that can be partly explained as a reaction against the re-Islamization of Turkish society. Today Alevis perform their rites and express their beliefs openly.
Although they share certain features with them, the Alevis should not be confused with the Alawis (Nusayris), who live in southern Turkey and Syria and who are all Arabic speakers.
The Black Atlantic and the African Diaspora
Walter C. Rucker
The Black Atlantic and the African Diaspora refer to overlapping geographic and historical concepts each representing a complex series of dispersals, connections and reconnections, interactions, engagements and disengagements, and conflicts. As a geographic, spatial, and historical subset of the African Diaspora, the Black Atlantic refers to the sustained contacts and connections among the peoples of Atlantic Africa, Europe, and the Americas beginning with the "Age of Reconnaissance" (1306–1484) and the "Age of Contact" (1482–1621) and extending into the present. One of the first acts in the creation of the Black Atlantic can be located within the story of Mansa Qu, Islamic emperor and explorer from the western Sudanic empire of Mali, who commissioned two oceanic voyages to discover the western extent of the Atlantic between 1307 and 1311. Reconnaissance expeditions of this sort, launched by both Atlantic Africans and later by Iberians in the 14th and 15th centuries, helped create knowledge networks and webs of interconnections that would become critical to the later formation of the Black Atlantic.
At the core of many of these earlier efforts to explore the world around them were the religious pursuits and goals—both Christian and Islamic—on the part of Atlantic Africans and Iberians. Delegations of Christian monks and pilgrims from Ethiopia visited the Italian peninsula, Iberia, and other parts of Europe beginning in 1306 seeking pan-Christian alliances against common Muslim foes. These early delegations fueled later Iberian imaginations about the existence of Prester John—an eastern defender of Christendom believed by the early 15th century to preside over an East African kingdom. In part, the protracted search for the mythical Prester John in Africa by the Portuguese after 1415 set in motion sustained contacts between Iberia and Atlantic Africa highlighted by the creation of Iberian-African settlements along the Atlantic African coast and in the Atlantic Islands, the transfer of enslaved labor to the Americas via the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the beginnings of sugar plantations and slave societies in the Caribbean and Brazil by the mid-16th century. Centuries of sustained contact of this nature spawned a range of cultural formations, the processes of ethnogenesis, and the creation of new transnational identities in the littoral regions and beyond of the four continents that frame the Atlantic Ocean.
Creolization, the unique confluence of Atlantic cultures, served as the foundation for reinvented peoples across the Western Hemisphere who remembered, activated, and re-created "Africa" while attending to New World realities of racial slavery and hierarchy. This process of creolization created a range of ethnocultural permutations, from Atlantic Creoles to a wide array of neo-African ethnic groups in the Americas (e.g., Eboes, Coromantees, Congos, Nâgos, and Lucumís). Within this diverse cultural matrix and the processes of cultural mixing, religious and spiritual worldviews were among the most significant articulations of Black Atlantic and creole cultures. Indeed, there is no other way to decode the intricacies of Cuban Santería, Brazilian Candomblé, Haitian Voudou, New Orleans Hoodoo, Jamaican Myalism, or Obeah without framing them in the context of the cultural negotiations among many Atlantic African peoples made necessary by the suffocating confines of racial slavery and more recent socio-racial hierarchies embedded within Western Hemisphere colonialism, Jim Crow in the United States, and other manifestations of white supremacy
Constitutions and Islamic Law
Christie S. Warren
The Constitution of Madinah, written by the Prophet after his flight from Mecca and arrival in Madinah (622
Since 2011 and in part due to events of the so-called Arab Spring, the topic of Islam and constitutions has been the subject of heightened interest. In recent years, a number of Muslim-majority countries, including Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, and Palestine, have embarked upon constitutional processes, and the relationship between Islam and the state has been debated in each of them. A variety of models has emerged over time; whereas in Saudi Arabia the Qur'an serves as the constitution itself, in Egypt Shari'ah is the principal source of legislation. Similarly, while the 2012 draft constitution of Libya states that Islam shall be the state religion and Islamic Shari'ah the main source of legislation, the constitution of Iraq provides that no law contradicting established provisions of Islam may be enacted. Language in the Afghan constitution is even more precise and states that Afghanistan is an Islamic republic, that no law shall contravene the tenets and provisions of Islam, and that in the absence of specific constitutional or legislative language governing the disposition of a case, courts shall implement principles of Hanafi jurisprudence.
In similar fashion, academic scholarship analyzing the relationship between Islam and constitutionalism has increased in scope and vibrancy in recent years. Historically, scholarship in this field tended to focus on issues relating to governance and administrative structures in Muslim-majority countries—not on normative constitutional principles. More recently, Islamic perspectives on constitutional norms have become the focus of significant scholarship. Some constitutional issues of recent academic interest include state sponsorship of a particular religion to the exclusion of others, freedom to practice Islam and other religions, and options for articulating the role of Shari'ah within constitutional frameworks, including the use of supremacy and repugnancy clauses, the role of Shari'ah as a source of legislation, "Shari'ah checks" to ensure that legislation does not contravene Islamic law, review by Shura Councils, and the role of the judicial branch in interpreting Islamic law. Additional constitutional issues impacted by defined relationships between Shari'ah and the state include human and women's rights, protection of religious minorities; criminal law and hudud punishments; finance law and restrictions on charging interest; rights of freedom of association, expression, and expression; and provisions governing marriage, divorce and inheritance.
The Evolution of Modern Jihadism
Nelly Lahoud
Political Islam has generated two ideological strands that use religious ideology to advance their goals, namely, Islamism and jihadism. On the one hand, Islamists have formulated a political paradigm premised on Islamic teachings that are adaptable to the secular framework of the modern state and have, therefore, endured both as domestic and global political actors. On the other hand, jihadis have rejected positive law outright and advanced a global revolutionary paradigm against today's secular world order. Key to jihadism's appropriation of Islamic teachings is a quest for a legal code that provides jihadis with both an anti-establishment justification for their violence and a claim to legitimacy in the minds of Muslims whom they wish to enlist as their followers.
Governance in Classical Islamic Thought
Ovamir Anjum
Governance in Islamic history has taken many different forms. The formative period saw most innovative deployment of the Arab tribal norms under the guidance of Islamic norms and the pressure of the rapid expansion. After the conquests, the ruling elite augmented their Arab tribal form of governance with numerous institutions and practices from the surrounding empires, particularly the Persian empire. The Umayyads ruled as Arab chiefs, whereas the Abbasids ruled as Persian emperors. Local influences further asserted themselves in governance after the Abbasids weakened and as Islamization took root. After the fragmentation of the Abbasid empire by the
Islam and the Middle East in the American Imagination
Brooke Sherrard
Americans have utilized Islam as a rhetorical device for articulating various understandings of American identity from the time of the earliest Anglo-American settlers. In every period, many rejected Islam and Muslims as oppositional to American identity, accusing Islam of inherent despotism that conflicted with American liberty. Others, though, used perceived traits of Islam to critique American behaviors or focused on similarities between Islam and Christianity. Many citizens of the early American republic assumed their country was essentially Protestant, but founding figures such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and James Madison indicated their support for a more inclusive polity by listing Muslims among the varieties of people they believed could be good citizens. These men meant this abstractly, as they believed there were no Muslims in the United States at the time and did not know some African slaves were Muslim.
American Protestant organizations sent missionaries around the world starting in the early 19th century, including to areas of the Middle East where the Muslim majority was legally protected from proselytization. Therefore, missionaries tended to work with native Christian populations. American missionaries, travelers, and explorers had a great interest in the Holy Land. A frequent theme in their writings was a desire to see this area reclaimed from Islamic rule. They believed the Holy Land could be regenerated through Protestant influence and often suggested Jews could be relocated there. Over time, liberal Protestants moved away from seeking conversions and became more interested in educational and medical aspects of missions. American discussions about Islam intensified again after September 11, 2001. Samuel Huntington's "clash of civilizations" thesis argued that Western civilization and Islamic civilization were inherently incompatible. Others, like John L. Esposito and Feisal Abdul Rauf, focused on the historical and theological similarities between Christianity and Islam to suggest common ground.
Islam in Mughal India
Michael H. Fisher
The history of the Mughal Empire (1526–1858) reveals much of the diversity among Muslims and the complexity of Islam as variously envisioned and as practiced in India. The empire's ruling Timurid dynasty was patrilineally Sunni; many of its original core supporters were also Sunni immigrants or descendants of immigrants from Central Asia, especially Turks and Mongols. But Mughal emperors married women from families who were Shiʿites or who either converted to Islam in India or remained Hindus; similarly, the imperial army and administration also broadened its composition to include such families. Each individual emperor developed his own religious ideology, including Sunni, Sufistic, strongly influenced by Shiʿism, and eclectically drawing upon diverse Islamic and non-Islamic Indic traditions (i.e., Hindu devotional bhakti, Zoroastrianism, Jainism). Roughly a quarter of the Mughal dynasty's subjects were Muslim, but these also followed an array of diverse Islamic ideologies and social and religious practices (many functioning much like "castes"). Conversely, many non-Muslim officials and subjects of the dynasty adapted its Persianate patterns of culture and belief. Over the 16th and 17th centuries, the Mughal dynasty conquered most of the Indian subcontinent (except the southern tip of the peninsula), but then its empire fragmented over the 18th and early 19th centuries. Evidence for the variety of Islamic expressions within the Mughal Empire comes from many types of sources. Imperial officials, accountants, and scribes compiled Persian-language records in detail, extent, and preservation that exceeded previous states in India. Emperors, courtiers, and authors whom they patronized created sophisticated works of history and literature that described events, rituals, and values, using Persian and also Sanskrit and regional Indian languages. Additionally, various types of material evidence have survived—including architecture, paintings, coins, weapons, and clothing—that display the dynasty's religious expressions, values, and technologies. Muslim and Christian visitors from Central and Western Asia and Europe also wrote down their observations and assessments while traveling to the imperial court or through the Empire's provinces. The relationships between Islamic beliefs and practices and the Mughal Empire that travelers, commentators, and historians noted and evaluated varied over time.
Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought and History
Asma Afsaruddin
In both popular and scholarly literature, jihad is primarily assumed to be a monovalent concept referring to "military/armed combat," and martyrdom (shahada) is inevitably understood to be of the military kind. This assumption facilitates the discussion of jihad and martyrdom as terms with fixed, universal meanings divorced from the varying sociopolitical contexts in which they have been deployed through time. Such a monovalent understanding of these two concepts emerges primarily through consultation of the juridical literature and official histories that were produced after the 2nd century
In contradistinction to this approach, a more holistic and historical approach to the term jihad can be undertaken by focusing on the changing significations of jihad from the earliest formative period of Islam to the contemporary period, against the backdrop of specific social and political circumstances which have mediated the meanings of this critical term. This larger objective entails canvassing a more varied genre of texts to recreate a more multifaceted understanding of jihad and martyrdom as dynamic discursive terms through time. Such sources include Qurʾan exegetical works (tafsir), early and late works of hadith which purport to contain the sayings of the prophet Muhammad, the excellences of jihad (fadaʾil al-jihad) and the excellences of patience (fadaʾil al-sabr) literatures, which are often not consulted on this topic. Furthermore, the comparison of early and late sources and texts from these genres allows one to chart both the constancies and changes in the spectrum of meanings and repertoire of activities included under the terms jihad and shahada. This recovery of a broader semantic landscape undermines exclusively martial conceptualizations of both these terms and has important implications for the contemporary period.
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Two days ago my husband and I adopted a dog from the SPCA. She's 4 years old and her name is Kona. She was surrendered to the SPCA a short time earlier by her owners because they were workingin new jobs and felt that they could no longer give her the attention and time that she needs and deserves. Kona is a Jack Russell Terrier "cross" and she has been crossed with something larger; we suspect perhaps a small lab or a cattle dog. She's approximately the size of a small lab or border collie. Kona took to my husband and I right away, playing with us, walking easily with us on a leash, listening to us. She is very cuddle, friendly and affectionate. She is also very patient with our 12 week old kitten, Mungo, and when he chases her or swats at her tail, she ignores him and just walks away. We are really happy with Kona and how well she has fit into our family, we just have one concern about her behaviour. On the afternoon that we got her, I was driving along with her and pulled into a gas station. While I was waiting to pull up to the pump, a man in another vehicle started talking to me about my dog, and came walking over to the vehicle to talk for a minute and take a bit of a closer look at Kona. She was sitting in the back seat behind me, and as he approached, she put one paw up on my shoulder and made one low-sounding "ruff!" at the man, who admired her for being protective and didn't come closer. When I told her "its ok" she backed off and layed back d own, and she never snarled or growled or anything. Then last night, my husband was walking her alone and stopped to hat with a neighbour, who came walking over to admire Kona. As he came towards her and my husband, she started to make the same bark, he told me, but didn't jump, pull on her leash or snarl. When my husband told her it was ok, she continued barking at the man, but remained sitting, until the man stopped approaching. Then she was fine. This morning my husband took Kona to the farm where he works and while they were inside the barn, one of the farm hands (whom Kona met yesterday when my husband and I took her to the farm, and seemed to like and be quite friendly with him) came up to give her a pat. She moved back a bit, crouching down and moving away from him slowly, and when he reached out to pat her, she made the same bark and lunged a little towards him. She didn't bite him aid didn't snarl, and when my husband called her name she backed off immediately and lay down, but she was definitely being protective.
Kona never does this to people when both my husband and I are with her and she meets someone new. In circumstances like that, she is friendly and seems to enjoy meeting new people. She is very friendly and playful. Furthermore, she didn't bark at all when I took her to Petsmart alone and she was patted by a woman that works in the store whom I was speaking to. It seems that she only acts this way when she is with just one of us, and when a man approaches her, not a woman.
Before we adopted Kona we read her records at the SPCA, including a 4 page sheet her previous owners filled out, attesting to her behaviour. They stated that she had never bitten anyone, was calm, placid and friendly with other animals, children and adults, didn't snarl when people came to the door, and though she would bark sometimes she was not aggresive or hostile.
I was just wondering, do you think she is just being protective of us? Is it perhaps because she feels that when she's just with one of us it's her job to watch out for us? Perhaps her previous owners trained her to be wary of men when she was alone with one owner?
Also, do you think that taking her to obedience training classes would help with this matter and give us a better understanding of why she is acting this way? Is she too old at 4years to attend such events?
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8 a.m. Tennis: Women's Stuttgart semifinal.--Tennis Channel
9 a.m. Golf: Ballantine's Championship third round (t. in Seoul, South Korea).--Golf
9 a.m. Motorsports: Raceline.--MASN
9 a.m. Talk: Sports Highlights (t.; on Cox cable channel 47 and Verizon FiOs 17 in Newport News).--NNPS
9:55 a.m. Soccer: English Premier League: Arsenal at Stoke City.--ESPN2
10 a.m. Basketball: 1989 state Group AAA boys final: Hampton vs. Petersburg.--LSC 48
Noon Football special: NFL draft (rounds 4-7).--ESPN, NFL Network
Noon Football: Sept. 1999: Kecoughtan vs. Bethel.-- LSC 48
12:30 p.m. Baseball: Milwaukee at St. Louis.-- Fox: WVBT 43, WRLH 35
12:30 p.m. Tennis: Women's Stuttgart semifinal.--Tennis Channel
1 p.m. Colleges: NCAA winter championships highlights (t.).-- CBS: WTKR 3, WTVR 6
1 p.m. Track and field: Penn Relays: USA vs. the World.--NBC: WAVY 10, WWBT 12
1 p.m. Lacrosse: Rutgers women at Georgetown.--CBS Sports Net.
1 p.m. Baseball: Virginia at Miami.--CSN
1 p.m. Golf: PGA Zurich Classic early third round (in New Orleans).--Golf
1 p.m. NBA: Game 1: Philadelphia at Chicago.--TNT
1:30 p.m. Equestrian: Rolex Championships (in Lexington, Ky.).-- NBC Sports Net.
2 p.m. Rodeo: PBR Built Ford Tough Series (t.).-- CBS: WTKR 3, WTVR 6
2:30 p.m. Basketball: March 2001: Hampton girls vs. Oakton.-- LSC 48
2:30 p.m. Tennis: Men's Barcelona Open semis (t.).--Tennis Channel
3 p.m. Golf: PGA Zurich Classic third round.--CBS: WTKR 3, WTVR 6
3 p.m. NHL: Game 1: Washington at N.Y. Rangers.--NBC: WAVY 10, WWBT 12
3 p.m. NBA: Game 1: New York at Miami.--ABC: WVEC 13, WRIC 8
3 p.m. Golf: LPGA Mobile Bay Classic third round (t. in Prattville, Ala.).--Golf
3:30 p.m. Soccer: MLS: New England at New York.--NBC Sports Net.
4 p.m. Motorsports: Raceline.--WSKY 4
4 p.m. Wrestling: High school nationals (t.).--Cox 11
4 p.m. Baseball: Clemson at Georgia Tech.--CSN
4 p.m. Basketball: Jan. 2004: Phoebus boys vs. Kecoughtan.-- LSC 48
5 p.m. Motorsports: NHRA O'Reilly Auto Parts Spring Nationals qualifying (t.).--ESPN2
5 p.m. Lacrosse: Syracuse at Notre Dame.--ESPNU
6 p.m. Basketball: March 1989: William Fleming boys vs. Hampton.-- LSC 48
6 p.m. Motorsports: IRL IndyCar: Sao Paulo Indy 300 qualifying (t. in Brazil).--NBC Sports Net.
7 p.m. Motorsports: NASCAR Sprint Cup: Capital City 400.--Fox: WVBT 43, WRLH 35
7 p.m. NBA: Game 1: Orlando at Indiana.--ESPN
7 p.m. Lacrosse: Cornell at Princeton.--ESPNU
7 p.m. Baseball: Oakland at Baltimore.--MASN
7 p.m. Baseball: Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia.--WGN, MLB Network
7:30 p.m. Lacrosse: NLL: Colorado at Minnesota.--CBS Sports Net.
7:30 p.m. Soccer: MLS: Houston at D.C. United.--CSN
7:30 p.m. Talk: Sportstime with Bob Hintz (t.).-- LSC 48
7:30 p.m. NHL: Game 1: Los Angeles at St. Louis.--NBC Sports Net.
7:30 p.m. Tennis: Men's Bucharest semis (t.).--Tennis Channel
8 p.m. Basketball: 1986: Hampton boys vs. Maury.-- LSC 48
9 p.m. Baseball: Washington at L.A. Dodgers.--Cox 11, MASN2
9:30 p.m. NBA: Game 1: Dallas at Oklahoma City.--ESPN
10 p.m. Rodeo: PBR Built Ford Tough Series (t.).--CBS Sports Net.
10 p.m. Baseball: Loyola Marymount at Gonzaga.--ESPNU
10 p.m. Cycling: Tour de Romandie stage 4 (t. in Switzerland).--NBC Sports Net.
10:15 p.m. Boxing: Heavyweights: Seth Mitchell vs. Chazz Witherspoon; light-heavyweights: Bernard Hopkins vs. Chad Dawson.--HBO
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Richmond International Raceway, the "Action Track," hosts its first of two NASCAR Sprint Cup races this season at 7 p.m. on Fox.
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9 a.m. Talk: The Weekend, with Anthony Oppermann.--910AM
12:30 p.m. Baseball: Virginia at Miami.--910AM
2:30 p.m. NBA: Game 1: New York at Miami.--950AM, 94.1FM
2:45 p.m. NHL: Game 1: Washington at N.Y. Rangers.--1490AM, 102.1FM
6:05 p.m. Baseball: New Britain at Richmond.--910AM
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Smith waiting for formal CBA proposal
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Commissioner Roger Goodell and DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the NFL Players Association, agree on at least one thing: They can't wait to watch some football.
In terms of getting to the bargaining table, both say the other needs to get a move on.
As the season opener approaches Thursday in Pittsburgh, where the defending Super Bowl champion Steelers play the Tennessee Titans, Goodell and Smith are wrestling over progress in collective bargaining agreement talks. Barring a deal before the current CBA expires in 2011, the NFL is headed for an uncapped season in 2010.
"As I said publicly before, none of this gets resolved by talking about it in the media," Goodell said Wednesday on "Mike & Mike in the Morning" on ESPN Radio. "People want to talk about football now, not the CBA negotiations. That's for us to deal with," he said, adding he's ready to begin negotiating with the union.
Goodell was responding to remarks made by Smith to USA Today. In Wednesday's editions, Smith expressed frustration that the league has yet to submit a formal proposal to the union.
"The time was ripe two months ago," Smith said. "We're still waiting for the first proposal from the NFL."
Later Wednesday on "Mike and Mike," Smith seemed irritated that a formal offer hasn't been extended.
"It's been over 400 days since the owners opted out of this agreement. I hope that we don't go another 10 days before we hear … an initial proposal from the league," Smith said.
As to what took place in labor talks over the summer, Smith said, "You can always talk, but the way in which to move the ball forward is to first explain why you opted out of an agreement that generated $8 billion in revenue."
Goodell was quoted last week as saying that the league is preparing for an uncapped 2010 season. Smith toured a host of training camps this summer and said he has advised players to be prepared for a lockout in 2011.
With regard to advancing to the negotiation phase for a new CBA, the commissioner said, "To me this has to be, 'Set the table and let's start negotiating.' "
"It takes two people to negotiate," Smith replied, according to USA Today. "I'm hoping they will respect the process and begin negotiating. I'm willing and able to meet anytime."
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A little something to honour my new place of home. A beautifully worked Centrepiece of Llanberis slate, combined with bottle green to black tourmaline and not to forget the ocean jasper.
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Bum Juice - 1. A cheap alcoholic drink, Mostly off brand malt liquor. 2. Any form of "street" brewed or distilled alcohol, made by homeless for the homeless. *note stay far from the latter definition, should only be used in small portions.
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The book is great because Hank Zipzer's life is really different from other kids. My favorite part of the story was when Hank was out of summer school and he was happy about it and so am I. The characters I like are Hank, Ashley and Frankie because they are the best characters in the book! The book is great because Hank is helpful and I like to be helpful, too!
I like Hank Zipzer because they're funny but through the funny stuff that happens you learn a lesson! Hank helps people with problems as he learns from his! So read Hank Zipzer and have some laughs!!


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Gothenburg, Sweden, 10 September 2014: SKF has acquired two companies as part of its strategy to boost its service capabilities. One of these is GLOi, a Swedish-based alignment technology solutions company. The other is Hofmann Engineering North America, a specialist engineering services company located in Ontario, Canada.
"An important part of our strategy is to grow our service platform business, both organically and through acquisitions," said Vartan Vartanian, President, SKF Industrial Market, Regional Sales and Service. "GLOi's technology expertise will help us to accelerate sales of our alignment and condition monitoring offerings. Having their capabilities within SKF puts us in a stronger position to launch and further develop both generic alignment tools and high-end application-specific alignment systems.
"Hofmann Engineering North America is recognized for its large pinion and gear solutions and expertise in grinding. Their vastly experienced people and high-quality services will make an important contribution to what we can offer to both OEM and aftermarket customers through our SKF Solution Factory network."
GLOi has developed and launched an integrated shaft alignment solution based on the iOS software platform used by iPads and iPhones. Founded in 2010, the company's annual sales were SEK 6.3 million in 2013. It serves a similar customer base to that of SKF, including Marine, Steel, Mining, Pulp and Paper, and Hydrocarbon Processing.
Hofmann Engineering North America is a high-precision machining operation based in Cambridge, Ontario, and has 16 employees. The company predominantly serves OEM customers handling large components in North America – mainly in Canada. Its offerings include large pinion and gear solutions, precision grinding, and custom engineering projects.
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So many people want to write a book, but have difficulty in structuring their story. The Infographic below is more than just how to write a story plot – it reads like the plot summary of a typical fiction story, or even an epic non-fiction story.
I am sure you can easily read adventure, fantasy and sci fi into the plot outline presented, but for the most part even a romance or detective novel follows this formula. Or the screenplay for a romantic film or even many comedies or other movies.
A story need not use all these elements, or place them in this exact order. But most fiction (and some non-fiction) books on the New York Times Best Sellers list include most of these elements in roughly this order. A complex story will have many of these elements repeat, sometimes several times. In fact, a complex story might have several plots moving along simultaneously.
I was just reading Son of a Witch: Volume Two in the Wicked Years by Gregory MaGuire (highly recommended, but best to read Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West first), and the first half of the book runs through two threads, one past and one present, and the present thread divides in two to follow Liir along one and the two traveling maunts along the other.
One of my favorite books of all time, The Eight by Katherine Neville, follows two stories, one in present time (during the oil crisis of a few decades ago, and one historical, during the French Revolution.
Both these books use pretty much all of the elements presented in the plot outline below multiple times, and at times simultaneously along the different threads. Great reads, both, for students of how to write a book with multiple plot lines.
Must the Plot of a Story Be so Dramatic?
This is just a generic plot summary. Mark Twain once said, "Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." Nevertheless, in real world story plots (our own lives), we never find such superlatives. There is good and kindness in everyone, and there is mischief and ill-will in everyone, too. And even in the most fantastic of stories, we like to see a little balance shine through.
- We like to see our Valiant Hero vulnerable, perhaps a bit socially awkward or over self-confident, or caught off guard. We like to see him doubt his ability to prevail, or fall hopelessly in love.
- We like to see the Forces of Evil are not all evil, that somewhere inside remains a seed of compassion and tenderness…seconds before our Valiant Hero annihilates him.
It is true that not every story has all of these component, nor are they always so clear-cut. Sometimes there are more than one Valiant Hero, and they are sometimes working at cross-purposes. Sometimes there is an ambiguous character, who is neither good nor evil – or is somewhat of both.
And the evil might not always be "evil", but it might simply be an incredible obstacle or a natural disaster. Or a bumbling fool who always gets in the way or tips the apple cart.
And the Quest is not always obvious from the outset. In fact, sometimes we near the end of a story before realizing what the Quest really is about.
Writing a book or a screenplay is not always that simple, and even if you hire a ghostwriter it helps if you already have the structure of your tale pretty much organized. There is plenty of room to play with the plot of a story, plenty of room for creativity in putting your own plot outline together. But if you start with this model, you have a great structure on which to build your story.
A Generic Story Plot
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The End of the World!
The world is heading for cataclysmic disaster. Perhaps the planet will explode. Perhaps somebody's true love will leave. In the context of your story, this is surely the End of the World.
The Noble Quest
Hold on! The End of the World will have to wait. Our Valiant Hero is off on the Noble Quest to save the day (and the world)!
The Roadmap to Victory
The Noble Quest to stave off the End of the World entails certain steps that must be taken, a checklist of challenges. This is the Roadmap to Victory.
Insurmountable Hurdles
Alas! The Forces of Evil conspire to ensnare our Valiant Hero and thwart the Noble Quest.
Supreme Personal Sacrifice
Only by acts of Supreme Personal Sacrifice can our Valiant Hero overcome the Insurmountable Hurdles and proceed along the Roadmap to Victory.
Impending Doom
Confounded! The Insurmountable Hurdles have nevertheless delayed our Valiant Hero. Impending Doom is imminent. Surely these forebodings mean that the Noble Quest fails.
The Stars Aligned
Somehow all the stars in the heavens incredibly align against all odds at half a second to midnight, so that Our Valiant Hero can save the day and delay the End of the World…at least until the sequel.
Unforeseen Rewards
So busy was our Valiant Hero battling the Forces of Evil, that he did not realize how he has blossomed as a result of the Noble Quest.
A New Kind of Normal
With the End of the World now in the past, people return to their business and things return to normal. But "normal" has changed; nobody touched by the Noble Quest remains unchanged by it.
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Here you are the AMAZING (:D) poster presented at EVO* 2010, inside the Workshop EVOGames.
The work describes the analysis, design and implementation of two evolutionary algorithms (a Genetic Algorithm and a Genetic Programming one) to improve the default Artificial Intelligence of the Bots (authonomous enemies) inside the PC Game Unreal.
It had plenty of visits and millards of interest people ask me about the topics in it…
… well, to be honest just, 10 people ask me (3 of them are friends of mine), but in some moments, around 8 or 10 people were looking at the poster and making jokes with me, since it seems to be a perfect mixture between a fabulous research study (:D) and a funny PC game. 😉
Enjoy it. 😀


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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says there are no gimmicks to grow the economy — just difficult steps that require Washington's focus.
In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama is promoting a plan he says can break through gridlock. He's calling it a grand bargain for the middle class.
Obama says he's willing to work with Republicans to reform the tax code for businesses. That would mean lowering rates but ending many loopholes and deductions.
But Obama says he'll only do it if money generated is used for infrastructure, training and job growth.
In the Republican address, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine says Obama's health care law will cost jobs. She wants to change the law to require companies to provide insurance to employees working 40 hours a week, not 30.
White House address: www.whitehouse.gov
GOP address: www.youtube.com/gopweeklyaddress


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Jude Law: Cannes Opening Ceremony with Uma Thurman!
Jude Law and Uma Thurman walk the red carpet at the opening ceremony of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival held at the Palais des Festivals on Wednesday (May 11) in Cannes, France.
The duo are both serving on the jury at the festival and attended a photo call with their fellow jury members earlier in the day.
Jude and Uma attended a special dinner after the opening ceremony. Featured on the menu were a lobster starter, followed by veal and bell pepper-stuffed squash blossoms, created by Alain Ducasse, one of France's most celebrated chefs.
FYI: Jude is wearing a Chopard watch. Uma is wearing a Versace dress, Jimmy Choo shoes, and Chopard jewelry.
10+ pictures inside of Jude Law and Uma Thurman at the opening ceremony…


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Oct. 29, 2004
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by Mycos at Friday, October 29, 2004
They all Lie!!!!
Kathryn Johnston
November 21, 2006—GA
Acting on a tip from a confidential informant, police conduct a no-knock raid on the home of 88 year old Kathryn Johnston.
Johnston, described by neighbors as feeble and afraid to open her door at night, opens fire on officers as they burst into her home. Three of the officers are wounded before Johnston is shot and killed.
Relatives say that Johnston lived alone, and legally owned a gun because she was fearful of intruders. She lived in the home for 17 years. Police claim that they find a small amount of marijuana in Johnston's home, but none of the cocaine, computers, money, or equipment described in the affidavit that was used to obtain a warrant.
There are now allegations of a police cover-up.


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Emphasizing the synergies between science and engineering, these video clips highlight the research of professional ocean scientists and engineers in various disciplines. The clips are accompanied by additional relevant content including images,... (View More) data visualizations, graphs, animations, and other information. Content has been organized into more than a dozen thematic areas such as Solving Old Problems with New Technology and Small Scale Observations and Large Scale Ideas. All content has been aligned with science and engineering practices from the Next Generation Science Standards, including "asking questions and solving problems" and "planning and carrying out investigations," providing applicable resources for teachers who want to provide role models of effective practice for their students. (View Less)
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The 9-session NASA Family Science Night program emables middle school children and their families to discover the wide variety of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics being performed at NASA and in everyday life. Family Science Night... (View More) programs explore various themes on the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, and the Universe through fun, hands-on activities, including at-home experiments. Instructions for obtaining the facilitator's guide are available on the Family Science Night site. (View Less)
This is an activity about the states of matter. Learners will participate in a demonstration to reintroduce them to three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. The demonstration also introduces them to a fourth state of matter, plasma, through... (View More) investigation of the properties of volume and shape as they relate to common solids, liquids, and gases, and to the mystery matter later identified at the end as plasma. The demonstration also covers plasma's connection to the Sun and connections to science related to the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft. This activity complements other IBEX informal education materials. The demonstration requires use of a small plasma ball and, ideally, a slightly darkened room so that the plasma ball can be more easily seen. An instructional video explaining how to facilitate this activity is available: http://bit.ly/125ZW5k. (View Less)
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This is a set of materials about spectroscopy, including a downloadable PowerPoint presentation and two demonstrations or activities. Learners will read and/or hear about the science of spectroscopy, what a spectrum is, and how spectroscopy is... (View More) important to the study of our Sun. These resources can also accompany the Stanford Solar Center's Build Your Own Spectroscope activity. (View Less)
This is an activity about the the functioning of the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft. Learners will participate in an interactive demonstration to illustrate how the IBEX spacecraft uses its particle detectors to collect and sort... (View More) particles that come from the boundary of the Solar System. This activity complements other IBEX informal education materials. An instructional video explaining how to facilitate this activity is available: http://bit.ly/YqwWCd. (View Less)
In this activity, students will learn how technology can help scientists solve a problem. One of the challenges scientists face with any spacecraft is attitude control. Students will be introduced to the problem of attitude control in space through... (View More) an experiment using angular momentum, and experience two different ways scientists address this problem. Students begin by discussing the technology(ies) that powers satellites and enable(s) them to move through space. Students then engage in an angular momentum experiment. Estimated cost of this activity does not include the cost of the bicycle wheel for the angular momentum experiment. This activity is one of several in the Swift: Eyes through Time collection available on the Teachers' Domain website. (View Less)
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This is a lesson about ice worlds in the outer planetary regions and the role they play in understanding the Solar System. Learners will role-play stories connecting science-related literature to ice worlds, view and interpret space-based images of... (View More) ice worlds, and investigate surface and interior features of outer planetary ice worlds. Photometry and spectroscopy will be used as background. Activities include small group miming, speaking, drawing, and/or writing. This is the lesson 11 of 12 in the unit, Exploring Ice in the Solar System. (View Less)
This article describes an indoor, game-type demonstration, incorporating physics (EM wave modulation), math (binary codes), space technology, and music to show how spacecraft put information into the radio signals they send back to Earth. The... (View More) article was originally written for and published by the International Technology Education Association in its journal, The Technology Teacher. It is now archived on The Space Place Web site. (View Less)
This is a activity about how reaction wheels affect spacecraft orientation (attitude). Learners will observe Newton's Third Law (action-reaction) in the changes caused by a reaction wheel acting upon a spacecraft suspended from a support wire and in... (View More) the ensuing interfering forces from the wire support. The experiment includes an option for demonstration and for learner investigation. Notes about gyroscopes are included. (View Less)
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This is a lesson about the connection between meteorites and asteroids, focusing on remote-sensing techniques using light. Learners will make and record observations and measurements; analyze data and draw analogies; compare samples; measure and... (View More) record the brightness of spectral light; discover the composition of white light; participate in introductory quantitative spectroscopy experiments; set up, conduct and analyze a reflected light experiment; and recognize/discover that different materials reflect different proportions of incident light. Activities, vocabulary words, and experimental extensions are included. This is lesson 5 of 19 in Exploring Meteorite Mysteries. (View Less)
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