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To ensure good effective governance, provide leadership and vision it is essential for a charity to have trustees who have particular qualities and specialised skills. This allows the charity to fulfil its purpose in a manner that instils confidence in the hearts and minds of it supporters and beneficiaries.
The Nawaal Fund is overseen by five trustees who are well-known reputable members of Hackney's Muslim community. All the trustees have extensive experience in leadership roles which, combined with the experience gained from managing other successful local charities, provide the Nawaal Fund vision and strategic direction.
- (Dr, Mufti) Abdur Rahman Mangera PhD (Chairman / Ameer) – Mufti Abdur Rahman Mangera, a local resident of Clapton, served as the Imam of Masjid-e-Quba in Stamford Hill from 2008 to 2014. He memorised the Holy Qur'ān, then graduated from Darul Uloom Bury with formal authorisation in the Islamic sciences. He has a PhD in Islamic Studies from SOAS University of London and has also specialised in legal judgment (iftā') at Mazahir Ulum, Saharanpur, India. He works on scholarly publications through White Thread Press and many of his lectures are available online through ZamZam Academy.
- (Hafez) Mohammed Sidat – (Hafez) Mohammed is a resident of Clapton and, since 1990, has been serving intermittently as the Chairman of Madina Masjid. During the past 5 years he has been instrumental in helping deliver new services at Madina Masjid to help provide for the increasing needs of the local community. He attended a seminary in Gujarat, India, where he memorised the Quran in 1975. He runs a chauffeur driving and construction company.
- Yusuf Dana – Yusuf has been a resident of Stamford Hill since 1987. He is a founding member of the independent Tayyibah Girls School and has successfully managed local businesses (in home furnishings, food and property). He served as Chairman of Masjid-e-Quba between 2009 and 2011.
- Eusoof Dawood Amerat – BSc., MIET– A local resident of Stoke Newington since 1969, Eusoof, by profession, is a retired BT Executive Engineer/Senior Project Manager. He served as Chairman of Masjid-e-Quba between 1986 to 1990 as well as 2000 to 2003 and also served as a Board Member of the NLMHA (North London Muslim Housing Association) between 1986 and 2011. Presently Eusoof is a member of the governing body of Tayyibah Girls School and, since 2001, he has been serving as a member of Hackney's IAG (Independent Advisory Group), supporting strategic partners such as the Police and Hackney Council. Eusoof also works closely with local Jewish and Christian faith leaders, for the benefit of the wider Hackney community.
- The Nawaal Fund also has a number of non-trustee members who provide additional support and help take care of the charity's day-to-day activities:
- Imam (Muhammad) Shoyaib Nurgat (Waltham Forrest) – Imam Shoyaib memorised the Qur'aan at an early age in Dewsbury. He went on to study the Islamic sciences at Tadkeshwar, India and acquired Ijazah in tajweed and qiraat from Sheikh ul Qurra Qari Ahmadullah and Sheikh Qari Siddiq. For the past 23 years Imam Shoyaib has served as the Imam of a mosque in Walthamstow and is also a governor of a successful local girls school. Through his role as an Imam and community leader he strongly promotes and actively engages in community cohesion initiatives such as food banks/drives and community opens days. He also provides guidance on many contemporary issues facing the Muslim community.
- (Hafez) Suleman Alibhai– Suleman has worked within the welfare system for the past 13 years. As a result of this experience, he has extensive knowledge in assessing benefit claimants and assisting claimant's looking for employment. Within the community he has been voluntarily involved in faith based outreach work helping build spirituality and confidence in members of the local community; a role which has also allowed him to travel abroad on numerous occasions. Suleman is also an active member in the NLMCC Father's Forum Steering Group, helping with planning and delivering of year round projects for local fathers and their children. He attended a seminary in Pakistan where he memorised the Quran in 1994.
- Shaykh Khalil ibn Elyas Laher (Newham) – Shaykh Khalil studied Islamic sciences and various other sciences at Jamiat al-Ilm Wa al-Huda (Blackburn). He formally graduated with a degree in Islamic Studies, as an Alim (jurist) from the 'Alimiyyah Course with certifications (Ijazaah) in various disciplines under the tutorship of Mufti Abdus Samad, Moulana Abdul Haq and others. His studies of Islam and religion have included both traditional and Western academic settings. Currently he is the head teacher of a weekend islamic school/madrassah in Newham, he also works full-time as a faith advisor and teacher. During his busy schedule Shaykh Khalil dedicates his time in managing the Q&A and scholars of various websites. He also manages various social cohesion community projects providing leadership and strategic direction for achieving goals and outputs.
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It's time to get this event kick started though! Tomorrow (Sunday) at 2:00 PM PST, the third round will be goin down. Unlike the past two that were somewhat random, this is becoming a structured event for all to improve themselves with.
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According to a source within the LSU football team, both the LSU coaching staff is currently operating and preparing as though they will go into the season with Andrew Hatch as the team's starting quarterback.
While a lot can happen between now and then and freshman Jarrett Lee can make up ground in fall practices, my source is my strongest one, so it is rock solid that Hatch is the leader in the clubhouse right now.
"Hatch has emerged as the clear front-runner," the source said. "He will more than likely be the starter to begin the season."
What this means for LSU is not yet certain as no one has really seen Hatch play "under the lights." I can tell you from watching practices that Hatch is a tough kid with a lot of grit who can take a major lickin' and keep on tickin'.
In terms of playing style, he is a poor-man's Matt Mauck to me in that he relies on his ability to run a lot and he is an accurate short passer with a deceptively good deep-ball arm.
This season is looking to be a mirror image of LSU's last post-national championship season in 2004. I suspect Lee and Hatch will share time all season, much like Marcus Randall and JaMarcus Russell did in 04, with the team relying on pounding the ball on the ground . . . Again similar to 2004 when the Tigers had several games with 250+ yards on the ground as a team, including against Ole Miss when Alley Broussard set the single-game rushing yardage record at LSU.
That strategy is fine and that strategy is one that LSU can win with, but only if Hatch or Lee is capable of keeping eight and nine guys out of the box, so whomever Miles deems to have the hot hand will have to have a big impact this season.
More on this story as I find out more.
The big story today in the sports world comes out of the NBA as the 76ers first made a trade with the Timberwolves and shipped the contracts of Rodney Carney and Calvin Booth to the Wolves. The move was a cap-clearer to have more money to offer prize free agent Elton Brand.
Mission accomplished.
Despite public pleading from Brand to lure Baron Davis from the Warriors to the Clippers, Brand spurred the Clippers and signed a maximum contract in Philly, agreeing to a five year deal worth in excess of $80 million.
What a snake job by Elton Brand. For months and months, Brand lied to everyone, saying all it took was the Clippers to make a commitment to winning for him to re-up with the team. Well, Mr. Brand, what do you call Baron Davis? The Clippers would have been a legit threat in the Western Conference if Brand would have lived up to his word, but instead the yellow-streaked Dukie did what Dukie's do and lied to everyone and sold his soul for the bigger payday. See also: Carlos Boozer, who if you all remember right lied and told the Cavs he was resigning with the team before abruptly agreeing to a deal with the Jazz.
But for the 76ers, the move is a franchise changer. Brand is one of four active players in the NBA right now who averages 20 points and 10 boards per game in his career, joining Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett and Shaquille O'Neal. Paired with Samuel Dalembert in the paint and joining a starting lineup with Andre Miller, Andre Iguodala and budding star Thaddeus Young make the Sixers a favorite to challenge the Celtics in the East. Let us not forget that without Brand this past season, this team gave the Pistons all they could handle in Round 1 of the NBA Playoffs.
But this all reeks of fish to me and I am rooting for the Brand to Philly experiment to fail.
My last Top 10 list was a beast to tackle as darn near every SEC coach can make a case to be at or near the top of any coaching list.
But the list we're beginning today will be just as difficult and just as polarizing.
Today, I give you No. 10 on my new list: The most difficult college football stadiums to play in as a visiting team.
No. 10: Doak Campbell Stadium (Florida State):
What's better than having the mascot of your opponent plant a fire-lit spear in the middle of the field to spark fear into the eyes of a visiting team? While that tradition has since faded a bit and so have the Noles winning ways in recent years, there is no better ticket in town than Doak Campbell when the Noles are taking on in-state rivals Florida or Miami.
I was going to keep this stadium off the list but, the team's one-time 54 game home winning streak that spanned 10 seasons earned the Seminole's home a spot in our list.
Check back for No. 9 tomorrow.
Cubs acquire Harden from A's – This is just as big as the Sabathia move for me, because when Harden is on, he is as light's out as anyone. Any grip the Cubs lost to the Brew Crew earlier in the week, they got back now.
Vick files for bankruptcy protection – How the mighty have fallen. For a man who once signed a nine figure deal with Nike, I bet Vick never expected to be in court for a bankruptcy hearing. But then again, I guess in the same breathe, had he known he would have been in court for fighting dogs, he would have maybe spent his money a little more carefully in the first place.
Top recruit Brandon Jennings to bypass college, go pro – It's finally happened. With the emergence of top leagues overseas, I have been waiting for this to happen and Mr. Jennings is the first to take the leap. I, personally, wish him well. It isn't his fault the NBA has a ridiculous age-limit. Why is it that a kid can be old enough to be sent to Iraq, but not old enough to aim for his dream of playing in the NBA?
That's all for me today, folks. I will keep you posted on the Hatch story as more breaks.


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In honor of the upcoming Thor movie starring the hunky Chris Hemsworth (for which I am salivating in a fashion most unbecoming), I am ecstatic to share these amazing images of the gods of Asgard by Charles Vess with you, dear reader! These beauties come to us from the back pages of Marvel Fanfare #20 from the ancient year of 1985! Above, we view the greatness that is Heimdall, guardian of the Rainbow Bridge Bifrost. Heimdall is played by Idris Elba in the movie, a casting move that caused a tiny l'il tempest in a teapot. Check out the rest of Vess' amazing artwork after the jump.
Loki schemes into his giant brazier as he holds a tiny dragon aloft. Hmm, large scrying pool, tiny reptile. Loki has always had a challenging time when it comes to scale. His extensive plans and hidden hurts are a tad disproportionate to their ultimate expression. Small amount of heroism, large amount of ire and envy. Loki is portrayed by Tom Hiddleston in the movie, who created a special fighting style to combat Hemsworth's brute force.
Odin broods with one of his faithful ravens. Anthony Hopkins is playing the overbearing patriarch in the film and I think he'll do well in the role.
Thor brings the lightning in this beautiful splash page of mountainous majesty! Having Thor be in such a small portion of the art creates distance from the viewer, reducing us to worshipers of the elevated god of thunder!
Charles Vess is an amazing artist whose work one would do well to explore! His Green Man Press site has a tiny bit of information and images, and if you haven't read Stardust (written by Neil Gaiman), I suggest you do so. Thanks for checking out this blast from the past!


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Glad they got rid of the "decent into the archives" open, it generally was a cue for me to turn it off because I was not born in Chicago in 1946 so I'm not gonna get 90% of the references. ANYHOO, good to hear Dino and Tammy from back in the day, also good to revisit my google searches for Erin MacDougald, who is / was way out of ESPO1's league.
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For all lovers of big breasts, big tits popular English actress and model Kelly Brook in action. This is a somewhat explicit sex scene in which Kelly tied and so satisfied her boyfriend. From Survival Island movie.
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Kelly Brook Cleavage Sells Some New Perfume
According to my sources, this Kelly Brook commercial I just watched 10 times is for some new perfume she designed called "Audition." Even though I was pretty sure it was an ad for her amazing cleavage, which is weird, because I didn't think that was for sale. So I guess the perfume thing makes more sense. Enjoy the view!
Kelly Brook Boobs On The Beach
British model Kelly Brook and David McIntosh, her boyfriend, former Gladiator, enjoy a relaxing day together in Venice, California. Kelly watched David show off his fit physique on Muscle Beach before the happy couple took a refreshing dip in the ocean! All we can say is that's one lucky dude and he's probably having a blast exploring all angles of Kelly's voluptuous curves!
Kelly Brook New Look Lingerie
Now lets take a quick break from all the awesome Kelly Brook bikini pictures for something even better: her new shoot for New Look Lingerie. I'd say it's not going to get any better than this, but if I've learned anything from following Kelly's career for all these years, it's that she somehow always finds a way to top herself. Also, that she's still not willing to date a blogger and "please stop begging, it's getting embarrassing." But forget that. Kelly didn't give up on her dream, and neither am I. Enjoy this new Kelly Brook lingerie gallery!
Kelly Brook Still Busting In Bikini
Here are even more awesome Kelly Brook bikini pics. She is still vacationing in Miami in a tiny bikini and still busting out her drool-inducing curves, and booty, and ginormous super cleavage. Now I don't know how long this is all going to last, so I recommend making the most of it and enjoying it while you can. You're welcome! Enjoy!
Kelly Brook Continues Busty Bikini Action
It looks like Kelly Brook is still on her beach vacation, which means we've got more insanely hot bikini pictures from our favorite busty Brit today. So here is Kelly Brook doing what she does best in a tiny bikini and as you can clearly see, what she does best is bust out her ginormous super cleavage in a tiny bikini. And bust out her bodacious curves, and her eyeball-melting hotness, and the shwingtastic list goes on and on, so let's stop this blabbing so we can all go and enjoy the hell out of Kelly Brook bikini photos!
New Kelly Brook Busty Bikini Pictures
Because all my favorite celebrity hotties are just crushing my dreams right and left, here's Kelly Brook with some meathead-looking male model dude who's rumored to be her new boyfriend. Honestly, I don't see what he's got that I don't. Besides a job that requires him to actually go outside and not wear the same pair of sweatpants all week. What a loser. And what makes these pictures even worse is that this guy's right behind Kelly Brook in bikini somewhere on the beach!
Here are some of the hottest pictures we've gotten of Kelly Brook in months. They're from something called the National Television Awards in London, and Kelly managed to hit every single one of my requirements for the perfect red carpet outfit: a see-through dress, no bra, serious cleavage, and an impressive leg show with slight upskirt. Well, that's what we got, both a see-through to Kelly Brook nipples and a quick brief panty flash too.


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Julie Bowen was once called fat; the Modern Family actress tells More magazine that it happened during her first professional role as an actress during the early '90s. And, to make matters worse, it was a costar who did the name calling: "Between scenes, [a costar] would say, 'Can you believe how fat you are?'" Luckily, Julie was able to keep confident by finding support in the show's crew.
No matter how thick your skin, name-calling hurts — especially when it's in regards to your appearance. And it doesn't help that societal pressure equates looking your best to being thin.
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Sermon delivered on Trinity 8B, Sunday, July 26, 2015, at St. Augustine's Anglican Church, Westerville, OH.
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Lectionary texts: 2 Samuel 11.1-25; Psalm 14.1-7; Ephesians 3.14-21; John 6.1-21.
In the name of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
What are we to make of the apparent contrast of themes in our readings this morning? On the one hand the psalmist tells us that God looks down from heaven to see if there are any who seek him and finds no one because all are corrupt and their deeds reflect this stark and depressing reality. We get a real-life example of what this looks like in the sordid tale of David's adulterous affair with Bathsheba and its aftermath. On the other hand we read Paul's soaring prayer with its emphasis on goodness and power that accompanies his astonishing claim made earlier that it is through the Church, through you and me, that God will make his wisdom known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places (Ephesians 3.10). Do you feel up to that task? So what are we to think and believe? Is Paul's prayer to live a godly life simply naive and unrealistic in the face of the human condition? This is what I want us to look at this morning.
The sad tale of David and Bathsheba is pretty straightforward and doesn't need much explanation. The writer makes it clear that David wasn't where he was supposed to be. He should have been on the front fighting with his men. Instead, he was at home in Jerusalem taking it easy. We aren't told why David wasn't with his men, only that he wasn't, and that got him into big trouble. Here we see the pragmatic wisdom behind James' warning in action:
One is tempted by one's own desire, being lured and enticed by it; then, when that desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and that sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death. Do not be deceived, my beloved (James 1.14-16).
Now we might expect a man of lesser character to act as David did when he saw a beautiful naked woman. But this is David we are talking about, the man after God's own heart, and as we watch David commit adultery and then ultimately resort to murder to cover his tracks, we are shocked. The first question we want to ask is what kind of heart does God have if David does this?
The answer to that question is not that God has an adulterous and murderous heart. David, despite his great sin in this sordid affair and his penchant for shedding blood as a warrior, was a man after God's own heart because he never turned to other gods or worshiped them. Despite his many flaws, David remained faithful to his God, although certainly not perfectly. Instead, the writer invites us to focus on the human condition. As the psalmist observed in our lesson, no one is immune from sin, not even God's anointed king, the man after God's own heart, and we see that being played out in this story. We have already noted that David was not where he was supposed to be and at least for the moment had too much time on his hands, time that he used for sinful purposes. We also note that nowhere did David stop and ask God to help him resist that alluring temptation. Perhaps David had become proud or was deceiving himself, thinking that because he was God's anointed, God would not find out or give him a free pass. But as we shall see next week, David could not have been more wrong. Sin always has its consequences. Hence, one of the things the writer surely wants us to see is that anytime we rely solely on our own strength or cleverness or devices, we are setting ourselves up for a fall. If this can happen to the Lord's anointed, it can happen to anyone. This is why we are never to put our whole hope and trust in human leaders because all have gone astray (Romans 3.23).
And a moment's thought about our own experience confirms the wisdom of all this. We may not be adulterers and murderers like David was, but every one of us has our own skeletons in the closet, the deep dark secrets we are terrified that others might find out about, which will expose our own serious flaws and less than perfect character. How often have we resolved to live a life pleasing to the Lord, only to end up confessing our failures, almost on a daily basis? For those of us who truly desire to have a deep and faithful relationship with God, this can become very distressing and discouraging. How can we ever hope to love God with all our being and our neighbors as ourselves when we get it wrong so often? And if that is the case, can God really love and forgive us? After all, isn't the road to hell paved with good intentions and fatally flawed execution? The words of the psalmist continue to haunt us: there is no one who does good in God's eyes, not even one. How can we possibly have a future and a hope?
Paul and the rest of the NT writers have the answer for us: the love of God made known supremely in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. There is no sin and no amount of sin that cannot be overcome and forgiven because of Jesus' blood shed for us. If it weren't for the love of God made known on the cross, none of us would ever dare to have any real hope about a present or future life with God because we are all dead in our sins and so thoroughly infected we cannot possibly hope to drag ourselves up by our own bootstraps. But we do have hope, precisely because of the blood of Jesus Christ shed for us. That is why Paul could boldly tell the Romans there is now no condemnation for those of us who are in Christ Jesus because in Jesus, God has condemned our sin in the flesh and taken it on himself so that we no longer need to fear God's righteous wrath or condemnation (Romans 8.1-4).
This is more than just mere platitude, folks. If you do not really believe this, you will never have any hope of having Paul's prayer for you come alive in your life because the whole prayer is predicated on us accepting God's real love for us and his real forgiveness of our sins, irrespective of what they are. If we still worship an angry God whom we think is nothing more than a bean counter who gives us a bunch of rules we cannot possibly hope to follow on our own so that he can beat us up, we are not worshiping the God of the Bible and should therefore not be surprised when our prayers for help to this false god go unanswered. For us to live in the power of God, we must first understand that while we are sinners, we are forgiven sinners, bought with the price of the Son's own dear blood and greatly loved by the Father.
This is a gift from God, freely offered to one and all, and by God's grace we can know we are loved and forgiven. This is not our own doing. If we are to really know the breadth, length, height, and depth of God, that knowledge must come from God. It cannot be manufactured by us, any more than we can manufacture knowledge about our loved ones' love for us without them making their love known to us. And once we truly believe we are forgiven and loved by God, we open ourselves to the power of God so that we do not have to be defeated in our living the way David was or the way we are when we try to live a faithful life by our own strength.
Paul tells us how to tap that power. First, we must truly desire to have the power of God working in our lives. God never forces himself on us. True love cannot do that to the beloved. But all too often we are like our own St. Augustine, who, desiring to leave behind his old life of sexual promiscuity, prayed to the Lord for chastity, but just not right then. Augustine wasn't quite ready at that time to give up sex for his Lord and was at least honest enough to pray that. So while Paul's prayer is all about the power of God in our lives, it is based on the presupposition that we desire to have God at work in our lives. In other words, we must be willing to put in our sweat equity.
Once we are willing to do that, Paul tells us that if we ever hope to fulfill the task of the Church to make known God's wisdom to the powers and authorities, we must ask God to equip us for the task. To do that, we must be firmly united with Christ in and through the power and presence of the Holy Spirit who lives in us. This is the Christ who meets us where we are and uses what we present to him to feed us and others, just like he used the bread and fishes to feed the five thousand. This happens most tangibly at communion when we come to the table to feed on our Lord's body and blood and find our strength renewed. This is the same Christ who walked on the stormy sea, the very symbol of evil and darkness, and overcame it. Without Christ in us, we have no chance or hope of ever being his people. But as Paul's prayer reminds us, to have Christ live in us, we simply have to ask and expect it to happen. I suspect many Christians who live in this country really don't believe this. We've bought into the alternative story line that things like feeding the five thousand or walking on water or Jesus living in his people are just fairy tales and myth. They can't possibly happen. So we might say the words Paul tells us to say—strengthen my inner being with power by your Spirit by connecting me with the Lord Jesus—but we don't really believe anything will happen. We are not used to seeing signs and wonders and so we secretly (and sometimes openly) scoff at such requests. And I can promise you, if this is the case, you will not be disappointed. You will get exactly what you have asked for—nothing.
This is why so many churches limp along, powerless and rudderless. They don't really believe in the power of God. They have never experienced it in their individual or collective lives the way many of us do here at St. Augustine's. Just ask Dr. Falor sometime about the Spirit's power, or think of the times in your life where you surprised yourself in the way you handled an extremely difficult thing. The same Jesus who overcame the stormy sea, who walks with us through the darkest valley, and conquered even death itself, is available to us right now as his body at St. Augustine's. All we have to do is ask for his help and power and believe that he loves us enough and is powerful enough to grant us our requests that are according to his good will and purposes for us as a parish because he has commissioned us to bring his healing love to our neck of the woods, and it will be ours. Do you believe this? Really believe this?
Please don't misunderstand. I do not suggest any of this is automatic, quick, or easy. We are profoundly broken people who are also subjected to the influence of the dark powers and principalities. But we are made stronger through adversity and Jesus' death and resurrection stand as God's eternal testimony that the power of God's love made known to us in Jesus Christ is stronger than any adversity or foe we face. To be sure, none of us will be sin-free until we lose our mortal bodies (cf. Romans 6.7). But we are assured that we can be more than conquerors through him who loved us because neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8.37-39), thanks be to God! Simply put, if you want the power of God to live in you to make you a new creation to bear good fruit for the kingdom, you simply have to ask and believe God todo this for you because he loves you and wants you to be the fully human being he created you to be.
I close with a story I hope illustrates and summarizes what I have been talking about.
We sat down to table and the officer began his story: "I have served in the army ever since I was quite young. I knew my duties and was a favorite of my superiors as a conscientious officer. But I was young, as were also my friends, and unhappily I started drinking. It went from bad to worse until drinking became an illness. When I did not drink, I was a good officer, but when I would start drinking, then I would have to go to bed for six weeks. My superiors were patient with me for a long time, but finally, for rudeness to the commanding officer while I was drunk, they reduced my rank to private and transferred me to a garrison for three years. They threatened me with more severe punishment if I would not improve and give up drinking. In this unfortunate condition all my efforts at self-control were of no avail and I could not stay sober for any length of time. Then I heard that I was to be sent to the guardhouse and I was beside myself with anguish.
"One day I was sitting in the barracks deep in thought. A monk came in to beg alms for the church. Those who had money gave what they could. When he approached me he asked, 'Why are you so downcast?' We started talking and I told him the cause of my grief. The monk sympathized with my situation and said, 'My brother was once in a similar position, and I will tell you how he was cured. His spiritual father gave him a copy of the Gospels and strongly urged him to read a chapter whenever he wanted to take a drink. If the desire for a drink did not leave him after he read one chapter he was encouraged to read another and if necessary still another. My brother followed this advice, and after some time he lost all desire for alcoholic beverages. It is now fifteen years since he has touched a drop of alcohol. Why don't you do the same, and you will discover how beneficial the reading of the Gospels can be. I have a copy at home and will gladly bring it to you.'
"I wasn't very open to this idea so I objected, 'How can your Gospels help when neither my efforts at self-control nor medical aid could keep me sober?' I spoke in this way because I never read the Gospels.
"'Give it a chance,' continued the monk reassuringly, 'and you will find it very helpful.'
"The next day he brought me this copy of the Gospels. I opened it, browsed through it, and said, 'I will not take it, for I cannot understand it; I am not accustomed to reading Church Slavonic.'
"The monk did not give up but continued to encourage me and explained that God's special power is present in the Gospel through his words. He went on, 'At the beginning be concerned only with reading it diligently; understanding will come later. One holy man says that "even when you don't understand the word of God, the demons do, and they tremble"; and the passion for drink is without a doubt their work. And St. John Chrysostom in speaking about the power of the word of God says that the very room where the Gospel is kept has the power to ward off the spirits of darkness and thwart their intrigues.'
"I do not recall what I gave the monk when I took the copy of the Gospels from him, but I placed the book in my trunk with my other belongings and forgot about it. Some time later a strong desire to have a drink took hold of me and I opened the trunk to get some money and run to the tavern. But I saw the copy of the Gospels before I got to the money and I remembered clearly what the monk had told me. I opened the book and read the first chapter of Matthew without understanding anything. Again I remembered the monk's words, 'At the beginning be concerned only with reading it diligently; understanding will come later.' So I read another chapter and found it a bit more comprehensible. Shortly after I began reading the third chapter, the curfew bell rang and it was no longer possible for me to leave the barracks.
"In the morning my first thought was to get a drink, but then I decided to read another chapter to see what would happen. I read it and did not go. Again I wanted a drink, but I started reading and I felt better. This gave me courage, and with every temptation for a drink I began reading a chapter from the Gospels. The more I read, the easier it became, and when I finally finished reading all four Gospels the compulsion for drink had disappeared completely; I was repelled by the very thought of it. It is now twenty years since I stopped drinking alcoholic beverages.
"Everyone was surprised at the change that took place in me, and after three years I was reinstated as an officer and then climbed up the ranks until I was made a commanding officer. Later I married a fine woman; we have saved some money, which we now share with the poor. Now I have a grown son who is a fine lad and he also is an officer in the army."
—The Way of a Pilgrim
Notice first how Christ used human agency (the monk) to introduce the young soldier to his Gospel. Notice the monk's persistence and the faith he had in the transformative power of the Gospel in people's lives, a faith based, in part, on past experience.
Next, pay attention to how Christ used circumstance instead of understanding to stay the young soldier's hand from drinking. He read the Gospel without understanding it, but was prevented from going on a drinking binge because he had lingered in his quarters to read it.
Finally, mark how understanding occurred—through persistent reading. Ask anyone who reads the Bible regularly and systematically and you will hear this same answer. God grants understanding to humble minds willing to submit to his word (as opposed to trying to make his word submit to their agendas) through our persistent reading of his word (i.e., though our sweat equity). Nothing sexy or spectacular here, just the power of the Spirit at work changing lives. Paul tells us the same about the power and efficacy of prayer in his own prayer for us today. Ask. Persist. Believe it will be yours (cf. Matthew 7.7-11; Luke 18.1-8). Paul knew it was true because he practiced it and as a result knew first-hand the transformative power of Jesus in his life. That same power is available to us right now so that we too can be changed by God to make a difference for God, thus helping to fulfill Paul's prayer and God's will for Christ's body the Church. And that, folks, is not only an awesome privilege, it is Good News, now and for all eternity. To him be honor, praise, and glory forever and ever. Amen.
In the name of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.


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BEDFORD, Mass., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aware, Inc. (Nasdaq: AWRE), a leading supplier of broadband technology and biometrics software, today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2008.
Revenues for the fourth quarter of 2008 were $12.1 million, an increase of 79% compared to $6.8 million in the same quarter last year. For the year ended December 31, 2008, revenues increased 15% to $30.5 million, compared to $26.4 million in 2007.
The Company reports its net income and basic and diluted net income per share in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), and additionally, on a non-GAAP basis. Non-GAAP net income, where applicable, excludes the effect of stock-based compensation expense. The company uses the non-GAAP information internally to evaluate its operating performance and believes these non-GAAP measures are useful to investors as they provide additional insight into the underlying operating results. However, non-GAAP measures are not stated in accordance with, should not be considered in isolation from, and are not a substitute for, GAAP measures. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results has been provided in the attached financial tables.
GAAP net income for the fourth quarter of 2008 was $5.0 million, or $0.21 per diluted share, which included $0.4 million of stock-based compensation charges in accordance with the provisions of FAS 123(R). This compared to GAAP net income of $0.2 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, for the same period a year ago. GAAP net income for the year ended December 31, 2008 was $1.8 million, or $0.07 per diluted share, compared to net income of $0.2 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, for 2007.
Non-GAAP net income for the fourth quarter of 2008, excluding the effect of stock-based compensation, was $5.4 million, or $0.23 per diluted share. For the year ended December 31, 2008, the company had non-GAAP net income, excluding the effect of $1.5 million of stock-based compensation, of $3.3 million, or $0.14 per share.
Michael Tzannes, Aware's chief executive officer, said, "Overall, 2008 was encouraging in many respects. We are pleased that annual revenues grew for the third year in a row and that we were profitable. Biometrics revenues grew nearly 60% and maintained strong operating metrics. We expanded our DSL test and diagnostics product offerings and are positioned to capitalize on test infrastructure deployments by phone companies. We also executed a significant contract relating to a portion of our patent portfolio, validating the market opportunity for high-quality patents.
However, the slowing economy has had a negative impact on us and is likely to continue to do so. We saw revenues trend down in most of our traditional product offerings in the fourth quarter. While we have a strong cash position, we are closely monitoring expenses across all elements of our business.
We remain optimistic that despite the current challenging market conditions, we continue to make progress towards achieving our long term goal of generating shareholder value by leveraging a strong technology base into innovative product and service offerings."
Note: Aware's conference call will be broadcast live over the Internet today, February 11, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. To listen to the call, please go to www.aware.com/ir. The conference call may also be heard by calling 719-325-4832 and referencing the confirmation number 5947596. A replay of the call will be archived on our website after the call.
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Aware is a leading technology and software supplier for the telecommunications and biometrics industries. For more than ten years, Aware has pioneered innovations at telecommunications standards-setting organizations and continues to develop and market DSL silicon intellectual property and test and diagnostics products. Its StratiPHY(tm) IP product line supports DSL standards, including ADSL2+ and VDSL2, and has been broadly licensed to leading semiconductor companies. Telecom equipment vendors and phone companies use Aware's DSL test and diagnostics modules and Dr. DSL(R) software to help provision DSL circuits globally. Aware is also a veteran of the biometrics industry, providing biometric and imaging software components used in government systems worldwide since 1992. Aware's interoperable, standard-compliant, field-proven imaging products are used in a number of applications, from border management to criminal justice to medical imaging. Aware is a publicly held company (Nasdaq: AWRE) based in Bedford, Massachusetts. www.aware.com
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Portions of this release contain forward-looking statements regarding future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as estimates or projections of future revenue and earnings and the growth of the DSL and biometrics markets. Aware wishes to caution you that there are factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results indicated by such statements. The DSL factors include, but are not limited to: we have a unique business model, our quarterly results are difficult to predict, our DSL licensing and DSL test and diagnostic businesses depend upon a limited number of customers, we derive a significant amount of revenue from a small number of customers, we depend on equipment companies to incorporate our technology into their products, we face intense competition from other DSL vendors, DSL technology competes with other technologies for broadband access, our business could be harmed if our test and diagnostic hardware and software products have quality problems, we depend on a single source contract manufacturer for the manufacture of our DSL hardware products, our manufacturing systems may not be adequate for our DSL test and diagnostics hardware products, we depend on single source suppliers for components in our DSL hardware products, and our business is subject to rapid technological change. The biometric factors include, but are not limited to: market acceptance of our biometric products, changes in contracting practices of government or law enforcement agencies, announcements or introductions of new products by our competitors, delays, failures or problems in our biometric products, problems in our biometrics services business, delays in the adoption of new industry biometric standards, and competitive pressures resulting in lower software product revenues. We refer you to the documents Aware files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically the section titled Risk Factors in our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 and other reports and filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Aware, StratiPHY, and Dr. DSL are trademarks or registered trademarks of Aware, Inc.
AWARE, INC. CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (In thousands, except per share data) (unaudited) Three Months Ended Year Ended December 31, December 31, 2008 2007 2008 2007 Revenue: Product sales $2,210 $5,158 $14,022 $17,491 Contract revenue 9,346 1,077 14,658 6,337 Royalties 527 518 1,837 2,609 Total revenue 12,083 6,753 30,517 26,437 Costs and expenses: Cost of product sales (1) 613 912 2,589 3,998 Cost of contract revenue (1) 667 1,110 4,180 5,425 Research and development (1) 3,187 3,134 13,171 10,869 Selling and marketing (1) 1,443 930 4,739 3,738 General and administrative (1) 1,416 967 5,209 4,237 Total costs and expenses 7,326 7,053 29,888 28,267 Net income (loss) from operations 4,757 (300) 629 (1,830) Interest income 222 496 1,163 2,016 Net income before provision for income taxes 4,979 196 1,792 186 Provision for income taxes (1) (3) (16) (26) Net income $4,978 $193 $1,776 $160 Net income per share - basic $0.21 $0.01 $0.08 $0.01 Net income per share - diluted $0.21 $0.01 $0.07 $0.01 Weighted average shares - basic 23,290,502 23,818,467 23,637,950 23,737,715 Weighted average shares - diluted 23,292,639 24,917,360 23,696,519 25,083,700 (1) Effective January 1, 2006 the Company adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 123 (Revised), "Share-Based Payment" (FAS 123(R)). The amounts in the tables above include stock-based compensation as follows (in thousands): Three Months Ended Year Ended December 31, December 31, 2008 2007 2008 2007 Cost of product sales $3 $5 $11 $13 Cost of contract revenue 29 43 135 176 Research and development 148 172 611 483 Sales and marketing 52 41 186 119 General and administrative 158 85 562 347 Total stock-based compensation costs $390 $346 $1,505 $1,138 AWARE, INC. Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Reconciliation (In thousands, except per share data) (unaudited) Three Months Ended Year Ended December 31, December 31, 2008 2007 2008 2007 GAAP net income $4,978 $193 $1,776 $160 Stock-based compensation 390 346 1,505 1,138 Non-GAAP net income $5,368 $539 $3,281 $1,298 Three Months Ended Year Ended December 31, December 31, 2008 2007 2008 2007 GAAP diluted net income per share $0.21 $0.01 $0.07 $0.01 Stock-based compensation per share 0.02 0.01 0.07 0.04 Non-GAAP diluted net income per share $0.23 $0.02 $0.14 $0.05 AWARE, INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (In thousands) (unaudited) December 31, December 31, 2008 2007 ASSETS Cash and investments $45,516 $38,549 Accounts receivable, net 2,211 7,661 Inventories, net 1,656 1,424 Property and equipment, net 7,463 7,872 Other assets, net 700 877 Total assets $57,546 $56,383 LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY Total current liabilities $2,693 $2,817 Long-term deferred revenue 330 330 Total stockholders' equity 54,523 53,236 Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $57,546 $56,383
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Russell Artzt, CA co-founder, announces he will retire
Russell Artzt, who co-founded CA Technologies in 1976 and stayed with the company through decades of soaring growth, a criminal accounting scandal and a push to rebuild, announced Wednesday that he is retiring in September.
Artzt, 68, is a Bronx-born software engineer who helped develop the company's early programs for mainframe computers and served nearly 25 years on CA's board of directors. In recent years he led CA's program to work with computer science students to develop software at Stony Brook University.
"It's been an incredible ride," Artzt said during a speech at the company's facility in Islandia, where some 600 people gathered to send him off.
Artzt founded CA, formerly named Computer Associates, with Charles Wang several years after the two graduated from Queens College. Wang, who is now majority owner of the New York Islanders, was the hard-charging and charismatic chief executive. Artzt, meanwhile, ran the company's research and development operations.
"Charles was the guy out front, and Russ was the guy in the back. At heart, he was a true computer geek," said Gary Quinn, who worked at CA for 20 years and is now president and chief executive of FalconStor Software of Melville.
The company, which was based on Long Island for 35 years, became the first software maker to top $1 billion in sales, in 1989. For decades it was one of the region's largest and most influential corporations. CA moved its headquarters to Manhattan last year.
Wang left the company in 2002. Two years later Computer Associates was gripped by a $2.2 billion criminal accounting scandal that led to the resignation of chairman and chief executive Sanjay Kumar. He is currently serving a 12-year federal prison term for securities fraud. Artzt was not implicated in the crime.
The company went on to enact sweeping accounting reforms. The current chief executive, Mike Gregoire, who arrived in 2013, is leading the company on a push to develop cloud-based and other cutting-edge programs as its core mainframe sales have slowed.
Artzt, who lives in Old Westbury, has stepped away from operational management in recent years. He left CA's board in 2005 and currently has the title of vice chairman and founder.
"I hope I can live up to the standard he set," Gregoire said.
Artzt's retirement party, in a sprawling tent at the corporate campus off the Long Island Expressway, featured a four-piece rock and roll band, a video tribute to Artzt and a giant cake festooned with sparklers.
"This is a lot of fun," Artzt said. "I should retire every year."


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"oh, don't forget correctify … that's the one that J used to always say … frank thought maybe she was actually a genius—cuz it's a pretty good word … too bad she didn't realize she had made it up."
tricky. derived from error and ignorance it brilliantly blends two synonyms into a superlative: tweek, fix, correctify. to be reserved for the most extreme fuck-ups: financial, legal, cosmetic surgery, teen parties, etc. when used to its full potential.
contextual use:
"…Warren Buffet correctified Bear Stearns' collapse by purchasing remaining stock for $15 billion and absorbing it immediately into Berkshire Hathaway."
"…Sarah, not to correctify you, but tangerine-banana candles don't go with pine-pond moss ones."


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text: French mobile operator Bouygues Telecom has won a case it brought against larger rivals France Telecom-Orange and SFR for abusing their dominant positions in the market. The local industry watchdog Arcep has upheld Bouygues' complaint, first filed in October 2006, that its rivals [between the period 2005-2008] offered unlimited voice calls to three other on-net phone numbers that put it at an unfair disadvantage, given that due to it being the newest and smallest mobile operator, it was difficult for it to compete with such voice calls plans. The French Competition Authority – ADLC – upheld the cellco's complaint and issued fines of EUR117.4 million (USD153.5 million) against FT-Orange, and one of EUR67.5 million against SFR. Orange intends to appeal the decision, while Bouygues Telecom now says that it will now consider suing its rivals for compensation.


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You need to be careful when you're advertising, because some people aren't too bright and need things spelled out to them. You also need to be careful not to withhold information that makes you look better than you are, which is what Carphone Warehouse did with one of its radio adverts.
Back in July Carphone Warehouse did an ad campaign promising that customers could save up to £152 if they avoided the retailer's major competitors. Most of those adverts clarified that 'major competitors' meant EE, O2, and Vodafone. The radio ad did not, possibly because someone forgot Three exists. The Advertising Standards Agency wasn't too happy about that.
Instead of owning up to the error Carphone insisted that Three isn't actually a major competitor, because it doesn't have enough customers to count. It also said Three's inclusion in the comparison didn't change the outcome in 'any meaningful way', and that the 20 second run time meant time constraints had to be considered.
The ASA upheld the complaint, however, since the fact Three runs its own network infrastructure means it did count as a major competitor. Even if it only has 9.2 million customers (10.3 million fewer than the next smallest network Vodafone).
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Reconciliation at the head of the race
After setting sail from Les Sables d'Olonne on 6 November at 12:02 GMT, those competing in the Vendée Globe have entered their third week of racing this Sunday at noon. After a fortnight at sea, over 2,600 miles already separate leader Alex Thomson from the Spaniard Didac Costa, who is bringing up the rear, and the fleet is now split into four very distinct groups. On the racetrack, Edmond de Rothschild is still lying in 3rd place and at 17:00 GMT this Sunday he was 89 miles astern of Hugo Boss and just three miles shy of Banque Populaire VIII. This trio is leading the way down to the Cape of Good Hope, on a beam reach in a N'ly breeze of around thirty knots.
For the past 48 hours, it's been a case of gritting your teeth and slipping along as quickly as possible towards the South-East in a bid to stay ahead of a cold front rolling across from Brazil, which is propelling the leaders towards the first major cape of this round the world, that of Good Hope.
To keep up these high speeds and rack up the miles, total commitment is required of the sailors. And even though the temperatures are still high at 25°C, the decks of the monohulls are being swept by big waves and inside the carbon machines, the noise is still just as deafening. Added to that, the sea, which has become heavier over the past few hours, is making life aboard just that little more complicated. Most importantly, the lumpier sea state means that the foilers and the classic daggerboards are on an equal footing once more in terms of the speeds achieved.
24 hours of jockeying for position
In this way, observers who were hoping to see the solo 24hr speed record for 60-foot monohulls tumble this weekend are still waiting. Indeed, for now the 534.48 miles covered by François Gabart during the Vendée Globe 2012 has yet to be beaten. Briton Alex Thomson came very close yesterday morning, but impact with a UFO (Unidentified Floating Object) cut short his bid for the new record. In the collision, the leader damaged his starboard foil, which is the one currently in use since the solo sailors are sailing on port tack. The skipper explained over a video sent this afternoon that the appendage was seriously damaged and that he'll have to do without it for the rest of the race.
"This type of damage inevitably makes you mull things over and yesterday I raised the foils for a few hours when I learnt about Alex's news. However, once I'd taken stock I saw reason because objectively I was already a notch lower than Alex in the way I was driving the boat. As such, right now I'm sailing the boat to her true potential again," explained Sébastien Josse this evening.
The numbers on Edmond de Rothschild
These first two weeks of racing are an opportunity to analyse the numbers from the 14:00 GMT ranking this 20 November. Since leaving Les Sables d'Olonne on 6 November 2016, the Mono60 Edmond de Rothschild has covered 4,953 miles along the great circle route (direct route) at an average speed of 14.7 knots so Sébastien Josse has covered 20% of the total distance. It's worth noting that over the ground, which means the actual distance over the water, the skipper of Gitana 16 has devoured 5,356.85 miles at an average speed of 15.9 knots. Finally, this morning the five-arrow sailor recorded his greatest distance covered over 24 hours after racking up 497.38 miles at an average speed of 20.7 knots.
At the start of the third week of racing, twenty-eight of the twenty-nine boats that made their way down the canal out of Les Sables d'Olonne are still racing. Indeed, yesterday evening, Bertrand de Broc announced his retirement from the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, where he moored to inspect his damaged keel fairing. For his part, Tanguy de Lamotte, victim of damage to his masthead last Saturday, hasn't yet reported his retirement, though it's only a matter of days now. He's remaining in the race until he makes landfall, which will most likely be this coming weekend in Les Sables d'Olonne.
Ranking on 20 November at 17:00 GMT
- Alex Thomson (Hugo Boss) 19,341.8 miles from the finish
- Armel Le Cleac'h (Banque Populaire VIII) 86.6 miles behind the leader
- Sébastien Josse (Edmond de Rothschild) 89.6 miles behind the leader
- Vincent Riou (PRB) 157.4 miles behind the leader
- Morgan Lagravière (Safran) 182.0 miles behind the leader
- Paul Meilhat (SMA) 222.6 miles behind the leader
- Jérémie Beyou (Maître CoQ) 313.1 miles behind the leader
- Yann Eliès (Quéguiner Leucémie Espoir) 703.6 miles behind the leader


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Recently my brother told me that he loved me. It was a blessing to hear those words, but I thought to myself, "What does that word even mean?" Love. What a word. Our experience of love in family life and friendships can be wonderful - but not always. No matter what our experience of love is, deep down inside, there is nothing in the world that we want more than this: to be loved and to love.
When St. John Paul II wrote his Letter to Families back in 1981, he affirmed that, "love is the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being." (Familiaris Consortio 11). God is love (1 Jn 4:8) and we are made in his image, after his likeness (Gen 1:26). Therefore, love is normal. It is the main thing that we need and want in our lives because love is our origin (Gen 2:27), our life (Jn 10:10; Rom 5:5) and our destiny (1 Cor13: 8,13).
St. John Paul II goes on to say that every vocation has its' origin in family life. But what if your family is not perfect? Welcome to the human race! No family is perfect. Notice how the New Testament begins. It begins with Jesus' genealogy. This list is not a litany of saints. Some of these people in Jesus' family line were good, some were not so good, while others were very bad. Original sin penetrated Jesus' family line, as it does yours and mine. What is the solution?
Jesus. He is the Father's answer to our hearts deepest longings. Whatever vocation God calls you to, ultimately it is going to be centered on love, therefore on God. If not, you will never be at peace. A religious vocation is a response of love, to love back the One who has loved us first. So, once you've found Jesus (THE source of love), it's time to move forward in life. Or, as the infamous rapper Heavy D said back in the day, "Now that we found love what are we gonna do with it"?
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(Black) A clean-up activity was held in Battambang
The World Mission Society Church of God (WMSCOG) conducted a clean-up campaign on March 4 and around 60 people participated in this activity including provincial officers. This Church has been performing clean-up campaigns in 2,200 areas in 150 countries around the world in ahead of the Passover to save the earth getting sick from environmental pollution.
As part of "Celebration of the Sacred Birth of God Ahnsahnghong & Preparation of 2012 Passover Assembly," these activities will be held globally until early April. The Church of God said that the purpose of this clean-up movement was to practice the love of the Passover of the New Covenant restored by the Second Coming Jesus Ahnsahnghong for salvation of mankind, and to cause the Cambodian people to be aware of the seriousness of global warming and environmental pollution. The campaign has attracted interest and participation of many people to spread the way to save lives in times of disaster.
The Church of God has hosted the Worldwide Clean-up Campaign annually before the Passover. The total number of the clean-up campaigns carried out from 2001 to January 2012, not including small-scale campaigns which have not been counted, amounts to as many as 1,272. On the average, more than 100 activities have been held every year. These activities contribute to change environmental awareness of the world as well as to make the polluted Earth clean.
The Passover, which falls on April 5 this year, is an important feast of God because through this feast we can be protected from disasters and have the promise of the forgiveness of sins and eternal life. The Church of God said, "We hope that people will keep the Passover and become the children of God to receive the blessings and the gift of salvation by cleaning up our mind as well as the environment of the earth."
"The Clean-up Campaign by the World Mission Society Church of God is really a good activity," said Provincial Officer Uti, who participated in the event. "I am very glad to cooperate with a clean-up activity by participating in it as a Provincial Officer." Also, he added, "This campaign becomes a good example which would promote residents to join the campaign to stop dumping wastes into fields and farmland and to make the environment clean."
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Two hijacked planes had targeted Washington – AA77 and UA93. The Langley pilots, those nearest to Washington during the attack were somehow never told of either. So why were they even in the air? According to the 9/11 Commission, they were chasing American 11 an hour after it crashed. According to the 9/11 Commission, they were going to intercept Flight 11. While the Otis pilots had been looking for it until at least 9:03 am, well after it had crashed, somehow it was misreported to NEADS at 9:21 that American 11 was still airborne and headed for Washington. Thus, the commission concludes, the Langley pilots were going to intercept the ghost flight nearly an hour after it crashed. The Commission reported: "we have not been able to identify the source of this mistaken FAA information." [1]
Did someone make this up, or were they actually seeing it as a radar blip on their screens? During the course of the 9/11 Commission's hearings, I recall an official testifying that a number of reported hijackings that morning turned out to be "phantoms." These non-existent planes turning up as real on radar screens further confused response, notably by distracting the Langley pilots from a real plane – American 77 – that was official invisible on these same screens until right before it hit the Pentagon.
FAA Administrator Jane Garvey told Richard Clarke, after the first two planes had crashed, "we have reports of eleven aircraft off course or out of communications, maybe hijacked." [2] Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said "we probably had maybe about ten unaccounted for planes." [3] Florida State Congressman Adam Putnam, who was aboard Air Force One with President Bush, was told at 11:30 there was a threat against them. Putnam explained "at the time… [the President] said that there were six aircraft that were not accounted for." [4] In his bunker beneath the White House, Cheney had at least two possible run-ins with ghost planes, which he aggressively ordered shot down. Were all of these simply the result of confusion and uncertainty, with every communications problem getting a plane called in as a possible hijack? Or was there something stranger at work?
Among the air-based War Games being held that morning was Operation Northern Vigilance, set up in the arctic with Canadian assistance. They were there, NORAD explained, "to monitor a Russian air force exercise" that was happening just on the other side of the North Pole. [5] In addition to possibly drawing fighters and radar attention away from the East Coast, Northern Vigilance also, for whatever reason, involved radar "inserts," blips that would look like planes to radar controllers but in reality corresponded to nothing. How many inserts were used, on whose screens, and inserted into which air traffic regions are all questions that remain unanswered. As it became clear an attack was underway, at 9:00 am, NORAD officially cancelled the exercise and erased the inserts. But until that time, they may have added to the confusion in the air. And this is only the reported possible source of such phantom flights. There are so many other ways in which false radar/transponder data could be seen as real and thus conceal the attack planes beneath a swarm of decoys. The confusion would only have to hold for about 30-45 minutes, just long enough to get all the targets – or at least all but one – through our normal air defenses. If this was the plan, it worked like a charm and the catalyzing event was realized.
[1] 9/11 Commission Final Report. Page 26
[2] Clarke, Richard A. "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror." New York. Free Press. 2004. Page 4.
[3], [4] "Clear the Skies." BBC Video. 2002.
[5] Ruppert, Michael C. "Crossing the Rubicon." 2004. Page 342.
[6] Thompson and the CCR. The Terror Timeline. 2004. Page 386.
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Labels: 9/11 Commission, Air Force One, Clarke R, Flight 11, Flight 77, Flight 93, Garvey J, Langley Fighters, Mineta N, NEADS, Radar
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Chapter 13 introduces the concept of integrated marketing communications, "the intentional coordination of every communication from a firm to a target customer to convey a consistent and complete message." In launching its new Zinger sandwich, KFC sought to create a campaign around the Zinger 1 Space Mission. Read and watch elements of the campaign here: " KFC #SpaceSandwich: Zinger's So Out of This World It's Going to Space ," (branchannel, June 14, 2017). Then check out KFC social media channels to learn more. Choose three specific elements of this campaign (ad, video, Tweet, Facebook post, etc.). For each, indicate what you believe is KFC's promotion objective.
Branding through the nose
Some businesses smell an opportunity to really tie together their integrated marketing communications. They communicate distinct brand identity through the scents that customers smell in their stores or hotels. Read more at " The smell of success " (Baltimore Sun, January 19, 2012), watch a short Early Show news story (4:35) below, or check out ScentAir Technologies website . Place yourself in the marketing department for ScenAir. What types of businesses would be good opportunities to pursue? Go beyond those mentioned in the article and video. How could you promote the product to your new target market?
Colgate Max White One – Positioning a smile as an "accessory"
Colgate Max White One excels at getting your teeth white. This short (2:11) video shows how Colgate Max White One uses clever advertising and guerilla marketing to position a woman's smile (and therefore its whitening toothpaste) as a fashion "accessory." The campaign ran in Europe with the guerilla part in Paris. What do you think? Would this work? What are the advantages of this program? The disadvantages?


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|▲ Gwangju Mayor Lee Yong-seob(second from right) speaks before a quadripartite council comprising representatives from labor unions, employers, citizens in the region and the local government on December 5. [provided by the Gwangju Metropolitan Government]
The Gwangju-model job creation project with the aim of creating socially inclusive jobs and respecting the labor faces rough going. The Gwangju metropolitan government and Hyundai Motor reached an investment agreement(provisional) for the establishment of a joint-venture which prompted strong protest from the labor circle as the agreement included a clause that would grossly infringe the basic labor rights.
The provisional agreement included a controversial clause which reads that "workplace win-win councils will be operated on the basis of the principles and functions of labor-management councils regulated by the Act on the Promotion of Worker Participation and Cooperation, and the valid term of the agreements made by the win-win council of the newly established joint-venture will be effective until the cumulative production of 350,000 vehicle units were accomplished for the purpose of earlier financial stability and secured sustainability."
Suppose that the Gwangju city government and Hyundai Motor produce 70,000 vehicle units per year, it is interpreted that the clause suspends negotiations for wages and collective agreement for 5 years. It infringes the Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act which grants labor unions the right to bargain collectively and regulates the valid term of collective agreement up to 2 years. It also violates the Act on the Promotion of Worker Participation and Cooperation that regulates the labor-management council to hold meetings once every three months. It can be also interpreted that the clause does not recognize labor unions.
Following disputes in the morning meeting, the labor-employer-citizen-city government council finally managed to draw up another revised proposal by reflecting the concerns of the labor circle in respect to the controversial clause, but it was turned down by Hyundai Motor, citing "repeated revisions and setback".
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