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NAACP President To Deliver MLK Address
Benjamin Todd Jealous, the youngest president in the history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will deliver the University of Rochester's 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address on Friday, Jan. 24. The free talk begins at 6 p.m. in Strong Auditorium on the River Campus.
A fifth generation member of the NAACP, Jealous began his career in civil rights at age 18, opening mail at the organization's Legal Defense Fund. He has since become an outspoken leader of successful state and local movements to ban the death penalty, outlaw racial profiling, defend voting rights, secure marriage equality, and free multiple wrongfully incarcerated people. Under his leadership, the NAACP grew to be the largest civil rights organization online and on mobile, experienced its first multi-year membership growth in 20 years, and became the largest community-based nonpartisan voter registration operation in the country. He announced last fall that he planned to step down from the leadership position at the end of 2013.
Jealous's address will draw on the tradition of leadership that connects Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jr., Shirley Chisolm, Frederick Douglas, Cesar Chavez, and Frances Willard to inspire young people to change the world. Jealous will discuss victories he has won, as well as those of young organizers he has trained and mentored, as a framework for how to achieve social transformation.
"We are honored to have Benjamin Jealous serve as our Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address speaker this year," said Norman Burnett, dean and director of the Office of Minority Student Affairs. "As a result of his dynamic leadership, Jealous is credited with reenergizing the nation's oldest and most revered civil rights organization and advancing national discussions on disparities in economics, health care, education, voter empowerment, and the criminal justice system."
Akan Nelson '15, vice president of the University's Pan-African Students Association, will introduce Jealous at the address. Nelson said that Jealous's success in revitalizing the NAACP—particularly the creation of an online registration system—would resonate well with a young audience. "He is young, he is in touch with the current issues, and he has the ambition necessary to inspire college students like myself to keep pushing, keep innovating, and keep being the best version of ourselves that we can be," he explained.
Prior to leading the NAACP, Jealous spent 15 years working as a journalist and community organizer. While at Mississippi's Jackson Advocate Newspaper—the most frequently firebombed publication in the U.S. during the late 20th century—his investigations were credited with exposing corruption at the state penitentiary at Parchman and proving the innocence of a black farmer who was being framed for arson.
While at Amnesty International, he led successful efforts to outlaw prison rape, expose the increasing trend of children being sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, and drew attention to expanded racial profiling in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. When he was still a college student, Jealous helped lead a successful campaign to stop the governor of Mississippi from turning a public historically black university into a prison.
A Rhodes Scholar, Jealous is a graduate of Columbia and Oxford Universities. He was named to both Forbes and Time Magazine's 40 under 40 lists, labeled a Young Global Economic Leader by the World Economic Forum, and was #1 on TheRoot.com's list of 2013's Top Black Influencers.
The annual address, which kicks-off the University's Black History Month celebration by recognizing the legacy and influence of King's Life, is co-sponsored by the Office of Minority Student Affairs and the Office of the President.
Note to Editors: Press availability with Jealous will be scheduled from 3 to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 24, in the Frederick Douglass Leadership House, located on Wilson Boulevard on the Fraternity Quadrangle. Advanced interviews also can be scheduled by e-mailing Melissa Greco Lopes at firstname.lastname@example.com or calling 585.276.3693.
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Riding on the momentum of my recent SugarCE appliance (blog entry here), Joomla came to mind... because a friend (Thanks Niko) was talking about how he once built a business on it.
This time around, instead of spending half a day, I only spent half-a-morning to have my Joomla appliance ready. After doing a little more tidying up, I published it last Friday and it has already been downloaded 4 times over the weekend by other members of the SUSE Studio community.
I will not go into details, and write another long blog entry here, since Joomla is fundamentally a LAMP application very similar to SugarCE (Apache2, MySQL and PHP). Hence, the steps/methodology in my previous blog entry applies.
Here's the link to my published Joomla (v1.5.20) - [Link]
By the way, if you do not have a SUSE Studio account, I'd encourage you to get one. If you'd still like to sit on the fence, I hear (from my secret source) that the general public will be able to access and download published appliances for free in a matter of days...
Its all hush-hush now but I will post another entry when this feature goes live later this week... (D'oh! )
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Monday, July 26, 2010
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Welcome to Halifax Minsters Education Department!
At Halifax Minster we aim to provide a rang e of Educational visits that meet school's curriculum needs and are fun for children. As you can see from the feedback boxes on this page we are achieving our aim!
We are currently working on visits that meet the needs of the new RE Syllabus for Calderdale and Kirklees, which will be launched this September. This new curriculum provides us with the opportunity to support schools as they go through a time of transition and re-evaluating their RE delivery.
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The job of public advocate is essentially to be the official "complainer" of New York City; to be the City Hall watchdog for the residents of New York City. The public advocate is also next in line to become mayor.
James is a fiery maverick in the City Council, perhaps best known for her outspoken battles against the Atlantic Yards Project. She was fighting for more jobs, more affordable housing and more accountability from a developer who might not have been so eager, if not for James, to yield to those demands.
Although she wasn't always successful in those endeavors, we do believe she got a taste early and often for what it's like to try and take on City Hall - good experience for the post she now seeks.
Publishing two community newspapers in the heart of Brooklyn - the Greenpoint Star and Brooklyn Downtown Star – we have seen both Squadron and James at work, up close and personal, and have a unique perspective on the two candidates. We know that both James and Squadron know to wage a fight.
But the difference comes down to two main issues for us, leading us to believe that Squadron is a better fit for the post.
First, we sense Squadron will be a more effective public advocate because his perspective is more citywide than James. He will get more respect from the various groups the public advocate will have to work with and he is much more mayoral than James. We feel Squadron will be able to get results because he has solid relationship with elected officials from the city to the federal level.
But more importantly, if de Blasio wins, he and James come from the same mold; they are both Working Families Party disciples and share many of the same viewpoints. While that might not seem like a critical factor, we feel that Squadron would be a much more independent public advocate than James, which is really the most important part of the position.
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The Central Connecticut women's soccer team earned its first win of the season on Sunday over the Siena Saints (3-4-0) by a score of 2-1. The Blue Devils improve to 1-5-0 with the win. Freshman Morgan Santoro scored her first collegiate goal in the match, followed by her first career assist to junior Julie Lavoie.
The two teams kicked off the contest evenly matched, until a penalty kick by Siena's Brittany Pfaff found its way to the back of the net to put the Blue Devils down 1-0.
CCSU responded, however, just five minutes later when senior Allison Kelley made a clean pass to Santoro who shot the ball into the top right corner of the net to even the score.
With the momentum in their favor, the Blue Devils launched another attack on goal. A substitution by head coach Mick D'Arcy put Lavoie in position and, just 13 seconds after entering the game, Lavoie found the top left of the net on a pass from Santoro, adding the insurance goal. The game-winner was Lavoie's fourth career goal.
The two teams battled in the second half but both were rendered scoreless at the conclusion of the period, leading the Blue Devils to their first win of the season.
Senior goalkeeper Nikola Deiter tallied 10 saves in the match. The Saints posted a total of 17 shots, 11 on goal, compared to 19 shots, two on goal, for CCSU. Both teams posted three corner kicks in the match.
The Blue Devils are set for their third consecutive home match this Friday, Sept. 20, at 7 p.m. against Fairfield.


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This is the mark that the wall left behind.
{It looks way better in the picture, for some reason.}
WOW poor kid! good thing Shane can fix the wall!
Oh no! It looks like he hit it just right (so he didn't break open the skin). He sure is a tough little guy!
I love how they seem so proud in their "wound" shots. So boy. :)
Wow. That's quite a dent he put in your wall. I think he might be the only kid I 'know' who could give Jib a run for her money when it comes to having a hard head. LOL
Glad he wasn't injured too seriously!!
Wow...that is a nice dent! He and Carter are kindred spirits I swear! Remember Carter's ginormous goose egg from the patio a couple of summers ago! Hope his headache soon heals :)
So does that mean that Cameron is a ... hard head? :)
Only a boy would be smiling about THAT!
I miss keeping up with you regularly...SIGH.....
Can't wait to have good internet!
That Cameron.....He's a keeper.
Dude, you took on a wall and won!
Well done sweet little man.
Wow! Hope he's ok :)


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Snow Run on the Appalachian Trail
An early January trail run to Thornton Gap and Shenandoah National Park on the Appalachian Trail.
Appalachian Trail in February = Winter Wonderland
A snowy run on the Appalachian Trail from 522 south towards Mt. Marshall.
Vicki's Death March – Shenandoah National Park
While many people were out shopping with the mobs in malls, I was lucky enough to be on the top of the world with my running club. Black Friday was the 9th annual running of "Vicki's Death March", otherwise known as the Shenandoah National Park's "greatest hits" trail run. The run started in the Old Rag parking lot and went up White Oak Canyon to Hawksbill summit, following the AT to Skyland, Little Stony Man, Corbin Cabin, Nicholson Hollow and back to Old Rag. Lots of climbing, a fair amount of rocks, roots, leaf cover and even a little ice. It was a gorgeous day, with a bright blue sky and warmish temperatures – a perfect day to play on trail.


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LITTLE ELM -- Kasey Simmons is on a mission it to make you smile.
"It's selfish really," Simmons said. "When people smile, I feel better. It lightens my world."
The 32-year-old is a server at Applebee's in Little Elm. On Tuesday, he got one of the largest tips on one of the smallest checks of his career.
"They ordered the cheapest thing on the menu of flavored water -- it was $0.37," Simmons said, "but my tip was about 50,000-percent."
The diners left Simmons $500, along with a letter written on an Applebee's napkin explaining why.
The day before, Simmons was at the Kroger grocery store when he saw a woman who looked upset. Simmons said he wants to help everyone -- including strangers -- so he approached the woman and offered to pay for her groceries.
"I insisted," Simmons said. "It was only $17, but it's not about the money -- it's about showing someone you care."
After reading the napkin/letter, Simmons learned that woman at Kroger was mourning the three-year anniversary of her husband's death. The $500 tip and the letter were written by the woman's daughter, who wanted to thank the man who showed her mother kindness when he could've easily walked away.
"I had no idea that was going on, but I knew something was making her sad," Simmons said.
Simmons said he's happy to make anyone happy, but he has one wish: He'd like to meet the family to say thank you, face to face.


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In order to economically transport fuel to remote research stations in Antarctica and Greenland, scientists must safely navigate hundreds of miles of ice sheets. Beneath the ice often loom large, invisible crevasses that pose a serious risk to those traversing the ice. Yeti, a robot designed by Thayer School of Engineering faculty and students and engineers from the United States Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, is changing the way people detect these crevasses to ensure safer journeys for polar researchers.


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it was about 6:30 in the morning. the trailer was small in a cozy way. he was about to leave for work but there was one thing he had to do before he left. it was hard leaving for the day, leaving two at home in the cozy trailer. he walked over to the bassinet and peeked in. she was pink, and little, and sleeping. he almost hated to wake her, but it was seeing her little, sleeping body wake up and s t r e t c h that put a smile on his face. his baby girl. he kissed his beautiful wife and headed off to the base.
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there has been A LOT of misinformation and pathetic jealous dissing of one of my favorite players on here.
here are the simple facts for those not prejudged to bias him just b/c he is a great hitter (one of the best ever) and makes a lot of $:
-he is a great guy, no question. he played here and my little cousin got his autograph no problems.
-Apparently his problems this season (DON'T CALL IT A SLUMP THAT'S STUPID) are related to some tax difficulties (probably a small unintentional error). to do some reasearch i called H&R block today and they said as long as he sends everything in monday he should be fine [EDIT: i did not ask about beltre's taxes themselves, i don't know where he does them, just about how taxes work in general giving beltre's situation as a hypo]. i'm willing to bet he'll hit a couple homers soon once that return is in the mail. pretty much everyone w/ common sense in that thread agreed that the taxes were the problem (just ignore the stupid and uninformed "ROIDS" and "CONTRACT YEAR" comments).
-he has one of the sweetest swings EVER. PERIOD. don't try to dispute it b/c i read it somehwere stright from a scout. if you think otherwise open your eyes instead of just following allong w/ what others are saying w/o judging for yourself
So I vouch that his new nick should be "Trü." The haters don't faze him b/c he is trü to himself and trü to the game. In this img I made he is an a Dodgers uniform b/c i couldn't find a Google image of one of his dozens of Mariners hits prolly b/c all the haters won't click on those. He has so many haters online b/c of his hitting skillz (better than them) and salary (more than them).
And w/ that i rest my case.


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Hello tea-lovers!!!!
Thank you so much for being patient. Those who follow Tea Love on Facebook have heard that sadly, I have been having some personal problems that spanned back to late October. But, fortunately, things are resolving, life is moving on and I am back!!!!
I even made a New Years resolution to cut out coffee, only allowing chai lattes 🙂 This means LOADS more tea!
Anyway, back to the blog 🙂
One of my blog readers and Facebook followers, Becky G, posted this question on my Facebook:
Well, I recommended for Becky a tea ball, which she replied that she had. So, I am curious if it might be cleaning that's the issue and not the ball itself.
I personally love loose tea. Anyone that talks to me knows that I will advise that it is a higher quality brew. No dustings involved, the leaves have more of a chance to open up (seriously, brew a cup of loose leaf tea and watch the difference as the leaves unwither! It's something really cool to behold) and it's more of a full-body tea at that point.
However, just like everyone else, I HATE cleaning out those little tea balls. Standing over the trashcan, smacking the ball every which way until you get most of the leaves out and, if you're like me, you usually have a few that just are too stubborn, so you get lazy and throw it in the sink.
While getting the leaves out is annoying, washing them shouldn't be that bad. For that, you should just have to flip the ball over and run the water through the strainer. The tea leaves will fall into the sink trap and then you just need to then, well, stand over the trash can, smack the trap every which way until you get most of the leaves out and, if you're like me, you usually have a few that are just too stubborn, so you get lazy and throw it back in the sink.
I wish I could say that there was an easier method. Maybe invest in some tea strainers that advertise how easy it is to clean them? But my personal opinion is, sadly, keep searching. I've yet to find the most effective one myself.
However, that being said, there is no shortage of decorative tea balls that you can purchase! See the slide show below for some of the more interesting ones, all found on Amazon.com 🙂


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WHEN did grunge become grunge? How did a five-letter word meaning dirt, filth, trash become synonymous with a musical genre, a fashion statement, a pop phenomenon?
From subculture to mass culture, the trend time line gets shorter and faster all the time. It was just over a year ago that MTV began barraging its viewers with the sounds of Seattle "grunge rock," featuring the angst anthems and grinding guitars of bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam. By last summer, the glossy magazines began tracking grunge looks, the threadbare flannel shirts, knobby wool sweaters and cracked leatherette coats of the Pacific Northwest's thrift-shop esthetic. Hollywood weighed in, too, with a grunge-scene movie, "Singles." Then two weeks ago -- all in the blink of a flashbulb -- the fashion designer Marc Jacobs, who has never even been to Seattle, was hailed as "the guru of grunge."
All this has happened before, with the mass-marketing of disco, punk and hip-hop. Now, with the grunging of America, it's happening again. Pop will eat itself, the axiom goes. Here's how it feeds:
In 1988, a fledgling Seattle record label called Sub Pop released a three-boxed set called "Sub Pop 200." It was a compilation of bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Mudhoney, and it came complete with a 20-page booklet packed with pictures by Charles Peterson, the photographer credited with creating grunge's hair-sweat-and-guitars look. Sub Pop also sent a catalogue to the nation's alternative-rock intelligentsia describing its bands' punk-metal guitar noise as "grunge," the first documented use of the now-ubiquitous term. "It could have been sludge, grime, crud, any word like that," said Jonathan Poneman, a Sub Pop founder.
Grunge stuck, maybe because it so vividly evoked both the black-noise sound and the smelly-caveman look. Ratty rec-room chic has been hibernating since the 70's, emerging from the basement every so often in movies like "River's Edge," "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "Wayne's World."
This generation of greasy Caucasian youths in ripped jeans, untucked flannel and stomping boots spent their formative years watching television, inhaling beer or pot, listening to old Black Sabbath albums and dreaming of the day they would trade in their air guitars for the real thing, so that they, too, could become famous rock-and-roll heroes.
A culture was born.
"Thrifting" is a verb in Seattle. Flannel and leatherette, the boho-hobo staples of second-hand attire, are the basics of a nonfashion statement. A flannel shirt worn around the waist is a precaution against the Pacific Northwest's mercurial clime. Army boots slog effectively through mud. "It wasn't like somebody said, 'Let's all dress like lumberjacks and start Seattle chic!' " Mr. Poneman said. "This stuff is cheap, it's durable, and it's kind of timeless. It also runs against the grain of the whole flashy esthetic that existed in the 80's."
"Kurt Cobain was just too lazy to shampoo," said Charles Cross, the editor of the Seattle music monthly The Rocket, talking about Nirvana's lead singer. Mr. Cobain's matted sheep-dog mop became a much-emulated cut when his band's first single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," hit last year. A native of Aberdeen, Wash., Mr. Cobain was also "dirt poor," Mr. Poneman said. He looked like (and was) a guy who slept on friends' couches or under a bridge, and bought his clothes at thrift shops.
Mr. Cobain has since become wealthy and married (to Courtney Love of the all-women grunge band Hole).
Nirvana's first album, "Bleach," was recorded for $606.17 in 1989. Shrewdly, Sub Pop spent more money flying in a writer from Melody Maker magazine, who carried the hype back to London. The band left the little label in early 1991 for Geffen Records.
MTV put "Smells Like Teen Spirit" into its "Buzz Bin" in September 1991. Picks & Pans in People magazine picked Nirvana's "Nevermind" album last December, and by January it was No. 1 on Billboard's pop album chart. Rolling Stone put the band on its cover in April and called Seattle "the New Liverpool."
Musically, grunge's roots lay elsewhere. In the early 80's in Minneapolis, there was the proto-grunge of Soul Asylum. Out of the Los Angeles post-punk scene came the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Nine Inch Nails and Henry Rollins, who spread their maximum-decibel gospel in the summer of '91 on the Lollapalooza tour, an alternative-rock road show. In Seattle, the movement was localized. Melodies filtered through the mist, inspired and tempered by that city's three principal drugs: espresso, beer and heroin.
"The vibe now is a little bit like the early 70's, before metal ceased to be heavy and relied on adrenaline highs as opposed to despondency," said Simon Reynolds, the author of "Blissed Out" (Serpent's Tail, 1990), a chronicle of rock subcultures. "There's a feeling of burnout in the culture at large. Kids are depressed about the future."
James Truman, the editor in chief of Details, the young men's style magazine that is taking grunge to the masses, said: "To me the thing about grunge is it's not anti-fashion, it's un fashion. Punk was anti-fashion. It made a statement. Grunge is about not making a statement, which is why it's crazy for it to become a fashion statement."
In Details' July issue, a member of a band called Firehose wrote a paean to his flannel shirt. In September, the magazine ran an article called "Nirvana-bes: A Bluffer's Guide to the New Indie-Rock Superstars." Entertainment Weekly discovered underground music in August with its "Complete (Idiot's) Guide to the Future of Rock & Roll." Vogue dispatched Steven Meisel to photograph grunge fashion in Northwest noir for its December issue. But none of this would have happened without MTV.
Not long after its debut, Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video ran four or five times a day for weeks. In October 1991, Steve Isaacs, MTV's first grunge veejay, was hired and was put into equally heavy rotation. But by last May, Pearl Jam's acoustic jam on the network's "Unplugged" show made Nirvana look like last year's model.
"We have a pretty big role in spreading something from the underground to the heartland," said John Canelli, the senior vice president of music and talent at MTV. But a band playing the heartland isn't underground anymore, which explains why, Mr. Canelli said, "we're always looking for whatever the next thing is."
MTV embodies the paradox of selling a phenomenon like grunge. When an alternative movement goes mainstream, it relinquishes its alternative credentials.
"You cross over to the point where you lose the original following," said Jay Coleman, the president and chief executive of Marketing and Communications International in New York. "But you pick up 10 times the original audience." Mr. Coleman's company marketed an alternative-music compact disk, "Stolar Tracks" (available from a "900" number), for Stolichnaya vodka, starring, among other artists, Seattle's Screaming Trees. He offered to arrange corporate sponsorship for the organizers of the second Lollapalooza tour, held last summer, but was turned down on the grounds that it would be like "sponsoring Woodstock."
By the same logic, Mr. Truman of Details thinks that "buying grunge as a package from Seventh Avenue is ludicrous." When Marc Jacobs sent out a parade of the world's most beautiful women wearing wool ski caps, unlaced combat boots, clashing prints and dirty-looking hair (styled by Oribe) for his spring Perry Ellis collection, Women's Wear Daily dubbed him "the guru of grunge." Now, Frederic Fekkai, the Manhattan stylist, says all the young models are asking him to make their lovely locks "a little more greasy-looking."
"A hippied romantic version of punk" is how Mr. Jacobs described his collection. Another W.W.D. story said the unwashed Goodwill-garb look "bombed when it was too grungy," quoting buyers' complaints about the creations of Mr. Jacobs, Anna Sui and Christian Francis Roth, who dressed for his show in a wool cap and played an electric guitar.
Cliff Pershes, an assistant designer at Perry Ellis, admitted to being influenced by grunge rock's moldy chic but insisted that he "used it in a new way." The Perry Ellis "flannel" shirt that models tied around their waists was in fact sand-washed silk. Mr. Pershes swears there's "not a drop of polyester" in the whole collection. It just looks like polyester.
A DESIGNER can steal street style and put it on the runway in the space of just one season, noted Walter Thomas, the creative director at J. Crew. "By the time you see it in Kmart, which you will, it can be three years," he said. The difference with grunge is that it was already for sale at Kmart, not to mention the Salvation Army.
Outdoorsy trading posts like L. L. Bean, Timberland and Lands' End have been flogging long johns and flannel forever. "I haven't heard it called the grunge look," said a baffled L. L. Bean spokeswoman. But notice that Timberland stock has doubled in the last year.
"The interval between something being dangerous and being normal is very short," said Mr. Reynolds, the author. And, in fact, the month that Rolling Stone put Nirvana on its cover, Weird Al Yankovic's "Smells Like Nirvana" parody video was already a hit on MTV. When Cameron Crowe shot "Singles," the members of Pearl Jam were sufficiently unknown to appear in the movie as extras. (Matt Dillon, the movie's moody leader of a garage grunge band called Citizen Dick, stereotyped their kind.) But by the time the band played the premiere party at the Plaza Hotel in September, they were rock stars.
Back in Seattle, a backlash is brewing. "All things grunge are treated with the utmost cyncism and amusement," said Mr. Poneman of Sub Pop. "Because the whole thing is a fabricated movement and always has been." The still-unfamous Seattle band Mudhoney even wrote a song about it: Everybody loves us Everybody loves our town That's why I'm Thinking of leaving it Don't believe in it now . . . It's so overblown. HB>LEXICON OF GRUNGE: BREAKING THE CODE
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I've seen many women who cover their heads, yet back~bite, gossip, lie. Men who go to mosques and prayer Juma on Fridays, then intoxicate themselves and cheat on their wife the following night... I mean what's up with that...?
I don't personally wear hijab, however.. I feel like when I see this sort of behaviour.. I feel more pure in my heart than these kinds of people. I mean don't these individuals feel the least bit of guilt???
What do you think all?
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Islamic girl,
You will find all levels of faith in any religion. Humans will be humans. Allah gave us the guidance but He also gave us free will.
Qur'an 2:256 - Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error: whoever rejects Evil and believes in Allah hath grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold, that never breaks. And Allah hears and knows all things.
Prophet Muhammad said:
"God does not judge according to your bodies and appearances but He scans your hearts and looks into your deeds."
"Powerful is not he who knocks the other down, indeed powerful is he who controls himself in a fit of anger."
In Islam we are all responsible for our own actions. We are also urged to enjoin good and forbid evil. Sometimes it is hard to know what to do or say when we see others doing harm to their own souls. Perhaps a gentle reminder would help them; certainly prayer would. In any case, don't let the perplexng actions of others steer you away from the straight path! Allah knows best.
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Dear IslamicGirl,
I believe that you are better than them, I trust your words as you say. But you would be better if you cover yourself for the sake of love of Allah SWT and Muhammad SAWS. Because they have ordered you female ( because I am a male) by Sunnah and Qur'an. My wife does not wear Hijab - I would love her to wear it. But even like this it is fine for me, I am just worried for her in the day of judgement. You, my wife and others cannot use an excuse your "better heart" to justify a sin. Allah SWT - might forgive them and you, but you have to do things of love for Him you have, and His Messenger SAWS.
You must have valid reasons why you are not covering yourself. Such as fear of being abused, fear of not being employed, discrimination, etc. You might have an excuse, not strong but for me is valid as human. And Allah might accept it. I dont know - Allah Malik.
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Just because someone who wears hijaab involves herself in acts of indecency should not make others look at hijaab in a negative perspective, or not wearing hijaab in a positive way.
Similarly, one who prays regularly and is caught cheating on his wife should not be compared to one who does not pray regularly and is loyal to his spouse. It is not for us to decide which is better or weigh their wrongdoings.
When we leave judgement to Allaah, we tend to think more of our own shortcomings, rather than others'... and try to improve to the best we can. Each will have his own scroll to present before Allaah, and we all shall have ours.
May sinners and their acts of hypocrisy not discourage you from following the Straight Path. For this could be one of the ways the Shaitaan is trying to distract you... a'uthu billah!
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Wearing hijab is not required for women in Islam is it? I put emphasis on the word REQUIRED. Meaning it's a SIN not to wear it.
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Thank you for your very open responses to my topic all Brother's & Sisters.
Allah Hafiz!
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Dear knowledge01:
Yes hijab is required for women in Islam. I believe all Islamic scholars are in agreement to this. You can find all the proofs on just about any reliable site. Yes, some women (and men) will argue that I am wrong, but I believe the evidence is on my side.
Many things that are required in Islam are not done by some people. It is not up to us to judge them for that. Allah gives us the criterion and with our free will, we choose to follow or not. That is between Allah and ourselves. Allah is merciful, most forgiving.
We should never judge others but we should also remember that it is not so important what they do or do not wear but rather how they act.
Prophet Muhammad (pbum) said: "Allah does not judge according to your bodies and appearances but He scans your hearts and looks into your deeds."
I do have the utmost respect for sisters who do choose to wear hijab (and act accordingly), it is not an easy decision, especially in non-Muslim countries.
And Allah knows best.
Peace, ummziba.
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Asslamo alekum to all,
The topic is sensitive and yet needs to be dealt with urgency in current scenarios.
Well, a simple answer may be: All communities have black sheep in them. So if any one raises this question/topic in future (like saying that your Imam comes to my apartment to booze on Friday nights), do not feel agitated or humilated.
We have to make ourself understand that religion should not be judged based on what individual muslim do or what muslim community does.
To judge a religion we need to compare and study its Revelation, Glorious Quran in our case. OR if need to use human as an example then use the best example, that of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
Nevertheless, it has to be born in mind that it is our duty to guard our religion. We have to keep ourself (in our own individuality) to the Path of Righteousness.
But never forget to councel the once who are on the incorrect road.
The perception that we build of another human is solely based on his/her present. We dont know what had been the type of upbringing for that person.
So, invite (and yourself be), on patience and keep persevering. And Allah has made so easy for us by repeating this in Quran several times.
Hope I was able to put some light on the topic in my first ever message on this site.
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I want to know if arch linux can be installed from the cd to an external hard drive. I have the arch 0.6 full cd , but when I try to install it my external hdd partitions didn't appear. There must be a module needed or something so it recognizes it or I'm not writing the correct dir in the others option when setting up the hdd for installation. In case it would help my hdd is an Seagate 160gb and I'm connecting it through usb.
Try booting the arch install cd with the arch-scsi image
ie, when the first screen appears, instead of just pressing enter, type arch-scsi
Thanks for your help, but I tried it and it didn't works. It just show the floppy and cd device with a loaddisk option. It seems that it is an option to load modules I think but I can't figure out how to load the hotplug module and adding the usb device to the /etc/fstab. I dunno if this is the correct way or if this would work. Also I read some articles about the usb device but all of them tell how to configure it based on an succesfull arch installation. I dunno if it works before installing it.
If you boot up with arch-scsi, I would think it would detect your drive and make a device for it. the device should be located at /dev/discs/disc1/disc (assuming disc0 is an internal hard drive you have). have a look at this. if you're not sure, run cfdisk -P s /dev/discs/disc0/disc to see the partition table for disc0, etc (this should help you decide which one is the right drive).
looking at /dev/discs should be part of the installation manual, which i have a feeling you're not reading
i have an alternative manual, you might try reading that instead.
btw, that loaddisk stuff is for loading floppy disks that contain extra files for drivers or packages to install, for instance. i've never used it.
Thanks for your help, I have succesfully installed arch 0.7, my problem was that I forgot to:
modprobe usb-storage
But now I'm having problems booting up my installation from the external hard drive. It seems that I need to do something to let my bios recognize it and then let me boot from it, I will googled to see if I can get my answers,
if anybody knows how to do it I will appreciate the help.
the way to do it is compile a custom kernel with scsi and usb-storage compiled in, not as modules.
Just curious : the same applies exactly if you need to install Arch on a USB key?
if you somehow found a usb key big enough for arch, then yes
by the way, in order to boot a device like that which isn't otherwise bootable by the bios is to put a bootloader on a device that CAN boot, such as an internal hard drive, or a cdrom/floppy.
if you somehow found a usb key big enough for arch, then yes
I recently saw desktop distros fitting on mini-CDs, for example SAM (Mandrake-based):
which proposes XFCE, Firefox and gaim on less than 210 Mo
With 512 Mo USB sticks at an affordable price, i am beginning to dream of a "mobile desktop" always in my pocket. Maybe i will have to wait for cheaper 1Go sticks to have a really complete desktop, but anyway i believe this day is not that far away
I think Damn Small Linux would fit on a 256mb too ????
just a question of messin' with iso to your liking ;-)
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I think Damn Small Linux would fit on a 256mb too ????
just a question of messin' with iso to your liking ;-)
Well, my liking would be an Arch based live USB key, with a Gnome desktop, Openoffice, Firebird, Thunderbird, (and some more). That is, anything i need (and i have now on Arch ) for Internet and office, excluding dev tools. Ideally, updatable with pacman, without having to make an iso to update my os and apps.
The openoffice package alone being 208 Mb, i believe i will have to wait if i want a complete desktop to my liking. But i am not in a hurry
The future is now......
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Vast legions of open-source software enthusiasts and industry analysts eagerly proclaim every twelve months that the elusive Year of the Linux Desktop is finally upon us. These prognosticators imagine scenarios in which the disgruntled techno-proletariat casts off the grim shackles of Microsoft oppression and embraces the sweet liberation of peerless, penguin-powered performance and productivity. Although these prophecies have obviously yet to be fulfilled and Linux adoption on the desktop remains limited, the open-source OS is rapidly gaining immense traction in the mobile and embedded space.
False prophets and desktop growth potential
The Year of the Linux Desktop began as a dream, transformed into a myth, and is now little more than a humorous meme. Let's take a cynical stroll down memory lane and commune with the presumptuous penguin predictions of the past. Back in 2003, tech consulting giant Siemens IT Solutions and Services published a study claiming that software from Linux distributor Ximian (now owned by Novell) would save companies up to 80 percent on licensing fees and 50 percent on hardware for enterprise deployments with many desktop computers. Siemens projected that Linux market share would reach 20 percent by 2008.
Now, let's take a close look at current desktop Linux market share. According to statistics from Net Applications, Linux desktop market share is less then one percent. Based on data from the metrics company, Linux exceeded the market share of Microsoft's much-hated failure, Windows ME, for the first time in Q4 2007. Statistics from W3 Counter paint a slightly rosier picture, attributing 1.77 percent market share to Linux on the desktop.
Asus expects to sell as many as
five million Eee PCs in 2008
Despite adoption that falls short of the grand prognostications of the past, desktop Linux is definitely gaining greater visibility. Let's look at some of the changes the market has seen this past year. Microsoft is feeling the heat from Linux in the budget mobile market where products like the Eee PC are changing all the rules. Asus has sold thousands of Linux-based Eee PC laptops in the US and anticipates selling between three million and five million this year. Dell also began offering desktop and laptop systems with Linux preinstalled. Additionally, as enthusiasts are sure to point out, distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, and SLED are becoming very mature, robust, and easy to use. Slow uptake of Vista could also help out desktop Linux growth.
As a result of the Asus Eee PC along with Linux offerings available from HP, Dell, Lenovo, we could see Linux desktop market share pick up a small but very noteworthy gain this year—perhaps an additional half a percentage point.
The real winner: mobile and embedded Linux
Although we have established that this probably isn't going to be the fabled Year of the Linux Desktop, the prospects for growth of Linux adoption in the mobile and embedded space are significantly more promising. According to the Canalys report on Q2 2007 market share, Linux holds 13.3 percent of the global smartphone market, which puts it ahead of the Windows, BlackBerry, and Palm operating systems. In China, where the smartphone market is huge and growing at an extremely rapid pace, Linux is used on 30 percent of all smartphone handsets.
Motorola, which has already sold over 9 million Linux-based handsets, expects as much as 60 percent of its phone lineup to be Linux-based within the next few years. The company's recently released MOTOMAGX Linux platform is now also being used in North America as well as Asia. New Linux-based platforms are also being developed by the LiMo and LiPS coalitions, which are comprised of virtually every major player in the mobile handset market. Access is also retiring the Palm operating system in favor of the Access Linux Platform. There are also some unique entrants in the Linux smartphone market, like FIC's Neo1973.
Another contributor to Linux smartphone growth this year will be Google's Linux-based Android mobile phone operating system. Although the Android development kit needs some work, major handset makers like HTC are already developing products for Android and Google's Open Handset Alliance has attracted many big names.
Mobile phones are only part of the picture. Intel is deeply committed to Linux for its new Mobile Internet Device platform, and Nokia is using Linux on its Internet Tablet devices. There are also the education laptops like the Classmate PC and the OLPC XO that will bring the open source operating system to hundreds of thousands of students in developing countries this year. Finally, there are a multitude of popular Linux-based set-top boxes and special-purpose mobile devices—like the TiVo, Neuros OSD, and Amazon Kindle—that surreptitiously bring Linux to a mainstream audience.
Some reasonable predictions
2008 won't be the Year of the Linux Desktop, but we can clearly look forward to seeing more rapid growth in the mobile and embedded markets as Linux-based phones and ultraportable products emerge and gain popularity.
The open-source software movement is, of course, much broader than the Linux operating system. An IDC study from 2006 described open source as "the most significant all-encompassing and long-term trend that the software industry has seen since the early 1980s" and found that over 70 percent of all developers are leveraging open-source software. It's very likely that this trend of open-source adoption will continue in 2008.
Open source will definitely continue to gain prevalence in the development tools area. In the past year, Sun opened the Java source code and two of Microsoft's Shared Source licenses gained OSI approval, indicating that they are true open source licenses. This year, I think we can expect to see Microsoft releasing more significant parts of its development infrastructure under Shared Source licenses like the company did with its Dynamic Language Runtime framework last year. We can expect to see Sun, IBM, Adobe, Apple, and other companies to continue opening their software development technologies in 2008.
In 2007, Firefox gained record levels of adoption. Firefox's rising market share is finally beginning to erode the prevalence of the once-common practice of designing web sites that only work in Internet Explorer. In Europe, Firefox market share has climbed to approximately 30 percent and even close to 50 percent in some countries. The upcoming release of Firefox 3 will spur continued growth. We also hope that Mozilla's efforts to spin off Thunderbird into its own organizational structure will lead to increased development and adoption of the open source mail program.
Open source is rapidly becoming pervasive in the software industry and prospects for additional growth this year look very bright. As the expectations of users and companies continue to evolve, the value and importance of open-source software will inevitably grow in 2008.


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By Jessica Hopper
Rock Center
When Helen and Jay Stassen's 21-year-old son, Benjamin, committed suicide 19 months ago, he did not leave a note.
If it had been 20 years ago, the Stassens might have looked through diaries, letters or other personal items in an attempt to find clues as to why he decided to end his life. These days, however, young people tend not to keep things on paper; instead, their most intimate thoughts are likely to be online – in emails, social media posts and personal blogs.
So that's where the Stassens went searching. They found themselves engaged in a conflict with Facebook and Google as they hunted for answers about their son's death and the companies sought to honor their contracts with their users.
"We are reeling with the reality of being parents who not only have our son who has died, but a very difficult death on top of it which is not anything we ever saw coming, which has added to our desire to really want to know why," said Helen Stassen from her home in Prescott, Wis.
The Stassens say that Benjamin, a college student, had hoped to be an entrepreneur one day and was a health food enthusiast who loved to play the drums and practice yoga. To keep his memory alive, they built a free library at a park near their home and their extended family helped get a bench named for him near the Mississippi River.
"Those have been experiences that have helped and have healed in tiny ways that are a contrast to the fight that we've been in," Helen Stassen said.
Courtesy of the Stassen Family
The Stassen family is one of a growing number of families battling online companies to gain access to a deceased loved one's digital assets.
Digital assets include email, social media accounts, digital photos and online banking accounts and records. The Stassens think Benjamin's online life might provide a clue into their son's last days and as the heirs of his estate, they feel they have a right to get access to his accounts.
"Social media is a major way 21-year-olds interact these days," Jay Stassen said. "We thought maybe this could bring us some understanding, maybe some peace. We didn't know, but we felt it was important to try to understand."
A local judge recently granted the family a court order directing Facebook to give the Stassen family access to their son's account. The court order says that the Stassens are the heirs to their son's estate and are entitled to any of his assets, possessions or records, including the contents of his Facebook account.
Emails provided by the family show that Facebook has received the court order and it's currently in their legal department. Legally, Facebook can appeal the court order or comply with it. When asked about the Stassen family's court order, a Facebook spokesperson said that the company does not comment on specific cases.
Legal experts said that court orders can trump user agreements. Online companies' user agreements are contracts with the user that usually guarantee privacy and prohibit or limit account access to others beside the user.
"If Facebook is doing business in a jurisdiction and the court orders them to do something, they pretty much have to do it or face the penalty. If they don't follow a court order, they can be held in contempt of court," said Peter Swire, a law professor at Ohio State University.
Swire, who served as Chief Counselor for Privacy in President Bill Clinton's administration and as an adviser to President Barack Obama on privacy issues, said that online companies face a "patchwork of state laws" and are usually cautious when it comes to granting access to a deceased user's account.
What happens to your Facebook account when you die?
"What happens if a 21-year-old had a safe deposit box at the bank, the answer is the safe deposit box belongs to his estate and whoever controls the estate gets to open the box," Swire said. "In the physical world, it's easy to tell if it's someone's parents or child who has the safe deposit key, it's trickier for Facebook and Google. Some evil prankster might pretend that a person is dead and try to take control of the account, so the online companies are understandably careful before they turn over the account to someone who says they run the estate."
Online companies such as Facebook say they are concerned with honoring their contracts with users which require them to protect their users' privacy. It is possible that a deceased user may not have intended for his online accounts to be accessed by his loved ones after he died.
"I think it's a good idea for sites not to have a blanket policy to hand this stuff over to survivors. This information is private and you assume that it's private, you assume that your Facebook account is private, you assume that your email account is private," said Rebecca Jeschke of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil liberties group.
Jeschke said that the problem is that people often don't know what their deceased loved one's wanted to happen to their online accounts.
"What's really important is that your survivors know what it is that you want, to say to your spouse and parents, 'No, you can't read my email after I die or yes, I want you to.' I don't think I'm the only person that would be uncomfortable with the idea of someone reading my email after I pass," Jeschke said.
Naomi Cahn,a law professor at George Washington University, said that there is "almost no binding legal precedent out there" when it comes to digital assets.
"It's a concern of internet service providers being caught between privacy and the meaning of their contracts and being faced with a court order to which there could be quite severe penalties if they don't comply with it. It's something that lawyers, state legislatures, hopefully the federal government, hopefully the internet service providers are all starting to think more about as these issues become common," Cahn said.
Are digital assets part of your estate?
Cahn said that current laws have yet to catch up with the digital age, leaving families like the Stassens in a frustrating limbo.
"When somebody dies, the person who is responsible for taking care of the individual's asset is supposed to be complying with what the individual wanted and protecting the individual," Cahn said. "Because so many people have not thought about this, we don't know what the person actually wanted...we can all imagine what's in internet accounts. There may certainly be cases where the person who died would not have wanted anyone to get anywhere near the person's account."
Only five states currently have estate laws that include digital assets -- Connecticut, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Indiana and Idaho – and the laws vary among them. Some states' statutes, for instance, just relate to email, with only Oklahoma and Idaho clearly including social networking and blogging as part of an estate.
"Legally it is unclear exactly what you can do in the 45 states -- and Washington, D.C. -- that do not have these laws that address this situation," Cahn said. "Even in those states where there are laws, we're still in the process of testing how those laws operate. They don't cover all Internet accounts and the laws are new enough that they're just in the process of being worked out."
Cahn said that most people don't think about what will happen to their online accounts when they die, but if they did, they would likely feel differently about different sorts of online accounts.
"Some of the ones that we expect to be passed on, like getting access to online bank account statements, doing online bill paying, those probably we would expect others to be able to take control over. Many of us probably think that once we die, our Facebook accounts should either be memorialized [left up for only friends to see] or deleted entirely," Cahn said.
Internet companies such as Google, Yahoo and Facebook have taken the position that the user probably intended for the contents of his or her account to remain private and crafted user agreements to reflect this, Cahn said.
"They do assume that the user wants privacy, there's all kinds of advice on passwords and password strength to make sure that there' s no unauthorized use," Cahn said. "One of the reasons we have passwords on our accounts, one of the reasons we get so outraged when there's a hacking is we have certain expectations of privacy when we open accounts."
There also are liability issues. Some states prohibit internet companies from disclosing information without the permission of the customer. With no clear definition of digital assets in most states, the companies then look to their user agreements and the laws of individual states when a user dies.
"Right now it's kind of the Wild West in most states. The statutes don't refer to any kind of digital asset or account," said attorney Suzanne Walsh, who specializes in wills and estates.
Walsh is a commissioner to the Uniform Law Commission and chairs a committee that's been formed to consider drafting a uniform law on digital assets that states could adopt.
Gene Hennig, one of Minnesota's commissioners to the Uniform Law Commission, said that a court order is one of the few options families have in obtaining access to a loved one's online account.
"You've got to hire lawyers. It's time-consuming. Some people may go to all that trouble and it took forever to get the order and by the time they got it, the stuff had been destroyed. It's just an unworkable and very inefficient way of doing things," Hennig said.
Family fighting Facebook: 'We'll be patient, but persistent'
The Stassens, an attorney and librarian, are fortunate in that their professional skills are there to help them navigate the terrain of digital assets. In addition, they've connected with other families engaged in similar battles and lobbied their congressman for help. In the process, they've also obtained two court orders: one directed at Google and another at Facebook.
"Many people don't have that knowledge, don't have that experience and unless they have the financial means to hire an attorney to do this for them, they are very likely to feel stuck and not know what to do," Jay Stassen said.
After submitting a court order to Google in September of last year, they received the contents of Benjamin's Gmail account, but they are still working to recover access to Benjamin's Facebook account. In April, they obtained a court order directing Facebook to give them access to Benjamin's account.
"We'll be patient, but persistent," Helen Stassen said.
The Stassen family said that they plan to keep private any information they find from their son's online accounts.
A spokesperson for Facebook said that their policies do not allow access to a dead user's account.
"For privacy reasons, we do not allow others to access a deceased user's account," a Facebook spokesperson told NBC News. In addition, the spokesperson said, the company's policy prohibits them from commenting on the Stassen family's case or any other specific cases.
Facebook has two options for a dead user's account, the spokesperson said. The first allows an account to be memorialized, which leaves the profile up so that friends and family can leave posts in remembrance, but restricts the profile and associated content to the Facebook "friends" that the deceased had while alive, the spokesperson said. A proof of death must be provided for an account to be memorialized. In some instances, Facebook allows family members to have an account deactivated.
Other companies have different policies regarding a deceased person's online account. According to Google's web site, in rare cases, they may provide the content of a deceased person's account to an authorized representative of the person. Meanwhile, Yahoo says on its site that all accounts are non-transferable and it will delete an account when they receive a death certificate.
Courtesy of Peter Stassen
The Stassen family, though, say they don't want to memorialize or deactivate their son's Facebook account until they have seen the full contents. The only way they've been able to see the public part of their son's page is because he and his brother, Peter, were friends on Facebook.
Benjamin's Facebook profile shows a smiling young man with photos showing him skiing with his family and enjoying a beer with his brother, Peter.
Peter Stassen said that it's been a struggle to watch his parents try to obtain access to Benjamin's account.
"It's hard to fully reconcile how I feel about Facebook now," said Peter Stassen, Benjamin's brother. "None of the people on the Facebook side seem to have any realization that my parents are people, that they're dealing with emotions and that they're not just an account."
Facebook's policy prohibits them from commenting on the Stassen family's case or any other specific cases, the spokesperson said.
"I think Facebook has to understand that when they push sharing of data, open sharing of data, they also have an obligation not only to be fair with the account owner during their lifetime, they have an obligation to be fair with the account owner after they've died," Jay Stassen said.
How you can protect your digital assets
The growing murkiness over digital assets recently prompted the federal government to post a blog encouraging people to create social media wills.
And Professor Cahn said that people should discuss their online accounts with their loved ones and have a frank conversation about what they want to remain online, what they want to be deleted and what they want their loved ones to have access to.
"We're in an era of uncertainty," Cahn said. "You can certainly tell your loved ones what you want to have happen. What you have online that's not private, you can set up a joint account."
Cahn said couples should consider joint online bank accounts, for example. In addition, she said, people can include digital assets in their wills, but warns that wills eventually become public documents and that if you list passwords on the will, those will become accessible to the public.
A series of companies have also sprouted up, such as Entrustet and Legacy Locker, that allow you to come up with a plan for the life of your online accounts after you're gone, Cahn said.
"As a society, we value the privacy of our online account and we want internet service providers to protect our privacy and that means not giving others access. If we thought about it, we might think differently after we die," Cahn said.


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Principal Investigators
Stanislav Barabash
From the Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden, Stanislav is the Principal Investigator for the Analyser of Space Plasma and Energetic Atoms (ASPERA). He leads a team of 32 co-investigators from 12 other institutes.
ASPERA will investigate the interaction between the solar wind and the atmosphere of Venus by measuring outflowing particles from the planet's atmosphere and the particles making up the solar wind. It will study how the molecules and ions escape from the planet.
Tielong Zhang
Principal Investigator for the Venus Express Magnetometer (MAG) is Tielong Zhang, from IWF, Graz, Austria. He leads a team of 18 co-investigators from seven other institutes.
Venus has no detectable internal magnetic field and the field that exists around the planet is entirely due to the interaction between the solar wind and the atmosphere. MAG will study this process and will help in understanding the effect this has on the Venusian atmosphere.
Vittorio Formisano
Vittorio Formisano, IFSI-CNR, Rome, Italy, is Principal Investigator for the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS). He leads a team of 41 co-investigators from 11 other institutes.
PFS will be able to measure the temperature of the atmosphere between altitudes of 55–100 kilometres at a very high resolution. It will also be able to measure the surface temperature and therefore be able to search for volcanic activity.
Jean-Loup Bertaux
Principal Investigator for SPICAV/SOIR is Jean-Loup Bertaux (Service d'Aéronomie du CNRS, France). He leads a team of 22 co-investigators from five countries.
The UV and IR Spectrometer for solar/stellar occultation and Nadir Observations (SPICAV/SOIR) will assist in the analysis of the Venusian atmosphere. In particular, it will search for sulphur compounds and molecular oxygen, and the small quantities of water expected to exist in the atmosphere.
Bernd Häusler
The Principal Investigator for the Venus Radio Science (VeRa)experiment is Bernd Häusler, Univeristy der Bunderswehr München, Germany. He leads a team of seven other co-investigators from five other institutes.
VeRa uses the powerful radio link between the spacecraft and Earth to investigate the conditions prevalent in the ionosphere of Venus. Scientists will also use it to study the mass, density, temperature and pressure of the atmosphere from 35–40 kilometres up to 100 kilometres altitude, and determine roughness and electrical properties of the surface.
Pierre Drossart and Giuseppe Piccioni
Principal Investigators for the UV/Visible/Near-IR Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) are Pierre Drossart (Observatoire de Paris, France) and Giuseppe Piccioni (CNR IASF, Rome, Italy).
They lead a team of co-investigators from ten other institutes.
VIRTIS will be able to study the composition of the lower atmosphere, below the cloud decks at 35–40 kilometre altitudes. It will track the clouds in both ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths.
Wojciech Markiewicz
Wojciech Markiewicz is the Principal Investigator for the Venus Monitoring Camera (VMC). From MPI-Ae, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, he leads a team of 13 co-investigators from ten other institutes.
VMC is a wide-angle multi-channel camera that will be able to take images of the planet at near infrared, ultraviolet and visible wavelengths. VMC will be able to make global images, study the cloud dynamics and image the surface.


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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
9 comments:
- Nev said...
Hahah nice. I use to have the ghost as a kid... had a ball and chain with it.
I liked some of her other shots too.
- July 8, 2009 at 7:36 AM
- Sara said...
Awww, I LOVE PLAYMOBIL. I, too, had the ghost with the ball and chain. Thanks for posting.
- July 8, 2009 at 8:24 AM
- bean said...
I have the ghost with the ball and chain! Upstairs somewhere....
- July 8, 2009 at 9:01 AM
- Rot said...
I've never even HEARD of these things before.
I lived a sheltered deprived life apparently.
- July 8, 2009 at 9:20 AM
- Johnny said...
These are great! How have I never heard of these before?
- July 8, 2009 at 9:34 AM
- Rot said...
I just don't know, man.
I'm going to have to throw some blame at my parents.
- July 8, 2009 at 9:48 AM
- Jay's Shadow said...
i am feeling deprived also.....i think i am going to make a call to my mother right now and have a VERY long talk with her!
i would probably be still playing with these this very day.( in my MAN ROOM of course)
- July 8, 2009 at 2:46 PM
- The Captain said...
Some kids had Playmobil and all the rest of us had the original Fisher Price little people. You know the people that had little round heads on bodies that looked like they where made out of a spools. I had one small set of cowboy Playmobil guys that I got as a gift. The have so many different characters now! Love the Halloween guys.
- July 8, 2009 at 10:27 PM
- JHMDF said...
hehehe, I too have them some where... at my parents in their attic probably.
- July 9, 2009 at 12:37 AM


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LITTLE ROCK — Technical glitches and heavy web traffic thwarted Arkansans who tried to enroll in the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace on its opening day Tuesday, but state insurance officials said high interest in the marketplace was an encouraging sign.
LITTLE ROCK — Technical glitches and heavy web traffic thwarted Arkansans who tried to enroll in the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace on its opening day Tuesday, but state insurance officials said high interest in the marketplace was an encouraging sign.
The problem was with the federal government's marketplace website, which typically would allow a visitor to get only so far before giving this error message:
"The system is down at the moment. We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Please try again later."
"You go through all this training for this, and then you can't put it in action, so it's frustrating," said Brandi Hawkins of Jacksonville, one of about 500 guides trained to help Arkansans enroll in the marketplace.
Hawkins was on hand at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service for a kickoff event for the marketplace on Tuesday. By late afternoon, more than 200 people had dropped by. Though the visitors were not able to enroll, they were able to ask the guides questions and receive printed materials.
"They got paper applications, they looked at plans, they discussed what their options are," said Heather Haywood, spokeswoman for the state Insurance Department.
Guides also gave visitors a toll-free phone number they can call to enroll and instructions on how they can apply online whenever the website is working.
Leon Brooks of North Little Rock said he went to the Clinton School even after hearing about the web problems because he had questions he wanted to ask. He said he found the visit "very helpful."
"I found out that, well, it's affordable," he said.
Cynthia Crone, the Insurance Department's director of planning for the insurance marketplace, said glitches in the system were not unexpected. She said she doubted that a delay would discourage prospective enrollees from participating in the insurance exchange.
"I'd like to think it'll make them want it even more. If they couldn't get it today, they'll want even more to see what's there," Crone said.
The Arkansas Health Connector site had received 17,500 hits by late Tuesday afternoon, and a call center at the Insurance Department was inundated with calls, Haywood said.
Some 500,000 Arkansans are expected to buy insurance through the marketplace, about half of them under the so-called private option, the state's plan to use federal Medicaid dollars to pay for private insurance for people earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level.
Others can obtain federal subsidies to help them buy insurance through the marketplace if they earn no more than 400 percent of the federal poverty level.
The federal Affordable Care Act requires nearly every American to have health insurance starting in January.
Insurance coverage purchased through the marketplace will be effective Jan. 1.
The enrollment period for coverage that begins on that date runs through Dec. 15.


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West End Classics is a family run business specialising in the very best restored or fine original British cars and motorcycles from the 1930's to late 60's.
Our descriptions are always to be relied upon saving much time and wasted journeys trundling up and down the country looking at miss_described vehicles! if we say its "concourse" then it it is a concourse car.
Whether you are thinking of buying a classic car or indeed you would like to sell your car then we can certainly help and advise.
We can purchase your car for cash, or should you prefer we can sell your car for you on our highly competitive consignment basis (see selling your car) only the best examples will be considered. Cash/Bankers Draft in full payment upon completion..


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Hey there!
Did you ever get your 120mm CS lens back from Leica? Did they fix the problem?
Hi Marc,
I have always enjoyed and respected your comments on the form. I have a leica DMR that cannot be fixed. So I am again thinking about a back for my Hasselblad 503cw. Possibly the Cfv50c. My other thought is to buy a Leica S 006 because I like the Leica work flow. I do not photograph for a living, just for enjoyment. Any thoughts would be appreciated when you have time.
Sincerely Dave Massolo
I saw your reply about imacon ixpress 528c back.(From:http://www.getdpi.com/forum/medium-f...-cfv-16-a.html)
I have this back and connect to Contax 645 camera.The back connects to computer.I open the flexcolor,and click the capture button.The camera don't do anything.The flexcolor gets a black picture.I want to know how to operate this and how to operate multi shutter?thx so much!!
Any experience with the Leica M 135mm's?
Weighing my options, leaning toward the Tele Elmar of the Tele Elmar M.
Also, I picked up the 90mm Macro-- oh my god this thing is tiny...
Marc ow slow can you hand hold the 7r with wide angle lenses. Thanks david
Do I understand correctly from a post in 2008 (http://www.getdpi.com/forum/35081-post4.html) that you have or had a Schneider 28/2.8 Digitar "large format" lens that you used with a MF back? Although it has a small image circle (60mm) I was wondering how it might perform on an old P20 (37x37 mm) back. in theory the circle is large enough for that back but I have never seen any reference to using that lens (on alpa or cambo, etc).
Hello Marc,
I'm in the market for used lighting, was leaning last fall, more serious now. I have a note saying that you might have a Ranger Quadra set-up available for sale. If so, I am interested. I am local, so could save trouble to ship. (Could have been last year and past tense, note is vague and so is my memory - if so, pls ignore.)
Let me add that it is a CFE IF.
Hi Marc,
A while back you sold a 40 mm CFE lens and CF adapter. I have the same set-up. (The CF adapter is currently in for repair.) May I ask why you chose to sell these items? Did it have anything to do with the image quality vs. the H lenses? I am trying to decide if I should sell. I almost exclusively shoot landscapes. Thank you.
My initial response was to answer his silly remarks. However, reason prevailed, and I decided not to get into a pissing match with him. You did a very credible job of refuting his points. I started to congratulate him on his jobs at Hasselblad, Schneider, and Rodenstock that gave him such specific inside information.
Senior Member


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Scoreless effort latest in Schlereth's pristine spring
BRADENTON, Fla. -- When Daniel Schlereth took the mound for the ninth inning Saturday at McKechnie Field, some were of the opinion that he should have done so wearing an ESPN jersey. Turnabout is fair: His dad Mark had spent the week co-hosting the network's broadcast of a radio show wearing a Pirates jersey.
"Yeah, that would've been only fair," Dan Schlereth said.
Mark Schlereth, the former NFL guard, had done so to promote his son's bid to earn a seat in the Bucs' bullpen. Thanks, Dad, but Dan himself has done plenty in that regard, and continued the mission Saturday by hanging another zero.
In six spring outings of one inning each, tied for the team high, Schlereth has allowed five hits and no runs, with six strikeouts.
The left-hander is trying to return to the Majors for the first time since 2012, when he pitched the final six of his 94 big league games before being shelved by shoulder inflammation. Impressive what health and a revamped delivery can wreak.
"I lowered my arm slot a little bit, and it just feels better. I should also be more durable," said Schlereth, 27. "My shoulder is free when I have a lower arm slot, and another great thing about that is getting real good movement on my fastball. I'm not throwing as hard, but I can still sneak it by guys."
"He's feeling the best he's felt in years," manager Clint Hurdle said. "He's shown the ability to get the ball inside to left-handed hitters. He's making some progress."
Schlereth makes it a point to not concern himself with the competition. From valuable incumbent lefty relievers Justin Wilson and Tony Watson, to other candidates enjoying solid springs (Adam Wilk, Andy Oliver and even Yao-Hsun Yang), it's a scrum.
"I'm really here just to prove to everyone that I'm healthy," Schlereth said. "And to contribute in whatever fashion I can. I just want to fit in and pitch well this year."