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When bad weather in Boston snowed in Alabama-born writer JoBeth McDaniel, she had to extend her hotel stay— and had a nasty surprise. "My hotel tried to charge me three times the rate I'd been paying for the same room," she said. Fortunately, she knew that arbitrarily raising rates above the advertised price — even in weather emergencies — is illegal in that state, so the hotel manager backed down. "He seemed shocked that a woman with a Southern accent knew about that law," she said.
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"After my flight from JFK to Fort Lauderdale was canceled, I jumped a flight to Dallas, thinking myself smart, only to be handed a blanket as I arrived in the Dallas airport at 2 a.m.," he recalls. "Not giving up, I went from gate to gate and found a flight just leaving for Orlando. I arrived there around 4 a.m. and ended up sleeping for two hours in the airport terminal. I finally got to Fort Lauderdale, but the entire awful experience lasted 16 hours."
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"Human In Vivo Myeloarchitecture Using Whole-Brain Diffusion MRI", ISMRM 23th Annual Meeting. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, p. 1679, 2015.,
"How to make sure you are using the correct gradient orientations in your diffusion MRI study?", ISMRM, 21st Scientific Meeting and Exhibition. Salt Lake City, USA, p. 2047, 2013.,
"High resolution diffusion tensor imaging in a clinically feasible scan time", Front. Neuroinform. Conference Abstract: Second Belgian Neuroinformatics Congress. 2015.,
"HARDI-based methods for fiber orientation estimation", ISMRM, 20th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition. Melbourne, Australia, p. 3585, 2012.,
"Fiber Tractography on a Crossing Fiber Phantom using Constrained Spherical Deconvolution MRI", Liège Image Days. Liège, Belgium, 2008.,
"Fiber architecture of the female pelvic floor: An exploratory investigation using different diffusion MRI tractography algorithms", ISMRM, 19th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition. Montreal, Canada, 2011.,
"ExploreDTI: A Graphical Toolbox for Processing, Analyzing, and Visualizing Diffusion MR Data", ISMRM, 17th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition. Honolulu, USA, 2009.,
"Estimating the number of fiber orientations in diffusion MRI voxels: a constrained spherical deconvolution study", ISMRM, 18th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition. Stockholm, Sweden, 2010.,
"A deep learning approach to T1 mapping in quantitative MRI", 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine & Biology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, vol. 32 (Suppl. 1). Magn Reson Mater Phy, 2019.,
"CSF partial volume modeling in diffusion kurtosis imaging: a comparative parameter estimation study", Front. Neuroinform. Conference Abstract: Second Belgian Neuroinformatics Congress. 2015.,
"Counting the number of fiber orientations in diffusion MRI voxels using constrained spherical deconvolution", 2nd meeting of the ISMRM Benelux Chapter. Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2010.,
"Correction of DWI gradient orientations using registration techniques", 3rd meeting of the ISMRM Benelux Chapter, Hoeven, The Netherlands. 2011.,
"Constrained spherical deconvolution based tractography and cognition in Alzheimer's disease", Human Brain Mapping. Québec, Canada, 2011.,
"Constrained spherical deconvolution based tractography and cognition in Alzheimer's disease", International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease. Paris, France, 2011.,
"A comparison of response function tensor models for multi-tissue spherical deconvolution", ESMRMB Congress, vol. 32. 2019.,
"Combination of super-resolution reconstruction diffusion tensor imaging and track density imaging reveals song control system connectivity in zebra finches", ISMRM 23th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, vol. 23. p. 2861, 2015. Download abstract (108.98 KB),
"Changes in intrinsic functional brain connectivity after first-time exposure to parabolic flight", 39th ISGP Meeting & ESA Life Sciences Meeting. 2018.,
"Can residual bootstrap reliably estimate uncertainty in fiber orientation obtained by spherical deconvolution from diffusion-weighted MRI?", 14th Annual Meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, vol. 41. Melbourne, Australia, 2008.,
"Brain Tissue Types Resolved Using Spherical Deconvolution of Multi-Shell Diffusion MRI Data", ISMRM, 22nd Scientific Meeting and Exhibition. Milan, Italy, p. 973, 2014.,
"Bootstrap methods for estimating uncertainty in Constrained Spherical Deconvolution fiber orientations", ISMRM, 16th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition. Toronto, Canada, p. 3324, 2008.,
"Assessing the implications of complex fiber configurations for DTI metrics in real data sets", ISMRM, 20th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition. Melbourne, Australia, p. 3584, 2012.,
"Assessing inter-subject variability of white matter response functions used for constrained spherical deconvolution", ISMRM 23th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, vol. 23. p. 2834, 2015. Download abstract (780.16 KB),
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Since the beginning of 2008, dozens of lenders have announced they will stop making new federal Stafford and PLUS loans. Among them are major public lenders, such as the Michigan Higher Education Student Loan Authority, the Massachusetts Education Financing Authority as well as private and not-for-profit entities such as the College Board have suspended their federal student lending programs. Some lenders have also stopped offering private student loans, or have made eligibility requirements for these loans more stringent.
A list of state and for-profit lenders and what they currently offer is updated regularly at http://www.finaid.org/loans/educationlenders.phtml.
In Minnesota, TCF Education Financing and NorthStar Education Finance suspended issuing new federal student loans. The University of Minnesota, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Gustavus Adolphus College, Bemidji State and 15 other Minnesota colleges are direct lenders, meaning they issue federal Stafford and PLUS loans directly to their students. These Direct Loan programs use money from the federal government and are not affected by financial markets.
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A bill passed recently by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Bush will help. The legislation raises the amounts students can borrow through federal unsubsidized Stafford and PLUS Loans, making it less likely that private or alternative loans will be needed. It also loosens the rules so parents who are behind on mortgage payments can still qualify for federal parent loans. And it gives them more time before they must begin repaying parent loans. The annual loan limit for unsubsidized Stafford loans goes up by $2,000 for all undergraduates. The new limits for dependent students will be $5,500 for freshmen, $6,500 for sophomores, and $7,500 for juniors and seniors. Independent students or those whose parents don't qualify for a government PLUS loan will be able to borrow up to an additional $6,000 (on top of the previous $5,500) in each of the first and second years, and $7,000 in the third and fourth years. Besides easing borrowing pressures for families, the law also attempts to get more money into the hands of lenders so they can continue making education loans. To do this, the federal government will be allowed to temporarily purchase loans from private lenders.
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Mex compiler of matlab does not work with following error
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it is obvious that I need preceding version of gcc but this specific version is not included in software manager of mint. I installed gcc-4.4 but it does not recognized by Matlab. I also removed latest version from my computer and set gcc as a environment variable points to gcc-4.4 but again does not work.
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Canadian teen heartthrob Justin Bieber took home three prizes Sunday night at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles, including Artist of the Year.
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Carly Rae Jepsen was proclaimed New Artist of the Year, MTV reported.
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Back last week we reviewed Still Corners' debut record Creatures Of An Hour, with Dom Gourlay writing that "as a representative document of the band's formative years to the present, Creatures Of An Hour is an astounding debut that can only bode well for the future," and giving it 8/10. Read the full review here. The record is released through Sub Pop today and, as is becoming commonplace, it's available to stream, so you can do so below.
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Adnan Oktar: Everything has its expert, doesn't it? You have a master baker at the baker's, for instance. There is ironmaster. Leadership also has its master. That is the Turkish nation. Turkey is the leader country in the Turkish-Islamic world. The leader always has to make its attitude clear... But the leader is evident and clear for all to see, and that is Turkey's right. We have possession of the sacred relics. We also have the experience. Thanks be to Allah that we have a large, well educated intellectual body with great taqwa. We are a highly rational nation. We are a modest, compassionate and affectionate nations inured to hardships, and we delight in serving others and in the happiness of others. Wherever we go we strive for peace and reconciliation, if you notice. They call us wherever we go. Come and untie us. For example, Israel calls us, Syria comes and calls us, Algeria comes and calls us. Why? Because they know we are the natural leader. Of course we will say, let Turkey be the leader.
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Adnan Oktar: Syria wants to unite with Turkey, and Iraq wants to. And if Syria and Iraq want it, so will everyone else. Azerbaijan and Armenia want to unite with Turkey. Georgia wants to. So what else is left? There will be a union that includes them all, Lithuania, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan. Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, East Turkestan, as far as Libya. A Turkish-Islamic Union will emerge that includes all the coastal countries of Africa and all the interior. Turkey already has previous experience from the Ottoman Empire, and this time the mistakes of the Ottomans will not be repeated. Historic errors were made during Ottoman times, and they will not be made again. But the perfect aspects of the Ottoman Empire will be taken on board. Its flawed and deficient aspects will not be included, and a prefect union will be established.


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This document describes how to install NetBeans IDE 6.7.1 on your system. For information about supported operating systems and hardware configurations for the IDE, see the NetBeans IDE 6.7.1 Release Notes. See the NetBeans IDE 6.7.1 Release Information page to learn about the new features included in this release of the IDE.
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|June 19, 2006, 12:24 AM
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Ferral Hogs
Here in MIssouri we have a problem with ferral hogs, and the Conservation Dept. wants them taken out, so here is my question, using a Ruger Old Model Vaquero, would a load of 800 - 900 FPS using a 255 - 270 GR Hard Cast SWC be enough to take a Hog cleanly Broadside?
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|June 19, 2006, 02:40 PM
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how big are they and how far a shot do you take ?
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|June 19, 2006, 02:54 PM
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This topic has been battered around a lot.
Like the man asked how big are they and how far away are they etc..
Best thing is a good rifle in the range of a 30-30 or better. But hand guns can and will do the job. Lever's are fast for the second and third shot if needed. Some even recommend the 45-70.
If you check in the hunting area on this forum, and do a search, there are lots and lots of answers.
|June 19, 2006, 03:34 PM
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Personally, I wouldn't want to get close enough to one of those things to be able to hit it with a pistol! Why not use a rifle and get the job done the right way?
|June 19, 2006, 03:44 PM
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Inside of 25 yards most yes.
I took this inside of 25 yards with a Ruger SP101 with a 145 grain Winchester Silvertip.
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|June 19, 2006, 08:46 PM
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Bigger & Faster Probably Better
I have shot a few in S. Mississippi, most with rifles. But I shot one 3 years ago with a .45 Colt from a Ruger Bisley. It was a 255 grain SWC, going about 800 fps. I was close, within 20 feet, and it weighed only about 80 pounds, and it took 3-4 shots to stop it. I mostly got front shoulder shots. Of course it was already mad. Now I have 270 grain loads doing about 1100 fps in that Ruger, and I'm hoping for another try.
My problem is, if you hit them with a pistol in heavy cover, if it doesn't penetrate through and through, you don't have anything to track. I've tried to track several like that hit with a rifle and they just don't leave a blood trail like a whitetail. Recently, I think I hit a big sow (probably 200 lbs) broadside with a 260 grain .44 special running about 1000 fps, but could find no sign of a hit. I heard the bullet slap at about 50 yards, but I think the fat just swallowed up the bullet.
If you get the bullet placement just right on that Vaquero, you ought to be able to bring one down, but I'd use a rifle as the first choice. If you use the Ruger, plan to shoot more than once.
|June 20, 2006, 01:41 AM
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If you are using hardcast loads, you can certainly buy ammo from Buffalo Bore, Double Tap, and Grizzley that will get 300+ grain hardcast bullets to well over 1200 fps. That is a lot of uuumph.
|June 20, 2006, 02:00 AM
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I'm going to side with "RUT"
Yes, a handgun will probably do the job, but a rifle would be preferable. Even my Marlin 1894C will launch a 145gr. Winchester Silvertip (my favorite round, BTW) at ~1800 FPS. That should be good for any feral hogs or javalinas.
|June 20, 2006, 03:27 AM
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Kelly J , I am near St. Louis have you found an area where pigs can be found fairly easily ? If so would you mind sharing the location if it is on public land ?
I've been wanting to try a hog hunt with my 30 06 to get warmed up for fall deer season .
|June 20, 2006, 10:12 AM
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Most any caliber will do the job on small hogs up to 150 lbs, but I would go with bigger and faster for the hogs round here.(300lb range)
Thick woods, with close shots are one thing, but a 200 yard shot on a 300 lb hog, will take a lot of knock down and good shot placement to bring it down effeciently.
|June 20, 2006, 06:27 PM
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depending on the distance obviously, a shotgun with hard cast slugs will knock them dead no problem. Check out Dixie slugs
|June 20, 2006, 08:14 PM
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I used to shoot them all the time with a 45. Just shoot them in the head. Lights out.
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|June 21, 2006, 09:25 AM
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I've taken hogs in SC with a 5.5in 41 mag and never had a problem out to fifty yards.
|June 21, 2006, 10:43 PM
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Good luck finding them. I've been out several times trying to find some. I have even put bait out. I saw lots of deer but no hogs. I think most guys kill them while deer huning kind of like a bonus. There are a lot of them on ft Leonard Wood. If you have some inside info on hog locations and are willing to share a hunt I have a leveraction 45-70 that you could use. I promise it will do the job!
|June 22, 2006, 10:23 AM
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Here's a couple of links you might find helpful
IMO the smaller 60lb-100lb hogs taste better
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MLB Notebook: LA approaching record streak
Dodgers win 14th straight road game, closing in on 17 originally achieved by Giants
On May 9, 1916, the New York Giants -- at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh -- defeated the Pirates, 13-5, with Christy Mathewson coming on in relief to hurl the final 3 2/3 innings. Three weeks later, the Giants were still on the road, and they were still winning. After sweeping a Saturday doubleheader against the Braves on May 27, the Giants got a respite with a day off Sunday before their conflict with Boston, in Boston, on Monday. They had not played a home game since Monday, May 8. They still had to travel to Philadelphia before the road trip would conclude. But they still had Mathewson in their corner.
And on that Monday, on May 29, the road-weary Giants witnessed a vintage performance from Mathewson, seeing their iconic right-hander go the distance for a four-hit shutout, issue no walks and strike out two. It was to be the final victory in New York's record-setting 17-game road winning streak, and would mark the last time Matty would start and win a game as a member of the Giants.
The Dodgers beat the Cubs, 1-0, this past Sunday, extending their franchise-best winning streak on the road to 14 games.
The last team to win as many as 14 in a row on the road in one season was the 1984 Tigers, who posted a 17-game streak to match the MLB record set by the 1916 Giants. The longest single-season road winning streaks since the Giants set that 17-game mark:
- 17 games: 1916 Giants, '84 Tigers
- 15 games: 1939 Red Sox, '51 White Sox, '53 Yankees, '57 Redlegs (Reds)
- 14 games: 1931 Athletics; 2013 Dodgers
During these 14 road games, the Dodgers' team ERA stands at 2.44 (the club has not allowed any unearned runs), and they have averaged 6.14 runs scored per game.
Before this victory, the Dodgers had last won a 1-0 road game on Aug. 2, 2011. They had last won a 1-0 game at Wrigley Field on May 29, 1992.
Braves' 10-game winning streaks in 2013
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Braves remain red hot
Atlanta defeated Philadelphia, 4-1, recording its 10th straight victory. The Braves now have a pair of 10-game winning streaks this season, the first time they have been able to make that claim since 1954. The '54 club had three 10-game runs.
Kazmir resurgent for Indians
Scott Kazmir (two hits in six innings) and three relievers combined on a four-hit shutout as the Indians topped the Marlins, 2-0.
The Indians' 15 team shutouts lead the Majors. Their 15 through 111 games is tied for the fourth most in franchise history. The 1948 and '68 clubs each had 18, the '06 team had 17 and the '17 and '46 teams also had 15.
After not making a Major League appearance in 2012 (and having only one in 2011), Kazmir opened the 2013 season with a 3-4 record and a 5.89 ERA through his first 11 appearances. In his past nine games, the left-hander is 4-0 (and the team is 6-3) with a 1.93 ERA in 56 innings.
Cardinals' runs coming in bunches
The Cardinals collected 19 hits and set a season high in runs, defeating the Reds, 15-2.
In its past four games, the club has scored 44 runs and has put up a .996 OPS, winning three of the four; in the Cards' previous seven games, they scored 10 runs, posted a .467 OPS and lost all seven.
St. Louis has scored at least 10 runs in 16 games this season -- the most in the Majors (the Cardinals also lead the National League in runs per game). Four of those 16 have come against the Reds, St. Louis' most against Cincinnati in one season since 1980, when it also had four.
Pedroia getting on base
In the Red Sox's win, Dustin Pedroia reached safely three times, drawing two walks and collecting his 26th double. Pedroia has reached safely 188 times this season -- third most in the American League. With those 188 coming through 113 team games, Pedroia is slightly behind his 2011 average of times on base per team game, when he reached 282 times -- the most ever for a Red Sox second baseman.
Myers racking up RBIs
Wil Myers was 1-for-2 with a two-run home run and two walks, and the Rays defeated the Giants, 4-3.
Myers has 30 RBIs in his first 39 games -- the most for any Rays player in the team's short history.
Myers has reached safely in 35 of his first 39 games, tying Rocco Baldelli and Akinori Iwamura for the most in franchise history.
The Rays are 27-12 when Myers starts.
Of the 187 players with at least 50 plate appearances since the All-Star break, Myers owns the highest OPS, at 1.283.
Youth not slowing Trout
Mike Trout doubled, homered and drew two walks in the Angels' loss to the Blue Jays.
After a fairly slow start in April (.766 OPS), Trout has posted a .352/.448/.616/1.064 line since May 1. Overall, he has a .988 OPS, which translates into a 178 OPS+. In the modern era, no player has ever been as old or younger than Trout, age-21 season, and finished the year with an OPS+ of at least 178, with the highest mark -- 173 -- achieved by Jimmie Foxx in 1929. Looking at wRC+, Trout's 175 would be the second highest for the age group, with only Foxx's 177 in '29 being higher.
With the double and home run, Trout now has 134 extra-base hits in his career, tying Frank Robinson for the 14th most for any player through his age-21 season. Only eight players have reached 150: Mel Ott, Alex Rodriguez, Tony Conigliaro, Ted Williams, Ken Griffey, Jr., Cesar Cedeno, Al Kaline and Vada Pinson.
Encarnacion expanding on successful 2012
Edwin Encarnacion had two singles and drove in two runs in the Blue Jays' win over the Angels. Since the beginning of the 2012 season, Encarnacion is in the top 10 in the Majors in total bases (eighth), extra-base hits (tied for seventh), times on base (tied for 10th), home runs (third), RBIs (second), slugging (fifth) and OPS (fifth).
There are 20 players with a slugging percentage of at least .500 since the beginning of last year (minimum 800 plate appearances); among this group, Encarnacion has the second-best BB:K ratio, behind Joey Votto.
Holland limiting teams' power
Derek Holland gave the Rangers eight innings of four-hit, 10-strikeout ball, and Texas shut out Oakland, 4-0, to take two of three and move to within 2 1/2 games of the Athletics for first in the AL West. Holland has dropped his ERA from 4.67 in 2012 to 3.02 this season. This dramatic drop has been accompanied by an equally notable drop in home run rate; in 2012, Holland owned the second-highest HR percentage among qualifying AL pitchers, behind only Ervin Santana. This season, Holland is tied for the fourth-lowest percentage in the league.


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Greetings blogfriends. Have you missed me? I sure missed you. It has been kind of crazy around here. But this is n't the reason i have been writing here. I felt a little unspiritual and uncentered and this took its toll on my body and mind. Step by step i am finding again the place where my soul is free.
As i have told you in the past i work at home, which means that my place has to look decent all the time. To achieve that, i have had help for quiet some time. Beside the fact that there are constantly strange people to my home, the people i choose to hang out with and those that work for me have to be open and positive. For the last couple of years the ladies i hired to clean my place were n't really positive. So me and P. decided to take a break from help. Since then we have been cleaning our asses off. It is a lot of work to take care of a home by its own, but to keep it always sparkly and tidy while juggling work is really..really hard. We have crazy schedules and there are times it feels impossible but we are patient because we are still adjusting to the new situation. On the other hand, the vibes of the places are remarkable. So what if we are constatly tired? We will get used to that. I think of it as my cardio for the day. The truth is that i had to cancel a few appointments, because i had to do chores, but it will get better with a lot of organising and making schedules and lists.
Although the negative lady that has been cleaning our home has left i still have to do a lot of cleansing since i have clients over every day. But it got a lot easier. One of the best ways to do that is adding a bit of salt in the bucket before mopping the house. I just grab a fist full of salt, concentrate on the intent and then i pour it into the bucket. My favourite way of cleansing though is by burning rosemary. The scent is amazing and it makes my spirit soar.But i have to admit that the most effective cleansing is one my mom taught me, that is kinda hard to do. It contains a mix of herbs, a ball of water and every living soul-resident of the home(yes, this includes pets) to stay out of the house for (at least)three days and three nights(last night should preferably be the new moon). The tools in this process are n't as important as the staying away from your house for this small amount of time. My mom used to do it every time before we left for a vacation. My cats though will not enjoy us moving them. So i have never done it in my home. I definitely will one day.
Do you have any similar rituals?
Ways of cleansing and an update...
Greetings blogfriends. Have you missed me? I sure missed you. It has been kind of crazy around here. But this is n't the reason i have been writing here. I felt a little unspiritual and uncentered and this took its toll on my body and mind. Step by step i am finding again the place where my soul is free.
Enjoying a summer in the city.
Greetings blogfriends. How have you been? I hope you are somewhere on vacations sipping on strawberry margaritas(or your favourite drink)and laying under the waning but still powerful Sun. I, on the other hand, am still here, in Athens trying to find the silverlining in the inferno-like temperatures. But i have to admit that although the weather could be a good training for astronauts, i had a blast this last week. On my birthday Petros took me to the top of Parnitha mountain which unfortunately still has big burned areas. The fires of the last four years have left the top naked, but this made it easy to spot a lot of deers. And one of the male ones was extremely social and he was used to people. When i saw him hanging out right next to a family i made Petros drive us all the way back home to bring him food. On the way back to the mountain i felt restless. I hoped so much i would find him again, but it has taken us a whole hour to get there. When we reached our destination for the second time i almost screamed from happiness. He was still there. When he saw me loooking at him while holding the grocery bag full of food, the huge, male deer with the extremely pointy antlers came my way really fast. I held my ground although i was kind of scared, okay... i was horrified, i took the skin off a banana and then held the banana in my outstreched hand. He ate it in a blink of an eye and leaked my hand. Then he put his beautiful and very large head in the bag and ate the figs, the bread, the tomato, the lettuce and the cabbage i have brought for him within seconds. After that he came out of the bag, found the skin of the banana from earlier and ate it too. When he realised there was no more food, he seemed kind of dissapointed but he left graciously. I begged Petros to take me back home so i could bring more food because i had clearly underestimated the appetite of a full grown male deer but he said no. He strongly refused to drive me there for the third time. Go figure! I made him promise me though that he would bring me back soon. This whole situation made me feel so close to the Goddess and everything magical as if the forest was not just the home for a few deers but also the realm of fairies,dragons, unicorns and other creatures of unimaginable power. We returned with the top of the car down and me standing on the back seat with my arms open, breathing in the smells of damp dirt and pine trees. I understand i was a weird sight not sitting in the car properly and many looked at me as if i escaped from the loony bin, but i could care less.
The rest of the week was pretty mundane but the day before yesterday i bought for my mom's god daughter school supplies. She is a very girly girl so there was a lot of pink and purple going on in our cart. When she saw her birtday gifts(she is also a leo) her pretty face lightened up the whole room. She is more like a little sister to me because we are kind of a foster family for her. She can not live with us permanently but she stays with my mom on weekends and holidays. It is a very frustrating situation because of some stupid rules, but we feel lucky she is in our lives even in this way. Goddess i love that kid. She is amazingly smart when it comes to everything technological. But we have a little trouble moving her away from the pc, the tv and her nintendo. The curse of the twenty first century i guess. She is the only part of our lives that my mom and i are n't out of the broom closet. We can not share this with her because it would blew our chances of adopting her permanently. I am not hiding my tarot decks or my witch stuff when she comes home, but i avoid answering all her questions. How much would i like to share this part of me with her, but if someone found out the consequences would be unthinkable. I have to wait for her to grow up. Until then she will just think that i am a "little" weird. Which is true and valid!
Love and light,
A post about The Wheel, food and Tom Hanks!
Greetings blogfriends. I know i do that with every season, but i smell Autumn in the air. Typically since Lammas, for us pagans it is Autumn. Lately here though, it is insanely hot(which is normal if you consider it is still August), so i was n't able to "feel" it, before now. However, this moment i can sense the movement of the Wheel. It is turning. This phenomenon never ceases to amaze me. Every season just as the Wheel is about to turn, i am reminded of Her power. Mother Nature at Her best. This is my favorite season. I always feel that Fall is a never ending source of inspiration. Every year around this time i feel as if a someone is guiding me to the right direction. As if it is a new beginning and i am capable of everything. The feeling that Tom Hanks at "You've got mail" described as a desire to buy new pencils. He wanted to send Meg Ryan a "bouquet of newly sharpened pencils" to share this feeling with her. I love that movie by the way. I watch it every Fall and every time i get sick.
Tomorrow is my birthday and i am preparing for my birthday spell. I feel like a little child. The anticipation is not adult-like. But maybe it is because i am on a diet and tomorrow i am going to indulge to a souvlaki(how greek of me!) and a dessert. I am thinking carot cake with a scoop of icecream! And a tequila shot or two(now that's more adultlike!).
Although, this blog is more spiritually inclined, i want to share a healthy discovery. Cauliflower pizza crust! How cool is that? I have n't actually tried it yet, but i saw some pictures to another blog and it looked amazing. As soon as i make it i will let you know. If it tastes half as good as it looks like, i am going to post a recipe. This post was supposed to be about us tuning into the cycles of life and nature, but i guess i am too hungry to write about that stuff. I can't stop thinking of food and maybe Tom Hanks!
A birthday spell***
Greetings blogfriends. I hope you all had a blessed Lammas yesterday. Mine was n't very elaborate, like last year's or the year's before, or..., but i was in a simple mood and my quiet celebration felt incredibly sincere. I made wholemeal bread with pine and sunflower seeds. It had a little sugar, salt, milk and olive oil. Besides its simplicity it was very tasty and it gave my home a wonderful smell. I casted no spells, no rituals,i did n't meditate, i just made and ate bread. It was so unlike me and yet it felt right.
In six days i am becoming 26. I do not know if i have mentioned it before, but every year, on my birthday i cast a spell to make a wish come true, till my next birthday. I make a mix of herbs, which i burn throught the year, specifically for my intent. Which means i take the candle blowing wish to the next level. Here is the spell:
Με τη δυναμη της μερας,
ο,τι θελω φερνω εις περας,
απο τωρα μεχρι στα γενεθλια που φτανω,
την επιθυμια μου πραγματικοτητα κανω.
Ετσι ας ειναι.
With the power of this day,
on the Goddess will i lay,
my wish from now till its now again,
with Her blessing to attain.
So mote it be.
I tried to translate it and make it rhyme, the best i could . But you get the idea. Make your own birthday spell that works for you(and that it actually rhymes lol).


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For a college project I'm tasked with implementing prediction market. Which model of it I'd better choose?
I want something useful and simple enough for other people to quickly understand and use. (This project is to be used in campus internally).
For now on I'm considering binary option model, but as I understand buying in such model would require me to solve some kind of combinational optimization problem: if I want to buy up to x$ of contracts and there are available contracts with returns r_1, r_2, ... and prices p_1, p_2, ... which looks like a classical knapsack problem to me.
Would it be better to go with some model which uses market-maker?


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Official Dog Handler
Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 13653
Location: Arizona USA
Posted: Sun 03 Jul 2005, 21:43
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Bruce B wrote:
I read something about wavrec and thought I'd check and see if it was installed, before I downloaded and installed it.
Good thinking!
Maybe wavrec and other small utilities get installed as support files with other packages like Xripper, Gcombust, or XS sound editor or ??.
Would that be one of those dependency things, or is that different?
wavrec --help
tells you pretty much how to use it.
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Official Dog Handler
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Location: Queensland
Posted: Sun 03 Jul 2005, 21:59
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Has anybody tried ripperX.
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Puppy Master
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Sun 03 Jul 2005, 22:11
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XS should do the job without any trouble.
XS can save to any file format supported by the Snack library, which includes MP3.
There are some plugins for XS, that are supposed to be loaded at startup, except that XS couldn't find them -- I have fixed that for Pup 1.0.4.
The plugins are in 1.0.3, in /usr/lib/snack/ I think, so XS can load them -- there's a plugin loading thing in the menu.
If you just want to record audio cassettes, Audacity is an overkill.
...except, if it has some kind of hiss-reduction/background-noise-reduction capability, that would be useful, but perhaps that would be too much to ask of Audacity.
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Posted: Sun 03 Jul 2005, 22:13
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Ian wrote:
Has anybody tried ripperX.
Yes indeed:
But not for recording from line-in; only for ripping tracks from CDs (and converting them to mp3.)
I didn't know you could use it for recording. I'm not in Puppy right now so I can't check.
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2005, 11:18
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's Lobster's post on using XS sound editor to record.
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Posted: Mon 11 Jul 2005, 18:47
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I was wondering if there's a way to record stuff from shoutcast??
say I was listening to a comedy show and wanted to record??
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Bruce B
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Posted: Tue 12 Jul 2005, 00:27
Post subject: How I did it
Thanks everyone for the help and suggestions.
I knew it would be very feasible to convert cassettes to mp3 files, but I'd never done it before.
Now that I've done it and worked out a system, I'd like to share with you all what I've learned and how I did it.
After trying several techniques it became obvious that the cl utility
(included with Puppy) is the way to go for making the initial recording. The basic problem with the graphical programs is mostly that the files are potentially huge, and it takes a lot of time and resources for these programs to handle and save huge files.
Usage: wavrec [options] output_file
-h This info (or use --help)
-q Quiet mode (no messages)
-s rate Sampling rate
-x Debug mode
-S Stereo (undoes -M)
-M Mono (undoes -S)
-t secs Set time limit
-b bits Set number of bits (8/16)
-k key Set IPC Key for lock
-R Remove and recreate semaphore locks.
-l Lock for play.
-u Unlock for play.
-L Lock for record.
-U Unlock for record.
-d dev Override default of /dev/dsp
-V Display version and Copyright info (or use --version)
I was recording mono cassettes and the options I used were as follows:
wavrec -s 44100 -M -t 1800 -b 16 00.wav
If I was recording stereo, I'd use these arguments:
wavrec -s 44100 -S -t 1800 -b 16 00.wav
Basically, what I did was set my walkman on the desk and plugged it into the sound card input with a male - male four foot 1/8" stereo adapter cord.
The first step one needs to do is calibrate and adjust the volume of the recording. In order to get any sound at all I had to use Puppy's
, then enable 'IN GAIN' and adjust the volume settings.
A quick technique for the calibration process is enter these commands on the command-line:
wavrec -s 44100 -S -t 8 -b 16 test.wav;wavplay test.wav
This will record for 8 seconds and then playback for 8 seconds.
Note: if you have a powerful output device, I'd recommend starting out with low volume levels. The reason why is: I don't know how much power the sound card input can handle. Play it safe. My walkman only has power to drive dynamic earphones, so I needed the volume very high.
Adjust the recording time so that it is longer than the anticipated playing time so you don't fall short and have to start over.
One nice thing is
takes very little cpu usage so you can record in the background and have most of your computer's resources for other tasks.
At the end of your preset recording time
will stop and return to the command prompt. You will have very big file which needs to have silence trimmed off the end of the recording.
I tried a few graphical editors to open these files, but it takes them forever and a day to open, edit and save a 300 MB file. Some won't open these files because they are too big.
In any event I discovered a command line utility called
Wavsplit will trim the silence in just a few seconds. I'll make a dotpup package post it with all the other dotpups.
WAVSPLIT version 1.1.0 (http://www.fomalhaut.de)
Licensed under GPL by author Tobias Weihmann
Hour patch by Sacha Bartok (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Modified for frames, hours, seconds, decimal seconds by Alan Fitch
Usage: wavsplit [options] wavfile split split split...
-q --quiet Quiet mode (no messages)
-H --Hours Use Hours
wavsplit [options] wavfile hr:min:sec [hr:min:sec]...
-f --frames FPS use Frames
FPS (frames per second) must be either 12, 24, 25, or 30
wavsplit [options] wavfile min:sec:fr [min:sec:fr]...
-s --seconds Use Seconds
wavsplit [options] wavfile sec [sec]...
-h --help This info
You can combine both Hours and frames options
wavsplit --frames 30 file.wav 32:21:15 45:10:0
wavsplit --Hours file.wav 1:32:21:59.2 1:45:10:0.3
wavsplit --seconds file.wav 300.1 500.2
You can break the file in several pieces if you want. All I needed to do was trim the silence from the ends.
My command string would look like this example:
wavsplit -H 00.wav 00:23:14
What wavsplit does is make a subdirectory based on the basename of the wav file. It puts the split files in that subdirectory. It doesn't modify the original.
The question is: "How do you know where to split the file?"
I used xmms (a dotpup package) on the command line like this:
xmms 00.wav &
Xmms has a slider that makes it very simple to find the end of the recording. It also displays the position in minutes and seconds so it makes it simple to know precisely where to split the file.
Once you have your wav files all ready for decoding you can use
Lame is included with puppy and bladeenc can be downloaded.
The common command string for lame is:
lame -h inname.wav outname.mp3
You can also use:
lame -h *.wav
The command for bladeenc (not included with Puppy) is:
bladeenc *.wav
This decoding process is time consuming and uses plenty of cpu power at low priority.
Disclaimer: There are probably dozens of ways to do this and probably better ways. I'm not trying to claim this is the way, rather this is how I did it with Puppy, and it worked great.
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Posted: Tue 12 Jul 2005, 01:07
Post subject: Sound Recording
Have placed the info here if anyone has ideas to add
just double click and edit
Puppy Raspup 8.2
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Posted: Tue 12 Jul 2005, 10:08
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Thank you Bruce B.
You can also use RipperX to convert wav files to mp3 once you have the wav files on the HD. It might be easier to use the ripperX GUI rather than configure Lame from the command line.
As for the Lame settings to use, it doesn't make sense to use very high quality mp3 settings to convert wav files taken off an audio tape (unless you're talking about a hi-fi reel-to-reel tape deck, and even that's probably only FM radio quality, not CD quality.) Using lower quality settings might speed up the process of converting wav files to mp3, and it would certainly result in smaller mp3 files.
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Posted: Tue 12 Jul 2005, 15:45
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Thanks Flash.
I updated the wiki as follows:
So much for the command line .wav to .mp3 encoding. How about GUI encoding? You may find it easier and more flexible to use Puppy's ripperX to convert your .wav files to mp3 format, instead of the command line conversions outlined above.
Also, ripperX's mp3 tab in the 'configuration section' allows you to easily modify bit rates and quality modes for a smaller file and faster conversion. You would not need the highest quality settings in this type of recording process.
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Posted: Wed 13 Jul 2005, 14:32
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It seems that my record of never opening my mouth without making a fool of myself remains intact. When I tried it last night I couldn't find a way to use ripperX to convert a wav file on the hard drive to mp3, not unless ripperX first ripped the wav file to the hard drive from a CD.
I thought I remembered using ripperX to convert a wav file that was on the hard drive to mp3, or at least seeing that it could be done. I must have misremembered.
I am so sorry.
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You are right! I re-edited the wiki. Thanks.
BTW - I always use bladeenc. I have it in my mind that it is better. However, I don't have good enough ears to know for sure.
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Posted: Thu 14 Jul 2005, 08:37
Post subject: Just in case someone wants it.. here is wavsplit
Just downloaded and compiled wavsplit 1.2.1 by using bladehunters
opttools.sfs compiler environment
Just unzip and get a wavsplit* directory with executable, readme and source.
914 Time(s)
Have fun
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Funny, last night I put wavsplit up as a dotpup, in the additional software section.
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Ups - Sorry.. missed that one..
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Owen Canfield: Summer's first marketplace off to good start
The first interesting thing I saw Thursday evening after parking in the shopping center parking lot and walking north toward Torrington's first Downtown Marketplace of the summer, was a tiny park with shrubs and small trees.
It sits behind 99 Restaurant, right near the street, with the Naugatuck River running beyond. A curving brick path leads from the parking lot to the South Main Street bridge. On this perfect-weather night, I paused to read a plaque, imbedded in a handsome white boulder. It says: "In memory of John and Joseph Moscarillo, who operated their greenhouses 400 feet east of this park.''
It must be Moscarillo Park. I never knew it was there, did you? I took it as a good start to the evening and it was, because I can't remember a better turnout on Marketplace night, or more favorable weather.
S&S Swiss Treats, near the corner of Main and East Main offered a couple of small tables and I sat at one to rest my bum knee for a couple of minutes before heading up Main.
The Marketplace itself doesn't begin for a couple of blocks – this is a change from years past – but Main is blocked off from Water Street all the way up to the BPOE (Eagles) building.
Artwell's doors were wide open. The walls were lined with arty photos. Executive Director Mike Yurgeles explained, "This is a national Juried Photo Show. The opening is tomorrow (Friday) and it will run through August third.''
It surprised me when Yugeles said that only two of the many pictures were from Connecticut photographers. "The rest are from New York and the other New England states.'' A Juror's prize and two Directors prizes will be awarded.
Onward: Scott and Dee Murray were behind the counter at the Northwest Sporting Goods booth. Scott's business card says he is archery sales manager, certified trainer and bow tech. Northwest, owned and operated by brothers Bill and Gene Berlinski, is located at 178 Rowley St. in Winsted.
The archery department at Northwest is thriving, with, according to Murray, about 300 clients. I hadn't met Scott Murray before, but I surely knew his late dad, David Murray and Dave's brother Bill. They were boyhood chums, a zillion years ago when we all grew up in Burrville.
Murray said that Gene Berlinski was here, somewhere in the crowd. The late Wayne Berlinski was the uncle of Gene and Bill. Wayne was one of my dearest friends and a fellow student at Burrville School.
Meeting Murray is another reason that the Marketplace is not only full of food, fun and music, it's a place for meeting people and reconnecting. And remembering.
I passed Dave Lopardo's booth. A former Torrington High and middle school teacher, he is now a short story writer and had a few of his books on display. "Sure,'' he said, "I know you. I had a couple of your kids in my class.'' He retired from teaching in 2005 after a long career.
A three-piece band called "Vindicate'' played on the steps of City Hall. Nearby, the Connecticut Yankee Chorale had its booth. The Hall sisters, Ali and Courtney, along with Kathy Mathiason and Kerrie Ingoldsby were there to answer questions about the 30-year old group and hand out brochures. The brochure informs us, "We present winter and spring concerts,'' and invites others who enjoy singing to join CYC.
A newcomer to the Marketplace is Chon Escobar, owner of the popular Dos Amigos restaurant on East Main Street. Chon bought a rig to sell his wares – burritos, tamales, empanadas "and much more.'' On this pleasant night, he had wife Chris and twin daughters Bronte and Melanie, 19, and younger daughter Elana, 15, to help out.
Chon is an old friend who, before coming to America, was a world class soccer goalie in El Salvador. "Have you been watching the World Cup?'', I asked, knowing the answer. "I haven't missed a game,'' he said. "Not a minute.''
Mayor Elinor Carbone, wearing a smile, was there, of course. She was gratified by the turnout, the smooth operation of the whole thing and the great weather.
Back I went, past "Better Baking by Beth,'' and all the others who had booths, stopping here and there to give my bad knee a break and thinking, "what a good night!''.


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NEA calls on summit participants to do the right thing for America's children
Health care summit should be about children and nation's future, not partisan politics
WASHINGTON - February 24, 2010 -
Congressional leaders from both political parties are scheduled to join President Barack Obama for a health reform summit on Thursday. The National Education Association today urged elected officials gathering for the summit to remember the 46 million uninsured Americans as individuals, not statistics. The following statement can be attributed to NEA President Dennis Van Roekel:
"This is a critical time in America's history. Our leaders have a unique opportunity to put politics aside and address the nation's urgent need for quality, affordable health care. As America continues to recover from the economic slump, it is important to note that this reform—an important step in the economic recovery—should not be paid for at the expense of hard working Americans who can least afford it.
"Every day in classrooms all across the country NEA members witness what happens to the uninsured. It's especially painful to see what happens to children who don't have access to proper medical care. Uninsured children remain sick longer than their classmates and miss more days of school. They often sit at their desks with earaches, toothaches or other ailments that make it almost impossible to focus and learn. Sadly, many of the health problems America's children face could be treated and even prevented. But the problems will only get worse without health insurance reform.
"The men and women we elected to represent our best interests in Washington have the chance to move beyond bickering and partisan politics and do what is right for the future – for our nation and our children. We hope that as the discussion unfolds on Thursday, the individuals sitting around the table will remember the 46 million uninsured Americans, millions of them children, and the devastating circumstances they face without health insurance.
"It's difficult to imagine that a country as great as ours cannot find a way to provide quality, affordable health care to everyone; but politics has a way of thwarting progress. This summit offers a chance to get it right. After more than 50 years and seven presidents, we're closer than we've ever been to making the dream of health insurance reform a reality and this is not an opportunity we can afford to squander. America's children can't learn when they come to school sick and if they don't learn – they won't be prepared to be leaders in our 21st century global society.
# # #
The National Education Association is the nation's largest professional organization, representing
3.2 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support professionals, school administrators, retired educators and students preparing to become teachers.
CONTACT: René Carter (202) 822-7494, firstname.lastname@example.com


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As the only country in the Horn of Africa included in the U.S. list of state sponsors of international terrorism, Sudan is key to understanding radical Islamism. It played a major role in the expansion of Islamism since the 1950s, serving as the first country to which the Muslim Brotherhood was exported from its neighbor, Egypt. For decades, Hassan al-Turabi, arguably Sudan's most prominent and recognizable political figure, led a largely-successful process of state Islamization. This openness led directly to Sudan's hosting of Osama bin Laden and his network during the early- to mid-1990s. Sudan's cooperation in the U.S.-led war on terror, by contrast, is comparatively recent. This role, coupled with the country's history as a defender of Islamism and terrorism, serves to create a muddled vision of Sudan's association with—and attitudes toward—radical Islam.
The turn of the 20th century witnessed the politicization of religious movements in Sudan. In the country's first Islamic rebellion, which lasted from 1881 until 1885, Muhammad Ahmad Ibn Abdullah proclaimed himself the Mahdi and declared jihad against local rule, which at the time was administered by the British Empire. After defeating the British ruler of Sudan, Major-General Charles Gordon, in the Battle of Khartoum, Abdullah's resulting Mahdiyya ruled the Sudan until 1898, when the British retook the country and set up the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium.
Islamism in Sudan was truly born, though, in the 1950s, when the ideas of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood seeped through the shared border between the two countries. Sudan's Hassan al-Turabi, born in 1932, was especially inspired by the Brotherhood's Islamist rhetoric, and went on to become secretary general of the newly-created Islamic Charter Front, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, in 1964. Beginning as an Islamist student group, the organization worked for reform through politics with the same goals as its Egyptian progenitor—namely, to create an officially Islamic regime governed by sharia law. The group was later renamed the National Islamic Front (NIF), and has also been known as the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood.1
To fully understand Islamism in Sudan, one must be acquainted with the country's political history, and Turabi's role in it. Turabi has been a key religious and political figure since the 1960s, his ideas influencing the evolution of Islamism both within and outside of Sudan. A politician, intellectual, religious cleric, and sponsor of terrorism, Turabi is today one of most famous Islamist leaders in the world. After studying in London and Paris in the 1950s, Turabi returned to Sudan and quickly decided to enter politics. He then married Wisal al-Mahdi, the sister of Sudanese politician Sadiq al-Mahdi, who led the Umma Party and served as prime minister. His first taste of politics took place during the October 1964 revolution against the military government of Ibrahim Abbud—a revolt which returned the country to civilian rule.2
Because of his academic training and familial ties, Turabi was able to rise to prominence in the realm of politics, becoming secretary general of the Islamic Charter Front.3 Echoing the call of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Turabi unified disparate Islamic movements (mainly student organizations) in Sudan. The Islamic Charter Front's strategy was to throw its support behind nationalist leaders who also accepted Islamist principles. Because of this, in 1984, the organization allied itself with Gaafar Nimeiry, the military dictator who, during his second term, had proclaimed his own highly personal version of sharia in competition with the Islamists.4 They fell out; Turabi was jailed and Nimeiry later overthrown by a coalition of forces that included the NIF. Turabi then undermined the democratically-elected government of Sadiq al-Mahdi and picked Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, an unknown brigadier in the Sudanese Army, to conduct a coup d'état on June 30, 1989. The coup marked the birth of what one scholar has called "the First Islamist Republic" of Sudan.5
After Bashir came to power, Turabi renamed the NIF as al-Hizb al-Mutammar al-Wataniya (National Congress Party or NCP) to distinguish it from too close an identification with radical Islam. In 1995 he was elected speaker of the National Assembly. Turabi and the NIF were the real leaders of the government.6 But after ten years in power Turabi was overthrown and jailed when he attempted to wrest control from Bashir through radical modifications of the constitution and governmental process. Turabi was released and then re-arrested several times on a variety of charges. He consequently became a sworn enemy of the regime he had created, and launched a rival Islamist party, the Popular Congress Party, which presented an increasingly liberal version of his former beliefs.
Currently, Turabi's discourse and theory illustrate the evolution of Islamism in Sudan. Because Turabi participated in an attempt at an Islamic government and was frustrated in his efforts, he has a unique perspective. In 1983, he wrote that "[t]he ideological foundation of an Islamic state lies in the doctrine of tawhid—the unity of God and human life—as a comprehensive and exclusive program of worship."7 In the mid-1990s, his views were markedly progressive for an Islamist from his time: he publicly supported women's rights and condemned the killing of apostates. Specifically, he denounced Ayatollah Khomeini's death sentence against the writer Salman Rushdie. He began advocating the gradual implementation of sharia, which he also believed should be binding only to Muslims.8 Turabi's belief in the value of political consensus is apparent, given his concern over the crisis in Darfur, which has shattered Sudan's unity.
Over the last three decades, Sudan has experienced, on many occasions, terrorist attacks in the form of violence against resident foreigners. However, radical Islam was largely introduced into Sudan in 1991, when Turabi welcomed Osama bin Laden and his followers into the country, partly to help him build an Islamic republic and partly to support international jihadists. Bin Laden went on to establish a network of some 23 training camps in the country9 and create a business and financial empire there. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Sudan's army, called the Popular Defense Forces, are known to have used these camps to train militants. The IRGC is also known to have built an additional 12 camps of its own in Sudan.10 Bin Laden also started businesses, agricultural plants, and import-export activities. Some well-known places such as Port Sudan's airport and the 700-kilometer al-Tahaddi Road were built by the al-Qaeda leader, who also ran some Sudanese charities. During this period, the Sudanese government and Turabi repeatedly denied any knowledge of bin Laden's terrorist ties or violent goals. In 1996, however, bin Laden and his followers relocated from Sudan to Afghanistan. (It is rumored that offers from the Sudanese government to turn bin Laden over to the Clinton administration contributed to bin Laden's decision.)
Yet the association between al-Qaeda and Sudan did not end there. The ongoing links between Khartoum and the bin Laden network were exposed some five years later, following the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11th attacks on the U.S. Although many of bin Laden's supporters remained in the tribal areas of the Afghan-Pakistani border, many insurgents and leaders fled to more hospitable locations, including Yemen, Mauritania, and Sudan. Moreover, before Operation Enduring Freedom, large quantities of al-Qaeda's gold and gemstones were moved from Afghanistan to Sudan, where they are believed to be held in Khartoum's Islamic Banks.11
Within Sudan itself, a handful of other radical groups also exist, committing acts of violence against what they term to be "enemies of Islam." These elements believe that Turabi and the NIF are no longer the leaders of the Islamist movement. For example, members of the Ansar al-Sunna sect attacked mosques in 1994, 1997, and 2000 at Omdurman and Wed Medani. During the year 2000 incident, one man belonging to the group Takfir wal-Hijra, another extremist and violent organization, was discovered among the assailants. It is also highly probable that some members of Takfir attempted in the mid-1990s to kill bin Laden while he was in the country—a reflection of the group's sponsorship by Saudi Arabia, which by that time had turned on the bin Laden network and was seeking its destruction.12
Despite this domestic anti-establishment activism, Sudan as a whole serves as a notable exporter of Islamist ideology. Because Sudan hosted numerous training camps for jihadists before the attacks of September 11, 2001, it has become known globally as a refuge for radicals. For instance, many Hezbollah members or fighters from African countries, such as Mauritania and Nigeria, have spent time in Sudan learning guerilla warfare.13 Following their training, these fighters are given false documents, money, and means of communication and are sent to fight in "lands of jihad" such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq or southern Sahara countries.14
The National Islamic Front and Turabi were also implicated in the Islamist attempt to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 1995.15 Backed by al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian group Gamaa Islamiya planned the attack, which was to take place during the summit of the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa. The group was able to send weapons to the Ethiopian capital from Khartoum on a Sudan Airways flight. When the assassination plan failed, some of the plotters fled to Sudan, where they successfully hid from authorities. Some historians point to this event as the beginning of the disintegration in Turabi and Bashir's relationship.16
Sudan is a nation of 597 tribes and subgroups, 175 major ethnic groupings, and more than 400 linguistic groups and various religious traditions.17 A deep ethnic cleavage has divided Sudan's North and South for centuries, most obviously manifested by the enslavement of southern Black Africans by northern Arabs. From a religious perspective, 30 percent of the 8 million people in the south are Christians, and 5 percent are Muslim. By comparison, 90 percent of northerners are Muslims. While religious diversity is not the key factor in the current conflict, the growing popularity and influence of political Islam has certainly aggravated tensions and given them a religious color.
The South resents any imposition of sharia; even moderate Muslims fear they ultimately will be forced into a second-class citizenship status.18 Given the generally more pious nature of the population, acceptance of sharia in Northern Sudan has been more prevalent. Much of this trend is attributable to the fact that the North has historically been a more religiously and linguistically homogeneous area, compared to the more religiously-diverse South. This divide was widened after the 1989 coup, which initiated a deeper process of Islamization because of the influence of Hassan al-Turabi. For example, from 1986 to 2001, al-Bashir's government imposed strict Islamic legislation, but the Popular Defence Force tortured, kidnapped into slavery and raped southern inhabitants, who have also suffered from numerous forced evictions and displacements.
Another point of contention is oil. Most of Sudan's oil is located in the South, but the North had reaped the benefits of the industry until the secession of the South into a new separate state in 2011. The North has had extensive interaction with Russia, China, and Iran, as well as their state-controlled companies, and through these associations receives weapons and support in its struggle against the South.19 The 2011 separation between North and South had been seen as a way to end the war, but although this purpose was achieved it also led to a displacement of the conflict inside the North, where the forgotten third of the population, the Black African Muslims , revolted in turn against Arab domination.
It is difficult to quantify how much of a foothold radical Islam has in Sudan. While Turabi clearly is not the most radical Islamist among the national elites, he has never condemned the use of violence in the name of Islam. However, while Sudan has supported Islamist causes all over the world, its political leaders generally do not see these causes as terrorist ones. Moreover, since September 2001, the Sudanese government has cooperated extensively with the U.S.-led War on Terror (see below).
Since its birth in the 1950s, the Islamist current in Sudanese politics has taken a number of forms. The Sudanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood was created in August of 1954, making Sudan one the first countries in Africa to include Hassan al-Banna's worldview as an element of its political landscape. Thereafter, other Islamist organizations began to appear. The Islamic Charter Front was created in 1964, and has been deeply influenced by Brotherhood thought,20 albeit with a more open, politically inclusive bent.21 From 1964 to 1969, the ICF operated as a pressure group, agitating in favor of an Islamic Constitution for the country, even unsuccessfully putting forth a moderate draft of such a document prior to the 1969 coup.22 Following the military takeover, Turabi at first attempted to oppose it militarily by participating in the Front for National Salvation organized by his brother-in-law Sadiq al-Mahdi. In July 1976, the Front attacked Khartoum from its bases in Libya but was defeated. A year later, Nimeiry pardoned the opponents and through the Mussallaha al-Wataniya ("national reconciliation") reintegrated the Islamists, among others, in the national political game. After he was deposed in April of 1985, Turabi won the third largest block of seats in parliament in legislative elections the following year. Turabi described the NIF at that time as "an advanced stage in the development of the Islamic movement… from a simple group to an integrated social organization and from a religious faction to a state institution."23 After the subsequent 1989 coup d'etat the NIF dissolved of its own accord, reappearing in 1991 under the name National Patriotic Congress, which was described by Turabi as a "national structure" rather than that of a political party.24
In August 1989, leaders of the international Muslim Brotherhood gathered in London and decided that Sudan should serve as a base and safe haven for Islamist movements from throughout the Muslim World.25 After Bashir's coup, the NIF became the first agent for Islamization in Sudan. Turabi expanded and pluralized the ideological make-up of the shura, the regime's main religious institution, by facilitating the entry of new officials who had not been part of the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood initially (having been religiously educated and indoctrinated by other groups). A new Islamic organization known as "the Special Entity" (al Kayan al Khas) was also created following the 1989 coup and eventually joined al-Bashir's National Congress Party.26 (This organization would become a grouping of nationalists and Islamists who remained faithful to the president following the 1999 Bashir-Turabi split.)
Turabi's efforts to enlarge Islamism in the Sudan, and connect it to other movements in the Muslim world, predominated throughout the early 1990s. In 1991, for example, the Sudanese government launched an effort to establish an inter-religious dialogue—an effort that culminated in April 1993 with the first inter-religious conference in Khartoum. A second such event took place in October 1994, and brought together hundreds of people from 30 countries and 50 churches and associations. Turabi's purpose was, in his own words, to make "Christians and Muslims [stand] against the irreligious in a common front."27 On the other hand, however, Turabi sought to increase intra-Arab and Islamic solidarity. Following the Gulf War, he was active in the creation of the Popular Arab Islamic Congress (PAIC), an umbrella organization that sought to represent all major Islamic movements. By 1997, PAIC had branches in 55 Islamic and non-Islamic countries.28 Its brief success did not survive Turabi's elimination from power in 1999.
September 11, 2001 served as a turning point for Sudan. Afraid that the Sudan would be invaded like Afghanistan, Bashir began to collaborate with the U.S. government in its War on Terror. For instance, in 2002, the Sudanese government embraced the Intergovernmental Authority on Development's initiative to discuss how to deal with terrorism, and in 2004, it signed all 12 international conventions against terrorism (seven of which have been ratified by the Sudanese parliament). Regionally, Sudan has signed counterterrorism agreements with Algeria, Yemen and Ethiopia, and co-hosted (with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime) at least one workshop on regional terrorism and transnational crime. These efforts led the State Department in 2007 to compliment the Bashir regime, calling it a "strong partner in the War on Terror."29 This assessment needs to be balanced by the fact that, although Khartoum desisted from actively supporting terrorist organizations abroad, its radical implementation of a particularly brutal vision of Islam survived its international moderation and eventually triggered the new Muslim post-2011 rebellions in the North.
Bashir's political opponents, by contrast, have aligned in opposition to counterterrorism cooperation with the West. Specifically, Turabi has bristled at American intervention in the area, and led the criticism against the Bashir regime's cooperation with the United States. He has additionally demanded that the United States, Britain, and France not meddle in the Darfur issue.30 Nevertheless these positions should be seen as largely formal and part of a political struggle within the ranks of the formerly united Islamists. With the passage of time, the Sudanese regime, under its thin Islamic veneer, has evolved into a classical military dictatorship which uses the Islamic line of argument when advantageous to do so and neglects it when otherwise motivated.


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Adelaide Action Group Meeting 13-06-18
Do you want a fair, flourishing and just Australia?
We're a fabulous team of volunteers who share a passion for pursuing environmental justice, human rights, democracy and economic fairness.
Get together with passionate, like-minded progressives to plan how to contribute to GetUp's campaigns. New members welcome!
June 13, 2018 at 6:30pm - 8pm
To get full location details please RSVP to this event.
The Joinery
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
The Joinery
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Gabrielle Bond · · 0401 969 646