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All Discussions Tagged 'islam' - Atheist Nexus 2014-12-26T04:36:19Z http://www.atheistnexus.org/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=islam&feed=yes&xn_auth=no Driven by Allah to kill a n y thrills.. even enjoying rain!? ~ fubar story in Pakistan? .. or.. megh tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2013-06-26:2182797:Topic:2259821 2013-06-26T19:46:00.382Z AgeOfAtheists14 http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/secularorbust
http://beta.dawn.com/news/1020576/two-girls-mother-killed-over-family-video

men shot the 15-16 yr olds dead.. i think. over enjoying rain / on camera .. in house.. dahfug?

true social cancer. .

http://beta.dawn.com/news/1020576/two-girls-mother-killed-over-family-video

men shot the 15-16 yr olds dead.. i think. over enjoying rain / on camera .. in house.. dahfug?

true social cancer. .
 Welcome to Florida::::: tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2013-06-16:2182797:Topic:2254062 2013-06-16T13:35:10.546Z AgeOfAtheists14 http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/secularorbust
http://www.atheistnexus.org/forum/topics/of-english-language-as-intrinsic-to-usa-latin-dios-dios-no-gay-no

http://www.atheistnexus.org/forum/topics/of-english-language-as-intrinsic-to-usa-latin-dios-dios-no-gay-no
 What happened to Atheist Nexus Militia ? tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2013-06-04:2182797:Topic:2245357 2013-06-04T19:18:32.951Z Napoleon Bonaparte http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/napoleonbonaparte
During 2010-11 the group Atheist Nexus Militia was formed for the purpose of artistic covert para-military operations against Catholics. Notwithstanding it's success the group and it's membership were 'disappeared' by person/s or other entities unknown. An anonymous short film entitled 'The Rise and Fall of Atheist Nexus Militia' together with other A.N.M artwork survive to prove the groups existence. Rumours of in-fighting and a split with 'Der Waffen A.N.M' proved to…

During 2010-11 the group Atheist Nexus Militia was formed for the purpose of artistic covert para-military operations against Catholics. Notwithstanding it's success the group and it's membership were 'disappeared' by person/s or other entities unknown. An anonymous short film entitled 'The Rise and Fall of Atheist Nexus Militia' together with other A.N.M artwork survive to prove the groups existence. Rumours of in-fighting and a split with 'Der Waffen A.N.M' proved to be unfounded.

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 Scientific racism, militarism, and the new atheists tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2013-04-02:2182797:Topic:2204825 2013-04-02T21:06:28.058Z Napoleon Bonaparte http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/napoleonbonaparte
Leading figures in the new atheist movement are heirs to the disreputable scientific racists of the past, argues author.

Scientific racism is a term seldom used today but which has a long and ignoble history in the modern world. In the late 18th century, the renowned scientist and philosopher Christoph Meiners published his famous treatise The Outline and History of…

Leading figures in the new atheist movement are heirs to the disreputable scientific racists of the past, argues author.

Scientific racism is a term seldom used today but which has a long and ignoble history in the modern world. In the late 18th century, the renowned scientist and philosopher Christoph Meiners published his famous treatise The Outline and History of Mankind. Central to his analysis was a qualitative comparison of peoples by race - a comparison which his own popularly-accepted findings claimed revealed a clear hierarchy.

Drawing in large part on the now-discredited science of Phrenology (the measurement of human skulls), Meiners described whites as being endowed with clear superiority to all races in both their intellectual as well as moral faculties.

About blacks, his scientific analysis was far less generous - finding them not only to be inferior to whites in every mental capacity but in fact "incapable of any mental feeling or emotion at all", as well as "unable to feel physical pain".

As influential as it was, Meiners' work was par for the course in the institutionalised science of racism of the age. Famous philosopher Voltaire - whose works were among the most significant of the French Enlightenment - wrote of his empirical research on those humans who possessed dark skin:

"They are not men, except in their stature, with the faculty of speech and thought at a degree far distant to ours. Such are the ones that I have seen and examined."

While they wore a veneer of disinterested scientific analysis in their conclusions, in the context of their times it can be seen that such proponents of scientific racism had the specific goal of legitimating certain policies. With regard to those of African descent, the intention of then-contemporary scientists was often - implicitly or explicitly - to report findings which could be used to justify the socio-political institutions of slavery and colonialism against African societies.......(continued)

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/04/20134210413618256.html
 "Everywhere and nowhere.." "proud my son's dead for belief" religion vs. state in Thailand. hevy vid!~ tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2013-02-19:2182797:Topic:2167200 2013-02-19T13:44:01.527Z AgeOfAtheists14 http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/secularorbust
waste of paradise imho:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21501846

waste of paradise imho:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21501846
 So.. freethought (i think) blogger threatens the very existence of oil wealth in Kuwait? no way.. tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2013-01-21:2182797:Topic:2148330 2013-01-21T00:52:16.139Z AgeOfAtheists14 http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/secularorbust
.. it's a shame really..
what happend?
http://www.atheistnexus.org/profiles/blogs/now-kuwait-is-jailing-nonbelievers-for-blasphemy-really

.. it's a shame really..
what happend?
http://www.atheistnexus.org/profiles/blogs/now-kuwait-is-jailing-nonbelievers-for-blasphemy-really
 another ban for women in Indone$ia... this time, scooter straddling..? tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2013-01-03:2182797:Topic:2135379 2013-01-03T20:39:09.406Z AgeOfAtheists14 http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/secularorbust
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20896966

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20896966
 WHY I AM AN ATHEIST tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2012-09-19:2182797:Topic:2056927 2012-09-19T19:51:14.668Z The Palestinian http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/Laith
My friend asked my why I'm an Atheist - she wanted a list of points. Here's what I came up with really quickly. Please note - this is geared toward ISLAM and so references within it may not relate to other religions. I tried to avoid delving into science, because at the end of the day - scientific details are not what make me an Atheist, it's simply the process of thought that I follow when considering religion. Please - feel free to comment with your own thoughts, journeys, experiences.…

My friend asked my why I'm an Atheist - she wanted a list of points. Here's what I came up with really quickly. Please note - this is geared toward ISLAM and so references within it may not relate to other religions. I tried to avoid delving into science, because at the end of the day - scientific details are not what make me an Atheist, it's simply the process of thought that I follow when considering religion. Please - feel free to comment with your own thoughts, journeys, experiences.

1) I have no reason to believe the Quran is divine other than hear-say – people telling me so. "Proof" of its truth has rung hollow – many people have given me reasons for its truth – all of which are either false/exaggerated scientific claims or contrived miracles/predictions – just like every other 'religion.'

2) We have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, why did God show himself for a few of those and disappear again? And why did he leave us to hundreds of millennia of savagery and 'sinful' existence before revealing himself?

3) If Religion was given to us by God to deliver us from our insane, primitive existence - why is it a major source of a very large majority of human conflict and suffering?

4) Why is a "perfect" and "completely clear" message interpreted so differently by everyone who reads it?

5) Why do the believers of this "completely clear" and "perfect" message need experts who study the religion and its meaning their whole lives to interpret it for them?

6) Why is it that, in our age of modernity we are overcoming differences one after the other – race, language, geography, and coming together more and more… EXCEPT when it comes to our Gods? Why is God one of the last few things standing between human kind and unity/peace?

7) Why would a 'good' God allow so much evil and suffering in the world? The human existence around the world is a miserable one - hunger, war, crime, drugs, abuse, poverty, etc...

8) Why does God, a merciful creature, demand the death of those who leave the Religion, followed by an eternity of indescribable misery and pain? Why are most humans I meet kinder and more merciful than him?

9) Why does God, a being who doesn't have human weakness/desire, DEMAND worship under fear of eternal punishment? These are the tactics of a despotic king, and far more primitive than modern civil society allows - how can humans evolve beyond God?

10) Moderate Muslims tell me they don't follow the Quran to the letter because that's too extreme and we live in the 21st century - why should that matter if God's word is timeless and eternal?

11) Nothing in the Quran sounds like anything more than just a story - there is simply nothing in Islamic text or in the world that has ever made me think "It must be divine". It makes more sense that a human (or group) decided to invent it as a tool for social control (a common theme in human history).

12) Many Muslims use what science DOESN'T know as an excuse for God. For example – 'How did the Big Bang start?" is a popular one. Simply noting gaps in our knowledge isn't proof of anything other than the fact that there is more to learn. And for that matter – these people demand I tell them how the Big Bang started, when they cannot tell me how God came into existence. I cannot believe in something that claims to have all the answers (when it doesn't) simply because I myself don't have all the answers.

13) Looking at the religion as an outside observer rather than a Muslim - it doesn't stand out too much from Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and ancient pagan religions - it looks like just another story with its own twist, its own rules, etc, but still just a story. If I picked up a book describing all these religions without ever having even heard of religion, they would all read like fairy tales to me.

14) God creates everyone and everything - it is a common theme in Islam that any good deed that a person does comes from Allah, his thoughts are from Allah, the environment he grew up in comes from Allah - so why is it AGAINST Allah when people don't fit the mainstream? Why is it illegal to be gay, atheist, etc? Why does Allah make you who you are and then punish you for it? Even in the Quran it states that "Allah has blinded the unbelievers and chosen to keep them from believing."

15) Islamic "science" (and by this I mean scientific 'proof' of Islam) has always been determined to be exaggerated, false, or highly contrived when scrutinized

16) Why would God give us the ability to question and doubt, then punish us for doing so to our full ability?

17) Of the millions of other Gods in History, why Allah?

18) Every religion claims to be the true religion, but at the end of the day - your religion depends on your geography and race. Being in the right religion is a matter of luck? Even those who hear of other religions, most have NO reason to change - would you convert to Christianity? (This question targets Muslims)

19) Why did God send all his messages to the most backward, illiterate part of the world? He could have sent it to much more advanced, literate, larger civilizations like China.

20) Why not send multiple prophets around the world at the same time with the same exact message? THAT would be more effective and more convincing

21) Why is Arabic God's language??? There have been so many other languages, Arabic evolved from other languages and has since evolved further. God happens to speak a form of Arabic that was prevalent in a small part of the Arab Peninsula for a very short period of time in Human history? Why does god even have a language?

22) People tell me morality comes from God – but I have no God and I have good morals - even by Islamic standards. Ghandi did not have Islam and he is more moral than almost every Muslim I have ever met. Buddha was the same and in fact, Buddhism is a "Godless" religion. Morality and God is a contrivance of the religion itself and not a fact of life. Many pre-Islamic pagan societies had well-established moral guidelines which devised ancient legal systems – of which our modern civil codes are derived today.

In a nutshell – I don't believe in God because there simply isn't any reason for me to believe in a God or in a Religion. I simply need evidence, and Islam doesn't have it, nor does any religion (hence the word FAITH). The funny thing is people don't have faith in each other if they aren't given a reason to. If someone tried to convince you that God was in fact some ruling body of Alien races, and asked you to take this on faith… where exactly would your faith in such a claim come from? The only reason anyone would actually believe this man is if they simply wanted to believe it. Maybe he says the aliens really like us, and if we have faith they will give us their technology, but if we don't, they'll wipe us out. This is Religion in a nutshell.

 Religion adds nothing to the world or to life for me, claims of God's existence all ring as false in my ears, or people grabbing for straws with "we can't know how God thinks" arguments.

 I simply have no need for God or religion – there are explanations for most natural processes without him and for the ones we don't understand yet – well that's all there is to it, we just don't understand them yet. I don't need to rectify that by believing the hear-say of other men.

One of the biggest questions I asked myself growing up that I could never shake, that really pushed me away from Religion more-so than science ever did was this, "Am I abiding by a law book that a normal human man wrote 1500 years ago to control people?" And I could never find an answer that proved to me otherwise. I was disgusted with the thought that I was the tool of some long-dead man, and that millions of people worldwide were worshipping a man-made God.
 Disses And Death Threats - Rapper In Germany Fears For Life After Fatwa tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2012-05-17:2182797:Topic:1954729 2012-05-17T19:43:19.643Z AgeOfAtheists14 http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/secularorbust
http://freeinternetpress.com/story/Disses-And-Death-Threats-Rapper-In-Germany-Fears-For-Life-After-Fatwa-34843.html

great read imho:

Najafi has drawn the wrath of Shiite Muslims after publishing a song that appeared to make fun of the 10th imam. Following a fatwa by an Iranian ayatollah, he has received death threats, and there is a $100,000 bounty on…

http://freeinternetpress.com/story/Disses-And-Death-Threats-Rapper-In-Germany-Fears-For-Life-After-Fatwa-34843.html

great read imho:
Najafi has drawn the wrath of Shiite Muslims after publishing a song that appeared to make fun of the 10th imam. Following a fatwa by an Iranian ayatollah, he has received death threats, and there is a $100,000 bounty on his head. Now he is under police protection but insists he will keep making music. This article was written by SPIEGEL journalists, their names are listed at the end of the article.

It's every rapper's dream: You stick it to the world, not caring what people think or say about you. If they hate you, they should go ahead and diss you, the more the better. No one can tell you what to do. After all, isn't that what rap is all about?

That dream came true last week for an Iranian rapper living in exile in Cologne. But in the tough reality of life, the dream has turned into a nightmare for Shahin Najafi. Najafi rapped about a man who has been dead 1,143 years: the 10th imam, Ali al-Hadi al-Naqi. He implored the imam to return to modern-day Iran to sort out the regime there. Of course, to a certain extent he also poked fun at the imam -- the sort of thing a rapper does in a world that's becoming more and more difficult to provoke. Najafi also designed an image for YouTube: a dome of a mosque in the shape of a women's breast, with the nipple at the very top.

He wanted to be provocative. It was rap, after all. The song's message was hard-hitting and crass.

What he provoked, however, was not the usual outcry on the Internet, but a response from the Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpayegani in the Iranian city of Qom. It was a religious opinion, one that Persian newspapers have turned into headlines, albeit with a few weeks' delay. The ayatollah expressed himself in broad terms, not even mentioning Najafi by name. But anyone who wants to can easily interpret the ayatollah's opinion as a call to murder. And that is now Najafi's problem, because there are many who want to read it that way.

The Next Salman Rushdie

Hardly anything can become as emotionally charged in the cultural struggle between the enlightened and the orthodox as an apostasy fatwa practically asking for somebody's execution. Hardly anything is as capable of stimulating emotions and the masses. And, for this reason, hardly anything is more likely to be used as justification for a propaganda war where both sides are convinced they are right. The West wants to defend freedom of expression, while the radical religious culture wants to defend its faith.

Whether or not this was indeed the intention of the ayatollah from Qom, Najafi has been a target since last week. He is the next Salman Rushdie. He must now fear for his life and give up his old way of living. He is the next supposed heretic against whom hatred can be channeled and who can be used to stir up hatred. And he is the next living martyr for fundamental liberal values, the freedom of art and the tolerance of dissenters. Last week, after the Iranian media had taken up the case on such a large scale, the American and the Israeli media followed suit.

Last Friday, Najafi was under police protection in an undisclosed location in Germany. Officials at the Interior Ministry of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia said tersely that the situation is seen as "very serious".

Three days earlier, the musician had gone to the police in Cologne and filed a criminal complaint against the grand ayatollah, for incitement to commit murder. The police launched an investigation and advised Najafi to go into hiding overnight. What followed was a telephone marathon among various police and intelligence agencies discussing how serious the perceived threat was, always with the same outcome: that Najafi needed personal protection immediately. He has been under protection since then and is only accepting phone calls at prearranged times set up by his manager.

Bounty On The Internet

"My security is being taken care of," he says, speaking with a strong Persian accent, but notes that there is nothing more he can say about the issue. He is now living in an exile within an exile. At least he managed to take along his guitar, although now he can only play it for himself. He was forced to cancel his planned European tour.

"At first I thought it was nonsense. I couldn't believe it. Only when I saw the $100,000 (€77,000) bounty on my head on the Internet did I truly understand that this was serious," he says. One can tell by his voice how stunned he is.

The song that has turned his life into a nightmare has been making the rounds among young people in Iran for weeks. It's being secretly passed on by those who had pinned their hopes on the green movement three years ago, hopes for an end to the regime and an opening to the West. When those hopes were dashed, all that these people had left was the underground culture. It's where Najafi has a name and where his audience comes from, even though -- or perhaps because -- he left his country in 2005, after singing a satirical song called "I Have a Beard". But the mullahs weren't laughing, and they sentenced Najafi to three years in prison and 100 lashes. He managed to escape before the sentence was carried out.

Now, this song. It's called "Naqi", in reference to the name of the 10th imam, Ali al-Hadi al-Naqi, born in Medina in 829. According to legend, he died in 868 after being poisoned. For devout Shiites, the 10th imam is a model of virtue, wisdom and the willingness to make sacrifices. Like all of the so-called Twelve Imams, he is seen as a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. An incident on Feb. 22, 2006, shows how holy his memory is to the Shiites. On that day, Sunnis in the Iraqi city of Samarra blew up the mosque containing the grave of the imam. It marked the beginning of the Iraqi civil war, which claimed more than 10,000 lives.

When it comes to the imam, the fanatics are not to be trifled with. Nevertheless, Najafi clearly relished calling upon the imam in his song, which is perhaps comparable with one of the most famous songs in pop history, Janis Joplin's "Mercedes Benz," in which the singer asks the Lord to buy her a Mercedes Benz. In the Western hemisphere, it's a great line. But for many a devout Muslim, it's a display of the sort of nonchalance that deserves death.

Global Death Sentence

Najafi's lyrics are ambiguous, which is typical of Persian writings, jokes and poems, which are filled with innuendo and double or even triple meanings. At first, "Naqi" sounds like an appeal to the 10th imam, a plea for help. At the same time, the verses blend the sacred and the profane in such a disrespectful manner that it quickly becomes clear that the author is taking neither the imam nor the religion seriously.

In his verses, for example, Najafi pokes fun at a "cardboard Khomeini" and swears by everything under the sun, from Viagra to pita bread to national pride and honor. He throws it all into a pot, mixes it up and ends up with an all-encompassing critique of the regime -- not just of the mullahs and the state religion, but also of everything that, in Najafi's view, is going wrong in Iran.

From the regime's perspective, however, the only one who is in the wrong is Najafi. On April 23, the 93-year-old cleric Lotfollah Safi Golpayegani was asked in Qom what his judgment was of "a few people who consist primarily of anti-revolutionaries living abroad" who were "insulting and disparaging" the imam. Safi Golpayegani is one of the country's 19 grand ayatollahs, a man who issues decisions on religious controversies, but who is also a loyal supporter of the Islamic revolution in Iran. He replied: If they have disparaged and insulted the honored person, they are apostates.

If, the ayatollah said. He didn't say that Najafi had done such a thing. In fact, it isn't entirely clear whether he was actually thinking of Najafi when he made his pronouncement. Nevertheless, an apostate can be subject to the death penalty. And sure enough, the video accompanying the song had hardly appeared on YouTube in early May before Iranian newspapers loyal to the regime suddenly remembered the ayatollah's vague declaration -- and turned it into a death sentence, one that is valid worldwide.

'Najafi Is In Mortal Danger'

It makes the whole world a dangerous place for Najafi. "Grand Ayatollah Golpayegani is an important religious authority. For his devotees, his fatwa is compulsory," says Ralph Ghadban, who has been an Islam scholar at the Protestant University of Applied Science in Berlin for many years. The consequence, Ghadban explains, is that "if one of these religious devotees lives in Germany, he is compelled to carry out the fatwa immediately. That's when the situation becomes very serious."

Rauf Ceylan, an expert on Islam in the western city of Osnabrück, also sees the situation as extremely explosive. "Najafi is in mortal danger. There are also radicalized Shiites here, and it can't be ruled out that individual perpetrators could make it their business to carry out the fatwa."

Assassination Order

This was presumably the case in the Azerbaijani capital Baku last November, when an unknown assailant stabbed journalist Rafiq Tagi six times. Tagi died in a hospital four days later, but he still had enough strength to say whom he held responsible for the attack: Iranian agents and Muslim fundamentalists. He had written an article in 2006 in which he argued that Islam and democracy were incompatible. But he had also included a few references to the Prophet Muhammad that were perceived as critical. Soon afterwards, several Iranian ayatollahs issued fatwas in which Tagi was sentenced to death.

Salman Rushie did survive, but after the assassination order was issued, his life no longer resembled the life the writer had led -- and loved -- until then. On Feb. 14, 1989, the Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for Rushdie's assassination, for the alleged crime of blasphemy. The fatwa was triggered by the novel "The Satanic Verses," in which Rushdie described the Prophet Muhammad as a power seeker, and also allegedly insulted his wives.

A bounty of several million dollars was placed on the author's head. He lived under police protection for years, and a Japanese translator of his book was murdered. No German publishing house dared to publish "The Satanic Verses" on its own. Only when several publishers joined forces to form the "Article 19" publishing house was the book published, under the sponsorship of many prominent individuals, including author Hans Magnus Enzensberger and politician Norbert Blüm.

For years, Rushdie lived with the strictest of security precautions, always in the expectation that every day would be his last. Then, in 1998, the Iranian government distanced itself from the death threat, but in that same year a Tehran foundation increased the bounty. It wasn't until June of 2001 that then President Mohammad Khatami described the Rushdie affair as "completely finished." But is it really? Rushdie still receives threats regularly, without knowing whether they are meant seriously.

Validating Prejudices

Now, Najafi is in the same position. Agitators on the Internet are already wishing him death and eternal damnation, and the wave is only beginning to build. On several Facebook pages, users have called for his execution. The calls are accompanied by various provocative images, including a photo of the rapper's head in crosshairs, and a doctored image of a bullet hole in his neck and another of his head mounted on the outline of a dog.

On the other side are the cohorts of outraged bloggers who formed their opinions about the Islamic world long ago: the Tundra Tabloids, a Scandinavian blog critical of Islam, conservative Catholic websites and, of course, the Republican bloggers aligned with the Tea Party in the United States. They too are using the Najafi case as a model and a means of validating their prejudices, and the wave they have triggered is also beginning to build.

Who Najafi is, and what he wants, isn't even important anymore. For both sides, the rapper from Cologne is merely a pawn in a chess game. The more he moves to the center of the board, the more dangerous his life becomes. His last defense is now the police.

No one, including Najafi, knows how this will continue in the long term. In fact, Najafi is so much in the dark about the future that he doesn't even worry about it at the moment. Until now, he was an Iranian exile who could make ends meet as a musician, because his fellow Iranians in America and Europe supported him, and he was able to go on tour and earn money. And now? Should he stop being a performer? Friends have told him that prisoners have scribbled some of the lyrics of his songs on prison walls in Iran, says Najafi. And now Najafi himself is in a prison of sorts.

'I Can't Hide'

"I'll keep going. I know that," he told Spiegel. "I can't hide. I just have to be careful. I have to perform. I'm a musician. But that's a problem now."

Is he afraid for his life? Najafi says nothing.

Does the fatwa reach all the way to Germany? "How should I know?" he asks, taking a deep breath. "They don't joke around." Then there is a long moment of silence on the line.

Intellpuke: This article was written by Spiegel journalists Georg Bonisch, Jurgen Dahlkamp, Oslem Gezer, Ralf Hoppe, Tobias Rapp, Martin Wolf and Bernhard Zand; you can read it in context here: www.spiegel.de/international/world/germany-based-rapper-fears-for-life-after-fatwa-a-833214.html
 This article was translated from the German for Spiegel by Christopher Sultan.
 well me dawkins app en mi ipod seems to sumitup yet again... tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2012-05-13:2182797:Topic:1951159 2012-05-13T17:28:25.069Z AgeOfAtheists14 http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/secularorbust

leads me to the notion i had pop (no pun.. like pill poppn' jesus freaks but...)

"leave the world behind with...

God!"

ignorant negatives for the world to suffer by... my goodness the poetry slam comes...

hey folks the shit is hittin' the fan @…

leads me to the notion i had pop (no pun.. like pill poppn' jesus freaks but...)
"leave the world behind with...
God!"

ignorant negatives for the world to suffer by... my goodness the poetry slam comes...

hey folks the shit is hittin' the fan @
http://freeinternetpress.com/story/Italian-Anarchists-Kneecap-Nuclear-Executive-And-Threaten-More-Shootings-34809.html

while fools argue about gays/guns and god in america.. who they thnk they're foolin'?


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CORPUS CHRISTI- james and his sister Mecklin, hosted a fundraiser today off Ocean and Mitchell street. The event raised money for a rare type of bone cancer that affects children.
When we spoke with James Ragan and his sister this afternoon to talk about the organization they created, called Triump Over Kid Cancer, they said they had already raised over 5,000 dollars.
James was diagnosed with osteo-sar-coma, back in 2006. After treatment James thought he was cured, until the cancer moved into his lungs-that's when he learned there was no treatment for for this type of cancer. He and his sister founded the Truimph Over Kid Cancer Foundation, to raise money for more reasearch.
Todays tent sale had everything from dishes, to furniture to family airlooms. All donated to help people like James fight cancer. All the money raised today, will be matched dollar for dollar with the M.D. Andersons Childrens Cancer Hospital.
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Great dance & music,makes you think & can also have fun with it.
You Can't Handle Me
Patricia Montgomery - 30/10/2000
Wow! What a dane - a last Sharon shows what she is really made of! The music is fantastic and the dance just flows along with it. Even though it is a phased dance you can't get lost as the dance beat is so well defined. Great dance Sharon!
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Neil Christie - 30/10/2000
Excellet feel good dance - love it and all the class - a must dance every week
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Darren - 30/10/2000
Great dance - Corrs music is great - love it
Everybody Stomp
Gary Lafferty - 30/10/2000
Impossible to complete the first section of this dance. Count 5 is a step to the right, with a double-clap on &6. It is therefore impossible to cross-rock your Right foot over your Left on count 7....
Saturday Night
Gary Lafferty - 30/10/2000
Impossible to complete the first section of this dance. If you step forward on your Right foot (1) them bump your hips Left-Right on &2 , it is not possible to kick your Right foot forward as the first part of a Right kick-ball-change. Oh dear...
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Gary Lafferty - 30/10/2000
Quite a nice beginner dance that fits well to the music. There is a 4-count tag in the music at the end of the second wall, which makes the dance go off-phrase due to the lag of a tag, but it doesn't matter too much, and I doubt that many beginners would notice. Worth looking at...
Getting Excited
Tim - 30/10/2000
Great dance - well received by my classs Great dance - very well received by my classes Very good steps to the music and fits perfectly I thought that this would have been published to this well known track
Getting Excited
Bill - 30/10/2000
I agree with other reviews that say this is a fell good dance - Robert dances do this to you!!!!
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Phill - 30/10/2000
Love it - do it!!!!
Ballymore Boys
Manuela DeGuire - 30/10/2000
Fantastic dance!We (Stompin' Boots" /Germany) just love it!We also liked Dynamite Dots "Pizziricco".Congratulations to her!!!!!!!!
Hit Me!
Jenny - 30/10/2000
To that i know of everyone in South Wales does this dance. It is also easy for first time dancers to pick it up
Rex The Robot
Jean - 29/10/2000
Just learned it by Rob this week, it was fun with him teaching it, but can't see it being a favourite, but Rob still keeps on churning up good ones.
Ballymore Boys
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Would You?
Penny - 29/10/2000
This dance feels really nice to dance. It's just difficult enough to make you concentrate and not get bored. Try dancing it to other music. It's quite a challenge to dance it to virtually anything!


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Competively speaking, natures are a great addition to the series. It allows people to customize their pokemon's stat to fit their purpose much better.
However, ingame, I have many gripes with this system. It's annoying that you need to get a bit lucky to have a nature that doesn't get in a pokemon's way. Caught a Abra? Oh, wait, it's adamant, and as a result, it isn't nearly as useful as a normal abra would be.
For normal pokemon, this can be a little annoying, but you always are able to overcome it with enough patience. However, playing soulsilver, both my lugia and raikou got natures that nerfed their best stats in favor of much less imporant ones. Once you save, this is permanent. Synchronize helps, but even then, it's a 50 % percent chance on a pokemon that could take a good while to capture.
For getting a competive pokemon, you either need a everstone, or it's heavily luck based. Even with a everstone it takes some setup.
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Quarterly Report on China's Import and Export of Clocks and Watches and Parts thereof
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The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran
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How do converts to a religion come to feel an attachment to it? The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran answers this important question for Iran by focusing on the role of memory and its revision and erasure in the ninth to eleventh centuries. During this period, the descendants of the Persian imperial, religious, and historiographical traditions not only wrote themselves into starkly different early Arabic and Islamic accounts of the past but also systematically suppressed much knowledge about pre-Islamic history. The result was both a new "Persian" ethnic identity and the pairing of Islam with other loyalties and affiliations, including family, locale, and sect. This pioneering study examines revisions to memory in a wide range of cases, from Iran's imperial and administrative heritage to the Prophet Muhammad's stalwart Persian companion, Salman al-Farisi, and to memory of Iranian scholars, soldiers, and rulers in the mid-seventh century. Through these renegotiations, Iranians developed a sense of Islam as an authentically Iranian religion, as they simultaneously shaped the broader historiographic tradition in Arabic and Persian.Read more
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#1 - tvfreakuk (01/29/2013) [+] (8 replies)my mother's face when I told her that my drama teacher got pregnant from my PE teacher and that they weren't married.
#12 - umaya (01/29/2013) [+] (13 replies)
My friends Spanish teacher put a photo on her bebo account and about a week later the whole school had this photo of her naked, licking her lips after a cumshot, she left a few weeks later, but damn, that picture was sexy.
#6 - stiffbeefyone (01/29/2013) [+] (14 replies)
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#40 - annonomooselovesu (01/30/2013) [-]
>Be me
>Messing around in class
>Pregant teacher comes over to me and my friend
>"Stop fooling around!"
>I look at her, look down at her stomach, and back up at her
>Tell her to stop fooling around
>Messing around in class
>Pregant teacher comes over to me and my friend
>"Stop fooling around!"
>I look at her, look down at her stomach, and back up at her
>Tell her to stop fooling around
#24 - turbodoosh (01/30/2013) [+] (1 reply)
#34 - felixjarl (01/30/2013) [+] (7 replies)Periods.
Now think of all your female teachers.
Now think of all your female teachers.
#14 - Casman (01/29/2013) [-]
You mean:
Damn, someone else banged her already.
Damn, someone else banged her already.
#41 - swagadile (01/30/2013) [-]even weirder when you have a male teacher and he gets pregnant...
#9 - captainfuckitall ONLINE (01/29/2013) [-]
Of course they have sex, why do you figure there's so many porno's involving teachers/students?
#28 - douevensax (01/30/2013) [-]
I just get awesome guy teachers. Wouldn't be surprised if they got pregnant. Heh heh.......wait...what?
#20 - anonymouzx (01/29/2013) [-]
My teacher told the class that she will be going to a camping trip with her husband for their anniversary. She was gone for a few days plus the weekend. I think about 2 weeks later told us she was pregnant. Something tells me they weren't just roasting marshmallows.
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**bushingenna rolled a random comment #191 posted by midgetnigger at drunk ** :
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#53 - cascarita (01/30/2013) [-]
It would suck if the teacher was your mom
#31 - silvermoonelf (01/30/2013) [+] (1 reply)
I hate it when teachers get pregnant. Last year, toward the end of the year my Creative Writing teacher got pregnant. It was a really laid back class, so we were casual with her. She got pregnant, and I went up to her (After she had said "Come up if you have any questions" 15 minutes before). I got out "Hey, I was wondering-" before she spent the rest of the class yelling about how disrespectful it was to interrupt a teacher who's doing important things by greeting her with "Hey". She was THAT kind of pregnant. She did the same thing when the girl next to me was running a hand through her hair while the teacher was speaking.
#29 - anonymous (01/30/2013) [-]
I went to Catholic school and the english teacher got knocked up by the janitor and got ********** 3 weeks later.
she was really hot and I wish it was me
she was really hot and I wish it was me
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"This is an amazing honor as my work is being recognized by the premier organization devoted to understanding and preventing suicide," Muehlenkamp said. "Prior winners include top suicide researchers from universities such as Harvard and Columbia. Many past winners now are the leading experts in the field. There are many excellent suicide and self-injury researchers, so to be selected as someone whose work stands out in terms of quality, importance and impact in the field is meaningful. It shows that my work is making a difference in advancing our understanding of self-injury and suicide among youth, and that is very important to me."
The Shneidman Award is given to people who have made outstanding research contributions in the field of suicidology early in their careers. Recognized experts in the field nominate people for the award; nominees must be under age 40 and/or not be more than 10 years past their highest degree earned.
Muehlenkamp's primary expertise is in the area of non-suicidal self-injury, which includes behaviors such as self-cutting, burning of oneself, interference with wound healing and severe skin abrading like scratching skin with sharp objects to produce a wound.
"Nonsuicidal self-injury is a baffling and hard-to-treat phenomenon that has increased markedly in recent years," Muehlenkampsaid.
Key issues in diagnosing and treating non-suicidal self-injury include differentiating it from attempted suicide and other mental disorders, as well as understanding the motivations for self-injury and the context in which it occurs, Muehlenkamp said.
"A lot of my early work focused on demonstrating that self-injury was different from non-lethal suicide attempts because people would often think self-injury was a suicide attempt, and this contributed to inappropriate responses to the behavior and less effective treatments," Muehlenkamp said. "More recently, my work has examined the connection between self-injury and suicide by studying how self-injury can increase risk over the long term for suicide."
Muehlenkamp's research also has focused on developing and testing the theory that having poor attitudes toward and low regard for the body increases the likelihood someone would turn to self-injury to cope with distress.
"This newer line of research has a lot of promise for advancing the current theories that try to explain self-injury, and it offers some newer, creative venues to pursue for treatment and prevention," Muehlenkamp said.
Since coming to UW-Eau Claire, Muehlenkamp has worked with Counseling Services and undergraduate students to create a suicide awareness and gatekeeper prevention program on campus. She has worked to create a program that is based on existing research, as well as strategies to evaluate the program's effectiveness for UW-Eau Claire students.
"So far the results are promising," Muehlenkamp said of her efforts. "I've been trying to take my expertise and use it to make a difference on our campus and in the community. I've already offered a number of workshops to a variety of mental health professionals throughout the state on the topic of self-injury, and I hope to offer more as needed."
Muehlenkamp has included UW-Eau Claire undergraduate students in her ongoing research, and several of those students have now enrolled in graduate schools to continue their work in the areas of suicide prevention and self-injury, she said.
"This is really good for the field because we need more psychologists who are specifically trained to treat this behavior as well as continue the research," Muehlenkamp said.
Muehlenkamp's current team of student researchers will share their research project and findings during UW-Eau Claire's Student Research Day, April 30-May 2.
In addition to having her research published in professional journals, Muehlenkamp also was a co-author of a book titled "Nonsuicidal Self-Injury." The book provides practical and expert guidance on how to identify and treat nonsuicidal self-injury.
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It is a nice little earner for HMRC bringing in £6.5 million a day from 1 May to potentially 29 July.
But HMRC has admitted that 12,000 of those who have been told they are clocking up the penalties should never have been sent the letter. And I believe there may be many more who can get the penalties quashed.
In March the Revenue wrote to all 10 million in self-assessment to remind them to file next year's return. With the letter was a leaflet printed in big red type saying that some people could be taken out of self-assessment altogether. It listed eight questions - such as are you self-employed, is your income above £100,000, do you rent out property? If you could answer 'no' to all eight you were invited to call the self-assessment helpline and see if you could be taken out of self-assessment and have all fines cancelled.
Altogether 130,000 successfully took that opportunity. But the Revenue rather spoiled things by writing to 12,000 of them by mistake and saying they were liable to the £10 a day fine. It has now apologised and is writing back telling them not to worry.
Those 130,000 who escaped self-assessment were the lucky ones. Thousands of others tried to call the Revenue self-assessment helpline but gave up. Even now I am getting accounts of attempts to get through lasting an hour or more before failing. But it is worth persisting.
The Revenue has told me that anyone who should not be in self-assessment can be taken out and have all fines cancelled. And the only way to get that done is to call.
The number is 0845 900 0444, wait for the main menu, press 3 and then 1. Lines are open 0800-2000 Mon-Fri and 0800-1600 Saturday.
Here are the eight questions you must be able to answer 'no' to:-
1. Were you self employed or a partner in a business any time in 2010/11?
2. Were you a company director?
3. Was your income £100,000 or more?
4. Did you get more than £10,000 in savings or investment income?
5. Did you get more than £2,500 in untaxed income?
6. Did you rent out property
7. Did you get foreign income liable to UK tax?
8. Are you an employee claiming more than £2,500 in expenses or professional subscriptions?
In addition to those eight questions HMRC might have added
9. Are you a minister of religion (any faith)?
10. Is your state pension bigger than your tax allowance?
11. Are you over 65 with an income above £22,900 in 2010/11?
12. Did you have Capital Gains Tax to pay?
'Yes' to any of those may scupper your chances too. But if you have what my Dad would have called 'a nap hand' of 'no' to all twelve then you should not have been told to fill in a tax return for 2010/11 and you can come out of self-assessment and get all penalties cancelled.
Even if you answer 'yes' to the odd question or two it is still worth trying. And definitely worth looking at HMRC's guide to who has to be in self assessment http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/SA/need-tax-return.htm. It has more detail than the lists above.
If you stay in self-assessment and do not file your return the fines are not over yet. The £10 a day penalty ends on 29 July. But then another £300 is charged on 1 August and another £300 on 1 February 2013. By then of course the 2011/12 return will be late as well! Interest - currently 3% pa - can be charged on late paid penalties.
Those fines apply even if you owe no tax. So make that call and hang on. Remember it is cheaper to call 0845 numbers from a landline than a mobile - they may even be included in your price plan. If you are abroad you can call +44 161 931 9070 with apparently much less delay and annoying verbiage than on the UK 0845 number.
If you owe tax then those £300 fines are the minimum. If the tax due is more than £6000 then you will be fined 5% of that amount instead.
In addition there are extra penalties added to the tax you owe - 5% is added on 1 March, 31 July, and 31 January 2013. And interest - currently 3% pa - is charged on all tax due and on the late filing fines. Phew!
So if you cannot come out of self-assessment get that return filed as soon as you can.
The dates given above are the standard dates. They can be later if you were not sent a form or told to file a return in April 2011. See http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/sa/deadlines-penalties.htm for full details.
If you have not filed your return but have a reasonable excuse for not doing so then you can be let off the penalties. More details here http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/online/excuse-missed-deadline.htm if you were serving overseas in the armed forces at the relevant date that can also be a reasonable excuse for being late.
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The 25-man squad announced by Australia coach Ricky Stuart also includes five members of the Melbourne team beaten 40-0 by Manly in the NRL grand final.
Manly influence
Forwards Glenn Stewart, Anthony Watmough and Josh Perry, and winger DavidWilliams made their Australian squad debut alongside Manly teammates Brent Kite and Brett Stewart.
"It's a great reward for a very, very good football team," Stuart said.
"They showed on Sunday evening that they warranted their selections."
Brisbane's Darren Lockyer will captain the squad which includes New Zealand-based Steve Price and Brent Tate.
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New Zealand chief selector Howie Tamati says the quality of players named at specialist positions like fullback, hooker and in the halves makes the country's 24-man squad rugby league World Cup squad a formidable one.
"We've got them pretty well covered and we've probably never been in a better position in New Zealand rugby league," Tamati said.
"We're now in the position where we don't have to play players out of position," he said.
"There are players who have specialist skills and/or have the ability to play well in a number of positions."
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Wigan's Thomas Leuluai will take the halfback role while Benji Marshall of the National Rugby League's Wests Tigers will play at five-eighth if fit.
Marshall's clubmate, Dene Halatau, and South Sydney's Issac Luke are form players at hooker.
Incumbent Brent Webb is the likely first choice at hooker but will have to pass a fitness test after missing Leeds' Super League grand final win over St. Helens with a back injury.
Injury concerns
"We'll just have to wait and see," Tamati said of Webb's chances of playing.
"Obviously a back injury that takes you out of a grand final gives you a lot of concern.
"We're waiting on confirmation from the medical people about his ability to play."
The World Cup starts in Australia on October 25 featuring 10 teams in three pools.
The final will be held in Brisbane on November 22.
Australia squad:
Terry Campese (Canberra), Petero Civoniceva (Penrith), Michael Crocker (Melbourne), Craig Fitzgibbon (Sydney Roosters), Israel Folau (Melbourne), Paul Gallen (Cronulla), Kurt Gidley (Newcastle), Justin Hodges (Brisbane), Greg Inglis (Melbourne), Brent Kite (Manly), Anthony Laffranchi (Gold Coast), Darren Lockyer (captain, Brisbane), Joel Mongahan (Canberra), Josh Perry (Manly), Steve Price (New Zealand Warriors), Scott Prince (Gold Coast), Billy Slater (Melbourne), Cameron Smith (Melbourne), Brett Stewart (Manly), Glenn Stewart (Manly), Brent Tate (New Zealand Warriors), Johnathan Thurston (North Queensland), Anthony Watmough (Manly), David Williams(Manly).
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xxxbloodyrists666xxx and MarissaTheWriter worked together.Hence the "goth emo" part.
TEEN FORTRESS 2 is in fact a ripoff of "Teen fOtress Too" by CommanderBunnehThis was one of the reviews.
The main character is the Scout in both fanfictions.
CommanderBunneh's story was posted 05-30-10note , before ITS MY LIFE and TEEN FORTRESS 2note , so This story was posted almost a year after CommanderBunneh's story.
Same Highschool AU, only there are no Portal characters in CommanderBunneh's story.
Conclusion: Marissa has stolen this idea from CommanderBunneh!
MarissaTheWriter and Sue Mary are the same person.This was originally on the main page:
Marrissa Roberts (The main character)
Marrissa was one of the other people Wheatley woke up, but was severely brain damaged and hallucinated the story.This was one of the reviews as well.
Marissa Roberts was actually one of the test subjects Wheatley tried to use in his attempt to escape previous to Chell. After Marissa was awakened from stasis she was in an extreme state of disorientation. She was delusional, mad, and in utter confusion throughout the short journey she made with the sphere. Viewing the sphere as a human personality, and unable to have children due to a medical condition obtained previous to any experiences with Aperture, the fantasy world Marissa's mind wove together included her carrying a child, Wheatley being the father. While Wheatley tried to escort her in their journey to find a portal device she plummeted through a crumbling piece of floor, Wheatley called after her but when she didn't immediately answer he abandoned efforts to find Marissa, assuming she was dead. Meanwhile Marissa was staggering around in the bowels of Aperture Science. She heard old Cave Johnson recordings, set up to advise and help test subjects navigate and saw him as a fatherly figure. Still delusional she was under the impression that he was her father, and upon hearing a recording about tumors and superpowers, she believed that she also had obtained a great power that exceeds that of any super hero. While her ubserd fantasies played out in her head she actually managed to crawl through various Aperture Air Ventilation Vents and make her way back to the top of the facility (See, people with brain damage ARE the real heroes), where she could overhear GLaDOS interacting with another human. Upon spying Chell Marissa followed her by using the observation offices that overlooked many testing chambers. She viewed Chell as a sister, and GLaDOS as an enemy like figure due to her negative gibes and sarcastic attitude. Whatever she made GLaDOS to be in her head was...her imagination.
She wandered through some older testing chambers that weren't being monitored, and stumbled across the companion cube one. Reading several collective graffiti scribbles on the wall Marissa realized that this test required the companion cube to be incinerated, and additionally viewed the companion cube as a dear friend even though she didn't know it personally. She pressed the button to the incinerator, opening it up and showing the still lit fire. Muttering something about Android Hell Marissa went to touch the fire only to stumble head first into the incinerator
and she died.
The End.
Marrissa was married to someone before her experiences with Aperture.Her surname is a little beyond research failure on families (something on which research failure is virtually impossible, except maybe if the author was orphaned nearly at birth) and she was actually already married before GLaDOS started testing and made her forget all of her pre-Aperture life save for the name.
Chell and Marrissa originally were one person.After Chell was let out, GLaDOS decided testing the jerk robots to be boring and brought her back, gave her amnesia and forced her to believe she was really "Marrissa Roberts". But the talk about Chell spread throughout Aperture, so GLaDOS planned a masquerade, first making the robot!Chell then a better bootyquaking!Chell. Believing Chell was a different person, "Marrissa" went back in time and told Gabe and Caroline to have two children, hence making a second Chell who stayed at the future and her body quickly was seized by GLaDOS, as the change of the past reversed the events after which GLaDOS died. Then this extra Chell was indirectly killed by "Marrissa" and there was one person again.
Marrissa's powers are precisely the same as of a First Guardian's.Let's recap. First Guardians glow electrically, have no facial features, therefore can't inhale, therefore are immune to gases (yet are able to speak), are nearly omniscient (only when she faces her evil clone Marissa can't use her "super detective" power), and are able to teleport stuff out of nowhere, simultaneously explaining Marissa's "Green Lantern" power and how she was able to teleport everyone from Android Hell to Portal Labs.
Portal 3's plot will actually be about...GLaDOS' (murderous) reaction to hearing this story.
The name "Scot" is misspelling for "Scott", not "Scout".So that people don't start wondering why the name is the same as the class.
In the past, Wheatley didn't love the character Marrissa Roberts, but instead the Scout's baseball bat.Upon first meeting the character, he first thought that she was hot and pretty, but not worth his heart as the baseball bat, and upon learning that their names are the same Wheatley started believing that the female is the impersonation of the baseball bat.
Pyro has a different suit in TEEN FORTRESS 2 from the one in the canonical works.Her suit looks more like a Combine Elite Soldier's one, with one eye.
"Pryos eye lited up." Eye, singular?
Mr. Sanpe from Portal High School is in fact the same as Severus Snape from Harry Potter series.He used to be a teacher in Britain (Hogwarts is in Scotland) but he killed the principal (Dumbledore in The Half-Blood Prince) but it was not proved (hinting at a time at the end of The Half-Blood Prince / beginning of Deathly Hallows, which is Summer of 1997, just before GLaDOS was made) so he came to teach at Portal High School and changed his name (which still would be a dead giveaway for anyone from Potterverse, and explains why he dies shortly thereafter).
We will see more Invader Zim characters than just Gaz.Marrissa, after finding The Half-World, also found out that the creator is a fan of Invader Zim, and hence has started writing the Zimverse into TEEN FORTRESS 2.
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One of the subtler -- or sneakier -- arguments by the theocrats among us who wish to teach their particular splinter of Christianity in the public schools is that we should teach the Bible "as literature," or that we should offer courses in comparative religions. With which latter even some liberals, like me, have no real problem. In theory.
Students will no longer be allowed to take field trips to religious venues after the stepfather of a Hendersonville High School student accused the school system of promoting Islam, starting another debate about the role of religion in Sumner County schools. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the school system in 2011 over teacher-led prayer and promotion of Christianity on school campuses. In the settlement, Sumner schools admitted no wrongdoing, but new rules were put in place barring teachers from praying with students or leading Bible studies on school grounds, and prohibiting youth ministers from visiting schools other than to see family members.
For the record, I don't know why there weren't field trips to other houses of worship, either. Hell, I don't know why the kids weren't allowed to attend Wiccan rites out in the woods. But I suspect this is not about that. And I decline to believe that the school board in Henderson, Tennessee has been overrrun with undercover Muslims. More likely, I suspect, we have here the same problem that afflicted a certain institution of higher learning in Australia.
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Low temperature growth of crystalline magnesium oxide on hexagonal silicon carbide (0001) by molecular beam epitaxy
Magnesium oxide (111) was grown epitaxially on hexagonal silicon carbide (H-SiC) (0001) substrates at low temperatures by molecular beam epitaxy and a remote oxygen plasma source. The films were characterized by reflection high-energy electron diffraction, Auger electron spectroscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and atomic force microscopy. Crystal structure, morphology, and growth rate of the magnesium oxide (MgO) films were found to be dependent on the magnesium flux, indicating a magnesium adsorption controlled growth mechanism. The single crystalline MgO thin films had an epitaxial relationship where MgO (111) 6H-SiC (0001) and were stable in both air and 10⁻⁹ Torr up to 1023 K.
Originally published in Applied Physics Letters, vol.90, no.4, January 2007. doi: 10.1063/1.2436636
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For those new to cycling we offer a 20 mile guided ride at 9am. This will be the perfect course for beginners as a ride leader will be with you all the way.
And just like last year, we will be providing some of the best post-ride food of any century ride. So come out on Sept. 6th and join us on the rural roads of Virginia! All proceeds go to our Jay Massad Support Campaign to help families and children participate in YMCA programs.
You are free to ride at your own pace, but we request that you return by 6:30 pm when route services end. Riders should be off the roads by sunset.
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Fees (includes rest stops w/food, bike support and post ride BBQ lunch, lunch not included for 20 miler): FEB 1 - AUG 31: $45 for 40m - 100m and $25 for 20m; SEPT 1 - 6: $60: for 40 - 100m and $30 for 20m
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This discussion was first published as part of the 2012 Red List update, but remains open for comment to enable reassessment in 2014.
BirdLife species factsheet for Tooth-billed Pigeon
Tooth-billed Pigeon Didunculus strigirostris has been listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2000 because its numbers were believed to have declined rapidly to fewer than 2,500 mature individuals following the effects of cyclones on its native Samoan forest during the 1990s. An eleven month survey in 2005-2006 reported the species from only ten locations, and the population was estimated to number only a few hundred , although the remote and largely intact uplands of Savai'i remain largely unsurveyed (MNRE 2006). It is unclear whether, since 2006, the species has declined further and new information is urgently required to clarify recent records of Tooth-billed Pigeon. At the same time, if the apparent paucity of recent records reflects a further population decline in recent years, a conservative outlook suggests its global population may have been reduced to fewer than 250 mature individuals, with 50 or fewer individuals in each subpopulation, qualifying the species as Critically Endangered under criterion C2ai with an continuing decline in progress. Comments and recent records are invited.
Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment (MNRE), Samoa (2006) Recovery plan for the Manumea or Tooth-billed Pigeon Didunculus strigirostris. Government of Samoa.
Letter from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment: Letter re Didunculus strigirostris
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