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When the Prophet got up at night to offer the Tahajjud prayer, he used to say: Allahumma lakal-hamd. Anta qaiyimus-samawati wal-ard wa man fihinna. Walakal-hamd, Laka mulkus-samawati wal-ard wa man fihinna. Walakal-hamd, anta nurus-samawati wal-ard. Walakalhamd, anta-l-haq wa wa'duka-l-haq, wa liqa'uka Haq, wa qualuka Haq, wal-jannatu Han wan-naru Haq wannabiyuna Haq. Wa Muhammadun, sallal-lahu'alaihi wasallam, Haq, was-sa'atu Haq. Allahumma aslamtu Laka wabika amantu, wa 'Alaika tawakkaltu, wa ilaika anabtu wa bika khasamtu, wa ilaika hakamtu faghfir li ma qaddamtu wama akh-khartu wama as-rartu wama'a lantu, anta-l-muqaddim wa anta-l-mu akh-khir, la ilaha illa anta (or la ilaha ghairuka). (O Allah! All the praises are for you, You are the Holder of the Heavens and the Earth, And whatever is in them. All the praises are for You; You have the possession of the Heavens and the Earth And whatever is in them. All the praises are for You; You are the Light of the Heavens and the Earth And all the praises are for You; You are the King of the Heavens and the Earth; And all the praises are for You; You are the Truth and Your Promise is the truth, And to meet You is true, Your Word is the truth And Paradise is true And Hell is true And all the Prophets (Peace be upon them) are true; And Muhammad is true, And the Day of Resurrection is true. O Allah ! I surrender (my will) to You; I believe in You and depend on You. And repent to You, And with Your help I argue (with my opponents, the non-believers) And I take You as a judge (to judge between us). Please forgive me my previous And future sins; And whatever I concealed or revealed And You are the One who make (some people) forward And (some) backward. There is none to be worshipped but you . Sufyan said that 'Abdul Karim Abu Umaiya added to the above, 'Wala haula Wala quwata illa billah' (There is neither might nor power except with Allah).
The Prophet (p.b.u.h) used to teach us the way of doing Istikhara (Istikhara means to ask Allah to guide one to the right sort of action concerning any job or a deed), in all matters as he taught us the Suras of the Quran. He said, "If anyone of you thinks of doing any job he should offer a two Rakat prayer other than the compulsory ones and say (after the prayer): — 'Allahumma inni astakhiruka bi'ilmika, Wa astaqdiruka bi-qudratika, Wa as'alaka min fadlika al-'azlm Fa-innaka taqdiru Wala aqdiru, Wa ta'lamu Wala a'lamu, Wa anta 'allamu l-ghuyub. Allahumma, in kunta ta'lam anna hadha-l-amra Khairun li fi dini wa ma'ashi wa'aqibati amri (or 'ajili amri wa'ajilihi) Faqdirhu wa yas-sirhu li thumma barik li Fihi, Wa in kunta ta'lamu anna hadha-lamra shar-run li fi dini wa ma'ashi wa'aqibati amri (or fi'ajili amri wa ajilihi) Fasrifhu anni was-rifni anhu. Waqdir li al-khaira haithu kana Thumma ardini bihi.' (O Allah! I ask guidance from Your knowledge, And Power from Your Might and I ask for Your great blessings. You are capable and I am not. You know and I do not and You know the unseen. O Allah! If You know that this job is good for my religion and my subsistence and in my Hereafter–(or said: If it is better for my present and later needs)–Then You ordain it for me and make it easy for me to get, And then bless me in it, and if You know that this job is harmful to me In my religion and subsistence and in the Hereafter–(or said: If it is worse for my present and later needs)–Then keep it away from me and let me be away from it. And ordain for me whatever is good for me, And make me satisfied with it). The Prophet added that then the person should name (mention) his need.
Eid Protests Across Syria Defy Tanks and Troops
September 1, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
AMMAN (Reuters) – Security forces shot dead four demonstrators on Tuesday as people streamed out of mosques after prayers to mark the end of Ramadan and renewed protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, activists and residents said.
The victims, who included a 13-year-old boy, were killed in the towns of al-Hara and Inkhil in southern Deraa province.
Demonstrations broke out elsewhere across the country, notably in Damascus suburbs, the city of Homs, 165 km (100 miles to the north) and the northwestern province of Idlib, the sources said.
"The people want the downfall of the president," protesters shouted in the Damascus suburb of Harasta, where activists said dozens of soldiers defected at the weekend after refusing to shoot at the crowds.
In the adjacent Saqba suburb a crowd held their shoes up in the air — an insulting gesture in the Arab world — and chanted anti-Assad slogans.
According to one activist group, troops have killed at least 551 civilians during Ramadan, the holiest period in the Islamic calendar.
Five months into the street uprising against his rule, Assad, from Syria's minority Alawite sect, is facing more frequent demonstrations. Protesters have been encouraged by the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, with whom Assad had close ties, and rising international pressure on the ruling hierarchy.
The Obama administration froze the U.S. assets of Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem and two other Syrian officials on Tuesday in response to Assad's increasingly bloody crackdown.
The Treasury Department also named Ali Abdul Karim Ali, Syria's Ambassador to Lebanon, where Assad wields influence through the Shi'ite Hezbollah guerrilla group, and his adviser Bouthaina Shaaban.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the United States had imposed the sanctions on the three because of the "role that they play in propagating and advancing the reign of terror that Assad is exacting on their own people."
Moualem and Shaaban have appeared in the media defending military assaults on towns and cities, saying Syrian forces were pursuing "terrorists." They are not part of Assad's decision-making inner circle, composed of his younger brother Maher, other family members and top security officials already on the U.S. sanctions list.
Opposition figures in Syria see international pressure as crucial to stripping Assad of legitimacy and in helping raise the momentum of peaceful protests.
Residents and activists are reporting increasing defections among Syrian troops, drawn mostly from the Sunni majority population but dominated by Alawite officers effectively under the command of Maher.
In the capital, YouTube footage showed soldiers from core units roaming the center in green public transport buses, their AK-47s hanging out from the doors, to prevent protests, which broke out nonetheless in Qaboun, Kfar Souseh, Rukn al-Din and Maydan districts, activists said.
Moral Ground
In a report published on Tuesday, the Syrian Revolution Coordinating Union grassroots activists' group said Assad's forces killed 551 people during Ramadan and that 130 others were killed on July 31, the eve of Ramadan, in a tank assault on the city of Hama, scene of a 1982 massacre by the military.
"The report does not include the number of martyrs who were not identified by name nor… bodies that were abducted (by security forces) and not returned to their families," it said.
Amnesty International said that deaths in Syrian prisons and police detention had soared in recent months as Assad's government tried to crush the protests.
The London-based human rights group said it had details of at least 88 people believed to have died in detention between April and mid-August. At least 52 of them had apparently suffered some form of torture that was likely to have contributed to their death.
Chibli Mallat, a professor of law at Harvard, and chairman of the Right to Nonviolence international group of public figures, said Syria's death toll, although high, was still less than Libya, where the revolution turned into armed conflict and needed NATO's help.
"It may be also the case in Syria today … But is it necessary to reach the point that arms are engaged?" Mallat said in an article published on Tuesday in Egypt's al-Ahram online.
"Is it not wiser, albeit perhaps more frustrating, to keep the revolution pure in the tenacity of its nonviolence, rather than lose the absolute moral superiority against violent rulers?" said Mallat, who is Lebanese.
The official state news agency said state television had aired an audio recording of two "terrorists" who described themselves as activists.
It said the tape revealed "a full agenda of provocation and targeting police and army camps and terrorising peaceful citizens in the name of freedom and non-violence."
The Syrian National Human Rights Organization, headed by exiled dissident Ammar al-Qurabi, said pro-Assad forces, including a loyalist militia known as shabbiha, had killed at least 3,100 civilians since the uprising erupted in March, including 18 people on Monday alone.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay said this month that 2,200 people have been killed, with Assad's forces continuing "to employ excessive force, including heavy artillery, to quell peaceful demonstrations and regain control over the residents of various cities."
Syrian authorities blame "armed terrorist groups" for the bloodshed and say they have killed 500 soldiers and police. They have also repeatedly denied that army defections have been taking place.
Foreign media were expelled after the uprising began in March, making verification of reports difficult.
(Additional reporting by Suleiman; al-Khalidi; Editing by Angus MacSwan and David Stamp)


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How are Alaskan sled dogs and roses in Tennessee the same?
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It is definitely an ornamental gourd, and a very beautiful one if I do say so myself. Was that picture taken this year? I wish I had gourds already mine are still seedlings. |
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Definitely. I grew lots of them (same size, color pattern and other types as well) last year. For this year, mine are about to flower. My only gourd plant of this type is also voluntary, from last year's broken and rejects. I pulled out so many of them and kept just one plant. |
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email and it's notification... I know on a PC you can request a feed back when someone reads your sent email.. but I thought there was a way that it can also indicate when it shows on the recipient computer screen. Am I wrong here I thought there was. |
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I use Outlook 2010 and previously used Outlook 2003. Both versions allow Tracking Options for mail sent. Under Mail "Options" scroll down to "Tracking" and check the options you want. You may request a "delivery receipt" as well as a "read receipt"...but I urge caution when using these options. Not only do some servers refuse them, but they're not a popular tool with many recipients. Further, if your system should become infected with some em generating problem and you've opted for these email notifications, every piece of em sent from your system will flood other systems with your requests...as well as returning innumerable notices to you. So...a word to the wise...consider the down side of this Tracking option before you opt for it. Anne |
There is or was a third party free program that did that. However if the recipient knows how to do it they can go in the back door and read the message and you will be none the wiser. I had an irritating lady who always did that to me, I would go in the back door then answer her emails and she never asked how I did it. I do not like being tracked. As Anne notes it is in Outlook but that is a business program and for many it is necessary to know when the message has been seen to protect themselves. |
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This is my recipe for dak-bokkeumtang, or spicy braised chicken, also called dakdoritang. Many people have requested this dish over the years.
This video was filmed in Amsterdam with Sarah Moore as part of my Gapshida project. She emailed me: "I really want to learn dak-doritang, Maangchi. When I lived in Korea when I was young, I always used to eat it at a Korean restaurant. I miss the taste and the smell." The camera person is Sarah's friend Rei Nilde, who's an artist.
Sarah and I made dak-bokkeumtang for this video and also our potluck party later. The video shows how we served a large group, and everybody enjoyed it with rice, as well as the amazing side dishes that they brought. All of us became good friends even though most of us were meeting for the first time.
I was thrilled when I read a recent email from Sarah: "…Guess what? Seeing you pursue your dreams and travelling the world with your Gapshida project really inspired me to start making more art and putting it online. I opened a little Etsy shop and I want to start working on a design/art blog :) to share visual inspiration."
Ingredients (for 4 servings):
Chicken wings, soy sauce, garlic, hot pepper flakes, hot pepper paste, sugar, onion, green onions, green chili pepper, and potatoes.
Cooking time: 45 minutes to 1 hour
- Cut 1 kg (about 2 pounds) of chicken wings or chicken thighs into bite sized pieces. Wash and drain.
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- Put the chicken and 2 or 3 medium sized onions (2 cups' worth) into the seasoning paste. Mix it with a spoon.
- Add 2 cups of water to the pot and mix it up.
- Bring to a boil over medium high heat for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, peel 3-4 large potatoes (600 grams: 1.5 pound). Wash and drain them, then cut into large chunks 2 inch across. Set aside.
- Chop 2 green chili peppers and 2 stalks of green onions into small pieces. Set aside.
- 20 minutes later, add the potato chunks and chopped green chili peppers to the pot. Stir with a spoon, then let it cook with the lid closed for another 20 minutes.
- Open the lid and cook another 3-5 minutes. Keep the lid open to boil away some broth and thicken.
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As many of you know Euphoriba obesa and its assorted variations, i.e., symmetrica, White Ball, are dioecious. As I have found out there are many other possibilities when it comes to the "S" word.... after all this is a "G-Rated" site! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_sexuality Anyway, I thought you might enjoy some neat pictures of a couple of my E. obesa in the greenhouse today. You can see both pistils and stamens on the same plant. The 1st two are of a male E. symmetrica and the last is a female E. obesa. |
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Ah, I just realized there was a violets form -- great!! I originally posted this in perennials.I have an area, maybe 100 sq feet, under a pin oak that I would like to cover with violas of different types. It goes from all dappled shade to a couple of hours of sunlight. Right now the soil is clay with a crummy weed/grass covering. I don't want to dig too deeply and disturb the pin oak's roots. Can I just dig about 6 inches and add lots of peat moss for moisture? Will that do for viola odorata or cornuta Purple Showers or Maggie Mott?
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A pH value of 5.0-5.5 is suitable for most violas. Your light conditions sounds a bit dark as although violas are better than most, it is not exactly a 'shade' shade plant.. at least not in our zone6. Most violas need a cool period to induce flowering, but I have had no problems germinating the seeds (stratification not required). I know a lot of references state so, but I have not found it necerssary (percentage 65-70%). Also, darkness is often said to be required which I have also not found to be necerssary. In fact I usually get better results germinated as surface sown with full light 24/7. |
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Panasonic Avionics is considering developing another generation of in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems to specifically meet the needs of the retrofit market, a senior industry source reveals.
IFE systems that are designed for retrofit generally have a lower cost of development because they do not necessarily need to pass all the manufacturing processes and specification requirements that Boeing and Airbus have defined for linefit offerability.
A source tells RWG that Panasonic is warming to the idea of creating retrofit-ready IFE "to take advantage of the lower costs" of bringing such systems to market, and the lower prices it could offer to airlines.
Panasonic and Thales are the industry leaders in IFE, having each spent many millions of dollars on ensuring their embedded IFE systems meet airframers' stringent qualifications. However, in recent years, other IFE providers have managed to generate business with systems that must be installed through retrofit as they have not yet received offerability.
California-based Lumexis is probably the most visible of the newcomers, having provided FlyDubai with a green field installation strategy that ensures the carrier's new Boeing 737s undergo speedy retrofit in Seattle as soon as they roll off the line. The first FlyDubai aircraft has already been equipped with Lumexis' fiber optics-based IFE and received supplemental type certification.
But other IFE suppliers are also nipping at the heels of Thales and Panasonic. IMS recently scored a deal with SriLankan to bring its seat-centric IFE system to the carrier's widebody fleet. Royal Jordanian recently completed installation on an Airbus A340 of a new IFE system developed by Zodiac unit Sicma Aero Seat. And last week I highlighted a new IFE system from Taiwanese firm SkyGem (an eagle-eyed reader has pointed out that one of the buttons is sticking on the SkyGem system in the photos).
While some observers suspect that the likes of Lumexis, IMS and Sicma are less focused on offerability, reasoning that it is 'more pain than it's worth', others believe Lumexis, in particular, could yet surprise.
Lumexis' system is making airframers stand up and take notice, says a high-level source, as it is vastly lighter than traditional IFE.
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Have you ever wanted to know what it's like to be immortal? To journey through the night stalking the evil that preys on humans? To have unlimited wealth, unlimited power? That is my existence, and it is dark and dangerous. I play hero to thousands, but am known to none. And I love every minutes of it.
Or so I thought until one night when I woke up handcuffed to my worst nightmare: a conservative woman in a button-down shirt. Or in Amanda's case, one buttoned all the way up to her chin. She's smart, sexy, witty, and wants nothing to do with the paranormal—in other words, me.
My attraction to Amanda Devereaux goes against everything I stand for. Not to mention the last time I fell in love it cost me not only my human life, but also my very soul. Yet every time I look at her, I find myself wanting to try again. Wanting to believe that love and loyalty do exist.
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UPDATE, July 12, 2013: Well, free, fresh drinking water in schools may be have become the law three years ago, but you can lead a law to water but you can't .... make schools comply. That seems to be the story by Jane Meredith Adams in today's EdSource:
Schools are required to provide free drinking water where lunch is served under a 2010 state law [see history from California's Children below], Senate Bill 1413, as well as the 2010 federal Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. But the state law does not include enforcement mechanisms to make sure campuses comply, and schools can request waivers to opt out of the requirement. It's unclear how many schools have opted out, because the waivers are submitted at the district level and are not compiled into state statistics...
Schools in Eureka, Del Norte and Mendocino counties have taken a marketing approach, working to entice students by providing spiffy water stations that attach to the wall and dispense jets of cold water into reusable water bottles. "The latest and greatest thing that everybody wants is a hydration station," said Tarney Sheldon, a project manager for North Coast Opportunities, a Ukiah-based nonprofit organization.
The sleek hydration stations, or at least clean water fountains, when coupled with basic information about the health and environmental benefits of drinking water, encourage students to drink more water, said Jennifer McClendon, a project director for the Network for a Healthy California, a division of the state Department of Public Health...In a June survey of 1,500 students in Humboldt, Mendocino, Sonoma and Del Norte counties – a large-scale follow-up to the 2009 student survey – McClendon found that students drank more tap water, and felt more positively about tap water, in schools that had improved the way water was delivered, compared to students at schools that had made no improvements to their water delivery systems. Complete survey data have not yet been released.
July 7, 2011: ...CA Senate bill 1413 requires all public schools to provide free, fresh drinking water to all students at mealtimes. As Waterworld reminds us:
A 2009 survey by the California Department of Public Health revealed that about 40 percent of the 200 responding school districts said they did not provide access to free drinking water during school meals. Even in schools where safe drinking water is available, the survey found that students don't drink water because the water in fountains or dispensers isn't cold, schools don't have enough water fountains and the fountains are poorly maintained.
School districts that cannot comply for fiscal or health and safety reasons may seek exemption by passing a resolution to that effect.
With California as a model, the federal government established a requirement in The Healthy, Hunger-Free Act of 2010 to make water available to children in the National School Lunch Program. The USDA is urging schools to implement the requirement no later than the beginning of School Year 2011-12
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Hi all, turned on my system on as usual (1.5 acres) a couple of the sprinkler heads blew, etc. I've slowly been chaning over to PVC, seems the pressure cracks the old metal heads and weld. Anyhow, I have one run off that I have to change the valve, I've shut down my water system yet there seems to be a slight drip still. 2 days and still dripping. Whenever I've done repairs the PVC joints have always been joined/glued while totally dry, I also use the thread if needed. Can I do the repair (glue) even with the slight drip? or the PVC pipe slightly wet. I had heard of a trick (white bread) that you use to plug the leak temp. while u fix and the bread then disinigrates. I'm going to have to cut and add a couple of adapters. so the piece work can be done before hand. Any advise, hints? |
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Hi Liz, Yes you can. Use the fast setting hot glue. It is made for this purpose. Don't do the bread thing. Are you priming the pipe cut ends before gluing? The purple primer softens the pvc material a little to make a better pipe glue bond. Also file the ends at a slight bevel which allows the glue to bead better and allows the pipe to slide in easier. More work better quality less problems later. Aloha |
A couple of years ago I had a dump truck deliver a load of top soil. The truck backed up over a burried PVC water line and broke the line, I did not notice it until about an hour later. Called a plumber and he came out. He shut the water off at the supply valve and then dug the area around the leak out then used a plastic drink cup to remove the standing water around the PVC pipe. He made the repair right there using the purple primer on all the connections and then brushed on the cement. Put every thing together, covered the hole, turned the water back on and it was fixed. He took no steps to remove any water in the supply line. He just wiped the outside of the supply pipe to make sure it was clean of dirt. I commented that I did not know you could do what he did while everything was wet. He said it was no problem with PVC. He said it is not like making a solder conection on copper pipe. |
thanks sooooo much, yes I use the purple primer, and file the pipe a little. I just didn't think it would stay glued if done when wet. I'm so frustrated this year, I think it's time I think about redoing the system, it's over 15 yrs old and I seem to run around the fields like a lunatic capping and fixing gushers. But the thought of all that digging........... Again thank you for the response. |
I've used the blue pvc cement because I was doing sprinkler system in the rain so much .. says on the can, for wet pipes. Swimming pool pumps seem to like it around here. Funny looking when bright blue joints on white pipe, but Works! |
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PUBLISHED: 04 Apr 2012 00:02:00 | UPDATED: 11 Apr 2012 04:15:51PUBLISHED: 04 Apr 2012 PRINT EDITION: 04 Apr 2012Former Surrey Police detective chief inspector and one-time head of NDS' Operational Security unit Len Withall, filmed secretly by the BBC's Panorama program. Source: Panorama
Neil Chenoweth and Matthew Drummond
Budget papers for the controversial News Corporation security arm accused of links to pay TV piracy show that the group arranged to pay £2000 each year over three years into what it described as "a contingency fund for police informants".
Surrey Police have said they are investigating a cheque for £2000 they received in June 2000 from the UK arm of Operational Security, a secretive unit attached to News Corp's technology arm, NDS Limited.
NDS said in a statement last week it was a one-off payment, which Surrey police say was used to buy laptop computers.
However, The Australian Financial Review has obtained budget papers prepared for OpSec UK (which had its own coding in the accounts as 1350), which show that NDS provided £167 a month over three years from 2000 to 2002 for budget line item 880110.
But a month later, on November 15, Withall was requesting £1000 cash from the same budget code.
Operational Security charged most of its expenses against BSkyB, which is controlled by News, raising the possibility that the funds paid into 880110 originated from the British satellite broadcaster.
British regulator Ofcom is investigating whether News is fit and proper to control the BSkyB broadcast licence.
Meanwhile security firms and pay television companies around the world have dismissed a series of claims by NDS executive chairman Abe Peled in the past week.
Controversy has swirled around NDS since Peled's 1996 decision to hire some of the world's best hackers to protect the company's technology – NDS makes smartcards to ensure only paying customers are able to watch pay TV programming, by using a Conditional Access System.
"We are quite surprised by some CAS providers' statements where they pretend that all the CAS industry is working with pirates," a spokesman for Viaccess, the giant CAS arm of France Telecom, told the AFR this week.
"There is a fundamental problem which is that the motivations of pirates, and to be more precise of hackers, cannot be satisfied in the good side," said Noureddine Hamdane, executive vice-president for strategy and communication for Viaccess, which provides conditional access systems for 85 pay TV systems around the world.
"Therefore, then sooner or later they go back to their hobbies and habits."
Hackers were also a contentious issue with NDS's biggest client, DirecTV, which in 2001 demanded that NDS hackers Chris Tarnovsky and Oliver Koemmerling be banned from touching their systems.
Viaccess has taken a particularly strong stance against piracy through senior executive Christine Maury-Panis's role as one of two vice-chairpersons of the European anti-piracy body AEPOC.
AEPOC's former executive director, Davide Rossi, is facing a criminal trial in Sicily where prosecutors claim that he provided assistance and protection for an Italian hacker "in the exclusive interests of NDS".
NDS has vehemently denied any link to the piracy allegations. Peled has denied reports in the Financial Review that Operational Security promoted piracy in Australia and elsewhere around the world, by providing piracy codes and material for hackers.
NDS has also denied claims by the BBC program Panorama, which was to be aired in Australia last night on SBS Dateline, that Adams, a former Metropolitan Police commander, and Withall had controlled and funded thoic.com, a UK-based piracy website they helped set up. Panorama claims thoic.com was supplied with pirate codes for the smartcard for a BSkyB rival, OnDigital.
Panorama said the piracy that resulted had exacerbating underlying problems at OnDigital, precipitating its collapse in March 2002 with losses of £1 billion.
Peled wrote in an article for an Australian newspaper this week that claims that NDS had been involved in pay TV piracy had been "tested to destruction by the US Department of Justice and in US courts, a process that has resulted in NDS being totally vindicated".
Peled and NDS have repeatedly referred to being cleared of any involvement in pay TV piracy in a 2008 civil trial in California brought by EchoStar (now known in the US as Dish Network) and its Swiss CAS provider, Nagravision.
However, Andre Kudelski, the head of Kudelski Corporation, whose Nagravision arm makes the smartcard used by EchoStar, denied this in an interview with Swiss newspaper Le Matin on Sunday.
"EchoStar could not prove the extent of damage, but the piracy has been recognised and was not challenged in the appeal process," Kudelski said.
The jury found that NDS had violated the US Federal Communications Act, which prohibits the interception of EchoStar's signal, as well as providing assistance to others in the unlawful interception of EchoStar's signal; and two separate provisions of the Californian penal code for using modified equipment to gain unauthorised access to EchoStar's signal and for providing material designed to gain unauthorised access to EchoStar's signal.
However, the jury only awarded nominal damages.
Sources close to the EchoStar case argued that delays in assembling evidence to bring the case had meant most of the alleged piracy was beyond the statute of limitations.
The trial judge allocated legal costs between the two parties with $5 million in EchoStar's favour. The Court of Appeal reversed this on the basis that the main claim was for damages of $1 billion, which had failed.
Last month when Panorama put the claims in its program to NDS, the company said $18.9 million in legal costs paid to NDS had included a payment of damages, but it was forced to withdraw this claim.
However, Peled repeated the claim in his article this week.
Peled also claimed in a public letter to the Financial Review that Swiss whistleblower Jan Saggiori, who was attached to a US lawsuit by NDS targeting Canadian pirates in 2000 despite NDS execs saying they had no case against him, had admitted his complicity in a court settlement.
Saggiori's settlement document explicitly denies any such admission.
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The mobile app will soon be able to automatically pick up on a number of popular spoken languages and convert the speech to text, says The New York Times.
After an anonymous email threatens a deadly school shooting, the feminist media critic backs out of a speaking engagement at Utah State University.
Turkey's Constitutional Court puts the kibosh on a YouTube ban, saying the prohibition ran afoul of the country's free speech laws.
Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Facebook want clearance to disclose what type of national security info requests they get.
Facing a possible ban in Turkey, Facebook has complied with a court order, according to news reports.
Technically Incorrect: In a vigorous defense of the family to honor World Communications Day, Pope Francis offers the hope that humanity won't be dominated by technology.
Colin Firth and newcomer Taron Egerton take on Silicon Valley supervillain Samuel L. Jackson with an arsenal of cool gadgets, a stiff upper lip and a fistful of bruising action scenes.
President Barack Obama formally presents his cybersecurity proposals to the nation, but experts fear it's too little, too late to make a major impact on Americans' lives.
Technically Incorrect: To celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Google uses the work of a first-time doodle artist to depict the Selma march. Apple, too, changes its home page in homage.
A team of researchers has programmed an AI into Nintendo's Super Mario Advance, so that he can play his own game according to his feelings.


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After many years of darkness on the subject, scientists now
seem to agree that there is a very unique system with which both humans and
many other animals receive their pheromonal chemical messengers from the air.
This system is quite separate from the one with which we detect normal smells
and is especially linked to our emotions and sexual behavior. This system is
known as the AOS (accessory olfactory system) and even uses a special pair of
organs to do its work, the VNO (vomeronasal organs). The following is a short
history of the discovery of these organs through which pheromones influence our
perceptions. Many of the details come from an article that appeared in the
Journal of NIH Research in January of 1994 (volume 6) by Robert Taylor.
A great deal of research has been done, which clearly shows the power of pheromones over the sexual and territorial behaviors of various animals. In these studies there can be little doubt of the importance of the VNO in mediating these effects, because when the VNO is surgically removed from any of these animals they will not mate at all unless they have had prior sexual experience. If you open most medical text books, however, you will read that the human VNO disappears while we are still in the womb, and therefore does not exist in adult humans. This was the unchallenged medical dogma for fifty years, and has only recently been corrected.
The human VNO was first mentioned in anatomy books as early
as the late 1700s, but the whole idea of its existence was stricken down by a
team of well-known scientists in the 1930s and no one has had the courage or
inclination to refute them until now. There is a lot of speculation as to the
psychological forces that could create such a long and hard to break "dark
ages" for pheromone research, but in any case the independent efforts of
two teams of researchers have demonstrated to everyones satisfaction that
humans do indeed possess a VNO that does in fact react to stimuli in the air.
David Moran, Robert Josephson and colleagues at the University of Toronto in
Canada reported in the Journal of Otolaryngology that vomeronasal pits were
present in about 40 percent of the adults they examined, and Bruce Jafek, an
otolaryngologist at the University of Colorado in Denver found a VNO in all of
his subjects.
The jury is still out as to whether the VNO is actually connected to the brain or not, but there is plenty of strong support that it does. Two of the VNO's staunchest supporters, scientists David Moran and David Berliner have helped found two companies that are banking that it does, the Pherin Corporation in Menlo Park, which is devoting a lot of time and money into researching the VNO as a delivery system for drugs, and the EROX
Corporation, the first fragrance manufacturer to patent pheromones for reputed
Does this mean we are no more than animals and can be literally led around by the nose? Not according to Robert Taylor: "the effects of chemical cues in mammals depend strongly on other visual, auditory, or tactile stimuli received at the same time. Furthermore, mammals are behaviorally more complex than other animals. Human sexual behavior depends on everything from hormonal state to childhood memories and moral philosophy. A chemical cue is unlikely to override a lifetime of socialization."


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JETHRO TULL's musical mason IAN ANDERSON reveals 'InTheStudio' the irony of THICK AS A BRICK
on its 40th anniversary
Posted: April 5, 2012
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JETHRO TULL's musical mason IAN ANDERSON reveals 'InTheStudio' the irony of THICK AS A BRICK
on its 40th anniversary
Dallas, TX - April 4, 2012. North American syndicated rock radio show InTheStudio: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Rock Bands devotes two weeks to the music of Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull, starting this week with unquestionably the most unlikely #1 selling album in music history, Jethro Tull's April 1972 epic Thick as a Brick. Composer/singer/flautist Ian Anderson tells show host Redbeard how Thick as a Brick was more of a spoof than a serious artistic statement.
"The saving grace of Thick as a Brick is that sense of humor stays sufficiently close to the surface that you don't get pissed off at the album for being too arty, too clever, too bombastic, or at least hopefully you don't if you moderately like Jethro Tull. That sense of humor is always there."
Week two will reintroduce you to Thick as a Brick fictional lyricist Gerald Bostock some 40 years later to see what directions his life could have taken. All of this as Ian describes Thick as a Brick 2 (aka TAAB 2) as being designed for the live stage, something fans around the world will be able to see later this year as Jethro Tull will perform both works in their entirety in each concert stop.
InTheStudio is syndicated on over 50 radio stations across North America. The Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick/InTheStudio program will air the broadcast week of April 2nd. Ian Anderson's Thick as a Brick 2 (aka TAAB 2)/InTheStudio program will air the broadcast week of April 9th.
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