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WoW Insider's first World of Warcraft memories {WoW}
Nov 24th 2011 4:37PM my best friend finally convinced me to play after i called the game numerous names, and we were originally going to roll alliance on suramar where our other friend played, i made a paladin and got it to level 5 and a random person invited me to his guild, he promptly made me guildmaster and then left the guild, needless to say i was very excited about this, but while this went on my friend rerolled horde and i followed him over, making an orc warlock, we ended up just exploring for awhile and we got our first real discovery at ratchet, we were both so happy to have discovered something, and we seen they had a dock and the huge ocean, to us at the time ratchet was amazing, until we discovered orgrimmar, but thats another story.
New reward for collecting 150 companion pets: Nuts {WoW}
May 14th 2011 12:26PM warcraftpets.com is perfect
Status update on current patch 4.0.1 issues {WoW}
Oct 13th 2010 2:26PM had the same problem, and it was due to an addon actually.
normal fps usually 60 to 70 when i got into combat it dropped to 4, 6 or 9 fps
disabled all addons, and put them on 1 at a time and tested, turns out it was OmniCC which is a cooldown counter, disabled it and havent had a problem since
Icecrown Citadel raid buff to 20% {WoW}
May 26th 2010 12:35AM its still 15% on my server suramar - us - horde side
Big Crits, a new WoW reality series {WoW}
Mar 9th 2010 9:21PM lmao
The OverAchiever: Guide to Winter Veil {WoW}
Dec 15th 2009 12:46AM you dont have to worry with being a bloodsail admiral, they are not affiliated with booty bay, gadgetzan, ratchet or winterspring, so your fine
Live Ustream of the WoW.com reader meet-up {WoW}
Aug 21st 2009 1:09AM you did not win stop crying, its a damn loot card big deal, you did not answer first, we all saw the other guy answer first, not you, no sense in crying over it, so just get over yourself
Breakfast Topic: So what do you think of patch 3.2? {WoW}
Aug 9th 2009 9:19AM i jumped right into the new BG, alliance outnumbers horde on our server by alot, and they win the majority of every bg, but the new Isle Of Conquest, i have not been in a single losing game and it is great.
The new 5 man is great as well, got to tank it on my DK and got 2 plate pieces for a dps set.
Around Azeroth: Nature boy {WoW}
Jul 11th 2009 2:24PM heck even on my pve realm suramar, the low levels flag in tarren mill just so alliance could attack and they can call over 80s to watch them all fight, its an ongoing thing to defend tarren mill or attack southshore.
Scattered Shots: Hunter macros even your mother could love {WoW}
Jun 19th 2009 3:51AM wowinsider comment split up the last 2 lines from the macro, just add them to the bottom of the big macro you see

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Homemade Bacon!
January 25, 2013
If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times –homemade is the way to go. And homemade plus bacon goes to eleven, as demonstrated byPatioDaddioBBQ.com
I'm almost embarrassed to say that I've just recently discovered the wonders of homemade bacon, despite having a food blog for four years. No, scratch that, I am embarrassed! It really is sad, and I repent here and now for all the world to see.
For some reason making homemade bacon is shrouded in some sort of strange and mysterious veil of complexity. Once you see how easy it is it's like you've been smacked in the head with a clue-by-four. This compounded my embarrassment.
My friend Meathead over at AmazingRibs.com (a great barbecue site, by the way) wrote the following, and he's absolutely correct.
Makin' bacon is surprisingly easy and the results are quantum leaps better than the stuff from large commercial producers. Once you have the basic recipe down, you can vary the ingredients to make a flavor profile to suit your taste. It is a simple two-step process: (1) Curing, and (2) smoking.
Here, let me show you how easy this is. My recipe is simpler than Meathead's, but the results are incredible.
2 lbs Pork belly
2 Tbsp Morton® Tender Quick®
About the pork belly: Get the best that you can find, preferably locally-sourced and all-natural.
Unwrap the belly, rinse it, then pat it dry with paper towels.
Sprinkle the Tender Quick® evenly over the entire outside of the belly (don't forget the edges), put it in a gallon-sized zip-top bag and seal, removing the excess air. Refrigerate seven to ten days, turning and massaging the bag every two days or so.
Start your smoker and prepare for indirect cooking at low heat (about 225-250º). Use whatever smoke wood you like. I used a blend of 2/3 hickory and 1/3 cherry which worked beautifully.
Remove the pork from the zip-top bag, rinse well under cold running water, and pat dry with paper towels.
Smoke the belly indirect until it reaches an internal temperature of 150º. Remove it to a plate, rinse under cold running water (to help cool it quickly). Pat dry with paper towels, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate. It'll keep in the refrigerator up to two weeks.
Slice, cook as you normally would, serve and enjoy!
Now that you have some killer bacon, go make yourself some pig candy.


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In December 2011, I had the immense privilege of nearly 2 hours of interview time with Dr. Stewart Kelly, professor of philosophy at Minot State University. Dr. Kelly is the author of the book, Truth Considered and Applied: Examining Postmodernism, History and Christian Faith.
This 11-minute video is an initial, very generalized summary of our discussion topics, with more to follow. Here, we summarize three worldviews that have greatly influenced Western history and culture: modernism, postmodernism and Christianity. A transcript follows the book info below.
Suffice to say, the book is much fuller in its considerations than what I can capture in a ~10 minute snapshot.
Dr. Kelly's book is an academic read. Suitable for late senior high school, college/adult. Availability:
Truth Considered and Applied at Amazon.com
Truth Considered and Applied at Barnes & Noble
Truth Considered and Applied at ChristianBook.com
It goes without saying that the nature and existence of truth have great significance for the modern Christian.
-Dr. Stewart Kelly, Truth Considered and Applied
CD: I'm here with Dr. Stewart Kelly, and he is the author of Truth Considered and Applied: Examining Postmodernism, History and Christian Faith. This is a book from Broadman & Holman. And we're going to talk about all kinds of things today.
What is Truth?
CD: I guess that we should probably start by defining postmodernism. It's sort of a word–it's like a catchphrase these days. People my age and younger have grown up in this worldview, and we don't really know anything else. So we don't have much to compare it to, and that's fundamental to how we look at the world. What is postmodernism?
SK: It's not an easy question. It's complicated in the sense that it involves lots of details. You can't really say what postmodernism is until you say what modernism is, because postmodernism is a reaction to modernism.
While the premodern outlook had been broadly theocentric, the moderns moved the locus of authority to an autonomous human reason. (quoted from Truth Considered and Applied)
SK: Briefly, modernism is the dominant worldview of the European Enlightenment, and even that is a broad generic claim, because Britain and France,The Netherlands and Germany all had their own Enlightenments, and even all those subdivide into the moderates, and the radicals, and the conservatives.
It's the generic core view of the European Enlightenment, which is about 1660 to 1789 and the start of the French Revolution. That's the main phase. But then it continues as the dominant worldview all the way up until 1914, when World War I starts. And, late eighteen-, early nineteen-hundreds, there's a widespread optimism in the West that the world's getting better, we're making progress, and WWI devastates all of that. It's hard to underestimate that.
But then that worldview sort of hangs on in popular culture and academia all the way until the 1960's, and in the '60s, in the West at least, everything comes unglued.
SK: Like modernism, there are core beliefs that many–certainly not all–postmoderns would share. They all agree that modernism is dead and gone, that it's no longer a viable alternative or reasonable worldview.
A second one is, they stress–to use a slightly big word–our situatedness, which simply means our place in the world: the fact that our culture, our environment, our peers, the media, our country, our subculture, all come together and…
CD: And sort of…warp our perspective, I guess you might say.
SK: Well, warp depending on your point of view. But heavily influence, and if you're not careful, pretty much 100% determine or dictate what you think about almost everything, because it's just natural to go along with what you're familiar with.
They also believe that there aren't any methods for carefully evaluating reality. The big phrase is methodological objectivity. So if you talk to people in sociology, in psychology and anthropology, they would say that they have scientific or at least semi-scientific ways of studying society and humanity, and they can gather data and reach conclusions, and so forth. And that even historians have methods that they use to get in touch with what they take to be a genuine past.
But if those methods are ultimately entirely subjective, and just reflect the individuals' desires and prejudices, and just their situation, then the possibility of having genuine knowledge goes down the tubes.
And one last point on postmodernism: they see all truth claims, not just some of them, ultimately as representing people in power, and as oppressive. And if all they are instead of being truth claims are claims that represent the powerful and keeping other people down, so to speak, then they need to be rejected.
Even though much history is politically and ideologically charged, it hardly follows that we cannot tell the difference between truthful history and propaganda. (quoted from Truth Considered and Applied)
CD: I guess people about ten years younger than myself–I'm thinking of one friend in particular who has encountered a lot of what's being called the Emergent movement in Christianity, and really struggled and really had questions about how can we even know God? Because his way of looking at the world was that every person's knowledge is limited, every person's experience is situational, and every person's experience of 'god' is different, so how do we know who or what God is? And how do we know if we've got things right, and can we ever know? And this caused him great pain, because he had no anchor for any outside objective truth.
SK: That's heavily influenced by modern postmodernism. If you focus so much on our situation, our place in life, and then you look around and you see how many different opinions even decent, civilized people and people you respect have, you can begin to think that maybe we don't really have access to reality or to genuine knowledge, and the best we can do are sort of…educated guesses that are pretty much subjective.
CD: That's another problem I see with young postmodern Christians, is they really struggle with the idea of, Can Jesus be the only way? What if a person, you know, has faith, or believes in God? If they sort of believe in God from within their own paradigm, isn't that good enough? And so there's a loss of any sense of what a truth claim even is.
Though we live and move and have our being in cultures, our basic needs (spiritual and otherwise) transcend our situation. (quoted from Truth Considered and Applied)
SK: In the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 14, when Jesus appears before Caiaphas the high priest and there's a trial, there are a lot of issues there, but one of the ones that's always interested me is, why exactly are they putting Jesus to death?
It's not because he claimed to be the Messiah. They were looking for a Messiah, there had been other Messianic claimants who were at least given a chance.
Caiaphas asked him, "Are you the son of God, as people claim that you say?" And he makes a startling response and basically says, "Yes, I am," and then he says, "And you will see the Son of Man returning on the clouds in judgment, and seated at the right hand of God." And once he puts himself at the right hand of God, which is a claim to be divine, Caiaphas–correctly, from the Jewish viewpoint of that time–tears his robe. Blasphemy!
It's not because he's a great moral leader or because he's–see, even the Messiah didn't mean, to them, divinity. It meant a leader who would lead them out of their bondage. Political. Historical. And Jesus combines–he is the Messiah, but he combines the concept of Messiah with this Old Testament idea of the Son of Man from Daniel 7.
Historic Christianity has a huge investment in the historical enterprise. [quoted from Truth Considered and Applied]
SK: The Son of Man clearly has divine overtones, so when Caiaphas hears that, he basically tears his robe and says, you've heard it, what more is there to say? And he has it right, he [Jesus] is claiming to be divine.
Plus, (laughs) he's claiming, I'm going to come back and I'm going to judge you bozos when I come back.
CD: (laughs) Which, of course, never goes over well with anyone.
SK: 'Not only am I divine, but I'm coming back to judge you guys, and you guys are toast,' is what he's telling them. And that's what gets him executed.
CD: Yeah.
SK: So I don't know any way to affirm traditional, either historic or evangelical, Christianity without also affirming that Jesus is who he claimed he is, and there are not a whole bunch of ways to get there.
History refers both to what happened in the past, and to writing about the past.
Whatever else the Gospels might be, they are historically reliable documents.
(quoted from Truth Considered and Applied)


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Hi Phil,
I'm actually investigating to not use your tookit and the navigator as a set of assemblies but rather include part of your source code as part of one of my assemblies as it could eventually better fit my current design.
You know that I want to extend the skinning capabilities found in your controls to some of mine (mostly the Form) but also use a xslt transform to create a CSS file out of the palettes.
Therefore, I may want to include the Palette definition inside of my own template definition assembly that would be shared for the windows form and the web applications.
The only reason why i'm stating this in here is because I can't see any rules about source code usage on your licencing terms delivered with the documentation.
I don't want to get against your rules as I think your work is valuable and disserves us (developers) to make sure we are doing the right things with your code.
So here is my question:
What limitations you would add to the licencing, if any?


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Welcome to Fat Feet. Organising inspirational running events in inspiring locations. We welcome all abilities from the person wanting to try an event for the first time to the experienced runner looking to compete for the winner's podium. Please navigate the site using the buttons on the left and make sure you take a look at our races for the forthcoming year.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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Key developments in telecommunications essential to meeting the demand generated by health care activities include the availability of high-speed communication networks in sparsely populated areas. The economic and cultural aspects of the telemedicine applications can then be identified, demonstrated, and evaluated. Technology related to high-density storage and retrieval of medical images and related patient data is immature. Much work remains to be done to achieve reliable and cost-effective systems that will support patient care, medical research and education, and health care administration. The proliferation of personal computers and the increase in computer literacy are major factors in user acceptance of telemedicine and related technology.
The regulatory authority of federal, state, and local agencies to set tariffs has resulted in barriers to the economic reality of telemedicine. If the quality of health care is to be maintained in a cost-effective manner using the NII, clinical data must be transmitted promptly within cost constraints.
Other legal and regulatory issues that must be addressed include the privacy of patients and health care providers, and the security of data against unauthorized access. Many questions need to be answered regarding the "ownership" of medical information and the responsibility for retention of medical records. The differing state medical licensure requirements must be rationalized to permit access, when needed, to specialists across state boundaries, and malpractice regulations need to be modified to eliminate unnecessary medical procedures that are performed solely to reduce the threat of litigation. In the area of administration, the adoption of a uniform claims data set would substantially reduce current processing activities related to reimbursement.
Though health care costs in the United States amount to approximately 15 percent of the gross domestic product, health care information requirements alone cannot support the development and deployment of the NII. However, health care is an important contributor to the information community and is one of many large economic segments that must be included in the utilization of the NII. If the cost of the NII is shared among a large number of major segments of the economy, the application of telecommunications will be facilitated. Further advances in storage and retrieval technology are largely dependent on government agencies and sectors of the economy other than health care. The special requirements of health care can then be met by modifying the basic developments designed to meet other needs.
The current trend of health care reform emphasizes the restructuring of the delivery system toward managed care corporations. The driving force behind this restructuring is the recognized need for cost containment. Today, the decisions to adopt new technology for use in health care are predominantly made by corporate managers rather than by individual practitioners. Since health care is a labor intensive activity, in this new climate technology that increases efficiency is more favorably received.
Increased access to quality care by patients regardless of situation or geography is the primary justification for telemedicine and for health care reform. To some extent, this implies "patient acceptance" of the NII and related technology; however, health care provider acceptance is pivotal to adoption of telemedicine in practice. The acceptance of new technology requires many cultural and procedural changes by physicians, nurses, and allied health care workers. These changes have already occurred in health care financial activities such as billing and reimbursement and in medical research but are lagging in patient care delivery functions.
The investment in and deployment of new technologies applicable to health care are partly dependent on the success of health care reform. "Many of the political imperatives driving telemedicine derive from the anticipated use of managed care incentives to provide accessible low-cost health care to all Americans."1 It is expected that the information infrastructure will be deployed because of impetus by government agencies and industries other than health care. The implementation of the NII for the delivery of health care is dependent on the cost-effectiveness of the technology as perceived by the decision makers within health care reform.


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18 "As I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, shall one come. | 18 "As surely as I live," declares the King, whose name is the LORD Almighty, "one will come who is like Tabor among the mountains, like Carmel by the sea. |
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers. (English Standard Version - The Holy Bible Online) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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Discover the Hotel
The Hotel Riu Kaya Palazzo (All Inclusive 24h) located in Belek, Turkey, has a 5-star service and a multitude of reasons that make it so special.
On the shores of the Turkish Riviera, the hotel offers wonderful views of the sea and his great garden of 900.000m2. It is ideal for a relaxing vacation and to forget the stress accumulated. It has two swimming pools, an indoor pool, sauna, jacuzzi, steam room and spa treatments and massages.
To taste some of typical dishes from Turkey, the buffet restaurant and thematic restaurants have a wide variety of plates to satisfy every palate. Our chefs know the best recipes and ingredients.
Although the hotel is situated on a quiet area it offers a variety of activities for all ages. It has an entertainment program where you can do activities such as table tennis, mini golf, volleyball, soccer, aerobics, petanque, canoeing, pedalo and different water sports nearby. For younger guests we have reserved the exclusive RiuLand program where they will spend the best hours of fun along with the entertainers. If you like golf, Kaya Eagles Golf field is ideal because it has multiple tracks.
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GO Shorty, it'shh ya birthday (or not)! I speak to far too many email marketers who put off birthday email programs because they don't have enough data to justify setting them up. This seems like a poor excuse for not taking advantage of a trigger email which has been proven to be super effective for… Read More »
Findings from a recent FOLIO survey, sponsored by Lyris, indicate that the #1 email marketing pain point for publishers is list building. Many companies are inserting pop-over subscription forms on their websites as a way to capture browser information and acquire new subscribers. This tactic is most commonly used on retail websites, but they work… Read More »
Oops, I did it again I played with my email, got lost in your code oh baby, oh baby… Was Brittney Spears actually talking about email marketing in her hit single, Oops!… I did it again? Probably not, but email marketers sure do send a lot of 'oops' emails! Email marketing is a fairly high-risk… Read More »
With so many metrics and goals that we *could* track, sometimes it's tough to figure out and decide how we should measure the success or failure of our email marketing. In publishing, media, or entertainment, this can be especially challenging. There are many anomalies in publishing, when compared to other sectors. Today, I'd like to… Read More »
The ways in which people interact with brands is changing rapidly, but the expectation of the consumer for brands to "get it right, everywhere and always" is a demand that is just about reaching boiling point. As marketers, I fear that many of us are playing catch-up. If we think about it though, these demands… Read More »


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Mine did not work unless you squeezed it with up pressure and to one side while holding your mouth right.. It scared me because I was on day 14 of my PB purchase and thought the plug on my PB might be bad! I ran to Best Buy and bought another cable to double check it in case I needed to return the PB. The second cable worked fine. Now I own two cables, one that works and one that doesnt. Im sure I just got a "lemon", but I was sure under pressure (my fault for not getting one earlier). This is one of those "lessons" that Ive learned before and should have checked out the HDMI earlier. Im certainly glad the problem was the cable, but it was a 20 dollar lesson! |
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The full-size HDMI connector at the TV end is fine but the micro HDMI connector at the PlayBook end is too loose and requires continuous fiddling to keep the HDMI signal going to the TV. This is happening with a brand-new PlayBook and brand-new HDMI cable. Sub-standard cable: Very frustrating and disappointing! | |
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Open House at Tawheed Center
June 16, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Adil James, TMO
Farmington–June 10–For the first time in six years the Tawheed Center in Farmington welcomed local non-Muslim residents in a large coordinated open house and free health clinic this past Saturday. About 200 non-Muslims visited to tour the mosque, enjoy Muslim food and culture (henna and calligraphy), and listen to presentations about Islam by mosque volunteers and professional Muslim speakers including Dawud Walid of CAIR-Michigan.
The open house was also a chance to show the immense work that has gone into the mosque since the last open house in 2005.
The setup consisted of an opportunity for the visitors to watch perhaps 100 Muslims pray dhohr prayer in the mosque, a tour through the semi-divided banquet hall, where on one side about 20 volunteers stood with posters describing Islam, young volunteers who described various issues about Islam and welcomed questions; and on the other side of the banquet hall a question and answer presentation session tried to address the visitors' concerns about Islam.
The volunteers were mostly high school students–one of them, Mehak Haq, said that she was emphasizing that there is no compulsion in religion–that Muslims are guided to allow non-Muslims to worship freely. She said that "It is a good opportunity–very insightful questions… the people seemed respectful, very respectful."
Volunteer Ayyub Khan said that what surprised him about the event was the diversity of the visitors. Indeed, the visitors to the mosque showed an admirable range of ethnicities which is very gratifying in sometimes segregated Detroit. The visitors seemed to represent all the major demographic groups in America by race and age, the only possibly underrepresented group being adolescents and children.
Tawheed Trustee Asim Khan spoke very happily about the many visitors, estimating the number of visitors who had come so far, and also expressing his happiness with the volunteers: "See how many young people are involved? We are trying to get them ready to run things later on."
New State Investigator Assigned to Luqman Case
April 15, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Imam Abdullah El-Amin, MMNS
It is very seldom that a case involving poor, and what seems to be unimportant people, can garner the amount of attention and interest as has the case of the murder of Imam Luqman Abdullah, the late imam of Masjid Al Haqq in Detroit, Michigan. The chairman of the powerful Judiciary committee in the US House of Representatives, John Conyers, the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the Mayor of Detroit, Dave Bing, numerous Michigan State Representatives like Bette Cook-Scott, and many civic and community groups like the NAACP and National Action Network are responding to the leadership of CAIR-MI director, Dawud Walid and Ron Scott, head of the Coalition Against Police Brutality. As we reported earlier, this is the "murder that just won't die".
Now the Attorney General of Michigan, Mike Cox, who is trying to get support for a run for governor, has called for a special investigation of the case and has call in Doug Baker, a former Wayne County Prosecutor, to review whether the FBI acted appropriately in the shooting of Imam Abdullah who was shot a minimum of 21 times and then handcuffed as he lay dead on the ground. The imam had a gunshot wound to the back also and it is speculated by many that he was shot in the back as he lay handcuffed on the ground. That could only be the action of a demented person if it happened as speculated. Of course the FBI will give no details.
Mr. Baker will investigate the FBI to see if any state laws were broken by Federal law officers which could potentially lead to serious charges such as murder. Baker has often been described as a very tenacious prosecutor and has a number of high-profile cases under his belt. He was the prosecutor who successfully tried the case of two Caucasian police officers accused of the brutal killing Malice Green in Detroit. Community members watching the case are wondering if that same tenacity will be utilized in this case.
Other than his interest in becoming Michigan's next governor, people are wondering why Republican Mike Cox is so interested in the case now. It is well known that in the past he has shown his indifference to issues important to the community. A case in point is the investigation of former Detroit mayor Kilpatrick involving an alleged party at the mayor's residence where a stripper lady who was reported to have danced there was later found slain.
The official reason for the State of Michigan's involvement is because the office of Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy declined to investigate the case. On the surface that looks bad for Ms. Worthy but actually it seems the justice Department, particularly the FBI, has been as close-mouthed with the prosecutor's office as it has been with the rest of the community. Prosecutor Worthy has said her office could not get any documents because they were classified. According to her it would have been irresponsible to conduct an investigation without the pertinent information.
We know that sometimes events happen that we have no explanation for. We know that ALLAH allowed this atrocity to happen – but ultimately for a good cause. As the case continues to unfold, we look for the good that we know will be revealed to us. And hopefully we will benefit from it.
As Salaam alaikum
(Al Hajj) Imam Abdullah El-Amin
Tariq Ramadan, Keynote Speaker at SoundVision Fundraiser
April 15, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Adil James, MMNS
Sunday–April 11–Tariq Ramadan is not what you probably expect.
Tariq Ramadan
You might expect someone barred by the Bush administration to have an Arabic accent, to have an angry or at least emotional manner of public speaking, but the reality is Tariq Ramadan better fits the mold of a French intellectual than the typical Muslim populist. In fact, from his nature it does not appear that he has any intentions towards seeking any political power, other than spiritual and intellectual power or accomplishments.
The subject of a six-year ban by the Bush administration, ended only recently by Secretary of State Clinton, speaks English and even Arabic with a French Swiss accent, and has the breezy intellectual worldly air of a French intellectual–he seems as though he has certainty about many things. For example during his speech he interrupted emotional applause for one popular point that he had emphasized, saying "let me explain the rules," instructing listeners not to clap during his speech ("not because it is a fatwa, although it is") and then going on to say that the emotional reaction to his words may detract from what "we are trying to accomplish."
Tariq Ramadan is called, by the reactionary right, an "Islamist" of Egyptian ancestry. (By Islamist do they mean someone who likes Islam? So is George Bush a Christianist?) In fact it may be his ancestry which scared the Bush administration more than any other fact about him. His mother's father was Hassan al-Banna, the Supreme Guide and founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. His father was Said Ramadan, who was also prominently involved in Ikhwan, and who married Hassan al-Banna's daughter. He was raised in Switzerland, where his famous parents sought refuge from Nasser's Arab nationalist animosity to the Ikhwan.
Ramadan is now 48 years old. He is no firebrand. He was ranked by the British Prospect and American Foreign Policy magazines eightth in a list of the world's top 100 contemporary intellectuals in 2008. He has authored several books, focusing on the issue of Islam and the West. He wears his intellectualism on his sleeve–on Sunday he said of his most recent book that he had made it very thin so that American journalists would actually read it, although he complained that they still do not.
Ramadan is in the book 500 Most Influential Muslims–2009, being listed in the Scholars section. He is even an honorable mention for the top 50 listings in the book.
His entry in the book is as follows:
Ramadan is Europe's preeminent Muslim intellectual writing about Islam in public life. He is a professor of Islamic Studies at Oxford University and formerly a visiting professor at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He has a weekly television show, 'Islam and Life', on Press TV, and is an advisor to the European Union on religion. He has written 15 books and produced over 100 recordings.
Ramadan did not in his SoundVision speech show real leanings either toward extremist Islamic views nor even towards the strong organization-based approach to Islam of Ikhwan. Rather he focused on his theme of building consciousness of God through spiritual endeavor, a consciousness of God which would empower one to seek his or her rights when those rights are denied by people (he emphasized Western anti-Muslim people) who overreach their authority in working to the detriment of Muslims.
Ramadan certainly understands the West better than his grandfather did (whose entire reaction to the West came from an unpleasant encounter with a drunk European), and to casual observation it is clear that the younger Ramadan has imbibed its values more than even he probably realizes.
He remains, despite being a European intellectual, a Muslim intellectual as well. He thinks and speaks and writes about living Islam in a real context. He thinks about what God says that He wants from us in His Holy Book, and Ramadan endeavors to accomplish that.
Soundvision's event was, even aside from its invitation of such a memorable figure, very impressive. The event filled the Burton Hall banquet facility nearly to capacity, with approximately 600 guests in attendance.
There was a description of the difficulties and opportunities that lie before SoundVision and then a fundraiser which appeared to gross approximately $150,000 in about 20 minutes. There was a dinner and appetizers.
Many prominent Muslms from Southeast Michigan were in attendance, among them CAIR Michigan's executive director Dawud Walid, Ghalib Begg of CIOM, recently selected by the Detroit News as one of a handful of "Michiganians of the Year," and many prominent Michigan imams.
Dawud Walid spoke on the importance of SoundVision to his own family, citing the books and videos he has bought for his own children from SoundVision.
There was a brief video by SoundVision, emphasizing the Adam's World show, with a "One Big Family" soundtrack.
Janaan Hashim, a SoundVision director, spoke at length about SoundVision and its strategic goals–and perhaps her speech did the most to reveal the terrible importance of SoundVision's work.
Ms. Hashim is an attorney, journalist and teacher, as well as a mother.
The theme for SoundVision's future was plastered throughout the fundraiser event, "Helping Tomorrow's Muslims today." Ms. Hashim emphasized this meant helping them now.
She showed the terrible current state of Muslim youths by showing a chart of anger among youths aged 18-29 by religion, which showed anger among Muslim youths at 26%, which was almost double the rate for Protestants and Mormons (14% each).
She showed statistics that 75% of American Muslims felt that they had been discriminated against or had witnessed discimination, 12% of Muslim students in New York public schools felt doubt about Islam. 7% of Muslims had been assaulted.
95% of Muslim youths, she said, are in normal public schools, and do not attend Juma'a prayers. Less than 5% of Muslim youths go to Muslim schools.
Where do the children spend their time? On average, they spend 53 hours per week online, 7 hours and 38 minutes per day.
Hashim quickly demonstrated the overwhelmingly negative nature of the information about Islam–much of it provided directly by people who hate Islam and Muslims, like Robert Spencer and Daniel Pipes.
Hashim pointed out that many Muslim youths respond to these many overwhelming pressures by changing their names, possibly even changing religions, or at least by caving in to such pressures as drinking alcohol or joining gangs. She cited a statistic that 47% of Muslim college students report having drunk alcohol, and about 10% report binge drinking.
"We must rethink things for kids," she said. "We must reallocate our resources."
Therefore Muslims need to create a powerful online alternative to these hate sites that assault the minds of our children with their ignorance and negative stereotypes of Islam.
SoundVision came up with a thorough plan to address these challenges after one year of research. This is their strategic plan: 1) they plan 1,000 pieces of new content in the next 12 months; 2) they plan to emphasize new media for ipods, pda's, iphones, etc.; 3) they plan mega-websites, age specific, and their model is the Disney websites (they intend good sites competitive with Disney); 4) they plan to make it all free (because they need to connect to the 95% who are slipping through the cracks); 5) Weekend 2.0–a web-based Islamic School 2.0 with lesson plans for existing schools, teaching basic Islam; 6) Networking among stake holders–creative arts hubs to allow youngsters to engage in creative activities; 7) Crucial Concepts (to teach skills, values, pluralism, response to objections, citizenship training, and career and marital counseling).
Ms. Hashim explained that much of this work has already been completed: SoundVision has enlisted the help of 270 artists, scholars, 18 editors.
SoundVision's website is ranked a very respectable 100,000 on Alexa's ranking system (The Muslim Observer has risen to about 335,000 over several years of assiduous work).
SoundVision pioneered Adam's World, the Al-Qari software, Islamic songs, and a Muslim radio program (which in fact is hosted by Ms. Hashim).
She emphasized that SoundVision is at the cutting edge, and that its software has attracted attention for its very high quality and for its advanced technical competence.
In fact SoundVision has pointed out a potential disaster that faces the American Muslim community, but has also stepped forward to face our problems.
CAIR Michigan's Watershed Annual Banquet
April 1, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Adil James, MMNS
Dearborn–March 31–This year's CAIR banquet really was special. Every year, CAIR Michigan and many other organizations have gala awards and fundraising banquets, but typically in the past Michigan's Muslim organizations have been less connected to the political landscape than some ethnic organizations which have in the Southeast Michigan region managed over several decades to establish long term ties with all levels of the political landscape, from the local to the federal level.
The Muslim organizations however, from the mosque level up to the level of national organizations, have not opened strong and lasting relations with any political groups (other than coordinated discussion groups and organized means of complaining to politicians and mainstream media about perceived and real injustices), other than an occasional speech by a political celebrity.
Perhaps a stronger movement has been the involvement of individuals in politics, such as for instance Farhan Bhatti, Deputy Campaign Manager at Virg Bernero for Michigan. There are Muslims who have been elected to individual office, such as Rashida Tlaib in the Michigan legislature, and Keith Ellison in the US congress.
This year's CAIR gala, with about 1,000 attendees including many powerful audience members from the business, media, and political community, on the other hand, seemed to offer the potential of a long-term conflation of interests between the Muslim community and America's established civil rights aristocracy. Present at this year's fundraiser was Nihad Awad, who founded CAIR and set it up as a not-for-profit franchise operation of sorts, with now branch offices across the country to advocate for Muslims. Mr. Awad is not always able to attend all of these gala events, but it seemed that he sensed the importance of this particular one.
But the real jewels in the crown of the 2010 CAIR Michigan fundraiser were the civil rights workers who for sixty years have been deeply involved at their own personal peril with the struggle for civil rights in the USA.
Jesse Jackson Sr., the keynote speaker, was one of those. But there was also Rep. John Conyers (D-MI-14), whom Jackson described as "perhaps the only man who was ever endorsed by Martin Luther King." There was Rep. John Dingell (D-MI-15). There were many others, including the strong gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero (currently Lansing's mayor).
But famous people frequently collect together–many famous politicians have given stilted practiced speeches before Muslims, hoping to say what pleases their audience and earns their political support, but rarely does the politician seem to be present in deference to his or her own inner principles–and this is perhaps the characteristic of Sunday afternoon's banquet that was uncommon. Famous people with shared bonds of suffering coalescing in defense of a group they perhaps had not previously thought of as being within their shared interests.
The feeling wasn't just from their presence in the same room; rather the feeling was in the mutual love between those famous people, and their expression of that love in the context of the protection of Muslims against injustice from government interference. Jackson and Conyers both spoke of the famous people they had met and worked with through the years, including King, and Rosa Parks (who worked for Conyers for many years), and their describing the debts of gratitude they owed one to another–for example Jackson's mentioning of MLK's endorsement of Conyers, and Conyers mentioning publicly his gratitude to John Dingell for supporting him in his early days in the US House of Representatives.
What was different this year was that CAIR did not just bring politicians to speak for their own interests, rather CAIR Michigan bought into a movement, a movement that has been intrinsically and vitally important to the American landscape for the better part of a century, carrying with them the ghosts and spirits of men who gave their lives in that journey.
Nihad Awad offered his goal, a vision of a seemingly impossible world, post-911, in which Muslims face no discrimination–he argued that CAIR is working toward that goal from where we are now.
Jesse Jackson is a famous man, and in consideration of his famous personal failings it is sometimes surprising to see him still on the national stage–but in seeing him speak you understand the source of his sway across the American public–his voice carries so strongly and he has a magic in his delivery that is present in person but that is not felt through the television. He speaks with vivid images and polished phrases and a very powerful and loud delivery, almost more like a musician or conductor than a politician, but he speaks logically and intelligently also, intimately conversant with the big picture of American politics, even if sometimes the details he cites are not precisely accurate (accidentally he cited the total number of coalition KIA in Iraq and Afghanistan together as Americans KIA in Iraq).
But on the broad points he has very sharp insight. For example he stated that what is vital in the civil rights movement is to "change the frame. Once you change the frame, you can change the furniture around whenever you want."
Thus, he argued that after the recent health care legislation, eventually there must be a public option, although the public option was compromised away in the course of the bill being passed.
The theme of his speech was an argument to get Muslims to buy into a broader political agenda.
He argued that Muslims have to engage in issues beyond Muslim issues, offering the analogy that if one is in a burning house, he must try to put out the fire for the entire house–if the house is saved his room will be saved but it is impossible to save his room without saving the house.
He cited as examples labor union issues and health care issues.
Perhaps the most inspiring thing he said was that "we are not the left, we are the moral center," thus dismissing the arguments from reactionaries who term his agenda a leftist agenda. And this connected to another powerful theme from his speech, that "we are winning" in this struggle by the grace of God, and it is because God supports us because we are right. He cited the achievements of abolition and civil rights, labor, and, at length, health care.
He said not to worry about government informants, arguing the view that the solution is to be completely above board and transparent and above reproach. He said that several informants were intimately connected with the civil rights movement, saying that "our controller who signed all of our checks was a government informant."
"Yes it does get dark," he said, "innocent people get hurt, there is pain, but there is joy in the morning."
"Through it all, keep marching, fighting, pursue excellence, don't have time to hate."
The involvement of the civil rights community with Muslims seems to have begun Sunday evening, and the person likely responsible is CAIR Michigan's Executive Director Dawud Walid, who had the vision to pursue this goal, and who also has worked to bridge gaps between African Americans and other Muslims, and Sunni and Shi'a.
It remains to be seen whether the large-scale involvement of Muslims as players on the political (and not religious) landscape is healthy or potentially dangerous, and it remains to be seen whether non-Muslims from the civil rights community will be good partners in working toward civil rights for Muslims; also it remains to be seen to what extent Muslims can endorse the agenda of a civil rights community that too often supports for example abortion services and homosexual issues; but perhaps these are the details, the furniture. What is important is that the frame may have changed–to one where a Muslim organization has built a bridge or harmony and good will to an entire movement that is intrinsic to the American political landscape–this seems to be an important move in a good direction.
1st Annual IONA Islam Conference
January 9, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Adil James, MMNS
Warren–January 2–IONA held its first annual Islam conference this past Saturday evening at IONA.
Two speakers were invited to the event, Imam Dawud Walid, Executive Director of CAIR Michigan, and Amir Abdul Malik Ali, a Muslim activist from Oakland California.
They both spoke on secularism and American democracy, Dawud Walif focusing on how American democracy and history includes elements of Islam, and Ali focusing instead on distinctions and points of conflict between the Islamic and Western worlds and world views.
Both focused on Islam as a non-religion, which may be a thesis that most people would disagree with. The underlying argument is that Muslims must be involved in political life, because Islam is a "deen" which both speakers translated ast "way of life," rather than as "religion."
As a first such event from IONA, it was interesting that the underlying message echoed the previous speech at the center by a non-Muslim proponent of the thesis that Islam is not a religion, rather a kind of political awakening movement, Prof. Robert Shedinger (who spoke there on October 24th of 2009, reported on in TMO V11-I45). Shedinger argues that Jesus was Muslim, as a corollary to his argument that Islam is not a religion.
Shedinger's companion argument is that the effort to define Islam as a religion rather than a way of life was imposed by non-Muslims in an effort to stem the efforts of Muslims to be politically involved, for example in combating colonialism.
It is surprising that the radical idea of Islam's being just another worldly movement is gaining among Muslims, but apparently the IONA conference documents the spread of this idea.
Southeast Michigan Community Events
December 31, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
IONA Conference:
The modern western world has adopted and advocates the system of secularism or the concept of separation of Church and State. Is Islam compatible with such a system? Is one's Ibadah complete by adhering to the pillars of Islam? What does the word Deen imply? The conference is organized to answer such questions and elaborate on the concept of deen in our faith.
Featured speakers: Dawud Walid, Executive Director of CAIR-Michigan; Amir Abdul Malik Ali, Islamic Activist, Oakland California; Mustapha Elturk, Ameer of IONA.
Saturday Januray 2, 2010, 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM; at IONA Masjid; 28630 Ryan Rd (S. of 12 Mile Rd.); Warren, MI 48092; Admission: FREE.
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BMUC Free Dinner on January 2nd, 2010
Dinner: The Bloomfield Hills Muslim Unity Center will be holding a complimentary Dinner for the community on Saturday January 2nd, 2010 at 7:00 P.M.
Bring your family and enjoy the company of other Muslim Unity Center Families.
To reserve your spot, please call the office at 248 857 9200 Monday-Friday 10:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.
Pre-registration is required.
BMUC Girls Group New Session January 8th, 2010
Youth Group–The New Girls Group Session registration is now open.
The Session will run from January 8th- March 12th at $100/child.
For more information &/or registration please contact Mie El Bohy or Besmah Asbahi.
You can also register at the Office.
BMUC Hojjaj Party January 10th, 2010
Hajj–If you know anybody who went to Hajj this year please contact the Unity Center office at 248 857 9200 with his or her name & contact information so that we can invite them to the Hojjaj party.
The Hajj party will be held on January 10th. Light appetizers and dessert will be served.
BMUC Spring Omrah Trip
* The week of April 5th, 2009
* Details will follow soon.
* For reservation, please call Br. Fadi at: 248 561 1291.
Muslim Organizations Issue Statements Re. the Shooting of Imam Luqman Abdullah
November 5, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Adil James, Muslim Media News Service (MMNS)
Farmington—November 4—The shooting of Imam Luqman A. Abdullah by the FBI sparked controversy, partly because it stirred up memories of America's past persecution of African American leaders, partly because of the demeaning circumstances, and partly because news reports relating to the shooting have cast far reaching and highly unlikely aspersions on Imam Luqman.
The shooting spurred local and national Muslim organizations to issue alarmed press releases, the common theme of which was that they condemn any illegal activities if Imam Luqman was involved, but ask that news reports refrain from alleging any terrorist conspiracy absent any such evidence. Another theme echoed in several was the demand for an independent investigation into the events of the day.
The facts alleged by the reports do not conflict with one another, although only the MPAC statement actually explores the then-known facts of the incident. On Wednesday 10/28 the FBI raided 3 Dearborn warehouses, to arrest Imam Luqman and 11 associates on many federal criminal charges. At the end of the raid, Imam Luqman was dead, shot apparently 18 times.
The American Muslim Taskforce (AMT), Muslim Alliance of North America (MANA), Muslim Public Affairs Coalition (MPAC), Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Imams' Committee of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan (CIOM), ISNA, and Dawud Walid, Executive Director of CAIR Michigan, all made statements regarding the incident.
The American Muslim Taskforce (an umbrella group including AMA, AMP, CAIR, ICNA, MANA, MAS-Freedom, MSA National, MUNA, and UMA) demanded an investigation and demanded that the government "stop injecting religion into this case," apparently operating on the belief that the government may have had a valid criminal case against Imam Luqman but no terrorism case and that his religion was extraneous to the events that took place.
The Imams Committee of Michigan's powerful CIOM unity group (representing most of Southeast Michigan's mosques including Sunni mosques and Shi'a mosques) met with the director of Michigan's FBI office (Mr. Andrew Arena, who had previously expressed satisfaction with his agents' handling of the case) to discuss what happened. They asked for clarification of what happened, without demanding a full investigation. They also emphasized that religion should not be brought into the case.
ISNA, America's largest and politically the strongest Muslim community organization, also made a statement saying it "is distrubed by the recent shootout." "The details of the incident are still sketchy," read the statement, "but the way the incident is presented as a terrorism case when the actual charges involve criminal conduct, including alleged fraud and theft."
ISNA joined the chorus asking for a full investigation of the incident also, while also expressing support fot the "vital work carried out by law enforcement agencies" and spoke against resisting arrest, saying "[t]he only morally and legally acceptable way to challenge the actions of law enforcement agents is by working through the justice system and the court of law."
MANA (which Imam Luqman was a part of) issued a statement which opened more directly the issues involved in the case, saying "Reference to 'the Ummah' as a 'nation-wide radical fundamentalist Sunni group consisting primarily of African Americans' is an offensive mis-characterization."
Further, the MANA statement said that "to those who have worked with Imam Luqman A. Abdullah, allegations of illegal activity, resisting arrest, and 'offensive jihad against the American government' are shocking and inconsistent."
MPAC's statement had one wise piece of advice, "With so much left unknown in the developing case, MPAC is warning government agencies and media outlets of the alarming exploitation of this isolated incident that is stigmatizing Muslim American communities around the country."
MPAC's primary concern appeared to be avoiding national backlash against Muslims based on the Imam Luqman shooting and resulting media coverage.
More facts have come to light since the organizations' statements were made, including that Imam Luqman apparently resisted arrest and shot an FBI dog that was loosed to attack him before going down in a hail of FBI bullets. Several senior Muslim community workers have explained that as Imam Luqman lay dying from 18 gunshot wounds, he was handcuffed to a stretcher and left to die while the FBI dog was medically evacuated by helicopter.
News reports around the incident portrayed Imam Luqman as a violent anti-government jihadist bent on a government takeover, but foiled by FBI action.
However the best report about the incident was in fact the one by this newspaper's Imam Abdullah El-Amin, who traced a convincing story about FBI provocateurs luring Imam Luqman into dealing in stolen merchandise and then springing the trap before he could escape, perhaps even orchestrating his reaction and demise.
Unfortunately the national theme in investigations of Muslims has largely been one of government provocateurs luring down-and-out Muslim men into situations they don't fully comprehend and which appear to be fully funded, planned, and coordinated from inside the FBI. Then the poor stooges are arrested in midnight raids by SWAT teams in body armor and paraded before camera crews as dangerous al-Qaeda terrorists. And the poor slobs are carted away through years of trials which often as not end in their being released.


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How Western Evangelicals Influence Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill
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When I lived for two years in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, a fellow expatriate used to entertain me with stories of his dating exploits on the city's gay scene. His pattern was both fascinating and heartbreaking: the dark, seductive bars where he met young Ugandan men, the intense shroud of secrecy that surrounded the ensuing relationships, and the inevitable breakups, always necessitated by some outside social force. To be gay in Uganda from 2006 to 2008 was to navigate a strained, hushed landscape. Human-rights groups staged small protests when a gay woman or man was attacked, but the gay population still lived in mortal fear of disapproval from friends and families.
"If you talked to any Ugandans on the streets, 90 percent would tell you gay marriage is unthinkable, they would tell you it is one of those practices in the West that is so gross," my friend Justin Dralaze, a Ugandan videographer, tells me. Ugandans say homosexuality is a Western idea, but Uganda's newly proposed anti-homosexuality bill represents a very different form of Western influence. The bill is the latest sign of how evangelicalism has become a booming business in Africa. Local pastors promise to cure AIDS in exchange for the cars and mortgages of their parishioners, American televangelists visit Uganda in droves and swear they will create miracles for large financial donations, and politicians use the contentious issues of homosexuality and abortion to manipulate their voters.The bill, if passed, would punish homosexual behavior with life imprisonment and, for homosexuals who have gay sex more than once, with minors, or who have H.I.V./AIDS, with the death penalty. If a Ugandan knows his neighbor or colleague is gay and does not report it, he could also go to prison. If a Ugandan is gay and living abroad, the bill demands that he be deported for prosecution. Uganda's hotheaded ethics minister, James Nsaba Buturo, when asked about the bill, said to reporters that he is "really getting tired of this phrase 'human rights.'"
Both Buturo and David Bahati, the parliament member who introduced the bill, are closely connected to The Family, a group of powerful American politicians, corporate executives, and government and non-profit officials who belong to the Christian Right. Their ranks include South Carolina governor Mark Sanford. As author Jeff Sharlet discovered, The Family has been pouring money into a Ugandan youth-leadership program led by Bahati.
Celebrity evangelical Rick Warren is also involved. Last year, the pastor told a conference of Ugandan Anglican Bishops that homosexuality was not a tolerable human right, and his doctoral thesis advisor organized anti-gay Ugandan legislators. For almost a decade, Warren has made it his mission to integrate the church and healthcare systems of neighboring Rwanda, whose president is a close ally. Though The Family and Warren have now publicly rebuked the bill, their activities clearly contributed to the atmosphere that made it possible.
While Ugandan parliamentarians say they will drop extreme parts of the bill such as the death penalty and life imprisonment, there is not much doubt that it will pass. When it does, it will set a dangerous precedent not only for gay rights in Africa, but also for the future of American evangelicalism abroad.


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Tsvangirai looks like rapoko when he is the obnoxious shawi weed: need discerning voters to tell!
January 28, 2013 in Uncategorized
Morgan Tsvangirai is like the obnoxious weed, "shawi" thriving in a rapoko field.
It takes a discerning eye to separate the shawi weed from a rapoko plant. Rapoko is drought resistant crop of the millet family which produces ten or so stems which grow to one meter height, produce an ear with four or five fingers each five or so centimeters long heavy with red or dark brown seeds one millimeter in diameter. Shawi will produce two or three times as many stem only thinner and its ear is a lot flatter with dark brown or black seeds a quarter the size of rapoko.
Shawi are spread by animals feeding on the ear and plant and the seed going through their digestion system without being damage whereas rapoko seed will be damaged. Like all weeds shawi is a vigorous weed out competing rapoko or other crops. Rapoko is grown by broadcasting the seed and so at weeding time it is necessary to take out the weeds and thin out the crop. It is easy to leave a vigorous shawi and take out the rapoko plant. It really takes a discerning eye of an experience rapoko farmer to ensure one does not end up with a field of rigorous shawi weeds instead of rapoko.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was elected in 2008 on a ticket to bring democratic change, indeed his party is a movement for democratic change. The GPA agreed on a whole raft of democratic reforms, which implemented would have brought very significant and far reaching democratic changes to the body politics of Zimbabwe; sadly not even one of these reforms have been implemented. Throughout the five years of this GNU, all the PM has done is talk about these reforms but never acted.
The other significant democratic change the PM and his MDC could have brought was a democratic constitution. The Copac constitution MDC have signed onto is everything a tyrant would have wanted; notably it is too weak and feeble to deliver basic rights like the right to free and fair elections and even the right to life.
Although the PM maintains the Copac constitution was "negotiated" and "compromise" document there can be no doubt that Mugabe "dictated" the document as his Zanu PF representative in the constitution writing committee, MP Paul Mangwana has admitted. The Copac gives Mugabe the license to use all the dirty tricks included his favorite one of wanton violence to "win" elections. MDC has made heavy weather of how Mugabe has "compromised" and accept the president will serve a maximum two five-year terms. For an 88 old sickly man, that is hardly a compromise!
It took Zimbabweans 15 years after independence to see Mugabe for the murderous tyrant he is. Zimbabweans are being asked to vote in a referendum to judge whether or not PM Tsvangirai has delivered on the democratic reforms and constitution; they do not have the luxury of 15 years to decide. PM Tsvangirai has failed to deliver any democratic changes; he looks like rapoko plant but he is in reality a shawi weed.
If Zimbabweans approve this Copac rubbish then they will know the day after the referendum that the elections free of violence was a lie as Mugabe rolls out his terror machine; they will then know what they assumed was a bumper rapoko crop was a field of the obnoxious shawi weeds. Zimbabweans need to be discerning voters, the country's lack of free media and freedom of expression is conspiring against them, and reject this Copac rubbish or the nation is in for some nightmare years ahead!


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Another sign from China that it is not pleased with the US proposal, contained in the Waxman Markey bill, for a "border adjustment" programme would levy import taxes on foreign manufacturers to cover carbon contained in US-bound products. The FT reports:
During a speech at New York University about how the US and China can forge a closer partnership, Tung Chee-hwa, vice-chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the Chinese government's official advisory, said that a proposed "border adjustment" programme could be challenged through the World Trade Organisation and that he was "distressed" by the new bill introduced to Congress.
"This is particularly unfair to China," Mr Tung, who was chief executive of Hong Kong from 1997 until 2005, said.
Related stories:
Chinese official warns US on protectionism (FT)
US unveils radical shift in energy policy (FT)
Determining who pays for carbon emissions (FT Energy Source)
Colonialism, ethics and China's emissions growth (FT Energy Source)


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Girls Soccer: Sandburg gets past Lincoln-Way West
By Steve MIllar For Sun-Times Media April 3, 2013 9:30PM
Lincoln-Way West's Kendall Watson (12) goes for a header against Sandburg's Sarah DeWolf during their soccer game in New Lenox Wednesday, April 3, 2013. | Brett Roseman~Sun-Times Media
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All the momentum that Sandburg built up in the first half Wednesday night quickly was dashed when Lincoln-Way West's Natalie Tannura scored just before the break to make it a 1-1 game.
For the Eagles, it was a tough blow to be sure, but one they were ready to deal with.
"That's happened to us a lot already this season," Sandburg's Morgan Manzke said. "We've gone into halftime tied or down in most of our matches, but we've done a good job bouncing back and winning. I think that says a lot about the character of our team."
Manzke, who assisted on Sandburg's first goal, scored twice in the second half to lift the Eagles to a 3-1 win in a SouthWest Suburban crossover in New Lenox.
With 15:32 left in the match, Manzke was taken down in the box and earned a penalty kick. She converted on a line-drive shot that West goalie Kayla Lojas (4 saves) got a piece of but couldn't quite stop, giving the Eagles (4-1) a 2-1 lead.
"We had tired legs and that led to the penalty that changed the complexion of the game," West coach Jeff Theiss said. "Our fitness was an issue in the second half, so we need to work on that."
Manzke, a senior captain, put the match away eight minutes later, picking up a loose ball in the middle of the field just outside the box and quickly firing a high shot into the net.
Manzke followed the advice of coach Desi Vuillaume, who often pleads with her to shoot more.
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I have a few older TB iris, all noids. I wanted to get the best ones I can for the California Sacramento valley. I prefer re or eml, & dont like solid purple, solid yellow or solid white. I want the best of the best! Any suggestions?
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- Posted by hosenemesis SoCal Sunset 19 USDA (My Page) on Fri, Oct 19, 12 at 23:04
Ecstatic Echo does not do well in CA. It's my favorite, but it had bad plant habits and sprawled on the ground. The best reblooming irises are all in the colors you don't want, unfortunately. If you want a big show, big, big flowers- solid purple-blue Recurring Dream. It blooms here four times a year. For gorgeous purple-blue luminata but fewer flowers, Daughter of Stars. City Lights rebloomed a little for me as well- very pretty. Most prolific reblooming plicata: Mariposa Autumn. It's a machine. Darkest and most dramatic: Tennison Ridge or Decker. Both rebloom well. Most prolific in my garden: Total Recall- pale yellow and white. Blooms almost all year. Pinks: I get rebloom from Jennifer Rebecca, but it is slow to increase and took a long time to establish. Violet Turner is the champ in my mom's garden. It's a bitone violet- very beautiful. It's blooming now. Clarence is a beautiful blue and white and reblooms well. Bonnie's Irises here in CA has a good selection of solid rebloomers. Bob can tell you which are most prolific for him. Riley Probst posts over on Reblooming Irises on Facebook, and gives the number of days different plants have bloomed in his Modesto garden. That might be something to check out. Renee |
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I love the peach and orchid/violet combination. Lots to choose from with those colors, but my "essentials" are Florentine Silk and Photogenic. And I'll never be without Dusky Challenger, which isn't really purple (not one of your faves) but rather an inky blue-violet that I call blurple. As a bonus, it's a super vigorous iris. Also have to have a good clear blue--for me that means Sea Power. Kay |
Aquawise, your Pink Horizon is a NOID. Too modern for such an old iris |
It came to me with that name! I cannot change it on flicker for some reason. Thanks for pointing that out. I know that some are not named correctly and I have been working to correct that. I have NOID it on my iphoto so I can now look for it proper name. Thanks, its people like you that help me make them right or just NOID them and enjoy them as they are. |
- Posted by thahalibut Z-9 CA, SSZ-9 (My Page) on Mon, Oct 22, 12 at 19:47
Great suggestions! Even though some are not reblooming they are beautiful. Decker, Total recall, Celebrations Song, Violet Turner, Beverly sills, & Mariposa Autumn are on my list. |
** HOSENEMESIS ** - has Kiss of Kisses been a rebloomer for you? Rebloomers are often less spectacular than once bloomers. My *must-have* iris list has no rebloomers. These rebloomers appeal to me, minus the solids you don't want. The reason I don't have rebloom is water! Lack of. Rebloomers do need more water and fertilizer and I have been remiss in meeting their needs. Autumn Wine - Schreiner'02 or Christopherson'03 ??? rose-wine over dark wine rimmed rose-wine, would be welcome in my garden tho I've only seen pictures Blatant - Byers'90, yellow over beet red, love colors of this one in a friend's garden. Belvi Queen - Jensen'76, plicata, toasty cinnamon over pastel mustard edged maroony-cinnamon - nice fall colors, hasn't rebloomed for me yet Come What May - Ernst'95, warm apricoty yellow over yummy mallow rose edged lighter - love colors in friend's garden Double Agent - Maryott'86, rosy wine over deep maroon, very striking in friend's garden Double Click - Ghio'01, red purple luminata, have only seen pictures Eggnog - Byers'89, golden butterscotch, didn't rebloom for me, like its color and form Fashion Passion - hosenemesis has this one (warm white over maroon edged light) Heather Blush - Hamner'77, heather pink over heather lav. - the piece I gave my friend reblooms for her, not for me; but looks better in my small garden than her large one -- she has redwood trees etc. and needs more dramatic colors Her Royal Highness - Byers'89, if you like bright fushia-lav blends this may fit (have never seen in person) Kiss Me Twice - Maryott'01 (CA hybridizer that now does only daylilies), pics show it as a good-looking pink Lenora Pearl - Byers'88, BB, mine was too washed out pink for my taste; maybe I had a mislabel as it won the Knowlton Award and should have been exceptional My Friend Jonathan - Miller'94, pics show it in a range from reddish brick to russet to rose with lav. influence, Marvin on this forum reported 3 bloom seasons Queen Dorothy - purp & white plicata, the year I saw its rebloom the stalk was way down in the foliage -- don't know if this is typical behavior; good looking Smash - Craig'01, tet MTB with 10 buds, yel-ecru over viol-lav as far as I can tell from pics; the Craigs have been successfully working on florif. MTBs; criris on this forum posted Aug. rebloom Star Performer - Meek'84, white over peach irreg. edged white; would love to try this one as it's a fav. color combo of mine & registered as a M-L & RE Viva Mexico - Maryott'96, orange, reliable rebloom reported ============== |
- Posted by hosenemesis SoCal Sunset 19 USDA (My Page) on Sun, Oct 28, 12 at 22:37
Kiss of Kisses has not rebloomed, but my mom has been moving it around every year. Her Double Agent rebloomed, but it only got one flower. Same with my Coral Chalice. Renee |
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- Posted by illinoisdoglover z5IL (My Page) on Sat, Jan 12, 13 at 21:00
Wish I was in an area that I could have rebloomers actually reboom. This year was my first time to ever see a rebloomer in November. It was given to me and I believe it was Clarence.I will see if I can find a picture. So now that I have become addicted to iris, the question now is: "How do you contrlol the addiction?". I can not stop adding to my "want" list. I am amazed how many there are and that I seem to need. I will be researching the ones you folks mentioned to see if they are something I should be looking for. I have the same probelm with my peony addiction. To date, I am close to 140 named peonies. Crazy. I guess it could be a worse addiction. Does anyone like the greens and browns? Here is Appolodorus and next post will be Cafee Mocha. |
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- Posted by hosenemesis SoCal Sunset 19 USDA (My Page) on Mon, Jan 14, 13 at 1:19
Apollodorus has always captured my attention, as has Harvest Maiden. Mesmerizer is a great iris, isn't it? Renee |
- Posted by illinoisdoglover z5IL (My Page) on Mon, Jan 14, 13 at 12:13
I will have to check out Harvest Maiden. This will be a exciting year or two for me seeing so many new iris bloom and being able to identify the iris I have in my collection. I have been learning that many iris from California do not grow well here in Illinois. One example, Bewilderbeast and Decadence have been impossible. Any suggestions in replacemnets for those? |
- Posted by hosenemesis SoCal Sunset 19 USDA (My Page) on Tue, Jan 15, 13 at 2:53
I guess things that do not grow here! I can't grow Ecstatic Echo, Impressionist, or Starship Enterprise in So Cal. Friends in Minnesota and Utah report success with them, though. There is nothing more exciting than seeing new irises bloom in your garden. You are going to have a wonderful spring. |
- Posted by illinoisdoglover z5IL (My Page) on Thu, Jan 17, 13 at 16:58
Harvest Maiden is beaitiful. I will have to consider adding that one to my collection. Could anyone suggest some iris that are almost exactly like Eleanor Roosevelt? I am going to try to identify some iris in my garden this year when they bloom. Many seems to look very similiar. according to pictures on the web. I am not a expert, just a plant lover and have several that looks so similiar to it. I traded for some dark purple noids last year and was told they believe they are Eleanor Roosevelt. Do you have any thought or comments about this Historic iris. I hope it blooms true since the pictures I was sent look beautiful. |
- Posted by hosenemesis SoCal Sunset 19 USDA (My Page) on Fri, Jan 18, 13 at 1:06
There are quite a number of irises that look like Eleanor Roosevelt to me. Here in CA, they go by names like Grandma's Purple Flag. They tend to grow very well here, bloom a lot, and be quite small plants. People with extensive experience can usually identify them and tell the differences. One thing you can do to prepare to ID your irises as best as possible: start a log book. Make a map and label the plants with markers. In the spring, record how tall the plant is, how tall the flower stalk is, how big the flower is, how many buds it gets and whether they are single- or double-socketed, how many lateral branches come off the main stalk, and whether the base of the plant has a purplish tinge to it or not. You should also record when it begins blooming and how long the bloom period is. Take lots of pictures; clear close-ups help. Note the colors of the beards and the other parts of the flower. Once you look that closely and write down all of the details, you start to notice the differences when you are looking at photos on the Internet. It's fun. Then you can post photos here and Irisgal and others will help you ID them if possible. |
- Posted by illinoisdoglover z5IL (My Page) on Fri, Jan 18, 13 at 1:44
Thank you for all the iformation. I already have a log book started, but will need to make room for recording all the info you suggested. I have 99% of them marked, but we all know by the time spring gets here in Illinois, sometimes markers are pushed up and moved around from ground thaw and critters. Not to mention the dogs. I have been trying to keep log books and pictures for most of my plants but never got involved in recording all the other info you suggested. Will see what happens this spring. It is fine that they do not all get identified, will love them just the same. I find that I get new iris all the time, must be from bee pods. riverbank projects always needs more plants anyway. Sounds like fun.Here is one such unknown. I am sure the one I am hopeing to be Eleanor Roosevelt will bloom this year. |
- Posted by mccommas (email@example.com) on Sat, Jan 19, 13 at 10:54
Sugar Blues. Besides being so enormous and colorful, they muliply like rabbits. Also keep in mind so called re-bloomers need a tremedous amounts of light to re-bloom. I have been told that unless you are in the Pacific Northwest, don't count on it. |
Here is a link that might be useful: sugar blues
- Posted by illinoisdoglover z5IL (My Page) on Sat, Jan 19, 13 at 14:43
Sugar Blues is georgeous. Need to add that to my list. Pictures are beautiful. Love the size and fact that they multiply fast. For the first time in my life I had a iris rebloom this past November. It was Calrence. So surprised. Usually never happens in my zone. |
- Posted by mccommas z5CT (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sat, Jan 19, 13 at 16:50
When one does rebloom for me or in my area, it is almost too late! The first one I got I had to cut and bring in because it started to snow! |
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