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Shades of Eric Davis taking Dave Stewart deep from Phillips tonight. And then the diving save behind Votto. And then the big two out hit in the ninth.
I think that deserves a song.
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Shades of Eric Davis taking Dave Stewart deep from Phillips tonight. And then the diving save behind Votto. And then the big two out hit in the ninth.
I think that deserves a song.
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And his baserunning of avoiding the double play was an incredible play too. He was money tonight.
I was just thinking about the ED reference myself when looking back on the Phillips homer. Cueto goes down, we're feeling pretty uneasy and then Phillips takes Cain deep to give the Reds a lead they'd never surrender the rest of the game.
Tonight was Reds baseball. One down, 10 to go.
One of the most underrated players in baseball IMO, seeing as most (ie: non-Reds fans, and even some Reds fans) focus far more on issues involving his personality instead of production and skills.
I mentioned in the game thread.....a great night for a national television audience to see BP perform in the way that we always get to see him.
And a great post game interview, very classy.
He's the best player on our team, even with a healthy Joey Votto. Brandon is the best all around player. Defense, offense, showing up big in big time games.
Twitter went nuts after his Matrix move to avoid the tag (other team's players were totally geeking out over it :D) and I loved it too! What a great night for Brandon! :jump:
I don't see the point in direct comparisons, but Phillips should leave here being the best franchise player since Larkin. It's a privilege to watch him play, possibly the most entertaining player in the game for years now. He loves the attention and pressure, thrives on it. He carried that team tonight like Eric Davis.
An incredible trade by Krivsky when you think about what was given up. The thing that I admire the most about Phillips is that since the very beginning, he's always wanted to be with the Reds. He's continued echoing that, even when the team was bad. Truly loyal to Cincinnati.
Oh yeah, and he's been a very good player. Outside of his first year in Cincinnati, he's averaged around 4 wins every season since.
I was for the extension, though I wasn't sure about that last year, but you know what, if Phillips continues playing the way he has, it will easily be worth it.
Tremendous game for Brandon. Bruce wasn't too bad either.


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Latest Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics Stories
The Brazilian programme as part of the London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, has been announced in Rio de Janeiro.
Led by International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission Chair Nawal El Moutawakel, an IOC delegation, comprising IOC Olympic Games Executive Director Gilbert Felli and IOC Sports
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 29, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Bradesco is the first national sponsor of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, exclusively in the Finance and Insurance Services categories.
The International Olympic Committee will select the host city for the 2016 Games Friday. Chicago, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and Madrid are the candidate cities and a final appeal will be made by representatives for each of them prior to the voting by IOC members. President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak to the IOC on behalf of Chicago's bid. The winner will be entrusted to deliver one of only a handful of truly global events that has the ability to bring together the vast majority of humanity...
Polls conducted by international Olympics officials indicate strongest local support for the 2016 Summer Games in Madrid with Brazil's bid also popular. The International Olympic Committee ordered a poll seeking public support for having the 2016 Olympics in each of the four candidate cities.
Representatives from the four cities vying to become the host site for the 2016 Olympics gave presentations Wednesday to the International Olympic Committee. Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo are the finalists for the 2016 Games.
DENVER, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rio 2016 Bid Committee outlined its vision for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games today for Olympic Family members and international sports figures during a presentation at Sport Accord in Denver, Colorado. Rio's official presentation panel included Sergio Cabral, Governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, Mayor of Rio, Carlos Nuzman, President of the Brazilian Olympic Committee and President of the Bid Committee, Carlos Roberto Osorio,...
By Ossian Shine LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Edgy athletes fearing a cull of sports from the Olympic program want the International Olympic Committee to raise the minimum number of sports needed to stage a Summer Games from 15 to 25.
By Ossian Shine SINGAPORE (Reuters) - London will stage a reduced Olympic Games in 2012 after baseball and softball were wiped from the program in a controversial vote on Friday.
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From self-driving cars to smart contact lenses, Google's got a lot going one besides software.
If you're hoping for even more intimate contact with Google than Google Glass can offer, look no further than the company's smart contact lenses.
The device could actually be great news for diabetes sufferers, as its designed to measure glucose levels in tears via a tiny wireless chip. The hope is that it will allow patients to monitor their blood sugar levels in real time, and without having to prick their fingers and test drops of their blood throughout the day.
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Alias Records
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Alias Records is a small American indie-rock record label based in California.
Alias has released albums by American Music Club, Archers of Loaf, Yo La Tengo, The Magnolias, The Loud Family, Too Much Joy and Knapsack among others.
American Indi Label Alias Records formed in 1988 in San Francisco, California and affiliated with Recording Studio SOMA Sync. The following year Alias Records opened a second office under the guidance of owner Delight Hanover-Jenkins in Burbank, California and was affiliated with world renowned recording studio Royaltone Studio. She oversaw the development of both companies.
The roster included many notable artist such as Archers of Loaf, one of the most hard working and critically acclaimed indie rock artist of the 90's with a distinctive style and unmistakable sound.[1] Having several releases in the Alias catalog a deal was penned with Merge Records in 2011 to re-issue four of the LP's with various singles and out takes. Another notable Band - Yo La Tengo - had their first Alias release come out in 1992 "May I Sing" followed by "Upside Down" a extra long EP that actually contained a LP's worth of material. The band signed to Matador Records and has released several full-length LP's and a compilation of previously released material containing some of the Alias Tracks.
American Music Club (a San Francisco band whose frontman was Mark Eitzel) received many accolades from the music press, but found little commercial success. Having two releases in the Alias Records catalog, the full-length LP "Everclear" and the CD-EP "Rise," they also went on to record albums for the major label Reprise Records, and after reforming in 2004, for Merge Records.
Barry Black (Archers of Loaf frontman Eric Bachmann's side project) had releases on Alias also.
There are several other notable artists: Blithe - Caustic Resin - Distortion Felix -Harm Farm - Lida Husik - Paul K - Matt Keating - Knapsack - Loud Family - Throneberry - Trunk Federation - The Scourge of the Sea and Neva Geoffry.
Alias Records has continued to distribute the back catalog.
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Music plays a major role in Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" as the 1970s songs featured in the film are part of the storyline in a unique way. Explaining how the songs come to play in the story, director James Gunn says, "One of the main story points in the movie is that Quill has this compilation tape [Awesome Mix #1] that he got from his mother before she died that she made for him. It was of songs that she loved, all songs from the 1970s, and that's the only thing he has left of his mother and that's the only thing he has left of his home on Earth. He uses that as a connection to his past and to the sadness that he feels of having left all that and lost all that."
From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team—the Guardians of the Galaxy. An action-packed, epic space adventure, Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits—Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon, Groot, a tree-like humanoid, the deadly and enigmatic Gamora and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand—with the galaxy's fate in the balance.
Awesome Mix Tape, Vol. 1 track list follows:
1. "Hooked on a Feeling" Performed by Blue Swede
2. "Go All the Way" Performed by Raspberries
3. "Spirit in the Sky"* Performed by Norman Greenbaum
4. "Moonage Daydream" Performed by David Bowie
5. "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" Performed by Elvin Bishop
6. "I'm Not in Love" Performed by 10cc
7. "I Want You Back" Performed by Jackson 5
8. "Come and Get Your Love" Performed by Redbone
9. "Cherry Bomb" Performed by The Runaways
10. "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" Performed by Rupert Holmes
11. "O-O-H Child" Performed by The Five Stairsteps
12. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" Performed by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
*Not in film
Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy," which first appeared in comic books in Marvel Super-Heroes, Issue #18 (Jan. 1969), stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, featuring Vin Diesel as Groot, Bradley Cooper as Rocket, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, with John C. Reilly, Glenn Close as Nova Prime and Benicio Del Toro as The Collector.
James Gunn is the director of the film with Kevin Feige, p.g.a., producing. Louis D'Esposito, Alan Fine, Victoria Alonso, Jeremy Latcham, Nik Korda and Stan Lee serve as executive producers. Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" is written by James Gunn and Nicole Perlman.
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Apple opens new retail store in Taiwan
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Apple retail in Taiwan
Apple opened its first large-scale Apple retail store in Taiwan, according to a new report. The new retail store, which opened December 23, is in Taipei, the Digitimes reported: "The new Apple Computer store is located in an area of Taipei famous for a large number of consumer electronic stores and has three floors with a total floor space of about 397 square meters (4,270 square feet) and cost NT$150 million (US$4.6 million) to set up, the sources pointed out. Unlike retail outlets set up and operated by Taiwan-based sales agents, the new store represents Apple Computer's brand image in Taiwan." The report also says that Sony will establish a large retail shop inside a new large SOGO department store scheduled to open early next year and "will provide open space for customers to experience using Sony products."


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I opened up a box with a new Shorai LFX18 for my KTM 990 today. It's my second Shorai and I wanted to make sure it's ok before firing up the bike. My (about 40 US$) voltmeter said 12.9 V out of the box (ambient room temp.). I charged it with Shorai's charger and it "beeped full and ready" at 14.05 volts after less than 10 minutes. When disconnecting the charger, the battery voltage drops to 13.85 after some couple of minutes and then stays there.
I repeated the charging a couple of times and it always tells "full" at between 14.0 and 14.05 volts. The store mode charging stops when my voltmeter indicates 13.0 volts.
I am suspicios on the condition of my new Shorai since 1) the Shorai charger stops at 14.05 volts while the table above in this thread tells 14.34 volts at 100 %. For comparison, my old (almost dead) Shorai reched only 13.3-13.4 volts at full charge with the Shorai charger. Is perhaps the new Shorai already on it's way downhill??!!
Second reason for my suspicion is the very short time it takes to fully charge the battery. I have not tried measuring the voltage of the individual cells as described early in this thread.
Would appreciate any comments and if I should return the battery to the dealer before firing up my KTM.
Tonight the Shorai charger is set on store mode in my garage (a couple of degrees above freezing) and I will repeat the charging to full by tomorrow, to find out if the final voltage differs at lower ambient temperature.
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NANCY PELOSI: No. We feel -- obviously, that's something that we -- look into as we're putting the bill together. But it -- that is also why -- we're very -- we're very precise in our language. So the intent of Congress is clear. And that is why -- the statements and comments and executive orders, whatever, of the President on how the bill will be implemented are very important. But it always is the case. The Congress legislates -- the White House -- the Executive Branch enforces, and the -- the Supreme -- the Judiciary interprets. We feel very confident about our legislation.
DIANE SAWYER: One more question about cost. As you know, there's great anxiety in the country about the potential cost of this bill. And somebody -- a critic labeled it fiscal Frankenstein. We went back and looked at a 1967 projected the cost by 1990 of Medicare was $12 billion. What really happened is it was $107 billion. Which is more than eight times what they projected it would cost. What guarantee is there to the American people that this won't similarly balloon out of control?
NANCY PELOSI: Well, I'm so pleased that you're asking me about cost, because the cost of -- health care in America, both in delivery of service and insurance to families is unsustainable. It's unsustainable to family budgets. It's unsustainable to federal budgets. And one of the important things that we had to do from the standpoint of the federal government was we -- to cut those kinds of expenses in Medicare. Waste, fraud, and abuse that have contributed to the rising cost of Medicare. There is no cut in this bill to benefits for seniors or any of -- ri -- rising of -- raising of premiums in the legislation. So, to -- to be clear, that's why A.A.R.P. has said we have made this solvent for today's seniors and future generations by the necessary cuts in waste, fraud, and abuse. The upward spiral of -- rising medical cost can drive our country bankrupt unless we take this action now. The -- the simple fact is this. This legislation will save the taxpayer $1.3 trillion over the life of the bill, and the ten years after.
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Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Wednesday declared that the Government was working on an integrated water resource management policy for the whole country and also offered to mediate in the matter of providing adequate water to Delhi.
Speaking to media persons after a meeting with Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Finance Minister A.K. Walia and various officials in which the Annual Plan 2010-11 for Delhi was discussed and finalised, Dr. Ahluwalia said the issue of water was discussed at length. "The total availability of water in Delhi is more. But lakhs of people come into Delhi every year and we have to plan where the water is to come from.''
Stating that a long-term solution was needed, he said, the work on supply from Renuka Dam was on. "It is not Delhi's problem alone as other States have to supply the water. So we will help them.''
In Delhi, he said, the availability of water was not an issue. "There is a lot of wastage and attempts are being made to reduce it. Treated water can be used for washing and industrial use. Delhi Government has also stated that steps are being taken to recharge ground water and this will lead to improvement.''
Noting that "water is India's problem'', Dr. Ahluwalia said "the water crisis is more important than the energy crisis. We will have to do a lot to conserve water''. In this regard, he said, an integrated water resource management policy was being worked on.
On the issue of inter-linking of rivers, Dr. Ahluwalia said "it alone will not solve the problem as the water surplus States do not want to share their water. Only the Ken-Betwa project has got underway in this scheme''.
Calling for creating a very high level of public awareness about water conservation, Dr. Ahluwalia said while the problem is being faced the world over, India's advantage is that "we are thinking about it relatively early''.
Earlier during the meeting, Ms. Dikshit had requested Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission to expedite clearances for immediate commencement on construction of Renuka Reservoir by Himachal Pradesh Government. She also raised the issues of allotment of land for construction of more Economically Weaker Section houses, funding for Delhi Metro Phase-III, implementation of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission and Commonwealth Games projects, early completion of Eastern and Western Peripheral Expressways, and approval of proposed DUMTA Bill.
In the meeting the Plan Outlay of Rs.11,400 crore was approved. It was also stated that this would be funded with the Central Plan Assistance of Rs.1,284 crore and Delhi Government's own resources of Rs.10,116 crore.
Dr. Ahluwalia also urged the Delhi Government to prepare a draft of the 12th Plan, keeping in view issues of importance for Delhi. Dr. Walia had earlier raised the issue of increasing the allocation for Delhi under JNNURM as Delhi needs more funds for a number of projects approved and being implemented under the Mission.
It was also stated Delhi Government will invest about 38 per cent (Rs.4,224 crore) of the total approved outlay in the current year on transport sector projects followed by 13 per cent (Rs.1,500 crore) on water supply and sanitation, 13 per cent (Rs.1,417 crore) on housing and urban development, 11 per cent (Rs.1,243 crore) on medical and public health, 10 per cent (Rs.1,122 crore) on education, including sports, and 7 per cent (Rs.807 crore) on social welfare and women and child welfare.
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Gender Matters: Dividing Boys and Girls
At the 49ers Academy, in East Palo Alto, California, it was the students who gave the thumbs down to going coed.
"They say they feel more comfortable in sex-segregated classrooms," says Heather Turoczi, the school's program director. "The boys don't feel like they need to put on a big show for the girls, and the girls feel like they can strive academically without having to dumb down their abilities."
The 49ers Academy is somewhat of a rarity, both in California and nationwide: a single-sex public school. Incorporated in 1996, the school caters primarily to low-income students, many who could be classified as high risk. The goal, says the school's Web site, "is to keep these kids in school."
Middle school boys and girls here share a campus. Clad in their 49ers uniforms of white T-shirts and khaki pants, they squeeze in a few minutes of sarcasm and flirting as they cross paths on the quad but spend most of the day in single-sex classrooms, sharing the school's facilities on a staggered schedule.
Birds of a Feather:
Students at the 49ers Academy, a rare single-sex public school in East Palo Alto, California, have rejected the option to go coed.
Fifty-one completely single-sex public schools exist in America, and nearly five times as many offer some single-sex classrooms, according to the National Association for Single Sex Public Education. Those numbers may soon rise. In November, the U.S. Department of Education delivered guidelines that will, in effect, show how school districts can offer single-sex classrooms without violating Title IX, the landmark 1972 federal legislation that mandated gender equality in all aspects of government-funded education.
Supporters of single-sex education welcome the new rules, but many others are wary of the change. In education as well as anywhere else, they argue, separate is not equal, and single-sex schools can undermine years of progress toward gender equality. Under the new legislation, however, it's less a matter of if than of how: How far must schools go to ensure that boys' and girls' educations mirror each other exactly? How do you preserve fairness in segregation?
The 49ers Academy dates to an older experiment. In 1997, then California governor Pete Wilson introduced legislation to create twelve single-sex academies in six districts. The state would grant $500,000 to each district to help fund the schools, with the requirement that the money be divided equally between boys and girls. The academies would operate as magnet schools within the districts, alternatives to -- but not replacements for -- coed programs.
Ultimately, only six schools took part. Immediately after the two-year trial period, four of them reverted to a coed curriculum, and a fifth did so one year later. Some found the double classrooms a hassle to coordinate, says Elisabeth Woody, one of the researchers hired to evaluate the program, some felt they weren't seeing an improvement in overall education, and some simply lost their incentive once the money ran out.
Woody and the other researchers concluded that the single-sex public academies were "not sustainable under California's policy framework." In 1998, the American Association of University Women Education Foundation released its own report, declaring that there is "no evidence that single-sex education is better than coeducation." The verdict on single-sex public education, it seemed, was in.
Fast-forward to 2002, when President Bush signed the federal No Child Left Behind Act into law. Along with other major changes to state-funded education, the new legislation gave public schools more flexibility in offering single-sex programs. Unfortunately, the measure failed to explain how they could do so without violating Title IX. Last August, the American Civil Liberties Union won the latest in a series of lawsuits against single-sex public schools in a district where, it argued, children were given no other choice.
Whitney Ransome, coexecutive director of the National Coalition of Girls' Schools, says it is difficult to assess the value of single-sex schools. "We know from decades and decades -- some of these girls' schools are a hundred or more years old -- that girls' schools expect the best from their students, expect them to achieve, and expect them to be participants in the nontraditional subjects," she says. "The generations of accomplished women who attend those schools are the best evidence that single-sex education can be a powerful and life-changing experience."
Ransome points to well-known public, diverse, all-girls success stories such as Baltimore's Western High School, founded in 1844, which boasted a 100 percent college placement last year, and the Philadelphia High School for Girls, established nearly 200 years ago, which counts among its graduates a federal judge, an opera singer, the first female bishop in the Episcopal Church, and the first female head of the Black Panthers.
Ransome emphasizes that single-sex education isn't for everybody but says that, for those who choose it, single-sex classrooms allow girls to "hold onto their childhoods a little longer" and attain a level of confidence not commonly seen in girl graduates of coed programs.
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49ers Academy math and science teacher Joya Deutsch teaches boys and girls in separate classes.
Ilana DeBare, cofounder of the private Julia Morgan School for Girls, in Oakland, California, and the author of Where Girls Come First: The Rise, Fall, and Surprising Revival of Girls' Schools, says that though girls can thrive in coed classrooms at younger ages, once puberty sets in they quickly begin to lose their confidence.
"In middle school, that's when the girls suffer," says DeBare. "It's like, 'OK, you used to be this great student, and now you have to be Britney Spears. You have to be smart, but not too smart. You have to be sexy, but you also have to be smart.' That's when they really start to fall behind."
Until recently, the movement advocating public single-sex education consisted mainly of people such as Ransome and DeBar -- girls' advocates steeped in books like Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls and Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls, by researchers Myra and David Sadker. But the last decade has seen the rise of a new voice, perhaps best embodied by doctor and psychologist Leonard Sax, author of Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences. Sax is the leading -- or at least most popularized -- voice to promote the idea that girls' and boys' brains work differently and should thus be catered to in distinct ways in the classroom.
Boys don't hear as well as girls, says Sax, which causes them to act out, especially from the back of the class, where it's hardest to hear the teacher. Girls are hardwired to articulate emotion more easily, he adds, while boys are quicker to understand spatial relations. Books like Hear Our Cry: Boys in Crisis and The War Against Boys, sounding uncannily like the girl-empowerment treatises of a decade ago, argue that coed schools actually discourage boys from self-confidence and success, and that problems such as attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) are often the result of a classroom that refuses to let boys be boys.
There's a certain, unmistakable irony here: Women, who for so long argued that single-sex education is the best way to downplay gender roles, find themselves sharing the stage with men and women who say it's exactly those gender roles that justify single-sex education.
For single-sex-education opponents, books like Why Gender Matters are Exhibit A in the case against the movement. Sax's science, they maintain, is nascent at best, and hardly a foundation for school reform. Moreover, to them, any program founded on set ideas of masculinity and femininity is both a violation of Title IX and a threat to students' long-term success.
Elisabeth Woody, the California researcher, says that the single-sex classrooms she observed often failed to give equal educations to boys and girls and, at least as worryingly, gave broad license to districts and teachers to decide what, exactly, a boy's or girl's education should look like.
"While girls were taught they had broad choices in life, they were also applauded for being feminine and being concerned about their appearance," said Woody and her team in a report released at the end of the two-year pilot project. "Boys were told they should be able to cry but, conversely, were told to be strong men and take care of their wives. In most cases, traditional gender role stereotypes were reinforced, and gender was portrayed in an essentialist manner."
Emily Martin, deputy director of the ACLU's Women's Rights Project, says that though single-sex education may be just the ticket for some kids, the risks far outweigh the benefits. "When you segregate groups of people based on a characteristic, you give enhanced importance to that characteristic," says Martin. "And the very act of putting boys in one class and girls in another encourages students to rely on differences in gender, to inflate the gender difference in their minds."
It's here that the critics of single-sex education begin to sound like opponents of another kind of separation: the racial and economic segregation in American public schools documented by Savage Inequalities author Jonathan Kozol and others. The de facto segregation Kozol describes has created tangible -- and tragic -- inequalities between white and minority students, and between poor students and affluent ones. By comparison, the debate over single-sex education can't help but seem a bit less grave. Still, the arguments draw from each other and, to a great extent, account for the position the ACLU takes on the subject. Any kind of segregation, Martin argues, undermines diversity and the ability of diverse groups to work together.
"Given that we are preparing boys and girls to be men and women who work together, it's even more important for boys and girls to learn from each other, to be allowed to complement each other in the classroom," she adds.
What's more, critics say, single-sex schools such as the 49ers Academy and the Philadelphia High School for Girls might owe their success to any number of factors: smaller class sizes, specialized teachers, and a higher public profile, which often brings extra revenue. The 49ers Academy allows only twenty students per class. Baltimore's Western High School, says Martin, "has been around for 150 years and has a great reputation in the city. You have to apply to get in. I don't argue for a second that that isn't a great, successful school and that it is churning out empowered young women, but that's a very hard school to replicate in districts across the country."
It remains to be seen whether the federal government has successfully shown public schools how to institute single-sex programs without violating Title IX, at least in spirit. But for some of those on the ground, like girls'-school founder Ilana DeBare, if a school works, we should learn from it.
Recognizing gender differences in learning styles, DeBare says, can help schools implement a kind of affirmative action, giving boys and girls special encouragement in areas they typically lag in. "There are genuine differences between men and women, but that doesn't mean the differences are deterministic of everything," she adds. "I think the similarities far outweigh the differences. But there are times when we can also use those differences to help everyone."
Amy Standen is a former contributing editor to Edutopia. She reports on science and the environment for KQED-FM, in San Francisco.
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Address the differences, but don't segregate to do so. Social pressures should not dictate sound educational practices and decisions. We have worked too hard as a society to move towards gender equity in the workplace. We can't and shouldn't go back. We talked about preparing children for the adult workplace in terms of technology integration, shouldn't we do the same in terms of social integration?
Every school district, large enough, should offer single-sex schools and/or single-sex classrooms in co-ed schools as an alternative for those boys and girls who may benefit from this type of arrangement. Indeed, it does not have to be all or none. If the options were available, a child and their parents may choose single sex classes for part of the school experience, (for example, 9th or 10th grade). Indeed, it may also be possible to have some classes, e.g., geometry taught in single sex classrooms.
The argument against this, of course is that it may present a logistical nightmare. However, some schools have thousands of children attending the same school and the larger the school the more flexibility you have and may, in fact, need to provide quality education for all children.
The education of the children should come first. It is clear that we need to do some things differently. With some children, gender does matter.
I used to teach at the 49ers Academy. The single-sex education is what saves those kids. The students who come to 49ers are seriously at-risk and need every advantage they can get. Having separate classes allows them (especially girls) to be relaxed enough to learn, to put aside other issues that are flaring with the onset of puberty and apply themselves as much as they can considering the incredible obstacles are they facing. Single-sex education helps.
All scheduling problems have solutions. Why can't schools offer some classes segregated and some not? That way the girls get a break from the boys and the boys get a break from the girls but they don't need sign up for complete segregation for the rest of their schooling. Let's cater to the needs of students without creating unhealthy learning. And for goodness sake, train us teaches on how to teach in these classes so that we do not unwittingly (or wittingly) reinforce stereotypes.
Single sex education, i believe, it not a matter to be worried about. Boys and girl were made to function around one another, and without that constant interaction, the students wouldnt have as much to learn from school. Alot of girls have the same ideas as one another, as do most boys, so separating them would leave biased or incomplete ideas and answers. But when we put the two together, ideas and thoughts and answers can be put together to express in greater detail the subjects in school. Also, i dont believe that separation is a good idea because you have to have that interaction with one another in order to function as a normal human being.
But, in essence, alot of people do believe that separation of the sex's is a good idea because the grades issue. Some people think that if we seperate the boys from the girls, that we will have alot more focus going on in school. I believe that issues would come up between one another too often, and that the girls and boys would be more distracted thinking about one another, and that they would have a harder time coming up with different ideas and looking at things through other peoples points of view. Its hard to understand those points of view if you cant be around the people who have those points of view.
Maybe switching days is the best it will get, but i belive we should keep the sex's together.
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Shields will play Katherine 'Kat' Young, a pilot who has no problem living the boy's club of the military. After being assigned to Joint Base Marshall Bring, she immediately head-butts with General Michael Holden (Brian McNamara). In a power struggle, Kat attempts to hide her tragic past from Holden to keep the upper hand.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. A monster winter storm bigger than some Midwest cities have seen in years slogged toward the nation's midsection Monday as the region geared up its defenses against a potentially deadly mix of sleet, snow and ice that could affect a third of the nation.
While record snowfalls have pounded the Northeast in what's shaping up to be one of that region's most brutal winters, the Midwest has been comparatively unscathed. Not this time: Up to two feet of snow was forecast for some cities, and the storm was expected to carve a frigid path from Colorado to New England by week's end. Thunderstorms and tornadoes were possible further south.
Patrons lined up by 7 a.m. Monday outside Edele and Mertz Hardware just a few blocks from the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, waiting for the store to open. Snow shovels were big sellers, but worker Steve Edele said ice melt and salt were flying out the door.
"`Freaking out' is a great way of putting it," Edele said. "The icing - that's what scares people."
As the first flakes fell, transportation officials from Kansas City to Detroit readied storm-fighting equipment and some airlines encouraged travelers to rebook flights leaving from Chicago's major airports.
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Executives with short-term consulting needs may now tap into KPMG's newest effort at providing immediate solutions.Termed 'On-Call Advantage,' KPMG styled this program to provide outsourcing services for a variety of business and management tasks, and is using this outsourcing technique as a way of keeping clients' overhead at a minimum.The activities that fall under the umbrella of this new consulting program include finance and accounting outsourcing, policy and procedure manual preparation, restructuring assistance, consultation on executive compensat
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Joe Tucciarone, CFP, founder of the National Network of Accountants, Woodbury, New York has been named as one of Accounting Today's Top professionals in financial planning. The list, compiled annually by Accounting Today, one of the nation's leading publications for the accounting profession, was released in May. The list consists of leaders and practitioners in the financial planning and accounting fields that have influenced CPA involvement in personal financial planning sector. "I am very honored to be recognized by Accounting Today.
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Cap Gemini has announced its plans to restructure its operations based on the recent acquisition of the Ernst & Young Consulting Group.First on the table is a new brand for the European company, and will most likely be a hybrid of both company names. However, the new name only can be used for four years under the rights in the agreement.Also being changed is the company's governance structure, moving from a four-man directorate and a supervisory committee to a board of 11 members, including directors and an executive committee.
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Earlier this week, AccountingWeb published a story regarding the overwhelming number of lawyers working in CPA firms.The media also recognizes this trend, and beginning next week, the National Law Journal will begin a new column devoted to accounting-related issues within the Big 5 firms.The column will include information on the Big 5 firms and how lawyers affect the practice of law and accounting.
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Cap Gemini today received the approval of the European Commission to purchase Ernst & Young's Ernst & Young's Global Consulting and IT activities.While analysts previously have predicted that this step moves the European giant one step further in strengthening its consulting services across Europe, the Commission disagreed.Instead, the Commission stated that technological innovations will become more important than who actually 'owns' the business, and that the market will remain fragmented because innovations are hap
May 18 2000
Andersen Consulting Revs up for Site Services
Tenneco Automotive has engaged Andersen Consulting's Automotive, Industrial and Transportation group to provide consulting services to design and build a new customer service Web site.The site is designed to provide after-market sales and service to customers seeking industrial automotive equipment, such as ride control, and exhaust systems' products.Putting the power of the Internet in their hands, customers can order and track any orders placed at the Tenneco site.
May 18 2000
ConvergenceCoaching Formed to Service CPA/IT Orgs
Marrying the CPA and IT function isn't an easy task given the tremendous number of opportunities and knowledge each profession owns just on its own.However, a new company called ConvergenceCoaching seeks to join the two functions together by providing strategic and tactical planning services designed to increase the bottom line.The company is co-founded by Jim Metzler, CPA, a partner with Gaines, Metzler, Kriner & Co. in Buffalo, NY, and Jennifer Wilson, principal of Success Strategists, based in Omaha, NE.
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BDO Seidman has announced that it will spin off its Business & Technology Solutions consulting practice into a separate company, named Wavebend Solutions, LLC.The consulting practice was launched by BDO Seidman five years ago, and has exhibited strong and steady growth in the ensuing years.Spokesmen for BDO indicate that the move will allow the consulting practice to continue its strong growth in today's environment, which has recently been hit with a wave of spin-offs of consulting businesses from traditional accounting firms.
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In yet another effort to capture a larger piece of the pie, another Big 5 consulting firm has made the news, this time by filing for a $1 billion IPO.The firm is KPMG Consulting, Inc., whose main gig is to help companies with their Web strategies. The money gained from shares of stock will be used by the firm to provide working capital, repurchase preferred stock and repay outstanding debt.The venture is being financed by Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. KPMG Consulting is based in McLean, VA.
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AccountingWEB, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of Gail Perry to its team. Perry is a CPA, tax specialist, author, speaker and instructor. Her column, "Fun With Taxes," provides readers with practical tax insights and advice presented in plain English with a touch of humor.
May 2 2000
ICIMC Rolls Out New Academy
The Institute for Certified Investment Management Consultants (ICIMC) recently formed The American Academy of Professional Investment Consultants(SM). The goal of The Academy is to provide education and training for investment consultants who want to learn how to operate their financial advisory practices as profitable businesses and attract more clients. The ICIMC believes The Academy is different because the education offering goes beyond traditional skills and actually focuses on Practice Management issues.
Apr 26 2000
Justification for Technology Projects
Written by Tom C. Davis, CPA -Davis Nichols and Associates (reprinted with permission)There is good news and bad news for accounting firms. Business has been great. The economy has been excellent and looks to remain good for the foreseeable future. Clients are requesting more services and there are many opportunities to offer new services to new and existing clients. The bad news is that staffing resource is in short supply.
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Integrated Process Model Increases Efficiency By 50 Percent
The guys over at PricewaterhouseCoopers have just teamed up with the folks at Micrografx.com to jointly offer a process modeling software that will increase efficiency by as much as 50 percent.The Micrografx software, iGrafx Process with iGrafx IDEFO, will work with PwC's Performance Improvement Approach, Ascendent (TM) PI.
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AICPA's SysTrust Offers IS Solutions
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Four Prominent Consultants Join Forces
Four of the most experienced and knowledgeable consultants in the accounting and financial services industry have joined forces in a collaborative new venture called The Advisory Board.Founding members of The Advisory Board include:L. Gary Boomer, CPA, CEO of Boomer Consulting in Manhattan, Kansas, email: firstname.lastname@example.com D.
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PricewaterhouseCoopers and SchoolMatch have just signed an agreement to offer joint consulting services to elementary and secondary schools across the United States.Hot on the list of districts and systems is how each one matches up against the other in terms of test scores, demographics, and other social and economic factors.
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It's spring break for federal workers and retirees, mainly because Congress is out of town, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.
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While it's not quite as tragic as "Romeo and Juliet", marriages between feds with one in the CSRS retirement plan and the other in FERS can be a tricky thing, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.
No more fireproof feds
Members of Congress are pursuing legislation that would make it easier to fire federal employees for misconduct or malfeasance. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says the lawmakers are focusing on career civil servants, namely members of the Senior Executive Service.
Jessica Klement, Legislative Director, NARFE
Both the House and Senate's budget plans for fiscal 2016 aim to reduce the federal deficit. And to help do that, both plans include provisions to increase federal employee pension contributions. Jessica Klement is Legislative Director of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. On In Depth with Francis Rose, NARFE said those and other provisions tantamount to a pay cut for federal employees.
Feeling lonely? Defense by the numbers
Do you know how many fellow federal workers live in your city, your congressional district or your state? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says you probably don't, but you should take comfort in knowing that you're most likely not alone.
Discussion of TSP issues by the people who know
The Federal Thrift Retirement Investment Board's Greg Long and Kim Weaver join hosts Bob Leins and Tammy Flanagan to discuss the TSP and plans to use a loan from the G Fund to help fund the federal deficit.
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Pay, pension and TSP 'take-aways' you didn't order
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China puts prominent writers under house arrest as Kerry visits
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A prominent writer who has angered China by advocating Tibetan rights said she and her husband were placed under house arrest during a visit to Beijing by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Ms Tsering Woeser said that state security officers had prevented her and her spouse, author Wang Lixiong, from leaving their home since they returned from a trip to the north of China on Tuesday.
Ms Woeser, who has written several books on Tibet and last year was given a U.S. State Department "International Women of Courage Award," said she was detained after a U.S. Embassy staffer telephoned to invite her to meet a U.S. official for dinner.
Mr Kerry is currently in Beijing along with U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew for annual talks with Chinese officials on political and economic issues. A U.S. State Department spokeswoman said the United States was "concerned" that Ms Woeser and another recipient of the International Women of Courage Award had been placed under house arrest and prevented from attending the embassy dinner. "We're looking into the matter to determine more details about what happened here and, of course, the reasons," Jen Psaki told a regular briefing in Washington. She did not name the other detained woman.
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[These letters are one of the miracles of the Qur'an, and none but Allah (Alone) knows their meanings]. 2The Romans have been defeated. 3In the nearest land (Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine), and they, after their defeat, will be victorious. 4Within three to nine years. The decision of the matter, before and after (these events) is only with Allah, (before the defeat of the Romans by the Persians, and after the defeat of the Persians by the Romans). And on that Day, the believers (i.e. Muslims) will rejoice (at the victory given by Allah to the Romans against the Persians) - 5With the help of Allah. He helps whom He wills, and He is the All-Mighty, the Most Merciful. 6(It is) a Promise of Allah (i.e. Allah will give victory to the Romans against the Persians), and Allah fails not in His Promise, but most of men know not. 7They know only the outside appearance of the life of the world (i.e. the matters of their livelihood, like irrigating or sowing or reaping, etc.), and they are heedless of the Hereafter. 8Do they not think deeply (in their ownselves) about themselves (how Allah created them from nothing, and similarly He will resurrect them)? Allah has created not the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, except with truth and for an appointed term. And indeed many of mankind deny the Meeting with their Lord. [Tafsir At-Tabari]. 9Do they not travel in the land, and see what was the end of those before them? They were superior to them in strength, and they tilled the earth and populated it in greater numbers than these (pagans) have done: and there came to them their Messengers with clear proofs. Surely, Allah wronged them not, but they used to wrong themselves. 10Then evil was the end of those who did evil, because they belied the Ayat (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, Messengers, etc.) of Allah and made a mockery of them. 11Allah (Alone) originates the creation, then He will repeat it, then to Him you will be returned. 12And on the Day when the Hour will be established, the Mujrimun (disbelievers, sinners, criminals, polytheists) will be plunged into destruction with (deep regrets, sorrows, and) despair. 13No intercessors will they have from those whom they made equal with Allah (partners i.e. their so-called associate gods), and they will (themselves) reject and deny their partners. 14And on the Day when the Hour will be established - that Day shall (all men) be separated (i.e. the believers will be separated from the disbelievers). 15Then as for those who believed (in the Oneness of Allah - Islamic Monotheism) and did righteous good deeds, such shall be honoured and made to enjoy luxurious life (forever) in a Garden of Delight (Paradise). 16And as for those who disbelieved and belied Our Ayat (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, Allah's Messengers, Resurrection, etc.), and the Meeting of the Hereafter, such shall be brought forth to the torment (in the Hell-fire). 17So glorify Allah [above all that (evil) they associate with Him (O believers)] when you come up to the evening [i.e. offer the (Maghrib ) sunset and ('Isha') night prayers], and when you enter the morning [i.e. offer the (Fajr) morning prayer]. 18And His are all the praises and thanks in the heavens and the earth; and (glorify Him) in the afternoon (i.e. offer 'Asr prayer) and when you come up to the time, when the day begins to decline (i.e. offer Zuhr prayer). (Ibn 'Abbas said: "These are the five compulsory congregational prayers mentioned in the Qur'an)." [Tafsir At-Tabari] 19He brings out the living from the dead, and brings out the dead from the living. And He revives the earth after its death. And thus shall you be brought out (resurrected). 20And among His Signs is this, that He created you (Adam) from dust, and then [Hawwa' (Eve) from Adam's rib, and then his offspring from the semen, and], - behold you are human beings scattered! 21And among His Signs is this, that He created for you wives from among yourselves, that you may find repose in them, and He has put between you affection and mercy. Verily, in that are indeed signs for a people who reflect. 22And among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the difference of your languages and colours. Verily, in that are indeed signs for men of sound knowledge. 23And among His Signs is your sleep by night and by day, and your seeking of His Bounty. Verily, in that are indeed signs for a people who listen. 24And among His Signs is that He shows you the lightning, for fear and for hope, and He sends down water (rain) from the sky, and therewith revives the earth after its death. Verily, in that are indeed signs for a people who understand. 25And among His Signs is that the heaven and the earth stand by His Command. Then afterwards when He will call you by a single call, behold, you will come out from the earth (i.e. from your graves for reckoning and recompense). 26To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth. All are obedient to Him. 27And He it is Who originates the creation, then He will repeat it (after it has been perished); and this is easier for Him. His is the highest description (i.e. none has the right to be worshipped but He, and there is nothing comparable unto Him) in the heavens and in the earth. And He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise. 28He sets forth for you a parable from your ownselves: Do you have partners among those whom your right hands possess (i.e. your slaves) to share as equals in the wealth We have bestowed on you whom you fear as you fear each other? Thus do We explain the signs in detail to a people who have sense. 29Nay, but those who do wrong follow their own lusts without knowledge. Then who will guide him whom Allah has sent astray? And for such there will be no helpers. 30So set you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) your face towards the religion (of pure Islamic Monotheism) Hanif (worship none but Allah Alone). Allah's Fitrah (i.e. Allah's Islamic Monotheism) with which He has created mankind. No change let there be in Khalq-illah (i.e. the religion of Allah - Islamic Monotheism): that is the straight religion, but most of men know not. [Tafsir At-Tabari] 31(And remain always) turning in repentance to Him (only), and be afraid and dutiful to Him; and perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat) and be not of Al-Mushrikun (the polytheists, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah). 32Of those who split up their religion (i.e. who left the true Islamic Monotheism), and became sects, [i.e. they invented new things in the religion (Bid'ah ), and followed their vain desires], each sect rejoicing in that which is with it. 33And when harm touches men, they cry sincerely only to their Lord (Allah), turning to Him in repentance; but when He gives them a taste of His Mercy, behold, a party of them associates partners in worship with their Lord. 34So as to be ungrateful for the graces which We have bestowed on them. Then enjoy (your short life); but you will come to know. 35Or have We revealed to them an authority (a Scripture), which speaks of that which they have been associating with Him? 36And when We cause mankind to taste of mercy, they rejoice therein; but when some evil afflicts them because of (evil deeds and sins) that their (own) hands have sent forth, behold, they are in despair! 37Do they not see that Allah enlarges the provision for whom He wills and straitens (it for whom He wills). Verily, in that are indeed signs for a people who believe. 38So give to the kindred his due, and to Al-Miskin (the poor) and to the wayfarer. That is best for those who seek Allah's Countenance; and it is they who will be successful. 39And that which you give in gift (to others), in order that it may increase (your wealth by expecting to get a better one in return) from other people's property, has no increase with Allah; but that which you give in Zakat (sadaqa - charity etc.) seeking Allah's Countenance, then those, they shall have manifold increase. 40Allah is He Who created you, then provided food for you, then will cause you to die, then (again) He will give you life (on the Day of Resurrection). Is there any of your (so-called) partners (of Allah) that do anything of that? Glory be to Him! And Exalted be He above all that (evil) they associate (with Him). 41Evil (sins and disobedience to Allah) has appeared on land and sea because of what the hands of men have earned (by oppression and evil deeds), that He (Allah) may make them taste a part of that which they have done, in order that they may return (by repenting to Allah, and begging His Pardon). 42Say (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم): "Travel in the land and see what was the end of those before (you)! Most of them were Mushrikun (polytheists, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah)." 43So set you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) your face (in obedience to Allah, your Lord) to the straight and right religion (Islamic Monotheism), before there comes from Allah a Day which none can avert. On that Day men shall be divided [(in two groups), a group in Paradise and a group in Hell]. 44Whosoever disbelieves will suffer from his disbelief, and whosoever does righteous good deeds (by practising Islamic Monotheism), then such will prepare a good place (in Paradise) for themselves (and will be saved by Allah from His Torment). 45That He may reward those who believe (in the Oneness of Allah - Islamic Monotheism), and do righteous good deeds, out of His Bounty. Verily, He likes not the disbelievers. 46And among His Signs is this, that He sends the winds as glad tidings, giving you a taste of His Mercy (i.e. rain), and that the ships may sail at His Command, and that you may seek of His Bounty, in order that you may be thankful. 47And indeed We did send Messengers before you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) to their own peoples. They came to them with clear proofs, then, We took vengeance on those who committed crimes (disbelief, setting partners in worship with Allah, sins); and (as for) the believers, it was incumbent upon Us to help (them). 48Allah is He Who sends the winds, so that they raise clouds, and spread them along the sky as He wills, and then break them into fragments, until you see rain drops come forth from their midst! Then when He has made them fall on whom of His slaves as He wills, lo, they rejoice! 49And verily before that (rain) - just before it was sent down upon them - they were in despair! 50Look then at the effects (results) of Allah's Mercy: how He revives the earth after its death. Verily, that (Allah) (Who revived the earth after its death) shall indeed raise the dead (on the Day of Resurrection), and He is Able to do all things. 51And if We send a wind [which would spoil the green growth (tilth) brought up by the previous rain], and they see (their tilth) turn yellow - behold, they then (after their being glad,) would become unthankful (to their Lord Allah as) disbelievers. [Tafsir At-Tabari] 52So verily, you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) cannot make the dead to hear (i.e. the disbelievers), nor can you make the deaf to hear the call, when they show their backs and turn away. 53And you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) cannot guide the blind from their straying; you can make to hear only those who believe in Our Ayat (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), and have submitted to Allah in Islam (as Muslims). 54Allah is He Who created you in (a state of) weakness, then gave you strength after weakness, then after strength gave (you) weakness and grey hair. He creates what He wills. And it is He Who is the All-Knowing, the All-Powerful (i.e. Able to do all things). 55And on the Day that the Hour will be established, the Mujrimun (criminals, disbelievers, polytheists, sinners) will swear that they stayed not but an hour - thus were they ever deluded [away from the truth (i.e. they used to tell lies and take false oaths, and turn away from the truth) in this life of the world)] 56And those who have been bestowed with knowledge and faith will say: "Indeed you have stayed according to the Decree of Allah, until the Day of Resurrection: so this is the Day of Resurrection, but you knew not." 57So on that Day no excuse of theirs will avail those who did wrong (by associating partners in worship with Allah, and by denying the Day of Resurrection), nor will they be allowed (then) to return to seek Allah's Pleasure (by having Islamic Faith with righteous deeds and by giving up polytheism, sins and crimes with repentance). 58And indeed We have set forth for mankind, in this Qur'an every kind of parable. 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Shanghai's pretty neighbors: Suzhou and Hangzhou, calling you for a visit. A train ride adds more fun for you!
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4 Day Shanghai & Suzhou Highlights Tour
You can enjoy an essential journey in Shanghai and Suzhou including the Bund and the Humble Administrator's Garden. Unique linong in Shanghai and gardens in Suzhou are the highlights.
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4 Day Shanghai Tour & Water Town
This package highlights out the graceful gardens in Suzhou and peaceful Tongli Water Town. A high speed train makes it a fast and easy trip to do from Shanghai.
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9 Day China Southern Ancient Towns Tour
If you want to visit Tongli Water Town, Zhangjiajie and Phoenix Ancient Town, but have no time to plan, this could be your best bet.
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