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Big big news for Alaska Birth Network and ICAN of Anchorage!!! I cannot wait to share it :)
On the home front all is well. Hope all is well with you guys.
Great what's the news?
Can't wait to hear it! What's up!?
We are working on getting a Grant that will allow us to create a Booklet about Pregnancy and Birth choices in Alaska! Looking like it will be 20 - 32 pages long!
The Great Cloth Diaper Change event is this saturday. I know the Anchorage event was canceled but the one is Wasilla is going forward with some awesome goodie bags & a fluff swap after!
Oh awesome Tammy! What do we need to be in it?
Why was the Anchorage diaper exchange canceled?
I'm not 100% sure right now, but based on previous Provider Guides the Alaska Birth Network has produced, the cost of advertising was $50 for the year. $100 for multiple listing (such as if a Birth Center wanted to be listed under "BIRTH CENTER" and "MIDWIVES").
We currently have an Online Guide here
and we also have a paper guide that gets passed out locally. We also send a bundle of guides to each of the out of town providers that are listed.
Our future project will be amazing! And we plan to encompass as much of the state as possible. We have plans for 12 topics specific to Alaskan Families as well. A very nice book that everyone will want to have and share.
Mama's, we have been making birch syrup for over a week now. We will have a few extra 8 ounce jars that we can sell. $15 to locals!
I am not a vegetable. I feed myself accordingly
Hi, Alaska mamas! I just posted a little introduction in the Pleased to Meet You forum, but I wanted to make sure to say hello here as well. I'm down in Homer and loving the beautiful sunshine we've been getting. My 17-month-old son wants to be outside all day long, and I can't wait to take him camping this season. We went once last year, but he wasn't walking. Hope you're all well, and I'm excited to join this forum!
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Hi, Alaska mamas! I just posted a little introduction in the Pleased to Meet You forum, but I wanted to make sure to say hello here as well. I'm down in Homer and loving the beautiful sunshine we've been getting. My 17-month-old son wants to be outside all day long, and I can't wait to take him camping this season. We went once last year, but he wasn't walking. Hope you're all well, and I'm excited to join this forum!
I love your blog! I'm Tammy and we live in Anchorage for the time being. We are moving and going on a road trip soon. I happen to have a blog too.
A little boy same age as my Spencer is missing his service dog.
At least the dog is missing instead of dead but still almost makes me cry after what we went through last summer losing my son's support companion to a speeding truck.
This is KGB area of Wasilla -- please keep your eyes open!!
Essential Oils Bug Spray
This is my own spur-of-the-moment recipe with essential oils I had on hand. I'd like to have peppermint oil in it as well, but am out.
Makes 10 ounces.
Part one :
2 oz Sesame Oil (can use olive, grapeseed, ect. Any liquid oil good for skin will do)
1/2 - 3/4 tsp Emulsifying Wax / E Wax *
Heat your oil until very warm, but not to simmer or boiling stage. Mix in wax flakes until completely melted.
* E Wax is not an all natural organic ingredient. It's purpose is to help the oils & other liquids remain blended together. You can skip this if you want, but you will have to shake vigorously before each use.
Part two:
1/2 tsp Tea Tree Oil
1 tsp Neem Oil
1 tsp Citronella Oil
1/2 tsp Eucalyptus Oil
1/2 tsp Lavender Oil
Mix all essential oils into part one mix.
Part three:
1 1/2 oz Vanilla Flavoring
1/2 oz Pure Vanilla Extract
6 oz Witch Hazel (if using vanilla flavoring)
7 oz Witch Hazel (if using pure vanilla)
Using a fork or whisk blend liquids thoroughly into oil mixture.
Pour into spray bottles & be sure to label them!
I'm going to try the bug stray. Thanks for that. And now it's June. I haven't been on much but I just changed my signature and wanted to use it!!!
Hope everyone is enjoying their summer.
Sue, mama to Spitfire (4/06) , a Firecracker (9/08) , and Chill baby (3/12)
Hi Alaska moms!
Thought I would introduce myself here since it seems to be the most recent Alaska thread.
I'm 30yo, live in Anchorage with my husband, and we're expecting our first baby in December. We're working with the midwives at Geneva Woods and overall are just very excited about this baby. We're both committed to keeping it simple and acquiring as little unnecessary items as possible, and getting most things used. I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on the best places to buy cloth diaper supplies used in town, and about swaps or events in the area to get used stuff in general.
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Working mommas (and poppas)... how often do you have take out for supper because working all day doesn't leave time to cook?
I was looking over our bank statements the past month or two and was shocked to see just how often we ordered take out. When I am home on Mat leave (2 out of the past 3.5 years) I loved to make home cooked meals. But DH works 11-12 hours a day, and now I work 8 hrs + a 2 hour commute, so we are away from home a good part of the day. We've been resorting to take out once or twice a week now for supper!!
Are we 'normal'? Do other working families eat out as much?
Happy wife of Mr. Rabbit; proud momma to DS1 (07.07.09), DS2 (02.11.11) and expecting baby #3 01.27.13.
We don't do takeout except for a special treat. Too expensive. DH and I both work full time: an eight-hour day with a significant commute, and I hear you about not having time/energy to cook! I try to cook a few times a week, and on other nights we eat packaged meals from brands we trust (not gross packaged food but stuff like boxed indian food with frozen naan bread and cous cous). I also have some really quick, go-to recipes that can be cooked in a half-hour or so with minimal effort. I have tried in the past to make meals on Sunday to freeze and bring out during the week, but I haven't been very successful. It's a good idea, though! I do try to have some homemade vegetarian meatballs in the freezer so I can whip up pasta if I need to and throw the veggieballs in for nutrition (they're made of nuts and veggies).
If you guys can afford the take out, though, and you have healthy take out options, do what you have to do! It's so hard when both spouses work.
Breastfeeding, cloth diapering, vegetarian, working mama to DD (10/2010) and wife to a wonderful, opinionated DH . We love and our.
I work late 3 nights a week so dh is responsible for dinner those nights. If there isn't something quick and easy for him to make (like pop it in the oven and be done), odds are he'll call for pizza. We usually call for pizza about once a week. I've made a big effort, when I go to the grocery store, to buy things that he can just stick in the oven from the freezer two nights a week. So frozen pizzas or Stoffer's lasagna, something like that. On the night I work until 8, I put something in the crockpot that doesn't need anything done to it but put on plates. Pot roast, or I make this chicken and dressing thing, or maybe a soup.
I leave work by 3 on Thursdays, so I have plenty of time to prep and cook something good and I don't work Fri-Sun, so I cook big meals those nights as well. Dh doesn't love leftovers but the kids don't mind them, so sometime he'll do that as well (but not as often as I'd like).
Wife to an amazing man , mommy to 3 wild dudes: ds1 (5/23/05 @ 30 weeks), ds2 (3/5/09) , and ds3 (9/26/10) . Part time librarian, full time mommy, occasional chef and maid.
We both work full time. We rely on leftovers, and meals that we pre freeze. Some of our dinners are mishmash servings of leftovers, and that's ok. It cuts down on food waste.
Dh also cooks breakfast for us every single morning while I'm making the bed and getting ready. I'm lucky.
Sme things are easy to make ahead and freeze: lasagna, casseroles, pizza, etc. Add a freh vegetable and you're good.
We have takeout or eat out about 2 or 3 nights a week. I would love to be able to cook more, but there just isn't enough time.
Tired mama to my wild child
We don't do much take out but my menu planning now has very simple meals on it, and we often don't eat until 7:30 or 8 p.m.
Married to overworked DH since 2003, happily mama to DD (01/09) and DS (4/12)
We go out for breakfast almost every Saturday morning.
DH and I go for lunch once a week.
We don't do take out for supper. We get home by 6 every night. DH cooks well I play with the kids. We try to cook things that take longer on the weekend or if it is chilli (say) we might cook it the night before and reheat it the next day. If we have a meeting or lessons at night we plan for a quicker meal or left overs.
We usually only resort to it when I'm too tired to cook due to a large project or staying up late to meet a deadline. We do go out to eat occasionally for recreation or while out running errands, though.
Last school year I menu-planned for the week & cooked nearly all of the dinners since I work from home, but over the summer DH and both kids were also cooking dinners. Once we get into the swing of the school schedule again, we plan to have the girls cook again. Mostly we all make things like pasta & sauce, rice-and-bean bowls, rice-and-tofu bowls, grilled chicken, tacos, salads, some curry dishes, etc. I would say I make nearly everything in 30 min. or so except stuff that goes in the crock pot (dried beans, etc.) We also have a rice cooker, which gets used probably 2-3 times per week.
Mom "D" to DD1 "Z" (15) and DD2 "I" (12) DH "M"
Yes, I have this issue, too, with different dietary needs/choices. Lots of meals are things like plain rice + plain beans + choose-your-own toppings. We eat pasta + jar of sauce + simple salad once or twice a week - everyone likes it & it takes 15 min. to make.
Mom "D" to DD1 "Z" (15) and DD2 "I" (12) DH "M"
Thanks everyone for the feedback! I did try to meal plan for the week, and pre-assembled some meals yesterday in preperation for the week, so hopefully we won't have to order out. Let's see how long we can go... :)
Happy wife of Mr. Rabbit; proud momma to DS1 (07.07.09), DS2 (02.11.11) and expecting baby #3 01.27.13.
There was a good thread on chowhound.com that addressed this point: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/863756 Many,many good ideas.
Unless you really want to save that money, I'd suggest you are "normal" and can continue to order in. If you can order healthy-ish meals, or make your own dressing for salad etc. I don't see the harm at all. Why add more pressure to your day?
Katie - Married to Mike 06/02/01, Mom to Sydney Anne born 11/21/09 and Alice Maeryn & Oliver Thomas born 04/24/13
Part of the take-out/dinner out thing is the kids evening activities. For example, I left work yesterday at 4:30 to race to get DD to her volleyball game by 5:15. We didn't get home (all 6 of us; DH met us there) until 9:15 at night. This after her having practice both the night before and then the night after - tonight. My DS's basketball starts up again in October and another son wants to go back to Karate. Luckily the 5 yr old is content only going to school full-time. DD wonders why I keep balking at registering her for gymnastics. We'd be gone every night a week and booked for most of Saturdays if I agree to it. It's exhausting, and the last thing I want to do is grocery shop and cook from scratch late at night.
Another option that is a good money vs. time compromise is stuff like rotisserie chicken or ready soup/salad/garlic bread from the grocery store, prepared frozen meals and pizza, etc. I am still looking for options that suit everyone in our family, but do buy some frozen stuff like samosas and, gulp, chicken nuggets.
Mom "D" to DD1 "Z" (15) and DD2 "I" (12) DH "M"
While we don't really need to save that money, it was just a big shock to see how much we were spending a month! I wasn't sure if this was average, or if we were known as "those people who are in here every single Friday!!" at the local pizza parlour :)
I admit, I also resort to rotisserie chicken from our neighbourhood supermarket, as well as chicken nuggets (one of the few things on my 3yr old's picky-eater-approved-list).
Happy wife of Mr. Rabbit; proud momma to DS1 (07.07.09), DS2 (02.11.11) and expecting baby #3 01.27.13.
Pizza once a week, and frequently a weekend lunch or 2 out. DH cooks on the weekends. Plan 3 meals a week (M-W) Thursday is leftover night and Friday is often Pizza night. Honestly, I was never that into cooking so anything that gets 'er done is OK with me. If you really LIKED cooking, you may need to adjust your style. Scrambled eggs is a fine dinner. There are some good QUICK ideas on the meal planning forum. Quesadilla's are another good one. And crockpot every week or every other week - all seasons.
Maybe once per month. Too expensive to do more.
we dont do takeout but i do take the kids out once a week since kids eat free, costs $5 to feed all of us
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Synonym(s): thresh, lam, flail
Hypernym(s): beat, beat_up, work_over
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Hypernym(s): dance, trip_the_light_fantastic, trip_the_light_fantastic_toe
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Hypernym(s): beat, pound, thump
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Hypernym(s): beat
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Synonym(s): cream, bat, clobber, drub, lick
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Thoele let her son set up a rudimentary studio in her basement: a mattress, a couple of turntables, a sampler and a vast collection of records. "If things didn't work out," Epperson muses, "I'd probably be at my mom's still."
But the move to Overland -- just a short bus ride away from good record stores, fellow DJs and recording studios -- turned out to be a boon for Epperson. "I was used to coming out there, but I wasn't used to living out there," he says. "It was where I wanted to be at. I used to take the bus to Delmar every other day."
When he wasn't hitting the record stores, Epperson was hanging out at Saints, the Olivette roller rink that served as the unlikely nexus of St. Louis-area hip-hop culture. If you were a St. Louisan devoted to hip-hop back in the early '90s, chances are, you knew about Saints. Picture a miniature Brill Building populated by young hopefuls, hustlers and speculators. DJs spun rap records while hundreds of African-American teenagers whirled around the rink or danced in one of the adjoining party rooms. In the back, twin brothers David and Darren Stith borrowed a few spare rooms from their older brother Andr, who owns the rink, and set up a recording studio, where they encouraged aspiring producers and rappers to lay down tracks. When they heard potential, they signed the artists to their entertainment company, D2.
The twins heard potential in Epperson "The thing that got me about Jay E," Darren Stith told the RFT last year [Saller, "The Producers," April 10, 2002], "Jay E would go into the studio and work on scratches and stuff for eight or nine hours straight. I said, 'Dude, you need to work on this sampler, start programming stuff.' So I showed him how to go through all that, thinking to myself in the back of my head, 'If I can get him to stay here eight hours and start creating songs....'"
Epperson scoffs at the Stiths' claim that they transformed him from a turntablist into a bona fide producer. "I'd sit in on everybody's session and watch how the engineers recorded, watch the producers working. Nobody really helped me," he contends. "A lot of people say they did, but nobody really helped me for real."
To this day, however, D2 gets a percentage of everything Epperson earns, owing to the deal he signed with them early on. It's not a huge percentage, but it's more than he believes is warranted. (None of the parties will say exactly how much money is involved.) "Whenever we wouldn't be arguing, it was a cool place, but you really had to fight for your freedom of music," he says. "There was a lot of people around me, and I kinda didn't want that vibe, but it was the only studio I could be at. They'd be arguing; they'd put a single out and nothing would happen for a long time -- two or three years would go by. And I wanted to do stuff that was consistent."
Epperson prefers not to talk about Saints at all. Reluctant even to speak the name of the place, he asks that it not be published. It's an unavoidable part of his story, though: Saints was where he learned how to make beats. More important, Saints was where he met the St. Lunatics.
On Martin Luther King Day, the studio in the basement of Epperson's St. Peters home is packed nearly to capacity, mostly with local musicians who'll be laying down tracks for Murphy Lee's solo record. Steve Eigner, the engineer on all the Lunatics' albums (not to mention those of just about every other big name, from Mary J. Blige to Rick Derringer), is here, too, having flown in from New York City. So is Epperson's production partner Waiel "Wally" Yaghnam.
Epperson and the Lunatics will finish recording in New York, Miami or Atlanta, at a professional studio. Vocals are trickier to capture, and given Universal's budget, they might as well do things right. But that's not for another month. Today Epperson has assembled a group of local session musicians to augment a beat he has tentatively titled "Skool Boi" -- an homage to Murphy Lee, the youngest Lunatic, whose nickname is "School Boy."
Epperson first hooked up with the St. Lunatics in 1997. At the time, the crew was led by Ali and consisted of Murphy Lee, Kyjuan, Lavell Webb (a.k.a. City Spud) and, of course, Nelly. "They were messing with some local producers, and they weren't satisfied," Epperson remembers. "Ali heard my beats and really liked them, and then he introduced me to the rest of the group. He did two songs by himself and said, 'This is the guy to work with.'"
Epperson felt especially close to Webb, who shared his interest in production. "We just became friends and started doing beats together," says Epperson. "We'd trade information on how to do stuff, which was pretty cool. Spud was kind of, like, outside, compared with the rest of the Lunatics. Different, I guess I mean. The Lunatics are all vegetarians; Spud'll eat a hamburger a day. He's more to my aspect of things -- the way I did things, he did them the same way. We started coming up together, doing, like, competitions almost. Like, 'You got a cool beat -- I'm gonna try to outdo it.' It was all in friendship, but we kept ourselves going."
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The Quran-burning saga ended in a palatable way, achieving its objects best, namely toward creating awareness about vileness of the Quran. This awakening is what is needed for the complete and final downfall of Islam, which would be the greatest service to humanity at our time; and there couldn't be a better memorial than this to the souls of 9/11 victims than our treacherous politicians' sermonizing over their graves about the peacefulness of Islam..
As an editorial note to an article, On the Burning of the Quran, I wrote:
We are against burning books, given that humanity has regretted many such previous incidents. But after studying Islam's 1400-year history, knowing the Quran's content in its best of details, and the sufferance humanity continues to suffer because of this book—we believe this is one book-burning incident that humanity would not regret, but may deem it a blessing down the years. Let us emphasize that life is what value and treasure most. And the number of human beings fall victim to death and other sufferings and inequities in a day due to the Quran and its Islam is a reason good enough to justify the burning of entire collection of this most horrendous book existing in the world today.
I hold most of what I have said before in the above passage, despite that the burning event has been called off permanently. Yet, let me explain that this intended Quran-burning event was not the same as the previous book-burning incidents, which humanity has regretted. Instead, they are opposite in intentions.
The book-burning incidents by the Nazis in modern times or by the Christians, Muslims and others (Muslims still do) in the olden days was intended for destroying those books' messages, for destroying their existence altogether. The purpose of those events was that human beings never get a chance to read those manuscripts.
Pastor Terry Jones' intended Quran-burning event was intended not for destroying the vestiges of the Quran, not to destroy its message. Instead, it was meant for drawing people's attention to its message; it was about asking people of the world to read this book and find out the message it contains. It was, in actuality, an attempt to serve a book's purpose, i.e. it be read by as many people as possible. However, the way to advertise it was odd. Yet, many authors, including me, would be happiest had anyone, whether Pastor Jones or Muslim fanatics, would try to do the same with their books.
Nonetheless, this Quran-burning saga had a perfect ending. The burning did not occur; still it served its purpose in the best possible way. Civilized minds cannot just accept that a book gets burned whatever its message is. This saga has given us respite from that distress of consciences, and still has achieved its goal. That goal is: draw attention of the world to read this book. Thanks to media coverage it received, also thanks to Muslim outrage in countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan, the attention of the world has been drawn to what Pastor Jones said about the Quran: there are good things in the Quran; there are also very bad things.
Now come to the question: Why is the aborted Quran-burning saga a perfect memorial for the 9/11 attack victims on its 9th anniversary?
The 9/11 attacks were inspired by the violent and barbaric passages contained in the Quran. While those fell in the 9/11 attacks constitute only a negligibly tiny fraction of the total victims, hundreds of millions, of the violence inspired by this vilest of books ever written in history, it nonetheless can serve as a signature event in the history of Islam, potentially putting an end to Quran's indefatigable violence once and for all. And that can only be achieved by drawing attention of global masses, Muslim or otherwise, to its message, by prodding and inspiring people to read the Quran carefully.
Unfortunately, the message that our politicians and the media have spread out since the 9/11 attacks has not been directed to that end, but to its opposite. While their messages should have been for careful reading of Islam and its holy texts, they become the ambassador of portraying Islam as a "religion of peace", the Quran as a "repertoire of peaceful divine messages".
Nonetheless, drawing attention of the world to the true message of Islam, despite desperate attempts to obfuscate it by our politicians and media, are getting across the masses, thanks to vile actions of Islamists themselves and somewhat helped by small-time media outlets like ours. The ever-increasing disapproval of Islam among non-Muslims across the world, some 71% New Yorkers' disapproval of the Ground Zero mosque, and the fast-growing build of the community of ex-Muslims etc. are a reflection of that.
Yet, it is an awful insult that the same treacherous leaders would go to the 9/11 attack-sites on the anniversary days to sermonize for the well-being of the victims' soul. While we have witnessed over the past years enough sermons on the 9/11 anniversary by these politicians, treacherous to the souls of fallen victims of the attack, Pastor Jones' adventure was a perfect gift on their death anniversary, because it sent out a message what those fallen innocent soul would want most: study Islam and take measure not to let other innocent men and women like them ever fall victim to it.
The 9/11 attack can be a signature event in history concerning Islam. Its victims could be proudest of the horrendous death they suffered, only if we would treasure and exploit it the right way. While humanity, foremost the souls of the 9/11 attack victims, has been betrayed our leaders, politicians and the media, the awakening to the vileness of the Quran is obviously, albeit slowly, growing which would eventually ensure the final downfall of Islam. Pastor Jones' Quran-burning stunt has helped that cause like no other by drawing attention, widely, to where the problem of Islam lies.
The success of this stunt has been best summarized by Jones himself. When asked for his reaction to the casualties in violent protests in Afghan, Jones termed it "absolutely terrible" and added: "I haven't even done anything. I think it reveals... the violence in Islam. Just the mere mentioning of it, just the threat, causes them to kill people, to protest, to say they are going to kill the president. I think it is quite obvious that what we are saying is definitely, definitely true."
Pastor Jones' Quran-burning stunt has undoubtedly achieved its objectives, much more than what he could have expected. He has produced the best advertisement for humanity to study this book and make an understanding of it, which is the only recipe for Islam's complete and final downfall. And then, only then, would the souls of the 9/11 attack victims' mournful souls would rest in peace.
Yet, being an ex-Muslim atheist and liberal humanist, I am somewhat uncomfortable that it done by a fundamentalist pastor. But when that's going to help achieve one of the best good things that can happen to humanity, I would take it whoever does it.
M. A. Khan is the author of Islamic Jihad: A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism and Slavery, and the editor of islam-watch.org Website.
written by Steve , September 11, 2010
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written by Healer_999 , September 12, 2010
The end is palatable but the only thing to be worried is all infidel countries just bowed to threat of violence.
Other good thing is Terry Jones has not provided ammunition to radical left to justify probable terrorist activities in the future by calling of his plans.
Thank you, Jones.
written by Healer_999 , September 12, 2010
written by Sheesh , September 12, 2010
Another man burned pages of the koran in NYC on 9-11 saying "Americans should never be afraid to give their opinion".
written by Shan , September 12, 2010
SIMI, an Indian Muslim jihadi group distributed pictures of that event in muslim ghettos
Muslims rioted in Kanpur, VHP counter rioted and demolished some mosques
written by democrat1 , September 13, 2010
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written by Archpagan , September 13, 2010
written by Healer_999 , September 13, 2010
Very brief and very accurate.
written by THE ETERNAL ERECTION , September 13, 2010
muslims / islam is world most peaceful ppl/religion.as a proof of this they shud allow burning of koran.
they shud allow building of church and temples near kaba.
when muslims peacefully demolished bamiyan buddhas and so many other temples no one protested,sonow muslims
shud keep quiet and not protest to prove their peacefulness.
written by balam , September 13, 2010
written by Sergei Bourachaga , September 13, 2010
If Imam Abdul Rauf strongly believes that Islam is a religion of "Peace & Tolerance", he should also head a project of building a church in the city of Mecca-Saudi Arabia. The Vatican is the seat of Catholic Power representing almost 1 billion Christians, showed Christian tolerance with deeds not words, by convincing the City of Rome in 1974 to donate (absolutely free) 32.000 squ.m of land in an area of Rome, less than 3 km away from St Peter's Basilica known as "The Pope Diocese, to build a mosque and an Islamic Cultural Centre to encourage "Inter-Faith Dialogue". The inauguration of the mosque took place on June 21, 1995, and the mosque's construction was financed by king Faisal of Saudi Arabia, head of the Saudi royal family, as well as Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.
Isn't it time for Imam Abdul Rauf to convince the Saudi King to lift the absolute ban imposed on building churches anywhere in the Kingdom, especially Mecca. If any person is interested on knowing why the ban does exist, he/she should consult the following link:
Sergei Bourachaga
written by Aloke Kumar Nath , September 13, 2010
Are we serious here??????
Please point me to the sura in the koran that advocates, promotes, and encourages INTERFAITH.
I can point you to numerous Sura's that COMMAND, us infidels must be put to the SWORD.
The sword, the symbol of islam, The weapon of choice that will turn our nations red with our BLOOD.
I am really fedup with the perversion these Imams sell to the naive.
Islam is the doctrine of Satan, propogated by a possessed bloody thirsty, sex maniac that entered into a pact with satan.
The Pact been,
Mohammed my boy "promote my evil doctrine, and I will bestow and grant upon you every whim and satisfy your worldly urges, lust, power and stealth"
Jesus totally refuted the temptations of SATAN.
Mohammed, thought hold on,
This sounds to good to be true,
Satan, you have a deal!!
When do we start??
Today we have to confront and deal with the aftermath of this evil covenant between satan and man.
Satan, has succeed in his quest to war with GOD by controlling, manipulating the true infidels known today as muslims.
These are undeniable facts that are reflected in the dark history of islam, its oppression, violence and torment to their sex toys "women"
It is time to openly confront ISLAM with these facts.
I would love nothing more than to have an open debate in any forum before the entire world, and have them justify to the world the evil life of the Pedophile tormentor and Satans rule book "the koran".
The greates weakness of Islam, is scrutiny of the koran and mohammed.
Exposure of the true nature of the corrupt ideology of satan referred to islam, will be the end of Islam.
written by mike , September 13, 2010
written by duh_swami , September 13, 2010
Well there's not much, but the 'second part' of 5:82 comes close...Of course that faulty thinking was abandoned years ago...
5:82..Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews and Pagans; ......and nearest among them in love to the believers wilt thou find those who say, "We are Christians": because amongst these are men devoted to learning and men who have renounced the world, and they are not arrogant...
written by Aloke Kumar Nath , September 13, 2010
I feel your pain, I too are from the middle east.
I know full well the pain and suffering you Persevere on a daily basis.
Rest assured, we liberated christians that escaped the wrath of islam, will never stop denouncing the butcher and perversion of islam.
May God protect you all.
Rest assured, the day will come when Islam will be impaled on its own sword.
God Bless all the Jews, Christians, freedom fighters and every other denomination oppposed to islam all over the world.
written by Aloke Kumar Nath , September 13, 2010
Thank you for the reply.
The purpose of the question is to highlight the contradiction and oxymoron of ALLAH,
Their Allah is clearly one confused mother!
Allah gave mohammed so many mixed messages,
that the Koran is but a mere supermarket filled with "perverted, rejected goods" that cater for the specific needs of every muslim, the true infidels opposed to the peace and love of God.
Imagine raising your own children in such a manner and giving them so many opposing and mixed lessons and rules.
It is a Disaster.
written by Day , September 13, 2010
written by Aloke Kumar Nath , September 13, 2010
We need to reclaim sacred, Jewish, Christian, Hindu sites that have been desecrated by the filth of Islam.
Hypocrisy In Islam. Islam is Hypocrisy, double standards, lies, deception.......
Hypocrisy goes hand in hand with Islam.
In fact hypocrisy is a fundamental tool in Islam;
Hypocrisy is the mastery of lies and deception.
The Koran, teaches muslims, that lying is acceptable to Allah, and is infact sanctioned by Allah. To lie to someone, is to deceive them, and have them believe you hold a specific view on an issue, which is far from the truth. This is deception.
Likewise Mohammed, reflected this virtue in his behaviour, manners, faith in Allah, and of course in his teachings as recorded in the koran and Hadith.
The word Hypocrisy is defined in Webster's dictionaries as:
an act or a practice of feigning to be what one is not,
or to feel what one does not feel;
especially, the false assumption of goodness.
Therefore, all advocates of Islam a hypocrites like Mohammed, a false pretender and dissembler to virtue or piety.
In the Islamic terminology, the word Hypocrisy is a substitute for 'Nifaq'.
Muslims today, are the children and end result of many generations of perversion.
Islam prohibits any muslim from acquiring virtues that nurture and establish within themselves any personal behaviour not sanctioned by Satan's guide to the universe otherwise known as the "koran".
Allah makes it clear Islam can not be challenged or questioned, and warns them "that their punishment is indeed hell".
Allah says in Sura At-Tauba: "God hath promised the hypocrites, men and women, and the rejecters of Faith, the fire of Hell; therein shall they dwell; sufficient is it for them: for them is the curse of God, and an enduring punishment".
Effectively Allah defines hypocrites as anyone muslim or non muslim, that dares question the integrity of Islam.
The oppression is marked by a heavy penalty, saying in Sura Nisa:
"To the hypocrites give the glad tidings that there is for them but a grievous penalty. Yea, to those who take the unbelievers as their leaders rather than the believers (4:138-139)
Who is a hypocrite according to Mohammed and Islam?
1. A person who has no faith in Allah, His Messenger, and the Day of Judgment may act as a hypocrite.
2. A person who has a weak faith in the Koran and the standing of Mohammed
3. A person who lacks confidence in him/her self and fails to adhere to the letter of the Koran.
4. A person who lacks security, morally, psychologically, or financially, and may be led by an infidel.
5. A person who is conceited, selfish, and fails to execute the laws of the koran e.g "honour killings"
6. A person who is not a man in the likeness of Mohammed unto himself,
Hence A person who seeks to please Allah can cheat, lying, steal, murder, rape and engage in paedophilia just as Mohammed did.
The signs of a true Muslim are the following three signs:
1. He lies whenever he talks.
2. He fulfils his commitment to Allah.
3. He betrays the trust that he takes from infidels
4. When he gives an agreement, he does not fulfil his commitment;
5. When he is entrusted, he betrays the trust.
Islam has given a new meaning to a "double-faced person";
- He shows the infidels one side of his face,
- While he exposes the other side of his face to his own kind.
I am sure many of you are familiar with the old saying "beware a Greek bearing gifts" (Trojan horse).
The Greeks were saints in comparison to islam!!!
This evil is a vice propagated by Allah and His Messenger,
It is a ready to use weapon without raising the awareness of the enemy.
Lying is of the mind, it can not be seen or felt unlike any other weapon, it is in the mind and can be carried everywhere and utilised in any situation as needed.
written by proudest kafir , September 14, 2010
written by The Great Buana , September 14, 2010
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written by Reed Wilson , September 19, 2010
Rather someone should print a low-cost edition of an authentic Quran translation, with all the hateful and intolerant verses HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW, and distribute it free of cost. I will be curious to see how muslims react to this" is great idea.
Since you are curious, you shoul better sponsor this project. You might find some like minded people to share with you.
written by Aloke Kumar Nath , September 19, 2010
All it would take is for someone to go through electronic version of the koran and highlight ALL the suras that are offensive, derogatory, in one colour and highlight all the suras that contradict them in another colour.
Let The islamists decide which is right and which is right,
More importantly, I want them to explain how a peace loving Allah would get so confused and forgetful and why he would make commands that directly contradict each other. They can also why Allah needs to tie people to islam under threat of death.
For gods sake where is the peace?
It will be interesting as to how much of the koran will end up in red and green.
stop and go.
written by dd , September 26, 2010
written by Reed Wilson , September 29, 2010
To dd . I have to say Do do. Something positive, something constructive.
written by Epic Stache , September 29, 2010
On this day people throughout the world will burn Korans.
Until then, people worldwide will plan to burn Korans,
they will publicize their intent to burn Korans,
they will encourage others to burn Korans, and
they will defend the right of all people to burn Korans.
Happy Worldwide Burn a Koran Day!
written by Quran , October 11, 2010
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written by Zarbo , November 08, 2010
To them, the fact that Muhammad was a sadistic murderer, thief, rapist, treaty breaker, wife stealer, and all around bigot "in the cause of Allah" only adds to his holy stature, as his slaves longingly pray, "Oh, if only our children would grow up to be just like Muhammad, how soon infidel scum and all Jewish pigs would be killed and dispatched to hell where they deserve to be tormented forever and ever and ever and ever..."
See Islam. See hell's religion manifest. Hear Satan roar with laughter at the spectacle of 1 BILLION+ Muslims prostrating themselves in prayer toward the exalted meteorite in Mecca instead of to the one God, living and true.
The ruse worked! The damned idiots fell for it! Mohammad, what a fool of a tool! We chose well!


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From this point on I will completely and utterly spoil almost all the plot twists and surprises in Brothers. If you plan on playing it, only come back here once you're finished, or if you don't mind having the entire plot spoilered before playing it.
There are three characters clearly coded as female in Brothers who also have significant roles. I will treat them in the order that they appear, saving the best (worst?) for last. As none of the characters seem to have clearly indicated names, I have only cursory descriptions to refer to them - the mother, the ogress, and the girl. The boys, however, do have appear to have names - I believe the older and younger brothers are Náya and Nayí, respectively, and will refer to them as such.
The first female character the player is introduced to in Brothers is a deceased woman who is almost certainly the boys' mother. She is first shown in a flashback, in which she is drowning in water while her younger son tries to rescue her by pulling her back onto the boat. He fails, and his mother sinks into the water - though the camera is steadily focused on the son throughout most of the sequence, so we know this is really about him.
She reappears later in the game, both as a spirit and as a hallucination (or perhaps only as the latter). In one particular scene, pictured above, younger brother Nayí encounters his mother as a giantess, resting her hand over their dying father and staring sadly at her boys. In this scene, which is later revealed to be a hallucination and possibly a near-death experience, older brother Náya jumps on Nayí and starts punching him in the face. This and other scenes, as well as Nayí's fear of water, suggest that Nayí feels extremely guilty about his mother's drowning.
The mother exists primarily as an object of grief in the game. Her death makes Father the only family the boys have left, making it all the more urgent that they save him - in a sense, her death made their desperation, and subsequent adventure, possible. Her memory, or spirit, serves as encouragement for Nayí, though Náya doesn't appear to think about her all that much. At the end, she is shown to be an object of grief not only for Nayí, but also for his father.
Her agency is extremely limited, though, particularly since it is debatable whether or not it is actually the mother's ghost who is appearing to Nayí to guide him, or whether the apparition is simply a form projected by his own psyche to help him to overcome his challenges. Either way, the most her ghost does is speak to Nayí on a few occasions; she is not a driving force in the plot.
So she was the object of a failed rescue attempt (certainly a damsel in that moment), after which her death serves as a catalyst for the emotional journey of three men, one in particular (arguably an example of being stuffed into the fridge). Now having a parent die is a common tragedy, and the game isn't problematic in a broad sense just for having a mother die and portraying the emotional pain of the experience (though the game could just as easily have had the father die and the mother be the object of the game's rescue, but that's speculation for another day). But this rather male-centric and utilitarian characterization, from a plot perspective, is part of a wider pattern in how the game treats all its female characters - a pattern which, I think, is indeed somewhat problematic.
The second female character the player is introduced to is a female ogre (or troll, or some other kind of large humanoid). The ogress is being held captive in a cage by other ogres for an unknown reasons, or perhaps no reason at all, and must be rescued by the players in order to progress - yes, another damsel. She appears to have been wounded, is helpless until freed, and remains so after that for the most part even after being rescued.
Her existence and relationship to another ogre the players meet is hinted at earlier, though, in the scene pictured above. Náya and Nayí, while leaving their home town, come across an ogre who is crying loudly at his table. Though nothing is explained at first, there are two beds in his home, and a table with two stumps and two sets of kitchenware - clearly, somebody is missing. Later, when the ogress is freed, the players encounter the formerly weeping ogre again, and the two of them embrace, reunited, and leave holding hands.
It isn't clear whether the ogre sent the boys into the underground ogre lair specifically in order to rescue the ogress, as a condition to helping them find their way, or whether they just happen to stumble across her and lead her to him, though the latter certainly seems less likely. This female character, then, is helpless and needs to be not only rescued, but returned to her partner as well (presumably her mate, given their body language and implied closeness, though nothing explicitly suggest she isn't his friend or relative).
The ogress is somewhat helpful to the players, in that she throws them a chain to climb on and other such small things, but for the most part she must be rescued, escorted out and returned to her loved one. This is another fairly simple characterization; not in and of itself a problem, but this being the second female character and the second damsel is somewhat unnerving, and the fact that her role in the plot is primarily as something lost that must be recovered as payment for a service is rather unfortunate. But neither the mother nor the ogress bothered me nearly as much as the final, and arguably most important female character in the game.
As the above picture suggest, the girl starts off as a damsel in need of rescuing. As the third and final female character with much of a role in the game, and the third damsel one or both of the boys must rescue, this is getting a little tiring. But once rescued, and unlike the other women in the game, she becomes a lot more than just a plot device.
She becomes a character, talking to the boys, leading them towards their goal, helping them get through areas they couldn't get through alone. She is competent and strong, has agency, and is in some areas seemingly more competent than the boys are, able to climb fences they don't seem to want to climb and leap prodigious gaps to help move the party around. Somewhat predictably, but acceptably as I see it, she and the older brother start to become close, and develop the beginnings of an intimacy that annoys the younger brother in a charmingly childish way.
So she is turned into a love interest, but all things considered, she's also a strong character and a great help to the boys, and she seems to know things about the icy desolation they are crossing, so it looks like we have something interesting here - she probably has backstory and some connection to this place that we will discover as time goes on, right?
Well... no. Turns out that the girl, the only strong female character with significant agency in the entire game, is actually an inhuman spider-monster.
So, this is great - here we have a whole host of stereotypical and negative female character types bundled into one. She is now a damsel turned femme fatale, a woman who confuses and tricks innocent men using her sexuality in order to divert them from their quest - and then murder and eat them. Only the younger boy, still sexually innocent, can see through her tricks, and tries to warn the older brother not to venture into her lair, though the older brother insists that everything is fine. Trusting a woman is proved to have been a huge mistake when she crawls onto the ceiling, morphs into a spider-woman and encases them in a silken ball.
But it gets worse, too! Because this is the boys' story, after all, they can't just get eaten by some monster, so they end up escaping.
They escape following an absolutely brutal sequence in which the brothers work together to painstakingly rip off every one of the spider-woman's eight legs (keep in mind that she is a spider only from the hips down here). Brothers is a darker game than it seems in the marketing material, but the titular characters only ever end up actively killing two enemies in the entire game, as far as I can remember, and this character is one of them (the other is simply dropped into a glowing pit, with no on-screen death - heck, perhaps no death at all).
Only after she has been literally torn limb from limb by the boys does she get one final word in before dying - a stab to Náya's gut.
She dies shortly afterwards, but the wound to the boy is grievous. Náya is no longer in good shape, and as they leave her lair and move towards the tree with the magical cure in it, he weakens and eventually dies, with nothing his brother Nayí can do to save him. He appears briefly as a spirit, but the rest of the game from this point on is about Nayí's return to save his father, applying the lessons he learned from his deceased older brother on the way, and the game ends with father and surviving son mourning the mother and Náya at their graves.
Interestingly, given the relative lack of characterizations and motivations present in other creatures and characters in the game, the girl is arguably the only truly evil character in the entire game - she possesses sentience and intelligence, something lacked by the wolves and other beasts, but also has clearly hostile motives in sadism and hunger for flesh, which can't be said of the ogres or goblins or other hostile humanoids, who aren't given any clear motives at all (indeed, maybe the goblins who were going to sacrifice the spider-monster at an altar were onto something).
So, to summarize: the only strong female character with any kind of agency in Brothers, who is introduced as the third damsel in the game who needs rescue, is also secretly the most evil monster in the game, one who uses her sexuality to confuse the older of the boys and then tries to literally consume both of them. For this, her fate is to be torn limb by limb by two boys, the only one to be killed on-screen by the boys - although not before she stabs the one who was old enough to be drawn in by her womanly charms, damning him to an early death for his error in judgement and for failing to trust his little brother's.
It almost feels like the lesson of this subplot is "bros before hoes."
I really enjoyed Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, for the most part, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone with a controller and three hours to spare. It's a shame Brothers fails in this regard, given that it is otherwise such a beautifully crafted and enjoyable game. But the portrayal of female characters in the game really bothered me, especially the girl's - indeed, it was only after I had processed just how problematic her character was that I extended those thoughts to the other two women in the game.
These portrayals, I think it's fair to say, are symptomatic of the limited range and male-oriented portrayals of female characters that much of the video game scene suffers from. Hopefully, someday soon, there will come a time when such portrayals are fewer and only a handful among many that women may be accorded in games - but until then, I feel it's important to continue to highlight how games fail at delivering varied, human and deep portrayals of female characters.


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Sun, 03 Aug 2014 21:06
In pursuit of the perfect game of 7s
South Africa's victorious Sevens team will not be afforded too much time to dwell on their Commonwealth Games success.
The next stage in the 'road to Rio' will soon start.
That is when the BlitzBokke will look to build on the gold medal-winning performance at the Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow last month.
SA stunned four-time champions New Zealand with a 17-12 victory in the Final to seal Commonwealth gold.
And, in pursuit of adding the Olympic gold medal to their collection, they will use the 2014/15 IRB Sevens World Series as a launchpad.
"Next season [on the IRB World Series] will be vital for us," BlitzBok coach Neil Powell told rugby365 in an exclusive interview.
"It is part of the qualifying process for the Olympic Games and we have to finish in the top four," he added.
The top four teams at the end of the series will automatically qualify for the 12 spots available at the global showpiece in South America in 2016.
"That is why it will be important to take his momentum and confidence we got from the [Commonwealth Games] tournament into the World Series.
"Then, if we qualify for the Olympic Games, we can take that confidence into the Olympic Games as well."
The South African team captured the imagination and hearts of the Scottish fans in Glasgow, even after knocking the home team out in the quarterfinals.
It was the unbridled vigour on attack and resolute defence that saw them surpass their previous best attempts at the Commonwealth Games - which included two bronze medals.
However, despite their gold medal-winning form, Powell feels they will have to raise the bar significantly if they want to stay at the top of the totem pole.
"There is always room for improvement," Powell told rugby365, when asked how close to the perfect game of Sevens his team was.
"The guys played a very good brand of Sevens [in Glasgow], but there is always room for improvement.
"No doubt that every time we go out onto the field we aim for the perfect Sevens game, so hopefully we get there soon."
By Jan de Koning
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text: Yes, what you saw was a current ports tree running on 3.5. I was trying to say that this was happening on the 3.5 ports tree as well. ----- Brian Stadler -----owner-misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org wrote: ----- To: misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org From: "STeve Andre'" <andres_(_at_)_msu_(_dot_)_edu> Sent by: owner-misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org Date: 08/27/2004 02:24PM Subject: Re: 3.5 and whacky ports tree Marc, Wouldn't the concept of a version marker in the ports be something to consider? Something that was checked at both make and pkg_add which would loudly proclaim a mis-match, and might help reduce the endless stream of people mixing things up. --STeve Andre' On Friday 27 August 2004 21:54, Marc Espie wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 04:19:13PM -0400, Brian T Stadler BTSTADLE wrote: [snip] > So it does. This issue was fixed sometime between 3.5 and 3.6. Namely, > the actual extraction is now protected in an eval {} block, so that > it will register a borked package instead of dying completely. > > > I've comepletly redone the machine from scratch about 10 times now. I've > > installed the OS from different mirror servers as well as the ports tree. > > Anyone have some thoughts on this. > > The web site is very clear about this: PORTS CURRENT AND SRC STABLE DON'T > MIX. > > You've been shooting yourself in the foot. Either run a completely current > system, or go back to a 3.5-stable ports tree. > > The web site on www.openbsd.org is very clear about this.