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What Causes Recurrent Boils on the Nose?
Boils are localized bacterial infections that can occur on any part of the skin.
The boils that occur on the nose can lead to quite dangerous consequences. This is because the nasal chambers usually have colonies of benign staph bacteria. Minor infections may occur in the nose due to the habit of nose picking or blowing the nose too hard. This can lead to boils on the skin of the nose tip. The doctors are usually concerned about such boils because the veins from the nose lead to the brain. If the nose boils are not treated on time or if they are meddled with or squeezed then a life-threatening disorder known as cavernous sinus thrombosis can occur. The main cause of this potentially risky disorder is a bacterial infection that spreads from the nose, sinuses, eyes, teeth, ears or the facial skin.
So we find that the boils on the nose are quite risky and hence they should be treated with utmost care. If in spite of a proper medical treatment the boils keep recurring, then the situation can become quite grave.
Boils usually tend to recur due to the following reasons:
- Some people carry the spores of the staph bacteria genetically.
- A family member who is the staph carrier can spread the infection through contact.
- Unhygienic conditions.
- Obesity
- Immunocompromising diseases
- Weak immune system.
In order to avoid the recurrence of boils on the nose one should follow these methods:
- One should use chlorhexidine or povidone iodine skin cleansers while bathing.
- Oral antibiotics such as Rifampicin or low dose Clindamycin can destroy the nasal bacteria till a few months.
- Some boils are resistant to treatment. The pus from such boils should be sent for a bacterial culture and sensitivity test. The reports help the doctor in deciding which antibiotic can be prescribed to cure those particular bacteria.
- Control diabetes
- Reduce one's weight.
Although it is not possible to get rid of the nasal bacterial colonies permanently, yet the above- mentioned remedial measure can help in reducing them.
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I'd like to leave this world like I came into it: Screaming, naked & covered in someone else's blood
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You shower first so that your disgusting bacterial infected sweat doesn't get in the water.
I used to sauna first and then jump in the water so it felt even colder. Will try it the other way around and see how i feel.
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Now, this was in one of my favorite books, Science of sports training, and the author (Thom Kurz) recommends hot and cold shower to prevent muscle soreness. But, after a while, if you do the same routine over and over, it will lose it's effectiveness. Basically, save it for the really hard workouts, so you don't build up a tolerance. You know, you could sauna on the days that you don't train as hard, cold bath/hot on the hard, draining workouts, etc."Coffee is for Closers" GlenGarry Glenross
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I'd like to know more about the proven health benefits of dry saunas..I have read a couple of articles on the internet, but that's it.
I do the hot sauna for about 10 or 15 minutes, then go rinse with cold water for a few minutes and cool down, drink water and go back in for another 10 and repeat - when I have the time to do it like that.
It works for me." If one wants to have a friend one must also want to wage war for him: and to wage war one must be capable of being an enemy." - Fr. Nietzsche 'On The Friend' Thus Spake Zarathustra

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I was walking through the mall the other day, forced to go to the Genius Bar after the genius move of inadvertently leaving my iPhone in standing water, when I was accosted by the kiosk people. Vermin in Dockers and wrinkled poly/cotton button-downs, they're like locusts swarming, and no matter how I avoided eye contact, they prodded me with their antennae, stripping me of my will to be polite.
"Hello, ma'am. How about signing up with Sprint today?" and "This state-of-the-art ceramic flat iron's got infrared ionic heat that won't destroy your hair!" and "Would you like a neck massage?" and "Try our Mediterranean sea-salt hand lotion?"
When I left Target on Thursday, a wiry guy with a wiry beard and clipboard smiled and chirped, "Hello, ma'am. Do you support gay rights?" That same day at Vons, I was asked to sign a tattered petition. And still that same day, while getting my nails done at my dinky strip-mall neighborhood nail salon of all places, a dude walked in and started pitching perfume.
"Don't call me ma'am!" I warned when he got around to me. I held back from telling him exactly where he should stick his stank, but I imagined the standing ovation I'd have gotten if I hadn't.
The thing is, I support good hand lotion and a good massage. I support gay rights and gay parades and gay marriage and all definitions of the word "gay." I even support good perfume. (I don't support petitions.) But I resent being confronted by aggressive salespeople every time I have to endure what has become the loathsome experience of leaving my home. And to have to deal with it when I'm taking care of my lady business? Well, the totality of it makes me grumpy and antisocial. Which got me to thinking: My mental state might be improved if I focused for a minute on things that don't make me grumpy and antisocial. The yin to the yang, as it were.
So. Happy thoughts from here on out! Just give me a second to think.
I'm digging deep. Hold a moment—.
OK, fine. While I'm percolating on that, let me start with the obvious:
• My husband and child make me quite happy, especially when my husband isn't badgering me for sex and my child isn't badgering me with the finer points of why she doesn't have to __________ (fill in the blank). Wait. I just went negative again. Dammit.
• Saturday morning yoga class with the luscious Laxmi at Ginseng Yoga gets my chakras all straightened out, and I just love that. I never could have imagined that I'd be Om-ing in public—or ever, for that matter. I'm the type who would roll her eyes at the Om. But I do it loud and strong, right from my diaphragm, and I'm pretty sure the vibrations help me have more compassion for the world's kiosk people. We are all just spiritual beings having a human experience, after all.
• Teachers make me happy, especially the brave and awesome Chicago teachers who stood up for themselves and for all of our children. I do so love it when the little guy pushes back against the bully. Though they didn't get everything they wanted, the Chicago Teachers Union put "reformers" on notice and perhaps paved the way for other teachers unions to do the same thing when it's time. The only thing that would have made me happier about the strike is if I could have been on the picket line with them.
• I arrived home the other night to my husband making smothered chicken with cornbread and collard greens—my favorite home-cooked meal. When Sam makes that for me, he can have all the sex he wants. As long as I'm not PMSing, or am too tired, or __________________ (fill in the blank), which is most of the time.
• How about summer in September? I love the heat waves. Keep 'em coming, as far as I'm concerned. I'll happily wear linen and white pants right on into 2013. Though, it would be nice if my kid's classroom weren't in the triple digits. Also, when I really think about it, staving off a flat-iron-wielding woman with fake eyelashes and a clip-on ponytail is difficult to do kindly when I feel a single bead of boob sweat make its way to my kneecap.
• Car sex keeps the grump away. Yes! One cannot be in a foul mood when having car (or anywhere other-than-the-bed) sex. Plus it keeps you-know-who happy, too.
What else has made me positively giddy lately?
• Oh! Mathew Crawley and Lady Mary Crawley. The on-again, off-again, on-again unrequited love affair has got me all worked up. Why must we Americans wait until January for Season 3? Avoiding spoilers is no easy feat when I can't help but type "Downton Abbey, Season 3" into the Google.
• While waiting for January, Deadwood is filling my viewing space and hoo-boy, what a contrast to the proper English folk. I nearly fainted at Calamity Jane's first usage of the word "cunt." But it thrilled me, yes it did.
• The genius at the Genius Bar who wasn't so self-important that she couldn't help me with my new phone made me super-happy. It was the first time I didn't loathe the Apple Store, as it proved to be an actual reprieve from—rather than an extension of—the kiosk people. That made me smile
• And my new iPhone has Siri. I admit it was pretty exciting when I asked her for help and she said, "OK. I will get you the hell out of here."
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iMac wont start. Powersupply?
I have a problem with my iMac and I hope you guys can help me.
Its an 24 iMac Mid 2007* 2.8 Ghz Core 2 Extreme (EMC No.: 2134 Model No.: A1225).
The iMac suddenly turned off as if sombody pulled out the powercable. If I press the power button nothing happens as if the machine gets no power at all.
So I opened the iMac and removed all the dirt and dust. I thought it might be the PSU but I cant see any optical defects.
When I pluged in the powercable the first Diagnostic-LED light up shortly and went off again. When i pull the cord and plug it in again nothing happens...
I checked the cable itself and tried another one to be sure its not teh cable.
Can I be sure that it is the PSU (because of the LEDs) or could it be the logicboard either?
Any Experiences?
Thanks for your help. And sorry for my poor english.
G'day and welcome to the forums.
Sure sounds like you have got the diagnosis spot on with the power supply. These are available pretty cheaply if you want to have a go at ot. The 'net has many sites showing how to do the job:-
Thank you for the Link harryb2448.
I found these two should match my iMac:
iMac Aluminum 24-inch Parts Power Supplies A1225 24inch 2.8GHz 07
The first one looks exactly like the one that is built into my iMac but the website says that it is discontinued by apple? So should i better buy the second one? will that one fit in my iMac? Would be perfect if anyone could confirm this.
You might also look for the exact PS you need at Mac Repair - Mac Parts and Service for Apple Macbook, iPhone, iPad as they stock parts for older Macs.
How about the different input Voltage 110V USA and 230V Germany do those power supplies work with both?
If you get the correct Power Supply do not think it will be a problem as it will have what is known as Auto Switching capabilities:-
Apple Power Supplies: Changing voltage settings
Problem with new powersupply
thank you for your answers, and sorry for the very long delay. I never thought it would be that hard to get one of those PSUs in germany. How ever I finally managed to get one.
After I replaced he the old one my iMac started up without any Problems. I had it running for a few hours for doing all the updates with no problems. But after I moved it from my workbench to my home office. It begins to boot and after 20-30 seconds it turns off. I can't turn it on again pressing the power button doesn't have any effect. When I wait a couple of minutes and unplug it from the power network I can start it again, but only for about 20-30 seconds and then the machine turns itself off again.
Does anyone have an idea what this could be? Thanks for your help.
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Definition of mash-up in English:
1A mixture or fusion of disparate elements: the movie becomes a weird mash-up of 1950s western and 1970s TV cop show
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- So when Quirk books announced their mashup of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in early 2009, I, like the rest of the Internet, was ecstatic.
- In fact, the town of Arcadia where we stayed was an interesting mashup of chain restaurants galore and "real" homegrown businesses in downtown.
- The unnamed alpine-dwelling species of the butterfly genus Lycaeide appears to be a genetic mashup of two known species - Lycaeides melissa and Lycaeides idas - according to a new study.
1.1A recording created by digitally combining and synchronizing instrumental tracks with vocal tracks from two or more different songs.
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- Even something like mash-ups, where people take two pop songs and blend them together, can be seen as a kind of exercise in constrained creativity.
- That's why mash-ups, named after hip-hop mixes of two or more songs, are starting to rock.
- It spent nearly three years trying to clear the rights to all the records it intended to use on a mash-ups album.
1.2 Computing A web page or application created by combining data or functionality from different sources: a mash-up that mixes CNN news with links to Wikipedia articles
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The Natrah (Nadra) Tragedy
Posted 10 May 2006 - 06:17 AM
Maria Hertogh and Che Aminah binte Mohamed
The beginning
Maria Hertogh was born on March 24, 1937 to a Dutch Catholic family living in Tjimahi, near Bandung, Java, then a part of the Dutch East Indies. Her father, Adrianus Petrus Hertogh, came to Java in the 1920s as a sergeant in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. He married Adeline Hunter, a Eurasian of Scottish descent brought up in Java, in the early 1930s. Little Maria was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church of Saint Ignatius at Tjimahi on April 10 by a Catholic priest.
When World War II broke out, Sergeant Hertogh was captured by the Imperial Japanese Army and sent to a POW holding facility in Japan, where he was kept till 1945. Meanwhile, Adeline Hertogh stayed with her mother, Nor Louise, and her five children, among whom Maria was the third and youngest daughter. On December 29, 1942, Mrs. Hertogh gave birth to her sixth child, a boy. Three days later, Maria went to stay with Aminah binte Mohammad, a 42-year-old Javanese woman and a close friend of Nor Louise. This controversial transfer of custody, reversed in a Singaporean court eight years later, was the centre and opening episode of the tragic riots that were to come.
Adoption or a short stay?
Adeline Hertogh's version
According to Adeline Hertogh, in the version given in evidence before the court at the hearing in November 1950, she was persuaded by her mother after the birth of her sixth child to allow Maria to go and stay with Aminah in Bandung for three or four days. Consequently, Aminah arrived on 1 January 1943 to fetch Maria. When the child was not returned, Mrs. Hertogh borrowed a bicycle on 6 January and set out to retrieve her daughter. She claimed that she was arrested by a Japanese sentry on the outskirts of Bandung as she did not possess a pass and was thereupon interned.
From her internment camp, she smuggled a letter to her mother, requesting for her children to be sent to her. This Nor Louise did, but Maria was not among them. So Mrs. Hertogh asked her mother to fetch Maria from Aminah. Her mother later wrote and told her that Aminah wanted to keep Maria for two more days, after which she herself would bring the child to the camp. This did not materialize and Mrs. Hertogh did not see Maria throughout her interment. After her release, she could find neither Maria nor Aminah.
Aminah binte Mohamed's version
The above version was rejected by Aminah binte Mohamed in her affidavits and sworn testimony to the High Court on several occasions. She claimed that Adeline Hertogh had given Maria to her for adoption in late 1942. She asserted that she, without offspring of her own, told Mrs. Hertogh then that she would regard Maria absolutely as her child, whom she would bring up in the Muslim faith. To this, according to Aminah, Mrs. Hertogh replied that she would be glad as she herself had been brought up as a Muslim.
Aminah also contested the truth of Adeline Hertogh's internment by the Japanese. She testified that she and Mrs. Hertogh continued to visit each other frequently after the adoption until the latter left for Surabaya to look for a job "about the end of 1943 or the beginning of 1944." Thereafter the two never saw each other again till 1950.
A new home and a new religion
Anyhow, Maria Hertogh received her Muslim circumcision in late 1943, whereupon she was given the name Nadra binte Ma'arof. For unknown reasons her new family moved to Jakarta for a period before moving back to Bandung again, where Aminah worked for the Japanese military police as an interpreter until the end of the war.
Then, in 1947, fearing harm upon the family during the Indonesian National Revolution as Maria was a "Putih", or a "White Child", Aminah moved via Singapore to her hometown in Kemaman, in the state of Terengganu, then Malaya. By then Maria was completely the same as any other Malay Muslim girl of her age: she spoke only Malay, wore Malay clothes and practised her religion devoutly.
To court
In 1945, with the end of World War II, Sergeant Hertogh was released and returned to Java, where he reunited with his wife. The couple said that they enquired about Maria but could find neither their daughter nor Aminah. They then returned to the Netherlands after requesting the Dutch authorities in Java and Singapore to try to trace the child. Investigations were then made by the Red Cross Society, the Indonesian Repatriation Service, the Royal Netherlands Army and local police. Finally, in September 1949, Aminah and Maria were traced to the kampong they were living in.
Negotiations were opened to retrieve Maria in early 1950. The Dutch Consulate offered S$500 to make up for Aminah's expenses in bringing up the girl for eight years. Aminah rejected the offer and refused to give up her foster-daughter. Nonetheless, she was persuaded to travel with Maria to Singapore in April to discuss the issue with the Dutch Consul-General. However, Aminah's firm position could not be wavered and the Consulate eventually applied to the High Court on 22 April for Maria to be delivered into the custody of the Social Welfare Department pending further order. The Chief Justice heard it on the same day and approved the application ex parte.
The next day, an officer from the department served the order on Aminah and brought Maria away. After a routine medical examination at the Middle Road Hospital, she was admitted to the Girls Homecraft Centre at York Hill. From this point onwards, Maria had made it clear that she wanted to stay with Aminah and did not wish to be returned to her natural parents. However, the High Court ruled on 17 May after a short hearing of about 15 minutes that the custody of Maria be entitled to the Hertoghs.
As Aminah and Maria exited the court via the backdoor, a car from the Consulate was waiting to take Maria away. Maria refused to enter the car and clung on to Aminah, both shouting in Malay that they would kill themselves rather than be separated. A large crowd quickly formed around the commotion. It was only after much persuasion that Aminah agreed to enter the car together with Maria and pay a visit to her lawyer, who explained that Maria had to be given up until an appeal was made. The duo then parted in tears, with Maria returned to York Hill for temporary safekeeping.
At York Hill Maria stayed for two more months, under a further order from the Chief Justice pending appeal, which was filed on 28 July. The verdict was an overruling of the earlier decision. Aside from the ex parte order to hand Maria to the Social Welfare Department, the Appellate Court found ambiguity in the Dutch Consul-General's representation of Maria's natural father, a rather minor and technical detail but apparently significant enough under the circumstance. Both Aminah and Maria were overjoyed.
Controversial marriage
On 1 August 1950, merely four days after winning the appeal, the events took a dramatic and unexpected turn. Maria was married to 22-year-old Mansoor Adabi, a Malayan-born who was then a teacher-in-training at the Bukit Panjang Government School, in a Muslim ritual. The marriage could be a manoeuvre by Aminah to prevent further attempts by the Hertoghs to get back their daughter, as Maria returned to live with Aminah after the wedding night and the new couple never consummated their marriage. Whether such speculation was true was unimportant in the subsequent development of events, in which Maria, a willing bride nonetheless, became the central figure.
The first challenges on the appropriateness of the marriage actually came from the Muslim community. On 10 August, a Muslim leader wrote to The Straits Times pointing out that although the Islamic law permits the marriage of girls after puberty (which Maria had reached a year earlier), there were Muslim countries such as Egypt that legislated for a minimum marriage age of 16. He added, however, that it would not be in the interest of "the friendly understanding... between Christians and Muslims" to object to the marriage since it had already taken place. The latter view was held by the Muslim population at large, albeit in a more antagonistic mood against the Dutch and Europeans at large.
To court, again
Meanwhile, the Hertoghs had not given up legal pursuit to retrieve their daughter. Only a day after the marriage, Aminah received the Hertoghs' representative lawyers from Kuala Lumpur. The lawyers delivered a letter demanding the return of Maria by 10 August, failing which legal action would be taken. Believing that the marriage settled the matter, Aminah and Mansoor both ignored the deadline. The Hertoghs did not. On 26 August, an originating summons was taken out, under the Guardianship of Infants Ordinance, by the Hertoghs as plaintiffs against Aminah, Maria and Mansoor, who were all made defendants.
The hearing did not begin till 20 November. For four months the matter hung in suspense. During this time, Maria rarely left her residence in the house of M.A. Majid, then president of the Muslim Welfare Association, because in her own words, she attracted "too much attention". Nevertheless, media coverage on the incident had grown to a global scale. Letters from Muslim organizations in Pakistan promising financial and other help arrived, some going so far as to declare any further move by the Dutch Government to separate the couple as "an open challenge to the Muslim world". Pledges of aid also came from Indonesia and as far as Saudi Arabia.
The hearing finally opened, and Maria's natural mother, Adeline Hertogh travelled down to Singapore to attend. The judge, Justice Brown, delivered the verdict two weeks later. The marriage, instead of resolving the dispute, had instead complicated it. Justice Brown had two issues on his hand, namely the legality of the marriage and the custody of Maria. He held that the marriage was invalid because:
1. Maria's country of domicile was, by law that of her natural father, i.e. the Netherlands. Under the Dutch laws, the minimum age of marriage for girls was 16. The English law applicable in Singapore recognized the marriage laws of the subject's country of domicile.
2. An exception to the above point could not be established because neither Mansoor, born in Kelantan, could be proved to be domiciled in Singapore nor Maria be considered a Muslim by law[3]. During her minority, Maria's natural father, who was a Christian, had the legal right to control her religion. He had testified that he would never consent to her conversion to Islam.
Having overruled the purported marriage, Justice Brown went on to deal with what he described as the "most difficult" question of custody. He noted that his duty to the law required him "to have regard primarily to the welfare of the infant". He believed this meant that he not only had to consider the current wishes of Maria, but also her future well-being. He stated:
It is natural that she should now wish to remain in Malaya among people whom she knows. But who can say that she will have the same views some years hence after her outlooks has been enlarged, and her contacts extended, in the life of the family to which she belongs?"
He also noted that whatever the details of the contested initiation of the custody at the end of 1942 might be, Adrianus Hertogh had not been part of it and had not abrogated his parental rights. He therefore awarded the custody of Maria to the Hertoghs and ordered that she should be handed over to her mother with immediate effect.
Stay at the convent
When policewomen came to take Maria away, she wept and clung to Aminah and Mansoor. Aminah fainted on the spot and a doctor standing by had to attend to her. Mansoor advised Maria to concede for the time being and promised that he and others would carry on the legal fight. Thus Maria allowed herself to be brought away into a car. Outside, the police, including a Gurkha contingent, held back a crowd of several hundred.
The car delivered Maria to the Roman Catholic Convent of the Good Shepherd in Thomson Road. Mrs. Hertogh stayed at another address for a few days, from where she visited Maria daily, before moving in to the convent herself. According to an official of the Netherlands Consulate-General, such arrange was because of "greater convenience" while the stay of execution pending appeal was in effect. But it proved to be the falsest step, the spark that lit the fuse of the subsequent riots.
First and foremost, the press was not barred from entering the convent grounds. Nor were they restricted in any way in their approach to the incident, which had been nothing shy of sensational. On 5 December, the Singapore Standard published on its front page a photograph of Maria standing holding hands with the Reverend Mother. There were several more pictures on page 2, under the headline: Bertha knelt before Virgin Mary Statue. The Malay press retorted. The Utusan Melayu published on 7 December three photographs of Maria weeping and being comforted by a nun, as well as articles about Maria's "lonely and miserable" life in the convent.
These pictures, whether presenting Maria as happy or sad, mostly showed Maria surrounded by symbols of Christian faith. The Muslims, who looked upon Maria as one of their own, were deeply offended by such pictures, not to mention the sensational reports, some of which explicitly labelled the case as a religious issue between Islam and Christianity.
On 9 December, an organization calling itself the Nadra Action Committee was formally constituted under the leadership of Karim Ghani, a Muslim political activist from Rangoon. This extreme organization solicited support among local Muslims by distributing free copies of its newspaper, the Dawn (not the Dawn, an English paper published in Pakistan). Karim Ghani had also made an open speech at the Sultan Mosque on 8 December in which he mentioned jihad as a final resort.
In the light of these potent signs of a great disturbance, the Criminal Investigation Department sent a memo to the Colonial Secretary suggesting moving Maria back to York Hill to avoid further inciting Muslim anger. The Secretary did not agree on grounds that he had received no such representations from Muslim leaders, nor did he have the authority to remove Maria without further court orders - weak excuses since Maria could be relocated with her mother's consent. Nonetheless, it could never be said if moving Maria out of the convent at such a late stage could have averted the riots.
Posted 10 May 2006 - 06:25 AM
Crowds were enraged by the Court's rejection of the appeal.
The riots
The appeal hearing opened on 11 December. Maria stayed at the convent and did not attend. Since early morning, crowds carrying banners and flags with star and crescent symbols began to gather around the Supreme Court. By noon, when the hearing eventually began, the restive crowd had grown to 2,000 to 3,000 in number. Unbelievably, the court threw out the appeal within five minutes. The brevity of the hearing convinced the gathering that the colonial legal system was biased against Muslims. The riots erupted.
The mob (largely consisted of Malay or Indonesian Muslims but local Chinese gangs were also reported to have joined in) moved out to attack any Europeans and even Eurasians in sight. They overturned cars and burnt them. The police force, its lower ranks largely consisted of Malays who sympathized with the rioters' cause, were ineffective in quelling the riots. By nightfall the riots had spread to even the more remote parts of the island. Help from the British Military was enlisted only at around 6:45 PM. Major-General Dunlop promptly deployed two Internal Security Battalions while calling in further reinforcement from Malaya. Meanwhile, various Muslim leaders appealed over the radio for the riots to cease.
Reinforcement arrived early on 12 December but riotous incidents continued on that day. The troops and police only managed to regain control of the situation by noon on 13 December. In total, 18 people were killed, among whom were seven Europeans or Eurasians, two police officers, and nine rioters shot by the police or military, 173 were injured, many of them seriously, 119 vehicles were damaged, and at least two buildings were set fire to. Subsequently two weeks of 24-hour curfew were imposed, and it was a long time before complete law and order was re-established.
Maria Hertogh riots
he Maria Hertogh riots, which started on 11 December 1950 in Singapore, consisted of outraged Muslims who resented the court decision to give the custody of Maria Hertogh, then 13, to her biological Dutch Catholic parents after she had been raised as a Muslim under the care of Aminah binte Mohamed, whom she regarded as her mother. The riots lasted till noon on 13 December, with 18 killed, 173 injured and many properties damaged - the worst incident of its kind ever witnessed in Singapore.
Prior to the riots, the disputed custody of Maria had received widespread press coverage. Many Muslims living in Malaya and Indonesia believed in the legitimacy of the adoption of Maria and a later short-lived marriage to Mansoor Adabi, two major points of contest in the court proceeding to determine the custody of Maria. They thus lent their support, financial and moral, to organizations that fought to keep Maria in Malaya. But some, such as the Malayan nationalists, seized the incident as an opportunity to further weaken the colonial government's position in the region. The insensitivity of the colonial government towards Muslim sentiments and the involvement of radical elements eventually culminated in the tragedy.
The trials
After the riot, the police set up a special investigation unit which detained 778 people, among them Karim Ghani. Out of these, 403 were released unconditionally and 106 were released on various conditions (they generally had to report to the police station monthly and adhere to a curfew after dark). The police eventually brought rioting charges against 200 people, of whom 25 were acquitted, 100 were convicted, 62 were referred to the Enquiry Advisory Committee, and seven were brought to trial at the Assize Court for wanton killing and five of them were subsequently sentenced to death on the gallows.
On 25 August 1951, Tunku Abdul Rahman, who would later become the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, took over as the president of UMNO, a Muslim party that remains the largest and ruling political party in Malaysia today. He immediately set out to save the seven on death row. Having garnered support from the Muslim population, Abdul Rahman placed pressure on the authorities, who finally gave in. The British government was expecting their role as the colonial master to end very soon and did not wish to leave behind grim memories. The death sentences for all five were commuted to life imprisonment.
A Commission of Inquiry was appointed by Governor Franklin Gimson. It was headed by Sir Lionel Leach, a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The Commission placed large blame on the police command for not having anticipated the violence from many indicators between 2 and 11 December. Furthermore, when the riots first started, the police failed to act promptly to disperse the crowd. The Gurkha contingent standing by was not put into action, while too much dependence was placed on Malay policemen, many of whom defected or at least hesitated to carry out their duties. The British House of Commons criticised the colonial government for its poor handling of the situation.
Present day Government of Singapore also attributed the tragedy to the insensitivity of the colonial government towards the racial and religious feelings of the locals. It cites the incident as a vital lesson learnt in the importance of racial and religious understanding and harmony. It also cites the incident as a case for placing a certain degree of governmental control on the media, especially when racial or religious issues are implicated.
On the night the riots broke out, Maria Hertogh was moved out of the convent, where the rioters tried twice to march on and were only kept back by the police. Plans were made at York Hill to receive her but she was instead sent to Saint John's Island, an offshore island 4 miles south of the main island of Singapore. The next day, Maria and Adeline Hertogh departed for the Netherlands by aeroplane. After landing in Schipol Airport, they quickly proceeded to the Hertogh home on the outskirts of Bergen op Zoom.
At first, Maria could only talk to her mother, the only one in the family who understood Malay. She demanded rice with every meal, resenting the western diet. She continued to say her Muslim prayers five times a day. In addition, a policeman in plain clothes was assigned to escort her whenever she left the house, for fear of possible kidnappers who might take her back to Singapore, following reported sighting of "oriental strangers" around town. The house was also placed under surveillance.
Slowly, Maria began to adjust to her new environment. A nun came to the house daily to teach her Dutch until she was proficient enough to attend a local convent school. She also began to attend Mass with her family. Back in Singapore, Aminah and Mansoor had apparently given up hope of retrieving Maria after leave to appeal to the Privy Council was not granted. Earlier interest of the several Muslim groups involved had also gradually died down.
On 20 April 1956, Maria was married to Johan Gerardus Wolkefeld, a 21-year-old Dutch Catholic. On 15 February 1957, she gave birth to a son, the first child of thirteen. However, Maria did not seem to be content. As she told De Telegraaf, she often had rows with her mother, who lived near by. She also said she still longed for her Malayan homeland. Johan and Mansoor began corresponding. In letters both expressed wish for Maria to travel to Malaya to visit the aged Aminah, but such trip was never made due primarily to financial difficulties. Aminah passed away in 1976.
The life story of Maria took another dramatic turn on 16 August of the same year, when Maria found herself on trial in a Dutch court charged with plotting to murder her husband. She admitted in court that she had been thinking about leaving her husband but was afraid to start divorce proceedings in case she lost custody of her children. She came into contact with two regular customers at her husband's cafe bar. The trio bought a revolver and recruited a fourth accomplice to carry out the actual murder. However, the latest member got cold feet and gossiped about the murder plan. The police quickly learnt of it and arrested all four conspirators.
In her defence, Maria's lawyers brought up her background, which the court acknowledged. With this in mind, and because the plot was never executed and there was no proof that she offered any inducement to the other three, the three-men bench acquitted Maria. Meanwhile, Maria had also filed for divorce on the grounds of the irreparable breakdown of her marriage.
1. ↑ Her full name at birth was Huberdina Maria Hertogh. To Dutch and other westerners she was normally known as Bertha (or Berta) Hertogh. The name given to her when circumcised by Muslim rites was Nadra binte Ma'arof, which was the name used by the Malays and other Muslims. However, Maria Hertogh was the name most frequently used in court proceedings and the English press.
2. ↑ There was an uncanny parallel between the early lives of Maria Hertogh and her mother. Adeline Hunter, born a Eurasian, was adopted by a Muslim family at a young age. She married Adrianus Hertogh at the age of 15, upon which she converted to Christianity. Maria would later go through the same conversion, at around the same age, albeit involuntarily. Moreover, both were eventually married to Dutch soldiers.
3. ↑ If and only if both conditions were met could the Muslim law practiced in Singapore be applied to the case, which would render the marriage valid.
4. ↑ Karim Ghani was arrested along with several members of the Nadra Action Committee and held at the detention camp on Saint John's Island for 15 months under Emergency Regulation 20 for his part in the riots before being released on grounds of poor health.
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On 5 December, the Singapore Standard published on its front page a photograph of Maria standing holding hands with the Reverend Mother. There were several more pictures on page 2, under the headline: Bertha knelt before Virgin Mary Statue.
Incidentially, the Reverend Mother's name was Sister M. Colomba of The Religious of the Good Shepherd Sisters (RGS). She was one of the few Irish nuns who came over as founding members of the RGS community in Singapore. She spent the rest of her life here in Singapore and passed away a few years ago.
Posted 11 May 2006 - 02:34 AM
Is that what all muslim in this world would be thinking ? Anything goes against a muslim is goes against Islam ?
It doesn't solve things in a civilise manner instead it make it worst and worst...
Why can't they see things more simple ?
What if both the adopter and natural parent were muslim or both were christian?
would it be seem as "an open challenge to the Muslim world" ?
The main point here is Maria was only 13 and should be handed over to her natural parent no matter they are christian, buddhist or islamist it shouldn't affect the decision..
It's pity that she gone thru all this and have to married at the young age of 13.
Hang Li Poh, what do you think ? Should Maria be handed legally to her natural parent by rights ? or should she stay on here ?
For me, by rights she should be handed over to her natural parent. But it seem that both her parent and adopted parent were not able to brought her up in proper manner.. How can they married her out at that age of 13 ?? That's ridiculous... It's illegaL and sin..
If you had not committed great sins,
God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you."
~~ The Great Genghis Khan.
Posted 11 May 2006 - 06:02 AM
For me, by rights she should be handed over to her natural parent. But it seem that both her parent and adopted parent were not able to brought her up in proper manner.. How can they married her out at that age of 13 ?? That's ridiculous... It's illegaL and sin
Islamic Law (Syariah)
The marriage age for girls was reduced to 13 and with the father's consent (Wali Nikah), a girl may marry at the age of nine. No restriction on the age of the man. In recent years the marriage age for women has been reduced to 9 years of age.
Civil Law
Illegal but not Sin
Posted 11 May 2006 - 01:13 PM
Islamic Law (Syariah)
The marriage age for girls was reduced to 13 and with the father's consent (Wali Nikah), a girl may marry at the age of nine. No restriction on the age of the man. In recent years the marriage age for women has been reduced to 9 years of age.
Civil Law
Illegal but not Sin
How can you proudly tell me Islamic law let little girl to married legally at 9 ?
9 years old u think she is a WOMEN ? Are you kidding me ?
It is legal in Islamic law to married after 9? So it's legal...larr
Married at the age of 9 not sin ?
Married at the age of 13 not sin ?
I have read in the some of the muslim world, rapist were not jail but instead the gal who being rape were jailed.. I know maybe it is Islamic culture or Syariah law or whatever it is.. So, it's legal... but for me, even it is Islamic law or legal law or if it is christian law or USA law whatever but if it is wrong then it is a SIN..
We cannot blindly believe what the law say or what the religion said, we must have believe in ourself as human race are suppose to be Inteligent enough to know what is right and what is wrong, what is sin and what is not...
Ask yourself, is it sin if your parent married u to a guy at the age of 9 or 10 ? Maybe it is not a sin if now we are living in stone age or animal planet. But in year AD 2006 this is not suppose to happen... We do not live in BC 1000 or AD600, we now living in AD2006. Nothing is correct forever...
Law and religion rules must be change according to time. And time doesn't stop, it keeps on rolling so as human intelligent..
Tell me, do u think that Bible or Quran were written by GOD ? If u think it is, then be it..
No point discuss with u...
Otherwise if u think it is written by human at that time, then some rules in it should be change or look differently although it is not our authority to change it, but we shouldn't follow it does not make sense at our time..
Anyway, do u read Quran ? or are u a muslim ? If yes, then sorry I didn't mean to change the way how u should be thinking.. I just wanna clarify with u what is supposely rite or wrong... and i know u should have know it as an adult. You won't have married your kids out at the age of 9 or 13 rite ? It will harm your children physically and mentally if u did that...
If you had not committed great sins,
God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you."
~~ The Great Genghis Khan.
Posted 16 June 2006 - 01:35 AM
Marriage below the age of 18? I think its a sin. But certain Muslims don't- cause they don't think it's wrong
Religion and law has everything to do with defining morality. But a Christian may not believe that Ritual X is as important as Ritual Y, as opposed to Muslims who may believe Ritual X = Ritual Y if not more important, and so on.
If the world was like what you said, it would be a far more simpler place.
But your english limits my interpretation of your posts.
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Public safety in Indian Trail
The question of whether Indian Trail is better protected by contract deputies or by a town police force is a serious question that merits careful consideration.
Tragically, Indian Trail town government has treated the decision neither as a life-and-death matter of public safety nor as a pocketbook issue that could significantly increase taxes. Instead, public officials have turned it into a shamefully transparent soap opera with only them as the stars.
The debate over a town police force has simmered for years. During the last election cycle it subsided as candidates who wanted to get elected disavowed the idea. Then last month, as the town was ostensibly negotiating a renewal of its contract with the Sheriff's Office for the services of 22 deputies, it flared anew.
The spark was a set of absurd demands designed to provoke a confrontation with the sheriff. They did. Sheriff Eddie Cathey minced no words in his rejection of the contract proposal nor in his characterization of those who made it.
That was perfect. Proponents of severing the contract played their roles well. They acted shocked, offended and blamed the sheriff for irretrievably breaking any faith and trust they had in him. There was no choice left but to abandon the contract and form a police department, they said.
Only a lack of courage by Mayor Michael Alvarez at the crucial moment upset their subterfuge.
Everyone should be thankful. If this gambit had succeeded, the town would have had four months to hire, train and equip a police force. And the taxpayers in Indian Trail would have had to foot the bill — literally millions — to buy and equip patrol cars and to equip the officers with weapons, radios, computers and all else a modern force needs.
The idea is simply absurd.
If there is a groundswell for a police department — and many county towns do have their own police — then Indian Trail should sign the contract extension with the Sheriff's office. They should then use the intervening time to study crime and safety in the community, determine the real needs, and how best to serve them. They should think broadly even including options like sharing a department with Stallings. The two towns are geographically linked.
Give voters the facts and let them decide at a referendum. If they go for it, then budget the capital costs over the next several years to ease the impact on taxes. Find and hire a competent chief and allow the time to recruit, hire and train the best officers for the money available.
Indian Trail may need its own police force. That is a question for the voters to decide. What they don't need is the dangerous charade that has passed for governance lately.


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Californians are voting with their feet.
With higher taxes in California, it is estimated more than 2,000 upper-income level residents and an average of 5.4 businesses are leaving weekly. Having high taxes, a $387 billion debt and a 12 percent unemployment rate, this state is in trouble. Their answer is to raise taxes with stiffer regulations. New York and Illinois are in a similar situation with the exodus of people, businesses leaving and with high debt and unemployment.
Three other states had problems like this in 2010. Their voters changed the status-quo putting in a new administration. They cut taxes, balanced their budgets, eliminated their debt and brought down the unemployment rate in less than two years. Those states were Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio.
Our federal government, like California, has a huge debt, high taxes, choking business regulations and a high unemployment rate. Their solution: a huge tax increase by letting tax cuts expire and increasing taxes on businesses and individuals with new government health care.
Where will the upper income individuals and the companies go to escape these increases now? Most likely they will leave the country for one where they can make a profit or close their doors because costs are too high to survive. Either way, we lose jobs and the taxes they generate. The result will be a higher unemployment rate and an increase in the national debt…just like California and the other troubled states.
Now, what party is in charge of the three troubled states and the federal government heading down the same road? If you said the Democrats, move to the head of the class.
What party is in charge of the three states (and many others) that are doing better and are financially in the black? Yes, the Republicans.
So what party would get our country out of the mess we're in? This should be a no-brainer. Now give your answer Nov. 6.
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I just got a new mouse and the software wont load automatically so how do i do it ? I have 10.4.9 tiger
Give a clue! What mouse?
i just need to know how to install the software what program to run it ? It is a jascoproduct dual scoll mouse the software is for mac and tiger edition but when i put the cd in i have to click on it and then it want me to select what to open it with
Is there an extension on the file, like .bin or something?
.sit is at the end of it
It's a compressed file that must be expanded. You need to download the free Stuffit Expander from macupdate.com or versiontracker.com to unstuff it.
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One might not necessarily equate a lecture on pelvic health with fast, flirty fun, but that's the beauty of this nationwide program. Pink parts education is actually a pretty easy sell, when the promise of hot sex is involved, so Sex, Chocolate & Your Pelvic Floor sets out to help all women achieve that goal through simple exercise, empowerment and education. Howard Brown's Lesbian Community Care Project was there handing out cherry lube and dental dams in mint and banana flavors.
Physical therapist Julie Wiebe was willing to risk her life for her audience's orgasm, climbing onto a stool at one point, to demonstrate her "ski jump" method of engaging pelvic muscles from butt to front for a better grip during penetration. And G Boutique co-owner Cheryl Sloane's girl-friendly sex toy recommendations were definitely hot and lesbi-friendly. If you're ever in her Bucktown store, ask her about the Magic Banana. Eschewing the conventional phallus shape, this toy has no vibrator and just happens to reach nerves in your vagina you never even knew you had, you lucky girl.
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101 Tasting Notes
i have had a few genmais but after a couple of months of not having had much tea (when i got back to the philippines, i didnt have water heating implements and time to get some and prepare some tea so i subsisted on matcha mixed with cool water to keep me awake in class, thanks to Red Leaf Tea i was able to pay attention to biochem this summer) when i had this, i was like…transported to japan! ah, it is wonderful to have good tea on hand!
Thanks to Azz for this swap! Im enjoying every sip of it!
Ok, this is the weirdest thing…
Mr. LBG came to me as a surprise…name and instructions followed in a message (which I had forgotten about). Anyway, idk what possessed me to enter it in my catalog as a chai (this is the first time this has happened) and so I set out following the website instructions for Laoshan Village Chai! Boiled a tbsp w milk (smelled like it was burning) but tasted fine nevertheless. It was already somewhat sweet on its own but I wanted it sweeter and since I do put sugar in my chai, I added honey as recommended.
The taste of toasted rice was predominant and I thought it was weird to put rice in a chai..and then it dawned on me…checked the website, and yep, it's a Genmaicha! lol.
So my second steep followed the directions ok..tho it was infused with some of the milk I boiled it with ^^'
Unfortunately, this mistake was not as "successful" as this tea's origins. I taste the toasted rice but not much else :( Will update after the 3rd steep ^^'
Update: Yay, the milk washed off with the 2nd steep and now I'm getting lots of other notes with the toasted rice..hm, lemme see…the original sweetness I detected before the addition of honey, chocolate..some green-ness!…and something else I can't place ^^
Many thanks to Ze Teamaker for sending me this surprise sample!
Update: I am still steeping it…I think it is the 5th or 6th…not complex as earlier steeps but still with the fun toasted rice flavor that I like!
Oh dear, it looks like I might be ordering from Zen Tea after all…now I know why everybody's abuzz about this! It has a very light note of coconut and a sweetness that is not in the other EGCs. What more can I say? I like this EGC a lot!
Thank you for sharing this tea with me, sweet Veronica ! (pretends to be visiting for afternoon tea) :D
go pick up a can of matcha from them while you're at it. it's almost half off and if you haven't registered for Zen Tea yet, pls use my referral link
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This will not be a totally precise tasting note as this was tasted together with 5 other EGCs but this one has a solid flavor that lasted 3 steeps and can possibly live up to another steep or so.
For the 1st steep, I liked how this tasted more than I did the other 4…but not so much more than ZenTea's :)
Hot or cooled down, this did not get bitter! Hooray! And in the end (after the 3rd steep), this was the best tasting of all 6 EGCs that I tried.
Got it yesterday and actually conducted an EGC tasting last night. Almost forgot this one coz I hadn't logged it in my catalog yet so I rushed to steep it alongside the 5 EGCs but then i realized this was not an EGC!
No matter, it tastes just as good as one. Or rather, this trumps them all in my book! Many thanks to Piccolo for the very generous sample..but I'm afraid it will not be enough for me, haha. I gotta buy more of this!
Silky – perfectly describes the beautiful taste that coursed through my tastebuds and captivated me (sigh)
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Thank you for offering a beautiful EG, Teajo Teas!
update: 2nd steep was still ok. 3rd was not quite but then again, neither were the others. maybe it was because i left them sitting too long? i noticed that with EGs they dont taste so good when cooled and actually become bitter-ish. all of them except for one….which you shall read about in my next tasting note!
An EGC Taste Testing sounds like a lot of fun to me! You know I love EG too. A little unrelated but Are you going to buy A&D Damn Fine Tea new EG?
It is fun but the "work" part of it that requires me to take it seriously takes a bit of the fun out haha. Like how it becomes a "have to do" and urgent ^^' but yeah, still fun. Would be more fun with friends :D
I want to. Being in the permanent collection means it is good enough! But how many of it I will buy depends on the feedback. I cannot sell it here in the US but I could probly swap out some!
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So You Think You Can Dance's tWitch and Allison Holker Are Engaged: See Her Ring!
Not only do we think they can dance — we think they can have a love story that stands the test of time! So You Think You Can Dance alumni Allison Holker and Stephen "tWitch" Boss connected as All-Stars, started dating, fell in love, and are now getting married.
Allison recently shared the good news:
Wow I'm ENGAGED!!!! I LOVE YOU @official_twitch twitter.com/Allisonholker/…— Allison holker (@Allisonholker) January 21, 2013
Allison also posted this sweet note about their love story: "We began our journey in 2010 and are now stepping into a new chapter!!! I found the MAN that completes my soul. He fuels me everyday with energy, life and happiness. I'm forever inspired and grateful for you @sir_twitch_alot !!!! I LOVE YOU. And a special thank you to everyone who was apart of the engagement -- what an amazing and incredible experience to share with all of you :) !!"
And she shared this cute photo on Instagram, writing, "Still madly in love with this MAN @sir_twitch_alot !! A moment captured on set for new commercial ... :) #happy #dance #sytycd."
We're so happy for them! Their wedding dance is going to be one for the books.
Sources: @Allisonholker, Instagram


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Saori is the new captain!
We're a bit sad that Yoshie Takeshita has retired from the National Team and same with middle blocker Ai Yamamoto, libero Yuko Sano, hitters Megumi Kurihara, Maiko Kano and Mai Yamaguchi. We have a feeling though some will return and compete in important world tourneys like the 2014 World Champs and 2016 Olympics (Come on Takeshita! Play in Rio!).
On the other hand, we're quite impressed with Coach Manabe's goals for the new Olympic cycle. He's investing on a lot of young players together with his core players like Saori, Ebata and Araki.
Setters: Hitomi Nakamichi, Haruka Miyashita, Makoto Matsuura, Hiroko Matsuura, Natsumi Fujita, Kanami Tashiro, Ayaka Hosokawa
Middle Blockers: Erika Araki, Nana Iwasaka, Kanako Hirai, Riho Otake, Nanami Inoue, Aimi Kawashima, Haruyo Shimamura, Fumika Moriya, Azusa Futami, Kana Ono, Rika Seki, Nozomi Ito, Kiroya Obikawa
Wing Hitters: Saori Kimura, Saori Sakoda, Yukiko Ebata, Risa Shinnabe, Mizuho Ishida, Miyu Nagaoka, Akari Oumi, Yuki Ishii, Risa Ishii, Saori Takahashi, Ayumi Nakamura, Rika Nomoto, Yurie Nabeya, Yuka Imamura, Sakura Doi, Miku Benoki, Sarina Koga
Liberos: Kotoki Zayasu, Akiko Ino, Mami Yoshida, Miku Torigoe, Aki Maruyama, Arisa Sato, Akane Yamagishi
Roster for 2013 Volleymasters Tournament in Switzerland:
Setters: Makoto Matsuura, Natsumi Fujita
Wing Hitters : Risa Ishii, Tomomo Nakamura, Yuki Ishii, Saori Takahashi, Yuka Imamura, Miyu Nagaoka, Oumi Akari, Risa Rina Koga
Middle Blockers : Nana Iwasaka, Sato Otake, Haruyo Shimamura, Fumika Moriya
Liberos : Mami Yoshida, Kotoki Zayasu
Lots of new players indeed!
As for the men's team. the only notable players who are missing are Kunihiro Shimizu (injured) and veteran Takahiro Yamamoto who has retired.
Setters: Yuta Abe, Shigeru Kondoh, Naoya Suga, Takahisa Otake, Shogo Okamoto, Shun Imamura, Akihiro Fukatsu, Hideomi Fukatsu
Wing Hitters: Yusuke Ishijima (Gottsu), Yu Koshikawa, Yuta Yoneyama, Tatsuya Fukuzawa, Kunihiro Shimizu, Daisuke Yako, Dai Tezuka, Yuji Suzuki, Yuhei Tsukazaki, Issei Maeda, Tatsuya Yoneyama, Yasuyuki Shibakoya, Takuya Takamatsu, Masashi Kuriyama, Shunsuke Chijiki, Yuta Matsuoka, Yuki Hosokawa, Sogo Watanabe, Hidetomo Hoshino, Takashi Dekita, Shuzo Yamada, Masahiro Yanagida
Middle Blockers: Kota Yamamura, Yoshihiko Matsumoto, Yusuke Matsuta, Yoshifumi Suzuki, Takaaki Tomimatsu, Kazuyoshi Yokota, Kenji Shirasawa, Shogo Toimoto, Hirotaka Kon, Tatsuya Shiota, Takuya Yasunaga, Haku Lee, Yamato Fushimi
Liberos: Takeshi Nagano, Koichiro Koga, Ken Takahashi, Taichiro Koga
2013 World League Roster:
Setters: Shigeru Kondoh, Shun Imamura, Issei Maeda
Wing Spikers: Yuji Suzuki, Yuhei Tsukazaki, Masashi Kuriyama, Dai Tezuka, Tatsuya Fukuzawa, Daisuke Yako, Yusuke Ishijima, Yu Koshikawa, Yuta Yoneyama, Shunsuke Chijiki, Yuta Matsuoka, Takashi Dekita
Middle Blockers: Yoshifumi Suzuki, Kazuyoshi Yokota, Takaaki Tomimatsu, Yoshihiko Matsumoto, Kota Yamamura
Liberos: Takeshi Nagano, Ken Takahashi
In case you didn't know, the men's team has a new coach and he's none other than former Team USA MNT assistant coach, Gary Sato.
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Connie A. Hensley, 63, passed away after a courageous battle with cancer on Saturday, May 26, 2012 at her residence.
A native of Erwin she is the daughter of Herman and Mable Foster Hensley. Connie was a member at Boones Creek Christian Church. She had 31 years of service to her family business Quint-C Pallet Company. Connie was a loving person who enjoyed spending time with family especially her grandchildren.
She leaves behind a son and daughter-in-law, Charles Wayne and Shannon C. Hensley; daughters and sons-in-law, Carolyn and Todd Mussard, and Christina and Tim Morgan; grandchildren, Luke Mussard, Isaac Mussard, Sarah Mussard, Rebecca Mussard, Avery Morgan, Mason Morgan; a sister, Betty Horton; and two brothers, Allen Hensley and Doran Hensley. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
A Celebration of Life Service for Connie A. Hensley will be held at 6:30 PM, Thursday, May 31, 2012 at Boones Creek Christian Church with Mr. David Clark, Minister officiating. The family will greet friends on Thursday from 5:30 PM till the service hour at the church. Honorary pallbearers are the employees of Quint-C Pallet Company.
The family would like to express a special thank you to Dr. Jason Niu and his medical team at Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) at Western Regional Medical Center and to Smokey Mountain Hospice for the loving care shown to Connie and her family.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Boones Creek Christian Church, C/O Building Fund, 305 Christian Church Road, Gray, TN 37615 or to Susan G. Komen Foundation, P.O. Box 650309, Dallas, TX 75265-0309
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And Now, a Word from Star Trek FansPosted by Dorian in fandom, idiots, NERDS, Star Trek
So, let's get this out of the way first: I'm not a Star Trek fan. In fact, I dislike Star Trek more than I dislike Star Wars. To further put that into perspective, I'm a Doctor Who fan who will hash out seeming continuity errors with friends for fun, and I still think that people who like Star Trek have an unhealthy attachment to the show.
Recently, some footage from the upcoming reboot of the franchise, directed by J.J. Abrams, was shown in London, and Empire had a spoiler-heavy post about it up.
But, let's look to see how the Trek fans responded:
References are no good if they're misplaced and misused. Kirk entering the Academy AFTER Uhura? Chekov serving with Pike? I've seen better fanfic stories with better consistency, AND THEY'RE SPENDING OVER A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS ON THIS IDIOCY!?! It's not honoring canon, it's meaningless pandering by hacks who haven't got a clue what they're doing.
"I agree with Capt April that they're not following canon but then that would be extremely limiting in what the filmmakers do…"
Shouldn't that be one of the reasons these jokers get paid more than the average 7/11 slurpee monkey, who could come up with a story just as good as this?
Yes, it's limiting. The skill and talent to work WITHIN those limits are the mark of creative professionals.
Interestingly, the only other place I've seen this particular point articulated in this fashion is in defense of super-hero fan-fiction…
But maybe I'm not being fair to the Trek fans…let's take a look at what those masters of reasoned and rational debate at Ain't It Cool News have to say:
Who the hell is he making this movie for? It can't be the old school Trekkies who've kept the franchise going for 40 years with their support and money. Call me a basement dwelling contnuity nerd all you want, but the Enterprise built in Iowa on Earth? Chekov on Pikes Enterprise as a member of the bridge crew? Kirk as a malcontent badboy? This isn't a just a re-imagining, it's a big FU to anyone over 30 who's followed Trek at all over the years. It's teen angst Trek aimed at grabbing a different demographic than the increasingly older audience that has made Paramount over a billion dollars. If you're new to Trek you may love it, but it sure won't be my Star Trek.
I fail to see how any of that is a bad thing. I can't imagine this mindset. I can't imagine loving something so much that you want to see it die from lack of interest. Again, I'm a Who fan, and I'm ecstatic that the show is successful and popular again, and if the price I have to pay for that are Rose/Ten 'ship sites and no resolution over Ace's fate, that's a price I'm willing to pay.
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The Weekly Blab 5.22
The Weekly Blab
Volume 5, Issue 22—February 8, 2011
Always a Good Day to Quote John Lennon
I'm sick and tired of hearing things, from uptight, shortsighted, narrow-minded hypocrites. All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth…And I've had enough of watching scenes, of schizophrenic, egocentric, paranoiac prima donnas. Just gimme the truth. Just gimme some truth.
I don't know if you're as sick of the news as I am, so this week's Weekly Blab will be devoted to the many weird things that one finds in academia without really looking. And away we go!
How to Handle Theft
When Middlebury College (tuition and fees: $52,000!) saw it had a problem—too many dishes being stolen from its cafeteria—the Chronicle reports that it handled the problem in a unique way: It has created a YouTube character to nag them into bringing the dishes back. Aunt Des (as the character is called) is a red-headed woman who is "hell-bent on recovering the dishes." You have to see the videos to believe it—they are truly atrocious. Net result of this effort: None. The thefts of dishes still continue apace.
So You Think Your Department is Hostile, Part 1
A faculty member forwarded this gem to me. SFGate, home of the San Francisco Chronicle, reports that a math professor at California State University, Northridge, has been charged with peeing on his department colleagues' door. Authorities say that the motive was a dispute between the two mathematicians. No kidding.
So You Think Your Department is Hostile, Part 2
An article in the Chronicle this week involved a faculty member (Lisa Chavez) in the English Department at the University of New Mexico who moonlighted as a phone-sex dominatrix named "Mistress Jade". She also posed for "promotional pictures" for the phone-sex company with one of her own graduate students. This did not sit well with several other faculty at the university, who complained that while Chavez quickly quit the phone-sex job and said she had a serious lapse in judgment, UNM said none of its own policies had been violated and did nothing to address the situation.
So—who do you think the UNM <ahem> punished because of this? Right—the faculty who complained about the behavior. One complainant sued that the university administration had made her life miserable, in effect pushing her out of her job. She went to the state labor board, who ordered the University to pay unemployment benefits to the tune of $11,000. The University appealed, but the decision has now been upheld. Two other lawsuits by faculty in the English department also followed, arguing that they had also been subject to administrative retaliation. A third lawsuit from a psychology faculty member (married to one of the complainants) said that he had suffered a pay loss and was denied a promised private office in retaliation for his wife's complaining.
Chavez has accused her accusers of bias against her because she is Hispanic and bisexual. There are a thousand more details in an earlier article about this situation, but y'all get the gist by now.
Careful What You Paint
Closer to home, the Chronicle reports that a faculty member at Gainesville State College created some controversy with a piece of his art. A painting known as "Heritage?" depicts a Klansman with a torch and a lynching superimposed on the Confederate battle flag. When the College received complaints, the administration asked faculty member Stanley Bermudez to remove the artwork from the faculty art show, which he did. An artist's statement explaining what inspired the painting has now replaced the artwork, the Gainesville Times notes.
Careful How You Craft a Law
The Chronicle reports that the state of New York passed a law to allow the children of illegal immigrants who graduated from a New York high school to attend SUNY and CUNY universities at in-state tuition rates. The state was promptly sued by three graduates of SUNY Binghamton, who wanted a partial refund because they were New Jersey residents who had graduated from a religious high school in New York, and argued that they were not informed they were eligible for the tuition break. The University has stated it does not offer retroactive refunds.
In a related story, some nine couples at U. California—Berkeley have married to avoid paying higher out-of-state tuition rates. Married students qualify more easily for in-state tuition rates, since they are assumed to be independent of their parents, a different article notes.
Careful Where You Look
Another article in the Chronicle reports a study published in the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly. The study, entitled "When What You See Is What You Get: The Consequences of the Objectifying Gaze for Women and Men", examined the effect of "objectifying gaze" on women's ability to solve mathematics problems. To ensure that the gazing was done properly, I quote the lead researcher: Ms. Gervais laughs. "In the laboratory, as you might imagine, it's relatively difficult to get people to gaze at other people," she says. "So what we did in this study is we trained confederates — those are people that are sort of in on this study — we trained them to visually scan women's bodies and then to stare at their chests when they were interviewing them, and … we did this also to men." This reminded me of the old joke about the difference between an introverted engineer and an extroverted engineer—the extroverted engineer stares at your shoes.
The results of the study? "We found that the objectifying gaze caused decreased math performance for women, but somewhat ironically we also found that the same women that were objectified also wanted more interaction with the person that had objectified them," Ms. Gervais says in a videotaped interview with the editor of the journal.
The paper was reported to have been chosen as the journal's Best Paper of 2011, despite the fact that it is currently only February. Which leaves me to wonder: what would be the effect of someone peeing on your office door on your ability to solve math problems? A guaranteed journal article to anyone wanting to carry out this research.
Last Week's Trivia Challenge
Last week's Trivia Challenge on the Bible was won in an impressive ten minutes by Ronny Richardson (BA).
- Who was the man with the longest lifespan in the Bible? Methuselah
- Why wasn't Moses allowed to enter the promised land? For striking a rock with his staff, instead of talking to it, to bring forth water.
- Complete the phrase from the Book of Proverbs: "A soft answer turns away wrath…" …but grievous words stir up anger.
The last two are more difficult than they seem…
- How many of each kind of animal went onto the ark? Two of every unclean animal, seven pairs of every clean animal.
- Who cut Samson's hair? Delilah's servant.
This Week's Trivia Challenge
This week's topic is Words that begin with a "Z". Usual rules apply. No looking on the internet now!
1. What is the gizmo that cleans the ice in the middle of a hockey game called?
2. On The Patty Duke Show's theme song, where had cousin Cathy been?
3. What are the two elements that begin with a "Z"?
4. What is the name of the currency in Poland?
5. What is the kind of treat that goes best with your Bosco at breakfast?


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Learn how to make Memphis rub for ribs and impress family and friends with amazing tasting ribs at your next barbecue. Here, see step-by-step instructions for how to make Memphis rub for ribs.See Transcript
Transcript:Memphis Rub for RibsHi, I'm Ted Menzies for About.com. Today I'm going to be showing you how to prepare barbecued ribs using a traditional Memphis dry rub recipe. You can find all the ingredients in the Southern Food section of About.com.
Ingredients for Memphis Rub for RibsHere's all the ingredients you'll need to create your Memphis dry rub. You start off with:
- two tablespoons of garlic powder
- two tablespoons of onion powder
- two tablespoons of black pepper
- just one tablespoon of salt -- you don't need too much salt in there
- two tablespoons of chili powder
- two tablespoons of ground cumin which gives it a really unique flavor
- two tablespoons of brown sugar
- and you want to go with four tablespoons of paprika. The red gives it that deep color that everyone expects to see when you're making barbecue.
- And finally we've got an option for two tablespoons of cayenne pepper.
Instructions for Making Memphis Rub for RibsTraditionally this is a spicy recipe, but if you're serving children or people who have sensitive tastes you may want to skip on the cayenne pepper. And that's it!Combine all those ingredients in your pan and mix them up using a nice small whisk, this is a good way to blend all the ingredients together and make sure you get an even distribution. You want all of those great flavors to come out on every rib.Here's our rack of ribs. The first thing that I want to do is trim some of this skin that goes along the back edge of the ribs as you can see over here. This is not something you want to eat so what I'm going to do is trim it right along the bone and then use my knife and my fingers to carefully lift the skin off.
Once you've gotten underneath the skin you just want to pull it straight off. Now with the skin removed we're ready to add our rub. You want to generously cover the rib rack with your seasoning. Make sure that it's fully covered, like so. After you've applied your rub you want to give it about 45 minutes to allow the meat to absorb all the flavor of that great rub you've put on there. It also gives it time to develop a sort glaze on top that's perfect for barbecue.These great tasting Memphis dry rub ribs will be the highlight of your picnic table.
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