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Hi guys. I have a few questions about my 99 F550. It's an early 99 4x4 XLT crew cab / flat bed, with a 7.3 and 6 spd trans. I bought it new from a local dealer and we used it for a work truck for our construction company. The last crew that used it wasn't very "kind" to it and around the same time it started running bad, so we just parked it. It has been sitting, and has had a few injectors and the IDM box robbed out of it for another truck. I have recently decided it's just too nice of a truck to let sit and turn into a junk heap, so I am going to pull it out, resurrect it and use it as a personal truck to pull my race trailer or boat or whatever. We are going to put a new set of injectors and new IDM in it, a decent tuner, delete the muffler/cat, add the 6637 air filter, and that should be fine for power.
Anyway, I have a few questions to help me get going....
First, The truck is crew cab "cab/chassis". I haven't got out and actually measured the wheelbase, but it appears to have a standard wheelbase like a regular F350 crew cab dually. It has a normal 8' or 9' long flat bed on it like is regularly available at most truck places. My question is: will a regular Ford Dually bed fit? I see the frame appears to be flat and fuel tank is rear mounted, obviously to accept work bodies, but will a regular bed bolt on? I like the flat bed, but since it will be more of a personal truck, a regular bed would look good too.
Second, wheels & tires.... It has the 19.5 wheels on it. The tires are just ok so we need to replace them. My thought was since it's geared so low we could put some larger tires and/or wheels on it to help with the gearing and mpg. I would like to run over 65 mph and get more than 10 mpg LOL. Is there a larger 19.5 tire that a lot of people use with good luck? The 19.5 tires always seemed to be more expensive than big truck tires, so I have also looked at the semi tire style setups, and that's appealing because they would last a long time, but was curious what some common rim and tire sizes to use were? I wouldn't mind lifting the truck 4" or maybe even 6", but some of the semi tired trucks are sky high to clear the giant tires, which I don't really care for. Maybe a low profile tire? I really have no idea, that's why i'm asking...
Thanks in advance for any help.
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The thing with the Semi tires to look into is the price. A few of the guys at work were looking up prices and I was blown away. I guess it would be a good investment on a newer truck but they would have a long payback time.
As far as the bed I may be wrong but dosnt the f550 have a wider fram than say the 350/450?
I think the cab and chassis trucks from the factory are a little different. One being the frame is spaced wider than a standard 350 truck. The tank being mounted in the rear def tells me that its set up different. Measure width between from rails on this truck then measure it on a 99 350 truck and you'll see what I mean. I dint think a standard truck bed will fit.
Second about the wheels.... you can order up to a 35 inch tire in a 19.5 rim size. What is the truck geared? You can order a set up from American force wheels that will mount to your truck. You can choose from 20, 22, 22.5, and 24 inch tire sizes. I think the 20s or the 22s would do you the best, because of all the different tire types available. 22.5 would mean you would have to run the standard big rig tire type and most of them come in a hwy terrain tire tread. Means you would get stuck in soft grass if you ever needed traction. Is it 4wd? That's another thing to consider. 255/70/22.5 are about 36 inches tall and in a 4wd truck you would need at least an add a leaf leveling kit to clear them. 35/12.50 size tires are gonna be the biggest you can run with a leveling kit. I don't know about 2wds, but I'm sure you can do a leveling kit there too, but it may not give you the clearance that a 4wd truck would have with a leveling kit.
Any way you go on wheels and tires is gonna be pricey. A 20 inch wheel package from American force is gonna run you 5 grand I think and I don't know if that's tires or not.
Tuning the truck will help a lot with power. Get a flip chip from a reputable tuner, along with guages and you will be fine. Tony wild man, PHP or beans diesel are the best around for tuning. Also, contact full force diesel in TN for your injectors. Might wanna step into a little bit larger set to give you some tuning capability and added power. Stage 1s if you look strictly to tow with and maybe as a driver n the weekends should do fin and not burn up the turbo. Stage 2s are going to be a bit too big for the stock turbo and could burn it up if you run them long. But stage 2s can be de tuned and you can always have that extra in there in case you do decide to go larger Turbo down the road.
I have seen it done more then once. It leaves about a 3" wider gap between the cab and bed. I saw one that has a filler thing between the bed and cab to fill the gap. Not sure if the bolt holes line up because I have never looked that close.
There is a red 550 with a pickup bed and topper in PA in the for sale section. Was posted in Jan.
Last edited by F350none; 02-17-2013 at 04:53 AM.
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4" diffrence in cab-to-axle measurement between std bed trk and 9' cab-chassis trk... 56" vs 60"
If you drop a std bed on cab-chassis frame it not only leaves a gap it sits a few inches higher and the body lines dont match up.
In short.... flat bed would be easier.
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One quarter of Australia's rainforests, stretching from the McPherson Range on the New South Wales-Queensland border to Tasmania, are classed as Cool-temperate. Structurally simpler than Warm-temperate Rainforests, these silent, usually damp forests favour high altitudes, cooler climates and very high rainfall.
Often cloaked in mist for days on end, the dominant trees usually have a thick coat of mosses, liverworts, ferns and lichens.
The Southern Beech (Nothofagus species) is the most widespread, dominant tree of Cool-temperate Rainforests. Small leaved beech forests featuring the Antarctic Beech (Nothafagus moorei) are dominant at high altitudes from the McPherson Range to Barrington Tops.
Pinkwood, Eucryphia moorei, dominates Cool-temperate Rainforests between the Illawarra and the Victorian border. Further south, Myrtle Beech (Nothafagus cunninghamii) extends into Tasmania. The Deciduous Beech (Nothafagus gunnii) also occurs in Tasmania. Other common trees include Coachwood (Ceratopetalum apetalum), Sassafras (Doryphora sassafras), tree ferns and, in Tasmania, Leatherwood (Eucryphia lucida).
Characteristic features of cool-temperate rainforests include:


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Peter Snowden resisted the "I told you so" response after Guelph emerged as his stable's No.1 Blue Diamond contender at Caulfield on Saturday.
But he was entitled to gloat somewhat after the filly turned in a stunning performance in the fillies' division of the two Blue Diamond Preludes.
Snowden-trained runners have been staking their Blue Diamond claims almost weekly with the unbeaten Metastasio, another of Saturday's winners Kuroshio, and Montsegur all staking undeniable claims.
But Snowden has repeatedly batted away inquiries about that trio's Diamond prospects, consistently declaring Guelph to be his top pick.
And in her first run in Melbourne, Guelph justified her trainer's confidence.
Guelph ($2.25 fav) wasn't entirely comfortable in her Caulfield debut, but she still put away stablemate Montsegur ($3.40) without fuss, scoring untouched by 1-1/2 lengths.
Godiva Rock ($7.50) took third, a further 1-1/4 lengths away.
The win caused bookmakers to promote Guelph to a position from which she is expected to challenge long-time Blue Diamond market leader Miracles Of Life for favouritism.
Winning jockey Kerrin McEvoy said he needed to help Guelph around the tricky Caulfield bends, but only as much as he expected.
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His win put him firmly into a Blue Diamond picture that will contain at least three Snowden-trained runners and possibly four.
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During the 1970s, the air defense forces assigned to NORAD were significantly reduced, and subordinate command structures were revised, reflecting the increased threat from ballistic missiles and changing national strategies. The strategic SAM sites were phased out, dedicated interceptor units were substantially reduced, and the multiservice CONAD was disbanded, replaced by the Aerospace Defense Command. The Canadian component changed from the Canadian Forces Air Defence Command to the Air Defence Group. The role of NORAD shifted to emphasize warning and attack assessment as well as space surveillance and supporting nuclear deterrence by ensuring that a surprise attack would not destroy U.S. retaliatory forces. In 1979, a major U.S. Air Force reorganization resulted in most ADC operational capabilities being dispersed to the Tactical Air Command and Strategic Air Command (SAC), with the ADC being inactivated in 1981.
The increased role of space in NORAD operations was recognized when the name was changed to the North American Aerospace Defense Command in 1981. As the Cold War ended, NORAD's functions continued to provide the warning and space surveillance missions.
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Further Reading
Jockel, Joseph T. No Boundaries Upstairs: Canada, the United States, and the Origins of North American Air Defense, 1945–1958. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1987.; Jockel, Joseph T., and Joel J. Sokolsky, eds. Fifty Years of Canada-United States Defense Cooperation: The Road from Ogdensburg. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1992.; Schaffel, Kenneth. The Emerging Shield: The Air Force and the Evolution of Continental Air Defense, 1945–1960. Office of Air Force History. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990.


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One of the more annoying things about living with a food blogger is that they rarely make the same recipe twice. This is especially irksome when a dish is particularly fabulous, because the blogger's poor family knows that the chances of enjoying it again are virtually nil. But hey, I'm not heartless. I realize that there are certain dishes that are favorites and beg to be made again – like these killer candied sweet potatoes. They are absolutely to die for! That's why I always include them on my Thanksgiving menu – and you should too.
The original recipe for this dish was given to me by my mother. It was one of her Thanksgiving specialties when I was growing up. She only made them once a year, and believe me, they were worth the wait! Earthy sweet potatoes are bathed in a pool of rich, gooey brown sugar syrup and baked until meltingly soft and caramelized. Then, they're topped with marshmallows and popped back in the oven just long enough for the marshmallows to puff up like crazy and get all browned and toasty. It's like eating candy for dinner. Oooooh! I get verklempt just thinking about it!
I've tried making this dish a couple of different ways, and I've found that it is best to partially cook the sweet potatoes before adding the syrup. You can either boil, steam or bake them for about fifteen minutes or so. I prefer baking the potatoes first because that leaves one less pot for me to wash, and I'm all about efficiency. Also, there's less risk of the potatoes falling apart that way. It doesn't matter which way you choose. You really just want to reduce the "candying" time so that the syrup doesn't burn.
While I almost always use both light and dark corn syrup to make this dish, I have tried it with maple syrup instead of the dark corn syrup. It is really delicious that way too. In my experience, the syrup doesn't get quite as thick, but the maple flavor is really wonderful. One year, I also added some chopped pecans to the syrup, for a little crunch. I liked it and would definitely do it again.
Woo Hoo! Look at those marshmallows puff! My salivary glands are in overdrive right now just looking at them!
I have to tell you that while I love sweet potatoes in any way, shape or form, these are something special. Maybe it's because they conjure up lots of sweet memories of Thanksgivings past for me. Or maybe, it's from the anticipation of waiting a whole year to eat them. Whatever the reason, Thanksgiving at my house just wouldn't be the same without my mom's candied sweet potatoes.
Killer Candied Sweet Potatoes
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The Principles of Islam
The history of science is often regarded today as the progressive accumulation of techniques and the refinement of quantitative methods in the study of Nature.
Such a point of view considers the present conception of science to be the only valid one; it therefore judges the sciences of other civilizations in the light of modern science and evaluates them primarily with respect to their "development" with the passage of time.
Our aim in this work, however, is not to examine the Islamic sciences from the point of view of modern science and of this "evolutionistic" conception of history; it is, on the contrary, to present certain aspects of the Islamic sciences as seen from the Islamic point of view.
To the Muslim, history is a series of accidents that in no way affect the non temporal principles of Islam. He is more interested in knowing and "realizing" these principles than in cultivating originality and change as intrinsic virtues.
Once the spirit of the Islamic revelation had brought into being, out of the heritage of previous civilizations and through its own genius, the civilization whose manifestations may be called distinctly Islamic, the main interest turned away from change and "adaptation". The arts and sciences came to possess instead stability and "crystallization" based on the immutability of the principles from which they had issued forth; it is this stability that is too often mistaken in the West today for stagnation and sterility.
Unity-Based Knowledge
The arts and sciences in Islam are based on the idea of unity, which is the heart of the Muslim revelation. Just as all genuine Islamic art, whether it be the Alhambra or the Paris Mosque, provides the plastic forms through which one can contemplate the Divine unity manifesting itself in multiplicity, so do all the sciences that can properly be called Islamic reveal the unity of Nature. One might say that the aim of all the Islamic sciences and, more generally speaking, of all the medieval and ancient cosmological sciences is to show the unity and interrelatedness of all that exists, so that, in contemplating the unity of the cosmos, man may be led to the unity of the Divine principle, of which the unity of nature is the image.
|the revelation brought by Prophet Muhammad is the "pure" and simple religion of Adam and Abraham, the restoration of a primordial and fundamental unity
To understand the Islamic sciences in their essence, therefore, requires an understanding of some of the principles of Islam itself, even though these ideas may be difficult to express in modern terms and strange to readers accustomed to another way of thinking. Yet a statement of these principles is necessary here, insofar as they form the matrix within which the Islamic sciences have meaning, and outside of which any study of them would remain superficial and incomplete.
Islamic civilization as a whole is, like other traditional civilizations, based upon a point of view: the revelation brought by the Prophet Muhammad is the "pure" and simple religion of Adam and Abraham (peace be upon them all), the restoration of a primordial and fundamental unity. The very word Islam means both "submission" and "peace" or "being at one with the Divine Will".
Islam's Levels of Meaning
The creed of Islam "there is no divinity other than God and Muhammad is His prophet" summarizes in its simplicity the basic attitude and spirit of Islam. To grasp the essence of Islam, it is enough to recognize that God is one, and that the Prophet, who is the vehicle of revelation and the symbol of all creation, was sent by Him.
This simplicity of the Islamic revelation further implies a type of religious structure different in many ways from that of Christianity. There is no priesthood as such in Islam. Each Muslim being a "priest" is himself capable of fulfilling all the religious functions of his family and, if necessary, of his community; and the role of the Imam does not in any way diminish the sacerdotal function of every believer.
In its universal sense, Islam may be said to have three levels of meaning. All beings in the universe, to begin with, are Muslim, i.e., "surrendered to the Divine Will." (A flower cannot help being a flower; a diamond cannot do other than sparkle. God has made them so; it is theirs to obey.) Secondly, all men who accept with their will the sacred law of the revelation are Muslim in that they surrender their will to that law.Finally, we have the level of pure knowledge and understanding. It is that of the contemplative, the level that has been recognized throughout Islamic history as the highest and most comprehensive. The contemplated Muslim in that his whole being is surrendered to God; he has no separate individual existence of his own. He is like the birds and the flowers in his yielding to the Creator; like them, like all the other elements of the cosmos, he reflects the Divine Intellect to his own degree. He reflects it actively, however, they passively; his participation is a conscious one.
Thus "knowledge" and "science" are defined as basically different from mere curiosity and even from analytical speculation. To contemplate, from this point of view, "one with Nature"; he understands it "from the inside," he has become in fact the channel of grace for the universe. His Islam and the Islam of Nature are now counterparts.
Viewed as a text, Nature is a fabric of symbols, which must be read according to their meaning. The Quran is the counterpart of that text in human words; its verses are called ayahs ("signs"), just as are the phenomena of Nature. Both Nature and the Quran speak forth the presence and the word of God: {We shall show them Our portents on the horizon and within themselves until it will be manifest unto them that it is the Truth.} (Fussilat 41: 53)
Abstract & Concrete
Can our minds grasp the individual object as it stands by itself? Or can we do so only by understanding the individual object within the context of the universe? In other words, from the cosmological point of view, is the universe the unity and the individual event or object a sign (''phenomenon,'' "appearance") of ambiguous and uncertain import? Or is it the other way around?
|one can already see why mathematics was to make such a strong appeal to the Muslim: its abstract nature furnished the bridge that Muslims were seeking between multiplicity and unity
Of these alternatives, which go back to the time of Plato, the Muslim is bound to accept the first: he gives priority to the universe as the one concrete reality, which symbolizes on the cosmic level the divine principle itself, although that cannot truly be envisaged in terms of anything else. This is, to be sure, an ancient choice, but Islam does inherit many of its theories from pre-existing traditions, the truths of which it seeks to affirm rather than to deny. What it brings to them, as we have already said, is that strong unitary point of view that, along with a passionate dedication to the Divine Will, enabled Islam to rekindle the flame of science that had been extinguished at Athens and in Alexandria.
We have seen that the sacred art of Islam is an abstract art, combining flexibility of line with emphasis on the archetype, and on the use of regular geometrical figures interlaced with one another. Herein one can already see why mathematics was to make such a strong appeal to the Muslim: its abstract nature furnished the bridge that Muslims were seeking between multiplicity and unity. It provided a fitting texture of symbols for the universe - symbols that were like keys to open the cosmic text.
We should distinguish at once between the two types of mathematics practiced by Muslims: one was the science of algebra, which was always related to geometry and trigonometry; the other was the science of numbers, as understood in the Pythagorean sense. The Pythagorean number has a symbolic as well as a quantitative aspect; it is a projection of unity, which, however, never leaves its source. Each number has an inherent power of analysis, arising out of its quantitative nature; it has also the power of synthesis because of the inner bond that connects all other numbers to the unit.
The Pythagorean number thus has a "personality": it is like a Jacob's ladder, connecting the quantitative with the qualitative domain by virtue of its own inner polarization. To study numbers thus means to contemplate them as symbols and to be led thereby to the intelligible world. So also is with the other branches of mathematics. Even where the symbolic aspect is not explicitly stated, the connection with geometric forms has the effect upon the mind of freeing it from dependence upon mere physical appearance, and in that way preparing it for its journey into the intelligible world and, ultimately, to unity.
Historical Roots
Today, as in the past, the traditional Muslim looks upon all of science as "sacred," and studies this sacred science in a well-established threefold articulation. First, within the reach of all, is the law, contained in essence in the Quran, elucidated by tradition and jurisprudence, and taught by the doctors; it covers every aspect of the social and religious life of the believer.
The title of Avicenna's great treatise, Kitab al-Shifa', which rivals in scope the Aristotelian corpus, means The Book of Healing. As the title implies the work contains the knowledge needed to cure the soul of the disease of ignorance. It is all that is needed for man to understand; it is also as much as any man needs to know. Newton's work Principia has an obviously far different ring: it means a foundation essentially, a "beginning" rather than a knowledge that is complete and sufficient for man's intellectual needs as the titles of so many medieval Islamic texts imply.
Islam came into the world at the beginning of the seventh century A.D., its initial date (the journey of the Prophet Muhammad from Makkah to Madinah) being 622 A.D.; it had spread over all of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain, by the end of that same century. Just as the Islamic religion is one of the "middle way", so too did its territory come to occupy in fact, it still occupies the "middle belt" of the globe, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. In this region, the home of many earlier civilizations, Islam came into contact with a number of sciences which it absorbed, to the extent that these sciences were compatible with its own spirit and was able to provide nourishment for its own characteristic cultural life.
The primordial character of its revelation, and its confidence that it was expressing the truth at the heart of all revelations, permitted Islam to absorb ideas from many sources, historically alien yet inwardly related to it. This was especially true in regard to the sciences of Nature, because most of the ancient cosmological sciences - Greek, as well as Chaldean, Persian, Indian, and Chinese - had sought to express the unity of Nature and was therefore in conformity with the spirit of Islam.
strong unitary point of view, along with a passionate dedication to the Divine Will, enabled Islam to rekindle the flame of science that had been extinguished at Athens and in Alexandria
Coming into contact with them, the Muslims adopted some elements from each most extensively, perhaps, from the Greeks, but also from the Chaldeans, Indians, Persians, and perhaps, in the case of alchemy, even from the Chinese. They united these sciences into a new corpus, which was to grow over the centuries and become part of the Islamic civilization, integrated into the basic structure derived from the Revelation itself.
The lands destined to become parts of the medieval Islamic world - from Transoxiana to Andalusia - were consolidated into a new spiritual universe within a single century after the death of the Prophet. The revelation contained in the Quran, and expressed in the sacred language (Arabic), provided the unifying pattern into which many foreign elements became integrated and absorbed, in accordance with the universal spirit of Islam. In the sciences, especially those dealing with Nature, the most important source was the heritage of Greek civilization.
Alexandria, by the first century B.C., had become the center of Greek science and philosophy, as well as the meeting place of Hellenism with Oriental and ancient Egyptian influences, out of which came Hermeticism and Neoplatonism. The Greek heritage, itself to a great extent is an assemblage of ancient Mediterranean views, systematized and put into dialectical form by the peculiar discursive power of the Greeks passed from Alexandria to Antioch, and from there to Nisibis and Edessa, by way of the Christian Monophysites and Nestorians. The latter were particularly instrumental in the spreading of Greek learning, chiefly in Syriac translation, to lands as far east as Persia.
The totality of the arts and sciences in Islam thus consisted of a synthesis of the ancient sciences of the Mediterranean people, as incorporated and developed by the Greeks, along with certain Oriental elements. The dominant part of this heritage was definitely Greco-Hellenistic, in translations either from Syriac or from the Greek itself, by such masters of translation as Hunain ibn Ishaq, and Thabit ibn Qurran. There were numerous translations of Greek authors into Arabic in nearly every domain of knowledge. The ideas and points of views contained in these translations formed a large part of the nutriment which Islam sampled and then assimilated according to its own inner constitution, and the foundation given to it by the Qur'anic revelation. In this way there developed, in conjunction with the three basic "dimensions" of the Law, the Path, and the Truth, Islamic schools which were to become an accepted part of Islamic civilization.
With respect to Greek learning itself, Muslims came to distinguish between two different schools, each possessing a distinct type of science: one, the Hermetic-Pythagorean school, was metaphysical in its approach, its sciences of Nature depending upon the symbolic interpretation of phenomena and of mathematics; in the other, the syllogistic-rationalistic school of the followers of Aristotle, the point of view was philosophical rather than metaphysical, and its sciences were therefore aimed at finding the place of things in a rational system, rather than at seeing, through their appearances, their heavenly essences. The first school was regarded as the continuation, in Greek civilization, of the wisdom of the ancient Prophets, especially Solomon and Idris, peace be upon them; it was therefore considered to be based on divine rather than human knowledge. The second school was looked upon, for the most part, as reflecting the best effort the human mind could make to arrive at the truth, an effort of necessity limited by the finite nature of human reason.
|"The Book of Healing" is the most comprehensive encyclopedia of knowledge ever written by one person, and undoubtedly the most influential Peripatetic work in Islam
The science of Nature cultivated by the Peripatetic school is primarily syllogistic: it seeks to determine the place of each being, in a vast system based upon the philosophy of Aristotle. The best expression of the doctrines of this school appears in Avicenna's early writings. "The Book of Healing" is the most comprehensive encyclopedia of knowledge ever written by one person, and undoubtedly the most influential Peripatetic work in Islam.
Some of the scholars' writings, primarily those of the Peripatetic's, were to be translated into Latin to help form that Western scholasticism which was later to give way to seventeenth-century "natural philosophy". Other writings, such as those of the alchemists, were to flourish in the Western world for several centuries, only to wither away in its atmosphere of rationalistic philosophy. There were still other works, especially those of the Sufis and Illuminatists, which were to have an influence on certain Western circles such as that of Dante, and yet for the most part to remain almost unknown in the Western world, down to comparatively recent times.
In this brief introduction, it has been necessary to cover much ground that is unfamiliar to Western reader. But we felt that we had to dispel the common conception of the Muslims as merely Puritan warriors and merchants, whose strange bent for the "subtleties" of algebra and logic somehow also enabled them to become the transmitters of Greek learning to the West. As against that all too current notion, we have tried to present a brief picture of a culture whose spiritual values are inextricably tied up with mathematics and with metaphysics of a high order, and which once again fused the constituent elements of Greek science into a powerful unitary conception, which had an essential influence on the Western world up to the time of the Renaissance.
Strangely enough, it is this latter conception, half unknown at best, and then quickly forgotten in the West, which has remained, up to the present Western impact upon the Islamic world, the major factor in the Islamic perspective determining its attitude toward Nature and the meaning it gives to the sciences of Nature; conversely, it is those very elements of the Islamic sciences, most responsible for providing the tools with which the West began the study of the already secularized Nature of the seventeenth century, that became secondary in the Islamic world itself and had already ceased to occupy the main intellectual efforts of that civilization by the ninth to fifteenth century.
The Western world has since concentrated its intellectual energies upon the study of the quantitative aspects of things, thus developing a science of Nature, whose all too obvious fruits in the physical domain have won for it the greatest esteem among people everywhere, for most of whom "science" is identified with technology and its applications. Islamic science, by contrast, seeks ultimately to attain such knowledge as will contribute toward the spiritual perfection and deliverance of anyone capable of studying it; thus its fruits are inward and hidden, its values more difficult to discern. To understand it requires placing oneself within its perspective and accepting as legitimate a science of Nature which has a different end, and uses different means, from those of modern science.
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Two Dead In Fiery Crash Identified
April 17, 2012 10:16 AM
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities have identified two people who died in a fiery crash at a northwest Las Vegas intersection after police say their vehicle was broadsided.
The Clark County coroner says 67-year-old driver John E. Sullivan and 57-year-old female passenger Anita M. Sullivan died at the scene following the 12:30 a.m. Sunday crash at Flamingo Road and Town Center Drive in Summerlin.
The Las Vegas residents were in a Hyundai Sonata that was struck in the side by a Subaru Impreza that police say ran a stop sign.
The 23-year-old driver of the Subaru was hospitalized with injuries that were described as minor.
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Greetings from Louisiana State University. By some odd fluke, I've been asked to blog here at the World's Fair (who says the world is fair?) while the venerable Ben goes emeritus for a while. Don't worry, you still have Dave!
Anyway, just so you're not too surprised, here's the usual kind of posts to expect from me: inappropriate humor, vicious attacks on anti-science conservatives, heart-warming stories about puppies and kittens, celebrity gossip, movie reviews, unauthorized peer review, pharmaceutical industry general disrespect, and lots and lots of art-and-science stuff.
So, let's start with a post that doesn't really fit any of those descriptions: a visit to the Louisiana Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (known to its friends as LA-LIGO, or around here as just LIGO).
LIGO is a gigantic laser based gravity wave detector build in the swamp 40 miles east of Baton Rouge in Louisiana (http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/). A friend of mine and I got a personal tour on Friday (it's also open for public and school visits, see their website for details). There are currently 4 of these in the world: one in Louisiana, two in Washington state, and one in Italy (one scheduled for construction in Australia). They are designed to detect gravity waves — assuming such waves exist. Einstein's general theory of relativity predicts their existence, but they've never been detected. Apparently, according to the space-time warping theory of gravity, when two large objects do something clumsy (like when two stars collide) they make waves of gravity similar to when you throw a rock into a pond and it makes waves. When gravity waves wash over you, they stretch and contract you slightly (only by about 0.000000000000001 meters, so it's probably not that weird feeling you just had). Anyway, LIGO and it's sisters all have sets of 4 kilometer long super stable laser beams, whose length and position is constantly being monitored. If (when) a gravity wave washes over these laser beams, they will all stretch and contract by the exact same amount, at the same time, all over the planet — and that will constitute the success of this billions of dollars experiment. Hasn't happened yet, but prospects look good. One of the biggest technical problems in the experiment is filtering out the non-gravity wave noise: the LIGO in Louisiana can detect vibrations from waves on the shore in the Gulf of Mexico, and of minor earthquakes anywhere on Earth.
Why should we care? Other than proving (or disproving) an Einsteinian prediction, it would apparently be the first detection of a non-electrostatic based energy-wave phenomenon, and could potentially measure the size of the explosion that was the big bang.
Here's a really nice 20 minute video about LIGO:
We also got a nice tour of their Exploratorium-style outreach center, which has tons of hands-on physics toys to play with out here in the swamp (http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/SEC/sechome.html).
Most people in Louisiana don't even know this giant instrument (4 km by 4 km) is sitting out there in the bayous in their backyard. Makes you wonder what giant experiments are going on in other backyards around the world.


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January 9, 2012 12:00 PM
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Councillor dismayed as shelter becomes litter-strewn eyesore
Posted: December 07, 2012|
A COUNCILLOR fed up with litter louts is backing the Derby Telegraph's Clean Up Derby campaign.
Phil Ingall, ward councillor for Chellaston, said he was appalled that youths, who use a shelter he helped to provide, are turning it into an eyesore.
The shelter, which is opposite Chellaston School and near a playground, is seemingly irresistible to litterbugs.
Mr Ingall said he wished the young people who used it would take some pride in it.
He said: "The shelter has an awful lot of graffiti in it and is full of litter. It needs the children who use it to take strong ownership of it and look after it.
"If you pick up litter and clean up after yourself it makes life a lot easier. There is a bin right next to the shelter."
Mr Ingall also said he thought the Clean Up Derby campaign was a great idea and was happy to be backing it. He said: "I am so glad the Derby Telegraph came up with the idea. It's all about us taking a bit of responsibility and pride in our area.
"It doesn't take much to bag it and bin it."
Mr Ingall said one of his bugbears was fly-tipping.
He said: "Occasionally someone will offer to cut down a tree and take it away for a good price.
"But I always say if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
"Most of the waste from these operations ends up in the canal behind the Bonnie Prince Charlie pub and it takes a lot of man hours to clean up such a mess. It's not as simple as sending a road-sweeper to deal with it."
Gill Jacks, from Chellaston, said she walks around with a carrier bag clearing up after the litterbugs of Chellaston.
But the shelter is a source of constant annoyance to her. Mrs Jacks said: "Chellaston used to be a lovely place to live. But now it's got some really litter-prone areas.
"The shelter opposite the school is used by kids on their lunch breaks and they leave litter there.
"But that isn't what bothers me the most. Nearly every morning the shelter is filled with empty vodka bottles and bits of glass.
"It got so bad I rang the council's litter line. They did go out and clean it up but only a few days later it was as bad as before.
"There's a bin right next to the shelter. I really think it needs to be taken down. It's either full of tins or drinks.
"It's not serving any useful purpose. It's horrible as it's right next to a play area and is full of empty alcohol bottles."


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UPDATE: Variety is now reporting that the narrative concerns black ops and is based on a true story that has appeared in printed form. The pic does not, as previously indicated, directly revolve around Osama bin Laden.
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) might have Public Enemy Number One in her sights for her next project. No, she isn't working on a Cat Stevens biopic with Osama bin Laden – the as-yet-untitled low-budget black ops thriller that's been reported on earlier might center around efforts to nab Osama.
This isn't the only project on Bigelow's plate, though. She's also working on Triple Frontier, which is set to begin shooting sometime this year. The jury's out on which of these projects is actually going to be released first. Since the black-ops bin Laden movie is reportedly a small, low-budget affair, it might get banged out before the larger Triple Frontier, or it might be serving as a tentative back-up plan in case the bigger project falls through or is delayed. Either way, a movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden is sure to be controversial, although in the case of war movies like The Hurt Locker, controversy doesn't always translate to box office success. The prospect of seeing Sam Worthington or somebody spit out a witty one-liner before shooting Osama in the face might be enough to break some box office records, though. Free suggestion re: one-liner – "Where you're going, you won't have Been Laid In a very long time!" Send my residual checks to Screen Junkies. (SlashFilm)
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Secretary of State John Kerry will host "an Iftar dinner for Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni," according to a copy of his schedule released by the State Department. The dinner will also be attended by "Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat."
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Nash Grier Kisses Gay Fan To Prove He's Not A Homophobe
One of the most awkward kisses ever is supposed proof that Vine's biggest star is not a homophobe.
Yep, that's Nash Grier, the commander of nearly 9 million Vine followers and personality who said HIV is a "fag disease," on the right.
On the left is a gay fan/pawn in Nash's "I'm Not Homophobic 2014 Tour."
The fan then shared the news on his Tumblr page, writing [sic], "To all the people complaining about Nash being a homophobic who's against gays; He willingly kissed a boy just for a snapchat story on top of apologizing twice."
There, does that kiss on the boo-boo make it better, Instincters?
Im sorry but. is this supposed 2 automatically redeem him??? HELL NO. plus thts not even real. theres a video of him kissing random ppl if he wins rock paper sisccors. That pic is from tht video.
More than the statement of how ignorant a 16 year old can be who has unlimited access to the internet information highway is the statement of how easily that unfortunate teen can express his ignorance to millions of strangers and actually be treated as if teenagers never say stupid things.
This is false. He didn't kiss a gay fan. This was a snapchat story from Jerome Jarre's snapchat. The snapchat story was about saving the world with kisses. They had to play double rock paper scissors. If Nash or Jerome lose then the opponent slaps them. If they win then they kiss the opponent. In the case Nash won against this guy who was with a girl so he kissed him and he lost against the girl so she slapped him.
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This just makes it worse.. and what does kissing a gay guy prove? Just means you'll do anything to get followers back.
He's a kid that knew better and tried to pull a stunt to become famous. Fvck him he knew what he was doing. Age is no excuse for hate. This kiss is also a stunt.ets stop giving this punk anymore attention. We have bigger fish to fry.
His followers dropped from 8 million to 1.7.
He only did that to make people think he wasn't a homophobe! He is still the piece of shit that he always had been.
No one cares what this fucktard does.
I believe HIV is a virus. That people not just gays have been contracting for century's. U r more likely to be infected from a women. More women r most likely to have unsanitary sex. Viruses r more likely to be created from unsanitary conditions.
MAYBE if he was being spit roasted by a group of fat daddy bears in Times Square, maybe. But he'd have to post the link to his xtube page
"HIV is a fag disease, no need to get tested" was he trying to say that only gay people need to get tested for that?
Can't believe you guys are finding him attractive after what's he done! Makes me think that you guys think, just as him, with your dicks?
We can educate him, forgive him, but some of us will never forget him!
He has offended a lot of people living with HIV, and that's not something you can just erase with a kiss.
ugly fucks. need their mouths sewn together and left that way for this fag stunt.
This stupid kid does not get it, he can kiss all the gays he wants, suck all the cocks he wants, get fucked by all the guys he wants, but until he makes a video promoting HIV testing for all and everyone that is not gay, he'll still be the fucking homophobic moron he's always been!!
Looks like a publicity stunt. Just to get more attention. It's always the closet ones.
Ok first he is a stupid kid making a stupid comment and doing stupid things that he stupidly thinks is going to make us all go aweeee. But the thing is he is a kid. We need to be the example and educate him and others why this was wrong and have spread that message. If we continue to bash him with hate then we are no better and just as immature as he is. Allow this to be a learning point for all of us.
Exactly! I'm sure if we all looked back to our 15, 16, 17 year old self, we could all see many stupid thing that we did. He seems to be trying to put his best foot forward so we should just look at his actions from this point on. If he keeps on the path of a socially responsible person then good for him and good for us all. With 9 million impressionable viewers, this could turn out to be a good thing for us.
Best comment! I 100% agree.
You'd think it was the other way around from the pic. The gay guy looks like he's not feeling it and the supposed straight guy looks like he's really enjoying it! LOL
Kissing or having sex with gay men is not proof you're not a homophobe, especially when many homophobes will engage in gay sex in secrecy and then go gay bashing... It is all about how he can deal with selfloathing. And, sorry, but the guy being kissing looks quite disgusted himself!
Now, what Nash's said is indisputably homophobe and nothing he does, or pretends to do will make me think otherwise. He can be buttfucked in public and still be a homophobe.
Why is he grimacing?
Bye, Felicia!
You can't take back words that strong. What he said was horribly ignorant and childish about gays and HIV positive people. He really needs to learn a lesson here and maybe educate himself. What a reject!!!
He looks scared. Someone must of lost some followers. Including myself. NEXT!!!!
Hell no! Now if he dropped to his knees and gave him head then I would say yes. But of course I would need to see the video.
That guy is not about it. lol
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Each year the Giving Tree appeal looks to support families across Coventry who are in real need by providing their children with gifts and toys. This year we were able to support 660 children from 202 families.
Churches, groups and individuals give toys to the project which then needed to be sorted into age and sex before being wrapped ready for each child. We were thrilled that local secondary school, Grace Academy gave us full use of a large room in the school to run the sorting and wrapping from.
Once everything was wrapped the bags of presents were returned to the mission for two days of distribution where the families visit us at the centre at get involved in various activities before leaving with their gifts.
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A Gift From Lilith to You on Her Birthday: Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab SprinkleCake Fragrance Oil
There are two types of BPAL collectors.
Hardcores who think the gold is in the general catalog and fan girls, like myself, that love the LE Collections and releases.
I've been collecting BPAL for too many years to count and I've always had a very mushy, smushy, gooey place in my heart for their LE items.
If you're scared of BPAL or you just prefer something that's a bit more sweet or foody you'll be all over today's LE fragrance.
The Dark Princess turns five today I believe or perhaps four. Who is she? Lilith, daughter of Beth and Ted who create those fine sniffies from BPAL you may hold so near and dear to your heart.
Knowing the BPAL folk she was either named after Adam's wife or the demon.
Either way, Happy Birthday Lilith! I hate to say it but I love that your birthday gets me a gift ha…!
As with years past, to celebrate Lilith's new year BPAL has created a limited edition fragrance.
The scent is that of cupcakes that were requested by the Princess of Darkness to be made for her birthday…sprinkle flavored cupcakes with pink and purple glitter frosting as requested by Lilith, she got them and now you get them too in a sweet fragrance with rich vanilla cake, thick creamy frosting, and glittery candy flakes.
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9/1/11 20:36 Dana:
I heard of them on a beauty board about two years ago. I spent about three days going over the different scents and writing which ones I'd like and why. I never placed an order but found my notes a few weeks ago. I think I might revisit them and buy a few and this LE. I really like foody perfume.
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South Africa PMI Remains Below Key Level, Signaling Contraction
South Africa's purchasing managers' index remained below a key level for a third month in November, indicating that factory output probably contracted in the fourth quarter, Kagiso Tiso Holdings said.
The seasonally adjusted index rose to 49.5 from 47.1 in October, Johannesburg-based Kagiso said in an e-mailed statement today. An index level below 50 indicates a contraction in factory output. The median estimate of three economists surveyed by Bloomberg was for the index to rise to 47.6.
The South African Reserve Bank held its benchmark lending rate at the lowest level in more than 30 years last month as quickening inflation left little room to cut borrowing costs to boost growth. Mining output fell in the third quarter and manufacturing, which makes up 15 percent of the economy, rose an annualized 1.2 percent after contracting in the previous three months, according to the nation's statistics agency.
Purchasing managers' index "readings in the euro zone, the leading foreign market for our locally-produced goods, remains in contraction," Abdul Davids, head of research at Kagiso Asset Management in Cape Town, said. "The declining trend in the average PMI suggests that the manufacturing sector's contribution to fourth quarter gross domestic product could be lower than the third quarter."
Mining declined an annualized 12.7 percent in the third quarter because of strikes at gold and platinum mines, the worst since the end of apartheid in 1994, the statistics agency said last week. The economy expanded at an annualized 1.2 percent, the slowest pace since the nation was in a recession in 2009.
The index measuring business activity gained 2.7 points to 45.9, Kagiso said. The new sales orders index rose 2.4 points to 47.7, while the employment sub-index increased to 52, it said. The price sub-index rose to 79.5.
The Bureau for Economic Research, based at the University of Stellenbosch near Cape Town, conducts the PMI survey along with the institute on behalf of Kagiso.


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VLC Player is a widely used player and encoder that supports many video and audio formats. Like other software, VLC users may experience various technical problems. Even though it has been installed on your computer for a long period of time and you have already used it many times, it may fail to function properly. One of the common technical problems you might often experience is VLC no sound. Here are some ways to help you solve VLC no sound problem.
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If VLC media player is playing video but no sound playing, the probable cause is that you may have set it to mute at some point, and forgotten all about it. Your computer's operating system may remember this setting and mute VCL the next time. To unmute your VLC, just follow the steps below:
1 Click the speaker icon (it's at the bottom of your task bar near your clock);
2 Click the "mixer" and if your VCL Player is running, it will show up in the mixer like below;
3 Then unmute VLC and your sound works again
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If it doesn't work after you unmute VLC, try adjusting audio settings of this player. Here is how: go to Tools > Preferences > Audio and make sure Enable audio is ticked. Then go to Output and try a different default.
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Boomer & Carton Podcast And MOTD: February 13, 2014
February 13, 2014 6:10 AM
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Jerry Recco has the 'Moment of the Day' game on lock down, and today's highly anticipated selection went a long way in proving just that. After the moaning and laughter subsided, Craig's chest and nipples were put under the microscope…
You can listen to — and download — all of the memorable audio from today's (02/13) edition of the Boomer & Carton Morning Extravaganza in one nice little package for your convenience.
Until tomorrow morning at 6 a.m., when the guys make their return to the airwaves, stay classy New York!!!