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Explanation of Allaah's Statement: And they will never cease to differ except upon whom your Lord has bestowed His Mercy
Bismillaah Al-Hamdulillaah wa salatu wa salaamu 'ala rasulullaah
Explanation of Allaah's Statement:
"And they will never cease to differ except upon whom your Lord has bestowed His Mercy"
The following is a highly beneficial excerpt from a lesson that student Abu Khadeejah 'Abdul-Waahid (hafidhahullaah Ta'aala) gave during his recent trip to America: [ AbuKhadeejah – Final Night : Mercy Upon The Salafis and Love between them]
…So Ahlus-Sunnah's Qawaa`id (principles) and Usool (fundamentals) follow on from the Kitab (Qur`an) and the Sunnah. Ahlul-Bid'ah – the reverse.[1] They invent and then they try to establish proofs from the Kitab and the Sunnah.[2] And this is where (and how) splitting and differing occurs. Of course, it's going to lead to it, because everyone starts doing that. Then everyone will come with their own religion. And the Deen of Allaah, Subhanahu wa Ta'aala, is one.
So this is what we are upon. So if one returns back to the Kitab and the Sunnah, and the sayings of the Sahaaba (radiallaahu 'anhum), then you will find that Allaah and His Messenger (salallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) forbade splitting.
Allaah, Subhanahu wa Ta'aala, stated:
وَلاَ يَزَالُونَ مُخْتَلِفِينَ إِلاَّ مَنْ رَحِمَ رَبُّكَ
…But they will not cease to differ (disagree) – Except him on whom your Lord has bestowed His Mercy…
(Hud, ayat 118 and 119)
So Allaah mentions in this ayah two groups of people: (a) those who differ; and (b) those who are free from differing. Because Allaah said:
وَلاَ يَزَالُونَ مُخْتَلِفِينَ
But they will not cease to differ (disagree) : So there are the Mukhtalifeen, who will never cease to differ, those people who fall into this Ikhtilaaf, those who will never cease to differ.
إِلاَّ مَنْ رَحِمَ رَبُّكَ
Except him on whom your Lord has bestowed His Mercy : So this is the other group.
The great scholar 'Umar Ibn 'Abdil-'Azeez (d. 102 H, rahimahullaah Ta'aala), the Mujjadid (The Reviver) and King[3], said:
"Allaah created the people of His mercy in order that they do not differ."
And Abu Muhammad Ibn Hazm Al-Anduloosi (rahimahullaah Ta'aala), from the great Imams of Spain, said:
"So Allaah, Subhanahu wa Ta'aala, excluded those upon whom He bestowed His mercy from being those who differ. And He has (protected) those under His mercy from being those who differ."
So those who are deserving of the mercy of Allaah, do they differ? [No,] they don't differ.
Likewise, Imam Ash-Shatibee (rahimahullaah Ta'aala) mentioned in his book Al-I'tisaam:
"This ayah necessitates that the people of ikhtilaff mentioned are distinct from those whom Allaah has bestowed His mercy, due to the statement of Allaah:
وَلاَ يَزَالُونَ مُخْتَلِفِينَ إِلاَّ مَنْ رَحِمَ رَبُّكَ
…But they will not cease to differ (disagree) – Except him on whom your Lord has bestowed His Mercy… (Hud, ayat 118 and 119)
This ayah shows that the people are of two types:
(a) Ahlul-Ikhtilaf (the people of differing); and
(b) those whom have been bestowed by Allaah's mercy.
And what is apparent from this categorization is that the people of mercy are not from the people of differing."
So the Ummah is of two types: (a) Ahlul-Ikhtilaaf (those who differ), and therefore they are devoid of Allaah's mercy; and (b) Ahlur-Rahma (the people of the mercy of Allaah), those who do not differ.
Ibnu Wahhab (rahimahullah Ta'aala) said: "I heard (Imam) Malik saying:
'Those whom Allaah shows His mercy to, they do not differ.'"
They do not differ. This is why Ahlus-Sunnati wal-Jama'ah put so much emphasis upon the fact that we do not differ – we are united. Our 'aqeedah is one, our Messenger (salallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) is one, the Sunnah is one. The Manhaj is one. The way of the sahaaba is one. Do we not keep re-iterating this?
Why? Because we want the people to know: Ahlus-Sunnah are united, Ahlus-Sunnah are Ahlur-Rahma, and we are not from those who are Mukhtalifeen (those who differ). We do not like to be from those who differ.
Shaikh-ul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullaah Ta'aala) said: "Allaah said:
وَلاَ يَزَالُونَ مُخْتَلِفِينَ إِلاَّ مَنْ رَحِمَ رَبُّكَ وَلِذَلِكَ خَلَقَهُمْ
…But they will not cease to differ (disagree) – Except him on whom your Lord has bestowed His Mercy. And for that did He create them… (Hud, ayat 118 and 119)
So Allaah has informed us that the people of mercy do not differ. And the people of mercy follow the followers of the Prophets in their speech and action, and they are the people of the Qur`an and Hadeeth from this Ummah. And whoever differs from them in anything, then he distances himself, and he leaves the mercy of Allaah to the extent that he differs from them."
So after mentioning that Allaah has divided the people into two types: (a) the people who differ; and (b) the people of mercy (Ahlus-Sunnah, Ahlul-Hadeeth, Ahlul Qur`an wal-Hadeeth), then Ibn Taymiyyah said: whomsoever differs with them. He didn't say, 'whomsoever differs with it.' Ibnu Taymeeyah didn't say that. He said: whoever differs with them. With who? With them. With Ahlul-Hadeeth, Ahlul Qur`an wal-Hadeeth, Ahlus-Sunnati wal-Jama'ah.
Whoever differs with them – in anything – he leaves the mercy of Allaah to the extent that he differs with them. So the more you differ with Ahlus-Sunnah, Ahlul-Hadeeth, the Salafiyeen, the more you leave the mercy of Allaah.
That's an amazing Fahm (understanding) of Shaikh-ul-Islaam Ibn Taymeeyah.
And whoever opposes (Ahlus-Sunnah, the Salafees) in the affair of 'Aqeedah, if they oppose them in the affair of Manhaj, if they oppose them in their following of the Sahaaba, the more they oppose them, the more (they are distanced) from the mercy of Allaah. …
[1] As Shaikh Muhammad Nasir-ud-Deen Al-Albaanee (rahimahullaah Ta'aala) said, the invented beliefs and methodologies and principles of Ahlul-Bid'ah are cut off; they do not trace back to revelation from Allaah. They only trace back to the founder of that sect, whereas Salafiyyah is from Allaah.
[2] No ayah or hadeeth supports Shirk, bid'ah or any falsehood, as scholars such as Shaikh-ul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullaah) have clarified. Thus, when Ahlul-Bid'ah approach the Qur`an and Sunnah after having already believed in something, they approach the Qur`an and Sunnah in other than the correct manner, as they seek to distort the intended meaning of an ayah or hadeeth to support their misguidance. Ahlus-Sunnah read the Qur`an and Sunnah and then believe in accordance with what is found in the Qur`an and Sunnah upon the correct and intended meaning.
[3] Abu Khadeejah elaborated that 'Umar Ibn 'Abdil-'Azeez (rahimahullaah) was the greatest Mujjadid (Reviver), besides the Sahaaba, since the Tajjdid of the Imams such as Ash-Shafi'ee and Muhammad ibn 'Abdul-Wahhab (rahimahumullaah) was restricted to the affair that they had influence over, whereas 'Umar ibn 'Abdil-'Azeez was himself the ruler.
[4] There were many other benefits derived from the highly beneficial lesson, such as the virtue of the Sahaabi Mu'awiyyah (radiallaahu Ta'aala 'anhu), who is the Uncle of the Believers because he was the brother of one of the Mothers of the Believers Umm Habeeba (radiallaahu 'anha) who was one of the wives of the Prophet (salallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam). Abu Khadeejah relayed what the scholars advise with – naming our children with the name of Mu'awiyyah (radiallaahu Ta'aala 'anhu).
[5] Also Abu Khadeejah advised that Ahlus-Sunnah should not backbite each other, they don't let each other starve from hunger, and when one of them hurts, they all hurt.
And Abu Khadeejah also brought a beautiful benefit, saying Ahlus-Sunnah should not only be united upon one 'aqeedah and manhaj, but also they should strive to be together in person, learning together, etc. For when the Prophet (salallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) and his sahaaba reached a stop on their journey one day, the Prophet (salallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) saw the Sahaaba separated just by distance – some here, some there, some over there – and for this he (salallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said to them that this physical separation of yours is from shaytan! The narrator said – after that day – if a blanket was spread out over them, it would cover them from how close they were sitting.
So the sahaaba were united in their hearts – upon the same 'aqeedah and Manhaj – and physically! May Allaah be pleased with all of them.
[6] Other benefits include [and this is not verbatim]: Ahlus-Sunnah does not tolerate Ahlul-Bid'ah. Ahlul-Bid'ah desire that we stay quiet about them (regarding their Bid'ah and Shirk).
Imaam Abu Ismaa'eel al-Ansaari (rahimahullaah) said: "Whilst in Haraah: 'The sword was put to my neck five times [and each time] it was not said to me, 'Leave your madhhab' but it was said to me, 'Remain silent about those who are in opposition to you'. So I would say, 'I will not remain silent.'"
Abu Uwais (rahimahullaah) said the 'Aqeedah is to be acted upon, and on account of it, Al-Walaa` wal-Baraa` is to be made. Why did the polytheists hate the Prophet (salallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam)? Because he didn't keep quiet about their false gods.
And Abu Khadeejah warned against selling our Aqeedah, selling one's Deen!
Nu'aym ibn Hamad (rahimahullaah Ta'aala) used to be a Jahmee, then repented and wrote 13 books refuting the Jahmiyah. Now that's what you call a Tawbah! For refusing to give in during the Fitnah of the deviant statement 'The Qur`an is created,' Nu'aym Ibn Hamad (rahimahullaah) was tortured and imprisoned and kept hungry and without water. And when his students came to visit him, he told them: By Allaah, when they kill me, do not remove these chains from my body. Bury me in these chains (so that he will be resurrected with them). He did not surrender his Deen. In addition, they cut off his arms and legs and killed him, without him surrendering his Religion! Rahimahullaah!
Allaahu akbar!
These Imams such as Imam Ahmad and Nu'aym Ibn Hamad (rahimahumullah) didn't sell the Haqq (truth).
Some today, no sword is put to their neck, no gun to their head (and they sell the Religion). Out of fear of losing a friend, they will sell their 'aqeedah! Those Imams had swords put to their necks or imprisoned, and they wouldn't leave the Haqq…Our Salafiyyah is not for sale! We don't sell it to Ihya At-Turaath or Ikhwanul Muslimoon, even if they offer us a position as Imam and $1,000 a week. Not for $20,000 (a week or any amount of money). Our Salafiyyah is not for sale. Put a sign on your body: NOT FOR SALE!
Allaah, Subhanahu wa Ta'aala, said about about the Sahaaba (radiallaahu 'anhum):
نْتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ تَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَتَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَر
You are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind; you enjoin Al-Ma'roof and forbid Al-Munkar… (Aali 'Imran, ayah 110) Why? Because they enjoined the good and forbade evil. Not just to themselves, but to others.
Ahlus-Sunnah love each other, even if you've never met many of them or speak their language. Why? Because the foundation upon which the Jama'ah is built is the Sahaaba of Allaah's Messenger (salallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam). They are Ahlus-Sunnah. And whoever does not follow them has gone astray and innovated.
People today want the Salafees to "soften up." It's not my Deen or your deen. Take it whole. It's not a buffet bar.
Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullaah Ta'aala) said in Majmoo' al-Fatawaa (vol. 12):
"There is another group of individuals. They don't know the 'Aqeedah of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah as they are obligated. Or they may know some of it, and they are ignorant of some of it. And that which they know, they try to conceal. And they don't clarify that 'Aqeedah (of Ahlus-Sunnah) to the people. And they don't forbid bid'ah. And they don't condemn (refute) Ahlul-Bid'ah, and they don't punish them. Rather, they may condemn speech of the foundations of the Sunnah! Rather, they don't distinguish between what is said by Ahlul-Bid'ah and Ahlus-Sunnah, or they will accept all of the sects."
Ibn Taymeeyah (rahimahullaah Ta'aala) also said Ahlul-Bid'ah treat the issues of Usool (the fundamentals of the religion, the 'Aqeedah) as if they were issues of Ijtihaad. This is the attitude of many of the Murji'ah, the 'thinkers,' the Soofees and the people of philosophy.
Sound familiar, ya ikhwaan? Yes. "Goldie" (Abu Usamah Adh-Dhahabie), Shadeed Muhammad, Yasir Qadhi. Do they come in the garb of Salafiyyah? Yes. They (lyingly) say, 'We are Salafi.'
Abu Khadeejah advised not to be deceived by these false claims, just as Imam Ibnul-Qayyim (rahimahullaah Ta'aala) provided the example of someone who brings a bottle of whiskey and replaces the label with a label that reads: Pure Milk. It's still filthy whiskey.
Changing the label does not change the reality!
This describes many in our times who claim that they are Salafi, but they are not. If you see these (characteristics that Ibn Taymeeyah listed) in them, then you've caught them. Run away from them with your Religion!
Then Abu Khadeejah gave an in-depth look at Hizbeeyah and its machinations. He mentioned that he knew Ali Hasan Al-Halabi and Saleem Al-Hilaali and Muhammad Moosa Nasr since 1993.
As time went by, they started to nurture those who sat with them upon distancing themselves from Shaikh Ibn Baaz, Shaikh Al-'Uthaimeen and Shaikh Rabee' to connect their listeners to them exclusively! In 2000, Abu Hasan Al-Ma`rabee came to the UK – as a student of Imam Muqbil (rahimahullaah) – and he sat with the Salafees in the UK and sat with Al-Hilaali.
The following is the greatest proof of their Hizbeeyah!
Saleem Al-Hilaali, Al-Halabi, and Al-Ma`rabee made the brothers sign a contract – after inviting Maktabah Salafiyyah and other Salafees – and they said: "These are the points we enforce upon you – that you will not refer back to any scholar except Ali Hasan and Saleem Al-Hilaali in all of your disputes and affairs. (And) you will not invite any scholar to the UK unless it is approved. [Keep in mind that Shaikh Al-Albaanee, Shaikh Muqbil and Shaikh Al-'Uthaimeen were still alive; Shaikh Ibn Baaz had died. May Allaah have mercy on them!]
And Al-Ma`rabee, Ali Hasan and Saleem Hilaali threatened those who didn't sign this contract with warning against them. They even put Abu Khadeejah's name on it, and Abu Khadeejah said: "I didn't ask for my name to be put on there." They told him to come back the next day, Abu Khadeejah never returned – wa lillaah il Hamd! Abu Talha Dawood Burbank (rahimahullaah) didn't go, and Abu Hakeem Bilal Davis didn't sign either. Al-Hamdulillaah Allaah saved them!
This is from their Hizbeeyah – they seek to cut off connection to the true scholars!!
May Allaah reward Abu Khadeejah for his efforts, and preserve him upon the Sunnah.
In this link here, you will find more about this bullying and deception and flat-out Hizbeeyah of these characters whom Abu Khadeejah told us about. The following is an excerpt from that link:
"However, as time went by, we noticed some contradictions between what they were calling to in public and what they would say in private gatherings and insinuations they would make in lectures. They would make disparaging remarks towards other well-known scholars. They would try and restrict the da'wah around them. They would disregard the refutations of the scholars if they opposed their close companions. So we found them defending the likes of Adnaan al-Ar'oor and Muhammad al-Maghraawee.
In 1999, only a few months before the death of Shaikh Al-Albaanee – Abul-Hasan al-Ma`rabi and Saleem al-Hilaalee enforced and imposed upon the Salafi du'aat in the UK a contract containing a command to refer all religious and manhaj affairs/disputes back to Ali Hasan and Saleem al-Hilaalee to the exclusion of the Scholars.
Many of the brothers still remember how Saleem al-Hilaalee and Abul-Hasan gloated at the Salafis, proud to have overpowered them with threats and bullying. Al-Hamdulillaah, most of the Salafi students of knowledge rejected the contract and either refused to sign or did not bother turning up to the signing. This resulted in several years whereby these very same Jordanians (who had now departed from the teachings of Shaikh Al-Albaanee) warned against the Salafi du'aat who stuck to the scholars in Riyaadh, Madeenah and the South (Saamitah). Wherever they would travel in the West, they would now warn against good Salafi students of knowledge, in Canada, in the USA, in France and across Europe. They tried to raise themselves up as the vanguards of the Salafi da'wah whereas in reality they defended the people of desires, promoted the manhaj of tamyee' and watering down of the clear Salafi principles.
The issue came to a head during the fitnah of Abul-Hasan al-Ma'rabi (a few years later) when these individuals took to following their desires in opposition to the evidences (when the evidences were brought to them, they refused to accept them) – they waged a campaign against many of the scholars of the Sunnah, such as Shaikh Rabee', Shaikh Ubaid, Shaikh Ahmad an-Najmee, Shaikh Zaid al-Madkhalee and Shaikh Muhammad bin Haadee. All this after the death of Shaikh al-Albaanee.
They started making more and more apparent their disdain for the Scholars of Saudi such as Shaikh Muhammad bin Haadee and Shaikh Rabee'. They would openly defend those who the scholars warned against such as al-Maghraawee, Ar'oor, Muhammad al-Hassaan, Abul-Hasan al-Ma'rabi. They would not defend these deviants upon knowledge, but upon desires – they would reject clear-cut evidences presented by the likes of Shaikh Rabee' and Shaikh Ubaid al-Jaabiree. Their counter-argument would never go beyond, "there is no consensus of the scholars in their jarh of al-Ma'rabi"(!!) or "Shaikh so-and-so still has not refuted him" or "Shaikh Rabee' is not a hujjah" (!!) etc. So thousands of Salafis in the West realised the games they were playing and so kept their distance from them… For more, click here.
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My dentist performed a root canal today and informed me that a tip of one of the metal instruments broke off in the canal. (I actually heard it and thought my tooth had broke!) He informed me that he was not going to try to fish it out. Since it was 'sterile' he was just going to leave it in the canal and put the post and cap on.
Is this what he should be doing? Or will it hurt me in the long run? This doctor has become notorious for not taking a lot of time with patients and overcharging, so I am nervous.
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David Aspinall of the University of Edinburgh and Mike Just of Glasgow Caledonian University, UK used real-world passwords from a leak in 2009 to see just how easy it is to guess a partial password. Crucially, some passwords are more common than others, and some letters crop up in certain positions more regularly than the rest.
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Built from off cuts of fir from the mast of the Mystic Seaport's Amistad schooner, a chunk of green white oak, a few shop scraps and some spare time.
Ralph Cioppa made use of what he had on hand in the construction of this Nimrod 12 skin-on-frame canoe. After bending the ash frames in his hot tub, he shaped them, then left them to form in a metal trash can. He used heavy cardboard for the station molds, to which he attached the frames and then the Dacron skin. Ralph then found an old cushion from a porch swing to use for a seat in the boat. His eight grandchildren will use the 11-pound Nimrod, one at a time he writes, on Walker Lake near their home.
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A U.S. official said BP (NYSE:BP) aims to retrieve a failed blowout preventer from its ruptured Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday or Wednesday, according to a Reuters report published Friday.
The blowout's failure set off the spill and will be critical evidence in criminal and civil investigations into the cause of the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that killed 11 men and sent millions of gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf.
The oil company has tried to remove pieces of a drill pipe inside the blowout preventer for weeks, though after failing this week the company decided to move forward on recovering the blowout preventer with or without the pipe remnants stuck inside, said retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen at a briefing in Washington, Reuters reported.
Federal investigators are reportedly on site to ensure the equipment is properly preserved.
Upon the blowout preventer's retrieval, BP will replace it with another and then resume drilling a relief well that is planned to intercept the Macondo well near its bottom.
The interception, which is expected to allow the company to completely stop the flow of oil and gas from the well, is targeted for Sept. 6, according to the report.
BP temporarily stopped the flow of oil on July 15 using a cap.


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The Tick Tock Dock has an FM radio, pivoting dock for an iPod or iPhone, a jack for other audio devices and an AC adapter.
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Remember those oval-shaped old-fashioned alarm clocks - the ones with two bells near the top? Maybe you used one when visiting grandpa to make sure you woke up at 5 a.m. to go fishing. Chances are that vintage alarm clock didn't sport an iPhone dock, Bluetooth connectivity or a USB slot.
Fast-forward to 2012 and check out the retro-styled Tick Tock alarm clocks from Edifier. Depending on the model you choose, the alarm clocks can connect to your favorite audio devices via a docking station, wireless Bluetooth technology or media slots. No matter the model, decent sound is delivered via a front ...


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Worst off day ever!
The Dallas Mavericks traveled to Los Angeles to play the Lakers on Monday and the Clippers on Wednesday, but assistant coach Darrell Armstrong reportedly got into a little legal hot water in between the games.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Armstrong was arrested on Tuesday after he was pulled over. The reason for his arrest: alleged Las Vegas debts.
An assistant coach with the Dallas Mavericks basketball team was arrested in Marina del Rey on an outstanding warrant for non-sufficient funds in Las Vegas, authorities said Wednesday night.The Associated Press added these details.
Darrell Eugene Armstrong is wanted by the Clark County district attorney's office in connection with the case, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a statement. Armstrong was stopped Tuesday morning by a deputy for a traffic violation near Washington Boulevard and Via Marina Way, the department said. He was arrested and booked into the sheriff's Marina del Rey station.
Sgt. James Brown says Darrell Armstrong was arrested and booked Tuesday in a case involving non-sufficient funds. Details about the case weren't immediately available. Armstrong's bail was set at $40,000, and someone posted it Wednesday morning.The Mavericks' media guide notes that Armstrong is in his third season as an assistant with the team.
Sheriff's officials say Armstrong was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped for a traffic violation in Marina Del Rey on Tuesday. A deputy determined there was an outstanding warrant for the 43-year-old.
The driver and another passenger were not detained. The Mavericks declined to comment.
Armstrong, 43, played 14 seasons in the NBA, including stops with the Orlando Magic, New Orleans Hornets, Mavericks, Indiana Pacers and New Jersey Nets. A 6-foot-0 point guard out of Fayetteville State University, Armstrong retired with career averages of 9.2 points and 4.0 assists per game in 840 appearances.
Basketball-Reference.com lists Armstrong's career NBA earnings at more than $27 million.
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Pricing Insight is an Australian owned advisory firm specialising in the field of price optimisation, strategy and management. We are trusted advisors to leading ASX, Fortune 500 and Private Equity firms across Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific
We develop unique and internationally recognised programs for our clients that have realised between 200-900 basis points of incremental margin and +30% cash earnings growth
Pricing Insight is dedicated to the optimisation of gross margins and maximisation of long term profit growth. We form trusted partnerships by planning for, engaging and supporting our clients through each stage of the consulting process
Our value proposition lies in providing both innovative strategic analysis and execution of uniquely constructed pricing frameworks. We are committed to making pricing the most powerful profit lever for businesses
Build your pricing and margin improvment plan using the following price optimisation techniques and processes:
- Develop a strategic pricing roadmap
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As the Director of Pricing Insight and one of Australia's leading pricing experts, Ron has trained over one thousand senior executives in Value Based Pricing techniques and margin enhancement strategies. He has devised unique and internationally recognised programs, equipping executives into dealing with pricing challenges in a practical and pragmatic way His unique approach to consulting is the result of delivering real world pricing solutions for over fifteen years to ASX and NYSE listed companies in Australasia, South East Asia and the USA. His experiences span industries of manufacturing, financial services, construction, captial equipment, metals, retail FMCG, air frieght, tourism and agriculture Ron was one of the first dedicated commercial Pricing Managers in Australia developing a national pricing strategy for iconic Australian brand Arnotts biscuits. Key achievements in this new greenfields role was the development of a national pricing team aligned to key retail channel, the development, implementation and management of a sophisticated statistical modeling toolsets, publication of a national trades spend pricing strategy and a profit improvement of over 5 million dollars EBIT in 12 months resulting from the implementation of a tradespend optimization strategy. Ron has worked in the development of pricing strategy for Fortune 500 capital equipment manufacturers such as NMHG and ASX listed building materials companies including Capral Aluminium and Carter Holt Harvey. His commercial experience spans Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and the United States, as well as working with businesses from Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Vietnam and French Polynesia. His consulting clients include some of Australia's largest Private Equity, ASX and Fortune 500 listed companies and he works with C-Level and Senior Sales, Marketing and Finance executives to build commercially effective margin improvement solutions. He is the author of a comprehensive executive course in strategic pricing management and value pricing techniques which he has now taught to over 350 senior sales and marketing executives across Australia and New Zealand With 20 years business experience, Ron's has wide industry experience across the value chain from food and building manufacturers, wholesalers through to retail chains such as Woolworths, Coles, Bunnings and Mitre 10. Ron works closely with sales, marketing and commercial teams to develop value based pricing solutions for contract negotiations with procurement teams and cost down consultants working on behalf of your customers
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American Christians (usually of the right wing variety) love to cram the Pledge of Allegiance phrase, "Indivisible, Under God" down every American's throat.
But this is neither true, nor is it accurate.
How many different religions make the claim that they know the way to god?
How many different sects, and how many different denominations are there in one religion like Christianity? In Islam? In Judaism? In Hinduism? Not only do these religions make mutually exclusive claims about god, but they contradict themselves internally.
Christianity specifically divides people into "saved" and "not saved."
How much religious strife and war has the belief in god created? Terrorism? Or division among families and communities?
It should be the most obvious thing in the world, but humans are more divisible under god, than without.


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Hey guys just wondering, what is the best off road electric truck under 300 dollars. Im getting started in the world of RC and need a good starting car. Thanks
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Hey guys just wondering, what is the best off road electric truck under 300 dollars. Im getting started in the world of RC and need a good starting car. Thanks
you can always get the slash 2wd vxl its a great all around truck and a great starting car! its super durable and is all water proof so say accidentally after the sprinklers went on you went in the grass your truck will be safe. has to be one of the better bashing trucks out there and i picked mine up shipped to my door for $311.00 so its pretty close to your price range it has 2.4 ghz radio so no worry about glitches or interference. [url=http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXAPUX**&P=ML]TowerHobbies.com | 5807 Traxxas Slash 2WD VXL Brushless 2.4GHz RTR[/url] if you do order it from there witch is what i did the code to save $20 is 010G2 so it will be $311 witch was the same as mine
welcome to the forum and yeah a slash is a good truck to start out with. with a large parts availablity and durablity so you cant go wrong
2wd is great I love my vxl rustler but 4wd is much easier to drive, Something to think about before you buy..
If you are going to race get the sc10 FT. If you are going to bash get a Traxxas
welcome to the forums but also a stampede 2wd is a really fun truck i have one and the only problem ive had with it is after some mega huge jumps the shocks blow out but its really not a big deal and you can always buy big bores
Blue loctite on your shock caps is your friend!
Sorry for late reply but that's an awesome idea should I buy aluminum caps? Do they help
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You can also get leftover original Blitz RTRs for about $185, but they aren't 2.4GHz or brushless.
And you can find a much better place to order. Stormer Hobbies has the Slash for under $300 without fake, garbage "coupons". Tower jacks up their prices and then acts like their stupid coupons are giving you a bargain.
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This is the 10th article in a 12-part series, U.S. Regulation of Exports and International Conduct: A Compliance Primer, from Gregory Husisian of Foley & Lardner LLP. The first nine parts discussed The Pitfalls of Operating Abroad, Taking an Integrated Approach to Compliance, Basic FCPA Compliance Principles, Dealing with Third Parties under the FCPA, Dealing with Merger Issues Under the FCPA, Basic Export Controls Compliance Principles, Export Controls on Goods, Export Controls on Information and Technology, Economic Sanctions and Export Controls & Economic Sanctions Compliance.
Export control and economic sanction requirements have been around for years, but now are taking on increasing prominence in the wake of record-setting fines. This article provides a list of export controls and economic sanctions red flags. Priming employees to be alert to red flags such as these is an important bulwark against export controls and economic sanctions missteps.
Export Control and Economic Sanction Red Flags for Exporters
Shipment-Related Fact Patterns
- The final consignee is a trading company, freight forwarder, export company or other entity with no apparent connection to the purchaser.
- Delivery dates are vague or deliveries are planned for out-of-the-way destinations.
- A freight-forwarding firm is listed as the product's final destination.
- The shipping route is abnormal for the product and destination.
- Packaging is inconsistent with the stated method of shipment or destination.
Order-Related Fact Patterns
- The customer volunteers or is willing to pay cash for a high-value order rather than using a standard method of payment.
- The item ordered is incompatible with the technical level of the country to which it is being shipped, such as semiconductor manufacturing equipment being shipped to a country that has no electronics industry.
- The end-use information provided is incompatible with the customary purpose for which the product is designed.
- "Fragile" or other special markings on the package are inconsistent with the commodity described.
- The product is inappropriately or unprofessionally packaged (e.g., a freight forwarder receives a package that is unusually packaged).
User-Related Fact Patterns
- The customer appears on one of the blocked-person lists. Links to the current lists can be found at www.bis.doc.gov/ComplianceAndEnforcement/ListsToCheck.htm.
- The customer or ultimate end-user is unknown.
- Financial information about the customer is unavailable.
- The customer is willing to pay well in excess of market value for the shipment.
- When questioned, the buyer is evasive about whether the purchased product is for domestic use, for export or for re-export.
- The purchaser is reluctant to provide information on the end-use or end-user of the product.
- The customer appears unfamiliar with the product, its application, support equipment or performance.
- The customer orders products or options that do not correspond with its line of business.
- The customer has little or no business background.
- Firms or individuals from foreign countries other than the country of the stated end-user place the order.
- The customer declines normal service, training or installation.
- The product's capabilities do not fit the buyer's line of business, such as an order for sophisticated computers for a small bakery.
- The customer's order seems inappropriate, such as an order for a replacement part for an item that the customer never ordered.
- The customer is willing to pay cash for a very expensive item when the terms of sale normally would call for financing.
- The customer is unfamiliar with the product's performance characteristics but still wants the product.
- Routine installation, training or maintenance services are declined by the customer.
Destination-Related Fact Patterns
- The order is being shipped using circuitous or economically illogical routing.
- The customer's name or its address are the same as or similar to those of a person found on a blocked-person list.
- The customer asks for delivery in a country that does not match its supposed area of operations.
- The end-destination is Iran, Sudan, North Korea, Cuba, Burma, Syria or another country with OFAC or BIS restrictions.
Export Control and Economic Sanction Red Flags for Financial Institutions
For financial institutions, the primary concern generally is economic sanction red flags. For these institutions, the following red flags can indicate the need for further checking.
New-Account Fact Patterns
- The customer refuses to provide information normally required, such as verification of identity, information regarding the source of funds or other information required to meet typical know-your-customer questions.
- The customer attempts to set up multiple accounts and then makes deposits in them that aggregate to more than reporting thresholds but individually less than those thresholds.
- The customer provides unusual or suspicious identification documents.
- The new customer provides information that does not check out, that is difficult to verify or that is downright misleading.
- The customer is reluctant to provide information about the nature and purpose of its business or its business location.
- The customer cannot provide a working telephone contact.
- The customer requests signature authority for multiple people who seem to have no relationship to each other, whether by family or business ties.
- A new account application appears to be connected with an entity on a designated list.
- The customer requests to establish accounts in countries where local laws or regulations prevent or limit the collection of client-identification information.
Existing Account Fact Patterns
- An account receives large or unusual deposits, interspersed with periods of dormancy.
- A dormant account suddenly receives a large deposit or series of deposits, followed by quick cash withdrawals that remove the added money.
- The customer makes cash deposits or withdrawals, especially in large quantities, from a business entity that normally would be expected to deal with checks, payment instruments or wire transfers.
- The customer makes conducts multiple transactions, particularly in cash, where the customer attempts to use different tellers at the same branch of a financial institution.
- The customer makes repeated requests international wire transfers when it does not appear that business reasons would support such a request.
- There are multiple deposits by different individuals at the same branch within a short time.
- There are consistent patterns of deposits or withdrawals of cash in amounts that are just below reporting thresholds, especially if there seems to be a conscious desire to do so (e.g., the individual presents cash but, after finding out that it exceeds the reporting threshold amount, asks to deposit less so that the threshold is not exceeded).
- The customer makes deposits in amounts that do not make sense given the stated occupation of the individual (e.g., large deposits from a student).
- There are cash withdrawals by the same individual at different branches.
- The customer attempts to persuade a bank employee not to file a required regulatory report regarding customer information or suspicious activity.
- The customer uses an ATM machine to make large bank deposits, especially of cash or of amounts that are just below threshold reporting requirements.
- The customer makes frequent deposits of checks or money orders with sequential numbers.
Fund Transfer Fact Patterns
- There are movements of funds beyond the expected business or personal income level of the person or entity that owns the account.
- The customer requests to move funds to or from an offshore bank.
- The customer requests to wire funds to suspect countries or designated entities, especially if there appears to be no valid business reason or doing so is inconsistent with the customer's stated business or previous history.
- There are wire transfers, particularly for large quantities, from foreign sources where there is no valid reason appearing for them.
- There is unexplained wire activity, especially if it is repetitive or shows unusual patterns.
- There is a large volume of cashier checks, wire transfers or money orders into or out of an account when the account holder does not appear to have a reason for such activity.
- There are unusual or unexpected transfers of funds between related accounts.
- There are frequent transfers of funds among multiple banks, such as moving funds from Bank A to Bank B and then back again.
- There are frequent requests for withdrawals of large-dollar denominations, particularly if paid for by small-dollar deposits.
About the Author
Gregory Husisian is of counsel with Foley & Lardner LLP and has extensive experience in export controls, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and issues arising from international trade. Mr. Husisian is a member of the firm's Government Enforcement, Compliance & White Collar Defense; Securities Enforcement & Litigation; and Appellate Practices.


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Archive for Thursday, May 18, 2006
Manning camp
Danny Manning, two-time NBA All-Star forward, former Kansas University All-American and current member of the Kansas mens basketball staff, will be conducting his 11th annual summer basketball camp from July 24 to 28 at Free State High school in Lawrence.
The morning sessions will run from 9 a.m. to noon and is open to children entering grades second through fifth, while the afternoon session will run from 1 to 4 p.m. for children entering grades fifth through eighth (fifth-graders may attend the morning or the afternoon session).
Included in the weekly price of $135 are a camp T-shirt, camp prizes and a picture/autograph session with Manning on the last day of camp.
For more information or to register, e-mail Angie McClure at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit the Web site at www.basketballcampman.com.
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Electronic ticketing
1.2 billion people use contactless MIFARE smart cards today in public transport. These cards greatly increase efficiency, saving time and money for both service provider and passenger. Using a contactless smart card with journey credits or money stored on it provides a simple, convenient and extremely fast payment method. Transactions are completed at a quicker rate, increasing throughput while reducing queues at gate terminals.


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Wire Wine Racks and Shelves
Keep Bottles Stored at the Proper Angle with Wire Wine Racks
Keep your signature riesling, rosé, and other vino verities safely stored out of harm's way with a wire wine rack! These storage racks come in capacities of 5 to 240 bottles. Whether you run a restaurant or vineyard, these shelves are sure to keep your business organized. Read more
Not only do these storage racks keep beverages bottles tidy, but they also help enhance wine aroma and flavor! Due to wine's delicate nature, it's best to store bottles slightly tilted on their sides to keep corks moist and airtight. Our Regency shelves are uniquely designed to hold bottles at the proper angle to preserve wine quality. These open-wire shelves permit air flow to help maintain constant, cool temperatures. Our Intermetro shelves have secure side panels to help prevent broken bottles. Great for storing both red and white wines of all sizes and varieties, these wire storage racks are a staple at any winery or fine dining establishment.


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Inventory management is a computerized system, which can be used to maintain the records and store the data in warehouse and where your stock is located. To optimize the inventory management, there are many good companies providing business inventory control software. However, in the competitive world of business, one need to know exactly and all the intricacies regarding ones business and inventory at business touch so that each and every chance could be used as when they appear.
Business inventory Control Software is the most effective software to maintain the software and keep all the most important points in the mind. It is a recently computerized system to monitor the sales, revenues and business deals and many products & services. It is used majorly to manufacture the products and services for business uses. Recently, online software is very helpful option to calculate the records and database of managing the records and files. It is very successful way for different kinds of software to control the various business activities like sale, purchases and business transactions.
Being a computerized system, Inventory System is mainly used for different kinds of business purposes. It can manage all business activities and decrease the cost incurred on the computerized system. It is very helpful option to manage the business activities and maintain the records and control all types of business activities. It can be used for storing the data and calculate the accurate the data from external sources. This is the most important point of business inventory control software that date should be unique and accurate. As well, you can utilize the latest software to track every item's quantity in the inventory. Therefore, you need to use the computerized system to store the data and maintain the records through inventory. So, inventory system is called the computerized system to maintain the records and data completely.
It is very helpful option to maintain the records and control all types of business activities. Whenever business people will require the details of the business, then they can check out the whole details of business through inventory. So, before maintaining the records, then you need to measure all the parameters for effectiveness of your successful business. To monitor the small business inventory activities, you need to use the latest software to keep all most important things in the mind. Order Management is very quick system to carry out the all types of business activities to maintain the records of all kinds of computerized details.


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Orb-weaver spider
|Orb-weaver spider
|Argiope catenulata
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Simon, 1895
|168 genera, 3,006 species
The typical orb-weaver spiders (family Araneidae) are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields and forests. Their common name is taken from the round shape of this typical web. All orb-weaving spiders may also be referred to as the Orbiculariae.
Orb-weavers have eight similar eyes, hairy or spiny legs, and no stridulating organs. The Araneidae family is cosmopolitan, including many well-known large or brightly colored garden spiders. The 3,006 species in 168 genera worldwide make Araneidae the third-largest family of spiders known (behind Salticidae and Linyphiidae).[1] The orb-weavers include over 10,000 species and make up about 25% of spider diversity.[2]
However, orb-webs are also produced by members of other families. The large golden orb-weavers (Nephilidae) and the long-jawed orb weavers (Tetragnathidae) were formerly included in the Araneidae; they are indeed closely related to them, being part of superfamily Araneoidea. Their webs are similar to those of the typical orb-weavers, but tend to be less sophisticated and often have an irregular instead of a neat spiral arrangement of the prey-capturing threads. The cribellate or hackled orb-weavers (Uloboridae) belong to a distinct superfamily of the suborder Araneomorphae; their webs are often very sophisticated, but Uloboridae use neither venom to kill their prey, nor sticky threads in their web, and probably evolved the orb structure independently. Uloboridae are cribellate, and their threads can be recognized by the fuzzy and dull appearance, which captures prey by a velcro-like mechanism.
The orb-web[edit]
Generally, orb-weaving spiders are three-clawed builders of flat webs with sticky spiral capture silk. The building of a web is an engineering feat, begun when the spider floats a line on the wind to another surface. The spider secures the line and then drops another line from the center, making a "Y". The rest of the scaffolding follows with many radii of nonsticky silk being constructed before a final spiral of sticky capture silk. The third claw is used to walk on the nonsticky part of the web. Characteristically, the prey insect that blunders into the sticky lines is stunned by a quick bite, and then wrapped in silk. If the prey is a venomous insect, such as a wasp, wrapping may precede biting.
Many orb-weavers build a new web each day. Most orb-weavers tend to be active during the evening hours; they hide for most of the day. Generally, towards evening, the spider will consume the old web, rest for approximately an hour, then spin a new web in the same general location. Thus, the webs of orb-weavers are generally free of the accumulation of detritus common to other species, such as black widow spiders.
Some orb-weavers do not build webs at all. Members of the genera Mastophora in the Americas, Cladomelea in Africa, and Ordgarius in Australia produce sticky globules, which contain a pheromone analog. The globule is hung from a silken thread dangled by the spider from its front legs. The pheromone analog attracts male moths of only a few species. These get stuck on the globule and are reeled in to be eaten. Interestingly, both types of bolas spiders are highly camouflaged and difficult to locate.
The spiny orb-weaving spiders in the genera Gasteracantha and Micrathena look like plant seeds or thorns hanging in their orb-webs. Some species of Gasteracantha have very long, horn-like spines protruding from their abdomens.
One feature of the webs of some orb-weavers is the stabilimentum, a crisscross band of silk through the center of the web. It is found in a number of genera, but Argiope, the yellow and banded garden spiders of North America, is a prime example. The band has been hypothesized to be a lure for prey, a marker to warn birds away from the web, and a camouflage for the spider when it sits in the center of the web. However, recent research suggests the stabilimentum actually decreases the visibility of the silk to insects, thus making it harder for prey to avoid the web.[3] The orb-web consists of a frame and supporting radii overlaid with a sticky capture spiral, and the silks used by orb-weaver spiders have exceptional mechanical properties to withstand the impact of flying prey.[4]
During the Cretaceous, a radiation of angiosperm plants and their insect pollinators occurred. Fossil evidence shows that the orb web was in existence at this time, which permitted a concurrent radiation of the spider predators along with their insect prey.[5] The capacity of orb webs to absorb the impact of flying prey led orbicularian spiders to become the dominant predators of aerial insects in many ecosystems.[2] Insects and spiders have comparable rates of diversification, suggesting they co-radiated, and the peak of this radiation occurred 100 Mya before the origin of angiosperms.[6] Vollrath and Selden (2007) make the bold proposition that insect evolution was driven less by flowering plants than by spider predation – particularly through orb webs – as a major selective force.
Most arachnid webs are vertical and the spiders usually hang with their head downward. A few webs, such as those of orb-weaver in the genus Metepiera have the orb hidden within a tangled space of web. Some Metepiera are semisocial and live in communal webs. In Mexico, such communal webs have been cut out of trees or bushes and used for living fly paper.[citation needed] In 2009, workers at a Baltimore Wastewater Treatment Plant called for help to deal with an estimated 107 million orb-weaver spiders, living in a community that managed to spin a phenomenal web that covered some 4 acres of a building with spider densities in some areas reaching 35,176 spiders per cubic meter.[7]
Natural history[edit]
The oldest known true orb-weaver is Mesozygiella dunlopi, from the Lower Cretaceous. Several fossils provide direct evidence that the three major orb-weaving families, namely Araneidae, Tetragnathidae and Uloboridae, had evolved by this time, about 140 million years ago.[8] They probably originated during the Jurassic (200 to 140 million years ago). Based on new molecular evidence in silk genes, all three families are very likely to have a common origin.[2][4][5]
The two families, Deinopoidea and Araneoidea, have similar behavioral sequences and spinning apparatuses to produce architecturally similar webs. The Araneidae weave true viscid silk with an aqueous glue property, and the Deinopoidea use dry fibrils and sticky silk.[4][9] The Deinopoidea (including the Uloboridae), have a cribellum – a flat, complex spinning plate from which the cribellate silk is released. They also have a calamistrum – an apparatus of bristles used to comb the cribellate silk from the cribellum. The Araneoidea, or the "ecribellate" spiders, do not have these two structures. The two families of orb-weaving spiders are morphologically very distinct, yet there is much similarity between their web form and web construction behavior. The cribellates retained the ancestral character, yet the cribellum was lost in the escribellates. The lack of a functional cribellum in araneoids is most likely synapomorphic. If the orb-weaver spiders are a monophyletic group, the fact that only some species in the group lost a feature adds to the controversy. The cribellates are split off as a separate taxon that retained the primitive feature, which makes the lineage paraphyletic and not synonymous with any real evolutionary lineage. The morphological and behavioral evidence surrounding orb webs led to the disagreement over a single origin or a dual origin.[10] However, molecular analysis provides more support for a monophyletic origin.[2][4][5]
In the cannibalistic and polyandrous orb-web spider Argiope bruennichi, the much smaller males are attacked during their first copulation and are cannibalized in up to 80% of the cases.[11] All surviving males die after their second copulation, a pattern observed on other Argiope species. Whether a male survives his first copulation depends on the duration of the genital contact: males that jump off early (before 5 seconds) have a chance of surviving, while males that copulate longer (greater than 10 seconds) invariably die. Prolonged copulation, although associated with cannibalism, enhances sperm transfer and relative paternity.[11] It was observed that when males mated with a non-sibling female the duration of their copulation was prolonged and consequently the males were cannibalized more frequently.[12] When males mated with a sibling female they copulated briefly and thus were more likely to escape cannibalism. By escaping, their chance of mating again with a non-kin female likely would be increased. These observations suggest that males can adaptively adjust their investment based on the degree of genetic relatedness of the female in order to avoid inbreeding depression.
Sexual size dimorphism[edit]
Sexual dimorphism refers to physical differences between males and females of the same species. One such difference can be in size. Spiders are regarded as one of the few terrestrial groups that show sexual size dimorphism with the female being larger than the male, which is atypical.[citation needed]
In orb-weavers, size dimorphism is typically known as extreme sexual size dimorphisms, due to the extent of differences in size[citation needed]. The size difference among species of orb-weavers ranges greatly. Some females can be at least 9 times bigger than the male and others being only slightly larger than the male.[13] Sexual size of the female is typically thought to be selected through fecundity selection,[14] the idea that the bigger the female, the more eggs she can hold, and the more offspring that she can produce. Although the increase in female size opposed to male decrease in size is widely accepted, some studies have evidence for selection pressures affecting male size as well.[citation needed]
In orb weavers, there is a phenomenon called sexual cannibalism that is a common throughout the species. Studies have shown a correlation between sexual size dimorphism and incidences of sexual cannibalism, which creates a cyclic pattern of selection pressures on male and female size.[citation needed] Other studies, however, have seen a distinction among orb weaving spider species of when having smaller or slightly larger males are advantageous.[15] One study has shown that dimorphism may even have to do with where the orb weaving spiders mate as smaller size may be favored in orb weaving species that mate at the hub in the web.[15] For males of these species, being smaller in size may be advantageous in moving the center of a web so female spiders may be less likely to detect them and think that they are prey to be eaten. Larger bodied male orb weaving spiders may be advantageous when mating occurs on a mating thread because threads of web string created at the end of a spider web orb.[15] Here larger males where may be less likely to be cannibalized as the males are able to copulate while the female is hanging which may them safer from cannibalism.[15]
As of November 2015[update], the World Spider Catalog placed 169 genera (comprising over 3,000 species) in the family Araneidae.[16]
The Nephilidae were elevated to family status in 2006.[citation needed] Some researchers also consider the genera Leviellus, Parazygiella, Stroemiellus and Zygiella to reside in the family Zygiellidae.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Platnick, Norman I. (29 December 2010). "Currently valid spider genera and species". The World Spider Catalog, Version 11.5. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
- ^ a b c d Todd A. Blackledge, Nikolaj Scharff, Jonathan A. Coddington, Tamas Szüts, John W. Wenzel, Cheryl Y. Hayashi & Ingi Agnarsson (2009). "Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 5229–5234. doi:10.1073/pnas.0901377106. PMC 2656561. PMID 19289848.
- ^ Todd A. Blackledge & John W. Wenzel (2000). "The evolution of cryptic spider silk: a behavioral test" (PDF). Behavioral Ecology 11 (2): 142–145. doi:10.1093/beheco/11.2.142.
- ^ a b c d Jessica E. Garb, Teresa DiMauro, Victoria Vo & Cheryl Y. Hayashi (2006). "Silk genes support the single origin of orb webs". Science 312: 1762–1762. doi:10.1126/science.1127946. PMID 16794073.
- ^ a b c David Penney & Vicente M. Ortuño (2006). "Oldest true orb-weaving spider (Araneae: Araneidae)" (PDF). Biology Letters 2: 447–450. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2006.0506. PMC 1686203. PMID 17148427.
- ^ Fritz Vollrath & Paul Selden (2007). "The role of behavior in the evolution of spiders, silks, and webs" (PDF). Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 38: 819–846. doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.37.091305.110221.
- ^ Alford, Justine (2 November 2014). "Orb-Weaver Spiders Stuff A Treatment Plant With A 4-Acre Web". IFLScience. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
- ^ Enrique Peñalver, David A. Grimaldi & Xavier Delclòs (2006). "Early Cretaceous spider web with its prey" (PDF). Science 312 (5781): 1761–1761. doi:10.1126/science.1126628. PMID 16794072.
- ^ William A. Shear (1986). "The evolution of web-building behavior in spiders: a third generation of hypotheses". In William A. Shear. Spiders: webs, behavior, and evolution. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. pp. 364–400. ISBN 978-0-8047-1203-3.
- ^ Jonathan A. Coddington (1986). "The monophyletic origin of the orb web". In William A. Shear. Spiders: webs, behavior, and evolution. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. pp. 319–363. ISBN 978-0-8047-1203-3.
- ^ a b Schneider JM, Gilberg S, Fromhage L, Uhl G. Sexual conflict over copulation duration in a cannibalistic spider. Anim Behav 2006 71,781-8. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.05.012
- ^ Welke KW, Schneider JM (2010). "Males of the orb-web spider Argiope bruennichi sacrifice themselves to unrelated females". Biol. Lett. 6 (5): 585–8. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2010.0214. PMC 2936157. PMID 20410027.
- ^ Gustavo, H., Scharff, N., & Coddington, J.(2000).The Phylogenetic Basis of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Orb-Weaving Spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae). Systematic Biology 49 (3): 435-462
- ^ Legrand, R.S. & Morse, D.H. (2000). Factors driving extreme sexual size dimorphism of a sit-and-wait predator under low density. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 71: 643-664
- ^ a b c d Elgar, Mark (1991). "Sexual Cannibalism, Size Dimorphism, and Courtship Behavior in Orb-Weaving Spiders (Araneidae)". Evolution 45: 444–448.
- ^ "Currently valid spider genera and species", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), retrieved 2015-11-16
Further reading[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Araneidae.
|Wikispecies has information related to: Araneidae
- The Life of the Spider by John Crompton. Mentor, 1950.
- "The Orb-Weaving Spiders of Canada and Alaska. Araneae: Uloboridae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae, Theridiosomatidae. Insects and Arachnids of Canada Series, Part 23." By C. D. Dondale, J. H. Redner, P. Paquin, and H. W. Levi. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 2003. ISBN 978-0-660-18898-0
- How to Know the Spiders by B. J. Kaston. Dubuque, 1953.
- Spiders by Barbara York Main. Sidney, 1976.
- Biology of Spiders, by Rainer F. Foelix, second edition, 1996
- Levi, H. W. (1993): The new orb-weaver genus Lewisepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Psyche 100: 127–136. PDF
- Platnick, Norman I. (2010): The world spider catalog: Araneidae, version 11.5. American Museum of Natural History.
External links[edit]
- Spiders of Australia
- Spiders of northwestern Europe
- Araneae, Arachnology Home Pages
- World Spider Catalog
- Orb weavers of Kentucky, University of Kentucky
- Pictures of Mangora species
- Gasteracantha cancriformis, spinybacked orbweaver on the University of Florida / Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Featured Creatures website
- Neoscona crucifera and N. domiciliorum on the University of Florida / Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Featured Creatures website HOE


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Chris is being investigated by Los Angeles police for assault after he and Frank got into a fight on Sunday over a parking spot at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles and Rihanna is worried about the pair.
A source told HollywoodLife: "Rihanna wasn't there and she doesn't have anything to do with that. She hopes both Chris and Frank are all right."
Sources say Frank told Chris, who is still on probation for assaulting Rihanna in 2009, "This is my studio, this is my parking spot," which prompted Chris to offer a handshake.
However, one of Frank's associates is then said to have attacked him, which led to one of Chris's friends hitting him in retaliation and the two singers then began fighting.
The Los Angeles Police Department revealed it is investigating claims that Chris was to blame.
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June 2, 2006 – Six men, some of whom are believed to be Mexican nationals, were taken into custody by Lebanon police this week as part of the largest narcotics seizure in the history of the Lebanon Police Department.
The Wednesday morning sting resulted in the seizure of approximately 722 pounds of marijuana, according to Lebanon Police Chief Scott Bowen.
City police were notified a "large shipment" of marijuana was bound for Lebanon on Memorial Day, he explained. The drugs – hidden behind a false wall in a tractor trailer – did not arrive in the city until Wednesday, however.
"We got contacted yesterday morning, and they basically said, 'It'll be there in 20 minutes.' So, our guys kind of had to scramble with the SWAT team and the narcotics agents," Bowen said. "It was to be delivered on West Main Street. We arrived … and took six individuals into custody and seized four separate vehicles, one of those being the tractor trailer."
A drug dog from the department's K-9 Unit "hit" on the tractor trailer, alerting officers to the possible presence of narcotics.
"A cursory search of the trailer found it to be empty, but it appeared that there was a false compartment in the front of the trailer," Bowen explained. "At that point, we secured everybody and obtained a search warrant. Upon searching the trailer … we took the false wall apart and found 316 different bails of marijuana."
Depending on whether the drug was sold in "bulk" or divided up and sold on the street, Bowen noted the estimated value of the illicit shipment to be between $750,000 and $1.5 million.
"As far as quantity, that's the largest amount of narcotics that we've seized at one time," Lebanon Commissioner of Public Safety Billy Weeks commented. "I've been here 28 years, and that's the largest I've seen at one time."
Bowen added the LPD SWAT team assisted the department's Special Operations Division with the seizure due to the scope of the illegal delivery.
"When you're talking this kind of dope and this kind of money being involved, you never know what these people are capable of, and we were able to take all six of the individuals into custody without incident," he remarked, adding no weapons were discovered upon searching the vehicles.
"That's the good part about it – that it went so smoothly," Weeks said.
Taken into custody at the scene were: Yoel Prieto, 23, no address given; Eduardo Flores, 25, of New Mexico; Ricardo Arellano, 43, of Texas; Jose Luis, 34, of Nashville; Ruben Martinez, 24, also of Nashville and Arturo Meza, 36, no address given.
All six men are being held in the Wilson County Criminal Justice Center under $500,000 secure bond and have been charged with criminal conspiracy to possess over 300 pounds of marijuana.
Bowen noted an arrest warrant has been issued in Nashville for a seventh individual who was believed to be the planned recipient of the drug shipment. Noting the subject has yet to be apprehended, Bowen declined to identify the suspect.
The police chief said the shipment to Lebanon originated in "at least New Mexico."
"One of these individuals (Flores) is the owner of the tractor trailer, and from what he told us, he was going to be paid a specific amount of money to deliver the marijuana here in Lebanon," Bowen said.
"I'm pretty sure that we'll find that they're Mexican nationals," Weeks added, "and we'll have to advise the Mexican Consulate that they are in custody here because they're not citizens here."
Both Weeks and Bowen commended the SWAT team and Special Operation Division on the results of the investigation.
"I'm so proud of my guys," Bowen said. "We'd been planning this since Monday and then, all of a sudden, they gave us 20 minutes to get this done."
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Prevention and management of malaria during pregnancy: findings from a comparative qualitative study in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi
1 Centre for Social Science and Global Health, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2 Centre de Recerca en Salut Internacional de Barcelona (CRESIB, Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain
3 Departamento de Antropología Social, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
4 Department of Community Health, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
5 College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi
6 Navrongo Health Research Centre, Navrongo, Ghana
7 The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Research and Public Health Collaboration, Kisumu, Kenya
8 Research and Development Division, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana
9 Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA, USA
Malaria Journal 2013, 12:427 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-12-427Published: 20 November 2013
In endemic regions of sub-Saharan Africa, malaria during pregnancy (MiP) is a major preventable cause of maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. Current recommended MiP prevention and control includes intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp), distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) and appropriate case management. This article explores the social and cultural context to the uptake of these interventions at four sites across Africa.
A comparative qualitative study was conducted at four sites in three countries: Ghana, Malawi and Kenya. Individual and group interviews were conducted with pregnant women, their relatives, opinion leaders, other community members and health providers. Observations, which focused on behaviours linked to MiP prevention and treatment, were also undertaken at health facilities and in local communities.
ITNs were generally recognized as important for malaria prevention. However, their availability and use differed across the sites. In Malawi and Kenya, ITNs were sought-after items, but there were complaints about availability. In central Ghana, women saved ITNs until the birth of the child and they were used seasonally in northern Ghana. In Kenya and central Ghana, pregnant women did not associate IPTp with malaria, whereas, in Malawi and northern Ghana, IPTp was linked to malaria, but not always with prevention. Although IPTp adherence was common at all sites, whether delivered with directly observed treatment or not, a few women did not comply with IPTp often citing previous side effects. Although generally viewed as positive, experiences of malaria testing varied across the four sites: treatment was sometimes administered in spite of a negative diagnosis in Ghana (observed) and Malawi (reported). Despite generally following the advice of healthcare staff, particularly in Kenya, personal experience, and the availability and accessibility of medication – including anti-malarials – influenced MiP treatment.
Although ITNs were valued as malaria prevention, health messages could address issues that reduce their use during pregnancy in particular contexts. The impact of previous side effects on adherence to IPTp and anti-malarial treatment regimens during pregnancy also requires attention. Overtreatment of MiP highlights the need to monitor the implementation of MiP case management guidelines.


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We could hardly belieb our eyes when we saw pictures of Justin Bieber all locked up with nowhere to go. (Don't even get us started on the facial tattoos.)
There had to be an explanation as to why the 17-year-old was all of a sudden in prison and, in case he's wondering why too, we have the answer.
MORE: Justin Bieber's "Mistletoe" Video: Early Holiday Cheer or a Lump of Coal?
A free-speech and fair-use advocacy group called Fight for the Future has launched the Free Bieber campaign to fight congressional law S.978, which would make streaming or otherwise using copyrighted music in an online video punishable by up to five years in prison.
And, lest you forgot, Bieber blew up after impressing Usher (among others) with his homemade YouTube videos of himself singing hit R&B tunes, aka copyrighted material.
So, Fight for the Future is asking people to imagine young Bieber going to jail instead of to the upper echelons of fame for strutting his stuff—but using someone else's song to do it—on the Internet.
MORE: Should Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber Be on Postage Stamps?
"Tell Congress to get a clue and stop trying to jail people for singing," the group states in encouraging folks to sign its online petition. "Congress has no business making ordinary Internet users criminals for expressing themselves online."
People are also free to post their own photos and videos featuring Bieber in various lockup scenarios. So far, they've got a range of disturbing images, ranging from Bieber boarding a bus in striped prison duds, Bieber sporting massive teardrop tattoos, Jon Stewart talking about Bieber's jail sentence on The Daily Show and Bieber sharing a cell with Lil Wayne.
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First, it was the spending freeze that sent economist and NYT columnist Paul Krugman into a tantrum, saying that Obama "liquidated himself" by "embrac[ing] and validat[ing] the Republican world-view."
Today it's Obama's assertion that he doesn't "begrudge" big bonuses for two banking execs at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs because, hey, he knows those guys to be "savvy," and there are a lot of baseball players make more than that, anyway.
Obama went even further, according to Bloomberg, and "sought to combat perceptions that his administration is anti-business and trumpeted the influence corporate leaders have had on his economic policies."
Cue Krugman, who calls the interview "clueless."
Oh. My. God.
The White House is already pushing back on the Bloomberg write-up of his 30-minute interview with him:
The explanation doesn't make much sense given that Obama seemed to single out two specific executives, saying he wan't upset about their bonuses because he knows them to be "savvy." I bet the guys at AIG sure do wish they knew the president personally right about now.
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|Time-related histopathologic analyses of immunologically untreated porcine valved conduits implanted in a porcine-to-goat model.
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|This study was performed to evaluate the clinical feasibility of use of immunologically nontreated xenogenic valves, using a porcine-to-goat pulmonary valved conduit implantation model. Porcine pulmonary valve conduits were prepared with no specific immunological treatment and implanted in the right ventricular outflow tract of goats under cardiopulmonary bypass. The goats were assigned at predetermined intervals (1 day, 1 week, and 3, 6, and 12 months) as two animals for each interval. Echocardiographic examinations of the valves were performed before sacrifice. Upon retrieving the xenograft specimens, they were inspected visually and microscopically. Ten of the 12 animals survived the predetermined observation periods. Variable degrees of pulmonary regurgitation were the main findings on echocardiographic evaluations. On gross examination of the explanted specimens, all leaflets, except in one animal that prematurely died, were fairly well preserved. They were slightly shortened but free of thrombosis or vegetation. Aneurysmal dilatations of the anterior wall of the implanted pulmonary artery were observed in one of 12-month-survival animals and in another one of 3-month-survival animals. Microscopically, the three components of implanted xenografts (the pulmonary artery, valve, and infundibulum) were shown to be gradually replaced with host cells in time, while maintaining structural integrity. The nuclei of the donor tissue disappeared through pyknosis and karyolysis. In conclusion, immnunologically untreated xenogenic pulmonary valved conduits can be an alternative potential as valve substitutes with distinctive advantages of providing self-healing potential, despite a few problems observed in the current study such as occurrences of pulmonary regurgitation and sporadic cases of aortic aneurysm.
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'Evita' shows for two more weekends at Park City's Egyptian Theatre
Published July 17, 2013 10:16 am
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"Evita" shows for two more weekends at Park City's Egyptian Theatre on Main Street with shows Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sunday nights.
Park City is currently the only place to see "Evita" in the United States. The play was written by the award-winning duo, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Time Rice. Evita features some of theatre's most beautiful songs, including "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" and "Another Suitcase In Another Hall." The Egyptian Theatre production features an all-local Utah cast/
Tickets: Reserved $39 Advance/ $44 DoorFront-of-House $ 49/ $54 DoorShow Times: Thursday-Saturday at 8 p.m, Sundays at 6 p.m. Tickets Available at http://www.parkcityshows.com or by calling 435-649-9371.


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Published on March 30th,2011 at 4:35 PM
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By >Daimaou - G.G-B
I-O Data unleash two new USB 3.0 External drive and one USB Key in Japan
Category: Storage - Tags: External Enclosure, Hdd, I-o Data, Io-data, Storage, Usb, Usb 3.0, Usb Key, USB Memory Key
I-O Data announced this morning their latest USB 3.0 Line-up with three now models in total. This new devices includes tow external HDDs including the HDCA-UT Series available in 1 and 2TB, the HDPC-AU Series available in five different colors and up to 750GB and finally the TB-XT, a USB 3.0 memory Key available in 32GB Max.
All models will are schedule to hit stores within the end of April in Japan.
Via I-O Data
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