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By the time when the Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (EWURA) started to regulate the petroleum sub-sector business in Tanzania 2006, fuel adulteration had reached alarming levels in the country. Vehicles were spewing out heavily polluting toxic materials as a matter of course, the result of using poor-quality fuel.
Not only that... It is estimated that fuel adulteration was also denying the Government tax revenues to the tune of about 300bn/- a year.
In concerted efforts to tackle the problem, EWURA came out with an innovative fuel-marking programme code-named 'DNA.' Implementation of that programme has, in due course of time and events, made it possible for the government to increase public revenue collections on the one hand, and raise the quality of fuel on the other.
To that end, EWURA entered into a contract with Global Fluids International (T) Ltd (GFI), under which the company brought X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) machines into the country with which to implement the XRF programme, started in earnest on September 1, 2010.
In the event, statistics show that the percentage of fuels that have been caught in the tax net as a result of the programme has increased as follows:-
Petroleum: on a monthly average, tax was being collected on 34,589,906 litres of fuel before the programme was started. This increased by 9,422,454 litres rising to 44,010,360 litres: a 27 per cent increase within a single month of implementation of the programme!
Statistics also show that, after the start of the programme, government revenue collections during that single month increased by 5,078,702,706/- (i.e.539/- per litre times 9,422,454 litres). On average, this is the equivalent of a 60, 944,432,472/- increase in government tax revenues a year!
Diesel: before the programme was started, tax was being paid on 69, 221,971.73 litres of diesel a month. Following the launching of the programme, monthly taxable diesel rose by 17,843,838 litres, reaching 87, 065,810 litres... An increase of 26 per cent.
The 'extra' tax paid on the increased diesel sales in that single month amounted to 9, 171, 732,732/-, calculated at 514 per litre times 17,843,838 litres. On an annual basis, this works out at 110, 061,000,000/-!
Kerosene: statistics show that tax was being collected on 30,025,977.11 litres a month prior to implementation of the programme.
However, this actually FELL to 19,005,580 litres a drop of 11,020,397 litres per month, or 37 per cent!
An explanation for this sudden drop lies in the fact that imports of kerosene which was being used in adulterating diesel for mega-profits by unscrupulous traders fell after the tax on the item was brought to more-or-less the tax level for diesel! In the event, this removed the motive/incentive for fuel adulteration!
Based on the above, and following the continuance field inspection exercises performed by EWURA on Regular basis, a 50% increase in the total volume of taxable fuel designated to the local market was recorded, which is translated to Hundreds of Billions of Shillings in Collectable revenue.
Implementation of XRF programme
The programme was introduced in Tanzania effectively September 1st 2010 to control the fuel business involving especially petrol, diesel and kerosene.
The programme, which is applied to the fuel soon after it has been loaded on transport trucks at designated depots in the country, is designed to help curb problems that had characterised the petroleum sub-sector for years.
Fuel adulteration usually using kerosene to 'doctor' diesel or petrol in some cases — made it possible for unscrupulous traders to garner unduly huge profits at a time when kerosene was relatively dirt-cheap as a result of low tax rates.
The practice invariably causes health and environmental hazards; tax evasion; car and plant breaks-down; unfair business competition...
The problems were not confined within Tanzania; they extended beyond the borders and to neighbouring countries which imported fuel in transit through Tanzania.
The programme is also proving effective at controlling product smuggling, whereby untaxed fuel consignments are brought into the country usually via cross-border routes and entry points which are not officially-designated for the purpose.
Such consignments could conceivably also be of fuel adulterated outside Tanzania!
The XRF programme also works well with fuel products destined for neighbouring countries . It not only effectively counters the dumping on the domestic market of untaxed fuel products in transit through the country, but also ensures that such consignments arrive unadulterated at the destination countries. These include Rwanda, Burundi, eastern DRC, Malawi and Zambia.
Under the programme, EWURA conducts inspections at fuel stations an fuel transporting trucks in the country, using special devices known in labs as X-ray Fluorescence Machines that fitted on special EWURA trucks.
The computerised information so garnered is of the state-of-the-art technology. It instantly gives the results sought for, and which are tamper-proof and can be safely stored for future use over a long period of time.
In all fairness, the Authority offered a four-month grace period to service providers to finish up their stocks which had not been subjected to the XRF programme before it was started by taking fuel samples at fuel stations.
The fuel sample-taking exercise officially started in February 2011, and ended in April 2011. In the event, 235 petrol stations in 12 regions of Tanzania were inspected and had their fuel samples drawn.
During the exercise, about 54 fuel stations were found to indulge in fuel adulteration, which is equivalent to 23 per cent of all the fuel stations so inspected!
Again, 22 oil trucks were intercepted for on-the-spot inspection along the Dar-Morogoro Highway, and at the Tanzania/Rwanda and Tanzania/Burundi borders. The samples taken from three of the trucks which is equivalent to 14 per cent of the trucks inspected were found to be carrying adulterated fuel!
In that regard, those who were found guilty were punished according to the law and, where it was discovered that tax was evaded, the requisite information was forwarded to the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) for appropriate action, including recovery of the evaded tax!
In general, application of the XRF programme and fuel inspection exercise is continuing to operate smoothly. This immense success has largely been contributed to by effective cooperation between EWURA and the Tanzania Oil Marketing Companies (TOAMAC) in the country.
The two formed a five-person Committee that makes regular follows-up on implementation of the programme, and meets once a week for progress evaluations and tackling emerging problems.
Members of the Committee include those drawn from EWURA (one representative); GFI (one representative); and TAOMAC (one representative).
The success of the programme is also partly attributed to the fact that the fuel inspection exercise is carried out openly with full involvement of fuel dealers as a matter of course. Studies at fuel stations along Dar-Morogoro Highway
Due to the ever-increasing numbers of fuel stations which sprout along the Dar es Salaam-Morogoro Highway, EWURA is well-aware that there are unscrupulous fuel dealers engaged in fuel adulteration in different places, including private yards, fuel stations, fuel reservoirs — and even fuel transport trucks!
In that regard, EWURA has not been resting on its laurels. For example, the Authority, working in collaboration with the Kibaha Town Council, destroyed several 'backyard' fuel adulteration points along the Highway under the latter's jurisdiction.
EWURA also continues to conduct strenuous inspections of fuel trucks and stations to ensure that the adulteration malpractice is brought to an end.
Again, the Authority is closely making follows-up on congested fuel stations situated along Dar-Morogoro Highway, and those situated along the Mbagala-Mkuranga Road.
The objective is to establish monthly fuel sales figures for every fuel station; identifying fuel stations that sprung up after EWURA's information; identifying distances from one fuel station to another; and satisfying itself that the fuel stations were constructed in accordance with the laws governing the petroleum downstream market
The challenges
Indeed, EWURA faces several major challenges, which it regards as opportunities to strive and do better.
For instance, the Authority aims at conducting regular inspections at all fuel stations in the country, and checking up on as many oil trucks and border-crossing points as possible as a matter of course —always working in close cooperation and collaboration with TRA.
The other challenge facing the Authority is that of cheating, including the (illegal) use of fuel filling devices such as dipsticks which don't tell the full story, and fuel trucks which don't always show the exact volumes of fuel they are carrying!
EWURA has vowed to maintain its good system of cooperating with various stakeholders, including all fuel dealers, and exchanging important information about the implementation of its programmes, including the Fuel XRF Programme.
The Authority will also maintain its system of meeting with other stakeholders in the fuel energy sub-sector to (among other things) discuss the challenges and opportunities that are inherent in the programme. The overriding objective is to find lasting solutions to problems in the energy sector, with the ultimate view of facilitating effective implementation of its obligations to Society.
Apart from that, EWURA also aims at enhancing client confidence in the importance of the XRF technology all round including to fuel dealers, who must be involved and witness the exercise of inspecting fuel products by using the XRF gadgets.
The Authority will also continue to provide education to people in general, and businesspeople in the sector, doing so through sensitization and awareness programmes via publications, TV and Radio broadcasts.


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What is appendicitis?
Appendicitis is one of the causes of serious belly pain. It happens when the appendix, a part of the large intestine, becomes infected and inflamed. Experts don't know what the appendix does in the body, but most of the time it doesn't cause problems.
Appendicitis is most common in people ages 10 to 30, but it can happen at any age. With treatment, most people recover quickly and don't have any further problems. But without treatment, the appendix may burst and cause infection throughout the belly. This can be very serious.
What causes appendicitis?
It's often not clear why someone gets appendicitis. In some cases, a small object (such as a hard piece of stool) blocks the opening to the appendix. Then bacteria can grow in the appendix and cause an infection.
What are the symptoms?
The main symptom of appendicitis is belly pain. Many people feel the first pain near the belly button. Then it moves to the lower right side of the belly. But the pain can be in different parts of your belly or even on your side or back. The pain may get worse if you move, walk, or cough.
You may also have a fever or feel sick to your stomach.
In some cases, appendicitis doesn't cause any symptoms except for belly pain. The pain in your belly may be different than any pain you have had before. It may be severe. Or it may not seem like a very strong pain, but you may have the feeling that something is wrong. If you have moderate belly pain that does not go away after 4 hours, call your doctor. If you have severe belly pain, call your doctor right away.
Sometimes the only symptom is a general feeling of not being well and a pain that is hard to describe. Trust your instincts. If you think you could have appendicitis, you need to see a doctor.
How is appendicitis diagnosed?
Appendicitis can be hard to diagnose. Your doctor will do a physical exam and ask you questions about what symptoms you have, when they started, and what was happening before the pain began. You also may have blood and urine tests to look for signs of infection. In some cases, you may need a CT scan or an ultrasound of your belly.
Even though tests can't always show for certain that you have appendicitis, your symptoms may lead your doctor to strongly suspect that you have it. In this case, your doctor probably will recommend that you have surgery to remove your appendix. Most of the time, the doctor is right and the appendix is infected. During surgery your doctor may find that your appendix is normal and that something else caused your pain. Your doctor will go ahead and remove your appendix. You can live just fine without it, and taking it out gets rid of any chance that it could cause problems later.
How is it treated?
The main treatment for appendicitis is surgery to remove the appendix (appendectomy). There are different types of surgery for appendicitis. Your surgeon may operate through a cut (incision) in your belly or use a tool called a laparoscope to remove your appendix through a few small incisions.
If you have appendicitis and aren't treated in time, your appendix can burst and cause serious problems. It's best to remove the appendix before it bursts.
If your appendix does burst, surgery may be more complicated. You also will need antibiotics and may need other treatment.
How long does it take to recover after surgery?
Most people leave the hospital 1 to 3 days after surgery. Some may even go home the same day. Depending on what type of surgery you have, it may take from 1 week to 1 month to get back to your normal activities.
If your appendix ruptures, or if there is infection in your belly or other problems, you may be in the hospital longer. And it may take longer to get better.
After surgery, be sure to follow your doctor's advice about what to watch for, such as fever, increasing belly pain, or problems with your incision.
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- D'Souza N (2011). Appendicitis, search date February 2010. BMJ Clinical Evidence. Available online: http://www.clinicalevidence.com.
- Sauerland S, et al. (2010). Laparoscopic versus open surgery for suspected appendicitis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (10).
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The Post Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act directs the DHS Secretary to designate employees from throughout the Department to staff a Surge Capacity Force (SCF). During a declared disaster, the DHS Secretary will determine if SCF support is necessary. The Secretary will then authorize FEMA to task and deploy designated personnel from DHS components and other Federal Executive Agencies to respond to extraordinary disasters.
Together as One: DHS Employees May be Activated and Deployed
In very rare circumstances, a disaster of extraordinary size (such as September 11, Katrina, or Super Storm Sandy) may occur that would require DHS at-large to augment FEMA's workforce. In exceptional circumstances, this volunteer employee force -- known as the Surge Capacity Force (SCF) – will be deployed to a disaster location to help FEMA with response and recovery.
To prepare, DHS trains SCF volunteers in four primary areas:
- Logistics, the storage and movement of critical materials in support of disaster response
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- Individual Assistance, providing aid to survivors
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As the program progresses and a disaster situation warrants it, other professional skills or additional training to help utilize those skills for specific disaster needs may be required.
Employees of DHS who want to help when the need is greatest volunteer for these assignments. This program is active across all of DHS, and successfully utilized more than 1,100 employees during Super Storm Sandy. The program will soon be able to include our partners from across the federal workforce, outside of DHS.
The goal: with the help of federal employees, we will be ready to respond to any event or to simultaneous events, no matter how large the impact. Being "on call" for your organization and your country is really what federal service is all about.
DHS Stands United to Help Those in Need
DHS currently has over 3,800 workers who have signed up to be a part of SCF. We would like to have 15,000 volunteer employees in this program. Volunteers who join will be on call for SCF for one year, with supervisor's approval.
Employees in the Surge Capacity Force remain in a paid status and continue to be paid by their Component for a normal 80 hour pay period. Overtime pay and travel costs will be paid by the Disaster Relief Fund to eligible employees consistent with applicable law and regulations when approved by Joint Field Office Supervisors.
Conditions will be challenging. If SCF is activated, it means that the disaster is catastrophic. Living conditions are often austere during deployments and include, but are not limited to, no running water, no electricity, sleeping in tents and weather extremes.
The Secretary of DHS will activate the SCF when a catastrophic incident exceeds the capacity of FEMA's existing disaster workforce to respond. Volunteering is a unique opportunity for DHS employees to assist individuals in need during major disasters or emergencies and support DHS's mission of protecting the American Homeland.


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|TRON: Uprising
|Media Type
|TV series
|Charlie Bean
|Edward Kitsis
Adam Horowitz
|Elijah Wood
Bruce Boxleitner
Lance Henriksen
Mandy Moore
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Paul Reubens
Nate Corddry
|Disney-ABC Domestic Television
|Release Date
|June 7, 2012
|Running Time
|21 minutes approx.
TRON: Uprising is an animated science fiction TV series, part of the TRON series which airs on Disney's television channel Disney XD, in the United States. The show premiered on June 7, 2012, and is directed by Charlie Bean, who will also act as executive producer. Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz produced the series which is somewhat based on the TRON: Evolution PSP story.
- "Hidden away inside a computer, exists another world. Its creator designed it for games, but it became so much more. He called it The Grid, a digital utopia filled with infinite possibilities. He built a digital copy of himself named Clu, to create the perfect system. And he relied on the hero, Tron, to keep it free for all programs who lived there. But in his thirst for power, Clu betrayed his creator. Tron fought back, but Clu was too powerful and left him for dead. Clu dispatched his armies and seized absolute control. Now, in a far off corner of the Grid, a young program decides Clu must be stopped. His name is Beck. Could he be the next Tron?"
Beck is a young program who becomes the skillful leader of a revolution inside the computer world of the Grid. His mission is to free his home and friends from the reign of the villainous Clu and his henchman General Tessler. Beck will be trained by Tron, the greatest warrior the Grid has ever known. Tron will not only teach Beck the fighting and light cycle skills he needs to challenge this brutal military occupation, but he will be a guide and mentor to him as he grows beyond his youthful, impulsive nature into a courageous, powerful, strong leader. Destined to become "the next Tron", Beck adopts Tron's persona and becomes the arch enemy of General Tessler and his oppressive forces.
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Plot Summary
|Episode 1
Beck's Beginning
|May 18, 2012
|Beck doubts his ability to live up to expectations, and passes on becoming the next Tron.
|Episode 2
The Renegade, Part 1
|June 7, 2012
|As Tron trains Beck, Beck begins to doubt the skills he is learning will be enough to prevail against Clu.
|Episode 3
The Renegade, Part 2
|June 14, 2012
|While Mara works with Zed to get Able's rare light cycle back, Beck must figure out a way to release his friend Cutler from a death sentence.
|Episode 4
|June 21, 2012
|Mysterious blackouts begin to plunge Argon City into darkness.
|Episode 5
|June 28, 2012
|Beck loses his identity disc and must recover it before all that he is is lost forever.
|Episode 6
|July 5, 2012
|Beck makes a daring theft and must escape; Paige engages him in an aerial dogfight and the two get stranded on a slowly derezzing island.
|Episode 7
Price of Power
|July 12, 2012
|Beck defies Tron's orders to destroy a secret weapon; the Occupation takes programs captive.
|Episode 8
The Reward
|October 19, 2012
|Beck's night off with his friends is ruined when the Occupation arrests an innocent program falsely accused of being The Renegade. When Zed and Mara are also caught up in the melee, Beck has to make a daring rescue using a new four-seat "light roadster" that was offered as bounty for The Renegade's capture.
|Episode 9
Scars, Part 1
|October 26, 2012
|Beck must confront his mentor and convince Tron to halt his revenge against a program named Dyson, Tron's former friend and ally, who is now his mortal enemy. Tron's history before the occupation will be revealed, and viewers learn exactly what Clu did to injure Tron and force him into hiding.
|Episode 10
"Scars, Part 2"
|November 2, 2012
|Tron continues to get his revenge on Dyson.
|Episode 11
|December 3, 2012
|The Renegade is challenged to a showdown by Tesler, but is ordered to stay at the Garage to work
|Episode 12
We Both Know How It Ends
|Mara is in charge of the garage and must prove her leadership skills.
|Episode 13
"The Stranger"
|Beck falls into a trap and learns a secret about his role as Tron's mentee
|Episode 14
|Episode 15
|Episode 16
|Episode 17
|Episode 18
TRON: Uprising is set after the events of TRON: Evolution, but before TRON: Legacy. For the purpose of story and character development that could branch out but not directly conflict with the events portrayed in the movies, video game, or the graphic novel TRON: Betrayal, the series is set in Argon City, located in a part of the Grid far from Tron City.
In this series' timeline, Clu 2 has already taken over the Grid and is asserting his control over more distant areas, including Argon City. The "ISO Wars" is mentioned as being in the recent past, and Kevin Flynn is said to be in hiding.
Tron's Fate
The series builds up on the background story of Tron, particularly his experiences between Evolution and Legacy. An in-game cinematic in Evolution – which was shown as a flashback in Legacy – shows Tron being overwhelmed by Clu and several Black Guards to give Kevin time to flee. It is implied but never explicitly shown that Tron was subdued and injured, then later reprogrammed to become Rinzler.
The series establishes that Tron was indeed injured in the fight with Clu, but was able to escape relatively intact, although weakened and suffering from grievous wounds. He fled to Argon City, later stumbling upon Beck and thus setting the stage for the show. The series still leaves room for Tron to become Rinzler at a later time, before continuing into the events of Legacy.
While in hiding, Tron reverted to an elaborate white-suit/white-circuit design and color scheme reminiscent of his days in the original Grid. In the series pilot, his look switches between this and the look he adapted in the new Grid: An almost completely black suit with very minimal white circuitry (but without the "T" emblem on his chest seen in Evolution and Legacy). The white suit with white circuitry was bequeathed to Beck when Tron started training him to be "the next Tron". Following this, Tron adapted a black-suit/white-circuitry version of his original suit, and uses this mostly while at rest. During field operations, he uses the black suit with minimal white circuitry (with no "T").
TRON: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski has stated that he has had no input on the series.
- Bruce Boxleitner - Tron
- Elijah Wood - Beck
- Emmanuelle Chriqui - Paige
- Fred Tatasciore - Kevin Flynn/Clu
- Mandy Moore - Mara
- Paul Reubens - Pavel
- Nate Corddry - Zed
- Lance Henriksen - General Tessler
- Reginald VelJohnson - Able
- Tricia Helfer - The Grid
- Meagan Holder - Ada
- Paul Scheer - Hopper
- Donald Faison - Bartik
- Beck's name was originally Beta, but it was changed to Beck.[citation needed]


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Once Upon A Time There Was Darwinism
Once, the Origin of Species Was Thought to Lie in "Speciation"
On June 14, 2003, an article entitled "How Are New Species Formed?" appeared in New Scientist, noted for its avid support of Darwinism. The author, George Turner, made this important admission:
Actually, this admission is not new. In the century and a half since Darwin, no speciation such as he proposed has ever been observed, and no satisfactory explanation has ever been provided for the origin of species.
To explain this, it will be useful to examine what sort of "speciation" Darwin envisioned.
His theory depended on the observation of variations in the animal populations. Some of these observations were made by individuals who bred animals, raising quality breeds of dogs, cows or pigeons. From among the population, they selected ones with a desirable characteristic (for example, dogs that could run fast, cows that produced good milk or "smart" pigeons), and bred them. Within a few generations, their resulting offspring had a high proportion of the selected qualities. For example, the cows produced much more milk than ordinary cows.
This kind of "limited variation" made Darwin think that modification is continual in nature, and when it is extended over a long enough period of time, it produces a radical change, that is, evolution.
Darwin's second observation along these lines was that the various breeds of finches he saw in the Galapagos Islands had differently-shaped bills than finches on the mainland. In the islands, long-billed, short-billed, curved-billed and straight-billed strains of finches developed in the same population. Darwin concluded that these varieties turned into separate species by mating among themselves.
When Darwin assembled all these instances of variation, he was led to think that unlimited modification occurred in nature and that to develop brand-new species, orders and classes, only a long period of time was required. But Darwin was wrong.
When individuals with a given dominant characteristic are selected and bred, only better and stronger members of that species are produced. But this selective breeding can't possibly produce a different species. For example, a horse cannot descend from a cat, nor a giraffe from a gazelle, or a plum from a pear. Peaches do not turn into bananas nor do carnations turn into roses. In short, under no conditions can one species arise from another. The following pages will detail how Darwin was wrong on this matter.
The Natural Limits of Biological Change
Darwin supposed that the variations he observed in nature were never-ending. He thought that if only a few generations could show a change in cows, dogs and pigeons, then their entire structure could undergo alteration if given enough time. But in the 150 years that have passed since then, countless different experiments and observations have proven this supposition to be utterly false.
All 20th-century attempts to breed animals and produce hybrid plants have revealed limits that can never be crossed in the processes of natural variation. One of the most famous names in this field is Luther Burbank, who believed that there is a hidden law in species that limits their variation:
I know from my experience that I can develop a plum half an inch long or one two and a half inches long, with every possible length in between, but I am willing to admit that it is hopeless to try to get a plum the size of a small pea, or one as big as a grapefruit. . . In short, there are limits to the development possible, and these limits follow a law. . . Experiments carried on extensively have given us scientific proof of what we had already guessed by observation; namely that plants and animals all tend to revert, in successive generations, toward a given mean or average. . . In short, there is undoubtedly a pull toward the mean which keeps all living things within some more or less fixed limitations.103
Today, artificial means can make a few genetic changes in the biological structure of animals and agricultural products. Stronger horses and bigger cabbages can be produced. But Darwin clearly drew the wrong deductions from these instances. Loren Eisley, one of the world's most prominent anthropologists, explains:
It would appear that careful domestic breeding, whatever it may do to improve the quality of race horses or cabbages, is not actually in itself the road to the endless biological deviation which is evolution. There is great irony in this situation, for more than almost any other single factor, domestic breeding has been used as an argument for . . . evolution.104
And Edward S. Deevey, a biologist and ecologist at the University of Florida, points out that there is a limitation to variation in nature: "Wheat is still wheat, and not, for instance, grapefruit; and we can no more grow wings on pigs than hens can make cylindrical eggs." 105
Experiments conducted on fruit flies also struck the wall of "genetic limitation." In all of these experiments, fruit flies underwent changes to a certain extent, but beyond that limit, no change was observed. Ernst Mayr, a well-known neo-Darwinist, reports from two experiments done on fruit flies:
In the starting stock, the combined average bristle number of males and females on these segments was about 36. Selection for low bristle number was able to lower this average after 30 generations to 25 chaetae, after which the line soon died out owing to sterility. . . In the "high line" (selection for high bristle number), progress was at first rapid and steady. Within 20 generations bristle number had risen from 36 to an average 56, without marked spurts or plateaus. At this stage sterility became severe.106
After these experiments, Mayr reached the following conclusion:
One of the most important texts dealing with this subject is Natural Limits to Biological Change written by biology professor Lane P. Lester and molecular biologist Raymond G. Bohlin. In their book's introduction, they write:
That populations of living organisms may change in their anatomy, physiology, genetic structure, etc., over a period of time is beyond question. What remains elusive is the answer to the question, How much change is possible, and by what genetic mechanism will these changes take place? Plant and animal breeders can marshal an impressive array of examples to demonstrate the extent to which living systems can be altered. But when a breeder begins with a dog, he ends up with a dog—a rather strange looking one perhaps, but a dog nonetheless. A fruit fly remains a fruit fly; a rose, a rose, and so on.108
1) No new genetic data can be obtained without external interference in the genes of organisms. Without such interference, new biological data cannot appear in nature. That is, new species, new organs, and new structures cannot come into being. It is only "genetic variation" that occurs naturally in a given species. These limited alterations include the development of, for example, shorter, larger, short-haired or long-haired breeds of dogs. Even given a million years, these variations will never produce new species or higher taxa (genera, families, orders, classes, phyla).
2) In nature, external interference with the genes of organisms comes about only through mutations. But these mutations are never beneficial nor produce new genetic data; they only destroy the existing one.
Therefore, it is impossible to explain the "origin of species" in terms of natural selection, as Darwin thought to do. No matter how much "selection" dogs are subjected to, they will always remain dogs; there is no sense in asserting that they were actually fish or bacteria in the past.
So, what of the "external interference" in the genes, or mutations?
Since the 1930s the Darwinist theory has relied on this alternative, and for this reason, the theory's name was changed to "neo-Darwinism." However, mutations were not able to rescue the theory—an important topic to examine separately.
Galapagos Creatures Refute Evolution
The various finches that Darwin observed in the Galapagos were an example of variation and, as with other examples, offered no definite proof for evolution. Observations made in the last few years have shown that finches have not undergone the kind of limitless alteration that Darwin's theory supposed. Moreover, most of the different types of finches, which Darwin thought to represent 14 separate species, were actually variations of the same species, able to mate with one another. Scientific observations have shown that the example of the finch's bill, cited by almost all evolutionist literature, is actually an example of variation which affords no proof for the theory of evolution. Peter and Rosemary Grant went to the Galapagos to look for proof for the so-called Darwinian evolution and spent years observing the finches on the islands; in their well-known study, they managed only to document the fact that evolution had not occurred.109
What Good are Mutations?
The data contained in the gene is highly complex, as are the molecular "machines" that code it, read it and perform their productive functions accordingly. No random event that can affect this system, and no "accident" can bring about any increase in the amount of genetic data.
Imagine a computer programmer engaged in writing a software when on computer and a book falls on his keyboard, striking a few keys and inserting random letters and numbers into the text. A mutation is something like this. Just as such an accident would contribute nothing to the computer program—in fact, it would ruin it—so mutations vandalize the genetic code. In Natural Limits to Biological Change, Lester and Bohlin write that "mutations are mistakes, errors in the precise machinery of DNA replication" which means "mutations, genetic variation, and recombination by themselves will not generate major evolutionary change." 110
This logically expected result was proven by observations and experiments in the 20th century. No mutation was observed to improve the genetic data of an organism so as to cause a radical change.
For this reason, despite the fact that he accepts the theory of evolution, Pierre-Paul Grassé, former president of the French Academy of Sciences, says that mutations are "merely hereditary fluctuations around a median position; a swing to the right, a swing to the left, but no final evolutionary effect. . . They modify what preexists." 111
Dr. Grassé says that in the case of evolution, the problem is that "some contemporary biologists, as soon as they observe a mutation, talk about evolution." In his view, this opinion does not agree with the facts because "no matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution." 112
The best evidence that mutations do not produce new genetic data is that of the fruit fly. Mutations done to fruit flies show that in nature, balance, not change, dominates organisms. Due to the fast gestation period of fruit flies, which lasts only 12 days, for years they have been the favorite subject of mutation experiments. In order to increase the mutation rate by 15,000 percent, X-rays were used in these experiments. Scientists could observe fruit flies that, in a short time, were subjected to the number of mutations they would be exposed to for millions of years under natural conditions. But even such rapid mutations produced no new species. Scientists were not able to obtain any new genetic data.
In fruit flies, the classic case of supposed "beneficial mutation" is the instance of the four-winged mutant. Normally, fruit flies have two wings, but some with four wings have hatched occasionally. Darwinist literature offers this example as a "development," but as Jonathan Wells has shown in detail in his Icons of Evolution, this interpretation is wrong. These extra wings have no muscles for flying and so are actually disadvantages to the fruit fly. And not one of these mutants has survived outside a laboratory.113
Despite all this, evolutionists assert that beneficial instances of mutation do occur, even if rarely; and that through natural selection, new biological structures come into being. However, this is a major error. A mutation certainly brings about no increase in genetic data and, therefore, does not foster evolution. As Lester and Bohlin explain:
Mutations will be capable only of modifying what already exists, usually in a meaningless or deleterious way. That is not to say that beneficial mutation is prohibited; unexpected maybe, but not impossible. A beneficial mutation is simply one that makes it possible for its possessors to contribute more offspring to future generations than do those creatures that lack the mutation. . . But these mutations have nothing to do with changing one kind of organism into another. . .
In this regard, Darwin called attention to the wingless beetles of Madeira. For a beetle living on a windy island, wings can be a definite disadvantage. Mutations causing the loss of flight are definitely beneficial. Similar would be the case of sightless cavefish. Eyes are quite vulnerable to injury, and a creature that lives in total darkness would benefit from mutations reducing their vulnerability. While these mutations produce a drastic and beneficial change, it is important to notice that they always involve loss, never gain. One never observes wings or eyes being produced in species that did not previously possess them.114
Therefore, Lester and Bohlin conclude that overall, mutations are always a cause of genetic impairment and degeneration.
Mutations always cause a loss of genetic data; to believe that they produced the extraordinarily complex genetic codes of the millions of different species is like believing that books falling randomly onto a computer keyboard have written millions of encyclopedias. It is unthinkable nonsense. Dr. Merle d'Aubigne, head of the Orthopedic Department at the University of Paris, makes this important comment:
In short, mutations do not explain Darwin's "origin of species." The Austrian evolutionist biologist Gerhard Müller, in a book review he wrote for the winter 2006 issue of the Biological Theory journal, admits the inability of the neo-Darwinian synthetic theory to account for the origin of morphological novelty.
Neo-Darwinism cannot explain the origin of living creatures in terms of its two mechanisms, natural selection and mutation. No genetic data can be yielded through natural selection; only the existing data is selected. Nor do mutations produce new genetic data; they rarely do not affect the existing data but usually destroy it. Clearly the origins of genetic data—and therefore, life—have none of these mindless natural mechanisms.
As Dr. Merle d'Aubigne stated, this origin is an "intelligent and organizing force." This power is Almighty God with His endless intelligence, knowledge and might. In the Qur'an, God says:
It is He Who originated creation and then regenerates it. That is very easy for Him. His is the most exalted designation in the heavens and the Earth. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise. (Surat ar-Rum: 27)
Darwinism has tried to deny this reality, but has not succeeded; it has become an outmoded theory buried in history.
The End of "Just-So Stories"
The attempt to explain the origin of species in terms of evolution has come to an impasse, as has been openly admitted by evolutionists over the past few years. The situation is summed up in a 1996 article by evolutionist biologists Gilbert, Opitz and Raff in the magazine, Developmental Biology. They write: "the origin of species—Darwin's problem—remains unsolved."116
But the man in the street is not aware of this situation. The Darwinist system prefers not to let the public know that in Darwin's terms, the question of the origin of species is unanswerable. Instead, through media and textbooks, it repeats the myths of evolution. In the world of science, these myths are called "just-so stories" and constitute the main source of motivation for those who accept the theory.
You will find one of the most familiar of these stories—about how humans came to walk on two feet—in almost every evolutionist text, with slight variations: Humanoid primates that were the ancestors of human beings lived among the trees in the African jungles. Their spines were stooped, and their hands and feet ideally shaped for clinging onto branches. Africa's jungle expanses later shrank, and humanoids migrated to the savannah. In order to be able to see above the savannah's tall grasses, they needed to stand upright, in other words on their feet. Thus it was that our ancestors came to stand and walk erect. Their hands were now off the ground; and as a result they began using their hands to make tools. The more they used their hands, the more their intelligence grew. They thus turned into human beings.
You can often find stories like this in evolutionist newspapers and magazines. Reporters who accept the theory of evolution, or whose knowledge of it is limited or superficial, relate these stories to their readers as if they were factual. However, more and more scientists proclaim that they have no scientific value. Dr. Collin Patterson, for years the senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History in London, writes:
It is easy enough to make up stories of how one form gave rise to another, and to find reasons why the stages should be favored by natural selection. But such stories are not part of science, for there is no way of putting them to the test. 117
And in his book Fossils and Evolution (1999), the evolutionist paleontologist T.S. Kemp takes up the lack of scientific value in what has been written about the supposed evolution of birds:
The subject that Patterson and Kemp deal with—that "just-so stories" cannot be tested and therefore have no scientific value—is only one aspect of the problem. A second, perhaps more important, aspect is that apart from the fact that these stories have no scientific support, they are impossible nonsense.
Jean Baptiste Lamarck invented this myth in the unsophisticated scientific world of 150 years ago. However, modern genetics has shown that a characteristic acquired over a lifetime is not passed down to the next generation. The relevance of this lies in the supposition that the so-called ancestors of human beings evolved with characteristics they had acquired during their lifetime. This scenario claims that hominoids stood up on their hind feet to see above the vegetation, freeing their hands for use, and as a result, their intelligence developed. Nothing of this sort ever happened. Besides, it is not possible for a creature to acquire characteristics simply by trying to stand up straight and by using hand tools. Even if we accept the possibility of such acquisition (which is scientifically impossible), these skills cannot be passed on to the next generation. Therefore, even if the impossible did take place and one ape could force its skeleton into an upright position, it could not pass on this habit to its offspring, and evolution would not occur.
So, why is this Lamarckian idea, discredited for more than a century, still trying to impose itself on society?
Evolutionists say that these "just-so stories" encapsulate an actual process of biological evolution. They do not believe that necessity gives birth to evolution, but that necessity guides natural selection in a particular direction. They also believe that it causes the selection of the mutations that will bring about results in that direction. That is, when they maintain that hominoids stood up on two feet, they are actually saying that it would have been advantageous for them to stand on two feet. Some stood up straight, with a skeleton that had mutated at just the right time; and those that stood up straight were chosen by natural selection.
In other words, the scientific explanations relevant to the mutation are completely ignored, because if these details are examined, it will appear that they are merely unscientific superstitions.
The evolutionists' just-so stories suppose that mutations will appear to supply whatever an organism needs and to ensure whatever advantages would suit it best.
Moreover, no mutation has been observed so far that develops genetic data.
To believe in this scenario is like believing in a magic wand that supplies a creature's every need. It is superstition.
Even though the French zoologist Pierre-Paul Grassé theoretically accepts evolution, he is aware of the reality of the situation and has come out strongly against Darwinism in describing its strange belief about mutations:
The opportune appearance of mutations permitting animals and plants to meet their needs seems hard to believe. Yet the Darwinian theory is even more demanding. A single plant, a single animal would require thousands and thousands of . . . appropriate events. Thus, miracles would become the rule: events with an infinitesimal probability could not fail to occur. . . There is no law against daydreaming, but science must not indulge in it.119
In short, Darwinism is a figment of the imagination with nothing to do with science. And the just-so stories presented as scientific fact have not the slightest scientific support.
All these myths have in common the supposition that living things' special needs are first determined and then supplied by mutations. Evolutionists call this need "evolutionary pressure." (For example, the need to stand up on two feet in the high grass of the savannah is a so-called "evolutionary pressure.")
Only those who blindly accept Darwinism can possibly suppose that the necessary mutations are ready at hand. Everyone not caught up in such blind dogmatism can see that just-so stories are inventions with no relation to science.
Indeed, the nature of such conjectures is now openly admitted by evolutionist scientists. A new example is the comment by Ian Tattersall, curator in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, on an article in The New York Times, titled "Why Humans and Their Fur Parted Ways." The answer proposed was the scenario of having various advantages. Tattersall said, "There are all kinds of notions as to the advantage of hair loss, but they are all just-so stories." 120
In his 1999 book, evolutionist Henry Gee, science editor of Nature magazine, wrote that it is wrong to attempt to explain an organ's origin in terms of what is advantageous for it:
These statements are very important because in future, you will probably encounter such "just-so stories" in evolutionist literature and especially in the media. Remember, these vain stories rest on no scientific proof. The same method is always used in their production. First, the advantage of a creature's particular characteristic or aspect is described, then a scenario is invented to show how this advantage could have evolved. In practice, of course, there's no limit to the evolutionist theses that could be produced in this way: "The trunk gives the elephant the ability to gather food from the ground, so it must have evolved for that purpose," or "The giraffe's neck enables it to reach higher branches so it must have evolved to let the animal do so." To accept this is to believe that nature looks after the needs of its every creature. That is, it is the same as believing a myth.
The nature of this myth is becoming clearer and clearer every day.
Reviewing what we've examined since the beginning of this chapter, claiming that the origin of species is a random evolutionary process was the result of wrong deductions Darwin made in the scientifically unsophisticated 19th century. Every 20th-century observation and experiment shows that no mechanism in nature produces new species, much less higher taxa of living things.
Now that science has destroyed the Darwinist error, it has come to light that the true origin of species lies in Creation. Almighty God, with His supreme knowledge, has created every living creature.
103- George Turner, "How Are New Species Formed?", New Scientist, June 14, 2003, s.36
104- Norman Macbeth, Darwin Retried, Boston, Gambit INC., 1971, s.36.
105- Norman Macbeth, Darwin Retried, ss.35-36
106- Edward S. Deevy, "The Reply: Letter from Birnam Wood", Yale Review, 56 (1967), s.636
Ernst Mayr, Animal Species and Evolution, Cambridge, Harvard University Pres, 1963, ss.285-286.
108- Ernst Mayr, Animal Species and Evolution, ss.290.
109- Lane P. Lester, Raymond G. Bohlin, Natural Limits to Biological Change, s.13-14
110- Jonathan Wells, Icons of Evolution, ss.159-175
111- Lane Lester, Raymond G. Bohlin, Natural Limits to Biological Change, 2nd ed, Probe Books, 1989, ss.67,70
112- Garry E. Parker, Creation: The Facts of Life, San Diego, Creation of Life Publishers, 1980, s.76
113- Pierre-Paul Grassé, Evolution of Living Organisms, Academic Press, New York, 1977, s. 88
114- Jonathan Wells, Icons of Evolution (Regnery, 2000), s. 178
115- Lane Lester, Raymon G. Bohlin, Natural Limits to Biological Change, Probe Books, 1989, s. 170-171
116- Henry Morgenau & Roy Abraham Varghese, Kosmos Bios Teos, Gelenek Yayıncılık, Ekim 2002, İstanbul, s.161.
117- Scott Gilbert, John Opitz, and Rudolf Raff, "Resynthesizing Evolutionary and Developmental Biology", Developmental Biology 173, Article No. 0032, 1996, s. 361
118- Personal letter (written 10 April 1979) from Dr. Collin Patterson, Senior Paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History in London, to Luther D. Sunderland; as quoted in Darwin's Enigma by Luther D. Sunderland, Master Books, San Diego, USA, 1984, s. 89
119- T. S. Kemp, Fossils and Evolution, Oxford University Press, 1999, s. 19
120- Pierre-P Grassé, Evolution of Living Organisms, New York: Academic Press, 1977, s.103
121- Nicholas Wade, "Why Humans and Their Fur Parted Ways", The New York Times, 19 Ağustos 2003
122- Henry Gee, In Search Of Deep Time: Beyond The Fossil Record To A New Hıstory Of Life, The Free Press, A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1999, s. 103


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Several workers at a Mwanza-based fish processing company, Omega, have expressed concern over alleged harassment by the firm's management.
As a way of expressing their anger, they last week marched to the Mwanza Central Police Station to register their complaints.
Police authorities in the region have admitted being notified on the matter, saying they are informed of complaints by six workers against Omega executive director Amin Hassanali.
According to acting Mwanza Regional Police Commander Philip Kalangi, all six are with the company's production department and have registered their concerns with his office.
He named the aggrieved workers as Philip Abraham, Sujith Sukumaran, Rinoop Haran, Ramajith Bayene, Firoz Aram and Awanish Kumar.
"It's true they came to my office and lodged their complaints," Kalangi said last week, adding that the six were protesting being unfairly insulted and the management's decision to confiscate their passports.
Kalangi explained that police and a number of other relevant government organs including the Labour Department in the Labour and Employment ministry were investigating the matter to establish if there was any evidence of the country's labour laws having been violated.
He said before taking their concerns to police, the workers in question approached the Mwanza Regional Commissioner's Office and asked the RC to work on their complaints.
"We (police) are proceeding with in-depth investigations on the allegations level against the Omega executive director… Should it be proved that the accusations are genuine, appropriate legal and other measures will follow," said the acting RPC.
He however noted that police are there chiefly "to keep the peace by ensuring that people enjoy their rights without let or hindrance but also without infringing on the rights of anyone else because nobody is above the law".
Contacted by phone yesterday for an update on the saga, particularly police investigations, the RPC said: "I personally went to the company's premises in a bid to get details on the issue. What we discovered is that there is some form of labour dispute between the employer and workers. However, both parties have already entered into some arrangement and resolved the matter."
Tanzania Industrial Fish Processors Association (TIFPA) chairman Dr Xavier Alfred said he was completely in the dark with respect to the matter. However, he promised to make a follow-up and keep The Guardian posted "as soon as we have something substantive to tell you".
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Symbion Power announced yesterday that 50MW were expected from its new Arusha plant in the next two weeks as Tanesco warned that Mtera would generate electricity only go up to August.
Addressing reporters in Dar es Salaam yesterday, Tanesco Managing Director, William Mhando said water levels at Mtera dam had dropped to about 1.36 meters, which is only able to produce electricity for three months.
He said the company will be forced to use other sources of energy, if the situation of water at Mtera does not improve, stressing that the use of fuel to produce power was very expensive.
"If we start using fuel, things will be more expensive. We are spending 26bn/- a month to run Independent Power Tanzania Ltd (IPTL) plants," he said, adding: "We still have faith that rains will come and things might work out."
Meanwhile Symbion Power has said its 50 MW power plant installed in Arusha Region is set to be operational in the next two weeks — under the public-private partnership drive aimed to solve the power crisis.
Symbion Power Chief Executive Officer, Paul Hinks said yesterday that construction of the firm's 50MW power plant in Arusha has already been completed and that the company was waiting for certain connections to the system before switching it on.
"The plant will be operational in the next two weeks, or even earlier….that's what I can say for now," said Symbion CEO.
The plant is part of a comprehensive emergency power plan which seeks to pump more electricity into the national grid in bid to ease the crisis which has gripped the country for years.
In the implementation of the emergency power plan, the US-based Symbion Power was contracted to produce and supply to Tanesco 205 MW.
The American firm has constructed power plants in Dodoma and Arusha, producing a total of 105 MW, fulfilling its promise of producing additional electricity as specified in the emergency power plan.
The CEO said: "The power plants that Symbion has built in Dodoma and Arusha will be available to TANESCO when they are needed later this year."
He explained that the balance of 100MW had been delayed until August by TANESCO to save the government money.
Hinks stressed: "The next 100MW will be ready in time for the onset of low water levels at Mtera. At the same time as we have been building these 2 plants (in Dodoma and Arusha) Tanesco and their contractors Jacobsen have built an impressive new power plant in Ubungo next to the Symbion plant. All this additional capacity will be available this year."
"As everyone knows, there is a gas constraint issue in Tanzania that needs to be solved on an urgent basis and we are hopeful that the projects that are slated to solve this will soon be underway," said Hinks.
He noted that Tanzania needed much more power in order to keep up with its impressive development record of recent years.
"I can tell you that in America, Tanzania is considered to be one of the most successful growing economies in Africa today. That's something every Tanzanian should be very, very proud of," observed Symbion's chief executive officer.
Power shortages have hampered the country's economic growth, fuelled inflation and stagnation of business operations.


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Commodore Matt Decker was a Human Starfleet flag officer assigned as the commander of the USS Constellation.
In 2267, the Constellation was on a routine survey mission near system L-374 when it encountered an alien planet killer systematically destroying the planets of the system.
During the encounter, his ship became hopelessly damaged, rendering all power plants dead. Decker remained on board to confront the machine, beaming his entire crew to what he believed was safety on the third planet of the L-374 system. When the alien machine destroyed that planet, and further damaged the Constellation, Decker was the only survivor.
Decker was later discovered by the USS Enterprise, who transported him from his broken ship. He initially resisted the effort to do so, stating that he had never lost a command before. Consumed with grief over his actions, and with an almost reckless desire for revenge, Decker seized command of the Enterprise after losing contact with the Constellation, leaving Captain Kirk stranded aboard the Constellation.
He then launched an attack on the planet killer, a futile move which resulted in severe damage to the Enterprise. When communications were restored with the Constellation, Captain Kirk gave Commander Spock a direct order to relieve Decker on his personal authority as Captain of the Enterprise. Decker submitted to Spock's relieving him of command after being threatened with arrest if he did not comply. Decker subsequently stole an Enterprise shuttlecraft, piloting it into the maw of the creature in an attempt to destroy it.
Decker was killed in the attempt. While the attack failed to cause significant damage – the Planet Killer had lost a small amount of power – it did demonstrate to the Enterprise crew how to disable the creature. Kirk drove the Constellation into the maw of the Planet Killer, which died when it was unable to handle the energy released by the Constellation's exploding impulse engines. Following the battle, Captain Kirk noted in his log that Decker had given his life in the line of duty. (TOS: "The Doomsday Machine")
The character of Matt Decker was devised by writer Norman Spinrad. The producers of Star Trek: The Original Series initially asked him to write a part for Robert Ryan. Intending to take inspiration for the plot of "The Doomsday Machine" from the story of Moby Dick, Spinrad developed the role as being similar to Captain Ahab. The character was intentionally made less intense after actor William Windom was instead cast as Matt Decker. Stated Spinrad, "Things had to be adjusted. I had to make him a little softer, and I think it might have taken some of the edge off of the story. In the original version, Commodore Decker was much stronger. They don't find him slumped over in the ruined ship. Instead, they find him staring out the viewscreen and in a very bad mood. There was also the feeling that a guest star with that kind of presence would overshadow Captain Kirk, and therefore his character had to be toned down and his lines reduced." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 48) Likewise, in most of the preliminary drafts of the episode's teleplay, Decker did not sacrifice himself, but instead survived to admit his mistakes and voluntarily retire. The core of this scene was later recycled into the ending of "The Deadly Years", where Commodore Stocker admits to Kirk that his taking command of the Enterprise was in the wrong. (citation needed • edit)
William Windom once said, at a public appearance, that he patterned his portrayal of the character after Humphrey Bogart's Captain Queeg from The Caine Mutiny, particularly the obsessive-compulsive habit of toying with objects in his hands. (citation needed • edit)
In an excerpt from the writer's guide to Star Trek: The Motion Picture featured in The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Susan Sackett and Gene Roddenberry's book about the movie, Matt Decker is established as the father of Will Decker. Several other members of the Decker family are featured in the Starfleet Academy comic book series.
In James Blish's adaptation of "The Doomsday Machine", Decker's first name is "Brand" and, in common with the episode's majority of earlier script drafts, he doesn't pilot the shuttlecraft into the planet-killer. In addition, after Decker orders McCoy off the bridge with the statement, "Mr. Spock knows his duties under regulations, doctor... do you?" Blish gives McCoy one final retort: "Yes, sir – go to sickbay and wait for the casualties you're about to send me."


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Protests as seen by the FJP's newspaper/
In an attempt to report public opinion towards all the protests that took place in the past eight months since Morsi came to power, the Freedom and Justice Party's newspaper, al-Horreya wa al-Adala, published this news article on 15 March in its Youth and Sports section.
Despite the fact that people are clearly divided about everything from Morsi to the weather, MB's report shows a uncharacteristically unified image of society. From the Ettihidiya clashes and Tahrir sit-ins to Port Said protests and the Ultras' attacks; the Egyptian people who had one collective view on the matter: Protesters are thugs.
The article, which is merely a collection of tweets and FB status updates by ungoogleable individual(s), begins with this headline: What do you want to be? A thug.
The sub-headline then goes:"It's a great job, gets you fame and money..."And if you get caught, you're an activist!"
Sohila Mahmoud on Facebook: "I don't see any reason to block the roads, why is everyone silent about these continued acts of thuggery against the average Egyptian citizen, who wakes up to make a living, only to go back home empty-handed?"
According to the article, "activists," on Facebook have unanimously confirmed that these protests Mahmoud is referring to are "crimes" which can only be committed by "thugs."
"This is a crime against society. Thugs who throw rocks at the police, or Molotov cocktails, carry guns or knives should be immediately shot, so that we'd get rid of the National Damnation Front's thugs and the toppled president's as well," hopes Mohamed Abdullah in his FB status.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - D.C. police are investigating a fatal shooting of a young man in southeast Washington.
Police have identified the victim as 22-year-old Andre Jackson.
Police say officers responded early Sunday to the 300 block of Ridge Road, SE for the report of a shooting. They found Jackson non-responsive, and he was taken to the medical examiner's office.
No arrests have been announced, and homicide detectives are continuing to investigate.


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The top three candidates for Maine's U.S. Senate seat clashed today over a number of issues in a debate in Portland.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) _ Republican Charlie Summers and independent Angus King are clashing over the role of outside spending in the U.S. Senate race in Maine.
King suggested today during a debate in Portland that Summers and Republicans are to blame for negative ads by outside groups because Summers rejected a pledge to try to limit spending by so-called super PACs. Summers, meanwhile, accused King of reneging on his pledge not run negative ads.
King and Democratic candidate Cynthia Dill would support a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision that opened the door to unlimited spending by outside groups.
So far, more than $4 million's been spent by outside sources in the race. Dill says the outside spending and Sen. Olympia Snowe's retirement point toward growing pessimism toward government.


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Tanzania once boasted a distinguished lawyer-cum-journalist called Robert Rweyemamu, who served as a syndicated columnist with an upmarket regional fortnightly newspaper.
In an article in the publication's July 17-23, 1995 issue, he argued that time was long overdue for Tanzania to have what he called "an independent, non-partisan, well-organised forum which will help in producing a polished and jet-set journalist who can walk tall in the local and international arena".
Meanwhile, revisiting his experience as a journalist in Tanzania in the early 1970s, Kenyan media guru Philip Ochieng had revealing remarks about the operations of the government-owned English-language daily newspaper.
This is part of what he said: "The like of it has been seen anywhere in the Third World… I can report to my readers that here we had a government newspaper which never hesitated to take even (President Julius Kambarage) Nyerere himself to task.
Here was an official paper far freer, far broader in social scope, far more thoroughgoing in its probing into society and far better written from the point of view of language and structure than the 'freer Press' before it."
Both Rweyemamu's wishes and Ochieng's observations closely relate to the twin occasions held in Dar es Salaam yesterday. These are World Press Freedom Day celebrations and the launch of Leadership Guiding Principles for African Media Owners and Managers.
It is noteworthy that the latter event resulted from a resolution by media professionals under the auspices of the African Union meant to improve the standard of journalism across the continent.
Equally importantly, the process was spearheaded by the African Media Initiative in collaboration with national media organisations and outlets – for Tanzania, this including agencies such as the national media council (MCT) and the media owners association (MOAT).
The fact that Tanzania was representing an entire continent in launching the principles added colour and weight to the occasion. It also meant the country bearing extra responsibility by being expected to be at the frontline in terms of adherence.
We know the principles are not legally binding, but compliance should not be a problem as it was media owners themselves who asked for them in the first place.
This is a big plus, especially if media managers and the rest of the media fraternity lend them the support they need to work.
Media owners and managers should use the principles as a pad from which to launch efforts to improve relations between them and media practitioners. That would help make media outlets across the continent more buoyant and professional servants of the people.
Walter William, a don at University of Missouri's School of Journalism in the 1900s, had this for the journalism of his dreams: "I believe that the journalism that succeeds best … is stoutly independent, unmoved by pride of opinion or greed of power, constructive, tolerant but never careless, self-controlled, patient, always respectful of its readers but always unafraid, quickly indignant at injustice, unswayed by the appeal of privilege or the clamour of the mob."
That is the kind of journalism Tanzania – and Africa – ought to aim for too. With the measures being taken, we can make it.


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Stephan Bonnar (14-7 MMA, 8-6 UFC) gets that he's a massive underdog in a fight against Anderson Silva (32-4 MMA, 15-0 UFC) at UFC 153. Heck, he's helped promote that idea.
But that doesn't mean he plans on rolling over for the UFC middleweight champ, who steps up to light heavyweight for the special attraction.
"I've never been the most confident person, but I know when I'm locked in the cage with someone trying to kill me, I fight my f—ing ass off," Bonnar told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
UFC 153 takes place Saturday at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro. The event's main card, which is headlined by Silva vs. Bonnar, airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FX and Facebook.
Bonnar recently poked fun at his underdog status in a UFC promo video featuring he and Forrest Griffin, who twice fought him and also lost a lopsided fight to "The Spider" at UFC 101. The clip ends with Bonnar giving the camera a forlorn look as Griffin tells him there's pretty much no way for him to win.
Today during an open workout in support of UFC 153, "The American Psycho" was just the opposite. He praised Silva's dancing skills and said Saturday's fight blew away a requirement he held for continuing to fight – that his opponents have more Twitters followers.
At 2 million plus, Silva fit the bill nicely.
Still, Bonnar, who was almost most retired before he took the short-notice opportunity, said he isn't changing anything about the way he fights on Saturday night and plans "to take Anderson through hell – with me."
"I'm always going to be a big underdog, and when I get in there, I'm going to f—ing fight like I always do," he said. "I go after him. That's just me."
Odds aren't as stacked against Bonnar as they were when the headliner was announced nearly a month ago. Then a historic 13-to-1 underdog, his chances have improved in betting lines as some have put money on the longshot.
But make no mistake about it: Few expect him to win.
"There's a lot less pressure, but it's not like I'm going to quit," Bonnar said. "It's not like I'm going to be, 'Oh, I'm hurt, I'm going to lay down and curl up.' F— no."
For more on UFC 153, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.


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School closings, announcements for Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Here are school closings and other weather-related cancellations and announcements:
Lincoln University, Jefferson City Public Schools, Blair Oaks, Russellville, New Bloomfield, Fulton, Mokane, Ashland, California, Camdenton and Helias High are among area schools closing Friday.
See School closings, announcements for Friday, Feb. 22 for the full list being updated.
Newer listings posted for Thursday
Tonight's Special Jefferson City Council Meeting (closed session) is canceled due to inclement weather. That meeting has been rescheduled for 4:30–5:30 p.m. on Monday, February 25, immediately preceding the 5:30 p.m. council work session.
ALPLA in Jefferson City has canceled its afternoon and midnight shifts.
Due to the hazardous weather conditions, the Missouri State Museum and Jefferson Landing State Historic Site have closed for today
JCHS Production of "The Egg & I" is canceled for Thursday evening.
Southwest Parent-Teacher conferences scheduled for Feb. 21 are canceled. Student Led Conferences will be held on Thursday, February 28th. If you are unable to attend on this night , conferences will also be held on March 5th unless otherwise noted by your classroom teacher.
No JCPS athletic competitions were scheduled for this evening.
The Jefferson City Area YMCA and the YMCA Child Development Center are closing at noon today.
St. Mary's Tipton and Versailles Clinics are closed.
Jamestown basketball tournament games scheduled for Thursday night are canceled.
Russellville Basketball Tournament games scheduled for Thursday night are canceled.
Here's the new schedule at Russellville:
Boys Semi-Final Games : 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Friday
Girls Champion Game at 4:30 p.m. Saturday; Boys Championship is at 6:30 p.m. Saturday
St. Mary's Urgent Care Clinic in Jefferson City closing at noon today.
All Daniel Boone Regional Library locations (Callaway County Public Library, Columbia Public Library and Southern Boone County Public Library) will close today at 11 a.m. That means that all programs scheduled today are canceled
Thursday's Helias JV/V girls ball vs Owensville cancelled due to heavy snow. JV/V girls Bball to be made up Friday night.
Posted earlier
Boone County
Centralia Head Start, closed Thursday
Centralia R-6, closed Thursday
Centralia Senior Center, closed Thursday and Friday
Columbia College, Thursday evening classes canceled
Columbia Independent School, closed Thursday
Columbia Montesorri, closed Thursday
Columbia Public Schools, closed Thursday
Delmar Cobble, Columbia, closed Thursday
Hallsville R-4, closed Thursday
Harrisburg R-8, closed Thursday
Father Tolton High School, Columbia, closed Thursday
Oakland Senior Center, closed Thursday
Southern Boone Co. R-1, Ashland, closed Thursday
Sturgeon R-5, closed Thursday
Daniel Boone Regional Library locations, closed Thursday
Boone County Courthouse, closed noon Thursday
Callaway County
Expect delays in delivery of The Fulton Sun Friday. Please be patient, it will be delivered as soon as possible.
Callaway Head Start, closed Thursday
Callaway Senior Center, closed Thursday
Callaway Co. Special Services, closed Thursday
Fulton Public Schools, closed Thursday
Holts Summit Food Pantry, closed Thursday
Kingdom Christian Academy, closed Thursday
New Bloomfield R-3, closed Thursday
North Callaway R-1, Auxvasse, closed Thursday
St. Peter school, Fulton, closed Thursday
South Callaway R-2, Mokane, closed Thursday
William Woods University, closed Thursday
William Woods University softball game against Olivet Nazarene University, canceled Friday
William Woods University softball game against Central Methodist, canceled Sunday
William Woods University's baseball game against Waldorf has been moved from Friday to 12:30 p.m. Sunday
The Callaway County Public Library, closed Thursday
Callaway County Citizens for FairTax meeting, canceled Thursday
Callaway County Courthouse, closed noon Thursday
Camden County
Camdenton R-3, closed Thursday
Cole County
Blair Oaks R-2 schools, Wardsville, closed Thursday
Calvary Lutheran School, Jefferson City, closed Thursday
Capital Early Learning Head Start, closed Thursday
Cole Co. R-1 schools, Russellville, closed Thursday
Cole Co. R-5 schools, Eugene, closed Thursday
Cole County Senior Center, closed Thursday
Cole East Head Start, closed Thursday
Concord Christian, closed Thursday
Good Samaritan Center, Jefferson City, closed Thursday
Jefferson City Public Schools, closed Thursday
Jefferson City trash collection has been suspended for Thursday. Collection will begin on Friday where it left off and will continue through Saturday to complete the collections.
Jefferson City bus service suspended.
Helias High School, closed Thursday
Immaculate Conception, Jefferson City, closed Thursday
Immanuel Lutheran, Honey Creek, closed Thursday
KIM Montessori, closed Thursday
Kirchner State School, Jefferson City, closed Thursday
Lincoln University, Jefferson City, closed Thursday
Merrell University, Jefferson City, closed Thursday
Metro Business College, Jefferson City, day classes canceled Thursday
St. Francis Xavier, Taos, closed Thursday
St. Joseph Cathedral, Jefferson City, closed Thursday
St. Martins School, St. Martins, closed Thursday
St. Peter, Jefferson City, closed Thursday
St. Stanislaus, Wardsville, closed Thursday
St. Thomas the Apostle, closed Thursday
Special Learning Center, Jefferson City, closed Thursday
YMCA, Jefferson City: Thursday morning classes and nurseries canceled; Y-care closed Thursday; Knowles Indoor Pool and YMCA Child Development Center will not open until 8 a.m. Thursday; afternoon activities will commence at noon unless canceled by 11 a.m.
Gasconade County
Gasconade Co. R-1, Hermann, closed Thursday
Gasconade Co. R-2, Owensville, closed Thursday
Owensville Senior Center, closed Thursday
Maries County
Maries Co. R-1, Vienna, closed Thursday
Maries Co. R-2, Belle, closed Thursday
Vienna Christian Life Academy, closed Thursday
Visitation Interparish, Vienna, closed Thursday
Miller County
Columbia College, Lake Ozark, 8:30 am classes canceled
Dogwood Hills State School, Eldon, closed Thursday
Eldon R-1 Schools, Eldon, closed Thursday
Eldon Senior Center, closed Thursday
Iberia R-5, closed Thursday
Iberia Senior Hall, closed Thursday
Miller Co. R-3, Tuscumbia, closed Thursday
Osage Head Start, Lake Ozark, closed Thursday
Our Lady of the Snows, Marys Home, closed Thursday
St. Elizabeth R-4, closed Thursday
School of the Osage, Lake Ozark, closed Thursday
Moniteau County
California Nutrition Center, closed Thursday
California R-1 schools, closed Thursday
Clarksburg C-2, closed Thursday
High Point R-3, closed Thursday
Jamestown C-1, closed Thursday
Latham R-5, closed Thursday
Moniteau Co. Head Start, closed Thursday
St. Andrew, Tipton, closed Thursday
Tipton R-6, closed Thursday
Tipton Nutrition Center, closed Thursday
Morgan County
Morgan Co. R-1, Stover, closed Thursday
Morgan Co. R-2, Versailles, closed Thursday
St. Paul Lutheran, Stover, closed Thursday
Versailles Nutrition Center, closed Thursday
West Side Senior Center, Laurie, closed Thursday
Osage County
Chamois Head Start, closed Thursday
Holy Family, Freeburg, closed Thursday
Linn Nutrition Center, closed Thursday
Linn State Technical College, closed Thursday
Osage Co. R-1, Chamois, closed Thursday
Osage Co. R-2, Linn, closed Thursday
Osage Co. R-3 (Fatima), Westphalia, closed Thursday
St. George, Linn, closed Thursday
St. Joseph, Westphalia, closed Thursday
Ft. Leonard Wood, liberal leave policy for personnel in effect Thursday
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Posted on 7/28/2014
Margaret Adam
Cody was really confused. He thought his class was going to the zoo, yet somehow they were at a lake. Cody didn't know that his town even HAD a lake.
But things got even stranger. All of a sudden, some of the kids began to scream, and that was when Mr. Fletcher drove the bus straight into the water. Ms. Morgan didn't seem upset, even though the class was frantic.
Soon Cody finds that he's no longer on a bus, but on a ship. And it's not just any ship, but a pirate ship! Ms. Morgan wore clothes like a pirate and carried a long spy glass. "Children," she said, "please settle down. We are going on a special trip today."
So begins John Stack's first book about Cody, CODY'S ALMOST TRIP TO THE ZOO. Mr. Stack will share his book and also share previews of the next two Cody adventures. Children and writers alike are invited to this special Friday Afternoon Story Time to hear how Mr. Stack has turned his stories about Cody into books.
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Awolnation's rock anthem "Sail" has joined an elite club of singles in the U.S. after notching up 62 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.
The track initially entered the countdown in September, 2011, and it has enjoyed two terms on the chart after re-entering the Hot 100 in February.
The song peaked at 17 last month, becoming the first song to score its highest position on the chart over a year after its release.
Now, at number 35, the song becomes one of only 10 tunes to spend 62 weeks or more on the chart.
Awolnation frontman Aaron Bruno says, "I never actually expected people to hear the song at all."
But its not the only song on the current countdown to enjoy record-breaking longevity – Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" has been in the charts for 63 weeks.
The Lumineers' "Ho Hey" and "You and Me" by Lifehouse also racked up 62 weeks on the Hot 100 in 2012 and 2005, respectively.
Ahead of them, Awolnation and Imagine Dragons, Carrie Underwood enjoyed a 64-week run with "Before He Cheats," Jewel's 1997 hit "You Were Meant for Me/Foolish Games" spent 65 weeks on the countdown, and Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" hung around for 65 weeks.
The top three marathon hits are "Party Rock" Anthem by LMFAO (68 weeks), Leann Rimes' "How Do I Live" (69 weeks) and "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz, which spent 76 weeks on the chart.