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Some Wall Street executive, drunk with power and apparently believing that his lavish lifestyle is deserved, throws a party for himself - or his family or his friends or his dog. Folks jet to some remote locale where they indulge themselves and their whims and spend scores of millions of dollars on frivolities. And then jet back home.
When these are found out - and they sometimes are -the wild extravagances are beyond imagining. The lurid ice sculptures and the antique commodes and the so-called entertainment fit mostly for a mad king.
We shake our heads, wonder what they could possibly be thinking - and turn the page.
Until now.
Now has come the news that the financial honchos who have turned to the federal government for big bailout money are still acting as though things are just as fine as ever.
The people are no longer shaking their heads. They began instead to shake their fists. Or to shake in anger.
The indulgent executives had begun playing with our money, and the ridiculousness was not at all funny.
New rules from the White House seek to bring an end to the party. There'll be limits on executive pay for firms receiving big money from the federal government. The so-called golden parachutes - big pay packages given to departing big shots - will also be curbed. And reporting rules will likely limit the lavish spending on parties and trips and jets and all the rest of the riotousness.
It's about time.
In announcing the changes, President Barack Obama said that in America, people should be rewarded for hard work and successes, but not for failure, and most decidedly not with taxpayer money when they do fail.
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On Valentine's Day, Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg planned on having dinner with his wife. Instead, he bought a company for $19 billion.
Facebook's acquisition Wednesday of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging service that has soared in popularity around the globe as a way to circumvent costly SMS services provided by mobile carriers, sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley.
The blockbuster deal began more than two years ago, in a coffee shop bakery in Los Altos, Calif. That's where Zuckerberg first met with Jan Koum, the founder of WhatsApp.
Zuckerberg had reached out Koum in an email, and that first meeting was a month in the making. The two immediately hit it off, according to a person briefed on the discussions between the two men.
They talked at the coffee shop for about an hour. They then left and went for an hour-and-a-half walk, chatting about their visions for the future of their companies.
After that meeting, the two began to have regular meetings to talk about business strategy. Occasionally, they'd meet for dinner, but they preferred going for hikes in the trails surrounding Silicon Valley.
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ALAMO TOWNSHIP, MI — Multiple Alamo Township resident expressed outrage at a special meeting Thursday to discuss a lewd conduct complaint against supervisor Lou Conti, with some even calling for his immediate resignation.
The complaint stems from a Kalamazoo County Sheriff's office investigation into an incident in which Jennifer Button, who is not a township resident, alleges Conti touched himself inappropriately after shaking hands with her in public at township hall, a claim he denies.
The investigation concluded there was no criminal wrongdoing on the part of Conti because he did not expose himself.
"This behavior cannot and should not be tolerated," said township resident Norma Clinard, who is part of a committee to recall Conti. "It's up to you as our board to have Mr. Conti relieved from his duties as township supervisor to save the township future embarrassment."
But Lohrstorfer reminded the audience of more than 20 people that the board does not have the power to recall Conti or suspend his powers. He said any recall effort would have to come via public petition filed through the Kalamazoo County Clerks Office and such a petition cannot be filed until Nov. 21, which is one year after Conti took office.
Clinard said the recall committee will file a petition on Nov. 21. She said the earliest the recall could be put to ballot is in March 2014, which she feels is too long for Conti to remain in office.
"It's far too long," Clinard said following the meeting. "I think everyone else feels that way as well."
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"The board can take action," said the man, who did not give his name before speaking. "The action they can take is to ask for a resignation."
Conti and the board declined to comment on the complaint, but township treasurer Mary Stoneburner did take issue with the way this special meeting was conducted.
"I think having this meeting at 4:30 p.m. was wrong," Stoneburner said. "We have never since Iâve been on this board had a meeting at this time."
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Hawaii Cycling Club held a training time trial on Saturday in Kawaihae. The race featured part of the Ironman 70.3 Hawaii bike course, which is filled with rolling hills and headwinds. Luckily, the morning only brought a moderate headwind — nothing like it has been in the past few weeks.
Cyclists began every 30 seconds from Maluokalani Street in Kawaihae and followed Highway 270 north for 16 miles to the finish line located just before the turnoff to Upolu Airport.
Luis De La Torre powered across the finish line at a pace of 23.22 mph, finishing first with a time of 41 minutes, 21 seconds. Not far behind, Mike DeCarli claimed second (42:10), and Robert Patey was third (42:20).
In the women's race, Sylvia Ravaglia zoomed up the hills to claim eighth overall and first for the women. Ravaglia averaged 18.43 mph with a time of 52:05. Allison Alterman took second (55:22), and Pamela Harlow was third (57:18).
Congratulations to all who participated in this month's HCC training time trial.
On Sunday, Frozen Pea Productions held its Polar Bear's Pinto Bean and Pinata Biathlon. The fun event included a 3/4-mile swim in Kailua Bay and a 3.1-mile run along Alii Drive. A pea-wee course included a 200-yard swim and a one-mile run.
The rainy conditions brought some fast times as the athletes were able to push themselves a little harder.
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In the Split Peas race, the team of Tinker Bell and Xochitl Reyes finished first with a combined time of 34:38. Elastic Man and Xitlalitl Reyes were close behind to claim second (35:06). Wonder Woman and Chico were third (42:05).
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- Current issues in higher education in the UK and globally
- Research development and large scale projects
- External committees and working parties
- Professional societies; government agencies and government funded projects
It is widely acknowledged that research is the key to a successful career in academia. 'In virtually all Schools and Departments the teaching pays academic salaries but it is primarily research that enhances their careers!' Quote from Professor D.C. Berry Pro-Vice - Chancellor University of Reading, 2010 about the reality of academic careers.
As with other job choices, networking is a key way of building a career in Higher Education. Research is Cool is a social networking website for researchers, academics and postgraduate students to network with colleagues worldwide.
The covering letter which accompanies your CV gives you a chance to highlight your skills and experience, motivations for wanting to continue an academic career with the institution and your aspirations for the future. Often Universities ask for a completed application form and sometimes a personal statement too.
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Here you will be relying much more on your transferable skills and employers will want evidence that you have a wide range of competencies. Drafting a CV for a written application to a non-academic organisation will need to draw out these skills and show you can adapt to a new environment.
The Careers & Employability Centre can help you with preparing for interviews. You can also find interview tips the Vitae website.
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Today on indieWIRE, we checked out the trailer for 'Weekend,' 'Our Idiot Brother' got reviewed, and the criticism just keeps on comin' to Terrence Mallick's 'Tree of Life,' even from his own actors.
- indieWIRE's Weekend Recap: Here Are Eight Stories You May Have Missed: In case you were away from your computer this weekend, here's a tidy package of our weekend coverage that includes this week's indie and mainstream box office reports, Pixar news and more.
- REVIEW | Paul Rudd Outshines Mediocrity in 'Our Idiot Brother': Hiding behind a shaggy beard and a stoner grin, Paul Rudd plays an amusingly oblivious shlub in 'Our Idiot Brother,' but the movie can't keep up with his comic inspiration.
- Box Office: 'One Day' Struggles; 'Senna' Scores In Sophomore Frame (UPDATED): Focus Features unleashed its critically challenged British romance 'One Day' on a wide 1,721 screens this weekend and the results were slightly more spectacular than the film's reviews.
- FIRST PERSON: How a Burn Pile of Scripts Led Vera Farmiga to Make 'Higher Ground': In a first-person feature for indieWIRE, Oscar-nominee Vera Farmiga opens up about how her directorial debut, 'Higher Ground,' came to be, and why she decided to go behind the camera.
- indieWIRE's Project of the Day: Narrative Feature 'fenêtre' Raises Awareness About Child Marriage: Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
- INTERVIEW | Guillermo del Toro, Part I: Videogames, Transmedia and Here's His E-mail: Guillermo del Toro's name adorns posters for the horror remake 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark,' which opens this week, but the director has a lot more on his mind aside from how to scare people.
- iW's Online Video of the Day: Ryan Gosling Saves a Life (Well, Kinda) in NYC: We all know Ryan Gosling is a great actor, charming as all hell and has abs that can cut steel. Turns out the Canadian heartthrob is a good Samaritan as well. Go figure.
- Gus Van Sant Retrospective at Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image: Award-winning American director Gus Van Sant will have his work featured in a retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image from Sept. 9-30.
- Financing Nears On 'Lunatic at Large'; 2 More Unmade Kubrick Projects Continue Toward Production: Almost as legendary as the films Stanley Kubrick did complete in his lifetime are the numerous projects that went unmade, but a few of those are getting a new lease on life.
- Anatomy of a High-Brow Art Debate: Sean Penn and the Bitch-Slapping of Malick's 'Tree of Life': It goes like this. Sean Penn talks to Le Figaro and implies (Exhibit A) that Terrence Malick underutilized him in 'The Tree of Life.'
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The Honduras program has been cancelled for summer 2015. This is a 16 day three credit class (ICS 270) in Honduras from mid-May-early June. In partnership with the Heifer Project, this trip explores issues related to poverty, development, gender concerns and human rights.
The course of study includes one week devoted to a cultural, political and historical orientation to Honduras, based in Tegucigalpa, the capital city; a second week where students live in villages that are in partnership with the Heifer Project, including service-learning with development projects in those villages; and a third week with more service-learning in an orphanage and time in Copan, site of Mayan ruins in Honduras. The course includes reflection and discussion while in-country, as well as preparatory readings and post-trip debriefings.
|When is the Program?
|Summer 2015
|How much does it cost?
|The program fee is $3200 which covers transporation, academic credit, food, and lodging
|Are there any additional costs?
|$100 - $150 for souvenirs, gifts, cyber cafê, and long distance calls (which are cheap)
|How do I apply?
|The application is online.
|What other materials are required?
|You will need to have two letters of reference. Full instructions are included with the application.
|Will I receive Academic Credit?
|You will receive three credits either through the Intercultural Studies or Justice Education Programs at Saint Marys' College.
Marc Belanger, Associate Professor, Political Science
Faculty Coordinator, Honduras Summer Study Program
(574) 284-5263
belanger [at] saintmarys [dot] edu


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Systemwide Events Calendar
The Wonder of Learning: the Hundred Languages of Children ExhibitJuly 11, 2013 - December 7, 2013
West Oahu Campus, Library
The Wonder of Learning: the hundred languages of children, an internationally-renowned traveling exhibition of the infant-toddler centers and preschools of the Istituzione Municipality of Reggio Emilia Italy, will be on display in the UH West O'ahu Library.
The free exhibit illustrates the acclaimed Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood learning and the core belief that the child is capable. The exhibit provides a setting to engage in discussion about early childhood education and continue the dialogue about the establishment of a quality early learning system for all of Hawai'i's keiki.
This unique exhibit is composed of six thematic areas: Introduction, Dialogues with Places, Dialogues with Material, Ray of Light, The Enchantment of Writing, and Ideas and Projects. These themes are delivered through a sequence of interconnected micro-planes that can be viewed separately. The micro-places include seating areas, tables, reference areas, sofas and film areas to allow in-depth views of children's and teachers' processes, adults' roles, working tools, and more.
UH West O'ahu is co-sponsoring The Wonder of Learning with Mid-Pacific Institute, the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools, Kamehameha Schools, the Atherton Foundation, UH Manoa College of Education and PATCH.
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|Saturday, November 30
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Maui Campus, Pilina Bldg., Wellness Center
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- Red Hat System Administration I
- EWC Arts Exhibition: Bollywood & Beyond: Costume in Indian Film
- Kalaupapa -- A Source of Light, Constant and Never-Fading
- Trip Around the Island
- Convergence: Glitch_Click_Thunk, Featuring Mark Amerika
- Trip Around the Island exhibit
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In a state long fascinated by the latest set of fancy wheels, Californian Jay Lambert is a walking, talking—not to mention sawing, painting and drilling—anachronism. The Audi of his eye is a stagecoach called the Concord (for the New Hampshire town where it was originally manufactured in the mid-1800s), which most wagon experts say has never been surpassed in practicality or looks. Lambert, 68, still remembers the first time he saw a Concord 40 years ago. "It was made like a fine piece of furniture, with its dark maroon body and yellow running gear," he recalls. "I couldn't get over that beauty."
He hasn't had to. Since 1968 the former carpenter has worked full time building replicas of the Concord coach in a shed next to his home in the rural Northern California town of Red Bluff. He has completed six stagecoaches, four of which are owned by the Wells Fargo Bank and used in parades and festivals around California. His other customers are a museum near San Diego and a Montana oilman. "Jay builds the best coaches I have ever seen," says Harold Anderson, the Wells Fargo vice president who oversees its historical programs. True, there isn't much competition. "There was a coachmaker in Oklahoma who passed away a few years back," says Anderson. "His coaches were nice, but not as nice as Jay's." The difference, according to Anderson, is that "Jay captures the true oval shape of the Concord. Others make them with flat sides. But Jay's bodies curve out from the top, then back in at the bottom." Lambert accomplishes that by steam-bending the wood into shape, then kiln-drying it until it's hard. "He is amazing," says Anderson, "in his ability to step back in time and perform the functions as the craftsmen did originally."
Except for using foam rubber for the seat cushions and Naugahyde for the roll-down window shades, Lambert employs authentic materials. And since he uses 19th-century tools and works with painstaking craftsmanship, it takes him nearly three years to build each stagecoach.
Lambert works five days a week on his coaches and, according to Helen, his wife of 48 years, "talks about them the other two." He is a little bothered that they bring only about $35,000 apiece—"It should be $60,000," says Lambert—but has no plans to hang up his calipers. "They were great craftsmen back in New England," he says. "I wanted to show I could do just as good a job. Not better, but as good. I like it when people look at my coach and say, 'Boy, that really looks like the old days.' "
All the World's a Stage for Craftsman Jay Lambert, Who Makes the Finest Coaches on Wheels
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Take this free mini-class and learn how to make two cute bags with Kristin Link of Sew,Mama,Sew!
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What materials did you use? I Used: For outside - navy cotton and White cotton with navy thread detail for inside - navy and whit stripe with flowers on the white stripe cotton print Outside materials and a zipper were used for pouch.
What are you most proud of? I modified the first one by adding a tab on the top edge while I was putting on the handle. I also added a button 5 " below the tab. The button was added before topstitching the top edge closed. This made the bag so it could be folded and rolled and the tab hooked on to the button to store in your purse until needed when shopping. I posted a picture above.
Hey that tab and button is a great idea - good thinking
Thank you! Try it for all cloth bags. My husband used to elastic band all my cloth bags together and I would fight with the elastics and not know what to do with them when I was going to use the bags. That is when I invented a tab and a button. It nicely uses up old big odd buttons.
I also like the tab and button idea! Nice work!
Thank you! It makes it so they are not all wrinkled and untidy in your purse.
I was wondering what the tab and the button was for. These are nice.
Thank you! I used to fix all my bought cloth bags with the tab and the button and have a bag of bags when I went shopping!
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Hot jazz on a cold night.
Her head rests against his shoulder. He smiles and nods his head. Eyes are
closed as the music takes them to another place.
No glasses clink. No smoke curls up through the lights. No boozy voices whisper underneath the pure, sweet sounds.
This is, after all, a church.
St. Luke Lutheran Church in Devon had its first jazz vespers program last month. The church was filled almost to capacity to hear Trudy Pitts and Mr. C, also known as Bill Carney. They are a husband and wife duo well-known in Philadelphia jazz circles.


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Dark rich ruby in color, this wine offers rich, complex aromas of ripe dark cherry, sweet chocolate, cinnamon, pie spice, and leather, with top notes of rose and forest floor. In the mouth this wine makes a full soft round entry, after which the acid builds nicely to make it very juicy and inviting. Loads of fine grain tannin completes the mouthfeel, with berry patch, fruit stand flavors dominating. Nice notes of clove and toasted oak round out the tremendous long finish that will keep you coming back for more. This is a very well balanced wine that will age well and pair beautifully with a wide array of foods.
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(From 2010 Vintage) One of the historical attributes of the Montelena Estate Cabernet has always been its age-ability and longevity; often though, this meant that the wine really needed to be cellared before it would show its true beauty. Well, here at Montelena we're all about the pursuit of excellence, and have been working to expand that window of drinkability through careful changes in how we farm, pick, and ferment the grapes from this magnificent property. By focusing on precision viticulture techniques, small fermentation lots, and earlier integration of more precisely chosen barrels – matched to the unique characters of each lot – we have been able to make the wine more approachable at a younger age, while retaining the core elements that ensure a long life in the cellar. The only problem…you may need more of it.
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I have a netgear that got 2 stars when i looked it up online to see how it connects to the Ds which is going to be the same for the Wii. SO i planned on buying the Nintendo USB, but when i took the test to see if it would work with my computer it failed because of firewalls and some other stuff. The only way for that to work is if i was able to disable all of that stuff which i am not sure if its possible at all. What should i do?
How is every 1 else connecting to the internet? What r u guys using?
Well you can always go wired by getting the cord...o god i dont know ask someone who knows all about the USB and all that other stuff. or get better wireless internet?
im going to wait for the wiired usb plugin dongle thingy
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I didnt see a wired cord, im not sure if that would help... My dad wouldnt get a new router..thanks for the reply. Any 1 else have any ideas...
thats what i want but the test failed when i tested my comp to see if the usb would work with it. I found the usb on the nintendo site..... It might not work b/c of safety and antiviruses stuff and firewalls.. Help!Originally Posted by GreyKirby
I'm using the Nintendo USB and works fine with my mates DS lite(don't have one) I had to edit a couple of setting but it works fine
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Hundreds of law enforcement officers from four Central Jersey counties gathered yesterday for the Diocese of Metuchen's 12th annual Blue Mass.
The Mass honors active, retired and deceased law enforcement officers.
Here's what else is happening around the county:
WEATHER• Today's expected to be partly sunny with a high near 76. A 50% chance of showers develops into the evening, mainly between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. Otherwise, it will be mostly cloudy with a low around 52.
IN THE NEWS• A public hearing regarding a plan to turn the old Rudl Fence Co. site into a parts and service building for Muller Toyota will continue on Nov. 5. Engineer Joseph Modzelewski recently gave an overview of the site plan. Traffic and water usage are concerns that have been raised in earlier discussions.
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Brain cell discovery has potential to change neuroscience
Ottawa researcher studied impact of marijuana on working memory
OTTAWA — Marijuana impairs the brain by acting on two types of brain cells at once, a new Ottawa study shows.
And the implication, says the lead researcher, is that there's another side to the brain that neuroscientists hadn't realized.
For the past century, the accepted theory was that marijuana acts on neurons to impair working memory.
Working memory is the system of holding on to information so that the brain can think about it and make decisions, without being distracted. For instance, it allows a person to drive a car, listen to the radio, think about what will happen at the end of the car ride, and watch for pedestrians all at once.
But marijuana impairs working memory, an effect that can last for a day or more after heavy pot-smoking.
At the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, Xia Zhang and his team have found that there's more to this impairment than interference with neurons.
Pot's psychoactive chemical, THC, also acts on a second type of brain cells called astroglial cells.
"Glial cells make up 90 per cent of the brain cells," Zhang said in an interview, "whereas neurons only make up 10 per cent."
The various types of glial cells have always been seen as having a support role, nourishing and otherwise helping the neurons so that the neurons can do the real brain work, he said.
But his study showing that glial cells have a role in memory opens up the possibility that they are far more involved in neuron-like work than anyone had realized.
The study is published in Friday's edition of the research journal Cell. The co-author is Giovanni Marsicano, a scientist at France's national health research institute, INSERM.
"This is the first evidence that glial cells modulate working memory," Zhang said. It's "very surprising" to other researchers in the field, he said. "They don't believe it" when they first hear of this work.
It's likely that brain research will now broaden to explore the roles that glial cells may have in a wide variety of brain functions, he said.
Zhang is also on the faculty of the University of Ottawa.
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January 2003
University of Mannheim Working Paper
The paper presents an index of globalization covering its three main dimensions: Economic integration, social integration, and political integration. Using panel data for 123 countries in 1970-2000 the effects of the overall index of globalization as well as sub-indexes constructed to measure the single dimensions on economic growth are analyzed empirically. The results show that globalization promotes growth - but not to an extent necessary to reduce poverty on a large scale. The dimensions most robustly related with growth refer to actual economic flows and restrictions in developed countries. Although less robustly, information flows also promote growth whereas political integration has no effect.
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Keywords: Globalization, Growth
JEL Classification: H77, O57, F43
Date posted: December 16, 2002
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Muslim Brotherhood
Qaradawi is a major figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic movement founded in Egypt in 1928 that has spawned several contemporary terrorist groups (including Hamas and Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which was absorbed by Al Qaeda). Since the 1980s – after several crackdowns in Egypt and Syria – the group has generally refrained from violence while remaining dedicated to enshrining Islamic teaching as civil law.
Its ideology is rooted in anti-Semitism. For example, Said Qutb, the group's leading intellectual, wrote an essay in 1950 titled "Our Struggle with the Jews," in which he argues that the Jews had always been enemies of Muslims and in modern times used secular Western culture to corrupt and ultimately destroy Islam.
In early 2004, Qaradawi declined an offer to serve as the group's leader, a position he said had first been offered 28 years earlier. His prominence in the movement was underscored when he and two other Brotherhood leaders met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in May 2004 in an effort to improve the group's relations with Assad's government.
European Council for Fatwa and Research
Qaradawi is chairman and president of this Dublin-based group, which he founded in 1997 to establish a central religious authority for European Muslims. The organization issues fatwas that guide European Muslims to follow Shariah, or Islamic law, outside of the Muslim world.
The Council does not acknowledge the state of Israel and rejects any compromise with the Jewish state. The Council's deputy, Faisal Mawlawi, stated on IslamOnline in June 2007 that Palestinians fight merely "to drive out the Zionist aggressors and to force them to return to the countries they came from."
During its annual conference in 2003, the Council issued a fatwa supporting suicide bombing operations against coalition forces in Iraq as well as against Israelis. In April 2004, Mawlawi published a fatwa on IslamOnline in response to the mutilation of the bodies of security contractors in Iraq, where he permitted such acts. Two weeks after the fatwa was published, the body of a Spanish officer, who died during a raid on a terrorist cell associated with the March 11 Madrid bombing, was disinterred and burned.
International Association of Muslim Scholars
Qaradawi is founder and president of the International Association of Muslim Scholars (IAMS), which was officially launched on July 11, 2004, in London, and is now based in Dublin. The group describes itself as a "pan-Muslim body," working on "safeguarding the Muslim identity and bridging the gap between the peoples and their rulers in the Islamic countries." IAMS has issued several anti-Zionist fatwas. For example, in May 2004, Taskhiri said on Iranian TV: "We must support this [Palestinian] uprising as much as we can so it will realize its goals and cut off the treacherous Zionist hands and the American hands standing behind Zionism and supporting it." He has also called the U.S. the "mother of international terrorism."
In September 2004, Qaradawi led an IAMS delegation to Sudan to fact-find and help mediate between the government and rebel forces in Darfur. Following the tour of Darfur, the association's secretary general, Dr. Mohamed Saleem al-Awa, denied that genocide had taken place in the region. He also insisted that reports of widespread rapes and other atrocities were false, and alleged that Muslims in the region were being victimized by a Zionist conspiracy.
Qatar Foundation's Education City
The Al-Qaradawi Centre for Research and Modern Thought, established in April 2009, is a "center for jurisprudence" under the aegis of Qatar Foundation's Faculty of Islamic Studies (QFIS), an Islamic university in Qatar's Education City. One of six research centers the QFIS planned to build on its campus, the Al-Qaradawi Centre's specific mission is to research "the challenges and complexities of the developments unfolding in contemporary societies and to propagate the message of the middle path as a tenet of Islam for which Qatar's most prominent Islamic scholar, Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, has devoted all his life," according to the Qatar Foundation's publication.
In an August 2009 interview with the Qatar Foundation shortly after the Al-Qaradawi Centre opened, Dr. Hatem El-Karanshawy, the Founding Dean of QFIS, said Qaradawi is "very well known for his moderate thinking and for his ability to face the challenges facing Muslims all over the world."
Sheikh Qaradawi's affiliation with the university goes beyond being the namesake of its research center. Qaradawi reportedly participated in the commemoration ceremony for students on May 6, 2008, where he announced the Sheikh Al-Qaradawi Scholarship program. Five annual scholarships will be offered to students per year for a Master of Arts in Islamic Studies with a specialization in Contemporary Fiqh (Jurisprudence).
Qaradawi also shields the Qatar Foundation's other projects from controversy with support in religious terms. In October 2009, Qaradawi reportedly provided verbal support to a stem cell storage bank that sought to operate within the Qatar Foundation's Science and Technology Park.
In 1999, Qaradawi founded the online media outlet IslamOnline in Qatar with support from the country's royal family. Qaradawi served as the site's chairman, heading a committee of scholars that oversaw its content. The site, published in both Arabic and English, enabled Qaradawi to reach the American public despite being banned from the country in 1999. The site often featured comments and religious rulings by Qaradawi or his European Council on Fatwa and Research.
The site was dedicated to all facets of Islamic life, but it focused primarily on religious and political topics. It contained articles and religious rulings which supported violence against non-Muslims, as well as anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and anti-American content. In several news stories, Zionism was referred to as a "cancer," and numerous reports claimed that the close ties between the U.S. and Israel demonstrated their mutual desire to oppress Muslims. Several news stories were marked by conspiracy theories, including one entitled, "Israel Uses Chemical Weapons against Palestinians."
Many of the fatwas posted on the site condoned violence. For instance, a July 2007 fatwat by Sheikh Faysal Mawlawi, deputy chairman of European Council for Fatwa and Research, read: "Martyr operations are not suicide and should not be deemed as unjustifiable means of endangering one's life."
In March 2010, after more than a decade, a reorganization by Al-Balagh Cultural Society, the company that owns the site, resulted in an end to Qaradawi's affiliation with the site.
After Qardawi's cut his ties with the Web site IslamOnline, some of the editorial staff also left and created a new online media outlet, called OnIslam. Although no explicit connection between Qaradawi and OnIslam has been reported, it appears that Qaradawi is engaged in the new initiative. The same week OnIslam launched in October 2010, the site published an extensive interview it conducted with Qaradawi "on the occasion of the official launch."
Much of the content from IslamOnline is available on OnIslam, including Qaradawi's own fatwas expressing support for "martyrdom operations," or suicide bombing against Israel. The site is structured in much the same way as IslamOnline, with sections on various religious and political topics.
The site includes articles and religious rulings supporting violence against homosexuals, as well as anti-Semitic and anti-Israel content. On February 24, 2011, OnIslam launched a new section as part of its "special focus on the institution of the family" that is singularly dedicated condemning homosexuals, arguing against gay rights and providing Islamic fatwas that call for the "worldly punishment" of death for gays.
An anti-Semitic fatwa by Sheikh Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti was posted to the site on January 5, 2009. The ruling by El-Shinqiti, the former director of an Islamic center in Lubbock, Texas, who no longer resides in the U.S., read, "The Israelis are currently proving to the world that the blood-thirsty sacredness of their Old Testament ancestors is still acceptable in their ideology." In a number of other fatwas available on the site, El-Shinqiti expresses support for "the resistance" against Israel.
Muslim American Society
The Muslim American Society (MAS), based in Falls Church, Virginia, claims to be "America's largest grassroots Muslim organization with over 50 chapters nationwide." The organization has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, sponsored anti-Israel rallies in the U.S. and publishes anti-Semitic articles in its magazine, The American Muslims.
Qaradawi is chairman (in absentia) of the Michigan-based Islamic American University (IAU), a subsidiary of MAS, according to information on the MAS Web site. He is also listed by the IAU as a faculty member.
The IAU vice-chairman, Jamal Badawi, and IAU's founder, Salah Sultan, are members of Qaradawi's International Association of Muslim Scholars and the European Council for Fatwa and Research. Both Badawi and Sultan attended a conference in July 2007 honoring Qaradawi and his support for suicide bombing in Israel.
In 2006 Sultan was a keynote speaker at a Hamas rally in Istanbul, according to Qaradawi's Web site IslamOnline. Another IAU board member, Abdul Lateef Arabiyat, is a leader of the Islamic Action Front, the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing in Jordan.
Islamic Society of Boston
ISB was formed in 1981 in an effort to help new Muslims in the Boston area preserve their Islamic identity, as stated by the society's Web site. Qaradawi was a member of the society's board of directors, according to its tax returns from 1998-2000. Qaradawi was reportedly also featured on ISB's Arabic-language brochure endorsing a new building project for which the Society was raising money. The brochure, which was published in 2003, states that Qaradawi is one of "several international Islamic personalities who are working to support the project." Qaradawi reportedly also appeared in a video that was shown at a November 2002 fundraiser for the ISB project in Boston. Nonetheless, the group has said that Qaradawi "has never played any role in the ISB."
ISB's founder and first President was Abdurahman Alamoudi, a prominent Muslim-American community leader who pleaded guilty to accusations that he had illegal dealings with Libya and that he took part in a plot to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. He is currently serving a 23-year prison term.
In 2005 the ISB filed a defamation lawsuit against 17 defendants -- journalists, scholars and activist groups who expressed concerns about the society's leaders. In May 2007, ISB agreed to drop the lawsuit, claiming victory because the deal also brought to an end a related lawsuit that threatened the construction of a mosque in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Al Taqwa Bank
This Bahamas-based financial institution, designated as terrorist financiers by the U.S. Department of Treasury in 2001, concealed terrorists' holdings, according to U.S. intelligence, including those of Al Qaeda. Qaradawi was one of the institution's largest shareholders, according to a 1999 shareholders list. He also served on the bank's Sharia Board, overseeing its adherence to Islamic law.
In January 2007, the Egyptian government froze the assets of Yusuf Nada, the head of the Al Taqwa Bank, because of his involvement in the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic extremist movement founded in Egypt that has spawned and inspired global terrorist groups, including the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
Union of Good
Qaradawi serves as the president of the Union of Good (UG), a charity organization that was designated as a terrorist entity by the U.S. Department of Treasury on November 12, 2008. The UG, established in 2000 and based in Saudi Arabia, is an umbrella organization that represents over 50 Islamic charities worldwide. According to the U.S. Department of Treasury, Hamas leadership founded the UG shortly after the inception of the second Intifada with the purpose of facilitating the transfer of funds to Hamas.
The UG is linked with various Hamas-affiliated organizations and has transferred tens of millions of dollars to Hamas directly. Hamas uses the money to support terrorism and the families of suicide bombers, according to court documents.
Several of the primary charities under the UG umbrella are also designated as terrorist entities by the U.S. for providing support to Hamas and other terrorist organizations, including Australian based Al-Aqsa Foundation, the United Kingdom-based International Palestine Relief and Development Fund (Interpal), and the France-based Comite de Bienfaisance et de Secours aux Palestiniens (CBSP). Another organization under the UG umbrella, the Al-Salah Society, was designated in August 2007 after it was discovered that the now defunct charity employed members of Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's military wing, during the first Intifada.
In 2002, Israel outlawed the UG because of its links to Hamas. Five years later, Israel indicted four officials in the A-Ram Charity Committee in Jerusalem for receiving money from the UG. These officials were charged with channeling money to Hamas. According to the indictment, 1 million New Israeli Shekels had been transferred from the UG to Hamas in 2007.
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I could go on and on about my home network. I have a server (converted from an old computer) running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise.
I've come up with a basic list of the network's components:
- Active Directory
- File Sharing (with NTFS permissions and security groups)
- Group Policy (with links to multiple OUs)
- Logon scripts assigned to each user (maps drives, copies shortcuts, connects to printers, etc.)
- VNC (with port forwards)
- FTP (with port forwards)
- All assets connected using CAT5e (running at GigE speeds)
All this is configured for a three-computer network.
The big question is - Why?
Personally, I take pride in knowing that my network is the biggest and baddest on the street. And that it could take almost anything I wanted to throw at it.
So after all that, I think I've earned the right to throw out a Top 5 list on how you can put the juice back in your network.
1. Get A Server. Many new doors can be opened when a server enters the picture. Services such as file and printer sharing will no longer have to be dependent on a workstation, as would be in a P2P setup. This will substantially reduce the network traffic on said workstation, and therefore result in a faster connection. Backups are also less of a hassle with a server. Since everyone's data is in the same place, one backup of your main storage folder will take care of everything - instead of having data scattered across machines.
2. Get Wired. Wiring your home (or small office) with either CAT5e or CAT6 will greatly enhance network speed system-wide. Although wireless technologies are definitely improving, wired networking is still much faster and is almost a fail-safe guarantee for a connection. As it can be quite difficult to explain how to wire your network using words, I plan on doing a future post/video exclusively on the topic of CAT5e/CAT6.
3. Go GigE. Gigabit Ethernet, in theory, is capable of producing speeds of up to 1000 Mpbs. While real-world output is more around 500 Mbps, GigE is still a major improvement from 10/100 Fast Ethernet. To make the switch (no pun intended), all of your network hardware will need to be gigabit capable. This includes routers, switches, and NICs. On your routers/switches, the device should read either "Gigabit" or "10/100/1000" to indicate GigE capability. As far as NICs go, the best way to tell is to look in Device Manager (Windows) or Apple System Profiler (Mac). In Windows, the description of the adapter will usually tell you what you need to know (e.g. "NETGEAR GA311 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter"). In OS X's System Profiler, the "Media Subtype" parameter under the adapter properties should tell you either 100baseT (NOT gigabit) or 1000baseT (Gigabit). Once all the hardware is in place, the network should then be running at full GigE speeds.
4. Flash Your Router. Most routers come out of the box with manufacturer-supplied firmware. While this can be effective for many users, a Linux based alternative, called DD-WRT, yields MUCH more options and configurations than anyone could ever dream of. Limitless port forwards, a PPTP server, an SSH server, and many more features are possible with DD-WRT. To install the firmware, simply go to the page on your router's configuration where you would usually do a firmware update. When asked for the new file (a .bin, I believe), provide it, and wait. If all goes well, the router should reboot into DD-WRT when the update is complete. However, before you do this, make sure your router is compatible! Go to <http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices> for a list of supported routers. If yours is not on the list, and you proceed with the flash, you could potentially brick the router.
5. Upgrade Your Connection. If you're a power user like me, then you need the Internet like you need water. And what good is an incredible network setup if you're on 768 DSL? Check out the ISPs in your area, and see what they have to offer (I've heard Verizon FiOS is paradise). Traditionally, cable has been faster than DSL, but this can depend on where you are located. Or, if you're content with your current service provider, sometimes an upgrade within the same company can spell a big difference as well.
If computers are people, then networks are telephones. In today's world, communication is essential, and upgrading your network could be just the boost you were looking for.