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When it comes to running an online business, it is extremely easy to get caught up in the numbers game. I'm the kind of person who is fascinated by numbers. I like to keep up to date with how things are going with my sites numerically. I'm always interested to know…
Going beyond those stats, I also like to know how much money I'm making and how I'm making that money. Which affiliate campaigns are productive and which aren't? Are people purchasing the services or products that I have to offer?
There are different views out there when it comes to checking your business stats. Some people just don't care, and figure that as long as they are making money, they are fine. Others kinda care, but don't take the time because they'd rather be doing something else. For me, I like to keep a very close eye, for the following reasons:
Ok, so I've already covered why I believe it's important to keep track of these details. However, if you are anything like me, this can lead to a significant problem.
I love checking these stats so much that I've spent a significant amount of time logging into my various accounts reviewing the numbers. I've down right wasted a TON of time probing into a bunch of minor details, getting excited about little bumps here and there, wondering what's wrong when there is a decline in some area.
As you can imagine, this can be quite tedious and time consuming, and for me, this was definitely the case. I eventually came to the conclusion that it had to stop. The amount of time I spent was not resulting in enough of a profit to justify spending the time. It became an issue that needed to be dealt with.
At that point, I decided to continue checking my stats, but in a more efficient way. I decided on 11 different key metrics that gave me an good overall view of where my business is and where it is going.
Those metrics include things like…
When I wake up in the morning, after taking care of my preliminaries, the first thing I do is log into my various accounts and fill the details from the previous day into my spreadsheet. I have the spreadsheet set up to automatically produce graphs so I get a visual image of where my business is, where I'm making money and what areas of my business aren't doing as well as I would like. I can also see what percentage of my income comes from certain affiliate promotions vs. products and services.
I'm a very visual person, so having those graphs really help me to SEE where I am, and that comes in very handy. Not only that, but having ALL the important details in ONE place has turned out to be quite valuable.
The entire process of logging into my accounts and entering the important details literally takes me around 5 minutes every day. However, I get significantly more value from this system than I've ever gotten before when I spent a lot more time logging into those accounts multiple times in a day. I can take a quick glance at this spreadsheet at any point and get an almost immediate overview of where my business is and how it has grown.
If you have a virtual assistant, this would be an ideal thing to have them work on and update for you. I have my assistant take care of adding the details into a spreadsheet that I uploaded into Google Docs and that works perfectly.
Umm . . . Yes! It does takes some time to get it set up, but it's definitely worth it. Here are the steps for you to take if you decide to do something like this:
The details you track probably won't be the same as those I track, and that's fine. However, I'm sure you can see how this can be very handy.
You should always track your visitors.This helps in improving the content for those visitors.And in affiliate marketing it is a must one.When i started affiliate marketing i neglected it.After that i realized set up tracking.It was very hard setting up.
Tracking is indeed very important, I agree with you. Too bad it is often underestimated by even the most experienced marketers (that perhaps suffer from overconfidence in their abilities?)
Argh. I'd prefer to enjoy a radical root canal compared to dealing with stats tracking, but I do know it's key. So I'm going to have to add that analysis to my own daily routine as well. I know there are some nifty wordpress plugins that aid in this – will start to research.
I laughed when I read your comment…probably because I am the same way. However, I do see how it is necessary and beneficial. Oftentimes its the things we don't really like doing that are the most help in the long run.
"Some people just don't care…" Well that would be a very small section of the blogging/affiliate marketing community. I think most of us do care about our stats.
That said, I am not as much into numbers and graphs as you are, but I think it's a very valid suggestion. Having a graphical representation of stats would be very nice indeed.
Hi Leslie
I'm a numbers man too and I can easily get caught up as much time in front of the spreadsheet as writing content. So, yes it is procrastination fodder, often, but since I'm very very feedback driven, the numbers also keep me going.
One question: why don't you mention google analytics? It does al the work for you doesn't it?
Yup. Google Analytics can track the traffic and Aweber can track subscribers and open rates. There are also paid statistic programs for those that want advance stats. But those two can pretty much cover the basics.
Tracking can be a good thing if you want to know more about your visitors. However, it goes bad when you take every second of the day checking stats. It is the same with emails. If you take so much time, it can get ugly because you are robbing yourself of time you can dedicate for other projects.
I track everything I do, and this can make or break an website if you don't understand how things are working. Google Docs do help me stay on track..
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I usually use Google Analytics to keep track of hard stats when it comes to traffic and where my visitors are coming from. Another tool I use is Google Webmasters, which helps me see what keywords I'm ranking for and what position they are in. I absolutely love it, because it's easy to see where I stand. Plus, I usually find some keywords that I wasn't even targeting in the first place.
The only problem I have as far as stat checking is checking my income 🙂 I do that WAY too much. That's what I need the most help on. Trying to limit it as much as possible, because that's what clobbers up most of my time.
I'm downloading your stat sheet and going to take a look at it. Seems like a decent method overall.
I find affiliates leaving money on the table every day because of decisions they make based on "feelings" and not "DATA".
We believe in tracking the affiliate sale right back to the article that generated the sale (for article marketing) or even track back to the search term a visitor used if they found our site through Google, Yahoo, Bing.
I use Analytics, as well as Google Docs to bring in the Adsense, Analytics, Commission Junction, and several other revenue sources data to compare month to month on what's working and what's not, I would say it's key to my motto of work smarter not harder…
Awesome post!
Yeah, its good to have a website tracker! it will help you pin up some loops and bring about better changes! thanks for sharing. Have fun.
Frankly, I never use any other program than GA. This looks like promising tool.
I used to track of analytics and feedburner a lot, I have stopped as it drove me insane when number went down and made me jump when numbers were up. I agree, having a online blog, it is great to have stats, making money add up so we can make changes accordingly, I am going to check out more about this. Thanks.
Thanks for your advices. I've solved my own problems. Wanna know, here they are:
First, I'm not kind of people who fascinated in numbers. Working with numbers drives me headache. When running my bussiness online, I don't attach exaggerated importance to keeping tracking my statis. It really makes my business difficult. I can't control my own! Such a nightmare.
Second, I know google docs but I don't use it effectively. I don't even know it also includes graphs! It's so bad, you know.
Thanks again for what your great job.
Thanks for your advices. I've solved my own problems. Wanna know, here they are:
First, I'm not kind of people who fascinated in numbers. Working with numbers drives me headache. When running my bussiness online, I don't attach exaggerated importance to keeping tracking my statis. It really makes my business difficult. I can't control my own! Such a nightmare.
Second, I know google docs but I don't use it effectively. I don't even know it also includes graphs! It's so bad, you know.
Thanks again for your great job.
Since last two years I always use google analytics. It's very useful to track visitors from all referrers, including search engines but now I would like to try with stat tracker. So I will download your stat sheet and going to check with it. Thanks for update me.
Obviously, we can find ways to increase our current ranking from analytics stat. If we have not taken action in GA, then most probably we won't with the new tracker too.
This is good. I used analytics. Google anatytics and Aweber. But im still searching for other tools that can be helpful..
Then, you find a good alternative here. Yaro won't simply share something is not so effective here.
I find keeping track of my stats a little addicting. It does help me figure out which of my posts is attracting more readers and even what kinds of titles and keywords work best.
I often times forget to look over my websites traffic details. I agree completely you can learn so much from your visitors and it is an often over looked method to increase your websites productivity.
– Robert
there was a time when i was glued to stats and numbers (i.e. adsense earnings by the hour). as success took over, the stats became less important to observe in high frequency. today, it suffices glancing at KPIs once a month at a high level, and i do it the long way of logging in – i actually like seeing the dashboards and enjoy the process
Howdy! Someone in my Facebook group shared this site with us so I came to check it out. I'm definitely enjoying the information. I'm book-marking and will be tweeting this to my followers! Great blog and outstanding style and design.
I know this is truly boring and you are skipping to the next comment, but I just wanted to throw you a large thanks – you cleared up some things for me!


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One Charter School Group Sits Out Latest Battle
While some charter operators rallied in Albany this week with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, others were working more quietly behind the scenes.
Stacey Gauthier is the principal of the Renaissance Charter School in Jackson Heights, Queens. She's among 34 charter leaders who recently joined a coalition to work with the mayor, by explaining how they serve diverse communities, including children with special needs.
Gaulthier said she accepted the city's decision to halt three charters from opening this fall because officials opposed placing elementary schools in the same building as high schools. The third would have taken space from a special education program. Despite that decision, she said, she believed the mayor is pro-charter.
"I'm going to hope that he actually will come out and say that he's pro any school that's serving kids with a high-quality education," she said.
At issue, the possibility that Mayor Bill de Blasio will charge rent to better funded charter schools, and that he would slow down the pace of opening new charter schools inside regular public schools. Last week, the mayor blocked three charters and three district schools from opening this fall, a decision that sent shock waves through at least part of the charter sector.
The three charter schools blocked from opening were part of the Success Academy network founded by Eva Moskowitz. She told NY1 that preventing one of her Harlem schools from expanding into a middle school would affect 194 fifth-graders who she said, "are being thrown out on the street, educationally homeless."
Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña countered on Wednesday that these children can apply to other Success Academy middle schools or regular district schools.
Moskowitz was one among thousands of supporters at Tuesday's charter school rally in Albany where Cuomo praised her schools. Gauthier's coalition declined to go, calling it divisive because it conflicted with the mayor's rally for expanding pre-kindergarten and after-school programs. For more on the rally organizers -- and the support behind charter schools -- take look here.
Morty Ballen, the C.E.O. and founder of Explore Schools in Brooklyn, argued the rally was needed to convince state lawmakers that charters should be allowed to grow. Ballen wasn't happy with de Blasio's move to block three charter schools. But he said that doesn't mean the mayor is anti-charter overall.
"It signaled that there's an understanding that charter schools are snowflakes, and that there are different situations and contexts for the different charter schools," Ballen explained.
Gauthier said her charter school coalition is hoping to meet with some of the larger charter operators in coming weeks.
"My gut tells me we want to see the same thing in the end," she said.
Meanwhile, some critics were against the mayor for not going far enough in rolling back charter schools' expansion.
City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Public Advocate Leticia James said they may revive a lawsuit seeking to stop all of the co-locations approved in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's final year on the grounds that they would cause overcrowding and didn't involve enough community consultation.

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CLEVELAND: All the karma seems to point in the direction of the Indians.
Alex White, the club's first-round draft choice, came to town Thursday to sign his $2.25 million contract. In meeting with reporters afterward, he revealed that he has watched the film Major League multiple times and lives only 20 minutes from Kinston, N.C., the Tribe's minor-league affiliate in the Carolina League.
Of course, only time will tell whether the Indians selected the right player with the 15th overall pick in the draft, but White seems to have the credentials: a strong right arm and the desire to make it.
"Ever since I can remember,'' he said, ""ever since watching my brother play ball, that's all I ever wanted to do.'' ¶
Older brother would be Travis White, now 25, who played baseball for one year at North Carolina Wesleyan College. Alex, who will be 21 late this month, matriculated at the University of North Carolina, pitching this year in the College World Series. ¶
It only took one night for him to realize the difference between amateur baseball and the professional game he is entering. White and his family sat at home Monday night waiting to see whether the Tribe's contract offer merited his signature. In the end, he and his agent agreed to terms at 11:56 p.m., four minutes before the deadline. ¶
""By that time (late Monday), I had a prety good idea that I'd be signing,'' White said. ''It was a lot of fun, there was a lot of excitement. We enjoyed every minute of it.'' ¶
Then again, maybe it wasn't a frolic in the park. ¶
""It was a big relief,'' White said. ""It was kind of a stressful night. But we did enjoy it.'' ¶
Nevertheless, when the deed was finally done, there was no celebration. ¶
""I think we were all so worn out from the long day, it was just time to go to bed,'' White said. ¶
What's the next step for White? He will begin a return-to-throw program at Akron, staying until Sept. 7. After that, he will go to the instructional league in Goodyear, Ariz., Sept. 16 and stay for four weeks. ¶
""One of the reasons he's going to Akron is that it has a playoff atmosphere,'' said Brad Grant, the Tribe's director of amateur scouting. ""He also will have access to us here.'' ¶
Where White begins next season is still undecided, but he will attend major-league spring training camp. Wherever he goes, he will be in a rotation, though that does no mean he will be a big-league starter. ¶
""I enjoy both,'' White said. ""But I think I set up better to be a starter. It takes me a few innings to get going, which is something I have to change. And whatever they want me to do, I'll do.'' ¶
In North Carolina, the Braves are the pervasive team because of cable televison, but they weren't White's team. ¶
""You can't love baseball and not watch Major League,'' he said, referring to the film about a fictional Cleveland Indians club. ""I think I've seen that movie 10 times. Everybody in the South watches the Braves, but I'm an Indians fan.'' ¶
Especially today. ¶
WHERE HE'LL PLAY -- Matt LaPorta has played more left field than first base in the minors, and the Indians apparently will put him through his paces at both positions, though not necessarily in equal measure. ¶
""I don't know yet,'' said manager Eric Wedge, when asked where LaPorta will play the most. ""He's had more experience in the outfield, so we'll get him in there initially. But I don't honestly know what the distribution will be.'' ¶
Thursday night, LaPorta played left and batted eighth. ¶
GETTING THE PICTURE -- Will Wedge see enough of his revamped bullpen to make definitive judgments about roles by the time spring training begins? ¶
""With the time we've had and with the time we will have, I should be able to get a pretty good feel for these guys,'' he said. ""But will I know the exact roles? I'd say I'll have pretty good idea of who should pitch the eighth inning or the seventh, or who is a good matchup guy. But I won't know that for sure.'' ¶
It has become obvious that past couple of weeks that Wedge is becoming confident with Chris Perez in a setup role and Joe Smith and Tony Sipp pitching in the seventh inning. ¶
Asked about Perez's attributes, the manager said, ""He has a great arm and a deceptive delivery. Lately, he's done a better job commanding his fastball, and that allows his breaking ball work for him.'' ¶
FOX BAILS OUT-- The Tribe vs. Twins game Sept. 5 at Progressive Field has been dropped by Fox Sports. Consequently, the contest will not be televised. Start time will remain 4:05. ¶
FARM FACTS -- Lou Marson had two hits, including his second home run of the season, and two RBI, but Columbus lost a 7-6 decision to Toledo. Josh Barfield had two doubles. *elip In his first start since being promoted from Lake County, Chris Jones pitched six scoreless innings, allowing one hit, one walk and striking out seven, as Kinston beat Myrtle Beach 3-0. Doug Pickens had three hits and one RBI. *elip T.J. McFarland gave up one run and two hits in 52/3 innings, as Lake County defeated Delmarva 5-1. Donnie Webb had three hits. *elip Brett Brach (3-2, 2.55 ERA) gave up one earned run (three total) in five innings, as Mahoning Valley edged Hudson Valley 4-3. Casey Frawley had three hits. ¶


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Centurions clash with police at Colosseum
By Philip Pullella and Antonio Denti
ROME (Reuters) - Tourists in Rome on Thursday would have been forgiven if they had thought for a moment that they had stepped back in time.
Roman centurions, complete with red skirts, tunics, armor, swords and feathered helmets, fought in front of the Colosseum. But this time it was with a modern enemy - Rome's city police.
The police arrived at the ancient amphitheatre to enforce an eviction notice for the men, who ask for money to have their picture taken by tourists.
Italy's culture ministry says the men have no permits, often harass and stalk tourists, ask for exorbitant amounts and disfigure the historic image of the centurion by wearing jeans under their skirts and running shoes instead of the classic Roman "caliga" leather sandals.
The clashes broke out when city police in modern uniforms arrived to remove two centurions who had occupied part of an arcade on the first floor of the Colosseum.
Some 25 centurions tried to stop the police from taking the two away. In the scuffle one of the centurions fell to the ground and was slightly injured.
"All of a sudden, after 17 years, they want to kick us out. It's absurd," said one irate centurion who identified himself only as Davide.
"I have been making my living like this, I have supported my wife, my children ... and now they tell me: 'You are out'. This is not possible. We want to be regularized and we want our bread," he said. "In Venice they have the gondoliers and in Rome we have the centurions. That's it." Continued...


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"It's an exciting time to get ready for conference play, and you don't ever know if you're ready until they get out there and start playing the games. We've played a good schedule, played some good teams, played some games on the road, so I think we've done about everything we can to get prepared. I would have liked to have played better in some of those games, there's no question about that. But I think we're looking forward to it.
"We had a nice game yesterday against St. Francis, but we're more gifted and bigger than they were, but I was pleased with some of the things we did. I've been pleased the last couple games where a lot of guys have played well and guys coming off the bench have given us some positive things. We're still a work in progress, and hopefully we'll keep getting better each and every day. But we're excited to start the ACC play."
Where would you say that your three freshmen that you're relying on a great deal are on their learning curve so far?
"Well, I think they're still at the bottom of it. It's a long, long year and long career, so hopefully it's the kind of thing that I think kids really get significantly better from one year to the next. From their freshman year to their sophomore year is I think always the biggest jump in their learning curve. But they are coming along, they are getting better.
"Kendall is getting a little bit better defensively all the time, which is something that -- that's where he needs to work, particularly his on-the-ball defense. Reggie, same kind of thing, doing a little better job defensively. Harrison is getting a little better defensively. Reggie can give you some scoring. Kendall is doing a really nice job of distributing the basketball and moving the ball quickly and trying to find holes to get to and then create things for his teammates. I think Harrison is getting more comfortable each and every week, each and every game, and I think that'll show up as the season goes along."
With all three coming in with such high expectations, and particularly Harrison regarded as the No. 1 recruit, how have they handled those kinds of things and reactions from people who think, well, maybe they're not playing as well as they could, et cetera, and so on?
"Well, everybody is going to say that. Every team has got some of the greatest fans in the world and some of the most negative fans in the world, so you're going to hear that. Harrison was one of the top, I'm not going to say that he was the top recruit, because one poll would say him, one poll would say Jared Sullinger and another poll would say Brandon Knight. But Harrison had by far the most unrealistic expectations, but he's a very bright young man and realizes that he's got to please himself, please his teammates, please his coaches, and we're never going to please everybody else, and they understand that.
"As long as they're doing the job every single day trying to work extremely hard in practice and trying to improve, then I think we'll see -- that prior question about the learning curve, I think we'll see them get better. But we can't evaluate just the way everybody else's opinion is because those opinions aren't very realistic."
Do you feel that this team has kind of turned the corner in the last four or five games with the consistency you've been talking about here the last few minutes?
"Well, I would feel that way if we had finished out the Texas game, but we just didn't finish the Texas game, so you always have that in the back of your mind wondering if you've gotten rid of that completely or if it's still lurking somewhere over there. But we are getting better. The work ethic has been there. The desire has been there. The efficiency of our work has gotten better, the intensity of our work has gotten better, the concentration of our work has gotten better, so as long as you have those things then you have a tremendous opportunity to improve throughout the course of the year.
"I don't know that I would say we've turned a corner where we want to be by any means, but I do think that we are getting better, and I think it's showing up on the court."
Maybe I'm making too much out of this, but when you have travel plans that go haywire and people have to get there in different ways and that sort of thing and you show up and you play so well as your team did against Rutgers, was that a great sign for you?
"Well, it was a positive, there's no question, to handle all the things, especially a young team has a difficult time handling adversity sometimes. Regardless of whether people want to admit it or not, we're playing three freshmen quite a bit, we're playing three sophomores quite a bit, we're playing three juniors quite a bit and one senior, and even one of the juniors missed half a year both his first two years, and we're talking about Z. It is something that I think the maturity level of our team is getting better, and we're pleased with that progress for sure."
When you look at your team this year, one of the things that I think you're trying to strive for is consistency in the backcourt. How would you say that has improved since the beginning of the season?
"Well, it has gotten better. That doesn't mean it's been perfect by any means. Yesterday with Larry being 3-0 and Kendall being 8-3, your point guard, 11 assists, three turnovers, you'll take that all the time. I think in the Rutgers game we had good assist ratio up there, as well. But Larry has gotten so much better defensively. He can make us sort of hang our hat on giving him the time because of what he's doing there. Yesterday and at times in the Rutgers game and especially the Long Beach State game, two of his last three games have been his best games offensively. He's been doing better.
"And then Kendall started back on an upswing. I think starting the season Kendall started out the first two or three games and then hit a lull for three or four games and then I think he's started back up. Dexter hasn't been as consistent as we've wanted but he's had some great plays and some plays not so great, even in the same game. So we need to get his consistency up there.
"Leslie has gotten more consistent coming off the bench and putting the ball in the basket for us. They've all got jobs they need to improve on and they've all got different things they give us and that's what they should be concerned about. We're feeling better about it, but we're not where we want to be by any means."
When you look at Harrison Barnes and all the accolades he had coming in, preseason AP All-American and the struggles that he's had this season, if it was one thing that you could pinpoint, what would you say it would be?
"Well, you know, it depends on what you call struggles. You take anybody else in the country and say his freshman year he's doing that kind of thing, you'd say, well, that's not too bad. But it's just everybody's expectations. So when you look at it in those terms and use the word struggle you can see what everybody is talking about. But again, other people's expectations can't drive you. It's got to be playing the game every single day. I think the big thing for all freshmen, and I don't think Harrison is any exception, is all of a sudden realizing how good everybody else is that you're trying to guard and the guys that are guarding you. And I think that's a big shock for everybody.
"But Harrison Barnes, am I concerned about Harrison? Yes. Am I concerned about him more than anybody else on our team? No. If that was my biggest worry I'd say I'm in pretty good shape."
A big picture question: I think for the last five weeks the ACC has only had one ranked team and there hasn't been a stretch like that in 30 years. Is it a sign there's some serious problems in the league this year, or is that just something we're over-blowing?
"Well, in my opinion it would be something we're over-blowing, but at the same time you guys have a job to cover the ACC and look at it more on the big picture. I think we as coaches have to be concerned about our team and how our team is doing. We want the league to do well and the whole bit, but the bottom line is we've got to get in games and play well and win. I mean, we did some really nice things in the Texas game, but we needed to win that game. I'm sure each and every coach you talk to might be able to say the same thing.
"But it depends on how you play and how we play in the conference season. But you guys have a job to do. You've got to write things every day, so you've got to come up with more things to write about and more things to look at than we do as coaches."
Is it, though, a danger that with the lower rankings and the lower RPI ratings that it's going to hurt the league as we get closer to tournament selection?
"Well, it's going to hurt if we don't start winning more, there's no question about that. But again, we've won more National Championships, we've had teams in the Final Four, and the problem we've been is that one or two or three teams have played very, very well, and some of the other teams haven't won many games in the tournament.
"Now, right now we could go in here and stink it up through the regular season and let's get five teams, six teams, seven teams, whatever number you want to pick, in the tournament, and if we play great in the tournament then everybody is going to say, God, the ACC was great. It's something that we can't control.
"But again, you guys have got to write about something. But I'll guarantee you one thing: I don't lay awake at night thinking one dadgum thing about the RPI of everybody in the league. I've got enough [darn] things to worry about without having to worry about that."
Is it different at all trying to meld a graduate student like Justin Knox into the program compared to a freshman? Is it harder or easier or different at all?
"Well, it's different, but it's different in a positive way. I've been shocked how much easier it has been because he knows what that competition is like out there. He knows the level of intensity. He knows the strength and the speed and how good those other guys are that you've never heard of. And I'll go back to last year. I asked all our guys have you ever heard of Andrew Goudelock, and nobody had heard of him. Well, you can probably ask Tennessee the same thing before the game, but he kicked North Carolina's rear end last year and halfway did it this year and kicked Tennessee's rear end the other day. A guy like Justin knows that there's a lot of really good players out there that may not have that big-name recognition and may not have McDonald's All-American after their name but can really play.
"For us it's been easier by far because Justin is just more experienced. You could probably say part of it, he's just more mature. He's not 18 years old. So for me it's been much, much easier than it has been for a freshman by far."
We're all still getting to know him. What's his personality like off the court? How would you describe him?
"He's a wonderful kid. I mean, wonderful kid. I've enjoyed him so much, it's off the charts. He came in two minutes late for shoot-around the other day, and I was really ticked. That's the first thing that he's been late for, the first appointment he's been late for, whether it's tutor, class, I mean, that's the first slip-up that he's had. And then I read in the dadgum paper and Coach Holladay comes in and starts telling me about some phone glitch, that everybody's phones went out and stopped working and the whole bit.
"The kid had the alarm set on his phone, and I don't know if it was Sprint or Verizon or AT&T because I don't know what they were talking about, they were telling me about it this morning, but it's supposedly been in the papers and all over the news, and that's the first thing -- he's just been fantastic, absolutely fantastic."


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Wastewater Treatment Plant Dedication EventUpdated: March 28, 2014
The City's $44 million dollar major expansion and upgrade to the Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) is in the final stages of construction and will be dedicated at an event on Thursday, April 24, at 2 pm. The dedication event is free and open to the public; parking will be along Boones Ferry Road with a free shuttle service.
After a competitive bidding process, the City entered into a long-term contract with CH2M HILL to design, build and operate the plant for a 15-year period. With the design and build phases of the project nearly complete, the project is on time and under budget as it enters the final phase of construction.
The City Council found that having one firm undertake the entire process to design, build and operate the facility would reduce potential cost overruns, eliminate post-construction 'finger-pointing' over any problems found later, and result in a more efficient process and cost-effective operation.
The plant has been rebuilt and upgraded to include modern wastewater treatment technology, a new odor control system and increased capacity from 2.5 million gallons a day to 4 million gallons a day to accommodate Wilsonville's continued growth. The facility's effluent discharged to the Willamette River will be both cooler and cleaner, providing environmental benefits for aquatic life and downstream water users.
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Economies of scale and cost efficiency in the postal services: empirical evidence from Switzerland
This paper investigates the scale and cost efficiency of the Swiss Post using an econometric approach. Our empirical analysis considers a sample of postal offices operating in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. The paper considers estimation of a log-log cost function employing a data set for the year 2001 with information on 47 small local post offices. The empirical evidence indicates the existence of economies of scale. Further, the outcome of this analysis shows that approximately 50% of the postal offices operate close to the regional standard for efficiency.
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Auto sales rise more than expected in July (HMC, TM, F, GM, FCAU, NSANY, VOW)
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US auto sales rose at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 17.88 million in July, according to Autodata.
This gain beat expectations, even as the so-called big three — Ford, Fiat Chrysler, and GM — reported sales numbers below expectations. Ford and GM reported declines.
Joe LaVorgna, the chief US economist at Deutsche Bank, had said in a preview that, "If vehicle sales continue to moderate, it would provide early evidence that we have likely seen the peak in consumption growth for the cycle."
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Citation: Lkhagvadorj, S., Qu, L., Cai, W., Couture, L., Barb, C.R., Hausman, G.J., Netteton, D., Anderson, L., Deckers, J., Tuggle, C. 2010. Gene expression profiling of the short-term adaptive response to acute caloric restriction in liver and adipose tissues of pigs differing in feed efficiency. American Journal of Physiology. 298:R494-R507. Interpretive Summary: Efficient use of this feed by the pigs to produce live weight is important to swine producers. Selection for feed efficiency has been relatively unsuccessful at changing feed efficiency. Selection for lean growth rate has been shown to improve feed efficiency and has been used by many pig breeding companies. As pigs are approaching optimum levels of lean, new methods for improving feed efficiency are needed. The trait residual feed intake could be a trait that could be used to improve feed efficiency. This study will provide understanding of the underlying genetic and physiological basis of feed intake and efficiency, and suggest specific genes to target for genetic improvement through marker-assisted selection. Pigs selected for low and high residual feed intake (RFI) were subjected to 8 day feed restriction to identify genes and pathways that respond to feed restriction with different RFI in liver and adipose tissue. In the RFI pig the same genes that respond to RFI also resond to feed restriction. Genes involved in energetically costly lipid biosynthesis were down-regulated and shifted to energy conservation and efficient utilization pathways in RFI pigs. These results will provide an understanding of the underlying genetic and physiological basis of feed efficiency and will provide specific genes to target for genetic improvement through marker-assisted selection.
Technical Abstract: Residual feed intake (RFI) is a measure of feed efficiency, where low RFI denotes high feed efficiency. Caloric restriction (CR) is associated with feed efficiency in livestock species and relevant to human health benefits such as longevity and cancer prevention. We generated transcript profiles of liver and subcutaneous adipose tissue with serum metabolite analyses and identified genes and pathways that are differentially expressed in response to CR or between pigs with different RFI values. Prepubertal Yorkshire gilts with low RFI (n=10) or high RFI (n=10) were fed ad libitum or 80% of maintenance diet for 8 days in a 2'2 factorial design. 6,114 genes in fat and 305 genes in liver were differentially expressed (DE) in response to CR and 311 fat genes and 147 liver were DE due to RFI group. Pathway analyses of CR-induced DE genes indicated a switch to a conservation mode of energy by down-regulating lipid and steroid synthesis in both liver and fat. Also, CR altered expression of fat genes in immune response and cell cycle/apoptotosis pathways, which may explain some of the CR-driven lifespan enhancement reported in other species. In-silico analysis of transcription factors revealed ESR1 as a putative regulator of adaptive response to CR and several targets of ESR1 in our DE genes lists were annotated as cell cycle/apoptosis genes. A common between overrepresented annotation in genes down-regulated by both CR and RFI differences was the lipid metabolic pathway. We propose a common energy conservation mechanism, which may be controlled by PPARA, PPARG, and/or CREB1 in both CR and feed efficient pigs.


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Marriage equality is the legal recognition of same-sex marriage, as it is referred to by its proponents.
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Grenade Attack on Church in Kenya Kills One
The following article reports on the latest news of persecution in Kenya, where a grenade attack on a church has killed one person and injured 16 others. The attack is believed to have been from Islamic extremist group al Shabaab.
The articles linked to above are by Compass Direct News and relate to persecution of Christians around the world. Please keep in mind that the definition of 'Christian' used by Compass Direct News is inclusive of some that would not be included in a definition of Christian that I would use or would be used by other Reformed Christians. The articles do however present an indication of persecution being faced by Christians around the world.
Karnataka, India, April 8 (CDN) — Four Christians, including a police constable, were beaten on April 1 in Madikeri district on allegations of "religious conversion abetment," as if conversion were illegal in India. Daijiworld Media Network reported that K. Nidugane villagers were enraged when a Christian constable identified only as Prasanna, along with three others identified only as Diwakar, Lawrence and Dias, went door-to-door distributing pamphlets and books in Nandimotte village. A few enraged Hindu villagers beat them, tore their clothes half-off, and brought them to a police station. Hindu extremist leaders who found out rushed to the village, but before they could manhandle the four, policemen intervened and took the accused Christians into custody. Deputy Superintendent of Police J.D. Prakash said that a recommendation had been sent to the superintendent of police seeking Prasanna's suspension from service, the Daijiworld report stated. Diwakar, along with his wife Telcy Diwakar, had also been arrested and released on bail when they visited Devastoor village on March 26. A police official told Compass that the Christians have been charged with "deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs."
Karnataka – Police on April 1 arrested Christians after Hindu nationalists registered false complaints of "conversion" against them (religious conversion is legal in India) in Kodihalli, Bangalore. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that citizens identified only as Vincent, Johnson, Satyan and Naveenand Vinod were at a prayer and fellowship meeting in the home of a Christian when area Hindu extremists led by a person identified only Prashanth stormed the house, made the accusation and forced them to the Kodihalli police station. A GCIC coordinator told Compass that the intolerant Hindus shouted anti-Christian rants along the way, and that police were mute spectators as the extremists mocked the Christians at the police station. Police charged the Christians with "deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs."
Himachal Pradesh – On March 17 at Rekong Peo in Kinnur district, Hindu extremists ostracized the Christian community and warned them under threat of violence to conduct no future worship meetings. The All India Christian Council (AICC) reported that Hindu nationalist extremists barred Christians from using a public road, collecting drinking water and entering a local forest. A group of 20 Christians filed a complaint at the Bhavannagar police station, but officials failed to protect the victims at the behest of the local Hindu extremists. AICC submitted a detailed report to the National Commission for Minorities, requesting an investigation.
Kerala – On March 31 on Kara Beach Road, Kodungallur, Hindu extremists attacked Pastor N.V. Eliyas and Pastor Milton George of New India Church of God as they were returning home with their families from a house dedication prayer service. The extremists shouted slogans against the Christians as they accused them of "forceful conversions," reported the Global Council of Indian Christians. The Hindu extremists damaged the Christians' vehicles. Pastor Eliyas sustained injuries on his head and ear and was rushed to the Kodungallur Government Hospital. Police arrested 35 Hindu extremists who were involved in the incident.
Uttar Pradesh – On March 20 in Lonianpurawa, Balrampur district, an irate mob of 60 Hindu extremists barged into the worship meeting of The Healing Church and beat those present. An earlier incident had taken place the previous Sunday (March 13), when Hindu extremists threatened the worship led by convert Gudgi Verma and his wife Saroja Verma, according to the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI). Opposing their thriving ministry in the area, local Member of the Legislative Assembly Gorakhnath Baba allegedly had sent about 25 Hindu extremists to the church to deliver the warning to discontinue church services. The Christians continued, and on March 16 Baba and 50 Hindu extremists went to the site, urged the couple to stop all Christian worship meetings and restore Hindu idols to the house, give offerings to the temple and observe all Hindu festivals, according to EFI. Evangelists Abhay Kumar and Keshov Parsad went to Lonianpurawa on March 20 to lead worship, and the Hindu extremists suddenly barged in, verbally abused the Christians for their faith and beat them. The situation in the area is reported as tense, and local Christians are praying to be able to resume regular Sunday worship meetings.
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After painful effort to change ID card, Christians flee – to similar fate.
CAIRO, Egypt, March 21 (CDN) — When the plane carrying Maher El-Gohary and his daughter, Dina Mo'otahssem, took off from Cairo International Airport last month, they both wept with joy. After spending two-and-a-half years in hiding for leaving Islam to become Christians, they were elated by their newfound freedom.
They also felt secure that once they arrived in Syria, they would quickly obtain visas to the United States and start a new life. That hope soon proved unfounded.
After spending more than a week and a half unable to obtain a visa to the United States or to any country in Europe, they realized they may have traded in the reality of being prisoners in their own country for being refugees in another. And as El-Gohary watches the weeks pass and his resources dwindle, he said the stress is almost unbearable.
"I feel like we've stepped out of a prison cell and into a fire," he said. "We are in very, very bad conditions … My daughter and I divide the bottles of water to live, because there is no income."
Maher Ahmad El-Mo'otahssem Bellah El-Gohary, 58, gained notoriety in Egypt after he sued the government in August 2008 to gain the right to change the religion listed on his state-issued ID card from Islam to Christianity. In Egypt, ID cards play a critical role in a person's life, being used for everything from opening a bank account and renting an apartment to receiving medical care.
The listed religious affiliation, whether a card-holder subscribes to it or not, also determines whether the person is subject to Islamic civil law. The listed religious designation determines what state-mandated religion classes minors are required to take in school. El-Gohary said he filed the suit so his daughter, then 15, could opt out of the religious classes and would not be subject to the persecution he suffered when he became a Christian in his 20s.
It is a crime punishable by imprisonment to have no ID card in Egypt.
The suit sparked outrage throughout Egypt. Both El-Gohary and his daughter were publicly branded apostates in a country where 84 percent of Muslims think those who leave Islam should be executed, according to a study released by the Pew Research Center in December. The same month the suit was filed in 2008, El-Gohary and his daughter were forced into hiding.
For two-and-a-half years, El-Gohary shifted back and forth among several apartments in Cairo and Alexandria, usually once every month. Even in hiding, the two were harassed regularly by Egypt's dreaded State Security Intelligence service (SSI) and assaulted repeatedly by others, including someone pouring acid on Dina, El-Gohary said.
While in hiding, El-Gohary tried repeatedly to leave Egypt, but officials at the Ministry of the Interior blocked him at every attempt. On at least one occasion, they seized his passport. In December 2010, after a long legal battle, El-Gohary got a court decision ordering the Ministry of the Interior to allow him to travel, but he said it still took several weeks for the government to comply with the order; the Jan. 25-Feb. 11 revolution didn't hurt, El-Gohary said.
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After the national demonstrations that led to the removal of both President Hosni Mubarak and Minister of Interior Habib Al-Adly, El-Gohary and his daughter went to Cairo International Airport on Feb. 22 to leave the county. They came prepared with their newly issued passports, the court order and myriad documents to prove they had the right to leave the country. Even so, authorities took the two aside for interrogation at the airport.
"My daughter and I went to the counter of the airport to the manager, then they took us to the SSI," El-Gohary said. "We spent an hour talking to an officer trying to tell him, 'We spent ages during Habib Al-Adly's time, and even now after the revolution, we don't have the right to leave?'"
According to El-Gohary, the guard asked him if he really wanted to leave the country.
"Yes," El-Gohary replied. "I have a court order against Al-Adly, and I have the right to leave and the freedom to travel outside the country." As if to add insult to more than two years of injury, the SSI officers told El-Gohary that Egypt was "their country" and to "come back anytime you want to."
El-Gohary credits the revolution as the reason he was allowed to leave Egypt, saying it was a miracle "from God."
They chose to go to Syria because Egyptian citizens are not required to have visas to visit there. After contact with a U.S. organization that concentrates on religious freedom, El-Gohary expected it would be easy to get a visa to the United States, where his wife lives. But he said he has been unable to obtain an entry visa there or to any country where he will feel safe. He went to a U.N. office in Syria seeking assistance; he was given an appointment to come back on April 20.
"I wasn't expecting, after all this suffering and all these years, that…" El-Gohary said, cutting himself off. "The series of persecution is not finished."
Although they don't live under the same type of threats as they did in Egypt, El-Gohary and Dina now live in an apartment where they still watch everything they say and everyone with whom they talk. They still spend much of their time trapped between the four walls of their apartment because Syria, El-Gohary said, is a country where converts to Christianity from Islam are persecuted.
"The danger is still there," El-Gohary said. "We don't get out of the house. We don't meet people. We don't tell people what we are doing or talk to them about our situation. Because we don't want someone to say, 'Why are you applying to the U.N.?' There are still a lot of enemies."
Dina, now 17, said that although leaving Egypt was "like a miracle," she is devastated by the prospect of having to spend more time with her life on hold. She said she is just as scared in Syria as she was in Egypt.
"We're really, really tired of all this suffering," she said. "I've lost two years of my life. I want to finish school."
Muslim converts to Christianity in Syria were sometimes forced to leave their place of residence due to societal pressure last year, according to the U.S. Department of State's 2010 International Religious Freedom Report. While there is no official state religion in Syria, the constitution requires that the president be Muslim and stipulates that Islamic law is a principal source of legislation.
With strict monitoring and curtailing of militant Islam, the government in Syria has long been considered a moderate regime. The government's fear of violent responses by Islamic extremists to increasing conversions to Christianity, however, was at least partially responsible for the closing of six buildings where Christians were meeting last year, according to Christian support organization Open Doors. Noting that several Christians were arrested and interrogated in 2010, the organization's World Watch List bumped Syria's ranking up to 38th place among nations in which persecution of Christians takes place, from position 41 the previous year.
Syria is 90 percent Muslim, and 6.34 percent of its 22.5 million population is Christian, according to Operation World.
Though El-Gohary and his daughter have a dark outlook on their current situation, they are still grateful.
"Without God's love, we would have been dead by now," El-Gohary said. "Getting out of Egypt itself was a victory from God."
Dina said she also is thankful, but that as she gets older she is becoming increasingly preoccupied by one wish.
"I want to get out so I can finish my studies," she said. "I want to go into a church and out of a church without being scared of being killed."
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Captors tried to force mother of seven to convert to Islam.
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 11 (CDN) — A Christian mother of seven here who last August was kidnapped, raped, sold into marriage and threatened with death if she did not convert to Islam was freed this week.
After she refused to convert and accept the marriage, human traffickers had threatened to kill Shaheen Bibi, 40, and throw her body into the Sindh River if her father, Manna Masih, did not pay a ransom of 100,000 rupees (US$1,170) by Saturday (March 5), the released woman told Compass.
Drugged into unconsciousness, Shaheen Bibi said that when she awoke in Sadiqabad, her captors told her she had been sold and given in marriage.
"I asked them who they were," she said. "They said that they were Muslims, to which I told them that I was a married Christian woman with seven children, so it was impossible for me to marry someone, especially a Muslim."
Giving her a prayer rug (musalla), her captors – Ahmed Baksh, Muhammad Amin and Jaam Ijaz – tried to force her to convert to Islam and told her to recite a Muslim prayer, she said.
"I took the musalla but prayed to Jesus Christ for help," she said. "They realized that I should be returned to my family."
A member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Lahore, Shaheen Bibi said she was kidnapped in August 2010 after she met a woman named Parveen on a bus on her way to work. She said Parveen learned where she worked and later showed up there in a car with two men identified as Muhammad Zulfiqar and Shah. They offered her a job at double her salary and took her to nearby Thokar Niaz Baig.
There she was given tea with some drug in it, and she began to fall unconscious as the two men raped her, she said. Shaheen Bibi was unconscious when they put her in a vehicle, and they gave her sedation injections whenever she regained her senses, she said.
When she awoke in Sadiqabad, Baksh, Amin and Ijaz informed her that she had been sold into marriage with Baksh. They showed her legal documents in which she was given a Muslim name, Sughran Bibi daughter of Siddiq Ali. After Baksh had twice raped her, she said, his mother interjected that she was a "persistent Christian" and that therefore he should stay away from her.
Shaheen Bibi, separated from an abusive husband who had left her for another woman, said that after Baksh's mother intervened, her captors stopped hurting her but kept her in chains.
Her father, Masih, asked police to take action, but they did nothing as her captors had taken her to a remote area between the cities of Rahim Yar Khan and Sadiqabad, considered a "no-go" area ruled by dangerous criminals.
Masih then sought legal assistance from the Community Development Initiative (CDI), a human rights affiliate of the European Center for Law & Justice. With the kidnappers giving Saturday (March 5) as a deadline for payment of the ransom, CDI attorneys brought the issue to the notice of high police officials in Lahore and on March 4 obtained urgent legal orders from Model Town Superintendent of Police Haidar Ashraf to recover Shaheen, according to a CDI source.
The order ultimately went to Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Asghar Jutt of the Nashtar police station. Police accompanied by a CDI field officer raided the home of a contact person for the captors in Lahore, Naheed Bibi, the CDI source said, and officers arrested her in Awami Colony, Lahore.
With Naheed Bibi along, CDI Field Officer Haroon Tazeem and Masih accompanied five policemen, including ASI Jutt, on March 5 to Khan Baila, near Rahim Yar Khan – a journey of 370 miles, arriving that evening. Area police were not willing to cooperate and accompany them, telling them that Khan Baila was a "no-go area" they did not enter even during daytime, much less at night.
Jutt told area police that he had orders from high officials to recover Shaheen Bib, and that he and Tazeem would lead the raid, the CDI source said. With Nashtar police also daring them to help, five local policemen decided to go with them for the operation, he said.
At midnight on Sunday (March 6), after some encounters and raids in a jungle area where houses are miles apart, the rescue team managed to get hold of Shaheen Bibi, the CDI source said. The captors handed over Shaheen Bibi on the condition that they would not be the targets of further legal action, the CDI source said.
Sensing that their foray into the danger zone had gone on long enough, Tazeem and Jutt decided to leave but told them that those who had sold Shaheen Bib in Lahore would be brought to justice.
Fatigued and fragile when she arrived in Lahore on Monday (March 7), Shaheen Bibi told CDN through her attorneys that she would pursue legal action against those who sold her fraudulently into slavery and humiliation.
She said that she had been chained to a tree outside a house, where she prayed continually that God would help her out of the seemingly impossible situation. After the kidnappers gave her father the March 5 deadline last week, Shaheen Bibi said, at one point she lifted her eyes in prayer, saw a cross in the sky and was comforted that God's mighty hand would release her even though her father had no money to pay ransom.
On four previous occasions, she said, her captors had decided to kill her and had changed their mind.
Shaheen Bibi said there were about 10 other women in captivity with her, some whose hands or legs were broken because they had refused to be forcibly given in marriage. Among the women was one from Bangladesh who had abandoned hope of ever returning home as she had reached her 60s in captivity.
Masih told CDN that he had prayed that God would send help, as he had no money to pay the ransom. The day before the deadline for paying the ransom, he said, he had 100 rupees (less than US$2) in his pocket.
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Senior district authorities accused of supporting desecration of 150 Christian graves.
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 9 (CDN) — Christians in south Punjab Province are accusing senior district officials of supporting local Muslims who allegedly demolished 150 Christian graves and desecrated holy relics – and are now threatening Christians seeking legal redress.
In the Kot Addu area of Muzaffargarh district, Waseem Shakir told Compass by telephone that an influential Muslim group last Nov. 6 took illegal possession of a 1,210-square yard piece of land designated as a Christian cemetery and set up shops on it. Official records state that the portion of land was allotted as a Christian cemetery, he said.
"Local Muslims demolished 150 Christians' graves and desecrated the cross and biblical inscriptions on the graves in a bid to construct shops on the property," said Shakir, a resident of Chak (Village) 518, Peer Jaggi Morr, Kot Addu. "Only five marlas [151.25 square yards] are all that is left for the Christians to bury their dead now."
Shakir said that all Muzaffargarh area authorities, including the local politicians, were supporting the alleged land-grabbers even as Christians feared a mob attack.
"The situation has come to point where even the local police have warned their higher-ups that the tension could provoke a Gojra-type incident," he said, adding that Muslim instigators were now openly trying to intimidate him and Boota Masih, who registered a case with police, into dropping the matter.
In Gojra on Aug. 1, 2009, Muslim hordes acting on an unsubstantiated rumor of blasphemy of the Quran – and whipped into a frenzy by local imams and banned terrorist groups – killed at least seven Christians, looted more than 100 houses and set fire to 50 of them. At least 19 people were injured in the melee.
Shakir said Christians had approached police and the district administration to register a case against the Muslims for desecrating their sacred relics and hurting religious sentiments, but authorities have shown little attention to their grievance. Masih registered the complaint on behalf of area Christians, but the station house officer of the Daira Deen Panah Police, Waseem Leghari, altered it to state that Muslims had only occupied a piece of the cemetery land, Shakir said.
"Leghari registered a case against the Muslims under Section 297 of the Pakistan Penal Code [trespass of a place for the dead], which is a bailable offense, despite the fact that a case under the blasphemy law should have been registered against the Muslims for desecrating the Christian holy relics," Shakir said.
Police took no measures to arrest the 11 named suspects, he added.
"No one seems bothered over the desecration of our cross and biblical inscriptions," Shakir said.
Section 297 of the penal code states, "Whoever, with the intention of wounding the feelings of any person, or of insulting the religion of any person, or with the knowledge that the feelings of any person are likely to be wounded, or that the religion of any person is likely to be insulted thereby, commits any trespass in any place of worship or on any place of sculpture, or any place set apart for the performance of funeral rites or as a depository for the remains of the dead, or offers any indignity to any human corpse or causes disturbance to any persons assembled for the performance of funeral ceremonies, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both."
Shakir said that, besides the 150 demolished graves, the illegal occupants had thrown garbage on another 50 graves. The police's indifferent attitude towards the Christian community had been hurtful, he said, and Christians had repeatedly taken up the issue with District Police Officer (DPO) Chaudhry Manzoor and District Coordination Officer Tahir Khurshid.
They did not take the issue seriously, Shakir said.
DPO Manzoor rejected the Christians' accusations.
"It's not as serious a case as they are portraying," he told Compass. "The people who have built shops on the land are not illegal occupants but the real owners."
He said Christians were furious because the shopkeepers put some of their belongings on the graves.
"No one has desecrated any Christian holy symbol, book or grave," he said. "Any fears that the issue could lead to another Gojra are baseless."
Manzoor said the matter would be resolved amicably.
Napolean Qayyum, leader of the Minorities Wing of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP), told Compass that open desecration of the Christian symbols and places and the police's alleged support of the culprits showed the prejudice of the Punjab government towards minority groups.
"An application regarding this incident is lying in the Punjab chief minister's secretariat, but it seems the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's [PML-N] government in Punjab wants another Gojra-like incident to take place in Kot Addu," he said, adding that it was curious that all major violence against Christians usually takes place when the PML-N is in power in the province.
Qayyum said that he had taken up the matter with the PPP leadership.
"It's a case of blasphemy, and the culprits should have been rounded up under Section 295-A," he said. "I have contacted Farahnaz Ispahani, the political adviser to President Asif Zardari, and she has assured me of the federal government's support in this matter."
He added that stern action against local police and administrative authorities was necessary to set an example for others.
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Unresolved charge of 'defaming religion' leaves him in perpetual limbo.
CAIRO, Egypt, December 16 (CDN) — An Egyptian who left Islam to become a Christian and consequently lost his wife, children and business is waiting to see if the government will now take away his freedom for "defaming" Islam.
Ashraf Thabet, 45, is charged with defaming a revealed religion, Article 98f of the Egyptian Penal Code. The charges stem from Thabet's six-year search for spiritual meaning that eventually led him to become a Christian. During his search, he shared his doubts about Islam and told others what he was learning about Jesus Christ.
Local religious authorities, incensed at Thabet's ideas, notified Egypt's State Security Intelligence service (SSI), which arrested and charged him with defamation. If found guilty, Thabet would face up to five years in jail. But because prosecutors have made no move to try the case, Thabet lives in limbo and is subject to a regular barrage of death threats from people in his community in Port Said in northeast Egypt.
"I don't know what is going to happen in the future," Thabet said. "They're making life hard for me. I can't get back my computer. I can't get back anything."
Thabet said that before his search began he was a committed Muslim who did his best to observe its rules, including those for prayer and fasting.
"I wasn't an extremist, but I was committed to praying and to reading the Quran," Thabet said. "I went to the Hajj. I did the usual things. I followed the Quran for the most part."
Despite his efforts, Thabet admitted that his understanding of God was based on fear and routine, nearly rote obedience.
"There was no spiritual relationship between myself and God," he said. "In general I was always cautious about my relationship with God. I didn't want to do anything wrong."
Thabet started looking at Christian Web sites, but his real interest in Christianity began when he watched the film, "The Passion of the Christ" in 2004.
"When I watched 'The Passion of the Christ,' I was very touched by Jesus' story, and I wanted to read more about Him," Thabet said. "So I asked a friend how I could know more about Jesus, and he told me, 'The Bible.'"
His friend, a Christian Copt, did not get him a Bible until a month later because, Thabet thinks, he was afraid of being accused of proselytizing. Thabet began reading the Bible, which had a powerful impact on him, especially the Sermon on the Mount.
"I felt inside myself that these were the words of God," he said. "The Bible tells people to give and to give out freely, so these words couldn't be the words of a human being or a [mere] person, because human beings are inherently selfish."
Thabet was also struck by the lives that the early followers of Jesus led, especially their willingness to lose everything, including their lives, for Christ.
The final factor that led Thabet to become a Christian came from Islam's "Ninety-Nine Names of Allah," attributes of God according to the Quran and tradition. In the names, God is called a "healer" a "resurrecter" and "just."
"I started to compare all these characteristics with the characteristics of Jesus, and I saw that Jesus had a lot of the characteristics that God had, not only the human characteristics, being just and being kind, but there were similarities in the supernatural characteristics, like that He raised people from the dead," he said. "In the Quran only God could raise people from the dead. I noticed that Jesus could raise people from the dead, and that He could heal people. Once I started to notice
the similarities between God and Jesus, I started believing that Jesus is the Son of God."
Thabet said he cared about others "going the right way," so he started having conversations with Muslim friends.
At first, people respected Thabet or tolerated what was seen as an awkward curiosity. But after he told his friends they were "only Muslim by inheritance," they started to turn against him. They asked him what he was going to be if he wasn't going to be a Muslim.
"I told them I started to read about Christianity, and I was starting to believe in it, and that's when they brought the elders to talk to me," he said.
The meeting didn't go well. The Islamic leaders were unable to answer his questions and ended up yelling at him. Then they reported him to the SSI.
The SSI summoned Thabet and questioned him on his doubts about Islam.
Thabet said by the time he was done with the interrogation, the SSI officer looked almost sick and told him not to talk to anyone else in Port Said about religion.
"I don't encourage you to talk about these things with people or to open up these types of discussions, because it will just provoke people and make them angry," the officer told him, according to Thabet.
Two days later, Thabet said, the SSI ordered him to report for more questioning, this time with an officer who specialized in religious issues and countering missionaries. The officer wanted to know what made him start to doubt Islam. He asked specific questions about what Web sites he had been on and what books he had read, and whether he had been baptized.
Thabet said that at the time of his questioning, he was still struggling with his new beliefs. Part of him wanted something that would restore his faith in Islam, so he went to Internet chat rooms for religious discussion.
"A part of me wanted to feel that I was wrong, that there was an answer to my questions," he said. "I was looking for someone who would say 'No, no, this is how it is,' and that I would regain my trust back or not have any more doubts. But none of the people I talked to could answer me. They didn't say anything to any effect."
Thabet said he was always respectful, but Muslims found his questions provocative and became increasingly angry.
Eventually police came for Thabet. On March 22 at 3 a.m., he said, 11 officers from the SSI cut the power to his home, kicked down his front door and assaulted him in front of his crying wife and children.
Thabet quickly pulled away from the fight, once he realized they were officers from the SSI. The men swarmed over Thabet's home, seizing his computer and every book and CD he owned. They took him to jail.
Authorities interrogated Thabet non-stop for 12 hours, took a break and then interrogated him for seven more, he said.
Initially he was held for 15 days. Then authorities ordered he be held for another 15 days. Then they extended it again. Thabet said he spent the entire time in solitary confinement, and he wasn't informed of the "defamation of religion" charge against him until the end of 132 days in jail. He said he was not tortured, however, and that his interrogators and jailers were largely civil.
There was more hardship waiting for him at home. Muslim leaders in his neighborhood convinced his wife to divorce him and take his 10-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son.
"They gave her the money to file for a divorce, a car and another person to marry," Thabet said, adding that the Muslim leaders had offered him money too if he would stay in Islam. "In the beginning they tried to bribe me to come back to Islam, but I refused."
Thabet has only had a few brief moments with his children since he was arrested, mainly when his soon-to-be ex-wife came to their home to gather a few belongings. If she goes through with the divorce, according to Egyptian law it is likely Thabet will lose all parental rights to his children, including any right to see them.
In Egypt and most other Muslim-majority countries, leaving Islam is considered ample grounds for termination of parental rights. Thabet said the religious leaders consider him "lost to Islam" and are trying to "save" his wife and children.
He filed a report with police about the Muslim leaders bribing his wife – and about another man who swindled money from him – but police ignored both reports, he said.
Kamal Fahmi of Set My People Free to Worship Me, a group headquartered in Cairo dedicated to raising awareness about the problems faced by Muslims who become Christians, said that under Islam, "Muslim converts don't have the right to exist."
Arrests like Thabet's are common in Egypt.
"It is a tactic used to intimidate people and scare them from leaving Islam and taking alternative beliefs or moral codes," Fahmi said.
In Islam as it is most often practiced in Egypt, merely expressing doubt about Islam is considered wrong, Fahmi said. Questioning any of its claims is considered blasphemy and is punishable by imprisonment under a variety of charges in Egypt; it is punishable by death in some other countries.
"Saying, 'I don't believe in Muhammad,' is considered defaming Islam," Fahmi said. "Saying, 'I don't believe in Islam as it is not true,' can lead to death [murder], as you are considered an apostate," Fahmi said. "Even rejecting the Islamic moral codes can lead to the same thing. Criticizing any of the sharia [Islamic law] is considered blasphemy."
The Future
Thabet said he is uncertain what the future holds. He was released on Aug. 1 but, because he has the defamation of religion charge over his head – with no indication of when the case could go to court – he is unable to work and cannot even obtain a driver's license.
His savings are almost depleted, forcing him to borrow money from a Muslim friend. He is concerned about re-arrest and receives death threats on a regular basis. He is too afraid to leave his apartment on most days.
"There are a lot of phone threats," Thabet said. Noting he had been baptized three years ago, he said he has received phone threats in which someone tells him, "We are going to baptize you again with blood."
On numerous occasions while talking in Internet chat rooms, he has been told, "Look outside the window, we know where you are," Thabet said.
In recent days Muslims are angry at converts and at Christians in general, he said. "They're very worked up about religious issues."
He said he wants to leave Egypt but admits that, at his age, it would be very hard to start over. And if he stays in Egypt, he said, at least he will have a chance to see his children, however brief those encounters may be.
Since Thabet was released from jail on Aug. 1, authorities have seized his passport and summoned him four times for questioning. He said he thinks the SSI is trying to wear him down.
"Everyone is telling me that they [the government] want to make my life hard," he said. "The problem here in Egypt is the religious intolerance that is found in government ministries. The intolerance has reached a point where they can't think straight. Their intolerance makes them unaware of their own intolerance."
Report from Compass Direct News


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