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The Best Server CPUs Compared, Part 1by Johan De Gelas on 12/22/2008 10:00 PM EST
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Theunis - Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - linkI'm not entirely happy with the results, but I would also like to know the -march that was used to compile the 64bit Linux kernel and MySQL, and any other Linux benchmarks, because optimization for specific -march is crucial to compare apples with apples. Ok yes AMD wins by assuming standard/generic compile flags was used. But what if both were to use optimized architecture compile flags? Then if AMD lose they could blame gcc. But it still should be interesting to see the outcome of open source support. And how it wraps around Vendor support to open source and also the distribution that decided to go so far to support architecture specific (Gentoo Linux Distribution comes to mind).
Intel knew that they were lagging behind because of their arch was too specific and wasn't running as efficiently on generic compiled code. Core i7 was suppose to fix this, But what if this is still not the case and optimization is required for architecture is still necessary to see any improvements on Intel's side? Reply
James5mith - Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - linkJust wanted to mention that I love that case. The Supermicro 846 series is what I'm looking towards to do some serious disk density for a new storage server. I'm just wondering how much the SAS backplane affects access latencies, etc. (If you are using the one with the LSI expander chip.) Reply
Krobaruk - Saturday, December 27, 2008 - linkJust wanted to add a few bits of info. Back to an earlier comment, it is definitely incorrect to call SAS and infiniband the same, the cables are infact slightly different composition (Differences in shieliding) although they are terminated the same. Lets not forget that 10G ethernet uses the same termination in some implementations too.
Also at least under Xen AMD platforms still do not offer PCI pass through, this is a fairly big inconvenience and should probably be mentioned as support is not expected until the HT3 Shanghais release later this year. Paricularly interesting are result here that show despite NUMA greatly reducing load on the HTLinks, it makes very little difference to the VMMark result:
I would imagine HT3 Opteron will only really benefit 8way opterons in typical figure of 8 config as the bus is that much heavier loaded.
Its odd your Supermicro quad had problems with the Shanghais and certain apps, no problems from testing with a Tyan TN68 here. Was the bios beta?
Are any benches with Xen likely to happen in future or is Anandtech solidly VMWare?
Answering another users questions about mailserver and spam assasin, I do not know of any decent bechmarks for this but have seen the load that different mailfilter servers can handle under the MailWatch/Mailgate system. Fast SAS raid 1 and dual quad cores seems to give best value and ram requirement is about 1Gb per core. Would be interesting to see some sort of linux mail filter benchmarks if you can construct something to do this. Reply
RagingDragon - Saturday, December 27, 2008 - linkI'd imagine alot of software development servers are used for testing of applications which fall into one of the other categories. There'd also be bug tracking and version control servers, but most interesting from a performance perspective might be build servers (i.e. servers used for compiling software) - the best benchmark for that would probably be compile times for various compilers (i.e. Gnu, Intel and MS C/C++ compilers; Sun, Oracle and IBM java compilers; etc.) Reply
bobbozzo - Friday, December 26, 2008 - linkIMO, many (most?) mailservers need more than fast I/O; what with so much anti-spam and anti-virus filtering going on nowadays.
SpamAssassin, although wonderful, can be slow under heavy loads and with many features enabled, and the same goes for A/Vs such as clamscan.
That said, I don't know of any good benchmarks.
vtechk - Thursday, December 25, 2008 - linkVery nice article, just the Fluent benchmarks are far too simple to give relevant information. Standard Fluent job these days has 25+ million elements, so sedan_4m is more of a synthetic test than a real world one. It would also be very interesting to see Nastran, Abaqus and PamCrash numbers. Reply
Amiga500 - Sunday, December 28, 2008 - linkJust to reinforce Alpha's comments... 25 million being standard isn't even close to being true!!!
Sure, if you want to perform a full global simulation, you'll need that number (and more) for something like a car (you can add another 0 to the 25 million for F1 teams!), or an aircraft.
But, mostly, the problems are broken down into much smaller numbers, under 10 million cells. A rule of thumb with fluent is 700K cells for every GB of RAM... so working on that principal, you'd need a 16GB workstation for 10 million cells...
Anything more, and you'll need a full cluster to make the turnaround times practical. :-) Reply
alpha754293 - Saturday, December 27, 2008 - link"Standard Fluent job these days has 25+ million elements"
That's NOT entirely true. The size of the simulation is dependent on what you are simulating. (And also hardware availability/limitations).
Besides, I don't think that Johan actually ran the benchmarks himself. He just dug up the results database and mentioned it here (wherever the processor specs were relevant).
He also makes a note that the benchmark itself can be quite costly (e.g. a license of Fluent can easily be $20k+), and there needs to be a degree of understanding to be able to run the benchmark itself (which he also stated that neither he, nor the lab has.)
And on that note - Johan, if you need help in interpreting the HPC results, feel free to get in touch with me. I sent you an email on this topic (I'm actually running the LS-DYNA 3-car collision benchmark right now as we speak on my systems). I couldn't find the case data to be able to run the Fluent benchmarks as well, but IF I do; I'll run it and I'll let you know.
Otherwise, EXCELLENT. Looking forward to lots more coming from you once the NDA is lifted on the Nehalem Xeons. Reply
zpdixon42 - Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - linkJohan,
The article makes a point of explaining how fair the Opteron Killer? section is, by assuming that unbuffered DDR3-1066 will provide results close enough to registered DDR3-1333 for Nehalem. But what is nowhere mentioned is that all of the benchmarks unfairly penalize the 45nm Opteron because registered DDR2-800 was used whereas faster DDR2-1067 is supported by Shanghai. If you go into great length justifying memory specs for Intel, IMHO you should mention that point for AMD as well.
The Oracle Charbench graph shows "Xeon 5430 3.33GHz". This is wrong, it's the X5470 that runs at 3.33GHz, the E5430 runs at 2.66GHz.
The 3DSMax 2008 32 bit graph should show the Quad Opteron 8356 bar in green color, not blue.
In the 3DSMax 2008 32 bit benchmark, some results are clearly abnormal. For example a Quad Xeon X7460 2.66GHz is beaten by an older microarchitecture running at a slower speed (Quad Xeon 7330 2.4GHz). Why is that ?
The article mentions in 2 places the Opteron "8484", this should be "8384".
The Opteron Killer? section says "the boost from Hyper-Threading ranges from nothing to about 12%". It should rather say "ranges from -5% to 12%" (ie. HT degrades performance in some cases).
There is a typo in the same section: "...a small advantage at* it can use..." s/at/as/.
Also, I think CPU benchmarking articles should draw graphs to represent performance/dollar or performance/watt (instead of absolute performance), since that's what matters in the end.
JohanAnandtech - Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - link"But what is nowhere mentioned is that all of the benchmarks unfairly penalize the 45nm Opteron because registered DDR2-800 was used whereas faster DDR2-1067 is supported by Shanghai. "
Considering that Shanghai has just made DDR-2 800 (buffered) possible, I think it is highly unlikely that we'll see buffered DDR-2 1066 very soon. Is it possible that you are thinking of Deneb which can use DDR-2 1066 unbuffered?
"In the 3DSMax 2008 32 bit benchmark, some results are clearly abnormal. For example a Quad Xeon X7460 2.66GHz is beaten by an older microarchitecture running at a slower speed (Quad Xeon 7330 2.4GHz). Why is that ? "
Because 3DS Max does not like 24 cores. See here:
"Also, I think CPU benchmarking articles should draw graphs to represent performance/dollar or performance/watt (instead of absolute performance), since that's what matters in the end. "
In most cases performance/dollar is a confusing metric for server CPUs, as it greatly depends on what application you will be running. For example, if you are spending 2/3 of your money on a storage system for your OLTP app, the server CPU price is less important. It is better to compare to similar servers.
Performance/Watt was impossible as our Quad Socket board had a beta BIOS which disabled powernow! That would not have been fair.
I'll check out the typos you have discovered and fix them. Thx.
zpdixon42 - Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - linkDDR2-1067: oh, you are right. I was thinking of Deneb.
Yes performance/dollar depends on the application you are running, so what I am suggesting more precisely is that you compute some perf/$ metric for every benchmark you run. And even if the CPU price is less negligible compared to the rest of the server components, it is always interesting to look both at absolute perf and perf/$ rather than just absolute perf.
denka - Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - link32-bit? 1.5Gb SGA? This is really ridiculous. Your tests should be bottlenecked by IO Reply
JohanAnandtech - Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - linkI forgot to mention that the database created is slightly larger than 1 GB. And we wouldn't be able to get >80% CPU load if we were bottlenecked by I/O Reply
denka - Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - linkYou are right, this is a smallish database. By the way, when you report CPU utilization, would you take IOWait separate from CPU used? If taken together (which was not clear) it is possible to get 100% CPU utilization out of which 90% will be IOWait :) Reply
denka - Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - linkNot to be negative: excellent article, by the way Reply
mkruer - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - linkIf/When AMD does release the Istanbul (k10.5 6-core), The Nehalem will again be relegated to second place for most HPC. Reply
Exar3342 - Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - linkYeah, by that time we will have 8-core Sandy Bridge 32nm chips from Intel... Reply
Amiga500 - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - linkI guess the key battleground will be Shanghai versus Nehalem in the virtualised server space...
AMD need their optimisations to shine through.
Its entirely understandable that you could not conduct virtualisation tests on the Nehalem platform, but unfortunate from the point of view that it may decide whether Shanghai is a success or failure over its life as a whole. As always, time is the great enemy! :-) Reply
JohanAnandtech - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - link"you could not conduct virtualisation tests on the Nehalem platform"
Yes. At the moment we have only 3 GB of DDR-3 1066. So that would make pretty poor Virtualization benches indeed.
"unfortunate from the point of view that it may decide whether Shanghai is a success or failure"
Personally, I think this might still be one of Shanghai strong points. Virtualization is about memory bandwidth, cache size and TLBs. Shanghai can't beat Nehalem's BW, but when it comes to TLB size it can make up a bit. Reply
VooDooAddict - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - linkWith the VMWare benchmark, it is really just a measure of the CPU / Memory. Unless you are running applications with very small datasets where everything fits into RAM, the primary bottlenck I've run into is the storage system. I find it much better to focus your hardware funds on the storage system and use the company standard hardware for server platform.
This isn't to say the bench isn't useful. Just wanted to let people know not to base your VMWare buildout soley on those numbers. Reply
Bruce Herndon - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - linkI'm surprised by your comments. You claim that VMmark is a CPU/memory-centric benchmark. If I look at the raw data in the VMmark disclosure for Dell's R905 score of 20.35 @ 14 tiles, I see that the benchmark is driving 250-300 MB/s of disk IO across several HBAs and storage LUNs. This characteristic scales with the various systems mentioned in the article.
As a designer of VMmark, I happen to know that both storage bandwidth (for the fileserver) and latency (for mail and database)are critical to acheiving good VMmark scores. Furthermore, the webserver drives substantial network IO. The only purely CPU-centric component to VMmark is the javaserver. Overall, the benchmark does exercise the entire virtualization solution - hypervisor, CPU, memory, disk, and network.
cdillon - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - linkWhile SAS and Infiniband share some connectors and obtain similar data rates, they are incompatible technologies with two different purposes. Infiniband can be used for disk shelf connections, but it is less common and definitely not the case here. You should not call the connection between the Adaptec 5805 controller and the disk shelf an "Infiniband connection", even if it is using Infiniband connectors and cables, it is simply an SAS connection.
JohanAnandtech - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - linkWell, the physical layer is Infiniband, the used protocol is SCSI. I can understand calling it an "infiniband connection" maybe confusing, but the cable is an infiniband cable. Reply
shank15217 - Friday, December 26, 2008 - linkAnand, I think the above poster is right. The Adaptec RAID 5805 uses SFF-8087 connectors but the protocol is SSP (Serial SCSI Protocol). Infiniband is a physical layer protocol that shares the same connector as SAS but they are not the same. Nothing in the Adaptec RAID 5805 spec mentions Infiniband as a supported protocol.
http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/Controllers/...">http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/C...ers/Hard... Reply
niva - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - linkI'm not sure you can run your same ol benchmark for rendering, and I'd really like more insight into what you guys are rendering and if it's indeed using all 16/24(six core 4 point system)/32(hyperthreading) cores on the system.
What renderer, what scene, details details...
These chips get gobbled up by render farms and this is indeed where they can really flex their muscles to the fullest.
JohanAnandtech - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - linkJust click on the link under "we have performed so many times before" :-) Reply
akinneyww - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - linkI read DailyTech and anandtech.com to keep up with the latest in IT. I appreciate the thought that has gone into putting together this article. I would like to see more articles like this one. Reply
Jammrock - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - linkThe VMware results shocked me the most. I know AMD has been working hard on the virtualization sector and it looks like their work has paid off. Reply
classy - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - linkWith the rapid increase of virtualization, AMD is looking really strong. We have begun using 3.5 Vmware and are expanding the use of it. Virtualization is truly becoming a big thing in server choice. Reply


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Andy Martino had a solid piece today discussing how many within the Mets' clubhouse would like the team to add a right-handed hitting outfielder, rather than a bullpen arm. The reality is, as reflected in the article, both would be extremely helpful.
From my point of view, the bullpen needs to be addressed first. Sure, the Mets have struggled relative to their success against righties- a .681 OPS against lefties, .750 against righties. But on balance, the Mets are scoring plenty of runs. They are third in the National League in runs scored.
But they are absolutely not preventing them late in games. Their bullpen ERA is 5.11, worst in baseball by a significant margin. Adding relievers to mitigate that damage really ought to be first on the agenda.
It is true that any improvement is the same- that if they find a way to add 10 more runs of offense, that's the same as finding a way to prevent ten more runs. But it also gets harder to make improvements from higher levels of performance. It requires better players, and those players will cost more in trade.
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One other area of possible improvement- a right-handed hitting catcher. Mike Nickeas has been worth -0.5 wins above replacement in 102 plate appearances. Josh Thole has a .610 OPS against lefties this year, .522 for his career. And in 95 plate appearances overall since returning from his latest concussion, Thole's OPS is just .582.
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Côte d'Amermont rankings
Difficulty ranking world: 9873 (all)
Ranking Belgium: 353 (all)
Ranking Ardennes: 339(all)
Difficulty score: 25.6 what?
Côte d'Amermont ratings
(4.8) Overall
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The start of this climb is terrible. While coming from a national road you turn left. You cant see whats coming because of the bushes next to the road. Make sure your on your smallest gear, because it felt like hitting a wall. Not riding quick or stylish was on my mind just staying on my bike was really tough. Steeper then anything in liege bastogne liege and amstel gold race. The steepest isnt short either and continues after the first crossing. This part takes so much energy that its really hard to do the remaining lees steeper bit with any speed. Bit the last part is in beautifull surroundings and easy rideable. In my opinion tougher then la redoute.
The Côte d'Amermont is situated in Liege. This climb belongs to the Ardennes.
Starting from Stavelot,
the Côte d'Amermont ascent is 3.6 km long. Over this distance, you climb 199 heightmeters.
The average percentage thus is 5.5 %.
Look for other sides to climb the Côte d'Amermont.
Since 2005, the Côte d'Amermont will be/was climbed in the following big tour stages:
Tilff - Bastogne - Tilff 2006 : Tilff - Bastogne - Tilff 2006 on
Tilff - Bastogne - Tilff 2007 : Tilff - Bastogne - Tilff 2007 on
Tilff - Bastogne - Tilff 2008 : Tilff - Bastogne - Tilff 2008 on
Tilff - Bastogne - Tilff 2011 : Tilff - Bastogne - Tilff 2011 on
Tilff - Bastogne - Tilff 2009 : Tilff - Bastogne - Tilff 2009 on
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24 hours in the Yay... .:Aug 20 09:.
So now that summer school is over I decided I needed to get away for a
quick 24 hours and rolled to the bay. Mostly to visit fam but also to
get some business done as well… here's some flicks of my 24 hour SF
turn-around trip… Got off the plane and hopped the BART
Then took the N into the city and creeped over to visit my folks on
Haight… Amoeba is ALWAYS a must. Had to say what up to Louie and then
snag some wax. (By the way… they now have a FRESH supply of my mix cds…
gettem while you can!) One of my all time favorite artists, Jor… this kid KILLS it on the customized kick tip as well. BIG UP the homie Lango- No Remorse… SD representin in the Yay!!!
Then over to visit the fam at True… big ups to ALL the fam there! If
you're EVER in SF True is an absolute MUST! They have the freshest gear
and the dopest kicks. Plus all the peeps who work there are MAD cool.
Word up!!! Be on the look out for my dude Jern Eye… yall aint ready. Hahaha!
After HOURS of walking and 6 blisters sponsored by my Clarks Wallabees,
I met up with Joel and hias friends from high school Mike and Marissa.
Went for dinner at Nopalito but didn't want to wait,so we eneded up at
Alembic and then rolled out to meet up with Daeta and Char for ice
cream. THENNNN off to crash out at Joel's pad in Fremont. (Here's what
Joel did when we got back… smackin fools on Call Of Duty)
Woke up the next day and got gas at this gas station that had a… well…
quite frankly… one of the DOPEST ideas for a drive in spot…
Hopped a plane in Oakland and was back in SD 27 hours after I left her.
Word up… Had the craziest headache, but WILL do it again soon.
(Hopefully for longer next time hahahaha…)
- JABAone
ANTIBALAS - .:Aug 13 09:.
King of Reggae .:Aug 13 09:.
This past July I was
fortunate enough to take a cruise that included a stop in Jamaica. I
had heard in Jamaica there was a tour that took you to the house that
Bob Marley grew up in and where is he is also buried. As a music lover
I couldn't pass up the opportunity. We ported in a city called Ocho
Rios. Here is a pic from the ship when we were pulling into port at
7:00 a.m.
We got lucky because apparently another group flaked so we basically had a private tour with just my wife and I and the tour guide in a five seater taxi. The mausoleum and home was approximately a 1 hour and 15 minutes drive from Ocho Rios. We drove through the Fern Gully and rural countryside parts of the Jamaica. It was an amazing experience driving through the countryside and seeing parts of Jamaica we might otherwise never see. The road was very narrow at parts many times a one lane narrow road. There were random Jamaicans on the side of the road just hanging out and at one time there were goats that blocked the road.
a place I would ever want to drive on my own without an experienced
guide, plus
in Jamaica people drive on the otherside of the road. Our tour guide
told us about the agricultural
the local plants and the industry of the country, such as sugar cane
something they make aluminum out of. We
got to the Marley home really early about 9:00 a.m. and were the first
visitors. There are four levels of the home, the first
level where there is a gift shop, the second level where there is
another gift
shop and restrooms, the third level where there is the bar, another
gift shop,
an outside stage, and the fourth level the gates up to the mausoleum
and walk
up the burial site, the home and Mt. Zion. The grounds were pretty
modern compared to the surrounding area. They had a nice bar that even
had a couple of flat screen tvs on the wall. The place was definitely
done up for tourism.
There is a spectacular view from the bar balcony area. Here is a pic
we took from the balcony of the bar.
Once you drive in, you are immediately greeted
by a couple of guys trying to sell you herb and hash.It is openly sold and smoked around the
Marley grounds. Also, there is a place
where you can buy a candle to light in the Marley tomb. Walking up to the mausoleum is a small road
where you walk up to a small two bedroom hut where Bob used to stay when he
would visit. We learned that Bob Marley group up in this home with his mother and moved I believe when he was around 10. Outside of the small hut is
a rock where Bob would sit and meditate (smoke) and write songs. Sitting on the rock you see a spectacular
view of the mountains of Jamaica, and one can completely understand why it
would be place of musical inspiration.
They called the rock Bob's pillow because it was the place Bob would lay
and sit or rest his head to right songs. Our tourguide mentioned many times how Bob
would often meditate (smoke) and how it was deeply part of the culture and inspiration for
music. Our tourguide then took us in the
mausoleum. Bob is buried six feet above
ground. Above his tomb is an umbrella representing
all people and there is a glass star of David on the wall that shines light on
his tomb in the morning when the sun rises.
In the tomb are pictures, things left by fans to honor Bob, and candles
lit around the tomb. We lit out candle
on one of the candles lit around the tomb.
The guide said that once one of the other 6-8 candles around the tomb
burns out it will be replaced with a guest's.
No pictures are allowed of the tomb.
What an amazing experience. The
best part of the trip was our guide who truly lived the rastafari lifestyle
sharing with us the spirit of Bob and truly making us feel truly like we are
all one people. He would sometimes sing
Bob songs and connect them to places around the home. He would also end many of his sayings with "Rastafari". He told us about the colors
of rastafari, red for the blood of people, the yellow for the sun, and the
green for the earth. One thing he did
say which was interesting is the grounds have gone through many changes
throughout the years and has said the place has changed because of
tourism. He said he felt there was a
little too much "touch up, touch up". I
think that is what he referred to as the commercialism of the place. As a music fan, it was an experience to visit and honor the King of Reggae, but most of all to see and experience a
part of Jamaica I would never ever see otherwise.
It was a very humbling experience driving through the countryside and
seeing how other people in this world live. Based on what I could see
the luxuries we Americans put so much value on seem to be of little
concern to the people who live in the country. An experience I will never forget and an
experience that has reminded me how blessed I am.
Our guide on at the Masoleum was Benji. Here is a pic I took with
him. Our tour to get to the Masoluem was through Ionie McBeam, her
husband Lewis was our driver. Definitely a person I would use again if
I were in Jamaica.
Boom Bap Basement .:Aug 13 09:.
So last night Existence76 and I went to check out a spot in Oceanside
called the Davina's Cabo Grill. I used to live in Oceanside and the
spot used to be the old Margarita Rocks. I hadn't been to downtown
Oceanside for awhile. Scarub, Mr. Brady and Sojourn were performing.
The spot itself was very clean. There was a downstairs basement
section where they had a bar, performance stage and lounge chairs, an
ideal spot for a hip hop show. Really a hidden gem. The vibe was real
good, and the best part about it was that it was FREE, which I think
added to the positive vibes. Also there was also an upstairs outdoor
patio area which was also a nice place to chill. We only got a chance
to see Sojourn and Scarub who were both dope on the mic. I got a
chance to speak to both Scarub and Sojourn. Sojourn is coming out with
a new album on September 1, on the Hip Hop is Music label (Braille,
Lightheaded, Theory Hazit...) Hopefully we'll be able to pick up some
pieces for Fresh Crate. Also talked to Scarub for a second and
hopefully we'll be able to stock some of his merchandise as well. A
couple of pics below of Scarub performing.
- Argonaut
GRAND GROOVE .:Aug 13 09:.
Furry Friend .:Aug 12 09:.
So my mom called me at work today and tells me this fine arachnid was
just chillin' on top of my kitchen counter! I told her to trap him with
a box until I got home. I left early to help trap him in a bigger
container. The box pictured here shipped some mid-top kicks, to give
you and idea of the tarantula's size:
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ANGRY campaigners are demanding the resignation of Dudley's leaders as the row over council cuts intensifies ahead of a crucial budget meeting.
The Labour-run council will next week debate a three-year spending plan which proposes £33.6m in cuts after reductions in grants from central government.
Dudley Coalition Against Cuts has turned against former allies from the Labour Party to call for new political leaders to fight harder for more cash.
Coalition members took their message to the steps of Dudley Council House ahead of a meeting of the authority on February 24 and called for the heads of senior council cabinet members including deputy leader and finance chief, Cllr Pete Lowe.
Jerry Langford, spokesman for Dudley Coalition Against Cuts, said: "These cuts are going to savage what we have come to expect from the council, it's the wholesale slashing of services.
"It's a sham, people like Pete Lowe two years ago were standing on these steps campaigning against cuts – where are they now?
"There is not the wherewithal or wit to fight it, the council's leaders should resign, they don't need to co-operate with the government.
"Two years ago they knew these cuts were coming, they won an election on the basis of being against cuts, we are saying why aren't they fighting them?"
The Coalition Against Cuts is calling for local authorities to join together to force the Westminster government to reverse cuts to local authority grants and find the extra cash by pursuing big business and rich bankers for uncollected tax.
Cllr Lowe hit back hit back, insisting Dudley Council was in daily contact with central government and other local authorities but some of the protestors' arguments were unrealistic.
He said: "We are committed to getting a fair deal for the people of Dudley, you don't do that just by waving placards but by holding this government to account.
"Whilst doing that we have to take a responsible position to protect the most vulnerable in society."
He added the government's communities secretary, Eric Pickles, would replace elected politicians with administrators if the council failed to balance its books.
Cllr Lowe said: "If we did what the protestors call for there would be no local government in Dudley, Pickles has made it clear he would remove the democratic process and bring in officials."
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The Suffrage Centennial Celebration, honoring the 100 year anniversary of the Women's Suffrage March in Washington DC, will be held in the nation's capitol this weekend from March 1-3, 2013. The celebration commemorates the centennial of the date Inez Milholland and other women's suffragists led a crowd of thousands through the street of Washington, to fight for women's right to vote. A re-enactment of the March will take place along the original parade route– along Pennsylvania Avenue– on Sunday March 3, beginning with a rally at 9 a.m. on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. Some streets in Washington will be closed or delayed for the procession.
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EQ and The IT Guy (and other IQ-centric professionals)
Show me the numbers! Show me the data! You've heard this mantra before. As leaders we have all had to deal with colleagues, supervisors and team members who doubt the real impact of emotional intelligence at work. In fact, some of the most resistant to embracing EQ are the ones most in need of its benefits. While programmers, accountants, lawyers, and engineers are often thought to lead the hit parade of 'doubting Thomases', they are not by any means the only ones. So how do you get people in these and other IQ-centric fields to recognize and utilize the valuable assets that come from developing and using their EQ?
Here are a few suggestions I make to organizations of how to bring EQ to an IQ World:
Meet people where they live. If you have a science guy, present the facts and figures. Through presenting the business case for EQ I find that business leaders and heady people of all types can wrap their minds around the facts of productivity, customer loyalty and profitability that EQ brings to the equation. For example, 75% of the reasons that companies lose their clients or customers are EQ-related reasons. That means that three quarters of all reasons that the customers who purchase their product or services do so because they like the way they were treated (an eq trait), like the service they receive when things go wrong (an eq trait) and keep coming back because of their positive experience (an eq trait).
I then progress from the business case to the brain science case. Explaining how every decision is an emotional decision, based on the limbic system and the science of how the brain works, goes a long way to helping the IT guys and gals reframe how they make decisions.
Finally I'll bring up the all important fun fact that EQ skills can be learned. Often I think it's more difficult for heady people to break out of the mold of acting a certain way. So if you tend to be a more IQ-centric person and want to break out a bit there are things you can do to expand your repertoire. like starting a conversation with "I feel" instead of "I think." Or asking for someone's opinion before giving your own. And then actively listening to that opinion before offering your thoughts. Really basic small steps that people can put into practice right away and see results.
As leaders we can't always be smarter than the smart people we seek to surround ourselves with. The thing about super heady people is that they often do know more or are "smarter" than many folks. So ask for their opinions because they're smart but don't let them off the hook by never asking them to step up to the "feeling" plate, at least a little. Remind them that emotions are really heady stuff.


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Reston Master Plan Special Study Meeting Information
A variety of meetings have occured since the Reston Master Plan Special Study began in December 2010. These meetings have allowed community members and Task Force members opportunity to
- Evaluate current Reston-Herndon Suburban Center Comprehensive Plan recommendations, Reston Community Planning Sector (UP5) recommendations, and 1989 Reston Master Plan
- Develop changes to these recommendations.
The work of the Reston Master Plan Special Study is divided into 3 different types of meeting opportunties for dialogue, education, and recommendation formulation: Task Force meetings, Task Force Sub-Committee meetings, and Community Workshops. All meetings are open to the public.
Task Force Meetings
View the list of Task Force Members
The Task Force has held regular meetings every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of
each month since January 2010. Task Force meetings typically start
at 7pm and may last through 9 or 9:30pm depending on the
agenda.This frequency of Task Force meetings will continue through
June 2010 and change in July as the Dulles Toll Road and Reston
Town Center phase of the Reston Mastser Plan Special Study
transitions from data collection, awareness, and education to the
editing of the Comprehensive Plan text.
- Community members are urged to attend Task Force meetings.
- Time is allocated at the beginning of each meeting for community comment. After the period of community comment, community members can observe the dialogue between Task Force members and learn about the variety of topics that impact the development of the Fairfax Comprehensive Plan as it relates to Reston.
Task Force Sub-Committe Meetings
- Sub-committees have been formed to address the planning and work of the Task Force than requires more resources and time than what is allocated during a standard Task Force meeting.
- Three sub-committees have been formed: (1) Town Center Sub-Committee (2) Communications/Community Engagement Sub Committee and (3) Process Sub-Committee.
- Sub-committees schedule meetings as needed.
- Community workshops give community members their own forum to understand the variety of transit developments, demographic changes, and economic growth that have motivated the review of the current Reston Master Plan.
- Community members also suggest methods to manage impacts and take advantage of opportunities presented by transit development, demographic changes, and economic growth through the Reston Master Plan.
- Ideas, research, and concerns of many community members have been captured since the beginning of the study.


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Monday, October 28, 2013 - 16:04 PM
Chris Adler Meet & Greet TODAY at Columbus Pro Percussion
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John Authers has put up a nice chart from HSBC showing this for equities already. This chart from Keith Fray (usually on the FT Data blog) shows the close link between rising yields and a current account deficit (the outlier in the bottom left is Chile, running a current account deficit but a massive government surplus). Read more


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This article was published 27/7/2013 (1485 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Hello, Winnipeg. Hope you're enjoying the summer. Now please put down that pint of lager, lift your eyes from your iPad and take a bloody look around at the mess around you.
For all the wonderful talk about how far this city has come in recent years, poor decision-making has threatened to boomerang us back into the morass of the mid-1990s.
At the same time Winnipeg is running out of money, it appears insanely desperate to give up future revenues in order to pay for the stuff it has right now.
The city's operating budget — the total amount of money we spend on all municipal services, from policing to plowing snow to killing mosquitoes with malathion — is $922 million. We pay for no less than $483 million of that figure through property taxes, which remain the city's single largest source of revenue.
Like it or not, property taxes are Winnipeg's lifeblood — and not just because they account for 52 per cent of our municipal revenue. As the city grows, which it is doing right now, new properties add to the existing pool of revenue, above and beyond any tax increases legislated by council at budget time.
As most residents are well aware, the cost of delivering services is rising faster than the growth of property taxes and every other revenue stream. Rising salaries and benefits are only part of the problem, as the cost of supplies such as gas are also going up.
At the same time, the city gets less bang for every operating-budget buck it slides over to the capital budget, which is the money spent by the city every year to build new roads, fix bridges, repair buildings and purchase equipment.
Winnipeggers have watched two successive mayors — Glen Murray and Sam Katz — try and largely fail to convince the province and Ottawa to fork over more money for the cash-starved city. Though wildly different in style, Murray and Katz are oddly similar in substance.
But only Katz is presiding over a strange situation where the city keeps mortgaging a portion of its precious future property-tax growth, often with the full co-operation of an equally careless province.
The practice in question is an increasing reliance on unusual versions of tax-increment financing, a financial mechanism that can be extremely beneficial to municipalities who employ it properly and carefully.
A TIF is a tax-incentive plan aimed at sparking development in a blighted area. Generally, owners of vacant or underutilized land or buildings in depressed areas have no incentive to improve their properties if they wind up paying more taxes as the result of increased assessments following the completion of their upgrades.
Under a TIF, property owners who invest in their land, usually by renovating old structures or building up on vacant lots, are not penalized for making improvements. Instead, the additional tax revenue that flows from their developments — the "tax increments" in question — is either reinvested in the same neighbourhood or returned to the developers themselves.
At least that's what's supposed to happen in a pure version of a TIF, which politicians and policy wonks love because the new tax dollars they're spending would not exist if it wasn't for the new developments.
The city and province, unfortunately, have banded together to support a series of TIF-like mechanisms that don't quite conform to the ideal. They may very well deprive the city of future revenue without providing all of the short-term benefits that were advertised.
Chief among them was the pseudo-TIF that helped cover $90 million of the $138-million cost of building the first phase of the Southwest Transitway. The city borrowed all of the cash — $45 million for itself and $45 million on behalf of the province — with the intention of paying back the tab with the help of new tax revenues flowing from the redevelopment of the Fort Rouge Rail Yards, a vacant strip of former industrial land.
The land in question is in the hands of a single developer, Gem Equities, whose owner has a track record of incomplete and unfinished developments. The city has guaranteed a $10-million loan to the company, which has machinery on the Fort Rouge site but has to date missed a series of development deadlines.
In the long term, the city has a plan to reclaim the Fort Rouge Rail Yards should the existing developer fail. But in the meantime, the city is paying interest on the rapid-transit loan and won't be able to realize any new property-tax revenues until new condos and apartments actually materialize along this strip of land.
And of course, that new revenue will pay for the existing 3.6 kilometres of rapid transit and will not help the city in the future — except indirectly, as new high-density housing in Fort Rouge will be cheaper to service in the long term than a new single-family development on the city's fringes.
Of course, the success of the Fort Rouge Rail Yards also depends on the demand for housing in Winnipeg remaining high enough to support similar new high-density projects on the University of Manitoba's Southwood lands and in downtown Winnipeg.
The latter area is home to another, even weirder version of a TIF: The Downtown Residential Development Grant Program, a city-provincial project started up two years ago to spark the construction of new apartments and condos downtown.
In a pure version of a TIF, new property taxes would be returned to these developers. This program, however, offered grants up front, up to a theoretical limit of $40,000 per unit. The plan for the city and province is to recoup this cash from future property and education taxes.
But since the cash was handed out at the outset as a grant, there is additional borrowing and risk at play. The downtown residential program does not require development to take place before the subsidies flow.
This same mechanism is at work in another downtown grant program that pretends to be a TIF: the SHED program, aimed at improving the streetscape in an 11-block area of downtown dubbed the "sports, hospitality and entertainment district" by the folks at CentreVenture.
In a pure TIF, every new development in the so-called SHED would contribute to the project and benefit from it. But this program is aimed at specific developments.
Instead of simply creating market incentives for downtown, the city and province are picking and choosing which specific developments within that market benefit. And the program also results in the same problem: New property taxes from the downtown residential and SHED programs are spoken for in the future.
The proposed Exchange-Waterfront Neighbourhood Development Program, which includes the controversial plan to write $10,000 cheques to condo buyers, has also been sold to politicians as a TIF. But it involves funnelling cash from all new downtown residential projects and spending it in one area —the northeastern third of downtown.
And that's not the only pseudo-TIF at work in Winnipeg. New property-tax revenues flowing from the redevelopment of the former Canad Inns Stadium site in Polo Park are also spoken for, as the first $75 million in city and provincial taxes will help pay for Investors Group Field, Winnipeg's $200-million new football stadium.
Faced with a shortage of revenue, both the city and province have increasingly turned to TIFs, justifying their decisions on the basis they are only spending revenue that wouldn't exist otherwise.
To some degree this is true. But the future use of the mechanism ought to be restricted to only the purest form, where cash gets spent at the back end - not at the outset.


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In separate bowls, soak the shiitake, dried daikon, dried tofu, and lotus root slices in hot water just to cover for 10 to 20 minutes. Reserve the soaking waters from the vegetables, discard tofu soaking water, and combine to equal 1 1/2 cups liquid. If using whole shiitake, remove stems, discard and slice the caps. If using sliced shiitake, simply soak. Chop the daikon and lotus root. Slice or cube the dried tofu.
Layer the shiitake, dried lotus root, dried daikon, dried tofu, onion, parsnip and carrots in a saucepan. Add water to almost cover the ingredients. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 20 minutes. Add shoyu, cover and simmer 5 minutes. Remove cover, add leeks, mix and cook 2 to 3 minutes until most of the remaining liquid is gone.
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Resolutions or Real Promises?
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I've never created a list of my New Year resolutions, but I have made mental notes of a few of those New Year's Day promises. I once promised to eat no bad chocolate. I got months into the year with that one. Another time, I swore to exercise more, or more or less- I've forgotten which it was now.
It seems to me that many of us, regardless of whether we actually produce lists of New Year resolutions (and when we are not joking around about bad chocolate) make promises about things that are acutely relevant, or inspirational, or rewarding, in our private as well as our professional lives.
This year, this "teaching year," I am resolving to be a good observer.
But how could being a good observer benefit my students? And how could observation itself be seen as effective use of my time? Well, let me see...
Can observation bring relevance to the L2 teaching-learning process? Apart from helping the teacher decide on the pace of teaching, the type of material to be studied, and the techniques that can be used, its fruits can suggest the order in which we may want to arrange the material.
Typically, we assign a level of difficulty as well as a "place in line" to a given grammar structure. For example, many of us will introduce the Simple Present before we expose students to "the workings" of the Simple Past. By tradition, the Present is taught earlier because it is structurally easier, and perhaps also psychologically more basic, at least for young children, but it seems rarely to be more experientially relevant than the Past, particularly for older children and adults.
An L2 learner myself, I remember feeling a bit impatient when, in my first English class, it took a couple of months before I was exposed to ways of talking about the past. To my mind, the past tense seemed more pertinent than the present. I had the impression that my classmates and I would speak about the events of yesterday, last week, or last year more frequently than we would talk about what we do regularly or habitually, so we were eager to do the same in English.
Maybe, if I'm a good observer of my students this year, I will notice where their grammar interests, as well as their grammar needs, lie. I realize that teaching should not be guided excessively by such student impressions, but I feel that this impression is worth a second thought and it may help me make my lessons more relevant without making them measurably more difficult in terms of the ordering of grammatical structures.
Can observation bring inspiration? (Well, the two words rhyme anyway!) We know that watching students become genuinely involved in an activity we've prepared can "give us wings" and encourage us to continue creating tasks of a similar sort. But it can also motivate us to try something new or unusual.
I am a fan of discovery-based tasks, and although I realize that they can't be used daily (they tend to be time-consuming) and that not all students feel comfortable with them- some students simply want the teacher to explain all the grammar rules- these tasks do have a place in many classrooms and the results of observation can help us decide if and when such unusual activities might be used.
Also, if we allow students themselves to become observers, they too can draw motivation, even inspiration, from the experience. Discovery-based activities, which involve language learners in close examination of usage material, encourage students to discover language patterns outside the classroom as well; these students usually realize they can become more independent learners.
Another way that students can become inspired by observation involves reflection on their mother tongue. I've noticed that students enjoy describing structures of their native language. (Ask me a question about noun cases of Polish and I'll feel Goosebumps.) Tasks featuring native language descriptions give grammar discussions a special, personal touch. Students "observe" native language usage, and as a result often find studying grammar more naturally interesting.
Can observation be rewarding? I think so. It can show us which of our ideas work and which were "good tries." And I believe that such news is gratifying since it points at what activities we should definitely keep in our folders and which ones need to be rethought (or, if I dare say, "tossed").
I've heard that we are more likely to fulfill our New Year resolutions as "real promises" if they are realistic, valuable, and acted upon immediately. I believe that with effort I can become a good observer this year, and I'm confident that there are material benefits to doing so. Now, all I have to do is act (and soon, I guess!).
How about you? Are you planning any big or small instructional changes this year?
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hajimari no kaze by Ayaka Hirahara (from saiunkoku monogatari)
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hajimari no kaze yo todoke MESSE-JI
"itsu demo anata wo shinjite iru kara"
ano toki yume ni mite ita sekai ni tatte iru noni
miwatasu keshiki ni ashi wo sukoshi sukumase
dakedo ushiro furimukanaide aruite yuku koto kimeta kara
miageta sora nanairo no niji anata mo mite'masu ka?
hajimari no kaze yo todoke MESSE-JI
yume ni kakedashita senaka mimamoru kara
maiagaru kaze yo omoi wo tsutaete
"itsu demo anata wo shinjite iru kara"
habatake mirai e
tatoeba, taisetsu na hito wo mune ni omou toki wa
daremo ga kitto yasashii kao wo shiteru hazu
michi wa toki ni hateshinakutemo akiramezu ni yuku yo
hajimari no kaze yo todoke MESSE-JI
haruka na tabiji no sono saki de matteru
maiagaru kaze yo unmei mo koete
negai wa todoku to shinjirareru kara
itsuka mata aeta nara ano egao misete
hajimari no kaze yo todoke MESSE-JI
haruka na tabiji no sono saki de matteru
maiagaru kaze yo unmei mo koete
negai wa todoku to shinjirareru kara
osoreru mono nado nai "anata ga iru kara"
and here is the English translation:
Wind of beginning, deliver this message:
"Because I will always believe in you"
Though I am now standing in the world that I once saw in a dream
As I look out at the scenery my legs tremble slightly
But I won't look back, because I decided to keep moving forward
The seven colored rainbow I see in the sky, I wonder if you can see it too
Wind of beginning, deliver this message
Because I'll be watching your back as you run after your dream
Wandering wind, carry these feelings
Because I will always believe in you
For all of the future
If someone is thinking about the person they hold dear
No matter who they are they will have a kind look on their face
The path through time is endless, keeping going without giving up
Wind of beginning, deliver this message
I'll be waiting for you at the end of your long journey
Wandering wind surpass your destiny
Because I believe that my feelings will get through to you
Someday, when we meet again, show me your smile
Wind of beginning, deliver this message
I'll be waiting for you at the end of your long journey
Wandering wind surpass your destiny
Because I believe that my feelings will get through to you
There is nothing to fear, because you exist
yes yes i totally agree ! addicting song
I know.. I've herd it so many times i star to sing it in school sometimes ^^ my friends just rolls theyir eyes and smiles at me when I start to sing it :p
Touched by an Angel ✿
Life is like a boat (Bleach)
Karenai Hana (Full metal panic)
Mou sukoshi (Midori no Hibi)
Jikan Yo Tomare (Itazura na kiss)
I even have a compilation of anime songs lyrics... And it's kinda fun memorizing them and getting over and over in each word so i can perfect it...
Beck Mongolian chop squad - OST
Keith(beck) ost
Cowboy bebop - ost's
Zero - World Destruction
Soul Eater ost;s
Kekkaishi ost's
Last exile ost's
Wolf's Rain ost's
Gurren Lagaan osts
Hayao Miyazaki all movie soundtracks
Baccano! ost
gundam 00 ost
Ghost in the shell soundtracks
Samurai champloo soundtracks
I could name more soundtracks with song's but it would take too long I like anime music, but my favorite 1.) favorite song would be [my world down - from the BECK soundtrack].
the world is mine.
Rolling Star - BLEACH
nabari no ou - hikari
be the best
Gintama ~ Shura by Does
Xam'd Lost Memories~ Shut up and Explode by Boom Boom Satellites
These stick out for now
hmm black diamond from utau
crawl from nabari no ou
white destiny from pretear
the world from death note
doubt & trust from d.gray-man
both howling & kakusei heroism from darker than black
go!!! from naruto
you from shuffle!
aikoi(insert song) from tsubasa chronicle
IT'S & blaze from tsubasa chronicle
true light from dnangel
there are probably others... XDDD
i dont necessarily actually like all of these songs, just the fuzzy feeling i get whenever i listen to them.
through the night - outlaw star opening
I'm just going with the flow :)
Friends- soul hunter
Be my Angel- angelic layer
my tomorrow-boys be
Days- eureka 7
te no nake no eien- hatenkou yuugi
there lots more but..ya
my all time fav 4th avenue cafe - samurai x
Another Century's Episode 3 (The Final)
You Raise Me Up, both english and japanse versions, from RomeoXJuliet and <3
You're safe in case of zombie attack, they only want brains
"Akatsuki no Kuruma" from FictionJunction Yuuka
(Gundam Seed)
Alones by Aqua Timez
Chain by Back-on
Pow Right In The Kisser
I've got a bunch of great songs.
I'm Alive by Becca - Kuroshitsuji
Boys and Girls - KHR
Aozora no Namida by Hitomi Takahashi - Blood+
Mosaic Kakera - Code Geass
White Night True Light - DN Angel
Wild Eyes and Hime Murasaki by Nana Mizuki - Basilisk
Uninstall by Chiaki Ishikawa - Bokurano
Sore Ga Ai Deshou by Mikuni Shimokawa - Full Metal Panic Fumoffu
Akatsuki no Kuruma - Gundam Seed
I'll Be The One - Hikaru no Go
たった一つの想い by KOKIA - Gunslinger Girl
Crescendo by Stella Quintet - La Corda D'Oro
Say Hey! and Bon Bon - Lovely Complex
Pre-Parade by Rie Kugimiya - Toradora
Gekidou by UVERworld - D.Gray Man
Chain by Back-On - Air Gear
Some of them I'm not sure who sings them. But I found most of them on LimeWire. Either that of I found them on youtube. If you want any of the mp3 files, pm me. I'll send them.
Bleach opening songz
Shugo Chara openingz
Tsubasa chronicles songz
Naruto songz
Code Geass songz
[̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]Listening2:C'mon Through By Lasse Lindh^ω^
Rinne-Rondo-Vampire Knight Guilty
Blue Bird-Naruto Shippuuden 3rd opening
Hanabi-Bleach 7th ending
Long Kiss GoodBye-Naruto Shippuuden 4th or 5th ending


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I noticed this hotel is a family owned hotel, and they are not good at English,but understandable. They are very kind and their dog is very pretty. I hope I will stay there again. Littel bit noisy because of location.
Has a good access from the city center due to the frequent U2 subway line. The room was simple, while the bathroom was large enough. The supermarket locating next to the hotel is open until 22:00: it's useful.
Reasonable priced, nice staff, taxi from St. Pauli would only charge 14€, clean rooms. Furhter from the city centre than expected (more than 15min in Taxi from St. Pauli or in U-Bahn to the Hauptbanhof).
parking facilities and nearby public transport
Motel 21 was in a pleasant setting and felt quite different from staying in a hotel. We enjoyed staying at Motel 21 very much. Parking was available close to your room which was great and left you feeling more relaxed about security issues. No
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Highlights from Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on 21 December 2012
Our Master, Said Nursi, was a Kurd. We take pride in his Kurdishness. Mevlana Halid was a Kurd, and we take pride in his Kurdishness. Saladin was a Kurd. We take pride in his Kurdishness. They are a blessed people, a most blessed community. Some 70%-80% of scholars and the ulema are Kurds. Great scholars, Islamic scholars, were all Kurds. It was the Islamic madrassas in the southeast that performed the widest-ranging and most profound work. Our Kurdish brothers, Kurdish teachers, and valued Kurdish mujtahid and mujaddid have always been around and have come down to us in the present in that way .
(In its report for 2030 titled 'Alternative Worlds,', the National Intelligence Council, the umbrella organization for all America's intelligence agencies, The National Intelligence Council evaluated Turkey as a member of the Middle East group rather than a Western-facing country, and one in which the Islamic identity predominated. It used to be regarded as a country closer to the West. Various writers from daily Hürriyet have criticized this image of the country.)
That image is something in destiny. They are not talking off the tops of their heads when they say these things. They look at the Torah and the hadiths. The CIA has a special desk. That is the form their view of the historic perspective takes. They have experts made up of rabbis and religious figures. They act in the light of their opinions. In other words, there is a community of people that love and obey the Qur'an. There are statements in the hadiths. The hadiths are along these lines. They see Islamic Unity. They look at how Islamic Unity will develop in the same way that Nostradamus did. There was nothing extraordinary about Nostradamus. The CIA uses the same techniques as Nostradamus; these experts' analyses of events are based on the hadiths of our Prophet (saas). Since they know we will reign across the world, that Islamic Unity will come about, they impart these glad tidings from that perspective. That is what is means.
(Putin has issued a statement that he is opposed to female students in the Caucasus attending school wearing the headscarf.)
He could relax if we had Islamic Unity. His fear is something different. In my view, he is afraid of the bigots.