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Helana Brigman couldn't quite contain her excitement when she called not long ago to say her first cookbook was off the press. LSU Press is the publisher of the book, "The Fresh Table: Cooking in Louisiana All Year Round."
The author is an LSU doctoral candidate who somehow finds time to blog about food, photograph food — she says that's so she can immortalize her plating arrangements before the food is eaten —and write the "Fresh Ideas" column for The Advocate's Food section (see Page 3E).
In her book, which is illustrated with about three dozen of her photographs, she encourages readers to discover seasonal eating, to take advantage of Louisiana's seasonal harvests.
When planning her book, she says she paid "close attention both to seasonal availability and to the availability of our time. … recipes in this book are set up to save time as much as possible while not sacrificing the quality of a dish or its seasonal resources."
Her book is divided by season.
Each season offers recipes for appetizers, entrees, side dishes, desserts and lagniappe, such as cheesy Southern biscuits and Abita molasses beer bread.
There's a chapter on stocking the pantry, plus information on how to use some of the tools and what she calls essential food items and ingredients — like boudin, Cajun seasoning, crawfish, olive oil and vinegars.
That chapter includes recipes for making your own pizza sauce, ravioli pasta dough and pie crust, along with info on such things as how to roll an egg roll, keep chocolate from separating and remove pomegranate seeds
The book closes with a seasonal calendar of menus, a produce availability chart and a listing of Louisiana farmers markets and roadside stands.
I would be remiss in not noting that Helana kindly mentions both Be
th Colvin, The Advocate's assistant Food editor, and me in the book's acknowledgments.
The author says she hopes her book reflects how she approaches cooking daily: "What's affordable, fresh and available." I believe she succeeded. Cheramie Sonnier is The Advocate's Food editor. Her email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I am looking for code for a fundraising thermometer.
I have looked and looked and looked.
I need it to be html and js
Can point me in the right direction.
How do you plan to populate the percentage? Will it be pulled from a db or manually updated? You could easily make a simple vertical div of x pixels in height, then its just a matter of calculating a file inside of that div based on your goal and current amount.
I was looking for the same thing. Not sure if you found your tool. This one seems very good satisfying your needs:
You can thank @quantass; for replying earlier today, made me notice this post
I thought this sounded like something that would be fun to build, so I just went ahead and built something. I'll run you through the process
Ok, first up, since we're talking something that's HTML based, we need a little bit of markup

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You'll notice I've put some values in there for the goal amount and the progress amount. The reason they are unformatted is so it's easier to parse them with JavaScript, we can format them later
These values could have come from a database and inserted on the server side, of course it's possible to update the progress bar of this "thermometer" dynamically too if you were to get new values via AJAX or something like that.
Now that we have some basic markup, we can add some CSS to make it look all pretty (well, pretty is a relative term, I am definitely no designer!).
/* Base thermometer style, this is the slate */
#thermometer {
position: relative;
background: #ddd;
border:1px solid #aaa;
-webkit-border-radius: 12px;
-moz-border-radius: 12px;
-ms-border-radius: 12px;
-o-border-radius: 12px;
border-radius: 12px;
-webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 4px #999, 5px 0 20px #999;
-moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 4px #999, 5px 0 20px #999;
-ms-box-shadow: 1px 1px 4px #999, 5px 0 20px #999;
-o-box-shadow: 1px 1px 4px #999, 5px 0 20px #999;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 4px #999, 5px 0 20px #999;
/* This represents the track of the thermometer, the linear background
with a background size set will generate a line every 5% of the track. */
#thermometer .track {
border: 1px solid #aaa;
position: relative;
margin:0 auto;
background: rgb(255,255,255);
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,rgb(0,0,0)), color-stop(1%,rgb(255,255,255)));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgb(0,0,0) 0%,rgb(255,255,255) 10%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgb(0,0,0) 0%,rgb(255,255,255) 10%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgb(0,0,0) 0%,rgb(255,255,255) 10%);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgb(0,0,0) 0%,rgb(255,255,255) 10%);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgb(0,0,0) 0%,rgb(255,255,255) 10%);
background-position: 0 -1px;
background-size: 100% 5%;
/* The progress indicator (the mercury, if you will) */
#thermometer .progress {
background: rgb(20,100,20);
background: rgba(20,100,20,0.6);
position: absolute;
/* let's position the goal */
#thermometer .goal {
/* just style the amounts a little bit */
#thermometer .amount {
display: inline-block;
padding:0 5px 0 60px;
border-top:1px solid black;
font-family: Trebuchet MS;
font-weight: bold;
/* make sure the progress amount appears on the left side,
this way they progress and goal amounts won't overlap should we reach 100% (or greater) */
#thermometer .progress .amount {
padding:0 60px 0 5px;
position: absolute;
border-top:1px solid #060;
Now, if you were to load this up in your browser right now, we wouldn't see anything too exciting, just the two amounts on either end of this thermometer.
We'll need a little bit of JavaScript to spuce things up.
First up, I realised that we need to format the numbers like currency at some point, so I did a quick google search, since I figured there had to have been a lot of people that have written something to format numbers in JavaScript.
I found this little snippet (I've adapted it a little) on Stack Overflow
//originally from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/149055/how-can-i-format-numbers-as-money-in-javascript
function formatCurrency(n, c, d, t) {
"use strict";
var s, i, j;
c = isNaN(c = Math.abs(c)) ? 2 : c;
d = d === undefined ? "." : d;
t = t === undefined ? "," : t;
s = n < 0 ? "-" : "";
i = parseInt(n = Math.abs(+n || 0).toFixed(c), 10) + "";
j = (j = i.length) > 3 ? j % 3 : 0;
return s + (j ? i.substr(0, j) + t : "") + i.substr(j).replace(/(\\d{3})(?=\\d)/g, "$1" + t) + (c ? d + Math.abs(n - i).toFixed(c).slice(2) : "");
Ok, now that our number formatting is out of the way, we can get on with the good bits.
* Thermometer Progress meter.
* This function will update the progress element in the "thermometer"
* to the updated percentage.
* If no parameters are passed in it will read them from the DOM
* @param {Number} goalAmount The Goal amount, this represents the 100% mark
* @param {Number} progressAmount The progress amount is the current amount
* @param {Boolean} animate Whether to animate the height or not
function thermometer(goalAmount, progressAmount, animate) {
"use strict";
//set up our vars and cache some jQuery objects
var $thermo = $("#thermometer"),
$progress = $(".progress", $thermo),
$goal = $(".goal", $thermo),
//work out our numbers
goalAmount = goalAmount || parseFloat( $goal.text() ),
progressAmount = progressAmount || parseFloat( $progress.text() ),
percentageAmount = Math.min( Math.round(progressAmount / goalAmount * 1000) / 10, 100); //make sure we have 1 decimal point
//let's format the numbers and put them back in the DOM
$goal.find(".amount").text( "$" + formatCurrency( goalAmount ) );
$progress.find(".amount").text( "$" + formatCurrency( progressAmount ) );
//let's set the progress indicator
if (animate !== false) {
"height": percentageAmount + "%"
}, 1200, function(){
else { // we don't always want to animate
"height": percentageAmount + "%"
//call without the parameters to have it read from the DOM
// or with parameters if you want to update it using JavaScript.
// you can update it live, and choose whether to show the animation
// (which you might not if the updates are relatively small)
//thermometer( 1000000, 425610, false );
A fully working example on JS Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/GeekyJohn/vQ4Xn/
I realize the helpfulness of this post to the OP is completely negated by the lateness of the response, but who knows, maybe someone finds this helpful
Wonderful work @AussieJohn ; I'll be diving in to this later to see if I can't learn a ting or two!
Is there a way to convert this script to £ GBP ?
Yeah, absolutely. The only thing you need to do is replace the "$" symbol in the following section:
//let's format the numbers and put them back in the DOM
$goal.find(".amount").text( "$" + formatCurrency( goalAmount ) );
$progress.find(".amount").text( "$" + formatCurrency( progressAmount ) );
great... il try that if i ever get it working.. i got the html in place... but the javascript does not seem to work
ok got it working.. now can i have 2 of these graphs running on the same page but displaying diff ammounts..
You could but you'd have to change a few things around. I'm at work at the moment but I'll take a look at it when I get home.
well im in the UK so am a bit ahead of you in time.. so ill check back tomorrow and see if we got any developements.. thx for the help as this is the best script i have found in a long night of searching and trying of scripts
I've created a new JS Fiddle for this http://jsfiddle.net/GeekyJohn/UpnKF/
Basically I've just changed the CSS/Markup to use classes for "thermometers" and have given the function the ability to take an ID to use as the identifier for a thermometer.
The signature has changed slightly:
function thermometer(id, goalAmount, progressAmount, animate) {
"use strict";
var $thermo = $("#"+id),
The only real difference is that you now call the function with an id as the first parameter.
//call without the parameters to have it read from the DOM
// or with parameters if you want to update it using JavaScript.
// you can update it live, and choose whether to show the animation
// (which you might not if the updates are relatively small)
thermometer("thermo2", 1000000, 425610, false);
Great job my friend... its turned out better than i though of...
thx very much
It's always nice to see the end result of stuff that happens in the forums. Thanks for sharing!
Im back lol..
I have another question for a slight mod on this script...
just now the meters are in a vertical state... could it be designed so the meters are horisontal
Yeah, it was actually quite trivial to do this, mostly there were some CSS changes involved.
I've updated the previously mentioned fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/GeekyJohn/UpnKF/
Here's the approach for anyone that's interested.
Added a class to one of the thermometers to indicate that it should be horizontal.

Referencing the original JS code for the thermometer function, we add 2 more variables:
isHorizontal = $thermo.hasClass("horizontal"),
newCSS = {};
isHorizontal's purpose is pretty obvious, the newCSS object will allow us to specify the new CSS for the progress part of the thermometer since we now need to change the property that is changed dynamically.
Right before we need the new CSS, we set its value:
//decide if we need to affect height or width
newCSS[ isHorizontal ? "width" : "height" ] = percentageAmount + "%";
if (animate !== false) {
$progress.animate( newCSS, 1200, function(){
else {
$progress.css( newCSS );
The new rules are:
.thermometer.horizontal {
margin:100px auto;
.thermometer.horizontal {
.thermometer.horizontal .track {
margin:14px auto;
/* Need to make sure our "track" has the indicators going in the right direction*/
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, right top, color-stop(0%,rgb(0,0,0)), color-stop(1%,rgb(255,255,255)));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(left, rgb(0,0,0) 0%,rgb(255,255,255) 10%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(left, rgb(0,0,0) 0%,rgb(255,255,255) 10%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(left, rgb(0,0,0) 0%,rgb(255,255,255) 10%);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(left, rgb(0,0,0) 0%,rgb(255,255,255) 10%);
background: linear-gradient(to right, rgb(0,0,0) 0%,rgb(255,255,255) 10%);
background-size: 5% 100%;
.thermometer.horizontal .progress {
.thermometer.horizontal .goal {
.thermometer.horizontal .amount {
position: absolute;
padding:0 5px 50px 5px;
border-left:1px solid black;
.thermometer.horizontal .progress .amount {
border-right:1px solid #060;
Again.. thx for your work.. ill give the code a testing soon.. works crazy just now but soon as its done ill drop a link.. thx
As mentioned in my last post.. here is the meter in its final placing on my site...
Thank you again for some top class work...
This is an awasome bit of coding.. thx
I just found this code and it's just what I've been looking for. And it's a very elegant-looking thermometer, so I'd like to use it on my site. Sorry for asking such a dumb question, but I really just have a basic understanding of coding. How do I set this up on my server? Does the html and javascript code go into the same file? And does the CSS code go into its own file? And, if so, what should the .css file be named? Again, sorry for asking such rudimentary questions. I wasn't able to figure it out on my own when I tried to use the code. Thanks for any help you can provide to a true novice!
You can put all the JavaScript and CSS in the same document - helpful if you're only going to implement this on 1 page.
A common solution is to place all CSS and JavaScript in external files so that if you want to reuse it on multiple pages it is easy to keep the code in sync and makes sure the files are cached between pages (which means less bytes to download for users)
Let's take the latter approach - Here is a sample HTML file - we'll assume that the CSS is in thermo.css and the JavaScript is in thermo.js
<!DOCTYPE html>

<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="thermo.css" />

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354680

You might need to make some changes to the CSS to make sure the thermometer is positioned correctly on your site - but it should be fairly minimal I imagine.
Hope this helps you implement it

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ATI's Avivo vs. NVIDIA's PureVideo: De-Interlacing Quality Comparedby Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/5/2005 9:00 AM EST
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ST - Thursday, October 06, 2005 - linkAny chance you can get 1080i deinterlacing tests in the future? 480i source material is fine, but with OTA HDTV widely available now, and the 7800gt/gtx line flaunting HD spatial temporal deinterlacing, i'm sure this is what most readers want to know about. Reply
ksherman - Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - linkI installed PureVideo, but what players actually take advantage of it? Reply
rbV5 - Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - linkIts nice to see detailed looks into a vastly overlooked area of video card performance. Kudos for using a standard to measure by, now if we see more of this type of scrutiny from more reviewers perhaps we'll actually get to see these features enabled rahter than reading about how great its going to be some day.
Now lets take a good look at connectivity, custom resolution support, 1:1 pixel mapping, codec support...... Reply
LoneWolf15 - Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - link
quote:nVidia already fooled me with this once. They called it PureVideo and I bought a Geforce 6800 AGP and waited eagerly for driver support that never came for hardware decode of HD WMV files (or hardware encode of MPEG), because the NV40/45 design was borked. nVidia left every single user that bought an NV40/45 card in the lurch. No recourse. So everyone who bought one with the hope of using PureVideo was screwed.
Despite what ATI told us at our Avivo briefing last month (although ATI insists it was a miscommunication), H.264 decode acceleration is not launching alongside the R5xx GPUs. ATI is committed to bringing both H.264 decode acceleration and transcode assist by the end of the year, but for now, we have no way of testing those features.
Not making that mistake again with any company. If a feature isn't supported at the time I purchase a product, that feature doesn't exist. I'm not going to believe press releases anymore, seeing as touted features can be revoked if drivers or hardware don't work out right. Never again.
Note: I now own an ATI X800XL, and have nothing against ATI or nVidia other than that I 'm too cynical to believe either of them on any feature until I see that feature in action. Reply
Lifted - Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - linkI was thinking the exact same thing. Never again will I by something that will have features added at a later date. This is just a marketing tactic because they already know the hardware won't handle what they promised. Reply
Patman2099 - Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - linkIs it just me, or is there no mention in the article of what Deinterlacing option they used on the ATI board
you can change it in CCC, Ive found that the Adaptive looks best on my radeon 9700.
which deinterlaxing mode was used?
Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - linkI just amended the article to include this information:
"Both the ATI and NVIDIA drivers were set to auto-detect what de-interlacing algorithm the hardware should use. We found that this setting yielded the best results for each platform in the HQV benchmark."
If I forced the adaptive or motion adaptive settings, some of the HQV tests did worse, while none improved in image quality.
Take care,
Anand Reply
user loser - Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - linkAm I the only one that thinks the NV version of "De-Interlacing Quality: Vertical Detail" (page 3) is worse? Some of the red/green alternating lines are completely green or lose detail.
Compare to the original:
And how often do the different film cadence modes get used really ? (However, they get the same amount of points (weight) as some more elementary tests.) And I can't tell the functional difference between ATI/NV in the second image in page 9 "De-Interlacing Quality - Mixed 3:2 Film With Added Video Titles".
Or are the reasons for these differences only visible in moving video?
TheSnowman - Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - link[quote] And I can't tell the functional difference between ATI/NV in the second image in page 9 "De-Interlacing Quality - Mixed 3:2 Film With Added Video Titles".
Or are the reasons for these differences only visible in moving video?[/quote]
Nah, de-interlacing artfacts would always turn up in the proper still framegrab and be easier to see that way as well, but I can't see any de-interlacing artfacts on any of the shots that are claimed to have such issues so am at a loss to understand the author's conclusions on that page. The first ATI shot does show some nasty compression for some reason or another, but I don't see any of interlacing issues in the shots on that page from either ATI or Nvidia. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - linkIt's tough to see here, but those are actually supposed to be interlacing artifacts. They appear as compression artifacts here, but in motion you get a very clear lined pattern.
Take care,
Anand Reply
intellon - Thursday, October 06, 2005 - linkOne thing about the guitar strings... Are you sure that they are artifacts and not the texture of the guitar strings? I do agree with one thing, they kinda look extreme... Reply
TheSnowman - Friday, October 07, 2005 - linkIt is an acoustic base guitar and those do tend to use some pretty massive copper wound strings, but yeah I don't see anything that looks like interlacing artifacts in those shots.
Regardless, thanks for the update Anand and I'll check back to see how things turn out. The next card I buy will most likely be for my media center so de-interlacing quality is on my priority list.
TheSnowman - Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - linkI don't follow, the text at the bottom which the test askes to be compared defiantly doesn't show any interlacing artifacts in the posted pics while compression artifacts are mostly in the top right of the image and on the hands. The text does look a bit sharper on Nvidia, but best I can tell that is just from appling a sharpening fliter as that seems to be pretty obviously the case in the last shot with the fingers on piano keys and the slight shifts in geometry than can be seen there.
Also, since the compression artifacts only appear in the first ATI shot, I can't help but wonder if that came about from downsampling as the jpg to under 40mb which nearly a quarter of what a full quality jpg of that resolution would be. Regardless, I am curious to see any further explnation of de-interlacing issues with the new r5xx chips as I would hate to try and upgrade my media center card only to wind up with worse de-interlacing than on my current r420 based card. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - linkThe text itself is fine, it is the background image where the interlacing artifacts are seen. I'll see if I can get a better screen grab tonight.
Take care,
Anand Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, October 06, 2005 - linkApparently ATI isn't seeing what I'm seeing, so the issues may have been a driver problem, I will update you guys as soon as I have a driver/fix for the situation.
Take care,
Anand Reply
vailr - Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - linkNewer driver version?
Ati Catalyst 8.18 beta:
http://www.station-drivers.com/forum/viewtopic.php...">http://www.station-drivers.com/forum/viewtopic.php... Reply
Live - Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - link
For now, be sure to read our technology and gaming performance coverage on ATI's Radeon X1000 line.
I would if I could. Quit teasing us and give as the real deal, lol. Reply
cirrhosis - Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - linkINQ has benchies already. Not a surprise. Cards are matched. Reply
Hacp - Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - linkGRAKK! Reply
cirrhosis - Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - linkInteresting. Here's hoping that ATI improves on what they've started. Looking forward to the comoing months and what they bring. Reply


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Transport Minister, Edwina Hart, has given the go-ahead to continue with the additional rail services between Fishguard and Carmarthen following a review of the three-year experimental service introduced in 2011.
Feedback from the local community, passengers and business on the extra five return services has been positive and research shows these additional services have brought economic and social benefits.
The Minister has now agreed to extend the service until the end of the current franchise in 2018.
"The extra services between Fishguard and Carmarthen have been very popular with passengers, helped improve access to services and provided a boost for tourism and other local businesses," she said.
"The results of surveys with passengers, the local community and businesses point to a need for these extra services. These services have made it easier for people to access hospital services, have improved tourism to Pembrokeshire and have helped reduce reliance on cars."
All stations in Pembrokeshire served by the services have experienced increased usage, with passenger numbers to Fishguard, Goodwick and Fishguard Harbour stations doubling since the introduction of the additional trains in 2011.
More than 60 per cent of passengers surveyed said they would not have been able to make their intended journey without the additional services. Businesses reported that the extra trains helped attract visitors to the area which saw increased usage of the coastal path and ferries to and from Ireland.
Cllr Rob Lewis, Cabinet Member for Transportation, said "The announcement by the Minister that the additional rail services to Fishguard are to continue is much welcomed and provides a much needed boost to the County.
"The additional services have resulted in significant increases in the number of people travelling to the area providing many benefits to the local economy, environment and social inclusion."
Stephen Hale Chair of the North Pembrokeshire Transport Forum said: "The North Pembrokeshire Transport forum is truly delighted that the enhanced train service to Fishguard and Goodwick is to continue. We are grateful to have been given the opportunity to demonstrate the positive benefits to the local economy and community that the additional trains have provided over the past three years.
We are pleased that the enhanced train service will continue to reduce the isolation felt by rural north Pembrokeshire and will work with our partners to ensure these services assist in strengthening the local economy, in particular the important tourist industry."
Jeremy Martineau Honorary Secretary of the Chamber of Trade and Tourism said: "This is great news and a sensible decision as we work hard at the regeneration of the area. Being able to travel by train is a boon to local residents, adds a significant opportunity to holiday makers and connects us to the rest of Wales in an environmentally responsible way. We have been pleased to help with the research which has advised the Minister to take the right decision for our entire community."


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All Muslims known for their devotion to Allah's religion and determination on His path, sincerity and purity have been subjected to actual and verbal assaults from unbelievers. Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, the Great Renewer of the 13thcentury who encountered hostility from atheistic circles in the recent past and who lived with great fortitude in the face of oppression and trouble right up until the end of his life, is one important example in this regard. Bediuzzaman, who called on people to appreciate the existence and boundless might of Allah, to reflect on the proofs of Creation in the universe, and to live by the moral precepts of the Qur'an, was subjected to slanders by people opposed to religious moral values, just like all the messengers sent over the course of history. Even though he was the Great Renewer of the 13th century he was not recognized as a renewer by the society in which he lived. Indeed, some scholars of the time failed to realize just what a superior and blessed individual he was, and opposed him and slandered him in various ways.
For these reasons, Bediuzzaman spent much of his life in prison or in exile. This worthy personage was never fully appreciated in his own time, and certain circles that wished to eliminate his wisdom-filled works attacked him with all the force at their disposal. Instead of benefiting from this worthy person's thoughts and ideas, they aimed to silence him.
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi is one of the greatest Islamic scholars of the 20th century. Throughout his 87 years of life he told people about Islam and waged a great intellectual struggle against materialist philosophy and the opponents of religious moral values and spiritual matters. His giant, 6000-page Risale-i Nur Collection is both a profound commentary on the Qur'an and also a magnificent masterpiece that demolishes materialist philosophy and reveals the signs leading to faith in an exceedingly wise manner. In his works, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi expounded on a great many subjects, including the Hereafter, death, destiny, faith and the evils of worldly desires, giving a great many wise examples and employing a profound and effective style. This sincere and wise style was a means whereby thousands of people came to believe in Allah and to deepen their faith.
In this intellectual struggle he waged in order to call people to Qur'anic moral values and to the true faith, one of the main obstacles that confronted Bediuzzaman Said Nursi was circles that regarded materialist philosophy and opposition to religious morality as a way of life. These circles made intense efforts to achieve their objective of "establishing a society far removed from religious moral values." Bediuzzaman Said Nursi demolished such baseless philosophies, revealed that religion was not incompatible with reason and knowledge but that on the contrary it brought them together, and initiated a huge spiritual awakening in society. He describes his intellectual struggle and one of its important objectives in these terms:
... But flowers appear in the spring, and the ground has to be prepared for sacred flowers such as that. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen, p. 189)
I believe I am a servant of this wondrous person who will appear in the future, a rear-guard to set a background for him, and a pioneering soldier of that great commander...(Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Barla Addendum, p. 162)
As Bediuzzaman's words make clear, he describes himself as a private soldier preparing the way for holy individuals, in other words for the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as). The lies and slanders set forth in order to hinder him during the time in which he lived are without doubt the most important indications of the greatness and significance of his intellectual struggle. The fact that some of these slanders are still brought up today shows how great the influence of his work is.
Circles made uneasy by the way Bediuzzaman described the existence of Allah and the importance of patriotic and spiritual values used various press organs they controlled to spread the most unlikely slanders against him. One newspaper, for instance, slandered Bediuzzaman by accusing him of "making money by deceiving the naïve." (Daily Cumhuriyet, May 10, 1935)At another time that same newspaper published the untrue report that "Said Nursi is not someone to be considered important at all. He is someone whose aim is to accrue material and spiritual advantages."
Bediuzzaman, who expected nothing from this world, possessed no goods or property, who described himself as one who made a career out of humility (Letters, p. 456)and lived an exceedingly modest life, was actually subjected to such totally unjust slanders as "squeezing money out of his students" or "satisfying his lust for leadership," which were totally at odds with the true facts. For certain circles the aim behind these ugly slanders was to make Bediuzzaman "ineffective, untrustworthy and unheeded." These slanders are similar to those made against the prophets in the past. The prophets were also accused of using the religion for their own gain. As a result of these slanders Bediuzzaman was sentenced to jail and sent to Eskisehir prison. Released from Eskisehir, he was detained in a room in a house opposite the police station in Kastamonu. Eight years later he was sentenced to 20 months' imprisonment by the Denizli Court, after which he was sent to Emirdag for "compulsory habitation."
While all this was going on, he was oppressed and tortured, and also poisoned several times. In later years, despite being old and sick, he was deliberately kept in cold, damp and airless cells. However, he responded to all this oppression with patience and submission, and everyone witnessed just how deep his faith and devotion to Allah were.
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi was also accused of "madness," another of the examples cited in the Qur'an. In 1908 he was again sent to court on trumped-up grounds, and the medical committee assigned by the court reported that he was "mentally unbalanced." In the mental hospital to which he was later transferred, the doctor emphasized the groundlessness of that diagnosis after speaking with him, saying, "If this man is mad, then there are no sane people in the world." (Necmettin Sahiner, Bilinmeyen Yonleriyle Bediuzzaman Said Nursi [The Unknown Aspects of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi], pp. 89-95)Frequent accusations of madness were later made against Bediuzzaman in press publications belonging to the circles in question.
Another of the slanders made against Bediuzzaman and his students appeared in one of the daily papers of the time in a series of articles called "Exploiters of Faith." The series repeated the slanders of the unbelievers in the Qur'an and said that Said Nursi's students had been bewitched; it was said "they are devoted to him solely out of religious fanaticism, their eyes can see nothing else, they have became devoid of understanding." (Daily Cumhuriyet, April 21, 1964)
All the accusations made against such a great Islamic thinker as Bediuzzaman and his students are exactly the same as the slanders uttered against believers in the past. We are told in the Qur'an how believers living in the past who followed the messengers sent by Allah were subjected to such foul and baseless slanders as limited reason and shallowness of view:
When they are told, "Believe in the way that the people believe," they say, "What! Are we to believe in the way that fools believe?" No indeed! They are the fools, but they do not know it. (Surat al-Baqara, 13)
The ruling circle of those of his people who disbelieved said, "We do not see you as anything but a human being like ourselves. We do not see anyone following you but the lowest of us, unthinkingly. We do not see you as superior to us. On the contrary, we consider you to be liars." (Surah Hud, 27)
The fact is, however, Bediuzzaman and the believers around him were pure, rational and sincere people with a powerful faith in Allah. They behaved in the light of reason, conscience and the moral values of the Qur'an. Those who slandered them were in fact perfectly well aware of this. In fact none of these slanders could do Bediuzzaman and those around him any harm. On the contrary, as in the case of all other believers, the patience and submission they displayed in the face of these incidents, by Allah's leave, became a means to increase their spiritual maturity and devotion to Allah.
Another of the imputations made against Bediuzzaman was that he supposedly propagated his own personal religious conception and indoctrinated those around him towards that so-called perverted faith. The aim of this provocation, which maintained that Bediuzzaman did not adhere to the Qur'an and the Sunnah of our Prophet (saas), but had established a religion according to his own lights, was to incite the public and certain religious circles who were not fully informed of all the relevant details, and thus to misrepresent Bediuzzaman to them.
However, this slander by the unbelievers also served no purpose because rational Muslims of good conscience clearly saw that this accusation of so-called "perversion" against Bediuzzaman was similar to that issued against the Prophet Noah (as) in the Qur'an, "... We see you in flagrant error."(Surat al-A'raf, 60)
In the Risale-i Nur, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi described the good and auspicious aspects of the prison sentence he was given as a result of the slanders made against him and of the troubles inflicted on him:
Then they arrested me during the most intensely cold days of winter on some trite pretext, and put me into solitary confinement in prison in a large and extremely cold ward, leaving me two days without a stove. Having been accustomed to light my stove several times a day in my small room, always having live coals in the brazier, with my illness and weakness I was only able to endure it with difficulty. While struggling in this situation suffering from both a fever from the cold, and a dreadful distress and anger, through Divine grace a truth unfolded in my heart. It uttered the following warning to my spirit: "You called prison the 'Madrasa-i Yusufiya' - the School of the Prophet Joseph (as). And while in Denizli, things like relief a thousand times greater than your distress, and spiritual profit, and the other prisoners there benefiting from the Risale-i Nur, and its conquests on a larger scale, all made you offer endless thanks instead of complaining. They made each hour of your imprisonment and hardship like ten hours' worship, and made those passing hours eternal." (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Flashes, The Twenty-sixth Flash, Fifteenth Hope)
In another extract, Bediuzzaman described how believers around him who were exposed to the same slanders and oppression were unaffected by these incidents and did not fall into despair:
With all their stratagems, the dissemblers' attacks these last ten months and their getting hold of an official has not shaken even the youngest student... such slanders from such people have virtually no effect on us, and, Allah willing, they will cause no harm to the Risale-i Nur circle... (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Letters, Fourteenth Ray)
The attitude displayed by Bediuzzaman and the people of faith around him in the face of difficulties, slander and misrepresentation is the kind of which that all Muslims must adopt as a role model. In the Qur'an, Allah reminds us of the kind of moral values to be adopted in the face of unbelievers' snares:
Be patient. But your patience is only by Allah. Do not be grieved by them and do not be constricted by the plots they hatch. Allah is with those who have fear of Him and with those who are good-doers. (Surat an-Nahl, 127-128)


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Mariners hit hard by Astros, injury
SEATTLE -- The Mariners lost a game, a series and maybe a little bit more.
Wednesday's 8-3 defeat to the Houston Astros, who had entered Safeco Field with a record of 1-6 and at the bottom of the American League West, cost the Mariners a key home series within their division, but it also might have cost them something that could be far more valuable -- at least for a little while.
Outfielder Michael Saunders, one of the team's most improved players over the last year and an integral part of the top of the batting order, sprained his right shoulder while making a lunging catch at the right-field wall to rob the first batter of the game, Astros second baseman Jose Altuve, of extra bases.
Saunders stayed on the outfield grass while being attended by medical staff and walked off slowly with his right arm hanging limply at his side. The early prognosis was for Saunders to miss "some time," possibly a disabled list stint, although Mariners manager Eric Wedge said after the game that he was holding out hope that the DL could be avoided.
Nevertheless, it was a big blow in the literal and figurative sense.
"I thought if anything, it should have given us momentum," Seattle shortstop Brendan Ryan said. "A guy, first play of the game, makes a play like that and he goes down, it should be about making that play worth something.
"Aside from him getting hurt, momentum's on our side. Let's use it and hope he's OK. It didn't work out that way."
And it didn't take long.
The Astros strung together two big innings early, scoring three times in the second against Mariners starter Blake Beavan, with the key hit being a two-run home run to center field by Houston outfielder Rick Ankiel. The Astros scored twice more in the third, with Carlos Pena singling in a run and J.D. Martinez doubling in another.
Beavan, who struggled in his 2013 debut in a no-decision in Chicago, did the best he could by sticking around for 5 2/3 innings and 102 pitches, and his scoreless work in the fourth and fifth at least allowed the Mariners to get within 5-2 on a homer by Kelly Shoppach in the third and a Shoppach RBI double off the top of the wall in the fifth.
"You've got to be a little smarter out there and get back to what I was doing the second half of last year, which was using my slider in and out to lefties, dropping my curveball in there when I needed it to, and putting my changeup in the back pocket for when I needed to shake things up," Beavan said.
Franklin Gutierrez got some momentum going for the Mariners and the crowd of 10,493 by leading off the bottom of the sixth with a home run that chased Astros starter Brad Peacock, but Houston seized the momentum right back in the seventh against Seattle reliever Carter Capps.
Jason Castro hit a one-out double and Chris Carter hit a monstrous two-run home run to left-center field, Carter's third blast in the last two games.
Lefty reliever Bobby LaFromboise made his Major League debut for the Mariners, pitching a scoreless top of the ninth.
Now the Mariners must figure out how they'll proceed without Saunders for the immediate future, and how they'll bounce back from a disappointing two games in which the Astros outscored them, 24-12, and racked up 37 hits in two games.
"I'm happy with the way things are coming along," Houston manager Bo Porter said. "That's why there was no panic, no worry. We believe in these guys in this clubhouse. They've proven to me and the rest of the staff they are going to hit, and baseball's just one of those games you want to live with the ups and the downs. You just want to continue to pitch the way we've been pitching and play solid defense, because we know the hitting is going to come and go."
Wedge, for one, won't be sad to see the Astros go, even though the team was lightly regarded coming in.
"It's the Major Leagues," Wedge said. "I've said it before. If we play like we're capable of playing, we can beat anybody. If we don't, anybody can beat us. It's as simple as that."
Doug Miller is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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This article was published 24/9/2013 (1428 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Today's message is brought to you by former NFL head coach, turned analyst, Herm Edwards, who way back in 2002 reminded everyone that you "play to win the game." You don't play not to lose, you don't play to tie, and you don't play to bide for more time. You play to win the game.
It has gotten to the point that being critical of the Bombers is akin to piling on. After the nature of the loss that they suffered on Friday, there is nothing to be gained by heaping more criticism and damnation on top of a 2 and 10 record. It speaks loudest by itself. So let's call this piece a suggestion box, and a difference of opinion, instead of simply a condemnation.
In any game that is lost in the final minutes, or in overtime, there is a sequence of events that the observers of the game wish they had back. "If only the team had done this, at this time, and this way, things might have worked out differently." Such is the beauty of second guessing and critiquing after the fact, you are never proven wrong because the exact scenario can never be recreated.
In Friday's game, though, a game where at one point the Blue and Gold were up twenty to zippity do dah, all anybody wants back are the twenty something seconds that were left on the clock, in the fourth quarter, with the ball on the thirty. That was the moment when the team decided to kneel down for two consecutive plays and wait for overtime to come.
I think I understand the thought process of what happened next. Their starting quarterback had recently gotten hurt, they were at least forty yards away from rouge territory, and Justin Goltz had two reps under his belt. They had less than zero momentum after giving up a late field goal and an improbable catch, and the coach admitted he figured they could rally in overtime.
Yet if there is one thing Bomber fans and observers have come to realize over the years, it is that any amount of time is enough time. It was enough for Milt Stegall to catch a Kevin Glenn prayer on the last play of the game and defeat the Eskimos, and it was enough time for Travis Lulay and Darian Durant to orchestrate drives to beat Winnipeg twice last year. When there is enough time to hope, there is enough time to try.
The absolute last thing you can do, when on offence with an opportunity in front of you to win the game, is worry about losing. The reason you have an offence in the first place is to advance the ball and score points. If you are worried about turning the ball over at the end of the game and losing, then put the defence back out on the field.
No matter who was playing quarterback, the chances of completing two passes are greater than the odds of an interception. Sure, the comeback wasn't probable, it wasn't likely to happen, but they had a better chance of hitting two throws and kicking a ball through the endzone for a single point than a pick and return that put the opposition in scoring range. After the game I told Goltz that he should have changed the call that came in from the sidelines and just gone for it. It could have been a sequence of plays that forever changed the perception of his arm accuracy. And who knows, had they allowed Boltus to enter the game like he was supposed to, he could have been that guy who began an illustrious career with the Blue and Gold after completing his first two passes ever, that put the team in position to win by a single point. Throw the ball once to Aaron Kelly, and then to Terrance Edwards. One of them has been catching everything in his postal code since he got here, and the other is as clutch a receiver as Winnipeg has. No matter what happened as a result, how can you be faulted for trying to win the game?
When you play not to lose, not only does the opposite usually happen, but you leave everyone wondering about what might have been. And in a season like what we are going through, it makes you wonder, what exactly did they have to lose?
Doug Brown, once a hard-hitting defensive lineman and frequently a hard-hitting columnist, usually appears Tuesdays and the days following game days in the Free Press.
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THE facial injuries suffered by Marlon Samuels in the Big Bash League this month have kept the all-rounder out of the West Indies' squad to tour Australia.
Samuels was an absentee from the 15-man squad named on Wednesday to arrive on Australia Day, as he has been sidelined since being struck by a Lasith Malinga delivery while playing for the Melbourne Renegades against the Melbourne Stars at the MCG on January 6.
Samuels is understood to be still in Melbourne, as he must front a Cricket Australia hearing over his report for clashing with Shane Warne during that match.
Samuels is expected to return to the Caribbean next week to continue his recovery.
The West Indies at least regained some experience in Dwayne Bravo, who was named vice-captain after overcoming the injuries that kept him out of last year's tour of Bangladesh. Veteran batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan was also recalled.
The West Indies will play five one-day internationals and a Twenty20 in Brisbane and start their tour with a match against the Prime Minister's XI in Canberra on January 29. The ODIs start in Perth on February 1, with the MCG to host the fifth game on February 10.
West Indies squad: Darren Sammy (capt), Dwayne Bravo, Tino Best, Darren Bravo, Johnson Charles, Narsingh Deonarine, Chris Gayle, Jason Holder, Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Kieran Powell, Kemar Roach, Andre Russell, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Devon Thomas.


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I've already planned my #WIAW post for tomorrow…but it's very vegified 🙂 [As always…]
Oh, and…great idea 😉
haha thanks girly! I should have totally posted this earlier — but you're a little veggie monster like me so just keep up the good work! =)
I've gone nuts with the veggies the last few days. Much needed after an indulgent weekend… 😉
LOVE this idea!!
This will be easy since I have been eating a mass amounts of veggies lately. With my insane appetite and calorie needs while breastfeeding I have been trying to eat lots of veggies to help me stay fuller longer.
Mmmm…veggies! I've been really upping my veggie intake this last month or so, I feel like it's helped my general winter disposition! I'm much much happier!
That's awesome! Go Lindsay! =) I'd love if you added more about breastfeeding and the need for more calories/veggies in your wiaw posts for veggie month! I'm sure your readers and anyone new visiting from the party would love to hear more. Anything your comfortable sharing of course! =) xoxo
Thats awesome Leanne!!! I've never thought of it that way — but I guess they really do help keep our moods up during "S.A.D" season! Rock on girly!
Hey Jen! It's been too long! Hope you're doing well! I think your WIAW veg-addition is a great idea!
ahhh Hey stranger!!! Thanks for stopping by Erin! I've been awful at keeping in touch but I still keep tabs on ya — congrats x100000001 girl! <3 so so excited for you and your family!
I love veges! This will be my first time sharing what I ate. I'm excited 😀
Hehe! I love it. Tomatoes, mmm, cabbage, kale, cucumbers, mushrooms… Vegetarian in heaven!
This is a great idea! I am loving this month's focus around veggies because honestly we could all eat more of them!
This is perfect timing as I bought a beautiful orange pepper the other day and then picked up some other veggies for the express use in a stirfry starring the pepper!! I also have an idea for seasoning it. And I have a zuchhini recipe 🙂
Want to know something funny? My biggest veg meal of the day (which was a huge salad for dinner)…totally forgot to snap the pic for tomorrow. Ha!
great idea 🙂
I Loooooove this idea!!! Unfortunately work has been CRAZY and photographing and blogging have fallen to the backburner. But I can't wait for NEXT week's WIAW – it will be SO veggi-ful!!
girrrrl I cannot wait to see what you have in store next week! Hope you can sneak a relaxing weekend in there too! =)
haha such is life! <3 happens to me all. the. time! Why don't you talk about some of your favorite veggies to add to salads or most frequent salad combos? Something veg-tastic like that? =) Love you!!!
whoohoo!!! I'm so jealous — good peppers dont exist in my neck of the woods yet – enjoy chica! and then whip up a lovely veg-filled post for us to drool over! =) mwah!
Great idea! And I have spaghetti squash that will be perfect for this!
Awesome idea, Jenn! The world needs more veggies.
a fantastic idea! I try to have at least 2 servings of veggies for both lunch and dinner. lucky for me, I have two meals from this past week I can include in this!
I really need some motivation in the veggie department, so this will be great!
What a fun idea! Good thing I've procrastinated (as usual) and haven't put together my post yet. (:
I am so excited for this month! Veggies are my favorite 🙂
Eeps! I didn't do the bit about the veggies. But I did eat a lot of veggies this past week. I'll be better about it and pick it up next week and feature those yummliciousness vegetables 🙂
Totally my fault for forgetting the first few days of the month and announcing it late — Can't wait to read your wiaw this week and your veggie wiaw next week! =) xoxo
Love my microwave veggie/rice steamer. Love to have a big tupperware filled with a green salad to start my week…or at all times.
What a great way to get more veggies in! I love all of your healthy, fresh recipes.
Thanks for the FB friend add, I am definitely looking forward to more of your recipes.


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Di Dale, the principal and chief executive of Wiltshire College, has left the college.
She had been off sick for some time but staff were told today that she had departed.
A statement from Wiltshire College said: "Following a decision by the governors, Di Dale, principal and chief executive has left Wiltshire College.
"A new senior management team (SMT) is now in place under the leadership of acting principal Amanda Burnside.
"The focus of the SMT and all staff at the college is meeting the needs of all our learners and continuing to improve the student experience.
"Amanda joined the College in January 2014 from Swindon College, ranked by Ofsted as outstanding and has a wealth of experience from both the FE and private sector.
"The college is also delighted to announce the appointment of Iain Hatt who joins from Exeter College, also rated by Ofsted as outstanding as vice principal of curriculum and quality."
Helen Birchenough, chairman of governors, said: "I would like to take this opportunity to thank Di Dale for her hard work over many years at the college.
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Like the presidential pardon of the Thanksgiving turkey or baseball's ceremonial first pitch, the First Bracket is now a Washington institution. So it was inevitable that it would become politicized.
This year the criticism started even before President Barack Obama announced his picks for the men's college basketball tournament: Congress is still waiting for the president to deliver his budget, Republicans said, yet he has the time not only to handicap 68 National Collegiate Athletic Association teams, but also to tape a segment with ESPN breaking down his selections?
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If the act of filling out a bracket is inherently political, it's nothing compared with the completed bracket itself. Our brackets are ourselves. They are less a quiz of basketball knowledge - no matter how much college hoops you watched this year, you are guaranteed to lose your office pool to someone who thinks a "Diaper Dandy" is a maternity gift - than a fill-in-the-blank Rorschach test.
Are you an idealist, the sort who bets big on your alma mater or your hometown team? Or a nostalgist, doubling down on a resurgent powerhouse from your youth? (I'm looking at you, La Salle.) Or maybe you're a big-risk, big-reward guy, the type who looks at Southern University (16) versus Gonzaga (1) and thinks, no-brainer. Historically, Obama has done none of these things. He has filled out his bracket a lot like he has governed: dispassionately, and with a clear aversion to risk.
Obama's first public bracket, released during the 2008 campaign, was a model of caution. (Not unlike his vice presidential pick a few months later.)
It included not a single 12th-seed upset of a fifth seed. His Final Four were UCLA, Kansas, North Carolina and Pittsburgh: three No. 1s and one No. 4. That was not Change You Can Believe In. It was a statement of support for the status quo.
The trend continued through Obama's first term. In 2010 - after opting not to offer a second stimulus package, dropping the idea of a government-run health-insurance plan and deciding to keep the Guantanamo Bay prison open after all - the president picked the country's top two teams, Kansas and Kentucky, to square off in the championship. The following year, his Final Four consisted of all No. 1 seeds.
Obama's brackets might be so bland in part because he's really more of a professional sports fan. President Bill Clinton, an Arkansas native, had his Razorbacks. But Obama - who grew up in Hawaii, attended college in California and New York, and spent most of his adult life in Chicago - doesn't seem to have any strong college-sports allegiances. (For what it's worth, the University of Hawaii's Rainbow Warriors haven't made the NCAA tournament since 2002.)
Ultimately, Obama's NCAA brackets reveal a pragmatist. A couple of years ago, the president's Elite Eight featured only one surprise - the favorite of Washington's Elite, Georgetown. In the midst of last year's re-election campaign, as political pundits never tired of pointing out, three of Obama's Final Four picks were from swing states.
Obama's prudence has served him well as a politician. It has been less successful as a bracket strategy: He hasn't picked a winner since North Carolina in 2009.
So going into this year's tournament, with his last presidential campaign behind him, there was hope that Obama would free his inner Barack-etologist. Forget those tiresome debates about whether Obama will use his second term to push hard for immigration reform or to strike a "grand bargain" on the federal budget. We might finally get to know the answers to more important questions, such as what the president really thinks about Duke.
Now that Obama has made his bracket public, we know those hopes were misplaced, even misguided. After all, he's still a politician, and he has the congressional midterms - not to mention his legacy - to worry about. What's more, he's still Obama.
"I'm going with Louisville," he said on ESPN, referring to one of the two teams - both No. 1 seeds - that he picked for the championship game. "I know it's not a surprise pick." (NCAA bashers might at least take some pleasure in his tacit endorsement of Louisville coach Rick Pitino.)
One of Obama's alma maters - 14th-seeded Harvard, where he went to law school - plays the University of New Mexico, a No. 3 seed, in the first round. Here was a chance for him to follow his heart, as well as demonstrate that he's not afraid to gamble on an underdog. Of course, the downside is that he would risk being seen as an elitist. Obama took New Mexico.
Then there's the great Duke dilemma. For the prudent politician, no college basketball program is more vexing. It is both America's team and the team America loves to hate. (If you really want to go deep into the weeds here, two political scientists have gone so far as to equate anti-Dukism with anti- Americanism.) For Obama, Duke has been especially troublesome, from both a basketball and a political perspective. This year Obama played it down the middle, choosing the second-seeded Blue Devils to advance to the Elite Eight before falling to Louisville.
Obama has Indiana as this year's champion, which makes perfect sense.
Nate Silver, as usual, has done the math and says the Hoosiers have a very good shot at winning the tournament. And it certainly doesn't hurt for a president who has promised to make the U.S. a magnet for manufacturing jobs to throw himself behind a rust-belt state with 8.6 percent unemployment.
All of which is to say: If this year's First Bracket is an indication of how much risk Obama is prepared to take in his second term, no one should expect peace in the Middle East any time soon.
Jonathan Mahler is a sports columnist for Bloomberg View.


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Fox News' Megyn Kelly Butchers Deficit Debate
Fox News' Megyn Kelly misrepresented President Obama's call for a "balanced approach" to reducing the budget deficit, claiming it means he wants tax hikes while Republicans want spending cuts. In fact, a balanced deficit-reduction plan includes a combination of the two -- which economists agree would be the best approach.
On America Live, Kelly reported that Obama said he "wants a balanced approach to the debt deal, which has been how he describes a request for tax hikes in the past," adding, "This is how they're split: He wants tax hikes, and the Republicans don't want tax hikes, and they want some spending cuts, and he doesn't want to give those."
But the "balanced approach" to deficit reduction includes a combination of both tax increases and spending cuts -- a plan Obama has repeatedly endorsed as the right way to deal with the deficit.
As Bloomberg reported [1] on Wednesday:
Obama "will offer a brand-new plan of his own," Steve Bell, senior director of the Economic Policy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, said in an interview.
Bell said one option the Obama administration is considering is pushing anew for a "balanced" plan to cut as much as $100 billion in spending as a deficit-reduction down payment while letting the George W. Bush-era tax cuts expire for top earners.
In a September 9 CBS News interview [2], Obama outlined a deficit-reduction plan that "would cut $2.50 in spending allowances for every $1 of increased tax revenue" -- which Republicans have rejected. Obama stated:
"You can't reduce the deficit unless you take a balanced approach that says, 'We've gotta make government leaner and more efficient.' [...] But we've also got to ask people -- like me or Gov. Romney, who have done better than anybody else over the course of the last decade, and whose taxes are just about lower than they've been in the last 50 years -- to do a little bit more.
"And if we go back to the tax rates for folks making more than $250,000 a year, back to the rates that we had under Bill Clinton [...] we can close the deficit, stabilize the economy, keep taxes on middle class families low, [and] provide the certainty that I think all of us would be looking for."
Economists agree [3] that this is the best solution.
A report released in September by the National Association for Business Economics found that a vast majority of economists [4] "favor some combination of higher taxes and reduced spending to reduce the federal budget deficit." In an article about the study, the Christian Science Monitor reported that the most common response to "how should Congress reduce the federal budget deficit?" was "equally with spending cuts and tax increases":
The survey found 90 percent of respondents supporting some blend of those two methods of reducing deficits, while Mr. Romney's espousal of "revenue neutral" tax reform lines up most closely with the 9 percent of economists in the survey who called for "spending cuts only."
Business leaders also share this view.
As the Associated Press reported in an October 25 article [5], CEOs from more than 80 major U.S. companies, including JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, and GE, wrote a letter to Congress urging them to reduce the federal deficit by raising taxes and cutting spending:
The CEOs said the solution requires a combination of higher taxes and reduced government spending including on entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. They also seek federal investment in infrastructure and math and science education.
The CEOs head a diverse array of corporations, including Aetna Inc., Microsoft Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Time Warner Cable Inc., Merck & Co. Inc., General Electric Co., Dow Chemical Co., Verizon Communications Inc., Bank of America Corp., AT&T Inc. and Allstate Corp.
Some members of the group rang the opening bell Thursday at the New York Stock Exchange.
The group endorses the proposals of a special bipartisan commission that called for about $3 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases to save around $4 trillion.
Fox News has repeatedly distorted [6] Obama's deficit-reduction plans.
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The Right To Organize and Join a Union
- attending meetings to learn about the union, devise organizing strategies and support each other.
- reading and distributing union literature in non-work areas (such as parking lots) during non-work time (e.g. breaks, lunch, after work).
- talking about the union on work time, as long as your employer allows you to talk about other non-work related issues (such as sports, movies, family) on work time.
- getting on a union information mailing list.
- signing an authorization card asking your employer to recognize and bargain with your union.
- signing petitions or file grievances about wages, working conditions, and other job issues.
- asking other employees to support the union, to sign authorization cards or petitions and to file grievances.
- threatens to or actually fires, lays off, refuses to hire, disciplines, harasses, transfers or
- reassigns you because of your support of a union, or for reading and distributing union literature in non-work areas (such as parking lots) during nonwork time (for example, breaks, lunch, after work), or for getting on a union information mailing list, or for signing petitions or file grievances about wages, working conditions, and other job issues.
- favors those workers who do not support the union by giving them awards, promotions, better job assignments, wage increases, improved hours and working conditions, or by applying uneven enforcement of work rules.
- shuts down your worksite or reduces your benefits and privileges to discourage union organizing or activity.
- promises you a pay increase, promotion, benefit, or special favor if you agree to oppose the union or give up your union rights.
- questions you about your union membership or activity in a way that intimidates you.
- spies or pretends to spy on union gatherings.
Can I Organize and Join a Union?
The right to organize and join a union is, for most employees, a fundamental employment protection under federal and state "labor" laws. The labor law that covers your situation depends upon the kind of jobsite you work in (public vs. private, small, local business vs. larger corporation). A major benefit of union membership is that an employee who is covered by a union contract is no longer employed "at-will," meaning that the employer no longer can fire the employee for any reason or for no reason at all. Unions also can negotiate with employers to obtain benefits, such as health care coverage, vacation and sick pay, and seniority, which employers are not otherwise legally required to provide. This Fact Sheet explains general principles of labor laws.
What Kinds of Organizing Activity Are Protected?
Federal and state labor laws prohibit most employers from coercing, prohibiting, or otherwise interfering with employees' protected organizing activities. Activities that are protected include:
Can My Employer Take Action Against Me for Organizing?
The law forbids most employers from taking actions meant to discourage union activity. Your employer is violating the law if it:
What Can I Do if My Employer Takes Action Against Me for Organizing?
If your employer takes action against you for organizing or joining a union, you can file an "Unfair Labor Practice" charge against the employer. California state and local government workers can file a chare with the Public Employees Relations Board. Other (private sector) workers can file a charge with the National Labor Relations Board. You should contact those agencies for information regarding the timing and procedure for filing the charge.
This Fact Sheet is intended to provide accurate, general information regarding legal rights relating to employment in California. Yet because laws and legal procedures are subject to frequent change and differing interpretations, the Legal Aid Society–Employment Law Center cannot ensure the information in this Fact Sheet is current nor be responsible for any use to which it is put. Do not rely on this information without consulting an attorney or the appropriate agency about your rights in your particular situation.


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Start Date: August 1983
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Considered one of the top strength coaches in the country, Dave Williams is in his 30th year as a member of the strength and conditioning coaching staff for the Flames' 20-sport athletics program and his sixth year working with the Liberty volleyball team. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist (C.S.C.S.).
During Williams' five seasons with the Lady Flames, the Liberty volleyball team has won five straight Big South regular season championships and has posted five 20-win seasons. The Lady Flames have appeared in the conference final in each of Williams' seasons with the program, including tournament titles in 2008, 2011 and 2012.
In 2008, Williams was named a Master Strength and Conditioning Coach by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches association (CSCCa). He is now one of 100 Master Strength and Conditioning Coaches in the world.
During the 1992-93 school year, Williams was one of five finalists nominated for strength coach of the year. This included strength coaches from the professional sports ranks, along with colleagues at the collegiate level.
Prior to accepting his current position at Liberty, Williams served three years as the head strength coach at Texas A&M. He also spent a year as an assistant strength coach at Alabama.
Before entering the strength and conditioning profession, Williams spent six years as a teacher and coach. He coached two years at Liberty High School in Bedford, Va., and spent four seasons at Timberlake Christian School in Lynchburg, Va.
Williams earned Associated Press Little All-America honors while playing collegiately at Fairmont State College in Fairmont, W.Va. He played both offensive and defensive line and was a two-year co-captain at Fairmont State, who was NAIA National Champions in 1967. In 2003, the school honored Williams by inducting him into the Fairmont State College Athletic Department Hall of Fame.
Williams also was an All-West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference selection. He played high school football at South Charleston High School in South Charleston, W.Va., where he lettered all four years.
Williams graduated from Fairmont State in 1968 with a degree in biology and physical education. He also holds a master's degree from Alabama in physical education.
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PC-Q30: A New Curved Mini-ITX Chassis from Lian Li with an Acrylic Windowby Ian Cutress on 5/14/2013 4:19 PM EST
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DanNeely - Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - linkThe only role I think something like this this case would suit would be as a kiosk with a display in the place of the window. Even that would be a bit risky since the profile looks vaguely like an old AIO with a CRT and is rather chunky vs the current slap a laptops guts onto the back of the LCD and call it a day style. Reply
SilentRunning - Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - linkPut a lcd in it and we have the return of the Macintosh. It seriously looks like they are paying homage to the original Macintosh. Reply
EnzoFX - Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - linkWhy don't they actually just innovate? Just make something practical. Why do we have to turn to the DIY community to get practical options in ITX. Sure they've finally shifted to SFX PSU's, but Lian Li doesn't couple that with a graphics card slot. Really? Reply
bebimbap - Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - linkI've always been interested in ITX form cases.
This one has interesting looks but functionality seems questionable.
I'm not sure why that space behind the motherboard was used to suck air through the rest of the case. It wouldn't seem to be a very efficient way of drawing air through as the motherboard is in the way. They could have used a fan near the bottom of the motherboard area and push air through from the bottom of the case with a filter so dust doesn't gather near the top vent holes. Reply
FATCamaro - Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - linkStupid case is stupid Reply
Dug - Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - linkI wish they would have made something like this but with the motherboard laying flat instead of up against the back. And then put the fan on top.
I don't understand why anyone would want their connections to show at the top of a case. Reply
coolhardware - Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - linkI actually kind of like it. Clean (frontal) lines and a different look than most other cases out there.
If I had one I would wall mount it in my office, with the base of the case mounted to the wall. Will probably never happen though b/c I cannot see myself giving up my laptop + dock scenario anytime soon.
Since not many other commenters seem to like this case, any suggestions for other 'different' cases that are popular/better? Reply
piroroadkill - Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - linkNot bad at all, but get rid of that 140mm tumour at the back, simply add a filtered 120mm to the right hand side as an intake. Then it would have decent thermals, and a cleaner look. Reply
meacupla - Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - linkA for originality. D- for everything else.
It's ugly, it's impractically sized, the side panel ports don't make sense,it doesn't look like it will be particularly quiet or have good airflow and it's expensive.
Why anyone would buy this over a Fractal Node 304 or Bitfenix Prodigy is beyond me. Reply
Rick83 - Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - linkYou can probably run it without the rear fan - from the few pics in this article, I still can't make out what it is actually doing.
I like the adventurous styling, with some dust filters on the inside it should work quite well. What I'm missing is a slot in optical drive in the base. That would turn it into a funky HTPC. Without, it's really just a small LAN-party portable machine, which isn't bad, just limited. And with the components quite that "in your face" you really do have to take care with the aesthetics of your selection. I prefer a sleep looking closed case instead. This one is for the modders. Reply
IanCutress - Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - linkApologies, I *did* post it with a gallery of Lian Li stock shots, it somehow disappeared. Readded :) Reply
Torashin - Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - linkOh God! It's hideous! Reply
anonymous_user - Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - linkDoes anyone else think it looks like a front-loading washer? Reply
DesertCat - Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - linkMy question is whether that power supply slot is SFX only or if it is an ATX-sized slot but with only a 125mm depth. Nexus has had a couple of compact ATX PSUs (NX-5000 Rev 3 - 530W & NX-6000 Rev 3 - 630W) available for a few years that are only 125mm deep. They aren't modular, so a person might have issues tucking all of the cables away, but they should fit if the only real restriction is the depth. Visiting the Nexus website, I only see the newly revised NX-5000 - 550W model now, but it still has the 125mm depth. Reply
Xvi - Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - linkThe Q28 was the first good ITX case they've done in a while, now they follow it up with this? Ugh..
Lian-Li, more practical stuff, please. Your mATX lineup especially needs a refresh with some practical innovative thinking. Reply
warezme - Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - linkLooks like my grandmas humidifier. Reply
NARC4457 - Thursday, May 16, 2013 - linkWow, I guess I'm the only one here who thinks it looks interesting. I'm not sure that I would pick one up for $150, but at least it's unique for today's cases.
I could see that window getting dusty/dirty on the inside though and end up looking bad. Taking off screws to clean it is bad design. Reply
cyberguyz - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkSorry Lian Li, but that case is just plain fugly. Reply
edmoncu - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkOne hell of an ugly case. Lian Li cases are highly overrated cases. Both expensive and uninspiring. I get that they're using aluminum components, but that's beside the point. The reason of going ITX is because of its smaller form factor. However, in this, Lian Li wasted lots of valuable ITX space. The glass window is only good if you're going to show off what's inside (say: if you're going water cooling or how elegant you can cable groom -- if you can have the lights inside to show it)... otherwise, if it's just a glass and 'go figure the rest', it's a waste! And we're not anymore living in an era where transparent iMacs and PowerMacs are trending. Simply ugly. There are way better looking and cheaper casings than this. Reply


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Dallas Public Library Audelia Road Branch manager Peter Coyl, who helped choose the Stonewall Book Award winners, will speak at the Oak Lawn and North Oak Cliff branches next week.
Coyl is one of 15 librarians from the U.S. and Canada who read about 180 books to select three Stonewall Book Award winners. The American Library Association committee met in Seattle last week to discuss the nominees. He is the only librarian from Texas who served on the committee.
The winners were The Last Nude by Ellis Avery in Literature; For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home edited by Keith Boykin in Nonfiction; and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz in Children's and Young Adult Fiction. Saenz is a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso.


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A GROUP of 11 school leavers have given up part of their summer holiday to help the community blossom.
The teenagers renovated and refurbished a sensory garden at the Ridgeway Day Care Centre in Weymouth as part of the National Citizen Service (NCS) programme.
The government scheme is aimed at developing the skills and potential of 16 and 17-year-olds.
Students teamed up with Weymouth College to tackle the ambitious garden project.
The Ridgeway Day Centre, which caters for adults with learning difficulties, had its garden transformed into five different sections by students.
The young gardeners created a section for every sense that will enable all service users to interact with it.
Sally James, assistant manager at the centre, said: "It benefits us as it gives us the opportunity to start looking at a space that we didn't have the money or the time to change.'' The new garden gives users of the day centre a space to sit in.
Student Lewis Ward said: "The last four weeks have been amazing, meeting new people, doing new activities and getting to see the faces of the Ridgeway Centre residents when we showed them the finished project."
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With Valentine's Day falling on a Thursday this year, it's the perfect chance to stretch out that weekend to three days' worth of romancing. Just pace yourself a little. Start out with an intimate dinner for two at home on the day, and then take it out on the town for Friday and Saturday at Winnipeg Mardi Gras.
On Thursday
In order to kick off the whole three-day romantic weekend, do a quick shop for groceries tonight (don't forget wine!) and tomorrow you can create a little heat in the kitchen with some easy Cajun-style recipes (see below). And if you can't stand the heat -- well, that's your cue to get out of the kitchen.
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It's important to head out in the right outfit, so pick something daring -- in fact, full Mardi Gras regalia is welcomed, feather boas, fishnet stockings and all.
On arrival, you'll want to start with a little something to eat, so check out the menus (my favourites are the oyster po-boys and the Louisiana crab cakes). The alligator fritters and the deep-fried dill pickles will be back, along with sweet potato fries and other favourites from Chef Quentin Harty and his team of "Ragin' Cajun Cooks." And a shot of Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey will warm your cockles, "I garon-tee, cher."
Once your cockles have been sufficiently warmed, hold hands and wander through the Bourbon Street vendors for some romantic shopping. While you're wandering, you can catch the aerial acrobats, stilt-walkers, living statues, the colossal man and more. Later, go dance cheek to cheek (or shake the other cheeks, whatever the music moves you to do) with C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band.
Winnipeg Mardi Gras always puts some love back into the community and this year, it is sponsoring the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (find them at www.jdrf.ca).
Find a full menu and details on the performers on the website and plan ahead: www.winnipegmardigras.com; www.facebook.com/winnipegmardigras; Twitter: @WpgMardiGras.
Start your weekend with these recipes
Choose from Big Easy jambalaya or even easier, red beans and rice, then finish things off with pineapple coconut pie.
Big Easy jambalaya
I made this recipe in the electric frying pan. I like to have more control over the heat, especially when the dish needs to sit on low to simmer for a while. This is really good over rice but you could also serve it over a pasta such as penne. I used a small package of tiny salad shrimp. In addition to being more economical, you get a little bit of shrimp in every bite instead of just a few large ones here and there. If you prefer, you can replace the seasonings listed with pre-mixed Cajun seasonings.
30 ml (2 tbsp) olive oil
1/2 onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 celery stalk, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped
1 large skinless chicken breast, cut into small cubes
400 to 500g (3/4 to 1 lb) smoked sausage, sliced
1 cube beef bouillon
1 398-ml can whole tomatoes plus two cans of water
1 156-ml can tomato paste
10 ml (2 tsp) dried parsley
5 ml (1 tsp) dried basil
5 ml (1 tsp) oregano
30 ml (2 tbsp) brown sugar (to your taste)
Tabasco to taste
250 g (1/2 lb) cooked, frozen shrimp (optional) or more if you like
Steamed rice (approximately 1 litre or 4 cups, enough for four people)
With the pan on medium heat, warm the oil and add the onion, garlic, celery and green pepper, cook until soft. Add the chicken and sausage and continue cooking until chicken is cooked through and no longer pink.
Add the beef cube and break it up. Add the tomatoes, breaking them into smaller pieces with a spoon. Add two cans of water. Add the tomato paste slowly, blending as you go. Stir in seasonings. Cover the pan and let the jambalaya simmer on a low bubble for 10 or 15 minutes. Stir gently and taste for seasonings, including sugar. It should have the consistency of a thick sauce. If it is too thin, let it cook down slowly, if it is too thick, add a little water. Let simmer for 10 to 20 minutes, adding shrimp in the last 5 or 6 minutes to heat through. Serve over rice. Makes four generous servings.
Red beans and rice
This is one of my favourite things to make. Beans and rice are great comfort food and spiced up Cajun style, they are especially good in winter. Keep the heat fairly low when cooking this so as not to brown the onions and garlic and to keep the beans from sticking to the pan. Pass the hot sauce when serving. You can also use this recipe for the beans to make bean quesadillas; just change the spices to taco seasoning, and load the beans into a tortilla with some cheese and a little salsa and sour cream.
30 ml (2 tbsp) olive oil (add a little more if you need it)
1/2 small onion, chopped fine
2 small garlic cloves, minced
1 398-ml tin red kidney beans, drained and well-rinsed
Cajun seasoning to taste (I use Weber)
Prepared steamed rice (approximately 500 ml or 2 cups, enough for two people)
Warm the oil in a pan. Gently sauté the onion and garlic until soft. Add a few shakes of Cajun seasonings and then the beans. Warm through. Taste for seasonings and adjust. Serve over rice, scraping the seasonings from the pan. Serves two.
Pineapple coconut pie
I used a ready-made shortbread crust with this recipe and quite liked it. A graham-wafer crumb crust would also be good. I had some filling left over, so I poured it into a ceramic dish and baked it alongside the pie. It turned out just fine, so you could even skip the crust altogether as long as the dish is well-greased.
50 ml (1/4 cup) butter
3 eggs
45 ml (3 tbsp) flour
375 ml (1 1/2 cups) sugar
250 ml (1 cup) crushed pineapple drained
250 ml (1 cup) coconut
1 unbaked pie shell 22 cm (9-inch)
Melt the butter and pour into a mixing bowl. Add the other filling ingredients and mix thoroughly. Pour filling into the unbaked pie shell. Bake one hour at 190 C (350 F) or until set and brown.
Note: You may need to turn the heat down to 160 C (325 F) if the pie is browning too quickly. Just bake a little longer until the pie is set. Let cool and serve. Looks nice garnished with a little fruit or some whipped topping.
Winnipeg Mardi Gras
Friday and Saturday
6 p.m. to 2 a.m. nightly, third floor, Winnipeg Convention Centre
Must be 18 or older
Tickets $16 at Ticketmaster (plus taxes and agency fees)