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FORT KENT, Maine — When Lynne Levesque crossed into the United States from Canada late Thursday morning, she had not intended to become a part of local transportation history.
By pure luck of the draw, Levesque, who lives in Clair, New Brunswick, was the first to drive over the newly opened international bridge connecting the two countries.
"They gave me a choice of being the last one over the old bridge or the first over the new one," Levesque said just after clearing U.S. Customs. "I decided it would be pretty funny to be the first."
At about 10:45 a.m., Levesque's car was the first to clear the Fort Kent port of entry following a 30-minute ceremony officially opening the new international bridge connecting Maine to Clair, New Brunswick.
"It really was not my plan to be the first one across," Levesque said. "I was just on my way to get gas [but] this is pretty nice."
During the official ceremony, New Brunswick Premier David Alward said, "We are celebrating the opening of a new bridge which provides a critical link between two countries and two communities."
"This new infrastructure supports trade, tourism and business in the region while also serving commuters who are visiting friends and relatives on both sides of the border," he said.
At precisely 10 a.m., various officials and about 200 residents from Canada and the U.S. were escorted by honor guards from their respective sides of the $13.9 million bridge to the center for a ceremonial ribbon cutting.
The cost of the new span was split evenly between Maine and New Brunswick. Completed two months ahead of schedule to accomodate the World Acadian Congress that starts next week, the new structure replaces the 84-year-old steel truss-style bridge located 15 feet upriver.
In 2009, the Maine Department of Transportation determined wear and tear on the old bridge was making it unsafe for the existing traffic flow. Throughout the construction phase beginning in 2011, heavy truck traffic has been limited or detoured entirely for weeks at a time.
"This bridge is an example of the cooperation between [New Brunswick] and Maine," said David Bernhardt, the Maine DOT commissioner. "You all know the importance of this bridge, you cross it every day."
Residents of both countries mingled on the bridge for about a half hour after the ceremony before the first cars were allowed to drive through.
Fort Kent native Mitchell Levesque brought his wife Emily and their two children to witness the opening.
"It will be cool for them to say in 30 years, 'I was here for this,'" Levesque said, nodding to his son Leo, 10, and daughter Beatrice, 7. "People go back and forth a lot and it's important to keeping [the border] open."
For Fort Kent Town Manager Don Guimond, the opening marked the end of more than a decade of meetings, plans and negotiations.
"We first sat down to talk about this in 2002," he said. "This is a significant investment in the infrastructure of this region and this bridge is what unites us [because] we really are one people."
After the last dozen or so cars lined up on the old bridge had cleared customs on both sides, that structure was closed for good with demolition slated to begin later this year.


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What killed these kids?
A community conversation | The Sandy Hook Elementary School Shootings
The Daily Times Herald asked local decision-makers and those who are our first line of defense against school shootings and other heinous crimes to opine about the potential causes of and solutions to the shootings of recent memory.
"It is really hard for me to tell you a cause for this shooting event or any we've seen the last 10 to 15 years. Each situation was different when I think about it. Some of the recent murderers had a known mental issue and others did not. Investigations have shown some of the shootings as deliberate toward their peers and others have been randomly done to general public or in this case kids that had nothing to do with the shooter."
Carroll Mayor Adam Schweers
Dave Haggard
Superintendent, Glidden-Ralston Community Schools
This incident has troubled me more personally than any previous acts of school violence. From a professional perspective, Glidden-Ralston was and is in the process of reviewing and revising our crisis plans. This recent event gave impetus to that effort. I know in the wake of tragedies like this we always reflect on how well-prepared we are. Could we have prevented such a tragedy in our school?
As I examine the details of this incident — at least as they are known or available — I find that Connecticut has some of the more stringent gun control measures in place, and the school itself has numerous security features and practices in place.
With those givens and that level of readiness, I turn to the mental health aspects. I know that we sometimes struggle to make the appropriate mental health supports available and even if the supports are available, there are still some stigmas attached to mental health that make it difficult for some to accept. The failure to recognize the need and to then get the resources in place in a timely manner have to be contributing factors.
Jeff Scharfenkamp
Councilman, City of Carroll
I believe the perpetrators of most of these crimes had serious mental health issues — but I also wonder what their personal lives were like. Did they have friends in school? Were they picked on in school? In most cases I believe we never find the answer to the magic question of 'Why?' As long as people live and breathe on this Earth, I truly believe there will be people in our society who will have mental health issues that might lead them to do something like this.
Personally, I believe that guns and weapons are too readily available in this country and we must have greater efforts to control access and availability. I think about some of the gun law changes in our own state recently. Changes that have made weapons more accessible. (The previous law allowed for the local county sheriff to use discretion regarding issuance of gun permits.) Changes that essentially allow a citizen to walk down the street with a loaded firearm strapped to their side, just like the Wild West. Changes that allow someone to walk into any established business — including banks — or even a public park with a loaded gun strapped to their side.
I believe in the right to bear arms as put forth in our Constitution, but simply put, there are some people in our society who should never legally possess a weapon, and there are some places in our state that guns simply don't belong.
My opinions certainly will run contrary to the National Rifle Association, but I sincerely believe that the lobbying dollars and perceived political power of this organization has led to the adoption of these changes within our state. The sad part is that our Legislature is too afraid of the NRA and our citizenry does not appear to care enough to do anything about it. Unfortunately something horrible has to probably happen before our Legislature will really take a look at this issue.
Lastly, I wonder, if weapons and more guns were the answer — as some will certainly advocate — why did our society evolve from the wide open gun toting ways of the Wild West that I saw in so many movies as a kid to the more controlled and reserved gun culture of today? Did history and the Wild West tell our previous generations that more guns aren't the answer, or did we all just get soft?
Tougher gun laws will not be enough — we as a society have to change. We need to be less self-absorbed and more aware of the struggles of others. We need to be kinder to one another. We need to encourage our children to be a friend to the child who has none. We need to be better role models for our kids. We need to have the spirit of Christmas in our hearts 24/7 for 365 days a year.
Carolyn Siemann
Councilwoman, City of Carroll
If this horrific tragedy could happen in Newtown, Conn., a similar tragedy could happen anywhere. I also feel an urgency, for both local and national leaders, to address the issues surrounding the massacre of these innocent children.
In answer to your question about "some of the causes of the shootings [killings] in Connecticut and at other schools in recent memory," it appears they are multiple and complex. Some commonalities: young adults with undiagnosed, or possibly ignored, mental health challenges; these same young adults' ability to obtain weapons; and their careful planning and purposely targeting a group of vulnerable, unsuspecting children — without anyone's knowledge. These factors created a formula for the recent school massacres and could lead to more.
It appears that a stringent and enforceable national public policy with a local-national partnership approach to preventing unstable, potentially violent people from obtaining weapons is necessary. This type of approach should provide local school districts, colleges, and universities, as well as local law enforcement, the flexibility to deal with unique, local situations.
Knowing it will be impossible to prevent 100 percent of these types of massacres, experts in mental health, law enforcement, educators at all levels, legal scholars, parents, and gun manufacturers must collaborate to address this challenge. A multi-faceted approach is needed to deter violent acts and to protect children.
Keeping the above in mind, I also hope that a serious look is taken at privacy laws, and what information may be shared with whom, in order to identify potentially dangerous, unstable people, and a serious discussion should occur about getting individuals the help they need, very early, when struggling with mental health issues.
Finally, the stigma that often comes with mental health challenges must be removed through education. For this to happen resources must be made available (local, state, federal) very early in a troubled person's life. This may be one of the most effective deterrents to these school massacres.
Adam Schweers
Mayor, City of Carroll
It is really hard for me to tell you a cause for this shooting event or any we've seen the last 10 to 15 years. Each situation was different when I think about it. Some of the recent murderers had a known mental issue and others did not. Investigations have shown some of the shootings as deliberate toward their peers and others have been randomly done to general public or in this case kids that had nothing to do with the shooter.
In all these situations, there is a clear breakdown in what is right and wrong. There is clearly less regard for the gift of human life. There is clearly a lack of remorse and guilt. All of these rules in morality and the concern for the well-being of others needs to be taught to us from early childhood on, by our parents, guardians and in our faith.
There are many people with mental diagnosis that live long lives not killing other people and I am not in any position to make a case for why these things happen.
I am concerned that there is a bit of desensitizing going on in society. We see far more publication of these type of events. I wonder if this is creating something of an illusion that they are, or should be, within our realm of thought. I would agree we are subjected to far more violence on TV, in movies and the Internet. The violence we see in the media or on video games is far less filtered and far more real. It is not in my realm of possibility to put these types of violent acts into action because it was on TV or in a video game.
This situation is a random act of violence that could happen anywhere at any time. No amount of guns, law enforcement or mental health funding is going to change it. I don't think these situations should be used as reasons to push agendas.
Locally, I think the automatic locking system and buzzers at our own elementary school are a very good step in keeping the children safe. If there are other good suggestions like these, the only thing I would say to lawmakers is truly commit and fund them. Continued discussion of disaster preparedness and emergency mitigation is very important. I think bullying education has gotten a tremendous amount of attention these past years, but it still comes down to: teaching our kids to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, learning to turn the other cheek, and "how would it make you feel?" These ideals are still just as important today.
I think residents need to be conscious that in society's effort to not offend or oppress people's feelings or "rights" we don't lose sight of those core values and principles that guide our hearts and minds. Faith in God is not and should not be uncomfortable or made out to be bad. It is situations like these that we all must come together to pray, comfort one another and know we are not alone.
John Werden
Carroll County attorney
Unfortunately a lot of children do not get much in the way of moral instruction. I have long been an advocate of keeping firearms under lock and key because you have no idea how well your kid's friends have been raised. The news reports indicate that the killer's mother made firearms available to her son knowing that he was emotionally disturbed. That is incredibly irresponsible.
We need take the veil of secrecy off mental illness and begin to deal with it like every other illness. Perhaps more people will receive treatment and be encouraged by their family members if we work for more understanding. It should be a crime to knowingly provide weapons to seriously mentally ill people. We have had killings in Iowa where disturbed people obtained firearms from family members. It might be a deterrent if they face criminal prosecution and financial ruin.
I oppose further impairing the rights of law-abiding people. In the last two decades, violent crime has been steadily decreasing. An emotional response leading to wasting public resources on ineffective measures avoids doing things that work. Let's fund more outreach efforts of community mental health treatment.
Jill Tiefenthaler
President, Colorado College and Breda native
Like most Americans, I was both saddened and angered by the horrific tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School. As a mother myself, I just wanted to hug my kids and felt pain for the parents that lost their babies and the families and friends who lost loved ones.
But I am also angry. That the lives of 20 children and six adults could be extinguished in seconds by rapid fire is just not acceptable. A national conversation about mass killings and gun violence is long overdue.
We must have this conversation and find a way to balance the rights of law-abiding citizens to bear arms with the calls for more restrictions on gun ownership. In particular, we should develop measures that curtail easy access to assault weapons.
In addition, the mental health issues that are contributing to so many of these mass killings must also be addressed.
Rich Stoffers
Superintendent, Coon Rapids-Bayard Community Schools
Personally, when you deal with children, students, and teachers, and you've been an educator for over 34 years, it hits very, very hard. It's unthinkable and unimaginable that someone would go into an elementary school and shoot innocent children and staff. It really makes you think very seriously about how safe our schools are and how precious life is in a time like this.
I don't know how all those students, families, staff and school will be able to cope with what's happened, but I'm confident, although their lives and community has changed forever, they will persevere through their caring and united efforts, and get through this tragedy.
I don't want to get into a gun control debate, but to me, generally speaking, things are out of control with firearms and what's available to the citizens of this country. Our local schools, families must step up and put pressure on our legislators to do more, and actually get serious about getting control of what's available.
However, I'm actually more concerned about lack of empathy in our world today, and the decrease in funding for mental and emotional services for all those in need of such support.
At Coon Rapids-Bayard, our plans are to further limit access to our school by locking most all our doors throughout the school day. We have too much traffic in and out, and so we have to truly enforce our visitor privileges and keep most all doors locked throughout the day. We are also moving forward with the purchase of a keyless entry system for all our employees, as our district will be installing this electronic system for all our exterior doors in the next month or two.
Mark Beardmore
Chairman, Carroll County Board of Supervisors
There are no obvious or easy answers as to the causes. Yet what they all have in common fundamentally is a presence of evil. Evil is very real and around every corner. Evil is nothing new. It has existed since the creation of man. It began with Cain and Abel and is well-documented throughout the Bible and world history.
So while these violent acts are nevertheless very horrific and their specific causes generally different in each case, at their very core is the presence of evil. And the only defense against evil is a faith in God and to prayerfully enlist His divine intervention.
This is much more than only a gun issue. So gun control won't solve it. And more than a school security issue. Widely accepted measures of security didn't stop this occurrence. This is also very much more than a mental-health issue. It's like a weed: its roots and stalk is evil. The contributing issues are like its branches and leaves, extending far beyond, and growing. Prevention measures extend throughout a very complex set of contributing issues that it is nearly unrealistic to assume these can be stopped altogether.
Yet the one thing that can be done collectively is prayer. I'm not suggesting prayer alone as the one and only solution, but I sincerely believe in its power and its lasting contribution to defeat evil. That's what I suggest as a great start. And there is no legislation or security measure that can end evil.
Vern Henkenius
President, Kuemper Catholic Schools
Upon hearing the news of the Connecticut School tragedy, I had immediate flashbacks to the assassination of President Kennedy and the Columbine, Colo., school shootings. At those times I was fortunate enough to have a support mechanism around to support me. Last Friday my immediate thoughts were for all elementary students and teachers. I said a prayer that they would be strong enough to withstand such madness.
Since the beginning of time there have been individuals with personal and mental issues. These individuals need to be looked after — given guardianship.
If one wants to find a cause for Sandy Hook, look at the breakdown of the family. We throw away family responsibilities like we throw away fast food wrappers. Ask the question: how would a strong father in the home have helped prevent this? Answers: providing love and counseling; not allowing guns in the home; supporting the wife in the raising of a difficult child; and obtaining proper treatment or placement for a child outside the norm.
Instead the father divorced the situation for what is claimed to be financial reasons. He follows this by paying $289,000 a year in alimony. There was no divorce requirement that he spend time with, interact with,or attempt to guide his sons. Peter Lanza should be required to pay the previous $289,000 in alimony to the families of the murdered children.
Lawmakers and the general public must do everything they can to promote strong families. In the case of the Lanzas, what would have been better than observing a mother and father and two sons interacting and supporting one another in the most positive way?
Rev. Timothy Schott
Pastor, St. Lawrence Catholic Church
I think it is interesting that this shooter attacked children — and teachers who were an obstacle, trying to protect the children. If he simply wanted to kill a bunch of people, he could have gone to a mall, a movie theater, a basketball game, or many other venues where he would find crowds of people of all ages. It seems that he chose to attack children, perhaps because they are more vulnerable, innocent, and less able to defend themselves against an adult.
In any case, whatever thoughts, judgments, and motivations were swirling in his mind as he made his plans to go to that school, his primal instinct to protect innocent children had been so completely eroded that he believed killing children was permissible.
Contrast the actions of the teachers who instinctively tried to protect their students — risking their own lives — with the actions of the shooter. In terms of the interior life, in terms of values and morality and conscience, they and he occupied two quite different worlds.
Consider the pervasiveness of child pornography, child abuse, child trafficking, child prostitution. Consider our society's contraceptive mentality that values convenience and consumer goods more highly than children and considers pregnancy a condition to be avoided. Consider our nation's tolerance of more than one million abortions each year. We have fashioned — or at least permitted — a society, a culture, in which children are not highly valued, except by those who want them. We have fashioned a culture in which it is legal and OK to get rid of children we don't want. Children are not valuable and precious in themselves. Their value lies only in whether someone wants them.
The heinous evil of killing a child, which by nature should be instinctive in us, is being compromised every day by our permissiveness, by our worship of personal convenience, by our legislators and judges who refuse to recognize the obvious truth that a pre-born child is indeed a unique growing human being, genetically independent of his or her mother and father, dependent on others, as all people are to some extent. Open legal warfare on children we happen not to want creates a mindset, a culture, in which the primal instinct to protect children is being eroded out of our consciences.
Whatever motivations, family dynamics, presence or lack of peer influences, or health issues contributed to this shooter's choices, it is clear that — even though he himself went to school in the USA — he did not feel compelled by instinct to protect children.
How can that happen? The secular humanism promoted ever since the Enlightenment has failed us. It is liberal doctrine to believe in the perfectibility of human nature: all that society needs is enough education, enough financial resources, enough hard work and we can create a society in which school massacres and the killing of children will never happen. But this is impossible, without building on the solid rock of our having been created by God, by some Absolute.
Eliminate any reference to God, to the Ten Commandments, to prayer, to any absolute source of shared responsibility for each other, add to that approval of killing our pre-born children, and we produce individuals who are not deterred by the prospect of killing children. This is an issue of the heart, morality, spirituality, the interior life, our culture. Legislators who insist on more laws to protect schools and children while tolerating legal open warfare on pre-born children have their heads buried in the sand. They refuse to see reality, refuse to accept the science of human reproduction and prenatal development, and refuse to recognize the psychology of culture-building.
They are part of the problem. They are not the solution. Insist on a society that values all children because each child, from conception, is unique, unrepeatable, valuable in itself, wanted or not. We must create such peer consensus and pressure that no individual would entertain the thought of killing a child.
Legal abortion condemns us adults. Unfortunately pre-born children pay the price.
This will continue. We will continue to permit individuals willing to kill children so long as we ignore the truth, the value of each child, from conception.
Kelly Fischbach
Director, Carroll Public Library
As a school teacher and parent, this is your worst nightmare. A school should be a safe place for all students and over the past decade, we have had to incorporate so many strategies to make schools the safest places they can be. I cringe when I hear people talk about arming administrators or select teachers. I hate to think that is what our world will come to.
I had a salesman in this week who has a 9-year-old and a 4-year-old, and he was really having a hard time sending his kids to school this week. I told him to give them a hug and say a prayer over their heads. That might be the best way to protect them from this evil and for parents to be able trust schools are doing as much as they can to curtail this violence.
I believe every incident involved someone with a mental health problem. Over the course of my teaching career, I knew many students who were probably capable of this type of violence. Teachers, counselors and administrators try to work with them and their families to get them the type of help they need.
It is an extremely difficult decision for a parent to make when they have a teenager with a mental health issue to commit them for treatment, but usually in the long run it pays off. Many parents feel helpless and isolated when they have a child with a mental illness or a drug- or alcohol-dependency problem. Schools have ways to point parents in the right direction, but it is ultimately up to the parent to make the tough decision.
Of course, paying for treatment for mental health is another complication. If you don't have health insurance, or it doesn't cover mental health services, what is a parent going to do? A serious issue is the lack of facilities for teens with mental health problems which comes down to funding and professionals trained to deal with teens.
Mark Heino
Captain, Carroll Police Department
I viewed the Connecticut school shootings on two levels: as a parent, and as a law-enforcement professional. As a parent, I can think of nothing more stupefying horrific than having a child brutally murdered. There is simply no way to cope that doesn't involve anguish at a visceral level.
As a lawman, I thought about how I and my department would respond to such a situation. Regardless how much training and thought is put into preparation for these types of situations, being thrust into something like that would be chaotic to a degree that is difficult to fathom.
The root cause of incidents such as Sandy Hook lie in the realm of mental health. Sane people do not walk into a grade-school classroom and open fire. The instrument may have been a firearm, but the cause was mental illness. It doesn't help that media tend to play the event up as if it was some sort of macabre calamity that needs scoring: "second most killed since Virginia Tech," "more killed than at Columbine," "more dead than the Dunblane massacre," etc. Scorekeeping, to a mentally ill madman, is like a challenge.
We have also, as a society, slid toward an almost ridiculous level of permissiveness. We don't hold people accountable for their actions, but rather look for ways to rationalize otherwise bizarre and anti-social behavior. We seek to assuage guilt rather than punish misdeeds. We reward mediocrity rather than extol excellence.
Here's a harsh truth: some people need to be warehoused rather than turned back loose on society. It's nice to believe that, given enough therapy and anti-psychotic medicine, everyone will do well in a free society. Not so. Evil people will do evil things if left to their own devices.
The citizens of Carroll are rather unique in that they have been very supportive, over the years, of law enforcement and the law-enforcement mission: keeping the peace. Our populace has always been very responsive when it comes to reporting suspicious behavior or something that just doesn't look right. With regard to school violence, it is important that law enforcement and school officials be notified when something seems amiss. I think I can speak for our department when I say that we would rather investigate 100 false tips about suspicious behavior than respond to one tragedy that might have been averted with a simple phone call.
It is nice to believe that we can simply legislate away crime, but believing crime will stop because a new law or laws are enacted is folly. Criminals are what they are because they disobey the law. There was already a Connecticut state law that made murder an unlawful act, yet the Sandy Hook incident still happened.
New laws deter only those who choose to abide by them. An examination by legislators of current mental-health statutes and the commitment of the physical and financial resources to improve access and treatment would do far more than simply enacting another criminal law.
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The Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) are two of the most valuable individuals foretold by our Prophet (saas) and whose appearance has been excitedly awaited for some 1400 years. However, for the first time in those 1400 years some people are now striving, in their own eyes, to cover up these glad tidings and conditioning masses to think that "The Prophet Jesus (as) will not return and Hazrat Mahdi (as) will not come." These people make intensive use of such tools of mass communication as the radio, television, the internet, newspapers and magazines and are trying to influence both Muslims and the majority of the world population. Muslims must therefore neutralize this mass conditioning by constantly remembering Allah, constantly recalling that we are living in the End Times, telling others that the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) are at work and striving for the unification of the Islamic world and the global dominion of Islamic moral values.
The antichrist would be striving in a thousand and one different ways to conceal and distract people from the system of the Mahdi. It therefore causes a great many people to turn their backs on it by causing some people to deny the system of the Mahdi entirely; by making others talk about the system of the Mahdi as if it is something totally unbelievable; by ensuring that some never speak about it at all; by making it seem like it would take place hundreds of years later; by causing some people to think that the Mahdi is a "collective personality" and finally by convincing other people to believe in the lie that "the Mahdi has already come and gone," which is far from the reality. It distracts many people with unimaginable quibbles and tales they would never attach any credence to under normal circumstances so they are unable to recognize even the existence of Hazrat Mahdi (as).
One of the dictionary definitions of the word "antichrist " is someone who subverts the truth, portraying good as evil and evil as good. The antichrist, who wants to see people come to physical and spiritual harm and aims to spread strife and corruption, will cover up everything that is fine and good, conceal the facts and thus try to prevent people discovering the truth. The greatest and most excellent reality of the End Times is that we are living in the age of the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as). The antichrist will therefore work mostly on that subject. The antichrist and his supporters will strive by a thousand and one means to conceal and gloss over the coming of the Prophet Jesus (as) and the system of the Mahdi and, in their own eyes, to deflect these subject matters. Almighty Allah tells us in the Qur'an that those with a sickness in their hearts will say, 'What Allah and His Messenger promise us was mere delusion.'
When the hypocrites and people with sickness in their hearts said, 'What Allah and His Messenger promised us was mere delusion.' (Surat al-Ahzab, 12)
Figuratively, this verse also alludes to the situation of those people who lose hope in the coming of the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as). That is because under the influence of the antichrist, these people deny 'the coming of the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as), as our Prophet (saas) reveals in the hadiths, and maintain that our Prophet's (saas) words on the subject are "unfounded."
Today articles, which state that the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) will not come, appear in many places. More importantly, some people regarded as Islamic scholars issue statements agreeing with this view, as well. The fact is, however, all these people believing that "the coming of the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) is untrue" and supposedly an "empty promise" is actually one of the phenomena that our Prophet (saas) has promised will take place. It is revealed in the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) that one of the signs of the End Times showing that the coming of the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) is imminent is for people to increasingly say, "Hazrat Mahdi (as) will not come, there is no Hazrat Mahdi (as)". Some of the hadiths relating this are as below:
"ALLAH WILL SEND HAZRAT MAHDI (AS) when peopleare in despair and say, "THERE IS NO MAHDI"… (al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir al-Zaman, p. 55)
HE (HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)) WILL APPEAR AT THE MOMENT THE PEOPLE LOSE HOPE OF HIS COMING! How happy those who live to help him will be! Woe to those who harbor enmity toward him (Hazrat Mahdi (as)), who oppose him or his commands and to his enemies! (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Numani, al-Ghaybah al-Numani, p. 301)
Dawud ibn Kathir Riqqi says: I asked Imam Abu Abdullah: ...He [Hazrat Mahdi) (as)] is long in coming, our hearts are saddened and we are dying from a profound sorrow. He said: "HIS COMING WILL TAKE PLACE WHEN THERE IS EVEN GREATER DESPAIR AND SORROW." (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Numani, al-Ghaybah al-Numani, p. 208)
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi also reveals that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will only be recognized through the light of faith and that only a few people will thus recognize and take their places beside him:
The force and spiritual army this duty depends on is some followers in full possession of titles of loyalty and solidarity. No matter how few they may be, they are spiritually as powerful and valuable as an army. That abundant and capable army is the family of the Messenger of Allah (saas) and a very pure army of Hazrat Mahdi (as). (Emirdag Addendum, p. 259).
Imam Zayn al-Abidin (as) stated:
"There are some similarities between our Qaim [Hazrat Mahdi (as)] and Allah's Messengers. He has similarities to each one of the Prophets Noah (as), Abraham (as), Moses (as), Jesus (as), Job (as) and Muhammad (saas).... to Jesus (as) in people being in conflict about him (some people will say Hazrat Mahdi (as) will come while others will say he will not) (Sheikh al-Saduq, Kamal al-Din, p. 322, Section 31, Hadith number 3)
All the efforts made to conceal the return of the Prophet Jesus (as) and the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) are in vain. These two holy events are Allah's promise and will come about. This period, in which the portents of the End Times have taken place one after the other, shows that the second coming of the Prophet Jesus (as) and the emergence of Hazrat Mahdi (as) are imminent. By Allah's leave, these two holy individuals will appear exactly as described in the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) and install the moral values of Islam across the world.
Many people have fallen into a variety of errors on the subject of the coming and existence of Hazrat Mahdi (as). Some of these are as follows:
Even Though All the Portents Have Come about, Why Is It That Some People Still Deny That the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) Will Come As Individuals?
It is a great miracle for Hazrat Mahdi (as) to remain unknown despite all the portents of his coming having taken place and these signs being so clear and so explicit. However, a veil has come down over most people's eyes and they are unable to recognize Hazrat Mahdi (as) despite all these evident facts. This shows the severity of the End Times, and how much foresight has disappeared, and the kind of thought structure that people now possess. However, by Allah's leave, the whole world will eventually see that the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) are both individual people and will wage their intellectual struggle in this century.
By how many means is the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) concealed?
The claims of those who try to conceal the coming of the Hazrat Mahdi (as) are:
1. Hazrat Mahdi (as) has come and gone. He appeared in the past.
2. Hazrat Mahdi (as) is a collective personality, in other words, an invisible spirit. And there is therefore no point in waiting for him to appear as an individual.
3. Hazrat Mahdi (as) will come, but in many centuries' time.
4. Hazrat Mahdi (as) will be a regular human being. Hazrat Mahdi (as) will be an ordinary political leader who will not perform the second and third of the tasks that Bediuzzaman described in his works in the words "Hazrat Mahdi (as) has three duties," who will not wage an intellectual struggle against materialist, Darwinist and atheist philosophies and who will not tell people of the signs leading to faith. He will be an ordinary political leader who will merely read the Risale-i Nur Collection, and therefore will not be a spectacular personality.
5. There is no such person as Hazrat Mahdi (as) and he will never come.
6. Hazrat Mahdi (as) may come but it is wrong to investigate these matters. Hazrat Mahdi (as) must find us busy working when he comes, so there is no need to investigate him. If he comes, he comes, and if not, then he does not.
7. There will be an Angel over his head telling people, "This is Hazrat Mahdi (as), follow him," and he should be immune to tanks and guns. Someone lacking these attributes cannot be Hazrat Mahdi (as).
8. Many Mahdis will come in the End Times. Three, five or ten Mahdis may come. They will all work silently and discharge the duties of the Mahdi and then die, so very few people will be aware of this fact.
Trying to confuse, complicate and cover up this issue, which the Messenger of Allah (saas) sets out so clearly in trustworthy hadiths and which Bediuzzaman Said Nursi describes so clearly and explicitly, is one of the peculiar characteristics of the End Times.
Hundreds of millions of people have fallen into the errors concerning the existence and coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) listed above. In the beginning there will be very few who think that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will come in this century. The reason for this is the misconceptions we have listed above. Some people would really not understand the existence of Hazrat Mahdi (as), and some will pretend not to understand because of their evil aims and this will continue to be like that until the emergence of Hazrat Mahdi (as).
It is a great miracle for Hazrat Mahdi (as) to remain unknown despite all the portents of his coming having taken place and these signs being so clear and so explicit. However, a veil has come down over most people's eyes and they are unable to recognize Hazrat Mahdi (as) despite all these evident facts. This shows the severity of the End Times, and how much foresight and perspicacity have disappeared, and the kind of thought structure that people now possess.
Some of the Verses of the Qur'an Indicating the Coming of the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) and the Global Dominion of the Moral Values of Islam
And other things you love: SUPPORT FROM ALLAH AND IMMINENT VICTORY. Give good news to the believers! (Surat As-Saff, 13)
We wrote down in the Psalms, after the Reminder came: 'It is My servants who are righteous who will inherit the earth.' (Surat Al-Anbiya, 105)
Allah has promised those of you who believe and do right actions that HE WILL MAKE THEM SUCCESSORS IN THE LAND as He made those before them successors, and will firmly establish for them their religion with which He is pleased and give them, in place of their fear, security. 'They worship Me, not associating anything with Me.' Any who are unbelievers after that, such people are deviators. (Surat An-Nur, 55)
Our word was given before to Our servants, the messengers, that they would certainly be helped. It is Our army which will be victorious. (Surat as-Saffat, 171-173)
Allah has written, "I will be victorious, I and and My Messengers." Allah is Most Strong, Almighty. (Surat al-Mujadala: 21)
It is He Who sent His messenger with the Guidance and the Religion of Truth to exalt it over every other religion and Allah suffices as a witness. (Surat al-Fath, 28)
It is He Who sent His messenger with guidance and the Religion of Truth to exalt it over every other religion, even though the idolaters detest it. (Surat at-Tawba, 33)
Then We appointed you after them to be successors on the earth so We might observe how you would act. (Surah Yunus, 14)
And We bequeathed to the people who had been oppressed the easternmost part of the land We had blessed, and its westernmost part as well. (Sura al-Ar'af, 137)
They desire to extinguish Allah's light with their mouths but Allah will perfect His light, though the unbelievers hate it. (Surat as-Saff, 8)
He bequeathed their land, their houses and their wealth to you, and another land you had not yet trodden on. Allah has power over all things. (Surat al-Ahzab, 27)
Those who, if We establish them firmly on the earth, will establish prayer and pay alms, and command what is right and forbid what is wrong. The end result of all affairs is with Allah. (Surat al-Hajj, 41)
It is assumed that Islam is not spreading in the world because the Qur'an and the hadith are not being told. However for attaining true devotion to religion, signs leading to faith should be told and false idols should be destroyed.
Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on Kaçkar TV on 5 September, 2010
The Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) Will Come in This Century
However by the leave of Allah the whole world will come to realize in the near future that the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as), in fact, will wage an intellectual struggle in this century.
Great and entirely reliable Sunni scholars have made it clear in their works, such as the Sunan Abu Dawud and the Maktubat of Imam Rabbani, that an individual is sent by Allah once every hundred years in order to revive the religion and rid it of later additions:
According to Abu Hurairah's account, the Messenger of Allah (saas) said: Allah will raise for this community AT THE BEGINNING OF EVERY HUNDRED YEARS the one who will revive its religion for it. (Sunan Abu Dawud 5/100)
One hadith revealing that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will come in Hijri 1400 has come down from our Prophet (saas) as follows:
People will gather around Hazrat Mahdi (as) in the year 1400. (Risalat al-Khuruj al-Mahdi, p. 108)
The moral values of Islam will rule the world in a specific process during this hundred years and the system of the antichrist that opposes the moral values of the religion will be entirely eradicated. However, following this period of rising which will last 100 or so years, the world will again enter a period of degeneration in the Hijri 1500s.
According to a hadith narrated by many scholars, including Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the great hadith scholar and founder of the Hanbali school, the Prophet (saas) refers to the beginning of a certain calendar, saying, the time that had passed in the world up until him was 5600 years:
Ahmad Ibn Hanbal transmitted in his 'Ilal: FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED YEARS HAVE PASSED FROM THIS WORLD. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 89)
On the other hand, other hadiths contain explicit references to the life span of the world being 7000 years:
Anas Ibn Malik narrates that the Messenger of Allah (saas) said: THE LIFE SPAN OF THE WORLD IS SEVEN DAYS IN THE DAYS OF THE HEREAFTER. Almighty Allah has said: ONE DAY IN THE SIGHT OF YOUR LORD IS LIKE A THOUSAND OF YOUR YEARS. ALLAH WILL ASCRIBE THE EQUIVALENT OF GOOD DEEDS OF THE SEVEN THOUSAND YEARS OF THE AGE OF THIS WORLD to the one who meets the need of any of his brothers in the faith on the path of Allah as if he spends his days in fasting and his nights in worship. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 88)
Narrated from Daqqaq Ibn Zaid Al-Juhani: I told the Messenger of Allah (saas) of a dream I had had. In that dream the Messenger of Allah (saas) was at the top step of a seven-stepped pulpit. He said: THE SEVEN-STEPPED PULPIT YOU SEE IS THE SEVEN THOUSAND YEARS OF AGE OF THIS WORLD. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 89)
Said Nursi, the mujaddid of the Hijri 1300s and the greatest one of the last millennium, cited the Hijri 1400s as the period of dominion of Islamic moral values. He stated that Muslims would enjoy a time of clear and explicit victory up until then. He said that in the years after that, the rise of the moral values of Islam would come to an end and that the Last Day would break for the unbelievers in the Hijri year 1545. (Allah knows the truth.)
"A group from my community will remain in truth until Allah's command [the Judgment Day]."
The abjad calculation of the clause "A group from my community..." which is 1542 (2117) implies its [the community's] time of survival. The abjad calculation of the clause "will remain in truth" (when the gemination mark is counted) gives 1506 (2082); it indicates until that date it will continue its work of enlightenment evidently and obviously, and maybe victoriously; then until 1542 (2117) in secrecy and defeat. The abjad calculation of the clause "until Allah's command" (when the gemination mark is counted) suggests that THE JUDGMENT DAY WILL BEFALL the unbeliever in 1545 (2120). (Kastamonu Addendum, p. 33)
The great Sunni scholar Barzanji also states that the life of the world will not reach Hijri 1600, in other words, that the Day of Judgment will come in the Hijri 1500s. (Allah knows the truth.)
THE LIFE OF THIS COMMUNITY WILL EXCEED 1000 YEARS, YET BE LIMITED TO 1500 YEARS...(Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah, p. 299)
As-Suyuti's statement made on the basis of the hadith handed down from our Prophet (saas) is as follows:
THE LIFE OF MY COMMUNITY WILL NOT EXCEED 1500 YEARS.(As-Suyuti, Al-Kashf 'an Mujawazat Hazihi al-Ummah al-Alf; As-Suyuti, Al-Hawi Lil-Fatawi, 2/248; Tafsir Ruh al-Bayan. Burusawi 4/262; Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Kitab al-`Ilal, p. 89)
As can be seen from the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) and from statements by great Islamic scholars, the Hijri 1400s we are living in are the age of the appearance of Hazrat Mahdi (as). The Prophet Jesus (as) will return to Earth in this century, Hazrat Mahdi (as) will appear and, by Allah's leave, Islam will rule the world.
Statements on the subject by Mr. Adnan Oktar
"The hypnosis of the system of the antichrist also represents a veil for the system of the Mahdi. Hazrat Mahdi (as) makes progress by means of this hypnosis. Those who pierce that hypnosis immediately see the truth."
"That spell casted by the antichrist is currently partially broken by the light of the system of the Mahdi. But not completely. Hazrat Mahdi (as) is advancing by breaking that spell and hypnosis. The luminosity in Hazrat Mahdi (as) burns it up. In other words, Hazrat Mahdi (as) is the anti-dajjal, the anti-satan. Satan burns in the presence of Hazrat Mahdi (as) and cannot withstand him. The antichrist also burns. Our Prophet (saas) says, "I would immediately eliminate him if it were my own day. But he will come in the future." In other words, he will burn it with his radiance and luminosity. It can have no effect. But Almighty Allah does not totally do away with that hypnosis, so that it can act as a foundation for Hazrat Mahdi (as). Because the system of the Mahdi is advancing within it. At the same time, it is also a veil for the system of the Mahdi. I mean, the presence of Hazrat Mahdi (as) is not felt under this hypnosis and it thus develops. "He will be known through the light of faith," says Bediuzzaman. Muslims are unaware of him because of that hypnosis, the hypnosis caused by the antichrist . But those who pierce that hypnosis see Hazrat Mahdi (as) perfectly clearly. They immediately understand. They say "It is very explicit, Allah knows the truth". They feel him, in other words. That is what Bediuzzaman means by "the light of faith." Faith has an illuminating and burning effect. It pierces spells and hypnosis. It is something that burns and crushes the satan and demolishes his influence. A believer's eyes destroy them when he looks through insight. Hazrat Mahdi (as) eyes, for instance, will burn satan. His glance burns. He burns wherever he looks. That is one of his attributes. That is why satan avoids him and the people around him. If he approached, he would burn, insha'Allah. See that Bediüzzaman says; "through the light of faith" the Prophet Jesus (as) will also be recognized by "his close followers and disciples". In other words, "his elect, faithful followers will recognize him through the light of faith." By that, the spells and hypnosis would be removed from them. (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on Kanal Avrupa and Çay TV on 3 October, 2010)
"Let us pray for the hypnosis of the antichrist to be broken. Prayer is the best thing against this hypnosis. The spell of the antichrist is being partially broken by the luminosity of the system of the Mahdi."
Let us pray against this hypnosis, let all Muslims pray for the hypnosis to be broken. Prayer is the best thing against the hypnosis of the antichrist. Because the antichrist obtains that by begging it from satan, by summoning him. This system, the system of the antichrist, is in its own chain of command at the moment. And it has hypnotized innocent Muslims. People feel a heaviness in their brains. They should be feeling it as a peculiar idol. Almost everyone feels it, in other words. But they will suddenly awake. In the time of the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as), they will enter in a state of perfect clarity as if they were awaking from a sleep. When they come out of that hypnosis they will say, "It is obvious. That is what Bediuzzaman meant. Hazrat Mahdi (as) will come. It is explicitly stated that he will come as an individual." They will understand then. They will clearly understand the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) at that time. (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on Kanal Avrupa and Çay TV on 3 October, 2010)2010-11-21 02:02:26


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Davidson Defeats Liberty, 2-0
The Davidson Wildcats defeated the Liberty Flames, 2-0, in a non-conference men's soccer contest, Wednesday night at Alumni Stadium.
An early goal by the Wildcats in each half proved to be the difference in tightly-contested, defensive contest.
Liberty, playing without several starters due to injury, falls to 4-5 on the year. Davidson moves to 6-4-1 overall. It was the first meeting between the two schools in men's soccer since 1999.
Davidson struck for an early goal during the 8th minute. Midfielder Chris Pettiglio headed in a crossing pass from forward Mar Pragnell. Pettiglio's second goal of the season gave the Wildcats a 1-0 advantage.
Liberty's Jonatan Torres forced Davidson goalkeeper Matt Pacifici to punch the ball over the crossbar and out of play with a hard, rising shot from 35 yards out during the 24th minute. The host Wildcats cleared the ensuing corner kick to maintain their edge.
Neither team could muster much offense for the rest of the period, as the defenses for both teams held solid.
For the half, Davidson edged Liberty, 4-3, in shots, while the Flames held a 2-1 advantage in corner kicks.
The Wildcats put pressure on the Liberty defense in the opening minutes of the second half. Forward Valeriy Sviderskiy took a feed from the goal line into the center of the six-yard box and popped a shot over the net during 48th minute.
In the 55th minute, Davidson extended its lead. Midfielder Alan Reiter took a pass at the top of the box and deflected a shot off a Flames defender into the net for his first goal of the year and a 2-0 lead.
Liberty was able to work a player into open space for a shot during the 72nd minute. Defender Sam Duininck moved past a Wildcat defender at the top of box and pushed a shot between two defenders, forcing a save by Davidson keeper Pacifici.
In the 80th minute, the Flames continued their pressure. Midfielder Tanner Wilcox moved into open space and ripped a shot wide off a defender for a corner kick. On the kick, Torres was able to insert the ball into the center of the box. The ball bounced off several players, before the Wildcats were able to clear.
Liberty earned another corner kick during the 85th minute, but Davidson cleared the attempt.
The Wildcats outshot the Flames, 13-5, and held a 7-6 edge on corner kicks in the match.
Liberty goalkeeper Jeremy Lee played the full 90 minutes, recording two saves. Davidson's Pacifici made one save.
The Flames will next return home to begin a stretch of three straight home games. Liberty will begin the span by hosting the Winthrop Eagles at Osborne Stadium, Saturday. Match time is scheduled for 2 p.m.


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Dog-friendly Chideock, 3 People & Enclosed Garden/Patio
This charming, spacious, Grade II listed, thatched, detached cottage is set in the delightful village of Chideock. Between Lyme Regis and Bridport, and a short walk from the beach at Seatown and the scenic World Heritage Jurassic Coast, this is an ideal holiday base. Enjoy superb coastal walking, with breathtaking…
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I've been a bit quiet on here lately… Life, as usual, getting in the way of plans. But also because every spare minute has been devoted to reading. I am a big reader, anyway, always have been. Since I was 16 years old, I've kept a record of every book read – largely because my memory is hopeless and I can't remember what I've read otherwise. I once read a book twice and didn't realise the second time until about two-thirds of the way through – and it shows that on average I read about 25 books a year, sometimes a lot more, sometimes a lot less. (At the start of a love affair, I hardly read at all.)
As I want to pursue more writing around the period of the 1920s, I've been reading around and about that time. At first I thought I was looking forward to re-reading some of my favourites from that time – A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, The Moon and Sixpence by W Somerset Maugham, the Collected Works of Dorothy Parker. But I've read each of those several times, and as enjoyable as reading them again always is (I keep them by my bedside at all times, like a jar of peanut butter in the cupboard, there for when quick comfort is needed) I'm hungry for new details, new stories, new people.
So I've been reading the famous quartet by Antonia White, I'm halfway through the last one now and already dreading the final page because I don't know what will satisfy me afterwards. It may mean another six months of colour supplements and newspapers because nothing can compare, so why bother? Hopefully, it'll drive me on to read more and even better, or best of all, it'll inspire me to write.
The first book is Frost In May, based on White's early years at a Catholic convent school. Published in 1930 it was an instant hit. The following three books, which all feature the same heroine, were written more slowly, thanks to Antonia's suffering from various mental conditions – from writer's block to nervous breakdown. She also married and divorced in the 1930s.
The four books were republished by Virago in the early 1980s, after her death, and were an instant bestseller. I remember my mother reading them then and her devastation when she'd finished them all. (She didn't read anything for six months afterwards.) All my life I've waited to share this experience with my mother – she became ill with premature senile dementia in 1998 and died almost eight years ago. It's been a strange feeling, to read the words I knew she read and loved, and think about how they affected her, what they might have meant to her and what they mean to me. It's a reminder that books pull us all together in so many different ways.
As well as that, the first-hand feeling of being alongside someone living in that time is exquisite. The language used – binge, old girl, fancy, my dear –descriptions of the clothes worn, the passions felt, the ambitions of the young women, the repressed, frustrated emotional lives of the men…. So much the same, so much different.
White's writing is subtle in its brilliance: deceptively simple, you think it's almost childlike to write things down just as they happened. And then you realise how hard that is to do. She's at her best when her heroine is frustrated in her ability to communicate with those around her – whether they are stunted in their understanding because of their religious orthodoxy, or because they are men with their own ideas for her, or because they are drunk. Equally, she is kind to the sweethearts who deserve it and chillingly cold with the stupid, who don't. It's a lesson in how to write and be so sublimely easy to read, as delicious and intoxicating as a Pimms on a hot day.
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When did you start Ilana Kohn?
Summer Spring 2012
Tell us about your line?
I make casual, wash-n-wear women's clothing featuring original prints that I design myself. The line is really all about the prints!
Why did you start it?
Prior to working in fashion, I worked as a commercial illustrator for close to a decade. When the economy tanked and took my bread & butter, publishing with it, I decided to return to grad school for historic preservation. While I was there, however, I became restless without any creative pursuits and began sewing. By the time I was ready to graduate, I decided to launch my line rather than go to work in the field.
Can you give us three words to describe the brand?
Bold, relaxed and print-based.
What's your brand signature?
Prints and prints and prints!
Why did you apply to DENYC?
I applied to DENYC because I felt that I still have a lot to learn about the business side of things. Granted, as opposed to most designers I know, I actually really enjoy dealing with the business half and was eager to learn more!
What do you hope to get out of the program?
I hope to come out of the program with a better grasp on literally everything. This is such an excellent opportunity. I'm gonna take everything I can get! Granted, although I really do actually really enjoy marketing and sales, serious number crunching is so not my thing and I do hope they can manage to make a number girl out of me.
Your favorite piece of your collection?
I'm pretty excited about the jacquard knits that I have coming out for AW13!
Best part of being a NYC designer?
Getting to be friends with and be inspired by all the other amazing designers here. All the resources at our fingertips are certainly nothing I'd stick my nose up at either though!
Can you share a fun fact?
If I weren't a clothing designer I'd be a professional kitty-puppy cuddlier.


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AMD Motherboards: Processor Supportby Wesley Fink on 6/28/2005 1:00 PM EST
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arswihart - Friday, July 08, 2005 - linkepox has release official dual-core BIOS's for the 9npa+ and 9npa SLI Reply
leexgx - Thursday, July 07, 2005 - link-mood mode on-
silly post system
-mood mode off(ish)- :)
why are you lot setting your self on fire when its only been out for an week or so every board by the end of the month will get its bios updates put up (well the ones that do realy support it) Reply
leexgx - Thursday, July 07, 2005 - linkReply
OldDummy - Monday, July 04, 2005 - linkThe FN95 V3 motherboard works with the X2. This is the motherboard in the SN95G5 V3,It works well. Reply
SUOrangeman - Saturday, July 02, 2005 - linkThe Shuttle released a new BIOS for the SN25P on 21 June. The linked README doesn't refer to this new release (yet), but I'm hoping that it has something to do with X2 support.
http://global.shuttle.com/Download/Download_File.a... Reply
OldDummy - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkShuttle SN95G5 V3 has problems with the X2 but a bios is in the works.
Wesley Fink - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkThe chart on page 4 has been updated based on information sent in by readers - Thank you. If we could verify the BIOS existed and claimed x2 support by the mfg, then it was added to the list.
If we have overlooked any x2 BIOS please let us know. The motherboard supported, BIOS rev date, and where the BIOS can be downloaded would help us in verifying the information. Reply
porn loader - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkThe new DFI UT LP NF3 Ultra-D supports rev E/x2 cpus right out of the box.. Reply
100proof - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkI don't believe this question has been asked yet. In refference to the comments concerning the addiotion of 433, 466, and 500 DDR speeds for Revision E processors, which motherboards currently have bios releases that support these speeds?
ceefka - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkLikewise. a very useful article. Reply
Anton74 - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - linkActually the ECS KN1 also seems to have nForce4 Ultra, not nForce4 as listed?
Anton74 - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - link#40 / Wesley,
I've noticed that out of all the nForce4 equipped boards on the list of supporting motherboards, there's only 1 with the nForce4 Ultra chipset, the Asus A8N-E (which by the way does also support rev. E4 according to the linked AMD page). The vast majority is either nForce4 of nForce4 SLI. Coincidence?
The ones that do support E3/E4/E6 are all some flavor of nForce4.
I was looking at an nForce4 Ultra board, with a dual core either now or in the future, so I'm very much looking forward to that roundup before making a decision. Looks like I may have to consider other nForce4 flavors as well. I'm also hoping to figure out if I can at least make the thing run long enough to do a BIOS update if needed, otherwise I might be in trouble, with no other Athlon 64's at hand. It's hard to tell what BIOS version one can expect when buying from an online retailer.
Why is it by the way that others, such as the EPoX 9NPA* Ultra which I was considering, do claim revision E support with a BIOS update on their web site, but didn't make it onto AMD's list? Do they not fully support the new CPU's as claimed?
Great article by the way.
BPB - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkFrom what I see on MSI's site the RS480M2-IL is in testing for X2 support, they do not say it is supported. Should I chance it? Reply
Markfw900 - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkI have bios 1.95 on my neo2 with a 4400+ working perfectly. Its a beta, and not on the MSI site. Duvie found it for me. Reply
T2k - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkOn NF3 concerns: my NF3 Pro-based Gigabyte GA-K8NSNXP-939 is fine with X2 after you flashed the latest BIOS, confirmed by Gigabyte. Reply
nserra - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkI think its a little risky using the 1T rate with 4 banks, even if works "fine", AMD (or the mobo maker) cant afford to lose some stability even if slightly. Reply
bupkus - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkLink to next article, "A Look at Solaris 10 and Sun's Dual Core Fire V40z", is brokern. Reply
Wesley Fink - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkZebo - Actually I'm finishing an nF4 Ultra roundup that should post in the next few days. The Abit Fatal1ty AN8 is one of the boards in the roundup. Reply
arswihart - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkZebo - Think again. On AOAforums, the user LBJGH recently had a discussion with the Epox support staff, who said, concerning the new BIOS with X2 support for the 9nda3+, "we should have it ready by next week."
Read this quote and the whole thread here:
http://www.aoaforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31... Reply
Zebo - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkThanks a lot wes, great fact finding mission..
It looks like I'll finally have to upgrade to PCIe since my epox 9NDA does'nt support dual core. Do you know if ASUS has fixed thier 1T cmd issue at high HTT?? Also would you guys review ABIT AN8 Ultra as it seems to be the only passive chipset design and at xtreme guys seem to be hitting 300+ HTT even so. Only thing I don't like is mem proximity in dual channel which makes cooling difficult.. Reply
PrinceGaz - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - link#32- those TWINX memory products are matched pairs of 1GB modules, which gives a total of 2GB. They are not individual 2GB modules. AFAIK all of the 2GB modules available are registered ECC such as Crucial's 2GB PC3200 module CT25672Y40B. That makes them unsuitable for A64's, but fine for Opterons (which is what you would expect as modules of that size are only likely to be used in servers).
I'm almost certain that A64 Rev.E DOES support four DIMMs at 1T command rate, but ONLY if single-sided. Being able to use 1T command-rate is dependent mainly on the load placed on the memory bus, ie the number of memory chips on the channel. Two double-sided modules per channel is 32 chips which is never going to run at 1T.
#27- all 1GB modules are double-sided, it's highly unlikely that your freind with four 1GB modules is running at 1T, or if he is that they are running error-free. I suggest he lets Memtest86 loop through all its tests overnight as it will probably report errors (test 5 in particular). Reply
smn198 - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - link#28 Wesley - I also would love to see the performance of dual core with the new async. memory speeds. I imagine that dual core would benefit dual core more than the FX57 but I'm not sure how bandwidth starved a dual channel X2 is.
"AMD has also added additional "hidden" features in the AMD on-processor memory controller. Additional asynchronous ratios are available at 433, 466, and 500 memory speed on boards that implement the necessary code to access these memory controller features. These options should be available with any Revision E chip if the manufacturer implements the controller option read in BIOS." Reply
sprockkets - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkanyone want to make a wiki for processor support here for AMD stuff? Reply
justly - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - link"If we overlooked boards and/or BIOS revisions that belong in our Supported list please let us know."
The Asrock K8Upgrade and Combo-Z also have X2 BIOS support. Reply
Slaimus - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - linkWhat about single sided sticks? I have two single sided 512MB sticks in my current system specifically to allow two more to be added. Reply
jiulemoigt - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkYour not actully saying the same thing 4 gigs ram != 4 sticks of ram, there are 2gb sticks just not many:
TWINX2048-3200PRO 2048MB 3-3-3-8 2x184
TWINX2048-3200C2 2048MB 2-3-3-6* 2x184
TWINX2048-3200C2PT 2048MB 2-3-3-6* 2x184
TWINX2048-3200 2048MB 3-3-3-8 2x184
TWINX2048-3200PT 2048MB 3-3-3-8 2x184
gettting 1T commands out of any of those sticks on the other hand may simply not be possible, the problem was not the size of the memory but shared latency, with four sticks you have four over lapping fields that have to line up really nice. With 2gb sticks you only have two fields :) Reply
cryptonomicon - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link"Unfortunately the long-rumored 1T Command Rate with Rev. E AMD processors appears to have been just a rumor. We could not run 4 matched dimms at 1T in a motherboard with Rev. E/x2 support. Four dimms still required a 2T Command Rate."
Doesn't surprise me... thats the price you pay for the amd platform. However its pretty much the only bad part. Reply
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link#27 - People who know memory also tell me no 2T with 4 dimms, so I am skeptical of your friend's claim. Sandra appears to report 1T when it is not really reporting Command Rate which confuses many. I know Oskar's BIOS' for every memory - I believe last count was more than 55 BIOS revisions for the DFI nF4. That's not the issue. The 4 dimms 1T would be a function of the mem controller on the new Rev E and not have a lot to do with the board. The new Rev E mem controller is indeed a better overclocker than the earlier 0n-CPU controllers.
KeithDust2000 - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkWesley, thanks a lot for the informative and prompt reply, I can´t wait to see the results!
:) Reply
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkKeithDust2000 - Wish I had an answer to that. I'm still waiting for a FX57 and/or 4800+ from AMD for our motherboard reviews. When supplies ease a bit and I get the CPUs I'll include some asynch benchmarks in a future review. The difference will not be dramatic, but with DDR500 available at pretty fast timings these days, you will get a bit of a boost from a 400 CPU running at stock and driving memory at DDR500 or 533.
Only a few boards implement the new memory options correctly, and that may be why a lot of reviewers overlooked them. AMD didn't advertise the new ratios in their press kit and most weren't looking for them. Reply
DEMO24 - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkI know someone with a venice chip, and 4 gigs of ram in a DFI SLI-dr board and hes running 1T. I dunno why yours doesn't work for you. There are specific BIOS dates in the 5/10 form for different kinds of memory. Maybe that would fix it. Reply
KeithDust2000 - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkWesley, I mean why are there no benchmarks available
using the new capabilities? I´m very interested in that! Reply
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link#24 - The FX57 is also 90mm Rev. E. We mention several times in this article that the new Rev. E memory controller adds additional asynchronous memory speeds to DDR500. This is not just a feature of FX57, but applies to all Rev. E processors including x2.
The BIOS has to implement the new programming for the additional memory ratios to be available in BIOS. Reply
KeithDust2000 - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkHi Wesley! What´s up with the 533Mhz Memory support included in the FX-57?
"The shift to the 90-nm SOI process also means that the FX-57 differs in some small ways from the FX-55. Originally, the FX-55 supported just DDR-400 speeds; the FX-57's memory controller now will interface with DDR-533, and has some other small improvements, Seckler said."
No one seems to be covering that!?! Reply
KeithDust2000 - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linktest Reply
OldDummy - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linknice article, just a good general roundup of topics. well done Reply
Myrandex - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkMy motherboard has X2 support but it isn't listed. It is the Giga-Byte K8N Ultra SLi. From the Giga-byte website:
Support Athlon 64x2 dual core CPU Reply
Googer - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkThanks Wes,
I have been looking for an article like this one for little while now. Reply
matthewfoley - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linksupposedly there is a beta bios out for the MSI K8N neo2 Platinum that has dual core support...
http://www.lejabeach.com/MSIK8N/7025nms19B5.zip Reply
matthewfoley - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkThis is an interesting thread on the nF3 dual core topic...
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid... Reply
Den - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkBoth the ASUS A8N-E and A8V support the E4 (in addition to E3 and E6) stepping according to AMD's page though your article just lists E3 and E6. See cut and paste below...
# 2.0 ATX nVidia nForce4 Ultra Cool'n'Quiet
# PCIe™
# Supports up to processor stepping: E3
# Supports up to processor stepping: E4
# Supports up to processor stepping: E6 Reply
xeizo - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkYou forgot to mention in the text that there are indeed older K8T800Pro/agp-boards that supports dual-core, in fact they are on your list, like the Abit AV8 2.0 and the Soltek K8TPro-939 .... Reply
Olaf van der Spek - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link> Date: June 28th, 2005
> Topic: Business
> Manufacturer: 3Com/U.S. Robotics
> Author: Wesley Fink
Did someone do too much copy/pasting?
BTW, _new isn't a valid target for an anchor. Reply
Houdani - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkIs there any value with including which SFF designs are X2 / Rev E compatible?
I'm fairly certain the Shuttle SN25P does support the X2. Reply
Aikouka - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkJust as a note, Gigabyte released the BIOS update for the GA-K8N Ultra-9 nForce 4 motherboard today. Reply
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link$6 - While AMD did not officially support DDR400 with 4 dimms on earlier Athlon 64, the fact is almost every board we tested ran fine at DDR400 with 4 dimms. Check our earlier roundups. The boards that would NOT do DDR400 with 4 dimms stood out, since most would. Also 2x1GB has never been a problem at 1T in our testing.
#7 and others - It's good to hear there are new BIOS' to support x2 on nForce3. The websites did not list any nF3 with x2 support when we suveyed the last few days, but readers with nF3 boards will be happy to know some are becoming available.
#10 AMD says that if the board supports Rev. E the X2 chip should run in single core mode to allow BIOS update. If the board does NOT support Rev. E chips you will need a new BIOS chip or an earlier A64 to flash. Reply
arswihart - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkthis is what one user that I know of reported when he installed an X2 in an Epox 9nda3+ (NF3) mobo. Reply
elpheer - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkNice article.
I'm unclear on one particular point though; am I correct in assuming that if you mount an X2 on a motherboad that has an outdated BIOS, it will successfully boot on just 1 core, thus allowing an OS installation?
This in-case there is no immediate second hand PC available to make a BIOS disk to flash.. Reply
bigtoe36 - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link#6
2x1gig dimms have been doing 1T for a while already with winchester and Clawhammer proving easliy capable of supporting the feature, it was however not guaranteed.
4x double sided will always be 2t in my books, but E die seems to allow some good overclocking so much of the speed can be clawed back. Reply
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link#5 - You're Correct and this has been updated. Reply
arswihart - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkactually here's a link to a foreign thread that has links to the new BIOS's:
Did this completely escape you Anandtech?
Also, I've read the F6 Bios for the Gigabyte K8NS Ultra and the F9 Bios for the K8NSNXP give X2 support. Haven't read any results from them though. Reply
Noubourne - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkWasn't part of the issue with 4 DIMMS that not only would you be stuck with 2T, but also with DDR333 with all four slots populated?
Wasn't part of it also that 2x1GB wouldn't do 1T either? I am fairly certain SD and Venice are both capable of doing 1T with 2x1GB. That is important to mention for people looking at 2GB of RAM, but not necessarily OC. Reply
larson0699 - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link"We also had done some testing with the early Winchester and Newcastle chips which were based on the 90nm production process instead of the 130nm process used for clawhammer."
Newcastle IS a 130nm part.
"If the BIOS doesn't support rev E (In other words, you may have a good board, but the BIOS is pretty old), you will likely need to install a pre-rev E (AKA-130nm) AMD processor to flash the BIOS."
Misleading. Winchester is also pre-Rev.E and is only 90nm.
And that was from one of their own guys.
#2, don't you fret. The mass of nForce3 owners raises too high a demand for the makers _not_ to do something about it. nForce3 isn't at EOL simply because of PCI-e; what matters is that it's socket 939 (still as much a current platform as nForce4's 939) and they have customers that they don't want to lose. Reply
Viditor - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkThe Final Words link in the dropdown menu is broken...it takes you to a search page. Reply
arswihart - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkA couple nf3 boards have already made BIOS's available (MSI and Gigabyte), while DFI has promised support on its upcoming nf3 board. Epox support looks likely as well in the near future, as per Epox Tech.
This is all based on what I've read, I never tried tracking down any of the actual BIOS files because I don't own an MSI or Gigabyte board. But I've heard they're out there. Reply
matthewfoley - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - linkBOOOO! No 939 nForce3 x2 compatibility!?!? MSI get off your asses and release a bios. That is rediculous. Reply
larry89 - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link^.^ nice Reply


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We may be very close to knowing much more about what Bungie is up to next, as the studio has acknowledged leaks reported on Kotaku and IGN regarding its new game, reportedly called Destiny.
Bungie left Halo behind with 2010's Halo: Reach, and signed a 10-year deal with Activision for a new, ambitious, multi-game franchise that would finally take Bungie beyond the Xbox platform.
The story goes that someone found a USB key at a coffee shop, and it included concept art and bullet point features regarding Destiny. These images and documents, sent to multiple outlets, come conveniently just a week before the Spike Video Game Awards, where numerous games receive their worldwide debut.
According to the documents, Destiny tells the story of a torn and tattered Earth that's devastated--once again--by aliens. An enormous alien ship descends over humanity's last major outpost, seemingly in protection of humanity. Why? No one knows, but it doesn't matter: Earth has a protector. Players assume the role of "knights" assigned to fending off the surrounding threat and finding a solution.
The rumor's always been that Bunge's creating a sci-fi shooter MMO--PlanetSide done right--and while these documents hint at a large "social" aspect to this new game, it doesn't make it explicit.
Bungie acknowledged the leak on its website, and even posted one of the leaked pieces of artwork.
"Go ahead," said the company in a statement. "Take a peek. It's alright. We weren't quite ready, but we will be soon, and we can't wait to finally show you what we've really been up to. Stick around, we haven't even started yet."
Seems like something a studio would say if it had more to show awfully soon, huh? That's just me speculating, though--I have no inside information of a Spike TV reveal. It just seems very suspicious and well-timed.


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SAINT LEO, FLA. - Entering her third season, Saint Leo University head women's lacrosse coach Lesley Graham has released her complete regular season schedule for Lions' upcoming 2014 season. The squad is set to compete in 17 contests throughout the spring season.
Graham has high hopes for the Green and Gold as they achieved their first winning season in 2013 with a record of 8-7. Their schedule shows competition against six of the top-15 teams in the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Division II Coaches Poll.
With a schedule composed of 10 home matches and just seven away contests, the Lions will play eight new teams this season, in addition to 16 south region games, with only one non-region matchup.
"Playing the two time defending national champions, runner up and final four finisher (Post, Limestone, Rollins) is both a challenge and opportunity," said Graham. We want to constantly be pushing ourselves to be better, and by playing the top teams in Division II we are doing just that."
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Soon after, the Lions will travel to Belmont, NC to face Belmont Abbey (Mar. 19), a team in which the Lions defeated last season by a 14-12 score in overtime. While in the Carolinas, Saint Leo will also play Pfeiffer University (Mar. 21).
Graham's squad will return to University Turf Stadium on Tuesday, Mar. 25 when they host Adams State. Just two days later, Saint Leo will face the Fort Lewis College Skyhawks for the first time in program history.
After the Lions' busy month of March, they will take on cross-town rival of the University of Tampa on Friday, Apr. 4, followed by a two-game home stand against Lindenwood (Apr. 6) and Florida Southern (Apr. 10).
Just a week later, the Lions will travel to visit the Limestone College Saints in Gaffney, S.C.. Shortly after, Saint Leo will battle the Converse Valkyries (Apr. 19), followed by the last match of their regular season when they play Rollins College (Apr. 22).
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- "Any unauthorised textbooks will be confiscated immediately from the offending student."
- —The Decree[1]
The Educational Decree Number One-Hundred and Thirty-Three was one of the Educational Decrees created by Dolores Umbridge, then-Headmistress of Hogwarts School. This Educational Decree gave Dolores Umbridge the power to confiscate any unauthorised books from students.[1]
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POTHOLE-busting gangs have repaired more than 6,000 problems in roads in Worcestershire caused by the flooding and severe weather.
About £700,000 was channelled into tackling the challenge of repairing road issues and since the beginning of the year, the Highways teams have fixed a total of 6,400 potholes in their flood recovery efforts.
Councillor John Smith OBE, county council cabinet member for Highways, said: "Our teams have been working hard all year, with the pace accelerating a few weeks ago when the flood recovery work began. Inspections and repairs have increased and this will continue as we fix the inevitable problems caused by the heavy rainfall and flooding we've experienced so far this year."
Last year the teams fixed 27,000 defects on the county's 2,257miles of road.
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