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Faith can overcome the enemies of Islam, says a preacher in Bogor.
Muslim cleric Ahmad Degel delivered some old time religion at his Idul Fitri sermon at the Bogor Botanical Gardens on the 24th, saying that faith was a powerful weapon indeed against the enemies of Islam, the countries of the West, because it put God in the Muslims' corner:
Besides sophisticated weapons, faith is the most powerful armour against the enemies of Islam because God has promised to help those who have faith.
He is said to have claimed that strong faith could defeat attackers even though they wielded superior armaments. The Palestinians had shown this, he said:
With rocks the Palestinian people have been able to defend their country from the attacks of Zionist Israel.
The West, according to the preacher, was currently engaged in all-out war against Islam, and he advised sticking together, and strong faith, as a way of withstanding the assault.
Muslims unity is a must. Let us struggle together to strengthen our unity and faith.
It is sad that a lot of people misuse their capacity to spread hatred against others. I hope this does not represent Islam in general.
After killing a pastor in Sulawesi, Islamic militants burned down a church yesterday. The Indonesian government also announced a delay on the executions of the Bali bombers. This is what happens when Muslims stick together.
Ahmad Degel is a fruitcake. Ignorant Zealots like him will destroy Indonesia.
O. Bule
With faith and rocks (are those the rocks in their heads??) the Palestinians have overcome. Hmmmmmm… They seem utterly miserable according to this AFP story. And read how much the rest of the world cares about their sad plight. No presents for the kids this Eid, no food, no jobs and no money. Ya that sounds like a victory.
Instructing Muslims to stand together against the attacks of the West will only serve to further the divide between "Muslims" and "the rest". Muslim leaders should take the higher path and instead of preaching divisive tactics, should encourage integration. The greater the divide gets, the more alienated Muslims will feel and will become, and the more they will feel they have to defend themselves. If people stop seeing each other as "Muslims" as "Westerners" as "non-believers" and see each other for what they are, i.e. fellow humans, then there will be no need for weapons. Religion could play a great part in this. Unfortunately it often serves only to create division.
Like many problems, such opinion is also common in the western world.
More and more the Islam is seen as enemy.
I'm asking my self: Who much westerner do they know? (I mean those, who blubber such absurdity). At the other side I made the experience, that westerner, who view the Islam as a foe image, don't even know any Moslem.
The problem is, both sides read terrible news and accept it as the truth without trying to know or to understand the background.
It's the easier path, isn't it? "The west": Generalisation shows only the simpleness of the thinking.
"They are evil, because they fullfill our concept of sinisterness. We don't admit them their difference. Good and evil are human postulated values based on their cultures and believes. We have much difficulty to accept, no: just to try to imagine, that our values are not automatically the values of others and that maybe their appreciation about good and evil is not comply with ours.
So each nation, each culture, each faith has it own aliens, at the other side of the border." (found in a science fiction book and a little bit modified).
When some African countries exploited for their natural resources by 'the westerns', they certainly cannot defend them self, and look at the oil from Nigeria flowing out from their countries without proper compensation to them, and many more..
when some Muslim countries exploited for their oil, some compensation given to the royal family (mostly) but that is nothing compared to the wealth of oil company (look at to the profit report shell, bp, exxon mobile, etc). This leaving the people in poverty (thus also can't afford education-> uneducated). That means the chain will never break, they will always in that state.
Basically it is the same method Westerns keep their interest to the poor countries with rich of natural resources (and manual labour). The major different is, African people living abroad will not feel bad when their fellow countrymen being unfairly treated, murdered, and their country exploited, they don't have strong relation.
In other hand, when many Muslim in bosnia being slaughtered, Palestinian defends their place to live, Lebanon&Iraq being invaded, Iran soon, we as a Muslim will feel their misery & injustice. There's a strong relation between any Muslim in any country, even logically we're different in race and geographic area. this kind of solidarity will not exist on, for example, African people, or even Christian..
To summary, in case of African:
– the western exploited natural resources
– no proper compensation for local development/ education
– but no strong relation with any community in the other side of the world, only internal militia problem (lots of kidnapping, guerillas)
in case of Muslim world (palestina, Lebanon, Iraq, Arab, etc):
– the western wants their oil
– they make the royal very very rich -> to give an image that Muslim is not poor at all, although we knew those royal is not represent Muslim community at all
– strong brotherhood feeling from any other part of the world because Muslim relation -> this is way it is important for the western if they can create the world somehow the Muslim will not related each other, remove the brotherhood feeling
I still belive that corruption, injustice is not related to religion, we know Bangladesh is the most corrupt country, Indonesia is not better as well, but look at Malaysia, they're well managed, and although Muslim is majority, they run the government much better than most other Muslim countries. So it is unfair as well to say Arab people is cruel, ugly and greedy becouse of they're Muslim, in fact Arab people is the worst of the worst of human being, and Islam proven to make them better, and at some point makes them rule the world.
If you think about it, isn't it weird to find that almost everyone turns out to be the "enemy of Islam"?
To be honest, it never stops to amaze me that people have the nerve to say a lot of inflammatory statements under the name of a religion.
May God forgive them.
I remember a time when I was little and didn't know anything about all this religion stuff, what a happy time it was. I played with Muslims and Catholics and Hindus and Protestants and Buddhists. We were all too young and ignorant to even know what it meant to be Muslim or Christian or whatever, so none of it ever mattered. To bad we must one day grow up and become enlightened and join a tribe so we can hate everyone else.
That's why I only feel at ease with children and animals in this country.
(I am joking but not that much)
Mandala, the big oil ompanies you mentioned have access to no more than 10-15% of world oil reserves. Almost all reserves are in the hands of the Putins, Chavezs, Saudi Royal families and the likes. The reason why you are impressed by their books is because they are required to hold books and the reason why you are impressed by their wealth is because they are required to disclose it (it is called accountability).
As to Nigeria, the oil reserves are in the undeveloped Southern part of the Country, a Christian (Ibo) area, and the wealth slips away. Therefore they are exploited by their own countrymen who hold the power. And I would like to remind you that during the Biafra war, the Muslim Countries were not siding with the Ibos a-la-Robin Hood.
In Indonesia as in many other places (Muslim and not Muslim alike…but why on earth a land has to be Muslim?), oil belongs to that Country and is unevenly distributed once it is produced (in favor of the Country).
Western do not want the Muslim oil, they buy it at 60-70USD/barrel, and they use it to run the economy, create wealth and distribute it.
Lebanon is not a Muslim Country.
Finally the Arab of Palestine do not want their own State by the side of Israel because, if they wanted it, they would have it in 1947, 1948, 1967, Camp David 1, Camp David 2 etc.
As to the last sentence, I really do not get it.
Are you blind???
you can find lots of statistic about production, reserve, for oil and gas.
Western civ already proven their intention to exploit from long long time ago. We Indonesian occupied by dutch for three and half centuries, and guess what?? until now we still paying them every year because we lost the war!! in that time, it is OK to kill locals for new land, new food, gold, and other metals. The incredible thing also all of them come very2 cheap as the locals will process and do all the hard works, leaving you the colonialist with cheap finish product, and this up to now you still call it 'a trading'. A trade which you hold guns and cannons, where the locals still use sharpened bamboo to defend themself.
Nowadays, as we start to understand freedom of life, and human right, whereas your need on oil keep increasing, you need to find such a way that you can still get what you want, without bad mark as colonialist, and even you want it all, you wanted we look at you as a savior, as a democracy tutor, as a humanist.
My correction: what I refer as Muslim country (like Indonesia) is Muslim majority countries. And I will keep refer you in west europe, UK, and US as western.
Mandala, that graph shows only where the oil production is coming from. Nothing else. The question is "who that oil belongs to?". I repeat that oil belongs mostly (80%) to the oil producing Countries and it is sold as any other commodity to oil consumer Countries. In this case at 60-70USD/bbl. The oil produced in Indonesia belongs to Indonesia, that is, to you too. Mandala, it is paid for, not stolen, at market price. Price is made by OPEC which is not run by the West and by the market (where you need at least two parties. Unless you assume that we are exploiting New Zealand for their wool, and France for their cheese and wine. Or that the West is exploiting poor underpaid Chinese and Indonesian workers. Look at the Countries where the main social inequalities are and there you will find the answer to your the quest for social justice. Look especially at those Countries with huge natural resources like Indonesia, or Saudi Arabia, or Iran, or Mexico or Venezuela. They are nowadays flooded with oil revenues and where is all ths immense wealth going into???? Guess!!
To be honest I do not understand why this debate has turned to oil. What has oil got to do with religion? Giving examples of countries that are predominantly Muslim that have oil and comparing them to examples of countries that are seen as non-Muslim countries or even of the evil "Western" oil companies does not add anything to this particular debate. Saying that certain countries with oil are treated differently to other countries purely because they are Muslim is a huge over-simplification. Insinuating that the large oil companies represent the whole of the West and all it stands for is another cheap statement. The way the oil companies treat the oil-producing countries has nothing to do with Islam in particular, or religion as a whole. It is about profit and capitalism. Whilst it is seemingly increasingly common to use "capitalism" and "profit" as all-embracing terms to describe and explain "the West" and their attitudes to the rest, it is not correct. Just as it is incorrect to say that all Muslims subjugate women. As people have stated above, the only relevance this oil issue has with the debate about religion is to show that predominantly Muslim countries (just like predominantly non-Muslim countries) have a lot of problems that have nothing to do with the West and that are of their own making, i.e. corruption. Just as Muslims seem to be an easy scapegoat for some parts of the West at the moment, so it would seem the "evil" West is an easy scapegoat for Muslims to use. As far as I am concerned, scapegoating is a very easy and useful method for shifting the blame from yourself and for ignoring the real (often self-made) causes for problems.
To be clear, I'm writing not defending corrupted Indonesian gov, nor greedy Arab oligarch, nor preacher who spread the hatred. I just want us objectively admit, that 'exploitation' still exist. its not the kind of old colonialization, where Britain ruled 25% of earth surface at some point. I agree you bought the oil with fair price etc., but look at the way you secure the channel, look when Iraq wants to sell the oil with euro instead of USD, US then 'secure' them by fatal invasion. The similar way when Muslim in Bosnia slaughtered in the past, lebaneese suffer from beirut destruction again and again, Palestinian struggle to defend their territory line, and I belive soon Iran will have the same threat. This really nothing to do as if they're Muslim or not, but for all other Muslim in the world will feel very distracted.
We Muslim feel as one, and eventhough we're in different country and also different race, we share the same feeling. This 1.5 billions community is really threat if at some point we're united and move with one vision. the phrase 'divide et impera' is really proven as an efficient way. Enemy of Islam in my opinion is not only political agenda to divide Muslim, to make them relatively moderat thus weaken the brotherhood feeling, also corruption, poverty, illiteracy, and lack of education, which still far away from winning battle.
Islam come to the world as light in the darkness, to shed the light to in the first time to worst of the worst human being (Arab). They kill their own daughter, worship stone gods, barbaric, and education was never exist in their community. Until then they can rule a big part of the world at some point, just to prove a good 'tools' can create masterpiece out of barbaric tribes. Whereas western community is result from long term evolution to become advanced creature as result of struggle survival in worst part of the world (imagine your ancestor lives and survive from this bloody winter, they must be very clever). Both of them are Allah's will and within His power as well will come the peace, or else…
if the Muslims feel as one, why they kill each other in series? See in Irak: Shiits kill Sunnites and Sunnites massacre shiits. Are the Muslims really feel as one?
According to your opinion, the lack of education, the corruption, poverty, illiteracy etc. are results of the assault of the Islam enemys. Sorry, if you really think like that, wether you are naive or simply minded. Look at the Indonesian Departement of Religion (Amin Sunaryadi, vice chairman of the KPK said, that the DR is one of the most corrupt state bodies in Indonesia. Hmm, maybe they are already infiltrated by the CIA or MI5 or Mossad? Or maybe just the Christian employees and the Christian high rank officials are corrupt?
"whereas western community is the result of a long time evolution to become advanced creature as result of struggle (of life) to survive in the worst part of the world (imagine your ancestor lives …..)"
Maybe you didn't know (or better: don't want to know): every civilization and every culture is the outcome of the struggle to survive in every part of the landscape in this world. And each part of this world has it's special beauty. Worst? Worst in comparison to what? To the brain landscapes of some confused people? Did you ever visit Europe? I know Europe and I know Indonesia. Believe me, there are many beautiful corners in Europe and you surely know, there are some inhospitable areas in Indonesia.
The sawah-culture in Indonesia is the result of tousands of years development, which are also a kind of struggle to survive. The nowadays Indonesian culture is the result of the conjunction of many, many cultures since tousands of years and the nowadays Indonesian is the descendant of mongolic-caucasian citizen groups immigrated to the area now named Indonesia long before our valid eras.
Maybe you are right, that the Islam came to the world as light in the darkness. The problem is, that many of those who name themselves Muslims stand outside of the cone of the light, so they did't and don't receive the light of enlightenment. You knoe, the Christian think in similar way, and many, many of them reside out of the ring of the light.
BTW those western creature invented the electricity including the electric lamp and also the computer you live with. Don't forgett the firearms and the bombs.
The biggest and most terrible enemy is yourself. Do the jihad akbar and fight the evil in yourself, independent to your faith.
Callling the West the "enemy of Islam" is similar to calling Islam the "terrorist of the world".
Regardless of my race or my religion, I don't think any of those 2 statement is correct.
Mandala, you claimed that the West exploits other countries. Before coming to that conclusion, did you ask why those countries could be "exploited"? do you think the West could just go into any country and "exploit" them?
It is not that easy. One of many reasons why the West could do that is because the government officials in those "exploited" countries allow the West to "exploit" their countries — BECAUSE THOSE OFFICIALS ARE CORRUPT AND THINK ONLY OF THEIR PERSONAL INTEREST, NOT THEIR COUNTRY'S INTEREST.
I don't think it is fair to blame anyone before doing a root-cause analysis.
Tomaculum: I think we have lost in translation here, first of all, killing each other in Iraq is the similar level in the day protestant and Catholic kills each other, and that is still a problem. The second, poverty, corruption, illiteracy are not assault of Islam enemy, they are (the poverty, corruption, illuteracy) enemy of Islam, as enemy of any civilization in general. Islam in here takes a challenge to shed a light to enlight those problem. Of course that is not a picnic, where people doing 5 times a day, but still stealing and corrupted. My point is this is not a result, but the challenge it self. And I gave the example when the first time Islam implemented, change the Arab from poverty, illiterate, worshiping stone, daughter killer, to a great ruler, conquered many part of the world.
In the other side, the west, has developed them self as very advanced civilization, as result of surviving on unimaginable place in earth. In Indonesia, we can easily throw wooden stick, and next month we can have cassava for our food, and we don't need to suffer from cold winter. My point is, western civ become advance civ, dominated all invention and technology, as result of heavy natural selection in middle age. But don't also forget, all fundamentals sciences laid down when Arab in their rise, from astronomy, numeric, algebra, medical, etc. in the time where Arab scientist explore Qur'an as their base.
Yeah I really agree with you about most Muslim nowadays actually stand out over the light it self, where the Christian proven that is the way they freed up their mind and progressed, we are Muslim in contrary should stick with the Qur'an if we want to progress.
Andrew: My point of exploitation or today we should say 'exploitation' is when the west wants to secure their sources, like US secure their interest in Iraq. I believe the west never bother (if not they willl be very happy) with corruption in Bangladesh, and Indonesia, as it would ease them to get what they want. Once a nation like Iraq try to manage them self, implement efficiency (by moving from petrodollar), this will make them use their 'old way'. If you're Indonesian, please remember 3 and half centuries our country exploited by dutch. When Iran try to find alternate source of energy, the west started to panic, and we all know what will happen next.
One day in Sky news, there was an interview between the famous newscaster with the radical Muslim leader, and the point is, they also don't like this kind of foreign policy (to invade Iraq), and as democratic country, if you don't like their foreign policy, then vote against them, seems to be logical. Until if you can find to your heart, will any western gov make different FP than they have now??? so basically whoever you choose as government body, they will do the same thing, as it is the common interest in the west. They will still invade Iraq, put army in Afgan, help Israel to kill innocent (in excessive way), threaten iran and syria, defend their people who disgrace Muhammad. Stick together means also combat with our own weakness, poverty, illiteracy, corruption, and I believe that are the most important jihad.
mandala, if you insist that the west exploits other country, then i assume you also believe that Islam is the terrorist of the world.
i myself believe in neither of the statement.
but for the sake of discussion, consider this: when the Muslim Arabs occupied spain and other european countries back in the middle ages, wasn't that an exploitation as well? does that ring a bell? was the Arabs considered as "the west"?
how about Indonesia's occupation of east timor and west papua? isn't that exploitation?
how about Japan's occupation of Indonesia? the 3.5 years of the Japanese occupation is more painful than the 350 years of the dutch's.
why is it that only "the west" gets the blame? because they have ties with the Jews? I am having a problem understanding the mentality behind the "anything related to the Jews is bad" attitude. is it true that your religion tells you to hate the Jews?
iran looking for an alternative source of energy? you're kidding me… right, they are looking for an alternative source of energy, to blow up other countries, that is.
about corruption in Bangladesh and Indonesia, what would you expect the west to do? i personally think they've done more than enough to help the the third world countries – face the fact that the west helps a lot more than your oil-rich Muslim brothers.
When Indonesia occupied timtim with the gun, and killing locals, yes that is 'exploitation' which I refer to, the same thing happen if army and freeport kills local people in irian (if that happen, I'm not sure).
On timtim case, all Christian community in the world react, and they push and push Indonesia at internation forum until finally they liberated. When we do the similar thing, this kind of solidarity, and try to push 'the west', you and most all the western will angry with us, and put a 'radical' mark on us.
My problem, as many Muslim in the world problem, is when those similar act happen to our brother in middle east, I'm not saying it would not be a problem when they kill each other, it is a problem. But this Iraq & afgan invasion, Lebanon agression, Palestinian border conflict, is definitely under 'the west' control. They can choose to do that or not to do that. It's that simple.
andrew: you said "It is sad that a lot of people misuse their capacity to spread hatred against others", the funny thing is, after reading the article over and over again, I still can't figure out which part of the sermon that "spread hate against others". can you please quote them for me?
and you also said "if you insist that the west exploits other country..". please open any books regarding politics, history and international relationships and you will easily find out that the strong nations had always exploited the weak over the ages and throughout history. that's how the strong became how they are today (strong), and that's how they preserved their powers. they became strong by colonialising others some centuries ago, and they preserved their powers by using politics today and by way of liberalism and globalization. the west are not saints..
if you believed that the west is not exploiting anyone accross the world (not just Muslims) as we speak, then you are naive indeed.
the main issue here is generalization. by using the word "the west" you are generalizing – if you agree that "the west exploits other country" then you must agree that "Islam is the terrorist of the world".
if you think I am naive then you are not thinking deep enough.
not all occupations are exploitation; as i mentioned in my first (or second?) post, in a lot of cases it can be attributed to the corrupt government officials.
both the east and the west (and the middle east) have their fair share of occupying other countries
which part of that wasn't clear?
hmm then what word will fit 'the … exploits other resourceful countries' then? and to be more general, the countries will not limited to Muslim as well, that could be Africans, it could be tribes in irian jaya. east timor is a good example, when you all Christian communities act, and freed them. The same feeling happen on us.
Iraq invasion, to be a good example for the west, is generally condemned by the west people, that is also distinguish between political agenda, and general view of west people. But do you think US will stop their act just because their citizen refused to? I heard that petition to withdraw their troops is on the way, signed by the troop it self! think then.. And if US refused to do so (withdraw the troops), will UK and another western do the same? there's a fine line between political & ecomony interest, and their humanity value, and they keep this double standard all the way, and I belive they never change!!
to be more objective, this is open for discussion, the east is not only about Muslim, we can see the rise of China now, and in my opinion, chineese will be the real threat to the west in the future. China I believe will get along well with Muslim world, as they have different approach with the west. They are resourceful them self, and very hard worker. Chineese, despite of many local clash in Indonesia, I respect them as motor of Indonesian economic growth. It is not about winning or loosing the competition, but the west definitely proven them self the way they secure their interest, from colonialization time until now remain unchanged.
Middle age is another discussion, in that time (starting from roman empire to the west colonial time) they all do the same thing, they all kill people to conquer, we know that..
both the east and the west (and the middle east) have their fair share of occupying other countries
-> sure, I agree, then you care about East timor (Christian community) occupied under indo regime, and you also proved that all Christian moved as one to freed up the country, and it's done.
Why can't we act, or express the similar way for Iraq invasion, middle east chaos? It is very clear on the article as well, when the preacher ask for the solidarity. It's not generalization, as he gave a clear example.
If the preacher gave a clear example, then he should only attack that particular example, and not broaden the attack using the word "the west".
Remember when the west blame Islam for the 9/11 incident? you guys were outraged when people blamed Islam, weren't you?
However, I hate to say that Iraq is a bad example – what is clear to some is not always clear to others in the same way. A lot of people believed Iraq and Afghanistan were a threat.
North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela, just to name a few. Are they predominantly Muslims countries? No – but there is something negative going on between them and the US government. My point is, I hope people can get rid of all notions that the west in general is the enemy of Islam.
Then how can we describe the .. then? perhaps political and economical policy of western countries? or what? should we put the Nothing? I explained before, that their Foreign policy could change if the would, but will they? it is intrinsic, because they need to.
N Korea, Cuba, and other former communist, they have their own alliance, and I'm sure still a link between them to help each other, but again, US proven again their ability to divide between them. If I'm communist, may be I will replace the west with the US (or may be UK in addition).
after 9/11, we suffer also from this generalization anyway, I think we all know that.. outrage is a response, but the different treat we receive is act, real.
Re: Ahmad Degel
How more sick can you get Mr. Degel? Double your prozac pills or report to mental institution. Like Arafat, you have no hope as a human being.
West declared war in Islam? Palestinians defend their land with throwing stones against Zionist tanks? How perverted SOB are you Degel?
You are common propagator of nazi-communism virus – Islam. That is the problem. Get the Islam out of the middle east and give Palestinian people a chance to live their own lives. Islam, not Israel or west is the problem down there. Islam is the teaching of hate, violence, murder, terror and deceit.
Western countries did not declare war against any religion. Religions are important part of who and what we human being are, because this is our individual identity. Humans always wanted to believe in something greater than they were. Humans have created many gods for themselves, to lead them, to be with them in need. Arabic beduins and nomads let say, had created many-many gods, such as the Sun god, Moon god, etc. and all of these "gods" were called Allah, the god of this or that, whatever the need or reason they wanted.
Most humanity have done so, so Arabic beduins and tribal nomadic people are not excluded from the rest humanity who created their own gods. Jews had three major gods: Baal, Molech, and El. Incas, Aztec, islanders of Polynesians, Papua, Celebes, Australian aborigines, Hawaii, Europeans they all had own gods, like Arabic nomads and beduins had. So, Allahs, are Allahs which was created by nomadic and beduin people of Arabian territories. That is okay with me, and the rest of the western countries. One Allah more or less, will not make the world poorer or richer.
In case your Islamic doctrines blinded you completely Mr. Degel, the biggest damage to Palestinian people did Arafat, who screwed them up without mercy. Arafat was pure Islamic nazi SOB, terrorist and murder of Palestinian people. He enslaved them in Islamic ghettos and Islamic slums, and made sure they will never see the truth about him and Islam. Poor and uneducated Palestinians are meat for Islamic meat grinder for Islamic games against humanity.
Mr. Degel, name one Pakistani, Indonesian, Saudi, Syrian, Iranian, Egyptian family who adopted a single Palestinian or Pakistani orphan? Mr Degel, name one Palestinian orphan or child who is not train as a suicidal bomber? Well, is that telling us something about the Islamic love to another Islamic person?
I am not Jew, I am Polish, so I have no reason to defend or accuse either side. Palestinian people are most abused by Islamic people, not Israelis. Mr Degel, lies and deceit's are common weapons of Islamic manipulators like you, against Islam followers. People like you destroyed Islam, not western countries. With people like you, Islam have no chance of surviving.
All ayatollahs and mullahs and persons like Degel are screwing Islam followers. They amass extreme fortunes by exploiting poor and uneducated people. People who were born to this nazi-communis system of Islam, do not know normal life, human rights, humanitarian love, and what is their own worth.
Arafat was the biggest thief who ever lived in Palestine territories, and because he is "Muslim", and he hates "Jews", he became "hero". So, that's telling you what is needed to do, to become a "famous Muslim" So, this is a simple position of Islam: in order to become a "Muslim", you have to rip off other Muslims, hate Jews, and created lies against western countries, and Islam.
That is why people like Arafat and Degel have degraded Islam to a mental disorder illness. They are mentally sick bustards. One of them – Arafat kicked the bucket, one more to go! Before Arafat died, has have stolen almost 2 billions of dollars from Palestinian people. The money western countries sent to help Palestinian people. I hope this bustard rotten somewhere in the desert sands, and donkey and camel piss on the spot he is buried in.
Western countries sent reliefs money to Pakistan as well, in hope to help victims of natural disasters. What these Islamic people are doing with the relief money? They are funding terrorism training camps to fight the people who just send them money to rebuild their land, their own homes, to buy food, clothes, medicine, etc.. Western people send relief money, but Islamists went there to gather orphans, to turn and train them as suicide bombers like this Bali bomber who killed over 220 peaple, who was released from jail because he is Muslim, for the "Islam cause", so people like Arafat, Degel, and other ayatollahs and mullahs can fill their bank accounts with the money they got from the western evil countries.
To you all die hard Islamist: compare the creation of two important legend in Islam word: 1. The Gate, or the Way, in Arabic al-Bab. He was proclaimed as a prophet in late 1890s, got huge crowds and populous follow his teachings, and was murdered by ayatollahs and mullahs. Why would religious leaders kill own prophet? Money, greed, envy and lost of control over masses!.
Person #2. Mohamed, the "prophet". The problem is, Mohamed was and still is very popular name in Arabic countries. Scenists have problems in putting together one Mohamed to many different places and times.
Some scholars doubt his existence at all. But still, mullahs and ayatollahs and other "Islamic" leaders are keeping the legends alive to amassed huge fortunes for them selves. In any case, even if Mohamed existed, he would be an illiterate fellow who couldn't scrabble a thing on the sand, never less write or dictate a koran. Also, please note that the oldest version of koran was written at least 200 years after the death of Mohamed, presumed Mohamed. The problem is which Mohamed we are talking about?
The second oldest koran script is believed to be written 250-300 years after same unknown Mohamed's death. So, which words Mohamed have written or dictated to the koran him self?
There was one Mohamed who was a criminal element and was banned from Mecca by the Mecca's court and legal court orders. Compare this let say to current Indonesian matters of Mr Tibo, Mr. Riwu and Mr DeSilva. These three man were proclaimed criminals in the eyes of their own government, as Mohammed was a criminal in the eyes of the Mecca government.
So, basically Mr. Tibo, Mr. Riwu, and Mr DeSilva and Mr Mohamed all four of them are same kind of common criminals. So, why in Mecca they let the common criminal Mohamed free, and banned him from Mecca, spearing his life, but modern Indonesian Islamic government shot these three men dead? Well, it is simple, for this same reasons ayatollahs and mullahs murdered the Gate, al-Bab. Also, Mr. Mohamed was lucky, he didn't lived in Islam infected country.
I would be glad to discuss in public media such as Indonesia Matters or others, this matter with any "esteem scholar" of Islam. So, this particular Mohamed falls in same category like Stalin, Hitler, Pol-Pot, Arafat, Hussain, and Husseini to name few. All of these men murdered, and robbed their own people as well as any one who had different pont of view. It is a matter of time, when Indonesian president will turn this way as did Hussain, Stalin and Hitler and Pol-Pot. Islam is mental disorder, that is why.
Or, is creating of koran a money making device for mullahs, ayatollahs and "esteem Islamic" scholars and leaders? Any questions? Please!
Any die hard Islamist – Muslim, or "esteem Islam scholar", is welcome to ask me, or to comment on the subjects I mentioned here. I will be glad to answer any question of the subject of religion and Islam.
Very interesting Mr. Czeslaw. I agree with you, as do 5 billion other people in the world, but I'm afraid that no Muslim here will be able to "discuss" this matter in a civilized way. They will only try to criticize you as person and call you names. It is their standard operating procedure. But just laugh about it like I do, because it is sooooo funny, it's like they are programmed robots — someone criticizes iSlam, they call you nasty names and make threats against you. Every time, like clockwork. But as you know, when they criticize you personally, that is when everybody knows that you've WON the debate. That is a truism throughout history — but their history is still 1,000 years behind, so that's why they can't figure those things out yet.
robots: "someone criticizes Israel / Zionism, they call him/her anti-semit."
doe, here, I give you a mirror, learn to use it.
Mr Riccardo, thanks for your comment, reply.
Look at Quazi Says:
After killing a pastor in Sulawesi, Islamic militants burned down a church yesterday. The Indonesian government also announced a delay on the executions of the Bali bombers. This is what happens when Muslims stick together…
It is hard to keep track on Islamic terrorist acts around the world. Is there any one who have some records of it all?
In one moment Muslim will bow down to Allah, then a minute latter this same Muslim will cut someone's throat. They will even record on camera the beheadings posing with the panties/underwear on their heads, screaming Allah akbar, like bunch of mental patients in some abounded mental institution. Also, if you can notice, they use western evil made cameras to record their Islamic faith – beheadings of hostages, they parade with kalishnikov's automatic guns, they wear Nike, Adidas and other western evil made pants, shoes, shirts, etc. They do their kidnaps in western evil made automobiles and trucks. They use evil western made explosives, etc.. Is there any thing in this world which was design, created and produced by Muslims/Islamists? I am not talking about crude oil, here either.
I hope, that one day there will wake up one Palestinian Hero, who will stand up for Palestinian people, and he or she? will say: This is enough of this bullsh*t. We are free Palestinian people, we are citizens of this world. We will educate our Palestinian children. Our Palestinian children are same like the children of Sweden, Poland, Canada, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Spain, Philippines, Australia… They deserve to have better lives than suicide belts around their childish bodies. Our Palestinian children are smart and intelligent as any normal kids in other parts of the world. And I, Czeslaw believe that this holds the truth!
We will educate them, so their lives will be better than ours. Our future is in our LIVE children and not in blurred vision of Islamic fanaticism. We, the Palestinian people will no longer be the meat for Islamic meat grounding machine.
I think, that PakistanI would benefit from approach like this as well. Who wouldn't?
So, far for last 700 years Muslims and Islam are proving to us all, that they are not willing, and do not want to live with others in peace. Start with the conquest of Persia to Spain to the GENOCIDE and mass murder of the Armenian people in 1915-1923, till today's Islamic GENOCIDE in progress at Darfur. It is all about spread of Islam and Islamic terror and horror wherever and whenever possible. Where is any "esteemed Islamic scholar" who will comment on another Islamic GENOCIDE in progress at Darfur?! Degen, where are you with your big Islamic mouth? Darfur, is just another Islamic principal, like in case of Mr. De Silva, Mr. Riwu, and Mr. Tibo in Indonesia, where Indonesian attorney general Saleh, made his own mouth nothing more than an asshole full of stinky Islamic crap. Hey, attorney general Saleh, would you mind to comment on this, please? I hope you will rotten together with Arafat, Hitler, Stalin and Husseini in one piss hole.
We here in Europe are taking Muslims in, to integrate them in our communities, in our lives. We provide free social benefits, medicine, food, shelter to them. And what they do? The next day, they open the mosques in our countries and our towns and preach hate toward us!
The Islamists here in Europe are terrorizing us here, they bomb us, they spread horror in our towns. So, Indonesians do not feel single out in this Islamic nightmare.
QuazI said:
After killing a pastor in Sulawesi, Islamic militants burned down a church yesterday. The Indonesian government also announced a delay on the executions of the Bali bombers. This is what happens when Muslims stick together.
You're so proud of being the lowest form of life on earth. I doubt real Muslims are willing to admit you're one of them, but hey, I never know.
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Malta hosts a record number of couples for the Kata European Championships
Posted By Sportinmalta On May 26, 2013 @ 8:49 am In Featured,Judo/Karate | No Comments
The Tenth Edition of the Kata European Judo Championships was held successfully at the Cottonera Sports Complex with no fewer than 112 couples from 19 countries participating, including Malta.
On the first day of competition, all the couples contested one of the 5 official Kata of the Kata European Championships. Each Kata was divided in 2 groups, depending on the age of Tori (the person completing the technique). The audience, participants and European Judo Union delegates were spectators to several interesting results including reconfirmations of titles, but also new entries on the podium. Malta also was represented by three couples: Joe Muscat and Joe Bonello in the Katame no kata, Ivan Esposito and Tiziana Apap in the Ju no kata, and Ray Fava and George Fabri in the Kime no kata. Joe Muscat and Joe Bonello had contested the Katame no Kata at the 2009 World Kata Championships in Malta, where they had placed 7 managed to score 382 points, but as the level of Kata has increased drastically, these points only placed them. For the four other Maltese Judoka, these Championships were the beginning of a new experience in Kata at the 9 European level. Although they did not place in the top positions, their demonstration augurs well for the future these athletes in Kata.
The opening ceremony started off with four Belgian children (8 year old BEDIAT Manon, 9 year old GASPARD Enola, 10 year old BEDIAT Julien & MOREAU Hugo) winners of the Belgian National Judo Show Championships who showed their skills in Judo techniques. 19 children then marched in holding the placard of the countries participating in these Championships. Hon Dr Stefan Buontempo inaugurated his first International Sports event when he welcomed the more than 300 delegates. Dr Buontempo highlighted the importance of Sport Tourism to the Maltese tourism economy and praised the Maltese Judo Federation not only for their excellent sporting results over the years, but also for hosting their 5th International event. Over these years, Judo has hosted the largest single sport event for Malta when in the Cadet European Championships, over 700 young Judoka came from 43 European countries.
After Dr Buontempo's welcome speech and that of the General Secretary of the MOC Mr Joseph Cassar and the President of the MJF also General Secretary of the European Judo Union Mr Envic Galea, the Vice President of the EJU Mr Franco Capelletti declared the Championships officially open.th with 345 points. This year they Amber, nephew of the founder of the Maltese Judo Federation and a Judoka herself, sang passionately the Maltese National anthem acapella after which the crowd broke in a great applause. Dr Buontempo later presented the medals to the winners of the European Championships.
On the second day, the people present in the hall could witness the Kata demonstration of the best 6 couples in Europe of each Kata, when they performed to establish the absolute winner of each Kata in the Open Kata European Championships. The audience also followed the Koshiki No Kata European Cup, which is a Kata dedicated to the historical source of Judo.
These Championships ended with the Judo Show European Cup. Hon Joe Mizzi visited the Judo European Championships and had the opportunity to see these spectacular Judo Shows given by the Belgian, Dutch and
Italian National teams. Judo Show is one of the categories in the European Championships, where up to six Judoka are free to show the beauty of the discipline of Judo when applied in competition, kata or self-defence. Some displayed the techniques in slow motion others in lightning speed, others showed how they could easily handle a gang armed and unarmed attack. The shows were accompanied by music, making the shows more effective.
Hon Mizzi participated in the medal ceremony of the second day.
The Championships were visited also by the newly appointed chairman of the Sports Reform Commission Hon Chris Agius. Mr Joe Cassar General Secretary MOC, Mr Alfred Cachia KMS, Dr Lucienne Attard MOC were also present during the second day.
The participants were extremely happy with the hospitality offered by the Organising Committee and the Malta Judo Federation, and a lot of them already sent their congratulations by email, through social media or made sure that they congratulated one of the organisers. Behind every successful championships, there is a great team of volunteers and sponsors, and the Malta Judo Federation is grateful to the support it received in making this event one of the greatest Kata European Championships!
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Aljawal improves data protection
Saudi mobile telco Aljawal has deployed a customer data backup and restore service from MobiComp.
Saudi mobile telco Aljawal has deployed a customer data backup and restore service from MobiComp.
The MobileKeeper system helps protect personal data should a mobile be damaged, lost or stolen and will be supplied to all Aljawal's 13.5 million customers. Using an automatic system, MobileKeeper protects any kind of data held on a mobile device from basic content such as contacts, texts, photos and ring tones to more complex applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel.
Aljawal, the mobile arm of Saudi Telecom Company (STC), said providing the service would help encourage the adoption of advanced mobile services.
"By offering our customers a comprehensive backup and restore product we are meeting a genuine need," Aljawal marketing general manager Jameel Al Molhem said. "It not only gives users confidence to start using more advanced mobile data services, but it is also offering a solution that is network-based, which is critical to any operator."


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This week we are going to start by going back in history; all the way to the 2nd Century. There was a movement at that time known as Docetism, which taught that Jesus only appeared to be human, but really remained all divine while here on earth. This teaching was fought against by the early church which proclaimed clearly that Jesus was 100% divinity and 100% human. This is called in theology the incarnation where God became a human being…totally. A by-product of Docetism was that the human body was denigrated to "less than" status. What is important is the spirit of humankind, not the physical side. Again, traditional Christianity fought against this, though probably not a vigorously as the teaching on Jesus.
I believe Scriptures teach a much more holistic view of humankind. I believe each human being is made up of a physical body, a soul, a mind, emotions, and the need for relationships. Jesus taught this clearly when he summed up the commandments: "Love the Lord your God with all of your heart (emotions and will) and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength (physical). Also love your neighbor as yourself (relationships)." (Mark 12:30-31) All of these are interconnected with each other; when one is affected all the others are affected. They can be distinguished but not separated. For instance, if I am anxious emotionally, this affects my body, my mind, my relationships and my soul. The longing is for health in all aspect of our being; a wholeness that breathes life into every part of us. So, when Jesus asks the question of the paralytic in John 5, "Do you want to get well?" it is more than just a physical healing that he is talking about. It is a holistic healing: body, mind, soul, emotions and relationships. I know one thing: I do…I want to be well! I long for a wholeness in all parts of my being. Yes, Jesus, I want to be well. I want to be healthy spiritually, physically, emotionally, mentally and in relationships. I think it all must begin in a relationship with Jesus. We are going to think about this on Sunday. Some possible passages of Scripture to read: John 5:1-15; Mark 12:28-34; Psalm 139:13-18; Genesis 1:26-31.
Grace upon Grace,
Pastor Verlyn
P.S. I will be on vacation the month of July. Please pray that this would be a time of reflection, renewal, rest and strengthening of relationships. I am looking forward to beginning a series of messages on the 10 Commandments beginning in August titled: "How to Live Free!"


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The FairValley Association
Executive Committee
Attie Adams – Chairperson
Angeline Swarts
Marlene Van der Berg
Awie Adolf
Solly Arnolds
Ivan Patel
Jack Malanga
Jointly prepared by
Judy Ferdenando – On behalf of The Fair Valley Association
Ori Ilan – On behalf of Mr. Charles Back and The Fairview Trust
Anton Melck, Attorney - Cluver Markotter Inc.
Paarl, November 2007
The Fair Valley Association (hereinafter "the Association") was established during 1997. The Association's Constitution was adopted on 28 May 2000 as "Die Grondwet van Fair Valley Gemeenskaplike Eiendomsvereniging" and registered in terms of the Communal Property Associations Act 28 of 1996. The farm Fair Valley (FARM 1644, IN EXTENT 17,6715 hectares) was acquired by the Association. The acquisition of the farms was funded partially by government grants made available to the qualifying employees and partially by a grant made available by the Fairview Trust. Mr. Charles Back and the Fairview Trust ( http://www.fairview.co.za/ ) are morally committed to the success of the Fair Valley Association. The initiative was supported at the time when the land was purchased, by the Department of Land Affairs.
This is a sincere holistic attempt
to address the need for housing
within a strong sustainable community
for us - farm workers and for other
previously disadvantage people
and to empower us
to own our homes and other properties, to manage our life, to gain skills and to contribute to the environment for the future of us all.
The executive committee of the Fair Valley Association, which is the authorized representative body of the Association, meets regularly to make decisions in regard with managing the Association's affairs. The committee passed a resolution on Friday 9th of November 2007, to fully adopt the EcoVillage rational for their land and instructed to prepare this proposal. The Committee approved this proposal and embraced it as its official plan, on Monday 26 November 2007.
DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES – THE EcoVILLAGE CONCEPT
The Fair Valley Village will be developed as an EcoVillage – environmentally friendly and energy efficient.
Sustainable proven alternative building methods will be applied, in order to achieve better quality and better affordability of the construction as well as of the long term maintenance costs.
Sustainable proven alternative energy and energy saving methods will be applied - like solar energy, wind generators, grey water systems, waste treatment systems, sewage treatment systems, energy saving appliances etc.
The bulk services issue will be addressed in accordance with the EcoVillage practices, which strives to build most, if not all, of the solutions, on-site.
The Fair Valley EcoVillage will offer "Gap Housing" homes in the range prices of R500,000 - R800,000.
"The Expanding Home" concept will be applied – plans will be drawn and approved for 120sqm homes, while minimum building size will be 80sqm. Families will have the choice to purchase the basic home or the full size one, or something in between, in accordance with their financial ability. They may expand the house during the years to come when they can afford it and if they wish so.
Residential plots can be vary in sizes but will not be less than 250sqm. All residential plots and houses will be deeded to the owners.
Residential development should cover no more than 50% of the entire land.
At least 20% must be developed as open areas, public gardens, parks, sport fields, dams etc.
30% of the EcoVillage will include commercial and public services facilities; pre-primary and primary schools; a Community Center with a public swimming pool; a visitors' education center; a Church; a commercial center with options for small and micro businesses opportunities.
The Fair Valley Association, in conjunction with the other developers and institutions, whether to be involved, will incorporate any potential business opportunity, and skills development opportunity, into the planning and the execution of the project. This includes training young adults and unemployed people as part of the construction process, especially when new alternative building and energy methods are applied.
A Home Owners' Association, which will include the future owners of properties in the EcoVillage, will be formed, in order to allow management and maintenance of the communal properties, and the implementation of the fundamental principals of the EcoVillage life style. Owners of properties, who automatically become members, and residents in the EcoVillage, will have to sign that they comply with the rules and regulations of the EcoVillage, as will be stated in the Home Owners' Association' constitution and code of conduct.
A Comprehensive consumer education program will be conducted with all home-owners. This will be fundamental in the project as all home-owners will be probably 1st time home-buyers.
Stellenbosch University's Business School, mainly, but not only, through its Entrepreneurship course, has agreed in principal to support the planning process, as well as the implementation of the Fair Valley EcoVillage. Its role will be an important parameter in the support system for the residents.


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Bulking for winter. It's a thing. And no, we're not talking about some sort of exercise fad.
'Cos that cold weather got you burning energy by the minute, we feel it's only appropriate to go into full carb loading mode. Now is no time for shame. Put your comfy pants on, maybe even undo that top button and prepare to indulge. It is winter afterall and there's plenty of time for green juice detoxing when spring hits. So, to get you through the coming months, here's a list of Sydney's top 20 restaurants where you can get your winter carbs on.
- Chester White: Spaghetti served out of a truffled pecorino cheese wheel. Need we say more?
- Mentmore and Morley: Yes, you can have bolognaise for breakfast. Well, it comes on toast… with poached eggs. No judgement.
- Barista and Cook: Their grilled mac 'n' cheese toastie has us reminiscing about our poor uni days but damn, it is that good.
- Nelson Road Tuckshop: While we're still on the topic of toasties, the four cheese toastie with truffle oil really is the best thing since sliced bread.
- Stuffed Beaver: The Classic Poutine. Cheese, chips and gravy. If that isn't carb loading, we don't know what is.
- Ramen Ikkyu: With 16 types of soul-warming ramen on the menu, you can stock up for the winter.
- Shuk: the chicken schnitzel sandwich with their house made aioli is worth every carb filled bite.
- White Taro: The flame grilled marinated chicken baguette with a side of chips. Good luck walking and not rolling out of here.
- Smoking Gun Bagels: All of the bagels. Seriously.
- Paramount Coffee Project: Three words: Maple. Bacon. Gravy. The buttermilk fried chicken waffle is where it's at.
- Napoli Nel Cuore: The Rustica pizza with potato. Cos that's some good carb on carb action right there.
- The Milk Bar By Café Ish: Their bullshit bacon cheese classic burger is bullshit good.
- Brooklyn Depot: Who knew consuming carbs could lead to paying tribute to an old classic? The fugeddaboudit burger with a side of Garbage Fries gives Al Pacino a run for his money.
- Firefly: Why stop at one meal, when you can have plenty? The deluxe sharing banquet (that's full of carby goodness) might just send you into winter hibernation.
- ACME: Coffee Fettuccini—the lovechild of two of life's little pleasures.
- Cook And Archie: Break your fast with their fluffy ricotta hotcakes.
- Bloodwood Newtown: Polenta chips with gorgonzola sauce. Polenta is like corn, so it's good for you right?
- Haven Specialty Coffee: The sweet and savoury awesome kimcheese waffles will blow your mind.
- Ballers Polpetteria: Meatballs on polenta, mash or spaghetti. Carbs, carbs, carbs.
- Popolo: The Amalfi gnocchi is only a starter... then there's pizza, more pasta, dessert... you get the gist.
Still hungry? Checkout Sydney's best boozy brunches.
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Carlo Scarpa Hall – free admittance until full capacity
10 individual seats reserved for myMAXXI cardholders writing to email@example.com by the day before the event
MAXXI and the Maria e Goffredo Bellonci Foundation present a series of meetings with the five finalists of the LXXIII edition of the Strega Prize, the prestigious Italian literary award that for more than seventy years has recounted our country by documenting its language, changes, and traditions.
A new program designed to give space to the best voices of contemporary narrative and start a collective reflection, through dialogue with other expressive languages, on the most urgent current events.
In the third meeting, Marco Missiroli, winner of the 2019 Young Strega Prize and Strega Prize finalist with his book Fedeltà (Einaudi) and the actor Vinicio Marchioni talk about the strength of passions and how being loyal to ourselves and our aspirations could lead us to be unfaithful to the expectations of others.
Introduction by
Irene De Vico Fallani Head of MAXXI Public Programs
Marco Missiroli writer
Vinicio Marchioni author
Stefano Petrocchi Director of the Maria e Goffredo Bellonci Foundation
In collaboration with the Maria e Goffredo Bellonci Foundation


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SBRI Healthcare is an NHS England funded initiative led by the Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) to develop technology solutions for known healthcare challenges. The next funding round focuses on finding innovative solutions with the ability to transform integrated care, social care, effective data sharing and workforce pressure.
SBRI Healthcare Competition is now open. The deadline for applications is 12:00 (noon) on 14 August 2019
There is currently a drive to transform the NHS and social care system to address the growing, and increasingly unsustainable, pressures faced by the system. This drive includes initiatives to transform the health and care workforce, to integrate health and care to better meet the needs of the population and to expand and improve access to health and social care.
Details of the background, challenges and expected outcomes of the projects can be found on the SBRI website. There are also two briefing events (1st July & 10th July) for this call, which you can find on our events page.
SBRI Healthcare welcome applications from companies with solutions that can enhance the screening, diagnosis or management of cancer. Successful applicants can receive up to £100,000 of funding for phase one (feasibility) and up to £1 million for phase two (development) for solutions that match the needs of the NHS.


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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Pull up a Chair to The Disney Food Blog
In their words, "The Disney Food Blog offers in-depth news about food and restaurants in Disney's parks and resorts, along with reviews and photographs of and about anything food-related in Disney parks, resorts, movies, and events."
Their expert staff of eight consists of all various forms of Disney food enthusiasts. Included among them are two former Disney Mom's Panel members. I'm still reading backwards through their blog and the words that are coming to mind about their reviews are, "Complete", "Fun", "Varied", "Open-Minded". I'm still getting a feel for each of the writers as I'm going through each of the posts. They cover everything that comes in contact with food. Restaurants and room descriptions are a big part of their reviews also. Did I mention drinks? I've got a pad next to me on my desk to write down all the various places we need to stop at next time into the parks. Their review of the Sake Bar in Japan has me itching to get over there and try a little warm sake before illuminations.
One of their series of posts is the Best Of series. Just as it says, these are posts about the Best Of restaurants on Disney Property. Best Restaurants to watch fireworks from, Best for Romance, Best for Burgers, Best without a reservation and so on. They have an online E-book: Guide to Walt Disney World Dining and you can also sign up for their newsletter and keep up-to-date on all the Food-Goings-on on the Disney Properties.
So if your into planning trips to WDW and what to get a feel of some of the restaurants you've not been to, check out The Disney Food Blog.
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Well, the rides and attractions are only there to fill in the time between meals, right?
That is always one of the best parts of planning the trips- planning the ADR's. I hope you get all the ones you want- but based on being a "value" time, there should be something that works- Cant wait to hear the Podcast after you get back!
- January 19, 2012 at 2:02 PM
- AJ said...
Thanks for the great review of the blog!! I'm grateful and hope we can continue to bring you solid info about dining in Disney World! Looking forward to hearing the podcast, too!
- January 25, 2012 at 1:16 PM
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Any organization with road warriors knows that having Web access on the go can be a big productivity booster, but the big question is: How many companies are willing to pay for their workers to be connected in flight?
The answer to that question seems to be, not many.
While there's lots of excitement among frequent fliers and business travelers for having the service, few seem to be willing or able to ante up the cash for it.
Their reluctance could be blamed on the lousy economy that has most business travelers watching their expenses or limiting trips altogether.
Or it could be that consumers in general aren't so happy about paying for something they're used to getting for free in coffee shops, hotels and other public venues.
That being said, there seems to be little doubt that enthusiasm for having in-flight Wi-Fi is high. In the survey by the Wi-Fi Alliance, travelers said they would be willing to make significant sacrifices or change travel plans to ensure Wi-Fi access while in-air:
- 76% said they would choose an airline based on the availability of in-flight Wi-Fi;
- 55% said they would shift their flight by one day if it meant having in-flight Wi-Fi, and
- 71% reported they would opt for a flight with Wi-Fi access over one that provided meal service.
The survey also asked travelers why they felt they needed Wi-Fi for during their flight. Their answers:
- 40% said they view work-related travel as stressful and 64% said they feel "on the clock" when they are traveling for work
- 50% of business travelers frequently take a "red-eye" flight because they must be reachable during business hours, but
- 82% insist that Wi-Fi would help them stay on top of projects
- among business travelers who have not yet used in-flight Wi-Fi, 87% said they would check e-mail and 63%would log on to work-related systems such as sales and reporting tools if Wi-Fi were available on a flight.
- Of the same travelers, 95%said Wi-Fi access would make them more productive.
But in spite what the Wi-Fi Alliance calls "pent up demand" for the service and the imagined productivity boost, airlines that offer the service find only about 10-15% of passengers actually buy it.
Some speculate that airlines may start offering the service free to their frequent flyers or their first or business class passengers. Others believe the correct price point may be somewhat lower than what's now being charged (in many instances, the cost is geared to the length of the flight and ranges between about $6 and $13.)
And if airline competition heats up significantly, there could be a carrier that starts offering free service to all passengers. That move could start a Wi-Fi war that benefits consumers in a big way.
Would you be willing to pay for in-flight Web access, and if so, what do you think is a fair price? Would you be inclined to approve the expense for your road warriors?


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A new traffic light at the intersection of Meade and Cathedral Streets, between Outeniqua and Holy Cross primary schools, will be activated on Friday 16 February 2018. The primary goal of the existing four-way stop being converted to a traffic light is the contribution this will make to a dependable schedule for the GO GEORGE bus service.
Although no bus routes currently use this intersection, the new traffic light will distribute existing traffic congestion better, benefitting traffic in general, and consequently the bus schedules. Since this conversion will not be without growing pains, road users are urged to use the intersection with the necessary caution.
Extended upgrading project
George Municipality is busy with an extended project to upgrade the traffic lights on all the main routes (corridors) in the city being used by GO GEORGE buses, with new hardware. This equipment will make it possible to control traffic flow using the latest software. The project is aimed at supporting the GO GEORGE bus service – which offers an essential service to a huge part of the city's residents – to stay on schedule, and will also include the installation of traffic lights where needed. As a result, traffic flow in general will benefit by the upgrade.
According to Trevor Botha, George Municipal Manager, the controllers of the traffic lights being are being replaced. "To be able to control traffic flow from one central point, we have to standardize the controllers to one type that supplies feedback to the control center where we will be working with the latest technology and software. Up to now, we have been using the U-shaped loop in the road surface just in front of the traffic light. However, these sensors get damaged when any work on the road is undertaken and by normal wear and tear of the roads. The new apparatus being installed on top of the traffic light poles will supply continuous visual feedback of the situation at the intersection," said Botha.
Effect on synchronization
Botha points out that the normal synchronization of traffic lights – the new ones included – is currently disrupted by wide-spread construction work on traffic lights all over town, since all lights must work with the same technology before synchronization will be possible again. "We realize that this is frustrating and apologies for the inconvenience. We ask for road users' patience and cooperation so that we eventually may implement a first-class system for George."


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Most people see 2016 as a pretty crappy year. Globally it certainly has been for all sorts of reasons!
Just to name a few...
War in Syria
U.S. presidential election
Orlando nightclub attack
Dakota pipeline protests
And a lot of celebrities and public figures died too, like:
David Bowie
Alan Rickman
Gary Marshall
Gene Wilder
Arnold Palmer
Florence Henderson
Fidel Castro
John Glenn
Alan Thicke
Oy vey!
But on a personal level, I really can't complain. Life always has ups and downs, but overall I am blessed. Though the girls still make me crazy (I think they probably always will), I am so proud of them. They are good kids, super smart and very athletic. They are doing so well with all their endeavors. I have a supportive partner and we are financially comfortable. Adam's career is flourishing, I have a job I love, I have had several new opportunities, and I have had many great times with great friends.
Nevertheless, I hope 2017 is a better one for the millions of people worldwide who are not so fortunate.
Stay happy and healthy and I'll be back after the new year.


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Cropped shot of a pregnant woman touching her belly
Pregnancy might be common, but some of the side effects that come with it can be as unique as each child-bearing mama. Chances are likely many of your female friends and family members have offered their own cautionary pregnancy tales in an effort to keep you well-informed and ahead of the learning curve. But even research and personal stories don't prepare you for all the odd and bizarre changes that lie before you. Thankfully, KC Parent has you covered with more insight into the unusual. And have no fear—some of the crazy things awaiting you are super awesome!
The Not So Good
Crying at the Drop of a Hat
If you're not naturally prone to crying, one of the biggest surprises that comes from pregnancy won't be physical but emotional. With a surge of hormones running through her system, a pregnant mom can find herself teary-eyed at any occasion. And I'm not talking about crying at the climax of a sad movie or shedding a tear as a loved one moves away (when tears are expected). I'm talking about having a waterworks display on Aisle 9 when the grocery store runs out of your favorite cereal or getting misty-eyed when a coworker you didn't know that well has a company retirement party. Crying for seemingly ambiguous reasons can be embarrassing when it takes place in public, but it's even worse when you don't know why you're crying in the first place. And don't be surprised if you find yourself grappling with very strong mixed emotions. It's not unheard of for a pregnant mom to simultaneously laugh hysterically and cry uncontrollably.
Your Belly Isn't the Only Thing That Will Change
Documenting your growing baby bump is a rising trend with multiple apps to prove it. Adoring friends and family can marvel at your burgeoning abdomen and relish the fact that Baby is now the size of a kumquat. But some parts of your body may change in ways that are less desirable (not to mention, you won't want to draw attention to them!). Things like excessive hair loss, hair growth or change in hair texture (such as going from straight hair to corkscrew curls or vice versa) are par for the course, thanks to ever-changing hormone levels. Skin tags and pigment changes known as melasma also can be an unexpected surprise throughout pregnancy. But the changes don't stop there. Some women experience restless leg syndrome, bleeding gums or a super sensitive nose. Thankfully, these are all short-term side effects. One potentially permanent change you may run into? An expanded foot size. Thanks to weight gain and added pressure, feet can take a beating, and it's not uncommon to go up a half size or more after pregnancy. So consider holding off on those adorable Jimmy Choo's until postpartum when you know your feet's true size.
Hot Flashes Aren't Just Reserved for Menopause
In an odd twist of fate, pregnancy might give you something new to bond over with your menopausal mom and her friends: hot flashes. That's right! Progesterone, a thermogenic hormone, coupled with increased blood flow is the perfect recipe for a hot mama (literally and figuratively!). If you feel hot, it's because you are. Pregnant women typically have an elevated temperature, meaning it's not uncommon to find yourself sweating when everyone around you is comfortable.
The Good
You'll Be a Walking Conversation Starter
When you made the announcement to family and friends that you were expecting, chances are everyone from your crazy second cousin to your quiet coworker felt compelled to tell you about their birth stories. But don't be surprised if random strangers want to come up to you with well-wishes and their own personal stories, too. Many will want to make predictions as to whether you're having a boy or a girl based on how you're carrying. Some will be so bold as to guess how many you're carrying (not a welcome exchange if you're only having one baby!). Some moms-to-be find this banter to be invasive, but many more find it encouraging. Make no mistake about it: Pregnancy is a bonding agent, bringing people together over a common, yet miraculous, phenomenon.
Your Fashion Game Can Be Just as Strong
What girl doesn't like the excuse for a new wardrobe? Whether you carry large or small, new clothes will be an inevitable part of your future. That alone can be a cue for rejoicing! But pregnant women these days have even greater reason for celebration: Modern maternity wear is super cute! Long gone are the days of circus tent-like tops meant to hide a baby bump. Say hello to trendy designs and fashions meant to accentuate the beautiful changes that are taking place within you. Even better still, many maternity clothing companies are making transitional wear, meant to extend the life of your clothing through postpartum, as well as tops that are breastfeeding-friendly.
Sayonara Acne!
Pregnancy may come with a lot of physical changes, but clearer skin is one we can all cheer for. Many women who struggle with cystic acne and zits during their periods comment on having better skin during pregnancy than any other time before. So, if you find yourself in the fortunate state of being blemish-free, chalk it up to that pregnancy glow everyone always talks about!
Lauren Greenlee is a boy mom of three and a freelance writer. Her biggest pregnancy surprise was finding that her feet grew from a standard width to a 4E width permanently. She enjoys running after her boisterous crew and writing from her Olathe home.
As always, please consult your health care provider with any questions or concerns.


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Our Services
IT Infrustructure Specialists
Ekwantu Consulting's two entrepreneurs have an extensive portfolio of technical skills and expertise.
Our experience and skills range over various products, technologies, vendors and platforms. The Management's depth of technical expertise ensures that customer incidents are handled efficiently and effectively. Ekwantu Consulting ensures high quality of service, and very high levels of availability of customer IT infrastructure.
The above technical know-how is coupled with great business knowledge enabling the entrepreneurs of this business to talk and understand business related IT matters that enable IT to work as efficiently as possible supporting the overall business vision and strategy.
Assessments and Health-checks
Ekwantu Consulting will conduct free infrastructure assessments across all IT platforms to help identify operational gaps, closing these aiding in efficiency. These assessments are conducted on an on-going basis, once work commences ensuring we're always on top of any vulnerabilities that might occur. This allows us to be proactive in approach, minimizing, to a great extent, the time to repair lowing and potentially doing away with unforeseen downtime of production operations.
Services Offering Catalogue:
- Cloud specific consultancy
- Cloud migrations
- Private and public cloud services
- Server environment management
- Virtualisation (end to end)
- Product development, deployment and management within the organisation
- IT consultancy
- IT support services
- Hardware purchasing (including server sizing exercises)
- Business Development engagement Value offering
- Ekwantu focuses on improving business processes and systems, enabling customers to make timeous and meaningful management decisions.
Above all, our business is about valuing relationships. We are committed to our stakeholders, our clients and our technology partners so that we can deliver ongoing value and industry leadership.
IaaS: Infrastructure as- a Service
Ekwantu's Infrastructure as-a Service offering public and private cloud services with management, monitoring, security, and always-on availability. IaaS services sometimes called cloud are available from one of the country's leading ISP's tier-3 plus datacentres, which are monitored for security, availability, performance and capacity.
MaaS: Monitoring as-a Service
The managed monitoring and control of customer network and systems infrastructure is critical for establishing and maintaining critical system health. Ekwantu monitors and controls all server hardware systems, operating systems, application services, databases, network devices and servers running in any enterprise environment.
DraaS: Disaster Recovery as-a Service
This service is completely managed by our team of expert business continuity engineers, who are always available to you. If something goes wrong, we'll fix it straight away or get in touch to let you know whether something needs your attention. We'll work with you to ensure your recovery is as easy and reliable as possible and ensure your systems are available 24/7.
Ekwantu Consulting is an experienced VMWare Enterprise Partner. From the desktop to the data center, we can virtualize your computing, storage and networking systems with our VMware consulting experience.
Datacentre Consolidation and Business Continuity
Consolidate data center hardware and enable business continuity through server virtualization. Reduce capital expenditures by increasing utilization of existing hardware. Increase productivity through central management of virtual infrastructure. Ensure business continuity by reducing or eliminating downtime of your workloads and infrastructure.
- VMware – ESX Server
- VMware – VirtualCenter
- VMware – Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- Minimize Your Total Cost of Infrastructure Ownership
- Streamline IT Infrastructure Management
- Provide Mainframe Class Availability and Reliability
- Data Availability
- Server Consolidation Assessment
With VMware, Virtual Desktop infrastructure (VDI), companies can host individual desktops inside virtual machines that are running in their data center. Users access these desktops remotely from a PC or a thin client using a remote display protocol. Since applications are managed centrally at the corporate data center, organizations gain better control over their desktops. Installations, upgrades, patches and backups can be done with more confidence without user intervention.
- Increase hardware utilization and reduce hardware requirements with server consolidation ratios commonly exceeding 15 virtual machines per physical processor.
- Reduce required datacenter square footage, rack space, power, cooling, cabling, storage and network components by reducing the sheer number of physical machines.
- Streamline the execution of IT management processes such as provisioning, capacity management, availability management, continuity management and service level management.
- Eliminate cumbersome software installations and configurations with virtual appliances.
- Decrease IT labour costs and refocus IT teams on value added, strategic tasks.
- Improve application availability and business continuity independent of hardware and operating systems.
- Eliminate planned downtime for server and storage maintenance with live migration of virtual machines across physical servers and storage arrays.
- Improve Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective in case of an entire site outage.
- Increase hardware utilization and reduce hardware requirements with server consolidation ratios commonly exceeding 15 virtual machines per physical processor.
- Reduce required datacenter square footage, rack space, power, cooling, cabling, storage and network components by reducing the sheer number of physical machines.
- Streamline the execution of IT management processes such as provisioning, capacity management, availability management, continuity management and service level management.
- Eliminate cumbersome software installations and configurations with virtual appliances.
- Decrease IT labour costs and refocus IT teams on value added, strategic tasks.
- Improve application availability and business continuity independent of hardware and operating systems.
- Eliminate planned downtime for server and storage maintenance with live migration of virtual machines across physical servers and storage arrays.
- Improve Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective in case of an entire site outage.
The objective of this packaged solution is to get you up and running on VMware ESX Server, virtual machine software for consolidating and partitioning servers in high-performance environments, quickly and effectively. Ekwantu Consulting Enterprise Team will work with you to install and configure this highly scalable virtual machine platform so that you learn how to take full advantage of this product's advanced resource management capabilities to guarantee service levels.
Packaged Solutions
Ekwantu Consulting's Enterprise consultants have developed solution packages that provide the highest value in a reduced time. By leveraging processes, materials, and best practices developed across numerous customer engagements, we can provide you with a fast, efficient, and cost-effective solution. Our packaged solutions include:
- Bare VMware ESX Server Jump Start:
- Virtual Center Jump Start:
- VMWare Converter Migrations (P2Vs):
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity:
- Server Consolidation Assessment:
- Infrastructure Readiness Assessment:
Create the foundation for building a dynamic, self-optimizing data center with VMware ESX Server. ESX Server abstracts processor, memory, storage and networking resources into multiple virtual machines, giving you greater hardware utilization and flexibility. Production-proven at thousands of customers of all sizes, ESX Server delivers the highest levels of performance, scalability and flexibility.
This packaged solution helps customers maximize their time and resources by helping them quickly understand and utilize the special capabilities of VirtualCenter. An existing VMware ESX installation is assumed, or VirtualCenter Jumpstart can be combined with an ESX Jumpstart.
Ekwantu Consulting Enterprise Team will assist in converting of your physical servers into virtual machines. P2V Migrations are ideal for customers involved in server consolidation or legacy migration projects. They help reduce the complexity, risk, and downtime typically associated with these kinds of projects.
Disaster Recovery is critical in all environments where important corporate information is managed and stored. This packaged solution is designed to help customers implement a robust disaster recovery and backup solution using VMware's ESX Server. Included will be training, best practices and knowledge transfer.
(IRA) that helps us get to know your business better Infrastructure transitioning more than simply ensuring connectivity and communication. It is about taking a strategically-based digital approach to business challenges and looking at how technology can be used to change and improve the way your business operates and interacts with its customers.
We have Infrastructure Readiness Assessment methodologies that evaluates your business, its technology and customer requirements to see just how ready you are for.
Reduce Capital and Operating Costs
Consume resources as they are needed instead of maintaining multiple systems that are only used sporadically. VMware Lab Manager lets you pool and share resources to meet the needs of users resulting in maximum utilization — and increased cost savings.
- Reduce development and test equipment costs
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- Dramatically increase the quality of delivered software systems
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- Pool and share server, networking, storage and other resources amongst development and test teams and individuals.
- Provide every developer or test engineer the equivalent of their own fully equipped data center with dedicated provisioning staff.
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- Suspend and capture a multi-system configuration exhibiting a bug or other unexpected behaviour during test, ensuring reproducibility at debug time.
- Maintain a complete library of customer and production system environments for use on demand.
- Efficiently move and share multi-machine configurations across software development and test teams and facilities.
Business Continuity Planning
Simplified data backup and disaster recovery services:
Most companies spend much time worrying about irretrievable computer data loss in the event of a disaster. We are here to put your DR anxiety to rest, with our comprehensive plans for data backup and disaster recovery that protects all your data we are able to put solutions that can have you up and running again within acceptable business times. Ekwantu Consulting offers solutions for data backup, and complete hardware and system recovery to ensure the protection of your business data from unforeseen disasters.
With a Business Continuity Planning, Disaster Recovery and Managed Services solutions from Ekwantu Consulting, you can:
- Put an end to your anxiety over the impact of man-made and natural disasters that are out of your control – we provide complete backup protection of your computer data
- Have your data and systems continually backed up – your data and systems are automated, always up-to-date, and continually backed up
- Manage risk due to potential liabilities – guarantee your critical data is secure
- Get back to business fast – in the event of a disaster you'll be up and running fast
- Take a more comprehensive approach to safeguarding your company's data – we guarantee full rapid recovery of all your data systems
With a reliable Business Continuity Planning with full backup and recovery solutions for your business, you can say goodbye to the constant headaches that comes with running IT Systems in your business. No longer the need to think in hours or days – now businesses can think in minutes or seconds instead – for all applications, data, and workloads.
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Datacentres, Storage and Backup Ekwantu Consulting offers efficient and agile solutions taking advantage of cost saving storage technologies such as de-duplication, thin provisioning and compression.
Our aim is to provide solutions with a very high efficiency to help each and every one of our customer realise its true value from partnering with us. Our solutions are based on the data centre strategies formulated through best of breed, experience and the joint agreement between Cisco, NetApp, Huawei and VMware. As one of Cisco's partners, NetApp's partner and a VMware enterprise partner, we are well positioned to offer certified solutions to our clients.
Our Enterprise Solutions Team ensures that issues are dealt with seamlessly building trust and reliance.


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Orvis Hydros SL Reel
Colors: Black Nickel, Silver, Citron
Sizes: V (for 9wts to 11wts)
CLEARANCE SALE! (Making room for the NEW, 2020 Orvis Hydros Reel)
-The SL in Hydros SL stands for Super Large arbor fly reel
–12% increase in line retrieval thanks to our super large arbor
–Fully sealed drag-clutch bearing
-Narrow spool for less line stacking and increased backing capacity
–Ergonomically designed asymmetric drag knob
–3x stronger drag with ZERO start-up inertia -incredibly smooth!
–Anodized in Black Nickel, Silver or Citron (limited edition)
-We have very few SPOOLS for these reels left
The Hydros® SL challenges everything you know about fly reels. A superlarge arbor means quick retrieval rates. A sealed carbon drag—the clutch bearing is fully sealed inside the drag mechanism—means this reel is ready for whatever conditions you choose to throw at it. And we made the drag stronger with zero start-up inertia and an asymmetric drag knob for tactile, no-look drag adjustments. A narrow spool means less line stacking, and we added an increased backing capacity. Combined with an ultrafast retrieval rate, this puts you in control of the fight. It has a fully sealed drag-clutch bearing mechanism, which means it's good to go for fishing the salt. The price to performance makes it one of the best reel values on the market. Now you can have an amazing reel to handle anything from creek fishing for Brookies to bay fishing for Tarpon -without breaking the budget.
Shop Staff Notes: A year before this reel came out on the market we got to field test this reel up on the Skeena system for wild Steelhead. We used the Orvis Hydros SL Reel in size V and loaded it up with 550 grain Skagit line, running line and 30# backing to throw on a Helios 2 11′ 8wt Switch Rod. The size V fit that outfit just right and would be even better (more backing) on a 7 weight. The drag is incredibly smooth and also crazy powerful. It was able to handle some hot steel fresh from the salt without a hiccup. The sealed drag system is nice -especially in sub-freezing temps as often your reel get wet (rain/snow or setting your rod in the water so you can use two hands on 36″ of anadromous adrenaline for the hero shot and release!). We have now used these reels in sizes II and III for lots of trout fishing and the IV and V reels for big game and saltwater and can honestly say that this real is durable, smooth and has handled everything we have thrown at it. It compares with reels that are twice the price.
For Spare Spools for these reels click here: Hydros SL SPOOL
Sorry, no free shipping on Clearance Sale items.
Purchase made in Montana so NO SALES TAX
Reel Specs and Backing Capacities:
Hydros I for line weights 1-3; 5.3 oz, 3¼" diameter (20# Backing: WF1: 100yds, WF2: 75yds, WF3: 50yds)
Hydros II for line weights 3-5; 5.6 oz, 3½" diameter (20# Backing: WF3: 150yds, WF4: 125yds, WF5: 100yds)
Hydros III for line weights 5-7; 5.9 oz, 3⅞" diameter (20# Backing: WF5: 150yds, WF6: 125yds, WF7: 100yds)
Hydros IV for line weights 7-9; 7.4 oz, 4¼" diameter (great size for 4-6wt Trout Spey/Trout Switch) (20# Backing: WF7: 225yds, WF8: 200yds, WF9: 175. SPEY LINES: 4wt: 200yds, 5wt: 175yds, 6wt: 150.)
Hydros V for line weights 9-11; 8.4 oz, 4½" diameter (great size for 7-8wt Spey or Switch) (30# Backing: WF9: 250yds, WF10: 225yds, WF11: 200yds. SPEY LINES: 7wt: 175yds, 8wt: 150yds)


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UPDATED: Did you think that Ridley Scott might have changed his mind on his path to (further) ruining Alien, with this A-I bullshit? Apparently, you're going to be disappointed if you'd hoped so. Here is what he has just said:
"I think the evolution of the Alien himself is nearly over, but what I was trying to do was transcend and move to another story, which would be taken over by A.I.'s. The world that the AI might create as a leader if he finds himself on a new planet. We have actually quite a big layout for the next one."
So, more Heart of (A.I.) Darkness. Can you imagine someone helming a new Batman movie and saying, you know, Batman's story is through… but boy do we have three more movies about Commissioner Gordon for you! They'll still be called 'Batman' though, so chill!
I think there'd be considerable discontent.
PREVIOUSLY: Ridley Scott is hellbent on shoe-horning this weird and awkward prequel universe.
Instagram user Luis Nostromo has posted a segment on Instagram of a Q&A conducted with Scott and actor Michael Fassbender in which Scott was asked about the possibility of Ellen Ripley being worked back into the "Alien" franchise. Scott responded:
"We're heading toward the back end of the first Alien so [using CG] may be feasible. I don't think it'll… but Ripley's going to be somebody's daughter. Obviously. We're coming in from the back end. The time constraints, of what's the time between this film, where we leave David going off heading for that colony, I think you're probably two films out from even considering her."
What the fuck is Scott doing with this franchise? I thought Prometheus was decent when it came out, but somehow Covenant has soured my opinion on it. Covenant just about broke even, so maybe Scott is getting ahead of himself.
It's funny. Back in the early 1990's, there was negative backlash that Colonial Marines 'theme' from Aliens was MIA. Then again in the fourth movie.
Then again with some fucking bizarre igloo shit for AVP, when that clearly should've featured Marines. Then again, in AVP:R… teen angst by the pool, on Earth. Then Alien meets Star Trek in Prometheus.
And now the Aliens sequel shitcanned in favour of yet more unprofitable prequels. Look Fox, all you have to do is open a darkened teaser with the sound of a Colonial Marines motion tracker (you probably literally wouldn't even need footage), and the crowd will fucking erupt and throw their money at you.
Does Scott have the head of Fox by the balls or something?