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McCarron's legacy as winner will endure
It's not the way he hoped to go out or the way he expected to go out.
One of college football's most accomplished winners, McCarron had his sights set on a third straight national championship. Instead, Alabama will face Oklahoma in the Allstate Sugar Bowl on Thursday.
As consolation prizes go, it's not a shabby one. But McCarron is accustomed to playing for the top prize only. In fact, this will be the first time as Alabama's starting quarterback that his season hasn't ended in the national championship game.
It will be odd, for sure, but his legacy is untouchable, and according to those who came before him, he has very few peers in a renowned Alabama quarterback fraternity that includes the likes of Joe Namath, Ken Stabler and Bart Starr.
"I don't think there are many quarterbacks in college football history, much less at Alabama, who have the resume AJ has," said Jay Barker, who quarterbacked the Crimson Tide to the 1992 national championship.
"There have been other quarterbacks at Alabama who've been a part of back-to-back championships, but I don't know if they've contributed as much as AJ has. He's been a leader. He's delivered in pressure situations. He's played through injuries. I think you have to put him at the very top."
He'd already thrown more career touchdown passes than anybody at Alabama coming into this season. He heads into the Sugar Bowl with 75. Second place on that list is John Parker Wilson with 47.
McCarron also holds the school record for career passing yards (8,632), total offense (8,625 yards) and career completions (667).
In his last two seasons, he has thrown 56 touchdown passes and just eight interceptions. He led the nation in passing efficiency a year ago and is eighth nationally this season.
In truth, he has put up the kind of numbers that might not be touched at Alabama for a long time. But the numbers that mean the most to McCarron are 36-3, his record as the Crimson Tide's starting quarterback. The 36 wins are the most in school history and third most in SEC history.
"What he's been able to accomplish there is amazing," said Greg McElroy, who quarterbacked Alabama to the 2009 national championship. "It's been fun to watch. One thing I can say is that it's tough playing quarterback at Alabama, especially when you consider that AJ grew up in that state. The pressure can be overwhelming at times, but the level of consistency that he's sustained has been nothing short of spectacular."
His penchant for performing on the biggest stages has set him apart, whether it was his clutch drive in the final minutes at LSU last season, his four touchdown passes in the BCS National Championship last season or his Offensive MVP performance in the BCS National Championship two years ago.
"Everybody talks about him being a game manager, but that's a part of that position. You have to be a good game manager if you're going to be a good quarterback," Barker said. "What I look at is AJ in big games and in big moments. He always seems to deliver in those moments.
"I know it's not a fair comparison, although it's a flattering one. But AJ reminds me of Tom Brady in the way he thrives under pressure and makes the plays that have to be made. There are a lot of quarterbacks who have good stats. But what separates the men from the boys at the quarterback position is being able to handle the biggest of moments.
"Those are the ones who are special, and AJ is in that class."
Even though there's not a national championship at stake in New Orleans, McCarron has made it clear to anybody who will listen that the Tide will be ready. The last time Alabama lost two consecutive games was the end of the 2008 season when the Crimson Tide fell to Florida in the SEC championship game and were then beaten handily by Utah in the Sugar Bowl.
"We slipped up one time. That's football," McCarron said of the bitter loss to Auburn in the Iron Bowl. "You've got to let it go. It's the next game. I don't want to come out and just play a game and not win it. … I don't really care what I'm playing. I want to win."
And that's precisely the way he'll be remembered -- as a winner.
"Coach [Gene] Stallings used to always say, 'Don't confuse activities with accomplishments,'" Barker said. "In other words, if you're not winning, who cares if you're throwing for 300 yards and four touchdowns?
"Ask Johnny Manziel or any other quarterback who's putting up big numbers if they'd rather have those stats or have some championships. They'd rather have the titles.
"Your job as a quarterback is to deliver the win, and that's what AJ was so good at."
Luck is humble until he crosses white lines
This story, however, must now pause because Luck has walked away from an interview to help a woman open a door to the Stanford athletic building. She needs to use the restroom, and it doesn't require Woodward & Bernstein to ascertain that this might be a pressing need. Luck points her in the right direction but warns her that they might be cleaning up inside.
Where were we? Yes, moments before becoming a hero to a woman who had perhaps imbibed too much afternoon coffee, Luck walked past a ballroom dancing class and, making small talk, noted, "I don't think I'm coordinated enough for ballroom dancing."
Luck is a buffed-up, 6-foot-4, 235 pounds and, besides ranking third in the nation in passing efficiency in 2010, he rushed for 453 yards. But ballroom dancing students, now those folks are athletes.
Actual exchange once the interview starts again:
Hyperventilating reporter [Me]: "Now, everybody in the country knows who you are."
Luck: "I don't think everbody knows."
Said former Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh, now with the San Francisco 49ers, last fall: "He's almost embarrassed if somebody compliments him or wants to talk about him. He's very quick to deflect it to his teammates. He's someone people want to follow, want to emulate. It's a unique quality to be the sort of anti-celebrity quarterback, the anti-big-man on campus."
More than a few folks were stunned Luck opted to return, no matter how much he enjoyed college or wasn't burdened by financial need -- his father, Oliver, is a former NFL quarterback and presently the athletic director at West Virginia.
Said Stanford linebacker Shayne Skov, "Anybody's logic would have been to leave. We were all stunned."
There is a potential red flag here, though, on the football side of things. Some might observe that NFL coaches prefer the singular focus of the football obsessed over a Renaissance man who enjoys college. Further, the best quarterbacks are often swashbuckling sorts -- Tom Brady, Brett Favre (without the text messages), Joe Namath and Kenny "The Snake" Stabler -- so if Luck seems too much the Boy Scout, might that make it difficult for him to lead a locker room that includes an array of edgier personalities?
Ah, but not unlike Peyton Manning, Luck doesn't do Ned Flanders on the football field. Just ask former USC cornerback Shareece Wright and California safety Sean Cattouse, who both ended up on the losing end of a Luck hit when they stood between the quarterback and something he wanted during a game.
"My dad calls it 'crossing the white line'," said new Stanford head coach David Shaw, who's father, Willie Shaw, was a longtime college and NFL coach.
"You can be the greatest human being on the planet, but once you cross that white line, it's whatever it takes to win football games. Andrew has started to remind me of another guy who was like that: [former Cardinal and nine-time Pro Bowl safety] John Lynch. John Lynch was an all-time human being -- a phenomenal person. One of those guys you say you want your daughter to grow up and marry. That's the way Andrew is. But once he crosses that white line, he's such a competitor. He doesn't care who you are, he's going to try to knock you out. Andrew flips that same switch."
While Stanford practices are closed, the scuttlebutt is that Luck has been masterful this spring. Quipped offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton with a straight face, "He was able to complete 70 percent [71 percent actually] of his passes last year. Our goal is for him to complete 100 percent of his passes."
When asked about this, Shaw pointed out that Luck, indeed, missed a throw-- a 6-yard out -- at practice the previous day.
"You'd have thought it was the Super Bowl," Shaw said. "With a guy like this, you shoot for the moon. You see how far you can push him. And Andrew loves it. He wants to be pushed every day. He wants to be coached, he wants to be coached hard and he wants to be coached specifically. He doesn't know what his ceiling is. So let's not set it."
The high ceiling for Luck is a big reason the national perception is there's a high ceiling for Stanford. The Cardinal will be ranked in the preseason top-10, and Oregon's visit on Nov. 12 is likely the Pac-12 North game of the year, one that might have national championship implications. And if the Cardinal again surges a year after turning in its best season of the modern era, it's almost certain that Luck will be a Heisman Trophy front-runner.
That means even more celebrity for Luck. While Stanford's pristine campus and academically elite student body present a less football-obsessed environment that allows him some privacy, Luck's future is under the klieg lights. It's unavoidable and it will test him.
Luck is told a story about an early Ben Affleck interview with Jay Leno when Affleck tells of pulling out the "I'm Ben Affleck" for the first time to get a restaurant reservation. Luck's asked if he's had a similar moment when waiting for a table.
At first, he seems to be honestly baffled by the inquiry, then replies, "There are enough good restaurants in Palo Alto. We could leave. No, I haven't tried to do that. I don't think it's worth it."
No storybook finish for Vandenberg, Iowa
"This week, he prepared around the clock," Johnson-Koulianos said of Iowa quarterback James Vandenberg. "There was not a moment that went by that he wasn't thinking about how to help us. He sent me text messages all week, 'What am I doing on this play?' He was in the [football] building late all night. His moped was the last moped there.
"He invested."
Vandenberg's tireless efforts nearly paid major dividends for Iowa, as the redshirt freshman exceeded all outside expectations in his first career start. Facing the Big Ten's most dominant defense, Vandenberg completed 20 of 33 passes for 233 yards and two touchdowns to go along with three interceptions, one of which was a Hail Mary in overtime.
Like it had done all season behind regular starter Ricky Stanzi, Iowa mounted another fourth-quarter comeback, rallying from 14 points down to tie the game. But the rally fell short as No. 11 Ohio State locked down in overtime to prevail 27-24, sending No. 10 Iowa to its first road loss of the season.
At preseason media day, Ferentz talked about how Iowa would need great stories to emerge for the team to do special things. Several of those plotlines turned up Saturday at Ohio Stadium.
Running back Adam Robinson, just three weeks removed from a high-ankle sprain, replaced the injured Brandon Wegher and rushed for 74 yards on 20 carries as the team's featured back. Wide receiver Marvin McNutt, a former quarterback, caught two touchdown passes. Johnson-Koulianos, rumored to have fallen out of favor with the coaches this spring, continued his stellar Big Ten season with 71 receiving yards and a 99-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.
But the best story, the one that would have been told for decades, was Vandenberg. The magnitude of the moment wasn't lost on the freshman during game week.
"I don't sleep in very much, so I'm in there early," Vandenberg said. "I'm calling guys, I'm calling [Stanzi, saying], 'Wake up.' They did a great job with me all week, preparing me. ... All these snaps are good. When you get all of them, it changes. There's a lot more pressure, people are counting on you, and you've got to do your job."
Whether Ferentz let Vandenberg do his job at the end of regulation will be debated for some time in Hawkeye Nation.
Iowa had regained momentum and the football, taking possession at its own 33-yard line with 53 seconds left and one timeout in the bank. Kicker Daniel Murray had made four field goals of longer than 40 yards.
But after a Robinson rush up the middle netted nothing, Ferentz decided to run out the clock.
"I've done enough stupid things this year, so why do something stupid at that point?" Ferentz explained. "Had we gotten a [punt] return, had there been a shanked punt where we had better field position, or had we popped that first play, then we would have pressed forward.
"At second-and-10, second-and-9, the percentages weren't with us at that point."
Vandenberg had just capped a 70-yard touchdown drive with a scoring strike to McNutt. Ferentz said the freshman's presence didn't affect his decision-making at the end.
"If we had Joe Namath in there, I think we would have done the same thing," Ferentz said.
Vandenberg has watched Stanzi work his late-game magic from the sideline. He nearly pulled off a copy-cat act.
"The heart in our guys is just incredible," Vandenberg said. "To be able to fight back like that with all those guys, it's an experience."
Iowa won't be going to Pasadena and has dropped consecutive games, but the team's performance Saturday certainly helped its cause for a BCS at-large berth. The Hawkeyes came in as 17-point underdogs but took Ohio State to the brink.
With USC falling out of the at-large mix, Iowa will have the strongest résumé of the Big Ten hopefuls if it beats Minnesota next week. The Fiesta Bowl could be very interested in the Hawkeyes if it loses Texas to the BCS title game.
"Nobody wants to play us," Johnson-Koulianos said. "We'll play anybody in the nation right now. We're not afraid of anybody, and we can beat anybody.
"We're worthy, and we've proved this year that when you give us the opportunity to play the best opponent, and we'll make it a hell of a ballgame."
Kicking it with Alabama's Nick Saban, Part II
Posted by ESPN.com's Chris Low
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Here's the second part of my Q&A with Alabama coach Nick Saban.
It's obvious in listening to him talk about his father, Nick Sr., what a huge influence he was on the younger Saban's life and why he is the way he is today.
The values the coach preaches in his program -- self-determination, being accountable, being disciplined, doing a day's work for a day's pay -- come straight from his father.
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|As a kid growing up, Nick Saban was an Alabama football fan.
Saban's father died in 1973 of a heart attack. He was only 46. Saban was just starting his coaching career at the time as a graduate assistant on the Kent State staff under Don James.
How often do you find yourself thinking about your father and the influence he had on your life?
Nick Saban: He was a big influence on a lot of people's lives because he started Pop Warner football in our area [Fairmont, W. Va.]. He bought a school bus and went and picked up kids. Everybody lived in a coal mining town, so we hitch-hiked about every place we went. All of us did. We didn't have cars. You kind of knew who was going to go by. It was a rural area. You knew who would pick you up and who wouldn't. A lot of kids didn't participate because they couldn't get to practice. There are a lot of things I took from my dad -- work ethic, responsibility, compassion for other people. The lessons I learned working at that Gulf service station that my dad owned ... I still relay a lot of those lessons to our players now.
What were some of the most enduring lessons?
NS: I was working at the station when I was about 15 years old. I remember being in a bad mood because I had a fight with my girlfriend, and we broke up. So I wasn't treating the customers very well and talked back to a customer. In those days, everything was full service. You cleaned the windows, checked the oil, put the gas in, said 'please' and 'thank you,' got the change and gave it back to them. I was a little curt that day. My dad said, 'Your mom told me you broke up with your girlfriend. You're a little upset about that?' I said, 'Yeah, I'm a little upset about that.' He said, 'Let me just tell you this: When you let one bad thing that happens to you affect other things, sometimes you create more negative consequences than you like. You're about ready to cause a couple more. You don't have a girlfriend right now. Pretty soon, you're not going to have a job, because I'm going to fire you. And if I fire you, I'm going to whip your ass.' It was that kind of stuff from him all the time.


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* German environment minister backs Brussels on CO2
* Merkel aide says energy big issue for 2013 elections
* Altmaier plays down talk of alliance with German Greens
By Stephen Brown and Markus Wacket
BERLIN, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Germany's environment minister has come out in support of a European Commission proposal to prevent the collapse of its instrument for cutting carbon emissions by withdrawing some emission permits from the market.
Peter Altmaier, an influential figure in Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), told Reuters he hoped the ruling centre-right coalition could agree to support it in time for a European Union summit in December.
"The European Commission in recent weeks made new proposals which show a sense of proportion and reality," he said in an interview on Monday, adding this would help stabilise trade in carbon permits and give business an incentive to reduce CO2.
The EU's climate chief, faced with a slump in the price of emissions as the economic slowdown crushes demand and creates a huge surplus of allowances, last week proposed a temporary fix while Brussels works on longer-term reforms.
This involves deferring the auction of 900 million permits that would have been sold between 2013-2015, the first three years of the next phase of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
In a process known as backloading, they would instead be auctioned at the end of the phase, in 2019-2020. European Energy Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said last Wednesday that market operators needed a decision on this from the EU by year-end.
"I personally believe this is the right proposal and I hope the German government can come to a coordinated position by December," said Altmaier.
However, the energy portfolio in Germany is effectively split between Altmaier and Economy Minister Philipp Roesler, who heads the Free Democrats (FDP), the CDU's junior allies in the ruling coalition. Theirs is not always an easy partnership.
One of Roesler's deputy ministers, Stefan Kapferer, said last week the Commission proposal was unnecessary because "the market mechanism has so far made a key contribution to a drop in Europe's CO2 emissions".
Carbon emissions trade is aimed at pushing industry towards cleaner energy by making it dearer to burn coal. But with demand for power flagging, the market has been flooded with permits.
Until Monday, the EU's biggest economy Germany had not taken a position, while its coal-dependent neighbour Poland and the heavy-industry lobby have led opposition to anything that would drive up the price of carbon allowances.
Energy companies ranging from oil major Royal Dutch Shell to First Solar are among those clamouring for a stronger carbon price to drive innovation and a move away from carbon-intensive coal.
Altmaier was moved to the ministry in May from the whip's office, in what was seen as a sign of how seriously Merkel views the challenge of presenting her post-Fukushima U-turn on nuclear energy to the public ahead of federal elections in autumn 2013.
German papers carry frequent headlines about how consumers are paying for the switch from nuclear to renewable energy via surcharges on their electricity bills, and operators say these subsidies for renewable power will rise by 47 percent next year.
Altmaier acknowledged the energy switch was now "one of the two or three top items in the political debate." It is hard to see how even the popular Merkel can turn this to her advantage for the elections, when she will seek a third term.
But the "greening" of Merkel's energy policies has robbed one of the main opposition parties - the Greens - of their "no nukes" platform and fired speculation that the CDU and the Greens could try to circumvent their current allies - the FDP and Social Democrats (SPD) respectively - to form a majority.
The Greens' choice of a moderate leadership ahead of the 2013 election contest has revived such talk.
But like other senior Merkel political allies, Altmaier insisted the CDU's strategy was to renew the centre-right coalition with the flagging FDP.
"The SPD and Greens have other policy ideas and for this reason I think speculation about a conservative-Green alliance is for now and the foreseeable future not realistic," he said.
Merkel's energy policy foresees a huge expansion of the German power grid, which Altmaier wants to make more popular with the population by forcing the grid operators to issue bonds to the public, enabling them to invest.
"The expansion of the grid will mean many billions of euros being invested and I have proposed that part of this investment should be made available for 'burgher bonds' at a fixed rate of 5 percent to give citizens the possibility to create value by participating in the expansion of the grid," said Altmaier.
This is also likely to be the subject of debate with the FDP-run economy ministry, which likes the idea of giving the public a chance to participate in the expansion of the grid but does not want operators forced to finance projects in this way. (Additional reporting by Noah Barkin and Matthias Bahr; editing by Gareth Jones and James Jukwey)
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Grammy-winning rapper Lil Wayne has no plans on apologizing for publicly going after G.O.O.D. Music's Pusha T on multiple occasions as of late, however, he does admit quickly reacting to an alleged subliminal diss record.
Asked what the status of their perceived feud is, Weezy F. Baby said he has moved past the situation.
"I just finished recording my "I Am Not a Human Being II" album. And we're starting to work on the Young Money album," Wayne said in an interview before addressing Pusha. "It really wasn't no beef, you know. It was just me. I just reacted. Just a reaction, a simple reaction. I don't apologize for it because I'm human. But it was just my human reaction. I don't take it back. But there's no beef. Beef is a whole different thing. … I'll move on." (The Washington Post)
R&B singer The-Dream, who appears on Pusha's controversial "Exodus 23:1″ anthem, recently said he did not view the track as a Young Money diss.
The-Dream just wants to kill the competition — with his success. When asked if Team Pusha T would indulge in a rap beef and aim a dis record at Lil Wayne, he downplayed the importance of a response record and stressed the need for a good record. "The only way that we can respond is make great records, and nobody is gonna beat me at that," The-Dream told MTV News when we caught up with him in Hollywood last week. The singer/songwriter told us he isn't down with subliminal disses, remembering a lesson that his grandfather once taught him: " 'If you're talking to somebody, you speak to them or you just walk up to them and slap them.' I think beef is so '96. It's like, what's the point? I don't think anybody is actually that good enough to direct anything at anyone. You can't take that much time, there's too much money in the words that either one of us have — me or Pusha — to direct directly at anyone." (MTV)
Recently, Pusha refused to confirm whether or not "Exodus 23:1″ is a Lil Wayne-targeted subliminal.
Pusha T still hasn't said anything about whether or not he was dissing artists from YMCMB on his latest track "Exodus 23:1." In fact, tonight at Hot 97 Summer Jam, we ran into him backstage and asked him about it, and he just shrugged and headed to the stage to perform his verse on "Mercy" with fellow G.O.O.D. Music artist Big Sean (he didn't mention the beef on stage either). And with that, the speculation continues. "We asked @PUSHA-T about "Exodus" and the YMCMB beef. He just shrugged, then headed to the stage with Big Sean." (Complex)
Earlier this month, G.O.O.D. Music's Big Sean also killed the idea of entertaining a rap beef between both camps.
"I think beef is weak. Crack is wack. I don't encourage that," Sean said in an interview. "Yeah, I'm cool with Pusha T, I'm cool with everybody. The thing is, people gotta understand that we got no point in beefing. We got families to take care of, we got moms to take care of. I ain't about to be over here arguing with nobody. We all on the same team. We all young men, black men, black, white, it doesn't matter, but just entrepreneurs trying to get it." (Wired 96.5)
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Here's the moral of the story to me: Hey homophobes and bigots, you lost. Move on. This battle is over…
Also, why didn't it resonate more?
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On a perfect night for attacking rugby, the All Blacks all but forgot how to attack. Not until the very end, at least.
Their scratchy 24-9 third test win was a disappointing way to end an up and down series in which France caused more problems than many had expected.
As a warm-up for the Rugby Championship, it was far from ideal.
Urgent French defence, combined with a lack of attacking continuity, meant an ugly night all round.
Hell bent on slowing the All Blacks ball, the men in black simply lacked the power to clean out effectively and string phases together.
Maybe it was simply a case of looking to run before they could walk but the All Blacks really struggled to get anything going.
In the end it came down to the boot of returning first five-eighth Dan Carter, who kicked four penalties for the All Blacks to get the job done.
Wing Ben Smith, touted as the answer at centre when Conrad Smith takes a break, tried hard, as did Rene Ranger, but it just wasn't happening.
France were certainly in for a fight, to at least salvage some pride, and deserve plenty of credit for playing as hard as hey did.
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen would have been downright frustrated at some of the play and it did stymie his plans to introduce Charles Piutau and Steven Luatua early for their debuts.
Just as the first test in Auckland, France battled manfully without threatening heaps on attack.
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Diverse coral communities in naturally acidified waters of a Western Pacific reef
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- Manuscript Received: 26 OCT 2013
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- ocean acidification;
- carbonate chemistry;
- diversity;
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- calcification
Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions are acidifying the oceans, reducing the concentration of carbonate ions ([CO32−]) that calcifying organisms need to build and cement coral reefs. To date, studies of a handful of naturally acidified reef systems reveal depauperate communities, sometimes with reduced coral cover and calcification rates, consistent with results of laboratory-based studies. Here we report the existence of highly diverse, coral-dominated reef communities under chronically low pH and aragonite saturation state (Ωar). Biological and hydrographic processes change the chemistry of the seawater moving across the barrier reefs and into Palau's Rock Island bays, where levels of acidification approach those projected for the western tropical Pacific open ocean by 2100. Nevertheless, coral diversity, cover, and calcification rates are maintained across this natural acidification gradient. Identifying the combination of biological and environmental factors that enable these communities to persist could provide important insights into the future of coral reefs under anthropogenic acidification.


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Imam ibn al-Qayim a shining sign with regard to his knowledge and memory. Anyone who looks in his books will bear witness to his great virtue. The works he authored are of outstanding excellence that have continuously been providing guidance to the scholars across the course of seven centuries. He has more than a hundred books to his credit concerning various sciences. Ibn al-Qayyim (Qayyem/Qayim/Qayem/Qayum/Qayyum) had an intense love for knowledge - studying it and writing about it.
This is a biography of one of the notable personalities of Islam and one of its noble knights. He reached the very highest levels of scholarship and piety. There is no Salafi[1] following the methodology of Ahl as-Sunnah Wa al-Jama'ah except that he testifies to his great virtue, for through him, Allah gave sight to so many eyes that were blind and life to so many hearts that were dead. He is none other than Shaykh Al-Islam, Imam ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, may Allah shower him with His Mercy.
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He is Abu 'Abdillah, Shams ad-Din, Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr ibn Ayyub ibn Sad ibn Hariz ibn Makki Zayn ad-Din, az-Zur'i then ad-Dimashqi, Al-Hanbali. He is famous as Ibn Qayim al-Jawziyyah.
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The Title "ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah":
This great Imam is well-known amongst both the early scholars and the later scholars as ibn Qayum alJawziyyah. Some shorten it and simply say ibn alQayyim. The biographical reference works are in agreement that the one who became famous with the title "Qayyim al-Jawziyyah" was his father: Shaykh Abu Bakr ibn Ayyub az-Zur'i. He was the Qayyim, or director, of al-Madrasah al-Jawziyyah (the Jawzi school) in Damascus for a long period of time. Therefore, he was called "Qayyim al-Jawziyyah." Afterwards, his offspring and his grandchildren became famous with this ascription.
Qayyim, in the language, means someone who is in charge of directing and managing something. As for its definition according to its technical usage, it does not go beyond that. It has the same meaning as Nazir or Wasi so a person can be called the Nazir of a school, its Wasi, or its Qayyim. They all have the same meaning. It is sufficient source of his pride that he should be in charge of this school because of the great influence it had amongst all the schools of that time.
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Since they were all doing it for vanity, narcissum and favorable citations by Nicholas Kristof, as Ann Coulter has informed us, perhaps her blowing the lid off the supposed racket has suddenly made them virtuous - and given them the courage to stay home as she recommends. /sCoulter has ridded the world of the narcissum she worries so much about. She should stand up and take a bow. /s
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The increasing density of mobile homes and greater urbanization in parts of the United States vulnerable to tornadoes is leading to greater losses, both in terms of economic damages and lives lost, notes a new report from Lloyd's.
The U.S. sees an average of 1,200 tornadoes that kill up to 60 people, injure 1,500 and cause at least $400 million in economic damage, according to the report, Tornadoes: a Rising Risk? Frequency of tornadoes isn't necessarily increasing, though, says Lloyd's, but rather they may be reported more now than decades ago. However, increased urbanization means the potential for higher damages and lives lost is now greater. "Nearly a third of all average annual reported tornadoes occur in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska, these states are found in the area termed 'Tornado Alley' ideally situated for the formation of supercell thunderstorms which may spawn tornadoes," the report suggests. "A major factor which has influenced tornado losses is increasing exposure of property," says the report. "In a major outbreak, violent tornadoes can be anomalously long lived and have wide damage paths, affecting large areas. As populations have grown and spread into previously uninhabited areas, the chances of this occurring have increased." The increasing number and density of mobile homes is also having an impact on losses, the report suggests. "For us, mobile home insurance is a mix of art and science, combining risk management and working only with specialist coverholders who know the business inside out," Gary Mountford, Senior Class Underwriter at Catlin, explained in an article posted on Lloyd's website."We insist on homes being tied and skirted, which improves the wind speed resistance of each unit. We also pay attention to the age of units insured as mobile homes depreciate in value year on year. It is not surprising that, given the level of devastation, following a major tornado, it is usually a mobile home park that features on the front page of the next day's newspapers."There are also difficulties in analyzing trends for tornadoes, the report notes. The speed with which tornadoes form means that early forecasting is still challenging, Lloyd's says in its article. "Mitigation measures, such as mandatory shelters in mobile home parks, have now been adopted in some states," it notes. Insurers are often not making investments in modelling efforts for major storms either, the report suggests. "The uptake of CAT Modelling for tornado risk has been slow in the past as insurers have considered tornadoes a cost of doing business in the US; one of the modelling companies commented that their models were not in wide use by its insurance clients before last year," the report states, referring to major modelling firms such as AIR Worldwide, EQECAT and RMS.""However, the increasing capacity for potential losses, as seen in 2011, is beginning to increase the use of modelling for tornado risk," it adds, suggesting that modelling of tornado risk will become increasingly important among reinsurers. A full copy of the Lloyd's report on tornado risk is available on its website.
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The 5th International Conference on Hot Sheet Metal Forming of High-Performance Steel, CHS² 2015, invites specialists from all over the world to enter this unique exchange platform and to benefit from each other's experience and expertise. Topics like microstructure evolution, deformation, thermal properties, failure, surface coatings and steel substrates will share the same focus as heat transfer, high-temperature tribology, thermal processing, process monitoring, modeling, simulation and, of course, new PHS part generations and design principles.
CHS publishes newsletters containing current information a couple of times a year. This newsletter is No. 1, 2014.
On the 13th May CHS PhD students conducted a study visit at Olofsfors. A seminar was held were representatives for Olofsfors made a company presentation and CHS students presented their projects and ongoing research.
The 29th April 2014 CHS PhD student Alejandro Leiro had his thesis defence in the subject of Engineering materials at Luleå University.
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