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A former Maywood police officer was sentenced Tuesday to 19 years in state prison for sexually assaulting five women while on duty.
Ryan Allen West – who was sentenced by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George Lomeli – pleaded no contest May 15 to two counts of forcible rape and four counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object.
Authorities launched an investigation in 2007, after one of the women went to a hospital and reported that she had been raped by an officer, according to the District Attorney's Office.
West was the Maywood Police Department's canine handler officer until March 2008. He was arrested in May of that year at his Riverside County home and charged with sexual crimes committed between September 2006 and May 2007.
He was initially charged with attacks on three women while on duty, and then charged later with crimes involving two other women.
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Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in June 2008,[1] Mr. Noujaim was Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. and was a member of Bear Stearns' President's Advisory Committee, having previously served as the committee's chairman. While at Bear Stearns, Mr. Noujaim led banking teams providing capital markets and strategic advisory services to key domestic and international investment banking clients, including a broad range of global corporate enterprises and sovereign governments. He was Global Head of the firm's Capital Markets Group from 1992 to 1997.
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MIDDLETOWN As a member of the Pierce family, its difficult to do anything that tops the achievements of the oldest child, Jon.
But Canton junior Laura Pierce edged her older brother on Saturday, winning a state championship in track and field a year earlier than Jon, who won two state titles as a senior in 2002 before heading to Stanford University.
Laura Pierce won the girls Division II 3,000-meter run at Middletown High School and set a Section 10 record with a time of 10 minutes, 0.21 seconds.
Later, Pierce, along with teammates Maria Ricalton, Rebecca DelRossi and Gemma DelRossi, set another Section 10 mark with a time of 9:15.33 in the 3,200 relay, earning Canton a second-place finish in Division II.
I looked at the (3,000) seedings and saw that I was seeded fourth, Pierce said. I was pretty confident that I could run around the time that I ran. I also knew that most people werent going to chop off quite as much time as I was hoping too, because of the sections they were coming from. I thought I had a pretty good chance at it.
Pierce, who ran in a heat that mostly consisted of Division I runners, was in second in Division II for most of the race, running closely behind Greenwichs Megan Baritot.
But Pierce ran two straight laps of 1:15 late in the race, and passed Baritot late in the race and finished over nine seconds ahead of her.
It was really awesome to have (Baritot) there in the last couple laps just to focus on, Pierce said. I was feeling pretty tired, but with three laps to go or so, it was her ahead of me so I just told myself to try and relax. I didnt really want to waste the energy. I figured Id just sit back and relax, and I knew I had a good kick.
While Pierce won a Division II title, she finished seventh in the Federation race, behind six Division I runners. That was what she remembered afterward.
I talked to (Jon) and hes really happy for me, Pierce said. Its really exciting. Its a state title, and I cant complain, but at the end of the day, I really see myself being in seventh place and Im still thrilled with that. But its not quite the same as a state title for me, but Ill take it.
Pierces win came fairly early in Saturdays competition and helped spark her teammates. Gemma DelRossi was sixth in the Division II 800 in a Section 10-record 2:15.79.
It was incredible, DelRossi said. It was a pleasant surprise. (Pierce) really pumped us up, we have to compete with that and equal Lauras pace.
The best showings by non-Canton athletes came from a pair of Section 3 girls. South Jeffersons Skylar Pastor finished second in the Division II 400 and Altmar-Parish-Williamstowns Kylee Bartlett was second in the Division II pentathlon.
Pastor, a sophomore, won a state title in the 400 as an eighth-grader, but has finished second in the event the past two years at states.
I really liked my start, but once I hit (200 meters) I couldnt go any faster, said Pastor, whose time was 57.85. I knew I tried my hardest. In eighth grade, I wasnt expecting to win. The girl who won my division (Friends Academys Candace Taylor) really deserved it. She tries really hard. Some people are just better than you are, and you have to accept that. You have to work harder to get with them or beat them the next year. I like that she pushes me.
Bartlett, a sophomore, took the lead early in the pentathlon and held it for the first four events. But a lead that was once 100 points had dropped down to 18 before the final event, the 800 run, in which Schalmonts Isabella Borim won to claim the state title.
There were a couple of events I definitely could have done better, but theres nowhere to go but up, Bartlett said.
Fridays rains caused pushed everything to Saturday.
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I thought I had a good chance of medaling in the 3,200, but I didnt have a clue in the (1,600), he said. It was really tough. I honestly surprised myself. I couldnt have ended my senior year better. I went over my expectations doing both of them.
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Earlier this fall, Google made an announcement that in many ways foretells the future of data center efficiency metrics. The search giant not only disclosed its total power consumption and carbon emissions (mostly attributable to its data centers), but also released estimates of its per-user and per-search energy consumption. With this information -- and given that a billion Google searches occur per day -- it was possible to calculate that searches account for 12.5 million watts of the company's 260 million watt total.
The idea of quantifying the kilowatts of energy required to perform a useful unit of work is now considered the holy grail of data center metrics. The most widely used metric today -- The Green Grid's Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) measure -- compares the amount of data center energy consumed by IT equipment to the facility's total usage; but no metric yet reveals energy consumed per unit of work, mostly because it is difficult to define a standard "unit of work."
"For cars, it's miles per gallon, but for hardware, is it a MIP or bits transmitted per second? The industry hasn't zeroed in on what 'work' is," says Steve Press, executive director of data center facilities at Kaiser Permanente. "PUE doesn't tell you what work the data center is doing -- it could be blocking virus traffic or moving data for the National Weather [Service]. Once we settle on [that], it will have a big effect on overall competitiveness."
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PUE is by far the most widely used data center efficiency metric. Developed by The Green Grid, it illustrates how much energy in the data center is allocated to IT equipment -- servers, networks and storage -- and how much is used for cooling, lighting and power equipment. Its popularity is attributable in part to its simplicity, both in concept and in application.
"Despite its very well-publicized limitations and frequent misuse, PUE is a good measure when it is clearly understood by those using and interpreting it, and when it is measured in a consistent way," Mingay concludes.
Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE) andWater Usage Effectiveness (WUE)
CUE, recently released by The Green Grid, addresses data-center-specific carbon emissions. It is calculated by measuring total CO2 data center emissions and dividing by IT equipment energy. WUE, also a relatively new metric, measures the amount of water used for IT and is similarly calculated by measuring total water usage in the facility and dividing by IT equipment energy.
For example, if an email server is processing emails 75% of the time, then its ScE would be 75%, Mingay says. "It looks at not just 'Is your system doing something?' but 'Is it doing something useful?' " Stanley adds. The idea is to identify underutilized servers and apply virtualization, consolidation or decomissioning strategies to increase efficiency.
The Green Grid emphasizes that these metrics are not productivity metrics -- they don't measure how much work is done, but rather what proportion of work is useful. That distinction is important, Mingay says, since a server with a slow processor might spend an hour processing 100 transactions, while a server with a fast processor might complete 100,000 transactions in that time. However, both would get an identical ScE of 100% if 100% of their time during the hour was devoted to doing that work.
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Something to keep in mind is that there isn't a big drop-off in power consumption for servers running at low capacity, Schirmacher says, so even if you purchase servers with good ratings, you also need to ensure you're achieving high utilization, which is measured by ScE.
Gartner Power to Performance Effectiveness (PPE)
Gartner developed PPE to analyze the effective use of power by existing IT equipment, relative to the performance of that equipment. With PPE, companies measure the average performance, energy consumption and utilization of their equipment and then compare that with optimal targets they have previously defined. PPE is represented, then, as actual power performance, divided by optimal power performance. "Pushing IT resources toward higher effective performance per kilowatt can have a twofold effect of improving energy consumption -- putting energy to work -- and extending the life of existing assets through increased throughput," Mingay says.


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Somerset should just go have a hoick in the 4 day stuff. Works well enough in OD cricket
Yeah, looking good for 300+.
Should make it comfortably. 32 needed off the last 5.
Really want to Somerset bat first at Taunton.
Peter Trego has 148 FC runs @ 13.5 this season to go with 332 OD runs @ 110.7.
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Jos brings his 50 up off 23 balls, par for the course really
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He's not a cheerful soul at the best of times, so I can only wonder what 4-0-46-0 is doing for his demeanour. It would be an incredible result for Leics to win it that's for sure.
Posted in the wrong thread. I guess all I can say is glarlfargafl.
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Leics 200-0, and only need six an over ...
Somerset are actually going to lose this. Need Lew Gregory. Would have been just as expensive but taken wickets.
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Los Angeles D.A. veteran to take a top spot in Ventura County prosecutor's office
A Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office veteran will take over a top position in Ventura County prosecutor's ranks beginning next month.
Janice L. Maurizi was appointed as the county's chief assistant district attorney, effective April 2.
"I have known Jan for more than a decade and believe she represents the very best in our noble profession," Ventura County District Attorney Greg Totten said. "Beyond her professional qualifications, she is also a genuinely nice person who will bring much grace and interpersonal strength to this challenging position."
In her 28-year career with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, Maurizi served as a top manager and adviser to former District Attorney Steve Cooley. As a director in the office, Maurizi managed the Bureau of Branch and Area Operations, supervising more than 300 deputy district attorneys and support staff members.
Totten's office said she also served as the director of the Bureau of Fraud and Corruption Prosecution, which includes high-tech crimes, organized crimes, major fraud, consumer and environmental protection, and hate crimes.
Maurizi is a graduate of Whittier School of Law. She lives with her husband, Carl, in Thousand Oaks.
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RadialGradient problem !?
does anyone knows why the RadialGradient do not follow the circle when moving, check the following example to get the idea:

 import javafx.input.*;
 import javafx.application.*;

import javafx.scene.paint.*;
 import javafx.scene.geometry.*;

import java.lang.System;

var x = 100.0;
 var y = 30.0;

Frame {
 title: "Circle"
 width: 300
 height: 200
 stage: Stage{
 content: Circle {
 centerX: bind x
 centerY: bind y
 radius: 25
 fill: RadialGradient {
 centerX: bind x
 centerY: bind y
 radius: 50
 proportional: false
 stops: [
 Stop {offset: 0.0 color: Color.WHITE},
 Stop {offset: 0.5 color: Color.BLUE},
 Stop {offset: 1.0 color: Color.DARKORANGE},
 ]
 }
 onMouseDragged: function(e:MouseEvent) {
 x = e.getX();
 y = e.getY();
 }

 }
 }
 visible: true
 }

I do not have an account to open a jira issue.
So please if someone have an account add this issue.
You can simply create an account.
You are totally right!
I had no idea that anyone could create an account.
Thanks for pointing it out.
Please, create a JIRA issue on it: http://openjfx.java.sun.com/jira/secure/CreateIssue!default.jspa
It does not work because the triggers are not set for the centerX and centerY attributes of RadialGradient class.
... And how can we do this ?
Developers can do it:
public class RadialGradient extends Paint {
public attribute centerX:Number = 0.0 on replace{
// set new centerX
public attribute centerY:Number = 0.0 on replace{
// set new centerY
Even though I added the replace trigger to the RadialGradient class it still do not move around with the circle. Using debugger I confirmed that the centerX and centerY do get the new values.
I am not sure but I think it should be repainted in the new position and setting the new values to centerX and centerY is not enough.
Any suggestion?


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Safety-Culture Clash Meant 13 Workers Never Made It Home
By Tony Illia
Schedule-obsessed Las Vegas megaprojects are exacting a toll on the army of fatigued crafts on the Strip.
Schedule-obsessed Las Vegas megaprojects are exacting a toll on the army of fatigued crafts on the Strip.
Every day, craft workers with sun-baked faces and calloused hands ready themselves for another shift of construction on the Las Vegas Strip, trading jokes before toting their plastic coolers onto the site. The favorite uniform is a short-sleeved cotton T-shirt suited to the 100°-plus temperatures.
The workers face hazards even more dangerous than the sun, and over the past two years, 13 never made it home. One was Dustin "Doobie" Tarter, 39, who was crushed by a crane counterweight system at the CityCenter project on May 31. An affable, fun-loving man, Tarter's death unlocked pent-up resentment over the accidents, and 100 union workers began picketing CityCenter and the nearby Cosmopolitan jobsites and chanting, "No more death."
Within a day, the key contractor at CityCenter, Phoenix-based Perini Building Co., agreed with the Southern Nevada Building and Construction Trades Council that all workers would receive the 10-hour federal safety training and be sent to additional safety meetings. Also, union officials and safety directors would gain full jobsite access. Most or all of what was agreed to already had been discussed or agreed to by the contractor and the unions.
The bigger question is, why did it take so long to ratchet up safety? The 13 construction-related fatalities on the Las Vegas Strip are more than the city saw during the entire 1990s building boom. But in the last two years there was a difference. Resort owners and their contractors were building on a vast scale, gathering thousands of disparate craft workers in the cauldron of the Nevada desert, then asking them to meet ambitious schedules with inadequate regard to fatigue. Workers claim the owners weren't stressing safety as much as schedule, and industry experts say that contractors failed to scale up the safety effort to the level of the construction boom.
Nevada, which has a state-operated safety agency, also failed to keep pace with the boom by not adding staff, and the agency often reduced its safety fines from those initially proposed to a mere financial blip.
The $9.2 billion, 76-acre CityCenter complex will be bigger than Rockefeller Center and Times Square combined. Developer MGM Mirage Inc. says it is the largest privately financed project in U.S. history. Workers gave the site their own grim nickname: CityCemetary.
In prior decades, casino operators built one megaresort at a time, with additional towers coming in separate, stand-alone phases. Today's projects, like CityCenter and the $4.8 billion, 12 million-sq-ft Echelon, which was recently put on hold further north on the Strip, are different. Rising raw-material prices, competition for skilled workers, financing costs and the push to create the next must-see extravaganza have led to much more simultaneous construction. And expensive real estate means that sixty-story towers now rise where 20 stories would have sufficed in prior decades.
"This level and complexity of construction is unprecedented," says Greg McClelland, safety director for the Ironworkers Compensation Trust.
Local building trade unions have ramped-up apprenticeship programs and recruited heavily from out of state, waiving local fees and transferring pension and health benefits, in order to attract the workers needed to staff megaprojects. Laborers' union Local 872 has doubled to 3,500 members, including 200 floaters, working on The Strip. Union officials worry that workers from the Midwest, Rust Belt and East Coast lack or exaggerate their experience.
"Many are coming from the Midwest where they would never have an opportunity to work on a project of this magnitude," says Las Vegas Councilman Steven D. Ross, secretary-treasurer of the Southern Nevada Building and Construction Trades Council. "We're trying to bring everyone up to a higher standard."
With sweltering daytime heat creating danger of dehydration and nights that are anything but dry, the city itself is a hazard. "It takes a certain discipline to work in Las Vegas," says McClelland. "We have workers making $2,000 a week in a town where the bars never close. Several companies have men walking the jobsite looking for guys with that thousand-yard stare. If they've been up too late, we'll send them home."
How many workers are hurt because of drug and alcohol use is not clear. Although all employees are tested before hiring, CityCenter, for example, has no random-testing program. Unions consider it an invasion of privacy, but employers say they want it and think it would help.
Overdoing Overtime
Workers are often their own worst enemies, wearing themselves down with additional hours for lucrative overtime pay. The hours are readily available for those willing to push themselves longer and harder. Tight economic times have created many volunteers eagerly seeking "double-backs," or back-to-back work shifts, for extra income. Workers, in some instances, say they try to make up the difference for lost income of a recently laid-off spouse or significant other.
"It's like a drip-line to a junkie," says Joe Taylor, executive director of the Southern Nevada Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust. "It raises the standard of living with overtime, and they soon become focused on the money."
A number of the deaths occurred during early-morning hours, when workers may not be fully alert or are rushing to finish a nighttime shift, sources point out. Did fatigue help kill Lyndall Bates? He was a 49-year-old carpenter who died on June 17 at the Echelon project while disassembling a piece of scaffolding to which he was tied off. He struck his head in a 15-ft fall at 7:20 a.m.
"Productivity rates are different here than other parts of the country," says one longtime Las Vegas contractor who asked not to be identified. "We work...faster. A typical 38-month project in Atlantic City would be expected to finish six to eight months sooner in Las Vegas. That is the standard that has been created."
Casino giants such as MGM Mirage pay for fast-track, 24-hour construction, and contract terms include incentives and penalties. Perini, for instance, is general contractor on the $3.9 billion Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino, located directly across from CityCenter. Both are being built under negotiated, guaranteed maximum-price contracts, and Cosmopolitan carries $50,000 a day in possible bonuses or penalties starting Dec. 18, 2009. Like on CityCenter, crews work around the clock. Cosmopolitan has had two jobsite deaths since November.
Superhuman Schedules
"Owners of these projects are demanding some pretty strict schedules," says McClelland. "[They] have actually mandated certain performance indicators and minimum numbers of work hours in the contract."
Some see the project schedules as unrealistic. CityCenter, for example, is being built in the same time frame that it took to complete the adjacent $1.6 billion, 37-story Bellagio Resort Casino, which is only one building encompassing 25% the amount of space.
In the field, craft workers say they sometimes feel pressured by project managers, superintendents and fellow workers to meet schedule milestones. Verbal jabs, intimidation and peer pressure are used to prod workers onward. Those who fall behind can become targets of ridicule or risk being reassigned to undesirable tasks that are viewed as punishment or retribution.
How much a big contractor or project owner is responsible for jobsite safety remains unclear, and that is part of the problem. Owners and construction managers could be considered "controlling employers" for safety purposes under multi-employer worksite rules, but they have not been enforced, says one safety expert.
Perini Corp. has had more accidents than any other Strip contractor. Company officials declined to comment for this story, but they previously have said they are doing all they can to protect workers and that each loss is painful.
Since the uproar over the accidents, Perini is paying for everyone at CityCenter to receive the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration's 10-hour safety training, and the company has placed many more safety staff on site.
Although Perini had ramped up its safety spending in recent years, it had yet to develop the elaborate, written safety mission and culture that some other big construction employers have. "I don't think there was much more than lip service paid to safety on those jobs before the strike," says Steve Holloway, executive vice president of the Las Vegas Chapter of the Associated General Contractors. Perini is not an AGC member nor part of its multi-employer collective-bargaining unit.
At the site, workers blame management and employers blame workers for the breakdown in the safety culture, says a safety researcher who has visited the Las Vegas sites to investigate the problems.
Whatever the reason for the failure, the safety battle cry is finally being heard. "We now have carpenters whose hammers are tethered to them so that they don't get dropped and hit someone," says Marc Furman of the carpenters' union. "Everyone is now tied off."
Lives Lost On The Strip
December 5 Isidro "Willie" Pelayo, 39, Laborer Foreman Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas General Contractor: Perini Building Co. Thrown from malfunctioning buggy into elevator shaft.
February 6 Bobby Lee Tohannie, 44, Carpenter CityCenter General Contractor: Perini Building Co. Crushed inside elevator shaft when concrete form collapsed. Angel Hernandez, 24, Carpenter CityCenter General Contractor: Perini Building Co. Crushed inside elevator shaft when concrete form collapsed.
August 2 Norvin Tsosie, 36, Ironworker (Apprentice) Fontainebleau Las Vegas General Contractor: Turnberry West Construction Subcontractor: Nevada Prefab Engineers Fell following cable-support-system failure.
August 9 Harvey Englander, 65, Operating Engineer CityCenter General Contractor: Perini Building Co. Fell after being struck by descending man-lift counterweight.
August 17 Justin Paul Chapman, 31, Concrete Cutter Palms Place Tower General Contractor: M.J. Dean Construction Fell down elevator shaft after striking head on beam.
October 5 Harold "Rusty" Billingsley, 46, Ironworker CityCenter General Contractor: Perini Building Co. Subcontractor: SME Steel Contractors Fell through opening in floor decking.
November 26 Michael Hanson, 42, Laborer The Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino General Contractor: Taylor International Corp. Struck in head by piece of concrete slab raised by forklift.
November 27 David Rabun, Jr., 30, Ironworker Apprentice Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino General Contractor: Perini Building Co. Subcontractor: Schuff Steel Fell after I-beam spreader broke free from wall.
January 14 Michael Taylor, 58, Safety Engineer Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino General Contractor: Perini Building Co. Subcontractor: Reliable Steel Fell after guardrail corner support collapsed.
April 26 Mark Wescoat, 47, Electrician CityCenter General Contractor: Perini Building Co. Subcontractor: Fisk Electric Co. Fell about 25 ft.
May 31 Dustin Tarter, 39, Operating Engineer CityCenter General Contractor: Perini Building Co. Subcontractor: Dielco Crane Co. Crushed while oiling crane-counterweight system.
June 17 Lyndall Bates, 49, Carpenter Echelon Las Vegas Construction Manager: Tishman Construction Corp. Subcontractor: Marnell Corrao Associates Fell after mistakenly dismantling scaffolding piece to which he was tied off.
Crane Safety
Crane-Related Fatalities Soar Nationwide
By Tony Illia, with Debra Wood, Craig Barner, Eileen Schwartz
Two crane accidents in Dallas, Texas in June killed one worker and injured three others. Texas, which does not require crane personnel to be certified, led the country in crane-related worker fatalities in 2005-06, with a combined 26 deaths out of 157, reports the U.S. Department of Labor. Texas has already recorded five crane-related deaths in 2008.
In New York, workers lost control of a six-ton bracing collar at the 18th floor of a 205-ft-tall tower crane on March 15, resulting in seven deaths and 24 people being injured, several critically. The tower was being erected when it tilted away from the structure under construction, slammed into the 15th-story parapet of a building across the street and sent crane components crashing through smaller buildings on the next street. Preliminary findings point to a failure of temporary nylon webbing supports.
OSHA, in response, will release a proposed revision of its crane-and-derrick standard this summer. Industry groups have criticized the federal agency for studying the issue for over three years without acting.
Florida has moved at a similar pace, introducing a state tower-crane safety bill in the Legislature for two years running that has yet to make it out of committee.
Two people died at Miami's Paramount Bay condominium project March 25 when tower crane segments crashed through the roof of a home being used by contractor Bovis Lend Lease of New York as a jobsite office.
Miami-Dade County had passed a crane safety ordinance a week before but it hadn't gone into effect. In May, a coalition of Florida construction organizations filed suit in federal court and obtained an injunction prohibiting Miami-Dade County from enforcing the ordinance, expressing fear that the requirements could shut down projects.
"Fifteen years ago, someone got killed on a jobsite and no one knew about it, other than the immediate people, but now a crane falls down in New York and the rest of the country knows about it in 15 minutes," says John Murphy, safety director for Suffolk Construction Co.'s Florida Division in West Palm Beach. His company requires every crane assembled on a Suffolk jobsite to undergo a third-party inspection to ensure it meets the manufacturer's specification limitations.
The Midwest, by contrast, has been spared from the raft of recent crane incidents due to a July 1999 wakeup call when a crane dubbed "big blue" collapsed at the then-under-construction Miller Park in Milwaukee, killing three workers.
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|As-salaamu Alaykum, My questions are: Who inhabited Palestine in the earliest times and established Jerusalem? According to the Noble Quran, Allah (SWT) did promise the Children of Israel the holy lands; if so, what about the people who were living there? Were they to be sacrificed just as the Palestinians are now being sacrificed for the sake of Zionist Israel ? Again, according to the Noble Quran, the Children of Israel refused to obey Allah's commandments to enter the holy lands even though Allah (SWT) assured them victory as soon as they entered the lands; and they were punished harshly by Allah, when they disobeyed Allah's commandments. Now, do they still have the right to claim the holy lands at anytime they desire? Are the Zionist movements in the 20-century justified from a religious perspective in massacring the people of Palestine to replace them with eastern European and Russian Jews, before, during, and after 1948, since Allah (SWT) did promise them the holy lands? Thank you and God bless you!
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Salam Dear Abu Zidan,
The name is also used for the territory now known as Palestine, which the Jews would prefer to call Israel. In the first book of the Bible we may read how Jehovah promised Abraham's offspring the Land of Canaan:
"And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations." (Genesis 17: 8,9)
Abraham had two sons: the firstborn was Ishmael, the second, Isaac. The Arabs are the children of Ishmael and the Jews are the children of Israel or Jacob, the second son of Isaac.
The Jewish claim is that only the children of Israel deserve the Promised Land; because Ishmael's mother was only a handmaiden of Sarah, the mother of Isaac.
"If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn: but he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his." (Deuteronomy 21:15-17)
It is clear from the above passage of the Jewish Bible itself, that neither Ishmael nor his children can be denied their birthright; but the perverse racism of most of the Children of Israel made them adopt an unjust policy towards their brethren.
The special favor mentioned here is obvious in the fact that they were miraculously liberated from the bondage of Egypt, and were led to the Promised Land. And more importantly, they were chosen as the bearers of the Divine Message, meant for leading the people out of darkness to light. For this reason Allah appointed a number of prophets from among the Children of Israel.
Yet, despite all this, the Children of Israel were ungrateful to the All-Merciful; and instead of worshipping Him alone, they took to idolatry: They defiantly broke God's commandments given in the Torah. They insulted the prophets and even plotted against their lives.
Allah Almighty admonishes them and tells them in Surah 2, verse 40, what means:
Here God speaks of the special covenant of the Children of Israel. Allah says that He has fulfilled His part of the covenant, and it is now the turn of the Children of Israel to fulfill their part. The verses following the above would make it clear how they were expected to fulfill the covenant. Surah 2 verses 41 – 43 say what means:
The point to be noted here is that from the very beginning of mankind on earth, Allah has been sending His prophets to guide humanity along the Right Path. Whenever the people deviated from Divine Guidance, prophets came to correct them and lead them back to the Path of Allah.
Thus after the time of Moses, when the Children of Israel distorted the Divine Message, many prophets came to them, of whom the most important was Jesus the Messiah.
The Holy Quran narrates how Allah Almighty saved Jesus from an accursed death on the cross. Obviously the Jews who rejected Jesus were transgressors who broke God's covenant and forfeited the special favor of God.
But the Zionists who come from Eastern Europe for instance, want the people living in Palestine to vacate the land to give way to Jewish settlements, because God had promised the Land to them about 4000 years ago!
"There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed."
This means that the Zionists are not prepared even to acknowledge the existence of the people who were born and brought up in Palestine, on the plea that they were not Jews. And at the time of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, only 7% of the 700,000 inhabitants of Palestine were Jews; the rest were Christians and Muslims.
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Lee commissioners question county manager on proposed budget cuts
Lee County Manager Roger Desjarlais came to a workshop Monday looking for direction on proposed cuts for next year's budget and left with a handful of questions from Lee County commissioners.
Proposed cuts include implementing a hiring freeze for 72 currently vacant county government jobs, of which 25 are supervisory positions.
Desjarlais also proposed cutting more than $791,000 from Human Services, $1.35 million from Parks and Recreation, $1.33 million from LeeTran, $1.2 million from Public Safety and $1.25 million from the library system to help reduce an estimated $30 million budget shortfall.
"There's a broad misconception that local government hasn't felt the same economic impact as the private sector," Desjarlais said. "These budget reductions are critical to balancing the budget with the funding available to us. The question is: how do we negatively impact the least number of people?"
In Human Services, the cuts would include reducing county-funded rent and utility assistance by $56,500 — or 14 percent — for those at risk of homelessness.
For Parks and Recreation, the future of City of Palms Park — largely unused since the Boston Red Sox relocated the team's spring training activities — was the subject of uncertainty as commissioners sought more information on the options available to them.
In transportation, LeeTran could lose two routes — Route 160, which serves Pine Island, and Route 60, which serves Florida Gulf Coast University and San Carlos Park — if the cuts are ultimately approved.
Public Safety will seek departmental reorganization, including the elimination of three currently vacant staff positions, and review previous maintenance agreements in an effort to save money. The library system would eliminate the inter-library loan system in addition to reducing hours.
A proposed 3 percent raise for county employees was not a subject of cuts.
Desjarlais said in a statement that the county has $102 million of existing fund balance for Conservation 20/20 — a land acquisition and maintenance program — that will be retained without raising taxes.
Commissioners wanted Desjarlais to explore the possibility of privatizing certain transportation needs instead of cutting bus routes, discuss options for City of Palms Park with Fort Myers city officials that include razing structures for future use, "mothballing" the facilities for a period of time with only minimal maintenance and finding another Major League Baseball team to call the park home. The Washington Nationals showed interest at one point but commissioners said they don't currently have the money ($36 million) to pursue the team any further.
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FORT PIERCE — Last year was truly a rebuilding one for the John Carroll Catholic High School football team.
Mike Watkins' second spring with the Golden Rams kind of feels like his first.
John Carroll returns a strong group of juniors who will step up as the new seniors, and most of the skill players are back as well, giving Watkins plenty of experienced players and a squad familiar with his system.
The difference is they all look different from a year ago, Watkins said — in a good way.
"We have a lot of the same kids, but they are stronger, faster and more experienced," Watkins said. "I feel I have a different roster even though it's all the same names."
Watkins said his team benefited from being with the staff for a full offseason during weightlifting and speed training workouts before school.
That will especially help out on defense, as the Rams change from a 4-3 to a 4-2 nickel defense.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Tiger Woods has made the turn at 1-over par in the opening round of the PGA Championship.
After arriving at Valhalla less than 24 hours earlier, Woods started on the back side Thursday and bogeyed both par 3s after errant tee shots. He got a shot back in unlikely fashion, holing out from the fairway with a wedge at the 16th and went to the front side with a 37.
Woods, who hasn't won a major title since 2008, is already five shots off the lead. Freddie Jacobson and Kevin Chappell are at 4 under.
It wasn't known if Woods would even play the PGA after he injured his back at Firestone last weekend. He went to Florida for treatment and arrived at Valhalla to much fanfare on Wednesday.


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Ingredients1 cup Jasmine Rice
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Why do guys avoid simple questions?
For example if I was speaking to you as a friend or a ex who is now just a friend through text messages and I asked, so do you have kids yet? Why not respond to that? I mean I am asking to just get to know more about you or if I know you just to see how your life is going..
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It is possible that he didn't want to get into the whole kid discussion, as this can be a complex web for men to navigate through even in conversation. Heh.
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Some people are just really guarded and uncomfortable talking about themselves.
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He didn't tell you about kids because he doesn't want you to know. He's an ex. He has someone else. You KNOW she is jealous. Why are you tempting him to get in trouble? I think she doesn't trust him with a good reason. He's talking to YOU behind her back.
- Response by roaminginsomniac, An Alternative Girl, Female, 46-55, Law Enforcement
Yes I do... Ohh wait a minute you weren't asking me!! :)
- Response by hands, A Creative, Male, 46-55, Hong Kong, Who Cares?