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On 9 September 1931 Koenigs transferred the vast majority of his drawings, some 2,500 sheets, in fiduciary ownership (a commercial form of surety between 1929 and 1992, alongside guarantee and mortgage) to the N.V. Bankierskantoor Lisser & Rosenkranz in Amsterdam, a bank with largely Jewish major shareholders in which he himself had a holding of around 2.4%. [E1.pdf] This was collateral for a loan of 1.5m guilders that he needed to boost the capitalisation of his company. The agreement was ratified in a document of 2 October 1931 in which the loan was stated to be only 1,150,000 guilders.
It is this group of drawings that is now known as the Koenigs Collection. He did not transfer the entire collection to the bank but held on to the paintings and an unknown number of drawings which formed the basis for a subsequent collection which he put together unobtrusively, known as 'the second Koenigs Collection' (see below).
Koenigs needed this substantial loan because the worldwide recession had damaged his business interests and his company had got into financial difficulties. The situation became acute in the summer of 1931 when the crisis worsened, affecting banks as well as commercial companies. On 1 September 1931 money transfers were frozen under the Standstill agreements between international and German banks, whereby German banks and industrial and commercial companies were granted extensions of payment for six months (which was repeatedly prolonged) on their short-term debts to foreign banks. One of those foreign banks was Koenigs's company, which did most of its business with Germany, where it had most of its borrowers. At the same time, because he was a German national, Koenigs was himself protected by the Standstill agreement in his obligations to foreign banks (his bank borrowed from foreign banks in order to provide lines of credit to German companies). That ceased when he became a naturalised Dutchman in 1939 and received demands to pay his debts to English banks. The situation in which he found himself warrants further study by an economic historian as part of a wider examination of Koenigs's business dealings and companies in the two decades between the world wars.
The conditions of Koenigs's loan were tightened when the world economy failed to recover. The loan and the bond (the Koenigs Collection ) were reaffirmed and renewed for five years (unless the lender went into liquidation at an earlier date, as was stipulated in a special clause) in a registered document of 1 June 1935. The amount of the loan had increased to 1,375,000 guilders and £17,000 as a result of currency conversion and a transfer of debt. [E2.pdf] In addition to the collection of drawings Koenigs now transferred 47 paintings in fiduciary ownership to the Lisser & Rosenkranz bank.
This agreement was modified on 15 July 1935. [E-3.pdf] If the loan was repaid the bank would renounce its fiduciary ownership, which would then revert to Koenigs. So unless he repaid the loan within the stipulated period of five years he had no rights of ownership to the Koenigs Collection. One feature of fiduciary ownership is that the construction is not made known to outsiders, to whom it appeared that Koenigs was the owner. Since the collection could no longer be housed in the collector's home, a new location had to be found for it, and the choice fell on Museum Boymans in Rotterdam (renamed Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in 1958 and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in 1996, referred to below as Museum Boijmans). While it was on loan to the museum it would be accessible to the public and scholars. That was the express wish of the collector, who had long been familiar with the museum and had made a financial contribution, together with D.G. van Beuningen and others, for the purchase of Hieronymus Bosch's famous Prodigal Son in 1931, which has been one of the museum's icons ever since.
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From a room with far, far too many empty lockers — and from what I understand it was worse post-game Friday night:
Chris Drury:
"We feel, especially in Game 2 we played a better game, we played harder, and we know we're going to have to continue to grind it out. It would certainly be nice to get one early for our fans in our building."
"It's a special place in any game, but a playoff game — we weren't in last year — I think the fans are going to be pretty excited."
"It's be important. I don't think if we don't get the first one, it's over. But certainly we'd like to get the first one, especially being at home and being down 2-0."
"I think at the right time we've just got to get a big play, a big goal. I thought in Game 2 we played a lot harder. I think we played smarter, we certainly have ourselves a better chance to win by playing that way. We just have to keep grinding it out. Maybe we'll get a bounce early, a break early, and make it stick."
Brian Boyle:
"We're trying to win a game, trying to get some momentum. Come back to home, play in front of our fans, use that energy and feed off of it. Trying to get a game. That's what we're focused on. We're focused on Game 3."
"We need to score. We need a bounce to go in. We need to force that bounce. We need to make it really tough on them. It's coming. We had some flurries, and outside of a little bit in the second period of last game. We know the way we have to play. We have to sustain it. There's going to be ups and downs. We need to be deal with some of the momentum shifts, create traffic and put the puck on net."
"In a series, every hit's an investment. It can go a long way as we go on in the series. That's what they're trying to do, and we're trying to do it, too. We're pushing back. They're D know we're coming, Sometimes when we're forechecking you can kind of sense it. They're trying to do the same. That's playoff hockey, I guess. You see it every year."
"(Sean Avery) was buzzing. He was getting pucks. He was getting on their D and forcing turnovers. They weren't breaking out easy. We were giving them a hard time doing that. We were coming back in waves, and that's where it starts. When you get another chance like that to get excited and throw some pucks at the net and get rebounds. We got some chances there and that's what we want to do. That's probably … if we're together again tomorrow, that's what our line's going to focus on for sure."
"I had fun at the rink today. I was happy to be here with the guys. It was fun to be here. We're ready to win Game 3. We're down 0-2 and those are over and done with. We need to win Game 3.
"Dru's a great leader and he was telling us that. We need to get momentum on our side. In series … stuff can shift. We need to come out, we need to neutralize them, we need to play physical on them. And then we need to score some goals."
Brandon Dubinsky:
"We're trying to create chances and funnel everything to the blue and try and get in this guy's face. He's a young guy and we've got to try to put some more pressure on him."
"We played a good (third) period. I thought we played a pretty good game with the exception of what happened in the second period there. But at the end of the day you've got to win, and you've got to win games in the playoffs, and that's the most important thing. We've got to find a way to get it done no matter what it takes tomorrow. I think our guys are going to be ready and we feel good."
"I think we just stick to what works for us, staying aggressive, getting in on the forecheck and I keep saying it, but bringing pucks to the net and try and get some ugly ones, because I think once it goes in for you there, then some of the other stuff starts to open up. So, we've just got to try and get some ugly ones. … We'll find a way to break through here."
"He's certainly made some good saves for them, but with that being said, I don't think he's seen enough rubber and I don't think he's seen enough traffic, so I think those are two things that we're going to really focus on going into tommorow's game."
"This is the greatest place to play, but in the playoffs — I've had the opportunity to have played here — it's really special. The fans are exciting, going crazy. So hopefully we can use that energy and win a big game here at home and change the tide of the series."
"I've just got to make sure I'm hard on the puck, I've got to make sure I have the puck more, and continue to try and be aggressive personally and finish my checks and play in the dirty areas, and all those things that have helped make me successful during the season, I've got to make sure I bring tomorrow."


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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Jacob Trouba is already a lot of things as a hockey player, an NHL first-round draft pick, a gold-medal winner at the World Under-18 tournament and a college freshman playing senior minutes less than 10 games into his NCAA career.
Topping the list of things the 18-year-old defenceman is not?
The ninth overall pick of last June's draft, his name called by the Winnipeg Jets, is what you'd call a play-by-play man's dream.
More often than not, he's the centre of the action, the one making all the news and noise.
It matters not the zone or situation. Trouba plays the game and he's not waiting around for it to play him.
Less than 10 games into his college career at University of Michigan (eight points in nine games, including a team-leading three power-play goals), Trouba is not holding back because he's new.
"That's it; they recruited me to come here and play how I play. So that's what I'm trying to do," Trouba said after another eventful night Thursday, though his Wolverines lost a 3-1 CCHA decision to visiting Notre Dame. "That's who I am. It's how I play.
"I'm not changing just because I'm a freshman. I feel like I can add to the team so I'm going to try to do whatever I can to help."
The 6-2, 195-pound blue-liner is on Michigan coach Red Berenson's first defence pairing with junior Mac Bennett, an alternate captain.
Berenson is quite clearly ready to see where it takes them.
"He's been an impact defenceman, come in and played pretty well," said Berenson, the former NHLer, NHL coach of the year and 29-year veteran behind the Michigan bench. "I would say really well at times. But like any young defenceman, he's going to make mistakes.
"At some point, he tries to do too much but that's a good thing rather than a bad thing. As he gets more experience, he's going to be a terrific player."
There was lots to see Thursday at Yost Ice Arena.
In the game's first three minutes, Trouba read offensive pressure accurately, slipped into an open area from the left point and rattled a loose puck off the left post.
Two shifts later, he thumped Notre Dame forward Mario Lucia on his can when he thought about a give-and-go, and did the very same to Mike Voran later in the period.
But the eyebrow-raiser of the period was with just a little over two minutes left, when Trouba showed again how quick and explosive he can be when he chooses to get physical.
Notre Dame defenceman Shayne Taker decided to quickly return a cleared puck to the Michigan zone, hoping to sustain some Fighting Irish pressure.
But it was a one-on-one situation on Trouba's normal right side, and the Michigan blue-liner quickly detected Taker's isolation, stepped quickly up and would have taken his opponent's head off, had Taker not taken half a faulty stride and started to slip.
Still, the contact wasn't incidental and certainly adds to the word that's already getting around fast, that Trouba means it when he decides to use force.
November's not over but the CCHA has taken note. For a high, hard hit two weeks ago in a road game against Northern Michigan, Trouba not only got ejected but he was handed an extra one-game penalty.
Later on in Thursday's game, Trouba decided to join a two-on-two rush to be the extra attacker. Nothing abnormal there, other than his team was killing a penalty.
On the next shift, he was part of the two-on-two rush but when the puck didn't get through to him, he was ridden into Notre Dame goalie Steven Summerhays. Summerhays didn't like the jostling and upended Trouba on the way out of the crease, sending the Yost crowd into an uproar.
Trouba could well have been a game changer in the third. His 70-foot breakaway pass to team captain A.J. Treais hit the mark but Treais couldn't convert. The game was tied 1-1 at the time.
The loss, however, didn't mean discouragement.
"I think I fit in here pretty well with the systems we run," Trouba said. "So I'll just play how I play and (put) it go together with the team. That's what I'm going to do."


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In 1998, at the Rangers' annual team Halloween party, Scott Fraser showed up in a ski mask, holding a bag.
"Who are you supposed to be?" his teammates would ask.
"My agent," said Fraser.
And everybody cracked up. Fraser had just signed a three-year, $4.1 million deal as a free agent, leaving Edmonton that summer. Glen Sather, then the Oilers GM, must have been laughing too.
So as we head into the homestretch of the Dany Heatley sweepstakes (we should know if he will be a Ranger by midnight, when he's due a $4 million bonus), and as we head into the opening of the free-agent market also at midnight tonight, I thought I might share this.
In no particular order or relevance, here are most (we may have missed a few) of the free agents the Rangers have signed the last 10 years. You decide which ones worked out:
Theo Fleury
Val Kamensky
Sylvain Lefebvre
Stephane Quintal
Kirk McLean
Tim Taylor
Ray Ferraro
Bruce Driver
John MacLean
Bobby Holik
Darius Kasparaitis
Wade Redden
Chris Drury
Scott Gomez
Brendan Shanahan
Martin Rucinsky
Steve Rucchin
Vladimir Malakhov
Mark Messier (the sequel)
Aaron Voros
Markus Naslund
Martin Straka
Jason Strudwick
Alex Gusarov
Dave Karpa
Matt Cullen
Dan Girardi
Marek Malik
Michael Nylander
Michal Rozsival
Aaron Ward
Jason Ward
Kevin Weekes
Greg DeVries
Chris Simon
Ted Donato
Zdeno Ciger
Barrett Heisten
Steve McKenna
Igor Ulanov
That said, here's a list of the top 50 free agents from NHL.com.
My buddy Tom Gulitti, who used to cover the Rangers and now has a fine Devils blog at the Bergen Record, reminded me that the free agency period begins at noon, not midnight like the old days. Geez, I wish Gary Bettman would call me when he changes things.
Also, here is the list of invitees to the U.S. Olympic hockey camp for 2010. It includes Callahan, Drury and Gomez.


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Skipper® loved going on picnics with friends! She wore a tri-color dress of pink, lime green, and turquoise. The skirt had white embroidered butterfly cutouts in purple, pale pink and yellow as accent. She wore pink flat shoes and carried her picnic supplies in a matching tri-color tote bag. She packed a fringed red and white check and floral tablecloth, a checked napkin, a turquoise plate (with or without embossed pattern), wax watermelon slice, plastic hamburger on bun, a big fork with red plastic handle and a wiener attached for roasting, an ice cream cone (plastic cone, cotton ice cream), a red or blue insulated bottle with Scottie dog design and a blue or red lid, a strawberry soda, a rubber four color ball, and a butterfly net! She went in pursuit of a beautiful golden Monarch, but he got away! (The butterfly is an orange and black paper cutout. )
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I say (mostly) because I'm sure someone can come up with a scheme to break this, but it should be flexible enough to cover 80% of cases, including PSR-0, and if you can come up with a way to store classes this can't handle you can write your own autoloader.
Well, if this one is writable...
This at the moment is a thought exercise.
The factory of the autoloader is given the directory or directories to search for files. Using glob it slurps in all files matching a pattern, default *.php (though *.class.php or *.inc will likely be popular).
Then, one file at a time, it uses regex to find the namespace declaration of the file, if any. If there are multiple namespaces (the programmer used the less often invoked namespace { } construction ) the file is divided into it's component namespaces. Again, using regex, we search for the pattern /class $ /. Each class is appended to the namespace it is found in and added to an array.
If duplicate classes are found the autoloader fails with an error (this is one of the cases in the 20% I'm not touching) telling you which two files have identical classes.? Or would it be better to continue but to refuse to autoload either class ?? Or proceed, first class found only ?In all cases, an error E_USER_WARNING at least should be raised, if not an exception thrown or fatal error.
Once all the classes are found, the array is passed to the actual autoloader. This object needs to be cachable to be effective, as no sane live system would be responsive with that much file scanning occurring each page load.
Note that in the keys the class / namespace names will be passed stored as typed. When the autoloader compares it will make a case sensitive check first, but since PHP doesn't require class identifiers and namespaces to be case sensitive it will make a second case insensitive check. If it finds the class this way it will throw an E_STRICT ? would it be better to forego doing that and just store the class / namespace paths under strtolower() and make all the checks case insensitive?
I have a working autoloader that mostly works this way - using a file system scan to find class files - but it doesn't analyze file contents and depends on the convention that namespace significant directories will have a .ns extension. The system above however is foolproof enough to deal with the poorly thought out PSR-0 standard and also load most class hives that don't follow the standard.
(The reason I call out that standard as poorly thought out is there is no way to determine, from the file's position in the file structure, what the class name is going to be - yet changing a file's position in that structure forces you to edit the class' name. It's a double whammy of code inflexibility for no real gain).
That sounds like a classmap autoloader.
For example, http://framework.zend.com/manual/2.0/en/modules/zend.loader.class-map-autoloader.html
EDIT: It looks like Composer can generate the classmap for you.
The class name and the file name always match.
It would force you to edit the class's namespace. In short, Namespace\ClassName === filepath/filename.php.
I know of a couple people who find this kind of system restrictive. Though, personally, even if the autoloader didn't require this kind of correspondence, I would do it anyway. If classes can be logically grouped in a namespace, then why wouldn't I also logically group them in a directory? If I recall correctly, even PEAR worked this way, albeit with underscores as pseudo-namespace separators.
To me a true match must be symetrical. If A = B then B = A, for all values A and B. This isn't true with PSR-0, and further there's the issue of case sensitivity in file systems but not in the language itself. This is why I level the accusation that it's an ill-thought out standard.
First, most file systems are case sensitive. PHP class identifiers are not. Therefore to PHP \myNamespace\myClass and \MYNAMESPACE\MYCLASS are the same thing. On Unix systems /myNamespace/myClass.php and /MYNAMESPACE/MYCLASS.php are not the same files.
That said, PHP's penchant for allowing such nonsense is a design flaw that can't be corrected due to massive BC breaks anyway, and the argument can be made that using multiple cap styles in code for the same class is bad practice because, well, it is. But that isn't the largest problem.
The largest problem is the standard doesn't create a one to one mapping of file structure to class names. Given file structure
Are we talking about
Or even (unlikely) \vendor\package_array_model_class
In PSR-0 it is impossible to determine the class name for a given file path. But you still have to modify a class' name if you move it in the file structure because the file path is significant to the class name and the PSR-0 compliant autoloader's ability to find it.
No. I thought it was that way too until I read it more closely while trying to implement it. There's a huge issue of underscores in the class names as outlined above.
True. That said, PSR-0 has you go to the trouble of implementing such a structure, then fails to reward you for it by making it impossible to determine what a class' name is from looking at it's position in the file hierarchy.
Not sure what you're referring to here. The underscores?
Technically this issue persists all the way back to PEAR standards. But in practice, it's never really been a problem. Probably because developers adhere to coding standards, which includes casing (e.g., StudlyCaps).
I have to grant you this one. The underscore behavior was included for backward compatibility, so that classes such as Zend_Email_Smtp could still work. Though, mixing real namespaces with pseudo-namespaces is something I've only ever seen in hypothetical criticisms. I've never seen or heard of this causing any problems in practice. Nonetheless, a new PSR autoloader is being drafted that has dropped support for PEAR-style pseudo-namespaces.
Why would you want to? Autoloaders start with a class name then try to find its file. Not the other way around. PSR-0 never intended nor claimed to provide this "feature."
Well... yeah. The gist of PSR-0 is namespace == file path. It's popular because it's simple, and because it's what we would do anyway. If a class logically belongs in a namespace, then it logically belongs in a directory of the same name.
Not true. There's more than a few autoloaders out there that scan the directory the classes should be found in, build an array map, then cache that map for later use so that each class load request doesn't require a disk scan.
PSR-0 never intended nor claimed to provide this "feature."
It is a legitimate approach to the problem beyond the scope of the short sighted PSR-0 standard. As such, it's a bad idea and a bad standard. I hope it doesn't infect the core, although if it does it will certainly won't be PHP's [worst [url=http://php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.php]mistake [url=http://php.net/manual/en/features.safe-mode.php]ever](http://php.net/manual/en/security.globals.php).
Those are classmap autoloaders... which PSR-0 isn't. It seems as though you're criticizing a non-classmap autoloader for not being a classmap autoloader.
Your spec seems to say that a given class can only exist in location in the searched directory structure? If that is is the case then that puts me in the 20% group right away. I'll often have several layers where classes in the upper layer will override the classes in the lower layer. I control the order in which layers are searched by the autoloader so it works fine.
Your spec calls for the use of gob to scan files. As a long time users of Solaris I can assure you that that gob is unreliable in many non-gnu unix systems. Your fix for the case sensitivity issue seems to introduce yet anothe files system issue. Again, 20% for me.
Your systems seemed intrusive for regular development in that any change to a class mapping will require regenerating the autoload map. You would really have to produce an incredibly efficient cross-platform scanner that won't hinder the developer.
The complexity of your regex processing would make it a show stopper for me. Contrast it with the 10 lines or so of code needed to make a minimal psr-0 based autoload implementation. Feel free to prove me wrong on this.
Your spec clearly focuses on php classes which is fine. But psr-0 can be applied to other resources such as template files. You can get carried away with trying to take it to far but it actually works quite nicely.
Many psr-0 based autoloaders currently exist and are very widely used. In fact I would estimate that their applicability rate is close to 95%. Someone would really have to produce some code based on your spec before it's advantages will be fully appreciated.


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0. phoneArena posted on 13 Aug 2012, 03:52
Samsung Galaxy S Blaze Q is supposed to be a nice QWERTY-laden addition to T-Mobile's Android stable, as we first saw it about a month ago. Now it leaked as an official press shot, showing August 15 on the homescreen, so we'd wager to guess Wednesday will be the launch date...
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1. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
kinda weird that a phone is going to be launched in two more days and we only know so much about it..... Still interested in it though :)
2. redmd (Posts: 1371; Member since: 26 Oct 2011)
Doesn't look 4.8 inches to me.
22. OptimusOne (Posts: 694; Member since: 22 May 2012)
if only motorola made a 5.3 phablet with 1080p display and a qwerty like the droid 3. that would be epic
3. alterecho (Posts: 1099; Member since: 23 Feb 2012)
Would be nice if its 4 inches max.
4. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
meh....4.3 would be right on the money ;)
5. Wiki_jaan (Posts: 704; Member since: 24 Jun 2012)
it is 4@ inch with 367 ppi
check specifications here
6. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
welp...........ahhhh it has the S3 chip and thats all i needed to know.........I guess the photon q will be the best qwerty after all
13. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5713; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
nope, this thing has an S4.
17. SkOne (Posts: 95; Member since: 02 May 2012)
its an s3, the adreno 220 only runs on the s3, s4 uses the adreno 225. s4 pro will utilize the adreno 320.
18. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5713; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
I know what the specs provided by the link above are. the S4 is the 8960, the link above shows it as an 8260 but I'm relatively sure that's wrong.
19. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
I sure hope so man....and for some reason Im still hoping it's 4.3 inches instead but you never know
20. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5713; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
yeah, at least there will be the Photon Q like you mentioned.
7. tigermcm (Posts: 860; Member since: 02 Sep 2009)
whats with these long names for phones? I remember when it was one name or just the phone model number now the phone names are a sentence long
9. snowgator (Posts: 3604; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)
It is almost comical.....
But other then the name's use of the entire alphabet, it could be a solid option for those that like qwerty goodness. T-Mobile usually has a couple of good ones to choose from.
8. kamil (Posts: 118; Member since: 07 Feb 2012)
367 ppi are you sure kind of too much for a side slider but its still just a rumor though
14. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5713; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
what do you mean too much for a side slider? what does it's keyboard have to do with it? xD
10. iWork4T-MO (Posts: 1; Member since: 13 Aug 2012)
Well we here at T-Mobile have not heard one thing about this device we know just as much as every one here lol....so i doubt if it will release on the 15th if it does it will only be online and only in our high volume stores so we will see!!!
otherwise from the looks here pretty neat device our customers that love our galaxy line up would love the qwerty keyboard addition
26. oceanbabi (Posts: 1; Member since: 29 Aug 2012)
Hey, iWork4T-MO: Any new info on this? Like, ahem, a date?? B-)! I haven't looked forward to a phone as much as I'm looking forward to this phone since the Motorola Droid 2! We're 2 weeks past the "rumored" release date and I am soooo close to going with the Motorola Photon Q instead ... but I REALLY, REALLY wanted this. Harumph! Do you have any info you can share? Thanks either way. :)
11. pankajgupta (Posts: 59; Member since: 09 Aug 2012)
And here I hope for a dual core Xperia Pro Successor.. probably Xperia S Pro :)
would be a perfect addition to Sony's army to take on others :)
PS: I already own Xperia Pro and it is awesome :)
12. buccob (Posts: 2740; Member since: 19 Jun 2012)
I bought to my girlfriend the Xperia Pro too.. and I was having an Atrix at the time...
The Pro when it was new was amazing, and it outperformed the Atrix in several areas, but having such limited internal memory and ram make the Xperia Pro a slug after adding some applications, and now my GF complains a lot that it takes forever to do anything (specially now that she compares it to my new Galaxy S3)
I am waiting on a worthy qwerty successor to my gf's Pro.
15. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5713; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
i have a friend that will probably be interested in this. o:
16. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3821; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
If these specs are correct, this phone will have the highest ppi of any phone released yet. Impressive.
21. OptimusOne (Posts: 694; Member since: 22 May 2012)
i PROMISE YOU WE WILL SEE A ONE Q, DROID Q, XPERIA Q
23. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
This is better than the Photon Q for sure! Why did it have to be T-mo?
24. 12013E12T (Posts: 37; Member since: 08 Sep 2009)
I'd probably look into getting this if I was on T-Mobile


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The California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement recently started its sixth year, and the occasion passed without the much-anticipated federal food safety rules.
"The new rules under the Food Safety Modernization Action haven't appeared yet, and we expected those months ago," said Scott Horsfall, chief executive officer of the Sacramento-based LGMA.
"Like all of the produce industry, we're eager to see what the federal government is going to publish in the way of new regulations so we can figure out how to mesh with those."
Through the process, LGMA has stayed in contact with the Food and Drug Administration.
"Last year we met with a good group of FDA personnel from various parts of the agency, all of whom work on food safety rules," Horsfall said. "We'd like to do that again and keep reaching out."
The LGMA retains the support of growers, he said.
"We do everything we can to make sure the industry follows food safety practices," Horsfall said. "I'm also confident we're doing everything and more that the new rules will require, but until we see them we don't know."
During peak season in Salinas and Santa Maria, the organization's efforts are focused on audits. But that's not the whole story.
The LGMA recently completed a series of food safety workshops conducted across California focusing on worker practices in the field, and more are planned for the fall.
"We're doing more training and education programs this year," Horsfall said. "From our audits, we have a historical record now of compliance, and we're more sophisticated at drawing from our database.
"Where we see issues, where we see nonconformity — we're doing a better job of turning that into specific training elements that we take back out to the industry."
With high turnover in the fields, training is an ongoing need.
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On his way out of the LSU team hotel Saturday, Odell Beckham Jr. spotted a line of fans queued up to get autographs from Tigers legend Billy Cannon.
A few hours later, Cannon, watching from a suite in the southeast corner of Tiger Stadium near where his name is written in lights on the east upper deck facade, had his eyes on Beckham as he reprised Cannon's Halloween 1959 punt return against Ole Miss with an 89-yarder of his own against the Rebels.
"It was a beautiful punt return," Cannon said Monday.
Cannon happened to be watching the game with another all-time LSU great, TommyCasanova, who returned two punts for touchdowns in a 61-17 win over Ole Miss in 1970 in Tiger Stadium.
"Right before (Beckham's return), Tommy turned to me and said, 'It's about time for a punt return,' " Cannon said. "I said, 'They'd better not wait much longer.' "
Traveling on a similar path to Cannon's epic return from the south end zone to the north, Beckham started left, cut right and sped up the Rebels' sideline, crossing the goal line with 9:10 to play.
Cannon's score, the only touchdown in a 7-3 LSU victory that night, came with exactly 10:00 left.
Cannon said he had to see a replay before he knew Beckham's return had also covered 89 yards.
"He got my heart beating fast," Cannon said.
Beckham said he didn't know he had matched the distance Cannon covered against Ole Miss until after the game.
"I was shocked," he said.
Beckham said he has seen film of Cannon's famous return and deferred to the Heisman Trophy winner's play.
"He made more than one or two people miss," said Beckham, who eluded two tackles, then went untouched.
Miles: Kwon could play
LSU coach Les Miles said freshman linebacker Kwon Alexander likely will travel with the team and could play in the Tigers' regular-season finale Friday at Arkansas (1:30 p.m., CBS).
A true freshman, Alexander worked his way into the starting lineup at strongside linebacker before he suffered a broken ankle Oct. 6 at Florida. At first it was expected that he could return by LSU's bowl game, but Alexander tweeted earlier this month that he might be back before then.
Miles was less optimistic about the return this week of former starting tailback Alfred Blue, out since suffering a knee injury Sept. 15 against Idaho. Miles also said tight end Nic Jacobs, who was held out of the Ole Miss game for unspecified reasons, is not yet cleared to return to the team and may not play in the bowl, either.
Miles opens with apology
Miles started his final weekly media luncheon Monday with an apology for uttering a profanity during his remarks after the Ole Miss game.
"I first would like to ask your indulgence for my choice of language Saturday night after the game," Miles said. "I thought it was impertinent and poor. It is not something that I want to repeat."
Miles used a profanity during a spirited and rambling postgame address in which he was extolling the virtues of his seniors who had just played their final home game.
Miles' comments have drawn nationwide attention from media and social media alike. One video of his comments had drawn nearly 690,000 views on YouTube as of Monday night.
Triple crown
LSU's passing game has made a lot of noise in the past three games, but Zach Mettenberger quietly accomplished something not done by a Tigers quarterback in 23 years.
He's the first LSU passer to throw for 250 or more yards in three straight Southeastern Conference games since Tommy Hodson in 1989. Mettenberger threw for 298 against Alabama, 273 against Mississippi State and 282 against Ole Miss.
"We had a couple of turnovers (on interceptions against the Rebels), but we've shown we can be a very efficient passing offense," said Mettenberger, who was 22 of 37 Saturday with two interceptions and no touchdowns. "Hopefully we can do that the rest of this year and into next year."
Mettenberger and the Tigers should have a chance to remain successful through the air at Arkansas. The Razorbacks rank last in the SEC, allowing 292.1 passing yards per game.
For the season, Mettenberger is 177 of 300 for 2,272 yards with 10 TDs and six interceptions. He ranks ninth in the SEC in passing yards but already ranks eighth all-time in LSU single-season passing yards. He needs 136 yards to pass Matt Flynn (2,407 in 2007) for seventh.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Saint Leo University men's and women's cross country coach Melissa Miller-Mangen has officially unveiled her squad's 2012 fall schedule.
In total, the Lions will compete in six regular season meets, before partaking in the Sunshine State Conference Championships on October 20 and the NCAA South Region meet on November 3.
"We have a very competitive schedule lined up," said Miller-Mangen. "Each of our contests, especially the UCF Invitational which is the same course as the SSC Championship, will prepare us for postseason action and a higher finisher in the SSC."
Both squads will begin the season at the Early Bird Classic (hosted by the University of Tampa) on August 31.
From there, Saint Leo will compete in the USF Invitational (Sept. 7) and the UF Invitational (Sept. 15), before playing host to its first home meet since 2007 (SSC Championships) at the Saint Leo Invitational (Sept. 29). Moving on, the teams will trek to Tallahassee to run in the Florida State Invite (Oct. 5).
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Zimmerman exits game in sixth inning with right hamstring strain
DENVER -- So much for Adam LaRoche's gloomy July.
The Washington first baseman, who entered Tuesday hitting just .130 this month, clubbed a three-run, tie-breaking homer off reliever Rex Brothers in the seventh inning, the key swing in the Nationals' 7-4 win over the Rockies at Coors Field.
"You swing hard enough, enough times, and you'll run into something," said LaRoche, who homered for the first time since June 30. "I've been playing long enough to know that sometimes it takes one swing to turn things around."
The victory, the fourth straight for the Nationals, increased their cushion over the Braves in the National League East to two games.
Washington was left hoping it didn't come at a cost.
Third baseman Ryan Zimmerman, who has already missed 44 games this season with a fractured right thumb, was removed from the game in the sixth after suffering a right hamstring strain while sprinting up the first-base line.
Zimmerman will undergo an MRI on Wednesday morning.
"He's pretty sore tonight," Nationals manager Matt Williams said of Zimmerman. "We'll get some results tomorrow and see where we're at. Any time you have to leave the game with a hamstring injury, it's concerning."
In the interim, as they waited for a prognosis on their third baseman, the Nationals could feel good about a win that didn't come as easy as the 7-2 romp a day earlier.
Jordan Zimmermann, making his first start since an abbreviated outing (biceps tightness) on July 11, struggled to command his fastball. As a result, he served up six extra-base hits, including a pair of mistakes that flew deep into the Denver night.
In the third, Nolan Arenado hit a two-run blast to that dropped over the center-field wall, just past the outstretched glove of Denard Span, putting the Rockies up, 3-0. After the Nationals clawed back for a pair of runs in the top of the fifth, Rockies outfielder Corey Dickerson hit a solo moonshot off Zimmermann into the second deck in right field in the bottom of the frame.
"I was just missing over the middle," said Zimmermann, who added that he felt no lingering effects of the biceps issue that plagued him in his last start. "I'd get two strikes and then miss over the middle, and it seemed to be a double or a triple every time. It was a real battle tonight. It seems like I had my hands full every inning."
Luckily for Zimmermann, a stellar quartet of relievers was there to lighten the load.
Craig Stammen, Drew Storen, Tyler Clippard and Rafael Soriano combined to pitch four scoreless innings.
"That's not easy for anybody in this ballpark," Williams said. "We were in the sixth inning there and had to go to the bullpen, but everybody pitched great."
With the bullpen holding the Rockies at bay, the Nationals began their comeback charge in the sixth. With Anthony Rendon on third and one out, Zimmerman hit a ground ball to shortstop Josh Rutledge and sprinted up the line to spoil the double play. Zimmerman beat the throw from second base, allowing Rendon to score, but he stumbled over first base in the process.
He limped off the field and was replaced by pinch-runner Danny Espinosa, who later scored the tying run on Wilson Ramos' RBI single.
In the seventh, Span was walked by Brooks Brown and Rendon singled for his third hit of the game. After Jayson Werth struck out, the Rockies went with Brothers to face LaRoche, who hammered a 2-0 pitch into the Rockies bullpen in right-center field.
It was his first home run off a left-handed pitcher since May 28, 2013.
"When you're facing a bunch of lefties it can get you right again, because you have to stay on the baseball," Williams said. "Sometimes you need to face those lefties and figure it out."
The only thing left to figure out for the Nationals as they eye a three-game sweep Wednesday is how long they could be without Zimmerman.
"He's a big part of our team," Zimmermann said of the veteran third baseman. "We don't know what the deal is quite yet, but we're hoping for the best."
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The best performers have a singular ability: they strip away the noise and focus on doing just a couple of things…really really well. Makes me think of Michelangelo's protocol for delivery masterpieces: he'd see his David in the block of marble. Then he'd cut away at all that was not of his absolute best vision.
Picasso didn't play the piano. Federer didn't learn the flute. All Virtuoso's have a mantra: "I avoid the trivial many so I can master the vital few."
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Stop comparing yourself to others! Boost your self-esteem and improve your body image with these 15 tips.
Let's face it: we could all use a little body image boost from time to time. In a world full of magazine covers telling us our abs should be flat and our booties should be round, how are we supposed to accept ourselves the way we are? Good news: our experts are here to help. Below are 15 easy ways you can learn to love your body starting right here, right now.
1. Stop comparing yourself to others. Everyone has something they wish they could change about their body. Wishing you had someone else's thighs or curly hair or smile takes away from what is uniquely you. Accentuating the qualities you like will boost your spirits and minimize the things you don't like.
2. Focus on what you have the power to change. Rather than spending your energy on wishing you were taller, redirect your focus on something you can change, like toning up with a yoga or pilates class, or honing one of your talents. Then celebrate with a nice pair of heels!
3. Dress as if you're where you want to be. Are you waiting to lose weight before you buy that new wardrobe? If you're wearing the same uninspiring clothes that make you feel drab, pick up a few smart wardrobe pieces, like a chic blazer, fashionable footwear, or some nice scarves or jewelry that will brighten your image and make you feel better about you now. The better you feel, the more likely you'll be motivated to keep making positive changes.
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4. Surround yourself with beauty. Creating a beautiful environment at home or in your workspace will provide a greater sensual experience, which is what we all crave. Keep fresh flowers on your desk or table, add some silk pillows to your sofa, play your favorite music while cooking dinner, and drink mineral water out of a nice wine glass!
5. Practice self-care. The more you love and take care of what you have now, the more likely you'll move in the direction of self-improvement. Schedule you-time to take a warm, soothing bath, massage your skin with olive oil, read an inspiring book, or write in your journal.
6. Build a support system. Spend time with people who have a positive influence on you and that energize you rather than reinforce bad habits. Exercise together, swap healthy recipes, and champion one another when you're making progress.
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Lacking timely hitting, Phils end win streak
Hamels' gritty start, bats' late rally unrewarded with loss in extras
PHILADELPHIA -- During their past five games prior to Saturday night, the Phillies made a habit of hitting in the clutch.
Their .361 (13-for-36) production with runners in scoring position paved the way to a win streak that Jimmy Rollins had said "hopefully turns into a fire." But the Nationals on Saturday night doused any hopes Philly had of winning a season-high sixth straight game, as Ryan Zimmerman drove home the go-ahead run in the 10th inning of Washington's 5-3 win at Citizens Bank Park.
The Phillies squandered opportunity after opportunity early on, and they finished the game 2-for-14 with runners in scoring position. They stranded nine runners on base, including three at third base.
"Strasburg had something to do with that," Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg said of Stephen Strasburg, the Nationals' starter. "He had an outstanding power changeup, which was 89-90 mph. That's what he went to with the men on base. But we scrapped hits and had hits in opportunities, and he pitched out of them."
And while the Phillies did the little things so well during their winning stretch, small mistakes cost them on Saturday night, especially in the 10th.
After left-handed reliever Jake Diekman walked Denard Span to begin the inning, Chase Utley made a rare poor judgment call two batters later. Ex-Phillie Jayson Werth grounded a high chopper to the second baseman, who flipped to second when his only play was at first. Both runners were safe, prolonging the inning long enough to give the Nationals a favorable matchup.
"I thought we had a play. Obviously it didn't work out in our favor," Utley said. "It's a big play in the game, and it ended up costing us."
Entering the game, right-handed hitters had a .780 OPS and .255 batting average against Diekman, compared with a .451 OPS and .200 average for lefties. The right-handed Zimmerman took advantage.
For his part, starter Cole Hamels did all he could to keep Philadelphia in the game, though he didn't look his sharpest early on. He walked the game's first hitter before allowing a double to Anthony Rendon in the ensuing at-bat. Werth drove in a run on a groundout, but Hamels kept the Nats from adding to it in the inning.
In the sixth, the teams exchanged two-run innings. Werth tallied his second and third RBIs of the night after launching a home run to right-center in the top half to put the Nationals up, 3-0.
But in the bottom half, Rollins and Utley -- a combined 4-for-40 lifetime against Strasburg entering Saturday -- each singled to begin the inning. With Ryan Howard batting, both runners advanced on a double steal, and in the next at-bat, Philadelphia's aggression on the basepaths paid off. Marlon Byrd singled to left, allowing both runners to come around to score.
Hamels used his 117th pitch to escape the seventh inning and end his night. The southpaw allowed three runs on four hits with five strikeouts as he picked up his eighth quality start in his past nine outings. But what hurt Hamels the most was the three walks he issued, two of which to leadoff batters.
All three leadoff walks that the Phillies surrendered on Saturday night came around to score, and that, Sandberg said, was the "story of the game."
"It's been kind of something all year, where [I've] been walking probably a little bit too many guys, and especially when they lead off because you're putting a guy on base, no outs," Hamels said. "You put a team in position to where they can definitely manufacture runs a little bit easier. It definitely hurt."
Ben Revere delivered the tying RBI on a single up the middle in the eighth, but the Phillies just did not get as many clutch hits as they needed to get over the hump on Saturday.
"We couldn't get the big hit when we needed it, but we were able to come back on a good pitcher and make it a pretty interesting ballgame," Utley said.
The loss may have taken some wind out of the Phillies' sails, but with one game left to play -- a series rubber match with the division leaders -- before the All-Star break, Philadelphia still has an opportunity to head into the second half with some momentum.
"We've got an older team. We've won before, and we know how to win," Hamels said. "I think just with the way that we've been able to play baseball the past couple of days, it really shows that we have it within us. We just have to go out there and repeat it and do it on a regular basis, day in and day out each week."
Erik Bacharach is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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> Advent Calendar Tower by Philippi
The Tower consists of 24 single boxes, numbered from 1 to 24. The boxes get bigger up to the 24th of December. The largest box (24th) has a diameter of 28 cm. To store them when it´s not Christmas time just put them into each other like the Russian Matrjoschka-Dolls. Totally modern. Totally cool. Maybe a little too cool for kids.


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BFI launches revamped £4m Distribution Fund
New-look fund introduces new application criteria and strands.
The BFI today launches its new-look £4m Distribution Fund to replace the P & A Fund.
The fund now comprises four strands specifically designed to address different types of films, with distributors now needing to apply for backing under one of the strands.
The Big Audience strand will provide awards of around £250k to £300k to British films with "commercial appeal"; Breakout awards of around £100k to £150k will be granted to "independent UK and specialised films"; the New Models strand will "encourage and support new thinking in distribution and marketing through experimental and ambitious releases"; while the new Sleepers category will provide awards of around £20k to £40k to support "in-release films that have achieved exceptional weekend box office results and taken the market by surprise". [See below for full descriptions]
Alex Stolz, senior executive, distribution fund, will oversee the fund, reporting to Ben Roberts, director of the BFI Film Fund.
Roberts said: "Distribution of independent and specialised films in the UK still carries a high degree of financial risk which can make ambitious release programmes challenging, especially for independent distributors. By sharing some of that risk and encouraging distributors to be bold and creative in their approach, the BFI Distribution Fund will be key to helping us increase choice and bring great films to audiences across the UK."
Last year's P & A budget was £4m, an increase on the £3m allocated in previous years.
The launch of the Distribution Fund marks another step in the roll out of Film Forever, the BFI' five year plan to support the UK's film industry.
The new strands as described by the BFI:
The Big Audience strand will provide significant awards of around £250-300k, helping to take high quality independent British films with commercial appeal and strong marketable elements to a wide UK audience.
Distributors will contribute at least 50% of the total P&A (prints and advertising) costs and the BFI's funding will significantly enhance the scale and scope of the distribution strategy, ensuring the film is released on at least 100 screens and seen by cinema audiences across the nations and regions of the UK.
Breakout awards will increase audience reach for exemplary independent UK and specialised films.
With funding awards of around £100-£150k, Breakout awards will ensure critically acclaimed films with audience appeal and strong marketable elements can be seen on more screens, particularly outside London, helping to bring the best in UK and world cinema to new audiences across the UK.
The New Models strand will encourage and support new thinking in distribution and marketing through experimental and ambitious releases that explore new opportunities outside traditional theatrical and marketing routes.
The BFI's funding will support the distribution of high quality new British and specialised films as part of a multiplatform release and/or using original marketing strategies and creative audience-building opportunities offered through cross-media activity.
The BFI aims to compile data and findings from releases supported through the New Models strand, to help the UK industry overcome challenges and exploit opportunities for growth in an ever-changing marketplace.
This brand new approach will provide flexible, agile and responsive support for in-release films that have achieved exceptional weekend box office results and taken the market by surprise.
The BFI will monitor and assess opening weekend performance and identify and invite distributors to apply for 'fast-track' awards of around £20-40k, where the funding can make a real impact in helping such films capitalise on their unexpectedly strong performance and reach the widest possible audience, particularly at a regional level.
As an entirely new approach, the BFI is initially launching the Sleepers strand as a pilot.
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Erm, if a film has "commercial appeal and strong marketable elements" why does it need this [any?] level of support to get it to a wide UK audience. Is this to stop the big boys moaning about unfair advantage being given to the tiddlers?
Let's face it, the money will be gobbled by the big boys and you will have a marketplace that's the same even if these funds didn't exist. Where is the attempts to develop talent that is still sidelined? Microwave funded Plan B and Tony Grisoni who can get money elsewhere. Of sorry, am I being cynical? Remember when 20th Century Fox had access to lottery money?
I think it's brilliant what this kind of support has done for indie distributors in getting wider releases and the proof is in the box office for anyone who bothers to read and analyse it.
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Russell Carl Bremmer, 90, died Nov 17, 1990, at Tri City Medical Center, Oceanside. Mr. Bremmer was a 20 year resident of Carlsbad who lived at the Lakeshore Gardens Mobile Home Park. He was born in Ocheyedan, Iowa and moved to California in 1923. Mr. Bremmer lived in the Los Angeles and San Diego areas most of his life. Prior to his retirement he was a pilot employed as vice president of sales for Aviation Developments Inc., of San Diego. He had also been in the traffic department of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Later a restaurateur, Mr. Bremmer was a former owner of the The Saddleback Grill, Brass Rail in downtown San Diego, and the Streamliner, on El Cajon Boulevard.
Mr. Bremmer was also a marketing consultant for several companies and a member of the Cuyamaca Club, San Diego Club and the Blackmer Masonic Lodge No 442, Scottish Rite Bodies of San Diego and the Al Bahr Shrine.


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The Prophet Moses (pbuh)
Perverse Conduct of Some of the People Among the Children of Israel
Initially, the Prophet Moses (pbuh) directed his struggle against Pharaoh. Before the Prophet Moses (pbuh) came, his people, the Children of Israel, were languishing in slavery. It was for that reason when the time Allah predetermined arrived, to flee, the entire tribe willingly followed him and left Egypt. However, this in no way implied sincere faith on their part. Among them were people who joined merely out of tribal loyalties. Therefore, rather than submitting themselves to the path of righteousness, some of these people in subject now and then returned to their idolatrous practices. Thus, they took every opoortunity to defy the Prophet Moses (pbuh) and resisted the true religion brought by him.
First, Allah commanded the Prophet Moses (pbuh) to divide the Children of Israel into twelve separate tribes:
We divided them up into twelve tribes—communities. We revealed to Moses, when his people asked him for water: "Strike the rock with your staff." Twelve fountains flowed out from it and all the people knew their drinking place. (Surat al-A'raf: 160)
Some of the Children of Israel failed to develop a deep-seated faith in their hearts. Even they dared to ask the Prophet Moses (pbuh) to show them Allah:
And when you said, "Moses, we will not believe in you until we see Allah with our own eyes." So the thunderbolt caught you while you were (all) looking on. (Surat al-Baqara: 55)
Apparently, the traits of some people among the Children of Israel were greed and ungratefulness. As sustenance for the Children of Israel, at one point, Allah miraculously prepared food for them. Some people among the Children of Israel were very unwise to display an attitude incompatible with respect despite the fact that this food, referred to as "manna and quails" in the Qur'an,was a blessing from Allah's Sight:
And We shaded you with clouds and sent down manna and quails to you: "Eat of the good things We have provided for you." They did not wrong Us; rather it was themselves they were wronging. (Surat al-Baqara: 57)
And when you said, "Moses, we will not put up with just one kind of food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth produces—its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and onions," he said, "Do you want to replace what is better with what is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are asking for..." (Surat al-Baqara: 61)
This was yet another clear sign of the great ingratitude of some people among the Children of Israel.
The Story of Cow
Some people of the Prophet Moses (pbuh) clearly at no point seem to have had a grasp of true faith.
In an attempt to tailor the righteous Divine religion to their own desires and to their ancient superstitious religious practices, they, in their own way, made deliberate distortions to it. In total disregard for the easy and clear nature of the religion, they, mindlesslyrendered it complicated and difficult to practice. They were inclined to worship idols rather than Allah, and altered the religion into a series of rituals.
Their tendency of some people among the Children of Israel to needlessly complicate the religion is best explained in a story related in the Surat al-Baqara.
In this story, Allah commands the Children of Israel to sacrifice a cow. The command, conveyed by the Prophet Moses (pbuh) to his tribe, is a very simple one. However, deluded to believe that religion should be complicated, some people among the Children of Israel tried to complicatethis plain and easy command, and concerned themselves with all sorts of trivial details which were not required. The related verses read:
And when Moses said to his people, "Allah commands you to sacrifice a cow," they said, "What! Are you making a mockery of us?"
He said, "I seek refuge with Allah from being one of the ignorant!"
They said, "Ask your Lord to make it clear to us what it should be like."
He said, "He says it should be a cow, not old or virgin, but somewhere between the two. So do as you have been told."
They said, "Ask your Lord to make it clear to us what colour it should be."
He said, "He says it should be yellow, a rich yellow, a pleasure to all who look." They said, "Ask your Lord to make it clear to us what it should be like. Cows are all much the same to us. Then, if Allah wills, we will be guided."
He said, "He says it should be a cow not trained to plough or irrigate the fields—completely sound, without a blemish on it."
They said, "Now you have brought the truth."
So they sacrificed it—but they almost did not do it. (Surat al-Baqara: 67-71)
As related in the above account, some people among the tribe of the Prophet Moses (pbuh) constantly raised objections against the commands of Allah. Only when the command became almost non-practicable, due to the petty details they begged for, they relented. In fact, the command was quite plain: sacrifice a cow.
Rebellion of Some of the Children of Israel Against the Command of Allah
Upon the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt, Allah promised them a homeland in which to dwell. Much has been said about the objections raised against the Prophet Moses (pbuh) during this journey in the previous pages. This tendency of theirs persisted until the time they arrived in the Promised Land:
Remember when Moses said to his people, "My people! Remember Allah's blessing to you when He appointed Prophets among you and appointed kings for you, and gave you what He had not given to anyone else in all the worlds! My people! Enter the Holy Land which Allah has ordained for you. Do not turn back in your tracks and so become transformed into losers."
They said, "There are tyrants in it, Moses. We will not enter it until they leave. If they leave it, then we will go in." (Surat al-Ma'ida: 20-22)
Allah's help had always been with the Children of Israel. Allah saved them from Pharaoh by parting the sea and then gave them a land. Furthermore, He promised a definite victory, provided they waged a war against the tyrannical tribe dwelling there. They should have put their trust in Allah and followed His messenger. Instead, some of them did not heed the Prophet Moses' (pbuh) warnings and were fearful. Only two among the lot of them stated that they would put their trust in Allah and enter the land:
Two men among those who were afraid, but whom Allah had blessed, said, "Enter the gate against them! Once you have entered it, you will be victorious. Put your trust in Allah if you are believers." (Surat al-Ma'ida: 23)
Despite such warnings, some of the Children of Israel opposed the messenger of Allah, and displayed a very reprehensible morality towards him:
They said, "We will never enter it, Moses, as long as they are there. So you and your Lord go and fight. We will stay sitting here." (Surat al-Ma'ida: 24)
The insolence of some among the people of the Prophet Moses (pbuh) became aggravated to such an extent that they began to actually ignore the words of their prophets and openly objected to them. Therefore, the Prophet Moses (pbuh) pleaded our Lord and asked Him to save him and his brother, the Prophet Aaron (pbuh) from this insolent people:
He (Moses) said, "My Lord, I have no control over anyone but myself and my brother, so make a clear distinction between us and this deviant people."
He (Allah) said, "The land will be forbidden to them for forty years during which they will wander aimlessly about the earth. Do not waste grief on this deviant people." (Surat al-Ma'ida: 25-26)
As mentioned here, some of the Children of Israel were prohibited from the Promised Land for forty years, due to their insolence towards Allah and His messenger.
For much of his life, the Prophet Moses (pbuh) had tried to communicate Allah's message to them. He strove to save his tribe from the worship of idols and guide them to the true religion. His aim was merely to warn people and save them from the torment of Hell, a mission which he carried solely to earn the good pleasure of Allah. To this purpose, he had confronted Pharaoh and had attempted to rid his people's beliefs of superstition. Nevertheless, he became the object to the cruelties of Pharaoh, as well as some of his own people. However, he was a noble servant, who lived merely to attain the good pleasure of Allah, and our Lord saved him from all difficulties inflicted upon him.
There are lessons to be drawn from the ingratitude of some of the Children of Israel, a people who did not follow in their Prophets' footsteps, who turned their backs to the religion entrusted to them, and so perverse as to say, "you and your Lord go and fight." Allah has warned mankind against succumbing to the insolence of some of the Children of Israel towards their Prophet:
You who believe! Do not be like those who abused Moses. Allah absolved him of what they said and he was highly honored with Allah. (Surat al-Ahzab: 69)
Do not let their wealth and children impress you. Allah merely wants to punish them by them during their life in this world and for them to expire while they are disbelievers.


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Short Story Pick-Of-The-MonthJune 3, 2010 • 1 Comment • category: Excerpts
Contrary to popular belief, not all writers sit in dark corners scribbling their serious, serious story about how gloomy and awful life is. Most writers use laptops now. Others, like George Singleton, forgo the expected, ho-hum gloom and doom stories and instead write dry, hilarious stories about eccentric characters and their bizarre run-ins with characters even crazier than themselves. So here's to you, George Singleton, and your short story pick of the month. Seriously.
(Ana Alvarez is the Publishing Coordinator at Algonquin)
New Stories from the South 2009 – George Singleton, Between Wrecks
George Singleton lives in Dacusville, South Carolina, and teaches writing at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities. His short stories appear regularly in national magazines–the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, Zoetrope, Playboy–and literary journals–the Southern Review, Shenandoah, the Georgia Review, Yalobusha Review, and many others. He is also the author of These People Are Us and The Half-Mammals of Dixie.
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Topic: Lung mets and other issues
my husband Tom has had 4 chemoembollizations since diagnosis Feb'07. They have virtualy destroyed 90% of tumors in liver. However he has not recouped well since 4th procedure 6wks ago. Have just found out through MRI etc, he has mets to lungs and small new lesions on liver. He is so tired from trying to breathe, as he also has pe's and he is on oxygen now. He is still trying to have a normal life of some sort, needs and wants to work to keep up medical coverage. We are facing systemic chemo ( he had 2 rounds of Gemzar + Xeloda) before the procedures. The onc wants to start Folfox now, but naturally the ins company is reviewing and we don't know if they will cover. This just adds to the stress level of course.
Has anyone gone ahead with treatment and gotten coverage after the start of the treatment, am afraid to wait too much longer. And has anyone had lung difficulties like his, and if so what was done to alleviate the discomfort? He is also losing weight again, and has consistent nausea which is precipitated by cough due to lung issues.
Any advice would be appreciated, it is so hard to watch his struggle.


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After a lot of discussion I've narrowed it down to 9 ideas for July's Online Block Party. There were a lot of choices so I've tried to accommodate as many of them as I could.
Please vote for your favorite. Remeber - you can also come back and change your vote later if you change your mind.


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Per Talk:New Halana, it seems that it was never stated that "New Halana" was a new homeworld for the Halanans, and furthermore that Halana was not mentioned at all. I'm not sure if it was created simply because the "New" in New Halana suggests an "Old" Halana, but if it wasn't mentioned, it shouldn't have an article. 31dot (talk) 11:46, January 12, 2013 (UTC)


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Hello Everyone!
I have just installed BT4 r2 on my PC, and i have a little problem. When i was using the liveCD from my pendrive, my mouse worked completely fine. Now that i have installed the OS to my HDD, it wont work at all. My USB ports are all working, i tested them with a pendrive. Any idea? Thanks in advance.
Fixed the problem with burning the ISO to a DVD and installing from that. Seems like the liveUSB thing is not useable for installing, as it caused the exact same problem on my other PC and notebook aswell.