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(South African, 1942-2012)
Trevor Goss was an experimental contemporary artist in painting and sculpture who graduated with distinction from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at Cape Town and studied at the post- graduate level at the Hornsey School of Art in London. His work is in collections worldwide.
At various points in his five-decade career Trevor Goss had studios in Cape Town, London, Ibiza, Santa Barbara, Marina del Rey, Los Angeles and Palm Springs. During and after graduating Michaelis, he exhibited his painting and sculpture at the Wolpe Gallery in Cape Town and the Henry Lidchi Gallery in Johannesburg. Goss left Cape Town for London in 1967 and continued to paint there for six years before departing for Spain where he painted for four years on the island of Ibiza. Goss then returned to Cape Town where he established an art studio and sculpture foundry.
In 1979, out of concern for the well-being of his family and pained by what was happening in his country—symbolized by the injustices represented by Robin Island, which was in view of his studio, where the great Nelson Mandela was then incarcerated—Trevor Goss left South Africa and did not return again until he visited for a month in 2010. In the intervening years, Goss established himself in the United States where he exhibited nationally, including Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Chicago, Palm Springs and, finally, in Palm Desert where he opened a gallery on El Paseo in the year before his death.
During his earlier time in Cape Town and London, Trevor Goss had also painted murals and created installations for the theatre, for nightclubs, and for establishments such as Mary Quant's store on Carnaby Street. Later, starting in 1996, employing his own unique applications of light-refractive, color-changing holographic material, a technique he perfected during his time in London, Goss established a business where he produced large scale installations for the entertainment industry. It was also in this perfecting of his holographic technique that Trevor Goss gained the attention of artist Kenneth Noland who visited Goss' Santa Barbara studio to observe his process. In 1996 and again in 1998, Kenneth Noland commissioned a series of canvases from Trevor Goss to which Goss applied his unique light-refractive, color-changing holographic treatments.
The entertainment design projects to which Trevor Goss contributed his talents included the AT&T Pavilion at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta where he not only created a thirty-foot refractive color-changing mural, which he produced on site over the course of six weeks, but also two enormous flame cups he finished with his signature material that marked the pavilion's grand entrance. And, at the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, it was a stage of "ice," designed by the renowned Jeremy Railton and rendered in Trevor Goss' unique light-refractive and color-changing holographic material, on which Savion Glover danced. Railton, Founder and Chairman of the Entertainment Design Corporation, was also the award-winning designer behind the AT&T Pavilion.
Concert and tour sets to which Trevor Goss also contributed his talents included two fifty-foot murals of holographic trees for Sting in Central Park, a holographic dance floor for Cher's Living Proof Tour, huge holographic umbrellas for a Jane's Addiction tour, along with numerous others, and television show sets included over ten-thousand square feet of Goss' signature light-refractive, color-changing materials that covered Oprah's $10 million television theater in Chicago—designed by Consortium Studios, the award-winning production design company owned by Trevor's son, Anton Goss—and so much more. Trevor Goss' wife, Mary Silverman, worked with him in his business for ten years, gaining first-hand knowledge of his large scale work for the entertainment business as well as an up-close view of his painting and sculpture process. It was to her that he recounted the stories of his magnificent life and career.
On many of the entertainment design projects, Trevor Goss was tapped by Railton, whom he'd met at Michaelis in 1962. The two left Africa together and, says Railton, "somehow both ended up in Los Angeles not breaking a continuous line of friendship." He adds, "Trevor's style and attitude remained the same for his entire career. Intellectual, experimental, abstract and controlled." Railton continues, "His ability to search and apply new techniques to his canvases has dkept me fascinated for the duration of our entire friendship."
Railton recalls that while their artistic paths split as he "seemed to gravitate toward entertainment and set design, while Trevor stayed on his original artistic course," over the years Railton says he was able to take advantage of Trevor's talents which he was able to utilize to enormous success in architecture, television and live concerts. On countless television shows and sets that Railton designed, he says, "Trevor's coloring and refractive materials added an unusual visual twist."
Trevor Goss embraced a world of light. Informed by an unparalleled knowledge of color and technique, Goss' paintings are not only about light, they are light.
And, in Trevor Goss' use of light refractive materials, applied to the canvas by many different methods, the pristine surface is, in words he wrote describing his work, "dematerialized from solid to kinetic," creating light like a rainbow, and changing color fields are conjured. More than a moment in time, Goss also wrote, "the diffraction of light is time in motion."


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Muslim Statistics (Population)
This page contains statistics concerning the world's Muslim population. For further statistics of a related nature, see Mosques.
- 1 Growth Rates and Conversions
- 1.1 Worldwide
- 1.2 Afghanistan
- 1.3 Africa
- 1.4 Bangladesh
- 1.5 Belgium
- 1.6 Denmark
- 1.7 Egypt
- 1.8 France
- 1.9 Germany
- 1.10 India
- 1.11 Iran
- 1.12 Israel
- 1.13 Kosovo
- 1.14 Kyrgyzstan
- 1.15 Lebanon
- 1.16 Malaysia
- 1.17 Morocco
- 1.18 Netherlands
- 1.19 Norway
- 1.20 Nigeria
- 1.21 Pakistan
- 1.22 Russia
- 1.23 Sweden
- 1.24 Turkey
- 1.25 United Kingdom
- 1.26 United States
- 1.27 Yemen
- 2 Prison Population
- 3 References
Growth Rates and Conversions
That's a rise from less than 20 percent in 1990.
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The Muslim share of the global population will rise primarily because of their relatively high birth rate, the large number of Muslims of childbearing age, and an increase in life expectancy in Muslim-majority countries, according to the report, "The Future of the Global Muslim Population."
Only a tiny 3% of the world's Muslims live in "more-developed regions".
According to Shaykh Ahmed Katani, in Africa, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity every year: (English Translation | Arabic)
A 2010 Pew study confirms that Christians now outnumber the Muslim population.
The story is the same. So-called intermediaries, who are also ethnic Tripuri, visit poverty-stricken communities where they convince families to send their children to a mission hostel, charging between 6,000 and 15,000 taka (US$ 500 to 1,200) for school and board. After pocketing the money, the intermediaries sell the children to Islamic schools elsewhere in the country.The latest case involved 11 children, ten boys and a girl, from Thanchi, Ruma and Lama in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Their story has a happy ending though. After six months of threats and violence, the children were able to escape thanks Hotline Human Rights Trust, a Dhaka-based civil rights organisation that defends minorities run by a Catholic woman, Rosaline Costa.[7]
Almost half of all Antwerp schoolchildren in 2011 are Muslim, a 12% jump since 2007/8.
In response to a request for information by the nationalist Vlaams Belang party, Education Alderman Robert Voorhamme disclosed that, of the 10,743 students in the Antwerp municipal primary schools system, just under half chose Islamic studies."This is 45.5 percent or an increase of just under twelve percent compared to the 2007-2008 school year", said Voorhamme – and demonstrates the rapid Islamisation of the city.[8]
"I would say that there are 100-150 Muslims in Denmark who convert each year," says Intercultural Studies Expert Mogens Mogensen Ph. D.
Mogensen has carried out the most extensive survey ever of conversions from Islam to Christianity in Denmark. The survey concludes that almost 1,000 Muslims converted between 1980 and 2007.
"But in recent years the phenomenon has increased. Probably as a result of the fact that through education and work, Muslims have had much closer contact with Christians in Denmark and their values. We see a clear correlation between integration and the number of conversions," Mogensen says.
The Ecclesiastical Integration Service (KIT), an umbrella organisation for 230 migrant congregations in Denmark, agrees that there is a considerable increase in the number of conversions.
"My clear feeling is that this has speeded up over the past two years. We get a lot more approaches from Muslims who want to learn more about Christianity," says KIT Leader Henrik Lund.
One of the congregations that preaches Christianity for former Muslims is the Greater Love congregation at Vigerslev Church in Copenhagen."Over the past two years we have had an increasing number of Muslims who come to be embraced by Christianity than all of the previous years put together. They experience religious freedom in Denmark and for the first time many can choose the religion they want," says Priest Nabil Astafanos.[9]
To describe the evolution of the Muslim and Coptic communities in Egypt we showed the proportion of Egyptian Christians according to the population census of the 20th century (Table 1). We notice a slow decline over the period observed : Christians were 8% of the whole population at the beginning of the century (1907) and they become 5% in 1996 (Courbage and Fargues, 1997). During the second half of the 20th century, Egyptian Muslims birth rate has been constantly over 30% of the Christians birth rate (Courbage and Fargues, 1997 : 293) (Table 2).
Egyptian Demographic and Health Surveys data for the years 1988, 1992 and 1995, confirms census data. We consider first the number of children per woman according to woman age and religion, then the number of children ever born per woman according to woman age and religion. Results are show in figure 1 and 2 : birth rate of Muslim women is bigger than the one of Christian women, and the trend is constant over time.[11]
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Elena Ambrosetti and Nahid Kamal note in their brief paper "The relationship between religion and fertility: the case of Bangladesh and Egypt" that not only has the Egyptian Christian TFR been consistently 15% lower than the Egyptian Muslim TFR in the 1988-1995 period, but that over the 1944-1980 period crude birth rates among Muslims did not fall to the level of the crude birth rates among Christians at the beginning of this period. Thus, even though the Egyptian Christian population more than tripled from 1907 to 1996, from from 913 thousand to 3 321 thousand, the Egyptian Muslim population grew more quickly.[12]
Sadly, the vulnerability and abduction of Coptic Christians is not a new problem. Going back to the 1970s, when Anwar Sadat used Islamism to solidify his leadership of Egypt, Coptic women and girls have been abducted, forced to marry their captors, and coercively converted to Islam. No doubt, in some cases, women chose to elope, marry across religious lines and cut off relations with their families. Yet the Egyptian government's claim that this is what has happened to every one of thousands of disappeared women and girls defies reason.
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Muslims each year are converting to Christianity - around 10,000 to Catholicism and 5,000 to Protestantism.
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Muslims have considerably higher fertility than any other religious group. Muslim women have a TFR of 4.4, which is 1.1 children higher than the TFR for Hindu women.[18]
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More than 9,500 Indians, including 1,197 Muslims, were interviewed face-to-face last year and this year for the poll.
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The Muslim population has increased 200 per cent in four decades, according to the 2001 census.
According to unofficial sources, in the past five years, one million Iranians, particularly young people and women, have abandoned Islam and joined Evangelical churches.This phenomenon has surprised even the missionaries who carry out their activities in secret in Iran.[20]
Many high ranking government officials and Islamic religious leaders have also made statements expressing concern over the spread of Christianity. Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani, a prominent Islamic theologian and writer, publicly spoke about the conversion of 600 people to Christianity in the city of Neishabour, according to a local newspaper in the Southern Khoarasan Province. The Head of the Ministry of Intelligence in Iran, Heydar Moslehi, also warned the heads of education in Iran about the spread of Christianity in schools.[21]
The findings of a recent government survey show that the dangers of such groups regarding cultural and moral matters have reached a critical level. The survey also reveals that New-age Satanist groups are more active in central and south-west Iran, especially in Shiraz (924 KMs South of Tehran) and Karaj (25 KMs, North-West of Tehran) than elsewhere.Members of such groups range in age from 16 to 24 and boys show 10 times more interest than girls in joining these Satanist groups. The survey also indicates that internet and private parties are the primary ways used to attract youth.[22]
Israel's population is currently about 75 percent Jewish, with the remaining 25 percent most Arab Muslims (with some Arab Christians and Druze). [These percentages of course exclude the millions of Palestinians living in Gaza and West Bank]
Dr. Wahid Abd Al-Magid, editor of Al-Ahram's Arab Strategic Report, has predicted that Arabs may become a majority in Israel in 2035, and "will certainly be the majority in 2048."
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For every convert, anecdotal evidence suggests more go to church or are interested in Christianity.The Catholic church is not the only one active in Kosovo. Since 1985, says Artur Krasniqi, a Protestant pastor, as many as 15,000 Kosovar Albanians have converted to Protestantism: 2,000 regularly attend church.[26]
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About 40 people from Kravaseri village, home to around 100 families, have reverted since 2008 to their ancestors' religion, shedding light on the phenomenon of crypto-Catholics.
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-- 'A recipe for survival' -- Under Ottoman rule many Christians converted to Islam to avoid the high taxes imposed on them while churches and monasteries were turned into mosques.
But in Kosovo, many kept the faith in secret, taking Muslim names and participating in Islamic rites but remaining Christians in their inner spiritual life, said local bishop Shan Zefi.
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"The more Kosovo moves towards a more European society the more apparent this phenomenon will become."
The percentage of Muslims declined from 84 percent of the total population in 2001 to 79.3 percent in 2004, state-run Rossia reported quoting Omurzak Mamayusupov, the director of the religious affairs committee in the country.In terms of figures, he added, some 100,000 Muslims, of the country's five million population, have converted to Christianity.[28][29]
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While the surveyed communities in this study are not representative of all communities in Lebanon, they point out to a very interesting pattern of large fertility differentials between Christians and Muslims in poor and deprived settings. This is in addition to the surprising finding that the total fertility rate of Christians (in these settings) is well below the replacement level.
This figure includes about 100,000 Malay Muslims who have declared themselves Christians.
This announcement was made on a TV Forum entitled "Pekerti Islam" in the Malaysian State of Kedah recently which was aired by RTM (Malaysian TV & Radio Department) at 2 pm this evening.
Another 100,000 Muslims are in the process of filing for apostasy while the rest are filing in to have their Muslim name changed to "other religion name"
"This figure does not include individuals who don't do solat, doesn't fast and breaks all the tenets of Islam" he said.According to the Perak Mufti he has personally received a letter from the American Christian Missionary Association which accuse the Malaysian (?) / Perak (?) religious authorities of being cruel (or mean) for not allowing about 30,000 Malay Muslims to convert out to Christianity.[31]
Mosque attendance is dropping faster than church attendance (machine translated from the original Dutch).
In 1998 was 47 percent of Muslims once a month to the mosque in 2008 that only 35 percent. "Half is rarely, if ever," reports CBS.
The percentage of Catholics who regularly visit services, dropped from 31 to 23 percent.
Again turn Protestants, including but PKN'ers and (experimentally) Calvinists are the most faithful churchgoers. Among them was therefore hardly a drop in sight: 63 percent visit at least once a month worship. Of these, half each week.
Especially the PKN'ers, and to a lesser extent, the Calvinists, show a strong commitment to the community by working as volunteers. People of other denominations and unchurched less so. According to the chart that the CBS does, Muslims are the least involved in the community.CBS calls it "remarkable" that the church membership in the large cities increased, whereas in all other areas is declining.[33]
State statistics bureau SSB reported last week that 53 percent of Norway's new citizens were women and a third of all new citizens were under the age of 18.
Immigrants from Afghanistan followed those from Somalia as the next-largest group of new citizens, with 1,300 officially becoming Norwegian. Persons from Iraq were third, totalling 950 new citizens.All told, 41 percent of the new Norwegian citizens came from Asia, and 32 percent from Africa. Around 18 percent came from other European countries.[34]
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as a result of what happened in Beslan, the proportion of Muslims in North Ossetia has decreased at least by 30%, while in Beslan itself, where Muslims had comprised from 30 to 40% of the population, their number has decreased at least by half.'As even Muslim sources confirm, after each terrorist action, thousands and may be even dozens of thousands of ethnic Muslims adopt baptism'[40]
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'Less than 3,000 ethnic Russian have converted to Islam for the last 15 years,' Silantyev said.According to the researcher, for the same period almost 2 million ethic Muslims have become Orthodox Christians for the same period. Over 400 Russian Orthodox clergy belong to traditionally Muslim ethnic groups, 20 percent of Tatars are Christian, and 70 percent of interfaith marriages result in the Muslim spouse conversion to Christianity.[41]
During the same period, Muslim immigration and natural increase among Swedish Muslims have accounted for slightly over 41% of Sweden's total population growth.[42]
United Kingdom
Muslim families also had the largest number of children. Over a quarter (27 per cent) of Muslim families had three or more dependent children, compared with 14 per cent of Sikh, 8 per cent of Hindu, and 7 per cent of Christian families.The larger proportion of families with children and larger family sizes is partly a reflection of the younger age structure of the Muslim population, but may also reflect their intentions to have larger families. Many Muslims have a Pakistani or Bangladeshi background and it has been shown that these ethnic groups intend to have on average over 3 children, compared with around 2 for the White population.[45]
Growth of Islam in the UK stems from immigration. 54% of UK Muslims are foreign born.
The recruiters – often paid £5,000 for each success – are stepping up 'aggressive conversion' tactics, especially around universities, religious leaders believe.
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The problem was most common in cities such as Birmingham, Leeds and Bradford, he added, while London universities had 'at least two or three cases' each.
United States
Growth of Islam in the US stems from immigration.
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When it comes to the U.S., however, the Pew survey offers a figure significantly smaller than those favored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other organizations. Pew says there are 2.454 million Muslims in the U.S., about 0.8 percent of the country's total population[50].
Prison Population
The share of foreigners has remained stable since 1995, fluctuating just above 40% (40.6% in 2009). The largest group of non-Belgian detainees consists of North Africans and Turks and has continually increased from 1993 to 2009, going from 1,254 to 1,957.This same group represented 43.6% of non-Belgian detainees in 2009.[53]
Yet that notion has come under strain in recent days, with an official panel having concluded that Muslims, India's largest religious minority, are "lagging behind" on most things that matter
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Commissioned by the State Minorities Commission as a follow-up to the Sachar Committee report which lamented that "in Maharashtra Muslims account for 10.6% (2001 survey) of the general population, yet they comprise 32.4 % of the prison population" (the current prison population is 36%), the report is being hotly debated among government officials. Last week, at a meeting called by minorities affairs minister Naseem Khan, officials discussed a number of measures to not just prevent Muslim youth from committing crimes but also to provide legal aid to the imprisoned and rehabilitate them post-release.[56]
"Of the 27,000 foreign detainees, one third of them are Muslim," said Capace told Adnkronos.
"The increase in tension in the situation of Afghanistan and Iraq could (also) have repercussions."Due to the overcrowding in the cells and the high number of foreign detainees, with so many of them of the Islamic faith, the prison cell could become a place where petty criminals are tempted by jailed members of terror organisations," said Capace.[57]
The largest Islamic organization in the country, the Islamic Committee of Spain, has welcomed this initiative, taking into account that 70 percent of those in Spanish jails are Muslims, who number around 54,000.
Last Ramadhan a number of Spanish jails changed their meal times to conform to the Ramadhan meal times of their Muslim inmates, and provided them with prayer areas within the prisons. But in those prisoners where such arrangements were not made, there were protests.Spain with its 40-million population, which is 94 percent Catholic, has a Muslim community of around 600,000.[58]
United Kingdom
There are 229 Muslims out of a total of 686 youngsters detained at Feltham Young Offenders' Institution in West London, according to Ministry of Justice figures.[62]
One in five males (21%) in young offender institutions (YOIs) identified themselves as Muslim in 2011/12, compared with 13% in 2009/10 and 16% in 2010/11, the annual review of children and young people in custody showed.[63]
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In terms of the self-declared religions of the 103 terrorism-related and historic prisoners, 100 defined themselves as Muslim.[64]
United States
- ↑ Richard Allen Greene - World Muslim population doubling, report projects - CNN News, January 27, 2011
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tolerance and Tension: Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa - The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, April 15, 2010
- ↑ The Future of the Global Muslim Population - The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, January 27, 2011
- ↑ Tom Coghlan - Afghan court resists Karzai's overture to spare Christian's life - The Telegraph, March 26, 2006
- ↑ Christians now outnumber Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa by 2 to 1 - Catholic Culture, April 19, 2010
- ↑ Global Christianity: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Christian Population - The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, December 19, 2011
- ↑ Nozrul Islam, "Almost 300 Christian children abducted and forcibly converted to Islam in Bangladesh", AsiaNews, June 9, 2012 (archived), http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Almost-300-Christian-children-abducted-and-forcibly-converted-to-Islam-in-Bangladesh-25745.html.
- ↑ Almost Half of Primary Schoolchildren in Antwerp Muslim - HLN.BE (Dutch), May 30, 2011
- ↑ Jakob Sheikh, "Christianity attracts Danish Muslims", Politiken, February 7, 2011 (archived), http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/ECE1188715/christianity-attracts-danish-muslims/.
- ↑ Muslim Convert to Christianity Prevented From Leaving Egypt - AINA, September 26, 2009
- ↑ Elena Ambrosetti (University La Sapienza, Italy) and Nahid Kamal (LSE, UK) - The relationship between religion and fertility: the case of Bangladesh and Egypt - Office of Population Research, Princeton University
- ↑ How many Copts are there? or, More on questionable population figures - Demography Matters, March 19, 2011
- ↑ Rep. Christopher H. Smith - SMITH: Escalating violence against Coptic women and girls - The Washington Times, July 26, 2012
- ↑ Muslims converts face ostracism in France - Zee News, February 6, 2007
- ↑ Deutsch‐Türkische Lebens‐ und Wertewelten 2012 ("German-Turkish Life and Values 2012") - INFO GmbH (Berlin), August 17, 2012
- ↑ Germany's 'failed' multiculturalism carries on regardless - The Guardian, September 1, 2012
- ↑ K.B. Sahay - "Incentives and Disincentives" - Hindustan Times, December 19, 1995
- ↑ K.M. Mathew, ed.: Manorama Yearbook 1996, p.458-459.
- ↑ India/Islam: A third of India's Muslims say they are suffering - International Islamic News Agency, December 18, 2011
- ↑ Iran: Parliament to discuss death penalty for converts who leave Islam - AKI, March 19, 2008
- ↑ Officials in Iran frantically deny spread of the gospel - Mohabat News, December 15, 2011
- ↑ Satanism is growing among Iranian youth - Mohabat News, January 8, 2012
- ↑ Israeli Muslim Birth Rate is Double that of Jews - Jewish Virtual Library, February 2003
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Palash R. Ghosh - High Arab birth rate in Israel raises concerns about country's Jewish identity - International Business Times, February 4, 2011
- ↑ Yaron Druckman - Israel on New Year: Population of 7,797,400 - YNet News, September 26, 2011
- ↑ "Christians in Kosovo: Conversion rate", The Economist, December 30, 2008 (archived), http://www.economist.com/node/12868180.
- ↑ Kosovo Catholics practice faith openly - Agence France-Presse, August 11, 2012
- ↑ Damir Ahmad - Proselytization Eats Away At Muslim Majority In Kyrgyzstan - IslamOnline, June 26, 2004
- ↑ Elizabeth Kendal - Authorities Consider Countering Christian Mission - Religious Liberty Monitoring, June 30, 2004
- ↑ Afamia Kaddour - Christian - Muslim Fertility Differences in Poor Settings in Greater Beirut, Lebanon - Office of Population Research, Princeton University
- ↑ Oleh Ekmal Yusof - Hundreds of thousands of Malay Muslims have filed for apostasy - HarakahDaily, February 14, 2006
- ↑ Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, "Morocco: General situation of Muslims who converted to Christianity, and specifically those who converted to Catholicism; their treatment by Islamists and the authorities, including state protection (2008-2011)", 10 November 2011, MAR103889.FE (archived)
- ↑ Jeroen Langelaar - Steeds minder Nederlanders naar kerk of moskee - Elsevier, July 29, 2009
- ↑ "Most new citizens from Somalia", Views and News, May 29, 2012 (archived), http://www.newsinenglish.no/2012/05/29/most-new-citizens-from-somalia/.
- ↑ A waxing crescent - The Economist, January 27, 2011
- ↑ Kidnapped Pakistani Christian may be sold abroad - Catholic Culture, June 13, 2011
- ↑ Minority MPA says young Hindu girls subjected to gross injustice in Pakistan - ANI, March 1, 2012
- ↑ 2,000 minorities girls converted to Islam forcibly: report - Daily Times, September 5, 2012
- ↑ ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy and forced conversion: two young Christians rescued in Lahore - Fides News Agency, March 19, 2013
- ↑ 2 million ethnic Muslims adopted baptism in Russia while only 2,5 thousand Russians converted to Islam - expert - Interfax, November 1, 2005
- ↑ 20Mln Muslims in Russia and mass conversion of ethnic Russians are myths - expert - Interfax, April 10, 2007
- ↑ Ingrid Carlqvist & Lars Hedegaard - Muslim Population in Sweden and Denmark Doubled in 14 Years - Dispatch International, accessed October 9, 2012
- ↑ Many Turks Become Christians - UPI, January 23, 2004
- ↑ Anthony Browne - Muslim apostates cast out and at risk from faith and family Muslim apostates cast out and at risk from faith and family - The Sunday Times, February 5, 2005
- ↑ "Focus on Families: Muslim families most likely to have children", Office for National Statistics (statistics.gov.uk), p. 8, July 2005 (archived from the original), http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_compendia/fof2005/families.pdf&date=2011-04-16.
- ↑ Jodie Reed, "Young Muslims in the UK: Education and Integration", Institute for Public Policy Research, December 2005
- ↑ 'Hindu girls targeted by extremists' - Metro News, February 22, 2007
- ↑ Omar Shahid, "Confessions of an ex-Muslim", New Statesman, May 17, 2013 (archived), http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2013/05/confessions-ex-muslim.
- ↑ Pew Research Center, Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream (Washington, DC, Pew Research Center: 2007)
- ↑ Patrick Goodenough - New Survey on Islam Calls Into Question Population Figure Used by Obama - CNS News, October 9, 2009
- ↑ Jane Novak - Childhood Physical and Sexual Abuse Rates Very High in Yemen, Other Statistics - Armies of Liberation,November 8, 2008
- ↑ 52.0 52.1 52.2 52.3 Molly Moore - In France, Prisons Filled With Muslims - The Washington Post, April 29, 2008
- ↑ Le nombre de détenus non belges a quadruplé - DHnet.be (French), August 29, 2012 (English translation)
- ↑ Minority Muslims, 70% of French inmates - Press TV, November 23, 2011
- ↑ Somini Sengupta - Muslims missing out on India's economic growth - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune - The New York Times, November 29, 2006
- ↑ Mohammed Wajihuddin - 36 % of Maharashtra's prisoners are Muslims - The Times of India, June 3, 2012
- ↑ Italy: Ramadan may be used to 'recruit militants' in prison - AKI, Septembber 4, 2009
- ↑ Spain: Muslims in prison allowed performing congregational prayers - Dubai Government, Islamic Affairs & Charitable Activities Department, May 16, 2008
- ↑ Alexandra Frean and Rajeev Syal - Community divided on terrorism and security - The Sunday Times, July 4, 2006
- ↑ Muslim fanatic prisoners to be 'de-programmed' using controversial techniques to 'cure' them of beliefs - The London Evening Standard, October 18, 2008
- ↑ Home Correspondent, Richard Ford - Security Minister Lord West stopped and searched under Terrorism Act - The Sunday Times, November 27, 2009
- ↑ A THIRD of inmates at Feltham youth jail are Muslims... and more convert to get better food - Mail Online, January 21, 2012
- ↑ More Muslim men in youth jails - South Yorkshire Times, December 6, 2012
- ↑ Kounteya Sinha, "Terror charge: 56 Indians held in UK since 2001", The Times of India, September 13, 2013 (archived), http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-13/uk/42040005_1_offences-terrorism-act-persons.
- ↑ Mark White, "Inmates Bullied Into Converting To Islam", Sky News, October 20, 2013 (archived), http://news.sky.com/story/1156989/inmates-bullied-into-converting-to-islam.
- ↑ Alan Travis, "Proportion of Muslim prisoners in England and Wales doubles in decade", The Guardian, November 14, 2013 (archived), http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/14/muslim-prisoners-double-england-wales-ministry-justice.
- ↑ Testimony of Dr. Michael Waller - United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, October 14, 2003
- ↑ Hillel Fendel - Islamic Influence in U.S. Prisons - Arutz Sheva, April 28, 2004
- ↑ U.S. prisons becoming Islam battleground - The Multifaith Library, July 14, 2005
- ↑ Ian Peterson - Peter King's Radical Hearings on "Radicalization" - CAIR-Chicago, June 24, 2011


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Seeing all the hype about this gun and actually handling one at Epower, I could not resist.
Picked up a Super Rangers version in "Fire" aka red. This was technically a second generation, after all the G&G ETU MOSFET failures of the original gun they apparently went and redesigned it. The PCB is much smaller and a different color I believe, but functionally they are identical (configurable Safe/Semi/Auto to Safe/Semi/3Burst). I removed the amplifier, it is the same type of soft plastic as my old GR16 Raider-L except all but the tip is painted black.
As I expected, the rail was a pain in the ass to remove. Two screws underneath and a very tight friction fit onto the barrel nut assembly. There is a 1.5mm set screw underneath the barrel nut assembly for anti-rotation purposes, that needs to pretty much be removed in order for the nut to turn.
Previous owner had a flashlight mounted on top of the rail for CQB, but unfortuantely did not know how to attach/remove it so it is completely stripped. I might need to dremel it off.
Bucking is not a G&G Green like previously mentioned, this may have been a Super Rangers rolling update. This is a new (to me) blue bucking with a split mound to stabilize the contact patch with two for more ocnsistent backspin application. I will see how it handles
G&G hopup unit included with the ARP is a rotary type, very similar in look and feel to Krytac units. Prometheus makes G&G and Krytac specific hopups so I'm not sure what the proprietary elements are, but it seems to do a good enough job so I will leave it in there for now.
Peeking inside and the hop arm can be opened up without removing its pivot pin.
More work on this gun will come later, saving up for a new gearbox and such for it. Until then, exterior mods only and they will be pretty basic.
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What would you do if Hrafnabjargafoss disappeared? I just found out the National Power Company of Iceland is planning to build a dam on the Skjálfandafljót River in Northern Iceland. The Skjálfandafljót River is home to several stunning waterfalls including; Aldeyjarfoss, Ingvararfoss, Hrafnabjargafoss and Goðafoss. The new Hrafnabjörg Power Plant and dam would divert water away from a long stretch of the river downstream and would lead to the loss of several waterfalls. There are currently 3 different options on the table for the dam. For option A, Aldeyjarfoss, Ingvararfoss, Hrafnabjargafoss would all dry up and disappear and for options B and C Ingvararfoss, Hrafnabjargafoss would be gone. Having seen these waterfalls in person, I feel it would be an incredible loss if they were to vanish. I do understand the need for energy, but it seems like there are better places than this area to build a dam. What do you think?
Early evening light at Hrafnabjargafoss in northeast Iceland. This waterfall has some serious power and it was quite an experience standing near the edge.
"The Photographer" A photographer composing an image at the edge of Dettifoss in Northeastern Iceland. This waterfall is 45 meters (150 ft) tall.
Fjallsárlón Midnight
Twilight glow at an incredible tent site at the Fjallsárlón Glacial Lagoon in SE Iceland. Camping at this location was a surreal experience. It was really relaxing going to sleep listening to the ice cracking and melting into the lagoon. We were really amazed by the length of the days in Iceland and the fact that it never actually got dark at night.
"Azure" Incredible blues in the Brúará river at Brúarfoss, Iceland, July 2013.
"Jökulsárlón Wildflowers" Twilight at the Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon in southeastern Iceland
"Vík Church" Sunset light and lupines at the Vík Church in southern Iceland.
"Geothermal Blues" An incredible sunset at the Bjarnarflag Geothermal Power Plant in the Mývatn area of northeastern Iceland.
"Aldeyjarfoss Wildflowers" Summer wildflowers and heavy fog at Aldeyjarfoss in northeastern Iceland.
"Snæfellsjökull Sunset" Sunset light and summer wildflowers at Snæfellsjökull in western Iceland.
"Tranquil" Soft sunset light, fog and a small pool of water in the central Snæfellsnes Peninsula of Iceland.
"Ljotipollur, Iceland" Translated into English means "The ugly puddle" I'm not sure who named this place, because it was beautiful!
"Brúarfoss" Incredible blues in the Brúará river at Brúarfoss, Iceland, July 2013.
Seljalandsfoss, Southwestern Iceland
"Landmannalaugar Hills" Summer greens and melting snowfields near Landmannalaugar, Iceland.
"Þjófafoss' High water at Þjófafoss on the river Þjórsá in Iceland.


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Supermarket Sweets: We Try The Two New Flavors of Teddy Grahams
Taste-test, Aisle 1.
Teddy Grahams are a genius snack. They hit the intersection of tasty, carb-y, cute, and, most importantly, sweet but not too sweet (i.e. you can eat 100 without thinking twice). The honey and cinnamon flavors have kept me from losing my lunch on more than one car trip as a kid, and saved my sanity when I was a counselor on long, hot bus trips with overexcited little campers. Original Teddy Grahams: geared towards children, play well with adults.
And let's be honest, Mom and Dad are much more likely to buy cookies they like nibbling on than some sweet-of-the-moment which little Bobby will eat for a week then get sick of. Yet the two newest flavors on the market—Apple and Strawberry-Banana—immediately struck me as being for-kids-only. A dangerous move.
Both these new cookies have strong smells. Opening the box of Apple Grahams felt like walking into a first grade classroom. I can almost taste the fruit juice, hear the scratch of crayons on cheap, thick yellowish paper, and feel the sticky fingers. Funnily enough, the Grahams themselves are a little sticky, like they've been coated in an apple veneer. Luckily, the flavor is more mild than the smell. These cookies don't taste like a bright crisp Pink Lady apple, but they don't taste like fake sour gummy apples, either. They have a clean apple juice flavor with no lingering fake aftertaste, meaning, like their forebearers (wah wah), they're easily gobbled up by the handful. My one suggestion? A hint of cinnamon would be nice. Bottom line: they'd get a B+ in the survey class I'll teach one day on childhood snacks.
Strawberry Banana, on the other hand, fails the class. They taste like a pink Starburst mixed with children's Tylenol. The whole point of Teddy Grahams is that you can eat a few handfuls without having taste-bud overload; these are in your face with fake fruit flavor. I shudder to think how they'd pair with a glass of juice.
Overall, I'd definitely stick to the old flavors. And please, Nabisco, don't come out with any ice cream flavored bears.
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SLA Europe works with a range of vendor partners to present high-quality events to benefit both members and sponsors. If you wish to sponsor a particular event, or discuss other ways of supporting the Chapter, déan teagmháil leis an nó Cisteoir.
We have a number of packages available, ranging from digital sponsorship opportunities via our website, mailing list, and Webinars, sponsorship of conference bursaries, to high profile industry events. Our presentation, below, outlines the types of professionals you would reach, as well as the various partnership packages available.
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The question is, Why SharePoint stores all list data in one table - AllUserData?
I found numerous blog posts and articles about fact, that all list data stored in AllUserData. But could you explain why? Why microsoft decided to store data in one single table? What is pros and cons, and why not to use pattern one list - one table?
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Who doesn't love the pleasure of literary laughter? We're talking about essays, memoirs, articles, short stories, and novels that are humorous. It can be anything from a true story about the special hell of raising kids to a far-fetched tale of a would-be knight tilting at windmills. As Mark Twain says, "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Humorous prose writing requires all the hallmarks of good writing plus that X factor: being funny. Here you will learn about the various types of prose humor, as well as comedic techniques and how to market your work.
Whether you seek to write fiction or nonfiction, short or long, we'll show you how to turn sentences into smiles.
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UK Daily Mail
April 17, 2013
New crime scene photographs of the remnants of the first bomb which detonated during Monday's Boston marathon appear to show that a pressure cooker was used in at least one of the deadly charges – as experts described the devices as military-style 'anti-personnel' devices.
The exclusive images obtained show the wreckage of a stainless steel pressure cooker with an Underwriters Laboratory safety mark and an imprint that reads gas or electric, with experts describing the devices as military-style 'anti-personnel' devices.
And photographs taken by a member of the public of the second bomb site before and after detonation show an orange and grey bag next to the barrier – right where the bomb appears to have gone off.
Detectives are now investigating the possibility that this bag contained the device that exploded with such devastating effect.
Meanwhile, another photograph from the scene of the terror attacks which killed three people and injured 183 shows a shredded black, padded back-pack or duffel bag that would confirm numerous reports that the bomb was carried in a black bag.
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South Korea, US begin drills amid North Korea nuclear threat
South Korean and US troops began naval drills on Monday in a show of force partly directed at North Korea amid signs that Pyongyang will soon carry out a threat to conduct its third atomic test.world Updated: Feb 04, 2013 09:41 IST
South Korean and US troops began naval drills on Monday in a show of force partly directed at North Korea amid signs that Pyongyang will soon carry out a threat to conduct its third atomic test.
The region is also seeing a boost in diplomatic activity focused on North Korea's announcement last month that it will conduct a nuclear test to protest international sanctions toughened over Pyongyang's long-range rocket launch in December.
Pyongyang's two previous nuclear tests, in 2006 and 2009, both occurred after it was slapped with increased sanctions for similar rocket launches. The US, South Korea and other countries have urged North Korea to scrap its nuclear test plans or face grave consequences. North Korea's state media said Sunday that at a high-level Workers' Party meeting, leader Kim Jong Un issued "important" guidelines meant to bolster the army and protect national sovereignty. North Korea didn't elaborate, but Kim's guidelines likely refer to a nuclear test and suggest that Pyongyang appears to have completed formal procedural steps and is preparing to conduct a nuclear test soon, according to South Korean analyst Hong Hyun-ik.
"We assess that North Korea has almost finished preparations for conducting a nuclear test anytime and all that's left is North Korea making a political decision" to do so, defense ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok told reporters on Monday.
The spokesman said he couldn't disclose further details because they would involve confidential intelligence affairs. Recent satellite photos showed North Korea may have been sealing the tunnel into a mountainside where a nuclear device could be exploded.
Meanwhile, diplomats are meeting to find ways to persuade North Korea to scrap its nuclear test plans. New US secretary of state John Kerry and his South Korean counterpart Kim Sung-hwan held a telephone conversation on Sunday night and agreed to sternly deal with any possible nuclear provocation by North Korea, according to Seoul's foreign ministry.
South Korea on Sunday also sent its top nuclear negotiator to China, the North's main ally and aid benefactor, for talks, the ministry said in a statement.
North Korea says US hostility and the threat of American troops in South Korea are important reasons behind its nuclear drive. The US stations about 28,500 troops in South Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
North Korea also says it has the sovereign right to launch rockets to send satellites into orbit under a space development program; the US says the December launch was a disguised test of banned missile technology.
On Monday, South Korean and US militaries kicked off three-day exercises off the Korean Peninsula's east coast that involve live-fire exercises, naval maneuvers and submarine detection drills.
South Korea's joint chiefs of staff said the maneuvers are part of regular joint military training that the allies had scheduled before the latest nuclear tensions began. But the training, which involves a nuclear-powered American submarine, could still send a warning against possible North Korean provocation, a South Korean military official said, requesting anonymity because of department rules.
North Korean state media on Saturday described the drills as a joint exercise for a pre-emptive attack on the country. North Korea has said similar things when South Korea and the US conducted other drills; the allies have repeatedly said they have no intention of attacking the North.


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Kansas raises Chalmers' jersey to AFH rafters
There's a montage of some of the greatest moments in the history of Kansas basketball that is played before every game at Allen Fieldhouse, and almost without fail, the loudest ovation comes at the moment when Mario Chalmers hits "the shot."
Never has the ovation been louder than it was Saturday night.
Chalmers was on hand for the No. 14 Jayhawks' game against Texas to have his jersey retired at halftime. But perhaps the biggest smile that was brought to his face came before the opening tip, when the montage played on the video boards hanging over the court.
"The shot," of course, refers to his buzzer-beating 3-pointer to force overtime in the 2008 national title game, which the Jayhawks eventually won over Memphis for their fifth championship.
"I'd say in the hundreds," Chalmers said, when asked how many times he's seen the clip of him hitting the fade-away jump shot. "Yesterday was the first time in a couple of years."
The familiar No. 15 of the current Miami Heat point guard was unveiled between the No. 23 of Wayne Simien, who starred for the Jayhawks from 2002-05, and Max Falkenstien, who has the No. 60 hanging from the end of Allen Fieldhouse after spending 60 years announcing Kansas games.
Among his company: Wilt Chamberlain, Paul Pierce and Clyde Lovellette.
"As a kid, you dream of being in a position like this, and for me to be here, standing in front of you fans, where it all began for me, it feels good," Chalmers said during his halftime speech, taking the time to thank the coaching staff and all of his former teammates.
Chalmers recalled how he wanted to transfer during his freshman season, when things weren't going well, and how former teammate Jeff Hawkins convinced him to stick around.
"It would have been the worst decision I ever made," Chalmers said. "This will always be my home, no matter what. I love Kansas."
Chalmers was joined at Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday night by several other former Jayhawks who managed to slip away from their NBA teams because of the All-Star weekend.
Chalmers only averaged a shade over 12 points during his three-year career in Lawrence, but he dished out more than 400 assists, had nearly 100 steals each year and became the guy at the end of games who craved the ball for the final shot.
That was the case in the national title game against Memphis.
In one of the enduring images of Kansas basketball, Chalmers came off a screen at the top of the key, pulled up for a 3-pointer and let it rip just as the game clock expired. It was on line the whole way, going through the net and sending the Jayhawks on to a 75-68 victory.
Kansas coach Bill Self called Chalmers, the first player he's recruited to have his jersey retired, one of the best "clutch" players that he's ever coached.
"Oh yeah, we thought he'd be great," Self said earlier in the week. "We knew Mario would be special. It took him a while to get on track, get used to me and vice versa, but after we got to know each other a bit, he was on his way."
Chalmers made it to his old stomping grounds in time to watch practice and speak to the team on Friday, and was honored at a reception later in the evening.
"It's something you always hope for," he said. "That was one of my dreams growing up, to leave my mark on whatever school I chose to go to, and it just happened to be Kansas."
Chalmers was asked whether winning the NBA title with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Co. last season trumped winning his national title at Kansas, and he unleashed that trademark smile that made him one of the most beloved players the school has ever known.
"To have that moment recognized in Kansas history," he said, "it means a lot to me."


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Vincent Jackson is about to become an exception.
Elite wide receivers generally don't hit the market in their prime.
Teams find them and keep them. Even enigmatic Terrell Owens spent eight years in San Francisco. Randy Moss didn't drive himself out of Minnesota until he'd had six 1,000-yard seasons. And both those players were traded, not let go for nothing.
It took Jackson a while to develop, having come from tiny Northern Colorado with raw talent and much to learn. But since the 2007 postseason, there have been few receivers in the game more productive, more capable of the big game or more dependable.
Now he is bound for free agency, and it seems the Chargers might be both unwilling and unable to make a winning bid.
It is believed the Washington Redskins and Chicago Bears will be the most aggressive of Jackson's suitors.
The Chargers' seeming resignation that Jackson will go somewhere else could be due in part to their having long been aware of a team – thought to be the Redskins – that will do almost whatever it takes to get Jackson.
We won't know for sure until Tuesday afternoon, when teams can officially talk to unrestricted free agents.
"It's all (meaningless) until it stops being (meaningless) and it's for real," one team personnel man said regarding the free agent market, meaning that no one really knows what a player will get until hard numbers are actually put to paper.
But that same person predicted the market for Jackson would likely get away from the Chargers.
It makes sense, too, that another person closely monitoring the situation said earlier this week: "He's going to get more than you or I could ever imagine he would."
(That person, by the way, was speaking to someone who has for some time valued Jackson as among the top five receivers in the league.)
If he's right, the Chargers will be left looking to replace Jackson. That's not an impossible task, just a terribly difficult one.
The Chargers are a better offense with Jackson. Philip Rivers is a better quarterback with Jackson.
Jackson's height, physicality fighting for the ball, athleticism and hands have turned a lot of possible would-be incompletions into receptions and even prevented interceptions. Jackson's presence changes the playbook and boosts Rivers' confidence.
"Vincent and I have been here a long time," Rivers said recently. "We have a great relationship … With the plays he's made, there is no question he's super valuable to us."
But Rivers' rare ability to make certain throws in certain ways makes Jackson a better receiver. And the Chargers' offense is a comfortable place for Jackson, which is a big part of why he is willing to take less from the Chargers than another team.
But, according to people familiar with his thinking, he won't take a whole lot less. (The Chargers could go as high as $11 million a year, but if the Redskins offer more than $12 million, which has been floated by knowledgeable people, Jackson will probably be shopping for real estate in Virginia.)
So, knowing there are least a half-dozen other teams interested in his services, let's take a look at how he fits, or more appropriately, how those teams fit his needs.
Now that the Redskins have traded up to the No.2 spot in the draft and assured their acquisition of Robert Griffin III, Jackson must ask himself if he wants to not only start over but start over with a rookie quarterback. And where are the rest of the weapons on the Washington offense?
Jay Cutler might be erratic (and a jerk), but he throws a pretty deep ball and can fit passes in places as well as (or, forgive me, better than) Rivers. Jackson makes that offense instantly better, as the Bears have running back Matt Forte.
The Bills have plenty of money and have privately said they would still be interested in Jackson even after re-signing Stevie Johnson. Ryan Fitzpatrick is not as good a quarterback as the Bills thought when they gave him a new contract, but he would be better with Johnson, Jackson and running back Fred Jackson.
Tampa Bay
Similar QB story as Buffalo but without the other bona fide weapons. Like the Bills, though, the Buccaneers have money to spend.
If Peyton Manning is the Broncos' quarterback, this makes the most sense for the right price. It's not too far from San Diego, which both Jackson and his wife love, and it's home for Jackson, who is close with his parents.
San Francisco
An elite tight end and enough other offensive talent to make Jackson feel at home. And one thing Alex Smith does really well is throw the deep ball.


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Elderly Couple Survives Dangerous Extortion Attempt
Deputies Search For Suspect In Home Invasion Case
A 73-year-old woman walked into a Fayetteville bank Monday and told employees that she had an explosive device taped to her ankle, police said.
Investigators said Betty Davis walked into the Arvest Bank in the 3000 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard about 10:30 a.m.
Officers said the employees at the bank were able to evacuate by the time police got to the scene while Davis remained inside the bank.
Police said the Bentonville Bomb Squad was able to safely remove the device. Investigators were working to determine if the device was dangerous.
Davis told police that a man held her and her husband, Dean Davis, hostage in the Washington County home before coercing her to try to go to the bank.
Investigators said the man forced Betty Davis to try to withdraw money from her account while her husband remained tied up.
Fayetteville police said they called the Washington County Sheriff's Office to inform them of the case.
Sheriff Tim Helder said his office got the call about 10:41 a.m. and deputies were dispatched to Davis' home at 15860 E. Black Oak Road
Helder said his deputies found Davis' husband tied up in the home but unharmed. No one else was found at the home.
Deputies said they are looking for a white man, approximately 6'0" tall, medium to large build, unknown age, wearing a Carhartt type, brownish-orange jacket (unknown if it had a hood), and blue jeans. The suspect also had a dark color ski mask over his face.
Investigators said the man was possibly driving the victim's pickup truck. Police found the truck fitting the description Monday evening at Greathouse Park in Fayetteville. The truck was abandoned and police are canvasing the neighborhood.
Two of the grandchildren of the victims spoke with 40/29tv's Tony Russell about the ordeal.
Family members said Dean and Betty Davis are surrounded by family and church members as the recover from the incident.
"I can't believe someone would be that evil to do something like that to them," granddaughter Carly Geanolus said. "He knew that my grandpa was coming back. When he was looking for him he tied him up. He tied my grandmother up too."
Genolus said the man told the couple the device on Betty Davis' leg was a bomb and that he had a detonator.
"He showed her a little detonator and said, 'All I have to do is push this button and it will blow you up,'" Genolus said.
Family members said this isn't the first time something strange has happened at their home.
"Right about the time we were going to bed, a truck was up there in the corner. It had its lights at the house. Then he pulled down to the front of the driveway and then watched it for a little bit and then just drove off," grandson Billy Davis said. "I don't feel like they're safe because he could come back and everything. And you don't know what he's going to do."
The distraught grandson said his grandfather is focusing on other things for the time being.
"My grandpa seems rather happy that I showed up and I got a haircut," Billy Davis said.
Although they are recovering from Monday's ordeal, the couple seems to be in good spirits.
Washington County deputies were seen patrolling the area near the Davis home on Black Oak Road on Tuesday. They were stopping cars and asking people if they had any information that may be helpful to the case.


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F. Gary Gray could be heading straight into New Line Cinema's N.W.A biopic.
"The Italian Job" director Gray is in negotiations to direct "Straight Outta Compton." The film will chronicle the rise of Southern California hip-hop group N.W.A, which spawned the careers of Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and Eazy-E.
The movie's name takes its title from the group's 1988 debut album, which yielded such songs as "Fuck tha Police" and "Gangsta Gangsta."
Also read: Ice Cube to Go "Eye for an Eye" for FX
In addition to his film work, Gray has directed a number of music videos for artists including R. Kelly, Babyface, Cypress Hill and Ice Cube. He also directed Ice Cube's 1995 comedy "Friday."


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When in an urban survival scenario, many overlook the many possibilities of having to deal with stress. Not knowing how to deal with stress can mean the difference between life or death.
Weather you are in an urban survival crisis or a wilderness survival scenario, here is video produced in 1961 by the US Air Force that deals with survival stress. The information is 33 years old, but the information is still true and valid to this day.
Watch, learn and enjoy a movie from the retro era.
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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) determined that special measures were needed to combat a backlash of employment discrimination against those perceived to be Muslim or Arab. Unfortunately, more than ten years later, this type of discrimination continues. In response, the EEOC has remained vigilant and worked to both prevent and remedy national origin and religious discrimination involving the Muslim, Sikh, Arab, Middle Eastern and South Asian communities.
In the initial months after 9/11, the EEOC saw a 250% increase in the number of religion-based discrimination charges involving Muslims. Our initial efforts included the creation of a specific code to track charges of discrimination directly related to 9/11. Between 9/11/2001 and 3/11/2012, 1,040 charges were filed that were related to the attacks by an individual who is - or is perceived to be - Muslim, Sikh, Arab, Middle Eastern or South Asian.
While the number of charges directly related to 9/11 has dwindled, the Commission continues to see an increase in charges involving religious discrimination against Muslims and alleging national origin discrimination against Muslims or those with a Middle Eastern background.
The Commission has filed nearly 90 lawsuits alleging religious and national origin discrimination involving the Muslim, Sikh, Arab, Middle Eastern and South Asian communities, many of which involved harassment. The alleged harassment included taunts such as "Saddam Hussein," "camel eater," and "terrorist." A few recent cases include:
In addition, the EEOC has intensified its outreach, created fact sheets on immigrant employee rights (http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/immigrants-facts.cfm) and discrimination based on religion, ethnicity or country of origin (http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/fs-relig_ethnic.cfm). The EEOC has also provided information to employers concerning their responsibilities in employing Muslim, Arab, South Asian and Sikh workers (http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/backlash-employer.cfm).
We will continue our efforts to eradicate discrimination in the workplace by enforcing federal anti-discrimination laws and educating employers and employees about their rights and responsibilities.


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Wedding bells have finally rung for Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
After weeks of speculation, Kardashian, 33, and West, 36, tied the knot in Florence, Italy, at the Forte di Belvedere, Yahoo can confirm.
Kim wore a custom Givenchy Haute Couture gown designed by pal Riccardo Tisci. Her veil and accessories were Givenchy as well.
Givenchy also dressed West in a custom wedding tuxedo and daughter North in a custom Haute Couture dress matching her mother's.
People reports that Rich Wilkerson Jr., a pastor from North Miami, performed the ceremony.
The reality star's sisters — Kourtney, Khloé, Kendall, and Kylie — served as bridesmaids, according to E!, while Kanye's best friends from Chicago stood as his groomsmen. Bruce Jenner walked his stepdaughter down the aisle as family members — such as matriarch Kris Jenner, North, Scott Disick with Mason and Penelope, grandma MJ, and Brandon and his wife Leah Jenner — looked on. Rob Kardashian skipped the wedding, for reasons that are not yet known.
Other famous faces in attendance included: John Legend and his model wife, Chrissy Teigen, Common, La La Anthony, tennis pro Serena Williams, retired NBA star Scottie Pippen and his wife, Larsa, famed jeweler Lorraine Schwartz, Big Sean, Tyga, Rick Rubin, designer Rachel Roy, Khloé's BFF Malika Haqq, Brittny Gastineau, Jonathan Cheban, Simon Huck, Shelli Azoff, and Vogue contributing editor Andre Leon Talley.
Noticeably absent were Beyoncé and Jay Z, who are reportedly spending the weekend in the Hamptons. However, Beyoncé posted a sweet message to the couple on Instagram. "Wishing you a lifetime of unconditional love. God bless your beautiful family," she captioned the below photo.
[Related: Guests Arrive in Florence for Kimye's Big Day (Photos)]
Unfortunately, Vogue's editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, had to decline the invite. "Anna had a longstanding family commitment this weekend and sadly had to miss the wedding," a rep for the magazine told the New York Post's Page Six.
Legend serenaded the couple with his hit, "All of Me" at the reception. Kimye's first dance was to Etta James's "At Last," followed by Otis Redding's "These Arms of Mine" and "Tenderness," and "Otis" by Kanye and Jay Z.
So why did the couple decide to get married in Florence? West discussed his love for the city in Florence's La Nazione newspaper earlier this month.
"I love Florence, I love Italy and the Italian lifestyle," the rapper revealed. "I think we conceived our daughter North here, among the masterpieces of the Renaissance... It was our first honeymoon. It is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, for me the most beautiful in Europe."
Festivities kicked off in Paris on Friday with Kim and Kanye's closest family and friends. A select group attended a pre-wedding brunch at designer Valentino Garavani's Château de Wideville outside of the city.
"I would love to toast these two beautiful people here before me," Valentino said at the end of the celebration, according to Talley's wedding diary for Vogue. "And I also want to thank Kris Jenner for having these beautiful girls. These girls make my dining room even more beautiful." Then, in Italian, he toasted Kim and Kanye: "I wish you much success, a lot of love, and a long life."
After the intimate gathering, Kimye opened up the party to more of their guests. Hundreds of their pals were treated to dinner and a private tour of the Palace of Versailles, one of the couple's favorite French haunts.
[Related: Gallery: Kim and Kanye Take Versailles By Storm]
"Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have decided to let their guests discover the Château of Versailles during a private surprise tour on Friday, May 23, the eve of their wedding," read a statement released by the couple and officials at the Louis XIV estate.""In making this choice, they are contributing to a better understanding and maintaining the exceptional heritage of the castle of Versailles, which is classed a World Heritage site UNESCO."
Kardashian, clad in a plunging white gown, and West, surprised their guests with a performance by Lana Del Rey, whose brief set included the song "Young and Beautiful." The evening concluded with a seven minute fireworks show.
West popped the question to Kim on her 33rd birthday on October 21, 2013. The rapper rented out San Francisco's AT&T Park and proposed in front of family and friends. The Chicago Symphony played Rey's "Young and Beautiful" while the Jumbotron flashed "PLEEEASE MARRY MEEE!!!" He then presented his lady love with a 15-carat Lorraine Schwartz ring.
[Related: How Kanye Finally Landed Kim... 9 Years Later]
While this is Kanye's first marriage, it will be Kim's third union. She famously wed NBA player Kris Humphries in 2011, only to call it quits 72 days later. In 2000, Kim eloped with music producer Damon Thomas, but they had a messy divorce in 2004.
Kim and Kanye have one daughter together, North West, who will celebrate her first birthday next month.
Here's hoping they live happily ever after.


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What did it mean to be a priest in ancient Egypt?
Roving mendicant, parish pastor, fiery evangelist or vodoun mystic – so many stereotypes joust for attention when you speak the word. Egyptian priests, however, were very different from the typical modern western image of a minister. Their primary obligation was to conduct daily and seasonal rites in order to perpetuate the balance between the neteru (gods) and the earthly realm. Healing, magical and literary and musical arts developed around these rites. But preaching, converting, pastoral care for a congregation, and the like were not part of the job.
A hem-netjer (servant of the god) might be attached to a temple for life as a permanent vocation. Other priests served in rotation, living at home with wife and children most of the year. Celibacy was not a requirement for priesthood, though married priests during the New Kingdom abstained from sex before coming to the temple for their period of service. In the large temples, divisions of labor resulted in specialties like the wab priest (a sort of ritual helper), sem priest (performed funeral rites), and kherheb (lector) priest, who recited texts and often performed magic.
In Osireion practice, we look at the figure of the priest as an allegory or type for our own daily living. That does not mean we go live in a stone temple, but that we contemplate the devotion of the priest to spiritual practice. We do not feel that we are inherently unclean, but we do find it meaningful to dip our hands in clean water before a ritual, to signify that we are washing away what is unwanted in our lives and coming to the altar with a clear and open heart. We burn incense before the statues of our gods, but we are well aware that the scent has a powerful effect on our own human minds, instantly connecting us to the realm of spirit. We shake the sistra, not only because it was believed that the gods like the sound, butmodel of devotional practice, in particular.
Today, however, we live in communities which are accustomed to a pastoral culture of ministry. This need not be a conflict for independent-minded Pagans; humans naturally congregate and form groups based on shared values and practice. Within those groups, some will emerge as possessing specific skills needed by the others. There is honor and beauty in the idea of caring for others in our spiritual communities. Intentional nurturing of one's own spirituality, in addition to learning about ethics, leadership, ceremony and pastoral care, brings about a model for priesthood which can serve the growing new Egyptian spirituality communities.
"O Ra, Lord of Light, Giver of Life and taker of it, cast your light of peace unto the world. So commands the Chief Lector Priest, Haroeris M7, everliving in Ma'at."
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Originally posted by Sonadow View PostYadda yadda yadda...
I'll believe it for myself when I see a FOSS game with the same graphical quality and entertainment value of an AA-grade game (forget AAA-grade, not gonna happen) found on Windows, the PS3, the Wii, the Xbox or even the DSi / 3DS or PS Vita.
If an analogue / comparison is desired, think Crysis 1-era graphics. The day I see a complete FOSS game that matches the gameplay value and graphical quality of Crysis 1 on 'Ultra' settings with the highest MSAA settings running on 60fps using open drivers is the day I'm convinced.
But we only get boring ass multiplayer shooters that look like shit out of it (a.k.a. the Phoronix games benchmark suite). Even OpenArena, one of the better known of those and that has been around for a while, is greatly inferior to Quake 3, or Unreal Tournament, both 1999 games.
These games are unplayable with a non-qwerty keyboard too, but I know to type "setxkbmap us". (just a little pain in the ass every time I want to "play". really it's just software that helps you see if your 3D acceleration works well, like glxgears 200 years ago)
But I would like to play a nice and interesting single player game. A compelling campaign, even if there's no story and less production value than RTCW or MoHAA, but at least a nice set of maps that don't feel too disjointed, graphics that you can look at (not some dark shit you can't see through, nor Fischer-Price colors), nice sounding weapons and enemy AI on par with late 90s games.
There's pretty much nothing at all (barring Cube single player maps, which are more of a tech demo if you can't/don't want to play deathmatch instead). Even FreeDoom doesn't have single player, the game drops you in an empty multiplayer map you can't escape ; I guess nobody could be arsed to draw the monsters.Last edited by grok; 04-28-2013, 03:10 AM.
Originally posted by BO$$ View PostNo socialism here in Europe for sure. Just look at France who just taxed the rich 90% so that every rich guy ran from that country in a couple of months. Absolutely no socialism here in Europe.
Originally posted by duby229 View PostI have a little nest egg. If counting that nest egg, I would be considered rich by socialist standards. Trust me I'm not rich. I work for a living. I still live paycheck to paycheck. But a socialist would have me burn through my savings just because it exists.
Your healthcare is terribly inefficient, it's basically held by gangsters and you have to piss away a small fortune at them. Protection racket and they might kick you out if you get too sick, rendering all of it useless. You need more "socialism" there so that funnily the healthcare gets cheaper, bureaucratic wastes down and efficiency up.
Feel free spending your money to these private taxation schemes, on top of your real taxes. But the gas is cheaper.
LOL I guess that all the shit an american pays for (healthcare bill + out of pocket expenses, 401K, credit card bills, cable bill, mortgage interest) would be enough to live on.Last edited by grok; 04-28-2013, 03:47 AM.
Sorry the thread was about a two-week-old Ouya's disappointing performance, and I wanted to make a point (that was already made in a post somewhere else in a well known news site full of hairy basement dwellers)
So, the Ouya is 73rd in a long list full of nearly identical devices and it's beaten by $800 cell phones and the like. It's slipped to 95th, too.
So what? It's about 40% the performance of that unaffordable, brand new hardware. It beats quite a lot of brand name hardware too : LG Optimus, Asus Transformer Prime, Galaxy SII, Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD. It leaves older stuff in the dust.
Maybe that's good enough?, for a $99 console with an expensive controller that also doubles as a computer, no "hacking", no warranty void, no FBI knocking on your door etc. so it can run those open source emulators full of code stolen from other open source projects, too.
It seems more powerful than a Wii, Gamecube, Xbox 1, has HD output and more memory than Xbox 360/PS3, which won't give you Crisys on its own but is always nice. Hundreds millions people don't actually own such a powerful computer other than their crappy desktop or laptop PC, including me. No, we don't have drawers full of tablets and smartphones. I don't even give a shit about those things. Not everyone has an expensive console either, especially when they got so boring and noisy.
It's cost competitive with a Raspberry Pi, actually. Buy a Raspi and a case, powered hub, SD card, USB keyboard, Ouya controller, shipping : I guess that's quite near $99, but what are you going to run on that.. open source Tetris? The Ouya is vastly more powerful and will run more stuff (more crap, too).
The garbage collector will ruin it.. dunno. Not everything is a SNES emulator. I had a J2ME phone with a few downloaded games a decade ago, before I went to dumbphones, it sort of worked even though the hardware was primitive. At least it's not Flash or Perl, Python, or QBASIC lol.
The only thing that makes me wary of it is the "Free to play" requirement, i.e. pay-to-win racket games, "addictive" pieces of crap and so on. Hope there's a way to filter out these games. A demo mode/first levels would be fine, then pay $5-$20 to get a full game would be fine (REAL GAMES please, Contra III, Goldeneye N64, Street Fighter II, shoot'em'ups were games for instance, I don't want farmville and bejeweled clones nor a crappy cutscenes and achievements fest like Call of Duty : Trigger the Script And Take Cover 27th edition)Last edited by grok; 04-28-2013, 04:38 AM.
I don't regret my OUYA android console !!!
I got my Ouya android couple days ago. First a little background from me, I am hard gamer from the beginning. I bought & played to Trs80, Commodore, Coleco, Atari, Sega & finally PC. I have been without a gaming console for a couple of years. I prefer play to PC games i got with PEER TO PEER. I had thought about buying a Xbox One or a Playstation 4 but I couldn?t bring my self to pay $400 to $500 on a console plus 60$ for every game...
With my OUYA i already can play to all my favorite emulators on my TV , go on internet, watch Youtube and i can upload & try tons of android games & apps by USB side loading for free !!
I think the future of emulation on a console like device is in Android. I picked up an OUYA, because I think the future is here. I picked up because I think it is a step in the right direction and I want to have experience in this space. I'm hoping enough people buy them to give it a bit of life because I think it has potential
For $99, I'm really happy with the little bit I've played with it so far. There is s a decent community supporting the little box that is much easier to hack than an OG xBox.
When I heard all the noise about the new gaming console that was a Kickstarter project called Ouya I became intrigued. So, at the beginning of April after the Kickstarter project had become successful I preordered one and i don't regret !
Ouya is NOT a normal console!" "It claims to be a console, but not one that we're thinking of." "One of the big points of Ouya, is to shake up the gaming industry with something extremely different and accessable for users and developers alike.
I would tell anyone who buys a Ouya to remember is that this console only cost you $99.00 and if you compare it to an Xbox One or a Playstation 4 you will be highly disappointed. However if you remember that it is a $99.00 console I think you will have a lot of fun playing the games that are available on it. You may even find some independent games that you really like. Overall despite the few problems, so far I am happy I purchased the Ouya. If you are looking for a gaming console you can play on your TV and it will not break the bank, then the Ouya is worth a look.
If you want get OUYA console specifications or buy online a OUYA console can you suggest to go to THIS LINK
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I only want encourage this nice open source idea.
Big names of gaming industries try to discredit OUYA console & prevent any advertising of this free concept. I will don't let industries kill this open source paradise !!!
New free games & apps appears every day on OUYA console!!!


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