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|2012-11-14, 12:01
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That thought actually makes Maria's plea for help in the letter that the fisherman found a lot more fitting, considering the end of Turn. At least there's a direct link as opposed to whatever magical story Yasu might've imagined for the survivors at the end of Legend (setting aside the "getting blown to pieces"-part).
Of course there's no telling how much the story was padded outside the message bottle, but having a "please find out the truth, that is my only wish" from Maria right after her laughing contest with Beatrice at the finale of EP1 always seemed like quite the incongruency, as if Yasu didn't even care how unbelievable it'd be for Maria - the way she has been portrayed all throughout EP1 - to say this. So associating Maria's plea with Turn instead actually fits a whole lot better, at least in my opinion.
And although EP1's epilogue claims that "the children were thought to have survived up to the end", which wouldn't fit to Turn, it can still be explain with the police's knowledge of Legend: if anyone would have to choose which of those two is more believable I think we can all agree that Legend would be picked. However that does raise the question (that you folks discussed exhaustively already I think) of what the message bottles even contain - just a general draft of the events, all the "normal" scenes or "normal" + "magic" scenes? Of course the meta-layer wouldn't be part of them.
|2012-11-14, 15:15
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The EP1 epilogue is pretty weird in general, since it says more than once that all eighteen people did actually die. Even though it's the earliest evidence of author theory, it actually doesn't seem to reflect reality accurately. Pretty bizarre, really.
|2012-11-14, 15:29
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Same for EP2 actually, it has that line (~ 'when the seagulls cried, no one survived') as well I believe. Though technically it's not part of the epilogue and could be seen as part of the story, where it'd be a true statement of course. Was that line ever used again afterwards?
Which is why I think that scrapping Land for Banquet was pretty significant for the rest of the series: maybe Ryukishi never planned for Eva (or anyone) to survive in the first place, at least no one that the 'Prime-public' knows about. Alternatively, giving early hints towards the author theory through this incongruency could've been yet another aspect of easy modo. It's as if the magic side had already given up at this point, since EP1, EP2 and EP4 (with at least EP4 being written afterwards, possibly either EP1 or 2 as well) all violate the law of magic in Prime - regardless of what the "magic" consists of, the result has to be one that can be observed and verified.
But assuming he never planned for it, would've Umineko just stayed a normal mystery with trollwitches but without all the meta-layers and post-modernism? Useless to think about as we'll never know for sure...
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|2012-11-14, 20:00
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|2012-11-15, 17:23
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...random thought.
I was reading through Natsuhi's trial in the Court of Illusions in EP5, yeah, and I was thinking of the red stating that Kinzo never, ever ever actually trusted Natsuhi, and by all accounts, was just kind of an unsociable dick to her for 20 years.
I was thinking of a what-if that distrust was based on Natsuhi reminding him of his legal wife? Their marriage circumstances were similar - ladies from noble families chosen basically for prestige. And this point in particular is silly, but the only glimpse of Kinzo's wife we ever see (from the EP7 manga ... correct me if I'm wrong) basically looks like Natsuhi with shorter hair and a plainer dress (was that kinda-sorta Victorian look just really popular in postwar Japan or, what? ).
We're told once that the siblings couldn't remember Kinzo being severely upset since the time their mother had died, but,maybe he was never sad to lose her. There are no hints suggesting that Kinzo and his wife fell into a decent relationship, like Kratsuhi did. In fact, based on Mrs. Kinzo's conspicuous absence during the incident with he baby 19 years ago (even though she was DEFINITELY alive during the incident when Rosa met Beatrice II, which had to have been pretty close in the timing), maybe what the siblings witnessed was just Kinzo crying for Beatrice at their mothers funeral or something, since Mrs. Kinzo and Beatrice II probably died around the same time.
Then you get Natsuhi, who seems similarly ... "severe" in her person, I wanna say, but she seems to be getting along rather well with Krauss, which is something his own marriage lacked. He needs to put this suddenly orphaned witch-baby somewhere, so he presents Lion. Cue cliff-pushing/ accident, and maybe to an aging Kinzo it seems like the spirit of his spiteful dead wife made sure to wipe out even the final trace of the mistress she so often suspected.
Well, I'm not saying Mrs. Kinzo possessed Natsuhi or anything, or that Kinzo thought such a thing, but rather that the curious circumstances of it all may account for his decades (doing the math, I believe Natsuhi married into the family in 1958/59, so that's OVER 9000 days of it) of hardwired jerkass. It also makes Natsuhi's strange worship of him (which apparently was almost always there) into some really strange ... I'unno, Stockhol Syndrome stuff.
tl;dr "Kinzo dislikes the woman who ended up reminding him of his wife too much. Chucked the relevant illegitimate baby off a cliff, to boot. NO EYE CONTACT FOR YOU, Natsuhi.
Also, I kinda wanna write an entire forgery where in the magical narrative Beato brings Mrs. Kinzo back to life to haunt the shit out of her kids, and they're all found in their childhood rooms or something. She possesses Natsuhi and uses her ghostly Meta-knowledge to lead Natsuhi to the gold turning her into Natsu-trice and ... I'll stop now.
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|2012-11-15, 18:24
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No, continue. And then Natsuhitrice doesn't have a One-winged Eagle Scepter. Then, somehow, she is reduced to only an heart like Beato in EP3 and her heart has the family crest on it.
|2012-11-16, 06:54
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That's really interesting. I've actually always pictured Kinzo's wife as looking like Natsuhi for some reason, even though I haven't seen that EP7 manga page you're talking about.
Regarding the theory I posted earlier, another intriguing contrast I noticed between EP1 and EP2 is the way that the ceremony is presented. In the first episode, it seems like all the victims will be brought back to life in the Golden Land, regardless of the point at which they are sacrificed; even the victims of the first twilight have TIPS messages saying things like "we'll see them again soon" and "everyone will be revived in the Golden Land" and such.
Whereas in EP2, it's repeatedly stated that only five people will get to reach the Golden Land, and the thirteen that are chosen as sacrifices will never get to go there. Not only that, but even the five who do survive end up getting eaten by goats, which is hardly a warm welcome to the Golden Land - and when Rosa actually does reach the Golden Land, she gets tortured there (if the tea party is even part of the story).
In other words: in EP1, Beatrice is performing the murders to bring about her revival, but this will also bring everyone to the Golden Land, so she isn't actually being selfish per se but doing the thing that will bring the most happiness to both herself and the humans.
But in EP2, it seems like she's just manipulating and deceiving the humans into allowing the ceremony to be performed, making false promises about bringing them to the Golden Land when she really hates all of them and just wants to bring about her own revival regardless of the cost it causes to anyone else. Her promise to Maria, to bring her to the Golden Land, doesn't seem to mean anything to her; she leaves her to be eaten by goats and then possibly even eaten again by Rosa. Likewise, even though Kinzo is the one who set up the ceremony and allowed her to be revived, she's not even slightly grateful and abandons him to be eaten by the goats too. Basically Beatrice only makes promises to humans in order to fulfil her own agenda, she doesn't care what happens to them after she's achieved her revival. I think this fits with my previous theory nicely.
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|2012-11-18, 13:44
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It's strange because in EP3, Shannon and Kanon both said something like if they're being the first of the sacrifices, they won't be in the Golden Land.... but in the same Episode, the Golden Land that Battler and Beato goes to have... everyone?
This goes beyond Yasu depicting something different between her two bottles, this is Tohya depicting something different within one forgery.
|2012-11-18, 14:35
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|2012-11-18, 17:11
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And likely the people Battler saw in the golden land were just an illusion to trick him into recognizing Beato, not his real relatives reaching the real golden land... though that Battler is Meta Battler interacting with Meta people/Meta illusions so it can be the destiny of the Pieces is different? According to the tips only Jessica reached thegolden land after all.
|2012-11-19, 11:26
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In the First Twilight of the first game, all the corpses are found with their faces torn apart. Also, they're found in a room filled with tools that looked like they could tear off a human's face.
Why did the culprit grind up the faces of those corpses?
|2012-11-19, 13:41
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To shock everyone and provide an excuse for the accomplices not to let the children on to the scene, presumably. After all, if the crime scene had been fairly clean, how would Hideyoshi have prevented George from wanting to see Shannon's corpse?
On an unrelated note, I was thinking about this theory earlier...
EP1: Eva and Hideyoshi as accomplices
EP2: Rosa as an accomplice
EP3: Krauss and Natsuhi as accomplices
EP4: Rudolf and Kyrie as accomplices (The first twilight victims probably weren't killed at the same time the fantasy narrative shows)
Another fun little pattern I found with the siblings:
EP1: Only Eva survives the first twilight
EP2: Only Rosa survives the first twilight
EP3: All survive the first twilight
EP4: Only Krauss survives the first twilight
EP3 is the odd one out. I wonder if Land would have had Rudolf as the only surviving sibling? That would fit Renall's idea of EP3 originally being centered around Battler.
|2012-11-19, 20:39
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In Ep 3 though she couldn't do it as she was one of the victims. Plus in EP 3 we start to get hints on how guns were involved in the killing (the Siesta, more guns available, people clearly killed by a gun)...
Though I would say Natsuhi was an accomplice in EP 1 too, although she likely had no idea Eva was an accomplice as well.
|2012-11-19, 21:12
|Link #31197
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Drifloon was only counting the siblings. Because... you know... the rest of the children survived the first twilight in EP1-4....
It's interesting... so for the most part, there may have been an "out of the siblings only would have survived the first twilight."
However, I don't completely think it's alright, because in Eva's case of EP1, she dies right after the first twilight during the second, and then she has a bigger role in EP3.
Although his speculation about Land is interesting, I wonder what it would mean as a whole. What kind of meaning does a non-existant Episode give?
|2012-11-19, 21:19
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A more interesting pattern is that only one mother survives until the end or nearly the end.
EP1: Natsuhi dies at the very end. Rosa and Kyrie die FT, Eva dies ST.
EP2: Rosa is alive at the end. The other three die FT.
EP3: Eva survives. Each other mother dies in a separate incident.
EP4: Kyrie is apparently alive toward the end, at least long enough to report on the supposed deaths of most everyone else.
|2012-11-19, 21:25
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Doesn't this suggest that they know they're not in danger for some reason? Or are they just not thinking? Or am I just missing something?
|2012-11-20, 11:23
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However, as for making the murders look magical, this has the opposite effect. Anyone looking at the crime scene would jump to the conclusion that those tools were used to damage the faces, and in fact, those tools probably were used. The correct, very non-magical answer is staring us in the face. If the corpses were found in literally any other location, we'd have a very bizarre mystery on our hands. Instead, we've got some strong evidence that the culprit couldn't rely on magic even to smash a few faces on already-dead corpses.
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NEW YORK - A New York City child care worker was indicted Thursday on a murder charge in the death of a 20-month-old boy in her care. Prosecutors said she admitted throwing him down and stepping on him.
District Attorney Robert Johnson said a grand jury charged Athena Skeeter, 40, with second-degree murder and first- and second-degree manslaughter in the death Friday of Cardell Williamson.
He said Skeeter admitted throwing Cardell to the floor and repeatedly stepping on his stomach. She also said she put him in a tub of water, then found him burned and unresponsive when the water turned out to be steaming, the district attorney said.
According to a court document, Skeeter told police she had been wrestling with the child at her home after his father dropped him off Friday morning. She said the child was on the bed when she lifted him by one arm and one leg and put him on the floor. She told police she stepped on his stomach but "didn't use full force."
"Cardell acted different after that," Skeeter said, according to the court document. "He threw up. His head kept tilting."
Police responding to a 911 call found Cardell lying on a bed, struggling to breathe. He was pronounced dead at a hospital and the medical examiner ruled the death a homicide.
Skeeter's lawyer, Michael Beatrice, said he could not comment on the indictment but added that Skeeter would plead not guilty.
The indictment was announced just hours after Beatrice said in court that Skeeter would not be testifying before the grand jury. Skeeter did not appear.
"We have no idea what other witnesses are saying," he said.
The murder charge is an upgrade from the manslaughter charge on which Skeeter was arrested. It alleges murder by "depraved indifference," rather than intentional killing.
Skeeter's next court appearance is scheduled for Oct. 20.
If convicted of murder, Skeeter could be sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
Beatrice said there had been no discussions with prosecutors about a possible plea. "It's much too soon," he said.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has said Skeeter's child care operation had both state and city oversight. He promised a full investigation.


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Many across the nation have gone into virtual hibernation, while others daring to venture out faced temperatures that plunged well below -18C (0F).
In Minneapolis, temperatures reached -31C (-24F) with wind chills of -45C (-48F) while the mercury also dropped into negative territory in Milwaukee, St. Louis and Chicago, which set a record for the date at -27C (-16F). Records also fell in Oklahoma, Texas and Indiana.
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Katy Perry May Shave Her Head for Next Hairdo!
Katy Perry is known for always changing up her look when it comes to her tresses. Throughout the year, she has sported many colors (brunette, pink, black and blonde), lengths and styles. With all that wear and tear on her hair, the singer admits it's seen better days as far as the overall health of the locks.
"I'll probably have to shave my head one day because of all of it," Perry recently told E! Online.
For now, Perry's happy with the new look she debuted earlier this month of a blond, choppy bob cut. "I'm having fun with my hair color, because I was black-haired for 10 years," she said. "That was a long time, so I just decided to change things up, try new things and see what worked."
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Digg is a collaborative news site, much like Slashdot, where people post articles that seem interesting and topical. Through a voting scheme, articles get "dugg", and rise to the top of the site. In fact, getting "dugg" is now an inadvertent denial-of-service attack much like being "slashdotted" used to be.
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This is not a new problem; Google and other search engines have battled search engine optimizers for a long time now. There are companies that claim to improve your location in a Google search result (for a small fee of course). An interesting side effect of all this gamesmanship is that search engines like Google and aggregators like Digg have to keep many details of their ranking process secret. Obviously, some of this is for IP protection, but protecting against vote riggers is also a major concern. A tertiary consequence of this lack of transparency is that such sites are now vulnerable to lawsuits by disgruntled sites complaining about bias in search results; Google has had to fend off lawsuits based on some claim of bias leading to monetary damage.
The latest such problem has hit Digg, where in an attempt to block out users trying to game votes on articles they want to push, the management has managed to freeze out and frustrate some of the most prolific users. A user-driven site like Digg that has many competitors can't really afford to be annoying its most valuable contributors.
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Elegant plates made by 12 Gorge artists are up for silent auction through Dec. 1 as a benefit for the Columbia Gorge Arts in Education program (CGAIE.)
The plates can be seen at the Gallery at 301, at 301 Oak St. in Hood River.
All proceeds go to support CGAIE, which provides art education and outreach in schools throughout the Gorge.
The Bite of the Gorge had been scheduled for last spring and then cancelled, but the plates had already been made, according to Shelley Toon Hight of CGAIE.
Look for the reinvented Bite of the Gorge on a date to be announced in fall 2013, according to Hight. Instead of going to one location, attendees will move from restaurant to restaurant, vendor to vendor.
The sale of art plates has been a part of The Bite of the Gorge since its inception in 2001.
The plates this year are done by Janet Essley, Robyn Johnsen, Peggy Dills Kelter, Suzanne Lee, Mimi Macht, Mark Nilsson, Cathleen Rehfield, Sheila Ford Richmond, Barbara Schuppe, Peny Wallace, and Polly Wood.
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Efficacy of Tenofovir and Emtricitabine in ARV-naive Patients With HIV/HBV Co-infection
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|December 2008
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- HBV DNA suppression to levels below the limit of detection (<400 copies/ml) [ Time Frame: week 48 ]
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TDF compared to TDF+FTC in HIV/HBV
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RNA Virus Infections
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Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
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Federal authorities have unshielded an indictment against the founders of the three largest Internet poker companies operating in the U.S. The indictment charges 11 defendants, including the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker/Ultimate Bet with bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling offenses.
The federal government is getting serious about cracking down on online gambling, with 2009 revenue from U.S. players to be an estimated $5.4 billion. So is the federal government missing out on potential tax revenue, and what's the future of the online gaming industry? Fox Business Network's Adam Shapiro reports live from the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut.
Obama's justice department led a massive crackdown on online poker sites, with the FBI indicting 11 people on charges of fraud, money laundering and illegally operating online gambling sites. The websites include three of the largest and most popular online poker forums, Full Tilt, Absolute Poker, and Poker Stars. Cato's Julian Sanchez weighs in on the sudden crackdown.
Led by US attorney Preet Bharara, the so-called "anti-poker crusades" have sparked debate over the government's role in online gambling. Protesters dispute poker's classification as gambling, saying it is a game of skill, not just luck.
According to John Pappas, executive director of the Poker Players Alliance, poker is not an illegal activity — it is a legitimate business.
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FBI files show Monroe's left-leaning views
LOS ANGELES - FBI files on Marilyn Monroe that could not be located earlier this year have been found and reissued, revealing the names of some of the movie star's communist-leaning acquaintances who drew concern from government officials and her own entourage.
But the files, which previously had been heavily redacted, do not contain any new information about Monroe's death 50 years ago. Letters and news clippings included in the file show the bureau was aware of theories the actress had been killed, but they do not show that any effort was undertaken to investigate the claims. Los Angeles authorities concluded Monroe's death was a probable suicide.
Recently obtained by the Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, the updated FBI files do show the extent the agency was monitoring Monroe for ties to communism in the years before her death in August 1962.
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The records reveal that some in Monroe's inner circle were concerned about her association with Frederick Vanderbilt Field, who was disinherited from his wealthy family over his leftist views.
A trip to Mexico earlier that year to shop for furniture brought Monroe in contact with Field, who was living in the country with his wife in self-imposed exile. Informants reported to the FBI that a "mutual infatuation" had developed between Field and Monroe.
"This situation caused considerable dismay among Miss Monroe's entourage and also among the (American Communist Group in Mexico)," the file states. It includes references to an interior decorator who worked with Monroe's analyst reporting her connection to Field to the doctor.
Field's autobiography devotes an entire chapter to Monroe's Mexico trip, "An Indian Summer Interlude." He mentions that he and his wife accompanied Monroe on shopping trips and meals, and he only mentions politics once in a passage on their dinnertime conversations.
"She talked mostly about herself and some of the people who had been or still were important to her," Field wrote in "From Right to Left." "She told us about her strong feelings for civil rights, for black equality, as well as her admiration for what was being done in China, her anger at red-baiting and McCarthyism and her hatred of (FBI director) J. Edgar Hoover."
Other investigations
Under Hoover's watch, the FBI kept tabs on the political and social lives of many celebrities, including Frank Sinatra, Charlie Chaplin and Monroe's ex-husband Arthur Miller The bureau has also been involved in numerous investigations about crimes against celebrities
The AP had sought the removal of redactions from Monroe's FBI files earlier this year as part of a series of stories on the 50th anniversary of her death. The FBI said it had transferred the files to a National Archives facility in Maryland but archivists said the documents had not been received. A few months later, the FBI released the updated version of the files.


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Evans, who has been playing with a sore knee for over a month now, posted her 10th double-double of the year (43rd career) with a 20-point, 14-rebound effort in the Lady Bucs' 88-83 victory over league-leading Florida Gulf Coast on Saturday afternoon inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center. The five-point win over FGCU also snapped the Eagles' 22-game conference winning streak and placed the Lady Bucs only a half-game behind the
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Scholars developed 'Ilm an-Nahu, 'Ilm al-'Ajaaz, 'Ilm ul-Kalam, 'Ilm at-Tawhid, 'Ilm al-'Aqida, 'Ilm al-Qur'an, 'Ilm al-Fiqh, 'Ilm al-Hadith, 'Ilm as-Sirah, 'Ilm as-Sarf, 'Ilm al-Bayan, 'Ilm at-Tafsir, 'Ilm al-Tajweed, 'Ilm at-Tarteel, 'Ilm at- Tasawwuf! ('Ilm ul-Ihsan), 'Ilm ul-Mirath and many other sciences ('Ulum), all of which came from the Holy Qur'an and the hadith of the Prophet (s). [These are respectively: the Science of Grammar, the Science of Explaining the Miraculous Eloquence of Qur'an, the Science of the Unity of God, the Science of Belief, the Science of Qur'an, the Science of Jurisprudence, the Science of the Traditions of the Prophet (s), the Science of the Life of the Prophet (s), the Science of Linguistic Analysis, the Science of Clarification, the Science of Exegesis of Qur'an, the Science of Harmonious Recitation, the Science of Fluid Recitation, the Science of Purification of the Self–also known as the Science of Perfection of Character and the Science of Inheritance]. None of these sciences nor their terminology existed in the time of the Prophet(s). Whereas their realities did exist, as the Sahaba were practicing them better than anyone after them. The Science of Tasawwuf, or Science of Purification of the Self is mentioned in the Holy Qur'an:
"Hua alladhee ba'atha fil-ummiyyin Rasulan minhum, yatlu 'alayhim ayaatihi wa yuzakihim wa yu'alimuhum al-kitaba wal-hikmata wa in kanu min qablu lafi dalaalin mubeen."
"He it is Who raised among the inhabitants of Mecca an Apostle from among themselves, who recites to them His communications and purifies them, and teaches them the Book and the Wisdom, although they were before certainly in clear error. (Jumu'ah 2,3)
In this verse we find four essential principles. One of these four principles mentioned in this verse, purification (Tazkiyya), is mentioned under the words "wa yuzzakihim." It means to purify the believers from all kinds of shirk (association with Allah) and to purify their hearts and to prepare them for the state of Ihsan. Ibn Kathir's explanation of that verse goes to many pages. "Tazkiyya" means "to sanctify," which means to raise the individual from a state of materialism to a state of purification of the heart. The state of Ihsan, which is the second component of the Science of Tassawuf, is mentioned in the Sunnah of the Prophet (s). This term is mentioned in the hadith of Jibril, when he appeared to the Prophet (s) while the Prophet (s) was sitting among his Sahaba, and questioned the Prophet (s) about the definitions of the terms "Islam" (the Corpus of Islam), "Iman" (the Beliefs of Islam) and "Ihsan," (the Way of Perfecting Character). We are only mentioning this subject glancingly at this time, but we intend to expand the explanation of this subject in our answer to Shaykh Adly's questions which we are currently in the process of preparing, due to the eagerness of the readers to hear our response. So all these sciences, as well as those we didn't name, came from 5000-7000 hadith and the 500 or so pages of Holy Qur'an. From this we say:
"from an individual, personal reading of the Holy Qur'an and Holy Hadith scholars wrote thousands of books whose roots are Qur'an and Hadith and don't deviate from them, and include explanations."
Ibn Taymiyya's Majmu'a Fatawa is 37 volumes, Ibn Kathir's Tafsir is 20 volumes. Sayyid Qutb's tafsir of Qur'an, In the Shade of the Qur'an is voluminous. Therefore what some people are saying, "if it isn't explicitly spelled out in a verse of Qur'an or in hadith then it doesn't exist in Islam" doesn't coincide with the understanding of a person of intellect. We are not saying something which has no roots in Islam, in Qur'an nor in the Sunnah. For example, Ibn Kathir who was a Shaykh ul-Islam, from childhood until the day he died, spent time memorizing Qur'an and Hadith. We cannot simply disregard or discard his explanations of the Qur'an by saying "where is the daleel?" That contradicts the reality of the knowledge these scholars had from Qur'an and Hadith. And we have to say that every science from the sciences ('ilmun min al 'ulum) we mentioned has to have its root in the Qur'an and Sunnah. It cannot be otherwise. And we as Muslims must not accept for ourselves to take any superstitions or to take anything from a philosophy or an ideology. We don't accept that — we only accept what is in Qur'an and Sunnah. Just because some of our brothers are not aware of the sources, doesn't mean we are deviating from Islam. It does means they have to go deeper in reading and verifying these sources, instead of throwing out accusations that we are against Sunnah and Shari'ah. We are sinful persons and we are only servants to Allah. Yet even the Prophet (s), who was the most Honorable Servant of Allah, used to pray "O Allah, don't leave me to my ego [nafs] for the blink of an eye." We are not perfect as he was and we are not Sahaba, nor are we great scholars. We must confess that we are poor servants, who are trying to imitate the way of the Prophet and Sahaba. May Allah forgive us and we repeat on the network, for all to witness, "ashhadu an laa ilaha ill-Allah wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan Rasul-Allah" –"we testify that there is no god except Allah, and we estify that Muhammad is His Messenger, peace be upon him." And we say that we are worshipping Allah Alone, and we are happy to praise the Prophet as His Favored Servant, peace be upon him.


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One day many years ago, a fisherman's wife blessed her husband with twin sons. They loved the children very much, but couldn't think of what to name their children. Finally, after several days, the fisherman said, "Let's not decide on names right now. If we wait a little while, the names will simply occur to us." After several weeks had passed, the fisherman and his wife noticed a peculiar fact. When left alone, one of
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child always faced the same direction. "Let's call the boys Towards and Away," suggested the fisherman. His wife agreed, and from that point on, the boys were simply known as TOWARDS and AWAY. The years passed and the lads grew tall and strong. The day came when the aging fisherman said to his sons, "Boys, it is time that learned how to make a living from the sea." They provisioned their ship, said their
goodbyes, and set sail for a three month voyage. The three months passed quickly for the fisherman's wife, yet the ship had not returned. Another three months
passed, and still no ship. Three whole years passed before the grieving woman saw a lone man walking towards her house. She recognized him as her husband. "My
goodness! What has happened to my darling boys?" she cried. The ragged fisherman began to tell his story: "We were just barely one whole day out to see when
Towards hooked into a great fish. Towards fought long and hard, but the fish was more than his equal. For a whole week they wrestled upon the waves without either of them letting up. Yet eventually the great fish started to win the battle, and Towards was pulled over the side of our ship. He was swallowed whole, and we never saw either of them again." "Oh dear, that must have been terrible! What a huge fish
that must of been! What a horrible fish. What a horrible fish." "Yes, it was, but you should have seen the one that got Away...."
By the black tongue of Satan, that was terrible.
Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.
Satan stole my lunch, I'm M.A.D.D.*
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And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.
I don't like T.L.A's.
Why did the vector cross the road?
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Zach Iworked it out
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Shoppers, employees help tackle robbery suspect: police
A man was arrested on suspicion of robbing two stores Wednesday. Store employees and shoppers tackled and held the suspect in the second incident, police said.
David Jomil Dalton, 40, of Browns Summit, was arrested around 7:30 a.m. at the Food Lion at 4634 Hicone Road.
Dalton tried to take money from a register when the employees and customers surrounded him, police said.
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MechWarrior reboot was derailed by Microsoft blocking PS3
The initial incarnation of Piranha Games' MechWarrior reboot, revealed yesterday to have become free-to-play PC exclusive MechWarrior Online, was stymied by "a Microsoft restriction" blocking a PS3 edition.
The initial incarnation of Piranha Games' MechWarrior reboot, which was revealed yesterday to have become the free-to-play PC exclusive MechWarrior Online, was stymied by "a Microsoft restriction" blocking a PlayStation 3 edition. This, according to Piranha, played a big part in publishers not wanting to pick the game up. Do remember there's a happy ending, though.
The revelation comes in a blog post from Piranha owner Bryan Ekman, retelling the history of the game's development. He explains that Piranha began shopping the reboot to publishers in earnest after releasing its jolly exciting proof of concept trailer, but were turned down by houses big and small.
A "restriction" from rights owner Microsoft which forbade a PlayStation 3 edition played a big part in this, he said, along with "the epic market collapse and major recession."
"In the end, it was mostly the lack of a PS3 option that did us in. The scope and budget required to develop a console reboot needed the support of a PS3 SKU and we just couldn't convince publishers to take a risk," Ekman explained. "By late fall 2009, our dreams of making a MechWarrior game, began slowly drifting away."
"Through the end of 2009 and into 2010 we rallied numerous times, reducing scope and budget, re-pitching the concept as a [Xbox] Live only title, etc. etc. In the end, nothing stuck."
After pitching in on the resurrected Duke Nukem Forever, working with the multiplayer and console editions, Piranha came back to MechWarrior in winter early this year.
The studio "decided to plunge in head first" and licensed the rights from license holder Smith & Tinker (the outfit founded by Jordan Weisman, co-creator of MechWarrior's tabletop source game, BattleTech).
Going back to the drawing point, Piranha began toying with free-to-play and switched to a later point in the established BattleTech timeline. It also finally found a publisher partner in "a local group" interested in the game, who rustled up funding to form Infinity Game Publishing.
And that's where baby MechWarrior games come from.
Alice O'Connor posted a new article, MechWarrior reboot was derailed by Microsoft blocking PS3.
The initial incarnation of Piranha Games' MechWarrior reboot, revealed yesterday to have become free-to-play PC exclusive MechWarrior Online, was stymied by "a Microsoft restriction" blocking a PS3 edition.
You might sort of be in luck! http://www.cliffhanger-productions.com/content/list/details/id/65
Yeah I thought Harmony Gold, the company that owns the Robotech franchise, threatened legal action against this game after that trailer was released. Specifically the red 'mech from the trailer is one of the designs that was pretty much copied directly from the Macross franchise and Harmony Gold (kinda) holds the rights to Macross outside of Japan. Though the Macross franchise has its own massive legal mess that has been going on for years as well.
Its amazing how almost 30 years later the Macross/Robotech/Battletech/Mechwarrior legal situation is still ongoing.
I never really played MW4, but looking back I think one of the issues was you always benefited from taking the bigger and bigger mechs as the campaign progressed. You never really had to sit back and choose between taking something like an Atlas or a Mad Cat Vs. a Jenner or a firefly, because the mission called for more of a lighting-fast strike than a slow, methodical locking down of a large piece of the combat zone.


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Two people remain missing in the waters off Grand Isle after an explosion set an offshore oil platform on fire Friday morning.
Two people remain missing in the waters off Grand Isle after an explosion set an offshore oil platform on fire Friday morning.
At least four people were critically injured with severe burns, and U.S. Coast Guard crews continued searching for the two missing workers into the night.
There were 22 workers aboard the production platform. Eleven were flown to local hospitals and nine others with no injuries were rescued, said Coast Guard Petty Officer John Lally.
Coast Guard Capt. Ed. Cubanksi said the explosion was triggered by workers using a cutting torch on a 75-foot pipe.
The explosion and resulting fire about 25 miles southeast of Grand Isle sent a black plume of smoke high over the Gulf.
"We were heading into Grand Isle and heard the mayday, so we turned around," said Brett Rodrigue of Houma, who is a deckhand on a platform-servicing vessel in the Gulf. "The first thing we saw was that big ole plume of smoke."
The platform, owned by Houston-based Black Elk Energy, was "shut-in" for maintenance and was not producing oil at the time of the explosion, Lally said.
Cubanski said the pipe workers were cutting contained about 28 gallons of oil, and a light sheen about a half mile long was reported at the scene.
Taslin Alfonzo, spokeswoman for West Jefferson Medical Center, told The Associated Press four injured workers were brought to the hospital in critical condition with second- and third-degree burns over much of their bodies.
Two were sent by ambulance to the Baton Rouge Burn Center. Two others were to be sent later. She could not release identities or any other information.
A spokeswoman for Terrebonne General Medical Center in Houma said the hospital was treating two workers who were in good condition.
Several other workers were taken to Lady of the Sea General Hospital in Cut Off. No one was listed in critical condition, according to a spokeswoman, who wouldn't specify how many patients the hospital was treating.
Grand Isle Fire Chief Aubrey Chiasson said three were treated for minor injuries on the island.
The explosion came one day after BP plead guilty to several criminal charges tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Unlike Deepwater Horizon, the fire was contained within hours and the platform appears to remain structurally sound, Cubanksi said.
The platform is also in much shallower water at 56 feet compared to Deepwater Horizon, which had a wellhead about a mile below the Gulf's surface.
Coast Guard officials said there was nothing to indicate oil was flowing from the well.
A federal official in Washington said a team of environmental enforcement inspectors was flying to the scene.
David Smith, a spokesman for the Interior Department's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, said the team was dispatched from a Gulf Coast base by helicopter soon after the Coast Guard was notified of the emergency. Smith said the team would scan for any evidence of oil spillage and investigate the cause of the explosion.
"This is yet another reminder that our work on oil drilling safety is not complete," said U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee.
Black Elk Energy's website says the independent oil and gas company holds interests in properties in Texas and Louisiana waters, including 854 wells on 155 platforms.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with those who are impacted," the company said on its website.
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These are called "Pillows of Love" in Italian. It is a great dish because it's easy to make and perfect for two people. You both can work on the gnocchi as well as the sauce, so put your match to work! -Fabio
Gnocchi de Patate
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups Parmesan cheese, grated
- Salt & Pepper
- 2 lbs. potatoes, baked for 45 mins at 400 degrees, cooled, and mashed
- 25-30 Cherry tomatoes, whole
- 10 fresh basil leaves, chopped
- Crushed red pepper
- Extra Parmesan for topping
- Salt and pepper
1. In a stand up mixer with a paddle attachment, combine the flour and Parmesan with a pinch of salt and a pinch of pepper; mix well. Add the mashed and cooled potatoes into the mixer and let mix for about 5 minutes on medium until the dough is nice and unified.
2. Remove the dough from the mixer and roll into one ball. Cut the mass in fist-sized balls and roll them with the palm of you hand until forming a cigar shaped roll. With the help of a knife, cut dumplings about ½ inch in length.
3. In the meantime, add 2 tbs. of extra virgin olive oil into a medium saute pan. Once warmed, add the cherry tomatoes and cook over medium heat until cherry tomatoes are blistered, about 10 minutes. Add pinch of salt, some crushed red pepper and 10 basil leaves, set aside.
4. In a pot of salted boiling water, cook the Gnocchi until a few of them are floating. Add them to the tomatoes and cook them on medium heat for about 3 minutes. Top with extra Parmesan.


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About 50,000 visitors a year are drawn to an unassuming two-story house on West 11th Street in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood. Why? It's Ralphie Parker's house.
About 50,000 visitors a year are drawn to an unassuming two-story house on West 11th Street in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood.
Why? It's Ralphie Parker's house.
As legions of fans worldwide can tell you, Ralphie is the boy hero of "A Christmas Story," the beloved holiday film that is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
Shot in Cleveland, the nostalgic 1983 comedy used this 11th Street residence for the home of the Parker family. In 2004, it was bought by a "Christmas Story" fan named Brian Jones, who proceeded to convert it into a tourist attraction.
"Brian restored the house back to its original movie splendor. At the time, it was totally updated with blue vinyl siding and new windows," said Angela Dickerson, chief of operations for A Christmas Story House and Museum. "He purchased it for $150,000 then spent $250,000 to renovate it back to the way it looked in the movie."
Since its opening during Thanksgiving weekend in 2006, the house and museum — directly across the street — have wecomed visitors from all 50 states and countries all over the world, including Germany, England, China, Switzerland, Australia, Sweden, Netherlands, Ireland, Mexico and Thailand.
"When you step into the house, you step into the Parker family home from the 1940s," Dickerson said. "The house is completely interactive. We want them to feel they are in Ralphie's world. You can climb under the sink, grab the BB gun from behind the desk and put the Lifebuoy soap in your mouth. You can touch and feel everything."
The accompanying museum has behind-the-scenes photos, costumes and other memorabilia from "A Christmas Story," including toys from the Higbee Co. display windows, the chalkboard from Mrs. Shields' classroom and the Parker family car.
Opening Friday in a building next to the museum is a new souvenir shop, expanded from 500 square feet to 3,500. "We have over 300 products related to the movie — leg lamps, bunny suits, BB guns, houseware items, ornaments," Dickerson said. "Pretty much anything you can think of, we have."
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Made my first journey to Tulsa to judge at this event. I've seen lots of FOAM members medal at other comps, wanted to get a sense of what their club was like and meet a few of the members. Judged with some very experienced people and learned a lot. They had about 750 entries but thanks to some weekday flights things weren't chaotic on Friday and Saturday. In fact it was a very well-run comp. My compliments to Dave and Desiree.I didn't enter anything this time, just thought I'd see how that felt. I think I'll go back to entering a few beers, it gives you a little more to look forward to.
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Malaysia Airports participated in Project PINTAR (Promoting Intelligence, Nurturing Talent, Advocating Responsibility), established under the patronage of the Ministry of Finance and Khazanah Nasional. In taking ownership of the project, Malaysia Airports gave it a new identity with the theme, Beyond Borders, and a new tagline 'Give Them Wings, Let Them Fly'.
This new identity illustrates Malaysia Airports' aspiration towards helping the underprivileged children in elevating the academic standards of the underprivileged children since 2007. Malaysia Airports has adopted a total of 30 schools and is currently running the third phase of the school adoption program.
Beyond Borders highlights the importance of education and improvement on academic standards, particularly the command of the English language, of under-privileged students at Malaysia Airports' schools. These objectives are the fundamentals of Beyond Borders framework that are translated into Beyond Borders program pillars that consist of enrichment and artistic approach that incorporates academic and non-academic components of the national curriculum:
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The workshop is aimed to inspire and encourage teachers to incorporate more fun and creative elements in the subjects they teach, and increase their English Language proficiency levels. Conducted annually, workshop modules are enhanced every year to further equip the teachers with project management, communications and information skills.
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The competition allows students to express themselves with performing arts based on story books donated by Malaysia Airports. Students from Year 3 and 5 entertain crowds with their on-stage performance of their interpretation of a proposed theme.
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The programme also educates students aged 12 years in self-motivation and personal efficacy. We aim to prepare students for their future by equipping them with knowledge regarding personal qualities that will enable them to prosper in today's challenging and rapidly changing society.
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