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'I don't hate Muslims. I hate Islam,' says Holland's rising political star February 18, 2008Posted by tkcollier in Geopolitics, philosophy & politics, Religion.
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'I don't hate Muslims. I hate Islam,' says Holland's rising political star | World news | The Observer
Get ready for a new furor from the Netherlands, where census figures show that Muslims will be the majority by 2015. How will the tolerant to-a-fault Dutch react? Geert Wilders has got nothing against Muslims. He just hates Islam. Or so he says. 'Islam is not a religion, it's an ideology,' says Wilders, a lanky Roman Catholic right-winger, 'the ideology of a retarded culture.'
Wilders has been immersing himself in the suras and verse of seventh-century Arabia. The outcome of his scholarship, a short film, has Holland in a panic. He is just putting the finishing touches to the 10-minute film, he says, and talking to four TV channels about screening it. The Dutch government is planning emergency evacuation of its nationals and diplomats from the Middle East should the Wilders film be shown. It is alarmed about the impact on Dutch business.
'We already have more than 6,000 mosques in Europe, which are not only a place to worship but also a symbol of radicalisation, some financed by extreme groups in Saudi Arabia or Iran,' argued Filip Dewinter, leader of Belgium's Flemish separatist party, the Vlaams Belang, who organised the Antwerp get-together. 'Its minarets are six floors high, higher than the floodlights of the Feyenoord soccer stadium,' he said of a new mosque being built in Rotterdam. 'These kinds of symbols have to stop.' Horror! The secular temple, our Colosseum, where our gladiators entertain us, is being overshadowed by a rising barbaric religious invasion.
The Dutch politician, who sees himself as heir to a recent string of assassinated or hounded mavericks who have turned Holland upside down, has been doing a crash course in Koranic study. Likening the Islamic sacred text to Hitler's Mein Kampf, he wants the 'fascist Koran' outlawed in Holland, the constitution rewritten to make that possible, all immigration from Muslim countries halted, Muslim immigrants paid to leave and all Muslim 'criminals' stripped of Dutch citizenship and deported 'back where they came from'. But he has nothing against Muslims. 'I have a problem with Islamic tradition, culture, ideology. Not with Muslim people.'
And if people are murdered as a result of his film? 'They say that if there's bloodshed it would be the responsibility of this strange politician. It's almost a self-fulfilling prophecy. They're creating an atmosphere. I'm not responsible for using democratic means and acting within the law. I don't want Dutch people or Dutch interests to be hurt.'
But he does want to create a stir. 'Islam is something we can't afford any more in the Netherlands. I want the fascist Koran banned. We need to stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands. That means no more mosques, no more Islamic schools, no more imams… Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims.'
Free speech or hate speech? 'I don't create hate. I want to be honest. I don't hate people. I don't hate Muslims. I hate their book and their ideology.'
For more than three years, Wilders has been paying for his 'honesty' by living under permanent police guard as the internet bristles with threats on his life. He has lived in army barracks, in prisons, under guard at home. 'There's no freedom, no privacy. If I said I was not afraid, I would be lying.'
There is little doubt that if Wilders's film exists – and it's shrouded in secrecy – and is broadcast, it will be construed as blasphemy in large parts of the world and may spark a new bloody crisis in relations between the West and the Muslim world.
He does not seem to care. 'People ask why don't you moderate your voice and not make this movie. If I do that and not say what I think, then the extremists who threaten me would win.'
- 1. shah001shah - March 14, 2008
sir please hate muslim not islam
- 2. daniel - March 17, 2009
I hate all religon. It superstitious mumbo jumbo. God should be proving he exist to us. How hard would it be for the creature of the universe to show his face and go hi this is what I want you to believe in. His absence is a little strange don't you think. Why don't all the relgious nuts get together and ask God for a simple answer. If they dont get one(they wont), then they should forget religion so we can be in peace with each other. Or just kill each other and leave the good people who want to live in peace alone. Religon is poison that is killing the planet more than global warming!
- 3. im a person who cares for you - April 11, 2009
what people don't understand is every religion started at the same point… it all started as the same thing… the bible was identicle to the quran and all the other religoius books…i mean the only reason islam was invented was that god was displeased by the way the christians and jews all changed their book so they can have it the way they want it… i mean muslims beleive in everything christians beleive in but more religious. like jesus was just a phrophet. if u think hes a son of god because he started christniaty why isnt the muslim phrophet also a son of god he started a religion thats just like christainity. god is trying to tell us that life is a dumb test. he just wants to see if u will succeed and move on to neither heaven or hell. i warn u ppl to watch out. if u dont beleive in one religion ur punishment will be worse than everything. we muslims care for all. not all muslims are bad u know. like the best boxer(mohammed ali)or the first person on the moon(neil armstrong) or our current president(brack obama) they r all muslim…did u know barack is the name of the horse he flew to heaven with. do when the day of judjment comes u will be sorry u didnt listen to me. trust me i cry when a cchristian hates islam.its the best religion. if u dont accept than…… U WILL ALL ROT IN HELL
- tkcollier - April 12, 2009
You might want to research the Neil Armstrong conversion claims. http://www.wikiislam.com/wiki/Neil_Armstrong


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Afghan Governor Wants Government To Control Poppy Crop
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Fifteen years into the Afghan war, locals continue to grow, harvest and sell poppy, notwithstanding attempts to eradicate it, replace it with something else, or use it for constructive means.
This week, we're taking a look at the ongoing war in Afghanistan, where 15 years later, there are still 10,000 American troops on the ground. Today, we hear about Afghanistan's poppy production, which accounts for more than 90 percent of the world's heroin. The profits of this go to the Taliban to pay fighters, to buy weapons and also to pay off government officials.
Now the new governor of the top poppy growing area has an idea. Have the Afghan government control the poppy harvest by licensing farmers and processing the poppies for medical morphine to be used in hospitals. Governor Hayatullah Hayat of Helmand province told NPR this plan could relieve a worldwide need for morphine.
HAYATULLAH HAYAT: I know this will take very long time with the security situation that we have in this country. But I think that is an option which can be worked, at least in the areas where we have security.
GREENE: Our colleague Tom Bowman was recently in Afghanistan. And that's where he spoke with the governor about this idea. Hey, Tom.
TOM BOWMAN, BYLINE: Hey. Good morning, David.
GREENE: So is this idea brand new?
BOWMAN: You know, it's not. It's been around for nearly a decade, but there's been no movement. Advocates say having the government take over production would serve two purposes. Bring in more money for Afghanistan, where the economy right now is based on foreign handouts and opium, and also take that money away from the Taliban.
Right now, medical morphine for hospitals in the developed world comes mostly from Turkey, India and Australia. So experts, even some lawmakers, said this might be a good idea for Afghanistan. Now here's Senator Dianne Feinstein of California back in 2009. She chaired the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN: Actually, the manufacturing of some poppy for morphine in a very controlled way seems to me - would make some sense. It would have to be a strictly government-regulated industry.
BOWMAN: But there has been opposition from the State Department, though. A State Department official said the department still supports destroying the entire poppy crop, even though that hasn't happened in years. The department also cautions that some portion of any legal poppy crop might be diverted to the illegal market.
And of course, right now, 100 percent of that crop's in the hands of the Taliban and drug traffickers. And the department also said there's enough morphine being produced elsewhere. There's really no demand.
GREENE: No - I mean, there's no demand for medical morphine around the world?
BOWMAN: Well, there's no shortage in the U.S. or Europe. But there are shortages elsewhere - Africa, China and also Afghanistan itself. I spoke with Jorrit Kamminga. He's an international counternarcotics expert in Holland. And this is what he had to say.
JORRIT KAMMINGA: Countries like Afghanistan - they fail to address moderate and severe pains because of the fact that they don't have any morphine, which is still the gold standard of painkilling medicines.
GREENE: OK. So debate here, Tom, about how much demand there would be for medical morphine, which would be key to a new program like this. Let's just take the State Department's argument that there's not enough demand. What about just eradicating the poppies in Afghanistan?
BOWMAN: Well, they've tried that over the years. The U.S. has spent billions of dollars eradicating the poppy. Also, the Afghan government has been involved in this effort to get rid of the poppy crop. But it's in fits and starts. Now, this year, we were just in Helmand Province. The entire poppy crop was grown and is now being processed into opium and heroin. They didn't touch the poppy crop this year.
GREENE: Might tell you why the governor is so determined to do something right now. So, I mean, could this be the moment of momentum where he gets an idea like this - gets it through?
BOWMAN: Well, it could be. Again, there's resistance in the U.S. to doing this. But he would like to at least have a pilot project. He also wants to do things like grow watermelons, wheat, cotton. The problem with cotton is - there's a law in the U.S. that - you can't support overseas programs that compete with American cotton farmers.
GREENE: Tom, thanks a lot.
BOWMAN: You're welcome.
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A Strategy for Theological Education in an Era of Ecumenism
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1 A Strategy for Theological Education in an Era of Ecumenism V. T. KURIEN In 945 the Christian Literature Society published The Christian Minister in India, His Vocation and Training. It was a study by C. W, Ranson, then secretary of the National Christian Council of India, Burma and Ceylon, based on a survey of theological education in India at that time. Although its title suggests that the book deals with the vocation and training of ministers of au the churches in India, its contents are limited to the ministry of the churches affiliated to the N.C,C. The survey of the theological institutions connected with the N.C. C. was completed by the end of 943, and an Interim Report was presented before the Conunittee on Theological Education, the precursor of the present Board of Theological Education, in January 944. Both these documents are of great value to students of the history of Theological Education in this country, and some of the recommendations in the Interim Report are still relevant in the 970's. The Christian Minister in India was published before the formation of the Church of South India in 947, and before the first Assembly of the World 'Council of Churches met in Amsterdam in 948. It likewise precedes the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church in 959. Since then many great and important changes have taken place in the world at large, and in the Church in particular. Ranson's book belonged to the. era of denominations; and the institutions which he describes were mostly denominational in character. Even in the so-called United Theological Colleges and seminaries, only Christian missions which had a great measur<;,pf 'family likeness' had actually united. The Christian leaders, not,to speak of the peopl~, would not and could not think of the EcJffienical Movement of the 960's; and therefore Ranson's book has nothing to say about the seminaries of the Roman Catholic Church or of the Orthodox Syrian Churches in India. The Christian Minister in India was also written in the pre-independence period, when the Christians of India were not so mobile as at present. The dispersion of the Syrian Christian, Roman Catholic and Mar Thoma Churches is a post-independence phenomenon. The Orthodox Syrians have about 50 parishes outside Kerala; and the Mar Thomites 67. The Tamil and Telegu Christians have their centres of worship outside the limits of their states. The Roman Catholic Church has, since 945, grown greatly in numbers and influence; so much so that 33 out of their 70 dioceses were formed after 945. All the Churches in India have now moved fmm an era 54
2 of denominations into an era of ecumenism, when there is need tg structure the Theological Education of this period to meet the needs of the emerging 'great Church' of India. There are already some signs in the sphere of Theological Education in India which indicate that in the not too distant future theological educators of all the Churches would want to come together to think of their common purpose, goal and strategy of action. For example, the Roman, Orthodox and Protestant theological teachers meet together for friendly discussion on theological subjects with an openness unthinkable in the 950's. There is also a certain measure of exchange of professors for special lectures and regular classes. Theological students are encouraged to take p~rt in inter-collegiate seminars, discussions and conferences. R.C. students are allowed to study in non-roman colleges and vice versa. Whenever the B.T.E. of the N.C.C. has organised consultations, R.C. observers have been invited and have participated without reservation. There is an openness which suggests that the time has come when bolder steps should be taken to think and plan for Theological Education of all the Churches, rather than of the <ienominations. In the secular sphere there is already a Joint Council of Roman and non-roman Christian colleges for university education, and there is also a joint medical council. In social and development programmes the Churches now co-operate: shoitld not the Roman and non-roman theological institutions now move from the present stage of spasmodic consultation to co-operation in the c'entral and significant aspect of Theological Education? But who is going to hell the cat? It is in the Theological Colleges that presumably most of the theological thinking and writing will take place. The Church in India cannot be content with what has been done in Europe in Latin, German or English_. Indians need to produce their own theological literature in their own languages. Something has already been attempted, with a great measure of success: the Swdent' s Christian Library series was planned and produced under the auspices of Scrampore College, the Theological Literature Committees of most of the Indian languages are integrally connected with theological institutions, the Pontifical Seminary at Alwaye has undertaken the_.publication of four magazines, two of which deal with the doctrine of:!fll.e Church, However, all these are at present undertaken more or less in splendid isolation. Theological thinking and literature, liturgical renewal and change, will affect the shape and mission of the Church more than we can predi~t now. When all the Churches pray for Unity, it is only to be expected that theological institutions, instead of Pollowing the move~ ment with satisfaction and approval, would come to the forefront :;nd prepare the would-be Ministers of the Indian Church for the ecumenical era. Co-operation in Theological Edpcation is surely one of the prime effective means of achieving the unity for which we pray. I am therefore assuming that in the not too distant future the Spirit of God will move someone somewhere in India to take the first step nycessary for co-operation between Roman and non-roman 55
3 theological institutions for the training of Christian Ministers. If and when this is done, it will require a survey of all the Churches and their seminaries to discover the needs and resources in men and money, and to make clear the purpose, goal and method of theological education in India. The R.C. Bishops' Conference already has a committee which is concerned with seminaries. The N.C.C. has its B.T.E., which for all practical purposes appears to be moribund. The Scrampore Senate hesitates to take on further responsibilities for fear of failing in its already difficult function as an examining and degreeconferring body. Who then is to give a lead in an adventurous leap into co-operation between the Roman and non-roman Churches? What seems to be needed to stimuiate action in their area of concern, is for theological educators to have an overall picture of the Indian Churches, and of the shape of Theological Education today. In the next section of the paper, certain facts and figures will be presented, which, I think, should be made familiar to all who have anything to do with Theological Education in India. According to the 97 census there were 4,222,282 Christians in India: i.e. 26 persons in every,000 have professed that they are Christians. 4 million is a large number, as much as the population of Australia; but it is an insignificant number alongside the 453 million Hindus and 6 million Moslems. The Christians are divided into several denominations. Although we live in the era of Ecumenism, there is the hard fact of denominationalism which is also linked with castism, linguism, traditionalism -and parochialism. Theology has to face this fact. According to the latest figures, there are 7,666,285 Roman Catholics in India, and this is the only Church which can claim to have members in every State, and probably in all the 350 Districts. The R.C. Church in India is divided into 85 ecclesiastical units: 8 Archdioceses, 59 Dioceses, 4 Prefectures Apostolic, and 4 Exarchates. These are subdivided into 3,585 parishes and 0,940 mission stations. There are 9,2 clergy, 2,272 Brothers and 35,595 Sisters who render different types of Ministry within the Church or outside. The other denominations, so far as figures are available to me, are here placed in their order of numerical strength, with a reminder that this should not be our only or chief criterion in determining the extent of co-operation in Theological Education. The C.S.I. has a total strength of,37,56 members, divided into 6 Dioceses. Its ordained Ministry numbers,02, and there are a further 2,777 Catechists and Evangelists. Its members are chiefly in the four southern States, although there are a few pastorates within the area of the C.N.I. The Orthodox Syrian Christians do not appear to have any system of counting heads, and generally give their numbers in Families, There appears to be a total membership of about million, divided into 946 parishes, 46 of which are outside Kerala. As far as one can judge, they hesitate to co-operate actively with other denominations, though their members are often educationally and financially far ahead of the other denominations, and some of their clergy and lay 56
4 members participate individually in co-operati've enterprises with other Churches. The C.N.I., inaugurated in November 970, has a total membership of 569,546, divided into 2 dioceses and ministered to by 97 Presbyters, and,8 Catechists and Evangelists. The Methodist Episcopal Church of Southern Asia is likely soon to join the C.N.I. and when that happens C.N.I. will be the third largest Church in India in respect both of membership and territory. The Mar Thoma Syrian Church, formerly called the Malankara :VIartboma, has according to its own estimate a total membership of over 300,000 in 500 parishes, 67 of which are outside Kerala. Its lay members are very conscious of being members of an indigenous church with a mission to India; and they have an influence in the counsels of the Church which has no comparison with their actual numbers. The remaining numher of Christians is 3,30,027, belonging to many denominatiof\s. It is no: possible to give accurate figures, but one knows that most are in the North Eastern States, of Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, and are Baptist or Presbyterian. The remainder are Baptists, Lutherans, Assemblies of God, Adventists, Brethren, Indian Pentecostalists, etc. Besides the bare facts about the denominations in India, theological educators should know also of the relative strength of the Church in each State, in order to ascertain how thickly or thinly the Christians are spread. The following tables show the number of Christians in each State, and the number of Christians per thousand of population. It will be seen that whereas Kerala is the State with the largest number of Christians, they are only 20 per thousand; while in Nagaland there are only 334,798 Christians but they consists of 667 per thousand. AR imaginative understanding of the strength of Christians in each State would enable Church leaders and planners of Theological Education to have a flexible approach in deciding how many men have to be trained for a particular area for the pastoral ministry, how many for the outreach of the Church, and in which selected areas. For example, in an area where there is a concentration of Christians, a pastor may be able to minister to a congregation with,000 members, whereas in another area where Christians live far apart and each congregation is small, he may be able to minister effectively to only half that number or less. Another field in which correct figures are needed is the distribution of Christians between urban and rural areas. 70 per cent of the Indian population live in rural areas or villages; but from this it does not For the figures I have rei ied on the Catholic Directory (972), The South India Churchman (Silver Jubilee Number, S.-pt. 972), The Kerala Christian Directory (969). The Non-Roman Churches do not appear to have an efficient central organisation from which one could secure and quote correct facts and figures. If the Church is to be able to plan for the future, correct and full statistics are necessary. The N.C.C.I. used to publish a Directory of Churches, Missions etc., but this project seems to have been shelved or abandoned. 57
5 TABLE TABLE 2 (States arranged according to (States arranged according to number number of Christians) of Christians per,000). Kerala 4,494,089. Nagaland Tamil Nad 2,367, Meghalaya Andhra Pradesh,823, Goa and Daman Maharashtra 77,74 4. Andaman and Nicobar Assam 667,5 5. Manipur Bihar 658,77 6. Kerala Mysore 63, Pondicherry Meghalaya 475, Tamil Nad Orissa 378, Assam Nagaland 344, Andhra Pradesh 4. Madhya Pradesh 286,072. Dadra and Nagar Haveli Manipur 279, Mysore 2 3. Goa and Daman 272, Orissa 7 4. W. Bengal 25, Maharashtra 4 5. Punjab 62, Punjab 2 6. Uttar Pradesh 3,80 6. Bihar 7. Gujarat 09,34 7. Delhi 0 8. Delhi 43, Tripura 0 9. Pondicherry 4, Chandigar Andaman and Nicobar 30, Arunachal Pradesh 8 2. Rajasthan 30, Laccadives Tripura 5, Madhya Pradesh Haryana 9, West Bengal Jammu and Kashmir 7, Gujarat Arunachal Pradesh 3, Jammu and Kashmir Himachal Pradesh 3, Uttar Pradesh Chandigar 2, Rajasthan 28. Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Himachal Pradesh 29. Laccadives Haryana follow that 70 per cent of the Christians live in villages. In fact the proportion may differ from State to State, and a detailed study of this aspect is important. Ministers in rural areas require, besides the core content of Theological Education, the special training which will make them acceptable and effective pastors in those areas. The urban Ministers also need special training to equip them for the complex relationships in the cities. Previously, not much attention was given to this problem. It was taken for granted that Ministers in rural areas need be only voluntary, with some kind of ad hoc training, whereas the city churches need full-time well-trained Ministers, because the city churches can afford to pay them. The City churches should have a daily celebration of the Eucharist, while in the village churches the Eucharist need be celebrated only occasionally. I am not unaware of the problems which the Church will have to solve in dealing with this imbalance, but they have to be met courageously so that the villager is given equal treatment in the Church and by the Church. Before theological educators can come together to plan in 58
6 the ecumenical context, they need to know accurately about the prevailing patterns of ministry, the numbers of ordained full-time Ministers, full-time Catechists, Evangelists and women workers, the present structure of theological institutions, and those who are studying in them. At one time there were theological colleges where there were more teachers than students, and some where students could not be admitted because there was not adequate qualified staff. Even now there are some non-roman institutions where men and women are trained for the ministry without knoving where, when or by whom they will be ordained; after completing their training they have to look round for opportunities for full-time service. (This is not to. suggest, however, that Theological Education is required only for those who are going to be ordained.) The Table given below shows the number of ordained Ministers and other Christian workers of those Churches for which I was able to obtain figures; and the number of theological institutions and students. TABLE 3 Churches Seminaries Students Roman Catholic Clergy: 9,2 Broth.ers: 5,789 Nuns: 33,595 C.S.I. Clergy:,02 Lay workers: 2,777 C.N.I. Clergy: 97 Lay workers: 2,8 Orthodox Syrian Clergy: 934 Mar Thoma Clergy: 302 Major: 8 Minor: 35 3,760 According to the T. E. F. Directory of 970, there were 29 non Roman seminaries, containing,247 students: according to recent figures there are now 25 non-roman seminaries, containing,585 students. The statistics for the non-roman churches are far from complete, but when compared with those for the R.C. Church they do suggest that the present number of the full -time ministry is very inadequate; and it may be that it is poor not only in quantity but in quality. A new pattern of ministry where the pastoral needs of the congregation are met by voluntary or honorary pastors has been talked about by leaders of the Churches for the past two decades, but they have not succeeded in any recognisable measure. The number of students in theological institutions in both the Roman and non-roman Churches is encouraging. In 943 there were only 395 ordinands in the non-roman institutions surveyed by the N.C.C. team. In 970 there were,247 students. In 973 the 2 Of these, 5,789 priests are diocesan and 3,422 are Religious. Of the Religious, 2,635 are Indian and 787 are foreign. The diocesan clergy i~;~clude 3,286 from the State of Kerala, of whom 800 serve in dioceses outside Kerala; of the Religious,,700 come from Kerala, 700 of whom at present serve outside Kerala '
7 number is,585. There are also a large number who have registered for the B.D. degree of Serampore externally (U.T.C. Bangalore alone has 67 on its rolls). The total number of theological institutions in India is 90, and the number of students 5,345. In the R.C. seminaries the period of training is usually much longer than in the non-roman institutions, and ordinands normally join after their school leaving examination. The average number of students in an institution is 60, and the average intake about,000 per year." If there is an average of six lecturers pel' institution, this means that there are about 540 theological seminary lecturers at present in India. These.figures do not of course remain static, and it is important that they should be kept under constant review by those engaged in planning for the future. The planners will have to start with the present situation. The Church in India has about 40 Bishops, 6,000 full-time Ministers and (as we have just seen) 540 theological teachers. The needs of the Church in respect of the ordained ministry and specialised ministers is likely to increase: indeed, it should increase if it is to fulfil its ministry both to its members and to the people of our land. The planners should be able to take the different needs of the Church, project them into the future, and forecast the person.e! required in the different States, both to replace those who retire and die, and to take charge of new work, new projects and new programmes. Is not Theological Education as important for the life and mission of the Church as its programmes of secular education and health services? But does it receive the attention it deserves? If and when the theological educators of all the churches come together and get a vision of the ministry of the coming great Church of India, many more subjects will have to be investigated and studied. I dare not list them here. My prayer is, that the theological educators lift up their eyes, look around, see the total need of the Churches in India, and begin to plan for the teaching and training of ministers for the one united Church we pray for. 60
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Roberto Firmino wants to stay at Liverpool
Liverpool striker Roberto Firmino has insisted he has no intention of leaving the club this summer, despite ongoing speculation about his future.
Firmino will turn 31 in October and has entered the final year of his Liverpool contract. The Brazilian also saw his game time limited last season by injuries and now has the added competition from summer signing Darwin Nunez, as well as Diogo Jota already coming for his place.
90min understands that Juventus are looking at Firmino and have been in touch with intermediaries to explore the possibility of a more concrete approach, although Liverpool have shown little interest in wanting to sell this summer.
Manager Jurgen Klopp has even stated "Bobby is crucial for us" in recent days.
Now, Firmino, who joined Liverpool for a fee rising to £29m from Hoffenheim in 2015 and is one of the few players in the squad who pre-dates Klopp at Anfield, has voiced his own opinion.
"I love this team, city and fans. I'm here at Liverpool and I want to stay," he told TNT Brazil.
At his best, Firmino scored 27 goals in all competitions during the 2017/18 season, but it is the on-field understanding he developed with Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane that has made Klopp's Reds so successful on the pitch over the last few years.
Liverpool have already started to recycle and refresh their attacking unit. Salah remains as important as ever and Firmino stays for now, but with the recruitment of the aforementioned Jota and Nunez, as well as Luis Diaz, the club are clearly planning for the future.
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Please note that this is a ticketed event. Your $5 ticket can be used as a coupon off the price of the book. Click the link on the left to buy. Please also note that Joyce Maynard will be in conversation with Andre Dubus III, bestselling author of House of Sand and Fog.
From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss—"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life" (Anne Lamott).
In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine, both in and out of the spotlight; and he didn't mind the mess she made in the kitchen. He was not the husband Joyce imagined, but he quickly became the partner she had always dreamed of.
Before they met, both had believed they were done with marriage, and even after they married, Joyce resolved that no one could alter her course of determined independence. Then, just after their one year wedding anniversary, her new husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. During the nineteen months that followed, as they battled his illness together, she discovered for the first time what it really meant to be a couple—to be a true partner and to have one.
This is their story. Charting the course through their whirlwind romance, a marriage cut short by tragedy, and Joyce's return to singleness on new terms, The Best of Us is a heart-wrenching, ultimately life-affirming reflection on coming to understand true love through the experience of great loss.
Joyce Maynard is the author of sixteen books, including the novels To Die For and Labor Day (both adapted for film) and the bestselling memoir At Home in the World. Her essays and columns have appeared in dozens of publications and numerous collections. She is a frequent performer with The Moth, a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and founder of the Lake Atitlan Writers' Workshop. She is the mother of three grown children, and makes her home in Lafayette, California.
Andre Dubus III is the author of The Garden of Last Days, House of Sand and Fog (a #1 New York Times bestseller, Oprah's Book Club pick, and finalist for the National Book Award) and Townie, winner of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His writing has received many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Magazine Award, and two Pushcart Prizes. He lives with his family north of Boston.
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This week I walked through the processes between Dynamics AX 2012 R2 and the Dynamics AX 2012 POS (Point of Sale). One of the scenario's was to retrieve on-line information about item stock in different warehouses or stores. When I started the Inventory lookup service at the POS I received the error message "Error number: 13010 Could not connect to the Transaction Service" what means that there is no realtime connection between Dynamics AX 2012 R2 and the Dynamics AX 2012 POS.
This blog explains the steps I took to enable the Retail Transaction Service on the Virtual Machine Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Drop 1, where the transaction service is already installed and configured.
Step 1: verify the Real time service profile settings in Dynamics AX 2012 R2
Start Dynamics AX 2012 (partition initial) and open company USRT (US Retail). Select the option: Retail > Setup > Retail Scheduler > Channel Integration > Real-time service profiles. Verify the settings for Real-time Service profile JBB.
Step 2: verify the used Real-time service profile for your POS
Start the option: Retail > Setup > POS > POS registers and select the Seattle-1 store. Double click and verify if the used Real-time service -JBB- profile is used for this POS Register.
Step 3: push the POS register batch job through the POS systems
Start the option: Retail > Periodic > Data distribution > Distribution schedule. Select job N-1090 and run this job directly. This job pushes the "RetailTransactionServiceProfile" to the POS database.
Step 4: verify the configuration file for the Retail Transaction Service
Open path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\Commerce Data Exchange\Real-time Services\6.1\Bin" and select the configuration file "RetailTransactionService.exe". Open this file with edit and change the value of the object server key to "<add key="ObjectServer" value="MicrosoftDynamicsAX@AX2012R2A:2712" />". Save the file.
Step 5: restart the Real-time service 6.1
Open the services for the "AX2012R2A" server and select service "Microsoft Dynamics AX Commerce Data Exchange: Real-time Service 6.1″. Restart the service. This service can be set to "start automatically" and it start the "RetailTransactionService executable" from the path above, with the usage of the changed configuration file from step 4.
Step 6: verify the settings of the Commerce Data exchange webservice
Open Internet Information Services (IIS) for the "AX2012R2A" server and select the site "CommerceDataExchangeRealtimeServiceWebsite". Restart this webservice via the option "Manage Web Site".
Step 7: test the Retail Transaction Service
Open the Dynamics AX 2012 POS for store "Seattle 1″ with user "Emma Harris (000137)". Select the option Sales > Tasks > Inventory > Inventory lookup. Select option ""Search", select item "0051″ and push the button "OK". The inventory for all store is now displayed by using this Retail Transaction Service.
Have fun with the other realtime scenario's.


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The use of high energy electron beams in radiation therapy has achieved an important role during the recent years. New requirements have been set for computerized dose planning, both in accuracy, in three-dimensionality, and in speed. In this work the computation of absorbed dose distribution for electron beams in radiation therapy was studied. The aim was to improve the computation in the three-dimensional patient geometries with complex radiation beam settings. This work was started as part of the Nordic CART project for the development of the use of imformation technology in radiation therapy carried out during the years 1985-87. The development of the treatment units producing electron beams, the dose computation algorithms for electron beams, and the principles of the clinical use of electron beams are reviewed. The theory of the generalized Gaussian pencil beam algorithm was applied for computing the dose distributions for electron beams in the CT based dose planning system, SAITOM, with implementations for rotated collimator asymmetric collimation, irregular field shapes and separate blocks in the field and computation in off axis slices. The accuracy of the dose computation was evaluated by comparing the computed dose distributions to measurements in a water phantom made in the 14 MeV electron beam of a Microtron MM14 accelerator. An implementation of the algorithm was also made for an array processor (FPS 5110) to study the separation of the algorithm for parallel processing and to test the achieved speed for applications in three dimensional dose computation. The clinical applicability of the implementations was demonstrated with two typical clinical patient treatments. The accuracy of the implementations was generally within ± 2 mm and ± 3 % for rectangular fields and within ± 2 mm and ± 5 % for irregular fields with blocks. The algorithm was clearly separable for parallel processing between the host computer and the array processor with almost equal computing times for the two parts. The achieved increase in speed of computation with the AP in the test conditions was 11.5- fold. The implementations of the generalised Gaussian pencil beam algorithm for the new conditions are sufficiently accurate to allow the use of all options in the treatment units with reliable computations for blocked fields. The algorithm separates optimally for implementations for an array processor. The achieved speed of dose computation with the AP was acceptable for three dimensional computation of the dose distribultion. The developed implementations offer advantages for clinical radiation therapy treatment planning by improving the accuracy of the dose computation for irregular fields and under and close to blocks. The implementations do not, however, take into account the effects of inhomogeneities in three dimensions, which will be the next step in the development of the pencil beam algorithms.
|Original language
|Doctor Degree
|Awarding Institution
|Award date
|10 May 1991
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|Published - 1991
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|G4 Doctoral dissertation (monograph)
- electron beams
- radiotherapy
- radiation dosage
- dose rate
- medical equipment
- clinical medicine
- computation
- computer programs
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ACU student returns from Haiti, promises more help is on the way
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On Sunday, ACU senior David Vanderpool was on the border Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic. Along with his father David and a team of medical missionaries, he found himself helping with an amputation. At 2 a.m. Wednesday, the Bible major from Tennessee arrived back on the ground in Abilene. By 9 a.m. he was in his Old Testament literature class. {{more}} David and a team of alumni and volunteers from Global Samaritan Resources are already in the process of planning a trip back to the quake-ravaged region. "Yes, I've seen the bodies being burned on the beach; yes, the situation is dismal, but it's not impossible," Vanderpool says. "I have seen the work that is being done Vanderpool says the concern now is that unsanitary conditions will lead to a mass outbreak of cholera. Former ACU professor Ed Enzor and his 'Global Sam' team are working with Vanderpool to provide shoulder slings, crutches and army stretchers. Once on the ground, volunteers are moving motorcycles, ATVs and flat bed trucks in position to move supplies across the country. A portable water sterilization unit is also in the supply line. One unit capable of purifying 50,000 gallons of water a day is ready to ship out now ; as many as 25 will be available once additional funds are donated.Enzor says he's working with the military to attain use of a C-130 transport plane. He's also secured a Gulfstream jet, and he's considering transporting supplies in a borrowed yacht. "We're going to have a plane flying out of Abilene this weekend, packed full of 5,000 dehydrated meals," promises Enzor. Vanderpool, meanwhile, says the 182nd Airborne is coming to Haiti's aid. "I talked to a colonel from the 182nd on Sunday and they agreed to help us. On Monday, we sent them the coordinates of the hospital we've taken over in the Dominican town of Jimani," Vanderpool says. "I ran to a supply store in town, got some paint, and put a 20' by 20' 'H' on the grass. My father and brother and I started praying for help to come soon, and before we said 'amen', two Blackhawk helicopters were bearing down on us. Inside the choppers there were five surgeons and box after box after box of essential medicine and equipment. I've never seen anything like it. It was instantaneous answered prayer." David, his father, and the family's Mobile Medical Disaster Relief organization plan say they plan to keep the supplies and the manpower coming. "Water is being passed out, camps are being set up, surgeries are being done, patients are being sent back to find a place to live. The Lord is opening doors." About ACUACU is a vibrant, innovative, Christ-centered community that engages students in authentic spiritual and intellectual growth, equipping them to make a real difference in the world. ACU was named one of America's Best Colleges by U.S. News and World Report in its 2010 edition and was recently ranked in the top 7 percent of universities nationwide in Forbes magazine's America's Best Colleges rankings.
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There's a curious thing I discovered about fear over the years.
In most cases, it's not the lack of talent, knowledge or abilities that stop us from living the life we want or doing things we love. It's fear. That enemy within, rather than limited opportunities, is what usually stops us from aligning with our life Purpose.
Now here's the weird thing.
In the majority of cases, we actually never realise it. We never realise who our true adversary is and blame our setbacks on a bunch of other factors.
The ability to discover what you're really afraid of is rarer than you think.
It takes years of dedicated, mindful practice (you're double lucky if you have a teacher by your side who can help).
The greatest fear that often goes unchecked (and can shape your entire life without you ever realising it) is the fear of going against your mental programming, against the old familiar confines of self-imposed and adopted limitations.
This sounds ridiculous to our conscious mind; it typically rejects the idea out of hand. How can you possibly be afraid of doing what you love and living the life you were born to live?
However, that's how the ego works. It craves safety, real or imaginary, and mediocrity usually feels for it like a safe place to be.
Playing below your abilities, not standing out too much, means that you're covered, hidden in the shadows, blending in with the thousands of others. Safe, mediocre, suffocating existence–this what many people are forced into, without knowing, by their fear.
What's the solution?
Mindfulness and self-enquiry, as Sri Maharshi famously suggested. Not many know about this, but mindfulness is not merely a calming exercise. It's a sublime art of discovering your true inner power. It is the art of penetrating through, and burning through all layers of the mundane dirt to the core nature of your being, the Te of the Taoists, the eternal Light within.
From that place of inner power and stillness, there gradually emerges a profound understanding that changes the way you go through your life and interact with the world.
Once you're there, you don't have to push against your fears, or fight to 'overcome' them–you simply dismiss them as laughable. You get to see them for what they really are–a storm in a teacup.
And then, you're free.
If you want to start training your mind, come join us at the unique Meditation and Matcha pairing event on the 20th of October. Only 4 places left.