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There have recently been some radical changes in the taxation of certain taxpayers in the United Kingdom. The purpose of this item is to explain the old rules, the new rules, and the perceived impact of these legislative changes on U.S. taxpayers living in the United Kingdom.
The extent of U.K. tax liability is determined by a person's residence and domicile statuses. As a general rule, most U.K. nationals who are resident and domiciled in the United Kingdom will be subject to U.K. tax on their worldwide income, similar to the situation of a U.S. citizen or permanent resident in the United States. Double tax relief is generally provided via a foreign tax credit, also similar to the United States. However, under the pre–April 6, 2008, rules, individuals who were U.K. residents but not ordinarily resident or not domiciled in the United Kingdom were not taxed on their worldwide income in the United Kingdom. Instead, those persons were able to benefit from the remittance basis of taxation in the United Kingdom. Under the remittance basis, the foreign-source income of such residents is subject to U.K. tax only if it is remitted to the United Kingdom.
For tax years beginning on April 6, 2008, under §809 of the 2008 Finance Bill, a major change has been made to the remittance basis taxation system. Under the new rules, to use the remittance basis system, certain long-term residents of the United Kingdom who are not ordinarily resident and/or domiciled in the United Kingdom will be required to pay a £30,000 charge in addition to any tax due on U.K. income and gains or foreign income and gains remitted to the United Kingdom.
Residency Rules
In order to determine how a taxpayer will be treated for tax purposes in the United Kingdom, it is necessary to understand U.S. and U.K. residency rules. From a U.S. perspective, the residency rules are statutorily defined and consist of a substantial presence test and a "green card" test (Sec. 7701(b)). In comparison, the United Kingdom uses the concepts of "resident" and "ordinarily resident." There is no full statutory definition or technical meaning of these terms, although there are certain statutory provisions that apply in limited circumstances.
Guidance on residency can be gleaned from case law and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) practice booklet IR20, Residents and Non-Residents: Liability to Tax in the United Kingdom (April 2008). Residency is a question of fact, not intention. In general, if an individual is in the United Kingdom for 183 days during the tax year, that individual will be considered a U.K. resident. Before April 6, 2008, the days of arrival and departure were ignored. After April 5, 2008, any day the individual is present in the United Kingdom at midnight will be counted as a day of presence for residence test purposes (HMRC, 2008 Budget Note 102 (3/12/08)).
Can an individual still be resident in the United Kingdom if he or she does not spend 183 days in the country in a tax year? The answer is yes—but under what circumstances? If a person intended to spend on average at least 91 days per tax year over a four-year period in the United Kingdom, that person would be considered resident from April 6 of the first year he or she arrived or April 6 of the tax year that his or her intentions changed to meet the 91-day test (IR20 at ¶3.3). If an individual did not intend to spend this amount of time in the United Kingdom but in reality did—i.e., averaged 91 days or more per year over a four-year period—that person would become a U.K. resident beginning on April 6 of the fifth tax year he or she was in the country.
Resident or Ordinary Resident?
If someone is resident, is he or she ordinarily resident? Not necessarily. An individual can be resident without being ordinarily resident or vice versa. "Ordinary residence" is broadly equivalent to habitual residence. So, for example, if P normally lives in the United Kingdom but decides to travel around the world for an entire tax year (e.g., April 6, 2007–April 5, 2008) before returning to the United Kingdom, P will be a nonresident for the 2007–8 tax year but will remain ordinarily resident. For employees coming to the United Kingdom on temporary assignments, if it is obvious that they intend to stay for at least three years, they will be ordinarily resident from the date of arrival.
Some evidence that indicates an individual's intention to stay for three years includes purchasing a home or signing a lease agreement for at least three years. But if an individual signs a two-year lease (with the intention of returning to his or her home country after that), then at the beginning of year 3 buys an apartment, that person becomes ordinarily resident from April 6 in the tax year of the apartment purchase. If the individual signs a one-year lease every year, will he or she then avoid becoming ordinarily resident? Possibly, but the individual will become ordinarily resident from April 6 of the tax year after the third anniversary of the date of arrival in the United Kingdom (IR20 at ¶3.9).
The concept of domicile is more important than ordinary residence in terms of the effect it has on an individual's U.K. tax liability. There are three types of domicile (IR20 at ¶¶4.3–4.5):
- Domicile of origin (which usually is acquired at birth based on the father's domicile);
- Domicile of dependency (a child will have a domicile of dependency until he or she is legally capable of changing it on reaching the age of 16); or
- Domicile of choice (to lose one's U.K. domicile of origin, the individual would have to sever all ties with the United Kingdom and settle permanently in another country).
Although it is possible to be resident in more than one country at the same time, an individual can have only one domicile. Therefore, most U.S. citizens who come to work in the United Kingdom on a short-term basis are not domiciled in the United Kingdom.
What Constitutes a U.K. Remittance?
The definition of "remittance" is an amount of money "paid, used or enjoyed" in the United Kingdom or an amount "transmitted to or brought to" the United Kingdom (Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act, 2003, c. 1, §33(2))—e.g., a transfer of money from a U.S. bank account to a U.K. bank account is considered a remittance. After April 5, 2008, any money, property, and services brought into the United Kingdom will be deemed to be remittances and subject to U.K. tax. There are some exemptions—e.g., personal items costing less than £1,000. (See HMRC, 2008 Budget Note 104, for more details.)
Note: Payment made on a U.K. credit card used to purchase goods or services in the United Kingdom from a U.S. bank account is deemed to be a remittance.
Efficient Tax Planning Under the Pre–April 6 Rules
Under the old rules, there were several tax-efficient ways to remit funds to the United Kingdom without triggering a U.K. tax liability. One of the most common was that before a U.S. citizen came to the United Kingdom, he or she would set up a capital and an interest bank account so that all the interest earned on the capital account would be credited to the interest account. The U.S. citizen would only take money out of the capital sum account, thereby resulting in no tax liability on the remittance in the United Kingdom. However, if no separate account was set up for interest, the U.K. tax authorities deemed any monies paid out to first be from the income earned and thus subject to tax in the United Kingdom.
Tax Planning After April 6, 2008
Effective for the 2008–9 tax year and onward, individuals who have been resident in the United Kingdom for at least seven of the previous nine tax years prior to the 2008–9 tax year but were either not domiciled or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom will be taxed on their worldwide income unless they pay a £30,000 tax charge to remain on a remittance basis (2008 Finance Bill, §809G). (Note that there is a lookback provision that counts years prior to the new legislation toward the seven-out-of-nine-year test.) This £30,000 charge is in addition to the tax liability for the year on any income or gain remitted to the United Kingdom.
Individuals may elect in and out of the remittance basis instead of being taxed on worldwide income on a tax-year-by-tax-year basis.
Under the new remittance basis rules, a U.S. citizen resident in the United Kingdom is eligible for neither a personal allowance nor a capital gain annual exemption. Individuals are eligible for those exemptions only if they are taxed in the United Kingdom on their worldwide income. However, there is a safe harbor that allows a U.S. citizen who is resident (but not domiciled) in the United Kingdom and has unremitted foreign income and gains of less than £2,000 a year to be eligible for a personal allowance and an annual exemption for capital gain tax purposes (2008 Finance Bill, §809C).
Is the U.K. Tax Charge Creditable in the United States?
Under draft legislation published on January 18, 2008, it appeared that the £30,000 charge/tax would not have been a creditable tax under the U.S.-U.K. income tax treaty. Following protests, the HMRC announced that "the £30,000 charge will be an income tax or capital gains tax and should be treated as such for the purposes of Double Taxation Agreements" (HMRC, 2008 Budget Note 107, ¶10). However, since treaties are bilateral, both parties must agree to the HMRC's interpretation. There are ongoing discussions between the U.S. and U.K. governments as to how this charge/tax will be dealt with under the treaty.
U.K.-U.S. Tax Issues and Considerations
Unlike many countries, the United States taxes on a citizenship basis, and U.S. tax treaties have a "savings" clause in them. In effect that means U.S. citizens are always subject to U.S. tax on their worldwide income even if they are resident in another country. Assuming the IRS agrees that the £30,000 charge is a creditable tax, the U.S. foreign tax credit is limited to the amount of U.S. taxes imposed on foreign-source income. The highest U.S. federal income tax rate on ordinary income is 35%, and the highest rate for capital gains and qualified dividends is 15%, compared with U.K. tax rates of 40% and 18%, respectively.
There are likely to be scenarios in which there will be "wasted" foreign tax credits (i.e., U.S. tax imposed on foreign-source income is substantially less than the foreign taxes paid on such income). In effect, the worldwide effective tax rate for a U.S. citizen resident in the United Kingdom will be higher than if he or she were a resident of only the United States. This means that for U.S. employers providing tax equalization to their foreign-stationed employees, it will cost more to send those employees to the United Kingdom on long-term assignments.
Another factor to consider is that the United States has a calendar tax year for individuals, whereas the United Kingdom's tax year runs from April 6 to April 5, so there may be a matching issue for reporting income and claiming foreign tax credits on a cash basis. In addition, because of how the new U.K. rules have been drafted, tax paid on U.S. source income that a taxpayer has elected to tax on a remitted-to-the-U.K. basis will be netted against the £30,000 tax charge to reduce the U.K. tax charge. Under the U.K.-U.S. income tax treaty, in this situation certain types of income would be deemed to be re-sourced as U.K. sourced income. Thus, when U.S. citizens file their U.S. tax returns, their foreign-source income would be increased to allow them to take a foreign tax credit on their U.S. tax returns.
However, some forms of income—e.g., business profits attributable to a U.S. permanent establishment—will not be re-sourced and therefore reduce the foreign-source income base on which the foreign tax credit is calculated, even though this income is subjected to tax in the United Kingdom. So taxpayers should be careful about which sources of U.S. income they elect to have taxed on a remitted income basis in the United Kingdom to minimize the possibility of "wasted" foreign tax credits.
Final Sting in the Tail
If §809G of the 2008 Finance Bill receives Royal Assent as written and is interpreted literally, U.S. taxes paid on U.S.-source remitted income could be netted against the £30,000 tax charge. However, to the extent that the £30,000 charge is reduced, §809G reinstates this reduction, in effect ensuring that the £30,000 charge is paid in full. For example, assuming the income that is remitted has the equivalent of £10,000 of U.S. tax attached to it, the £30,000 tax charge is reduced to £20,000, but the £10,000 is then reinstated; thus, the U.S. citizen electing the remittance basis of U.K. taxation is going to pay the full £30,000. Obviously, this is not advantageous from an international tax relationship perspective, so it will be interesting to see where the dust settles and what is the final interpretation of the new section.
U.S. citizens and long-term residents of the United Kingdom need to be aware of the new and evolving rules. Those citizens' worldwide tax bills could increase significantly unless they understand the new rules and take whatever steps possible to mitigate the situation.
Anthony S. Bakale is with Cohen & Company, Ltd. Baker Tilly International in Cleveland, OH
Unless otherwise noted, contributors are members of or associated with Baker Tilly International.
If you would like additional information about these items, contact Mr. Bakale at (216) 579-1040 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Rename Refactorings
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Rename refactorings allow you to rename symbols with all the references to them in the code corrected automatically.
The following rename refactorings are available in PhpStorm:
- Rename Class. The following usages are renamed:
- Rename Method. The following usages are renamed:
- Rename Field.
- Rename Function.
- Rename Variable.
- Rename Parameter. The following usages are renamed:
- Rename CSS color value.
- Rename File.
- Rename Directory.
Renaming a symbol
To rename a symbol, follow these general steps
- Select the item to be renamed.
- To select a file, click the desired file in the Project tool window.
- To select a symbol in the editor, place the caret at the name of the symbol to be renamed.
- To select a symbol in the Project tool window, make sure that the members are shown, and then click the desired symbol.
- To select a symbol in the Structure view, click the desired symbol in the Structure tool window.
- Choose on the main menu or on the context menu, or press Shift+F6.
- The subsequent behavior depends on the check box
Enable in-place mode (Settings/Preferences dialog, Editor).
- If this check box is selected, the suggested name appears right below the symbol in question. You can either accept suggestion, or type a new name. However, if you press Shift+F6 once more, PhpStorm will display the Rename dialog box with more options.
- If this check box is not selected, the Rename dialog box opens immediately.
The set of controls and their names depend on the type of the symbol to be renamed.
- Preview and apply changes.
Renaming a file or directory
To rename a file or directory
- Select a desired file in the Project tool window.
- Choose on the main or context menu or press Shift+F6.
- In Rename File dialog box that opens, specify the new file name. Select Search in comments and strings checkbox to let PhpStorm apply changes to comments and strings.
Press Preview to observe possible changes in Find Tool Window. Press Refactor to proceed.PhpStorm finds all the occurrences of the file name and changes them respectively.
Important notes
- Local variables are renamed in-place.
To be able to use the Rename dialog when renaming local variables, you should disable in-place refactoring in the editor settings.
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Fire Risks in Fume Extraction Systems: What You Should Know and How to Prevent It
by Christopher Brodnick and Jason Lange
Fire can present a serious risk in manufacturing facilities, particularly in metalworking and fabricating applications. In any shop, welding and cutting operations have the potential to trigger a blaze if proper precautions are not followed. From filter fires to spontaneous combustion flares in dustbins, hazards exist throughout the shop floor.
When a fire ignites in a manufacturing environment, a lot of things happen quickly. You have to shut down your production line, evacuate the building for safety and have either your in-house firefighting team or the local fire department investigate the incident. That's a best-case scenario.
Most fires in a manufacturing facility start in a small area and spread quickly. One potential source of these types of fire outbreaks is the filters in your fume extraction system. Fire can be a serious risk in these systems because it can occur unexpectedly and can cause not only equipment damage but may result in a fire in your facility which can involve the risk of injury to workers. The thing to remember is that these kinds of fires can, and most likely will, occur in your facility at some point, even if you are careful and follow proper procedures.
An unmanaged fire can be costly and, worse, dangerous. If and when a fire occurs, companies can incur large capital and operational costs from downtime on damaged systems and lead times required to repair or replace this equipment. These costs don't even include the most crucial factor - the human element. Any major fire has the potential to put workers - the most important resource a company has - at risk.
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It's crucial to build a targeted, first-line of defense in advance. First, include fire prevention and readiness training and procedures in your overall safety plan. It's just as important as wearing proper personal protection equipment, meeting OSHA standards and avoiding lost-time accidents.
Next, be sure to properly control welding and cutting processes with fume extraction systems, by capturing sparks and preforming proper equipment maintenance. You also can add an extra line of defense on the shop floor by specifying and installing a custom fire safety solution to reduce the risk of fire in extraction system filters. Featuring components that can prevent, detect and suppress fires in any metalworking facility, these systems can minimize fire hazards, limit system damage and help mitigate the risk of fire escalation and accumulation of smoke throughout the manufacturing environment.
What causes filter fires?
Three key elements – fuel, oxygen and heat – are necessary for a fire to start and to keep it burning. Fuel (any combustible substance) can accumulate as a mixture of particulates those that may be in welding fume and oil in the ductwork or in the filter itself. A source of oxygen, which is necessary to support a fire, enters the system through the extraction power of the fan. The heat component comes from such potential sources of ignition as sparks, smoldering or burning particles (which can include cigarette butts) or spontaneous combustion.
Simply put, anytime you have a spark, heat and oxygen near a filter system, you run the risk of a smoldering fire or spontaneous combustion within the system. Some welding and cutting applications, however, pose a higher risk of this than others. Contributing factors include the following:
- Amount of oil or other flammable materials on the work.
- High temperatures.
- Excessive spatter.
- Low flashpoint of oil or other involved substances.
Manual, robotic and automated welding of oily parts or products, in general, can present distinct fire hazards in any shop. It's easy to underestimate fume extraction system maintenance in such applications. Oily welding fumes pose a serious risk by reducing filter life and causing increased maintenance costs. And, in these kinds of environments, fires can break out in fume extraction systems even years after installation.
In robotic welding of pressed, stamped or oily parts, such as in the automotive industry, the process can create welding fumes with a relatively low flashpoint. These fumes can be ignited by sparks or swelter in the dustbin or collection location causing spontaneous combustion.
Cutting tables also can be a culprit. The cutting process produces glowing materials that create possible fire risk. Another area that can present hazards is source extraction, which includes fume extraction arms, often known to be misused for cigarette ash and butt disposal.
Seeking a solution
Fire safety systems, which work in conjunction with existing fume extraction systems, can provide any manufacturing facility with fire detection, prevention and suppression capabilities. Every factory is different, so there's no such thing as a cookie-cutter, off-the-shelf fire safety system that suits all manufacturing operations. The most effective systems are specified and designed to control fire risk in ways specific to each facilities' processes and applications.
For example, the Guardian™ fire safety system from Lincoln Electric contains several components that can be combined to create a comprehensive solution. Each product in the line has its own unique role in a system, from reducing the risk of a fire to detecting possible fire starters on the shop floor. Other components can immediately suppress the start of fires, helping to keep system damage to a minimum.
Beyond fire prevention, these systems have ancillary roles in the overall efficient maintenance and operation of the entire fume extraction system. They can help minimize replacement, maintenance and filter downtime in case of fire and also increase the effectiveness and lifespan of the system.
When specifying a fire safety system for your application there are several key factors to consider:
Spark Arrestors: Stopping Fires Before they Start
The first line of fire prevention in fume extraction systems is a spark arrestor. This component starts prevention measures where a fire begins – at the spark.
Sparks are the most common potential ignition source in the metalworking and fabrication industries. Extraction systems without a spark arrestor may be at risk for spatter, sparks and dust reaching the combustible filter cartridge, debris in the dustbin or collection location.
In-line spark arrestors require little or no floor space and provide the ability to remove well-known ignition sources, such as welding and grinding sparks and cigarette butts, from the fume extraction system.
The best of these systems can also be used as a pre-separator for high-dust applications. Centrifugal acceleration removes most sparks from the continuous airflow. A dustbin then collects all the remaining sparks at a safe distance from the main filter and away from the main ductwork. You can easily remove this dustbin to dispose of particulate any time, even during operation.
One thing to keep in mind is the issue of maintenance. Improper maintenance can contribute to fires. And, a spark arrestor, just like any other piece of equipment, requires maintenance. Some spark arrestors, like Lincoln Electric's Spark Guardian™, are designed with maintenance in mind. Its removable body can be dismantled into sections because it is connected to the ductwork with clamps, providing easy access for cleaning. Additionally, optional inspection hatches can be placed near the unit, making it possible to inspect ductwork to determine whether cleaning is necessary.
The Spark Guardian™ is available to be installed standalone or can be integrated with existing fume control systems. Standalone units can be configured to communicate with a facility's existing control system through available circuits.
Limestone Feeders: Chemical Fire Protection
But, spark arrestors are not the only prevention component that manufacturers can add to their fume extraction systems. For shops that perform welding on components covered with punching or rust preventive oils, limestone feeders also can provide extra fire protection in these environments. These feeders are particularly suitable for applications involving base metals coated with low-flashpoint oils.
Limestone decreases oil's combustibility by absorbing oily particulate and other substances. The unit continuously injects limestone into the ductwork to reduce particulate concentrations in the exhausted air. The mixed limestone and oil becomes dry matter. When it reaches the filter, it falls into the dustbin during the cleaning cycle.
Some limestone feeders, such as Lincoln Electric's Oil Guardian™, feature two agitators – specifically developed and adapted to limestone's characteristics. These agitators keep the limestone in the hopper and feeder in constant motion, ensuring a steady and uninterrupted limestone feed. If there is a change in pressure in the filter inlet, the feeder stops automatically.
Inexpensive and effective, limestone also helps protect filter cartridges against premature clogging caused by oily particulate. This can help considerably to extend the cartridge lifespan, reducing filter replacement costs – and, in turn, operational costs.
Fire Detection: Catching Problems Early and Quickly
Detection components in fire safety systems are designed to detect a fire in its earliest phases, recognizing the high temperatures, sparks and smoke created from a starting fire. Early detection used with fire suppression systems can reduce damage to the filter system and keep the risk of a serious blaze to a minimum. These detectors are designed to identify fire during system operation and when it is turned off. They are most effective when placed in the filter housing and the ductwork behind the filter.
A fire detection panel, such as Guardian Control™, is an important part of this line of fire safety. If one of the system's fire detectors is activated, the detection panel takes over, handling the following tasks:
- Switching off the fan to stop the supply of fresh air.
- Closing the pneumatic sliding valves in the ductwork to isolate the fire.
- Shutting down the compressed air supply that's used for cleaning filter cartridges.
- Venting the cleaning cylinder.
- Activating the system's fire extinguisher feature.
These actions work together to achieve one major goal – to stop the air supply. Without air, the fire's expansion is minimized, preventing a larger fire from occurring. This also limits subsequent damage.
Fire Suppression: Stop Fires Fast
If the system detects a fire, it immediately triggers the suppression components. These include sliding valves and aerosol fire extinguishers, which are designed to quickly and reliably suppress the fire. These methods ensure that filter damage is kept to a minimum or eliminated completely by minimizing fire risk and subsequent smoke damage.
In order to be most effective, a suppression system should include sliding isolation valves. The sliding valves serve one purpose: to isolate a fire to a contained location and choke it out early. Should a fire break out, within seconds of detection, the fan shuts off, the filter cleaning system shuts down and the sliding valves isolate the filter by closing it off from the ductwork. This eliminates the air source, which in turn will extinguish the fire. Sliding valves keep the risk of fire, system damage or smoke escaping into the work environment at a minimum.
After the valves have isolated the fire, aerosol fire extinguishers, such as the Flame Guardian™, automatically activate within seconds after the sliding valves close or at temperature climb to 572°F (300°C) These canisters produce an ultra-fine, non-toxic, ozone-neutral aerosol spray that suppresses the fire. The aerosol remains active for at least 30 minutes after initial activation. This prevents re-ignition of the fire.
The compact, self-contained canisters are easy to install in the filter housing and do not require extra air pressure. Another benefit is that the suppression spray will not damage electrical equipment in the way other extinguishing methods might, including water. And, unlike carbon dioxide and Halon gas, this aerosol isn't harmful when inhaled.
Comprehensive Protection
Fires during welding applications in the metalworking and fabrication industry can be caused in various ways. When combined with proper training and awareness, today's fire safety systems offer tailor-made protection for any facility.
These systems give manufacturers the ability to specify, design and install a fire safety solution for fume extraction systems that will keep fire risks under control for their specific facility. These tested and certified total system solutions reduce the risk of fire to a minimum, and in the event of a fire, ensure that resulting damage is limited.
Even existing weld fume control systems or larger filtration systems that aren't typically covered by a standard range of control can be modified to benefit from fire prevention, detection and suppression solutions – designed specifically to meet any facility's needs. And, in some cases, you might even enjoy insurance discounts or related benefits by having such a system in place. Check with your insurer to verify if they offer such an incentive program.
Don't Wait For It To Happen To You
Fire is a real threat in any manufacturing facility, particularly in fume extraction system filters. In most cases, it's not a matter if a fire is going to occur in a filter bank; it's a matter of when will it occur – and if you are ready for it. A fire, no matter what size, is a serious issue and requires serious solutions for readiness and prevention.


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The end is coming, but who will be cursed and who saved? Can Edmund survive this last trial intact or will he lose his soul? Read on. And to catch up with the story so far, see the instalments below.
One, two, three, four, five, six , seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty, thirty one, thirty two, thirty three, thirty four and thirty five.
'There is always a choice,' I said, walking towards the shutters, towards the drawn curtain, 'For those prepared to sacrifice all.'
I looked at Frances for the last time, at the hollow woman she now was, a wax likeness of her old, sweet self. 'Farewell, love.'
I reached for the catch, lifted it free and flung wide the shutter.
Daggers of sunlight stabbed the room, piercing every corner, leaving no inch untouched. It cut into my back, my head, my arms, a burning blade scorcing the skin from my body, slice after slice down to the bone.
The world had turned to red through my sun scorched eyes, Slatina a man of flame, an effigy of fire and I knew this to be his true form. Frances staggered under the glare, Samuel slumped, leaning against the wall for support, the clean, pure light of the sun too good and honest for us to bear.
And the Devil looked to me, inside me, through me, the strongest of us. But still he shuddered in the sunlight, every muscle quivering with the agony of that honest light. If I was to act it had to be now.
'You think to defeat me with the sun?' he bellowed. He was shaking now, the whole of his will turned to standing against the blaze. 'I have stood for millennia. I have watched empires rise and fall, followed in the wake of conquering armies, seen nation lay waste to nation and that slain nation rise again to fight their victors. The world is a speck beneath me and I am its master. I am of the Creation and shall remain when the Earth is burned in fire and crumbled to ash and I shall eat the crumbs of its existence.' He clenched his fists, flung back his head, screaming, 'I am eternal!'
With all the righteous anger within me, I pulled myself up straight, punching against the pain of the heat, of my disintegration. And it was as if the sun was peeling away my every falsehood, my pretence, my shows of lying courage, ripping me clean. And with every dishonest action and thought gone, hope went also and love and charity and shame and selfishness until there was only the core of me, the hard nugget of what I had become. There was nothing now but my own true self. And I faced that full on, recognising me for what I was, accepting it, welcoming its new creation.
I was monstrous. I was a devil.
Without another thought, I leapt, felt his neck beneath my hands, dug my nails into the sinews of his shoulders, tearing, ripping at him, watching his flesh fall away. He lashed out, tore at my back, flaying me as I stood. His neck arched and I glimpsed fangs – longer than a wolf's, sharper than pins, curved as a new moon – and he pulled back his head, ready to strike.
But my own body changed in response, my jaw widening, my own teeth changing, growing, pricking my lips and I was ready. I pushed with my legs with all my might, flinging my whole weight at him. He staggered, toppled, fell and me with him.
And as we fell I called, 'Samuel! Frances!' hoping that they would hear me, hoping that their instincts would overwhelm their pain and fear, that the monsters in them would take hold.
With the force of our falling I thrust my chin towards Slatina, felt my fangs hit his neck. At first there was resistance, an unyielding solidity. Then we hit the floor and I felt him puncture beneath the force of me.
I fed.
It was like dying. Centuries of pain, of horror, of death flowing from him into me. And I felt what he had felt, saw what he had seen – the fires of the Beginning, the rise of worlds, of people's and his part in their destruction. I felt his pleasure at each life he had taken, how each soul was snatched by his hand and dwelt within him still, the chorus of voices screaming in an agony at all they had lost, deafening, their hopelessness so great I had to force myself not to pull away.
He bucked and struggled like a rabbit trapped in a snare, his throes threatening to shake me off. But then I felt others beside me. Samuel and Frances, scrabbling at their former master, finding space to feed. And for a while the three of us were side by side, united in Slatina's destruction.
How much time passed, I do not know. But for a moment the four of us were one. One monster, four minds, weaving together, our histories shared, our lives overlapping.
As I sank into them I felt our horror, our destructive nature. But something more. I felt our solitude. The knowledge that even as we joined we were alone and always would be, never to know the comforts of home and hearth and family more.
The pain of it overwhelmed me and I succumbed …
'Wake, sir. You must wake.'
I opened my eyes to see Peg Fair's kindly face looking down upon me. My whole body creaked in agony, my skin a hard carapace, stiff and solid. I felt I heard my eyelids crack with each blink.
'Peg?' I tried to say the word, but my throat was so scorched it would not come.
Soft hands lifted my head, poured water on my lips, the liquid at once a sweet relief and almost more pain than I could bear.
After who knows how long, I found the strength to look about me. I was lying on a bed in a small, dark room, a tattered sheet pinned across the window. I could smell the Thames, a gull called, long harsh, solitary.
'What happened?' I whispered.
'I fear you are not strong enough to hear. And yet it cannot be long until the watchmen find us out. If you are to know, you must know soon.'
I felt for her hand and squeezed it. 'Tell me, dear friend.'
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Brady uncertain if he'll watch wild-card games
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - Tom Brady has a rare chance to do what so many football fans do on a chilly weekend: watch playoff games while curled up on a couch with snow piled outside his door.
And the Patriots quarterback may not even care about the winners or the weather.
"I've watched and I haven't watched" past wild-card games, Brady said. "Sometimes you get really riled up watching the game and then you start cheering for teams to win or lose."
A week later he'll have an influence on the outcome - and great interest in whether it rains or snows or the wind blows hard - when New England starts what it hopes will be a postseason run to its sixth Super Bowl in 13 years.
The opponent won't be known until San Diego's early afternoon game at Cincinnati on Sunday. The Patriots will host a night game on Jan. 11.
Whoever comes to town very well may encounter wintry conditions, maybe even as intense as the single-digit temperatures and double-digit snowfall amounts the Patriots expected going into this past week's practices.
"You get less than ideal conditions out there and we play in an environment where it's not 70 degrees and no conditions like you may be in a dome, or you may be somewhere else in warm weather," Brady said. "We're out there almost every day, so you just get used to playing in it, and hopefully, by getting used to it, you can develop the mental toughness to deal with it."
The Patriots dealt with it just fine last Sunday.
With puddles forming during a game-long downpour, they clinched the first-round bye with their 13th straight home win over the Buffalo Bills, 34-20. Splashing up and down the field, LeGarrette Blount rushed for 189 yards and returned two kickoffs for 145 - a franchise-record 334 all-purpose yards.
The next opponent poses a greater challenge. Coach Bill Belichick isn't predicting who it will be.
"I mean, how can you? Look at last weekend," he said. "I saw something where Pittsburgh had like a 1 percent chance of being in the playoffs or whatever it was, some ridiculously low number. Yet they were within, however close you want to call it, to being in the playoffs."
Pittsburgh was eliminated when San Diego beat Kansas City 27-24 in overtime last Sunday. The next day, the NFL announced that officials erred in not penalizing the Chargers for an illegal formation on Ryan Succop's missed 41-yard field goal attempt for Kansas City with 4 seconds left in regulation.
"The league is so competitive that, look, it isn't even who has the better team. It's just who plays better," Belichick said. "It's not four out of seven or two out of three. You get one opportunity to do it and whatever team can perform better on that day moves on. Who knows who that's going to be?"
Three years ago, the Patriots got a bye, then were expected to beat the New York Jets the next weekend. But they lost 28-13 and New York went on to the AFC championship game.
But Belichick is in his 14th season as Patriots coach and that was his only loss in seven divisional-round games after earning a bye. A good sign or irrelevant history?
"We play (next) Saturday night," Brady said. "The team that plays the best is going to win."
Besides, 18 of the 53 players on the Patriots active roster have never been in a playoff game. That includes 15 rookies, running back LeGarrette Blount, wide receiver Danny Amendola and linebacker Chris White.
Playoff experience does help, special teams captain Matthew Slater said. And the Patriots reached the AFC championship game last season and the Super Bowl two seasons ago.
"But," Slater said, "we're a different team than we were last year or the year before that. We have different players. We're going to be playing probably different teams than we have in the past, so it's a clean slate for everyone."
Whoever the Patriots play will have momentum from already having won a playoff game. So Brady and his teammates won't take this weekend off, even if they sneak a peek at wild-card games. No time for players to waste when they could be working out and studying how to improve.
"At this point, if you lose, you can't wake up the next day and go, 'Oh, we've got them, we'll get them next week,' " Brady said. "No. There's no next week."
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Kent Bush: The gift of love for a lifetime
When it comes to my life, I prefer a smooth and steady ride to a roller coaster.
But the irrepressible highs and poignant lows of the past weekend would have shocked the sensibilities of the most hardcore thrill seeker.
My brother's oldest daughter married her sweetheart in a beautiful wedding ceremony and headed off to a honeymoon they have both dreamed of for years.
The happy couple received a mountain of presents from their friends and church families.
But I think the best gift my niece could receive has been given to her for her entire life. My parents have shown her and everyone else what a lifetime of love really is.
My father, who less than a month ago was working every day and volunteering more time when his jobs were done, has regressed to the point where he sleeps almost all day long. During his few waking minutes, he is fed a few bites of soft food and speaks about a dozen words.
There is little the medical profession can do to help my dad, but I know he is still finding comfort in the love of his life who has been by his side for more than 55 years.
Dad rarely moves or responds when any of us speak to him. But his body that has been buffeted by a horrible condition that has rendered him practically motionless and almost unconscious still responds when his favorite girl speaks his name.
When mom talks, he perks up. He answers as best he can. And I think he feels better if only for a moment.
She feeds him now, bite after bite making sure he has what he needs.
She has cooked almost every meal for him for his entire adult life, and I know he gets disappointed when this woman who dazzles everyone who sits at her dinner table has to feed him hospital food. That is not how mom cooks and no one knows that better than dad.
When we got ready to take mom home from the hospital after spending the evening after the wedding with dad in his hospital room, mom wouldn't leave the room without doing something she has done every night for five and a half decades. She reached up over the bedrail and kissed her husband goodnight.
He forced a quiet "bye" out as he drifted back to sleep. I hope he dreamed about the better times they have shared, at my sister's beauty pageants, my brother's sporting events and our family vacations. I hope his sleep took him back to trips they have shared through Alaska, Europe and all across America.
All he has now is a few words a day and the ability to lightly scratch his face with his right hand. When mom asks him if he is in pain, he answers with a convincing no.
I wish we could all say the same.
Watching my father who has done so much for so many rendered unable to even care for himself is almost more than I can bear.
But watching his reaction when he hears his wife speak to him and watching her care for him with every ounce of her strength is a lesson in love.
I hope Bethany and Chase understand that this is part of "for better or worse from this day forward." I hope they learn to love each other the way my parents have as their home has grown from a couple of newlyweds, to a family including their three children, nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
All signs point to the fact that God may be preparing to call my father to his eternal home. But, when he does, God will have to wrest him from the strong embrace of a woman who has held him tight during good times and bad.
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Foto below was taken on July 3, 2012. Charles D. McAllister . . . featured here dozens of times, was assisting British Harmony (see name on lifeboat) out of IMTT Bayonne . . . for sea. Where? Doubleclick enlarges fotos.
Related: note the follow-though handwork demonstrated by the line thrower below. Where is he? He's not throwing the line to anything belonging to British Harmony, but he is in the same watershed.
Ditto this tug and barge. Where it it? Notice the water color. Notice the name on the barge.
MANAUS on the tug is the best clue.
All fotos in this post except the first one were taken by my daughter, Myriam, who's on the Amazon all summer as a grad student. I bought her a camera and said . . . "tugster needs you," and she's been following through since mid-May while I've focused mostly on my end of the sixth boro, not hers. More on this later in this post. That's a sweet ride below.
She's based in Macapa and took this and all the others from her workboat. No, she doesn't drive it.
Cargo moves by vessels like this, and
this. Right now Ikan Suji is Shanghai bound with a hold filled with Amazonian raw materials, I'd bet.
My guess (and I'm often wrong) on this cargo is navigational aids in the making.
I wish she'd caught the rest of the ferry . . . but there are fewer possibilities for a bow than a stern. I'd never imagine this house/stern arrangement.
NYC's sixth boro . . . as all areas . . . have their
Behold two Amazonian "rebocadores " Excalibur and Merlin. Click here for Smit Rebras including some interesting newbuild fotos. Thanks to Harold Tartell for suggesting looking here.
But, not unexpectedly, vessels on the Amazon and its many fingers are as diverse as the population of that great country.
This could be the Mississippi,
From Macapa to Manaus upriver is 500 to 600 air miles. Stadt Gera, in Macapa today, was in the sixth boro and on this blog a year and a half ago.
And here's why I put the foto of Charles D. McAllister and British Harmony first: British Harmony is about halfway up the Amazon to Manaus as I write this. One really can get anywhere watery from the sixth boro. Knowing that and having concrete reminders like this are not the same.
From fishermen, people with cameras along the KVK, and Macy's barge waiting for the 2012 Independence Day fireworks . . . to kids in wooden boats like this . . . all seen by crew on British Harmony on the same trip . . . I find amazing.
I hope you enjoyed this glimpse of another watershed. Myriam certainly has the gallivant gene. Here's some self-disclosure. 39 years ago (!!) I traveled to my first professional job about 500 miles up the Congo River on a huge tugboat named Major Vangu, pushing four deck barges. The tug had 8 or 10 "staterooms" and a bar/restaurant for paying first class passengers. Second class were on a barge with shade, and third class slept among the cargo (barrels of fuel, trucks, crates of beer, misc . . .) on the other barges. It took four days and nights to get from Kinshasa to Mbandaka, near where I spend the next two years. The reason for the choice of a tug was the airplane was non-functioning and roads to get there would have taken weeks. Making this realization today suggests the need for a long river trip next year. . . . hmmmm . . . .
This post is inspired by Jed's extended resume of last April here, and a "lightbulb" comment by Maureen. Thanks to you both.
Related: Several times I tried unsuccessfully to find good profile shots of Major Vangu, which sank in 1979. Anyone have ideas on finding fotos of the old Onatra vessels like Major Vangu?
Related: In writing this post, I stumbled onto this blog by an artist in Belem, a major Amazonian port.


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Because college football's Power Five conferences prefer to play each other in bowl games, the smaller conferences are exploring opportunities to create additional bowl games next season, sources said.
As many as nine locations are under consideration to begin bowl games in 2014, according to sources: Miami, Orlando, Little Rock, Ark.; Boca Raton, Fla.; Montgomery, Ala.; Los Angeles; Ireland; Dubai and either Toronto or Nassau, the Bahamas.
How many folks in Dubai you figure would attend a MAC-Sun Belt matchup in mid-December? Not that ESPN wouldn't be happy to broadcast it…


text: Back The Truth About Club Drugs Ecstasy, GHB, Rohypnol, and Ketamine are some of the so-called club drugs used by teens and young adults at nightclubs and raves, or all-night dances. Many people who party at clubs and these dances don't use any of these drugs, but those who do say they like the increased stamina and intoxicating highs they provide. Research indicates, however, that these drugs can, sometimes permanently, change critical parts of the brain. Also, in high doses, most can cause muscle breakdown and kidney and cardiovascular system failure that can be fatal. The following guide to club drugs can help you learn about them and get help if someone you love abuses them. Ecstasy (MDMA) MDMA is a synthetic, amphetamine-like psychoactive drug with both stimulant and hallucinogenic effects. Its street names include Ecstasy, Adam, XTC, hug, beans, and the love drug. MDMA usually is taken in pill form, but some users snort or inject it. MDMA is classified as a Schedule I controlled substance. This means that it is not available legally to anyone except specially designated researchers. Among the psychological difficulties associated with this drug are confusion, depression, sleep problems, severe anxiety, and paranoia. MDMA also can lead to symptoms of severe depression several days after its use. Depression may occur because of the drug's effects on the brain chemical serotonin, which is important in regulating mood, aggression, sexual activity, sleep, and sensitivity to pain. Physical problems can include muscle tension, nausea, blurred vision, fainting, and chills. MDMA carries the same, sometimes fatal, risks as other stimulants, such as cocaine and amphetamines. It can cause an increase in heart rate and blood pressure leading to loss of consciousness. In high doses, MDMA can interfere with the body's ability to regulate temperature. This can lead to a sharp increase in body temperature (hyperthermia), resulting in liver, kidney and cardiovascular system failure, and ultimately death. GHB GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate) is abused for its euphoric, sedative and bodybuilding effects. Its street names include liquid Ecstasy, soap, easy lay, and Georgia Home Boy. Coma and seizures can occur following use of GHB. Combining it with alcohol and other drugs can result in nausea and difficulty breathing. GHB may produce withdrawal effects, including anxiety and tremors. GHB has been used in date rapes and can be fatal. GHB is commonly mixed with alcohol, which may lead to loss of consciousness and amnesia. It is broken down quickly in the body and isn't detected by most drug tests. GHB is classified as a Schedule I controlled substance, and, like MDMA, possession carries a long prison sentence and a large fine. Despite this, instructions for making GHB and kits for its production are available over the Internet and it is sometimes illegally sold in health food stores, gyms, raves, and nightclubs. Rohypnol Rohypnol is a trade name for flunitrazepam. Its street names include rophies, roofies, roach, and rope. When mixed with alcohol, Rohypnol can incapacitate victims and prevent them from resisting sexual assault. It has been used in date rapes and subsequently has been outlawed in the United States. It can produce amnesia, so individuals frequently don't remember events they experienced while under its influence. Rohypnol can be fatal when mixed with alcohol and/or other depressants. Ketamine Ketamine, an anesthetic, can be injected or snorted. Also known as special K or vitamin K, it has become common in the club and rave scenes and has been used for date rapes. It creates a dreamlike states and hallucinations. High doses can cause delirium, amnesia, impaired motor function, high blood pressure, and death. Oxycodone OxyContin is the trade name for an opioid painkiller containing oxycodone. The drug comes in tablet form, which abusers crush and either eat or snort, or dilute with water and inject. Its street names include o.c., oxy and oxycotton. Although other painkillers contain oxycodone, OxyContin contains a high dose of this ingredient in a time-release form. Crushing or dissolving the tablet disarms the time-release action. In 2010, the pharmaceutical company changed the way the tablets are made to prevent abuse. As a result, many users have changed to other forms of oxycodone which are easier to abuse. When abused, the drug causes a quick, powerful high that has been compared to that of heroin. It also can cause sleepiness, calmness, and constipation. OxyContin is highly addictive when abused. Methamphetamine Methamphetamine is related to amphetamine, but with stronger stimulant effects. It is taken in pill form, or snorted or injected in powdered form. Crystallized methamphetamine, a more powerful form of the drug, is smoked. The drug causes an intense feeling of euphoria. People also take methamphetamine for the heightened alertness it produces, as well as to boost physical performance. Its street names include speed, meth, crystal, crank, tweak, go-fast, ice, glass, uppers, and black beauties. People who regularly use methamphetamine become addicted and also develop a tolerance for the drug, meaning they need more and more of the drug to produce the same high. Methamphetamine also causes increased heart rate, body temperature and blood pressure; insomnia; increased physical activity; decreased appetite; respiratory problems; paranoia; anxiety; and tremors. 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The Steelers have placed LB Larry Foote, C Maurkice Pouncey and RB LaRod Stephens-Howling on the team's Reserve/Injured List, it was announced today.
All three suffered season-ending injuries in the Steelers' Week 1 contest vs. Tennessee. Foote suffered a right bicep injury, and both Pouncey and Stephens-Howling suffered right knee injuries.
To fill the roster spots, the Steelers signed RB Jonathan Dwyer, C/G Fernando Velasco and K Shayne Graham.
Dwyer (5-11, 229, 4) was released by the Steelers on August 31, 2013. In 2012, Dwyer led Pittsburgh in attempts (156), rushing yards (623) and tied for the team lead with two rushing touchdowns. Dwyer recorded 100-yard rushing performances in back-to-back weeks, becoming the first Steelers running back to rush for 100 yards in consecutive weeks since 2008. He was originally drafted by the Steelers in the sixth round (188th overall) of the 2010 NFL Draft.
Velasco (6-4, 312, 4) was released by the Tennessee Titans on August 31, 2013. He appeared in all 48 games with the Titans from 2010-12 making 19 starts, including 16 starts in 2012. Velasco spent the 2008-09 seasons on and off the Titans' practice squad and active roster. He originally signed with the Titans as an undrafted rookie free agent on May 2, 2008.
Graham (6-0, 210, 12) was released by the Cleveland Browns on August 31, 2013. Graham has appeared in 155 career regular-season games and five postseason contests. He has spent time with the Houston Texans (2012), Miami Dolphins (2011), Baltimore Ravens (2011), New England Patriots (2010), New York Giants (2010), Cincinnati Bengals (2003-09), Carolina Panthers (2002) and Buffalo Bills (2001). Graham has connected on 245-of-287 FGs and 368-of-373 PATs. He is currently the seventh-most accurate kicker in NFL history (85.4%).


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Likewise, one should not give charity to one who collects unless it is clear that the collector is honest and is collecting for a just cause, as it is possible that the collector is a swindler and is using the community's money in an unnecessary and wrongful way (the Divine Code by Rabbi Moshe Weiner, Ask Noah International, 2018, p 698).
It is good to know this. Various people knock on my door.
Charity to the poor is greater than a donation to a synagogue in that it atones for one's sins, whereas a donation to a synagogue is considered only as a "burnt offering" to G-d (the Divine Code by Rabbi Moshe Weiner, Ask Noah International, 2018, p 699).
This is good to know. Never used to think in this way.


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Bieber Gets In Traffic Collision With Pedestrian
Justin Bieber is once again having car trouble after being involved in a traffic collision with a pedestrian on Monday night.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the incident took place outside Hollywood's Laugh Factory at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights around 11:45 p.m. The LAPD say the pedestrian was taken away in an ambulance but none of the injuries were life threatening.
RELATED: Bieber Headed To Space
Despite earlier reports, the 19-year-old Baby singer is not being charged with a hit and run, as there is plenty of video to review of the accident.


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Running back Andrew Harris of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers has been suspended for two games following a positive drug test, the CFL announced Monday.
According to the league, Harris tested positive for Metandienone, which is a banned substance.
In a statement, Harris said he was tested March 1, July 2 and again July 12. It was after the third test that Harris added he was notified of the positive result.
Harris, a three-time CFL all-star and the league's top Canadian in 2017, said he never knowingly took a banned substance. Harris has helped Winnipeg (8-2) to spot in the West Division standings.
"Throughout my four years playing here in Winnipeg, I have been drug tested more than any other player on our team to the point that it has become a running joke within our locker room," Harris said. "I'm still in shock and disbelief at the news.
"The timeline makes it very clear — I was not using a banned substance for performance enhancing purposes, nor was I aware that I was taking any supplements with any banned substances in them. Based on the fact pattern, this is clearly a case of product contamination."
Statements from President & CEO Wade Miller, Head Coach Mike O'Shea, and running back Andrew Harris.
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CFL players testing positive for the first time face a two-game suspension.
Both Harris's A and B samples came back positive, meaning he has already appealed and therefore must accept the suspension.
Harris, a 32-year-old Winnipeg native, is currently the CFL's rushing leader with 908 yards on 141 carries (6.4-yard average) with three TDs. His suspension comes at a bad time for the Bombers as starting quarterback Matt Nichols went on the six-game injured list last week with an upper-body ailment.
Harris, who came to the CFL in '09 from the Canadian junior ranks, said he's never been one to look for shortcuts.
"My road to becoming a starter in the CFL was extremely difficult, and I take a lot of pride in the honest blue collar work I've put in to reach this point in my career," he said. "As unsettling and painful as this is to me and my family, I hope this can be a helpful reminder to all athletes about being extremely cautious and aware of what they are taking and putting into their bodies."
Harris also apologized to the Bombers for the positive test.
"I can't wait to rejoin my teammates and the city of Winnipeg in our quest to bring a Grey Cup to this wonderful city that I am fortunate enough to call home," he said.
Bombers head coach Mike O'Shea said he stands firmly behind his player.
"As someone who has coached Andrew for four seasons now, I know firsthand the hard work and dedication he puts into his career as a true professional," O'Shea said in a statement. "Andrew has been tested eight times since becoming a member of the Blue Bombers, three times this season, including 10 days prior to the test that came back positive.
"While this is an extremely unfortunate situation, I support Andrew and look forward to his return in a few weeks."
Harris will miss both of Winnipeg's upcoming games against the Saskatchewan Roughriders (6-3).
"The Winnipeg Blue Bombers fully support the CFL's policy on performance enhancing drugs and have fully co-operated with the CFL in regard to this matter," said club president/CEO Wade Miller. "The Winnipeg Football Club also supports Andrew Harris through this extremely difficult and unfortunate situation.
"We look forward to Andrew re-joining us on the field for game days following the bye week."
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Mom of NYC teen shot by police: Why was he killed?
NEW YORK - Carol Gray, her head wrapped in a black scarf and her tearful eyes concealed by sunglasses, held up a photograph of her 16-year-old son, who was shot and killed by police.
The picture revealed a grinning boy wearing a blue cap and gown, his arms wrapped around his mother. It was taken the day he graduated from middle school.
"He was slaughtered," Gray told a room filled with reporters. "And I want to know why."
Gray held a sorrowful press conference on Thursday to talk about her son, Kimani Gray, the kid nicknamed Kiki, who died on Saturday night after being shot seven times by two police officers. Police say the plainclothes officers opened fire after Gray pointed a gun at them.
A .38-caliber revolver purchased in Florida was recovered from the scene.
Gray was killed in front of his best friend's house as he left a Sweet 16 birthday party, said his grieving mother, who doesn't believe he could have pointed a gun at police.
"Today was very hard," she said, and paused for a long moment before she was able to finish the sentence. "I had to choose the color of the casket that I wanted."
The teenager's death has provoked outrage in East Flatbush, the working-class area of Brooklyn where he lived and died, a place that is among the city's most dangerous neighborhoods. Long-simmering resentment against the police officers who patrol these streets has erupted into violence in recent days, with 46 people arrested in the most recent protest on Wednesday night.
A police officer was hit by an object tossed from a building during the protest and suffered a gash in his face.
Gray, who was black, was with a group on Saturday night but left when he saw officers in an unmarked car, police said. The plainclothes officers, who were black and Hispanic, approached him because he was acting in a suspicious manner, police said.
An organizer of Wednesday's event, Rickford Burke, said there's a deep feeling of frustration in the community that police officers regularly harass and target young black men.
"The police department has proven to be racially inattentive to black communities, and this one is no different," he said.
According to police, Gray pointed a .38-caliber revolver at them, and they opened fire. The officers involved in the shooting have been placed on administrative duty.
"Our hearts all have to go out to the family of this young man," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at an unrelated news conference. "So far, all indications are that the young man had a gun, and I can promise you that we will conduct a full and fair investigation."
The public outcry, which has dragged on for several days, showed no signs of slowing, with another protest taking place Thursday night.
On Monday, dozens of people threw bottles and damaged some stores. Surveillance video shows a cashier cowering in a corner as people looted his shop.
"I understand that there's anger in the community, but the way to get answers is not through violence or law-breaking," said Bloomberg. "We cannot tolerate that, and we will not tolerate that."
Bouquets of flowers and lit candles formed a makeshift memorial on the sidewalk near the corner whereGray died. Posters were scrawled with messages: "Love you lil bro" and "RIP Waking Angel."
"Everybody loved him," said Shawn Burgendy, a friend of Gray's who had stopped by the memorial. "Never had a problem with him. He was just around a bunch of bad situations."
Would his friend point a gun at a cop?
"He's not that type of kid. He's not a dummy," Burgendy said. "He wouldn't just go and pull a gun on the police. Who would pull a gun on a police officer?"
A police officer may use deadly force when he or she has a reasonable fear of serious injury or death, and police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has said the shooting appeared to be within those guidelines.
Gray's death marks the 10th police-involved shooting this year. A weapon was recovered from every one, police said. In 2011, police shot and killed nine suspects and injured 19, the lowest in recent years, according to a police report released last fall.
The 2012 firearms discharge report has not been published.
Kenneth Montgomery, a lawyer for the Gray family, questioned the police department's account of how the teen died. The family wants to know how the gun was recovered and by whom, he said.
The medical examiner's office ruled that Gray was hit seven times and had wounds in the front and back of his body, including his shoulder, rib cage, forearm and legs.
Speaking of her son in the present tense, Carol Gray remembered a boy who still had a curfew to abide by at night. A boy who babysat his nieces and nephews regularly and who, for the first time in his life, recently got a bedroom all to himself.
"The past couple of days, the bell hasn't rung," she said. "I'm still waiting for him to come home."
While she doesn't condone the violent protests, Gray said she wants answers. She wants to know why her son was struck by more than one bullet. And she wants to know why she will have to bury him in the coming days.
This is the second tragedy for the family: Two years ago, her older son was killed in a car accident.
"Now I have to place my younger boy in the same hole," she said.


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Name: Morgan Boyer
Age: 18
College/Year: New York University; Freshman
Internship: Style Musee, a fashion inspiration tool that displays updates from designers' Facebook pages as they're posted. It allows users to see their favorite designers' collections all in one place.
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Seventeen: How did you find your internship?
Morgan Boyer: I am in the Fashion Business Association at NYU, and internships go to the club to help students find opportunities in the fashion industry. I found out about the internship through the club and immediately applied!
17: What do you do?
MB: When I say I do a little bit of everything, I mean it. I've researched contacts for public relations, curated editorial content for our fan page and app, tested the technology for bugs, helped out the graphic design team, networked at fashion shows, and came up with definitions, catch-phrases, and captions.
17: Do you like it?
MB: I honestly and completely love it. I don't feel overwhelmed with work, yet I still feel like I'm impacting the company in a postive way. Because it's a start-up company, it feels small and intimate. We're like a family. There aren't a lot of interns here, so I'm able to work closely with the CEO and get to see what I work on progress. I'm really interested in business, so learning how all the baby steps lead to something big is really interesting to me. My boss is so nice. She wants to make sure I get a valuable experience out of my internship. Someday, I want to be an editor at a fashion magazine, so my boss gives me editorial tasks. Another intern is more interested in dealing with money, so she's given work that fits her specific interests.
17: What is the most important thing you've learned so far?
MB: I've learned about social media strategy, how to present myself as well as how to present a company, and also about designers since I interact with their content and features. Style Musee has made me more aware of all the fields I want to tap into.
17: What tips do you have for girls who want to intern in a creative field, like fashion?
MB: I think I was hired for two main reasons: I showed a genuine interest in the internship, and I have a blog. My boss told me a blog is kind of like a resume. It's a way to show signs of entrepreneurship, interest, a strong voice, and initiative. Blogs show your passion. I think it also helped that I'm taking art classes in college, so I have an eye for design.
17: What do you hope to do after college?
MB: I want to work at a fashion magazine in some capacity, hopefully as an editor. But I also think there are a lot of other jobs I'd be good at too, like starting my own business!


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Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2777-1 systemd -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 11 Oct 2013
- Affected Packages:
- systemd
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 725357.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-4327, CVE-2013-4391, CVE-2013-4394.
- More information:
Multiple security issues in systemd have been discovered by Sebastian Krahmer and Florian Weimer: Insecure interaction with DBUS could lead to the bypass of Policykit restrictions and privilege escalation or denial of service through an integer overflow in journald and missing input sanitising in the processing of X keyboard extension (XKB) files.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 44-11+deb7u4.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your systemd packages.


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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events. Someone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.
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First Monday - January 7, 2013
In this issue:
- College Sadly Notes Loss of Faculty Colleague
- Permanent Building Fund Approves Request for Continued Investment in Historic Ada County Courthouse
- College Moves Forward with Concurrent Juris Doctor/Professional Science Masters Degree
College Sadly Notes Loss of Faculty Colleague
Calendar year 2012 ended on a profoundly sorrowful note for the College of Law, as the College received word that Professor Alan Williams (see photo) passed away on Sunday, December 30. Professor Williams joined the law faculty in 2006. He held a baccalaureate degree from Virginia Tech and a Juris Doctor degree (with honors) from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. Before joining our law faculty he completed 20 years on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps. In his last assignment, he served as a military judge in the Eastern Judicial Circuit of the Navy-Marine Corps trial judiciary. At the College of Law, his teaching included Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Civil Procedure, Evidence, and Trial Skills.
Professor Williams was a published scholar on national security legal issues. In addition, he served on the Idaho Supreme Court's Committee on Civil Jury Instructions and Evidence Rules Advisory Committee. For several years he coached the College's mock trial competition team, and he coached national criminal procedure moot court teams that received "best brief" honors in 2011 and 2012.
At the direction of the family, a private memorial service was conducted in Moscow on January 4, 2013. Messages of condolence may be sent to the family in care of law faculty member Trapper Stewart, 875 Perimeter Drive, MS 2321, Moscow, Idaho 83844-2321.
Permanent Building Fund Approves Request for Continued Investment in Historic Ada County Courthouse
The Permanent Building Fund Advisory Council (PBFAC) has approved legislative appropriation requests that include $1.5 million for continued renovation of the old Ada County Courthouse on the Capitol Mall in Boise. The PBFAC requests also include $2.5 million as part of a funding package for an innovation and research building on the University of Idaho's Moscow campus.
The old courthouse, which served as a hall of justice for eight decades, is undergoing phased renovation in preparation for planned use as the permanent home of the Idaho State Law Library and as an educational center for College of Law classes, continuing judicial education programs, and law-related civics education for the public. These synergistic uses will provide a new life for the historic building, and an efficient return on the investment of public resources.
If approved in the 2013 session of the Idaho Legislature, the $1.5 million appropriation would bring the total appropriated funding thus far up to $5 million out of $6 million estimated for the cost of the courthouse's infrastructure modernization. (The Legislature also has appropriated $176,000 for planning of an Idaho Law Learning Center.) In addition, the University of Idaho has raised more than $1 million in private funding commitments for the "tenant specific" improvements needed to fulfill the purposes of the renovated building. The proponent agency for the renovation is the Idaho Department of Administration, and the collaborating entities are the Idaho Supreme Court and the University of Idaho.
Further information about the renovation project is available from the Division of Public Works in the Department of Administration. Information about the planned programmatic uses of the building can be obtained from Lee Dillion (see photo), the College's Associate Dean for Boise Programs.
College Moves Forward with Concurrent Juris Doctor/Professional Science Masters Degree
The College of Law, which already has concurrent degree programs combining law with Accountancy, Environmental Science, Water Resources, and Bioregional Planning & Community Design, is now offering a concurrent Juris Doctor and Professional Science Masters (JD/PSM) degree. The PSM degree -- a part of the University of Idaho's array of graduate-level interdisciplinary programs -- prepares graduates for science-related careers in business, government, or nonprofit sectors. The PSM curriculum currently focuses on sustainability science as it applies to natural resources and the environment. The curriculum merges rigorous study in science with training in management and communication skills necessary for a successful professional career.
Combining the PSM curriculum with the JD curriculum will give concurrent degree recipients a foundation of legal expertise, advanced scientific skills, and management skills, enabling them to work effectively in business and industry as well as in the legal profession, the judiciary, administrative agencies, and nonprofits. The concurrent JD/PSM degree, approved by the law faculty, was endorsed in the fall of 2012 by the University of Idaho Curriculum Committee and Faculty Senate. Further information about the JD/PSM degree is available on the College of Law website and from Professor Barbara Cosens.


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People have been camping out at Best Buy for Black Friday 2010 since last Wednesday. But don't laugh too hard. Best Buy gave them free iPads for being the "First Family of Black Friday".
The couple in the picture is Lorie and Ryan Davenport and they're camping out at a Best Buy near the Tyrone Square Mall in St. Petersburg, Florida. They've been there since Wednesday (Black Friday is a week away still) and Best Buy thinks they're the first Black Friday 2010 campers in the nation. And though they're incredibly thankful for the free iPad, they find the free time more enjoyable:
"We're so thankful for the iPads, but we'll probably only go on them when we're alone waiting. The whole purpose is to get caught up, so we do things together like talk, play chess and play cards."
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The Davenports actually teamed up with another couple (who spell them during the night shift) and are saving spots for 10 friends in their quest to be first. But why the rush? Because there's one guy who's been beating them every year for the past 6 years (we're hoping it's not Greg Packer). The Davenports decided that this year, they weren't going to lose to him. They didn't
I love the all around wonkiness that Black Friday brings out of people but the absolute kicker in this story is that the Davenports don't even know what they're going to buy yet. [Tampa Bay Online via J-walk blog via Neatorama]


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Title: Oprah Winfrey and "Friends" Will Teach New Age Course Called "Reflections on the New Age Christ"
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"The Christ cannot appear until and unless a majority of Americans have been prepared ahead of time to share his values" (Constance Crumby, "Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow")
On 11/8/07 New Age leader and Oprah & Friends XM Satellite reporter Marianne Williamson put up a "Big News!" announcement on her www.marianne.com website. Her announcement seemed quite confident and authoritative. She even had a link to Oprah & Friends XM Satellite Radio. She wrote:
Big News!
Beginning January 1, 2008, I will be teaching A Course in Miracles daily on Oprah & Friends XM 156. For one year, we will go through the entire Course. If this is of interest to you, get your XM ready, take your Course off the shelf or order a copy. We're going to do the Course, and stay the course!
On 11/09/07 Herescope posted an article by former New Age follower Warren Smith entitled Oprah and Friends to Teach Course on New Age Christ. In that article Smith presented significant concerns about Oprah & Friends teaching this New Age Course in Miracles. Many years ago he was a devoted student of A Course in Miracles and he discovered that the teachings of the Course - supposedly "new revelation" channeled from "Jesus" - were diametrically opposed to the teachings of the true Jesus Christ of the Bible. He came to understand that the "Jesus" of A Course in Miracles was one of the false christs that the real Jesus warned His followers to watch out for:
"And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in My name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many." (Matthew 24:3-5)
Shortly after the posting of Smith's article and the two subsequent articles on Herescope, there was considerable concern - at least in Christian circles - that Oprah was using her radio program to teach this New Age Course. Many Internet sources cited what was happening. Amidst the uproar, Marianne Williamson's "Big News!" announcement suddenly disappeared from her website. All attempts to get information on why Williamson withdrew her announcement were to no avail.
However, Marianne Williamson has just posted a new announcement on her website that seems to take the place of the "Big News!" announcement of several days ago:
Starting January 1 on Oprah and Friends XM156, I will be discussing my daily reflections on A Course in Miracles. Watch this space for details.
Send me any questions you have about A Course in Miracles and its application to your daily life. Some of these questions will be used on my radio show. (Be sure to include your phone number.)
According to this new announcement, Williamson is pulling back from "teaching" A Course in Miracles and is now offering her "daily reflections" on the Course. This subtle semantic change may indicate a change in strategy. However, this type of maneuvering around potentially controversial New Age agendas by Oprah and her staff has been noted previously. For example, bestselling author Neale Donald Walsch told colleagues at a New Age Humanity's Team conference in Portland, Oregon, in 2003, that Oprah had flown him to Chicago for a two-hour interview with him that never aired. Walsch explained what happened:
Oprah brought me to Chicago. She loves Conversations. In fact she says it is her favorite book. She says that on the air—"This is my favorite book"—and she holds up Conversations with God. So she brought me to Chicago and she said, "Let's do two hours." I'm gonna do a two hour special. And she interviewed me on videotape for two hours and we had a fascinating conversation, the way only Oprah can, 'cause she gets right into the interior of it. And I went back home, flying back home, and I thought, "My God, they're going to do a two-hour special. This is incredible… talk about zooming sales." And I went home and… it stayed in the can for a year and a half. I did not call her, 'cause I didn't want to bother Oprah with, you know, "Where is my program? When are you going to put it on?" …But finally the producer called us and said, "You know, Neale, we just can't use it. You are so incredibly provocative in what you're saying about your relationship with God, humanity's relationship with God, where religion currently stands in the world etc., etc.,… that we've looked at this thing, we've watched this program eight times and all of us agree it's just too soon. You're way ahead of the curve, we can't put this on now."*
In an April 5, 2007 Oprah & Friends radio interview with Esther Hicks - a woman who channels out-of-body entities that singularly refer to themselves as "Abraham" - Oprah confessed that her television viewers weren't ready for her to be talking to channeled out-of-body entities. She said:
I am talking to Esther Hicks here, who is, I am saying today, the secret behind The Secret because she . . . is a big, big, big part, she and her husband Jerry, of the creation of the DVD that Rhonda Byrne did. . . . But she is here in our studio and I am going to ask you to channel Abraham, and let me just say, the reason why I wanted you to do this on the radio is because the television audience isn't ready for it. . . .
This radio interview, posted on the dedicated New Age Spiritual Inspiration.info website, is really difficult to listen to because it involves occult channeling, so the listener should beware. Sadly, one quickly realizes the depth of Oprah's New Age beliefs when listening to this interview. And the reader of Herescope is reminded to pray for these two women who are so deeply drawn into spiritual deception.
The other issue here is not Oprah's right to present her New Age views - but to be honest with her viewers and listeners about these beliefs. For over twenty years Oprah has been taking her viewers and listeners step-by-step deeper into the New Age teachings. It is time for her to stop pretending that her New Age "Jesus" is the same as the Jesus of her Baptist youth. The "Jesus" of A Course in Miracles and the "Jesus" of the New Age bear absolutely no resemblance to the Jesus found in the Holy Bible.
It seems apparent that in early November someone calculated that the time was right for Marianne Williamson to teach the year-long, 365 lessons of A Course in Miracles on Oprah & Friends XM Satellite Radio. But one has to wonder if this situation, like the one described by Neale Donald Walsch above, was "just too soon" and too "way ahead of the curve" in teaching the year-long Course at this time.
What difference does it make whether Marianne Williamson is "teaching"
A Course in Miracles directly, or "teaching" it indirectly by providing
"reflections" on it? Whatever the case, whether through "reflection"
or "teaching," this year-long study of the Course, designed for listener
participation, will lead many deeper into spiritual darkness.
"And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. For the king knoweth of these things before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest,
"Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian." (Acts 26:24-28)
Footnote * Humanity's Team Leadership Gathering, Portland, Oregon, June
27- July 1, 2003: "The Care and Feeding of the Press." Transcribed
from audiotape by Warren Smith and cited in the second edition of Reinventing
Jesus Christ: The New Gospel, Chapter 3 Update, subsection heading "Walsch,
Winfrey and the Press."
Cutting Edge Note:
New Age deception like this is extremely serious, leading potentially millions of people astray and into the very pit of the Abyss. Furthermore, the fact that such spiritual deception is now occurring on the extremely popular Oprah Winfrey Show and Radio, is proof positive that the world is getting so close to the actual appearance of Antichrist that the Global Elite has decided to "multiply" the message of Antichrist deception with Oprah!
I can only think of this prophetic Scripture:
"The coming of the lawless one, the antichrist is through the activity and working of Satan and will be attended by great power and with all sorts of pretended miracles and signs and delusive marvels--all of them lying wonders-- And by unlimited seduction to evil and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing (going to perdition) because they did not welcome the Truth but refused to love it that they might be saved. Therefore, God sends upon them a misleading influence, a working of error and a strong delusion to make them believe what is false, In order that all may be judged and condemned who did not believe in [who refused to adhere to, trust in, and rely on] the Truth, but instead took pleasure in unrighteousness." (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12; Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary)
People like these following the New Age principles on the Oprah Winfrey Show are prime candidates to receive God's dreaded "strong delusion" once Antichrist has arisen, a deception designed to cement them in their deception, so they cannot see the Truth and be saved. Truly, the End of the Age is coming upon mankind quickly.
Are you spiritually ready? Is your family? Are you adequately protecting your loved ones? This is the reason for this ministry, to enable you to first understand the peril facing you, and then help you develop strategies to warn and protect your loved ones. Once you have been thoroughly trained, you can also use your knowledge as a means to open the door of discussion with an unsaved person. I have been able to use it many times, and have seen people come to Jesus Christ as a result. These perilous times are also a time when we can reach many souls for Jesus Christ, making an eternal difference.
If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, but have been very lukewarm in your spiritual walk with Him, you need to immediately ask Him for forgiveness and for renewal. He will instantly forgive you, and fill your heart with the joy of the Holy Spirit. Then, you need to begin a daily walk of prayer and personal Bible Study.
If you have never accepted Jesus Christ as Savior, but have come to realize His reality and the approaching End of the Age, and want to accept His FREE Gift of Eternal Life, you can also do so now, in the privacy of your home. Once you accept Him as Savior, you are spiritually Born Again, and are as assured of Heaven as if you were already there. Then, you can rest assured that the Kingdom of Antichrist will not touch you spiritually.
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Fine Grained Access Control aka Virtual Private Database (VPD) has been there since Oracle 8 and got enhanced in each subsequent version. One minor New Feature of 11.2 was the addition of the parameter UPDATE_CHECK to the DBMS_RLS.ADD_POLICY procedure. During the OCM Preparation Workshop that I deliver presently, one of the attendees asked me what this parameter is actually doing – the doc is not so clear about it – which is why I came up with this simplified example. Hope you find it useful also 🙂
SQL> grant dba to adam identified by adam; Grant succeeded. SQL> connect adam/adam Connected. SQL> create table emp (ename varchar2(5),salary number); Table created. SQL> insert into emp values ('SCOTT',3000); 1 row created. SQL> insert into emp values ('KING',9000); 1 row created. SQL> commit; Commit complete. SQL> grant create session to scott identified by tiger; Grant succeeded. SQL> grant select,update on adam.emp to scott; Grant succeeded.
The user SCOTT is not supposed to see the salary of the other employees and VPD is an elegant way to achieve that. The following technique will silently attach a WHERE-condition to statements hitting the table emp:
SQL> connect adam/adam
SQL> create or replace function whoisit(schema varchar2, tab varchar2) return varchar2
return '''' || sys_context('userenv','session_user') || ''' = ename ';
Function created.
SQL> begin
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> connect scott/tiger
SQL> select * from adam.emp;
----- ----------
Although there are two rows in the table, SCOTT sees only his own salary! So far, this has been the same in earlier versions already. Now to the effect of update_check:
SQL> update adam.emp set ename='KING';
update adam.emp set ename='KING'
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-28115: policy with check option violation
Without that parameter setting, the update would succeed – and the row would vanish for the user SCOTT as if the update would have deleted the row. Imagine the confusion of the user about that weird behavior 🙂
Talking about weird, by the way:
SQL> connect adam/adam Connected. SQL> select * from adam.emp; no rows selected SQL> connect / as sysdba Connected. SQL> select * from adam.emp; ENAME SALARY ----- ---------- SCOTT 3000 KING 9000 SQL> grant exempt access policy to adam; Grant succeeded. SQL> connect adam/adam Connected. SQL> select * from adam.emp; ENAME SALARY ----- ---------- SCOTT 3000 KING 9000
That was funny, wasn't it?
Conclusion: The new parameter UPDATE_CHECK in the DBMS_RLS.ADD_POLICY procedure restricts updates that would else lead to the updated rows to fall out of the allowed visibility for that user. Check out the old behavior by just omitting that parameter. Because: Don't believe it, test it 🙂


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ME PoV Summer 2013 issue
Building Intellectual Capital in Islamic Finance through Knowledge Management strategy
Islamic Finance is a business and operational model that predominantly relies on its 'intellectual capital', 'knowledge assets' and 'knowledge managers' to drive its evolution and sustainability in both terms, qualitative and quantitative. Yet some institutions offering Islamic Financial Services (IIFS) often lack the tools to help them identify the knowledge assets and the knowledge management value proposition it could develop to deploy resources and achieve efficiency and profitability.
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