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To Obtain Prominence
For sure, anyone would love to be recognized and honored in one way or the other. Needless to emphasize, fame and glory are seen as reasons why an individual wants to run for congress. Apparently, those in government are highly regarded as supreme, without a doubt, which is why a government position is highly sought by anyone.
To Benefit from Financial Supports during Election
To some, winning an electoral campaign would not matter as running for a government position already induces so many benefits including financial gains. Generally, political aspirants do not run for government positions on their own i.e., without support. Needless to emphasize, political aspirants and their respective candidacies and campaign are financed by businessmen, peers and supporters and this would spell resources in the end. A candidate would take pleasure in enormous campaign, without a doubt, as there would be excess subsidies by the end of the day, and all of these would go into the pocket of the political candidate without notice. Apparently, this is a fine reason why an individual wants to run for congress.
To Address Curiosity
Have you ever wondered how is it like to be in government and handle a position in the congress? This question probably runs wild in the minds of the political aspirants that eventually push them to seek for a place in the congress or government. Men are naturally inquisitive that we want to try almost everything, and running for a position in the congress is worth a try as long as one is financially and emotionally capable of handling the same.
To Attain Security
It is almost automatic that an individual and his family's security is assured when one obtains a position in the congress or government. It is a given fact that a government official would enjoy the benefits of security (financially and physically) considering that he is surrounded with his own law and can manipulate his own law at the same time. Not only that, most government officials and their respective families are vested by the state itself with protection taking into account the risks their jobs would entail, that the government would supplement security, defense and the like.
Practically, there are countless reasons why individuals would run for a position in the government or congress. Actually, those reasons may not be the same and may vary among different individuals. Nonetheless, the above are basic motives or grounds why individuals would take their journey and chances in the government or congress. The objectives of some political aspirants may not be too appealing apparently, but rather too selfish to some extent, and that's how it goes whether we like or not.


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No, not necessarily. You do not need to be in the domaining business to use DNHat. The software or services consists of two parts:
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As explained in the user manual, you can disable the marketplace manager and use DNHat only for managing your portfolio.
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Rob Mallard,26, is an English actor best known for playing the character of Daniel Osbourne, the third actor to play the role in the popular soap, Coronation Street. Growing up Rob was a big fan of the local soap and when he was cast for the role it was a dream come true. Speaking about landing the prized role, Rob said: "It feels great to be starting work on Coronation Street and I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone. I grew up watching Coronation Street, so the chance to be in it, especially playing a part like Daniel, is very exciting. The undoubtably talented actor was awarded the "Best Newcomer" at The British Soap Awards 2017. His career and notoriety went from strength to strength but behind closed doors, the actor was suffering from a debilitating condition since he was aged 14.
Rob revealed his terrifying condition which is a progressive neurological disease, and wanted to set the story straight after fans noticed his shaking during his appearance on the IVT show back in January.
Rob told hosts Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield that he has suffered from the Parkinson's-like disease, which causes tremors in his hands and neck.
He explained: "My solution has been to hide and manage, because of the job that I'm in, it can have a detrimental effect on my ability to get cast. And then it was exposed on TV.
"I was embarrassed and then angry. But then I started getting messages saying, 'Me too'."
An essential tremor is a neurological condition that causes an uncontrollable shake in a part of the body.
It is a nerve disorder characterised by shaking, or tremors in different parts and on different sides of the body.
It is not a life-threatening disorder and most people are able to live normal lives with the condition, although a person may find everyday activities like eating, dressing, or writing difficult.
"I didn't have it from birth, but I don't remember not having it. I was about 14-years-old when I first started to notice it," Rob explained.
"It manifests first in the hands, and then it can spread so I sometimes get it in the back of my neck so my head will shake, which is I think what your viewers noticed last time."
The cause of the disorder is still not fully understood, but it is believed that the abnormal electrical brain activity that causes tremor is processed through the thalamus, a structure deep in the brain that coordinates and controls muscle activity.
Rob added: "It's a progressive disease, so by the time I'm 50, it could be in my voice box, down my back of the spine, the legs, the whole of the arms….It could be quite debilitating."
It's like I've been outed and if I am going to be out, I am going to own it
Rob Mallard
The main symptoms of the condition include a tremor which may begin gradually, usually more prominent on one side of the body.
A worsen movement, can include a yes-yes or no-no motion of the head, and may be aggravated by emotional stress, fatigue, caffeine, or temperature extremes.
Hoping to shed more light on the condition, Rob added: "It's like I've been outed and if I am going to be out, I am going to own it!"
If you suspect you or someone you know may have the condition you should speak with your GP about the possible cause.
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Keep Smiling!
Keep Smiling
Monday, January 29, 2018
BoHo Quilting
Keep Smiling!
52 comments:
Beautiful Connie. I like the colours and the stitching is a lovely idea. The Hippie theme is an awesome idea.ReplyDelete
Your latest quilt is an amazing colourful work of art. There seems to be no end to your creativity!!ReplyDelete
OMGOSH! I just love this!!!! You and me and Bobby McGee---hippies at heart! lol xo DianaReplyDeleteReplies
Busted flat in Baton Rouge, stitching on my quilt . . .Delete
I think that Janis would have looked this one, too, LOL.
You can't believe how much fun I had doing all the hand stitching and adding anything that came into my mind. I didn't worry about perfection; I just broke loose and enjoyed the process.
Girls just want to have fun.
How fun! The colors are amazing. It sent me right back to my childhood in the 60's.ReplyDelete
Definately a feast for the eyes, so bright and colourful. I loved the embroidery, another beautiful creation. You are one talented lady.ReplyDelete
Your fabrics are so attractive, they really sing out!ReplyDelete
You always impress me with your talents. I LOVE this. The stitching is fantastic and that label is just perfect.ReplyDelete
Very sixties I love itReplyDelete
So bright and beautiful!ReplyDelete
Connie, It's a beautiful quilt. I would love to come play at your house. My granddaughter loves the peace sign and is always throwing a 'V" for victory. She would love this sweet quilt. You chose some pretty colors. Blessings to you, xoxo, SusieReplyDelete
Oh, that is so cute! I love the fabrics you used and the embroidering!ReplyDelete
A cheerful and beautiful finish. So well done.ReplyDelete
Hi Connie, That quilt is certainly cheery! I don't think I have any Boho in me but who knows! Your creative juices must work round the clock! I think mine works 10 minutes and takes a break! Enjoy the day! NancyReplyDelete
What a happy quilt! I like adding embroidery to my quilts too. There's something about a needle and thread....ReplyDeleteReplies
I enjoy having hand stitching to work on in the evenings while watching TV with my husband . . . if I don't have something to keep my hands busy, I fall asleep LOL. I am such a big fan of your work that I consider it a honor to have you stop and visit.Delete
It's really beautiful! I especially love the butterfly square. The colours are amazing.ReplyDelete
Wow! Your colors and embroidery are right on.ReplyDelete
Connie, how do you get so much done? That quilt is amazing! I've just read and enjoyed your last post too, about acts of kindness. You are such a kind and giving person. Thank you!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous I love the stitching it is just beautiful on each of this blocks, great way to finish it up and like that you used different color threads!ReplyDelete
I LOVE IT!!! Im digging all the fun colors. You really did a great job!ReplyDelete
Groovy!! Love the fun colors, Enjoy JanieReplyDelete
Hey Connie, That is beautiful on both sides! The back is so gorgeous! Wonderful stitches! Love your label too! xoxo DollyReplyDelete
Absolutely stunning quilt, Connie. I love all the brilliant colorsReplyDelete
Love it! Beautiful job... love the peace sign and butterfly and the colors are so bright and cheery Lisa @ Sweet Tea N' SaltyReplyDelete
Oh you little hippie chic you! I can see why this quilt makes you happy. Love the label too!!ReplyDelete
Oh the good old hippie days! I was definitely one and love all those bright colors.. though I never dressed like a "flower child" with bright colors.. I loved the pastels even back then! What fun to just let loose and play... I would like to do that... you are such an inspiration as I've said many times! I do love the peace sign and what you named your quilt. My "hippie dress" was mostly long skirts with jean jackets... or I had this leather jacket with fringe that I absolutely wore to death with just about anything! I sewed alot then.... sold to shops in the downtown Portland hippie district in the early 70's... made western shirts out of muslin and then the yokes and pockets were plaids and/or flowers! Can you believe it? Crazy times. I used to embroider but haven't for years.. my eyes just don't like that close work anymore.. and need new glasses or a magnifier so I can see those tiny stitches! Take care and have a nice weekend.... hugs.. MarilynReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Marilyn, it is great to have you stop by and visit. I've been missing you . . . blogland is a huge place and so easy to get lost in. Welcome back . . . I've been so busy and occupied with life that I haven't been doing a lot of visiting either . . . Stay happy :)Delete
Absolutely LOVE it ! :) x


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Molecular docking studies of flavonoids for their inhibition pattern against β-catenin and pharmacophore model generation from experimentally known flavonoids to fabricate more potent inhibitors for Wnt signaling pathway
Hira Iftikhar, Sajid Rashid
Department of Bioinformatics, National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid i Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Correspondence Address:Sajid RashidNational Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid i Azam University, Islamabad PakistanSource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheck8DOI: 10.4103/0973-1296.133269
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
Background: Canonical Wnt signaling plays a key role in tumor cell proliferation, which correlates with the accumulation of β-catenin in cell due to inactivation of glycogen synthetase kinase-3 β. However, uncontrolled expression of β-catenin leads to fibromatosis, sarcoma and mesenchymal tumor formation. Recently, a number of polyphenolic compounds of naturally occurring flavonoid family have been screened for the inhibition of Wnt signaling. Objective: Elucidation of the binding mode of inhibitors to β-catenin, reporting more potent inhibitors for the disease-causing protein and designing a pharmacophore model based on naturally occurring compounds, flavonoids. Materials and Methods: In this study, a comparative molecular docking analysis was performed to elucidate the binding mode of experimentally reported and unknown inhibitors. Based on the knowledge of geometry, binding affinity and drug score, we described a subset of novel inhibitors. Results: The binding energy of known inhibitors (isorhamnetin, fisetin, genistein and silibinin) was observed in a range of −5.68 to −4.98 kcal/mol, while novel inhibitors (catechin, luteolin, coumestrol and β-naphthoflavone) exhibited −6.50 to −5.22 kcal/mol. We observed good placement and strong interactions of selected compounds inside the binding pocket of β-catenin. Moreover, flavonoid family members and T cell factors 4 (TCF4) compete for β-catenin binding by sharing common binding residues. Conclusion: This study will largely help in understanding the molecular basis of β-catenin/TCF4 inhibition through flavonoids by exploring their structural details. Finally, the novel inhibitors proposed in this study need further attention to uncover cancer treatment and with the generated pharmacophore model, more and potent β-catenin inhibitors can be easily screened.
Keywords: β-catenin inhibitors, docking studies, flavonoids, ligand optimization, pharmacophore modeling, Wnt signaling


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Appleton My Cultural Identity Have you ever thought about your cultural identity and what's behind it ? Well maybe you should find out , Cultural Identity has a big impact on our lives. Many people have different or maybe similar cultural beliefs that you do. But today I will be talking about my cultural identity and what's behind it . Well, culture is the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. Everyone has a different cultural identity of course
Cultural Identity Essay Krishal Sharma | Period: 2 | 9/15/17#1 Everyone has their own, one of a kind cultural identity and culture. Your culture could be anything like an interest in technology or what hobbies you like even food. My cultural identity would not exist if it wasn 't for what I value the most and what I love the most. In the world, nowadays people like a lot of things such as music. But what I like is completely different, There is one that influences my cultural identity and
I've never really questioned my cultural identity, actually nobody even asked me what my cultural identity was. I guess they just thought I was a regular black girl that likes watermelon and fried chicken. Now don't get me wrong mama loves her some fried chicken, but I don't really care for watermelon. Don't take that as a shock, not all black people like watermelon. Truth of the matter is that I'm really just a hot chip, school loving, catholic, hair braiding, soul-food eating, outgoing, loud-mouth
My Cultural Identity People think of me as a girl that stay to herself but I am a black african american and my cultural identity is dancing i love to dance dancing is my life i could dance all day and night my mom said i been dancing since i was just 3 years old i dance kinda good i don't dance that good to be a dance star but i'm going keep trying and trying and one day i'm make it there, i like to dress in a hip-hop kind of way because it's just the way i am i dress
My Cultural Identity My cultural identity stems from my countless brave ancestors that made the journey to the United States many eons ago. Since then, every generation has impacted our original customs. As the years passed on, so did behaviors and other tendencies. These have eventually made their way throughout the entire family tree and down to my generation. Now, as a social work student, I am forced to face these behaviors head on and even challenge them. Two Stories of Immigration
All my life people have always questioned my ethnicity. My mom says it makes me mysterious and intriguing. She says, "You look like you could be born in any part of the world". Any time I 'm in a crowd the question always comes up, "what 's your ethnicity?", "are you mixed with anything?". I look at them and smile thinking in my head of course you just asked that. I give a big sigh and say "I 'm white and Pakistani". Some look at me with great confusion and ask, "What is that?" I hit them with a
Embedded Assessment 1: My Cultural Identity In my life I experienced many things and the most important thing that I learn is that life is like a box of chocolate . I say that life is like a box of chocolate like Forrest Gump said because, you never know what's planned for you next. You don't know if you're going to get a good outcome, or a bad outcome because it's different flavors in chocolate. My freshman year of highschool I was lacking not doing my work and just slacking but, now I regret it
My cultural identity is shaped by what I've come to learn as essential values, cuisine, and simply, music. Values are a person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgement of what's important in life. The values that have been embedded in me play a big role in my progressive development as a person. Cuisine is a style or method of cooking, especially as characteristic of a particular country, region, or establishment. My taste in food is being shaped around a more familiar type of cuisine
immediately think about my Japanese and Filipino lineage. I also think about Hawaii, and how growing up there has shaped me today. This are only parts of the equation to my cultural identity. No matter what nationality or country you grow up in, each person is exposed to different ideals that mix in with their background culture. I would like to look at my cultural identity by looking at some traditions in Hawaii, the organizations I've been a part of, and my own unique personal identity. Each of these has
My culture identity, as I know it as is African American. My culture can be seen in food, literature, religion, language, the community, family structure, the individual, music, dance, art, and could be summed up as the symbolic level. Symbolic, because faith plays a major role in our daily lives through song, prayer, praise and worship. When I'm happy I rely on my faith, same as when I'm sad, for I know things will get better as they have before. There are different disciplines within the humanities


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Today I want to share a super easy recipe for roasted butternut squash. I love to make this as a side dish instead of the usual potatoes. This goes particularly well with stews or roasts. The minimalist way of preparing this side dish allows us to taste what butternut squash has to offer. This is so simple to prepare, you don't even have to peel the butternut squash, simply cut it lengthwise, seed it, drizzle it with olive oil, sprinkle salt and black pepper and in to the oven it goes for 40 minutes and that's that. I told you. Simple. Enjoy your weekend!
1 large butternut squash or 2 small ones
olive oil as need
salt and pepper
Preheat the oven to 450˚F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside. Cut and discard the tip of the butternut squash then cut it lengthwise. Scoop out the seeds and cut again in half. Place it on the prepared baking sheets, drizzle with olive oil, season with salt and pepper and bake it for 40 minutes or until tender.
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At the conclusion of the opening segment of the "Sean Hannity's Muslim "Friend" Mike Ghouse Responds to Logan's Warning!" series, we closed with the following statement:
Obviously Mike will say anything to try and counter the critics of Islam. But wait, in part II his lies get bolder and even more comical!
Well here you go!
Mike Ghouse:
Thirdly, No Muslim organization or a majority of Muslims in America want Sharia for public governance, but there are some who may want to use Sharia to resolve differences between family members, just as Jewish Laws.
Yes! You read it correctly! Mike Ghouse who appears on Fox News has stated there are no Muslim organizations in America that wants Sharia to govern America. It is unbelievable that he thought that would actually fly here! I will start with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Co-Founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
CAIR-SFBA Executive Committee Member
President and CEO of Silicon Expert Technologies.
Former Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) Officer.
Omar Ahmad was captured on FBI surveillance tapes at Hamas meetings in the U.S.A. during 1993 explaining that the IAP could not, for political reasons, admit its support for Hamas, and then discussing how the Hamas agenda could be cloaked and advanced. Omar Ahmad's airfare and hotel bills for this meeting were paid for by the Holy Land Foundation.
"Those who stay in America should be open to society without melting, keeping Mosques open so anyone can come and learn about Islam. If you choose to live here, you have a responsibility to deliver the message of Islam … Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
Last June Hizb ut-Tahrir America held their Khilafah Conference 2011 in Oak Brook, IL Illionis. In the video below the spokesperson calls for Sharia to the chants of "Allahu Akbar"!
For those new to the subject, Hizb ut-Tahrir is a powerful Islamic organization which has chapters across the world.
Another Muslim group which is trying to implement Sharia is America is the Muslim Brotherhood. Back in February of 2011 Glenn Beck did a show on the Muslim Brotherhood's plan to turn America into the Sharia States of America.
Written sometime in 1987 but not formally published until May 22, 1991, this 18-page document listed the Brotherhood's 29 likeminded "organizations of our friends" that shared the common goal of dismantling American institutions and turning the U.S. into a Muslim nation. These "friends" were identified by Akram and the Brotherhood as groups that could help convince Muslims "that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands … so that … God's religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions."
Here is the list of the "organizations of friends".
Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
ISNA Fiqh Committee (now known as the Fiqh Council of North America)
ISNA Political Awareness Committee
Muslim Youth of North America
Muslim Students Association of the U.S. and Canada
Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers
Islamic Medical Association (of North America)
Islamic Teaching Center
Malaysian Islamic Study Group
Foundation for International Development
North American Islamic Trust
Islamic Centers Division
American Trust Publications
Audio-Visual Center
Islamic Book Service
Islamic Circle of North America
Muslim Arab Youth Association
Islamic Association for Palestine
United Association for Studies and Research
International Institute of Islamic Thought
Muslim Communities Association
Association of Muslim Social Scientists (of North America)
Islamic Housing Cooperative
Muslim Businessmen Association
Islamic Education Department
Occupied Land Fund (later known as the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development)
Mercy International Association
Baitul Mal Inc.
Islamic Information Center (of America)
Unless Mike had been in a coma for the last decade or so, there is no way he did not know of at least some of the Muslim groups listed above. Obviously Mike is a blatant liar! Mosques across America are also preaching for Sharia, but Mike stated the majority of Muslims here do not want Sharia. Where is his proof? I challenge Mike to show us just ONE Mosque in America that is preaching AGAINST Sharia Law.
He brings Jewish people in this as a smokescreen. Jews are not the ones on a worldwide campaign threatening to impose a barbaric set of religious laws on all. Muslims are and that is where the focus shall remain Mike.
Every American prefers to hear the clergy, counselor or friends to resolve a difference before they go to the court., similarly, for personal Muslims may use a psychologist, a friend or sharia guidance for justice. Sharia is an option for Muslims and not for others.
If the Muslims groups that Mike said did not exist here get their way Sharia will be for all. As you will see internationally known Islamic scholars prove this.
Dr. Naik: Non-Muslims Have Less Rights Than Muslims Under Islam
Some background information on Dr. Naik:
The Sunday EXPRESS, dated 31st January 2010, published The Indian Express list of the "100 MOST POWERFUL INDIANS IN 2010" amongst the Billion Plus population of India, with 36 names from the "2009 List" deleted, wherein:-
1) Dr. ZAKIR NAIK was ranked No. 89.
2) From amongst the few Muslims in this list of 100, Dr. ZAKIR NAIK is the ONLY MUSLIM ISLAMIC PREACHER / SCHOLAR / ORATOR. The others being a Political Secretary, a Politician, a Government Official, a Business Magnate and 3 Film Personalities.
3) Amongst the "Spiritual/Religious Gurus" though he was the only Muslim and No. 3 in 2009 list, this year (2010) Dr. Zakir Naik TOPPED the List of Spiritual / Religious Gurus at No. 89, for preaching of Islam, followed by Jaggi Vasudev (at No. 94, for his trees planting work), Baba Ramdev (at No. 99, for his Yoga work) and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (at No. 100, for his Sudarshan Kriya breathing technique work) respectively.
4) Dr. Zakir Naik was recently also selected and listed in "The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World" (without rankings) published by the George Washington University, USA.
From the "Reliance of theTraveller, A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law. The book has the stamp of approval of Al Azhar, the world's highest learning Islamic school.
o11.1 A formal agreement of protection is made with citizens who are:
(1) Jews;
(2) Christians;
(3) Zoroastrians;
(4) Samarians and Sabians, if their religions do not respectively contradict the fundamental bases of Judaism and Christianity;
(5) and those who adhere to the religion of Abraham or one of the other prophets (upon whom be blessings and peace).
o11.2 Such an agreement may not be effected with those who are idol worshippers, or those who do not have a Sacred Book or something that could have been a book.
(A: Something that could have been a Book refers to those like the Zoroastrians, who have remnants resembling an ancient Book. As for the psuedoscriptures of cults that have appeared since Islam (n: such as the Sikh, Baha'is, Mormons, Qadianis, etc.) they are neither are nor could be a Book since the Koran is the final revelation.)
o11.3 Such an agreement is only valid when the subject peoples:
(a) follow the rules of Islam (o11.5) (A: those mentioned below (o11.5) and those involving public behavior and dress, though in acts of worship and their private lives, the subject communities have their own laws, judges, and courts, enforcing the rules of their own religion among themselves);
(b) and pay the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya)
o11.4 The minimum non-Muslim poll tax is on dinar (n: 4.235 grams of gold) per person (A: per year) The maximum is whatever both sides agree upon.It is collected with leniency and politeness, as are all debts, and it not levied on women, children, or the insane.
o11.5 Such non-Muslim subjects are obliged to comply with Islamic rules that pertain to the safety and indemnity of life, reputation, and property. In addition, they:
(1) are penalized for committing adultery or theft, though not for drunkenness:
(2) are distinguished from Muslims in dress, wearing a wide cloth belt (zunnar)
(3) are not greeted with "as-Salamu 'alaykun";
(4) must keep to the side of the street;
(5) may not build higher than or as high as the Muslims' buildings, though if they acquire a tall house, it is not razed;
(6) are forbidden to openly display wine or pork (A: to ring church bells or display crosses,) recite the Torah or Evangel aloud, or make public display of their funerals and feastdays;
(7) and are forbidden to build new churches
o11.6 They are forbidden to reside in the Hijaz, meaning the area and towns around Mecca, Medina, and Yamama, for more than three days (when the caliph allows them to enter there for something they need).
o11.7 A non-Muslim may not enter the Meccan Sacred Precinct (Haram) under any circumstances, or enter any other mosque without persmission (A: nor may Muslims enter churches without their permission).
o11.8 It is obligatory for the caliph to protect those of them who are in Muslim lands just as he would Muslims, and to seek the release of those captured.
o11.9 If non-Muslim subjects of the Islamic state refuse to conform to the rules of Islam or pay the non-Muslim poll tax, than their agreement with the state has been violated. (dis: o11.11) (A: though if only one of them disobeys, it concerns him alone).
o11.10 The agreement is also violated (A: with respect to the offender alone) if the state has stipulated that any of the following things break it, and one of the subjects does so anyway, though if the state has not stipulated that these break the agreement, then they do not; namely, if one of the subject people:
(1) commits adultery with a Muslim woman or marries her;
(2) conceals spies of hostile forces;
(3) leads a Muslim away from Islam;
(4) kills a Muslim;
(5) or mentions something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam.
o11.11 When a subject's agreement with the state has been violated, the caliph chooses between the four alternatives mentioned in connection with prisoners of war (o9.14).
o9.14 When an adult male is taken captive, the caliph considers the interests
(O: of Islam and the Muslims) and decides between the prisoner's death, slavery, release without paying anything, or ransoming himself in exchange for money or a Muslim captive held by the enemy.
If the prisoner becomes a Muslim (O: before the caliph chooses any of the four alternatives) then he may not be killed , and one of the other three alternatives is chosen.
Fourthly, as a Muslim and Muslim representing many a Muslims, we stand up against "Sharia as practiced in those three nations" Justice is enshrined in American Laws and Muslims prefer Justice, that is the intent of Sharia law, even thought it is misapplied, misinterpreted and miscarried as it happens in any system.
Finally! There is one thing he said that I believe. I am sure he does represent "many a Muslims". More lying Muslims who will say anything to try and cover for Islam. MG goes onto to state justice is the intent of Sharia Law. The readers have just seen some very barbaric aspects of Sharia "justice". Mike, instead of continually posting empty talking points, point out the "misinterpretations.
Over the last two years I have been with Hannity, I have seen his sensibility in seeing facts. He sees Sharia of Saudi is not the same as Sharia as most Muslims understand.
What you really mean to say is that you have found a man who has fallen for your Islamocon, and research team that has failed by allowing Ghouse to mislead America for two years! Mike you are not the spokesperson for the Islamic community so do not pretend to be.
I am glad to see reason and rationality approach by Sean when he says, there are different interpretations, he clearly saw the difference and once he quoted again to some one on his show, "is this the Sharia interpretation Mike Ghouse talks about?" On the interview with Imam Feisal, Sean quoted me again and that caused the stir with the right wingers.
Of course Ghouse is glad. He has found someone who has allowed him to sell millions of Americans an Islamic bridge. A bridge to an Islamic hell. Sean making that statement shows just how uniformed he is on this issue.
Mr. Logan, I hope you see another point of view, espoused by Muslims, if you do, check my article on "Sharia Not in America" published at Huffington Post and go to the site www.ShariaLaws.com for a range of articles on the topic.
I see a view espoused my YOU Mike, that is all. From Mike's link:
The intent of the Sharia laws was to construct a complete justice system with fairness to all members of society.
American Muslims have placed their trust in the American justice system and will continue to oppose Sharia laws as they are currently applied in many places across the globe. I will be one of the first ones, if not the first one, to stand up against it. The Muslim majority in America is happy with the American system and does not want to have Sharia law here in America.
That article was written back in July of 2010, so we can see Mike has been blatantly lying to America for years and Fox News allowed this to go on!
Here is a response to the two verse quoted by you. Perhaps, misquoted or quoted from Muslim-right-wing translations or European translation since 1142 AD, which they never bothered to correct it as it suits the right wingers.
Response to 9:29 is at:
What is comical here is that the verse has the same meaning as I had posted in the first Hannity article.
9:29 (Asad) [And] fight against those who – despite having been vouchsafed revelation [aforetime] [40] -do not [truly] believe either in God or the Last Day, and do not consider forbidden that which God and His Apostle have forbidden, [41] and do not follow the religion of truth [which God has enjoined upon them] [42] till they [agree to] pay the exemption tax with a willing hand, after having been humbled [in war]. [43] –
But Ghouse tries to spin the meaning:
He goes onto state the Koran states there is no compulsion in religion. Well that's nice Mike. I did not say anything about forced conversions. I stated Islamic rule calls for the dominance over non-Muslims. By force if necessary, and you only helped prove that. Thanks buddy! Apparently Mike likes to make things up.
the clear-cut Qur'anic rule that war is permitted only in self-defence
What he conveniently leaves out is that there is an offensive jihad. There is also the following verse from the Sahih (authentic) Ahadith:
Sahih Muslim Book 019, Number 4294:
It has been reported from Sulaiman b. Buraid through his father that when the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) appointed anyone as leader of an army or detachment he would especially exhort him to fear Allah and to be good to the Muslims who were with him. He would say: Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war, do not embezzle the spoils; do not break your pledge; and do not mutilate (the dead) bodies; do not kill the children. When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them. Then invite them to migrate from their lands to the land of Muhairs and inform them that, if they do so, they shall have all the privileges and obligations of the Muhajirs. If they refuse to migrate, tell them that they will have the status of Bedouin Muilims and will be subjected to the Commands of Allah like other Muslims, but they will not get any share from the spoils of war or Fai' except when they actually fight with the Muslims (against the disbelievers). If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help and fight them. When you lay siege to a fort and the besieged appeal to you for protection in the name of Allah and His Prophet, do not accord to them the guarantee of Allah and His Prophet, but accord to them your own guarantee and the guarantee of your companions for it is a lesser sin that the security given by you or your companions be disregarded than that the security granted in the name of Allah and His Prophet be violated When you besiege a fort and the besieged want you to let them out in accordance with Allah's Command, do not let them come out in accordance with His Command, but do so at your (own) command, for you do not know whether or not you will be able to carry out Allah's behest with regard to them.
On the other hand, they must be accorded full protection of all their civic rights and of their religious freedom:
MG the goes on to "explain" Koran verse 9:33, which also calls for dominance over non-Muslims.
9:33 (Asad) He it is who has sent forth His Apostle with the [task of spreading] guidance and the religion of truth, to the end that He may cause it to prevail over all [false] religion ("the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him". See also 61 : 8-9). however hateful this may be to those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God.
Indeed the right wing Muslims interpret the "true religion" in the verse above in political terms, that of dominance and impositions. It goes against the very essence of Quraan which calls, to honor the people of the book and asserts God alone is the master of the Day of Judgment and that you have to back off judging others on their belief aspect. Ironically, the right wingers in all religions see things in similar manner.
Seriously Mike, you are getting boring. Give it a rest….I have proved over and over that Islam calls for the dominance over non-Muslims. My name is Logan, not Hannity. I have done my homework!
Ghouse are you any kind of authority figure in the Islamic world Mike? I challenge you, Hannity, the entire Fox News research team, Brigitte Gabriel, Daniel Pipes, Frank Gaffney, and their hero Zudhi Jasser to prove that just one of the four main Sunni schools states that Muslims and non-Muslims have equal rights under Islam. Come on guys…..just ONE….
The Hanafi school, the Maliki school, the Shafi'i school and the Hanbali school. I will even make things easier for all of you, and add the Shiite Jafari Islamic school to the list.
My advice to my infidel friends is not to hold your breath waitng for a response to that challenge. Islam will takeover long before those schools put out a non-Muslim friendly version of Sharia. To do so they would have to change the Koran. It is not happening.
Coming up next on Logan's Warning. Sean Hannity's "friend" Mike Ghouse goes on anti-conservative Christian tirade! You have to see this!


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September 7, 1999
[New York City]
My take on Long Lake. Over Labor Day weekend, I attended a design
gathering in Long Lake, a
hamlet (not a town, or a city, or a village) in the Adirondacks
situated on, well, a lake. Forthwith a scattering of thoughts and
personae encountered. Sorry there's not more embedded links.
For further context,
last year's gathering is featured in issue 1 of If/Then:
Design Implications of New Media, a tome of original essays
on the state of interactive design, situated around the theme of
play. If/Then has broad relevance to fans of petermemes,
as this passage demonstrates:
also came up with an excellent example of knowledge with a capital
K, in the shape of The Knowledge, the famous understanding
of routes that London taxi drivers have to master. At the lowest
level it is data, the names of the roads and streets; above
that it is information, about the spatial relationships
between the streets. Above all it is knowledge about how
to actually get from one place to another, incorporating contextual
information about matters such as traffic congestion and local
bottlenecks, and how to modify the Highway Code to London conditions.
And, of course, it is a set of maps." (p. 62, bold emphasis
also came up with an excellent example of knowledge with a capital
K, in the shape of The Knowledge, the famous understanding
of routes that London taxi drivers have to master. At the lowest
level it is data, the names of the roads and streets; above
that it is information, about the spatial relationships
between the streets. Above all it is knowledge about how
to actually get from one place to another, incorporating contextual
information about matters such as traffic congestion and local
bottlenecks, and how to modify the Highway Code to London conditions.
And, of course, it is a set of maps." (p. 62, bold emphasis
This bolsters the notion
that everyone is an information designer, which begs the question,
that what is it that professional information designers do?
Random aside: If I'm
any bellwether of market trends, then there is a huge industrial
design opportunity in bicycle commuting, specifically for laptop-toting
knowledge workers. Who's with me?
The interrelation of
design and business and its implications on design education were
delved into. The level of multi-disciplinary breadth required for
good design suggests wholly doing away with design education as
it's currently practiced, which is typically in some degree of isolation
from essential understanding in technology, business, social sciences,
cognitive science. I was heartened to realize that successful design
requires bucking the trend of increasing specialization in favor
of more holistic understanding.
This lead to discussion
on how to guide designers towards a better understanding of their
craft. Information design for the Web has little formal curriculum,
and to me suggests that a master/apprentice relationship is imperative--too
often people are simply thrust into the role and expected to figure
it out. The role of coach was also suggested, someone to act as
a mentor, who might not have domain expertise, but whose wisdom
can be brought to bear on any situation. This holds appeal in that
it won't succumb the potential "Business As Usual" sentiment
already too prevalent in the design--"You'll design this way,
because I design this way, because the person before me designed
this way, etc."
Clever wordplay was often
the order of the day. Sawad proclaimed he practiced "affirmative
cynicism," which became something of a motto for the event.
In mentioning how I hate getting caught up in semantics, because
I find the constant definition of terms often serves only to get
in the way of real dialog, David asked, "Does that make you
Both Don and Kristi highly
recommended the business practices book Orbiting
the Giant Hairball, a tract on out-of-the-box type thinking
written by a 30-year Hallmark veteran. Normally I'd roll my eyes
at the thought of such seeming "alternative" thinking,
but I place a fair amount of trust in the suggestors' opinions.
Go with the flow.
Sawad Brooks and Beth Stryker
presented Disseminet
(the name looks vaguely Russian, nyet?), a beautifully fluid piece
of interaction design art, with a semantic (there's that word!)
model that could be appropriated for any number of information spaces.
David read Coyote
Trickster tales from Native American myths. It lead to a dialog
on the utility of subversion in design, particularly if it's possible
for designers to exploit their role as the shaper of the communication
and insert their own messages in the product.
September 5, 1999
[Long Lake, NY]
Representational distortion, among other things, is the subject
of this picture-filled
essay on maps.
Patron Saint of Free-Thinking
Oddballs. Today, in a discussion of virtual information spaces,
and the unfortunate reality of how such intermediation further divorces
us from the real thing that we care about, 16th-century philosopher
and proto-scientist Giordano
Bruno came up. Best known for his Copernican heresies around
heliocentrism, he also developed intriguing
memory maps as a way to store and catalog personal information.
September 2, 1999
Today only--get a Palm V at low cost through Accompany. I've just
purchased in this
group, and the more who buy in, the cheaper it gets! Ahh, the
power of positive aggregation.
August 31, 1999
Simply brilliant. Personal
Dictionaries is an old favorite computer art piece. I originally
saw it as part of the dearly departed New
Voices New Visions contest, which was among the best fora for
encouraging interesting interactive art.
NVNV was sponsored in
part by Interval Research,
which has made its publications
free to all! Most are pretty technical, though Michael Naimark's
Art--Maybe It's a Bad Idea" and "Art
("and" or "versus") Technology: Some Personal Observations"
are accessible and intriguing.
I'm wishing....
Wow. I'd buy this
and hang it on a wall, as long as the wall wasn't in my house. An
amazing picture, but, well, too depressing to live with, no? That
woman's face squarely defeats any witty detached irony. Thanks,
judith, errr, mrpants,
errr, katherine. (follow
the bouncing meme!)
August 30, 1999
Submitted for your approval.
don't need to top off my night with the shaky camcorder scanning
for a good place to ford the 5-INCH-WIDE CREEK! Thousands of dollars
worth of video equipment BUT NO CELL PHONE? Climb a tree and LOOK
don't need to top off my night with the shaky camcorder scanning
for a good place to ford the 5-INCH-WIDE CREEK! Thousands of dollars
worth of video equipment BUT NO CELL PHONE? Climb a tree and LOOK
marches on. The term has entered Keith
Dawson's Jargon Scout (where you find out cool new sayings long
before they're mentioned in Wired), along with a handy verb conjugation
guide. In a private email, Keith mentioned the word's "ungainly"
quality, to which I responded:
I quite enjoy
it's "ungainly" qualities. I like that it's roughly onomatopoeic
of vomiting. These sites (mine included!) tend to be a kind of
information upchucking.
I quite enjoy
it's "ungainly" qualities. I like that it's roughly onomatopoeic
of vomiting. These sites (mine included!) tend to be a kind of
information upchucking.
29, 1999
Weekend grab bag.
Mark Pendergrast, who wrote the thoroughly brilliant For
God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of The Great
American Soft Drink and The Company That Makes It, has very
recently written Uncommon
Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World.
I hope the new publication will bring For God... back into
print. It's a revelatory chronicle following the caramel syrup from
it's first batch through to global dominance, and reveals how Coca-Cola
blazed trails for much of modern capitalism, setting precedence
in trademark, attitude-based advertising, international distribution,
and more. I have yet to read the new book--yet another to add to
the pile!
An oldie-but-goodie:
The Shuttlecocks rate
Coca-Cola's marketing slogans. (Though they neglected my favorite,
"The Pause That Refreshes.")
The pervasiveness
of the flavored fizzy sugar water throughout American society is
an overwhelming and potentially
depressing thought. The Onion had a marvelous take on the notion
of soda proximity, though the article appears to be no longer online.
In the spirit of the misplaced story, please answer the new poll
to the left.
This table
of per capita consumption of beverage types in Canada, USA,
and Europe reveals some interesting trends.
Now why hasn't anyone
else done that? Microsoft's Knowledge
Base Search offers a brilliant and simple feature--"My
Last Ten Searches":
This is so wonderfully handy. My guess is that users often return
to a search engine wanting the exact same thing--in this particular
case, troubleshooting computers often means restarting the system,
so the ability to hop back to right where you are is a godsend.
(Unfortunately, I still haven't been able to figure out why Windows98
hangs when I attempt to Standby, Shutdown, or Restart.)
Disoriented. Last
night I attended my 10-year high
school reunion. It reminded me how little I interacted with
folks when I was in high school. The fact that humans have a remarkably
specific facility for remembering faces proved ultimately draining--surveying
the room repeatedly triggered my face-recognition sensor, informing
me that I should know who all these people are, but when cross-referencing
the internal names database, I repeatedly drew a blank.
[Tangent: Recognizing faces is such a highly specified neural activity
that there is a term solely for the inability to do so, prosopagnosia.
Here's a thoughtful first
person account.]


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"Old age is not for sissies." I hear this line frequently at work as I commiserate with my patients about the challenges of aging. Nor is selling/buying a house.
You will have figured out that we did not win our bid on the house, a disappointing but not devastating outcome. We are guessing that our bid was higher but that the other family didn't have any contingencies. Even though things are going well on our sale, we still have a contingency on the closing and they chose not to take that risk.
My reading for today was (appropriately) Psalm 73, where Asaph indulges in self-pity and envy of others around him. I was encouraged by the reminder that:
Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel.
My flesh and my heart may (do!) fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
It is good for me to be near my God; I have made the Lord God my refuge.
I love the Psalms for how real they are–and how they are able to bring us back to our senses, back to the truth. But I could still use your prayers as we continue to look at houses. I don't have much heart for it at this point. I'm still a sissie.


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Unexpected Peacemakers
When a local church is sharply divided, the path to restoring unity is often long and tedious. But for a small town in northeastern Cameroon, this healing process took an unexpected turn when the arrival of a surprising new group cut through the tension. What was startling about this group of peacemakers? Well, for starters, they're pigs.
"Before I moved over here in 2014, it was really difficult for different churches to come together," explains Ferdinand, one of the local pastors. "Even pastors from different churches shunned each other. The church was going through a serious denominational problem."
Some Important Background
Christians in Cameroon are the minority religion in a Muslim dominated country. Because Muslims dominate the economic market, Christians struggle to be financially successful. Some even convert to Islam to get ahead.
In 2014, Open Doors started holistic ministry training with pastors in the area. Pastor Ferdinand and some forty others took part in the first phase, exploring a Christian worldview on economics. A few months later, in 2015, the group reconvened and attendees were encouraged to come up with concrete economic projects that encouraged different churches to work together.
This is where the pigs came in.
A Pig Farm That Symbolized Hope
With some support from Open Doors, churches were able to set up three micro projects at the beginning of 2016. Six different church communities, including Pastor Ferdinand's, decided to start a pig farm. Their project began with four pigs–a number that soon doubled, then doubled and then doubled again.
"This is just the beginning. This first year is for investment," says Salomon, one of the main caretakers of the piggery. "Though it is mainly me who cares for the animals, brethren from the other participating churches take turns to work here during appointed times in the week."
Salomon, like Pastor Ferdinand, is convinced that the project will bear fruit. They already see the first improvements. One of these is the unity and warmth that exists today amongst the Christians of the six different churches that work together in this project. "We do not only come together during teachings we receive from Open Doors. We have reached a point where we work and even pray together while doing the different projects we started."
Not all of these business ventures have been immediately successful, but the economic seed sown in this region is beginning to bud. Bertrand, a Christian from one of the local churches, has started a miniature version of the joint piggery next to his house. Two other groups have decided to start their own individual projects too.
"Many more Christians have opened up shops and boutiques in the market; something many would never have dared in the past," Pastor Ferdinand said. "Other brothers are opening up community farms where they cultivate corn, beans, etc. The influence is really big. Even mothers have joined in. Apart from individual farms which they have started, they are also grouping themselves to have community farms."
Open Doors is funding similar efforts throughout the nation of Cameroon. In a small town in the North Province there is yet another group of churches that has set up a community project. Members of different churches work together on two hectares of land, cultivating soybeans. The crops are nearing maturity, and once harvested, this group intends to do it again. The group then wants to use the surplus of money to support individual members to start their own farms.
Bele, the group leader, marvels at the prospects that could come up while showing his visitors around the farm. "In the near future each group member could become a leader of a new group. They already have the experience: how we hold meetings, how we start the project, and how we move forward. And it is really wonderful that the group contains brethren from different church communities."
The task of helping local churches grow together economically, as well as spiritually, was an uphill one. However, over time there has been a change in the perception in churches. A growing number of local church leaders embrace the idea of holistic ministry. Many have personally testified about how the training they received from Open Doors has opened their eyes to the pressures they and their church members face.
"How can we take care of widows and orphans if we are not strong all round?" one of them asked.
"We understand now," confided another, "that we have to earn our own money like the apostle Paul did. Even though he was busy with spiritual matters, he made room for economic projects."
Projects like these are what your generous donations to Open Doors go toward. If you feel God prompting you to help unify and financially support the church in Cameroon you can donate here.


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Do Not Grieve & Weep Over The Past!
As I was ministering today to someone who has suffered many hurts and abuses in the past, Holy Spirit showed me something.
I saw how we are all born in need of a Savior, because of the fall of Adam.
Even in childhood, people in our lives make bad and evil decisions that can affect us for a long long time.
Before Jesus comes into our lives, we are all connected to darkness and death. I saw this connection as a dead ugly black cord.
But wait! Here is the GOOD news! In a vision, I saw a person accept Jesus as their Savior.
I saw angels come and SEVER the connection to the past, death, the devil and sin. These new Believers were then connected to the Father by the the Holy Spirit through the Blood of Jesus.
I saw this connection as a SILVER cord, like an umbilical cord, nourishing the Child of God with HIS LIFE and LIGHT.
Silver is the color of REDEMPTION. This connection can never be broken and remains until the person dies and his spirit returns to God.
I saw the Believer as two separate beings. The one before Jesus and the one after. The one before the cross and the one after the Cross.
The dead had passed away, the New Life had come! The Child of the night and darkness had died with Christ and the Child of day and the Light was created by the Hand of God and raised up ALIVE in Him!
You have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer you who lives, but Jesus Christ living in you! How can we fail, Beloved? Amen?
And I heard this word for you:
"Beloved. Do not grieve and weep over things in the past. Behold, old things are passed away, all things have become new. I have dissolved all ties to the devil.
You are united with Me. We have a NEW covenant, My Child, made by the Blood of the Lamb.
You are a NEW creation in Christ Jesus. I have severed all connections between you and the devil and his evil deeds. You are now hidden with Christ in your Father God.
We have a SECURE connection that can never be broken. We are One. You are totally separated from your old man. You have died to the old man you once were, Dear One.
He is dead and buried. Let NOT the past haunt you any longer, My Child. You are now MY workmanship, and I have pronounced over you," VERY GOOD".
I AM the Vine and you are the branch. You abide in Me now. I nourish you and sustain you. Though you once walked in darkness, now you walk in My Light and NEWNESS of Life.
The only connection that remains to your past and your old man is in your mind, My Love. So keep your mind on things above.
See yourself as you are seen in Heaven. The angels are rejoicing over you, to see this great thing that has been done. You are altogether beautiful, My love; there is no flaw in you.
As I AM, so are you in this world. Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.
Behold, I AM doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
You have been united with Me. We are One in Spirit. I in you and you in Me, we are perfectly One.
I AM yours, and you are Mine. Rejoice, Beloved, and mourn no longer. You are safe with Me, now and forevermore. I make all things NEW."
Severed: 1.Legal term: to break off or dissolve (ties, relations, etc.) 2. disunite 3. To cut off (a part) from a whole: 4. break or interrupt: sever a cord; 5.To break up (a relationship, for example).
"Remember Him before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the well is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed; then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it," Ecclesiastes 12:6-7.
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new," 2 Corinthians 5:17.
"Behold, all things are become new – The man is not only mended, but he is new made; he is a new creature, καινη κτισις, a new creation, a little world in himself; formerly, all was in chaotic disorder; now, there is a new creation, which God himself owns as His workmanship, and which He can look on and pronounce very good," © Adam Clarke Commentary.
"Therefore if any man be in Christ – The phrase to "be in Christ,"means to be united to Christ by faith; or to be in Him as the branch is in the vine – that is, so united to the vine, or so in it, as to derive all its nourishment and support from it, and to be sustained entirely by it," © Albert Barnes Commentary.
"For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God," Colossians 3:3.
"For through the Law I died to the Law so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the Law, Christ died for nothing," Galatians 2:19-21.
"We therefore were buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life," Romans 6:4.
"In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God's angels over one sinner who repents," (born again) Luke 15:10.
"But now He has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence," Colossians 1:22.
"But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit," 1 Corinthians 6:17.
"I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be IN US, so that the world may believe that you have sent Me. The glory that you have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one even as We are one, I in them and You in Me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that You sent Me and loved them even as You loved Me," John 17:20-23.
"You are altogether beautiful, My love, there is no flaw in you," Song of Solomon 4:7.
~ Deborah Waldron Fry


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Hi everybody! I know it's been awhile since you heard from me, so I decided to to do a short vlog updating you on what's been going on. Now that I'm getting back into the swing of things I look forward to sharing more travel adventures, creative inspiration, and life with you!
Thank you again to my beloved partner, Lindy-Ann, for picking up my slack you are true gem!


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University of California Press, 122pp
Wednesday, July 30th, 2003
Fanny Howe's Gone reads like a soul's travelogue in installments, a turning over of themes, positions, and bodies as the author seeks, as Simone Weil did, to maintain a conversion through effort. The single prose poem of the book, flatly titled 'Doubt,' confirms this alliance, both in its notebook style and in its seemingly self-reflective analysis of Weil's project:
Her prose itself is tense with effort. After all, to convert by choice (that is, without a blast of revelation or a personal disaster) requires that you shift the names for things, and force a new language out of your mind onto the page.
Issuing from a lesser poet, a statement of theme like this might collapse the possibilities of the volume around it; from Howe, this clearing of the mental air allows the lyrics of this volume to escape from the duties of exposition and reveal their true identities as the most efficient, immediate, and consistently dazzling short poems of recent years.
Here, for example, is exactly one half of the poem, 'Some Day':
Some day a sheep with green eyes will meet me
at a door
"self, come in
and be as vigilant
as the alien you are."
I will enter with a book in my hand, I'm sure
For totemicness, simplicity, and breathtaking oddness of statement and address, this is a poem to stand beside Blake's Songs of Innocence. Yet it is not a poem of complete innocence, as the insight about the self's alien vigilance and the experienced "I'm sure" suggest. Instead of an overt rhyme scheme, here is a buried system of half-endrhymesdoor, are, surewhich punctuate complete thoughts and create a gently musical substructure that pleases and ensnares the adult ear. The half-endrhyme and the admixture of naiveté and irony are Howe's ready tools throughout Gone.
One would be remiss not to stress that these short poems are parts of larger meditative structures. The above poem is one in a grouping called 'The Descent,' which apparently captures short glimpses of the soul in its stays at various addresses, including prior to and/or after life on earth. The first long grouping of the book, 'The Splinter,' shows the soul in the process of birthing itself through childhood awakening, or separation from the mother, or differentiation from corporeal self. "(Skin is what I she and they see when we see feelings)" is a not untypical line from this section, but equally common are passages like these:
So the first shall be lost
and the zero before it
and the weight of faithless skin
shall thicken its authority
in a mind fired by a spark
whose intake of breath is automatic
until it isn't
Here the eschatological misquote of the first line ('lost' for 'last') allows a splinter of the mundane to enter the poem, for what could be more mundane than error? This bit of psychology then permits the manmade mathematical imagery of the second line and the anatomical imagery of the final couplet. At the same time, the rhyme of "before it" and "authority" is marred by the latter's daughterly "y," and the missing endrhyme in the second half of the poem turns up as a sight-rhyme between "authority" and "automatic". In this massive seven-line poem, mundanity enters and fractures theology, but makes it truer to (human) life.
The bulkiest section of the book, 'The Passion,' is an erratically violent, erotic affair, introducing a Christ-like 'he' into the proceedings. This section delivers many surprising reprises of and departures from the Passion story. In the Catholic Passion, Christ is the star of each scene, but Howe's version gloriously breaks this rule. At one point, the speaker's longing for this absent figure allows her to play his role and conjure up a quite remarkable universe all her own. Here's that installation in its entirety:
Come back
to three lines of light on a little river
one pink, one green and one aluminum
come back to being.
This delicate vivacity is present elsewhere in Gone, in poems not circumscribed by the weight of 'The Passion.' 'The Source' relates a time imaginatively predating the struggle recorded elsewhere in the book. It begins thus:
The source
I thought was Arctic
the good Platonic
Up the pole
was soaked film
an electric elevation
onto a fishy platform.
Here is all the wiggly, fishtailing delight in the materiality of language that is the hallmark of contemporary poetry, with none of its aimlessness; Howe's language attends a motion upwards, toward
. . . a light that powered out
my ego or my heart
before ending with a letter.
Again, that simplest of tools, enjambment, permits crushing surprises.
Apart from its meditative heft and the knockout grandeur of individual poems, Howe also fulfills that most antiquated measure of a poet's worth: she provides memorable lines. Striking among these are "your soul is just a length of baby," and "Heart, come along and be as heartless/ as you know you are." It is this line-by-line excellence that places Howe in the forefront of American poetry. She wrestles us off our asses and into grace.
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Awesome Things About SEPTA We've Learned From SEPTA's New Advertising Campaign
It's the 50th anniversary of SEPTA and, and the transit agency wants you to celebrate:
The anniversary includes the unveiling of the I SEPTA Philly website, which includes a great video that, unfortunately, doesn't appear to be embeddable anywhere else. Go watch it, now.
Like any 50-year-old struggling with a midlife crisis, the SEPTA video tries to convinces us how young and hip it is. Here's what some of our favorite quotes from the video reveal about SEPTA in 2014.
• It's like a party!
"I honestly enjoy riding SEPTA because I'm a people person, I like watching people and talking to people and getting to know people."
• Or maybe it's like Facebook!
"I see people from my grade school and high school, so it's nice to reconnect."
• Or maybe Match.com!
"I've met a bunch of nice ladies on SEPTA."
• But there's no reason to be creeped out!
"I feel definitely very safe on SEPTA."
"In fact, I notice cameras on the bus."
"When I get off the train, I usually see uniformed officers standing there."
• Or grossed out!
"A lot of people think, like, SEPTA is dirty, but it's actually really clean."
• In fact, maybe you should engage in unwise behavior!
"You can easily fall asleep like I do. It's really relaxing."
• After all, there's nobody on our trains or buses that you would find annoying or offputting!
"I'm usually coming home from the club, tearin' it up at the club, in Manayunk, Center City."
• That's why we're happy! Never sad! Happy!
"WIthout SEPTA here in Philly, my life would be very boring, I wouldn't be able to get around."


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This is a re-post of a comment on How to Setup a Webhook with Jotform
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My understanding is that you want to download the form submissions in a JSON format. Unfortunately, we currently don't have that feature. However, you can download the form submissions into an Excel, CSV or PDF file.
Here's a guide: How-to-Download-Form-Submissions-as-Excel-CSV-PDF.
After that, you can probably use a third party application to convert it to a JSON format.
Please take note that you can send the POST Data in the Thank You Page. Here's a guide: How-to-Post-Submission-Data-to-Thank-You-Page.
Hope that helps. Thank you.
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We added Webhook integration to post data to a specific url, but we need this data to be postd as json, with content-type "application/json" and not the multipart/form one !
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Properties of hide glue
- Hide glue is thermoplastic - softens to a liquid state when warmed and solidifies when cool
- Hide glue is hydroscopic - in other words, it has an affinity for water which means, for wood working purposes, it responds to some degree with changes in relative humidity just as wood does and more importantly, a hide glue joint can be "reversed" with warm water
- Hide glue is an animal protein (collagen) - when hide glue cools (dries) the protein structure contracts (on a molecular level) which has the effect of clamping
- Hide glue grading - hide glue is graded in terms of "gram strength" (GEEK FACTOID: gram strength is a measure of how many grams of force it requires to depress a 1/2" plunger 4mm. into a 12.5% protein solution of the glue at 10° C). Hide glue gram strengths range from 85 to 379. The important point to know is the higher the gram strength, the quicker the set. The general recommendation range for for woodworking applications is 135 - 251 gram strength (192 or 195 is considered the all around glue for most woodworking applications).
- Mix a large batch of hide glue and pour into a set of ice cube trays. Store the premixed "hide glue cubes" in the freezer. Add the cubes to the glue pot as needed to keep a batch of working hide glue ready at the bench.
- The general rule of thumb for mixing hide glue is one cup of dry glue to one cup water, vary the amount of water depending on the desired consistency. Add the glue to the water and allow to soak for 30 minutes. Stir occasionally while gently heating to 140 F°. Be careful to not "cook" the glue as this will weaken the glue by breaking down the protein molecular chains.
- On a day when you are planning on working with hide glue, the second thing to be turned on after the shop lights is the glue pot!
- Your glue pot can be covered with plastic wrap and stored in the refrigerator overnight. After a week of use (heat-cool-heat) it is best to discard and start with a fresh batch.
- To make hide glue liquid at room temperature (longer open time / slower drying) add approximately 5 tablespoons of urea for each cup of dry glue.
- To make hide glue be made waterproof add 1/2-1% aluminum sulfate.
- To make hide glue flexible add approximately 5% glycerin (based on the weight of glue), with increasing increments of 2-3% to achieve greater flexibility.
- To increase the " wetting properties" of hide glue add approximately 1% vinegar.
Both surfaces are brushed with glue and placed together. The top veneer surface is also coated with glue to act as a lubricant. The "hammer" is then pushed across the veneer surface from the center outward to force out the excess glue. The glue will begin to cool and gel immediately and holding the veneer in place. For large work surfaces, make sure the surface is warm. Have a heat source (heat lamp) nearby for a longer working time.
Hide Glue & Veneering References
The definitive hide glue resource and "hide glue guru" is Eugene Thorndahl of Bjorn Industries in North Carolina. Eugene has the most experience with hide glue. Bjorn Industries has the widest variety available of hide glue gram strengths.
Bjorn Industries
(704) 364-1186
This link provides a good photo essay of mixing up a batch of hide glue on the Frets.com website.
Hide Glue Resources on Fine Woodworking.com
A great source for the "gold standard" for glue pots . . . Hold-Heet Glue Pots
Hide Glue Brushes
Make Your Own Hide Glue Brush!
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This beautiful giraffe pot is carved by hand and is a work of art. Mined and cut from the quarries of the Tamaka Hills of Kisii, Kenya. One of the few regions in the world where you can obtain this material.
The white colour is the natural colour of the stone and no dye has been added to so it doesn't modify the true tones of this stunning natural material.
Use as decor, placing potpourri, bar nibbles, chocolates, and jewellery. The material is a metamorphic rock that is non-porous and thus can hold water as well.
The material is then carved and sanded by hand by artisans from the region. People from the Kisii region have inherited the craft of working with this natural material which has resulted in this beautiful piece. Carefully chiseled detail is etched on the outside that gives a texture that contrasts with the smooth finish on the inside.
This craft enables the people of Tamaka Hills in Kisii county a better quality of life and helps the artisans break the cycle of poverty in the region.
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The following ring size guide is perfect if you're looking purchase a ring online, and you are unsure of the exact size. If you have an existing ring that is a comfortable fit on your finger and doesn't slip off your knuckle, then that would be perfect to find your ring size.
How to measure ring size:
Step 1 - Print out the below ring size chart at 100% and make sure the line in the image measures exactly 135mm.
Step 2 - Place your ring so that the black circle is exactly touching the inside of your ring. This will give you your correct ring sizing.
If you hesitate between 2 sizes, choose the larger one.


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Investment Tax Credit
The term investment tax credit refers to a number of business credits characteristically used by government entities to stimulate an economy. Typical credits include disaster relief, research and development, non-petroleum fuels, and alternative fuel vehicles.
Unlike a tax deduction, which serves to reduce taxable income, a tax credit reduces the actual amount of taxes owed on a dollar-for-dollar basis.
Typically, the types of investments or expenditures that qualify for an investment tax credit, or ITC, will depend on government policy and will vary over time. By providing a tax credit, government bodies (federal, state) can incent businesses to increase their investments in certain geographies, industries, and technologies.
Unlike a tax deduction, which lowers a company's taxable income, a credit reduces the taxes owed on a dollar-for-dollar basis. For example, a one dollar tax deduction provides a savings of $0.40 for companies in the 40% incremental tax bracket, while a credit provides a savings of $1.00.
Generally, there are two ways a company can account for an investment tax credit:
- Flow Through / Tax Reduction Method: the credit is viewed as a selective tax reduction that applies at the time of purchase and the income tax expenses for that period are reduced by the credit. Companies that advocate this method believe the purchase creates the credit.
- Deferral / Cost Reduction Method: the credit is allocated to the accounting periods over which the asset is depreciated. Companies that advocate this method believe the asset creates the credit.
The flow through method is used when tax credits are related to expenses (non-asset purchases); thereby flowing directly to the income statement in the year of the purchase. An investment tax credit can be recognized either by directly reducing income tax expense or by providing an offset to the accounting expense that provided the credit.
Under the cost reduction method, whereby the credit was provided when the company purchased an asset, the credit is amortized over the same accounting periods as the asset is depreciated. Here again, a company has two choices. They can deduct the credit from the asset base and calculate the depreciation expense on the net amount. Alternatively, the company can amortize the tax credit over the asset's serviceable life.
Related Terms
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"You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions."
― Ezra Taft Benson
A recent article about one man's artful use of the internet, social media, and human psychology to manipulate public opinion left me more concerned than usual about the future of our democracy. The article titled, "EXCLUSIVE: How This Left-Wing Activist Manipulates the Media to Spread His Message" by Ryan Holiday appeared in the New York Observer. Mr. Holiday is an editor-at-large at the New York Observer and author of "Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator." … Read the rest


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Weddings can be super fun for the bride and groom, as well as their immediate families. For all the other guests, it can be all too easy to lose interest as the day goes on. This is especially the case for very long wedding days when there is a break between the service and the evening party. There are various ways you can keep your guests interested and help them enjoy the day. It's all in the details! Here are five little wedding details that can make a large difference to your big day!
Personalized Invites
Invitations are very important, as they'll get your friends and family all excited for the wedding! For a very stylish set of invites, chat to a designer and tell them your perfect design. If you are on a budget or want to give them a personal touch, consider designing them yourself. Your guests will love the fact you've gone to the trouble to make your own invites. Your bank balance will also thank you for choosing free wedding invitations.
Guest Photos
Wedding photographers can be very expensive and often miss many moments during the reception. With smartphones being in the hands of almost every guest, let them help preserve your day. Frame signs with instructions for your guests to share their photos on social media using a specific hashtag assigned to your wedding. With Instagram and Facebook being all the rage, your guests can help capture and share memories that you may have missed. Browse through all the photos documented from your special day after your reception is over.
Hire Live Music
Live music or a DJ is important for your reception. If your budget is tight for your wedding, try to cut costs on the decorations and apply the funds towards the entertainment. Dancing is a wonderful way to make many lasting memories with your guests.
Ceilidh bands are a popular form of Gaelic entertainment that many people choose to have at their wedding. Originating in Ireland and Scotland, Ceilidhs rely a lot on audience participation, so expect all your guests to dance with the band! The band will play lots of fast-paced dances including reels and jigs.
Decorate your venue with photos of you and your fiance. Take a look at all the photos that feature both of you, and spread them around the room. You can incorporate them in many different ways. Stand some on all the dining tables during your wedding breakfast, and stick some to the walls. Your guests will enjoy going around and seeing all the different pictures.
Leave A Guestbook
Throughout the day, leave a guestbook for everyone to sign. They can write all their well-wishes so that you have them in a pretty book to keep as a memento of your precious day. This way, you will also remember who was at your wedding. If you do decide to use Polaroid cameras, you can also stick your photos into the guestbook and create a scrapbook of your wedding.
Most of these little additions to your weddings are ones which you will be able to keep for a long time afterwards as keepsakes. If not, they will help brighten all the many memories of your special day!


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Actually, we had fun, and ended up on the main road towards Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu (the main temple in Kamakura). On the approach is an arched bridge which was said to only be for the Shogun's use (and it's easy to see why, as it's now blocked off from pedestrian traffic).
Tsuragaoka Hachiman-gu
This shinto shrine was established by the Minamoto clan, and contains many of the aspects that you will find across Japan for these shrines. Firstly there is the wash basin (chozuya) which are used to purify yourself with water prior to approaching the shrine. Ladels are used to rinse off your hands - and no, it's not for drinking. On approaching the main worshipping hall which is generally known as the haiden (not where the God is meant to reside - the honden - that's not accessible to the public), you will find an alter of such, generally with a coin tray (saisen-bako) infront. Make a coin offering (it can be whatever value you wish), ring the bell twice (or strike gong), bow twice and then clap twice and then pray to the God (Kami); finish up by bowing once again. It's like pressing send on a celestial email. Each shrine may be slightly different, and there is also meaning to how the clapping is done, and the depth of the bows. Too much information!
A Shinto rite is performed...
A nearby lake and bridge.


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text: Reishi mushroom is a fungus that some people describe as "tough" and "woody" with a bitter taste. The fruiting body (above-ground part) and mycelium (filaments connecting a group of mushrooms) are used as medicine. Reishi mushroom contains properties that seem to have a variety of potentially beneficial effects to the skin and body.