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Sandbox action game Just Cause 2 was a blast to play solo, but sadly shipped without any kind of multiplayer. No matter. Fans of the game's PC edition have whipped up a version that lets a reported 600 people play it at once. On the same island.
The results are predictably...insane. Note that this is a fan-made thing, and is still in testing, so probably has a wys to go yet before it's "done". Still. Even what's on show here looks great.
The footage above was captured during a test run for the mod held over the weekend. 10,000 players took part in all, an average of over 400 new players every hour, with a peak server load apparently topping out at 1300+ players (I'm not sure if they were all on the same map or not...I'd be surprised if they were).
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Join us on March 3rd 2012 in Support of Foreign Domestic Workers in the Middle East
In keeping with the theme for Women's History Month 2012, "Women's Education – Women's Empowerment", the Ethiopian Social Assistance Committee (ESAC) is launching an initiative to build a task force in New York City that can advocate for foreign domestic workers in the Middle East. Join us at this inaugural event, where we will host speakers from various organizations, including the International Ethiopian Women Organization, Adbar Ethiopian Women's Alliance, and Resources for the Enrichment of African Lives. These speakers will discuss the issues surrounding domestic workers in the Middle East.
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WASHINGTON (American Forces Press Service, June 14, 2007) - Given the levels of violence in Iraq and anticipation of a declining U.S. presence in the future, the Iraqi security forces need to grow in 2008 at about the same rate they're growing this year, the U.S. general who was in charge of training Iraqi forces until this week said here yesterday.
Army Lt. Gen. Martin E. Dempsey turned over command of Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq to Army Lt. Gen. James Dubik on June 10 in Baghdad and yesterday spoke at a news conference at the Pentagon, giving an assessment of the Iraqi security forces' performance and his views on their future.
This latest recommendation to increase Iraqi forces, as well as the previous recommendation to grow the Iraqi forces by about 65,000 this year, were made largely in response to lessons learned when Iraqi units started moving around the country, Lt. Gen. Dempsey said.
As the units moved, they got an idea of how many forces needed to be left behind at Iraqi bases and how many forces might not show up for deployments, he explained. Also, once the Baghdad security plan began, Iraqi units started showing up at less strength than expected, so U.S. leaders recommended that the units be bumped up to about 125 percent strength before they leave, to ensure adequate forces on the ground.
The Iraqi security forces are performing well, Lt. Gen. Dempsey said, but the increase is needed to give commanders enough depth to pull units out of the fight to conduct training. Also, until the Iraqi forces gain ground technologically, they'll need more forces to fight the insurgents, he said.
"A counterinsurgency and a counter-terror environment are manpower-intensive," he said. "We tend to offset the size of our force with technologies. If you don't offset them with technologies, and believe me, the Iraqi security forces are not yet capable of offsetting their needs with technology, then you have to offset it with additional manpower."
Lt. Gen. Dempsey asserted that he is optimistic about the future of the Iraqi security forces, despite the problems they face. In 2003, U.S. forces had to support Iraqi forces in every area, he said, but now the Iraqis are doing many things for themselves, such as taking care of pay and promotions, medical care and procurement.
"You've got a system now that is literally that; it is an institution that is growing, not just a bunch of tactical units largely unconnected," Lt. Gen. Dempsey said. "Three years ago, the tactical units were out there, not in large numbers, but they were out there.
"They were partnering with the coalition," he said. "But they didn't feel any loyalty to anything called the government of Iraq or an institution called the ministries of Defense and Interior. Those institutions now exist and the loyalties are clearly aligned to the ministries in a way that did not exist three years ago."
Iraqi forces do face a leadership challenge, as the pool of qualified officers shrinks, Lt. Gen. Dempsey said. Possible solutions to this problem are for the Iraqi government to give more promotion opportunities to experienced young officers, or reach out to the universities and offer skilled applicants a shorter academy course, he said.
As Iraqi units rotate into Baghdad as part of the new security plan, it is very likely that new units will come in at lower skill levels than those that have experience in the city, Lt. Gen. Dempsey acknowledged. However, dealing with the tactical inefficiency is necessary to achieve the larger initiative of creating a military that is an institution of national unity, he said.
"You've got units that are predominantly Kurdish coming to Baghdad that contribute to the fight; you've got units from the south that are predominantly Shi'a coming to Baghdad that contribute to the fight working by side by side," he said. "That seems to me to be a strategic imperative of the future of the Iraqi security forces."
To test Iraqi units' readiness and loyalty, the units are being sent to Besmaya Range, a training complex east of Baghdad, for two weeks before going to Baghdad, Lt. Gen. Dempsey said. This training is similar to what the U.S. Army does at places like the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, he noted.
As the Iraqi forces grow, they will need some additional equipment, Lt. Gen. Dempsey said. The Iraqis need more armored Humvees and personnel carriers, air transportation, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, he said. Also, U.S. leaders think the Iraqi forces may be ready to start using artillery and possible cavalry for border protection.
These changes are "all about helping them move from a force that is today very firmly focused on internal security, that will have to begin to account for the fact that at some point they'll need to protect themselves against external threat as well," Lt. Gen. Dempsey said.
As the September assessment of the Baghdad security plans approaches, Lt. Gen. Dempsey said that U.S. leaders aren't expecting the Iraqi government to completely achieve any of the political or security benchmarks laid out for them. What's important is that the Iraqi government recognize the importance of those benchmarks and start working toward them, he said.
"I don't think it's going to be necessary that peace break out between now and September because that — if that's the standard, then we're not going to achieve it," he said. "But I think what we're looking to see is movement in each of those benchmarks of a serious enough nature that causes us to believe that the Iraqi government can make a difference on those benchmarks over time."


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Although it's probably (read: definitely) not the most reliable barometer as to the health of a city's music scene, it's worth stating nonetheless that not a single Sheffield act is playing this year's industry hypefest SXSW. Zero. Leeds has bands in attendance, Manchester has bands in attendance. Sheffield has none. No hype. Or maybe just no money?
The Crookes, who release their debut soon, went last year and are perhaps the closest thing we've got to a recent success story; Standard Fare have been doing some ok things too, without ever setting the world alight, and Hey Sholay are hinting at trying to do things with a bit of colour and interest, but at the moment Sheffield is crying out for an instant hit of something truly new and fantastic – if only to inject a little bit of urgency into the rest of the city's music makers.
When Arctic Monkeys came through, for instance, there may have been a slew of crappy copycat bands but around the same time we got The Long Blondes, who offered a thrillingly arty counterpoint to the Monkeys' gritty realism... these things seem to be cyclical, is the point, and it might just take one band to break through the malaise to give the others a much needed kick up the jacksie.
Something's got to change soon, surely, because since the last time we ran this column there hasn't been an awful lot, locally speaking, for alternative music fans to get excited about.
Aidan John Moffat, Human Don't Be Angry @ The Library Theatre – Saturday 12 March
The old Scottish miserablists (the second one = Malcolm Middleton) play one of the city centre's lesser-used venues on the same day the Lib Dem conference - and the accompanying protest - rolls into town. Could be interesting... Last.fm Event
Bearsuit, Blood Oranges, Oxo Foxo @ The Harley – Sunday 13 March
This writer finds Bearsuit frankly unbearable, but for those of a twee/indie-pop persuasion this is undoubtedly a hot ticket with well regarded supports. Last.fm Event
Blood Sport, Likes Lions, Drenge, Laughing Grass @ The Washington – Thursday 17 March
With new talent remarkably thin on the ground at the moment, the chance to see an assortment of fresh, promising blood under this enduring pub's roof – for free – is a fine thing indeed. Last.fm Event
Josh T. Pearson @ Queens Social Club – Thursday 24 March
Him from Lift To Experience doing his new solo album in a live setting for the first time. If that wasn't enough, said live setting is the best new old venue in Sheffield. Essential. Last.fm Event
DiS presents: Gallops @ The Harley – Sunday 27 March
One of ours, sure, but if we didn't think it was good we wouldn't have booked it ;). If you like 65daysofstatic, Battles, Errors or Three Trapped Tigers you'll love this, basically. Last.fm Event
It's not all bad! Here's some recent stuff we like:
The Big Eyes Family Players - 'Amateur Dramatics'
Blood Sport - 'S10 2JF'
Cats For Peru - 'Duck In The Oven'
Hey Sholay - 'Dreamboat'
Liars Beware - 'Sex'
Pirouettes - 'Phaedra's Ghost'
So what do you reckon? Should we cheer the fuck up, or do you agree that Sheffield music's in a pretty poor state at the moment? Who should we be listening to? What's the time Mr Wolf?


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Q: Who's your go-to for smoking and slow cooking on the grill? Looking for a few good recipes this summer.
—Kevin Hauswirth, Chicago
A: One go-to guide is "Low & Slow: Master the Art of Barbecue in 5 Easy Lessons" by Chicago's own Gary Wiviott, pit master at Barn & Company in Lincoln Park. Recipes are offered for kettle grills and smokers. I've pinned below a recipe from the book that was published in the Chicago Tribune's Good Eating section for you to try.
Jamie Purviance, the California-based chef, has built a veritable library of grilling books in connection with the Weber-Stephen Products Co., makers of the iconic Weber kettle grill. His "Weber's Way to Grill" is my general guide when I'm faced with an unfamiliar cut of meat. Given your interest in smoking, check out his 2012 book, "Weber's Smoke: A Guide to Smoke Cooking for Everyone and Any Grill."
Buttermilk-brined hot wings
Prep: 4 hours, 25 minutes.
Cook: 30 minutes.
Makes: 10 servings
This recipe comes from "Low & Slow: Master the Art of Barbecue in 5 Easy Lessons" by Gary Wiviott with Colleen Rush. Use a commercially prepared spicy barbecue rub or make your own.
2/3 cup spicy barbecue rub
1/3 cup each: coarse salt, brown sugar
1/4 cup each: hot red pepper sauce, warm water
5 pounds chicken wings, sectioned
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2 quarts buttermilk
1. Add the salt, brown sugar, one-third of the rub, hot sauce and warm water in a 2-gallon food storage bag. Seal; shake. Add the wings. Pour the buttermilk into bag. Press the air out of the bag. Seal. Refrigerate 4 to 6 hours, turning the bag once or twice.
2. Prepare a grill for indirect medium heat. Drain wings; set on a baking sheet. Coat wings with remaining rub mixture. Place wings on the grill. Cook 15 minutes; turn wings. Cook until wings test done, 30-40 minutes, moving to cooler parts of the grill if needed.
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Dancing tango since: Helen has been dancing tango for five years, but her fascination with the dance began when she was 10 years old and saw ice dancers perform to La Cumparsita.
Watch the tango on ice that mersmerized young Helen.
Why tango: Helen started taking classes to find relief from her life circumstances at the time. Little did she know that in a few short years she would be performing tango onstage!
Favorite part: "The music captivates me deeply," says Helen. She also loves the feeling of connection with a partner, "when a couple starts moving it's like being in a different dimension or in a pleasant whirlwind as you feel the wind under your feet." In tango she finds profound truths that also apply in everyday life. "You have to be alert, be in the moment, and stay tall and on your own axis."
About Debbie & John: Their love for people and the dance, and their irresistible enthusiasm stand out for Helen. "Debbie makes us feel like a star," she says. And when dancing with John "you find out where you are…he's always challenging us which makes dancing with him an ultimate treat."
Anything else? Close Embrace: A Tango Love Story will be Helen's third appearance in an Alma del Tango student production. She greatly admires Debbie as a director/choreographer, calling her "a great visionary."
Last word: Attention leaders – Helen is looking for a partner to dance milonga with her. Interested? Email or speak to her at class.
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So many people think the Holy Spirit is literally a spirit. However, God Almighty clearly lets us know through the bible that the Holy Spirit is indeed a man. Take for example the below verses:
"...the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you." John 14:17
"When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me." John 15:26
"But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come." John 16:13
According to the above verses, the Spirit of truth, the Holy Spirit, is referred to as he. It also says he will come and testify about Christ. However, as we know, spirits have no gender, but the Holy Spirit does. Then the Holy Spirit, must be a man. If you look closer, it also testifies that the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, is the Counselor to come, but who is also testified as the Counselor to come?
"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9:6
As we know, this verse is talking about Christ. Then can anyone come other then Christ and say that he is the counselor? No. However, the Holy Spirit is testified as the Counselor by Christ himself. This means that the Holy Spirit is Christ to come, second coming Christ, and will teach us all the truths about Christ because they were destroy by satan during the dark ages. The only one who has done that is Christ Ahnsahnghong. Therefore Christ Ahnsahnghong is the Holy Spirit, second coming Christ.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Why The Holy Spirit Must Come As A Man
So many people think the Holy Spirit is literally a spirit. However, God Almighty clearly lets us know through the bible that the Holy Spirit is indeed a man. Take for example the below verses:
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- ♥Spirit-Bride♥ said...
Christ Ahnsahnghong restored truth for our salvation.
And he led us to the eternal life, Heavenly Mother.
Thanks to his love and patience for our life, we can get eternal life. Can go to heaven again.
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READ about Piers Morgan's long career in journalism here.
In July, former motivational speaker and self-help guru James Arthur Ray was released from prison, having served 20 months following the deaths of three people at an Arizona sweat lodge he was supervising.
Joining "Piers Morgan Live" for an exclusive interview, the 56-year-old who was convicted of three counts of negligent homicide admitted to some of his personality flaws:
"Was I arrogant? Yes. I have that characteristic, I can be arrogant. And I think there's a lot of hubris that comes in my former business. You know, people flying all over the world and asking me how to have a better life," explained Ray. "It tends to go to your head. You know? You tend to think you've got all the answers, and so you get humbled."
Routinely expressing remorse for those that were injured or perished in the incident outside Sedona, Ariz., Ray also admitted to fleeing almost immediately after he realized he might be facing trouble:
"Within the first five minutes, the detective told me that they were investigating it as a homicide, and I was already in shock. And I was like 'what?'" he told Piers Morgan. "I called my lawyer, and my lawyer said 'get out of there.' I told him what the detective said, he said 'get out of there.' They'd seized my room, there was nowhere to go. And so I left. And again, there's many things I wish in retrospect I could do differently, but I was scared."
Watch the clip for more of Morgan's interview with James Ray, and for the next edition of "Piers Morgan Live," watch CNN every night at 9.
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When will the families file wrongful death suit. If they haven't now is the time to start. This man is clearly a SCAM. He need to pay for every minute those people SUFFERED. Hope Ms. Winfrey will choose guest more carefully before blowing them up and MONEY is the only object. He shouldn't be treated any different than others who had way less evidence of a crime and paid DEARLY .
It isn't right to glorify a non native to misuse one of our most sacred ceremonies to end the lives of three people to just serve only 20 months in prison,If it was one of us real lakota, we would probably get a few life terms
Those of you that post here that never heard of James Ray, listen to his past seminars. I have some of his past ones and still listen to them. Some are ten years old. He is as honest a person as can be. Yes I feel for what happened. I truly believe he had no idea what was happening. None that passed were old, handicapped, sick etc. All were healthy mid aged people. If you go listen to his past speaches you have to like the guy. He's as honest a person there is. He truly tried to help people. And he has. I listen to his seminars still. They truly are inspiring. And will still listen to them. I wait till he has new ones. You will love the one he talks about Mourice the shoe shine person at the Minneapolis airport. I wish the best for Jim and know he will bounce back.... Go find and really listen to his talks. In fact he was the first that showed that equal is bad for you. It was in one of his speaches. Looking forward to when he speaks again nd hope he is close so I can attend.
You are right in what you said Vin.. He did fry people, now wake up and smell the roses.. James is a Sociopath! No two ways about it! I will pray for you, because you are out of your mind. James is an uneducated motivational speaker who's motivation comes from lining his pockets with cash.. Nothing else. He lives on coning gullible people like you! these are facts!
James Ray has served his sentence and is obviously remorseful. Shame on you Piers to keep digging and digging and digging. Have you never made a horrible mistake? Honestly, today's society just seems to love to kick anyone who is down. That is not right. The man was judged, found guilty, and paid the price that the judicial system imposed. If someone needs to be kicked, it may be the judicial system, but definitely not Ray James. I used to watch your program on a daily basis Piers because you stood up for things that mattered such as gun control. Now you just do interviews that are absolutely ridiculous. Shame on you. So much capacity wasted on fluff instead of focusing on international and national happenings that really matter such as how to improve schools, education, eradicate poverty, help the mentally ill, gun control, etc. Stop this madness of kicking people when they're down. That is not good for you or for anyone.
Robin and Vin are followers and can't see the truth.
James Ray is a sociopath. He only slightly admitted remorse etc, after being prodded. His first instinct was to try and make people sorry for his Mom because she has cancer and how hard it was for him to deal with that and not the deaths he caused. He also said there was still no proof of the sweat lodge being too hot, that he didn't really want to have a sweat lodge but contracts made him do it, that he didn't hear cries for help while in the sweat lodge. Those are blatant lies.
That is just a small example of the lies he was telling during interview. If you want to bury your head in the sand about this guy, go ahead. But don't pretend he is some kind of nice guy etc. You obviously nothing about him.
James Ray is your typical sociopath. Anyone with a thinking brain can see this just by looking in his eyes. He comes out and is concerned with his mom's health trying to play the victim as a typical momma's boy. He killed 3 people, so don't be easy on this guy. He should have spent more time in jail for his crimes. These people rarely change. I am surprised a woman like Oprah with enormous integrity didn't see through this man.. He is so obvious.. James is a nobody with tremendous inner pain brought on in early childhood most likely by a bad dad.. His issues and problems needed to be dealt with there, not acted out on society by an ego maniac.. So sad!
I was there – this man is a delusional, egotistical sociopath. He will tell any lie - he can cry on demand - he will play the pity on me card - but in the end leopards do not change their spots – and he certainly will not. Anyone who listens to this man is would be better off seeking the counsel of a professional or better yet, finding their own answers within.
This is just phase one of the glorious sleezy comeback, folks. Facilitated by Piers Morgan, who shares the same agent as James Ray. A man named John Ferriter. You can look it up.
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Free Inquiry? Not on Campus
And the college speech police threaten the liberty of us all
by JOHN LEO
City Journal, Winter 2007
Remember when the Right had a near-monopoly on censorship? If so, you must be in your sixties, or older. Now the champions of censorship are mostly on the left. And they are thickest on the ground in our colleges and universities. Since the late 1980s, what should be the most open, debate-driven, and tolerant sector of society has been in thrall to the diversity and political correctness that now form the aggressive secular religion of Americas elites.
The censors have only grown in power, elevating antidiscrimination rules above absolutist free-speech principles, silencing dissent with antiharassment policies, and looking away when students bar or disrupt conservative speakers or steal conservative newspapers. Operating under the tacit principle that error has no rights, an ancient Catholic theological rule, the new censors arent interested in debates or open forums. They want to shut up dissenters.
In October, for instance, a student mob stormed a Columbia University stage, shutting down speeches by two members of the Minutemen, an anti-illegal-immigration group. The students shouted: They have no right to speak! Campus opponents of Congressman Tom Tancredo, an illegal-immigration foe, set off fire alarms at Georgetown to disrupt his planned speech, and their counterparts at Michigan State roughed up his student backers. Conservative activist David Horowitz, black conservative columnist Star Parker, and Daniel Pipes, an outspoken critic of Islamism, frequently find themselves shouted down or disrupted on campus.
School officials seem to have little more interest in free speech. At Columbia this fall, officials turned away most of a large crowd gathered to hear former PLO terrorist-turned-anti-jihadist Walid Shoebat, citing security worries. Only Columbia students and 20 guests got in. Colleges often cite the danger of violence as they cancel controversial speechesa new form of hecklers veto: shrinking an audience so that an event will seem unimportant is itself a way to cave to critics. In 2003, Columbia, facing leftist fury at the scheduled speeches of several conservatives (myself included), banned scores of invited nonstudents who had agreed to attend. Though some schools cancel left-wing speakers, tooincluding Ward Churchill and Michael Moore, or abortion-supporters Anna Quindlen and Christie Whitman at Catholic universitiesright-of-center speakers are the campus speech cops normal targets.
Official censorshipnow renamed speech codes and antiharassment codespervades the campuses. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) recently surveyed more than 300 schools, including the top universities and liberal arts colleges, and found that over 68 percent explicitly prohibit speech that the First Amendment would protect if uttered off campus. At 229 schools, FIRE found clear and substantial restriction of speech, while 91 more had policies that one could interpret as restricting speech. Only eight permitted genuine free expression.
A 2002 New York Times article reported that todays college kids seem more guarded in their views than previous generations of students. The writer suggested several possible explanationsdisgust with partisan politics and uncivil debates on cable news shows, perhaps, or simple politeness. A more likely reason is that universities have made honest disagreement dangerous, making students fearful of saying what they think.
Much campus censorship rests on philosophical underpinnings that go back to social theorist Herbert Marcuse, a hero to sixties radicals. Marcuse argued that traditional tolerance is repressiveit wards off reform by making the status quo . . . well, tolerable. Marcuse favored intolerance of established and conservative views, with tolerance offered only to the opinions of the oppressed, radicals, subversives, and other outsiders. Indoctrination of students and deeply pervasive censorship of others would be necessary, starting on the campuses and fanning out from there.
By the late 1980s, many of the double standards that Marcuse called for were in place in academe. Marcuses candor was missing, but everyone knew that speakers, student newspapers, and professors on the right could (make that should) receive different treatment from those on the left. The officially oppresseddesignated race and gender groupsknew that they werent subject to the standards and rules set for other students.
Marcuses thinking has influenced a generation of influential radical scholars. They included Mari Matsuda, who followed Marcuse by arguing that complete free speech should belong mainly to the powerless; and Catharine MacKinnon, a pioneer of modern sexual harassment and hostile environment doctrine. In MacKinnons hands, sexual harassment became a form of gender-based class discrimination and inegalitarian speech a kind of harmful action.
Confusing speech and action has a long pedigree on the PC campus. At the time of the first wave of speech codes 20 years ago, Kenneth Lasson, a law professor at the University of Baltimore, argued that racial defamation does not merely preach hate; it is the practice of hatred by the speakerand is thus punishable as a form of assault. Indeed, the Left has evolved a whole new vocabulary to blur the line between acts and speech: verbal conduct and expressive behavior (speech), non-traditional violence (Lani Guiniers term for strong criticism), and anti-feminist intellectual harassment (rolling ones eyeballs over feminist dogma).
Campus censors frequently emulate the Marcusian double standard by combining effusive praise for free speech with an eagerness to suppress unwelcome views. I often have to struggle with right and wrong because I am a strong believer in free speech, said Ronni Santo, a gay student activist at UCLA in the late nineties. Opinions are protected under the First Amendment, but when negative opinions come out of a persons fist, mouth, or pen to intentionally hurt others, thats when their opinions should no longer be protected.
In their 1993 book, The Shadow University, Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate turned some of the early speech codes into national laughingstocks. Among the banned comments and action they listed: intentionally producing psychological discomfort (University of North Dakota), insensitivity to the experience of women (University of Minnesota), and inconsiderate jokes (University of Connecticut). Serious nonverbal offenses included inappropriate laughter (Sarah Lawrence College), eye contact or the lack of it (Michigan State University), and subtle discrimination, such as licking lips or teeth; holding food provocatively (University of Maryland). Later gems, added well after the courts struck down campus codes as overly broad, included bans on inappropriate non-verbals (Macalaster College), communication with sexual overtones (Lincoln University), and discussing sexual activities (State University of New YorkBrockport). Other codes bar any comment or gesture that annoys, offends, or otherwise makes someone feel bad. Tufts ruled that attributing harassment complaints to the hypersensitivity of others who feel hurt is itself harassment.
Brockport, which banned cartoons that depict religious figures in compromising situations, jokes making fun of any protected group, and calling someone an old hag, helpfully described for students what does not constitute sexual harassment: non-coercive interaction(s) . . . that are acceptable to both parties. Commented Greg Lukianoff of FIRE: The wonder is that anyone would risk speaking at all at SUNY Brockport.
Despite numerous court decisions overturning these codes, they have proliferated. College officials point to the hurt feelings of women or minorities as evidence that a violation must have occurred, in part because they want to avoid charges of racism, sexism, and homophobia an overriding fear in todays academe, where diversity offices can swarm with 40 or 50 administrators. The Clinton administrations commissioner of civil rights in the Department of Education, Norma Cantú, reinforced this trend by interpreting racial and sexual harassment broadly, with an implied threat to withhold federal funds if universities didnt vigorously counter it. In 2003, the DOE office of civil rights issued a weary clarification, explaining to universities that harassment doesnt mean merely feeling offended. The letter has had little effect on the censoring fervor of the campuses, however. Occidental College officials soon found a student radio shock jock guilty of sexual harassment for using various crude terms on the air, calling one student a bearded feminist and another half man, half vagina. On many a campus, tastelessness equals harassment.
Georgia Tech went so far as to ban denigrating comments on beliefs, which would make almost any passionate argument over ideas a violation. Needless to say, the targets here are usually conservative. Ohio State University at Mansfield launched a sexual harassment investigation of a research librarian, Scott Savage, for recommending the inclusion of four conservative books, including popular works by David Horowitz and ex-senator Rick Santorum, on a freshman reading list. Two professors had complained that one of the books, The Marketing of Evil, by journalist David Kupelian, was homophobic tripe and hate literature. This may have been the first time that a campus charged that a book recommendation qualified as sexual harassment. After a burst of publicity and a threat to sue, the university dropped the investigation.
Student censors regularly spirit away whole print runs of conservative student newspapers, almost always without reproof from administrators. Over the years, campus officials, including a few university presidents, have even encouraged such stealing. After repeated thefts of the Dartmouth Review, an official egged on the thieves by calling the paper litter and abandoned property. In a commencement speech, former Cornell president Hunter Rawlings III praised students who seized and burned copies of the conservative Cornell Review in retaliation for printing a gross parody of Ebonics.
Once in a blue moon, a college president vigorously defends free speech. At Northern Kentucky University, president James Votruba rebuked and suspended a tenured feminist professor, Sally Jacobsen, who led a group that demolished a campus-approved right-to-life display. Jacobsen cited two justifications: her deep feelings and her alleged free-speech right to tear down displays that offend her. I did invite students to express their freedom of speech rights to destroy the display if they wished, she said. Any violence perpetrated against that silly display was minor compared to how I felt when I saw it.
But far more typical than Votruba was Washington State University president V. Lane Rawlins, who hailed the disruptionand subsequent cancellationof an intentionally offensive student play that irritated blacks, Christians, Jews, gays, and others. Rawlins defended the disrupters, saying that they had exercised their rights of free speech in a very responsible manner. Later documents showed that the university had actually organized and financed them. In the real world, such a revelation would have cost Rawlins his job. But on todays campus, it passes without comment, in part because students can point out, with perfect moral justification, that forcing the cancellation of speeches and stealing newspapers are just logical extensions of campus speech codes.
Nothing makes the campus censors angrier than someone who dares to question race and gender preferences, especially if he uses satire to do it. Thats why the anti-affirmative-action bake sales that conservative students have sponsored at many schoolswhite male customers can buy cookies for $1, with lower prices for women and various minoritieshave provoked such ferocious responses from campus authorities.
Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, provides a typical example. A Republican club there staged a bake sale, and several students then said that they felt offended. This amounted to a powerful argument, since hurt feelings are trump cards in the contemporary campus culture. (At the University of Wisconsin, for example, a black student testified in defense of the faculty speech code, complaining bitterly that a professor had used the word niggardly while teaching Chaucer. I was in tears, she said. Its not up to the rest of the class to decide whether my feelings are valid.)
Next came the usual administrative scramble to suppress free speech while expressing great respect for it. The university charged the club with a violation of the student code and threatened sanctions. The students folded under administrative pressure and apologized. When the Republican club president refused to back down, club members asked him to resign, and he did. The students retreat was understandable, if not very courageous. The university in effect was trying them for bias, with the likelihood that a notation of racism would become part of their academic record and follow them to post-college job interviews.
The College Republicans at Northeastern Illinois University canceled an announced affirmative-action bake sale after the administration threatened punishment. Dean of students Michael Kelly announced that the cookie sellers would be violating university rules and that any disruption of university activities that would be caused by this event is also actionable. This principlepolitically incorrect speakers are responsible for attacks on them by students who resent their speechis dear to campus censors hearts. The university didnt view itself as engaging in censorshipand double-standard censorship at that, since it freely allowed a satirical wage-gap bake sale run by feminists. Absurdly, Kelly said that the affirmative-action sale would be fineif cookie prices were the same for whites, minorities, and women. Other administrators complained that differential pricing of baked goods is unfair, thus unwittingly proving the whole point of the parody.
Schools will use almost any tactic to shut the bake sales down. At the University of Washington, the administration said that the sponsor had failed to get a food permit. At Grand Valley, the university counsel argued that the sale of a single cupcake would convert political commentary into forbidden campus commerce. At Texas A&M, the athletics director argued that a satirical bake sale would damage the sports teams by making it harder to recruit minorities.
One of the PC campuss worst excesses in suppressing unwanted speech is the drive by gays and their allies to banish or break Christian groups for their traditional beliefs on sexuality. Some 20 campuses have acted to de-recognize or de-fund religious groups that oppose homosexuality (as well as nonmarital sex), often accusing them of violating antidiscrimination rulesthat is, refusing to let gays be members, or allowing them to belong but not serve as officers. The language of many policies would require a Democratic club to accept a Republican president, a Jewish group to allow a Holocaust-denying member, or a Muslim organization to accept a leader who practices voodoo.
About half of the attempts to move against Christian clubs have failed. The University of North CarolinaChapel Hill dropped its move against a Christian club three days after getting a friendly warning letter from FIRE. UNC couldnt defend in public what it was willing to do in private, said FIRE president Alan Charles Kors. If an evangelical Christian who believed homosexuality to be a sin tried to become president of a universitys Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Alliance, the administration would have led candlelight vigils on behalf of diversity and free association.
Such Marcusian double standardsfreedom for me, but not for theenow have a beachhead in the law, thanks to the legendarily left-wing Ninth Circuit. In response to a Day of Silence sponsored by the Gay-Straight Alliance at his Poway, California, high school, Tyler Harper wore a shirt that proclaimed, on the front, Be Ashamed, Our School Embraced What God Has Condemned, and on the back, Homosexuality Is Shameful/Romans 1:27. The school principal ordered Harper to take off the shirt. Harper refused, and sued. He argued that the purpose of the Day of Silence was to endorse, promote and encourage homosexual activity and that he had a First Amendment right to use his T-shirt message as a rebuttal.
When the Poway case reached the Ninth Circuit, Judge Stephen Reinhardt and his colleague Judge Sidney R. Thomas argued in a two-to-one decision that it is permissible to exclude T-shirt messages from First Amendment protection if they strike at a core identifying characteristic of students on the basis of their membership as a minority groupwith minority status conveyed by categories such as race, religion, and sexual orientation. This ruling, unless the Supreme Court takes it up and overturns it, creates a large new category of viewpoints that the First Amendment doesnt safeguard, at least within the Ninth Circuit. Based on the loose languagesuch as could apply to numerous groupscriticism of illegal aliens might now lack First Amendment protection, says UCLA law prof Eugene Volokh. Presumably, too, one can no longer criticize any minority religious opinion, such as the Islamic view that cartoons mocking Mohammed are out-of-bounds. But pictures of Christ in urine would be perfectly fine, since Christianity remains Americas majority faith.
Some on the left applaud such Marcusian hairsplitting, arguing that First Amendment absolutists must learn to balance free speech and special protections for vulnerable groups. But in dissent, Judge Alex Kozinski expressed considerable difficulty understanding the source and sweep of the novel doctrine the majority announces todaynothing in state, federal, or common law supports it, he noted.
To understand the rising disrespect for free expression in the U.S., Kozinski might have been better off looking to Canada and Europe, both a bit ahead of usif thats the right phrasein embracing PC censorship.
Despite stated respect for free speech in its national constitution, Canada now has a national speech code and judges and elites eager to expand it. The Canadian Supreme Court has issued a series of rulings stating that the government may limit speech in the name of worthwhile goals, such as ending discrimination, ensuring social harmony, or promoting sexual equality. The state may now seize published material judged to degrade or dehumanize any group.
What free-speech supporters would regard as horrendous abuses have become commonplace. In 1997, for instance, the mayor of London, Ontario, ran afoul of Canadas Human Rights Code for refusing to declare a Gay Pride day, citing her Christian beliefs. The British Columbia College of Teachers refuses to certify teacher education programs at Christian universities if they urge students to abstain from premarital sex, adultery, or homosexual sex. The provinces hate-speech laws use extremely broad language, criminalizing statements that indicate discrimination or that likely will expose a group or one of its members to hatred or contempt.
Ted Byfield, editor of the now-defunct Alberta Report, violated that provinces human rights law by publishing an article noting that some children were grateful for the education they received at the governments residential schools for Indians, much despised by multiculturalists and admittedly abuse-plagued. An injunction against the Alberta Report forbade stories on partial-birth abortions after Byfield ran a story quoting unnamed nurses and official documents saying that some babies subject to the procedure at a Calgary hospital were born alive and deliberately allowed to starve to death.
Canada has become a pleasantly authoritarian country, observes Alan Borovoy, general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Robert Martin, a constitutional law prof at the University of Western Ontario, is harsher: Canada is now a totalitarian theocracy, he says, devoted to the secular state religion of political correctness.
Things are no freer across the pond. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties announced that it would prosecute any priests found distributing or quoting the popes words forbidding gay marriage. In England, author Lynette Burrows drew a police investigation for saying on a talk show that she opposes homosexual adoption. An Oxford student fared worse after a night out to celebrate the end of exams. Stopped by a mounted policeman, he drunkenly quipped, Excuse me, do you realize your horse is gay? Unfortunately, the humor-free local constabulary arrested the young man under the Public Order Act for making homophobic remarks.
By law, 11 European nations can punish anyone who publicly denies the Holocaust. Thats why the discredited Holocaust-denying British historian David Irving went to prison in Austria. Ken Livingstone, Londons madcap mayor, drew a monthlong suspension for calling a Jewish reporter a Nazi. A Swedish pastor went through a long and harrowing prosecution for a sermon criticizing homosexuality, finally beating the rap in Swedens supreme court.
Naturally enough, Muslims want to play the same victim game as other aggrieved groups. The French Council of Muslims says that its considering taking France Soir, which reprinted the Danish cartoons, to court for provocation. When French novelist Michel Houellebecq said some derogatory things about the Koran, Muslim groups hauled him into court, which eventually exonerated him. The late Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci wrote an angry anti-Muslim book, meant to waken the West to the gravity of the threat posed by Islam. Her prosecution in Italy for writing the book was pending when she died in October.
Much of Europe has painted itself into a corner on Muslim-driven censorship. What can Norway say to pro-censorship Muslims when it already has a hate-speech law forbidding, among other things, publicly stirring up one part of the population against another, or any utterance that threatens, insults or subjects to hatred, persecution, or contempt any person or group of persons because of their creed, race, color, or national or ethnic origin . . . or homosexual bent? No insulting utterances at all? Since most strong opinions can seem insulting to someonecan hurt someones feelingsno insults means no free speech.
Chafing under First Amendment restrictions, many censorship-prone American leftists look longingly toward successful speech control up north or overseas. Thats what they want right here.
We are very lucky to have the First Amendment. Without it, our chattering classes would be falling all over themselves to ban speech that offends sensitive groups, just as Canadian- and Euro-chatterers are doing now. We know this because our campus speech codes, the models for the disastrous hate-speech laws elsewhere, were the inventions of our own elites. Without a First Amendment, the distortions and suppressions of campus life would likely have gone national. Mel Gibson, Michael Richards, and many rap artists would be in jail, or at least facing charges.
The cause of free speech can no longer expect much help from the American Civil Liberties Union, more concerned today with civil rights and multicultural issues than with civil liberties and free speech. True, the ACLU still takes some censorship casesit led the fight against the first wave of campus speech codes circa 1990, for instance. But the rise of the ACLUs internal lobbies or projects, such as the Lesbian and Gay Project and the Immigrants Rights Project, has made the organization look more and more like a traditional left-wing pressure group, with little passion for the First Amendment. The ACLU is also following the money: funds flow in because the group responds to concerns of feminist, gays, and other identity groups, not because of its historical defense of free speech and civil liberties.
These days, the ACLU visibly stands aloof from obvious First Amendment casessuch as the college speech and harassment codesand even comes down on the anti-free-speech side. Consider the groups stance in Aguilar v. Avis Rent-A-Car System, a case involving ethnic epithets aimed by supervisors at Latino employees of Avis in San Francisco. A California court ruled that Avis had permitted a hostile environment. The California Supreme Court, abetted by both the northern Californian and the national ACLU, agreed, and upheld the lower courts startling speech restriction: prior restraint on workers speech, forbidding a judge-made list of specific words. These words, not yet revealed or promulgated, will soon be taboo in every California workplace, even outside the earshot of Latino employees, and even if they are welcome. As civil libertarian Nat Hentoff wrote: This may be the broadest and vaguest restriction of speech in American legal history.
Even with the ACLU, the mainstream media, school officials, and much of the professorate AWOL, the speech police havent gone unopposed. Just ask former Clinton official Donna Shalala. As chancellor of the University of Wisconsin in the late eighties, she proved a fervent early advocate of campus speech restrictions. Though Shalala occasionally praised free speech, she and her team imposed not only a full-fledged student speech code, later struck down in federal court, but also a faculty code that provoked the first (and so far, only) pro-free-speech campus campaign strong enough to repeal such repressive restrictions. The Wisconsin faculty code was a primitive, totalitarian horror. Professors found themselves under investigation, sometimes for months, without a chance to defend themselves or even to know about the secret proceedings. One female professor said: It was like being put in prison for no reason. I had no idea what it was that I was supposed to have done.
A small group of free-speech-minded faculty formed the Committee for Academic Freedom and Rights (CAFR). The group asked for help from the Wisconsin chapter of the pro-free-speech National Association of Scholars, which enlisted as speakers such celebrated allies as Alan Dershowitz and National Journal columnist Jonathan Rauch.
The First Amendment forces got a lucky break when the university signed a foolish contract with Reebok, in which it received millions of dollars in exchange for the use of the companys footwear by campus sports teams. The contract included a clause forbidding negative comments on Reebok products by any University employee, agent or representative. The clause greatly irritated the anticorporate campus Left, which had usually been lukewarm or indifferent to free-speech concerns, helping convert some of its members to the anti-speech-code side. Later, a strong defense of free speech by a homosexual professor, called a traitor to his identity group for his courage, brought in other campus leftist allies. CAFR was amazed at how quickly many would-be censors backed down when confronted with controversy and threatened lawsuits. Wisconsin rescinded its faculty codethe first university to do so without a court order.
New national groups have joined the fight for free speech on campus (and off), among them the Center for Individual Rights, the Alliance Defense Fund, and FIRE, the most relentless of the newcomers. FIRE usually starts a campaign with a polite letter to a university president, noting that some policy is either unconstitutional or a clear violation of civil liberties. If it doesnt get the change it wants, it will then write to trustees, parents, and alumni, and take its case to the media.
FIRE now has an extensive network of campus free-speech spies, as its cofounder, Harvey Silverglate, jauntily calls them (Alan Charles Kors, the other cofounder, prefers concerned members of the community). The organization is seeking new ways to open up closed campus systems, too, such as suing administrators as individuals, which FIRE believes will get their full attention. Another new tactic is to publicize what colleges spend on fighting for unconstitutional speech codes. Most of all, FIRE is trying to show stubborn administrators that the era of hiding gross civil liberties violations behind a PC wall of silence is over: the group wins more than 95 percent of its cases.
Political correctness took hold when there were 40 radio talk shows, three networks, and no bloggers. Today, the cross-referencing of PC outrages among bloggers, radio talkers, and rights groups makes it hard to run an old-fashioned repressive campus. University presidents now understand that their reputations do not rest entirely with the PC platoons. Donna Shalala escaped Wisconsin with her reputation intact. Sheldon Hackney, former president of Penn, did not. (I named my own annual award for the worst college president, the Sheldon, in his honor.) When he stepped down from the Penn presidency, he didnt become the head of a major foundation, as many expected; instead, he wound up returning to Penn as a professor. Other reputations hang in the balance. Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment expert (and affirmative-action advocate), was invisible during the free-speech debates at Michigan and is almost as recessive today as president of Columbia. But it is getting harder for the Hackneys and Bollingers to waffle.
Perhaps the battle to release the campuses from the iron grasp of PC will take decades, but the struggle for free speech is being foughtand wonnow.


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The Assessing Department has two levels of responsibility, one at the municipal level and another at the county level. The City's special assessment clerk works at the municipal level with special assessments and homestead exemptions but also supports Hennepin County Assessing Services.
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The Hennepin County assessors appraise the properties within the city on an on-going basis. The city is divided into five areas and one area is appraised each year. Property owners will receive a Revaluation Notice in the mail letting them know that their home needs to be viewed.
In order to appraise the market value of a property, it is necessary for the assessors to view both the interior and exterior. Improvements are taken into consideration, as is the overall size and condition of the property. Market value is defined as the price that would prevail under competitive, open-market conditions.
The assessors also determine the classification, or use, of each parcel (i.e. residential homestead, residential non-homestead, agricultural, or commercial). Each of these classifications is taxed at a different percentage of the market value. The percentages are set by the legislature.
Once the value has been determined, a Value Notification is sent to the property owner advising him/her of the proposed value. This notice also indicates the time, date and location of a public hearing the property owner may attend if they wish to appeal the proposed value. There are several additional appeal methods that a property owner may pursue.
Special Assessments
Special assessments are levied on residential and commercial properties within the city primarily for street and water/sewer work. One such project the City undertakes is full reconstruction of all the city streets. Paying for this process is a special assessment to all properties on a street that is being rebuilt.
Once an assessment is levied, property owners will have 30 days to prepay the assessment with no interest (partial assessment payments may also be accepted, refer to your assessment notice). If payment is received after the initial 30 days, interest will be charged through the date of payment. Any balance still owing after the payment cut-off date will be certified to your Hennepin County property taxes with interest over the period of years specified in your assessment notice.
Prior to November 15 of any year, the remaining balance of an existing levied assessment can be paid in full to the City of Crystal. Payment will remove the assessment from future year's taxes, but will not affect taxes for the current year. Other special assessments may be levied on a particular property, such as:
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Cutting in time line
Some carve out time for themselves. Others carve themselves into time.
Dilemma of artists, writers, and scientists whether it is better to see what is unseen by others, or to be blithely dependent others at the edge of the known?
Thinking energetically about the sitting in the dark with dark matter…
A different view of the creation and future of the universe is proposed by an old and reputable university in Sweden: "Our universe is an expanding bubble in an extra dimension".
Just how knowing how soap bubbles and economic bubbles work, how secure do you feel with this revelation? "The whole Universe is accommodated on the edge of this expanding bubble". Great.
It was hard enough to sleep when pondering first the world was flat (and if you sailed off the edge, there were monsters…). Then the universe was an expanding box that you keep going to the end and unfolding only to find an endless cycle of boxes to collapse.
Now strings and bubbles. Sounds appropriate for New Year's Eve.
As the American proverb says, "You can't tell by looking at a frog how high he will jump."
Like a visionary land developer standing in a barren desert and seeing a magical city – but on a much smaller scale – they say Gerd Dreher would sit for hours holding, rotating, staring at a raw lump of gemstone until he could see the life hiding within it.
"Gerd Dreher is widely regarded as the most talented carver of gemstones to have ever lived. His works – exquisitely detailed, extremely realistic carvings of animals wrought from crystals of ruby, sapphire, citrine, amethyst, aquamarine, topaz, garnet, and agate – are among the most highly sought masterpieces of the lapidary arts" Feb. 11, 1939 – Jan 4, 2018. (Houston Museum of Natural Science)
Toads and frogs…not just for dinner anymore.
Something about the creatures universally appeals to humans across ages and world cultures
An ancient pond
A frog jumps in
The splash of water [1686]
By Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet and master of haiku . (1644–1694)
In Chinese traditional culture, frog represents the lunar yin, and the Frog spirit Ch'ing-Wa Sheng is associated with healing and good fortune in business.
Still life painters of the Dutch Golden Age used frogs, well, because they were so common and stayed lifelike "fresh" for so long even when they weren't.
And then there's Aesop:
Frog and the Ox (limits on the impossible?), The Boys and the Frog (PETA approved), The Hares and the Frogs, Frog and the Mouse,(Karma by another name?) The Frogs Who Wished for a King (Is that how we got to this point?), The Fighting Bulls and the Frog (also quite modern), and The Quack Toad,(politicians take note)
These sculptures much more welcomed and cherished by home owners than the living ones, perhaps.
All in how you look at things.
Time for whimsy to carve and serve up a beautiful 2019
Happy New Year!
Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge.
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I know this might be a very elementary question. But I could not find the original definition of Extreme(or Extremal)vectors of some weights $\lambda$(fixed the $w\in W$,where $W$ is Weyl group)
I am looking for definition for Extreme vector for finite dimensional Lie algebra and Affine Lie algebra. I found a paper saying :"Extreme vector verifies Weyl Character formula" What does it mean?
I am looking for reference talking about this concept. Thanks in advance
EDIT: I guess it is just highest weight vector, but I am not sure


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Lakers sign Shawne Williams
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Shawne Williams has signed with the Los Angeles Lakers, reuniting the journeyman forward with coach Mike D'Antoni.
The Lakers announced the deal Tuesday for Williams, a six-year NBA veteran.
Williams was a first-round pick out of Memphis by the Indiana Pacers in 2006. He also suited up for Dallas, New York and New Jersey before spending last season out of the NBA.
Williams had his best NBA season in 2010-11 with D'Antoni, the former Knicks coach. Williams averaged 7.1 points and 3.7 rebounds per game for New York, starting 11 games and making more than 40 percent of his 3-point shots.


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Ruling on taxes that are paid on goods
Is it permissible to pay a sum of money to any of the customs officers in order to reduce the customs payment? For example – paying a sum of money to the officer who evaluates the customs so that he will charge less for customs or submit a report that does not tell the truth?
With regard to the maks (duty, tax) that is taken from the Muslims, this is haraam, because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"O you who believe! Eat not up your property among yourselves unjustly" [al-Nisa' 4:29]
And the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "It is not permissible to take the wealth of a Muslim except with his consent." (Narrated by Ahmad and classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in al-Irwa', 1459). Siddeeq Hasan al-Bukhaari said in al-Rawdah al-Nadiyyah, 2/215, concerning customs duty that is levied on the Muslims: " If we think about it, this is undoubtedly nothing more than the maks." Maks is a kind of tax and refers to money that was taken from vendors in the market-places during the Jaahiliyyah, or taken from merchants when they passed through. (See 'Awn al-Ma'bood, hadeeth no. 2548). This tax is one of the major sins, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, concerning the woman who had committed zina (adultery), then came to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) so that the hadd punishment might be carried out on her, "By the one in Whose hand is my soul, she has repented in such a way that if the one who wrongfully takes the maks from people had repented like this, he would have been forgiven." (Narrated by Muslim, 3208). Al-Nawawi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said in Sharh Saheeh Muslim (11/203): "This shows that the maks is one of the most evil of sins and actions that condemn a man to Hell."
If a Muslim cannot find any means of warding off this evil from himself other than paying a sum of money to the customs official, then it is permissible for the one who is paying to do that, but for the official who takes this money, it is haraam for him. See Majmoo' al-Fataawa by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (30/359, 358). This is so long as no greater evil will result from that unavoidable bribe. But if a greater evil will result from that, then it is not permissible to pay it in that case. Also, we must point out the importance of not telling lies. If a person is forced to pay then he should pay and seek the reward for his being wronged with Allaah. And Allaah knows best.


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Come and join Tom Furniss and co. for a big night of laughs with MC Tim Batt.
- Headliner - Tom Furniss
- MC - Tim Batt
- Jamaine Ross
- Gabriel Kearns
- Paul Douglas
- Chris Teal
- Neil Elston
- Sam Polwart
- Paul Amos
Tom Furniss:
Tom Furniss is a relative newbie on the comedy scene. He went from being Highly Commended at the 2010 Raw Comedy Quest, to having a sell-out show at the 2011 New Zealand Comedy Festival. The show, Cold Duck and a Tamagotchi, performed with fellow comedian John Carr, earned the pair nominations for best newcomer and best marketing.
Outside of the stage, he is also a burgeoning filmmaker; with his film The Child Jumpers being this years National Winner of the V48hours film competition. He also won best actor for his performance in the film at the Auckland finals. Like with his comedy, it is Toms wild imagination and penchant for the absurd that has seen him stand out as a highly original writer and performer.
As part of a growing alternative comedy scene, he is a regular performer on shows such as Fanfiction and Friday Night Guilt Club, as well as having a regular spot on TVNZs ULive.
Tim Batt:
By day, Tim is the producer on Radio Hauraki's afternoon drive show.
By night he's possibly drunk. By the weekend he's sometimes in Six60 music videos (Rise Up), being a finalist in the Raw Comedy National Contest (2011) and staring in competition-topping 48Hour films (The Child Jumpers). He hopes you've had a great day."
Jamiane Ross:
Jamaine Ross was brilliantly funny and performed some fantastically confident and smart material that proved him to be a star of the future.
- Ingrid Grenar (creativesidekicking.com)
Gabriel Kearns:
2012 RAW comedy Quest semi-finalist.
"A keen observationalist with some astute one liners" - Comedy Capers
Paul Douglas:
"Up and coming comedian and Raw 2012 Finalist. Born in Kaitaia and raised in Hamilton, Paul has about as much natural class as a warm Waikato Draught but don't judge a book by its origin because his story is full of much more than a few classic yarns."
Chris Teal:
Previously known as the 4th most recognised air guitarist in Whangarei, Chris is making a big impact on the comedy scene in 2012.
A storyteller who creates absurd amounts of hilarity from the otherwise mundane aspects of everyday life, he can leave you in fits of laughter whilst poking fun at society's hangups.
Neil Elston:
This man Bear Migrated to Auckland from the Urban Jungle of Bolton, England 5 years ago. By Day this creature may seem cuddly and friendly however beware come feeding time he is The Beast of Bolton and the purveyor of awesomness!
Sam Polwart:
Self proclaimed 'CEO of awesomeness'
"Maharaja of manliness" - Matt Stellingwerf
Paul Amos:
Paul Amos doesn't really stick to the usual formulas and has an eclectic and imaginative style of comedy. He was the Runner Up at the 2011 Raw Comedy Quest and once won a prize for his mum in a Mother's Day competition when he was five.
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Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) was among the staunchest advocates of the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program, and blasted The New York TImes for disclosing its existence in December of 2005. "Does anyone really believe that, after 50 days of having this program on the front page of our newspapers, across talk shows across America, that al-Qaeda has not changed the way that it communicates?" Hoekstra asked rhetorically. (Answer: Well, yeah, given that no operational details were disclosed, and that it had probably occurred to them that U.S. intelligence was looking to tap their calls.)
Now, however, it appears that Hoekstra's own Twitter account is supplying leaks. Congressional Quarterly reports that Hoekstra was part of a secret congressional delegation to Iraq this weekend. Or at any rate, secret until Hoekstra Twittered: "Just landed in Baghdad," and in subsequent updates disclosed details of the delegation's itinerary. Whoops.