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Florida Everblades 5 @ Ontario Reign 4 (OT)
FW Danick Gauthier, FLA: 0-0-0, -1, 2 SOG, 0 PIM
Season totals: 5 GP, 3-2-5, +4, 11 SOG, 15 PIM
G Kristers Gudlevskis, FLA: Did not play
Season totals: 2 GP, 2-0-0, 1.50 GAA, 32 S / 35 SA (.914 SV%)
D Charles Landry, FLA: 0-0-0, E, 0 SOG, 0 PIM
Season totals: 5 GP, 0-1-1, +7, 3 SOG, 9 PIM
FW Maxime Langelier-Parent, FLA (AHL Contract): Did not play
Season totals: 2 GP, 1-0-1, +1, 5 SOG, 2 PIM
D Dan Milan, FLA: Did not play
Season totals: 1 GP, 0-0-0, E, 2 SOG, 2 PIM
FW Carl Nielsen, FLA (AHL Contract): 0-0-0, E, 0 SOG, 5 PIM (fighting)
Season totals: 5 GP, 0-2-2, +1, 4 SOG, 7 PIM
For the second time in three nights, Florida took and beat Ontario beyond regulation time, this time after Matthew Pistilli notched his second goal of the match early in overtime to push the visiting squad's season-opening win streak to five games. Sunday's victory came despite the Everblades squandered a three-goal lead it had built up nearly midway through the middle-frame. Jesse Deckert stopped 23 of 27 Reign shots to earn his third-consecutive win in the absence of Kristers Gudlevskis, who remains at present with AHL Syracuse. Fresh off picking up a helper the night before, 6'4", 225 pound Carl Nielsen engaged in his first fight of the season early in the match. Danick Gauthier, who managed to stay out of the sin bin for the first time this season, and Charles Landry barely registered on the stat sheet. Maxime Langelier-Parent was still inactive. Sitting atop the South Division perch, Florida (5-0-0, 10 PTS) finishes its current road trip Wednesday against Las Vegas (2-3-0, 4 PTS).
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Yeah, I called this meeting today to discuss a matter at hand
There's a movement we got going on
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If you can dig it, but if you just check you might catch my drift
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It's when the lights get dim and the people get quiet
Wilding waiting on change
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You got a feeling that you never really felt before
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Just to make em turn it up
Now the crowd starts chanting everybody frantic
Ya know that ya runnin behind
The promotor sold way too many tickets for the venue
He might just shut it down
So they so they rush backstage like
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Like baby girl hold that down
Then they hand you a mic that's all you need
Peek out the curtain now you see
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To tell them a story that will set them free
Let them be a new generation of rebels
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1965 Riley 1.5 Saloon 1.5 petrol from UK and Ireland
Dependable old friend, great car, everyone should try one at least once
Nothing worth mentioning to be honest.
I rustproofed it just to be on the safe side, though.
General Comments:
This is a very reliable, very simple, user-friendly car. I'd say whoever owned it first got a lot of car for his money, and I think it suits me down to the ground as a first car.
It's pretty slow by today's standards, but it's still a serious machine, even on motorways, and it certainly isn't dull to drive. I love driving this car and wouldn't dare trade it for anything. Simply superb, with a pretty sweet character to boot.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
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I remember going on a family holiday around Scotland in a borrowed two-tone grey Riley 1.5 in 1960...I was five years old. It seemed very modern and comfortable for its time, and fast.. the previous year we had gone on holiday in a two tone green Wolseley 1500, and there was no comparison in performance according to the chauffeur. At one stage my father drove for a good number of miles in third before he realised he had another gear to change up into, it was so (comparatively) quiet compared to our usual transport.
The only problem I remember was the difficulty in getting the twin-carburettors balanced... I presume they were SUs, and my father always seemed to be fiddling with them.
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PILGER, Neb. — As two giant tornadoes bore down on tiny Pilger, Nebraska, Trey Wisniewski heard the storm sirens, glanced out at the blackening sky and rushed with his wife into their basement.
"My wife was holding our animals, and I was holding on to my wife. We could feel the suction try to pull us out of there," he said Tuesday.
Suddenly, their house was gone, leaving them to dodge debris that rained down upon them. And then, the storm that hit so suddenly Monday afternoon was gone, allowing them to emerge and see what was left of their 350-person farming town.
They found much of the community was gone and learned two people had died.
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman flew over Pilger in a helicopter Tuesday morning and then walked through the town, trailed by reporters.
"This is by far the worst thing I've ever seen as governor," Heineman said.
One of those killed was a 5-year-old girl, Calista Dixon, said Stanton County Sheriff Mike Unger said. The other was a motorist killed during the storm, David A. Herout, 74, of Clarkson, Nebraska. He died in Cuming County, a few miles from Pilger.
"I am amazed that ... out of all of this destruction only two people were killed," Wisniewski said.
At least 19 people were taken to hospitals.
Up to 75 percent of the buildings in Pilger were heavily damaged or destroyed. That included the grain co-op, bank, library, middle school, city offices and fire department.
The tornado destroyed much of the small downtown, leaving piles of bricks that had been storefronts in the street. Several grain bins on the south end of Main Street were swept away and others remained crumpled on the ground.
From the street, residents walking through their town could peer directly into a mortuary and bank.
Homes south and west of downtown fared even worse, with most reduced to piles of debris or gone entirely.
While the governor said he was confident the community would rebuild, business owner Linda Oertwich wasn't so sure.
"Pilger's too small and the devastation in these homes will cost too much to rebuild," said Oertwich, who will decide whether to rebuild her Village Bar and Cafe after hearing from her insurance company.
The tornado swept away the house Larry Nelson, 73, had lived in for 23 years, leaving nothing but the cinderblock foundation. Because he didn't have a basement, Nelson rushed to a neighbor's house when sirens sounded.
"I'm grateful that I was over there," Nelson said, pointing to his neighbor's house.
The storm was part of a larger system that tracked across the nation's midsection Monday.
Pilger was hit by one of twin twisters, which roared for miles through northeast Nebraska. The tornadoes were of roughly equal size, about a mile apart. The northern twister, confirmed as at least an EF3 tornado, struck the town before the two merged, according to the National Weather Service.
The storm appears to have produced four tornadoes in all, said Van DeWald, lead meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Valley, Nebraska.
It was the size and intensity of the dual tornadoes that made them rare, said Nebraska State Climatologist Al Dutcher, noting that usually one tornado weakens and shrinks in such a situation.
Dutcher said a lack of thunderstorms helped increase the tornadoes' strength because they had no competition for wind and moisture in the atmosphere.
"It speaks wonders about the amount of instability that was in the atmosphere," Dutcher said. "This was a highly volatile situation where once something got going, it really got going."
Crews planned to examine the area Tuesday to determine the intensity of the twin tornadoes, said Barbara Mayes, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Valley, Nebraska.
Authorities said the first tornado touched down around 3:45 p.m. and downed several power lines before it leveled a farmhouse. The second tornado was spotted southwest of Pilger, according to the Stanton County Sheriff's Office. Shortly afterward, the town suffered a "direct hit" that leveled several buildings, including the Fire Department building.
Heineman declared a state of emergency, and the National Guard was preparing to assist local emergency responders and help with the cleanup. A shelter for displaced residents was established at Wisner-Pilger Jr.-Sr. High School in nearby Wisner.
Tornadoes also caused damage in Cuming and Wayne counties, the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency said in a news release. Meteorologists also tracked a reported tornado near the town of Burwell, in central Nebraska.
Associated Press writer Grant Schulte in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Jill Bleed in Little Rock, Arkansas, contributed to this report.


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Survey. The students survey what they are about to read. This should give the students an idea as to the content and organization of the text.
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Barack Obama channeled Bob Dole today. Asked by a seven year old girl why he wants to be president, Obama responded: "America is …, uh, is no longer, uh … what it could be, what it once was. And I say to myself, I don't want that future for my children."
It was not that long ago (yesterday probably) that Obama was running for president so he could usher in a new day, enabling America to fulfill the unmet promise of a nation that in the past has fallen so short of his, and his wife's, expectations. Now he wants to restore us to our former glory.
Perhaps, he can do both, since the laws of contradiction do not apply to messiahs. Or perhaps Obama has no answer, other than egotism, to the question of why he's running for president.
UPDATE: Jennifer Rubin says that Obama's statement is not a gaffe; rather it is a theme of his campaign, and logically must be. For why would America need Obama if things weren't deteriorating?
But at its best, Obama's campaign message is that America is a great but seriously flawed country that has been making major progress in overcoming its flaws. The fact that America is ready to nominate and elect Obama proves this. America must now take advantage of this moment so that Obama can take us to the next level. In this telling, Obama's rise is the culmination of the great American march towards a perfect Union.
The notion that Obama is running for president because we're not what we once were is antithetical to this theme — the one that launched Obama and has sustained him.
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Supreme Court weighs role of public advocate in rate cases
Florida's Supreme Court justices heard arguments Thursday in a case that could set the precedent for how much influence the state's consumer advocate will have in future cases before the utility board.
At issue is the $350 million rate increase approved in 2012 by the Public Service Commission for Florida Power & Light.
The Public Service Commission circumvented a full rate hearing last year when it approved a settlement between FPL and the company's largest industrial users that allowed the company to charge customers higher rates in 2013 and automatically increase rates again in 2014 and 2016 when new power plants come online.
The agreement was approved by regulators despite the objections of the Office of Public Counsel, the legislatively appointed lawyer whose office represents customers in rate cases. Public Counsel J.R. Kelly had opposed the rate increase, saying that FPL's financial projections indicate that rates should be reduced not increased. He also objected to the settlement because it allowed the company to receive a future automatic boost in revenue without having to immediately justify its expenses.
It was the first time the PSC had approved a settlement without the public counsel's consent, so Kelly, and his office, filed suit. They are asking the court to invalidate the rate increases and require the PSC to start over.
They say that state law gives the public counsel the same veto authority over a settlement agreement that a utility has, and that the settlement set a bad precedent and hurt customers. They also claim that the due process rights of more than 99 percent of FPL's 4.6 million customers were violated when regulators gave the advantage to the company's commercial users, who comprise less than one percent of the customer base but use a proportionately higher amount of electricity.
"We believe the public counsel is necessary to the approval for a settlement, based on the court's previous decision," said Joseph McGlothlin, associate public counsel. He cited a 1976 court case, Citizens v. Mayo, which said that the role of the public counsel was essential to the representation of the public in rate cases.
Lawyers for FPL joined with the PSC's staff to argue that the public counsel had plenty of opportunity to challenge the settlement agreement last year and address the many related financial issues.
Alvin Davis, attorney for Juno Beach-based FPL, said that state regulators had four months to review the settlement, conducted 10 days of hearings and had ample time to address all concerns raised by the public counsel. They said if the court throws out the settlement it will give the public counsel virtual veto power of all future settlements.
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He compared it to saying "I want a rate hike for my cup of coffee and, while we're fussing about that, I want an additional rate increase for my microphone. "I'm trying to understand how you change what's involved in the dispute while the dispute is pending."
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Treasurer Carroll DeWeese
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Bob Weiner, Christel Donley, Jerry Donley, Jim Flanik, Max Hamlyn, Mark Cleary, Rex Harvey, Stephen Cohen
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When President Barack Obama on Sunday called for BP to establish an escrow account to cover damage claims from the gulf oil spill, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum took credit.
"The media has reported today that the President plans to ask BP to establish an escrow account for Deepwater Horizon claims, an action I called for last week ..." McCollum said in the statement. "If the report is true, the President's echoing of my call for an escrow account is welcome."
The press release from his office said "Obama has followed McCollum's lead."
But really, McCollum followed the lead of state Sen. Dave Aronberg, a Democrat running for attorney general. In a May 5 letter to Gov. Charlie Crist, Aronberg wrote that "Florida should be insisting that an interest-bearing escrow account be established, under the control of the Cabinet or CFO, with each responsible party in this disaster committing a share to total $1 billion." (The total is smaller than the one McCollum proposed, but it was also much earlier in the crisis.)


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East Bay: Film captures trials of Judge Henderson
The footage is old and grainy but the black-and-white images are distinct enough. A young man in a suit is walking through a makeshift jail in Mississippi, inspecting conditions for hundreds of demonstrators arrested during the civil rights movement.
Thelton Henderson was the Justice Department's only black civil rights lawyer, serving as the eyes and ears for the Kennedy Administration during the 1960s uprising against segregation in the South. His job was to monitor local law enforcement for any civil rights abuses, a role that included investigating the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in which four girls were killed.
Still in his 20s, he got to know Martin Luther King Jr. and Andrew Young and wept at the funeral of Medgar Evers. Despite his government credentials, he was threatened, beaten and arrested.
Years later, Henderson admitted that he was torn between his official duties and his personal outrage.
"Whether I was going to be Joe Friday and say 'Just give me the facts' or whether I was going to hurl my body against the machine of injustice and make a statement," the 71-year-old judge said candidly, "it was always a personal issue with me that I don't think I ever resolved."
Henderson eventually became a federal judge in San Francisco, distinguishing himself for his bold decisions, even if it meant taking on some of the nation's most powerful political forces. Republican lawmakers called for his impeachment after he struck down Proposition 209, the 1996 measure that banned affirmative action in public contracts, hiring and college admissions in California.
Many stories have been written about Henderson's journey from a young government lawyer to a respected and sometimes controversial judge. Now, a powerful documentary provides a vivid perspective.
"Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey" traces Henderson's path from his childhood in Watts, through his career as a civil rights lawyer and ultimately his role as a judge. The film focuses on some of his most newsworthy rulings, including decisions requiring the tuna fishing industry to follow laws protecting dolphins and compelling officials at one of the state's most notorious prisons to provide basic rights to inmates.
At each stage of his education and career he was one of a few, if not the only, blacks -- a reluctant pioneer.
"There are so few worthy heroes," said U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of San Francisco, who was appointed to the federal bench in 1980, the same year as Henderson. "I hope young people will get a chance to see this and realize that there are people who lived up to their commitment and their consciences."
"It's important for this story to be told," said Barbara Babcock, a professor at Stanford Law School, where Henderson set up the school's first minority recruiting program. In many ways, "it's a history of the civil rights movement. This is an uplifting story for our country and for affirmative action."
The documentary was made by Abby Ginzberg, a veteran Berkeley filmmaker and a former lawyer whose prior work included a film about AmeriCorps volunteers in the East Bay. She had met Henderson while interviewing him for another film and was so impressed that she decided that her next film would focus on him.
Initially the immensely private and self-effacing judge was wary of being the subject of a film. "I felt unworthy," he said in a recent interview. "Why would anyone do a film on me?" But the East Bay resident, who is divorced with a grown son, said he was impressed with Ginzberg's other films and, after seeing a rough 11-minute clip focusing on his years in the South, he was convinced she could make a feature film.
"I made the film because I wanted to share his values and his story with people who had never heard of him," Ginzberg said. "I wanted to inspire another generation."
"This was a judge who does not put his finger in the air and sees which way the political wind is blowing," said the New York-born filmmaker. "His guide is the constitution. He is an important role model for the judiciary."
Ginzberg spent three years interviewing and filming dozens of the judge's friends and acquaintances, scraping by on a shoe-string budget financed by grants, law firms and individuals.
The film focuses on Henderson's professional career, but there are glimpses of his personal life that provide a hint of the complexities of his character.
Henderson's mother was a formidable influence in his life. When he was 3, the two moved with his grandmother from Louisiana to Los Angeles. She worked for a family as a housekeeper and managed to save enough money to put a down payment on a home. "Right from the start my mother made me know that I was going to be something," he said in the film. "Being something meant being a lawyer or a doctor."
He went to UC Berkeley on a football scholarship but a leg injury during a game crushed his dreams of becoming a professional athlete. Instead, he pursued a career in law, enrolling at Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, one of two blacks in his class. Shortly after he graduated in 1962 he was recruited by the Justice Department's civil rights division to follow the civil rights movement in the South.
The film includes rare footage of the young, bespectacled lawyer. Other footage captures the violent clashes between protesters and law enforcement officers, who resorted to attack dogs and fire hoses that pummeled and blasted people off their feet.
"In some strange way I was a figure down there," Henderson recalled. "I was that black guy with the Justice Department."
But his youth and inexperience ultimately cost him his job. When King asked him for a ride to Selma one day because he was having car trouble, the young lawyer agreed, aware of the constant threats on King's life. Local law enforcement officers, who were following King, seized on the fact that a lawyer for the Kennedy administration had assisted the civil rights leader. Henderson's career with the Justice Department came to an abrupt end.
"I was shattered," he recalled. "I felt a failure, just out of law school, my first job."
He returned to the Bay Area and opened up a law practice in East Palo Alto. He was overwhelmed with work and turned to nearby Stanford Law School for help, recruiting eager students. But residents of the mostly black community didn't warm to the idea of a young white staff. Stanford Law School, which didn't have a minority graduate until 1968, hired Henderson to recruit minorities.
The film includes interviews from close friends and colleagues, including warm comments by Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court. When President Jimmy Carter, who made it a priority to appoint women and minorities to the federal bench, approached Henderson in 1980, Henderson agreed after receiving a strong push from his law partners and friends.
The second half of the film is devoted to three of Henderson's most noted decisions.
In the 1980s, Henderson took on the fishing industry and its practice of snaring in nets dolphins that swim above schools of tuna in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Environmentalists had charged that millions of dolphins have drowned because of the industry's refusal to follow safety regulations.
Henderson not only came down on the fishing industry for defying federal regulations, he also squared off against the Clinton and Bush administrations, rebuffing their efforts to relax standards or "dolphin safe" labeling on tuna.
Ginzberg often relies on Henderson's own words, quoting extensively from his decisions. Henderson wrote in his ruling against the Bush administration that in his 24 years on the bench, he has never seen a record of action by a government agency that "contained such a compelling portrait of political meddling."
He is just as unequivocal and adamant in a blistering 344-page opinion condemning conditions at Pelican Bay State Prison in Del Norte County. "Subjecting individuals to conditions very likely to render them psychotic cannot be squared with evolving standards of humanity or decency," he wrote.
"I realize I'm controversial," he said recently while discussing the film. "I take issues head-on. I don't try to skirt them."
He admits that parts of the film were difficult to relive. The criticism he received after he struck down Prop. 209, in which he was accused by some conservatives of flouting the law, was especially hard.
"It's the most garbage decision I've ever seen," Ward Connerly, author of the measure, said after Henderson blocked enforcement of the law. A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal subsequently overturned his decision.
But that didn't stop Tom DeLay, then Republican House leader, from calling for Henderson's impeachment. "We've had judges impeached for public drunkenness," he said in the film. "Why can't we impeach judges that are drunk with power?"
Those are "not fully healed scars," Henderson said, noting that his decision was based squarely on the U.S. Constitution.
Sprinkled among the headlines and graphic footage are scenes of a relaxed Henderson. He laughs at himself when he can't snare even a guppy on a fishing trip. And he shows off his voice when he harmonizes with two old friends in a rendition of "So Fine." There are some quietly touching scenes in which he is volunteering to preside over a drug-rehabilitation court in Alameda County. He beams when he tells a young man how proud he is that he has successfully completed the program.
Despite the political storms he's encountered, Henderson said he stands by each of his rulings. "Yup," he said nodding. "I'm very proud of them."
"Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey" will be shown at the Mill Valley Film Festival at 2:45 p.m. Sunday, the Sequoia Theater, 25 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley and at 7 p.m. Monday, the Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley. It will also be shown at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14, the Performing Arts Theater, 1600 Mission Ave., San Rafael. (925) 866-9559; www.mvff.com.


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Berlitz Guide for 2013 Arrivesby Paul Motter | 09.20.12
Doug Ward's Complete Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships is considered the cruise industry bible
The new Berlitz Guide to Cruising was just released on Sept. 15.
For those who don't already know, The Berlitz Guide to Cruising is undeniably the cruise industry "bible." This is solely due to the dedication of its author, the "hardest working man in the cruise review business," Doug Ward. Doug spends more time on board various cruise ships than any cruise writer I have ever known, met or heard about.
In the preface to his 2013 update to The Berlitz Guide to Cruising Doug writes, "To date, I have completed 5800 days at sea (meaning days aboard various cruise ships, not necessarily out at sea), participating in more than 1020 cruises and 157 transatlantic crossings."
Wow. That adds up to over 15 years cruising. I have only sailed across the Atlantic five times, and that probably seems like a lot to some people. Of course, like me, Doug also worked aboard cruise ships. In his book he mentions that he "worked for eight different cruise lines in various roles." One of those was the Cunard Queen Elizabeth (the original one built in 1939, not the one in service today) and I would bet that many of his crossing were done while in service.
I have had the honor of spending many hours talking with Doug, so I know that he worked as a musical director on ships - in the entertainment department, as I did. Doug also likes to relate the story of being employed by EMI Music in the UK and having the job of transcribing some of the very first Beatles songs into musical scores.
But Doug has been writing the Berlitz Guide to Cruising since 1985, and his knowledge of the cruise industry is his most characteristic trait. Speaking with Doug, one senses that he lives and breathes the cruise business.
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Revelatory Information in the 2013 Berlitz Guide
While Doug's ability to compare individual ships is undeniable, what I personally find most interesting is his unbiased opinions on how cruising has changed and where it is going in the future.
In the section entitled "What to Look for in 2013" Doug writes, "Today, more than 50 ships measuring over 100,000 gross-tons are in service, with more on their way." That is a great way to begin what he describes as the "new economic realities" of cruising.
I recall when the first post 100,000-ton ship was introduced, Carnival Destiny in 1996. It only held the title "world's largest cruise ship" for a few months before Grand Princess came out at closer to 110,000-gross tons. Royal Caribbean would soon introduce Voyager of the Seas at an astounding 128,000-tons and we cruise writers were rife with questions about port facilities - only Miami had the port that could accommodate it. Next year Voyager of the Seas will be sailing in Asia and the 220,000-ton Allure of the Seas will be sailing out of Fort Lauderdale.
Today, as Doug further writes, "Given the economics of scale and shipbuilding costs, the new 'optimum' size for the large resort ships appears to be about 140,000-tons, with a capacity of about 3500 passengers."
So we see a term Doug now uses often, "large resort ships" with certain trends he offers us "at a glance..."
- More charging for extras
- More multi-generational cruising
- More single parent cruising
- More themed dining, dining packages, 'pay as you eat' venues, healthy spa menu choices, etc.
I do not want to give away everything he says, I want you to buy his book, because he digs into an area I also like to write about; "value for money" in cruising. In the section he calls "The Truth about low Fares" he says, "...although bargains still exist, it is important to read the small print." He notes that "a highly discounted fare may apply only to certain dates and itineraries..."
He continues, "Your cabin choice, grade or location may not be available. You may be limited to first seating at dinner aboard a ship that operates two seatings... Port charges, handling fees, fuel surcharges or other taxes may cost extra."
But is cruising still a good value? "It's never been better," he writes, "thanks in part to an economic downturn that forced cruise lines to offer more incentives - such as onboard credit, cabin upgrades and other perks in an effort to keep their ships full." He points out one common benefit of cruising; "The price of your vacation is protected by advance pricing, so you know before you go that your major outgoings have already been set. A fuel surcharge is the only additional cost that may change at the last minute."
How to Get the Best Deal
Doug recommends that cruise consumers "find out what's available by reading newspaper advertising and checking the Internet, then find a travel agent that specializes in cruises." He further explains, "A good agent will get you the best price, as well as upgrades and other benefits you won't be able to get on your own."
The reason for this is a bit controversial in travel agent circles, and although Doug does not directly address the controversy, he hints at it. He writes, "Big travel agency groups and consortiums often reserve large blocks of cabins, and smaller independent agencies can access extensive discounts not available on the Internet. Because cruise lines consider travel agents as their principle distribution system, they provide special discounts and value-added amenities that aren't provided to Internet sites."
Where is the controversy? It is that cruise lines pay higher commission percentages to travel agents that sell more cruises, but many of those big agencies are still using those profits to reduce to cost of cruises in the form of rebates, or as Doug mentioned, other "added incentives".
Despite efforts by cruise lines to level the playing field, some travel agencies still use some of their "profit" to buy onboard credit or upgrades for their customers - making them more competitive in the field of travel agents. The truth about modern age of cruise agencies is this; size counts, at least when it comes to predatory pricing.
Now I could also argue that you will get better service from a smaller travel agency with more time to focus on you as an individual, but that is just not always true. In the cruise business there is a lot to be said for experience. Those who sell more cruises do so because they are better at handling all of the details involved in selling a cruise. (To be clear, these last three paragraphs are mine, not Doug Ward's.)
15 Cost-Cutting Ploys
The next section of Doug Ward's Berlitz Guide is the part the cruise lines probably do not want you to read, so I will not give it all away. Doug names 15 different ways in which the cruise lines have been able to reduce cruise fares and here is a sample:
- Reduce menu selections
- Reducing food portions
- Removing trays from the buffet so you can't carry as much food
- Cutting speed between ports (to save on fuel)
How to Add Value to Your Cruise
Here I see Doug offering ideas that are new to even me. He recommends booking cruises early for the best cabin choice and location, but also for the best chance at getting an upgrade when they are offered closer to the sailing date.
He notes that newer, highly publicized ships have a "premium" price, so the best value comes on older ships. But he also recommends booking a lower category (cheaper) cabin on a better ship, so you pay the same price but you get better food and entertainment.
Doug recommends drink packages for families, and also joining the frequent cruiser clubs offered by the cruise lines for added perks like free Wi-Fi, onboard credit and private cocktail parties.
Buy the Book
I just bought the 2013 Berlitz Guide to Cruising in Kindle form at Amazon for just $9.99. At that price it is a steal. The paperback edition is listed for $24.99, but sells for $15.99.
This just goes to show you that "E-cruising is in" - which happens to be the name of yet another chapter in the book, but you have to buy the book to see what it says.
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You see them in the news all the time, but what is the real situation with Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs here on the Gold Coast?
Is there really some kind of fight over turf and what kinds of illegal activity are they involved in?
The police officers who are fighting organized crime and Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs operate somewhat in the shadows at times.
I can't even tell you how many officers are working for Taskforce Hydra.
But I can tell you that the man in charge wants you to be absolutely sure that there is no bikie war simmering away here on the Gold Coast.
We're trying to separate fact from fiction when it comes to the bikie gangs here.
I had the chance to sit down for a rare face to face interview with the head of Taskforce Hydra, Detective Inspector Gary Watts.
He had his reasons for agreeing to the interview and I had my questions, some of which he answered. (click to original article for interview)
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I love being co-raid-leader with Reversion of our raid. I think the job is too big for one person to manage, honestly. I handle logistics and back end stuff; he gives fight strategies and leads Vent. Behind the scenes we spend a lot of time discussing the raid, our raiders, goals and priorities.
This weekend we extended our BOT lockout to work on Cho'Gall. Until he's down, he is our progression boss. Friday night we brought in a brand new to the guild tank, a healer we haven't run with in ages, and after two hours we had back to back attempts where we got below 25% and into phase two. After that we went and killed Magmaw/Omnom/Maloriak, to get a head start on Saturday.
Saturday we headed back with my preferred healing team (me, Kerick the paladin, Jhudora the shaman) and tried Cho'gall again. We're getting really good at getting to phase 2. It's going to take time to get through that and down Cho'Gall but I know we can do it. After we put in about 9 wipes on him we did our Four Winds kill – I still enjoy that place even now that we have it completely on farm – and then to BWD to finish off there.
We one shot Atramedes. I believe that's our third kill of him as a raid but it really feels like we've got that one on farm. We can handle a little sloppiness, we aren't having issues with sound, people know what to do.
Then we went to my archnemesis Chimaeron. We discussed cooldown use and healing assignments and started. First attempt I did terribly. I managed to forget what group I was healing and I'd stacked the cooldowns wrong too. We died at the third Feud. We came back, I fixed my attitude and readjusted what cooldowns we use, and we killed that – creature.
I was actually surprised but this is the first time we've had my favorite heals team in there in a long time. Add in the new shaman cooldown, plus we had a paladin tank so we had a cooldown there too, and the fight just wasn't bad. For the record, first Feud we used my Tranquility. Second Feud we used the Spirit Link totem. Third Feud we used Rev's Tranq, my tree, and the pally cooldown.
So we're making good progress but we have a lot of work to do to stay progression minded. For the next…. well, more than likely it'll end up being all summer, we have people out. I'm working on that. The guild just invited a very cheerful new tank who I'm hoping to lock down as an alt for us since we can offer him a guaranteed slot for basically the next two months.
4.2 is on the horizon somewhere and Rev and I are talking about our goals. Our raid is not a heroic mode raid. We'd like to go back and do some heroics once we down end bosses but that's just not quite where we are right now, or we'd be more than 9/12 regular right now. So when Firelands comes out we're going to concentrate on getting new content down. We will finish all of the 4.0 bosses though.
See, as a raid I want us to put together the caster staff. I've talked to a few raid members who've agreed that Falahla, our Arcane mage, is the choice for that staff. It represents to me a great goal for us as a raid. We have to clear the 4.0 content. Then we have to get 4.2 bosses on farm to get the shards. And at some point we will have to kill Ragnaros. I have no idea yet what sort of timeline we can expect to try to live up to but if we do it before the NEXT content patch I'll be happy.
I know a lot of raids are hurting right now. The summer slump hits us all hard. But with both short and long term goals in mind, it motivates me to get the work down to keep our raid running. We have 6-8 people who will attend unless they are physically unable to. That means even if we have to pug a blind walrus and a melee hunter, we will run our raids every week. It's a very reassuring thing to know, as a raid leader, that unless you get really really unlucky you won't have to replace more than two people any given night.


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Biomedical Optics Laboratory
Research in the Biomedical Optics Laboratory is concerned with the way light interacts with human tissue and how this interaction can be used for developing novel ways to image physiological processes and anatomical structures, for developing new laser-based optical diagnostic tools, and even for developing new ways to use light in the treatment of disease. The lab is a fully equipped, modern optics facility that houses vibration-isolated optical benches, numerous types of lasers and other light sources, state-of-the-art optoelectronic equipment, optical components, computers for conducting numerical simulations and for collecting and analyzing data, and an area for preparing and studying biological tissues and samples.
Location: Minerals and Materials 114/115
Contact: Sean Kirkpatrick
Biosensors Laboratory
Research conducted in the Biosensors Laboratory focuses on the development of implantable wireless sensors for taking human physiological measurements, i.e., real-time stress and pressure monitoring. The lab supports rapid prototyping with equipment such as a 3-D scanner and printer. A circuit fabrication and testing station is used in the lab to fabricate sensor-detection devices. Computer-controllable measurement instruments such as multiple impedance/spectrum analyzers, lock-in amplifiers, power supplies, multimeters, and function generators are also available for characterizing sensors. The lab also features a functional machine shop with a computer-controlled milling machine and a polymer-casting facility.
The lab is staffed by a postdoctoral researcher, graduate students, and undergraduate students working on sensor-related research. The staff provides assistance with rapid prototyping and instrumentation to researchers from across the University community.
Location: Minerals and Materials 312
Contact: Keat Ghee Ong
Engineered Biomaterials Laboratory
Laboratory activities include biomaterials synthesis and characterization, histological processing, and molecular biological analysis. Studies focus on characterizing native and pathological tissue behavior to develop rationale designs for new biomaterials that regulate cell and tissue regeneration and repair. Areas of expertise include biomimetic materials, cell and tissue mechanics, and the host response to implantable materials.
Location: Minerals and Materials 330/331
Contact: Rupak Rajachar
Microdevices Laboratory
The microdevices lab is a multi-disciplinary lab bringing together the diverse aspects of biomedical engineering. On-going research encompasses electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, tissue engineering and polymer chemistry. The lab is equipped with enclosed climate controlled electrospinning equipment for scaffold and sensing applications, mechano-culture chamber to study mechanical stresses on cells, fluorescent and brightfield imaging with an on-board incubation chamber for long-term imaging, fully functional tissue culture facility with biosafety cabinet (BSL-2), incubator (dual gas flow controlled), brightfield microscope (primovert), function generators, oscilloscopes, soldering station, pH measurement system, TEER measurement system, home-built contact angle measurement set-up, hand-held corona treater, multi-mode plate reader. The lab also has capability for carrying out standard chemical processing.
Location: Minerals and Materials 330
Contact: Smitha Rao
Polymeric Biomaterials Laboratory
Laboratory activities include research involving implanted polymer development, implantable sensor development, effects of nitric oxide on cells and tissues, biocompatibility, and biomaterials interfaces. Specialized equipment used in the lab includes a nitric oxide analyzer (chemiluminescence detection), fiber-optic UV-visible and fluorescence spectrometers, and a UV-visible dual-beam spectrometer.
Location: Minerals and Materials 337
Contact: Megan Frost
Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Facility
The facility's activities include mammalian cell culture; tissue culture; bioreactor design and operation; biomaterial fabrication; and polymer synthesis.
Location: Minerals and Materials 414
Contacts: Feng Zhao and Bruce P. Lee
Vascular Engineering Laboratory
Laboratory activities are focused on understanding how reduced interstitial flow, following lymphatic injuries, alters lymphatic regeneration and recovery of lymphatic function. The long-term goal of this research is to develop novel biomaterial and tissue engineering strategies for increasing interstitial flow, thereby improving lymphatic regeneration.
The lab is equipped for small-animal surgeries, tissue cryosectioning, fluorescence and brightfield microscopy, and live lymphatic imaging. Specialized instruments include an Olympus BX51 microscope and a Zeiss Apotome fluorescence microscope, both equipped with a high-resolution color digital camera; two Olympus stereo microscopes, available for small-animal surgeries with affixed DP71 digital color cameras; and a Near Infrared (NIR) imaging system, available for live imaging of lymphatic vessels in both rodents and humans.
Location: Minerals and Materials 332
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Amarillo Sweeps Canaries
AMARILLO, TX -- The Amarillo Sox scored nine runs in four innings en route to a 9-3 defeat of the Sioux Falls Canaries on Sunday night, capping a three-game sweep in Amarillo.
Amarillo (16-12) has won six straight games, while the Canaries (12-18) have lost five of their last six contests. They are 0-3 thus far on their 10-game Texas road trip.
Canaries starter Ben Moore (3-2) struck out five Amarillo batters but suffered the loss after Joe Weik's two-run double broke a 2-2 tie in the fourth inning. Moore is now three strikeouts shy of breaking the career franchise strikeout record, 519 set by Rich Hyde. He threw six innings, allowing four runs on eight hits. He did not walk anybody and has impressively walked just one batter all season (49 1/3 innings pitched).
The Canaries grabbed a quick 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning when Nick Van Stratten led off with his league-leading fifth triple of the year and scored on Cory Morales' single. But Amarillo starter Jason Mitchell (2-2) quieted the Birds from there, scattering just four more hits and one run in six innings pitched. He did not walk anybody and struck out six.
Amarillo went ahead 2-1 on Trey Ford's two-run home run in the fifth inning, but the Birds tied it in the top of the sixth when J.P. Ramirez singled home Van Stratten. Amarillo added a run in the seventh on a dropped fly ball and then unloaded for four more runs in the eighth inning. Seven men reached safely before the first out was recorded.
Ford led Amarillo's offense, going 3-for-4 with three RBI.
Van Stratten went 2-for-5 with a double, triple and two runs scored. Jake Taylor saw an 11-game hitting streak come to end. He nearly homered in the sixth inning, but the ballpark's spacious dimensions in right center field held in his drive.
The Canaries open a three-game series against the Laredo Lemurs at 7:30 p.m. on Monday in Laredo.
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81-108: Questions and Answers
81- Is a system practiced by the majority always right?
The conventional wisdom of societies that are far removed from Allah's religion holds that the majority is always right. Yet this is a totally wrong deduction. Allah has informed us in the Qur'an that, "Most people will not become believers..." (Surah Yusuf, 103) and He has stated at other points in His verses that those who follow the unbelieving majority will also be the losers.
If you obeyed most of those on earth, they would misguide you from Allah's Way. They follow nothing but conjecture. They are only guessing. (Surat al-An'am, 116)
From the foregoing, we understand that in every age the believers will be in the minority, and those standing apart from Allah's religion will be in the majority. This situation will increase the value of those who believe in Allah and who live away from the "religion of the ignorant" many times over.
82- What does one have to do to renounce "the religion of the ignorant"?
The way to be saved from this system built on the denial of Allah is, first and foremost, to seek the approval of Allah alone and to try to strictly practice the morals and the way of life He presents to us in the Qur'an. One who patterns his entire life on the guidance of the verses of the Qur'an automatically distances himself from the bad morality and the disagreeable modes of behaviour of a society marred by ignorance of religion.
83- What is the difference between wisdom and intelligence?
Wisdom is an important quality possessed only by believers. However, there is a great difference between the concept of wisdom as it commonly figures in society and the wisdom entailed by living by the moral values of the Qur'an. The wisdom referred to in the Qur'an is a concept totally different from intelligence. Intelligence is the brain capacity a human being biologically possesses. Intelligence neither increases nor decreases. Wisdom, on the other hand, is granted to believers, who are pious and who fear Allah, as a great blessing. The level of wisdom of the individual increases in parallel with his piety.
The primary characteristics of a man of wisdom is his fearing Allah and observing his duty to Him, following his conscience all the time, evaluating everything he sees according to the Qur'an and seeking Allah's approval every moment. No individual, be he the most intelligent, most knowledgeable and most intellectual person on earth, will possess "wisdom" if he lacks these qualities, and, lacking the ability to understand, he will not be able to see many truths. Allah has described what damage is done by a lack of wisdom:
The worst of beasts in Allah's Sight are the deaf and dumb who do not use their reason. (Surat al-Anfal, 22)
A man of wisdom also has vision. He makes correct and proper decisions. Wisdom enables him to have a grasp of the essence of events and to see the inner truth of things.
84- What are the factors clouding man's wisdom?
What vitiates a man's heart and mind are his ambitions and selfish desires. For example, fears about the future, jealousy, strong obsessions felt for worldly things, and romanticism so preoccupy people that they are prevented from thinking about the really important things, such as the greatness of Allah and the perfection in His creation. Allah has advised us that success will be possible only by breaking free from the obsessions of the self:
… It is the people who are safeguarded from the avarice of their own selves who are successful. (Surat al-Hashr, 9)
85- It is stated in the Qur'an that Allah does not like those who are boastful. What is 'being boastful' according the Qur'an?
According to the Qur'an, the foremost characteristic of a person who is boastful is his forgetting that everything he owns has been given to him by Allah, and in his imagined and ignorant superiority, boasting about these things. An important misconception on this subject is thinking of only extreme persons as those who forget Allah and boast arrogantly. In fact, a person is boastful if he thinks that his beauty is of his own making, if he is proud of his successes, if, thinking he is adequate, he never asks himself the question: "Can I be more conscientious?", and if he behaves arrogantly and conceitedly. Therefore, every individual should seriously avoid such misconduct and should realize that he is in need and impotent against Allah and that Allah may take everything away from him if He so wills. Allah has told us what the ultimate fate of such people will be:
When it is said to him, "Fear Allah," he is seized by pride which drives him to wrongdoing. Hell will be enough for him! What an evil resting-place! (Surat al-Baqara, 206)
86- What should a humble person be like according to the morals of the Qur'an?
A humble person, as opposed to a boastful person, knows that everything he owns is given to him by Allah either as a blessing or as a trial. He is aware that as a human being, he is impotent and needy and that he does not have the power to do anything unless Allah so wills. Therefore, he always turns to Allah and thanks Him for every blessing. Allah has praised the humble attitude of the believers:
The servants of the All-Merciful are those who walk modestly on the earth... (Surat al-Furqan, 63)
87- Will I be responsible for my intentions?
Every individual is responsible for his intentions. Allah makes this clear when He says: "… He will take you to task for the intention in your hearts have made…"(Surat al-Baqara, 225) In every act, the intention must be to gain Allah's approval. An act may seem to be good but, if the intention behind it is to gain the approval of others, or some other worldly benefit, this act will not be acceptable in the Sight of Allah.
88- What is meant by "the life of this world is the enjoyment of delusion"?
One of the most serious, but largely unacknowledged misconceptions, is the supposition that the life of this world is the only real life for human beings. In fact, the world is a temporary place created by Allah to test man. What is real is the life after death. Therefore, everything that charms people and preoccupies them in the fleeting and short-lived existence of this world is an "enjoyment of delusion". As stated in the following verse, Allah warns people against this deception, reminding them that the real, beautiful abode is in the Presence of Allah: "To mankind the objects of worldly appetites are painted in glowing colours: women and children, and heaped-up mounds of gold and silver, and horses with fine markings, and livestock and fertile farmland. All that is merely the enjoyment of the life of this world. Far better is the return to Allah. " (Surah Al 'Imran, 14) .
89- What are the Divine reasons (hiqmat) for the weaknesses people have?
There are many physical drawbacks afflicting man. First of all, man has to keep his body and his surroundings clean and constantly look after them. The time he spares for this care takes up a large part of his life. However, no matter how much care he takes or how much cleaning he does, the effect is only temporary. A person who brushes his teeth will find that in just one hour his teeth a will feel as if he had never cleaned them. Somebody who takes a bath in the summer will feel as if he never had taken a bath at all just a couple of hours later.
What is important to understand here is that such physical drawbacks have a specific purpose. These are not inherent weaknesses but have been specially created. In the same way, old age and the changes that come along with it are also weaknesses devised by Allah to make people think about the temporary nature of human life, avoid becoming attached to this world, which is full of defects, and aim at the hereafter which is the "real abode". Allah has advised in the Qur'an that the best objective for man is the hereafter:
The life of this world is nothing but a game and a diversion. The hereafter is better for those who are pious. So will you not use your reason? (Surat al-An'am, 32)
90- What is the Divine reason for mentioning former nations in the Qur'an?
Allah states in the Qur'an that He has shown the right way to all the nations that have existed throughout the ages and that He has reminded them through His prophets that the world is temporary and that the real abode is the hereafter. Yet, again it is revealed in the Qur'an that most of the people refused to do anything except disbelieve and did not listen to the call of the prophets. Allah, therefore, meted out a harsh punishment to them from unexpected quarters and wiped some of them off the face of the earth.
One of the most important reasons why past nations are mentioned in the Qur'an is to ensure that the people of today avoid falling into the same error. Assessing the disasters that befell past nations and their archaeological remains merely as historical data without learning any lessons from them would be very wrong. Allah ordered us to take guidance from the calamities that befell these nations:
How many generations far greater in prowess have We destroyed before them! They scoured many lands, but did they find any way of escape? There is a reminder in this for anyone who has a heart, or who listens well, having seen the evidence. (Surah Qaf, 36-37)
91-For what purposes were the jinn created?
Allah refers to the existence of jinn in many verses. Jinn, too, are beings that are created by Allah to worship Him. They live in a different dimension from that of man. As related in certain verses, people cannot see them, but they can see people. A wrong but widespread belief holds that jinn can supply information about the future. In the Qur'an, however, it is stated that they have no such ability. Also, we are told in the scriptures that the jinn are also held responsible for the safeguarding of the Qur'an. Allah states that the jinn were created with the same purpose as people:
I only created the jinn and man to worship Me. (Surat adh- Dhariyat, 56)
92- What kind of beings are angels?
Angels are beings who never err in their duty to Allah and live in a different dimension from that of human beings. Unlike people, angels are not created to be tested. Allah created them as faultless beings. Allah has assigned each one of them different tasks which they perform with precision. Gabriel has the duty of communicating the revelations of Allah to His prophets. There are writer angels on either side of every individual who write down everything he does. There are angels appointed to take a man's soul at the time of death. And there are the demons of Hell, angels who are responsible for making sure that the inmates of Hell suffer the greatest punishment.
Allah states that angels are servants to Him:
Christ would never disdain to be a servant to Allah, nor would the angels near to Him... (Surat an-Nisa, 172)
Allah bears witness that there is no Deity but Him, as do the angels and the sages. He is the Executor of justice. There is no Deity but Him, the Almighty, the All-Wise. (Surah Al 'Imran, 18)
93- How can we define time?
Time can be defined as a method by which one moment is compared to another. Let us explain this with an example. For instance, if anyone taps an object, he hears a particular sound. When he taps the same object five minutes later, he hears another sound. He perceives at that point that there is an interval between the first sound and the second and he calls this interval time.
Yet at the time he hears the second sound, the first sound he heard is no more than a figment of his imagination. He formulates the concept of "time" by comparing the moment in which he lives with what he has stored in his memory. If this comparison is not made, there can be no concept of time.
94- What does the relativity of time mean?
As mentioned above, time is apprehended through a comparison made between two events. However, this is a conclusion reached in the brain and is relative. This is plainly experienced in dreams. Although what we see in our dreams seems to last for hours, it lasts, in fact, for only a few minutes, or even a few seconds. Many verses of the Qur'an quote various examples on this subject. Some verses indicate that people perceive time differently and that sometimes they can perceive a very short period as a very lengthy one. The following verse in which Allah addresses the wrongdoers is an example:
He will say, 'How many years did you tarry on the earth?' They will say, 'We tarried there for a day or part of a day. Ask those able to count!' He will say, 'You only tarried there for a little while, if you but knew it! (Surat al-Muminun, 112-114)
95- What is destiny?
We have created all things in due measure. Our command is only one word, like the blinking of an eye. (Surat al-Qamar, 49-50)
Destiny is Allah's apprehension of all events past or future as if they were "a single moment." Most people question how Allah can already have knowledge of events that have not yet been experienced, and this leads to their failing to understand the authenticity of destiny. However, "events not yet experienced" are only so for us. Allah is unfettered by time or space, for He Himself has created them. There is no concept of time in the Presence of Allah. For this reason, past, future, and present are all the same to Him; for Him, everything has already taken place and is finished.
96- People cannot change the destiny determined by Allah.
There is a distorted understanding of destiny which is prevalent in our society. For instance, people make superficial statements about a patient who returns from death's door, such as "he defeated his destiny". No one is able to change his destiny. The person who returned from death's door, didn't die precisely because he was destined not to die at that time. It is, ironically, the destiny of those people who deceive themselves by saying "I defeated my destiny" that they should say so and maintain such a mindset.
Destiny is the eternal knowledge of Allah and for Allah, Who perceives time as a single moment and Who prevails over the whole of time and space; everything is determined and finished as a matter of destiny. We also understand from what He relates in the Qur'an that time is one for Allah: occurrences that are going to take place after our death (from our point of view) are related in the Qur'an as past events already experienced. Allah is unfettered by the relative time frame in which we are confined. Allah has willed these things in timelessness: people have already performed them and all these events have been lived through and are at an end.
97- How will resurrection come about?
Allah is All-powerful and He is the Creator of every being. No doubt, Allah, Who brought everything into being out of nothing, Who created man from a single drop of fluid, has the power to create all of them once again in a similar way. Allah, castigating the disbelievers, answers this question in the Qur'an:
That (Hell) is their repayment for rejecting Our Signs and saying, 'What, when we are bones and crumbled dust, will we then be raised up as a new creation?' Do they not see that Allah, Who created the heavens and earth, has the power to create the like of them, and has appointed fixed terms for them of which there is no doubt? But the wrongdoers still persist in unbelief. (Surat al-Isra, 98-99)
98- Why isn't the materialistic philosophy valid?
Materialist philosophy is a false system of thought that holds that everything is composed of matter, that the universe was not created, but has existed since time immemorial and will continue to exist for all eternity.
However, the scientific developments of the last century have proven that the claims of this philosophy are totally invalid. First of all, it has been accepted by the scientific community that the universe had a beginning, it was created from nothing and will have an end just as it was proclaimed in the Qur'an 1400 years ago. Later on, it was discovered by science that what we call "matter" is a "collection of perceptions," the original of which we can never reach. It was the rebuttal of these two basic claims of the materialist philosophy which ultimately invalidated it.
99- How did the universe come into being?
He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth… (Surat al-An'am, 101)
Today, scientists have reached a consensus that the universe came into being out of nothing—suddenly, with a great explosion called the Big Bang. Compelling evidence which caused the Big Bang Theory to be inevitably accepted is as follows:
Expansion of the universe: In 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that all heavenly objects move away from each other, which is evidence that the universe constantly expands. This is conclusive proof that the universe came into being by the explosion of a single point (the Big Bang).
Cosmic Background Radiation: Since the universe emerged as a result of an explosion, there had to be some radiation left over from this explosion and this radiation should have pervaded the entire universe uniformly. Unsurprisingly, this radiation was found in 1965. Subsequently its existence was conclusively confirmed with the help of satellites.
The hydrogen-helium ratio in the universe: Another significant place of evidence for the Big Bang is the amount of hydrogen and helium gases in space. In the latest calculations, it was understood that the hydrogen-helium concentration in the universe complied with the theoretical calculations of the hydrogen-helium concentration remaining from the Big Bang. If the universe had no beginning and if it had existed forever, its hydrogen constituent should have been completely consumed and converted to helium.
The Big Bang Theory, which implies that the universe came into being out of nothing, meaning that it was created, ultimately destroyed the claim of the materialist philosophy that the universe had always existed and would always exist.
100- How do materialists explain the human spirit?
Materialists who imagine that everything consists of matter, are never able to explain the human spirit and consciousness. As we know, the building blocks of everything on the earth, including the human body, are the atoms. This means that all beings, living or non-living, are formed by the combination of atoms in different forms. This is what troubles materialists most.
Man is a conscious being with willpower, who can think, speak, reason, judge and comprehend. It is impossible for such a being to have emerged out of random coincidences by the spontaneous combination of unconscious atoms as materialists claim. It is impossible for atoms that are not able to think, reason, and judge to come together with a sudden decision to form the human spirit. Therefore, materialists have no explanation for the spirit man possesses.
101- What does the theory of evolution claim?
The theory of evolution claims that life is formed by chance. According to this unscientific claim, lifeless and unconscious atoms came together to form the cell and then they somehow formed other living things, including man. Let us formulate an "experiment" on this subject under the heading of "Darwinian formula" and let us examine on the behalf of evolutionists what they really claim without their actually having spelled it out:
Let evolutionists put plenty of materials present in the composition of living beings into big barrels. Moreover, let them add to these barrels any form of matter that does not exist under normal conditions, but which they may think is necessary. Let them add to this mixture as many amino acids—which have no possibility of forming under natural conditions–and as many proteins–a single one of which has a formation probability of one in 10 to the power of 950—as they like. Let them expose these mixtures to as much heat and moisture as they see fit and then let them stir these with whatever technologically developed device they choose. Let them wait in turn beside these barrels for billions, or even trillions of years. No matter what they do, they cannot produce from these barrels a human being. They cannot produce tigers, lions, ants, roses, lilies, magnolias, pheasants, woodpeckers, whales, kangaroos, horses, parrots, bananas, oranges, olives, pomegranates, grapes and millions of other living beings such as these. Indeed, they will not be able to obtain even a single cell of any one of them.
102- Do evolutionists' claims about the formation of life have any validity?
No. The claims of evolutionists holding that living beings formed by coincidence is not valid. No evolutionary process ever took place. Still, let us explain the evidence on the invalidity of the theory for those who are insistent on the subject. Evolutionists have a few classical claims which are listed below:
They claim that new living species form by natural selection and mutation.
It is impossible for the mechanism of natural selection, which is based on the idea that living beings unfitted to their habitat will become extinct, while the fit ones will survive and cause a new species to emerge. Such a mechanism only results in the selection of existing species yet never produces a new species. Mutations, on the other hand, only causes damage in the DNA. The effect of mutations is harmful. It is not possible for them to cause a new species to be formed.
They allege that the living beings came out of the sea and on to the land.
It is impossible for a sea-dwelling living being to emerge from the sea and start living on the land, because a living being could not of its own transform itself into a totally different creature by modifying its body weight, body temperature, its system of body water usage, its kidney structure, respiration system and way of life.
They claim that birds evolved from reptiles.
This is not possible either because;
It is impossible for bird wings to be formed by the modification of the scales of reptiles.
The lungs of birds function in a totally different way from those of land-dwelling animals.
The bones of birds that are an important factor in birds' ability to fly are lighter than those of land-dwelling animals.
The muscular-skeletal systems of birds and reptiles are totally different from each other.
They allege that mammals evolved from reptiles.
This, too, is a groundless claim, because the bodies of reptiles are covered with scales, they are cold blooded and they reproduce by laying eggs. Mammals, on the other hand, are warm blooded, their bodies are covered with hair and they reproduce by giving birth to their offspring.
103- What are the other pieces of evidence that refute evolution?
It is possible to delve into the details of many of these pieces of evidence, but the principal ones are the following:
First of all, contemporary science has conclusively proved that animate matter cannot emerge from inanimate matter.
So far, not a single transitional intermediate form of fossil has been unearthed to support the evolutionist claim that living beings have evolved from each other. Although millions of fossils belonging to normal species have been found, there is no trace of any half reptile-half bird, half fish-half reptile or half ape-half human creatures. The 250 million fossils unearthed to date prove that evolution never happened, that living things are not descended from a common ancestor and that species do not turn into one another. The fact revealed by the fossil record is that all species are created with all the characteristics they possess and never change for so long as they survive.
Proteins, which are the building blocks of living beings, cannot develop by coincidence. The probability of the chance formation of a protein with 500 amino acids is one in 10 to the power of 950. In short, such a possibility, which is incomprehensible to the human mind, has "0" probability of realization.
104- How does the theory of evolution explain the sudden emergence of life on earth?
The theory of evolution cannot offer any explanation for the emergence of life on earth.
When terrestrial strata and the fossil record are examined, it is seen that living organisms appeared suddenly. The oldest stratum of the earth in which fossils of living creatures have been found is that of the "Cambrian," which has an estimated age of 520-530 million years. The fossils found in the Cambrian rocks belonged to various complex invertebrate species. Most interestingly, this wide mosaic of living creatures emerged all of a sudden without any pre-existing ancestors. This is why this miraculous event is referred to as the "Cambrian Explosion" in geological literature.
How the earth came to overflow with such a great number of animal species all of a sudden and how these distinct types of species with no common ancestors could have emerged without undergoing any evolutionary period are questions evolutionists can never answer.
105- What are the frauds committed by evolutionists to deceive the public?
The "ape-men" we see in newspapers, magazines, or films are all drawings based on the imagination of evolutionists. Inspired by a single tooth, evolutionists sometimes give shape to features that do not actually leave any fossil traces, such as the structure of the nose and lips, the shape of the hair, the form of the eyebrows, and they prepare illustrations of half ape/half men creatures and even draw false pictures depicting the families and social lives of these creatures. They try to mislead the public by this method.
Evolutionists also "produce" fossils which they are unable to find, whereby they commit fraud. A few of the most famous of these forgeries are the following:
Piltdown man: Evolutionists deceived the world of science by this forgery by attaching the jaw of a recently dead orangutan to a 500-year-old human skull. The teeth were added later in order to make the skull resemble that of a man, and the joints were filed. Then all the pieces were stained with potassium dichromate to make them look old.
Nebraska man: In 1922, evolutionists claimed that a molar tooth fossil, which they unearthed, bore the common characteristics of both man and ape. Extensive scientific research was carried out on this subject and the tooth was called the Nebraska man. Based on this single tooth, reconstructions of the Nebraska Man's head and body were drawn. Moreover, the Nebraska Man was even pictured along with his wife and children, as a whole family in a natural setting. However, in 1927, other parts of the skeleton were found and it was established that the tooth belonged to a wild pig.
106- The "primitive man" concept is an evolutionist nonsense.
There is no such thing as "primitive man". A few of the numerous proofs on this subject are the following:
The human fossil unearthed in Spain in 1995 utterly destroyed the tale of the "evolution of man". The 800,000 year-old human skull fossil unearthed in the Atapuerca Region belongs to the era in which half-ape creatures allegedly existed according to evolutionists, and it is no different from the modern man. This means that there is no difference between the man of 800,000 years ago and the man of today.
A news item published in the New Scientist on March 14th, 1998, titled "Early humans were much smarter than we suspected..." tells us that the humans called Homo Erectus by evolutionists were practicing seamanship 700 thousand years ago. These humans, who had enough knowledge and technology to build a vessel and possessed a culture that made use of sea transport, can hardly be called "primitive."
The 26 thousand year old needle fossils that were unearthed show that the being which the evolutionists call the Neanderthal man, had knowledge of clothing tens of thousands of years ago. This reveals that Neanderthals, who were deliberately pictured as ape-like creatures in false illustrations, were in fact no different from modern man.
107- Can the formation of complex systems in living beings be explained by evolution?
No, it cannot. Complex systems in living beings, like the eye and the ear, which are made up of multiple components, can function only when all its components are intact. For instance, for an eye to see, it is necessary that its approximately 40 components be intact. The eye would not be able to see if any one of these, for instance the eye retina or the tear glands, was missing. The conclusion we must arrive at, therefore, is that all the parts of such systems must have been created simultaneously. This, of course, proves the invalidity of evolution once again.
So, what would it mean if a complex structure were to come into being in a single moment? Unquestionably, the emergence of many components at the same time, at the same place could only be the result of a special creation.
108- Why is the theory of evolution defended so persistently by certain circles although it has no scientific validity whatsoever?
People who disregard the existence of Allah and are reluctant to admit that they are responsible to Him seek a logical justification for their stance and a means of convincing other people to agree with them. Claiming that everything has been formed by chance, they try to make people deny the evident existence of Allah and therefore they are not responsible to anyone.
At this juncture, the theory of evolution serves as a so-called scientific mainstay for nonbeliever philosophies. This is why people, who are obdurate in denying Allah, defend this theory as an ideological and philosophical possibility although it has no scientific validity, and no matter whether they believe that it is right or not.


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Seeing as even most liberals are on board with the whole "Stimulus now, but deficit reduction in the future" formulation (leading, unfortunately, to rash proposals to cut Medicare and Social Security in exchange for short term stimulus) this bracing dose of the truth from economist Richard Koo is very welcome:
Arguing need for longer-term fiscal consolidation is irresponsible
The insistence that fiscal consolidation is necessary in the longer term is like the doctor who, faced with a patient who has just been admitted to the intensive care ward, repeatedly questions the patient about his ability to afford the treatment. This is both lacking in decency and irresponsible.
If the patient loses heart after learning the cost of the treatment, he may end up spending even longer in the hospital, leading to a larger final bill. Completely ignoring the policy duration effect of fiscal policy and constantly insisting on longer-term fiscal consolidation was what prolonged Japan's recession.
For instance, it was because Japan's policymakers refused to give up the medium-term fiscal consolidation target of achieving a primary fiscal balance by 2011 that the government stumbled from fiscal stimulus to fiscal retrenchment and back again and, ultimately, was unable to meet its fiscal targets even once in the last 20 years.
That is why Japan's recession lasted as long as it did and why the nation's debt has risen to some 200% of GDP.
With some notable exceptions, most people still believe that that there will be a hangover of debt which will have to be dealt with at some point. But the confidence fairy died some time back and the only other reason for worrying about it at this point is to get some Shock Doctrine benefits out of the current situation. But as Koo points out, this actually hurts the economy even more.
If there is any psychology involved in economics, and one has to believe there is, then this constant fearmongering about the debt makes people even more nervous about the future than they already are — and cutting government spending on programs they will need makes it worse. The government should just keep it simple. They just aren't all that good at finessing all these messages and policies about "sacrifice" and "stimulus" and are turning this situation into a massive case of free floating anxiety. So perhaps they should just return to the old fashioned "first things first" — stimulate the economy and get people back to work. When that's done, the government can take a fresh look at revenues and spending in a healthy economy and make whatever decisions need to be made. Selling off tomorrow's security in exchange for today's prosperity is what got us into this mess in the first place.