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Response to the Fatwa on Terrorism in the Service of Empire
Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Saturday, March 20, 2010 | Last Updated July 16, 2010 | Addendum: Letter March 24, 2010 | Photo of Shameless Stooges Added March 02, 2011
The political philosophies and social engineering underlying imperial mobilization are far more diabolical today than they have been in the past. Comprehending the role of fabricated enemies and false oppositions to lend credence to the fabricated enemies, begins at the doorstep of political science, not Islam. The fatwa is part of the finely tuned social engineering to continually engineer consent for the fabricated perpetual war on terror.
Caption Shameless Stooges at the massa's table in payoff for "Bukakke" services rendered. Tahir ul-Qadri is not a patsy – he knows exactly what he is doing by echoing empire's axioms on Terrorism. The Western establishment's cultivated Trojan Horse among Muslims to institute beneficial religious diversity (sic!), namely "moderate Islam", Qadri makes even Mir Jafar/Mir Sadiq duo look virtuous. If there was any doubt earlier, the gratuitous presence at the 2011 WEF is conclusive proof of the Qadri–Khan duo being the pathetic house negroes eagerly carrying the white man's burden. Just being invited to sit at the white man's table and utter gibberish in gratitude is evidently sufficient incentive for Pakistani brown-sahibs to commit treason. The final payment awaiting stooges when their services are terminated can be witnessed in the fate of the one far more illustrious, Benazir Bhutto. The ill-fated daughter of the East had echoed the same axioms on Terrorism at the CFR. Evidently, anyone and everyone can be recruited after they have shown their willingness to echo the massa's mantras – here is CFR's latest promotion. Now is your chance to serve the massa – house negroes are evidently still in great demand! And you have the vast array of "Betweens" to choose from for your daily chores. Trips to Disneyland, sabbaticals, and book deals are included in the compensation package. (Image sent by a Pakistani field negro, copyright unknown. Added March 02, 2011)
This is a response to the following pertinent passage from the Pakistani news reports on the Islamic scholar Dr. Tahir ul-Qadri of Minhaj-ul-Qur'aan, a Sufi organization in East London, issuing terrorism fatwa (also BBC March 2, 2010).
The Pakistani English language daily The News reported:
'LONDON: The 600-page document, drawn up by Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri, declares that attacks on innocent citizens are "absolutely against the teachings of Islam".
The Minhaj-ul-Qur'aan, a Sufi organisation based in East London, which advises the British government on how to combat radicalisation of the Muslim youth, will launch the 600-page Fatwa against suicide bombings and terrorism, declaring them un-Islamic, tomorrow.
It condemns the perpetrators of terrorist explosions and suicide bombings. The document, written by Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri, declares the suicide bombings and terrorism as "totally un-Islamic". It is one of the most detailed and comprehensive documents of its kind to be published in Britain.'
The BBC in its own truthful coverage of the fatwa (and parroted by the world press) noted that: 'The scholar describes al-Qaeda as an "old evil with a new name" that has not been sufficiently challenged.' Al Qaeda is indeed the same age "old evil with a new name": the fabricated Hegelian Dialectic necessary for launching and sustaining "imperial mobilization" on the Grand Chessboard!
But sadly, and quite expectedly, none heralding the fatwa in the worldwide media coverage, nor any branded scholar manufacturing consent or dissent, dared to complete that virtuous proclamation on terrorism in that 600-page fatwa with the following obviousness:
'Furthermore, gratuitously laying a carpet of bombs on civilian populations, invading one's military forces into other nations' territories, and decimating entire civilizations to the point of cultural and physical genocide, is a far greater terrorism; a crime of aggression so heinous that it is not simply referred to as "war crime", but "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."'
Unless that additional truism – which is also the Islamic principle for culpability expressed in the Qur'an as the blame is with those who initiate the war-mongering aggression – well established by the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg by the United States herself as the yardstick for identifying primary war-mongers, is appended, or pre-pended, to any overarching statement on terrorism, one must know that all such pious proclamations, including that in the 600-page document, are only the Hegelian vomit of vulgar propagandists justifying the "supreme international crime" of their real masters.
Their fate will be no different than Goebbells'. Whether or not that destiny actually transpires within our own lifetime, let it be repeatedly told at every opportunity, in every generation, and in no uncertain terms, that in the hammaams (bath houses) of the hectoring hegemons, these prostitutes are merely their "Bukakke" (borrowing that hideous new word which appears to be the passionate pastime of many a Pakistani as I learnt here).
Unlike some others, I foolishly write under my own name with full self-identification. And I invite these brilliant scholars who span the gamut of doctrinal warfare from peddling "Islam" with half-truths to peddling Secular Humanism with outright deception, to haul me into the International Criminal Court of Justice for referring to them by their only real profession. It should be interesting, but only if the foolish plebeian is permitted to speak unfettered.
Any takers of "justice", "Islam", Secular Humanism? How about you, Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri?
The voice of reason of ordinary plebeians often seems to be accompanied by only the thunderous sounds of silence. Free-speech in free-space can kill mercilessly by asphyxiation!
And humanity is concomitantly being butchered under the twain carpet of bombs because there is no one to challenge the "supreme international crime" in a forum that has any meaningful power to redress it. When the rare opportunity does materialize to wage a genuine battle for justice for a change, it is largely squandered on the lower order bits of the matter:
But what kills me even more than these well-intentioned justice-minded professionals whom I don't personally know – at least these courageous folks know the truth and operate on their own peculiar calculus of justice which merely differs from mine – is the obsequence of intellectual and house negroes in America and Pakistan, many of whom happen to be my good friends and colleagues. Some even know of my humble pen. And yet, they too only see the friggin Islamofascist pirates, just like this Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri chap with his fake Hegelian opposition to Islamofascism. But not the emperor's vast armies poised to annihilate entire defenseless nations with their unmatched nuclear weapons, and already having done so with extreme "shock and awe" invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine, and now even doing their own nation.
Nor do they try to comprehend political science, that the pirates are almost entirely a diabolical synthesis of the emperor's Machiavellian brains because without Islamofascism and its duped recruits, the rulers of the world have no pretext to rapidly transform their empire into world government. All the hectoring hegemons' raped-pregnancies and birth-pangs of world order ultimately remain still-born without the synthetic curse of Islamofascism:
'[Because] the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is defense spending), and the human sacrifice (casualties even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization. … [Thus it is] more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat. … That exercise requires a high degree of doctrinal motivation, intellectual commitment, and patriotic gratification.' (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
I expect Dr. Tahir ul-Qadri of Minhaj-ul-Qur'aan to publicly explain his vulgar omissions in his partial definition of terrorism. Perhaps he remains un-aware that: "Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations." (Aldous Huxley) I would in fact support his thesis on terrorism if it was accordingly amended to reflect all the omissions noted here, and not couched as fatwa in the service of empire.
However, the learned scholar labors under a grave misconception that his personal opinion has any religious significance as fatwa, even if he were to make the aforementioned corrections and forthrightly condemn empire's own state terrorism and war-mongering aggression in his document.
No human being needs permission from another to wage his or her legitimate self-defense. It is a primary existential instinct, more fundamental than any dogma, religion, or belief – even the lowliest of animals have their instinct for self-preservation. If modernity has desensitized that basic instinct among humankind, watch its demonstration in animalkind in the Battle at Kruger. Loftier principles of morals and dogmas layered upon these basic natural instincts which purport to transform us human beings from the amoeba into Ashraf-ul-Maklooqat – such as America's famous Bill of Rights and its Declaration of Independence, and of course Islam which proclaims itself the natural religion liberating man from the shackles of all servitude to fellow man – regulate what is lawful and what isn't so people may equitably co-exist with each other and with state-power without usurping each others rights. That regulation for Muslims choosing to follow the religion Islam, is explicit in the Qur'anic teachings in the context of terrorism vs. Jihad. These require no mullah's fatwa, no matter how learned. Personal fatwas in the religion of Islam may not be issued on what is already made explicit in the religion of Islam itself – by the very definition of the concept of fatwa in Islamic jurisprudence. What is permissible, and what isn't, in waging the battle of self-defense is already made abundantly explicit in the principled teachings of the Holy Qur'an. One may surely explain these principles to others in full context, but not issue fatwas amending, particularizing, or hiding its general import in the totality of the message of Islam through calculated omissions in the service of vested interests.
Any personal opinion couched as fatwa which fails to recognize the greatest enemy systematically devouring Muslims today, can only emanate from the enemy of the Muslims. The hectoring hegemons are experts at disguises and can wear any garb. The Mussalmans' short and blood-soaked history is replete with such two-bit shills putting religion in the service of empire. The price has spanned the gamut of co-option from a few silver coins for issuing imperial proclamations in the name of Islam, to anointed leadership of manufactured sects for sowing discords and "beneficial cognitive diversity" in the best mold of divide et impera.
In this instance, it is the realization of Daniel Pipes wet-dreams in the service of empire that 'The idea that "militant Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution" is finding greater acceptance over time.' Well, here is empire's own "moderate Islam" for us plebes, as the WWF wrestling match against its own virulent creation of "militant Islam".
Caption Video Face of "moderate Islam" featuring Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri, the "Ambassador of Peace". An even more entertaining version of Daniel Pipe's choice for "moderate Islam" with its leader* basking in the adulation of his prostrating fans, is here (search)
The political philosophies and social engineering underlying imperial mobilization are far more diabolical today than they have been in the past. Comprehending the role of fabricated enemies and false oppositions to lend credence to the fabricated enemies, begins at the doorstep of political science, not Islam. The fatwa is part of the finely tuned social engineering to continually engineer consent for the fabricated perpetual war on terror. The primary modus operandi of that social engineering is seeded in the Hegelian Dialectics of Deception and the Technique of Infamy as already explained in this tutorial. Witness the dialectical twin of this pious Fatwa in the promulgation of the impious girl flogging video which was presciently unraveled in this Letter to Editor of April 06, 2009, and which is now coming unraveled even officially.
This factual observation of diabolically engineering consent with tortuous political theories and absurdities being primarily at work here, is further underscored in the stark contrast between the pious 'Islamic scholarship' of the Fatwa in the service of empire and this Syrian Arab Catholic priest's lament in his open letter 'To His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI'. The latter demonstrates a moral fibre largely unknown to Pakistan's virtuous house negro peddling 'Islam's holiness' for gratis (£6.99 for hardcopy), and which was even intoned by the BBC News Magazine as 'A fatwa they can work with?': "An Islamic scholar turned up in London last week to deliver a religious ruling denouncing terrorism in all its forms – but what was it about him that made everyone sit up and listen? He's a man on a mission – a mission to state the obvious." Unfortunately for the 'untermenschen' everywhere, this virtuous "man on a mission" journeying to the heartland of empire in voluntary servitude to peddle his "Islam" felt no "moral mission to state the [even more] obvious"! Facts which, quite unsurprisingly, even the empire's own top field commander, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, being a free man unfettered in his own la mission civilisatrice, had the cold chutzpah to boldly proclaim without fear of any future Nuremberg accountability: "We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat," (New York Times, March 26, 2010)
Finally, I conclude this lamentable but principled response to Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri's terrorism fatwa in the service of his empire with the only universally humanitarian prayer to perhaps ever escape from the particularistic lips of 'god's chosen people' now waging full spectrum war of domination upon all Amelekites, that of its favorite Nobel laureate HolocaustTM spokesman, Elie Wiesel:
'I still curse the killers, their accomplices, the indifferent spectators who knew and kept silent, and Creation itself, Creation and those who perverted and distorted it. I feel like screaming, howling like a madman so that that world, the world of the murderers, might know it will never be forgiven.'
Thank you.
* Footnote: I have no opinion on Tahir ul-Qadri's version of "Sufi Islam" per se, only on his brazen omissions in defining terrorism in the calculated service of empire. Qadri is not a patsy.
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Addendum: Letter to Fatwa Authors
Date: Wednesday March 24, 2010
From: Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
To: The originators and authors of the Fatwa on Terrorism
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Dear Scholars and Leaders of Islam issuing the One-sided Fatwa on Terrorism:
You might be aware that I do not recognize any pious leaders, of Islam or otherwise, when they intersect conversely with truth, or with political science. The only genuine leadership I know of today, is that of the devil – the hectoring hegemons – and therefore, I oppose it.
Therefore, I do not find it impertinent to boldly ask whether you take peoples to be fools? Or are you just being useful idiots in the hands of hectoring hegemons? I am not sure which one. Therefore, I draw your kind attention to Project Humanbeingsfirst's Response to your Terrorism Fatwa which is entirely in the service of empire:
Please be advised that people are aware that all sorts of fatwas have been issued throughout history by the most pious pontiffs to justify the crimes of empire. If it is news to you how religion, and especially Islam, is put in the service of empire through half-truths and outright omissions, then, instead of presuming to teach others, you might perhaps spend some time studying yourself.
And lest you believe that you have acquired some newly inspired knowledge through virtuous piety which I do not possess due to my ordinary dint of hard study and forensic observations, and due to which you believe your palpable omissions as noted in the response are justified, I would be happy to hear of your inspired knowledge.
And if I am shown the error of my analysis and conclusions due to my general lack of humility before either the pirates or the emperor, I would be happy to eat crow.
Otherwise, I invite you to be forthright and include what is omitted in your terrorism report to complete your partial thesis in the full service of the people, of all peoples. For doing that, you will most assuredly earn my genuine and humble thanks with full endorsement of your report – provided the word fatwa is dropped from it. Your personal opinion has no religious significance in matters in which the religion of Islam has unequivocally already spoken. Only a political one, and that would be sufficient, nay [of] immense significance for the ordinary peoples of the world, almost 7 billion of us, of all faiths and persuasions, that even one Muslim scholar has the balls to call a spade a spade.
Even further, I would be most happy to enter into fair interlocution with your learned scholar who presumably authored this one-sided Fatwa, or obligingly put his name to it, in any public televised forum. Should be interesting for the world to witness a rational dialog between a virtuous Islamic scholar berating the pirates while ignoring the grotesque imperial mobilization of the emperor that is not only responsible for genocide of multiple Muslim civilizations, but is also rapidly lowering an iron-curtain of tortuous police-states throughout Europe and America, and an ordinary plebe.
I humbly invite the press to publish this letter in their columns and newspapers.
Thank you.
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
California, United States of America.
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Response to the Fatwa on Terrorism in the Service of Empire By Zahir Ebrahim 11 / 11


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I try not to be political. I don't try that hard, obviously, but I do stop myself for diving full on headlong into it most days. Politics just disgusts me so much and I can get enraged so easily. Sometimes, I just can't avoid it, though. It's election season, so it's absolutely everywhere and it just annoys me to see all the people who think this pomp and circumstance makes a damn bit of difference. Even if your guy wins, the day after inauguration day isn't going to be any different than the day before. I've seen enough presidential elections in my lifetime not to get taken in by the rhetoric anymore. They're all reactive anyway. Government policy generally follows what people start doing on their own. I've always believed that the real strength of a President is how he would respond in a genuine crisis not how he governs. I haven't heard that question asked yet this year. Have we gone so long without a genuine, far reaching crisis that we've forgotten that totally fucked up shit can come outta left field with no notice and how one deals with that can be a pretty important trait?
See what I mean? I wasn't even thinking presidential politics when I started typing, but it just took over. Dammit! What I wanted to talk about was economics (I know, thrilling!) or more specifically, what kind of economy we need to have because, I don't know if you've noticed, but our's ain't quite cutting it any more. If I thought this was a typical slowdown or correction of some sort, I might be inclined to hang back till the tide turns, but it's becoming increasingly clear that we've got deep structural problems that tax cuts and/or spending cuts simply aren't going to fix. Neither party has a clue what to do about it, either. Although I will say, frighteningly, the republicans are a little closer to understanding the implications of what's going on than the Democrats seem to be, it's just that their "solutions" are self serving policies for the already haves while discarding the have nots to a future of "Would you like curly fries with that?"
The simple fact, as I see it, is that the days of mass employment are ending. Companies will be functioning on 10% or less of the staff they traditionally needed, manufacturing businesses likely less still. That's a helluva lot of people with no jobs or hope because they are never coming back. With shitty retail jobs being basically the only widely available growth sector, even that's self-defeating. Eventually, when such a high percentage of the population is getting piss poor wages, they stop buying stuff. Besides, the internet's kicking brick and mortar retail's ass. How many fast food jobs can one nation reasonably support?
I bitch a lot about offshoring jobs, and I'm right, I think. It is exploitative, and it has been destructive to our economy. But I'm now realizing that it was going to happen anyway. Those factories will be fully automated in another decade or so, and even the third world workers raking in their 35 cents an hour will be out of work then. This is a problem we would inevitably have had to deal with, even if businesses on a wide scale hadn't decided to openly screw their own workers for an extra something-something in their stock options years before it was necessary to downsize.
We've got an abundance of people with skills and experience nobody wants or needs to pay for any longer. A problem, I might add, that's going to continue to get worse as technology gets better. Look at health care, for instance. You know why health care is so fucked up? Because we're continuing to act like the 1950 model (when you got a job in a company, health insurance was part of the package and you stayed there for 40 or 50 years, before retiring with a nice pension) is even close to relevant any more. People don't work in companies for five years, let alone fifty any more. And that cuts both ways. Employers who began to treat workers as resources rather than people destroyed the concept of employer-employee trust, and as time went on, they paid less and less, kicked in less and less for insurance, converted the relatively stable pension system into the volatile 401k racket, all so more and more money could go upstairs. You don't think the people working in these companies saw the effects, first hand, of their bosses reaping giant windfalls while they had to fight to get a 50 cent raise every couple of years? The whole get-a-job/career mantra has become almost totally exploitative to workers, and their loyalty went straight out the window, as well it should have. The natural outgrowth of this is that companies will automate as many jobs as possible, eventually having as few people on the payroll as is feasible.
Yet our entire economy runs on the foundation of getting-a-good-job/career. How the hell are we going to survive if there's only 1 good job for every 5,000 or 10,000 people looking? That's the description of a society poised to collapse in on itself. I don't know about you, but I'm not quite ready to be living out scenes from Mad Max just yet. I still haven't finished taking the tread off my old tires and tacking it on to some football shoulder pads.
What can save us? Probably the same thing that fucked us up, technology, specifically the internet. What's the one big rallying cry on the Democratic side? Income inequality. Well, look at what the internet has done to media companies. Established newspapers and music companies got hammered. But look at what else happened. That money that newspaper lost is being spread around to hundreds or thousands of smaller outlets that made nothing before. The top music companies and the highest grossing bands lost ground, but there's thousands or tens of thousands of smaller bands making money now that made nothing before. Books are heading the same way. As print loses ground, there's now tens of thousands of writers making money digitally who made nothing before. You want income redistribution? That looks suspiciously like a free market based way to go about it. Can't call that socialist. Certainly, this process created giants; Google from newspapers, Amazon from books, Apple from music; but giants will always exist. Besides, the old media companies existed as exclusionary forces. Amazon works with anybody selling ebooks, Apple with anybody selling music (and ebooks), Google with anybody producing content. It's a simplification, true, but these new media companies generally don't discriminate between giant multinational corporations and individual entrepreneurs. I'd be willing to bet that alone is the principal reason media companies hate the tech giants so much. It's not that they revolutionized their industries, its that, in doing so, they failed to properly pay tribute to companies who got a little too comfortable perched on their unapproachable golden thrones.
This is just the media industry, too. Eventually, it'll work across virtually the entire spectrum of commerce, and individual people will have direct access to a virtually unlimited customer base, helped out by tech companies that are happy to take their cut regardless of who's selling it. My uncle, some twenty years ago now, well before the internet was widespread enough to be genuinely practical, tried his hand at building furniture for a living. This was no picnic table operation, he was a craftsman, making high-end wooden furniture, ornately carved, hand hewn, the best materials, intricate inlays of hand carved objects like crabs (we live on the Chesapeake Bay, after all) or oak leaves perfectly done. This wasn't cheap IKEA crap.
And that was ultimately his problem. One that turned out to be a fatal one for his business at the time. Building the furniture; the time it took, the materials, etc; required a price above what the market could bear. The number of people around who could afford to drop that kinda coin on a hand crafted dining room suit was too small to attract a large enough customer base to make money. His work was exceptional, some of the best I've seen, certainly, but he just couldn't connect with enough customers who could afford his rates.
Now consider if he had been twenty years later. What kind of access do you think he could get to high-end furniture buyers? How much do you think it would cost him to get that access, something that was quite simply impossible at the time he tried his business. I'm pretty confident he could've found more customers. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if he ultimately ended up with a waiting list of custom projects, keeping him in steady work, or maybe being able to hire a someone or two to help. The internet levels a lot of traditionally slanted playing fields.
The old ways of mass employment, companies who hired thousands of people at a time are dying off. The new companies coming in aren't hiring on that scale, and thanks to technology, they never will. We can't rely on the business community to provide the work we need, no matter how many tax breaks we give them. What we need is to transition from an economy dependent on large companies hiring mass numbers of workers to one where individual people create their own work, their own incomes, likely from multiple smaller sources. There's never been a better time to be entrepreneurial, either. Modern possibilities are virtually endless, and affordability has opened doors into industries that were unthinkable just a few years ago. We have a society still living in the mass employment model, even though its failing. We need a country of 300 million entrepreneurs instead of 300 million worker bees.
I see two areas where we're making crucial mistakes, two places where I think government could be useful, for a change. One is not pushing to make broadband internet a utility. Let's be realistic here, the internet has already become virtually ubiquitous. It's only going to grow more so as it continues to dominate communication and commerce. Everybody will need access to it and cheaply. Yeah, that means telecomms might take a hit but who among you doesn't feel just a little exploited by the bills you've paid over the years for phones, cable, internet, what have you? Be honest, you know damn well they're capitalizing on their advantages as much as possible. Considering they operate in a government regulated little monopoly playground, I wouldn't exactly weep for their loss. Despite the current GOP mantra going around, sometimes things are important enough that for-profit businesses can't sufficiently handle the task. They have no reason to expand access to outlying areas with few people. There's no market reason where it makes sense for them to do so. Do we just leave those people in the dark ages? What if we had done that with the electrical grid? Your municipal taxes should cover broadband internet as a utility for all, wireless preferably.
Secondly, we should be expanding the postal service, not defunding it. Look at the direction things are going. How much stuff do people buy online? What happens when most of commerce comes to you rather than you to it? There's going to be huge demand for delivery services. Sure, UPS and Fed EX would be none too happy, but if government's role is to create an atmosphere of wide spread opportunity, what harm could possibly come from cheap internet access for all and cheap delivery costs? That sounds like a recipe for retail growth to me, primarily amongst segments who are currently blocked out by high-cost barriers to entry.
Just think, a nation of millions of individual business people, taking advantage of that atmosphere. The established businesses who have locks on the marketplace now will lose some ground, but possibly millions of people will be making money where none was possible in the old economy.
You want income redistribution? Here's how you do it, you give as wide a swath of regular people the tools to compete in the open market with the big boys and earn that income away. More free and open competition. Some other things will have to change. Health insurance will necessarily have to sold individually instead of in group company rates, yet still be affordable, which it already isn't even close to now. The tax code will have to be seriously simplified, as well. Can you imagine getting 250 million itemized tax filings from small, individual businesses? How many people essentially just staple their W2 from their one or two jobs to their 1040 EZ and be done with it now? That won't happen much any longer. We'll probably end up with some kind of progressive flat tax with higher rates at higher income levels or something like it. Otherwise, the tax preparation industry is set for a serious boom period.
Look, what I've talked about here is already happening. Do you really think all these out of work people aren't finding ways of making a buck here and there to get by? Most of it is unreported cash, no doubt, but people are basically very resourceful creatures. Give everybody the tools and the opportunity and bring this individual resourcefulness out into the light of day.
The time of mass employment at a relative few large companies is ending. What we need is to shift to where the average person is a participant in the market from both sides, not strictly a consumer. The real money is in selling the stuff, or offshoots that assist in the process. Labor in a mass employment world will always get the short end eventually. And the way we're heading, there won't be enough of that short end to go around much sooner than later.

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The brand new Irondale Center, housed in a long unused but recently updated hall at the back of the Lafayette Presbyterian Church, begins its first run this week with the play London Cries. After the production's time here, it will be off to the Old Vic in London:
London Cries
November 19th – December 20th
Wednesdays – Saturdays at 8 PM, Saturdays at 2 PM.
$40/ $15 seniors and students
Tickets can be purchased by going to www.ovationtix.com or by calling 212.352.3101.
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Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
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Why should someone learn product management at GA?
GA instructor Cliff Gilley says, "General Assembly focuses on the practical application of things that most other product management programs treat like theoretical topics — subjects like customer focus, customer development, agile and scrum practices, and even UX and stakeholder relationships. It's very easy to delve deep into the theoretical and academic side of each of these important areas of focus, but it's far more useful for someone who wants to be a product manager to understand how the theories bend to the reality of day-to-day operations in the real world. GA courses bring real-world needs to the classroom and prepare students to hit the ground running instead of just 'understanding' the theoretical application."
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Agile Methodology
Cliff Gilley, a Product Management instructor at GA Seattle, says, "The importance of the Agile way of thinking cannot be understated in the modern business of software and general product development; its application stretches from development and quality-assurance work up into product design and management, and even into marketing and business strategy. It's essential for any product manager to understand the fundamentals of Agile methodologies so that they can influence an organization to change for the better or engage more meaningfully with their teams on a day-to-day basis.
"General Assembly teaches Agile methodologies as it relates to software development in our part-time Product Management course, full-time Web Development Immersive (WDI), and in workshops. We focus on the difference between the principles of Agile methods and the real-world application of those methods. Expert instructors, who have used these methodologies to help teams through Agile processes in their own careers, prepare students for the use of Agile through lectures and practical examples from their real-world experiences. In WDI, we reinforce Agile principles through lessons on user stories, pair programming, and more."
Read "A Beginner's Guide to Agile Methodologies" by Cliff Gilley.
Competitor Analysis
A competitor analysis is a way to identify your current and potential competitors and assess their strengths and weaknesses. This knowledge is key in developing a successful product, as it informs you of who you're up against in the market and helps identify opportunities to set your brand apart from the pack.
Customer Development
Alex McCarthy, a Product Management instructor at GA Austin, says, "Customer development is the practice in which product managers and user experience (UX) designers interact with customers to learn more about their problems in order to create a product that meets their wants and needs. Customers include any current or prospective people who buy, use, or support your product. When product managers understand their customers, their problems, the environment in which those problems occur, and the value of solving them, the products will very likely succeed.
"Customer development is a core practice in developing profitable solutions with product-market fit that customers love to use. At General Assembly, we cover this early in our part-time Product Management course and reinforce it throughout to ensure that students learn how to apply the appropriate tool to match the situation."
Read "A Beginner's Guide to Customer Development" by Alex McCarthy.
Customer Focus
Sherika Wynter, Product Management instructor at General Assembly Washington, D.C., says, "Customer focus is a tactic that dissects the analytics behind customer behavior. This involves considering their perspectives, understanding their needs and wants, and getting to the root cause of the issue that's the focus of your product development efforts.
"At General Assembly, product management and UX design students learn to hone customer-focused perspectives through hands-on practice. In our part-time Product Management course, you'll bring a product idea to life via stakeholder interviewing, journey mapping, usability testing, and more. Apply these techniques to optimize user-friendly products and services in our part-time User Experience Design courses, on campus or online. Or, take the first step toward a new career in our full-time User Experience Design Immersive."
Read "A Beginner's Guide to Customer Focus" by Sherika Wynter.
Influence Without Authority
Cliff Gilley, a Product Management instructor at General Assembly Seattle, says, "Influence-based leadership is a necessity for product managers because of the nature of our jobs. You need to collect information from stakeholders, customers, and the market — which means that you need access to those people, and that access is gained through trust and influence. Every single day of a product manager's life involves interactions with multiple people across different levels of seniority. Getting things done without the explicit authority granted by a corporate hierachy requires working with influence.
"At General Assembly, learning how to lead through influence is an essential part of our part-time Product Management courses. Through in-class exercises, homework, and individualized instruction, students learn the fundamental skills necessary to understand and assess how they can manage stakeholders and leverage influence within their current or future organizations. Our instructors bring their real-life experiences and expertise into the classroom, providing unique insights and guidance to their students throughout the course."
Lean Methodology & Lean Startup
Tricia Cervenan, a Product Management instructor at GA Seattle, says, "Lean became part of the software development lexicon thanks to entrepreneur Eric Ries, who in 2008 began teaching his own methodology to software startups. In 2011, he published the book The Lean Startup. The book's main premise addressed this shift by introducing the "build-measure-learn" process to test a hypothesis. Essentially, you start with a problem that you think exists in the market (your hypothesis), build just enough of something for you to measure its success among customers, and use that learning to build something new, add on, or scale. Then repeat until the product has reached a steady state and proven that the product is valuable enough to users to have a team of people continue to develop it.
"At GA, we teach lean skills and concepts during the Lean Startup section of our part-time Product Management course. We cover hypothesis development, minimum viable products (MVPs) and experiment testing, and the build-measure-learn cycle. We implicitly practice lean concepts in the way we quickly move from idea to testing with users, to planning future iterations. In a 10-week course, there isn't time to worry about scale, so students get the opportunity to practice lean skills, giving them the most amount of value from the course with the least amount of waste."
Read "A Beginner's Guide to Lean Methodologies" by Tricia Cervenan.
Minimum Viable Product (or MVP)
Cliff Gilley, Product Management instructor at GA Seattle, says, "The basic concept of a minimum viable product is simple — it's the smallest amount of work you can do to deliver something of value to your market. It's something that can be used to validate (or invalidate) a specific set of assumptions, to derisk potential complications in your go-to-market plan, and/or to test one or more specific hypotheses about your target users. Understanding what an MVP really is and why it's important is critical to the success of most startup businesses and for the career trajectory of someone who wants to be a product manager.
"At General Assembly, understanding the concept of MVP is a core component of our part-time Product Management course. Students engage in coursework and exercises that force prioritization decisions, backlog management, and stakeholder negotiation. The course's final project is a pitch for an MVP solution to a valuable market problem, which sums up all of the skills and capabilities developed over the 10 weeks in class."
Read "A Beginner's Guide to Minimum Viable Products (MVPs)" by Cliff Gilley.
Product Vision
Vince Law, Product Management instructor at GA San Francisco, says, "Leaders rarely stumble into their success; they enter their field with a resolve for how they will make a difference. They see things no one else does. They have a vision. Seeing things no one else can see takes practice. It's not a bolt of lightning, but consistent practice that allows truly visionary leaders to constantly push the boundaries of what products can enable a better world. Forming a product vision enables you to set the North Star to guide you and your team toward a goal without leading you astray.
"In General Assembly's part-time Product Management course, students practice developing a product vision as part of their final project. The course guides each student through the steps from identifying a problem in the market to solving that problem — no matter how small the product or feature may be — through the development of the product ideas into a concrete vision, executable roadmap, along with success metrics, and product design.
Read "A Beginner's Guide to Product Vision" by Vince Law.
A proto-persona is a tool for aligning a product team on a shared conception of the user during the initial ideation phase for an idea; it's lightweight compared to a marketing persona based on extensive research. A proto-persona allows us to document our inherent assumptions about what our users care about so that we can continuously refine our understanding of the users and their problems.
Rapid Prototyping
Danny Setiawan, User Experience Design Instructor at GA New York, says, "Prototyping is a quick and cheap way to simulate a product experience in order to reduce risks. Prototypes can be really close to the final product with all of the features that will be included when the product is launched. But designers often start out by making a rapid prototype, the quickest and easiest way to prototype, in which the designer tries to mimic the experience without actually building or creating anything. In software development and product design, rapid prototyping refers to techniques used to simulate the experience of using the software. In most cases, these techniques involve no coding in order to optimize speed and minimize cost. The goal is still to reduce risks — in this case, having to do with the product's efficiency and effectiveness.
"At General Assembly, students in our full-time User Experience Design Immersive and part-time User Experience Design course (on campus and online) learn hands-on how to create a rapid prototype by using Sketch to create the screens, then InVision to connect those screens and make them interactive. This portion of the course happens right before the students learn how to conduct usability testing to make sure their design work well. Students in GA's part-time Product Management course also learn to create rapid prototypes; after drawing drafts of their wireframes on paper, students turn to platforms like Sketch, InVision, and more to digitize their designs and create interactive prototypes."
Read "A Beginner's Guide to Rapid Prototyping" by Danny Setiawan.
Risks and Assumptions
Identifying and testing assumptions and risks is key in the product development cycle. Assumptions are statements you believe to be true about your product, which you can then test using a hypothesis statement. You'll often prioritize which assumptions to tackle first by the risk they represent, i.e., what will happen if your assumption is incorrect?
A product roadmap is used to illustrate a product's primary goals, themes, and features, and keep all stakeholders aligned throughout the development process. It's typically oriented around time (e.g., weeks, months, quarters), and encompasses both long-term projects, milestones, and small wins.
Stakeholder Management
Stakeholder management is all about handling people — specifically, internal and external stakeholders such as developers, marketing and sales teams, executives, managers, customers, and funders. It's one of a product manager's most important functions, involving communication, status updates, tracking feedback, running effective meetings, resolving disagreements, and more.
SWOT Analysis
Jason Reynolds, User Experience Design Immersive instructor at GA Boston, says, "SWOT is a strategic planning method structured on four elements of concern — strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. SWOT can be terrific tool for strategic planning, and it helps to better manage the future of a product or organization. It's often used by product owners, marketing managers, and business analysts, but may be undertaken by entrepreneurs and other business decision-makers as well. A SWOT analysis can benefit a business at any stage, and its popularity has driven its use to noncommercial organizations, industries, and even entire countries.
"At General Assembly, students learn about SWOT analysis in our User Experience Design Immersive in the unit on business analysis. It's also covered in our part-time Product Management course, as it's key in understanding the path to product-market fit. Students are taught to be aware of the competition and what they are doing, but to not let that be the only determinant of what your product should be. They must also appreciate the assets they have to leverage and how it all fits together."
Read "A Beginner's Guide to SWOT Analysis" by Jason Reynolds.
Usability Testing
Shebani Saxena, a UX Design Immersive instructor at General Assembly Hong Kong, says, "Usability testing is an integral part of user experience (UX) design that allows us to get feedback directly from users, thereby making a product that's not only functional and user-friendly, but also provides value. It's often done at the beginning of a design project, with an intention to check the design structure's efficiency, the organization of content, and whether the design direction is in line with the users' 'mental model,' motivations, and satisfaction. When incorporated towards the end of the design process, usability testing helps validate and evaluate whether the product's design goals are met.
"At GA, usability testing is covered extensively in our User Experience Design Immersive (UXDI) program, and on a basic level in our part-time User Experience Design course, on campus and online. Students learn the detailed methodology and relevant tools, and have ample opportunity to practice it in class as well as in projects. In class, students learn usability testing methods through practical exercises; in UXDI, for example, they do this by roleplaying as the moderator (test conductor), the participant (user), and the note-taker. Then they practice testing as part of virtually all their projects, including with real-world clients. By the end of the course, students are able to immediately apply their usability testing skills to new projects."
Read "A Beginner's Guide to Usability Testing" by Shebani Saxena.
User Interviews
Tricia Cervenan, Product Management instructor at General Assembly Seattle, says, "A user interview is where product teams go out into the world and talk to people who fit their product or service's personas, observe their behavior, and ask them questions. The goal of an interview is to discover what problems users have that product teams might be able to solve. This is done by visiting users in the environment in which they use the product or a competitor product, or where a problem is occurring; watching their behavior; asking them questions about their behavior; and then drawing conclusions from what they observed.
"In General Assembly's full-time User Experience Design Immersive (UXDI), part-time User Experience Design, and part-time Product Management courses, students get firsthand practice conducting interviews. We first discuss how to interview and learn best practices for being effective. Then we jump in and start interviewing. Students draft questions and an interview script, practice with one another, and get immediate feedback from their peers. Then they set out to find and talk to real users who have the problem they're looking to solve. In UXDI, students work with real-world clients and conduct interviews with their current or potential users."
Read "A Beginner's Guide to User Interviews" by Tricia Cervenan.
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"American Idol" runner-up Crystal Bowersox and boyfriend Tony Kusian have split.
After losing the "Idol" crown to Lee DeWyze on Wednesday night, the singer reveled to Ryan Seacrest on his radio show, "On Air With Ryan Seacrest," on Thursday morning that she'd also lost her relationship.
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"Big Tony… he went home. He wasn't cool with the lifestyle," Crystal told Ryan. "I didn't break up with him… it was a mutual thing."
The folksy rocker mom has a son, Tony, from a previous relationship. According to Radar Online, the father of her child is also named Tony and hails Bosnia. The singer said that her new found fame has taken its toll on her relationship with Big Tony.
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"It's cool though, we're both logical, grown adults," Crystal continued. "He's a small town guy and that's fine, but I'm a small town girl, but I want this. I want this more than anything, this career, this lifestyle. I didn't think he was up for it. He didn't think he was up for it. It's just been crazy."
The 24-year-old singer said the timing of the split was particularly hard, but that she tried to use the pain to inspire her performance.
"I was a little sad that he did it on performance day, but then again, it set that fire to my belly, you saw it," she explained.
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Despite the split, Crystal said she wished Tony well and thanked him for his support during her "Idol" run.
"He's been amazing, he's stuck it out through this whole thing. I was really hoping that he was going to come to the finale," she said. " We're going to friends for a long time."
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St. Leo Church, a Jesuit parish less than a mile from downtown Tacoma, Wash., is a community centered in the Eucharist, enriched by diversity, committed to Gospel values, and continually seeking to be Christ's servant presence in the world.
In 1879, a missionary priest founded St. Leo. His congregation, which numbered 18, worshipped in a 24 x 40 foot building. The congregation grew rapidly; a second church was built in 1883. In 1901 a hall was purchased where a 2,200-seat church was built, but this massive building was destroyed in a fire in 1919. Consequently, St. Leo Parish worshipped in the school gym until late 1921 when they restored the church basement as a temporary church. It wasn't until the 1990s that the parish underwent a major renovation of the church and the formation of parish commissions.
The Jesuit tradition at St. Leo began over a century ago in 1911 when Fr. John Cunningham, S.J., became pastor. In 1970 the Oregon Province Jesuits decided to nurture St. Leo as an urban faith community working for social justice. Today, the parish continues to cultivate this focus through St. Leo's Social Justice Ministry. The parish also operates St. Leo's Emergency Services, which provides services for the homeless, with a focus on employment search and stable housing.
The St. Leo Food Connection was founded in 1982 and has been a consistent source of nutritious food and caring for people in need throughout Pierce County. The Connection takes pride in distributing nutritious food to clients who are among society's most vulnerable: over 50 percent of the clients at the St. Leo Food Connection are children and the elderly.


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Using a Wii console in the FRITZ!Box home network
You can simply use wireless LAN (WiFi) or a network cable to connect your Wii console to your FRITZ!Box. The Wii can then access Nintendo's online services using the FRITZ!Box's internet connection.
Note:All instructions on configuration and settings given in this guide refer to the latest FRITZ!OS for the FRITZ!Box.
1 Enabling the FRITZ!Box's DHCP server
In the factory settings, the FRITZ!Box automatically assigns the correct IP settings to all devices via DHCP. If you disabled the FRITZ!Box's DHCP server, re-enable it:
- Click "Home Network" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
- Click "Network" in the "Home Network" menu.
- Click on the "Network Settings" tab.
- Click the "IPv4 Addresses" button. If the button is not displayed, enable the Advanced View.
- Enable the DHCP server and define the range from which the FRITZ!Box assigns IP addresses.
Note:The FRITZ!Box has the IP address 192.168.178.1 (subnet mask 255.255.255.0) and assigns IP addresses from xxx.20 to xxx.200 in the factory settings.
- Click "OK" to save the settings.
2 Connecting the Wii console to the FRITZ!Box
Use wireless LAN or a network cable to connect the Wii to the FRITZ!Box:
Note:The Wii requires a Wii LAN adapter to connect it to a network cable. This adapter must be purchased separately.
Connecting the Wii console over wireless LAN
- Click the "Wii" button at the bottom left of the Wii Menu.
- Click "Wii Settings".
- Click the blue arrow pointing to the right to access the next System Settings page.
- Click on "Internet" and then "Connection Settings".
- Select an empty connection slot labeled "None".
- Click "Wireless Connection", then "Search for an Access Point", and then "OK"
- You will now see a list of available access points.
- Select the name of the FRITZ!Box's wireless network (SSID).
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- Enter the FRITZ!Box's network key and confirm the entry.
- Click "OK" to save the connection settings.
Connecting the Wii console using a network cable
- Connect the Wii's Wii LAN adapter to a network cable, and then connect the network cable to a LAN port on the FRITZ!Box.
- Click the "Wii" button at the bottom left of the Wii Menu.
- Click "Wii Settings".
- Click the blue arrow to switch to the next Wii System Settings page.
- Click on "Internet" and then "Connection Settings".
- Select an empty connection slot labeled "None".
- Click "Wired Connection".
- Click "OK" to save the settings.
Now the Wii console is connected to the internet via the FRITZ!Box. You can play online games or use other functions offered by Nintendo's online services.
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Troubleshooting Guide for Java SE 6 with HotSpot VM
November 2008
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You visit me when the rains come.
Sliding in through the rising torrents
beating my windows, in the water
swirling around my ankles.
You can't help yourself.
There's something about crushing
waves that are a part of you which make
her eat sand, another's eyes red from stinging
salt water, one more her heart aching from being
crashed into again and again.
Your wake leaves behind brown tide
lines with dirty foam, crushed shells,
sand dollars in pieces.


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By Magistra Nicolaa de Bracton
For the Pennsic Independent
Nearly two years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita left many Society members destitute, lives are slowly being rebuilt with the help of friends. Society members have been generous in donating everyday items as well as things such as fabric and raw materials to help rebuild their medieval gear. But as those of us who have been in the Society many years know, some items are not easy to replace. Mistress Tatiana Marana Melville from the Kingdom of Northshield is coordinating a very special project to help meet these unique needs.
Mistress Tatiana saw the devastation wrought by the storms first hand when she and a number of Northshielders traveled to the Barony of Seleone to deliver a truckload of donations of fabric and other items a few months after the hurricanes. Other Northshielders continued the relief efforts at Gulf Wars, and it became clear that many had lost so much that they were having a hard time comprehending what they needed to replace in their regular lives—let alone their SCA lives. "My idea was to ask those who lost so much what one item from their SCA life that they would dearly love to replace," said Mistress Tatiana. What makes this fundraiser different is that rather than replacing general items, it seeks to fulfill single wishes for unique items. Those who need the help have been nominated by friends or have mentioned their wishes in correspondence with Mistress Tatiana. Groups such as Baronies that have lost items are also eligible.
In speaking with renowned Northshield bard Mistress Wyndreth Berginsdottir, Mistress Tatiana learned that Mistress Wyndreth and a number of friends had put together a CD just after the disaster, but it had never been released. THL Finnr Bjornsson, Lady Aelfraeda of Shattered Oak and Mistress Wyndreth agreed to produce the CD, now entitled "For Those Who Face the Flooding: Benefit for Our Friends," as a fundraiser for this project. Mistress Tatiana has also been collecting various other donations, offers of service, and funds from a variety of donors.
"The letters that the people have written in have been amazing and hard to describe," said Mistress Tatiana. "They have had me in tears for what these people went through and lost…they write about it in a matter of fact manner but the feelings of what they felt then and what they feel now are so very clear. It brings warmth to my heart to know that we can help others get something that they could not get for themselves at this point."
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There are 32 games on Thursday and Friday, one of the most exciting 48-hour segments on the sports calendar.
We won't be able to get individual previews up for every game, but we'll cherry pick some of the more compelling matchups during the tournament's "second" round.
In this post, we preview the 7-10 matchup in the West Region between Billy Donovan's Florida Gators and the 10th-seeded Virginia Cavaliers, led by one of the best players in America that too few people know about.
Florida-Virginia Game Info
- Seeds & Region: #7 Florida v #10 Virginia in West Region
- Florida-Virginia Date: Friday, March 16th
- Florida-Virginia Tip Time: 2:10 ET
- Florida-Virginia Location: Omaha
- Florida-Virginia TV: TNT
- Florida-Virginia Announcers: Marv Albert, Steve Kerr, and Craig Sager
- Florida-Virginia Point Spread: Florida -3.5
- Tickets: Florida-Virginia Tickets
- Tickets: All Omaha Sessions
- Tickets: West Regional Tickets in Phoenix
Florida-Virginia Analysis and Prediction
Just to prove the committee has a sense of humor, they decided to pair up two of the teams I have labeled as overrated this season.
When the Gators have the ball, it will be strength on strength, as the Cavaliers rank fifth in adjusted defensive efficiency while Florida ranks third on offense. The Gators are extremely reliant on the three-point shot, but Virginia has routinely shut down opponents from beyond the arc. Led by Mike Scott, the Hoos also control the defensive glass and limit second chance points.
On the other end of the floor, look for UVA to pound it inside to Scott, who probably should have been named ACC Player of the Year. The Cavaliers shoot much better inside the arc than they do outside of it, and they are unlikely to beat themselves with turnovers.
ook for a close, slow-paced game in Omaha, but I'll give the slight nod to the Gators based on the fact that they have more playmakers on offense.
Predicted Winner: Florida
Florida Gators Team Capsule
- Conference: SEC
- Record: 23-10 (10- 6 conf)
- Last 10 Games: 4-6
- Record vs. Tournament Teams: 4-6
- Wins vs. Tournament Teams: Alabama (2), Florida State, Vanderbilt
- Losses vs. Tournament Teams: Kentucky (3), Ohio State, Syracuse, Vanderbilt
- Player to Watch: Bradley Beal (6'3" G, Fr.) – 14.6 ppg, 6.5 rpg, 2.2 apg, 1.4 spg
Florida Gators Bottoms Line:
The Gators started the season as a Final Four contender in the eyes of some analysts, but they struggled to beat quality teams throughout the season.
Five Florida players score in double figures, led by Kenny Boynton with 16.3 points on 42.7 percent shooting from long range. Freshman Bradley Beal has been solid as well, and in addition to his scoring ability, he does a nice job on the defensive glass. The team also has a veteran point guard in Erving Walker, who scores 12.1 points per game and leads the Gators in assists.
On a guard-heavy roster, the big men don't get many touches, but Erik Murphy and Patric Young both average at least 10 points, with Young shooting over 60 percent from the field and Murphy content to shoot from the perimeter. The late-season loss of forward Will Yeguette hurts their frontcourt depth as well, particularly because of his high rebounding rates.
In all, the Gators rank third in offensive efficiency, because they shoot 39.0 percent from deep and have a low turnover rate. However, their reliance on the three-point shot has come back to bite them in multiple games this season, because when they aren't hitting from long range, Florida doesn't really have a plan B. They also struggle on the defensive end, which could ultimately be their undoing in the tournament.
Virginia Cavaliers Team Capsule
- Conference: ACC
- Record: 22-9 (9-7 conf)
- Last 10 Games: 4-6
- Record vs. Tournament Teams: 2-6
- Wins vs. Tournament Teams: Michigan, North Carolina State
- Losses vs. Tournament Teams: Duke, Florida State (2), North Carolina (2), North Carolina State
- Player to Watch: Mike Scott (6'8" F, Sr.) – 18.1 ppg, 8.4 rpg, 56.2 FG%
Virginia Bottoms Line:
The Cavaliers haven't beaten a tournament lock since November, yet somehow they largely managed to avoid the bubble conversation down the stretch.
Mike Scott had a really strong argument for ACC Player of the Year, and his efficiency numbers are magnificent across the board. He shoots well, rebounds at a high rate on both ends of the floor, and does a nice job of drawing fouls and getting to the stripe.
If Virginia is going to make noise in March, their defense will be the reason. The Cavaliers rank in the Top 10 in defensive efficiency and are particularly proficient at cleaning the defensive glass and defending the three-point line.
Virginia has struggled down the stretch, and they desperately need someone other than Scott to become a consistent threat on offense. That said, their slow pace of play could certainly frustrate opponents, and it should also allow them to keep the game close.
Related: Jump to our West Region Bracket Breakdown.
See our other individual game previews and predictions:
- South Region: #4 Indiana v #13 New Mexico State
- South Region: #5 Wichita State v #12 VCU
- South Region: #6 UNLV v #11 Colorado
- South Region: #7 Notre Dame v #10 Xavier
- South Region: #8 Iowa State v #9 Connecticut
- West Region: #4 Louisville v #13 Davidson
- West Region: #5 New Mexico v #12 Long Beach State
- West Region: #6 Murray State v #11 Colorado State
- West Region: #7 Florida v #10 Virginia
- West Region: #8 Memphis v #9 Saint Louis
- East Region: #4 Wisconsin v #13 Montana
- East Region: #5 Vanderbilt v #12 Harvard
- East Region: #6 Cincinnati v #11 Texas
- East Region: #7 Gonzaga v #10 West Virginia
- East Region: #8 Kansas State v #9 Southern Miss
- Midwest Region: #3 Georgetown v #14 Belmont
- Midwest Region: #4 Michigan v #13 Ohio
- Midwest Region: #5 Temple v #12 Cal/USF
- Midwest Region: #6 San Diego State v #11 NC State
- Midwest Region: #7 St. Mary's v #10 Purdue
- Midwest Region: #8 Creighton v #9 Alabama


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The long-awaited (but not terribly well-received) and likely final suture in the Jekyll-and-Hyde version of Windows has just hit the MSDN site. For those of you who have MSDN accounts, it's time to start your downloads. For those of you without MSDN rights, in a few hours the new torrents should contain absolutely impeccable versions of the Win 8.1 Update ISO, fresh from MSDN.
If you pluck a copy from any place other than the MSDN site, make sure the file you download matches the ones on the MSDN site.
The full Windows 8.1 with Update ISO file, multiple editions (but not Enterprise), x86, U.S. English:
Filename = en_windows_8.1_with_update_x86_dvd_4065105.iso
Same thing in 64-bit:
Filename = en_windows_8.1_with_update_x64_dvd_4065090.iso
The full Windows 8.1 Enterprise with Update ISO file, x86, U.S. English:
Filename = en_windows_8.1_enterprise_with_update_x86_dvd_4065185.iso
Same thing, 64-bit:
Filename = en_windows_8.1_enterprise_with_update_x64_dvd_4065178.iso
If you already have Windows 8.1 and want only the Update itself, Microsoft has kindly provided ZIP files each with six Update (MSU) files. You have to run each of the MSU files, in the sequence specified in the Readme.txt file, in order to apply the Update. (To run an MSU file in Windows 8.1, just double-click on it.)
For the Windows 8.1 Update only, ZIP file, all versions, x86:
Filename = mu_windows_8.1_windows_embedded_8.1industry_update_x86_4046911.zip
For the Windows 8.1 Update only, ZIP file, all versions, including Windows Server 2012 R2, 64-bit:
Filename = mu_windows_8.1_windows_server_2012r2_windows_embedded_8.1industry_update_x64_4046913.zip
Note that the Server 2012 R2 update is only available in 64-bit.
The easy way to verify the hash codes is by using Microsoft's free File Checksum Integrity Verifier.
If you download an ISO, chances are good you will be able to install a fresh copy of Windows 8.1 Update if you convert the ISO to a bootable drive, then boot and use your Windows 8.1 activation key. (There may be some fun problems with UEFI systems -- see the instructions on Eightforums for details.)
If you download one of the Update-only ZIPs and run the MSU files in the sequence specified, you'll get a full in-place "upgrade" with none of your settings changed.
In a surprising -- and not well advertised -- turn of events, Microsoft will require that you install Windows 8.1 Update before you can install any future patches. KB 2919355 states:
Important All future security and nonsecurity updates for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 require this update to be installed. We recommend that you install this update on your Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, or Windows Server 2012 R2-based computer in order to receive continued future updates.
It appears that the Windows 8.1 Update changes are in your future, whether you want them or not.
This story, "Windows 8.1 Update -- required for all future Win8.1 updates -- released on MSDN," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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7 December 2010
Grebbestad Church and Cemetery, Tanum, Sweden
I visited Tanum municipality and the idyllic localities Fjällbacka and Grebbestad in the middle of June this year, but the last couple of blog articles from this visit have been put on hold for some time.
Grebbestads kyrka (church), built from the Bohuslän red granite, was finished in 1892 and had the same architect as Fjällbacka Church, Adrian C. Peterson. The church has a rather large cemetery with many interesting monuments, but unfortunately - as can be seen from the photos above - not all the graves have been taken well care of.
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Sometimes, cemeteries or city clerks have records or maps that indicate who is buried in each plot. Also, there are a variety of methods one can use to make a headstone more legible (you can find them using a search engine). However, some headstones are so worn that we will never know what they say.ReplyDelete
Yes, I am sure there is an office in Tanum where the graves are recorded. I visited the place on a Sunday, so such an office would have been closed anyway. Many cemeteries have put up signs with maps of the most famous graves, but I guess that Grebbestad has not had that many celebrities. Still, graves of local politicians, merchants, authors and artists could be interesting nevertheless. Ebba Lindqvist surely was a local celebrity.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your input!


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BOSTON--Adult survivors of childhood cancer have an increased risk for suicidal thoughts, even decades after their cancer treatments ended, according to a study led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists.
The researchers report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology that nearly eight percent of childhood cancer survivors said they have experienced suicidal thoughts, or ideation. Survivors of brain and central nervous system cancers were most likely to have had suicidal thoughts. Those who were in poor health or who had cancer-related pain or treatment-related chronic conditions also were at greater risk for suicidal thoughts. The paper is published on the journal's Web site and later will appear in a print edition.
"Our findings underscore the importance of recognizing the connection between childhood cancer survivors' physical health issues and their risk for suicidal thoughts, as some of the conditions may be treatable," said Christopher Recklitis, PhD, MPH, the study's lead author and a psychologist and director of research in the Perini Family Survivors' Center at Dana-Farber.
The researchers analyzed data from 9,126 adult survivors of pediatric cancers who were part of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS), a multi-institutional study coordinated through St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis to track long-term effects of cancer and its treatment. The participants were 18 years or older, had been diagnosed with cancer before the age of 21, and been diagnosed at least five years prior to participating in the study. The vast majority (8,464, or 92.7 percent) were diagnosed with cancer more than a decade before, and more than a quarter (2,564, or 28.4 percent) were diagnosed more than 20 years prior.
The survivors were compared to a non-cancer control group made up of 2,968 of the survivors' nearest-in-age siblings who also participated in the CCSS.
Recklitis and his colleagues found that 7.8 percent of the survivors reported having suicidal thoughts, compared with 4.5 percent of the control group. Survivors of brain and central nervous system (CNS) cancers were the most likely to experience suicidal thoughts (10.6 percent), while survivors of non-Hodgkin lymphoma were the least likely (6.7 percent). "Although the vast majority of survivors reported no suicidal ideation, the significant minority of survivors with thoughts of suicide is a serious concern," said Recklitis, who is also an assistant professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston.
The data did not show any link between suicidal thoughts and a survivor's age or sex, but there was an association with low levels of education, lower household incomes, and recent unemployment. Those who had never married or were no longer married were more likely than those married to report suicidal thoughts.
Among the sibling control group, age was associated with risk for suicidal thoughts for those ages 18-24 but not other age groups.
Childhood cancer survivors, due to the intensive treatments they received, are at risk for developing chronic medical problems later in life. The researchers found that health problems in adulthood were very strongly associated with the survivors' suicidal thoughts. For example, 28.8 percent of survivors reporting "poor" overall health had suicide ideation, compared with only 3.3 percent of survivors who said their health was "excellent." Being physically disabled was associated with suicide ideation, as were the number and severity of chronic medical conditions, and cancer related pain. Even when depression was accounted for, physical health problems remained a significant predictor of suicidal thoughts.
The relationship between physical health and suicide ideation, Recklitis emphasized, has important implications for the clinical care of survivors. Because survivors who experience suicidal thoughts often are diagnosed with chronic medical conditions that require medical care, the researchers suggest that this group's relatively high use of medical services provides an opportunity to help identify and address their emotional needs.
"Perhaps more importantly," Recklitis said, the study's results are "an important reminder to clinicians that cancer survivors who have significant physical health problems may have significant emotional problems as well. While our health care system and our culture drive us to treat physical and emotional suffering very differently, clearly we need an integrated approach to helping survivors with their physical health problems and the emotional distress that can be associated with them."
In addition to Recklitis, the study's other authors are Lisa Diller, MD, Xiaochun Li, PhD, and Julie Najita, PhD, Dana-Farber; Leslie Robison, PhD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis; and Lonnie Zeltzer, MD, Mattel Children's Hospital at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine.
The study was supported in part by a grant from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and the CCSS is supported by grants from the National Cancer Institute.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (www.dana-farber.org) is a principal teaching affiliate of the Harvard Medical School and is among the leading cancer research and care centers in the United States. It is a founding member of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC), designated a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute. It is the top ranked cancer center in New England, according to U.S. News & World Report, and one of the largest recipients among independent hospitals of National Cancer Institute and National Institutes of Health grant funding.