Balor Reborn

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Old Ireland is returning, as an ancient evil arrives in Dublin. A single glance from his eye is all it takes to kill.

Stephen Fox is haunted by the memory of his wife, and suffers from guilt at abandoning his new-born son. The spirit of the tyrant Balor has come back to take his vengeance on the country. A hero must rise in the unwilling form of Fionn Murray, a university student with a mysterious past.. As a world of wonder unfolds around him, and with no one but his house mate Michael at his side, he’s left with the choice of running, or facing the evil that could consume the world.

Based on the old Irish myth of Balor of the Evil Eye, Balor Reborn is the firstVal Robinson (field hockey)

Valerie Robinson OBE (née Walsh) is a former England and Great Britain field hockey international, who played 149 international games and represented her country for more than 20 years.

Hockey

She started to play hockey at the age of 14 for Accrington High School and became the first working class girl to be capped by England when she won her first cap in 1963. The highlight of her international career was winning a World Championship with England in 1975 in Edinburgh. She was, however, denied the opportunity to compete in the inaugural women's hockey event at the Olympics due to the British team's boycott of the games.

She later became a PE teacher and then in 1980 opened a residential hockey centre. She won two series of


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The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) has, through its rapporteur Christophe Clergeau, welcomed the compromise reached between the European Parliament and the European Council on Horizon Europe, EU's research programme for the next budget period (2021-27).

The partial agreement reached last week confirms much of the programme but leaves open its final budget, which will be agreed in the negotiations on the EU's next Multiannual Financial Framework. The CoR and the EP are asking the total budget to be raised to €120 billion, from the €94.6 billion proposed by the European Commission.

Closing the research and innovation gap between Member States and between regions is a key demand of the CoR opinion adopted in October 2018. In this regard, the two co-legislators agreed that 3.3 per cent ofecosystems and their capacity to meet the objectives of Horizon Europe and to fulfil its missions", pointed out the CoR rapporteur, who insisted on the need for full acknowledgement of the potential of such ecosystems to propose new types of co-financed European partnerships. "The CoR also wishes to contribute through its members and experts to the work of the newly-created European Innovation Council (EIC), which principally aims at supporting local companies and start-ups to scale up innovation", Mr Clergeau said.

The European Parliament will vote on the agreement in April at its final plenary before the European elections.


30, they had disposed of 151,500 cases, or 33%. The money will run out by the end of next month.

Judges said they were grateful to have the additional funds because they could not have handled the foreclosure crush without it. Until the special foreclosure divisions were set up last summer, civil judges had to squeeze in foreclosure hearings alongside a full caseload of medical malpractice cases, negligence claims and other proceedings.

The 4th Circuit in northeast Florida hired six retired judges, who worked on a rotating basis to clear 17,900 cases. They disposed of 7,400 by the end of March and at least another 2,000 since then.

"It was extremely effective," said Judge A.C. Soud, who oversees that circuit's foreclosure division.

On the other side of the state, the 12th Circuit'Extinction Rebellion' blocks Berlin traffic

Hallam's harmful Holocaust comments

Extinction Rebellion Germany was responding to an interview published in German publication Die Zeit on Wednesday.

In the interview, 53-year-old Hallam spoke about the Holocaust, saying genocides were "to be completely honest, almost a completely regular event," using the example of the Belgians who "decimated" the Congo.

He also said that German attitudes towards the Holocaust were holding Germany back.

Hallam, who comes from the UK, wrote the paper "Common sense for the 21st century" — the Extinction Rebellion movement had previously called this significant in its contribution to its tactic of widespread civil disobedience, such as large numbers of participators setting out to get arrested.

Extinction Rebellion protests go global London, UK Police arrested 217 people in London on Monday. Extinction Rebellion protesters blocked


traffic and glued themselves to cars. Sarah Lasenby, an 81-year-old retired social worker among the arrested, told the Associated Press, "It is imperative the government should take serious actions and put pressure on other states and global powers to radically reduce the use of fossil fuels."

Extinction Rebellion protests go global New York City, US Protesters in New York City doused the famous statue of the bull near Wall Street with blood and staged a "die-in" in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Police arrested around a dozen demonstrators.

Extinction Rebellion protests go global Amsterdam, The Netherlands More than 100 people were arrested in Amsterdam after blocking a road in front of the Rijksmuseum. The city had banned the activists from protesting there, but demonstrators went ahead with theprotest anyway. One poster read, "SORRY that we blocked the road, but this is an emergency."

Extinction Rebellion protests go global Sydney, Australia Hundreds of people staged a sit-in on a busy road in Sydney before the police began making arrests. Activist Jane Morton told AFP, "we have tried petitions, lobbying and marches, and now time is running out." Australia's conservative government has been reluctant to improve environmental policy, choosing instead to support the continued exporting of coal.

Extinction Rebellion protests go global Dublin, Ireland With a march through Dublin, Extinction Rebellion demonstrators in Ireland kicked off a "week of action" calling for a greater response to climate change. Protesters held a mock funeral for the planet and parked a pink yacht in front of Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar's


office.

Extinction Rebellion protests go global Berlin, Germany Around 1,000 protesters in Berlin blocked the Grosser Stern, a roundabout in the middle of the German capital. 300 more blocked a central square with couches, tables, chairs, and flower pots. In total, over 3,000 people joined demonstrations in Berlin. The protests come as the German government is on the brink of passing a climate bill that many have criticized for being too weak.

Extinction Rebellion protests go global Paris, France In central Paris, around 1,000 protesters blocked the area around Chatalet. Some chained themselves to barrels while others swore to stay there overnight in makeshift tents. Protesters waved banners with slogans like "Burn capitalism, not petrol." Author: Kristie Pladson

Every evening at 1830 UTC, DW's editors send out a selection of theAttorney Sophia Chote refuses to see herself as a hero. But in the eyes of Jareem Richards, she will forever be the lady who gave up her business class seat on a British Airways flight from London to accommodate his tired body.

Richards and Mrs Chote shared the flight home from London, where the young man had just won two medals, bronze in the men...


“He refuses to say about his association with any organisation”

Armed police personnel stormed into a hideout at Batlagundu in Dindigul district early on Monday and apprehended Nagoor Hanifa alias Mohamed Hanifa (35), one of the prime suspects who allegedly conspired to eliminate Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani and attempted to blow up his convoy near Madurai on October 28, 2011.

Acting on a specific input, plainclothesmen led by Deputy Inspector-General of Police (Special Investigation Team) John Nicholson arrested Hanifa, a native of Tenkasi, who was alone in the house.

A powerful pipe bomb stuffed with about 7 kg of explosives, mostly nitroglycerine, was detected and defused hours before the convoy of Mr. Advani was to have passed through a culvert at Alampatti in Madurai district. The BJP leader, whoAfter months of hype leading to his UFC signing, Conor McGregor's octagon debut lived up to the high expectations.

The Irishman needed just 67 seconds to run over Marcus Brimage, knocking him out at UFC on FUEL 9 at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm.

After the two had a heated moment in Friday's weigh-ins, Brimage came out aggressively, charging forward and throwing power strikes in an attempt to overwhelm his opponent. He landed several, but McGregor stayed composed and skillfully picked his counters.

The fight-changer was an uppercut that put Brimage on wobbly legs. McGregor followed up with two more uppercuts that sent Brimage to the mat, and then finished him with a series of ground strikes.

Afterward, McGregor said he used Brimage's emotion against him.

"I could tell he was emotionally attached


Funzi Island

Funzi Island is a settlement in Kenya's Kwale County. Funzi consists of four mangrove covered islands where Funzi Island is the main island and the only one with permanent inhabitants. There is one village on the island with approximately 1500 members of the Shirazi Tribe. The absolute majority are Muslims and sustain on fishing and agriculture. The archipelago is located in Kwale district and is less known to tourists than the nearby Diani Beach.

Environment

Funzi Island is known for its pristine beaches and as Kenya's best nesting site for a variety of sea turtles, such as green turtle, Chelonia mydas, hawksbill, Eretmochelys imbricata and leatherback, Dermochelys coriacea. These species are classified as either endangered or critically endangered by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) but are foundLe Pacte des Loups (literally translated to “The Pact of Wolves) is a French action-adventure thriller directed by Christophe Gans that is loosely based on real events that took place in France in the 18th century. The film was released in the U.S. and other countries under the name “BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF” and chronicles the real-life killings that was built around the legend of the Beast of Gevaudan. The film is an eccentric action film that blends elements of period drama, political conspiracies, gruesome horror, spaghetti western, erotica, bone-crushing martial arts and a mysterious whodunit tale that is served up with some art house sensibilities. Make no mistake, “Brotherhood of the Wolf” is one movie that gets you off, but at the same time, it is also


the kind of film that one usually keeps in a locked shelf and not displayed as part of his collection.

Somewhere in the countryside of Gevaudan, a mysterious beast stalks and kills the women and children who live in the valley. The killings send the populace in a fit of panic as only the half-conscious survivors tell tales of a demon-like wolf. Even with the areas best hunters on the prowl, the monster continues to kill without regard, that adds to the stories and ever-growing myth. Gregoire De Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan) is a loyal servant to the king and a naturalist sent to investigate the brutal slaughter. Along with his Iroquois companion, Mani (Mark Dacascos) they stumble upon a conspiracy that goes far deeper than a simple monstrousof character that made him very intriguing. Mani has that ominous and brooding aura that proved very magnetic, with martial arts skills that is as powerful as a lion and as graceful as a gazelle. Mani is the equivalent of a silent, savage warrior and a Japanese ninja. Samuel Le Bihan plays Fronsac, a naturalist that provides most of the wit and charm. He gives the impression that Mani might be his bodyguard, and it was a clever approach to portray him as a civilized man who can deliver a major smack down when the time came. Director Gans changed the film’s opening fight scene, instead of having Fronsac and Mani engage the peasants, Gans opted to keep Fronsac's fighting skills under wraps until halfway through the film,


Travel: The Old Port & Pink Fizz Sunset, France

Back at ya with a new travel post this week. Please do pardon the blog hiatus of late - having felt quite uninspired I took a step back for a while. I always think it's better to come back with fresh eyes than to plough on creating content after content when my heart isn't in it.

At the end of August we packed the car and headed to Brittany, North France to celebrate my 22nd birthday, make the most of the last summer rays and eat an incredible quantity of bread.

Day one we awoke to one of those perfect end-of-summer glorious golden mornings, with the most perfect view of the canal. First on the agenda: fresh pastries and filter coffee inMEANING:
People keep praising me all the time, calling me 'Tulsi, Tulsi.' Tulsi however, is as insignificant as the grass in the woods. It is only when 'Rama' (the Lord) decided to bestow His grace on me that I became famous and was known as 'Tulsidas.


to explore the dialectical relationship between the inside and outside spaces created by capital within the capitalist world system. He argues that the inside is characterized by capitalistic market relationships and normal exploitation within a crisis-ridden system. The outside is simultaneously a realm of superexploitation and non-commodified spaces, including, for example, public health and education services but also traditional, non-market relationships, in agriculture or other domains, that are continually ripe for recommodification. Importantly, the inside and the outside of capitalism are less defined by national boundaries than by the simultaneous coexistence of capitalist and non-capitalist relationships across national borders and the world system. Dörre mobilizes this insight to explain the historic rise of financial capitalism, with an emphasis on the specific case of German coordinated capitalism. In particular,capitalism but might equally deteriorate into capitalist private property relations, especially given intervention by the Tsarist state. Hudis concludes that both Marx and Luxemburg have valuable insights into historical transformations across the world system, including underappreciated contributions to the analysis of non-western societies. But, he concludes, Marx is more subtle than Luxemburg and better recognizes that people in the periphery have a vital role to play in their own liberation. In his research note, Paul Le Blanc contrasts Luxemburg s contributions to socialist theories with those of Marx, Bukharin, Lenin and others. He draws particular attention to her analyses of imperialism as a necessary, but contradictory dynamic inherent to the capitalist mode of production. Like no other of her contemporaries, he argues, Luxemburg denounced the full horror of


current moment, when the labour movement, particularly in the United States, is especially weak. Against those who understand Luxemburg as deterministic in her analyses of capitalism, Scott argues that Luxemburg always emphasized the vital role of working class struggle: the choice is between socialism and barbarism, but there is no automatic movement towards the former. Contrasting Luxemburg s views with those of reformist socialist Eduard Bernstein, but also with contemporary critics of Marxism, Scott argues for the ongoing pertinence of Luxemburg s views: on the state, including her understanding of the state s militarism as instrumental to buttressing the power of capital against labour domestically and internationally; on the fundamental incompatibility of capitalism and genuine democracy; and on the possibilities for socialism from below and the potential butresult of her disability and was ultimately assassinated, she cannot be considered a victim. Rather, Luxemburg must be appreciated for her active struggle for an open intellectual approach linked to revolutionary politics. This openness led her to question nationalism that did not serve the cause of international socialism, party and trade union politics disconnected from the spontaneous struggle of the masses, and Marxist theories that are not constantly compared against and related to the social experiences of class struggle. In particular, Trincado argues that Luxemburg developed a new concept of alienation, one steeped in her appreciation of art and literature, but also in the simple appreciation of every moment of life. For Luxemburg, Trincado argues, liberation is understood as perpetual movement, a collective participation by the masses in


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Sci-Fi Weekend - Poster Design GCR

A poster designed by me for The Great Central Railway`s Sci-Fi weekend in September 2015.
My brief was to design a poster that had 60`s science fiction influences echoing the era that saw the launch of British Sci-Fi shows like Doctor Who etc,
The typeface was chosen for its futuristic style and the color scheme of reds and oranges reminiscent of the planet Mars (a favorite location of many a sci-fi writer).
The background features a long exposure rotating star trail above a mountain range and three UFO`s with the lead craft beaming down its otherworldly inhabitants (named Kay-tee & Ju-Ells) to the planets surface to visit the event.


Welcome to the Special Edition on Clinical Trials, featuring scientific articles presented during 2016 at the First International Conference on Health Research held at the Hochschule Hannover, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, in Hannover, Germany.

This special edition contains selected peer-reviewed articles covering topics presented at the conference. From Germany, there is a scholarly discourse that interrogates the view that clinical research involving humans is only acceptable if it involves the potential for benefit. This was done while considering the ongoing conversation on whether the overriding ethical considerations should weigh more in favor of indirect benefits (ie, collective or benefit for society, excluding or including the trial patient in the long-term) than direct benefits. This was made more relevant by the fact that ethical guidelines, such as thethrough clinical trials of drugs or devices in development could be financially rewarding considering the economics of most developing countries. It is highlighted that these communities are most in need of drugs for infectious and communicable diseases such as sexually transmitted diseases. These countries are ready-to-exploit territories for the development of innovative pharmaceutical products. This opportunity has been made more appealing by an increase in wealth and longevity. A change of lifestyle is slowly taking place in most developing countries, accompanied by a shift in disease trends. A disproportionately faster rise in the incidence of noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular illnesses, diabetes, and cancers has been noted in emerging markets, mimicking the patterns seen in their Western counterparts. The challenges faced by the pharma industries in their attempts


U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley Nimrata (Nikki) Haley'The soul' versus 'law and order' Author Ryan Girdusky: RNC worked best when highlighting 'regular people' as opposed to 'standard Republicans' GOP lobbyists pleasantly surprised by Republican convention MORE's use of her Twitter account violated a federal law that bars federal employees from using their offices for political purposes, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel said Tuesday.

In a letter to the watchdog group Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (CREW), the deputy chief of OSC's Hatch Act Unit said that Haley was in clear violation of the Hatch Act when she retweeted the president's endorsement of Ralph Norman, who was running for a South Carolina House seat at the time. Norman went on to win the election.

Theretweet suggested that she was acting in her official capacity when she appeared to second the president's endorsement, according to the OSC.

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"Here, because Ambassador Haley's personal Twitter account included so much indicia of her official role as Ambassador and was even linked to the United States Mission to the United Nations website, it gave the impression that she was acting in her official capacity when she used this account to retweet President Trump's message," the letter said.

"And retweeting that message, which endorsed a candidate in a congressional election, constituted political activity under the Hatch Act."

The OSC ruling came in response to a complaint filed by CREW in June, shortly after the former South Carolina governor retweeted the president's endorsement. Hamrick said the agency has issued Haley a warning


letter.

Haley isn't the first Trump administration official to be found responsible for violating the Hatch Act.

Dan Scavino, the White House social media director, was also found in violation of the law in June after CREW filed a complaint with the OSC regarding an April 1 tweet from Scavino that encouraged potential GOP challengers to oust Rep. Justin Amash Justin AmashOn The Trail: How Nancy Pelosi could improbably become president History is on Edward Snowden's side: Now it's time to give him a full pardon Trump says he's considering Snowden pardon MORE (R-Mich.) in an upcoming primary.

Scavino was similarly given a warning letter and told that additional actions could be taken if he violated the law again.The Wellington region's water supply is at 'crisis' level, while even the typically wet West Coast is experiencing a big dry as New Zealand's summer drought extends further.

Rural communities throughout the North Island are already reeling from extremely dry conditions. The Government has declared Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Hawke's Bay as drought zones. Manawatu-Rangitikei, Wairarapa and Taranaki are set to follow.

Nigel Wilson, who chairs the Wellington region's committee in charge of water supply, said 20 days of water was about all that's left for the people of Wellington, Hutt Valley and Porirua if the heavens did not open soon

The region has had no significant rain since February 4, while Wellington City has not had a drop for a month, the MetService said.

Almost all the available


"A couple more weeks and it's going to be all on . . . another three weeks and the cupboard will be bare."

Tapping into smaller reservoirs around the region was an option the council could look at after that.

The flow in the Hutt River is normally about 5000 litres a second at this time of year, but that dropped to 1300 litres last week.

The regional council can take water from the river till it reaches a minimum flow of 600 litres a second. But the emergency consent reduces that minimum to 400 litres, providing up to 17 million extra litres a day.

MetService forecaster Brooke Lockhart said there was an increased chance of showers across the Wellington region for a few days from Sunday.

But the forecast was uncertain atmilking nearly three months early.

Farmers in the worst-affected areas say they have not seen conditions like it in more than 40 years and it could cost them collectively about $20 million.

Later this week they will meet to discuss with officials whether the Government should declare the area a drought zone.

"It's just unheard of," Federated Farmers West Coast president Katie Milne said yesterday. "We are all worried, but it's so unusual.

"No-one knows what's going on because we are just not used to having to deal with it.

"Guys I'm talking to who have lived in the area all their lives are saying it's the driest they've ever seen."

The Ministry for Primary Industries said yesterday it had also been monitoring conditions on the West Coast. Niwa statistics show February was one


Blade & Soul to Launch in Europe and NA This Winter

NCSoft has just announced that (finally!) Blade & Soul will launch in North America and Europe this winter, with a Closed Beta planned for Autumn. This Korean MMORPG was released back in 2012 in the asian market and now will finally arrive in the western territories.

At launch, the Western version of Blade & Soul will be fully localised into English, German and French (including voice-over). Will it be free to play in NA & EU? Soon we'll know. Additional information about the business model will be revealed this summer.

Blade & Soul is set in an Asian-mythological world where players can enjoy action-based combat with ability combos and a flexible party role system that does not require dedicated healers.I dislike his picture in the game,they draw him like a monster,he's not a monster,he is a soldier who has high charisma and intelligence,if he looks like the picture in the game,who will support him to be the duke of Baldur's Gate?


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We worked for 12 years to see the Postal Accountability and Enhan-cement Act passed and are very excited about the opportunities that the legislation is going to afford the US Postal Service, the Postal Regulatory Commission and mailers. Pricing flexibility has been a huge issue in the past, and by granting the USPS greater latitude in terms of customizing pricing, the new law should enable the postal service to give mailers more discounts based on their usage and compliance with standards.

Inability to offer pricing flexibility has been a significant barrier from a competitive standpoint. The USPS may be able to give breaks to smaller mailers who are taking part in work


is the head of the judiciary of East Azerbaijan province, said Ashtiani's crimes were "numerous" and said she was "convicted of adultery and murder and was sentenced to death," according to the official news agency IRNA.

"Because of morality and ethics, I cannot go into the details of the crimes, but if the public knew, they would understand the criminal nature of them," he said, according to IRNA. "But she killed her husband, brutally and gruesomely, and the detective on the scene said that if she had beheaded her husband it would have been better than what they actually saw."

Ashtiani, 43, a mother of two, is being held in a Tabriz prison. Iran's judiciary could reinstate her sentence of death by stoning, execute her by other means, or possiblyJohn Wesley & Minerva "Walker" Finney

John Wesley Finney was born on September 30, 1804 to George
and Phoebe Puckett Finney in Russell Co., VA. "He was very fair with light
brown hair and blue eyes."
John Wesley Finney married Minerva Adkins Walker (Townsend) (Burkes) on
September 9, 1836, in Barry Co., MO. Minerva was already twice a widow with
seven children. By 1849 John and Minerva had 8 children of their own, the
last two born in Carroll Co., AR.
Minerva Adkins Walker was born on April 17, 1806, in Wilson Co., TN. She
left home to marry William Townsend in 1821. They had two children in Jackson
Co., AL before William died in March 1825.
Minerva returned home to her parents' displeasure and was married to a
man more of their choosing, Mr. George Burkes. The marriage took


place in
Jackson Co., AL and after giving Minerva five more children, George died in
Sept 1834 near Cassville, Barry Co., MO.
In 1850, John Wesley Finney left AK with a step-son-in-law, John Locke, and
headed to California with "two Indian ponies..." He returned home and in
1857 the family headed west with ox teams and wagons. They arrived in CA
near Placerville.
On Sept 3, 1889, John Wesley Finney was killed while driving a team across the
railroad track near Stockton, CA. Minerva died on Aug 6, 1897 at her
daughter's home near Stockton, CA.Biomed Central and PlosMedicine and she has received research grants from the NHMRC and ARC. She is Chair of the National Eating Disorders Collaboration Steering Committee in Australia (2012-) and Member of the ICD-11 Working Group for Eating Disorders (2012--2019) and was Chair Clinical Practice Guidelines Project Working Group (Eating Disorders) of RANZCP (2012--2015). In the past 5 years she has consulted for, conducted education of Psychiatrists, and prepared a report under contract for Shire Pharmaceuticals. All views in this paper are her own. Deborah Mitchison is an Editorial Board Member.


High Income Countries Regional Dialogue

Global Commission on HIV and the Law Reviews Legal Barriers Obstructing Progress on AIDS in High Income Countries

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 16 September, 2011—Thirty years after the first cases of HIV were diagnosed in the US, HIV is far from over - high income countries continue to struggle to end AIDS. The total number of people living with HIV in North America and Western and Central Europe grew from an estimated 1.8 million in 2001 to 2.3 million in 2009—an increase of 30%. As part of a global drive to remove barriers to progress in the AIDS response, policymakers and community advocates will join experts from the Global Commission on HIV and the Law in Oakland on 17 September for the final in a series ofseven dialogues which have been held across the world.

The Global Commission on HIV and the Law is an independent body comprising some of the world's most respected legal, human rights and HIV leaders. At this week's dialogue, 65 participants from 15 countries will discuss and debate region-wide experiences of enabling and restrictive legal and social environments faced by people living with HIV, other key populations and those affected by HIV in high income countries.

According to UNDP HIV Practice Director Jeffrey O'Malley, "The law and its application can have an impact on the lives of people, especially those who are marginalized and disempowered. The law is a powerful instrument to challenge stigma, promote public health, and protect human rights. We know that the laws and policies of High Income


possession and use - since then number of newly reported cases of HIV among people who use drugs has declined substantially every year since 2001 and drug use has not increased.

Responding on behalf of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D) of Oakland, a Commissioner stated "the effectiveness of the global HIV response will depend not just on the scale up of HIV prevention, treatment and care, but on whether the legal and social environment support or hinder programmes for those who are most vulnerable. This requires bold and effective legal and policy measures to reach out to vulnerable communities and individuals at risk. The Bipartisan Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus, which I co-chair will deal with these very issues."

The Regional Dialogue, hosted by theMonday, 29 June 2015

To claim that people who punish people by killing them for blaspheming Islam while shouting 'Allah is greatest' has 'nothing to do with Islam' is madness. Because the violence of the Islamists is, truthfully, only to do with Islam: the worst version of Islam, certainly, but Islam nonetheless.

Tuesday, 23 June 2015

This billboard was allowed to go up, by the Islamic Circle
of North America, an Islamist body, connected with the Muslim Brotherhood,
and despite every statement being provably false in Islamic doctrine...

... but this one was not allowed to go up, despite all the statements being true
as evidenced in Islamic doctrine and the official biography of Muhammad

Recently, I posted comments by Johanna Markind of the Middle East Forum, about a New York Times Islamopologist article.
She made an


Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) are also going to try PR, via billboards proclaiming Muhammad to be an exemplar of "love and brotherhood".
In fact Muhammad was a rather vile man, as one can read in all the official Islamic sources -- the Islamic Trinity.
I can't do better that Religionofpeace.com in summarising Muhammad's life and doings, than this link to "myths of Muhammad", all of them based on foundational Islamic doctrine.
By the way, the Reuters article says ICNA is "mainstream". Perhaps it is, if by "mainstream" one means hewing to the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, for they are a child of that benighted organisation.

Friday, 19 June 2015

Found on Harry's Place site, which I mentioned the other day. The vid needs a special call-out. It's great.
An equivalent: theEast Forum doesn't miss a trick and here takes it apart.
The New York Times, which rather fancies itself as "the newspaper of record", has a shameful history of apologetics: in the thirties it was an apologist for the rise of Nazism, and in the fifties it whitewashed Stalinism, becoming a shill for Stalin's "useful idiots". (It was he, IIRC, who coined the term).
Rather than the "paper of record", the New York Times is, more accurately, the "apologist of record".
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Back in November 2013, I posted a link to an interview with the highly regarded Professor Paul Davies, about his latest book on immigration and diversity (Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World). I remember it caused quite a stir at the time.

Davies' key findings: That immigration


anti-immigration side:
A Youtube video, "Welcome to Sweden" by the quirky En Blatte Talar, himself an immigrant to Sweden, this time with concerns of the hosts of immigrants. These concerns are shared by large majorities (upwards of 70%) in the UK, Europe, Australia and the US. In short, in all countries that are taking sizeable numbers of immigrants. But these concerns are routinely ignored or scorned by the media and les bien pensants in those countries ("populism, nativism", doncha know).
Blatte Talar asks:

What is life like in Sweden? "The politicians are participating in a chicken race of “goodness” where everybody tries to one-up each other in caring for the citizens of OTHER countries while Swedish retirees, school children, handicapped and other vulnerable categories of people are thorougly ignored."

On the slightlyIslamic Centres.
She's right about this. At least five studies of mosques, including one done by a moderate Muslim Sheikh, have shown that extremist views are preached and extremist literature handed out at many US mosques. It would be no different in Canada, or my own country of Australia, for that matter.
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The violent doctrine of extreme Islam is spreading in Canada through the foundation of mosques, Islamic centres and Islamic schools by wealthy Gulf state investors with radical goals, a controversial U.S. commentator is warning.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former devout follower of the Muslim Brotherhood, best-selling author, ex-politician and now a fellow at Harvard University’s JFK School of Government, was the final witness recently at the national security and defence committee, which is preparing a report on threats to


Accords of the 1990s held out the prospect of possible Palestinian compliance, but were then fatally undermined by the words and actions of Yasser Arafat.
Under Bill Clinton's auspices in 2000 and 2001, the Israeli side again offered a two-state solution only for it to be flatly rejected. In 2007, Ehud Olmert offered Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas more or less the same deal, only for it to be turned down.
The Palestinian side makes rejection of the very existence of Israel a fact of daily life in its (Arab-language) pronouncements, its glorification of terrorism, and its media and education policies.
Opinion polls, such as those conducted by the Israel Project, consistently show that the Palestinian people would only accept a two-state solution as a stepping stone towards a one-state solution involvingHarriss' Twitter.
Pity to see in Sam's twitter comments so many examples of exactly what Sarah was talking about: avoiding the issues; questioning her motives rather than her facts; ad hominem, moral equivalence (the Bible as bad as the Koran); etc etc...

Xi Jinping is a nasty man. I've been saying that for some time. Here's The Journal in what is an old-style Party Purge, not part of the anti-corruption he'd have us believe:

China's internal power struggle continues. That's the meaning of Thursday's announcement that former Politburo Standing Committee Member Zhou Yongkang was sentenced to life in prison for corruption....

Friday, 12 June 2015

China's aggression is pushing the South China Sea to a boiling point. Beijing's massive island-building project is militarizing the territorial disputes, changing the territorial status quo and shifting


the region's balance of power. The U.S. response has been reactive, rhetorical and confused.

Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Agree with Douglas Murray here. It's similar to Jewish groups in North America, like the Anti Defamation League, prioritising neo-Nazi and ageing Nazis, rather than the far larger, more active and virulently anti-Semitic Islamist groups.

Young people in China get a bad rap. Conventional wisdom says the boys are spoilt and fat, the girls flighty gold diggers — and the whole lot of them lazy, selfish and greedy. I have lived in Chinafor seven years, and have met precious few mainland youths who fit those descriptions (except for maybe the plump part).But don't take it from me: I'm old enough to be their granny. Jemimah Steinfeld, on the other hand, has studied theto strengthen yourself for the fight: to robustly defend our liberal democracy, with all its enlightened values, in the face of resurgent Islam and its horrid Sharia laws.

Thursday, 4 June 2015

So the leader of the largest Muslim country in the Arab world thinks that the entire Islamic world is suffused with dangerous and destructive thinking, and the leader of the Catholic Church thinks terror is the work of a few misunderstanders of Islam.

Kilpatrick is a Catholic, so it seems, but an atheist like me can relate to his writing, for his writing is crisp, cogent, robust and on-the-money. There's a series of three on this issue, and well worth the time to read them all.

.... glorious walk around the Peak and the Peak tram ride up and down?

There


serve us beer before she won a windsurfing gold at the 1996 Olympics.

In town, what about the Hong Kong history museum? I shall grant you that this museum's counterpart in Macau is easily a match for it, but that's only a reason to take a side trip to Macau on a visit to Hong Kong. Check for the occasional displays. They can be very good.

What about some of the offbeat museums like the Coastal Defence at Lye Mun Gap - which is a place from another world - or the Police Museum (how to cook heroin) and the Prison Museum (what your well-dressed rioter wears)?

What about the Wetland Park, the Botanical Gardens, the street markets, all the temples, seafood gluttony at Sok Kwu Wan or Po Toi withthe Sirah, the official biography of Muhammad. He took part in at least 27 battles, many of which -- especially after he moved his followers to Medina -- were offensive in nature.

Perhaps the answer to whether the Islamapologists are Knaves or Fools, is in the quote at the top of this post: they are Knaves, and the Fools are those that believe them.

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[*]See "Cherry Picking (fallacy)", here. One does not need to cherry pick the Koran for violent verses, for that's the bulk of the book -- the whole tree, one might say.

David Thompson's blog often covers this trend in the U.S. Academy: tender flowers who feel "triggered" by anything that might "harm" their tender feelings.
Interesting that the issue has now reached the New York Times. After all


Story highlights "Chairman Schiff is engaging in the worst kind of red baiting, fear mongering, it's the new McCarthyism, and it's mudslinging," Stone said.

""I had no contact with Russians," Stone added.

(CNN) In a radio interview Monday, Roger Stone said that mentions of him at a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Russian interference in the 2016 election amounted to "red-baiting and "fear mongering."

Conservative lobbyist and consultant Roger Stone speaks with the press in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, New York, following a meeting there on December 6, 2016.

In a series of questions posed to FBI Director James Comey, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff repeatedly referenced some of Stone's public statements during the campaign, specifically his contact with the hacker "Guccifer 2.0," who has claimed responsibility for hackingwar on Iraq. The 9/11 atrocities provided the pretext. The idea that neocons are the motivating force behind the U.S. movement for war has been broached by a number of commentators.

To understand why Israeli leaders would want a Middle East war, it is first necessary to take a brief look at the history of the Zionist movement and its goals. Despite public rhetoric to the contrary, the idea of expelling (or, in the accepted euphemism, “transferring”) the indigenous Palestinian population was an integral part of the Zionist effort to found a Jewish national state in Palestine. Historian Tom Segev writes:

The idea of transfer had accompanied the Zionist movement from its very beginnings, first appearing in Theodore Herzl’s diary. In practice, the Zionists began executing a mini-transfer from the


Policy Board; Feith is Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy; and Wurmser is special assistant to State Department chief arms control negotiator John Bolton. It is also remarkable that while in 1996 Israel was to “shape its strategic environment” by removing her enemies, the same individuals are now proposing that the United States shape the Middle East environment by removing Israel’s enemies. That is to say, the United States is to serve as Israel’s proxy to advance Israeli interests.

In September 2000, the neocon think tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC) issued a report, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century,” that envisioned an expanded global posture for the United States. In regard to the Middle East, the report called for an increasedAmerican military presence in the Gulf, whether Saddam was in power or not., maintaining that “the United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.” The project’s participants included individuals who would play leading roles in the second Bush administration: Cheney (Vice President), Rumsfeld (secretary of defense), Wolfowitz (deputy secretary of defense), and Lewis Libby (Cheney’s chief of staff). Weekly Standard editor William Kristol was also a co-author.

The September 11 atrocities provided the “revolutionary times” in which Israel could undertake radical measures unacceptable during normal conditions. When asked what the attack


close to Israel. Israel’s traditional enemies would now become America’s as well. And Israel would have a better chance of dealing with the Palestinians under the cover of a “war on terrorism.”

In the October 29, 2002, issue of The Weekly Standard, Kagan and Kristol predict a wider Middle Eastern war:

When all is said and done, the conflict in Afghanistan will be to the war on terrorism what the North Africa campaign was to World War II: an essential beginning on the path to victory. But compared with what looms over the horizon — a wide-ranging war in locales from Central Asia to the Middle East and, unfortunately, back again to the United States — Afghanistan will prove but an opening battle…. But this war will not end infor two peoples. In fifty or a hundred years, there will only be one state between the sea and the Jordan. That state must be Israel.”

As is now apparent, the “war on terrorism” was never intended to be a war to apprehend and punish the perpetrators of the September 11 atrocities. September 11 simply provided a pretext for government leaders to implement long-term policy plans. As has been pointed out elsewhere, including in my own writing, oil interests and American imperialists looked upon the war as a way to incorporate oil-rich Central Asia within the American imperial orbit. While that has been achieved, the American-sponsored government of Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan is in a perilous situation. Karzai’s power seems to be limited to his immediate vicinity, and he


must be protected by American bodyguards. The rest of Afghanistan is being fought over by various war lords and even the resurgent Taliban. Instead of putting forth the effort to help consolidate its position in Central Asia, Washington has shifted its focus to gaining control of the Middle East.

It now appears that the primary policymakers in the Bush administration have been the Likudnik neoconservatives all along. Control of Central Asia is secondary to control of the Middle East. In fact, for the leading neocons, the war on Afghanistan may simply have been an opening gambit, necessary for reaching their ultimate and crucial goal: U.S. control of the Middle East in the interests of Israel. That is analogous to what revisionist historians have presented as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “backmean streets of Chicago, others point out that his tactics are often abusive, unfair, and even unlawful – and have done little to deter gun violence, which has seen all time highs in 2014 and 2015.

Evans has also risen through the ranks of the Chicago PD despite a staggering 45 complaints of excessive force levied against him, which many detractors point out is only possible due to the negligent culture of the department.

Such a history of violence points to the near-guaranteed likelihood that Evans did in fact put his gun in Williams’ mouth – and has escaped any form of justice yet again.

This disturbing case comes at a time when the notoriously brutal Chicago PD is under increasing scrutiny, namely for the killing of Laquan McDonald.

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17th Street Board Shop located in Huntington Beach was created by long time local surfer Jerry Mulford and the legendary Bud Llamas (aka: unofficial Mayor of HB). Bud is now the SOUL owner of 17 Street Board Shop. Stop on by and say hi!Q:

Why does Andrew Wiggin introduce himself as Ender?

In the movie Ender's Game, Andrew just got in the program and was on the space ship. He was late and he introduces himself to kid beside him. He introduces himself as "Ender" instead of "Andrew".
Why doesn't he introduce himself as "Andrew"? Why would he use his middle name (near the start, he was called while walking down the halls - "Andrew Wiggin, Andrew Ender Wiggin")?

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The book Ender in Exile confirms that "Ender" is just a nickname, and not a middle name.

My name is Andrew Wiggin, but I have usually been called by my childhood nickname, Ender.

Andrew Wiggin goes by the name "Ender" because that was what his older sister called him growing up.
From a similar scene in the original


that his legal name was 'Andrew', but he went by the nickname 'Ender'.

"It wasn't a charade, Mrs. Wiggin. Until we knew what Ender's motivation was, we couldn't be sure he wasn't another-- we had to know what the action meant. Or at least what Ender believed that it meant."
"Must you call him that stupid nickname?" Mother began to cry.
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Wiggin. But that's the name he calls himself."
-- Ender's Game (Chapter 3)

Throughout the book, he is refereed to as 'Ender' by the narrator, and by all of the kids. (his siblings, Stilson's Gang, etc.)
The Adults (Nurse Deedee, Miss Pumphrey, his parents) refer to him by his legal name, 'Andrew'.
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The cigar in Shannon Sharpe's hand was one sign that he was destined for football greatness.
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Pro baseball pitcher Ryan Pope has a tendency to take the less conventional route, but it's hard to argue with the results.
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Bell finished with 32 points,29 during the first three quarters, as FPCA made a strong statement about the hierarchy of the Georgia Independent ...

After taking a 13-point lead midway through the fourth quarter, the Calvary Day girls basketball team felt good about itself. Maybe a little too good.
Savannah Country Day came back to within striking distance in the final seconds, but the Cavaliers, ranked No. 2 in Class A, held on to preserve a 53...

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Chad eyes bigger share of its oil profits

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— Describing Chad's profits from a multibillion-dollar pipeline as "crumbs," President Idriss Deby is trying to grab a larger slice of the petrodollar pie, joining the trend of "resource nationalism" in vogue from Algeria to Venezuela.

Mr. Deby's opening salvo made oil executives and diplomats take note. Just over a week ago, he ordered Chevron and Malaysia's Petronas, who hold 60 percent of the consortium operating the $3.7 billion pipeline, to leave the country for tax nonpayment – a charge both companies deny.

Deby vowed that Chad's newly created oil company should have a proper stake – 60 percent – in the pipeline. "A revolution has started ... which will bring salvation to ... our country, and future generations," Deby told cheeringsupporters later.

Analysts say Deby has pulled tactics straight from the African strongman handbook. "They are trying to force their way in, taking an extreme position and then rolling back," said Ian Gary, an expert at Oxfam America. "Ultimately they want to renegotiate the contract."

Chad currently gets 12.5 percent of the royalties from its production of some 160,000 barrels a day, compared with the 80 percent of oil production that Nigeria enjoys. On paper, there seems little wrong with Chad recouping greater profits. It is desperately poor. But it is also the most corrupt nation in the world, according to graft watchdog Transparency International.

"In a perfect world, where a government has the capacity and the political will to use petrodollars wisely, you would certainly welcome it taking a bigger


linked to the existing one through Chad and Cameroon, the Chinese would have a route from the Red Sea to the Gulf of Guinea.

ExxonMobil – the largest of the three stakeholders in Chad's consortium – has said it values "contract sanctity and expects the same" from others. But major players are facing a vicious circle.

"Instability brings higher oil prices, and higher oil prices bring more sources of instability," says Olivier Jakob, director of Petromatrix, an oil-risk assessment group. "Oil prices are high so you're getting governments trying to get a redistribution of the cards. It's part of a worldwide pattern. We have seen it in Bolivia and Venezuela."The birth of disco

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On this day in 1959, a nightclub opened its doors in the quiet city of Aachen, West Germany, and a small revolution in music took place. The Scotch-Club was similar to many restaurant-cum-dancehalls of the time, with one exception: rather than hire a live band to provide the entertainment, its owner decided instead to install a record player. The immediate effect on the clientele was anticlimactic, and the innovation might have failed altogether, had it not been for a young reporter who was covering the opening night. Fuelled by whiskey, Klaus Quirini impulsively stepped up to the decks and galvanized the bored crowd by selecting and introducing each of the records. In doing so, he later claimedto have become the world’s first ever nightclub DJ.

More interestingly, the Scotch-Club appears to be one of the earliest recognisable examples of a modern disco. There were DJs before, of course—evidence for the terms disc jockey, deejay, and DJ goes back to radio presenters of the early 1940s—but Quirini’s quick-thinking located the activity on the dancefloor in a new form of venue-specific, DJ-mediated live entertainment.

Discotheque entered the English language at around the same time that the Scotch-Club was refining the concept. There were discothèques before 1959, but of a different sort: the word is a borrowing from French meaning a ‘library of phonograph records’, formed after bibliotheque. This was already current in English in the 1950s, and the French version was being used as a proper name by


various nightclubs in Paris, where dancehalls had resorted to playing records publicly as a result of restrictions imposed during Nazi occupation in the early ‘40s. The name naturally became associated with the actual venues themselves, and the English sense of ‘a nightclub’ arrives in this context in a 1960 magazine article about the Left Bank:

1960 Atlantic Sept. 46/2 Since this is a discothèque, jazz is blaring from the walls and record sleeves are scattered about.

New words often inspire a period of heady inventiveness during their first surge of popularity, and people were quick to play with discotheque. In America, where Parisian style dominated the haut monde, itwas immediately compounded by the press, who raved about the European discotheque trend for discotheque dancing. The world of fashion was particularlytaken, one newspaper coining a rare adjective to describe a racy see-through outfit as ‘definitely discotheque’.

Then, in the summer of 1964, a short sleeveless dress known as the discotheque dress enjoyed a brief craze. It was designed to allow freedom of movement while dancing (ideally in sultry Left Bank clubs), and for a brief moment, before the ‘nightclub’ sense of the word prevailed, the dress itself was simply called a discotheque:

1964 Oakland (California) Tribune 9 July The best little discotheque we have yet seen is in the Miss Troy collection.

Which raises the intriguing possibility that for a short time in the early sixties, women might have gone out to dance in discotheques wearing discotheques.

This curious double meaning is a good example of the sort of excited confusion that


An assessment of community readiness for HIV/AIDS preventive interventions in rural Bangladesh.
Efforts to prevent HIV from becoming widespread among the youth population 15-24 years in Bangladesh are in the early stages. However, conservative religious and cultural norms may curtail the dissemination of needed information about sexuality and condoms. The community-readiness stages model was adopted as a framework for assessing the level of preparedness of community leaders to facilitate planned HIV prevention efforts. Six focus group discussions with three professional groups (teachers, businessmen, drugshop vendors) in Hobiganj district were conducted in late 2005, and a single multi-professional group made up of teachers, imams, and drugshop vendors was convened in early 2007 to assess changes. The audio recordings in Bangla were coded as were English translations. Everyone had heard ofGoing Bare Down There May Boost The Risk Of STDs

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Frequent removal of pubic hair is associated with an increased risk for herpes, syphilis and human papillomavirus, doctors at the University of California, San Francisco, reported Monday in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.

People who have "mowed the lawn" at least once in their lifetimes were nearly twice as likely to say they had had at least one STD. And "extreme groomers" – those who remove all their pubic hair more than 11 times each year — were more than four times as likely to have had an infection. "High-frequency groomers," who just trim their hair a few times a month, fell between the two extremes. They were about three times more


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The cream has risen to the top. Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo has scored almost at will, Spain’s Diego Costa has been almost as prolific and Harry Kane chimed in with a double to give England an opening victory. At the other endhere all the details in our guide as Qatar swings into action. The World Cup is the greatest football show on Earth and it will return, bringing with it a wonderful festival of World Cup betting opportunities.

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Trust in charge of Willow Run GM plant in Ypsilanti Township holds development open house

By Ben Freed

An open house was held Wednesday morning at the shuttered General Motors Willow Run Powertrain plant to showcase former GM properties for sale across the country, including the sprawling Ypsilanti Township factory.

RACER was established in March 2011 by the U.S. Bankruptcy court to clean, revitalize, and eventually sell General Motors locations that were closed when the company declared bankruptcy in 2009. The event showcased both the properties and the partnerships the organization has fostered with local communities, government agencies, and


prospective buyers.

RACER has made 17 sales thus far and expects to sell another two dozen properties in the coming year. However, according to Mathy Stanislaus, an assistant administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, some sites may take longer to complete the clean-up and redevelopment process.

"Some lend themselves to short term development, while others require more long term planning," he said. "The challenge is prioritizing among these properties."

Bruce Rasher, a RACER trustee, said that RACER is working within the regional "Aerotropolis" framework in developing a plan for the closed plant. The Aerotropolis idea is to bring global supply chains through the region, utilizing the Detroit Metropolitan Airport and the Willow Run Airport, which abets the closed plant.

They have teamed with the Wayne County Edge, Ann Arbor SPARK, the MichiganEconomic Development Corporation, Ypsilanti Township, Washtenaw county, and other organizations to market the property to prospective buyers.

Attendees at the RACER open house examine sites that the Trust is currently operating.

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"Our working idea is that the parts of the plant adjacent to the the airport would go toward aerospace companies," Rasher said.

"The parts of the plant closer to the rail and highway we are focusing more on general manufacturing and logistics users."

He added that and RACER has received interested from American aerospace companies and some Canadian companies who want to work with US Department of Defense contracts but need to do their manufacturing in America.

"RACER has a unique set of advantages and challenges as property managers," Rasher said.

"We have good relationships with both local communities and


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namely pray and worship God. Jesus is
man as God intends all men to be, namely a perfect servant who perfectly submits and
worships the true God.

Now, as to why the Lord cried out to the Father that he had been forsaken by him, this was due to Christ being our sin-bearer. According to the
Scriptures, the Lord Jesus came to die as our substitute in order to take upon himself the
judgment and wrath of God which came as a result of sins:

"The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, 'Look, the Lamb of God, who
takes away the sin of the world!'" John 1:29

"God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood.
He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he hadShamoun said in his opening statements.

Now lets take
a look at the verses he used, basically Shamoun claims Jesus
cried out to the father because he was to be our sin-bearer, that he would be the one who
take Gods wrath in our place. Let us look at the verses he used to show Jesus was
the one who came to die for our sins.

John 1:29-

29 The next day John seeth
Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the world

Lets also read the next
following passage john 1:30-30
This is he of whom I said,
After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was
before me.

It cant be made more clear
than it can now, we clearly see here Jesus the man, it is very


possible that John and
everyone took Jesus as the messiah, a savior, but in no way God. It is quite clear the
Bible makes it clear that Jesus was a prophet, and he was a MAN.

Mat 21:11And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophetof Nazareth of Galilee.

So the Bible makes it clear Jesus is a
prophet, and he is a man. Any man who is a prophet defiantly takes away the sin of men,
because the prophet comes to save people, help people, and guide them with guidance given
to them from God. Just like Jesus who was given the gospel and was given guidance and help
from God, and was taught by God, and was given a lot of things from God, such as the power
to perform miracles and being able tohe is teaching which is basically the gospel, is not his, but it
belongs to the one who sent him who is God. Mark 1:22 even further proves he is a prophet,
because Jesus knew this doctrine well and was teaching it well, meaning God taught it to
him, and he sure did have some type of authority for he was a prophet. The same with Jesus
and his miracles, in the Bible Jesus also makes it clear the miracles he has shown and
have done are all from God.All these accounts
of Jesus in the Bible perfectly agree with what the Koran has to say.

003.045YUSUFALI: Behold! the angels said: "O
Mary! Allah giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him: his
name will be Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, held in honour in
this


world and the Hereafter and of (the company of) those nearest to Allah;

003.046YUSUFALI: "He shall speak to the people in childhood and in
maturity. And he shall be (of the company) of the righteous

003.047YUSUFALI: She said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man
hath touched me?" He said: "Even so: Allah createth
what He willeth: When He hath decreed a plan, He but saith to it, 'Be,' and it is!

003.048YUSUFALI: "And Allah will teach him the Book and Wisdom, the Law and
the Gospel,

003.049YUSUFALI: "And (appoint him) a messenger to the Children of Israel,
(with this message): "'I have come to you, with a Sign from your Lord, in that I make
for you out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it,and it becomes
a bird by Allah's leave: And I heal those born blind, and the lepers, and I quicken the
dead, by Allah's leave; and I declare to you what ye eat, and what ye store in your
houses. Surely therein is a Sign for you if ye did believe;

These verses from the Koran make it
clear that Allah taught Jesus the gospel, and that he appointed him as a prophet for the
children of Israel, and that Allah gave him the power to perform miracles. It
perfectly agrees with the Bible on the true account of Jesus, that he was a prophet, and
that the doctrine he had was not his, but he knew it well, meaning he was taught by
someone and that the miracles he performed were all due to the fact


that God allowed him
to, giving him the power.

So to sum it up we have seen from the
Bible that:

A- Jesus was a man, and he was a
prophet

B- Everything he said and did was for
God, not his own will, everything he said was from God.

C- His doctrine the Gospel was from
God, and God taught him the doctrine.

So Jesus without a doubt is a prophet, and a man. That is exactly why he prayed to God,
and is exactly why he would scream for God if he indeed were being crucified on the cross.
Let us look at the other verses Shamoun posted.

God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in
his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had
left the sins committed beforehand unpunished God's intimate, loving
fellowship in place of sinners:

"From the sixth hour (noon) until the ninth hour (three
o'clock) darkness came over all the land. About the ninth hour (three o'clock)
Jesus cried out in a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?
which means, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Matthew 27:45-46

Contrast this with the following OT citations:

"Then the LORD said to Moses, 'Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may
be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.' So Moses stretched out his
hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egyptthree days. They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for
three days, but all the people of Israelhad light where they lived.'"
Exodus 10:21-23

"'And on


and exalted above the heavens; who does not need daily, like those
high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the
people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. For the Law appoints
men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law,
appoints a Son, made perfect forever." Hebrews 7:24-28

Related to this point, the Holy Bible states that Jesus was crucified at the third hour
where he then offered a prayer on behalf of those who were crucifying him and dividing his
garments amongst themselves:

"It was the third hour (nine o'clock) when they crucified him." Mark 15:25

"When they came to the place called the Skull, there they crucified him,
along with thewill see shortly.

"One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the
time of prayer  at three in the afternoon." Acts 3:1

"One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision.
He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, 'Cornelius!' ... Cornelius answered: 'Four days ago I was in my house praying
at this hour, at three in the afternoon. Suddenly a man in shining clothes
stood before me.'" Acts 10:3, 30

And about the ninth hour ...
Or three o'clock in the
afternoon, which was about the time of the slaying and offering of the daily sacrifice,
which was an eminent type of Christ. The Jews say F9,
that

"every day
the daily sacrifice was slain at eight and a half, and was offered up at nine


and a
half:"

about which time
also the passover was killed, which was another type of
Christ; and as they say F11,
"was offered first, and then the daily sacrifice." Though the account they
elsewhere F12
give of these things, is this;

"the daily sacrifice was slain at
eight and a half, and was offered up at nine and a half; (that is, on all the common days
of the year;) on the evenings of the passover, it was slain at
seven and a half, and offered at eight and a half, whether on a common day, or on a sabbath day: the passover eve, that
happened to be on the sabbath eve, it was slain at six and a
half, and offered at seven and a half, and the passover after
it." ...

seeing it is but the third hour of theday;
or nine of the clock in the morning: for till this time it was not usual with the Jews, if
men of any sobriety or religion, so much as to taste anything: the rules are these F8,

"it is
forbidden a man to taste anything, or do any work after break of day, until he has
prayed the morning prayer."

Now

"the
morning prayer, the precept concerning it is, that a man should begin to pray as
soon as the sun shines out; and its time is until the end of the fourth hour, which is
the third part of the day F9."

So that a man might not taste anything,
either of eatables or drinkables, until the fourth hour, or ten o'clock in the
morning: hence it is said F11, that

"after
they offered the daily sacrifice they ate bread, (NyevebraNmzb),


of
different characters, is thus expressed by them:

"the
first hour is the time of eating for the Lydians, the second
for thieves, the third for heirs, the fourth for labourers,
the fifth for every man; is it not so? Saith R. Papa, the
fourth is the time of repast for every man; but (the truth is) the fourth is the time of
eating for every man, the fifth for labourers, and the sixth
for the disciples of the wise men F13."

"at the fourth hour, go
into a cook's shop, (or tavern,) if thou seest a man drinking
wine, and holding the cup in his hands, and slumbering, inquire about him, if he is one of
the wise doctors..."

The "gloss" upon it is,

"at the
fourth hour, for that is the time of eating, when all go into the shops (ortaverns) to
eat."

Now whereas they that are drunken are
drunken in the night, and not in the day, and much less so soon in the day, when it was
not usual, at least with religious men, to have tasted anything by this time; and whereas
the apostles, and their company, were sober and religious men, and had never done thing to
forfeit their character, it was unreasonable to suppose anything of this kind in them.

Thus, it is not a coincidence that the Lord Jesus, who as our High
Priest, prayed during the very hours that the Jews prayed in the Temple, right at the time when the
sacrifices were offered!

My response:

Basically nothing important posted by Shamoun,
not a real issue if his prayers were made during the prayer times and the time of
sacrifices. At the end


it, specified at certain times, with those known conditions, and the
characteristics, and requirements that are well-known about it. (Source;
underline emphasis ours)

"The tribe of Israel said to Moses: Does your God pray? God called upon him
and said: Yes, I do pray, and my angels [pray] upon my prophets, and Allah
then sent down this verse: Allah and His angels pray ..." [quoted by IbnKatheer on Surat Al-Ahzaab 33:56; translated from the online Arabic edition]

Another Muslim scholar made the following comments about surah 33:56 and Allah praying:

Allah makes the merit of His Prophet clear by first praying blessing
on Himself, and then by the prayer of the angels, and then by commanding His slaves to
pray blessing and peace on him as well. Abu BakribnFurak related that one of the 'ulama interpreted thewords of the Prophet, "The coolness
of my eye is in the prayer," as meaning Allah's prayer, that of the angels and
that of his community in response to Allah's command until the Day of Rising. The prayer
of angels and men is supplication for him and that of Allah is mercy.

It is said that "they pray" means they invoke blessing (baraka). However, when the Prophet
taught people the prayer on himself, he made a distinction
between the word salat (prayer) and baraka (blessing). We will return to the meaning of the
prayer on him later. (Muhammad Messenger of Allah (Ash-Shifa
of Qadi 'Iyad), Qadi 'IyadMusa
al-Yahsubi, translated by AishaAbdarrahmanBewley [Madinah
Press, Inverness, Scotland, U.K. 1991; third reprint, paperback], p. 25; bold emphasis
ours)

And:

The Prophet made a distinction between salat
(prayer) and baraka
(blessing) in the hadith in which he


A papal emissary has asked forgiveness from Roman Catholics in a region of Chile where people had been protesting a bishop who was once a lieutenant of the country's most notorious predator priest.

Archbishop Charles Scicluna said a Mass and told worshippers that "Pope Francis has given me the task of asking pardon from all of the faithful in the diocese of Osorno."

The pope at one point had dismissed complaints against Bishop Juan Barros as "stupid." But he switched course after ordering an investigation led by Scicluna and himself met with victims of abuse. A week ago, Francis accepted the resignation of Barrios and two other bishops.

Sunday's Mass included groups of people who had stayed away from church because of Barrios' original appointment.Google honours tabla legend Lachhu Maharaj with a doodle on his 74th birthday

He received the Sangeet Natak Akademi award, the highest award for performing artistes, in 1957.

Google on Tuesday honoured tabla maestro Lachhu Maharaj with a doodle on his 74th birthday.

Lachhu Maharaj was born on this day in 1944 as Lakshmi Narayan Singh into a family of musicians and started performing at a very young age. He died in Varanasi in 2016.

Legendary tabla player Ahmed Jaan Thirakwa, who is considered to be among the most influential percussionists in classical music, was deeply impressed by Maharaj’s performance when he was just eight years old. Thirakwa is known to have said, “I wish Lachhu was my son”, according to The Indian Express.

“Lachhu Maharaj was best known for his inherent sense


of rhythm which was best exemplified in his solo performances,” Google said in a statement.

Indian classical singer Girija Devi, whom Maharaj often collaborated with, claimed “he would play for hours without repeating himself, new gats, tukras and parans, leaving his audiences awestruck.”

In 1957, he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi award, the highest award for performing artistes.

During the Emergency, Maharaj played the tabla inside prison as a mark of protest and refused to accept any award bestowed on him, including the Padma Shri.Caregivers become confidantes as Marathon survivors heal

Tens of thousands cheered when Heather Abbott, a 38-year-old Marathon bombing survivor and new amputee, balanced on one leg to throw the first pitch at a Red Sox game in mid May.

Abbott worked with a team of therapists at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital to learn to stand, to balance herself, to walk. When she considered using a wheelchair to get to the mound, they coaxed her — goaded her even — to show the people of Boston just how far she had come.

Far from the limelight, these therapists carved new paths for those most grievously injured by the April 15 attacks, showing them how to live lives that are suddenly filled with countless obstacles.


the black raspberry chocolate chip.

17. Warthers Museum

Yes, this is a museum of walnut, ebony, and ivory carvings... and one of Abraham Lincoln's funeral train, to be exact. People also come here to buy knives.

18. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park

Yeah, they flew their contraption for the first time in North Carolina. But Orville and Wilbur developed the design for the world's first airplane while living in Dayton. You can still visit their bicycle shop and flight test field.

19. The Longaberger Basket

Only in Ohio do people design an office building in the shape of their company's product. Talk about dedication to your craft.

20. The Pro Football Hall of Fame

This building is sacred ground for football fans-- watch replays in the Super Bowl Theater, where the screen is big enoughto make you feel like you're on the field.

21. Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens

This lavish country estate was built for the founder of Goodyear Tires. Nowadays, regular people can walk his gardens and feel like a boss.

22. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium

You can visit over 700 species of adorably obscure animals -- from the Asian small-clawed otter to the teensy-tiny tiger quoll -- at Ohio's ultimate zoo and aquarium.

23. Johnson's Island

During the Civil War, Union forces would capture and send Confederate prisoners-of-war to this island in Lake Erie. An estimated 15,000 people were jailed here, and you can still visit this monument to Ohio's prickly past.

This photo of Johnson's Island Confederate Cemetery is courtesy of TripAdvisor