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package com.nowellpoint.mongodb.document;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Date;

import org.bson.types.ObjectId;

import com.nowellpoint.mongodb.annotation.Id;
import com.nowellpoint.mongodb.annotation.MappedSuperclass;

@MappedSuperclass
public abstract class MongoDocument implements Serializable {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 4165321769330346404L;

	@Id
	private ObjectId id;

	private Date createdOn;

	private Date lastUpdatedOn;

	public MongoDocument() {

	}

	public ObjectId getId() {
		return id;
	}

	public void setId(ObjectId id) {
		this.id = id;
	}

	public Date getCreatedOn() {
		return createdOn;
	}

	public void setCreatedOn(Date createdOn) {
		this.createdOn = createdOn;
	}

	public Date getLastUpdatedOn() {
		return lastUpdatedOn;
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	public void setLastUpdatedOn(Date lastUpdatedOn) {
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}

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Buddy Mission Bond | Preview | Switch
December 25, 2020 Buddy Mission Bond, Danny, Koei Tecmo, Nintendo, Preview, Switch
Find out everything you need to know about this new IP from Nintendo and Koei Tecmo.
Compared to previous eras in gaming, gamers have been fortunate to get titles more or less day and date around the globe. Of course there are some exceptions here, but the days of having to wait for the latest and greatest from Japan, or to simply just not get select games at all, are almost a thing of the past. I say almost, because in some instances, it's still a thing. Look no further than Nintendo and Koei Tecmo's upcoming new IP Buddy Mission Bond. This adventure game is set to hit Japan on January 29, 2021. But what is it all about? That's what I'm here to talk about.
Buddy Mission Bond was unveiled to the public during the Japanese October 2020 Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase. Koei Tecmo is developing the game while Nintendo is taking on the publishing duties for Japan. In terms of the story, our titular hero, Luke, a police officer, is looking into a mysterious bruise on the neck of his recently deceased adopted father. Taking place on Mikagura Island, a renowned location for the show business scene, our hero eventually finds himself working with others in an attempt to uncover and fight against the criminal organization "DISCARD."
Four different characters are introduced here - the aforementioned Luke, Aaron, Mokuma and Chesley. Just to break them down here. Luke is a police officer who really believes in justice. In memory of his deceased adopted father, Luke really wants to become a hero. Unfortunately, he's a bit unaware of how things work in the elite leaning ways of the national police force. Eventually, he winds up meeting and teaming up with Aaron. Aaron is a world renowned thief who specializes in lifting high end jewelry. His excellent physical condition makes him super good at doing what he does. Through fate and chance, he meets up with Luke.
Mokuma is a friendly and mischievous former ninja. Being quite the showman, he currently appears on a program called "Ninja Jan" putting his talents to good use. He's also a bit of a boozer, a guy who will never say no to a drink. Chestley is a schemer who has driven many high profile people to complete financial ruin over the years. He is a master of disguise and a very intellectual criminal. He's also known as a merciless perfectionist. These four form an undercover investigative team called "Bond" in an effort to snuff out what DISCARD's criminal ambitions.
At this point, there really isn't a lot of information about the gameplay. However, from the reveal trailer and the "adventure" genre tag, players will be spending a lot of their time working through the story, investigating incidents and more. Players will be able to choose up to two characters, or "buddies," at a time. Each character brings their own skills to the table that help with the investigations. Changing between the buddies and matching their skillsets with the problems at hand will uncover what is happening on Mikiagura Island. With all of this said, Buddy Mission Bond is extremely text heavy, so it might be inaccessible for gamers who can't speak Japanese. From the reveal trailer, other gameplay elements include quick-time events and a game board like element that looks like it equates with movement in the various locations on the island.
One big draw to the game is the art. Known for the manga One Punch Man and the American football focused Eyeshield 21, Yusuke Murata has lent his hand to the design of the characters in Buddy Mission. It gives the game a whole digital comic kind of a feel as you can see in some of the footage being shown here. The game also features a slew of voice work from well known voice actors in Japan, including Daisuke Namikawa (who is the official dub voice for Elijah Wood and Hayden Christensen. Toshiyuki Morikawa, the Japanese voice actor for Sephiroth, and many others joining the cast.
Buddy Mission Bond hits the Nintendo Switch on January 29, 2021. It will be available ONLY in Japanese as either a 6.5 GB download or available physically. At this point it's really hard to say whether or not the game will see life outside of Japan given it being Japanese as hell. High profile Japanese artist, voice actors and more all play a part here. Still, the demand for Japanese games and games based in Japan has been on the rise over the years, so who knows with this one. If it does eventually make the trek to the West, you'll probably have some waiting to do. So what do you think? Is Buddy Mission Bond a game you're looking forward to? Are you planning to pick it up? Is this game destined to be confined to Japan? Sound off in the comments below. We'd love to hear from you.
Price: December 25, 2020
Product Tags: Buddy Mission Bond, Danny, Koei Tecmo, Nintendo, Preview, Switch

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The outer mat is a rich textured black acid-free mat with a decorative inset white v-groove, while the inner mat is a complimentary colored acid-free mat reflecting one of the team's primary colors. The website image of this framed piece shows the mat color that we suggest (Red), but since each piece is custom framed, we are happy to use whatever color mat you wish (depending on availability) – our standard mat colors are:
This original, one-of-a-kind watercolor painting of the 1924-25 Montreal Canadiens jersey is the original artwork that was used in the creation of this Montreal Canadiens uniform evolution print and tens of thousands of other Montreal Canadiens products that have been sold across North America. This original piece of art was painted by artist Tino Paolini for Maple Leaf Productions Ltd.
The CH on the front of the jersey has been replaced with a globe promoting the fact that the team is the best in the world after winning the Stanley Cup a season earlier. The CH has moved to both sleeves instead of on the chest.The NHL expands with the addition of the Boston Bruins and a second Montreal team, the Maroons. The Maroons came to Montreal with a brand new arena as well, the Forum. Construction began in the summer of 1924 and the first game was played in it on November 29, 1924, but not by the Maroons. The Canadiens current home, the Mont-Royal Arena had ice problems, so they played the first game in the new building, beating the Toronto St. Pats 7-1. They would become permanent residence, with the Maroons in 1926.
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Patents on Renewable Energy Technologies on Rise: MIT & SFI
Research by MIT and Santa Fe Institute (SFI) has suggested that the number of patents issued for renewable energy technologies has significantly increased on last 10 years. In a keyword based searching done on patents from 100 countries published/ granted between 1970 and 2009, the team has examined more than 73,000 patents issued for energy related technologies.
The key findings of the report were:
1. Increase was higher related to renewable energy and major on solar (13% yearly increase) and wind energy (19% yearly increase).
2. Fossil fuel technologies showed modest increase.
3. No major changes were observed in patenting over nuclear technology.
4. The increase in patents in US was 200 per year in the period from 1975 to 2000 and more than 1,000 per year by 2009.
The chart shows number of patents for Solar Cells by USA, China and Japan from 1970 to 2009. Japan leads from others. Source: MITnews.
The group says that following the oil shocks of 1970s and 1980s, a lot of work was done and we are still benefiting from that. An analysis on Chinese data suggested that patents filed in China for renewable energy technology, including patents filled by Chinese and foreign companies, have shown dramatic growth in the last few years.
The research was supported by the Army Research Office, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the National Science Foundation and the Solomon Buchsbaum Research Fund.
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A new T3 poster!
Plus Arnold talks about the 3rd film...
Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines: Thanks to a tip by The Arnold Fans we've got a look at what appears to be a new poster for T3! Take a look!
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In addition, The Daily Telegraph recently interviewed Arnold to talk about the new film:
In his place as director is Jonathan Mostow, the lesser-known director of U-571, bringing an outsider's eye to T3 that, even in the mundane, seemingly outstrips the legendary fastidiousness of Cameron.
"It's very strange [without Cameron] because it's his creation, his baby. But, you know, I couldn't wait and no one else could wait for him to say 'OK, let's do the movie'," Schwarzenegger says.
"Mostow measures up. He has a lot of talent, he's very organised and has a great command of the script."
"And even though sometimes it's take after take, he really waits until he gets exactly what he wants."
And while the official hook in the tale is the rise of the ultimate cyborg femme fatale, Schwarzenegger hints that the real twist will be in the swaying allegiance of his character to Connor.
"We're always trying to outdo the last thing. Terminator 2 was extraordinary and I think the way T3 is scripted it also has a chance to be extraordinary," Schwarzenegger says.
"The audience was surprised [in T2] because I started the movie looking like an evil terminator and then actually I became the protector. There was something touching about this big machine with the little kid."
"It's the same here again. I'm programmed to be the protector but things start to go wrong and all of a sudden I change in the movie as well."
"The key thing is that the script has to be smartly written."
Terminator 3 hits theaters on July 2nd and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Kristanna Loken, and Claire Danes. For more info and other multimedia on the film, CLICK HERE
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Leslie Hamilton Freas Dies, Linda Hamilton's Twin Sister and Terminator Double Was 63
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Can't stop shooting film even if it costs more than digital?
Need to wait until the film is processed to see the results?
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Q: How to extract data from my sql in a web application asp.net MVC? I have created model of the table present in my database (MYsql) and i don't understant why some property of the model are created with an interrogative point written after the name' s property in the table class( example: public DateTime? dataChiusura { get; set; }) and why this property is not present in the model class?...Below the code of this class to have an example.
And after in asp.net MVC where should i write the query to extract data (list of object with the structure of the model)?
Thank you for your help!!
namespace TCA3
{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
    using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema;
    using System.Data.Entity.Spatial;

    [Table("nicolas.ticket")]
    public partial class ticket
    {
        [Key]
        public int idTicket { get; set; }

        [StringLength(45)]
        public string codiceTicket { get; set; }

        [StringLength(45)]
        public string azienda { get; set; }

        public DateTime? dataApertura { get; set; }

        public DateTime? dataChiusura { get; set; }

        public sbyte? aperto { get; set; }

        [StringLength(45)]
        public string operaioTicket { get; set; }
    }
}

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namespace TCA3
{
    using System;
    using System.Data.Entity;
    using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema;
    using System.Linq;

    public partial class Model1 : DbContext
    {
        public Model1()
            : base("name=Model1")
        {
        }

        public virtual DbSet<ticket> ticket { get; set; }

        protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
            modelBuilder.Entity<ticket>()
                .Property(e => e.codiceTicket)
                .IsUnicode(false);

            modelBuilder.Entity<ticket>()
                .Property(e => e.azienda)
                .IsUnicode(false);

            modelBuilder.Entity<ticket>()
                .Property(e => e.operaioTicket)
                .IsUnicode(false);
        }
    }
}

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For this month, the ATOM AotM goes to an area we have not visited yet. Enterprise software and associated hardware technologies may appear boring at first, but there is currently a disruption in this area that is generating huge productivity gains.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an ever growing list of services that replaces computing, storage, and networking expenditures at client companies. At present, over 90 different services are available. Here is a slideshow of the various companies and sectors being disrupted by AWS.
loud computing itself is relatively new, but this revolution by Amazon as taken direct slices out of the existing businesses of Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle, which were slow to deploy cloud-based solutions since they wanted to extend the lives of their existing product lines. Their anti-technology behavior deserves to be punished by the ATOM, and Amazon obliged. AWS is set to register $14 Billion in revenue for 2017, most of which has replaced a greater sum of revenue at competing companies.
The biggest value is the lower cost of entry to smaller companies from the on-demand flexibility enabled by AWS. Now that IT Security and Compliance is far more cost-effective through AWS, the barrier to entry for smaller firms is lowered. This is particularly useful for clients in far-flung locations, enabling a decentralization that facilitates greater technological progress. Upgrades across computing, storage, software, networking, and security are disseminated seamlessly, and since far less hardware is used, the upgrade process is far more materially efficient. This removes a variety of smaller bottlenecks to technological progress, mitigating the corporate equivalent of the Upgrade Paradox.
Another great benefit is elasticity, where a company does not have to worry about estimating hardware capacity needs in the future, which can often lead to overbuying of rapidly deflating technologies, or underbuying, which can cause customer dissatisfaction due to slow speeds. All of this can now be scaled dynamically through AWS.
For the productivity gains inherent to the scale and dynamism of AWS, it receives the October 2017 ATOM AotM.


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Эдмон Жюль Аппиа (; 7 мая 1894, Турин — 12 февраля 1961, Женева) — швейцарский дирижёр и музыковед.

Получил образование как скрипач, концертировал на международном уровне, однако затем предпочёл карьеру дирижёра. С 1938 г. работал с Симфоническим оркестром Женевского радио. Много выступал и записывался также с Симфоническим оркестром Ирландского радио и Оркестром романской Швейцарии. Был известен как специалист по французской и итальянской музыке XVI—XVII веков — в частности, записал диск со священными симфониями Джованни Габриэли. В то же время интересовался и новейшей музыкой: под управлением Аппиа были, в частности, впервые исполнены фортепианные концерты Франка Мартена (1960) и Рафаэле Д'Алессандро (1950) и скрипичный концерт Владимира Фогеля (1948).

В 1928—1943 гг. профессор Лозаннской консерватории. Посмертно опубликован сборник музыковедческих статей «От Палестрины до Бартока» (; 1964).

Дирижёры Швейцарии
Академические музыканты Швейцарии
Музыковеды Швейцарии
Родившиеся в 1894 году
Родившиеся 7 мая
Родившиеся в Турине
Умершие в 1961 году
Умершие 12 февраля
Умершие в Женеве
Персоналии по алфавиту

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#define _OgreCommandBuffer_H_

#include "CommandBuffer/OgreCbCommon.h"

namespace Ogre
{
    /** Command Buffer implementation.
        This interface is very sensitive to performance. For this reason:
    @par
        1. Each command has a fixed size (@see COMMAND_FIXED_SIZE)
           Whether a command uses all of the bytes is up to them.
    @par
        2. The command is stored as a flat contiguous array.
    @par
        3. Instead of implementing each command as a virtual function
           to the base class 'CbBase', we use C-style function pointers
           and manually maintain the table. This allows nifty optimizations
           (i.e. a vtable in a 64-bit arch needs 8 bytes!) and storing
           the commands as POD in the flat array (instead of having an
           array of pointers, and having to call virtual destructors).
    */
    class _OgreExport CommandBuffer
    {
        static const size_t COMMAND_FIXED_SIZE;

        RenderSystem    *mRenderSystem;

        FastArray<unsigned char>    mCommandBuffer;
    public:
        CommandBuffer();

        void setCurrentRenderSystem( RenderSystem *renderSystem );

        typedef void (CommandBufferExecuteFunc)( CommandBuffer *_this,
                                                 const CbBase * RESTRICT_ALIAS cmd );

        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setVao;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setIndirectBuffer;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_drawCallIndexedEmulatedNoBaseInstance;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_drawCallIndexedEmulated;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_drawCallIndexed;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_drawCallStripEmulatedNoBaseInstance;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_drawCallStripEmulated;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_drawCallStrip;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setConstantBufferVS;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setConstantBufferPS;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setConstantBufferGS;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setConstantBufferHS;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setConstantBufferDS;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setConstantBufferCS;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setConstantBufferInvalid;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setTextureBufferVS;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setTextureBufferPS;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setTextureBufferGS;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setTextureBufferHS;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setTextureBufferDS;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setTextureBufferCS;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setTextureBufferInvalid;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setPso;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setTexture;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_disableTextureUnitsFrom;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_startV1LegacyRendering;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_setV1RenderOp;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_drawV1IndexedNoBaseInstance;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_drawV1Indexed;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_drawV1StripNoBaseInstance;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_drawV1Strip;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_lowLevelMaterial;
        static CommandBufferExecuteFunc execute_invalidCommand;

        /// Executes all the commands in the command buffer. Clears the cmd buffer afterwards
        void execute(void);

        /// Creates/Records a command already casted to the typename.
        /// May invalidate returned pointers from previous calls.
        template <typename T>
        T* addCommand(void)
        {
            assert( sizeof(T) <= COMMAND_FIXED_SIZE );
            mCommandBuffer.resize( mCommandBuffer.size() + COMMAND_FIXED_SIZE );

            T *retVal = reinterpret_cast<T*>( mCommandBuffer.end() - COMMAND_FIXED_SIZE );
            retVal->commandType = MAX_COMMAND_BUFFER;

            return retVal;
        }

        /// Returns a pointer to the last created command
        CbBase* getLastCommand(void);

        /// Returns the offset of the given command, in case you want to retrieve
        /// the command later (addCommand may invalidate the pointer.
        /// @see getCommandFromOffset.
        size_t getCommandOffset( CbBase *cmd ) const;

        /// Retrieves the command from the given offset.
        /// Returns null if no such command at that offset (out of bounds).
        /// @see getCommandOffset.
        CbBase* getCommandFromOffset( size_t offset );
    };
}

#endif


Particulate products exist in a large variety, viz. abrasives, cement, sand, pharmaceutical powders and sprays, margarine, paint, toothpaste, sugar, pulverized coal, catalysts, etc., etc. They find application in both households and industries. Their behavior and performance is usually linked to characteristic parameters of the particle size distribution. Therefore, such parameters are often used in product specifications. This is the reason for frequent particle size determinations, for which a variety of techniques has been developed.
The contents of this book concentrate on the practical aspects of particle size measurement in its relationship with adequate characterization of product quality. This is a major difference with existing books, which have a more theoretical approach to particle sizing techniques. Of course, the emphasis in this text still lies with the measurement techniques. For optimum application, their theoretical background is accompanied by quantitative quality features, limitations and problem identification.
In the introductory chapter, the relevance of particle size for the performance of particulate products is illustrated, both during processing as well as in final application. Chapter 2 describes the concepts of equivalent sphere diameters for non-spherical particles and of characteristic parameters for particle size distributions and particle shape.
In Chapters 4 and 5, sampling and dispersion of powders are treated, since optimum choices are required to avoid significant contributions to the overall analysis error.
As indicated above, the book focuses on particle size measurement techniques. Chapter 6 gives an overview of all techniques. It is followed by elaborate chapters on microscopy and image analysis (Ch. 7), sieves and sieving (Ch. 8), electrical sensing zone (Ch. 9), laser diffraction (Ch. 10), ultrasound extinction (Ch. 11), dynamic light scattering (Ch. 12) and sedimentation techniques (Ch. 13). The stated quality aspects of the techniques enable a realistic estimation of the potential quality of the measurement results. Moreover, potential error sources are identified.
Furthermore, there are chapters dealing with the general aspects of quality for particle size analysis (Ch. 3), quality management (Ch. 17), reference materials (Ch. 16), written standards (Ch. 15), in- and on-line measurement (Ch. 14), definitions (Ch. 18) and multilingual terminology (Ch. 19).
Then, Chapter 20 is dedicated to the statistical background required for adequate interpretation of results.
Finally, names and (web site) addresses of relevant institutes and companies in this field are given in an annex.
In view of its structure, this book is well suited to stimulate good practice in particle size measurement for product characterization as well as to support courses on particle size measurement.
A free preview and buying options can be found by clicking this link to Google Books.


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Home » News » Passing of Gottschalk leaves vacancy on cemetery district board
Passing of Gottschalk leaves vacancy on cemetery district board
Change continues for Quincy Valley Cemetery and the board of commissioners of Quincy Cemetery District 1. Commissioner Jack Gottschalk died on Feb. 27.
The sudden vacancy on the board follows the addition of Carl Yeates, who was appointed by the board in January to take the seat left by outgoing Randy Holloway.
When the Quincy Cemetery District 1 board, now consisting of Yeates and Mike Scharbach, chairman, chooses a replacement for Gottschalk, two of the three members will be new to the board.
Gottschalk's obituary was in the March 6 edition of the Post-Register. He retired from John Deere in 2010.
Scharbach said there were a couple of people who expressed interest in serving on the board when a replacement for Holloway, who moved out of the district, was needed. So the board already has some leads as to whom to turn to. Asked whether he thought it will be difficult to fill the position, Scharbach said, "I hope not."
"Carl and I have not talked too much about it yet," Scharbach said last week.
He pointed out that the board has a quorum with two of three board members, and it therefore can carry out business and make decisions for the cemetery district.
The next board meeting was scheduled for Monday, March 11. Scharbach said last week that there would not be a decision in that meeting about an appointment to the open position, but he and Yeates will discuss the matter.
Whoever is chosen will fill out Gottschalk's term, then that person will have the option of running or not running for election after that, Scharbach explained.
Gottschalk's position is not up for election this year. The only one of the three board positions up for election is the one Yeates now has. He has said he plans to file to run for the seat in the General Election, which is Nov. 5.
Scharbach said that Gottschalk, a veteran and longtime local resident, is definitely going to be missed.
"Personally, I am going to miss him," Scharbach said. "He was a friend before he was on the board."
Gottschalk's military service was a motivator for his long service on the cemetery district board, Scharbach recalled.
"He was retired and had a need to serve," Scharbach said.
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I have just uploaded the themes pack and I am finding that almost every theme has a different context name (i.e. "336x280-anubis-top").
This is proving to be a serious pain as I am having to manually go through every theme template file in order to find out what names are being used, so I can then add them manually to the "Edit Context" page of the WSA Plugin.
Am I missing something here as this will take me weeks!
Apparently, the latest theme pack has 50 different context_names for google ads!
Anyone have a list to save me searching through 4-500 php files to find out what they are called?
Note to self: Write up that "Who uses what themes" counter I promised a client a few eons ago tomorrow.
That's a massive help - thanks guys!
New version coming soon... we're working on a WPMU custom of the 2.5 compatible plugin now.
I made the mistake of creating Google TEXT banners, not Images Only.
This now means that many of the black themes have white text box ads - which looks awfull.
I could do a global "find and replace" if I knew where the code was stored on the WSA plugin. I have searched via mysql and also the three main plugin files, but cannot find the code.
Where should I be looking? Or should I wait for the new version?
Is it ready yet? LOL.
"Write up that "Who uses what themes" counter"
What theme stats plugin? First I've heard about it.
Its not listing the blog users. Just a link to the blog and Backend (and the links defaut to my main admin blog). Am I missing something in the install?
There might be issues on the latest codebase. But it doesn't link to *users*, it just shows what themes are being used on which *blogs*. Themes don't really have any relation to users. One user can have many blogs, each with a different theme (or all the same).
So in your list above, you've got 3 blogs using the default theme, and one using blue zinfandel. It doesn't count unused themes, and will have more relevance when you have more blogs.
Oh, ok. I guess I read your plug-in description wrong. Thanks!
I tidied all the names up to make them consistent but some of the sizes look wrong to me - there seems to be a lot of use of large squares where sometimes I suspect banner might be more fitting? I don't know I'm not an Adsense guru but sometimes the ads do seem a bit "in your face"
Also any idea why all the contexts now appear as widgets which makes the widgets page look terrible?
Hi Steve, Sounds like we need to disable that in the plugin - will take a look at doing it once everyone gets back from the long weekend, shouldn't be too hard.
And the big boxes vs. banners... all the results of a great deal of CTR testing, trust me, they're horrible but they work better.


I recently moved to USA. It was a long flight to fly from Thailand to US. I slept only 15 min on the plane so I felt bad all day. Ben made a reservation for a nice restaurant in Venice, called "Gjelina". I felt better now in the evening and ready for good food.
The first plate we got Japanese mackerel, cherry tomato, fresno, ginger and cilantro. It was so good and a bit sour.
The second dish was the best artichoke that I had ever eaten. It was roasted artichoke, anchovy, garlic and chili. It was amazing.
The third one was grilled broccolini, garlic,chili and vinegar. It was great.
We got mixed mushroom, rosemary and garlic pizza. Pizza was great but it was burned a bit.


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What does a zombie's brain look like? On March 20, Dr. Brad Voytek, Assistant Professor of Computational Cognitive Science and Neuroscience at UC San Diego, mapped out a zombie brain for students in the Zombiology STEAM elective. Dr. Voytek also discussed his work studying non-zombie brains in the areas of neural oscillations, cognition and disease. His fascination with the concept of zombies led Dr. Voytek to co-author the book Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? with fellow neuroscientist Timothy Verstynen.


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package com.uberverse.arkcraft;

import net.minecraft.creativetab.CreativeTabs;
import net.minecraft.item.Item;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.FMLCommonHandler;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.Mod;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.Mod.EventHandler;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.Mod.Instance;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.SidedProxy;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.event.FMLInitializationEvent;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.event.FMLPostInitializationEvent;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.event.FMLPreInitializationEvent;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.network.NetworkRegistry;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.network.simpleimpl.SimpleNetworkWrapper;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.registry.GameRegistry;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.relauncher.Side;

import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;

import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.config.CoreConfig;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.config.ModuleItemConfig;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.config.WeightsConfig;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.event.CommonEventHandler;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.gen.WorldGeneratorBushes;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.handlers.GuiHandler;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.handlers.recipes.ForgeCraftingHandler;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.handlers.recipes.PestleCraftingManager;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.handlers.recipes.PlayerCraftingManager;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.handlers.recipes.RecipeHandler;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.handlers.recipes.SmithyCraftingManager;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.network.MessageHover;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.network.MessageHover.MessageHoverReq;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.network.OpenAttachmentInventory;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.network.OpenPlayerCrafting;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.network.PlayerPoop;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.network.ReloadFinished;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.network.ReloadStarted;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.network.ScrollingMessage;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.network.UpdateMPToCraftItem;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.network.UpdatePlayerCrafting;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.network.UpdateSmithyToCraftItem;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.common.proxy.CommonProxy;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.init.ARKCraftBlocks;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.init.ARKCraftItems;
import com.uberverse.arkcraft.init.ARKCraftWeapons;

@Mod(modid = ARKCraft.MODID, name = ARKCraft.NAME, version = ARKCraft.VERSION)
public class ARKCraft
{
	public static final String MODID = "arkcraft", VERSION = "${version}",
			NAME = "ARKCraft";

	@Instance(ARKCraft.MODID)
	public static ARKCraft instance;

	@SidedProxy(clientSide = "com.uberverse.arkcraft.client.proxy.ClientProxy", serverSide = "com.uberverse.arkcraft.server.proxy.ServerProxy")
	public static CommonProxy proxy;

	public static CreativeTabs tabARK;
	public static SimpleNetworkWrapper modChannel;
	public static Logger modLog;

	@EventHandler
	public void preInit(FMLPreInitializationEvent event)
	{
		CoreConfig.init(event.getModConfigurationDirectory());
		FMLCommonHandler.instance().bus().register(new CoreConfig());
		ModuleItemConfig.init(event.getModConfigurationDirectory());
		FMLCommonHandler.instance().bus().register(new ModuleItemConfig());

		GameRegistry.registerWorldGenerator(new WorldGeneratorBushes(), 0);

		tabARK = new CreativeTabs(CreativeTabs.getNextID(), "tabARK")
		{
			@Override
			public Item getTabIconItem()
			{
				// TODO Assign proper item as icon
				return ARKCraftItems.tabItem;
			}
		};

		ARKCraftBlocks.init();
		ARKCraftItems.init();
		ARKCraftWeapons.init();
		NetworkRegistry.INSTANCE.registerGuiHandler(ARKCraft.instance, new GuiHandler());

		RecipeHandler.registerVanillaCraftingRecipes();
		PestleCraftingManager.registerPestleCraftingRecipes();
		SmithyCraftingManager.registerSmithyCraftingRecipes();
		PlayerCraftingManager.registerPlayerCraftingRecipes();
		ForgeCraftingHandler.registerForgeRecipes();

		//This has to be here so it can create weights for our items and blocks as well
		WeightsConfig.init(event.getModConfigurationDirectory());

		setupNetwork();
		modLog = event.getModLog();
	}

	@EventHandler
	public void init(FMLInitializationEvent event)
	{

		CommonEventHandler.init();

		proxy.registerRenderers();
		proxy.init();
		proxy.registerEventHandlers();
	}

	@EventHandler
	public void postInit(FMLPostInitializationEvent event)
	{

	}

	public static ARKCraft instance()
	{
		return instance;
	}

	public enum GUI
	{
		SMITHY(0),
		PESTLE_AND_MORTAR(1),
		INV_DODO(2),
		BOOK_GUI(3),
		CROP_PLOT(4),
		TAMING_GUI(5),
		COMPOST_BIN(6),
		SCOPE(7),
		PLAYER(8),
		TAMED_DINO(9),
		FORGE_GUI(10),
		ATTACHMENT_GUI(11);
		int id;

		GUI(int id)
		{
			this.id = id;
		}

		public int getID()
		{
			return id;
		}
	}

	private void setupNetwork()
	{
		modChannel = NetworkRegistry.INSTANCE.newSimpleChannel(ARKCraft.MODID);

		int id = 0;
		// The handler (usually in the packet class), the packet class, unique
		modChannel.registerMessage(PlayerPoop.Handler.class, PlayerPoop.class,
				id++, Side.SERVER);
		modChannel.registerMessage(UpdateMPToCraftItem.Handler.class,
				UpdateMPToCraftItem.class, id++, Side.SERVER);
		modChannel.registerMessage(UpdateSmithyToCraftItem.Handler.class,
				UpdateSmithyToCraftItem.class, id++, Side.SERVER);
		modChannel.registerMessage(OpenPlayerCrafting.Handler.class,
				OpenPlayerCrafting.class, id++, Side.SERVER);
		modChannel.registerMessage(UpdatePlayerCrafting.Handler.class,
				UpdatePlayerCrafting.class, id++, Side.SERVER);
		modChannel.registerMessage(OpenAttachmentInventory.Handler.class,
				OpenAttachmentInventory.class, id++, Side.SERVER);
		modChannel.registerMessage(ReloadStarted.Handler.class,
				ReloadStarted.class, id++, Side.SERVER);
		modChannel.registerMessage(ReloadFinished.Handler.class,
				ReloadFinished.class, id++, Side.CLIENT);
		modChannel.registerMessage(ScrollingMessage.Handler.class,
				ScrollingMessage.class, id++, Side.SERVER);
		modChannel.registerMessage(MessageHover.class,
				MessageHover.class, id++, Side.CLIENT);
		modChannel.registerMessage(MessageHoverReq.class,
				MessageHoverReq.class, id++, Side.SERVER);
	}

	public boolean isDebugger()
	{
		return "${version}".equals("${" + "version" + "}");
	}

}


WBRC recently assisted Husson University in updating its master campus plan, the latest in a process that began in the early 2000s. The initial WBRC process included site inventory, analysis, programming, functional and land use plans, and plan vignettes for identification and selection of campus growth areas. Modifications included effective separation of vehicle and pedestrian movement corridors; creation of a defined inner pedestrian core "back yard;" definition of a new "front yard" and a clear arrival area, preservation of the "Husson Pines" and a new formal entrance boulevard.
For this project, WBRC worked closely with the City of Bangor, MDEP, and ACOE to streamline permitting efforts.
In recent years, WBRC was responsible for programming, design, environmental permitting of several significant Husson facilities including Beardsley Meeting House/Gracie Theatre, O'Donnell Commons, Furman Student Center renovations, three NCAA athletic fields, stormwater detention system and treatment areas and wetland mitigation, the university's southern Maine campus in Westbrook, and the forthcoming Husson School of Business.


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Tag Archives: Tennessee
Meet Cazembe Jackson: Freedom Road Socialist Organization's New National Organizer
By: Trevor Loudon | New Zeal
Cazembe Murphy Jackson is a black trans man, "a queer communist" organizing for queer and trans liberation and living wages in Atlanta, Georgia.
He is Freedom Road Socialist Organization's new National Organizer. Freedom Road is America's largest "Maoist" grouping. They are the guiding force of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Recruited from a Trayvon Martin rally in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2012, Cazembe Jackson moved into Freedom Road front group Concerned Citizens for Justice and began to rise quickly through the Freedom Road ranks, earning a place on the organization's powerful National Executive Committee.
With Concerned Citizens for Justice I helped to mobilize communities across race, class, religion, gender, ability, immigration status and sexual orientation. I grew up missionary Baptist. I read about all kinds of revolutionaries who loved God and who explained Jesus as a revolutionary who was executed by the state. Through my work with CCJ I discovered Freedom Road Socialist Organization and started doing political education with some local members. Since becoming a member I have participated in building and implementing curriculum for political education for all types of learners, writing organization documents, and serving on our National Executive Committee. Strategy and tactics are the most alluring parts of organizing to me. They are the two components that made me want to join a revolutionary organization. While I have seen and felt the power of prayer many times in my life, I do not think that prayer alone will cure oppression. These systems of oppression like white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, ableism, capitalism, have been expertly designed to kill us. I believe in FRSO's strategy to defeat who we have identified as the main political enemy to marginalized people in this country.
Freedom Road is targeting the South. They intend to turn the South blue through massive voter registration drives among poor black and Hispanic populations – and to create a Race War in those very same communities.
Keep an eye on Cazembe Jackson. He looks harmless. He's probably a very nice man. But the organization he represents is capable of doing huge damage to this country.
Posted in Authors, History, Politics, Trevor Loudon	| Tagged Cazembe Jackson, Communists, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Politics, Tennessee, Trevor Loudon	|
Weekly Featured Profile – Chris Crass
KeyWiki.org
Chris Crass
Chris Crass (formerly known as Chris Day) is aNashville, Tennessee, "anti-racist" activist, writer and speaker.
Crass, then known as Chris Day, was a member of the United Anarchist Front in Whittier in the early 1990s, which was part of the Love and RageRevolutionary Anarchist Federation. The United Anarchist Front mobilized against the Gulf War in 1991 and played a leading role organizing other white people to stand for immigrant rights and Ethnic Studies in Orange County, California. They worked in alliance with Chicano students fromMEChA and Crass worked on the underground student newspaper, the Molotov Cocktail.
Many Love and Ragers joined the Maoist/Gramsciist Freedom Road Socialist Organization in the early 2000s and Day/Crass has long been associated with that group.
Chis Day spent two years working in Zapatista occupied Chiapas on the construction of a clinic in the village of Benito Juarez-Miromar. He wrote an article about his Mexican experience for the Freedom Road Socialist Organization website, "The Zapatistas' Long March," Posted on October 1st, 2001.
In 2001, Day was also involved with the ultra-radical Ruckus Society.
Crass was an organizer and educator with the Catalyst Project from 2000 through 2011. The Catalyst Project, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, grew out of theChallenging White Supremacy workshop. Crass worked with Challenging White Supremacy after the 1999 WTO mass actions in Seattle, Washington to help strengthen anti-racist politics and practice in the mostly white sections of the Global Justice Movement. Movement elders and long time Maoists Elizabeth Martinez andRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz were key mentors to the younger generation organizers in theCatalyst Project.
In 2000, Crass helped form the Colours of Resistance network, which served as a think tank and clearinghouse of anti-racist feminist analysis and tools for activists in the U.S. and Canada.
After Sept. 11th, 2001, he helped to found the Heads Up Collective which brought together white anti-racist organizers in the San Francisco, Bay Area, building alliances between the majority white anti-war movement and locally-based economic and racial justice struggles in communities of color. He was also a member of the Against Patriarchy Men's Group that "supported men in developing their feminist analysis and their feminist leadership."
In January 2002, a group of San Francisco leftists, mainly involved with Van Jones' neo-Maoist Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement or the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, founded a national anti-Iraq War newspaper War Timesunder the leadership of former Weatherman Eric Mann.
Since moving to Tennessee, Crass has worked closely with local Freedom Roaders, who have a big presence in the Volunteer State.
Crass was part of the founding of the national white anti-racist network, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), and served on the leadership team in 2011. In Knoxville, TN in 2012 he helped initiate Knoxville United Against Racism to bring communities together across races to protest racial profiling, the killing of Trayvon Martin and for immigrant rights. SURJ has played a very active role in galvanizing white "progressive" support for the Black Lives Matter movement, which was essentially created by BlackFreedom Road Socialist Organization supporters.
Crass' essays have been translated into half a dozen languages, taught in hundreds of classrooms and included in over a dozen anthologies including Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World, On the Road to Healing: An Anthology for Men Ending Sexism, and We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America. During Occupy Wall Street in 2011, he co-edited along with the Catalyst Project the Catalyzing Liberation Toolkit: Anti-Racist Organizing to Build the 99% Movement.
Crass has given talks and led workshops with thousands of people in colleges and communities around the country. As a Unitarian Universalist, he has also worked with dozens of faith-based communities around these issues including Divinity Schools and Seminaries.
Posted in Authors, History, Politics, Trevor Loudon	| Tagged Against Patriarchy Men's Group, Anarchists, Black Lives Matter, Catalyst Project, Challenging White Supremacy, Chris Crass, Chris Day, Colours of Resistance, Communists, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Gramsci, Heads Up Collective, Knoxville United Against Racism, Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation, Maoists, Marxists, MEChA, Molotov Cocktail, Nashville, Occupy Wallstreet, Politics, Progressives, Ruckus Society, Showing Up for Racial Justice, Socialists, STORM, Tennessee, Trevor Loudon, United Anarchist Front, Van Jones, Weather Underground	|
"Chattanooga Five" Memorial Event Ignored by National Media
By: Roger Aronoff
An estimated 100,000 people showed up at a memorial event last week in Chattanooga, Tennessee to honor and remember the four Marines and one Navy Sailor who were assassinated at the hands of a Muslim jihadist in July. The national news media chose to ignore this massive outpouring of gratitude and remembrance for these fallen American heroes. However, while the local media provided ample coverage, they took exception to remarks by Admiral James "Ace" Lyons (ret), who was invited to be one of the principal speakers.
So what were Admiral Lyons' offensive words that so upset the local officials who organized the event, and the local media who reported on it? Specifically, Admiral Lyons laid the blame for the assassination on the "evil of radical Islam."
Among other things, he said, "This tragedy never had to happen. They weren't cut down on a battlefield. This was not workplace violence," a clear reference to the Obama administration's characterization of the attack by Major Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 and wounded 32 at Ft. Hood in Texas back in 2009.
Lyons stated "Make no mistake, it is clear our Constitution and way of life are under attack." He also argued that it was President Obama's policies that have contributed to the social unrest and the atmosphere of hate.
The mainstream media and Obama administration continue to deny this, and will find any excuse to blame domestic terror attacks on anything but radical Islam.
Lyons also said, "This Memorial Service isn't the end. It's the beginning of the Chattanooga Five Movement to take back America, and that will be their legacy." He urged the crowd to stand and recite the pledge of allegiance in honor of the five heroes.
"This is what America is all about. We unite, we stand together. They represent the best of America."
In July, NBC News cast Abdul Azeez's attacks as not motivated by Islam, despite the fact that the Chattanooga attacker had downloaded the speeches of radical al Qaeda cleric Anwar al Awlaki. Major Nidal Hasan, an army psychiatrist, had also been influenced by Awlaki, and had been in frequent email communication with him.
President Obama, likewise, refrained from using the word terrorism to describe the attacks, according to Marc A. Thiessen, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, and a columnist for The Washington Post.
"Give the president this much: At least he didn't call the Chattanooga, Tenn., shooting workplace violence," wrote Thiessen in a column for the Post. "Speaking from the Oval Office just hours after the attack, President Obama did not once use the word 'terrorism' in relation to the assault by Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez on military sites in Chattanooga," he notes.
Even more forbidden is commentary on the jihadist nature of the Muslim Brotherhood.
"A quick online search shows that this isn't the first time Admiral Lyons has been outspoken against the Obama administration," reported ABC News Channel 9 about the event. "Back in February, Lyons claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood had succeeded in infiltrating every U.S. security agency under the Obama presidency during a National Press Club conference."
The Huffington Post's Sam Stein made similar observations last month when he attempted to tarnish Admiral Lyons' reputation.
"President Obama has been unduly influenced by [the Muslim Brotherhood] during both terms in office," we reported in response.
"Should the Muslim Brotherhood be viewed as some benign, moderate organization?" we asked. "Or instead as the organization that spawned Al Qaeda and other significant terrorist organizations?"
President Obama's declaration to fundamentally transform America is anti-American," Admiral Lyons asserted, and was greeted with the crowd's vocal cheers. "And I might add a violation of his oath of office."
Admiral Lyons is an esteemed member of the Citizens' Commission on Benghazi(CCB). As outlined in the CCB Interim Report from April of last year, "The U.S. facilitated the delivery of weapons and military support to al Qa'eda-linked rebels in Libya" under President Obama's leadership—effectively switching sides in the war on terror.
Listening to the crowd's reaction, it appears that Admiral Lyons' comments were very well received.
Yet, "Some in the crowd applauded, others were surprised by what they heard—including festival organizers," maintains the local ABC News channel. It is clear from the video that the organizers, not the crowd, are the ones who had a problem with Admiral Lyons' speech.
The media continue to ignore this administration's decision to ally itself with radical groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, and how this endangers all of America. By casting Admiral Lyons' comments as offensive, local news outlets merely continue the liberal media attitude that criticism of radical Islam and President Obama should somehow be off limits, to the detriment of our national security.
One person associated with the event asked Lyons to apologize for his remarks. Lyons told me that he informed him that he never apologizes for telling the truth. He told him, "I believe they [the five men murdered] should receive the purple hearts and other benefits just as if they were killed on a foreign battlefield."
Posted in Politics, Terrorism	| Tagged AIM, Barack Obama, Chattanooga Five, ISIS, Islam, Jihad, Media, Military, Muslims, Roger Aronoff, Tennessee, Terrorism, Terrorists, War	|
Ted Cruz rally turns personal in Murfreesboro
WKRN.com
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WKRN) – It was an unscripted moment like few others on the presidential campaign trail Monday in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Ted Cruz paused for a moment and looked into the audience at a community center for a man who changed his family's life.
"I was told Pastor Gaylon Wiley was here," he told the crowd. "I haven't seen Brother Wiley since I was a kid."
Pastor Gaylon Wiley
Then as the room with a thousand people fell silent, Cruz said "Brother Wiley led my dad to the Lord."
Out in the audience that day was Gaylon Wiley, who now lives in nearby Lebanon, Tennessee.
At most gatherings, Cruz tells the story of his wayward father Rafael who had left the family in Canada in the late 1970s.
"When I was three years old, my father left my mom. We were up in Calgary in the oil business and he came down to Houston and he decided he didn't want to be married anymore or be a father to his three year-old-son," said Cruz
But this time as the Texas Senator told the story, it was very personal.
In a slightly halting tone and brushing his eyes, Senator Cruz said "Brother Wiley baptized me at eight years old when I was a Christian, so I am really glad to be here in Tennessee."
The pastor who helped change the Cruz family nearly four decades ago in Houston, Texas, by baptizing not only the youngster, but the parents as well, was later embraced by the Republican candidate outside the Tennessee community center.
"I had the privilege of talking to Rafeal Cruz in the 1970s in a home just like Ted told it today," Pastor Wiley later told News 2. "And the Holy Spirit touched him so much he fell out of that chair on his knees and prayed the sinner's prayer and changed his life and flew back to Canada and got his family back together again."
And for a few minutes on Monday, the man who baptized the Cruz family caught up with that little kid from all those years ago who is now running for president.
Posted in Politics	| Tagged 2016 Election, Christians, Pastor Wiley, Politics, Rafael Cruz, Ted Cruz, Tennessee	| 1 Comment
Trevor Loudon to Speak in Minnesota, Illinois, Idaho and Tennessee
Trevor Loudon will address meetings in Minnesota, Illinois, Idaho and Tennessee over the next few weeks.
Monday, August 17, Central Minnesota Tea Party, Michael's Austrian Restaurant, 510, US Highway 10, St. Cloud, Minnesota, 7-9 pm. Contact Paul Brandmire, 320-360-0374.
Tuesday, August 18, Central Minnesota Tea Party Patriots, Browerville Community Center, Main Street, Browerville, Minnesota, 6.30 pm-9 pm. Contact Nancy Judd, 320-533-1119.
Thursday, August 20, Peoria Patriots, Peoria, Illinois. Contact Jenny Keller, 309-691-0753
Thursday, August 27, Region 6, Idaho Republicans Annual BBQ. Contact Bryan Smith, 208-681-3931
Saturday, August 29, National Federation of Republican Assemblies convention, Rocketown, 601, 4th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee. Contact Sharon Ford, 615-587-1711
Posted in Authors, Constitution, Politics, Survival, Trevor Loudon	| Tagged 2016 Election, Communists, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Democrats, Enemies Within, Idaho, Illionois, Marxists, Minnesota, Politics, Progressives, Republicans, Socialists, Tennessee, Trevor Loudon	|
Ted Cruz – A Matter Of Honor [Video]
By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Ted Cruz threw down the conservative gauntlet in the Senate this week. This was inspiring… it is something I have never seen happen before in my lifetime. He boldly and honestly called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar. It was long overdue and immensely satisfying. The straw that broke the elephant's back was the vote on reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank. McConnell went one lie too far this time.
Cruz voted for Obama's Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) the first go-around in the Senate based on McConnell's word and he famously turned against the fast-track trade authority later. Because it was based on lies.
From the AP:
In a stunning attack on a leader of his own party, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz accused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of lying to him and said he couldn't be trusted.
Cruz, a Texan who is running for president but ranks low in early polling, delivered the broadside in a speech on the Senate floor, an extraordinary departure from the norms of Senate behavior that demand courtesy and respect.
At issue are assurances Cruz claimed McConnell, R-Ky., had given that there was no deal to allow a vote to renew the federal Export-Import Bank – a little-known federal agency that has become a rallying cry for conservatives. Cruz rose to deliver his remarks moments after McConnell had lined up a vote on the Export-Import Bank for coming days.
"It saddens me to say this. I sat in my office, I told my staff the majority leader looked me in the eye and looked 54 Republicans in the eye. I cannot believe he would tell a flat-out lie, and I voted based on those assurances that he made to each and every one of us," Cruz said.
"What we just saw today was an absolute demonstration that not only what he told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over and over again, was a simple lie."
A spokesman said McConnell would have no response. The majority leader was not on the Senate floor when Cruz issued his attack.
"Today is a sad day for this institution," said Cruz with a heavy heart. "What we just witnessed this morning is profoundly disappointing." Betrayal always is, especially from someone you really, really want to believe in. Cruz made his statements after McConnell set up a procedural vote to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, which expired last month. Democrats claim McConnell agreed to allow a vote on attaching the Export-Import Bank to "must-pass" legislation to win support from Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) for a trade package earlier this year.
When Cruz approached McConnell on the floor in a private conversation, McConnell, with biblical overtones, denied to him three times that there was such a deal. "The majority leader was visibly angry with me that I would ask him such a question," Cruz said. "The majority looked at me and said 'there is no deal, there is no deal, there is no deal.'" The good senator's staff tried to warn him about McConnell, but Cruz just couldn't believe that McConnell would lie to his face and to every other conservative out there like this. He was wrong and learned of McConnell's treachery the hard way. But then Ted Cruz did something that no one in my memory has done… he called McConnell out for his lying ways on the Senate floor. McConnell's errand boy say's he has no response. Maybe not verbally, but Ted Cruz has made a very powerful and evil enemy. You know what? I don't think he cares. Good.
Cruz pointed out that McConnell's move to allow the Export-Import Bank vote shows that he does not always mean what he says – that he's dishonest. "Well, we now know that when the majority leader looks us in the eyes and makes an explicit commitment that he is willing to say things that he knows are false," Cruz added. He also pointed out that it could have ramifications down the road. That's an understatement. We now have open warfare in the Senate and that is a good thing. "That has consequences for how this body operates," Cruz said. "If you or I cannot trust what the majority leader tells us, that will have consequences on other legislation, as well as on how this institution operates." Plainer and truer words have never been spoken.
It doesn't end there. Cruz also berated McConnell for using a procedural maneuver to prevent other amendments from being offered to the Highway Bill. That's the vehicle that will be used for the Export-Import Bank vote. In a breathtakingly hypocritical move, McConnell "filled the tree" just as Harry Reid frequently did. This was to stop amendments when Democrats had a Senate majority. Of course, when McConnell did it, Reid screamed to the heavens. McConnell also set up a vote on repealing ObamaCare. That particular maneuver was a faux move to appease conservatives – it would not have succeeded and McConnell knew it, so it was safe to set up the vote. Cruz is a smart guy and saw right through McConnell's machinations. "I agree with Senator Reid when he said the ObamaCare amendment is a cynical amendment. Of course it is. It is empty showmanship," Cruz added.
This is a bitter fight between the GOP leadership and conservatives and it's about to get real. While Donald Trump is excoriating the media and bringing illegal immigration to the forefront, Cruz is in the Senate stirring the pot and calling out the Washington Cartel. Joining Cruz in the political brawl are Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rand Paul (R-KY).
From the Conservative Review:
McConnell has avoided one procedural blockade. The Senate Majority Leader has attached the highway bill to an unrelated bill from the House to make sure that he does not violate the Constitution.
Leader McConnell called up a House passed bill and added the text of the highway bill to it, then he called up an amendment that allows the Export-Import Bank to continue. This married an unrelated House bill to the highway bill and EX-IM. But then Senator McConnell did something that was unexpected.
Next, Senator McConnell offered an amendment for a full repeal of Obamacare. This seemed to be an attempt to intimidate the Tea Party faction in the Senate to take the vote on a full repeal of Obamacare and walk away from the fight over EX-IM. The problem is that nobody believes the Obamacare amendment to be anything other than meaningless vote.
McConnell then proceeded to use a parliamentary maneuver, abhorred by many conservatives and Senate procedure strict constructionists, to block all other amendments to the bill. This tactic, known as "Filling the Amendment Tree," enraged many members of the Republican caucus who wanted to offer their own amendments to the bill. When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) ran the Senate he frequently filled the amendment tree as a way to block Republicans from ever offering amendments. This obstructionist tactic still rubs many conservatives the wrong way and is still considered by many to be an abuse of power.
Enter Senator Ted Cruz. Cruz took to the floor and offered an amendment to condition the Iran deal on Iran recognizing the right of Israel to exist and calling on Iran to release Americans held hostage. The Cruz amendment violates the Senate's rules, because, under the current scenario, only certain amendments are allowed.
Do you see the shady dealings that McConnell is engaged in here? It's dirty political pool. All meant to reinstate the Export-Import Bank by whatever means necessary. It's a slap in the face to conservatives and furthers crony capitalism in the ranks.
This is a battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party between Progressives on the Right and Constitutional conservatives. As Reagan did, the conservatives are trying to reform the Republican Party from within. The fight will be bloody and definitive. If the Progressives win, a third party will be born and the GOP will go the way of the Whigs. Marxist rule will most likely prevail in America for the foreseeable future if that happens. If the conservatives ascend, then the GOP will take a much needed sharp turn to the right and the Tea Party and other conservatives will become the new face of the GOP. It will mark the beginning of the war to return the US to its Constitutional roots and freedoms.
From The Daily Signal:
Conservatives in the U.S. Senate are gearing up to challenge Republican leadership today, setting their sights on a plan to repeal Obamacare with 51 votes—a measure that will easily pass if the 54 GOP senators support it.
The move comes after several contentious days of fighting over the GOP leadership's priorities. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., allowed a vote Sunday to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank despite his stated opposition. It passed, 67-26, but drew a sharp rebuke from conservatives.
"The American people elected a Republican majority believing that a Republican majority would be somehow different from a Democratic majority in the United States Senate," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said. "Unfortunately, the way the current Senate operates, there is one party, the Washington party."
Mike Lee and Ted Cruz couldn't get anywhere over the weekend in the Senate on their Planned Parenthood and Iran amendments. Both were denied a roll call vote, a maneuver Senate experts said was highly unusual. Cruz called it an "unprecedented" plot by McConnell and Reid. And that is exactly what it was.
"What we just saw a moment ago is unprecedented in the annals of Senate history," Cruz said. "It consisted of the majority leader and the minority leader denying members the ability to have votes on their amendments and indeed the ability even to have a roll call vote." Mike Lee will be making his move for an amendment on repealing Obamacare shortly and we can only hope and pray that it goes through, but I doubt it. The Export-Import Bank measure easily passed Sunday with unanimous Democrat support. Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell renewed funding for the Export-Import Bank despite previous promises. Then McConnell blocked defunding Planned Parenthood and Ted Cruz' Kate's Law, which mandates that undocumented aliens who are deported and return to the United States would receive a mandatory five year sentence in a federal penitentiary upon conviction. That piece of legislation arose after Trump turned a spotlight on Sanctuary Cities – specifically San Francisco where Kate Steinle was murdered by an illegal alien criminal who had been deported five times. Tell me again whose side McConnell is on?
Ted Cruz was predictably rebuked by McConnell's henchmen: Texas Sen. John Cornyn, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah. All because he exposed the backroom deals of Mitch McConnell and the fact that he's a prolific liar. McConnell is sooo busy with his backroom deals, bribes, schemes and illicit doings that he can't bother with being subtle anymore. I guess he figures Americans are either too stupid to get it or just aren't paying attention. We're broke as a nation – utterly bankrupt. Yet, McConnell is for more and more taxation and deficit spending. He doesn't care what the fallout is down the road… he's in it for the here and now and how much power, control and wealth he can amass personally. Constitution and America be damned. There is no difference between what Mitch McConnell does and what the Marxist Democrats do – none.
In the end, this also benefits not only McConnell, but Obama's minions, Wall Street and the Chamber of Commerce. Cruz has criticized politicians on both sides of the aisle for this type of complicity and corruption. He has stood for principle and the Constitution unfailingly. McConnell despises him for it as do his cronies.
Ted Cruz defended himself in a special session against charges that he broke Rule 19 of the Senate rules by calling Mitch McConnell a liar concerning what he had promised him personally. Cruz says there is nothing wrong with telling the truth on the floor. There certainly isn't and it takes courage to do so. He went on to say, "I entirely agree" with Hatch's call for civility. But says "speaking the truth" is "entirely consistent with civility." I couldn't agree more.
Ted Cruz has set his sights on the Washington Cartel. He means to take them down with his band of conservatives. I believe Reagan would approve and this is a fight that must happen. It's what I have been waiting for and I roundly applaud Cruz for leading the fight in the Congress and Trump for taking on the media and rallying the grassroots. This is a brilliant divide and conquer technique playing out. I don't know who will be president in the end, but I can tell you this… when the dust settles, the GOP will never be the same. And I suspect standing in the midst of victory will be a man of honor – Ted Cruz.
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Forum: What Was Your Reaction To The Chattanooga Attack?
The Watcher's Council
Every week on Monday morning, the Council and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher's Forum with short takes on a major issue of the day, the culture, or daily living. This week's question: What Was Your Reaction To The Chattanooga Attack?
Don Surber: C-in-C should order every officer (commissioned and non-com) to carry a sidearm when on duty stateside. Exemptions for chaplains and working physicians. Maybe a few other MOS. National Guard and reservists would be up to the discretion of commanders as a matter of protocol, while preserving the authority to order so. Any civilian who feels uncomfortable can kindly resign/retire from DoD.
Puma By Design: Courtesy of the dysfunction in the present administration, America's enemies are at war with us on U.S. soil empowered by our so-called leaders who are in denial, stupid and in the pockets of our enemies while at the same time, refusing to call this evil by its name.
America's enemies are targeting our service members and their families because it is a known fact that they are not armed.
ARM THEM. They have the right to defend themselves…and us ON American soil.
GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD: Gun free zones get people killed.
In Chattanooga, the dark one liner is "From DUI and weed to J!had in 90 days." Busted in April, it appears he made a fast conversion to violence.
We often prided ourselves here about our easy going laissez-faire attitude. Not anymore. Was this cat self radicalized? Inspired by the mosque? Both? Doesn't really matter now as armed vigilance is replacing the Coexist stickers and memes.
We really need all the prayers and good vibes y'all may send.
JoshuaPundit: Unfortunately, the minute I heard about this atrocity, I knew exactly what was coming. The theme by the media, assorted political figures and the Obama Regime, as always, was to repeat the mantra of 'senseless violence.' Hillary Clinton said it, as did the president, Defense Secretary Ash Carter, Florida senators Bill Nelson (Democrat) and Marco Rubio (Republican).
And of course, no one can imagine why this happened. Nothing to do with Islam, surely! The Pentagon will investigate this for months to let everybody forget about it, and our president will determine what they'll say. They can't call it workplace violence like Fort Hood this time, but maybe they can work the mental health angle. Never mind that every attack involving Muslims resulting in mass casualties or attacks on military facilities like this has been jihadist in nature.
These attacks are not senseless violence. They are directed attacks, whether carried out by so-called lone wolves or otherwise. The orders are in the Qu'ran, and there's enough evidence on Mohammed AbdulAzeez's computer thus far to show the usual pattern – jihadist social media, and as I'm sure we'll eventually find out, a jihad preaching mosques with a radical, Islamist imam somewhere in the picture.
Since 9/11. we, or at least the people we've chosen to lead us have made the point time and time again that we're 'not at war with Islam.' Maybe, but anyone observing the world as it is would have to be in a coma not realize that a significant part of Islam's adherents consider themselves at war with us. That, or willfully deceptive.
A normal country faced by these kind of facts would secure its borders, limit visas to countries where jihadists and Islamists tend to thrive, and vet very carefully those visas that were approved. It would place Islamist front groups as well as mosques and madrassahs under close scrutiny and eliminate those preaching jihad, radicalizing young Muslims and/or thought to be a security risk. Most important, government facilities like military recruiting offices or bases that are obvious targets would be hardened and guarded with armed security.
We are doing none of these things. In fact, since Barack Hussein Obama became president, we're doing exactly the opposite. There have been numerous attacks, planned and executed against U.S. military facilities on his watch, and yet, the mantra coming out of the White House is always the same..'senseless violence.'
Here's a thought as uncomfortable for me to write as it may be for you to read. The four Marines and the Navy Petty officer whom were murdered in Chattanooga may be mourned by us, but in a very real sense, we have their blood on our hands for not calling our elected officials to account…especially this president.
The one covenant a leader has with those he or she rules is to protect a country's sovereignty, its people and its borders. America does not have that.
If we had any national self respect we would be thronging by thousands in the Capital, and flooding the congressional switch boards demanding this president's impeachment. We would be insisting on immediate action to remedy this situation rather than sitting back placidly waiting for the next attack.
We would be screaming bloody murder.
The Right Planet: My initial reaction was one of outrage, followed by profound sadness for the families and friends of those murdered in cold blood in Chattanooga. You know, it's not like ISIS and its ilk haven't expressed their desire and intent to kill members of our military right here at home. Furthermore, there have been some 34 service personnel killed at military facilities within the United States on Obama's watch—specifically, one soldier killed at a Little Rock recruiting station in 2009, 13 murdered at Fort Hood in the same year, three more killed at Fort Hood in 2014, 12 killed at the Washington Navy Yard two years ago, and now four Marines and one Navy petty officer are dead in Chattanooga. Several state governors, including my own, have ordered their National Guardsmen to start carrying weapons. But, to my knowledge, no such orders have been given at the federal level to allow U.S. troops the ability to defend themselves.
Via the LA Times:
Despite being active-duty servicemen with military weapons training, few of the victims in these attacks had an opportunity to defend themselves, thanks to Department of Defense Directive 5210.56, enacted in 1992 under President George H.W. Bush.
That policy strictly limits the military and civilian personnel who can carry firearms at military facilities to those in law enforcement or security roles. U.S. bases and recruiting centers have been "gun-free zones" ever since.
There have been recent reports of civilians with legal-carry permits standing guard at a few recruitment centers. How messed up are things in this country when civilians must provide security for own troops? Enough, already … ARM OUR TROOPS!
Laura Rambeau Lee, Right Reason: What is my reaction to this terrorist attack? I am at once saddened at the tragic loss of life of four Marines and one sailor, yet angered that this has happened again on America soil.
The shooter's name was Muhammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, a 24 year old Kuwaiti born naturalized American citizen whom friends described as a "devout Muslim." It is reported he traveled to Jordan in 2014 and to Kuwait and Jordan in 2010. Friends said he changed after his last trip to the Middle East.
In a media/theater of the absurd, we are being told not to jump to any conclusions about his motivation for these attacks. Isn't it time we got past wanting to know the shooter's motivation in these all too familiar scenarios? No one questioned Dylan Roof's motivation for his slaughter of nine Black church members in Charleston, South Carolina. It was racism – end of story.
Reports are coming out that Adbulazeez suffered from depression. Perhaps a religion that teaches hatred of all non-believers and rewards martyred jihadis with seventy-three virgins might lead to depression… and violence.
I am mad that the rules on military bases and these recruitment centers prohibit our service members from being armed. At the very least, this policy should be changed immediately. They must be able to carry firearms, especially knowing they have been specifically targeted by ISIS for attacks. To have served heroically overseas and then to return home only to be attacked in a store front recruiting center should send chills down everyone's spines, and maybe wake up some. President Obama says we are not at war with Islam, but we should be past the point of acknowledging radical Islamists are at war with us.
The Glittering Eye: It's early days in the investigation yet and I don't want to get ahead of ourselves. I say at this point let the investigation takes its course.
I'm willing to let the Pentagon decide whether soldiers in recruitment centers or on military bases carry sidearms or whether they should be ordered to do so.
As of this writing whether there are ties to Al Qaeda or DAESH, whether the perpetrator of the murders was mentally ill or not, and just what lead him to kill people are all unknown. Policy considerations need to be conditioned on actual circumstances rather than imagined ones. Maybe he was radicalized on the Internet or self-radicalized or had some conversion experience on a visit to family in Jordan. We just don't know.
Ask Marion: ARM THEM! ARM THEM! ARM THEM! Arm all military personnel on American soil!!
The wolf is no longer at the door, America's enemies are at war with us on U. S. soil!! America's enemies are targeting our service members and their families and they know they are not armed. Let them carry a sidearm when on duty stateside.
ARM THEM… They have the right to defend themselves…and us ON home soil. As Judge Jeanine Pirro said in her opening statement this past weekend: They Want To Kill Us, They Determine To kill Us… And They're Here.
Some of the governors have already stepped up in wake of the Chattanooga attacks. Governor Fallin of Oklahoma, has authorized their adjutant general to arm full-time military personnel. Arkansas, Texas and several other state governors have also already stepped up or in the process. Some other groups like Oathkeepers are also meeting.
For anyone who thinks this is extreme, just look at Switzerland, a neutral and one of the most peaceful countries in the world. Every adult is a trained member of the Swiss militia and they keep their weapons at home on the ready. In 2011 the Swiss law and tradition was tested and put to a vote. Let us remember our own history and minutemen who were armed and ready to defend themselves and freedom at a minutes notice and step back to using common sense!!
Well, there you have it.
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CRUZ: Obama May Not Believe We are at War With Islamism, but Islamism is at War With Us
Doug @ Ross Journal
By Sen. Ted Cruz
Yesterday, members of our armed services in Chattanooga, Tennessee, went to work in the service of our nation. Some went to a recruiting center to assist the young people who, like so many before them, would walk through the door on any given Thursday morning and volunteer to defend the United States of America. Four brave Marines went to a Naval Reserve Center to perform their duties to the Tennessee National Guard.
But one of the young people who visited two of those facilities was not like the others. He was there not to volunteer to serve America, but to attack America. Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez was there to carry out jihad, an act of radical Islamic terrorism. An act of war, in which those four brave Marines lost their lives, while at least two others were wounded.
In the wake of this vicious attack on our nation we need to rid ourselves of two dangerous delusions, first and foremost that a 'lone gunman'–as President Obama described the shooter–is somehow isolated from the larger threat of radical Islamic terrorism. In the modern world, no one acts in isolation. Through social media ISIS, al Qaida, and other groups are infiltrating our nation with impunity while our government will not even admit that radical Islamic terrorism is a problem.
The second delusion is that this attack is somehow isolated from previous episodes, notably those in Little Rock, Arkansas and Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009—both of which were attacks on American military facilities. The Obama administration was woefully reluctant to call either an act of radical Islamic terrorism, instead suggesting 'workplace violence' as a justification for the killings. Finally, after years of effort, the victims of Fort Hood were properly recognized as victims of attacks by foreign terrorists when they received Purple Hearts on April 15, 2015. Likewise, the victim of the Little Rock attack received a Purple Heart on July 1, 2015.
We cannot afford to wait six years to recognize what happened in Chattanooga for what it was. We need to see with clarity right now what has happened. We can immediately hold hearings in the Senate Armed Services Committee on the need for our enlisted men and women to have the right to be armed in military facilities. Congress can pass the Expatriate Terrorist Act that would allow our government to stop Americans who travel overseas to train with terrorist groups from coming back to attack us at home. We can thoroughly overhaul our broken immigration system that is allowing this type of individual to gain citizenship. And we can accept the reality that while we might wish it otherwise, the forces of radical Islam are at war with us.
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Details Emerging on Chattanooga Shooter and Family
By: Denise Simon
FoundersCode.com
According to CNN Arabia:
Amman, Jordan (CNN) – Jordanian official said that the shooter in the American civil Chattanooga Tennessee, which led to the deaths of four US Marines Thursday, [was] not a Jordanian citizen, but [held] a Palestinian passport temporarily and without a national number.
The source explained that "after investigations show that the name of the person who launched the attack in Tennessee in the United States, is Mohammed Yousef Saeed Ali Haj, who was born on September 5 / September" in 1990, according to the source. His father moved to live in the United States in 1982.
He added that Mohammed's father had changed his name to Abdul Aziz in 1990, so that became his son's name is Mohammad Yousuf, Abdul Aziz, according to the Jordanian government source, who added that the gunman holds a US passport, and that the son was in Jordan in 2014 on a visit to his uncle.
According to a tip that came into WDEF, Muhammad Abdulazeez was spotted at a gun range just weeks before killing four Marines and one Navy Petty Officer.
Abdulazeez was reportedly spotted with three other men who were wearing long beards like Abdulazeez. All four were reportedly practice shooting.
The claim has not been confirmed by law enforcement but several sources told WDEF the men were likely spotted at Prentice Cooper Gun Range.
When News 12 arrived at the gun range, several men who were practicing shooting said a man who claimed to be a former Marine arrived at the range Saturday morning and said he was doing his own investigation to see if Abdulazeez had been shooting at that location.
The men said he asked multiple groups of people who were at the range.
CBS News is also reporting that Abdulazeez told his co-workers that he and a group of guys recently went shooting at a gun range. CBS News got its information from law enforcement sources who interviewed Abdulazeez's co-workers.
According to a published CBS News report, the men reportedly shot rifles, BB guns and pistols last month.
Abdulazeez had purchased three guns after returning from Jordan, including an AK-74, an AR-15, and a Saiga 12. In the home was also a 9mm and a .22 caliber weapons, it is unclear in whose name those weapons were registered.
From the Center for Security Policy:
As we reported Friday, the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga (ISGC) is tied to the Muslim Brotherhood through the Hamas-linked North American Islamic Trust (NAIT.) Now new evidence has been revealed showing that ISGC actually raised funds for the building of their new mosque in 2009, by referencing jihad and key Muslim Brotherhood figures.
According to a 2009 Iftar fundraising dinner slide show, first apparently noticed by Twitter user @alimhaider, contained an overt reference to key Muslim Brotherhood figure Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
Shooter's mosque run by MB? http://t.co/lCTuEp6XiZ#Chattanoogapic.twitter.com/d2JsRt8FGs
— A.M.H. (@alimhaider) July 17, 2015
The title of the slide, "In the cause of Allah" is an English translation of Fi Sabil Allah, as in the phrase "Jihad Fisabilallah", which means violent jihad against unbelievers. Classic Islamic law reference book, the Reliance of the Traveller, notes in its index, "Fisabilallah: See Jihad". There is no other reasonable interpretation of the phrase in context.
The reference to jihad in the fundraiser related to the Mosque, was done as a means of explaining that a contribution to the building of the mosque qualified under "Zakat" (annual tithe which is obligatory in Islam), under the category of funding Jihad.
Reliance of the Traveller notes, "The seventh category is those fighting for Allah, meaning people engaged in Islamic military operations for whom no salary has been allotted in the army roster (O: but who are volunteers for jihad without remuneration)…"
The slide "Cause of Allah" references Yusuf Al Qaradawi, and S.A.A. Maududi, founder of Pakistani Islamist group Jamaat-e-Islami. Both Qaradawi and Maududi are prolific on the subject of Jihad.
Qaradawi has been noted for his avid support for the terrorist group Hamas and their jihad against Israel, including issuing fatwas authorizing suicide bombing, and has supported jihadist movements in Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and most recently in Egypt. Qaradawi is the leader of the Hamas financing network known as the "Union of the Good", which utilizes Zakat funds received by its charities in order to support Hamas.
In his work, "Islamic Education and Hassan Al Banna," Qaradawi discusses how it was the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) which revitalized the classical concept of Jihad for a modern age:
The aspect of Ikhwani training which makes it eminent and unique is Jehad or crusade i e. : Crusader·like training…The real implication of · Jehad (crusade) had been dismissed from Islamic training and way of life, before its conception among the lkhwans.
And in his "Priorities of the Movement in the Coming phase" Qaradawi says:
…it is a duty to defend every land invaded by infidels, stating that such jihad is imperative for Muslims in this land as an individual obligation and that all Muslims must support them with money, arms and men as required until all their land has been liberated from any aggressor who usurps it. Therefore, the Islamic Movement cannot stand idle and watch while any part of Muslim land is occupied by a foreign aggressor.
The other modern Islamic scholar referenced by the document, Maulana S.A.A. Maududi, was famous for successfully merging classical Islamic concepts of Jihad with a modernist language of revolution. He noted the following in his work "Jihad in Islam":
It must be evident to you from this discussion that the objective of the Islamic 'Jihād' is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and establish in its stead an Islamic system of state rule. Islam does not intend to confine this revolution to a single state or a few countries; the aim of Islam is to bring about a universal revolution. Although in the initial stages it is incumbent upon members of the party of Islam to carry out a revolution in the State system of the countries to which they belong, but their ultimate objective is no other than to effect a world revolution.
So the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga announced in 2009 that it openly aligned its views of Jihad with the views of Qaradawi and Maududi, and told its Muslim congregants that donating to the construction of ISGC was permissible, because it represented funding jihad.
Chattanooga shooter Mohammed Yusuf Abdulazeez and his family were regular attendees as ISGC. Despite claims by the mosque leadership that Abdulazeez was a rare attendee or little known there, a photo from a family Facebook account shows that Abdulazeez held his graduation party at the mosque, and that it was well attended, indicating they were well known regulars.
This fundraising document was publicly available information, three years before U.S. District Attorney William Killian attended the grand opening in 2012 and expressed his friendship with a mosque leadership who built their mosque with a promise that funding them represented an investment in jihad.
Now that investment appears to have matured.
U.S. District Attorney William Killian should recuse himself from this case, because of his association with ISGC, and the investigators must begin to conduct a detailed and through investigation of ISGC itself, and what role its support for violent jihad may have played in the attack in Chattanooga which claimed the lives of five servicemen.
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Mark Levin On Chattanooga Terrorist Attack: 'As A Nation, We Are Committing Suicide'
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