The 1960s were a time of upheaval in all corners of American culture, not the least in music. Lyricists such as Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Curtis Mayfield and Lou Reed were revolutionizing songwriting by introducing new subject matter and literary techniques. Instrumentalists such as John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Bill Evans and Charles Lloyd were upending all previous notions of harmony and rhythm.
Looking back, it seems strange that these two areas of innovation never merged. Occasionally a jazz soloist would sit in with bands such as Steely Dan and Grateful Dead, and jazz bands would sometimes cover the songs of Dylan and Simon. But you never had a major lyricist recording and touring with a true jazz band on an equal basis.
Joni Mitchell did make a pair of studio records (Don Juan's Reckless Daughter and Mingus) with Weather Report's Wayne Shorter and Jaco Pastorius, and Sting made three (The Dream of the Blue Turtles, …Nothing like the Sun and The Soul Cages) with Branford Marsalis and Kenny Kirkland. But the albums were credited to Mitchell and Sting alone—and rightly so, for the jazz musicians were clearly sidemen and not full partners.
That's what makes the new album, Vanished Garden, such a milestone. Not only is it credited to "Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams," but the music within represents a true collaboration between the jazz musicians and the singer/songwriter. You can hear the saxophonist and his musicians respond to Williams' words and melodies, and you can hear the vocalist react to the ever-shifting harmonies and rhythms beneath her. The collaboration is not compartmentalized into the jazz musicians cutting loose on the solos and the Americana musicians stepping forward in the vocal sections; it's integrated from start to finish.
Williams sings three of her older songs, a new original and Jimi Hendrix's "Angel." The Marvels add five instrumentals, and the result is one of the year's best recordings, a long-delayed fulfillment of the wish to pair an important Americana songwriter with a working jazz band. This is important, because it brings two currents of innovation into the same river, to prove that challenging lyrics can be bolstered, not obscured, by challenging music—and vice versa.
The stumbling blocks were not just music-industry opposition. Adding a singer to a band is not the same as a trumpeter or conga player, because you're adding more than just a new sound; you're adding a whole new artistic element: words. Just to make the words heard require the musicians to pull back and step forward at just the right times. If the words are strong, they demand as much attention as the music—and this presents a challenge not only for the listener asked to keep track of both at the same time but also to the singer or soloist asked to cede some of the spotlight. And if the words are tethered to repeating rhythmic and melodic sections, that presents a challenge to jazz musicians who prefer more flexible forms.
It happened this time due largely to Bill Frisell, a guitarist firmly rooted in the jazz world (where he has worked with the likes of Ron Carter, Joe Lovano and Paul Motian) but also a musician who has crossed genre boundaries to work with Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt and Rickie Lee Jones. Frisell's frequent sidekick is steel guitarist Greg Leisz, best known for his work with such Americana artists as Dave Alvin, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne.
"I was playing with Charles in Montreal," Frisell remembers, "and he was talking about growing up in Memphis with the sound of a slide guitar." Lloyd had backed up Howlin' Wolf, who used a slide guitarist, and had befriended steel guitarist Al Vescovo.
"When I played in West Memphis as a teenager," Lloyd recalls, "the group that went on before us was the Snearly Ranch Boys, a white country band. Al was their steel guitarist, but he liked Duke Ellington and 'Honeysuckle Rose.' I thought that was strange, so I talked to him and we became friends. Al and I spent so much time together, that people thought something funny was going on.
Lloyd had created the Marvels so he and his regular rhythm section (drummer Eric Harland and bassist Reuben Rogers) could play with Frisell and Leisz. That line-up's first album, 2016's I Long To See You (featuring vocals by Willie Nelson and Norah Jones), was released the same year as the third collaboration between Frisell, Leisz and Williams: The Ghosts of Highway 20. It was almost inevitable that Lloyd and Williams would meet via Frisell and Leisz.
The first recorded collaboration between Williams and Lloyd was a 2017 single, a live version of Dylan's "Masters of War." Maybe Lloyd never got a chance to record with Dylan, but here was a chance to record one of the latter's best protest songs with one of Dylan's most obvious heirs. Lloyd had already recorded an instrumental version with the Marvels on their debut album.
Lloyd's tenor saxophone starts answering each fire-and-brimstone line with a moan of affirmation, as if he were in the congregation of a Southern African-American church responding to a preacher. Unlike the Dylan version where the acoustic guitar reinforces the punchy regularity of the vocal, this version has the instruments responding to the vocal in a variety of ways, changing the harmony and phrasing from stanza to stanza, even line to line, as if the protest were arising not from one individual but from a community with many moving parts and multiple perspectives.
The single's success convinced everyone involved that they needed to make a whole album. The Hollywood sessions in April and September last year had the business-like efficiency of a jazz venture rather than the more leisurely pacing of a pop project. There was little discussion, rehearsal or arranging; the musicians would start playing and Williams would start singing.


This mandarin is a hybrid between the Willowleaf mandarin and the King Tangor.
The plant is daily compact and produces flattish mandarins that are heading towards yellow when fully ripe.
The flesh is deep orange and rich.
Another one used as a popular garden plant in New Zealand.


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A NEW BEGINNING - 24" x 30" x 1.5"
A NEW BEGINNING was accepted into the 2011 State of the Art/Art of the State exhibit at Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, NC. The opening reception on Saturday evening, May 7th, was overflowing with curators, artists and art enthusiasts. An estimated 800 to 1000 attendees filled the CAM enjoying music, wine and artwork by 600+ North Carolina artists.


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namespace Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Management.SqlDatabase.Services
{
    public static partial class SqlDatabaseManagementExtensionMethods
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Retrieves all firewall rules on the specified server.
        /// </summary>
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        /// Channel used for communication with Azure's service management APIs.
        /// </param>
        /// <param name="subscriptionId">
        /// The subscription id which contains the server.
        /// </param>
        /// <param name="serverName">
        /// The name of the server to retrieve firewall rules for.
        /// </param>
        /// <returns>A list of all firewall rules on the server.</returns>
        public static SqlDatabaseFirewallRulesList GetServerFirewallRules(this ISqlDatabaseManagement proxy, string subscriptionId, string serverName)
        {
            return proxy.EndGetServerFirewallRules(proxy.BeginGetServerFirewallRules(subscriptionId, serverName, null, null));
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a new firewall rule on the specified server.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="proxy">
        /// Channel used for communication with Azure's service management APIs.
        /// </param>
        /// <param name="subscriptionId">
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        /// The starting IP address for the firewall rule.
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        /// <param name="endIpAddress">
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        public static void NewServerFirewallRule(this ISqlDatabaseManagement proxy, string subscriptionId, string serverName, string ruleName, string startIpAddress, string endIpAddress)
        {
            var input = new SqlDatabaseFirewallRuleInput
            {
                Name = ruleName,
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        /// Updates a firewall rule on the specified server.
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        /// <param name="proxy">
        /// Channel used for communication with Azure's service management APIs.
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        /// <param name="subscriptionId">
        /// The subscription id which contains the server.
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        /// <param name="serverName">
        /// The name of the server containing the firewall rule.
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        /// <param name="startIpAddress">
        /// The starting IP address for the firewall rule.
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Amazon and Apple have made headlines in recent weeks as both companies have attempted to alleviate concerns regarding their mobile cyber security practices. While the technology titans have been the biggest brands to publicly undergo such analysis, it appears many other companies are following suit, according to multiple recently released reports.
The global anti-malware industry is projected to reach 5.7 billion by 2020, with smartphone attacks being the leading cause for increased market share, according to Research and Markets. Mobile malware is increasingly becoming a problem as more and more users become increasingly comfortable with downloading mobile apps and doing personal business online. Research and Markets projects that the anti-malware industry will grow even more quickly if Apple is forced to create a backdoor to their iPhone, a request that Apple has fiercely fought and that is currently a making its way through the legal system.
Were Apple to lose the court case, the research firm believes that not only would the anti-malware market expand, but so too would the global machine-to-machine network security market, as well as the cyber security market as a whole. Current projections estimate that the global machine-to-machine network security market will have average annual growth of 24.5 percent through 2019, while the cyber security market at large is projected at 170.21 billion by 2020, with an average annual growth of 12.13 percent during that time.
While a final decision in the Apple case will not be known for a while, companies are already adjusting to increased malware risks by reviewing their cyber security capabilities and practices. Amazon recently restored their encryption services to Fire devices after the company received criticism from users and experts alike. It appears many other companies are following their lead as the global hardware encryption market forecasts growth amounting to more than 50 percent annually for the next three years. Similarly, mobile user authentication services – the "key" to encryption's "lock," if you will – is also expected to grow during the same period, although at the slightly less robust rate of 24.9 percent annually.


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        const cityCodeLength = 3;
        const numberLength = 7;
        let longDistanceCode;

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            return '';
        }

        // Strip all non-numeric characters
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        // Trim to verify the model doesn't get any larger
        if (value.length > maxLength) {

            // If the first character is a US country code
            if (value.charAt(0) === '1') {
                // Save the code
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Grecian Teal sea glass is one of the most sought after colors.
Mainly from their historical old wine bottles which are used no more.
This particular piece is off the beaches of Rhodes Greece.
Sea glass is set onto a beautiful sturdy double banded ring.


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Method for use in orthodontics for treating patients with malocclusion
A method for treating malocclusion by installing an orthodontic apparatus on a patient configured to treat malocclusion, and applying shock waves to one or both temporomandibular joint (TMJ) of the patient. The application of the shock waves in combination with the force exerted on the mandible by the orthodontic apparatus results in accentuated and accelerated corrective growth and adaptation of the mandible.
Kelling, Albert Lawrence (Raleigh, NC, US)
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20020081549 Capillary tube June, 2002 Malmberg
20100015574 Aesthetic ceramic veneered restoration January, 2010 Van Der et al.
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EIDE, HEIDI MARIE
1. A method for treating malocclusion comprising: installing an orthodontic apparatus on a patient to influence one or both Temporomandibular Joints (TMJs); and applying shock waves to one or both TMJs of the patient.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the shock waves are applied to an area of the patient that includes the TMJ and further includes a mandible, one or both condyles, muscles, one or both disks, ligaments, tendons, vascularization, and innervation in the patient.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein shock waves are applied to the TMJ of the patient during multiple sessions that are separated in time.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the orthodontic appliance is installed in such a way that a treatment effect of the appliance on the TMJ and tissues surrounding the TMJ is augmented by therapeutic shock waves beyond an effect of the appliance alone, thereby yielding an improvement in correcting malocclusion.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims priority to provisional application Ser. No. 60/689,488, entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USE IN ORTHODONTICS FOR ENHANCING GROWTH AND ADAPTATION OF THE MANDIBLE AND TMJ FOR TREATING PATIENTS WITH MALOCCLUSION, filed on Jun. 10, 2005, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present invention relates to orthodontic treatment and, more particularly, to a method for augmenting and accelerating jaw and dento-alveolar treatment changes by utilizing one or more noninvasive procedures.
The use of shock waves in the medical community is not new. Early approaches of using shock waves for medical treatment required immersing the patient in water and directing a shock wave, generated by an underwater spark discharge, at a solid site to be treated, such as a bone or kidney stone. When the shock wave hits the solid site, a liberation of energy from the change of acoustic impedance from water to the solid site produces pressure in the immediate vicinity of the site. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,905,671 to Senge et al., issued on Mar. 6, 1990, teaches a method for applying acoustic shock waves to induce bone formation. Senge et al. utilizes the extremely short rise time of the shock wave to create high compression zones within bone tissue to cause reactions of the microcompartments of the bone. Senge et al. purports that such reactions cause the formation of hematomas within bone, which, in turn, induces the formation of new bone.
Senge et al. utilizes a shock wave source consisting of a spark gap between electrodes within a container of water. An electrical condenser connected to the electrodes releases its energy over a very short period of time, and an arc arises between the electrodes of the spark gap device, which vaporizes water surrounding the path of the spark, thereby establishing a plasma-like state. The result is an explosion-like vaporization of the water, which produces an electro-hydraulic shock wave that spreads out in a circular fashion. A metallic, ellipsoid-shaped structure surrounds a rear portion of the spark gap, opposite the patient, to produce a focal point of the shock wave that coincides with a location in the pathological bone site at which the shock wave is to be focused. The size and shape of the ellipsoid dictate the position of the focal point. This device also requires that the patient be submerged in the water.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,979,501 to Valchanov et al., issued on Dec. 25, 1990, teaches a method and apparatus for treating pathologies with shock or "impact" waves for correction of delayed bone consolidation and bone deformations. The method comprises the steps of anesthetizing the patient, fixing the limb affected with the pathological bone condition, centering the pathological site of the bone on the shock wave focal point, treating the affected bone site once or consecutively, with 300 to 6000 impacts. The impacts have a frequency of 0.4 to 4.0 per second with a pulse duration of 0.5 to 4.0 microseconds for a period of 10 to 120 minutes. After these steps have been performed, the limb is immobilized for a period from 15 to 90 days.
The impact wave-generating device disclosed by Valchanov et al. generally consists of a vessel that contains a transmitting medium or acoustic liquid such as water. At a bottom portion of the vessel, opposed electrodes are disposed, which are adapted to produce a shock across the gap. Therefore, the patient is not submerged for treatment.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,896,673 to Rose et al. teaches a method and apparatus for performing focused shock wave treatment of kidney stones in combination with localization using ultrasound or x-ray imaging. Rose et al. discloses that, if the number and magnitude of the shock wave pulses are sufficient, the shock wave treatment may disintegrate a kidney stone.
Shock waves have also been used to treat soft tissue. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,316,000 to Chapelon et al. discloses an array of composite piezoelectric transducers for making an acoustic or ultrasonic therapy device for use in the treatment of varicose veins. U.S. Pat. No. 5,458,130 to Kaufman et al. discloses using shock waves to treat soft tissue such as cartilage, ligament, and tendons.
To date, shock waves have not been used in the medical field of orthodontics. Standard orthodontics for the treatment of malocclusion may typically require 18 to 30 months to complete, depending on the severity of the problem. Generally, orthodontic patients are anxious to finish their treatment in as short a period of time as possible. In an effort to speed up orthodontic treatment, surgical techniques have been expanded over recent decades. The most recent and most refined of these techniques has been presented by William and Thomas Wilcko, as Accelerated Osteogenic Orthodontics (AOO), and involves peeling back the gingival tissue from the cortical bone surrounding the teeth and then performing corticotomy. Corticotomy is a procedure that barely cuts through the cortical bone between the teeth with a rotary instrument. After the cuts have been made, certain bone augmentation procedures are performed to speed up the orthodontic treatment. The gingival flap is then replaced.
AOO causes a tissue metabolic process to be initiated, which is referred to as regional accelerated phenomenon (RAP). RAP creates an increase in bone remodeling that starts as a drastic demineralization of both medullary and cortical alveolar bone. Because the medullary bone has a much higher surface-to-volume ratio, and because the teeth are surrounded primarily by medullary bone, RAP renders the bone around the teeth largely into demineralized osteoid, a condition known as osteopenia. When osteopenia has thusly been established around teeth, it has been shown that orthodontic appliances can be used that enable treatment to be completed in about ⅓ of the amount of time typically required to treat malocclusion.
One of the drawbacks to AOO is that it requires an invasive surgical procedure to initiate RAP and osteopenia, which, as indicated above, involves peeling back the gingival tissue and cutting through the cortical bone.
A significant portion of malocclusions involve a mandible that is positioned posteriorly in relation to the upper jaw, causing the lower teeth to bite improperly against the upper teeth. In these cases, treatment must be rendered that promotes forward movement of the lower jaw and teeth or promotes backward movement of the upper jaw and teeth. In most cases it is most desirable to create forward changes in the mandible. For this, many orthodontic and jaw orthopedic appliances are used. These appliances may be fixed to the teeth or may be removable. A family of these appliances works by hyperpropulsing the mandible forward, distracting the mandibular condyle forward along its articular eminence, and stretching the ligaments and muscles that are involved in the temporomandibular joint. The mandible is held much or all the time in this forward therapeutic position in order to create permanent treatment changes so as to create a more forward positioning of the mandible and it's teeth in relation to the upper jaw and it's teeth, thus reducing this type of malocclusion.
It is found in the treatment of this type of malocclusion, termed Class II malocclusion, that some patients have a limited response to the treatment and thus don't succeed fully with this type of correction. Others have such a severe Class II that this type of treatment doesn't afford a full correction. In both these cases, other more radical approaches must be used, such as extraction of teeth or orthognathic surgery, to further treat the patient. Also, such treatment may take 12 to 18 months or more, thus making this treatment lengthy and difficult for the patient.
It would be desirable to provide a way to increase the biological response to these Class II treatment modalities to make them more effective and to expedite their treatment effect. It would also be desirable to provide a way to expedite treatment of malocclusion that does not require an invasive surgical procedure.
A method for treating malocclusion by installing an orthodontic apparatus on a patient configured to treat malocclusion, and applying shock waves to one or both temporomandibular joints (TMJs) of the patient. The application of the shock waves in combination with the force exerted on the mandible results in accentuated and accelerated treatment effect through growth and adaptation of the mandible and TMJs.
FIG. 1 is a top view of a shock wave generating apparatus for delivering stimuli in the form of shock waves, to a patient's body in and/or around the temporomandibular joints (TMJs).
FIG. 2 is a flow chart illustrating the steps of the invention for treating malocclusion.
The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for use in orthodontics for increasing the biological response of the temporomandibular joints (TMJ) in patients being treating for Class II malocclusion. In accordance with the invention, the condition of the components of the TMJ, especially the condyle, is noninvasively altered to enhance the therapeutic effect of Class II orthodontic treatment modalities through more and faster growth and adaptation within the joint and surrounding muscles, disk, ligament, tendons, vascularization and/or innervation. In accordance with this embodiment, extracorporeal shock waves are used in and/or around the TMJ tissues to increase the growth and adaptation of the mandible and TMJ tissues, thus enhancing the treatment effect of orthodontic appliances for Class II correction.
FIG. 1 is a top view of an example of a shock wave generating apparatus that is suitable for delivering stimuli in the form of shock waves, to a patient's body in and/or around the TMJ tissues. The apparatus 1 comprises a shock wave reflector 2 that focuses shock waves generated by the apparatus 1 at a focal point 3. The location of the focal point 3 is dictated by the geometry and dimensions of the reflector 2. The shock waves 4 propagate through water surrounding an electrode 5 when a bias voltage or current is applied to the electrode 5. The shock waves 4 are reflected by the surface 6 of the reflector 2 and converge at the focal point 3. The apparatus 1 preferably is positioned such that the focal point 3 is coincident with the location or locations in and/or around the TMJ tissues at which the shock waves are to be applied.
A variety of shock wave generating apparatuses are currently available that are suitable for applying shock waves to a patient's body in and/or around the TMJ tissues. Such apparatuses may be used, either with or without adaptation or reconfiguration, to treat patients using the method of the invention. Such adaptations may include, for example, focus depth, focal area shape, changes in energy flux density, changes in the frequency of the shock waves used, and number of pulses delivered during a treatment session. Suitable apparatuses for this purpose are offered by Electromedical Medical Systems Company of Switzerland, by Storz Medical Company of Germany, and by MTS Company of Germany. Those skilled in the art will understand, in view of the description provided herein, the manner in which a suitable shock wave device, either focused or radial, may be selected to appropriately apply shock waves for the desired growth and adaptation changes in the mandible, TMJ and/or related tissues.
FIG. 2 illustrates a flow chart that demonstrates the method 10 of the invention. In general, the method is made up of two steps. The first step is to install a suitable jaw orthopedic appliance in the patient's mouth, as indicated by block 11. For example, a removeable bionator apparatus may be used for this purpose, as is known in orthodontics. There are fixed orthodontic appliances used for this purpose as well, such as the Herbst appliance and the Mandibular Anterior Repositioning Appliance (MARA). After the orthodontic appliance has been installed, the apparatus 1 shown in FIG. 1 is used to apply shock waves in and around the TMJ area, as indicated by block 12.
The frequency of treatment sessions can be adjusted for optimum therapeutic effect. In the present embodiment, focus depth will typically be approximately 5 to approximately 25 millimeters (mm), with the focal area conforming to the shape of the head of the condyle. The treatment area will typically be the entire TMJ area, excluding the auditory mechanism to avoid damage to sensitive tissues. The energy flux density will typically range from approximately 0.05 to approximately 0.4 milli-Joules per squared millimeter (mJ/mm2). A typical treatment session may involve applying 1000 to 3000 shock waves. The settings and ranges mentioned above are chosen because of the size of the TMJ joint and the variety of tissues involved. Also, the settings are adjusted to suit the size of the patient and the severity of the orthodontic problem. For smaller patients and less severe problems, lower settings and fewer treatment sessions are used. Treatment sessions are typically provided in 2 to 8 week intervals depending of the therapeutic response.
The anatomic and physiologic effects that the application of shock waves produce in the TMJ and related tissues (e.g., mandible, condyle, disk, muscles, ligaments, tendons, vascularization and innervation) include corrective growth and adaptation. The combined results of applying shock waves to the TMJ region and the work performed by the orthopedic appliance is an accentuated and accelerated treatment response to malocclusion.
It should be noted that the invention has been described with reference to preferred embodiments and that modifications may be made to the embodiments described herein. As will be understood by those skilled in the art in view of the description provided herein, all such modifications are within the scope of the invention.
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This section contains information concerning the size of data records for each instrument, the amount of data (in minutes) which will fit on an IBM 3480 cartridge, and the normal lengths (in minutes) of each type of data set. The approximate amount of data requested can also be computed by determining the number of minutes over a specific area using the spinner described in Section 1.2.
Table 2.3-1 shows the record length (in bytes) for each type of instrument, depending on whether the data desired is full copy or channel select. It also shows the number of records per scan and number of scans per minute for each instrument. SSB does not recommend channel selection for TOVS Level 1b data, and no longer offers this as an option.
Table 2.3-2 contains the number of minutes of each type of Level 1b data (with the exception of SBUV/2 data) for full copy or channel select in the packed and unpacked data format which can be written onto an IBM 3480 cartridge.
Refer to Section 2.2 for more information on select options. Table 2.3-2 should be used as an approximation for the volume of an IBM 3480 cartridge.
Typical lengths of data sets in minutes are approximately 110 minutes for GAC and all TOVS data sets, 11 to 13 minutes for HRPT, and 10 minutes for LAC.
Table 2.3-1. Level 1b Data Record Length (Bytes).
Full Copy Packed
Full Copy Unpacked
GAC 2,536 4,168 5,808 6,440 9,080 2 scans/record,
120 scans/minute
LAC/HRPT 2,272 4,320 6,368 7,400 10,464 2 records/scan,
HIRS/2 N/A N/A N/A 4,253 N/A 1 record/scan,
9.4 scans/minute
MSU N/A N/A N/A 437 N/A 1 record/scan,
SSU N/A N/A N/A 2,498 N/A 1 record/scan,
Table 2.3-2. Level 1b IBM 3480 Cartridge Volume (Minutes/Cartridge).
GAC 625 455 358 330 251
LAC/HRPT 55 37 28 24 18
HIRS/2 N/A N/A N/A 2,864 N/A
MSU N/A N/A N/A 31,029 N/A
SSU N/A N/A N/A 20,000 N/A


A hoop house is a great garden season extender, letting you plant earlier in spring and later into fall.
This simple greenhouse design will let you get a big head start on spring planting.
Use this materials list and template to make your own frost-free greenhouse.
The plastic can be removed from the greenhouse during the warm summer months.
This is my frost-free greenhouse. With it in place, I can plant in the ground six weeks earlier than in the outside garden.
When the weather warms up, I remove the plastic ends. In September, I replace the plastic prior to the first frost.


Calling all DA Students! Would you like to be featured in the DA Literary Magazine – The Locker? One way to do so is to enter and win a weekly literary challenge!
Here is the first challenge – imagine a world where all the adults disappeared. What would it be like?
A world without adults i think it would be an abomination because say if kids were fighting who would stop it they would kid beating each other.


Paris streets are filled with smells of fresh baked pastries. Parisian Pastry seasoning brings that aroma and taste to your kitchen. Perfect for french toast or danishes. Brown sugar, cinnamon, and spices will have your family ready to say, "Bon appétit!"
Mix a liberal amount with french toast eggs before coating bread. Sprinkle on a dab more after taking out of the skillet, & be ready to say, "Ooh la la!"
INGREDIENTS: Evaporated Cane Juice, Brown Sugar, Cinnamon, Ginger, Nutmeg, Cloves, Cardamon.


Travel is more than a state of mind. It creates your mind, shapes, molds, chisels it—if you let it. If you accept the excitement, the anxiety, the joy, the discomfort, the adventure, the fear, all that embraces and batters you as you set off for unfamiliar shores, states, wherever.
The world and its people are magical and limitless, and they are cruel and sad. There is no escaping this world. So instead you shape the world. You scatter dust here and there, sending little particles into the air. You fling your cobwebs around you as you trudge. The filaments take hold, binding you to places, stretching. Never breaking but setting you free and tying you down at once.
You see, travel makes you small, vulnerable. You may ache for a place and its people who you'll rarely—if ever—see again. They may heal you but they'll open a new wound. You'll gaze at these scars infinitely. There is a dull tug at your chest. But it's a happy one.
This is what makes you a better person. You begin to understand what's real, as it is. You learn all that you haven't yet learned—and may never will. But you'll be closer, closer. Curiosity and open-mindedness feed on exploration, and they are never satiated. This hunger makes you grow.
You move. You seek revelations and fun and everything in between. This development, once learned, cannot be abandoned—you need to practice, because the fissures that widen in your mind, that absorb what you see, now know, may shrink back. And you want to continue, fly on.
So you must always look. Observe and learn, actively. Hold the knowledge, the feelings you gather; squeeze them tight so the imprints remain. Never let them go. You'll walk stronger. You'll be more.
Once you go looking, you already went.
You write so beautifully, and this is so brilliantly true of my own experience. I left my country with wounds to heal, and found myself back here again this year with both fresh wounds and a fresh definition of what a wound is. I 'ache' for travel! What a strange and endlessly exciting world we live in, na?
Thanks so much for the kind words! You're so right – as we travel, we learn about different kinds of wounds and aches and they're not all bad. The world is definitely weird, wonderful, and great.
I really really enjoyed this. You write really well, and I tend to love any sort of manifesto. They always seem so powerful and inspiring.
I like your attitude about life. I can't wait to get on the road myself. Soon….just not soon enough!
Thanks! I hope you can get on the road soon (though it is almost never soon enough, haha).
THIS. This is truly wonderful.
The way you write is inspiring.
Wow!!! I really enjoyed this!!! I have always believed that we can learn so much from our fellow man when we open our eyes and hearts. Just making simple observations can change your whole life or some part of it. Beautifully written.
I am so glad you enjoyed and yes – opening up is one of the most important things we can do.
This gave me chills to read. You're outlook is incredible and you've described the aching and longing for places and people perfectly. I've recently begun traveling and I know that aching feeling, and the imprints a place and its people can leave on you.Safe travels and hope you reach all of you goals for the year as well, they're good ones!
Wow, what a nice comment! Thanks so much! Safe travels and best wishes to you as well.
I just found your blog and I cant wait to read more. I love to travel and I agree its such a wonderful way to observe, learn, and grow as a person. Thank you.
Thanks! I hope you will enjoy reading.
I'm going to keep exploring your blog!
Thanks so much! Your piece is great too – thanks for sharing.


Takeaway: So, you've decided to give hydroponic gardening a try. Now what? First of all, you need to decide which hydroponic system to use. Grubbycup describes common growing systems to help make that choice a little easier.
There are many different hydroponic systems available to gardeners, each meeting plant needs in slightly different ways. While the choices can seem intimidating at first, they have much in common.
Roots (and the plants they are attached to) require above all else access to both air and water. Nutrients are also important, but that's a topic for another article. For now, assume the nutrients can be added to the water to make a nutrient solution.
Most of the differences between growing systems are in the specifics of how they make water and air available to the root system. For example, a houseplant in a flower pot filled with soil may get watered from a watering can, and is allowed to dry out somewhat between waterings, giving the plant access to both water and air.
If the plant isn't watered, it will dry out and die, but if the plant is watered too often, it doesn't have enough access to air, and the plant will drown. In my experience, the most common error in gardening is overwatering.
On the other hand, just as with people, too much air and too little water causes dehydration, but of the two scenarios, slight dehydration is a less traumatic experience than a slight drowning. While creating a watering schedule, a little too dry is a smaller error than a little too wet. Here is a roundup of some common growing systems.
The benefits of growing plants in pots of soil are numerous. Soil buffers against changes, is a natural root support structure and is a familiar medium to many. The drawbacks? Soil-based gardening tends to be heavy—large pots are required—and soil holds moisture so well that it is easy to overwater plants.
Soilless mixes are designed to mitigate these drawbacks by using ingredients such as peat, coir and compost. These mixes tend to be lighter and are commonly used in nurseries for potted plants. They can be hand-watered to provide moisture, and allowed to dry slightly between waterings to provide access to air.
This is considered a hydroponic method of growing since plants are not grown in soil, but the experience is similar to growing in soil, which makes them a good choice for the average houseplant. There are a variety of soil alternatives that can be used, each with slightly different watering needs, since some hold water longer than others.
If the flowerpot is filled with a grow medium, and set in a tray with water, it is a passive hydroponic system. As the media dries, capillary action draws water to the roots either directly from the tray or through a wick, although in practical applications, occasionally watering the top of the media to introduce new solution can help flush the media.
The media should be airy or allowed to slightly dry so that water is not allowed to stand long enough for the dissolved oxygen to disperse and start to become anaerobic. This type of system is simple to set up, and can be an easy first step into the world of hydroponics.
Simply fill a pot with your chosen grow media, such as perlite, set in a tall dish or 1020 tray, and water by hand with a hydroponic nutrient solution as needed. For the price of some grow media and a couple of bottles of fertilizer you can try a simple passive hydroponic system.
Hand watering works well as long as the gardener has the time and patience to do it regularly. The addition of a pump to the system creates an active hydroponic system and can save effort.
Sprinkler systems use pumped water to spray the top of the media, which soaks down to the root system. Aeration is achieved by using fresh water and allowing the media to partially dry before watering. Sprinkler systems are often run to waste, meaning runoff is not recovered, or as part of a recirculating system.
They are inexpensive, but generally less exact than other systems. The spray can be difficult to contain, and therefore traditional sprinkler systems are not recommended for a home indoor garden where water damage may result.
Drip systems use pumped water and low-volume emitters. The slow-dripping action allows the water to be absorbed over a longer period of time, allowing for greater penetration with less runoff and uncontrolled spray than traditional sprinklers. Aeration is regulated by the media used, the amount the media is allowed to dry between nutrient applications and the amount of air bubbled into the solution.
Nutrient film technique uses a low volume of nutrient solution continuously applied to the roots. An NFT system functions much like a continual drip. The roots are constantly exposed to a thin film of aerated nutrient either with or without a mat used as a grow medium. Aeration needs are met by the exposed roots above the film or mat, and by use of an aerated solution.
Ebb and flow (also called flood and drain) systems flood the medium containing the roots and then allow the water to drain away, giving the roots access to air. A timer usually controls the waterings. A well-aerated solution will help buffer minor overwatering.
Deep water culture systems can be as simple as letting the roots dangle in a nutrient solution and adding an air stone for aeration. Because air is pumped into the water, the solution does not go stagnant and the plant can absorb both air and water. These simple systems are sometimes referred to as bubblers.
Aeroponic systems use the same basic principles as DWC, but instead of adding air to the solution, the nutrient solution is sprayed into the air and onto the roots.
When considering which system is best for a given situation, take a look at all the available options. Many commercial kits are available, often using a combination of the above principles. When considering which is most appropriate for your needs, look at how each supply water and air to the root system.
Soil is common, but tends to have the most insect issues. Hand watering works well for a few plants, but can become arduous if there are a large number of plants to be tended. Pre-fabricated systems are more expensive, but DIY systems tend to require more creativity and understanding of the principles involved.
Aeroponic systems make beautiful roots, but require continuous electrical usage with little tolerance for a power failure.
Now that you know the basics of growing and have an idea about which system or systems you might want to try, visit your local hydroponics retailer to learn more.


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Bringing My "A" Game
I've been doing a lot of thinking about the differences between my two one-shots - that is, why was one of them an A Game, and one a B-Minus Game?
Wade (as usual) does an excellent job of breaking it down for us.
I agree with his points, and have a few more to add. Here is what I'll be doing differently in future one-shots:
Setting Familiarity
Wade is right: The FUDGE Deryni game flopped in part because the players didn't know the setting and there was no one-sentence description to summarize it easily.
Even though Cthulhutech was an unfamiliar setting, it drew on a number of familiar elements. I was able to easily describe it: "It's like a cross between Neon Genesis: Evangelion and Cyberpunk, with Cthulhu added."
In the future, I will try to run games that are either familiar to the players or for which it is easy to create said familiarity with relatively few brush strokes.
For FUDGE, I did all the character generation according to what I thought the players wanted. I didn't pay much attention to what I needed to move the story along. I also had the characters 100% complete before the players ever saw them. I failed to provide any hints as to character personality.
For Cthulhutech, I made more characters than players, and allowed them to choose which character they wanted as their own. As I had four players, I made six characters and made sure that each critical skill was covered by at least three characters. I also left the characters partially incomplete, allowing the players to customize slightly. Part of the Framewerk system involves giving each character a character virtue and a character flaw, so they had an idea of who these collections of numbers were, too.
In the future, I'll do what I did with Cthulhutech. I know which players will gravitate to which character type, so I can make sure that the players will like who they wind up with. I'll also make sure there are some personality hints somewhere on the page. And I'll leave a few things unfinished so that the players have some personal touches added to their characters.
My weakness is endings. It always has been. They completed the major objectives in the FUDGE game, but I left too many hooks dangling - and it's a genre that doesn't seem to like dangling hooks. The "climax" was also unsatisfying - most players like a good solid combat at some point, and I did my best to dodge it for FUDGE.
I left plots hanging in Cthulhutech, too, but they were plots that felt like they were supposed to dangle. Sure, they caught the bad guy, but the mastermind got away. It's like that mid-point on TV Crime Dramas, when you know who the real bad guy is, but you don't have enough proof to get him. There was a good dust-up, too, before things returned to "Business as Usual."
I did a better job of sensory engagement with Cthulhutech. Every GM Guide I've ever read has a reminder to GM's about this, too. Describe smells and sounds. If the air feels damp, tell them that. Just telling players that "the carpet squelches underfoot as you walk across it," goes a long ways towards setting the tone.
Part of that is because I'd just re-read Robin's Laws of Good Gamemastering (which is well worth the $8 PDF price). I have several other excellent GM-ing books around that I've been refreshing myself on, too.
I should probably write about a few of them.
I'm also going to suggest that my players read Play Unsafe - there are a number of excellent books for GM's and not that many for players.
I'm currently reading Kobold's Guide to Game Design, Volume 1. It's for people who are writing an adventure, not necessarily for GM's who are in the thick of things, as it were - but it has some good information. I'll be writing more about this one later, too.
Tags: Roleplaying
Battletech Pods In Seattle
This is a hair off-topic from tabletop gaming, so please bear with me for this week?
So remember a few months ago, when I did my 200th mission in the Tesla pods?
There are pods in Seattle again.
We scoped it out last weekend. The Airlock is small, but the owner is enthusiastic and the game, of course, rocks.
As of this writing, they don't have a phone, but I heartily suggest checking them out.
The Airlock
Located just east of I-405 in the Totem Square strip mall between Laughs Comedy Club and the Bead Hut.
I did about a dozen missions last night, and had an absolute blast. I even managed to talk my wife into trying the pods out.
She's a boardgamer and a roleplayer, but not really much of a video gamer. Because of this, I didn't expect her to enjoy the pods. What we did is have her watch one game. She sat right next to me (only outside the pod), and watched the screen and all the buttons I was pushing (I'm running expert level, so there are a lot of buttons to keep track of).
We then bought her into a Basic mission. She did really poorly, but a large part of that was the fact that the average experience of the other pilots in that game had over 300 Missions. And she ... sorta liked it.
So she tried dropping into an expert-level game. She did much better. Better enough that I suspect she has more natural talent for this sort of thing than I, and will be significantly better than I am once she gets some practice. She was still near the bottom of the heap score-wise, but showed significant potential.
Meanwhile, I learned the fun way that I'm not the only Light Mech Pilot around anymore. That's nice. There is one pilot who is scarily good with a Commando, and another pilot and I did the Circle of Death for about two-thirds of a mission.
I had a great time.
Thanks, Uglyman for opening up locally. I look forward to many many entertaining missions and eventual Master Trials.
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One-Shots Update
So ... one-shots. Remember last year, how I'd decided not to buy any new RPG books until I'd used my most recent purchase?
It's the New Year's Resolution I broke last year - and didn't renew this year.
But I did run a couple of one-shots. Well - one last year, and one earlier this year.
Last year's one-shot was FUDGE. I actually used The Deryni Adventure Game. I generated one PC per player and sent the characters out a few weeks in advance along with a description of the basics of the system.
Part of the reason I chose FUDGE is because FATE is a flavor of FUDGE, and the upcoming Dresden Files RPG is a FATE-based game. And one of my players is foaming at the mount with excitement. Since The Dresden Files Role-Playing Game was due by GenCon, I figured a quick FUDGE game would get him ready for FATE.
And, before anyone snarks about the game not being out yet, I suggest you grab your copy of this book, and read number 117. If you don't own it, yet, then go to IPR and buy it!
The game was ... okay. The players weren't as into it as I'd have liked, and my usual off-the-cuff GM-ing style didn't seem to work. I had fun, and (apparently) so did the players, but I was left feeling a bit unsatisfied. And I didn't get the enthusiastic vibe from the players that you can get after a good session. It showed a lot of potential - and I'd definitely be willing revisit the game for a sequel at some point - I deliberately left a few plot hooks dangling - but I suspect that, if the players were filling out a report card, it would have received a B-minus or C-plus grade.
For my second one-shot, I grabbed a game that I knew the players were more enthusiastic about - Cthulhutech. I made more characters than players, and I left them incomplete. Not "five hours of work later, I had a character" incomplete - those of you familiar with the game will know what I mean when I say, "I didn't spend the characters' cheats." I had an idea of where to go story-wise.
We had a blast. The game went well - I had a hint-dropping NPC available if needed (something I hadn't thought of - it was a player idea that was easy to insert into the game). And the Big Finish was fun.
My good friend Wade, who is one of the primary reasons I do these one-shots, wrote up his reaction to the game.
My next one-shot (yet to be scheduled) will be King Arthur Pendragon, a game I've wanted to play since the first edition came out - and a game from which I have frequently borrowed bits for use in other games. I'll have to write about that, sometime ...
Tags: CthulhuTech, Deryni, Dresden, FATE, FUDGE, Pendragon, Roleplaying
Geek Honesty
Gamers - the hardcore serious ones - are among the most honest people I know. It's one of the things about our culture that I very much appreciate sometimes.
Those of you who don't know me in person are probably not aware of how my luck turns - it (like that of most people) swings wildly from good to bad and back again. Thankfully, the extreme good and extreme bad tend to both be for minor things - for which I am extremely thankful. And my bad luck tends to be related to things rather than people.
It means that, if everyone I know purchases the same book, mine will be the one that falls out of its cover. It happens to me fairly often - I'm not even surprised by it, anymore.
So what does this have to do with gaming and honesty?
Simple: What do I spend the most money on?
Right. Game materials. Books, board games, card games ... you name it.
My first defective game book was a copy of Sorcerer. I e-mailed the designer, asking what my options were. He just dropped another one in the mail for me. "Just send the bad one back when you get a chance."
My second defective book was a few years later - a Fantasy Flight Games d20 book (I think it was a Monstous compendium, but I'm not 100% sure). Again: A copy was mailed to me within two days.
When I went to my first convention for Asmodee (Origins 2005), I spent it in the open gaming area. At a nearby table, there was a copy of Pizza Box Football that the designer had just ... left there.
"Do you need me," I remember asking, "to keep an eye on that for you?"
"It'll be okay," he said, "You must be new at this."
Over the course of that weekend, several thousand gamers wandered through that room. Several hundred looked at the game - they rolled the dice, or played a few turns, or even played a full game.
On Sunday afternoon, the designer wandered back by. It was all there - even down to the dice and pegs the game includes. He grinned at me, "You see? I told you it'd be okay here."
It's stuck with me.
I had a defective (non-game) book from Amazon a few months back - they sent the replacment next-day air and sent a label for return shipping. I also received a little note in their instruction e-mail, "If we don't have the defective one back within 30 days, we'll bill your card for the replacement."
I have never seen a similar phrase in an e-mail from a game publisher.
It's a completely different culture, sometimes.
Oh - there's a bit more. I'll fill you in once it's fully resolved.


In the preceding four parts we addressed Usamah Hasan's claim that neo-Darwinism is the route through which Allah created man (Aadam), and we explained this is a futile claim, and that there is nothing but contradiction and opposition between the revealed texts and the account of the origin of man given in Darwinism. We also cited the verdicts of the Scholars of the Sunnah that claiming Aadam descended from apes is takdheeb (rejection) of Allaah and His Messenger [meaning that what Allaah and His Messenger have stated on this matter (creation of Aadam) is a lie] and as such, this is pure kufr and that the one who knowingly holds this belief is a kaafir (see those verdicts in this article).
In this article we want to take up this matter in light of a development yesterday evening (Saturday 22/01/2011) in which Suhaib Hasan introduced the talk of Usamah Hasan, "Islam & the Theory of Evolution" at the mosque in High Road Leyton. There were large numbers in attendance at least a couple of hundred, and there was much commotion.
When Allaah fashioned Adam in Paradise, He left him [for as long] as He willed to leave him. Then Iblis roamed round him to see what actually that was and when he found him hollow from within, he recognised that he had been created with a disposition that he would not have control over himself.
This hadeeth is related by Imaam Muslim in his Sahih in Kitab al-Birr wal-Silah wal-Aadaab and is explicit in indicating that Aadam was created and fashioned in Paradise. This adds to and explains the detail in the Qur'an regarding Aadam's creation, and it along with the verses in the Qur'an falsify Usamah Hasan's falsehood. From here, it is nothing but pure takdheeb of Allaah and His Messenger.
Usamah Hasan confirmed and reaffirmed that he believes Aadam (alayhis salaam) was the descendant of apes, and that he was created through Darwinian Evolution, having ape-like parents!
Suhaib Hasan defended the right of his son to make independent ijtihaad, and stated that even if it is a minority opinion, it is nevertheless a permitted opinion. In his introduction, Suhaib Hasan used the example of Shaykh al-Albaanee being expelled from certain institutions because people complained about him as he had views in which there was difference of opinion, but at the same time no one called him a deviant!
Suhaib Hasan stated he is an independent scholar and therefore has the right to give his own fatwa which the people (i.e. those present and those in this land in general) should accept, and that they should accept his authority as "the scholar of the land". This is an oft-repeated claim we have heard for many long years, and it has been repeated by many of his followers and loyalists.
First: It is important that the reader understand the history of Suhaib Hasan, because his orientation in this fitnah is not surprising to say the least. The scholars spoke against him well over a decade ago with what would make his reality clear, indicating his leanings towards the people of innovation and their methodologies and his own corrupt methodology of da'wah. Now, this is an article in itself, but we'll suffice here with the mention of a few things.
His constant and regular appearance with the deviants and innovators which comprise the callers to shirk (like in the picture above Muhammad bin Aadam al-Kawthari who calls to istighaathah from other than Allaah), his flattery for those upon and calling to Tajahhum (like "the esteemed Shaykh Hamzah Yusuf") [Ibrahim bin Maysarah: "Whoever honoured an innovator has aided in the destruction of Islaam."], his participation in events promoted as celebrations of the Milad, as in the picture above, with members of the Conservative party, his membership in councils and committees with the Modernists, Rationalists, Sufis, Ash'aris and others, and his resentment and dislike of al-Ikhwan al-Muslimoon being spoken of and their reality clarified to the Muslims. This persistent and consistent history over the past 15 years indicates the clear alignment of Suhaib Hasan, and his general orientation in wanting to build and maintain bridges with the Ahl al-Ahwaa. All this whilst disregarding the way of those who are the true scholars like Imaam Ibn Baz (rahimahullaah) and deceiving the people by claiming connection to those scholars on purely historical grounds (and not on account of the actual Salafi manhaj they were upon), and trying to assert one's authority over Muslims in Britain on account of these types of specious arguments and bygone history. And it is well known and famous from him, his claim that because he is on a par with the well-known Scholars (like for example the Scholars of Saudi Arabia), then he is the authority that should be referred to in matters pertaining to da'wah and fatwa and so on in this country. And a great portion were put to trial by him and followed him in this delusion. When we see this pluralistic outlook from the father, it should come as no surprise to see the son inheriting a like influence, and going one step further in the evolutionary chain where we start seeing hybridizations between "Wahhabism" and Sufism and likewise, between Darwinism and the Qur'an, and likewise between Darwinism and the Ittihaad of the Sufis, and likewise between Islam and Secularism - as if a broad merger between Sunnah and bid'ah was not progressive enough. In the past, excuses could have been made that this is just the son going off on one, but the reality of Suhaib Hasan's history indicates otherwise, this is by no means an unexpected phenotype that has just popped out of the blue, it has history and can be traced.
Second: It was obligatory upon Suhaib Hasan to follow the likes of Shaykh Ibn Baaz and Shaykh Ibn Uthaymin (rahimahumallaah) and their clear verdicts (quoted in Part 4) - in which takfir is made of whoever claimed Aadam is the offspring of apes, and to take appropriate measures of discipline in light of that truth. However, he defended his son's pronouncement of kufr and takdheeb of Allaah and His Messenger upon the claim that this is a permitted ijtihaad. And what baatil is there after this? Was Jahm bin Safwan's ijtihaad excusable? Or that of Bishr al-Mareesee? And what about all the other apes and asses who have passed through history whom the Scholars scorned and warned against because of their entrance into what is much, much, much less than what Usamah Hasan has entered into?
Third: It is not possible to defend Usamah through the hadeeth of the man who ordered that his body be burned and the ashes scattered all over, thinking, mistakingly, that Allaah would not be able to resurrect him. This man was genuinely ignorant and his action was out of veneration, fear and awe of Allaah for whatever he had done of wrong, alongside his mistaken belief that Allaah would not be capable of resurrecting him. That is not like the takdheeb that we are witnessing here from Usamah Hasan, because here we have a situation of rejecting that from the revealed text whose meaning is qat'ee (definitive) and not under dispute by any of the Ummah except for the intellectual apes that have appeared on the landscape in recent times trying to argue for Darwinian Evolution. And when we add to this, the fact that these apes mock the symbols of Islam, like the beard, and men's and women's dress, and call for the uncovering of the awrah (all this has occurred from Usamah Hasan), then this shows a type of perversion that makes any type of "ta'weel" (claiming faulty interpretation has been made and therefore can be excused) completely inadmissible.
Fourth: Does Suhaib Hasan have any excuse for this defense? There is no doubt he is not ignorant of the verdicts of the Scholars on this matter, and those Scholars made those verdicts because of their knowledge and understanding that Darwinism is the flag-bearing call of atheism in the modern era. It is the greatest intellectual tool of the opposers to fitrah, aql, naql and the Tawhid of the Messengers, and with it, they look down upon the Muslims as backward, ignorant and feeble, just as the greatest of tyrants and the most insolent in history accosted some of the Prophets and their followers with a similar type of intellectual terrorism. Yet, Usamah is lamenting and resentful along with the atheists that Muslims are taught Darwinism is wrong, and he is adamant in his defence of his position, and upon this his father defends the right of his son to hold such a position. What an evil station to hold (in this matter) and what an evil defense it is!
That I live next to a Jew or a Christian, or apes and pigs is more beloved to me than that a person of desires who makes my heart diseased (with his deviation) should live next to me.
And something similar has been said by Abu al-Jawzaa and others. Thus, when it is from your da'wah to constantly find yourself in the company of such people, or ending up on their platforms, and wanting to build bridges and cordiality with them, upon your own [innovated] vision, idea and perception of a particular type of [watered down] Islam and Sunnah suitable for the land you are in, then this takes a toll no doubt, and it makes the heart prone to the type of disgrace that manifested last night. One should not think of this as an aberration and simply and unexpected big mistake out of the blue! Behind it is a long history of gradual Evolution ... and we are simply seeing the manifestation of that now. Get this right... no Scholar of the Sunnah ever defended plain kufr and takdheeb of Allaah and His Messenger from the angle of an unexpected "slip" and "mistake," just out of the blue. This only happens when the heart becomes gradually accustomed to baatil and its people due to the reasons mentioned above. After allowing his son to do his presentation (a repeat of one he did to non-Muslims in April 2009), Suhaib Hasan proceeded to defend the right for this view to be held and so there isn't even an issue of anyone wanting or seeking to make isqaat (bringing down) of anyone here, when it is already been done by the very person in question himself. Just imagine, the custodian of a mosque allowing the congregation to be barraged with Darwinism (Usamah used the quotes we addressed in Part 3 of this series) and presented with the claim that the first Prophet of Allaah was born of what resembles apes, and then proceeding to defend the right for this view to be held and that it amounts to nothing but a ta'weel like the ta'weel of the Ash'aris!... that is an insult on top of injury.
Sixth: It is necessary that this position being taken by son and father, along with all their statements, are taken to the Major Scholars for a verdict that can be used to give relief and ease for those whose Eemaan and ibaadah have been put to tribulation.


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JavaScript and LESS/CSS for creating Bootstrap-themed trees (to display hierarchical data).

Examples and documentation available at http://jhfrench.github.io/bootstrap-tree/docs/example.html

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#### Building
This project relies on the [Bootstrap](http://github.com/twbs/bootstrap) project's constants and mixins.

To contribute to the project, or build your custom version, you need the bootstrap project cloned in a sibling directory of this project.

To automate the process of building the css, Grunt is used. To use grunt, switch to the this directory and do:

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This will build the css and output it to `bootstrap-combined.min.css` file.
You can also use `grunt watch` to watch changes to the less files while you build and test.


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New Numbers for Boondoggle CA Railroad Scheme Reveal State Near Collapse
P. Gardner Goldsmith , @gardgoldsmith
Until recently, Many California leftists claimed that their Great Leader, Democrat Governor Jerry Brown, had created a surplus for his loving people. Perhaps they felt it was a way to show conservative Republicans that a government could be known as a leftie stronghold while balancing budgets.
There's just one problem with this, something that was revealed last year by Hans Bader, of CNS news, and is now being exposed even further. Turns out, the great "surplus" became a deficit when 2016 spending numbers were "discovered" to have been undercounted by $1.9 billion, and, this week, the Brown government revealed that the magical "bullet train" being built by the government between Los Angeles and San Francisco will run, get this, an estimated $77.9 billion by the time the first few trains might possibly run in 2029. That's an increase of $13 billion from estimates provided two years ago.
The price of the California bullet train project jumped sharply Friday when the state rail authority announced that the cost of connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco would be $77.3 billion and could rise as high as $98.1 billion — an uptick of at least $13 billion from estimates two years ago.
Can you imagine a private company doing this? Of course not. But the California government can take people's money without asking them to voluntarily offer it; they can take the cash through taxation, which Brown and his allies have been doing, seemingly with pride.
Just last year, Jerry signed a bill that increased gas taxes and vehicle fees by $5.2 billion annually, and many residents believed the money would be reserved for highway and bridge repairs. But as Republican California State Assembly member Melissa Melendez noted last year, nearly 30% is not being used on roads and bridges. Some is being spent on university projects, some for job training for felons, and some for parks, to name just a few divergences. Oh, and then there's the money that will go towards, yeah, you got it, trains.
And the Democrat-led California Assembly also raised the state income tax last year, bringing the top level to 13.3% for the next decade.
Yet this group of politicians want to shell out between $77.3 and $98.1 billion on a "high speed" rail system between the City of Angels and the Gate City of San Fran.
No wonder businesses and residents have been fleeing the state in droves.
But this is not just a run-of-the-mill example of bad governance or legislative tomfoolery that should be lined up beside so many others in US and world history. This story includes in it an historical and economic lesson we can learn, and that lesson is about public rail projects.
Public rail is always, without exception, a loser. From the time of the boondoggle "Transcontinental Railway" which was years over time and millions over budget thanks to government cronyism.
And this tradition has not stopped. As I noted in my book, "Live Free or Die", when factoring for tax subsidies and loans, no public rail line in history has run in the black.
In fact, almost anyone familiar with how politicians and special interests work can note that rail projects are ways to force taxpayers who don't live near the lines and will likely not use them to subsidize rail users, rail builders and employees, and business interests located near the rail stops. The story hasn't changed since the days of the Transcontinental Railroad, when workers would knowingly plant rails on permafrost, aware that the land would shift in the spring, and they would be able to charge more to the feds for conducting the repairs.
If a rail line is a good economic investment, there is no need to subsidize it. If there is a market for the transportation, customers will be attracted, and private investors will line up to loan start-up cash.
In fact, this is precisely what happened during the time of the Transcontinental Railroad. What many Americans don't know is that while the feds were bungling and pocketing huge collections of taxpayer money for themselves, the privately run Great Northern Railway successfully beat the government at its own game, creating a transcontinental rail under time and at budget.
Nothing in politics changes.
But it's important to look at the contemporary stories and try not to get frustrated. Rather, we can use them as catapults to go back into history and learn, then spread that information to others…
…Even as collectivists tell us how "financially responsible" they are in places like California.
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Without a universal prescription drug plan, coverage in Canada vastly differs depending on where you live. In Canada's North, out-of-pocket expenses for prescription medications pose even more of a constraint because living expenses such as food, transportation, and rent are so much higher than in other provinces.
The territories are the only place in Canada where public spending accounts for more than half the cost of prescription medicine (62.8 percent in the Yukon, 65.1 percent in the Northwest Territories and 64.9 percent in Nunavut).
Prescription drug coverage in the territories is provided through a combination of federal, territorial and private drug plans. Public programs cover prescription drug costs – including dispensing fees and deductibles – for First Nations, Inuit and Métis.
Northern residents endure high rates of chronic diseases, such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure, serious illnesses requiring specialized treatments.
While most Nunavut Inuit receive coverage for drugs under the federal Non-Insured Health Benefits Program, others still end up paying more for the medication they need simply because they live in the North. This leaves certain prescription costs out of reach for many Nunavut citizens.
In the Yukon, both the Children's Drug Program and the Chronic Disease Program require a deductible (from $250-$500). Even charges as low as $2 have been found to be a barrier to taking medication as prescribed.
According to a 2015 Wellesley Institute Report, an estimated one third of working Canadians do not receive employer provided health benefits. That means that in the territories, almost 18,000 working Canadians don't have access to prescription drug coverage.
This patchwork coverage leaves many Northerners without access to the medication they need, either because they don't have a prescription drug plan or have plans that don't cover the cost.
Everyone should have equal access to the prescription drugs they need regardless of where they live. It's time for a universal prescription drug plan.


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"A tiny lane with breathtaking views sitting above Leura Cascades - no traffic!"
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Can anyone please tell me the SAFE areas to live in the Blue Mountains.
What's single life like in Katoomba?
Where is the closest 24 hour medical centre to Katoomba?
What's the best town in the Blue Mountains for a single young (24) professional?


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Home UK & Europe Colliers welcome new Government inquiry into impact of Business Rates on business...
Colliers welcome new Government inquiry into impact of Business Rates on business with caution
John Webber, Head of Rating, Colliers International. Copyright Nick Cunard / NCSM Media.
News that the Treasury Committee is launching a new inquiry into Business Rates to scrutinize how Government policy has impacted on business is welcomed with caution by business rates experts at Colliers International.
John Webber, Head of Business Rates said, "Obviously any review that tries to stem the current carnage on the high street is welcome. However, this does feel like loud banging on the stable door long after the horse has charged off down the street."
"As we have long been saying, the current business rates regime needs a roots and branches reform: regular revaluations, a proper review of reliefs, a sensible multiplier, a reform of the appeals system (which ground to a halt in 2017) and a properly funded valuation office, as well as some immediate action- to freeze rates rises this year and to remove the downwards transition, that is strangling many of the provincial retail stores, who are paying higher rates than they should.
But whatever review takes place, if the Government insists on raising the same amount of money by the same group of people (Over £7 bn of the £27bn of business rates taken are paid by the retail sector), then we will be no further forward."
"In many ways it is too late for many of the hundreds of store closures and thousands of jobs lost that we have already see – and this pattern will only continue until something drastic is done quickly. The system needs action NOW.
"I suppose the one good thing is that, this is at last an admission by the Government that what it has been doing over business rates in the last nine years has desperately failed. However, whether anything it suggests will change things in time is unlikely. My fear is that in the next 4 to 6 weeks when the new rate bills drop through the letter box, demanding even further increases, it will be the end of the road for many businesses. All too little and all too late I am afraid."
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August 2nd, 2011: Quiet Cool
Aug2 by Professor Mortis
Cast and Crew: Jared Martin, Chris Mulkey, Fran Ryan
What It's About: When heavily armed marijuana growers murder her brother and sister-in-law and her nephew Joshua (Adam Coleman Howard) disappears, Katy Greer (Daphne Ashbrook) turns to ex-boyfriend and maverick New York City cop Joe Dylanne (James Remar) for help.
Why Watch it Today?: The Marijuana Taxation Act passed today in 1937. Although the act did not prohibit marijuana, it was the first regulation by the Federal government upon it. Quiet Cool is a hilariously over-the-top piece of 1980s anti-drug action movie paranoia, with James Remar miscast as a "good guy" fighting the equally miscast Nick Cassavetes, who plays the head "grower". While growers booby-trapping and claiming public land as their own is a documented issue, it is pretty hard to take heavily armed marijuana growers who hold a town hostage very seriously on film. Add in the strange relationship between Remar's cop and Howard's survivalist teen (not to mention Joshua's very silly "sharpened sticks" gimmick weapon), an unintentionally hilarious final scene, and an overwrought 80s rock theme song and you have a recipe for one of the best unsung "so-bad-its-good" action movies of the 1980s.
Other Choices: Reefer Madness, the cult favorite 1930s anti-Marijuana scare film; Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle; Up in Smoke
No trailer, but the movie is up on YouTube:
This entry was posted in Action, Buddy Flick, Cops, Crime, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good and tagged awful cover, California, Chris Mulkey, double cross, drug dealers, drugs, Fran Ryan, homoerotic subtext, James Remar, Jared Martin, marijuana, maverick cops, New Line Cinema, Nick Cassavetes, showdown, survivalist, twist.
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