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Inside The Cru – Nov. 7 – Feat. Liam Horrobin
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This week on #InsideTheCru Tyler Yaremchuk is joined by AJHL Writer Liam Horrobin to talk about the Crusader's recent play and the North Division through two months. Also, check out our fancy new player! It comes with an option to directly download the episode to your device so you can listen on the go!
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The Month That Was – October
Last season, the Sherwood Park Crusaders finished first in the North Division for the first time in their franchise's history. It was a massive high-point for this organization, and while most agreed that the team this year would be just as good, I don't think very many people thought they would be this good.
After 18 games, I can confidently say that I believe the Crusaders will beat their franchise record of 44 wins which they set last season. I'm not sure what the record is for best goal differential, least goals allowed, or more goals scored, but I'm sure they'll beat those too.
They are that good. The CJHL Rankings confirm that as well. After being snubbed and left out of the Top 20 list at the beginning of the season (and not even given an honourable mention) the team has had a regular presence on the list and in my opinion, should be considered not just the best team in the AJHL, but the best team in the country.
In October, they suffered just one loss, and it came on October 5th at the hands of the Okotoks Oilers, who are a damned good team themselves. Apart from that loss, the team won 11 games with only one of those wins being by less than two goals. I put it in bold font because it's that impressive.
They outscored their opposition 54-20 and haven't allowed more than one goal against in a game since 6-3 win over the Drayton Valley Thunder on October 14th. That's a six-game stretch.
Given that yesterday was Halloween, I'll tell you something that should really scare the rest of the North Division: it looks like the team is somehow getting better.
At the beginning of the season, they were winning a lot of games because of their three big offensive weapons Carter Savoie, Arjun Atwal, and Will Zapernick. That's not the case anymore, in fact, over their last three games they've gotten goals from 11 different players. Their depth is really starting to shine through, and that will only make them more difficult to beat.
Right now, the only team in league with as many wins as them is the Brooks Bandits and while the Bandits haven't lost a game yet, they have been pushed to a shootout three times. The Crusaders have racked up all 18 of their wins in regulation time. That's also very impressive.
I don't mean to sound like a homer or anything, but they straight up dominated the month of October, and I really don't want to understate just how impressive it was.
In September, I wasn't shy to point out that Carter Gylander didn't look like the same goalie we saw last season. Whenever I did say it, I was quick to point out that he was a supremely talented goaltender, the trip to Russia probably just threw him off a little bit, and it was just a matter of time until he returned to form.
He did that in October, and he gets the Player of The Month nod.
He started seven games in October and allowed just 12 goals while stopping 142 shots. The offence has been great and the fact they have averaged over five goals for per game so far this season has kind of taken away from how strong the goaltending has been. But it shouldn't.
Gylander was fantastic in October and is a very deserving Player of The Month. I don't expect his play to really drop off either. There's a good chance he's this good for the rest of the season, and if he is, he'll be in the Goaltender of the Year conversation.
While I have been waxing poetic about how good the Crusaders have been, they have a very tough test this weekend with back-to-back games against the Spruce Grove Saints. Honestly, I would say that it's more likely than not that their winning streak ends this weekend. The Saints are a solid team and have only suffered three losses this season as well.
Considering that this is the first matchup between the two teams since they played in the North Division final last year, I expect a pair of emotionally charged matchups. They'll be at the Sherwood Park Arena on Friday night and out in Spruce Grove on Saturday night.
Following a big set of back-to-back games, the Cru will take the ice six more times in November with four of those games being on home ice. That's excellent news for this team. A relaxed schedule that has them playing at the SPA for the majority of the month should allow them to stay rested and healthy.
They'll also play a neutral site game at the Derald Palmer Memorial Arena up in Fox Creek (some call it Fox Vegas) on Sunday, November 17th against the Whitecourt Wolverines.
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Inside The Cru – October 31 – Feat. Mat Shatsky
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The Crusaders rolled through the month of October & Tyler Yaremchuk recaps it all and talks to defenseman Mat Shatsky on this weeks episode of #InsideTheCru
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Inside The Cru – October 24 – Feat. Ty Mueller
This week on #InsideTheCru Tyler Yaremchuk talks about the team being ranked #2 in the country & chats with the highest-scoring 16-year-old in the AJHL, Ty Mueller!
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Inside The Cru – October 17 – Feat. Brennan McDonnell
This week on #InsideTheCru Tyler Yaremchuk goes through the teams three wins on Thanksgiving weekend & talks to Brennan McDonnell about his journey from Florida to Sherwood Park.
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Cru Wrap – Game 13 vs Drayton Valley
Currently on a three-game winning streak, the Crusaders welcomed the Drayton Valley Thunder to the Sherwood Park Arena to complete a Thanksgiving weekend homestand. It has been a wildly successful homestand as well. It got started on Friday with a tight, divisional win over the Fort McMurray Oil Barons and followed it up with a 6-2 victory over the Drumheller Dragons.
There's really been nothing but positives for the Crusaders through the first 12 games of the season. Their schedule has been rather relaxed considering that the only true elite team they've played this year is the Okotoks Oilers but you can only beat who they schedule you to play against and the Crusaders haven't just been doing enough to get two points, on most nights, they've been straight up dominating the opposition.
Here's how things went down this afternoon:
The Crusaders got off to a flying start this afternoon with a pair of goals within the first three minutes of the game. First, it was the team's top line of Atwal/Savoie/Zapernick connecting for Zapernick's ninth goal of the season. Just 20 seconds later they got another one, this time it was Jarred White finding the back of the net.
The first five minutes of this game was straight-up dominated by the home side. The Thunder didn't manage to get a shot on goal until the 13:30 mark of the opening frame. The Cru would extend their lead one more time with Kaden Bryant jumping on a loose puck in the slot.
After that, the Thunder started to get some momentum back. It started with a powerplay opportunity with about ten minutes to go in the period. They didn't score but they managed to get some puck possession under their belt and they got on the board shortly after the powerplay expired when Ty Whitford finished off an excellent passing play. The Thunder would get one more back shortly afterwards with rookie Grayson Reid getting his second of the season.
After a dominant start, the Crusaders simply let the Thunder back into this game.
The goal-scoring dried up a little bit in the second period but the one goal that was scored was an absolute beauty. Carter Savoie scooped up a pass from Ty Mueller and managed to fend off a Drayton Valley Thunder defenseman, who was draped all over him, drag the puck past an Eric Ward poke check attempt, and slide a backhander in along the ice.
From there, things started to get pretty heated. These two teams combined for 54 penalty minutes in the period with 42 of them being handed out with just over three minutes remaining after Davis Murray ran over Thunder goalie Eric Ward and sparked a pretty major melee.
Once things cooled down, and the blood got scraped off the ice (literally) play resumed and the Crusaders were able to run out the clock and head back into the room with their two-goal lead in-tact.
After a very eventful middle frame, these two teams delivered a rather boring final period, which is probably exactly what Crusaders Head Coach Adam Manah wanted. They didn't allow very many if any, high-danger chances for the majority of the period and really just kept the puck away from Carter Gylander as much as possible.
The Cru would add to their lead when Ty Mueller fired home a wrister, his third point of the game. Drayton Valley would capitalize on a powerplay with just over two minutes to go to make it a 5-3 game. Jarred White also threw one more home, his second of the game, in the final minute of the game to make it 6-3 for the Cru. That's how things would end as the Crusaders win their fourth in a row and improve to 12-1-0 on the season.
THE UPS
The top-line continues to be productive but today they got a couple of goals from lower in their lineup. If this team is going to push for a title, they'll need to keep getting contributions from everyone on their roster.
Carter Savoie continued his strong draft year with a beautiful goal to extend his goal-scoring streak to a league-high ten games. The only game he hasn't scored in was the team's second win of the season against Lloydminster.
Carter Gylander didn't have to make too many great saves, but he was solid tonight. He's finding a consistent groove and I feel like these last two games have been his best two-game stretch of the season.
I often forget that Ty Mueller is just 16-years-old. He plays such a smooth, steady game. You rarely see him make a mistake and I'm sure the Crusaders are hoping that a good offensive performance helps him get a little bit more confident with the puck on his stick. I think he has the potential to be one of the best players in the league within the next 12-18 months.
THE DOWNS
The hot start to the game was great to see, but you could tell they took their foot off the gas a little bit after they went up 3-0. They've blown out a few teams this year and it felt like they thought this was just going to turn into 'point-night'.
The two big momentum-changing moments from a Drayton Valley perspective came after the Crusaders gave them looks on the powerplay. The Crusaders penalty kill has been good and while it didn't allow a goal today, it did allow the Thunder to gain some steam.
The Crusaders will have the next three days off before heading up to Fort McMurray for a weekend set against the Oil Barons. It's been a bit of a rough start to the year for the new-look Oil Barons who sit sixth in the North Division with a 4-7-1 record but they did play the Crusaders pretty tightly this past Friday so I'm expecting a pair of close games next weekend at the Casman Centre in Fort Mac.
Cru Wrap – Game 13 vs Drayton Valley was last modified: October 14th, 2019 by Tyler Yaremchuk
Inside The Cru – October 9 – Feat. Nick Magis
This week on #InsideTheCru Tyler Yaremchuk breaks down the Crusaders weekend road trip & talks to rookie forward Nick Magis.
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Inside The Cru – October 3 – Feat. Carter Savoie
This week on #InsideTheCru Tyler Yaremchuk recaps a highly successful first month of the season for the Sherwood Park Crusaders & talks with AJHL Player of the Month Carter Savoie.
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The Month That Was – September
I don't think the Sherwood Park Crusaders could have dreamt up a better start to the season than they just had. Through one month of play, the Crusaders are 7-0 and have been winning rather decisively.
They got the year going on home ice with a 7-5 victory over the Lloydminster Bobcats and from there, they defeated the Bobcats once again, the Thunder, the Wolverines, and the Oil Barons by a combined score of 19-6.
From there, they went on the AJHL Showcase in Camrose and put their dominance on display in front of the entire league. They kicked off the weekend with a 6-3 win over the Drumheller Dragons and then capped off their Showcase with a thrilling 6-5 victory over the Okotoks Oilers.
Even though they're ranked 2nd in the CJHL, you could make an argument that the Sherwood Park Crusaders are still not at their best. Carter Gylander has had a tough start to the season posting a 3.55 GAA to go with an 0.855 SV%. Even Gylander himself would likely admit that he was not his best in September. You can't blame him either. He was in Russia with Team AJHL and didn't see any game action during the JCWC. The fact that he came to camp late, after spending time overseas, and not playing a game is a good enough reason to cut Gylander a lot of slack. He'll be better as the season continues.
Jordan Frey has picked up the slack though. He's started his Crusaders career with three wins in three starts, one shutout, a 1.50 GAA, and a 0.915 SV%. He was dynamite, and for me, he's been the biggest surprise on this roster through seven games.
Here are some other storylines from the first month of play:
TOP-LINE DOMINANCE
Go to www.AJHL.ca and click on the "League Leaders" link. A page will pop up that shows you who has scored the most points in the entire league so far this season. The first three names are all members of the Sherwood Park Crusaders' top line.
Simply put: Arjun Atwal, Carter Savoie, and Will Zapernick have been virtually unstoppable through seven games. The trio has combined for 53 points through their first seven games. That's a staggeringly good number.
I said at the beginning of the season that if this trio played together, they would be the highest-scoring line in the AJHL. They're living up to the hype, and right now, I can't see a scenario where Adam Manah would want to break them up.
Their top line is scoring, but they're also getting contributions from the back end. Michael Benning is over a point-per-game, and Brennan McDonnell has four points in seven games. Upfront, Jarred White and Jacon Franczak have provided the secondary scoring. Both players are over a point-per-game. Getting that depth scoring is what will help later in the year and into the playoffs, and it's something I'll be keeping a close eye on as we roll through the season.
A NEAR PERFECT PENALTY KILL
They have not allowed a powerplay goal so far this season. Their PK is a 29-for-29. To me, that is a testament to how much these players are willing to fight for each other and how much they've bought into what Adam Manah and Jeff Woywitka are preaching.
The powerplay was ice cold to start the season, but they've since found their groove, and now they have the best powerplay percentage in the league (28.13%). When they were struggling, Head Coach, Adam Manah told me that it was simply some guys gripping their sticks too tight and some guys just not being in mid-season form yet with the puck on their stick. He was right not to be concerned. That group is too talented to not get hot with the man advantage at some point. Now it's a matter of them staying hot and proving they can consistently be good.
GM Kyle Chase was busy in September, as he often is, and added a pair of former WHL players to a forward core that was already one of the deepest in the league.
Blake Sydlowski was brought in after being released by the Red Deer Rebels, and while he hasn't registered a point quite yet, I think he'll be an impact player by the end of the season. Same with Davis Murray. The Former Oil King has only appeared in two games with the Cru, but I liked him during his time in the WHL. Once these two get acclimated to the AJHL, I think they'll start to stand out.
It absolutely has to be Arjun Atwal. The Crusaders Captain leads the league in scoring and got some recognition from the league, being named the Offensive Player of the Week.
I loved the decision to make Atwal the team Captain. I think he's an excellent leader both on and off the ice. This month, he's been their leader on the scoresheet as well. His offensive production is outstanding, and what I love about Atwal is even if the offence dries up (which I doubt it will) he's still a guy who won't change his game. He's solid at both ends of the rink, and honestly, I think he's the heartbeat of this team.
If you want to hear more from Arjun, you can listen to my interview with him on 'Inside The AJHL' HERE.
LOOKING AT OCTOBER
The Crusaders will take to the ice 12 times this month (5-home & 7-away) starting with a three-game southern road trip that will see them take on the Canmore Eagles, Okotoks Oilers, and Olds Grizzlies. From there, they will return home for three straight games (Fort McMurray, Drumheller, Drayton Valley).
One thing that jumps off the page to me: four matchups against the Oil Barons. We saw these two clubs develop a bit of a rivalry last season and there were some heated moments in their first game of the season earlier this month. For the full schedule, HEAD HERE: https://admin.esportsdesk.com/leagues/schedules.cfm?selectedMonth=10&selectedYear=2019&selectedTeamID=536976&selectedOfficialID=0&leagueID=3464&clientID=1705&embedLID=3464&embedCID=1705&whichSched=main&mixed=1&teamID=536976
The Month That Was – September was last modified: September 30th, 2019 by Tyler Yaremchuk
Inside The Cru – Sep 25 – Feat. Jordan Frey
The Crusaders are off to a great start to the 2019/20 campaign. Tyler Yaremchuk breaks it all down and chats with goaltender Jordan Frey in this weeks episode of #InsideTheCru
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The insurance companies often invest in certain financial assets to hedge against the loss due to the insurance claims. Until now Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies were considered as high-risk investments due to the volatility and the FUD against its acceptance as a valid asset class around the world.
However, the inclusion of these assets now will surely benefit the long term stability and growth of the cryptocurrencies and Blockchain projects.


The Communication Sciences Lab is directed by Beatrice Beebe, PhD. Our research focuses on the microanalysis of mother-infant communication, risk and resilience, and developmental outcomes. Our clinical focus is on primary prevention in mother-infant dyads at risk for dysregulated social development.
Video and audio microanalysis of mother-infant behavior has been the focus of the lab for four decades. This precise coding, together with sophisticated statistical methods of multi-level time-series analysis, functions like a social microscope. We identify different self- and interactive regulation patterns of contingent relating, including mother and infant patterns of coordinating vocal rhythms, looking and looking away, facial expressions, vocal affect, orientation, and touch. These patterns have predicted infant one-year attachment in two large community cohorts.


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The apparent deadness of the Campagna, during the season when travellers cross it, the scanty population, whose habits and manners savour an older world, the wall of ruin that surrounds every thing that is new and fresh in Rome, force the thoughts back upon the past, and veil the present, as the future, from our eyes.
Women's Travel Writings in Italy, Volume 5, Maria Graham; Three Months Passed in the Mountains East of Rome (1820)
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Helen Maria Williams. Stipple engraving, London: Dean and Munday, 1816. New York Public Library, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings
Bending, Stephen, and Stephen Bygrave, eds. Women's Travel Writings in Italy. Series editors, Stephen Bending and Stephen Bygrave. Volume editors: Donatella Badin, Julia Banister, Catherine Dille, Betty Hagglund and Annie Richardson. 9 vols. Part I, vols. 1-4. Part II, vols. 5-9. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009-2010.
Vols. 1-2. [Lady Anna Riggs Miller], Letters from Italy (1777)
Vols. 3-4. Hester Lynch Piozzi, Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy and Germany (1789)
Vol. 5. Maria Graham, Three Months Passed in the Mountains East of Rome (1820)
Vols. 6-7. Lady Morgan, Italy (1821)
Vols. 8-9. Harriet Morton, Protestant Vigils, or Evening Records of a Journey in Italy (1829)
_____. Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France. Edited by Stephen Bending and Stephen Bygrave. 7 vols. Part I, vols. 1-3. Part II, vols. 4-7. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007-2008.
Vols. 1-2. Helen Maria Williams, Letters Containing a Sketch of the Scenes which Passed in Various Departments of France during the Tyranny of Robespierre (1796)
Vol. 3. Helen Maria Williams, A Tour in Switzerland (1798); Charlotte West, A Ten Years' Residence in France, During the Severest Part of the Revolution . . . 1787 to 1797 (1821)
Vol. 4. A Sketch of Modern France (1798), "By a Lady," though equally possibly by its putative editor, Christopher Lake Moody
Vols. 5-7. Anne Plumptre, A Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in France, 1802-1805 (1810)

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Featured Business: DB Sports Tours
Name: David Berber
Employees: 3 full time staff and part-time staff to accompany groups (Easter 15-20 people)
Since: 2010 (2011/12 operationally)
From chartered accountant to FIFA player agent may seem like an unusual career move. However, that is the return on investment for David Berber's time spent coaching a kids' soccer team while he was working as a chartered accountant. After organising a trip abroad for the team, he noticed a gap in the market and set about filling it.
Established in 2010 and operating since 2012, DB Sports Tours started out with the vision of giving all children, regardless of age or ability, an experience of professional football. David was coaching at a high level and knew that children who get the opportunity to go away on trial are only 1% of the market. DB Sports Tours caters for the other 99% with a package that includes training at professional academies along with games and stadium tours.
Over an action-packed weekend or week, these players get the same experience as Wayne Rooney or Lionel Messi through fitness testing, sports psychology classes, and talks with scouts who explain what it takes to become a professional footballer.
Up until recently, DB Sports Tours catered for the Irish market's youth teams, but in 2015 they provided for a group from the USA who travelled to Spain. They are looking to expand in that area and plan to market towards college teams and semi-professional clubs.
Launching this year, the Catalan Elite Football is a professional academy in Ireland, which will be wholly unique. It is based on Catalan methodology — adopted by Barcelona Football Club and the Spanish National team that won the World Cup and the European Championship back-to-back. Elite kids will be able to train together there.
Under the FIFA Player agent side of the business, which David hopes to rebrand, trials or matches are arranged for the best young players in Ireland against a Premier League academy side. It's not just Irish players though. He has signed a Cypriot Under-17 international captain and he represents a boy from Poland who plays for Fulham.
"We'll definitely have players in the Premier League; I'm looking forward to seeing who is the first," says David.
Interview with David Berber
I was working as a chartered accountant with Ernst & Young. I was playing football and got involved in coaching a kids' team. I was asked to organise a trip away; the feedback from it was unbelievable and I saw a gap in the market for it and decided I didn't want to continue with Ernst and Young.
I got great support from Dublin City Enterprise Board. They've been fantastic with funding and mentors. I had personal savings — I was young so I was able to save money. I've had some investments from other people — both financially and with time.
Yes, absolutely. We started bringing away the best schoolboy clubs and leagues in Ireland. From that, we started to build up relationships with clubs, coaches, parents and we set up a FIFA player agency. I have a FIFA player agent license so we now represent a number of Irish youth players in Premier League clubs. We have a player management business as well. What we do with our players now is we source trials for them with the clubs that we deal with. When they get a contract we negotiate the best terms and conditions for the player. These kids are getting showcased in front of the right people, which is very unique. We organise matches against some of the biggest clubs in the UK — and had a Metropolitan girls team go away to play Espanyol, one of the top teams in the Spanish League.
For me, it was an event we ran called the Coca Cola Irish Cup where we brought over Ajax, West Brom and Reading. We also had the Irish National Youth team participate. Getting to the last few in the SFA awards was another highlight. The biggest buzz I get is when I'm negotiating contracts for an Irish schoolboy and that I'm able to make their dreams come true. We can organise trials for players who otherwise never would have got a trial.
What's the bravest step you've made in relation to your business?
The bravest step was giving up my job with Ernst & Young. It was in the middle of the recession. People were saying "Are you mad? You have a good job, why would you want to give it up? You've studied for the last five/six years of your life to become an accountant." That was the bravest step to do it. I moved to England for a couple of months to set up my contacts.
Without a doubt, the freedom of being my own boss. At the start I was doing everything myself and was tied up working till all hours. Now that I've established the business, there's processes in place and I have staff and it allows me to do other things.
It's tough. I've made a lot of sacrifices in terms of sports — I used to play football a lot, which I haven't in a number of years. I don't go out, but I go away seven or eight times a year. My work is my life. It's part life, it's part work. It's a hobby, it's a passion.
I've read every biography of every famous entrepreneur. One of my favourite is Alan Sugar, purely because he came from nothing. He was heavily involved with football as well — he owned Tottenham Hotspur. I'm inspired by my hardworking family more than anything, having been brought up around a family with a strong work ethic. My mother raised two kids as a single mother and did extra jobs.
What tools or technologies do you use that benefit your customers or business?
Social media is massive for us. Where we differ to everybody else is the contacts and relationships we have with the clubs. When you can put up a picture of a football team playing in a famous academy it's a big deal. Our competitors can't do that. They don't have those relationships. We're never going to sell anything from social media but it builds awareness.
I would 100% say that nobody knows the Irish schoolboy market like I do. I know it inside out, I know every club, I know every level. My competitors don't understand the market. I'm out watching games every week, I'm on the ground. It's all about relationships. The amount of contacts I've built up, knowing someone who knows someone.
I tried to set up a venture in Poland for Euro 2012. It went belly up. The biggest challenge was we were too new into the business and we didn't have the manpower. We put too much trust into our partners. Looking back now I'm glad it didn't go ahead. At the time it was a lot of money lost, a lot of time lost, a lot of effort lost. It took our eye off the ball in what we were growing. It was an opportunity that was a fantastic idea at the time but didn't come to fruition.
One thing that I hate doing now is the finances. What comes to me naturally? I'm very organised. To grow any business, it's about relationships. I'm really good at making new contacts and building new relationships.
Word of mouth. We have 100% customer retention. Our referrals are through the roof.
I read a lot in terms of my industry. I am well up to date on any new opportunities and new markets and new legislation that's coming into FIFA law. I keep up to date with blogs and get constant updates by emails that I've registered for. I read a lot. I think reading is very, very important.
To be recognised for bringing something to schoolboy football in Ireland.
To represent a player in the Irish national team, have players in the Premier League and look to build in new markets. I hope, going forward, Ireland will only be 25% of our business.
If you honestly have a passion for it, you have to be driven. If you have a passion, go for it. What's the worst that can happen? If you fail, you go again. I think all these people plan for ages. Initially when you start up you are going to make lots of costly mistakes. Obviously you can try and minimise them. Just do it. You're going to make mistakes, but learn from them. If you can do business here, you can do business anywhere – the Irish customer needs a lot of attention.
What's your favourite motivational business quote?
Be brave, take risks, nothing can substitute experience.
At the beginning it was very hard to delegate work because it's your business.
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Would you trust a co-worker who had proved themselves to be unreliable? It's a problem which we will almost certainly face with our robot co-workers in the near future.
Let's face it. Collaborative robots are not yet truly collaborative.
Modern cobots are only collaborative in the sense that they can operate around humans without the need for safety fences. They won't harm a human co-worker but that's as far as it goes. If we were to apply the same definition to our human co-workers, we wouldn't call them "collaborative," would we? Not harming your colleagues is surely a basic requirement for being a human being!
Collaborative (adj): "produced by or involving two or more parties working together."
In this sense, cobots are have a little way to go until they are really collaborative. However, advanced collaboration between people and robots is not too far away.
Before we start to truly collaborate there's something we need to sort out first.
How will robots and humans communicate their reliability to each other? How will our robot co-workers show us that we can trust them to do their jobs reliably?
Although this situation is still a little way in the future, researchers are already looking for the answers.
Last year, a warning was published in the journal Ergonomics by psychologist Prof. Peter Hancock. In it, he warned that the new autonomous technologies need more research into "human factors" — a discipline which examines the interaction between humans and technology.
Trust is a big reason that this research is necessary.
If a robot behaves unpredictably, it will surprise its human work-mates. These people will lose trust in the robot. They will become nervous about what the robot will do next. As roboticists, we might not be too concerned by this situation — we know that we can just identify the problem in the robot's programming, fix it, and happily reboot the robot. However, other workers may not be so understanding.
Robots will need ways to actively repair the trust that is lost when they "misbehave," as a group of psychologists explained in some follow-up research to Prof. Hancock's warning. Perfect autonomy, they argue, is not possible in real industrial situations. Human workers will have to deal with unexpected events relating to the robot many times a day.
In the near future, any robotic system will need ways to quickly repair its co-worker's trust in its abilities so that the human-robot team can get back to work.
How can a robot communicate that it is trustworthy to its human team members?
The answer to this, we need to look at how we, as humans, build trust with each other when we are working together.
Rapport (noun): "a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well."
Rapport has been shown to be essential for effective work and worker satisfaction.
Earlier this year, a team of Canadian researchers studied rapport-building in human-human teams to discover how we can improve human-robot interaction. They found that humans apply similar rapport-building behaviors with robotic colleagues as they do with human colleagues.
They identified various behaviors that people use to build rapport, or hinder rapport. These are split into verbal and non-verbal behaviors.
As humans, we use a whole host of different behaviors to put each other at ease when working together in a team.
Complimenting and thanking your co-worker.
Displaying an open, inviting, and friendly posture to co-worker.
Emphatically and appropriately responding to questions (e.g. in full sentences).
Engaging in friendly facial expressions (e.g. smiling, eye contact, etc).
Use of inclusive speech (e.g. "we", "us", etc), and including personal information unrelated to the task at hand to build common ground.
Friendly "back-channel" body language (e.g. smiling, laughing, waving, etc).
Genuinely apologizing when criticized and responding to general concerns with agreement and empathy.
Maintaining the other person's personal space.
Most of us use these behaviors without thinking. They are just part of our normal interaction. With robots, any rapport-building behaviors would have to be explicitly programmed. Some of them would be easier to implement than others.
Of course, not every action helps to build rapport in a team. Some behaviors actively hinder rapport-building.
Ignoring co-workers politeness and not responding when thanked.
A closed posture (e.g. arms folded).
Ignoring and/or not mitigating criticism from co-workers.
Showing disinterest and not engaging with co-worker.
Giving unusually brief responses to questions and adding no personal information.
Neutral or uninterested facial expression.
Use of aggressive or derogatory techniques (e.g. insincerity, sarcasm, questioning the person's abilities, etc).
Maintaining socially awkward physical distance from co-worker.
You can probably think of people that you have encountered in the past who have engaged in some of these behaviors. As a result, these people were probably hard to work with. Robots will need to explicitly avoid these behaviors otherwise their human team members may mistrust them.
Truly collaborative robot co-workers will have to use at least some rapport-building behaviors and avoid behaviors which hinder rapport.
This might be quite difficult to achieve.
For example, several of the behaviors that hinder rapport are the natural state for robots. Unless explicitly programmed to interact with people in a friendly way, robots will "ignore" people and not engage with them. Also, we often program robots to give brief responses which sound insincere to the human ear.
Cobots in the not-too-distance future may have to communicate in more human ways in order for their human co-workers to accept working closely with them.
It might seem silly to think about programming an industrial robot to say "please" and "thank you", and introduce seemingly irrelevant pieces of "personal information" about the robot to aid interaction. These might seem ridiculous as they do not add anything to the useful functionality of the robot.
However, we are already starting to see this type of rapport building in real-world robotics. Specifically, with self-service checkouts in supermarkets, which are basically service robots.
If you have been in a shop that uses these, you will know that they can be quite annoying. Part of the annoyance comes from the condescending tone of commands like "Place Item in Bagging Area." Over the last few years, supermarkets have been trying to change the interactions and voices of self-service checkouts to make them less "irritating and bossy" (as shoppers describe them).
For truly collaborative robots, these human factors and rapport-building behaviors will be equally as important as any technological advancements.
Which behaviors would annoy you in a robot co-worker? Which behaviors would endear you to them? Tell us in the comments below or join the discussion on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook or the DoF professional robotics community.


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The Top: 10 Notable Fanzines in the Eaton Collection
Professor Rob Latham talks about significant works in the largest sci-fi collection available to the public
By Lilledeshan Bose on January 29, 2014
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Welcome to Inside UCR's newest feature, The Top!
Each issue, we're presenting a list of UCR staff and faculty favorites— from walking spots to Zen gardens to events.
Here, Professor Rob Latham talks about 10 of the most noteworthy sci-fi fanzines in the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy, which is the largest publicly-accessible collection of science fiction, fantasy, horror and utopian literature in the world.
This piece was previously published by UCTV in conjunction with its video series on the Eaton Collection. (Go ahead, watch it again! )
If you have a favorite spot you'd like featured or an activity you'd like to share, email lille.bose@ucr.edu.
You could say the fanzine is the internet's precursor. These amateur publications began in the 1930s as a way for science fiction fans – who were geographically spread out–to share their ideas with one another. Created with mimeograph machines during people's private time, fanzines included letter columns, author interviews and book reviews.
Some were more sophisticated than others, depending on the editor's skills. But "they were totally labors of love," said Rob Latham, professor at UC Riverside and senior editor of the journal Science Fiction Studies.
From the beginning fanzines fostered a feeling that SF fans were part of a community. They became a way that professional writers, editors, readers and fans were able to communicate. The Eaton Collection is home to nearly 100,000 fanzines, which grew out of the collections of four prominent fans: Terry Carr, Fred Patten, Bruce Pelz, and Rick Sneary. (Nerd pride alert! The Eaton Collection was a "major draw" for Latham, who moved from the University of Iowa to UC Riverside in 2008.)
1. The Comet
A 1940 issue of the Comet
Published in 1930 by the Science Correspondence Club in Chicago and edited by Raymond A. Palmer and Walter Dennis, the Comet is widely heralded as the first fanzine ever.
Inside The Comet
2. Spockanalia
A cover of Spockanalia
The first media fanzine – meaning a fan publication based on science fiction found in a mainstream medium – was, of course, based on "Star Trek" and was called Spockanalia.
"Media fanzines took off in the 1970s with 'Star Wars' and all those movies," Latham said. "'Star Trek' was seen as the most intellectually interesting and responsible [product of pop culture]; an SF fan could say they were a fan of 'Star Trek' and not be embarrassed, whereas they might get embarrassed by saying they were fans of other things that passed for SF in pop culture. Some media fanzines published fan fiction and pushed stories forward; 'Star Trek' actually went off the air in 1969, and it was a decade before the movies came out. So fans sustained a cult interest that made it clear that you could return to it. The fans kept it alive," he added.
3. The Fantasy-Times
Fantasy Times: The World of Tomorrow Today
In 1955, editors James V. Taurasi, Sr. and Ray Van Houten won the first Hugo Award for "Best Fanzine" for the Fantasy-Times. "Zines nominated for Hugos meant fans gave awards to other fans. The ones that won usually had the broadest possible influence or interest, and are called genzines – general interest 'zines," Latham said.
5. Warhoon and Yandro
The cover of the Warhoon
Warhoon and Yandro were the biggest, most longstanding genzines — which spanned the years from the 1950s to the 1980s.
6. Le Zombie
Le Zombie's editor Bob Tucker started out as an SF fan and eventually became a professional writer. "He was famous for having invented certain terms that started in fan culture and now are widely used," Latham said. "He invented the term 'space opera,' which is now used to refer to things like 'Star Wars' movies. Before there was an academic discourse on SF, there was critical terminology and literary criticism of the genre going on in the 'zines such as Le Zombie," Latham explained.
7. Shangri L'Affaires
Shangri L'Affaires is the official publication of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. Established in 1940, it's one of the longest-running zines around, and has changed editors numerous times.
8. Amra
Many zines were specialized based on an editor's interest "Amrawas a major 'zine in the 1960s that was responsible for getting people more interested in fantasy rather than just science fiction," Latham said. "It came out around the time that J.R.R. Tolkien's books were being introduced in America, and people were getting interested in sword and sorcery," he said.
Inside Amra
9. Psychotic. (Later known as the Science Fiction Review)
"To me, the most important fanzine editor was Richard Geis," Latham said. Geis edited a fanzine but changed its name from Psychotic. to Science Fiction Review. "He was very much a proponent of the New Wave of science fiction," Latham said. Geis edited his zine during the 1960s and 1970s, when there was an infusion of counterculture interest among the SF fans. "[His zines] were very much on that edge. They had very psychedelic covers, and were interested in the newer, younger writers who were dealing with themes such as gender, sexuality and politics – which had not really been part of the genre before then."
10. Australian Science-Fiction Review
"The Australian Science-Fiction Review was probably one of the most intellectually rigorous and interesting of the zines," Latham said. Started in 1966 (around the time an academic interest in SF was growing), the Australian Science Fiction-Review was one of the first few 'zines that pushed the fan culture into a more academic direction.
Not all fans were appreciative of the fanzine's efforts and resented the fact that academics – and not fans – were writing about SF. As Dana Benatan said, "We have to take SF out of the classroom and back in the gutter where it belongs!"
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Another violent Ramadan in the House of Islam
Lee Jay Walker – The Modern Tokyo Times
Another terrorist attack in Pakistan by Islamic fanatics
Despite the platitudes by President Obama about Islam being based on peace, the cold reality is very different. After all, peace and Islam do not go hand-in-hand because Islamic Sharia law is not based on equality, on the contrary it is about the supremacy of Muslims over the non-Muslim dhimmis.
Also, the central aspect of Islam is clearly about Mohammed and not God. Muslims follow what Mohammed did and not what God ordained and for non-Muslims this appears that Muslims have a "duality" because God appears to come a poor second to Mohammed.
Yet when you delve into the reality of the real Mohammed then it is clear that modern Islam is based on the sayings of Mohammed, the life of Mohammed, and so forth. Did God ordain that old men can marry young children? Of course not, however, the marriage age of children in Saudi Arabia is based on Mohammed.
The Islamic concept is not about God but what Mohammed did. Therefore, because he married a young child it means that old Muslim males can marry very young children in the land of Mecca and Medina. The same applies to a multitude of sins which Mohammed did and said, and this is why violence, Mohammed, and Islam, are part and parcel of the same thing.
Therefore, violence during Ramadan is natural because Islam is based on the hatred of others and Islam justifies jihad, enslavement, murder of infidels and apostates, and so forth. Given this, the blood keeps running and flowing in accordance with the tenets of Islam and the life of Mohammed.
Mohammed stated to (Koran 9:29) "Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Messenger have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection."
Since Ramadan began in 2010 we have had countless suicide attacks or attacks against innocents in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Somalia, Pakistan, and other majority Muslim based nations. At the same time the last surviving Jain temple was attacked by Islamic zealots in Kashmir and Sikhs have been told to convert to Islam or face death in Pakistan.
Even during the ongoing flood tragedy in Pakistan you have no let up and no love or compassion amongst the religion of hate. This applies to Ahmadiyya Muslims being bypassed for economic aid at the expense of the dominant Sunni Muslim population.
However, Islam is based on "shaky grounds" because are we to really believe that Angel Gabriel was talking to Mohammed all the time? Also, when Mohammed was visiting all his wives, concubines, and child bride, then what was Angel Gabriel doing?
Therefore, the story of Mohammed in the later years when he obtained power is about his daily sexual drive and visiting all his females, while praying 5 times a day and talking to Angel Gabriel. Also, during jihadist attacks by Mohammed and massacring Jews and Pagans, we are meant to believe that all this was sanctioned by Angel Gabriel, which implies God.
Given this, the Muslim God allowed Mohammed to have more wives than any other Muslim male and the Muslim God allows Mohammed to kill and plunder and then enslave innocents who had been free.
It is sheer madness to anyone with a rational mind, however, this madness is ongoing and the liberal version in the West is very far from the real version. Therefore, just like the madness of Mohammed having sex with so many wives, a child, and several concubines, while still praying to God in between. The same twisted thought pattern continues within Islam in the 21st century, just like it had in the 7th century.
Therefore, modern day Islamic jihadists pray to God and kill, and then pray again to God and somehow they believe that this is holy. However, what was holy about Mohammed and what is holy about Islam?
The liberal West is "prostituting itself" in the name of political correctness, the fear of being deemed religionist, and because of the inherent weaknesses within the democratic system. This in turn enables Islamists to spread their evil message via a dual policy.
On the one hand we have radical Islamists being given a safe haven in America, the UK, India, and other democratic nations, and this can be seen by homegrown terrorists and radical organizations. Yet on the other hand we have the dual aspect based on "stealth jihad," whereby converts or liberal Muslims or Muslims espousing taqiyya and kitman are laying the foundation for the destruction of the host nation.
India is a prime example, after all they faced the "duality" of this Islamic jihad and this jihad is still ongoing in India. The Buddhists and Hindus, and others like the Jains and Sikhs, were shown the sword of Islam and many heads were beheaded in the name of Mohammed and so-called Islamic justice. At the same time the Sufi's were sent to India in order to create confusion and many converts to Islam were also gained this way.
This is one form of the "stealth jihad" but you have so many ways of creating confusion in order to obtain power by deception. Therefore, the words by President Obama about Islam and peace and the ongoing situation about a new mosque being built so close to September 11th is part and parcel of this duality.
Therefore, behind the real Ramadan is death and violence but world leaders and companies will prostitute themselves for oil, business contracts, and other factors. The same applies to mega banks who desire to enter the Islamic banking sector.
Given this, it is yet another bloody Ramadan and the religion of jihad and stealth jihad continues to wage an "open war" and a "hidden war." Of course, the "hidden war" is much more dangerous and because of people like President Obama and political leaders in the UK, the advancement of Islam continues under the banner of "peace."
However, "real Islam" can be seen by "the soul of Ramadan" which still witnesses death, terrorism, forced dhimmitude, and persecution. Even during the so-called holy period of Islam it is the same; death, terror, hatred, jihad, and stealth jihad.
Lee Jay Walker
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Islamic Ramadan begins, blood keeps flowing
The period of Ramadan is meant to be a holy period for Muslims and this applies to fasting and other things. However, in reality Ramadan is just another month for Islamists and daily killings take place. Therefore, why do Islamists keep on terrorizing during the so-called holy period of Ramadan?
After all, shortly before the run-up to Ramadan in 2010 you have the usual Islamic carnage of terrorism, sectarian violence, and so forth. This applies to many people being killed in Sunni-Shia related issues in Yemen; inter Sunni Muslim fighting in Somalia; inter Sunni Muslim deaths in Pakistan; and the daily carnage in Afghanistan and Iraq continues.
Yet after only a few days of the new Ramadan period in 2010 it is abundantly clear that Islamists are bent on killing both fellow Muslims and non-Muslims.
In my article titled "USA appeases Islam under President Obama" I rebuke Obama openly for manipulating reality. The current ongoing violence is yet another example of the bloodthirsty nature of radical Islam and I would argue, of Islam itself, but I will come back to this later.
I stated in my article about Obama that "In the world of Obama he states that the rituals of Ramadan "remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam's role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings." Therefore, what "justice" and "tolerance" is Obama talking about?"
If we look at events before Ramadan and during Ramadan, then it is abundantly clear that even during the holy month of Islam that the blood keeps on flowing.
Therefore, why so much violence during Ramadan? Or is the question pointless given the nature of Islam itself when we focus on the Hadiths and the Koran?
Before focusing on both these two questions, it is important to state that I am talking about the tenets of Islam and not ordinary Muslims. After all, much of the current Sunni Islamic violence is aimed at fellow Muslims and I would argue that Muslims are the first victims of Islam because they are regulated by laws which infringe on their civil liberty.
Remember, if a Zoroastrian converts to Christianity in Iran or the other way around, then the individual is free to do so or at the very least they will not suffer for leaving their past religion. However, if a Muslim converts to Christianity or Buddhism in Iran then they face either death or prison.
Therefore, complete mind control is being used against Muslims in order to maintain their allegiance to the Islamic faith. After all, apostates in Saudi Arabia and Somalia face death, and honour killings, persecution or alienation of former Muslims is taking place throughout the world.
Of course, in all other areas of Islam it is clear that non-Muslims are at a major disadvantage or they face complete annihilation, just like Buddhists and Hindus who were annihilated in Afghanistan in past history.
This applies to the very nature of Islam itself because Islamic Sharia law discriminates against all non-Muslims. For can any Muslim person state where Islamic Sharia law allows Muslims to freely leave Islam or where non-Muslims have equality in Islamic Sharia law?
Even today, in 2010, you have 7 Islamic nations which support the death penalty for leaving the Islamic faith and of course these nations are based on Islamic Sharia law and enforcing dhimmitude on all non-Muslims. Therefore, is this hatred a natural dimension to the worldview of Islamic radicalism or should I say radical Islamic fascism?
Remember, in nations like Saudi Arabia, the sizeable non-Muslim migrant population isn't allowed to build one single Buddhist temple, Christian church or Hindu temple. Therefore, we are not seeing mutual respect or justice, like Obama states, in the land of Mecca and Medina. On the contrary, we are seeing regulated hatred towards non-Muslims via Islamic Sharia law and complete mind control of Muslims because they face death if they desire to leave Islam in Saudi Arabia.
Therefore, where does all this hatred come from? Alas, it is clear to many where this inspired hatred comes from but of course this does not mean that the majority of Muslims are violent, of course not; Muslims are mere individuals just like atheists, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, and so forth.
However, Muslims have strict guidelines to follow and if a Muslim is to follow the guidelines of the Hadiths, the Koran, and Islamic Sharia law completely; then the outcome is obvious to Islamists because this means the implementation of laws which infringe on the rights of non-Muslims and limits the freedom of moderate Muslims.
If we return to Ramadan and why Islamists continue to kill during this so-called holy period then I would state that it is because of the nature of Islam itself.
Of course apologists or liberals will gloss over this statement and countless others; however, for Islamists or normal Muslim religious leaders in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and many other nations, they firmly believe that it is their duty to Islamize the nation state and then to spread Islamization and to install a new Islamic caliphate where the nation state is unimportant.
Despite this, in history it is clear that Islam was never united because divisions soon engulfed Islam and early Muslim rulers were often killed by Muslims. However, from the very outset of Islam it was clear that violence was part and parcel of the Muslim faith because Mohammed ordered attacks against Jews and Pagans.
It is clear that Mohammed did not support the concepts of either the Buddha or Jesus. After all, the Buddha and Jesus were not interested about military power or state sanctioned control and they never ordered the killings of others or inflicted violence towards others.
Mohammed, however, states the following:
"O Prophet! Make war against the unbelievers [all non-Muslims] and the hypocrites and be merciless against them. Their home is hell, an evil refuge indeed." (Koran, 9:73)
"When you meet the unbelievers in jihad [holy war], chop off their heads. And when you have brought them low, bind your prisoners rigorously. Then set them free or take ransom from them until the war is ended." (Koran, 47:4)
"The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and his messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be to be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet and genitals cut off, or to be expelled out of the land. Such will be their humiliation in the world, and in the next world they will face an awful horror." (Koran, 5:33-34)
"When we decide to destroy a population, we send a definite order to them who have the good things in life and yet sin. So that Allah's word is proven true against them, then we destroy them utterly." (Koran, 17:16-17)
"In order that Allah may separate the pure from the impure, put all the impure ones [all non-Muslims] one on top of another in a heap and cast them into hell. They will have been the ones to have lost." (Koran, 8:37)
"How many were the populations we utterly destroyed because of their sins, setting up in their place other peoples." (Koran, 21:11)
"Remember Allah inspired the angels: I am with you. Give firmness to the believers. I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: you smite them above their necks and smite all their fingertips off of them." (Koran, 8:12)
Qur'an-(5:51): "O you who believe! Do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people. "
Qur'an-(9:5): "But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, And seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent (accept Islam) and establish regular prayers and practices regular charity then open the way for them; for God is oft-forgiving, Most Merciful."
These statements by Mohammed also show how he changed because when he was weak he spoke about compassion, however, once he obtained power his true message changed and in many ways, this is the danger of the stealth jihad which is implemented via propaganda.
However, it is vital to remember that Islamists, be they clerics in Saudi Arabia who are inciting violence towards all apostates and non-Muslims; or if an Islamist like Osama Bin Laden; they are abiding by the Koran, the Hadiths, and Islamic Sharia law.
Apologists and liberals will point out that other holy books have negative passages or passages which incite hatred; and this is partly true, however, it is clear that all religions reform themselves and in the 21st century the message of hatred is still strong in Islam.
More worrying, is that Islam is not a mere religion, it is a way of life and which supports the supremacy of Muslims over non-Muslims. Islam is a fusion of faith, indoctrination, a legal system based on discrimination towards non-Muslims, authoritarianism, and the theory of dhimmitude; and Islam is a religion which rewards Muslims for fighting against non-Muslims.
Even during Ramadan it is clear that war is sanctioned and Mohammed himself prepared Muslims for war during this so-called holy month; therefore, the current massacres and killings are an ongoing tradition in Islam with roots in Mohammed and his teachings and deeds.
Maulana Noor Muhammad, a spokesman for the Islamic organization Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam which is based in Pakistan, stated Muhammad often undertook battles during Ramadan.
He continued that "In such pious times, participate in jihad and continue the support to the mujahideen." "Nowadays, infidel forces want to destroy Islam and the Koranic orders. The fight [against the infidels] is not the responsibility of Taliban and Arab mujahedeen alone; rather it is the responsibility of the entire Ummah [Muslim world].''
Given this, the ongoing persecution of all non-Muslims is still being implemented in the cradle of Islam, Saudi Arabia, and this hatred is also being enforced in many other mainly Islamic nations.
Today, just like the 7th century, Islam is still killing apostates or persecuting them. Today, just like in the 7th century, Muslims are still waging wars against non-Muslims in countless numbers of nations. Today, just like the 7th century, Muslim fanatics are still killing fellow Muslims who are deemed to be not Muslim enough.
The apologists will keep on making excuses; however, it is clear that in many parts of the Islamic dominated world, that hatred still dictates. Therefore, in 2010, just like in the 7th century, non-Muslims still suffer enormous persecution and some Islamists are still dreaming of spreading Islam by the sword or by propaganda.
Anyone who doubts this threat should focus on Saudi Arabia because in the land of Mecca and Medina they still support killing apostates, persecuting all non-Muslims, persecuting Shia Muslims, and exporting this hatred to many nations.
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Islam and the myths of unity
By Lee Jay Walker
The so-called Islamic world is in crisis because many see enemies all over the place, be it democracy, Westernization, liberalism, socialism, and so forth. While alternative faiths are frowned upon, therefore, Christian and Buddhist missionaries must be aware because merely talking about your faith can mean either prison or death in nations like Saudi Arabia. Yet the real threat to Muslims and minority Muslim groups within various different nations is their fellow co-religionists, so why are outsiders hated so much when the real threat is Islam itself?
After all, since 1970 approximately 5 million Muslims have been killed by fellow Muslims, however, one mention of Israel, and we hear about the Muslim unity card. However, the real "Muslim unity card" is a non-starter and this applies to the very foundations of Islam itself because the majority of early Muslim caliphs were killed by Muslims. Therefore, the current situation is similar to the past because it is based on internal tensions and mutual hatreds which run deep.
The Kurds are a prime example because the majority of Kurdish people follow the Islamic faith, most are Sunni. Despite this, the Kurds, irrespective if Sunni or Shia, face persecution in modern day Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. The Kurds, ironically, have much greater freedoms in mainly Christian Armenia where a minority reside or throughout the European Union where many have fled because of persecution in the Middle East.
Therefore, the Kurds, the biggest stateless people in the world are marginalized and persecuted by fellow Muslims throughout the Middle East where they reside. Yet Muslims in the Middle East often speak-out for the Palestinian cause, however, the very same people often remain silent about the Kurdish cause. Therefore, it is clear that double standards are at play and Israel is a very easy scapegoat.
After all, look at recent history and the reality of the modern world. For since 1970 at least 5 million Muslims have been killed by their co-religionists on the grounds of Sunni-Shia divisions, ethnic tensions, political tensions, and other issues.
This applies to the Iran-Iraq war; the persecution of African Muslims in Darfur by the Arab Muslim dominated government in Khartoum; Kurdish persecution in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey (deaths have been a lot lower in Syria but persecution does take place); Pakistan-Bangladesh war; Algeria, Somalia, Syria (1982); Tajikistan; Yemen; and other nations. Also, roughly 150,000 Shia Muslims have been killed in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, by Sunni Islamic fanatics.
Despite this reality we have world leaders like President Obama of America appealing to the so-called Muslim world for a fresh start. Yet surely an internal fresh start is needed first, however, it seems most unlikely because the spiral of hatred runs very deep.
Therefore, do Shia Muslims in America, France, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and other mainly non-Muslim nations reside in fear? Of course the answer is no. Yet Shia Muslims have been targeted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and other nations, by Sunni Islamic zealots. Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia it is clear that Shia Muslims are second-class citizens because the Sunni elite do not believe in religious equality.
Then if we look at one Muslim branch, the Ahmadiyya's, and the Bahai's which is an offshoot from Islam (but an independent religion), it becomes apparent that internal Islamic hatred and persecution is strong. After all, the Bahai community in Iran and the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan, suffer enormous persecution.
Therefore, many Bahai's and Ahmadiyya's have fled both Iran and Pakistan respectively, but if either branches fled to Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia, or other conservative Muslim nations, then they would suffer persecution once more. Given this, many Bahai's and Ahmadiyya's have fled to mainly non-Muslim nations because they have much greater freedom.
Then if we focus on al-Qaeda (al-Qaida) and Osama Bin Laden and fellow Sunni Islamic zealots, then we see a similar pattern. For when al-Qaeda emerged in Afghanistan they took their deadly sectarian ways with them and Shia Muslims were murdered in cold blood by forces loyal to al-Qaeda. The same happened when al-Qaeda entered the Iraqi civil war because once more they slaughtered Shia Muslims at will and moderate Sunni Muslim leaders were also killed by Sunni Muslim fanatics who had been brainwashed.
Given this, it is clear that Muslim unity is not only a sham but it is based on lies and sadly many elements within the mass media are ignoring this reality. Yet if Israel kills Palestinians in self-defence or during a military operation, then the usual mantra of Muslim brotherhood and Muslim persecution is raised.
However, the real reality is very different because the vast majority of Muslims who are killed throughout the world are killed by their co-religionists.
Therefore, the biggest persecutor of Muslims in the modern world is being done by their own co-religionists. At the same time, the deniers of democracy, religious freedom, female emancipation, and other important issues, are Muslim elites in many Muslim majority nations.
Also, it is abundantly clear that America and other nations are not anti-Muslim. After all, you have had three wars in Europe involving Muslims and Orthodox Christians in recent times. This applies to Cyprus, Bosnia, and Kosovo (Serbia), and every time America supported Islam against Orthodox Christianity. Just like America supported Indonesia despite countless massacres of Timorese people in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s.
However, when the Arab dominated regime in Khartoum, Sudan, was killing millions of mainly African Christians and Animists in southern Sudan did mainly Muslim nations enter Sudan to stop the bloodshed. Of course they did not and many African slaves in Sudan were sold internally but the outcry was very silent in the so-called Muslim world.
Despite everything, the President of America, Obama, is offering an "olive branch" but surely it should be the other way around. For in America people have the right to follow any religion they want or to have no religion. Yet in the land of Mecca and Medina (Saudi Arabia) you are not allowed to have one single Christian church, Buddhist temple, Hindu temple, or any other non-Muslim place of worship.
Therefore, what is the real agenda? Is it that Saudi Arabia can do whatever it likes because of their massive amounts of oil reserves? For this nation is spreading radical Sunni Islam to Afghanistan, Chechnya (Russian Federation), Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, and many other nations, without any fear. Or is it that political correctness means we have to be pro-Islamic to show how nice we are, therefore, minority Muslim branches, Christians and other non-Muslims are allowed to be "lambs to the slaughter of Islam?" Or is it a mixture of both or collective amnesia?
Maybe I will always be in lament because Israel is the easy scapegoat and of course many Muslims appear to believe that they are victims. However, the real truth couldn't be further away because the biggest threat to minority Muslim groups and to the freedom of Muslims, is being done in the name of Islam by either radical zealots or despotic rulers who invoke Sharia Islamic law in order to preserve their respective power bases.
The mass media should take a long look at itself and start to question the so-called House of Islam, Arab unity, Muslim brotherhood, and so forth. For Arab unity ignores both Arab disunity and the many non-Arab groups who reside in Arab dominated nations. While the House of Islam was divided within a short time of the death of Mohammed and Muslim brotherhood is based on unreality.
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Islamic militants target Buddhists in Thailand
By Lee Jay Walker – THE SEOUL TIMES
Tokyo Correspondent
The Islamic insurgency in Southern Thailand is ongoing and political and military leaders in Thailand appear to be at a loss because of many internal political and economic convulsions. Yet it is clear that radical Islamists desire an independent state and this state is meant to be Muslim to the core, and all Buddhists are deemed to be expendable.
In Kashmir the Hindu minority was forced to flee because innocent civilians were targeted by Islamic jihadists and Serbian Orthodox Christians in Kosovo have witnessed the endless destruction of their Christian churches and culture.
A similar pattern can be seen because Buddhists face daily fears and gradual Islamization in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. While recently three Christian pastors in Northern Nigeria were beheaded by Sunni Islamists because they refused to renounce Christianity.
Sadly, more harrowing stories can be stated about the burning alive of Christians in Pakistan by Sunni Islamists and the continuing persecution of all minorities. Therefore, Ahmadiyya Muslims face the sword of Sunni Islam because of conservative hatred in Pakistan and Baha'is in Iran face severe restrictions and bouts of false propaganda by central forces in Iran. At the same time Christians face either dhimmitude or pogroms in Iraq alongside other minorities like the Shabaks, Yazidis, and Mandaeans because radical Islamists threaten all minorities.
In Southern Thailand the current Islamic insurgency is following a similar pattern and this pattern is based on the beheading of Buddhists, killing innocent civilians, killing teachers, and spreading darkness throughout Southern Thailand.
Of course Islamists and others want to silence the mass media and many writers fear the shackles of editors or they are turning a blind eye because of political correctness.
Therefore, we have ridiculous media attention about discrimination against Muslims with regards to being checked at airports or being denied dress freedom in France. However, does this really compare with beheading Buddhists in Southern Thailand or burning Christians alive in Pakistan? Also, remember that this is done in the name of Islam because these Islamists want an Islamic monoculture where they kill or persecute non-Muslims first and then kill fellow Muslims, like killing Ahmadiyya Muslims, because they are not deemed to be Muslim enough.
Turning back to Thailand it is clear that Muslims in the south feel alienated from the central state and the economic infrastructure is weak. However, many Buddhists in Thailand also face economic hardship and grinding poverty in parts of this nation yet they do not go around beheading Muslim religious leaders.
If Thailand doesn't do more to respond to daily intimidation and the ethnic cleansing of Buddhists in Southern Thailand then clearly the situation is going to get even worse. It is also important to point out that radical Sunni Islamists in Indonesia and the Philippines, alongside global jihadists, could join the fray if this crisis continues to follow the same path.
This hatred is inspired by Mohammed because he stated in the Hadiths to not only kill infidels (non-Muslims) but that Muslims will be rewarded for killing infidels.
Therefore Islamists follows the sayings of Mohammed and in Hadith 9:4 Mohammed stated "Wherever you find infidels kill them; for whoever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection." Mohammed also stated in Hadith 9:50, 57 that "No umma (a member of the Muslim community) should be killed for killing a kafir (an infidel) … Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him."
Therefore, Islamic jihadists in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Indonesia, Iraq, Pakistan, Thailand, or wherever, are directly following the teachings of Mohammed. Given this, Islamic radicalism in Thailand and other parts of the world is a serious issue because minorities are being killed by Islamic jihadists because of the fascist nature of this ideology.
Zachary Abuza, author of Militant Islam in Southeast Asia (Crucible of Terror), and a host of other written material, highlighted the role of the madrasas (Islamic schools).
He stated "In their pursuit of the creation of Islamic states, many Southeast Asian jihadis established Islamic schools to indoctrinate, propagate, and recruit. The leaders of many militant groups in Southeast Asia, including the Laskar Jihad, Kampulan Mujahidin Malaysia, and Jemaah Islamiya, returned from Afghanistan and established a network of madrasas as the base of their operations and recruitment."
Clearly it is obvious that many radical Islamists are being churned out in radical madrasas and national governments must either regulate these schools or provide an alternative system. If not, they will become a continuing breeding ground for killers of non-Muslims and Muslims alike, after all, the Taliban and Islamic indoctrination came through these radical Islamic schools and they had no qualms in killing Shia Muslims and other so-called Islamic heretics.
Therefore, whoever controls the mosque or madrasas is in a powerful position. It must be mentioned that not all madrasas are involved in hate inspired indoctrination, however, many are out of control and you have a state within a state and of course Pakistan is paying for this now because they allowed this dangerous situation to happen in the first place.
In modern day Thailand you have the false reality of stability in many parts of this nation and tourists from all over the world visit for various factors. However, in Southern Thailand you have a dangerous Islamic insurgency which beheads Buddhists, kills teachers, kills Muslims who are deemed to be loyal to Thailand, and other innocents.
Zachary Abuza also commented that "While the government has recently pledged more development funds for the restive south, the insurgency has never been about development. Sadly, as long as the conflict remains confined to the southernmost provinces, it will remain a low priority for the government, consumed with elite political machinations in Bangkok. And while Southern Thailand remains the single most lethal conflict in Southeast Asia, it remains a low priority for America and its allies in the region."
Sadly it does appear that Zachary Abuza is correct because this issue is neglected and since 2008 it is clear that this insurgency is growing once more because more attacks and killings have been reported.
Therefore, the war within Islam is continuing because Islamic radicals are killing Muslims and Islamic leaders who are deemed to be infidels because they do not support the ongoing slaughter of innocents. At the same time Buddhists are living in fear and many have been killed in extremely cruel ways and of course many have fled this carnage.
Sunai Phasuk, a political analyst at Human Rights Watch, commented that "Buddhist monks have been hacked to death, clubbed to death, bombed and burned to death." Therefore, it is clear that this Sunni Islamic insurgency is following a familiar path and this applies to the destruction of all non-Muslim elements within society or the complete dhimmitude of all non-Muslims by the rule of fear.
The ongoing Islamic jihad in Southern Thailand could draw in other regional and global jihadists, and this could have dire consequences because you have Christian-Muslim tensions in parts of Indonesia and the Philippines. Also, if the Thai army is forced to retreat or adopt a containment policy then clearly Islamic jihadists will gain because they will have free areas in order to spread their dangerous ideology and cause further mayhem throughout the region.
At the same time the current Sunni Islamic insurgency hopes to cleanse the region of all Buddhists and to destroy Buddhist temples and architecture in yet another re-run of Afghanistan. Therefore, it is clear that the minority Buddhist community in Southern Thailand needs greater protection from radical Islamists.
If political leaders in Thailand betray the Buddhist minority then the consequences will be severe. Also, this part of Thailand could become yet another museum where Buddhism is eradicated by Islam?
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This weekend, finance ministers, economists, and others from around the world will convene on Washington for the annual World Bank-International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings. The IMF released dramatic new global growth projections yesterday, and these will set the tone as other issues surface throughout this year's meetings. For those of you who may not be closely following the issues around the Spring Meetings, I sat down to briefly explain three of them in the Brookings studio.
The first is the global economic outlook. It's been 7 years since the global financial crisis, but it seems to be hard to pin-down countries' medium-term prospects. So what's going on in the world economy today?
A second important issue is financing for development. The Millennium Development Goals will expire this year, and in July, countries will meet in Addis Ababa to discuss how the U.N. will finance development efforts for the next 15 years. Financing for development is expected to be a principal topic for the development committee this year, and one that finance ministers are starting to take seriously. I've already written my thoughts on what we need from the Addis meeting, as well as on the worthiness of crafting a set of Sustainable Development Goals that work. But what can we expect from the Addis meeting? And how is it different from what we've seen before?
Finally, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will continue to make news. Almost every country but the U.S. and Japan has now joined China in its setting up of the AIIB. And everyone has an opinion—from Larry Summers proclaiming it's time for the U.S. to wake up to a new economic era, to my Brookings colleague Raj Desai who welcomes the bank and thinks the U.S. will suffer from its lack of participation. So what exactly is the AIIB and why has the U.S. sought to keep its allies from participating?


I went to a local quilt shop and stopped in my tracks when I saw a sample of this adorable pattern stitched up, Itty Bitty Primitive Pinwheel by Primitive Gatherings. It was made with Civil War reproductions but in my head I immediately pictured it in feedsack prints. I was taken with just how tiny those little pinwheels were and couldn't wait to try it myself! The pattern came with a wee pinwheel template and now I finally had an excuse to pick up an 18mm rotary cutter to go with it.
My favorite and most time consuming part was choosing fabrics. I decided to pull out all the tiniest 30s prints I had and see where that left me. I still had to go back to pick out another 25 more fabrics after this photo! I ended up repeating just three prints (the navy ones that you'll see further down), so including the border and backing there are 80 different fabrics.
The blocks and border, all stitched up. Yes, you're cute, but it's time to chop you up again!
Aaaannd...Pinwheels! So bright and cheery! I added in a few blue and navy prints because I was worried that it would look a bit too washed out. I needn't have fretted though because once the prints were condensed into pinwheels the colors appeared more concentrated, but I'm still glad that I added in the darker bits, which contrast nicely. Each pinwheel is 1-1/2" from tip to tip. The whole mini quilt is 10-1/2" x 10-1/2". It's going to look so cute on my quilt wall!
I love the back before I finished it, the seam allowances are so layered that light doesn't go through!
This pattern is crazy fun and will look sweet no matter what kind of fabrics you choose! The instructions are best for confident beginners as it's a little bit of a brain teaser. Just one or two more photos would have made the pattern clearer but even so it's pretty easy to tell if you're going in the right direction.
My favorite little pinwheel on this quilt has to be the one with this text. I adore text print fabrics but after closer inspection of this one I found that it actually has a lot of negative words on it. Hrmph. I decided to include it anyway, and to my shock and delight, the words that were most legible were these: love, integrity, live, admiration, and freedom. And though I finished this quilt a while back, I'm glad I waited until now to post this because the timing seems perfect with the Fourth of July coming up. You can find the pattern at the link above or at Fat Quarter Shop.
Have a safe and happy Fourth to those of you in the US, and Happy Stitching to all!
This is such a happy quilt! My local quilt shop has this displayed in bright cheery fabrics and I've always admired it. :) Your version is a lovely take.
Super cute! I love tiny!


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Ganga praharis are also regularly involved in are Shram Daan, Ghat Cleaning, Awareness Campaigns, Plantation Drives and coordination with local administration
Ganga Praharis: Guardians of the Ganga
ANI | Updated: Jun 19, 2019 14:40 IST
Haridwar/Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], June 19 (ANI): Ever since Namami Gange program was launched, several concrete steps have been taken to clean the river and to maintain its cleanliness.
Among other projects and initiatives, wider public participation in the movement to clean River Ganges is of the utmost priority for National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and numerous steps have been taken from then and now to ensure the same.
NMCG has selected self-motivated and trained volunteers from among the local communities, they are called 'Ganga Praharis' or the Guardians of the Ganga.
The Ganga Praharis work for biodiversity conservation and cleanliness of the holy river with the ultimate objectives of restoring the 'Nirmal' and `Aviral' Dhara of the pious river.
They are also playing a crucial role in reporting and rescuing of aquatic wildlife in distress, reporting of illegal activities like poaching.
A group of about 500 trained volunteers or Ganga praharis are reaching to each and every house in areas along river Ganga to educate them about the importance of protecting the river's bio-diversity.
They are spread over Ganga basin states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal.
Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, Director General of NMCG said: "We have selected some motivated local volunteers and given them some training and then we have a regular outreach programme. We keep them updating them about our programmes and the idea is that every village should ultimately have a Ganga prahari so that they will be our representative and they will further train people and school people and all that".
"They also engage in rescue of injured animal or some Dolphin is there. They also interact with fishermen to tell them about sustainable fisheries. Often fishermen use Dolphin and it also becomes endangered. So, some of these practices we are trying to improve," he added.
Ruchi Badola, a scientist and senior professor at Wildlife Institute of India in Dehradun said, "The Ganga praharis, in fact, take part in a lot of rescue and rehabilitation. Whenever any wildlife along the Ganga comes out, turtles, Dolphins or crocodile, it is the Ganga praharis in all the five states, because they have been trained, who actually come forward and inform the concerned authorities and make sure that particular animal living or dead, should go to wherever it is necessary at that point in time".
Ganga Praharis are also regularly involved in are Shram Daan, Ghat Cleaning, Awareness Campaigns, Plantation Drives and coordination with local administration.
"A common man should be part of this movement. Ganga is our faith, our mother. It is a source of water for us. Life is impossible without water. It is very important to protest the river and bio-diversity", said Pyare Lal, Ganga Prahari at Bhogpur village in Uttarakhand.
Rameshwari Devi, another Ganga prahari at the village said, "Those people who are not aware of its ill-effects, are behind polluting the river. Since we have joined as praharis, we have taken a pledge to not get it polluted".
In an attempt to improve the riverine eco-system of the Ganga, the NMCG and Wildlife Institute of India have also set up Ganga Aqualife Rescue & Rehabilitation Center at Narora in Uttar Pradesh.
The Center nurtures the species such as turtle, crocodile, otters and fish and works towards the restoration of aquatic species that thrive in the river.
The healthy presence of aquatic species and birds is a reliable indicator as they thrive only in and around the clean water.
The Ganga Praharis also play a significant role to remain vigilant so that aquatic species remain safe. (ANI)
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Guardians of the Ganga
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Govt. will take decision to censor films on Netflix after...
New Delhi (India), July 19 (ANI): Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Thursday that censoring films shown on online platforms like Netflix and other platforms is a matter of discussion and government will take a decision only after consultation with stakeholders.


Lieutenant General Tim Radford has been appointed NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR), demonstrating the leading role the UK plays in the transatlantic alliance. Crown copyright.
Lt Gen Radford, who has previously served as the Deputy Commander of NATO's Op Resolute Support in Afghanistan and Commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in Gloucester, takes over from fellow Brit, General Sir James Everard, in Spring 2020.
It's a great honour to have been selected to serve as the next Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe at a time of significant transformation within NATO.
In NATO's 70th year, the alliance retains all its relevance as the cornerstone of European security and I commend the work General Everard has done in maintaining that. The appointment of Lt Gen Radford embodies the role the UK plays in NATO – one of leadership and commitment.
The UK currently has thousands of troops stationed across the globe standing shoulder-to-shoulder with NATO allies. In the Baltics, the UK has over 1,000 troops, Challenger II tanks, and Wildcat and Apache helicopters deployed as part of NATO's Enhanced Forward Presence, the largest commitment of any nation.
Later this year, four RAF Typhoons will return to Estonia, where they conducted Air Policing in 2016, and, for the first time will patrol Icelandic skies. This will allow the UK to work closely with allies to deter aerial threats to Euro-Atlantic security.
In Afghanistan, there are over 900 UK troops mentoring the next generation of Afghan military leaders and leading the Kabul Security Force, providing vital protection to over 8,000 NATO mentors and advisors working within the city.
NATO is the bedrock of Euro-Atlantic security and later this year the Prime Minister will welcome NATO Leaders to the UK to strengthen the bonds that have maintained peace for the last 70 years and will do so well in to the future.


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