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The Virgins rocks with ODDKA® by Wyborowa
New York indie rock band signs global deal with the disruptive brand of flavoured vodkas, and unveils an exclusive song and short documentary "A Day In A Life" today.
Launch of the creative collaboration to be celebrated this evening in Paris for the kick-off of the Men's and Couture Fashion Week, with a live performance and after-party at Parisian rooftop club, Nuba.
NEW YORK, June 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The Virgins have partnered with ODDKA® by Wyborowa to convey the spirit of this new innovative vodka brand and its range of unconventional flavours. The American rock band that broke through in 2008 with hit song "Rich Girls" has recently come back to the forefront with the release of their new album "Strike Gently", US Arena Tour with The Killers, and a series of European dates taking place this month.
The Virgins is launching today their "A Day In A Life" short documentary, which they have recorded as part of the creative collaboration. The short video by New York director Geoffray Barbier depicts a day in the life of the band within and around their headquarters, a studio located in Manhattan's East Village. Interviews and footage of "A Day In A Life" portrays the vision of a band who did not compromise to follow their creative journey, through the vision of songwriter and lead singer Donald Cumming and his band members.
"ODDKA was created for the individual who seeks brands that are confident, expressive and challenge the norms, just like they do," said Henrik Ellstrom, brand director of the Wyborowa company. "We are very excited about this unique collaboration with The Virgins, because I think the band has strong singularity and common values with the spirit of our brand," he added.
The short documentary will première on Jay-Z's Life+Times official YouTube Channel before going wide shortly after. The band's brand new song, named "Blue Lights (Oddly Enough)" and used as the soundtrack of the film will be available for streaming everywhere online the same day and made available for download exclusively on ODDKA's Facebook page.
The launch of the campaign will also be celebrated in Paris this evening, where the band will be performing at the Trabendo, followed by after-party at Le Baron's new roster venue Nuba rooftop club. Other things are in the works between ODDKA and The Virgins, such as a Tour in the U.S and the European market where ODDKA has been launched.
Beyond the collaboration with The Virgins, ODDKA is set to launch many other music-related initiatives this year, which will include contests, digital content and events.
"Inspired musicians, The Virgins, talk about stepping away from major labels in order to focus on music rather than money, hoping to simply make enough to keep playing." – LIFE+TIMES
ABOUT THE VIRGINS
The Virgins is an American band formed in 2006 in New York, consisting of Donald Cumming (vocals, guitar), Max Kamins(bass), Xan Aird (guitar) and John Eatherly (drums). They have opened for The Killers, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Lou Reed, Sonic Youth, Patti Smith, Kenneth Anger, Abel Ferrara and others. They have also enjoyed several television appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and Last Call with Carson Daly. Their first full length album titled The Virgins was met with great critical success. Since then they have played at the All Points West Festival, SXSW festival, Lollapalooza, Glastonbury, Leeds, Reading, and T in the Park festivals, among other major French, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Spanish and Italian festivals in the summer of 2009. The song "Rich Girls" was on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008. Their sophomore album "Strike Gently" came out on March 12th 2013 asthe first release of Cult Records, new label recently founded by Julian Casablancas, lead singer of the Strokes.
New album "Strike Gently" Out Now on Cult Record
ABOUT ODDKA®
ODDKA is a new vodka brand that has launched both in the US and in selected European markets. ODDKA is available as an original clear vodka and in a wide range of unconventional flavors, including; Apple Pie, Electricity, Fresh Cut Grass, Salty Caramel Popcorn and Wasabi. ODDKA Vodka was created out of experimentation and molecular mixology – and all innovative flavors are designed to be drunk neat as well as in cocktails. ODDKA is produced in Poland and is owned and operated by The Wyborowa Company, a division of The Absolut Company within the Pernod Ricard group.
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@Shatznr Fly a Gila and then you'll basically be flying Serenity!
Thank you ever so much for all the work to get us here. These are fantastic.
I like how easy it is to keep track of forum trends and all unreads in the form of a notification on the top bar.
@Cali-Estemaire I was looking at training into one - but unless I looked at the market wrong...they are a bit pricey.


It's been almost 3 years since Birmingham band, JAWS, released their second album Simplicity, an album that saw the band reach new heights and push boundaries within their lyrical depth. The album gave JAWS 'room to grow' and with The Ceiling, the band have produced something unique and special, ultimately growing into the space that Simplicity gave them.
When asked about the album, Connor Schofield stated that "[the album] is about feeling a bit lost" and that a lot of the songs upon the Ceiling are written about "dealing with the pace that life comes at you at". The band believe that this is their most diverse album, taking them down paths they've never been down before.
Driving At Night is the first track upon The Ceiling, and it sets the tone for the rest of the album. The song captures the feelings of euphoria that everyone is familiar with, and moulds them into the signature JAWS melody.
Second track, Feel gives off the nostalgic feelings that may remind some fans of JAWS' Milkshake EP. The band use their lyrical magic once again to talk about feelings and self doubt in the most beautiful way. Feel is stunning both lyrically and instrumentally, and is destined to be a highlight on the band's upcoming tour this April.
Third track, Do You Remember? is the first sign of JAWS exploring their sound on the album, and feels so much more raw than their previous releases. Within this track, the band talk of the anxiety of young adulthood and the feelings of having to have your whole life figured out by the time you're in your 20's.
End Of The World is a true highlight on this album, it starts off much more stripped back than the rest of the album, and builds up to a grand finale which is breathtaking. "Cover up your eyes from what they televise" is a stand out lyric upon the album, alerting us to the fact that what we see on the news may literally make it feel as if it's the End Of The World.
Please Be Kind is a lot different to everything that the band have produced previously, a dreamy, catchy chorus and is a complete opposite to the final track, January which possesses a distant vocal combined with acoustic guitar.
JAWS have excelled themselves within The Ceiling, providing lyrical commentary on the world we live in and pairing that with the most incredible instrumentation. JAWS are one of the most exciting bands of current and retain their throne with The Ceiling.


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The series of stones contains red jasper, red aventurine, yellow calcite, green aventurine, blue angelite, blue dumortierite, and amethyst.


The Kickstarter campaign for Stygian Fox's new Call of Cthulhu scenario collection, The Things We Leave Behind, is now live! The book contains five modern-day scenarios, each with notably dark subject matter.
Hell in Texas by Scott Dorward. After a suicide at a church's east Texas Halloween haunted house, strange events threaten the lives and sanity of all those in the vicinity, including the investigators.
The book is written, edited and laid-out, and the campaign is raising funds to pay for additional artwork from the very talented Davide Como. At the time of posting, the campaign is over half funded, with 28 days to go, so it seems very likely to reach completion.


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 Jakob Baunach (* vor 1597; † 1627), deutscher Kaufmann und Bürgermeister von Würzburg
 Katharina Baunach (* 1989), deutsche Fußballspielerin
 Leo Baunach (20. Jahrhundert), deutscher Kommunalpolitiker
 Norbert Baunach (1950–2021), deutscher Politiker (SPD) und MdL von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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Greenpeace activists dressed as lobbyists draw a trojan horse through the streets of Vienna. Photo: APA
Greenpeace introduced a four-meter tall trojan horse to the streets of Vienna on Friday, to highlight the dangers they say are hidden in the proposed trade agreements between the EU, USA, Canada and Singapore.
"We have serious concerns, especially because of the environmental standards and the special right to sue of corporations," said Greenpeace spokesman Florian Schweitzer.
"The Trojan Horse drawn by lobbyists should symbolize the dangers that entails in this Agreement and in particular the lawsuit capabilities of corporations," said Schweitzer, shortly before the midnight ride protest march in front of the headquarters of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce (WKÖ).
"Outwardly, the agreements are about investment protection, but hidden inside are special rules over the right to sue that can cause environmental legislation to be annulled in the future", said the Greenpeace activist.
The 1.5-ton wooden horse was symbolically pulled by lobbyists dressed in black suits.
"The lobbyists sit at the negotiating table, while the civil society and the population are excluded," Schweitzer criticized the non-transparent negotiations. There are important EU standards - especially in the areas of food safety and the environment - which are at risk of subsequently being lowered, he said.
With Friday's action, the group wanted to highlight the proposed new laws governing the right for corporations to sue governments, the so-called investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS).
This new mechanism will mean that EU or national environmental laws can be placed in jeopardy if they conflict with the ability of businesses to make profits, and the ISDS provides a mechanism for global companies to sue governments to get those laws weakened or even repealed.
Furthermore, the environmental activists pointed out studies have suggested that the benefits of TTIP would offer only a year of economic growth of 0.05 percent. "Other studies even say that jobs will be lost."
Greenpeace is not opposed in principle to a new trade agreement between the EU and the US or Canada, as long as it ensures that environmental and consumer protection standards are not lowered, and that negotiations are fully transparent.
Austria's Minister of Agriculture Andrä Rupprechter shares these concerns, saying that Europe's higher standards in food manufacturing would have to be accepted - otherwise the agreement was likely to fail.
"The ISDS is a massive Trojan Horse," says MEP Yannick Jadot, the Greens' trade spokesperson in the European Parliament, "which can used by multinational corporations to whittle away EU standards and regulations across a range of policies".
George Monbiot of the Guardian newspaper has described the ISDS as a "full-frontal assault on democracy".
"These companies (along with hundreds of others) are using the investor-state dispute rules embedded in trade treaties signed by the countries they are suing. The rules are enforced by panels which have none of the safeguards we expect in our own courts. The hearings are held in secret."
"The judges are corporate lawyers, many of whom work for companies of the kind whose cases they hear. Citizens and communities affected by their decisions have no legal standing. There is no right of appeal on the merits of the case. Yet they can overthrow the sovereignty of parliaments and the rulings of supreme courts."
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On Pregunta No.2: Cóndor
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"I am interested in how one "thing" (an object, a word, a concept, even a person) can be interpreted by means of two or more contrasting collective memories…[t]his piece was written with my mind sitting in the middle of the clash between two contrasting collective memories aroused by the word 'cóndor.'"
— Luis Fernando Amaya, from "Pregunta no.2: Cóndor" 's program note
When I first heard Luis' music, I was struck by the beauty and thoughtfulness of his quiet sounds. It drew me in and had me listening closely. It was subtle: full of interesting possibilities. The complexity and magnitude of his music is all the more interesting to observe as he often prepares instruments in a way that can not guarantee the same outcome twice in a performance. The idea of imperfect music coupled with the quiet and introspective worlds that he crafts were what drew me to ask him to compose a piece for piano. Pregunta no. 2: Cóndor is the result of this collaboration.
Diving into the world of microtones, the work explores the timbral possibilities of harmonics on the piano while using two e-bows, a cloth, and a credit card. A world of soaring beautiful sounds envelops the space as strings resonate with veiled drones, similar to a condor soaring high above in the sky. This music is slow, still: almost unmoving. Time becomes stretched and displaced as the score is navigated. Giving freedom to the performer, the proportional placement of harmonics on the score determines the shape of the piece. There are sounds that I myself could not predict would happen. At any point a new vibration could occur from the e-bow touching another string, adding a slight change of color that could not be planned. This freedom makes the performance of the piece all the more exciting. I could change proportions as needed to compensate for spaces, and it gave me space to explore and put in my own personal touch while still respecting the intentions and motives of Luis. In a way, it is like piece of poetry that is never spoken the same way twice, or an adventure story that never has the same ending.
This quiet, almost too serene world comes with a price however. Its unnerving microtonal beatings, harsh gestures that come from out of nowhere, and moments of stillness act as a litany to those who disappeared at the cost of US intervention in the South Americas (a campaign known as "Operation Condor".) Thousands of people who opposed the regime established through US intervention disappeared for what they believed in. Democratic elections were taken away in fear that a communist or socialist party would come into power. Those who disappeared in these violent times are remembered in this music. Quiet stillness, unnamed civilians, lives who were completely destroyed through fear and misunderstanding are brought to the forefront of this music.
Ultimately through this work, I ask all of you to remember those who have disappeared as a result of injustice, corruption, and intolerance. I challenge us to look forward to fight for those who deserve a better life with equal rights and opportunities.


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Pieter de Ring (* 1615/1620 in Ypern (?); † 22. September 1660 in Leiden) war ein niederländischer Maler, der auf Stillleben spezialisiert war. Berühmt wurde er durch seine reichhaltigen Bankettdarstellungen mit Obst, Garnelen, Austern, Musikinstrumenten, Büchern und Kostbarkeiten wie Nautilusschalen oder chinesischem Porzellan. Er signierte seine Bilder oft mit einem Ring oder der latinisierten Form seines Namens, wie zum Beispiel P.Ab.Annulo.

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Da beispielsweise Teile des Stadtarchivs Ypern während des Ersten Weltkriegs verlorengegangen sind, kann Ypern als Geburtsort von de Ring wie auch der seine Mutter nur indiziert werden. Die Familie zog, wie viele flämische Textilarbeiter, nach Leiden.

In seiner Jugend arbeitete er tagsüber als Maurer und zeichnete abends; die anderen Familienmitglieder arbeiteten alle in der Stoffindustrie. Nachdem er etliche Bilder gemalt hatte, ging er mit Zustimmung seines Großvaters bei Jan Davidsz. de Heem in die Lehre. 1647 wurde er Gründungsmitglied der Zunft von Sankt Lucas, wie auch Gabriel Metsu und Jan Steen.

Aus seinem Atelier in Leiden hatte er freie Sicht auf den von Charles de l'Écluse entworfenen Botanischen Garten. De Ring heiratete nie, besaß kein Haus und hat auch kein Testament hinterlassen. Begraben wurde er in der Pieterskerk. Sein Werk zeigt den Einfluss von Willem Claesz Heda.

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Any information on which update contained the badware? I find it amazing to believe Apple could do something like this. This is something we can expect from Microsoft but Apple… Apparently, no.
The version StopBadware initially tested was Apple Software Update 2.0.2.92 (Windows version). The newer version, in which Apple responded to concerns, is 2.1.0.110. There are screenshots of the differences between the versions in our blog post .
If you have any other questions, feel free to contact me directly at contact @ stopbadware.org.
by badware do you mean malware? i.e. code designed to harm users?


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Born in New York City to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and Ontario-born New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was destined early to an uncommon and influential life in the limelight. Although she initially showed little inclination to follow her father's trade, she was prompted by Joshua Logan to appear with her father in the 1954 Omaha Community Theatre production of "The Country Girl". Her interest in acting grew after meeting Lee Strasberg in 1958 and joining the Actors Studio. Her screen debut in Tall Story (1960) (directed by Logan) marked the beginning of a highly successful and respected acting career highlighted by two Academy Awards for her performances in Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978), and five Oscar nominations for Best Actress in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Julia (1977), The China Syndrome (1979), The Morning After (1986) and On Golden Pond (1981), which was the only film she made with her father. Her professional success contrasted with her personal life, which was often laden with scandal and controversy. Her appearance in several risqué movies (including Barbarella (1968)) by then-husband Roger Vadim was followed by what was to become her most debated and controversial period: her espousal of anti-establishment causes and especially her anti-war activities during the Vietnam War. Her political involvement continued with fellow activist and husband Tom Hayden in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In the 1980s she started the aerobic exercise craze with the publication of the "Jane Fonda's Workout Book". She and Hayden divorced, and she married broadcasting mogul Ted Turner in 1991.
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Our 9th annual Business Conference and Exhibition took place on Thursday 7th February at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole. Looking ahead at 'Frozen Food in 2025' more than 350 delegates heard from a fantastic line up of key industry experts who shared their insight and predictions for the future of frozen food.
We kicked off the day with an update on the latest BFFF initiatives from Chief Executive, John Hyman. We were delighted to welcome Roger Martin-Fagg back to the conference, a firm favourite with delegates, Roger delivered his take on how the economy is performing and his unique insight of things to come.
Nick Downing of IGD and Chris Hayward of Kantar Worldpanel gave us an interesting insight into the future of retail as well as the latest from the sector including the latest Christmas statistics.
Our fun street food style market saw member enjoy a delicious lunch provided by APB, Billington Foodservice, Meal Creations by Kerry Foods, Moy Park and Vittles. Delegates also took this opportunity to visit exhibitors and network with industry colleagues.
After lunch we heard the latest from the foodservice market from Simon Stenning of Strategic Advice for Foodservice.
Former Conservative Party Adviser gave a political update on Brexit and what this could mean for BFFF members. We then moved on to look at 'Driving Long Term Frozen Food Growth' and heard from Wayne Hudson of Birds Eye who highlighted the long-term category growth opportunities, and Janice Rockwell of Brakes looked at the growing importance of sustainability in the industry.
The conference came to a close with keynote speaker Dr Morgaine Gaye who shared her insights which give the long-view in 2025 to give a pro-active advantage.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank our Business Conference headline sponsor, Meal Creations by Kerry Foods.
Save the date! Next year's Business Conference and Exhibition will take place on Thursday 27th February 2020.


On Saturday 4 July 2015, four of our members were at the CYA Conference in Brisbane. One of them conducted a master class for children's book writers, one received a 3rd place in the Hatchling Illustration category, and all of us listened and learned a lot in a very short space of time.
These photographs were taken by Peter Allert, the official conference photographer, and a well respected illustrator in his own right.
After the competition winners were announced we started the day with three publishing success stories, two from writers and one from an illustrator. Then we discovered what it takes to keep an agent's and publisher's attention beyond the first page of a manuscript. From there we sat at the feet of Paul Collins of Ford Street Publishing and had a mini masterclass in marketing children's books. Ben Long walked us through his self-publishing experiences in printing and selling two picture books. Jacqui Honeywood took us through the strategic side of blogging, and an extended masterclass with Morris Gleitzman on what makes a story worth telling wrapped up the day.
It was a lot of information to take in, so I will be typing up my notes from each session on a more or less weekly basis. Digesting them at that slower rate makes them easier to absorb and put into practice. CBHunCC members will get them through the Yahoo feed. However, if anyone else would like to be on the email list for those conference notes, send your request through the Contact page.


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Reichert Seriously Considering Washington Governor's Race
by Nathan L. Gonzales September 3, 2015 · 1:02 PM EDT
Republican Rep. Dave Reichert is seriously considering a gubernatorial bid in Washington state, according to multiple GOP sources.
The congressman has been the consistent source of rumors for a statewide bid over the past decade. But those rumors were often fueled by House Democrats who wanted him to leave behind a competitive open seat or Republicans focused on the Senate and governorships.
"This time is the most serious I've ever seen him," Mike Shields, the congressman's former chief of staff, said. Reichert is considering challenging Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee, the former House member who is running for his second term next year.
Republicans have come close in gubernatorial races before, including Dino Rossi's razor-thin, 129-vote loss in 2004, but haven't won a race since 1980, when quarterback Jim Zorn was throwing touchdown passes to future Oklahoma Rep. Steve Largent in the early years of the Seattle Seahawks. Reichert, a former King County sheriff, would give Republicans a legitimate shot at winning next year.
Reichert's 8th District isn't as Democratic as it was before the last round of redistricting, but an open seat would be competitive. President Barack Obama won the district 50 percent to 48 percent in 2012 and 51 percent to 47 percent in 2008. Reichert defeated now-Rep. Suzan DelBene, 52 percent to 48 percent, in 2010 under the old lines, but won comfortably in the past two elections.
One source said Rossi, who lost gubernatorial bids in 2004 and 2008 and a Senate bid in 2010, would be a likely candidate for Reichert's seat, but other candidates from both parties would almost certainly take a look as well.
Back in May, Roll Call's Simone Pathé wrote about potential GOP challengers to Democratic Sen. Patty Murray and included Reichert as a potential contender.
"My entire career I have always kept my options open. I have considered every possibility that has been put in front of me," Reichert responded vaguely in a statement. It's now clear that the gubernatorial race is the focus.
We rate the Washington gubernatorial race as Safe for Democrats, until or unless Reichert gets into the race, and the 8th District as Safe for Republicans until Reichert leaves the seat open. Both could become more competitive based on Reichert's decision.
But as various groups and people compete for Reichert's candidacy and pressure him into a decision, Shields added one tidbit: "No one will make this decision but Dave Reichert."
2015-16 Gubernatorial Overview: Parties Brace for Bigger Battles Ahead
2015-16 Gubernatorial Ratings (August 21, 2015)
2016 House Ratings (August 11, 2015)
This story first appeared in RollCall.com on September 2, 2015.


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Rezeta (pictured), the debut feature film by Mexican director Fernando Frías, was awarded with the Spirit Award for Feature Narrative as well as the Best Actress Award for Rezeta Veliu at the 17th edition of the Brooklyn Film Festival. Additionally, the short film Toñita's co-directed by Mexican filmmaker Sebastián Díaz Aguirre was presented with the Brooklyn Pride Award.
Rezeta tells the story of a 21 year old model born in Albania who arrives in Mexico after making a living out of her beauty all around the globe. She soon meets Alex, a tattooed musician who cleans up the trailer where she waits during a commercial photo shoot. They quickly become friends, and then their relationship becomes something more. This is the story of their complicated romance, set against a backdrop of bands, parties and everyday life in modern Mexico.
The documentary short Toñita's (pictured right) dives into the microcosm of The Caribbean Sports Club in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Known as 'Toñita's' because of its owner, Maria Toñita, the club is a social hub for longtime residents of the neighborhood. Her colorful regulars reveal the gritty history of this once predominantly Caribbean neighborhood, as well as the club's resistance to the area's rapid gentrification.
The 17th edition of the Brooklyn Film Festival took place May 30th - June 8th in New York City.


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Newton Gresham Library Gets $15 Million Update
Sharon Raission March 1, 2020 /0 comments
Architectural Rendering by Sheply Bulfinch
The Newton Gresham Library's first significant construction project since it's opening in 1968 is set to begin this semester with a price tag of over $15 million.
Construction on the library will start April 13 and continue until at least December, with plans to have everything completely done the following spring. The renovations will be contained to the existing structure, shaping it into a more accessible space, providing more areas for collaborative work, classroom spaces, individual study areas as well as full incorporation of the Academic Success Center into the second floor.
The first floor will be transformed from hallways and offices into open study and collaboration zones. The second floor will be made into a patron-service and research centered floor with a full-service Starbucks.
Executive Director of Library Services Eric Owen spoke about the changes students will experience in their usage of the building during construction.
"The library is committed to maintaining regular hours and services during the renovation," Owen said. "Unfortunately, some noise during construction is unavoidable. However, the library is working with the contractors to minimize disruption for students."
The construction will be split into four phases to lessen disruptions. Spaces will be available for students throughout renovations, likely on the third and fourth floors. Owen plans to pause construction during finals and continue throughout the year with substantial completion by December.
The construction will impact only the entrances of the building and the first and second floors.
"While we would love to update the entire building, we also recognize the need to be good stewards of the available budget," Owen said. "The current approach seeks to focus funding to maximize the positive impact for students by transforming the two entry floors of the library."
The total estimated project cost is $15.2 million, with $7 million of that money coming from the Texas State University System Revenue Bonds, $8 million coming from Higher Education Funds and $200,000 from auxiliary funds.
"My hope is that the renovation will make the NGL a more accessible and useful academic environment for students, and as a result student usage of the facility will increase," Owen said.
The incorporation of the ASC into the building is a major feature of the renovations. The ASC provides supplemental instruction, writing and mathematics tutoring and hosts workshops throughout the year to help students with things like time management, note-taking, reading comprehension, exam strategies and more.
"Students who come seeking services from one unit will have more opportunity to discover services provided by ASC tutors, mentors, as well as the First Year Experience office and the EURECA center for undergraduate research, leading to greater visibility and benefit from these diverse campus services," Owen said.
Campus libraries all over have been working to keep up with the ever-evolving needs of college students. By incorporating more modern amenities, the library follows an evolutionary trend in universities expanding from just a repository for books and documents into an academic and scholarly hub.
NGL intends to keep students updated throughout the renovation process.
"Information concerning the phases of the renovation, including the areas which will be affected, and the duration of potential disruptions, will be shared and updated regularly on a renovation webpage on the NGL website, as well as signage in the library," Owen said.
For more information about NGL, visit their webpage at library.shsu.edu.
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La bandiera del Belgio è caratterizzata da un classico tricolore.

Descrizione
Consiste in tre bande verticali di uguali dimensioni. Partendo dall'asta i colori sono: nero, giallo e rosso.

Le sue proporzioni inusuali (13:15) sono di origine sconosciuta. La bandiera civile ha invece le proporzioni (2:3) simili a quelle degli altri paesi.

Origine

Il disegno verticale è basato sulla bandiera francese mentre i colori sono stati presi da quelli del Ducato di Brabante.
La bandiera venne creata a Bruxelles da Édouard Ducpétiaux e Lucien Jottrand nell'agosto 1830 e adottata il 30 settembre, poco dopo l'ottenuta indipendenza dei Belgi dai Paesi Bassi. La bandiera ha giocato un ruolo importante durante le rivolte, dove i colori servivano come ricordo di una vecchia bandiera con bande orizzontali usata durante i precedenti moti del 1789.

Bandiere storiche

Note

Voci correlate
 Stemma del Belgio
 Tricolore

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Belgio
Belgio
Belgio


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Hi-Ho, the Glamorous Life: Renaissance Woman
Jul14 by sftheaterpub
Marissa Skudlarek, on weaving a tale in another time, another place.
For the past few weeks, I've been living with half my head in the 21st century and half of it in the Renaissance. I've been hard at work readying my new full-length play Juana, or the Greater Glory for a staged reading on Saturday night as part of the Loud and Unladylike Festival, and therefore I've spent a lot of time thinking about mad queens, scheming dukes, and sickly princes.
Juana tells the incredible true story of a young Spanish Habsburg princess in the mid-1550s, who is the only woman ever to become a Jesuit. This is an earlier era of history than I've ever really tackled in writing before: I've written full-length plays that take place in 20th-century America, and at least one of my short Olympians Festival plays takes place in vaguely defined "classical" times, but never a full-length play that takes place in such a different time and country.
The 1550s in Spain and Portugal are well-documented enough for us to know what happened and who was involved with it (at least when it comes to royal and aristocratic families), but not necessarily enough for us to know the reasons why certain things happened or why people made the decisions they did. Maybe this would be different if I'd improved my ability to read Renaissance Spanish, gone to Madrid, and sought out old documents in obscure archives; but from the perspective of a 21st-century Californian with passable but not expert Spanish, doing most of my research on the Internet, I've been able to put together a timeline of the key events of Juana's life, but not to read her words or understand more than the bare facts about her. But, as a playwright, this is what I love: the historical facts give me a structure, but I get to flesh out my characters' psychology and motivations, and make them my own. In a way, this is similar to what I've done when writing mythology-based plays for the Olympians Festival: Greek myths provide a vivid cast of characters and the outlines of a plot, but not necessarily an explanation for why the gods and mortals behave as they do. Writing mythology-based plays prepared me for writing a play based on a distant, dramatic era of history that (from my perspective) might as well be myth.
I feel like the 1550s setting also forces me to be a stronger writer, since I cannot fall back on appeals to persons, places, or things that the audience will find familiar. Many young writers, having seen too many episodes of The Simpsons or 30 Rock, think that cleverness in writing is merely a matter of making endless pop culture allusions. Writing a play that takes place in the Renaissance strips you of that crutch. You can allude to the Bible, to Greco-Roman mythology and history, to certain folk tales, and that's about it. I do have to be clever – especially because I am writing about a person and a period of history that are pretty obscure to American audiences – in order to convey the necessary backstory without boring or confusing the audience. But it is not the superficial glittering cleverness of pop culture allusion and snark.
Portrait of Princess Juana by Sofonisba Anguissola, via Wikimedia Commons
While drafting Juana, I motivated myself with thoughts of "What would Shakespeare do?" If you are writing historical drama about medieval or Renaissance-era royalty, it makes sense to look at how Shakespeare did it, and especially, how he wasn't afraid to combine characters, ignore facts, and invent encounters out of whole cloth, as long as they made for better drama. "What would Shakespeare do?" therefore is my way of justifying my own elisions, inventions, and places where I deliberately ignore the facts. I haven't done too much of that in Juana: the main examples I can think of are that I've aged up a child from about 9 to about 14, for both plot and produceability reasons; and I'm saying that a certain Spanish nobleman was in Spain during this time when really he was in England. But frankly, this is nothing compared to what Shakespeare did. I want to honor Princess Juana's amazing true story – I've really come to love and admire her through writing this play – but I do not feel an obligation to fact-check every line I write.
All the same, I've done a lot of research for this project. I've read 400 pages of writings by St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits. I've nearly driven myself nuts trying to calculate how long it would take letters to get from Lisbon to Madrid, and Madrid to Rome, circa 1550. I've learned the symptoms of juvenile diabetes, the differences between the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and the rules for what was and wasn't permitted during Lent in the 1550s. I've looked up the names of all of the Catholic kings of Europe at the time and whether they had sons of marriageable age (this information is now in a document on my computer titled "Possible second husbands" and I giggle every time I see it). More than anything else, I've tried my best to get into that death-haunted, Catholic, hierarchical worldview that characterizes Renaissance-era Spain. Before the invention of modern medicine, people by necessity thought about death more than we do. That awareness of and conscious preparation for death is present in writers of the period, like Shakespeare, and also in modern pieces of historical fiction and drama. (I joke that I'm going to turn Juana into a rap musical so that she can proclaim "I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory" and "See, I never thought I'd live past twenty.")
Yet there is also the danger of too much research, of writing something that would be better as a novel or nonfiction piece than as a play. Juana, or The Greater Glory covers about two years of Juana's life (the most eventful and dramatic years, IMO) – and it's been a bit of a challenge to compress two years of events into a two-hour play. But the problem would have been even more acute if I'd tried to cover an even longer period of time. Juana's son Sebastian, for instance, who appears in my play only as an infant, grew up to have a short but fascinating life as the King of Portugal. He would be a great subject for a play. Someone else's play.
See the staged reading of Marissa Skudlarek's play Juana, or the Greater Glory at PianoFight on Saturday, July 16 at 7:30 PM. (Note the start time!) Tickets here.
This entry was posted in Hi-Ho The Glamorous Life and tagged Catholicism, Hi-Ho The Glamorous Life, historical drama, Ignatius of Loyola, Juana or the Greater Glory, Marissa Skudlarek, Olympians Festival, Renaissance, Shakespeare.
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George Heymont says:
In 1979, the San Diego Opera premiered Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera, Juana La Loca (whose title was later shortened to "La Loca") as a vehicle for Beverly Sills.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Loca_(opera)
I saw the production in San Diego and New York. On September 16, 1979 WNCN-FM offered a live broadcast of the New York première of the opera. I cannot remember if it was telecast from the New York City Opera as part of the "Live From Lincoln Center" series on PBS.
Here are two excerpts:
Marissa Skudlarek (@MarissaSkud) says:
Thanks, George! Just to clarify, the central character of my play is Juana la Loca's namesake granddaughter, Princess Juana, who became Regent of Spain and then a Jesuit. La Loca appears in a few scenes of my play, though — because following my rule of "What would Shakespeare do?", he wouldn't pass up the chance to write a scene between a young princess and her mad old grandmother, the rightful queen.
I enjoyed these excerpts of Menotti's opera and Juana la Loca is certainly a fascinating character. In fact, this whole period of Spanish history is rife with drama and I wish it were better-known in this country. I also enjoyed seeing Verdi's "Don Carlo" at SF Opera last month — Carlo was "my" Juana's nephew and King Philip was her brother. Verdi and his librettist certainly took some liberties with the facts, though!
CharlesAndHisTypewriter says:
"Many young writers, having seen too many episodes of 'The Simpsons' or '30 Rock', think that cleverness in writing is merely a matter of making endless pop culture allusions." Always glad to see I'm not the only one who sees this, though I've never seen '30 Rock'. (I would've just said there are too many graduates from the Seth MacFarlane school of "comedy").
Making allusions is a necessary part of world-building on the part of the dramatist. Congratulating oneself simply for knowing that reference is something else entirely.
Yes, and I think it's also a matter of whether the allusion serves a larger dramatic purpose, or whether the writer thinks that the mere act of making an allusion is clever/funny. The best allusions do work on multiple levels.


Los Angeles airport officials agreed on Thursday to allow ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft to operate at Los Angeles International Airport, making it the largest airport in the country to permit such services, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The decision could take effect as early as late August, pending approval by the city attorney, the Times says.
The Board of Airport Commissioners declined to comment on its decision.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who holds the power to appoint airport commissioners, issued a statement applauding the decision as part of his agenda to ease L.A.'s transportation woes.
"Ridesharing is becoming popular in Los Angeles, and we want to give LAX passengers the same transportation options that they have throughout our city," he said.
The mayor noted that trips would still be subject to congestion-reducing rules and a required $4 airport fee.
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Uber didn't immediately respond to calls for comment.
Read the full LATimes story here.


My original thought on writing this letter was to address it to my son Luka as he is my most immediate connection to the future. Addressing people farther removed in time is a bit more ethereal but I think my thoughts translate to both the immediate and future generations.
As we hurtle toward the next convergence on global climate discourse in Paris, I vacillate between notions of impending doom and great hope for the future. My pessimistic side sees nothing but a life filled with severe droughts, bigger storms, climate refugees, altered ecosystems, etc. for my future relatives and their brethren. I have a hard time imagining a robust consensus on a viable path forward coming from the Paris talks. Our global cultural, economic, and spatial divides just seem too great. That said, working on a daily basis with bright young students that genuinely care about the world they inhabit and the world they will pass to future generations gives me great pause and hope when imagining the planet my ancestors will inhabit.
One of the most frustrating parts of my profession is trying to explain basic scientific knowledge and evidence to students and community members who refuse to objectively analyze evidence in lieu of tightly held beliefs. I am hopeful that projects of this nature, the Paris negotiations, continued media coverage, more education, and, sadly, undeniable environmental evidence of climate change will culminate in the global populace demanding that our leaders take real and effective action. If by the reading of this letter that is not the case, let me try one LAST time - The climate IS changing and there WILL continue to be negative repercussions unless action is taken! In the end, my greatest hope is that the generations subsequent of mine will have the skills and desire to retard or even reverse some of the damage we have wrought so they can know the joys of living a full life on this amazing planet.


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Q: How To Correctly Bind Form in Vue & Vuex - Difference of v-model, :value & :value.sync I'm fairly new to Vue & Vuex and am unsure on how to set up my form correctly.
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Register

            <input type="email" name="" id="" :value.sync="email" placeholder="Email">
            <input type="password" :value.sync="password" placeholder="Password">
            <button @click="signup">Submit</button>
            Sign in
        </form>

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At first I tried v-model to bind the form, it was throwing and error as I was mutating the store but I'm not storing email and password so I'm unsure how this is mutating the store? If I use :value or :value.sync then the email and password fields remain an empty string, so I'm not sure how to set up these correctly or how they differ from v-model
Edit: Adding my code from the store as requested
export const state = () => ({
    currentUser: {}
})

export const mutations = {
    setCurrentUser (state, obj) {
    state.currentUser = obj
    }
}

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Vue.config.devtools = false
Vue.config.productionTip = false

const vm = new Vue({
    el: "#app",
    data() {
        return {
            email: '',
            password: ''
        }
    },
    methods: {
        signup() {
            console.log(this.email) // email value
            console.log(this.password) // password value
        }
    }
})

<!DOCTYPE html>

      <title></title>

            <form @submit.prevent="signup">

Register

               <input type="email" v-model="email" placeholder="Email">
               <input type="password" v-model="password" placeholder="Password">
               <input type="submit">
            </form>

A: I think I have found the solution, it was the way in which I was trying to use firebase. I have used v-model, but am using a firebase method onAuthStateChanged, only if that is called will I change the store. So in my firebase.js I added
const fireAuth = firebase.auth()
const fireDb = firebase.database()
export { fireAuth, fireDb }

export default async ({ store }) => {
    await asyncOnAuthStateChanged(store)
}

function asyncOnAuthStateChanged (store) {
    return new Promise(resolve => {
        fireAuth.onAuthStateChanged(user => {
            resolve(user)
            store.commit('setCurrentUser', JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(user)))
        })
    })
}

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Gas plants have occupied a marginal position in the UK power mix throughout the cold snap, meaning they have been ramping up and down to meet peaks and troughs in demand.
This is because high gas prices meant gas plants became more expensive to run than coal-fired plants. So while virtually all coal plants available to the power system have been running, gas plants have remained marginal.
The UK has seen vast amounts of wind power since the arrival of Storm Emma, which has supported the overall power system and kept supply margins well in check.
But wind power output is expected to fall back over the weekend, which will pull more expensive gas plants into the mix, and power prices have been forced higher to compensate.


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Saturday, November 1 • 1:00pm - 2:40pm
Documentary Shorts
Crooked Candy (dir. Andrew Rodgers / 6 min.)
Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs are hugely popular all around the world but (oddly) illegal in the United States thanks to a quirk in FDA regulations. The film profiles someone who smuggles the eggs across the Canadian border and has even been caught by border patrol.
Elvis Loses His Excess & Other Tales From The World's Longest Yard Sale (dir. Riley Hooper / 18 min.)
Travel down US Highway 127 from Michigan to Alabama and meet the people at the world's longest yard sale -- an annual four-day, 690-mile exchange of not only goods, but also narratives.
A Park for the City (dir. Nicole Macdonald / 34 min.) coming soon...
McDaniel (dir. Scott Lancaster / 5 min.)
Harmonica player McDaniel reveals the inspiration for his music and life.
Month One (dir. Joanna Arnow, Michael Galinsky & Suki Hawley / 10 min.)
An immersive film about the first month of the Occupy Movement.
Methel Island (dir. Meg Smaker / 12 min.)
There is and island on the delta 45 minutes east of San Francisco that is infested with Crystal Meth. In this documentary we explore the island and its inhabitants' relationship to the drug.
Alfred Jarry & Pataphysics (dir. Skizz Cyzyk / 2 min.)
In this 2 minute animated documentary, an oral report on French writer, Alfred Jarry, is given stop-motion treatment with the help of talking t-shirts, flip book pages, and time-lapse lino-cut printing.
The Chaperone 3D (dir. Fraser Munden / 12 min.)
The Chaperone tells the true, previously untold story of a lone school teacher who fought off an entire motorcycle gang while chaperoning a middle school dance in a church basement in 1970s Montreal, Canada
Saturday November 1, 2014 1:00pm - 2:40pm
Filter the Sched! Filmmakers in Attendance, Films of Color, Women Making Movies


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These people are expected to be brave, selfless leaders, and they truly are the real Givers of modern society . Unfortunately they rarely receive the recognition they deserve, and there is no kind way of saying this, but most of the time others ( "The receivers") are abusing these giants' trust, generosity, and compassionate nature. So out of all people, the ones who really suffered, gained the wisdom and the courage to go into the unknown, open new paths, while others are busy judging them…Not that they care what others think of them, they know, in their heart of hearts, their life it is no longer about them, but those who are screaming for help…Nature (or God, or The Universe) works in such mysterious ways!


0005017: Special character "o acute" is displayed as "ó" in text version of a message.
Seems like this is a major bug in the program's send routine. There is a second field in the table "_message" called "textmessage" but this one's empty. Bug or feature?
reported to work for German characters.
The submitted solution does not seem to work with the current version (2.10.2), we still get the special chars..
I couldn't reproduce the problem on my installation, but I had USE_MANUAL_TEXT_PART enabled, which might perhaps account for that.


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Mawdudi on the Islamic State, Muslim Power and non-Muslim Rights
A Few Quick Blurbs
Who Was Mawlana Abu'l-A`la Mawdudi ?
"It is not exaggeration to say that by the time of his death he had become the most widely read Muslim author of our time, contributing immensely to the contemporary resurgence of Islamic ideas, feelings and activity all over the world." (preface of Towards Understanding Islam, by Mawdudi, p.13)
"Mawlana Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi [1903-79], one of the chief architects of contemporary Islamic resurgence, was the most outstanding Islamic thinker and writer of his time. He devoted his entire life to expounding the meaning and message of Islam ..." (from preface of Mawdudi's Towards Understanding Islam, possibly by Zafar Ishaq Ansari (?) back cover)
Some Bio Info
Born in the "present Hyderabad state of India," "Mawdudi came from a family steeped in the religious tradition of Islam. On his father's side he was descended from the Chishti line of saints; in fact his very name, Abul Ala, derives from the first member of the Chishti silsiah (a Sufi `Order`) ... [He] received religious nurture at the hands of his father and from a variety of teachers employed by him. . . His instruction included very little of the subject matter of a modern school; and European languages, specifically English, were not among the courses he followed ... "
"Significant turning point came for Mawdudi in connection with the murder of a certain Swami Shradhanand by a Muslim fanatic in 1925 ... There were accusations that Islam relies upon the sword for its propagation ... repetitions of the old slander that Islam promises Paradise to those who kill an unbeliever. Mawdudi undertook to answer these charges in the columns of al-Jamiah." (Adams, p.100-101)
(Note: Abul A'la Mawdudi was his given name. "He usually referred to as Mawlana Mawdudi because of his religious learning." (http://www.bookrags.com/biography-abu-i-ala-mawdudi/index.html)
Mawdudi's Islamic State (from Adams)
Mawdudi was the founder of Jama`at-i Islami party/movement in India and Pakistan. (Although it traditionally has not gone above the single digits in vote gathering, it had much success in influencing Pakistani elites and has "managed to exert a political and ideological influence in excess" of its numbers. ..." (Talbot, p.108)
Mawdudi on the Islamic state:
Its sphere of activity is co-extensive with human life ... In such a state no one can regard any field of his affairs as personal and private.` [Ahmad, p.154]
It should be
the very antithesis of secular Western democracy ... In such a state no one can regard any field of his affairs as personal and private. Considered from this aspect the Islamic state bears a kind of resemblance to the Fascist and Communist states [Adams, pp. 119-21]
Muslims in Charge.
It is a dictate of this very nature of the Islamic state that such a state should be run only by those who believe in the ideology on which it is based and in the Divine Law which it is assigned to administer. [Ahmad p.155, quoted in Adams p.121]
Choosing the State's Leader.
Islam does not limit the scope of its possibilities by attempting to lay down exactly how the choice of leader will be made. [Ahmad, quoted in Adams, p.252]
Different methods may be appropriate to different times and circumstances, as is evidenced by the lack of uniformity in the ways of deciding the succession of the first four caliphs ... [Adams, p.123]
Legislature Should not Be a Law-Making Body
In addition to providing a means for the ruler to fulfill the duty of consulting, the function of the legislature is really that of law-finding, not of law-making. . .
... leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left for Muslims lies in their observance of the God-made law . . The fact of the matter, however, is that Islam does not totally exclude human legislation. It only limits its scope and guide it on right lines.` [Adams p.125, quoting Ahmad, p.77]
The State must "be controlled and run exclusively by Muslims."
Head of state, "the locus of all power and authority," must be a Muslim, adult male who has NOT actively sought the post.
The Ruler should be the "best" (in terms of piety as well as competency) for the task.
non-Muslims may hold non-sensitive posts, but must be "rigorously excluded from influencing policy decisions."
Government must be managed though mutual consultation, the ruler is to be selected, appointed, or elected through a consultative process.
How the leader is chosen may vary. "Islam does not limit the scope of its possibilities by attempting to lay down exactly how the choice of leader will be made."
Legislature is a consultative body whose "opinions and judgments are not binding either upon the ruler or the people of the Islamic state." ("Complete power remains with the ruler.")
deals with four kinds of legislation
interpreting Sharia
where the Shariah has not laid down specific injunctions analogous situations are found. (qiyas)
inference from general principles to derive guidance.
passing "independent legislation" in the `vast range of human affairs about which Shariah is totally silent` (Ahmad, quoted in Adams, p.78)
but where legislation must accord with the spirit of Islam. (Adams p.126)
because in a pious Islamic society matters would be resolved by consensus, there is "no provision of effective machinery for resolving conflict" in Mawdudi's state.
To restore the unity and righteousness that existed at the time of the Rightly Guided Khalifs, Four principles are needed:
Those who bear responsibility should face the representatives so the public and be accountable for what they do
The party system should be reformed to abolish loyalty to parties
The government should not operate with complex rules
The people elected to office should have the proper qualifications.
(Ahmad, p.259)
Mawdudi on Pakistan
Mawdudi originally preached that Islam should be organized as a party ruled by a system of ideas rather than as a religion and aim towards taking over "the whole of India" rather than seperating from it. (Adams, p.104) But in a reverse of his pro-pan-Islamic position that "was to say the least, surprising," Mawdudi embraced the state of Pakistan (which was enormously popular among Muslims of the subcontinent) despite the fact that he had opposed nationalism of any sort and that the new state did not use the Shariah.
Now that this had become a regularized Islamic state, it is no longer the country of the enemy against which it is our duty to strive. Rather, it is now the country of friends, our own country, the strengthening, construction and progress of which are our duty.
[Adams, p.107]
Mawdudi on Shariah
Directives of the Shariah deal with
family relationships, social and economic affairs, administration, rights and duties of citizens, judicial system, laws of war and peace and international relations. In short it embraces all the various departments of life ... The Shariah is a complete scheme of life and an all-embracing social order where nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking. [Adams p.113, quoting Ahmad p.57]
Mawdudi on non-Muslim Culture
The "cultural aping" by Muslims "of others" (i.e. non-Muslims) has
very disastrous consequences upon a nation; it destroys its inner vitality, blurs its vision, befogs its critical faculties, breeds inferiority complexes, and gradually but assuredly saps all the springs of culture and sound its death-knell. That is why the Holy Prophet has positively and forcefully forbidden the Muslims to assume the culture and mode of life of the non-Muslims. [Maududi, Towards Understanding Islam, p.131]
Mawdudi on non-Muslims Rights (from Short)
.... Abul 'Ala Mawdudi, Qur'anic exegete and founder of the Islamist Pakistani group Jama'at-i-Islami was quite unapologetic about Jizyah:
...the Muslims should feel proud of such a humane law as that of Jizya. For it is obvious that a maximum freedom that can be allowed to those who do not adopt the way of Allah but choose to tread the ways of error is that they should be tolerated to lead the life they like. [Mawdudi, The Meaning of the Qur'an, p.183.]
He interprets the Qur'anic imperative to Jihad as having the aim of subjugating non-Muslims, to force them to pay the Jizyah as the defining symbol of their subjection:
... Jews and the Christians ...should be forced to pay Jizya in order to put an end to their independence and supremacy so that they should not remain rulers and sovereigns in the land. These powers should be wrested from them by the followers of the true Faith, who should assume the sovereignty and lead others towards the Right Way. [Mawdudi, The Meaning of the Qur'an, v.2, page 183.]
The consequence of this is that in an Islamic State -- specifically the Khilafah -- non-Muslims should be denied Government posts, since the state exists for the Muslims, who alone are true citizens, whilst the non-Muslims are merely conquered residents, and the Jizyah signifies this:
That is why the Islamic state offers them protection, if they agree to live as Zimmis by paying Jizya, but it can not allow that they should remain supreme rulers in any place and establish wrong ways and establish them on others. As this state of things inevitably produce chaos and disorder, it is the duty of the true Muslims to exert their utmost to bring an end to their wicked rule and bring them under a righteous order. [Mawdudi, The Meaning of the Qur'an, v.2, p. 186.]
Differences of taxation demonstrate distinctions in citizenship. As a symbol of subjection, it signifies that the state is not really the common property of all its permanent residents, but only the Muslims ...
Mawdudi on non-Muslims Rights (from Roy)
"The two kinds of citizenship that Islam envisions are the following: (1) the Muslims, (2) the Zimmis." (Ahmad p.245, quoted in Roy p.223)
Maududi's Islamic State and "Theodemocracy" (from Ruthven)
In the true Islamic state, for which Maududi coined the term "theodemocracy," the representatives of the people may be co-opted into the national assembly rather than elected, on the grounds that truly virtuous people will not always put themselves forward. As Yousef Choueiri has observed, Maududi's theodemocracy is an
ideological state in which legislators do not legislate, citizens only vote to reaffirm the permanent applicability of God's laws, women rarely venture outside their homes lest social discipline be disrupted, and non-Muslims are tolerated a foreign elements required to express their loyalty by means of paying a financial levy` (i.e. the jizya)
[Choueiri p.111, quoted in Ruthven p.70]
Mawdudi's Islamic State - Ideological, One-Party Rule (from Kramer)
Much of the ideological spadework was done by Mawlana Abu'l-A`la Mawdudi (1903-79), the founder of the fundamentalist Jama`at-i Islami in India and Pakistan. His many writings, translated into every major language spoken by Muslims, provide a panoramic view of the ideal fundamentalist state. In this state, sovereignty would belong to God alone, and would be exercised on his behalf by a just ruler, himself guided by a reading of God's law in its entirety. As an ideological state, it would be administered for God solely by Muslims who adhered to its ideology, and "whose whole life is devoted to the observance and enforcement" of Islamic law. Non-Muslims, who could not share its ideology, and women, who by nature could not devote their entire lives to it, would have no place in high politics. Everything would come under the purview of this Islamic state. "In such a state," announced Mawdudi,
no one can regard any field of his affairs as personal and private. Considered from this aspect the Islamic state bears a kind of resemblance to the Fascist and Communist states,
although Mawdudi rejected individual dictatorship, instead advocating a variety of one-party rule. Mawdudi was certain about what the Islamic state would not resemble: it would be "the very antithesis of secular Western democracy." (Adams, p.119-21.)
Mawdudi himself never had a sufficient following to make a concerted bid for power in Pakistan, but his writings exerted a wide influence over fundamentalists better positioned to act upon his vision. (Kramer)
Mawdudi - Islamic rule of Hindu India (from Kepel)
Jihad in Islam, was published in Urdu in the late 1920s, roughly coinciding with Banna's creation of the Society of Muslim Brothers in Egypt. From the start Mawdudi was against the project for a circumscribed `Muslim state,` [aka Pakistan] which would give power to the nationalists. Instead, he agitated for an Islamic state covering the whole of India. For him, all nationalism was impiety, more especially as its conception of the state was European-inspired. Apart from this he had nothing but contempt for the ulamas, whom he accused of having collaborated with the British occupiers since the fall of Muslim-held Delhi in 1857. Mawdudi favored what he called `Islamization from above,` through a state in which sovereignty would be exercised in the name of Allah and the sharia would be implemented. He declared that politics was `an integral, inseparable part of the Islamic faith, and that the Islamic state that Muslim political action seeks to build is a panacea for all their [Muslims] problems.` (Nasr, p.7)
For him, the five traditional Pillars of Islam (profession of the faith, prayer, the fast of Ramadan, pilgrimage, and almsgiving) were merely phases of training and preparation for jihad, the struggle against those of Allah's creatures who had usurped His sovereignty. To carry out his jihad, he founded in 1941, the Jamaat-e-Islami, which he saw as the vanguard of the Islamic Revolution, on a Leninist model. Mawdudi made explicit references to the `vanguard` of the earliest Muslims, who gathered around the Prophet in 622 during the Hegira, broke with the idolatrous people of Mecca, and departed to found the Islamic state of Medina. His own party was intended to follow a similar course." (Kepel, p.34)
Mawdudi - Jahiliyya and Apostacy - from Sivan
"... The diagnosis set by the Maudoodi school, and further developed by Qutb and his disciples, takes this decadence theory several steps further, crossing, in the process, a crucial borderline: it is no more just a question of decline; Islam - particularly under the new military state - has reverted to a stage of jahiliyya that reflects the situation of Arabia prior to A.D. 622. The elites - and other peddlers of modernity who brought it to that state of affairs, as well as the ruled who tolerate or embrace it, are guilty of apostacy (ridda)." (Sivan, p.65)
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http://debate.org.uk/topics/history/xstnc-5.html
Sivan, Emmanuel Radical Islam : Medieval Theology and Modern Politics, by Emmanuel Sivan. New Haven : Yale University Press, c1985.


Large lithodid crab with cusk eel peering out from between its legs. Yellow paramuricid coral bush with numerous brittle stars attached. Much smaller red crab to right and below lithodid crab.
Closeup of the spiky back of a lithodid crab.
Furry looking squat lobster peering out from its cover adjacent to a rock. White translucent zoanthids are seen on the rock.
A study site following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. A large lithodid crab, a large closed venus flytrap anemone, and numerous paramuricid corals. Is the purple color of the corals natural or are they in distress?
A lithodid crab on a sand and mud seafloor.
A squat lobster, possibly on the rim of a sponge.
A tusk shell also known as a scaphopod.
Delicate white corals, sponges, and hydroids on a rock outcrop.
A black coral bush in the center of the image surrounded by crinoids and small sponges.
Ledge covered with crinoids, small sponges, and callogorgia? corals. Large red fish, possibly Atlantic roughy ( Hoplostethus occidentalis) under ledge on right side of image.
Odd white knobby appearing coral branches with a squat lobster, hydroids, blue to white small sponges, and a yellow-white crinoid in the center, on an area of rock outcrops.
Bubblegum coral growing on the seafloor partially colonized by white translucent zoanthids, small white corals, white and blue sponges, and other small life forms.
Odd material at entrance to opening in rock outcrop. Small sponges, pink bubblegum coral colonized by zoanthids, and other small life forms can be seen in this image.
A squat lobster sitting next to a crinoid. Crinoids are quite nimble, some have been known to uproot themselves and "walk" along the seafloor.
A black coral in the foreground, bamboo corals, and a yellow lophelia bush in the background on a rock outcrop.
Bamboo corals, an iridogorgia coral bush, paramuricid corals, and a yellow stony coral can be found in this image. Some small sponges are also seen on this black rock outcrop.
Bamboo corals and two spiraling iridogorgia corals on top of a rock outcrop.
Bamboo coral with two large feather star crinoids. A white stalked glass sponge is in the lower left.
An isolated rock providing habitat for a large orange anemone, a squat lobster, small coral bushes, and other life forms. The white animal above the orange anemone looks quite interesting but the resolution is not high enough to determine what it may be.
Large white single polyp octocorals, a large white sponge, and a squat lobster at the base of the rock. A few worm tubes can also be seen in the image.
Worm tubes and small corals attached to a dead coral branch.
Bamboo corals, white sponges, and yellow feather star crinoids on a rock face. Note the small feather star crinoid situated on the rock face in the top right center of the image.
A spiraling iridgorgorgia coral with a red shrimp and closed anemones; an orange "black" coral bush to the right, and a stalked sea lily crinoid on the left bottom.
Looking down on a large assemblage of yellow paramuricid corals with associated brittle stars, a yellow sea lily crinoid in upper left center, a few sponges, and other life forms.
A strangely shaped sponge in lower left, numerous small white corals, a large orange venus flytrap anemone, and numerous small white anemones can be seen in this image.
Two glass goiter sponges in the center of the image with yellow feather star crinoids, numerous white anemones, and small brown anemones.
Feather star crinoid on a glass sponge with a squat lobster to the left.
Goiter glass sponges with yellow feather star crinoids, large white anemones, and a small brown anemone in the left foreground.
A seeming garden of white ping pong ball stalked sponges, orange venus flytrap anemones, yellow feather star crinoids, and small white and peach-colored corals .
Large white anemones next to a large mussel shell, small white sponges, a yellow feather star crinoid, and a large shrimp in the left center.
At least eight pencil urchins, one orange sea urchin, a number of venus flytrap anemones, and a small assemblage of ping pong ball stalked sponges.
A uniquely configured white sponge, ping pong ball sponges, small blue sponges, a large orange anemone, a large number of small brownish red anemones, and a few tube worms in the lower right quadrant of the image.
A uniquely configured white sponge, ping pong ball sponges, small blue sponges, a large orange anemone, a large number of small brownish red anemones, and a few tube worms in the lower right quadrant of the image. A squat lobster is in the upper left.
A gray encrusting sponge in the foreground, many brown anemones, two large venus flytrap anemones, and numerous small white sponges including ping pong ball sponges can be seen in the image.
Large eyes of a deep sea fish are seen in the bottom center while much of the fish other than its head is hidden. A large orange anemone on the right and numerous small reddish brown anemones are seen on the left.


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'Reminds of Israeli political strategist Tal Silberstein' - Austrian Chancellor on tape scandal
Sebastian Kurz (L) and Tal Silberstein (R) © Reuters / Leonhard Foeger and Wikipedia
Following Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache's resignation amid a corruption scandal, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has hinted that Israeli political strategist Tal Silberstein may have orchestrated the debacle.
Strache resigned on Saturday, one day after a video surfaced in German outlets showing the vice-chancellor discussing a quid-pro-quo agreement with a woman presented by the media as a niece of a Russian oligarch, filmed in Ibiza in 2017. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz quickly condemned Strache's alleged misdeeds, and called for snap elections.
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However, both Strache – who headed Austria's Freedom Party, the junior coalition partner to Kurz's Austrian People's Party – and Kurz alleged dirty tricks were afoot.
Strache called the surreptitiously recorded tape a "targeted political assassination," and Kurz compared the scandal to a "dirty campaign" waged against him in 2017 by Austria's Social Democrats, via political adviser Tal Silberstein.
Speaking to German tabloid Bild on Sunday, Kurz again dropped Silberstein's name.
"Concerning the methods, this strongly reminds me of Tal Silberstein, the campaign aide of the SPÖ (Social Democrats) in 2017," Kurz said. "He used similar methods all across the world."
Similar Methods
Kurz's first run-in with Silberstein occurred during Austria's general election two years ago. Well on track to becoming Austria's youngest-ever leader at the time, Kurz was hit with allegations that his supporters ran websites churning out racist content and conspiracy theories. As well as the sites purporting to be from his supporters, another hit-site called "The Truth About Sebastian Kurz" alleged that the center-right leader was secretly working in the service of billionaire liberal financier George Soros.
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Breaking two weeks before the country went to the polls, the scandal could have dealt damage to Kurz' election bid, until it emerged that the websites were the work of Silberstein, paid €400,000 ($447,000) to mastermind then-chancellor Christian Kern's re-election bid.
Silberstein's work in Austria began in 2002, where he has repeatedly lent his expertise to the Social Democrats. However, his operation is global. Silberstein has advised former Israeli Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert, as well as Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Prime Minister of Ukraine.
Silberstein has also worked for a raft of Romanian politicians, and represented forestry company Schweighofer GmbH, accused of illegal logging in Eastern Europe.
The 2005 documentary 'Our Brand is Crisis' – which focused on the work of foreign political consultants in Bolivia's 2002 election – featured an appearance from Silberstein. In the documentary, the Israeli consultant is caught on camera telling candidate Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada to "start negative campaigns" against his rival.
"We have to make him from clean to a dirty candidate, that's our task," he said.
Sánchez de Lozada went on to win the campaign, but fled to the US from genocide charges in 2003, after his military massacred 60 protesters that October.
Still active
Silberstein hit back at Kurz's implication on Monday, calling the allegations against him 'false and unfounded," and threatened legal action in response.
However, the veteran political consultant is no stranger to legal action himself, having been pursued in relation to a corruption case in Romania in 2017, and arrested for alleged involvement in a bribery scandal in his native Israel later that year.
Still, Silberstein remains active internationally.
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Curiously, he popped up in Ukraine this week shortly after the President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky was sworn in. Local media reported that the notorious expert was there to consult the former President Petro Poroshenko, whose party reckons to win the upcoming parliamentary elections this year.
Regardless of Silberstein's alleged involvement in the Austrian video scandal, the fallout could be extremely damaging for Kurz and the European right, Vienna-based political scientist Heinz Gaertner told RT.
"No matter what the intention of this video was, it did damage to the Freedom Party, it did damage to the right wing parties in Europe and particularly in Austria as well," he said.
"Everyone in the party is distancing (themselves) from Strache. Even in the right wing parties in Europe they say 'That is not what we want for our parties.' It will be a negative example for politicians for some time to come."
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