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Kwalifikacje do Mistrzostw Europy w Piłce Ręcznej Kobiet 2016 miały na celu wyłonienie żeńskich reprezentacji narodowych w piłce ręcznej, które wystąpią w finałach tego turnieju.

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Turniej finałowy organizowanych przez EHF mistrzostw Europy odbędzie się w Szwecji w grudniu 2016 roku i weźmie w nim udział szesnaście drużyn. Zgłoszenia chętnych do udziału zespołów EHF przyjmowała od 11 lutego do 9 marca 2015 roku. Automatycznie do mistrzostw zakwalifikowała się drużyna gospodarzy, pozostałe zaś rywalizowały o piętnaście pozostałych miejsc. W razie konieczności przed fazą grupową miała zostać rozegrana faza preeliminacyjna. Chęć udziału w tym turnieju wyraziły prócz gospodyń trzydzieści dwie reprezentacje, toteż konieczne okazało się zorganizowanie preeliminacji, w których wystąpiło sześć najniżej sklasyfikowanych drużyn podzielonych na dwie trzyzespołowe grupy. Ich zwycięzcy dołączyli do pozostałej dwudziestki szóstki w zasadniczej fazie eliminacji, gdzie rywalizacja odbywała się w siedmiu czterozespołowych grupach, z których awans uzyskały dwie czołowe, a także najlepszy zespół spośród tych z trzecich miejsc. Turnieje preeliminacyjne zaplanowano na połowę czerwca 2015 roku, zaś druga faza eliminacji została rozegrana w sześciu meczowych terminach w październiku 2015 roku oraz marcu i czerwcu 2016 roku.

Zakwalifikowane zespoły

Faza 1
Sześć najniżej sklasyfikowanych drużyn spotkało się w fazie preeliminacyjnej w walce o dwa miejsca premiowane awansem do głównego turnieju eliminacyjnego. Została ona zorganizowana w formie dwóch trzyzespołowych grup rywalizujących systemem kołowym w dniach 12–14 czerwca 2015 roku.

Losowanie grup zostało zaplanowane na 23 marca 2015 roku w wiedeńskiej siedzibie EHF. Przed losowaniem drużyny zostały podzielone na dwa koszyki według rankingu EHF.

W wyniku losowania wyłonione zostały dwie grupy.

Grupa A

Grupa B

W obu turniejach niepokonane okazały się reprezentacje gospodarzy.

Faza 2
W drugiej fazie odbył się właściwy turniej eliminacyjny z udziałem 28 reprezentacji podzielonych na siedem grup po cztery zespoły. Awans do turnieju finałowego ME uzyskały dwie najlepsze drużyny z każdej grupy oraz najlepszy zespół spośród tych z trzecich miejsc. Przy ustalaniu ich hierarchii brane były pod uwagę jedynie mecze z dwiema najlepszymi drużynami w grupie.

Losowanie grup odbyło się 9 kwietnia 2015 roku w szwedzkim Kristianstad. Przed losowaniem drużyny zostały podzielone na cztery koszyki według rankingu EHF obejmującego wyniki turniejów z trzech poprzednich lat – ME 2012, MŚ 2013 i ME 2014.

W wyniku transmitowanego w Internecie losowania wyłonionych zostało siedem grup:

Mecze odbyły się w sześciu terminach:
 Kolejka 1: 7–8 października 2015
 Kolejka 2: 10–11 października 2015
 Kolejka 3: 9–10 marca 2016
 Kolejka 4: 12–13 marca 2016
 Kolejka 5: 1–2 czerwca 2016
 Kolejka 6: 4–5 czerwca 2016

Grupa 1

Grupa 2

Grupa 3

Grupa 4

Grupa 5

Grupa 6

Grupa 7

Ranking drużyn z trzecich miejsc
Najlepszy zespół z trzeciego miejsca awansował do Mistrzostw Europy 2016. O kolejności decydowała liczba zdobytych punktów wyłączając mecze z ostatnią drużyną w tabeli.

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2015 w piłce ręcznej
2015 w Europie

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Meaning of education and training standards
(1) This section sets out the education and training standards for a person who is, or is to be, a relevant provider.
Conditions for relevant providers
(2) The first standard is that:
(a) the person has completed a bachelor or higher degree, or equivalent qualification, approved by the Minister; or
(b) both of the following conditions are satisfied:
(i) the person has completed a foreign qualification;
(ii) the Minister has approved the foreign qualification under section 921G.
(3) The second standard is that the person has passed an exam administered under this subsection by ASIC in accordance with principles approved by the Minister.
(4) The third standard is that the person has undertaken at least 1 year of work and training that meets the requirements set by the Minister.
Note: A relevant provider who is undertaking work and training in accordance with this subsection is a provisional relevant provider (see the definition of provisional relevant provider in section 910A). For rules relating to provisional relevant providers, see Subdivision C.
Continuing standard for relevant providers
(5) The fourth standard is that the person meets the requirements for continuing professional development set by the Minister.
Determinations by Minister
(6) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, do any or all of the following in one or more determinations:
(a) approve bachelor or higher degrees, or equivalent qualifications, for the purposes of paragraph (2)(a);
(b) approve principles for the purposes of subsection (3);
(c) set requirements for work and training for the purposes of subsection (4);
(d) set requirements for continuing professional development for the purposes of subsection (5) in relation to the CPD year of a financial services licensee, the period mentioned in subsection 1546E(5), or any other period determined by the Minister.
(7) Before exercising the power in subsection (6), the Minister must be satisfied that doing so is necessary or desirable to ensure that relevant providers are adequately trained and competent to provide personal advice to retail clients in relation to relevant financial products.
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Which Koran?
The founding document of Islam is the group of writings collected in the Koran. A devout Muslim believes the Koran to be the perfect, immutable, and eternal word of Allah as dictated to the prophet Mohammed and memorized or written down by the companions of the Prophet. The book is complete, every word in it is true, and nothing in it has been altered since it was first transcribed 1400 years ago.
That's the traditional view of the core Islamic scriptures, and woe betide any Muslim who questions it. Scholars who attempted to research the origins of the Koran and examine its historical variants have been driven out of Pakistan, Egypt, and other Muslim countries, and have been forced to seek refuge in the academic cloisters of the infidel West.
In the early 1970s, during the renovation of the Great Mosque of Sana'a in Yemen, a trove of ancient manuscripts was discovered. Among them were fragments of early versions of the Koran and related writings. The German scholar Gerd-R. Puin (who has published lengthy analyses of the earliest accounts of the Islamic religion) obtained access to the documents, and was allowed to study them for many years. Recognizing the sensitivity of the find, he published very little about the manuscripts until they had been completely microfilmed and a permanent record of them safely established outside of Yemen.
In a communication to Christopher Heger on March 13, 1999, Dr. Puin wrote:
I have been lucky — and still I am — to study many of the oldest Yemeni Koran manuscripts written in the most archaic "Hijazi" style.
In these I found variants and peculiarities which are not recorded in the traditional Arabic books on qira'at (variant readings), or in the books on rasm al- masahif (orthography of the Koran[s]) nor in those on the ti'dad al-ayat (counting [systems] of verses).
If I had not had access to Yamani Koran fragments preserved in the Dar al-Makhtutat al-Yamaniyyah, San'a', I could have possibly found similar variants and peculiarities in Hijazi fragments of the Koran kept outside the Yemen in many libraries or museums, e.g. in France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, or Kuwait. A most spectacular (complete??) Hijazi Koran can be admired in the Islamic Museum of Cairo, only a few meters from the entrance, in a special vitrine to the right of the main route; this treasure is in Egypt since 1300 years or so, but I know of no investigation, of no publication on its peculiarities!
There is, on the Muslims' side, no interest in textual research on the Koran since 900 years! Except from some western semitists who, from time to time, detect the etymology of one Koranic expression or another, most of the Arabists feel reluctant to make up their minds on the genesis of the Koran. The reason for this kind of negligence is quite clear: Both the Muslims and most of the Arabists conceive any early deviation from the Koranic scripture (as is represented by the Cairo print edition) for a lapsus calami, a mere scribal error.
Also in 1999, a summary of Dr. Puin's findings was published in The Atlantic Monthly. Even back then, before 9-11 had fully alerted Westerners to the… ahem… sensitivities of Muslims, the potentially explosive nature of the Sana'a manuscripts was generally recognized.
Christianity and Judaism have long been subjected to rigorous textual and historical analysis. Now, at last, it appears to be Islam's turn:
Puin is not alone in his enthusiasm. "The impact of the Yemeni manuscripts is still to be felt," says Andrew Rippin, a professor of religious studies at the University of Calgary, who is at the forefront of Koranic studies today. "Their variant readings and verse orders are all very significant. Everybody agrees on that. These manuscripts say that the early history of the Koranic text is much more of an open question than many have suspected: the text was less stable, and therefore had less authority, than has always been claimed."
By the standards of contemporary biblical scholarship, most of the questions being posed by scholars like Puin and Rippin are rather modest; outside an Islamic context, proposing that the Koran has a history and suggesting that it can be interpreted metaphorically are not radical steps. But the Islamic context — and Muslim sensibilities — cannot be ignored. "To historicize the Koran would in effect delegitimize the whole historical experience of the Muslim community," says R. Stephen Humphreys, a professor of Islamic studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. "The Koran is the charter for the community, the document that called it into existence. And ideally — though obviously not always in reality — Islamic history has been the effort to pursue and work out the commandments of the Koran in human life. If the Koran is a historical document, then the whole Islamic struggle of fourteen centuries is effectively meaningless."
Muslim clerics often assert that the Koran cannot be understood except in the original classical Arabic, but Dr. Puin maintains that much of the book is unclear, even to Arabic scholars:
"The Koran claims for itself that it is 'mubeen,' or 'clear,'" [Puin] says. "But if you look at it, you will notice that every fifth sentence or so simply doesn't make sense. Many Muslims — and Orientalists — will tell you otherwise, of course, but the fact is that a fifth of the Koranic text is just incomprehensible. This is what has caused the traditional anxiety regarding translation. If the Koran is not comprehensible — if it can't even be understood in Arabic — then it's not translatable. People fear that. And since the Koran claims repeatedly to be clear but obviously is not — as even speakers of Arabic will tell you — there is a contradiction. Something else must be going on."
Trying to figure out that "something else" really began only in this century. "Until quite recently," Patricia Crone, the historian of early Islam, says, "everyone took it for granted that everything the Muslims claim to remember about the origin and meaning of the Koran is correct. If you drop that assumption, you have to start afresh." This is no mean feat, of course; the Koran has come down to us tightly swathed in a historical tradition that is extremely resistant to criticism and analysis.
This is an understatement. In the context of 21st-century Salafist fundamentalism, criticism and analysis of the Koran can cost a scholar his life. The example of Salman Rushdie — who was, after all, only an amateur critic of Islamic scripture — did not go unnoticed.
R. Stephen Humphreys, writing in Islamic History: A Framework for Inquiry (1988), concisely summed up the issue that historians confront in studying early Islam.
If our goal is to comprehend the way in which Muslims of the late 2nd/8th and 3rd/9th centuries [Islamic calendar / Christian calendar] understood the origins of their society, then we are very well off indeed. But if our aim is to find out "what really happened," in terms of reliably documented answers to modern questions about the earliest decades of Islamic society, then we are in trouble.
The fact that "trouble" can easily turn deadly has stunted the growth of textual scholarship on the Koran. But, thanks to the quiet work of Dr. Puin and other experts, a new picture of Koranic history is emerging.
In 2002, Alexander Stille wrote in The New York Times:
To Muslims the Koran is the very word of God, who spoke through the Angel Gabriel to Muhammad: "This book is not to be doubted," the Koran declares unequivocally at its beginning. Scholars and writers in Islamic countries who have ignored that warning have sometimes found themselves the target of death threats and violence, sending a chill through universities around the world.
Yet despite the fear, a handful of experts have been quietly investigating the origins of the Koran, offering radically new theories about the text's meaning and the rise of Islam.
Christoph Luxenberg, a scholar of ancient Semitic languages in Germany, argues that the Koran has been misread and mistranslated for centuries. His work, based on the earliest copies of the Koran, maintains that parts of Islam's holy book are derived from pre-existing Christian Aramaic texts that were misinterpreted by later Islamic scholars who prepared the editions of the Koran commonly read today.
Christoph Luxenberg, however, is a pseudonym, and his scholarly tome ""The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran" had trouble finding a publisher, although it is considered a major new work by several leading scholars in the field. Verlag Das Arabische Buch in Berlin ultimately published the book.
The reverberations have affected non-Muslim scholars in Western countries. "Between fear and political correctness, it's not possible to say anything other than sugary nonsense about Islam," said one scholar at an American university who asked not to be named, referring to the threatened violence as well as the widespread reluctance on United States college campuses to criticize other cultures.
While scriptural interpretation may seem like a remote and innocuous activity, close textual study of Jewish and Christian scripture played no small role in loosening the Church's domination on the intellectual and cultural life of Europe, and paving the way for unfettered secular thought. "The Muslims have the benefit of hindsight of the European experience, and they know very well that once you start questioning the holy scriptures, you don't know where it will stop," the scholar explained.
The questions haven't stopped yet, and Dr. Puin is still at the forefront of Koran scholarship.
If the Arab expansion came first, and the Koran arose later, what religion or religions powered the Arab conquests? According to the most recent analysis, Islam may have developed out of a form of Christianity, which assumed a number of variant forms on the Arabian Peninsula during the 7th century.
The quote below is taken from a synopsis of a new book, The Hidden Origins of Islam: New Research into Its Early History, edited by Karl-Heinz Ohlig and Gerd-R. Puin:
The standard histories of Muhammad and the early development of Islam are based on Islamic literature that dates to the ninth and tenth centuries-some two centuries or more after the death of Muhammad in 632. Islamic literary sources do not exist for the seventh and eighth centuries, when, according to tradition, Muhammad and his immediate followers lived. All that is preserved from this time period are a few commemorative building inscriptions and assorted coins.
Based on the premise that reliable history can only be written on the basis of sources that are contemporary with the events described, the contributors to this in-depth investigation present research that reveals the obscure origins of Islam in a completely new light. As the authors meticulously show, the name "Muhammad" first appears on coins in Syria bearing Christian iconography. In this context the name is used as an honorific meaning "revered" or "praiseworthy" and can only refer to Jesus Christ, as Christianity was the predominant religion of the area at this time. This same reference exists in the building inscription of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, built by the caliph 'Abd al-Malik.
The implication of these and other findings here presented is that the early Arab rulers adhered to a sect of Christianity. Indeed, evidence from the Koran, finalized at a much later time, shows that its central theological tenets were influenced by a pre-Nicean, Syrian Christianity. Linguistic analysis also indicates that Aramaic, the common language throughout the Near East for many centuries and the language of Syrian Christianity, significantly influenced the Arabic script and vocabulary used in the Koran. Finally, it was not until the end of the eighth and ninth centuries that Islam formed as a separate religion, and the Koran underwent a period of historical development of at least 200 years.
These findings are indeed explosive. If Western academia ever wakes up from its PC-induced slumber, a new scholarship of the Koran based on the Sana'a manuscripts and other artifacts will become possible. The holy book of Islam will join the Hebrew and Christian scriptures as a historical document, one that has been subject to revisions, redactions, and variations, just as any other historical document has been.
Or Islam could rise up against such a possibility. A full rigorous examination of the Koran would inevitably change the nature of Islam, and no one expects the existing Muslim clerical establishment to yield easily to modernity.
Islam may feel compelled to attempt a modern repetition of the burning of the library at Alexandria. This time, however, the task of eradicating all the infidel documents will be a much, much larger one.
I owe a great debt of thanks to our Swedish correspondent LN, who tracked down and collected the material used in this post.
For a German-language review of another book by Gerd-R. Puin, see Perlentaucher.de.
Jedilson Bonfim said...
I loved the questions posted at the end of the article on the Sanaa Manuscripts at IslamWatch:
Let's see, once the sacred aura of Quran is gone, what other lies are exposed.
First, if there are two or more versions of the Quran, then there must be equal number of Allahs. So, if only two Qurans are authentic, will Islam be deemed monotheistic any longer? And how to decide which Allah gave which Quran? If there is only one Allah, then which Quran is authentic, and which is fake?
Second, if we still believe that one Quran is authentic, then how Allah allowed the others to survive?
Best of luck to Mr Gerd Puin in completing this work. His findings might indeed have a much greater power in proving to mahoundians that allah (the imaginary) doesn't exist at all than the obliteration of Mecca and Medina; and, as an obvious consequence, greatly help the cause of those who want to save Western civilization from the mahound-worshiping scourge.
Beach Girl said...
How extraordinary. Jesus Christ was Mohammad. How extraordinary it would be if these brave researchers were to find that the Koran is in some aspects the efforts of other writers to "translate" or to "write" early Judeo-Christian holy texts for some purpose unknown and possibly unknowable to us today even with research.
And some other writers tried to capture the teachings of Jesus Christ/Mohammad. Earth shattering concept.
And how interesting it would be if Islam developed following the creation of the eventual Roman Church as another attempt to interpret or "describe" God developing into another sect of Christianity? And then like most "religions" controlled by power-hungry men was transformed into their hold on their power structure?
I am hardly a scholar of Islam but I have read much of the Koran and some parts are clearly similar to the Christian Holy Bible and the Torah.
Thank you, Baron.
This time, however, the task of eradicating all the infidel documents will be a much, much larger one.
I disagree. The locations of the heretical texts are known and few in number, as (generally) are the names of the scholars themselves. The actual texts may have microfilm copies, but again the locations are known. Worse, neither the actual texts nor the researcher's notes are part of any public archive where the data can be replicated and copied throught the Web, where it would in fact be virtually impossible to eradicate. No, the centralization of the data and the secrecy with which it is held make it an easy subject of political pressure, and if necessary violent action, in order to suppress and eventually eliminate it.
Henrik Ræder said...
And how interesting it would be if Islam developed following the creation of the eventual Roman Church as another attempt to interpret or "describe" God developing into another sect of Christianity?
If you really dig into the genesis of Islam, you'll find that it isn't 'another attempt', it is an original religion (sortof), based on the life of Muhammad, teaching its believers to basically behave like him (Quran 33:21).
That's not very nice.
Jesus was a good human being with courage and compassion, a rare combination. He'd go in and absolve people from the stiffness of ancient Jewish law, abolish stoning and the like. Good stuff.
Muhammad, on the other hand, reintroduced stoning and other barbaric punishments. That he called upon the ancient Arab moongod Allah to justify this is scary, but at least one shouldn't taint Christianity by assuming it's the same god - it isn't.
some parts are clearly similar to the Christian Holy Bible and the Torah.
That's because it's lifted from Christian and Jewish sources. Muhammad paid the Jews in Medina to provide him with material for his 'relevation', but unfortunately his memory wasn't too good, and he misrepresented many of those stories.
One of the more interesting is the twisted Kain & Abel story found in sura 5, where the greatest problem becomes hiding the evidence of fracticide. That's a prelude to the violent passages 5:32-5:35, frequently misquoted by our Dear Leaders to prove Islam peaceful.
More important than the Quran is actually the Sirat, the life story of Muhammad. Two versions exist, by Ibn Ishaq and Al-Tabari (both ancient Islamic scholars). They explain what Muhammad did in his life, and why those emulating him tend to act in such violent ways.
A wonderfully entertaining (yet scholary) analysis of the life of Muhammad can be found at Prophet of Doom. It's free.
heroyalwhyness said...
Quote from the above: ". . .criticism and analysis of the Koran can cost a scholar his life. The example of Salman Rushdie — who was, after all, only an amateur critic of Islamic scripture — did not go unnoticed.
I note:
Coming July 11: Remember Hitoshi Igarashi -- a day for worldwide vigilance against jihadist intimidation
"Revival" of Koranic Research, by Dr. Andrew Bostom
from which I quote:
"From this article in today's (1/12/08) Wall Street Journal, "The Lost Archive", regarding a unique photo archive of ancient manuscript iterations of the Koran, which may provide critical evidence of the evolution of the Koranic text
US "eliminating Islamic scholars and intellectuals in the Muslim world" Muslim Arab world conconcts conspiracy theory regarding the murder of Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, an Islamic scholar.
From this last link I quote a comment by Hugh Fitzgerald:
That is why the study of the historical origins of Islam, treating it as all other religions have been treated, is likely to prove so threatening to Believers. They simply will not accept any such investigation. Christoph Luxenberg, Patricia Crone, Gerd Puin, Ibn Warraq, Nevo, and many others are those they fear the most -- for it is they who bring to bear philological, archeological, and other kinds of evidence to the problem of when, where, and how the belief-system we call Islam first got started.
Islam is a brittle religion; it will not bend, but break, for Believers if the burden of real history is placed on it. That is the likely outcome. Scholarship, real scholarship, threatens Islam as it threatens no other religion. There will still be hundreds of millions of true believers. But among the most thoughtful and intelligent, the ability, and therefore the will, to believe will be shaken, perhaps forever. And that will have consquences. "
randian --
It's not just Koran scholarship that will have to be eliminated, but all heresies, which include texts from other religions, the history of the jahiliyya (the benighted pagan times before Mohammed), any science which contradicts the Koran, and many, many other modern texts of sociology, psychology, aesthetics, poetry, and fiction.
Virtually anything but the Koran, the hadith, the sunna, and the phone book will have to go.
Snouck said...
Finds such as this one are the most dangerous threat to Islam. More dangerous than a nuclear strike on the Islamic world or even Mecca. Islam can deal with violence, but it can not very well deal with a threat to its legitimacy. A faith amounts to nothing, without faith.
But it is off course very difficult to get this message to the believers, as Islam has ways to deal with dissent.
And how much time do we really have?
Another question is, what should take Islam's place once it is gone?
Even so this is an important path to follow for the counter-Jihad if you ask me.
Snouck
"Between fear and political correctness, it's not possible to say anything other than sugary nonsense about Islam," said one scholar at an American university who asked not to be named, referring to the threatened violence as well as the widespread reluctance on United States college campuses to criticize other cultures."
Here, not in the Koran, is the real rot that is destroying Western civilization. That Muslims and other fascists believe and act as they do is not to be wondered at; dominance-subservience has been the historical norm for humanity as far back as we have any record. That we participate in that game, that we accord it any respect whatsoever, is what will kill liberty and reason.
Henrik, thank you, Beachie. Am copying your comments to include in a short post linking to this post by the Baron. I am not a scholar and know these things on only a superficial level. All I know is that Islamists following the Koran want to kill us or dominate us.
wildiris said...
When it is noted that Christian influences may have been one of the original historical sources for Islam, some historical context is absolutely necessary. I don't have the references to cite to back this up, but if I remember correctly, Syria and that area became the last hold out for followers of the Christian heretic, Marcion. It is said that the Apostle's Creed was written in response to the heresy of Marcionism. In other words, if Islam was in fact, influenced by Christianity then it most likely was by a heretical sect of Christianity and not by the main stream Roman Catholic Christianity that has come down to us today.
Another main influence was probably from Manichæism, which was a synergistic religion of Persian origin that combined features of Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian and Buddhist teachings.
But from what I've read, Judaism, (granted, in a very misunderstood fashion) was probably the largest single influence in the creation of the Koran.
It is said that the Apostle's Creed was written in response to the heresy of Marcionism.
Probably no. Islam (literally 'Submission') was created through action, not through writing. If you read the Sirat (Al-Tabari Vol. 6 through 9 will do fine), you'll see the beginnings of Islam in Mecca.
Muhammad disputed the religion of his kin (who were worshipping Allah, Manat and a lot of other deities), reproaching them for not having a real religion. He reviled their religion for 8 years, without getting as much as a bruise in return.
Then, in an interesting move, Muhammad accepted Allah and the other gods of the Kaaba, received Aisha in marriage (she was 6), and joined the ruling of Mecca. 3 years later he was kicked out.
In Medina came Jewish influence, for good and for bad - mostly bad, actually, for Muhammad reasserted the most brutal bits of Judaism, that the Jews had long discarded. Also, this is where Jihad enters the picture, the 'Effort' to establish Islam as superior - and do whatever that takes, including plunder, rape and killing.
There are almost no traces of Christian influence in the life of Muhammad. That must have entered his religion as an afterthought long after his death.
Gregory said...
This is a remarkable post. I am going to copy and paste it into a word document. I hope that soon I hear some muslim saying the koran is the unchanged word of god...Now I have some good ammo. Thanks. And the part about the koran being 1/5th pure non-sense is great.
Talking of influences, the Hanif religion of Yemen probably has been the inspiration for several early Suras, such as sura 55, which is an ode to the honour of Al-Rahman. Ir's really quite nice.
No wonder that the Allah-worshippers of Mecca were annoyed with the new religion that threatened their business. They had means to fix that problem...
Influence from Syria would probably not be heretic, BTW. It would be fromthe Assyrian Church, which used to be of comparable size to the Ortodox and the Roman Catholic ones. The Seljuks, later the Turks, dealt with that heritage.
Holger said...
The way I see it, it's going to be impossible to convince illiterates in the Middle East about the Qu'ran's fallacies anyway. Thus, Islam won't go away. BUT if this becomes widely known in the west (unless it's quited down because of some hate-speech law) it will work to secularise muslims in Europe and prevent native Europeans from converting to Islam. Therefore it is very important research and that it spreads worldwide!
Holger, I think the way to use this information is to target the clergy, who try to be so smart about how logical and wise Islam is. By presenting material like this, we embarrass them and make them lose authority. That should dismantle the attraction of Islamic religious law and the Kaliphate.
One_of_the_last_few_Patriots_left said...
Holger said, "...it's going to be impossible to convince illiterates in the Middle East about the Qu'ran's fallacies anyway."
Indeed! I hate to sound like a broken record, but let me point out (once again) that we are dealing with ULTRA-VIOLENT third world BARBARIAN THUGS. I predict that if this research starts to become widely publicized and discussed, it will simply drive the perennially
thugish Musulmen to new heights of mass-homicidal frenzy.
Remember what happened after the Pope's speech a couple of years ago when he quoted a Byzantine emperor. That was enough to set off a couple of weeks of mayhem, arson, riot, and murder (including the shooting of a nun) worldwide.
Just wait, we ain't seen nothin' yet.
JPT said...
If somehow you were able to get hold of Mohammed (time travel) and put a lie detector on him and ask him 'now, did God REALLY talk to you in that cave?'.
What d'you think the test result would be...?
JPT, I think the answer would be 'Yes', and the lie detector would show that he believes it.
I would of course not take his word for it.
Another good question would be: "Which god, exactly?"
Czechmade said...
This is more subtle than the cartoons, it could hit deeper. I think real research is done at the University in Saarland in Germany.
Some islamic countries showed even interest in these studies, if I remember properly Iran and Malaysia.
Some were strictly against it.
Besides quran also arabic language is still not put in a propre context. Imagine there is no etymological dictionary od semitic languages, something we get en masse in our European languages as far as Iranian and the key issue Sanskrit!
What are those lazy Israelis, Eastern Christians or Persians doing all the time? I want to enjoy all the stolen words in Arabic!
For ex. lugghat - Greek logos - language
deen - religion from Persian.
mihraab - from Persian
and this one is very funny:
A زنجبیل zanjabīl (S. śringgavera), Ginger; wine, especially that which the Muhammadans suppose to be in heaven; a fountain of paradise
S. means Sanskrit, they imported some heavenly beverage from polytheistic India like Coca-cola.
I love it! Something special, like ice-cream with Marx brothers!
Excellent and very informative post. I'm doing a post on my blog directing people to go read it. I'll have to try and get a hold of Puin's books.
Czechmade said... "Some islamic countries showed even interest in these studies, if I remember properly Iran and Malaysia."
Interest like this Harvard-educated Iranian academic, who sliced sections out of priceless historical books?
Gregory --
That was uncalled for.
Gates of Vienna's rules about comments require that they be civil, temperate, on-topic, and show decorum. Your comment violated the first of these rules — no name calling, gratuitous insults, personal slurs, denigration of someone's intelligence, etc.
For a more detailed explanation of these rules, see this.
Perhaps you are unaware that many (if not most) of our commenters do not have English as their native language. Yet their comments here are fluent and well-phrased.
Their command of English far exceeds my ability with French, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Czech, Portuguese, etc.
So I take umbrage on their behalf. English is an exceedingly difficult language to learn, and they do a good job with it.
"To historicize the Koran would in effect delegitimize the whole historical experience of the Muslim community," says R. Stephen Humphreys, a professor of Islamic studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
He says that like it's a bad thing.
If the Koran is a historical document, then the whole Islamic struggle of fourteen centuries is effectively meaningless.".
If Muslims keep up with this jihad bu||$h!t, it's quite likely that all of the MME (Muslim Middle East), will be rendered "effectively meaningless".
With good reason. For if that was to happen, those studying and interpreting Islam - like himself - would have to find productive work.
Marian - CZ said...
I believe that one single important reason for the current unhappy state of Islamic scholarship is financial. Quite a lot, if not absolute majority of, Islamic studies departments are funded or co-funded by Arab, especially Saudi, sources.
Of course, these people do not bite the hand that feeds them. Therefore, critical look at Islam is undesirable on most Western universities.
This is a serious problem and should be dealt with, probably through legal means.
In an awful twist of fate, the money flowing from Arabia is actually money that was paid by the Western consumers of oil. Therefore, we finance ideological jihad against us.
The only long-term solution is to get rid of oil dependency and let the Arab kings ride camels again.
ANTI-ISLAMIST said...
Marian - CZ said... The only long-term solution is to get rid of oil dependency and let the Arab kings ride camels again.
Somewhere I have seen that the US, that is 1/5 of the world population, consumes 25% of the world´s energy resorces.
20% consuming 25 % - that does not sound so bad!?
The truth is, however, that the population of the US: 306.8 milj people consumes 21 miljon barrels of crude oil each day;
that is 68.4 barrels per 1000 people per day.
Isn't ca 80% of that oil imported from the Middle East?
The European Union consumes 29.5, Germany and UK 29+, Japan and Sweden 29, South Korea 45, China 5.75 barrels per 1000 people per day.
In the EU the price of petrol per liter is around $1,7
How little do you pay in the US?
No need for practising any strict economy, Eh?
Ever since the latter days of FDR, US foreign policy has primarely down under been centred on the Middle East (that is first and foremost Saudi) oil resources. One presidental "doctrine" has followed the other; lastly Saddam was supposed to become a threat to Saudi oil production, ergo he had to be eliminated etc, etc.
US oil dependency will remain unaltered in this century.
Never will you see any Arab kings ride camels again!
Nope. The financial crisis, which is really the end-result of a long-term trade deficit problem, will change that.
When the US citizens have only useless dollars to purchase oil with, the oil will go elsewhere. Oil dependency will change, by need.
The financial crisis, which is really the end-result of a long-term trade deficit problem
Since trade deficits aren't a problem, I'm not sure what you mean here.
Randian, could you elaborate why trade deficits are not a problem?
I simply don't understand...
A large and growing U.S. trade deficit is evidence that investment capital is flowing generously into the United States rather than away from the high-wage, high-labor-standards American economy.
Are Trade Deficits a Drag on U.S. Economic Growth?
Deficient Economic Thinking
The Economic Meaninglessness of Political Borders
Randian, since we're way off-topic here, I'll not continue the discussion here. I read the articles and maintain my disagreement. That'll be for another thread.
AMDG said...
The Origins of the Koran, by Ibn Warraq is aldo a classic.
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KeyBank Makes $150,000 Investment in United Way of Summit & Medina To Benefit Akron Public Schools
December 1, 2021 Keybank
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AKRON, Ohio, December 1, 2021 /3BL Media/ - The KeyBank Foundation is providing a $150,000 grant to United Way of Summit & Medina. The grant will provide support and the delivery of wraparound services within the Family Resource Center of the Robinson CLC Akron Public School.
In 2018, United Way of Summit & Medina, with the guidance of Akron Public Schools and Summit Education Initiative, began a phased endeavor to implement Family Resource Centers and to coordinate wraparound services in all Akron Public School Clusters.
Wraparound services are student and family supports integrated with and delivered directly within the schools. By targeting the needs of individual children and families, wraparound services take pressure off educators to address social and non-academic barriers to student learning. These services may include family engagement, adult education, extended learning, mentoring, child nutrition programs, health, social services programs, and more.
"We are extremely grateful to KeyBank for making this extraordinary investment for the families we're serving in our community," says Jim Mullen, President and CEO of United Way of Summit & Medina. "By helping to break down barriers of education with these impactful services, teachers and principals can effectively educate and lead, and students can focus more energy on what matters most to them. Relationships like that of KeyBank are what make turning Bold Goals into Big Results possible for Summit and Medina counties."
The $150,000 investment proves KeyBank's deep engagement with United Way and Akron Public Schools as it works to ensure that students graduate with in-demand skills.
"The services that United Way of Summit and Medina provides to our community through the Family Resource Center gives parents and children hope and tools they need to learn and grow," said Eric Dellapina, KeyBank Eastern Ohio Market President and Commercial Sales Leader. "All of us at KeyBank are proud of our longstanding partnership with United Way of Summit and Medina and support the work they do to take on our community's most challenging problems with innovative strategies and an ambitious vision of our shared future."
Because of this program, in 2021 alone, more than 89 families have received direct case management services to provide over $176,000 in rent and utility assistance to help reduce student mobility; and 420 families have received food boxes and school supplies delivered to their homes to support learning at home and to combat food insecurity. These core wraparound supports and direct services have impacted thousands of families—like TwaNysha and her four young children.
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KeyBank not only continues their ongoing support of United Way of Summit & Medina, but strives to grow and exceed in the partnership. KeyBank supported United Way of Summit & Medina this year through avid volunteerism and an increased employee giving campaign. KeyBank's sponsored Family Resource Center at Robinson Community Learning Center, and partnership with APS high school College and Career Academies continue to provide wraparound services and opportunities to students and families, and increase engagement to support United Way's Bold Goals in education for our community.
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KeyBank's roots trace back nearly 200 years to Albany, New York. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, KeyCorp is one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $187.0 billion at September 30, 2021. Key provides deposit, lending, cash management, and investment services to individuals and businesses in 15 states under the name KeyBank National Association through a network of more than 1,000 branches and approximately 1,300 ATMs. Key also provides a broad range of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products, such as merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and equity, syndications and derivatives to middle market companies in selected industries throughout the United States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets trade name. For more information, visit https://www.key.com/. KeyBank is Member FDIC.
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2 firefighter's association, volunteer firefighter benevolent association, or exempt/veteran volunteer firefighter's association; or any organization of emergency service providers; or any Auxiliary Association shall become an Organizational Member of the Corporation Individual Membership. Any individual volunteer firefighter; or any elected or appointed official whose duties represent the interests of the volunteer fire service; or any individual volunteer emergency service provider; or any individual member of a junior firefighter unit or Boy Scouts of America Explorer Post shall become an Individual Member of the Corporation. Section 6. Residents of the Firemen's Home. Any volunteer firefighter who is a resident at the Firemen's Home shall be considered Regular Member, without any obligation to pay dues. Section 7. Additional Criteria for Membership. The Board of Directors shall establish additional criteria for membership, including a schedule of dues, consistent with those set forth in these By-Laws. Section 8. Evidence of Membership. Each member shall be issued a membership card or certificate indicating the appropriate membership form of the member. Membership and membership cards or certificates are not transferable. Section 9. Dues Assessment. The Board of Directors shall establish a schedule of annual dues for membership, excepting that dues shall not be increased unless approved by a vote of the Regular Member at the annual meeting or another special meeting of the Membership Assessment Period. The assessment of dues for annual membership runs with the calendar year, beginning on the first day of January and ending on the last day of December Exemption. All past and current members of the Board of Directors, Trustees of the Firemen's Home, and past presidents qualifying for membership in the Corporation shall be exempt from the payment of dues, providing said members have served a full term Delinquency. Any current member that fails to remit dues by the first day of April shall be deemed delinquent and forfeit any and all rights and/or privileges of membership. New members may join at any time during the calendar year, but Regular Members must have paid their dues in full at least fifteen (15) calendar days before the Annual Meeting or any special meeting in order to be able to vote Waiver. The dues of any member who is an Individual Member may be waived at the discretion of the Board of Directors. Meetings. Article II - Meetings of the Membership 1.1. Annual Meeting. An annual meeting of the Regular Members shall be held for the election of Elected Officers, Directors, and Trustees and the transaction of other business in August of each year on any day in that month as determined by the Board of Directors. The Regular Members shall have the opportunity to approve or reject the annual budget for the Firemen's Home at the annual meeting as approved and submitted by the Board of Directors.
3 1.2. Annual Report. The Board of Directors shall present at the Annual Meeting of members a report certified by a firm of independent public accountants selected by the Board, showing in appropriate detail the following: (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) The assets and liabilities, including the trust funds, of the Corporation as of the end of the twelvemonth fiscal period terminating not more than six months prior to said meeting. The Principal changes in assets and liabilities, including trust funds, during said fiscal period. The revenue or receipts of the Corporation both unrestricted and restricted to particular purposes during said fiscal period. The expenses or disbursements of the Corporation for both general and restricted purposes, during said fiscal period. The number of members of the Corporation as of the date of the report, together with a statement of increase or decrease in such number during said fiscal period and statement of the place where the names and places of residence of the current members may be found. This report shall be filed with the records of this Corporation and a copy thereof entered in the minutes of the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of members Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Regular Members may be called at any time by the President, by a majority vote of the Board of Directors, or by ten percent (10%) or more Regular Members on petition to the Secretary. Place of Meetings. Meetings of the Membership shall be held at the principal office of the Corporation or at such other place as may be fixed by the Board of Directors. Notice of Meetings Generally. Written notice shall be given of each meeting of members, shall state the place, date and hour of the meeting and, unless it is an Annual Meeting, shall also indicate that it is being issued by or at the direction of the person or persons calling the meeting. Notice of a Special Meeting shall also state the purpose of purposes for which it is being called. A copy of the notice of any meeting shall be given, personally or by first class mail not less than ten nor more than fifty days before the date of the meeting, or by another class of mail not less than thirty nor more than sixty days before such date, to each member entitled to vote at such meeting. If mailed such notice is given when deposited in the United States mail, with postage thereon prepaid, directed to the member at the member's address as it appears on the record of members, or if the member shall have filed with the Secretary a written request that notices to member be mailed to some other address, then directed to the member at such other address Notice by Publication. Provided this Corporation has more than five hundred (500) Members, notice of meetings of the Membership may be served by publication, in lieu of mailing, in a newspaper published in the county in the state in which the principal office of this Corporation is located, once a week for three (3) successive weeks next preceding the date of the meeting. 3.3 Waiver of Notice. Notice of meetings of the Membership need not be given to any Member entitled to vote who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting.
4 Section 4. The attendance of any designated representative of an Organizational Member or Individual Member entitled to vote at a meeting without protesting prior to the conclusion of the meeting the lack of notice of such meeting, shall constitute a waiver of notice by the Member. Quorum. A quorum shall be required for the legal and proper conduct of the business of the Corporation. A quorum shall consist of one hundred (100) or 10% of the Regular Members, whichever is less. Adjournment. A majority of the Regular Members present at any meeting, whether or not a quorum is present, may adjourn any meeting to another time and place. Notice of such adjourned date shall be provided as required by Section 3 of this Article. Section 6. Voting and Action by the Membership Generally. Each Regular Member in good standing shall have one vote whether as an Individual or Organizational member Organizational Members. Organizational Members must designate one Delegate and one Alternate Delegate to represent such member; the Alternate Delegate shall only be entitled to act in the absence of the Delegate. Delegates and Alternate Delegates must be volunteer or exempt firefighters Nominations. All nominations for Elected Officers, directors or trustees shall be submitted on a completed Official Nominating Petition no less than sixty (60) days prior to the opening day of the annual meeting of members and shall contain no less than twenty-five (25) signatures and membership numbers of Regular Members of the Corporation in good standing and the nominee's name as it is to appear on the ballot. Such forms shall be available from the Corporation's office and shall be returned to the Corporation's office, addressed to FASNY Secretary" and marked "NOMINATION" on the lower left of the face of the envelope. It shall be returned in person or by U.S. Mail. No electronic mail, faxes or other non-original submissions will be considered valid The Secretary shall acknowledge the receipt and validity of the petition, in writing, to the nominee at the address of record as soon as possible following receipt If there is more than one nominee for an office, the President will announce the time and place for drawing of positions on the ballot The nominees for elective office of the Corporation who wish to decline the nomination must file a declination in writing in the Secretary's office before 9:00 a.m. on the day of the election For each unopposed candidate for officer, director or trustee at the Annual Meeting of members, the Secretary, upon approval motion by the membership, shall cast a single affirmative ballot for each such unopposed candidate If there are no nominees for an officer, director or trustee position at the Annual Meeting of members, the position shall be declared vacant and shall be filled as provided in these By-Laws for the particular position. The above process does not limit or otherwise prohibit write-in candidates Election of Officers, Directors and Trustees. Elected Officers, Directors and Trustees shall be elected by a plurality of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting of the Regular Membership.
6 written procedures for the internal fiscal management of this Corporation. The Board of Directors shall be generally empowered to take all necessary and proper steps to carry out the purposes of this Corporation and to promote its best interest. Composition of Board of Directors. The Board of Directors shall consist of the President, the First Vice-President, the Second Vice-President, and nine (9) elected members. The Immediate Past President shall serve ex officio. Qualifications. Each member of the Board of Directors must be at least eighteen (18) years of age; an Individual Regular Member of the Corporation; and a domiciliary of the State of New York. Section 4. Terms of Office. The terms of office for Directors shall begin on the day of their election and shall conclude upon the election and qualification of their successors. The term for members of the Board of Directors shall be five (5) years and shall be elected to no more than two (2) consecutive full five (5) year terms Directors shall be divided into five (5) classes of approximately the same size for purposes of staggering terms of office. Classes of Directors shall be identified by the year their term of office ends. One class of Directors shall be elected at each Annual Meeting of the members For the purposes of implementing classes of Directors of approximately the same size, as required under the New York Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, the term of one 2013 Director shall be extended for one additional year. Specifically, the 2013 Director position currently held by Michael F. Reid shall be extended to end at the Annual Meeting of members in 2014 at which time this shall become a 2019 Director position Any former director may be re-elected as a director after a one year absence from the Board of Directors. In such case, the individual's prior service as a director shall not be considered in applying any of the term limitations specified in this section. Resignation of a Director. A Director may resign at any time by giving written notice to the President or the Secretary of the Corporation or the Board of Directors. Unless otherwise specified in notice, the resignation shall take effect upon receipt thereof by the President, the Secretary or the Board, and the acceptance of the resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective. Section 6. Removal of a Director By the Board. Any or all of the Directors of the Corporation may be removed for cause by a majority vote of the Board of Directors By the Members. Any or all of the Directors may be removed with or without cause by a majority vote of the Regular Members Attendance. Missing three (3) consecutive meetings of the Board of Directors without providing reasonable excuse shall be deemed cause for removal by a vote of the Board of Directors.
7 Section 7. Vacancies. A vacancy shall arise upon the death, resignation, lapse of membership of a Director or change in domicile outside the State of New York. A vacancy on the Board of Directors occurring in the interim between annual meetings shall be filled by an interim successor appointed by the Board of Directors. At the next annual meeting, the vacancy shall be filled by the members for the unexpired term of such director position. Section 8. Newly Created Directors. Newly created directorship resulting from an increase in the number of Directors shall be filled by vote of a majority of Directors then in office, regardless of their number. Directors elected to fill newly created directorships shall hold office until their successors have been elected or appointed and qualified. Article IV - Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Home Powers of the Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Home. The management of the Firemen's Home shall be vested in the Board of Trustees subject to oversight by the Membership and the Board of Directors. The Board of Trustees shall prepare and adopt such rules, regulations and procedures for the conduct of its own proceedings and the management and governance of the Firemen's Home, not in conflict with the laws of this State or with the Certificate of Incorporation or By-Laws of this Corporation. Composition of Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Home. The Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Home shall consist of fifteen (15) elected members and the President of the Board of Directors of the Corporation, who shall serve ex officio. Qualifications. Each member of the Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Home must be at least eighteen (18) years of age; an Individual Regular Member of the Corporation; and a domiciliary of the State of New York. Section 4. Terms of Office. The terms of office for Trustees shall begin on the day of their election and shall conclude upon the election and qualification of their successors. The term for members of the Board of Trustees shall be five (5) years and shall be elected to no more than two (2) consecutive full five (5) year terms Any former trustee may be re-elected as a trustee after a one year absence from the Board of Trustees. In such case, the individual's prior service as a trustee shall not be considered in applying any of the term limitations specified in this section. Resignation of a Trustee. A Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice to the President or the Secretary of the Corporation or the Board of Directors. Unless otherwise specified in notice, the resignation shall take effect upon receipt thereof by the President, the Secretary or the Board, and the acceptance of the resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective. Section 6. Removal of a Trustee. Any or all of the Trustees may be removed, with or without cause, only by vote of the Regular Members; provided, however, that a Trustee's authority to act as a trustee may be suspended by the Board of Directors for cause.
8 6.1 Attendance. Missing three (3) consecutive meetings of the Board of Trustees without providing reasonable excuse shall be deemed cause for suspension by a vote of the Board of Directors. Section 7. Vacancies. A vacancy in office shall arise upon the death, resignation, lapse of membership of a Trustee or change in domicile outside the State of New York. A vacancy on the Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Home occurring in the interim between annual meetings shall be filled by an interim successor appointed by the Board of Directors. At the next annual meeting, the vacancy shall be filled by the members for a new five (5) year term. Elected Officers. Article V - Officers of the Corporation The Elected Officers of this Corporation shall consist of a President, First Vice-President, and Second Vice-President elected by the Regular Members to serve for a term of two (2) years and until their successors have been elected and have qualified. Appointed Officers. The Secretary, Treasurer and Chief Administrative Officer shall be appointed by, and serve at the sole discretion of the Board of Directors. Appointed officers shall serve for a terms that are one (1) year and until their successors have been appointed and have qualified. The Board of Directors shall determine the required qualifications and salary schedule, if any, for appointed officers. Appointed officers may resign in the manner prescribed for Directors, as set forth by Article III, Qualifications. Each officer must be at least eighteen (18) years of age; an Individual Regular Member of the Corporation, and a domiciliary of State of New York. Section 4. Removal of Elected Officers. Any or all of the Elected Officers may be removed, with or without cause, only by vote of the Regular Members; provided, however, that an Elected Officer's authority to act as an officer may be suspended by the Board of Directors for Cause. Vacancies President. In the event that the office of the President becomes vacant for any reason, the First Vice President shall immediately succeed to the office of President and shall serve as President for the unexpired term thereof First Vice President. In the event that the office of the First Vice President becomes vacant for any reason, the Second Vice President shall immediately succeed to the office of First Vice President and shall serve as First Vice President for the unexpired term thereof Second Vice President. In the event that the office of Second Vice President becomes vacant for any reason, The Board of Directors shall select a person to serve in that position until his successor is elected or appointed and qualified at the next annual meeting of the members. If the Board of Directors' declines to appoint a successor, the vacancy shall be filled by the members for the unexpired term of such office at the next annual meeting of the members.
9 5.4. Appointed Officers. A vacancy in any appointed officer position shall be filled by vote of the Board of Directors. The person selected by the Board of Directors to fill any such vacancy shall hold such office as designated by the Board of Directors and until his successor is elected or appointed and qualified. Section 6. Additional Appointed Officers. Additional officers may be appointed for such period, have such authority and perform such duties, either in an administrative or subordinate capacity to the Board of Directors, as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine. Section 7. Duties President. The President shall be the principal executive officer of the Corporation and shall generally supervise and control all of the business and affairs of the Corporation, except for those for those powers and duties that may be assigned by the Board of Directors to a Chief Administrative Officer. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Members and of the Board of Directors. The President, or any other proper officer of the Corporation authorized by the Board of Directors, may execute any deeds, mortgages, bonds, contracts or other instruments that the Board of Directors has authorized to be executed, except in cases where the signing and execution thereof shall be expressly delegated by the Board of Directors or by these By-Laws or by statute to some other officer or agency of the Corporation. The President shall annually appoint a member of the Corporation to serve as a Sergeant-at-Arms and another member to serve as an Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms whose duties shall be to preserve order and otherwise carry out the directions of the presiding officer during any, and all, meeting of the Corporation as ultimately directed by the President Vice-Presidents. In the absence of the President, or in the event of his or her inability or refusal to act, the First Vice President, or in the absence of the First Vice President, or in the event of his or her inability or refusal to act, the Second Vice President shall perform the duties of the President, and when so acting shall have all the powers of and be subject to all the restrictions upon the President. Any Vice President shall perform such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him or her by the President or by the Board of Directors Secretary. The Secretary shall keep the minutes of all proceedings of the Corporation, including meetings of the Members of the Board of Directors; see that all notices are duly given in accordance with the By-Laws; and be custodian of the records of the Corporation. The Secretary shall present at the Annual Meeting the approved minutes of all proceedings of the meetings of the Members of the Board of Directors and these minutes shall be filed with the records of this Corporation and a copy thereof entered in the minutes of the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of members and published therein; furthermore the approved minutes of the meetings of the Members of the Board of Directors shall be sent electronically to any member who so requests within sixty (60) days of any meeting of the Members of the Board of Directors. The Secretary shall keep a register of the membership and, in general, perform all duties incidental to the office of Secretary and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him or her by the President and/or Board of Directors. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to oversee the collection of annual dues from the membership and maintain records relative to the same. The Secretary may receive an annual salary for his or her services in an amount to be determined by the Board of Directors.
10 7.4. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall be responsible for the supervision of an account of all monies received or expended by the Corporation. In general, the Treasurer shall perform all the duties incident to the office of Treasurer and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him or her by the President or by the Board of Directors. The Treasurer shall make regular financial reports to the Board of Directors, according to a format prescribed by the Board. The Treasurer may receive an annual salary for his or her services in an amount to be determined by the Board of Directors Chief Administrative Officer. The Board of Directors shall employ a Chief Administrative Officer who shall have, subject to the overall direction of the Board of Directors, oversight and direction of the affairs and business of the Corporation, including responsibility for the employment and discharge of staff. He or she shall be the principal administrator of the Corporation, charged with the duties of effectuating the purposes of the Corporation, carrying out the directives of the Board of Directors and the Membership in performing any and all functions necessary and proper to ensure that the policies, objectives and aims of the Corporation are carried out. Within the limits of the Corporation's programs, policies and budget, the provisions of these By-Laws and the Certificate of Incorporation and mandates of the law, the Chief Administrative Officer shall have the authority to execute agreements, incur obligations, perform administrative duties and delegate assignments. He or she will be entitled to attend all meetings of the Board of Directors and committees of the Corporation unless directed otherwise by the Board. The Chief Administrative Officer shall receive an annual salary for his or her services in an amount to be determined by the Board of Directors. Meetings. Article VI - Meetings of the Board of Directors 1.1. Regular Meetings. The Board of Directors shall meet as soon as practical following the Annual Meeting of the Regular Members, at that meeting the dates and times of the regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be established. No additional notice of regular meetings is required Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board shall be held whenever called by the President or by the Secretary in a like manner on written request of five (5) Directors. Notice shall be given orally, by fax by or by mail and shall state the purpose, time and place of a meeting. If any notice be given orally, in person or by telephone, it shall be given not less than one day before the meeting; if it is given by fax, or mail, it shall be given not less than three days before the meeting Waiver of Notice. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any Director who submits a waiver of notice whether before or after the meeting or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior thereto or at its commencement, the lack of notice to him or her. Quorum. A quorum shall consist of a majority of the entire Board of Directors. Adjournment. A majority of Directors present, whether or not a quorum is present, may adjourn any meeting to another time and place, without the need to provide further notice of the adjournment to Directors who were absent at the time of the adjournment.
12 committees. The standing committees shall have such authority as the Board shall by resolution provide, except that no such committee shall have authority as to the following matters: (a) The submission to members of any action requiring members' approval under the law. (b) The filling of vacancies in the Board or in any committee. (c) The fixing of compensation of the Directors for serving on the Board or on any committee. (d) The amendment or repeal of the By Laws, or the adoption of new By Laws. (e) The amendment or repeal of any resolution of the Board which by its terms, shall not be so amendable or repealable. Special Committees. The President shall, subject to approval of the Board of Directors, designate special committees and the members of such special committees, each of which shall consist of such persons and shall have such authority as is provided in the resolution designating the committee, except that such authority shall not exceed the authority conferred on standing committees by Section 1 of this Article. Qualifications. All committee members shall be members of the Corporation, unless waived by the President with the consent of the Board of Directors. Section 4. Meetings. Meetings of committees, of which no notice shall be necessary, shall be held at such time and place as shall be fixed by the Chair of the Committee with approval of the President. Quorum and Manner of Acting. A majority of all of the members of the committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the vote of a majority of those present shall be the act of the committee. The procedures and manner of acting of all committees shall be subject at all times to the directions of the Board of Directors. Section 6. Tenure of Members of Committees of the Board. Each committee of the Board and every member thereof shall serve at the pleasure of the Board. Amendments by Members. Article VIII - Amendments These By-laws may be amended, modified or repealed, in whole or in part, by a two-thirds vote of the votes cast with respect to the matter, provided that the affirmative votes cast in favor of any amendment shall be at least equal to two-thirds of the minimum quorum required for the meeting. All amendments must be proposed and reviewed in accordance with the following process: (a) Any proposed amendments must be submitted, in writing, to the Secretary of the Corporation at the address of the Corporation no less than sixty (60) days prior to the first day of the Annual Meeting of members. (b) The Secretary shall acknowledge receipt of the proposed amendments to the individual making the proposed amendments by return mail as soon as reasonably possible after receipt of same.
15 transaction. At the time of the discussion and decision concerning the authorization of such contract or transaction, the interested Director, Trustee, or Officer should not be present at the meeting. Employee Conflicts of Interest. An employee of the Corporation with a potential conflict of interest in a particular matter shall promptly and fully disclose the potential conflict to his supervisor. The employee shall thereafter refrain from participating in deliberations and discussion as well as any decisions, relating to the matter and follow the direction of the supervisor as to how the Corporation decisions which are the subject of the conflict will be determined. The President shall be responsible for determining the proper way for the Corporation to handle Corporation decisions which involve unresolved employee conflicts of interest. In making such determinations, the President of the Board may consult with legal counsel. The President shall report to the Board at least annually concerning employee conflicts of interest which have been disclosed and contract and transactions involving employee conflicts which the President has approved. Article XI - Construction If there is any conflict between the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation and the By-laws, the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation shall govern. Article XII - Contracts, Loans, Bank Checks and Drafts, and Bank Deposits Contracts. The Board of Directors, except as these By-laws may otherwise provide, may authorize any Officer or Officers, agent or agents, in the name of the Corporation to enter into any contract or execute and deliver any instrument, and such authority may be general or confined to specific instances. Unless so authorized by the Board of Directors, or expressly authorized by these By-laws, no Officers, agents or employees shall have the power or authority to bind the Corporation by any contract or engagement or to pledge its credit or render it liable pecuniarily in any amount for any purpose. Loans. No loans shall be contracted on behalf of the Corporation unless specifically authorized by the Board of Directors. Bank Checks and Drafts. All bank checks and drafts and all other such orders for the payment of monies out of the funds of the Corporation, and all notes or other evidences of indebtedness of the Corporation, shall be signed on behalf of the Corporation in such manner as shall from time to time be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors. Section 4. Bank Deposits. All funds of the Corporation not otherwise employed shall be deposited from time to time to the credit of the Corporation in such banks, trust companies or other depositories as the Board of Directors may select.
16 Dissolution. Article XIII - Dissolution This corporation may be dissolved by a two-thirds vote of the Board of Directors and the vote of the Membership as provided for by Statute. Article XIV - Indemnification and Insurance Authorized Indemnification. Unless clearly prohibited by law or Section 2 of this Article, the Corporation shall indemnify any person ("Indemnified Person") made, or threatened to be made, a party in any action or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or otherwise, including any action by or in the right of the Corporation, by reason of the fact that he or she (or his or her testator or intestate), whether before or after adoption of this Section, (a) is or was a Director, Trustee or Officer of the Corporation, or (b) in addition is serving or served, in any capacity, at the request of the Corporation, as a, Director, Trustee or Officer of any other Corporation, or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise. The indemnification shall be against all judgments, fines, penalties, amounts paid in settlement (provided the Corporation shall have consented to such settlement) and reasonable expenses, including attorneys' fees and costs of investigation, incurred by an Indemnified Person with respect to any such threatened or actual action or proceeding, and any appeal thereof. Prohibited Indemnification. The Corporation shall not indemnify any person if a judgment or other final adjudication adverse to the Indemnified Person (or to the person whose actions are the basis for the action or proceeding) establishes, or the Board of Directors in good faith determines, that such person's acts were committed in bad faith or were the result of active and deliberate dishonesty and were material to the cause of action so adjudicated or that he or she personally gained in fact a financial profit or other advantage to which he or she was not legally entitled. Advancement of Expenses. The Corporation shall, on request of any Indemnified Person who is or may be entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation, pay or promptly reimburse the Indemnified Person's reasonably incurred expenses in connection with a threatened or actual action or proceeding prior to its final disposition. However, no such advancement of expenses shall be made unless the Indemnified Person makes a binding, written commitment to repay the Corporation, with interest, for any amount advanced for which it is ultimately determined that he or she is not entitled to be indemnified under the law or Section 2 of this Article XIV. An Indemnified Person shall cooperate in good faith with any request by the Corporation that common legal counsel be used by the parties to such action or proceeding who are similarly situated unless it would be inappropriate to do so because of actual or potential conflicts between the interests of the parties. Section 4. Indemnification of Others. Unless clearly prohibited by law or Section 2 of this Article XIV, the Board of Directors may approve Corporation indemnification as set forth in Section 1 of this Article XIV or advancement of expenses as set forth in Section 3 of this Article XIV, to a person (or the testator or intestate of a person) who is or was employed by the Corporation or who is or was a volunteer for the Corporation, and who is made, or threatened to be made, a party in any action or proceeding, by reason of the fact of such employment or volunteer activity, including actions undertaken in connection with service at request of the Corporation in any capacity for any other Corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise.


However when I try to launch a VM with 12 vCPU, it always gives error saying no valid host is found. I can only create VM with 8 vCPU or fewer.
Why CPU overcommit does not work?
Am I mssing something in config files?
And I also discovered another related problem. I tried to scale down one of the instance from 8 cpu to 4 cpu. And I got the same error: No valid host is found.
How can I determine what the nova conductor is complaining?
I think you also need at least the AvailabilityZoneFilter.
I think you should set cpu_allocation_ratio = 16 or 32 in nova-cloud-controller machine ,under /etc/nova/nova.conf file .
btw, you can't just put the ComputeFilter. You need some of the others for it to work.


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Q: Copy files and rename - Gradle I know there are already a couple of StackOverflow posts regarding copying and renaming for Gradle but sadly none seem to be applicable to my issue...
I'm trying to copy and rename files from multiple directories, here's my approach:
task copyReportsForDocs(type: Copy) {
        from rootProject.files("path1",
                "path2",
                "path3",
                "path4")
        into genDir

        rename '(.*)_$d_(.*)', '$1$2'
    }

The files which should be renamed look something like this:
captured_0_foobar_request.adoc
captured_0_foobar_response.adoc
captured_1_fuubar_request.adoc
captured_1_fuubar_response.adoc

I just need the front portion to be deleted so it looks something like this:
foobar_request.adoc
foobar_response.adoc
fuubar_request.adoc
fuubar_response.adoc

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

A: This worked for me:
task copyReportsForDocs(type: Sync) {
    from(rootProject.file("path")) {
    include '**/*foo*'
    rename 'captured_\\d+_(.+)', '$1'
    }
}

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