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Responding to today's Times of Israel interview with Fatou Bensouda, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, legal expert Eugene Kontorovich tweeted, "you got to ask #Bensaouda questions & didnt ask about an inquiry into settlements in Cypru[s]?" But Bensouda could actually offer a reasonable response to this challenge about double standards. The people who couldn't – and who should therefore be hounded about it at every conceivable opportunity – are senior European Union officials who insist that any facilitation of Israeli activity in the "occupied West Bank" is illegal, yet happily facilitate Turkish activity in occupied Northern Cyprus, Moroccan activity in occupied Western Sahara, Chinese activity in occupied Tibet, and much more.
Just today, Reuters revealed that an influential European think tank is urging the EU to go beyond its current drive to label Israeli settlement products and impose numerous additional sanctions, from restricting interaction between European banks and Israeli banks that do business in the settlements (i.e. all of them) to refusing to recognize degrees from Israeli educational institutions in the West Bank. The European Council of Foreign Relations is technically an independent organization, but, as Reuters correctly noted, its "proposals frequently inform EU policy-making." In 2013, the council proposed five different measures against Israeli activity in the West Bank; two years later, three of the five have been largely adopted, either by the EU itself or by individual member states: excluding settlement produce from EU-Israel trade agreements, severing contact with Ariel University (which is barred from the EU's Horizon 2020 research program) and advising European companies against doing business in the settlements.
But as Kontorovich has pointed out repeatedly, the EU has no qualms about facilitating activity in other territories that it deems occupied. For instance, the EU has an entire program to direct funding to Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus; inter alia, the program finances infrastructure projects, scholarships for students and grants to businesses. And lest one think this is equivalent to EU projects to help Palestinians, think again: Turkish settlers, who constitute anywhere from 20 to 50 percent of the population (depending on whose estimates you believe), are eligible; nor is the program barred from funding projects that directly or indirectly benefit these settlers. That's in sharp contrast to the West Bank, where European countries refuse to fund any project that might benefit Israeli settlers, even if it benefits the Palestinians far more.
Similarly, Kontorovich noted, the EU reached an agreement with Morocco in which it actually pays Morocco for access to fisheries in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. In short, the EU is paying the occupier for the right to deplete the occupied territory's natural resources.
And, of course, numerous European companies and organizations do business in such territories; from French conglomerates like Total and Michelin to British universities.
Nor can the EU argue that Palestinians are unique in objecting to such activity. Indeed, the PLO's Western Saharan counterpart, the Frente Polisario, is currently suing in the Court of Justice of the European Union over the Morocco fisheries agreement, yet the EU is vigorously defending the deal.
Moreover, Israel has a far stronger legal claim to the West Bank than do any of the "occupiers" the EU has no problem doing business with. The League of Nations awarded this land to a "Jewish national home," and that international mandate was preserved by the UN Charter's Article 80; the territory had no other recognized sovereign when Israel captured it from an illegal occupier (Jordan) in a defensive war; and UN Security Council Resolution 242 explicitly reaffirmed Israel's right to keep at least part of the captured territory. Thus if the EU were going to discriminate among "occupied territories," it should by rights discriminate in Israel's favor rather than against it.
Bensouda could reasonably respond that a prosecutor has no business commenting on hypotheticals; she can only address actual cases that arrive on her doorstep. But the EU can't use the excuse that the issue is hypothetical; it's already neck-deep in discriminatory treatment.
This issue should, therefore, be raised with every EU official at every possible opportunity – by Israeli officials, journalists, and American Jewish leaders. It might not influence EU policy, but at least it would lay bare to the world what actually lies behind it. There's a name for treating Jews differently than all other peoples. It's called anti-Semitism.
Originally published in Commentary on July 22, 2015
Posted in Legal Issues, Peace Process
Original Link: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/07/22/eu-occupied-territories-israel/


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The Tai Ji Men Case Discussed at the Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Meeting
Scholars argued that labels such as "cult," "xie jiao," or "religious fraud" have no real meaning and are used as tools for discrimination.
by Alessandro Amicarelli
Holly Folk presenting the first paper.
The Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) held in Los Angeles on August 6–8, 2022, its 83rd Annual Meeting. It opened with presenting to senior sociologist James T. Richardson the ASR's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Professor Richardson was among the scholars who attended on August 7 one of the inaugural sessions of the meeting, devoted to "'Cults': The International Return of a Dubious Category."
Professor Richardson receives the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Holly Folk, professor of Religious Studies at Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, introduced the session by reflecting on the continuous use of the word "cult" by popular media, politicians, and governments, even if most scholars of religion warn against using it because it is ambiguous and can easily function as a tool for discrimination. She mentioned Taiwan together with France among the democratic countries where groups labeled as "cults" or with other derogatory labels have been discriminated against. She also noted the extension in the United States of the use of "cults" to political controversy, where rival organizations or parties are also labeled as "cults" by their opponents.
Folk believes that groups that commit serious crimes do exist among spiritual movements, as they exist among political organizations or business corporations. She suggested they should be called "gangs" rather than "cults," since "cult" is now a word loaded with a heritage of confusion and ideological use.
Holly Folk at the session.
Donald Westbrook, a lecturer for the School of Information at San José State University and the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, and the author of both a landmark study on the daily experience of Scientologists and a recent book on Scientology and its founder L. Ron Hubbard offered as an example of the discriminatory use of the word "cult" the campaigns against the Church of Scientology. He added that the fact that some teachings of Scientology are kept secret is mentioned as evidence of the "sinister" nature of the movement, while in fact religious and esoteric movements have protected the secrecy of certain teachings for centuries. Westbrook mentioned that problems of discrimination through labeling are not exclusive to the West, and gave as an example his study of the Tai Ji Men case in Taiwan.
Donald Westbrook joins via Zoom.
Rosita Šorytė, a former diplomat and author of several studies of religious liberty and new religious movements, discussed the use of labels such as "totalitarian cult," "destructive cult," and "extremist religious movement" in Russia. She mentioned how these are also used as propaganda weapons during the war in Ukraine, to propagate the false claim that "cults" created and maintain anti-Russian feelings among the Ukrainian population. What is happening in Ukraine, Šorytė concluded, is an example of how labels stigmatizing certain religions and spiritual movements are weaponized for political and propaganda purposes.
Massimo Introvigne, an Italian sociologist who serves as managing director of CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions, and editor-in-chief of Bitter Winter, stated that there is now a globalization of discrimination, because anti-cultists in different countries and continents exchange derogatory information about religious and spiritual minorities, which are disseminated internationally.
Massimo Introvigne comparing Russia and China.
Introvigne then discussed the Chinese concept of "xie jiao," which is not equivalent to the Western notion of "cult," and in Chinese history has been used since the 7th century CE to persecute groups accused of being hostile to the government and using black magic. While there is a rich literature on the use of "xie jiao" in the People's Republic of China, Introvigne said, it is less well known that the same concept has also been used in Taiwan, both during and after the Martial Law era, to discriminate against groups accused of not supporting the government.
He then presented a detailed reconstruction of the Tai Ji Men case, showing how it became a victim of a politically motivated crackdown against several groups labeled as "xie jiao" in 1996. Eventually, Tai Ji Men achieved a completed victory in the criminal case fabricated against its leader and members, who in 2007 were declared innocent of all charges by Taiwan's Supreme Court. However, a parallel tax case continued, as the National Taxation Bureau refused to acknowledge that the Supreme Court had clearly indicated that Tai Ji Men was not guilty of tax evasion. Eventually, based on a technicality, only one tax bill, for the year 1992, was maintained, and led in 2020 to the unsuccessful auction and subsequent seizure of sacred land of Tai Ji Men intended for a self-cultivation center.
Introvigne concluded that during the more than 25 years of the Tai Ji Men case discriminatory labels were used to justify an ill-founded persecution, which confirms their political use.
Two Tai Ji Men dizi (disciples) offered responses to the session. Susan Wang-Selfridge, a former lecturer at the University of California Los Angeles and now a teacher of music in private practice, responded to the Folk, Westbrook, and Šorytė papers, and noted that the issue of discrimination is present in the musical world too. She offered as an example Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly," one of the six most represented operas internationally. The story of a Japanese woman who is seduced and abandoned by an American naval officer while she is pregnant, the opera has been recently accused of including orientalist prejudices and ethnic stereotypes. While this work of 1904 cannot be judged by 21st-century standards, Wang-Selfridge noted that the audience in fact identifies the American officers as the villain. He abuses the Japanese girl because of his religious prejudices, as he believes that only a woman raised within Christianity is eligible to become a good wife and mother.
Susan Wang-Selfridge at the session.
Just as the American officer believes that non-Christian religions may not be taken seriously, Wang-Selfridge said, some today use labels such as "cults" to indicate that they refuse to take certain religious and spiritual minorities seriously.
The second respondent, Jeff Kuo, a business manager, answered Introvigne's paper, and observed that, based on his own experience as a Tai Ji Men dizi, an important feature of the "xie jiao" label is that it is used capriciously. For instance, the movement responsible for the 19th-century Taiping rebellion was regarded as the quintessential "xie jiao" in Imperial China but was rehabilitated by both the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party for political reasons.
Jeff Kuo delivers his response.
Why, asked Kuo, was Tai Ji Men labeled in 1996 as a "xie jiao" or a "religious fraud" while other similar groups were not attacked? Why the content of the red envelopes offered by dizi to their Shifu (Grand Master) was regarded as taxable tuition fee in the case of Tai Ji Men while it was considered non-taxable gifts in the case of dozens of other martial arts and qigong organizations? "A short answer, Kuo said, is that there is no answer," meaning there is no answer participants in a scholarly conference could acknowledge as reasonable. This labeling activity is totally political. Words are used to crack down on groups some bureaucrats or politicians have decided to punish. This is an important feature of the Tai Ji Men case, Kuo concluded, thanking scholars for evidencing that these capricious and discriminatory labels "do not mean anything" and are just a warrant for persecution.
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Q: Article Share API from LinkedIn Throwing error I'm trying to make a simple share button LinkedIn using the article share API. It's pretty straight foward, or so I thought.
When using the domain's href, it works:
https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsp156.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/portal
I can even make it to another page:
https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsp156.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/portal/servicos
However, if I try another page:
https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsp156.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/portal/servicos/informacao?servico=3832
It brings up a error. Looking at the console doesn't really help that much, and at the network tab all the requests return 200.
I tried removing the query parameters, although the page doesn't work without them, and still, didn't worked
@edit:
Even the LinkedIn official inspector of pages can recognize the page, now I'm really confused:
https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/inspect/https:%2F%2Fsp156.prefeitura.sp.gov.br%2Fportal%2Fservicos%2Finformacao%3Fservico=3832
Anyone has idea on what's happening? Thanks in advance.

A: The URL you are sharing contains a ? character.  You need to escape that character using URL-encoding.  So, this is what you should want...
https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsp156.prefeitura.sp.gov.br%2Fportal%2Fservicos%2Finformacao%3Fservico%3D3832

Notice how the ? is rendered here as %3F.  URL's should only have one ? at all, because that indicates that $_GET data is going to proceed that mark.  With two of them, the server doesn't know and gets confused!
Looks good to me now!

In case you want to know more: Official LinkedIn Share Documentation

A: If you browse directly to the landing page of in debug mode you will see that it is returning the error 200 and not linked in.
https://sp156.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/portal/servicos/informacao?servico=3832
Ops, parece que este serviço não existe, busque um serviço na lista ao lado.
Which Google translate says is Oops, it looks like this service doesn't exist, look for a service in the list on the side.
LinkedIn has to redirect to a known good page, that is why the other two resolve.
I did notice that there is a login option on that page, is perhaps the page only accessible post login?

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'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood': You Can Spot Mr. Rogers' Real-Life Widow in This Memorable Scene
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The new movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood stars beloved film star Tom Hanks as the children's program host Mr. Rogers. Fred Rogers, also the subject of popular 2018 documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor, died in 2003. His wife Joanne Rogers is alive and well; the widow of the iconic TV host even briefly appeared in one of the most meaningful scenes in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
Joanne Rogers, wife of the late Fred Rogers | Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images
'A Beautiful Day In the Neighborhood' enjoys moderate box office success against 'Frozen 2'
Forbes reported that in its first ten days in theaters, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood made $35.7 million at the box office. $17.3 million of that was taken in over the late-November holiday weekend.
Unsurprisingly, Frozen 2 took first place at the box office for Thanksgiving weekend, grossing "an estimated $124 million," Entertainment Weekly reported. That makes Frozen 2 the highest-grossing film ever to play Thanksgiving weekend.
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Second and third place went to Knives Out and Ford v Ferrari, respectively, leaving A Beautiful Day in a respectable fourth place for the five-day weekend.
With 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, reviews for the Mr. Rogers movie are more than neighborly
Critics and fans alike have been gushing over Tom Hanks' performance as Mr. Rogers, as well as the film as a whole.
Joanne Rogers, Mr. Rogers' surviving wife, was played by actress Maryann Plunkett in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Mrs. Rogers said she loved the way Plunkett portrayed her.
wearing ripped jeans & a leather jacket to see A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood so at least I'll look cool while I'm weeping
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"She did an amazing job," Mrs. Rogers told press at a screening for the film. Although many nostalgic movie-goers expect anything Mr. Rogers-related to cause some serious waterworks, Joanne Rogers said she didn't shed a tear watching the new film. But she has a very sweet reason for that.
"Seeing the movie didn't make me cry, because everything I see about Fred is a gift," she admitted.
Joanne Rogers attends the U.S. Postal Service Dedication of the Mister Rogers Forever Stamp | Jason Merritt/Getty Images
Mr. Rogers' wife joined the cast of 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood'
Movie-goers can even see Joanne Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
Mrs. Rogers can be spotted in the scene at The Mandarin Gourmet Restaurant, a Chinese spot in Pittsburgh. In the movie, characters Fred Rogers and Lloyd Vogel, played by Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys respectively, share lunch at the Chinese restaurant. Viewers can catch a glimpse of Joanne Rogers' face when the camera pans around to other guests eating at the restaurant.
Mr. Rogers' widow told press that appearing in this particular scene was very special because she and her late husband often ate Chinese together.
"We enjoyed Chinese food," Mrs. Rogers said.
David Newell, who played postman Mr. McFeely on Mr. Rogers' children's program, also appeared in the restaurant scene.
Joanne Rogers and Marielle Heller attend A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood screening | Paul Bruinooge/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
"I got to see a lot of old friends shooting that scene," Mrs. Rogers told reporters. She said that director Marielle Heller started shooting the Chinese restaurant scene early.
"It was 7:30 in the morning," she said, "so we had a Chinese breakfast."
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Q: At each login the program tries to configure installation parameters in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry After a program was installed by an admin user, different users with no admin rights experience the following problem with their logins to the same computer.
At the installation of the program by an admin user, a generic connection information to a SQL database is written to a key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry once (eg. (local)\sqlexpress). Then this information in the registry is manually modified by the admin for the relevant database connection information (eg. Remote_location\sqlexpress). So this information is machine specific, not user specific so that the program will work and fetch the data from the database for each user.
After the installation, several users (non-admin) log in to the computer to run the program:

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*User 1 logs in and the program works fine, it accesses the database. Then logs out and logs back in again, and the program works fine the next time.

*Then user 2 logs in and starts the program. A message box pops up and it says "Please wait while Windows configures the Program" and it fails to connect to the database because the re-configuration has overwritten the database connection with the generic database connection data in the registry, so that the program cannot find database.

*So we import the database settings to the registry and restart the program and it connects fine to the database.  The user logs out and logs back in and the program works.

*Then user 1 logs back in and the program does not work with the same message "Please wait while Windows configures the Program" even though it was already working and running previously with user 1.
It seems the program will only work for one user! How can we resolve this? Why is Windows trying to re-install the program each time a different user tries to  login although the information for the program to connect to the database is in the common machine location in the registry?

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I have added some tags to the question, most notably for
  sql-server-express.
Chances are users familiar with this tool will
  know outright what the problem really is.

Quick approach (preferred, do try this):
Try to manually create a shortcut on the user's desktop to launch the application in question. Do so for both users - and don't launch the pre-existing shortcut to the application (it will trigger the repair operation we are trying to avoid).
There is a chance this will eliminate the whole problem in a fashion that is acceptable. However, there is one question: is there anything user-specific about the SQL connection string? Does it contain a user name that should change from user to user? Can we see the actual connection string?
What you are seeing is most likely a Windows Installer self-repair issue. They can be quite involved to fix reliably. There is almost certainly a rather nasty error in the deployment package that triggers this problem.

Step-by-step approach (for MSI package debugging):
Self-repair is complicated, I think a step-by-step debugging approach might be more effective than a comprehensive explanation:

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*Find the trigger of the self-repair as described here: Windows Installer launches unexpectedly, for no obvious reason.

*Make note of the GUID that follows: "Detection of product" in the event log as described in the article above. Sample GUID: {A54DCC30-E1EA-4912-A7F9-6C5A3AF1FB3A} (for IIS 10.0 Express - just a sample, your GUID will be different obviously).

*Now run the following PowerShell command to determine what the product name is for the product code you found in the event log, and to find the local cache MSI package that ran the original install. Replace the GUID below with your GUID (to launch PowerShell: hold down the Windows key, tap R, release the Windows key, type in "powershell" and press OK or hit enter). The IdentifyingNumber is WMI's way to refer to a product code, so put your own product GUID in that location.
gwmi -Query "SELECT Name,LocalPackage FROM Win32_Product WHERE
IdentifyingNumber='{A54DCC30-E1EA-4912-A7F9-6C5A3AF1FB3A}'" | Format-Table Name,
LocalPackage

*Preferred option: copy the file specified by "LocalPackage" and upload it somewhere where we can access it and let us know. There is an error in the package that needs to be sorted out (might not be easy). Don't touch anything inside %SystemDrive%\Windows\Installer\*.* - this is a "super hidden" folder that is not to be messed with at all. Only read-only actions in there. Very important.

*Alternatively: get hold of a tool to view MSI files and do the checking yourself. It requires some MSI knowledge.

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*A full description of some MSI tools and their different merits: What installation product to use? InstallShield, WiX, Wise, Advanced Installer, etc (overkill imho).

*If you have Visual Studio installed, your fastest bet is probably to install Orca (MS SDK tool). Just search for Orca-x86_en-us.msi and install it - this is Microsoft's own, official MSI viewer and editor. After install you can find Orca in the start menu.

*If you don't have Visual Studio installed, your fastest bet might be to try Super Orca (it is simple to use, but not extensively tested by me). It is a free (last time I checked) third party Orca alternative.

Windows Installer Self-Repair
Most likely you are seeing a Windows Installer self-repair. This occurs when the system has detected that an installation is incomplete in one way or another. In many cases the problem goes away if you let the installer complete its "repair", but in some cases there is an error in the installer package itself that causes problems along the lines of what you describe.
This is a complicated topic, and I have described how to debug self-repair issues many times, most recently here:
some computers, the "Windows Installer" is retrieved again from the C # program that was loaded when the program was run.
For future reference I include some links on the topic of Windows Installer self-repair or "resiliency":

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*Comprehensive explanation of self-repair, verbose and comprehensive: How can I determine what causes repeated Windows Installer self-repair?

*Solution focused description of self-repair, attempting to find real-world solutions: What do I do when launching an application triggers repeating, endless Windows Installer self-repair?

*Self-repair issues for developers, avoiding the problem in the first place: How do I avoid triggering MSI self-repair with my WiX / MSI package? (perhaps try this one too, should be a quick read and written specifically for developers).

A: Basically you cannot install a KeyPath registry item that is going to be changed by the user, for the simple reason that Windows Installer will believe it is broken and repair it.
The simplest cure is to give that component (in your WiX) a null component ID. As the documentation her says, under ComponentId:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa368007(v=vs.85).aspx
a component with a null id is not registered and not subject to repair.
You should also verify what the actual missing component is by looking at the Windows Event log, Application, and look for MsiInstaller entries that will refer to the broken or missing component. There might really be another component that appears to be broken, such as another file or registry entry. If this is the case then the repair of the HKLM registry item could be a downstream effect because when a component is repaired Windows will repair and reinstall the entire feature, and that could include the HKLM entry. Either way, it is not safe to have an HKLM entry (registered with MSI) that can be altered because there are other scenarios (such as repair from Programs&Features or right click the MSI file) that could rewrite the registry entry. However the main point is that a repair will replace that registry entry.


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BBC Big Painting Challenge winner, Suman Kaur, visits our Art Department
Winner of the BBC Big Painting Challenge 2017, and ex-Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College student, Suman Kaur, returned to college to tutor an A level Art group. She worked with the students to create charcoal portraits, whilst sharing her talent, advice and expertise.
The BBC program sees 10 artists go through a range of artistic challenges, to test and prove their skills, with one winner voted for by the judges. The success came to Suman shortly after she had made the decision to leave her current occupation in Prosthetics and Orthotics to become a full time artist.
Suman has been volunteering at colleges and schools hoping to give something back to art, offering guidance to young artists by sharing her enthusiasm and work ethic, and showing students that you can achieve anything if you work hard towards it.
The workshop had an emphasis on the skills and techniques used in her own artwork. Suman also shared her knowledge of tools and contextual references, with some fantastic results from our students.


A couple of new The Avengers International posters have been spotted on the Internet. The first features Hawkeye and the second Nick Fury.
AVENGERS - EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES: Season 2 Episodes 1 and 2 Now Online!
Marvel.com has posted episodes 1 and 2 of season 2 of Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes online for you to watch. These are the complete episodes, so if you are on the fence, give them a try!
Filming on Iron Man 3 has begun and the casting process for the film continues, with the latest addition being actor William Sadler - though what role he'll be playing is anyone's guess at this point.
With production beginning later this summer,Casino Royale actor Mads Mikkelsen is in negotiations to play a villain opposite Tom Hiddleston's Loki in the upcoming sequel.
According to Star News Online, Iron Man 3 has begun production at Wilmington, North Carolina's EUE/Screen Gems Studios, with a reported astronomical budget of $200 million. Of course, with The Avengers' box office, Disney can afford it.
THOR 2: The Enchantress to Be Featured?
According to Bleeding Cool, it looks like when Chris Hemsworth picks up Thor's hammer again, he'll be using it against a character known as The Enchantress, who was seen a number of times in season one of the animated Avengers series.
Has Iron Man along with scientist Thomas Edison and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg actually had a negative impact on American innovation? Apparently that's the real-life theory being floated around according to the Washington Post.
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Dean 'Midas' Maynard
Batten down the hatches and get ready for the storm... it's time for a review of Sunday's final bootcamp show! By the end of the second instalment's show 61 hopefuls would become just 32 and head off to judges houses, and they had only one performance to fight for their place...
Part one was all about Misha Bryan, and boy can she sing. Misha did a fantastic version of Destiny Child's "Survivor" and got the show off to a brilliant start. A certain Finalist.
Best of the rest from this segment were Amelia Lily, Jade Richards and Melanie McCabe.
Next up was 'rocker' David Wilding who sang Lady GaGa's Edge of glory... he took me to the Edge alright.
Now, I could be wrong but if David had just taken to the stage and sung, he may still be in the competition, but the way he over acted on the stage, thinking he was already famous, just helped make the judge's decision very easy. Next.
In the next segment of auditions we saw my friend Chrissie Pitt jump on the judges table. It didn't go down too well with Gary Barlow. Francis Cadoso was up next, and one thing that stood out from his performance was that Francis is one hell of a dancer.
We then enjoyed Kendro doing their own song 'Do the Kendro' which didn't go down too well with Gary but Kelly and Tulisa loved it... a top ten hit beckons.
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Then up next was Lady GaGa, what do you mean it's not....? The annoying thing with Kitty Brucknell is that she can actually sing. The outfit however did her no favours and I would not dare repeat what Chris Moyles said about her outfit on his show. Let's just say it wasn't complimentary.
I know Kitty has been sent to annoy us and I also know she will no doubt get to the live shows, so I am going to try not to get too angry when she is still there in 5 or so weeks. Wagner anybody??
The next round up of auditions were all very disappointing. Frankie Cocozza's vocal is just not strong enough and Gary even highlighted the fact in his summary. So not sure where they are wanting to take this.
James Michael, Marcus Collins, John Wilding and the Keys are all in reality better than their segment suggested and all made judges houses.
Goldie's performance gave me Gary Barlow's quote of the show when he said that he was "very concerned at this point because she is still here". It has been widely reported that Goldie has quit the show but she really should never have been put through in the first place.
The new groups section was very forgettable mainly because we didn't see enough of the acts performing. Not a good sign.
Terry Winstanley finished this part of the show and although he forgot his words, I like the guy and he deserves his moment in the spotlight.
So as we drew to the end of the auditions it was Midas Act Janet Devlin's turn in the spotlight.
16-year-old [tag]Janet Devlin[/tag] sang Aerosmith's 'I Don't Want to Miss a Thing", and along with Misha Bryan it was the performance of the night. Kelly Rowland clearly loves her and could be seen saying "You are wonderful" Louis Walsh finished by saying that Janet is "the one to beat"... I hope you are right, Mr Walsh.
During the last audition feature we saw great performances by Craig Colton and Sami Brookes. I like Sami, she is very infectious.
So that was it, all over, no more chances...the judges would now decide the acts fates.
First up was the boys: Most of the favourites got through but the big shocks were the exits of Lascel Wood and John Adams. Watch out for John Adams though. He will be back.
During the boys announcement we saw 16 year old Niall Sexton, who made the last few boys, but we never ever saw him sing? Well I went on YouTube and found him and boy can he sing. A future star in the making.
The groups were full of acts we had only briefly seen, with ony The Keys and 2 Shoes having been shown on the main show during the seven audition episodes.
The Overs saw the exit of my friend Chrissie Pitt, who I know will go on to do well away from the show. I am also glad that the likeable Sami Brookes, Johnny Robinson and Terry Winstanley got through... but Kitty and Goldie still remain.
The final category to be told their fate was the very strong girls category. Midas Act Janet Devlin safely made it through, as did [tag]Amelia Lily[/tag], Misha Bryan and Jade Richards. Nicole Simpson's journey ended here but as I touched upon on my bootcamp review one, she is one to watch.
The show finished with the judges being told their categories:
Kelly Rowland - The Girls, Louis Walsh - The Overs, Gary Barlow - The Boys, Tulisa - The Groups.
At this stage the Girls are clearly the ones to beat and by this time next the X Factor Finalists for 2011 will be decided.
Right I need a lie down...
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Landslides in Mekong Delta could lead to serious flooding
VietNamNet Bridge - There are 562 landslide spots in Mekong Delta with total length of over 786 kilometers, according to the General Department of Disaster Prevention and Control.
Of these, 40 sites with total length of 131 kilometers are reported as 'especially dangerous', i.e. landslides directly threatening dykes' safety, residential quarters and important infrastructure items.
These include 21 riverbank spots (37 kilometers) and 19 coastal spots (94 kilometers).
The big problem is that landslides not only occur in flood season, but also in dry season. And landslides are occurring everywhere, from main rivers to canals and arroyos.
MARD (the Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development) believes that one of the major reasons is the establishment of water reservoirs.
Coastal erosion has become more serious in Ca Mau in recent years . Since 2007, about 4,060 hectares of forests have been cleared because of erosion.
Nineteen reservoirs have been or will be built on the Mekong mainstream in Chinese, Lao and Cambodian territories. Of these, six reservoirs have been built (in China), four are under construction (2 in China and 2 in Laos) and one is about to be built (Laos). Meanwhile, on Mekong distributaries, 142 reservoirs will be built.
According to Lu Cam Khuong from An Giang provincial authorities, 228 landslide cases occurred in the period from 2010 to October 2017, causing a loss of 345,426 square meters of land and damages with VND288 billion.
Citing many reasons, including climate change and extreme weather, Khuong emphasized that human socio-economic activities are the major factors.
Since the hydropower dams in the upper course retain sludge and sand, the river flow regime has changed. Meanwhile, massive sand exploitation is carried out in all Mekong countries.
A WWF report released in 2013 showed that the average amount of sand exploited in 2011-2012 was estimated at 35 million cubic meters.
Population increase and infrastructure development have also caused landslides. Reports show that the population in the delta was 16.13 million in 1999, while the figure rose to 17.66 million in 2016 and the housing area increased by 18 million square meters a year.
Ca Mau province, with three sides exposed to the sea, is seriously influenced by climate change and rising sea water levels.
Nguyen Long Hoai, a provincial authority officer, said coastal erosion has become more serious in recent years. Since 2007, about 4,060 hectares of forests have been cleared because of erosion.
In Dong Thap province, 30-50 hectares of riverside land are lost every year because of landslides.
The Southern Institute for Water Resources Planning believes that solutions such as concrete embankments have been effective, but are too costly (VND80-100 billion per kilometer).
Therefore, these works should only be applied in important coastal areas and seriously affected landslide-stricken areas. In the long term, other solutions should be applied, such as development of mangroves and coastal ecosystems.
Ministry identifies eight causes behind landslides in Mekong Delta
Measures to prevent landslides in the Mekong Delta
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Establish a set of values beforehand because this will draw customers who can relate and hold similar values. Building on a mission provides a foundation to always look back to when in doubt or need a path to follow. Today, more consumers are aware of the effects of their consumption and habits, so be sure to consider this. As consumers are more aware of social responsibilities, businesses integrating something people care about makes for a more empowering experience. This can be the cause of a dramatic increase in engagement and retention.
Before proceeding with anything, it is important to spend the necessary time getting to know your customers and their needs. Advising your team to spend time getting to know the customers will be a rewarding step in your customer retention strategy. The main premise behind this is learning to take note of key customer traits that can be utilized. Fully understanding your customers and their needs are insightful in knowing how to perfectly cater to those needs. Catering to those needs is a form of providing high value and keep them coming back.
In instances of mistakes, your team should learn to apologize and provide a satisfactory and adequate pardon to display empathy. Discovering the root cause of problems to fix and avoiding a domino effect with other customers will be very helpful. This process will help to avoid and reduce customer problems in general and increase satisfied customers. A known problematic business produces customers that are sensitive to price and constant problems are off-putting to customers. Customer experience with products and/or service should be as seamless as possible.
Too many businesses forget to give customers a reason or a reminder to come back. No matter how great the first sale was, don't become complacent by letting the customer go and explore other businesses. Follow up sales with actions that include thanking the customer, enforce a system to sell again and encourage a worthy sale. In business, earning loyalty, referral and repeat customers comes from persistence and action, which is where the real selling begins.
If you are into online business, the selling from your website can become cherry on the top. You can go for email marketing to your existing customers and ask for referrals or even you can upsell. Suppose, for a car insurance company which has a business online, upsell can be done if they ask the customers to compare car insurance to choose the better option for them.
A noteworthy customer service experience is one where customers can't stop referring to others based on their wonderful experience. Beyond offering a great product, escalating that product experience includes providing customer service that exceeds expectations. This includes going above and beyond, quick inquiry responses, timely delivery of service, defect-free products, and an outstanding team. Strong customer service experience influences customer loyalty and repeats customers and a weak one sends them away to your competitors.
For businesses, being seen as human proves to be a tough, but necessary task in customers feeling relatable to you. As previously mentioned, customer service is important, but along with that is exuding a presence of authenticity with a human touch. For example, many big brands turn to Twitter and other social media networks to connect with customers on a personal level. This requires truly getting in touch with the identity of your audience and connecting with them on their preferred various platforms. People don't enjoy cookie cutter messages, make sure they are personalized and have a human feel.
Receiving complaints is a natural aspect of a business, but turning those complaints into testimonials is a skill that encourages retention. When a customer complains, successful businesses use this as an opportunity to improve and re-establish satisfaction. Formulating a healthy customer complaint system proves your commitment to excellence and the need to satisfy the customer. If customers aren't complaining to you, they're complaining to others, which is even worse. It is best to open the conversation for them to complain to you directly, so you can turn around those complaints about retention.
Above all, exhibit confidence in your product, service or business offerings. This is because the level of confidence proves that you offer the best value in service to your customers. Customers won't hold value to any product unless the business exemplifies the confidence, which becomes evident to others. A lack of confidence leads to a fruitless brand that carries monumental retention difficulties.
Nobody loves rewards like customers, especially ones that feel loyal and close to your business. Customers who take time to send referrals deserve to feel appreciated by you and that appreciation comes in reward form. If your budget doesn't allow for tangible rewards, taking time to send well thought out and personalized thank you messages will do. A popular reward system is presenting a referral program where customers are rewarded through new purchases of their referrals. This is a fun way to increase retention and make customers feel personally invested in your business.
This could be the most important tip on the list for businesses across many fields and industries. Retention directly correlates to long-term success, which is achieved through trust and integrity from your biggest supporters, your customers. Your provided product or services must exhibit integrity by matching up to the words and actions you take. Loss of integrity causes family television characters to lose their place when their real-life personality doesn't quite match up. Customers are humans and humans are engaged with honesty and transparency from businesses who live up to their own values.
There are endless options for formulating strategies for effective customer retention. It is important to outline that there are no shortcuts to business and it must be conducted in a healthy fashion.


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Q: How can I remove the number of the heading? Every time I try to do a heading with #, it appears a number before the title. How could I still use the #, ##, ### method, but without the appearance of a number? Just with the change of the font size.
For example:
# **Activity 1**

## **1a**

This appears like:
1 Activity 1
1.1. 1a
I only want to get a bigger title for "Activity 1" and a smaller title for "1a". How could I remove the number?
Thank you,
Alicia

A: To suppress numbering for a specific heading, place {-} after it:
# **Activity 1** {-}

## **1a** {-}

To suppress all heading numbering, try knitr::opts_chunk$set(number_sections = FALSE).


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Q: Creating a Checkers Board in Java I'm begining a little project to create a simple checkers game. However it's been a long time since I've used the java GUI tools. The goal of the code at this point is to draw the initial board (red pieces at top, black at bottom). However all I get when I run the code is a blank frame. I'm also a little uncertain if my circle drawing code will do what I want (ie create solid red or black circles inside certain squares) Here is the code. Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions
EDIT: I should probably alternate drawing blue and gray squares or else the thing will probably just be a giant blue blob, however I'll settle for a giant blue blob at this point :p
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class CheckersServer
{
    public static class Board
    {
        private JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        private JPanel backBoard = new JPanel();

    Board()
    {

        frame.setSize(905,905);
        backBoard.setSize(900,900);
        frame.setTitle("Checkers");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setVisible(true);
        backBoard.setVisible(true);

        boardSquare bs;
        String type = null;
        //Filling in Red Side
        for (int i = 0; i <=1; i++)
        {
            for(int j = 0; j < 9; j++)
            {
                if(j % 2 == 0)
                {
                    type = "Red";
                }
                else
                {
                    type = "Blank";
                }

                bs = new boardSquare(100*j,100*i,type);
                backBoard.add(bs);

            }

        }
        //Filling in empty middle
        type = "Blank";
        for (int i = 2; i < 7; i++)
        {
            for(int j = 0; j < 9; j++)
            {

                bs = new boardSquare(100*j,100*i,type);
                backBoard.add(bs);

            }

        }

        //Filling in Black side
        for (int i = 7; i < 9; i++)
        {
            for(int j = 0; j < 9; j++)
            {
                if(j % 2 != 0)
                {
                    type = "Black";
                }
                else
                {
                    type = "Blank";
                }

                bs = new boardSquare(100*j,100*i,type);
                backBoard.add(bs);

            }

        }

        backBoard.repaint();
        frame.add(backBoard);
        frame.repaint();

    }

    private class boardSquare extends JComponent
    {
        private int x; //x position of the rectangle measured from top left corner
        private int y; //y position of the rectangle measured from top left corner

        private boolean isBlack = false;
        private boolean isRed = false;

        public boardSquare(int p, int q, String type)
        {
            x = p;
            y = q;
            if (type.equals("Black"))
            {
                isBlack = true;
                isRed = false;
            }
            else if (type.equals("Red"))
            {
                isRed = true;
                isBlack = false;
            }
            else if (type.equals("Blank"))
            {
                isBlack = false;
                isRed = false;
            }

        }
        public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
        {
            Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
            Rectangle box = new Rectangle(x,y,100,100);
            g2.draw(box);
            g2.setPaint(Color.BLUE);
            g2.fill(box);

            if(isBlack)
            {
                g2.fillOval(x, y,100 ,100 );
                g2.setColor(Color.black);
                g2.drawOval(x, y, 100, 100);
            }

            else if(isRed)
            {
                g2.fillOval(x, y,100 ,100 );
                g2.setColor(Color.red);
                g2.drawOval(x, y, 100, 100);
            }

        }
    }

}

public static void main(String[] args)
{
    Board game = new Board();

}
}

A: You have several issues.
Java UI is layout-based, which means that when you add a component to a parent, the parent's layout determines where the child component will be placed.  You don't have any code to set up the layout, and so your application is using the defaults (FlowLayout is the default, and this may work in your case, as long as your JFrame and children are the appropriate size).
The bigger problems are in your boardSquare class.  By default, JPanels have a dimension of 10x10.  You aren't specifying the size, and so all your squares are 10x10.  You need to tell the squares how big they are.  You can do this in the boardSquare constructor:
setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100, 100));

Finally, in your drawing code, you are doing an offset of x,y when drawing the squares and circles.  This is an offset from the top-left corner of the component.  Your components (after setting the size) will be 100x100 pixels.  But if your x,y are greater than these values, you will be drawing outside of the bounds of the component.  Instead, these values should be set to 0,0 because that is the top-left corner of the component you are drawing in.
By just setting the preferred size of the squares and setting x,y to 0, I was able to get the squares drawing in the frame, though it wasn't pretty.  You will need to work on setting the correct layout before it will be laid out correctly.

A: Here are some hints:

*

*Your BoardSquares have dimension 0x0.  Not a good size for something you want to be visible to the user.

*To help visualize what's going on, cause each BoardSquare to be 100x100 pixels in size, and give them a border.  Now you can see where they are showing up in your GUI.  Your GUI code still needs significant changes, but this will at least let you start seeing what you're dealing with.
    public BoardSquare(int p, int q, String type)
    {
        this.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.CYAN, 2));
        this.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100, 100));

        // ... etc ...

*BoardSquare seems to be coded to draw its contents based on coordinates from the absolute topmost leftmost point in the window, but they should be coded to draw themselves from the topmost leftmost point of the BoardSquare itself.  That is, components should only draw within their own boundaries, and they should use coordinates that assume 0,0 designates the top,left of the component, not of the window.

*If you want to use BoardSquares (JComponents) and add them to the frame, you probably should use a different layout manager, like GridLayout.  FlowLayout won't give you the kind of precise positioning you want.

A: import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.LineBorder;

import java.awt.*;

public class CheckersServer2
{
    public static String type_BLANK = "BLANK";
    public static String type_RED = "RED";
    public static String type_BLACK = "BLACK";

    public static int width = 100;
    public static int height = 100;

    public static class Board
    {
        private JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        private JPanel backBoard = new JPanel();

    Board()
    {
        int numRows = 8;
        int numCols = 8;

        frame.setSize(905,905);
        backBoard.setSize(900,900);
        frame.setTitle("Checkers");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setVisible(true);
        backBoard.setVisible(true);

        String type;
        for(int r=0; r<numRows; r++){
            for(int c=0; c<numCols; c++){
                //
                type = type_BLANK;
                if(c%2==0){
                    if(r==0 || r==2) {
                        type = type_RED;
                    }else if(r==6){
                        type = type_BLACK;
                    }
                }else{
                    if(r==1){
                        type = type_RED;
                    } else if(r==5 || r==7) {
                        type = type_BLACK;
                    }
                }
                backBoard.add(new BoardSquare(r,c,type));
            }
        }

        backBoard.repaint();
        frame.add(backBoard);
        frame.repaint();

    }

    private class BoardSquare extends JComponent
    {
        /**
         *
         */
        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
        private int x; //x position of the rectangle measured from top left corner
        private int y; //y position of the rectangle measured from top left corner

        private boolean isBlack = false;
        private boolean isRed = false;

        public BoardSquare(int p, int q, String type)
        {
            //this.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.CYAN, 2));
            this.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(width, height));

            x = p;
            y = q;
            if (type.equals(type_BLACK))
            {
                isBlack = true;
                isRed = false;
            }
            else if (type.equals(type_RED))
            {
                isRed = true;
                isBlack = false;
            }
            else if (type.equals(type_BLANK))
            {
                isBlack = false;
                isRed = false;
            }

        }
        public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
        {
            Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
            Rectangle box = new Rectangle(x,y,width,height);
            g2.draw(box);
            g2.setPaint(Color.BLUE);
            g2.fill(box);
            int ovalWidth = width - 15;
            int ovalHeight = ovalWidth;
            if(isBlack)
            {
                g2.setColor(Color.black);
                g2.fillOval(x, y, ovalWidth, ovalHeight);
                g2.drawOval(x, y, ovalWidth, ovalHeight);
            }

            else if(isRed)
            {
                g2.setColor(Color.red);
                g2.fillOval(x, y, ovalWidth, ovalHeight);
                g2.drawOval(x, y, ovalWidth, ovalHeight);
            }

        }
    }

}

public static void main(String[] args)
{
    Board game = new Board();

}
}


pulteney bridge is a bridge that crosses the river avon, in bath, england. it was completed in 1773. the bridge was designed by robert adam, whose working drawings are preserved in the sir john soane's museum, and is one of only four bridges in the world with shops across the full span on both sides. shops on the bridge include a flower shop, antique map shop, and juice bar.


Until today developing software for embedded devices has been a tedious task with the main problem that those applications interface directly with the hardware they are run on. This causes a strong coupling between hardware and software, thus making it hard to impossible to reuse code.
Furthermore there is a continuously growing number of networked embedded devices which need to collaborate with each other using different communication protocols like TCP/IP, ZigBee, Bluetooth et cetera.
For that reason the need for a common middleware to connect those devices increases, but the tight software-hardware coupling makes it hard to write such a system for different devices. There already exist some middlewares like emORB , which is based on CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture). However CORBA does not allow for P2P (Peer-to-Peer) communication and is thus limited for the usage in mobile networked embedded systems.
Back in 2001 Microsoft started the Smart Personal Object Technology (SPOT) initiative and the .NET Micro Framework was born, which made it possible to write managed, hardware-independent code for embedded devices. Even though this framework is only supported on 32 bit devices, it supports a wide range of those and allows for developing a platform independent prototype of a slimmed XVSM middleware.
This thesis focuses on the implementation of TinySpaces, a middleware based on the XVSM (eXtensible Virtual Shared Memory) principle. As TinySpaces is specialized for resource constrained devices several compromises need to be made, which are explained in this document. Nevertheless it is shown that TinySpaces is a compatible subset of other XVSM implementations, as it complies with the XVSM standard although several functionalities needed to be slimmed or omitted to make TinySpaces lightweight enough for embedded devices.
To prove that TinySpaces perform well, benchmarks are made concerning memory utilization and CPU usage of TinySpaces, as well as code-size, performance, and byte usage of three implemented serialization mechanisms.


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Ambassador's killing shines light on Muslim sensitivities around Prophet Mohammed
By Dan Gilgoff and Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editors
(CNN) – Violence over depictions of the Prophet Mohammed may mystify many non-Muslims, but it speaks to a central tenet of Islam: that the Prophet was a man, not God, and that portraying him threatens to lead to worshiping a human instead of Allah.
"It's all rooted in the notion of idol worship," says Akbar Ahmed, who chairs the Islamic Studies department at American University. "In Islam, the notion of God versus any depiction of God or any sacred figure is very strong."
"The Prophet himself was aware that if people saw his face portrayed by people, they would soon start worshiping him," Ahmed says. "So he himself spoke against such images, saying 'I'm just a man.'"
The prohibition against such portrayals was on stark display Tuesday, as mobs in Egypt and Libya attacked U.S. compounds in response to a film that vilifies the Prophet Mohammed, who founded Islam in the 7th century. The attack on the U.S. personnel in Benghazi, Libya, was orchestrated by extremists who used the protests as a diversion, U.S. sources told CNN Wednesday.
The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi killed J. Christopher Stevens, Washington's ambassador to Libya, as well as three other Americans at the compound.
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The film that's believed to have inspired the violence depicts the Prophet Mohammed as a child molester, womanizer and ruthless killer, going a big step beyond violating the basic Muslim prohibition against depicting the Prophet, even in a favorable light.
There are questions about who is behind the movie. Initial reports identified a supposedly Israeli-American real-estate developer named Sam Bacile, but it's unclear if that person even exists. A member of the film's production staff told CNN that the producer's name was listed as Abenob Nakoula Basseley.
In Sunni mosques, the largest branch of the faith, there are no images of people of any kind. The spaces are often decorated with verses from the Quran.
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Mohamed Magid, an imam who leads the Islamic Society of North America, says the Muslim prohibition on depicting prophets extends to Jesus and Moses, who Islam treats as prophets.
"Pictures and images are prohibited from being worshiped," Magid says.
There have been historical instances of Muslims depicting the Prophet, says Omid Safi, a religious studies professor at the University of North Carolina who has studied the issue.
"We have had visual depictions of the Prophet in the form of miniatures and pictures in the Iranian context, the Turkish context, the central Asian Context," says Safi, author of the book "Memories of Mohammed." "The one significant context where depictions of the Prophet have not been image-related has been in the Arab context."
"As you go farther east, away from the Arabian Peninsula, you find depictions of the prophet in art," said Johari Abdul-Malik, the imam for Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia. He noted that images of the teachings of the prophet were sometimes used to bridge gaps in illiteracy.
But even depictions of the Prophet by Muslim artists has been a sensitive issue.
Akbar, a former Pakistani ambassador to the United Kingdom, says that Muslim artists in the 15th and 16th centuries would depict the Prophet but took pains to avoid drawing his face.
"It would be as if he was wearing a veil on his face, so the really orthodox could not object – that was the solution they found," Akbar says.
In a Muslim film called "The Messenger," which circulated throughout the Muslim world in the 1970s and 1980s, the Prophet is depicted only as a shadow.
Adbul-Malik said that in the Quran, there is "no statement from the prophet requesting his image not be recorded." The passages relating to a ban on creating images of the prophets come from the hadith, recordings of the sayings of the Prophet Mohammed and his closest companions. The hadith is not viewed on the same plane as the Quran but as important to understanding the Quran.
Scholars of religion say Muslim opposition to portraying Mohammed wasn't generally violated in earlier centuries because of a gulf between much of the Muslim world and the West.
In the age of globalization, non-Muslims and critics of Islam have felt free to depict Mohammed, including in offensive ways.
In 2006, a Danish cartoonist's depiction of the Prophet wearing a bomb as a turban with a lit fuse provoked demonstrations across the world.
Akbar says that until relatively recently, depictions of Jesus tended to be reverential, but Christianity has had a decades-long head start in dealing with negative portrayals of Jesus in film and art.
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islam is not peaceful, is a sham front for power mongers....ie imams and its sole purpose is to allow the strongest power monger to rule the world as if he is god. excusing muslims for the terrorism they've caused over the last 50 years is appalling.
September 13, 2012 at 12:02 pm |
These are people just like the politico's in our country worshipping their political leaders.
Some of them pretend to be the savior, of the poor, women, ethnic groups, tax payers, welfare recips, and many believe them, I ask Who are the backward, ignorant, and "uneducated".
Funny how people think that Muslims react violently because they are "insecure" about their religion. LOL. May be Muslims react violently because they love their Prophet of God. Can you stand insults to your loved ones?
And I dearly love Jesus, BUT (and notice the caps) I don't go around murdering people that denigrate Jesus. Big difference between what the majority of Christians tolerate and what the the goat poking lovers of the pedophile prophet do.
Yes, I can stand insults to my family and religion. I am "SECURE" in my beliefs and I understand that no matter what you say about my family or religion – that is your opinion. And I could give a Sh** about other peoples opinions. The muslims are indeed insecure about their religious figures (obviously) if they need to avenge a slight on mohammed with an act of murder.
Shine222
The Western world and the Islamic world are incompatible. The Islamic world needs to stay off the Western world's internet as it will offend the Islamic world's sensibilities.
J.G,
If my loved one is wrongfully insulted, I won't like it but I will surely not resolve to violent actions- especially on the innocent ones. If any thing, with my strong faith and understanding in goodness of my loved ones, I will pray that the hateful person will someday come to the realization soon.
thats the difference between what your pedophile prophet teaches and what Jesus taught. One taught to kill and one taught to love your enemies. can you guess who taught what?
Lookout4
Would you please consider how much Islam has held back the evolution of humans in certain parts of the globe. I know Christianity has had a few bad decades and maybe even a bad century or two. But Islamic countries, generally, are populated by people who have a middle ages mentality.
And look at a truely peaceful religion, Buddhism, which has never had a religious war, ever. Please, for the human race to live in peace and evolve, Islam must be eliminated.
The Koran says to know the scritures and to look to those who know the scritures. Here is what true love is (1 Corinthians 13:4-8) 4 Love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up, 5 does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury. 6 It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. . .
So no matter what there is no excuse for hate and violence no matter who is insulted, even if, especially if it is God, Jesus, Mohammed or the prophets. God is a big boy. He says if there is injustice HE will take care of it in his time.
Given the reaction and level of violence it is clear these people do indeed worship Mohammed. They are willing to sacrifice themselves and others for this concept.
Muslims don't worship Muhammad, but they follow him. Anyone who worships Muhammad, Jesus, Moses, Abraham, Adam etc. will be fuel for fire in hell. Get your facts straight. Also, Muslims love Muhammad more than Christians love Christ. Christians can stand insults to Christ, but Muslims can't do the same. Human emotion of love is a powerful emotion.
WRONGO CNN! You pedophile prophet lovers need to take a lesson from Jesus and "turn the other cheek" when someone insults your beloved pedophile prophet.
Unafiliated
CNN apologizing for Muslims. Look, there is no rational explanation for killing an uninvolved person for offense against your religion. Doing so is simply evil. There can be no justification.
War on freedom
exactly! can CNN answer this: even if as you say they are defending their religion, what do the folks working at these embassies have to do with the creation of this offensive film?
we KNOW why they are upset but why should we care? so muslims get their feelings get and its okay to kill people? may christians get their feelings hurt just watching an episode of family guy, but you dont see them storming production studios and killing the shows creators. again, the true hate-filled nature of islam reveals itself. (side note- how many of these people took to the streets to decry the actions of 9/11?). America should NOT apologise. we should not apologise for our right to free speech. we should not apologise to these barbarians who would destroy the west in a second if they had the chance. so their feelings got hurt, big deal. they are turning this into a war on our freedoms and it should not be tolerated.
Great post.... But it's even worse than you portray. It's not like storming the production studios of a show you don't like. it's like being offended at the Family Guy and going down to the local pub and killing people there because they don't hate the show the way you do.
Why are the fuss and excuses for this "religion of peace"?
Steve L
If these radical Muslims had any kind of reasoning power, they would come to understand they have been duped. Why do they want to live in a 7th century world? Probably because they don't know how to get along in today's world and they long for the bad old days. A lot of them have no regard for human life and that includes their own. They seem to want to end this life for as many people as possible and then think it is what God would want. They're delusional!
libdumb
BS. You don't go killing innocent people over this crap. Let's impose the Christian way of an eye for an eye. Enough of this crap rationalization.
"…anyone who murders any person who had not committed murder or horrendous crimes, it shall be as if he murdered all the people. And anyone who spares a life, it shall be as if he spared the lives of all the people....." Qur'an [5:32]
In Quran God speaks to the whole humanity ....
"Proclaim, He is the One and only GOD. The Absolute GOD. Never did He beget. Nor was He begotten. None equals Him." [112:1]
"They even attribute to Him sons and daughters, without any knowledge. Be He glorified. He is the Most High, far above their claims." Quran [6:100]
"The example of Jesus, as far as GOD is concerned, is the same as that of Adam; He created him from dust, then said to him, "Be," and he was." Quran [3:59]
"No soul can carry the sins of another soul. If a soul that is loaded with sins implores another to bear part of its load, no other soul can carry any part of it, even if they were related. ... [35:18]
It does not befit God that He begets a son, be He glorified. To have anything done, He simply says to it, "Be," and it is. [19:35]
Thanks for taking time to read my post. Please take a moment to clear your misconception by going to whyIslam org website.
Try practicing what you preach and denounce these murders.
nmk
Qur'an 9:7-9-Don't make treaties with non-Muslims. They are all evildoers and should not be trusted.
Qur'an 9:12-14-Fight the disbelievers! Allah is on your side; he will give you victory.
Qur'an 9:5 Kill the nonbelievers wherever you find them.
Qur'an 2:191-2-Kill disbelievers wherever you find them. If they attack you, then kill them. Such is the reward of disbelievers.
you cant get away with trying to spread misinformation.
David Saroff
Why Muslims decry prophet images. Firstly, it is only the prophet Mohammed's image that they are sensitive about. The other prophets (Moses, Abraham, Jesus, etc), most Muslims have zero sensitivity about. So distinctly a very double standard. This also highlights a reality or partial reality that some version idol worship is occurring which is something which Muslims have a heightened sensitivity regarding. So perhaps, a lot of introspection is needed on the part of the Muslim community in regards to this issue.
I would also say that the movie/video that helped throw gas on to this fire – is a rediculous piece of garbage which was largely ignored until the Egyptian media decided to give creedence.
Jubril
Thats why I am Muslim, Moses, Mohammed,Jesus,Adam are all Men, Men that came out through a woman's organ, They were prophets that came to spread the word of God, Their is nothing like Son /Daughter of God, God has no Father,Mother or children. We are all Creations. A cross was used to crucify Christ, And i see a lot of people wearing crosses, Will you wear a Knife Icon if a knife was used to kill your father?
Lino -Noble1- Reynoso
You know, you have a good point asking that question... I can take a shot at it based on my point of view.
Women are not known through history because history are written by men, not women. Unfortunately this has been so. Imagine if our past world would've recorded history as it really was? It would've been wonderful the lessons of equality, human value that we would've learned. Unfortunately, that is not so. That's is one of my points of views on this great question.
Sorry Jubril This comment was not meant for you. System error. But consider it anyway.
Jesus accepted his crucifiction because that is what gave us eternal life. The remembrance of the cross is a good thing.
Easter in my opinion the most important event in Christianity and not Christmas.
FactsRBad
How insecure are these Islamast followers about Muhammad's legitimacy that they cannot tolerate any speech which calls into question their prophet's provenance, authority, integrity or any other claimed attribute.
I watched CNN today where a woman with glasses seems to suggest that a movie about Islam seems to have caused this . She shakes her head , lets out a long breath in disgust. CNN has got to be kidding . Isnt there a play on Broadway pretty much making fun of Mormans . So , if there are deaths associated with this Morman play , will we blame the playwright ? You people at CNN dont seem to have any brains in your head.
September 13, 2012 at 11:59 am |
Brooklyn Boy
Exactly – it all boils down to the same question: if I find your beliefs REDICULOUS, why can't I say so? Is it because I might hurt your feelings? So what?
Well Tess, the answer is likely yes. The uprisings over the past couple days are in direct reaction to this movie that has made its way to the internet. Sure, The Book of Mormon is written by comedic writers to poke fun at Mormonism, but the difference is that Mormons aren't burning down consulates and killing US ambassadors, they act like civilized people. Anytime some sort of media surfaces that pokes fun at Islam, certain groups of people in the Middle East find it necessary to cause unrest and take it out against innocent Americans. Are you that thick?
Kevin Barbieux
It is time for Muslims to purge the violence from its culture.
scottt01
Is Mohammed's image sacred to be shown or is it taboo to be shown? Either way, the world rejected one cultures attempt to create their idea of "the perfect race" and, I am sure the world is not going to embrace one cultures attempt to enforce their idea of "the perfect religion" on the world.
I would suggest those who continue to Insult Muslims to read the Qur'an for themselves rather than listening hateful preachers; Americans preach the gospel, but do not practice. Muslims worship Allah (only true God), not Muhammad, he was a messenger. Do not hate the messenger.
not true..Muslims also worship dead peers in graves and ask for boons..that is pure idolatary. Kissing the black stone in Kaaba is idolatory. There is no religion without its symbols aka idols.
By not seeing Mohammed as a man you actually make him equivalent to God as we only have faith that God exists but we do not have an actual picture. If you show the man you know he is a man. Now if you say you can't have statues and pictures of Mohammed that is fine but having an actor be Mohammed to tell a story is not idolization of the prophet.
You have to admit that due to the frenzy this has caused Muslims really do idolize Mohammed.
I have read it:
While it is easy to say that Muslims only pray to Allah, There are too many behaviors toward the Prophet Mohammed which make the first statement suspect. There are contradictions in every religion. What is Islam is discovering – is that as the interest in Islam is peaked, there will be a increasingly larger number of non-Muslims who not only learn about Islam to its core but can knowledgeable speak about Islam to a greater depth than many of the followers of Islam. This has already occurred with Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Budhism. So as the Good, the Bad and Ugly of Islam comes out into the open, accusing some in the audience of not understanding Islam would be a mistake.
The_Mick
So an image of Mohammed might make people worship him, but the Muslims have no problems with their dictators posting photos of themselves on every wall in every business in their nations?
Jesus (May God's Peace Blessings Be Apon Him) was a Muslim and will return to this Earth to rule according to the Holy Quran
You're an idiot. The rаgheаd religion of the pedophile prophet didn't exist until HUNDREDS of years later.
Bible just a theory
NOBODY KNOWS what this F#!*X! Mohammed looked like, so it makes the usual ZERO SENSE for religious zealots to worry about somebody picturing or portraying him, especially someone with a silly fake beard. Of course, no one has ever accused religion of being logical!
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Rumor: Borderlands 3 Coming in 2019
Alex Co 0
Ready for a big rumor but something obvious? Apparently, Gearbox Software's Borderlands 3 is coming out next year. While Gearbox working on a third installment of the famous franchise isn't anything surprising, the alleged fact that it's coming out next year is.
This was "reported" on by YouTuber The Triple S League, who states two independent sources. He states that both sources say the same thing, though these two do not know each other, Allegedly, localization for Borderlands 3 has already begun, which means that it's quite far off in development given localization of games are usually done at the tail end of its development.
Of course, this rumor should be treated with a big bag of salt and then some. I honestly have not heard of The Triple S League before this, and they don't seem to have any track record to base if they're good with these things or not. Nonetheless, a rumor is a rumor, right?
Again, it's no secret that Gearbox is working on Borderlands 3, and there's even a mention that 90 percent of the studio's workforce is working on the loot shooter. Also, as part of 2K's earnings call earlier this year, the publisher teased that a "highly-anticipated" title is set for release during the fiscal year of 2020, which is business talk to mean sometime between April 2019 to March 2020.
We've reached out to 2K and will update the post if and when we get a response.
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Q: How to disable error reporting in PHP (nginx) This is not the first time someone asks this question, but I went through all the similar cases I found and could not resolve this issue.
I am running a local development environment, with PHP-FPM 7.4 using NGINX.
I added error_reporting(0); at the top of my PHP.
I added display_errors = Off to the php.ini file at /etc/php/7.4/fpm/php.ini - because that is the actual php.ini file being loaded by PHP, as per phpinfo()

I reloaded the PHP service and the NGINX server.

sudo service php7.4-fpm reload
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx reload

But still warnings are being displayed on screen.
I know that just hidding errors is not a way to fix them, but I am doing quick changes to an old project and I don't want to make it work perfect, just fix some stuff and keep going.
Also I searched for error_reporting and ini_set strings in the entire project folder and didn't find anything.
phpinfo() output for error_reporting:

As Silbee said in the comments, the numeric value is a mask for E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED.
What can I do to find out where that value is being set?