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somaya langley: isea 08, singapore
Composition for farmer, three dogs and 120 sheep, 2006, Alex Montieth
photo Somaya Langley
A SWELTERING FRIDAY MORNING IN SINGAPORE, AT THE WIND-UP OF THE 2008 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC ART (ISEA, DIRECTED BY GUNALAN NADARAJAN), IS WHEN I CHOOSE TO HEAD TOWARDS COOLER GALLERY SPACES. THIS YEAR, AMONGST DOZENS OF ARTISTS PRESENTATIONS, SEVERAL PERFORMANCES, ROUNDTABLE WORKSHOPS, NIGHT-TIME GIGS AND KEYNOTE SPEECHES, THE SYMPOSIUM PLAYED HOST TO FIVE GALLERY EXHIBITIONS. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ARE WELL REPRESENTED BY EXPERIMENTA PLAY++ AND CLOUDLAND: DIGITAL ART FROM AOTEAROA (CURATED BY SU BALLARD, STELLA BRENNAN AND ZITA JOYCE). OTHERS WERE LUCID FIELDS—MEDIA ARTWORKS BY SWISS ARTISTS-IN-LABS, MALAYSIAN DIGITAL ARTS ON DISPLAY IN RELOCATIONS AND THE MAIN ISEA 2008 JURIED EXHIBITION SITUATED INSIDE THE GLARING WHITE EXTERIOR OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SINGAPORE.
video simplicity
On entering Cloudland I'm mesmerised by Alex Monteith's Composition for farmer, three dogs and 120 sheep (NZ, 2006) for four-channel video installation. The beauty and simplicity of this work are immediately apparent yet, unlike the majority of video works in gallery spaces, it has me sitting on the floor within minutes, and remaining for over half an hour. As I observe the herd of sheep traverse the wide multi-channel projection—which is angled into a gallery corner—I'm aware that only the barking of the dogs and the sound of the farmer's whistles accompany this imagery. Such sounds repeated at length, have the potential to annoy, instead here they transport the viewer into a zone—perhaps not directly into the landscape of the work itself—but definitely far away from the gallery walls and the humidity of Singapore lurking outside. This is partly achieved by the decision to project in a wedge configuration, allowing the audience to gain an overall perspective and immerse themselves in the work. Ultimately these choices enhance the captivating nature of this video work.
installation exclusion
At the opposite end of the small gallery space is et al.'s the social meaning of things (NZ, 2008). While Monteith's Composition for farmer… openly offers a viewing experience, et al.'s work is uninviting, and most likely this is intentional. Caged behind two temporary six-foot wire fences is a mundane scene comprising a white plastic garden chair and a desk with laptop displaying a (seemingly hostile) three-dimensional game environment that is also duplicated on the wall behind. What looks boring becomes captivating the closer you shift towards it. It's a work very much situated in the context of the political and social critique of border issues and inhumane confinement. It has the potential to draw the audience in, while simultaneously distancing them. But without socio-political reference points the installation and the fences could block the experience entirely.
intimate interfaces
In the even cooler depths of the National Museum of Singapore, the 16 works on display in the ISEA juried exhibition—comprising multiple installations and audio-visual projections—demand more than a single day of viewing. The show is the result of the ISEA 2008 Artist in Residence program, where some 20 artists were based in university laboratories and departments around Singapore in the three-month lead-up to the symposium.
Several works remain prominent in my memory, including Gender Strategies for Loitering (Shilpa Phadke, Shilpa Ranade and Sameera Khan, India, 2008) which focuses on gender inequalities in India and Singapore. In both it is socially acceptable for men to loiter in public space without question, yet respectability is stripped from any woman who chooses to do the same. Also appealing were Momoyo Torimitsu's Smile, Wear it Like a Costume! (Japan/USA, 2008) based on research into the interpretations of the smile carried out in collaboration with the National University of Singapore Face Group, and Clea T Waite's The Water Book (An Encyclopedia of Water) (USA/Germany, 2008) with its exquisite water touch interface I mistook for a glass tabletop, almost dropping my camera into the depths. In The Water Book, light projected words appear in the water acting as touchable hotspots for triggering video play back.
We Hear One Another, 2008, Kelly Jaclynn Andres
Kelly Jaclynn Andres' Finally, We Hear One Another (Canada, 2008) is a wearable sound-oriented work designed for pairs of participants. With hood-like bonnets, each audience member wishing to take part in the experience partners up, hoods up and is then able to wander through the museum. A cone, containing a microphone, positioned at the back of the bonnet, is used to transmit audio to the other participant, permitting the wearer to experience the sound world of their partner. While conceptually poetic, this work breaks down the moment you are handed a mobile phone to hold during your sonic exploration. Finally, We Hear One Another exposes the difficulty of media art attempting (and rightly so) to reach beyond the typical plastic and metal interfaces we're so accustomed to having mediate our experience. Once the cover comes off or the tech falls out of its custom-designed pocket, the illusion bursts and we're often left holding some gadget with a mass of cables attached.
Standing back to watch a couple of young girls explore the space with this wearable work rejuvenated my initial attraction. Positioned in different parts of the gallery, but not too far away from each other, they were asking loudly "can you hear me, can you hear me…". Taking the work at face value, without filtering it through an analytical framework, their genuine playfulness and engagement proves, that while they are probably familiar with the underlying technology, this repositioning brings with it actual intrigue.
controller/performer
The sound of a gamelan orchestra permeates the entire exhibition space, and it's not until I wander into the dedicated Quartet room, that the full effect is felt. Using what I can only assume is a custom-developed gesture recognition system, Tad Ermitano provides the opportunity to conduct a robotic gamelan orchestra by means of various poses. An instructional video helps you to quickly learn some of these hand and arm gestures before stepping up to the conductor's platform. While the work blends some seemingly unauthentic components (the notion of a traditional western conductor married with a gamelan orchestra for instance), the fun increased the more you conducted. Other members of the audience often stayed in the space for extended periods, observing the odd gestures of the spotlit individual.
The works in the ISEA 2008 juried exhibition raised more questions about their effectiveness than the significance of their content and the issues they posed. Despite intensive development periods and the complete dedication of the artists, technology can become a barrier, making the audience's ability to engage difficult. Perhaps this raises broader issue of art, science and technology collaborations in research environments with restricted time frames. In the catalogue, the majority of these artworks read as exceptional. Yet 'in the flesh', despite clean production and presentation, their magic was often broken with problems evident in the underlying (sometimes hacked) technological platform coming to the fore.
While the overall curation and layout of the juried exhibition was magnetic, individual works often appeared as a 'show and tell' of research outcomes. One particular downside was the over-reliance on traditional video projection and screen display, diminishing other components. The Water Book interface is astounding in itself, but its triggering of video only disappoints. These days, I want the artwork to capture me on an intimate and personal level. For this reason, less tech-heavy works in the Cloudland exhibition, provided ultimately more engaging and rewarding experiences.
ISEA 2008, International Symposium on Electronic Art, director Gunalan Nadarajan, various venues, Singapore, July 25-Aug 3, 2008, www.isea2008singapore.org
RealTime issue #88 Dec-Jan 2008 pg. 28
© Somaya Langley; for permission to reproduce apply to realtime@realtimearts.net


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In Genesis 3, we saw how man fell through sin against God. We talked about how Satan negotiated for the serpent's earth body to deceive man. Eve assumed the serpent to be just one of the animals she was taking care of, not knowing that Satan had negotiated for the body. We need to be very careful of wrong assumptions this year.
Believing foul spirit caused man to fall for sin. Beloved, that evil spirit is still talking today. It is your duty to learn to recognize the source of the voice you are hear. The scripture says there are many voices and all of them have specifics to identify the source.
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The transaction in Chapter 3 locked up evil in man as power of sin. This power of sin is the root of all other sins. The power of sin worked in Cain against Abel in chapter 4.
All these sponsored by the Power of sin.
Genesis 4:7 "… and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. …".
Before chapter 3, men never needed to call upon the Lord because God was always visiting anyway. But the moment the spirit of man became dead to God and he was driven out of the Garden of Eden, he felt his emptiness and started seeking the supernatural. There is a place within us that is to touch the supernatural. That part is our spirit. If the spirit is not revived, the soul touches the dark world. This is how a person is possessed; the soul interacting with the dark world. Your spirit does not do that; it only touches God if alive. That is the part we use to relate with Him. Men began to try to contact God in the time of Seth, the junior brother of Abel.
The gruesome sin that displeased God was when men began to conceive for spirits (sons of God). Spiritual immorality increased, and more demonic beings increased.
Evil spread over the earth. Wickedness became the order of the day; witch craft at high level and God concluded to destroy the inhabitants of the earth.
As we discussed in the previous reading, God still need somebody of earth body to carry out His agenda. In Chapter 6, one with good grade of righteousness was chosen, the person of Noah.
May you find grace in the eyes of the Lord in Jesus name. Amen.


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Ireland is enjoying a week of pleasant weather, and it finally feels like spring has sprung.
Today will be mostly dry, with some bright or sunny spells.
The best of the sunshine is expected over Munster and south Leinster, with top temperatures of 11 to 15C.
Tonight will stay mostly dry, with a mix of clear spells and cloudy periods.
Temperatures will plunge to -1 and some frost will develop under the clear breaks.
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New York Personal Injury Law Blog » Elena Kagan, First Amendment, U.S. Supreme Court
Elena Kagan In Private Practice (And Her First Amendment Experience)
I know, you've been sitting there on the edge of your seat waiting for this, ever since I discussed the serious lack of private practice work by Elena Kagan. Which wouldn't be so bad except that only Justice Kennedy seems to have had any private practice experience. Basically, 98% of the legal time for Supreme Court justices has been in academia or public service.
And it turns out, while at the BigLaw firm of Williams & Connolly between 1989 and 1991, Kagan actually did some First Amendment work that was interesting. In fact, of the 10 "most significant litigated matters which you personally handled" that the the Senate Judiciary Committee asked her to list, five had to do with the First Amendment. And, despite being a very junior associate, she was actually given the chance to argue a couple of times in court.
[Note, Eugene Volokh has written about her First Amendment scholarship that followed the years of private practice. This post is only about the real-world experience that preceded it. A full round-up of her career, including scholarship but missing the real-world stuff, is at SCOTUSblog]
OK, here is the set-up — you're sitting down, right? — on page 71…
I have had private clients only during the time I was an associate at Williams & Connolly. Those clients included business entities in civil litigation, press organizations defending themselves in libel and related actions, and white- collar criminal defendants.
She goes on to write that her private work was "primarily" in federal court and that it was divided 2/3 to civil and 1/3 to criminal. She concedes having never tried a case to verdict. That wouldn't be so bad, of course, if the high court had others that had done so for private individuals.
Now to the meat and potatoes: On pages 188-195 she is asked to "Describe the ten (10) most significant litigated matters which you personally handled, whether or not you were the attorney of record." As you can see below, some of this stuff is anything but interesting, which gives a bit of insight perhaps in to what happens to junior associates at BigLaw firms.
So here is Elena Kagan's Top 10 List of private cases. The First Amendment ones can be seen below as d-h. (I've listed all 10, in case people find any of the other stuff interesting — two are criminal matters):
(a) Federal Realty Investment Trust v. Pacific Insurance Co., No. R-88-3658. We represented a real estate investment trust in an action against an insurer for the costs of defense associated with a prior litigation. I began work on the case in the middle of the litigation; I did some late discovery and drafted most of the pre-trial motions. On the eve of trial, Judge Norman Ramsey of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland ruled in favor of our position on the appropriate standard for allocating defense costs between covered and uncovered parties and claims (760 F. Supp. 533 (1991)). This ruling immediately produced a settlement favorable to our client.
(b) In re Seatrain Lines, Inc., Nos. 81 B 10311, 81 B 10916, 81 B 11059, 81 B 12345, 81 B 12525, 81 B 11845, 81 B 11004, 81 B 11512. We represented Seatrain Lines, Inc., a debtor in bankruptcy, in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York (Judge Burton Lifland presiding) in connection with an application by Chase Manhattan Bank and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy for legal fees associated with the bankruptcy case. In response to the filing of the fee application, our client counterclaimed against Chase for the recovery of the costs of preserving and disposing of certain properties subject to Chase's security interest. I handled some of the discovery and drafted most of the pleadings. When the court denied Chase's motion to strike our counterclaim (and a subsequent motion for reconsideration), the parties settled on terms favorable to our client.
(c) Toyota of Florence, Inc. v. Lynch, Nos. 4-89-594-15, 4-89-595-15. We represented Southeast Toyota Distributors, Inc. in a suit brought by one of its franchisees alleging fraud, intentional interference with contract, violations of RICO, and a host of other claims. I drafted numerous pleadings in the case, including an opposition to the plaintiff's motion to remand (granted by Judge Hamilton of the U.S. District Court for South Carolina at 713 F. Supp. 898 (1989)), as well as motions to dismiss and discovery motions (ruled on by Judge Edwin Cottingham of the Court of Common Pleas for Darlington County). I also handled some of the discovery. I left the firm prior to trial. Ultimately, a verdict for the plaintiff was dismissed on appeal.
(d) Byrd v. Randi, No. MJG-89-636. We represented defendant Montcalm Publishing Corp. in a libel action arising from an allegation that the plaintiff was in prison for child molestation. The case presented issues relating to the "libel-proof plaintiff" doctrine, the definition of a "limited purpose public figure," and the actual malice standard. I did most of the discovery, drafted our summary judgment motion and other pleadings, and argued the summary judgment motion before the district court. After initially denying the motion, Judge Marvin Garbis of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland dismissed the case a few months later on a motion for reconsideration.
(e) In Re Application of News World Communications, Inc., Nos. 89-3160, 89-212. We represented the Washington Post and WRC-TV in this effort to compel release to the public of unredacted transcripts of audiotapes to be received in evidence at a criminal trial. I argued motions before Judge Charles Richey of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to compel release of the transcripts and to prevent redaction. Judge Richey granted both motions, with the latter reported at 17 Media L. Rep. 1001 (1989). The Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit, with Judges Wald, Silberman, and Sentelle hearing argument, denied a motion to stay this order (17 Media L. Rep. 1004 (1989)).
(f) J. Odell Anders v. Newsweek, Inc., No. 90-715. We represented Newsweek, Inc. on appeal from a jury verdict in its favor in a libel action filed in the Southern District of Mississippi. The case raised questions about the actual malice standard, as well as numerous evidentiary issues. I drafted the appellate brief urging affirmance. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held in our favor by unpublished opinion (judgment reported at 949 F.2d 1159 (1991)).
(g) Luke Records, Inc. v. Nick Navarro, No. 90-5508. We filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America and numerous record companies, challenging the decision of the district court that a musical recording was obscene under the standard set forth by the Supreme Court in Miller v. California. I drafted the brief in the case, which stressed the difficulty of holding music obscene under prevailing constitutional law. Judge Lively, joined by Judges Anderson and Roney, reversed the district court's decision (960 F.2d 134 (1992)).
(h) Bagbey v. National Enquirer, No. CV 89-2177. We represented the National Enquirer in this libel action brought by a person mistakenly identified in the publication as being Jimmy Swaggert's father. I drafted all pleadings and did all discovery in the case, which began in Louisiana state court but which we removed to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (Judge F.A. Little, Jr.). We eventually settled the case on terms favorable to our client.
(i) Chuang v. United States, No. 89-1309. We represented Joseph Chuang, a former bank president, on his appeal from a criminal conviction for numerous counts of bank fraud. The principle issues in the case concerned the propriety of two warrantless searches of the bank, one by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and one by the FDIC. I drafted most sections of the brief, which argued among other matters (1) that the statute authorizing the OCC's search failed to provide a constitutionally adequate substitute for a warrant, as required by the Supreme Court, and (2) that the FDIC's search was invalid because it went beyond the bank premises into Chuang's law firm offices. The Second Circuit affirmed the conviction, with Judge Timbers writing and Judges Newman and Altimari joining (897 F.2d 646 (1990)).
(j) United States v. Jarrett Woods, We represented the former head of the Western Savings Association, a failed savings and loan, in both a grand jury investigation and a number of civil suits brought against him. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board had declared the S&L insolvent and placed it in receivership after discovering various suspect real estate loans. In addition to trying to keep the civil suits at bay, we tracked the grand jury investigation of Woods closely for more than a year – interviewing each of the many people brought before the grand jury – before Woods became unable to afford the representation. Woods was subsequently indicted and convicted of numerous counts of bank fraud.
So I was all prepared to say that we were about to put on the Supreme Court another person without any real private practice experience at all. But, in fact, she has a very small amount. Nothing earth shattering for sure, but a tiny amount nonetheless.
One quirk I noticed in (h), Bagbey v. National Enquirer: She says that "We eventually settled the case on terms favorable to our client." I wonder if there was a non-disclosure agreement regarding that settlement, and if so, if her comments about settling on "favorable" terms violated it.
Update: I could see how some Senators might review some of her First Amendment briefs, which should be publicly available in court files, to inquire as to whether she actually believed in some of the positions that she took. That could put her on the spot to either defend, or distance, herself from a position that she advocated.
Update x2 — Elsewhere:
Kagan's First Amendment record causes concern (David L. Hudson, Jr. @ First Amendment Center)
Who Gets the Gag? Elena Kagan's First Amendment Problem (Gary Bauer @ Human Events)
Elena Kagan v. First Amendment (Chicago Sun Times)
Elena Kagan vs. that bothersome First Amendment thing (Jack Hentoff @ Jewish World Review)
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Max Kennerly on Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 10:08 am said:
I wondered, too, about the "favorable" remarks. Some defamation settlements include a requirement that, if someone asks a party about the settlement, the parties say that an "amicable" or "acceptable" or otherwise wonderful settlement was reached. As such, I've seen a number of situations in which both sides will say the settlement is "favorable" to them.
Although the work she did was certainly substantive, and she did end up arguing some of the issues in court, I'm dismayed that she apparently has no experience in the strategic decision-making about cases, such as whether or not to advance a given claim or defense and where to focus efforts in discovery.
Of course, as mentioned in the post of mine you linked (thanks), I am a cynic about the Supreme Court anyway, and so, in terms of choice of nominees, am okay with sacrificing actual experience in favor of legal philosophy.
Eric Turkewitz on Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 10:16 am said:
…I'm dismayed that she apparently has no experience in the strategic decision-making about cases, such as whether or not to advance a given claim or defense and where to focus efforts in discovery.
Well, in her defense, she was just a puppy fresh out of law school. She probably didn't have the chops to make those kinds of decisions with clients like the Washington Post or Nat'l Enquirer.
Of course, it is possible she made the kinds of contributions you suggest, but since these are just summaries, they wouldn't be listed here.
All in all, unless she fouled up with her comment about "favorable" settlement — and I was just musing on the point I don't know if what she wrote was OK or not — I'm betting that this experience will have exactly 0 effect on the questioning of Senators at confirmation. Unless, of course, she is forced to either defend or distance herself from a position that she took in litigation.
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Elizabeth on Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 3:47 pm said:
"Unless, of course, she is forced to either defend or distance herself from a position that she took in litigation."
Or unless she is taken to task for being unable to spell "principal". 😉 Sorry, pet peeve there. Thanks for ferreting this out – it is interesting.
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New constructions of high-end high-rises are built with the ideal life balance in mind, with everything at your fingertips. These buildings are split use, with luxurious living quarters on the higher floors and office or coworking spaces toward the bottom.
More and more people are deciding that quality of life is more important than traditional things like a house outside the city, demanding a long commute and hours of life wasted each day. While inefficient to say the least, this also takes a toll on our mental and physical health.
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AI and machine learning hold incredible promise for post-production image editing, if new research is any indication. Engineers at Nvidia recently demoed an AI system — GauGAN — that creates convincingly lifelike landscape photographs from whole cloth, while Microsoft scientists last month proposed a framework capable of producing images and storyboards from natural language captions.
But what about AI that paints with common sense? Thanks to an enterprising team at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, a collaboration between MIT and IBM to jointly pursue AI techniques over the next decade, it's made its way from the literature to the web. A publicly available tool — GAN Paint Studio — lets users upload any photograph and edit the appearance of depicted buildings, flora, and fixtures to their heart's content. Impressively, it's generalizable enough that inserting a new object with one of the built-in tools realistically affects nearby objects (for instance, trees in the foreground occlude structures behind them).
"Right now machine learning systems are these black boxes that we don't always know how to improve, kind of like those old TV sets that you have to fix by hitting them on the side," said PhD student at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) David Bau, a lead author on a related paper about the system. "This research suggests that, while it might be scary to open up the TV and take a look at all the wires, there's going to be a lot of meaningful information in there."
Above: Examples of edits performed by GAN Paint Studio.
So how's it work? Given a photo as input, the machine learning system underlying GAN Paint Studio first rerenders it by finding a latent representation from which it can generate a photo that's nearly identical to the original. As users tap the tool's collection of image-editing settings to transform their photo, the system updates the latent representation according to each edit and renders the modified representation.
Developing the model required identifying units correlated with object types (like doorways) inside a GAN, a two-part neural network consisting of generators that produce samples and discriminators that attempt to distinguish between the generated samples and real-world samples. The researchers tested the units individually to see if eliminating them would cause certain objects to disappear or appear, and over time isolated artifact-causing units to increase overall image quality.
"Whenever GANs generate terribly unrealistic images, the cause of these mistakes has previously been a mystery," said paper coauthor and IBM research scientist Hendrik Strobelt. "We found that these mistakes are triggered by specific sets of [units] that we can silence to improve the quality of the image."
As alluded to earlier, the system learned a few basic rules about the relationships among objects. It won't put something where it doesn't logically belong (like a window in the sky), and it moreover creates different visuals depending on the context. For example, asking GAN Paint Studio to add doors to two different buildings won't result in duplicate doors; they'll likely look quite different from each other. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. GAN Paint Studio can "turn on" bedside lamps which were previously switched off, restyle shrubbery for spring or autumn, install windows to apartment interiors, and add rooftop domes to buildings.
The team believes that more sophisticated GAN-powered painting tools could someday enable designers to tweak visuals on the fly, and that could allow computer-graphics editors to compose arrangements of objects needed for particular pictures quickly. They acknowledge the technology could misused, of course, but they assert that ongoing research is the best way to prevent abuse.
"You need to know your opponent before you can defend against it," said coauthor and MIT CSAIL postdoctoral student Jun-Yan Zhu. "This understanding may potentially help us detect fake images more easily."
Zhu has a point. In mid-June, researchers at Adobe and the University of California, Berkeley detailed an AI program that recognizes when Photoshop's Face Aware Liquify tool has been used to alter facial expressions. (They claim that in tests, it was able to spot manipulations with an accuracy as high as 99%, compared with the average untrained person's success rate of 53%.) Separately, computer scientists at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute devised a system that's able to suss out anomalous movements in fake videos generated by popular AI-powered apps.
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Hong Kong pro-democracy politicians attacked by China protesters
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Hong Kong pro-democracy politicians Nathan Law and Joshua Wong pose for a selfie with protesters targeting them.
Nathan Law and Joshua Wong attacked in separate incidents during Taiwan trip
Analyst says protests by pro-Beijing groups show greater "coordination"
Hong Kong (CNN) Two of Hong Kong's most prominent young politicians have been attacked by pro-Beijing protesters in separate incidents one analyst characterized as "coordinated."
Former student activist Nathan Law, 24, was pushed and attacked by protesters holding signs reading "destroy Hong Kong independence" in the arrival hall of Hong Kong International Airport.
He was struck, his shirt ripped and liquid thrown over him, according to police, causing injuries to his neck and shoulder.
Hong Kong police said the assault is under investigation, but no arrest has yet been made. Following the incident 25 pro-democracy lawmakers issued a statement condemning "this violent act that flies under a so-called flag of patriotism."
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Law was returning from a political forum in Taiwan which he had attended with several other Hong Kong pro-democracy figures, including Joshua Wong and two other lawmakers.
Both Law and Wong were heavily involved in the 2014 Umbrella Movement which saw tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters shut down key streets in Hong Kong for months.
They were pushing for free elections to choose the city's leader. The occupation ended when police moved in and cleared the site, and years later none of the original aims of the protest leaders have been achieved.
On the way to the Taiwan event, Law and Wong said they were followed by a group of dozens of protesters at Hong Kong airport, who held signs calling them "traitors" who "collaborate with Taiwan independence forces."
As they arrived, protesters at Taipei's Taoyuan International Airport also screamed insults and attempted to assault Wong. Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je denounced the violence in a statement.
According to Taiwanese state media, the protesters were from the Patriot Association, which opposes Taiwan independence and advocates for unification with China.
Pro-China protesters waving placards reading "independence will get you nowhere" greeted Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong and other lawmakers in Taipei.
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Ma Ngok, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said that such harassment of activists and politicians is a common tactic of pro-Beijing groups.
"Authorities are very concerned about the collaboration of Hong Kong and Taiwan (politicians)," Ma said.
He said the twin airport protests indicated such protests were occurring at a "bigger and more coordinated level."
"It's more complicated than it used to be," Ma said.
Beijing is sensitive to any calls for independence in Hong Kong and Taiwan, which is self-governing but is claimed by China under the "one China" policy.
In December, President-elect Donald Trump called into question the future of the policy by taking a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen.
The policy, enshrined in the documents that eventually led to the establishment of US relations with China, permits Beijing to regard Taiwan as a part of China and the United States to sell the nationalist island arms to defend itself against the mainland, and has headed off a major US-China clash over the issue.


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Voices of the Malia Generation
On November 6, voters re-elected Barack Obama, a Democrat, as the 44th president of the U.S., defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney. KWHS spoke with high school students around the country to get their insights on, and reactions to, the election process and the issues it raised for voters. …Read More
The 2012 U.S. presidential election is history, and in a victory over Republican challenger Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, a Democrat, will spend four more years leading the country. Whether you agree or not with his administration's policies on the economy, education, health care, taxes, the environment and foreign relations, one thing is for sure: In the next four years, two high school students will be living in the White House.
Right now Malia, 14, is a freshman, and Sasha, 11, is in middle school, both attending Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. When the next presidential election rolls around, Malia will be 18 — just old enough to vote for her dad's successor (he can only serve two consecutive terms), and her sister will be a high school sophomore. Much has been written about the Obamas' devotion to giving their daughters a normal life, including (as often as possible) family dinners at 6:30 p.m. Can you imagine the conversations around that dinner table? The first daughters are destined to be politically aware.
How about you? This fall, Hannah McCarley, a senior at Washington High School in Charles Town, West Virginia, spoke to KWHS about her experience as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention. "I think there is an interest in politics when you know that it is directly affecting you," she noted. "Media needs to be more geared toward youth. A lot of media talks about youth, but it doesn't talk to youth." So KWHS set out to ask some members of the so-called Malia Generation for their reactions to this year's election and their thoughts on the issues.
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First was the question of exposure: How tuned in were students to the campaign process and results? While some high schools allowed the election to pass by with very little fanfare, still others found ways to get their students engaged, many of who are still too young to vote. Take, for instance, Cooper City High School in Cooper City, Fl. "Every four years when the election happens, the school's government honors teachers have their students participate in a mock debate and election where they take on the roles of the president, vice president and members of the opposing political party," notes Spencer Pearlman. "As a junior, we observed the mock debate and election." Taylor Guttesman, a junior at Hopewell Valley Central High School in Pennington, N.J., adds that she and her classmates watched the final presidential debate between Obama and Romney in history class to examine the main points and determine "whether or not they answered the questions or went astray."
And while Guttesman's AP language and composition class turned to The New York Times for political insight and analysis, she admits that social media offered the most colorful and constant discourse in the days leading up to Nov. 6. "The whole week before the election, every other comment on Facebook was, 'Why is this happening?' or 'I can't believe this!' about the election," says Guttesman, adding that while she leans democratic, a group of her friends wore Romney t-shirts to school and posted a steady stream of campaign comments on Twitter and Facebook. On that note, President Obama used Twitter as his first communication medium to claim re-election, and Obama and Romney had 33 million and 12 million Facebook fans, respectively. Malia and Sasha reportedly don't have Facebook pages.
Interest in the issues – everything from the economy and foreign policy to a woman's right to choose – fuels political awareness and involvement. Keya Dannenbaum, the founder and CEO of ElectNext, a website that matches voters with the most compatible candidates, says that teens should explore political topics, even before they reach voting age. "Being engaged, being able to make interesting, informed arguments and decisions based on the issues, can have an effect on what ends up happening," says Dannenbaum. "You are able to talk to, and share your ideas with, the people who can vote. And when your turn comes, you are that much more ready because you have a history of participating."
Lane Sutton, a sophomore at Framingham High School in Framingham, Mass., agrees that high school students can have an influential voice on issues that matter to them. Sutton, a passionate business advocate, has several political priorities. "I think that as a teenager, education is very important because we need to have low interest rates on student loans for college. We still need qualified teachers, but [also] more evolving curricula that teach innovation and more career-based courses or electives that focus in on technology and building off your skills," he says. "Jobs are key because many college students are struggling to find jobs even after they finish college and get their degrees, while they are stuck in a pile of debt."
"Making it easier and more accessible for people to have a higher education" is also top-of-mind for today's youth, adds McCarley.
'Politicians Definitely Over-promise'
Rebecca Unger, a high school senior who also attends Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, Mass., is pleased with the election's outcome. "I was most concerned about health care, reproductive rights and the intersections thereof," notes Unger, 17. "In that vein, I was relieved when Obama won. Obama is not perfect, but I was terrified by the prospect of Romney winning. I just kept imagining coming of age and going to college in a United States that resembles The Handmaid's Tale [a Margaret Atwood work of science fiction that explores themes of women losing their rights]."
A Romney supporter, Sutton admits that he is on the other hand "a little frustrated" by Obama's win. "I believe that we would have more progress with Romney because of his experience as a businessman," notes Sutton. "I would like to think of the U.S. as a business because we need to increase our exports and lower our imports. Romney would encourage a 'Made in America' grassroots strategy that can help to boost our economy and open trade with other countries. We need to be a leader like China is for manufacturing."
Still, what frustrates Sutton most is the mindset of his peers, who he says take on the views of their parents or friends rather than formulating "their own thoughts." Raunaq Singh, a senior at Hightstown High School in East Windsor, N.J., agrees: "It's rare to find a student who has separate opinions from those of their parents. I encounter many students who seem to have strong opinions, but a rather weak base of facts for them." Research, notes Dannenbaum, indicates that "our political choices are handed down from generation to generation." However, the 2008 campaign and election of Barack Obama changed all that, when high school and college students "convinced their parents to vote the way that they felt inspired."
Whether Republican or Democrat, Romney or Obama, the voice of the Malia Generation is getting stronger. Many high school seniors turned 18 in time for this year's election, and while a large number did not vote, others embraced this rite of passage. "I feel like I'm always complaining about what's wrong with the world," Di'Jahnay Stewart, a Dewey Academy student in Oakland, Calif., told her local newspaper, the Oakland Tribune. Stewart turned 18 on May 23 and registered to vote shortly thereafter. "I feel like if I vote, at least it'll mean something." Echoed classmate Dominique Dyer: "I feel proud of myself for voting."
Soon, younger high school students' votes will also count. "I am looking forward to it," says Sutton, who is 15. "It is a big responsibility in the U.S., and I would like to have some say in the future of a world-leading country." As for the candidates? "Politicians definitely over-promise, but I would like to see them become more honest with realistic goals on how they will reform the United States and help the citizens."
Why should teens care about the issues? Do your opinions matter?
What issue or issues matter most to you? Why? What issue would you like to learn more about?
Do you agree with the statement, "Our political choices are handed down from generation to generation?" Is it possible for young people to have different views from their parents? How and why?
Will you (or did you) vote when you are 18? Why or why not?
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KWHS: 18 and Political: Hannah McCarley's Week at the Democratic National Convention
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Carinthia, Austria, summer 1977. A 21-year-old artist sits by a mountain stream, writing. He's not composing romantic poetry, nor is he indulging in the self-aggrandizement of diarizing. Rather, he is torturing himself with the kind of writing furthest removed from originality and authenticity: he's copying. Josef Dabernig is transcribing a book, and not even the kind of book that a young artist of the Punk era could brag about. He's copying a book by a doctor named Franz X. Mayr, word for word, page for page. The book is entitled Schönheit und Verdauung oder die Verjüngung des Menschen durch sachgemäße Wartung des Darmes (Beauty and Digestion: Human Rejuvenation Through the Appropriate Maintenance of the Intestines, 1920).
The habit of copying out books, along with Dabernig's practice of meticulously measuring bodies and landscapes, stands in sharp contrast to the expression-oriented art practice more prevalent in the late 1970s – as seen, for example, with the 'Neue Wilden'. Dabernig thus began putting obstacles in his own path. Self-discipline and small moments of redemption were to define his career from this point forward. At the time, he began to write down how many cigarettes he smoked each day; since then, in the 31 years and counting, he has exceeded his limit of four per day only twice. This ritualized self-auditing was not at all in keeping with the dominant zeitgeist. Dabernig's internal censor imposed a temperance that escalated to the level of obsession. On Discipline was to be the title of a 2011 installation at the Wilfried Lentz gallery in Rotterdam, in which Dabernig 're-staged' the recording of his daily cigarette consumption from 23 September 1979 to 22 September 1980: the catalogues of his sins displayed in a sort of study room.
'I wanted to get away from a hands-on practice, the material', the artist told me in a recent interview, describing his beginnings as a student at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts (1976–81). Rejecting the clay modelling element of the course, he instead restricted himself to drawing the three-dimensional phenomena provided. He entered the data from his measurements into tables. 'I always measured. Measuring was my cross', Dabernig says. Using a simple mathematical formula, he distorted the recorded data creating abstract diagrams reminiscent of scientific visualizations. He transformed some of these graphics into three-dimensional steel objects evocative of futuristic shrubs (Torvaianica, 1982–84).
Since 1989 Dabernig has been working on a long-term project photographing empty football stadiums around the world. These works, known as 'panoramas', were recently shown in a 2013 solo exhibition across the two venues of the Kunsthaus and Neue Galerie in Graz and were exhibited at the 9th Gwangju Biennale in 2012. For these works Dabernig seeks a position in the middle of a football field and photographs the architecture in six segments: three pictures of the left half of the stadium and three of the right. The actual centre, the playing field, remains empty. Sporting venues are arenas of collective fervour; Dabernig's austere photographs, by contrast, show only the (unspectacular) skeleton of the spectacle.
Art history of the latter half of the 20th century bears many attempts to dissolve objects into signs, diagrams and numerical series. Take for example, Hanne Darboven's work Schreibzeit (Time of Writing, 1975–80). Dabernig, on the contrary, has resisted participation in art debates. He sees in them 'an attempt to sublimate the middle-class Catholic educational model'. Beyond the classic Conceptual approach of uncoupling the making of an art work from its author and demystifying its purported uniqueness, Dabernig's pratice comes out of a monastic tradition whose last remnants he experienced at the Catholic boarding school he attended in Austria. The Christian exercitationes spirituales, which began in late antiquity as a combination of physical exercise and piety, survived in postwar European grammar schools as enforced, blind obedience.
In contrast to others of his generation, Dabernig did not turn to Indian ashrams or rural communes to seek enlightenment. His decades-long training has provided only the most minimal of high points, such as the mastery of his nicotine addiction and the ecstasy of his completed series of numbers. Is this a pedant working through the traumas of his education? A disciplined ascetic with a compulsive bent? Dabernig's irony refuses this obvious interpretation – instead it results from the contrast between the claimed demand for order and the imperfect reality. This is also how the artist partakes of the lordly genre of the panorama, albeit in the form of pieced-together rows of images. His usage of the stadium is reminiscent of the steel bodies and collective experiences of neo-Olympic Modernity. But the artist shows the ugly side of these arenas of progress: near-derelict sport cities at the peripheries of towns.
In taking recourse to the palaestra, Dabernig also incorporates physical exercise into his installations. He presented gymnastics as a de-spiritualized asceticism in the exhibition Excursus on Fitness (2010) at the Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst (MAK) in Vienna. There, gymnastics mats and balls lay in wait in the exhibition space, while an ambient racket issuing from loudspeakers preserved the atmosphere of a gym, ensuring that the sports equipment wouldn't be interpreted as sculpture.
In 1996 Dabernig began a second artistic career as a filmmaker – and here, too, sports and personal accomplishment have played a central role. For his first film, the short Wisla (1996), which was shot in Krakow, he turned once more to football. Football coaches have a simple code of conduct. Some of them gesticulate wildly and shout at their players. Others follows the action with an impassive gaze, suppressing their emotions even when a goal is scored. In Wisla, Josef Dabernig chose the silent type. Actors playing a football coach and his assistant enter a football stadium, sit down on a bench in the dugout and watch the ensuing match. Dabernig's coach uses minimal arm movement when giving his team instructions: 'mark!' Not much else happens.
Wisla follows the same structure that informs the majority of the 15 films Dabernig has made since: visuals out-of-sync with sound; everyday views of car journeys running parallel to bel canto arias; the background noise in a Polish stadium suggesting the live broadcast of an Italian championship match. The strict application of formal specifications, the avoidance of 'dramatic' panning, for example, is reminiscent of the anti-illusionist programme of Structuralist film, with its rhetoric of the transparency of the medium. The elements of film – cutting, sound, material, montage – remain unconcealed. In his films, Dabernig overcomes the barrier of Constructivism; he shifts from enumerator to narrator.
The characters in Dabernig's films are thoroughly stoic by nature, more indolent than impassioned, more prototypes than individuals. Their clothing – typically the work uniforms of telephone technicians, custodians or waitresses – also suggests a near-socialist indifference to self-expression and to the creativity-oriented competition of the contemporary working world. Beyond this, the artist's films are marked by a preference for spaces wrought by modern mass society, not just football stadiums but also swimming pools (Aquarena, 2007) and train dining cars (WARS, 2001). Dabernig documents them at the moment of their decay. The functionalist surfaces of facades and interiors appear peculiarly timeless. At the same time, however, they are too dilapidated to fit the cliché of retro-modern chic. Like the landscapes and people in Dabernig's films, they convey the mood of a peripheral location once gripped by the force of progress, long since gone cold.
Dabernig's most recent film Hypercrisis (2011), which was shown at the Bergen Assembly in autumn 2013, is set in a former Soviet convascelent home. Here, for the first time, one of Dabernig's films focuses on an artist. The literary figures seeking relaxation include Boris Martov, a once up-and-coming young talent of the Perestroika era. While his colleagues sit around snacking comfortably, the no-longer-so-young Martov suffers a creative crisis and trudges through the snow reading manuscripts: the caricature of inspired creativity running up against a wall of aimlessness.
Dabernig opposes the myth of artistic autonomy with discipline and renunciation. Is this perhaps a suitable formula for attaining the career goal of independence? In any event, even if Dabernig's subject matter repeatedly shows traces of decay, and his protagonists must stomach defeats rather than victories, there is something upstanding, something invulnerable to pity and self-pity, about these places and their people. As if a long training programme had made them strong and serene.
Matthias Dusini is a writer and editor of the magazine Falter. He lives in Vienna. His most recent book, written jointly with Thomas Edlinger, is In Anführungszeichen – Glanz und Elend der Political Correctness (Quote Unquote – The Splendour and Misery of Political Correctness, Suhrkamp, 2012).
1Dabernig's partially paraplegic brother Wolfgang, a Paralympic silver medalist in cycling, has acted in five of the artist's films.


This article examines nonsubject relative clauses (RCs) in Turkic languages. It shows that all three types of nonsubject RCs in Turkish are amenable to a Kayneian derivation, in which the target of the RC moves to Spec/CP, and where the clause remnant moves leftward to Spec/DP or Spec/DemP. The article proposes the use of a Principles-and-Parameters version of government and binding theory in the analysis of RCs.
Jaklin Kornfilt is a Professor of Linguistics at Syracuse University. In addition, she serves as Director of the Linguistic Studies Program, Director of the Computational Linguistics Program and Turkish Language Coordinator.


Tomorrow, on May 30, our Danish book "Når talent forpligter" will be officially published and ready to buy for the public.
We have done a promotion tour this last week to gain the interest and understanding of these, for us, very important themes.
I did an interview as well with the Danish site 'Dontt' about my career, but also regarding the process of writing the book.


The £11 million scheme is designed to protect more than 4,000 homes.
Multi-million pound flood defences at Hessle Foreshore will be considered by planners today.
It'll include a glass-panelled concrete wall along Cliff Road, and some residents have expressed concern about the impact of this.
Local councillor Phil Davison says: "Lots of people visit the Foreshore here in Hessle, and they like to sit in their cars and look at the river and the bridge, this might just slightly dull that image if you like.
He adds: "But put that against the fact that 4,000 properties could be protected from future tidal surge."


These Chinese plants emit 4,271 million tonnes of CO2. The extra 130 planned in China will, on their own, produce more CO2 than the whole of Australia produces. And yet so many people believe that we are going to change the world. No, we don't have a large tent over our country. We are part of the globe. India has 292 operating coal fired plants and a further 41 under construction, emitting 1,007 million tonnes of CO2. Facts don't lie – between 2016 and 2017 coal-fired generation in the Asia Pacific region increased by 330 terawatt hours, contributing 66% to increased electricity supply. That is the equivalent of 33 Hazelwood's. These power plants will burn coal, so the option is do they burn the cleaner, more efficient higher energy coal from Australia or do they burn the second-rate poorer quality coal from overseas which will actually put more CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
This is the crazy scenario we are facing. Coal-fired power generators are being built around the world, but how many are being built in Australia? None, and worse still, we are actually shutting them down. Since Hazelwood shut prices have doubled in Victoria and New South Wales, and increased by more than 70% in South Australia, Tasmania and Queensland. And to think that Australia is a country so rich in energy.
Australia is responsible for 1.3 percent of the world's emissions. Australia's Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel told Senate Estimates that reducing the world's carbon emissions by 1.3 percent (in other words Australia's contribution) would have virtually no impact on the world's climate. But we all know it will have an impact on our economy, our standard of living and the way we do business.
I'm a big supporter of renewable energy on one condition – they compete on a level playing field. The fact is with Renewable Energy Certificates at $80 a certificate, one wind turbine will be paid $700,000 a year subsidy by those who are connected to the grid before one watt of electricity is sold. Families, pensioners, supermarkets, engineering workshops, small business, big business – all will pay. This is a big advantage to renewable energy at a huge cost to consumers of electricity.
Another problem we face is that businesses will relocate overseas because of our energy costs, and the country they move to will actually put out more CO2 doing exactly the same job. We lose businesses, jobs and money with the result being more CO2 emissions. Not a great idea in my book.
Face the facts. China has 130 coal-fired plants under construction, India 41, Indonesia 20 and many other countries are doing similar including Japan.
In my opinion we can achieve much more by looking after our farmland (the soil that has to grow our food for thousands of years) and increase the storage of carbon in our soils by good management. This will achieve CO2 abatement and protect our food supply. That is a real solution - a win win."


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Q: Using file_get_contents with basic auth and SSL I'm attempting a GET request using SSL and basic auth using the file_get_contents function:
$username = "XXXXXXXXXX";
$password = "XXXXXXXXXX";

$url = "https://stream.watsonplatform.net/authorization/api/v1/token?url=https://stream.watsonplatform.net/speech-to-text/api";

$context = stream_context_create(array("http" => array("header" => "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode("$username:$password"))));

$data = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);

echo $data;

Here's the error message I get:

Warning: file_get_contents(https://stream.watsonplatform.net/authorization/api/v1/token?url=https://stream.watsonplatform.net/speech-to-text/api): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 500 Server Error...

I've already confirmed that openssl is enabled:

And we might as well get this out of the way up-front:
Why don't you just use cURL?
I could. But I also want to figure out why file_get_contents isn't working. I like the relative simplicity of file_get_contents. Call me crazy.

A: Curiosity is a good thing so it's cool to dig this problem without falling back to cURL before fixing this problem.
<?php
$username = "XXXXXXXXXX";
$password = "XXXXXXXXXX";

$url = "https://stream.watsonplatform.net/authorization/api/v1/token?url=https://stream.watsonplatform.net/speech-to-text/api";

$context = stream_context_create(array(
    "http" => array(
        "header" => "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode("$username:$password"),
        "protocol_version" => 1.1, //IMPORTANT IS HERE
    )));

$data = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);

echo $data;

The fact is the server does not support HTTP/1.0. So you haven't any problem with SSL/TLS nor with your user agent. It is just the server that support HTTP from 1.1.
As said in the stream_context_create documentation the default protocol_version used in stream_context_create is 1.0. That's why you got an error 500.

A: EDIT : My bad, don't see this is not curl. Try with this
$username = "XXXXXXXXXX";
$password = "XXXXXXXXXX";

$url = "https://stream.watsonplatform.net/authorization/api/v1/token?url=https://stream.watsonplatform.net/speech-to-text/api";

$context = stream_context_create(array(
"http" => array("header" => "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode("$username:$password")),
"ssl"=>array(
    "verify_peer"=>false,
    "verify_peer_name"=>false,
)));

$data = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);

echo $data;

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Tea Time (Dir. Lisa May Thomas)- In a deserted cafe two men exchange their time and unspoken thoughts. In Bodmin Whale(Dir. Chris-Lewis Smith) the movement material draws on the topography, textures, history and weather of a mossy oak wood. The Last GIG (Dir. Earthfall)is a reflective look at the life of a band on tour, with dark humour, affecting music and bold dance. Mirrorland (Dir. Chris-Lewis Smith) draws on investigations into how we experience landscape, in this instance one that is English and agricultural. GRAVITAS — POSTCARDS (Dir. Earthfall) was shot on location at The Hayes outside St David's Hall, Cardiff. Blind Torrent (Dir. Russell Frampton and Ruth Way) explores the perception of the body within landscape and the relationship between actual and imagined archaeological artefacts.


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HomeRamadanSupplications during and at Break Time
Supplications during and at Break Time
26 May، 2018 hsnww Ramadan 1
The Lawgiver has recommended that the fasting person take
the opportunity on this occasion and beseech Allah during the
period of fasting, especially around the hour of breaking fast,
iftaar. He should request diligently, whatever he or she desires,
from the Owner of creation, Rabbil Alameen.
In the book of Ibn Maja, Abdullah bin Amru bin Al-As (raa)
reported that the Messenger of Allah (saas) said:
"Indeed, as to the faster, about the time he breaks his
fast, his du 'a, (supplication) will not be turned away by
Allah."
This hadith reveals a special privilege afforded only to the ser-
vant who observes fasting and at the hour he brings his fasting
to a close. Each fasting person has the right to supplication and
the right that it will be answered, a promise from the One who
never reneges on His promises.
However, granting the faster's du'a request falls within the
conditions of du'a. That is, whatever you ask Allah (SWT), He
will grant it in His own time, and when he knows that granting
your request will not lead to your ruin. Do not ask of Him
something unlawful.
In a report by Tirmidhi (raa), the Messenger of Allah (saas) has
been reported as saying:
"There are three categories of people whose du 'a (sup-
plications) will not be rejected: the person who observes
the fast until he breaks, a just ruler, and the person who
has been wronged."
This citation supports the previous one, while adding that when
prayers are offered during fasting, supplications are highly en-
couraged.
In addition to the faster, a ruler's acts of justice weigh heavily
on the scale of good deeds (mizaan). This is the person whose
pronouncements, orders and decrees affects the lives of others.
The ruler may be a political leader, a judge, or a community
leader who does not abuse the power and authority invested in
him. If any one of them makes a request, Allah (SWT) will
swiftly grant it.
Conversely, on the reverse side, if the faster did not observe
fasting properly, or the ruler abuses the power invested in him,
their supplications will not only be turned away unanswered,
but will incur the wrath of Allah.
The third person in the Hadith is al-mazluum. This is an indi-
vidual who has been wronged, such as a victim of a crime
against himself or his property, or if his civil rights have been
violated, or he is a victim of fraud or white collar crime. If such
a person raises his hands and asks Allah (SWT) for help, his or
her prayer will be granted.
Hasten to Break Fast
Examples of Supplications During Ramadan
Qur'an, Fasting and Piety


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There goes the neighborhood: Team Fortress 2 grapples with free players
An influx of new players who haven't paid their own way are unsettling longtime players of Team Fortress 2, an artsy game with a cult following.
Published Jul 1, 2011 Updated Jun 3, 2021, 4:09 am CDT
For years, players of Team Fortress 2, a critically acclaimed video game known for its Norman Rockwell-meets-comic-books style and fair game play, have enjoyed the hipster-like snobbery that comes from indulging in a lesser-known video game.
But now players have to contend with new foes not on the R.E.D. or B.L.U. teams: Laggy servers, trolls, griefers and newbs are coming to TF2, upsetting the game's social dynamics.
On June 23, Valve, the game's publisher announced that Team Fortress 2 would be free to play; it had previously charged $5 to $10. Valve will make money off Team Fortress 2 exclusively through their Mann Co store, where TF2 players can buy hats and other items to customize their characters.
Following Valve's announcement, gamers downloaded Team Fortress 2 en masse, effectively dethroning Counter-Strike as the most played game on Steam, a popular digital-distribution service. TF2 has held a dedicated user base for the past 5 years, and while the majority of them view going free as a good move for Valve, the influx of new players has created some problems.
"Obviously more players = more fun for everyone that plays, and Valve gets more money through their in game store, and with their upcoming games they can really use the free marketing – especially with Half Life 3 and Dota 2," explained TF2 player Like a Whisper in a Steam chat with the Daily Dot.
Smurfette, a member of The Elders, a gaming community dedicated to TF2 and other games, also agrees that free is good for Valve as a whole as it draws in new customers. She hasn't noticed an upswing in griefing yet—a griefer is a player who logs on to a game to cause trouble by killing players' characters or otherwise disrupting game play.
"They all seem to be willing to learn," said Smurfette. "And if they have questions, they ask. I think most gamers who are new to this game are willing to take the constructive criticism to heart and learn from it. Some of our regulars have expressed they feel it is a bad thing for them, to have made this free simply for the fact that you should have to pay and support the game providers."
The influx of players has affected gameplay in other ways on The Elders servers, though.
"The amount of people who have been playing lately is really affecting our lag," or the responsiveness of the game servers. "The server stays full a lot more, which is great for our community as it brings people in, but we will definitely have to make adjustments to our server to handle the amount of people on it."
The Elders is considering switching server providers or raising dues, Smurfette added.
Other servers have taken to banning or kicking out the new free players to prevent lag, according to MTV.
TF2 player Hunter Class said he's torn over the free-to-play initiative. He's happy because "I can show it to broke friends and now they can play too" but on the other hand, he too is pissed off because he "paid good money for it" in 2009. Hunter Class also enjoys "beatin' da nubs," or new players, but says "griefin' suxorz".
30-year-old gamer Grasshopper says he hasn't played TF2 since it went free, citing "cheaters" and "griefers" as reasons, as well as "12-year-old mic spam," where players shout inappropriate things into the game's audio communication channel, and "aimbots" which allow players to hit the target every time.
"Anyone not willing to buy the game but willing to buy a $7 hat from dlc is not a gamer," said Grasshopper, who has gone back to playing World of Warcraft. A video by YouTuber Freddie Wong captures some of his sentiments towards what's happened:
The improbably aliased player "carpet #we b rollin str8 thru," a two-and-a-half-year veteran of TF2, said through Steam chat that it's not the new players, it's "the terrible old players that piss me off."
So there you have it: Everyone in TF2 is annoyed with someone else on TF2, whether it's the newcomers, the oldtimers, or the people they play with all the time. And if that's not proof that TF2 is a vibrant community, we're not sure what is.
*First Published: Jul 1, 2011, 11:06 am CDT


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Thread: Final Fantasy VII: Gaia's Core
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Final Fantasy Geek: 1st Class
Sex: Dude
Location: Nunya, Business
Shio was just about to attack when Duriel jumped right over his head and attacked the SOLDIER. Shio watched as he crossed moved to attack, but was blocked. Shio stopped building up the ice attack he had prepared and just let Duriel take the enemy, if the idiot wanted to wake up the whole town and let the whole place know they were there, then he'd just slip back into the shadows and let him deal with the mess he created.
"Hey Shio. Haven't seen you all day!" Duriel said to him without taking his eyes off the SOLDIER.
"Gee, I wonder why?" Shio replied in a lazy voice.
As Duriel went in for a second attack, the rookie landed three feet from him. As she stood she threw a blue orb at the Juggernaut, effectively freezing it's left arm. Shio was impressed, at least she had enough of a mind to know to immobilize the giant enemy so he'd be open to attack.
And finally Izual showed up. As Duriel dealth with the giant Izual just stood back and watched. Finally he moved and got behind the giant, freezing it's back, opening it up, and pulling out the power-cell.
Shio ignored whatever he said after he stopped the enemy, but he did take note of the fact that several more were around. Seems like ShinRa was starting to take MOSES seriously now.
"We killed the scary monsters!"Izual yelled out, waving like a child. But the action suited him.
"If you thought that was scary," Shio pointed his thumb at the android as he walked up, "Then you really need to find a new line of work."
Shio rolled his eyes as Izual blasted through the door, did he or Duriel understand anything about stealth. The two might as well just draw their weapons and kill him right now, and Shio went on guard in case they actually decided to do that.
"Izual makes a point." he said as he stepped over the bodies, "Duriel, you and the new girl are supposed to help Slader with the SCORPION, so I suggest you get moving unless you want him to have all the fun with it." he turned back to Izual, "I hope you remembered to bring the bomb or something to shut downt he reactor for good." he started walking towards the reactor, "And don't worry Izual, if any 'scary monsters' show up, I'll be sure to keep you nice and safe." and for added insult, Shio reached out and ruffled Izuals hair like a childs, then started off before the man could react, blending back into the darkness.
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Sierra Army Depot has a requirement for electrical improvements, electrical repairs, and lift table installation. Set Asides: This procurement is for a total small business set aside. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 238210.