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He Read the Book So You Don't Have To April 24, 2008 Guest Contributor
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He Read the Book So You Don't Have To
Have you been meaning to read Dinesh D'Souza's What's So Great About Christianity but just haven't gotten around to it?
Yeah, me neither.
But Brock took the bullet for us.
He read the book and offers this commentary (PDF).
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Sorry, but I'm not even interested enough to read a review. 🙁
Aaron Golas
I'm proud of myself. I shook Dinesh's hand on Monday night and resisted the urge to spit in his face.
D'Souza has seriously impressed me.
He's reached the point where he's not only annoying in person or in print, but he's annoying when someone else is speaking about him.
I don't know, the review actually made me want to read the book.
Dinesh is insufferable when he speaks and even these small excerpts are worse. He's a smart guy, but when talking about Christianity he is gobsmackingly stupid. There's no two ways about it, no way to sugarcoat it, no inoffensive way of saying it – this is some deeply stupid stuff.
Something horribly wrong must happen to human thought for someone to produce such unrelenting dreck.
What is astonishing, literally breathtaking is the level of vitriol and abuse that is crammed into these excerpts. It's hypocritical and clearly exposes the lie that is behind Mike Clawson's (and many other Christian's) claim that atheists are offensive and Christians are innocent victims. Dinesh drapes himself with every petty cause and then lashes out at atheists for their impiety, using everything from Virginia Tech to the Holocaust to attack atheists. He sneeringly refers to atheists as acting like "noble figures" and then plays the martyr himself.
What a dismal example of human thought.
The old Pascal's wager again? I thought we were long past that. After all, it is an argument so weak that intro to philosophy students are expected to be able to tear it apart. You see, Pascal assumes quite a lot from the outset. He assumes that if there is a god, there is a heaven and hell and that god sends believers to heaven and unbelievers to hell. So, Pascal omits quite a few possibilities, for example, that everyone goes to heaven regardless of belief, that god likes people to not believe and so sends believers to hell and nonbelievers to heaven, or that there is a god but no heaven or hell. When these options are figured in, the point becomes moot and one has no more reason for believing in God on this basis than for not believing.
Samuel Skinner
At least it isn't Vox Day! I know it is wrong to passionately hate strangers… but that man is evil. He make D'Souza look good.
mikespeir
Chapter 12:
"It seems worth pointing out here what Harvard astronomer Owen Gingerich seems to be the first to have noticed: anyone who can believe in multiple universes should have no problem believing in heaven and hell. Just think of them as alternate universes, operating outside space and time according to laws that are inoperative in our universe."
Of course, if D'Souza is going to argue this way, he exposes himself as a proponent of the multiverse hypothesis, something he denies. Thus, if he doesn't believe in multiple universes, why does he believe in Heaven and Hell?
It's hypocritical and clearly exposes the lie that is behind Mike Clawson's (and many other Christian's) claim that atheists are offensive and Christians are innocent victims.
except…Mike C. doesn't claim that all atheists are offensive (in fact i've yet to hear him suggest that this even applies to the majority), and will even go as far to agree with some of the opinions 'offensive' atheists hold. and he's well aware that many , many christians are, far from being 'innocent victims', deeply offensive themselves.
ash,
except…Mike C. doesn't claim that all atheists are offensive (in fact i've yet to hear him suggest that this even applies to the majority), and will even go as far to agree with some of the opinions 'offensive' atheists hold.
I was referring to Dawkins, Dennet and Harris. The discuss the factual question of whether God exists and he calls them offensive and personal, yet Dinesh pulls this crap and there's narry a peep. I don't really care if Mike C rails against Dinesh (I don't expect him to), but is it too much to expect for him to say "I think Dawkins is offensive, but, to be fair, he's a blushing bonny boy compared to the hate-filled nonsense that some Christian apologists pump out"?
It's a perfect example of Harris's thesis, that liberal Christians protect the loonies by defending faith and by acting all offended whenever the factual basis of their faith is questioned.
Except that that would be a gross misrepresentation of what Mike Clawson claims.
Edited to add: Ah, you've clarified it. Yes, Mike C. does complain about Dawkins and company. Has he ever commented either way on Dinesh?
Technically, it's a slight misrepresentation of what Mike C claims 🙂
I elaborated more on this point, here and elsewhere. He doesn't emphasize the "innocent victims" thing anywhere that I know of, but he doesn't allow any way for many atheists to express their position without being offensive, he doesn't acknowledge the genuine offences that atheists deal with, and he doesn't acknowledge any Christian position which deserves being offended.
I singled out Mike C 'cause he's here, but he's a stand-in for all of the other liberal apologists that dog the "New Atheists".
Jacob Dink
This is a very poor review. He skims over the weaker points that he was able to understand, and skips over the more philosophical points that he can't understand. This is why people's understanding of the arguments for Atheism should not just be based on Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, etc: they're good polemicists for different ends, but they're not giving the full depth of the arguments.
For instance, D'Souza argues that miracles are compatible with science, since "cause and effect" is not a phenomena corroborated by science. He is correct on this latter point, but this doesn't mean that it's compatible with science. Science assumes, as a necessary axiom, that our universe is consistent and rational, as does everyone else– includes D'Souza. Thus, a miracle is a break from this consistency requiring explanation, and this explanation is unfriendly to parsimony unless its richly evidenced (which, of course, miracles are not).
This is a complex issue that D'Souza is being clever about. The reviewer's response? "D'Souza is contradicting himself because earlier he said God caused the universe." This COMPLETELY misunderstands and avoids D'Souza's argument.
I also wish he had gone into why science does NOT owe any credit for its origins to religion. It's easily answered, why does he merely skip this? For instance, a couple from the RichardDawkins.net response section:
"Science owes its origin to religion in the same way penicillin owes its origin to syphilis."
"Science owes its origins to religion? Simplifying (more than) slightly! Science began in the Babylonian and Egyptian civilizations, and reached an advanced state with the Greeks, as for example in the work of Aristotle on logic, Euclid on geometry, Archimedes on mechanics. Then there was a setback for 1000 years, known as the Dark Ages, during which the Christian religion took over the Roman world, and then Islam spread. It was only with the gradual rediscovery, over the next 500 years, of the ancient Greek achievements, that a new questioning mind-set and willingness to test and experiment evolved that led to the scientific revolution. Far from Christianity creating science or stimulating its development, religion was a force for ignorance for 1500 years, and it was the renewal of thought that led to the Reformation in the church that then permitted the new thought to evolve further."
While we're piling on Mike C, I'm going to mention a pet peeve of mine that Mike C does…
It's the "Dawkins is so mean, he said X!" claim. When people chime in and some support X, some reject X, some say, "well I think X is partly true, but he could have said it better", and others don't want to have yet another go-round of 'Big Bad Dick to the Dawk to the PHD is mean'….
We get the obligatory Mike C post "I can't believe so many atheists here are supporting Richard Dawkins!"
It's the "Hands up all Friendly Atheists who hate Richard Dawkins" command performance Sister Souljah moment.
And the reason I'm bringing it up right now is that people on this thread are in essence doing the same thing to Mike C. Go on, Mike C, repudiate Dinesh D'Souza here for all our benefit.
When in fact, I have no question, no QUESTION in my mind that Mike C detests the level of discourse that D'Souza represents.
Can we discuss D'Souza's arguments rather than act like a bunch of politicians who just found out that Barack Obama's ex-pastor's cousin's friend once said something bad about white people?
Folks, let's discuss D'Souza, and the content of his arguments. Hell, I'd rather when we discussed Dawkins, we ALSO discussed the content of his arguments (we never seem to get to that point).
MikeClawson
Between ash, who said:
and Adrian who said:
It's hypocritical and clearly exposes the lie that is behind Mike Clawson's (and many other Christian's) claim that atheists are offensive and Christians are innocent victims… he doesn't allow any way for many atheists to express their position without being offensive, he doesn't acknowledge the genuine offences that atheists deal with, and he doesn't acknowledge any Christian position which deserves being offended.
ash is far closer to the truth of my views. In fact, I can't recall ever doing or saying the things Adrian alleges.
As for D'Souza, I'm sure I would criticize him if I had ever read him. However, I have not and generally try not to waste my time exposing myself to people like him. Frankly don't know much about him at all. He's another one of those fundamentalist apologists (like Ray Comfort), that as a Christian, I had never even heard of until I started hanging around atheists. I would guess that you guys probably pay way more attention to him than most of us do.
Mike – I'd be happy to provide quotes and references, but perhaps it would be better to let it die. I had just made an off-hand reference which has become a distraction.
There is one thing that's interesting and, better still, relevant:
He's another one of those fundamentalist apologists (like Ray Comfort)
What makes you say that D'Souza is a fundamentalist apologist?
I don't know. Like I said, I don't know anything about him. That's just the impression I've gotten from the way you guys have talked about him.
From D'Souza's bio on Amazon.com
Dinesh D'Souza, a former White House domestic policy analyst, is currently the Rishwain Research Scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
From the review, I think the title of the book is a misnomer… it shouldn't be "What's so Great About Christianity?" as much as it should be "What's so Shitty About Atheism?"
Here's the text of the inside flap, courtesy Amazon:
Is Christianity obsolete? Can an intelligent, educated person really believe the Bible? Or do the atheists have it right? Has Christianity been disproven by science, debunked as a force for good, and discredited as a guide to morality?
Bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza (What's So Great About America) looks at Christianity with a questioning eye, but treats atheists with equal skepticism. The result is a book that will challenge the assumptions of both believers and doubters and affirm that there really is, indeed, something great about Christianity. D'Souza reveals:
*Why Christianity explains what modern science tells us about the universe and our origins–that matter was created out of nothing, that light preceded the sun–better than atheism does
*How Christianity created the framework for modern science, so that Christianity and science are not irreconcilable, but science and atheism might be
*Why the alleged sins of Christianity–the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Galileo affair ("an atheist's fable")–are vastly overblown
*Why atheist regimes are responsible for the greatest mass murders of history
*Why evolution does not threaten Christian belief, but actually supports the "argument from design"
*Why atheists fear the Big Bang theory and the "anthropic principle" of the universe, which are keystones of modern astronomy and physics
*How Christianity explains consciousness and free will, which atheists have to deny
*Why ultimately you can't have Western civilization–and all we value from it–without the Christianity that gave it birth.
Provocative, enlightening, a twenty-first-century successor to C. S. Lewis' Mere Christianity, Dinesh D'Souza's What's So Great About Christianity is the perfect book for the seeker, the skeptic, and the believer who wants to defend his faith.
Funnily enough, it's the name of the publisher that gives me the best clue to the level of elevated discourse and careful scholarship within:
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Here's just a sampling of their hits:
* Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant
* Icons of Evolution
* In Defense of Internment
* Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces
* Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House
* The Privileged Planet
* The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America
* UNFIT FOR COMMAND Swift Vets and POWs for Truth
@Jacob Dink –
Pretty much, yeah. Perhaps I could have been clearer in the intro that I am anything but an expert in philosophy, theology, or the history of scientific inquiry. I took the low hanging fruit, and skipped the parts that were obviously over my head (see Chapter 15). I didn't set out to provide an exhaustive response, I just wanted to point out inconsistent and heinous D'Souza can be.
Frankly don't know much about him at all. He's another one of those fundamentalist apologists (like Ray Comfort), that as a Christian, I had never even heard of until I started hanging around atheists. I would guess that you guys probably pay way more attention to him than most of us do.
I think most people would agree that Comfort is a fringe figure – a clown, basically. Nobody but his own accolytes (far-right fundies) pay him any attention. I never heard of him when I was a Christian myself. However, he spends nearly all his time atheist-baiting, and he does get a rise out of the atheist community occasionally. Probably far too often, in fact.
But D'Souza is a much more mainstream figure in terms of participating in current debate on both politics and religion. If you watch The Daily Show or The Colbert Report regularly, you've probably seen him on one (both?) hawking his books.
Folks, let's discuss D'Souza, and the content of his arguments. Hell, I'd rather when we discussed Dawkins, we ALSO discussed the content of his arguments (we never seem to get to that point
I agree. I admire the authors (Dawkins et. al), but I don't agree with everything they say. And I've noticed that lately it seems some people go crazy if you criticze any of the authors (you're an appeaser if you don't agree with everything they all say) but it's definitely okay to criticze Mike C for everything, no matter what he says or how he says it, he's a theist so he's automatically bad and let's pour over him with a fine toothed comb and bring him up when he's not even relevant! hmm, sounds like some churches I've been to.
as for D'souza, he seems to get scarier everytime he opens his mouth. a few weeks ago he wrote an article talking about Pascal's wager and gay people. I'm not even sure what one has to do with the other.
Fair enough. Perhaps I was a bit harsh. I would, however, suggest a bit more elevated literature on the subject, now that you've gotten through the more popular books. I suggest Richard Carrier's "Sense and Goodness without God." It's long and tangential, but it gives the issue of naturalism vs. theism the thorough treatment it deserves.
Can't say that I have, but I'll take your word for it. The first time I ever heard of him, as far as I recall, was last year here on this blog after he apparently said some stupid/offensive things about atheists following the Virginia Tech shooting. From your description and Siamang's it sounds like he's a politico as much as a religion writer. If that's the case then it's no wonder I haven't heard of him before. I do follow politics, but I try to avoid all those dumb-ass pundits and spin-doctors as much as possible.
Citizen Steve
I enjoyed the reference to the "drunk-glasses" from DARE in the notes in chapter 11. I agree.
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Sometimes I get the feeling Dinesh D'Souza is just sucking up to white conservatives in this country.
Disclaimer: I have not read the book. I saw D'Souza on TV a few times, and all he does is shout. I was not impressed with his logic at all.
Another thing: If atheists are sex-crazed, why haven't I met any hot atheist women who want to get down and dirty with me? (Indian and Filipino women who run marathons may cut to the front of the line.)
I have also noticed that the people who yack the loudest that people need religion for morality are usually people who have a history (and sometimes a present) of alcoholism, drug addiction and promiscuity. I think they are projecting.
So what if we are just higher, evolved animals? We can still choose logic, rationality and morality. Just as Christians say that sinful people can choose good. Why is it wrong to say we are animals but okay to say we are sinful?
I think that people will use religion to justify whatever they want.
why haven't I met any hot atheist women who want to get down and dirty with me?
Tough luck I guess. I'm marrying mine, though she's more of an apatheist/agnostic, but I suppose that's "on the spectrum". I'm sorry, was that more fodder for D'Souza and the like?
Theists (oh who am I kidding — we know I mean Evangelical Christians) always make the sex argument to me because I started having sex before I started questioning my beliefs. Thus far I haven't been able to formulate an argument that even at the very least shuts them up for a while. Apparently explaining the post hoc fallacy is too sophisticated for some people.
C. S. Lewis' Mere Christianity, Dinesh D'Souza's What's So Great About Christianity
That the editors even put Dinesh D'Souza and C.S. Lewis in the same league is appalling, but it is the kind of name-dropping you expect from these types. Lewis did not subscribe to the brand of fundamentalism that most of us find so offensive:
"We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ; we do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him." – C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Theists (oh who am I kidding — we know I mean Evangelical Christians)
Thanks for making the clarification Derek. Given your background I know you understand the difference, though sadly I'm finding that many others aren't able to make these distinctions among Christians
Thanks for making the clarification Derek.
No problem Mike 🙂 It's just a little too easy to fall into the vernacular sometimes.
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Is it possible to do without using T-SQL to put the sentence into the INSERT clause?
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Table](SomeColumn)
VALUES (CONVERT(DATETIME, '2017092018', 'yyyyMMddhh'));

A: Example
Declare @S varchar(50)='2017092018'

Select convert(datetime,left(@S,8)) + convert(datetime,right(@S,2)+':00')

Returns
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If 2012+, I would suggest try_convert() just in case you have some unexpected values.

A: Alternate approach using STUFF:
DECLARE @val VARCHAR(25) = '2017092018';

SELECT CONVERT(DATETIME,STUFF(@val, 9, 0, ' ') + ':00')

This adds a space before the hour, then adds :00 for the minute value.

A: You could use DATETIMEFROMPARTS:
DECLARE @d NVARCHAR(10)='2017092018';

SELECT DATETIMEFROMPARTS(LEFT(@d,4),SUBSTRING(@d,5,2),SUBSTRING(@d,7,2),RIGHT(@d,2),0,0,0 ) ;

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EDIT:
Another option:
DECLARE @S varchar(10)='2017092018'
SELECT CAST(LEFT(@s, 8) AS DATETIME) + RIGHT(@s,2)/24.0;

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A: Here is yet another approach to this. It is similar to what John Cappelletti posted.
Declare @S varchar(50)='2017092018'

Select dateadd(hour, convert(int, right(@s, 2)), left(@s, 8))

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Hyderabad/Amaravati, April 10 (IANS) Nearly seven crore voters in the Telugu states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are eligible to exercise their franchise in the elections to 42 Lok Sabha constituencies on Thursday.
The stage is set for polling in 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in Andhra Pradesh and 17 constituencies in Telangana. Voters in Andhra Pradesh will also cast their votes to elect 175-member Assembly.
A little over 3.93 crore voters in Andhra Pradesh will decide the fortunes of 319 candidates for Lok Sabha seats and 2,118 candidates in Assembly polls.
Authorities have set up 46,120 polling stations, of which 9,000 booths are considered sensitive.
Elaborate security arrangements have been made in all 13 districts of the state. Officials said besides the 55,000 state police force, 60 companies of Andhra Pradesh Special Police (APSP), 5,666 personnel from other states and 197 companies of the central armed police forces were deployed.
Ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) are locked in a direct fight for power. Jana Sena of actor Pawan Kalyan, which is making its debut and contesting in alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the left parties, may influence the verdict in few constituencies.
The prospects of both Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress, which are contesting on their own, appear bleak.
In 2014 elections, the TDP had bagged 102 seats while its then ally BJP had won four seats. The YSRCP had won 67 seats. Two Independents were also elected.
In the simultaneous elections held for the Lok Sabha, the TDP had bagged 15 seats while the BJP got two. YSRCP candidates were elected from eight constituencies.
Chief Minister and TDP President N. Chandrababu Naidu, YSRCP President Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, Jana Sena leader and actor Pawan Kalyan, Naidu's son Nara Lokesh (both making their electoral debut), Naidu's brother-in-law and actor N. Balakrishna and state Congress chief Raghuveera Reddy are among the prominent candidates.
Key contestants for the Lok Sabha include former Union Ministers Kishore Chandra Deo, Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Kotla Surya Prakash Reddy (all TDP), M.M. Pallam Raju and J.D. Seelam (Congress), D. Purandeswari (BJP), state BJP chief Kanna Lakshminarayana and former CBI Joint Director V.V. Lakshminarayana (Jana Sena).
In Telangana, nearly 2.97 crore voters will decide the fortunes of 443 candidates in the single-phase polling.
The state has 34,603 polling stations including 5,749 sensitive stations.
Jitender, Additional Director General of Police, said besides 55,946 personnel of Telangana Police, 9,700 personnel from other states, 145 companies of central armed forces and 25 companies of Telangana State Special Police were deployed.
Nizamabad constituency will be entering the record books with a record number of candidates and maximum number of EVMs. A total of 185 candidates including 178 farmers are in fray, and 12 Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) will be used in each polling booth.
The farmers filed the nominations to highlight their problems including lack of remunerative prices for their produce.
Telangana Chief Minister and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President K. Chandrashekhar Rao's daughter K. Kavitha is seeking re-election from Nizamabad.
Buoyed by the landslide victory in the recent Assembly elections, TRS is confident of winning 16 seats, leaving Hyderabad for its ally All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM).
Opposition Congress is demoralised with the defection of 10 MLAs and other leaders to the TRS over the last one month.
In 2014 elections, the TRS had bagged 11 seats while the Congress had won two. The TDP, BJP, AIMIM and the YSRCP had secured a seat each.
The TDP and the YSRCP are not contesting the elections this time in Telangana.
K. Kavitha, Vinod Kumar (both TRS), state Congress chief Uttam Kumar Reddy, former Union Minister Renuka Chowdary (Congress) and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi are among the prominent candidates.


Break out the sequins and the Spandex. "Dancing With the stars" returns for its 11th season tonight (8 p.m., ABC) and, as usual, we've got you covered.
In today's newspapers we give a quick rundown on the five dancers to watch. These aren't necessarily the dancers we think will win — just the ones we think will provide the most entertainment value.
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1. What specific examples of such unreliability of appearances can you find in each text?
2. How does the truth re-surface in each work?
3. What is the vision of justice that emerges in each text?
4. How does the interplay between essence and appearance, reality and falsehood, truth and disguise affect our understanding of the works themselves and of the social contexts they reflect?
FORMAT FOR THESE PAPERS: The model to use is the persuasive essay in several paragraphs. Begin with an introduction that identifies texts and authors and sets the context for the reader. (To decide how much you need to say in order to establish the context, imagine that the reader of your essay is a fellow student who has done the reading but has not thought about it. Donat begin with overly broad generalizations and donat give lengthy plot summaries.) End your introduction with your thesis statement, an opinion that you will justify from a variety of perspectives, by drawing on specific textual examples that you will discuss in several paragraphs that constitute the body of the paper.
The questions above are merely suggestions: do not simply answer them in sequence. When you have finished a close analysis of your evidence, conclude not by repeating what you have already said, but by noting the importance of the point you have made. In other words, widen the focus of your attention as you conclude your essay, after narrowing the focus of your attention when you begin writing. Be sure to give your paper a title.
CAUTION: These essays do not necessarily require research and are structured to promote speculative, comparative thinking. ANY USE OF SOURCES, INCLUDING MATERIALS FOUND ON THE WEB, IN THE NORTON INTRODUCTIONS AND FOOTNOTES, OR CONTEXTS AND COMPARISONS MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED.


1. Press, Iron, Iron Out : استری کرنا : (verb) press and smooth with a heated iron.
2. Press, Imperativeness, Insistence, Insistency, Pressure : دباو : (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention.
Urgency - the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity.
3. Press, Public Press : پریس : (noun) the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines.
Newspaper, Paper - a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements.
4. Press, Exhort, Urge, Urge On : زورڈالنا - زوردینا : (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction.
Advocate, Preach - speak, plead, or argue in favor of.
5. Press, Crush, Jam : ہجوم : (noun) a dense crowd of people.
6. Press, Closet, Wardrobe : الماری : (noun) a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes.
Armoire - a large wardrobe or cabinet; originally used for storing weapons.
7. Press, Compact, Compress, Constrict, Contract, Squeeze : ایک ساتھ دبانا - دبانا : (verb) squeeze or press together.
Choke, Strangle - constrict (someone`s) throat and keep from breathing.
8. Press, Pressing, Pressure : دبانے کا عمل : (noun) the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure.
Push, Pushing - the act of applying force in order to move something away.
9. Press, Agitate, Campaign, Crusade, Fight, Push : تحریک چلانا : (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for.
Advertise, Advertize, Promote, Push - make publicity for; try to sell (a product).
10. Press, Weight-Lift, Weightlift : وزن اٹھانا : (verb) lift weights.
Exercise, Work Out - do physical exercise.
11. Press, Adjure, Beseech, Bid, Conjure, Entreat : التجا کرنا - منت کرنا : (verb) ask for or request earnestly.
Plead - appeal or request earnestly.
Notice, Observance, Observation : توجہ : the act of noticing or paying attention. "He escaped the notice of the police"
Press Agency : خبررساں ادارہ : an agency to collects news reports for newspapers and distributes it electronically.
Preside : صدارت کرنا : act as president.
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The New Jersey Bureau of Securities announced that it has resolved its investigation of the online broker dealer Interactive Brokers LLC of Greenwich, CT ("Interactive") relating to fraudulent trading activity and securities fraud Interactive permitted on its online trading platform. Interactive has agreed to pay a $100,000 penalty to the Bureau of Securities and reform its opening account procedures for investors looking to sign up with the broker dealer in the future.
The New Jersey Bureau of Securities investigation of the broker dealer Interactive arose from the fraudulent trading activity conducted by a former investment advisor Peter Zuck of Middletown, NJ, through his hedge fund, Osiris Fund LP of Jersey City, NJ. The former investment advisor Zuck operated the hedge fund from April 2009 through December 2011. According to the New Jersey Bureau of Securities, while Zuck promoted his hedge fund as a conservative trading fund, in reality his team conducted the investment fund's trading in a "wildly speculative" and aggressive manner. Zuck opened 16 investment advisory accounts at Interactive. Two of the investment accounts were in his own name, and one for the hedge fund. The New Jersey Bureau of Securities investigation revealed that, after initially seeing trading profits, the hedge fund lost $4.5 million in April – May 2010. Zuck and his cohorts concealed trading losses from fund investors by fabricating monthly account statements showing investors their holdings and a breakdown of the securities and trading activity in the account. These monthly account statements falsely hid trading losses and inflated the accounts' values. Zuck was also accused of charging investors $3.9 million in management fees to which the fund was not entitled. There were approximately 76 investors in the Osiris Fund.
As a result of Zuck's illegal conduct managing the Osiris Fund, the New Jersey Bureau of Securities sued Zuck and others in 2014 and obtained a judgment of $7.5 million. In 2017, Zuck pled guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to commit fraud and tax evasion. He was sentenced to a three-year prison term in connection with the securities fraud.
When is your Stockbroker also your Fiduciary?
Stockbrokers in the market do not all owe a fiduciary duty to their clients. A fiduciary duty, as listed in the Investment Advisors Act of 1940 calls upon investment advisors to act with the highest standard of care. It's difficult for investors to tell when their stock broker owes them a fiduciary duty and even what having a duty owed to them would translate to. Investing with a financial professional who can be trusted to offer sage investment advice while also placing clients interests above their own is what any investor would want. But generally, what most investors discover if they ever consider filing a lawsuit or securities arbitration claim against their stockbroker for a stock market fraud claim of any kind, is that many investment professionals do not technically owe a fiduciary duty to their clients. What the stock brokers title is, which would seem like a small consideration when deciding who to invest with and use for professional wealth management is of critical importance.
When investors start looking to place money into the markets they are generally confronted with a barrage of titles stock brokers carry. Broker, Stockbroker, Investment Advisor, registered representative, account executive, financial advisor, portfolio management specialist, and on and on. What is important to understand and what few investors know before plunging into the world of professional wealth management, is that whether a broker truly owes a fiduciary duty of placing a clients interests before their own depends on a number of factors. Stock brokers making recommendations for a certain stock or bond alone, is not generally enough for a stock broker to be considered a customers fiduciary.
With the advent of new technology being employed at almost all broker dealers, the potential for a financial advisor to engage in excessive or unauthorized trading or "churning" has been substantially reduced. Churning is simply excessive trading in a brokerage account in order for the broker or financial management team managing the investment account to generate greater commissions.
In brokerage customer accounts, or trading accounts in which the broker is paid only when trades are generated, churning or excessive fees has always been a concern. If a broker is only compensated when selling or purchasing securities, the potential for the broker to engage in fraud is compelling. The logic of a brokerage account, as opposed to a fee based account, is that the model is suitable for investors who have a set asset allocation with very little trading activity. As opposed to a monthly or yearly fee for managing assets, known as a fee-based account or wrap account, customers who have set investments in stocks or bonds will save money because there is very little trading activity.
Now with the advent of a very basic trading systems algorithm, broker dealers should be able to immediately register when churning occurs by cross checking the total customer's assets under management against the trading activity in the account. If the trading activity in comparison to a customer's assets reaches a certain threshold, known as the turnover ratio, the broker dealer should have alerts in place to identify the client, the broker or financial advisor, and inform the broker's branch manager. The branch manager should then conduct a review of the trading activity as well as the client's investment profile. If the trading abuse is occurring in an investment account belonging to a senior citizen, new FINRA Rule 4512 has mandated brokerage firms to create a trusted contact person. This trusted contact person should be notified in order to respond to any possible stockbroker fraud being committed in the investment account. FINRA Rule 2165 permits brokerage firms that have a reasonable basis to believe that stock broker fraud has occurred, to place a temporary hold on the "disbursement of funds." These rules and cross checks should make it very difficult to engage in churning. But still, it occurs more frequently than most other forms of stock broker fraud.
The Securities Exchange Commission on Tuesday filed charges against companies and "individuals" for selling Woodbridge Securities. As discussed in our previous post, in December 2017, Woodbridge filed for bankruptcy and, immediately thereafter, received an SEC complaint listing the company as a massive Ponzi scheme. Woodbridge sold securities billed as "First Position Commercial Mortgage Loans" or ("FPCM's"). The Woodbridge FPCM Fund functioned as a private loan owned and held by Woodbridge. Investors owned a first position lien on a pool of mortgage loans. The way the security was touted to investors was that the product offered excellent safety. In the event that any one of the mortgages defaulted, investors were informed that they would simply pick up the collateral or underlying property that went into default. This safety, coupled with a short-term interest rate above 6%, made the product incredibly appealing to returned investors looking for safety and income. Investors were promised monthly payments and a return of their principal invested in a 12-24 month span. Woodbridge marketing material provided to brokers to present to clients provided "Property Examples" such as a water bottling plant in New York or a single family home in California. Roughly 8,400 individual investors purchased Woodbridge securities.
In reality, Woodbridge was operating a massive Ponzi scheme with funds from new investors going to pay the promised high interest rates from earlier Woodbridge purchasers. As stated by the SEC, the funds were risky, illiquid private offerings.
Investor funds also went to funding the lavish lifestyle of Woodbridge CEO Robert Shapiro. Woodbridge also spent massive sums on commissions to brokers looking to unload their products. Brokers selling Woodbridge were offered compelling commissions on the FPCM and Promissory Notes sold to investors.
Assault charges are a serious matter that often are the result of the most trivial encounters. A friendly debate at a local bar between a New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils fan gone awry or a shouting match at a wedding afterparty that went too far. You may have been the victim, the target of an obnoxious individual, and had no choice but to use force to defend yourself. All of these scenarios can lead to assault charges under the New Jersey Criminal Code.
If charged with N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1A Simple Assault, the penalties under the New Jersey Criminal Code can be severe. Along with fines of up to $1,000 and jail time of up to 6 months, the most serious consequence under N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1A is a guilty plea that will result in a criminal record. Having a Simple Assault charge on your criminal record has a very negative effect on future employment and educational opportunities and will affect you for the rest of your life.
The statute which defines Simple Assault provides that: A person commits a Simple Assault if he attempts to cause or purposely, knowingly or recklessly causes bodily injury to another. Bodily injury is defined as physical pain, illness or any impairment of the physical condition.


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Do You Consider Exploring Your Thoughts And Feelings Dangerous?
We spend much of our time assessing or deciding what our thoughts and feelings are rather than letting our feelings tell us what they are, or the secrets they wish to reveal to us. And often in our assessment, we miss the mark.
We go for what's familiar, what we know, what we've been told, or what we've read or heard about. But many times all of those things (clichés retold, mantras we've learned by rote, popular maxims. time-worn sayings, etc.) are not what's there, within us. And when we generalize our growth, or self-awareness – a way of minimizing risk – we often miss the treasure troves our unique thoughts and feelings hold for us.
Sometimes we generalize because we just don't know any better. We're on the beginning of our path, and we're not used to checking in with ourselves. So we end up missing what our bodies, hearts and minds are telling us for the ease of reiterating what someone else more expert than us (an expert, authority, coach, teacher, mentor, guide, etc.) told us.
Sometimes, we're afraid to be wrong about what we "hear" from within or to be incorrect about assessing our emotions.
Sometimes we miss an authentic check-in with ourselves because we're not willing, or possibly not ready, to confront what's really going on inside us or what our emotions have to say.
And sometimes it's simply because we don't realize that whatever we are doing currently is not authentic, but in pretense.
Checking in with ourselves authentically, whatever our state, and in our own right time, is most vital to our health and well-being – this goes beyond the health of our physical bodies and really speaks to our overall well-being (physical, mental, and emotional, as well as spiritual, if that applies).
Letting your feelings speak to you to tell you what's happening with you is healthy fare. Letting your brain give you hints and straight answers about your state of mind and about your physical well-being is all a part of maintaining balance, vigor and vitality.
Our fear of what we might hear or discover is only present when we're trying to control how we will look to those around us – trying to control outcomes so as not to be humiliated.
Being afraid that what we discover will dismay or upset us, and in turn leave us looking foolish, is one possible way of looking at this.
Delighting in the surprise and wonder of discovery, knowing that we are the only ones who truly matter in our growth and discovery, is another possible way of looking at what we might have, in the past, feared.
There are infinite possible ways to view what you are willing to discover, and you are a powerful being who can choose any way you want to view anything at any time in your life.
It's called free will. And it is your greatest freedom.
Be the freedom that you already are. It is your birthright. It is your divinity.


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New IRA the 'biggest terrorist threat to state since the Provos'
Gardai seized the plastic explosive after armed officers stopped a taxi in the Ballybough area at about 6pm on Friday
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The New IRA poses the biggest terrorist threat from dissident republicans in more than 20 years, Garda security boss Michael O'Sullivan has warned.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/new-ira-the-biggest-terrorist-threat-to-state-since-the-provos-35932203.html
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The assistant garda commissioner said that it was the most dangerous dissident group since the Provisional IRA.
Mr O'Sullivan said that the threat level from the dissidents in Northern Ireland was severe, which is the second highest threat level. In Britain, it is substantial, meaning there is a strong possibility of an attack.
This is its highest level since the Provisionals declared their ceasefire in 1994.
Mr O'Sullivan said that the garda assessment of the New IRA was shared by police and intelligence experts in Northern Ireland and Britain.
Intelligence services in both islands indicate that the group is monitoring movements of potential targets in the North and Britain.
The New IRA's bomb-making skills are considered more advanced than those of other dissident groups.
The group is also finding new sources of explosives and weapons and is continuing to recruit personnel not previously known by the Garda or the PSNI to have been involved in dissident activities.
In the past two years, gardai have seized 100kg of explosive, nine AK-47 rifles, a sub-machinegun and a sniper rifle from dissidents.
As a result of a build-up in non-jury cases, a second special criminal court has been opened – something not seen during three decades of Provisional IRA terrorist activities.
The New IRA has more than 50 activists, all of whom are listed as persons of interest to the Garda security and intelligence section.
It is estimated to have about 200 supporters, providing logistical help such as vehicles and safe houses.
The group was formed in 2012 and has strongholds in Armagh, Belfast, Donegal, Dublin, Louth and Tyrone.
It also has a stronghold in Cork, although it has been divided since the murder of Aidan O'Driscoll in December.
Its leader is a veteran republican from a Border county, while another senior figure is a former Real IRA boss in Derry. One of its key activists in Dublin has an address in Tallaght.
The New IRA comprises of former factions of the Real IRA, Republican Action Against Drugs – which was based around Clady, Derry and Strabane – and seasoned republicans who had previously appeared to support the peace process but became active again.
Other members include those who had stayed away from the Real IRA, the Continuity IRA and ONH (Oglaigh na hEireann) because of the infiltration of those groups by gardai and security agencies in the North.
Many members have acquired counter-surveillance skills by attending courses in countries such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia and possibly Poland, according to intelligence sources.
Most of them travel out under the guise of setting up supposedly legitimate security companies.
The New IRA has also been developing its "engineering" side and manufacturing improvised explosive devices and attempting to open up new routes to buy guns.
It was responsible in November 2012 for the murder of Northern Ireland prison officer David Black (52) on the M1 as he was driving to work at Maghaberry near Lisburn.
Some of its members were also involved in the 2011 murder of PSNI constable Ronan Kerr and the earlier murders of off-duty British soldiers Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar as they took delivery of a pizza outside Massereene barracks in Antrim.
The New IRA has also been involved in several attempted killings and bombings in recent years. Its members are also behind a number of punishment beatings, which are at an all-time high in Belfast.
These are now referred to as community controlled violence (CCV) and have resulted in five deaths in Northern Ireland in the past year.
Gardai have kept a close watch on the movements of known New IRA activists, particularly during events such as the recent visit of Prince Charles.
A new Belfast-based dissident republican political party, known as Saoradh, which has the support of New IRA prisoners in jails on both sides of the Border, was launched last September.
Among those who attended its first ard fheis, held in Newry, was prominent dissident Colin Duffy.
A tribute was paid in a Saoradh newsletter to Micky Barr, who was shot dead in the Sunset House pub in Summerhill, Dublin, during the Kinahan-Hutch feud in April last year.
Saoradh also has a branch in Dublin.
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British actor Julian Sands identified as one of two hikers reported missing in California mountains
Dominic Smithers
Published 9:12, 19 January 2023 GMT
| Last updated 9:14, 19 January 2023 GMT
A British actor has been reported missing in the California mountains.
Julian Sands, best known for his roles in the 1989 film Warlock, Naked Lunch (1991) and Ocean's 13 (2007), has been identified as one of two hikers who disappeared in the San Gabriel Mountains over the past week.
Police confirmed that they had been looking for the 65-year-old since he was reported missing in the Mt. Baldy area last Friday (13 January).
Search and rescue crews had to be pulled back from the mountain range over the weekend following concerns over the risk of an avalanche.
Julian Sands was reported missing by his family last week. Credit: dpa picture alliance/Alamy
However, drones and helicopters were able to continue to search in their place.
A spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's department said: "On Friday, January 13, at about 7:30 pm, a hiker, identified as 65-year-old Julian Sands of North Hollywood was reported missing in the Baldy Bowl area.
"Sheriff's Department Search and Rescue crews responded and began a search. Because of avalanche risks and trail conditions, the ground crews were pulled off the mountain on Saturday evening.
"However, we continue to search by helicopter and drones when the weather permits."
Speaking previously about his passion for mountain climbing, Sands told the Yorkshire Post: "And, you know what? Mountain climbing and film making are very connected.
"There's always another mountain. And ultimately the point of climbing a mountain is that the mountain is within. And I think that's true, too, of the acting experience."
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Sands shares a son with Sarah Sands, who he was married to between 1984 and 1987.
He also has two daughters with journalist Evgenia Citkowitz, whom he married in 1990.
Fellow hiker Bob Gregory was also reported missing by his family on Monday (16 January).
Mt Baldy is considered to be one of the most dangerous landscapes in the US.
Over the past few years, a number of people have died while hiking the trails there.
Back in 2019, experienced climber Sreenivas Mokkapati, 52, of Irvine, died on the mountain after losing his group.
The search even had to be halted after volunteer searcher, Tim Staples, 32, fell and died on the mountain.
Two years earlier, 78-year-old Seuk Doo Kim, who had climbed the mountain over 700 times, also fell and died.
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The NSE Nifty 50 index (.NSEI) rose 0.7% to 17,649 as of 0455 GMT and the S&P BSE Sensex (.BSESN) was up 0.6% at 59,208. Both the indexes lost over 1.5% last week.
Investors braced for a week littered with 13 central bank meetings that are certain to see borrowing costs rise across the globe and some risk of a super-sized hike in the United States.
"The entire market is focusing on U.S. Federal Reserve statement this week even though it has already discounted a 75 basis points rate hike," said Prashanth Tapse, research analyst, Mehta Equities.
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Despite Indian markets losing nearly 2% last week, foreign investors purchased a net $819 million worth of Indian equities, although they disposed of a net $258 million in the last two trading sessions, according to Refinitiv Eikon.
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Despite his declaration last month that he was "a bit bored" of action movies, Bruce Willis is apparently still eager to "earn lots of money" from the genre. The Die Hard star has signed on for The Prince, an action-thriller from Russian director Sarik Andreasyan. Emmet/Furla, who've recently worked with Willis on Lay the Favorite and Fire With Fire, will finance and produce. Hit the jump for plot details and more.
In fairness to Willis, we don't actually know his motives for signing on to The Prince. It's just interesting to see him book yet another action role weeks after acknowledging that he mostly does them for the paycheck. The paycheck is the reason most of us keep going back to work, though, so it's not all that strange.
Andre Fabrizio and Jeremy Passmore wrote the script, which centers around a retired mob enforcer who's forced to return to Las Vegas after his teenage daughter goes missing. Willis will play a guy who's waited a long time for the enforcer to come back, and who intends to confront him when he does.
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At this point in the investigation into the shadow campaign to elect Mayor Vince Gray in 2010, there's not much left to hide. In U.S. District Court today, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly called Gray by his own name, rather than his alias in some court documents—-"Candidate A." And Vernon Hawkins, who pleaded guilty today to lying to investigators, even dropped the pseudonym that U.S. Attorney Ron Machen'soffice has used to describe the shadow campaign's alleged financier, Jeff Thompson.
Hawkins met with Jeanne Clarke Harris, an associate of Thompson's, in June 2010 to plan the shadow campaign, Hawkins told the court today. He would also meet the shadow campaign's financier, and participate in a conference call with Thompson and Harris to tweak the campaign's budget. The money paid for canvassers, drivers, vans, and flyers to increase voter turnout for Gray.
But by December 2011, a year after the election, the shadow campaign's organizers were concerned about other workers talking to investigators. A caterer who moonlighted as the shadow campaign's transportation coordinator had discovered a government investigator's business card in his door, and expected to meet with agents soon. Hawkins and Harris told him to leave town for several weeks to delay the investigation, but the caterer was reluctant to lose potential business during an absence.
To make up for the lost business, the caterer, identified by the Washington Post as Lamont Mitchell, asked for $4,000, according to Hawkins. But when he received the money in Dec. 2011, he didn't stay out of the District long enough—-Hawkins saw him in January 2012 at an event for another candidate. Hawkins says he gave Mitchell another $4,000 through Harris to convince him to leave.
Despite admitting his involvement in the operation and the ensuing cover-up of the shadow campaign, Hawkins minimized his role, saying that he just relayed messages from Harris and, by extension, Thompson. Referring to the three-way conference call, Hawkins told Judge Kollar-Kotelly it wasn't his idea to change the budget.
Similarly, Hawkins claimed that he didn't intend to make it harder for the FBI to reach Mitchell, despite admitting that he gave him $8,000 so he would leave. "I was aware that that was something that Ms. Harris and Jeff wanted," Hawkins said.
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Hawkins' statement of offense also points to coordination between the official campaign and the shadow campaign. It mentions an unnamed shadow campaign consultant—-"Person Two"—-who worked out of a building next door to Gray's campaign headquarters and on the same floor as Gray's own get-out-the-vote coordinator. The consultant also had several conversations with Gray campaign officials, according to Hawkins.
Hawkins claims that Harris told him Person Two left the District around the time they were trying to convince Mitchell to do the same, although Hawkins' statement of offense doesn't specify how long he or she was gone.
Prosecutors and Hawkins' attorney disagree about how to classify his crime. Hawkins' attorney claims that he's facing between zero and six months in prison, while prosecutors claim that he's eligible for between 10 and 16 months.
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Q: Exercise 6 from Chapter 11 Programming in C Kochan, finding bit patterns hoping for some help with bitwise operators. The exercise reads as following:

Write a function called bitpat_search() that looks for the occurence of a specified pattern of bits inside an unsigned int. The function should take three arguments, and should be called as such:
   bitpat_search (source, pattern, n)

The function searches for the integer "source", starting at the leftmost bit, to see if the rightmost n bits of "pattern" occur in "source". If the pattern is found, have the function return the number of the bit at which the pattern begins, where the leftmost bit is number 0. If the pattern is not found, then have the function return -1. So, for example, the call
   index = bitpat_search (0xe1f4, 0x5, 3);

causes the bit_pat(search() function to search the number 0xe1f4 (= 1110 0001 1111 0100 binary) for the occurence of the three-bit pattern 0x5 (= 101 binary). The function returns 11 to indicate that the pattern was found in the "source" beginning with bit number 11.
Make certain that the function makes no assumptions about the size of an int.

I've got a few problems getting this working:
1- The numbers don't actually make much sense to me... I've tried all kinds of printf() functions after each itiration, and it looks like the 0x5 number gets read as 100 binary, which would be four. If I try other numbers they just come fairly random, but often as 000, so.... not very helpful. Am I counting them wrong? Does the right shift change it somehow?
2 - it's returning the wrong position (19 rather than 11), but while I'm messing up the numbers as my q1 above, it's not really going to work, is it?
Sorry if this is obvious to all you lovely people, I just can see it. (I'm just trying to learn from the book btw, it's not homework from school).
Thanks
#include <stdio.h>

int int_size(unsigned int num);
int bit_test(unsigned int word, int position, int size);
int bitpat_search(unsigned int source, unsigned int pattern, int n);

int main(void)
{
    int index;

    index  = bitpat_search(0xe1f4, 0x5, 3);

    printf(" Pattern found in position %i\n", index);
    return 0;
}

int bitpat_search(unsigned int source, unsigned int pattern, int n)
{
    int i, j, tempSource, tempPat, count;

    int size = int_size(~0);

    for (i = 0; i < size;)
    {
        count = 0;
        for (j = 0; j < n; j++)
        {
            tempSource = bit_test(source, i, size);
            tempPat = bit_test(pattern, j, size);

            i++;
            count++;

            if (tempSource != tempPat)
            break;
        }
        if (count == n)
            return i - n;
    }
    return 0;

}

int bit_test(unsigned int word, int position, int size)
{
    if( (word >> (size - position)) & 0x1) // shift bits in word 31 minus n     spaces right, and AND word with hexadecimal 1
        return 1; // if above is true (1 & 1) return 1
    else
        return 0;

}

int int_size(unsigned int num)
{
    int size = 0;

    while (num)
    {
        size++;
        num >>= 1;
    }

    return size;
}

A: for (i = 0; i < size;)
{
    count = 0;
    for (j = 0; j < n; j++)
    {
        tempSource = bit_test(source, i, size);
        tempPat = bit_test(pattern, j, size);

Here, you're checking a bit at position i in the source against a bit at position j in the pattern. That needs to be i+j in the source, otherwise you compare a pattern against one bit, rather than a pattern against a number of bits, in the source. Since the pattern 101 contains ones and a zero, you'll never find anything.
Side note: you can replace the int_size function by sizeof(int)*8. That assumes 8-bit bytes, but computers for which that assumption does not hold haven't been made since the early eighties, so that should be a fairly safe assumption.

A:
1- The numbers don't actually make much sense to me... I've tried all kinds of printf() functions after each itiration, and it looks like the 0x5 number gets read as 100 binary, which would be four. If I try other numbers they just come fairly random, but often as 000, so.... not very helpful. Am I counting them wrong?

I can't comment on code you've not presented, but of course hex 0x5 is binary 101.  I'm inclined to suppose that in your tests you printed different values than you thought you were printing, or that your mechanism for printing them was flawed.

Does the right shift change it somehow?

Shift operators leave their operands unchanged.  Of course, if the right-hand operand of a conforming shift operation is non-zero then the result differs from the left-hand operand.  If the left-hand operand is drawn from a variable, then you might conceivably overwrite that variable's value afterward.

2 - it's returning the wrong position (19 rather than 11), but while I'm messing up the numbers as my q1 above, it's not really going to work, is it?

I don't think your main problem is "messing up the numbers".  Your implementation is problematic.  Consider the key loop nest in your code:
for (i = 0; i < size;)
{
    count = 0;
    for (j = 0; j < n; j++)
    {
        tempSource = bit_test(source, i, size);
        tempPat = bit_test(pattern, j, size);

        i++;
        count++;

Observe that you increment the outer loop's control variable on each iteration of the inner loop.  As a result, you test the pattern only against every nth starting index in the source string.  That is, you test non-overlapping sets of the source bits.  You should instead test the whole pattern starting at every possible starting position.
Note also that you test starting positions where an n-bit pattern cannot possibly start, on account of there being fewer than n bits between that position and the end of the source string.  In this case you will end up invoking undefined behavior by using an invalid right-hand operand to a shift operator.

A: In the proposed algorithm, except the revealed issue by @WouterVerhelst, it exists other issues causing a wrong result.
Issue 1 - In the function bit_test(), the tested-bit is not the expected one.

To test a bit from the leftmost side, replace (size - position) by
  (size - (position + 1)).

int bit_test(unsigned int word, int position, int size)
{
    if( (word >> (size - (position + 1))) & 0x1) //
        return 1; // if above is true (1 & 1) return 1
    else
        return 0;
}

Issue 2 - To be tested as the same size of source, the pattern shall be aligned to left.

In the bitpat_search(), before for-loop, shift-left of (size-n)
  bits.

int size = int_size(source);

pattern = pattern << (size-n);

Issue 3 - To have the correct count to be compared with n, the comparison of bits with the break; should be done before count++.
    if (tempSource != tempPat)
        break;

    count++;

Issue 4 - The index result returned would be i instead of i - n (linked with Issue 5).
if (count == n)
    return (i); // instead of (i - n);

Issue 5 - As @WouterVerhelst suggests, the comparison between source and pattern should be done for each bit.
for (i = 0; i < size;i++) // each bit ==> i++
{
    count = 0;
    for (j = 0; j < n; j++)
    {
        tempSource = bit_test(source, i+j, size);
        tempPat = bit_test(pattern, j, size);
        // not here i++;

        if (tempSource != tempPat)
            break;

        count++;
    }
    if (count == n)
        return (i);
}

Issue 6 - And the result in case of 'pattern not found' is -1.
return (-1); // Instead of (0);


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