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Aho-Girl, Volume 1 Review
Ian Wolf • 16th July 2017
"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe." – Albert Einstein
British comedy is full of classic idiotic characters: Baldrick, Father Dougal and Private Pike, to name but three. But they might have their work cut out in comparison to the "clueless girl" Yoshiko Hanabatake, whose manga is now available in English, and who has just been turned into an anime.
Yoshiko is a complete and total idiot. It's a miracle she is even alive. She gets zero on all of her tests, and rather than trying to study any harder, she thinks there is no point and would rather do something fun, which normally involves playing games or eating lots of bananas. Her best friend, Akuru "Akkun" Akutsu, is completely the opposite. He is always scoring highly on tests, but never quite gets 100% to his frustration. Perhaps the reason for failing to be perfect is that he has to spend so much time stopping Yoshiko getting into trouble, or just has to try putting up with her bizarre behaviour.
Akkun often tries to force Yoshiko to study, but often he just rules her to be a lost cause. Yoshiko's mother meanwhile, Yoshie, seems to think the best hope for a decent future is for Yoshiko to marry Akkun, but that's mainly because then Yoshiko will be off her hands.
Despite her stupidity, Yoshiko is able to make some friends, like Sayaka Sumino, the kind girl who sits in front of Yoshiko in class who worries that she might be a bit dull; and Ryuichi Kurosaki, a delinquent who becomes friends with Yoshiko because when they first meet, she doesn't realise how dangerous he is and shows him kindness, Yoshiko being the first person to do something nice for him. More troublesome for Yoshiko are the school's unnamed hall monitor, partly because Yoshiko keeps playing with her big breasts and partly because she starts to fall in love with Akkun; and Akkun's younger sister Ruri, who like Yoshiko is also slow educationally, but unlike Yoshiko is making an effort to improve herself and thus thinks Yoshiko is a bad influence.
Being a four-panel yonkoma manga, it takes a while to read Aho-Girl, but it's worth it. This is a really funny manga because Yoshiko is such a daft character while Akkun makes for a brilliant straight-man. Yoshiko is a girl who thinks her best option for a successful life is to marry someone, and to encourage this by showing her underwear to Akkun; a girl who thinks that the best way to get around a tricky maths problem is to ignore and play dodgeball; a girl who is happy to ignore signs saying: "Do not open unless you want to die" and thus getting electrocuted; but is still happy to celebrate when she does manage to get things right – like knowing that 2+5=7.
As hinted at with the underwear business, there is a fair bit of fan service in this manga, so it's safe to say Aho-Girl's not the most feminist of manga, but then again we are dealing with a girl who is too dumb to know what feminism is. In fact, we are dealing with a girl who thinks the best way to stand out in a positive way is to wear "bouncy boob armour".
But having read the manga, it did make me laugh a lot, and I look forward to the anime as well.
Ian Wolf
Ian works as an anime and manga critic for Anime UK News, and was also the manga critic for MyM Magazine. Outside of anime, he is data specialist for the British Comedy Guide, is QI's most pedantic viewer, has written questions for both The Wall and Richard Osman's House of Games, and has been a contestant on Mastermind.
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It's taken a lot of planning but I have finally decided on the menu for Burger Week along with accompanying sides. The idea behind Burger Week is to sample 5 different burgers from 5 different cuisine types with different meats and preparation methods. The boy and I will then vote on the burgers to determine an overall winner. We have index cards made out already for bison, beef, poultry, veggie and sausage with 4 categories to score and room to write notes. The burgers will be judged on taste, creativity, appearance and burgerliciousness. Burgerliciousness, for those of you not in the know, is the scale of how a burger rates compared to a classic American bacon cheeseburger. Burgerliciousness grades the texture, the juiciness and, of course, the sloppiness (5 napkin!). As I'm sure you can tell, burgerliciousness is a very subjective category.
The burgers will take us around the world on a mini-culinary tour. I will post our scores each night along with photos and notes. Now, without further adieu, here is the menu for burger week, complete with a listing of sides.
We begin tonight with the bison burgers. I have to admit I am looking forward to these ones the most. Once I decided to add blueberries (my favorite thing), I decided to take it one step further with my favourite things and add in goat cheese. Caramelized onions reduced in red wine should compliment both quite nicely. I don't expect to taste the blueberries, per se, but I do think they will add a lot of moisture to the lean bison. Excitement!
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Bee space is a passageway 1/4- to 3/8-inches wide (6-10 mm) that bees use for moving throughout the hive. In 1851 the Reverend L. L. Langstroth realized that spaces narrower than this were treated like cracks and filled with propolis. Spaces wider than this were treated like construction zones–bees donned their hardhats and filled the areas with burr comb.
Bees–being a little neurotic–like to have their passageways just large enough to fit through: no more, no less. And they never build tunnels through their comb. Every bee, following the unwritten rule, walks around the edges of comb to get to the other side.
Langstroth made good use of this information when he designed his now-famous hive. In order to make the frames moveable, he designed all the areas above, below, and around the combs to fall within the tolerance of bee space. He knew that if he could prevent the combs from being cemented to the hive–or to each other–the frames could be removed, inspected, and replaced.
Many other successful hives have been developed over the years, but they all rely on the concept of bee space to make them work. And as any beekeeper knows, you violate this rule at your own peril. Leave out a frame–or a top bar–for a week and you will have a mess on your hands.
Almost any time you find burr comb, brace comb, cross comb, or propolis seals mucking up the interior of a hive, it is due to a violation of bee space. One of the most common sources of error occurs when equipment purchased from different manufacturers is mixed. Although the pieces seem to fit, in truth, there is often enough difference to give the bees an opportunity for creative engineering.
Honey bees, of any subspecies, do not build a passageway through a piece of comb. Whenever a person accidentally or purposefully cuts a hole through a comb, or a piece of foundation, it is almost always repaired and replaced with new comb. Around the edges, where the comb is joined to the inside of a tree or building, peripheral galleries or passageways are located. Both queens and workers walk around the edges of the comb as they move from one comb to the next.
I have seen holes above the spot where two foundationless combs have come together on one top bar, but I always just assumed the bees hadn't yet finished connecting the two parts.
I have also seen bees put holes in foundation–especially in the winter–and I always assumed they were taking the wax away and using it for some other purpose. In other words, they were using the wax but not actually building passages.
So your observation puts a whole new spin on things. I like your idea that the top bars are such a rigid barrier that the bees decided to drill through the comb beneath it. I didn't see any tunnels in my top-bar hive when I was shaking the swarm two weeks ago but, then again, I wasn't looking for them. I'll have to look more closely.
I think I will punch some holes through both the top-bar combs and some Langstroth combs and see what happens. You've got my curiosity up and running.
Is that what you call it . . . creative engineering . . . .
They are creative . . . and active . . . .
I believe top-bar design just lends itself to allowing them to construct, or creative engineer, with the occasional hole . . . .
I've liked bees since I was five and wanted to know what it felt like to be stung and picked one up off of a dandelion to find out. And now, you have told me why I am attracted to them: bees are "a little neurotic." You had me chuckling on that one.
Bee space is one of the concepts I wish I had been better about when I started beekeeping, and even wish I was better about now. It makes such a big difference when it comes to examining a hive.


Within the catholic church, not edgier music, but perhaps more eclectic. Time and time again I see, music from almost all cultures of the world is considered eclectic and good for all to hear/listen to/be spoken to/etc, EXCEPT for "american" music. Many will say devotional music is not "appropriate for liturgy. they go on to say, it's mainly the perspective of the worshiper or song leader. The first person pronoun ("I") being a hallmark of self centered, devotional, "praise and worship" (much maligned in "I Need thee every hour") They say this (and more), yet will use – ad nauseum – "Amazing Grace", or "I Want Jesus" and the like. Millennials are leaving because they see right through the hypocrisy. Music is just on of the most obvious places the hypocrisy is so transparent.
You hit the proverbial nail on the head. Spot on.
I want Christianity to be REAL. I want Christians who truly follow the doctrine to prosper ALL of the time.
I want to be able to not have to resort to faith, as if I have to first believe and trust something stuffed in my head/heart and then expect it to come true. I NEED to see it! I need to see that the God, which the Bible talks about, prospers those who faithfully live as a Christian. Not 50%/75%....but 100% of the time. Why? Because you will NEVER know if its fortune or God if even just 1% of true Christians live in pain and lack.
I am sick of having to restructure myself mentally and emotionally whenever contradictions arrive. Right now, I can intellectually cheat/lie/harm others to prosper. I can be honest and good and yet be harmed/abused/dishonored. As a millennial, I have had enough time to experimented this and find it to be true.
I want to see ALL Christians to truly be the happiest people on earth. Most blessed! Having lives that are the most meaningful and easily acceptable as meaningful by ALL mentally and emotionally. Not have to use faith as an excuse to readjust myself mentally and emotionally in order to wide-eyely watch the things that contradict what Christianity indoctrinates.
No more BS, like the article says, the millennials are the ones truly asking: IS CHRISTIANITY REAL!?
To be honest... I don't think that any of what you say is even possible.
Once one looks under the covers it is very hard to pretend you didn't see what was under the covers.
Why confine your hopes and wished to members of the dead jew zombie vampire cannibal death cult aka christianity? I hope that everyone prospers regardless of their religious beliefs but see no need for any god(s).
Take a look at the Presybterian church. We a not perfect, but we are very middle of the road and most churches welcome LGBT people. But the main point is that Jesus is our Lord and saviour. What more could you want?
coolbreze6, you are not claiming that your cult alone has proof are you? Why would anyone join a cult, or jump from cult to cult, without better (any!) proof that the new cult's superheroes are any more real than the previous one(s)?
The most important sentence: "We're not leaving the church because we don't find the cool factor there; we're leaving the church because we don't find Jesus there."
Too bad she didn't follow through with "'cause it's very likely there are no gods and no divine jesus, despite mankind's yearnings."
What a great article. I'm a long ways from being a millenial but agree whole-heartedly with you. I'm an oldster who has also left the Evangelical circles for the more high church tradition where all are welcome......Love God, and love your neighbor as yourself. That's hard enough without all the religious, cultural, and political agendas that in the end seem to always benefit some elite group.
In America there is the free market of religion. More and more Americans are becoming more privatized about their beliefs and using the web to create their communities. How will churches adapt to this?
They wont. There's no money in it.
The godless, soulless, eyes and faces of the Atheists themselves are the best testimonial for Christianity!
There, there get it out of your system. Feel better now?
Contemporary Christians like you are the point of the article. You are the face of modern evangelical Christianity, which is characterized by arrogance, condescension, and hatred.
Well said. I assume the author would rather associate with atheists than this hateful Christian top poster. It is that type of person that makes her go to the farmer's market instead of church on Sunday!
"which is characterized by arrogance, condescension, and hatred.": I assume you are talking about the spirit of your leader: Bill Maher. What a swell fellow!
Bill Maher is not our "leader". We don't have a "leader". You are merely projecting your own structure on others. For you, you can't fathom that there isn't some overlord overseeing everything and thinking for his minions.
We think for ourselves. We're quite content with that. We're happy with this life, the only one we know for a fact exists. We are kind to and treat others with respect, not out of fear of punishment from an invisible cloud wizard, but because have logic as our faculty, and we can empathize with others.
But please, do continue on spouting the ad-hominems and vitriol. It's doing wonders for your cause.
Please show anywhere in my post that I indicated I was an atheist.
Burzghash wrote, "Bill Maher is not our "leader". We don't have a "leader".
I assume then that your leadership being is testimonial toward "our" and "We"..? Get a grip dipstick..!
If you are using all those names to describe Atheists, not only are you judging, which Jesus Christ specifically told you not to do, you also sound like exactly what the author was talking about – Hateful Christian. Do yourself a favor and take this quote to heart as well... "Silence is golden."
I'm an atheist, and I'm actually very, very content with my life. For me, it's enough to see that a garden is beautiful, without having to believe there are fairies at the bottom of it. I have faith in myself, and am happy with my accomplishments. I do good things because I have empathy and can put myself in other people's shoes, not because I am afraid that an invisible sky wizard will punish me.
Your 'empty, soulless" comments are just you projecting your hatred on others. The only one who is empty and soulless here, is likely you. You're scared that something you've believed in your whole life may not be true, and you're fighting tooth and nail against the prospect of being wrong. That has no bearing or influence on the happiness that most atheists enjoy, content in this life without having to hope and wish for a fantasy one beyond it.
"[Y]oung evangelicals often feel they have to choose between their intellectual integrity and their faith, between science and Christianity[.]"
Speaking as one raised in a fundamentalist evangelical church, I say right on. Please do choose between these things, as they are irreconcilable. I hope that each person faced with this choice makes the correct one, and chooses reality over stupid fantasy and wishful thinking. Left the church in 1999, haven't been back, will never go back, and don't miss it even a little bit. A waste of 30 years of my life.
Training is for children. Raising is to make a vegetable bwain outta ya.
The fundamental problem with science is its pseudo Truth. Science has to be 'rational'. It deals with constructs of immediate reality. Christianity deals with eternal truths which exists outside of physical reality. Thus Christianity is classically idealistic. You cannot judge or measure the unknown/non knowable by the known. In the beginning was the Word...This means God exists/ed before our known reality was created. Therefore, how can you test God's existence using the scientific method. God also does not HAVE to obey the so called laws of nature or science. Since God invented reality, he can use whatever means necessary natural or supernatural to carry out his Will. So why in the world would you want to trust your view of eternity to science which by its very nature is limited. Science says if I cannot test it, it doesn't exist for me–a failed view of life.
I don't true my "view of eternity to science". I have no view of eternity. It is folly to have a view of eternity expect as a romantic notion.
And yet for some strange 'reason', scientists long to explain eternity in terms of natural processes...big bangs...elusive primordial processes extant billions of years ago...which of course cannot be directly measured. And yet this speculation-conveniently labelled 'hypothesis'–hoping to prove, that there is no external force which demands attention, consumes the 'soul' of many a theoretical physicist. Whom would you choose to believe: Jesus or Steven Hawking? Will Mr. Hawking rise bodily from death? I think not.
Why would anyone choose to believe in unicorns, talking serpents, people turning into salt, and the moon stopping still?
So Zeb, you can prove that someone, say some dead jew called jesus, has risen from the dead, right? Until you do, I'm going with Hawking and his merry band of scientists. . .
Zeb, it is a lot easier to believe in the absence of actual understanding of science, which you seem to have mastered. Only someone completely in denial of and ignorance of science could make the statements you do. In fact you would have been on solid ground 1000years ago before the modern age of science...no longer. We don't hav time to educate you here, just to quesrtion why you avoid doing it yourself and spout all this garbage.
Sorry but you're delusional. There is no evidence that anyone has ever died and come back. The bible is just a book written by men.
There is nothing wrong with romantic notions and I have them also. e.g. I love my wife and if there is an afterlife I would like to meet up with her there. BUT having these notions is a lot different than saying these notions are TRUTHS.
So I understand why some of the Christians views (notions), are attactive (but others are scary), but to beleive they are truths is a sign of immaturity.
So this would be great if your god was real. But without reality/proof/evidence etc, its just inane words. You must be able to comprehend that Man is weak and scared of death and that such men 2000 years ago made up your fairy tale to make themselves feel better i.e. going to a 'better life'. Your god is not real, just words dancing around your mind. You have no soul and there is nowhere to go when you die. You are biology, nothing more.
So Zeb, scientists can back up what they say with evidence and/or hold very open discussions about new theories and propose ways to test or prove them. Can you, or any other believer, back up any of your claims about religion with any evidence or tests? I think not.
Only through direct revelation from God which was given to us in the life of God the flesh, Jesus. Seems good enough for me.
Looks like I was right. You are spewing bullsh!t with nothing to back it up. You are mentally ill, a liar or both.
and there are those with spiritual gifts falling under special revelation, of which I have experienced, have data on as evidence and proof of God, and they call me ill too.
logic is not salvation. understanding your need for God to authorize salvation on His merit based upon the true desperation that we fall in, is noteworthy to our Savior.
Austin – insisting you have "proof" is merely an indication that you don't understand the definition.
So Austin, when are you releasing The Squished Kitty Chronicles? I don't think your "evidence" will be any more real than alleged for The Babble.
Zeb sure can weave a magical path around reality. Zeb, what if I said I AM YOUR GOD? Would you believe me? At least with ME you could SEE me FEEL me etc. I suspect you would deny that I am divine and ask me to prove it. Perhaps you should ask the same level of proof to the invisible friend you choose to have a one way conversation with.
Fine, you don't like science? Then stop using it. Don't drive, get off the computer, don't you dare go to a doctor. Just go sit out in the middle of nowhere and pray for everything you need.
The barrage of "We want" throughout this immature opinion piece sounds more like "I want" to me. I lost interest with the third "I want." God does not negotiate his terms. Belief has never been about getting God to change to fit your convenience or likes.
There are 100s of Christian sects. Which one truly represents god's terms? I would say none of them.
Based upon what supernatural evidence? Because a 'sect' is limited in its understanding of God, does not mean that God's reality does not exist. And many of a denomination's practices come under the heading of culturally permissible. God has allowed groups to express their understanding through their culture. As long as that practice does not conflict with God's normative doctrine, then the practice is acceptable. If a group wants to worship God wearing Santa suits, eating smores and playing kazoos...the practice may be quite bizarre, but if the worship is genuine..then it is pleasing to the Lord, if not to most other folks of a different culture.
I found this comment interesting: As long as that practice does not conflict with God's normative doctrine, then the practice is acceptable.
Acceptable to who? God? So you speak for god? As for this 'normative doctrine' I assume you mean as laid out in the bible. Well one can interpret what is written in many different ways. So who determines if there is a conflict? You know what God's actual interpretation is?
Like the top poster you appear to believe you know what the correct and accurate interpretation, guidelines and practices are. I believe the author is saying that she doesn't accept that.
jazz guitarman, if you don't believe in God, you represent the temptation that was an attack with the intent to destroy.
you present a trick from either direction.
Where does God lay out His "terms" for church services or how we relate to different generations? The gospel does not change but the way people understand and relate to it does. Thinking that the way we do things never needs to be thought through or, gasp, changed is nothing but religious snoberry and laziness.
Having had a family who practice their beliefs in evangelical church, and educated in Catholic high school and college, I was confused as to my belief in the existent of God. Then I started relying on the teachings of some of the world's greatest philosophers which minds our younger generation know nothing of its correlation to religion. It takes alot of thinking to decipher and sort out if there is a higher Being to whom we pray.
In the '60s there were transcendental meditations; then there are holy seers like the Popes and the dali lama, what have gotten or getting out of their teaching? Forget about the Jim Bakkers,Jimmy Swaggerts, Pat Robertsons of the past. What about the preaching of "Joel Osteen"? Are there any generation left which truly believe in the existent of God? Maybe it's all in the Bible; and if is, the revelations are coming to past. Once we no longer believe in the Bible and the existent of a higher Being, and having cast that beliefs aside; could Judgement Day be just around the corner.
Existence. The word is existence, not existent.
That's what happens to those educated in Catholic high school and college. Too much knee time, not enough study time.
Catholic schools have dolts at the bottom of the class too. I don't know, but @tellingit might have been educated in another country with English as a second language.
So you should be saying thanks to atheist and agnostics since they are helping to bring along this judgement day you appear to be hoping for.
Why millennials are leaving the church? Because they realize religion is all made up BULL.
The author isn't agnostic so she still believes in the myths. This is true for the majority in her generation. While polls show a major decline in religious affiliation but only a small decline in the percentage that do NOT believe in a god \ higher power.
As this generation marries and has kids they are looking for something similar to what they grew up with without the baggage (well expect the baggage of needing a savior).
Well, there have been over 5 articles about the Pope in the last week. So don't worry, CNN is still giving more representation to your team!
Actually it's just more Christian propaganda from CNN. Any article that has the sentence, "Like every generation before ours and every generation after, deep down, we long for Jesus." cannot possibly be "Christophobic".
Why do you so fear that which you do NOT understand?
What is it about Christianity that so scares you?
You said, "Why do you so fear that which you do NOT understand?"
What makes you think there is any fear or lack of understanding of christianity? For most atheists here, it is the intimate understanding of the delusion that caused them to shed the nonsense. If there is any fear, it is for the dimwits that will act in defense of their moronic religion, and thereby endanger everyone.
Observer: I don't believe you understand Twain's comments at all. He was not belittling Christianity. To me, he meant: If a person were really serious about Christianity, there are so many difficult expectations, that a person cannot easily dedicate himself to. Twain was saying: it is clear to me that being a Christian is clearly something beyond which I want to live...And with his sarcastic nature, he is also saying that most purported Christians are hypocrites because they do not follow the difficult teachings of the Bible, but superficially live according to a false understanding of the Christian life.
"Faith is believing what you know ain't so," and "If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be – a Christian"
How else would you classify adults that still believe in the Tooth Fairy and equivalent imaginary creatures?
You said, "Low self esteem much?"
No, my self esteem is pretty good. My esteem of believers, not so much.
Admitting your shortcomings is the first step. I will continue to pray for you.
You said, "Nice...you admit your bigotry and fear of Christians..."
No fear. I just have low tolerance for ignorance. Particularly the willful kind.
You said, "Admitting your shortcomings is the first step."
If that is so, that why do you still cling to your fairy tale? Why haven't you admitted that there isn't a single, solitary shred of evidence to support the core of your beliefs? Why haven't you admitted that your belief in your god is no different from a belief in the Easter Bunny?
You said, "I will continue to pray for you."
Knock yourself out. I'll continue to think for you.
Wow...such "tolerance" and respect. You exemplify why nobody takes the far left party of hate seriously.
You said, "Wow...such "tolerance" and respect."
ROTFLMAO. May I suggest you read back and look at your own posts?
Don't come crying to me about respect. If you want respect for your beliefs, you should start by not holding such silly ones. The best you can expect is a respect for your right to hold those dimwitted views.
You said, "You exemplify why nobody takes the far left party of hate seriously."
Says the person that is part of the reviled extremist, and shrinking, right wing. You'll forgive me for not holding your opinion in very high regard, considering that you still cling to your infantile beliefs in imaginary creatures.
You said, "Wow...such hatred all from one who cries out for tolerance."
Not buying into the complete and utter baloney that religion is doesn't deprive you of any rights. You are still free to believe and worship as you see fit. Pointing out how moronically dimwitted those beliefs are is not hate. It's a public service. It's a call to you and others to open your eyes and mind. You don't have to. You won't be damned to hell for not doing so. You'll just get ridiculed when you display your views in public.
It's not like your views are akin to skin color, or sexual preference. You can easily cure ignorance.
You said, "you are a great example of why the far left is doomed in our country."
Did your first husband leave you for a Christian, hence the fear and hatred on your part?
You said, "Why such hatred?"
What makes you think there is any hate in my posts?
Let me reiterate. Pointing out how irrational religious beliefs are isn't hate. It's a suggestion for you to reflect on them, or prove me wrong.
You said, "Who damaged you?"
What makes you think I'm damaged? Of the two of us, it isn't I who still clings to infantile beliefs.
Kings, you are the who is namecalling and making personal attacks. Intellectual earmarks of low intelligence and low self esteem. Please, get professional help. Willful ignorance on the level you exhibit needs therapy and lots of it.I hope you find what you need to accept reality and think clearly.
You said, "you are the who is namecalling and making personal attacks. Intellectual earmarks of low intelligence and low self esteem."
I covered this already, above.
You said, "Please, get professional help."
Wouldn't you agree that those that suffer from (or enjoy) mental illness should be the ones seeking professional help? Wouldn't those that suffer from delusions need it far more than those that point out that fact?
You said, "Willful ignorance on the level you exhibit needs therapy and lots of it."
Ignorance of what, exactly? What is it that I am missing? What is it that I don't know that you think I should? I admit that I can be ignorant of a great many things, but not willfully so. If there is anything that you think could prove the existence of your imaginary friend, please share. If you can prove its existence, I will join your book club.
You said, "I hope you find what you need to accept reality and think clearly."
I did. I accepted reality when I shed my religion and the silly beliefs on which it was built. May I suggest the same?
The article sheds a less than favorable light on the particularly nasty bits of evangelical christianity. I would venture a guess that Truth is an adherent of one of these despicably nasty factions in christianity. He/she probably feels that any form of christianity, other than his/her own, is christophobic. If they don't hate like him/her, they must be against him/her.
Religion is continuing its very slow demise. As human's progress and understand more about the cosmos they inevitably conclude that following ancient, sheepherder beliefs that began as fantasy stories, then being layered with a semblance of historical facts, is not a reasonable thing to do. The search continues.
I wonder where she will be in say 20 years; either towing the line or agnostic.
Define 'progress'. According to the Word, we were created perfect and now we are Digressing to perdition. So you are deluding to identifying our ever increasing perversion and enmity toward God as 'progress'...to Satan's delight. You call black white and white black. Perfect example of Orwell's vision of 1984.
So God is perfect and everything he makes is perfect yet we turned out wrong.....that only makes sense if you are willing to ignore any reasoning...ah...but of course, you are a religionist.
Religion will never die, it will just evolve.
Christianity is a middle eastern jperversion.
I don't see how she can expect a Christian church to change their 'substance' without changing their core values. Are there any secular, somewhat agnostic, Christian churches? I only ask because it looks like that is what she is looking for.
No, they just have to choose between common sense and thnking for themselves or letting some religious huckster think for them. The bible is mostly fiction filled with religious nonsense that was meant to keep the troops in line. Live in fear of a hell which doesn't exist and hope you get to heaven (provided you are babtist of course) which also doesn't exist and if you are confused by all this pray to a god who doesn;t exist. Such stupidity!
Like every generation before ours and every generation after, deep down, we long for ZEUS..
I agree with what you say with two exceptions. Leaders hear loud and clear that no one wants a cause (other than Jesus) and when you mention one they assume that you are equally out of touch on everything else.
I agree that millenials want authentic Christianity. They want Jesus and the New Testament. They might be okay with increased rights for gay couples in greater society and they are most certainly in favor of non discrimination in society, but equally they want the freedom for churches NOT to marry gays and to follow the New Testament. That's a distinction that you must make if you want to keep millenials. That's one reason they are attracted to conservative traditions. There's less hype and equal adherence to basic New Testament Christianity as compared to traditional evangelical churches.
Churches don't have to marry gays. Pull your head out.
I assume most atheist don't wish to force a church to perform a SSM (i.e. that is a rare position period), but it is unclear if she would be willing to belong to a church that didn't wish to perform a SSM (but she implies she supports SSM).
So I feel she dances around the hard issues. She says she wants a church that has changed "substance", but than fails to be specific.
It is not so much that the young are leaving the Church – It is that the Church has left Them.
and it is Probably NOT a Coincidence that the GOP BASE is Centered around the Evangelical Christian Right.
were championed by Liberal – Progressive Churches.
Random, senseless capitalization does not make for a pleasant reading experience.
I think it's mostly from the religies who generally don't write all that well.
I am atheist and have zero need for religion in my life. I would far less hostile toward religion if it were to adapt in the ways the author mentions. However, I feel it would be better if people didn't focus on religion and simply lived by the virtues of respect for others, tolerance of differences, being honest, helping your neighbor, and so forth.


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The Crochet Hook - A Wonderful Thing!
First of all let's talk about size...because in crochet...size REALLY matters!
Hook sizes in the US are usually denoted by letters and numbers, for example H/8. But they usually are also marked with the European or metric size in milimeters (mm). So, the US H/8, is also the European size 5.00mm. Confusing, eh?
Anyway, lets talk about the smallest to the largest sizes.
Note - all crochet hooks are not made equal. What do I mean? Well, even different brands can vary slightly in size (and I mean only very slightly). But, that variation may mean the difference between you getting gauge for the pattern you love, or not.
The smallest hooks are steel hooks. They go from size...Metric - 0.75mm/ US - #14 (smallest) to Metric 3.50mm/ US 00 (largest - there is no UK size eqivalent for these).
Steel crochet hooks are used for thread crochet and very fine yarns (lace weight or cobweb yarns). They are also used extensively for bead crochet. The heads of the finest hook scan fit through teeny seed beads! Below you will find a table of steel hook sizes.
Next comes what I call "yarn size" hooks. You can find the more common sizes in plastic, but usually you'll find them in aluminum. These sizes range from Metric - 2.00mm/UK 14 (no US size equivalent), to Metric 19.00mm/ US S (No UK size equivalent).
These hooks are used for yarns ranging from cobweb/lace weight at the fine end of the scale right up to 3 or 4 strands of worsted held together for the largest size. Now that project would be done in no time!
Beginners may prefer to start off with plastic hooks, available in general craft stores. (The larger sizes are only available in plastic as their aluminum counterpart would be way too heavy to work with).
Plastic is fine to start off with, but you may find your plastic hook to be slightly rough and catch on your yarn - not ideal. This becomes frustrating, and you may like to check out the next level - aluminum.
There are many metal crochet hooks around - the most popular being Boye (Wright's) and Susan Bates. These hooks are also widely available in craft stores other discount stores.
If you really get into hooks, then you may wish to try other styles of hook. Crochet has come a long way in it's time and whereas hooks were made in bone, and ivory you can now also find handmade hooks formed from beautiful woods, like those made by Laurel Hill.
For those who suffer from Arthritis, you can find crochet hooks made with ergonomic grips. These specially formed hooks have a fatter handle making them easier to hold for long periods with reduced fatigue to the hands.
Now, just to get you really confused...you can also get crochet hooks which have a hook on one end and what looks like the end of a knitting needle on the other. This is an "afghan" or "tunisian" hook. In this method of crochet the loops are picked up along the row, then "knitted" off on the way back.
But, you can also get hooks with hooks on both ends! Yes - they are for what's called "cro-hooking", "cro-knit" or more recently "crochet-on-the-double". This is similar to "tunisian", whereby you pick up loops and knit them off, but you can crochet 2 colors and have a reversible fabric with onc color more dominant on one side and the other more dominant on the other side. Fascinating, don't you think?
And as if that wasn't enough - did you know you can also find square hooks? Yes, they say they're more comfortable to use than the rounded ones. I can believe that, as one of my frustrations is having the hook spin in my hand as I work. Whereas with a square one I could have my thumb in place and it wouldn't spin. I think I'll have to try some of these myself!
Bet you didn't know you had such a vast choice of hooks at your disposal! Now to treat yourself...go on...you deserve it!


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The main cast members will be coming back for a third season. Here is the cast in full—
Dustin Hurt
Dakota" Fred Hurt
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Rich Webster
Casey Morgan.
The show has received two seasons so far and it's fair to say that both of them have made a good impression on the audience. The audience wants to know whether there will be a third season of Gold Rush White Water. The second season of the show ended on March 22, 2019.
It is unfinished and I really don't think that they are gonna just leave the show as it is. Most likely, there will be another season of Gold Rush White Water. As I mentioned above that the second season ended earlier in March this year, it might take some time for Discovery to make an announcement. If the show is renewed, then we could a third season in 2020. Currently, it is only speculation so, we will have to wait for the official confirmation.
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The historiography of early Islam is the scholarly literature on the early history of Islam during the 7th century, from Muhammad's first purported revelations in 610 until the disintegration of the Rashidun Caliphate in 661,
and arguably throughout the 8th century and the duration of the Umayyad Caliphate, terminating in the incipient Islamic Golden Age around the beginning of the 9th century.

Primary sources

7th-century Islamic sources

 Between c. 568 and 645 Birmingham Quran manuscript
 Radiocarbon dated between c. 649 and 675 (though written in the post-8th century Kufic script) Tübingen fragment
 Between c. 578 and 669 Sanaa manuscript
 692 – Qur'anic Mosaic on the Dome of the Rock.
 The Book of Sulaym ibn Qays, attributed to Sulaym ibn Qays (death 694–714). The work is an early Shia hadith collection, and it is often recognised as the earliest such collection. There is a manuscript of the work dating to the 10th century. Some Shia scholars are dubious about the authenticity of some features of the book, and Western scholars are almost unanimously sceptical concerning the work, with most placing its initial composition in the eighth or ninth century. The work is generally considered pseudepigraphic by modern scholars.

7th-century non-Islamic sources
There are numerous early references to Islam in non-Islamic sources. Many have been collected in historiographer Robert G. Hoyland's compilation Seeing Islam As Others Saw It. One of the first books to analyze these works was Hagarism authored by Michael Cook and Patricia Crone. Hagarism contends that looking at the early non-Islamic sources provides a much different picture of early Islamic history than the later Islamic sources do (some of the sources provide an account of early Islam which significantly contradicts the traditional Islamic accounts of two centuries later). The date of composition of some of the early non-Islamic sources is controversial. In 1991, Patricia Crone and Michael Cook disavowed a portion of the views that they presented in this book.

 634 Doctrina Iacobi
 636 Fragment on the Arab Conquests
 639 Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem
 640 Thomas the Presbyter
 640 Homily on the Child Saints of Babylon
 643 PERF 558
 644 Coptic Apocalypse of Pseudo-Shenute
 648 Life of Gabriel of Qartmin
 650 Fredegar
 655 Pope Martin I
 659 Isho'yahb III of Adiabene
 660 Sebeos, Bishop of the Bagratunis
 660 Khuzistan Chronicle
 662 Maximus the Confessor
 665 Benjamin I
 670 Arculf, a pilgrim
 676 Synod of Giwargis I
 680 George of Resh'aina
 680 The Secrets of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai
 680 Bundahishn
 681 Trophies of Damascus
 687 Athanasius of Balad, Patriarch of Antioch
 687 John bar Penkaye
 690 Syriac Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius
 692 Syriac Apocalypse of Pseudo-Ephraem
 694 John of Nikiu

Epigraphy
According to archaeologists Yehuda D. Nevo and Judith Koren, there are thousands of pagan and monotheist epigraphs or rock inscriptions throughout the Arabian peninsula and in the Syro-Jordanian desert immediately north, many of them dating from the 7th and 8th century. According to historian Leor Halevi, Muslim tombstones from the 30s AH / 650s CE showed few marks of Islamization, although they named Allah and referred to the names of the months of the Hijri calendar. They began to reveal deeper signs of Islamization between the 70s and the 100s AH / from the 690s to the 720s CE. In this period they invoked Muhammad and quoted from the Quran.

Some epigraphs found from the first century of Islam include:
Analysis of a sandstone inscription found in 2008, determined that it reads: "In the name of Allah/ I, Zuhayr, wrote (this) at the time 'Umar died/year four/And twenty." It is worthwhile pointing out that caliph Umar bin al-Khattāb died on the last night of the month of Dhūl-Hijjah of the year 23 AH, and was buried next day on the first day of Muharram of the new year 24 AH, corresponding to 644 CE. Thus the date mentioned in the inscription (above) conforms to the established and known date of the death of ʿUmar bin al-Khattāb.
Jerusalem 32 - An Inscription unearthed at the south-west corner of the Ḥaram al-Sharīf in Jerusalem during excavations conducted by Professor Benjamin Mazar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1968 from 32 AH / 652 CE mentions, "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful...the protection of Allah and the guarantee of His Messenger... And witnessed it ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin ʿAwf al-Zuhrī, and Abū ʿUbaydah bin al-Jarrāḥ and its writer - Muʿāwiya....the year thirty two"
An Inscription, at Taymāʾ, Saudi Arabia, c. 36 AH / 656 CE reads, "I am Qays, the scribe of Abū Kutayr. Curse of Allah on [those] who murdered ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān and [those who] have led to the killing without mercy."  Greek Inscription In The Baths Of Hammat Gader, 42 AH / 662-63 CE mentions, "In the days of the servant of God Muʿāwiya (abdalla Maavia), the commander of the faithful (amēra almoumenēn) the hot baths of the people there were saved and rebuilt..."

Tombstone of a woman named ʿAbāssa Bint Juraij, kept in Museum of Islamic Art Cairo, from 71 AH / 691 CE mentions,"In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. The greatest misfortune for the people of Islām (ahl al-Islām) is the death of Muḥammad the Prophet, Peace be upon him..."
An Inscription at Ḥuma al-Numoor, near Ṭāʾif from 78 AH / 697-698 CE mentions, "This was written in the year the Masjid al-Ḥarām was built in the seventy eighth year."

Traditional Muslim historiography

Religious sciences of biography, hadith, and Isnad

Muslims believe that the historical traditions first began their development in the early 7th century with the reconstruction of Muhammad's life following his death. Because narratives regarding Muhammad and his companions came from various sources and a great many contradicted each other, it was necessary to verify which sources were more reliable. In order to evaluate these sources, various methodologies were developed, such as the "science of biography", "science of hadith" and "Isnad" (chain of transmission). These methodologies were later applied to other historical figures in the Muslim world.

Ilm ar-Rijal (Arabic) is the "science of biography" especially as practiced in Islam, where it was first applied to the sira, the life of the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, and then the lives of the four Rightly Guided Caliphs who expanded Islamic dominance rapidly. Since validating the sayings of Muhammad is a major study ("Isnad"), accurate biography has always been of great interest to Muslim biographers, who accordingly attempted to sort out facts from accusations, bias from evidence, etc. The earliest surviving Islamic biography is Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah, written in the 8th century, but known to us only from later quotes and recensions (9th–10th century).

The "science of hadith" is the process that Muslim scholars use to evaluate hadith. The classification of Hadith into Sahih (sound), Hasan (good) and Da'if (weak) was firmly established by Ali ibn al-Madini (161–234 AH). Later, al-Madini's student Muhammad al-Bukhari (810–870) authored a collection that he believed contained only Sahih hadith, which is now known as the Sahih Bukhari. Al-Bukhari's historical methods of testing hadiths and isnads is seen as the beginning of the method of citation and a precursor to the scientific method. I. A. Ahmad writes:

Other famous Muslim historians who studied the science of biography or science of hadith included Urwah ibn Zubayr (died 712), Wahb ibn Munabbih (died 728), Ibn Ishaq (died 761), al-Waqidi (745–822), Ibn Hisham (died 834), al-Maqrizi (1364–1442), and Ibn Hajar Asqalani (1372–1449), among others.

Historiography, cultural history, and philosophy of history

The first detailed studies on the subject of historiography itself and the first critiques on historical methods appeared in the works of the Arab Muslim historian and historiographer Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), who is regarded as the father of historiography, cultural history, and the philosophy of history, especially for his historiographical writings in the Muqaddimah (Latinized as Prolegomena) and Kitab al-Ibar (Book of Advice). His Muqaddimah also laid the groundwork for the observation of the role of state, communication, propaganda and systematic bias in history, and he discussed the rise and fall of civilizations.

Franz Rosenthal wrote in the History of Muslim Historiography:

In the Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun warned of seven mistakes that he thought that historians regularly committed. In this criticism, he approached the past as strange and in need of interpretation. The originality of Ibn Khaldun was to claim that the cultural difference of another age must govern the evaluation of relevant historical material, to distinguish the principles according to which it might be possible to attempt the evaluation, and lastly, to feel the need for experience, in addition to rational principles, in order to assess a culture of the past. Ibn Khaldun often criticized "idle superstition and uncritical acceptance of historical data." As a result, he introduced a scientific method to the study of history, which was considered something "new to his age", and he often referred to it as his "new science", now associated with historiography. His historical method also laid the groundwork for the observation of the role of state, communication, propaganda and systematic bias in history, and he is thus considered to be the "father of historiography" or the "father of the philosophy of history".

World history
Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (838–923) is known for writing a detailed and comprehensive chronicle of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern history in his History of the Prophets and Kings in 915. Abu al-Hasan 'Alī al-Mas'ūdī (896–956), known as the "Herodotus of the Arabs", was the first to combine history and scientific geography in a large-scale work, Muruj adh-dhahab wa ma'adin al-jawahir (The Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems), a book on world history.

Until the 10th century, history most often meant political and military history, but this was not so with Central Asian historian Biruni (973–1048). In his Kitab fi Tahqiq ma l'il-Hind (Researches on India), he did not record political and military history in any detail, but wrote more on India's cultural, scientific, social and religious history.  Along with his Researches on India, Biruni discussed more on his idea of history in his chronological work The Chronology of the Ancient Nations.

Famous Muslim historians

 Urwah ibn Zubayr (died 712)
 Hadith of Umar's speech of forbidding Mut'ah
 Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri (died 742)
 Hadith of Umar's speech of forbidding Mut'ah
 Hadith of prohibition of Mut'ah at Khaybar
 Ibn Ishaq (died 761)
 Sirah Rasul Allah
 Imam Malik (died 796)
 Al-Muwatta
 Al-Waqidi (745–822)
 Book of History and Campaigns
 Ali ibn al-Madini (777–850)
 The Book of Knowledge about the Companions
 Ibn Hisham (died 834)
 Sirah Rasul Allah
 Dhul-Nun al-Misri (died 859)
 Muhammad al-Bukhari (810–870)
 Sahih Bukhari
 Muslim b. al-Hajjaj (died 875)
 Sahih Muslim
 Ibn Majah (died 886)
 Sunan Ibn Majah
 Abu Da'ud (died 888)
 Sunan Abi Da'ud
 Al-Tirmidhi (died 892)
 Sunan al-Tirmidhi
 Abu al-Hasan 'Alī al-Mas'ūdī (896–956)
 Muruj adh-dhahab wa ma'adin al-jawahir (The Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems) (947)
 Ibn Wahshiyya (c. 904)
 Nabataean Agriculture
 Kitab Shawq al-Mustaham
 Al-Nasa'i (died 915)
 Sunan al-Sughra
 Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (838–923)
 History of the Prophets and Kings
 Tafsir al-Tabari
 Al-Baladhuri (died 892)
 Kitab Futuh al-Buldan
 Genealogies of the Nobles
 Hakim al-Nishaburi (died 1014)
 Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain
 Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī (973–1048)
 Indica
 History of Mahmud of Ghazni and his father
 History of Khawarazm
 Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (13th century)
 Ibn Abi Zar (died 1310/1320)
 Rawd al-Qirtas
 Al-Dhahabi (1274–1348)
 Major History of Islam
 Talkhis al-Mustadrak
 Tadhkirat al-huffaz
 Al-Kamal fi ma`rifat al-rijal
Ibn Kathir (1300-1373)
Al-Bidāya wa-n-Nihāya
Al-Sira Al-Nabawiyya
 Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406)
 Muqaddimah (1377)
 Kitab al-Ibar
 Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (1372–1449)
 Fath al-Bari
 Tahdhib al-Tahdhib
 Finding the Truth in Judging the Companinons
 Bulugh al-Maram

Modern academic scholarship

The earliest academic scholarship on Islam in Western countries tended to involve Christian and Jewish translators and commentators. They translated the readily available Sunni texts from Arabic into European languages (including German, Italian, French, and English), then summarized and commented in a fashion that was often hostile to Islam. Notable Christian scholars included:

 William Muir (1819–1905)
 Reinhart Dozy (1820–1883) "Die Israeliten zu Mecca" (1864)
 David Samuel Margoliouth (1858–1940)
 William St. Clair Tisdall (1859–1928)
 Leone Caetani (1869–1935)
 Alphonse Mingana (1878–1937)

All these scholars worked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Another pioneer of Islamic studies, Abraham Geiger (1810–1874), a prominent Jewish rabbi, approached Islam from that standpoint in his "Was hat Mohammed aus dem Judenthume aufgenommen?" (What did Muhammad borrow from Judaism?) (1833). Geiger's themes continued in Rabbi Abraham I. Katsh's "Judaism and the Koran" (1962)

Establishment of academic research
Other scholars, notably those in the German tradition, took a more neutral view. (The 19th-century scholar Julius Wellhausen (1844–1918) offers a prime example.) They also started, cautiously, to question the truth of the Arabic texts. They took a source-critical approach, trying to sort the Islamic texts into elements to be accepted as historically true, and elements to be discarded as polemic or as pious fiction. Such scholars included:

 Michael Jan de Goeje (1836–1909)
 Theodor Nöldeke (1836–1930)
 Ignaz Goldziher (1850–1921)
 Henri Lammens (1862–1937)
 Arthur Jeffery (1892–1959)
 H. A. R. Gibb (1895–1971)
 Joseph Schacht (1902–1969)
 Montgomery Watt (1909–2006)

The revisionist challenge

In the 1970s the Revisionist School of Islamic Studies, or what has been described as a "wave of sceptical scholars", challenged a great deal of the received wisdom in Islamic studies. They argued that the Islamic historical tradition had been greatly corrupted in transmission. They tried to correct or reconstruct the early history of Islam from other, presumably more reliable, sources—such as found coins, inscriptions, and non-Islamic sources of that era. They argue that contrary to Islamic historical tradition, "Islam was like other religions, the product of a religious evolution". The idea that there was an abrupt "discontinuity between the pre-Islamic and Islamic worlds" — i.e. between Persian and Byzantine civilization and Islamic religion, governance, culture — "strains the imagination". But if "we begin by assuming that there must have been some continuity, we need either go beyond the Islamic sources" which indicate abrupt change, or "reinterpret them".

The oldest of this group was John Wansbrough (1928–2002). Wansbrough's works were widely noted, but not necessarily widely read, owing to (according to Fred Donner), his  "awkward prose style, diffuse organization, and tendency to rely on suggestive implication rather than tight argument". Nonetheless, his scepticism influenced a number of younger scholars, including:

 Martin Hinds (1941–1988)
 Patricia Crone (1945-2015)
 Michael Cook (1940- )

In 1977 Crone and Cook published Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World, which argued that the traditional early history of Islam is a myth, generated after the Arab conquests of Egypt, Syria, and Persia to give a solid ideological foundation to the new Arab regimes in those lands. Hagarism suggests that the Qur'an was composed later than the traditional narrative tell us, and that the Arab conquests may have been the cause, rather than the consequence, of Islam. The main evidence adduced for this thesis consisted of contemporary non-Muslim sources recording many early Islamic events. If such events could not be supported by outside evidence, then (according to Crone and Cook) they should be dismissed as myth.

Crone defended the use of non-Muslim sources saying that "of course these sources are hostile [to the conquering Muslims] and from a classical Islamic view they have simply got everything wrong; but unless we are willing to entertain the notion of an all-pervading literary conspiracy between the non-Muslim peoples of the Middle East, the crucial point remains that they have got things wrong on very much the same points."

Crone and Cook's more recent work has involved intense scrutiny of early Islamic sources, but not their total rejection. (See, for instance, Crone's 1987 publications, Roman, Provincial, and Islamic Law
and Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam,
both of which assume the standard outline of early Islamic history while questioning certain aspects of it; also Cook's 2001 Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought,
which also cites early Islamic sources as authoritative.)

Both Crone and Cook have later suggested that the central thesis of their book "Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World" was mistaken because the evidence they had to support the thesis was not sufficient or internally consistent enough. Crone has suggested that the book was "a graduate essay" and "a hypothesis," not "a conclusive finding."

In 1972 construction workers discovered a cache of ancient Qur'ans – commonly known as the Sana'a manuscripts – in a mosque in Sana'a, Yemen. The German scholar Gerd R. Puin has been investigating these Qur'an fragments for years. His research team made 35,000 microfilm photographs of the manuscripts, which he dated to the early part of the 8th century. Puin has not published the entirety of his work, but has noted unconventional verse orderings, minor textual variations, and rare styles of orthography. He has also suggested that some of the parchments were palimpsests which had been reused. Puin believed that this implied an evolving text as opposed to a fixed one.

Karl-Heinz Ohlig has also researched Christian/Jewish roots of the Qur'an and its related texts. He sees the name Muhammad itself ("the blessed", as in Benedictus qui venit) as part of that tradition.

In their study of the traditional Islamic accounts of the early conquest of different cities—Damascus and Caesarea in Syria, Babilyn/al-Fusat and Alexandria in Egypt, Tustar in Khuzistan and Cordoba in Spain—scholars Albrecht Noth and Lawrence Conrad find a suspicious pattern whereby the cities "are all described as having fallen into the hands of the Muslims in precisely the same fashion". There is a "traitor who, ... points out a weak spot in the city's fortification to the Muslim besiegers; a celebration in the city which diverts the attention of the besieged; then a few assault troops who scale the walls, ... a shout of Allahu akbar! ... from the assault troops as a sign that they have entered the town; the opening of one of the gates from inside, and the onslaught of the entire army." They conclude these accounts can not be "the reporting of history" but are instead stereotyped story tales with little historical value.

Contemporary scholars have tended to use the histories rather than the hadith, and to analyze the histories in terms of the tribal and political affiliations of the narrators (if that can be established), thus making it easier to guess in which direction the material might have been slanted. Notable scholars include:

 Fred M. Donner
 Wilferd Madelung
 Gerald Hawting
 Jonathan Berkey
 Andrew Rippin

An alternative postrevisionist approach has made use of hadith of uncertain authenticity to tell a history of early Islam after the death of Muhammad. Here the key has been to analyze hadith as collective memories that shaped the culture and society of urban Muslims in the late seventh and eighth centuries CE. Muhammad′s Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society by Leor Halevi is an example of this approach.

Scholars combining traditional and academic scholarship
A few scholars have attempted to bridge the divide between Islamic and Western-style secular scholarship.

 Joel Hayward
 Sherman Jackson
 Fazlur Rahman

They have completed both Islamic and Western academic training.

See also

 Succession to Muhammad
 Timeline of early Islamic history
 Timeline of 7th-century Muslim history
 Timeline of 8th-century Muslim history
 List of biographies of Muhammad
 Islamic conquests

References

Bibliography

External links
 Muslim historiography an article by online Britannica

Medieval Islamic world

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WOD Movements > Clean & Jerk
Sunday 15-09-13 Barbell
Features: Back Squat (Pausing), Clean, Clean & Jerk, Clean High Pull, Jerk, Overhead Squat (Close Grip), Pull-to-Hip, Snatch, Snatch High Pull, Barbell Work, Black & Red Barbell Club.
A. 25, 28, 31, 36, 39, 41 (k) Backoff: 45, 45 B. 20, 25, 30 <– had to slightly widen hands from clean grip C. 35, 48, 51, 56, 60 D. 165, 175, 175, 175, 175 (lbs) E. 55, 55, 57, 57, 60
Features: Back Squat, Clean & Jerk, Front Squat, Death By Clean & Jerk.
Strength: 6 sets at 129# MetCon: 9+9 rx (one rep shy of 10 rds!)
Saturday 15-07-18 Black & Red Open Weightlifting Meet
Features: Clean, Clean & Jerk, Snatch, Barbell Work, Clean & Jerk (1RM), Snatch (1RM), Black & Red Barbell Club.
My first olympic weightlifting meet! I competed in the 75k class (all ages) and took 2nd. Snatch: 49, 53, 57(F) C&J: 65, 70, 75 Total: 128k
Wednesday 15-07-15 Barbell
Features: Clean, Clean & Jerk, Clean High Pull, Front Squat, Pull-to-Hip, Snatch, Barbell Work.
A. Snatch Opener: 33, 53, 63, 73, 83, 93, 103, 108, 108, 108 B. 83, 103, 123, 133, 143, 143, 143 C. 143 D. ?
Monday 15-07-13 Barbell
Features: Clean & Jerk, Pull-to-Hip, Snatch, Snatch High Pull, Barbell Work.
A. 53, 63, 73, 83, 93, 93, 103F,F,√ Opener: 108, 118? 80%: 95, 95 1 min apart B. 123 – did 2 sets C. 33, 63, 83, 93, 113, 123, 133 Opener: 143, 153 (press?) 80%: 123, 123
Features: Clean & Jerk, Deficit High Pull, Snatch, Barbell Work, Black & Red Barbell Club.
A. 15, 25, 25, 35, 40, 45, 45, 47, 47F, 47, 49, 49 B. 45, 50, 55, 60, 63, 65, 65 C. 45, 55 – 4 sets
Saturday 15-07-11 Barbell
Features: Back Squat, Clean, Clean & Jerk, Jerk, Knee-to-Elbows, Pull-to-Hip, Snatch, Snatch High Pull, Toes-to-Bar, Barbell Work, Clean & Jerk (1RM), Snatch (1RM).
A. 53, 53, 63, 63, 73, 73, 83, 83, 93, 103, 108, 118, 123, 128 PR! (58k) B. 83, 103, 123, 143, 153, 163 (press out), 168 PR! (76k) C. 153, 173, 193, 203, 213 D. 123, 138, 140, 143 E. blech – 5 sets
Features: Clean, Clean & Jerk, Clean High Pull, Cossack Lunge, Front Squat, Jerk, Pull-to-Hip, Barbell Work, Black & Red Barbell Club.
A. Warmup: 25, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 68, 70k B. 70, 73 (press out), 74 (iffy press) Wave: 67, 70, 74F, 74 C. 55, 75, 80 D. 75, 85, 85, 85 E. one set F. √
Features: Back Squat, Clean, Clean & Jerk, Handstand Hold, Hang, High, Hollow Rocks, Jerk, Pull-to-Hip, Snatch, Snatch (Muscle), Snatch High Pull, Barbell Work.
A. 33, 53, 63, 73, 83, 83 B. 63, 63, 73, 83, 83, 93, 93, 103, 103, 113 (ugly), 113F, 113√ C. 83, 93, 103, 113, 123, 133, 143 (power cl), 143 D. 143, 163, 183 – 4 sets E. 83, 103, 123 – 4 sets F. ab work: √ G: Tabata hang: √
Monday 15-05-25 (Memorial Day)
Features: Back Squat, Clean, Clean & Jerk, Dragonflag, Front Squat, Jerk, Pull-up, Snatch, Sots, Black & Red Barbell Club.
A. Snatch (8.5/3) 3 15, 18, 25, 35, then.. 40, 40 ,40 (88#) B. Sots – 15k (empty bar) Really struggle with this. need to work on rolling hips, lats, pecs C. Cl + FS + J 35, 40, 45, 55, then 60, 60, 60 D. 40 strict pull-ups – done (took a while)...


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Trekking in Nepal
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Trekking to Everest
The Everest Region, also known as Khumbu region, is in Solukhumbu District situated northeastern part of Nepal. Travelers globally have they bucket list for trekking to Everest region. Similarly, this region is last resort for all mountain climbers, trekkers and nature lovers. Likewise this region is home to the highest peak in the world Mt Everest.
Annapurna Region Trekking
Indeed, the Annapurna Region is the most popular trekking and mountaineering destination in Nepal. In addition, it is loved by mountaineers and trekkers as it comprises the world's best trekking routes and astonishing Himalayan panorama. In face this region boasts the highest number of trekkers than any other region in the world.
Langtang Region Trekking
Langtang Region is the third most popular mountainous region in Nepal. Accordingly it is popular not only as an ancient trade route between Nepal and Tibet but also as nearest and most accessible route to and from Kathmandu Valley. Furthermore this region lies just 130 km north of Kathmandu Valley and equally closer to Tibetan border.
Special Trekking in Nepal
Even though there are no restricted areas in Nepal for trekking recently, the areas previously marked as restricted areas are currently known as Special Trekking Areas. Specifically, the previously restricted areas were considered sensitive in terms of environment, culture and political point of view.
Peak Climbing in Nepal
Nepal is known as 'Himalayan Republic' which is the last resort for all mountaineers around the world. In fact it is home to the highest peak in the world, Mt Everest and other peak within top ten. Hence, Nepal is one of the favorite destination for peak climbing experience.
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Nagarjun is located north-west of Kathmandu. It takes around 30 minutes by car and additionally 3 and half hours up to the Nagarjun hill.
Nagarkot
Nagarkot sunrise tour for best sunrise point starts early from your hotel. Hence you have to be in Nagarkot at 4:00 AM to experience the sunrise.
Canoying
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Explainer: Why The Russia-Ukraine Gas Dispute Is Making Europe Worried
May 07, 2014 12:14 GMT
By Charles Recknagel
A gas pipe at an underground storage facility in the village of Mryn, Ukraine. (file photo)
The European Union gets about one-third of its natural gas from Russia, and about half of that gas arrives in Europe via pipelines passing through Ukraine. Moscow is threatening to cut off natural-gas deliveries to Ukraine unless Kyiv promptly pays its outstanding bills. And that means the EU could potentially be caught in the cross fire.
Here are five things to know about the situation.
Why Should The EU Worry?
One reason is empty natural-gas storage facilities in western Ukraine.
Summer is when Ukraine usually fills its giant storage facilities with Russian gas to provide for peak usage periods during the winter, when the real-time gas flow from Russia is not enough to meet local demand.
But there is no guarantee the tanks will be filled this summer as Kyiv and Moscow quarrel over gas prices. That is troubling because if Ukraine's winter tanks are not full, there is a danger it might compensate for winter shortages by siphoning off Russian natural gas intended for Europe.
Gas experts say the storage tanks need to be filled with about 12 billion cubic meters by September. But as Ukraine seeks to buy that gas, Russia is threatening to cut off any new sales of gas to Ukraine unless it receives prepayment for June supplies by May 31.
Moscow puts Ukraine's total gas debt at some $3.5 billion for gas already delivered, including a surprise doubling of Ukraine's gas price in April. Kyiv calls the amount exorbitant and says it is ready to pay an "honest, market price" instead.
Is Moscow Sending A Message To Brussels?
Moscow seems to be using the natural gas crisis to send a message to Brussels that the current government in Kyiv is unreliable and that maintaining support for it will be burdensome.
Jonathan Stern, chairman of the Natural Gas Research Program at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, notes that, in the past, Moscow waged gas wars with Ukraine bilaterally, without directly involving Europe in negotiations. But this time is different.
"With the switch of the government in Kyiv," Stern says, "the Russian position is, 'Europe, this is your problem. You are now in contact with these guys. You are now approving what they are doing. You solve this problem. We are owed money. We want our money.'"
Because Kyiv has no money, Moscow expects the West to pay in its place. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $17 billion bailout fund for Ukraine this month, with $3.2 billion to become available immediately.
Whether that money will be used to help pay Ukraine's gas bill is unclear.
Is The Gas Crisis Going To Escalate?
The showdown over Ukraine's gas debts comes at a time when relations between Russia and the West are steadily deteriorating. The West has sanctioned close allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, along with Ukrainian separatist leaders, and threatening the EU's energy security would be one way Moscow might discourage Brussels from going further.
Stephan Meister, a Russia expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, says Moscow has shown a willingness to continually raise the stakes throughout the Ukraine crisis.
"If we observe the whole Ukraine crisis, we can understand that Russia is willing to go very far in escalating the conflict," he says. "So I am sure they are also willing to escalate in terms of energy supply."
But there are limits to how far Moscow can escalate a gas war that damages the EU without damaging Russia's own commercial interests, as well.
"They still depend very much on the European market," Meister notes. "They need a kind of solution [where] they don't lose Europe as a customer. They still hope to export gas to Europe and to use the Ukrainian pipeline, so they have a certain interest in a compromise and there is still a certain kind of pragmatism."
That could mean that any cutoff of Russian gas to Ukraine would be limited to a few weeks.
There is a precedent for that.
A two-week cutoff of gas to Ukraine in 2009 caused parts of the European Union -- notably in the eastern states -- to suffer shortages until Moscow and Kyiv reached a new agreement on prices.
Meanwhile, the EU is looking for ways it could help Ukraine survive a temporary gas cutoff from Russia.
One method under discussion is reversing the usual direction of gas flow through pipelines from Ukraine to Eastern Europe to provide Kyiv with some 8 billion cubic meters of gas from stockpiles in Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary. Ukraine consumes some 30 billion cubic meters of gas annually.
How Vulnerable Is Europe?
Energy experts say Europe enjoyed a mild winter, so gas stockpiles within the EU are at a high level, creating a reserve for withstanding any temporary interruption of the supply of gas through Ukraine.
That puts the EU in a much stronger position than it was in 2009.
At the same time, EU officials are talking of developing alternate supplies to Russian gas, such as shale gas or importing more liquefied natural gas, including from the United States.
Still, Europe's best defense against any gas war may be none of the above.
Stern notes that the EU states and Russia are bound together by contracts that give both sides powerful economic reasons not to radically change their current relationship.
That goes for the EU, he says, as much as for Russia.
"There has been a lot of talk in the last few weeks about how Europe could replace Russian gas," Stern says. "And the answer is really it can't, within a 10-year period. And what most people have neglected to understand is that should these contracts not continue, there will be hundreds of billions of euros to be paid in arbitration tribunals."
The drama to watch is the ongoing negotiations between the top energy officials of Russia, Ukraine, and the EU.
The three sides held an emergency meeting May 2 in an effort to resolve Ukraine's debt problem before Moscow's threatened an end-of-the month cutoff.
The meeting, in Warsaw, failed to reach any agreements, with EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger saying, "It's a concern for me to see that security of supply for end consumers is not guaranteed."
The three sides will meet again in mid-May and at the end of the month.
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EU Urges Russia Not To Halt Gas Supplies To Ukraine


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Airships first captured Dr. Prentice's imagination as a child in the 1950's watching archival newsreel footage on his family's black and white TV. Since then Airships have been a core subject of several papers written by Dr. Prentice as a viable and obvious solution to the challenge of efficiently moving goods and people to remote communities.
Dr. Prentice is a highly regarded, often quoted, and sought after transportation expert. He has testified at government committees and as an expert witness in court cases where the subject of transportation and economics are in question.
Dr. Barry Prentice is a Professor of Supply Chain Management, at the I.H. Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba and the former Director (1996-2005) of the Transport Institute. Dr. Prentice holds a degree in economics from University of Western Ontario (1973) and graduate degrees in agricultural economics from University of Guelph (1979) and University of Manitoba (1986).
Through the Transport Institute, Dr. Prentice has organized national and international conferences on sustainable transportation (Railways and the Environment), supply chain logistics (Planes, Trains & Ships), agribusiness logistics (Fields on Wheels), the potential use of airships for northern transportation (Airships to the Arctic) and food trade between Canada and Mexico (La Cadena de Frio).
Dr. Prentice is a Fellow in Transportation at Northern Policy Institute and the President of ISO Polar Airships that he co-founded in 2005 as a not-for- profit research institute to promote the use of airships as sustainable transport for the northern latitudes.
"Floating Giants: The Barry Prentice Story" tells the story of Dr. Barry Prentice and his relentless pursuit of meaningful government and public attention to the inadequate state of transportation to Northern Canadian Communities, and an available solution - airships.
Dr. Prentice, a Transportation Economist and tenured Supply Chain Professor at the University of Manitoba, has written several research papers and presented to industry and Canadian government officials about the feasibility of airship technology – receiving a great deal of interest and ridicule – but virtually no action.
Dr. Prentice argues the airship is a technology largely abandoned and misunderstood, haunted by the legacy of the Hindenburg Airship tragedy in 1937.
So convinced of the viability of airships, Dr. Prentice invested his own time and money into building his own airship and hangar to test his theory.
He argues the rapidly deteriorating reliability of ice roads due to climate change is creating a crisis in Northern Canada and should be sounding alarm bells within the Federal Government.
This transportation challenge is one contributing factor to the fact that a large number of Northern Canadian Communities lack basic reasonable food security, and access to affordable everyday resources.
The documentary will capture Dr. Prentice's intense commitment to airships as an economic and humanitarian solution to the long-standing problem of access to remote Northern Communities.
Please join us in Barry's journey captured on film.


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The new class of skyscrapers that will forever change the Chicago skyline
As the birthplace of the skyscraper and home to one of the world's greatest skylines, Chicago is reinventing itself with new batch of very tall, high-profile towers.
While Chicago hasn't completed an 800-footer since 2010, that's about to change and in a big way. Three projects exceeding that mark are already under construction with more patiently waiting in the wings.
And with big name designers like Jahn, Viñoly, Stern, Pelli, Gang, Childs, Smith, and Gill on board, the newest generation of tall towers is raising the bar both literally and architecturally.
Here's a look at new class of skyscrapers that will redefine Chicago's iconic skyline. Under construction projects are listed first followed by green-lit and finally still-pending proposals.
Vista Tower.
Vista Tower
Status: Under Construction
Currently rising along the south bank of the Chicago River's main branch, the 1,198-foot Vista Tower is posed to become the city's third tallest building. It's angular design from Chicago architect firm Studio Gang is made up of three stacks of undulating geometric frustums wrapped in alternating bands of shaded of glass.
Work progressed quickly after Vista broke ground in 2016 and recently reached the halfway mark. Delivery of its 406 luxury condos, a 192-room five-star hotel, and impressive amenities is expected in 2020.
NEMA Chicago
Rafael Viñoly Architects
Formerly known as One Grant Park, this 76-story tower is climbing skyward at the southern edge of Chicago's skyline at the corner of Roosevelt and Indiana and brings some serious height to the South Loop. Developed by Crescent Heights and designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects with a nod to the Willis Tower's "bundled tube" layout, the 800-unit luxury rental tower broke ground in early 2017.
Expected to rise 893 feet, NEMA Chicago comes up a little short of the official supertall definition set by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. That being said, the project's second phase does call for a taller twin tower which may exceed the magic 984-foot threshold.
One Bennett Park.
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One Bennett Park
After breaking ground in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood in 2016, the 70-story One Bennett Park project recently reached its final height of 836 feet. Developer Related Midwest selected New York's Robert A.M. Stern Architects to design the neo-Art Deco style building. While the majority of the building's 350 total units will be a high-end rental apartments, the top floors of One Bennet Park will contain 69 for-sale luxury condos.
The high-rise will be joined by a new park from Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the firm that designed Chicago's Maggie Daley and 606 trail. The tower and the planned green space get their name from architect Edward H. Bennett who co-authored the influential 1909 Plan of Chicago with famed urban planner Daniel Burnham. The skyscraper is on track for an early 2019 opening.
110 N. Wacker
Goettsch Partners
Though residential developments dominate this list, at least one purely commercial project is looking to leave its mark on the Chicago skyline. Known by its address of 110 N. Wacker, this upcoming Bank of America-anchored office tower is approved to soar 800 feet along the Chicago River. Designed by Goettsch Partners, it features a 45-foot-wide riverwalk, public pocket park, soaring lobby and a serrated western facade to maximize water views.
Now under construction, the high-rise replaces the low-rise General Growth building. In an usual move, a federal historic review of the old midcentury structure prompted a last-minute compromise to save incorporate panels from its metal facade into the new tower's riverwalk space.
One Chicago Square.
Goettsch Partners/Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture
One Chicago Square
Status: Approved
Proposed to replace a block-sized parking lot across from Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral at the corner of State Street and Chicago Avenue, this mixed-use project from JDL Development calls for a pair of towers rising 49 and 76 stories atop a shared podium. The taller of the duo will officially top out at 1,011 feet.
One Chicago Square is a design collaboration between Chicago-based Goettsch Partners and Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture. It will contain a grocery store, high-end heath club, restaurant, commercial offices, 1,090 parking spaces, and a mix of 869 rental and condo units.
The River North supertall was approved by the Chicago Plan Commission in January. The project is hoping to break ground as early as this year and open some time in 2021.
1000M.
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This Helmut Jahn-created condo building at 1000 S. Michigan Avenue will make a sizable impact on Chicago's southern skyline when it eventually soars 832-feet over Grant Park. The glassy skyscraper will replace a surface parking lot with 323 luxury condominiums with interiors designed by Kara Mann.
Project developers Time Equities, Oaks Capital, and JK Equities are currently pre-sales mode and have listed a number of units including a South Loop record-shattering $8.1 million penthouse. Provided sales go well, 1000M could break ground later this year ahead of an anticipated 2022 completion.
First unveiled to the public in 2015 as an 86-story supertall comprised of offset cantilevered boxes, the design was shorted during the city approval process and redrawn into a curvy, 74-story tower seen above.
Golub & Co./CIM Group
Tribune Tower East
At 1,422 feet, this proposed addition to Chicago's neo-gothic Tribune Tower is gunning for the title of Chicago's second tallest building. Slated to replace a parking lot just east of its historic neighbor, the yet-to-be-named skyscraper will contain a 200-key luxury hotel, 439 rental apartments, 125 condominiums, and 430 parking spaces.
The design from hometown architecture firm of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill is quite slender by Chicago standards—partly due to a protected view corridor requiring Tribune Tower to remain visible from the Ogden Slip to the east.
While co-developers CIM Group and Golub & Co. seek approval for their new supertall, the duo are moving ahead with a conversion of the 1925 Tribune office building into luxury condominiums.
400 N. Lake Shore Drive
After years of rumors and speculation, Related Midwest unveiled its plan for the waterfront site of the failed 2,000-foot Chicago Spire in in May. The latest plan for the high-profile parcel includes a pair of stepped towers rising atop a shared podium.
The taller 1,100-foot southern tower will feature 300 condo units and 175 hotel rooms while the adjoining 850-foot northern tower is earmarked for 550 rental apartments. The architectual design from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's David Childs calls for a facade clad in glass and an old-school Chicago favorite: genuine terra cotta.
The Streeterville project will require city approval. If all goes smoothly, Related Midwest aims to simultaneously break ground on both towers in the summer of 2019 and deliver 400 N. Lake Shore Drive in 2023.
Site I.
bKL Architecture
Lakeshore East 'Site I'
This 80-story tower slated for "Site I" in Lakeshore East's alphabetical masterplan would rise at the opposite side of the mouth of the Chicago River across from 400 N. Lake Shore Drive. If approved in its current form, the bKL-designed residential tower wold reach 875 feet.
Developers Magellan Group and Lendlease first revealed their Site I plans along with two shorter neighboring towers last summer. More recently, local Alderman Brendan Reilly pumped the breaks on the multi-building plan, requesting that the development team address a number of design concerns. Stay tuned.
Wolf Point South.
Wolf Point South
This proposed tower will be the tallest of three new towers slated for Wolf Point at the junction of the Chicago River's North, South, and Main branches. Tentatively zoned to rise 950 feet—a level just shy of the supertall mark—the South Tower is still subject to future design tweaks and could see its height grow.
Designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, the glassy waterfront skyscraper will slot between the 490-foot Wolf Point West high-rise and the 660-foot under-construction Wolf Point Eastbuilding. The southern tower could contain a hotel, office, and residential components.
This final phase of the Wolf Point project is unlikely to begin work until the eastern tower is complete in late 2019. It will also require a trip back before the City of Chicago to receive final approval.
725 W. Randolph Street.
Roger Ferris + Partners
While its height of "only" 680 feet puts it below roughly two dozen other Chicago towers, the building slated for 725 W. Randolph Street is bid deal given its location. As proposed, the Fulton Market project will easy become the city's tallest structure west of the Kennedy Expressway.
The architectural design from Connecticut-based Roger Ferris + Partners positions the upper portion of the tower on an angle and features an repeating exterior grid of steel, aluminum, and glass. Inside, the development would contain 370 rental apartments, an Equinox fitness club, and a 165-room Equinox-branded hotel.
The project has yet to get the nod from city officials. If it manages to move forward without a West Loop "neighborhood haircut", 725 W. Randolph will create a new western peak on Chicago's skyline.
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Crescent City Monsters
NEWTON LILAVOIS
(Founder and Senior Writer)
Haitian-American writer and publisher, Newton Lilavois, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and grew up in Brooklyn, New York City. When Newton is not writing computer code, he's writing stories for graphic novels and comic books under his publishing company, Dream Fury Comics. His ultimate goal is to grow Dream Fury Comics' fan base by producing unique stories and characters unlike anything seen in mainstream media. Newton the winner of the 2020 Glyph Comic Book Best Writer Award.
Newton currently resides in the Bronx with his wife, two daughters, and their chocolate lab. Newton also works full time as a senior consultant for an IT consulting firm.
GIAN CARLO BERNAL
(Senior Artist)
Gian Carlo Bernal is an artist and lives in the Philippines with his son and wife. In 2014 after 11 years as a graphic designer, he left his job to become a comic book illustrator. He's never looked back. Gian has drawn for other Kickstarter comic book campaigns, such as the Last Days of Kevin and Ronin. He's been quoted as saying "And now I am happy to be working on Crescent City Monsters. I will draw until I die, my body rots, and I will come back as a zombie and draw comics again." Gian is the winner of the 2020 Glyph Comic Book Best Artist Award.
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Alan Menken Tribute Concert
This past Monday, April 30, 2018 Susan joined an array of Disney talent to celebrate the great Alan Menken at Carnegie Hall.
Dallas Fan Expo
This past weekend, April 6-8, 2018 Susan joined fellow Disney princess voices, Jodi Benson, Linda Larkin, and Paige O'Hara for meet & greets and panels at the Dallas Fan Expo in Dallas, Texas.
The Philly Pops!
This past weekend, March 9-11, 2018 Susan joined conductor Todd Ellison and fellow vocalists Debbie Gravitte and Christopher Seiber for an incredible night of Broadway music! The concert, "Best of Broadway"…
"Music of the Night" Concert + Updates
On February 10, 2018 Susan joined Anthony Crivello and stellar cast of vocalists for a night of Rodgers & Hammerstein and Andrew Lloyd Webber! The concert, "Music of the Night", and took place at the Thousand Oaks…
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It's here! Nick Pitera finally posted the music video that he and Susan did together for his Christmas Album! Woo hoo! They sang "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" and it was magical. Nick and his team did a…
Broadway Princess Party Recap!
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Equestria LA Recap!
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