Why play at Everest Poker?
Everest Poker is a very well established online poker room which offers great customer service, a very rewarding loyalty programme, and plenty of loose players. Right now is a good time to join the site as they're offering new players a handsome $500 welcome bonus.
The Everest poker client features a nice design that makes it quick and easy to get playing. You can either do this via the 'Quick Seat' tab, which gives you a quick way of joining a cash game, MTT or SNG; alternatively by browsing the 'All Games' tab.
The lobby can be customised by using the 'Custom List' option - this allows you to dictate what types of games and limits appear in this tab, making it much easier to find your preferred game the next time you log on.
Support for multi-tabling is good - you can play up to eight tables at once and choose to tile or cascade them with just one click of the mouse.
You can select from twelve different table designs and two 'observer viewpoints'.
Everest offers poker in Hold'em (No Limit, Fixed Limit and Pot Limit) and Omaha (Pot Limit). You can either play cash games, SNGs or MTTs. As well as playing for real money there is also the option to use play money, giving you the chance to try out both the software and games before making your first deposit on Everest.
Everest also runs a casino which gives you access to over 150 games including slots, table games and video poker.
Everest have a cracking first time deposit offer, matching 100% of what you deposit, up to a maximum of $500.
How do you earn the bonus? Each 100 'Summit' points (i.e player points) you earn will release $6. The bonus needs to be earned in the first two weeks of play.
So this is a really easy way of doubling up your money and building up that poker bankroll.
Summit Poker is the Everest player reward scheme known as the VIP Summit Club. The first thing to do when you open up your Everest account is go the Account section, then click on VIP Summit Club. You need to agree to the terms and conditions and you'll then be part of the scheme.
Whenever you play a cash game, MTT, or SNG, you earn what's called Summit Points. For example, playing a $10+$1 tourney would earn you 8 of them.
However many points you earn in a month determines your status (or tier) in the scheme, starting at 'Base Camp' (300 Summit Points needed) to 'The Summit' (50,000 Summit Points required). 'Climbing' the scheme means you get Bonus Summit Points and the chance to convert these into cash. Other benefits as you move up include weekly freerolls and priority customer service.
Best of all though you can choose to redeem your Summit Points in the Everest Store (this is accessed from the Account button in the Everest Poker lobby). There is a huge variety of items you can 'buy' with your Summit Points here from clothes, electronics items, to books and items for the home. It's a great feature of playing on Everest and means you can also save up your points and cash them in for some very high value items.
Traffic at Everest is pretty good and it's got a loyal following of players. There's a good mix of bad and decent players so there's still plenty of 'dead money' here for the taking. At the time of writing, for example, there were 14,000 players online on a Saturday afternoon, so it's a busy poker room for sure.
Everest Poker has attracted some pretty big names to the site who form 'Team Everest' - most notably this includes Fabrice Soulier, Catarina Santos and Peter Majoros. The players maintain blogs where you can read about their poker progress and thoughts about the game.
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Hong Kong, March 22, 2018 – A Bluewater hydration station offered a big 'Namaste' to the thousands of yoga practitioners attending Hong Kong's largest health & wellness festival, IRIS in Central Harbour Front, Hong Kong Island.
For the second year in a row, Bluewater supplied divine tasting water (still and sparkling) as pure as nature intended to help keep body and mind sound by staying hydrated.
"The IRIS Movement wants to foster a better lifestyle for everyone regardless of age, gender and race through yoga, meditation, fitness, and music, which is something we at Bluewater totally endorse as part of our business mission to deliver people everywhere access to safe, sustainably delivered drinking water," said Bluewater spokesperson David Noble.
He said staying well hydrated by drinking water before and after yoga classes is vital as water loss during a session can be substantial due to the stretching exercises.
Water is absolutely vital to life and impacts 100-percent of every process that goes on in our body and minds.
Every cell, organ and tissue requires water. And staying well hydrated compensates for the water the body loses as a result of breathing, sweating and digesting.
Although not everyone agrees on precisely how much water we should drink every day, the healthline.com website says 'health authorities commonly recommend eight 8-ounce glasses, which equals about 2 liters, or half a gallon'.
"It is absolutely vital we stay hydrated throughout the day as studies show energy levels and brain function suffer without adequate levels of water. So, bearing in mind how vital water is to our health and wellbeing, it makes real sense to also ensure that the water we put into our bodies is as free of contamination as possible," David Noble said.
A Bluewater 'Pro' and 'Spirit' water purifier are designed to enhance people's health and wellbeing by removing most all known waterborne contaminants such as lead, micro plastics and chemicals to turn municipal water into pristine water for drinking, cooking and washing. Bluewater water purifiers are sold in South East Asia, China, Europe, Africa and the United States and Canada.


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Ashley Graham Shows Off 'Ripped' Gym Session Photo With Husband: "both ripped"
by Sophia January 25, 2023 January 25, 2023
courtesy via glamour uk
Ashley Graham and her husband, Justin Ervin, don't usually go to the gym together, but when they do, they know how to have fun. On Instagram, the model, 35, posted a behind-the-scenes photo with Ervin revealing the aftermath of the couple's recent workout session.
Graham wore a black bodysuit and modest silver jewelry in the photo, with her hair tied back into a ponytail, while her husband went naked, posing in only a pair of black sports shorts. Neither was wearing shoes, as seen in the picture. The candid photo was shared alongside the playful caption: "both ripped, both have boob sweat."
Fans couldn't help but fawn over their beautiful looks and the stunning gym they were spotted standing in, despite their sweaty clothes and messy hair. "Is that your house!!?? I'd love an at-home gym like that," an admiring fan admitted.
A post shared by A S H L E Y G R A H A M (@ashleygraham)
"Good looking gym.. 👍🏽💪🏽 Hotel/resort or your own one at the house?" a second Instagram user questioned. Another person joked that they were at the "Ritz Carlton" of gyms. Others couldn't help but poke fun at Ervin's exhausted disposition, "Justin's face is my mood all the time 🤣," one teased.
"Hubby has the face, 'Again, Ash?..' 😂😂😂," another quipped, while a separate comment added, "Mr. Graham is not amused 😆." Despite Ervin's reluctance to appreciate the selfies commemorating the couple's fitness journey, the couple is still very much in love, even after 13 years of marriage and welcoming three children: Isaac, 3, followed by 1-year-old twins Roman and Malachi.
Graham tweeted a cute photo of her husband playing with the couple's kids on New Year's Eve, along with a nice message commemorating his birthday, "happy birthday sweetie I love doing life with you @mrjustinervin."
While the parents rarely release photos of their children, Graham made an exception for the twins' birthday and uploaded a number of never-before-seen images recording a couple of their firsts, along with a heartwarming message, all of which can be seen on Instagram.
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This week has brought education to the forefront with my CPT exam (which I passed, yay!). I thought it would be something worth discussing since not everyone is drawn to studying, exams, and formal education. Personally, I LOVE to learn! I have two college degrees, five certifications, and plans for one or two things in the near future. Though, while I do like formal education, I also enjoy learning in several other capacities. I am a sponge when it comes to information!
Good news for everyone: education does not always have to involve textbooks and studying in the traditional sense. One of my clients said that she is choosing "to educate myself on ME." We are tackling this in our sessions, and she has come a long way! So, that's one way you can learn about yourself: through health coaching. You may also like to take various workshops, attend a retreat (Radiant Life is scheduled for March 2019!), read self-help books, etc.
Maybe you're comfortable with self-knowledge and self-awareness but want to learn more about others. That type of education involves active listening, inquiring of people in circumstances that don't necessarily call for it (i.e. in line at the grocery store), and recognizing patterns. You can do this anytime and anywhere there are other people around willing to chat with you. This may not seem like education, but developing and honing interpersonal skills is so beneficial. It allows for empathy, connection, and community.
Perhaps you simply like to read. Whether you enjoy history, new languages, classics, contemporary fiction, or online health websites, you are expanding your mind and broadening your horizons by bringing new information into your world. Speaking of broadening your horizons, travel is another form of education (lucky for that, right?!). You can learn about new cultures (whether within your own country or outside of it), try new foods, and have new experiences. Into crosswords or sudoku? That's another form of education; you are challenging your brain. Try a new hobby: sewing, salsa classes, photography, computer classes… more education right there.
So, just because you think you're not the stereotypical "brainiac" does not mean you can't be a student. When you learn new things, new synapses start firing in your brain, creating new connections and increased expansion of your knowledge, of your mind… of YOU!
Now, get to it! How will you educate yourself this week?!


With IRIS you can license individual users or share concurrent licenses across a team.
These are assigned to individual users to provide 24/7 access to the system. They may not be shared but they may be re-allocated (e.g. in the event that an employee leaves the organization or is re-assigned).
These may be shared between users. The restriction is placed on the number of users that may connect simultaneously.
IRIS offers the option of combining named and concurrent licenses on a single install. This allows you to guarantee full time access to key personnel but save costs by using concurrent licensing for the wider team.


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National Committee for Religious Freedom to Meet in DC
By Christian Newswire
Pro-religious freedom leaders to meet in Washington, D.C. ahead of the 2022 general election
WASHINGTON -- On Monday, June 27, the National Committee for Religious Freedom will hold their first annual meeting. The national gathering of faith, political, and nonprofit leaders will discuss its plans to support pro-religious freedom members of Congress, educate indifferent members, and work to replace members in the U.S. House and Senate who oppose religious freedom.
The National Committee for Religious Freedom (NCRF) was founded by Sam Brownback, former U.S. Senator, Kansas Governor, and Ambassador. "For most of our country's history, religious freedom has been a bipartisan issue that united us. When I served as the United States Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, I saw firsthand how foreign countries viewed the U.S. as the global leader in protecting an individual's right to worship as their conscience saw fit." Concerned by the growing threat to religious freedom here in the United States, Brownback and a diverse group of more than 20 faith and political leaders formed the NCRF to protect and defend the constitutional right of religious freedom for all Americans.
Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Evangelical leaders Tony Perkins, Bishop Garland Hunt, and Rev. Eugene Rivers III, Orthodox Rabbi Yakov Menken, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, and Anglican Bishop Derek Jones are among the religious leaders who sit on the NCRF National Advisory Board. Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Former Congressmen Dan Lipinski (D-IL) and Frank Wolf (R-VA), and former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon have also joined Ambassador Sam Brownback on the NCRF National Advisory Board.
The Meeting on June 27 will feature a rollout of the strategic plan for the organization and provide a platform for faith leaders from across the religious landscape, many of who serve on the NCRF advisory board, to share their community's reflections on the current state of religious freedom and the attacks their communities are facing. "Faith communities need a pro- active voice in Washington, D.C. willing to hold members of Congress accountable to the Constitution. Religious freedom is the fundamental first freedom that has helped our Republic thrive. The more we restrict and limit religious freedom, the more we limit America's potential flourishing." Commented Justin Murff, Executive Director of the NCRF, "The National Committee for Religious Freedom exists to defend religious freedom for all Americans."
The National Committee for Religious Freedom is a 501(c)4 political action nonprofit. For more information, visit thencrf.org.
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1971 House Bill 6201. An Act Providing For The Establishment And Implementation Of Programs In Transitional Bilingual Education.
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AbeBooks ist ein internationaler Onlinemarktplatz für Bücher. Gegen Provision werden neue und gebrauchte Bücher zwischen Händlern und Käufern vermittelt. Das Unternehmen handelt nicht selbst. Es erzielt seinen Gewinn durch eine feste Angebotsgebühr zuzüglich einer Provision vom Umsatz und Abwicklungskosten für die Zahlung über Kreditkarten. AbeBooks ist in Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Spanien, Italien, Australien und Neuseeland sowie den Vereinigten Staaten und Kanada mit eigenen Websites vertreten. Seit 2008 ist AbeBooks ein Tochterunternehmen von Amazon.

AbeBooks Europe
AbeBooks Europe wurde im September 1999 unter dem Namen "justbooks.de" gegründet, ist aber seit Oktober 2001 eine Tochter des 1995 gegründeten kanadischen Unternehmens AbeBooks Inc. Im Oktober 2004 wurde die spanische Gebrauchtbuchplattform IberLibro.com eingegliedert. Zusammen bieten die Unternehmen rund 110 Millionen Bücher von über 13.500 unabhängigen Anbietern an und beschäftigen über 120 Mitarbeiter (ca. 30 in Europa und 90 in Kanada).

Geschichte

1999–2001 JustBooks.de GmbH
JustBooks wurde im September 1999 in Düsseldorf von Hannes Blum, Malte Brettel, Christian Langer, Florian Heinemann und Boris Wertz gegründet. Die Firmengründer hatten bereits während ihres Studiums festgestellt, dass benötigte Fachbücher oft vergriffen bzw. nicht lieferbar sind. Eine Internetplattform stellte eine Lösung für dieses Problem dar.

Von der Idee bis zur Realisierung vergingen nur wenige Monate. Zur Frankfurter Buchmesse im Oktober 1999 startete JustBooks.de. Anfangs wurden die jungen Unternehmer von Business Angels finanziert, die selbst aus der Internet-Branche kamen. Ab Januar 2000 unterstützte Burda Digital Ventures (heute Acton Capital) als Risikokapitalgeber das aufstrebende Unternehmen. Im Oktober 2000 erhöhte Burda seinen Anteil nochmals. Ende Juni 2000 wurde die englische Plattform www.justbooks.co.uk eröffnet, im März 2001 ging JustBooks in Frankreich unter www.justbooks.fr an den Markt.

Im Oktober 2001 bot JustBooks mehr als 5,3 Mio. Bücher von mehr als 1000 Antiquaren an und beschäftigte 15 feste Mitarbeiter. Ebenfalls im Oktober 2001 wurde bekannt, dass AbeBooks JustBooks.de übernommen hatte.

1996–2001 Abebooks Inc.
AbeBooks (AbeBooks Inc.) wurde im Mai 1996 von Rick Pura und Keith und Cathy Waters in Victoria/Kanada gegründet.

Das Gründerteam besaß nicht nur technisches Know-how, sondern verfügte bereits über jahrelange Erfahrung im antiquarischen Buchhandel. Die Idee zu AbeBooks entstand angesichts der Schwierigkeiten, als Antiquar für einen Kunden seltene Bücher zu besorgen und mit anderen Antiquaren Informationen zu Buchbeständen auszutauschen.

Schon bald nach der Gründung nutzten Antiquare und andere Anbieter in ganz Nordamerika die Möglichkeit, ihre Bücher über das Netzwerk von AbeBooks zu verkaufen. Die Firma wuchs seitdem kontinuierlich. Durch Kooperationen mit Barnes & Noble/ USA (1998), Akaikutsu/JAP (Juni 2000), Chapitre/FR (Oktober 2000) und Biblioquest/AUS (Oktober 2000) konnte AbeBooks seine Marktposition international ausbauen.

Im Oktober 2001 arbeiteten rund 100 feste Mitarbeiter, ca. 20 davon in Europa (Düsseldorf, Oviedo) und 85 in Nordamerika (Victoria B.C., Kanada), für Abebooks Inc., das Unternehmen war eine der erfolgreichsten kanadischen Internetfirmen. Mehr als 10.000 unabhängige Anbieter verkauften über AbeBooks mehr als 40 Mio. Bücher weltweit.

2001 bis heute: AbeBooks Inc.
Im Oktober 2004 kaufte AbeBooks den spanischen Marktführer im Bereich Online-Antiquariat IberLibro.com.

Der zu dieser Zeit führende Service für Preisvergleiche im Bereich Bücher – BookFinder.com – wurde im November 2005 übernommen. Unter dem Namen JustBooks war BookFinder.com seit September 2006 auch in Europa aktiv.

Im Februar 2006 akquirierte AbeBooks FillZ.com, den Anbieter einer Online-Lösung für Inventarverwaltung und Ordermanagement.

Im Mai 2006 erwarb AbeBooks eine 40%ige Beteiligung an der SocialNetworking-Plattform für Bücher LibraryThing.

Mit Gojaba.com schaffte AbeBooks im Februar 2008 einen Niedrigpreis-Buchmarkt zunächst für Schweden und Russland, später für Brasilien und Polen.

Im April 2008 kaufte AbeBooks den Online-Buchshop-Betreiber Chrislands.com.

AbeBooks beschäftigt heute mehr als 120 Mitarbeiter in Deutschland, Kanada und den USA.

Ende 2008 wurde AbeBooks von Amazon für 100 Millionen US-Dollar übernommen, soll aber als eigenständiges Unternehmen weiterarbeiten. Im April 2011 erwarb AbeBooks den antiquarischen Marktplatz Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher (ZVAB) von der mediantis AG.

Proteste gegen Rückzug aus Ungarn, Tschechien, Südkorea und Russland
Im November 2018 teilte AbeBooks Buchhändlern in Ungarn, Tschechien, Südkorea und Russland kurzfristig mit, dass sie ab 30. November 2018 keine Bücher mehr über AbeBooks verkaufen können. Die International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) protestierte darauf, mobilisierte ihre Mitglieder und rief zu einer "Pause" bei AbeBooks auf, wodurch rund 2,6 Millionen Bücher von mehr als 460 Verkäufern in 26 Ländern als "vorübergehend nicht erhältlich" gekennzeichnet wurden. Die britische Antiquarian Booksellers Association beschloss, den Sponsorenvertrag mit AbeBooks für ihre jährliche Buchmesse nicht zu verlängern, und gab eine Protesterklärung heraus, in der sie kritisierte, dass AbeBooks "mit ein paar unpersönlichen Sätzen die Lebensgrundlage von Antiquaren in Polen, Tschechien, Ungarn, Russland und Südkorea zerstört". Der Rückzug wurde in der Folge von AbeBooks rückgängig gemacht.

Megalister
Abebooks-Kunden haben keine Möglichkeit, sich etwa durch Bewertungen gegen betrügerische Megalister zu wehren, die ihre Fake-Angebote bei Abebooks platzieren.

Weblinks
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Einzelnachweise

Online-Dienst von Amazon
Unternehmen (British Columbia)
Handelsunternehmen (Düsseldorf)
Antiquariat
Online-Buchhandlung
Gegründet 1995
Organisation (Victoria, British Columbia)
Buchhandlung (Kanada)

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Regional centres will benefit from the Palaszczuk Government's $29 million commitment to deliver 100 new firefighting jobs in Queensland, Fire and Emergency Services Minister Craig Crawford said today (Friday, July 20).
Announcing where the first round of 62 new firefighters will be based under the "unprecedented" four-year commitment, Mr Crawford said the Central Queensland region would receive 16 recruits.
"The Palaszczuk Government is committed to ensuring Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) has the personnel, infrastructure and equipment to deliver enhanced services and support," Mr Crawford said.
"We reaffirmed this commitment to Queensland communities in this year's record $702 million QFES Budget, and now we are delivering on our election promise to boost frontline services in these areas.
"Regional centres across Queensland are continuing to grow, so it is only fitting more frontline firefighting staff are sent to these areas to meet future demand.
"Ten new firefighters will be deployed in Gladstone; three in Rockhampton and three in Mackay," he said.
Mr Crawford said the allocation of the firefighting positions had been determined by QFES, based on operational response priorities.
"These additional firefighters will go a long way towards boosting frontline services and we will continue working with the QFES Commissioner Katarina Carroll and stakeholders regarding the deployment of the remaining 38 recruits – to ensure QFES has the resources it needs to keep Queenslanders safe," he said.
Mr Crawford said the Palaszczuk Government was delivering on yet another election promise, by also funding an additional 12 fire communications officers at yet-to-be-confirmed locations.
"Once again, the QFES Commissioner will determine where these officers will be best placed to serve Queensland communities," he said.
Member for Gladstone Glenn Butcher welcomed the additional 10 firefighters.
"We know industry in Gladstone operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and the new firefighters are certainly welcome additions," Mr Butcher said.
"This Government recognises communities – like Gladstone – are growing and thriving, and it is imperative we continue to look forward to meet their needs," he said.
Member for Rockhampton Barry O'Rourke said the three new firefighters were on top of the $2.1 million allocated in the 2018-19 QFES Budget for Gracemere' replacement Fire and Rescue Station.
"The Palaszczuk Government is recognising Central Queensland's increasing demand for services," Mr O'Rourke said.
Member for Keppel Brittany Lauga said the new firefighters would be a "great asset" to the region.
"The Palaszczuk Government is committed to ensuring QFES has the personnel and equipment to continue responding to emergencies confidently and safely," she said.
Member for Mackay Julieanne Gilbert, who welcomed the three new recruits, said it was vital QFES had the capacity to continue their "first-class work of being first-responders".
"Additional firefighters, and new equipment such as appliances and stations, mean the community can feel at ease knowing our fire and emergency services are ready to respond at a moment's notice," she said.
On top of the new firefighters, Mr Crawford said QFES would be deploying 180 new urban and rural fire appliances (119 for the Rural Fire Service, and 61 for Fire and Rescue) across the state under a $44.3 million 2018-19 Budget commitment.
"This will mean the Palaszczuk Government will have delivered more than 280 new QFES appliances over the past two financial years," Mr Crawford said.
"More than 100 new fire appliances were rolled out in the 2017-18 financial year under a $40 million Palaszczuk Government commitment to renew QFES' fleet.
"Nine of the 44 appliances delivered to Fire and Rescue Crews under the 2017-18 fleet renewal program, and seven of the 62 appliances delivered to the Rural Fire Service, were in the Central Region," he said.


From the moment we first spoke on the phone, I knew Michelle would bring a special flair to our big day. She is so cruisey and easy going and we felt totally relaxed throughout the whole process. At the ceremony, she spoke with such passion, but also made us laugh. I can't wait for our renewal of vows when we see her next!
Thanks Sarah - it was a real pleasure seeing you two gorgeous souls. Such emotion! So many laughs. Terrific fun. Thanks for having me!
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Eurymachos () ist eine Gestalt der griechischen Mythologie. In Homers Epos Odyssee wird er als einer der Freier der Penelope dargestellt, die vom heimgekehrten Odysseus getötet wurden.

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Eurymachos war ein Sohn des ithakischen Adligen Polybos. Als Odysseus sich nach seiner Teilnahme am Trojanischen Krieg auf lange andauernden Irrfahrten befand und nach 16 Jahren Abwesenheit in seiner Heimat Ithaka allmählich als verschollen galt, wurde seine treue Gattin Penelope zunehmend von Freiern bedrängt, die sich in Odysseus' Haus niederließen, dort ein ausschweifendes Schlemmerdasein führten und den Reichtum des absenten Hausherrn verprassten. Zu ihnen gehörte auch Eurymachos; er war neben Antinoos einer der angesehensten von ihnen. Bei von der Freierschar veranstalteten Brettspielen ging er oft als Sieger hervor. Telemachos, der junge Sohn des Odysseus, war den Besetzern seines väterlichen Palastes nicht gewachsen, trat aber drei Jahre nach deren Erscheinen gegen diese entschlossener auf, als er, nunmehr erwachsen, von seiner Schutzgöttin Athene Ratschläge für seine künftige Handlungsweise erhalten hatte. Zunächst forderte er die Freier in einer von ihm einberufenen Volksversammlung vergeblich auf, sein Haus zu verlassen. Nach Antinoos verlangte stattdessen auch Eurymachos, dass Telemachos seine Mutter zu deren Vater Ikarios schicken sollte, der sie neu verheiraten würde. Diese Forderung lehnte Telemachos seinerseits ab und begab sich nach seinem Misserfolg auf eine Erkundungsreise nach dem Verbleib seines Vaters, der aber noch vor Telemachos wieder in seiner Heimat eintraf.

Odysseus kam als Bettler verkleidet unerkannt in seinen Palast und plante mit Telemachos' Hilfe, Rache an den Freiern zu üben. Eurymachos hatte inzwischen eine Dienerin Penelopes, Melantho, zur Geliebten genommen, die wie auch andere Mägde ihrer Herrin nicht loyal geblieben war und gegen Odysseus, den sie in seiner Maskerade nicht erkannte, ausfallend wurde. Auch von vielen Freiern wurde der heimgekehrte Held entwürdigend behandelt. So verhöhnte etwa Eurymachos den "Bettler", dass dieser eine Glatze habe, und lud ihn hämisch ein, als Knecht in seine Dienste zu treten. Als Odysseus heftig antwortete, warf Eurymachos einen Schemel nach ihm, verfehlte ihn aber und traf statt ihm einen Schenken. Telemachos mischte sich empört ein und Amphinomos, der friedfertigste unter den Freiern, beruhigte die Situation mit seiner Aufforderung, sich zu Bett zu begeben.

Als am nächsten Tag Penelope einen Bogenschützenwettkampf ihrer Bewerber anordnete und dem Sieger ihre Hand versprach, fehlte ihnen allen die Kraft, Odysseus' Bogen zu spannen. Dies beschämte und betrübte insbesondere Eurymachos. Daraufhin bestand der "Bettler" diese Kraftprobe und schoss den Pfeil wie verlangt durch die Schaftlöcher zwölf hintereinander aufgestellter Äxte. Gleich darauf ließ Odysseus die Maske fallen und erschoss zuerst Antinoos. Obwohl Eurymachos mit dem sich nun zu erkennen gebenden Odysseus eine Aussöhnung suchte und Wiedergutmachung offerierte, kannte der Held keine Gnade. Als Eurymachos deshalb mit dem Schwert auf Odysseus losging, wurde er von diesem mit einem Pfeil getötet. Mit Hilfe von Telemachos und weniger Getreuer erledigte der Held auch die übrigen Freier.

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1. 10051. Misbranding of Oculum Oil. U. S. v. 6 Bottles of Oculum Oil, et al. Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.
Hancock Inoculatum Co., Salem, Va.
2. 10052. Adulteration, and misbranding of gelatin and apple cider compound and misbranding of Maplo. U. S. v. W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., a Corporation. Pleas of guilty. Fines, $190 and costs.
W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., a corporation, St. Louis, Mo.
3. 10053. Misbranding of Dr. A. W. Chase's nerve pills. U. S. v. 2 Dozen Boxes of Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Pills. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.
Dr. A. W. Chase Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
4. 10054. Adulteration of walnut meats. U. S. v. 4 Cases, 3 Cases, and 2 Cases of Walnut Meats. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.
Thomas W. Simmons & Co., San Francisco, Calif.
5. 10055. Adulteration and misbranding of coal-tar color. U. S. v. 2 One-Pound Cans of Coal-Tar Color. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.
W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo.
6. 10056. Misbranding of olive oil. U. S. v. Poleti, Coda & Rebecchi, a Corporation. Plea of guilty. Fine, $100.
Poleti, Coda & Rebecchi, a corporation, New York, N. Y.
7. 10057. Adulteration and misbranding of coal-tar color. U. S. v. 3 Pounds and 12 Ounces of Coal-Tar Color, et al. Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.
W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., St Louis, Mo.
8. 10058. Adulteration of peanut butter. U. S. v. 2 Barrels of Peanut Butter. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.
O. D. Peanut Corp., Norfolk, Va.
9. 10059. Adulteration and misbranding of table oil. U. S. v. 24 Cans of Table Oil. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and sale.
Gamanos & Booskos, New York, N. Y.
10. 10060. Adulteration and misbranding of vinegar. U. S. v. 14 Barrels of Vinegar. Decree ordering release of product under bond.
Wallace-McLean Vinegar Co., Memphis, Term.
11. 10061. Adulteration of grape flavor. U. S. v. W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., a Corporation. Plea of nolo contendere. Fine, $25 and costs.
12. 10062. Misbranding of Hall's Texas Wonder. U. S. v. 20 Bottles of Hall's Texas Wonder. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.
E. W. Hall, St. Louis, Mo.
13. 10063. Misbranding of Bethesda spring water. U. S. v. 25 Cases of Bethesda Spring Water. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.
Bethesda Mineral Spring Co., Waukesha, Wis.
14. 10064. Misbranding of Wendell's Ambition pills. U. S. v. 3 Dozen Packages of Wendell's Ambition Pills. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.
Wendell Pharmacal Co., Syracuse, N. Y.
15. 10065. Misbranding of Hall's catarrh medicine. U. S. v. 8 Dozen Bottles, 18 Dozen Bottles, et al., of Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.
F. J. Cheney & Co.
16. 10066. Misbranding of Haskin's Nervine. U. S. v. 59 Bottles of Haskin's Nervine, et al. Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.
Haskin Medicine Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
17. 10067. Adulteration of Creole dinner. U. S. v. 15 Cases of Creole Dinner. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.
Mcllhenny Co., New Iberia, La.
18. 10068. Adulteration and misbranding of grape juice. U. S. v. 17 Cases of California Concord Grape Juice. Default decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product ordered sold or distributed to charitable institutions.
19. 10069. Misbranding of Nervosex tablets. U. S. v. 4 Boxes of Drug Products. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.
United Laboratories, St. Louis, Mo.
20. 10070. Misbranding of cottonseed meal and cake. U. S. v. Dallas Oil & Refining Co., a Corporation, Plea of guilty. Fine, $25.
Dallas Oil & Refining Co., a corporation, Dallas, Tex.
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10051. Misbranding of Oculum Oil. U. S. v. 6 Bottles of Oculum Oil, et al. Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.1
10052. Adulteration, and misbranding of gelatin and apple cider compound and misbranding of Maplo. U. S. v. W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., a Corporation. Pleas of guilty. Fines, $190 and costs.1
10053. Misbranding of Dr. A. W. Chase's nerve pills. U. S. v. 2 Dozen Boxes of Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Pills. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.1
10054. Adulteration of walnut meats. U. S. v. 4 Cases, 3 Cases, and 2 Cases of Walnut Meats. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.1
10055. Adulteration and misbranding of coal-tar color. U. S. v. 2 One-Pound Cans of Coal-Tar Color. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.1
W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., a corporation, St. Louis, Mo.2
Anthony G. Mandes, Washington, D. C.1
Antimo D. Francisco, Washington, D. C.1
Associated Fruit Co., a corporation, Delta, Colo.1
Banfi Co., Inc., New York, N. Y.1
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With only a few months of space left in the Construction Debris & Demolition landfill, Marion County is moving forward with plans to transport local household waste to Nelson County via an existing transfer station on Fairground Road.
Magistrates reviewed cost estimates for two options, one in which Marion County would deliver waste to the Nelson County facility, the other in which Nelson County would provide pick-up service.
Both estimates assume 2,000 cubic yards of waste per year collected in a single 30-yard dumpster provided by Nelson County. Nelson County would charge $432 per trip should it pick up the dumpster itself, assuming 67 trips per year for an annual cost of $28,944. The estimated cost to Marion County of transporting the waste itself was $24,312, but considerations also included its use of a tractor trailer as opposed to a garbage truck. The heavy load would decrease the life of the trailer and overloading could result in law enforcement citations. The cost of a new truck also weighed into the decision.
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The backhoe alteration was approved on Thursday at a cost of $9,000.


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For the better part of the last 12 months, we have been working diligently behind the scenes to add a completely revised email marketing system and contact database to HubSpot's core product. Today, we're happy to announce that it has arrived.
For the past six years, the HubSpot community has been preaching the gospel of inbound marketing. We saw a fundamental shift in the way that consumers found and evaluated products and services. Pushing out messages through traditional channels had stopped working and successful business had to get found by their customers.
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When the dust settled, we evaluated HubSpot's email marketing capabilities, and decided it was time to start fresh. Today, we'd like to show you what's new (we think you'll like it).
As a marketer, your contact database is everything. Your email subscribers, your leads, your customers, this is the community you market to. For too many marketers this information is stored in separate databases. This means, in order to get anything done, you need to export, import, manipulate in Excel, and lose sleep because you know that you're probably losing leads, or worse, sending someone the wrong message.
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Harald Lange (* 1938) ist ein deutscher Fotograf, Autor und Publizist.

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Lange studierte bis 1965 Fotografie an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig und arbeitete dann als freiberuflicher Buchautor. Als Naturfotograf wurde er stark von Paul Helmut Drechsler beeinflusst. Als Werbefotograf erstellte er Dia-Ton-Schauen über das "Industrieland DDR" für die Filmfabrik Wolfen (ORWO) und arbeitete mit der Deutsche Seereederei (DSR) zusammen.
Er lebt in arbeitet bei Bad Lausick, am Colditzer Forst.
Lange ist auch als Publizist und Autor tätig.

Werke (Auswahl)
 Das Jahr der Jagd. Neumann-Neudamm Verlag, Melsungen 2. Auflage 1971
 Auf den Fährten wilder Tiere. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1976
 Im Land der Löwenberge. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1976
 Ein Storchensommer. Postreiter-Verlag, Halle 1978
 Nationalpark Hortobágy. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1979
 Kilimanjaro – Das weiße Dach Afrikas. Edition Leipzig 1982
 Tierfotografie. Fotokinoverlag, Leipzig 1983, Kodak Fotobuchpreis 1984
 Kamerapirsch durch afrikanische Lebensräume. Brockhaus Leipzig 1983
 Island – Insel aus Feuer und Eis. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1985
 Kanada. Brockhaus, Leipzig 3. Auflage 1988
 Das Jahr des Weidmanns – Ein Bildbuch von Hege und Jagd in Europa. Edition Leipzig, 4. Auflage 1980
 Zootiere. Postreiter-Verlag, Halle 7. Auflage 1986
 Tiere Afrikas. Postreiter-Verlag, Halle 1981
 Pflanzenfotografie. Fotokinoverlag, Leipzig 1991

Ausstellungen
 Poesie des Waldes. Einzelausstellung 03/2018 im Schloss Colditz und 09/2019 in der media city Leipzig.

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Q: How to show last value of a column in MS Analysis Service? I have a cube with several dimensions. I need (a measure, calculation, whatever...) to show last value of a column, assuming the table is sorted by another column.
Something like:
SELECT TOP 1 column_1
FROM table_1
WHERE «The user's selected dimentions will work as a filter»
ORDER BY column_2 DESC

A: You would possibly use something like
WITH Measures.[Top 1] AS
     TopCount([Dimension1Name].[Attribute1Name].[Level1Name].Members, 1, [Dimension2Name].[Attribute2Name].[Level2Name].Members)
SELECT Measures.[Top 1] ON COLUMNS
  FROM [CubeName]

where the names with 1 refer to your column_1, and those with 2 to your column_2.

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What if you sell a variety of lines? Say, commercial and group benefit lines? And you also sell personal lines, such as final expense or term insurance and you want to harness the power of social media to get the word out about your agency and products. A blog is your ticket, but it has to be interesting and relevant to consumers and potential consumers.
Blogs are easily shared on all social media platforms, and because you have information on potential customers thanks to the insurance leads you bought from benepath.net, you know which platforms people likely hang out on. You tailor your blog pieces accordingly.
And remember the blog does not have to be about insurance. Your entries could include business-related news, business tips, industry news or educational information. It's all about who you are marketing to for any given post idea. Before you write a piece, think about what you, as an agent and/or broker, want to share and what potential and existing clients would find interesting.


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Roland Emmerich to leave Earth for Independence Day 3, should that happen
Dennis DiClaudio
Independence Day: Resurgence has so far not been a hit with either critics or filmgoers, earning a meager 34% on Rotten Tomatoes and taking in a disheartening $41.6 million domestically in its opening weekend. But, whether people like it or not (probably not), they're likely going to be subjected to a second sequel to 1996's Independence Day in the near future. However, since there's theoretically only so many times that director Roland Emmerich can destroy iconic monuments on the Earth, it appears that the next time around, he'll be destroying iconic monuments on a distant planet. On the off chance that anybody reading this actually planning on seeing Resurgence, we'll opt against giving away any overt spoilers. Let it suffice to say that at the end of this film, our beleaguered Earthling heroes learn the secret of intergalactic travel via wormhole technology, and somebody says, "Let's kick some alien ass!"
Emmerich revealed his plans for the next unwanted Independence Day sequel in an interview with Empire. "The next one will be an intergalactic journey. It'll be [set] maybe a year or two later, not 20 years," Emmerich warned. "I want to maintain this group of people, especially the young characters, and Jeff [Goldblum] and Brent [Spiner] will take part in it. It'll be fun to keep that group together… I imagine them now going in one of these ships they've rebuilt into a wormhole. I think it'll be the classic of going into space but it has to be about Earth, and we have a really good idea for that." The 60-year-old German annihilation fetishist also put to bed any assumptions that step away from the director's chair for the as-yet-untitled next installment, saying, "Will I definitely direct it? Oh yes. I'd never, ever let someone else do it." If studio executives let him do it, anyway.
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An oral law is a code of conduct in use in a given culture, religion or community application, by which a body of rules of human behaviour is transmitted by oral tradition and effectively respected, or the single rule that is orally transmitted.

Many cultures have an oral law, while most contemporary legal systems have a formal written organisation. The oral tradition (from the Latin tradere = to transmit) is the typical instrument of transmission of the oral codes or, in a more general sense, is the complex of what a culture transmits of itself among the generations, "from father to son". This kind of transmission can be due to lack of other means, such as in illiterate or criminal societies, or can be expressly required by the same law.

There has been a continuous debate over oral versus written transmission, with the focus on the perceived higher reliability of written evidence, primarily based on the "linear world of academia" where only written down records are accepted. However, "standard" theories of orality and literacy have been proposed.

In jurisprudence

From a legal point of view, an oral law can be:
a habit, or custom with legal relevance or when the formal law expressly refers to it (but in this latter case, it is properly an indirect source of legal rights and obligations);
a spoken command  or order that has to be respected as a law (in most modern western legal systems, some dispositions can be issued by word in given cases of emergency).
An oral law, intended as a body of rules, can be admitted in jurisprudence as long as it shows some efficacy, therefore it needs that the law is public, the human action is evaluated by a judge (ordinarily producing a sentence according to the general interpretation of the law) and then a punishment has eventually to be put into effect. Some oral laws provide all these elements (for instance, some codes of conduct in use among criminal associations like the Mafia do have a well known law, a judge, a condemnation), while others usually miss some of them.

In Judaism

Rabbinic Judaism maintains that the books of the Tanakh were transmitted in parallel with an oral tradition, as relayed by God to Moses and from him handed on to the scholarly and other religious leaders of each generation. Thus, in Judaism, the "Written Instruction" (Torah she-bi-khtav תורה שבכתב) comprises the Torah and the rest of the Tanakh; the "Oral Instruction" (Torah she-be'al peh תורה שבעל פה) was ultimately recorded in the Talmud (lit. "Learning") and Midrashim (lit. "Interpretations"). The interpretation of the Oral Torah is thus considered as the authoritative reading of the Written Torah. Further, Halakha (lit. "The Path", frequently translated as "Jewish Law") is based on a written instruction together with an oral instruction. Jewish law and tradition is thus not based on a literal reading of the Tanakh, but on the combined oral and written tradition.

See also
 Common law
 Customary law
 Hadith
 Jurisprudence
 Revelation
 Uncodified constitution

Citations and notes

References
 Finnegan, Ruth H., A Note on Oral Tradition and Historical Evidence, in History and Theory 10 (1970), 195–201.
 Goody, J.,  & Watt,I., ? in J. Goody (ed.), Literacy in Traditional Societies (Cambridge, 1968)
 Story of the Jewish People - The Jewish Law

Further reading
 Vansina, J., (tr. Wright), Oral Tradition:A Study in Historical Methodology (London, 1965)
 Vansina, J., Oral Tradition as History (Wisconsin, 1985)
 Finnegan, Ruth H., Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance and Social Context (Cambridge, 1977)
 Henige, D.P., The Chronology of Oral Tradition: Quest for a Chimera (Oxford, 1974)
 Henige, D.P., Oral Historiography (London, 1982)
 Tonkin, Elizabeth, Narrating our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History (Cambridge, 1992).

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The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
A History in Pictures
Jarrod Cotter
Dimensions : 11.5 X 8.25 inches
Stock Status : Not Yet Published. Available for Pre-Order
In 2007 the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight celebrated its landmark 50th anniversary and Jarrod Cotter was chosen to write a book charting the Flight's history which began with the formation of the Historic Aircraft Flight in July 1957.
This volume brings the story fully up-to-date to mark the BBMF's 60th anniversary. It still includes the in-depth story of the formation of the Flight, for which the author uniquely traced the families of those involved to reveal a host of illuminating insights. However, while the 50th anniversary book went on to tell the rest of the story in an in-depth fashion, this volume utilizes high quality color digital photographs taken in recent years to show the aircraft in flight and so acts as the perfect companion to the first volume. This will be the ultimate souvenir of the celebration of the BBMF's 60th anniversary.
Jarrod Cotter served in the RAF during the 1980s and 1990s. In that time he experienced the change from front line Cold War operations with the RAF Germany Harrier Force to the then new operational conflicts in the Gulf region with Tornados from RAF Brüggen. Specialising in the aerial photographic reconnaissance role, he worked on the HS Harrier GR.3 and Panavia Tornado GR.1/1A, working on Nos IV(AC) Squadron, IX(B) and 14 Squadrons. Following his time in the RAF he become a professional magazine editor with Warners Group Publications in Bourne, Lincolnshire, and went on to become the Deputy Editor of FlyPast magazine, the launch Editor of Aviation Classics and the Editor of Aeroplane Monthly. He now enjoys work as a freelance author, which allows him the opportunity to carry out detailed historical research. He is the author of Living Lancasters (Sutton, 2005), Battle of Britain Memorial Flight – 50 Years of Flying (Pen & Sword, 2007), the Avro Lancaster Owners' Workshop Manual (Haynes, 2008), the North American P-51 Mustang Owners' Workshop Manual (Haynes, 2010), the Bristol Blenheim Owners' Workshop Manual (Haynes, 2015) and the Sopwith Camel Owners' Workshop Manual (Haynes, 2016).
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Churchill and the Mad Mullah of Somaliland
Roy Irons
Cox's Navy
Tony Booth
The Black Prince and King Jean II of France
Peter Hoskins
Chiang Kai-shek versus Mao Tse-tung: The Battle for China 1946–1949
Philip Jowett
Right of the Line
John Terraine
Air War in East Africa 1940-41
Diane Canwell, Jon Sutherland
The Worst Ordeal
British Steam Military Connections
Keith Langston


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Royal Bobcat GTOs
Speaker: Milt Schornack
President and CEO, Center for Automotive Research
6:00 PM Sociial Hour
7:00 PM Dinner
8:00 PM Program
Milt Schornack, one of Detroit's top mechanics in the 1960s, who pioneered the Ram Air system and, as a tuner and driver, became the face of Pontiac's legendary GTO. Motor City Muscle has been responsible for the powerplant in the "new" 1966 Pontiac GTO that Milt has put together. 1966 was a good year for Milt and the Royal Team. The '66' finished the year winning its class at the Super Stock Nationals at York, PA. Perhaps one of the most famous Royal Bobcats was this Grenadier Red 1964, built on November 2,1963, and eventually shipped to Royal on November 8. What happened to the car during that six-day period is open for conjecture; however, it most likely spent a few days next door at the Pontiac Engineering garage before finding its way to Royal Oak. Equipped with the 348 hp Tri-Power and four-speed transmission, the GTO was given the "Royal Treatment" with the assistance of Milt and then delivered with an identical GTO painted blue over to Car and Driver magazine. Car and Driver wrung both cars out at Daytona, rigorously testing both cars.
The Royal Bobcat GTOs accelerated from 0-60 mph in 4.6 seconds and turned the quarter mile in the low-thirteens. Car and Driver made no bones that the cars were tweaked by Royal, and pronounced the Pontiac GTO to be the equal of its Ferrari namesake in its March 1964 issue, which elicited howls of protest from the magazine's European-oriented readers, but provided Pontiac with reams of copy and great PR. It was after the Car and Driver test that GTO sales went ballistic.
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Speaker: Josh Payne
Director of Product Engineering, American Battery Solutions
6:00 PM Social Hour
As electrification creeps into the realm of performance vehicles, a new Detroit-area supplier is preparing for low-volume production of batteries for the segment.
American Battery Solutions, formed in late May, plans to design, integrate, test, validate and assemble battery packs using cells from other battery manufacturing companies, said Subhash Dhar, the company's founder and CEO.


J. Rong, Abbey, C., Bowers, J. E., Brubaker, C. L., Chang, C., Chee, P. W., Delmonte, T. A., Ding, X., Garza, J. J., and Marler, B. S., "A 3347-locus genetic recombination map of sequence-tagged sites reveals features of genome organization, transmission and evolution of cotton (Gossypium)", Genetics, vol. 166, no. 1, pp. 389-417, 2004.


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1MacBook Air 13 Inch
The 1.7 GHz 13-inch Air comes with 4GB of memory and 128GB of flash storage for $1,299, and with 4GB of memory and 256GB of flash storage for $1,599.
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4Mac mini
At just 7.7-inches square and 1.4-inches thin, the new Mac mini maintains its compact aluminum design.
Mac mini now comes with Thunderbolt I/O technology for expansion possibilities never before available to Mac mini users.
6Mac mini With Thunderbolt Display
With a Thunderbolt port, Mac mini can connect to peripherals such as storage devices, RAID arrays and the Thunderbolt Display.
7Thunderbolt Display
The Thunderbolt Display includes an ambient light sensor, which automatically adjusts the display brightness based on external lighting conditions.
8Thunderbolt Display Rear View
Featuring two bi-directional channels with transfer speeds up to 10G bps each, each Thunderbolt port delivers PCI Express directly to external peripherals.
9Thunderbolt With MacBook Air
The display includes a built-in FaceTime HD video, three USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port, one Gigabit Ethernet port and a Thunderbolt port.
10Mac OS X Lion
Mac OS X Lion is available as an upgrade to Mac OS X version 10.6.6 Snow Leopard from the Mac App Store for $29.99.


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Fatima Mernissi's Struggle with Islam and Democracy
Posted by eren on 04 Aug 2011 / 0 Comment
Fatima Mernissi's book The Forgotten Queens of Islam is a historical study that analyzes women's place in the public sphere and their relationship with power. Her book explores the ironies and oxymora of women and power through Islamic history. Mernissi transcends the historical to discover the bits and pieces of the situations surrounding political women in today's Muslim societies.
Starting off through the example of Benazir Bhutto, Mernissi argues that despite religious leaders' rejection of her access to power, Bhutto was neither the first female with political power nor the only one to cause such a fuss. Mernissi explores the lives of numerous women including influential jawari (female slaves in harems) and malikas (queens) to discover that women held both private and public power all though Islamic history.
Nonetheless, far from optimistic on Muslim women's struggle to assert their place in the public sphere, Mernissi shows the unbalance caused by a female presence in the public sphere. Starting through the issue of the Caliphate, Mernissi points out that even when women can occupy a position of political power, they can rarely claim spiritual power. Women are automatically disqualified from the position of Caliph as the term denotes unquestionable masculinity.
The book further digs into the irony of women's place in power by unveiling the constant struggle between different Muslim sects to determine the lawfulness of inheritance of power through women, such as in the case of Fatima, Prophet Muhammad's daughter. Mernissi's book explores the challenges that different interpretations of political Islam pose for both Shi'ism and Sunnism.
Nevertheless, as in Mernissi's other books, it is possible to see how femininity and sexuality become political when it comes to power and succession. Something that for her plays such an important role that she claims that Arab women have been in constant disadvantage in terms of the private-political sphere due to the difference in sexual morals and ethics. Women, especially female slaves, who were able to access power, were often sexually close to politically active males.
Although power was more easily available to women through the private sphere, women's presence in the mosque through the khutbah asserted women's place in the public sphere. Mernissi emphasizes the importance of the khutbah, and to some degree, she measures a woman's political success in terms of her ability to get the khutbah said in her name.
Thus, Mernissi emphasizes the success of the Yemeni queens Asma Al-Hurra and Arwa Al-Hurra (titles that denote freedom) and the Fatimid princess Sitt Al-Mulk, whose lives often challenge Shariah and Islamic interpretations of particular sources. Mernissi comments on their success as rulers and their capabilities. She highlights their spiritual and political importance only to bring about the problems that female figures pose to Islamic exegesis especially when it comes to women like the Queen of Sheba.
It is through the Queen of Sheba and the stories of the other three women that Mernissi, once more, emphasizes that even though femininity is a challenge to power (and vice versa) women can hold political power; yet, the cannot hold spiritual one.
Mernissi introduces the challenges that Shariah pose to women's role in public life through the discussions on women's ability to be imams. Unlike some perceptions about Mernissi, she heavily relies on traditional and contemporary Islamic sources. Thus, she is able to show the disagreements among different classical Islamic scholars on this topic.
Through this and other examples, Mernissi points out that women are oppressed by religion rather than by culture. She argues that it was Yemen's cultural background that allowed two very successful queens to rule, rather than Yemen's attachment to Ismaili Islam.
Further, she puts in context the way in which political Islam has been used to undermine women's role. Mernissi resources to the example of Caliph Al-Hakim, who prohibited everything that produced pleasure and even banned women from being seen (something that even Hanbali considered extreme), and then to the case of Mecca's 17th century fatwa to prohibit women from ruling, to argue that political Islam does not have place for women unless it is through a male figure. Going back to Bhutto, arguably her own claim to power through her father guaranteed her success.
Mernissi´s book is an excellent historical source and a very well-developed argument on the challenges faced by Muslim women in Muslim societies. Yet, although her historical account of women's place in the public sphere and transmission of power provide us with an overview of the wrongdoings of political Islam since the killing of Umar and Ali, Mernissi's book is quite pessimistic on the battle that Islamic feminism is fighting.
The first challenge that Mernissi poses to the feminist struggle is the polarity between Islam and democracy. She claims that since democracy requires individuality and gender equality it has no place in Islam. Islam seems to grant women a second-class citizen status while undermining monogamy. Mernissi believes that democracy is the only way in which women can be better off politically, socially and economically. This is a challenging assumption as we see that democracy around the world has not delivered its gender-equality promises yet. Even in the West women have scarce access to power and even figures like Hillary Clinton may have a claim to power through a male figure (i.e. her husband).
In addition, Mernissi, who understands the veil as a symbol of confinement, argues that religion rather than culture oppresses women. This not only undermines the efforts of Islamic feminism, but also proves difficult as political Islam may not be every Muslim's definition of Islam. She continues to advance this argument to claim that Islam lacks a concept of citizenship because it is opposed to belief. Mernissi sees citizenship in the earthly realm, which is incompatible with the idea of the caliphate, which is heavenly as well as earthly. Women's lack of access to the caliphate further shows that democracy and Islam are incompatible.
Mernissi refers to the Middle East and North Africa as proof of the failure of democracy, and if this book was rewritten today she may reinforce this idea; however, acknowledgement of the colonial experience is necessary when studying Islam and it relationship to political power. Mernissi seems to think of democracy in modern Western terms, which make me wonder, why do we think that this is the ideal? And why should all of us import the same model?
Perhaps these questions are beyond the scope of the book. Yet, Mernissi brings out important points to consider when it comes to the inclusion of Muslim women in the democracy and the advancement of their rights. This book proves useful to demonstrate that women have been completely capable of ruling and even claiming spiritual power. It is up to the Muslims who read it to acknowledge Muslim women's rightful place in the public sphere.


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"We Admittedly Do Not Have Any Direct Evidence..." : Right-Wing Media And Fast And Furious
Written by Matt Gertz
Media Matters has long noted that the right-wing media is unparalleled in its willingness to throw its weight behind entirely fabricated conspiracies and fake stories. In their world, the Shirley Sherrod controversy was "orchestrated" by the White House to "smear" Andrew Breitbart; the Obama administration deliberately ignored the BP oil spill in order to stop future drilling; and President Obama secretly skipped his daughter's soccer team in order to do... something.
So it should come as no surprise that the right-wing media have turned a controversial program from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) into an elaborate conspiracy directed from the highest reaches of government intended to bolster the case for gun control legislation - even as they acknowledge there is no evidence for this claim.
Last week, the House Oversight Committee held two hearings into the ATF's Project Gunrunner, a division that seeks to halt the flow of firearms to Mexico, and a controversial initiative it began in 2009 called Operation Fast and Furious. According to the committee's report, under Fast and Furious, ATF knowingly allowed guns to be trafficked across the border to Mexico in order to "identify other members of a trafficking network and build a large, complex conspiracy case." Reports indicate that the program may lead to acting ATF director Kenneth Melson's replacement.
But rather than stick to the facts, the right wing has again created an alternate reality. Spokesmen for the National Rifle Association and the Gun Owners of America have used Fox News appearances to declare that what actually happened was a clever plot involving Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder aimed at creating a "river of guns" flowing into Mexico to create "political advantage" and "set the stage for more gun restrictions on the law abiding people in this country."
The right-wing blogosphere has since jumped on the story, but apparently aware of just how far-out all this sounds, they have generally couched the theory in a series of questions or even outward admissions that they have no evidence to support it.
Take Bob Owens, a Pajamas Media blogger who has previously openly discussed armed revolution and written that he hopes that makes Media Matters researchers "feel threatened." This week, Owens has written two articles speculating about whether Fast and Furious was "never designed to succeed as a law enforcement operation at all" and was instead "a PR op for gun control."
In his second piece, Owens writes, "We admittedly do not have any direct evidence of this allegation." That's generally where responsible people decide not to further comment until and unless they actually amass some sort of evidence. But Owens can't do that, you see, because the "circumstantial case... has proven strong enough to have few detractors and raises questions that must be answered."
The right-wing blogosphere being what it is, the lack of any evidence whatsoever isn't causing a whole lot of restraint.
Hot Air linked to an Owens piece and asked, "Was this a move to boost up the gun control lobby?"
In a question mark-laden editorial, Investor's Business Daily also cited Owens and asked if the program was a "gun control plot."
An Ace of Spades blogger thinks that a relevant piece of the Gunrunner timeline is the election of a "hard-core, idealogical [sic] leftist" as president and claims that "[w]hether Operation Fast and Furious was just a bad idea or a cynical ploy to push the left's gun control agenda, we need to get to the bottom of it."
Instapundit commented on his "suspicions" on the "awfully convenient juxtaposition" between the administration's public comments on guns going to Mexico and the program.
Is it possible that these people are just incapable of sticking to the facts?
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