"We don't get to pick who wins, detective. Even if that means no one does."
Last time I posted, it was a lament at the collapse of professionalism across our culture, especially in the newsroom. We've gone from grizzled professionals to hippie dippie space cadets with an agenda and as a result not just the quality of the product, but people's trust in the product of news has plummeted.
While its fun to mock annoying people and its easy to criticize, what can be done about this? What is the solution? What would professionalism look like, and be like? How can the news media earn back any level of respect and trustworthiness?
The first thing to remember is that there never was a golden age of journalistic professionalism and accuracy. They've always been misleading, lazy, incompetent, sloppy, and ignorant with occasional outstanding exceptions. The biggest thing that's changed in the news is not so much the people involved, but the transparency and ease of fact checking.
50 years ago, you got the newspaper and had TV and radio news and that was it. It took a special access to Nexis/Lexis database to dig into stories, and hours in microfiche at the library or local newspaper's "morgue" to find the story elsewhere or dig into the past to find consistency or support for the story. Reporters were just as likely to mess things up or spin it, people just had no way to fact check them.
That said, things have gotten significantly worse. Where before a reporter might get things wrong or have a slant, today they actively push a specific agenda in their storytelling (there are a host of devices used, as covered in bias in my older bit on reporting), and suppress information that is problematic to their agenda. Where before most strong opinion statements were excised from reporting and restricted to the op/ed page, now its showing up in news articles. When President Trump was elected, even prestigious newspapers literally stated that they were going to abandon any pretense of objectivity and specifically oppose the man.
The first hurdle is to get journalism to move back to its proper, necessary, and original purpose. The reason that the 1st amendment specifically protects the press, and the reason the news media is called the "fourth estate" in the USA (fourth after congress, presidency, and supreme court) is very significant. It refers to the need for a Democratic Republic to have an informed public in order to vote and choose proper representatives. Ignorant and ill-informed people make worse choices than they would if well-informed.
The purpose of the news media is to accurately, and usefully, inform. That means not only does their job require them to be factual and complete, but cover useful, valuable, and noteworthy events. In no place does this job ever require or even find value in manipulating people's opinions, pushing an agenda, assisting an agenda, or silencing another agenda.
The problem with most journalism today is that they are specifically taught and personally inclined to think of their job not as information but as changing the world, making the world a better place, or fighting evil. They are literally taught in Journalism School that they are not just reporting news to inform, but reporting news to shape a better future, that they have a moral responsibility to do so.
That has to change for anything positive to come out of the news. Journalists need to learn to report the facts, and back away. And the only way for that to begin to happen is to clean up J-school and expectations of young would-be journalists. Start them out with the right perspective and goals, and you will weed out the ones who think its a religious calling or political platform.
Part of the need for fact-based reporting is the need for reporters to understand the difference between fact an opinion. This is a challenging lesson for a lot of younger people, since they've been largely raised to think that there is no actual absolute truth, that truth is a narrative and you make your own truth up. They have to understand that there actually is such a thing as an objective fact, and to recognize that as opposed to what they feel, think, believe, or wish to be true.
Anything that isn't the facts and information in a story needs to be relegated to the opinion pages or one's social media feed. This includes things such as playing "hide the party" and burying the lede. Hide the Party is when you don't mention a scandal-plagued politician's party until deep into the article (if ever) when they are a Democrat, where you list the party affiliation early and often if it is Republican.
Bury the lede is when you conceal the main point of the story in the headline or early paragraphs on the assumption that most people only read those parts and will miss the key story. Why do this? So you can technically have covered a topic (say, Benghazi) while misleading readers on the story.
Knowing that there is actual fact and truth, and distinguishing between that and opinion is a skill not being taught in school, let alone J-School, and not taught while learning while on the job. I say this because I can see that these reporters literally do not seem to understand the distinction from their social media commentary and writing in news stories. They honestly think that their spin on something is the facts.
By sticking to "just the facts, ma'am" reporting will be forced away from certain kinds of news stories. For example, in the last year and a half we've been assaulted by a deluge of rumors printed as news. A nameless White House contact claims they head something, and the reporter third hand prints that as news. Its not news. Its rumor, its unsubstantiated hearsay, and its almost always utterly wrong and humiliating for the news organization. After reading this stuff the fiftieth time, even the densest partisan starts to suspect they might not be able to trust the news.
Another form of non-news printed as facts is the poll. Journalists love polls. Pundits love polls. News junkies love polls. And as I have written about dozens of times in the past, polls are almost all trash, and even where they are useful are not news. It is not news that you asked a group of people something and they all said "x." That is simply a collection of opinions. It means nothing.
I get it, people want to know the future, and love to read astrology tea leaves tarot cards opinion polling. They want that druid to look at the entrails of the goat and see the future. They want to know what they do not and cannot know, in advance, for some sense of comfort and peace. But that is not news, its simply someone's or some group of people's opinions. And opinions are not news.
Further, despite claims by pollsters and statisticians, they are not even scientific: too much depends on how, where, and to whom you poll, not to mention that claiming a question asked of a thousand people somehow rationally represents the ideas of over three hundred million.
Even when polls are not massaged through careful choice of who is polled and when or how the questions are asked, such as asking more Democrats than Republicans, or calling at a time of day you can reliably avoid opinions you don't want to hear from, its still not reliably scientific.
And the worst kind of poll reporting is when a news organization has an opinion or idea that they want to print as a story, but don't have the actual story to run. So they do a poll on this topic, then report on the poll; they aren't reporting the news they are creating the "news" and that's not their job.
Another key thing for journalists to re-learn and carry out is that they have to be hard-hitting, ruthless, and agnostic in their determination to report the facts. Who is hurt or helped, what agenda is driven, how people respond to the facts, none of that matters. What matters is the truth and accuracy. This means that reporters have to ignore the party of the person they are writing about or what "narrative" is being carried out and just hit the facts.
Whether the subject of a news story or investigation is of party x or party y, whether they are conservative or libertarian or leftist or whatever, the news reporter needs to attack the story from the same perspective: facts, truth, completion; what I can support and substantiate. Writing a story about a homosexual black lesbian in a wheelchair should not be any different job than an old white industrialist laying off workers. Stick to the facts; do your job.
Informing the public means giving them the information they need to decide for themselves, and all the information they need to decide for themselves. News reporters are not, as failed Seattle Times reporter stated "the deciders." They are the voices of the facts, not the ones who pick and shape it.
Further, personalities and ego are not part of the job. Nobody wants to know who is reporting the news. They want the facts. This is not a job for people who want the limelight. Its a job for people who want their work to shine. Its not "the news by Jim Acosta" its just the news.
Additionally, the critical job of the reporter in order to fulfill their task as the fourth estate is to be the one who goes after those in power. They have a duty to dig into corruption, incompetence, illegality, and failure from those in power, no matter who they are. The press is only a fourth estate -- a check against the other three -- if they take their role seriously as being that check.
The press needs to be the voice of justice against those in power who try to be above justice. The press needs to give voters the information they require to properly vote and choose candidates. If it will not do so, or worse, only does so with certain types of those in power, they are better being entirely gone than continuing to betray their very reason for existence.
The main key is consistency. I don't care if the press goes after president Trump and ties to find fault in him if they do so with President Obama as well. Adulating and cheering one while despising the other is a complete failure of professionalism. It is an abdication of their role as the fourth estate. The journalist who only goes after one party, no matter what party, is a disaster and a total failure of a journalist. They are betraying the people and their very profession.
That means no pictures of one politician with a halo and their opponent scowling and looking angry. It means no news stories condemning the number of vacations taken by one and admiring the other for knowing how to relax and take time off to recharge. It means no news stories focusing on one politician's stupid gaffes and none on the other's.
No reporter can avoid bias, but what they can do is have rigorous, ruthless professionals in positions of authority in the job. Editors should be without mercy or personal attachment with reporters, tearing down everything that does not belong and building up what does. Reporters need to both be encouraged to do what is right and crushed for doing what is wrong.
The only way this can happen, of course, is if people are so disgusted by the incompetence, sloth, ignorance, credulity, bias, and overall lack of professionalism in news reporting that they abandon it to the point of bankruptcy and ruin in the industry. From the ashes, a new breed can arise that is honest, hard-working, focused on the job, and professional.
Lacking that? I just see things getting worse and worse, with people dividing more viciously into sides and bubbling themselves with their favored news sources to the exclusion of everything that might help them know the facts.


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Derek Jeter was the Kang's idol growing up.
Torin Montgomery brandishes a powerful bat.
The Lake Washington High junior slugger was hitting .467 at press time with three homers and 13 RBIs. Last Friday, the 6-foot-4 first baseman slammed a four-bagger in the Kangs' 9-6 victory over Redmond to help raise his team's league record to 3-1.
Like actor and former LW student Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who plays Negan on "The Walking Dead," Montgomery also has a name for his bat (not of the barbed-wire sort like Morgan's "Lucille," though).
"I call my baseball bat 'Mjolnir,' which is the name of Thor's hammer because I think that I'm the only one who can wield my tool," Montgomery said with a smile. The Kang has watched six seasons of the "The Walking Dead" and was surprised to find out that Morgan attended LW, where he played football and basketball in the mid-1980s.
Montgomery, who sports a .984 fielding percentage, moved to Kirkland with his family from Hamden, Connecticut, three years ago and feels that Kang baseball is a perfect fit for him.
"I actually emailed coach Derek Bingham, letting him know that I wanted to be in his program. He welcomed me in and it's just been fun, getting to play with a great group of guys," said Montgomery, adding that team chemistry is at a premium this season and the team is working hard to handle anything that comes its way.
The Reporter asked Montgomery a series of questions for a behind-the-scenes glimpse into his life.
Reporter: What's your favorite restaurant in Kirkland?
TM: After games, I like going to The Wing Dome with my guys, especially Oliver Laufman. It's solid.
Reporter: What's your biggest pet peeve?
TM: People who chew loudly. Especially in the dugout, they're munching on gum and seeds and all that.
Reporter: What's your dream vacation spot?
TM: I wanna go to South America. I think that would be fun to enjoy the culture there and see everything that's going on in a different part of the world.
Reporter: What's something unique about you that people don't know about you?
TM: I'm really good at catching things in my mouth. Goldfish (the snack), anything. Ping pong balls… plenty of times.
Reporter: What's your favorite hobby?
TM: I play the trumpet. I played it for five years. I used to play it through my middle school, but I still have it, so I still play it for fun sometimes.
Reporter: Who was your idol growing up?
TM: It had to be Derek Jeter. Living on the East Coast and being a die-hard Yankees fan, with my dad ever since I was born. Derek Jeter, just watching his style of play was a great thing to see. And watching him finish out his great career.


Considering that the current philosophy of UI design is "less is more," the expected rise in popularity of minimalism has reached an all-time high amongst web designers, especially in the last couple of years. But, perhaps unknowingly, its appeal to users has also grown.
The principles of minimalism in web design are that a website (and other mediums as well) should be stripped down to their bare bones, while carefully making use of whitespace and improving readability with clearer typography. When implemented correctly, the result will allow users to focus on what's truly important without being distracted by non-essential elements.
While this may sound easy, it can be difficult deciding what the truly important elements are and what's little more than decoration. It can also be risky. Accidentally removing a seemingly innocuous element could be deemed critical by the user and could result in the wrong message (or worse, no message at all) being delivered to your target audience.
If you think about the logistics, it makes sense that minimalism appeals to users: the less fluff on the site, the less you have to think about. When there are just a few links or blocks of text, and the point of interest is directly in front of you, you can let your mind rest for a bit – relax, and the website will spoon feed you just what you need.
Minimalism isn't the miracle solution that you can slap on every single project. There's a time and place for everything; the time is now, but you need to carefully decide the place.
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AT&T Sells 31 Data Centers to Brookfield for $1.1B
AT&T has agreed to sell 31 data centers to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners for $1.1 billion • The assets and operations being sold comprise AT&T's data center colocation business • Brookfield will use the assets to launch a new wholly owned global colocation business • AT&T is the latest telecommunications giant to divest a massive data center portfolio, following similar deals by Verizon, CenturyLink, and others
Yevgeniy Sverdlik | Jun 22, 2018
AT&T is the latest telecommunications giant to sell a massive data center portfolio.
The Dallas-based company announced Thursday a $1.1 billion deal to sell 31 data centers (18 in the US and 13 elsewhere) to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, which buys and managed infrastructure assets around the world.
The assets and operations being sold comprise AT&T's data center colocation business. The telco, which has a considerable portfolio of enterprise IT infrastructure services, will continue offering colocation – often packaged with other services – to its enterprise clients, but the colocation provider will be Brookfield.
If regulators approve, AT&T expects to close the deal in six to eight.
New Colocation Player
When (and if) the deal closes, Brookfield will become a new player in the global colocation market. To date, the Toronto-based company's infrastructure assets have consisted of energy transmission, distribution, and storage in the US, Canada, and Australia; fiber network infrastructure and wireless towers in France; and timberland and agriculture operations in North and South America.
Brookfield said it will launch a wholly-owned subsidiary to own and operate the data center assets. It has selected Tim Caulfield, currently CEO of the IT management consultancy Antara Group, to lead the new data center company as chief executive.
Telcos Get Out of the Data Center Business
After rushing to expand their data center portfolios about seven years ago, hoping to take advantage of the big cloud services opportunity, telcos in recent years have shifted strategy. Data center services are a capital-intensive business, which specialist providers like Equinix and Digital Realty Trust have grown to dominate.
Winning share of the cloud services market has become harder and harder for companies other than giants like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, which have been investing billions of dollars every quarter to grow their already dominating presence.
Verizon sold a massive data center portfolio to Equinix in late 2016, getting $3.6 billion for 29 facilities across 15 metro areas in the US and Latin America. Around the same time, CenturyLink offloaded 57 data centers in North America, Europe, and Asia, getting $2.15 billion from a group of investors that went on to form a data center provider named Cyxtera.
Reports that AT&T was shopping its data center assets around have been surfacing since at least 2015. At the end of that year, it did sell at least some of those assets, agreeing to offload the equipment and operations of its managed application and hosting services to IBM.
This February, the Wall Street Journal reported that AT&T had rekindled the efforts to sell data centers. Anonymous sources told the Journal that more than 300 facilities worldwide could be under consideration. That means the Brookfield deal may not be the last big AT&T data center sale.
Pivots to Media are Expensive
In Thursday's announcement, AT&T said it will use proceeds from the sale to pay down debt. Those proceeds will be a drop in the $180 billion bucket of net debt the company will have on its books after it closes the pending Time Warner acquisition.
Both AT&T and Verizon have been investing in realigning their businesses to become big media players. AT&T's biggest step in that direction has been the Time Warner deal, while Verizon has bulked up its media assets by acquiring AOL and later most Yahoo! assets, combining them under the new brand Oath.
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Scallops, barnacles, and oysters- oh my! Thursday Afternoon Dredging, September 6th, 2018
Posted on September 6, 2018 by David Shiffman
Cuttings (short and sweet):
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'Scallop wars': UK offers olive branch as French navy threatens to act. By Pippa Crerar, for the Guardian. Brexit is complicating some existing relationships between the UK and European nations, including some fishing rights issues. Don't worry, though, it's not like the UK would ever get involved in a shooting war over fishing… except for that one time. And three other related times.
Spoils (long reads and deep dives):
A new trick to keep barnacles from sticking to ships. By Veronique Greenwood, for the New York Times.
The World Of An Oyster: Scientists Are Using Microphones To Spy On Reef Life. By James Morrison, for NPR's the Salt
An Orca in Grief: Tahlequah's Call to Arms. By Rachel Clark, for the Revelator
From Fish to Humans, A Microplastic Invasion May Be Taking a Toll. By Andrea Thompson, for Scientific American.
Diverse family of algae could help corals survive warming seas. By John Cannon, for MongaBay
Hundreds of seals have died in Maine. By Dan Zukowski, for Hakai
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Spanning the Bordeaux Belt – what does local mean in a global economy
Posted on April 11, 2011 by Andrew David Thaler
A small news article from Science has been taped above my desk for the last few years. I don't remember who originally gave it to me, or why I even hung it up, but there it is, nestled between a couple XKCD cartoons. The article is titled "The Wine Divide" and it raises many questions about sustainability, inherent biases in conventional wisdom, and what the term "local" means in a global economy. And it's about wine.
Massive fish kill in France
Posted on October 26, 2010 by Andrew David Thaler
The following photos are from a massive fish kill in a river close to la Guillec, France. According to Dr. Sophie Plouviez, the die-off affected not only fish, but nearly all of the benthic invertebrates in the river. The cause of the die-off has yet to be determined. We are trying to locate the source of the images, and will continue to update as more information become available.
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This week's featured artist was Dan Wright
Dan Wright graciously stepped up to the stage to lead our Jams earlier this year, bringing new energy and structure to the event, not to mention musical talent and charisma, Detroit-style. He's not just a Jam Master, though, Wright plays in three different bands right now. Two out of three will be playing at the Dough soon: this Friday, March 27th, The Energy Company, will play; it is made up of Wright and two other Tuesday stars--bassist Dave Jones and drummer Greg "the Motor" Levkus. On May 1, Tinfunk will play.
Wright describes the Energy Company as "a fun project that came out of Tuesdays at the Dough. I try to play as much as I can because there's always something to learn." And Tinfunk? "Tin Funk is a funk jam band; I play guitar. Tim Hodson, the vocalist and lead guitarist, is a really good musician. The band, especially Tim and I, are on the same page musically. It's really incredible when you realize that the other guys are hearing and feeling the same thing that you are. Learning how to be part of a jam, turn it into something that people can identify with, get into is a lot harder than it seems. It's a great feeling to get into a jam, just let it go, and know that the guys will be right there when it comes back."
Did anyone influence you to start playing music? "I can't say one artist got me really excited about playing music. It's always been my thing since l started playing at 6, and I haven't really wanted to do anything else. My cousin played drums and, to me, that was the greatest thing ever. My parents bought me a blue sparkle drum set. I played drums in junior high and high school. My dad took me to tons of shows: Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Average White Band, B.B King, Robert Cray, Bob Dylan, the Allman Brothers, James Cotton, Johnny Winter, Scott Holt, everybody. When I was 16, he took me to play in bars. I played in several bands and I started doing blues gigs at 17. My first one was at the Elbow Room Lounge (Ypsilanti) with Shed Davis. He was certifiably crazy, telling me my horoscope within the first five minutes of our conversation. There was a brawl later that night, the cops showed up, a lady kept trying to buy me drinks. I switched to guitar about a year later, I started going to blues jams like the Tap Room (Ypsi), found some guys to play with. These gigs weren't glamorous, but I learned a lot about life and met a lot of interesting people."
Did you have a favorite musician back home? "Laith al Saadi was an unofficial (and often reluctant) mentor to me when I was younger, a lot the way that I play guitar comes from him. Laith has the level of (continued on page 2) (continued from page 1) musicianship that I'll never have. He's also a fantastic singer/songwriter, and probably the best guitar player that I've ever seen. Earlier this decade, Laith played every Thursday night at Goodnight Gracie's in Ann Arbor. Al Hill--another Ann Arbor phenom--was a world-class piano player and singer, he was the keyboard player. That band was just unreal! I remember thinking how lucky I was to see these guys for free every Thursday night. "
Do you write? "I do write songs, but you'll never hear them. I'm hypercritical and impatient, it isn't a good formula for writing songs. I've found that I'm a lot more comfortable just being a guitar player. Even from the beginning I've always played in bands that improvise most of the shows, so writing parts and stuff is kind of difficult for me. No real plans to record anything soon."
What inspired your move to Charleston? "I discovered Charleston on tour with Detroit's Gordon Bennett band, I was a sideman. The tour was designed to generate interest in the Southeast and prove to the management companies (and potential record companies) that we could live in a van and not kill each other (we almost did).We'd finished recording two songs with producer Chuck Alkazian at a Novi, Michigan studio. We'd played in Ohio, Atlanta, and two nights in Wilmington, NC. I met a girl there from Charleston I was immediately crazy about. We got back to Michigan and learned our manager (at Denver, CO Clear Channel) didn't like the demo and wasn't going to promote it. The band fired him, and planned a tour from LA to New York. I faced a choice to join them, or finish college. I graduated from Eastern, packed my stuff and came here."
How is Detroit different from Charleston? "There are venues dedicated to music up there: Baker's (on 8 mile) is an old school jazz club, Firefly (Ann Arbor) is a blues club, the Magic Stick (Detroit) is a rock club. In Charleston, the scene is really heavy on duos, trios and cover bands because it's a tourist destination. Seems like in Detroit, people will go to a venue specifically to hear original music."
Who would you really like to play with? "Marc Broussard. I'd love a chance to play with him. That's pretty much my dream band. Put in a good word for me."
Wright's other project, Soul Captive, will be recording a live CD at the IOP's Windjammer on April 16th. The band wants to fill the place up for a good audience vibe. The first 15 in the door will get a free copy of the CD when it is pressed.
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The Sia wallet integrates all of the basic functionality you need in order to operate with the service including the options to create contracts and upload files as well as to access them or to lease your free disk space to users needing such. This means that the wallet needs to be running all the time and that goes as well if you want to be able to mine SiaCoins as well. Currently SiaCoins can be mined using a GPU miner, an OpenCL one that works on both AMD and Nvidia GPUs, though it should be faster on AMD-based video cards. You can expect to get up to about 900 MHs from a Radeon 280X or a GeForce GTX 970 as a reference, but do note that the miner for Sia is also pretty CPU intensive, so if running with multiple GPUs the hashrate may slow down if the CPU gets overloaded. So far the Sia GPU miner needs quite a lot of extra work to become really useful, there are still no pools for SiaCoin mining and you need a running and unlocked wallet on each system you want to mine Sia on. Furthermore you need to run a separate instance of the GPU miner for each GPU you want ot mine the coin with, so with the current network difficulty and solo mining it may take quite a while until you hit a block, making the mining not to attractive.
To get to try sharing some files by renting some space on the Sia network you can use a faucet to get some SiaCoins, however it seems that the faucet has some downtime, so alternatively you can purchase SiaCoins from Poloniex where they are traded with a price of 7 satoshi per SiaCoin (pretty cheap). You can see what is the average price per GB per month in SiaCoins in the wallet among the currently active available hosts to get an idea how much you may need to spend depending on your storage needs. So with 200 SiaCoins per GB per month if you need 1TB of storage you would need to pay for it about 0.014 BTC equivalent or a little over $5 USD each month. The service encrypts the files and apparently stores them on multiple hosts in order to ensure availability even if one of the hosts experiences some downtime. The problem here is that managing your files from within the Sia wallet is not the most convenient you would expect, so this is also something that needs work as alternative cloud storage services like DropBox and many others do provide much more convenient access to user's files.
The part where you are Hosting user files and are getting paid in SiaCoin in return is probably what more people are interested in. Here you set your price in SiaCoin per GB per month and the amount of free space you want to have available for sale and start waiting for getting contracts from people that need space. Dedicating 100 GB does not mean that they will be instantly filled at the moment even if you set a very low price of just 10 SiaCoins, it is wise to see what is the average price at the moment and base yours accordingly in order to get contracts as well as for them to be profitable. Based on your active contracts you will see what is the expected earnings that you will get at the end of the contract if you manage to fill them in. It is not very clear what level of downtime is acceptable before a contract is cancelled, but restarting the wallet a couple of times did not pose a problem for our few test contracts at a very low price. What is important here for providing Hosting services via Sia is that you need to be able to have your PC running the wallet accessible via an external IP, you can use port forwarding and the wallet supports UPnP as well. Though we've had a fair share of issues with connections not going through even though UPnP was working and port forwarding was just fine, leaving the wallet run for a few hours and these have disappeared by themselves. Getting your computer Hosting files on the Sia network accessible over the Internet could cause some issues for novice users and it also makes it hard to run multiple computers sharing free storage from a single external IP.


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The SCM analyzes the time distance between two clocks at the input and can multiply the clock according to this information.
The "blue" outputs x1, x2 and x8 are steady clock outputs.
Die Rotate-Funktion verschiebt den Multiplikationsfaktor an allen Ausgängen um einen bestimmten Wert, je nach Stärke der anliegenden CV. So kann man ganz einfach und bequem Tempoänderungen wie double-time erzeugen.
The rotate function shifts the multiplication factor at all clock outputs simultaneously by a certain value, depening on the value of the CV at the CV rotate input. This makes possible to create tempo changes like double-time easily.
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Boxed In Episode 8: 'How Daily Routines Can Make the Pandemic More Bearable'
James Maddux, PhD, discusses why habits are so important for many people, and shares advice on how to restructure daily life in the time of COVID-19 pandemic.
By Maureen Connolly
In episode 8 of Everyday Health's video series Boxed In: COVID-19 and Your Mental Health, "How Daily Routines Can Make the Pandemic More Bearable," editor in chief Maureen Connolly speaks with James Maddux, PhD, a professor emeritus in the department of psychology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and a senior scholar at the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being.
Tune in as Dr. Maddux talks about why habits are so important for many people. Maddux and Connolly will also be joined by Everyday Health's executive editor, Dakila Divina, who speaks about how the loss of daily routine has personally impacted him since the coronavirus pandemic began.
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The following are some highlights from an edited transcript of the interview.
Maureen Connolly: Your work is focused on areas of anxiety and depression and how they affect general well-being. The pandemic has caused life to come to a screeching halt — how does that impact someone's sense of well-being?
James Maddux: The first thing I would address is the notion that life has come to a screeching halt. I think that's probably a belief that is not conducive to well-being. Life has changed. Life has slowed down for some people in some ways. Life has speeded up for some people in some ways. Everyone is dealing with this differently, and some people are having a much, much tougher time than others. But if one says, "My life has come to a screeching halt," that thought alone is going to induce stress, anxiety, and depression. I would discourage people from thinking those kinds of statements and more thinking, "How has my life changed? And how can I better adjust to it?"
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Connolly: In terms of routines and more structured days, what's the thinking behind why structure helps and allows us to feel good?
Maddux: We know from research that uncertainty is a big underlying factor for anxiety, and people's lives have become much more unpredictable in lots of ways. Even going to the grocery store can feel unsafe to a lot of people. There's a lot of unpredictability, but people can build predictability into their daily lives on a day-to-day basis.
One thing I would suggest is to put aside for awhile thinking about how long this is going to last. If you can limit yourself to thinking of how to make this day more predictable and minimize stress and anxiety on this day, I think that could help people feel that their lives are a little bit more manageable. So, thinking in limited time frames and building in predictability on a day-to-day basis would probably be useful for a lot of people who are feeling like their lives are out of control.
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Connolly: What's your advice to people for some small but impactful things they can do to help make themselves well during this time?
Maddux: My advice would be to sit down and make a list of the things, before this all happened, in your life that you found satisfying. Keep that list in front of you. And when you feel yourself becoming stressed, bored, upset, or depressed, look at that list and do one of those things. Even if it means watching a rerun of I Love Lucy that you've seen 100 times, do it. If it means going to your bookshelf and once again rearranging your books, and that makes you feel better or more organized, then do it. Make a list of the things that in your previous life, in the pre-COVID-19 period, that you found satisfying. And then you have a menu to choose from.
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The world voted on 2017's Most Beautiful Women, and the Beyhive will certainly agree with the results of this Buzznet poll. While pregnant with twins, Beyoncé was voted the number one most beautiful woman in the world, and it's easy to see why: This mom-to-be is glowing.
Coming in at second place is Baywatch star Priyanka Chopra, and even she had to agree with the ranking. "Thank you @BUZZNET and all who voted," she wrote on Twitter. "@Beyonce is my number 1 too!!" Girl power, FTW.
Keep scrolling to see the top five, and watch this video for the full ranking of this year's fan-voted most beautiful women. We'll just say, Christian Gray would certainly have some (angry) thoughts on where Dakota Johnson sits on the list.


Private label powerhouse TreeHouse Foods Inc., Oak Brook, Ill., on Aug. 8 announced an agreement to acquire Associated Brands GP Corp., a private label manufacturer of powdered drinks, specialty teas and sweeteners. TreeHouse has agreed to pay C$187 million cash (approximately US $180 million) to owner TorQuest Partners LLC and other shareholders.
With approximately 650 employees, Associated Brands is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, and operates three production facilities in Delta, British Columbia; Medina, New York; and Toronto. Associated Brands had sales of approximately $200 million for the 12 months ended June 30. Following the acquisition, TreeHouse will have pro forma 2013 sales of approximately $2.5 billion.
The acquisition will strengthen TreeHouse's retail presence in private label dry grocery and will introduce a line of specialty tea products to complement its fast growing single serve coffee business.


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State leaders ask Trump to extend Red Snapper season by executive order
Last updated on June 6, 2017, at 05:49 am
Friday, June 2, 2017, both Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) and former Chief Justice Roy Moore (R) sent letters to President Trump formally requesting that he use his Executive powers to extend the 2017 Federal Red Snapper Season.
Governor Ivey said in a statement, "Red Snapper fishing is vital to Alabamians as it is a major source of recreational enjoyment and provides great economic impact. Overreaching Federal bureaucrats have unjustly made the 2017 Red Snapper Season shorter than any season in history – that decision is simply unacceptable for Alabama."
Gov. Ivey continued, "I have asked President Trump to extend the season to include every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in June, July and August as well as July 3 and 4 for the 2017 season. The Federal government's estimates of the number of Red Snapper being caught and living in the wild are simply not accurate.
Chief Justice Moore wrote, "Recently, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) restricted the recreational Red Snapper season on our Gulf Coast to only three days apparently as a penalty for exceeding the 2016 recreational quota by a mere 0.02 percent."
Moore wrote, "The unreasonable limitation on recreational fishing for Red Snapper appears to be a continuation of Barack Obama's policies to control and overregulate fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. Nonetheless, it is a within your authority to rescind this unnecessary and irrational regulation. The people of Alabama need your help in this matter."
Judge Moore is running in the special Republican Primary for US Senate on August 15.
State Auditor Jim Zeigler, who is from Mobile and is a recreational fisherman himself, went red snapper fishing on Saturday, the final day of the three that Alabama fishermen are allowed in Federal waters.
Zeigler told The Alabama Political Reporter, "There was evidence of an abundance of Red Snapper. All nine of our anglers caught their limit of two snappers each."
Zeigler said, "Over 20,000 artificial reefs have been built off Alabama shores. The reefs are perfect habitats for red snapper. The Feds refuse to count the snapper on the reefs. The Feds are not good at a lot of things, and counting fish is one of them."
Zeigler said, "This is the most ridiculous regulatory decision ever made by the Federal government. It is so unreasonable that it should cause a backlash. Alabama needs to get completely away from Federal regulation of our fishery and have State regulation."
Zeigler said, "People who do not go deep sea fishing do not realize what problems are caused by the federal mismanagement of our Alabama fisheries. These over-reaching limits are bad for the boat industry and seafood industry. This is terrible for the consumer who works to buy and equip a boat and then has only a three-day season."
Zeigler is exploring running for Governor in 2018.
Gov. Ivey said, "I hope the President will do the right thing and take swift action on my request and right this wrong."
While the three-day Federal waters season has ended, the Season to fish for Red Snapper in State waters does not end until July 31.
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Protesters demanding the departure of Senegal's aging president on Sunday seized control of a three-block stretch in the heart of the capital, erecting barricades and lobbing rocks at police as demonstrations intensified just days before a contentious presidential poll.
It marked the fifth day of violent protests ahead of the country's crucial vote, and on Sunday the state-owned news service confirmed the death of a young man in a suburb of the capital where the demonstrations later spread. President Abdoulaye Wade (85) is insisting on running again, despite the deepening unrest and calls from both France and the United States to hand power to the next generation.
Sunday's clashes marked a worrying development, because they took on a religious dimension in the normally tolerant Muslim nation. Hundreds had gathered outside a mosque as religious leaders met to discuss a Friday incident in which police used grenade launchers to throw tear gas down the wide boulevard, at one point hitting the wall of the mosque.
Footage of the incident shown on Senegalese TV indicated that the police had not shot inside the mosque, only outside where a crowd had gathered.
But the cloud of gas enveloped worshippers praying both inside and outside the shrine, deeply offending Senegal's largest Muslim brotherhood which owns the mosque.
They sparred for several hours until the protesters succeeded in seizing control of a three-block stretch of Lamine Gueye, one of two main commercial avenues traversing downtown Dakar. They grabbed market tables and pieces of plywood that had been nailed across shop windows, using them as shields to protect themselves from the tear gas grenades.
They then lined them across the road's median, as police were momentarily pushed back, waiting for reinforcements.
Each time the youths charged the police, they screamed, "Allah Akbar" and "There is no God but Allah"; religious phrases that are rarely heard in his this nation that is over 90% Muslim but which has long embraced a secular identity.
Later on Sunday, Interior Minister Ousmane Ngom apologised to the population, calling Friday's attack on the mosque a "police blunder". On state TV, he asked for forgiveness from the Tidiane community and all Muslims, and called on the politicians to not exploit this incident for political ends.
The protests spread from the downtown core of the capital to numerous neighbourhoods including HLM, Parcelles, Castor and Rufisque. In Rufisque, an adolescent was killed in the clashes on Sunday, while on Saturday, a demonstrator was killed in the regional capital of Kaolack, bringing to six the number of people killed in three weeks of protests, according to the Senegalese Press Agency, the state-owned news service.
The increasingly tense atmosphere on the ground has many concerned that there may be worse unrest if Wade is declared the winner of next Sunday's vote. In power for 12 years, Wade oversaw a 2001 revision to the Constitution which imposed a two-term maximum, a move that at the time was hailed as proof of Senegal's democratic maturity. He disappointed many when he argued that the new Constitution was not retroactive and so should not apply to him.
Senegal has seen protests every few days since January, when the country's highest court ruled that Wade was eligible to run for a third term. Wade has been dismissive of the opposition, characterising their protests as nothing more than a "light breeze which rustles the leaves of a tree, but never becomes a hurricane".
The country is considered key to the stability of West Africa. It's the only nation in the region and one of the only in Africa that has never experienced a military coup.


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Road Maintenance with an MMS - 25/07/2014
Accurate and Detailed 3D Models Using Mobile Laser Scanning
Friederike Schwarzbach
A mobile mapping system (MMS) enables laser data and images of a road and its vicinity to be collected from a van or other moving platform. Here, the author describes data collection and accuracy assessment of a pilot carried out in Finland. It is demonstrated that MMS data processed with sophisticated software is well suited for road maintenance tasks as many parameters can be accurately calculated from the 3D model.
An MMS survey enables highly detailed mapping of roads and their direct surroundings with high accuracy and within a short period of time, while minimising nuisance to traffic and risks of accidents. To prove its aptness for road maintenance, a pilot was conducted aimed at assessing the accuracy of the 3D model, determining road damage and deformations and using the 3D model to design the renewal of the road surface. Furthermore, the MMS survey delivered essential input for the resurfacing machine.
A 22km-long, two-lane section of the National Road 6 (NR6) in south-east Finland was captured with a Trimble MX8 composed of two Riegl VQ-250 scanners, four cameras – one recording the road surface and three pointing forward – and an Applanix POS LV 520 for positioning purposes. The two lanes, which are mostly bordered by forest, were both captured, i.e. forth and back, with a speed of 50 to 70 km/h. For georeferencing purposes, ground control points (GCPs) were painted on both sides of three sections of the road at an interval of 50m and measured using Trimble R10 GNSS and DiNi Level instruments. The length of each section was 500-600m, so 74 GCPs were placed in total. Processing was done with Terrasolid's TerraScan, TerraMatch, TerraPhoto, and TerraModeler. These modules run on top of Bentley's MicroStation.
A major source of errors is the blocking of GPS signals due to tunnels, buildings, trees, rocks or other obstructions near the road. These errors could be corrected using the GCPs and the overlap between the forth and back recordings. To determine the relation between the number and distribution of GCPs versus accuracy, the number of GCPs was systematically reduced from all to a spacing of 500m (Table 1).
All GCPs
GCP spacing
Z average magnitude
Z standard deviation
XY average magnitude
Table 1, Relationship between accuracy [cm] and spacing of GCPs.
A GCP spacing of 100 to 200 metres provides good accuracy, but with coarser spacing the accuracy diminishes quickly due to the non-linearity of the drift of the raw trajectory positioning. For high-accuracy work, the spacing should not exceed 50m for elevation and about 250m for planar coordinates. In addition, the elevation of the GCPs should be measured using a levelling instrument to obtain high accuracy.
After matching the overlap between the forth and back recordings, all non-road points were removed automatically. Orthoimagery with 1cm ground sample distance (GSD) was generated to support detection of road damage and previous repair work (Figure 1). Centre and edge lines and road edges were then digitised manually from the combined laser data and orthoimagery resulting in an accurate vector dataset. The centre and edge lines were used to create a surface model which enabled the extraction from the laser data of ruts and potholes with a depth of at least 2cm. The vertical distance between the heights of inner and outer edges of the pavement (super-elevation) was visualised by across-road arrows and the gradients of the slope (Figure 2). Figure 3 shows seven classes of local slope gradients: red indicates smaller than 1%, orange 1% to 2%, yellow 2% to 3%, yellow-green 3% to 4%, green 4% to 5%, blue-green 5% to 6% and blue larger than 6%. Areas with high gradients will disturb driving conditions but will also have quick water run-off, while the water will remain on flat areas for longer.
The survey revealed an urgent need for renewing the asphalt. Road-design software is not well equipped for processing massive point clouds. Therefore the original 3D model was thinned and used for creating a new design surface which was imported into a machine control system and used for resurfacing the road. In addition, the data allowed an accurate estimation of the amount of materials needed for the surface renewal activities.
Future solutions may include line-of-sight analysis (Figure 4), calculation of road-surface roughness and cross sections, automatic vectorisation of paint markings and road break lines and detection of objects in the vicinity of the road.
Thanks are due to Kjell Tuominen and Arttu Soininen of Terrasolid Ltd, and Manu Marttinen of NCC Roads Ltd.
www.terrasolid.com/download/presentations/2012/mobile_accuracy_and_control.pdf
Figure 1, Potholes, ruts and other deformations with a depth of at least 2cm are shown in blue.
Figure 2, Super-elevation: the blue line marks the location of the road section (bottom)
Figure 3, Centre and edge lines are shown in white and local slope gradients shown as classes.
Figure 4, Objects blocking sight (orange); red numbers indicate the distances to an obstruction for which a driver will be unable to stop in time when driving at a speed of 100km/h.
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Next Monday, March 11th, Shiri Appleby will take your questions live on HBO Connect. Shiri joined "Girls" as Natalia in the second season of HBO's Emmy-nominated comedy. She first appeared in episode "It's Back" on March 3rd, 2013.


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"Let's turn this guy into a pretzel," laughed the clown as he lunged at Chad.
"No!" screamed Randall as he lunged towards the clown. Randall grabbed the clown and threw him to the floor of the bus. He grabbed the clown's throat. He squeezed the clown's throat as hard as he could. He picked the clown's head up and started smashing the back of the clown's head against the floor of the bus. "Leave me alone...Leave me alone...Leave me alone," Randal chanted over and over all the while continuing to smash the clown's head against the floor.
"Randall! Randall! Randall, take your hands off of Chad," demanded the bus monitor. The bus had pulled off the road and stopped. Randall froze. What he thought was the clown was actually Chad. Chad's face had turned white and his lips blue. Blood spread and pooled out from under Chad's head. Chad's eyes were closed and his body lay limp and lifeless. Randall relaxed his grip on Chad's neck and fell back into the arms of the bus monitor. Randall was escorted off the bus and into the car of a waiting faculty member. Soon an ambulance showed up to receive Chad.
Randall found himself back in the principal's office with the principal and a police officer.


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U.S. forces pulled away, allowing Turkey's prepared incursion into northern Syria
"we now have defended Rojava against ISIS and fascism that is turkish we have been willing to defend all oppressed individuals of the center East and beyond!"
Therefore reads a billboard perched next to the crossing that is official into Rojava that celebrates the People's Protection Units (YPG), the Kurdish militia credited with carving down this autonomous enclave in Syria's northeastern corner during long several years of war.
But as international reporters and help employees streamed throughout the Semalka edge post this week into the other direction, toward north Iraq, it was signalling the start of the finish for Rojava.
The exodus was prompted by news that in a move that is desperate Kurdish militias fighting underneath the advertising associated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had invited the Syrian regime back to the fray.
Outgunned by the Turkish military and backed into a large part by U.S. President Donald Trump's choice to pull American troops out, the Kurds required a fresh protector and fast.
"Whenever we need certainly to select from compromise and genocide, we're going to select our individuals," the SDF commander in chief, Mazloum Abdi, published within an editorial for Foreign Policy mag.
The re-entry in to the area of Syrian federal government forces, supported by President Bashar-al Assad's effective allies that are russian might behave as a buffer against Turkish advances.
But few think Assad will allow Kurdish autonomy stand in territory he destroyed control of early when you look at the pugilative war, if as soon as the conflict finally comes to an end.
When asked, Syrian Kurds whom've been able to escape the combat and also make it to north Iraq stated they're perhaps not clear on the strategy. Nonetheless they also think it absolutely was an work created of desperation.
"I'm not sure," stated Baha Hassan Neyami, a auto mechanic who fled the edge city of Ras Ayn that is al with spouse and three kiddies.
"The thing I understand is he said that we sacrifice. " The regime that is turkish Ras al Ayn with airstrikes. We did not have accepted location to get. We had to come to Iraqi Kurdistan."
"We have significantly more value right here," stated their wife, Hanan. "they don't really allow such a thing occur to Kurds."
The household arrived on Tuesday, along side 182 other refugees that are syrian crossed into north Iraq by having to pay smugglers to have them right right here.
Watch as Syrians look for refuge in north Iraq through the violence that is ongoing
"for them, we couldn't pass," said Neyami, speaking at a refugee camp in Domiz, Iraq if it wasn't.
Another 800 refugees have actually since appeared utilizing the route that is same about 30 kilometres south associated with the official Semalka crossing.
Semalka is certainly not available to refugees. The Kurds that is syrian wo allow them to keep this way, one edge official from the Rojava part confirmed, therefore the Iraqi Kurds won't allow them to by doing so, either.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in north Iraq is assisting refugees at the unofficial crossing and bussing them to reception centres if they arrive, however, meeting them.
Elaborate relations
The Iraqi Kurds have a complicated relationship utilizing the YPG sufficient reason for Turkey, whoever investment they count on for the thriving economy in north Iraq set alongside the remaining portion of the country.
The primary figure heralded regarding the big YPG billboard in the Semalka edge post is Abdullah Ocalan, the top associated with the individuals's Workers Party (PKK), that is presently serving a life phrase in Turkey.
The militant separatist team has waged a bloody, decades-long campaign from the state that is turkish.
The PKK's affiliation because of the YPG that is syrian one explanation Turkey is attempting to push away — or neutralize, to utilize Ankara's language — the Kurdish militias along its southern flank.
The PKK is really a designated terrorist group both in Canada together with united states of america.
Through the 1980s, before Ocalan was arrested, he founded their operations away from Syria, and became a thorn that is constant along side it of Turkey.
Iraq's Kurds will undoubtedly be cautious with YPG fighters potentially coming over the edge, whilst the PKK seem to be ensconced in north Iraq's Qandil Mountains and also have been a target that is regular of airstrikes through the years.
Nevertheless the Syrian Democratic Forces — such as the YPG — helped U.S. special forces defeat the alleged Islamic State in north Syria, and destroyed significantly more than 10,000 fighters into the battle.
The alliance has long angered Turkey.
It's a complex photo in a region that is complicated. But also for the Syrian refugees fleeing the combat, it really is a simple story of success.
And Kurdish anger is certainly not reserved for Turkey or its proxy-fighters while they pummel Kurdish towns and villages. Numerous state they shall keep in mind whatever they see being a betrayal by the U.S. president.
"their decision and withdrawing the troops harmed us, harmed Kurds," stated Neyami. "as he withdrew, he broke our backs."
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ÞEMSEDDÝN ÝBN-Ý MÜNÝR

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Þafii mezhebi alimlerinden ve büyük velilerden. Ýsmi, Muhammed bin Abdürrahim, lakabý
Þemsüddin'dir. Daha çok Ýbn-i Münir diye tanýnýr. Suriye'de, Dýmeþk'a (Þam'a) üç günlük
mesafede bulunan, acaib binalarý ve eski eserleri ile tanýnan Baalbek þehrindendir. Doðum
tarihi bilinmemektedir. 1531 (H.937) senesi Safer ayýnýn ikisinde, Pazar günü Baalbek'te
vefat edip, talebelerine ders verdiði zaviyesinin bahçesinde defnolundu. Vefat senesinin 1524

(H.931) olduðu rivayet edimiþ ise de, 1531 olmasý ihtimali daha kuvvetlidir.
Ýbn-i Münir, evliyanýn büyüklerinden olan Ýbrahim Metbuli hazretlerinin yetiþtirdiði
talebelerin önde gelenlerinden, alim, arif, faziletler sahibi, zahid, dünyaya düþkün olmayan
bir zat idi. Yumuþak huylu, güler yüzlü, sevimli bir hali vardý. Ýnsanlar, sohbetlerinden
istifade etmek, mübarek kalbinden yayýlan feyz ve nurlara kavuþmak için huzuruna gelirler,
hazýr bulunurlardý.

Ýbn-ül-Münir, nafakasýný temin için, üstübeç, zercar (bakýr sülfat) gibi maddeler ve ýtriyat
(güzel kokular) yapýp satardý. Her gün Baalbek çarþýsýnda hazýrladýðý bu þeyleri satar,
kazandýðý altýn, gümüþ ve bakýr paralarý bir kaðýdýn içine koyardý. Böylece her satýþtan
kazandýðý para, cebinde ayrý kaðýtlara sarýlmýþ halde dururdu. Huzuruna fakir bir kimse gelip
bir yardým talebinde bulunsa, elini cebine atar, içinde para bulunan dürülü kaðýtlardan ne
kadar gelirse, hepsini o fakire verirdi. Bunu yaparken, verdiði kaðýtlarýn içinde ne kadar para
bulunduðunu, fakire ne kadar verdiðini bilmezdi. Ýyilik, ihsan ve ikramlarý pekçok olup, çok
sadaka verirdi. Bilhassa takva sahiplerine, haramdan sakýnan iyi kimselere çok yardýmda
bulunurdu. Mescidleri imar eder, dünyalýk bir malý bulunmayarak vefat eden, garib ve fakir
kimselerin kefenleme masraflarýný karþýlardý.

Ýbn-i Münir hazretleri de nefsin arzularýna uymayýp, ona zor gelen ibadetleri çok yapmakta
pek ileriydi. Çok ibadet eder ve devamlý Allahü tealayý zikrederdi.

Her sene hacca giderdi. Bu gidiþinin çoðu yaya olurdu. Omuzunda sadece bir su kabý
bulunur, ondan insanlara su daðýtýrdý. Vefatýndan evvel altmýþ yedi defa hacca gittiðini
söylemiþtir. Her sene hac vazifesini ifa ettikten sonra memleketine dönmez, Mescid-i Aksa'yý
da ziyaret ederdi. Orada bir ay kadar kaldýktan sonra memleketine dönerdi.

Hacca gidip gelirken, yolda ve orada kaldýðý müddetçe birkaç hurmadan baþka bir þey yiyip
içtiði görülmezdi. Bazý senelerde de hacca giderken, hayvanýna zahire, þeker, iðne, iplik,
sürme gibi ihtiyaç eþyalarýný yükler, götürüp oradaki insanlara daðýtýrdý. Ýnsanlar onu, þehrin
dýþýna kadar çýkarak karþýlarlardý.

Ýbn-i Münir hazretlerinin tasavvufa dair, Rekaik-ul-Hakaik isimli bir eseri vardýr.

NÝÇÝN ZAHMET ETTÝN

Abdülvehhab-ý
Þa'rani þöyle anlatýr: "Ýbn-i Münir hazretlerinin hastalýðý haberi bana ulaþýnca,
Ebü'l-Abbas el-Harisi veEbü'l-Abbas el-Gamri ile birlikte onu ziyarete niyet ettik. Ertesi günü sabah
erkenden, Bab-ün-nasr denilen yerde buluþup yola çýkmaya karar verdik. Oraya erken gelen ötekileri
bekleyecekti. Sabahleyin ben geldiðimde, arkadaþlarýmý bulamadým. Oradaki kapýcý; "Onlar buraya
geldiler. Epey müddet beklediler. Sonra da, Hanke yolundan çýkýp gittiler." dedi.Ben onlara yetiþirim
ümidiyle yola çýktým. Biraz sonra Yemen tarafýndan gelen bir derviþ ile karþýlaþtým. Bana; "Nereye
gidiyorsun?" dedi. "Ýbn-i Münir hazretlerine gidiyorum" deyince; "Ben de ayný yere gidiyorum" dedi.
Benim bindiðim hayvan topal, vakit de kýþ günü olduðu için, normalde akþama ancak varabilirdik.
Fakat daha güneþ az yükselmiþ idi ki, birden kendimizi o zatýn yanýnda bulduk. Yanýna girdik. Çok
halsiz düþmüþ, gözlerinde takat kalmamýþtý. Üç günden beri konuþmadýðýný öðrendik. Bizim

girdiðimizi hissetti, fakat kim olduðumuzu tanýyacak halde deðildi. "Kimsin?" diye sordu.
"Abdülvehhab" dedim. Bunu duyunca; "Kardeþim, buraya kadar niçin zahmet ettin?" dedi. "Ýnþaallah
bu ziyaretimiz çok hayýrlý olur. Sevap kazanýrýz." dedim. Bana çok dua etti. Öðle namazýndan sonra
veda edip ayrýldým. Hanke'ye geldiðimde ikindi vakti olmuþtu. Biraz sonra bulunduðum yere
Ebü'l-Abbas girdi. Benim henüz gitmediðimi yeni geldiðimi zannediyordu. "Haydi, hayvanýna bin
gidelim" dedi. "Ben oraya gittim, ziyaret ettim. Þimdi geri dönüyorum" dedim. Bu sözüme çok hayret
ettiler. Ýnanmazsanýz oraya vardýðýma dair iþaretimi de size söyleyebilirim. Mesela, Ýbn-i Münir
hazretlerinin yaslandýðý yastýk kýrmýzý idi. Ýsterseniz gidince kontrol edersiniz." dedim. Ben anladým
ki, yanýna giderken ve gelirken aradaki çok uzak mesafeyi Allahü tealanýn izni ile çok kýsa zamanda
almam, hep Ýbn-i Münir hazretlerinin bir kerametiydi.

1) Tabakat-ül-Kübra; c.2, s.130

2) Camiu Keramat-il-Evliya; c.1, s.178

3) Mu'cem-ül-Müellifin; c.10, s.158

4) Þezerat-üz-Zeheb; c.8, s.226

5) Esma-ül-Müellifin; c.2, s.234

6) Ýzah-ul-Meknun; c.1, s.581

7) Ýslam Alimleri Ansiklopedisi; c.14, s.120


While most people don't even have labor day on their minds yet, our production schedule has us working on our big holiday pieces up to six months in advance! Right now we're cranking away on Halloween, Christmas AND Hanukkah stuff. Most of our art and animations for the December holidays will remain top secret for quite some time and we'll be blogging Halloween stuff like crazy come October, but just in case you were wondering what our animators are up to, we're launching head on into the holiday season!
Above, a grab from our animatic to "The 8 Days of Hanukkah".
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