Before I bought my first printer I asked the fine printer experts on /r/3dprinting what kind of tools were needed in the craft.
I collected a list of probably 50 items that I started looking into. I asked around, asked my dad about brands and what is a waste of money.. (for instance they have digital calipers on Amazon for as low as $8.50, but a decent tool usually runs for about $100. My dad happened to have an old set in his shop and gave it to me. Along with a power drill. . But that's another story. I will say that my tool investment went from about $50 on nail clippers, tweezers and a woodburner to probably $500 between Christmas and my birthday(March) that year.
I bought a bunch of tools that seemed affordable and relevant, and honestly I still haven't used some of them. A square tool, micrometer, Allen wrenches(most things that need them seem come with them so far), a dremel, gap measure feeler, soldering tools (however I do use a wood burning tool for art, so I didn't need to purchase that.
Your mileage may vary. I haven't tinkered a ton with upgrading or anything, and I'm sure once I start my own Reprap(lingo for home built 3d printer, usually made with bits and bobs, and printed parts) I will use more of them. I also have used the calipers mostly to design my own items.
Metal palette knives - I use them to slide between the bed and plastic layers and break stuff apart so they need to be solid.. I would try these I used the cheap ones meant for painting and they work but they break easily, I'll probably upgrade next time.
Carving Knives - 3D tool set A - Basically exacto knives that are a bit stronger, and the set has straight, diagonal, curved and 45 degree angle blades for easily carving out pieces of the plastic.
Painters tape/kapton tape - I stick this directly to my bed so the filament sticks better, and i dont scrape up my bed when prying the prints off. I also use glue on top of the tape for most prints.
Disappearing purple glue sticks - spread out over tape on my bed to give the filament something to bond with.


All throughout Tokyo you'll find many, many bakeries, selling all sorts of sweet and savory eats.
We stopped at Boulangerie Asanoya at Tokyo Station, a popular shop with locations all throughout Japan.
Since I usually prefer savory over sweet, I went with the Curry Bun with Fried Onions. It was good - I just wished it were warmer.
The Cinnamon Rolls were gigantic. I was hesitant to let my kids eat them, but I just let them go for it (we were on vacation, after all).
Boulangerie Asanoya was a great place to stop for a quick bite!


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Pastor Alape (Image credit: Pulzo)
FARC admits killing community leader during unilateral ceasefire
by Grace Brown August 24, 2015
The FARC on Sunday admitted the rebel group's responsibility for killing a community leader while its current unilateral ceasefire was in force.
"Pastor Alape," a leader of the FARC that has been engaged in peace talks with the government since November 2012, said on his Twitter Sunday that the guerrilla group is responsible for the murder of Genaro Garcia on August 3, 2015, three weeks after the group announced to cease hostilities.
Reportedly a human rights advocate, Garcia was an afro-descendant leader of the Alto Mira y Frontera Community Council in the southwestern province of Nariño by the Pacific coast where the guerrilla group is active.
Pastor Alape
Alape said "the investigation in to the death of ethnic leader Genaro Garcia disgracefully involves our units," promising the public that "there will be justice."
According to media reports, Garcia's car was stopped on a rural road by armed men who shot him in the legs and head.
Amnesty International has said that the FARC had pressured Garcia to attend a meeting with them on that date previous to his murder.
Last year, FARC members warned Garcia that he would be killed if he continued his role as a leader of his community council.
The murder is the third violation of the FARC's unilateral ceasefire that came into force on July 20 in the guerrillas' attempt to deescalate violence while negotiating an end to 51 years of war with the state.
FARC violated ceasefire twice, Colombian army focused on other groups: Report
The FARC itself has accused the government of having violated the suspension of military air strikes on army units, the government's reciprocation to the guerrillas' ceasefire.
Colombia govt bombs FARC units in spite of suspension: Rebel leader
Both party are currently negotiating a bilateral ceasefire that would end the longest running armed conflict in Latin America before the formal signing of a peace deal.
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Список 2008 год в спорте описывает спортивные события, произошедшие в 2008 году.

Баскетбол
 Московский ЦСКА стал победителем Евролиги 2007/2008.

Бокс

Лёгкая атлетика
 Чемпионат мира по лёгкой атлетике в помещении 2008
 Чемпионат мира по полумарафону

Олимпийские игры
 С 8 по 24 августа в Пекине прошли 29-е летние Олимпийские игры.

Фигурное катание
 С 16 по 23 марта в Гётеборге проходил чемпионат мира по фигурному катанию.

Футбол
 Чемпионат Европы по футболу 2008

Хоккей
 С 2 по 18 мая в Квебеке прошёл чемпионат мира по хоккею с шайбой.

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By MEK ZHIN
Monday, 27 Jun 2016
12:00 AM MYT
Wee launching the TARC Incubator at the Tunku Abdul Rahman University College in Jalan Genting Kelang, Kuala Lumpur, on June 20.
Tunku Abdul Rahman University College is keen to give anyone with a great business idea a chance to lift off with its TARC Incubator. It also hopes the initiative will enhance the entrepreneurial mindset among its students, reports MEK ZHIN.
THE new TARC Incubator by Tunku Abdul Rahman University College (TARC) promises to provide a holistic environment to anyone interested to turn their business ideas into reality, and looks set to kick-start the institution's aspiration of becoming an entrepreneurial university college.
Minister in the Prime Minister's Department and TARC Education Foundation board of trustees member, Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong, who launched the incubator, says there's plenty of room for growth in the SME sector and that such efforts will help the industry grow positively.
"The setting up of the TARC Incubator is timely to synergise innovation and entrepreneurship under one roof. This integrated business incubator is a step in the right direction to drive entrepreneurship and innovation in a holistic manner," he says.
According to Wee, the 21st century world economy is very much driven by these two factors, especially with the advancement of science and technology which has revolutionised the way we live and work.
"Malaysian businesses, particularly SMEs, must continue reinventing themselves in order to carve a competitive edge in the globalised marketplace," he stresses.
The business incubator, which joins the ranks of about a hundred others that have been set up in Malaysia, is housed within the university college's East Campus in Setapak and is set to be a game-changer for TARC, according to its president Datuk Dr Tan Chik Heok.
Wee (second from left), flanked by SAME CEO Foo, Tan and DOERS Education Group founder Dr Willson Lin Wei Hsien.
"We have built an integrated business incubator that will bring together the funders, investors, mentors, government agencies and business support service providers under one roof to form an entrepreneurship ecosystem that will drive entrepreneurship among the students, staff as well as the public," he says.
Tan adds that they have been actively nurturing and promoting innovation and entrepreneurship among the students, faculty and campus communities with the goal of supporting the industry and the nation's economy.
"We have many research centres, centres of excellence, entrepreneurship courses, established partnerships with industries on product, technical or social development programmes, and we also encourage our students to participate in extra-curricular activities such as business plan and idea competitions, as well as technological innovation challenges, whether organised internally or by outside parties," he adds.
Their encouragement has led to two teams of students and lecturers winning seed grants from a multinational corporation for their inventions.
He says that the TARC Incubator also aligns with the shifts in the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2015 — 2025 (Higher Education), which aims at developing holistic, entrepreneurial and balanced graduates.
TARC Incubator is divided into two areas: 1) the Start-up Academy for those who have yet to develop a solid business idea thus can undergo the necessary training for it, and 2) the incubator where budding entrepreneurs can further develop their ideas to become market-ready and investment-ready.
Any entrepreneur who meets the set criteria is welcome to join the incubator, states Say.
GDS Medianet and the Malaysia Peng Siong Teh Clan Association have contributed funding to the TARC Incubator project, as well as agreed to come on board as ecosystem partners, along with DOERS Education Group, Deloitte Tax Services, Securities Services, Kojadi, Akasaa and Cradle Fund.
TARC collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship vice-president and TARC Incubator implementation committee chairman Assoc Prof Say Sok Kwan says they welcome any entrepreneur who meet the set criteria to join the incubator.
"That being said, outsiders will have to pay a nominal fee to participate, but they will have access to our institution's facilities including research labs. This also opens up opportunities and the possibility of collaborations with our students and faculty, further enhancing their experiences and skills," she says.
According to Say, they particularly hope to encourage students embarking on their final year projects to consider taking their work further via the incubator.
"Before they embark on their final year projects, we will organise a talk to encourage them to think of the possibilities of building their projects, ideas and research into a potential business. We will have an internal competition close to their submission date, and from there, along with our partners, we will identify the projects that have the strongest potential and encourage them to join the TARC Incubator," she states.
Say also reveals that their eventual aim is to set up the incubator as a centre on its own with the appropriate staff, and from there, it will begin to connect and potentially collaborate with the other incubator programmes in the country.
For more information, visit www.tarcincubator.com.
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Maine CDC, hospitals preparing their response to coronavirus
CDC Director Nirav Shah says his agency is calling for all Maine hospitals to screen for the virus while the state is in contact with federal officials to help develop plans in case the virus spreads.
By Joe LawlorStaff Writer
Maine does not yet have any cases of coronavirus, but state and local health officials are preparing in case the virus that has infected thousands in China gains a stronger foothold in the United States and migrates to Maine.
The coronavirus has infected more than 6,000 worldwide, mostly in China, causing 132 deaths and prompting the Chinese government to put entire regions on lockdown. The virus appears to have emanated from Wuhan, a city of 11 million people in China.
There have been only five confirmed cases in the United States, but health officials are keeping close tabs on the virus because it's new and scientists don't yet know how dangerous it is. New Hampshire is currently testing two patients who recently traveled to China and experienced coronavirus symptoms, state health officials said.
Researchers who are ramping up studies of the coronavirus include Dr. Meghan May, an associate professor of microbiology and infectious disease at the University of New England.
Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that protocols are evolving and his agency is in close contact with U.S. CDC officials to develop plans in case the outbreak spreads. Large U.S. airports started screening international travelers for coronavirus on Tuesday.
Flu continues to spread in Maine, with 1,700 cases so far
"Our overall understanding of this outbreak is shifting all the time," Shah said. "It is literally the day job of the Maine CDC to prepare, so we are preparing for this. But there are no cases in Maine (as of Tuesday)."
Shah said the Maine CDC is working with health systems across Maine to develop screening questions for patients, asking if they had traveled to China recently, and if so, do they have any flu-like symptoms, such as fever, headache, cough, sore throat and a runny nose.
The Maine CDC is recommending that all Maine hospitals screen patients for the virus, Shah said.
He said that if a patient shows up at a Maine hospital with coronavirus symptoms and had recently traveled to China, the patient would be "immediately spirited away" to isolation rooms at hospitals to prevent the disease from spreading. Samples would be taken from the patient and sent to the U.S. CDC for testing. If the tests came back positive for coronavirus, the patient would remain in isolation at a Maine hospital until tests showed that the virus had cleared out of the patient's system, Shah said.
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A patient with mild symptoms who gets tested at a primary care office and is found to have coronavirus will be handled "on a case-by-case basis," Shah said.
"There is not quite yet a common standard if that were to occur," Shah said. "It's really highly case-specific."
A performance scheduled for Feb. 13 in Portland by the Shanghai-based GuGu Drum Group has been canceled because of concerns about potential transmission of the virus, Portland Ovations announced in a tweet on Tuesday.
There is no vaccine yet for coronavirus, but scientists are working on developing one, Shah said. There is no treatment for coronavirus, other than rest, but prevention is similar to the flu and other communicable diseases. Practice good hygiene, wash hands often, stay home when ill and cover the mouth when coughing.
While worldwide news reports are focusing on coronavirus, influenza is far more prevalent and deadly.
"Influenza kills more Americans than any other virus," Shah said. "Just this year alone, there have been 13 million influenza cases, with 120,000 hospitalized and 6,000 deaths. It is not too late to get your flu shot."
Flu season runs from October through May. Flu is widespread in Maine with 2,293 Mainers testing positive for influenza, 159 hospitalized and eight deaths through Jan. 18.
Scientists are comparing the coronavirus to the SARS outbreak in 2003, which infected 8,098, killing 774, according to the U.S. CDC. SARS also began in China, and the United States was largely spared, with only a handful of cases.
"It seems that novel coronavirus is a little less severe than SARS, but it is very early to compare the two directly," said May, the UNE researcher.
May, who researches infectious diseases, said she is currently working on gene sequencing of the coronavirus, and hopes to have the results published in a scholarly journal in two to three months. Sequencing is the process of determining the order of the basic genetic components and can be critical for guiding diagnosis and treatment.
May said it's difficult to draw any conclusions yet, but scientists are learning much in the short time that coronavirus has been infecting people.
"Making models and predictions at this point is a fool's errand," May said.
The Chinese' government's response to the public health crisis – quarantining more than a dozen cities and restricting the movement of 48 million people – is controversial, and it's unknown how effective it will be, May said.
May said one threat with coronavirus is that it appears to be contagious before patients experience symptoms.
"When people don't know that they are contagious because they don't know that they're sick, it becomes exponentially harder to control," May said. In contrast, people start having influenza symptoms before they are contagious, she said.
Dr. Dora Anne Mills, chief health improvement officer for MaineHealth, the parent company of Maine Medical Center, said that MaineHealth is already screening its patients for coronavirus. The U.S. CDC is recommending against traveling to China, although there is not an outright ban.
"Clearly, people should not be going to China right now," Mills said.
The top Maine health official when the SARS outbreak occurred, Mills said at that time there was a "surprising" amount of travel between Maine and China. A dozen people were suspected of having SARS in 2003, but none tested positive for the disease.
Mills said it's best to be cautious with a new virus.
"This coronavirus is very unpredictable right now," she said. "It could be mutating and evolving as we speak."
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Despite the steady wave of scandals that have begun to erode even the New York Times' portrayal of Hillary Clinton, her image remains unblemished on Wikipedia. Since he first started editing her page in June 2005, Hillary's "Wikipedia watchdog" has been guarding against slanders, accusations, unfair assumptions, and distortions on the high-traffic, heavily footnoted, highly policed Hillary Rodham Clinton Wikipedia page.
Unlike most Wikipedia editors, who prefer to remain anonymous, "Wasted Time R" has no problem giving his real name: Jonathan Schilling. Leading up to Hillary's failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, Schilling's significant role in the shaping of the image of the former first lady was the subject of several interviews and articles, including pieces by NPR, BBC, Canadian Radio, and New Republic.
"I figure if you're going to be doing this ... you might as well own up to who you are," Schilling said.
After he started editing her page in June 2005, Schilling became consumed with trying to capture her uncomfortable place in American culture, researching and writing a whole section on how she polarizes the public. At the same time, he also believes Hillary the woman is widely misunderstood. "One of the things I've tried to get across in the article was how much people were impressed by her before she got married to Bill," he says.
He told interviewers that though he voted for Clinton in the Democratic primary in 2008, he was not editing her site in order to get her elected, nor had he been in any contact with her staff.
"I'm definitely not protecting the person. I'm definitely protecting the article as a fair and viable biography," said Schilling. "We have an obligation to remove anything untrue."
And police he does, as Fairbanks noted, "Hardly a news event or argument over her situation goes by without Wasted Time R's input: He edited her page 77 times in the last month, mostly pruning away changes he viewed as inappropriate, such as a rant about Geraldine Ferraro or a stealthy effort to diminish Hillary's role in improving the State Children's Health Insurance Program." NJ.com's Kelly Heyboer's listed some of Schilling's edit wars leading up to the 2008 election, including removing the words "lesbian" and "communist," a reference to Clinton having "murdered" White House counsel Vince Foster in the 1990s, and replacing a deleted passage about Bill's affair with Gennifer Flowers.
Despite the high-profile nature of Clinton, Schilling has been in a unique position to "shape her article," in large part because of his ongoing dedication; Wasted Time R's editor page reveals that after nearly 10 years "guarding" the site, he remains a lead Hillary editor.
Clinton gave Congressional testimony on the Benghazi attack on January 23, 2013. She defended her actions in response to the incident and, while still accepting formal responsibility, said she had had no direct role in specific discussions beforehand regarding consulate security. Congressional Republicans challenged her on several points, sometimes triggering emotional or angry responses from her.
In March 2015, Clinton's practice of using her own private e-mail address and server throughout her time as Secretary of State, rather than departmental ones, gained widespread public attention due to concerns about the security of mails she sent and received, the availability and preservation of them for Freedom of Information Act requests and the archival historical record, and whether her action had violated any federal laws, regulations, or guidelines. In response, Clinton said she had a few months earlier turned over many e-mails to the State Department following their request and that she wanted them made public.


The impending climate crisis will make the financial meltdown look like a teddy bear's picnic - and it's the world's poor and marginalized who will suffer the most. We know what's coming, and we have the means to prevent it. And yet we're just staring climate oblivion in the face. As the world continues to belch out greenhouse gases, and governments and corporations champion false solutions, a movement for climate justice is building. Its aim is to tackle perhaps the greatest challenge of our troubled times - how we can dramatically reduce global emissions while at the same time raising the quality of life for the majority of the world's people. This magazine will explore what can be done.
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Brooke Shields revealed in her new documentary, "Pretty Baby," she was sexually assaulted shortly after graduating from college in 1987.
Detailing the rape for the first time, Shields says in the doc that she was trying to get back into Hollywood after attending Princeton and had dinner with a man she knew to talk about potential projects, according to Entertainment Weekly.
The unidentified man then allegedly convinced her to come back to his hotel and he would call her a cab home.
"I go up to the hotel room, and he disappears for a while," she said, noting that he had a pair of binoculars she picked up and was watching volleyball players out the window when he returned to the room naked.
"I put the binoculars down and he's right on me. Just like, was wrestling," she said, explaining that she didn't fight out of fear. "I was afraid I'd get choked out or something."
The "Blue Lagoon" actress continued, "So, I didn't fight that much. I didn't. I just absolutely froze. I thought one 'No' should've been enough, and I just thought, 'Stay alive and get out,' and I just shut it out.
"God knows I knew how to be disassociated from my body. I'd practiced that."
When it was over, Shields, 57, said she went down the elevator, got a cab and "cried all the way to my friend's apartment."
Shields, who admittedly didn't process that she was raped for a long time, said she blamed herself for the assault.
"He said to me, 'I can trust you and I can't trust people.' It's so cliché, it's practically pathetic," she said. "I believed somehow I put out a message and that was how the message was received. I drank wine at dinner. I went up to the room. I just was so trusting."
Years later, the "Endless Love" star says she wrote her attacker a letter confronting him about what he'd done, which was ignored.
"I just threw my hands up and said, 'You know what, I refuse to be a victim because this is something that happens no matter who you are and no matter what you think you're prepared for or not,'" she said.
"I wanted to erase the whole thing from my mind and body and just keep on the path I was on. The system had never once come to help me. So, I just had to get stronger on my own."
Shields, who shares two daughters with husband Chris Henchy, has long talked about being sexualized in Hollywood after she appeared nude in the 1987 film "Pretty Baby" with 29-year-old Keith Carradine when she was just 11 years old.
At 15, after also having racy scenes in "Blue Lagoon" and "Endless Love," Barbara Walters controversially asked Shields for her measurements in an interview and told her to stand up.
"But I just behaved and just smiled," Shields told Drew Barrymore in an interview last year, adding that she "felt so taken advantage of in so many ways."
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text: Faber, Frank. Frank Faber was created by "R. Blasius," the pseudonym of the German author Karl Richard (Fred Faber) and appeared in Frank Fabers Abenteuer #1-52 (1939-1940). Frank Faber is an adventurer and explorer whose missions take him around the world, from Kurdistan to Mexico to India. Faber is German-American, and his best friend, Patrick Button, is Irish. He fights Thuggees in India, air pirates in the American West, a flaming android called "the Human Torch," Anja, a Femme Fatale, and slavers in North Africa. He also finds the treasure of the Inca. Faber appears in stories with titles like "Hunting Men in Kurdistan," "In the Claws of the Puma," and "The Knight of the Pampas." In 1940 Frank Fabers Abenteuer was cancelled by order of the Nazi government, leading Karl Richard to create Fred Faber.


The objective of this Interactive Qualifying Project was to examine the educational system surrounding New Zealand's performance-based building code. This report addresses a basic history of the code and the associated educational system, as well as highlights major areas of discussion. The report describes areas of weakness in the present system and makes recommendations for improvement, including new mechanisms for information transfer and stronger qualification procedures.


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Abril Bookstore to Host 'Motion: of Tongues and Tweets' Book Release Event
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Abril Bookstore and the Poetic Research Bureau will host the release of two new books, Hrayr Varaz's, "#jivjiv #twitterpoem" and Karen Karslyan's, 'On the Tip of the Tongue" at a bilingual event titled, "Motion: of Tongues and Tweets," presented by Dr. Shushan Karapetian and Dr. Tamar M. Boyadjian. The event will be held on Sunday, January 22 at 4 p.m. at 2220 Arts + Archives, located at 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. Admission is free with reception to follow. For more information, call (818) 243-4112.
This bilingual event will put into conversation the recently published poetry books of two contemporary Armenian authors of diverse backgrounds and styles who utilize the Armenian language in new and unique ways. Both works will be presented individually and as part of the dialogue in rethinking the role of language.
"#jivjiv" is a bilingual collection of twitter poems written by queer Armenian poet and linguist Hrayr Varaz (ig hrayr_huh_died), cover and illustrations by Amy Kazandjian (ig amykazn). This first volume includes 29 pieces about Armenian language, food, holidays, people, coffee-cup readings. Each in Western Armenian and English with their corresponding pronunciations, written with speling freedoms.
"On the Tip of the Tongue" is a mixture of conceptual, kinetic, cinematographic, and traditional poetry, written in Eastern Armenian during 2007-2022 by Karén Karslyan. Here language, exploding in the midst of endless wars (whether military or everyday-life), tries to outline new symbolic traces of expression from its own fragments, to give a name to reality and existence, and to look for ways to escape the absurdity of life.
Hrayr Varaz is a white, bearded queer cis-male Western Armenian-ist, San Francisco-based twitter-poet dancer linguist, sexpert intensity flow-er, ftografr.
Hrayr Varaz
Karen Karslyan
Karén Karslyan is a poet, novelist, translator, musician, and a visual artist. He is the author of "On the Tip of the Tongue," a poetry collection (Granish, 2022); "The Regime Is in Panic," a tragicomedy (Actual Art, 2019); "Aterazma," a typographic film (Inknagir, 2016), "Doomed to Spell," a poetry collection (Inknagir, 2010); "X Frames/Sec," selected works (Bnagir, 2003). Armenia's public TV declared him the Scandalous Writer of the Year 2003 for X Frames/Sec. He is the recipient of 2004 Young Artists Award for the manuscript of "Password," a novel.
Dr. Shushan Karapetian is Deputy Director of the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, which promotes research that examines the social, cultural, educational, and political challenges facing Armenia, Artsakh, and the Armenian communities in the Diaspora. She received a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from UCLA in 2014, where she taught Armenian Studies courses for ten years. Her dissertation, "'How Do I Teach My Kids My Broken Armenian?': A Study of Eastern Armenian Heritage Language Speakers in Los Angeles," received the Society for Armenian Studies Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2015. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Russ Campbell Young Scholar Award in recognition of outstanding scholarship in heritage language research. Dr. Karapetian researches, teaches, and writes about the Armenian experience, particularly focusing on competing ideologies at the intersection of language and the construction of transnational identity. She is the host of the popular IG/YouTube "Word of the Day" series through which she teaches Armenian in a fun and engaging manner. She is also host of the podcast series, "Language Therapy with Dr. K," which looks at language, in all kinds of contexts, with an Armenian twist.
Dr. Shushan Karapetian
Dr. Tamar M. Boyadjian
Dr. Tamar M. Boyadjian is a poet and translator and teaches courses on medieval literature, poetry and translation. She thinks of herself as a sound-shaper and a wandering ašuł. Her work is experimental, intertextual, and intercultural; and explores themes around movement, subjectivity, symbols and transmission—drawing from the threats imposed on endangered languages such as her native tongue Western Armenian. She has authored, "it is what it is" (Andares, 2015), "the vineyard of mirrors" on Armenian and Afrofuturism (forthcoming, 2022), "Autobioliterature" (forthcoming, 2023). She has published her books of poetry and translation widely in a number of literary journals, creative anthologies, and international volumes around the world. She is the editor of two out of the three extant anthologies of translation of contemporary Armenian literature into English: "makukachu" (Ingnakir, 2017), and "unscripted: An Armenian Palimpsest [Absinthe: World Literature in Translation]" (University of Michigan Press, 2017). Her current projects include an anthology of poetry of Western Armenian women writers; a translation of Zabel Yesayan's "In the Waiting Room"; and a translation with Dr. Maral Aktokmakyan and Dr. Rachel Goshgarian of Akabi Hikayetsi—the first known Armenian themed novel—from Armeno-Turkish to English. She is also currently the Editor-in- Chief of the "Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies."
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What Went Wrong With… Voting In The 2016 U.S. Elections?
By What Went Wrong Or Right With...? on November 6, 2016 • ( 6 Comments )
This year the most talked about subject matter has to be the U.S. Election, and I suppose in some way it's refreshing for someone other than a celebrity being the topic around the water cooler – anything to stop the incessant chatter about the Kardashians I guess. But, that being said, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the two candidates up for this years election have more in common with entertainment than politics, in fact their persona is very much akin to a celebrity feud with cheap shots and superficial support being garnered by both sides.
I guess it would be apt for this generation to vote for the host of 'The Apprentice'. Very similar to the raised-on-TV Generation X voting for the actor Ronald Reagan, for people raised amidst 'American Idol' and 'The Kardashians' to elect someone who has been among other things, a Reality TV star, is quite befitting for a post-noughties election. Either that or elect the wife of a previously impeached President – because what more can you ask from a favouritism-supporting, celebrity-obsessed generation than a vote for nepotism?
Regardless of the outcome of these elections, it has to be recognised that the upcoming American President will be either the least popular or the second least popular candidate in electoral history, and that takes some doing. The choice for this election really is the definition of a catch-22, it's like choosing between a dagger being plunged into your heart or a knife slitting your throat. In fact, from the look of the two candidates, it's more like choosing between Greg Stillson from 'The Dead Zone' and Eleanor Shaw from 'The Manchurian Candidate'. Whatever you choose, Martin Sheen or Meryl Streep, the end result will most likely be an unwanted orgy of power, corruption, debt, death, and destruction.
For decades now I've witnessed both sides of the alleged political divide gain power and yet over the years I've seen no real change. By now I'd hoped that the older folk would no longer be fooled by yet another false political paradigm, I thought that once people had been through umpteen elections with almost the same outcome, they'd realise that voting has never and will never change anything. It's different if you're young, when everything is new and fresh, voting might seem like actual democracy. But if you're over, let's say forty years of age, haven't you seen four years after four years of the same political, hierarchical, corrupt bullshit? Left or right, Democrat or Republican, have you ever seen any change once the votes have been tabulated? Did Bush Senior make things better? Did Mr. Clinton make things better? Did Bush Junior make things better? Did Obama make things better? So why would you think that either of these two cunts on offer in 2016 will create change or "Make America Great Again"?
Knowing this history of sameness, people still can't be stopped from voting, even though not voting is just as valid and is as much a choice as voting. It's very telling that a ballot paper never has the option of "none of the above" so that voters who disapprove of both choices are also counted. Instead we call people who don't vote "apathetic" like all of them just didn't bother to show up. In a real democracy there would be an option to state your objection, but instead people are offered a choice of the lesser of two evils or are derided and labelled as uninterested or uncaring. This lose-lose situation or "lesser of two evils" choice really is obvious in this year's election, and for all the people who think that they're choosing from a concrete left vs. right option, they really need to look closely at the two candidates.
Firstly to all the Democrats out there, it has to be recognised that Hillary Clinton grew up a Republican; she volunteered to campaign for the Republicans in the '60s and she was President of the Young Republicans at her college. Her supporters of course state that all that was in her youth – something that occurred long ago, but they fail to acknowledge that she also voted for George Bush and the Neocon's Patriot Act after 9/11, and she supported both the Afghan and Iraq wars – are we to believe that a person with this type of right-wing history is the best choice for the left? It's pretty telling that even Hillary's campaign logo has the arrow within the "H" pointing to the right, this is either unintentional or foretelling of her future as President – very similar to Tony Blair in Britain, a vote for an apparent liberal can and will result in the most right-wing decisions from a supposed left-wing candidate.
On the other side of the so-called political divide is billionaire, one-time-Democrat, and grandson of a brothel owner Donald Trump, the tit that's somehow become the people's champion – the choice for the average Joe, the candidate for the everyday, working-class, poor people who say they hate rich politicians. That to me is the most idiotic thing I've ever heard, take a closer look and it's obvious that Trump is anything but "for the people" – he's a politician in all but name.
As the Republican's nominee, Donald Trump loves to talk tough but he fails to mention his convenient deferments which meant that he himself avoided war in the '60s. Now what could be more like a politician than continually warmongering without sacrificing his own life and limbs for his cause? This John Wayne-style, pro-military hypocrite brings up the Army, Navy, and Air-Force like Rudy Giuliani brings up 9/11 – to deflect from the fact that he's really a puss-weed who likes to hide behind the pretence of gung-ho nationalistic conflict without getting his own hands dirty. Trump is so obsessed with war that he even brought up ISIS as an answer to Anderson Cooper's question about sexual assault during the debates …dodging questions, how atypically non-political he is… not
As a teenager, Donald because of behavioural problems was placed into a private boarding-school-slash-Military-Academy where he was known for being a bully. Maybe his enrolment into a military school went to his fuzzy, fly-away head, because in recent years he's been bringing up the U.S. Military like he was a recruiter loitering in a minority school's car park. The fact that he bullies anyone who opposes him just goes to show that he hasn't really progressed from the mindset of a high-schooler.
Trump's bullying and antagonising of various demographics has now become so ingrained with his persona that everybody around him including the Secret Service isn't sure which of the various groups, ethnicities, sexes, or religions that he's offended hates him the most. Even when a non-Muslim, non-Mexican, white Republican protester like Austyn Crites shows up to his rally and holds up an anti-Trump sign, the overreaction by his security agents shows the atmosphere that surrounds him – Donald J. Trump has pissed off so many people that both the media, the public, and his entourage has lost count – nobody really knows who his enemies are any more. Almost everybody from every walk of life hates the man, what a great start for a potential President.
There is a small part of me that wants Donald Trump to win, just so that in four years, after a trail of broken promises and u-turns, I can say "I told you so" to the idiotic people who were apparently "oh so sick of politicians". The option of a disappointing Trump rather than a disappointing Clinton is a much better prospect, especially since with the former option, the middle-American working class white folk can't complain about their selection once things start going tits-up. But having said that, if you think that a billionaire, tax-avoiding, sexist, xenophobic, orange-skinned, fluff-ball-haired prick is any better than the ex-Republican, fake-minority-pandering, wife of a cheating, cigar-poking, saxophone-sucking disgrace, then you've been hoodwinked. Like I said before – this election is the very definition of a catch-22.
So let's recap; you want a liberal President, then why choose someone who supported an illegal war? You want a President that will take America out of debt, then why choose someone who's businesses have been declared bankrupt several times? With two illogical choices and two candidates with dubious pasts, isn't that the definition of a swindle? Regardless who wins, there's no need to rig an election when both options offer nothing but bullshit or cloaked bullshit.
It's funny that Trump and his supporters feel that the election is rigged only if he loses, that has to be the most ironic, nonsensical thing I've ever heard. If the elections are rigged (which I and many other people have been saying for years) don't you think that regardless of the result, the next President, even if it's President Trump will also be in the pocket or under the thumb of the elite? I guess supporters of someone who appeared in an interview with Alex Jones obviously can't tell straight and scrupulous from sham and shill.
Judging from either side's bullshit hyperboles and political rhetoric, we have many years of liberty-destroying crap to come. You're either voting for a giant Berlin or Israeli-style border wall and possibly an unconstitutional ban of certain religions entering the United States, or you're voting for a supporter of the Patriot Act and possibly an unconstitutional banning of firearms. But in a post-9/11, post-Boston-Bombing, anti-due-process, witch-hunting America where imbeciles chant "Lock her up!" when referring to Hillary, the masses will only have themselves to blame for any bondage they find themselves in.
People who don't wholeheartedly approve of Hillary Clinton will vote for her just to keep Donald Trump out of the oval office and vice versa. That's democracy in action folks, forget abstaining and forget voting for a third party, just choose between these two obvious tossers. So instead of saying "fuck you" to both options, people will vote for one of the candidates just to stop the other from becoming President – what a great example of western democracy. I'd love it if people actually stood up and said "no" for once, it would be a historical moment if the people as one refused to vote, imagine if this election had a 0% turn out – that would be a huge statement to the corrupt establishment. But alas, that'll never happen, the public will always rush to pick sides even if they don't like either one. People are anything but forthright, year upon year they'll choose between a prick and a dick, knowing full well that either way they're gonna get fucked.
Democrazy.
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Robert Hardy says:
Perfect summary of the shit storm. The majority American people have the choice of terrible or worse. There will never be a zero turn out as there are cretins on both side who actually believe they have a good candidate and not just a foil to the opposition.
If I was being harsh I would say the American people are going to get the president they deserve, but as I live outside the USA I can only hope a Trump presidency leads to a period of isolationism.
You hit the nail on the head! The 2016 US election is a circus and it's even worse than the EU Referendum. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both unqualified for the role as the Leader of the Free World. There is Jill Stein and Gary Johnson, but they are less likely to win and if they did, they will struggle to get anything done because the Senate and House of Representatives will be filled with Republicans and Democrats. Thus, the better option is to not vote.
In every election, you will find condescending self righteous idiots shaming anyone who doesn't vote. They will say "people died for the right to vote" or "if you don't vote, you can't complain or have any say". There was a campaign advert for Hillary featuring the cast of Empire and at one point Lee Daniels pompously said not voting will "dishonor their sacrifices".
Let me set things straight! Voting is a right, not an obligation. If people feel the candidates are inadequate, then they have the right not to the ballot paper and vote. This is a free country and a democracy. Forcing people to vote is similar to fascism.
This two-party system in America is a failure. 15 years of Obama and Bush Administrations is concrete proof. George Bush was a miserable president, but Barack Obama continued many of Bush's policies despite the slogan "Change We Can". There should be more parties so people can have more choices, but there is a risk that it could end up just like UK's party system (the government being either of the two big parties).
This video perfectly sums up the situation with voting in this election…
OverTymeMusic (@OverTymeMusic) says:
Generation X did not vote for Reagan. Wasn't old enough. A few of us voted for Bush but mainly voted for Clinton and then Gore.
Generation X were born between 1961 – 1981 approximately, therefore the first wave voted for Reagan (1981-1989) and were definitely old enough. Obviously the Baby Boomers voted Reagan/Bush too but Generation X's who turned 18 in 1980 and 1984 were also responsible.
Trump has become the president of United States of America. Yes! The guy from The Apprentice, who repeated the empty slogan "Make America Great Again!" and spewed nothing but bullshit, has become the most powerful man in the world. Yes it is a shock, but it was coming. Trump becoming the President is a product of neoliberalism, political correctness, and celebrity culture. Let's start with neoliberalism. The ideology pushed forward by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had a massive impact on politics and society. Deregulation of industries and emphasis on the free market has led to a decline in wages, massive inequality, increase in house prices, loss of jobs, exploitation of foreign labour, and greed of the highest order. The economic crisis in late 2000s is the only end result. Despite neoliberalism being a right wing ideology, it was embraced by the Labour Party and the Democratic Party in the 90s and 2000s. The EU does impose freedom of movement and have a semblance of democracy (the European Parliament has gained a lot of powers through multiple treaties), but it focused way too much on neoliberalism. The middle class and working class have been screwed over, but the working class have been affected the most. The stage was almost tailor made for politicians like Trump and Farage. History has shown that when there is an economic crisis, the politicians and the public tend to blame ethnic minorities. Politicians like Trump stoke hatred and fear among the public by pointing the finger to immigrants and Muslims. In reality, the blame should be placed with the governments and multinational corporations. The governments destroy houses and kill civilians through drone airstrikes. Corporations hire foreign labour because they are cheap. Greedy property developers build houses and raise prices specifically to sell to rich foreign investors. You see, you can't really blame mass immigration for this because it is the product, not the cause. It is the product of neoliberalism. Instead, the public blames black and brown people as if they had a negative effect on their lives. The most obvious example of this is Nazi Germany. Germany was in a miserable state after the First World War due to the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty forced the country to pay huge amounts of compensation to Belgium and France. The economy tanked and morale reached lows. Then Adolf Hitler came around and blamed Jews and the rest is history. As I said before, when there is an economic crisis, racism comes next. Is it any surprise that far-right parties have gained momentum in recent years? These far-right politicians then present themselves as "anti-establishment" even though they are the exact opposite. Let's look at Trump, he was presented as the President for everyday man and promised to "drain the swamp"(referring to lobbyists). But some research and common sense suggests otherwise. He inherited his wealth and real estate empire from his father, had numerous bankruptcies and debt, and switched party allegiances numerous times. He lies constantly and flip flops a lot. He lives in a penthouse in Manhattan and brags about his wealth. Is he really anti-establishment? Same goes for Nigel Farage. He constantly talks about representing the little man, but this guy is an ex-Tory, former city banker, and privately educated. But people were desperate for an alternative that they did not look closely at what they really represent. Just looking at his future administration means that Trump supporters will be disappointed in the near future.
Now that we got neoliberalism out of way, let's move on to political correctness. If there is proof that political correctness has failed, then President Trump is it. I understand its noble intentions. It attempted to change the world for the better by trying to tell people of the power of their words. But the problem with political correctness is that it made people censure themselves and created a false image of equality. The idea of a post-racial America pushed by the media after Obama became President is firmly rooted in political correctness. Because it is concerned with image, all political correctness did was hide racism rather than combat it. Everyone who offered an alternative point of view was considered "racist" or "sexist". This is why we can call for safe spaces, but the Prison-Industrial Complex and Anti-Terrorism laws, which hurt black and brown people the most, are never discussed. Anyone who pointed this hypocrisy was "pulling the race card" or "social justice warrior". The media have also promoted anyone who made ethnic minorities and liberals look bad. Why do you think Anjum Choudary was given constant media appearances despite his bigotry? As a result, the bigots have become empowered and presented themselves as "martyrs" and "opponents of political correctness". Instead of combating prejudice, political correctness has become an excuse. That's why Milo Yiannopoulous considers himself to be a victim despite his trolling and bullying. That's why we ended up getting Donald Trump as a serious candidate and eventually president. You have to blame liberals for this one. So entrenched in this idea of a post racial world, they completely overlooked the years of subtle and institutional racism. A corrupt criminal justice system, private prison pipeline, white supremacist media, a miserable education system. Trump becoming President exposed Americans' true feelings about racism. White people predominantly voted for Trump. Young and Old, Men and Women, rich, middle class and poor, educated and uneducated. Either they believe the racist rhetoric or they knew Trump is racist but did not give a fuck about it. Political Correctness is to blame because all it did was hide racism rather than tackle it. The only way racism can be really tackled is through honest dialogue and debate.
Finally, there is celebrity culture. Ever since the 90s, people have being idolising celebrities to the point where they are treated like Gods. Reality TV has infected every single aspect of society. No wonder the Kardashians are treated like Royalty. No wonder Kanye West is the egomaniac that he is today. We have seen the rise of Instragram thots due to all the simps. Then there is Donald Trump. He was the presenter and executive producer of the Apprentice. I knew that celebrity culture will come back to bite us. I actually thought that Americans were wise enough not to allow this kind of candidate to end up getting power, but I was wrong. Say what you will about Ronald Reagan, but he was governor before he became president. Trump had no experience whatsoever. Now that he became president, Kanye West 2020 does not seem so unrealistic. God help us all!
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Nova Scotia will increase its annual quota by 350 under its new provincial nomination stream beginning January 2015. The new stream – "Nova Scotia Demand: Express Entry" will enable the province to increase intake by 50% in 2015. It will replace the previous Regional Labour Market Demand Stream as a pilot project and will account for a total of 1050 skilled workers.
The program, "is intended to provide a faster route for skilled immigrants to enter Nova Scotia in response to labour-market demands," said a provincial Office of Immigration news release. It will complement the existing streams already in place.
Nominees will be highly skilled, have post-secondary education and the qualifications to help them successfully settle in Nova Scotia and demonstrate an intention to reside in the province.
To develop the stream provincial immigration authorities collaborated with private business, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, immigrant settlement organizations and industry professionals.
The new Nova Scotia demand express entry stream will operate in conjunction with the federal government's Express Entry immigration system that will also launch on January 1, 2015. Successful applicants must first meet one of the Federal economic immigration programs, including the Federal Skilled Worker Program, Federal Skilled Trades Program or the Canadian Experience Class. The province will be able nominate applicants from the federal Express Entry pool.
Nova Scotia follows the Province of Manitoba which also announced plans to harmonize Provincial Nominee Programs with the new federal express entry immigration system scheduled to launch on January 1, 2015.


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But it's about more than growing a company – it's about growing and caring for our employees. As a software company, our greatest asset is our people. For this reason, we invest in continuous education and the individual growth of our employees. We invest in processes and tools so you can connect to your peers around the globe. We invest in ideas our employees bring forth through a formal innovation and research committee. And, most importantly, we call upon each other to make ACI a place where we all feel needed, challenged and appreciated.
Alcatel-Lucent is one of the largest innovation powerhouses in the communications industry, representing an R&D investment of Euro 2.4 billion, and a portfolio of more than 27,500 active patents spanning virtually every technology area. At the core of this innovation is Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs, an innovation engine with researchers and scientists at the forefront of research into areas such as multimedia and convergent services and applications, new service delivery architectures and platforms, wireless and wireline, broadband access, packet and optical networking and transport, network security, enterprise networking and communication services and fundamental research in areas such as nanotechnology, algorithmic, and computer sciences. With operations in more than 130 countries and the most experienced global services organization in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with a global reach.
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Peter Raven is no longer just a young man ready to go out in the world; now he is a new officer in the Royal Navy and there is a job to be done. He soon discovers that things are going to be much more complicated than he ever imagined when he meets a man called Commodore Beaumont. It would appear that Beaumont is a spy who is working to undermine Napoleon Bonaparte's plans for the world.
With Peter as his aide Beaumont learns that Napoleon has recruited a truly dreadful man to help him achieve his goals. Little more than an insane pirate with sophisticated tastes, Count Vallon is an enemy to be feared. When Peter's ship is attacked by Vallon, Peter swears that he will be avenged on the count no matter what.
Lucy Cosgrove is a wilful young American woman whose grandmother despairs of her. In an effort to refine her granddaughter Lucy's grandmother takes the girl to Paris. It is in this world of beautiful clothes, balls and parties that Lucy meets both Count Vallon and Commodore Beaumont. Both men fall for the pretty vivacious young woman and neither of them can ever imagine that they are on a collision course which will mean the death of one of them.
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Kepimpinan dalam Islam 2012 PowerPoint Presentation
Kepimpinan dalam Islam 2012
Kepimpinan dalam Islam 2012. KULIAH 3. Krisis kepimpinan – Perbincangan Minggu 4 Modal pemerintahan – Barat dan Dunia Islam Sekarang Sumber Perlembagaan . Modalities of Governance in Western Secular State. The Liberal Democratic System The Totalitarian System The Autocratic System.
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Kepimpinan Dalam Islam 2012 - . kuliah 1. pengenalan modul. modul ini akan membincangkan : prinsip-prinsip kepimpinan
Kepimpinan Dalam Islam 2013 - . kuliah 2. topik. ciri-ciri pemimpin (leader) rasulullah sebagai contoh pandangan
Kepimpinan dalam Islam 2013 - . kuliah 3. krisis kepimpinan – perbincangan minggu 4 modal pemerintahan – barat dan
Kepimpinan dalam Islam2012 KULIAH 3
Krisis kepimpinan – Perbincangan Minggu 4 • Modal pemerintahan – Barat dan Dunia Islam Sekarang • Sumber Perlembagaan
Modalities of Governance in Western Secular State • The Liberal Democratic System • The Totalitarian System • The Autocratic System
Western modalities of governance, in the non-democracy system. • Monarchy • Military • Dictators
The Liberal Democratic System • It refers to a "democracy" political system or rule by the people. The government is formed by the "people choice" or chosen representatives of the people. • They are accountable to the people for every state policies and actions. The elected liberal-democracy government representatives were elected to exercise decision-making power subjected to rule of law and usually moderated by a constitution. • They are two types of democratic government, the Parliamentary and Presidential System and a Prime Minister being the leader of the former and President is the leader of the latter. • A good example of each is the Prime Minister of Great Britain and President of the United States.
The Totalitarian System • The opposite of the liberal-democratic system is the totalitarian. • In this system the leader is a person with a complete control of the state. • The authority of his government is total and absolute. The government has the definite control over their citizen social life as well as the economy and only one political party dominant the legitimate political activity. • The ruling party regulates all government decisions and political activity and the mass media and judiciary are rigidly controlled by the government. • An example of the totalitarian system is demonstrated and practiced by none other, Fidel Castro of Cuba.
The Autocratic System • It is similar to the totalitarian system as regards to civil liberties and restriction on citizen's political participants but different from the totalitarian system in a way such as, there is no specific and dominant in political ideology but the leader keep emphasizing on nationalism in his preferences. • In order to enforce political obedience the leader will resort to open force and coercion. • The leader and his aides are normally from the armed forces but not necessarily so as some monarchic leaders do exercise this type of power and practice Autocratic style of governance. • Again the mass media and judiciary are under direct government control and rule is arbitrary with little respect to the law (legal rights) or individual rights. • However, it is interesting to note that examples of this kind of system come from so called Muslim States, such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia to name a few.
Monarchy • A monarchy is a form of government of the country that is ruled by a monarch either being a King, Queen, Emperor, Empress or Amir. • There are two types of monarchy, an absolute and constitutional monarchy. An absolute monarchy is a form of government that has a monarch with an absolute power normally, The King or Amir will decide everything and enforced laws to his advantage. • However, he does not have to follow any law or constitution. The Sultan of Brunei and Amir of Gulf States are good examples of rulers who subscribe to this Monarchy Rule. • Constitutional Monarchy is a form of government that has both an executive and a monarch as heads of state and both are bounded by the country (state) laws and constitutions. • However, the Monarch in this instance has no actual power in the true sense but rather as a representative in the ceremonial function of the State. Examples of constitutional monarchy are the King of Sweden and Queen of Great Britain.
Military • Military's intervention and taking over the administrations of civilian government did occur throughout history and the most recent occurrence in Thailand reflected this type of governance is well and alive and can happen anywhere at any given point of time. • It also happened to Europe during the post First World War era. The growth of liberal-democracy in the West, have somewhat suppressed and prevented any kind of military resistance against the civilian government. • When the military takes over the civilian government, martial law will be imposed. Military will intervene in the state politics and prohibit any political activities, to some extend took over the direct supervision of all state matters and affairs especially the economic sectors. • However not all coup is seen as bad amidst the negative impact it has on any democratic state. This was reflected in the military intervention in Thailand, which has gained much support from the King and Thai citizens. Moreover the intervention which is normally bloody in nature has not spilled any blood and life of the ordinary citizens and Thai military.
Dictators • Dictator is used to describe the absolute ruler (other than a King or a Queen) of a state or country which transcends to power and became a leader by the use of brut force. • To keep his tight rein on power, he will appoint only his close and trusted aides to power and authority. Normally he can effectively make laws all by himself. • A country that is ruled by a dictator is called a "dictatorship". Example of a dictator is AlexandreLukashenko of Belarus.
Modalities of Governance in an Islamic State • It is interesting that the Qur'an does not prescribe to any hard and fast rule on the election matter and process or any mention on the duration of representations of the people in power. • These are left to the discretion of the people and leaders of that particular time. What is important is the integrity of character of the chosen leader.
Modalities of Governance in an Islamic State • The reference of the Islamic States during the period of the Prophet (pbuh) and the four rightly-guided caliphs and the occurrence in the state of Medina. • What is the Islamic modality of governance then? • According to majority views, Democracy is thought to be a Western concept alien to Islam, however to the contrary Islam had long established this idea even during the Prophet's (pbuh) reign. • It was more prominent after the death of the Prophet (pbuh) when the issue of his successor was first argued. Interestingly the appointment of the Caliphs especially the first four had shown us that democracy was alive then and within Islam.
Modalities of Governance in an Islamic State • The appointment of the four caliphs demonstrated that Islam had established four different methods of selection of which syuraor consultation and consensus from the ummah were the prominent features of this democratic method to elect the head of government. • As mentioned earlier in the methods of selection of the four rightly-guided caliphs and 'in the model Muslim State of Madinah there is evidence that the ruler could claim legitimacy of power only with the consensus of the community.' • Abdul Rashid Moten and SyedSerajul Islam, 2006,p.213
Sources of Law in Western Secular State • In the Liberal Democracy system, the source of law is from the legislature, constitution, adjudication and jurist, which all are generated from Man, himself. • Contrary to the belief that man is master of his destiny and the laws derived through the thinking process are rational, it is in fact tainted with emotional and a survivor instinct to protect one's domain or territory. • The laws often then not are lopsided and bias
Sources of Law in an Islamic State • Sources of law in an Islamic State are inherited from Allah's commands and directives in His divinely-revealed book al-Qur'an. • The Qur'an is the fundamental source of Islamic legal system. • The other source is from Prophet (pbuh) who acted on the rule governed by Allah in his personal life and this ideal conduct of the Prophet is known as Sunnah which clarifies and explains the Qur'an. • The Qur'an and Sunnah constitute the foundation and the essence of the Islamic legal system, the Shari'ah.
Leadership Quality in Citizenship • The Prophet (pbuh) has mentioned that a good Muslim is the one who benefited fellow mankind the most. In other words the Prophet (pbuh) is advocating that Muslims think of others first before self in matters pertaining to this temporal world vide the good deeds and daily practice. • Hence, taking this as a prerogative, Muslim leader and the masses tend to sacrifice oneself for the sake of the Nation and especially for ones religion. • Citizens in an Islamic country are assured of their rights and can convey their dissatisfaction directly to the leaders.
Leadership Quality in Citizenship • During Omar's reign as the Caliph, Omar had made a slight blunder in giving an injunction against the Qur'an. The manner was about the dowry of a bride, which Omar was persuaded to fix the amount at that time as the price of the bride kept on rising and fore seeing an unhealthy trend decided to stabilize it. • An old woman stood up against him saying that there is no mentioned in the Divine Law to fix the amount. Instead of being angry Omar willingly and un-relentlessly admitted he was wrong and Caliph Umar had once appeared before a subordinate judge appointed by him to answer a charge. • This is the nature of the true Islamic leader where the concept Adl' is uphold and maintained.
Leadership Quality in Citizenship • The address made by Caliph Abu Bakar, aptly summarized the role of a leader and its citizen, • "My fellowmen! I call God to witness. I never had any wish to hold this office; never aspired to possess it. Neither in secret nor in the open did I ever pray for it. I have agreed to bear this burden lest mischief should raise its head else, there is no pleasure in leadership. On the other hand, the burden placed on my shoulders is such as I feel have not the inherent strength to bear, and so fulfill my duties except with Divine Help. You have made me your leader, although I am in no way superior to you. Co-operate with me when I go right, correct me when I err; obey me so long as I follow the commandments of God and the Prophet; but turn away from me when I deviate." • Dr Shahibuddin Laming, 2002, pp. 191-192
An Afterthought!! • A lot have been said about the difference between the principles of leadership in the Western Secular State and the Islamic State although there are also similarities. • From these broad comparisons, we cannot deny the completeness of the Islamic principles of leadership resulting from divine guidance. • But in the current world reality where Western democracies rule the world, it will not be appropriate to even suggest conversion to the Islamic system. • After all, the Islamic leadership had its fair share of ruling the world for more than 400 years
What may be possible now is how Muslim majority states can revert back to the Islamic system of leadership. • It will not be a simple process but a good start will be to do a research on the effectiveness of the current leadership of the Muslim majority states, which generally implement the Western style of democracy and to look at the khilafah system in its current context.
This is further expounded by the contemporary Muslim thinkers who have begun to redefine the concept of khalifah. • What is need now is a change- a change of paradigm that is the mindset of Muslim leaders and followers alike and to draft a detailed structure of the political order vis-à-vis the Al-Quran. • Abdul Rashid Moten looking at political science in an Islamic Perspective mentioned, 'To begin with, contemporary Muslim thinkers do not treat khilafahas a historical institution to be replicated in its entirety. They idealise the rule of Khulafa' al Rashidun as a paragon of Islamic government and society which, as IbnTaymiyah argues cannot be recreated in universalism or a universal khilafah. Instead, they accept the plurality is, by definition, non-territorial and encompasses the whole world, plurality of political units is inevitable' • Abdul Rashid Moten, 1996, p.98
"Leadership the Islamic way is the answer to good governance". Nevertheless there are some critics, looking at the current so called Islamic States, are skeptical of this. • To answer to these critics, Muslim majority states must revert back to the divine guidance by implementing the Islamic way of leadership and to implement the khalifah system as Abdul Rashid Moten clearly pointed out: • 'khalifah denotes a system which aims at the welfare of humanity through the implementation of Islamic values and principles. In short, khilafah may be defined as a socio-political system in accordance with the teachings of Islam. • As AbdulHamidAbuSalayman explains: Whatever system of government the Ummah chooses for itself in order to realize its spiritual and temporal aspiration is the one that should be understood as the khilafah system, and thus deserving of the Ummah support.' • Op. cit, pp. 98-99
Minggu Hadapan • Perbincangan kertas kerja Kepimpinan dalam Islam (Sesi 1) - Krisis Kepimpinan • Perbincangan - Kepimpinan dalam Islam (Sesi 2) – Kegagalan Pemimpin: Apa jawapannya? • Rumusan


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