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Anime/Comics November 15, 2018
Anime roundup 11/15/2018: Second Acts
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind #6 – Well, not all of Bruno's team are juvenile delinquents. Leone Abbacchio actually had a career as a police officer before giving in to a corrupt system, being kicked off the force in disgrace, and then getting recruited by Bruno into his support group for shirt-impaired young men.
Abbacchio's Stand, as befits a former officer of the law, is not much use for fighting but excellent for investigation. In fact, it's so useful that in many stories it would destroy the plot completely. But this is a moment for JoJo to show what makes it great. Because the opponent's power is so carefully designed and used, what looks like a slam-dunk for figuring things out only provides some more cryptic clues that Bruno manages to put together just in time.
If you're watching this show with English subtitles, you'll have noticed by now that the Stand names are significantly different from the original Japanese ones. In fact, you may have noticed that the author seems to be naming them after English-language bands and albums. (Gold Experience was a Prince album; Sticky Fingers was a Rolling Stones one.) The fact that these names have nothing to do with the Stands' powers doesn't matter. To Japanese readers and viewers, if it's in English, it just sounds cool. To English-language publishers and distributers, it sounds like a potential lawsuit in the making, thus the name changes.
(Crunchyroll — ADN — bilibili)
The Girl in Twilight #7 – As her friends become smartphone zombies, Asuka administers some tough love and then sets out to find Chloe. After rescuing Chloe from a VR trap, everyone piles back into the boat and heads for the final confrontation with White Goat, where Chloe levels up and saves the day after being subjected to the most ridiculous fighting outfit yet.
Chloe's moment of self-actualization looks for a while like it'll be an acceptance of immersing herself in a group, but The Girl in Twilight comes through again in the coda. She's learned to reach out to others more, but keeps it on her terms. That leaves us with Yū and Asuka to have their personalities examined, and Asuka's little brother's disappearance to be explained.
Evil Yū is a bit of a puzzle. She seems to like mixing things up, but she's genuinely helpful at times, and she does seem to be truly surprised at the news that a Clutter has turned up in the latest timeline. The appearance of Clutters in the timelines she points Asuka to are too coincidental to not be linked to Asuka's travels, but maybe it's happening unwittingly. It also seems, despite her hostility, like she's truly happy to hear Warrior Asuka say something nice about her. So I'd place my bet on the spotlight swinging to Yū now, to see how many of these complicated feelings she shares with her double.
(HIDIVE)
Zombie Land Saga #6 – Franchouchou is now popular enough to start on modern celebrity rituals like selling autographs and photos. Junko, who turns out to be from the 1960s or so, thinks commercializing access like this to be extremely creepy. Wait until she finds out about how modern Japanese idols are expected to hide their personal lives in order for male fans to fantasize about having them as girlfriends.
Meanwhile, Ai is struggling with her death, not just because thunderstorms now freak her out, but because her tragedy has been used to build a narrative around her old group's success. In a way, she's responsible for their popularity, but in a way she can't share.
Meanwhile, new tidbits about Kōtarō: whatever he is, he still likes a good bath and good hair product, but not so much that he can take his sunglasses off. And that, in addition to his necromantic talents with humans, he's also reanimated a webpage from 1995.
(Crunchyroll — bilibili — Funimation)
SSSS.Gridman #6 – Akane has all but told him she's involved in the attacks, and Yūta still hasn't figured it out. So a brand-new character is dropped in to sit him down and explain the situation to him slowly and in small words. Even after that, Yūta is stuck on asking why a person with godlike power would want to stay in high school, and not, say, "How do we get back to reality?"
Gridman's accessories are a little lost on the nature of the world as well. They apparently didn't know that the kaiju could have human forms. Maybe that's something specific to the place Yūta is trapped in, and the kaiju only have the one form in the real world?
As Akane and Shō agree that kaiju are the real stars of any monster-fighting show, SSSS.Gridman proves it by making them smarter and more interesting than the heroes. Yūta and Shō still barely have personalities, while Anti has an inner struggle playing out and the new kid is immediately engaging.
(Crunchyroll — Funimation)
Double Decker! Doug & Kirill #7 – Trouble is happening at a high school in the run-up to the prom, which means the detectives need to explain to each other what a prom is for the benefit of Japanese viewers. This may be the reason that the rest of the episode feels a little rushed. There isn't much reason to have dragged out the investigation part further, since Max is as smart as anyone in Seven-O and it's reasonable for her to figure out the perp that fast, but her backstory feels like it's given short shrift.
Or rather, it's Conor who's given short shrift. A trans woman takes the frightening step of coming out publicly with support from her best friend, is ostracized for it, enters a deadly spiral of addiction, and somehow this gets framed as the best friend's tragedy. Anime has always had a bad case of Bury Your Gays, but seeing it in a show which is otherwise as good as Double Decker has been until now is still a big disappointment.
What the writer may have been trying to get at is the way that the most vulnerable members of society become easy prey for drugs, but that point could have been made so much better in so many other ways.
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Too Small for a Republic, No. 438
Posted in Memory by Andy Hall on February 28, 2018
Back in the Mesozoic Era of this blog, I did a couple of posts on a South Carolina woman named Annie Caddel. She had moved to Summerville, into a predominantly African American neighborhood that had been founded as a settlement of former USCTs after the Civil War, and made a point of flying her Confederate Battle Flag. This didn't go over real well with her neighbors, and there soon followed an escalating series of incidents including allegations of vandalism to her home, and a series of ever-taller flagpoles and privacy fences put up by the neighbors. Even H. K. Edgerton, the peripatetic performance artist and Confederate beard, made an appearance (above). You can read my earlier posts here and here. It sure seemed like a rancid, toxic mess.
Needless to say, Ms. Caddel was a heroine of the True Southron™ crowd. Or she was until last week, when after seven years she lowered her flag and presented it to Kenneth Battle, Chairman of the Summerville-Dorchester Museum, to be displayed there in an effort to promote unity and reconciliation in the community.
Now, the True Southrons in South Carolina have labeled her a "traitor" and a "Judas."
No good deed goes unpunished, y'all.
Update, March 7: Corrected the description of Ms. Caddell's neighborhood as being predominantly African American, not Summerville as a whole.
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MARGARET D BLOUGH said, on March 1, 2018 at 1:59 am
Congratulations, Mrs. Caddel, for seeing the light.
Msb said, on March 2, 2018 at 7:33 am
Good for Mrs Caddel.
Andy Hall said, on March 2, 2018 at 9:38 am
I hadn't heard anything about this story since it made the news years ago. But I'm certain that (1) this dispute has been a festering sore for all parties involved, and (2) the butternut shriekers who are vilifying her now have exactly zero personal stake in any of it. They don't live there, or have to deal with the toxic environment it's created.
Abbrown said, on March 6, 2018 at 11:00 pm
I lived in Summerville…the facts are, per usual, in error.
Summerville is not a majority black community.
It is 75% white.
But nice try.
Thanks for the correction. I was sloppy in my wording. In my earlier posts on this subject, I noted that her neighborhood was originally founded as a settlement of former USCTs and Freedmen known as Brownsville and, according to press reports at the time, remains largely African American today.
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For some, mastery of a musical instrument and a hit album would be satisfaction enough. Not for YolanDa Brown. This British musician, who's garnered praise for her singular mix of jazz, soul and reggae, is fascinated by all manner of pursuits. It seems whatever she puts her hand to… she excels in.
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The War on Terror May Finally Have Just Begun!
Posted: December 3, 2008 in Uncategorized
The War on Terror May Finally Have Just Begun
I have never been a big supporter of aggressive activism; yet this time round the cause and emotion were so overwhelming that I could not, not be a part of it. And what I saw there has made me feel prouder of being an Indian.
Hordes and hordes of people (some estimates say there were 1.5-2lakh people) walked the stretch from the Regal cinema in Colaba to the Gateway of India shouting "Bharat Mata ki Jai" and "Vande Mataram" and ripping apart politicians and Pakistan in equal measure. Seldom has the country looked more livid and seldom has it seemed so united: people of every religion, caste and region were there, all proud to be Indians and ashamed of the political class. Some of the slogans were quite amusing: one, exhorting our PM to be a true Sardar and act; the other asking Raj Thackery the price of his new Audi. And how can one forget the relentless sloganeering –'Gali gali mein shor hai, Pakistan chor hai' and 'Pakistan murdabad'. There are few things about this movement, which make it stand apart: it is devoid of any political motive; rather a movement against the abuse of politics by politicians. Seldom has a mass movement seen the normally apathetic middle and upper middle class get so involved. The majority of those who participated in the march today were from the middle/upper middle and educated classes. Among the celebrities that I could spot were Rajeev Khandelwal, Prasoon Joshi, Narender Ahmed among others. There was my friend, actor, Rajev Paul and several others from the world of TV and films. The display of this kind of anger by the educated class carries a power which only an incapacitated government can ignore.
One hopes that this cumulative anger will make the government realize that it stands a real danger of squandering away the gains that India has achieved economically and in world politics. It is another reminder for it to act before the anger assumes giant proportions.
The other important news of consequence today was Mr. Zardari's refusal to hand over the 20 militants demanded by us. But why did we have such illusions in the first place?. Let us be clear: we are dealing with a rogue state, whose leadership has always carried a rich history of deception and betrayal. Mr. Zardari's mask of civility will not bring about a change in the country's intentions. A failed state( an 'international migraine' , as former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright calls it) would want to export all the chaos that exists there to its prosperous neighbor. This is where we need to hit them where it hurts the most: snapping of all economic ties, till they hand over india's most wanted. In 2002, after the Parliament attack, the mere refusal of India's airspace to any Pakistani airplane had caused them humungous hardships. That is the language Pakistan understands and not the civil reprimands that the Indian leadership never ceases to indulge in.
If perfidy characterizes the Pakistani leadership, incompetence and passiveness characterizes the Indian one. For the last three days Maharashtra is without a Home Minister and virtually without a CM. The central leadership is in absolutely no hurry to settle the issue. That more RDX was discovered from the CST today should be of little surprise.
I'm optimistic though that a movement of the nature and magnitude we saw today will eventually force change. Maybe, we might need to have it once every month. Instead of people assembling at the Gateway, it will not be a bad idea to form a human chain across the length of the city. It will obviously need some amount of sacrifice, which all of us ought to be prepared to make. After all, our sacrifice is negligible compared to the sacrifice of the victims of terror.
I'm optimistic that our war on terror may have finally just begun.
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I am actually writing The Stone Canyon on the fly, posting it as I go, and praying for a strong finish. I thought it might be interesting to get feedback as I go – maybe readers will leave comments that help to guide the story (to a satisfying conclusion or right down the Class 7 Rapids of Writing Hell – who knows? That's part of the charm, and the adventure!) I don't usually let anyone read a work in progress, so this is new(ish) for me – reminiscent of the days when we wrote collaborative stories in the Writers' Ink RoundTable on GEnie. Only maybe without the collaboration, if I don't get someone to throw me a bone now and then, or egg me on.
By that, I don't mean, "Throw rotten eggs at me," but if it's boring, I trust you'll do just that.
Holly, it's fun. I built Sisterhood of the Void that way. Seat of the pants til the midpoint. Then, I just HAD to plot the rest of the story.
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Le suganga (ou wagarabai) est une langue papoue parlée en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, dans le district de Telefomin de la province de Sandaun, ainsi que dans le district d'Ambunti de la province de Sepik oriental.

Classification
Le suganga fait partie des langues ok-oksapmin, une des familles de langues de l'ensemble trans-nouvelle-guinée. Selon Fedden (2007), le suganga est le dialecte occidental du mian.

Notes et références

Sources
  Sébastian Olcher Fedden, 2007, A grammar of Mian, a Papuan language of New Guinea, Thèse, Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne.
  Wilco van den Heuvel, Sébastian Fedden, 2014, Greater Awyu and Greater Ok: Inheritance or Contact?, Oceanic Linguistics 53:1, pp. 1-36.

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Inventaire de langues
Langue papoue
Langue en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée

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Q: Logic: Prevent infinite loop when using portals In a game that I am currently working on, there are portals, which are linked in pairs of two. Whenever the player enters a portal, it should be teleported to the other portal that is linked to the portal that they just entered. The problem is, that once it is teleported over, the other portal see's that the player is collding with it, and will teleport it back to the first, which will send it back and so on. The code for this porject is large and over many files, but here is the most important:
(Javascript, ignore the frame and pause vaibles, those are for animation)

export class Portal extends gameObject{
    constructor(x, y, size, id){
        super(x, y, size);
        this.currentFrame = 0;//updated when (below) > (2 below)
        this.countingFrame =0;//update every time;
        this.pause = 3;//frames between frames
        this.id = id;
        this.justVisited = false;
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    update(player, portals){
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        if(super.checkPlayerCollision(player)){
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                if(this.id === portals[i].id && portals[i] !== this && !portals[i].justVisited){
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                    player.y = portals[i].y;
                }
            }
        }else{
            for(let i in portals){
                if(this.id === portals[i].id && portals[i] !== this && portals[i].justVisited){
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                }
            }
        }
    }
    render(canvas, spritesheet){
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    }
}

This is one attempt at patching it up, but it still failed. How can I make it so that the player goes throught the first one as soon as it collides, comes out the second, and won't retrun to the first untill the player moves off and then back on?
EDIT:After a little bit of seaching, the answer that was most often given to this question was "Move the player outside the reach of the second portal when it teleports over there". This will not work in my case, because when the player updates, his position changes with respect to the amount of time seince the last frame. In a perfet world, that would be ok, but because it is not perfect, the player cannot reliably be on a single point. Also, it would look weird if I moved it out of the hitbox entirely, so that doesn't work either.

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General rates are levied on the land value of property and charged differently on different categories of land depending on the land use and the location of the property.
The General Rate funds the airport and the camping ground in Wairoa, along with a proportion of district planning and environmental health.
A Uniform Annual General Charge (UAGC) is levied on each Separately Used or Inhabited Part of a Property irrespective of how land is used or where property is located. Properties can be charged more than one UAGC if parts of the property are used separately. The UAGC is used to charge rates for activities considered to benefit the community equally or when it is more beneficial to fund activities generally rather than specifically.
In Wairoa some activities are part funded by a UAGC and the use of a targeted rate.
Targeted rates are used to fund activities where all or part of the cost of an activity is best met by particular groups (ratepayers), or there is some other advantage in funding the activity outside of the general rate. Targeted rates are often used to fund activities that are easily differentiated or activities where the benefit is provided to, or used by, a specific group of ratepayers. Some targeted rates are charged differently for different categories of land and some targeted rates differ based on where the property is located.
Targeted Rate – Services, based on the Capital Value of property.
Targeted Rate – Recreation, based on the Capital Value of property.
Targeted Rate – Waste Management, based on a unit rate per Separately Used or Inhabited Part of a Property.
The waste management charge relates to monitoring of the Wairoa landfill as well as closed landfills around the district, operating the Wairoa landfill and recycling centre, recyclables collections, litter bin collections, vehicle removals, collecting illegally dumped refuse, holiday clean-up programmes, corporate overheads, annual dry goods collections, green-waste management and waste minimisation programmes.
Income received from user charges at the Wairoa landfill contributes to covering these costs with the remainder sourced from the targeted rate. Please note that the waste management targeted rate does not cover any costs associated with refuse collection services which are provided on a user pays basis.
Unit targeted rates are also used to fund water supply, drainage and sewerage disposal.
Targeted Rate - Mahia and Opoutama Beach Community Sewerage Schemes.
Unit targeted rates are levied for the capital repayment of costs associated with the introduction of the Mahia and Opoutama Beach Community Sewerage Scheme. This is a variable targeted rate calculated on the capital cost to each property subject to the scheme.


Daniel Stenberg, a Mozilla senior network engineer and the creator of the cURL open source library, has been denied entry to the United States, he revealed early Tuesday morning in a tweet.
That took an unexpected turn. I'm denied entry by ESTA out of the blue. So ... no trip for me I suppose. Shocked really. What a disappointment. ... I can't think of a single good reason why they would do this.
ESTA is the Electronic System for Travel Authorization, which is used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Stenberg said that he was checking in at Arlanda Airport north of Stockholm when told he couldn't fly. "I couldn't check in online for unknown reasons so I approached the counter, where they informed me," he said. No reason was given for the refusal.
The cURL library is used by software to download data across websites and web services using HTTP, FTP and many other protocols. I've used it on many of my sites, often to get RSS feeds. The cURL site states, "It is also used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, set-top boxes, media players and is the internet transfer backbone for thousands of software applications affecting billions of humans daily." The project had its 20th anniversary earlier this year on April 8.
Our son, our sweet little Daniel, was just 7 when he was murdered in his first-grade classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012. We are among the 10 families suing the manufacturer, distributor and retail seller of the assault rifle that took 26 lives in less than five minutes on that terrible day.
We write in response to Sen. Bernie Sanders's comments about our lawsuit at the recent Democratic presidential debate in Michigan. Sanders suggested that the "point" of our case is to hold Remington Arms Co. liable simply because one of its guns was used to commit mass murder. With all due respect, this is simplistic and wrong.
Alan Grayson: Last summer, my 16-year-old daughter asked me whether I felt the Bern. "Did you leave the stove on again?" I asked her. Now, after listening to We, the People, I feel the Bern. I hereby endorse Bernie Sanders to be our Democratic nominee for President of the United States. I will vote for him as a superdelegate at the Democratic National Convention. And I enthusiastically join, shoulder to shoulder, his political revolution.
Perhaps inspired by the Bernie Sanders message of "Not me. Us," for the past several days, I have appealed to Democrats across the nation to tell me for whom I should vote, as a superdelegate at the Democratic National Convention. The response has been absolutely overwhelming. Almost 400,000 Democrats voted at GraysonPrimary.com. More than the number who voted in the South Carolina primary. More than the number who voted in the New Hampshire primary and the Nevada caucus combined.
Al Franken: If you watched the Republican debate on Thursday, you probably noticed the candidates agreeing that insurance companies should be allowed to sell policies across state lines.
Eben Moglen: In the third chapter of his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon gave two reasons why the slavery into which the Romans had tumbled under Augustus and his successors left them more wretched than any previous human slavery. In the first place, Gibbon said, the Romans had carried with them into slavery the culture of a free people: their language and their conception of themselves as human beings presupposed freedom. And thus, says Gibbon, for a long time the Romans preserved the sentiments -- or at least the ideas -- of a freeborn people. In the second place, the empire of the Romans filled all the world, and when that empire fell into the hands of a single person, the world was a safe and dreary prison for his enemies. As Gibbon wrote, to resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly.
Until the 1980s, corporate CEOs were paid, on average, 30 times what their typical worker was paid. Since then, CEO pay has skyrocketed to 280 times the pay of a typical worker; in big companies, to 354 times. Meanwhile, over the same 30-year time span the median American worker has seen no pay increase at all, adjusted for inflation. Even though the pay of male workers continues to outpace that of females, the typical male worker between the ages of 25 and 44 peaked in 1973 and has been dropping ever since. Since 2000, wages of the median male worker across all age brackets has dropped 10 percent, after inflation. This growing divergence between CEO pay and that of the typical American worker isn't just wildly unfair. It's also bad for the economy.


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By: Shafiur Rahman Source: Suhaib Webb Sep 21, 2012 No Comments
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Category: Faith & Spirituality, Featured Topics: Allah, Bismillah
As Muslims, we are frequently reciting the above phrase in our daily lives, usually when we are about do something virtuous, when we are praying, or while we are reading the Qur'an. It rolls off our tongues effortlessly, but how often have we paused to reflect on its meanings, implications, and benefits?
B-ism-illah - In the name of Allah.
The letter 'ba' can be translated as 'in' or 'with'. The scholars of tafsir (exegesis) say the letter 'ba' in such a sentence is connected to something removed which would have rendered the sentence as follows; 'I read in the name of Allah' or something similar, like 'I begin in the name of Allah'. So the verb and pronoun 'I read' has been removed. This is so that the actual sentence begins with His name first because it is not befitting that any other verb or pronoun should come before it in this context. We also gain the blessings (tabarruk) of beginning something with the most blessed of names, as mentioned by Imam Ahmed. It also emphasizes the commitment to tawhid (oneness of God) of the reader by beginning this action exclusively in the name of Allah .
'Ism' means name. It comes from a root word that means to be raised above or elevated. The word for sky/heavens (samaa') comes from the same root letters.
'Allah' is the name of the Lord, the Exalted, the Truth, the One without any equal. It is said that Allah is the Greatest Name of Allah , because it is referred to when describing Allah by the various attributes. As recorded in the two Sahihs, Abu Hurayrah said that the Messenger of Allah said, "Allah has ninety-nine Names, one hundred minus one, whoever counts (and preserves) them, will enter Paradise."
Some scholars said the word 'Allah' is not derived from other verbs/words. Other scholars said it is derived from a number of words of which I will mention three.
أَلِهَ (aliha) to worship, similar in meaning to the verb `abada (worshipped)- Therefore Allah is the One who is worshipped.
أَلِهَ (aliha) to find comfort / tranquility in-"Surely in the remembrance of Allah do the hearts find tranquility.''
وَلِهَ (waliha) to be confounded-meaning that the intellect is confounded when attempting to perceive the essence and reality of Allah (swt).
Some of the virtues of saying Bismillah:
Immediate reminder and intention check.
If we can make this a habit before every act, then we can check our intentions before we do something and can ensure that we avoid sinful deeds as we are unlikely to lie, cheat, abuse, or harm someone in the name of Allah .
Gaining the blessings of Allah (swt) in every action we do.
As the Prophet said, "Every significant act in which bismillah is not mentioned is cut off (from blessings)." Therefore, when we do something in the name of Allah it will be accompanied by the blessings of Allah .
Defeating the Shaytan (Satan)
Imam Ahmad recorded in his Musnad, that a person who was riding behind the Prophet said, "The Prophet's animal tripped, so I said, 'cursed shaytan.' The Prophet said, "Do not say, 'cursed shaytan,' for if you say these words, Satan becomes arrogant and says, 'With my strength I made him fall.' When you say, 'Bismillah,' Shaytan will become as small as a fly."
Protection when entering the house
Jabir said: I heard the Messenger of Allah saying, "If a person mentions the Name of Allah upon entering his house or eating, Satan says, addressing his followers: `You will find nowhere to spend the night and no dinner.' But if he enters without mentioning the Name of Allah, Satan says [to his followers]; 'You have found [a place] to spend the night in; and if he does not mention the Name of Allah at the time of eating, Satan says: `You have found [a place] to spend the night in as well as food." [Muslim]
Protection when leaving the house
The Messenger Of Allah said, "If any one of you, when leaving the house says, 'In the name of Allah, I trust in Allah, there is no power and might except from Allah,' your needs shall be fulfilled, you shall be saved from difficulties and hardships. Shaytan hearing these words leaves him." [Al-Trimidhi]
Relief from physical pain
Uthman bin Abu al-As Al-Thaqafi reported that he made a complaint of pain to Allah's Messenger that he felt in his body at the time he had become Muslim. Thereupon Allah's Messenger said:
"Place your hand at the place where you feel pain in your body and say, 'In the name of Allah,' three times and seven times 'I seek refuge with Allah and with His Power from the evil that I find and that I fear.'" [Muslim]
Source: SuhaibWebb - Shafiur Rahman
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» Butalbital contains not less than 98.0 percent and not more than 102.0 percent of C11H16N2O3, calculated on the dried basis.
Absorptivities at 246 nm, calculated on the dried basis, do not differ by more than 2.5%.
Melting range 741 : between 138 and 141 .
Loss on drying 731 — Dry it in vacuum at room temperature to constant weight: it loses not more than 0.2% of its weight.
Chloroform-methanol— Mix equal volumes of chloroform and methanol.
Standard preparations— Dissolve a quantity of USP Butalbital RS in Chloroform-methanol to obtain a solution having a concentration of 40 mg per mL (Solution A). Dilute 1.0 mL of Solution A with Chloroform-methanol to 100 mL, and mix (Solution B); mix 5.0 mL of Solution B with 5.0 mL of Chloroform-methanol (Solution C); and mix 5.0 mL of Solution C with 5.0 mL of Chloroform-methanol (Solution D).
Test preparation— Dissolve a quantity of Butalbital in Chloroform-methanol to obtain a solution having a concentration of 40 mg per mL.
Assay— Dissolve about 180 mg of Butalbital, accurately weighed, in a mixture of 25 mL of alcohol and 25 mL of sodium carbonate solution (3 in 100), and titrate with 0.1 N silver nitrate VS, determining the endpoint electrometrically, using a silver electrode, either with a suitable reference electrode containing a saturated aqueous solution of potassium nitrate, or a combination electrode in which the reference portion of the electrode contains a saturated aqueous solution of potassium nitrate. Each mL of 0.1 N silver nitrate is equivalent to 22.43 mg of C11H16N2O3.


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Fed's Historic Step Into Credit Market May Cure ETF Dislocations
Katherine Greifeld
Luke Kawa
Mar 23 2020, 11:25 PM Mar 24 2020, 2:11 PM March 23 2020, 11:25 PM March 24 2020, 2:11 PM
(Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve's foray into corporate bonds and certain credit exchange-traded funds is helping restore order between the two markets.
After becoming unmoored in recent weeks as bond-market liquidity dried up, ETFs that stand to benefit from Fed buying are now rallying. That's reuniting the price of those funds with the value of their underlying assets.
The $29 billion iShares iBoxx Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF, ticker LQD, is on track for its biggest surge since September 2008. Cash prices on the largest corporate-bond ETF are now trading at a 1% premium to the fund's indicative intraday net-asset value. Last week, it slumped to a discount of 5% relative to the presumptive value of its bond holdings. The $22 billion Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF, ticker VCSH, is also trading at a premium amid its biggest rally on record.
The moves are early indications that the Fed's support may help repair price inconsistencies that have plagued fixed-income ETFs in recent weeks. The U.S. central bank announced Monday that it would create a Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility, one of several new measures aimed at cushioning the economic blow from the coronavirus. The terms of the facility allow for the purchase of up to 10% of an issuer's outstanding bonds and up to 20% of the assets of any ETF "whose investment objective is to provide broad exposure to the market for U.S. investment grade corporate bonds," a primer accompanying the Fed action said.
"This should help bring in ETF discounts as well as potentially save outflow-ridden active mutual funds from having to enter the illiquidity hell that ETFs have been living in for the past month," said Eric Balchunas, an ETF strategist with Bloomberg Intelligence. "It was about to get really ugly for them."
Rampant volatility in bond markets has soured appetite for the arbitrage trade which keeps prices in line with net-asset values. In normal market conditions, middlemen known as authorized participants will purchase shares of a falling ETF in order to exchange for the underlying bonds with the fund's issuer. That market maker will then sell those securities to pocket a virtually risk-free profit. The ETF's price usually snaps back to the fund's net-asset value as the supply of ETF shares is reduced.
That trade has become less attractive for those authorized participants -- typically market-making firms -- as those underlying bonds become more difficult to unload. Corporate bonds have been in the cross-hairs as investors assess the potential for credit stress as the coronavirus brought economic activity to a standstill.
Building concerns over solvency likely factored into the Fed's decision, according to Greenwich Associates.
"I think the reason they're choosing ETFs and they're 'financing facilities' rather than straight buying corporate bonds is that they don't want to be at the end of the default cascade," said Ken Monahan, a senior analyst covering market structure and technology at Greenwich. "They can lose money on ETFs but they won't become litigants in a bankruptcy."
On Friday, roughly 32 fixed-income ETFs ended the week with a discount of at least 5% to their net asset value, while 5 funds traded at a discount of 10% or more. While the Fed's purchases will help close those gaps, it won't be an immediate fix, according to WallachBeth Capital.
"If the market remains strong, that should slowly start collapsing, but it won't be overnight. Some of these discounts are huge," said Mohit Bajaj, WallachBeth's director of ETFs. "Liquidity is a major problem at the moment. The Fed was going to buy Treasuries too, but that still hasn't entirely loosened up the Treasury market."
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