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Justice Prosser Back in the Spotlight
Submitted by Brendan Fischer on August 23, 2011 - 8:15am
Embattled Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser is in the spotlight once again, this time for a conflict-of-interest in a pending case involving Koch-funded Tea Party groups.
The case, Wisconsin Prosperity Network v. Myse, involves a challenge by Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity to proposed campaign disclosure rules passed in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision (and subsequently enjoined by the Wisconsin Supreme Court). Attorney Jim Troupis is arguing against the transparency requirements on behalf of Americans for Prosperity and the other Tea Party-affiliated groups. Troupis Law Office was also paid $75,000 by Justice Prosser to represent his campaign during last spring's contentious supreme court election recount.
Prosser's Refusal to Recuse?
Justice Prosser issued a letter to the parties in the Wisconsin Prosperity Network case last week, stating "I believe I can be completely impartial," but asking that "the parties and their attorneys confer to determine whether I should participate in the case if it is argued in the near future." Prosser's campaign manager told reporters the Justice would stay on the case.
Adam Skaggs, an attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice (which filed an amicus brief in the case), told the Capital Times Prosser's letter "is a begrudging acknowledgement that there's been a lot of criticism, and it's an attempt to stay on the case in spite of the obvious ethical rules that require him to step aside."
Judicial ethics experts interviewed by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel agreed. "The fact that the judge has had this kind of extremely close relationship with this lawyer [Troupis] -- a relationship built on dependency and trust -- in the recent past is something that might well cause a reasonable person to question the judge's ability to be impartial," said Professor Monroe Freedman at New York's Hofstra Law School. Troupis having worked to help keep Prosser on the bench makes the case even more problematic, according to New York University School of Law professor Stephen Gillers and Indiana University-Bloomington Maurer Law School professor Charles Geyh.
The editorial boards of both the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and Appleton Post-Crescent have called for Prosser to recuse himself. (Update: so has the so New York Times)
One More Controversy
This is the latest in a long string of controversies surrounding Justice Prosser. His reelection campaign turned into a referendum on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's collective bargaining bill, elevating what would typically be a mundane win for the incumbent into a national news story. In the runup to election day, it was revealed that Prosser had called Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson a "bitch" and threatened to "destroy" her. On election night, challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg was initially declared the winner, only to have results shift after a Republican County Clerk announced the discovery of thousands of unreported votes, prompting Kloppenburg to call for a recount.
Not long after the recount came out in Prosser's favor, he and the Wisconsin Supreme Court's conservative majority issued a decision upholding Governor Walker's collective bargaining law, despite the court not having a complete factual record and not holding any hearings. The rushed decision was apparently in response to threats from legislative Republicans, and Prosser's concurrence was critiqued as lacking a factual basis.
The day before, as the Justices debated whether to issue a rushed judgment or allow for full hearings, Prosser grabbed fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley by the neck in the heat of the debate. Women's groups called for Prosser to step down while investigations unfolded but he refused.
Conflict-of-Interest with Right-Wing Counsel
The latest controversy is made no easier by the fact that the attorney, Jim Troupis, is known as the go-to attorney for the Wisconsin right-wing. He advised Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and other Republicans when they issued arrest warrants for Senate Democrats who left the state to delay a vote on Governor Walker's collective bargaining bill -- Troupis said the Democrats caused a "constitutional crisis" he compared to 9-11 -- and represented Club for Growth in a civil case many considered frivolous against the fleeing Senate Democrats. He also represented legislative Republicans in their redistricting efforts, and sits on the Board of Directors of the right-wing, Koch-connected think tank MacIver Institute, and more.
If Prosser recuses himself and the court splits 3-3, the campaign transparency regulations would likely remain in place. The Wisconsin Prosperity Network v. Myse case is scheduled for oral arguments on Tuesday, September 6.
The Center for Media and Democracy also submitted an amicus brief in the Wisconsin Prosperity Network v. Myse case.
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Justice4sale replied on August 23, 2011 - 10:55am Permalink
Well thought out strategy
Prosser and the other Koch cronies have a very well thought out strategy: If the political group - lets call it Koch Suckas of America, donates $100,000.00 to the Prosser campaign, and it does not have to be disclosed, Prosser no longer has an ethical dilemna if he has to hear a case brougt by Koch Suckas of America, because he would not know that they gave him the money. Get it? Ignorance is bliss. Prosser could pretend to be impartial, and hand the Koch Suckas the decision they paid for becuase no one can ever say he took money from Koch Suckas of America. All Prosser has to do now is sign the opinion sitting on his desk written by an associate at the Troupis firm that says it is a violation of free speach to force the disclosure of names of politcal dollar donars donors and we are on our way to fascisim - one nation under Koch. I'm sure that Troupis, as a lawyer is disgusted by this to, but he is paid good money to forget about those nasty ethics that keep creeping up on him. On another point, maybe someone can tell me why corporations can have free speach, but cannot be put in prison when they put out products that they know will kill people. It is silly to think that a corporation can speak. The corporation is not speaking, the people who run it are. Just like in murder, the corporation is not doing the killing when it puts out a Ford Pinto (Ford knew it would explode if crashed into, but hid the facts, and decided it would be cheaper to pay the families of dead people than to recall the car) the ceo and the other decision makers are the murderers. If corporations want free speach, lets give them the other freedoms to, like the freedom to spend your life in jail when they decide the profit line favors dead people over safety. Wisconsin is open for business all right, and in four years when the Kochs are gone with all of our money, we will pay for the ruin they left.
Joe12345 replied on August 23, 2011 - 4:45pm Permalink
One just has to look at the last post by justice4sale to illustrate the stupidity of the left. All they can do is moan, and moan some more, then use foul language, then moan some more, then call names. This is an indication of a very small minded very partisan fool. So the Koch brothers donate money to Republicans. So what? Would you like to stop that practice? George Soros donates lots more money to the Democrats! Would you like to stop that practice? Labor Unions not only donate money to the Democrats, they organize riots and do damage to public property. That is why they are losing in EVERY election. They lost the Supreme court race, they spent millions trying to regain the legislature. They didn't. How many times must you get your but kicked before you understand this is no longer a left leaning state because of the misdeeds of the Democratic Party? You need to grow us a lot! With posts like yours, you are adding to your party's losses.
justice4sale replied on August 23, 2011 - 11:07pm Permalink
incredibly ignorant
man oh man incredible, you did your best to dodge the issue. you know as well as the rest of us Prosser should recuse himself. come on chicken, lets hear you argue the issue. yes, i would like to stop the practice of our highest courts whoring themselves out. second, the koch brothers do more damage to public propery than any union mob, ever hear of pollution? thats what the kochs have in store for wisconsin. ever watch someone die of cancer? you will be seeing a lot more when wisconsin adopts texas environmental standards. cancer does not care if you are democrat or republican, we breath the same air and drink the same water. finally, the issue is not donations, the issue is whether a judge should should decide a case for someone he took money from. come on and tell us why that is ok.
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For valentines day, what about making your beloved canine a special treat? I make these treats for my mom's dogs every Christmas and they go nuts for them. (They love them so much that I simply could not get a picture of them patiently waiting for the treats.) They are about as easy to make as possible, but healthy and delicious (well, from the dog's point of view).
The ingredients are 1 tub chicken liver and 1 package Jiffy corn muffin mix. That's it. Most grocery stores will carry pre-packaged bags of chicken livers, but if yours doesn't, ask the butcher and they'll likely be able to set some aside for you or order some in. The package I buy is usually about 1 lb, but it doesn't need to be exact. For the corn muffin mix, I use an 8.5 oz package of Jiffy, but you can use a different brand just as easily (or a different size, for that matter. Just add more chicken liver puree or more water to make up the difference in liquid required).
Scrape the blended liver into a bowl (you'll probably want to use a spatula) and mix with the package of corn muffin mix.
Pour them into an oiled baking pan and bake according to the directions on the side of the box. Note that these are pretty smelly while baking, but when they are done they aren't bad.
When the treats are done, let them cool and cut them into squares. It is VERY important to keep these treats in the refrigerator because they will get moldy quickly if you do not. Hope your doggies enjoy them!


BEAUTY: Mike Wells of Retro Custom Caravans stands outside the lovingly restored 1957 caravan Norma Jean.
A painstaking restoration has paid off for Mike Wells, who has taken home the Best Retro Caravan title from the Whangamata Beach Hop.
This isn't the first time Mr Wells has been crowned winner at the beach hop, with his beautifully restored caravans always a crowd pleaser at the annual event.
This year's winner, Norma Jean, was originally made in 1957 by the Auckland Caravan Company and was lovingly restored by Mr Wells over several weeks after he bought it in derelict condition for a customer. Caravans from this company are extremely rare, as it was only in operation for a few years and many leaked through their distinctive lantern roofs, which meant they had to be scrapped as the wood rotted.
Mr Wells had been working on the caravan off and on for over two years, but six months before the beach hop his customer contacted him and said he would love to have it entered. Cue Mr Wells feverishly working for three weeks straight to get the caravan ready in time.
The hard work paid off, with the beach hop crowd voting Norma Jean as their favourite caravan.
Mr Wells said his customer requested he create a caravan "solely for entertainment", and he has done just that.
This is a party caravan, Neon blue lights light up under the cabinetry and curve under the table, a Bluetooth stereo is cunningly disguised as a retro radio, the centre of the table conceals an icebucket for drinks and the bar holds every bottle and glass in place with custom cabinetry. Every little detail has been thoughtfully considered, including the stool to step inside, which features a metal inlay engraved with the name "Norma Jean".
While all the cabinetry and appliances may look original most have been handmade by Mr Wells. The only exception is the fridge, which dates from the 1930s and has been refurbished.
All of Mr Wells' caravans are restored by hand at his Retro Custom Caravans premises based near Te Teko. It is clear Mr Wells loves what he does. He had previously been in the business of restoring American cars from the 1950s but switched to caravans nearly 10 years ago because they allow for more creativity.
"With cars you are really limited in what you can create," he said.
Mr Wells' creativity is evident in Norma Jean, with the great and fun addition of a genuine 1940s airhorn installed on the hitch.
"I bought that several years ago and was just waiting for something to use it on," said Mr Wells.
Mr Wells' commitment to creating dream caravans for his customers, spending over 700 hours on each one, has cemented him firmly as New Zealand's leading custom restorer of retro caravans.
Despite winning at the Beach Hop, Mr Wells said he was still not done with Norma Jean.
He plans to add decals of her namesake Norma Jean from before she changed her name and became Marilyn Monroe, among other things.
For those who would like to see Norma Jean, she will be on display at this weekend's Classics at Ohope.
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Does the Iranian Bazaar Back Ahmadinejad or Mousavi?
Just as Wall Street is the embodiment of America's financial industry, "the bazaar" stands for the mercantile and commercial interests that form a core constituency in Iran. Both are physical and metaphorical locations of power. Indeed, the bazaar, the center of Iranian economic life stretching back centuries, has been key to the country's political history. In January 1984, Ayatullah Khomeini addressed bazaar leaders and, while pressing for their support, flattered their importance by proclaiming, "If the bazaars are not in step with the Islamic Republic, the public will suffer defeat." So which way is the bazaar leaning as the crisis in Iran continues?
In the capital, the main bazaar is located smack in the middle of the city, between the wealthy to the north and the poorer southern neighborhoods — the pivot on which Iranian society revolves. And signs of discontent in the bazaar alleys could be seen months before the election. In October 2008, bazaaris closed down their shops in Tehran, Isfahan and other large cities for several days in objection to a new sales tax that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had implemented. It was the first general bazaar strike since the Islamic revolution, and the President quickly backed down and suspended the tax.
In the past, the sentiments of the bazaar were crucial. The story of the 1979 Islamic revolution cannot be told without recounting the numerous times bazaars in all major cities went on strike to protest the Shah's autocratic rule. The family networks of bazaaris as well as their business networks were so intertwined with the Shi'a clergy that Iran experts spoke of the "bazaar-mosque" alliance as the main reason for the toppling of the Pahlavi monarchy. But is that alliance still holding strong in the wake of the largest protests in Iran since 1979 Could opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi persuade the bazaaris to strike in support of him
The bazaaris are certainly unhappy with the current climate, which is bad for business. Tourism has almost vanished, with foreigners' visits to the enormous carpet section of the bazaar falling off sharply since June. But Iranians still fill the covered passages of the bazaar to buy everything from designer chadors to Chinese-made rice cookers. One shop owner estimated that about 70% to 80% of the bazaaris — owners, managers and workers — quietly sympathize with Mousavi. The remainder, though, loudly voice their support for Ahmadinejad.
Mousavi's supporters are trying to get the bazaar on his side. One of the marches in the weeks after Iran's June election went from Imam Khomeini Square past Tehran's main bazaar. According to a witness, thousands of bazaaris closed their shops so they could stand outside and watch hundreds of thousands of green-clad protesters silently walk by. In fact, the route had been designed to draw Iran's merchants and workers into the growing opposition coalition to make it seem as if it had the support of Iran's commercial sector.
While Ahmadinejad had his tax run-in with the bazaar, Mousavi does not have a positive record with many bazaaris either. Older bazaaris can still remember Mousavi the firebrand leftist, who as Prime Minister in the 1980s was associated with price controls and food cooperatives during the Iran-Iraq war. But younger managers and workers generally express support for Mousavi, even though, as one pointed out, "Mousavi never visited the bazaar before the election." Bazaaris felt slighted by the snub, and since the bazaar's merchants are still a main conduit to Iran's smaller towns and rural areas, this was undoubtedly communicated outside the bazaar as well.
Some observers, however, believe the power of the bazaaris as a whole has been slipping. As Iran's economy slowly re-entered the global economy over the past 20 years, certain bazaar members made out well as long as they could maintain special relationships with the government, which handed out licenses to import and export goods and gave more favorable exchange rates to certain traders. But ironically, as postrevolutionary Iran's economy diversified, with malls sprouting up in Tehran neighborhoods that catered to the tastes of an expanded middle class, the bazaar may be slowly losing its central place in Iranian social life. Still, as the Iranian factions struggle for power, whoever wins over the bazaar will have a major advantage.
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1. Is it True that the Mother of Our beloved 12th. Imam Mahdi (AFS) was a slave girl from Sudan ? 2. When we recite the salawat whereby we also send blessings on Nabi Ibrahim AS (By adding : KAMAA SWALAYTA ALAA IBRAHIMA WA ALAA AALE IBRAHIM) is it mustahhab ? Since we recite this salwat in Salaatul Mayyit. 3. Can you quote any Hadith whereby one can add the term - WA AJ-JIL FARAJJAHU at the end of salwat ? 4. In a Non Islamic Government whereby the Government of the Day collects different types of taxes from the Public but dose not provide them with basic services like supply of Water, electricity, Health etc. Sometimes the charges are exhorbitant. In this case are we allowed to pay the Government according to our own estimate for lets say Electricity ? I Will appreciate your early response.
Salam alaikum Q: 1 - Who is the mother of Imam Mahdi (AS)? Answer 1: "Narjis Khatoon" - the distinguished mother of Imam Mahdi (AS) - was a decent and beautiful daughter of a great Roman Emperor. She was also a descendant of Simon, the disciple of Jesus, son of Mary. Almighty Allah, through His divine power, caused this Roman princess to travel from Roman Empire to Samarra in Iraq to become the wife of Imam Hasan al-Askari (AS) and to bear Imam Mahdi as a shining emerald in her pure womb. Hereunder you may find the famous story of Narjis, distinguished mother of Imam Mahdi (AS). Sources of this hadith: 1.Kamaal Al-Deen wa Tamaam al-Ni'mah by Sheikh al-Sadooq, vol. 2, ch. 41, pg. 417 2.Al-Ghaybah by Sheikh al-Toosi, pg. 210 "Bishr Ibne Sulaiman al-Nakhkhas was one of the devotees of Imam Ali al-Hadi (AS) and Imam Hasan al-Askari (AS) and their neighbor in the city of Samarra. He was also an offspring of Abu Ayyub Ansari, a disciple of the Holy Prophet of Islam (SA). Bishr relates: One night I was at my house in Samarra and a certain portion of the night had passed, when someone knocked at my door. I ran with speed and saw Kafoor, the servant and messenger of our Master, Imam Ali al-Hadi (AS) calling me to him. I put on my robes and went to him. I noticed that Imam al-Hadi (AS) was talking to his son, Imam al-Askari (AS)and his sister Hakima from behind the curtain. When I sat, the holy Imam said: O Bishr! You are from the descendants of the Ansar who helped the Holy Prophet (SA0 when he entered Medina. Your love for us, the Ahlulbayt, is taken for granted. You are trustworthy men for us; therefore, I am elevating you and ennobling you by the excellence of sharing a secret with you and sending you to purchase a certain bondmaid. He then wrote a very fine letter in Roman script and Roman language and imprinted his seal on it. He took out a yellow cloth in which were 225 gold dinars. He said: Take this and go with it to Baghdad. He told me to go to the crossing of the Euphrates on the noon of such and such day and when I reach the boats of the captives, "You will see bondmaids in them. You will find buyers for the procurers of the Abbasids and a small group from the Arab youths. When you see that, keep an eye on a man called Umar Ibne Zaid from a distance all day long, until a bondmaid is brought to the buyers, who has such and such quality. Her dress is two thick silks; she refuses to be seen or touched by the examiners; she does not submit to anyone who want to touch her; and you hear a cry in Roman from behind a thin veil. You should know she is saying: Alas from the violation of the veil. One of the buyers says: Mine for 300 dinars; her modesty has ever increased my desire for her. She replies to him in Arabic: Even if you come in the figure of Solomon the son of David and with a kingdom like his, I will not be interested in you. So, save your money. The slave-dealer says: Then what is the solution? I have to sell you. The bondmaid replies: What is the rush? There must be a buyer that my heart finds rest in him and his fidelity and honesty. At that moment go to Umar ibne Zaid and tell him you have a nice letter from a certain man of nobility, which he has written in Roman language and the Roman script. Describing therein his benevolence, his fidelity, his excellence and his generosity, so she may discern from it the character of its author. Should she be interested in him and choose him, then I am his representative in buying her from you. Bishr bin Sulaiman says: I performed all that which my Master, Abu Muhammad Hasan al-Askary (AS) had ordered me to do with respect to the bondmaid. When she saw the epistle, she cried very profusely and said to Umar ibne Zaid: Sell me to the writer of this letter. She took the solemnest of oaths that should he refuse to sell her to him, she will take her life. I negotiated the price with the dealer until it settled exactly on the amount of dinars my Master had given me. The money being sufficient, I took the bondmaid, who was so very happy and in laughter. I returned with her to the quarters I was residing at in Baghdad. She was very restless until she took out from her pocket the letter of our Master. She would kiss it and put it on her eyes and place it on her cheeks and touch it to her body. Astonished by this, I said: You are kissing a letter you do not know who wrote it. She said: O incapable and feeble from knowing the position of the progeny of prophets, lend me your ears and empty your heart for my words. I am Malika the daughter of Yashua, son of the Caesar of Rome. My mother is from the descendants of the Disciples of Jesus (Hawariyun) and her lineage goes back to the successor of Jesus, Simon. I will narrate to you the wondrous story. My grandfather the Caesar wanted to marry me to his nephew when I was a girl of thirteen years of age. So he gathered in his palace 300 priests and monks from the descendants of the Hawariyun, and from their men of stature seven hundred men. He gathered four thousand men from commanders of the army and officers of the military and leaders of the armed forces and chiefs of the tribes. He erected a throne from the dearest of his riches, which was adorned with varieties of jewels and was raised over forty steps. When his nephew climbed, the crosses were fixed about, the bishops took their stands in great reverence, and the pages of Injeel (the Bible) were opened, suddenly the crosses collapsed from the top and hit the ground. The pillars of the throne crumbled and crashed onto the floor. My grandfather's nephew, who had risen over the throne, fell down unconscious. The colors of the bishops changed and their chests trembled. Their leader said to my grandfather: Please excuse me from facing this evil, which forebodes the demise of this Christian religion and the regal creed. My grandfather took this as an evil omen and said to the bishops: Erect these scaffolds and raise the crosses and bring the brother of this deceased man, whose dreams have been ruined, so I may marry him to this young girl; and the evil of his dead brother may go away through his fortune. And when they did that, the same thing happened the second as had happened to the first nephew. People scattered away. My grandfather the Caesar stood in great distress and entered the quarters of the womenfolk. I dropped the curtains and then in the same night saw in my dream that Jesus, Simon, and a number of the Hawariyun had gathered at my grandfather's palace. They had installed there a pulpit of light that was defying havens in height and elevation. It was in the same spot where my grandfather had installed his throne. At this, Prophet Muhammad (SA) along with his son-in-law and his successor (Imam Ali) and a number of his sons entered. Jesus went forward and embraced him. Muhammad said to him: O Spirit of Allah, I have come to you to propose to your successor Simon for his daughter, Malika, for this son of mine, pointing with his son towards Abu Muhammad Hasan al-Askary (AS) the son of the writer of this epistle. Jesus looked at Simon and said to him: The greatest honor has come to you. Let your relation be bonded with the relation of the house of Prophet Muhammad (SA). Simon said: It will be my honor to do so. He climbed over that pulpit. Prophet Muhammad (SA) said the rituals and married me to his son. Jesus bore witness and the sons of Muhammad and the Hawariyun bore witness. When I woke up, I was scared to report this to my father or grandfather, fearing they will kill me. I was keeping this secret and was not revealing it to them. Meanwhile, my heart throbbed with Abu Muhammad's love so much that I forsook eating and drinking. I became weak and my body grew lean and I became very sick. There was no physician left in the cities of Rome that my grandfather did not bring and ask him to heal me. When despair overwhelmed him, he said to me: O solace of my heart, does any wish occur to your heart in this world, so I may fulfill it? I said: Grandfather, I see the doors of relief shut on me. However, if you save the Muslim captives in your prison torture, and remove their manacles, and do them favors, and kindly release them, I am hopeful that Jesus and his mother will give me health. When he did that, I made effort to display health and ate a little food. This made him very happy and he became ever intense to confer kindness and respect upon the captives. I also saw in my dreams for fourteen nights the Mistress of the Women of the worlds, Fatima (AS). She visited me along with Mary, the daughter of Imran, and one thousand serfs from the Gardens. Mary says to me: This is the Mistress of the Ladies, the mother of your husband, Abu Muhammad (AS). So I hold her and cry and complain why Abu Muhammad (AS) does not come to visit me. The Mistress of the Ladies (AS) said: My son, Abu Muhammad (AS) will not visit you so long as you believe in a partner with Allah in the religion of the Christians. This is my sister, Mary, the daughter of Imran, and she turns to Allah with disdain from your religion. If you want the pleasure of Allah, the Mighty and Sublime and the pleasure of Jesus and his mother, and to have Abu Muhammad (AS) visit you, say: I bear witness that a deity other than Allah is not and that my father Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. When I spoke these words, the Mistress of the Ladies (AS), pulled me to her chest and my soul was blessed. She said: Now expect the visitations of Abu Muhammad (AS). I am sending him to you. I woke up in great excitement and expectation of meeting Abu Muhammad (AS). When it was the next night, I saw Abu Muhammad (AS) and as if I was saying to him: You have abandoned me, my beloved, while the remedy of your love ruined my soul. He said: My delay was not but for your polytheistic belief. Now you have embraced Islam and I am going to be visiting you every night until Allah brings us together. Until now, his visitations to me have not ceased yet. Bishr says: I said to her: How did you fall among the captives? She said: Abu Muhammad (AS) told me on one of the nights: Your grandfather will shortly be dispatching an army to fight the Muslims on such and such day, and he will follow them. You have to join them in the entourage of the servants along such and such route. I did that and the vanguards of Muslims encountered us, which led to my situation that you can see and observe. And no one knew that I am the granddaughter of the Roman Caesar until now except you and that is because I told you. The gentleman in whose share of booty I fell, asked me of my name. I hid my identity from him and said: Narjis. He said: A name of your servants. I said to her: It is amazing that you are Roman and your language is Arabic. Due to my grandfather's persistence and encouragement that I should increase my learning, he appointed a woman to me, who was his interpreter, to visit me. She would come to me day and night and teach me Arabic until I became fluent and articulate. Bishr says: When I brought her back to Samarra, I entered upon my Master Abul Hasan Imam al-Hadi (AS). He said to her: How did Allah show you the glory of Islam and the disgrace of Christianity and the nobility of Muhammad and his Household? She said: How would I describe, O son of Allah's Messenger, something which you know better than me. I would like to confer kindness on you. He said to her: Which one is dearer to you, ten thousand dinars or a glad tiding of eternal grandeur? Glad tidings of a son for me. He said: Rejoice the tidings of having a son who will rule the world from the east to the west and will fill the earth with justice and equity as it will be filled with oppression and corruption. She asked: From whom? He replied in Roman: From the one whom the Messenger of Allah (S) proposed for you on such and such night, in such and such year. To whom Jesus and his successor married you. She asked: From your son, Abu Muhammad? Do you know he visited me since I have embraced Islam on the hands of the Mistress of the Ladies (AS)? Our Master said: Kafoor, call my sister Hakima. And when she entered, he said to her: Here she is. Lady Hakima embraced her long and was very much happy to see her. Abul Hasan (AS) said: O daughter of the Messenger of Allah (S), take her to your house and teach her the duties and traditions, for she is the wife of Abu Muhammad and the mother of the Qaim (AS)." Q 2- When we recite the salawat whereby we also send blessings on Nabi Ibrahim AS (By adding : KAMAA SWALAYTA ALAA IBRAHIMA WA ALAA AALE IBRAHIM) is it mustahhab ? Since we recite this salwat in Salaatul Mayyit. Answer 2 - In every prayer and Salawat where the phrase "KAMAA SWALAYTA ALAA IBRAHIMA WA ALAA AALE IBRAHIM" has been added; it deserves to be recited in the same way which is narrated. Q 3 - Can you quote any Hadith whereby one can add the term - WA AJ-JIL FARAJJAHU at the end of salwat ? Answer 3 - Imam Sadiq (AS) is quoted as saying: "Anyone who recites: Allahumma salli alaa Mohammad wa Aal-e Mohammad wa Ajjil Farajahum (اللهمّ صلّ علي محمّدٍ و آل محمّدٍ و عجّل فرجهم) after the morning prayer (Salat al-Fajr) and noon prayer (Salat al-Dhuhr) shall not die until he/she sees the return of Imam Mahdi al-Qaim (AS)." (Source: Mustadrak al-Wasa'il by Sheikh Hussein Nouri, Vol. 5, Page 96) Q 4 - In a Non Islamic Government whereby the Government of the Day collects different types of taxes from the Public but dose not provide them with basic services like supply of Water, electricity, Health etc. Sometimes the charges are exhorbitant. In this case are we allowed to pay the Government according to our own estimate for lets say Electricity ? Answer 4 - You must act in compliance with the governing regulations.


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Joe Biden's Parenting Is the Real Problem, Not Impeachment
By Roger L. Simon Sep 29, 2019 10:01 PM ET
None of us are perfect, most of us decidedly imperfect, but almost all of us know that our greatest responsibility in the world — those of us who have children and even those of us who don't — is to raise our children well, to be the best parents we can be.
Whatever you think about the Clintons and Donald Trump — about their views, values, and often questionable behavior — they evidently, despite all, raised their children decently. They paid attention. The proof is in the results. Chelsea Clinton and all the many Trump progeny are successful functioning adults, in several cases high-functioning (again, irrespective of their views — that's irrelevant here.).
Hunter Biden is not. His life is and has been a disaster. What is the reason for that? DNA undoubtedly has influence, but so does parenting. And that's what we control.
When your son is bounced out of the Navy for cocaine, when he has long had a drug and prostitution problem (the man also dumped his wife for his dead brother's widow), do you allow him to use your influence to get a $50K-a-month job with a Ukrainian natural gas company? Do you reward repeated mistakes with riches in an Eastern European country? Don't you try instead to help your son make his life better, help him deal with his obvious emotional problems first? Joe Biden himself has had considerable pain in his personal life, the deaths of a spouse and a child, but one would hope that would make him yet more attentive to those remaining children, less centered in the self. It appears not to have been so.
Let's leave aside the quid pro quo controversy (for the moment) or whether Joe got Hunter the job in the first place or let his influence do it for him, because none of that is important in terms of parenting. He was a truly incompetent father and did exactly the wrong thing for his son, enabling him once again. His subtextual message to Hunter was "Go away. You're bothering me. I'm doing something important." (Really?) Or perhaps it was "I'm feeling guilty for not paying attention to you, so here's a rich buyout. Stay off the coke this time, please." Or maybe it was a little of both — it all comes to the same thing, an unhappy mix.
Does this pertain to how a person would function as president or whether he should be president? As we know, many residents of the White House have engaged in morally iffy activities, before and sometimes during their terms. America, however, has a family problem now, particularly in minority communities but increasingly elsewhere as well. The number of families with fathers in the home has diminished substantially. Twenty-seven percent of children were in single-parent homes in 2015 according to the census. It's probably more now. The results have been well-documented — drug addiction, unemployment, homelessness, gangs, violence, and a growing suicide problem, particularly among young men.
We don't need Biden in the White House for a lot of reasons, but Joe's terrible example with Hunter is certainly one of them. How would he be as a spokesman for fathers in the home? Thankfully, it's getting increasingly unlikely that we will have him as president anyway. Panic has set in. As I write this, news is breaking that Biden's campaign wrote executives at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox News not to have Rudy Giuliani on the air.
It's unclear whether this happened before Giuliani appeared on George Stephanopoulos' "This Week" with a handful of documents demonstrating Biden and the Obama administration were up to no good in Ukraine that flustered the devout Clintonista. Rush Limbaugh is surely correct. We are in the midst of a "Cold Civil War." Biden himself, it's safe to predict, will soon be a sideshow, whatever his "family values." Warren, as most realize, is already the Dems' frontrunner. But the real action is with William Barr.
On a related note — and please excuse the self-promotion, but I'm self-publishing — my new novel The GOAT, although it appears to be otherwise at first, is actually about those same "family values" at its core. (I didn't realize this myself until the second or third draft.) Several flattering reviews have been written, for which I am extremely grateful, but, apropos the question, this amateur review from a woman on Amazon seems to have caught that intention and touched me on a deep, personal level.
I purchased this book because I think Roger L Simon is a terrific thinker and writer, and I love to read his political commentary, but honestly, I bought it mostly to support him, thinking I would not like it much. What a surprise I was in for. A great story, beautifully and compellingly written, far more than a book about tennis, it is a compelling page turner, funny and poignant, and a terrific reminder that it is never too late to do the right thing. A wonderful book, with no political message at all, that will leave you smiling and pensive about your own life choices.
Roger L. Simon — co-founder of PJ Media — is a novelist and screenwriter.
Roger L. Simon is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, award-winning novelist and blogger, and the co-founder of PJ Media. His book, Turning Right at Hollywood and Vine: The Perils of Coming Out Conservative in Tinseltown, was re-released in an updated edition in 2011.
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People are hitting the road to make it to their Thanksgiving destinations, but this year is one of the busiest for travelers.
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Parking regulations set to go into effect in 2020 draw ire of Norwalk businesses
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I Remember You Series Review Part 2: On Psychopaths (and three cheers for Min!)
August 12, 2015 | nobodybutkyu
Well, hello there.
Because Park Bogum is adorable.
I could talk forever on the myriad of other characters that populate this dramaverse and how much I love them and how I'd take Chief Kang Eunhyuk as well if it weren't for the fact that my Min would disapprove hugely but the need to analyze this drama calls. So here goes!
I find summing up and analyzing key ideas in dramas quite difficult. This could perhaps be due to a problem on my part with brevity or the fact that the show I like tend to be of the sort where a few words simply don't do them and the ideas presented within justice. But damn if I won't try.
We all wear more than one mask. some more dangerous than others, which are born from and result in us meaning different things to different people.
(Good grief, this was the briefest I could make it? *shakesheadatself*)
This was an incredibly huge part of the show, presented in different ways throughout. The concept of masks is nothing new especially in our society. We craft and take on different identities at work and at home for sheer ease of mind among other things. But where things get dangerous is when these masks are so fully integrated into our being that we cannot switch them on and off anymore. This danger is illustrated with Kang Eunhyuk's father and Hyeon Jisoo who both choose to leave Lee Joonyoung on the loose in return for information on a variety of other criminals. Hyeon Jisoo's reasons are simple and eerily understandable. The woman in man's workplace who wants to get ahead who's just been given the chance to bring hundreds, perhaps thousands, of criminals to justice in return for the escape of just one being covered up. Maximum happiness for the max number of people right? Why not go with that option? I wonder if she'd have made the same decision if she weren't a policewoman, if she were perhaps a visitor to the jail who'd accidentally walked into the wrong cell and been made the same offer. Would she have taken it? Or was it because she was thinking like a policewoman instead of a civilian? When Lee Hyun's disgust and outrage is made plain you can see her slightly taken back. Surely he of all people, he who thinks so differently from others, would understand why she made such a decision. And for the first time she attempts to think of it like a civilian would, putting aside her thoughts as a policewoman, thinking like someone who truly cared about Hyun would. And that's when the switch flipped.
So was she a good person for raising Hyun all those years? Or a bad one for lying to him for the past 20 years about his brother and about Lee Joonyoung?
A second example would be Jian's father. Prison guard by night, loving father by day. To Lee Joonyoung, he was the past in material form. Cruelty, pain, hatred personified. To Jian, he was the father she waited for everyday to pick her up. So which is it? Where then does that line exist between "good" and "bad"? What sort of people are they?
You can't just apply math to human lives
The same goes for the Commissioner. His stance is also understandable. The police's reputation is at stake here. Far easier to frame the guard on duty than show how far the police has fallen to require the aid of one so heinous (as he sees it). Maximum happiness for the max number of people. More cases are solved thanks to Lee Joonyoung's aid, more criminals brought to justice, all through one innocent, missing man's name being dragged through the mud. Why not? Who's to know the truth? He behaves like a true Commissioner of police would, disregarding the fact that the man in question had a daughter and just how devastated that daughter would be. Yet he returned home everyday to an exuberant, adorable son (with the unfortunately habit of inserting his foot in his mouth) and was a loving father to him without feeling the slightest prick of conscience for 20 years. It's this dichotomy that makes it so difficult for Kang Eunhyuk to understand and forgive his father. This was the man who panicked like crazy when he was shot but had no qualms about making another child go through a similar kind of pain. A man whose reaction upon being found out was "Who could have guessed that the daughter would join the police force?"
Who the hell's the real psychopath here?
How does one act around someone like that? Even Kang Eunhyuk has yet to figure that one out.
Then there are those that see past all those masks to the person within
Those that don't need those masks, that give the same part of themselves to everyone and keep what lies beneath either to themselves or those few that have earned their trust enough to see it. They are perhaps the most dangerous kind. While Hyun Jisoo, the Commissioner and Jian's father were pretty awful at times, they flip-flopped between both parts of the spectrum. Good, then bad, then good, then bad. You'd at least know where they were at a given moment. That wasn't the case with Lee Joonyoung and Min (for the first part at least). I never knew what was going through their heads. They were cryptic, and in full control of their environment regardless of location or situation. It was nigh impossible to guess at what was going through their head without gaining intimate access to their thoughts and their pasts. Thankfully we got plenty of both.
You can't just buy understanding
Lee Joonyoung gave his life – a life that was unwanted and despised by so many – meaning by rescuing those just like him. It became his life's mission, his vendetta, and his downfall. Personally, part of me continues to struggle with why Lee Joonyoung must be captured, with why he must be kept behind bars forever. As much as his principles speak contrary to present-day morals, his reasoning is eerily sound. "No one else will protect them, so I will." It's frankly hard not to applaud him for having done so at times. Especially when you look at people like Eunbok, abused to the point where a serial killer became his saviour. This, I believe, is the part Hyun struggles with as well. Because Lee Joonyoung for all his foibles, is someone who truly believes himself to be good. To save these children from hurt and harm, and preventing that anger and rage from festering inside them like they did with him, I can fault none of these. Yet it is in keeping this secret that we run into the dark side of an everyday man's vigilantism. A man lies homeless, drunk out of his mind on spirits and the ghosts of his past as Lee Joonho, prior to Lee Joonyoung stealing his identity and throwing him out to a life of destitution. A young man, once with a bright future ahead of him, lies in prison for having covered up for Lee Joonyoung. A beautiful, intelligent man is taught and driven to kill over and over to resolve an abandonment created entirely by Lee Joonyoung's web of lies. His brother is left fatherless and brotherless, driven by guilt and fear, seeking out his past the only way he knows how, living it day by day. The world is Lee Joonyoung's social experiment. He gives away Min's identity to the killer targeting Hyun's loved ones simply to see what Hyun would do and then killed the man regardless for having dared to hurt Min. To him, the man seeking vengeance was nothing more than a tool to determine the extent of Hyun's love for Min. And that's where Lee Joonyoung's morality departs from ours. Because despite all the deceit, manipulation and machination, he still sees it as right.
"Do you think he could have handled you?" he asks Min, disregarding the fact that neither brother can ever know that outcome due to his having separated them and driven their lives in such different paths. The incredibly cruel birthday present he sends Jian is another. We see it as the act of an unfeeling monster. He seeks it as humane, a way of lessening that most terrible of emotions: hope. This then is "the result of one who is evil performing a good deed" as Min says. We cannot help but see it as evil. It's these aspects of his character that make Hyun take the stance he does, the reason why no amount of Lee Joonyoung showing the abuse he suffered managed to gain Hyun's sympathy. Because in the end, this is what he chose to become.
Nurture can diminish/enhance those traits within us by nature
Those who are born monsters can be saved and those who are born human can be turned. Let's look at Hyun, Min and Lee Joonyoung on a scale. Looking at psychopathy and sociopathy in general, it's clear that Hyun demonstrated traits found commonly in both. He was quite antisocial and held curiosity regarding matters that no average child would find fascinating. Take the questions he directed at his father "Then again, why can't people hurt one another?" Then there was his curiosity regarding Lee Joonyoung. He's well aware of the sort of people his father researches, yet instead of being repulsed, he drew closer in that interrogation room. Whether it was due to fascination, curiosity, a need to understand his brother or himself, or all three, we don't know. But it was what gave Lee Joonyoung hope that even he could be understood, that he had perhaps found someone like-minded. Perhaps Hyun was born that way, perhaps the trauma he hold from his mother's death and having killed someone at so young an age was an unconscious influence on his psyche.
Yet young Hyun doesn't fit the one bill in a single respect: empathy and love. He was well aware of what would happen to his brother should his father find out, so he took the blame. His brother's disappearance and father's death shook him severely. If you ask me, that's when he starts to change, living with the grief of having lost his family, and those doubts regarding whether he could do that to someone else. This is where the writing and acting collectively shine because present-day Hyun is more sociopath than psychopath. Going back to the whole nature, nurture bit. Hyun might have been born a psychopath, but the path he was set on in life and the decisions he made resulted in those traits being diminished (though he still gets excited about murders)
Lee Joonyoung appears to have been a normal child of above-average intelligence, warped by constant abuse, never having known the slightest bit of affection. Nurture and the decisions he made along the way were what shaped him into who he is now.
Oh you pitiful man
Min is both and neither of these.
Perhaps like his brother, he was born a psychopath, perhaps their mother's death shaped them both. But taken under Lee Joonyoung's wing, he grows eerily similar to his mentor's younger self, murdering those who perform the same crime he was a victim of: abandonment. As enamoured I am of him and Park Bogum, there's something this drama makes quite clear which is that Min is not a misunderstood angel. He was lied to and decieved for years regarding Hyun, and was victim to Lee Joonyoung's warped parenting, both of which definitely had a hand in shaping him. Yet, Min is an extremely intelligent, manipulative young man. He may not have agreed that was he was doing was wrong but he certainly was aware that by society's standards, he was a criminal. He was a lawyer for goodness sake so he certainly knows a great deal about how all this works. And yet he continued to do it.
Just like with Lee Joonyoung, I can't fault him for those he killed (I wonder if that makes me a psycho too). People like those foster parents that just let their child die are pure scum and frankly if there's anything that Korean dramas and real-life experience have taught me, it's that the rich will never be found guilty of any crime. In that sense, I'm sort of glad that there are people like Min and Lee Joonyoung that go around offing those whose crimes will never see the light of justice. Yet these aren't the Middle Ages or Middle Earth. You can't just kill someone without repercussion. Someday, just as with Lee Joonyoung, someone will discover those nameless corpses the same way Hyun did. Someone will begin a manhunt and then Min and those he loves won't be safe. And there's nothing Min wouldn't do for Hyun's happiness.
Min then is a mixture of both a younger Lee Joonyoung and Hyun as a child, capable of deep love and extreme violence. Regardless of whether he was born with psychopathic/sociopathic tendencies or whether those were triggered in him, nurture and the choices he chose to make are what brought him to where he is today.
[ I'd also like to note that Min isn't capable of hurting an innocent. The attack he ordered on Jian was out of sheer spite and jealousy. She appeared to be seriously be getting close to Hyun unlike Indebted Art Deal Friend. This was a first for Hyun and Min clearly felt anxious at the fact that not only was the closest thing his brother had to a friend a female, she also cared nothing for him. The key thing here is that he wasn't able to go through with it in the end. This was at a time prior to his harboring any warmth towards Hyun so I'd argue against this being an act of mercy for Hyun's sake, and he was, as Jian noted, genuinely worried about her well being. There are two ways to take this, the first being that Min makes snap decisions regarding whether or not he kills people or that there's a deeper reason behind her actions. And if there's anything this show has taught us it's that everyone – psychopath or not – has a reason for what they do. And Min's was given to us from the outset.
How many times does he say this throughout the first half of the show? He genuinely wants to know then better. He wants to get closer to them, to his brother especially. He wants to know why he was thrown away when Hyun appears to care so much about others (the boy at his lecture for one). Yet neither Hyun nor Jian hold any particular fondness for his present identity. What better way to earn their trust than help them? Staging a murder and coming in at the right time to save the day would be so Min. No one gets hurt this way, and he gets closer to Jian and Hyun. It's actually rather sad that he has to drop so low to gain some small amount of trust and friendship (which Jian gives in full force). This theory is compounded by the fact that he aids in finding Jian after her kidnapping by the Woman Abuser on Steroids and takes him down with a viciousness that had me squealing in delight (watching the brothers beat the crap out of that fellow was ridiculously satisfying). Point being that the attack on Jian despite his reasons, wasn't right in the least, but he wasn't as far gone as to have let it happen. This sets him apart from Lee Joonyoung.
"You only have people that abandoned you. There's no one who will remember you. Your parents, your siblings, even your friends. You have no one. I will…remember you."
It's for a similar reason that he didn't kill the parents that mentally abused that poor child. The child was already dead. There was nothing more he could do. Killing the parents would only orphan their daughter. There's nothing he could do beyond honoring the dead child's memory. (Thankfully Eunhyuk, Jian and the others have enough evidence to indict the parents so that Lee Joonyoung didn't have to go on the warpath after hearing it) ]
"There isn't just one door"
A great many questions are answered in the finale including just why Lee Joonyoung was so fixated on Hyun in the first place. I find it testament to this show's strengths that the final piece of Hyun's memory was able to do what sixteen episodes didn't – make Lee Joonyoung understandable. And it is as that final piece clicks in place that you see just why Hyun let him go and why it's safe to say that his days are numbered.
"You can become as you wish. You can become like me, or you can become the opposite of me. There isn't just one door."
It's strangely painful to see him declare this all those years ago, as if he knew he'd turned into something he was no longer able to control. It's the only moment of doubt we ever witness which makes it all the more eerie and oddly heartrending. Because it's like gazing into a mirror image of Min. A bright young intelligent lad entrenched in bitterness for far too many years whom a little warmth might perhaps have changed.
Chances are that he saw that – Lee Joonyoung's nothing if not intelligent – yet he continued to set foot to that path. And now, he can no longer see who he's become and what he's done objectively. As evidenced in the last episode, he simply can't see any point of view besides his own. Why, he wonders, aren't they grateful? All those acts of vigilantism, saving those children, taking the burden of raising Min off Hyun, none of them are having the effect he intended. His "children" are rebelling against him, Min – whom he raised like his own son – would like nothing better than to stick him in the gut, Hyun – who was supposed to understand him – feels little more than distaste, Jian – with whom he had such a warm friendship – hates his guts. He has nothing left. His world is slowly but surely collapsing around him. And watching his befuddlement and confusion, Hyun – and us as viewers – can't help but pity him.
So Hyun lets him go, knowing that Lee Joonyoung will merely resume his life's goal: trying to give his life meaning through the saving of others. But he'll be on the watch for families vanishing from their homes, for murders without corpses, and someday, Lee Joonyoung will be found.
The opposite holds for Min
Nurture and the choices each of them make are what make them who they are. Hyun chooses a normal life, putting his intelligence to good use, Min chooses to take responsibility for his actions, Lee Joonyoung chooses to continue on the path he's on.
Understanding and acceptance should be kept separately
It's one thing to understand why someone is a certain way or has done what he did. It's another to condone it. Jian gets this more than anyone else. She outlines it right from the start.Hyun searches for a way out at first, where he can cover up what his brother has done and perhaps lead a normal life with him. But in this day and age, that sort of thing simply isn't possible. Min will definitely never kill again but the chances of him being found out are rather high, especially with everyone after Lee Joonyoung. Hyun understands his brother better than Lee Joonyoung could dream of doing (the man does have a rather pessimistic view of life) but he can't simply make the murders of nearly fifteen people just vanish like that. He can't accept those crimes. He can't say "It's okay that you murdered those people." Because it isn't, and he needs to make Min see that. In that way I'm glad about our year-long break where Min got to spend a great deal of time with his brother, making up for those 20 years they spent apart. Doing plenty of this
And a great deal of this, while he recovers from his injuries.
And it's this brotherly bond that stands stronger than anything Lee Joonyoung could ever offer. It's unlikely that Min won't make strange comments or will see everything the same way we do but he's grown to become someone who understands (and might only ever understand) just 25% of what he's done wrong but he'll take the blame from the full 100% anyway because he loves his brother, doesn't want to be a burden to him, and wants them both to be free. And if that's a psychopath, then I'm Lee Joonyoung.
Part 1's back here!
For those who wish to squee over the romance and bromance with me, let us depart with haste to part 3!
For those who wish to go on to the fanfic, here we go!
I Remember You	Choi WonyoungI Remember YouJang NaraPark BogumSeo Inguk
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Tien says:
WOW. *slow claps* Your review made me speechless. It's so marvelous how a single scene can be interpreted in so many different ways depending from which angle you look at it. I haven't finished reading but feel the needs to say that this kind of deep review is so impressive. Really appreciate your efforts in scrutinizing the details. Thank you. Not intending to give any pressure, but I would love to read the romance review. Soon. Heheheh… Thanks and big hug, chingu!
nobodybutkyu says:
Thanks so much! It's just 1:24am here and you made my day 🙂 The romance review's up! and I'll be putting up part 4 sometime today! Big hugs right back at you 😀
Nobodybutkyu … Chingu, are you Kyuhyun's fan?? OMOO…. naduuuu
OMO! Me too! He was the whole reason I got into Kpop and Kdramas in the first place! Yay, we've the same bias! 😀 (though I'm also a Hyukjae fan xD)
phingphing says:
reading this, im crying again……min and hyun they are just beyond words …their relationship is real and dark, but feels so strong and very deep. im so touched by their story. and i am proud of min because finally he choose to change and be hyun's brother, as LEE MIN.
You described it so well! Dark, yet strong and deep. That's exactly how I saw it! (and why it made me cry so much 😛 ) I'll be putting up the fanfic on what happens in the future sometime today (there's an I Hear Your Voice crossover if you're a fan!) and I'd love to hear your thoughts on whether I've remained true to the drama in my portrayal of the brothers!
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Nobodybutkyu ….. *high five*. The evil magnae is my all time bias. I love EunSiHae too. But basically I love all those dorks, especially if they're up to no good. Hahhaha..
Lol especially Heechul, you never know what he's up to! And I love EunSiHae too! xD Siwon's a hoot.
hariaharia says:
A thorough analysis on antisocial personality disorder, well done! It's quite rare for a drama to give to viewers so much food for thought. And k-dramas are hardly ever so accurate (especially in dipicting real mental disorders) to begin with. But with this material at hand you gave us a mini-thesis on sociopath vs. psychopath. Bravo!!! Since Psychiatry still debates on APS and those two terms (pop psychology definitions to some reserchers), we can talk for days on the matter. Your approach is flawless and I only have a few minor objections to your arguments which are unimportant…It's more as two proffesionals' disagreement over details. Loved your psychological references and your attempt to empathise with the criminal minds of the series 🙂
That was refreshing and new in this hobby of mine called k-dramas!
wsirius says:
BoGuk was to me the strongest deal in the drama. Min and his devotion to his hyung, specially his "you were my everything' Broke my heart. Never cried in a kdrama since Stairway to heaven years ago. PBG really nailed his Min role because I was tearing up from the moment you could see in his eyes how much pain conflicted him longing to be with his hyung, and the episode was obvious on how he was saying goodbye and giving up on his wish where he was finally part of Hyeon's life.
Many people(viewers specially-this female actress-bias people wanting the bro in jail so they could have their romance drama(which wasn't about that to begin with) annoyed tf outta me …you could tell they won't grasp the brother's story, even tho he was a killer in the drama, to me, Blood is ticker than water, and I am very into brothership plots/series so I just hated how people would hate on this character then beg, whine for a cliche romancing nonsense every 10 min.
I know some fellows out there probably felt like me and cared more about the brother and LJY line plot, therefore I expected a better ending on that side. Too bad the drama fell on a predictable ending..unfinished. (I didn't mind LJY staying free) Giving the kind of plot the drama carried throughout 15 eps, it would have been pointless to have LJY captured.
I might be the only one wishing Min ran away or changed without the need of predictable jail time✌ if he stayed psychopath all the way, I wouldn't have minded him being in jail, but as he seemed so thrown back I didn't want that. Do-what's-right-overrated endings are repetitive. I hoped Hyeon would have held longer onto not letting bad blood seep in between brothers as he did from the ep he reunited with Min, Hyeon seemed troubled since he knew Min's signature was the one pointing at all the murders, so if writers had him being so secretive about that, he just giving up that easily on their happy ending of setting them free from LJY, was disappointing.
If you liked Min, as a character, read this song, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWC35H6JWik which to me, sums up Min's inner demons & love for his hyung in the drama. Which hurt and captured my nae maeum. (**there is a lyric mistake, it's "hell" not "heaven" on lyrics 2:06min) 'Hell' makes it deeper. #BoGuk (HyeonMin) for the win♡
hasumi17 says:
I am left speechless. An amazing article. That's all I can say. WoW. Amazing.
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Since when did my beloved bed become the most uncomfortable place on the planet? Blech!
Aye carumba! What the heck? I never have trouble sleeping... NEVER! Ask anyone! I can sleep anytime, anywhere in like 2.5 seconds... and through anything! It's one of my talents... I need very little sleep, but I sleep very deeply and very efficiently... usually. Yeah, well not TONIGHT!
Sorry, I don't have any good advice about the sleep. I was going to say you should pull a Troy and nap with the kids during the day but I have a feeling your older ones don't nap anymore!
Your girls weekend looked so fun! I hope you got lots of spa pampering.
I love the picture of your ultrasound. Isn't it amazing how much develops so early on?
Man, I'm sorry you aren't sleeping, that's the worst! I always ended up sleeping on the couch, which was actually quite comfy.
Awww.. Im so sorry, and you dont even have the belly yet to have that uncomfortable edge... I have always had spells of not being able to sleep. So if you figure something out let me know so I know what to do on my next one!
well, are you past the safe date to be taking Ibuprofen? That might help the aches & pains to make the bed more comfy???
One bonus, I'm usually up at 4am, we can always MSN messenger each other at that hour - I know you're thinking, "ooooh, how fun!"
These kind of nights make me crazy. I go to the other spare bedroom and read or write in my journal. I go mad if I lay there and can't fall asleep fast.
I had no Idea you were pregnant. Congrats but I know what you mean about the not sleeping part. Scott & I are finally pregnant after 6 1/2 years of trying. And I have been really sick. I keep hoping it will get better. Good to see your blog.


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Communicating The New Regulations On Coal
Tara Sonenshine
GWU School of Media and Public Affairs
President Barack Obama made an ambitious move this week on climate change—setting hard targets for state-by-state reductions of carbon emissions from power plants. This is a key step in lowering greenhouse gas emissions since power plants remain the single largest source of carbon pollution in the U.S. Individual states will have flexible ways to achieve these targets that experts believe are doable but difficult. A state has many paths that can be taken to get to the targets include improving power plant heat rates, using more natural gas plants to replace aging coal plants, increasing the use of zero-carbon energy, or moving more towards solar and other efficiency alternative energies. The new federal regulations announced by the Environmental Protection Agency could transform America's energy sector that depends on coal for nearly 38% of electricity. America's approximately 1,000 power plants would now face real limits on carbon pollution, which would lower soot and smog and address climate change in real ways. The President has avoided major pronouncements on climate change lately because of pushback from Congress and interest groups in the first term. Interestingly, the EPA is making this new announcement, not the White House, which fears over-promising and then facing legal or legislative hurdles.
These changes could have an impact not only on the United States but around the world as other nations follow our lead, and many American citizens, particularly young people, will welcome significant moves to curb power emissions. Nevertheless, public outreach and messaging will be important around these new announcements. My advice to the Administration would be to utilize this moment with greater fanfare and attention and I have a few suggestions on how to do that:
President Obama should do more than just have an EPA announcement. Use the bully pulpit and make a statement on the significance of this move
The White House should dispatch its climate change experts to television, radio, web, social media, print with messages about the importance of emissions
Secretary of State Kerry, who deeply believes in addressing climate change, should speak to young audiences—particularly college students via Planet Forward or other websites to reinforce the value of these changes
Op-eds should be generated by those within government and outside government to keep the momentum going on climate change. Op-eds can be generated by the Administration or by those in the field
EPA should convene all the sustainability experts at universities for a conference call to answer question and encourage use of social media to get out the word
While this climate change announcement will certainly be welcome news for those who believe in moving the planet forward, communicating these changes to the broader public is even more necessary to gain political support in Congress and to win over those who fear change. Ignorance is often the biggest obstacle to addressing climate change. Communicating about this issue is critical to fill in the public gaps in knowledge. Any and everyone can help to accomplish this. Below are a few ways sustainability advocates can help to communicate the new regulations.
Videotape interviews with others about these new Obama changes and how they affect climate change. Visually—what will the world look like if we do NOT make these EPA changes
Put together your own op-ed on why carbon emissions matter
Look at video of pollution and create a viral video on how it looks
Send ideas to Planet Forward on experiences you have had in this area
Encourage international students to look at our website.
Tara Sonenshine is a Distinguished Fellow at George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs and coordinate academic partnerships for Planet Forward. She served as under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs.
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Yeshiva University rejects LGBTQ club, saying it will support students in other ways
By Josefin Dolsten September 4, 2020 12:19 pm
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(JTA) — Yeshiva University rejected the formation of a campus group for queer students but said it was putting in place new policies to help LGBTQ students feel safe.
The flagship Modern Orthodox college in New York sent a statement to students Thursday addressing a yearlong battle over whether the school would allow a queer student group.
"The message of Torah on this issue is nuanced, both accepting each individual with love and affirming its timeless prescriptions. While students will of course socialize in gatherings they see fit, forming a new club as requested under the auspices of YU will cloud this nuanced message," the Thursday statement said.
But the statement also announced new measures to support LGBTQ students, including updating its diversity and sensitivity training to apply to topics related to sexuality and gender, hiring a counselor with experience counseling LGBTQ people and establishing a phone line where people can report harassment and bullying. The school also reaffirmed that its policies prohibit discrimination and harassment, including based on sexuality or gender identity.
LGBTQ issues present a dilemma for the Modern Orthodox world, which is defined by its strict adherence to traditional Jewish law as well as embrace of the secular world. In recent years, as LGBTQ people and issues have gained increasing acceptance in wider American society, the movement has had to grapple with how to reconcile a traditional interpretation of Jewish law, which does not allow sexual relations with the same gender or same-sex marriage.
At YU, the conflict over the club started in September 2019 after the school's College Democrats lost its recognition after organizing an LGBTQ rights rally (it was later reinstated). Following the event, a number of students submitted an application to create an LGBTQ student group, but the student council abstained from voting on its fate, leaving the decision up to the administration.
The YU Pride Alliance currently does not have official campus recognition and holds events off-campus. Its vice president, Chana Weiss, told the YU Commentator that the group was "disappointed by the decision" not to give the club official recognition.
"The administration has failed to be transparent about which halachic 'nuances' are at odds with the club and, on the contrary, we stand firm in our belief that pikuach nefesh necessitates the creation of our club," Weiss said, referring to the Jewish principle that saving a life overrides other religious rules.
Many LGBTQ youth struggle with depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts, including in the Orthodox Jewish world.


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Have you ever met anybody who doesn't like sweet potatoes? It seems to be a rarity, as these sweet little souls seem to please just about everyone – from toddlers trying solids for the first time to the average meal-prepping adult. Sweet potatoes are not only a great vegetable to add to your weekly diet, but they are certainly not difficult to incorporate. From the preparation to the rich nutrients, we advise adding some sweet potatoes to your cart every time!
It seems odd to think about such a vegetable that humans consume so frequently as being one of the oldest of all time – yep – Christopher Columbus is the one credited in history for swooping up sweet potatoes from America and bringing them to Europe in 1942. The man knew a good commodity when he saw it! We ought to take a moment of silence to honor Christopher because he helped adapt the most frequently grown root crop in any country today. Sweet potatoes produce more pounds per acre than any other cultivated plant – even regular potatoes, considered Irish potatoes.
Here's a humdinger for you – sweet potatoes are not a potato. Right down to the growing and harvesting of the crops, the processes of sweet potatoes and your average potato are completely different! Additionally, the confusion between the difference in sweet potatoes and yams is very common, and it is true that they are completely different commodities. Here's where the confusion gets tricky – when the orange-fleshed sweet potatoes became popular in the United States, the produce industry decided to clearly distinguish them from the white-fleshed kind. In the United States, yams are considered sweet potatoes with orange flesh.
The sweet potato is considered to be much more nutritious than the Irish potato due to the sugar and fats. Although that may not sound more nutritious, these beta-carotene-rich vegetables are a great source to get your Vitamin A. They are packed with fiber and when they are raw, and are typically around 86 calories. They certainly will fill up your carb intake with an average of 27 grams of carbs. This alone is what makes sweet potatoes such a hit in the fitness and health industry – they are a great way to get the good carbs that you need that break down quickly. It is important to note that there is a high glycemic index in the consumption of sweet potatoes due to the sugar, and it is something to be wary of if you have diabetes. However, research says it is possible sweet potatoes with white-fleshed skin can help regulate blood sugar if consumed in fair amounts, regularly. There may not be much protein at all in sweet potatoes, but there certainly is no shortage of vitamins and minerals – from Vitamin A as we previously spoke of to Vitamin C, Vitamin B6, B5, E, potassium, and manganese.
There are endless ways to cook these sweet jewels – they can be baked, fried, steamed, mashed, or roasted. You really can utilize sweet potatoes in just about any way in your cooking. The skin of the sweet potato is great to use as well. Be sure and brush off the surface with water and a vegetable brush. Then brush fresh olive oil and sprinkle salt and pepper over the top and then pop them in the oven to bake! This creates an appeal for eating the skin where so many of the nutrients are, and the skin comes out crispy and tasty. You can even cut the baked sweet potato in half and spoon out the insides for mashed sweet potatoes and then utilize the hollow skin with a bit of melted butter inside and eat the sweet potato skins! The sweet sensation along with the crispy and savory taste of the salted skin makes for a great snack.
We won't "yammer" on any longer about sweet potatoes, you get the gist!


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October's App of the Month: Before the Mactaquac Headpond
October 3, 2017 Jasmine Sohal
The Mactaquac Dam is the largest hydroelectric dam in the Canadian Maritime provinces. Explore how Esri Story Maps was used to create a discussion tool about the dam's future through October's App of the Month – Before the Mactaquac Headpond.
Larissa Holman was completing her master's degree in resource and environmental management under Kate Sherren, Associate Professor and Academic Programs Coordinator, at Dalhousie University when she first heard about the public consultations on the future of the Mactaquac Dam. Built in 1967, the concrete used to create the power station of the dam unfortunately contains an aggregate that expands when exposed to moisture, a condition known as Alkali-Aggregate Reaction (AAR). Because of this, the dam's useful lifespan was determined to be shortened to 2030, and public consultation were held to determine if the dam should be rebuilt, decommissioned or removed.
To help encourage local discussions around these options and present the impact of the dam on the Saint John River, Larissa and Kate used the power of historical aerial imagery and Esri Story Maps to create Before the Mactaquac Headpond.
The story map is a virtual tour of the Saint John River before the installation of the Mactaquac Dam. When the dam was built, it flooded a 100-km headpond of agricultural land and farming communities. The story map illustrates the pre-dam landscape of the Mactaquac area, near Fredericton, NB, for those who were not around to see it. Each bookmark in this story map explores a featured location along the Saint John River and gives a different view of the headpond between the dam near Fredericton and the Town of Nackawic.
The swipe story map allows us to compare and contrast the landscape surrounding the Saint John River and analyze the environmental effects of the Mactaquac Dam.
The story map was created using the Story Map Swipe template with Swipe Series enabled. This template enables users to interact with two web maps or two layers of a single web map, depending on how you build your story. The app enables you to present a single view, or to develop a narrative showing a series of locations or views of the same maps. Having the Swipe Series enabled in the settings of the template allows you to harness the Story Map Series template as you are able to add in more than one map. This story map shows the path of the dam to further highlight significant areas where the dam has affected its neighbouring landscape.
"The story map added the ability to guide people along to visit parts of the river valley and animate these changes with historical photographs and a short description for each location.," says Holman. "Many residents now live on the headpond and enjoy the beauty and recreational value it offers. The storymap is an opportunity for develop a deeper understanding of the river valley's history and how significantly the area was changed when the dam was put in."
When configuring the app, Larissa used the current basemap from Earthstar Geographics and DigitalGlobe to compare to georeferenced historical photographs from 1962-1963. The historical photographs were sources from aerial photographs available from the New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources. Each section of the story map also includes descriptive historical information about the area highlighted, providing end-users of the app with insight on what the area was like before the dam was installed.
After Larissa completed her story map, it was distributed in the community through the local press and shared with different regional organizations. The story map became an effective tool for giving the public a glimpse of Mactaquac's history and analyzing the effects of development on the area's landscape.
As for the future of the Mactaquac Dam, in December 2016, it was decided that the dam will be maintained for its expected lifespan until 2068.
Check out the story map and leave a comment below on what you found most compelling about the app.
See the full version of the app.
Jasmine Sohal is a GIS Analyst for Esri Canada, holding an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from McMaster University and a post-graduate GIS Applications Specialist certificate from Sir Sandford Fleming College. As a kid, Jasmine refrained from going to new places until she drew a map of how she would get from Point A to Point B. After taking her first Introduction to GIS course at McMaster University, Jasmine knew right away where her passion lay. Now, as a self-proclaimed Geogeek, she is always inspired to visualize situations spatially and applies GIS anywhere she can. In her spare time, Jasmine is a discoverer; for good hiking trails and restaurants, that is. She is always going out to discover beautiful landscapes during her hiking adventures around the province. Off the trails, you can find her discovering new restaurants to dine at. With her open mind and willingness to adapt and learn, Jasmine is excited to see what her future in GIS holds for her.
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