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Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab and The Ahl al-Hadeeth
By Shaykh Ehsan Elahi Zaheer
Question: Who was Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhaab and why are the Ahlul-Hadeeth attributed to him?
Answer: Many people ask this question and I think the people should understand this properly. Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhaab bin Suliemaan at-Tameemee was born in the area of Najd in a place called Uyainah in the year 1115H and he died in 1206H in a place called Dar'iyyah which is near Riyaadh.
During his time he saw Shirk and innovations widespread so he started to advise the people and called them according to the Book of Allaah and the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allaah (Sallalahu Alayhee Was-Sallam). However as ignorant people just have enmity and hatred without any reason these people had the same. So instead of accepting the call of Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhaab which was based upon the Qur'aan and the Sunnah of the Messenger (Sallalahu Alayhee Was-Sallam), which included the prohibition and the impermissibility of worshipping others besides Allaah or the permissibility of supplicating to others, they totally opposed him.
However it was the will and power of Allaah that the village he resided in was near the capital of the government offices, Riyaadh. The ruler of this and the surrounding areas was Muhammad bin Sa'ood al-Ghazanee. Allaah guided through the dawah of the Shaikh and then he joined the Shaikh in spreading and propagating the call to Allaah. Shaikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhaab explained to him that he needed to use force in order to spread the religion of Allaah and to establish the laws of Allaah upon the earth. "Allaah has granted you understanding of his tawheed and if you aid and help me, then we will be able to overcome and surpass the people who oppose our dawah and in this way the tawheed of Allaah will spread to all the tribes of the arabs, just as the Messenger of Allaah (Sallalahu Alayhee Was-Sallam) called the people to the simple and clear tawheed."
So Muhammad bin Sa'ood and his tribe helped the Shaikh and just in a short amount of time his dawah and methodology spread and became widespread. People began to follow the straight path, they refrained from grave worship and connected themselves with the tawheed of Allaah. However a powerful government (Turks-Ottomans) that harboured and propagated shirk, attacked Muhammad bin Sa'ood and Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhaab and his tribe and defeated them. So they migrated to Kuwait where they sought refuge. This incident occurred at the end of the Eighteenth century. On one hand the turks empire began to weaken and crumble and on the other hand this exiled tribe continued to strive and struggle to regain their land.
The father of Shaah Fahd and Shaah Faisal, Abdul Azeez bin Abdur Rahmaan Aal-Sa'ood in 1902 with 40 people attacked the castle in Riyaadh in the night. They captured the ruler of Aal Zasheed and other people. After this Abdul Azeez Aal Sa'ood began to capture other areas.
The Turkish government had become hollow and weak. Due to shirk and innovations these people had lost the power of Eemaan and other aspects of their condition had surpassed and worsened than the disbelievers. On the inside they had began to build secular thoughts which were eventually officially established in 1924ce by Ataa-Turk by finishing the Uthmaanee Khilaafah. Restrictions were put on learning the Arabic language and many rulings and laws were imposed that were such to expel the Turk's from Islaam.
On the other hand Abdul Azeez Abdur-Rahmaan Aal Sa'ood after Najd, captured Hijaaz, Ta'if, al-Bahaa, Abhaa, Ahsaa, Damaam the borders of Sham and A'raaq, Dauqah al-Jizl and in 1932ce he laid the foundations of the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia, which is also present to this day. It is a total of 41 provinces and much larger in area than Paakistaan.
Since Abdul Azeez Aal Sa'ood had grown up in a house of righteousness and those who promoted and propagated tawheed, he therefore hated shirk and innovations. So as he would capture any land he would establish the sharee'ah. Alongside this he would destroy the tombs erected over graves to the extent that all the Arab peninsula had been ridden and purified of Shirk. All praise be to Allaah we still do not see anything like these graves and tombs there to this day.
So the establishment of Islamic law and the prohibition of shirk was in reality the call of Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhaab. Thereafter some opposers started to term and call this, based upon the teachings of the British, "The Wahhaabee Movement" and they called everyone who was a Salafee and adopted the Qur'aan and the Sunnah, a person who disrespected the Messenger and a wahaabee and other such names. Whereas those who say and utter these names, then they themselves in their actions were under the influence and affect of the jews and the christian's.
This was a brief description of the call of Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhaab and its success. Then as far as the Ahlul-Hadeeth are concerned, why are they attributed the Shaikh? Then this is the ignorance of the people as the Ahlul-Hadeeth do not accept anyone to be their leader, representative or guide. Also the fact that the name of the Shaikh was Muhammad and if some one wants to attribute someone to him then they should call them Muhammadee. Wahaabee is from the name of Allaah, al-Wahhaab, so when these people deliberately call some one Wahaabee then in reality they are saying he is a person of Allaah, which is a title and attribution of respect and honour, not one of disrespect. When the British came to India they thoroughly investigated the affair of the people there and they came to the conclusion that if any group of people hate and have enmity towards the jews and christians then it is the Ahlul-Hadeeth.
So in light of this they thought lets make the general public and these religion selling Mullahs, oppose this group upon the truth and they told them such people that those who believe in Allaah are called 'Wahaabee's'. So these people sold their religion and faith and strenuously fulfilled the duties and orders of their masters to the extent that these people banned this saved sect from entering the Masjids. However the people know the reality now and the same people are getting beaten by their masters.
Clear your minds on this point that if the Ahlul-Hadeeth do not do taqleed of Imaam Abu Haneefah, Imaam Maalik, Imaam Ahmad bin Hanbal and Imaam shaafi'ee, then how can they do taqleed of Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhaab. However it is a totally separate issue that wherever the issue of the Book and Sunnah is found then it will be the issue adopted by the Ahlul-Hadeeth.
The people who establish Islaam and practice it in every time and era are the brothers of the Ahlul-Hadeeth. So on this basis the dawah of Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhaab and the dawah of the Ahlul-Hadeeth is one and the same and that is the Book and the Sunnah. The basis of dawah for both of them is that it is impermissible to associate anything in worship with Allaah and nor is it permissible to ask anything other than Allaah for help and assistance. The dawah and methodology of the Ahlul-Hadeeth has been around from the time when the Messenger of Allaah (Sallalahu Alayhee Was-Sallam) began his call to the oneness of Allaah and Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhaab was only 2 centuries before us.
There is no other manhaj in this world today other than the Ahlul-Hadeeth who can claim that their manhaj and madhab is the same as the one the Messenger of Allaah (Sallalahu Alayhee Was-Sallam) showed us. If this is not the case, then it is due to the people who erected walls and boundaries between themselves and the Prophet of Allaah. Is there a madhab or manhaj in the world today that can claim with certainty that their manhaj is exactly the same which the Messenger of Allaah (Sallalahu Alayhee Was-Sallam) gave to Abu Bakr as-Siddeeque and Umar (Radhiallaahu Anhuma) or to the rest of the companions, the only people who can claim this are the Ahlul-Hadeeth. This is why there is no wall between the Ahlul-Hadeeth and Allaah and his Messenger. This is the pure dawah and the call of the Book of Allaah and the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allaah (Sallalahu Alayhee Was-Sallam) and there are no innovations or additions in this dawah
All the sects and groups of the world today claim their Imaams said so and so, or their holy people said such and such or their religious leaders said such and such. The Ahlul-Hadeeth say, "Allaah said and his Messenger said…" and that's it. This is the dawah the Messenger of Allaah (Sallalahu Alayhee Was-Sallam) gave to his companions and he said to them,
"There will be 73 sects in my Ummah and all of them will go to the Fire except 1. The companions asked "Who are they?" The Messenger of Allaah said, "What I and my companions are upon."
Today the inheritors of this dawah are the Ahlul-Hadeeth. As you well know the example that pure milk does not contain any water and so therefore nor do we add anything into the religion.
Now the question arises why do we call ourselves Ahlul-Hadeeth? What is the meaning of calling ourselves Ahlul-Hadeeth? Whereas as people have started to name and attribute themselves to people from the Ummah, so then we attributed ourselves to the Messenger of Allaah (Sallalahu Alayhee Was-Sallam).
Some said "We are hanafee's." due to Imaam Abu Haneefah, some said, "We are Shaafi'ee's" due to Muhammad bin Idrees ash-shaafi'ee.
Some said, "We are deobande's" because they attributed themselves to the town of Deoband in India,
some said, "We are bareilwi's." because they loved the city of Bareily in India.
But we said, "We are Ahlul-Hadeeth" because we attributes our selves to Muhammad (Sallalahu Alayhee Was-Sallam). Now you also must know what Hadeeth is.
Allaah said,
"Allaahu Nazzala Ahsanal-Hadeethee…"
"Allaah has sent down the best statement…"[1 ]
So the word Hadeeth has been used for the Qur'aan. Then Allaah said in Soorah a-Waaqi'ah,
"Afabihadhal Hadeethee Antum Mudhinoon."
"Is it such a talk (this Qur'aan) that you deny?"[2 ]
So if you do not deny then why do you attribute yourselves to other people and what does calling yourself bareliwee, deobandee. Shaafi'ee and maalikee mean.
"Fabiayyee Hadeethim Ba'aduhu Yu'minoon."
"Then in what statement after this they will believe."[3]
In terminology the statements of the Messenger of Allaah are the Ahadeeth and the speech of Allaah is the Qur'aan. So therefore we have attributed ourselves to the Qur'aan and Hadeeth and call ourselves the Ahlul-Hadeeth and we are happy to do so, all praise be to Allaah. We have never attributed ourselves to any village nor to any other people. May Allaah grant this methodology strength and protect and preserve it. Ameen.
Source ahlulhadeeth.wordpress.com
1 Soorah az-Zumar (39):23).
2 Soorah al-Waaqi'ah (56):81).
3 Soorah al-Mursalaat (77):50).
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Haajar Eberle
Assalaamu alaikum
excellent work. I'm looking for a book by Ehsan Elahi Zaheer titled shia wa sunna (in english). It is of an urgent matter. Any idea how I can get my hands on a hard copy, or download it online?
Abdul-Haqq Abdul-Khaliq
alaykum salaam warahmatullah,
There are some of the shaykhs work on this link
http://gift2shias.com/2010/12/22/an-unsheathed-sword-shaikh-ehsan-elahi-zaheer-pdf/
Md Abul Kalam Azad
Md bin Abdul Wahab Nazdi was an agent of the British. The British used this man and Muhammad bin Sa'ood to bring about disunity among Muslim Ummah. A puppet monarchy was established in Arab. This puppet Govt., powered by the British, commenced propaganda across the globe that Md bin Abdul Wahab Nazdi was an reformer and he was the torch-bearer of pure tawhid. Saudi-sponsored Mullahs,Publishing houses and media tried to demonstrate that almost entire muslim Ummah has become Mushrik and Md bin Abdul Wahab Nazdi and his cadres are re-establishing pure tawhid. some innocent people fell victim to their massive propaganda also. But history proves that this British-paid freemason is the father of modern Kharizism. He and his extremist followers, sponsored by Saudi petro-dollar,made the set-up of the Muslim world topsy-turvy. Entire Muslim World is now like a boiling cauldron. Only British agent Md bin Abdul Wahab Nazdi and wahabees are responsible for it. Ehsan Elahi Zaheer is an artist-lier. These people, by virtue of their word-game, strive to mislead innocent Muslims.
please stop spreading lies and open your eyes and read and you would stop following a religion that was invented by the British agent Reza Khan the Shia.
fear Allaah and don't backbite the scholars of Sunnah you have followed all the other people of innovation in making claims without proof so don't post on here again spreading your lies
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brother I don't have the time, energy or even knowledge to rise up to your stupid challenges, You made claims against Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhab and now want me to prove your writings is a lie??!! what planet are you on man?
I don't allow you sufis to have a platform here to misguide people and every time you comment your link to a deviant sufi website will be deleted so why waste your energy and mine?
brother firstly I told you links to your own sufi site will be deleted yet you linked back to it again.
secondly this proof of yours >>> (Monthly Ahle Hadees 28th February, 2009 Page 46-48; Published by Jamiat Ahle Hadees Paschim Banga)
I only found out recently that Paschim Banga is a corner of India how do you expect me to have this copy of magazine/journal or whatever it is?! and if you have it why don't you upload it and show it to your barelwee friends on your own blog. Alhamdulillaah the salafis are bigger than just Indian sub-continent unlike the Berailly sect so how do you expect everyone to have this copy of Magazine/journal from this corner of India? if you have it post it (ON YOUR OWN BLOG)
thirdly it is well known that Raza Khan and Ghulam Qadian were agents of the British they fought for the British with their pens I have said to you before I don't have the time, energy or even knowledge to rise up to your stupid challenges.
fourthly you say you will become wahhabi again I believe you were a salafi who finally saw the light as much as I believe those fake ex muslims.
and most importantly Im telling you for the last time I will not allow this place to be a stage for raza khans hindu religion!
Barry "Rizal Muhajeer" Grossman
November 27, 2012 @ 7:35 am
Assalaamu alaikum. Regarding the fictional Humphrey Memoirs used to sell the lies about Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab that Md Abul Kalam Azad appears to have accepted, please consider this debunking of the book Abdul-Haqq Abdul-Khaliq:
"This book was translated into Urdu in India and it was claimed by its publishers that Humphrey was an English spy whose duty was to spy on the Ottoman caliphate in the 18 th Century. He went through training in adopting an Islamic identity and learning Arabic, and then travelled to Basra where he met Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab, and a strong friendship developed between the two. The Publishers claim that these memoirs remained hidden until they fell into the hands of the Germans during World War II, who published it as a way of slandering the British government. It was translated into French, Arabic and Urdu. A perusal of this book makes it abundantly clear that it is an imaginary fictional narrative, coined deliberately to discredit Sheikh ibn Abdul Wahhab and his followers by the British. Our evidence to prove the book is a concoction is twofold: historical evidence from its contents, and our fruitless search to find the original English version.
We began with a trip to the British Library's Rare Books Section, which contains books printed prior to 1975. There were 72 entries under Humphrey, but none related to our subject. We found one entry under Humphrey's Memoirs (printed 1734), but these were the memoirs of the Duke of Gloucester who recorded his relations with the ruling family of the time.
The publishers of the offending book had also given a number of alternative titles such as 'Colonisation Ideal' and 'The English spy in Islamic countries'. Needless to say we found no such book, and neither did our search under 'spy' reveal anything useful. The advent of computers has made access to rare and remote books very easy, and we have been forced to conclude after an intensive search that no such book exists and that we have a fabricated translation published by the enemies of the Sheikh ibn Abdul Wahhab.
Humphrey claims he travelled to Istanbul in 1710 at the age of 20. He returned to London and then travelled to Basrah in 1712 after a long sea journey lasting six months. This claim is irrational as sea travel between England and Gulf was not that long. He also claims to have met Shaikh At Taee, one of the Sheikhs of Basrah. He then met a carpenter of Iranian origins called Abdul Riza with whom he began working, and there he met a. young man who spoke Turkish, Persian and Arabic. He wore the garb of students and was known as Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab. [Humphrey's Memoirs, Colonisation Ideal, The English Spy in Islamic Countries p35) The claim of this acquaintance is clearly false. Sheikh ibn Abdul Wahhab was born in 1703, attaining majority at the age of twelve when his father arranged his marriage. After travelling to the Hijaz for the Hajj, he returned to Najd and stayed with his father to study. He did not travel to seek knowledge until 1722 when he travelled to Makkah, Madina and Basrah. There is thus no possibility of the Sheikh and the fictional Humphrey meeting in Basrah as the dates do not correspond. And all the scholars who have researched the biography of the Sheikh have rejected claims that the Sheikh travelled to Turkey and Persia. (Dr. S. A. Al-Abood, 1 : 188 )
The book claims that the Sheikh expressed a desire to travel to Istanbul, but was advised against it by Humphrey for fear of persecution from the Ottomans. He advised the Sheikh to travel to Isfahan instead, and the Sheikh did so. This too is a lie. Syyed Abdul Haleem al Jundi quotes in 'Al Imam Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab ' the victory of the Salafi method', 'I discussed this with Sheikh ibn Baz, who denied the journey to Kurdistan and Iran. Sheikh Ibn Baz told me he took this information from his Sheikhs, including the grandchildren of Sheikh Ibn Abdul Wahhab, and especially his own Sheikh, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim'. (Ibid, 1 : 186 )
Humphrey claims that the Sheikh declared his da'wah in 1143 AH. This is the only time he uses the hijrah calendar in his book. It also reveals his ignorance of historical facts, as the Sheikh returned to Huraymilah three years before the death of his father in 1153, and declared his da'wah after the death of his father.
There is yet more evidence that Humphrey was devoid of historical knowledge. Humphrey travelled to Istanbul in 1710, giving the ostensible reason that the British Empire was assigning great importance to its established colonies. The Empire was so vast it was said that the sun did not set within its boundaries. Although the British Isles were themselves relatively small, the extended territories including India, China and the Middle East were extensive and required careful governance. The Ministry for Colonies decided to recruit spies to gather information from the territories, and so Humphrey became involved. ( Humphrey, p. 6 )It is historically inaccurate to place these events at the beginning of the 18 th Century. India at the time was not a colony; the East India Company began trading in the 17 th Century but had no political hold until1757 when Bengal was captured. It began expanding until the rule of the Company was transferred to direct rule from England in 1857. Therefore, there was no Indian colony in 1710. There was also no British colonial involvement in China at the time; Hong Kong did not fall to the British until the Treaty of 1898.
It is therefore clear that the inventor of the Memoirs has let his imagination run riot and abandon historical accuracy. He has set his story at the end of the 19 th Century in the heyday of the British Empire, when the sun truly did not set on its colonies. But in doing so, he has exposed himself to be a writer of fiction, not fact.
The author attributes many actions and words to the Sheikh which are at clear odds with the beliefs, teachings and distinctly Islamic character of the Sheikh. There is no need to discuss these filthy slanders in any detail, as the authenticity of the facts in the book has been proven to be false. In order to lend credibility to his 'memoirs', the author sprinkles the novel with stories of plots by the British government to disunite the Muslims; to create ideological and religious upheaval among them; to spread evil among their men and women; to distance them from Arabic, the language of the Qur'an; to encourage the use of national and social languages; to establish missionary schools; and to weaken the position of the Muslims politically and economically.
I have attempted to prove the fabrication of this book through its historical inaccuracy and doubtful authorship, as I believe that no one else has done so yet. In fact, a book as insignificant as this does not deserve even a second glance, let alone a serious critical study. But from a sense of duty and Amanah, I decided to shed light on the lies contained within it. And Allah knows best the intentions."
For a more comprehensive studies refer to the fulkl document on http://www.islaam.net/main/display.p…46&category=19
The lies peddled by the Humphry's work of fiction have been recycled in what purports to be a captured secret Iraqi Intelligence document that is now available on-line. This no doubt equally fictional document does not stop at committing fitna against Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab and goes on to make extravagant and ridiculous claims about Shiite as well. http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/iraqi/wahhabi.pdf In the document it is asserted:
"Revealing the British intelligence documents that aimed to destroy Islam and Muslims within one century, so Islam become old news after being the reality which confronted its top agents working to achieve the fourteen items of the agreement. They ordered to keep the document secretive and warned about disclosing its contents so that Muslims will not be aware of it and take adverse actions, and the document sums up as follow:
1. The positive cooperation with the Caesars of Russia to seize the Islamic region of Bukhara, Tajikistan, Armenia, Kharasan, and others and cooperating with them.
2. The positive cooperation with France and Russia to put together a comprehensive plan to destroy the Islamic world internally and externally.
3. Create disputes and severe conflicts between the Turkish and Persian governments and stir up sectarianism and racialism between both sides.
4. Give part ofthe Islamic countries to non Muslims; (first) Yathrib to the Jews, (second) Alexandria to the Christians, (third) Yazid to the Parisian Zarusht, (fourth) AI-'Amara to AI-Sa'ibah, (fifth) Karaminshah for those who make God out o f'Ali bin Abi Talib, (sixth) AI-Musil for AI-Yazidyyin, (seventh) the Gulf of Dhars to the Hindus, (eighth) Tripoli for Druze, and (ninth) Qarid for AI-Tubiyyin.
5. Planning to squander both Turkish and Persian Islamic governments into the largest number possible of conflicting small local authorities as is the case in India, applying the rule of (Divide and Conquer) and (Divide and Destroy).
6. Plant false religions and faiths in the body ofthe Islamic countries as follows: a. Plant four religions in the body of the Shiite countries as follow: 1) A religion that idolizes AI-Hussayn bin 'Ali, and the right location is Karbala 2) A religion that worships Ja'far AI-Sadiq, and the right location is Isfahan 3) A religion that worships AI-Mihdi AI-Maw'ud and the right location is Samirra'. 4) A religion that worships 'Ali AI-Rida, and the right location is Kharasan. b.Make the four Sunni faiths, independent without connection to each other; they are the only Muslims and the rest are infidels and should be killed and eradicated.
7. Spread immorality among Muslims through adultery, sodomy, alcohol, and gambling.
8. Take an interest in cultivating corrupted rulers in the land that are a tool in the hands of the British.
9. Prohibit the Arabic language as much as possible and expand on non Arabic languages such as, Sanskrit, Bayisiyyah, Kurdish, and Pashto; and expand the scope for local dialects branching off Arabic which entails disconnecting Arabs from the great language which is the language of Koran and Sunna."
It should be clear to anyone that these fantastic claims which are being peddled in a propaganda war are intended by the enemies of Islam to promote sectarian conflict and weaken the Umah. We do not need to think to hard about the true sources of these slanderous claims.


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Rules don't seem to faze these neighbors
By Amy Dickinson
Dear Amy: We live in a townhouse development. The house adjoining ours is owned by a retired man (who lives nearby) and is occupied by his son and the son's family. They are not the worst neighbors possible, but they seem to be very heedless of how their actions affect others. There are small things, like they leave their recycling bins on the sidewalk and let their dog out unleashed — and a few bigger things, such as the time the son was working on his car in the garage with an open can of kerosene and a lit cigarette in his mouth.
We've reported them more than once to the homeowners association. The owner (their father) should be aware of the rules, but he apparently is not.
Recently, their younger daughter left to live abroad for several months. My neighbors are storing her car here, occasionally driving it. There are already three cars in their household; they park one in the driveway and park the other two in "visitor parking" across the street (they don't use their garage). Now, they've added the daughter's car as well, taking up three spaces in a limited area.
This past weekend, the wife told me that a member of the association's board had contacted them to discuss the car storage situation (she implied that she knew we had complained about it).
She was defensive, stating that they have been driving the car so, technically, it's not "being stored." She caught me off guard, so I basically said, "OK, fine," but I wanted to say, "That's not the point!"
I plan to disengage and only report serious incidents (and there have been some doozies), but it galls me that, as tenants, they feel they can just cavalierly disregard the rules.
Any advice on how to handle future incidents?
— Beleaguered Neighbor
Dear Neighbor: The owner of this townhouse (the father, who lives nearby) has a responsibility to make sure his tenants abide by the rules of your homeowners association. If this family is taking up three visitor parking spaces full time, and if visitors have to cruise the streets — then that seems like a pretty big violation.
The rules are there so that everyone in the association can enjoy their homes to the maximum degree without having to police and confront one another. Where I live, an owner can be fined for repeated violations.
The association should notify the owner and the tenants each time there is a complaint. Their house adjoins yours, so their choices have an impact on you. Yes, some disengaging on your part might help you, but your neighbors should also comply with the rules — just like everybody else.
Dear Amy: I find it really annoying when I say "thank you" to someone and receive a response of "no problem." A couple of times I've responded with "I wasn't apologizing," which was met with blank stares.
This seems to come primarily from young people. What's happened to the gracious replies of "you're welcome," "my pleasure" or even "and thank you?" I'm always surprised when I hear that.
Do you have a suggestion of how I can kindly correct this? It's just not in my DNA to stop thanking people.
— Appreciative Out West
Dear Appreciative: Several years ago, I published a similar "no problem" complaint in this space, and at the time I didn't have a problem with "no problem." But now that "no problem" seems to have completely replaced "you're welcome," I find I do have a problem with "no problem." It seems like a non sequitur.
And yet — I don't like the idea of correcting strangers who are, after all, politely acknowledging something. It might be best to see this as another example of how our language shifts and changes through time. "No problem" is "You're welcome" in modernspeak. You and I will probably continue to say "You're welcome," but we should accept that others don't.
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Articles, Wildlife
Diving into sea anemone research
PhD student at The Ohio State University Heather Glon collects samples from sea anemones off the coast of Japan.
Heather Glon has trouble keeping her head above water — mainly because her research requires her to travel around the world diving for sea anemones.
Glon, a PhD student in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University, is attempting to gather a globally representative collection of Metridium, a type of sea anemone that thrives in the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans. By looking at relationships between genetics and geographic distribution, she hopes to understand how and why the anemones have evolved over time.
"It's a very variable group of sea anemones in terms of how it looks — it can be fat or skinny; big or small," Glon said. "Divers love it because it can be really striking when you see a whole bunch of them together."
They may look like vibrant, underwater gardens — sea anemones are actually named after the "anemone" flower — but Metridium is far from plant life. Covered in venomous cells, the marine animals spend their days patiently waiting for fish and other small organisms to swim close enough to become trapped in their toxic tentacles (check out the work of Glon's advisor Meg Daly on sea anemone venom).
As a diver herself, Glon has become quite familiar with the colorful creatures, which are generally harmless to humans. Many of her 100+ dives around the world have been tailored to searching for Metridium (also known as plumose anemones), including expeditions along the coasts of Japan, Ireland, Norway, the Canadian Maritimes and the Northeastern U.S., among others. She holds Advanced, Rescue and Master Scuba Diver certifications and has dove to depths of up to 100 feet.
She is looking at genetic data from the anemone samples she's acquired, in addition to those collaborators have sent her, "to determine which species came from which oceans originally; how much connection there is between both sides of the Atlantic; how many total species there are, etc.," she said. "There are a lot of questions that we're looking at."
By Denise Blough
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Torture killer jailed for life in hellhole US prison breaks 34-year silence to say: 'I'm innocent'
Walsall murderer David Carter, jailed for rape, torture and murder of housewife, writes sensational letter to Sunday Mercury.
Mike Lockley
USA prisoner on life sentence, David Carter.
A Midlands man, left to rot in a Nevada prison cell after being convicted of torture and murder, has sensationally contacted the Sunday Mercury to protest his innocence.
David Carter has served 34 years for a crime so horrifying that he avoided the gas chamber only by the skin of his teeth. The 55-year-old, from Walsall, will spend the rest of his life behind bars, with no possibility of parole.
Carter's crime repulsed America and sparked a clamour for his execution. The former sailor was convicted of the rape, torture and murder of a housewife while on home leave and visiting his parents, who had moved to Pasadena in the Sunshine State of California.
After subjecting her to a sickening ordeal, Gloria Black's sadistic killer placed a cushion on her back and drove a knife through it with such force that the blade penetrated the 51-year-old's heart.
Carter has never spoken to the press before, but has now broken his silence to send a letter to the Sunday Mercury newsdesk from High Desert State Prison, a penitentiary notorious for violence and dubbed a cauldron of race hate.
On yellowed prison paper, Carter scrawled: "I've never been on Death Row, but my case was a death penalty case. I have always maintained my innocence.
"I have life without the possibility of parole, which means exactly that. I have been incarcerated for the last 34 years.
"As an English citizen, born in Walsall, Birmingham, I do have family members in the UK. I have applied for transfer to the UK three times and been denied three times."
Few on America's West Coast will have sympathy for Carter, but a former British policeman – and friend of the prisoner during their years together at elite Normanton School, in Buxton, Derbyshire – has no doubt cops got the wrong man.
David Longland, born at RAF Cosford, close to Wolverhampton, but now living in New Zealand, said: "I was a police officer in England and New Zealand. I know a bad person when I see one and David's a good man at heart."
Dave Longland.
The reality is that Carter is extremely lucky to be alive. Only the convicted killer's age – he was 21 when arrested – and a courtroom character reference from Noel Hadley, his headmaster at £2,000-a-year Normanton School, staved off the ultimate sentence.
The prosecution had argued that the crime was so heinous, Carter should be executed.
They said that the torture provided the "special circumstances" needed to pass the death penalty.
And the evidence against Carter, who arrived in Pasadena only three weeks before the murder, is compelling, to say the least. His fingerprints were found all over a whisky bottle at Mrs Black's flat. A cigarette stub found at the scene matched those at the suspect's family home.
That, Carter admits, is because he DID break into the property – but he insists that did not brutally murder its owner.
Those close to Carter and the case believe that his guilt or innocence is not the over-riding question. The real mystery is what drove a quiet, shy individual with no history of violence to sink to such depths of depravity.
Carter's parents, and his 17-year-old brother, moved into Mrs Black's neighbourhood only weeks before the August 1982 murder. While the victim's husband was on a fishing trip, Carter pounced, the court heard.
Friends who visited the apartment the following day were greeted by a sickening scene. Mrs Black's body lay in a pool of blood on the bedroom floor, her wrists and ankles bound by electric cable harnessed to furniture. The victim's nightgown was torn and she had been sexually assaulted.
Carter's defence team flew seven character witnesses from England for the trial and one told the local newspaper: "I have been around criminal cases for 20 years and I don't think this kid is guilty."
David Longland, who runs a successful import business in New Zealand, was not among the witnesses, but has kept in touch with Carter during his incarceration. He paints a picture of an introverted, even troubled, individual.
His schoolfriend reveals that Carter was nicknamed Toby by classmates at the private school, which closed in 1998.
Newspaper article on USA prisoner David Carter.
Carter, who attended Normanton for three years, leaving in 1980, actually sparked a police hunt after going missing from the school. Such was the concern for his safety that his father Brian, a construction engineer, flew over from Holland.
The hunt ended when Carter strolled into a police station in Essex.
Speaking from his Mt Albert, Auckland, home, Mr Longland said: "He was very quiet at school, he kept himself to himself. I remember him as a calm individual although I would not describe him as an intellectual type.
"He joined the Navy – I don't know why, but that was a surprise. I didn't think that would appeal to him."
Mr Longland remains convinced of his former schoolfriend's innocence.
"I do not believe he is capable of that crime," he said. "When I knew him, there was no way he would hurt anyone. I don't remember him being in any kind of trouble.
"He went for a walk, the neighbour was burgled and later murdered. They didn't find any blood on David, but they did find a bottle of spirits with his fingerprints on it David has always held his hands up to the burglary.
"He has tried to lodge an appeal and failed. He has also lodged three applications to be transferred to a UK prison, where he has family, although I think his mother and brother moved to Canada.
"The prisons over there are privately funded, so letting out a lifer is letting go of a cash cow. Financially, there's not a lot of appetite to do it.
"High Desert State Prison has a reputation for violence, but David has kept his head down and stayed clear of trouble. He's been in a number of prisons.
"Understandably, he is very cautious and doesn't open up easily about this case in order to protect himself inside. I am very careful with wording any letters to him because the prison authorities read and vet everything."
It would be an understatement to describe High Desert, close to Las Vegas, as uncompromising.
Earlier this month prison guards were accused of covering up the shooting of an inmate involved in a "gladiator-style" fight.
A lawsuit alleges two handcuffed prisoners were made to brawl in the prison before one was shot dead by a trainee guard.
And court papers disclosed that guns have been fired inside High Desert more than 200 times in a five-year period.
Last December guards at the remote Susanville prison – erected in the middle of the Nevada Desert – were accused of creating a "culture of racism". The state's Inspector General also reported warders engaged in "alarming use of force" against inmates.
A months-long investigation was sparked by reports that some guards mistreated disabled inmates and set up sex offenders for assaults because of the nature of their crimes.
The probe found evidence of "a culture of racism and lack of acceptance of ethnic differences" among correctional officers, three-quarters of whom are white.
One inmate told investigators: "I got that KKK feeling from High Desert."
The prison's 3,500 inmates are ruled by fear and will not report abuse for fear of violent retaliation from staff.
"The dangerous staff misconduct has been tolerated for too long," Rebekah Evenson, an attorney with the Prison Law Office, which represents prisoners, said in a statement.
"The culture of abuse at High Desert endangers prisoners and the prison staff."
Investigators said they found so-called sensitive-needs yards – set up to shelter inmates likely to be attacked in the general population – were "just as violent" as the rest of High Desert "with gang politics meting out abuse and punishment for drug and gambling debts and extorting vulnerable inmates for protection."
In April this year, inmate Ralph Goodman was stabbed to death in the prison yard by two inmates.
It is not the setting former English public schoolboy David Carter will ever feel safe in.
Sunday Mercury


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One Percent Shots! Testing Leona, DeLeon's $825 Bottle of Tequila
$825 Tequila
In America, you can now buy $825-per-bottle tequila. Daniel Gross has a sip.
Daniel Gross
Updated Jul. 14, 2017 2:50AM ET / Published Nov. 28, 2012 7:10PM ET
You are not the kind of writer you usually sips tequila at 10:30 in the morning. But sometimes, you make an exception. Especially when the booze on offer is an $825 bottle of tequila.
On Wednesday, Brent Hocking, founder and president of DeLeon, a Los Angeles-based tequila company, came by The Daily Beast office with one of his latest offerings, Leona. Watch us taste-test the stuff in the accompanying video.
In recent years, artisanal craftsmen and craftswomen have schooled Americans in the finer things. Connoisseurship has spread from wine and olive oil to chocolate, cheeses, pickles, hams, cupcakes. And in the process, these goods have evolved from cheap, mass-produced commodities to high-end luxury goods.
Tequila may seem an unlikely candidate for conclusion in the list. Sure, there was that plot in the latter seasons of Entourage when Turtle got involved with the makers of a high-end tequila, Avion, which goes for about $50 a bottle. But Americans have generally associated tequila with the mass-produced stuff that gets peddled to college kids to bolt down after a lick of salt and before sucking on a lime.
And yet here you are, looking at a glass of amber liquid that is worth its weight in a precious metal.
Hocking, a veteran of the wine industry, launched the DeLeon line in 2009 with the notion of bringing tequila upmarket—way upmarket. He'd like people to remove the agave-derived liquor from the frat-party/spring-break bucket and put it into the silver-plated cognac bucket. "It is a wine-lover's spirit," he said. "People who drink red wine typically drink red wine and tequila."
And so, yes, you realize, you can get pretentious and snooty about tequila. DeLeon is produced in Purisima del Rincon, in Guanajato, where it ages in wooden wine barrels imported from France. The $825 bottle of Leona tequila comes in a lovely wooden box, along with a python-skin flask. This year, DeLeon produced 10,000 bottles of Leona, which formally goes on sale on Dec. 21, 2012, the day the Mayans said the earth would end. (Hocking dubbed it "The Last Drink." Given its price tag—Hocking expects that bars may be pouring Leona at $90 a shot—it could be the last drink you'll be able to afford.)
You know that beverages whose price tags are measured in three figures are meant to be swilled, sniffed, and savored, not shot down. And when you take a sip, it reveals itself to be smooth and warm, with a slight caramel aftertaste. But as Hocking notes, if you're shelling out for the good stuff, "you can enjoy it any way you like."


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So the friends' baby shower/party went really well. The hostesses did a great job of putting it all together. I was glad to see a lot of my A&M friends come up and hang out too. Especially Mr. Market, who drove all the way from Austin to experience his first baby shower. Unfortunately Matt, not all baby showers will have the "Chug Beer from a Baby Bottle" game. And also a big thanks to Debbi for hosting the family/Ladies' only shower. And of course the Wifey's mom, she is making this transition as fluid as it can be. Her wisdom, advice, and overall excitement is very infectious.
So after the shower, I think every thing has finally sunk in. I have to move the beer in the fridge to make room for the baby bottles. I have to memorize what channels Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network are on. I have to hang that huge mirror thing in my car so I can see the car seat. I have to get used to eating Goldfish and animal crackers and Cheerios.
I've put together all of the baby things, like the pack N play, bouncer, swing, stroller, and the Baby Einstein playapalooza play arena. My entire home office is no more. The man cave has become the baby cave.
The doctor told the Wifey that she expects the baby to be born any day now and highly doubts that she will make it to the estimated due date of 3/20. So we'll see. Every groan and cringe of pain leads me to ask her "Is it time yet?"
So, when the baby is born, check your beepers. I will leave a return number of 911 to let y'all know the baby is here.


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Tigers do it for Housie
It was a very special day for the Mayne Football Club with Andrew Housego lining up for his 250th appearance and nobody was going to be the one to let him down.
The only thing working against this special event was the weather as a sleety cloud moved in just before the game and a miserable drizzle started.
Whilst the Roos were determined to do their best to halt proceedings, the boys in black and gold were relentless, proving to all that it didn't matter what the occasion and how physical the game might be, they would not be stopped.
Once again, this was a strong win built on a backline determined to blanket any opposition raid. Caleb Brown showed every one of his many skills as he stepped and weaved around his opponent. But it is the way that this defensive group work together that is making it so difficult for oppositions to score . Dean Hartley was once again miserly while Ben Davies is revelling in being a member of this group once again putting in a key performance.
In the middle, it was a small man's day with a lot of footy on the deck due to the slippery conditions. Nikos Keim, for the second week in a row was outstanding, emerging from places that he shouldn't dare to travel picking up the hard balls for his team mates. Jack Collings also played a critical role around the tough stuff and was instrumental in the result.
But it was Luke Faulkner, thinking he was back in Tassie, again making the most of the forward pressure to kick yet another bag ignoring the conditions.
The next game is the battle of the top of the table with Noosa at the Den.
Scores: Mayne 15.21.111 d Maroochy 7.8.50
Goals: L Faulkner 7, Z McLean, L Ferguson 2, C Sellen, T Murtha, D Smith, C Brown 1.
Best: J Collings, L Faulkner, D Hartley, B Davies, C Brown, N Keim.


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Aracely de Paula (Ibiá, 3 de junho de 1941) é um advogado, pecuarista e político brasileiro filiado ao Partido da República.

Foi vereador em Araxá (1967-1972) e prefeito da mesma cidade (1975-1983 e 1987-1991). Foi eleito deputado federal por Minas Gerais por seis vezes, sendo a última em 2010.

Em novembro de 2014, assumiu como prefeito de Araxá-MG, em razão da cassação de Jeová Moreira, prefeito eleito em 2012 para o quadriênio 2013/2016.

Ligações externas
Perfil Câmara Federal.

Deputados federais do Brasil por Minas Gerais
Prefeitos de Araxá
Vereadores de Araxá
Membros do Partido Liberal (2006)
Naturais de Ibiá

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A member of the TREXPO Advisory Board, Sgt. Robert "Bob" O'Brien Cleveland SWAT Ret. is the founder of the R.J. O'Brien Group Ltd., a law enforcement training and consulting service that advises and trains a number of local, state, and federal SWAT teams. O'Brien co-founded Cleveland's full-time SWAT team, and he served with that unit for 25 years. He is a former consultant to the National Tactical Officers Association and a former vice president of the Ohio Tactical Officers Association.
As 2011 comes to a close, this would be a good time to reflect on SWAT's past, present and future (apologies to Charles Dickens). While we can't accurately predict the future, we can trace the evolution of tactical units from yesteryear, understand today's challenged, and perhaps glimpse tomorrow's trend.
Mob Rules: Was 2011 the Year of Lawlessness?
Two popular social movements in 2011—flash mobs and occupiers—placed a great strain on cities and their LE agencies. It wasn't long before both movements were infiltrated and hijacked by troublemakers bent on violence.
In the days following Officer Capoot's death, we learned more about the man. Jim was a dedicated, respected, and outstanding police officer, as well as a warmly generous human being.
Even though anarchists who use black-bloc tactics are relatively few in number, their strategy and tactics of wreaking havoc, chaos and mayhem provides them with the sensational news coverage they crave.
When a law enforcement agency calls for mutual aid help in northern California, arriving responders are usually on the same page, due to their participation in tactical training at Urban Shield.
When thinking about the Muskingum County tragedy, the natural question that needs to be asked is "could this happen again?" Most zoos have enclosures, fences, contingencies, and trained armed personnel to deal with this possibility. What about private animal farm that operate without oversight, regulations, or precautions?
Leadership starts at the top, and spreads throughout the entire Alameda County Sheriff's Office. This is the reason Urban Shield continues to offer the "best of the best" training for first responders.
Two of Northern California's most intense manhunts in decades ended in deadly gunfire, when sheriff's deputies shot and killed murder suspects in Mendocino County and Cupertino only five days apart.
The lingering bad economy continued to cause havoc on American law enforcement. Many law enforcement agencies have been forced to downsize dramatically, including laying off officers in unprecedented numbers. So-called "non-essential" services are being eliminated.
Every tactical team should realistically assess whether they're capable and ready to handle a challenging and sustained manhunt in difficult terrain. Even the most built-up urban cities have outdoor areas with large, rugged places for dangerous suspects to hide. If your team isn't ready, now is the time to get up to speed.


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Tetróxido de nitrogênio ou tetróxido de dinitrogênio é um composto com fórmula N2O4. Apresenta-se como líquido abaixo de 21 °C e que solidifica a -11 °C. Decompõe-se facilmente e reversivelmente a um gás avermelhado que possui elétrons desemparelhados, agindo em muitos casos como radical livre, o NO2.

Em contato com a água, forma ácido nítrico, sendo por isso usado na produção deste. A redução do ácido nítrico pode formar este óxido novamente e o óxido é formado pela reação espontânea entre o monóxido de nitrogênio (NO) e o oxigênio, sendo no passado esta reação usada no processo de câmara de chumbo para produção de ácido sulfúrico, pela reação do NO2 com o SO2 para produzir SO3 e ácido sulfúrico pela adição deste com água. O NO é produzido pela queima catalítica da amônia (processo Ostwald) ou pelo forte aquecimento (acima de 1000 °C) de uma mistura de nitrogênio e oxigênio.

É usado como propelente de foguetes, formando misturas hipergólicas (de auto-ignição), com hidrazina e seus compostos. Usado para essa finalidade, ele é conhecido simplesmente como: tetróxido de dinitrogênio, e a sigla NTO, é usada extensivamente nesses casos.

Compostos inorgânicos de nitrogênio
Óxidos
Oxidantes de foguetes
Agentes oxidantes
Nitratos


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I found myself with an extra five minutes this morning. Enough time to whisk together a warm drink. First idea: Make some basic hot chocolate. Then I thought about making Maple-Peanut Butter Hot Cocoa. All we have right now is sunflower butter. Just wouldn't be the same.
What caught my eye on the kitchen counter was some leftover pumpkin puree from Ada's breakfast. Now? You see where this is going. I made Pumpkin Hot Chocolate (it's vegan, too!) with almond milk and a drop of almond extract. I'm in heaven.
Excuse the chocolate dribbles on that last photo. I HAD to sip some while it was super hot. I just finished the last drops, and I will tell you confidently that this is my new favorite cold weather drink. The pumpkin is so light and sweet mixed with the chocolate.
I know. I know. "Pumpkin doesn't belong in everything, Ashley."
If you'd like to make your own mugful of this delicious drink, just whisk together the following ingredients in a small saucepan on your stove-top. Medium heat until hot, but not boiling.
*** Feel free to use any milk you have. I opt for unsweetened so I have more control over how it tastes. Even put a few chocolate chips in your mug for good measure.
This post definitely replaced the regularly scheduled programming today. I'll be back with some more Mommy Runner thoughts and tips tomorrow. And next week, I'll probably share my favorite mint hot chocolate recipe. At least the cold is good for something!
Like love cats? Then you'll love the post over on Writing Chapter Three. Four words: I Gatti Di Venezia! It's Ada's favorite book and will probably pounce its way into your hearts as well. Too bad I can't find it in print anywhere.


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Palais Rasumofsky () is a palace in Vienna, Austria.

The palace was commissioned by Prince Andrey Kyrillovich Razumovsky as a   Neoclassic embassy worthy of the representative of Alexander I. It was built at the prince's own expense and to the designs of Louis Montoyer, in Landstraße, close to the city center of Vienna. He filled it with antiquities and modern works of art. On New Year's Eve 1814, the prince held a glittering ball with Tsar Alexander I as guest of honour. Probably the only person in Vienna who was invited but did not go, was Ludwig van Beethoven. To accommodate the guests, Razumovsky erected a temporary ballroom extension, heated by a flue from the palace. After all the guests had gone, the flue caught fire, setting the ballroom ablaze and burning out roomfuls of art in the palace. Rasumovsky, though he was raised to Prince the following year, was never the same. He lived in seclusion in Vienna until his death in 1836. From 1852 until 2005 the building hosted the Federal Geological Office. In 1862 the street on which the palace is located was named Rasumofskygasse.

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Jason McDonald Consulting Announces Updates to Page on Social Media Expert Witness Services
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Jason McDonald Consulting offers services not just on social media, generally, but on both organic efforts on social and paid social media advertising.
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Jason McDonald Consulting, an expert on search engine optimization, social media marketing, and Google Ads, is proud to announce a content update to his information page on social media expert witness service. The newly updated page explains that Dr. McDonald offers services not just on social media, generally, but on both organic efforts on social and paid social media advertising.
"As social media has become a staple of marketing, there is (unfortunately) more litigation," explained Dr. McDonald, Director of the Jason McDonald Consulting Agency based in San Francisco. "As an expert who offers services in both organic and paid social media marketing, I can dig into the facts and details to help attorneys, judges, and jurors understand the ins and outs of social media."
Persons interested in seeing the content updates should visit https://www.jasonmcdonald.org/seo-consultant/social-media-expert-witness/. That page helps attorneys understand Dr. McDonald's philosophy on being an expert witness. It is, first and foremost, based in the facts. The facts drive everything. That said, second, Dr. McDonald is a true expert and able to dig into the details. As they say, "the devil is in the details," and social media organic and advertising can be very complex. Third, as both an author and a teacher, Dr. McDonald can explain complex facts and details to lawyers, judges, and jurors. It should also be noted that Dr. McDonald teaches both SEO (https://www.jasonmcdonald.org/seo-consultant/) and social media for Stanford Continuing Studies, and has best-selling books on SEO, social media, and Google Ads. All of this makes a top-rated expert witness who can understand and explain facts clearly and succinctly. Readers can learn more about his books at https://www.jm-seo.org/books.
In addition, Dr. McDonald's books have been featured on many lists of the best books by category. For example, a prominent list of top Google Ads books for 2022 (https://www.nigcworld.com/wp/10-best-books-google-adwords-2014-boost-ppc-advertising-profits/) has put his book high on the list, as does an older list from BookAuthority (https://bookauthority.org/books/new-adwords-books). The story is similar with lists of top social media marketing books (https://solutionsreview.com/marketing-automation/social-media-marketing-books-to-add-to-your-reading-list/ and https://teambuilding.com/blog/social-media-marketing-books).
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7 Children Have Died In A Halifax House Fire And Some Social Media Commenters In Quebec Are Reacting With Racist Posts
These comments are truly disgraceful.
Just weeks after Premier Fançois Legault claimed that Islamophobia doesn't exist in Quebec, several hateful comments are being shared across social media platforms showing Legault's comments couldn't be further from the truth.
The comments, seen in a screen capture below, were in response to a terrible house fire that killed seven children in Halifax early Tuesday morning.
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TL;DR After a fatal fire in Halifax, several people in Quebec took to the comments section of a TVA article regarding the tragedy to express terribly hateful and Islamophobic sentiments that have since started circulating around the Internet as people express their disbelief and distaste for the hate speech.
TVA published an article about the tragedy yesterday and subsequently shared the news on their Facebook page.
Before long, comments under the article challenged Legault's claim that there is no Islamophobia in Quebec.
Via TVA Nouvelles Facebook
This is the original Facebook post, though I took the time to scroll through the 350+ comments this morning and any hate speech has since been deleted.
Though there are still several comments calling out the original commenters, as well as a comment that tags the Quebec police due to the hateful nature of the comments.
Via Via TVA Nouvelles Facebook
The first comment reads: "The comments are awful!!!!!!"
The second: "In the comments to this news, it seems to me that some would be subject to criminal charges of inciting hatred by their comments, what do you think? Do you, or the Police of Quebec who manages these kinds of cases?"
In addition to the hateful comments, many people "reacted" to the Facebook post with laughter.
There was also some criticism directed at TVA for focusing on the nationality and religion of the family which is seemingly secondary to the immense tragedy they just faced.
Particularly off-side was TVA'a lead-in to their article which reads: "The dream of a better life in Canada has gone up in flames for a Syrian family..."
Via TVA Nouvelles
On a more optimistic note, a Go Fund Me campaign has been started for the family and a vigil is planned in Halifax to support the parents as they grieve the loss of their children.
Here's the go fund me for the family, they have already raised over $286,800.00 for the parents. Halifax House Fire Tragedy https://t.co/gApVeWsbov
— Cheryl🍁 Sista_Resista ✨🥂✨🇨🇦 #Canada (@mini_bubbly) February 20, 2019
It is clear that there is still a serious case of xenophobia in Quebec, Canada, and perhaps North America as a whole. While it is easy to feel at ease with the current state of affairs because Canada is largely seen as a bastion of multiculturalism and most people aged 18-35 have matured without a racist upbringing, the issue still stands.
And how could we be surprised, with religious symbols being banned so selectively and politicians attempting to sweep these kinds of issues under the rug?
My hope is this situation shows governing bodies that this is an ongoing issue that needs to be addressed and taken seriously. Hate comments like the ones above, that openly and publicly celebrate the death of seven innocent children, should be pursued to the full extent of the law. Don't @ me.


Among probably the most prevalent electrical wiring issues is on how to wire a swap. Although applying switches in your house is fairly uncomplicated, wiring a single may well not be that effortless for everybody. An ON-OFF switch is actually quite simple to wire. You'll find different types of switches, but for this example, let us say you will be putting in a single-pole toggle switch, an incredibly prevalent swap (and also the most basic).
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Q: Babel not loaded to specific file due to misconfiguration of webpack ERROR in ./reducers/navigator.js
Module build failed: SyntaxError: C:/Users/Myname/Desktop/Projects/Project2/app/templates/reducers/navigator.js: Unexpected token (11:16)

   9 |         case SWITCH_PAGE:
  10 |             return {
> 11 |                 ...state,
     |                 ^
  12 |                 id : action.payload
  13 |             }
  14 |         default:

My webpack configuration looks like this
const webpack = require('webpack');
const config = {
    entry: __dirname + '/index.jsx',
    output: {
        path: 'C:\\Users\\Myname\\Desktop\\Projects\\Project2\\app\\static\\js\\dist',
        filename: 'bundle.js',
    },
    resolve: {
        extensions: ['.js', '.jsx', '.css']
    },
    module: {
        rules: [
            {
                test: /\.jsx?/,
                exclude: /node_modules/,
                use: 'babel-loader',
            }
        ]
    },
};
module.exports = config;

When i compile the app, it says this error and thats because this file is not processed by babel. Is there a way to return the state without ES6? or even better how can i make this compile with babel so i can have support to ES6 features.
Notes: index.jsx is the Parent component and others are childs
also my package.json contains this
"babel": {
    "presets": [
      "es2015",
      "react"
    ]
  },

A: Object spread properties aren't included in ES6, the proposal is currently at stage 3: https://tc39.github.io/proposal-object-rest-spread/. To include it, you'll want to install the babel stage 3 preset (https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/preset-stage-3/) and update your .babelrc file to include it

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It's been a long, long, long time. (The Beatles said this. What did the Beatles NOT say?) Well, it has been too long. I apologize, dear readers. Why do I resist?
I meant to share the experience I had at the Hunter Elementary School book fair lecture. Sean Qualls and Carin Berger came in, both picture book illustrators, and both so talented. They showed pictures/slides of themselves as children and talked about their influences. Carin came from a designer background. She does collage. She showed us the first book she wrote when she was little and then we saw her work and realized how little many of her concepts had changed. Sean Qualls was terrific. He explained how he ran out of money during art school and had to quit--taking a full-time job at the Brooklyn museum, where he first learned about off-beat artistic folks like Ben Shahn, Romare Beardon, Jacob Lawrence--and other self taught artists.
He is married to the illustrator Selina Alko.
I will post their book jackets here soon.
I have discovered a few Hanukkah books and some nice Christmas books, as well.
The Runaway Dreidel by Leslea Newman and Moishe's Miracle by Laura Krauss Melmed both looked hip and current with gorgeous illustrations. I also ordered Mrs. Greenberg's Hanukkah by Linda Glasser. I will report back with reviews. My all-time favorite is When Mindy Saved Hanukkah by Barbara McClintock. You will love this book.
Two more books I found on several sites and heard folks talking about are: a reissue of the 1959 picture book The Blueberry Pie Elf by Jane Thayer. This is so adorable and the look will remind you of Garth Williams.
Another book being talked about is by Eden Ross Lipson, who recently passed away. She was in charge of the children's section at the NYT Book Review. She finished a book before she died called Applesauce Season, illustrated by the great Mordecai Gerstein. The woman in charge of Henry's afterschool program told me about the book with tears in her eyes. That's how much she adored it!
These days, in order to get Henry to read I have to literally shut of the television and say: "It's time to read." Tonight we read a translation of a French book--a Stepping Stone easy-to-read called The Ink Drinker by Eric Sanvoisin, illustrated by Martin Maatje. It was the story of a boy who hates books, but whose dad owns a book store. He notices a client drinking the ink out of books one day, and goes off to solve the mystery of why. Henry liked it, but it wasn't the most satisfying experience, I am sad to report. But it's a great introduction to creepier books meant for older kids! The cover really got me, and the art is pretty spectacular!
For the first night of Hanukkah, Gus got ABC-3D--also an import from France by Marion Bataille. If you haven't seen this video on youtube, it's very quaint and lots of fun.
But the next night he got The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science Experiments by Sean Connolly. He loved it!
Happy Holidays, and I will be back soon to post book jackets to go with this post.


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Trump administration triples daily number of hikers allowed at fragile rock formation in southern Utah
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Starting Feb. 1, 64 people per day will be permitted to visit The Wave; previous limit was 20 people.
FILE – This May 28, 2013 file photo shows a on a rock formation known as The Wave in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona. Outdoor enthusiasts and nature photographers hoping to explore the colorful, contoured landscape of the hugely popular trail in the U.S. Southwest will now have a better chance at landing one of the elusive permits after the U.S. government Monday, Jan. 11,2021 tripled the number of daily visitors allowed. (AP Photo/Brian Witte, File)
By Brady McCombs | The Associated Press
| Jan. 11, 2021, 10:55 p.m.
| Updated: Jan. 12, 2021, 1:06 a.m.
Outdoor enthusiasts and landscape photographers hoping to land one of the elusive permits needed to explore the colorful, contoured landscape of a U.S. Southwestern hike called The Wave will now have a better chance under a new plan announced Monday that allows more than three times the previous number of daily visitors.
The plan takes effect Feb. 1 and will allow as many as 64 people per day to hike the popular rock formation near the Utah-Arizona border — up from the previous limit of 20 people per day, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management said in a news release.
More than 200,000 people requested permits for the hike in 2018, with less than 4% approved through online and in-person lotteries, the most recent government stats available show.
Conservation groups decried the decision as a mistake that will damage the fragile desert landscape and cut into the solitude of the hikers' experience.
BLM officials called it a balance between providing more access to the iconic trail while also preserving the landscape. Another proposal would have quadrupled the daily limit to 96 people.
"The Wave is one of the world's most incredible and visually stunning natural wonders," said Assistant Interior Secretary of the Casey Hammond in a news release. "We're pleased to be able to expand options for public viewing of this amazing landscape in a way that's consistent with its preservation."
The Wave's wide, sloping basin of searing reds, oranges and yellows in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument is one of the most photographed landscapes in North America. Visitors walk a 6-mile round trip hike through tall sandstone buttes and sagebrush to get to the spectacular rock formation.
The decision will mar the unique landscape for future generations as hikers damage the delicate sandstone, said Taylor McKinnon, a senior campaigner with the the Center for Biological Diversity. Visitors also won't enjoy the same solitude the previous daily limit provided, he said.
"It is going to damage the unique geology there. There are going to be bigger crowds. It is going to be harder to get a picture without somebody else in it," McKinnon said. "It really reflects the Trump administration's general disdain for preserving the quality and ecological health of America's public lands."
Government officials under the Trump administration have removed protections for millions of miles of waterways and wetlands, narrowed protections for wildlife species facing extinction and opened more of the hundreds of millions of acres of public land to oil and gas drilling.
The Center for Biological Diversity plans to consider a lawsuit in U.S. court to challenge the decision, McKinnon said.
He is also hopeful the incoming administration of Joe Biden will reverse course. The decision allows the Bureau to adjust the daily limit based on conditions at the hike.
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We get hands-on with the final version of Star Wars: Battlefront.
Today, LucasArts officially shipped Star Wars: Battlefront, a team-based shooter set in the venerable Star Wars universe. Battlefront takes many of its cues from 2002's Battlefield 1942, with the inclusion of vehicles and two warring factions fighting for control of "command points" scattered across a vast map. Unlike its forebear, however, Battlefront allows you to switch between first- and third-person modes whether you are on foot or in a vehicle. We have the final version of Battlefront in hand and have some early thoughts based on our initial play tests.
Star Wars fans will see many familiar places in Battlefront.
Thus far, we've primarily played the game's single-player modes, as there hasn't been much opportunity for online multiplayer testing yet. Battlefront ships with three single-player game modes: historical campaign, galactic conquest, and instant action. There are two historical campaigns. One is the Galactic Civil War, which is the struggle between the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire depicted in Episode IV, Episode V, and Episode VI. The other allows you to fight in the Clone Wars, depicted in the more recently Star Wars films, Episode I, Episode II, and Episode III. Each campaign includes eight maps, played in a linear fashion.You'll switch sides back and forth throughout the campaign, and the game presents you with a short clip from the film relevant to the battle in which you're about to engage. The first mission of the Clone Wars campaign has you leading the vast droid army against the Gungans on the plains of Naboo. Like any red-blooded Star Wars fan would, we immediately selected an assassin droid and proceeded to snipe as many Jar Jar Binks look-alikes as possible. You'll fight in a number of other familiar places in the campaigns, ranging from the deserts of Tatooine, to the icy plains of Hoth, to the high platforms of Bespin.
Galactic conquest is a more open-ended mode that starts off with two sides fighting for control of an array of eight planets. Each planet affords a special bonus to the faction that controls it. There are six special bonuses in total, including bacta tanks, which allow you and your AI teammates to slowly regenerate health on the battlefield; advanced training, which makes your AI teammates more accurate; and sabotage, which causes all enemy vehicles to spawn with considerable damage already inflicted. There are eight different galactic conquest "campaigns," but in practice, they all seem to play out the same way, and there isn't much difference between them.
Each of Battlefront's four playable factions includes five classes, four of which are roughly analogous. Each side has a basic soldier, a heavy-weapons specialist who carries a missile launcher, a sniper, and a pilot. The first three are fairly self-explanatory, but the pilot is a fairly unique class that melds the capabilities of a few standard classes found in other team-based shooters. Like an engineer in other games, the pilot has the ability to repair vehicles and stationary turrets in the field. The pilot can also distribute ammunition packs and bacta tanks (med kits) to teammates. Rounding out the pilot's special abilities is the fact that any vehicle manned by a pilot will slowly repair itself over time. So instead of having to hop out of your AT-AT or X-Wing to repair damage, which leaves you vulnerable to enemy fire and vehicle theft, you can simply retreat and stay in a safe area of the battlefield in order to mend.
Each of the four factions offers five different classes.
The fifth race of every faction is unique to that faction. The separatist droids, for example, can field the fearsome droideka. Those who have seen the Episode I film will remember the droidekas as the rolling destroyer robots that can quickly unfold from a ball and unleash a pair of rapid fire lasers from inside a shield. The droidekas in Battlefront can switch from ball mode to fire mode and can also put up a shield. To balance things out, the droideka moves extremely slowly when not in ball mode, and the shield power drains constantly while in use and cannot be activated while in ball mode. The Empire fields a dark trooper as its fifth class. The dark trooper is armed with a blast cannon and can quickly get around the battlefield using a jetpack similar to Boba Fett's. Unlike with the jetpack in the Tribes games, however, you don't have much altitude control with the Battlefront jetpack, and its fuel runs out quickly, requiring you to wait while it recharges.
Thus far, Battlefront feels like a solid shooter that should appeal to Star Wars fans who have been thirsting for a team-based game set in a George Lucas-inspired universe. We'll have a full review of the game soon.


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Christopher Palacios, Mass. Psychiatrist, charged with pushing, kicking and sexually assaulting his wife
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Psychiatrist given board reprimand
By David Linton
Psychiatrist Christopher Palacios
ATTLEBORO – A psychiatrist at Arbour-Fuller Hospital has been given a reprimand by the state Board of Registration in Medicine as a result of his arrest in 2012 on domestic assault charges.
Dr. Christopher M. Palacios was arrested in 2012 following an altercation with his then wife, and subsequently admitted sufficient facts to charges of misdemeanor assault and battery in 2013. The charges were dismissed last year after Palacios completed a court-ordered anger management course, the board announced.
The board reprimanded Palacios "for engaging in conduct that undermines the public confidence in the integrity of the medical profession."
Palacios, who was then working at Salem Hospital, was arrested after an altercation in Marblehead with his estranged wife.
He was charged with pushing, kicking and sexually assaulting the woman, the Daily Item in Lynn reported at the time. Palacios denied any sexual assault, and that charge was subsequently dropped.
Palacios is a 2000 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine and is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
He has been licensed to practice medicine in Massachusetts since 2005 and is currently affiliated with Arbour Fuller Hospital, according to the board.
The board licenses more than 40,000 physicians, osteopaths and acupuncturists.
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