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Question 632: Assalamu Alaikum! Can someone explain this to me? In Nahjul-Balagha #234 it is written, "The Best of women's attributes are the men's worst; self-conceit, cowardice and miserliness. So if a women is self-conceit, she will not let one approach her in (in bed). If she is miserliness, shesafe gaurds her wealth and that of her husband. And if she is a coward, she is scared of anything displayed before her. So, is this saying Sahih that The Best Traits of Women are the Worst Traits of Men?
Question 302: Would anyone explain about Wilayah al-Takwini according to Shia? I am sunni and recently heard about it. I am so confused. Prior hearing about it i was seriously considering to convert to Shia Islam. I will be grateful if anyone explain it to me. W. Salam.
Question 275: salam and jum'ah mubarak to all i have a question about imam ali and fatima zahra a.s. imam is a cousin of prophet muhammad s.a.w and he was also the uncle of fatima, right? so my question how prophet s.a.w agree to marry her daughter to imam ali? and what is a sign that allah agree to marry his daughter? and what hadith in sunni narrated about the aproval of allah s.w.t to marry imam ali and fatima?
Answer 275: Imam Ali (sa) was the cousin of the Holy Prophet (pbuh). His father was Abū Ṭālib ibn 'Abd al-Muṭṭalib and His mother was Fatima bint Asad.
The Holy Prophet's (pbuh) father was Abdu'llah ibn 'Abdu'l-Muttalib and His mother was Āmina.
Fatima Zahra (sa) was the daughter of the Holy Prophet (pbuh). Her mother was Khadīja bint Khuwaylid (sa).
The Holy Prophet (pbuh) had two sons were born of the Lady Khadijah namely; Ghasem and Taher (also called 'Abdullah) who died in Mecca and so, there was no live male issue from the holy Prophet (pbuh), so, the Arabs used to call the one who had no son (abtar). Hence after, the holy Quran applied this name to the enemies of the Prophet.
Note: The Messenger of Allah (S) had another son by the name of Ibraheem, was born of Mariyah Qibtiyyah in 8 AH. He also died before he was 2 years old.
Therefore, as the abundance of goodness and blessing the Kawthar has granted to the Holy Prophet by Allah, the Almighty. This verse refers to the marriage of Imam Ali (as) and Lady Fatimah Zahra (sa).
According to Sheikh Mufid, Imam Ali (as) has asked the Holy Prophet (pbuh) regarding the meaning of Kawthar? The Holy Prophet (pbuh) has said to him (as): "It is a stream that Allah (swt) granted to me, … the Holy Prophet then said to him: This stream is for me and you…." Kawthar is Fatimah Zahra (sa).
قال له علي بن أبي طالب (عليه السلام): «ما هو الكوثر يا رسول الله؟». قال: «نهر أكرمني الله به»… ثم ضرب رسول الله (صلى الله عليه و آله) يده على جنب أمير المؤمنين (عليه السلام) و قال: «يا علي، إن هذا النهر لي، و لك، …».
Imam Sadiq (as) has said: the word "Marajalbaḥrayni yaltaqiyān" refers to Imam Ali (as) and Fatimah Zahra (sa) and "Yakhruju minhumalluluu walmarjān" refer to Imam Hasan and Imam Hussain (pbuth).
علي بن إبراهيم، قال: حدثنا محمد بن أبي عبد الله، قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، عن القاسم بن محمد، عن سليمان بن داود المنقري، عن يحيى بن سعيد القطان، قال: سمعت أبا عبد الله (عليه السلام) يقول في قول الله عز و جل: مَرَجَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ يَلْتَقِيانِ بَيْنَهُما بَرْزَخٌ لا يَبْغِيانِ قال: «علي و فاطمة (عليهما السلام)، [بحران عميقان لا يبغي أحدهما على صاحبه] يَخْرُجُ مِنْهُمَا اللُّؤْلُؤُ وَ الْمَرْجانُ، الحسن و الحسين (عليهما السلام)».
Index: Birthplace of Ali ibn Abi Talib / He was born in Kaaba, answer 069.
 . Al-Burhan fee Tafsir al-Quran, Vol. 5, Pg. 772, H 11936.
 . Tafsir Nemooneh, Vol. 6, Pg. 599; Anwar Derakhshan, Vol. 18, Pg. 310.
 . Al-Burhan fee Tafsir al-Quran, Vol. 5, Pg. 233.
Question 569: Agha! Are al-Bayan, al-Iftikhariya and Al-Tatanjiya sermons imputed to Mola Ali A.s which are found in Mashariq al-Anwar of Shaykh Rajab Borsi, are authentic? What are their health of authentication in regards of Ayatollah Sistani and the rest of mujtahideen? what is the take of Shariyah on them?
Answer 569: There are many sermons attributed to Imam Ali (as) mentioned in traditional and historical sources. But, they haven't been mentioned in Nahj al-Balaghah.
Al-Bayan Sermon: Khutbatul Bayan or Iftikhar Sermon is one of them attributed to the Imam (as).
In this sermon, Imam Ali (as) introduces himself, foretells about the future and states the end of time and signs of re-emergence of Imam Mahdi (ajtf). A major part of the sermon relates to messianic issues as well as the apocalyptic period and signs of reappearance. This sermon discusses the signs of reappearance and also deals with the subject of Sayyid Hasani and his uprising and conduct with Imam Mahdi (atf) as well as his surrender to the Imam. When it comes to the chain of transmission of this narration and its validity, there are discrepant views and comments among Shia scholars some affirming it, others opposing.
According to the references mentioned in this sermon, Abdullh bin Masood said: When Imam Ali (as) being appointed to caliphate, He came back to Basrah after three days, ascended to pulpit in the Jame' Mosque of the city and delivered a sermon saying about the difficulties and calamities happened the death of the holy Prophet (pbuh). While Imam Ali (as) delivering speech a man named Suwaid bin Nufil Hilahi, one of the great man of Khawarij interrupted the his speech, and asked: from where did the Imam know these things? Imam Ali (as) looked at the man angrily and talked about his attributes and knowledge. The followings are a few phrases the Imam introduced himself: Ana' Sirr al-Asrar, Ana' Shajarat al-Anwar; Ana' Dalil al-Samawat; Ana' Anis al-Musabbahat.
This long sermon has only mentioned in recent sources. Ilzam al-Nasib, written by Ali Yazdi haeri (d. 1333 A.h) is one of the most accessible sources. In this book, there are three different versions of this sermon, Khutbat al-Bayan that each of them has vast difference with the other. The first two versions have no references, but the book al-Durr al-Munazzam fee al-Sirr al-Aazam, written by Muhammad bin Talhah Shafe'ei, the Sunni scholars but loving Ahlul Bayt (pbuth) is the only sources mentioned for the third version of this sermon.
Those who mentioned in this book as the chain of narrations for this sermon are unknown except Tawq bin Malik, because he is not a narrator and had never narrated a hadith from him. He is one of the Harun al-Rashid's commander that passed away in the year 216 A.H.
The followings are some points we should take into consideration about Abdullah bin Masood, the main narrator that is the most important reason than the chain of narration.
He has passed away before the caliphate of Imam Ali (as). So, he couldn't narrate this sermon, because Imam Ali (as) was delivered it after being appointed to caliphate in Basra or Kufa.
This chain of narration is Marfoo. This means that there are some unknown persons between ibn Masood and the listener of Khutbah, so we ought not to accept this hadith as Sahih.
According to Sunni scholars, Abdullah bin Masood has never narrated a Hadith from Imam Ali (as).
According to Shia, ibn Masood wasn't careful about narrating hadith. Meaning that he cannot be trusted.
Therefore, according to the previous mentioned reasons, we ought not to trust about the chain of narration of this sermon.
In his book Bisharat al-Islam, Sayyid Mustafa Ale Haydar said: we haven't found the correct chain of narration for this sermon. None of the great narrators like Kulayni, sadouq and Sheikh Tusi have never narrated it. We can conclude that since Allamah Majlisi never narrated this sermon that this sermon is not reliable.
Late Mirza-ye Qummi, the author Qawanin al-Usul after denying the attribution of this sermon to Imam Ali (as), talked about Khutbat al-Bayan and its problems in detail at the end of book Jame' al-Shatat.
In this sermon, some persons like Amr bin Saleh, Salman, Miqdad and ibn Yaqtin have been mentioned as those who were presented there, while salman and Miqdad have already passed away before the caliphate of Imam Ali (as). Also, Amr bin Saleh and ibn Yaqtin weren't contemporary to the Imam.
Suwayd bin Nufil Hilali who mentioned in this sermon as the great man of Khawarij is not exist.
As we read in the first version of this sermon, Gabriel (as) has descended on the Rock of Jerusalem, while this place is the Jewish Kiblah and Bani Umayyah forged some traditions in praise of it.
According to Islamic traditions, Imam Hussain (as) will give Ghusl to, shroud and bury the Imam of the Time (ajtf), but this sermon says: Prophet Jesus (as) will do it.
There are some ambiguous phrases mentioned in this sermon, some of which are as follows: Ana Mus'haf al-Injil, Ana Sher al-Zabraqan, Ana Unuq al-Sibtayn, Ana Atarud al-Ta'til, Ana Nasikh al-Mary, Ana Ghufran al-Shartayn and etc.
There are many highly colored statements in this sermon, some of them are: Ana Alaniyat al-Mabood, Ana al-Dhahir ma'a al-Anbiya, Ana Sabab al-Asbab, Ana al-Awwalu wal Akhar, Ana al-Dhahir, Ana al-Batin, Ana Waze al-Shariat and etc.
There are some solecisms, incorrect words (grammatical mistakes) and Farsi words like Keywan have mentioned in this sermon.
As we Shia denied determining the time of Reappearance of Imam Mahdi (ajtf), but there have mentioned some strange signs of re-emergence and determined that the Imam will appear in the year 1184 A.H.
Many repetitive phrases are exist in this sermon.
Mirza-ye Qummi said: I haven't seen in any authentic book that this sermon is attributed to Imam, but it has mentioned in some Sufism resources.
Al-Iftikhariya Sermon: In his Mashariq al-Anwar, Hafez Rajab Borsi has narrated from Asbagh bin Nabatah a relatively long sermon named Al-Iftikhar Sermon which the narrator has attributed to Imam Ali (A.S). In that sermon, Imam Ali (A.S) introduces himself with these words: "I am the brother of the Messenger of God and the Heir to His knowledge, the treasury of His wisdom, and the Companion of His secret. There is not a letter revealed by God in any of His Books whose intention does not point towards me. He hath vouchsafed unto me the knowledge of what was from eternity and what will happen unto the Day of Resurrection. To me hath been vouchsafed the knowledge of past and future generations and their genealogies." Then he refers to future events and the signs of reappearance. If you go through the sermon and take careful a look at the words, you will come to know that a lot of the words and meanings in this sermon are also found in other narrations which have been substantiated and approved in their own respective places.
Al-Tatanjiya Sermon: Late Hafez Rajab Borsi has reported this sermon in his Mashariq Anwar al-Yaqin". Considering that Imam Ali (A.S) says in a part of this sermon: «اَنَا الْواقِفُ عَلَى التُّطُنْجَیْنِ» (I am abiding over the two gulfs (tatanjayn)), this sermon is called Al-Tatanjiya which means two gulfs of water or this world and the hereafter. The first part of the sermon dealing with creation of the world is very similar to the first part of Nahjul Balaghah. Most of the wordings and sentence structures are completely overshadowed by Quranic verses and are relying on traditional beliefs. The sermon deals mainly with Imam Ali's expanse of knowledge, especially his super knowledge of the universe, the preceding and future events. It is for the same reason that the sermon is replete with statements about the cosmos as well as reports about the apocalyptic period or the end of time. This sermon explains the course of glorification of Allah, the Exalted, throughout the history of prophets as well as the existential guardianship (wilayat takvini) and knowledge of the Infallible Imams (A.S). In other words, it introduces the perfect man. The discourse is about the first creation and created which have been referred to in the tradition as such: «اَوَّلُ ما خَلَقَ اللّهُ الْعَقْلُ» (The first thing that God created was the intelligence).
This position of intelligence has different expressions in its various dimensions. This position of intelligence is the "Muhammadan Reality (haqiqat muhammadia)".
The Al-Tatanjiya Sermon has not been narrated in Nahjul Balaghah but Sayyid Hebatullah Abi Muhammad Musavi (d. 703 A.H.) has recorded it in his al-Majmu' al-Rayiq Min Ezhar al-Hadaiq. Some recent scholars like Ali Yazdi Haeri (d. 1323 A.H.) have also narrated it.
At the end of this sermon, there is a description of the four realms (aqalim) and Sheikh Agha Buzurg Tehrani has considered it probable that this sermon might be united with the Al-Aqalim Sermon which Ibn Shahrashub has talked about in his Al-Manaqib. This sermon has been published either independently or as supplements in other publications. Different manuscripts of this sermon are said to be in the libraries of the University of Tehran, the Iranian parliament, Waziri Yazd and Masjid A'azam of Qom. Many commentaries have been written expounding the said sermon the most famous of which is Irshad Al-Mustarshideen by Sayyid Kazim Rashti (d.1259 A.H) of which seventeen manuscripts are available in Iran's libraries.
"I am God's eye, and I am God's hand…" Hence, it can be said that the traditions in this regard confirm the content of Al-Tatanjiya Sermon to some extent.
 .Haeri Yazdi, Ali, Ilzam al-Nasib fee Ithbat al-Hujjat al-Ghaeb, Vol. 2, Pgs. 148-191, first edition, Beirut, 1422 A.H.
 . Al-Tabari, Abu Jafar, Tarikh al-Tabari, Vol. 8, Pg. 323, Dar al-Turath, Beirut, second edition,; Al-Yaqoubi, Ahmad bin Abi Yaqoub, Tarikh al-Yaqoubi, Vol. 2, Pg. 424, Dar al-Sader, Beirut, Bita.
 . Al-Mazy, Yousef bin al-Zaki, Tahzib al-Kamal fee Asma al-Rijal, Vol. 16, Pg. 121, N. 3564, al-Risalah Institution, Beirut, 1400 A.H.
 . Kashi, Abu Amr, Muhammad bin Umar bin Abdul Aziz, Rijal al-Kashi, Pg. 38, Mashad University Publication Instirution, Mashhad, 1490 A.H.
 . Ale Haydar, Sayyid Mustafa, Bisharat al-Islam, Pg. 75, H. 214, al-Bithat Institution, Tehran, 1410 A.H.
 .Qummi, Abul Qasim, Jame' al-Shatat, Pg. 792, Kayhan Institution, first edition, Tehran, 1413 A.H.
 . Ameli, Jafar murtadha, Dirasat fee Alamat al-Dhuhur, Pg. 75, Muntadi Jabal al-Amel al-Islami, Qom, 1412 A.H.
 . Jame al-Shatat, Pg. 792.
 Hafez, Borsi, Rajab bin Muhammad, Mashariq Anwar al-Yaqin fi Asrar Amir al-Momeneen (A.S), researched and edited by Ashur,Ali, p. 260, A'lami, 260, Beirut, first edition, 1422 A.H.
 Vide: Ibid, p. 260 – 262.
 Sheikh Hurr Amili, Muhammad bin Hasan, al-Jawahir al-Saniyah fi al-Ahadith al-Qudsiyah (generalities of Qudsi hadiths), p. 647, Dehqan Publications', Tehran, third edition, 1380 (2001); Ibn Abil Hadid, Abdul Hamid bin Hebahullah, Sharh Nahjul Balaghah, researched and corrected by Ibrahim, Muhammad Abulfazl, vol.18, p. 185, Late Ayatollah Mar'ashi Najafi's Library, Qom, first edition, 1404 A.H.
 Musavi, Sayyid Hebatullah Abi Muhammad, al-Majmu' al-Rayiq min Ezhar al-Hadaiq, vol.1, p. 452, Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance, Tehran, 1375 A.H.
 Yazdi Haeri, Ali, Elzam al-Nasib fi Ethbat al-Hujjah al-Ghaib (atf), researched and corrected by Ashur, Ali, vol.2, p. 199, al-A'lami Institute, Beirut, first edition, 1422 A.H.
 Agha Buzurg Tehrani, al-Zari'ah Ela Tasanif al-Shi'ah, vol.7, p. 199, and 201, Ismailiyan, Qom, 1408 A.H; Ibn Shahrashub Mazandarani, Manaqib Aal Abi Talib (A.S), vol.2, p. 274, Allamah Publications, Qom, first edition, 1379 A.H.
 Vide: Fehres (Catalogue) of the Library of the University of Tehran, vol.13, p. 3380, and vol.6, p. 365; Fehres of Majlis Library, vol. 38, p. 497; Fehres of Waziri Yazd Library, vol.1, p. 21, Fehres of Masjid A'azam Library, Qom, 606.
 Muhammad Karim Khan bin Ibrahim Kermani (d. 1288 A.H.), A Commentary of Al-Tatanjiya Sermon (a manuscript of which is kept in Sepahsalar Library. There is also an unknown commentary on Al-Tatanjiya Library in the Catalogue of the University of Tehran (vol.2, p. 703, No. 1067). Vide: Ali Sadrai, Khoei, with cooperation of Abul Fazl Sulaymani, Mahdi, Ashtiani, Ihsan, Catalogue of Manuscripts (Shiite Hadith and Hadith Sciences), vol.4, p. 377 – 378, Dar al-Hadith Printing and Publication Institution, Qom, first edition, 1384 (2005).
 Vide: Catalogue of Manuscripts (Shiite Hadith and Hadith Sciences), vol.4, p. 375 – 377.
 Vide: Allamah Hasanzadeh Amuli, Hasan, The Best Work in Rejection of Compulsion and Predestination and Two other Treatises, p. 98, Islamic Propagations Office, Qom, fourth edition,1379 (2000).
 Kulayni, Muhammad bin Ya'qub, Al-Kafi, researched and corrected by Ghaffari, Ali Akbar, Akhundi, Muhammad, vol.1, p. 145, Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyah, Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 A.H.
Question 564: Salam. Tell me about great explanation Alam e burzkh? And Ali a. S arrival in our grave? Bcz MOLA a. S said from kumail Ibne zayadh. I will come in grave of every, momin, munafik and kafir? Please explain?


I was shocked to hear that tornados touched down in Springfield. My thoughts are with everyone who was effected by the storm and I hope that property damage, the trees and roofs, is the worst of it. Stay safe.
The seems to have passed by where I am now, the sky here turned an ominous yellow followed by the blue sky braking through at sunset. I took a couple photos of it from my windows.


That's right your going to enjoy this I'm not going to complain or moan once.
After a few weeks of feeling not good enough in every part of my life I can honestly say I felt successful today. Granted it was just a meal out with the kids but still. I got the bus with two of the kids on my own 3 times in one day. We went for dinner and everyone enjoyed it and I felt content, I felt like a normal parent.
Right now Elliot is with Ant at his grandparents and the other two kids are sitting on our bed watching films with me. This part, the sitting with your kids cuddled up eating popcorn and watching films is everything I imagined parenthood to be. I feel content again.
Looking back over some of my previous blogs I wondered if I give the impression I don't enjoy parenting. I do. I love the kids and I love being a mum. That feeling in your chest when your child snuggles up to you or runs up to you excitedly to show you something they have made or done. God you can't even begin to describe that. That moment never gets old and it never gets tired, I smile even when I think about their faces.
So basically today was good, I was proud of myself and the kids. I felt a lot of things today love, pride and yes tiredness but most of content. It's the little things honestly it is, they make ALL the difference.


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Even if stats departments work overtime to find the next big thing in baseball, it's up to a manager to make sure that big thing gets a chance to pan out. That's something that's getting lost by the wayside, but also something we shouldn't forget as fans, analysts and supporters of the game.
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Raiders first-round draft pick Gareon Conley won't be disciplined by the NFL for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman, league spokesperson Brian McCarthy confirmed Tuesday (via ESPN).
Since the reported assault occurred before the NFL Draft, Conley was not a member of the organization. Therefore, they won't hand down a punishment.
"I will tell you I was a little surprised by that comment that that reporter made because it was inaccurate," Smith said, via the Houston Chronicle. "Bus Cook is a friend of mine and obviously represents Jay. I was in Denver when we drafted Jay, so I've got a relationship with Jay.
After he was released from the Bears, Cutler expressed his desire to go into broadcasting. Less than 24 hours later, he was hired by Fox Sports.
Cutler reportedly was interested in playing for Houston before the draft, but the Texans picked Clemson's Deshaun Watson in the first round, which didn't leave much room for Cutler.
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On Wednesday in Kansas City, Marques Ogden will open his second two-day public speaking conference bearing his name. Plans are already in place for a third conference this November in Baltimore, up the highway from his hometown of Washington and in the city where he made one of his four stops during his five-year NFL career.
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Sure, the recency bias and that bigger modern media marketing gives him some overhype. But the Captain's credentials, including those 3,465 hits (No. 6 all-time) and five World Series wins in the wild-card era are impressive in relation to some inflated stars (sorry, A-Rod) in the steroid era. It's kind of nice that like the origin for Ruth and Gehrig, Jeter's number also reflects his most frequent, iconic spot in the Yankees' lineup.
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Edinson Volquez received the tragic news Monday that his brother, Brandy, was killed in their native Dominican Republic.
The Marlins pitcher told reporters he hopes justice is served for his brother's death.
The incident, captured in a graphic video, pushed many teams to take Mixon off their draft boards. He was considered to have first-round talent but slid to the draft's second day.
Bengals owner Mike Brown defended the choice, and now Mixon will join more than three dozen other rookies at the L.A. event at which, according to the NFLPA, More than 20 NFLPA business partners will be on site to engage with the latest group of promising NFL stars to create unique brand content, secure endorsement deals and promote licensed products through group player rights.
The Rookie Premiere runs Thursday through Saturday and will help the rookies learn the business of football, the NFLPA says.
The change to replay review would reportedly give managers 30 seconds to decide whether to challenge a call on the field, the USA Today report says, citing unnamed sources. If a challenge is made, umpires would have just two minutes to determine whether the call should be overturned or confirmed.
The policy change would need the approval of MLB clubs before taking effect, USA Today reports.
In addition to the proposed replay change, Manfred and union head Tony Clark reportedly plan to meet with players to discuss more potential changes for 2018.
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It's not clear whether the league will expect Riveron to be as public-facing as Blandino was, or whether he'll focus more on the internal mechanics of the job.
Tony Romo failed to advance Monday in his attempt to qualify for the 2017 U.S. Open in June at Erin Hills Golf Course.
Only seven players advanced from Romo's qualifier, played at Split Rail Links and Golf Club just outside Dallas and featured a field of 117 players. The former Cowboys quarterback showed fight, but an untimely triple-bogey on the par-4 15th hole ended his chances to move on to the next round of qualifying.
Another cap and McCloughan's game-day tan suit jacket were soon to follow, but this is no small-scale effort to make up for lost income. Jessica McCloughan told The Washington Post on Monday that the couple will give the proceeds from the eBay auctions to the Redskins Charitable Foundation.
Considering the ugliness that marked the last several weeks of McCloughan's run in Washington, that's quite a gesture.
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With Trey Flowers breaking out as a pass rusher late in 2016 and having a monster Super Bowl, it was easier for New England to let Jabaal Sheard leave to play 3-4 outside linebacker in Indianapolis. Ealy and Rivers are the usual body types from which they get the most in their edge rotation, a la Flowers and Rob Ninkovich before he moved to linebacker. With both Sheard and Chris Long gone, Ealy and Rivers are built to give the Patriots significantly more pop at end.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Royals are in serious trouble.
Memphis, though, has yet to see production from Chandler Parsons, who missed 48 games after signing a $94 million deal with the team over the summer and won't play in this series. In the games he played, he averaged 6.2 points on 27 percent three-point shooting.
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The Spurs also have the oracle of head coaches in Gregg Popovich, who's won five championships since 1999. Aside from the difference in talent on the floor, it's his wealth of experience that poses the biggest obstacle for the Grizzlies.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Royals are in serious trouble. They won on Monday, but that snapped a nine-game losing streak that has them comfortably in the AL Central's cellar. While they are just 5.5 games back, as Royals Review points out, there are deeper issues here than just their record. The Royals have scored 69 runs — the next-lowest total in the league is 91, a tie between the A's and Giants, both of whom also play in pitcher-friendly parks.
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A public proposal at the Red Sox game on Sunday night turned into worst night on earth for one man. Just before 10 p.m., a fan decided to pop the question during a break, and you probably have guessed where this is going.
Red Sox officials confirmed a fan was ejected for throwing peanuts at Jones, per USA Today, and also said that they were investigating how many people security threw out of Fenway Park on Monday.
This isn't the first time that a black MLB player has told reporters he heard racist taunts in Boston this year. David Price said in January that he heard taunts from Red Sox fans last season, which was his first with the team after signing a massive contract as a free agent in 2015.
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On Monday, Jones said ejecting fans for abusing players on the field wasn't strong enough punishment. What they need to do is that instead of kicking them out of the stadium, they need to fine them 10 grand, 20 grand, 30 grand, he said. Something that really hurts somebody. Make them pay in full.
The 31-year-old is at least off to a great start on the field. Even after going 0-for-4 in a 5-2 win over the Red Sox on Monday, Jones is batting .309/.369/.479 with four doubles and four home runs through 24 games this season.
The first-round series between the Jazz and the Clippers has provided plenty of excitement and plenty of Joe Johnson heroics. He hit a game winner in Game 1 and he was huge in Game 3 as well. Who shot the dagger in Game 5? Oh, just Joe Johnson.
After Johnson hit a jumper to put the Clippers up 92-87 with 19 seconds left, the camera cut right to Clippers owner Steve Ballmer.
Essentially, the Flyers are going to have to lose someone from that group in the near future. The question is whether or not they can control how they do it, and if they get anything in exchange for it.
… is something that would make sense for the Flyers. They may not get a ton back in exchange for some of these bottom-of-the-roster kind of guys, but even a mid-round draft pick would be worthwhile given the fact that something is going to have to give here pretty soon.
Of course, this requires a team that wants one of those guys like a Laughton or a Cousins or even one of the protection-worthy guys enough to give up something of value for them. And that's not a given. But you have to think the Flyers are going to try and make a deal work here, even if it'll likely just be a minor one.


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Battleship Texas with Little Man…
We decided to have a one more family outing before Marisa was born! Yes, I am a little behind in my photos…smile.
We voted on visiting San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site and the Battleship Texas!
The Battleship Texas, commissioned in 1914, is the only surviving battleship to have served in both world wars and is the last surviving dreadnought. The ship served as a flagship for the D-Day invasion of Normandy and earned seven ribbons for her service during World War II.
One of the joys of visiting this ship was experiencing what life was like for thousands of American sailors and Marines. You were able to walk around the ship at your own pace and not be bothered by tour guides etc.
It was a great experience with Little Man! His eyes were as big as saucers!
One of the cute moments was him trying to climb on everything before Daddy could say no! You can see his face as he climbs up the stairs real quick, turns back to his father to see what his reaction is going to be. Adorable…
As we were standing on the Battleship Texas, you could view the San Jacinto Monument! Glorious, rising 567 feet above the battleground, the San Jacinto Monument honors all those who fought for Texas independence.
On April 21, 1836, Texas won its independence when an outnumbered Texan Army heroically defeated Mexican forces on the plains of San Jacinto.
Built for the battle's centennial in 1936, the Monument remains the world's tallest memorial stone column.
The San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site covers over 1200 acres of green space.
We couldn't get Little Man off of these artillery machines! He loved them! He could turn the wheel and make the battery guns rotate. He did this over and over! As you can see, Mama is getting very tired and needed to sit down. (On a side note, Marisa was born just a couple of days after our visit here!)
Little Man loved the Battleship, it was a great day for everyone!
Have you heard of or seen the Battleship Texas?
On a side note…I hope you will join me on Facebook or Instagram!
I have been posting adorable pictures of the grandkids. Yesterday, I posted Little Mans T-Ball game.
IF you can just imagine, he is QUITE a bit smaller than the other children. What a riot!
Tags: 1836, american sailors, Battleground for Texas Independence, Battleship Texas, Historic Site in Texas, Historical Photography, Houston, San Jacinto, Texas, Texas Army
36 thoughts on "Battleship Texas with Little Man…"
RoSy on June 10, 2015 at 5:56 pm said:
That ship is massive!
And – what an experience.
iridonousa on May 22, 2015 at 9:58 am said:
Great pictures!! I used to live in Houston and I was visiting family in Sugar Land last February!))
Simon Howlett on May 20, 2015 at 7:22 pm said:
Would love to visit the Battleship Texas. I'm ex-Royal Navy so would enjoy a tour of the ship.
David Paul on May 8, 2015 at 5:49 pm said:
That full shot of the ship is great. I served on USS Constellation which was based in San Diego. Now it sits decommissioned in Brownsville TX where the Navy's decided on scrapping it. It would have been nice to have it salvaged and turned into a museum; unfortunately not. It's wonderful, though, to see photos like these 🙂
Tiny on May 7, 2015 at 10:07 pm said:
Have I said it before… he's adorable!! Love the mischief on his face when he tests the waters on what is doable and what not 🙂
Pride in Photos Photography on May 8, 2015 at 12:25 am said:
I know, when he is mischievous….its adorable.
LB on May 6, 2015 at 2:16 am said:
My father was an officer in the Navy and my sisters and I loved visiting and exploring whatever ship he was on.
What a fun outing for the family
Pride in Photos Photography on May 6, 2015 at 2:36 pm said:
Thanks for this info on your family, didn't realize this about your father!
tanna on May 6, 2015 at 12:12 am said:
Beautiful photos, Laurie. I know Little Man sure enjoyed this day! blessings ~ tanna
The Coastal Crone on May 5, 2015 at 9:34 pm said:
These are two great places to learn about our history and a great way to imprint a child. It must have been a great day as the shots were spectacular! What fun for every one. Here in Corpus Christi we have the USS Lexington which is actually a museum and open for self-guided tours and overnight stays. My parents took me to the Battleship Texas and San Jacinto Monument as a child and I took my children there. It looked as if Little Man enjoyed it!
I just can't get over how rich Texas is in history, it is remarkable!!!
A. Blake on May 5, 2015 at 7:54 pm said:
It's outings like these that make childhood so memorable – you guys are definitely making wonderful memories for lil man and I do like the pics on IG.
marcus dilano on May 5, 2015 at 12:33 pm said:
What a fantastic experience! Getting to walk around the ship and have the time to take in everything that is around you. Little Man looks to be having the time of his life on your family excursions 😊
laurie27wsmith on May 5, 2015 at 9:31 am said:
Great pictures as usual Laurie but I do like the full shot of the ship.
Laurie.
Gallivanta on May 5, 2015 at 9:25 am said:
What an amazing place. A great outing for everyone but especially Little Man.
poppytump on May 5, 2015 at 9:06 am said:
Little Man looks in his element 😉 I can imagine his feet didn't stop running and exploring this great Battleship Laurie !
As you say it 's fascinating looking at the living quarters and behind the scenes of such ships . The kitchen galleys are usually so compact in relation to what surely must be a culinary challenge not many would want to take up !
Yes, the kitchen was so small….unbelievable.
barbarashallue on May 5, 2015 at 2:52 am said:
Well, good grief, Laurie, you're not far away at all! I love this post because I grew up right down the road from these two beauties, in Deer Park. I feel blessed to have so many memories of exploring them while I was growing up and then later with my kids. I don't get back to Houston much since my mom lives near me, but when I do, we'll have to get together! On a side note, one of my clients lives in Sugar Land!
I am only 2 minutes from Sugar Land! I would love to meet up for coffee or lunch sometime.
Susan on May 4, 2015 at 11:23 pm said:
Looks like a little boy's dream! Wonderful images!
YellowCable on May 4, 2015 at 11:14 pm said:
I can understand the little man well that he did not want to get off the machine. I love big machinery as such (batle ships, planes etc.). It would be hard for me to not drawn into these things as well.
Linda Arthur Tejera on May 4, 2015 at 11:12 pm said:
What a fabulous outing! I wouldn't mind seeing one of those ships myself! 🙂
Lisa on May 4, 2015 at 10:34 pm said:
I would love to see a battleship too! Awesome photos! Hugz Lisa and Bear
imagesbytdashfield on May 4, 2015 at 8:48 pm said:
Great shots and the little man is wearing his Cardinals gear!!!!!! WOOT!
I thought you might like his outfit!
Oh yeah!!!!
Kathy on May 4, 2015 at 8:28 pm said:
What a fun family day!
norasphotos4u on May 4, 2015 at 7:39 pm said:
Looks like a great day out!
Tamar on May 4, 2015 at 7:39 pm said:
How awesome! He must have been in heaven!!
nixe on May 4, 2015 at 7:10 pm said:
A charming boy who reminds me of my son, who climbed before he learned to walk. 😉
Thank you…we sure do love him!
Dina on May 4, 2015 at 5:26 pm said:
What a great day out for all children, big and small. Little Man looks so handsome! 🙂 ❤
ladyfi on May 4, 2015 at 4:48 pm said:
What a fun day out.
Alexander Lautsyus on May 4, 2015 at 4:48 pm said:
Good experience for Little Man. We have to pray for all Little Men do not be the part of huge conflicts and use that dangerous equipment.
amen to that comment!
ibdesignsusa on May 4, 2015 at 4:19 pm said:
Amazing pictures and love the detail on the ship. Glad that you were able to visit!
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Никола́й Степа́нович Мы́риков (19 декабря 1926, Владимирская губерния — 6 марта 2011, Москва) — генерал-лейтенант милиции, начальник ГУВД Мосгорисполкома (1991), комендант Москвы в августе 1991 года по решению ГКЧП.

Биография
Родился 19 декабря 1926 года в деревне Мишнево Ковровского уезда Владимирской губернии (ныне — Камешковского района Владимирской области).

Отец Николая Степан Васильевич вначале крестьянствовал, а потом выучился на столяра. Мама Мария Ивановна занималась детьми, их в семье Мыриковых было пятеро. В девятилетнем возрасте Николай вместе с родителями переехал в знаменитое своими барскими домами, усадьбами и храмами село Патакино, в котором его отцу предложили работу. Здесь Николай пошёл в школу, но успел окончить только шесть классов, как настал новый переезд, теперь уже в Москву, где и продолжил учёбу.

Когда началась Великая Отечественная война, Николай, как и многие молодые москвичи, рвался на фронт, но районный военный комиссар отклонил его настойчивую просьбу, ссылаясь на возраст юноши. В апреле 1942 года шестнадцатилетний Николай пошёл работать на 2-й Государственный шарикоподшипниковый завод, размещавшийся в Москве на Шаболовке. Вначале трудился учеником слесаря по ремонту оборудования, а потом стал получать самостоятельные производственные задания. В 1942 году вступил в ВЛКСМ. Проработав на заводе 4 года, стал слесарем 6-го разряда.

В 1946 году по комсомольской путёвке был направлен на службу в Министерство государственной безопасности СССР (МГБ СССР). В июле 1946 года он был зачислен курсантом в школу, в которой успешно прошёл курс молодого бойца, и в конце августа был назначен на должность разведчика 2-й категории 2-го отделения 3-го отдела Управления охраны № 2 МГБ СССР, которое 25 декабря 1946 года вместе с Управлением охраны № 1 и Управлением коменданта Московского Кремля были объединены в Главное управление охраны (ГУО) МГБ СССР. В мае 1947 года Мырикову было присвоено звание старшины, а в октябре 1947 года — младшего лейтенанта и он был назначен на должность офицера охраны. В 1951 году вступил в ВКП(б).

В 1954 году Мырикову присваивают звание старшего лейтенанта, а в 1955 году он проходит переаттестацию и становится старшим лейтенантом милиции. Некоторое время служил в 8-м отделении Отдела по регулированию уличного движения (ОРУД) Главного управления милиции, а затем был назначен сотрудником 18-го отделения Управления московской милиции. С 1955 года служил в 20-м отделении ОРУД ГУВД Москвы — инспектором, старшим инспектором, инспектором службы, старшим инспектором службы. В 1958 году был выдвинут на должность помощника начальника отделения, а через год он становится начальником 10-го отделения ОРУД. Поступил в вечернюю школу рабочей молодёжи № 160, которую окончил с золотой медалью. В дальнейшем получил высшее образование, окончив Всесоюзный заочный юридический институт.

В последующие годы был назначен начальником 12-го отделения ОРУД, а в 1962 году переведён в Отдел милиции Исполкома Дзержинского районного совета, где вскоре был назначен начальником этого отдела. Затем был назначен начальником Отдела регулирования уличного движения и государственной автоинспекции Управления охраны общественного порядка (УООП) Мосгорисполкома — тогда так называлось ГАИ московской милиции.

В декабре 1972 года назначен заместителем начальника Управления внутренних дел (УВД) исполкома Московского городского Совета, которое в в 1973 году было преобразовано в Главное управление — ГУВД исполкома Московского городского Совета. Николай Степанович традиционно отвечал за охрану общественного порядка, и ему подчинялись по службе две третьих всего личного состава столичной милиции. В 1973—1991 годах — заместитель начальника ГУВД Мосгорисполкома, одновременно — начальник Управления по расстановке сил и средств на Олимпиаде-80, созданного при ГУВД.

Одним из самых высоких признаний заслуг Мырикова является участие Николая Степановича в заключительном этапе съёмок выдающегося многосерийного фильма «Рождённая революцией. Комиссар милиции рассказывает», удостоенного в 1978 году Государственной премии СССР. Генералу Мырикову выпала честь в десятой, заключительной, серии фильма «Последняя встреча» провести на Красной площади приём присяги молодыми милиционерами Москвы.

С 17 апреля по сентябрь 1991 года — начальник ГУВД исполкома Московского городского Совета. 19 августа 1991 года был назначен комендантом Москвы; после провала путча снят с должности.

С января 1992 года генерал-лейтенант милиции Н. С. Мыриков — в отставке.

В 1990-е годы возглавлял службу безопасности Русского национального банка. Являлся одним из учредителей ООО Охранная фирма «Московский амулет» (2002).

Жил в Москве. Умер 6 марта 2011 года.

Награды
 2 ордена Трудового Красного Знамени;
 2 ордена Красной Звезды (в том числе — 08.07.1986);
 орден «Знак Почёта»;
 медали СССР и Российской Федерации.

Адреса
в Москве
 Астраханский пер., д. 5 корп. 1 кв. 75.

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 Дядя Стёпа, ставший генералом // Петровка, 38
 Дядя Стёпа, ставший генералом (окончание) // Петровка, 38

Генерал-лейтенанты милиции (СССР)
Начальники Главного управления МВД России по городу Москве

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My gesture-controlled water glass is an interactive performance system that extends the sonic possibilities of an ordinary instrument which many of us have spent dinner parties tinkering with from childhood. This instrument processes live acoustic sound produced by a water glass (eg. rubbing the rim, tapping the sides, hitting the stem and etc.), working from the metaphor of how we interact with the acoustic water glass itself. Three physical gestures—stroking with two fingers, grabbing, and dipping finger water—control this processing via interactions ranging from simple triggering to more complex, time-stretched controls. This system includes a second-order analysis that responds to the velocity of changing between physical gestures performed on the water glass, creating affordances and constraints that evolve over time. As a dynamic system, the user's interaction necessarily responds to changing constraints of the water glass, creating a space to reimagine the life of the everyday object.
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Sound processing is enabled through a simple contact mic made from a piezo and hacked audio cable that connects to an audio interface (left). Both Touche sensor and contact mic are secured with a simple stand made of wood I built (right).


7 Amazing houses built into nature to Nature. Perhaps these amazing homes built right into nature will inspire you to build a green-inspiried home of your very own someday! 1. Part modern day home, part-pyramid, then add a layer of grassy hillside and you've got the perfect recipe to duplicate this house! AMAZING House Embedded Into A Cliff. Designed by two talented Greek architects who believe that 'life is too short for designs that people will soon forget', this striking house design called 'casa brutale' was inspired by the 7 Most Amazing Houses Around The World. 7 Most Amazing Houses Around the World 7. House On a Rock, Serbia A house built on a rock on the river Drina is seen near the western Serbian town of Bajina Basta, about 160km (99 miles) from Breathtaking Greek Mansion Built Into A Cliff Overlooking. Dreamed of living on the Greek Islands? What about in a mansion built into a cliff in Milos? This amazing seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom home, designed by Christos Vlachos Architects and completed Homes Built Into Hills, Mountains, And Underground. An amazing house built into a sandstone mine in the side of a mountain in Festus, Mo., near the banks of the Mississippi River. Cool, but I did not know there were mountains in Festus Mo.


Where do you find Sprayed Asbestos Coatings?Insulation on the underside of roofs and sometimes sides of buildings and warehouses. Sprayed asbestos was used as fire protection on steel and reinforced concrete beams/columns and on underside of floors.
It was very easy to overspray or get a 'splash back' from the equipment used to apply this so there is likely to be debris around the sprayed area (see the image below).
What does a Sprayed Asbestos Coating look like?
Usually white or grey in colour with a rough surface, although sprayed asbestos may have been painted since, it remains a highly dangerous substance and should not be handled by anyone other than a professional HSE licensed company such as Southern Insulation.
How dangerous is a Sprayed Asbestos Coating?
This contains up to 85% asbestos and breaks up very easily.It is one of the most dangerous materials containing asbestos.
Even minor disturbance of sprayed coatings can release large quantities of asbestos fibres into the air where they can be breathed in.


HARTFORD – Health insurer Anthem, Inc. has informed state officials that 1,716,436 Connecticut residents who are current or past Anthem or Blue Plan customers were impacted by the massive data breach disclosed earlier this month. While all approximately 80 million affected customers nationwide will be able to access identity theft repair services without having to actively enroll, only 315,000 individuals nationwide have signed up for the additional credit monitoring protections the company has made available at https://anthem.allclearid.com/.
Governor Dannel P. Malloy, Attorney General George Jepsen, Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner Jonathan A. Harris and Department of Insurance Acting Commissioner Anne Melissa Dowling today are strongly encouraging Connecticut residents to help protect their identity and their credit by enrolling in the free services.
"While my investigation into this data breach is very much ongoing, the new information we have received from Anthem indicates that an even greater number of Connecticut residents than initially anticipated have been affected by this data breach," said Attorney General Jepsen. "However, only a fraction of Anthem's current and past customers have signed up for the protections the company is offering. I would urge anyone who is currently enrolled in an Anthem or Blue plan or who was enrolled in a plan at any point in the past 10 years to immediately enroll in these protections. The services are free, and it does not take a large time commitment to enroll online."
· Identity Theft Repair Assistance: Should fraud occur, an investigator will do the work to recover financial losses, restore the affected consumer's credit, and ensure the affected consumer's identity is returned to its proper condition. This assistance will cover any fraud that has occurred since the data breach first began.
· Credit Monitoring: Credit monitoring alerts consumers when banks and creditors use their identity to open new credit accounts. Credit monitoring services also come with additional layers of protection in the form of $1 million identity theft insurance policy. The policy has broad benefits backed by a financially solid insurance company and is another option consumers can consider.
· Child Identity Protection: Child-specific identity protection services are available to any affected consumers with children insured through their Anthem plan.
Consumers can enroll online at https://anthem.allclearid.com/. Those without Internet access or who prefer assistance via telephone can call 877-263-7995. Spanish-speaking members may access information at www.AnthemInforma.com, or receive assistance in Spanish at 877-263-7995.
Assistant Attorneys General Michele Lucan and Thomas Ryan, of the Attorney General's Privacy Task Force, and Matthew Fitzsimmons, chair of the Task Force, are assisting the Attorney General with this matter.


How Globalization Saved the World and Damned the West | "Global Possibilities"
If these statistics were the only thing you knew about the world, you would be shocked to read just about any news article about the state of Western democracy. In country after country, in Europe and in the Americas, nativist movements are gaining power by opposing the values of openness and empiricism. These nativists have often thrived by arguing that free markets and globalization have impoverished the middle class and destroyed all sense of national identity or sovereignty.
Global capitalism appears to be saving the world and destroying the West, at the same time. I went to Davos to see whether I could resolve the paradox or, in failing to do so, at least drown my ignorance in hot chocolate.
My first lesson, however, wasn't in global economics, but local real estate. A month before my trip, there was no available hotel room within three hours of the conference hub. Davos, a tiny Swiss village, doesn't have enough space for WEF's thousands of attendees. Hotels along the town's main artery, the Promenade, jack up their rates to levels only corporate executives or multimillionaires can afford. This forces the conference's ordinary joes either to settle in nearby villages connected by train or (as in my case) to stuff themselves into basements, bunks, and pullout couches.
This might sound like an irrelevant aside, but for those in the market for a globalization metaphor, it may be impossible to beat: At a conference symbolizing the promise of capitalism, every non-plutocrat is fighting for scraps.
In 2009, in the nadir of the Great Recession, the elites who convened at Davos agreed that the solution to the failure of globalization was more globalization. Then–British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a new Bretton Woods Agreement, referring to the 1944 conference that established the postwar order by creating the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. "We live in an interdependent world, and the only way to move forward is to cooperate," Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the United Nations, said in agreement.
Ten years later, it seems obvious that the reaction among the richest countries in the world has been quite the opposite—not global integration, but global disintegration.
To get a handle on what's happening, I first met James Manyika, the director of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), in the lobby restaurant of the Ameron Hotel. If you want to know where the nativist revolution is coming from, he said, a simple story must be told.
In 2016, Manyika co-wrote a landmark report on earnings growth in advanced economies over the previous 20 years. It was a tale of two decades, he said. In the first 10-year period, from 1995 to 2004, wages grew for at least 98 percent of households in just about every advanced economy. But in the second decade, from 2005 to 2014, everything fell apart.
This was an entirely new phenomenon. Wage income declined for the majority of households in France, the Netherlands, the U.K., and Italy. The U.S. had it even worse. Four out of five households saw flat or falling income before accounting for taxes and transfers. Between globalization, the Great Recession, and the not-so-great recovery, the middle class was slammed.
And they felt it, too. Manyika's research team asked more than 6,000 people in the United States, the U.K., and France to describe their economic status. Between one-third and 40 percent of respondents in each country felt that their incomes were falling behind. "And these people tended to blame free trade and immigrants for hurting their wages and ruining their culture," Manyika said.
Annie Lowrey: Wages are low and workers are scarce. Wait, what?
MGI was putting its finishing touches on the report in early 2016, but held its publication for the Brexit vote in March. "We weren't surprised by the outcome," Manyika told me. "We had been sitting on this research showing widespread resentment toward globalization as a result of people feeling like they were being left behind." In June, MGI published the paper under the title "Poorer Than Their Parents." That same week, the labor economists Brian Bell and Stephen Machin published a separate analysis of the Brexit outcome. The economic statistic most closely aligned with "Leave" votes wasn't unemployment or income at the local level. It was poor wage growth.
But economic challenges probably aren't sufficient to explain the emergence of these "new parties and persons" that prey on xenophobia and racism as much as they appeal to class resentments. The changing media landscape is part of the story, too.
For years government elites could silence political outsiders by denying them an audience. In the late 20th century, the Democratic and Republican Parties were terrifically effective at marshaling elite power to shape public opinion during the presidential-election process. Voters didn't select candidates at random; rather, as political scientists like to say, "the parties decided" on the favored candidates and used their power to funnel voters toward these insiders.
That was before the Cambrian explosion of digital media made it impossible for insiders to control their nomination processes. Social networks large and small, such as Facebook and Gab, allow fringe ideologues to find one another, build an online movement through angry online rhetoric, and bypass the traditional party and media structure to reach disaffected voters.
Around the world, far-right movements have excelled at using new media to stir anger against the establishment. In the United States, YouTube has become"ground zero for far-right movement recruiting." In Germany, the right-party AfD has more than twice as many Facebook followers as Angela Merkel's party. In the Czech Republic, online news is dominated by the "virulently xenophobic"ParlamentniListy, which feeds its audience stories of radical Islamic atrocities and alt-right talking points.
Globalization and poor governance created the conditions in which nativist insurgencies can grow. Social networks made it possible for political cults to organize around outrage.
On my last day at wef, I was sitting at the juice bar of the Kongresszentrum, which is either the Mecca or the Mordor of Davos. My companion was Adam Tooze, the Columbia University economist whose recent book Crashed is a magisterial history of the Great Recession's legacy.
Too often, Tooze said, commentators describe the populist wave as if it's a monolithic movement. "I don't like the word populism, because populism isn't any one thing," he said. "It's diverse, it's idiosyncratic." Donald Trump may call himself Mr. Brexit, but Brexit and Trump are distinct expressions of anger.
But there's a good reason that commentators tend to lump together Trump, Brexit, and other "populists" and "populist" movements: They're built to oppose rather than lead, and right now it's fair to say they're in a shambles, unable to fulfill their nativist promises. In the U.K., Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal was voted down in humiliating fashion. In the United States, Trump's record-breaking government shutdown led not to a wall but to declining poll numbers for the president. Both May and Trump had to cancel their appearances at the Swiss conference.
Right-wing nationalism is the solution that solves nothing. What's needed instead is a movement that doesn't just succeed in outraging voters, but actually seeks to use government to address the source of their outrage.
In the United States, those on the left are trying to build such a movement within the Democratic Party. What they seek, in brief, is to pay for universal programs with a new set of taxes for winners in the capitalist system.
There are features of the new American left that some might find reminiscent of the new American right, like a deep distrust of global capitalism, an exasperation with the establishment, and a talent for social media that sometimes devolves into self-described dirtbaggery.
But it would be a mistake to say that left-wing populism is simply the mirror equivalent of the right. While Trump is perhaps the least popular president in modern history, Senator Elizabeth Warren's proposed wealth tax is quite popularamong Democrats. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's suggested 70 percent marginal rate on American deca-millionaires is supported by, conveniently, 70 percent of all voters. "Medicare for All" also attracts large majorities, though the slogan seems to mean different things to different people.
What's more, taxing the rich to fund universalist programs directly addresses middle-class insecurities caused by global capitalism—unlike, say, building a giant border wall. Free markets without income security have been a recipe for instability. So have socialist policies that stamp out free markets. But some members of the American left seem to be pointing to a compromise: a new system of universal guarantees supported by higher taxes and higher peacetime deficits in this context of a capitalist system. That would include health care for all, a child allowance, and an expanded system of wage subsidies to ensure a basic standard of living for Americans.
If this movement is going to succeed, however, it will have to identify not only global capitalism's problems, but also its benefits. There is no question that free trade and increased immigration have reduced poverty and improved global living standards at a historic rate in the past 30 years. For all the hatred directed toward the Davos crowd, there will be no economic growth in the West without policies that promote entrepreneurship and innovation.
Climate change offers an interesting challenge for the movement. The Green New Deal, an environmentalist platform that would include massive public-sector investments in clean energy and infrastructure, is a part of the left's effort to rebalance the economy away from free markets and private goods. But any realistic plan to decarbonize the U.S. economy will almost surely require the sort of commercial technological breakthroughs that tend to come from private entrepreneurs tinkering with the products of publicly funded research. And to reduce global emissions, the United States will have to share its eco-technology with China, southeastern Asian countries, and African nations, which account for most of the growth in future emissions. In other words, saving the American middle class might take a leftist intervention, but saving the world will also require something very much like free-market globalism.
The new American populism running against elites and billionaires will have to strike a balance—to burn Davos Man in effigy while sparing his best ideas from the fire.


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Q: Responsitivity for div I have a problem concerning responsitivity. I want this symbol "=" to hold all the menu when the screen is smaller(let say 1000px). I know I have to use responsitivity but I don't know how.
This is my index:
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine">
     <title>Tagesmutter Kiel</title>

       <button class="dropbtnWohnen">Wohnen</button>

            Eingenwöhnung
            Konzeption

       <button  class="dropbtnBetreung">Betreungskosten</button>

             Betreuungskosten
             Freie Plätze
             Bilder

       <button  class="dropbtnTag">Tagesablauf</button>

             Tagesablauf
             Tageskinder
             Gästebuch

        <button  class="dropbtnKontakt">Kontakt</button>

            Kontakt
            Urlaub
            Über mich

Hallo, liebe Eltern!

 Sie suchen eine Tagesmutter für Ihr Kind?

 Ich hoffe, dass ich Ihnen mit diesen Seiten einen kleinen Einblick

in meine Arbeit als Tagesmutter ermöglichen kann. ☺

Tagesmutter Irene

And now the stylesheet:
#menu
{
    background-color: #78409a;
    display: flex;
    margin-top: -2%;
    margin-left: 15%;
    margin-right: 10%;
    width: 68%;
}

.icon-bar { margin-right: 0.2%;}

.icon-bar a
{
    float: right;
    color: white;
    font-size: 710%;
}

.active {background-color: #4CAF50;}

.dropdown_whohnen
{
    position: relative;
    display: inline-block;
}

.dropbtnWohnen
{
    background-color: #4CAF50 ;
    color: white;
    padding: 33.25%;
    font-size: 100%;
    border: none;
    cursor: pointer;

}

.wohnen_content
{
    display: none;
    position: absolute;
    background-color: #d5416e;
    min-width: 13.2%;
    box-shadow: 10px 8px 16px 10px rgba(0,1,1,0.2);
    z-index: 1;
}

.wohnen_content a
{
    color: black;
    padding: 6% 6%;
    text-decoration: none;
    display: block;
}

.dropdown_wohnen:hover .wohnen_content {display: block;}
.dropdown_wohnen:hover .dropbtnWohnen {background-color: #3e8e41;}
.wohnen_content a:hover {background-color: #ddd}

.dropdown_betreung
{
    position: relative;
    display: inline-block;
    margin-left: 0.3%;
}

.dropbtnBetreung
{
    background-color: #4CAF50 ;
    color: white;
    padding: 24.7%;
    font-size: 100%;
    border: none;
    cursor: pointer;

}

.betreungskosten_content
{
    display: none;
    position: absolute;
    background-color: #DAF7A6 ;
    min-width: 100%;
    box-shadow: 10px 8px 16px 10px rgba(0,1,1,0.2);
    z-index: 1;
}

.betreungskosten_content a
{
    color: black;
    padding: 15px 15px;
    text-decoration: none;
    display: block;
}

.dropdown_betreung:hover .betreungskosten_content {display: block;}
.dropdown_betreung:hover .dropbtnBetreung {background-color: #3e8e41;}
.betreungskosten_content a:hover {background-color: #ddd}

.dropdown_tag
{
    position: relative;
    display: inline-block;
    margin-left: 0.3%;
}

.dropbtnTag
{
    background-color: #4CAF50 ;
    color: white;
    padding: 29.2%;
    font-size: 100%;
    border: none;
    cursor: pointer;

}

.tag_content
{
    display: none;
    position: absolute;
    background-color: #78409a ;
    min-width: 100%;
    box-shadow: 10px 8px 16px 10px rgba(0,1,1,0.2);
    z-index: 1;
}

.tag_content a
{
    color: black;
    padding: 5% 5%;
    text-decoration: none;
    display: block;
}

.dropdown_tag:hover .tag_content {display: block;}
.dropdown_tag:hover .dropbtnTag {background-color: #3e8e41;}
.tag_content a:hover {background-color: #ddd}

.dropdown_kontakt
{
    position: relative;
    display: inline-block;
    margin-left: 0.3%;

}

.dropbtnKontakt
{
    background-color: #4CAF50 ;
    color: white;
    padding: 34.09%;
    font-size: 100%;
    border: none;
    cursor: pointer;

}

.kontakt-content
{
    display: none;
    position: absolute;
    background-color: #12d3df;
    min-width: 100%;
    box-shadow: 10px 8px 16px 10px rgba(0,1,1,0.2);
    z-index: 1;
}

.kontakt-content a
{
    color: black;
    padding: 15px 15px;
    text-decoration: none;
    display: block;
}

.dropdown_kontakt a:hover {background-color: #ddd}
.dropdown_kontakt:hover .kontakt-content {display: block;}
.dropdown_kontakt:hover .dropbtnKontakt {background-color: #3e8e41;}

.banner
{
    height: 270px;
    margin-left: 15%;
    margin-right: 10%;
    width: 68%;
    background-color: white;
}

.mySlides {display:none;}

.info h1, h5, h3
{
    font-family: 'Tangerine';
    font-size: 78px;
    text-shadow: 10px 10px 10px #aaa
}

.info
{
    background-color:  #a6debb;
    margin-top: -4%;
    margin-left: 15%;
    margin-right: 10%;
    width: 68%;
    font-family: 'Helvetica', serif;
    font-size: 40px;
    text-shadow: 22px 22px 22px #aaa;

}

.info p
{
    padding-left: 10px;
    font-family: 'Helvetica', serif;
    font-size: 25px;
    text-shadow: 22px 22px 22px #aaa;

}

table
{
    font-family: arial, sans-serif;
    border-collapse: collapse;
    width: 100%;
}

td, th
{
    border: 1px solid  #9a1838 ;
    text-align: left;
    padding: 8px;
}

tr:nth-child(even)
{
    background-color: #dddddd;
}

#map
{
    margin-left: 9%;
    width: 80%;
    height: 400px;
    background-color: grey;
}

Please, can you help me with this? And I also have a display different depending on the browser ( Firefox vs chrome).

A: Based on your question it seems you want to build a mobile navigation menu that opens when clicking the symbol "=".
You need to do the following:
- HTML: Add a list within an unordered list, to hold the anchor links. This is the navigation text you will see when it is expanded. Attach an onclick functionality that will be used in below javascript.
- CSS: Style your navigation menu.
- Javascript: Create a function that reacts on the HTML onclick. This function will expand your navigation menu. Your function should be able to toggle the menu, meaning that same button should be able to open/close the menu.

...if your need further assistance please create a code snippet.

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The Port Charlotte Invitational was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour, played only in 1969. It was played at the Port Charlotte Golf & Country Club in Port Charlotte, Florida. Kathy Whitworth won the event by one stroke over Sandra Haynie and Sandra Post.

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Regulating the new world
Regulation of new technology is always a question of chickens and of eggs and the legal profession is no exception to the rule. Regulatory bodies are adapted to the particularities of the world as we know it, but technology creates shifts that in turn create the need for new regulation.
We talk to Professor Chris Reed from Queen Mary, University of London and Kristjana Çaka about what regulation in this area could look like.
How and where to strike balance in managing these shifts is the complex part of the question. Regulations are put in place in response to a need for protection of practitioners and their clients; while technological innovation might undo those safeguards, it might equally alleviate workloads and create efficiencies to the good of all.
Clear thought on the matter first of all requires an understanding of what is meant by 'technology'; the word could equally apply to data storage—and other forms of technology that now seem comparatively traditional and familiar—as to automating time-intensive processes such as due-diligence. This latter application of technology, which takes us into areas of artificial intelligence, is consistently accompanied by concern that we could soon enter a world of unknowns, where deskilled humans and emboldened robotics create new problems that we are no longer able to manage or to control.
It is understood across business that too much regulation can be as problematic as too little, but what if that regulation is key to controlling a sea-change that could wipe away a profession as it has been known?
The obsolete lawyer
However futuristic artificial intelligence and automation by technology can seem, these issues have not sprung from nowhere. Since the turn of the millennium, Chris Reed has been writing about the impact of the internet on authentication processes and information ownership. His starting appraisal is that current regulatory and legal standards originate from a level of competence that is expected of humans. Technology raises two challenges: the first is that if human judgment and decision-making is replaced by technology decisions, is that adequate to meet regulatory and legal obligations about competence, care and skill? Perhaps of more serious implication for human lawyers, is Reed's second question of how the profession might expect regulation to respond to new forms of artificial intelligence.
'If technology is expected to perform better than humans—for example in due diligence or discovery searches—does this raise the required professional standard above that of a reasonably competent lawyer?'
Changing with the times
Law does not always adopt new technology enthusiastically though, nor necessarily should it seek to. Use of video evidence in criminal court, where it would often seem to simplify legal proceedings, is nonetheless subject to strict controls and is often inadmissible due to concerns of authenticity, origin or indeed where the data has been stored pre-trial. If we assume that cloud-based evidential data should be treated no differently to video data of unknown provenance, perhaps the proposition seems less alien.
Just as video footage might seem to offer incontrovertible evidence only to be judged below the evidentiary value required of a trial, so too is the technology used to store and sift data open to scrutiny. Where data is kept in cloud-based services, the decision of where and how it is stored might be driven by factors as varied as a country's online privacy laws, or even the positive environmental impact of storage in a cold climate where servers benefit from natural cooling.
Reed explains:
'The major problem with using data as evidence is in producing an audit trail which demonstrates its integrity from the moment it was collected until the moment it is produced to the court. This is particularly problematic with distributed processing storage, such as use of the cloud'.
'Data changes storage location regularly, under the control of various subprocessors, and none of these systems were designed with a view to producing reliable evidence. Failure to produce an audit trail does not render data inadmissible, but it does open its integrity up to challenge.'
The major problem with using data as evidence is in producing an audit trail which demonstrates its
integrity from the moment it was collected until the moment it is produced to the court.
Early arrivals
According to Kristjana Çaka it may not be long before we start to see how technology is already playing a more direct role in the delivery of law to society.
'There is evidence of courts around the world allowing an increasing reliance on technology. Perhaps the best example is Canada where the Ministry of Justice developed the Civil Resolution Tribunal, which is the first online small claims court to be operational in the world. The Ministry of Justice in England & Wales is said to be doing the same and there are certainly lawyers and advocates, and judges, who are encouraging the use oftechnology and AI in the legal world.'
If the standard experience of technological adaptation is anything to go by, we can expect transitional periods in which technology presents efficiency savings but imperfect services. The problem, however, is that those imperfect services often externalise their costs onto humans, much as an overseas call centre with few telephone operators loads irritable but sustainable frustrations onto customers. The high stakes at play in law make it a dangerous testing ground—algorithmic sentencing in the US has already been found to compound racial biases when software is used to predict future criminality.
If the standard experience of technological adaptation is anything to go by, we can expect transitional periods in which technology presents efficiency savings but imperfect services.
Human oversight
Given the borderless movement of data, it is unsurprising that supranational bodies such as the European Union will be the early candidates for oversight of technology in the legal industry, just as the EU has been ahead of national governments in responding to the dominance amassed by technology corporations like Google and Facebook. The General Data Protection Regulation, due to come into force in 2018, will certainly have ramifications for the handling of data.
While policy on the subject is far from advanced, there is talk that EU lawmakers will come to demand a standard of 'explainability' from AI platforms, so that decisions and methodology can be properly scrutinised, and so that technological errors—where they occur—can still be unpicked by human heads. This is in-keeping with existing software development theory, where programmers often define their work as a task of presenting both problems and proofs. It is often easier to address the problem, and even its solution, than the proof by which that solution was reached—correct outcomes can be found by fluke and even in error. AI and machine-learning, and the 'convolutional neural networks' from which they have built a field of so-called 'deep learning', will need to remain readable in human terms.
The concepts may seem daunting, but the principle for regulation is no more revelatory than the idea that a bookkeeper will show their workings out, not only the answers. Çaka notes that precedents are already being set in other fields dealing with automation:
'The notion of "explainability" is not surprising when you consider the existing use of AI in medicine. AI systems are already giving treatment suggestions and it seems obviously critical that they must provide evidence for the treatment.'
While it is important that these matters are considered, as with so many facets of AI and automation, the scope for questions is at present vastly greater than answers currently available. It is probably too early to make any definitive proclamations.
'There has yet to be any major movement in government or amongst other bodies towards more regulation of AI,' Çaka concludes. 'The main reason for this is probably because we are yet to understand the real force and impact of AI and the possibilities that might come with it.'


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Police warn public not to threaten children after vulnerable man attacked by teens on Clevedon bus
A video of the incident was circulating on social media and police were concerned about threats being made
Alex Ballinger
Police have warned social media users not to threaten children after a video emerged of a vulnerable man being mocked and attacked on board a Clevedon bus.
The video posted on Facebook showed two boys taunting and insulting the 45-year-old victim at around 12.30pm on Wednesday, April 25.
While travelling on the X5 First Bus from Weston-super-Mare to travel back to Clevedon the vulnerable man, who has special needs, was assaulted by two attackers.
Vulnerable man mocked and attacked by boys on bus to Clevedon, and it was filmed
Avon and Somerset Police released an appeal for information on Wednesday (April 25) after the video of the attack went viral.
Officers say they have now identified the people involved in the incident, but warned social media users not to threaten children.
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A statement from the force, released in the early hours of Thursday morning (April 26), said: "We have now seen further video evidence which gives a fuller picture of what has happened.
"Video footage of the incident has now been removed from social media and should not be shared again.
"We're concerned that messages have been posted on social media making threats towards a child under the age of 18 and wish to stress that such messages could amount to the offence of malicious communications."
Police said the man was unhurt in the attack but said the video circulating on social media was causing him and his family distress.
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Anyone who can help the investigation is urged to to get in touch online , or by calling 101 quoting reference 5218089253."
Alternatively ring the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. They never ask your name or trace your call.


The decision to pursue and obtain ISO 14001 Registration is an important step in any organizations maturity. It speaks to the commitment of the organization, its management, and its employees to embrace the world's most important and widely held environmental management system, and therefore realize all the challenges and benefits that it offers. So it follows that garnering the knowledge needed to be successful should be gained through an effective training program offered by an experienced ISO 14001 Training firm. Quality Resource Center offers a full suite of ISO 14001 Training modules that are easily customizable to meet your organizations unique needs.
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Definition of Environmental Aspects in ISO 14001:2004 – Any element of an organization's activities or products or services that can interact with the environment.
Definition of Environmental Impacts in ISO 14001:2004 – Any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an organization's environmental aspects.
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Swiss Post International and La Poste finalize merger
In September 2012, Swiss Post International UK and La Poste UK—two European postal businesses— published a press release announcing their decision to merge and form a new company called Asendia UK. Now, a little more than a year later, SHD Magazine reports that the final stage of this transition has been completed, giving Asendia UK a fresh start to the new year.
According to its website, Asendia UK is Europe's second largest international postal operator. With four different sites in the United Kingdom and 350 employees, it strives to provide effective mail solutions in the United Kingdom and across the globe.
"We have combined our expertise into a cohesive and streamlined business model, enabling our customer to access a wider range of services," said Asencia UK's sales and marketing director, Lloyd Webber, in a press statement. "With an increased customer focus in 2014, customers will discover a new way of working with our end-to-end product range providing a complete solution for their marketing, goods, press and business mail fulfillment—straight to the letterbox, anywhere in the world."
As evidenced by this recent initiative by Swiss Post and La Poste, company mergers can provide a great way for complementary businesses to come together and better serve their clients and customers. These days, mergers are especially common in the technology space, particularly among startups or other relatively young companies.
If you're a business owner considering this course of action, a mergers and acquisitions firm can help you negotiate a great deal and ensure that your company will remain successful in the future.
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If you have ever worked in an office environment, you have probably fallen victim to the occasional pain in the neck, and I'm not talking about your co-worker next to you that sounds like they're angry at their keyboard when they type. For some, the pain and discomfort in their neck is real and can become chronic. Here at Human Solution, everyone has an ergonomic workstation setup, including one of the most essential components: monitor arms. One of our most popular and best selling arms is the Innovative EVO II LCD Monitor Arm.
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