The Book Cliffs Highway, a proposed $7 million dollar per mile of paved road connecting the Seep Ridge Road (at P.R. Spring Tar Sands Mine) to I-70, has come up again. We've fought it off before, once in '92 when Grand County restructured it's governance structure, and again in 2015 when the Grand County Council pulled out of the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition (SCIC) in order to avoid being outvoted over support for this project in our county. Now the SCIC is pursuing this project in Grand Country regardless of public opposition.
The SCIC is in the process of submitting a Right-of-Way Application to the BLM for construction through BLM administered lands. (No publicly available documents yet).
The SCIC will present to the Grand County Council on Tuesday the 16th at 2:00 pm at the County Council Chambers.
It is very important to stop this project, which I think we can do through loud and sustained public pressure. Industry in the Book Cliffs area includes fracking for oil and gas, tar sands mining and oil shale mining. For these forms of extreme energy production to expand, they need a transportation connection to a refineries and markets. Truck traffic in the Uintah Basin to the North is at it's maximum, refineries in Salt Lake City are at capacity, and plans for a heated pipeline out of the region have been thwarted. Meanwhile, plans for a publicly funded rail line out of the Uintah Basin are also in the works. It is our job, as folks who care about this area, to get involved to stop this Tar Sands Highway from ever being completed.
Book Cliffs Highway Fact Sheet  w/ talking points, history of opposition, and facts highlighted from the 1992 EIS done on the project.
Most likely: $6.6 million per mile!
Minimum: $4.6 million per mile!
Maximum: $9.95 million per mile!
UDOT Final Feasibility Study on the road can be seen here.
1992 Draft EIS on the Ouray to Interstate 70 project can be found here.
The SCIC is the state entity pushing the Book Cliffs Highway (Eastern Regional Connection) and the Uinta Rail Line forward. It is a coalition of eastern Utah counties including: Carbon, Daggett, Duchesne, Emery, San Juan, Sevier, and Uintah.
The SCIC and their projects are financed almost entirely through Community Impact Board (CIB) Grants, which would otherwise be available to rural communities to help alleviate the impacts of oil and gas production. This demonstrates a shift in how CIB money is being used in the State of Utah. Rather than being available to support rural communities with fire stations, road work, water projects, and healthcare facilities, this public money is now being granted in much larger sums to build infrastructure that benefits private corporations and promotes the development of oil, gas, tar sands, and oil shale in the state. For example, in December 2018, the SCIC agreed to grant $27.9 million to the SCIC Uinta Rail Line in three phases. The previous maximum grant/loan combination to rural entities for public services was capped at $5 million and rarely totaled that.
The executive director of the SCIC is Mike McKee, you may remember him as a Uintah County Commissioner. He now makes an annual salary of $160,000 that comes directly from CIB funds.
Oil shale reserves in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming are estimated to contain 800 billion barrels of oil.
Oil shale is among the dirtiest feedstock for oil on the planet in terms of carbon dioxide emissions.
Enefit holds a research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) lease in the Uintah Basin of Utah adjacent to the Colorado border. If they prove commercial viability, the stage is set to expand operations to encompass thousands of acres for mountaintop removal style strip mining and onsite processing.
The immense amounts of water needed for processing oil shale would come from the already drought stressed and overused Colorado River Basin.
We can't let this industry take hold in Utah.
Enefit's "South Project", as proposed, would involve the strip mining of over 9,000 acres of land and the construction and operation of a 50,000 barrel per day oil shale retort facility. Enefit intends to strip-mine about 28 million tons of rock a year over thousands of acres of high-desert habitat. It will also construct a major production facility to bake the rock at high temperatures. The half-square-mile processing plant, about 45 miles south of Dinosaur National Monument, will turn pre-petroleum stones into refinery-ready oil. This project requires, among other things, a right-of-way (ROW) across BLM land for utilities, including a water pipeline that will pipe over 10,000 acre-feet per year out of the Green River.
2018: Enefit requests a right-of-way (ROW) from the BLM for utilities to service the "South Project"—19 miles of water supply pipeline, 8 miles of natural gas supply pipeline, 10 miles of oil product line, 29 miles of power lines, and 5 miles of upgrading to Dragon Road.
2018: The BLM issued a decision to permit the right of way. This right of way through public land is in effect a subsidy to the oil shale industry, decreasing expenses tremendously and making the likelihood of demonstrating commercial viability greater.
February 2019: Conservation groups issued a notice of intent to sue the Trump administration for approving rights-of-way for pipelines and power lines that pave the way for the nation's first commercial oil shale development. See the press release here.
Groups Plan to Sue Feds Over Utah Oil-Shale Project– Mark Richardson, Public News Service – UT, Feb 28 2019.
Decision on shale project right of way may be made in early July– Dennis Webb, The Daily Sentinel, May 22 2018.
For more on the project and how to comment, visit go.usa.gov/csa9j.
It appears as if the bankruptcy is over as of April 2018. The court appointed receiver asked the court to authorize the sale of the Purchased Assets (US Oil Sands) conveying entitlement to USO Utah LLC. all of US Oil Sands' right, title, and interest in the purchased assets. Basically the original company, US Oil Sands, Inc., has been handed over to a new company USO Utah LLC. It appears as if ACMO, the major share holder in the orginial US Oil Sands is the only member of USO Utah. under the name ACMO USO LLC..
The new company has applied to transfer the Notice of Intent to Commence Large Scale Mining Operations with the Division of Oil Gas and Mining in Utah.
Details of the purchase can be found here in the Second Report of the Receiver.
The sales process and agreement can be found here.
Who is the on the Board of Directors for USO Utah LLC. (or ACMO USO LLC.)?
Intertrust Corporate Services serves as their registered agent in Delaware and Paracorp Incorporated serves as their registered agent in Utah.
Will they continue to invest money to try to make the process work?
Open pit mine left unreclaimed for a year. The tar pit collects standing water, which in the drought is some of the only surface water available to animals. June 2018.
US Oil Sands files for bankruptcy. It's assets have gone into receivership in order to pay off outstanding debts. It is unclear what that means for the future of mining on the PR Spring Site. It is possible that the equipment will be pieced out and sold and then the mine reclaimed, or another company could by it and continue mining. We will try to keep you updated.
Mining of ore had been happening on what folks were calling the Children's Legacy Camp. The land was stripped, overburden moved, and ore being scraped up.
There is a constant sound of machinery coming from the plant, perhaps they are starting to process the ore. The sound could be described as a constant whirring, "woosh wooosh woosh…." Day and night.
At night there are well over 50 giant super bright lights in the processing facility. They are on all major machinery and ringing the perimeter. These lights can be seen from the bottom of the valley down at PR Spring.
Try as they might, tar sands and oil shale will never be profitable without using massive amounts of public money to prop up their business models. With low oil prices and a very risky political climate, these upstart companies are having an impossible time securing investors to move forward with their projects.
We are winning, slowly, determinedly, and with lots of fun, by creating a risky business atmosphere for these foolish ventures. Lawsuits slow the process, direct action slows the progress, oil prices fluctuate, and now–with the recent announcement by US Oil Sands that they are drastically slowing down construction of the PR Springs tar sands mine–we have some room to breathe.
But, while the companies lay off workers and bide their time, leaving vast areas in the process of being strip mined, they are also working in our County Governments, in UDOT, with SITLA, and with the CIB to take millions of dollars of public money and spend it on infrastructure that these failing startup companies need. Right now, we need to challenge all of these institutions. We need our money to go towards locally driven, community controlled alternative energy projects, public transportation, and food security, not wasted on a dying, speculative industry that would change our climate beyond imagination.
Bookcliffs Highway – a proposed $3 million/ mile highway connecting the P.R. Spring Tar Sands Mine and Red Leaf Resources to I-70. They currently have no way to get product to market, thus the projects are not viable. The Six County Infrastructure Coalition is trying to secure public money for this project from the State. The Grand County Transportation Special Service District will host a presentation about this on February 11th at 6 p.m. at the Grand Center, 182 North 500 West.
Six County Infrastructure Coalition – "The Coalition's mission is to plan infrastructure corridors, procure funding, permit, design, secure rights-of-way and own such facilities. Operation and maintenance of these assets will likely be outsourced to third parties," taken from the SCIC website. This is an industry-sponsored spin on local government. They function to funnel public money to benefit a few private corporation in the oil, gas, tar sands, fracking, potash, coal, and oil shale industries.
MCW is working to obtain "full production" permits from the state to move into continuous production mode and is in the process of implementing several Utah Government recommendations with regards to trucking activities on and off its lease site at Asphalt Ridge.
Enefit – Must soon give up its federal research lease with the state or prove it is making headway towards commercial production. Enefit is going through a BLM process to build a utility corridor to the site which will deliver water, power and natural gas to the Enefit operation and move crude out through a 16-inch pipe.
Red Leaf Resources – Closed up shop, but says they'll be in full scale production by 2017 with production by 2018.
The Book Cliffs Highway, a proposed $3 million dollar per mile of paved road connecting the P.R. Spring Tar Sands Mine to I-70, has come up again. We've fought it off before, once in '92 when Grand County restructured it's governance structure, and again last year when the Grand County Council pulled out of the Six County Infrastructure Coalition in order to avoid being outvoted over support for this project in our county. It is very important to stop this project at all costs. Industry in that area includes fracking for oil and gas, tar sands mining and oil shale mining. For these forms of extreme energy production to continue, they need a transport connection to a refinery. Truck traffic in the Uintah Basin to the North is at it's maximum, and their plans for a rail system or a heated pipeline to the region have been thwarted. It is our job, as folks who care about this area, to get involved to stop this Highway from ever being completed.
The feasibility study on the road can be seen here.
February 11th at 6 p.m. at the Grand Center, 182 North 500 West.


These are all important inspection topics and standards in which high performing, highly qualified inspectors need to be knowledgeable and skilled. This is your chance to show that you are knowledgeable in these subjects.
The first one to be offered will be the Corrosion and Materials endorsement and will be offered by examination in March, 2006 (just a few months away). Watch the API Inspector Certification Program (ICP) website, www.api.org, for details on getting signed up. Cut off date for registration for the first exam will be January 31. The cost of sitting for the exam is anticipated to be $225 USD for API members and $275 USD for non-members, and the certificate will be good for three years.
Each of these documents have been issued fairly recently and contain a lot of important information for inspectors. However, the current, basic inspector certification exams for API 510/570/653 already cover a lot of important material, which takes considerable time and effort to study for the basic ICP exams. Adding all of the material in each of these new documents to the current ICP exams would have resulted in a significant training and study overload and would have resulted in longer basic exams. So the API ICP T/G decided that a good alternative would be to offer the endorsements in these documents based on exams that will each cover only one recommended practice (RP). And finally, one last reason to offer this new ICEP, is that the inspection community in the hydrocarbon processing industry voted 3 to 1 in favor of offering the program in the web survey that was conducted by the API in 2004.
These three exams will be offered on the same days as the existing ICP exams in March and September of each year, beginning next year, and may be expanded to the June and December exam offerings, if demand warrants. The exams will entail more advanced inspector information and hence will be a bit greater degree of difficultly than the basic exams. That means that those that sit for these exams will have to spend significant time studying each of the documents in order to pass the exams. All the exams are intended to be closed book with approximately 50- 70 questions, and range from 2 to 4 hours duration.
For the first exam for the Corrosion and Materials Endorsement (on API RP 571), we already have over 200 validated questions formulated and included in the question data bank. The initial API RP 571 exam will have 70 of those questions on it. The exam will cover only material in API RP 571, which will make studying much more focused than the basic exams which all cover multiple standards. The API RP 571 exam will cover only corrosion and materials topics (sections 4 and 5.1 of API RP 571), and not the process flow descriptions included in section 5.2 of API RP 571. Every effort has been made to formulate good, straight-forward questions that are of "Inspectioneering®" value and avoid the more analytical or engineering oriented questions.
Who qualifies to take the new ICEP exams?
Anyone who already has an API certification as an Authorized Pressure Vessel Inspector (API 510) or Authorized Piping Inspector (API 570), or Authorized Storage Tank Inspector (API 653) is qualified to apply for the ICEP and sit for the examination. Once you sit for the exam and pass it, which will require a minimum passing score of 70% correct answers, you will receive the API ICEP endorsement for that particular program. No additional experience requirements will apply.
There is no intent to require recertification exams on any of the ICEP endorsements. New and updated material in the four documents covered by the ICEP will be covered in the basic recertification on-line quiz that is currently required every six years to renew basic ICP certificates. ICEP certificates will be good for three years and then will need to be renewed in a manner similar to the renewal of the basic ICP certificates after three years.
Why should you consider achieving an API Inspector Certification Endorsement?
API ICEP endorsements will show that you have gone above and beyond the minimum requirements for certification to achieve an extra endorsement that recognizes your increased knowledge of technical subject matter involved in inspection. After my last diploma/ degree, nearly 40 years ago, I have endeavored to never stop learning. I believe that approach to learning has significantly enhanced my capabilities, my career and most importantly, my job satisfaction. Perhaps it could do the same for you. Who will be the first among you to achieve all four new API ICEP endorsements?


Rebecca is a Partner and Head of Litigation in the United Arab Emirates. She also leads the Financial Services, Disputes and Investigations Group in the Middle East.
Her practice includes high value and complex litigation work in both the DIFC, UAE and English courts. She devises tailored strategies to maximize prospects of recovery, minimize costs and navigate challenges around service, jurisdiction and enforcement. She has an array of experience in making interim applications for freezing orders, attachment orders, travel bans and advising on criminal aspects to civil claims.
Rebecca's risk management expertise offers extra support to clients as she regularly provides proactive compliance services to help improve systems and controls, to avoid breaches and identify issues by raising risk awareness. Her services include conducting risk assessments, drafting policies, procedures and contractual documents, conducting due diligence, undertaking investigations, root cause analysis, delivering training and advising on remediation and 'lessons learned' measures when breaches are identified.
Before moving to Dubai, Rebecca spent six months in Barclays' Litigation & Investigations Team investigating allegations of non-compliance including matters relating to financial crime, stemming from whistleblowing reports or regulators' requests. She was responsible for liaising with stakeholders, ensuring compliance with the bank's regulatory and notification obligations and advising on any redress exercises to be undertaken.
Her areas of focus include mis-selling, AB&C, AML, conduct risk.
Rebecca has an established track record and is recognised by Chambers UK and Legal 500, with Legal 500 describing her as "exceptionally astute", "reassuringly commercial" and a "noted name".


Holiday perfectionism is an assault from the enemy. You know which enemy I'm talking about: Satan. He wants you to lay unrealistic and unhealthy expectations not only on others but also on yourself. He wants you to believe your house has to be perfectly clean and beautifully decorated, the Christmas meal has to be perfectly amazing, and the Christmas gifts have to be exactly just right, or something very, very bad will happen. Come on! What happened to extending grace to each other?


One of the most difficult things to clean in a house are the windows most especially if it's tall enough and can only be reached with tall ladders. If that is the case, you might be thinking of hiring professionals to do the job for you. It is a practical choice, but you have to make sure about the efficiency of the job. There is some stuff that you must do even before the cleaners arrive at your home.
No matter how clean the windows are, if you still have dirty screens, it's going to be useless. The clean windows can easily get all the dirt from the blinds that you have. Before the cleaners arrive, you can have it cleaned by yourself or ask them if they can have it included in their services with an additional charge.
If you hire people to clean the windows, they will surely have all the equipment they need to reach the high places. Take this opportunity, so you can also get the other things cleaned up in your homes like the chandeliers and the likes. Call them and ask about it if they can just add a little service fee for that.
The reason you are getting the services of a cleaner is to make sure about the efficiency of the job. You also think that since they are professionals, the things in your home will be safe. Here's the truth. No matter how credible and careful the people are, there are still some things that can happen accidentally. If you have any fragile items around the area that will be cleaned, make sure to move it out of the way and keep it secured.
Follow these pointers, so you can have your home cleaned in the best possible way. Aside from that, you can also make sure that all the things are safe from any accidents that may occur.


In apparent hate crimes, group allegedly committed assault, torched cars and tried to set fire to homes.
Nine youngsters have been arrested for allegedly carrying out nationalistically-motivated attacks on Arabs and their property in Upper Nazareth, police said Monday. The group, consisting of two 22-year-old men and seven teens between the ages of 15 and 18, is suspected of violently assaulting Arab residents of the city, as well as torching cars belonging to Arabs and trying to set fire to their homes. The nine were brought for a remand extension hearing Monday at the Nazareth Magistrate's Court. Police said most of the detainees were immigrants from the former Soviet Union, and that one was a member of an ethnic minority group. "The make-up of the group is quite diverse," Zohar Dvir, commander of the Israel Police Ha'amakim District, told Army Radio. "Upper Nazareth is a city with lots of different ethnic groups, and so the potential for trouble is high." Police stressed that the attacks were in no way connected with the IDF's Operation Cast Lead and that the suspects were not part of a new Jewish underground, but were apparently a group of thugs acting independently of any other organization. The suspects allegedly carried out the attacks between October and December of last year, and during that time, police conducted undercover operations and collected evidence. Police Northern District chief Cmdr. Shimon Koren said he viewed the case severely, regardless of the fact that the alleged attacks were apparently perpetrated out of nationalistic motives. "We won't allow attacks on people or property, without distinction between religion, race or gender," he said, vowing, "We will bring the suspects to justice." Upper Nazareth Mayor Shimon Gapso expressed hope that the alleged offenses would not harm Jewish-Arab relations in the city. "We strongly condemn all acts of violence of any sort, particularly hate crimes, against Jews and Arabs alike," said Gapso. "Upper Nazareth is an example of coexistence and we will make every effort to preserve this."


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Événements

 Mouvements libéraux en Saxe, au Brunswick (7-8 septembre), en Hesse, en Prusse rhénane, encouragés par la révolution de Juillet en France. Abdication des souverains et réformes libérales au Brunswick et en Hesse. Au Hanovre, les étudiants de Göttingen créent une milice qui impose au souverain une constitution. En Allemagne du Sud, les libéraux réunis à Hambach (Palatinat), plaident en faveur d'une République fédérale allemande et hissent le drapeau noir, rouge et or de la Burschenschaft, symbole de la nouvelle Allemagne.
 Frédéric-Auguste-Guillaume devient prince de Brunswick.

 3 septembre, France : Talleyrand est nommé ambassadeur à Londres.

 4 - 7 septembre, Belgique : des barricades apparaissent et l'insurrection reçoit le soutien de 400 Liégeois menés par Charles Rogier.

 5 septembre :
 Coup d'État en Colombie. Rafael Urdaneta prend le pouvoir.
 L'empereur d'Autriche François  reconnaît la monarchie de Juillet.

 12 septembre, France : loi qui soumet à la réélection les députés promus à des fonctions publiques.

 13 septembre, Royaume-Uni : inauguration du Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

 15 septembre, Royaume-Uni : ouverture au service commercial du Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

 17 septembre, France : ordonnance de désignation des membres du Conseil municipal.

 19 septembre, France : baptême d'Adèle Hugo. Sainte-Beuve est parrain.

 20 septembre, Belgique : la garde bourgeoise de Bruxelles, formée d'éléments modérés, est désarmée par les émeutiers. Le chef de la garde, Emmanuel d'Hooghvorst se range avec le peuple et organise les insurgés, cependant que de nombreuses villes et provinces belges se soulèvent.

 21 septembre, France : émeute place de Grève. Lors d'une cérémonie en mémoire des quatre sergents de La Rochelle, la rue demande l'abolition de la peine de mort.

 23 - 26 septembre, Belgique : échec sanglant de l'intervention militaire à Bruxelles. Face à l'intervention néerlandaise, les radicaux et les modérés se liguent et combattent aux côtés des insurgés auxquels se joignent des immigrés de divers pays dont des Français républicains et bonapartistes réfugiés en Belgique, ce sont les « Quatre Journées ».

 25 septembre, France : à la Chambre des députés, le Gouvernement est interpellé sur l'agitation entretenue par les clubs républicains, notamment la Société des Amis du peuple, tandis qu'une cohorte d'habitants du quartier Montmartre envahit la salle des réunions de cette société et en disperse de force les membres.

 26 septembre, Belgique : formation du gouvernement provisoire de la Belgique à Bruxelles. Après quatre jours de combats, les troupes hollandaises ont abandonné la presque totalité du territoire belge (Cette date du 26 septembre se trouve sur le mur de la salle des séances plénières du parlement national belge).

 27 septembre :
 Les insurgés belges ont repoussé les troupes néerlandaises jusqu'à l'ancienne frontière nord des Pays-Bas autrichiens.
 France : la Chambre des députés adopte à une forte majorité un projet de loi mettant en accusation des ministres de Charles X responsables des ordonnances du 26 juillet : Polignac, Peyronnet, Chantelauze et Guernon-Ranville.

 29 septembre : sécession des provinces belges.

 30 septembre, France : suppression des 8 000 demi-bourses de 150 francs qui avaient été accordées aux écoles secondaires catholiques.

Naissances
 4 septembre : Eudore Pirmez, homme politique et industriel belge († ).
 8 septembre : Frédéric Mistral, poète français († ).
 10 septembre : Chauncey Wright (mort en 1875), philosophe et mathématicien américain.
 15 septembre : Porfirio Díaz, président du Mexique jusqu'en 1911 († ).

Décès
 4 septembre : Louis-Marie Autissier, peintre français (° ).

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More than two months after the explosion, a "sea dragon" appears...
International Thursday 22nd October 2020 01:09 AM REPORT
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Lebanese tweeters circulated a video clip of an environmental phenomenon that was seen in the port of Beirut and is known as "the sea dragon" and comments about it varied.
One of the tweets that circulated the clip on her Twitter page said: "The whirlwind or the" sea dragon "that struck the port of Beirut today .. after a minus, as she put it.
Another tweet wrote on its page on the same website: "This port is what is missing but the sea dragon to complete with it," referring to the bombing of the port in early August.
Al-Banani journalist, Salman Al-Andari, wrote on his official Twitter page: "An air dragon in Beirut … and ironically, it came to the port and destroyed areas," he said.
The port of Beirut witnessed a huge explosion that killed hundreds and injured thousands in early August, which resulted in the downfall of Hassan Diab's government after widespread popular demands.
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New book illuminates Sierra Leonean war and the role of love
Author: Joan Fallon
When Catherine Bolten first considered studying the city of Makeni in Sierra Leone, many people — government officials, professors, the U.S. ambassador — warned her to stay away. It's a dangerous and immoral place, they told her, infamous because residents refused to fight the rebels who occupied Makeni for three years (1998-2002) during the decade-long civil war.
Undeterred, Bolten spent 18 months in Makeni talking to hundreds of people. Her new book, "I Did It to Save My Life: Love and Survival in Sierra Leone," just published by University of California Press, illuminates a very different kind of community — one in which residents struggled to survive and care for each other within a social order based on love, compassion, material exchange and nurturing.
"Writing this book was an act of balancing the narrative," says Bolten, assistant professor of anthropology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
"People in Makeni were making choices that the outside world called 'inhumane.' I wanted to show how they found a way to get through horrific circumstances by making alliances that allowed them to survive and feed their families and friends. Far from 'inhumane,' this kind of love is proof of humanity, and it is allowing Sierra Leoneans to heal and move on with their lives."
After introducing the history and culture of Makeni, the book then presents the narratives of seven ordinary people who explain their actions and moral choices during a devastating war. One chapter, for example, titled "I held a gun but I did not fire it," focuses on David, a schoolboy captured by rebels and forced into a life on the run. In another chapter, "The government brought us death, the rebels allowed us to live," we meet Kadiatu, a mother who befriends rebel leaders so she can trade looted goods and feed her dying children. Another chapter, "It was the Lord who wanted me to stay," follows Adama, a widow whose faith becomes an instrument of survival when she preaches to and feeds dying rebels.
What all these narratives have in common, Bolten says, is the Sierra Leonean practice of love. "In Sierra Leone, people use the word 'love' to describe long-term reciprocal relationships — putting yourself out there to invest in people's survival and hope that they do it for you." The stories, she says, also call into question the government's own narrative — that Makeni residents openly collaborated with the rebels. Residents argue instead that it was the government's disloyalty to its people, rather than rebel invasion and occupation, that destroyed the town and forced uneasy co-existence between civilians and militants.
"Ethnographically rich, these accounts come to life in beautiful prose," writes anthropologist and author Catherine Besteman. "These are inspiring and at times heartbreaking stories. … This will be a valuable contribution as well as a welcome counter to the more popular images of war zones as places of total immorality."
Originally published by Joan Fallon at kroc.nd.edu on Sept. 21, 2012.
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Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada has been on a quest to find the funniest person in the world. It's a search that has attracted comedians of all backgrounds, from all over the globe.
Masada's inspiration for the contest came after a night at the comedy club, with a show lineup featuring both orthodox Jewish and Arab comedians. That night he saw these two groups of people come together through laughter.
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A: The error is completely misleading. The real reason is you can't subscript an [NSDate: [Message]] dictionary with a key of type Date. Date is Swift, NSDate is Objective-C. Same with String / NSString, Data / NSData, Calendar / NSCalendar, etc.
Unless you have a really good reason to do otherwise, always use the Swift data types in Swift.
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let startDay = Calendar.current.startOfDay(for: date)

var messages = sections[startDay]

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Your child has a right to attend a safe, secure, and peaceful school environment and all reasonable steps are to be taken by the school district to protect its students (Ed. Code § 48200), but what about the route getting to and from school? How do you protect your child from a catastrophic injury or worse – wrongful death – on their school route? The number of fatalities to pedestrians and cyclists in San Francisco are decreasing each year since 2013, but it's still too high (even one is too many and we support Vision Zero for San Francisco). In 2017, 14 pedestrians, 4 motorcyclists, and 2 bicyclists were killed in vehicle collisions. Pedestrians have continued to be the largest group for wrongful deaths due to vehicle collisions in San Francisco since at least 2010. We want to help you with information about how to protect your child from a catastrophic injury when they are on their way to a safe place, to prevent you from needing a wrongful death attorney.
Pedestrians in California have the right-of-way in many circumstances and drivers should yield to them, but it is important for children to understand the difference between "should" and "will." The same is true for stopping at Stop signs or even stopping completely and looking both ways for pedestrians at a crosswalk. To protect your children on their route to school and keep them from the frightening statistics of wrongful deaths in San Francisco, take the time to walk with them often and help them understand these differences about drivers, especially when children may eventually be walking to school without a taller (more easily visible) adult. If crosswalk flags are available on their route, they may be used as an added visibility tool, but they do not compensate for understanding the need for children to wait to be seen by the driver before stepping out away from the curb. The majority of pedestrian wrongful deaths over the years in San Francisco were found to be in crosswalks by the SFMTA.
Anyone who has reviewed Vision Zero before might already know about the dangerous areas to walk and ride. The greater majority of catastrophic injuries and wrongful deaths occur on a very small percentage of San Francisco's streets: just 13% of the streets and intersections make up about 75% of the fatalities and major injuries. These are often considered to be the "High Injury Corridors" of San Francisco. There is an updated and interactive map available from City and County of San Francisco here. Take time to review this map and look to see if your child's route passes through an area known to be dangerous. If one or more wrongful deaths have occurred at an intersection your child plans to pass through daily, consider changing their planned path and discussing with them the need for the new route so that they do not divert from the new plan. If you are not currently looking at the map, 5th Street and Market Street has been at the top of the list for pedestrian and bicyclist collisions for several years.
Your school may provide crossing guards at specific intersections. The school district's liability is with the school's grounds, but the school may have additional resources to offer to you.
Walk San Francisco provides annual safe route events to help children learn about planning and executing safe routes to school. They also welcome your emails. Rahman Law PC principal and founder, Shaana Rahman, is on the Board of Walk San Francisco, so don't be surprised if you see her at one of Walk San Francisco's events! Learn more about Walk San Francisco's programs for planning a safe route to school here: http://walksf.org/take-action/safe-routes-to-school. Their next Walk & Roll to School Day will be Wednesday, October 10th, 2018.
If you are closer to our Paso Robles office, talk to Kidical Mass with Bike SLO County: http://bikeslocounty.org/programs/kidicalmass. Rahman Law PC sponsors Bike SLO County and some of the Kidical Mass events. There are no events currently scheduled.
No one ever wants to think about losing their child. In 2016, only 1 child was lost as a pedestrian fatality in San Francisco, but in California, the average is about 29% of children under 14 killed in a traffic collision are pedestrians which is actually higher than the overall average of 21% of total traffic collision deaths being pedestrians (CDPH Traffic Safety Reports: Pedestrian Injuries in California 2007-2013, June 2017). Keep talking to your children. If you or someone you know is injured as a pedestrian or bicyclist in a vehicle collision, call us. You are welcome to speak with one of our wrongful death attorneys or pedestrian and bicycle accident attorneys. Consultation are free.


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Q: How Can I Restart My Flutter App With Getx I am using the getx package in my application and there is something I am wondering about. Is it possible to reset all states of my app using getx?
So it's kind of like a restart.

A: Future<void> logoutUser() async {

SharedPreferences prefs = await SharedPreferences.getInstance();
prefs.clear(); //clearing my token data
await Get.deleteAll(force: true); //deleting all controllers
Phoenix.rebirth(Get.context!); // Restarting app
Get.reset(); // resetting getx

}
used flutter_phoenix library to restart the app.
Deleted all GetX controllers using Get.deleteAll(force: true);
Works like a charm for me.


It will have a few weeks or months to get one's body to produce normal amounts of insulin and glucose. Smoking interferes with our health and wellbeing, causes us and our belongings to smell like smoke, and is surely an expensive and time consuming habit. Today, numerous smokers use glass pipes for smoking tobacco and their impression of smoking improves By smoking a Vapor Cigarette, you're not only keeping your air cleaners, you might be also avoiding others breathing in your second-hand smoke. Despite the fact the percentage fell just a little with the 6 month mark, 97. It is very an easy task to get in to the smoking habit, but quitting smoking habit just isn't an easier task. Statistics reveal that huge numbers of folks in many countries are dying of cancer of the lung every year. Actually for non-smokers, the actual sweet fragrance of your respective fine tobacco can be quite envigorating by owning an air of secrecy. And lots of those individuals are already smoking since they were teens. You can produce 1000s of coasters to get a small price Even before he detailed his findings on JWH-018 for your chapter of your book, Huffman learned that men and women in China and Korea individuals were selling the compound being a plant growth stimulant. If you do not know individuals who have personal experience, try local non-smoking groups or forums. One quite normal problem the result of a mother smoking during pregnancy is low birth weight of their newborn baby Today there are four different types of tobacco grown in Virginia: flue-cured, dark fire-cured, light air-cured (Burley) and dark air-cured (sun-cured). Drinking a good amount of water for keeping the skin hydrated is quite important The difference is that these are not actually inhaling smoke, that is in fact only a byproduct of combustion While this will be the case, the power with which the patient ceases the practice differs from person to a different Take the positive out of those attempts and then plan accordingly. Secondhand smoke or passive smoking could also effects and reduces the pregnancy rates in ladies undergoing high-tech infertility procedures. Some other side effects include headache and decrease of taste. The background of smoking may be dated to around 5000 BC, and has been documented in lots of different traditions throughout the world. It addresses the situation of nicotine addiction, though not in the direct fashion. Usually smoking causes coughing and makes all the lungs seem like charcoal instead of the company's usual pink color. Personality changes- In power to "be" anywhere for the long period of energy.
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Tomato ramen topped with some sort of creamy mustard and seafood salad. Billed as "adult taste", this is a collab with the upcoming fifth installment in the Yakuza series of adventure games for your Playstation.
It was weird, but Taiyo Tomato is known for weird collaborations.
Taiyo Tomato is a chain around Tokyo. I wrote about them before.


Becoming a member of PVE Neighborhood watch is easy!
Membership is just $10 per year! Membership includes many benefits and keeps you connected as a key part of our neighborhood safety strategy. You can even give a gift membership to someone else–it's a great way to say you care. Join us in making our community and neighborhoods safer!!
Be Aware, Be Prepared, Be Safe!
BLOCK CAPTAIN: The title of Block Captain often makes people feel they are going to have a lot of responsibilities that they may not have enough time for, but serving as a Block Captain does not take a lot of time.
Block Captains serve a vital role as liaison between your friends and neighbors and the NW program as well as the Police Department, particularly in the event of a crime in your area or following a major disaster. You will receive weekly crime reports that inform you about what crimes occurred in PVE. You will also serve as the contact person for the Police Department when a crime has occurred on or around your block. This makes it easier for the Police Department and Neighborhood Watch to have someone who can help get pertinent information to their neighbors in a timely matter.
We also suggest that Block Captains host occasional Block Meetings so neighbors get familiar with each other and discuss some of their concerns and ideas that could benefit their neighborhood. I can also be a resource to help put a Block Meeting together and getting information out to your Neighbors when you are away or don't have the time. So please consider serving as one of our valuable Block Captains and for keeping your neighbors, and our residents informed about Crime Prevention and Disaster Preparedness.
AREA COORDINATOR: The Area Coordinator will be responsible for supporting the Neighborhood Watch Program in a specific area.
An area is a specific territory of the city generally surrounded by boundaries of specific streets that divide the city proportionately and have a school to anchor the Area. Within Palos Verdes Estates we have six Areas: Malaga Cove (MAL), Valmonte (VAL), Montemalaga (MON), Lunada Bay East (PVI), Lunada Bay West (PVH) and Lunada Bay South (LBE). The three letter codes refer more specifically to the anchor school within that Area and not necessarily the territory or neighborhood.
The Area Coordinator works very closely with the Community Relations Officer (CRO) and the Disaster District Program (DDP) Lead for their same area. The DDP refers to the same territory as a District rather that Area.
The Area Coordinator initiates block watches, provides training for Block Captains and at block meetings, oversees volunteer programs in their area, ensures that information received from the Community Relations Officer is distributed to the Block Captains, updates Block Captains on crime hot spots in their area, and acts as a liaison to the Community Relations Officer and the Neighborhood Watch Board of Directors.The Area Coordinators also make up the Board along with the executive directors.
Working very closely with their Block Captains in their area, Area Coordinators share information on new programs, special needs of their assigned Area, and exchange information and brainstorm about ways for improving or overcoming any challenges.
HOW DO I BECOME A BLOCK CAPTAIN OR AREA COORDINATOR?
Just complete the Block Captain or Area Coordinator application (found below) and a Neighborhood Watch Membership form if you are not already a member and return it to Community Relations Officer Herrera at mherrera@pvestates.org or at the Station located at 340 Palos Verdes Dr. W.
Your interest to ensure the safety of your community is greatly appreciated.


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'I don't like the sound of it one bit': Sask. riders react to end of Greyhound in province
Alexa Lawlor
Doug Wakelin waits for a Greyhound bus at the Marquis Drive Husky truck stop in Saskatoon, Sask., on Tuesday, July 10, 2018. Allthough Wakelin doesn't travel by bus that often, he doesn't think Greyhound Canada's decision Monday, to shut down routes in the prairie provinces and all but one in British Columbia, is fair to the aging population.	Alexa Lawlor / SASwp
As Kate Locsin waited to board the Greyhound bus and head home to Lloydminster for summer break, she wondered how she'll be able to make the trip in the future after Greyhound Canada announced all routes in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba will be shut down.
"I actually got upset last night because I was like, 'Oh no, I don't have anybody,' " she said on Tuesday.
"My friend in fourth year is going back to Lloyd, and now I don't have anybody to ride with. I need to ride the bus. Not having the bus anymore, I don't know how to get home."
Locsin, a student in the physiology and pharmacology program at the University of Saskatchewan, said she takes the bus home a minimum of four times per semester. But now, without the bus, she'll have to get a driver's licence or find another mode of transportation.
"As a student here, losing Greyhound is not convenient for us, especially for people who don't drive. Instead of trying to save up money to get a car and driving back and forth — I think bus is better," she said. "I hope they do something about it."
Greyhound Canada cited as factors in the decision to end the routes (which also include all but one in British Columbia) a 41-per-cent decrease in ridership since 2010, competition from subsidized national and regional carriers, the growth of low-cost airlines, regulatory constraints and increased car ownership. Two routes in and out of Saskatchewan, as well as other routes running through the province, will be among those affected. According to Greyhound, 415 people are expected to lose their jobs. The changes are expected to be implemented by the end of the October.
The announcement came 14 months after the Saskatchewan government shut down the money-losing Saskatchewan Transportation Co. The provincial government announced plans to shut down STC in its 2017-18 budget, which was tabled in March 2017.
The Saskatchewan government has resisted calls to reverse its decision to shutter 71-year-old STC, and confirmed Monday it will not be revisited following Greyhound's announcement.
Doug Wakelin is nearing 80 years old. Without Greyhound buses, he's not sure about other transportation opportunities available to him. With the province's population growing and more people living longer, he doesn't think shutting down bus routes is very fair to aging residents.
"I had a stroke, and I lost my licence to a point," he said.
"I live in Wynyard, and can drive a 20-mile radius around there. That's all. Otherwise, I have to take the bus. So I don't like the sound of losing Greyhound one bit."
Although Wakelin doesn't travel by bus that frequently, he enjoys going to visit his daughter in Drayton Valley, near Edmonton. He said he will no longer be able to do when the routes shut down at the end of October.
Said Wakelin: "It's nice to have it when you need it."
— With files from Alex MacPherson, Saskatoon StarPhoenix
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Hayat Al-Qulub, Vol. 1, Stories of the Prophets
Muhammad Baqir Majlisi
Translator's Preface
Aim of sending the Prophets; their miracles
Infallibility of the Prophets and Imams
Merits and Virtues of Prophets and their Successors
Merits of Adam and Hawwa' (Eve), Reasons behind naming them so, the beginning of creation
The Almighty informs the Angels of Adam's Creation and orders them to prostrate before him
Sajdah for Adam as described in the Holy Qur'an
An account of the children of Adam and continuation of his lineage
Martyrdom of Habil
Revelations on Adam
Death of Adam; His age and his bequest to Shith
An Account of Idris
An Account of Nuh
Birth of Nuh - Death and life-span of Nuh
Proclamation of Nuh
Circumstances of Hud and his people
Shadeed, Shaddad and the city of Iram
Salih, his she-camel and his people
An Account of Ibrahim and his righteous sons
Merits of Ibrahim and his perfect Morals
An Account of Lut
An Account of Dhu'l-Qarnayn
An account of Ya'qub and Yusuf
An account of Ayyub
Prophet Shu'ayb
An Account of Musa and Harun
Musa and Harun sent as Prophets to the Pharaoh and his people
Merits of Aasiya the wife of the Pharaoh and the Believer of the people of the Pharaoh
An account of the Israelites after Exodus
Revelation of Torah, disobedience of The Israelites etc.
An Account of Qarun
The Israelites decide to slaughter the cow
Musa meets al-Khidhr; An Account of al-Khidhr
Wisdom and teachings revealed by the Almighty to Musa
Death of Musa and Harun
An account of Hizqil
Prophet Isma'il
A Brief Sketch of Ilyas and Yusha'
An account of Dhulkifl
An account of Luqman and his words of wisdom
An account of Ishmae'il, Talut and Jalut
An account of Dawud
Merits, perfections and miracles of Dawud
An Account of the Tark al-Awla of Dawud
Revelations upon Dawud
A Brief Sketch of The Violators of the Sabbath
An account of Sulayman
Merits, Perfections and Miracles of Sulayman
Account of Sulayman and Bilquis
Teachings, laws and revelations revealed to Sulayman
An account of the People of Saba And People of Tharthaar
An account of the people of Ras
An Account of Shaiya and Haiqooq
An account of Zakariyya and Yahya
An account of Maryam, the mother of 'Isa
An account of 'Isa ibn Maryam
Birth of 'Isa
Merits and perfections of 'Isa
'Isa propagates his Prophethood, dispatches messengers to the adjoining areas
Descent of Maidah
Revelations and teachings revealed to 'Isa
The ascension of 'Isa to heaven, his descent to the Earth towards the end of time, an account of Shammon bin Hamoon al-Safa
An account of Irmiya (Jeremiah), Daniel and Uzair
An account of Yunus ibn Matta and his respected father
An account of the People of the Cave and Inscription
An Account Of The Makers Of The Pit
An account of Jirjis
An account of Khalid bin Sinan
Accounts of Some Unnamed Messengers
Stories of the sages and pious personalities of The Israelites
Accounts of Rulers and Kings
An Account of Harut and Marut
Almighty Allah says in the holy Qur'an:
'Killed (or cursed) be the makers of the pit, of the fire (kept burning) with fuel, when they sat by it, and were witnesses of what they did with the believers (that is, they give witness before their King or on the Day of Judgment or their own limbs and organs will testify against them), and they did not take vengeance on them for aught except that they believed in Allah, the Mighty, the Praised.' (85:4-8)
'Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated that the man who had incited the people of Abyssinia to fight against the people of Oman was Zoonawaas, the last of the kings of himyar. He had adopted the religion of Jews and the himyar tribe had also become Jews. He had also adopted the name Yusuf for himself. They continued to follow that religion for quite some time. Then the people informed them that there was a group of people in Najran who followed the religion of Jesus. Of course they had remained steadfast in the religion of 'Isa and were acting according to the commandments of Injeel (Bible). Their leader was 'Abdullah bin Yamin. The flatterers of Zoonawaas incited him to attack Najran and to destroy them or to force them to revert to Judaism. So Zoonawaas entered Najran, gathered the people and forced them to enter the Jewish faith. They refused to do so. He applied much force but still the people did not agree. Finally, zoonawaas got pits dug in the ground, filled them with wood and put it on fire. He threw many people in that fire, killed many with swords and tortured some to painful death. Thousands were killed in this way. One of the oppressed, Doos, mounted a horse and fled. The king's men followed him but could not catch him. Then Zoonawaas returned to Sana'a with his army. The above verses of the Holy Qur'an refer to that event.
It is recorded from authentic chains from Imam Muhammad al-Baqir that once Amir al-Mu'minin called a Christian priest from Najran and inquired about the story of the makers of the pit from him. He narrated it in his own way. 'Ali said, No, it is not like that. Listen, I tell you what had happened. Allah had appointed a Prophet for the people of Abyssinia from among themselves. But the people rejected him and fought with him. He killed many companions of the Prophet and arrested many along with the Prophet. Then he dug pits in the ground, filled them with fire and announced that safe will remain the one who rejects the religion of this Prophet and those who do not do so will be burnt in this pit. Many rejected the faith of the Prophet and many were hurled in the fire. At last, a woman was brought forth who had a babe in arms (aged only one month). The king was informed that the woman refuses to obey the king's order. So she was threateningly asked whether she was prepared to obey the king or was prepared to be burnt alive. They intended to fling her in the fire. On looking at her child, the woman hesitated. The child according to Divine commandment spoke up: O my kind mother! enter the fire with me. By Allah, this burning will pleases Him. So the woman jumped into the fire with her child.
According to another tradition, 'Ali said that the faith of Majus (fire worshippers) was also ordained in a book and that they too had a king. One day that king in a moment of passion indulged in adultery with his own mother and sisters. When he came to his senses, he abhorred this misdeed but to save his face told his people that this deed of his was proper and admissible. When the people refused to agree with him he made pits in the ground and hurled them into the fire ignited in those pits.
Maytham al-Tammar has reported from 'Ali that Amir al-Mu'minin said, the makers of the pit were ten people who were burnt in the fire. Likewise ten persons will be killed by people in this bazaar of al-Kufah. He intended to say that the cursed man Ibn Ziyad had, after his arrival in al-Kufah, ordered a group to oppose 'Ali and that those of them who did not fulfill his wish were killed. As will be narrated henceforth, Inshallah-Maytham al-Tammar and Rashid Hujri were also among that group.
It is recorded in reliable sources that Imam al-Baqir said that Umar sent a man as the head of an army to a Syrian city. That city was captured and its residents accepted Islam. A mosque was built for them. When it was completed, it fell down. It was reconstructed, but again fell down. This happened thrice. When this strange happening was reported to caliph Umar, he called the companions of the holy Prophet. When none of them could explain this happening he asked 'Ali who said that the reason was that in the old days Allah Almighty had appointed a Prophet for the residents of this place but they killed the messenger of Allah and buried him at the spot where the mosque is being constructed. The body of that Prophet is still wet with blood. Write to the commander of the army to dig that place and take out the body of that Prophet which they will find fresh. Ask them to offer prayer on him and to rebury the body at such and such place. Thereafter if the Masjid is rebuilt it will not fall. When 'Ali's assertion was complied with the mosque remained safe. According to another tradition, 'Ali asked them to write to the army chief to construct the Masjid on the right side where they would find a man sitting with his hand on his nose. Umar asked 'Ali as to who he was? 'Ali said, just do what I say. When that person appears, I will tell who he is. In short the army chief was asked to do what 'Ali said, After some time the commander wrote to the caliph to inform his that the instructions of 'Ali were carried out and now the Masjid did not fall. Then Umar asked 'Ali about that man. Amir al-Mu'minin informed him that he was the Prophet of the Makers of the pit and his events have been mentioned in detail in the holy Qur'an's commentary.
It is mentioned in a reliable tradition that one day 'Ali climbed the pulpit of the mosque and announced: Ask me whatever you want to before you do not find me. The cursed hypocrite Ashash bin Qais rose and said, O Amir al-Mu'minin! Why is jizyah tax being collected from the Majus when they are not Ahl al-Kitab and when they do not have any Prophet among them? He said, It was not like that. They are the people of the book and Allah did a send a Prophet for them. They had a king who, one night being intoxicated, called his daughter to his bed and indulged in adultery with her. The next morning when his people came to know about it they gathered before him and scolded him saying: O King! You have dirtied our religion. Now come with us so that we may stone you to death in the forest. The king replied, "All of you should assemble and hear what I have to say. If you can accept what I say then believe it. Otherwise you may do whatever you like." All the residents of the city gathered and, addressing them, the king said, When Allah created human race no one was dearer to Allah than Adam and Hawwa' (Eve). The people said, Yes, it was so. Then the king asked: Did Adam not marry his sons with his daughters? The people replied, "He did." "So I have followed his practice," said the king. The people said, "O King! You are right. This is a true religion." They were pleased with his explanation and mutually decided that marriage with the nearest kin was permissible. Allah removed all knowledge from their hearts and lifted His Book from them. Now they are infidels and will go directly to Hell.
Many reliable traditions mention that the Majus had a Prophet who was called Jaamaasp. He also brought a Book for them from Allah. That book was inscribed on the skin of twelve thousand cows. They killed their Prophet and burnt down that Book.
According to a reliable tradition, a miscreant asked some questions to Imam as-Sadiq and then became a Muslim. One of his questions was did the Majus also have any Prophet because I see that they possess weighty volumes, impressive sermons and precious maxims. They also believe in reward and punishment after death and they have a code of life too which they follow. Imam replied, "There is no community for whom Allah did not send a Messenger. A Messenger was sent to Majus also with a Book. But they neither obeyed the Prophet nor followed the Book." He asked, "Who was that Prophet? That people say he was Khalid bin Sinan?" Imam replied, "Khalid was a Bedouin Arab. He was not a Prophet. People always talk such nonsense." Then he inquired whether Zoroaster was a Prophet? Imam said, "Zoroaster circulated some wrong deeds and claimed to be a Prophet. Some believed in him and some rejected him. Then they left him in a forest where the animals killed him." He asked, "During the times of ignorance (pre-Islam) who were nearer to the Truth, Majus or Arabs?" He said, "In the time of ignorance the Arabs were nearer to the pure religion of Ibrahim compared to the Majus. The latter denied all Prophets and had rejected all miracles and Divine Books. They never acted according to the ways of the Prophets. The king of the Majus had killed three hundred kings in the past. Majus did not perform the bath after sexual intercourse whereas the Arabs used to do so. This bath is one of the distinct conditions of the Abrahimic religion.
The Majus were also not circumcising their males whereas the Arabs were. It is the way of the Prophets and the first person to be circumcised was Prophet Ibrahim. The Majus neither covered their dead with coffin cloth nor bathed them whereas the Arabs did so. The Majus were throwing away their dead in forests and lakes and caves but the Arabs were burying them after digging graves for them as was the way of the Prophets of Allah. The first man for whom a grave was dug was Adam. The Majus permit marriages with mothers, sisters and daughters but the infidels of the Arabs do not allow it. The Majus denied importance of Ka'bah whereas the Arabs perform hajj of the Ka'bah. The Arabs consider Ka'bah as the house of Allah and Torah and Injeel (bible) as Books of Allah and keep asking answers to their problems from the People of the Book (Ahl al-Kitab). In short the Arabs were nearer to the true religion in every aspect of human life." He said, "They considered marriage with mothers and sisters permissible because it was the way of Adam." Imam said, "How do they regard it permissible when they say that Adam, Nuh, Ibrahim, Musa, 'Isa and all Prophets have declared it haram (prohibited)?"
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Kickstarter aims accomplish something other than funding ventures. The crowdfunding organization launched a platform called Drip on Wednesday, through which artists, craftsmen, and different creators can request recurring donations instead of one-time commitments. If that that model sounds recognizable, it's most likely because Drip is Kickstarter's bid for an adaptation of Patreon, the rising startup that set itself apart from other crowdfunding platforms with its long-term membership format.
Drip has been at a low position in the membership crowdfunding space for most of 10 years. Kickstarter acquired Drip in 2014, when it was nearly closing down. Presently, Kickstarter has refashioned Drip to serve web makers of all stripes with another suite of devices intended to help with the business side of running an inventive venture. The organization gives makers a founding membership period, during which they can offer supporters benefits to develop a fan base.
Like Patreon founder and CEO Jack Conte, Chen founded Kickstarter based on his own experience as a craftsman. He says that this outlook still governs the organization's choices today.


The Washington Redskins have suffered a significant blow with the season-ending knee injury rookie running back Derrius Guice suffered in their preseason opener. The second-round pick was expected to play an important role in the Redskins backcourt this season, but that will obviously no longer be the case.
However, Redskins head coach Jay Gruden believes the team does not need to bring in another back to replace Guice as the team has enough options already on the roster to make up for his loss.
"We're OK. [Guice] was sixth string on the depth chart," Gruden said Saturday, joking about the Redskins' initial preseason depth chart, per Kevin Patra of NFL.com. "We have guys here that can play. We drafted Derrius because he was the best player we thought at the time of the draft, and we thought he could really help our football team, not because we weren't satisfied with the backs we have.
The Redskins do still possess a good number of running backs even with Guice gone. They still have last year's leading rusher, Samaje Perine, as well as their top rusher of 2016 in Rob Kelley. Kapri Bibbs and Byron Marshall will both compete for touches, while Chris Thompson, who is primarily their pass-catching back, can also chip in with some carries.
But while Gruden has publicly placed his faith in his remaining RBs right now, that doesn't necessarily rule out the possibility of the Redskins exploring other running back options in the future if none in the current crop can step up. If so, there are still some big-name veteran options available with Adrian Peterson, Jamaal Charles, and even former Redskin Alfred Morris.


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Ginger may decrease the body's production of prostaglandin, a substance that helps transmit pain signals. You can chew on a slice of fresh ginger root or put it in some hot water and let it steep to make ginger tea.
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Hadith of Bukhari>
Hadith 119
Volume 3, Book 31, Number 119:
Narrated Abu Wail from Hudhaifa:
Umar asked the people, "Who remembers the narration of the Prophet about the affliction?" Hudhaifa said, "I heard the Prophet saying, 'The affliction of a person in his property, family and neighbors is expiated by his prayers, fasting, and giving in charity." 'Umar said, "I do not ask about that, but I ask about those afflictions which will spread like the waves of the sea." Hudhaifa replied, "There is a closed gate in front of those afflictions." 'Umar asked, "Will that gate be opened or broken?" He replied, "It will be broken." 'Umar said, "Then the gate will not be closed again till the Day of Resurrection." We said to Masruq, "Would you ask Hudhaifa whether 'Umar knew what that gate symbolized?" He asked him and he replied "He ('Umar) knew it as one knows that there will be night before tomorrow, morning.


A shorter version of this article was presented in a previous issue of the CREAX monthly newsletter. The concept of пїЅroot contradictionsпїЅ introduced there was considered worthy of a wider airing.
пїЅRoot cause analysisпїЅ is often described as an essential step in the problem definition process. Many organisations devote considerable resources to the technique. In line with the Deming dictum пїЅthe most important numbers are unknown and unknowable, few appear to reap the due rewards of their efforts. It is our contention here that there are times when it is either not possible or not affordable to ascertain the root causes underlying a manifested problem. We propose a better way - root contradiction analysis - one requiring less analysis time and effort, and more often than not capable of delivering more powerful solutions. We present two case study examples to demonstrate the method and how it should change the way we think about many problems.
All of the disciplines within any kind of organization routinely seek to solve their problems. All of us who are a part of an organization are problem solvers . . . and root cause analysts, although many of us may prefer to think of our problem solving process as something less fancy than "root cause analysis". But, as we come to our problems in an effort to control and prevent interruptions, obstacles, errors, and counter-quality occurrences, we none-the-less are all looking for the same things: root causes of problems that when removed prevent the problem. So, whether our work is Quality, Engineering, Safety, Production, Maintenance, or just about any other function in the organization, we should be comfortable with the concept of root cause analysis, or whatever we want to call the task of finding the root causes and best prevention solutions to our operations problems.
First letпїЅs clarify what it is we are talking about when we say "prevention solutions", or rather what we are not talking about. Fixing things, cleaning up, removing, reworking, redesigning, modifying, and fortifying, are not prevention and control steps. They instead are correction steps. These actions may or may not be a result of prevention actions, but they in themselves are not prevention steps. Prevention has to do with WHY the design was inadequate, WHY the machine needs repair, WHY cleanup is necessary. This is not to say that these correction-step responses are not important to the operation. Certainly we want to discover immediately when things need early repair. Root cause analysis should uncover such opportunities to remedy, but clearly, as our primary goal for analysis, we want to design out of our operation the need for avoidable repair, rework, clean up, and expensive redesign. We are trying to find something that someone can do to keep the problem from ever happening again. Obviously the act of cleaning up the mess every time the problem occurs is not prevention. We must instead design prevention and control into how we do things. That is what meaningful root cause analysis is all about.
So much for the theory. When we actually get down to the mechanics of root cause analysis, on the other hand, things have a tendency to get out of hand very quickly. Quite simply, root cause analysis requires data. Asking пїЅwhyпїЅ means we have to understand the system. To understand the system requires data. Usually, lots of data. Very often the cost and time involved in capturing that data can be prohibitive.
One particular example that springs to mind was a case study we were asked to work on regarding a manufacture operation to drill a row of 40 very small (circa 30mm diameter) holes simultaneously through a relatively thick (circa 15mm) structure. The basic problem was that the method used to drill the holes coupled with the length of the holes meant that some of the holes were mis-aligned relative to the others. During the course of finding out WHY this was happening a team of four root-cause analysts spent over 3 months each configuring and running experiments to try and get to the bottom of the matter. Four people times three months each is a lot of man-hours and a lot of money, never mind the cost of running the experiments and all the scrap parts produced.
The team were using a proprietary root cause analysis method which is both rigorous in its approach and known to generate results in a good many instances.
The problem with it, and root cause analysis in general is that it only stops when the root cause has been found. If this takes a few hours, this is not a problem. But if it means a person-year and still no answer, we should start to ask whether there is a better way.
The suggestion here is that there is indeed a better way. We call it пїЅroot contradiction analysisпїЅ (Reference 1). The key similarity between this method and root cause analysis is that both are built on the question пїЅWHY?пїЅ The first key difference is that, while root cause analysis has a voracious appetite for data, root contradiction analysis requires only that we gain a qualitative understanding of what is happening in a system.
The second key difference - one even more important than the first - is that root cause analysis is a method closely allied to optimisation of processes, while root contradiction analysis is about recognising systems hit fundamental limits, beyond which no amount of optimisation will go. In other words, you could spend an infinite amount of time gathering data to help optimise something that refuses to be optimised any further. This пїЅfundamental limitпїЅ concept lies at the heart of system evolution s-curves - the levelling effect at the top of the curve being the net result of a limiting contradiction in action.
Desires to reduce defects during manufacture offer a simple demonstration of the limiting contradiction effect in action. Six Sigma techniques are there to help deliver such reductions. They are fine until such times as a system hits a fundamental limit - as illustrated in Figure 1. At the top-most limits of an s-curve, no amount of additional analysis or improvement effort is going to deliver the stated improvement aims; the system has to be changed in some way - and a new s-curve has to be found.
The Contradictions part of TRIZ is the only systematic way in existence for helping us to jump from one optimised system to a better way of doing things. Root Contradiction Analysis is about helping us to find the key contradictions we need to solve if we are to make the jump to that new system.
In the case of the hole-drilling example, the Root Contradiction Analysis took around an hour to establish that a) the current system was at the limits of its fundamental capability and the root cause analysts were simply pushing it over the edge of a cliff, and b) the root contradiction was quickly traced from the fact we knew that there was no problem when the hole length was only 12mm, or if there were only 30 holes to be drilled. The cliff the system had fallen off was a contradiction between the length of the drill and its stability.
Ten minutes later we had a segmented design solution. Two hours after that we had our first working prototype.
The example is not intended to say that Root Contradiction Analysis works miracles. We still have to do a lot of thinking - пїЅwhyпїЅ is the most difficult of the 5Ws (Reference 2) - but at least we donпїЅt have to accompany it with a warehouse full of expensive-to-acquire data, and we know that solving contradictions is fundamentally good direction to travel in any event.
A good example of technical contradictions in action and why it helps to think about пїЅroot contradictionsпїЅ comes in the form of a look at a real problem associated with the design of wind-turbines. As well as showing TRIZ in action on a problem that has not yet been solved, the example seeks to offer an additional learning point as we transition from conceptual to specific solutions, linking in to other parts of the problem solving toolkit.
The problem under consideration concerns an issue affecting all wind-turbines, but especially the large scale (500-750kW) machines - a typical example of which is illustrated in Figure 2.
The basic problem concerns what happens to the turbines in high winds, where - perhaps surprisingly - as wind speed rises above a certain level, the turbine wants to rotate too quickly, the centrifugal forces from which then cause the blades to want to fly off. The current strategy for solving this problem is to stop rotation altogether when the wind is too high. Paradoxically, therefore, when the wind contains the most energy, the wind-turbine captures the least. It is desirable to not have to stop the turbine during high wind conditions.
The problem very definitely contains a contradiction; the basic thing we would like to improve in this situation is the ability to operate in high winds; the thing that stops us is that the blade falls off. Relating these two sides of the contradiction to the Matrix, it appears clear that the improving parameter connects best to SPEED. More difficult is the worsening parameter. From пїЅthe blade falls offпїЅ, we might make connections to Harmful Side Effects, Force, Stress, Area, Reliability or Strength. Maybe even Loss of Substance if weпїЅre thinking very laterally. Now, we could chose to look up the conflicting pairs for each of these possibilities - in which case we would end up with the rather high number of 19 different Inventive Principle suggestions, with only three appearing more than once. There is nothing wrong with this approach of course, but it would be rather time consuming and difficult to maintain level of effort at an acceptable level as we try and generate solutions from all 19 of the Principles. The alternative is to think a little more specifically about the problem and try to focus in on exactly what the problem is using a form of пїЅroot contradictionпїЅ analysis.
At which point we reach the end of the line. So, what we learn from this пїЅask why five timesпїЅ route (apart from the fact we ran out of whyпїЅs after three), is that the root contradiction is the one involving Strength. What we mean by пїЅrootпїЅ is that if we solve the contradiction at this level we automatically solve the other problems (whereas if we solve the contradiction at the пїЅblades fall offпїЅ level, we could still have a strength problem).
Generally speaking, if we have a situation like this where the list of possible contradictions and the resulting list of Inventive Principles is unworkably high, then it is a good idea to focus in at root level.
So what happens when we do that, and focus this wind-turbine problem on the speed versus strength contradiction?
Rather than repeat the mechanics of connecting these triggers to possible solutions as we have done in previous articles (if we were doing this for real, we would of course do exactly what we have suggested previously), it is perhaps useful to examine another, different strategy. In this case, the strategy involves a link with the knowledge/effects part of the TRIZ problem solving toolkit, or rather with the patent-search element thereof.
The basic idea is to see if anyone else has already made the connection between the Inventive Principles being suggested and something like the system under evaluation.
Not only do these findings confirm the validity of the пїЅcurvatureпїЅ direction, they give us some pretty good steers on exactly what sort of curvature to use - in this case to curve the blades away from the wind, and also swept back from the direction of rotation.
Applying a similar search idea to пїЅblade-and-counter-weightпїЅ and пїЅblade-and-copyпїЅ also reveals some promising ideas. пїЅBlade-and-local qualityпїЅ is a more difficult search to conduct as пїЅlocal qualityпїЅ is a rather generic and unlikely to be described in such terms within an invention disclosure. Here we need to e a little bit more creative in our search strategy. Local Quality - as detailed in the list of Principles at the end of the chapter - is about turning uniform things into non-uniform things; making parts of a system function in conditions most suitable to their operation, changing the local environment. These suggestions might encourage us to search for patents featuring blades with special tip, root, leading edge, or trailing edge geometries, local protrusions or depressions, roughened profiles, different length segments, and so on. The general point being that here weпїЅre making hopefully useful connections between problem component and solution trigger and using the patent database to validate those connections. As it happens, several of the above have been used in a variety of industries to solve precisely the contradiction we are tackling.
change from metal molding to plastic was undertaken. Over the last five years several teams tried to resolve the situation and a number of design alternatives were explored. Unfortunately, no robust and cost effective solution was foundпїЅ and пїЅa temporary solution has been developed and recently implemented by the Vehicle Program Team that resolves this concern, however, additional materials, assembly labor and variable cost were required. In addition, this solution only addresses the flutter (buzz) problem and has no effect on molding squeak.пїЅ) A problem that has been around for ten years and consumed an awfully large amount of effort to try and identify the root causes represents a classic case of пїЅthe most important numbers are unknown and unknowableпїЅ.
For example, the report also quotes пїЅIn our recent review of the test equipment setup, several major faults were identified. Important test parameters such as humidity, quality and handling of the test samples were not controlled, resulting in poor test repeatabilityпїЅ.
The classic response to conclusions like this is to set up an even more complex set of experiments. Fortunately the report authors chose to shift to a contradiction-eliminating strategy at this point - otherwise, the problem might well still be in the root-cause identification phase another three years after the article was published.
So, in other words, the analyses take us to a point where we establish that material stiffness issues lie at the root of both problems. It then transpires that for one problem we require high stiffness, and for the other we require low stiffness. And thus we have identified a root contradiction - in this case a physical one where we want the stiffness to be пїЅhigh and lowпїЅ.
If we then recognise the requirement for the different properties is in different places (we want high stiffness on surfaces exposed to the effects of the airflow (buzz), and we want very low stiffness at the point where the molding touches the sheet metal (squeak)). We should thus look to the Inventive Principles tailored for use in solving physical contradictions separated in space. Such solution triggers will point directly to some of the elegant solutions derived by the article authors, and also one or two they didnпїЅt.
пїЅThe most important numbers are unknown and unknowable.пїЅ So said W.E. Deming. The quote is particularly relevant to traditional root cause analysis - which often has a seemingly never-ending appetite for data (experience says you will almost never reach the point of пїЅenoughпїЅ). Finding root contradictions is generally easier, cheaper and quicker than finding root causes.
It doesnпїЅt mean, of course, that we need no data - the windshield problem quite clearly highlights the fact that we need to know that there are dependencies between different design parameters. But it quite clearly does mean that gathering experimental data for several years is not the best way of doing things. Several years - or even months or weeks - should suggest to us that we are stuck in the traditional пїЅtrade-offпїЅ mind-set, and that there ought to be a better way.
Root cause analysis is great for optimising systems. If the system has been optimised to the limits of its capability, however, (as many manufacturing processes have - thanks to years of пїЅcontinuous improvementпїЅ initiatives) no amount of additional optimisation will improve the result. The only way to improve a fully optimised system is to change the system. Solving contradictions is a great way to achieve this. Root Contradiction Analysis is a great way to find the right contradictions to solve.
As stated in the quote at the beginning of the article, Edward De Bono has a somewhat different perspective on eliminating the causes of problems - suggesting that often it is better to find means of working to turn the root cause into a resource and пїЅdesigning aroundпїЅ a problem rather than trying to literally eliminate it. Interested readers may care to explore this philosophy further by checking out Reference 4.
Mann, D.L., пїЅHands-On Systematic InnovationпїЅ, CREAX Press, http://www.creax.com, April 2002.
Apte, P., Shah, H., Mann, D.L., пїЅ" 5W's and an H " of TRIZ InnovationпїЅ, TRIZ Journal, September 2001.
Lynch, M., Saltsman, B., Young, C., пїЅWindshield/Backlight Molding - Squeak and пїЅBuzzпїЅ ProjectпїЅ, TRIZ Journal, January 1998.
De Bono, E., пїЅNew Thinking for the New MillenniumпїЅ, Viking, 1999.


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