Have you thought about the future of your digital self? I know you want your body to be cremated, but in the end that's just your bones. There will still be so much of you left behind – so many traces. Does this question seem strange? I went to a presentation yesterday afternoon at the Hereafter Institute. It was for new clients – well, for anyone who needs some help thinking about their digital afterlife. It was just chance, really, that I stumbled into it. I was on the 5pm tour. Strangely, I bumped into your old colleague there, Anne – she was with her husband and their dog. They'd just come from a basketball tournament in San Diego – they'd rushed up to make the tour. She said to say hi, and to tell you she's happier in her new job.
Anyway, I was glad not to be alone on the tour. Our guide was so brisk and efficient – like someone you'd imagine in a movie giving a tour of a cryogenics facility. White lab coat, tidy clipboard, a little bit intimidating in her demeanor – and it was uncanny how her blue blouse perfectly matched her eyes. She led us into a Japanese style pavilion – I think you would have liked the room's earthy elegance.
So this is where it got interesting. She proposed three options for our digital remains (that's right, our "digital remains"…. what a term, huh? She had our attention.) They were: continuation, deletion, or memorialization.
The second option was actually my favorite, and definitely the coolest, but also the weirdest. Continuation. If we sign on with the Hereafter Institute, and choose this option, they'll create bots for us that – get this – will be algorithmically programmed to maintain the illusion of presence on social media. So, I'd be dead, but the bot would have analyzed my social media habits – the kinds of photos I post, my tone in captions, my habits, like how often I post in various places, what time of day – and it would just keep it all up, like it were me. No one would have to live without my pretty sky pictures, or art reports, or miss a second of the kids' cuteness. (Do you think the bot could even auto-generate good license plates to post? They'd have to be funny ones. I don't like the obnoxious ones. Could a bot tell the difference?) On the other hand, now that I'm writing it out, this sounds like a more valuable service for the living – maybe I could pay them double to create a bot to just start posting as me now? I should have asked if it would also comment on my friends' posts for me, wouldn't that be great? But what if the bot learned to become a better version of me? What if, after a while, I could never live up? Ugh.
Okay. Well, the last option was memorialization. They were really selling this one. I guess the guy who founded the Hereafter Institute is most excited about these options. In fact, he came in to the presentation at this point, and told us about all his ideas himself. Charming guy, really persuasive – brimming with ideas and enthusiasm. It was infectious. (No mean feat, given the subject matter.) A sleek, black memorial plinth that plays – and displays – all my tweets, ever, (or yours) from a custom LP. A virtual reality experience in which my 3D body scan combines with recordings of my voice and an illusion is built around me in my favorite place – so, for example, they could take photos of Echo Lake and generate its virtual version, and you could visit me talking about my favorite artists or the book I last read. There was also a wearable necklace – bulky, but pretty good looking all in all – that played uploaded videos on shuffle. This would be great for you, it could be all your Vines and gifs and little videos on Instagram, but also videos from our phones. It's like an old nineteenth century Victorian locket, updated.
The Hereafter Institute debuted at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 27-28, 2016, affiliated with the museum's exceptional Art + Technology program. Read more about the Hereafter Institute here and here.
Kate Palmer Albers, "The Hereafter Institute: A Letter from Violet," in Circulation|Exchange: Moving Images in Contemporary Art (August 29, 2016). http://circulationexchange.org/articles/Hereafter-Institute.html.


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Pope's arrival for the Closing Holy Mass of the 6th Asian Youth Day at Haemi Castle in Haemi, south of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014.
Celebrating Mass with thousands of young Catholics in South Korea on Sunday, Pope Francis encouraged the crowd to "wake up" and "be vigilant."
The pontiff led the Asian Youth Day service at the Haemieupseong Fortress in South Chungcheong Province on the second-to-last day of his visit to the country.
"Wake up! Go, go, go ahead... No one who sleeps can sing, dance or rejoice," Pope Francis said.
Earlier Sunday, Francis met with 60 bishops from around Asia at the Haemi Martyrdom Holy Ground in North Chungcheong Province, the site of a 19th century Catholic massacre.
He urged the bishops to listen to people of different cultures but remain true to their Catholic identity, and pressed for countries like China and North Korea to foster a proper dialogue with the Vatican.
China cut formal relations with the Vatican after the Communist Party came to power in 1949.
The pope said the Roman Catholic Church is committed to dialogue with everyone in the spirit of openness to others.
On Saturday, the pope celebrated a huge open-air Mass in the center of Seoul to beatify 124 Korean martyrs who were killed in the 18th and 19th centuries for refusing to renounce Christianity.
In his homily Saturday before a crowd of hundreds of thousands at Seoul's Gwanghwamun Gate, Francis again denounced the growing gap between the rich and poor. It was a theme the pope has been repeating since his arrival in South Korea on Thursday.


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My Lunch With Joe Quesada
Posted by McLauchlin at 4:09:00 PM
By Greg Pelkofski
Yes, I am the fan who spent $536.51 to have lunch with Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada. Yes, it was one of the best experiences of my short twenty-one years on this planet. Yes, it was a "dream come true." (And I've had some pretty strange dreams. No joke, the night before the lunch, I had a dream where Spider-Girl was fighting the Joker in a burning building. Crazy, right?) However, this meeting was even more meaningful as I am a college student looking to break into the comic book industry after graduation.
Ever since I was a kid, I knew I wanted to work in comic books. Well, I actually wanted to be Spider-Man, but by middle school I started to realize that even if a radioactive spider did bite me, it would probably kill me, not make me stronger. In college, I started tailoring my course work to becoming a comic book editor. I even got an editorial internship at AARP The Magazine in Washington D.C., after my repeated applications for Marvel met with failure.
In 2009, during a Friday night happy hour (so many of my family's stories start this way) my parents impulsively decided to take me to the San Diego Comic Con for my birthday. There I attended Marvel's "Breaking Into the House of Ideas" panel. I listened as writers, artists, and editors all told their unique stories of how they got a job at Marvel. One of the panelists made the point that each person needs to find their own path into comics, and once someone blazes that path, that trail goes cold forever. I knew I needed to find my own path into comics.
Jump ahead to October 1st of this year, again during happy hour, when I told my dad about how I saw Joe Quesada post on his Twitter page an auction for The Hero Initiative. The prize was lunch with Joe at the New York Comic Con. I mentioned it would be such a great opportunity if I could make it there the next week. Maybe it was the alcohol or maybe it was his parental desire to see me happy and successful (probably the alcohol), but he told me if I paid for the auction, then he would pay for my train ticket and hotel room in NYC.
Anyway, I won the auction. The next Friday morning, Oct. 8, came around quickly. But strangely, I did not feel nervous. I felt confident that the lunch would go well. Armed only with my knowledge of comics that comes from owning and reading over 3,700 of them, and with a pocket full of business cards, I set out to meet Joe Quesada at Five Napkin Burger in Hell's Kitchen.
My first thought while waiting at the restaurant was "if this is Hell's Kitchen, where's Daredevil's Japanese fortress?" No sign of the fortress, but shortly after noon Joe Quesada came in, escorted by fellow Hero Initiative Executive/Fund Raising Board member, Jim McLauchlin. Now, only seconds away from shaking Marvel's Editor-in-Chief's hand, the man who led my favorite comic book company through some of it's best stories and made me want to work in comics even more, I was suddenly nervous. But I put on a smile and stuck out my hand, and with a firm shake introduced myself to one of my role models.
Almost immediately, Joe began asking me questions about myself and I was able to explain my desire to be a comic book editor. With an attentive ear, he patiently listened to me speak of my college studies and my experience as an intern at AARP. He explained how tough it is to actually break into comics, especially in today's job market, but he also told of how rewarding the work is. We discussed editorial work in comics and what a typical day at Marvel is like, and I found myself wanting to work there now more than ever. (Also, finding out that I wouldn't have to wear a suit and tie to work was a huge bonus.)
Soon, my inner nerd broke loose and I had to ask some questions about the comics that I enjoy so much. I listened as Joe explained his reasoning behind "annulling" Peter Parker's marriage to Mary Jane (also the name of my cat), after which I completely understood why he made that decision. I also got some insight into the timeline of the Marvel Universe that appeared in a two-page spread in Avengers #5.
Throughout lunch, Joe and Jim told some funny stories of their experience in comics. Their stories just made me want to work with these people who sounded so similar to myself and with whom I felt a common geeky connection. Though, I seemed to have the last laugh when I said that I paid for the auction with my profits as an investor after Disney bought Marvel.
Nearly 90 minutes and one big-ass burger later, it was time for Joe and Jim to move on to their next scheduled events. Both were surprised when I said that I did not have a NYCC pass and came up only for the lunch. Jim let me borrow his pass for the afternoon so I could get into the convention and Joe introduced me to a few of Marvel's staff. Joe and I got our picture taken together at the Marvel booth. It was an unexpected bonus in an incredible day.
While I realize I face great odds at being hired by Marvel straight out of college, I do believe this was one of the best opportunities I've had to help realize my dream of becoming an editor. More importantly, I had a great time and got to support the Hero Initiative, which helps the comic book creators who have provided me and countless others so much joy over the years. So, thank you Hero Initiative and Jim McLauchlin for setting up the auction in the first place. Thank you Joe Quesada for meeting me and listening to my little dream of being an editor. Thank you mom and dad for supporting me and my dream by paying my way to New York. And thanks to the comic creators for the heroes they made.
Greg Pelkofski
As a huge fan of Joe, that is a AMAZING story. As I too want to get into the business, I have to say, your story was inspirational on its own.
We're all in this together.
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Сове́тское мусульма́нское духове́нство включало две категории: «зарегистрированные» служители (в послевоенный период несколько сотен человек) и «бродячие муллы» (несколько тысяч человек). Догматически в исламе нет духовенства. Однако в СССР проводить богослужение (в рамках любой конфессии) мог только гражданин, имеющий официальную регистрацию. Поэтому в советских документах зарегистрированное мусульманское духовенство было отдельной категорией граждан.

«Бродячие муллы» были лицами без религиозного образования, которые вели проповедь. Некоторые из них постоянно перемещались из одного населённого пункта в другой. Служили они на частных квартирах, в жилых домах и на открытом воздухе (в том числе на кладбищах). Иногда «бродячие муллы» действовали в тех населённых пунктах, где были официально зарегистрированные мечети.

Возникновение «бродячих мулл» было связано с тем, что советские власти массово отказывали им (как и служителям других конфессий) в регистрации. Проведение обрядов и проповедь без регистрации были запрещены и карались в административном и уголовном порядке. Однако «бродячие муллы» составляли подавляющее большинство мусульманского духовенства. По оценкам советских властей, в начале 1980-х годов «бродячих» было более, чем в 10 раз больше, чем зарегистрированных мулл.

Руководство официальных духовных управлений мусульман относилось к «бродячим муллам» по-разному. Были случаи, когда официальные советские мусульманские лидеры поддерживали «бродячих мулл», но также духовным управлениям приходилось (под давлением советских властей) издавать фетвы, осуждающие «бродячих мулл» и признающих недействительность совершаемых ими обрядов.

«Бродячих мулл» советские власти наказывали. В конце 1940-х годов им давали сроки лишения свободы в уголовном порядке. В 1970-е — 1980-е годы, «бродячих мулл» наказывали, как правило, штрафами до 50 рублей (которые тут же возмещались оштрафованным верующими).

Зарегистрированные муллы
Численность и демографические характеристики зарегистрированных мулл известны согласно документам надзиравших за их деятельность Уполномоченных Совета по делам религиозных культов (с 1965 года — Совета по делам религий). Зарегистрированный мулла мог проводить богослужение и проповедь (в рамках мечети). Однако Уполномоченный был вправе снять муллу с регистрации, что означало запрет в служении. Решение Уполномоченного можно было обжаловать в Совет. Уполномоченные следили, чтобы муллы не нарушали советское законодательство (например, запрет на благотворительность для религиозных организаций), своевременно сдавали взносы в Фонд мира, платили налоги. Численность зарегистрированных мулл была относительно постоянной и составляла около 500 человек по СССР в течение всего послевоенного периода несмотря на постоянный быстрый рост численности мусульманских народов.

В 1952 году в СССР легально работали 386 служителей ислама (из них 312 были старше 55 лет), которые по уровню образования делились на следующие группы:
 Высшее духовное — 5 человек;
 Среднее духовное — 197 человек;
 Низшее духовное — 115 человек;
 Без духовного образования — 69 человек.

В ноябре 1957 года по данным Совета по делам религиозных культов в СССР было 518 служителей ислама:
 До 39 лет — 37 человек;
 В возрасте от 40 до 59 лет — 173 человека;
 В возрасте от 60 лет и старше — 308 человек.

По уровню образования эти 518 служителей делились на следующие группы:
 Со светским средним образованием — 22 человека,
 С низшим светским образование — 496 человек;
 Со средним духовным образованием — 273 человека;
 С низшим исламским образование — 106 человек;
 Без духовного образования — 35 человек.

Таким образом к концу 1950-х годов подавляющее большинство советских зарегистрированных мулл было пожилыми людьми, имеющими только начальное светское образование. До конца 1980-х годов кадровая ситуация принципиально не менялась в связи с недостаточным количеством мест в духовных мусульманских учебных заведениях.

Многие представители зарегистрированного мусульманского духовенства 1940-х — 1950-х годов были судимы в 1930-е годы за антисоветские преступления. Например, все представители мусульманского духовенства Башкирской АССР (по состоянию на середину 1950-х годов) в 1930-е годы успели побывать в местах лишения свободы. Некоторые из них привлекались неоднократно.

«Бродячие муллы» и суфии
Согласно докладу председателя Совета по делам религий В. А. Куроедова в 1980 году в стране без регистрации действовали 5,5 тыс. из 6 тыс. мулл. Из этих цифр следует, что на 1 зарегистрированного служителя культа приходилось 11 «бродячих». В некоторых местностях этот показатель был выше. Инструктор отдела агитации и пропаганды ЦК ВКП(б) О. Я. Гончарок сообщал 8 сентября 1949 года Г. М. Маленкову, что на тот момент на территории Казахской ССР было более 500 незарегистрированных мулл и всего 22 зарегистрированные мечети. Таким образом, на 1 зарегистрированного служителя в Казахской ССР приходилось более 20 «бродячих мулл».

«Бродячие муллы» служили в самовольно построенных мечетях и молитвенных зданиях. В некоторых местностях количество незарегистрированных мечетей превышало число «официальных» культовых зданий. В Дагестанской АССР в 1959 году на 29 зарегистрированных мечетей приходилось около 40 незарегистрированных мечетей и молитвенных домов. Уполномоченный Совета по делам религиозных культов сообщал в 1963 году, что в Туркменской ССР действовали 39 зарегистрированных и 2 тысячи незарегистрированных мечетей (последние обслуживали 4 тысячи мулл).

Много «бродячих мулл» было среди депортированных в 1944 году кавказских народов после их возвращения в конце 1950-х годов на родину. Период возвращения совпал с «хрущёвской антирелигиозной кампанией», когда власти закрывали религиозные здания всех конфессий и не разрешали открывать новые. Член Совета по делам религиозных культов П. А. Задорожный в 1960 году сообщал Председателю Совета А. А. Пузину по результатам своей командировки в Чечено-Ингушскую АССР об увиденном им в этой республике:
Проживающие на территории ЧИАССР верующие мусульмане (чеченцы, ингуши, кумыки, татары, аварцы и др.) официальных молитвенных домов и духовенства не имеют. Свои религиозные обряды они совершают либо на квартирах друг у друга, в частном порядке, либо в приспособленных, самовольно выстраиваемых помещениях, которые именуются квартальными (кубовыми) мечетями. Нередко для исполнения обрядов используются также кладбища, зиараты (места похороненных «святых» шейхов и др. религиозных «авторитетов»), а также специально огороженные площадки вблизи селений

Из этого текста следует, что на примерно 400 тыс. жителей Чечено-Ингушской АССР, исповедовавших ислам, не было ни одного зарегистрированного служителя мусульманского культа и ни одной зарегистрированной мечети. В том же документе П. А. Задорожный отмечал, что в последнее время нет заявлений с просьбой об открытии мечетей в Чечено-Ингушской АССР.

Некоторые «бродячие муллы» пользовались уважением у верующих, которые начинали поклоняться могилам почитаемых проповедников, превращая их в места паломничества. Среди них были суфии. В 1920-е годы Восточный отдел ОГПУ отмечал, что ишаны активно действовали в Средней Азии (Киргизия, Туркмения, Узбекистан), в Казахстане и на Северном Кавказе. В 1920-е годы суфийские шейхи действовали также в Поволжье (Самарская губерния, Татарская АССР) и на Урале (Оренбургская губерния и Башкирская АССР).

Очень влиятельны были суфийские шейхи на Северном Кавказе. В Дагестанской области в феврале 1929 года член областного комитета РКП(б) Таслицкий и другие партийные работники говорили на антирелигиозном совещании о том, что в Дагестане действуют 17 шейхов, «главных агитпропов − идеологов исламизма, вокруг которых объединились десятки тысяч мюридов». По агентурным данным ОГПУ, община шейха Али Хаджи Акушинского насчитывала после его смерти в апреле 1930 года около 5 тысяч мюридов. У некоторых дагестанских шейхов имелись мюриды в соседней Чечне. Были также в Дагестане «шейхствующие женщины» по терминологии ОГПУ. В 1930 году в Дагестане произошли подавленные властями восстания против коллективизации, в которых активное участие приняли мюриды. После этого власти репрессировали руководителей мюридских общин и установили жёсткий надзор за мусульманским духовенством.

В конце 1920-х — 1930-е годы шейхи подверглись репрессиям со стороны советских органов. В 1928 году ОГПУ раскрыло «контрреволюционную организацию» во главе с ранее просоветским шейхом Али Хаджи Акушинским и его сыном Магомедом. Самого парализованного шейха к уголовной ответственности привлекать не стали и он умер 8 апреля 1930 года. Из его мюридов по этому делу 29 человек были приговорены к расстрелу, 27 к каторге, а 6 к ссылке в города центральной России. Репрессиям подверглись также лояльные советской власти шейхи. В 1937 году был повторно арестован шейх Хасан Кахибский, который сообщил следствию, что у него имеется 200—300 мюридов. Хасан Кахибский был расстрелян несмотря на то, что активно поддерживал советскую власть: исправно платил налоги, покупал облигации государственного займа, призывал жителей Дагестана к поддержке всех начинаний советской власти.

В послевоенный период дагестанские шейхи возобновили свою деятельность. В Дагестанской АССР в 1960 году возобновила свою деятельность суфийская группа Арсанукая Хедерлезова (шейха Амая), в которую входили около 60 человек. Её главой стал Алаутдин Темирбулатов, бывший сотрудник КГБ. 28 мая 1963 года в Верховном суде Дагестанской АССР был оглашён приговор группе мюридов шейха Амая. Сторонники шейха Амая в день оглашения приговора по инициативе А. Темирбулатова попытались силой освободить осуждённых, в результате чего два мюрида и два милиционера были убиты. Также в Дагестане действовала суфийская группа Кунта-хаджи. К 1963 году в Дагестане было 7 активно действовавших шейхов.

В Кабардинской АССР в 1950—1954 годах документами фиксируется наличие «муссектантской» группы «Тарикат», состоявшей из пожилых кабардинок. Эта группа прекратила функционирование в 1954 году в результате «профилактических мероприятий».

Суфийские шейхи действовали после войны не только на Кавказе, но даже в Поволжье, где влияние советской власти было намного сильнее. В 1940-е — 1960-е годы в селе Благодаровка (Хусаиново) Челно-Вершинского района Куйбышевской области действовало курманаевское братство («кизляу тарикы»), принадлежавшее к ордену накшбандия. На могиле умершего 1 сентября 1954 года благодаровского ишана Валиахмета Сабирова был создан зиярат (его вскоре снесли, но паломничества продолжались к этому месту до 1959 года). Сохранилось такое описание этого места:
На могиле умершего бывшего муллы Сабирова на могильном камне-памятнике были написаны слова молитвы и на арабском языке слово «ШАИШТ» («ШАИШ»), против памятника был самовольно построен мавзолей размером 2,5 на 3 метра из липового кряжа толщиной 25 см. В лобовой стене во всю длину вставлено стекло, а внутри мавзолея настелены ковры. На эту могилу, к этому святому месту, приходили паломники из Башкирской АССР, Татарской АССР; Казахстана, Узбекистана, Астрахани и других населённых пунктов

Иногда «бродячим муллам» удавалось зарегистрироваться. Например, в 1951 году в Благодаровку приехал имам-хатыб Габдулбари Мулюков, получивший регистрацию от Уполномоченного Совета по делам религиозных культов. Каждый четверг Мулюков и верующие читали молитвы на могиле Сабирова.

В середине 1950-х годов Постановление Совета министров СССР предписало зарегистрировать все фактически действовавшие религиозные общины, у которых были свои помещения для богослужений и служители культа. Выполнить это решение не удалось, так как оказалось, что легализация всех таких общин приведёт к увеличению числа мечетей в десятки раз. В 1961 году власти в Татарской АССР (там было на 1 января 1961 года всего 11 официально зарегистрированных мусульманских общин) провели учёт незарегистрированных религиозных групп и выяснили, что в республике действовало в то время 646 неофициальных мусульманских общин, а также 366 нелегально работавших мулл.

Ишаны были распространены в послевоенный период в Башкирской АССР, особенно в её южных районах. Верующие рассказывали о чудесах (караматы) башкирских ишанов-целителей. Например, ишан Мужавир-хазрат (Мужавир Сиражетдинов (1876—1967)) проживал в деревне Мансурово (Баймакский район). К нему приезжали лечиться травами, молитвами и оберегами люди из Средней Азии и с Кавказа. Мужавир-хазрат, по словам верующих, мог открывать закрытые замки, переходить через реку сухим и останавливать автомашины, а там, где прикасался, начинал бить родник. Культ Мужавир-хазрата пережил распад СССР: в 2010-х года в его деревне Мансурово ежегодно в августе проводятся съезды духовенство в память о нём.

Некоторые «бродячие муллы» показывали верующим, предметы, принадлежавшие святым ишанам, прикосновение к которым может исцелить человека.

С проблемой «бродячих мулл» было связано такое явление как нелегальные (то есть незарегистрированные) мечети. Последних в СССР было множество на протяжении всего послевоенного периода. 12 сентября 1946 года министр государственной безопасности СССР В. С. Абакумов сообщал секретарю ЦК ВКП(б) А. А. Жданову следующее:
За последние 2-3 месяца заштатным мусульманским духовенством и верующими самовольно открыто в Узбекской ССР 150 мечетей. В ряде случаев открытию таких мечетей содействуют руководители местных советских органов.

Причиной распространения нелегальных мечетей стало нежелание местных властей разрешать регистрацию новых мечетей. Председатель Совета по делам религиозных культов Константин Харчев писал в ЦК КПСС 28 февраля 1985 года следующее:
В районах традиционного распространения ислама, где сеть мечетей была сокращена более чем в два раза, возникло с молчаливого согласия должностных лиц много новых мечетей, построенных верующими под видом чайхан и местных гостиниц. Только в Таджикской ССР за последние четыре года было выявлено таких мечетей более 200, а на регистрации здесь находится всего лишь 17

Из этих слов следует, что в Таджикистане количество нелегальных мечетей более чем в 10 раз превышало число зарегистрированных мечетей. Некоторые мусульманские местности СССР в 1985 году были вообще без зарегистрированных мечетей, причём местные власти мешали в регистрации незаконными методами. В докладной записке от 28 февраля 1985 года Константин Харчев отмечал следующее:
В ряде районов традиционного распространения ислама недовольство населения вызывается ещё тем, что в них нет ни одного зарегистрированного объединения мусульман при наличии законно действующих христианских религиозных обществ. Подобная обстановка имеет место в четырёх из пяти областных центров Туркменской ССР, в Северо-Осетинской АССР, в Адыгейской автономной области.
Некоторые должностные лица в Туркмении в своём стремлении прекратить коллективные богослужения мусульман дошли до того, что начали обрабатывать ядохимикатами построенные верующими молитвенные помещения. Верующие-мусульмане г. Ашхабада в одном из последних заявлений о легализации (регистрации) своего общества писали о том, что если их конституционные права не будут удовлетворены, то они оставляют за собой право обратиться за помощью к посольствам мусульманских стран в Москве

Борьба властей с «бродячими муллами»
С «бродячими» муллами власти боролись. В 1948 году были арестованы проживавшие в Молотовской области ишан Шарифулла Тляшев и его 11 пожилых мюридов. Эта группа не признавала «официальное» мусульманское духовенство и вела проповеди, предрекая скорый конец Света, пророчествовала о скором поражении СССР и о грядущем роспуске колхозов. Каждый из них был приговорён к лишению свободы сроком до 10 лет.

За проведение незаконного богослужения, не сопровождавшегося антисоветскими пророчествами, наказывали «бродячих мулл» мягче — накладывали административный штраф. В 1970-х — 1980-х годах этот штраф не превышал 50 рублей и к тому же верующие потом компенсировали его оштрафованному служителю. Через некоторое время наказанный «бродячий мулла» вновь проводил службу на квартирах и в частных домах, зачастую сменив адрес проведения богослужения. Иногда местные власти разрешали верующим проводить коллективные молитвы под руководством незарегистрированных мулл.

Власти пытались обложить незарегистрированных мулл налогами как некооперированных кустарей. В феврале 1969 года Министерство финансов РСФСР директивным письмом № 03/160 потребовало от своих местных подразделений обложить налогами незарегистрированных мулл и абыстаев.

Отношение зарегистрированного духовенства и «бродячих мулл»
Руководители зарегистрированных духовных управлений мусульман относились к «бродячим муллам» по-разному. Первый председатель Духовного управления мусульман Европейской части СССР и Сибири Габдрахман Расулев в первые послевоенные годы выдавал «бродячим муллам» (из числа бывших служителей культа) свидетельства, дававшие им право на совершение обрядов в неотложных случаях, а также снабжал религиозные группы мусульманскими календарями. После смерти Расулева в 1950 году советские власти к борьбе с «бродячими муллами» привлекали руководителей зарегистрированных духовных управлений мусульман. 18 июня 1961 года Духовное управление мусульман Европейской части СССР и Сибири выпустило фетву против «бродячих мулл». В ней сообщалось следующее:
Чтобы пятничный намаз был признан Аллахом, он должен совершаться в специальных молитвенных помещениях и имамами, назначенными Духовным Управлением мусульман. Исполненные пятничные намазы под открытым небом и муллами-самозванцами не принимаются Аллахом

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Eastern Ukraine: the separatists' offensive in anticipation of the 'referendum'
Wojciech Konończuk
In early May, pro-Russian separatists took control of a succession of towns and cities in eastern Ukraine, including Lugansk and (to a considerable degree) Donetsk. In both of these cities most of the critical state institutions (government buildings, police HQs, the Security Service of Ukraine [SBU], prosecutors' offices, military units) have fallen under their control. The separatists are also attempting to expand the areas of instability to the southern regions of Ukraine. In Odessa on 2 May, as a result of clashes they provoked against a pro-Ukrainian demonstration, and a subsequent fire in the trade unions building, 46 people were killed. At the same time the separatists are focused on creating their own para-state structures, including an 'Army of the South East', and on preparing for a 'referendum' to be held on 11 May. Despite President Putin's appeal to the separatists on 7 May to postpone the vote, the conditions they have set to Kyiv were de facto unacceptable, and so on 8 May they confirmed their original plan to hold the 'referendum'.
The authorities in Kyiv have proved unable to control the rapid expansion of the separatists' activities, and – in view of the ineffectiveness of the government-led anti-terrorist operation – there is no indication that this will change in the coming weeks. The replacement of officials (heads of the police, governors of districts, etc.) has had no effect, because these people have no influence on the situation on the ground. The passive behaviour, or even open support for the separatists from the local militia confirms the distribution of the power structures in the east, and partly the south, of Ukraine. Kyiv's sceptical reception to Putin's proposal, together with the Ukrainian authorities' declared firmness against separatist activities, mean that we should expect a further escalation of the conflict and an increase in the separatists' subversive activities.
The Donbas (increasingly) under the separatists' control
At the beginning of May, the separatists stepped up their activities in Lugansk and Donetsk oblasts considerably. Ever more towns and government buildings came under their control, including the armed forces HQ in Lugansk and the seat of the SBU and the prosecutor's office in Donetsk (see map). The separatists met no resistance from the local law enforcement agencies, as a result of the latter's corruption. Serhiy Taruta, the Kyiv-appointed governor of Donetsk, has proved unable to effectively prevent the further escalation of the situation in the region. The security situation has been further exacerbated by the appearance in several areas of armed troops of Don Cossacks (numbering at least 150 persons).
In addition to reinforcing their positions in the occupied towns, in recent days the separatists have mainly focused on preparing their 'referendum' on the status of the Donbas. The most important element is exerting pressure, including threats and violence, on the local authorities to force them to cooperate in organising the vote. In several places in the Donetsk oblast, city and district councils have voluntarily supported the 'referendum', and have selected representatives for 'electoral commissions'. In addition, on 5 May the presidium of the Lugansk region adopted a statement endorsing the holding of the 'referendum'. The preparations for the vote have included the harassment of local pro-Ukrainian political & social activists and journalists.
Attempts to spread the instability to the south
On 2 May in Odessa, where the situation had previously been relatively calm, clashes took place between a several hundred-strong group of separatists and a several thousand-strong group demonstrating in favour of Ukrainian unity. During the demonstration three Ukrainian protesters were shot dead by separatist fighters. The police behaved passively, either not taking any action or openly supporting the separatists. Then pro-Ukrainian demonstrators then destroyed the tent city put up by the separatists, who then took refuge in the trade unions building. In unclear circumstances, a fire broke out in the building (probably from a Molotov cocktail), which resulted in the death of 43 separatists. According to the SBU, the clashes in Odessa were a provocation funded by supporters of Viktor Yanukovych and coordinated by a group of insurgents from Transnistria and Russia. The still incomplete list of victims contains the names of at least three Russian citizens, which would confirm the thesis that Russia was the inspiration for the action. The Interior Ministry stated that the local police bore the responsibility for the events, and dismissed its local leadership.
The government in Kyiv is paralysed
The separatists' ongoing offensive and the growing threat of destabilisation to successive regions of Ukraine are being accompanied by the incompetence of the central authorities, who are unable to control the situation in the east and prevent further separatist actions. The situation is being further exacerbated by support from regional political elites and some of the local population. However, public sentiment in the Donbas, including the attitudes of the population towards the separatists, are not entirely clear. Opinion polls (carried out by KMIS in mid-April) show that 51.9% and 52.3% respectively of the populations of Lugansk and Donetsk regions favour remaining within Ukraine. At the same time it seems that dissatisfaction with the policy of Kyiv, including the deteriorating socio-economic situation, is rising. In addition, the tragedy in Odessa made a bad impression on the residents of the region, which the separatists and Russian propaganda have exploited to make further accusations against Kyiv. The Ukrainian authorities, because of their own inefficient information policy, have been unable to counterbalance the message from the separatists and Russian media, and as a result have not even attempted to carry out any kind of information campaign in the eastern regions.
The authorities' weakness and inaction has been accompanied on one hand by attempts to activate some local communities, as demonstrated in the particular case of Odessa, and on the other by the action of Ihor Kolomoysky, the governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region, who prevented the situation in his region from being destabilised. On 11 May he will convene a congress of governors from the south and east of Ukraine (the Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhe, Kherson, Nikolayev and Odessa regions) to coordinate action against separatists as well as preparations in these regions for the presidential elections on 25 May. In addition, the governorship of the Odessa region, after Volodymyr Nemirovsky was fired after holding the position only two months, was given to Ihor Palitsa, who for many years had had close business ties to Kolomoysky, and has been regarded as his man.
Kyiv and the separatists react to Putin's appealPresident Vladimir Putin's unexpected call to the separatists to postpone the 'referendum' provoked a sceptical reaction from Kyiv. The Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk stated that the vote would be illegal, and that Kyiv had passed on a 'road map' to the OSCE to settle the conflict (although this document has not been published). A statement from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry was formulated in a similar vein, stating that the Kremlin's rhetoric "has nothing to do with the real search for a way to resolve the crisis"; the essence of the conflict is the aggression by Russia against Ukraine, and it deems the "terrorist referendum" to be illegal. It also stressed that Ukraine's priority is to launch a national dialogue on a wide scale, but "this cannot be done with terrorists". At the same time on 7 May in Sloviansk, three SBU employees detained by separatists were exchanged for Pavel Gubariev, the self-proclaimed 'People's Governor' of Donetsk, and two other activists of the 'Donetsk People's Republic'.
The separatists themselves received Putin's statement without enthusiasm. Oleh Tsariev, one of the de facto leaders of the separatist movement, said that negotiations with Kyiv are possible, but on the basis of equality of the parties. He also put forward three conditions for starting talks with the government: the immediate cessation of anti-terrorist operations and the return of all army units to their bases; the dissolution of all "illegal military formations", including the National Guard; and the release of all "political prisoners". On 8 May, the separatist-run 'people's councils' in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions decided to proceed with plans to hold the 'referendum' on 11 May.
Regardless of the 'referendum's state of readiness it will now be held on 11 May, in order to demonstrate the alleged support of the Donbas for the 'Donetsk People's Republic'. After the 'referendum', the next goal will be to block the presidential elections in as many constituencies as possible.
Therefore, in the coming days and weeks, a further deterioration of the security situation in the east should be expected, including the takeover by the separatists of more towns and further attempts to destabilise the south of Ukraine. According to reliable reports from the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Crimea and Transnistria are witnessing the recruitment of people to commit acts of terrorism and subversion on the territory of Ukraine. The inefficiency of the central government, the pervasive corruption, and the fact that some officials at various levels are also probably operating as agents for Russia, make it unlikely that the Ukrainian authorities will be able to stabilise the situation in the foreseeable future.
The separatists' actions in eastern Ukraine
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Skuldergördel (latin: cingulum extremitatis superioris, "övre extremitetens bälte") är, i människans skelett, den ring av ben som vilar på bröstkorgens (thorax) övre del.

Skuldergördeln består av kroppens två skulderblad (scapula) och två nyckelben (clavicula). Dess fyra ben ledar i sternoklavikularleden (art. sternoclavicularis) till bröstbenet (sternum) och i axelleden (articulatio humeri) till överarmsbenet (humerus). Skulderbladets muskler gör skuldergördeln mycket flexibel.

Skuldergördeln kallas ibland även "skulderringen".

Se även
 Skuldergördelns muskler
 Axelledens muskler
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 Övre extremitetens muskler
 Bäckengördel

bröstkorgen
Axeln


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In the beginning there was naught.
dry were the crevises of stone. All were alone.
All 'twas fair but lonely.
"There should be Trees," Cautirex spoke.
"Grass must it in be covered," said Urapteri.
"With water must all be surround," aimed Cibitzrac.
space were their works divided.
Arapt, of orange striped skin.
of red and grey hue.
"Who are the three of us?"
what they could of the valley.
"I quite dislike the mountain,"
for their aims were in conflict.
in stink, which after Bitier laughed.
to which Velic also laughed.
So went the parting of the tribes.
That might be the most moving version of the story of the three Raptor Tribes I've ever heard. Reminds me of that story of creation you get from the moustached tree at the beginning of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, only Trespasser-ier.


So school started yesterday, and I tried an ice breaker for the 2nd time, that I designed a few years back. Overall, I think it went great!
Recognition of the benefits of developing a plan before taking action.
Team work – students must work together to accomplish this task.
Meet & Greet – self explanatory.
Final product makes a great wall decoration for the room.
Resources: A3 or similar size heavy weight poster paper, scissors, rulers and colored pencils / markers.
Draw out as many puzzle pieces as you need on the paper. Try to avoid obvious points of connection as you want this to be difficult to reassemble. For example, mix curves and straight edges, but have multiple pieces connect at corners or in the middle of a curve.
Give each student 1 puzzle piece and have them decorate it with their name and imagery / colors that represent themselves. 15 minutes.
Ask the students to quickly present their puzzle piece and describe the significance of what the drew.
Divide the class into 3 groups and give them 3 minutes to "assemble" their puzzles. Odds are, no group will achieve any significant success.
After 3 minutes, ask the students why they were unable to assemble the puzzles. Take notes on the board, and then ask them to provide solutions.
Repeat the process until they have completed the task.
Which side of the pieces goes "face up"? – Not all students will color the correct side of their puzzle pieces.
What is the final shape of the puzzle supposed to be?
Do they have all of the pieces? – You might not want to hand out all of the pieces at the start as this is great for them to realize they might be working with an incomplete puzzle.
Attempt 3 – What's missing? Asking the students about doing a real puzzle, how do you know you have all the pieces? Here I hand out the unused pieces.
Attempt 5 – Up or down? Assuming they have not figured this one out, we talk about how to identify which side of the pieces should face up. It can be identified by finding the pencil lines you original drew to cut the pieces.
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All three major indices are trading down today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) trading down 7 points (0.0%) at 17,628 as of Monday, Nov. 17, 2014, 11:55 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,137 issues advancing vs. 1,826 declining with 176 unchanged.
The Computer Software & Services industry currently sits down 1.1% versus the S&P 500, which is down 0.2%.
3. Adobe Systems ( ADBE) is one of the companies pushing the Computer Software & Services industry lower today. As of noon trading, Adobe Systems is down $1.42 (-2.0%) to $70.00 on light volume. Thus far, 1.1 million shares of Adobe Systems exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.1 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $69.87-$71.25 after having opened the day at $70.98 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $71.42.
Adobe Systems Incorporated operates as a diversified software company worldwide. It operates in three segments: Digital Media, Digital Marketing, and Print and Publishing. Adobe Systems has a market cap of $35.8 billion and is part of the technology sector. Shares are up 19.3% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 9 analysts that rate Adobe Systems a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 4 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Adobe Systems as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and good cash flow from operations. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and feeble growth in the company's earnings per share. Get the full Adobe Systems Ratings Report now.
2. As of noon trading, Qihoo 360 Technology ( QIHU) is down $1.59 (-2.2%) to $71.47 on light volume. Thus far, 845,430 shares of Qihoo 360 Technology exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.3 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $70.80-$73.46 after having opened the day at $72.51 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $73.06.
Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. provides Internet and mobile security products and services in the People's Republic of China. Qihoo 360 Technology has a market cap of $9.0 billion and is part of the technology sector. Shares are down 11.0% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 9 analysts that rate Qihoo 360 Technology a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and none rate it a hold.
1. As of noon trading, Salesforce.com ( CRM) is down $1.00 (-1.6%) to $62.90 on light volume. Thus far, 1.1 million shares of Salesforce.com exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 4.8 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $62.63-$64.10 after having opened the day at $63.74 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $63.91.
salesforce.com, inc. provides enterprise cloud computing solutions to various businesses and industries worldwide. Salesforce.com has a market cap of $39.1 billion and is part of the technology sector. Shares are up 15.8% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 23 analysts that rate Salesforce.com a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 3 rate it a hold.


There is much to consider in the creation of the composition of each class for the upcoming year and this takes us several weeks to work through each spring. We look at physical, academic, second language, and behavioral considerations. We consider children's personalities and how well they have worked together in the past. Gender ratios help us to balance out the rest. Finally, class sizes are considered so that each grade level class is similar in size. The current year's teachers play a large role in creating classes based on their experience working with the children in the school. The key is to find the best balance for all of those factors within each class to help ensure that each child, and teacher, has the most successful year possible. Following extensive discussions regarding the merit of accommodating requests for specific teachers, it has been determined that the volume of requests make it impossible to maintain optimal class balance both with respect to size and composition. As such, we will not be granting teacher requests by name. Since all classes must be balanced to ensure the best possible educational environment, this will be the priority when class lists are created. At the same time, we believe that you can provide us with invaluable insight with respect to what we should consider when placing your child. This form allows for communication of considerations that lie outside of requesting a specific teacher. The administration of Agnes Davidson, with the consultation of the teachers, will be creating the class lists.
Due to the tight timelines regarding class list creation, Student Profile Forms will not be accepted after April 25.


New book provides method to evaluate local governmentJune 05, 2001Cynthia J. Moritzcjmoritz@syr.edu	Despite much fanfare from academics and others about government performance measures, too few local governments use these tools, according to the authors of "Does Your Government Measure Up? Basic Tools for Local Officials and Citizens," just published by the Maxwell Community Benchmarks Program at Syracuse University. In the book, William D. Coplin and Carol Dwyer, both of SU's Maxwell School, provide readers with a list of standards for various local government departments, along with a primer on the use of benchmarks as the cornerstone of continuous improvement. Last fall's presidential election exposed a lack of standardized voting procedures in Florida and throughout the country. According to the authors, this is just one way in which local governments fail to establish clear performance standards and provide adequate resources for the collection of systematic information necessary to assess these standards. "Businesses know they must pay attention to their customer base," Coplin says. "But local elected leaders frequently dismiss suggestions to implement citizen surveys with the justification that the only survey they need occurs at election time." What they fail to take into consideration, he says, is that in many small communities there is often little or no political opposition, which removes the incentive for government to improve. In an attempt to change attitudes, Coplin and Dwyer have written a brief, easy-to-use book that provides the essential tools that every government–no matter how small and strapped for cash–can use to improve government services. Presented in straightforward language, "Does Your Government Measure Up? Basic Tools for Local Officials and Citizens" introduces the bare essentials for good government in the areas of finance, public works, parks and recreation, police, assessment, building codes, emergency medical services, personnel and Web site development, as well as: – more than 255 guidelines that go beyond the bare essentials;	– simple illustrations of how to use benchmarking to make decisions; and	– user-ready surveys to obtain citizen feedback. The book was written at the conclusion of a four-year project establishing the Community Benchmarks Program (CBP), with funding provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and through extensive consultation with a wide variety of local government agencies and professional associations. It is published by the Maxwell Community Benchmarks Program. The book is supported by the CBP Web site (www.maxwell.syr.edu/benchmarks), which enables readers to view additional examples, forms and surveys, and provides a venue to communicate directly with the authors.
Coplin is a professor of public affairs and director of the Maxwell School's Public Affairs Program. Prior to this new book, his most recent published work was "How You Can Help: An Easy Guide to Doing Good Deeds in Your Everyday Life." (Routledge, 1999). Dwyer is director of the Community Benchmarks Program (CBP) of the Maxwell School. The CBP has published more than 20 studies benchmarking local governments in New York's Onondaga County over the past four years. Dwyer is a former journalist and served as the liaison to local governments and citizens for the speaker of the New York State Assembly prior to joining SU in 1996.


Socially responsible corporates, more buzz than reality?
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been a buzzword for long time and is now part of everyday life in business.
The common rationale for business to be proactive in demonstrating CSR relies on its relationship with society.
For companies to remain sustainable in an increasingly competitive economic environment, they have to live up to society's expectation of them.
They have to be socially and environmentally responsible in their business decisions and operations, in addition to pursuing higher economic performance.
Some have argued companies that have adopted this strategy have yielded many competitive advantages over their competitors, such as an increase in market share, enhancement in reputation and brand value, reduced operating costs, improvement in financial performance, increased sales and customer loyalty.
Growing affluence has given consumers the power to make purchasing decisions based on preferences for companies.
With increasing awareness about global warming and the importance of protecting the environment, consumers' selection criteria for purchases have expanded beyond price and quality of products to factors such as companies' corporate image and their social responsibility policies.
Companies are now especially cautious about the type of image they project to consumers as the internet has made information readily available and easily accessible globally.
The increasing power of the media, environmentalists and other activist groups are also driving forces for companies to demonstrate good social responsibility.
Accordingly, it is important for companies to be more transparent about their business activities and operating policies, through provision of non-financial information, such as social and environmental disclosures in their annual and/or other reports.
A survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2014 shows that investors considered issues such as CSR and climate when they made decisions about their investment strategies.
According to the survey, mitigating risk is a major factor behind investors considering corporate responsibility issues in their investment decisions.
Other significant drivers include enhancing investment returns and avoiding business corporations which demonstrate unethical conduct.
With increasing demand from stakeholders, such as investors and consumers, for information on CSR, companies have found themselves obliged to provide the details.
Companies with business activities that involve possible significant impacts on the environment are especially subjected to higher public scrutiny and to provide environmental disclosures.
In Australia, companies operating in the environmentally sensitive industries, such as the resources industry, are required by legislation to provide mandatory environmental disclosures in their annual reports.
Other companies that do not fall under this jurisdiction may disclose this information voluntarily.
Hence, CSR reporting in Australia remains predominantly voluntary, especially in relation to social issues, since mandatory reporting only applies to environmental disclosures, and is confined to companies bound by environmental regulations.
We recently conducted a study to evaluate the quality of CSR reporting in the Australian resources industry.
We collected a sample from the top 100 companies based on market capitalisation, which are listed on the resources index of the Australian Securities Exchange.
Data was collected from the annual financial reports and the standalone sustainability reports of 133 companies. We developed a scoring index to evaluate these companies' disclosures in three aspects of CSR – economic, environmental and social.
Companies were given higher scores for disclosing verifiable disclosure items that could be identified as making a genuine contribution towards good CSR performance.
Interestingly, our study found that companies in the Australian resources industry generally made minimal CSR disclosures.
The reported items were also mostly generic disclosures that were difficult to verify.
This suggested most companies tended to take a tokenistic gesture towards mandatory requirements for CSR.
Companies were also producing vastly different disclosure items that hindered comparability.
While a range of stakeholders want to see companies improve their CSR reporting and performances, a lack of a standardised reporting framework, ambiguity in legislation requirements, and additional costs for CSR reporting and initiatives, remain as huge challenges for companies.
When companies do not disclose their CSR performances adequately, it is difficult to confirm whether their CSR practices have actually occurred.
There is still a need to increase awareness of the importance of CSR disclosure and to establish clearer guidelines on CSR reporting.
Otherwise, CSR may remain a buzzword rather than reality.


Hi we have implemented CF streams into our platform, but we need a way to add tags and/or metadata to the video. This will allow us to fetch videos based on a key:value. Really, this request may have 2 parts. We need to be able to add data to the upload, but then have a rich API to fetch 0 or more videos based on this data. We are using streams in production and while we really like the service, it is EXTREMELY bare bones in terms of doing anything other than upload a video and play it. I built a node express server to handle the uploads, so I'm leveraging tus-js-client wrapped by the package cloudflare-stream. Can I add this data now, or is this another feature that I have to wait for? (I'm not sure how you can have a production-ready service that is missing even the most basic features like tags, searching, fetching multiple videos, etc. I really want to keep this service and make it work, but trying to use it to support one of the core features of our platform has been very difficult without needing to build a ton of custom stuff to make up for these missing features.


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Stefan Bendiks is the director of Artgineering, an office for research and design, combining cycling and urban planning. He is the author of 'Cycle Infrastructure', an inspirational handbook about how to fully explore the potential of (fast) bicycle paths and of 'Fietsland' (Cycling Nation), a study on the added value of cycling in the Netherlands. He worked on the new cycling strategy for the city of Groningen. With Artgineering he currently realizes various projects on public spaces in the Netherlands and Belgium where cycling is not only conceived as a mode of transport, but a powerful means to improve the city as a whole.
DCE experience/projects: For the Dutch Cycling Embassy, Stefan has done several Thinkbike Workshops and presentations.
Fietsinfrastructuur: Cycle Infrastructure. nai010 publishers, 2013.
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WEST HAM are lining up a bid for Ajax striker Miralem Sulejmani.
The Hammers previously came close to landing the 23-year-old on loan two summers ago, but were unable to secure a work permit for the Serbia international.
Ajax are keen to offload Sulejmani as he is unlikely to sign a new contract at the Amsterdam club, meaning he could leave for free next summer.
Club bosses are keen to recoup some of the Dutch-record £13.5million they splashed out on the former Heerenveen star, reports De Telegraaf.
Hammers manager Sam Allardyce is keen to strengthen his forward-line after being frustrated with a loan bid for Liverpool flop Andy Carroll.


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Great Pyramid of Giza Facts – Learning from History
Giza will always be included in one of the great pyramids in the world. This is not surprising considering that the mentioned is perceived to be the largest. It was built and created during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu. This occurred during the circa 2550 B.C. This could be found on Giza. It stood 481 feet, and even 147 meters. What do most of the great pyramid of Giza facts say? While they may be the same at some point, they have similarities that can be observed by many. What are these anyway?
Indeed, Giza will be included as one of the parts of the Wonders of the World. There were tons of Greek historian accounts saying that Khufu, who was Snefru's son, and the 4th dynasty ruler was responsible of having the mentioned managed. This was the time when he made the people around the place his slave just for it to be erected. There were also archeologists who want to support this. However, there were claims that would disprove the allegations.
Just seen on the plateau of Giza, the builders of Khufu would be oriented by the pyramid, most especially by it being found perfectly on the north. Since then, it would be one of the largest and enormous pyramids made. This should not be surprising considering the fact that it goes with like 2 million stones. These were incorporated to become blocks. They even weigh 2.5 a ton each. Just estimate the said measurements. This is why they were responsible in setting blocks every now and then. This happened even half a minute. That is how different it has been.
There were three burial chambers in the pyramid. First lies the underground. This was carved so that it would form a bedrock shape. As for the second, it is known for being the aboveground chamber. This was even perceived as the chamber of the queen. This was how it was termed by many early explorers out there. This was never meant to be house of the wives of the said king. As for the third one, it would always be the chamber of the king. This went with a red granite sarcophagus. This was placed in the middle of the pyramid itself. The said chamber may be of 26 ft high. When it comes to the Grand Gallery, the thieves were sealed off. This occurred through the sliding of granite which was intended to be the blocking systems.
The centerpiece has been elaborated for a complex purpose. This was the Great Pyramid. This would include a few numbers of small pyramids around too. There were also five boat pits. The same was also true with the valley temple, five boat pits, mortuary temple, and even the causeway. All of these. There were some members coming from the royal family as well. There were still mystery shafts. These have been extended coming from the chambers of both the king and the queen. Do not forget to ponder on these for those who are interested.
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Monaco rubbish reports Rybolovlev will sell club and buy AC Milan
Monaco have responded to reports that their president and majority shareholder could sell up and try to buy AC Milan.
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Monaco insist there is no truth to media reports that club president Dmitry Rybolovlev wants to sell the club and launch a takeover bid for AC Milan.
It has been claimed in Italy that the Russian billionaire, who became majority shareholder of Monaco in 2011, is considering trying to buy Milan from Yonghong Li.
However, the Ligue 1 champions say Rybolovlev is passionate about Monaco's future and has no plans to sell his stake in the Stade Louis II club.
"Following rumours about AS Monaco football club in the media these last days, AS Monaco affirms that there is no current negotiation on the sale of the club or purchase of AC Milan," a statement released on Friday said.
"The president Dmitry Rybolovlev is happy to develop the Monegasque project since seven years [sic].
"AS Monaco points out that the club was last in Ligue 2 in 2011 and today is the champion of France. The ambition for present and future is intact around young talented players, around modern infrastructures in development but also the ambition to win new trophies. Facts are more important than rumours.
"The entire club is turned today towards the finale of the Coupe de la Ligue and the fight for the qualification in [the] Champions League."
Rossoneri Sport Investment Lux, a consortium headed by Li, bought 99.9 per cent of Milan last April for €370m but there has been mounting uncertainty about their future ownership.
Milan have spent in the region of €200m in transfer fees since last April as part of a drastic rebuilding of the squad, but they sit five points adrift of the Champions League places with 10 Serie A games left this season.
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Absolute Q.E. Corrupts Absolutely
What made America great was the fact that the average joe could work hard and provide for his family.
It was called the American Dream. But somewhere along the way something went wrong, and the dream became a nightmare.
The biggest culprit in the death of the American Dream is the US Federal Government.
In general, when a government stays put and does not infringe on the personal and financial lives of its people, one can almost bet that things will remain pretty stable.
However, sooner or later a Government becomes a Frankensteinian operation that must feed its Gargantuan creature called Bureaucracy.
And the only way to feed that giant monster is with money, which then becomes the State's obsession since it can never have enough.
Soon the State's relationship with the citizenry it was meant to serve becomes exactly like that of a two-bit Mafia don with its coerced victims: "I want my cut. Capisce?"
Eventually the State's obsession with money trickles down to every stratum of society. As Newton's third law of motion proved, for every action there is systematically an equal reaction accompanied by opposite reactions no one expected.
And that's what went wrong in America.
As the money obsession spread, money morphed from a means to an end to the end of all means, with terrible consequences.
The purpose or the end of money has become money itself. As a result, all responsibility has been thrown out the window.
The problem began at the Federal level when the US Government (USG) allowed the Federal Reserve System to come into existence, without any Congressional oversight and without Constitutional Ratification.
The Fed – as it is called – is a private institution disguised as Federal that creates money out of thin air. Its primary purpose is to enrich its secret and not so secret members via unlimited money printing. Its secondary purpose is to feed the USG's gargantuan operations – at the right interest rate, of course.
Hence to the Fed money is its own end. It creates money to get money. And the reason it is so is because the con-artists who control it via their private banks made it so. See How the Ashkenazi Jews Conquered the West
The robber Barons of old used money as a means to develop the United States by creating infrastructures and industries.
But not today.
Our contemporary robbers only want money for money's sake. They create money with no worth (i.e., with no gold or silver to back it up) and give it the veneer of value through various money market instruments.
The Fed is an ungodly printing machine of fiat money or paper money solely at the disposal of irresponsible money-addicted monsters who can never accumulate enough. See The corrupt Federal Reserve is NOT Federal
When a mom and pop business takes roots, its purpose is to take care of the family. Its end is noble.
Avarice by Jesus Solana
However, as mega corporations displace the majority of the mom and pop businesses throughout the US, their only purpose becomes the satisfaction of their greedy shareholders who apparently can never get enough profit.
Thus profit becomes the ungodly god.
If there is not enough of it, employees who depend on their jobs to care for their families are laid off without any sense of responsibility or mercy, while CEOs still get to cash their multi-million dollar paychecks – salaries that could easily be reduced and redistributed to keep more employees on board until a recovery. In truth, these CEOs need a Heart Adjustment.
The bottom line is no longer the family's well-being, but the profit margin of corporations and the padded bank accounts of their executives.
Though there are many good Americans throughout the land who still espouse good old fashioned morality, there are also many who embrace greed as their primary end in life.
Greed is an ungodly cancer that plunges those who harbor it into moral and spiritual bankruptcy. Strangely, it's not just the rich and the super rich who are infected with its virus. Millions of Americans want money the easy way, just like the Fed. If you doubt it, then go to to a place where they sell that government-controlled monopoly scam called Lottery, and take a gander at that long line of folks hoping to win their ticket to unlimited money printing.
Greed can be the poor or middle class man's obsession as well.
And that's why credit cards have also been made readily available, thanks to the Fed's "largesse." The idea is to drive people into high interest debt which they accumulate purchasing trifles they don't really need.
So the indebted juggle many jobs, not to feed their families, but to pay off their irresponsible debts and further enrich greedy banksters.
THE CONSEQUENCES
At the Federal level the aftermaths are numerous.
1) Inflation. Before the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, there was barely any inflation (except mostly during times of war and conflict). However, following the Fed's money printing addiction or Q.E. (Quantitative Easing), change in prices skyrocketed – get ready for a $10 loaf of bread soon. See chart below.
The Fed's incessant and irresponsible money printing, or QE ad infinitum, has debased the currency and vaulted the cost of living through the roof, and the average family can only struggle to make ends meet.
2) Taxes. To pay the shysters at the Fed who convinced the USG bureaucracy to borrow from them, Federal Income Taxes began their reign of terror, even though in 1895 the US Supreme Court ruled that the Income Tax was unconstitutional.
Consequently, in 1913 – the same year the Fed was founded, no coincidence there – Congress, according to Tax Foundation, passed "the 16th Amendment to the Constitution (which) made the income tax a permanent fixture in the U.S. tax system. The amendment gave Congress legal authority to tax income and resulted in a revenue law that taxed incomes of both individuals and corporations."
However, according to some experts, said Amendment was not properly ratified by all 50 states and therefore is invalid. No surprise or coincidence there either.
In other words, the USG created a problem called the Fed which they squarely laid at the feet of the American people. In so doing, the USG continually extracts pounds after pounds of flesh from American families, and in the process turns Shylock into a Saint. See Was Shylock a Jew?
3) Wars. To encourage the USG to borrow more money, the secret members of the Fed coerced it into various wars, which in turn caused the Income Tax to rise significantly along with inflation, thereby imposing an even greater burden on the American people.
"Almost all wars, in a hundred years or so, have been paid for through inflation, that is debasing the currency," explained Ron Paul. See Warmongering and Economic Progress
4) Corruption. As the Fed befouled the members of the USG and Congress through bribe and coercion, mega businesses and groups of the super rich also began exerting their influence by buying their way in. It is no wonder that almost every federal agency (i.e., FDA, EPA, etc.) has also become corrupt, pimping for the likes of Big Pharma, Monsanto, etc. without any regard for how their decisions affect the well being of American families.
"… (America) is just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for President or being elected President. And the same thing applies to governors, and U.S. Senators and Congress members," revealed former President Jimmy Carter.
Supra-billionaire George Soros said in Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered that, "Individual states and national populations should not be allowed to govern their own economic affairs – instead, this process will be accomplished by a global financial elite."
Oh, really?
5) Unemployment. Mega Corporations bribed Congress to pass various International Trade Agreements that siphoned thousands upon thousands of manufacturing jobs out of America. These companies then conveniently shipped these jobs overseas in order to pad their bottom line using cheap labor, which could have been found in the US if inflation created by the Fed did not cause costs to skyrocket.
6) Police State. In order to keep the Fed and Big Business in control of the USG, a Police State has been erected to keep the sheeple docile. It has become so bad that the People's Representatives even vote against the will of the people they supposedly represent, not feigning so much as a modicum of care for the wishes of their constituents. Said disposition has firmly trickled down to cops who have turned savagely wild on those they have sworn to protect and serve.
So how come the American people keep voting back in office all these so-called Representatives of the People? Maybe the American people are not to blame. Maybe the computers tallying the votes are rigged.
There are two noteworthy aftermaths.
1) Mediocrity. The products of many American Corporations have become so bad that quality is now synonymous with Made in Japan. The idea is to make inferior products in order to drive repeat business.
Even the content of most Hollywood movies has turned so poor that many cinephiles look to Europe and beyond for quality entertainment. The main culprit is the perverted morality that permeates too many of Hollywood productions, which in turn corrupts their storyline. See The Consequences of Sin
2) Inflated value and the coming crash. The mostly unidirectional flow of investment brought about a bifurcation in its consequences.
a) Most publicly traded companies are overvalued. Frequent QEs have pushed investment bankers to look to the stock market for investment opportunities where their money-dumping has created a bubble.
According to Boris Marjanovic, Hedge Fund Manager, "…stocks (have been) bid up to unsustainable price levels – creating a huge bubble that will lead to an eventual stock market crash. For instance, the Shiller P/E ratio currently sits at ~28x, which is how high it got at the peak of the 2007 real estate bubble. That's more than 65% above the historic average of 16.6x."
Shiller P/E Ratio is More Than 65% Above Historical Norms
The value of a company shouldn't be according to stock-market-induced fluctuations and shenanigans. It should be according to the intrinsic and actual quality of the company's product line, the fiscal responsibility and the efficacy of its administrators, its assets (tangible and intangible), and the potential profit outlook; and it shouldn't necessarily be adversely affected by normal fluctuation cycles in the consumer marketplace nor by the company's initial bumpy steps. A case in point is Apple.
When Apple's CEO Steve Jobs – the progeny of one Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian Arab – was fired from the company he founded because of poor stock performance, which was temporarily tied to his obsession in wanting to create quality products, Apple almost went bankrupt until Steve came back and turned it around. A feat He accomplished by sticking to his previous principle of not producing but only quality and aesthetically pleasing products for his Apple and Pixar brands.
Steve had a vision that his then hostile and vision-less board members who initially fired him didn't have. He was that rare light in an increasingly dim field of Mega Corporation Executives. That's why he was and is still celebrated, even after his death. The happy result is that today Apple has the largest market cap of any listed company.
b) The blinkers fastened on most investment bankers have induced them to ignore small businesses, which apparently are of no consequence to them. In turn, their stock market aggregated outpouring of liquidity has caused credit to tighten for small to mid-sized companies. The result has been an avalanche of bankruptcies.
"Corporate Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings in July have soared 77% year-over-year, to 637 filings, the most in nearly three years, the Wall Street Journal reported, based on data from Epiq Systems," explained Wolf Richter of Contra Club.
Small businesses are the heart of America. Ignoring them by cutting their credit line is a fatal mistake that places millions of families on shaky ground, even uncharted territory.
"Banks have simply lost interest in making smaller loans, because they are costly to underwrite and yield less than larger loans," explained former SBA Chief Karen Mills.
There are also two noteworthy aftermaths.
1) Financial chaos. It's been an ongoing problem in the American household for quite some time. Samuel J. Gerdano, executive director of the American Bankruptcy Institute, said:
"A combination of economic stress, including high debt loads, rising unemployment and unsustainable mortgage burdens, left many consumers with little choice but to seek the financial relief of bankruptcy.
"Consumer filing totals have fluctuated over the past decade as there have been changes in law in addition to the housing and financial downturns. The year 2005 saw a high mark of 2 million consumer bankruptcies."
So what did Congress do to corner the consumer and favor the bankers? It enacted the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, which tightened requirements for filing.
"Consumer filings then dropped to 600,000 in 2006, but then rose each year until they registered over 1.5 million filings in 2010 amidst the housing and financial downturns," further explained Gerdano.
2) Family chaos. The family unit in America is fast disintegrating. The causes are numerous: lack of jobs, debt that causes stress, breakdown of moral principles, the constant pursuit of the dollar above family relationships, etc. These cause marital friction and then divorce. It is estimated that close to 50% of couples who get married end up calling it quits. See The Biblical Marriage Blueprint
According to Bruce C. Hafen, Professor of Law at Brigham Young University, "the contemporary disintegration of the nuclear family in America – due primarily to nonmarital cohabitation, childbearing out of wedlock, and the termination of close to one-half of all marriages by divorce – has profound implication not only for the health and happiness of the members of such families, but for all of society and for the stability, efficacy and survival of our form of representative, democratic government. The failure to responsibly form, respect and maintain marital families is not just a private tragedy, it is a public calamity that portends a developing social and political disaster."
See The Family is God's Plan
The obsessive pursuit of money for money's sake has failed America. From the moment said objective was set in motion, America was doomed.
To an individual a noble purpose is important, and equally as significant are a Corporation's goal and a Government's mission. If the object of any entity is money above everything else, sooner or later a breakdown will materialize.
For example, the reason the Godfather movie series was a success was because of one simple factor. In the midst of all its crimes and conspiracies to commit more crimes, the heart of the storyline (its objective) was family – you don't mess with the family and you don't betray the family.
Everything the head of the Corleone clan did was to protect and provide for his family, which he saw as his main purpose and duty – though we by no means approve of his immoral methods of achieving success, something the storytellers made sure he paid dearly for and something the Don himself no longer wanted to rely on.
The strength of The Godfather's family unit and the might of its Patriarch – especially in the midst of a women's lib movement trying to unseat man from his God-given role within his family – were what really stirred and still stirs the endearment cinephiles all over the world feel for the series, even if most people don't realize why they love it so.
These powerful undertows resonated loudly, and together with masterful filmmaking and acting catapulted the movies amongst America's top classics and consolidated their enduring appeal. Check your TV listings, they're always showing somewhere. Not too shabby for a mostly made-in-the-70s movie series. What other flicks – especially made during that period – can claim that?
Fedxit is a must.
It's time for America (and most of the world that follows America's lead) to go back to the basics. It's time to rediscover mankind's true objectives. It's time for God and His laws, loving patriarchal family, and purposeful responsibility.
In other words, money needs to be redefined as a refrained and practical means to these ends, while the intrinsic value it once possessed (with precious metals) needs to be reinstated.
However, for Money to ever recover its worth we must end the Fed.
"The love of money is the root of all evil." 1 Timothy 6:10
The pursuit of Money above everything else has even trickled down in the Church, where the relentless quest for earthly riches has replaced the truth of God's Word and His plan for the family. See Ministry Money and the Tithe Lie and Has God planned BIG Things for our Lives?


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Audi quattro Cup 2015 tees off in Dubai with Al Nabooda Automobiles
The opening event of the world's most renowned amateur golf tournament has officially teed off this year in Dubai with more than 100 golfers turning out to compete. The Audi quattro Cup Golf Tournament Series, this year celebrating its 25th anniversary, will see over 800 rounds played by more than 100,000 golfers in at least 50 countries throughout the year.
Hosted locally by Al Nabooda Automobiles, the official dealer for Audi in Dubai and the Northern Emirates, the first series of the tournament in the world saw Craig Miller and Steve Pettigrew take the winning spot at The Address Montgomerie Club. Graham Batchelor and Rhys Alexander came in a close second as runners up, and now all four finalists go forward to the UAE final, competing for a chance to represent the Emirates in the Audi quattro Cup World Final 2015 in Los Cabos, Mexico at the end of November.
Ali Al Nabooda, General Manager Audi, Al Nabooda Automobiles, said: "The Audi quattro Cup 2015 series has been running for more than two decades and is a powerful way to promote golf throughout the world. Golf is one of the most loved sports in Dubai and our city is renowned for its abundance of world-class courses and greens. "It was an honour to host the first tournament of the series here and to enjoy a beautiful Dubai day at the Montgomerie course. This tournament is an annual highlight for us at Al Nabooda Automobiles, spending an exciting, competitive day with our customers and guests as they battle it out in long drives and challenging putts. "Audi represents sports competition, precise technology and passion. That's what we've celebrated here today. My congratulations go to our four finalists and I wish them all the best in the next round." The Audi quattro Cup Golf Tournament Series was established in 1991 and welcomes more golfers and countries every year. In 2014, Brazil became the latest member, while this year Sri Lanka will join the series. More than 1.4 million golfers have taken part in an Audi quattro Cup tournament during the last 25 years.
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There are cars. Then there's "Volkswagen". The word Volkswagen means "People's car" in German. It is not only one of the most important German makes, but it has also become a highly desirable brand in the nation. Al Nabooda takes pride in being the driving force behind that trend.
Audi stands for sporty vehicles, high build quality and progressive design – for "Vorsprung durch Technik." Al Nabooda Automobiles, the importer and distributor of Audi in Dubai and Northern Emirates, invested in recent years in state of the art facilities across all showrooms and service centers that show, that the company strives like the brand to provide their customers with the best services.
As the authorised importer and dealer for Porsche in Dubai and the Northern Emirates of UAE, Al Nabooda Automobiles is committed to providing its customers a superlative buying and ownership experience. To achieve this we have developed world class Porsche Showrooms and Service Centres in Dubai, Sharjah and Fujairah.


Microsoft is seeking a qualified Postdoctoral Researcher to join them in advancing the state-of-the-art in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Also responsible to collaborate and build new ideas with members of the group and others.
Define your research agenda in collaboration with other researchers, driving forward an effective program of basic, fundamental, and applied research.
Have the opportunity to collaborate and build new ideas with members of the group and others.
Have the direct opportunity to realize your ideas in products and services used worldwide.
Completion of a PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, statistics, mathematics, or a related field by fall 2019.
Research ability demonstrated by 2 or more ML/AI related publications in top-rated conferences or journals.
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Voodoo (2011-2012)
Pris is forced to confront exactly what she has become after being experimented on by the Daemonites. Compelled to search for other victims like her, she's offered a deal by the Black Razors!
Sami Basri
Colored by:
Jessica Kholinne
Who is Voodoo? Is she hero, villain--or both? Learn the truth about Priscilla Kitaen as she leaves a trail of violence across America. Discover the DC Universe through her eyes, because the things she sees are not always what they seem. This series is rated Teen+.
Resurrection Man (2011-2012)
Resurrection Man can't stay dead for long--and he returns again in a new series! But his many returns have not gone unnoticed, and forces are gathering to learn what's so special about him and to see which of them will finally stop the Resurrection Man dead. This series is rated Teen+.
Blackhawks (2011-2012)
Welcome to a world waging a new kind of war that's faster and more brutal than ever before-fought by those who would make the innocent their targets. Between them and us stand the Blackhawks, an elite force of military specialists equipped with the latest in cutting-edge hardware and vehicles!
Grifter (2011-2013)
Former Special Ops agent Cole Cash is a charming grifter few can resist, but he's about to be branded a serial killer when he begins hunting and exterminating inhuman creatures hidden in human form--creatures hunting him as well!
DC Universe Presents (2011-2013)
A new series spotlighting some of the DC Universe's most exciting super heroes by some of comics' top creators. Will you explore the less-traveled corners of the DCU to visit Deadman's past, or Aqualad's future? Anything could happen here...and it probably will!