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Closing Mosques – Islamic Justifications for Coronavirus Lockdowns
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Shaykh Sajid Umar
This piece is cross-posted with permission from islam21c.com.
We are living in an unprecedented time. Superpowers have become overwhelmed by the tiny virus particle Covid-19, turning bustling metropolises into ghost towns, grounding planes and closing airports, with hundreds dying daily and some of the most advanced healthcare systems in the world grinding to a halt.
This unprecedented situation has led to the unprecedented move of the world's mosques being closed to the public for the first time—en masse—since Bilāl (Allāh be pleased with him) first raised the call to prayer over 1400 years ago. It is indeed a sign of Īmān for this to hurt us, as the believers are connected to the Houses of Allāh, and their closure has stirred many emotions.
It is important in times like these not to let these emotions get hijacked by Shaytān, who has tried to use the Coronavirus pandemic to sow seeds of discord among the Muslims. One of the most insidious traps of Iblīs is to cause us to lose respect and love for each other, particularly for the scholars and leaders of our communities, thereby blocking the mercy of Allāh from reaching us.
The closing of a masjid is a matter of local jurisdiction. My personal opinion, one way or another, is not relevant in a matter that is up to responsible, knowledgeable scholarship in respective regions to decide based on their own scenarios. I could in fact be sinful for commenting on a specific decision taken by the leaders of a specific congregation, and even more sinful if my comments create unnecessary drama between congregations and their leaders.
However, I have been inundated with questions and arguments about the situation, from people for and against the closure of mosques, and I believe it would be beneficial for all of us to understand the matter at hand, to foster understanding of the reasoning behind the closure of mosques taken by scholars across many countries, and to highlight the fact that the scholars who hold different views are in fact in agreement on the major principles involved.
Furthermore it is important to appreciate that the decision to close mosques was a decision WITHIN the Islamic legal field, not due to the false dichotomy some have spread of the 'medical' vs 'Islamic' considerations. People with a particular interest or expertise are naturally inclined to giving that disproportionate weight. However, as we will see, the Islamic jurist in fact has to take into account ALL relevant angles—which is partly why there is more scope for disagreements—including the medical, economic, mental health, spiritual, political and hereafter angles.This is thus a delicate ijtihādi matter juggling various competing considerations, which should attract from us the highest level of adab (manners).
There is more agreement than disagreement
Both those who opined for and against full closure of mosques agree that an objective of the Sharia is the preservation of life. They both agree on the principle that prevention of harm takes precedence over gaining benefit. They both agree that out of two necessary harmful choices, one has to choose the lesser of two harms to avert the greater one.
They both agree that Allāh has gifted this ummah the unique gift of the entire earth being pure and a place of prayer in general, with certain places attracting more reward than others. They both agree that closing the masjid is no small matter, but a massive, catastrophic one.
They both agree that if you follow scholarly opinions of trusted scholars and scholarly bodies, you will not be sinful. And they both agree that if you are prevented from your usual 'ibādah such as praying in the mosques, you will still be rewarded for them.
It is important to remember this, because we naturally ignore the majority area of agreement and focus on relatively small matters of disagreement. But why do those disagreements occur?
Differences occur in the micro-matters; of juggling the various ethical considerations (masālih), their respective implementation in real life, and the analysis and weighing of various harms—whether 'major' or 'minor', for example. Scholars differ due to their personal reasoning and understanding, since Allāh has created us all with different personalities and dispositions, so we naturally interpret a situation in different ways.
This is partly why large-scale decisions should be made by numbers of jurists coming together, mitigating each other's variations, the pinnacle of which is Ijmā' (unanimous consensus), which is a binding proof of what Allāh intended to be said on His behalf on any given matter. In any case, broadly speaking, where there is no unanimous consensus, we should not be overly dogmatic or rigid when it comes to accepting legitimate disagreements.
Arguments for closing mosques
The following are some of the Islamic justifications of the decision to close mosques en masse by scholarly bodies in several Muslim-majority countries.
Hadiths of avoiding spread of disease
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is reported to have said:
"If you hear of a disease outbreak in a land, do not go there, and if you are there during an outbreak, then do not flee from it."[1]
"The afflicted should not be mixed with the healthy."[2]
"Flee from leprosy like you would flee from a lion."[3]
When it comes to prophetic instructions, one of the first things the jurist does is try to ascertain whether it is: (i) intended literally as an act of obedience (ta'abbudi), such as maghrib being prayed three rak'āt or circumambulation of the ka'ba being anti-clockwise; or (ii) intended as a fathomable means to an end (ma'qūl al-ma'nā), such as the prohibition of wine being due to its capacity for intoxication.
When it came to narrations like the above, the scholars understood them to be of the second category, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is in fact giving those as examples of means to an underlying end—or causative effect ('illah)—which is to isolate infectious diseases and limit their harms.
As such, if the World Health Organisation were to send people into an infectious disease outbreak zone whilst taking precautions to limit its spread, the jurist would not say this is impermissible due to the hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Even though they may be going against the literal instruction of the Prophet ("do not go there"), they are taking steps to prevent the intended meaning behind the hadith—i.e. to limit the spread of the disease.
This is why in the books of fiqh we find many examples of scholars giving rulings that on the face of it go against a particular hadith of the Prophet, but upon closer inspection they are actually being faithful to the intended meaning behind the Prophet's instruction. An example is found in child custody cases. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) declared that in cases of a divorce, a small child should remain with the mother, and if she remarries then custody goes to the child's father.
Despite the wording of the hadith, some scholars understood that this is based on an underlying 'illah (effective cause), which is to prevent the child being neglected by a step-father or a mother busied with looking after another family. As a result, in cases where the father of the child is more likely to neglect him or her, and the step-father permits the child's mother to nurture her child, scholars opined that the mother retains custody after remarrying, in spite of the wording of the prophetic hadith whilst being faithful to the underlying meaning transmitted by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
Therefore, the jurists agree that the intended meaning behind the narrations above is to prevent or limit the harm caused by a disease, because the Sharia intends to preserve and protect life—including health. Since the coronavirus not only infects a large number of those who come into contact with it, but leads to death and secondary and tertiary disasters such as the overwhelming and destruction of public health service capacity, the Shariah thus instructs us to do what is possible in order to prevent it and limit its harms.
Conflicting Sharia objectives: Life vs Dīn (Faith)
A problem however occurs when this objective to preserve life, conflicts with another objective of the Sharia—namely to preserve the Dīn of Islām.
Medical experts have expressed the fact that the distance between you and the coronavirus is a simple handshake. Extreme Social distancing mechanisms have been implemented across many countries, and the deadly cost of delaying these measures has been seen in countries that adopted these measures after the disease started to spread more rapidly, such as Iran and Italy.
On one hand we have the call for social distancing, but on the other, the masjid wants us together; feet to feet, shoulder to shoulder. Will praying our five daily prayers and the Friday prayer in congregation lead to the virus spreading death and destruction of the public health services? The medical and epidemiology experts give us an overwhelming 'yes' to this question.
According to those scholars who opined to close masājid, the testimony of those experts reaches the threshold of ghalabat al-dhann—a warranted confidence in some information that the jurist will be held accountable for knowing, and thus anticipating. The medical experts have thus advised with a degree of confidence that we are responsible for anticipating, that things like Umrah and congregational prayer will indeed lead to the spreading of the virus.
But is that enough to close mosques?
Knowing that something is a potential threat to life is not automatically enough to trump any other consideration. The Sharia has, after all, legislated Jihād, which can and does lead to the loss of life. The key to understanding this is the following.
The Sharia has overall objectives that have been extracted by the scholars of Islamic law, from a holistic, inductive reading of all rulings (istiqrā'). There are various formulations, but they include the preservation of the Dīn, life, lineage, mind, wealth, and reputation.
Not just due to the fact that the Sharia has commanded things like Jihād, the scholars have understood that as an abstract objective or value, the preservation of the Dīn takes precedence over the preservation of life. However, before this can be implemented in the process of law and deriving rulings, it has to be resolved across a second dimension.
Each objective of the Sharia is broken up according to how necessary any given thing is to that objective.
A Darūra is something that is absolutely necessary to preserve that objective, its absence causing a detrimental impact on that objective. An example of this is not praying the Salāh at all, which is a Darūra for preservation of one's Dīn.
The next level down is a Hājah, which is something you need to fulfil an objective, its absence causing hardship, but not necessarily detriment. It may lead to detriment down the line, but not immediately. An example of this is having a roof over your head, to preserve life. Not having it will be very difficult, but not an imminent threat to your life.
The third level the jurists mention is a Mukammil, which is something under normal circumstances neither necessary nor needed, but something that will assist you in achieving one of the objectives, sometimes translated as "embellishment".
Scholars who gave the fatwa to close mosques cited that the congregational prayer falls into this third category, it is a Mukammil matter, not a Darūra nor a Hājah (under normal circumstances).
Performing the prayer in congregation assists a person in carrying out the prayer, therefore fulfilling the objective of preservation of the Dīn. If a person does not pray in congregation but still prays, he is able to preserve his Dīn. It will not be immediately detrimental to his Dīn and its preservation.
The faqīh therefore does not simply look at one dimension—Dīn vs life—but rather he looks at them combined with the second dimension, of necessity. Whilst the Darūra actions of preserving the Dīn trump the Darūra of preserving life (such as in warfare), the Darūra actions of preserving life (such as social distancing) trump the Mukammil actions of preserving Dįn (such as Ādhān and congregational prayer).
It is important to note that this is from within the Islamic legal paradigm. It is not an 'Islām vs medicine' or 'dunyā vs ākhira' binary—these are false dichotomies. From within Islām's own legal framework, it is a religious obligation to carry out certain actions to preserve life and wealth, for example. If the mu'adhin feels (with ghalabat al-dhann) that going up a hill to give the call to prayer will lead to him getting robbed, for example, then he is told by the Islamic jurist to make the call from a safe place, even if no one will hear it. There is no guilt on him, in fact he may be rewarded for following this Islamic ruling.
What about Jumu'ah?
With regards to the Friday prayer, these scholars likewise opined that stopping it will not lead to the erosion of Dīn because the Sharia has given a replacement for it, in the form of the Dhuhr prayer, where it is not possible to observe the Friday prayer. It does not constitute an imminent threat to the preservation of the Dīn because Allāh has given a replacement (badal) for it, and there is a maxim in Islamic law that "When the default is excused, the replacement is moved to."
Other general evidences
In addition to the above, those who opined to close mosques on account of the coronavirus outbreak refer to other supporting evidences. Among them are the statements of Allāh:
"And Allāh wants to lighten for you [your difficulties]; and mankind was created weak."[4]
"And strive for Allāh with the striving due to Him. He has chosen you and has not placed upon you in the religion any difficulty."[5]
"And do not throw yourselves into destruction with your own hands…"[6]
Among them is the legal principle "Harm must be removed," which is taken from the hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), "There should be no harm nor the reciprocation of harm."[7]
Those who were against the closure of mosques
It is important to remember that despite the dominant discourse in the public mind being a false dichotomy between absolute lockdown on one hand, and business as usual on the other, those scholars who opined that mosques should not be closed en masse did NOT argue for simply doing nothing, as some have misunderstood.
It is true that some people without knowledge have taken a condemnable course of action of being negligent with regards to their responsibilities to limit the harms of this virus—which is as we have explained an Islamic obligation. What is more condemnable is using the great Islamic value of Tawakkul (reliance on and trust in Allāh) as an excuse for negligence. Instead of tawakkul those who are negligent of their duties are in fact carrying out Tawākul, which is a misregard for taking necessary means to achieve a goal.
However, the scholars of Islām are far removed from this tiny minority and their actions. The scholars who argued against wholesale mosque closures called upon an axiomatic truth that if something gravely important can be reduced instead of eliminated, then opportunities for reduction should be exhausted before elimination. All scholars encouraged the taking of all reasonable medical precautions, however differed simply on what the most effective way to balance all the competing considerations is.
For example, even the scientific experts advising the UK government were in "heated debates" regarding the correct time and extent to implement social distancing.[8] Doing it too late could mean the disease would spread too quickly, doing it too early could mean a burden on people leading them to slack and risking a more dangerous 'second peak'.
Likewise, scholars and mosque leaders contemplate other measures to reduce the numbers of people gathering, such as making a bare minimum congregation of two or three local individuals, whilst remaining effectively 'closed' to the public. This is partly why this is a jurisdictional matter. Different cities have different disease rates, infrastructures and social norms, which mean different strategies to combat the spread of the virus.
On top of that, the scholars remind us of an important theological point, that there are unseen, divine causes for the removal of calamities, and Salāh is one of them. So as a result of their ijtihād on this issue they might have used some form of prayer in mosques (with medical precautions) as a means to receive divine help and mercy as part of a comprehensive strategy for protection and cure. Not to mention considering the future political ramifications of setting a precedent of closing mosques down en masse.
As mentioned earlier, the jurist has to consider multiple angles at once. In any case, the scholars of Islām should not be accused of lacking the necessary jurisprudence insights when studying this matter, and condoning a "business as usual" approach.
Difference of opinion is a mercy for the Ummah of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). But at the same time, being united despite differences is also a mercy, and being disunited is a punishment.[9] That which the scholars of this ummah agree on vastly outweighs that which they disagree over.
We are in unprecedented times so it is understandable to have unprecedented fatwas and unprecedented levels of confusion among the masses. However, do not let Shaytān make you depressed or focus on relatively trivial matters compared to the greater goal of glorifying Allāh and relying on Him first and foremost, whilst working together to make your communities and societies as safe as possible.
Use this opportunity to go back to Allāh, to flee to Him, and beg him for forgiveness, since He gave us a taste of something beloved to us and Him being taken away from us—the congregational prayers—no doubt to test us. Make the most of this time of social distancing and implement the guidance of the scholars who have told us how to pray in our homes during this trial, and make our homes into masājid glorifying Allāh.[10]
[1] Bukhari & Muslim
[2] Muslim
[3] Bukhari
[4] Al-Qur'ān 4:28
[5] Al-Qur'ān 22:78
[6] Al-Qur'ān 2:195
[7] Ibn Mājah
[8] https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/10-days-that-changed-britains-coronavirus-approach
[9] The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The community is a mercy, whilst disunity is a punishment." [Ahmed]
[10] https://www.islam21c.com/islamic-law/sh-haitham-how-to-pray-during-a-coronavirus-lockdown/
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Shaykh Sajid Umar, FD.IT, MED,LL.B (Shariah), MJS (Qadha'), LL.D is a qualified Mufti and Judge, as well as an educator, author, researcher. He is a lecturer at Knowledge International University; is the Director of Islamic Development for Mercy Mission World; and lecturer and head of the board of directors of AlKauthar Institute.
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Monster Magnet released a new song; Royal Thunder opening for them on tour (updated dates & stream)
by Doug Moore
We announced a few months back that Monster Magnet will be releasing a new album, Last Patrol, on October 15 via Napalm Records. (Preorder it here.) The band will tour North America for the first time in ten years in support of the album, but when we last touched on it, no openers had been announced.
That's all been cleared up. Looks like Monster Magnet will rely on relentless road dogs Royal Thunder (who have played NYC more than once this year), with help from Zodiac, for support. The tour brings all three bands to NYC on December 14 at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets for that show are still available.
On top of that, Monster Magnet has debuted a second new jam, called "Mindless Ones", from their upcoming effort (via Crave). Stream both new MM songs and check out the full list of tour dates below.
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11/14: Grand Rapids, MI @ Intersection
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11/16: Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
11/17: Minneapolis, MN @ Mill City Nights
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Uber Announces New Global 'Code Of Conduct', Safety Guidelines
By Nate Swanner/March 26, 2015 8:40 am EST
No stranger to controversy, Uber is as much PR-spin company than it is ride-sharing entity. Following some serious allegations about passenger safety, the latest being the alleged rape of a passenger in India late last year, Uber said they'd pen some guidelines for best practices on how to react to such events. Now, the company has a code of conduct for drivers, as well as incident response teams and a safety advisory board. Perhaps most assuring is Uber's commitment to working with law enforcement fully.
Uber's code of conduct for drivers read as any like it should; don't discriminate, don't be aggressive, and always be safe. It's a cavalcade of third grade logic, but also necessary given the host of issues that seem to pop up around Uber.
An advisory board, which has the duty of monitoring the entire planet, will "review our safety practices and advise on our roadmap for adding safety features to the platform". Uber admits the board is not yet settled, as the company looks for board members via "outside experts".
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The Incident Response Team is a bit more opaque, with Uber saying they are "specially trained groups that investigate and respond to serious safety concerns that may occur", and sprinkled around the globe for "those critical moments when a rapid resolution is needed." They're on call 24/7, but Uber isn't really saying what remedies they offer for drivers or passengers.
Finally, Uber will "quickly provide law enforcement with very specific details about trip activity for their investigations", but position it as an ongoing effort to share data with city officials about Uber's activity, as they notably do in Boston. At the time Uber originally promised stricter rules, following the rape allegation in India, I chided them for not vowing to work with law enforcement to rectify issues. Good on Uber for doing the right thing, here.
Sadly, we know Uber will have to put this to work sooner or later. The guidelines laid out give them a good footing to act, and though they like to call themselves a 'technology company' rather than a ride-sharing service — it's good to see them at least acting like the latter.
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I simply don't enjoy watching most TV ads anymore. Probably, it's also a number of times each ad is played. It's gone up. You can no longer watch anything on TV without being whistled at by McDonald's at least twenty times.
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They did the unexpected. And for an insurer that's probably on a par with ensuring the tube (too soon?).
Speaking to people in agencies and hearing about them, they all want to win awards with creativity, they all want to get out there and do new stuff. More than that, people want new stuff.
Steve Jobs. He had a brilliant way of communicating with anybody. When he took on Pixar, he put the loos in the middle of the new building, knowing it was the only place people all went. But looking beyond Water-closets, he sold a vision, a feeling. He started with "what do people want?", not Windows' "we've got a Processor and some RAM. What shall we do with it?".
Somehow Steve nailed it. But phone prices now; if I fall over and hear a crack, I hope it's my knee.
Products, services, advertising. They all need a kick. And not just the big companies that can afford it, but everybody.
2020: Massive media boom. Nearly everyone in advertising comes to realize that they should be part of the culture, not interrupting it.
2025: Home virtual assistance (such as the Amazon Echo, Google Home etc.) will be normal to have in the first world. They serve as useful ads.
2026: AR (Augmented Reality) is released as a normal thing to have on you. Ads and other media pop out at you off 2D boards in stations. You have pins, reminders and more all over the place.
2027: AI (Artificial Intelligence) assistants have become good enough to understand your conversation well enough to really assist you with your day, though a popular talking point is finding an AI that is the least intrusive while being the most helpful.
You can see all of these point to a future where ads are a major part of our lives. Not separated boards and interrupted programming.
Of course, some will not take to this 'invasion'. But I think that people will begin to understand that PIC (Privacy Is a Currency). I hear people worry that they could be found if they put their details up. They could be found now if someone really wanted to find them. I believe that our lives are about to become far less private. And it's not a bad thing.
Humans used to live in tribes together. Leaders emerged who lead everyone. Human kind's biggest achievement was defining ourselves with 'I'. All of a sudden different leaders were chosen by each and every one of us. We began to take inspiration from each other. Instead of going to a church and following 'god' through the church, people found their own relationship with their god.
In a really crass way, this movement is what's happening with the ad industry. People no longer educate themselves from whatever company is most prominent; they look towards who they respect. People who are real parts of their lives. People like them.
I've ended up sounding like an online preacher, but hopefully, you see what I'm getting at.
Some will be thinking I'm a maniac for supporting our movement towards AR and AI.
Others, like me, are properly excited to be part of the generation that founds and build on these technologies.
If you're interested, I hopefully will find out more about AI and AR and go more in-depth with my thoughts. So watch this space.


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Q: Virtualenvwrapper creating python 3.2 envs? Whenever I create a new virtualenv with virtualenvwrapper, it installs python 3.2; how to I set it so that is sets up envs using python 2.7?

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~/.virtualenv/virtualenv.ini

There you can indicate the python interpreter you want for your virtualenvs by default, create it if necessary.
[virtualenv]
python = /usr/bin/[python_version]

A: I ended up editing my .bashrc file.
export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/VEnvs
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

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The Bank held a consultation over August and September on proposed changes to the Agents' scores.
The Bank held a consultation over August and September on proposed changes to the Agents' scores (please see table for further details of the proposed changes).
There were four responses to the consultation. Those pointed out that comparability of the new 'whole economy' scores with back data would be reduced given that their coverage was broader than the scores they replaced. There was also a concern about reduced comparability from changes in the time horizons captured by the scores for capacity utilisation and employment intentions in particular. In addition, responses noted a cost of some loss of information at the sectoral level, given the proposal that some scores be changed to cover the 'whole economy' rather than a number of individual sectors. And there was a request for greater clarity on the definition of the services export scores.
We acknowledge some costs in terms of less sectoral granularity and less direct comparability of some scores over the full time series. But we believe the changes better align the Agents' scores to the whole of the UK economy. Also, as noted by respondents, a number of other business surveys provide more sectoral detail, e.g. between manufacturing and services, and these provide an alternative source for sectoral development. In terms of changes in the time horizon of the capacity utilisation and employment intentions scores, we believe that these are likely to have limited effects on the scores in practice. For clarification, the services exports score would cover both business and consumer services exports, which will be made clear when the scores are published. Overall, given the small number of respondents raising concerns and given a need to expand our coverage to meet the Bank's broader remit, while keeping the number of scores manageable, we intend to continue with the planned changes. We will provide an update on when the changes will be made in the early part of 2018.
September 2018: in the light of further internal discussions and the consultation responses received, we have decided to review our decision. A further update will be provided in due course.
March 2019: Following further consideration and consultation with users, we have decided to change the Agents' scores, as previously proposed.
We plan to publish new scores in the June 2019 Agents' Summary of Business Conditions. This edition of the ASBC will also be the last time we update our existing scores, but we will continue to publish the back series. Where relevant, we also intend to aggregate our existing scores, for example producing scores for the manufacturing and services sector combined. These 'aggregated old scores' will be more comparable with the new scores and will allow a longer time series (back to 1997) to be produced and used with the new scores.
We already published an exports of services score in the December 2018 Agents' Summary of Business Conditions. And we previously updated our definitions of the Agents' scores to reflect labelling changes and small definitional changes to our consumer goods and services scores.


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Chilumba Barracks in hot soup!
Fresh from making sombre revelations that they will not take part in the 2016-17 Super league due to huge financial problems, promoted military side, Chilumba Barracks could be paying a bounty fine to the Super League of Malawi (Sulom) due to their withdrawal.
Earlier last week, Malawi24 reported that the northern region based team had been written Sulom confirming their withdrawal due to financial constraints that have hit the club.
Chilumba Barracks could be fined.
According to one of the Chilumba officials, Brigadier General Alick Mhone ,MDF willnot manage to support a fifth team in the league due to meager resources.
MDF also made revelations thatit will only have three army teams in the top flight from next season on.
But Sulom now says the withdrawal has been wrongly timed saying that key preps for the team just like the others in the top tier near completion and that the move would cost the body a lot of time and resources.
Sulom's General Secretary Williams Banda says among other things modalities like printing and purchase of jerseys for the club had already been done.
He says that the Sulom will however be meeting to map the way forward on the matter.
Ironically, the new team reportedly in the radar to replace Chilumba, Karonga United will also have to fulfill the Club Licensing novelty and procedures which end tomorrow, something which places up the turmoil ahead f the start of the league in just a weeks time.
This has also come at a time when an unrest over the 16th team to be promoted in the league has mounted.
Dedza Young Soccer still clings to a court injunction it obtained restraining the effectiveness of play offs.
Sulom mainatins they hope all these problems could be ended before the league starts.
Nditafunsa guys kodi pakati pa kuika lamulo ndikuphwanya lamulo pankhaniyi chayamba ndi chani?
afotokoza kale kuti the money is a refund for the works done on procurement and printing of kits. Zoti aCHILUMBAWO alibe dollar its not reason enough for them not to be repremanded.
Have 14 Teams This Season And Work Out A Plan To Have 16 Teams Next Season.
team yilibe ndalama nde yilipila chani?….mwazolowera katangale pa nkhani ya dedza young soccer komanso ya jafali chande iya!!!!
Akuti ndalama alibe,tsono ndalama akazitenga kuti za fine?
To avoid these complications thus why FIFA allows each country to have one army team.
They HV withdraw bcoz of financial problems and u also change them 2pay money where do you think get those money?
How much is the fine & tell us what do you want to do with the money to avoid cash-gate at Sulom.
Ngati akulephera kuchita participate in Super League Games ndiye ndalama ya Heavy Fine, yo akayipeza kuti????
what if the whole team had been called for a military operation as per national constitution, will you keep on pressing your fines on them? SULOM ipangeni handle bwino nkhaniyi, awatu si malaiya mwamva?
They are used to hot atmosphere. They will come out clean & stronger.
iam look for any team yot i can sponser it..
@ ZAID das pure grammer any mistak?
mesa mukuti bushiri wapeleka K75,000,000.00 nde bwanjinso.


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Wargames Factory Romans II Advancing with Gladius
Before I get too far into reviewing the different poses, I want to write about the command figures and the shield transfers.
Each of the three units gets an optio, a centurion, a cornicen, and a signifer. The signifer gets a choice of two standards: totem (seen here) or eagle. The centurion and optio can get either a vine stick or gladius. I chose to give all my centurions vine sticks and optios swords, but you could certainly mix it up. My only real disappointment with the command figures was the wolfskin on the signifer and cornicen. The hair just didn't have enough relief to take a drybrush very well, and the result is a very flat looking wolfskin.
The shield transfers, designed by Stephen Hales of Little Big Men Studios, are very attractive. Unlike his waterslide transfers, they're completely opaque, so you don't have to paint the shield white before using them. I primed the shields black, drybrushed silver on the bosses, painted the backs brown, and rubbed the transfers on.
The rub-on process was very tough to get the hang of. I tried keeping the transfer right on the sheet, but I could never get it to line up correctly with the shield boss and spine. I settled on a very laborious process, cutting a hole for the spine and boss with a hobby knife, then cutting the entire transfer off the sheet with a pair of scissors. It took me three hours to complete this process for all 45 shields.
My next step was to paint the shield spine a dark red and pick out the spine itself with a straight red. Then I glued the shields to the painted figures and painted the sides of the shields red. I tried to match the color of the transfer, but I just couldn't do it. Each transfer is slightly different, as Stephen gave the shields a realistic weathered result. Unfortunately, that means that the 36 different transfers are 36 different shades of red.
Unit I: Advancing with Gladius
Now, back to the figures. This is the first unit, and it's the unit that required the most work to construct. I cut the plumes off each of these helmets, and I cut the gladius handle off of each torso. All the completed figures in this review are mounted on 60mm x 20mm Litko bases, four figures to a stand. That's the Field of Glory standard for heavy infantry.
Unfortunately, that's not enough depth for these figures, and you can see why from this photo. Those shields stick out in front of the bases, sometimes quite a bit. I tried those shield arms in various positions, but nothing could keep them from projecting too far in front. That's not a problem in a single rank (although it will be when they contact the enemy), but it's a huge problem when forming a supported line.
Still, the figures paint up well. Here are a few closeups:
You can see that I mixed up the gladius arm a bit, using some stabbing and some just holding them aloft. The stabbing arms were a good idea, but porrly executed, as the legionaries just end up stabbing into their shields.
So again, in a single line, this looks like a great unit. But I have a few Field of Glory games under my belt, and I know that most units will fight in double line. Here's the best I could do with a double line:
They just don't rank up. You can see from this top view how many different hand positions I tried. The second ranker on the far right comes the closest to fitting, but even he can't quite make it. I mentioned it before, but the seperate arms really should be part of the torso. This would let the legionaries bend their elbows and keep the shields close to their bodies.
For the next two poses, I'll keep the commentary short and mostly let the pictures speak for themselves.
Part III: Advancing with Pila
Thank you sooo much for showing how these figures base up. It's disapointing that the 'official' FoG 25mms will not base up properly for FoG's odd basing system for 25mms.
Karl November 27, 2008 at 2:43 PM
Isn't the 60x20mm Base dimension the standard "Legacy" WRG base size? Most of my old (metal) 25mm Figures are already based to this standard.
15mm Carthaginian FoG Army
Old Glory 15mm Field of Glory Armies
Wargames Factory Romans Table of Contents
Wargames Factory Romans I Building the Legionaries
Wargames Factory Romans III Advancing with Pila
Wargames Factory Romans IV Throwing Pila
Wargames Factory Romans V Making Units


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In terms of the realities of learning the language, there are many differences in Polish and English, but none are more stark than with grammar. The endings of Polish nouns change with the context of the sentence, which is something that is not present in English. The worst part is that Polish has enough similarities with English that it gets confusing. Like in the way that they capitalize letters, they do things mostly the same, but the slight differences will be really confusing at first. Just when you think you get it, it might start escaping you. Another area where things are the same, but different is in the alphabet. There are 32 letters in the Polish alphabet as opposed to the 26 in the English alphabet and all of the letters look just like English. In fact, 13 of their letters correspond roughly the same with English, including b, d, f, and g. The way that they get to 32 with all of our characters is through small accent marks that change the letters. There are three variations of z and doubles of a few other letters. Missing from Polish is the letter q, which is not in their language. We use the word "the" a lot in our lives, but the "th" sound does not even exist in Polish, instead usually sounding like a v. The z variations lead to the inverse for English speakers with "rz" and "sz" sounds that we do not make. All of these are just some of the superficial differences with the language, but you will notice that it runs far deeper than just this. Working through it all is almost definitely going to require you enlisting the help of Polish tutors near me to help you out. You are much more likely to find help this way than any other because you are not likely to find Polish alongside Spanish at your high school.
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UTICA, Dec. 13, 2009 -- Mother Marianne's West Side Kitchen has served over 40,000 meals since opening its doors to the homeless, the jobless and the working poor in March 2008, Deacon Gil Nadeau, director, announced in an Annual Report distributed at weekend masses at St. Joseph-St. Patrick Church Dec. 12-13.
The soup kitchen, which serves lunch Monday through Saturday, hit the milestone in December.
To date, he said, the soup kitchen has been entirely supported by donations from parishioners and the community, plus several grants from the government and private agencies.
The soup kitchen is run out of the Parish Center. "With the grant monies, we have been able to upgrade our Parish Center kitchen and add much-needed equipment and fixtures costing $22,000," he noted.
Pointing out that the soup kitchen is an all-volunteer operation, with no payroll expense, he gave a financial report covering March 2008 through November 2009.
During that 21-month period, he said, the soup kitchen received $33,852 in donations and $32,990 in grants, and spent $40,998 on food and supplies, and $25,854 on equipment, repairs and other expenses.


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Northrop Misses Estimates
It affirms its full-year guidance.
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affirmed its full-year guidance, even after saying first-quarter profits and revenue fell a bit short of Wall Street's estimates.
The company had earnings of $387 million, or $1.10 a share, for the latest quarter, up from a continuing operations profit of $362 million, or $1.03 a share, a year earlier. Sales for the quarter increased 4% to $7.34 billion.
Analysts, however, were looking for earnings of $1.14 a share on sales of $7.52 billion.
"In the first quarter we increased sales, operating margin and earnings per share, improved our cash from operations, and generated robust funded contract acquisitions. All our businesses continue to perform well," said Ronald Sugar, Northrop's chairman and chief executive, in a press statement.
For 2007, the defense contractor expects sales of $31 billion to $32 billion, and earnings should be $4.80 to $5.05 a share. Northrop gave the same forecast in January. The consensus earnings target is $5 and the sales expectation is $31.79 billion.
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Head to Paoli Peaks for your next skiing escapade. This resort offers eight lifts and 16 unique trails, ranging from beginner trails like Bunny Meadows and Indiana Jones, to intermediate trails like Mind Bender and Powerline, to the Bobcat and Graber's Express for advanced skiers. This 45,000-square-foot ski and snowboard resort also boasts two terrain parks and a 10-lane snow tubing facility, plus all the rentals you need to get everyone in on the fun.
Paoli Peaks is open daily from mid-December through mid-March, and its current event calendar promises plenty of fun activities for children, college students, and adults of all ages. So pick a date, invite your friends and family, and enjoy a thrilling snow adventure near Indianapolis.
Address: 2798 W. County Road, Rt. 25 S. Paoli, Indiana.
There's so much to explore when you book a trip to Perfect North Slopes. This resort features an incredible 22 trails, five chair lifts, and six carpet lifts ideal for skiers and snowboarders alike. You'll also spot two terrain parks and a 1,200-foot-long snow tubing area, making it easy to find an activity that everyone can enjoy all in one facility. The best part — it's open seven days a week and offers late night hours during certain holidays.
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If you're stumped on where to head this season for the best skiing and snowboarding opportunities, consider hitting up one of these top resorts near Indy!


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10.5152/balkanmedj.2016.150436
MyD 88 Polymorphisms in Children Diagnosed with Sepsis
Sinem Sarı Gökay 1, Rıza Dinçer Yıldızdaş 2, Mustafa Yılmaz 3, Kıymet Aksoy 4, Ali Erdinç Yalın 4, Yaşar Sertdemir 5, Gülsüm Uçar 6, Özden Özgür Horoz 2, Fatma Derya Özduran 3, Hayri Levent Yılmaz 3
1Deparment of Pediatrics, Çukurova University School of Medicine, Adana, Turkey
2Deparment of Pediatric Intensive Care, Çukurova University School of Medicine, Adana, Turkey
4Department of Biochemistry, Çukurova University School of Medicine, Adana, Turkey
5Department of Biostatistics, Çukurova University School of Medicine, Adana, Turkey
6Department of Pediatric Immunology Laboratory, Çukurova University School of Medicine, Adana, Turkey
DOI : 10.5152/balkanmedj.2016.150436
Pages : 633-638
Background: Myeloid differentiation primary response gene 88 (MyD 88) is an intracellular adapter protein that mediates the early immune response to pathogens. Toll-like receptors (except TLR-3) induce the immune response through a MyD 88-dependent signal pathway.
Aims: We aimed to investigate the MyD 88 polymorphisms that play important roles in the immune response in septic children and to evaluate whether or not they were risk factors in the development of sepsis.
Study Design: Case-control study.
Methods: Sixty-five patients diagnosed with sepsis in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit during the period from April 2010 to January 2012 were included as the study group. Sixty-five children without sepsis were included as controls. After DNA was obtained from blood samples in the study and control groups, MyD 88 polymorphisms were analyzed. According to the genotype and allele frequencies, the distributions of MyD 88 polymorphisms [Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) - 938 C/A (rs4988453), MyD 88 SNP 1944 C/G (rs4988457)] were analyzed in both the study and control groups.
Results: The C/C genotype of MyD 88 SNP -938 was significantly more common than the C/A genotype in the patient group (p=0.002). No statistically significant difference in the frequency of the MyD 88 SNP 1944 genotype was found between the study and control groups (p=0.272).
Conclusion: Gene polymorphism studies could elucidate our understanding of sepsis in terms of prevalence and the managementof treatment. It was shown in this study that children with the MyD 88 SNP -938 C/C genotype had a greater tendency toward sepsis. However, additional studies should be performed.
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In West Virginia, Gov. Tomblin Vetoes Constitutional Carry
by Jesse Perez April 13, 2015
West Virginia Senate Bill 347, which would have allowed West Virginians to carry a concealed weapon without a permit, passed the State House (32 to 2) and State Senate (30 to 4) by wide margins. However, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin has vetoed the measure.
One group, the Firearms Policy Coalition, said the veto might have been inspired by U.S. Senator Joe Manchin's fierce opposition to the civil rights proposal.
Manchin, who authored the failed Manchin-Toomey gun control proposal, attacked the West Virginia bill in a March 12 press release.
"As a law-abiding gun owner, hunter, card-carrying life member of the NRA and Second Amendment advocate," Manchin said, SB 347 is "irresponsible and dangerous."
"In West Virginia, we believe in gun sense, which is common sense…I commend the brave legislators who voted no."
"Senator Manchin cannot escape his growing anti-gun record," said Firearms Policy Coalition President Brandon Combs. "He had better enjoy being in the company of Bloomberg and his anti-gun cronies, because he doesn't have a home among Second Amendment supporters anymore."
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PRE-TOURNAMENT TRAINING CAMPS have always been a vital ingredient for success on the international stage. World Cup 2014 winners Germany trained in Italy before travelling to Brazil. 2010 winners Spain trained in Austria before heading to South Africa. Even the inaugural World Cup winners Uruguay spent the four weeks preceding the 1930 tournament in a training camp.
It was little surprise, then, when the Cuban national team embarked on a training camp ahead of the 1970 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games. What was surprising was the choice of location: North Korea.
Despite a distance of 7,800 miles between Havana and Pyongyang, Cuba and North Korea were close. They had been allies ever since the 1961 Bay of Pigs crisis (a US attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro's government), having established embassies in each other's capital cities in the crisis' aftermath. Che Guevara even visited Pyongyang in the December of the previous year, one of his first diplomatic visits since securing power with Castro in 1959.
While Castro's determination to beat the US at its own game would see football ultimately suffer at the expense of sports such as baseball and boxing, the sport actually received initial support from Cuba's new leaders. Several EIDEs – Sporting Initiation Schools – were set up around the island in 1961 in order to identify and specially train emerging sporting talents, including footballers.
Despite investment in football's infrastructure, Cuba habitually underperformed in the 1960s. A third place finish at the 1966 CAC Games was the sole achievement, but even that was overshadowed by the team's poor performance in qualifying for England's World Cup that same year. Cuba had finished bottom of a less than stellar group containing Jamaica and Netherlands Antilles, thus missing out on what would have been their second appearance at the World Cup finals after participating at France 1938.
Accordingly, in 1969 the suits of Cuban football followed the well-trodden path of any struggling national team. They appointed a foreign manager.
The man tasked with turning the investment in the up-and-coming youngsters emerging from the EIDEs into appearances on the podium was Kim Yong-Ha of North Korea, and his first move as national team manager was to embark on a tour of his homeland with his adopted team.
IT WAS HARDLY A SHORT ADVENTURE for the squad of 27, most of whom had never left Cuba before, never mind the tropical climate of the Caribbean. The tour lasted not a few days, a week or even a fortnight, but was six whole months of intense physical training and strict diet.
Perhaps inevitably, the tour didn't get off to a great start; homesickness crept in and the alien culture affected the players. One of the stars of that Cuban team was forward Andrés Roldán, who later explained: "The limited knowledge we had of Korea, coupled with the inconvenience of not understanding the language and the draining long trip, meant that the unity of the group was affected."
Even worse was that three players had to return home. The right back Rafael Rodríguez Arguelles returned to Cuba after falling ill, while striker Jorge Massó also had to return to undergo surgery after breaking a toe in his right foot. More serious was the departure of central defender and captain Gregorio 'Goyo' Dalmau, who returned home after suffering a nervous breakdown.
With the fulcrum of the team returning home for the most preoccupying of reasons, with players feeling homesick and with language barriers proving problematic, one could have been forgiven for thinking the trip was going to be a disaster. It was 19-year-old Roldán who took over the captain's armband following Goyo's return home and, despite his inexperience, he was able to steer the ship back on course.
That was thanks in large part to the coaching tandem of manager Kim Yong-Ha and his Cuban assistant Sergio Padrón Moreno. The latter provided the motivation for the group of players, having been in their position a decade previously when he was the player of the tournament at the 1957 CAC Games, earning him a far from common acknowledgement from the Cuban government as one of the sportspeople of the year. Having managed capital city club La Habana to Cuban National Championship success in 1965, Moreno also knew several of the players well and he was a key link between the playing squad and manager Kim.
The relationship between Moreno and Kim was surprisingly good, given Kim's limited Spanish and Moreno's non-existent Korean. The Cuban had only good things to say about the man he would succeed just a year later: "He was the best foreign coach to ever sit on the bench of the Cuban national team. Kim knew a lot about technique. He imposed a great tactical discipline and got the best out of every player. Those six months were very fruitful."
The praise for the man unknown to any member of the Cuban contingent just months previously was echoed by captain Roldán: "Kim had a universal football vision. He liked his Latin football and quickly gained the confidence of the players."
That confidence was enhanced as the Cuban team went from victory to victory on their tour of North Korea. The trend continued when the contingent set off for a spell in war-torn Vietnam upon leaving North Korea, in a way stepping out of the frying pan and into the fire. In Moreno's own words: "We set off for a country in the midst of war with quite a large group. They welcomed us with great affection and we played matches in seven or eight cities in the north of the country."
Highlighting the hostile atmosphere in which the Cubans were preparing for the CAC Games, on one occasion the players took a break after lunch in order to rest for the evening's match with a local Vietnamese team. That was when the air sirens sounded; a fleet of American B-52 planes were approaching.
The whole squad and the residents of the village took refuge from their common enemy in the hastily built and cramped underground tunnels. It was not a short wait either, with the all-clear to emerge not given until several hours later. Fortunately, however, all safely emerged and all safely returned to Cuba.
IT MAY HAVE BEEN UNCONVENTIONAL PREPARATION for a tournament held in Panama, but the hard work and sacrifices invested into the tour paid off the following summer when Cuba ended a 40-year wait between gold medals at Panama's 1970 CAC Games. Despite a 2-1 defeat to Colombia in their opening match and falling 3-0 behind to the hosts in their second, the steely resilience welded during the Asian tour saw the Cubans come back in the second half to defeat Panama 4-3 before concluding the group stage with a 4-0 win over Nicaragua to progress.
Two wins out of three in the next and final round, also a group stage, saw Cuba crowned champions ahead of Netherlands Antilles, Colombia – later disqualified for the fielding of an ineligible player – and Venezuela. It was their first regional footballing title under the new Castro government.
Kim Yong-Ha was heralded as a hero in Cuba; he was the exotic master tactician who had surely now ushered in a new era of success in Cuban football. It was certainly true that more success was to follow and the 1970s became the most fruitful decade in the history of Cuban football. A bronze medal followed at the Pan American Games of 1971, after which Kim returned to North Korea, leaving Sergio Padrón Moreno to take over the reins and complete the project Kim had started.
Moreno did so with great success, winning the following two CAC Games in 1974 and 1978, as well as the honour of taking Cuba to the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Cuba's first ever Olympic appearance on the football field. Despite bowing out in the first round, Moreno's Cuba earned a memorable goalless draw with tournament favourites, defending Olympic champions and 1974 World Cup bronze medallists Poland. They could even have won the match had a Cuban goal not been wrongly, according to the Cubans, chalked off for offside.
The following Olympic Games brought even greater triumph as Cuba qualified for the quarter-finals of China's 1980 event, one of Moreno's last acts as manager before stepping back from the dugout and into the Cuban Football Association's offices in 1981.
The legacy left behind by him and Kim Yong-Ha has never been emulated, although that is not for lack of trying. Another Korean tour followed in 1985 under new manager Roberto 'Nene' Hernández and was, like the 1969 tour, followed with a CAC Games gold medal the following year. The success was not as prolonged this time, however, and Cuban football has never returned to its peak of the 1970s having regressed to the realms of the also-ran.
Captain and star of the team Andrés Roldán explained at the height of that peak in 1976 that, "after winning in Panama and repeating the triumph in the Dominican Republic [CAC Games of 1974], we had become a daring and ambitious group, ready to go toe to toe with anyone, even the Poles who were among the elite of world football."
In his manager's eyes there was only one possible explanation for the success of the 1970s: the tour of North Korea and Vietnam.
"As well as helping us to win the Central American and Caribbean Games of 1970," Moreno has since suggested, "it acted as a good starting point and strengthened the competitive training of the group of players who would become the protagonists of the subsequent good results."
Spool forward to the present day and the lesson for current football associations is clear. For success at Russia 2018 and beyond, a six-month stint in Pyongyang is the key. The tickets are surely being booked at the FA's offices as we speak.
http://thesefootballtimes.co/2015/11/09 ... g-success/
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The water cycle includes a range of inputs, outputs and stores.
97% of all water on Earth is stored in Oceans. The remaining 3% is fresh water. The majority of fresh water is stored in ice caps and glaciers (68.7% of all freshwater). 30.1% is stored as groundwater. Just 0.3% is stored as surface water.
Most surface water is stored in lakes (87%). 11% of fresh surface water is found in swamps and 2% is found in rivers.
75% of fresh water on Earth is stored in a frozen state, part of the cryosphere. Groundwater (aquifers) accounts for 0.7% of all water and 20% of fresh water. Just over 0.01% of all water on Earth is stored in lakes and rivers. The remaining water is stored in the atmosphere, in soils, flora, fauna and in humans.
Over 500,000 km3 of water is in transfer between water stores due to a number of key processes.
Water evaporates from surface water and from the surface of the land. Water is transpired through the leaves of plants. Together, the two process transferring water to the atmosphere are known as evapotranspiration.
Condensation in the atmosphere occurs due to water vapour becoming liquid. Water can then be transferred to the surface of the Earth by precipitation. Ablation is water loss from snow or ice (e.g. through melting, evaporation or calving of icebergs). Water can also change from a solid state (ice) to water vapour. This is known as sublimation.
Run-off is when water flows over the surface of the land. It usually collects in rivers and streams. These then eventually reach an ocean. Precipitation typically ends up as run-off after infiltrating and flowing through the soil.
This is the transfer of water to groundwater stores (aquifers). Water from aquifers can return to the surface of the Earth as springs.
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It's hard for Fenella Sung to imagine a world without translators and interpreters.
Sung, a certified Chinese to English translator and interpreter, has been a part of courtroom proceedings, immigration cases, medical procedures and large business deals between the private and government sectors for over 20 years. In each case she doesn't want to be seen, just heard.
"I tell my clients to treat me as if I'm invisible. I am just your voice," says Sung.
She has just two rules for her clients: look directly at each other and not at her; and speak directly to each other and not at her. Once the rules are in place she doesn't want to be acknowledged.
Interpreters and translators are a vital part of daily operations, according to Sung. She represents one of the many unsung heroes whose skills play an important role in making sure linguistic differences don't hinder the lives of people living in a globalised world.
"We are a hidden secret. If all the interpreters and translators stopped working for one single day, the world would stop spinning," she says.
Going to the supermarket or to the bank doesn't require a certified interpreter, but in legal or medical situations Sung encourages clients to hire one.
Sung says that around 20 to 30 languages are interpreted in Metro Vancouver on a daily basis. She is among the 675 translators and interpreters who are recognized by the Society of Translators and Interpreters of British Columbia (STIBC). There are more who have not been recognized, but are still practicing, according to Joann McKinlay, STIBC's executive director.
McKinlay says her organization provides a list of members who are certified in over 80 language combinations, who signed a code of ethics to agree to act professionally and ethically.
But she admits that there are too many occasions where a professional interpreter is not called, which can lead to problems.
"Even a child may be called to translate," says McKinlay.
McKinlay and her colleague, Sung, are all too familiar with stories of translations gone wrong.
"If we are certified we know our [boundaries]. We know our role," says Sung in reference to the importance of being a good interpreter.
Sung knows that non-English speakers will ask family members to interpret for them, because they think they have their best interests at heart, but Sung says this leads to problems.
Most family members become too emotionally involved, she added, and they think they know better than the patient. In fact, Sung says they're doing more harm than good, and it's always better that the patient speaks directly to their doctor.
An emotionally detached interpreter, in this case, allows for the doctor and patient to meet as if they spoke the same language, but Sung doesn't blame family members for acting based on their emotions.
"It's hard for family members to step back and realize that they should be invisible," she says.
"Fortunately, there was another interpreter there and they took over," she says.
What propels Sung to excel at her work is her desire to connect people of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
"I like to find the similarities rather than differences in people," says Sung.
In the mid nineties, Sung was hired to interpret for a headstrong and matriarchal Chinese woman at an immigration interview with a female immigration officer who was Caucasian. Once the official part of the interview was done, the two women continued to speak to each other. On the Chinese woman's application form it stated that she had a 20-something year-old daughter. The immigration officer commented that she also had a daughter around the same age, who was unmarried and too career-driven. The mothers lamented the fact that their daughters were not even interested in finding a boyfriend, and they worried that their daughters would never get married. It dawned on Sung that the mothers had completely forgotten about her, but she was comforted knowing that they relied on her.
"In the end, a mother's role is the same no matter where you were born or where you come from. They were chatting like they were neighbours or childhood friends, and they were connecting through me, and didn't even know it," she says.
In order to be an effective translator or interpreter you must be culturally sensitive to both parties being represented, Sung explains. She says it's no use knowing a language if you don't know the cultural meaning behind it.
"In Chinese, twice is not enough, so if you want to have the same impact you have to say 'think thrice,' or you risk losing the Chinese clients interest" she says.
Sung adds that professional interpreters should be immersed in both cultures so as to do justice to the language.
Speaking for a living can be an exhausting endeavour and Sung says although she's in the zone when she's at work,that once she gets home, the last thing she wants to do is speak – in any language.
"I don't even want to answer the phone. You don't want to talk. You want to use sign language," says Sung.


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Bud vase made of olive wood. The vase is made in Israel.
Hand made olive wood hanging ornament.
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Praise Poem of Umar Tall. La vie d'El Hadj Omar. Qacida en Poular, ed. and translated by Henri Gaden, Paris 1935.
Pluralism and Adaptation is a collection of four multimedia collections that explore two characteristics of Islamic faith in Senegal and Ghana: pluralism and adaptation. Pluralism looks at how people of different religious persuasions— including Islam, Christianity, and Judaism —have coexisted and mutually respected one another for centuries. Adaptation studies the ways in which Islam has taken hold in a particular society and culture that have changed over time.
Specifically, the four collections look at: failed Islamic states in the 18th and 19th centuries that were futile attempts at spreading Islam through the Senegambia via the "jihad of the sword"; Senegambia branches of the Qadiriyya Sufi order and the Buk Kunta's translational religious community; commercial and gender morality among lay traders in the Kumasi region of Ghana; and discourses of Muslim scholars in colonial Ghana during the early 20th century.
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Charlie le Mindu * Hairdressers
I first came across Charlie's (Charlie le Mindu) work when he did the incredible hairstyling for a project I was working on for T shirt brand Noiwear in January 2009. Rai Royal, the photographer, suggested him for the ultimate in over the top, carnivalesque styling and he was perfect.
Charlie le Mindu – one of Lady Gaga's favourite coiffuriers
Charlie le Mindu – wigs and drag queens
Rat fur and human hair
Based in the East End of London, Dalstonite Charlie le Mindu was working on his first "Haute Coiffure" collection at the time, to come out later in the year, and in the mean time working as a session stylist for different shoots and wig maker for an up and coming singer who was called Lady Gaga. Remember her bow hairstyle? Who doesn't? Even small children wear it now, probably not knowing that it was created by a stylist primarily influenced by old ladies and drag queens. In fact, Lady Gaga collaborated with many East End creatives around that time, from members of the !Wowow! group including Millie Brown, the puke artist who Gaga lovingly bounced on her knee during performances, to Nick Knight, who shot her "Born this Way" video.
But le Mindu continued to work with Lady Gaga over many years and music videos. She wore his giant hair lips perched atop her head, a swirling purple human hair gown from his collection in 2012, and his indescribable hair sculpture-mask for a public appearance in 2013.
Charlie, who is delicately decorated with tattoos, including on his eyelids, has a beautiful French accent and a wonderfully eccentric history in the art of hairdressing. His parents were gypsies – his mother a drag king – and he left school in France at the age of 13, to start working in what he calls a "grandmother style" salon, because he wanted to learn the straightforward basics of the craft.
At 15 he got bored and moved to Paris to work in a punk salon, and at 17 he flitted to Berlin, though he spoke neither German nor English. There he started a job in a nightclub, cutting the hair of drag queens while the partying went on around him. Working with the drag queens got him started on the hair extensions and the wigs, and he likes nothing more than to work with artistes who are into the big hair look look, including Peaches and Lana Del Rey – he says approvingly that she "always wants to go bigger" and notes that when he worked with the B-52s on tour that "They refused to do the beehive and they just wanted really normal hair." He was terribly disappointed.
Charlie's kind of creative logic is impeccable and he's outraged that people would be outraged by it. He showed one collection on naked models because it's a collection of wigs, of course, and he didn't want people distracted by any clothes. "It was really annoying that everyone was shocked about it. If you go to any museum, you always see naked people in art, but in fashion people are so stuck up and find it so scary." And the story where he wanted to make a burkha from fur, but being unable to afford, say, fox fur, he got some rats and mice from the pet shop ("they were dead, obviously, the snakes had eaten them") and had a friend taxidermy them. "It was a big scandal" he comments, bemused.
Scandal or no, le Mindu has gone on to work with L'Oreal and even Harrods, and still creates incredible collections and shows them on naked models.
Additional info from Kate Hutchinson's lovely interview.
One version of the Lady Gaga bow.
Lady Gaga in more Mindu creations – photo courtesy Vogue Italia.
Both a model and Lady G in le Mindu's AW 13 creation
Lady Gaga in Charlie Le Mindu Fall 2012 "Charl' De Jouy" – image Charlie le Mindu.
Gaga wears le Mindu's Pink Flamingo dress – photo copyright Splash
A 2009 creation. Photo courtesy Charlie le Mindu.
Charlie le Mindu. Image courtesy Interview magazine.
some AW 13 designs. Photo courtesy Charlie le Mindu
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KCC starts talks on the right to be forgotten
The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) held a conference yesterday to discuss legislation for the right to be forgotten, which allows people to have their personal information made unavailable online.
It is the first time the Korean government has brought up the right to be forgotten, which is being debated in Europe and the United States.
"I expect that a wide range of discussions at the conference will bring out a consensus on the right to be forgotten," said the KCC Chairman Choi Sung-joon before the two-day 2014 Online Privacy Protection Conference began.
During the conference, experts will analyze the contents of the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) ruling on May 13 upholding the right to be forgotten to determine how it could be applied to current regulations or included in future legislation.
Europe's top court ruled in favor of the right to be forgotten by upholding a complaint made by a Spanish man who objected to the fact that Google searches of his name brought up links to a 1998 newspaper article about the repossession of his home.
The ECJ stated that search engine operators are obliged to remove results if the information is inadequate, irrelevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which it was processed, even if the information was legally posted.
Professionals attending the conference yesterday presented proposals on whether they should modify existing laws to include the right to be forgotten or should establish a new law. Proposals included ideas on what should be included in the right, which has been disputed in Europe.
Chung Chan-mo, a professor at Inha Law School, said that the government should check if the right to be forgotten can be included in the current Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection.
"We need to consider the balance between the freedom of expression, the right to know, public order and morals and legal interests," said Chung. "Allowing the removal of information of the past could constrain the possibility of the future Internet world and could hinder the sense of responsibility."
Kim Kyung-hwan, a lawyer at the domestic law firm Minwho, said Article 36 of the Act on Promotion of Information, which deals with mediation of disputes, and Article 37 which concerns information material requests, could be expanded to include the right to be forgotten, but he believes creating a new law would be most effective.
"However, as the recognition of the right is likely to be debated continuously, new legislation to specify regulations as a clear basis for the right to be forgotten is necessary," said Kim. "Also, in the legislation process, we must fully consider the controversial settings of limits."
Baek Soo-won, a senior researcher at the Korea Internet and Security Agency, said an individual's right to be forgotten in search results should be guaranteed, but he pointed out that the current law does not include the right.
"We need to first seek a social consensus on the right to be forgotten and review it before we establish a system to implement it through legislation," Baek said.
BY KIM JUNG-YOON [kjy@joongang.co.kr]


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Q: setPopupVisible is canceled if it follows on setvisible true When I press the button in the program below I want the popup menu from the JComboBox to appear and remain up.
However it only does that when on the second push when the Combobox is already visible. Is there any way I can make it appear on the first push?
public class Problem extends JPanel
implements ActionListener{

private static String SEARCH = "start search";
private static String SELECTED = "Selected";

private JTextField field2;
private JTextField field1;

private JComboBox list = new JComboBox();

public Problem() {
    super(new GridBagLayout());

    //Construct the panel
    field2=new JTextField("");
    field1=new JTextField("7564");
    JButton search=new JButton("Search");
    search.addActionListener(this);
    search.setActionCommand(SEARCH);

    list.addActionListener(this);
    list.setActionCommand(SELECTED);

    //Add everything to this panel.
    GridBagConstraints c = new GridBagConstraints();

    c.gridx = 0;
    c.gridy = 0;
    c.gridwidth = 8;
    c.gridheight = 3;
    c.fill = GridBagConstraints.BOTH;
    c.weightx = 1;
    c.weighty = 0;
    c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTH;

    add(field2,c);

    list.setVisible(false);
    add(list,c);

    c.gridx = 8;
    c.gridy = 0;
    c.gridwidth = 8;
    c.gridheight = 3;
    c.fill = GridBagConstraints.BOTH;
    c.weightx = 1;
    c.weighty = 0;
    c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTH;

    add(field1,c);

    c.gridx = 16;
    c.gridy = 0;
    c.gridwidth = 4;
    c.gridheight = 3;
    c.fill = GridBagConstraints.BOTH;
    c.weightx = 1;
    c.weighty = 0;
    c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTH;

    add(search,c);

}

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {

    if (ae.getActionCommand()==SEARCH){
        String f2=field2.getText();
        String f1=field1.getText();
        if(f2.equals("")){

            f2=selection(f1);
            f2=null;
        }
        if(f2!=null){
            field2.setText(f2);
        }
        else{
            System.out.println("setPopupVisible runs");
            field2.setVisible(false);
            list.setVisible(true);
            field2.setText("");
            list.setPopupVisible(true);
        }
    }
    else if(ae.getActionCommand().equals(SELECTED)){
        System.out.println("select");
        String listtext=(String) list.getSelectedItem();
        list.removeAllItems();
        if(listtext==null||!listtext.contains(": ")){
            return;
        }
        String f2=listtext.split(": ")[0];
        list.setVisible(false);
        field2.setVisible(true);
        field2.setText(f2);
    }
}

private String selection(String sn) {
    System.out.println("selection runs");

    String name="7";
    list.removeActionListener(this);
    list.removeAllItems();
        list.addItem(name);
    list.addActionListener(this);
    return null;
}

private static void createAndShowGUI() {
    //Create and set up the window.
    JFrame frame = new JFrame("Stuff");
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

    //Create and set up the content pane.
    Problem newContentPane = new Problem();
    newContentPane.setOpaque(true); //content panes must be opaque
    frame.setContentPane(newContentPane);

    frame.pack();
    frame.setVisible(true);
    frame.setSize(800, 600);
}

public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
    javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            createAndShowGUI();
        }
    });
}
}

A: When toggling visibility of components, make sure the component has completed its internal update before doing custom stuff, that is f.i. delay the call to showing a combo's popup relative to showing the combo itself:
            list.setVisible(true);
            SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
                public void run() {
                    list.setPopupVisible(true);
                }
            });


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