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Dynamo welcomed Konstantin Gorovikov back to the team and was able once again to name its ever-reliable Komarov-Gorovikov-Pestushko troika. And, not for the first time this season, that line came up trumps. Maxim Pestushko scored twice in a 3-1 win at Atlant, with one assist from Gorovikov along the way.

Those goals sandwiched Yegor Dugin’s first for the Moscow team since his move from Traktor, and proved sufficient to out-strip Rafael Batyrshin’s goal for the hosts. Dynamo stays out in front; Atlant now has a seven-point gap to make up on eighth-placed Lokomotiv.

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A comfortable 4-1 win at home to Vityaz – coupled with Atlant’s defeat against Dynamo Moscow – confirmed SKA’s post-season place.

Kevin Dallman led the way for the home team, grabbing two power play goals inside a minute in the third period – both off assists from Artemy Panarin and Patrick Thoresen. Penalties proved to be Vityaz’ undoing; the opening goal from Dmitry Kalinin also came on a SKA power play. However, it was goalie Ilya Ezhov who was rated SKA’s MVP, making 29 saves and only missing out on a shut-out due to Robert Kousal’s late consolation strike.

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Yegor Averin found the net on Loko’s first attack, and Yegor Yakovlev soon doubled the lead. Hopes of a fightback from Ak Bars were squashed early in the third when Igor Musatov made it 3-0, and a power play goal from Jonas Holos completed the scoring. Vitaly Kolesnik made 29 saves for his shut-out as Loko strengthened its grip on a play-off spot.

Quint’s instant impact
Deron Quint scored on his CSKA debut to help the Army Men to a 4-1 home win over Metallurg Novokuznetsk. He cancelled out Semyon Valuisky's’opener, and then chipped in an assist as Yakov Rylov snatched the lead for the home team 10 seconds before the hooter.

Once on top, CSKA extended its lead through further goals from regular marksmen Alexander Radulov and Nikolai Prokhorkin. Defeat ends Metallurg’s theoretical hopes of a play-off spot.

Around the league
Lev remains third in the West thanks to a comfortable 3-0 win over Amur in Prague. After a scoreless first session, Petr Taticek opened the scoring in the 27th minute, before Jiri Novotny and former Amur forward Petr Vrana extended the lead midway through the third.

Vladimir Galuzin’s overtime goal gave Torpedo victory over Severstal following a topsy-turvy 4-4 tie. Torpedo took a 2-0 lead early in the second period, but Severstal, led by two goals from Linus Videll, turned it around to lead 4-2. But Galuzin and Jarkko Immonen squared it in the last 10 minutes.

Oleg Gubin got Sibir’s game-winner at Dinamo Riga, giving the visitor a 3-2 win in a game where the home team led twice. The close scoreline, though, was not reflected in the shot count – Sibir outshot Dinamo 38-11.

Admiral powered to a 6-1 win at Slovan, with Richard Gynge and Igor Bortnikov both scoring twice. Miroslav Satan missed a penalty shot in the third minute for Slovan, and the visitor took full advantage of its reprieve. The win lifts Admiral to within one point of a play-off spot, but the Vladivostok team has played one game more than Traktor.


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Report: Independent and opposition media in Kazakhstan are on the brink of annihilation

In order not to suffer the same fate as the ousted authoritarian government in Ukraine, Kazakhstan authorities crack down on inconvenient journalists and adopt repressive amendments against the media in the law

Introduction: The authorities ‘shut off the air supply’ to independent media

Over the past 1.5 years, independent and opposition media in Kazakhstan have found themselves on the brink of annihilation. After the Zhanaozen tragedy, Kazakh authorities witnessed the authorities’ determination in the fight against political pluralism and dissent in the country, as well as their desire to maintain control of the information space and public opinion.

In connection with the revolutionary events and the overthrow of the authoritarian government in Ukraine, Kazakh authorities are striving to protect themselves from potential public protests. For this purpose, amendments which are repressive towards the media, are being introduced through legislation. In particular, the Kazakh authorities have given themselves the power to compulsorily censor and arbitrarily close any media outlets during states of emergency. This policy is aimed at preventing the ‘leakage’ of information which is inconvenient for the authorities, as happened in 2011, when the world heard about the sanguinary massacre of protesting oil workers in Zhanaozen. In addition, the Kazakh parliament permitted the General Prosecutor to suspend social networks and Internet resources without a trial, should they be deemed to have been used for ‘criminal purposes’.

After closing all the most influential independent media outlets in December 2012, Kazakhstan has continued to oppress smaller (in terms of the circulation volume) independent media outlets. In violation of all its international obligations, the Kazakh government is conducting a full ‘mopping-up’ of the information field. The mechanism of closing or suspension of the issues of inconvenient media outlets is carried out through litigation, which is merely a formality and follows an identical scheme with gross violations of the principles of a fair trial. Independent journalists are subjected to systematic pressure in the form of threats, assault, physical violence, also for their participation in protests and expression of their civic position.

In the process of ‘mopping-up’ of the information space, the authorities flout international obligations in the field of freedom of expression and opinion and deprive the society of the opportunity to obtain information from different sources. The security forces subject journalists to arrests and battery. The Kazakh government does not create a safe and supportive environment for the journalists so that they are able to perform their professional duties; instead, it applies censorship, which is prohibited under Article 20 of the Constitution and Article 2 of the Law ‘On Mass Media’.

This report presents an analysis of new ‘draconian’ media laws, provides updates on the closure and suspension of activities of the media outlets; searches in offices, criminal proceedings under charges of libel, beatings and arrests of independent journalists, the prosecution of the former employees of the ‘single media outlet ‘Respublika’ who were practically taken revoked of their right to carry out their professional activities. Kazakh authorities not only increasingly impede the freedom of speech of the media, but also create new legal mechanisms in order to fully eliminate independent journalists.

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Was A Pro-Israel Messianic Jewish Christian The Primary Target Of The San Bernardino Shootings?

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Nicholas Thalasinos - Photo from FacebookWhy is the mainstream media ignoring evidence that the primary reason why Sayed Farook and his wife went on a deadly shooting spree in San Bernardino, California was because Farook wanted to get revenge on a pro-Israel Messianic Jewish Christian co-worker? 52-year-old Nicholas Thalasinos had worked alongside Farook as an inspector for an extended period of time, and it is being reported that they would often have discussions about religion and politics. As you will see below, the two had been arguing about whether Islam was a peaceful religion or not, Farook had reportedly made threats to kill Thalasinos, and Farook had was quite insistent that Islam would someday “rule the world”.

As authorities search for a motive for the shootings, you would think that a “heated, passionate” debate that took place between Farook and Thalasinos just a few days earlier would be a natural place to start. The following comes from CNN

One of Farook’s colleagues killed in the attack, Nicholas Thalasinos, liked to discuss religion and politics. Farook and Thalasinos, reportedly a devout Messianic Jew, had a “heated, passionate” discussion about politics and religion a few days earlier, said Kuuleme Stephens, a friend of Thalasinos, who called him at work while Thalasinos was in the middle of the conversation.

But apparently what transpired between the two went far beyond just a “discussion”. According to a close friend of Thalasinos, Farook told Thalasinos that “Christians and Jews deserve to die”, and he also threatened to kill Thalasinos in particular. This next excerpt comes from an article by Paul Joseph Watson

A close friend of Nicholas Thalasinos, one of the victims of the San Bernardino shooting, said that gunman Sayed Farook had threatened to kill Thalasinos because he was Jewish and asserted that “Islam will rule the world.”

CV Claverie posted the following Facebook message on Thursday evening;

“The islamic terrorist who took the Life of my friend & bro in Christ, Nicholas Thalasinos, on yesterday in San Bernadino, CA, had been threatening him, telling him that islam will rule the world, Christians and Jews deserve to die; and that he (Nicholas) was going to die.”

To me, this appears to be the core of the whole story. But it has been almost entirely discarded by the mainstream media because it does not fit with any of the “narratives” that they are trying to push.

If Thalasinos was a member of a group favored by the liberal media, his name would be everywhere and this angle of the story would be front page news. But because he was a pro-Israel Messianic Christian Jew, the fact that Thalasinos and Farook had been heatedly arguing only a few days before the shootings is being given very little importance. Apparently at least one of the “discussions” that had really upset Farook was one about whether or not Islam is a peaceful religion

Thalasinos is a member of a messianic church and is strongly pro-Israel. His Facebook page is filled with positive postings about Israel and Jewish holidays and messages of Shabbat Shalom. He was also a strong political conservative.

Co-workers described Thalasinos as strongly outspoken about his political views, but “wonderful and compassionate.”

But here’s the kicker: The USA Today report, which buried this detail 31 paragraphs down in a 54 paragraph story about some of the victims, on Tuesday, the day before the massacre, Thalasinos posted on social media that he had received threats in recent days, including one stating he “will die.”

An Associated Press report revealed that a co-worker said that Thalasinos and Farook had argued recently about religion, and Thalasinos complained to her that Farook “doesn’t agree that Islam is not a peaceful religion.”

Thalasinos and his wife are members of the Shiloh Messianic Congregation church in Crestline, California.

If I was a detective assigned to this case, I would be focused like a hawk on the interactions between Thalasinos and Farook. To me, this is clearly what motivated Farook and his wife to murder Thalasinos and the others. But the vast majority of the news stories that I have read about this event do not even mention Thalasinos.

Although the mainstream media does not like to admit it, there are lots of radical Muslims living inside the United States that hate Christians, that hate Jews, and that hate the state of Israel. And since Thalasinos was a Christian, a Jew, and a tremendous supporter of the state of Israel, that made him easy for Farook to hate.

And of course that are lots of other radical Muslims that harbor similar hatred in their own hearts. For example, it has been reported that radical Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan celebrated the terror attacks in Paris on November 13th by setting off fireworks

Radical Muslims in the Dearborn, Mich., area were celebrating the Nov. 13 Paris attacks orchestrated by ISIS, according to a resident.

“As the news started, I don’t remember exactly what time but it was in the early evening [of the shooting], at first there was a large crack and it startled me, and I’m like ‘okay, what was that?’ and shortly thereafter there were several more fireworks going off,” the Dearborn, Mich., resident reported, who wished not to be identified. “What I found out later [they were] fireworks and in the streets, I did not see the people, however it was several blocks away, within four or five blocks from my house, people were shouting ‘Allah Ackbar.’”

Last month, at two different soccer games in Azerbaijan and Turkey, soccer fans were similarly chanting “Allahu Akbar” and booing during a moment of silence for the victims of the attacks, and in 2001 radical Muslims were celebrating 9/11.

The mainstream media does not like to report things like this because they are not “politically correct”.

Decades ago, journalists often made an honest attempt to report the news, whether it was good or bad. But now so much of our “journalism” is really just agenda-driven propaganda.

And since the fact that a radical Muslim was trying to take revenge against a conservative Messianic Jewish Christian does not “fit the narrative” that the mainstream media is trying to craft around this story, it is almost entirely ignored.

Please share this article with as many people as you can, because the American people deserve the truth.

And please pray for the family of Nicholas Thalasinos and the other families that lost loved ones in this horrifying terror attack. Nobody should ever have to go through what they are going through right now.

  • Paul F

    I am a Pro-Israel Messianic Jew and I fight back. Jews are not push overs. Look at the Nation of Israel today and the wars She has won against impossible odds. Israel will live forever because she belongs to GOD and HIS HOLY SON MESSIAH YESHUA who will reign from Israel and destroy the wicked with just the breath from HIS HOLY MOUTH. As King David stood up against impossible odds and fought with faith as his power and not human flesh, so will we Jews fight against this world with faith in our GOD of Israel through MESSIAH YESHUA and not flesh. The enemy may outnumber us, but that only makes victory more precious and the victory will be won by GOD, not man.

    • krinks

      Sorry but liberal American Jews hate you as much if not more than Muslims do which is why there is no outcry over this and won’t be. It is also the reason why they remain silent over Israel being accused of darn near everything and the so called Palestinians being portrayed as Saintly.

      • Paul Patriot

        You are very correct. I am very pro-Israel, but also am aware that folks like Senator Feinstein and New Yorks one and only Bloomberg, and Connecticuts only Bloomenthal, are nothing more than tyrants. God help us should they ever be in a position of great power!!!

        These are the anti-gun Jews. Many Jews are pro gun, as they remember the holocaust very well and how the nazis disarmed them, but the above, are liberal progressive Jews. In an interview, Bloomberg admitted his disbelief in God.

        They hate America and they hate Christians, and they are the Jews that have forsaken the Living God.

        • krinks

          It is amazing actually that they hate Israel so much as Israel is a socialist state with the rights of Christians, Jews, and Muslims to live and let live is respected to go with Tel Aviv the most gay friendly city on Earth. Israel is what they claim to stand for.

    • Gay Veteran

      heh, where was “god” when Rome came to Israel?

      • Guest

        Maybe starting the search for the “gay” gene…still searching!
        Think for yourself gay vet!

        • Gay Veteran

          may want to search for that “retard” gene….keep searching!
          Think for yourself Guest!

      • Paul F

        I am still praying for the lost. As for where was GOD when rome came, GOD sent rome as a punishment to Israel for Her sins, but gathered Her back as a nation as Promised. But you can’t know this because you don’t understand GOD’S HOLY WORD.

        • Gay Veteran

          jeez, first he sends Rome then he sends Hitler, your “god” is quite the sadist

          • Paul F

            you are a very lost and perverted soul, like a wild animal with no sense or conscience.when the day of judgement comes, you will know the truth–and like all wild animals with rabid minds, they will be destroyed. Your own day is swiftly approaching.

          • Gay Veteran

            you ever actually read the BILGE you write???
            now don’t you have a street corner to pray loudly at?

        • Gay Veteran

          you ever actually read the BILGE you write?
          now don’t you have a street corner to pray loudly at?

    • Kandy

      Amen.The victory will be won by God.

    • Messiah

      You Jews are not God’s people, you are the cause of all evil. The great whore of Babylon is what you are. It is you who will be destroyed by the breath from HIS HOLY MOUTH.

  • K

    I know of no current Christian or Jewish group. Who believe killing your fellow man, helps you get into heaven. It seems several Muslim groups, believe this very thing. That is a pretty basic, and awfully large difference. Just like in this case. The one man believed, he had the right to argue. The other believed, he had the right to kill. That very basic difference, the news media, would prefer to avoid.

    • Paul Patriot

      ALL muslims are subject to that as that is what their “book” and the prophet taught.

      • iris

        Unless they backslide. I think it was a combination of premeditated hatred toward the Jewish co worker and the converted lady, plus allegedly being a jihadist.

    • Gay Veteran

      several SUNNI Muslim groups

  • Paul Patriot

    Yet ANOTHER reason to see islam as the demon possessed system that it is. Disagree with them, argue with them, they end up murdering you. Yeah, sounds like a religion of peace to me??????

    When are we going to shake off all this politically correct nonsense and stop following the pied piper of propoganda, and stop being afraid to speak truth about the intent of islam……not radical terrorists who happen to be muslim……no, in islam itself, whioch desires to conquer the world by force.

    Add to this the ridiculous comments by the CA attorney general as well as the recent NY times diatribe on more gun control……like terrorists will be subject to gun control??????

  • Paul Patriot

    The only problem with this scenario is that it makes it sound like a revenge shooting. Why would the wife go along with this killing? Why would they have bombs at home? Why would this be so premeditated if it were a crime of passion over an argument?

    Make no sense to me or at least I am sceptical. This disagreement between these two men may have played a part in choosing the target, but rest assured, there will be more attacks coming as ismal is here.

    What I find so disturbing is that the CA attorney general and all the following gun control rermarks, is that they want to push for more gun control on legal gun owners in america, thinking that somehow this will cause terrorist criminals from continuing to follow the commands of their “holy book” and “prophet” to slay infidels????

    Most of these anti-gun folks are intellectuals, with a many degrees and much “education” stuffed into their heads. I grew up in the Northampton/Amherst, Mass. area and LOTS of educated people there with multiple Phd’s and I have never seen such a lack of common sense, logic, or understanding of history in my life. Just brain dead folks that just want to hold hands and sing kumbaya and think all people are good, and vehemently demonize the firearm rather than calling peoples actions evil. In this region, relative truth is huge and the concept of absolute truth or mortals is critisized, thus they will argue islam as a religion of peace.
    Funny though, how they preach tolerance, yet are very intolerant to Christianity and our Founding Fathers.

    So, the conclusion I have arrived at is:

    1) Too much educaction from liberal leftist colleges, pushes out all common sense and logic replacing it with the liberal progressive mindset.

    2) They are not that stupid and are simply pursuing their agenda.

    • iris

      Telling it like it is! “Professing to be wise, they have become fools”.

  • Guest

    So if I understand this correctly the immigrant in San Diego argued that Islam is a religion of peace and then killed a bunch in the name of Islam? Does this not seem like the most ironic thing possible? Ya know why? Becaus ISLAM ISNT A RELIGION OF PEACE! The terrorist religion likes to say that “Islam translated means peace”, um not according to every translation I’ve managed to find! ISLAM TRANSLATED MEANS “surrender or submission”!!!!
    Takes the blinders off America and let’s open our eyes!

    • Guest

      Correction: San Bernadino not San Diego

  • DJohn1

    And our Attorney General is assuring Muslems that we will be prosecuted for telling the “truth” about the Muslem Community.
    Sounds like a pro-Muslim government to me!
    The real reason why this happened is rooted deep in the belief system of the individual predators involved in the killing of innocent people.
    Parable of the Scorpion, the horse, and the flooding river is truth.
    The Scorpion bites the horse that gives him refuge. As they die in the river, the horse asks why? It doesn’t make sense.
    The Scorpion replies I am what I am and I cannot change it. It is in my nature to bite you regardless of the consequences.
    The religion was designed in the 8th or 9th centuries as an opposition to the rising Christian Religion of the time.
    The Muslim way is to be in opposition to all other religions. Sometimes very violently opposed.
    Prosecuting people for how they believe is just as wrong as the Muslim terrorists. I do not know where this person got her law degree from. Someone was terribly remiss in her education as to what the Bill of Rights says. How she ever got to be an attorney general with this Congress? That also must be an interesting story.
    I would like to see the person responsible for bringing them to our shores prosecuted for doing so. Chances are only a major tragedy will bring that about.
    By major I mean a lot of people dying by Muslim Terrorists hands.
    Given the current government and given the current policy towards welcoming the immigrants in, it is only a matter of time before the Congress itself will take action. And that is only because they will have no choice in the matter. It is either that or have the very people that elected them up in arms. Not literally but figuretively which means the Congress will react in anger.
    The question in my mind is very simple.
    Do they get equal treatment under the laws of this land?
    Or are they given special treatment?
    For instance, in the news, a Muslim got was angry with his daughter for the way she dressed and dragged her by the hair out of the school she was in. Now normally Children’s Services would have removed her from the home. I wonder why they were silent.
    I think they did not dare go near that Muslim man.
    Last weekend, Americans voted with their wallets. The most gun sales in history occurred on Black Friday of this year.
    I do not see that many deer in the entire country to justify that many weapons purchased.
    I think we are in a very dangerous situation here that could erupt in a way that no SANE human being of either Muslim or Christian would want.
    These idiots this week that did this, did no favor to the Muslim community here in this country.
    Given our own history of dealing with things like this, they might just find themselves all evicted some time soon.

    • Rebel w/out a Cause

      Holder, Lynch, Obama – this is what you get from Affirmative Action. Thanks, Liberals!

  • William Lutz

    Michael I believe you way more than I believe the mainstream media monopoly. You are a very honest guy.

  • jaxon64

    Michael wrote, “Although the mainstream media does not like to admit it, there are lots of radical Muslims living inside the United States that hate Christians, that hate Jews, and that hate the state of Israel. And since Thalasinos was a Christian, a Jew, and a tremendous supporter of the state of Israel, that made him easy for Farook to hate.”
    I propose that if you were to ask the so-called “moderate” muslims their feelings concerning Christians, Jews and Israel, you’d find that the VAST majority have deep indoctrinated hatred and wish for the death and eradication of these groups.
    QUIT saying “refugees” ( the are migrants/invaders)..quit using terms like radical, moderate, extremists, etc. Just say ISLAMIC or MUSLIM–there truly is NO difference in their beliefs or the perverse teachings thy follow

    • Gay Veteran

      SUNNI muslims (not Shiite) sponsored by our “friends” in Saudi Arabia, look up “Takfiri”

  • know the truth

    The world is run by secret societies. The elites and rulers are Freemasons. They worship Lucifer using the name Allah. And this is no joke, just research it. Our leaders and all world leaders are secretly Muslim. No surprise, because Islam was created by the catholic church through Mohammed who was raised by catholic priests and who married a catholic nun named waraqah. Will Islam take over the world? Yes. The NWO god is Allah. He is the same god the Catholic inner circle worships. The Popes do not kiss the Koran for nothing. Let that soak in for a moment.

  • Nicholas Thalasinos

    There is a better question that should be asked. Was San Bernardino Shooting even real?

    I’m sure this Jewish creep is still alive, Most likely moved to Israel.

  • Bob K

    “Farook told Thalasinos that “Christians and Jews deserve to die”, this shouldn’t surprise anyone. He was only espousing what muhammad taught and what the quran teaches, “Sura 2:191: “kill the disbelievers wherever we find them.”

  • Sandbagger

    “Farook had reportedly made threats to kill Thalasinos…”

    Well, then if this is true, why didn’t Thalasinos report him to the authorities? No complaint lodged ANYWHERE against Farook? Only some accusation on Facebook.

    If anyone says you deserve to die and they will kill you, and you don’t at least call the cops on them, you are stupid. Seriously STUPID.

    Thalasinos hasn’t received any media attention because this could easily be fabricated by the Messianic Jews he knows who hate Muslims. (And don’t even say because they are “Messianic” Jews they could never hate Muslims.)

  • SweetMarmot

    So he fights with the guy about several issues, one of which is whether Islam is a peaceful religion or not. The Messianic Jew says Islam is not peaceful. The Moslem says it is peaceful. So the Moslem terrorist proves how peaceful his religion is by shooting his Messianic co-worker and 13 other co-workers too, just for good measure. Great way to show what a peaceful religion it is—NOT!

    When are we going to start burying dead jihadis inside of pig carcasses, complete with photographs made public and sent to the Islamic world? Islam considers pigs so unclean that such a burial would keep a jihadi out of paradise. No virgins for that asshole. If it was understood that anyone caught doing terrorism would have to connect with pigs or pig products in some way, and if dead, would be buried with pig products, that would end the jihad.

    BTW: What happened to the bodies of Farook and his bitch wife? Is it too late to bury them with pigs, pig blood, or pig fat? If it’s not too late to do this, then what are we waiting for?

  • howiem

    By focusing on the alleged dispute at the Center, you might overlook the thousands of rounds of ammo and the pipe bombs at the perp’s pad. And if the perp had a grudge against Thalasinos, why kill a lot of people unless the perp was a lunatic or a Koran-believing Muslim? It is possible that the alleged dispute induced the perp to change his plans from shooting up some public Gun Free Zone to shooting up the Gun Free Zone Development Center first. Another point is the question of how long had the perp been planning the attacks, i.e., stocking up on weapons and ammo, which I suspect started before the alleged dispute. At an rate if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, you can be pretty sure it is a Muslim terrorist trying to kill as many people as possible.

  • hon788

    Your bringing up only one tiny factor, he had a list of many he wanted to kill including a former Muslim gal that gave it up and moved into Christianity. That pain kills the Koran followers even more.

  • hon788

    The hit was on the Muslim gal that converted to Christianity, no media talks about that. Very sad the gal got shot.

  • hon788

    Also the Muslim gal he killed was on purpose because she converted to Christianity, no media mentioned that.

  • hon788

    Keep trying their are other factors not mentioned like the Muslim gal that converted into Christianity that was killed. No media mentioned that.

  • hon788

    There was a hit list, its known, no media mentioned it.

  • hon788

    One sided piece of writing here, that is ignoring many other more relevant facts, that no media mentioned.

  • hon788

    tHE Muslim gal was killed who news on that??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

  • timetorun

    Persons have sworn to a life of violence, hatred and loving death (“loving death” is a symptom that shows the person or a religion actually HATE God: Proverbs 8.36 “But he who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love death.”

    the other interesting thing in the scriptures that points pretty clearly from Ishmael to Islam is this verse in Genesis 16:12 where Ishmael and his descendants are prophesied by God to have a certain kind of disposition: “He will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand will be against everyone, And everyone’s hand will be against him…” Does this sound familiar?

  • Mzdiana

    A Good Muslim is a Dead Muslim! Their way of life is not compatible with the Western World.


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Members of Jamaat al-Islamiya, an Islamist Sunni group, gesture as they shout slogans against Syria's President Bashar Assad during an anti-government protest, at the port-city of Sidon in south Lebanon 12 August 2011. (Photo: Reuters - Ali Hashisho)

By: Fidaa Itani

Published Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Muslim Brotherhood affiliates in Lebanon seem poised to follow in the footsteps of other MB chapters who merged with the international brotherhood movement and endorsed populist policies. Meanwhile, Hamas is under tremendous pressure to move away from the Syrian Iranian axis.

More than one year after the start of the Arab popular uprisings and the assumption of a leading role by branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, the parent organization thinks its Lebanese chapter, al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, is still being too hesitant.

In business parlance, al-Jamaa al-Islamiya is in demand, but it has failed to adequately supply the market’s need.

Were the Muslim Brotherhood’s decision-making centralized, we would by now have seen the emergence of a local “Justice and Development” movement here in Lebanon. It would be demanding the overthrow of the Syrian regime day and night, and doing all it could provide the Syrian revolution with whatever it might ask for via supply lines through Syria’s backyard.

But the parent organization is not centralized and al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, aware of the complexities of the local situation, has until very recently chosen a middle path.

However, a delegation of the group’s leaders will soon travel to Qatar, according to sources in northern Lebanon. There, they are to conclude a “final agreement,” in all its details, aimed at bringing the Lebanese al-Jamaa al-Islamiya into the mainstream Brotherhood fold.

Hezbollah leaders can no longer aspire to forge a strong or deep alliance with al-Jamaa al-Islamiya.

Times have changed, as they have for Hamas, too. The Sunni tide sweeping the Arab street from end to end needs political leadership. Given the Muslim Brothers’ presence on that street, the vacuum beckons to them. Big powers and decision-making capitals are also pressing them to take the ground that is quaking from under the feet of the regimes.

Unconnected to the local, social, economic, and other reasons for revolutions underway in the Arab world, some in the US and in Western capitals believe that the time has come to replace the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan with local tools, and to counter the Shia tide with a tide of a different kind. Instead of the al-Qaeda stick, the Brothers’ neckties can be used. When things go wrong, the al-Qaeda stick can still be wielded in various hands, until things settle in the conflict zones, the revolutionaries devour each other, and power is held by those who are best placed for it.

In the course of this international struggle, a desperate attempt is being made to pry the Palestine dossier out of Iranian hands.

While it has proven impossible to coerce or co-opt Hezbollah in this regard, despite long-standing American and local attempts to do so, the party can always be side-tracked and bogged down in sectarian squabbles, as experience also shows.

Hamas is a different case. There is always room between the cracks in Hamas’ many walls for pressure to be exerted here or inducements made there – or for Khaled Meshal to be cornered into saying things behind closed doors (which his hosts then leak to the media to prevent him from retracting), such as his decision to step down as leader is final.

With Hamas, it is possible to negotiate over the financial assistance it gets from Iran. For years, Hamas was accused of going Shia, branded as a stooge of Iran, and blasted as extremist – even if they were brethren and from big Gazan families. Yet here is Hamas today, forfeiting and (at the same time) losing Iranian aid estimated at 25 million dollars per month, and starting to submit to offers from the Gulf.

It was Qatar which first embraced Hamas to the maximum extent possible. Were it not for the Iranian missiles and weapons in Gaza, Qatar would have been keener to bring Hamas into the Brotherhood garden in Doha than it was Sheikh Qardawi. Even so, Doha never burns bridges with anyone, least of all offshoots of the Brotherhood.

Saudi Arabia never broke with Hamas either, although it always used to prefer Abu Mazen and his Palestinian Authority. While it had avoided intervening directly in the conflict in Syria and refrained from making offers to Hamas, it has in recent weeks begun following in the footsteps of its little sister Qatar. It has shown remarkable energy both in intervening politically in Syria and taking steps to come to terms with Hamas and the rest of the Brotherhood. Qatar previously banked purely on the Salafists to rival the Brothers and fill the vacuum left by the collapsing regimes.

The requirement today is for Hamas’ sources of funding to be confined to Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and other philanthropic moderate Arab brethren. In exchange, “the Palestinian cause is to be left to the Palestinian brethren,” as many Arab and Brotherhood statements would have it.

Perhaps the most significant of those statements were made by both Rachid Ghannouchi, leader of Tunisia’s al-Nahda party, and Abdelilah Benkirane, Morocco’s prime minister and head of its Justice and Development party, to the Israel Radio correspondent at the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland. They said that it was for the Palestinians themselves to decide the nature of their relationship with Israel. They also affirmed that the Islamist movements would act in accordance with the Palestinians’ decision.

In a number of issues, the cracks through which the Arab and international winds could seep into the edifice of Hamas have become more than mere cracks.

Hamas has in practice distanced itself from Syria. It has vacated its offices in Damascus, leaving just a few cadres behind in what used to be the capital of the movement’s external wing.

Hamas then demonstrated its good intentions by breaking the bones of a group of Shia in Gaza who were holding a memorial for Imam Hussein, just to make sure nobody could accuse it of being Iranian.

Hamas went further when it offered to merge with the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine. For those who may not know, Islamic Jihad is the group that most worries Israel, as its efforts are devoted purely to combat and it is uninterested in power. It is also the closest to Iran, from which it receives extensive financial and technical aid and know-how. But Hamas’ attention is divided between combat, politics, power, and the public finances. Accordingly, the merger offer can be understood, simply, as an offer to dissolve Islamic Jihad should it one day prove to be an impediment to Hamas joining the Muslim Brotherhood mainstream in the Arab world.

Lebanon is a different matter, though not unconnected to the above context.

When Walid Jumblatt returned from his visit to Qatar, he suggested to a limited number of his cadres that his Progressive Socialist Party must not stand in the way of the rising Sunni Islamist tide and that by its very nature it must interact positively with the decision of the majority. If the latter opts for the Muslim Brotherhood, so be it, as “this is a phase for majorities, not minorities.”

Jumblatt barely had enough time between the end of his Qatari trip and the start of his Russian one to send out a similar missive. Curiously, it did not acknowledge his former allies in the Future Movement, but was directed specifically at the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Future Movement, whose media these days can hardly be heard discussing anything other than the Syrian revolution, has been put into temporary retirement. Someone broke the Future Movement’s leg, left it incapacitated to nurse its pain in hospital, and turned to another party.

In the interim, while the bed-ridden Future Movement awaits its eventual discharge, the vacant space may as well be filled by some amateurs, and some competition. Salafists preachers, some funded by Saudi Arabia and others by Qatar, can be left to compete, pending agreement on a clear formulation with the nominated party. Indeed, these small Salafists groups can be waved in the face of the group with which negotiations are being held to fill the vacuum as much as possible in the coming period.

If all goes to plan, al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, according to those who run things in the region, is supposed to play a dual role.

First, it will support the Syrian revolution and provide more services to incoming Syrian refugees. Some go to the extent of saying that this includes preparing for the creation of safe areas on the border, particularly in the northern parts of Lebanon.

In addition, it must act to withdraw the legitimacy of the title of resistance from Hezbollah, even though everyone knows this would create a conflict as bad as toppling the Syrian regime or a little worse. Nevertheless, there are people in agencies of the Lebanese state, in the broken-legged Future Movement, and in the Salafists societies, who can contribute to that, if they have not already begun preparing for it.

Fidaa Itani is a political commentator on Lebanese affairs and Islamist movements.

This article is an edited translation from the Arabic Edition.

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Ratalyacha Kees

What if you want to make sabudanyachi khichdi without sabudana? Well, you can replace sabudana with grated sweet potatoes or plain potatoes and proceed. What do you get? Ratalyacha ( or batatyacha) kees.

Ratalyacha Kees
2 -3 sweet potatoes, peeled, grated
salt to taste
sugar to taste
1/4 cup roasted, peeled, unsalted peanuts, crushed

tbsp oil or ghee
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
2 green chilies, chopped

2 tbsp lemon juice, freshly grated
1 tbsp coconut, freshly grated
1 tbsp cilantro/coriander leaves, chopped

1. Wash, peel and grate the sweet potatoes.
2. Heat oil/ghee in a kadai.
3. Add cumin seeds and green chilies.
4. Add grated sweet potatoes. Cover with a lid.
5. Let it cook for about 20 minutes or till done on a low flame.
6. Add some crushed & powdered peanuts, salt and sugar to taste.
7. Garnish with lemon juice, coconut & coriander leaves.

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1. The sweet potatoes that we get here are orange in color. Hence it looks as if I have made "carrot kees". But the kees made from the Indian sweet potatoes is always creamish/beige in color.
2. You can use potatoes to make above kees too.

Since both Sia and Dhivya have included "sweet potatoes" in their potatoes event,
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Saat Kappi Ghavan for Ganapati Bappa

Saat Kappi Ghaavan is a delicacy from Coastal Maharashtra/Konkan. It is a close relative of Ukadiche Modak and PaatoLi where outer layer is made from rice flour and inner stuffing is made from jaggery-coconut (chooN).  It's like a semicircular layered pancake. It is served by cutting into wedges or triangles. It's indeed very filling.

Saat Kappi Ghavan
सात कप्पी घावन
Seven Layered Pancake

For making ghavan/pancakes
2 cups rice flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups fresh coconut water

For making stuffing
1 cup fresh coconut
3/4 - 1 cup grated jaggery
5 cardamoms, peeled & crushed
1 tbsp white poppy seeds/khuskhus
2 tsp rice flour

Oil for frying

1. Mix rice flour, salt. Add coconut water in a steady stream. Keep stirring till no lumps remain. Cover and set aside.
2. Heat a heavy bottomed pan. Add coconut and jaggery. As jaggery melts, add poppy seeds, cardamom powder and rice flour. Mix well. Let it cool down completely.
3. Heat a nonstick pan. When it is hot, add rice flour batter. It should have holes.

4. As it starts to cook, lower the heat. Spread coconut-jaggery mixture on the half side.

5. Fold to cover the mixture as shown below.

6. Now, put a ladleful of mixture on the pan.So the batter sticks to the half pancake. Drizzle some oil around.

7. Spread coconut jaggery mixture.

8. And flip the first part of pancake backwards as shown below.

9. Now again you see half part of pan. Add the batter so that it sticks to the remaining pancake.
10. Proceed till you get 7 parts of stuffing. It's saat kappi meaning 7 compartments.

11. Now take out the layered pancake on a banana leaf.

12. Let it cool down  a little. Cut into wedges or triangles.
13. Serve along with ghee/clarified butter if desired.

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1. Instead of banana leaf, turmeric leaves can be used. Each leaf gives a unique flavor to this delicacy.
2. This is a vegan recipe if you do not serve with clarified butter. I prefer it without clarified butter/ghee/toop. It still tastes delicious.
3. I used my huge, nonstick pan. So the entire batter was used up to make this pancake. If your pan is smaller, you may get 2 or 3 pancakes. Please note that even a small piece of this layered pancake is quite filling.
4. Flipping this pancake back and forth is a delicate process. It gets trickier as the layers start increasing. Make this delicacy only when you have ample time on hand.

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When did the U.S. become an empire?  We have actual colonies by other names, post-colonial relationships with many countries, and the largest military network in the history of the planet, but we will not use the words "colony" or "empire" to describe them. Why is this?

In a Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross, author and Boston Globe journalist Stephen Kinzer explains the roots of empire in our 1898 war with Spain -- where Teddy Roosevelt (right) famously gained military experience with the Rough Riders.

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Finding My Way: Protocol of a randomised controlled trial evaluating an internet self-help program for cancer-related distress

Beatty, Lisa, Kemp, Emma, Wade, Tracey, Koczwara, Bogda, Turner, Jane, Yates, Patsy, Butow, Phyllis, Lambert, Sylvie, Wootten, Addie, Milne, Donna, Knott, Vikki, Katris, Paul, De Bono, Sue, Yip, Desmond, McKinnon, Sarah, Noelker, Simone, Zappa, Bernadette, & Allen, Judy (2015) Finding My Way: Protocol of a randomised controlled trial evaluating an internet self-help program for cancer-related distress. BMC Cancer, 15, Article Number 328.

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A cancer diagnosis elicits greater distress than any other medical diagnosis, and yet very few studies have evaluated the efficacy of structured online self-help therapeutic programs to alleviate this distress. This study aims to assess the efficacy over time of an internet Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (iCBT) intervention (‘Finding My Way’) in improving distress, coping and quality of life for individuals with a recent diagnosis of early stage cancer of any type.

The study is a multi-site Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) seeking to enrol 188 participants who will be randomised to either the Finding My Way Intervention or an attention-control condition. Both conditions are delivered online; with 6 modules released once per week, and an additional booster module released one month after program-completion. Participants complete online questionnaires on 4 occasions: at baseline (immediately prior to accessing the modules); post-treatment (immediately after program-completion); then three and six months later. Primary outcomes are general distress and cancer-specific distress, with secondary outcomes including Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL), coping, health service utilisation, intervention adherence, and user satisfaction. A range of baseline measures will be assessed as potential moderators of outcomes. Eligible participants are individuals recently diagnosed with any type of cancer, being treated with curative intent, aged over 18 years with sufficient English language literacy, internet access and an active email account and phone number. Participants are blinded to treatment group allocation. Randomisation is computer generated and stratified by gender.

Compared to the few prior published studies, Finding My Way will be the first adequately powered trial to offer an iCBT intervention to curatively treated patients of heterogeneous cancer types in the immediate post-diagnosis/treatment period. If found efficacious, Finding My Way will assist with overcoming common barriers to face-to-face therapy in a cost-effective and accessible way, thus helping to reduce distress after cancer diagnosis and consequently decrease the cancer burden for individuals and the health system.

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Architectural Abstraction and Representation: The embodied familiarity of digital space

Al-Attili, Aghlab and Androulaki, Maria (2009) 'Architectural Abstraction and Representation: The embodied familiarity of digital space.' In: Abdelhameed, Wael and Hamza, Neveen and Bennadji, Amar, (eds.), Digitizing Architecture: Formalization and Content, 4th International Conference Proceedings of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design. Manama (Kingdom of Bahrain): ASCAAD 2009, pp. 305-321.

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This paper argues that familiarity is the tool that enables the understanding of space abstraction and representation. Familiarity in this context is independent from embodied interaction, and is crudely based on the connection between the various similar images of space; in this particular case, virtual space. Our investigation into the nature of human interaction with space, its abstraction and its representation is based on the critical contrast between the outcomes of interaction with two virtual versions of a physical reality; the first version is a non-linear interactive graphical abstraction of the space where no assertions or indicators are given as to whether or not there is a relationship between the abstraction and its physical reality, whereas the second is a none-linear interactive 3D virtual environment clearly representing the physical space in question. The paper utilises qualitative methods of investigation in order to gain an insight into human embodied experience in space, its abstraction and representation.

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Keywords: Embodiment, Familiarity, Architecture, Abstraction, Representation, Digital Space
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Patterson, B and Gore, PL and Potts, BM and Vaillancourt, RE (2004) Advances in pollination techniques for large-scale seed production in Eucalyptus globulus. Australian Journal of Botany, 52. pp. 781-788.

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The effectiveness of supplementary pollination techniques for large-scale production of elite Eucalyptus globulus seed was tested using pollen fixed for a rare allozyme. We assayed the paternity of 1954 seedlings derived from 1089 flowers on 14 trees with no emasculation or style isolation. We first compared the success of pollinating the transversely cut style surface to direct stigma pollination. For flowers pollinated up to six days after operculum shed, style cutting resulted in a 15-fold increase in the number of seed with the marker allozyme (intended pollination) compared to stigma pollination. There was no difference between either pollination treatments and open pollination in 7-14 day-old flowers. We subsequently pollinated 13 trees using the cut style technique that resulted in 86.9% of progeny having the marker allozyme. Microsatellite analysis showed that only 4.8% of the progeny were selfs. Thus, we show that it is possible to obtain seed with low level of contamination and little selfing, without the costly steps of flower emasculation, isolation and labelling, by simply cutting the style, just prior to pollination, and pollinating all suitable flowers on a tree on a weekly cycle. By using this approach, elite full-sib families can be generated for deployment into plantations to exploit both additive and non-additive effects.

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Reduction of refraction effects due to inadequate sound velocity profile measurements in multibeam echosounder systems

Gunathilaka, M. D. E. K. (2008) Reduction of refraction effects due to inadequate sound velocity profile measurements in multibeam echosounder systems. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Engineering.

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The single most important acoustical variable in the water is its speed. The average speed of sound in the ocean is about 1500 m/s, but its precise value in a location is strongly depends on temperature, pressure and salinity of that particular location. These factors change rapidly in time and space due to various reasons. In data acquisition, the collection of these denser sound speed data becomes critical. These inadequate sound speed measurements cause unknown propagation through the water column that adds a major uncertainty to the multibeam echosounder measurements (MBES). There are two types of sound speed measurements made in the flat array multibeam sonars. Surface Sound Speed (SSS) is measured at the face of the transducer and Sound Velocity Profile (SVP) is measured through the water column. SSS is used to determine the beam pointing angle (beam steering) and SVP is used to determine the depth and position (ray-tracing) of each beam. From these, the SSS is measured almost at each ping vies and SVP may be once or twice a day depending on the situation. When it comes to ray tracing, one has the options of using either the SSS or the surface value of SVP (SSVP). Some multibeam software manufacturers use the SSS in Snell’s refraction constant determination while others use the surface value of the last performed SVP. In this study, both methods of refraction constant determination are evaluated. The results clearly showed that the use of SSS for Snell’s refraction constant determination gives about 25% to 30% better results in multibeam bathymetry against refraction than the use of SSVP. A combined solution of SSS and SSVP provide a better, simpler and cost effective method of reduction of refraction effects in MBES. The results also demonstrated that the effects of inadequate sound speed measurements in each phase of bathymetric calculations would result in both depth and positional errors.

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Sweet Dove Died

Pym observed the intricate rituals of English life with a sharp but understanding eye. In THE SWEET DOVE DIED, Pym uncovers the sometimes troubling truths behind relationships. A chance encounter over a Victorian flower book brings together Humphrey, and antiques dealer, his nephew James, and Leonora. Although she is considerably older, Leonora develops a fondness for James all the while knowing Humphrey has feelings for her. Leonora is determined to keep James under her spell until she realizes that she has to contend with the bookish Phoebe. Then Ned, a wicked young American, appears on the scene.

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AuthorBarbara Pym
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Publication Date1988-05-24
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SilveryBlueVisit our holdings databases. Historically, the primary geographical emphasis of the Essig Museum has been on western North America and contains probably the largest collection of California insects in existence. From 1939 to 1999 the California Insect Survey (Experiment Station Project 1205) generated a large number of specimens representative of the terrestrial arthropod fauna of the state, and the collection has served as a repository for the research collections of students of systematics at UC Berkeley as well. In addition to California material, the museum houses a large collection of specimens from the northern Neotropics. Extensive fieldwork in Mexico by museum faculty and staff has enabled the assembly of a large, extremely important collection of specimens from that country. Collaborative work with INBio (Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad) has provided the museum with excellent collections from Costa Rica. Recent research emphasis is being focused on the Pacific Rim and Basin, particularly the Pacific Islands and Chile.

The close association between research and acquisitions has made the Essig Museum unusually rich in biological and ecological data. It is a repository for voucher specimens from numerous studies in biological control, pollination ecology, parasitism, biogeography, genetics, and other disciplines. Many specimens, particularly Lepidoptera, have been reared from immature stages, and are therefore associated with larval host records, preserved larvae and pupal skins, as well as a wealth of phenological data. Locality data associated with specimens is generally very complete. The age of the collection is also an important asset. The Essig Museum’s holdings provide a valuable source of data for documenting changes in California’s fauna through the period of explosive human population growth during the last 70 years.

The collection was housed in approximately 8000 drawers in 400 California Academy-style insect cabinets. The pinned collection has now been moved to our new location in the Valley Life Sciences Building, and has been transferred into a state-of-the-art compacter system. Pinned specimens (over 5 million) make up the majority of the holdings, however, large microscope slide and alcohol-preserved collections are also maintained, as well as thousands of specimens in envelopes and Riker mounts. Nearly 2000 primary types have been designated from the Essig Museum specimens over the years. Approximately 1050 of these are housed at the museum and the remainder are on loan of indefinite duration to the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

The taxonomic strengths of the collection reflect its history and participants. Coleoptera (30%), with particularly large holdings of Cerambycidae (E. Gorton Linsley and John A. Chemsak) and Tenebrionidae (John T. Doyen), has the greatest number of specimens. The Lepidoptera (24%) includes the largest and most diverse collection of microlepidoptera in western North America (Jerry A. Powell). The large Hymenoptera collection (21%) is noteworthy for Apoidea (Paul D. Hurd, John McSwain, Abraham E, Michelbacher, E. Gorton Linsley, Howell V. Daly), Parasitica (Kenneth S. Hagen, Evert I. Schlinger, Robert van den Bosch), and Symphyta (Woodrow W. Middlekauff). Hemiptera (7%) has outstanding collections especially of Cimicidae (Robert L. Usinger), Aradidae, Aphididae (Edward O. Essig, Robert van den Bosch), and Psyllidae (Dilworth D. Jensen). The Diptera (11%), which was curated and contributed to by Frank Cole in his latter years, has substantial collections of Tabanidae (Woodrow W. Middlekauff, Robert Lane), Asilidae, Bombyliidae, and parasitic families (Gordon F. Ferris, John R. Anderson). Holdings of some of the smaller arthropod groups are quite diverse and noteworthy, in particular the collections of Phthiraptera (Vernon L. Kellogg, Gordon F. Ferris), Siphonaptera (Morris A. Stewart), Thysanoptera (H. Edwin Cott), Odonata (Rosser Garrison), Orthoptera: Acrididae (Woodrow W. Middlekauff) and Arachnida, especially Araneae (Evert I. Schlinger, Charles E. Griswold), Acari (A. Earl Pritchard, Deane P. Furman), particularly Ixodida (Deane P. Furman, Robert Lane), and Scorpionida.

The museum has benefited from the acquisition of several large collections from other institutions and non-UC researchers. The Vernon L. Kellogg and Gordon F. Ferris Phthiraptera collections were both acquired from Stanford University in 1961. The H. Edwin Cott Thysanoptera Collection was rescued by former collection manager John Chemsak from a garage where it was discovered after Cott’s death. Other large collection acquisitions of note include the entire insect collection of the University of California, Irvine, in 1992, containing approximately 56,000 pinned insects and an additional 31,000 Lepidoptera in riker mounts and envelopes, and in 2003, the historic research collections of UC Hastings Natural History Reservation comprising 7,000 microscope slides and 1,500 vials of specimens, the majority being rodent ectoparasites.


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Museum materials are available for loan to researchers and requests should be made to the Collection Manager ([at] We loan determined and undetermined specimens and are generally happy to negotiate exchanges of specimens for specialists’ assistance in identifying material. Our polices basically reflect those given by Arnett, Samuelson, and Nishida (1997).

Loans are typically made on a two-year, renewable upon request, basis. Specimens for student research are loaned through the student’s advisor. Any destructive study of loaned specimens must be negotiated in advance. Holotypes selected from loaned material must be returned to the Essig Museum. The proper coden for the Essig Museum to be used in publications is EMEC, and copies of papers citing our specimens should be sent to the museum.

Please see our species and specimen databases for available material.

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  4. Not dissect or otherwise permanently alter specimens unless authorized.

Dissections are allowed only with prior consent of the Collections Manager. Lepidoptera genitalia are typically mounted on microscope slides following the methods outlined in Robinson 1976 [“The preparation of slide of Lepidoptera genitalia with special reference to Microlepidoptera.” Entomologist’s Gazette 27: 127-132]. Genitalia of other taxa are typically preserved with glycerin in microvials mounted with the specimen. Scanning Electron Microscopy typically requires mounting specimen parts on stubs with or without sputter coating. All preparations should be returned unless otherwise authorized. Requests for permission to dissect specimens should include qualifications and methods.

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DNA extractions are allowed only with prior consent of the Collections Manager. Museum specimens have degraded DNA and may require “ancient DNA” techniques. For most specimens, there is no recorded history of how specimens were killed and dried, frozen-thawed, or whether they were “rehydrated” before mounting. Prior to recent years, fluid specimens were typically preserved in 70% ethyl alcohol. Researchers must have proven experience and resources to successfully extract and sequence DNA from museum specimens before permission will be granted. An aliquot of each extraction should be returned unless other arrangements have been made.

Please be prepared to answer the following questions:

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  2. Why is it necessary to use museum specimens versus freshly collected specimens (that are likely to provide greater DNA yield)?
  3. What experience do you have with extracting DNA from museum specimens? What protocols will be used? What loci sequenced?
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Title: The development and application of liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry methods for the detection and control of veterinary drug residues.
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Sunday, July 01, 2007

N.T. Wright, Paul Helm and the Ordo Salutis

Theologian Paul Helm has posted some thoughts on N.T. Wright's ordo salutis (the ordo salutis is the 'order of salvation' and it describes the chronological and logical order of the application of salvation to the believer). Here I have a few thoughts on the ordo salutis itself and Wright's understanding of it.

On the Ordo Salutis

1. As someone who comes from the Reformed tradition I am inclined to see regeneration as preceding faith. In fact, regeneration is the efficacious cause of faith in my thinking and God creates faith the same way that he made the universe: he found nothing and made something.

2. I find certain aspects of Wright's ordo salutis dissatisfying since Wright appears to make justification contingent upon regeneration which, in effect, reduces justification to an analytic judgment (it renders the verdict based on what is "there") based on spiritual vitality rather than making the verdict based on a synthetic addition (imputation or union with Christ). I think Wright is simply inconsistent with what he says elsewhere about union with Christ as the grounds of justification. Nonetheless, you cannot read Galatians 4 without realizing that reception of the Spirit and justification are part of the instantaneous experience of faith.

3. In Romans 8.29-30, Paul does give an ordo salutis of sorts (see also Eph. 1.4-5). However, what Paul is doing here is situating the story of the salvation of the believer amidst the larger story of God's cosmic plan for the restoration of creation and the vindication of the people of God at the eschaton. The key issue here is assurance that God's plan will prevail! Paul did not write Rom. 8.29-30 in order to create a neat little box that all conversions must conform to, nor did he think that an ordo salutis was the centre and goal of theology and the test for one's orthodoxy.

Limitations of the ordo salutis

1. As I've said elsewhere, Reformed Theology often reduces Theology itself to the construction of an ordo salutis. This I think was Karl Barth's criticism of the Westminster Confession of Faith, Theology becomes reduced to anthropology or what God does for humanity rather than concerning itself with the sheer God-ness of God!

2. There are roughly 24 conversions in the Book of Acts and no two of them are the same (e.g. the timing of the reception of the Spirit etc) and it is nonsensical to try make any single conversion model universal and normative for all Christians, whether that is the conversion of Cornelius, the Samaritans, the Jews at Pentecost, or even Saul of Tarsus. No systematic ordo salutis will ever survive contact with the Book of Acts!

3. Reading Galatians and Romans via the grid of an ordo salutis has done the most heinous violence to the text of Paul's letters in the history of intepretation. Romans and Galatians are not answering the question, 'What must I do to be saved?' rather they are concerned with the question: 'Who are the people of God and in what economy will they be vindicated?' Paul is concerned in these letters with the unity of Christian Jews and Christian Gentiles around one gospel, under a common Lord, and living in worshipful harmony with each other. He is not trying to refute Pelagius and Erasmus.

4. More important than an ordo salutis is a historia salutis (i.e. history of salvation). Good narrative theology that plugs into the biblical storyline, along with an acute awareness of historical context, is the antidote to bad systematic theology.

Geoff Hudson said...

Ordo salutis or historia salutis, it make no difference. God is multifarious.

Jason Goroncy said...

Nice post Big Bird. BTW: What do you make of Wright's practical absence of discussion on sanctification, whether in the ordo or not?

Dan Chen said...

Dr. Bird,

Do you think there would be less confusion and more agreement if Wright and others would articulate their understanding of the "active and passive justifications" which McGarth comments as "The distinction refers to the act of God by which the sinner is justified (active justification), and the subjective feelings of grace subsequently evoked in the conscience of the justified sinner(passive). God acts to justify humanity is passive in receiving this justification. The importance of the distinction lies in the fact that God's act of justification, in which the sinner is declared righteous, is perfect, accomplished once and for all, whereas the realisation by humans of this state of justifcation is imperfect, in so far as it is based upon the feeling of grace evoked in this conscience" (pg. 271)

Therefore, it seems that Reformed theologians, according to McGrath, believed that regeneration came both prior and posterior to justification with the "divine/objective" justification coming before regeneration. McGrath states: "the Reformed theologians were able to state that faith was posterior to objective, and prior to subjective justification" )pg. 272)

Gordon Kennedy said...

Thanks for pointing us to Paul Helm's post.
Paul's point about the difference between what is logically distinct and what is temporally distinct is important. I haven't finished thinking this bit through but I know that John Murray and others have written of a definitive sanctification and a progressive sanctification and I wonder if the same distinction doesn't apply to justification: a definitive (one off) act of justification at conversation and a progressive (on going) work of justifying.
I'm sure that the way the ordo salutis is usually frame might struggle to take account of such distinctions.
I don't think consideration of the ordo salutis is without value but it is long overdue for reformed Christians to take account of your historia salutis. The great big God of the bible has a great big story of salvation that he has achieved/is achieving in Christ Jesus.

Daniel Kirk said...

I think that sanctification wasn't in Wright's discussion because Paul doesn't mention it in Rom 8. Wright is giving an exegesis of that passage it seems to me: foreknowledge, predestination, calling, justification, glorification.

Jason Goroncy said...

Daniel. Where then would I go to find out what Wright thinks about sanctification. It's not a subject that comes up much in relation to him.

Rabbi Saul said...

Jason, I think Wright talks about sanctification plenty. He just doesn't use the term much.

I suppose you could start with his Romans commentary and read his notes on chapter 13....

Jason Goroncy said...

Thanks Rabbi. Good suggestion.