The reputable Saudi administrators and authorities on the subject, as of now, 5pm EST, have announced that Eid AlFatir will begin at sunset Wednesday, making that day the last day of fasting, last day of Ramadhan, whereat Thursday, the next day May 13th, will be Eid prayer, basically coinciding with the first day of the following Hijri, [lunar] month.
In the USA, a number of congregations will likely go forward with being synchronous to abovesaid announcement.
However, other moon sighting groupings may find a different date, as was for their assertion of the first day of Ramadhan. This referring to in the USA and other locations globally. This year, there are reports of at least a up to a 2 day discrepancy as held by some groupings from the date announced by the Saudi Royal authorities.

A 2 day discrepancy, might have eventualities found cumbersome when a couple of months down the line, the Day of Arafat will be announced, and it is ordinarily the norm for Hajjis (people performing Hajj) to all do the same thing in uniform. Between now and then, what will happen to the phases of the moon are for the most part to be ascertained when they arrive; [a simplistic pragmatic view might hold, that if all goes as they usually go, something unusual might have to happen in order for everyone to be on the same page].

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Written and published night Sunday, May 9, 2021 EST
Title enough said. Stories abound the Internet.
Tragedy in Kabul, Afghanistan girls school.

There are a number of things the Minneapolis area 'needs' to do, activities or non-activities to address the current pandemonium. It seems the region would benefit from carefully guided courses of action if they happened all at once or timed well.

There is a danger with limelighting that unrest is occurring in a specific area, because in this day and age, it has been proven that individuals with no other intention but to conflagrate and exacerbate unrest, might flock to the region to do just that.

The Minneapolis area now has to confront two situations involving force by the police on a suspect.
In the recent situation, a 20 year old was shot while attempting to blatantly flee the scene after police apprehension. Fleeing police, especially knowingly and willfully is a crime in itself.

Some leniency can be given in situations where a suspect may be psychologically impaired or under a condition of extreme shock, such as already suffering from a bullet wound or trying to rescue a relative, however, the suspect is still expected to recover bearings and cooperate.

The recent incident last night, corresponding with the 20 year old male, occurred about 10 miles north of Minneapolis. Apprehension Sunday, protests Monday.

Evidently an officer with more experience than the age of the suspect, fired a firearm at the suspect. The element that a taser/tazer was available is being weighed.

Officers when they have access to both a taser and a firearm, also have to contend with the natural fight-or-flight response when in a situation where they have seconds to respond and are under stress. Over the years, different training has been introduced to respond to different situations. Decades ago, officers may have been trained to discharge a firearm, if for example a suspect fought with police and tries to flee. In the past couple of years, updated training may have recommended officers to use a taser first, in lieu of a firearm. However, if an officer has been trained to use a firearm and was the system for 10 or 15 years, then receives taser training, tasers a more recent advent, and has been lax with the tool for only 1 or 2 years, in a real emergency, one part of an officer's mind, and reaction that has built for the 10 or 15 years might take over in fight-or-flight reaction, while another part of the mind might say, use taser. What could happen sometimes, is a firearm might be discharged instead of a taser or vice versa. The apparatuses look alike, and are sometimes hard to tell the difference at night.

Although the suspect in last night's incident may have had other background giving rise for increased inquiry by law enforcement, many in the population in the region are discontented with what happened. The suspect, like George Floyd of about a month shy of a year ago, is no longer able to stand trial.

In the overflow of the Floyd case, in the same region, this incident happens.

Police and National Guard are now put in a position where they have to carry out their lawful orders to defend certain locations and disperse crowds. This despite their views on the issue.

Civilians are carrying out their views, by defying orders of law enforcement, and see police and National Guardsmen as the torch-bearers of the injustice. This is not necessarily so, and civilians need to understand that not every policeman, policewoman, and soldier, are out to see injustice and oppression for African Americans that had some criminal histories in their background.

Meanwhile, police standing trial are under a lot of pressure, to the degree the might actually be bending the rules of what is the exact status of a principle, so as not to arouse more lashing out by the people in the region.

(The scientific and medical findings of what the impact was of narcotics in the suspects body, is one matter. How much force and to what length of time an officer used on a suspect is one matter. In an event of a fatality, medical findings could determine what were the contributing factors and their exact ratios.) 

The unfortunate truth, is some of what has gone on in Minneapolis, reference Floyd, and the situation that emerged last night, has occurred in other locations and times, but may not have received nearly as much media coverage.

So the Floyd hearing is considered 'historic', perhaps in part that it is addressing a situation that has occurred before, but the tolerance level for incidents like that has reached the point that people want them completely abated, as the turn in new eras of equality start to materialize. The problem is, is the totality of what occurred in actuality, a match with what occurred on the prima facie? The people want to see a judgement that reflects what the people saw, and what they might have seen at least at first, was mainly on the prima facie.

A calming down, and being collected, on both sides, is almost a must that needs to happen here. Otherwise the confusion, pandemonium, and general atmosphere of being upset will continue. Exact justice is something to consider for each and every component that has happened.

Written and published Sunday evening EST March 21, 2021

Everyone in the world knows full well that when negative developments concerning the health and well-being of persons amasses to the intensity that thousands upon thousands of lives have either been lost or devastated, then it does become 'the business' of others outside a referent theirs, or whomsoever claims it to be a private, cordoned, constrained, limited to a selected few, and other descriptions, recent decades have witnessed concerning numerous oppressive situations globally.
Clarifying, China representatives in the past couple of decades, a range that can be cited confidently, have traditionally held the stance that their affairs with 'autonomous' regions, are their affairs, as in theirs and others outside are not welcome to meddle in those affairs, whereas logically, there is an ipso facto aspect of this, as without the assertion that they are tied to the autonomous regions, they might not have justification that there are the corresponding internal affairs (comprised of China and the pertinent autonomous regions). On the obverse, representatives from regions seeking complete independence, or perhaps autonomy, might hold the position that internal affairs are null in void corresponding to the other view's effort.
Historically, numerous, numerous is relatively speaking as each and every nuclear test is a very weighted event, nuclear testing has been performed in areas especially westward of China, where the comfort zone of the testing is a serious issue, and how much is necessary to conjecture that the health of individuals living in the region have been affected, or at least threatened, might not be much. The world saw the protests in Hong Kong, reference extradition policy, over the past several years. These were extremely frightening events, altogether, actions from both sides. To abandon the possibilities that the intensity of the strife and injury could escalate, would be foolish on the part of other nations.
On a respectful note, China is a very large and vast nation, with dimensions still yet to be understood in many ways by many Americans; and China is old, in a way meaning mature and developed in thousands of years of history, while the US has basically a few hundred, if 1776 is the benchmark. Within China are many that strive to perform good cause and make lives better for the world; there might not be at all times, one set policy that may sit as a source of discomfort to the US, that absolutely all Chinese agree to at all times.
Video reviews of the summit are indicative that in other areas of discussion, there were positive notes, and goals in congruency.

There are several important points that all need to be brought up at the same time.

One is the disappointment that the story that unraveled was not more readily visible through media earlier on. In other words, media today has so much saturation of stories that have nothing to do with anything much more than entertainment designed through the carving of the lust of money, the news that the public –plausibly- needed to know barely hit the media. It might have been the case that the shooting spree or related developments could have been suppressed sooner, had more people known, through the natural and normal process of being aware through the news. It is Friday March 19th, 2021, the tragedy was on Tuesday, and many are just now finding out about this even though they read the papers every day.

Secondly, although there is a number, of victims that qualifies an incident to be a mass killing, in some aspects the significance of all lives are equal. There was a tragedy in Marion County Indiana in the past few days where a man reportedly engaged in a shooting of several individuals, over the stimulus check.

Which brings up, the size of the stimulus checks can be enticing, at least enough to be in a contrast to situations where individuals have not seen a check or sum of money of any quantifiable past negligible sort since before the coronavirus pandemic. It might be that these sudden advent of stimulus checks need to be distributed in another method, such as half a payout, then hold the balance for 24 hours, or break the checks up into 3 parts, direct deposit, acknowledge receiving the check like call in a conform with a code before cashable, and so forth.

Third area: Guns and cars combination. In a story written earlier this week set on the HCN-cache blog, about the shootings that occurred in New York City, which claimed the life a teenager a few blocks of his house where parent was, it was noted that there seems to be a recurrence of these types of shootings where rarely they are performed without the help of some kind of vehicle.

Once again, in the Atlanta, Cherokee County area, the young man apprehended as suspect, had a vehicle to access and get in and out of, carrying on one shooting, driving away, and carrying out another.

On the subject of a little knowledge can be dangerous: Notice the vehicle the suspect was driving in the Atlanta spa shooting spree, a vehicle of Asian build. Decades ago, take the early 1980s, it was just a few years after the last soldiers, basic summary, left from being stationed in Vietnam, reference 1975, after the Vietnam War wound down. The psychological phenomenon commonly called Yellow Peril was an issue, as soldiers from the US were often squaring off against soldiers of Asian descent during the War, which was not too long after the infamous camps during WWII in the 1940s, Executive Order 9066. Vietnam involvement starting less than 20 years after WWII. When Asian automobiles being imported into the US started to rise, there was some resentment by US citizens, as the American automobile was one of the staples of not only the economy here in America, but culture, tradition, and so forth. So imports in increasing amounts were perceived as eroding the share of that, plus, embedded resentment of Asians by some the result of war wounds, even though not all Asians were opposing forces during the wars.

-Could the Atlanta shooting spree conceivably constitute any amounts of a hate crime? Those answers might be in the intentions that the suspect communicates.

Here it is in 2021, a young man that was not even a baby at the turn of the new millennium, was not present during Vietnam, the Korean War, WWII, and many other events, has fired shots at Asian women. Serious questions are being asked about the precursors of what was travelling through the suspects mind during the 21 years of his lifetime and through the time of the tragedy. How did it get there why was it there?

An assessment could include that there were some impressions on an impressionable youth. He was aware of events, saliently other mass shooting that have occurred during his lifetime. The way he carried the shootings out, close to his residence, use of convenient low gas mileage car, use of a firearm with certain capacities but not so difficult to get he was barred from having it, are all elements that have been seen before entwined in mass shootings in the past 10 years.

A large if not amid the largest concerns, is the trend of women being not only victims of gun violence, but targets of gun violence. Women being the target of violence of any kind, is unheard of in certain cultures, even today. Part of the whole rationale for the 'White man', to intervene in situations of strife and oppression, sometimes under the banner of the US military intervention, 'historically', maybe even as recent as the genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia, (citable cases in Asia can be provided when citation found,) was the oppression of women in the region forces went, regardless of the ethnic background, skin tone and so forth. Why trendiness is not always taken as a thing to be comfortable with, case here among us. There have been a number of tragedies involving women as targets of violent crime, perpetrated by men with firearms, increased at an alarming rate in the past 2 years; end of discussion. Unacceptable.

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It does not make logical sense, based on other aspects of history, for a young man of 21 years old to target Asian women with a truly justifiable rationale. Asians have been living in the US for many years, and have constantly growing communities. For instance, the number of Asians in California, and Texas.

-An alarming aspect of the incident, is the suspect was ‘on his way to Florida’ to carry out more of shooting sprees. Right now, any and all locales south of Georgia should increase watchful and prudent levels of cautionary measures that would preclude any further referent events.

-HCN previous post, right below this one, has title “Gloomy and Sullen..’;- when will gloomy and sullen news cease to be the only top stories? This change names to come about as soon as possible.

[Initially published and updated, 1:15pm EST. To be continued after more reflection.
Continuation later:]

Wrap closing comments:
A long drawn out speech about the history of 'The White Man', as it relates to tradition of where it all came from, meaning behaviors, activities, actions, and principles heeded today, let a first reference be what Jesus/Isa underwent in his process of being uplifted, what is described in writing as having turned white, some may say as in white from the light (which has nothing to do with acting ignorantly as a racist). Or white as a brief translation of certain historic tribes, overlaps with translations for ancient words having to do with Naseer, and so on, - a long drawn out speech will not be done here. Really briefly, none of these 'deep rooted knowledge jewels' have anything to do with rash racism.
Young men of all ethnic backgrounds, here in America today, need increased guidance.
What will be said, after picking up a book, and other experiences in the 2 hours since the last update at about 1:15pm EST, is on the last page of one of Heidegger's books, the last quote, from Heraclitus, fragment 9, translated from Greek, is "Asses choose hay rather than gold".
Mass shootings is in sharp contrast to gold, or the way to gold.
Young men, or anyone, before doing anything on a scale that is to make statement, especially addressing mass shootings, need to have clear first, is the action they are about to take something that Jesus/Isa would do? If the answer is yes, then they still go and seek counsel or consultation from someone or plural learned and elevated. Prophets did that, they had advisors, guides, others around to consult with, such as for planning before carrying out something major. Young men that wish to make a stand or statement for 'White Man' or race, or what the moment might be, should seek consultation with some older established as wise folks first; could be a parent or grandparent, military veteran, police chief, or historian. Chances are, there will be a multitude of ways to bring about change, or address an issue, that do not involve an iota of violence. The same applies to any race, or ethnic identity, same applies to 'Black Lives Matter' too. The way to address an issue, most often will be preempted with building and refining the knowledge individuals have, which will markedly affect behavior, and shape what their stands and messages develop to be. The saying masses and asses, what distinguishes leaders of gold from masses and asses?,- the answer, knowledge and good guidance is right up in there. It does not matter how many people are engaged in wrongdoing, numbers of people doing wrong does not make a wrong action right.