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- Matthew 10:8 :: New American
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1 “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 without
love, unforgiving, slanderous, without
self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—
5 having
a form of godliness but denying
its power. Have nothing to do with
them.
6 They
are the kind who worm their way into
homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are
loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil
desires,
7 always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres
opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth--men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.
9 But
they will not get very far because, as
in the case of those men, their
folly will be clear to everyone.”
- 2 Timothy 3:1-9 :: New
International Version (NIV)
6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for
ever after the order
of Melchisedec.
- Hebrews 5:6 :: King
James Version (KJV)
Therefore,
I say:
Know your enemy and know yourself;
in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated.
When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself,
your chances of winning or losing are equal.
If
ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself,
you
are sure to be defeated in every battle.
-- Sun Tzu, The
Art of War, c.
500bc
There are two ends not to be served by a wanderer. What are these two? The pursuit of desires
and of the pleasure which springs from desire, which is base, common, leading
to rebirth, ignoble, and unprofitable; and the
pursuit of pain and hardship, which is grievous, ignoble, and unprofitable.
- The Blessed One, Lord Buddha
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Malkin,
Michelle. (
Consular officials ignored a basic provision of immigration law known as 214(b), which holds that almost all non-immigrant visa applicants are presumed to be would-be immigrants and must prove to interviewers that they won't break the terms of their visas.
Mowbray
concluded: "[I]f the law had been enforced, most of the 9/11 terrorists
never would have entered the
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Pavic, Aleksandar. (
…ask not tomorrow for whom the bell tolls anywhere on this earth. It will toll for thee.
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Lack of
Arabic hampering effectiveness of Israeli troops. (
ISRAELI TROOPS LACK ARABIC SKILLS IN WAR AGAINST PA TEL AVIV — Israeli troops lack basic skills in Arabic required for the insurgency war against the Palestinians, experts say.
The experts, former and current
members of the military and security forces, said Israeli troops operating in
Palestinian communities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have virtually no
knowledge of Arabic and fail to understand the civilian population they deal
with in raids and operations. They said the result is a
needless increase in friction with Palestinian civilians and vulnerability of
attacks by insurgents.
Israeli
military forces are being urged to deploy Druse
soldiers in every combat unit operating in the West Bank and
"In the last few months, the
problem is becoming worse," [Res.] Brig. Gen. Ephraim Lapid,
who spent most of his career in military intelligence, said. "The more hostility and antagonism, there is less
willingness to learn Arabic."
Lapid,
who as spokesman for the Education Ministry is urging expanded Arabic courses in Israeli schools, said for decades the
military had a pool of Jewish immigrants from Arab countries who spoke fluent
Arabic. He said military intelligence provides
intensive Arabic courses for its analysts and officers but the failure to use
the language in civilian life has led many to forget the language after they
end service.
[Res.] Brig. Gen. Aryeh Neiger, a military analyst,
said the lack of Arabic has led to needless
confrontation between Israeli troops and Palestinians. Neiger said Israeli soldiers
and officers have no idea what Palestinian civilians are saying to them or each
other and cannot read slogans and signs on the wall that could provide
information about their surroundings.
"The
soldiers enter the refugee camp and have no idea what's written on walls or the
screams across the street," Neiger said. "The officers have no idea what's going on. In
general, Israelis only know what Arabs are saying through Israeli commentators
rather than the popular Arab media such as A-Jazeera."
(Reference: Lack of Arabic hampering
effectiveness of Israeli troops. (
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Vice on the rise in
Iran. (
Our analyst says economic hardship is mainly blamed for the increase in
prostitution and Iranian women are also smuggled to
(Reference: Vice on the rise in
Iran. (
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Sue
Lloyd-Roberts (Tuesday,
She did, however concede that the stoning of women to death for adultery was an "inefficient" means of dealing with the problem.
(Reference: Sue Lloyd-Roberts (Tuesday,
December 10, 2002) Iran's youth reveal
anger and sadness.
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James
Whittington. (
Frustration
While a well educated young
population is an incredibly important asset for
Hamid Varzi, a local banker, says youth is always the sector of the population which reacts most fiercely and most violently to their aspirations not being fulfilled.
"If somebody's at retirement age and doesn't like what's going on, well he just keeps quiet and sits at home," he said.
"But with the youth you can't expect that," he warns.
(Reference: James Whittington. (
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Muir, Jim. (
They explain that the virus can also be transferred through innocent everyday practices such as ear-piercing, shared razor blades, tattooing or even borrowing a toothbrush.
But
(Reference: Muir, Jim. (
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Sadeq Saba (Sunday,
Dr Sayyari
also complained that the practice of temporary
marriage in
Shia Islam allows men to have numerous temporary wives - a practice known as Sigha - sometimes for only a very short period of time.
But Iranian officials point out
that a major cause of HIV transmission is the use
of unclean needles for drug use, especially
in jails.
The director of prisons in
(Reference: Sadeq Saba (Sunday, December 09, 2001) Iran
announces jump in HIV figures.
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Jim Muir. (
There is growing concern in
It is one of a number of burning social problems the Iranian government is starting to address.
This is the seedy side of life in
One 17-year-old from
"There are many wolves out there," she told me.
"A girl has to be strong, but if she has no money, she may be forced to do things, illegal things, so that she can eat, and find somewhere to sleep."
Atina's story, like so many others, involves drugs, and a broken home.
But Fahimeh Eskanderi, who runs the Reyhaneh House, says that social change and rising expectations are also a factor spurring girls to run away in search of a better life.
"This problem only began in the last few years. It didn't exist before in Iranian society, even before the revolution, because there was a strong traditional culture.
"But now, our children's
minds are much more open, and exposed to foreign
culture. There's no comparison between the
children of today and those of even just 10 years ago. They claim their rights,
and they're determined to have them."
(Reference: Jim Muir. (
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Reference
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,866123,00.html
Corruption is widespread among both the administration and
the Russian military in
(Reference: Chechnya
suicide bombers 'used Russian military links'.
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Massive quarantine if terror strikes
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30225
"There will certainly be some panic, with people jumping into their cars with their families to try to flee the city and avoid contamination, but they would be stopped," he told the Times.
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15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16 Then let them
which be in
17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
- Matthew 24:15-22 :: King James Version (KJV)
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"stress and duress" techniques.
These include forcing them to maintain awkward, painful positions for long periods and depriving them of sleep with a 24-hour bombardment of lights.
The Post article also claimed
that those who do not cooperate at Bagram are turned
over to foreign intelligence services whose practice
of torture has been documented by the
(Reference: US military
denies torturing Al-Qaeda suspects in Afghanistan. (
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Paul Harris and Burhan Wazir. (
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,866235,00.html
US officials have admitted that
suspects captured in the region are 'softened up'
on their way to detention by brutal beatings from US military police and
special forces soldiers. They are confined to tiny
rooms, blindfolded and thrown into walls. They are tied up in painful
positions, subjected to loud noises and deprived of sleep by having lights shone
on them all day and night. Sometimes they are forced to stand for long periods
in black hoods or wearing goggles which have been spray-painted so as to render
them blind.
The
aim is to disorientate and confuse the suspects, as they face a barrage
of questions about their activities in
'Pain
control is a very subjective thing,' one
Those
who do not crack, or perhaps have nothing to tell, are often handed over
to foreign intelligence services such as those of Morocco
or Saudi Arabia, where less sophisticated and bloodier torture techniques are
regularly employed.
(Reference: Paul Harris and Burhan Wazir. (
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Associated
Press. (
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/1723636
County Commissioner Yvonne Atkinson Gates first proposed cleaning up steamy lap dances after an undercover police investigation found that sexy dancing can progress to "excessive grinding," simulated sex acts and, finally, sex for money.
Under the new law, effective
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Reference
Lastly,
the Vinita Vatthu to this rule includes an
interesting case that formed the basis for an additional rule:
"At
that time a certain monk had gone to the Gabled Hall in the Great Wood at Vesali to pass the day and was sleeping, having left the door open. His various limbs were
stiff with the 'wind forces' (i.e., he had an erection). Now at that time a large company of
women bearing
garlands and scents came to
the park, headed for the vihara. Seeing the bhikkhu, they sat down on his male organ and, having taken their pleasure
and remarking, 'What
a bull of a man!' they went
on their way, taking
up their garlands and scents."
The bhikkhu incurred no penalty, but the Buddha gave formal permission to close the door when resting during the day.
(Reference: Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff) The
Buddhist Monastic Code Volume I The Patimokkha
Training Rules Translated & Explained. Chapter Four. Parajika.)
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"Young
people have a lifestyle that needs a little bit more attention to what is
appropriate," said Bobby Siller,
"There's a million and a half people that live in Clark County, and I think they are entitled to a quality of life that doesn't include having to explain to your kids what that's all about," said prosecutor Mike Davidson.
The
The crackdown on strippers doesn't make sense to many tourists.
"That's why people come
here. They think of it as
Hal Rothman, a history professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, said he suspects the trend has something to do with Las Vegas trying to become a community, not just a tourist destination.
"There's no doubt that our traditions and our future are somehow at odds," Rothman said. "We're going to have to renegotiate the boundaries."
(Reference: Associated Press.
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Reuters.
(
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=1987987
BEIJING (Reuters) - Police in northwest China have made a rare apology to a man they surprised at home and dragged to jail for watching pornographic videos with his wife, state newspapers said Friday.
The case, reported widely by newspapers, prompted intense debate among Chinese about privacy in a country struggling to balance traditional morality and personal freedom.
Four officers burst into the house Zhang Lei, 24, shared with his wife and parents on August 18 to confiscate pornographic videos after a tip-off, the newspaper said.
The police tried to take Zhang's video player and television as well, it said, resulting in a brawl with family members.
Authorities
hauled Zhang and his father to jail for spreading pornography and obstructing
justice.
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United
Press International. (
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030103-015349-9843r
In recent months, there has been a sharp increase in the number of military personnel who have grown beards as a sign that the wearer is a Muslim fundamentalist, or a sympathizer, the source said.
…
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Miller,
Joel. (
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30327
Laws that prevent people from protecting their properties empower crooks, because the Freamons of the world cannot otherwise ward them off. Put guns in the hands of homeowners, however, and they are empowered to repel the barbarians from their castle gates.
Unfortunately, people who push for laws like those that Freamon ran afoul of don't see it that way. They see citizens as mainly reliant upon government for protection.
"The government-control
advocates want us to place our fate in the hands of the state," writes WND
Editor in Chief Joseph Farah in his new book,
"Taking
Farah sets up his discussion of firearms ownership with a case in which a burglary was underway when police were called. Officers responded, checked out the scene and left – completely unaware that the burglars and victims were still in the building. The intruders, beyond looting the family silver, also raped and abused the people present – even a little girl.
Devastated that the police hadn't protected them, the victims sued the authorities. Their devastation was made complete when they lost their case. The court basically ruled that the police cannot be held liable for not protecting people.
So here's the double whammy: Americans are increasingly being bullied by gun-grabbers to resign their home and personal defense to the police. But the courts say the police can't be held responsible if citizens get the shaft for putting their trust in the cops for naught. In other words, damned if you do, damned if you don't.
The police couldn't have protected Freamon. The attack on his home was sudden. It needed a sudden response – something police are usually in no position to give (it's not as though thugs give law enforcement their itineraries).
So where does that leave people afraid of getting screwed with no recourse? Illegally owning guns.
Free people must defend their own property, and the government must not hinder them. If it does, many otherwise law-abiding citizens will simply break the law. Thus, in the name of stopping crime, gun-grabbers turn innocent people into lawbreakers. And they're fine with that – after all, they hate guns. It's not much of a stretch to assume they care little for those who own them.
But own them we must. As Farah says in "Taking
Not allowing such is like giving intruders engraved invitations to storm our castles.
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Kovacs,
Joe. (
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30396
"First, it is not the job of an arresting officer to diagnose a suspect for possible and existent mental disorders," Ackerman said.
"Second, even if it were their duty, they have no duty to determine the number of possible 'personalities' that they are about to arrest. A rational approach to Miranda suggests that only one 'person' is being arrested. If, in fact, the person is mentally ill, they have no concerns to begin with, since insanity is a complete defense to an intentional crime. What's the point in giving Miranda advisements if there is no assurance that a 'personality' hears it at all?
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Vinod Kumar.
(
http://www.kaumudi.com/news/lens/lens.stm
God's
own country; Devil's own people
a bankrupt state, headed to virtual collapse.
Industrial growth is almost zero,
the real bourgeoisie today are their own foot soldiers - the highly paid but highly unproductive government employees.
In a state with high level of unemployment, head load is the easiest way, next to crime, for the healthy, educated, but unskilled unemployed youth to make some quick buck. If crime is anti-social, then this low effort, but highly paid occupation gives them enough political and social legitimacy to resort to means and ends, which may to the rest of the world seem to be daylight robbery. Political parties nurture this highly disillusioned, but motivated workforce, because other than being their frontline soldiers in their political endeavors, they also service their criminal constituency in the background. Little does these bands of warriors, mostly graduates in history and political science, know that their own leaders have cut off in the bud any project that can feed their stomachs.
being judged 'a-once-in-a-lifetime destination', god's own country
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"No
Name". (April 2001) Is Tehelka All or More to Come?
http://www.theindianprogrammer.com/leisure/tehelka.htm
Let us have a look at recent
history and start with Nehru. What were the insurmountable constraints which
forced him to stop the armed forces from their patriotic duty to vacate
aggression which commenced in
The mystery of the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri
at
(Reference: "No Name".
(April 2001) Is Tehelka All or More to Come?
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Women of Enron blast TV movie. (
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/1730932
"People tend to believe
what they see on TV."
(Reference: Women of Enron
blast TV movie. (
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Vestad, Jon Peder. (
http://www.hivolda.no/jpv/mediainindia.htm
- Journalists who investigate corruption will have to face many odds. I think that is the situation in many countries.
- Does it happen that journalists also receive bribes?
- I don't think so. Any journalist who receives bribes will not be trusted. But, they may receive other benefits like subsidized housing, free trips to certain places etc. I have not heard of any journalist of national fame who has received bribes from either politicians and bureaucrats. Once a journalist is found receiving bribe his journalistic career ends there. As I said before they have certainly received gifts.
Difficult
to get information
One
of the problems that a journalist faces in
International
affairs
After having stayed in Norway for
a couple of weeks in the winter of 2001, Poornananda
have got an impression of Norwegian media as quite
uninterested in international affairs, at least when compared with
Indian media. But as a huge country, and an important nation,
- Which countries and themes from the international scene would you say are given most attention in Indian mass media?
-
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Sengupta, Hindol. (
http://www.apnic.net/mailing-lists/s-asia-it/archive/2001/03/msg00028.html
"We have pushed the borders of journalism. In this way, we are police, prosecutor and journalist," said Aniruddha Bahal, one of the Tehelka reporters who led the defense deals expose.
Analysts agree, saying traditional media has increasingly become cozy with the establishment over the years, partly due to laziness and partly fearing losing special favors.
"They (the traditional media) are really bothered about profits, which are no doubt important, but it has meant increasingly cozying with the government and taking public credibility for granted," said Bhaskar Rao. "There is a void in constructive criticism of the establishment."
This is the void that upstart online news organizations are filling. "What Tehelka has started to do is an example for all (Web) sites to follow, if they want to draw public attention and gain credibility," said M. K. Venu, who quit his job as financial editor of The Economic Times newspaper to lead e-indiabiz.com, a business news portal.
"Can you ever imagine any
newspaper in
Nearly 2,000 dotcoms, all needing
journalists to fill news sections, have mushroomed in
Now the same newspaper hacks are donning a new avatar as "content managers." Analysts say a hit combination of new technology, new attitude and an unshackled atmosphere is what makes Net journalism so appealing, though it is also pointed out that there are any number of news Web sites which have been affected badly in the past years as the Internet business slumped worldwide.
India currently has an estimated 4.5 million Internet users, projected to double every year for the next four years. This means an approximate 100 million users by 2008. The numbers have meant international Internet portals like Yahoo!, Lycos, Alta Vista and MSN launching Indian portals and tying up with Indian content providers.
And as the market grows online
journalism thrives. "The Web as a serious news
medium has certainly arrived in
But some remain skeptical.
"Two exposes by a Web site do not mean you can write off the newspapers
and television. Remember the Tehelka
tapes gained prominence only after they were highlighted by the traditional
media," said Ajit Bhattacharjea,
director of the Press Institute of
"Also, it is good if they use the new technology for public service, but if they fall to the temptation of probing private lives, it will be unfortunate," Bhattacharjea added.
(Reference: Sengupta, Hindol. (
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Clark,
Drew. (
http://slate.msn.com/id/2077192/
The French term droit moral, or "moral
rights," is perhaps better translated as the
right of personality. It implies that the
artist's personal integrity is at stake in the way his works are seen and
heard. It means that Steven Spielberg is personally harmed whenever
someone knowingly views an altered copy of Saving
Private Ryan. Theoretically, these rights
stem from continental European philosophies, in which a copyright is a property right or a
personality right of the artist, justified because his artwork springs from his
creative genius. France has taken
this to an extraordinary degree: An artist who
sells a painting can still stop its owner from destroying it, and an author can
force his publisher to stop selling a book if he no longer believes in it.
Traditionally,
The tensions between moral rights and free speech can't be avoided in the Clean Flicks lawsuit, where rival worldviews—copyright for "authors" versus copyright for "readers"—butt heads. Although the studios and directors charge all 11 companies with copyright and trademark infringement, the editing and filtering companies make different arguments in their defense. The Clean Flicks folks say they respect those copyrights by only making a single edited copy for each original video or DVD they purchase. Moreover, certain acts of copying can be excused under the "fair use" doctrine, which permits individuals and companies to make limited uses or noncommercial copies of others' copyrighted works. But recent court decisions have limited businesses' ability to claim "fair use" as a defense. In other words, it may be legal for a consumer to cut offensive scenes out of her own videotape, but illegal for a company to do it for her—even though Clean Flicks claims that it is merely offering a service for its "members."
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Botkin, Richard. (
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He is the living embodiment of
Marine Corps virtues. He is the grizzled, sagacious warrior-father to all
Marines. His wisdom and insight is considered as near gospel. On that spring
day, Gen. Barrow – a three-war veteran and Navy Cross recipient – mused in his
manly and mild drawl that in all the combat in which he had participated, he
had never seen a crowded battlefield. The
auditorium was silent as he delivered counsel which I will never forget: "It is not how many you have. It is who you have
that determines every battle's outcome."
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Mahabharata
war - Lord Krishna on one side and the Yadava army on
the other side.
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Andrei
Zolotov Jr. (Wednesday,
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/02/05/003.html
"Those demanding the canonization of Ivan the Terrible and Rasputin are a small but very noisy group," said Alexander Dvorkin, the church's leading expert on sects. "This will be followed by demands to canonize Stalin -- there is already some so-called research showing that he was secretly a monk. It is impossible to disprove all of these myths.
"Religious hysterics are the basis of this pseudo-Orthodox sect acting within our church."
(Reference: Andrei Zolotov Jr. (Wednesday,
February 05, 2003) Orthodox
Church Takes On Rasputin.
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Farah, Joseph. (
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30902
Starring Robert Duvall as Robert
E. Lee and Stephan Land as Thomas "Stonewall"
Uniquely, this film recognizes the deep spiritual values of those involved in this conflict – on both sides. Soldiers pray in this movie. They pray heartfelt, sincere prayers. They read scripture. They make great personal sacrifices to carry out their duty. They love and revere their wives.
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Doug. (
While getting more radiation statistically leads to more cancer, it also creates an effect known as hormesis. Hormesis is a phenomenon whereby a little bit of something that's poisonous actually has a beneficial effect; it appears true of almost everything – mercury, lead, arsenic, dioxin, radiation, you-name-it. The mechanism for this effect is debated, but it seems likely that it's a result of the stimulation of the immune system in a way peculiar to each poison. It's likely why, for instance, kids that fearlessly play in dirt tend to be healthier than those whose parents try to insulate them in sterile bubbles.
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Graves,
Rachel. (
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1791715
…the
A victims
advocate called mental retardation the "brass
ring" for death row defendants.
At least seven
…
A bill before the Texas Legislature, which is trying to make the state's death penalty law agree with last year's Supreme Court decision, would classify defendants with an IQ of 70 or below as mentally retarded.
…
"One of the traits of mentally retarded people is that they're very easily led ... or persuaded by others," Marcus said. "It could be that he's an extremely limited and vulnerable individual."
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Borin, Elliot.
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55037,00.html
"A basic issue in privacy is 'function creep,'" said Lee Tien, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Once a surveillance system is put in place for a particular function, for example, aviation security ... it can be used for many other functions as well. We've seen this with Social Security numbers on the government side and, of course, with customer databases on the private side.
"The trick is to tie this kind of surveillance to some kind of benefit or transaction that large numbers of people must periodically sign up for or renew, like car registration or renewing a driver's license. You don't have to chase people down; they come to you."
Tien notes that CAPPS II also raises backend issues such as an individual's right to view and correct errors in files and securing the database against hacking by outsiders and misuse by insiders.
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Casey,
Doug. (
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31378
As long as the
Eight hundred privateers were licensed in the Revolution. In the War of 1812, the 500-odd licensed American privateers took about 1,750 British ships.
Why, if privateering was so successful, has it disappeared? Governments of the time considered privateers to be the terrorists of their day, and they were abolished by international agreement in the mid-19th century. The increasingly large-standing armies and navies of the time, like the Post Office, or any other government agency, didn't like to be compared with entrepreneurs. But entrepreneurial privateers, mercenaries, private detectives and bounty hunters were then, and are now, by far the best way to rid the world of undesirable elements.
In the wake of the Sept. 11
attacks, a group of American businessmen, headed by one Edward Lozzi of
Are mercenaries effective as soldiers? Extremely. The best fighting force in the world, man for man, has always been the French Foreign Legion. Although the examples from history are legion, it's possible to get an even better idea of how things might be from literature.
I submit Ragnar Danesjold from "Atlas Shrugged," and Captain Nemo from "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" as two examples. Television offers "Paladin" from "Have Gun, Will Travel." An excellent (and very funny) movie illustrating what would likely happen if soldiers are on commission is Clint Eastwood's movie "Kelly's Heroes." Those who think war can be fun will be especially entertained.
I'm quite anti-war in general principle, of course – war is the health of the state. That's not to say, however, I don't think there are many individuals and groups that need killing – although reasonable men can differ about who they might be. That being the case, I believe that if someone (like Bush, say) wants to go out and do some killing, he ought to do it for his own account. I certainly don't want to be forced to pay for his notions, or be considered guilty of them simply because I'm an American.
For those of you who are
interested in a complete explanation of how all this would work in practice, I
suggest "The Market for
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"Women who have no education and control over their minds and bodies often submit to their male partners' decisions and sexual needs, even if it runs against their wishes," the commission (the Philippines Population Commission) said.
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Associated
Press. (
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5353470.htm
"Go and ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a body," the elder Gibson says in Sunday's editions of The New York Times Magazine. "It takes one liter of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million?"
…
Gibson and his son, the star of
blockbuster films like "Braveheart" and
"Lethal Weapon," are practitioners of an
ultraconservative Catholic movement known as traditionalism. The small
splinter group seeks to revive orthodox practices
that were abandoned several centuries ago by mainstream Catholicism.
…
In addition, Gibson is directing
a film that depicts the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus Christ. The movie,
"The Passion," is in production in
Gibson declined comment for the
Times article, but at a news conference to announce the film last September, he acknowledged the difficulty in finding a
"Obviously, nobody wants to touch something filmed in two dead languages. They think I'm crazy, and maybe I am. But maybe I'm a genius," Gibson said.
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Buchanan,
Patrick J. (
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31437
Before
Today, many believe that public caning of young criminals, and their return to society for a second chance, would be far better for them and us. It might be a superior deterrent to crime than dumping them into the animal cages that are too many of American prisons, where young offenders face sexual abuse and are exposed to the daily example of how incorrigible criminals succeed and fail.
Who
would not prefer a thrashing that might even put one in a hospital for a week
to spending years in such a prison?
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Patrick J. (Monday,
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Zwartz, Barney.
(
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/11/1047144971917.html
"A mountain of surface mail, email, faxes and phone calls are our devices to inspire him."
Yesterday she said she was getting hundred of emails daily.
She said the Pope had been active in opposing war. "I think he feels passionate. He's an old man who is very sick with nothing to lose."
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Davidson, Kenneth. (
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/19/1047749824415.html
It
would be fatal to America's global strategic ambitions if countries in Europe
began to ask for euros instead of US dollars for their exports, or if China
demanded settlement of their accounts with the US in yuan
instead of US dollars. The
It is difficult to see how the
In
2000, Saddam's regime had the temerity to demand payment in euros for
the trickle of Iraqi oil the
…
Bush personifies the American quest for absolute security. Americans don't yet understand or care that this status can only be achieved by making everybody else absolutely insecure.
This is why the most lasting thing to come out of the war with
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War trumps sex online: Conflict
in
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31651
British Web surfers are at least
temporarily more interested in war than the subject that has long ruled the Internet.
"War was our top search term
today, taking over from perennial favorites -- sex, Britney and travel,"
said Nadia Schofield, a spokeswoman for Freeserve,
the
Reuters said Freeserve tracks day-to-day changes in popular search terms and notes, to no one's surprise, that sex-related terms long have been the most dominant.
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Anna McDermott. (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2896945.stm
UNFPA has worked in Iraq since 1972 providing training and
supplies to meet the reproductive health needs of this very young population, with a large number of young women entering their
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The
second Gulf war. By land…the coming of the
The
concept is similar to having a lot of cows in a land. For a long time, native
bulls used to fertilize them. As time went on, the quality of milk and that of
the off-spring began to DECREASE. So what you do is bring in a foreign bull or
bulls, which are hand-picked and the best, to fertilize the native cows. The
next off-springs will be more better and milk quality will be more.
Need
not be cows alone. Can be any female entity – horses, animals, flowers, plants
etc.
For example,
the best racing horses are selectively cross-bred.
In any
society, due to social restrictions, status etc. such cross-breeding in humans
is frowned upon. Normally man marries from within his community or religion.
But in the event of war, the natural process of better offspring have to occur,
and it occurs voluntarily or by means of force. Voluntary can be due to
poverty. Society terms it prostitution. The other, the use of force, society
ignorantly term it as rape or military atrocities in occupied territories.
Also
refer:
Myers,
Peter. Neither Aryan Nor
Jew.
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around
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around
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Catherine
Armitage. (
http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6204242%255E401,00.html
The industry bible also describes
the camerawork of Australian cinematographer Chris Doyle as sensational, with
"one after another succulent composition". In another Australian
link, post-production (sound and editing) was completed by Atlab
Doyle, whose credits include Rabbit-Proof Fence and The Quiet American, says the film's beauty came from his being forced to let the stunning but logistically challenging natural settings – a lake in Sichuan, a desert in Xinjiang, a forest in Inner Mongolia – tell their own story. For him, much of the battle was accepting that "I can't light the desert, I can't make the water still".
Like others involved in making the film, Doyle denies knowledge of any intentional political undertones.
Even in Chinese newspapers, Zhang
was criticised for failing to present the Qin king's true monstrosity. He was accused of focusing
instead on a message the present leadership likes – the
supreme importance of a unified
Says Doyle of Zhang: "Whether he is pandering to the Government, only he knows. In my mind he has opened a lot of doors. Maybe in 10 years we will see it as a brilliant strategy to make more art films, so all of us can do more films [in China] in the future."
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Gay,
Lance. (
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=WHATIF-04-02-03&cat=II
Military strategists say that
Saddam seems to be following the advice of Mao Zedong, who wrote the mother of
all textbooks in 1928 on how a weaker force can paralyze well-equipped and far
superior armies.
Mao's recipe was to avoid conventional battles, relying instead on mobile
forces and a protracted form of skirmish warfare that wins by harassment. It worked for Mao, who fought off an invading Japanese army, and later defeated
the Chinese Nationalist government.
…
Vickers said Saddam is acting
this time more like Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic, who also chose not to confront
Vickers bets Iraq's strategy is
to count on the main fights to come in the wooded areas south of Baghdad, where
U.S. forces will be forced into a bottleneck by the
narrowing of the plain between the Tigris and Euphrates River. With the arrival of
"He's
hoping to blood the
"Let
our cities be our swamps and our buildings our jungles," said
Some
analysts forecast before the war erupted that the
Before the war started, Joseph Balkoski, author of the
"There will be chaos in
civil strife within the areas overrun by the
In the posting, Balkoski predicted eventually that public
outrage in
Balkoski
said his predictions were simply based on reading
military histories that show that armies
faced with overwhelming force devise some simple technique to confront it.
"Saddam saw us coming for months and years, and he's not as stupid to allow the same thing that happened in 1991 to happen again," he said.
Balkoski
said the problem facing
He said the U.S. war plan looks
like it is changing, and he now expects the
Pentagon to order Baghdad taken rather than putting the city and its 5 million
residents under siege. He said this sort of warfare is something the
Pentagon sought to avoid, and would result in high
casualties from house-to-house fighting. While he expects this strategy
to be successful, Balkoski said it's still possible for Saddam, a former Baath Party intelligence officer, to slip into a disguise, escape the destruction of
Baghdad, and hide out in Iraq's mountains to raise another army, and fight
another day.
Middle East experts say the Bush administration has not done enough to try and blunt Iraqi nationalism, and contend the Pentagon has given Saddam a moral victory by arrogantly assuming Iraq's armies would collapse when confronted by forces that have so many technological-advances.
"Iraqi's
are very nationalistic, and if they perceive this as being the United
States versus Iraq, and not Saddam, then we are in trouble," said
Iranian-born Guity Nashat,
an associate professor of
Nashat
said the key to American success in
Qubad Talabany, deputy representative of the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan, said so much is riding on American success in this war, that democracy throughout the
A
defeat, Talabany warned, would only fuel the rise of anti-American Islamic clerics "If we fail, you can kiss goodbye to secular
democracy in the
On the Net: www.hnn.us
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31878
Lawyers have an old saying: "Always make sure that it's the client who goes to jail." The counterpart for journalists is to make sure that they should never become the story. They're not sent overseas to write their autobiographies – they're over there to report, period.
…
The old adage, "When in
…
Like it or not, whether you're
male or female, Democrat, Republican, Independent or pop-goes-the-weasel, when
embedded, you become one of the Band of Brothers. And that means discipline, prudence, and the absolute necessity of
engaging the brain before any other bodily
organ.
And that brings me to the central question: Are embedded reporters too much "in bed" with the military units they cover? This criticism has been raised, and there is an important psychological basis for it. Out "there" reporters are non-combatants against an enemy that doesn't really recognize non-combatants. A reporter is guarded by the soldiers he or she is sent to report about – his or her life depends on them. The reporter eats, sleeps and answers nature's calls with them; they ride, march and hikes with them; tolerates freezing desert nights, sweaty NBC suits and the lack of hygiene and privacy with them. Fear, boredom, anger and sadness are also part of the shared experience. Who could possibly be "objective" in these circumstances? Who would even want to be objective?
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31869
Keni
Thomas, an Army Ranger who fought in Somalia, said that in the heat of battle, a soldier is a soldier.
"At the time, it is not a difficult decision to make," he told the paper. "In the end, only you know what you see down your sight. Whether it's a man, woman, child or machine firing at you, it's a threat."
In a December 2002 report titled "Iraq: A Population Silenced," the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor disclosed that Saddam Hussein forces "children between the ages of 10 and 15 to attend 3-week training courses in weapons’ use, hand-to-hand fighting, rappelling from helicopters, and infantry tactics. These children endure 14 hours of physical training and psychological pressure each day." If families object to having their children turned into soldiers for Saddam, said the State Department report, they're "threatened with the loss of their food ration cards."
Saddam's recruitment and
cultivation of child warriors is not surprising considering his close ties with
the Palestinian Authority. As WorldNetDaily has
reported, under the direction of PA leader Yasser
Arafat, Palestinian children are commonly taught to hate Jews, to glorify
jihad, violence, death and child martyrdom almost the earliest ages. Use of
children as warriors, human shields and as suicide bombers is an essential part
of the Palestinians' war strategy against
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"…children between the ages of 10 and 15 to attend 3-week training courses in weapons’ use, hand-to-hand fighting, rappelling from helicopters, and infantry tactics. These children endure 14 hours of physical training and psychological pressure each day."
THAT is
the age of physical and psychological changes for any human child – puberty,
adolescence, youth – the age from 10 to 15. In society, with current
Westernization and promiscuity many a small kid, boy or girl, yearn to explore
the forbidden fruit at that small age…THAT bad habit is effectively countered
by COMPULSORY military training…
Very
praise worthy!
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around
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around
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http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030419-79411282.htm
"I've
known him all his life," he said. "If something hadn't changed his
life, he would have fought those charges as far and as long as he could. He's
strong-headed."
Defense attorney Scott Lisenbee
said this tiny eastern
"Everyone seems convinced that's not
the case," Mr. Lisenbee said.
Mr.
Braithwaite, 42, said an automobile accident served as a spiritual wake-up call. He said he was fortunate to come away with
scrapes, bruises, torn ligaments and four ruptured discs in a crash so severe
that he could have been killed.
Had that happened, Mr. Braithwaite asked
himself, "Where would I spend eternity?"
Mr. Braithwaite said he wrestled with the
question for the next two months, then headed to services at a little country
church.
"They were kind of surprised when I
walked in," he said, chuckling at the memory. "A lot of them were
happy to see me there. A lot of others wondered what in the world I was doing
there."
After his baptism, Mr. Braithwaite dropped
his business' old name, Love World, and now calls his store Mike's Place. He
covered the red outer walls with a fresh coat of white paint and the words
"Jesus Saves." Inside, shelves of Bibles and other Christian books
are displayed where pornographic magazines and other merchandise used to be.
…
Marcia
Bartenhagen, news editor of Christian Retailing
Magazine in Lake Mary, Fla., said Bible suppliers were so touched by Mr.
Braithwaite's story that several sent him books and materials to help stock his
store.
"It was just a complete 180-degree turn for someone who had been selling
sex products to be so passionate about his Christian faith," Miss Bartenhagen
said. "He took a chance on a completely new business, not knowing if there
was a market for it, just to say he's following God now. It was such an
encouragement."
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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/1874522
"It's our business
to have knowledgeable people so we can have the breadth and depth of talent to
tackle the things that most other people in the world can't," Bechtel
spokesman Jeff Berger said.
…
The
company has backed its contacts within
That's
a lot less than other influential businesses. The donations look like small change compared with the money Bechtel
earns from the government.
…
The
After
serving as treasury secretary in the Nixon administration, George Shultz was Bechtel's
president for seven years before he left in 1981 to become secretary of state
in the Reagan administration.
While
Shultz was
In 1983, Rumsfeld, while working as a special
Bechtel
exemplifies "the
revolving door between government and business that
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http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030420-7717031.htm (De-activated link)
http://www.dadi.org/jailtime.htm (Alternate
link)
Jail
time coming for deadbeat dads
By
Cheryl Wetzstein
THE
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Each week in this
picturesque Southern city, around 50 fathers are rounded up and hauled into a
crowded jail for the crime of not paying their court-ordered child support. Top
Stories
Most are quickly bailed out.
But when the bailouts stop, the men step
onto a well-worn path: Survive the tedium and frustration of months in jail.
Upon release, find a job — any job. Keep paying enough child support to avoid
the court's attention. Sooner or later, get re-arrested and re-incarcerated.
This pattern is repeated often.
Some men, such as Corey Wright, are now
taking a path that is even more personally demanding, but it holds the promise
of escaping the child-support merry-go-round.
Mr. Wright, 34, graduated on Feb. 14 as a
member of Class No. 7 of Project Restore, a program of Agape Ministries of
For 16 weeks, he studied about life,
parenthood and manhood. He also worked on construction sites, took college
classes in carpentry and built houses with Habitat for Humanity.
About $2,000 of the money he earned during
the program went to pay down his child-support debt of $4,696.
Today, Mr. Wright has a full-time
restaurant-cleaning job that pays $8 an hour. He's easily staying current with
his $149-a-month child-support bill and he's planning a return to hospital
nursing work, which he prefers over carpentry.
The program "has given me a good
outlook on everything — it showed me how I was going about things the wrong
way," he said. "Now I've got some plans."
On the family side, Mr. Wright is
reconnecting with the 6-year-old daughter he owes support for and strengthening
ties to another son. He's also investing more in sons Corey Jr., 4, and KayMonte, 1.
Project Restore has "changed Corey a
lot," says the boys' mother, Katashia Campbell.
"He's been coming to visit them a lot and calling to see what [the baby]
needs. I think he'll be a good role model for them."
'Pay or be incarcerated'
The federal government estimates that $112
billion was owed in child support in 2001. A record $19 billion in child
support was collected, but it barely dented the overall debt owed from previous
years.
Throughout
Not so in
J. Corbitt
Hinson III, a child-support official in the South Carolina Department of Social
Services, agrees. "This is the wrong place to get a child-support tab. We
go to court over $27," he says.
This no-nonsense attitude, backed up by a dedicated law-enforcement staff
and a computer system that keeps close track of
child-support debts, means there's a steady stream of fathers jamming into the
The facility was built for around 700
people, but it often holds closer to 1,400.
Most inmates are in for felonies such as
carjacking or child molesting. But a "small but important part of the
population" — typically 100 of the men and 10 of the 25 female inmates —
are in the facility for not paying their child support, says Keith Novak, chief
deputy of the Charleston County Sheriff's Office and administrator of the
center.
The child-support inmates are notorious
for recidivism. "It's a revolving door," Mr. Novak says.
Which is why prison officials, judges,
child-support enforcers and the mayor perked up a few years ago when the Rev.
Dallas D. Wilson Jr., known as "Brother Dallas," proposed Project
Restore.
It's a combination of work-release,
life-skills and relationship programs "but with a faith-based and
ownership component," Mr. Wilson says. The unique aspect of the program is
its construction company, in which the men can become part owners, he says.
Restoring hearts of men
Project Restore begins in the detention
center, such as what happened on a rainy November night.
Several dozen inmates cram into a room
with team leaders Kenneth Green and Timothy Grant.
Project Restore has a buzz — inmates have heard
that program graduates get out of jail early — so they are wary but interested.
Mr. Green and Mr. Grant scan the packed
room. They are looking for 18 men for Class No. 8 currently under way. Eligible
candidates must be nonviolent, have jail sentences of at least one year, owe
child support to the state and have a desire to change their lives.
"We're not lawyers, judges, legal
professionals or attorneys. We're trying to restore the hearts of men back to
their children," says Mr. Green, a compact man who sports a neat ponytail,
crisp shirt and tailored pants.
For much of the next 90 minutes, he and
Mr. Grant listen patiently to the complaints of inmates: "I owed $9,000.
Judge gave me a $100 fine and 90 days to pay," one inmate says indignantly.
"I owe $1,200, and got a $400 fine and no time to pay," another says.
"We're on a one-way
railroad — [the debts are] growing while we sit in here," another growls.
"You were there before all this
started," Mr. Green interjects.
But the sob stories continue: "A lot of us were paying support to the women, not to the court, then the court said the money
was a gift," says one man with dreadlocks. "Garfinkel
gave me 21 months. No leniency from him," another jeers.
When Mr. Green has heard enough, he levels
with the men. "I have a wife and six kids. I did three years in the state
pen. I got out and did a mistake again and got 18 more months. People wrote me
off, too, but I got a second chance.
"Nothing was given to me," Mr. Green adds,
as the men sit silently. "It took six years to get back on my feet. I
started as a driver,
Mr. Grant, a burly teddy bear of a man
with a goatee, steps to the front of the room.
"I pay child support now," he
says. "I've been incarcerated and in the courts. She got welfare and I've got to pay for it. But don't be negative and you can overcome."
Mr. Green and Mr. Grant collect 40
applications that night. They agree that a few of the men look promising.
A new beginning
Class No. 7, which began Nov. 4, has 16
men. In the morning, they are driven from the detention center to the Agape
Ministries building, located in a federal enterprise community. At night, they
are returned to jail.
Most of the men are in their 20s or 30s,
and owe anywhere from $3,000 to $15,000 in child support. Malcolm, the one
white father in the class, owes almost $50,000.
One middle-age man named Thurmond, who
like Malcolm asked that his last name not be used, seems especially grateful to
be in the group. He is an
Army veteran and a solid worker, and was once happily married to a woman with
whom they now have three adult children. Then he found a girlfriend and got her
pregnant. His wife divorced him, and his children stepped back from him. The
girlfriend dumped him as well and sued him for child support. He now owes
between $7,000 and $8,000. Jail was the final disgrace.
"I tried hard to get into this
program," Thurmond explains quietly. "I want this to be a new
beginning," he says, tears swelling in his eyes. "I lost a lot in the divorce."
Mr. Wilson's wife, Janie, organizes and
oversees the program. She teaches the men professional etiquette and the value
of positive attitudes and adaptability. She insists on being addressed as
"Mrs. Wilson."
"It helps the men to rebuild respect for women," she says.
The Rev. Jimmy S. Gallant III, a
high-energy city council member who seems to know everyone in town, gives the
class a pep talk about how they
can "transform" themselves and "become a brand-new person in
front of the people who know you."
He also warns them: "In the beginning, you'll feel good,
but then it's going to get intense.
You're not going to be the same person a few weeks from now."
Mr. Wilson, a well-spoken, large man,
steps forward to lay out the 16-week program: During the week, it's life-skills
classes and training on construction sites; on Tuesday and Thursday nights,
it's college classes; on Saturdays, it's work with Habitat for Humanity.
Project Restore pays the men $7 an hour or
$224 a week. About three-quarters of these earnings go to their child-support
debts. The men keep $8.50 a week, which isn't much, but it beats the $1-a-day
they could earn working in jail. The rest of the men's earnings go toward
paying for meals and other program costs.
Participants must abide by the rules. Stealing, substance abuse and unauthorized
visitors are cause for dismissal. "No one will send you back [to jail] but
yourself," Mr. Wilson says.
Upon graduation, most men take jobs with
contractors or work for Peithos Construction Co.,
which is owned and operated by Project Restore graduates. If they stay with Peithos, "they can become part-owners and share in the
profits," Mr. Wilson says.
"As a result of their labor, they
should own something," he explains. Also, as owners and allies, they can
beat the "last hired, first
fired" syndrome that felons typically face in the work force.
But work and child support are only the
external goals for the men, says Mr. Wilson, who is candid about growing up in a fatherless home and being
"a thug and a hoodlum" before turning his life around and earning a
doctorate in theology.
The deeper goals are to "restore, reclaim and reintegrate" the men with their children, family and society,
he says.
Each class likes to hear these goals, Mr.
Wilson says, but they usually have no idea how hard it will be to do it.
"No one likes change
but a wet baby," he says with a
chuckle.
A 'hands-on' program
Project Restore was started in 1997 and
won a federal welfare-to-work grant for 1999. Today, its major funders are the
Mr. Wilson's living expenses are
underwritten by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public,
the Arlington-based philanthropy that supports extraordinary "social
entrepreneurship."
Project Restore ran into funding snags
over its payments to the men — which are now resolved, Mr. Wilson says. It also
had to maintain its allies in law enforcement, child support, family court and
the local business community.
"There was a time when this program
was nearly dead," he says. "If any [of the major players] had said,
'It's over,' it would have been over."
But Judge Garfinkel
says he supports Project Restore because it addresses his two biggest
headaches: chronic nonpayment of child support and poor relationships between
the men and their children.
If a noncustodial
parent is connected to his children, it's less likely he "will be back in
front of me," the judge says. It's also less likely that the child will
end up in juvenile court and less likely that there will be neglect and abuse.
"I think it's a win-win all the way around," he says.
Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley, who has
helped the program get community development funds, approves of it because it's
"hands-on, one human being at a time."
Child-support prosecutor Pamela Brown says
she backs Project Restore because its graduates "rarely" come back
through her office — out of 81 graduates so far, about 15 have returned to jail
on child-support charges. "I have to do my job of putting 'em away," she says, but supporting Project Restore
"is my way of giving back."
There's a unique accountability in the
program, Mr. Novak, the detention center's administrator, said.
With regular work-release programs, if one
man walks off a job site, the other men may not say anything. But once when a
Project Restore man walked off a site, "the other guys told on him. Their
attitude was, 'You are not going to [mess] this up for us,' and they gave his
address to Kenny [Green]," the chief recalls.
"The men police themselves. The peer
pressure goes the right way," Mr. Wilson says.
The money goes the right way, too: It
costs $18,000 to house a parent in jail for a year. Project Restore spends $9,021
per man, with about 38 percent of that going to child-support debt.
A big downside, however, is Project Restore's capacity: Its current configuration allows for
only about three classes a year, or 60 to 75 men.
In contrast, the Department of Social
Services has at least 15,600 child-support arrearage cases in
'A blessing to me'
Project Restore has the reputation of
working with "the bottom of the barrel," as one child-support worker
put it, but one wouldn't think it in meeting Darrell DeVaughn.
Mr. DeVaughn,
34, graduated from Project Restore's Class No. 3,
nearly three years ago.
He and his wife, Davetta,
have three children of their own and each has a child from another
relationship. Mr. DeVaughn didn't pay support for his
child and ran up a $3,000 debt.
He says Project Restore helped him become
a carpenter's apprentice, repay his entire debt and stay current with child
support. He also learned how to overcome "my arrogance" and get along
with Davetta.
"The program lets the men believe in
themselves," Mrs. DeVaughn says, tossing a smile
at her husband, who smiles back.
Kevin Evans, 37, is another
Project Restore graduate. When he came to the program in 2000, he had a $21,000
debt for children by two women and a three-year jail sentence.
Today, he works every day as
a grounds keeper at a country club and part-time at nights at a restaurant. He
is self-sufficient, pays $163 every two weeks to child support and has cut his
debt in half.
"I'm now on good terms," Mr.
Evans says about his interactions with the mothers of his children. Working long hours doesn't leave much time
for anything else, "but I feel real
relief now. Project Restore has been a blessing to me," he says.
Tall, muscular Kevin Gentile is both a
Project Restore graduate and one of the program's employers. Being in jail "was humiliating,"
he says. "I used to get defensive and get into cursing and all that. I
don't stress like that anymore."
Mr. Gentile, now married and with a
toddler, still pays child support for two other children but estimates the debt
is down to $1,500 from $10,000.
One afternoon, Mr. Gentile, who has his
own flooring company, and other employers came to meet members of Class No. 7. He draws a respectful audience as he uses
his calloused hands to demonstrate the most efficient way to pull lumber from a
floor.
Graduating to cheers
On Valentine's Day 2003, Class No. 7
graduated to cheers and applause.
"Overall, it was an exceptional
class," Mr. Wilson said. Four of the 16 men exceeded everyone's
expectations. One is Thurmond, the middle-aged man who lost his family when he
had an affair.
"He's in church on Sundays and keeps
in touch. On one family night, he had the whole staff crying. His big son came
— and they had been estranged for years — and they hugged and cried," Mr.
Wilson said.
One graduate has already entered a
long-term rehabilitation program to overcome his drug addiction. He's going to
be fine, says Mr. Wilson, but he admits he is worried about two other graduates
— one is still grappling with his alcoholism and the other battles depression.
"We are reaching out" for extra
services for these men, he says.
Corey Wright gave everyone a scare when he
disappeared after graduating. It turns out that when he went home, his
drug-dealing buddies showed up, calling him out. Mr. Wright promptly relocated
to a sister's house.
"When Corey got out, he nearly fell back into the same trap," Mr. Wilson said. "There's a lure, a magnetism, that
draws these guys back to the circumstances that defeated them."
But Mr. Wright seems to be "doing a
lot better now; he's on track," Mr. Wilson said.
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A must read article for those men floating around women, how your life
can be destroyed or chained forever by paying those women, as maintenance etc.
ever after.
He
also warns them:
"In the beginning, you'll feel good, but then it's going to get intense. You're not going to be the same person a few weeks
from now."
Also refer Lady Chatterley’s lover, the erotic novel by D H
Kevin Evans, 37, is another
Project Restore graduate. When he came to the program in 2000, he had a $21,000
debt for children by two women and a three-year jail sentence.
Today, he works every day as
a grounds keeper at a country club and part-time at nights at a restaurant. He
is self-sufficient, pays $163 every two weeks to child support and has cut his
debt in half.
"I'm now on good terms," Mr.
Evans says about his interactions with the mothers of his children. Working long hours doesn't leave much time
for anything else, "but I feel real
relief now. Project Restore has been a blessing to me," he says.
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Reference
Samudra Gupta Kashyap. (
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=22430
‘‘Unlike
the other ULFA cadre, she travelled by public
transport and did not carry any cellphone or call up
the leadership from Guwahati after she was sent out
on these missions,’’ IGP Sharma said.
The
IGP said that to carry out the two attacks, one on the Dispur
capital complex in October and the other in the busy commercial area of Ambari on Christmas night, Dwipamani
travelled with two-inch-long mortars in city buses. ‘‘Her most potent weapon was her complete
anonymity and secrecy,’’ Sharma pointed out.
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Reference
S T Beuria. (
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/apr18/n1.asp
Officials
in the law department are of the view that the practice cannot be
completely prohibited with the help of laws unless the
people voluntarily came forward to stop the practice with
both the NGOs and the government playing a greater role in this regard.
(Reference: S T Beuria. (
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Personal Note
In a single word, lawlessness. The blase
attitude of the bureaucrats. As if the men and women in Indian society are so
good, that they voluntarily come forward to stop their criminal activities.
Read through the spy devices and stalking material, how long those B******* men
and women used those spy devices for cyber stalking, computer hacking and
privacy violation! Do you expect these type of predators to reform themselves?
Even the law with 1 crore penalty (IT 2000 law)
doesn’t stop them. Maybe when some of their body parts are cleaved off…as
punishment, THEN maybe the fear of similar harshness will stop copycats.
Also it is no wonder, the law department still retains laws from the
1800’s period, as an example of their blasé and unchanging nature, unaware of
how much advanced and criminalized the society has become.
For when you have the scenario,
Indian Judicial system is notorious for the delays that defeat the very
purpose for which an aggrieved person approaches a court.
It
is not without reason that there is a proverb in Kannada that in a Court
battle, “To win is to lose and to lose is
to die!".
(Reference: Na.
Vijayashankar. Cyber Laws:
Justice
delayed is Justice denied
it is natural to
say that we have complete lawlessness.
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'Perfect' is a relative
term. Nothing in this world is perfect. The persons who legislate the laws
& by-laws also are neither perfect. The laws therefore enacted by them nor
can be perfect. This law has emerged from the womb of globalization. It is at
the threshold of development. In due course of exposure through varied & complicated
issues it will grow to be a piece of its time legislation.
(Reference: Pati, Parthsarathy. Cyber-Crime Hardships to Curb It.
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Reference
Frances D'emilio. (
http://www.cin.org/archives/cinjub/200210/0022.html
Sainthood for the Spanish priest who founded the group in 1928 came just 27 years after his death -
one of
the shortest waiting times in the
The swift canonization underscored John Paul's support
for a group that critics say is too
elitist, inculcates unthinking devotion among its followers and encourages
secretive practices, including self- flagellation and the wearing of hair shirts.
Some Catholics, including some former Opus Dei
members, contended Escriva was unworthy of sainthood
because he was ill-tempered and
arrogant.
Opus Dei insists Escriva's
leadership qualities were sometimes misunderstood and rejects the claims of
elitism. Escriva held that sainthood need not require
extraordinary deeds but could also be achieved by carrying out everyday tasks
well, from being a homemaker to being a lawyer.
Opus Dei - which is Latin for "God's
Work" - has more than 80,000
members, most of them from the laity and many of them holding top jobs in professions such as law, medicine,
media and banking. It is led by a core of celibate professionals who often live in the organization's residences
around the world.
…
"Certainly, incomprehension and difficulties aren't lacking for one intent on
serving with fidelity the cause of the
Gospel," said the pontiff.
…
Many of those at the canonization came from
Making the pilgrimage from
"Today will help me to go back home and live the message of the saint to sanctify ordinary life," said
Schmitt.
…
Opus Dei's reputation for
elitism started during the 1939-75 Spanish dictatorship of Gen. Francisco
Franco. Many of the technocrats in his later governments belonged to the
organization.
(Reference: Frances D'emilio. (
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Reference
Silvester, John. (
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/15/1052885348380.html
Climbers who die in the
The
police team had been optimistic last week, explaining how they planned to reach
Camp One (6300 metres) on Friday, Camp Two (7100 metres) on Saturday and Camp Three on Sunday before
pushing to the summit. During the climb they reported frostbite, lack of circulation, altitude
sickness and nightmares.
…
"Everest is the top of the world and I love climbing. There is nothing more demanding
than high-altitude mountaineering," he said.
"Above 8000 metres conditions are very, very hard . . . Oxygen is
one-third of what it is at sea level . . . It can take you up to two hours to
get dressed because you are
moving so slowly. The conditions are almost inhuman. Everything's
a struggle.
"A lot can defeat you . . . It takes a lot of mental
toughness."
(Reference: Silvester, John. (
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Reference
Revealed:
U.N.'s plan for world government. (
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32662
Remarkable
progress has been made toward transforming the
The
report describes in considerable detail how "sustainable" communities
of the future will be bounded by growth limits, surrounded by open space, with
housing provided by public/private partnerships that require both economic and
ethnic integration, and feature live-over shops and services. Transportation in
these communities will feature light rail and bicycle, since automobiles will
be unnecessary; people are expected to work within walking distance of their
employment. Each complex in the community is a "neighborhood" that
provides schools and day care, governed by a "neighborhood council."
Agriculture
and light "sustainable" industry will occur in the buffer zones
between the communities and the Biosphere Reserves, under the direction of the
government, in public/private partnerships with non-government organizations
that oversee day-to-day operations.
Policy
decisions are to be made by the council closest to the people governed by the
policy, providing that the policy is consistent with each of the councils in
the hierarchy. The ideal system of governance in this utopian vision would see
the government selecting a non-government organization, or NGO, for a
particular neighborhood project. The majority of the neighborhood council would
consist of board members of the NGO, with a few additional representatives
selected by the NGO. The neighborhood council would choose a representative to
sit on the community council, which would choose a representative to sit on the
watershed council, which would choose a representative to sit on the
bioregional council, which would choose a representative to sit on the national
council, which would choose a representative to the People's Assembly at the
United Nations.
Sound
familiar? This
system parallels the old Soviet system in
(Reference: Revealed:
U.N.'s plan for world government. (
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Reference
Hawker, Philippa. (
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/25/1056449290351.html
He is
an army man, and that's important, too. The military establishment is the
dominant institution of power in this film: as the Hulk terrorises
California, there's a brief glimpse of a president on a fishing trip being
informed of what's going on, but the army
makes the decisions about the necessary means of containing the threat offered by the Hulk, and the possibility of exploiting his powers.
(Reference: Hawker, Philippa. (
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Reference
Manktelow, Nicole. (
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/18/1058035190298.html
All
this is fuel for thought when considering the numerous traffic cameras
installed throughout
"My
personal observation is that there are more and more cameras out there - in
streets, in airports - but the trouble is not that they are there but how is it
[video surveillance] being used? Is anyone keeping it? What are they doing with
it?," asks Crompton.
"Let
me assure you that there are
plenty of police parties where they show the 'best of' footage. I have no evidence of that but I have heard plenty
of stories."
(Reference: Manktelow, Nicole. (
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Personal Note
No one stops anyone from watching anything you want…but it is common
sense that certain things if you watch, then you will not be able to control
yourself properly.
All the author have to say, is he wrote certain things…by virtue of
living a certain way of life…NOT by any other means…
You can’t have opposing sides together at the same time…
So the wise will abandon certain things which distract them, and follow
a certain moral manner…
It is upto you, whoever you may be out there…
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Reference
(Key points)
10,000 try to prove life after
death. (
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/05/1060064181835.html
Lal Bihari added Mritak (meaning "dead" in the local language) to his name in 1980 after he was a victim of the long-practised land swindle in the densely populated and backward state, where many people subsist on small holdings.
He
fought for eight years to be declared "alive" again, and a
"I finally won the battle and
was brought back to life in the revenue records," Mr
Mritak said. "But
there are thousands who remain 'dead' and it is for them that I am
fighting."
Court cases can get bogged down for years in the over-burdened and corrupt judiciary. "I haven't had a hearing because I can't afford to pay a bribe," said Mata Prasad, another "dead" petitioner.
(Reference: 10,000
try to prove life after death. (
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Reference
Lichfield,
John. (
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=457007
A precedent exists in French law that the inside of a car is as private as the inside of a house.
(Reference:
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Reference
Delio,
Michelle. (
http://www.wired.com/news/roadtrip/0%2C2640%2C61200%2C00.html
"We'd like to demonstrate that the best way to protect and preserve so-called intellectual property is to share it freely with everyone," said Jones. "Shared information is enhanced and improved, so its value can only increase. Hoarded knowledge just stagnates."
(Reference: Delio, Michelle. (
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Reference
Bantick,
Christopher. (
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/12/1076548158948.html
…
“The romance market is booming in
…
Harlequin dominates the romance fiction market.
…
Harlequin even has its own profile of its ideal reader: “A 46-year-old woman who is (or has been) married, living in an average-income household. She is more likely to be retired/at home than working, if she does work, it is as likely to be part-time as
full-time. She is educated to high-school level and watches television channels
Seven and Nine. She reads a tabloid paper (if she reads a paper at all) and
women’s gossip magazines. She doesn’t use public transport, preferring to
travel by car.”
Although this may be Harlequin’s typical reader, the market for romance is changing.
…
In the world of Australian fiction, there is no doubt romance writing has a poor reputation. But although romance fiction may be looked down upon by some as inferior, the huge international market for romance makes being published by Harlequin Mills and Boon and other genre publishers highly desirable. Indeed, Harlequin receives 20,000 unsolicited manuscripts a year.
According to MacDonald, its authors are acutely aware of just who their audience is.
“The majority of our writers do not have literary aspirations. They simply tell stories. This is how they see their role. They are bards of the 21st century.”
…
“I have met writers who have been writing for 15 or 20 years trying to crack this market,” she says.
…
“You need to have a lot of emotional punch. The reader has got to feel that they have to turn the page. They want to know what will happen and how this will be solved.”
…
Thomas also believes that the popularity of romance writing may be partly due to
the strong element of fantasy within it.
“Romance fiction taps into the fantasy so dominant in our culture of men and women finding true happiness. People tend to have a set of expectations for a happy ending.”
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Cross
Reference
Fantasy is always going to be successful. It keeps people's minds out of an often painful reality.
- Roman Polanski, Polish movie director
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…
Thomas says the growth in the
readership of romance fiction could be partly attributed to the increasing number of people living alone.
“What the last census showed was that more people now live alone than ever before and romance publishing is booming. Maybe there is a connection.
“I don’t know how many people who live alone are reading romance but maybe the increase is single women looking for the right man.”
…
(Reference: Bantick, Christopher. (
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Reference
Akram, Ayesha
Javed. (
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_21-5-2004_pg7_19
…
“Those
who have been through addiction themselves are better equipped to dealing with
those still in the throes of addiction,” says Dr Saeed.
…
(Reference: Akram, Ayesha Javed.
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Reference
Pollard-Terry,
Gayle. (
http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/cl-et-pollard20jul20,1,7440388.story?coll=la-home-style
…
Remember when then heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was convicted of raping a beauty pageant contestant, Desiree Washington? The nation's largest black religious denomination supported him with a rally and petition drive to keep him out of jail. "Our brother needs us," the Rev. T.J. Jemison, then president of the 8.5-million-member National Baptist Convention, said at the event, which was also sponsored by the Nation of Islam, whose leader, Louis Farrakhan, had plenty to say:
"You
bring a hawk into the chicken yard and wonder why the chicken got eaten up.
You bring Mike to a beauty contest and all these
fine foxes just parading in front of Mike. Mike's eyes begin to dance like a hungry man looking at a Wendy's beef burger or
something. She said, 'No, Mike, no.' I mean how many times, sisters, have you said 'No' and
you mean 'Yes'?"
Little
help at church
"Sometimes
going to your pastor can be the worst thing you can do," Robinson
says, quoting a minister she interviewed for her book. In "I Will
Survive," the Rev. Linda H. Hollies, a United Methodist clergywoman who
lives in
Hollies, like Robinson, is also a rape survivor.
…
(Reference: Pollard-Terry, Gayle.
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Abstracts
The nuns' story
Carol Hogan found the hardest thing about being a nun was the absence of beauty. She loved beautiful things - her degree had been in fine arts - but hher spartan convent had nothing as worldly as paintings or flowers and few books. Hogan herself was no picture, in a shapeless black dress with her hai
The Age
Priest sexually abused me, says
former nun
A former Catholic nun plans to
claim compensation from the archdiocese of
The Age
Churches 'must woo the young'
A need to engage more with young people, other denominations
and the wider community is one of the biggest challenges facing Christian
churches in
The Age
From the ashes of repentance
comes the strength to speak out
IN JUST over two weeks' time, churches around
The Age
There's plenty of faith in the
old church yet
A NOTED 19th-century academic and prelate - it might have
been Dr Spooner of Spoonerism fame; I've misplaced my source - once descended
from the pulpit after preaching for an hour, stopped, turned, and climbed back
up. ``Of course," he told his startled listeners, ``every time I said
Aristotle, I meant
The Age
Inches from death at 265kmh
EVERY boy wants to grow up to be a racing driver, it's said; inside every man is the carnal desire for speed, the Schumacher urge to win, the craving to pit driver and car against the clock.
The Age
Hearing the word of the Lord
Many Jews believe anti-Semitism arose from the Christian scripture, the New Testament. But is this truly the case? Barney Zwartz reports.
The Age
The new Messiah is all talk, not much
substance
COMEDY FESTIVAL REVIEW:
The Age
Vatican takes a crystal-clear
view on New Age: it has its points, but beware
Catholics should not investigate their ``past lives" or
visit the spirit world for healing, according to the
The Age
Beware the new racism
The rise of an ugly new phobia is threatening multiculturalism, writes Robert Manne.
The Age
Reflections on the legacy of
Eddie Koiki Mabo
Ten years on, Michael Gordon traces the history of a case that changed a nation.
The Age
WORKSHOPPING
THEATRE Cortese's no ordinary ranter Raimondo Cortese's Ranter's Theatre was named after a 17th-century mystical group whose members reportedly said whatever was on their minds without fear of consequence. The concept for Ranter's work opening at Chapel off Chapel tonight, Roulette, comes
The Age
Copying claim stains Old Masters
HOW many of the most famous European artists from the Renaissance were actually frauds, producing works that were not so much a product of their genius with paintbrush and pencil as the fact they relied heavily on lensbased instruments to produce their socalled masterpieces?
The Age
Bringing God back to the church
A new book challenges Anglicans to change how their church is run. Author Caroline Miley spoke to Barney Zwartz.
The Age
More a family falling out than a
clash of civilisations
William Dalrymple says many links bind Christianity and Islam, beliefs rooted in the same time and place.
The Age
Speak no evil
American Catholics are distraught that church leaders failed
to protect their children from predatory priests. Is
The Age
Men's
reaction to women who force sex
Source: Psychiatric Times
Author: Cindy Struckman-Johnson and
David Struckman-Johnson
Country:
"One of the long-standing myths about sexual coercion is
that a woman cannot make a man have sex with her." According to this study, "16% of a sample of 268
men at a small Midwestern university reported that they had been forced to have
sexual intercourse on a date."
For more like this, see Scholarly
and In-Depth Studies; Men's Movement; Global.
Men's
Movement Scholarly and In-Depth Studies
http://www.free-market.net/directorybycategory/in-depth/T29.9/index.html#0
The
machine that leaves you no place to hide.
Source: The Times Online,
URL: www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-884810,00.html
Hawkes and Oliver Wright The latest scanner will reveal your deadliest secrets. ...
GPS
Tracker Blends Satellite, Cellular Technology
Source:
URL: http://www.boston.com/dailynews/140/economy/GPS_tracker_blends_satellite_c:.shtml
GPS tracker blends satellite,
cellular technology By Associated Press, 5/20/2003 16:37 Biotechnology Sector
Company Directory Business Event Listings Venture Capital Database Globe
Business Columnists The device that helped put Valiree
Jackson's father in prison for her murder is a combination of two
now-commonplace gadgets the handheld global positioning system receiver and the
cellular phone. Manufactured by LandAirSea.com of
GPS
Tracker Blends Pair Of Technologies
Source: AP
URL: http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/v-text/story/893575p-6225146c.html
The Associated Press (May 20,
2003 4:44 p.m. EDT) - The device that helped put Valiree
Jackson's father in prison for her murder is a combination of two
now-commonplace gadgets - the handheld global positioning system receiver and
the cellular phone. Manufactured by LandAirSea.com of
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“Thou belongest to That Which Is Undying, and not
merely to time alone,” murmured the
Sphinx, breaking its muteness at last. “Thou art eternal, and not merely of the vanishing flesh. The soul in man cannot
be killed, cannot die. It waits, shroud-wrapped, in thy heart, as I waited, sand-wrapped, in thy world. Know thyself, O mortal! For there is One within
thee, as in all men,
that comes and stands at the bar and bears witness that there
IS a God!”
(Reference: Brunton, Paul. (1962) A Search in Secret
Amen