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2005-2006 Fox International Fellows Outgoing from Yale University
To the Freie University, Berlin
Cameron Abadi
Max Kade Scholar
B.A., Political Science
Project Title: "The Early History of the German Greens: From Student Movement to Political Party"
Mr. Abadi will investigate the political origins and evolution of Germany's Green Party.
While there is agreement that the Green Party is a descendent of the 1960's student movements, the process by which localized movements transformed and organized into a national political party has been under-researched. Mr. Abadi hopes that a discerning look at the German political landscape's recent past will afford a clearer portrait of its present complexities.
Future plans: Mr. Abadi hopes to continue to pursue the study of 20th century German intellectual history and political theory in graduate school and as a professor.
Patricio Zambrano-Barragán
B.A., Political Science
Project Title: "New Citizenships, New States: Post-WWII Germany and the Lessons for a Supra-National Europe"
Mr. Zambrano's research focuses on human rights, state-building, and citizenship in Europe.
Specifically, he intends to investigate how the process of the denazification of Germany effectively changed the political and legal parlance of the international polity, not only making possible the turn toward the Declaration of Human Rights, but also prefiguring the élan of European Unification as a supra-national community of equal states and citizenships.
Future plans: Mr. Zambrano will pursue a career in international law.
To Sidney Sussex College of Cambridge University, England
Henry Kwan
M.A., African Studies
Project Title: "Bombs, Bullets, and CEOs: Britain's Commercial Military Industry and the Privatization of Conflict in Sub Saharan Africa"
Mr. Kwan will examine the post-Cold War correlation between the rise of the commercial military industry in the United Kingdom and the proliferation of privatized warfare in sub-Saharan Africa.
The United Kingdom serves as the headquarters to some of the world's largest and most well-known private military firms – commercial enterprises and corporate entities that specialize in the provision of professional services intricately linked to warfare. Britain is also a principal supplier of 'contract' and 'private' soldiers to conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa, most notably such countries as Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Future plans: Mr. Kwan will pursue a doctorate after which he plans to pursue a career in teaching and research in academia.
To El Colegio de México, Mexico
Tiffany Alora Thomas
B.A., Political Science
Project Title: "Evolution of Mexican-American International Relations During the Tenure of the Partido Revolutionario Institutional (PRI)"
Ms. Thomas will examine the evolution of Mexican-American relations from the beginning of the Cold War to the Post Cold War era and the creation of NAFTA. She will research the reasons behind the changes in Mexican- American relations during this time by focusing on different presidents and their administrations, domestic political and economic factors, and the ways in which international dynamics affected foreign policies of the two countries. By studying the evolution of Mexican-American relations, Ms. Thomas hopes to achieve a greater understanding of the future of Mexican American relations – especially as it relates to the current economic integration created by NAFTA and whether it will ever extend to political integration of the two countries.
Future plans: Ms. Thomas hopes to become an attorney practicing in international law.
To the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), France
Brian Cuddy
M.A., International Relations
Project Title: "Strategies for Peace in the Sudan"
Mr. Cuddy will study the prospects for peace in the Sudan in the wake of a twenty year civil war in the south of the country, and genocidal crimes in the west. By using a comparative framework – first comparing situations within the Sudan, and then comparing the Sudanese situation to other historical and contemporary cases – Mr. Cuddy aims to suggest strategies for a successful peace operation in the Sudan, and to contribute to academic debates on theories and models of peacekeeping and peacebuilding.
Future plans: Mr. Cuddy will pursue a career in international civil service or with a non governmental policy institute.
Brenda Kombo
Ph.D., Anthropology
Project Title: "The Napoleonic Code and State Management of Domestic Violence in Cameroon"
In Cameroon, a former French colony, the Napoleonic Code, instituted in the early colonial period, maintains an influence it has lost in France. It continues to play an important role in regulating family life. Ms. Kombo will explore this role by conducting research on how French colonial legal discourse and practice delimited conceptual space shaping responses to domestic violence in Cameroon. This research is part of a larger project in which Ms. Kombo analyzes how changes in the Cameroonian legal system combined with transnational human rights discourse have created new forms of knowledge and power.
Future plans: Ms. Kombo will pursue a career in the international human rights field.
Michael Morgan
Ph.D., History
Project Title: "The Origins of the Helsinki Final Act, 1954-1975"
Mr. Morgan's project focuses on the Helsinki Process, one of the turning points in the history of the Cold War, but one that has not received much in depth attention from historians. Focusing on the states that played the most important role in the development of the Final Act, Mr. Morgan will build a picture of how and why the most important states in the negotiations acted as they did. His overall goal is not only to explain the origins of the Helsinki Final Act itself, but also to address larger and related questions about the emergence of international human rights norms, the rise and fall of détente, and the beginning of the end of the Cold War.
Future plans: Mr. Morgan will pursue a career in academia or government.
To the University of Tokyo
Linnea Duvall
B.A., History and East Asian Studies
Project Title: "Environmental Degradation and Japan's Comprehensive Security Strategy"
Because of limits on Japan's use of its self defense forces in a military way, it has to engage in comprehensive security, one aspect of which is environmental degradation. Ms. Duvall will investigate the extent to which Japan has been successful in defining a security policy around environmental degradation concerns. In particular, Ms. Duvall is interested in the development of projects such as the Asia Forest Partnership and COP.
Future plans: Ms. Duvall hopes to be a Foreign Service Political Officer the US State Department and pursue an advanced degree in International Affairs.
To Jawaharlal Nehru University
Daniel Bernstein
B.A., Political Science
Project Title: "The Grand Strategy of Jawaharlal Nehru"
Mr. Bernstein will study the Grand Strategy of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Among the questions he hopes to answer are: what influences shaped Nehru's vision for India, how he forged a national identity in an extraordinarily diverse population, and what the unique features of Indian federalism are. Mr. Bernstein hopes that the answers to these questions will shed light on nation building elsewhere.
Future plans: Mr. Bernstein will pursue a career in international law and politics.
2005-2006 Fox International Fellows Incoming to Yale University
From Freie University, Berlin
Justine Röhmel (spring 2006)
Ph.D., Political Economics
Project Title: "Measurement of Efficiency in Health Care: An Analysis of the Efficiency of Hospitals"
There is a growing debate in Europe that social insurance, while necessary, has become increasingly unaffordable. Ms. Röhmel hopes to contribute positively to this debate by measuring the efficiency and productivity of German hospitals and identifying sources of variation. She will examine whether we can associate differences in the determinants of efficiency with differently structured health care markets. While at Yale she will compare efficiency of German hospitals with that of American hospitals. The overall aim of her project is to come up with compelling health policy reform recommendations.
Future plans: Ms. Röhmel hopes to become a health economist with the German Federal Ministry of Health and Social Insurance.
Sachka Stefanova (Fall, 2005)
Ph.D., Law and Political Science
Project Title: "The Impact of Globalization on the State-centered Implementation and Protection of Human Rights"
Ms. Stefanova will assess the effects of globalization on human rights systems as established in Germany and the United States. Her research is based on the premise that the issue of human rights even in post modern, liberal capitalist democracies, is impacted by globalization. In particular, globalization has contributed to the erosion of state capacity since it locks states into global networks and systems which directly and indirectly affect the lives of their citizens but over which no single state can, by itself, exert effective control. Ms. Stefanova contends that in transforming state power, globalization provokes critical questions about the political and institutional conditions necessary for the protection and advancement of human rights in a global age.
Future plans: Ms. Stefanova hopes to work for an international organization, or international law firm practicing human rights law and transnational law.
Ulrich Volz
Max Kade Scholar
Ph.D., Economics
Project Title: "Monetary and Financial Cooperation in East Asia"
The Asian financial crisis of 1997/98 sparked great political interest in monetary and financial integration and cooperation in the region. Mr. Volz will examine the desirability and feasibility of regional monetary and financial cooperation agreements in East Asia. Drawing on the classical and more recent theoretical approaches to monetary integration, as well as the European experiences, Mr. Volz will investigate the economic conditions for monetary and financial integration in the region and assesses the benefits and problems associated with it.
Future plans: Mr. Volz plans to pursue a career in academia or with an international organization.
From El Colegio de México, Mexico
José Antonio Hernández Company
B.A., International Studies
Project Title: "Interparty Relations and Electoral Reform in Mexico: 1995-2003"
Mr. Hernandez will study interparty relations in Mexico in order to determine what factors favor or discourage cooperation among political organizations. His research is brought on by fact that although Mexican parties initially helped bring about political reform, since 1997 they have failed to cooperate and thus have stymied the consolidation of democracy in the country. Mr. Hernandez claims that this knowledge is vital to understanding how Mexico's democratic regime will function in the future and how important issues such as legislative effectiveness, interest representation and democratic accountability will be dealt with.
Future plans: Mr. Hernandez will pursue a career in Mexican politics and public administration.
Iván Cajeme Villarreal Camero
M.A., Economics
Project Title: "Demographic Transition and Economic Growth in Mexico"
Mr. Villarreal's project examines the connection between demographics and economic growth, with an emphasis on the effect of changes in the age structure of populations caused by demographic transition. Specifically he seeks to determine the effects that the change in the age distribution of the population has had, and could have, on Mexico's economic performance. Understanding how demographic shifts affect economies is crucial to designing appropriate public policies that help take full advantage of these changes, especially in underdeveloped countries like Mexico.
Future plans: Mr. Villareal will pursue a PhD and then work at a Mexican government agency or international organization focusing on economic development.
From Sidney Sussex College of Cambridge University, England
Andrew Farmer
M.Phil, Historical Studies
Project Title: "The Texas Democrats and the 1968 Elections"
Mr. Farmer 's project analyzes the process, effects, and reasons for the nationalization of Texas politics between 1960 and 1976. While at Yale, his major focus will be on the relationship between the Democratic National Committee competing Texas factions during the time it was headed by Connecticut political boss, John M. Bailey.
Future plans: Mr. Farmer will pursue a career in academia.
Eamonn McGrattan
Ph.D., History
Project Title: "Dr. Kissinger's 'Year of Europe' and the Battle for European Identity"
Mr. McGrattan's work focuses on the emergence and manipulation of identity politics in transatlantic relations in the early 1970's and on competing ideas of a nascent 'European' identity. It centers on Henry Kissinger's famous 'Year of Europe' speech of April 1973 and hopes to contextualize it in the light of a growing transatlantic cultural drift provoked most clearly by the Vietnam War and the radical discourse of the late 1960's and further aggravated by Cold War détente, the collapse of the Bretton-Woods system and the enlargement of the European Community.
Sebastian Walsh
M.Phil., International Relations
Project Title: "An Investigation of the Influence Exerted by Pro-Zionist Pressure Groups on United States Policy towards Palestine (1943-1947)"
Mr. Walsh will examine the rise of Islamist politics in North Africa, most particularly Algeria, during the 1990s. Specifically, he will focus on the Islamic philosopher, Malek Bennabi, and the influence his ideas exerted on the Front Islamique du Salut in Algeria. Mr. Walsh will also analyze the potential that Bennabi's ideas may hold for the development of an authentic, Islamic form of democracy in North Africa.
From Moscow State University, Russia
Ekaterina Domnina
Ph.D., Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Project Title: "Shaping Early Modern International Relations: The Case of Anglo-Papal Diplomacy in the Tudor Period"
Ms. Domnina's project aims to demonstrate that many modern practices in international relations, such as resident diplomatic representation and the idea of a multipolar world, were developed in Western Europe as early as the 16th century, in which the widening contacts with Italy, the cradle of modern diplomacy, played the pivotal role. The case of Anglo-Papal diplomacy in the early modern period shows how the English monarchs employed their relations with the papacy for improving their own diplomatic practices and later for playing against their former 'tutors.' Ms. Domnina hopes that research in this area will lead to a better understanding of how the principles of modern international relations were brought to life.
Future Plans: Ms. Domnina will pursue an academic career.
Alexander Yalov
Ph.D., Economics
Project Title: "Adaptation and Application of the Existing Methods of Company Valuation to the Emerging Markets"
Emerging markets present tremendous opportunities for investors. However, existing valuation methods are not appropriate tools for studying emerging markets, that are characterized by a number of positive (e.g. high returns, large share of foreign speculative capital) and negative (e.g. political instability, high profit taxes) features not found in developed markets. Mr. Yalov's objective is to adapt the existing methodology of valuation to the reality of emerging markets. He claims that some methods, such as the forecasted discounted cash flow method, have certain advantages over others.
Future plans: Mr. Yalov hopes to combine an academic career with part time consulting.
From the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), France
Iglika Yakova
Ph.D., Political Science
Project Title: "Intermediation of Professional Interests in the Agricultural Sector in Czech Republic: Analysis of Corporatism and Enlargement Effects"
Ms. Yakova's project addresses the intermediation of professional interests in post-communist countries acceding to the European Union. Specifically, she analyzes how Europe is affecting organized interests in the agricultural sector in the Czech Republic. Her goal is to define the complex and changing relationship between the post-communist legacy and European incremental incentives in the construction of a group of professional interests.
Future plans: After completing her PhD, Ms. Yakova will seek a position with the EU or an international institution in the field of sustainable development.
From Fudan University, Shanghai
Guoyou Song
Ph.D., International Relations and Public Affairs
Project Title: "Keeping Balance: A Study of Relations Between Trade and Security in US China Strategy, 1979 to 2003"
Mr. Song's research focuses on the relation between security and trade in US strategy toward China. The increase and development of economic cooperation between the US and China is in sharp contrast to fluctuating cooperation in the security sphere. Mr. Song will seek to explain this paradox, that is not easily explained by traditional international relations theory.
Future plans: Mr. Song hopes to become a professional researcher of international relations specializing in the field of Sino-American relations.
Yu Ye
Ph.D., Law
Project Title: "Liberalization of Trade in Energy Service Under the GATS"
Ms. Ye's project is a legal analysis of trade in energy services, a fairly new issue in GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Service). This issue is one which is an exceedingly important one for China, one of the world's largest consumers of energy, but one which has not received much attention. Among the questions Ms. Ye hopes to answer are: what limitations does the existing WTO/GATS framework confront, how it can be improved without fundamentally altering the prevailing regime structures, and what China's position on the issue of trade in energy services should be.
Future plans: Ms. Ye will pursue a career as a university professor and a part-time government advisor.
From the University of Tokyo
Yuichiro Hirano
Ph.D., Advanced Social and International Studies
Project Title: "Politics and Forest Management in the People's Republic of China"
Mr. Hirano's project seeks to clarify the transformation of forest management policy as set forth by China's central government with forest management at the local level. He will do so by analyzing how political and social conditions, such as the Communist Party's domination of the state, the socialist collectivization of villages, economic reform and frequent policy changes, influence the relationship between local people and the forest. Mr. Hirano's overall aim is to apply this framework to international activities and help establish sustainable societies worldwide.
Future plans: Mr. Hirano hopes to become a university professor.
From Jawaharlal Nehru University
Kalyan Kumar
Ph.D., Historical Studies
Project Title: "The Making and Unmaking of a Steel City: Urban Landscape of Jamshedpur, c. 1907-1970"
Mr. Kumar's project is an in depth study of an industrial town, Jamshedpur, which owes it growth to the setting up of an iron and steel industry in 1907. His study will involve looking into the histories of capital, labor, architecture, planning, social relations, and the spatial relations of the town. Through, his study, Mr. Kumar will write the history of the city and explore the issue of urbanism and its relation to industrial capitalistic development in the Indian context.
Future plans: Mr. Kumar will pursue an academic career.
Tina Kuriakose
Ph.D., International Law
Project Title: "Legal Analysis of International Policy Response to the Protection of Traditional Knowledge"
Ms. Kuriakose's research addresses the deep concern developing countries have in the protection of traditional knowledge. She will analyze existing intellectual property policy regarding the protection of traditional knowledge and explore the extent to which these principles are congruent with axioms of natural law as evidenced in human rights. Her research also proposes to consider the efficacy of the use of non-intellectual property tools such as customary norms, consumer protections, marketing laws, trade practices and unfair competition laws in the protection of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions. Ms. Kuriakose also hopes to examine the scope for national initiatives in the protection of traditional knowledge.
Future plans: Ms. Kuriakose will pursue a career in academia with concurrent involvement in public policy initiatives.


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A deal between Head Coach Andy Reid and the Arizona Cardinals is "really close" according to Tim Ring (Sports Director at KTVK-TV). For all the Andy Reid fans (not sure if there were too many and really unsure why), you can scratch him off of your wish list.
Reid will try to work on resurrecting a team without any good quarterback play. He failed in Philadelphia with that same problem and now will try to bring magic back to Kevin Kolb. Or he can try and make a move for Geno Smith in the draft.
Reid expressed interest in working with the San Diego Chargers, but the interest did not seem mutual. Also, the Chargers want to hire a general manager before they start working on adding their head coach. We still are working on filling AJ Smith's spot.

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Originally posted on HitmanHarris.com
Hahahahaha! Oooooh, MAN! Jeeez! All I can say is "WOW!" If you'da told me before the game that we'd have us a shootout, I probably would have laughed, because 38-34 kinda surprises me. However, I bet the fans really enjoyed watching the game, because it was an exciting one -- even more-so because we got the win. And winning is all that really matters at this point in the season. As long as you get that victory it doesn't matter how you go about grabbin' it -- You just GET IT.
Our offense did a tremendous job by putting up 38 points against a very good defense. Jay Cutler was phenomenal -- Matt Forte was great -- Johnny Knox got 2 touchdowns -- Devin Hester was amazing. All in all, the offense did a wonderful job. And it's a good thing did so well, because when we're not doing our best as a defense, that's when the offense is supposed to step up and pick us up, and vice versa. If they're not on, it's our duty to pick them up as a defense, so it works hand in hand. That's why they call it a "team."
As a defense, we kinda bent, but didn't break. The first half didn't unfold how we wanted it to, but during the second half we came out screamin' with a high energy level. We got our three-and-out in the first series of the 2nd half, and I thought that was HUGE for us. And then there was Rashied Davis' play, which -- IMO -- stands as the turning-point of the day. It was an absolute game-changer that set us up to score on the very next play.
I'm so damn proud of the way this team fought. You know, we were down by a lot for a while, but we came back and got the win. And it was our turnovers that really helped us get back in the game. Anytime this season when we've been in *the plus* with our turnover ratio, we've won. And, this game we had a +1 ratio.
We're still fighting for a first round bye in the playoffs and the number 2 seed. And all we gotta do to make those things happen is win against Green Bay, which isn't gonna be easy. Our fate truly is in our own hands, not anyone else's. So we're going to put on our hard hats, go to work, try to get this win, and, hopefully, sweep the division, which would be oh-so sweet.
Until then, BEAR DOWN!!!


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Jamaat al-Fuqra
Table of contents
- 1. Organizational History
- 2. Structure
- 3. Arsenal
- 4. Funding
- 5. Recruitment
- 6. Tactics
- 7. Publications
- 8. Gallery
- 9. References
|Al-Fuqra, Baladullah, City of God, Community of the Impoverished, Jama'at al-Fuqara, Jamaat ul-Fuqra, JF, Jihad Council for North America, Muhammad Commandos, Muslims of America (MOA), Muslims of the Americas, Soldiers of Allah, The Impoverished, Quranic Open University
|Areas of Operation:
|Afghanistan, Bosnia, Canada, Caribbean, Chechnya, India (Kashmir), Lebanon, Pakistan, United States
|United States; Hancock, New York
|Religious (Islamic - Sunni)
|Group Size:
|200-3,000 members (sources vary)
|Sheikh Mubarak 'Ali Gilani
|Al Kifah Refugee Center, Al Qaeda, Bait Au Quran, HAMAS, Hiz ul-Mujahideen (HuM), Jaish e-Mohammad (JeM), Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), National Islamic Front (NIF)
Organizational History
Jamaat al-Fuqra (JF) is more commonly known as the Muslims of America since its name change in the 1990s. The group's principle is the cleansing of the Islamic umma, or Muslim community, through violence. Members are encouraged to withdraw from the society of unbelievers and create a Muslim community where they are free to practice their faith and conduct paramilitary training.
JF was founded by Pakistani cleric Sheik Mubarak 'Ali Gilani, in Brooklyn, when he visited the U.S. for the first time in 1980. Gilani was well known for his connection to the Wall Street Journal's Daniel Pearl, who was on his way to meet Gilani in Karachi when the journalist was kidnapped and subsequently beheaded. 'Ali Gilani and the spiritual leader of the group, Pir Sayed Gilani, arranged for the training of American JF members in Karachi terrorist group training camps. Many of these same members fought in the region against Indian security forces.
Primarily headquartered in Lahore, Pakistan, the Sunni organization has a significant presence in the United States and openly recruits individuals from prisons and other social service agencies. Members live in compounds, called hamaats, and abide by the laws of JF, which are regarded above those of the government. It is believed that JF may have as many as 30 compounds across the U.S. and Canada, although their regional headquarters are believed to be in Hancock, New York.[1] The group was designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. Department of State in 1999. Taking into account the group's durability, adaptability, and extensive paramilitary training, in addition to their financial and logistical support from Pakistan, the group remains a significant risk to U.S. security. In once instance, Sheik Muburak Gilani is seen on video stating, "We are fighting to destroy the enemy. We are dealing with evil at its roots and its roots are America."[2] Supposedly, the video also claims that JF is teaching Muslim students to use AK-47 rifles, rocket launchers, mortars, and machine guns, and is also training them in the art of kidnapping, assassination, and various forms of sabotage.
The JF organization operates in cells. Each cell is assigned a certain geographic area referred to as a sector, and there were at least five operational cells in the U.S. up to 1992. Researchers currently believe that there could be up to 30 as of today.[3] Reflecting the doctrines of the organization, members of JF cells are referred to by different names such as "Soldiers of Allah" and "Muhammad Commandos."
Members are trained in a variety of weapons including AK-47 assault rifles, American-made M-16s and M-14 rifles, grenades, and explosives. Weapons of this variety have been found in large caches used by local cells, and other caches may still be present. At their various compounds, members engage in paramilitary tactical training with firearms, explosives, and other types of weapons.
Some of the group's funding comes from member donations; from 10 to 30 percent of each member's income is donated to the group.[4] The group has a history of raising money through criminal means, as well, including gun smuggling, money laundering, and fraud. Some compounds have been known to run a legitimate security business, called Professional Security International (PSI), with locations in New York, Colorado, and Virginia. Some of the money laundering operations were processed through PSI, and a portion of the funds were tracked to JF members and affiliates who travelled to Pakistan.
Much of the recruiting in the United States is done in prisons where disaffected African American men are enticed to convert to a radical form of Islam.
One member, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, testified that he met with Muslim scholar, Bilal Phillips, at the Saudi Embassy in 1992 in New York City where Phillips gave the JF trainer names of U.S. soldiers returning from their tours of duty. These soldiers were to be recruited as mujahideen and paramilitary trainers to aid in a Usama bin Laden-funded insurgency in Bosnia.
Law enforcement authorities believe Jamaat al-Fuqra to be responsible for a more than a decade's worth of assassinations and bombings.[5] The group was linked to firebombings of the Hare Krihsna buildings in Philadelphia and Denver in the early 1980s. In 1991, five followers were arrested for plotting to blow up an Indian theater and Hindu temple in Toronto. The group was linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and both Richard Reid, the infamous shoe bomber, and D.C. sniper, John Allen Muhammad, are connected to the JF. The terrorist organization has also targeted rival religious factions.
JF members have been found guilty of various monetary-related criminal activities, in addition to their terrorism-related violent incidents. One cell in Colorado was charged with fraud for processing fake workers' compensation claims through their group-run security firm. The formation of the security firm allowed members to acquire licenses for automatic weapons.
In 1993, one African-American Muslim convert, Hampton-El, was plotting to blow up various landmarks in New York City. Before he could put his plans into action, he was arrested and charged. Hampton-El was also found to be supplying weapons training to members with the al Kifah Refugee Center, also called the Brooklyn Jihad Office, one member of which took his newly found skills and assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1990.
- Insight, newspaper
Map which depicts JF attacks across the US, with noted compound locations.[6]
Still image taken from Jamaat al-Fuqra training videos.[7]
Image of JF leader, Sheik Mubarak 'Ali Gilani, on a top news story.[8]
Map of attacks and JF community locations in the U.S.[9]
Jamaat al-Fuqra community in Hancock, NY.[10]
Still image taken from Jamaat al-Fuqra training videos.[7]
Street sign on the JF compound called Aliville outside of Odum, GA.[11]
Sign depicting the Muslims of the America's run International Quranic Open University in New York.[12]
- Heffelfinger, C. (2008, May). Evaluating the terrorist threat posed by African-American Muslim Groups. CTC Sentinel, 1 (6). Retrieved from [1]
- Shaidle, K. (2009, February 24). New documentary claims dozens of Muslim compounds in America. The National Examiner. Retrieved from [2]
- South Asia Terrorism Portal (n.d.). Jamaat ul-Fuqra. Retrieved from [3]
- Leventhal, R. (2009, March 23). Quiet Muslim-Only town in N.Y. founded by alleged terrorist. Fox News. Retrieved from [4]
- Hosenball, M. (1994, February 28). Another holy war, waged on American soil. Newsweek. Retrieved from [5]
- McLeod, J. (2007, June 13). Fox News reports Islamberg fears as "unfounded." Canada Free Press. Retrieved from [6]
- The Jawa Report. (2009, December 4). New Jamaat al-Fuqra/Muslims of America domestic terror training videos to be released. Retrieved from [7]
- World News Network. (n.d.). Muslim terrorist training camps in America. Retrieved from [8]
- Christian Action Network. (2009, October 29). Jamaat al-Fuqra terrorist training compounds inside the United States. Retrieved from [9]
- Park, M. Y. (2007, June 12). Islamberg: A terror compound in New York...or misunderstood neighbors? Fox News. Retrieved from [10]
- Constantinople Again. (2007, March 24). Aliville: Jamaat al-Fuqra in Odum, GA. Retrieved from [11]
- Northeast Intelligence Network. (n.d.). Jamaat ul-Fuqra training compound inside the United States. Retrieved from [12]
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Highlight: Candida Höfer
Spotlight: Christie's New York
Featured: V1 Gallery
Now On: Vincent Giarrano: New York City
Top Lot: Henri Cartier-Bresson
View Catalogue: Mitch Epstein
Top Fine Art Lot:Francis Bacon
Featured Member:Callan Contemporary
Upcoming Auction atDeutscher and Hackett
Top Design Lot:Desk and Writing Accessories
Art World
Sample Report
Last nights sale at Sothebys was akin to watching the grass grow. No one had had high expectations for the offered lots. The works were less than exalted and "pleasant" would have been a reach for many of them. It certainly must have seemed to auctioneer Tobias Meyer, as he stepped on to the rostrum last night at Sothebys, that the glass was half empty. Christies had stolen their thunder and everything else that wasnt actually nailed to the walls or screwed to the floor. Sothebys catalogue weighed a pound and a half less than Christies. By any empirical standard there was going to be a whole lot less to contest and there were a whole lot less people in the room to contest it. On the bright side it looked like we were going to play the short course and be home for an early dinner.


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It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn't happening. It didn't matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. ~Harold Pinter
Now, from the outset, I'll divulge my failed attempt at humor, rather than scribble onward with the eloquence I do not possess. I do pine for the compositional skills of a John Cheever or a John Pilger, but I don't possess their superior craftmanship.
The metaphor, the Chomsky Boson, is a bad joke, but it might be useful momentarily for presenting what seems to me a most glaring irony, yet one which required considerable effort on my part to see the obvious. I am both embarrassed and curious further.
Much human intensity and much money has been overtly thrown at the search for elementary particles or structures of the universe. All this bustle of activity occurs within the glaring spotlight of both science and mass media. Curiously, all of this occurs within the phenomenological context wherein the same people are working feverishly to avoid pointing a telescope at the directly evident human social behavior within a physics lab where people wear two hats–scientist and administrator, or move back and forth between these formal domains.
Physicists spend billions of dollars in search of reality, while preventing social scientists from taking a pad and pencil inside to observe and describe how the people called physicists and scientific laboratory administrators behave. Isn't that something?
I worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Briefly. As a scientific editor. I worked there long enough to learn that one and the same person can claim to uphold high standards of honesty, openness, and curiosity about the remote, minuscule sub-atomic domain, while applying contradictory principles within the domain of human power structures found between the very same institutional walls.
What interests me are the walls, human walls, blocking the investigation of the apparent tendency toward hierarchical power structures within relatively large human social groups. What I would call the Chomsky Boson (tongue-in-cheek) is the missing particle of knowledge about what drives the power structure of large institutions, in contrast to the flat, egalitarian power structures of small groups.
A formal group of a hundred people won't naturally self-organize into a monarchy with a king and nine guards enslaving ninety others. Doesn't happen. On larger scales, people have more tenuous personal connections with others, not having the cognitive capacity to "know" 20,000 people. Domination and control of one over others seems to require personal distance, giving cognitive room for dehumanization, depersonalization, and objectification as objects available for exploitation. Us-and-Them human social group boundaries form internal to large populations. The Chomsky Boson is the elementary particle of human social interaction accounting for the power dynamics of human social organization, and representing the unit of mass of institutional power as its discrete lumps are disparately distributed . As elusive as the Higgs Boson, the Chomsky Boson, may be technically easy to discover but such understanding is overtly impeded by people in power. The powerful don't want to allocate a few millions dollars to send scientists with paper and pen into major scientific and other large social institutions to directly examine how one person can carry two diametrically opposed principles of social interaction within one institution. The Pilger Uncertainty Principle, wherein direct observation precludes the possibility of observing the "Honest Scientist" and the "Dishonest Administrator" simultaneously is beyond the scope of this essay.
What I would like to describe directly, without nonsensical metaphor, is that pursuing understanding how the world of quarks works will lead down the path of social and monetary capital. A Nobel Prize is waiting. Daring to allow oneself to see the elementary particles of human social behavior within large institutions leads down the path to condemnation as a pariah.
In retrospect, it's astonishing how feverishly I worked to adopt denial as a mode of cognitive adaptation to blatant hypocrisy. I wanted to be a "team player." I wanted to be accepted into the "company of scientists." I had earned the right to be a "card-carrying scientist" but I failed to build a functional, efficient wall of denial between what I could observe in my scientific domain, and what I could also see in my social domains. I think I was trained too well as a scientist. There was my failing. I could see the dishonestly, the hypocrisy, and the abuse of power—and I didn't like it. I was unwilling to be a cynical opportunist, and I was unable to devise internal psychic mechanisms of denial.
Denial aint just a river in Egypt ~Mark Twain
Denial is a way of life among the privileged and the powerful. Learning how to lie to oneself is a core job skill, and smooths the way to lying to others. We're only doing this for your own good—said father, boss, president.
Power and privilege is bestowed upon those who are supplicants of those with more power and more privilege. Getting out of this cultural cage of power-and-privilege hierarchy is surely our most pressing challenge. The challenge is institutional, but the doing rests upon each of us individually.


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Some of the smartest 9-year-olds in the country are at Vanderbilt University this summer, to study things like genetics, DNA, neutrons and cytoplasms.
The students in Vanderbilt's Summer Program for Talented Youth don't mind spending their vacation in deep thought. They are helping to pave the way for the scientific discoveries of tomorrow.
"They're actually hitting on questions that scientists today are trying to understand. I'm very impressed. I'd like to take them and make them graduate students in a lab with me," said medical researcher Dr. Stephanie Zieger. "They're amazing."
The youngsters, none older than 10, are diving deep into some light reading, like biomedical engineering and forensic anthropology.
In one experiment, the kids are figuring out how to get oxygen into a bottle without blowing into it. It's lung research they're doing, and loving it.
"I like thinking a little more than I'm used to, and that's what makes this class so fun," said camper Caden Kennedy.
The program is fun in a variety of scientific ways.
"The second coolest thing we did was make cookies, because when I got home, I ate it and it was delicious," said camper Kayla Dunn.
Even that tasty cookie was the result of an experiment involving cell modeling, where the nucleus of the cookie was the marshmallow filling. So, even dessert at this Vanderbilt summer camp comes with a dose of science.
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Inter Milan was able to hold out for the last seven minutes of play in Munich, preserving the 3-2 result that sends them through to the quarterfinals. The second leg score give the holders a 3-3, aggregate result, a final that sends them through on away goals.
The result has left the Allianz Arena and the home side shocked. For most of the match, Bayern played with a two goal lead. For only the last seven minutes, Inter was in a position to go through, but when the final whistle blew, almost every player on the pitch for the Bavarians collapsed on to their back and brought their hands to their head, eliminated for the second consecutive season by Inter Milan; this year, three steps before the final.
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CATEGORIES Movies"Argo" may have won Best Picture at last month's Academy Awards, but it also seems to be vying for another award: most hated by other countries. After Iran announced its intention to sue filmmakers over the movie's so-called "Iranophobic" content, New Zealand is the latest nation to pile on its distaste for the feature, claiming a passing mention of the country is offensive and misleading.
The AP reports that the brouhaha centers around an exchange between CIA agent Tony Mendez, played by director Ben Affleck, and his supervisor, Jack O'Donnell. Mendez asks O'Donnell what happened to six Americans who escaped the embassy in Tehran.
"The six of them went out a back exit," O'Donnell replies. "Brits turned them away. Kiwis turned them away. Canadians took them in."
That exchange, which lasted literally seconds, is still reverberating across the island nation five months after the film's release there.
"It's a diabolical misrepresentation of the acts of courage and bravery, done at significant risk to themselves, by New Zealand diplomats," said Winston Peters, a member of parliament who introduced a motion denouncing the film. That motion, which passed uncontested, states in part that Affleck "saw fit to mislead the world about what actually happened."
The AP reports that the outrage is focused on the fact that the film insinuates New Zealand did absolutely nothing to help the Americans, when in fact diplomats from both New Zealand and Britain offered them food and temporary shelter, and even drove them to the airport when they were fleeing Iran. But both countries considered sheltering the Americans long-term too risky, ultimately leading the group to seek refuge at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Steve Matthewman, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Auckland, said that the harsh reaction is really more representative of New Zealand's insecurities than anything else.
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Despite some strong work from Kobe Bryant (22 pts, 6 asts, 6 rebs), the Nuggets managed their first win against the Lakers last night by double-teaming Bynum and shutting out the dominant 7 footer. Gasol (16 pts, 3 asts, 7 rebs) and Sessions (15 pts, 6 asts, 9 rebs) did their best, but it wasn't enough to fill in the gap. Denver took an early 14 – 30 lead in the first quarter, and didn't let up. At halftime, the Lakers were down 39 – 55, and the Nuggets had yet to allow Bynum to sink a shot.
All hope was not lost; with 9 minutes to go in the 3rd, Bynum figured out how to work the double team and made a sweet 7 foot 2 point shot off a nice pass from KB. His game only grew from there–clocking in at 18 pts, 12 rebs, and 2 asts at the end of the game.
The Lakers, however, never got back on top.
There was a moment of excitement when Kobe brought the gap into single digits with a 3 point SWISH that made it a 9 pt game with 7.07 to play in the 3rd–YES!–but LA just couldn't catch it up.
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In the world of the Heretic Kingdoms, a world where God is dead and religion heresy, you are cast as a young female inquisitor, working to stamp out the last remnants of religion. On instructions to destroy a relic which the Inquisition considers to be a significant threat, you are drawn into a war between two warring secret societies – a conspiracy of mages whose goal is true power, and a shadowy cult who seeks to resurrect the Dead God.
As the story progresses, you will be placed in an amoral world and left to decide your own morality. Just like the real world, your actions have consequences, and it is up to you to decide if you can live with them or not. Play as an altruistic heroine, a vicious and selfish egotist, or just a woman trying to get her job done – your actions will lead you to one of six different endings depending on where you decide your loyalties lie. Will you crush religion underfoot, or become its savior? Only you can decide!
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I have this game on CD and it runs fine on my Win7 PC. It's nice to see GoG bring this game out, since hardly anyone even knows about it. Heretic Kingdoms is an epic ARPG with a story line that actually makes sense and leaves you wanting to play again. The controls are very intuitive, unlike some older games. The graphics are nothing to write home about, but they serve their purposeread more well. Combat can be challenging especially in the beginning.
The thing that makes Heretic Kingdoms a GoG candidate is the story line. It's like you're playing Diablo II with more moral decisions. If you're a fan of ARPG's you really should give this game a try.
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I came across the demo of this when it first came out, only to dig it up a couple of years ago in a bargain bin. The mostly-text dialogue and the graphics may show their age by now, but the game is solid - so solid that I played it 2 or 3 times in a row just to try to access more endings.
You do get the impression that your choices have real consequences in-game and the end isread more a satisfying wrap-up (not to mention multiple).
The weapon and upgrade system is novel and useful, but doesn't require you to focus only on builds.
I'd buy it and play it all again if I had anywhere near the time required.
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I have already finished this game years ago since I own the retail version. This is a well-written action rpg with mystical atmosphere and weird lore. Also, it has a quite unique and innovative leveling system allowing for some great character building. Highly recommended!
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Helicopter crash: eyewitness reports
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Charles Simic, America's barnyard insomniac, our modern-day beatnik, the only poet equal parts Robert Frost and Charles Baudelaire, has written some of the strangest, most opalescent poems of the past half-century, many of them collected in his new book, "New and Selected Poems.''
Beginning with the Belgrade-born poet's earliest work and ending in the near present — with Simic, post-US poet laureate, edgily ensconced in New Hampshire — it is a marvelous and punishing assembly. Here is the poet in purgatory, as a witness, as a sensualist chum. Here is the poet, estranged from himself, consuming a new American identity, one poem at a time.


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In today's Gazette: A former City trader has admitted conning at least £3 million out of members of Frinton's golf, tennis and Rotary clubs.
Ian Dickinson, 49, was living in a £500,000 home in the town's leafy Fourth Avenue when he persuaded pals to invest in his get-rich-quick scheme. He admitted two fraud charges at Chelmsford Crown Court.
* The parents of a girl who met Paralympian Oscar Pistorius when she was fitted with running blades, say she will be devastated he has been charged with murder.
Ellie May Challis, eight, lost her hands and legs to meningitis when she was a toddler. She met Pistorius who competed using similar prosthetics. Pistorius is due to appear in court accused of killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp within the next hour.
* A woman who has suffered dramatic weight loss after contracting a mystery illness fears she will not live until her next hospital appointment.
Sharon Letch, 47, dropped from nine-and-a-half stone to six-and-a-half stone but doctors have no idea why.
* Plain clothes police officers will increase the number of stop checkys they carry out in Colchester in a bid to tackle knife crime.
For more on these and other great stories, see today's Gazette. There is always more in the paper than there is online.
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Director Michael Winterbottom is returning to the Middle East for the subject of his next film PROMISED LAND. Winterbottom, who previously directed the intense A MIGHTY HEART, will tackle some of the events leading up to the 1948 establishment of Israel. Jim Sturgess will star as a British soldier tracking down Jewish militants. I loved Jim Sturgess in ACROSS THE UNIVERSE and even 21, but I'm not sure I buy him as a tough guy, hunting down militants.
This has controversy written all over it. In a film like this, there is almost definitely going to be a "good" side and a "bad" side. Since it's directed by a Brit and the main star is a Brit, I'm guessing the Jewish community is going to get upset at some point. It'll be a great movie to watch because the conflict in the Middle East is fascinating, but it's a hard one to put on film because there are so many sides to the story.
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CULTURE DIGEST: Graham assoc. lays off 50
Posted on Mar 9, 2012 | by Staff
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- For the second time in three years, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has laid off about 50 employees, this time in order to shift resources to a new online evangelism venture.
In a statement, BGEA said it "continues to seek ways to improve our effectiveness and incorporate advances in technology. We are redeploying resources to support our strategic priorities, one of which includes our new SearchforJesus.net ministry."
The association said the move "in no way reflects the financial health of the organization" but is a strategy change which affects fewer than 50 employees on a staff of nearly 500.
Employees who are losing their jobs are being given severance packages and career assistance, BGEA said, and while some will work only through mid-March, others will remain until mid-June.
BGEA has offices in five countries, coordinating spiritual training and retreats, crusades, festivals, the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, N.C., and various book, television, radio and online projects.
Between 2005 and 2008, income at BGEA fell from $126 million to $93 million, according to the Charlotte Observer, and in 2011 the income stood at $91.6 million.
Franklin Graham is president and CEO of BGEA, overseeing daily operations, and his father remains chairman of the organization the renowned evangelist founded in 1950.
SearchforJesus.net launched nearly a year ago and allows users to see real-time decisions for Christ around the globe with Google Earth. When people enter phrases such as "I want to be loved" or "Is there a God?" in popular search engines, BGEA's online outreach tool directs them to Gospel presentations addressing those concerns.
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PORNOGRAPHY-FREE INTERNET OPTION ADVOCATED -- A national movement is asking Congress to require Internet service providers to offer an alternative online community that complies with federal obscenity laws intended to protect minors.
Scott Cooper of SafeInternetPetition.org cited a study from 2008 that found 93 percent of boys had been exposed to online pornography.
"This is at once extremely harmful and ridiculous," Cooper said. "The government won't enforce its own laws and then won't mandate a safe, legal alternative. ... This is a clear violation of consumer and parental rights and choice."
A Common Sense Media poll found that 85 percent of parents believe the Internet poses the greatest risk to their children among all forms of media.
"They are being socialized to view such images and behaviors as normal, routine and comical," Cooper said. "This would have been unimaginable to past generations. It's time to take a stand on behalf of our children."
IRISH ONCOLOGIST: NO CASE WHERE ABORTION NEEDED TO SAVE MOTHER -- A highly regarded Irish oncologist -- who is not pro-life -- recently said he has never been faced with a situation in which an abortion was needed to save a mother's life.
John Crown, who is a consultant at two Dublin hospitals and recently won election to Ireland's Senate, said on his Twitter account Feb. 22 he had encountered some difficult decisions about chemotherapy during pregnancy. According to LifeSiteNews.com, he tweeted, "I don't think I ever had a case where abortion was necessary to save mom."
Crown's comment came as abortion rights advocates seek legalization of the procedure in Ireland, asserting women are being prevented from receiving "life-saving medical treatment," LifeSiteNews reported.
DUTCH EUTHANASIA UNITS BEGIN HOUSE CALLS -- House calls began having a new meaning March 1 in The Netherlands.
Mobile euthanasia units staffed by doctors and nurses have started traversing the European country to end the lives of people in their homes. The teams -- known as Levenseinde, or "Life End," units -- go to the homes of people who desire to be euthanized but whose physicians have refused to fulfill their requests, according to The Guardian, a British newspaper.
Dutch law supposedly limits those eligible for euthanasia to people who are incurable and in unbearable pain, but the actual practice appears far more expansive. Newborns with disabilities and people with chronic depression, mental pain and even macular degeneration have been euthanized, said Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. Macular degeneration is an affliction typically in older people that causes a loss of vision in the center of the eye.
"[W]e have serious doubts that a doctor who is only focused on performing euthanasia will actually follow the loose, but often referred to as strict, criteria," Schadenberg said. "We are particularly concerned with the ability to protect someone from elder abuse, which is difficult to identify and a growing problem in society."
More than 3,100 deaths by euthanasia were reported in 2010 in The Netherlands, but another 20 percent may have been unreported, Schadenberg said. In addition, there are about 550 unreported euthanasia deaths that are not requested or consented to, he said. The total also does not include disabled infants who are euthanized, he said.
The Dutch Association for a Voluntary End to Life, which sponsors the mobile units, predicts the effort will result in an additional 1,000 euthanasia deaths a year, according to reports. The Netherlands legalized euthanasia in 2002.
FLA. HOUSE APPROVES STRICTER RULES FOR ABORTION DOCTORS -- The Florida House of Representatives has passed legislation that would strengthen requirements on abortion doctors and clinics.
In a 78-33 vote March 1, the House approved these requirements, according to The Palm Beach Post: (1) Only doctors who specialized in abortion procedures during residency may own abortion clinics; (2) there must be a 24-hour waiting period before a woman can have an abortion; (3) a woman seeking an abortion must be told that unborn children can feel pain after 20 weeks' gestation, and (4) abortion providers are barred from advertising.
The Senate, however, appears unlikely to take up the proposal, The Post reported.
GA. HOUSE APPROVES PAIN-CAPABLE ABORTION BAN -- The Georgia House of Representatives has voted 102-65 for a proposal that would ban abortions after 20 weeks based on evidence that unborn children feel pain by that point in a pregnancy.
Dan Becker, president of Georgia Right to Life, commended the Feb. 29 passage of the Pain-capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which provides an exception to protect the mother's life. Becker said the bill would assure "that horrific late-term abortions will not be performed in our state."
If it becomes law, the bill could save the lives of more than 1,000 babies a year, Becker said.
Five states have enacted such legislation, according to the National Right to Life Committee.
WISCONSIN SENATE VOTES TO PROHIBIT 'TELEMED' ABORTIONS -- The Wisconsin Senate has approved a bill that would prohibit "telemedicine," or Webcam, abortions.
On Feb. 22, senators voted 17-15 along party lines, with Republicans in the majority, for legislation that would require a doctor to perform a physical exam and be in the same room with a woman before giving her the abortion drug RU 486, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The bill also calls for a physician to consult with a woman at least 24 hours before providing the drug to make certain she is not being coerced into the procedure.
Typically, "telemed" abortions involve a doctor counseling by means of videoconferencing with a woman seeking an abortion in another city. After reviewing sonogram images and visiting with the woman, the physician can dispense RU 486, which involves a two-step process, to her by pressing a computer button, thereby opening a drawer from which the woman in the remote clinic may remove the pills.
"Telemed" abortions are being performed in the neighboring states of Iowa and Minnesota, according to Wisconsin Right to Life.
MANDATE TO COVER ABORTION WITH MATERNITY CARE FALTERS IN WASH. -- An attempt by the Washington legislature to become the first state to require health insurance plans to cover abortions if they provide maternity coverage appears to have ended for now.
The state Senate failed to bring the controversial measure to the floor March 2, the last date on which non-budgetary bills could be introduced, the Associated Press reported. Washington's House of Representatives had passed the bill in a 52-46 vote Feb. 13.
The bill could be considered in a special session if one is held this year.
The state has a "conscience clause" law that permits insurance plans sponsored by religious organizations to be exempt from paying for abortions.
"Everyone in Washington state should be very concerned that the bill actually got serious consideration, because it's such an anti-freedom, anti-American idea," said Joseph Backholm, executive director of the Family Policy Institute of Washington, according to CitizenLink.com.
180-PLUS BABIES SAVED SO FAR IN 40 DAYS FOR LIFE -- At least 182 unborn babies were saved from abortion in the first 14 days of the latest 40 Days for Life campaign, the organization reported March 5.
The campaign -- which focuses on peaceful, pro-life prayer vigils outside abortion clinics -- began Feb. 22 and will conclude April 1. The latest 40-day effort is the largest spring campaign in 40 Days for Life's history, with initiatives in 258 cities in the United States, plus sites in Canada, Australia, England, Ireland and Spain.
The semiannual campaigns consist of 40 days of prayer and fasting to end abortion, as well as community outreach and prayer vigils outside clinics. The effort, which began in Texas in 2004 and went national in 2007, has received reports of more than 5,000 unborn lives saved from abortion as a result of its campaigns.
SCOTTISH COURT REJECTS MIDWIVES' CONSCIENCE CLAIM -- A Scottish court has ruled against two Roman Catholic midwives who objected to being required to supervise abortions.
Lady Smith, judge of the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Scotland, decided Feb. 29 that the conscience clause in Great Britain's abortion law does not cover the roles performed by Mary Doogan and Connie Wood.
"The nature of their duties does not in fact require them to provide treatment to terminate pregnancies directly," Smith said, according to LifeSiteNews.com. "They are sufficiently removed from direct involvement as, it seems to me, to afford appropriate respect for and accommodation of their beliefs."
Doogan and Wood, who had worked for more than 20 years at Southern General Hospital in Glasgow, said they had not been required to supervise abortions until the hospital moved second- and third-trimester procedures to the labor ward, LifeSiteNews reported.
The judge's ruling means "believing Catholics, Muslims and others will never be able to take any form of supervisory or management role as midwives or nurses unless they are prepared to be complicit in the provision of abortions," said Neil Addison, director of the Thomas More Legal Centre in England, according to LifeSiteNews.
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Week 13 NFC South showdown moved to later kickoff time
The NFL has announced that the NFC South showdown between the Falcons and Buccaneers in Week 13 has been moved from a 1 p.m. ET kickoff to 4:15. The matchup will be broadcast on FOX.
Freeman leads Bucs past sluggish 49ers 21-0
Josh Freeman threw for 136 yards and two touchdown passes and the Buccaneers beat the stagnant San Francisco 49ers 21-0 on Sunday for their first win in this stadium since 1980 and only second ever in 13 tries.
Bucs WR Williams to play despite DUI arrest
Buccaneers head coach Raheem Morris announced that WR Mike Williams will play Sunday against the 49ers despite the rookie wideout being arrested and charged with driving under the influence early Friday morning, according to Pewter Report.
Bucs WR Mike Williams arrested on DUI charge
Buccaneers WR Mike Williams was arrested and charged with driving under the influence by Hillsborough County sheriff's office deputies at 2:48 a.m. ET Friday.
Bucs looking to give Winslow more opportunities
As QB Josh Freeman has grown more comfortable throwing to rookie WRs Mike Williams and Arrelious Benn, it has cost TE Kellen Winslow some targets.
NFL announces two game time changes
The NFL has announced changes in kickoff times for a pair of Week 12 games.
Can't count Bucs out of postseason picture
Finishing the season with a record above .500, and perhaps even making the playoffs, is looking like a surprisingly realistic goal for the Buccaneers.
Freeman, Blount lead Bucs over Panthers
Josh Freeman threw two touchdown passes and rookie LeGarrette Blount ran for a score to lead the surprising Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 31-16 victory over the struggling Carolina Panthers on Sunday.
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Tampa Bay WR Mike Williams, a potential Offensive Rookie of the Year candidate, told PFW that defenses are starting to play him differently.
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Midseason headliners — for better or worse
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Turner scores 2 TDs, Falcons hold off Bucs
Michael Turner scored two early touchdowns and the Atlanta Falcons held off Tampa Bay with a gutty goal-line stand, taking over sole possession of first place in the NFC South with a 27-21 victory Sunday.
NFL suspends ex-Buccaneer Phillips
Former Buccaneers S Jermaine Phillips has been suspended by the NFL for one game. The league has not disclosed the reason for the suspension.
Bucs rookie DT Price plans to return in time for 2011 season
Buccaneers DT Brian Price's rookie season came to a disappointing conclusion, as he was placed on injured reserve Nov. 2.
Leonard carried three times for 34 yards in a 31-10 playoff loss at Houston on Saturday. He added a team-high six catches for 36 yards.||||||| The fact that Leonard led Cincy in rushing spoke volumes about their play.
Leonard was placed on injured reserve with an ankle injury.||||||| Leonard hasn't played since Dec. 19.
Leonard could miss the first two games of the regular season with a foot injury, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.||||||| Despite his injury, Leonard is expected to add depth to the Bengals' backfield. He carried the ball only 27 times for 84 yards last year, while catching 30 passes for 217 yards.
Leonard suffered a sprain of his left foot late in the second quarter of Sunday's Hall of Fame game against Dallas on a reception and was helped from the field.||||||| The Cincinnati Bengals aren't sure how much time Leonard will miss. Coach Marvin Lewis said that he's optimistic Leonard will be able to play at some point during the season. He said it will be a couple more weeks before the team has a better idea how long it will take to heal. Leonard is their best third-down threat out of the backfield.
Leonard was listed as inactive for the Bengals' game against Chicago on Sunday.||||||| Leonard doesn't have much fantasy value, rushing for 11 yards on four carries so far this season. However, he has 14 catches for 110 yards.


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Mrs. Billie Conrad will be at the Pendleton County Public Library at noon on Tuesday, February 4 to teach two crochet valentine projects. One of the projects requires two colors of the same weight of yarn and the appropriate hook. Please call the library at 859-654-8535 if you have any questions.


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O.K., so it didn't exactly set box office records on fire, taking in $60.7 million worldwide so far. Not exactly Transformers numbers, but, then again, how many films even do that worldwide? So $60.7 million, all things considered, is nothing to sneeze at.
Still if you missed Colombiana with Zoe Saldana (who, judging from the comments we get is loved and hated in equal proportions), you'll have another chance to see it since it will be coming out on Blu-ray and standard DVD on Dec. 20 from Sony Home Entertainment.
The DVD will be the unrated version, running three minutes longer than the theatrical version; though no word yet if it will be more violent and bloodier..
Among the extras included will be several "making of" and behind-the-scenes featurettes.
kmorris | October 28, 2011 3:30 AM
Good movie.
True | October 19, 2011 12:24 PM
Love Zoe!!! Keep making movies babygirl and I will keep watching!
Marissa | October 18, 2011 8:22 AM
I don't mind Zoe (although I'm not sold on her as an action star) but these numbers are NOT good. People need to remember that the 40 million dollar budget does not include P&A cost. This movie needed to make a minimum of 80 just to cover the budget. Once again that does not include whatever was spent on P&A. This movie did not return ANY money to Tri-Star based on the theatre gross.
sandra | October 18, 2011 2:50 AM
As I have said before, Bravo, Zoe!
Rob | October 18, 2011 2:13 AM
Knew it was coming out before X-mas. Glad to see Zoe made good numbers. She still creamed a lot of these predom-white films, and for her first time, that deserves applause.
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With Weeks Remaining Until Highly Anticipated Royal Wedding, Will Prenup be Signed?
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With millions at stake and countless failed royal marriages serving as a reminder of the possibility of divorce, will Prince William and his fiancée Kate Middleton sign a prenuptial agreement?
Prince William's office has refused to comment on whether the second-in-line to the throne may be signing a such a contract before his April 29 wedding, according to the Associated Press.
Prenuptial agreements are common in the United States, but the same cannot be said in Britain, the AP reports. During the last year, British courts began recognizing such agreements after several prominent divorce awards earned London its "divorce capital of the world" reputation, the AP says.
If Prince William looks to his father for advice on the matter, he may not sign an agreement at all: AP noted that it has been widely reported that Prince Charles dismissed legal advice when he married his second wife, Camilla, without a prenup in 2005. The first-in-line to the British throne did so despite handing over millions to his first wife, Princess Diana, after their marriage ended in 1996, the BBC reported at the time.
Prince William has millions of dollars on the line. He is set to inherit from the queen's fortune, which the Sunday Times 2010 "Rich List" approximated at $467 million, the AP reports. The prince also received a share of Princess Diana's almost $34 million estate.
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Clara Beasley Langdon, age 89, passed away on Saturday, January 11, 2014.
Funeral services will be held 11:00 AM Tuesday, January 14, 2014 in the chapel of McLaurin Funeral Home with Reverend Mitch Lockamy officiating. Burial will follow at Brier Creek Memorial Gardens in Raleigh.
She was a native of Harnett County and a daughter of the late Hal Beasley and the late Madie Peacock Beasley.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Willis H. Langdon.
She is survived by her four children, Trya Langdon (Wendy), Clara Faye Stephenson, Shirley Baldwin (Ron), and Julia Arthur (J.B.); twelve grandchildren; twelve great grandchildren; one great great grandchild; brothers, James Beasley and H.B. Beasley; and sisters, Mavis Denning, Geraleen Rose, Sarah Garrett, Betty Ray, Marie Blackwell, and Rosa Johnson.
The family will receive friends from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM Monday, January 13, 2014 at the funeral home.
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One Milford woman told Eyewitness News Wednesday that everything in her yard starts floating away every time there is a major rain storm.
"I go into anxiety because I never know what's going to happen," said homeowner Evelyn Tristau.
During last Friday's storm, Tristau's cars were totaled and her basement was destroyed. The most recent storm was difficult for Tristau because she was at home recovering from surgery.
"The water rushes in from the street goes through the walls and out in the backyard," she said.
Each year, she records the damage and Tristau even showed Eyewitness News a letter that she sent to the previous Milford mayor in 2001.
"I don't have flood insurance because there is not a flood area," she said. "My house should not flood, was it not for city's negligence."
The city of Milford told Eyewitness News that they are working on a solution for Tristau, but the approval process has been lengthy.
City officials are trying to add a bigger drainage pipe along Naugatuck Avenue, which is near Tristau's home, however that is years from completion. They are also trying to unclog a storm drain that was blocked by debris after the most recent storm.
"I had a contractor here at my house here to assess damage and he said $175,000 to $200,000 worth of damage," she said.
The mayor of Milford is trying to see if the city will be granted any federal funding after the storm, however it is unlikely that the city will receive any money.
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Hagar Would "Love To Make Another Van Halen Record
Sammy talks about the chances of a reunion
In a brand new interview about his autobiography with Rolling Stone Hagar revealed that he "would love to make another record with Van Halen" at some point in the future, although he admits the band members may be in their nineties by the time it happens.
In the interview, which you can read in full HERE, Hagar talks candidly about what fans can expect from the new book and why he wrote it in the first place.
"I've been maybe one of the most misunderstood rockers of all time because I've always been kinda quiet on my personal life. I've never really been a press-hound. There's never been a lot of stuff written about me, quite honestly. Flying under the radar's always been my philosophy. If you're never in, you're never out.
"At some stage in your life, though, you go "I want my story to be told," and here it is. I think that's why people are gonna be surprised when they read. You know we know all about Tommy Lee. We know all about Keith Richards. But, we don't know that much about Sammy."
And on his tempestuous time in Van Halen
"I had almost 10 fantastic years in that band. It was a dream come true for any musician on the planet. We had the greatest relationship and the greatest run and wrote some of the greatest music. We had five Number One albums and sold 50, 60 million records together. We practically sold out every venue in the world.
"The last two years were really rough. Everyone immediately goes to the dirt, but quite honestly being in Van Halen was one of the greatest experiences in my life. I wouldn't trade it for anything. I'll take the dirt right with it.
"I would love to make another record with Van Halen. If Eddie was totally cool and was back to the guy I used to know, or a new guy, not the guy I knew the last time [laughs]. He can't be that guy. I wouldn't do it if he was like that. It's below zero, minus zero. But if Eddie really got his life together, which it seems he has judging by the pictures I've seen, then definitely."
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Community and Faith Leaders Work Together to Lower HIV Infection RateBy Daniel Cherry | Published 07 Feb 2012 07:19pm |
Mississippi ranks 6th in the nation for new cases of HIV infection...a huge majority of those are African Americans. MPB's Daniel Cherry reports how black leaders in the state hope to curb a growing HIV epidemic.
One in four people infected with the HIV virus don't know it. That's why health officials are working to step up testing efforts statewide.
"Yeah I went and did it myself...here's the band-aid."
That's Derrick McAfee. He's a junior at Jackson State University. He just took a free HIV test on campus. His results were negative and he's glad to hear it.
"It helps you become more careful. Even if you find out you're negative, you're still more careful. Not knowing is just as bad as knowing and having it, because you're reckless."
In Mississippi, African Americans make up less than 40 percent of the population, yet account for nearly 80 percent of HIV and AIDS cases. Advocates almost unanimously agree, the root of the problem lies in a lack of communication. Othor Cain is one community leader in Jackson spreading the word. He says one way to curb the HIV epidemic is to coordinate with faith based organizations.
"On any given Sunday morning a preacher gets into the pulpit, he has a captive audience. We are some religious folks, and we believe that if our pastor, preacher, or faith leader would embrace, endorse this, or talk to us, then we believe change would be effective."
So far, many religious leaders have gotten on board. C.J. Rhodes is the pastor of Mt. Helm Baptist Church in Jackson. He says faith leaders have too long turned their head on the issue. He thinks it's time to take a new approach.
"We're scared of sex in the South, but we all know everyone's doing it. We have the highest rates of teen pregnancy, highest rates of all these other things. It doesn't mean that we're endorsing it. We just have to talk about it so we can create solutions for our people."
Advocates say eliminating the misinformation and stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS is the first step to eliminating the disease.
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