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India accuses Pakistan army of deadly Kashmir attack
Defence minister warns ambush would damage warming ties with Islamadad and hints at stronger military action
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- Villagers pay their last respects over the casket bearing the remains of Indian soldier Vijay Kumar Rai, one of five soldiers killed in during a cross-border attack in Kashmir, in Danapur on August 8, 2013. India's government August 8 for the first time directly accused Pakistan's army of involvement in a deadly ambush on its troops in Kashmir, amid uproar over its handling of the attack.
New Delhi: India's government on Thursday for the first time directly accused Pakistan's army of involvement in a deadly ambush on its troops in Kashmir, amid uproar over its handling of the attack.
Defence Minister A. K. Antony also warned the ambush would damage warming ties with Islamadad and hinted at stronger military action along the Line of Control (LoC) where the ambush overnight on Monday saw five Indian soldiers killed.
"It is now clear that the specialist troops of Pakistan army were involved in this attack," Antony told parliament.
"Nothing happens from Pakistan's side of the LoC without the support, assistance, facilitation and often direct involvement of the Pakistan army," he said.
Antony's strongly worded statement comes after the opposition angrily accused the minister of deliberately choosing not to blame the Pakistani army for the attack, amid attempts to revive peace talks with Pakistan.
Analysts have said the attack had complicated efforts to arrange a meeting between India's veteran Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his new Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif.
"Naturally, this incident will have consequences on our behaviour on the LoC and for our relationship with Pakistan," Antony said.
"Our restraint should not be taken for granted nor the capacity of our armed forces and resolve of the government to afford the sanctity of the LoC ever be doubted."
The picturesque Himalayan territory of Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan by the UN-monitored LoC, the de facto border, but is claimed in full by both countries.
While Indian military sources said on Tuesday Pakistani troops were behind the attack, Antony would only say in a statement the same day that it was carried out by men wearing Pakistani uniforms.
The Congress-led government has been keen to engage with Pakistan, with Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid saying on Wednesday, "We don't want to create a situation that is detrimental and destructive for India's security and peace".
But following the attack, the opposition has piled pressure on the government to postpone peace talks. The ambush and the government's response have made frontpage news in India.
Thursday's headline in the Times of India daily read "Under fire for letting Pak off the hook, government to rejig position."
With elections due by May 2014, analysts have said the government cannot afford to look soft on Pakistan.
Pakistan has denied any part in the incident, but India has lodged an official protest with Islamabad for what is one of the worst losses of life for the Indian army since a 2003 truce agreement.
Antony said he made his initial comments based on the best available information, and that Thursday's statement came after receiving the latest briefing from Army Chief General Bikram Singh over the attack.
The uproar has paralysed parliament, which only resumed on Monday after a long break, as the government attempts to drive through stalled economic reforms ahead of the elections.
A senior leader of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) welcomed the minister's statement, and thanked him for "correcting his mistake".
"The whole house supports Antony's statement. This sends a strong message to Pakistan that they can't take us for granted," Sushma Swaraj told parliament.
The minister's statement comes as the bodies of the five soldiers were cremated with state honours in their local villages, in the presence of army officers and thousands of mourners, local media reports said.
India has fought three wars with Pakistan, two over the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir.
A deadly flare-up along the LoC in January brought low-level peace talks to a halt. They had only just resumed after a three-year hiatus sparked by the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people. India blamed Pakistani militants for the attack.
More than a dozen armed rebel groups have been fighting Indian forces since 1989, demanding independence for Kashmir or a merger with Pakistan.
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Recently I was tasked with improving our Web site's Reseller Locator application. This tool helps potential customers in the U.S. find a product reseller in their state. By choosing a state from a drop-down box, a listing of all resellers located in that state is displayed.
Over the years, as more and more resellers have signed on to sell our products, some problems with this application have surfaced:
- Some states, such as California, display a very long list of resellers, and customers may never contact those listed near the bottom.
- The states with smaller populations such as North Dakota may not have any resellers to list.
- Competitors could use the tool to easily find all our resellers, and may steal these valuable partner relationships.
We needed a solution to solve these problems, and searching by zip codes appeared to be the answer. The new tool would ask the customer to enter their five digit zip code in a text box and select a search radius of 25, 50, or 100 miles. We wanted to limit the search to 100 miles, to keep the results to an appropriate number and prevent our competitors from entering 2,000 miles and getting a huge list all at once. For example, I might search for all resellers within 50 miles of 55113. This time a list of resellers in close proximity to St. Paul, MN, is displayed, ignoring those 200 miles north in the city of Duluth. Implementing this approach addressed each problem, respectively:
- A shorter list would result from the search, containing only the resellers located near the customer's zip code.
- The list can cross state boundaries, now that it will find all resellers located within the specified radius to the customer, and hopefully would show results for zip codes in states like North Dakota.
- Competitors can still use the tool to find our resellers, but they'll have to work much harder to get the information with the 100 mile limit.
I've used many store locator Web applications, such as finding the nearest Quiznos or Best Buy, and always wondered how they worked. Now I had the opportunity to learn something brand new, and I began my quest for how to accomplish the Reseller Locator zip code search by starting where everybody does: Google! I quickly found a great tutorial article with sample ColdFusion code on webmonkey.com. The article was written by Robert Capili and titled Proximity Searches for Fun and Profit. The stars were aligned that day, since Robert published his article three weeks before I started my project. It was perfect timing, because as I started reading, it became apparent that this was exactly what I needed to get my feet wet. In the article Robert discusses four primary ways to calculate zip code proximities:
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- Spherical Law of Cosines (Pythagorean theorem for triangles drawn on a sphere)
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I soon realized why he recommended the Square Search. The execution time was faster than each of the other methods, and the distance results were very close to the Haversine Formula. After a few more tests, it was soon time to put the final pieces together.
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Now I needed to take the recordset returned by the Square Search method and put it to use in my application. We have a database table (actually a view) of resellers that includes the field: zipcode. Nothing special here; most of us are familiar with SQL tables that contain address information broken out in separate fields. All I needed to do was create a new query against the reseller table, and make sure a reseller's zip code was found among the zip codes in the recordset returned by the CFC. The code and query looked like this:
<cfinvoke component="zipfinder" method="squareSearch" radius="#URL.miles#"
zip="#URL.zip#" returnvariable="results"></cfinvoke>
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Sorry, no zip codes found within #URL.miles# miles of #URL.zip#.
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select *
from PartnerView
where zipcode IN (#ListQualify(ValueList(results.zip),"'")#)
and Country = 'USA'
order by CompanyName
The first block of code invokes the CFC, calling the SquareSearch method. Next, I verify at least one record is returned. If not, I stop right there and let the user know with a friendly error message. Last, I perform a search against our resellers, using the clause:
where zipcode IN (#ListQualify(ValueList(results.zip),"'")#)
Based on the sample records I listed earlier, the actual query might look like:
select *
from PartnerView
where zipcode IN ('55113','55108','55117','55103','55114','55104','55414','55101','55418')
and Country = 'USA'
order by CompanyName
The ListQualify() and ValueList() ColdFusion functions come in handy here. ValueList() converts a query column into a comma-delimited list, then ListQualify() slaps a single quote around each item in the list. This is exactly what is needed to use as the expression on the right-hand side of the IN clause. All that's left is to display the results from the get_resellers query in a nice HTML format, and the customer has the information he or she needs to make a couple of phone calls that will hopefully lead to a future sale!
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
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"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
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The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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If Cuba was not under Communist control how different would boxing be?
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Boxing, a sport in which two individuals face each other in a square "ring" to do battle with their gloved fists, is said to be a "team sport" in Cuba, and it is the sport in which the island has taken home the most medals. It's not an exaggeration to say that Cubans have dominated international amateur boxing, winning more gold medals in men's competition than anyone else.In the heavyweight division, Cubans have won 7 of the last 9 gold medals issued at the Olympic Games. The other two medals went to the U.S. in 1984 and 1988 (Cuba did not attend the those Games in support of the Soviet bloc boycott). Still, of the 104 total gold medals issued in men's boxing at Olympic tournaments since 1972 (including 1984 & 1988 Games) Cubans have taken home 32 of them (51 total medals).In World Amateur Boxing competitions, Cubans have won 64 of the 152 gold medals issued between 1974 and 2005.
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without communism Cuba would be a country like El Salvador, drugs, gangs, murders, rape and you could go on.
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I thought it before but the communist thing is the whole reason, they have boxing camps all over Cuba with hundreds of boys training to win gold.
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Going slightly off subject its not purely Castros communist regime that has many people in Cuba going through hardship and poverty, the U.S imposed trade embargo which prevents Cuba trading with other countries and vice versa can't be too helpful to the countries economy either!!
Teofilio Stevenson was once offered a seven figure sum to defect in the seventies by Don King, he famously said he'd rather have the love of millions of Cubans than millions of dollars. Integrity.
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The Mexican-Puerto Rican rivalry would probably be replaced with the Cuban-Puerto Rican rivalry and Cubans would be running boxing in the US .
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I'm a geologist and I use Audible books to while away long hours on the road... My pickup truck is my reading room!
"Devastating Indictment"
I think even the most passionate opponent of Operation Desert Freedom hoped that the Bush administration knew more than we did, or had thought things out deeper than we had, or had a plan we were not privy to. History has proven that none of that was true, and this book documents just how little preparation and thought preceded the military decision to invade.
This book is a case history in the folly of trying to impose cultural values at the point of a gun. Of course the U.S. government should have known this was folly - the British empire had demonstrated it in the same region 80 years before. But perhaps nobody in the administration had read David Fromkin's "A Peace to End All Peace".
Hopefully, both Fromkin's book and this one by Rajiv Chandrashekaran will be required reading for all future administrations.
Gives some wonderful crystal clear understanding of what went wrong so quickly with US efforts in Iraq after the overthrow of Hussein. You have direct quotation from Bremer and many others on the ground in the first days of the occupation, so this isn't a partison attack piece. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone with a curiosity as to why things went so poorly in the US efforts and for anyone interested in getting a flavor for what Iraq was really like in the opening days of the occupation.
I teach Business, Economics, and English at a university in Tokyo. My interests are in politics, economics, and philosophy. I hold a BA in English Literature, and an MA in Political Science.
"Too Judgemental"
I am not so sure this is the best book on Iraq. There have been some really good ones written. This one is perhaps one of the more damning. Too much is written with only the Iraqis and non-American perspective addressed. Ultimately this book misses a huge point...perspective. A foreign force of 130,000 is occuppying a country of nearly 27,000,000. There are vast cultural differences. In the historical perspective, the US military is doing an exceptional job...though the US administration is questionable. The attacks on the personnel on the ground and people in unifrom was a little too much. This is not a movie and it is not a video game. This is not occurring on a controlled set. This volume fails because it tries to make a case for a Hollywood style story, but the characters do not stick to the script.
You will be fascinated by this book. The best written current-events book I've come across in a long while, Imperial Life is almost a novel in its clear delineation and development of the characters of the Green Zone and the suspense building up to the debacle you already know will happen.
"He shoots he scores"
I don't have time to read for pleasure, so this is the only way I can digest books like this.
I am a veteran, and I lived through this with a front row seat. The stupidity and corruption described in this book only scratches the surface. Read this book, and the next time you feel like the government has the answers, remember what you learned from this tragic story.
I love a good book...
"Sad but true."
What a story...ill planned and carried out even worse, how can a country go to war without any idea of what the plan is once you've won...Iraq could have been a tremendous success but instead it left a nation that is growing more terrorists and making live even more risky. The book makes that very clear. Ray Porter did an excellent job bring a difficult book to life.
I work a lot. I can listen to books while I work. My new hobby. Thank God I can multi-task!
Maybe, I need to read this book and check the facts. A lot of this I didn't know
Not sure
His voice, sounds very "as a matter of fact" kind.
The plight of the Iraqis. Need to double check a lot of these facts, to be convinced that this story is as good as it seems.
Iwill recommend this book to most of my friends.
"depressing reminder"
I really wanted to like this book but it literally sucked the life out of me. As each new layer of the onion that was the occupation of Iraq was peeled away I was reminded more and more of why our poor Nation is in debt while billions of dollars were squandered and misspent.
Yes. Incredibly depressing.
How easily it was to scam money from the Bush administration.
"Rajiv is right on. What a clairvoyant journalist!"
Yes- I now understand the truth about "Bubble" American planning. I now understand why most of the planning attempted within the beltway has very little to do with us, outside the beltway.
Amazed at the channeling of dialog and the great understanding about what others are thinking and saying. NASA should hire the author. I would sleep safer at night.
Sure would.
Yes I now know the truth about Bush and Cheney. I now can see why the ruling politicians enact such useless regulations for the lowly american citizens. It is the "Bubbles" fault.
I work. I ski. I play. I write. I have a family. I garden. I coach. I volunteer. I sketch. I run. I read.
"A Disturbing Account"
This is a good production. The reader is able to distinguish characters well. The story is a disturbing account of the US occupation of Iraq. The book keeps good time.


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YANGON, Nov 21 (IPS) - Myanmar is never out of the news for long. This has been the case since a popular uprising challenged military rule in 1988. For over two decades, the country was featured in mainstream media primarily as one unable to cope with its own internal contradictions, a nation crippled by violence.

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as a friend of Glenns, i can understand why he took a swipe at this guy, Glenn is a very proud man and has been put in a very intimedating position in a public toilet, you cant go round proposing to people like they are a piece of dirt, im sure Glenn have joked his way out of most uncomfortable positions he has faced, i know i have been with him at some of these times, if Glenn felt really threatened by this person then he will react the way he did, at the end of the day he was only protecting himself and his personal space that this guy intruded. Maybe next time this guy will be more respectful towards strangers that he meets in toilets.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Central banking is in a state of flux as policymakers from Tokyo to Washington ditch prevailing orthodoxies to try to grab a bigger share of a slow-growing global economic pie.
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Draghi holds a news conference on Thursday after an ECB policy-setting meeting. On the same day, with delicious timing, Carney will be wrapping up testimony to British lawmakers just as the BoE announces the results of its own policy meeting.
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The ECB must keep a close eye on the euro, which has risen to a 14-month peak against the dollar and a 30-month high against the yen, reflecting the Federal Reserve's promise to keep buying bonds until U.S. unemployment falls much farther and the Bank of Japan's plan for a much looser monetary policy.
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France has already complained about the euro's climb and Germany has blamed Japan for encouraging a weaker yen.
But Goldman Sachs said an ECB rate cut in response to a rising euro was still some way off, not least because the currency's vigour was largely due to improving economic and financial news from the euro zone.
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China's imports are projected to leap, which would bode well for world growth.
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All this pointed to steady if unspectacular U.S. growth.
"We don't have by any means the kind of growth that we would like, but we are setting ourselves up for a world where there's less risk and more sustainability," Kasman said on a conference call. (Editing by William Hardy)
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GLAAD Sets Up Ministry of Propaganda to Silence Opponents of Homosexual Agenda Comments
In a sign of their growing intolerance of people who hold positions other than those of the Homosexual Cultural Revolution, the Media Watchdog Organization "GLAAD" (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) has issued a blacklist of commentators. This effort is called the "Commentator Accountability Project". The blacklist includes some people I know and admire. It also includes some of my favorite commentators in both the ... Continue Reading
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2 years ago
The technique being used by GLAAD is called jamming. It's part of a campaign outlined in the book After the Ball by Kirk and Madsen (Doubleday 1989) that aims at helping people conquer their fear of gays through the "conversion of the average American's emotions, mind, and will, through a planned psychological attack" (pg. 153).
2 years ago
I've read and heard all or most of the "statements" of religious personalities that GLAAD has targeted. But I'm confused. Have not these statements been the speaker's honest opinion and spoken with no shame or regret? Contrary to reactionary articles, none of these statements and pronouncements have been misrepresented or taken out of context by GLAAD's project. They've only highlighted, verbatim, those opinions the speakers have not spoken about (or that the media fails to challenge) on national TV as guests or "network consultants".
Why is the exposure of these statements so passionately objected to with accusations of attempted censorship, and not wholly owned and embraced by those who have uttered them? Just what are they afraid of?
Well, could it be that these speakers and their defenders really know that these ostensibly sincere and honest opinions, that are normally spoken only to the choir, would nationally be considered repugnant and exposed as divisive and so damaging to them, that the media might think twice before continuing to offer them a forum as representives of current political or religious thought?
Hey...I'm no longer confused.
2 years ago
If GLAAD is intolerant of criticism, they are intolerant.
Yet they demand to be tolerated, accepted and emulated.
2 years ago
Why can't I find people in real life that are like the people who post here? Man I feel so alone sometimes.
2 years ago
How are direct quotes "propaganda"?
2 years ago
This is history repeating itself. The Nazi's had a minister of propaganda, to skew the truth against the Jews so as to prepare the public mind for subsequent persecution of the Jews. We Catholics will be persecuted sooner rather than later. Prepare for it. It's coming. The Constitution is dead. It was killed by those tasked with protecting it, who became politicized. Religious freedom is on its last leg.
2 years ago
Seems to be that these people are on this list - not a black list - because they have made statements which they make it a point NOT to repeat when interviewed by the media. If these statements are a way of these folks standing on God's word, then why are they afraid to repeat them when asked for their positions by the media. True people of God don't blow hot and cold, they are straight up all the time. GLAAD is merely exposing hypocrisy and deception.
2 years ago
Why must the Church impose it's will outside of it's community on the broader society?
Gay marriage by the State is a recognition of commitment and related legal rights. Gay marriage by the Church is not required; the Church does not have to recognize or perform marriages.
Let them get married by the State
2 years ago
I would agree with you, Juneau Alaska, except I have my doubts about the strength of the Catholic Church in 300 years (at least in America and Europe). At this point, the Bishops are worse than "wrong" on this issue; they are irrelevant. And there's nothing worse than that. Their arguments are not being accepted, and the Church (which I consider to be the people, not the hierarchy) has moved beyond this issue and the issue of contraception. The Bishops pose, the bluster, but in reality, no one is really listening to them anymore. As well they shouldn't.
2 years ago
What is the problem here? There's no blacklist -- there's just a list of verbatim quotes that people have made on the record, with links to provide fuller context. How on earth is it "spying" when you simply repeat the words these commentators have made in the hope of reaching a wide audience? These speakers and writers should be thanking GLAAD for promoting their work, not crying foul.
So really, what specific harm is being done here?
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Oscar Pistorius returned to light training and was overcome with emotion as he pulled on his carbon fibre blades for a session at his usual practice facility today, his agent told The Associated Press.
Agent Peet van Zyl said today he was contacted about a week ago by Pistorius, who expressed a desire to return to a regular track routine for the first time since the February 14 shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
"I think it's huge for him," said Van Zyl, who went with Pistorius to the University of Pretoria for the session. "He was overcome with emotion when he put on his blades."
Van Zyl said there were still no plans for Pistorius to run competitively and his return to the track involved light runs that would help give his life a routine as he awaits trial for the killing of Steenkamp.
Describing the experience as bitter sweet, Van Zyl went to the track with Pistorius while his regular coach Ampie Louw is away on holiday.
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"The actual word he used to me was bittersweet," Van Zyl said of Pistorius' training. "He can't be happy because of what's happened."
Pistorius' next court appearance is on August 19, when prosecutors may indict him and a date could be set for the start of his murder trial, possibly in September or October.
Pistorius denies murder in Steenkamp's killing, saying he shot her accidentally in the pre-dawn hours of Valentine's Day because he thought she was an intruder in his bathroom.
The 26-year-old Pistorius faces a life sentence with a minimum of 25 years in prison if he is convicted of premeditated murder.
In a statement on Pistorius' website, his family confirmed he decided to resume running for a few hours a week for his own mental process.
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va.-The Marshall football team will be represented by legends Jack Lengyel and Herschel "Woody" Williams as honorary Marshall captains at the coin toss of the 2013 Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman, the school announced Thursday evening. Marshall faces Maryland next Friday at 2:30 p.m. ET at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in a game that will air on ESPN with Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham and Jeannine Edwards on the call.
Lengyel, Marshall's head coach of the "Young Thundering Herd" from 1971-74, was also the Director of Athletics at Navy from 1988-2001 and served on the Academy's Board of Trustees for many years. He took over the Marshall program following the tragic Southern Airways Flight 932 plane crash on Nov. 14, 1970, which took the lives of all 75 on board.
Williams, a Fairmont native, is a retired U.S. Marine who received a Purple Heart and the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions and bravery in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. He is one of only nine living World War II Medal of Honor recipients. A new $25 million Armed Forces Reserve Center in Fairmont was dedicated to the 90-year Williams last year.
"It is truly an honor to have Jack Lengyel and Woody Williams, two of our state's finest, represent our football team at the Military Bowl," said Director of Athletics Mike Hamrick. "These two gentlemen are first-class and we are extremely grateful to have them on our side as we battle the University of Maryland next Friday."
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Most Billings residents will see increases in their water and wastewater rates beginning July 1. Most increases will be modest, but a few will be more substantial.
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Toronto Blue Jays introduce Russell Martin
Toronto born catcher Russell Martin agreed to a five-year, $82 million deal with the Blue Jays earlier in the week. On Thursday, the club officially introduced their newest addition to the media.