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MORNING BRIEFING: High-scoring Wake begins defense
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High-scoring Wake Forest begins the defense of its NCAA Division I men's title when it faces Virginia Commonwealth in the Carolina Nike Classic in Chapel Hill. The Deacons return their top seven scorers, including Preseason All-Americans Marcus Tracy and Cody Arnoux
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This should have been Yannick Reyering's fourth season on the Virginia men's soccer team, but because of his participation with German club VfL Osnabrueck the NCAA took away one year of eligibility. Instead, he joined the Virginia football team, for which he should debut as its placekicker on Saturday against ...
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[UPDATES] The NCAA Division I men's season began Friday with 20 teams in the Soccer America Top 25 in action. A late rally gave No. 4 Maryland a 2-1 win over No. 11 UCLA at the Home Depot Center, while No. 10 Notre Dame fell to No. 12 Akron, 3-0, ...
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The Big Ten Network will kick off its 2008 men's soccer coverage on Sunday when Indiana hosts Akron at the adidas/IU Credit Union Classic. Ten regular-season games will be broadcast this fall.
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Texas Longhorn defenders Stephanie Logterman and Kasey Moore are firing on all cylinders. AND: Young Aggies take on familiar foe.
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There is a full slate of action over Labor Day weekend, including nine matchups involving Top 25 teams. For this week's Soccer American Women's Top 25 results and schedules ...
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Cmdr. David Faught has been relieved of his job as XO of the destroyer Chung-Hoon, Navy offiicals confirm. (Navy)
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The executive officer and prospective commander of the Hawaii-based destroyer Chung-Hoon was fired Wednesday night, Navy officials have confirmed.
Cmdr. David Faught, who has served the ship's number-two officer since September 2011, has been relieved, said Lt. Richard Chernitzer, a Naval Surface Force-Pacific spokesman in Coronado, Calif.
Faught's removal as XO was not due to any misconduct or violations of the law, Chernitzer said.
"However, there was a loss of confidence in his ability to perform as XO," Chernitzer said. "It will be put in his record ... and will be considered along with everything else."
Under the Navy's fleet-up program, Faught would have assumed command next year of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. He was reassigned temporarily to staff duties with Destroyer Squadron 31 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Chernitzer said. Replacing Faught is Lt. Peter Lesaca, who was assigned as the acting executive officer until a permanent XO is named.
The Chung-Hoon is deployed and has been participating in Valiant Shield, a 7th Fleet joint training exercise off Guam held Sept. 11-19.
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RIM today confirmed early slips with a launch for the BlackBerry Bold 9700. The smartphone is a refinement of the 2008-era Bold with a more compact design but a round of improvements, including a higher-resolution 480x360 screen (up from 480x320), a 3.2-megapixel camera (improved from two), and an optical trackpad in place of the more clog-prone trackball. Wi-Fi calling is new for carriers that support UMA, like Rogers and T-Mobile.
The handset is one of RIM's first after the Storm2 to ship with BlackBerry OS 5.0, which brings a better web browser, more Exchange mail control, and other minor upgrades. Mac support should also come out of the box with BlackBerry Desktop Manager supporting the new handset. The new Bold continues to provide GPS and microSDHC storage and will come in versions that support both 850MHz 3G, for carriers like AT&T and Rogers, as well as 1,700MHz 3G for T-Mobile USA.
AT&T has already confirmed plans to carry the Bold 9700 and will sell it for the same $200 as the original Bold after signing a smartphone plan contract and getting a $100 mail-in rebate. It only describes the phone as shipping in "coming weeks," but RIM itself says the phone ships in November and that AT&T no longer has an exclusive on the phone. T-Mobile has confirmed its own version and will ship it for the same price, but will support Wi-Fi calling.
Rogers has also announced its version of the Bold 9700 for Canada but is pricing it significantly higher than US carriers, at $300 on a three-year contract; in exchange, users can use a $45 combined smartphone plan less expensive than the AT&T option. Bell and Telus have also said they will carry the BlackBerry as one of their first phones for their HSPA-based networks but will only say the phone ships in November.
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On Friday afternoon, Pope Francis presided over a reconciliation service in St. Peter's Basilica. The event began the Festival of Forgiveness, or 24 Hours for the Lord, sponsored by the …read more
Here is a translation of what Pope Francis said today when he met with the clergy of the Diocese of Rome, in Paul VI Hall, for the traditional appointment at the beginning of Lent. After the …read more
Here is a translation of the address Pope Francis gave today before and after praying the midday Angelus with those gathered in St. Peter's Square. * * * Dear brothers and sisters, hello! …read more
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In 1607, Caravaggio painted the masterpiece of The Seven Works of Mercy for the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples. In a dark, chaotic Neapolitan alley, a twisting knot of figures perform …read more
Here is the statement fromCardinal Seán O'Malley, chairman of the US bishops'Committee on Pro-Life Activities,for Respect Life Month, celebrated in the United States in October. * * * My Dear …read more
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Francis celebrated his first Sunday Mass as Pope at the Vatican parish of St. Anna. The Pontiff was greeted there by Cardinal Angelo Comastri, his vicar general for Vatican City State. The …read more
The Church's whole mission must be more aware and more motivated by the mercy of God, says the general-secretary of a worldwide conference scheduled for October in Poland. Father Patrice …read more
A free iPhone application, which was just released for Android phones as well, aims to spread hope worldwide by promoting the message and devotion of Divine Mercy. ZENIT interviewed Father …read more
Benedict XVI remembered the priest who was instrumental in helping St. Faustina Kowalska write her diary and communicate to the world her spiritual experiences. In greeting Polish pilgrims …read more
A former Soviet nation in Central Asia has a renewed opportunity to grow in devotion to God's mercy after two images were enthroned in the "sui iuris" mission. On the feast of Divine Mercy, …read more
The rediscovery of divine mercy, which Pope John Paul II promoted, is key for interreligious dialogue, contended the archbishop of Lyon, France. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin affirmed this today …read more
Pope John Paul II cannot be understood without understanding the meaning of divine mercy, affirmed two cardinals at the 1st World Apostolic Congress on Mercy. Cardinal Camillo Ruini, Benedict …read more
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Career Path I established my practice in 1996, a year after attaining a BA (Hons) in three dimensional design. With grants from the PYBT & Business Link the practice grew and developed. To add to the success I was awarded a travel scholarship from the Winston Churchill Trust in 1998 which enabled me to study at the prestigious Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. Whilst there I developed new techniques for printing onto ceramics and exhibited a body of work in their gallery. Scartworks began to become recognised for its professional approach and innovative artwork, winning commissions from clients such as The Imperial War Museum of the North, Tesco Supermarkets Plc., The GLA, and Manchester City Council to name but a few. Building upon this success 'Scartworks' became a limited company in 2002. Now with over 15 years experience, the practice has its own fully equipped workshop and studio. It can design and make large scale steel work in house and provides graduate artists with experience and the opportunity to be involved in making public art and develop their own work. To date the practice has successfully produced over 90 commissions for clients throughout the UK. Approach to Commissioned Work Scartworks work on large scale public art projects including sculptures, street furniture & floorscapes. Our approach is site specific, responding to the environment, architecture and available space. Ideas are frequently developed from local sources in order to give the work a sense of place. Concepts are derived from a proposed theme or from consultation with the clients. Scartworks utilise a process of sketch development and research to initiate ideas. Drawings and scale models are produced to develop ideas from which an appropriate form can be assessed for viability, structural suitability and cost. The commission process follows the following steps: Client consultation Development of proposals and scheme frameworks Concept Visualisation & Prototype Modelling Detailed production design work Fabrication Installation Concepts As an artist I explore the relationship between the artwork and its setting. Natural environments may require a sympathetic approach which work in harmony with the landscape, whereas urban or built environments may offer the opportunity for bold highly visible statements. I have a firm belief in getting art out of the gallery setting, and I gain great satisfaction from working with communities to create artwork which expands their understanding of contemporary art. I am particularly interested in works which involve architecture, urban regeneration and collaboration with professional design teams. To each of these new opportunities I bring an open mind and a fresh approach.
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Fort Wayne -- A 230,000-piece collection of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia is being converted into digital images in an effort to make the history of the 16th president more accessible to scholars and Lincoln aficionados.
Librarians are matching images of the photographs, letters, pamphlets and books with other historical facts so that all are available simultaneously using a standard computer search engine.
The collection, owned by the Indiana State Museum, came from the now-defunct Lincoln Museum.
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Then there's loveLife, a government-financed South African public health program aimed at stopping the spread of AIDS by encouraging teens to use condoms and practice safe sex. LoveLife took a page from corporate advertising promotions and created a hip marketing campaign to convey the message that it's cooler to act responsibly than behave badly. The unlikely inspiration for this campaign was the successful brand relaunch of the soft drink Sprite, which centered on creating an "aspirational lifestyle brand." Like Sprite, loveLife hired teens to recruit their peers to attend brand-sponsored sports events, concerts, and other activities, creating a club they'd want to be part of and draw more kids into. By 2006, Rosenberg reports, loveLife had become one of the country's top 10 brands, made recognizable throughout the country with 1,200 billboards and constant TV, radio, and web exposure, along with a widely used telephone hotline. What made loveLife work for her, one young woman told Rosenberg, was that "It wasn't about HIV. It was about me. No one is wagging a finger at me, just young people, peers, telling me the way you've lived your life is not good, and we're going to help you."
In Rosenberg's description, what's most novel about loveLife is the route by which it caught these teens' attention. What made it work was that the marketing hoopla and events got kids talking directly to each other, face to face, in small groups, and with counselors. Change happened not just because of bread and circuses and billboards, but because of the person-to-person connections these things promoted.
In addition, Rosenberg describes publicly funded teen anti-smoking programs in the United States, including Florida's Students Working Against Tobacco (SWAT) and South Carolina's Against the Haze. As with loveLife, these programs steered clear of lecturing and fear-mongering. Instead, they tapped into a generational dynamic: teen outrage at being lied to, and manipulated by, hypocritical adults, represented by Big Tobacco. As a result, the SWAT campaign's public slogan was "Truth." Its public service ads never overtly stated, "Don't Smoke," but the message was implicit, and between 1999 and 2007 in Florida, the number of middle and high school students who smoked was cut in half.
Beyond social justice and public health issues, Rosenberg turns her attention to how social cures benefit religious and spiritual communities. She describes efforts to develop a greater sense of community and deeper religious commitment by Willow Creek Community Church, a megachurch in Illinois with a congregation of 21,000. Ironically, the church's success in attracting so many parishioners had made it unfriendly for those seeking a more personal connection with their faith, their spirituality, and each other—the kind of experience that often develops in smaller congregations. To recreate that small-town feeling within their megachurch, the church's leadership began encouraging the members to form small neighborhood groups. Participants soon found that getting together several times each week—for a barbecue, to jog around the park, to share time with the kids, or engage in Bible study—helped bind members together as an extended family far more than just seeing each other at church on Sunday. From Rosenberg's accounts, it seems that for isolated suburbanites in search of connection, finding a small group of likeminded coreligionists is almost a revelation. However, it struck me that, to many, the commune-like togetherness that worked for the families that Rosenberg focuses on here might feel cloying rather than liberating.
Rosenberg is at her best as a reporter, and she originally wrote about several of these programs for The New York Times and National Geographic. Perhaps that's why the book seems to lack a narrative arc, reading instead like a rambling series of journalistic adventures, loosely threaded together under the general heading of "social cure," a label that fits some examples better than others. The Willow Creek Church, for instance, is less about finding a social cure than about creating a community that can accommodate the needs of more than 20,000 people. Similarly, Otpor is a fascinating example of political resistance, but Rosenberg's lengthy disquisition on the subject started to sound like a continuation of her previous book, The Haunted Land, about the fall and aftermath of communism in Eastern Europe.
Clearly, Rosenberg is committed to bringing attention to new ways to fix our world. (In fact, she currently writes the blog "Fixes" on just this theme for The New York Times.) In an age of rampant cynicism, her optimism is thoroughly refreshing, even if she does start sounding like a policy wonk zealously rolling out ideas for reforming just about everything and everyone—even those who say "I'm not a joiner."
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- Answering questions on call: pediatric resident physicians' use of handoffs and other resourcesMaireade E McSweeney
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Boston Children s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Hosp Med 8:328-33. 2013..Little is known in the literature about the types of questions being asked of on-call housestaff and the resources used to provide answers...
- Patient handoffs: pediatric resident experiences and lessons learnedMaireade E McSweeney
Children s Hospital, Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 50:57-63. 2011..Within pediatrics, there is a paucity of data on pediatric resident handoff systems...
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Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, Boston Children s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts2Doernbecher Children s Hospital, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland
JAMA 310:2262-70. 2013..Handoff miscommunications are a leading cause of medical errors. Studies comprehensively assessing handoff improvement programs are lacking...
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Terrorism: A Christian View
Terror means extreme fear. As a name for certain kinds of violence, it is historically associated with la terreur, the ten-month period during which French revolutionaries under the leadership of Robespierre, systematically imprisoned and killed, without trial, suspected critics or opponents of their regime. Most victims were members or supporters of the nobility and the clergy. About 17,000 were killed and 300,000 were imprisoned (many of whom died in prison). In 1794 public outrage put an end to the Reign of Terror and executed its leader.
Nature and Purposes of Terrorism
More generally, terrorism is a policy or practice that seeks to demoralize adversaries by deliberately provoking terror. It takes many forms, and has had many objectives. It always involves coercive or destructive acts, directed not against identifiable military opponents, but against non-combatants. Since unpredictability intensifies and perpetuates fear, terrorism often prefers non-combatant targets whose unthreatening status normally assures them of immunity from direct attack. For that very reason, deliberate assault on the defenseless implies an enemy who will "stop at nothing" and discourages any hope of settling disputes by conventional warfare or negotiated compromise.
Attempts to justify terrorism usually represent it as a last resort in a just dispute, by parties who have no access to political or military power comparable to those of their opponents. Such is often the case within territories occupied by foreign powers, in minority groups oppressed by their own governments, or with frustrated activist movements that regard their objectives as morally urgent. Terrorism may also be undertaken without any moral or ideological pretensions, usually for material gain as by organized crime.Recent Prominence of Terrorism
Terrorism is not a modern phenomenon. In modern times, however, it has attracted much wider attention for several reasons. First, because of greatly expanded media coverage. Second, because modern technology has provided terrorists with unprecedented means of destruction. Third, because terrorism effectively terrified the most militarily powerful nation on earth. And fourth, because terrorist groups have been organized with high efficiency on a worldwide scale of operation. Radical Muslim groups, most notably Al Qaeda, have been outstanding in all four of these respects. Al Qaeda, as well as other groups, employ terrorist methods for the avowed purpose of eliminating opposition, especially Western and pro-Western opposition, to establishing absolute dominance of Islamic law (or their interpretation of it) in traditionally Muslim nations.
It was the use of those methods for that purpose that provoked the invasion of both Afghanistan and Iraq by a U.S.-led coalition. In Iraq, a situation resulted which combines, and often confuses, the insurgency of resistance to an occupying power, with the practical equivalent of civil war between hostile sectarian groups. In both conflicts, Muslims, lacking the means for conventional military conflict, rely heavily, and devastatingly, on terrorist tactics. Although Americans tend to compare this situation, in point of frustration, with the Vietnam war, a closer recent parallel was the resistance of Algerian Muslims to incorporation in the French Republic, a struggle in which Arab groups were also pitted against one another.
Muslim Connection Accidental
Despite recent developments, it would be erroneous and unjust to suggest a Muslim monopoly on terrorism. Irish, Basque, and Tyrolean terrorism have caused bloody attacks in Europe for decades. The highly organized American terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan, is not yet quite extinct. Jewish pressure for statehood included terrorist bombing of British civilians, and Israel's massively disproportionate retaliation in Lebanon and Palestine elude that label only because carried out under military auspices. Palestinian terrorist attacks on Israel are, for the most part, politically motivated, and only incidentally (or opportunistically) connected with Muslim terrorism elsewhere. Random samples of those who resort to terrorism for "moral" causes must include Catholic "pro-life" assailants of abortion clinics, and "eco-terrorist" saboteurs of lumber operations. Terrorist intimidation has been frequent in organized crime, notably by Mafia-style mobs and drug cartels.
Although terrorism is most likely to be adopted by groups that are militarily, politically, and economically too weak for conventional warfare or effective diplomacy, it has also been employed by strong nations as part of their waging of war. Some would consider as terrorism any deliberate targeting of non-combatants, even when carried out by military forces during war. On that basis, many have regarded the U.S. atomic bombing of non-military targets in Japan and the British fire-bombing of residential cities in Germany in W.W. II as cases of massive terrorism. Usually, extreme civilian "collateral damage," as by indiscriminate bombing or the use of such weapons as land-mines, is criticized not as terrorism, but as violation of "just war" provisions. The distinction may at times seem merely academic. It implies no difference in moral reproach.Terrorism Incompatible with Christian Morality
The main Christian objections to terrorism are borrowed from traditional moral norms for justifiable assault and homicide, including justifiable warfare. These norms closely correspond to the provisions of most public law, both national and international. Justifiable homicide by individuals or by governments (apart from capital punishment, itself controversial), is normally limited to defense against acts or threats of aggression, when non-violent or less violent means are unavailable. Personal self-defense is limited to the use of force sufficient to deter actual or imminent aggression. This extends to lethal force only when no other defense is possible. Justifiable warfare is required to be waged without directly attacking or avoidably endangering non-combatants. It is also required to refrain from inflicting damage disproportionate to the positive benefits of a foreseeable outcome. It is often observed that the latter condition requires powers of foresight that are scarcely achievable by combatants in wartime. The fundamental Christian objection to terrorism is that it inflicts injury and death on unoffending persons, who are neither criminals nor assailants. It is plainly incompatible with Jesus' rejection of violence and retaliation, no matter how narrowly his words are interpreted.
Moral Arguments for Terrorism
The commonest justification offered for terrorist violence against non-combatants is the claim that in war an entire human community is usually implicated as supporters of the military. Whether that support is material, moral, or political, the distinction of non-combatants is considered artificial and invalid. Even children have sometimes been considered implicated, as being destined for future recruitment.
A more extreme position rejects the moral primacy of individual human rights, and affirms the all-inclusive collective guilt of an offending community which deserves to be indiscriminately "punished." Christianity has always rejected this concept in theory, but it has often been revived in practice by militant Christian groups, notoriously by persecutors of Jews considered to be collectively implicated in Christ's crucifixion.
The Moral Threat of Counter-terrorism
Terrorism is an offense that appears almost exclusively in accusations and almost never in confessions. Revolutions very often begin with terrorism against an oppressive majority, only to end with terrorism against recalcitrant minorities. The recent development of epidemic global terrorism has stimulated a response that may be even more ominous than terrorism itself. The claim by the world's most militarily powerful nation, to be engaged in a "war against terrorism" threatens to justify national violence against no defined aggressor within no definable limits of either space or time, and to diminish protection of both civil and human rights. It is a formula calculated to evade every moral and legal standard for the assessment of warfare. The argument that what terrorism calls for is not diffuse warring but concentrated policing offers a more rational and manageable response.
Terrorism: A Muslim View
There is no universally accepted definition of terrorism. Generally speaking, terrorism refers to the act of engendering extreme fear in others and is often used to demoralize adversaries by inciting terror and anxiety in them. Terrorism takes many forms and often, although not always, targets non - combatants and innocent civilians, thus implying an assault on the defenseless.
In recent times, terrorism has become almost synonymous with Islam and Muslims. However, it would be erroneous and unjust to suggest a Muslim monopoly on terrorism. The Irish Republican Army, the Basque separatist movement in Spain, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Jewish Defense League have resorted to targeting innocent civilians to advance their cause.
From an Islamic perspective, there is no justification, even in warfare, to target and terrorize innocent civilians. The Qur'an does not accept the idea of unlimited or aggressive warfare, especially against non-combatants. By the assiduous usage of the term la ta'tadu (do not transgress) in the context of warfare, it can be argued that the Qur'an qualifies warfare with a moral condition of restraint.
Undoubtedly, the most telling verse in the Qur'an regarding terrorism (as defined above) is stated in verse 32 of chapter 5: "Whoever kills one innocent soul it is as if s/he has killed the whole of humanity, one who saves one innocent being it is as if s/he has saved whole of humanity." The Qur'an also outlines the rules of engagement, who is to fight and who is exempted (48:17; 9:91), when hostilities should cease (2:192) and how prisoners should be treated (47:4). As there is no compulsion in religion (2:256), Muslims are not to impose their beliefs on others.
It is correct to state that Islam upholds the principles of personal responsibility and security and considers any attack on innocent people as a major crime. It focuses on the defense of the weak, the humble and the oppressed and enjoins jihad for their protection. As the Qur'an states: "And why should you not fight for the cause of Allah, and for the helpless old men and women.... (4:75)? The mention in the Qur'an of the blessing of security "And hath made them safe from fear" (106:4) is another proof of the importance it attaches to security and its rejection of terror. It should also be noted that since oppression is seen as a form of inciting terror, the Qur'an urges opposition to and fight against tyranny wherever it may occur. It does not state that Muslims should protect only fellow Muslims who are oppressed.
Muslims are required to assist and stand up for the oppressed until they attain their rights. The first Shi'i Imam, 'Ali b. Abi Talib gave this advice to his two sons, al-Hasan and al-Husayn: "Be opponents of the oppressor and defenders of the oppressed." He also said: "To me the lowly are noble until I get their rights for them, and the powerful are weak until I get such rights from them."
To be sure, terrorism is reprehensible. In today's context, most Muslims disagree with fellow Muslims who target and kill innocent civilians even if they agree with the cause they are fighting for (liberation of Palestine, Kashmir, driving out occupiers in Iraq and Afghanistan). However, Muslims also accuse Western and their own governments of institutionalized terrorism in that they drop bombs in areas where there is a strong likelihood of civilian casualties and threaten the lives of innocent civilians in pursuit of their national interests in the Muslim world.
The Qur'an takes a very strong stance against terrorism. It describes those who terrorize innocent civilians as those who corrupt the earth. As it states: "This is the recompense of those who fight against God and His Messenger, and spread corruption in the land. They shall be put to death, or crucified, or have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides, or be banished from the land. That is a degradation for them in this world; and in the next awaits them a mighty chastisement."(5:33)
The verse mentions the subject and the purpose, namely war against society and spreading of corruption in the land. It also mentions the severe punishment to be dealt out to the perpetrators, which points to Islam's concern for the subject.
Due to the Islamic rejection of acts of terror, Muslim jurists have developed a plethora of terms to classify the various forms of terror and suggest appropriate punitive measures. For example, Islamic political jurisprudence has an elaborate discourse on al-baghy, i.e. armed revolt by a group against a just and legitimate government, and the intimidation of and causing harm to the general public.
Rebels are defined as those who wage war against the ruling authority. Engagement in a war with rebels is different from jihad against idolaters. Even though they are a threat to the territory of Islam, rebels are not to be killed as they remain Muslims. No war can be fought until the rebels initiate hostilities. Jihad against them can only be waged when they break allegiance with the caliph and attack or pose a danger to Muslims. Their property cannot be confiscated and those rebels who are taken as prisoners of war must not be killed. They can only be exterminated in self-defense. The rules of war against rebels are different since it is hoped that they will return to the fold of the community. The goal against fighting rebels is to bring them back to the fold of submission, not to kill them.
Muslims jurists have also articulated laws on al-haraba, which is defined as "the use of weapons, on land or sea, by day or night, to intimidate people, in a city or elsewhere, by a male or female, strong or weak." Muslims are allowed to fight against robbers and brigands in self-defense. Brigands and highway robbers are treated like rebels with some exceptions to the rules of combat. The punishment against a thief is contingent on whether he stole property or killed people. Since they terrorize civilians and endanger security, highway robbers and brigands are also to be fought and punished either by execution or amputation of hands or feet. Islamic law also stipulates respect and loyalty to covenants and treaties even if it is discovered later that they favor the opposite party.
In conclusion, it is correct to state that Islam has always taken a strong stance against terrorism and regarding ppression of any kind as a form of terror. Thus, the Qur'an urges human beings at large to oppose and fight against any form of tyranny since it spreads corruption on earth and threatens the freedom and security of ordinary citizens.
Points of Agreement and Disagreement
Points of Agreement
Both the authors above agree that terrorism means demoralizing adversaries by deliberately provoking terror, and also that it usually entails destructive acts or attacks on non-combatants and innocent civilians. That said, however, there are many forms of terrorism, and any discussion of it must try to define it carefully (see Points for Discussion below).
It may come as a surprise to most readers that the majority of Muslims condemn attacks on non-combatants and civilians. Yet that is what the data (based on a Gallup world poll of Muslims in Muslim countries) cited by John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed, in their book, (New York: Gallup Press, 2007). This data is based on an extensive Gallup world poll done between 2001 and 2007, in which a sample representing 90% of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims was interviewed in face to face interviews. Esposito and Mogahed write as follows:
Muslims hold no monopoly on extremist views and are, in fact, on average more likely than the American public to unequivocally condemn attacks on civilians. A recent study shows that only 46% of Americans think that "bombing and other attacks intentionally aimed at civilians" are "never justified," while 24% believe these attacks are "often or sometimes justified."
Contrast this with data taken the same year from some of the largest Muslim majority nations, in which 74% of respondents in Indonesia agree that terrorist attacks are "never justified"; in Pakistan, that figure is 86%; in Bangladesh, 81%, and in Iran, 80%.
Similarly, 6% of the American public thinks that attacks in which civilian are targets are "completely justified." As points of comparison, in both Lebanon and Iran, this figure is 2%, and in Saudi Arabia, it's 4%. In Europe, Muslims ion Paris and London are no more likely than their counterparts in the general public to believe attacks on civilians are justified and are as likely to reject violence, even for a "noble cause." (pp. 94-95)
It is not clear if most Christian would condemn attacks on civilians. But certainly that would be Christian teaching, in which case Christians and Muslims would agree that terrorism and attacks on innocent civilians are not justified.
Points of Disagreement
Almost no one admits to being a terrorist. Rather, terrorism is something that one accuses one's enemies of doing. Thus, many Christians might accuse Muslims of approving of terrorism. But Muslims, on the other hand, tend to see the U.S. as sponsoring attacks on civilians, in its bombing raids, its invasion of Iraq, and so on. Therefore, there will probably be disagreement on whether or not a particular action is to be labeled "terrorist."
Points for Further Discussion
As noted above, in any discussion of terrorism there must be a careful attempt to define just what is meant by "terrorism." Consider, for example, the Allied bombing of Dresden, or the U.S. bombing of Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki in 1945. All of these attacks targeted the civilian population (this is widely admitted, and is not controversial). Were these military actions terrorism? Or were they, as Gaffney surmises (above) rather "violations[s] of 'just war' provisions"?
A further point for discussion is this: to what extent is terrorism religiously motivated, and to what extent is it politically motivated? Most Western readers, because of media coverage, will probably assume that much of so-called "Muslim" or "Islamic" terrorism" is religiously motivated. That, after all, is what the labels "Muslim" or "Islamic" implies. Yet this is not the conclusion of Robert Pape, who has written a book on this subject (Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (New York: Random House). Pape writes:
The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland. From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Chechnya to Kashmir to the West Bank, every major suicide-terrorist campaign—more than 95% of all incidents—has had as its central objective to compel a democratic state to withdraw. (cited is Esposito & Mogahed, p.77).
Elsewhere Pape writes:
Before our invasion, Iraq never had a suicide-terrorist attack in its history. Since our invasion, suicide terrorism has been escalating rapidly with 20 attacks in 2003, 48 in 2004, and over 50 in just the first five months of 2005. Every year that the United States has stationed 150,000 combat troops in Iraq, suicide terrorism has doubled. (Dying to Win, p. 130).
Is, therefore, terrorism mainly politically motivated, rather than religiously motivated? This is a point for further discussion.
Finally, of course, the crucial point is: what do we do about terrorism? How de we lessen or ameliorate it? What actions of the U.S. and the West generally tend to provoke terrorism? The answer to this question depends partly on our answer to question two, above.


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Why do I create photographs of nudes? Is there a difference between what I do and what another photographer chooses to do? Does it matter how viewers of my photographs react? And if so, should that have an effect on what I do and how I do it? Ive recently had cause to ask myself these questions about my work, and this article is my attempt to frame a coherent response.
I have no desire to trigger another endless rambling discussion, so please use the "Post Reply" button with moderation. I'm really interested in what you think about this article, but the topic is not really suitable for megaphone discussions. So if you think I'm right or wrong, out of line or spot on, or just want to let me know your opinions, then please PM me so we can talk constructively.
Two Fundamental Questions
Theres a fundamental question to address before discussing nudes: is photography art? Of course photography has many uses; and many are purely practical, such as scientific or judicial records, social documents, or communication aids. But I practice photography as a means of self expression, so it should therefore be no surprise that I consider photography to be an artistic medium and my photographs to be art. (Whether it's good art or bad art Ill leave for others to decide.)
The other fundamental question is whether there is a difference between nude and naked. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines naked as an adjective meaning, without clothes, and nude as an adjective meaning, wearing no clothes. But it goes on to say that as a noun, nude means, a naked human figure as a subject in art So although the OED doesnt help much, it does suggest that the nude is an art form and the naked isnt.
That sounds like common sense to me few people would describe a photograph of a naked baby on a sheepskin rug as art, but the artistic status of Edward Westons Neil, Nude from 1925 is unlikely to be challenged by many. So it seems reasonable to state that the nude (whether sculpted, painted or photographed) is an artistic form differentiated from other representations of naked people.
Celebration or Challenge
Artists choose their themes for many reasons, but I think two are worth highlighting: the desire to celebrate something and the desire to challenge society. Although not entirely mutually exclusive, the extremes of these two motivations are to a large extent contradictory. There is, in essence, a continuum with Celebrationist at one end and Challenger at the other.
Many artists use nudes as a way to challenge society by asking taboo questions, shocking people, and stimulating debate. The best example of this philosophy I can think of was exhibited at Photo London in 2006: a mural-sized photo of a woman urinating into a drain on a London bridge (with everything on show and nothing left to the imagination). Whether this was important art or just disgustingly poor taste is beyond the scope of this article, but without a doubt it achieves the goal of challenging society.
Others choose instead to celebrate humanity with their nudes, showing beauty, or emotion, or strength, or grace, or whatever trait they wish to honour through their nudes. August Rodin and Ruth Bernhard are both artists whose work exemplifies this for me.
Personally, I believe there is sufficient ugliness in the world without me adding to it. I work almost exclusively with nudes because I find the body deeply emotive, visually fascinating, and sumptuously beautiful. I work primarily with women for the same reasons. So, in short, Im a celebrationist.
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I have to thank Scott Davis for this concept. At any moment in time every human being is somewhere on a continuum from horndog to robot. While making out with a lover were likely to be more like a horndog, and during a job interview were more likely to be at the robot end of the scale.
For most of the time, most of us are somewhere in the middle. But external stimuli can move us rapidly and unexpectedly around the scale. Ever been cuddling up on the couch with your lover when your pet walks into the room and is sick all over the carpet? It kind of kills the moment doesnt it. Or have you been in a meeting at work when a stunningly attractive person walks by the door? Just for a moment you moved a little closer to horndog didnt you.
As an aside, a model I worked with also works as a dominatrix in a city dungeon providing unusual services for consenting adults. She told me that some of her best and most loyal customers are members of a strict religious sect which prizes family values and expects high moral standards from its members. Ill let you decide on the morality of this, but I think it reinforces my point that we are all emotional beings (its part of the human condition).
While many of us are good at hiding where we are on the horndog to robot scale (sometimes even from ourselves), it exists and it effects how we act whether we like it or not. We may even be able to control where we are on the continuum to an extent, but it still exists. And, I believe, its a fundamental part of how we react to nudes.
Nudes and Sexuality
Are nudes about sex, or should they be devoid of sexuality? Is a photograph of a female breast sexy, beautiful, or boring? Is a photograph of a penis art or porn? Where does the sensual end and the erotic begin? Should naughty bits be shown? Is eye contact right or wrong?
I believe these are pointless questions, because the answer will be different for every person on the planet. But I also believe that to deny that sexuality has or should have a place in art is to deny our humanity. We exist as a species because of sex; and its one of the three fundamental motivations that direct most peoples lives - the other two being personal survival and survival of our children.
As a species, our sexual interests are, thankfully, very diverse (remember the dominatrix?). And as art is all about self expression its only natural that artists will seek to portray sexuality in all its technicolour glory. And long may that continue.
Nudes and the Viewer
Does it matter what effect my photographs have on the viewer? Of course it does. Im a celebrationist, and if my work doesnt communicate my passion then Ive failed. So I want my work to have an effect on the people who see it. And I want that effect to be a strong emotional reaction. And I want that strong emotional reaction to be one thats in harmony with my passion for humanity.
But of course I cant control how people react to my work. Every person who looks at one of my photographs has a whole lifetime of experiences that filter what they see and how they subsequently react. And every viewer is somewhere on the horndog to robot continuum at the instant they see my photograph.
So while I hope that the most viewers will share my passion for humanity, I have to acknowledge that some wont see my work in the way that I do. And I also have to accept that a strong emotional reaction will sometimes move someone closer to horndog than they or I expected, leading them to do or say things that they wouldnt when theyre closer to robot.
I know sometimes I say and do things that with hindsight I think were wrong, so it would be hypocritical of me to expect perfection in others. Anyway, Ive chosen to put my work out there so I have to accept how people react to it.
Nudes and the Model
How should photographers work with models in the studio? Many, if not most, people have an opinion on this. I dont know whether theres a correct way of working, but I suspect that actually it doesnt matter how an artist and their model work together so long as both of them are comfortable with it and they trust each other.
I believe that if youre going to ask someone to undress for you in the name of art, and if you want them to put aside their self image and allow you to mould them to your vision (whatever that may be), then they have to trust you. Without trust they wont relax, and if theyre not relaxed then it will show in the photographs. And of course if they don't trust you then theyll never work with you again, as well as telling other potential models to avoid you too.
Likewise, if the model thinks youre too much of a horndog then their discomfort will show in the photographs, and if they think youre too much of a robot theyll be bored which will show too. But if youre both in harmony then youve got a real chance of creating something significant.
As far as Im concerned, the same principles apply whether youre working with a professional model, a friend, or someone who just wants to broaden their horizons. Without trust and harmony between the model and photographer then youll fail to create significant artwork.
Nudes and the Artist
The nude as an art form was invented in Ancient Greece, discovered again in Renaissance Italy, and re-discovered once more in the early 20th Century by artists such as Rodin and Weston. In more recent times, I think the nude has often been swamped (shouted down even) by commercial sexuality and establishment art.
I believe that the human body is inherently beautiful, and I seek to celebrate this beauty through my photography. That is my purpose.
Some people wont like what I do. Thats fine, but I hope that most people viewing my work will join me in celebrating the wonderful people I work with, and the wider circle of humanity that they represent.


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Brandon Tobin tossed two touchdowns, ran for one and set up another in Arlington High School's 41-7 Friday night football victory over Mahopac.
After the Indians scored on their first possession, the Admirals answered with a 30-yard touchdown pass from Tobin to Marc Barbieri.
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The grand reopening of the newly renovated and expanded Wegmans Super Kids Market exhibit takes place Saturday, June 29.
The exhibit's updated brick store façade now sports the signature Wegmans clock tower and new second story windows. Once inside, updated graphics, lighting, and new role-playing stations offer Wegmans Super Kids Market a fresh look and feel, and more fun ways to encourage kids to eat healthy.
One of the most dramatic new features is the all-new Market Café replete with prepared meals, a sushi bar, and a coffee bar—just like the real grown-up Wegmans! The Market Café adds approximately 400 square feet of exhibit space. Kids can pretend to pick up a pizza or $6 meal for dinner and relax with a beverage at café tables. Kids can also visit the new Nature's Marketplace and shop for organic and gluten-free products.
An expanded toddler area has been transformed into a miniature organic farm including a scarecrow, vegetable garden, and pretend tractor. Little ones can pick, count, sort, and weigh veggies as they learn how fruits and vegetables go from ground to market. They can also gather eggs at the chicken coop, crawl through a raised hoop house (used for growing vegetables and extending the growing season), and sit under the apple tree.
Little shoppers can still cruise the aisles with child-sized shopping carts; work at deli, meat, seafood, and bakery departments; make brick-oven pizzas; and scan bar-coded products at working check-out counters. They can also produce their own commercials and cooking shows in the WKID station.
"My boys love visiting The Strong to 'shop' at Wegmans Super Kids Market, and I love that they are learning and having fun at the same time," says Nicole Wegman, senior vice president of perishable merchandising at Wegmans. "It's so important to help our children understand where food comes from and how to eat healthy. We are thrilled to be part of this wonderful exhibit."
With generous support from Wegmans, the original Super Kids Market opened at the National Museum of Play 15 years ago on May 15, 1997. Since then, it has grown from 2,200 square feet to 3,000 square feet and to six working check-out registers from the original three.
The newly renovated Wegmans Super Kids Market is further supported by vendor sponsors that include LiDestri Foods, Inc.; Barilla America, Inc.; Zweigle's, Inc.; General Mills; and GoGo squeeZ |Materne North America, whose products are on the shelves of the refreshed market.


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EXETER 'Äď When a Verizon substation failed during Tropical Storm Irene, Exeter'Äôs carefully-devised plan for dealing with natural disasters went out the window.
'ÄúThere was failure of the infrastructure,'ÄĚ acknowledges Stefan Coutoulakis, the town'Äôs emergency management director, who found himself with no emergency phone lines.
The system 'Äúis only good as long as we have power. We got overwhelmed; we recovered.'ÄĚ
Essential in the recuperation was help from West Greenwich which shared its facilities, allowing him to dispatch fire, rescue and public works crews.
As a result of the storm, Coutoulakis began thinking of regionalized communication.
'ÄúThere are 6,000 people in Exeter and I pitched the idea of adding West Greenwich which has 5,074,'ÄĚ he explains. His $25,000 grant fund includes $4,500 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
'ÄúFEMA loves the regional concept. They want to see cooperation.'ÄĚ
A new notification service for Exeter and West Greenwich is a major component of the revamped Emergency Operations Plan, expected to be on the Feb. 6 Exeter Town Council agenda. It is the first update since 2004; Coutoulakis has been working on it for 18 months.
The 2012 plan was written under guidelines of the state Emergency Management Agency and federal Homeland Security.
'ÄúIt'Äôs a blueprint'ÄĚ for setting the wheels in motion to combat a plethora of potential problems including hurricane, blizzard, flood, wildfire, earthquake, hazardous material spill and even acts of terrorism.
While many of the details are by necessity confidential, the basic plan is 20 pages long; much of the complete document will be public record.
Coutoulakis, a retired fire captain who, besides his work for the town, consults, teaches and trains specialty responders across the country, is enthusiastic about the progress being made locally.
Grant money is already in place to implement the modern communications service and the project has gone to bid.
'ÄúI can send out [alerts] to specific areas or town-wide by making a single call,'ÄĚ says Coutoulakis.
The one-touch emergency notification system will have an established database with room for 99 different groups. One group will include all Exeter residents; a second comprises the fire companies; and a third is the town government.
'ÄúWe set up the groups and the company sets up the system.'ÄĚ
As a result of the prolonged power outage in Exeter during Irene, Coutoulakis created a website with every address in town 'Äď including special details about each location that would help emergency crews.
A series of computerized maps allows him to immediately pinpoint where an incident is occurring and send aid.
His phone lists and online maps have already saved several thousand dollars in start-up fees. Coutoulakis expects to recommend a contract for $12,000 over four years.
'ÄúIt can be up and running in a week'ÄĚ with unlimited local calling.
The revised preparedness plan also identifies the locations of Exeter's handful of sites using hazardous materials including Verizon, Amtrak and a liquefied natural gas facility.
Another major issue was amending the emergency evacuation plan.
Initially, when people begin fleeing inland, Coutoulakis notes, 'ÄúEverybody is going through Exeter. Nobody said 'ÄėCould we come through there?'Äô If all this traffic is coming down Route 102, it'Äôs passing the fire stations [and impeding the ability of trucks and rescue vehicles to get out.] We had to reroute the traffic around that to the west 'Äď Connecticut 'Äď or north on Route 95.'ÄĚ
The plan's goal, he says, is to have residents and emergency teams working in concert.
'ÄúDuring an emergency, time freezes.'ÄĚ
Martha Smith is an award-winning journalist and author. Retired, she is an independent contractor for SRIN and can be reached at email@example.com.


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Bath boy, 9, devastated by the theft of toy boat from Royal Victoria Park pond
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A nine-year-old boy has been left devastated after thieves stole his toy boat.
William Kendall, from Bear Flat, was given the remote control blue boat for his fifth birthday, and enjoyed sailing it on the pond at Royal Victoria Park.
On Monday, February 11, at about 5.30pm the batter ies failed while it was in the middle of the pond, and after numerous attempts to retrieve it the family decided to leave it and come back the next day when it was light. When they returned the next day it was gone, leaving William, a pupil at Widcombe Junior School, devastated.
Mum Lisa said: "William is devastated and can't believe that someone would steal his boat.
"He loved that boat, has had it for years and played with it a lot.
"I hope that whoever has taken it will return it to him when they see how much it means to him."


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It was a productive Monday night for two of Houston's baseball teams.
The Astros beat the Angels 2-1 to complete a 4 game sweep and extend their winning streak to 6 games. Chris Carter belted his 12th homer of the season. The Astros will return home to host Baltimore on Tuesday. It's the Astros first 6 game road win streak since July of 2005.
Meanwhile in Eugene, Oregon the Rice Owls beat the host team Oregon 11-4 to claim the Regional title and advance to the Super Regional where they will face N.C. State.


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Nandi (nahn-dee) Campbell said that her investigation shows the woman in the complaint followed Sharper willingly throughout the evening. And, Campbell stressed that the ex-Saints safety has not been charged in the New Orleans complaint.
Asked for information on the Sharper investigation, New Orleans police Friday released a brief report.
It said the unidentified woman said she was assaulted by a man who took her to his apartment the night of Sept. 23 after she consumed a large amount of alcohol. The report does not name Sharper, but Campbell confirmed that he is the man in the report.
Campbell noted that the complaint said the woman had said she consumed a large amount of alcohol. Campbell said in an interview that her own investigation turned up witnesses who saw the woman that evening.
"There were numerous witnesses who observed the complainant on her own and also observed her after encountering Sharper," Campbell said in a statement. "Certain witnesses observed Sharper mingling with various patrons and observed the complainant follow him willingly throughout the evening."
Police say the investigation remains open. The New Orleans complaint came to light last week after Sharper was arrested in Los Angeles on a suspicion of rape charge that is not related to the Louisiana case.
Sharper, 38, played in the NFL from 1997-2010, mostly with the Packers. He retired after the 2010 season. He was selected All-Pro six times and chosen for the Pro Bowl five times. He played in two Super Bowls, one with the Packers as a rookie and a second with the Saints.


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Every day is Grandparents Day at Par Excellence Academy for the four senior citizens who volunteer as foster grandparents for the school.
The seniors spend time in the classroom each day helping the teachers and interacting with students.
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Sewage & Water Plants: The greatest losses to Lyons are its water treatment plant and the sewage treatment plant.
There is no water pressure and if there was you wouldn't want to drink it. The plant east of Lyons on Rt. 66 has been breached. There is no estimate for its repair at this writing.
The sewage treatment plant is full of water. The effluent has escaped into the St. Vrain Creek. The people of Lyons offer a heartfelt apology to Longmont, Sterling, Julesberg, Lincoln, Omaha, St. Louis, Memphis, Baton Rouge, New Orleans and the wildlife in the Gulf Of Mexico.
Stay out of the river. Towns up stream from Lyons have the same problems. A small scratch can become infected easily. Light skin breaks can be treated with soap/water and antiboitic such as neosporin. Catch them early before a more serious infection can develop. See the doctors at the evacuation centers if in doubt.
Flushing in Lyons will dump waste into the creek. Officials recommend using the portolets for solid wastes and an up hill tree/bush for liquid wastes.
Planet Bluegrass: The festival grounds are underwater. One can see the band shell, pavilion and office buildings from the cliffs on North 5th Ave. but their integrity is unknown now. Its likely the festival grounds are as torn up and littered with rubish as every other patch of grass or meadow in down.
Town Of Lyons Public Works: It is located on south 2nd street. Its foundation has been stripped away. One end of the building are dangling and twisted. The other is still square.
St. Vrain Market endured a torrent of water up to the door knobs. The floor and patio have a layer of mud. Staff was clearing it away today.
Town Hall was flooded. Being built of redstone, the building held together. The interior damage is unknown.
A small home at the intersection of Red Gulch and Rt. 7 has had half of its baseboard area cut out. The remains hangs in the air. The ground under that section of the house is washed away too.
We haven't been able to check on the trailer park across from the old swimming hole. But there can't be much to check on. It is located just above the narrowing of the canyon prior to Meadow Park. We'd love to hear otherwise but we believe it may have received the harshest treatment of any area in Lyons.