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The Vienna Fire Department responded Sunday morning to reports of a semi-truck trailer on fire along the east-bound entrance ramp of I-24, near Rt. 146.
The department spent approximately 2 1/2 hours containing a blaze that destroyed a 53 foot Mayflower moving trailer and its contents that may have contained up to three military families' entire household items.
Firefighters arrived on the scene at 7:30 a.m. to find nearly half of the trailer fully engulfed in flames.
"The trailer was packed so tight and so full, it was difficult to get in there to contain it," Vienna fire chief Aaron Goldenstein said. "It was hot and it was time consuming."
With temperatures in excess of 100 degrees throughout Southern Illinois Sunday morning, additional Vienna fire volunteers were dispatched to the scene to assist the exhausted original responding crews.
The damaged trailer was later towed by Cagle's Towing and parked in the lot behind the business.
The contents of the trailer later rekindled, as a cool front moved through the area later that afternoon. The fire department was called at 12:51 p.m. to reports of increased smoke raising from the structure.
A portion of the remaining content required removal to be extinguished.
The crews were on that call for close to 1 1/2 hours.
Nearly 25 volunteer firemen assited with the fire throughout the day.
Bill Cagle, owner of Cagle Towing said, "The trailer was packed so full and tight – I was afraid that may happen."
He also said, "I've been told that the trailer was filled with as many as three different families' household belongings."
"I've received calls from three different people saying that [the content of the trailer] belongs to them and they want to go through it to get personal items," he said.
"I'm not going to allow anyone to go through or remove anything until I get paperwork from the moving company or an insurance company," Cagle said.
Cagle indicated that most of the content may belong to military personnel that were being relocated.
The trailer is registered to Johnson United, located in Centenenial, Colorado.
The driver of the semi pulling the trailer, Joseph Degilo of Nebraska, unhooked from the trailer and moved his rig to a safe distance. The semi was not damaged.
A rear break on the trailer is suspected to be the cause of the fire.


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un abrazo a todos
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The folks over at Bitsmith Software were nice enough to include HelpSpot in their list of small business resources, so I figured the least I could do is post a link to their Personal Knowbase software. Personal Knowbase is basically a knowledge base for yourself. Keep track of notes, messages, files, etc all searchable. I haven't used it (it's Windows only) but it does look interesting.
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An artist who specializes in fine art paintings and decorative art. My art is my passion and i live to create.
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When I was growing up, a common warning from my mother as we neared suppertime, and she saw me or my siblings snacking was to stop, so that we didn't "ruin our appetites." It was a fair warning, because we tended to want to gorge on things that held little nutritional value, and leave us with little or no desire for the dishes she would prepare and most certainly did. I see a great parallel to this in our spiritual lives today. We seem to be gorging ourselves on the junk food of this world, filling our lives and souls with "food" that has no eternal value, yet leaves us with no appetite or desire for those things that do. I once read of a case study of severely overweight people who were literally starving to death because their system was not receiving the basic nutrition it was designed by Him to have. How overweight are we today with the "food" that does not last, while starving to death for that which does?
Isaiah 44:3 reads, "For I will give you abundant water to quench your thirst and to moisten your parched fields." As I once saw it put, before one can be filled with the water of His life, he must first realize how dry and thirsty he truly is. The "soda pop" of this world which we've been guzzling, masks our true thirst, leaving us craving more of a drink that doesn't quench our thirst, but enhances it. The Lord said that He would "pour water on him who is thirsty," but life most often seems to find us congregating at the local soda pop machine instead of the living stream of His water. This is true of an individual, a household, a ministry, and a church. Do we know how truly parched we are, and if so, are we running to our favorite soda pop dispenser, or to Him who is the Source of all Living Water?
Decades ago, pioneer singer Keith Green, in his wonderful song, "Asleep In The Light," asked this question of the church; "How can you be so dead when you've been so well fed?" Could it be ruined appetites? We may faithfully attend to our daily devotions, our weekly home groups and worship gatherings. His Word may be shared, placed before us, but it's not received, taken in, made a part of us. It can't be, because like my siblings and I, we've already filled up on all the junk food that's all around us. The prepared dinner, no matter how sumptuous, goes uneaten. We've been to His table, but we've partaken of nothing. Asleep in the light, starving to death in the midst of plenty. What will this day, week, life, hold for you and I? Another visit to the pop machine and candy bar dispenser, or to feast at His table, to drink deeply of His water? Both options are before us. Where will we be found?
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The San Francisco hospital where a patient disappeared last year, only to be found dead 17 days later in a exterior stairwell, should share in the blame with the sheriff's department for "systemic" failures that led to the death, according to new report.
By the time her body was discovered Oct. 8 during a routine quarterly maintenance check of the stairwell, Spalding Ford's body had suffered "moderate decomposition," according to a medical examiner's report, which listed her cause of death as dehydration and complications from alcoholism.
The disturbing case led to changes in the way the San Francisco Sheriff's Department patrols the sprawling 24-acre public facility and spurred numerous internal and external investigations of hospital practices.
In the latest report obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle, state health inspectors working on behalf of the federal agency that decides whether hospitals are meeting standards for receiving Medicare payments found that a breakdown in planning and nursing care created the potential for a "chaotic and poorly coordinated" response that led to Spalding Ford's death.
The report for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was based on interviews with dozens of hospital staff members and San Francisco County sheriff's deputies, which provide security at the facility.
In addition to the botched search effort, the report found that nurses failed two days before she vanished to heed written orders to "NEVER leave patient unattended."
The medical examiner's report released in December did not pinpoint when Spalding Ford died -- something her surviving family members have been calling on officials to determine. Family spokesman David Perry told The Times that if Spalding Ford died "anything more than an hour or two after she went missing on that stairwell," the cause of death is "neglect and malfeasance" on the part of the hospital and sheriff's department.
Hospital and sheriff's officials have said they have taken steps to prevent similar incidents. In a statement to the Chronicle, the hospital sought to assure Spalding Ford's family "and all our patients, visitors and staff, that we are a safer organization today."
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Retraction Note: Historical facts of screening and diagnosing diabetes in pregnancy
- Carlos Antonio Negrato1Email author and
- Marilia Brito Gomes2
© Negrato and Brito Gomes; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014
- Received: 20 May 2014
- Accepted: 20 May 2014
- Published: 27 May 2014
The original article was published in Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome 2013 5:22
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"There's only about 30 plots in every movie, book or TV show in the world and all these plots are found in the Bible"- Peter S. Ruckman
It is common , for a variety of reasons, to find recurrent themes in literature that also echo great themes of the Bible. The simple fact is that the world steals these themes, and twists them a bit to get a good story. When it comes time to create a hero, it's impossible to write a great and noble hero without borrowing the attributes of the greatest Hero of them all, the Lord Jesus Christ. Everything that is praiseworthy resides in Him, and if your hero is going to have any redeeming qualities at all, he is going to have to have some qualities in common with the Redeemer Himself. But these attributes manifest themselves rather explicitly in a fictional character who burst on the scene in 1938 and almost single-handedly defined the superhero archetype. I speak of course of the Last Son of Krypton, Kal-El, also known as Superman. I will go on record and say that I know of no other fictional character with so many blatant commonalities with Jesus Christ., and that these commonalities are most obvious in the two movies, Superman and Superman II. These films, both starring Christopher Reeve in the title role, were originally conceived as one movie, and taken as one movie show an amazing (though imperfect and somewhat out of sequence) typology of the past, present and future work of Jesus Christ.
Skeptical? You should be. But let's examine the evidence, shall we?
1. The Trial of Zod
The movie begins on Krypton, the doomed planet of Superman's birth. We the audience are witness to the closing arguments on a trial of Krypton's three greatest criminals. From expository dialogue we know that the leader of this trio is Zod, once a great Kryptonian general whose lust for power led him to try to overthrow the Kryptonian government. Here he stands, in judgment of his failed plot, on the verge of being banished. Jor-el the great scientist , appropriately clad in the black robes of judgment, casts the final vote to imprison the trio into outer darkness. Jor -el describes Zod after this fashion:
"Finally, General Zod. Once trusted by this Council, charged with maintaining the defense of the planet Krypton itself. Chief architect of this intended revolution and author of this insidious plot to establish a new order amongst us. With himself as absolute ruler."
Zod had Luciferian ambitions, and suffered the same fate. General Zod is the devil in this story, and as the devil he fulfills the role perhaps even better than the writers intended. Listen to his final words before the imprisonment engulfs him, and consider the words of the devil in Matthew 4; "All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me."
We'll address his two companions in a few moments.
2. Krypton Itself and the El family
Jor-El is a benevolent father; the wisest among a population full of radiant beings, and if Zod is the devil, then Jor-El neatly fits the role of God the Father, with Kal-El's mother inhabiting a rather sketchy role as the Holy Spirit.
As an aside, in the later Superman movie "The Man of Steel" , Kal-El is described as being the only naturally occurring baby on Krypton in centuries, which would technically make him the 'only begotten' of his Father. I promised myself I would stick to these two movies, but that's just too good to pass up.
And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal.." ( Rev 4). The habitation of God is described in Rev 21 as thus "And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof." Krypton, like Heaven, is a place of crystal and light inhabited by at least one family whose last name (El) is one of the Hebrew words for God.
With the imminent destruction of the planet on its way , Jor-el and Laura opt to send their baby to Earth, making him the Last Son of Krypton, as compared to "the last Adam". In this particular telling of the story, they build not a rocket ship, as in earlier incarnations, but a pod comprised of the crystal technology common to Krypton. The pod, when completed, resembles a star. This is especially interesting when you consider that Jesus Christ refers to himself as "the bright and morning star" in Rev. 22:16.
Just before launching their infant son into the void of space, Jor-el makes a speech.
Listen carefully to his speech and then consider the following statements by Jesus Christ.:
- "He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me." Matthew 10:40
- "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." John 5:30
- "..As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father..." John 6:57
- "..he that hath seen me hath seen the Father.." John 14:9
- "...the Father is in me, and I in him." John 10:38
- "I and my Father are one." John 10:30
3. Young Clark Kent
The Kryptonian pod makes its way to earth, where its tiny occupant is found by Jonathan and Martha Kent. A simple etymological search reveals that 'Martha ' is a variation on the name 'Mary', which is interesting in itself. From the very beginning the young Kal-El,(reminiscent of "Emmanuel") hereafter called 'Clark' exhibits a wild variety of unusual abilities including having "eyes as a flaming fire".
He hides those abilities though, as you can see in this scene.
As a matter of fact, Clark's self-imposed humility and obscurity reminds me of another Man who the Bible says "made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:" After the death of Jonathan Kent (mirroring that absence of Joseph in the later life of Jesus), Clark makes his way to Metropolis where he gets a job at the daily Planet,and also soon thereafter, makes his first public appearance as Superman.
|She also gives him the name 'Superman', by the way
At one point in the movie, after Lois Lane scores her interview with Superman , Lex Luthor quotes the article and says that the planet Krypton exploded in 1948. The movie takes place in 1978 which means that Superman is 30 years old when he makes his public appearance!
For the purposes of this post, we're going to ignore the whole 'flying backwards around the world to turn back time ' silliness, although it's worth mentioning that, among the Jesus-like attributes that Superman exhibits in that encounter is, technically, the ability raise the dead.
|Lois Lane- dead for now
4. Meanwhile in the Phantom Zone
|The Phantom Zone doubles as an album cover
At the beginning of Superman II, the Man of Steel has been on the scene for some time. In fact, the movie came out in 1980, which means the case could be made that Superman has been a public figure for almost 3 years at the outset of the movie, making him almost 33. All this time the three greatest criminals of Krypton have been trapped in the Phantom Zone, and are only released when a nuclear explosion in space shatters their prison. Unbeknownst to the Last Son of Krypton, the three of them land on the moon and begin making their way to earth.
When they land on Earth, they discover that they have amazing powers; the same powers any Kryptonian enjoys under the glare of earth's yellow sun. Much like the devil is able to duplicate the miracles of God via "lying signs and wonders", Zod and company are able to do things like walk on water.
|Zod as Jesus
5. Where is Superman?
In the movie, while Zod and his cohorts are taking over the world, Clark Kent has love on his mind; he decides to reveal his identity to Lois and ask the permission of his holographic parents to wed a human. It's very clearly spelled out by his mother that , in order to attain a bride, he must take on normal human flesh with all its frailties and mortality . The parallel with Jesus Christ is clear; Christ came "in the likeness of sinful flesh" and "submitted himself unto death" for His brides sake. Superman even sheds his blood before it's all over.
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Lex Luthor, ever the ambitious quisling, strikes a deal with Zod and reveals key information to the General; the son of his enemy Jor-el is here on earth. Meanwhile , Clark and Lois see how the world has fallen under Zod in his absence and Clark heads back to the Fortress of Solitude in order to try to regain his powers. The movie is really unclear on how exactly he reverses the irreversible , but here's the parallel; the world thinks Superman is dead, and only his bride knows he's still alive and is coming back for her.
Carrying the analogy forward, even Lois begins to despair when suddenly, just when his enemies appear to have the victory, her hero returns, with his powers restored. The battle goes from Metropolis to the Fortress of Solitude where the Man of Steel dispatches his enemies by placing them in "a bottomless pit".
The natural order of things restored, and the bully vanquished, the movie ends with Superman helping rebuild the white House and promising to never let the President down again. Or, as the Bible says it "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."
There, presented for your consideration, from His birth to His death to His resurrection to His eventual victory over His enemies, is the greatest typology of Jesus Christ in secular literature. What do you think?


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2017 has been one of those rare years where it simultaneously feels like time flew by AND like time has slowed to a crawl. The never-ending news cycle continues to shower us with bad news, our countrymen in the south were ravaged by a slew of horrible hurricanes, fires engulfed Northern California, and it feels like every single man we've enjoyed watching on TV or film is being exposed as a sexual predator.
It's been a mess and I resonate with the desire to get 2017 in the rearview as quickly as possible, but if you're asking me—which you're not—it's still too early to give up on 2017 as a whole. There's too much time left.
Think of this post as kind of a reverse New Year's Resolution post. I'm not here to tell you that you shouldn't make resolutions, or that you should make resolutions that are more attainable. I want to tell you that just because 2017 has been hard, and just because December has officially sneaked up on us, doesn't mean it's time to write off the year.
One of the things I find really interesting about the goals we set for ourselves is that when we don't see immediate success, or realize things tend to be difficult, we give up. We rationalize with ourselves that it wasn't the right time or that we never really wanted to do it in the first place. Why? Why do we consistently sell ourselves short when it comes to accomplishing our goals?
We have a full month left in 2017 and even if we have yet to take steps toward accomplishing our goals, we still have time. The opportunity hasn't passed us by. If there is still something you want to accomplish, or an end you want to start working towards, make it happen. Get out there and make the most of your year.
Being able to see the finish line and actually crossing the finish line are two very different things. When it comes to a race, seeing the finish line is a motivator. It pushes us to work harder. But for whatever reason, seeing the finish line at the end of a year does the opposite. It causes us to give up, to say, "What's the point?".
The new year is a fascinating phenomenon. No matter how good or bad the previous year was, we tend to have hope going into January 1. We think to ourselves, "this time will be different. This is going to be the year of [insert name here]!". But we don't do that until we've already given up on the year we just completed. I'm here to tell you that its always too early to give up on a year, regardless of how late it is.
We have a full month of time to play with. Why would we sit back and wait for next year when we can make the last month of this year count? I know it's not easy but giving up this early only serves as a detriment to us. It causes us to effectively lose 1/12th of our year to apathy. If we do this every year we end up losing YEARS of time that we could have spent bettering ourselves, experiencing new things.
There is still time left in 2017. Get out there and take advantage of it.
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Friday, August 13, 2010
Chicken with a savory Gravy~Pollo Guisado
"The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation -- Pearl Bailey, 'Pearl's Kitchen"
Since our return from living in Mexico I have craved certain Mexican dishes which are not as easily found in restaurants here in the states. Some meals are just good homemade versions of things which are probably comfort foods in any culture. Any one dish meal that a cook puts their heart & special touch to has bound to be well recieved. Pollo Guisado is just that type of meal. A Mexican comfort food. Like your Grandmother's steak & gravy or Chicken & dumplings, Pollo Guisado translates to Chicken in Gravy. Simple & hearty this poultry dish is easy and hits home with the depth of flavors as well as being an all in one pot meal. Browned chicken, an easy roux and veggies are all that are needed for this Guisado.
This summer I have had a bounty of tomatoes & peppers from the garden which are an essential part of this dish. Moreover making this meal gave me reason to travel to a favorite grocery store to pick up a few extras for this dish.
On a recent trip to our local Fiesta Mart grocery store my daughter Bytes from Texas & I found Yoki Cheese bread mix (Pan de Queso) a typical Brazilian preparation for a very tasty cheese bread. There are certainly recipes I could try to locate for this bread but we had very much enjoyed the unique warm bits of bread during an evening we spent at Fogo de Chão. Upon finding the boxes of Yoki mix we added them to our shopping cart without another thought. Any foodie knows that a trip to an ethnic grocery store can yield astonishing surprises. Keep an open mind & don't miss a single aisle. We have been shopping Fiesta Mart for more years than I can count & I am always amazed by some new product I've never seen before. We will continue to scour the local stores & shops keeping up with current trends & flavors. Some of those adventures will bring us here to the New Blog, Bytes from Texas & I have started. Enjoy the last days of summer & buen provecho~
Simple ingredients can scent the kitchen with flavors that satisfy & soothe.
Pollo Guisado
4 Tbsp Oil
2 lbs fryer parts, or Chicken thighs (your choice)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1 cup diced yellow onion
1 large seeded, sliced red or yellow bell pepper
1/2 cup diced fresh tomatoes
1 clove garlic, minced
4 Tbsp flour
1 tsp ground cumino
1 tsp fresh or dried thyme leaves
2 cups chicken broth
1 cup tomato sauce*el Pato brand with chilis is preferred,
(found in Latin American grocery stores)
Sprinkle chicken parts with salt & pepper tossing so the seasonings are coating the chicken. Saute the chicken parts in oil in a deep Dutch oven over medium heat. Brown chicken for approx 15 min turning so that the pieces are evenly browned. Set the browned chicken pieces on a plate & scrape up bits which may be at the bottom of the Dutch oven. Those bits are just an additional flavoring to the roux which you make next.
Saute the garlic in the oil, browning slightly before adding in the 4 Tbsp flour & then brown oil, flour mixture till it attains a "tawny brown" color. Add the onion, peppers & fresh tomatoes. Stir continually so this mixture does not burn, scrap any pieces which stick to the bottom of the Dutch oven, cook 2-3 min.
Add in slowly 2 cups of chicken broth, mixing continually, to this add the tomato sauce, cumin & thyme. Place the Chicken pieces back into the Guisado/Gravy. Bring all of this to a slow simmer. Cook approx. 30 - 45 minutes. The chicken will be very tender & flavored with the rich gravy once it is ready to serve. If the gravy reduces, add a little more chicken stock. Skim any excess oil off the Guisado-Gravy. (Grease is not gravy) Serve this hot with either tortillas, french bread or cornbread. Enjoy!
*I cooked this dish with Chicken thighs because the moist dark meat tends to have a little more flavor for a Guisado.
Shopping a Latin American or Grocery store can yield many surprises, try something new to give a standard dish a new twist. My daughter & I frequent a large Latin American grocery store here & found easy to prepare Yoki cheese bread mixes such an great "go to" addition for a weeknight meal. (they are gluten free too!) If you cannot find Yoki Cheese bread but would like the mix you might check here.
10 comments:
- Pattie T. said...
This is going to sound weird, but I LOVE that yellow can. It would make a great little outdoor herb planter for the season, bright and colorful. This is why I love shopping at Mexican markets -- as much for the container as for what's inside!
- August 15, 2010 at 12:34 PM
- Dee said...
I completely agree with you. I have saved mine so I can transplant some herbs into them. I adore those bright & colorful graphics.
- August 15, 2010 at 2:10 PM
- My Carolina Kitchen said...
I crave Mexican food from time to time and this chicken dish would certainly fill the bill.
I agree with Patti T - that yellow can is cool. I saved a similar tomato can and use it as a vase for zinnas and black-eyed Susans in the summer.
- August 17, 2010 at 4:27 AM
- Dee said...
Thanks, Sam! I have also saved the smaller cans from this tasty sauce. My daughter thought it would be great to plant some tiny pepper plants in.
- August 17, 2010 at 6:28 AM
- The Blonde Duck said...
I MUST try this.
- August 17, 2010 at 11:10 AM
The sauce sounds super delicious for this chicken!
- August 17, 2010 at 11:29 AM
- Abby said...
Amazingly we have an authentic Mexican restaurant here in town, and the others simply pale in comparison. And if this is Mexican comfort food I'm all for it!
- August 17, 2010 at 7:10 PM
- Foodessa said...
Hello Dee...although, I am not that familiar with your type of menu...I get the feeling I'll learn lots with you through your experience.
BTW...thanks for introducing yourself to my culinary journey...and when you have time...check out my response on your roasted garlic question ;o)
Ciao for now and flavourful wishes,
- August 18, 2010 at 2:39 PM
- Hornsfan said...
Comfort food, regardless of its origins is still the perfect answer to a tough day, now if I could only get some of the leftovers at my house :)
- August 24, 2010 at 4:06 AM
- Marta Benicá said...
Olá vim conhecer seu blog e gostei muito, vou te seguir. venha me conhecer também, será muito bem vinda. Uma boa semana pra vc.
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Football Killing Fields
Outrage and disbelief as world soccer body condemns Israel, not Hamas.
By Tom Gross
Israel is used to being singled out for unjust criticism and subjected to startling double standards by the United Nations, the European Union, much of the Western media and numerous academic bodies. But now FIFA — the supposedly nonpolitical organization that governs the world's most popular sport, soccer — is getting in on the act as well.
FIFA has condemned Israel for an air strike on an empty soccer field in the Gaza Strip that was used for training exercises by Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. This strike did not cause any injuries. But at the same time FIFA has refused to condemn a Palestinian rocket attack on an Israeli soccer field last week which did cause injuries.
When Saddam Hussein's son Uday had Iraqi soccer players tortured in 1997 after they failed to qualify for the 1998 FIFA World Cup Finals in France, FIFA remained silent. Uday, who was chairman of the Iraqi soccer association, had star players tortured again in 1998. And in 2000, following a quarterfinal defeat in the Asia Cup, three Iraqi players were whipped and beaten for three days by Uday's bodyguards. The torture took place at the Iraqi Olympic Committee headquarters, but FIFA said nothing.
FIFA equally failed to speak out when soccer stadiums in Argentina were turned into jails.
Nor did the organization threaten Russia with sanctions after Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov was murdered by a bomb explosion at Grozny's Dynamo stadium.
As for the Middle East, FIFA refused to criticize the decision to name a Palestinian soccer tournament after a suicide terrorist who murdered 31 people at a Passover celebration at the Park Hotel in Netanya in 2002. (At the tournament, organized under Yasser Arafat's auspices in 2003, the brother of the suicide bomber was given the honorary role of distributing the trophies to the winning team.)
FIFA also failed to condemn the suicide bomb at the Maxim restaurant in Haifa in October 2003 which injured three officials from the leading Israeli soccer team Maccabi Haifa.
But then last week, FIFA finally found a target worthy of its outrage, and leapt into action. That target was Israel.
The international governing body for soccer condemned the Jewish state, and announced that it was considering possible action over the Israeli air strike last week on the Gaza soccer field that had been used for terrorist training exercises. The field, which had also reportedly served as a missile launching pad, was empty at the time; the strike itself came in response to the continuing barrage of Qassam rocket attacks directed at Israeli towns and villages.
Only a couple of days earlier, one of those Qassam rockets landed on a soccer field at the Karmiya kibbutz in southern Israel, causing light injuries to one person. Several other Israeli children and adults needed to be treated for shock. The attack was claimed by the Al-Quds brigades, an armed wing of Islamic Jihad. The soccer pitch is regularly used by children and it was only a matter of luck that there were not greater injuries. (Since Israel's withdrawal from Gaza last year, several members of the kibbutz, including a ten-month-old baby, have been wounded after their homes took direct hits from Qassams. Israelis elsewhere have died after being hit by these weapons.)
In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, Jerome Champagne, FIFA's deputy general secretary, who had personally condemned the attack on the Palestinian soccer pitch, refused to extend a similar condemnation to the attack on the Israeli pitch.
Champagne said he had discussed the matter with FIFA president Sepp Blatter and that a decision on what action to take against Israel would be announced soon. Champagne, a French national, also sent an official letter to the Israeli ambassador to Switzerland. (FIFA is based in Zurich.)
A FIFA condemnation of Israel is no small matter. The incredible passions that soccer arouses in most countries around the globe seem to have few boundaries. For example, it was said that the only time the guns fell silent during the Lebanese civil war was during the 1982 World Cup matches.
Individual Israelis, outraged by FIFA's blatantly one-sided decision, have been sending e-mails to FIFA asking why "they care more about the grass on an empty soccer pitch than the human lives saved by strikes on the Qassam launching pads."
They have also asked where FIFA is when anti-Semitic banners go up in European soccer stadiums, and there are chants from spectators about sending Jews to the gas? And where, they wonder, are the FIFA sanctions against the Arab or Asian countries that refuse to allow Israel to compete in Asia?
Other questions have been raised, too — why, for instance, FIFA has moved games from Israel because guest teams were afraid to come to Israel, but has never banned any other national teams from playing home games on account of local Islamic violence. Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey were allowed to continue playing matches at home.
In response to some of this criticism Champagne — perhaps unaware of the phenomena of some radical Jews being at the forefront of whipping up hate against the Jewish state — wrote to the Jerusalem Post saying he couldn't possibly be biased against Israel because his wife was Jewish.
In its widely circulated report on the FIFA condemnation of Israel, the Associated Press also failed to mention the Qassam rocket attack on the Israeli soccer pitch. As a result, and not for the first time, AP gave its readers around the globe an unbalanced impression of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The popularity of soccer ensured AP's story was used by dozens of news outlets — among others, Al-Jazeera, CBC News of Canada, and the Los Angeles Times. Only the Israeli press mentioned the Qassam attack on the kibbutz Karmiya soccer pitch, an attack which the Islamic Jihad website admits to carrying out.
The outrage felt in soccer-mad Israel at these astonishing double standards is all the greater since FIFA president Sepp Blatter has made it clear that FIFA should not become involved in politics. Following calls last December from German politicians that Iran should be banned from participating in the forthcoming World Cup (which starts in Germany on June 9, 2006) because of repeated Holocaust denial by the Iranian president, Blatter said "We're not going to enter into any political declarations. We in football, if we entered into such discussions, then it would be against our statutes. We are not in politics."
Indeed so emboldened does Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad now feel by FIFA's support that he announced last week that he will likely attend Iran's opening match against Mexico in Nuremberg on June 11. Holocaust denial is a serious crime punishable by a prison term of up to five years in Germany, but Ahmadinejad no doubt feels that powerful international bodies like FIFA will protect him.
Meanwhile FIFA (and other sporting bodies) continually turn a blind eye to boycotts of Israeli sportsmen.
In February, Tal Ben Haim — the Israeli national soccer team captain, who plays his club soccer for the English Premiership team Bolton Wanderers — was banned from joining his Bolton teammates for their training matches in Dubai. FIFA pointedly ignored this. So did Bolton despite the fact that the team claims to be among the leaders of the campaign to "Kick racism out of football" in the U.K.
Only last week, another English club, West Ham, left their two Israeli players, Yossi Benayoun and Yaniv Katan, at home when they went to Dubai. FIFA naturally had nothing to say.
Whilst Israel is often slandered as an "apartheid state," (despite having several Arabs playing in its national team), Dubai has received no criticism for what appears to be a clear "apartheid" policy.
Indeed, were Israel allowed to compete against other Asian teams for a World Cup berth, rather than against the likes of England and France, the relatively strong Israeli team would most probably have been able to qualify for this year's World Cup.
Not all is rotten in world soccer. Some individuals still seem to know right from wrong. Last week, Ronaldinho, the Brazilian superstar widely regarded as the best current player in the world, donated signed footballs and shirts to Israeli child suicide bomb survivors, saying he hoped his gifts would "warm the hearts of the children who have suffered so much."
But FIFA, meanwhile, apparently thinks it is acceptable for Palestinian terror groups to continue targeting such Israeli children, firing missiles from the Gaza Strip, even though Israel has left the area.
The great Ronaldinho is pretty lonely with his opinion that Jews suffer too, eh? I have seen so much action for the collaterally damaged Palestinian Arab children who wouldn't have been damaged at all hadn't they been abused as "human shields" and publicity-stunt-plus-cannonfodder by those who are supposed to look after them and so very little for the deliberately targeted Israeli children...
However, the best (or rather the worst) is yet to come: Jerome Champagne, the man of whom I still have to see a picture in which he does NOT look like somebody who had a bit too much of his own surname, lets us know that he can't be an antisemite because he has a Jewish wife! Oh my oh my... That would be SO funny if it weren't so sad! I'm really glad he has spared us the many Jewish friends he undoubtedly has.
And by the way: greetings to all the non-existing married misogynists all over the world!
But back to Monsieur Bubbly Booze, a man who clearly knows where the main focus in world politics should be:
Fifa's deputy general secretary Jerome Champagne told the BBC that most countries in the region are now stable after years of leadership problems.Goodness we ARE relieved! That was exactly what those countries needed. And we can safely assume, too, that Rwanda and Sudan are Jew-free zones where per ordre de FIFA everything should be fine and dandy and that Monsieur Bubbly Booze is a really non-political man, as a functionary of an international sports organisation ought to be.
Rwanda and Sudan are the only countries in the region that have enjoyed relative calm within their football associations over the last years, while other countries have been embroiled in leadership crisis.
"It has been chaotic in almost all federations over the past few years, but today we have new leaderships in a lot of federations in this zone," Champagne said.
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On the surface, US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin's morning routines don't have much in common.
Trump gets by on barely any shut eye and often kicks off the day with a pre- dawn tweet storm. Putin likes to sleep in and usually doesn't tackle work till the afternoon.
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Business Insider's Sonam Sheth reported that the Trump is sent a daily compilation of "positive headlines, tweets, interviews, and sometimes photographs of him on TV 'looking powerful.'" According to VICE News, the folder is put together every morning in the Republican National Committee's "war room."
The report is usually delivered at 9:30 a.m., though the departure of former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former Press Secretary Sean Spicer has thrown off that schedule lately.
It's typical for presidential administrations to keep an eye on the media, as VICE reported, but a folder specifically dedicated to favorable coverage is a new concept. President Barack Obama's senior adviser David Axelrod told VICE that Obama would have "roared with laughter" if he'd received such a report.
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We've already written about both magazine and book publishers for the content-producing masses, but now a wiki-like site aims to leverage the wisdom of the crowds to create, rate and elevate into publication the best community-sourced content. Founded last year, Maryland-based WEbook.com is a free online publishing platform that allows writers, editors, reviewers, illustrators and others to join forces to create great works of fiction and non-fiction, thrillers and essays, short stories, children's books and more. Using a proprietary platform designed specifically for group authoring, users of the site can launch a new book or add a sentence, review or grammatical correction to a work already in progress—virtually anything they're inspired to do toward the creation of a new book. New works can be made private or public, or shared with a group of the user's choice. WEbook keeps all of a user's projects, submissions, reviews, groups and friends collected and updated on their personal WEbook profile and homepage, and a live feed sends an update whenever a project has a new submission or a contribution gets new feedback. Live forum and research tools, meanwhile, are available to foster interaction with other writers, contributors and readers. Once a book's authors deem their work ready for public opinion, they can submit it for a voting cycle to determine if it's worthy of publishing. Users across the site cast their votes, and the WEbook team chooses from among those with the most support which will be published under the WEbook imprint as books, eBooks and audiobooks. (WEbook may first employ a copy editor, typesetter and other professional to ensure the final product is top-quality.) Publication costs nothing for authors and major contributors, but they receive 50 percent of all profits generated from the sale of WEbook titles, which get distributed at WEbook.com, Amazon.com and select booksellers. WEbook published its first book—a thriller titled Pandora—in February, with plans to publish another 3 to 5 books this year, including Xanthippe, a literary tale about Socrates' wife; a children's book titled Ten Things You Absolutely Should Not do with a Baby; and a range of anthologies on provocative topics. Beginning July 4, the WEbook community will begin selecting the lead candidates for the next publication cycle. In the traditional publishing industry, the odds of an unknown talent securing a publishing deal are 15,000 to 1, WEbook says. With its wiki-like platform, on the other hand, the site hopes to do for books what American Idol did for music and what Wikipedia did for information. While some types of writing are likely better off with a single voice (fiction, for example—see A Million Penguins for more on that), others will benefit from a chorus of insights and opinions. One to watch and learn from!
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This collection includes 33 peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE and participating societies, encompassing over 43,000 articles. Access to content from January 1999 to the present is included in a collection subscription.
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18ct white gold and yellow gold drop-earrings. Brilliant-cut diamonds with rubover settings and sapphires with yellow gold rubover settings.
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A pair of sapphire and diamond drop earrings, each earring with an oval sapphire, estimated to weigh a total of 3 carats for the pair, to a diamond set mount suspended from a line of tapered baguette and brilliant cut diamonds, the diamonds are estimated to weigh a total of 0.9 carats, all in platinum.
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Anglican Missions[1] is launching an Emergency Appeal in support of the victims of Tropical Cyclone Donna.
Donna, a category 5 cyclone, battered Northern Vanuatu last weekend with wind-gusts nearing 300kmh.
While Donna is now weakening and moving away from the country to the south-east, early reports from Vanuatu speak of trashed infrastructure, damaged buildings and destroyed crops and food gardens in a country which is still recovering from Tropical Cyclone Pam in 2015.
Government officials, the Vanuatu Red Cross, churches and other agencies are starting to assess the extent of damage done by Donna.
They will report and collate their information over the next few days, although getting a full picture from the worst-affected areas will be slow because continuing poor weather is preventing boats and planes reaching some outlying remote islands.
This damage and needs assessment will form the basis of a coordinated response – though past experience of South Pacific cyclones suggest people will quickly need clean drinking water, safe shelter and food.
On Monday evening (May 8), the Government of Vanuatu estimated that 1,200 people were sheltering in evacuation centres in Torba Province and 1,000 in Sanma Province, both in Northern Vanuatu.
Anglican Missions Board CEO Robert Kereopa has contacted the General Secretary of the Church of Melanesia, Dr Abraham Haurisasi, and is in touch with Bishop Patteson Worek, of the Diocese of Banks Torres, Vanuatu and Bishop James Ligo, Port Villa, Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
The AMB will provide updates on its website as information comes to hand.
Robert Kereopa says prayers for the people of the Diocese of Vanuatu and New Caledonia "are very much appreciated. And if you or your parish would like to donate to this Appeal, please refer to our website.
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As its BalconyTVs 10th anniversary, I thought it would be interesting to interview some of the first artists that performed on the show and find out what has happened to them in the time since.
Colm Lynch performed in August 2006. Here is our catch up....
Stephen - Colm, you were one of the first artists to perform on BalconyTV. What, if anything do you remember about the performance?
Colm - I remember the novelty of the whole thing. This was before YouTube "content" was the all important thing, so I didn't really think much else about it at the time. Just turn up and knock out a tune!
Stephen - What was the song about?
Colm - "Bleed is dry" is about suffocating in one's surroundings, and wondering what the rest of the wide world has to offer. A "grass is greener" concept and a yearning to leave familiarity behind.
Stephen - How long had you been playing before that point?
Colm - All my life! But professionally, maybe 3 or 4 years
Stephen - What were your ambitions then, compared to what they are now?
Colm - I wanted to be a well known artist then. Where as now, I just want to be an artist. Possibly because the former seems so out of reach, but probably because the latter is the ONLY important thing!
Stephen - Are you still performing now?
Colm - Yes I perform for a living, 6/7 nights a week (I'm writing this in Cork,where I'll be performing tonight).
Stephen - The internet has completely transformed music in the last 10 years. When we started out, YouTube was just starting and MySpace was the thing. How have you found dealing with the digital revolution?
Colm - It has made me realise the value of art, which is so much more than money! All music is free to stream now. A lot of people think that's a bad thing, but I have to go back to my earlier point... Money should not be the driving factor, rather the art, and level of the artist's output. I mean, I would MUCH rather that somebody streamed my music for free and liked it, than receive money for it, and it never be heard. Obviously both would be nice, but if I had to choose....
Stephen - What do you make of the Irish music scene?
Colm - It's vibrant, so much amazing talent. Unfortunately, there is an apathy towards it within the general public. People seem happy with what they're fed, and nobody seems up for attending shows unless they've heard of the artist. People seem reluctant to even go 100 metres, to watch FREE, great live music. I'm not sure a lot of people know the difference! I know that sounds pompous but here's a scenario: it's quite common to be ignored when playing a few tunes down the local. But if you were doing the same few tunes at a festival, and word was around that you were the "hottest new act around", the same people that would ignore you in the local, would be front row centre at your festival gig. That's just my opinion, garnered over years of observing people. There's an "emperor's new clothes" aspect to the music scene.
Stephen - If you could give the you of 10 years ago advice, 10 years on, what would it be?
Colm - Just concentrate on music, your performance, your writing. Because the rest is utter bollox! The jumping through hoops, the constant badgering for attention... It's pointless. And I wasted so much valuable time over that period, doing pointless shit! But the ten years ago me would hate my guts for that advice. He would say I was a pessimist... But hindsight is clearest!
Stephen - What has been the best thing to happen to you in music and life in the last 10 years?
Colm - Well nothing tops my marriage and the birth of my kids. But professionally, the most rewarding thing, is that I've been able to maintain a decent living doing what I love... Without too much compromise.
Stephen - What is the one song of yours that you are most proud of that people should check out?
Colm - That's like asking someone to pick their favourite child! Check them ALL out :-)
Stephen - Who has been your favorite Irish artist of the last 10 years, and your favorite international or mainstream artist?
Colm - I think Conor O'Brien is the most interesting, original artist of the last 10 years. But if he was just a dude playing in a boozer, would anybody give him the time of day?? Sorry, just trying to reinforce my theory!
Colm - Ryan Adams is my favourite current artist, I love his work and his attitude!
Stephen - Final question. What would your words of wisdom be for anyone starting out? Be as brutal as you like.
Colm - It's a theme I keep coming back to but: don't focus on financial or critical success. Focus on enjoying your craft. Don't feel like you should hand your money to PR companies just because it's the done thing. More often than not, it will leave you poor, and no further up the ladder... Sure, try and promote your stuff, but try and come up with a different way of doing it. A way that's specific to you and your work, it will come across more personal. Don't waste your time badgering radio stations. They don't care about you unless you can make money for them, and you can't! And try not to rely on friends and well wishers for your live audience. It wears thin, for them AND for you.
But most of all, enjoy it! If you enjoy your job, it's not a job... It's a vocation, a lifestyle! (Takes long pull from his pipe and stares into the distance!!!) 😉


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A pair of Ryerson Rams helped lead Canada to a silver medal finish at the U21 Men's Volleyball Pan American Cup in Peru, May 5-11.
First year phenom Xander Ketrzynski took home the U SPORTS Rookie of the Year award on Thursday morning after leading the nation in kills per set and aces per set.
First year outside hitter Xander Ketrzynski has been named the OUA East Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year while five other Rams earned all-star honours.
After leaving it all out on the court, the Rams suffered a heartbreaking 3-2 loss to the Windsor Lancers during the quarter-finals to eliminate them from the playoffs.
The Ryerson Rams will battle the Windsor Lancers during a single elimination, quarter-final match at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 2nd on the Coca-Cola Court.
The Ryerson Rams fell 3-0 to the No. 4 McMaster Marauders on Sunday night during their last regular season home game.
The Ryerson Rams will host their last game of the regular season on February 24th against McMaster. The game will commence at 4:00 p.m.
The Rams hosted the Guelph Gryphons for a fifth a set showdown on Saturday night and came out on top 3-2.
The Rams fought until the very end to take down the Waterloo Warriors 3-2 on Friday night at the Coca-Cola Court.
The Rams look forward to a big weekend against the Waterloo Warriors on February 8th and the Guelph Gryphons on February 9th at the Coca-Cola Court.
The Trent Excalibur gave the Ryerson Rams a run for their money on Saturday, but the Rams withstood the pressure to earn a 3-1 victory.
The Ryerson Rams found themselves unable to match the Toronto Varsity Blues' strong attacking and defending on Friday night, dropping a 3-1 game to their Toronto rivals at the Mattamy Athletic Centre.


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Wallpaper Label Symbols Explained
You'll notice some symbols on the label from your roll of wallpaper.
These symbols follow European standards and are designed to help you understand the properties of the wallpaper you've chosen.
Symbol Sections
Pattern Matching
|Straight match – This is where the left and right edges of the wallpaper length match in a straight horizontal line with the left and right edges of the next length.
|Free match – This means there is no matching necessary and so the wallpaper lengths can be hung freely without worrying about matching.
|Offset match – Also known as drop match or half drop. When hanging a second wallpaper length next to the first length already on the wall, the second length is dropped by the distance indicated so that the pattern joins up across both lengths.
|Reverse Alternative Lengths – Method of hanging wallpaper whereby adjacent lengths are reversed.
|Horizontal Hanging – Method of hanging a wallpaper whereby the lengths are hung horizontally.
|Spongeable – Using a water dampened cloth, adhesive maybe wiped from the face of the wallpaper at the time of hanging without visible damage, provided the adhesive is still damp. No other type of washability is claimed or implied.
|Washable – Using a damp cloth and soapy water, dirt and some domestic water based stains maybe cleaned carefully from the wallpaper. Oils, fats and solvent based stains are not expected to be removable.
|Extra Washable – Using a damp cloth and soapy water, dirt and most domestic water based stains maybe cleaned carefully from the wallpaper. Oils, fats and solvent based stains are not expected to be removable, but some greasy stains can be removed if action is taken immediately.
|Scrubbable – Using a mild detergent or mild abrasive with a soft brush or sponge, dirt and most domestic water based stains maybe cleaned from the wallpaper. If action is taken immediately then oils, fats and certain solvent based stains can also be removed.
|Extra Scrubbable – Dirt and all domestic water based stains maybe cleaned from the wallcovering by intensive treatment with a sponge or soft brush and a mild detergent or mild abrasive. Oils, fats and certain solvent based stains can also be removed if action is taken immediately after contamination.
Colour Fastness
|Moderate (3)
|Satisfactory (4)
|Good (5)
|Very good (6)
Application Method
|Paste the product – Wallpaper adhesive is applied to the back of the wallpaper and allowed to soak before hanging.
|Paste the wall – Wallpaper adhesive is applied directly to the wall before hanging the wallpaper.
|Pre-pasted – The wallpaper already has a coat of adhesive applied to the back. To activate the adhesive, the wallpaper must be submerged into a tray containing water.
Removal Method
|Strippable– This applies to wallpaper that can be removed manually in a dry state, by pulling it away in one piece.
|Peelable– This applies to wallpaper where you can manually remove the decorative or protective surface from its backing in a dry state. The backing will remain on the wall.
|Wet removable – This applies to wallpaper that can be removed from the wall by soaking it with water, using a proprietary stripping agent or steaming it. A scraper is then used to remove it.
Environmental Accreditations
|FSC® - The FSC trademark provides a guarantee that the product you are buying has been manufactured using sustainable sources. Our FSC license code is C128925.
|PEFC - PEFC is a globally trusted trademark to help you identify and promote goods from forests that are managed sustainably.
For more information on these wallpaper symbols please refer to the European Standard EN235:2001 (E).


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Built entirely of stone and Patagonian cypress in 1938, the Capilla San Eduardo is both a striking blend of traditional Andean and neogothic architecture (in case you're interested in that kind of thing), and one of Bariloche's most visited landmarks. It also happens to overlook the historic Llao Llao Hotel, which makes it easy to find. Overall, the chapel's interior is simple and subtle, but for an ornately painted frieze of St. Edward donated by renowned Argentinean painter Raul Soldi that hangs behind the altar. Take a walk along the veranda and soak in the incredible scenery or sit inside and take a moment to reflect in this beautiful and historic building.
Location:Bustillo Ave 8400, Llao Llao, Bariloche
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Stuck in boot screen after replacing power supply
The Powersupply was changed today, since I'd learned that the lack of light in the diagnostic LEDs may have been caused by a malfunctioning power supply, while the computer refused to do anything whatsoever (Not even powering on for the boot screen to show).
So, after changing the power supply, it's not able to reach the boot screen (Progress!), but never advances from there. Furthermore I seem unable to boot the machine into safemode (By holding shift on a keyboard after boot sound)
Any ideas, iFixit?
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Kodagu is rated as one of the top hill station destinations in India. Some of the most popular tourist attractions in Kodagu include Talakaveri, Bhagamandala, Nisargadhama, Abbey Falls, Dubare, Nagarahole National Park, Iruppu Falls, and the Tibetan Buddhist Golden Temple.
Talakaveri is the place where the River Kaveri originates. The temple on the riverbanks here is dedicated to lord Brahma, and is one of only two temples dedicated to Brahma in India and Southeast Asia. Bhagamandala is situated at the Sangam (confluence) of two rivers, the Kaveri and the Kanika. A third river, the Sujyothi, is said to join from underground, and hence this spot is called the Triveni Sangam. Iruppu Falls is a sacred Kodagu Hindu spot in South Kodagu in the Brahmagiri hill range. The Lakshmana Tirtha River, with the waterfalls, flows nearby and has a Rameshwara temple on its banks. It is said that this sacred river was created when Laxman, prince of Ayodhya and younger brother of Lord Ram, shot an arrow into nearby hill, the Brahmagiri hill.
Omkareshwara Temple is a beautiful temple built in the Indo-Sarcenic style in Coorg. A legend is associated with the temple, built by Lingrajendra II in 1820 CE. The king put to death a pious Brahmin who dared to protest against his misdeeds. The spirit of the dead man began to plague the king day and night. On the advice of wise men, the king built this temple and installed a shivlinga procured from Kashi, North India.
St. Mark's Church is located within the Mercara Fort and was raised in 1859, by the officers and men of the East India Company. The building was funded by the Government of Madras, and placed under the Church of England in India, Diocese of Madras. The Church was closed after Indian independence, and taken over by the Government of Karnataka in 1971. The building now houses the Madikeri Fort Museum, managed by the Karnataka State Archaeological Department.
Dubare is mainly an elephant-capturing and training camp of the Forest Department at the edge of Dubare forest; on the bank of the river Kaveri along the Kushalanagara – Siddapura road. Nagarahole is a national park and wildlife resort. Nisargadhama is a man-made island and picnic spot near Kushalanagara, formed by the river Kaveri.
Abbey Falls is a scenic waterfall 5 km from Madikeri. Mallalli falls is 25 km from Somwarpet, downhill of the Pushpagiri hills. Mandalapatti is 28 km from Madikeri. On the way to Abbey Falls, before 3 km from Abbey Falls take right, from there 25 km.
The Tibetan Buddhist Golden Temple is at Bylakuppe near Kushalnagar of Kodagu district, in the Tibetan refugee settlement.
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