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The purpose of a permission is to protect the privacy of an Android user. Android apps must request permission to access sensitive user data (such as contacts and SMS), as well as certain system features (such as camera and internet). Depending on the feature, the system might grant the permission automatically or might prompt the user to approve the request.
A central design point of the Android security architecture is that no app, by default, has permission to perform any operations that would adversely impact other apps, the operating system, or the user. This includes reading or writing the user's private data (such as contacts or emails), reading or writing another app's files, performing network access, keeping the device awake, and so on.
This page provides an overview to how Android permissions work, including: how permissions are presented to the user, the difference between install-time and runtime permission requests, how permissions are enforced, and the types of permissions and their groups. If you just want a how-to guide for using app permissions, instead see Request App Permissions.
Permission approval
An app must publicize the permissions it requires by including
<uses-permission> tags in the
app manifest.
For example, an app that needs to send SMS messages would have this line in
the manifest:
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.example.snazzyapp"> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SEND_SMS"/> <application ...> ... </application> </manifest>
If your app lists normal permissions in its manifest (that is, permissions that don't pose much risk to the user's privacy or the device's operation), the system automatically grants those permissions to your app.
If your app lists dangerous permissions in its manifest (that is,
permissions that could potentially affect the user's privacy or the device's
normal operation), such as the
SEND_SMS permission above,
the user must explicitly agree to grant those permissions.
For more information about normal and dangerous permissions, see Protection levels.
Request prompts for dangerous permissions
Only dangerous permissions require user agreement. The way Android asks the user to grant dangerous permissions depends on the version of Android running on the user's device, and the system version targeted by your app.
Runtime requests (Android 6.0 and higher)
If the device is running Android 6.0 (API level 23) or higher,
and the app's
is 23 or higher, the user isn't notified of any app permissions at install
time. Your app must ask the user to grant the dangerous permissions at
runtime. When your app requests permission, the user sees a system dialog (as
shown in figure 1, left) telling the user which permission group your app is
trying to access. The dialog includes a Deny and Allow button.
If the user denies the permission request, the next time your app requests the permission, the dialog contains a checkbox that, when checked, indicates the user doesn't want to be prompted for the permission again (see figure 1, right).
If the user checks the Never ask again box and taps Deny, the system no longer prompts the user if you later attempt to requests the same permission.
Even if the user grants your app the permission it requested you cannot
always rely on having it. Users also have the option to enable and disable
permissions one-by-one in system settings. You should always check for and
request permissions at runtime to guard against runtime errors (
For details about how to handle runtime permission requests, see Request App Permissions.
Install-time requests (Android 5.1.1 and below)
If the device is running Android 5.1.1 (API level 22) or lower, or
the app's
is 22 or lower while running on any version of Android, the system
automatically asks the user to grant all dangerous permissions for your app
at install-time (see figure 2).
If the user clicks Accept, all permissions the app requests are granted. If the user denies the permissions request, the system cancels the installation of the app.
If an app update includes the need for additional permissions the user is prompted to accept those new permissions before updating the app.
For an overview of the recommended user experience patterns for requesting permissions, see App Permissions Best Practices.
To learn how to check for and request permissions from the user, see Request App Permissions.
Request prompts to access sensitive user information
Some apps depend on access to sensitive user information related to call logs and SMS messages. If you want to request the permissions specific to call logs and SMS messages and publish your app to the Play Store, you must prompt the user to set your app as the default handler for a core system function before requesting these runtime permissions.
For more information on default handlers, including guidance on showing a default handler prompt to users, see the guide on permissions used only in default handlers.
Permissions for optional hardware features
Access to some hardware features (such as Bluetooth or the camera) require
an app permission. However, not all Android devices actually have these
hardware features. So if your app requests the
CAMERA permission, it's important that you
also include the
<uses-feature> tag in your
manifest to declare whether or not this feature is actually required. For
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" android:required="false" />
If you declare
android:required="false" for the feature, then Google Play
allows your app to be installed on devices that don't have the feature. You
then must check if the current device has the feature at runtime by calling
PackageManager.hasSystemFeature(), and gracefully disable that feature
if it's not available.
If you don't provide the
<uses-feature> tag, then
when Google Play sees that your app requests the corresponding
permission, it assumes your app requires this feature. So it
filters your app from devices without the feature, as if you declared
android:required="true" in the
<uses-feature> tag.
For more information, see Google Play and feature-based filtering
Permission enforcement
Permissions aren't only for requesting system functionality. Services provided by apps can enforce custom permissions to restrict who can use them. For more information on declaring custom permissions, see Define a Custom App Permission.
Activity permission enforcement
Permissions applied using the
android:permission attribute to
<activity> tag in the manifest restrict who can start
Activity. The permission is checked during
Context.startActivity() and
If the caller doesn't have the required permission then
SecurityException is thrown from the call.
Service permission enforcement
Permissions applied using the
android:permission attribute to
<service> tag in the manifest restrict who can start
or bind to the associated
Service. The permission is
checked during
Context.stopService() and
If the caller doesn't have the required permission then
SecurityException is thrown from the call.
Broadcast permission enforcement
Permissions applied using the
android:permission attribute to
<receiver> tag restrict who can send broadcasts to the
BroadcastReceiver. The permission is
checked after
Context.sendBroadcast() returns, as the system tries to deliver the
submitted broadcast to the given receiver. As a result, a permission failure
doesn't result in an exception being thrown back to the caller; it just
doesn't deliver the
In the same way, a permission can be supplied to
Context.registerReceiver() to control who can broadcast to a
programmatically registered receiver. Going the other way, a permission can
be supplied when calling
Context.sendBroadcast() to restrict which broadcast receivers
are allowed to receive the broadcast.
Note that both a receiver and a broadcaster can require a permission. When this happens, both permission checks must pass for the intent to be delivered to the associated target. For more information, see Restricting broadcasts with permissions.
Content Provider permission enforcement
Permissions applied using the
android:permission attribute to
<provider> tag restrict who can access the data in a
ContentProvider. (Content providers have an important
additional security facility available to them called
URI permissions which is described next.)
Unlike the other components, there are two separate permission attributes you
can set:
restricts who can read from the provider, and
android:writePermission restricts
who can write to it. Note that if a provider is protected with both a read
and write permission, holding only the write permission doesn't mean
you can read from a provider.
The permissions are checked when you first retrieve a provider (if you
don't have either permission, a
is thrown), and as you perform operations on the provider. Using
ContentResolver.query() requires
holding the read permission; using
requires the write permission. In all of these cases, not holding the
required permission results in a
SecurityException being
thrown from the call.
URI permissions
The standard permission system described so far is often not sufficient when used with content providers. A content provider may want to protect itself with read and write permissions, while its direct clients also need to hand specific URIs to other apps for them to operate on.
A typical example is attachments in a email app. Access to the emails should be protected by permissions, since this is sensitive user data. However, if a URI to an image attachment is given to an image viewer, that image viewer no longer has permission to open the attachment since it has no reason to hold a permission to access all email.
The solution to this problem is per-URI permissions: when starting an
activity or returning a result to an activity, the caller can set
Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION and/or
Intent.FLAG_GRANT_WRITE_URI_PERMISSION. This grants the receiving activity
permission access the specific data URI in the intent, regardless of whether
it has any permission to access data in the content provider corresponding
to the intent.
This mechanism allows a common capability-style model where user interaction (such as opening an attachment or selecting a contact from a list) drives ad-hoc granting of fine-grained permission. This can be a key facility for reducing the permissions needed by apps to only those directly related to their behavior.
To build the most secure implementation that makes other apps accountable for
their actions within your app, you should use fine-grained permissions in this
manner and declare your app's support for it with the
android:grantUriPermissions attribute or
<grant-uri-permissions> tag.
More information can be found in the
Context.revokeUriPermission(), and
Context.checkUriPermission() methods.
Other permission enforcement
Arbitrarily fine-grained permissions can be enforced at any call into a
service. This is accomplished with the
Context.checkCallingPermission() method. Call with a desired
permission string and it returns an integer indicating whether that
permission has been granted to the current calling process. Note that this can
only be used when you are executing a call coming in from another process,
usually through an IDL interface published from a service or in some other way
given to another process.
There are a number of other useful ways to check permissions. If you have
the process ID (PID) of another process, you can use the
Context.checkPermission() method
to check a permission against that PID. If you have the package name of
another app, you can use the
PackageManager.checkPermission() method to find out whether that
particular package has been granted a specific permission.
Automatic permission adjustments
Over time, new restrictions may be added to the platform such that, in order
to use certain APIs, your app must request a permission that it previously
did not need. Because existing apps assume access to those APIs is freely
available, Android may apply the new permission request to the app's manifest
to avoid breaking the app on the new platform version (thereby,
enabling your app to inherit the permission). Android makes the
decision as to whether an app might need the permission based on the value
provided for the
targetSdkVersion attribute. If the value is lower than the version
in which the permission was added, then Android adds the permission.
For example, the
permission is enforced beginning with API level 19 to restrict access to
the shared storage space. If your
targetSdkVersion is 18 or lower, this permission is added to your
app on newer versions of Android.
Caution: If a permission is automatically added to your app,
your app listing on Google Play lists these additional permissions even
though your app might not actually require them.
To avoid this and remove the default permissions you don't need, always
update your
targetSdkVersion to be as high as possible. You can see which
permissions were added with each release in the
Build.VERSION_CODES documentation.
Protection levels
Permissions are divided into several protection levels. The protection level affects whether runtime permission requests are required.
There are three protection levels that affect third-party apps: normal, signature, and dangerous permissions. To view the protection level that a particular permission has, visit the permissions API reference page.
Normal permissions
Normal permissions cover areas where your app needs to access data or resources outside the app's sandbox, but where there's very little risk to the user's privacy or the operation of other apps. For example, permission to set the time zone is a normal permission.
If an app declares in its manifest that it needs a normal permission, the system automatically grants the app that permission at install time. The system doesn't prompt the user to grant normal permissions, and users cannot revoke these permissions.
Signature permissions
The system grants these app permissions at install time, but only when the app that attempts to use a permission is signed by the same certificate as the app that defines the permission.
Dangerous permissions
Dangerous permissions cover areas where the app wants data or resources that involve the user's private information, or could potentially affect the user's stored data or the operation of other apps. For example, the ability to read the user's contacts is a dangerous permission. If an app declares that it needs a dangerous permission, the user has to explicitly grant the permission to the app. Until the user approves the permission, your app cannot provide functionality that depends on that permission.
To use a dangerous permission, your app must prompt the user to grant permission at runtime. For more details about how the user is prompted, see Request prompt for dangerous permission.
Special permissions
There are a couple of permissions that don't behave like normal and
dangerous permissions.
SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW and
WRITE_SETTINGS are particularly sensitive, so most apps should not use
them. If an app needs one of these permissions, it must declare the
permission in the manifest, and send an intent requesting the
user's authorization. The system responds to the intent by showing a
detailed management screen to the user.
For details on how to request these permissions, see the
SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW and
WRITE_SETTINGS reference
All permissions provided by the Android system can be found at
Permission groups
Permissions are organized into groups
related to a device's capabilities or features. Under this system, permission
requests are handled at the group level and a single permission group
corresponds to several permission declarations in the app manifest. For
example, the SMS group includes both the
READ_SMS and the
RECEIVE_SMS declarations. Grouping
permissions in this way enables the user to make more meaningful and informed
choices, without being overwhelmed by complex and technical permission
All dangerous Android permissions belong to permission groups. Any permission can belong to a permission group regardless of protection level. However, a permission's group only affects the user experience if the permission is dangerous.
If the device is running Android 6.0 (API level 23) and the app's
targetSdkVersion is 23 or higher, the following system
behavior applies when your app requests a dangerous permission:
If the app doesn't currently have any permissions in the permission
group, the system shows the permission request dialog to the user
describing the permission group that the app wants access to. The dialog
doesn't describe the specific permission within that group. For example,
if an app requests the
READ_CONTACTSpermission, the system dialog just says the app needs access to the device's contacts. If the user grants approval, the system gives the app just the permission it requested.
If the app has already been granted another dangerous permission in the
same permission group, the system immediately grants the permission without
any interaction with the user. For example, if an app had previously
requested and been granted the
READ_CONTACTSpermission, and it then requests
WRITE_CONTACTS, the system immediately grants that permission without showing the permissions dialog to the user.
Caution: Future versions of the Android SDK might move a particular permission from one group to another. Therefore, don't base your app's logic on the structure of these permission groups.
For example,
READ_CONTACTS is in the same permission group as
WRITE_CONTACTS as of Android 8.1 (API level 27). If your app
requests the
permission, and then requests the
WRITE_CONTACTS permission,
don't assume that the system can automatically grant the
WRITE_CONTACTS permission.
If the device is running Android 5.1 (API level 22) or lower, or the app's
targetSdkVersion is 22 or lower, the system asks the user
to grant the permissions at install time. Once again, the system just tells
the user what permission groups the app needs, not the individual
permissions. For example, when an app requests
READ_CONTACTS the install dialog
lists the Contacts group. When the user accepts, only the
READ_CONTACTS permission is
granted to the app.
Note: Your app still needs to explicitly request every permission it needs, even if the user has already granted another permission in the same group. In addition, the grouping of permissions into groups may change in future Android releases. Your code shouldn't have logic that depends on a set of particular permissions being in the same group.
Viewing an app's permissions
You can view all the permissions currently defined in the system using the
Settings app and the shell command
adb shell pm list permissions.
To use the Settings app, go to Settings > Apps. Pick an app
and scroll down to see the permissions that the app uses. For developers, the
adb '-s' option displays the permissions in a form similar to how the user
sees them:
$ adb shell pm list permissions -s All Permissions: Network communication: view Wi-Fi state, create Bluetooth connections, full internet access, view network state Your location: access extra location provider commands, fine (GPS) location, mock location sources for testing, coarse (network-based) location Services that cost you money: send SMS messages, directly call phone numbers ...
You can also use the adb
-g option to grant all permissions automatically when
installing an app on an emulator or test device:
$ adb shell install -g MyApp.apk
Additional resources
- Request app permissions: The how-to guide for requesting permissions in your app.
- Permissions that imply feature requirements: Information about how requesting some permissions implicitly restricts your app to devices that include the corresponding hardware or software feature.
<uses-permission>: API reference for the manifest tag that declares your app's required permissions.
- Device compatibility: Information about how Android works on different types of devices and an introduction to how you can optimize your app for each device or restrict your app's availability to different devices.
- Android Security Overview: A detailed discussion about the Android platform's security model.
- "Mother, May I?" Asking for Permissions: This video from Android Dev Summit 2015 describes best practices for requesting permissions.
- Android M Permissions: This video from Google I/O 2015 explains changes made to the permissions model in Android 6.0.


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They say that age is nada but a number...and that's especially true when it comes to love! While some studies claim that the ideal age range for a relationship is between three and five years, more and more couples are opting to break the norm and settle down with partners who are much older or younger!
These 10 celebrities have all sworn-off convention and fallen in love, despite a huge age difference:
1. age slide 01 Thalía and Tommy Mottola
Thalía and Tommy Mottola: 22 years
Mexican pop star Thalía, 42, and Tommy Mottola, 64, have been happily married for 12 years! Thalía claims that the age difference works for them, partly because both were settled and successful before beginning the relationship. She wrote of her husband, "Tommy and I met at a great point in our lives. Tommy was already successful. So, we came together as equals."
2. age slide 02 JLO and Casper Smart
JLO and Casper Smart: 18 years
Jennifer Lopez, 44, has never been shy about admitting to the steep age difference between her and boyfriend, Casper Smart, 26. She told People: "You think, 'Okay, in 10 years I'm going to be like this and [he's] going to like that...I think all different things. The truth is we don't know what's going to happen. We're loving this moment right now. We make each other happy."
3. age slide 03 Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon: 10 years
The decade-wide age gap doesn't seem to bother Nick Cannon, 33, who claims to love older ladies! "We connected at a spiritual level," he said of 43-year-old Mariah Carey on an episode of Lopez Tonight, "We are both kids at heart. She is the funniest ever and she has a great sense of humor."
4. age slide 04 shakira gerard
Shakira and Gerard Pique: 10 years
Despite a ten-year age difference, colombiana Shakira, 36, and her beau, Spanish soccer player Gerard Pique, 26, seem very much in love. The two have an adorable child together, baby Milan, and Pique is the first to admit that his lady love is an amazing mother. "She is the best mom in the world, next to mine." he told The Huffington Post, "I learn a lot by her side...she came into my life to transform it and that makes me very happy. She and Milan are my everything."
5. age slide 05 Elsa Pataky and Chris Hemsworth
Elsa Pataky and Chris Hemsworth: 7 years
Thor 2 star Chris Hemsworth, 30, is married to one sexy older woman! Elsa Pataky, 37, seems to have a serious hold on Hemsworth -- who appears to be madly in love with his Spanish wife! In fact, the hunky Aussie always wears a dog tag around his neck with his love's name and number inscribed.
6. age slide 06 demi wilmer
Demi Lovato and Wilmer Valderrama: 12 years
Demi Lovato, 21, and Wilmer Valderrama, 33, have been dating on-and-off for years, reportedly breaking up in the past because of their vast age difference. Valderrama, when asked directly about the age difference, answered: "You know, it wasn't even...it was a real interesting time for her. We really were just best friends. To be honest, I couldn't be more proud of her."
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Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Thomas: 26 years.
Alec Baldwin, 55, tried his luck at love a second time -- marrying Spanish yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas, 29, last year. The two now have a child together, and appear to be living happily ever after, despite the 26 year age difference.
8. age slide 08 eva and ryan
Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling: 7 years.
The seven year age gap doesn't seem to bother these two lovebirds! Eva Mendes, 39, and Ryan Gosling, 32, met on the set of The Place Between the Pines, and the two have been inseparable ever since.
9. age slide 09 marc anthony chloe
Marc Anthony and Chloe Green: 22 years.
Marc Anthony, 44, has dated a series of beautiful, high-profile women since splitting with JLO in 2012. His current flame, Chloe Green, is the heir to the Topshop fortune...and at just 22-years-old, she's half his age!
10. age slide 10 Edward James Olmos and Lymari Nadal
Edward James Olmos and Lymari Nadal: 31 years.
After two unsuccessful marriages, Edward James Olmos, 66, married boricua Lymari Nadal, 35, in 2002. Despite the massive age difference, the two have been happily married for over 10 years!


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The week in review
Worst week for auto fatalities: Three young men– Joshua Eugene Bryant, 18, Chad Arron Durrer, 20, and Robert P. Bull, 18– die November 30 on the U.S. 250 Bypass near Locust Avenue when the Honda Civic Durrer was driving crosses the median and hits an eastbound Jeep Cherokee. That follows the hit-and-run death of 19-year-old Martha E. "Liza" Jones November 29 on Earlysville Road. In that case, Albemarle police arrest and charge Robert Steven Newell December 6.
Worst alleged suicide: Douglas Dwayne Elliott, allegedly depressed and in pain after being taken off Oxycontin, begins stabbing himself with an ice pick in a doctor's office on December 2. He is shot and killed by Orange County Deputy Thomas "Moose" Mallory outside the psychiatrist's office after stabbing Mallory five times with the ice pick. Relatives quoted in stories by Reed Williams and Olympia Meola of the Daily Progress theorize that Elliott's death was a suicide.
Briefest escape: Ankle-shackled Michael Alan Finch shuffles out of the Greene County Sheriff's Office December 4 when an investigator leaves him alone to check on video equipment, according to John Yellig in the Progress. Finch, of Albemarle County, is captured seven hours later less than a mile away.
Best news for Charlottesville taxpayers: City Council considers lowering the tax rate after skyrocketing assessments the past few years.
Worst news for Charlottesville taxpayers: Council says the city– facing a $3.2 million budget shortfall– may raise the tax on cars instead to balance the budget.
Best news for studious elementary students: Albemarle school officials want to add 20 minutes to the school day, which– at six hours and 15 minutes– is one of the shortest in the state.
Biggest slap on the wrist: Loudoun County second-grade teacher Lynne Wine is found guilty of misdemeanor assault December 2 and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine for slapping the hand of an eight-year-old.
Best settlement for Attorney General Jerry Kilgore: State Republicans agree to pay $750,000 to state Democrats for eavesdropping on conversations in 2002, sparing the presumed gubernatorial candidate from having to take the stand in the Dems' lawsuit.
Best get for UVA's Miller Center: UVA law grad Ted Kennedy will record his oral history here, the first sitting U.S. Senator the Center has chronicled.
Latest prestigious post-season bowls: After two years at the Continental Tire Bowl in Charlotte, UVA snags an invite to play at the MPC Computers Bowl in Boise, Idaho, December 27.
Least sexy awards: Albemarle County receives two national financial awards from the Government Finance Officers Association. And the Center for Digital Government ranks Charlottesville one of the top 10 city governments for its use of technology– and that's before the controversial CityLink project.
Best news for consumers: Free credit reports are on the way, starting December 1, thanks to the Federal Trade Commission. Access is staggered; Virginians will be able to request their free reports September 1, 2005.
Biggest change for Franklin & O'Bryan: They're no longer on the letterhead of the Chandler Law Group.
Best appearance on a last show: UVA prof Mark Edmundson, author of Why Read?, appears on the final episode of CNN's 15-year-long series, Booknotes, December 5.
Longest Jeopardy winning streak: Ken Jennings ends his 74-game, $2.5 million reign on the answer-in-the-form-of-a-question show November 30.
Best free publicity for H&R Block: Jennings is unable to come up with the correct answer for "Most of this firm's 70,000 white-collar employees work only four months a year."
Most abducted cartoon character: A six-foot, inflatable version of SpongeBob SquarePants disappears from Burger Kings across the nation, according to numerous media reports.


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Norwegian browser maker Opera Software said Friday that it is buying rival Skyfire Labs in a deal that could be worth upward of $150 million.
Mountain View, Calif.-based Skyfire has software that allows carriers to deliver optimized video and other content to mobile devices. Skyfire said three large U.S. operators are using its technology, and 10 operators around the world are in trials.
"Opera and Skyfire are a natural fit," Opera CEO Lars Boilesen said in a statement. "Both companies have evolved far beyond their browser roots. Skyfire adds capabilities to our portfolio around video, app optimization, smartphones and tablets, and strength in North America."
The cash-and-stock deal calls for Skyfire to get an upfront $50 million payment, with performance-based clauses over three years that could eventually make the deal worth $155 million.
Once the deal closes, which is expected to happen by the middle of next month, Skyfire CEO Jeffrey Glueck will become an executive VP at Opera, overseeing its dealings with carriers while retaining his role as head of Skyfire, which will be a wholly owned subsidiary and continue to develop its Skyfire browser.


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"UFC Primetime" continued on Thursday with the second episode previewing "UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche."
Thursday's episode, the second of three episodes, goes inside the lives of UFC 157 headliners Ronda Rousey (6-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) and Liz Carmouche (7-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC). The two fight later this month in the first women's bout in UFC history.
Thursday's premiere episode includes a look at Rousey's childhood and the relationship with her judoka mom, her developing striking game, and being a role model. Additionally, we see Carmouche's adjustment to media attention, her Marine background, and her financial situation.
The complete episode is available here. The final installment of the three-part series airs this coming Thursday.
"UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche" takes place two days later, Feb. 23, at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. The evening's main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FX and Facebook.
For more on UFC 157, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.


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Could you please explain the difference between the OPC's and the PCA's philosophy of missions?
As you can appreciate, any attempt to answer your question has to be done delicately. After all, we can only speak from our perspective about brothers with whom we have ecclesiastical fellowship. Therefore, I will try to answer your question simply by explaining how we do missions. Then perhaps, you can ask someone in MTW (Mission to the World, PCA) how they do missions and with the materials of both in hand, you can draw the comparisons. Hopefully, you will find that we do many things in a similar manner.
The contents of the booklet Making Disciples of All the Nations probably best describes how we do missions.
We focus on self-consciously Reformed church planting and officer training. To that end we begin by trying to work with indigenous churches and only when that is not possible do we consider starting new denominations as we have helped to do in a couple of countries. This also means that we do not enter into cooperative agreements with para-church organizations because we understand that it is the church that Jesus builds in this world.
We help to build up or plant churches by using the means of grace, focusing on the preaching and teaching of the Word. (None of our missions, for instance, uses the Jesus film.) Because our catechism is quite clear with regard to who is called to do the preaching of the Word we place the highest value on the work of the ordained officers on the field. Those who are not ministers, (ruling) elders, or licentiates in the church are not permitted to preach (or exhort) on the field. Our diaconal ministries (e.g. medical missions) are secondary to the preaching of the Word. Therefore we do not conduct diaconal ministries unless they can be done alongside of the preaching of the Word.
We also consider it important for the church to understand the responsibility it has for sending missionaries into the world. To that end, although our missionaries must keep the church informed of their work and visit the church's congregations while on furlough, they are not responsible for raising their own support. The church through its Committee calls the missionary and the church sends the missionary, and therefore the church pays to send them.
Thus the Committee on Foreign Missions arranges for the support of the church's missionaries from the monies given for the work it does on behalf of the church. (The parallel situation would be that of a pastor in the church. He does not go around raising his salary from the members of the congregation. When they vote to call him they place themselves under a moral obligation to keep him from worldly care.)
We try to have at least two ordained men in the mission to a nation. The mission, in its decision making, functions in a way similar to a session or presbytery for administrative purposes. It may elect a chairman but his power is parliamentary in nature.
I hope that this answers at least some of your questions concerning the manner in which the OPC does missions. As I wrote above, you will have to contact someone in MTW concerning the way that the PCA does missions. Although we may providentially function differently in some ways, we praise God for the opportunities that we have to labor with one another in seeing the lost called to repent and believe and in planting self-consciously Reformed denominations with confessional, well-trained indigenous officers.
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Now we know.
According to the plan approved by the MLS Board of Governors on Saturday, some things will remain the same, but there will be changes as the league shifts to an unbalanced schedule, or a conference-based schedule.
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"We have established a fair and compelling format for the 2012 season," MLS executive vice president Nelson Rodriguez said in a statement. "This regular season will include more games between regional rivals and less total travel than we have seen in recent years. Because of the wide geographic distribution of MLS clubs, this structure should improve the quality of play, while continuing to give every club an equal chance of qualifying for the MLS Cup Playoffs."
Each club's total matches will remain the same, at 34 regular-season matches, and the regular season will run from mid-March through October, as it has in recent years.
Here is how the conference-based schedule will work:
Western Conference clubs will play each other three times, totaling 24 matches. They will play four conference opponents twice at home and once away, and play the other four conference opponents twice away and once at home. The location arrangement will be reversed in 2013.
West clubs will complete their schedule by playing each of the 10 Eastern Conference clubs once. Five of matches will be at home and five will be on the road. Again, the arrangement will be reversed in 2013.
Due to the higher number of clubs in the Eastern Conference, things are a little different on that side. Each club will play a total of 25 conference matches.
Each East club will play seven of their conference opponents three times each (21 total games) and the remaining two conference opponents twice each (4 games).
To complete their full slate, East teams will then play the nine West teams once each. Those nine games will be split either five at home and four away or vice versa. The locations will be reversed in 2013.
The league says it plans to announce the full schedule earlier than they have in previous years.


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PiptheFair wrote: »
man what they hell are they implying with this pic
that man's underwear is twice the size of that woman's torso
should could wear his undies like a cape
it maybe obvious, but chucks and similar shoes provide almost no arch support whatsoeverI wear those. I typically have only one pair of shoes that I wear until they fall apart, so I've had my chucks since summer of '09, and they're still going strong.
Starting to look kinda rugged, though.
Do you wear insoles with them? Last time I looked at them my friend kinda freaked me out going on and on about the intricacies of purchasing a pair of chucks. Saying how to get them a size bigger and get like these super expensive insoles and shit and then I decided to go to payless instead.
If you buy insoles for your Chucks you're doing it wrong
NotASenator wrote: »I would just say that if you are wearing Chucks, you are doing it wrong.
Oh good, I had this horrible image of you wearing chucks to a funeral with a suit or something haha
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Oh good, I had this horrible image of you wearing chucks to a funeral with a suit or something haha
skinny black tie with a black jacket then skinny jeans and white and red chucks.
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Tracy Anderson, along with Gwyneth Paltrow and Christy Turlington Burns hosted a VIP luncheon at The Top of The Standard Hotel to celebrate the launch of The Tracy Anderson Method Pregnancy Project, which empowers women with the tools for a safe, healthy and fit pregnancy. A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales from the event will go to Turlington Burns' organization, Every Mother Counts, an advocacy and mobilization campaign to increase education and support for maternal mortality reduction globally.
Tracy Anderson has become one of Hollywood's most sought after fitness and health experts with her successful Metamorphosis DVD's. Now with the launch of the Pregnancy Project DVD, Tracy offers nine different workouts, one workout focused on each month of pregnancy, which Tracy filmed in real time. The new DVD features doctors, various experts and some of Tracy's famous clients! Other guests included Ryan Murphy, Jonathan Cheban Monika Chiang and more. I got a chance to chat with Tracy at the luncheon where she dished on Jessica Simpson, Gwyneth and her favorite snacks!
What advice do you have for new mothers like Jessica Simpson to help them lose the baby weight?
Be patient. I feel bad for Jessica, she's got the media in her face while she's trying to become a new mom and shed the weight. She just needs to relax and block everybody out, nurture that baby and do her thing. She'll get the weight off.
Once you have kids what advice do you give Moms like Gwyneth on keeping the weight off?
Well Gwyneth, she's golden. She's done the method six years, six days a week. It's like brushing her teeth for her and its why she always looks fabulous on every red carpet. She's consistent and that's how you have to be. I tell new moms that taking time out of your day to work out is not you being selfish, that's you being respectful to yourself.
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When you're nursing you have a serious appetite, so I don't believe in cutting out any particular food group, we need them all. One of my favorite snacks is Ezekiel bread with veganaise and avocado topped with sea salt. I love poached eggs, quick proteins, things that are healthy and not cutting any particular food group out.


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+1.Personally the AT squad should be unlocked with that infantry support center and not with logistic company. The sdkfz 251 with 75 mm stubby (the reward for 37 mm HT) in return comes too late. It requires three buildings and the logistic company upgrade. This one instead should come when logistic and kampfgruppe is up. So player either focuses on getting more vehicles (Kampf+logistic) or more inf (Kampf+inf support). That would maybe make PE early maybe a way more interesting.
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CORRECTS LAST NAME SPELLING AND ADDS FIRST NAME 'EBED' - In this Oct 17, 2012 photo, Wilfredo Yanes, reflected on a mirror of his motorcycle, shows pictures of his late son Ebed Jaasiel Yanes, 15, at the site where he was shot dead allegedly by soldiers in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. According to his relatives, Yanes was killed by soldiers early Sunday, May 27, when he was riding a motorcycle, near a military checkpoint. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — In a capital so dangerous that only the "walking dead" are said to venture out after dark, nothing could draw an obedient son from the safety of his parents' suburban home into the deserted night.
Nothing, that is, but a girl.
Ebed Yanes had friended her on Facebook. They had chatted and the studious 15-year-old was desperate to meet her. "My parents are still awake," he wrote her that Saturday night in May. "I'll shower while they go to bed and I'll get the keys to the motorcycle."
What do homicide statistics mean to a high school freshman in the grip of a young crush? A murder rate of 91 per 100,000 residents may make Honduras the most violent country in the world, but to Ebed those odds weren't grim enough to keep him home.
He crept downstairs, climbed onto his father's motorcycle and disappeared into the dark in search of the girl.
He never found her. "I don't know where you are," he texted. "I've been looking for 45 minutes but now I better get back before the soldiers catch me."
Police are so chronically outgunned by the criminals that the government had declared a state of emergency, allowing the army to patrol the streets. At this late hour, soldiers would have set up a roadblock. Ebed wasn't carrying the motorcycle registration, and he didn't want to be stopped, caught sneaking out of the house despite everything his father had taught him.
Honduras is a broken country. The political system is so weak that just three years ago the president was ousted in a coup carried out by the army and endorsed by the Supreme Court. Poverty is second only to Haiti's in the Western Hemisphere. An estimated three quarters of the cocaine flown from South America to the United States passes through this Central American country, the epicenter of the U.S. government's war on drug trafficking. The violence, according to the World Health Organization, is "epidemic."
Ebed knew he lived in a perilous country. But there was this lovely girl, and he so wanted to meet her. It was just one night. It was spring. He was young.
And by 1:30 a.m., he was dead, slumped over his father's motorcycle with a bullet to the back of his head.
The Yanes family lives in a secure gated community on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa. Every Sunday, before going to church, Ebed's job was to wash the car for his father, an organic food supplier.
But that Sunday, Wilfredo Yanes, 57, noticed that his car was still dirty. Ebed was not in bed, nor anywhere to be found. The motorcycle was missing.
Wilfredo's boy was playful, fond of girls, easily distracted, but he did not get into trouble. He never left the house alone, had never taken public transportation and didn't know his way about the city. Even when he went to Tae Kwon Do lessons, his older sister waited for him in the car for two hours, studying for her medical school classes.
It was hard to imagine what could have happened to him.
Wilfredo called the front gate of the complex. Yes, he was told, Ebed had left near midnight, on the motorcycle. No, he had not come back.
"We need to stay calm," Wilfredo told his wife, Berlin Caceres, 42, a university professor. They would look for him.
They went first to the Criminal Investigations Division, where they filed a missing person report. Next they went to the Juvenile Justice Division, then to the Children's Hospital. Maybe Ebed had had a motorcycle accident or had stayed overnight at a girl's house — though he'd never done anything like that before. Maybe he would come home, apologizing sheepishly.
He wasn't in jail or at the hospital. Finally, the Yaneses went to the police homicide division. The officers knew nothing about his son, they told him, but they did find a motorcycle next to the body of an unidentified young man. There had been a party in the neighborhood, they said, and somebody from the party must have killed him.
"We have the motorcycle here. Do you want to see it?"
The family walked across a parking lot and from a distance Wilfredo recognized his red motorcycle. He knew what it meant.
"Is it him?" asked his wife.
"Yes, it's him," Wilfredo said. She fainted and he barely had time to catch her before she hit the ground.
At the city morgue, Wilfredo told his wife and daughter to wait outside. Beyond the bare reception area the morgue was full, well past its 45-cadaver capacity, and nearly a dozen bodies lay on the floor, each in a white plastic bag. That's where Wilfredo found his only son, with a broken jaw that hadn't even seen its first shave, and an exit wound next to his mouth.
As shock set in, they handed him a bag of Ebed's belongings: his BlackBerry, a broken helmet, a set of house keys.
That night, at the wake, Wilfredo stood before the family and friends who'd gathered to pray and made a promise for Ebed, and for his country too. Although deeply religious, he did not believe in leaving this horror in God's hands. God rewarded you for what you did in this life, and he had to take action. "My son will not be just one more statistic," he vowed.
Wilfredo kept thinking about what the police had told him. His son was the victim of a street crime? He didn't believe it. On his way to the funeral, he took a detour to the police station a block away from where his son had been found. Two policemen on duty told him they had heard shots late Saturday, but they hadn't gone out to investigate. There were only the two of them, after all, and they were afraid.
He didn't blame the officers. Wilfredo didn't care for politics or criticize the government. But he was a practical man who knew police were unlikely to investigate, and without a case the government would never deliver justice. If he wanted answers, he'd have to get them himself. He climbed back into his car and drove to the block where Ebed had died.
One neighbor, a woman, said she'd heard loud gunshots, three rounds from a large caliber gun, but had been too scared to look outside. A young man who rented an apartment nearby did look, and he told Wilfredo he had seen six to eight masked soldiers in dark uniforms approaching a body. They poked it with their rifles, then picked up the empty bullet casings and went back to their vehicle parked at the entrance of the alleyway. It was an unusually big pickup truck, a four-by-four, with a double cabin.
After the sun came up, residents said, they went outside and gathered bullet casings that the soldiers had failed to find. They gave them to Wilfredo, who carried them to his son's funeral, feeling the weight of their significance in his pocket and in his gut: Good God, he thought, his son wasn't killed by party-goers. He likely was shot by the army.
After the funeral, Wilfredo drove to National University, where his wife worked, to see Julieta Castellanos, the president of the university. She had also lost a son, shot by police at a roadblock last year, and had become a fearless critic of police impunity. Her advice: gather evidence and then contact the prosecutor's office.
Days later, Wilfredo and his wife took a drive through the hilly outskirts of the capital, past the sleazy love motels and run-down auto shops, looking for a vehicle that fit the description given by the witnesses. On their third trip, around midnight on Saturday, they stumbled upon an army checkpoint near the alley where their son was killed.
The vehicle matched. It was a bulky Ford pickup. Four-door. A rare sight in Tegucigalpa.
Wilfredo's wife stopped the car, and he quickly snapped a photograph, not thinking about the flash. Soldiers walked over and told him to turn over his camera.
Wilfredo was terrified, but thought fast. "It's my hobby to collect photos of unusual vehicles," he told them. They let him go with a warning.
It had been a week since his son's death on May 26, but Wilfredo already had witnesses, two bullet casings and a photo of the vehicle.
He had a case.
On Monday morning, Wilfredo filed a complaint, sitting down in the office of the head prosecutor, German Enamorado, instead of waiting for a call. He wanted answers.
Enamorado was impressed by Wilfredo, and if it was true that soldiers had shot and killed a high school student, well, that was abominable. Enamorado assigned two prosecutors to the case that same day.
The prosecutors, however, did not have a car. The state prosecutor's office was a crowded cluster of desks and columns of stacked files. There were six prosecutors, a staff of investigators, and one car for the lot of them.
Wilfredo offered to drive.
The first stop was at army headquarters to collect the incident report for that night. After several failed attempts, an officer told them they had to file a request in writing. Two days later, they got it.
The army's report for the night of May 26 said a man on a motorcycle fired on the soldiers at the checkpoint, but got away when the soldiers pursued him. Wilfredo's son was armed only with a cellphone.
Next stop: ballistics. They asked for all the weapons from the unit that had been at the roadblock.
And then came the chilling news. The soldiers were in a special forces unit of the army's 1st Battalion. The Ford was part of a batch donated by the U.S. government. The unit itself, because it used U.S. aid, had been trained by the U.S. and vetted to ensure the soldiers and leadership were not corrupt and complied with human rights laws.
In other words, these were Honduras's finest soldiers. And it seemed to Wilfredo that they had murdered his son.
The more Wilfredo learned, the angrier he became.
The army chief, Rene Osorio, told the press Ebed had failed to stop at an army checkpoint and deserved what he got.
"Everyone who does not stop at a military checkpoint is involved in something," Osorio said.
On June 7, Enamorado called in the soldiers, opening an investigative file that would swell to some 700 pages. None of the soldiers remembered a man on a motorcycle, they said. Nothing happened that night.
After the interview, though, one of the soldiers called his mother and told her a very different story, according to the investigative file. He had been ordered to lie about the shooting of the boy, he said. His mother called a lawyer, who advised them that it would be better to be a witness than a suspect. The soldier showed up at the prosecutor's office the next day with three others.
There had been 21 men at the military roadblock. Seven more in the Ford. The two bullets that killed Ebed came from the same weapon.
The boy, he said, did not stop at the checkpoint, but raced through it. They followed him in the Ford pickup, chasing him through the dark alleys for at least five minutes. The boy turned into an alley too narrow for the truck, so the driver stopped. The lieutenant sitting in the front passenger seat ordered the unit to open fire as he jumped out of the truck and started shooting. Two other soldiers got out and fired from 30 meters away, with soldier Eleazar Abimael Rodriguez dropping to his knee in the firing position, said the soldier, who is now a protected witness. The motorcyclist was shot.
After that, said the soldier, the unit alerted Col. Juan Giron and received instructions. "We were ordered to pick up the shell casings and we returned to the roadblock. He told us what we had to say... that we shouldn't say what happened," according to the investigative file.
Officers took the weapons the soldiers had used that night and exchanged them, to cover up the shooting, the soldiers said.
When Enamorado told Wilfredo what had happened, he was aghast.
"They used my son as target practice," he said.
The soldiers had a choice, Enamorado said. It was right to chase Ebed, to try to stop him, even to shoot into the air. But not at a fleeing suspect.
What happened next was a miracle of efficiency. Within 17 days of opening the case, three soldiers were arrested. The bullets were traced to Rodriguez, 22, who was charged with murder and imprisoned. The two others, including the officer who ordered the unit to shoot, were suspended from the army and released on bail awaiting trial, charged with covering up a crime and abuse of their office.
It was a triumph, of sorts, for Wilfredo. But not enough. The man who killed his son had only been following orders.
There were three officers involved in the alleged cover-up, Enamorado told Wilfredo. One told the soldiers to lie, another switched the weapons and another claimed he had never been informed of the shooting.
The lieutenant colonel who allegedly ordered the weapons exchanged, Reynel Funes, had been vetted by the U.S. government. In 2006, the U.S. paid for Funes to attend the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., where he earned a master's degree in defense analysis. Earlier he had received training at the then-School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia.
The military has denied any wrongdoing on the part of the officers.
"All this about lies and switching the weapons is a novel," said army spokesman Lt. Col. Jeremias Arevalo. "We have given the prosecutor everything he has requested from the first day."
"We are a responsible and serious armed force, and we are against impunity."
Wilfredo doesn't think so. After months of pushing, he persuaded the prosecutor two weeks ago to investigate the roles of the officers, and to figure out what happened with the guns used to shoot his son. He has petitioned the government to take the army off the streets through a constitutional amendment.
He prays his country will shake off years of corruption and dysfunction, that someday, people won't be afraid to leave their gated communities at night, and that a boy will be able to test the limits of freedom without fear for his life.
He prays he will not be killed for speaking out.
"I'm not only reacting to the impotence that my son's death made me feel," he said. "I can't allow for rights to be violated, and even less if it's my family's right to life."
Associated Press writer Martha Mendoza in Santa Cruz, California contributed to this report.


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Laguna Redang Island Resort is certainly a great place to stay at. The view of the beach there is just amazing.
Honestly, who wouldn't be fascinated by the mesmerizing sun, soft white sand and crystal-clear water? I bet almost every one will be thinking of stripping nude and just run frantically into the sea – except me, of course.
Overall, the facilities are excellent. Cozy rooms, relaxing surroundings – it makes us feel like home. How I wish I can have this lifestyle forever.
The beach right outside the resort is an ideal place for seashell hunting, as demonstrated by my friends. Just look at them.
They were too indulged in their search for seashells – even when I screamed "SHARK!" loudly, they ignored me and kept on staring into the water. Eesh!
For your info, I was their guardian during the trip – I protect them from the other perverted guys in the group. You know why – it's because guys these days… *sighs*… never mind.
The front part of the sea is pretty shallow, allowing us to roam around easily. However, Chu was kinda nervous that he almost drown – luckily I was there to save him.
Chu, you owe me. ;)
Well it's fun to be at the seaside. Wonderful scenery and yummy salty water. By the way, my apologies for not including pictures of sexy bikini girls at Redang. Also, for your information, kenwooi.com is absolutely a clean blog!
Group picture – Kira, Ken, Lysa, Adrian, Chu, April & Wing.
Another favourite location at the Laguna Redang Resort is the swimming pool.
We always jump into the pool after our snorkeling aka shark hunting sessions. There is a Jacuzzi too! It feels so orgasmic when the bubbles enter my swimming trunk.
Anyway, we attempted a stunt at the swimming pool too.
Well, my shoulders kinda ached after that due to the numerous attempts to get the best shot! Nevertheless, it's a great shot! The guy in the middle is totally awesome!
No no, not the one on top, not Adrian… I meant the guy at the middle bottom – the one with his head in between the legs of the top guy. Yeah, yeah – THAT guy! Awesome right?! =D
Oh yeah, we managed to see a male monkey. It was jumping along the beach, probably hungry I guess. Spotting a monkey at Redang was pretty rare and fortunately – we got a photo of him.
Since he's so cute, we decided to buy some food for him. But guess what we saw along the way.
Yeah, please do not feed the monkey. So we didn't. He's probably still starving at this moment. Sorry, monkey!
Anyway, if you haven't been to Redang Island, visit now before the sea gets more polluted. And yes, I'd definitely love to go there again! =)


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The 21-year-old Montreal man accused, along with his mother and father, of murdering three of his sisters and his father's first wife, will not testify at his murder trial, jurors learned Tuesday morning. Hamed Shafia (inset) will be the only one of the three accused not to take the stand in his defence. His mother, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 42, spent five and a half days on the witness stand and his father, Mohammad Shafia, 58, also testified.
Jurors weren't told directly that the youngest of the trio will not testify, but they heard defence lawyer David Crowe, who represents Yahya, say that the final defence witness will have to be "qualified," meaning it is an expert whose credentials must be assessed before the person is permitted to testify and give opinion evidence. The assessment process will take place in the courtroom Tuesday afternoon but because jurors will not be present, the discussions that take place cannot be reported.
"As I understand it, this is the last witness," Mr. Justice Robert Maranger said, before sending jurors home for the day, after defence witness Mohammad Anwar Yaqubi, a half brother of Shafia who grew up with him in Kabul, Afghanistan, had completed his evidence.
On June 30, 2009, a Nissan Sentra was found at the bottom of a shallow canal in Kingston. Inside were the bodies of three Shafia children, sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13. Rona Amir Mohammad, 52, also was found dead inside the car. Rona Mohammad was Shafia's first wife, whom he married in his native Afghanistan.
Three weeks later, the three family members were arrested and charged with first-degree murder. They have pleaded not guilty. The trial has been underway since October.
Yaqubi, a doctor who now lives in the Netherlands, testified that the foul curses Shafia is heard uttering on secret police wiretaps don't suggest he killed his children. Yaqubi acknowledged he has had only sporadic telephone contact with his brother in the past 18 years.
"This is not the place for my brother to be in there, because my brother is not a murderer," Yaqubi testified, in answer to a question by Crown prosecutor Gerard Laarhuis.
Yaqubi, who testified in Dari through an interpreter, said Canadians cannot understand that in his culture and language, Afghani men use the same curses to describe simple problems in life, like the theft of hubcaps, and the death of children. He said he believes his brother still uses an expression that he learned in childhood, to "cut someone in pieces with a cleaver" when enraged. Shafia is heard on one of the police wiretaps saying, of his dead daughters: "Even if they come back to life a hundred times, if I have a cleaver in my hand, I will cut [them] in pieces."
But Yaqubi said he has never heard of honour killing.
"So you're telling us that you've heard Afghan fathers talking about chopping up their own children with a cleaver but you've never heard about honour killing?" Laarhuis asked.
"Regarding killing for reputation or honour I never heard that … and this is a wrong label which has been put here, put on a traffic accident," he replied in a long and rambling answer about the pain he has felt at seeing the media reports portraying his brother as a killer.
The judge cut Yaqubi off, at the request of Laarhuis, who said the witness was again failing to respond only to the questions. Laarhuis had to ask the judge to intercede several times during his cross examination.
On the wiretap recordings, played for jurors, Shafia calls his daughters "whores," "filthy" and "rotten children" who betrayed the family and Islam and did "cruelty" to Shafia by secretly taking boyfriends and by wearing revealing clothes.
Prosecutors allege that the victims died in an honour killing orchestrated by Shafia to cleanse the shame he felt from the conduct of his daughters. The trial also heard that Mohammad wanted a divorce from Shafia and was supportive of the daughters who were dating.
"Honour is very important for him but we have to be careful; honour is a subjective issue," Yaqubi testified.
He insisted that the interpretation and translation of the wiretap recordings and the police interviews of the three accused are flawed.
"I think they should be released and those people who are in charge of these interrogations or investigation, they didn't do their job properly," Yaqubi testified.
Yaqubi said his brother's success in business spurred envy among people who would say "pessimistic" or negative things about the Shafia family.
"This was multi-millionaire family," Yaqubi testified. "They had the best house in [a Kabul neighbourhood] and they had the best Mercedes Benz and the were the envy of the other families and the jealousy caused them to say these things."
Yaqubi acknowledged that he did not know that Zainab had run away from home, that Sahar had attempted suicide, that Geeti had asked to be removed from the home by child protection authorities and that police had been to the Shafia home several times in the two years they lived in Montreal.
Laarhuis suggested Yaqubi did not really know what was going on in the Shafia home.
Yaqubi said the things he had been told seemed to be problems but "in reality, this is not a proper analysis, I think."
(this appeared first at the Montreal Gazette)


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First World Road Safety Film Festival
1st World Road Safety Film Festival, Geneva, 23 March 2006
About the Festival
On 23rd March 2006 in GENEVA, the Palais des Nations will host the 1st World Road Safety Film Festival on the occasion of the 48th session of the Working Party on Road Traffic Safety (WP.1) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.
The International Road Safety Film Festival was first held in 1998 at the initiative of LASER EUROPE. Four others followed until 2003, when the fifth, held at UNESCO headquarters in April 2003, achieved global scope and recognition and confirmed the importance of communication, associated with education, science and culture, for road safety to achieve positive results in the medium and long term.
Today, this event is supported by numerous governmental organizations (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, European Union, European Conference of Ministers of Transport) and non-governmental organizations.
In parallel, LASER EUROPE has also encouraged the creation of regional festivals (a Latin American Festival was held in Curitiba, Brazil in 2000) and of thematic festivals organized by associations (e.g. the International Festival of Road Safety Campaigns organized by the Tunisian road safety organization).
Once again at the initiative of LASER EUROPE, the concept of the International Road Safety Film Festival has undergone an important evolution. From a two-yearly international event, it has now become in 2006 a world programme made up of a number of regional road safety film festivals. Projects are under preparation in Latin America, the Caribbean, West Africa and Europe.
This 1st World Festival will serve in particular as a springboard to promote the First United Nations Global Road Safety Week (23 to 29 April 2007) which will be co-organized by the five United Nations regional commissions and the World Health Organization (WHO).
For more details regarding the 1st World Road Safety Film Festival, please see the 'Flyer'
|Provisional Programme
|Welcome of participants
|Opening ceremony
|1st session: Communication and road safety campaigns
The videos to be presented were produced for national or local road safety campaigns aimed at the general public, children, adolescents, young drivers, experienced drivers and offenders.
|2nd session: Education and training
The films deal with road safety issues for pre-schools, primary schools, secondary schools, driving schools, associations and clubs.
|3rd session: Road risk prevention in professional circles
The videos have been produced for use by business circles, specific companies or public authorities (risk management, internal communication, training, awareness-raising).
|4th session: Innovations for road safety
The innovations may relate to the safety of infrastructure, vehicles, information systems, etc.
|5th TV broadcasts on road-safety
This category of the festival highlights the close relationship with the media of television.
|Award ceremony
Announcement of winning films selected for the Global Road Safety Resources Centre.
Showing of the films
|Closing of the 1st World Road Safety Film Festival


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Destructoid: "Today's Wii U Direct was a refreshing change, and a sign of good things to come for the Wii U. It seemed that, from today's presentation, that Nintendo has been listening. Maybe we made just enough noise. Maybe they're refocused. Who knows. But it does seem that they're tuned into the frequency of role-playing Nintendo fans now."
its nice that Nintendo is supporting developers who have a real passion to further the JRPG genre! in my eyes JRPG doesn't come to mind when i hear the name Square Enix, that company has no direction with the JRPG genre, just look at the mess the whole FF13 franchise and the time its taken for FF13 Versus to come out. but Nintendo is getting what it takes to support developers who want to deliver great games in the genre. hopefully Nintendo will continue this trend for years to come.
Nintendo was already pulling me into RPGs with the 3DS. This is just the tip of the iceberg as far as I'm concerned. I look forward to more announcements.
Shin megami Tensei X fire emblem , Monolith softs game and monster hunter ultimate all in year 1. Fantastic....
Really intrigued as to what the SMTxFE game turns out to be. Hopefully a touch based Strategy RPG where the graphics come to life in Cutscenes and battle sequences like Fire emblem awakening but with awesomer visuals.
when did nintendo not get it...nintendo is a real gaming company, they dont sell tvs or computers....nintendo always understand gaming...but with the wiiu they have all things clicking


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CHICAGO (AP) — The pitch was just a tick up, and Starlin Castro was ready. When Edwin Jackson was limited to five innings, the bullpen took over. Pedro Alvarez's drive fell short on the warning track.
These are fun days for the improving Chicago Cubs.
Castro hit a three-run homer and Jackson finally got the better of Charlie Morton, leading the Cubs to a 6-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday.
"This is the nicest I've felt about this team since I've been here," said Anthony Rizzo, who was acquired in a January 2012 trade with San Diego.
Chris Coghlan added a solo shot as the Cubs opened a 10-game homestand with their fourth win in five games. Last-place Chicago also improved to 18-13 since May 17 for the best record in the NL in that stretch.
"Everything in this game is contagious, whether it's positive, negative, hitting, defense, pitching," Coghlan said. "I think we're having more team at-bats."
Jackson (5-7) was removed after 86 pitches due to cramps in his calves, but it was enough to get his first win in four matchups this year against Morton (4-8). The right-handers have faced off more than any other pair of starting pitchers this season in the majors.
Jackson allowed three runs on Jordy Mercer's fifth homer and five hits. He struck out eight and walked two in just his second win in his last six starts.
Alvarez had a chance to tie the game when he came to the plate with two on and two out in the sixth. He took a frustrated hop between first and second as Ryan Sweeney ran down his long fly ball in the biggest part of the ballpark.
Andrew McCutchen struck out with two on in the seventh, wasting another Pittsburgh threat.
"Pitching's been pretty great all year. The offense is coming around, and the defense is coming around as well," Jackson said. "So we're definitely showing a glimpse of what we're able to do. It's just going out and doing it on a consistent basis."
Pittsburgh rookie Gregory Polanco opened the game with a single to center, extending his hitting streak to 10 games. He is the first NL player to begin his career with such a streak since Juan Pierre's 16-game run for Colorado in 2000.
The Pirates have lost four of five since a four-game winning streak.
Morton retired six in a row before Jackson's one-out single in the third started a string of five consecutive batters reaching safely. Rizzo lined a two-run double into the right-field corner before Castro drove an 0-2 curveball over the wall in left for his 11th homer, moving past his total from all of last year.
Morton jerked his head down in disgust when Castro connected, and then turned around to see where the ball was going. Castro's third homer of the season against Morton gave the Cubs a 5-0 lead.
"I could have gotten the ball down a little bit more," Morton said. "I don't think it was a bad pitch. It was a bad pitch to him in that situation."
The six runs in six innings were a season high for Morton, who had won each of his last three starts and was 4-1 with a 2.40 ERA in his previous five outings.
Mercer went deep after Jackson walked the first two batters in the fifth, but that was it for the Pirates. Four Cubs relievers combined for three innings of two-hit ball before Hector Rondon worked the ninth for his eighth save in 10 chances.
Jason Grilli pitched the eighth for the Pirates in his first outing since manager Clint Hurdle removed the right-hander from the closer role. Grilli has blown four save opportunities this season after converting 33 of 35 chances a year ago.
"Better rhythm, a better execution of pitches," Hurdle said when asked about Grilli's inning.
NOTES: Hurdle said before the game that Mark Melancon will close for now, and he also could use Tony Watson in save opportunities. ... Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein said he is pleased with Manny Ramirez's impact on the organization so far, and the former major league star could join Triple-A Iowa next week. When Ramirez reports to Iowa, he will be a player-coach for Chicago's top farm club. ... Epstein also said he doesn't forsee a scenario where prospect Kris Bryant joins the major league club this year. ... Pirates RHP Vance Worley (0-0, 0.00 ERA) and Cubs LHP Travis Wood (7-5, 4.48 ERA) face off on Saturday.
Starlin Castro powers Cubs past Pirates 6-3
CHICAGO (AP) — The pitch was just a tick up, and Starlin Castro was ready. When Edwin Jackson was limited to five innings, the bullpen took over. Pedro Alvarez's drive fell short on the warning track.


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