Thursday, August 30, 2012

HBT: Argument over Jays pitching leads to death

This is a sad story from The Canadian Press:

Police say a man who died from an ?alleged sucker? punch outside a Calgary bar had been in an argument over the Toronto Blue Jays? pitching staff moments before he was struck. Brian Ludwig, a 41-year-old father, died in the hospital after the fight early Sunday morning following a charity golf tournament. Ludwig had been at the pub as part of the fundraiser.

Staff Sgt. Doug Andrus told the Calgary Herald that the fight, which took place in the parking lot, ?was in regards to pitchers on the Blue Jays? and Ludwig died of blunt force trauma.

Scott Robert Hooser is accused of throwing the punch that killed Ludwig and the 27-year-old (pictured above) has been charged with manslaughter.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/29/argument-over-blue-jays-pitching-staff-leads-to-sucker-punch-death-in-toronto/related/

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Living Peaceful, Abundant, Healthy Lifestyles: The story of the ...


The old colonialist regime is Asia is falling apart fast and hysterical efforts to fan ?territorial disputes,? will not save it. This can be seen in a flood of new revelations coming from the new regime in North Korea as well as in signals being put out by the new government scheduled to take power in China in November.
The latest revelation from North Korea is the stuff of fairy tales. Yokota Megumi, the 13-year old girl spirited away from Japan in 1977 is a member of the Japanese imperial family, according to multiple Japanese, North Korean and Chinese sources. She was taken to be married to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in order to give the Kim dynasty imperial legitimacy. Her son, new North Korean leader Kim Jon-un, is now suggesting Yokota be given the title of ?Empress Dowager.?
The North Koreans are saying they are representatives of the old imperial Japanese regime that was pushing for a greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere during World War 2.
The Chinese for their part, are also preparing for a ?paradigm shift,? in power that will be preceded by a major purge of banks and industrial conglomerates linked to the old regime.
First, let us look at the latest North Korean revelations as revealed by multiple sources including a retired senior North Korean yakuza boss in Japan.
The story goes back, as we have previously written, to the end of World War 2 when remnants of the Japanese imperial army in China set up the nation of North Korea.
After the war, they resumed their contacts with their Nazi allies who had now set up the Odessa underground.
The Nazis, operating through the CIA, allied themselves with remnants of the former Japanese military regime in North Korea to set up a secret ?anti-communist? control grid in Japan after the war.
The Nazis, for their part, were still trying to establish their 1000 year New World Order 4th Reich while their Asian allies were still fighting to set up the Asian co-prosperity sphere: same bed, same enemies, different dreams.
During the Vietnam war the North Koreans sent special forces to Vietnam to fight against the West. When any of these troops were captured most of them committed suicide by using cyanide capsules but some survived, according to a Japanese agent who questioned them. The survivors, under questioning, said they were in Vietnam fighting on behalf of the Greater East Asian Co-prosperity sphere.
It was also during this time the North Koreans began kidnapping Japanese to recruit as agents, according to the North Korean yakuza boss and multiple other sources. Japanese author Mishima Yukio was at this time shown a video of the Ishikawa Prefecture (the closest part of Japan to North Korea) Police cooperating with the North Koreans in the kidnapping of Japanese citizens.
An enraged Mishima showed the video to then Chief Cabinet Secretary Horii Shigeru and Ishihara Shintaro (now governor of Tokyo). Horii took no action and Ishihara said ?I will pretend I did not see that video,? according to the sources. Disgust at this reaction was one of the reasons for Mishima?s public suicide by Hara Kiri at the Japan self-Defense Force headquarters.
After the cold-war ended, a US defector to North Korea by the name of Charles Jenkins contacted US authorities and said he wanted to surrender and be granted immunity in exchange for revealing the North Korean spy network in Japan.
This marked the beginning of the anti-North Korean kidnapping hysteria in Japan that culminated in a trip by then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to North Korea to repatriate some kidnapping victims. Koizumi brought with him a 1.4 trillion yen bribe as a gift to North Korea at the time to pay for the return of the kidnappees.
The head of the Aozora bank, Tadashi Honma, (here is a link to a censored version of a story I had on Forbes about some of this:
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2000/1030/6612066a.html
was killed in a murder made to look like a suicide in order to prevent him from objecting to his bank?s funds being used for this purpose. He was forced to write a will at gun point and was then injected with sleeping drugs before being strangled to death, according to a senior member of the gang that carried out the hit.
In any case, the US Nazi authorities, terrified of losing their secret North Korean control grid in Japan, offered the North Koreans a regular supply of high quality forged ?super K? (and similar) US dollar bills as well as an Asian amphetamines monopoly in exchange for a promise they would continue acting as the ?bad guys.? They also provided them with nuclear weapons and missile technology as a part of the package, according to multiple sources.
However, the Kim Jong-un regime is tired of being the Asian boogey man for Nazis and other Western fascist groups. That is why they have begun revealing many of their secrets such as the true story of Yokota Megumi.
Yokota has been reluctant to reveal herself in the past because the fact was she preferred the life of Empress of North Korea to the dull middle class life that would have awaited her in Japan. Now, however, she has gone to meet her parents in Japan and reveal her true situation. This is being widely reported on the internet in Japan but the fascist control grid on the newspapers and TV is still keeping these new revelations under wraps. This information embargo will be broken soon.
The remnants of the Nazi puppet regime in Japan are terrified of the world at large learning about their criminal activities, including the Sarin subway gas poisoning attacks and the March 11, 2011 Nuclear and Tsunami mass murder.
For that reason two of the major North Korean agencies in Japan, the Sokka Gakkai Buddhist Sect and the North Korean Citizens Association of Japan are being actively blackmailed by Nazi puppet police agents.
In specific, they are being threatened with prosecution over a 15 billion yen slush fund of money taken from fraudulent welfare receipts and managed at 5% a year interest on their behalf by Mizuho Bank, according to the yakuza boss and other sources.
In a further sign of hysteria, the Nazis recently took a bunch of dupes and agents from Hong Kong and had them land near a secret US missile base on the disputed Senkakau (Diaoyu) islands to raise a Chinese flag. According to Chinese government sources these agents were all bribed to visit the Islands and were surprised they had been allowed to land there. It is difficult to imagine unarmed Chinese agents arriving on a fishing boat to be allowed to land near a secretive US missile base without US permission. Later of course, Japanese dupes were brought to the Islands as ?retaliation.?
This show aimed at provoking jingoist sentiment in the region is really just a sign of moral bankruptcy by the Nazi regime that seized power in the US.
Another agent, the puppet president Lee Myung-bak of South Korea also cooperated in the latest foolishness by provoking nationalist sentiment over another small batch of disputed rocks lying in between Japan and South Korea.
Of course, all of these maneuvers are being interpreted as nothing more than signs of desperation and moral bankruptcy on the part of the old regime.
The new Chinese government to be headed by Xi Jinping has already begun preparations for big changes in Asia this fall. The recent slowdown in the Chinese economy, for example, is linked to a purge against banks and industrial enterprises that ?got too independent? from the Chinese government during the last regime.
There is also a major anti-corruption campaign being prepared for the arrival of the new regime. One example is the masses of empty greenhouses set up near Beijing for the sole purpose of collecting government subsidies, the Chinese source says.
In any case, the White Dragon Society has proposed to the Asians and their BRICs and non-aligned movement allies that the time has come to make a decisive move. One recommendation has been for these nations to offer to buy up all existing US dollars (except those linked to derivatives and other fraud) and replace them with a new ?world dollar or yuan.? After a certain period, all of the members of the 150-nation anti-imperialist alliance would then refuse to accept old dollars issued by the Federal Reserve Board crime syndicate.
In Japan as well a decisive move against the old regime will be made but we cannot divulge any of the details at this time.
The regime changes due this autumn in the US, China and Japan will provide a wonderful opportunity to deal a decisive blow to the genocidal Nazi cabal.
The people of the world are tired of thugs and criminals provoking wars and mayhem and spreading lies aimed at causing trouble and discord amongst peoples. The time has come to demand that these thugs cease their anti-social behavior and rejoin civilization. We want world peace followed by a massive campaign to end poverty, stop environmental destruction and create an ideal planet. After this, the research money spent on war and mass murder will be dedicated to health, improved life, increases in bio-diversity and peaceful expansion into the universe.

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Source: http://shastaconnect.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-story-of-kidnapped-13-year-old.html

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Is Dancing Prohibited in Islam?

A Pakistani devotee dances outside the shrine of Sufi Saint Data Ganj Bakhsh in Lahore. A Pakistani devotee dances outside the shrine of Sufi Saint Data Ganj Bakhsh in Lahore on Jan. 23, 2011

Photograph by Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images.

Taliban insurgents beheaded 17 people at a party in southern Afghanistan on Sunday night. The attack may have been part of a power struggle between rival factions, but one government official said the attack was intended to punish the attendees for listening to music and dancing. Are music and dance prohibited in Islam?

It?s debatable. The Prophet Mohammed made a series of seemingly contradictory statements about the performing arts, providing ammunition for people on either side of this doctrinal dispute. According to some accounts Mohammed promised that Allah would turn musicians into ?monkeys and pigs.? On special occasions, however, the Prophet seems to have enjoyed a little music. These ambiguities have led to divisions within Islam over the status of music and dancing. One split is sectarian in nature: Fundamentalist Salafists and Wahhabis generally view music and dancing as haram, or forbidden, while moderate believers accept them as halal. Mystical Sufis are the most dedicated dancers in the Muslim world, embracing whirling and other trance-like movements as a way to grow closer to Allah. Another division is based on class. Urban elites have historically refrained from dancing, viewing it as frivolous and beneath their dignity. The rural Muslims who account for the majority of the faithful, however, have developed rich dance traditions.

Until approximately 30 years ago, dancing was de rigueur at rural Muslim weddings around the world. In Afghanistan, for example, Pashtun men have traditionally circled up to perform the attan. At other gatherings, martial dances are traditional. Stick-wielding Yemeni villagers dance the shabwani, while men in the United Arab Emirates grasp one another?s waists to simulate combat in the razfa. There are also exclusively female dances in the Muslim world, like the stamping muradah traditional in Qatar, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia, and couples dances, such as the flowing sharh of Yemen.

Anti-dance sentiment surged in the 1980s, as Saudi Arabian elites began to aggressively export Wahhabism. Saudi investors have bought the contracts of well-known Egyptian belly dancers, paying them to recite Quranic verses rather than swivel their hips on television. (Belly dancing appears to be a pre-Islamic art form that has survived in more secular countries such as Egypt and Turkey.) Taliban militants have banned dancing at wedding parties, although some observers believe the move has more to do with stamping out tribal traditions than doctrinal objections to dancing itself.

While moderate Muslims generally don?t object to music and dancing per se, a large portion of the faithful view sexually suggestive movement, racy lyrics, and unmarried couples dancing together as haram, because they may lead to un-Islamic behavior. This viewpoint resembles the anti-dance feeling common among American Christians at various points in U.S. history. The Puritan minister Cotton Mather wrote in the 17th century that dancing was a creation of the devil, and warned that a ?CHRISTIAN OUGHT NOT TO BE AT A BALL? [capitalization from original]. In the early 20th century, a new generation of pamphleteers railed against dance. Consider the 1909 tome The Christian and Amusements, by Presbyterian evangelist William Edward Biederwolf. Just as today?s Saudi fundamentalists blame pre-Islamic cultures for belly dancing, Biederwolf claimed that ?the mingling of the sexes in dancing originated in Greece among men of contaminated morals and women of loose, questionable character.? The evangelist terrified his readers with tales of upstanding young men who, after attending a community dance, experienced ?thoughts and imaginations which no pure-minded, chaste-hearted young man should ever indulge.? Police statistics, he claimed, demonstrate how many young ladies attributed their undoing to the evils of dancing.

Got a question about today?s news? Ask the Explainer.

Explainer thanks anthropologist Najwa Adra and Jon W. Anderson of the Catholic University of America.

Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=fffde461a906344bbb0eda9b139af271

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Samsung's Galaxy Camera is half phone

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Samsung's Galaxy Camera may not be the first Android-powered camera on the market (Nikon's S800c was announced last week), but Samsung takes?the concept even further, with a 4G cellular connection and a rear panel that's indistinguishable from a phone's.

Rumors of the cam-phone?began circulating earlier this week, but the device itself was not announced until Wednesday, during?Samsung's press event at the IFA tech trade show in Berlin. It's very much a camera with phone features, though, not vice versa ? unlike photography-ready but phone-first devices like?the iPhone 4S and Nokia Pureview 808.

The camera portion consists of a surprisingly long 21x zoom that is a?fairly bright F/2.8 at wide angle, has?a contoured grip, and a combined shutter button and zoom rocker. There's a 16-megapixel 2/3-inch?sensor taking the pictures, which is about standard for a point-and-shoot.?The design is appealingly minimal, and this is emphasized by the fact that the rear panel has no buttons at all ? like a number of Android phones, all the controls are on the screen.

That phone portion acts more or less like a regular high-powered smartphone, sharing many aspects with Samsung's flagship?Galaxy S III: a 4.8-inch 720p?screen, 1.4?GHz processor and GPS, among other things.

Of course you can download "Angry Birds," check your email, and all that, but Samsung has also included a robust camera app with a number of non-standard features. You can change exposure settings,?select interesting photo modes, preview effects,?and edit your shots all using the touchscreen.

Not only that, but the Galaxy Camera will take a SIM card and connect to a cell network as well as to?Wi-Fi (there are 3G and 4G versions). That means you can easily upload your photos to sites like Flickr and Instagram, and it can be configured to automatically back up your shots to a Samsung or Google cloud storage service. Storage on the phone will be?on Micro SD, which means up to 32GB.

The device should be available later this year, and while Samsung didn't talk price, the company said the device will be available from?mobile operators.?This suggests that, like high-end smartphones, the Galaxy Camera will be subsidized by carriers and may require a contract. Considering the Galaxy S III goes for around $500 without an expensive zoom lens, the full cost will likely be at least that.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/samsungs-galaxy-camera-half-phone-half-point-shoot-970173

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

VanHatten Writing Services: Book Publishing Options

As an editor I am asked by authors...What are my options for publishing my book?

While I can't tell them the best option, I can give them choices.

You can sell your manuscript to a publishing house. Definitely check with publishing houses before you sign anything. Typically the royalty is around 8%. If your main objective is to have a book to use in your promotion or to showcase you as a guru in your field, this is probably the way to go for you.

You can self publish your manuscript as a paperback book. You will make around 50% profit margin, give or take a little. Let's say you are a professional speaker or you give talks about your business. This would be the way to go for you. This type of book costs less so you can give it away or offer deals on the book at your speaking engagements.

You can self publish your manuscript as an eBook. Potentially this has the ability for the most profit for you. Why? You can sell it on your own web site as a downloadable PDF and your profit margin is almost 100%.

Keep in mind; you can publish your book in more than one of these ways. Plus, you can publish one eBook and the next book you write could be sold to a publishing house.?

Source: http://vhws.blogspot.com/2012/08/book-publishing-options.html

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Guidelines On How To Effectively Do Away With Back Pain ?

A lot of lower back pain is due to muscle mass personal injuries. Pressure towards the muscle groups and problems for ligaments may harm your back again in numerous methods. This article will provide you with a variety of back pain ideas. Although it can be hard to deal with, back problems normally will ease off after some time.

Acquire frequent smashes when driving for very long intervals. Chill out your back again, stretch out and have inside a small physical exercise. Be sure to calculate all the stops that you can make just before hitting your destination.

Yoga exercise is a great option for anybody going through lower back pain. It is actually an awesome therapeutic process. This will help to realign your backbone naturally. Furthermore, it aids you in loosening any tight joint parts or muscle tissues which you have, which in turn causes your body to be more enjoyable. A lot of gyms offer you sessions.

You will probably find that cutting back on caffeine may help relieve back pain. Coffee may cause back again spasms along with adding to muscle tissue inflammation within your rear. You should restriction the amount of coffee or green tea you happen to be consuming if you wish to lessen the level of back problems you experience.

Immobility from back problems may be helped by mild expands of your muscle tissues round the back. If the muscles within your again are tight, the pain could affect your whole body. Try to stretch out muscle groups around the area also.

Focus on posture! Your lower back pain will increase when you can become more conscious of your healthy posture and change it to line up appropriately during the day. Many rear concerns are due to straightforward poor pose as a result policing your own personal healthy posture rewarding, particularly if you already have rear problems. Whenever you locate little approaches to reward yourself for sustaining greater healthy posture, the newest actions will take maintain more quickly.

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To guard on your own from needless back pain, even when resting, always maintain good posture. Accidents are the initial thing people think of when seeing and hearing that somebody is stricken with back pain. Actually, improper position whilst seated for long intervals might cause muscles problems and firmness inside the rear. This really is a common problem for folks concentrating on their laptop or computer.

Find out correct position while focusing on sitting up right. Failing to implement good posture can damage your spinal column and again. If sitting for very long durations can be a need in your life, do this inside a seat that facilitates your back comfortably. Having an exercising ball to sit on will help your pose and help build your encouraging again muscles.

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If you may be seated for really awhile, try and go across your legs. By crossing your legs, you make use of your again muscles. This keeps them active. Make certain you move legs now and then if you go across your thighs and legs, so that you can balance the muscle tissue suited for your right and left ends.

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Religion in Public Spaces: A European Perspective | ISA RC22 ...

Ashgate, September 2012

Edited by Silvio Ferrari and Sabrina Pastorelli, both at The University of Milan, Italy Series : Cultural Diversity and Law in Association with RELIGARE

http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=12052&edition_id=12431&calcTitle=1

This timely volume discusses the much debated and controversial subject of the presence of religion in the public sphere. The book is divided in three sections. In the first the public/private distinction is studied mainly from a theoretical point of view, through the contributions of lawyers, philosophers and sociologists. In the following sections their proposals are tested through the analysis of two case studies, religious dress codes and places of worship. These sections include discussions on some of the most controversial recent cases from around Europe with contributions from some of the leading experts in the area of law and religion.

Covering a range of very different European countries including Turkey, the UK, Italy and Bulgaria, the book uses comparative case studies to illustrate how practice varies significantly even within Europe. It reveals how familiarization with religious and philosophical diversity in Europe should lead to the modification of legal frameworks historically designed to accommodate majority religions. This in turn should give rise to recognition of new groups and communities and eventually, a more adequate response to the plurality of religions and beliefs in European society.

Contents: Religion and rethinking the public-private divide:

introduction, Marie-Claire Foblets; Part I Religions and the Public/Private Divide: Public and private, a moving border: a legal-historical perspective, Kjell ?. Modeer; Socio-historical perspectives on the public and private spheres, Adam Seligmann; The ?public-private? divide on drift: what, if any, is its importance for analysing limits of associational religious freedoms?, Veit Bader; Religious freedom and the public-private divide: a broken promise in Europe?, Alessandro Ferrari; The ?public? and the ?private? in the common law and civil law traditions and the regulation of religion, Jean-Fran?ois Gaudreault-DesBiens and Noura Karazivan; Contested normative cultures. Gendered perspectives on religions and the public/private divide, Hanne Petersen; Religion in the European public

spaces: a legal overview, Silvio Ferrari. Part II Religion and the Dress

Codes: From front-office to back-office: religious dress crossing the public-private divide in the workplace, Katayoun Alidadi; Religious dress codes: the Turkish case, A. Emre ?ktem and Mehmet C. Uzun; Religious dress codes in the United Kingdom, Javier Garcia Oliva; Religious dress codes: the Italian case, Sabrina Pastorelli; Religious dress codes: the Bulgarian case, Maya Kosseva and Iva Kyurkchieva; Comparing burqa debates in Europe: sartorial styles, religious prescriptions and political ideologies, Sara Silvestri. Part III Religion and the Places of Worship: The right to establish and maintain places of worship: the developments of its normative content under international human rights law, Noel G. Villaroman; The places of worship in France and the public/private divide, Anne Fornerod; ?Stopp Minarett?? The controversy over the building of minarets in Switzerland:

religious freedom versus collective identity, Vincenzo Pacillo; Places of worship: between public and private: a comparison between Bulgaria, Italy and the Netherlands, Tymen J. van der Ploeg; Index.

About the Editor: Silvio Ferrari is Professor of Canon Law, University of Milan and President, International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, Italy. His research interests are in the areas of Church and State in Europe; Comparative law of religions, and Vatican-Israel relations. He has published widely on these and related areas.

Sabrina Pastorelli is research fellow at the Institute of International Law ? section of Ecclesiastical and Canon Law ? University of Milan, Faculty of Law. She is also a member of the Groupe Soci?t?s, Religions, La?cit?s (GSRL-CNRS/?cole Pratique des Hautes ?tudes-Sorbonne) and teaching assistant at the Catholic University of Paris ? Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences. Her research interests include sociology of religion; new religious movements; law and religion in Europe; religious education; regulation of religious pluralism; state public policy and religion. She is a member of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR); the Association for Sociology of Religion (ASR); the Italian Sociological Association (AIS).

Reviews: ?This book offers more than its title promises. It is not only about Europe or about religion. Insightful, suggestive and as diverse as its contributors, it contains a persuasive reflection on the need to rethink the very notion of public space that Western democracies have used since the nineteenth century.?

Javier Martinez-Torron, Complutense University School of Law, Spain

?This is a highly important book in a remarkable controversy. Silvio Ferrari and Sabrina Pastorelli present a rich volume full of information, thought, and insight ? presenting masterpieces of interdisciplinary research and political guidance. The book is a most valuable contribution to freedom and equality throughout Europe.?

Gerhard Robbers, University of Trier, Germany

Source: http://www.isa-rc22.org/blog/?p=348

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