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[EDITORIAL] Science and Security, Again - Author: Donald Kennedy... [NEWS] ANTHRAX INVESTIGATION: FBI Discusses Microbial Forensics--but Key Questions Remain Unanswered - Facing growing public skepticism, impatient politicians, and a blogosphere rife with conspiracy theories, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday sought to bolster its case that Army scientist Bruce Ivins was the perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks by extensively discussing the scientific evidence.Authors: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Martin Enserink... [NEWS] TECTONICS: Pumping Up the Tibetan Plateau From the Far Pacific Ocean - On page 1054 of this week's issue of Science, geoscientists argue that rock has flowed west to east beneath the Tibetan Plateau to inflate its eastern side and that the flow has been throttled by tectonic doings as far as thousands of kilometers away.Author: Richard A. Kerr... [NEWS] GENOMICS: 'Simple' Animal's Genome Proves Unexpectedly Complex - The flat marine organism Trichoplax adhaerens barely qualifies as an animal, yet the 98 million DNA base pairs of its genome include many of the genes responsible for guiding the development of other animals' complex shapes and organs, researchers report in the 21 August issue of Nature.Author: Elizabeth Pennisi... [NEWS] ENDANGERED SPECIES: New Regulation Would Lessen Influence of Fish and Wildlife Experts - The Bush Administration has proposed controversial rules that would exempt many projects from what the Administration says are unnecessary reviews of their potential impact on endangered species. The plan has left environmentalists sputtering.Author: Erik Stokstad... [NEWS] U.S. HIGHER EDUCATION: Departments Scramble to Find Math Education Faculty - According to a recent survey, 60% of 128 tenure-track academic jobs advertised last year in mathematics education went unfilled. Although that may be good news for job-seekers, it's another impediment for universities trying to improve U.S. science and math education.Author: Jeffrey Mervis... [NEWS FOCUS] CLIMATE SCIENCE: Turbulent Times for Climate Model - Researchers are running out of time to finish updating an important U.S. climate change model that has been hamstrung by the budget woes of its home institution, the National Center for Atmospheric Research.Author: Eli Kintisch... [NEWS FOCUS] CULTURAL HERITAGE: Shielding a Buddhist Shrine From the Howling Desert Sands - China is embarking on a major new effort to protect the Mogao Grottoes, a unique repository of murals and sculptures on the old Silk Road.Author: Richard Stone... [NEWS FOCUS] NANOTECHNOLOGY: Can High-Speed Tests Sort Out Which Nanomaterials Are Safe? - A flood of strange new substances based on ultrasmall particles is forcing researchers to reinvent toxicology.Author: Robert F. Service... [LETTERS] An Editor's Checklist - Author: R. W. Guillery... [LETTERS] High-Profile Journals Not Worth the Trouble - Author: Joel L. Rosenbaum... [LETTERS] Taking Responsibility for Scientific Discourse - Author: Seth D. Friedman... [TECHNICAL COMMENT] Comment on ?Protein Sequences from Mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex Revealed by Mass Spectrometry? - Authors: Pavel A. Pevzner, Sangtae Kim, Julio Ng... [TECHNICAL RESPONSE] Response to Comment on ?Protein Sequences from Mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex Revealed by Mass Spectrometry? - Authors: John M. Asara, Mary H. Schweitzer, Lewis C. Cantley, John S. Cottrell... [LETTERS] The Carrageenan Diet: Not Recommended - Authors: Joanne K. Tobacman, Sumit Bhattacharyya, Alip Borthakur, Pradeep K. Dudeja... [BOOKS ET AL.] POLICY-MAKING: Cybernetic Birth Control - The author explores how in the late 1970s China's leadership decided to attempt to limit all couples to a single offspring.Author: Erik A. Mueggler... [BOOKS ET AL.] DEMOGRAPHY: A Polemic Against Control - A historian offers a sometimes angry and often critical account of 20th-century transnational efforts to limit population growth.Author: John C. Caldwell... [POLICY FORUM] ECOLOGY: Toward a Global Biodiversity Observing System - Tracking biodiversity change is increasingly important in sustaining ecosystems and ultimately human well-being.Authors: R. J. Scholes, G. M. Mace, W. Turner, G. N. Geller, N. Jurgens, A. Larigauderie, D. Muchoney, B. A. Walther, H. A. Mooney... [PERSPECTIVES] PSYCHOLOGY: The Unseen Mind - The human mind operates largely out of view, and yet people are unaware of their unawareness, confabulating reasons for their actions and preferences.Authors: Timothy D. Wilson, Yoav Bar-Anan... [PERSPECTIVES] ASTRONOMY: Stars in the Making - The observation of stars close to the galactic center requires a rethink of the star formation process.Author: Philip J. Armitage... [PERSPECTIVES] DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY: How Now, Brown Fat? - Brown adipose tissue is, surprisingly, more related to skeletal muscle than to white adipose tissue.Author: Mitchell A. Lazar... [PERSPECTIVES] CHEMISTRY: Soluble Allotropes of Main-Group Elements - Small clusters of main-group elements can be stabilized in the highly active zero oxidation state and used for reactions in solution.Authors: C. Adam Dyker, Guy Bertrand... [PERSPECTIVES] ECOLOGY: A Matter of Timing - The cues used by birds and other species to trigger reproduction determine how successfully they can respond to climate change.Authors: Bruce E. Lyon, Alexis S. Chaine, David W. Winkler... [PERSPECTIVES] PLANT SCIENCE: Using Tobacco to Treat Cancer - Plant biotechnology brings us closer to personalized therapies as tobacco plants are genetically reprogrammed to produce a vaccine to treat lymphoma.Author: Charles J. Arntzen... [REVIEWS] The Geological Evolution of the Tibetan Plateau - Authors: Leigh H. Royden, B. Clark Burchfiel, Robert D. van der Hilst... [BREVIA] N2O5 Oxidizes Chloride to Cl2 in Acidic Atmospheric Aerosol - Laboratory studies affirm that the oxidation of chloride ions in aerosols by N2O5 is a significant source of chlorine in the troposphere, a major reactant that helps form ozone.Authors: James M. Roberts, Hans D. Osthoff, Steven S. Brown, A. R. Ravishankara... [REPORTS] Star Formation Around Supermassive Black Holes - Simulations show that the disruption of a molecular cloud by a black hole can lead to the formation of nearby stars with eccentric orbits, explaining observations in our Galaxy.Authors: I. A. Bonnell, W. K. M. Rice... [REPORTS] Quantum Gas of Deeply Bound Ground State Molecules - A coherent Raman pumping scheme cools cesium molecules to a state with minimal rotational energy, needed for producing cold molecular Bose-Einstein condensates.Authors: Johann G. Danzl, Elmar Haller, Mattias Gustavsson, Manfred J. Mark, Russell Hart, Nadia Bouloufa, Olivier Dulieu, Helmut Ritsch, Hanns-Christoph Nägerl... [REPORTS] Observation of Atomic Diffusion at Twin-Modified Grain Boundaries in Copper - The presence of twinned grains at grain boundaries reduces current-induced diffusion of atoms in small copper wires, which can produce voids or even breaks.Authors: Kuan-Chia Chen, Wen-Wei Wu, Chien-Neng Liao, Lih-Juann Chen, K. N. Tu... [REPORTS] A Stable Silicon(0) Compound with a Si=Si Double Bond - Carbene ligands stabilize diatomic silicon without oxidizing it, an unusual motif for a light element.Authors: Yuzhong Wang, Yaoming Xie, Pingrong Wei, R. Bruce King, Henry F. Schaefer III, Paul von R. Schleyer, Gregory H. Robinson... [REPORTS] In Situ Formation of an Oxygen-Evolving Catalyst in Neutral Water Containing Phosphate and Co2+ - A catalyst that precipitates in situ when cobalt ions are reduced in a phosphate buffer efficiently forms oxygen from water needed for electrochemical applications.Authors: Matthew W. Kanan, Daniel G. Nocera... [REPORTS] The Global Atmospheric Circulation on Moist Isentropes - An analysis of global atmospheric circulation from 1970 to 2004 shows that more mid-latitude air rose into the upper troposphere than current models would suggest.Authors: Olivier Pauluis, Arnaud Czaja, Robert Korty... [REPORTS] Targeting QseC Signaling and Virulence for Antibiotic Development - A small, nontoxic antibiotic candidate interferes with bacterial detection of the host and inhibits infection, in a therapeutic approach that may avoid development of resistance.Authors: David A. Rasko, Cristiano G. Moreira, De Run Li, Nicola C. Reading, Jennifer M. Ritchie, Matthew K. Waldor, Noelle Williams, Ron Taussig, Shuguang Wei, Michael Roth, David T. Hughes, Jason F. Huntley, Maggy W. Fina, John R. Falck, Vanessa Sperandio... [REPORTS] Variability and Robustness in T Cell Activation from Regulated Heterogeneity in Protein Levels - Variations in component levels of the antigen-induced signaling pathway affect the final response of activated immune cells, conferring flexibility on the system.Authors: Ofer Feinerman, Joël Veiga, Jeffrey R. Dorfman, Ronald N. Germain, Grégoire Altan-Bonnet... [REPORTS] Adenovirus Small e1a Alters Global Patterns of Histone Modification - Authors: Gregory A. Horwitz, Kangling Zhang, Matthew A. McBrian, Michael Grunstein, Siavash K. Kurdistani, Arnold J. Berk... [REPORTS] Epigenetic Reprogramming by Adenovirus e1a - Upon infection, an adenovirus protein causes global epigenetic changes in the host that repress antiviral responses and differentiation and activate cell-cycle genes.Authors: Roberto Ferrari, Matteo Pellegrini, Gregory A. Horwitz, Wei Xie, Arnold J. Berk, Siavash K. Kurdistani... [REPORTS] Heterochromatin Integrity Affects Chromosome Reorganization After Centromere Dysfunction - When the centromere is removed from a yeast chromosome, a new one forms near the end of the chromosome, over a cluster of poorly expressed genes.Authors: Kojiro Ishii, Yuki Ogiyama, Yuji Chikashige, Saeko Soejima, Fumie Masuda, Tatsuyuki Kakuma, Yasushi Hiraoka, Kohta Takahashi... [REPORTS] Grueneberg Ganglion Cells Mediate Alarm Pheromone Detection in Mice - A mysterious ganglion at the tip of the nose is an olfactory subsystem that senses alarm pheromones in mice.Authors: Julien Brechbühl, Magali Klaey, Marie-Christine Broillet... [REPORTS] Control of the Reversibility of Cellular Quiescence by the Transcriptional Repressor HES1 - For quiescent cells to periodically divide and then rest, a member of the Notch signaling pathway HES1 must be present; this protein is also activated in some tumors.Authors: Liyun Sang, Hilary A. Coller, James M. Roberts... [REPORTS] Automatic Mental Associations Predict Future Choices of Undecided Decision-Makers - Unexpectedly, consciously expressed voting choices predict later unconscious preferences, showing that unconscious and conscious cognition is a two-way street.Authors: Silvia Galdi, Luciano Arcuri, Bertram Gawronski... [PODCASTS] Science Podcast - Author: ... How about a Blu-ray/VHS Combi? - A Blu-ray disc recorder and a VHS video tape machine may seem unlikely bedfellows, but that hasn't stopped Panasonic from wrapping them up together in the same box for the DMR-BR630V. The 630V can write at six times speed, has digital and analog tuners, new second-gen MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 encoder chips as well as all the standard HDMI and analog connections and Panasonic's Viera link for device interconnectivity. It also records to DVD. And there's ... IEEE standardizes 801.11r fast Wi-Fi roaming - The IEEE has completed 802.11r, a standard that lets Wi-Fi devices roam quickly between wireless access points (WAP) and which improves the performance of VoIP on enterprise LANs. Traditionally, 801.11 devices can roam from one access point to another, but it takes about 100ms to re-associate, and several seconds to re-establish authenticated connections using 802.1x. Not good for time-critical apps like VoIP.According to InfoWorld, "the new stan... What's in Your Back-to-School Pack? - Is every kid in America (at least at a certain age bracket) heading back to High School (or even Middle School) this week with a cell phone and iPod? I'm sure there a many other variations of gadgetry in the average back-to-school back pack (or other notebook, pencil, paper, lunch carrying device), but that's got to be the one. Wait Maybe it's just the iPhone without anything else, but that would seem to be more appropriate for a higher demo ... Microsoft develops Vi-Fi (Vehicle Wi-Fi). VoIP while driving baby! - A new technology developed by Microsoft in alliance with the University of Massachusetts (UMASS), and the University of Washington has resulted in a new technology called Vi-Fi (Vehicle Wi-Fi). Vi-Fi solves the problem of hopping from one Wi-Fi wireless access point (WAP) to another when signal strength diminishes. According to the article, the goal of Vi-Fi could be to power VoIP calls, Internet, and radio in cars of the future.Ironically, Andy ... Everything in the World's Going Wireless - In Singapore, the Dutch consumer electronics maker Philips is designing a multimedia server to stream audio and video through the air, from the Internet to any device in the home. In Munich, a former unit of Siemens envisions a cordless phone that would double as a music player, wirelessly drawing music from home computers. In Japan, members of Sony's global "digital home team" are redesigning 90% of the company's home electronics components to c... Woz: The Engineer Behind the Apple - At the 2008 Intel Developer Forum, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (right in photo) took the main stage to talk about his love of engineering and science, the process behind developing the Apple II personal computer, and what it's like to be "Employee No. 1" at Apple. Wozniak also spoke of the impact Steve Jobs (left in photo) still has on Apple and its slew of successful products, from the iPod to the iPhone. If he had his wish, he w... Intel's Third Tablet Ready for Back to School Ride - Intel has unveiled the third generation of its low-cost laptop for students, which branches out from the standard clamshell design with a tablet-style option and includes a touch screen.Introduced at the recent Intel Developer Forum 2008 in San Francisco, the new Classmate PC -- slated for deployment by the end of this year -- is aimed primarily at students worldwide in grades 3-8."We spent a lot of time with ethnographers, building thi... Opentape Picks Up Where Muxtape Left Off - With web music fan favorite Muxtape currently out of commission due to "a problem with the RIAA," an open source -- if no more legal -- alternative has appeared: Opentape. Opentape describes itself as "a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web." Or, in other words, a Muxtape clone that's free and open source.The demo mixtape is basically a straight up clone of the Muxtape site. The software uses PHP 5, A... Asterisk GUI 2.0 launches - Yesterday, afternoon I mentioned Asterisk GUI 2.0. Later that evening, Digium "officially" announced Asterisk GUI 2.0 and included some screenshots, which you can check out here: here's a few screenshots to wet your whistle: ... Digium Headquarters Tour - During my tour of Digium's headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama I snapped quite a few photos that I thought I'd share. I'll just share a few here, but if you want to see them all, go check out the online photo album I created specifically for Digium: http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/photos/digium/ Be sure to check my other photo albums as well: http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/photos/ The new Digium headquarters is very impressi... Treo 800w: Now Finally We Get Wi-Fi ... - The first Treo device with built-in Wi-Fi connectivity is worth a look for companies running a Microsoft back-end infrastructure or for die-hard Treo users. Alas Although the Treo 800w is likely the best Treo smart phone Palm has delivered to date, Palm's late adoption of technology now standard on many competing mobile devices leaves the Treo 800w as a middle-of-the-road option for many casual buyers. At long last, Palm has added Wi-Fi connecti... Apple's Got a Few Blemishes of Late ... - So much good news and now so much bad news. The Apple rumor mill is churning, but this week it's about software fixes instead of new products. News reports are raising expectations of yet another iPhone software fix next month. Apparently software update 2.0.2 didn't fix connection problems -- in fact, it created new issues for some iPhone users even as others are wrestling with MobileMe foul-ups that make receiving e-mail on the handset sketch... Amazon To Re-Kindle Its Popular eBook Reader - Amazon will reportedly ship new versions of its Kindle e-book reader before year's end. The original reader launched last November sold out in its first week and had Amazon scrambling to fill holiday orders. While sales have been brisk, estimates vary.A Seattle newspaper confirmed late last week that Amazon.com is in the late stages of rolling out two new versions of Kindle. Reports unconfirmed by Amazon indicate there will be at least two new de... fring touchtone DTMF support - uh hello? - I've been playing around with fring for awhile now. I like fring which I like to call "the Swiss army knife of mobile VoIP and IM", since it works with Skype, SIP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, and AIM. Because it supports SIP, I'm able to configure fring to work on Asterisk-based systems to be able to make and receive phone calls. ... Digium Asterisk Appliance AA1080 or AA1060? - Bill Miller commented I may have seen some yet-unreleased products during my tour. During my tour of Digium's headquarters, I snapped some photos, so I thought perhaps one of my photos might contain some top secret Digium product, so I planned to give them a closer look. Sure enough two of my photos caught my eye. I zoomed in on the photos and noticed a Digium Asterisk Appliance with a model number printed that says "AA1080" or "AA1060". I can't... Digium AsteriskNOW News and more... - As I hinted last week, I would have some "interesting" news to tell after my visit to Digium's brand new headquarters along with colleagues Greg Galitzine and Dave Rodriguez. Before I get into the MAJOR news being made by Digium, let me cover what else I learned on my trip. It had been 3 years since I last visited Digium down in Huntville, Alabama. After getting a grand tour of the new Digium building we ... What Gadget Are You Buying This Weekend? - It's just about prime time for back-to-school shopping so why not add a gadget to the list of pencils, Sharpies, three-ring binders, etc., that make up the usual back-to-school shopping list? So I'm asking you: "What gadget are you buying today?"And let's make it a lot more than a pencil sharpener (although that will come in very handy during the school year.)
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... Meeting with Digium - I had a very interesting meeting with Digium today in Huntsville, AL. Just got back to my hotel and fly back tomorrow. Stay tuned for more on what I learned.Sent from my Windows Mobile? phone.
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Jul 08, 2008
D... Moto Looks To Get Its Mojo Back - Motorola, the world's third-largest handset maker, has just unveiled two new low-end phones on that allow users to listen to songs and surf the Web. Facing stiff competition from handsets such as Apple's iPhone and the Nokia line, Motorola has said it would launch 50 new devices this year, including advanced phones, trying to come up with a strong follow-up to its once-lauded Razr phone. One new handset is a music-enabled camera phone --... Presto! Intel Wants To Make Wires Disappear - Intel has made progress in a technology that could lead to the wireless recharging of gadgets and the end of the power-cord spaghetti behind electronic devices. It says it has increased the efficiency of a technique for wirelessly powering consumer gadgets and computers, a development that could allow a person to place a notebook on a countertop to power it. This could bring the consumer electronics industry a step closer to a world wit... Seinfeld To Battle Mac Guy in Ads - Microsoft, weary of being cast as a stodgy oldster by Apple advertising, is turning for help to Jerry Seinfeld. The software giant's new $300 million advertising campaign, devised by a newly hired ad agency, has been closely guarded. But Mac-loving Seinfeld will be one of the key celebrity pitchmen, say people close to the situation. He will appear with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in ads and receive about $10 million for the work, they say.... Microsoft Debuts Its Surface 30" Interactive Screen at Sheraton - Microsoft is putting its touchy-feely side to the test at the Sheraton Hotel.The software giant recently showed off its new Surface technology at five Sheraton hotels nationwide. The demonstration allowed the public to get a feel for Microsoft's first fully touch-screen computer.The table-like Surface computer operates entirely through a 30-inch interactive screen, which works along the same lines as Apple's iPhone. But the Surface also reco... Internet Finally Takes Off into the Clouds - American Airlines began offering Internet access on long-haul domestic flights today, making American the first U.S. airline to offer full in-flight broadband, according to a Reuters report. The world's largest airline said its passengers on Boeing 767-200 aircraft can pay $12.95 for Internet access on nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, and New York and Miami. Airlines have been racing to get r... Oh No! Don't Spoil Our Fun! Wii Gets Slapped with Patent Infringement - Hillcrest Labs has apparently filed a complaint for patent infringement with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington, D.C., and a separate patent infringement suit in the U.S. District Court in Maryland, against Nintendo, related to the Wii video game system. At issue are Hillcrest's U.S. Patent Nos. 7,158,118, 7,262,760, and 7,414,611, which relate to a hand-held 3-D pointing device, and U.S. Patent No. 7,139,983, which re... Apple's Battery Problems -- Now with iPods! - Remember not all that long ago when just about every computer notebook manufacturer was having problems with batteries -- like catching on fire! Now we have battery problems with cell phones! Apple is blaming a problem its problem with overheating iPods in Japan on faulty batteries.In r... Muxtape: The Day the Music Died (Again) - The music has stopped at Muxtape.com, the free, online music site that allows users to create a playlist or mixtape of up to 12 songs and share the list with friends. It was temporarily shutdown as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) flexed its copyright protecting musclea. The Manhattan-based startup has informed users that it "will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA." The RIAA h... AC/DC & Wal-Mart? Go Figure ... - Who would have figured that Wal-Mart would have become the exclusive retailer for classic rock bands coming back to life?In the latest news in this area, the king of retailers revealed that the new AC/DC album, Black Ice, will be sold exclusively in Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores starting in late October.The deal is part of a wider strategy for the world's biggest retailer to get exclusive deals to sell CDs. It is the latest album to be sold unde... VoSKY Exchange Pro VISIP-EX SIP PBX-to-Skype gateway - VoSKY just announced the VoSKY Exchange Pro VISIP-EX, a SIP-to-Skype gateway product that bridges the Skype network with SIP-based IP-PBXs and SIP gateways. The VoSKY Exchange Pro VISIP-EX enables companies with SIP-enabled PBXs to add Skype trunks for inexpensive calling. This isn't the first SIP-to-Skype gateway, I've written about others here, here, ... Digium AA50 1.2 Software Released - Yesterday, Digium released version 1.2 for the Digium Asterisk Appliance 50 (AA50). It's been awhile since I've heard any news about the AA50, so I'm glad to see Digium is still developing for the AA50 even with their new Switchvox-based AA60 appliance offering and their even newer AA300 & AA350 offerings. Actually, I discussed whether Digium's AA60, AA300, and AA350 would compete against their original AA50 Asterisk appliance, which might be... You Be the Judge! At CES! - If you're a member of the press, an independent designer or an engineer, we want you! (Actually, the International Consumer Electronics Show -- CES -- wants you. And that is some show! This is one that draws hundreds of thousands of people so that the Las Vegas Convention Center -- and some other LV venues -- is filled to overflowing.)Here's what you need to know for now: Are you able to volunteer a little of your time to judge one o... White Muslim convert arrested over ?Gordon Brown assassination plot? - All four men are being questioned about a posting on an Arabic website that often carries messages from senior members of al-Qaeda.
The message, written in English, allegedly included a threat to target "all the political leaders, especially Tony Blair and Gordan (sic) Brown".... Danish publisher hopes to publish The Jewel of Medina - The Jewel of Medina tells the story of Aisha, one of Muhammad's wives, from the age of six to 18 when Muhammad dies.It was bought by Random House US for a reported advance of $100,000, but then dropped after the publisher was told by academics and security experts that publication was potentially more risky than Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and the Danish publication of cartoons of Muhammad. [video]... Israel to Display the Dead Sea Scrolls on the Internet - JERUSALEM ? In a crowded laboratory painted in gray and cooled like a cave, half a dozen specialists embarked this week on a historic undertaking: digitally photographing every one of the thousands of fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the entire file ? among the most sought-after and examined documents on earth ? available to all on the Internet. [video]... Exclusive Brethren sect claims it is being villified - The Exclusive Brethren -- a cult of Christianity -- has accused Australian Greens leader Bob Brown of vilifying its church and members.
Senator Brown yesterday urged the Upper House to conduct a wide-ranging inquiry into the activities of the Exclusive Brethren sect, saying it had prevented thousands of young Australians proceeding to tertiary education.... Kenja Communication cult co-founder?s bizarre plot backfires - A former member of cult Kenja Communications has been granted an apprehended violence order following allegations the co-founder instigated a bizarre plot to intimidate and harass her.
Alison Pels, 20, thought Jan Hamilton and another Kenja co-member ?were going to kill her? when she discovered they had disguised themselves and posed as directors at a stage audition she attended.... South Africa: Alleged boy killer dabbled with Satanism - The parents of a South African schoolboy accused of killing a fellow student with a sword said Thursday that he had experimented with Satanism and was bullied.
"We regret to say that it appears that Morne experimented with Satanism and that it gave him a kind of protection for his psyche," Machiel and Liza Harmse said in a statement in the Afrikaans daily newspaper Die Beeld.... Mac Hammond?s Living Word Christian Center facing IRS investigation - The Internal Revenue Service is investigating whether Living Word Christian Center violated the law for favorable compensation and loan dealings it gave to church founder and pastor Mac Hammond.The church has resisted demands by the IRS to open its books for an audit, and the agency filed a petition in United States District Court ordering the church to comply.... In Egypt, Some Women Say That Veils Increase Harassment - Female travelers consider Egypt one of the worst countries in the world for harassment on the streets -- second only to Afghanistan, where the Taliban forced all women behind the veil and into seclusion in their homes.
And it's not just women's perceptions. The United States and Britain both warn female visitors in travel advisories that they may face unwanted attention, or sexual attacks, in Egypt.... Canada: Calgary officials take the plunge in allowing hijabs at city pools - People in Calgary will now be allowed to swim in city pools wearing saris, hijabs and other religious clothing under a new policy designed to encourage ethnic and religious minorities to participate.But for safety reasons, saris will be banned from the deep end.... More bigamy charges in Texas polygamist sect case - Two of the new indictments issued by a grand jury against members of a polygamist sect added bigamy charges against men already accused of sexual assault of a child.
The indictments, issued by a Schleicher County grand jury Thursday, accuse Michael George Emack, 57, and Raymond Merrill Jessop, 36, of bigamy.... Copyright © 2008, Fwenz.Info. All Rights Reserved. |