From ThisisLondon:
"Hundreds of people were left to die inside a blazing supermarket after security staff locked doors to prevent customers from running out without paying, it emerged today.
Initial reports suggested as many as 340 people were killed when the fire tore through a large shopping centre in the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion after an industrial propane tank exploded.
Police have charged the store's owner Juan Pio Paiva and his son Daniel with homicide after they allegedly ordered security personnel to lock down every exit. Firefighters had to batter down the locked main entrance to the complex before they could reach hundreds of trapped shoppers. "
Monday, August 2, 2004
In New York-- Holland Tunnel Closed To Inbound Truck Traffic
From wnbc.com - News - Holland Tunnel Closed To Inbound Truck Traffic:
"The Holland Tunnel closed to commercial traffic heading to New York at 12:01 a.m. Monday, officials said Sunday evening.
The ban was "correlated to the warning about the downtown financial districts," said Tony Ciavolella, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
He said commercial vehicles should use the Lincoln Tunnel and George Washington Bridge as alternative routes. The ban would definitely affect trucks, said Ciavolella, but it was not immediately clear whether commercial vans would be prohibited.
The ban was not slated to affect vehicles leaving New York City. No ending date for the ban was set."
"The Holland Tunnel closed to commercial traffic heading to New York at 12:01 a.m. Monday, officials said Sunday evening.
The ban was "correlated to the warning about the downtown financial districts," said Tony Ciavolella, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
He said commercial vehicles should use the Lincoln Tunnel and George Washington Bridge as alternative routes. The ban would definitely affect trucks, said Ciavolella, but it was not immediately clear whether commercial vans would be prohibited.
The ban was not slated to affect vehicles leaving New York City. No ending date for the ban was set."
Goward Supports Pope on Women
From The Australian: Goward supports Pope on women [August 02, 2004]:
"Pope John Paul II won unexpected praise from Australia's leading feminist bureaucrat yesterday, when Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward branded the new papal document on women 'a small step forward for man but a great step forward for womankind'.
The Vatican document celebrates sexual difference, attacks extreme feminism for promoting a conflict between the sexes and calls for 'a just valuing of the work of women within the family', so that mothers who work don't have to choose to 'relinquish their family life'. 'What I think the Pope is recognising is that if we don't help women to work and have children we are going to see a continuation of the decline in the fertility rate and in the happiness of women,' Ms Goward told Sky News.
'When the Pope says let's get on with it and support women in both those roles, I think the game's over.'
An advocate of paid maternity leave, Ms Goward said the papal document - a Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and in the World - could even help reverse the falling birthrate.
'We love being different and we love having children,' Ms Goward said. "
"Pope John Paul II won unexpected praise from Australia's leading feminist bureaucrat yesterday, when Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward branded the new papal document on women 'a small step forward for man but a great step forward for womankind'.
The Vatican document celebrates sexual difference, attacks extreme feminism for promoting a conflict between the sexes and calls for 'a just valuing of the work of women within the family', so that mothers who work don't have to choose to 'relinquish their family life'. 'What I think the Pope is recognising is that if we don't help women to work and have children we are going to see a continuation of the decline in the fertility rate and in the happiness of women,' Ms Goward told Sky News.
'When the Pope says let's get on with it and support women in both those roles, I think the game's over.'
An advocate of paid maternity leave, Ms Goward said the papal document - a Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and in the World - could even help reverse the falling birthrate.
'We love being different and we love having children,' Ms Goward said. "
Sunday, August 1, 2004
The Angry Reaction...
Over the Vatican Letter (see below)...
From Top News Article | Reuters.com:
"'This letter could easily have been written by an imam of al-Azhar,' she said referring to Sunni Islam's most respected institution of religious learning in Cairo.
'To be fair to the Catholic Church, no religion is a great friend of women,' she told the Corriere della Sera newspaper. 'They pay you a lot of compliments but when push comes to shove they ask you to stay in your place: wife, nurse, mother and grandmother.' "
From Top News Article | Reuters.com:
"'This letter could easily have been written by an imam of al-Azhar,' she said referring to Sunni Islam's most respected institution of religious learning in Cairo.
'To be fair to the Catholic Church, no religion is a great friend of women,' she told the Corriere della Sera newspaper. 'They pay you a lot of compliments but when push comes to shove they ask you to stay in your place: wife, nurse, mother and grandmother.' "
Saturday, July 31, 2004
Thieving squirrels par for the course for Edmonton golfers
They regularly deliver golf balls to our back yard, a 1/4 of a mile from the golf course.
From CBC News: Thieving squirrels par for the course for Edmonton golfers:
"Golfers often have to deal with the frustration of watching their golf balls swallowed up by sand traps or water hazards.
But at Riverside Golf Course in Edmonton, players have another type of obstacle to watch for -- squirrels. "
From CBC News: Thieving squirrels par for the course for Edmonton golfers:
"Golfers often have to deal with the frustration of watching their golf balls swallowed up by sand traps or water hazards.
But at Riverside Golf Course in Edmonton, players have another type of obstacle to watch for -- squirrels. "
Zarqawi captured on Syrian - Iraq border?
Came across this, but haven't seen anything else about it.
From albawaba.com: Kuwaiti newspaper: Zarqawi captured on Syrian - Iraq border:
"Reports in Kuwait on Friday said a man assumed to be Al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi has been captured near the Syrian border.
Zarqawi, whose Tawhid and Jihad group has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks in Iraq, was captured during a joint operation by US forces and Iraqi police, Al Siyasah newspaper, quoting informed Iraqi sources, said Friday. "
From albawaba.com: Kuwaiti newspaper: Zarqawi captured on Syrian - Iraq border:
"Reports in Kuwait on Friday said a man assumed to be Al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi has been captured near the Syrian border.
Zarqawi, whose Tawhid and Jihad group has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks in Iraq, was captured during a joint operation by US forces and Iraqi police, Al Siyasah newspaper, quoting informed Iraqi sources, said Friday. "
New Vatican Document
Released Today. Among other issues, presents a Biblical basis for the separation of the sexes.
First those that result from the Fall:
Original sin changes the way in which the man and the woman receive and
live the Word of God as well as their relationship with the Creator. Immediately
after having given them the gift of the garden, God gives them a positive
command (cf. Gn 2:16), followed by a negative one (cf. Gn 2:17), in which
the essential difference between God and humanity is implicitly expressed.
Following enticement by the serpent, the man and the woman deny this
difference. As a consequence, the way in which they live their sexual
difference is also upset. In this way, the Genesis account establishes a
relationship of cause and effect between the two differences: when humanity
considers God its enemy, the relationship between man and woman becomes
distorted. When this relationship is damaged, their access to the face of
God risks being compromised in turn.
God's decisive words to the woman after the first sin express the kind
of relationship which has now been introduced between man and woman: “your
desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you” (Gn 3:16). It will
be a relationship in which love will frequently be debased into pure
self-seeking, in a relationship which ignores and kills love and replaces it
with the yoke of domination of one sex over the other. Indeed the story of
humanity is continuously marked by this situation, which recalls the three-fold
concupiscence mentioned by Saint John: the concupiscence of the flesh, the
concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life (cf. 1 Jn 2:16). In this tragic
situation, the equality, respect and love that are required in the relationship
of man and woman according to God's original plan, are lost.
Then from the New Testament and how Christ overcomes this Fall for those who believe in Him:
“For all of you who have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ... there
is neither male nor female”, writes Saint Paul to the Galatians (3:27-28). The
Apostle Paul does not say that the distinction between man and woman, which in
other places is referred to the plan of God, has been erased. He means rather
that in Christ the rivalry, enmity and violence which disfigured the
relationship between men and women can be overcome and have been overcome. In
this sense, the distinction between man and woman is reaffirmed more than ever;
indeed, it is present in biblical revelation up to the very end. In the final
hour of present history, the Book of Revelation of Saint John, speaking of “a
new heaven and a new earth” (Rev 21:1), presents the vision of a feminine
Jerusalem “prepared as a bride adorned for her husband” (Rev 21:2). Revelation
concludes with the words of the Bride and the Spirit who beseech the coming of
the Bridegroom, “Come, Lord Jesus!” (Rev22:20).
Purpose of the document as stated in the Introduction is to spark conversation. I think it will certianly do that.
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