Book Launch

It’s amazing that Formula 1 management did not throw the book at McLaren. Despite Denis’s denial that he was squeaky clean and Alonso and Hamilton stating they were whiter than white the truth was plain to see. Then there is Peter Stephney a supposedly loyal Ferrari employee. Did someone believe he was working against Ferrari. Was the white powder put in the Ferrari engines prior to races by this man. Did the Governing Body not rule that that race was void. They could do it when the appeal is launched by Ronnie Boy. He is still shouting the odds that he is completely innocent. In most racing circles all the staff including the drivers see what is going on. They are all culpable and all should pay for cheating. A blind person could see that the fantistic start after the first couple of races meant one thing. They copied someones design and the planted spy in the camp made it easy. I say now to the Formula 1 Governing Body. Get this right and ban McLaren till next year.

Why the heck should Ferrari be punished? They were the team from whom the information was stolen. If someone stole something from your house, would you expect to go to prison for it?

I think Ferrari honestly believe they have been the victims of theft. I’m also inclined to believe Ron Dennis when he says that McLaren as a team didn’t know about it.

The guilty parties here are Coughlan and Stepney. They’re the ones who have brought F1 into disrepute. Whichever way the verdict had gone, F1 would have lost, and I am very angry about that.

Fellow Brits – your thoughts on this…?

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"Islam4UK, a platform for Al-Muhajiroun, have decided to launch a unique campaign in the run up to Christmas, challenging Jews and in particular Christians to an open debate on the true message of Jesus.

This event has been booked for 18th December 2009, precisely one week before Christmas Day and we hereby call out to all Christian leaders in the UK to come forward and defend their claim to Jesus on this special day, if they sincerely believe they are on the truth.

If you or anyone you know are interested in participating in the debate and would like to know more about arrangements for the day please contact Abu Yahya on 07961577221.

You will also witness several articles as a precursor to this event, outlining the life of Jesus (peace be upon him) and his mission, in light of the Qur’an and Sunnah. Indeed, as Muslims we believe that Jesus was a Muslim, and moreover that if he were alive today, that he would reject the evil bureaucracy of man-made law and wholeheartedly embrace the divine law (Shari’ah)of the Final Messenger sent to the whole of mankind, Muhammad (saw).

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So now Muslims are challenging BOTH Jews AND Christians to defend their beliefs – or non beliefs on the part of Jews – regarding Jesus…?

Fellow Brits – your thoughts?

"my invisible friend is better than your invisible friend"

Meh

this girl who gets captured by 4-5 people is knocked unconscious, then taken to a place where there is little light, smelly, musty and is just scary. she is with 10 or so other people, all of which captured by the same people. (but are still alive) she talks to the people and they tell her that they don’t know the reason they were captured, but they say they have heard the kidnappers talking about only capturing healthy people, or as the kidnappers put it. the reason they kidnapped them is because all the people had special abilities( can read minds and special powers like that). the kidnappers brought them here to make them fight in an otherworldly war, (one containing mythical creatures and monsters) so they use their powers and stuff to fight against the "monster" and whatnot.

i have a couple problems that im running into that i just cant seam to figure out!
1. What types of creatures do they fight? I know they are mythical and everything, but what do they do, what can be THEIR special ability?

2. how and where would the battle between them take place? Do they hunt them down where they are (i.e. they hunt down a griffin terrorizing a village) or do the creatures come to them? (i.e. do the creatures launch attacks at the base) or should the creatures be concealed as normal people?

3.Why are the creatures dangerous? like why do the people that kidnapped the others want to go to war with them? what did the creatures do? or i was thinking maybe the creatures werent bad, but the kidnappers were, and they just wanted to blame the creatures for something.

4. how will the story come to a conclusion? will the people with abilities kill off the monsters and live happily ever after or (if i go with my previous idea) will the people find out that the kidnappers were bad and then have something happen to them.

sorry its so long and stuff, and i would be soo thankful if you would help me out! (im having MAJOR writters block today!)

thanks ahead of time!
no problem! glad i can help =D

ok, im just having writters block and im not asking you to fill everything out, just some help!

1. i think all the monsters should have different powers, like the people, that way as you read you can discover more of the abilities they in this "other world" have. ex: animal control, duplication, growth (you can get more ideas if you search super hero powers on Google)

2.OH THEY SHOULD SO BE DISGUISED AS PEOPLE! then when the supernatural people realize there really creatures they can fight.

3.The kidnappers should be the bad guys and they should be trying to keep this "other world" for themselves or something

4.the people should defeat all the kidnappers in the end and live in the other world were they are "normal"

hope this helps!

1.) John Calvin’s proposed reforms centered on ____.
returning to the early Church’s evangelical aims, as discussed in the Gospel
disputing the authority of the Roman Church
erecting a structure to govern the new, reformed Church
[all of the above]
2.) Calvin’s exile from Geneva ____.
resulted from a papal order that banished him from Switzerland
did nothing to change his perspective on how a Christian community should be governed
gave him an opportunity to develop his ‘face-to-face’ evangelistic skills
was self-imposed, as he never returned there
3.) The PC (USA) has moved away from the claim that divine predestination ____.
absolutely condemns some souls to eternal damnation, including infants
has any bearing on human free will
makes God’s grace available to all who do good works
[none of the above]
4.) One reason that may explain why Baptist churches are more decentralized and less hierarchical than Presbyterian churches is that ____.
Baptists place more value than Presbyterians on the duty of each congregation to choose their own spiritual leaders
Baptists reject the need for any human intermediaries, claiming that any lay believer has direct access to God
Presbyterians, following the Calvinist tradition, emphasize internal order and discipline to a much higher degree than Baptists
Baptists do not observe any sacraments or rituals of any kind
5.) Even though Baptist belief and worship tends to be quite diverse, Baptist pastors ____.
commonly condemn many secular activities, including gambling, drinking, and other frivolous pursuits
often encourage parishioners to separate themselves completely from the secular world
all preach that the salvation of non-Christians is possible
[none of the above]
6.) A typical Christian evangelical parish ____.
dismisses the teachings of Roger Williams as heresy
considers the Pope as the Antichrist
never baptizes new members
claims that one’s salvation is assured the moment one allows Jesus into his/her heart, in accordance with John 3:3
7.) The First and Second Great Awakenings were revivalist movements that ____.
energized American colonial churches and made colonists throughout the New World feel a common tie
sparked social activist movements that eventually led to the abolition of slavery and Prohibition
were inspired by preachers who felt Americans had grown indifferent or apathetic to traditional Christianity
[all of the above]
8.) The Mormons credit Joseph Smith for ____.
composing the Book of Mormon
leading the first followers to Utah, the promised land
finding the Golden Tablets left long ago and translating them into English
building the original Salt Lake City temple
9.) According to the (mainline) Mormon Church, ____.
purpose of the Latter-Day Saints is to restore what was the original Christian faith
the maternal role of giving birth and rearing children is sacred and should not be replaced by a professional career
Brigham Young was a prophet whose polygamous ways must be emulated
[none of the above]
10.) Although the seat of the LDS Church is based in Utah, ____.
80% of its members are found outside the state
there are significant numbers of Mormons living outside the USA
Mormons form a demographic majority in two other states
the events that launched the faith occurred in Missouri

If you don’t know them all, just answer the ones you know please!!
This isn’t homework, I go to college, and School has been over for over a month.

cheating on a religion test. Priceless.

The time you took to type this, you could have looked them up.

I’m somewhat guessing on the Mormon questions.

4.) One reason that may explain why Baptist churches are more decentralized and less hierarchical than Presbyterian churches is that ____.
Baptists place more value than Presbyterians on the duty of each congregation to choose their own spiritual leaders
Baptists reject the need for any human intermediaries, claiming that any lay believer has direct access to God

Both

5.) Even though Baptist belief and worship tends to be quite diverse, Baptist pastors ____.

The first two answers are idiotic and insulting. The other answer is wrong, as well. And I attended a Baptist seminary.

6.) A typical Christian evangelical parish ____.
claims that one’s salvation is assured the moment one allows Jesus into his/her heart, in accordance with John 3:3

7.) The First and Second Great Awakenings were revivalist movements that ____.

[all of the above]

8.) The Mormons credit Joseph Smith for ____.

finding the Golden Tablets left long ago and translating them into English

9.) According to the (mainline) Mormon Church, ____.
purpose of the Latter-Day Saints is to restore what was the original Christian faith

10.) Although the seat of the LDS Church is based in Utah, ____.

the events that launched the faith occurred in Missouri

Remember those old photographs taken during World War II, with Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt, plus selected others, posing as masters of the universe? The victors were meeting to carve up Europe, divide the spoils, plan the future, map out a plan for our lives.
Of course they created a political and economic disaster, which is what happens when mere mortals come to believe themselves to be gods.
But there is something about those photographs that continues to inspire political leaders all over the world. They are forever cobbling together grand summits to negotiate important things on a global scale. If there are no issues, they invent them. The supreme goal: to appear in the history books. And the power and money that come in the meantime isn’t a bad thing either.
And so we are represented at the G-8 meeting by Bush the Great, who this time decided two things, both of which are going to cost you plenty.
First, America has decided, meaning Bush on your behalf, to forge ahead with a twenty-five-year-old idea of a missile defense system to protect against incoming nukes. In the talks on this issue, Bush assured us that "there will be a serious set of strategic decisions" to make, and surely he is the right one to make them!
But wait a minute. Wasn’t that idea a Cold War relic that never really went anywhere? The original plan was to move away from the "mutually assured destruction" of the US-Russian nuclear stand-off. Memory jog: our governments had originally planned to "protect" us by promising to retaliate against an oncoming nuclear bomb by launching a bomb against the other guys. That way if tens of millions of people died, at least the survivors would have the consolation of knowing that tens of millions of people in another country had died too.
To end such a ghastly policy was a good idea. But to replace it with a defensive strategy had its own problems. For one thing, it is enormously provocative for a nuclear power to build a defense against nuclear weapons. Consider which is more alarming: a guy pointing an assault weapon at you or a guy in bullet-proof armor pointing an assault weapon at you. The Russians in the 1980s were precisely right to be frightened by the idea of a US missile defense system. It suggested that the US believed it could survive an attack and might be more tempted to launch one.
Whether any of these high-flying gadgets would actually work is another question. A look at the record of government technology in light of NASA does not inspire confidence. But the key thing was the price tag of tens of billions. Truly the military-industrial machine is a harsh mistress, and demands a constant flow of cash.
What does any of this have to do with now? Bush is open to reviving the idea of a missile defense but get this: in cooperation with Russia! Putin was the first to suggest it. He wants the two governments to get together and put a nuclear defense system in Kazakhstan. But wait a minute. If the two great enemies are linking up to build a defense, don’t they need an enemy? Yes, they do and one can always be conjured up. So why not make it Iran? And so they did. And surely in the days ahead we will be reminded of how Russia, after all, was our heroic ally in World War Two.
But the idea that Iran, which has no nuclear bombs at all, is a threat on the scale to challenge both the United States and Russia is utterly implausible on its face. It is a case of a lion vs. a flea. What’s more, if there is a drive in Iran to get nuclear weapons, there is no doubt that the push is not offensive but defensive. After the US exterminated Iraqi civilization, does anyone doubt that Iran has good reason to worry, and a national interest in protecting itself?
Now we move on to the next great idea that Bush had at the G-8 summit. He agreed in principle to discuss reducing US CO2 emissions in the spirit of Kyoto. The whole world cheered. And the left wing in the United States was gratified, even if its spokesmen said that Bush didn’t go far enough.
The trouble with all this talk of emissions reduction is that it takes place at too many levels of abstraction. A century ago, the great economic challenge was industrialization, since everyone understood that industry was the future. Governments took the idea too far, and forced industrialization prevailed from the US to Russia.
And today? The elites desire exactly the opposite: deindustrialization of the most prosperous place on the planet. And of course they want to do this by force.
And let no one doubt that this is precisely what they have in mind for us. They want to take away our cars, barbecue grills, and leaf blowers, and curb the ability of producers to develop and transport their products. Lower emissions means nothing less than a lower standard of living for you and me — and this despite any proof that doing so would make the slightest bit of difference in global temperature trends.
On the margin, more regulations on the use of fossil fuels would also cartelize industry, making it more difficult for smaller players to compete, and raising the price of fuel ever higher. There are some people who might win from the deal: the largest companies and the government. But for the rest of us, this is nothing short of disaster.
(By the way, if Bush really wants to curb emissions, I can think of no better way to start than by ending the gas-guzzling Iraq War.)
What can we say about the Left that has made this its cause célèbre? American leftism once claimed to favor liberty, power to the people, and the disempowerment of elites. Today, they stand and cheer as a horde of power-mongering phonies gather in far-flung estates and plot the future of the world economy. So this is what leftism has come down to: the hope that world dictators will successfully conspire to wreck our standard of living.
Between the right’s love for military socialism and the left’s love of forced de-industrialization, together with the perpetual menace of politicians’ clamor to make history, the cause of liberty needs even more ardent defenders.
L.VON MISES
WAY

that goes to show you that the masters of the universe are not the ones that claim they are and try to make the universe their own, all them men did what they did to make the universe work for THEM and ONLY THEM.

it is the ones that go the extra mile to make universe alot better for future masters, that will take their work and make it alot better for the ones coming up for generations

Democratiya Book Launch, Parliament, April 21, 2008. Q&A

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City of Heroes Going Rogue™, the first major expansion for the City of Heroes franchise since the launch of City of Villains® in 2005. As the name implies, Going Rogue will blur the line between heroes and villains in the first and longest-running super-powered comic book MMO game.
In the Going Rogue expansion, hero and villain characters will become immersed in the new parallel universe known as Praetoria, which is governed by Tyrant™, the evil incarnation of the games main protagonist, Statesman™. As gamers search for Tyrant and the rest of his Praetorian guard, implacable foes and fierce resistance will arise to face them from all sides, causing heroes and villains alike to question their loyalties.
City of Heroes Going Rogue will introduce a new alignment system that helps players explore the shades of gray that lie between good and evil. For the first time, hero characters can become villains and vice versa, enabling hero archetypes to cross over to the Rogue Isles™ and villain archetypes to experience Paragon City™. Clearly marked missions, in addition to behaviors and decisions made by the player, will move a heros or villains moral compass, which could eventually change the heros or villains alignment. Going Rogue will also introduce two primary new fictional characters representative of this alignment shift in the games lore: Maelstrom, a pistol-wielding hero gone rogue, and Desdemona, a demon-summoning villain who has been redeemed.
City of Heroes has brought a fresh new perspective to the MMO stage with its foray into the super-powered hero comic book genre, and we are excited to present gamers with even more innovative content in Going Rogue, said Brian Clayton, general manager and executive producer at Paragon Studios. For years, players could choose between playing as a hero or a villain. Now we will present a third, malleable path where players can be affected by the results of their actions, enabling them to further develop, unveil new perspectives, and overcome new challenges.
NCsoft will share more details on Going Rogue in the coming months. The game is currently in development by NCsofts Paragon Studios, the City of Heroes development team that most recently launched the ground-breaking Mission Architect system. The launch of Mission Architect sets a significant milestone for City of Heroes as the first MMO to allow players to create user-generated content. City of Heroes has and continues to set new standards among its MMO peers and player community with its engaging and approachable comic book-inspired universe theme and consistent delivery of concepts that break the standard MMO mold.

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