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Archbishop Oscar Romero
Óscar Arnulfo Romero was born on August 15, 1917. He was a prominent Roman Catholic priest in El Salvador and became Archbishop of San Salvador in 1977. After witnessing numerous violations of human rights, he began to speak out on behalf of the victims, leading to conflicts, both with the government of El Salvador and within the Catholic Church. The U.S. military supported the government of El Salvador, and it was while he was calling for soldiers to disobey orders to fire on innocent civilians, that Archbishop Romero was shot dead. He was celebrating Mass in the chapel of the hospital where he lived and it is believed that his assassins were members of Salvadoran death squads, including two graduates of the School of the Americas.
His father apprenticed him to a carpenter when he was 13, but the young Romero felt a vocation for the Catholic priesthood and was ordained in 1942. Romero spent the first two and half decades of his ministerial career as a parish priest and diocesan secretary in San Miguel. In 1970 he became auxiliary bishop of San Salvador until 1974, when the Vatican named him to the diocese of Santiago de María, a poor, rural region encompassing his hometown. In 1977 he returned to the capital to succeed as archbishop.
Romero's rise in the Catholic hierarchy coincided with a period of radical change in the Church in Latin America. Oscar Romero's reputation was as a conservative and so it was some surprise that Romero emerged, almost immediately, as an outspoken opponent of injustice and defender of the poor.
By Romero's own account, he owed his change of attitude to his brief tenure as bishop of Santiago de María, where he witnessed first-hand the suffering of El Salvador's poor. Increasing government violence against the socially committed undermined his trust in the authorities and led him to fear that the Church was under attack. The assassination in1977 of his friend, Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande, brought a denunciation from Romero and he suspended masses the following Sunday, demanding the punishment of the responsible parties.
As Romero spoke out more and more over the following months, and crowds gathered to hear him preach, in the cathedral or over the archdiocesan radio station. Romero had been a pioneer of broadcast evangelism in El Salvador, and he now turned the medium to great effect as he denounced the violence of El Salvador's civil war with it's deep-rooted abuse and injustice. In a country whose rulers regarded dissent as subversion, Romero used the moral authority of his position as archbishop to speak out on behalf of those who could not do so for themselves. He soon came to be known as the "Voice of the Voiceless."
A coup d'état overthrew the Salvadoran government on October 15, 1979 and Romero expressed cautious support for the reformist junta which replaced it. He soon became disenchanted, however, as the persecution of the poor and the Church continued. In February 1980 he addressed an open letter to U.S. President Jimmy Carter in which he called upon the United States to discontinue military aid to the regime
Romero's campaign for human rights in ElSalvador won him many national and international admirers as well as a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. It also won him enemies, however. On March 24, 1980, an assassin fired from the door of the chapel where Romero was celebrating mass and shot him dead. The archbishop had foreseen the danger of assassination and had spoken of it often, declaring his willingness to accept martyrdom if his blood might contribute to the solution of the nation's problems. "As a Christian," he remarked on one such occasion, "I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me, I shall rise again in the Salvadoran people."


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Lollapalooza 2012 Lineup Announced
After several rumors and teases, the respected Chicago Tribune has announced the official Lollapalooza 2012 (August 3-5) lineup. As previously speculated, rock veterans Red Hot Chili Peppers and a reunited Black Sabbath (damn) will headline along with contemporary rockers the Black Keys and Jack White.
Also on the bill: Florence + the Machine, Passion Pit, the Shins, Sigur Ros, Fun., M83, The Weeknd, Frank Ocean, Franz Ferdinand, Metric, Alabama Shakes, Dawes, Die Antwoord, Tune-Yards, Mona, Sharon Van Etten, the Growlers, the Gaslight Anthem, Hey Rosetta!, JEFF the Brotherhood, Band of Skulls, Anamanaguchi, SBTRKT, First Aid Kit, Tame Impala, Wax, the Walkmen, FIDLAR, JJ Grey & Mofro, LP, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, Gary Clark Jr..
Milo Greene, Neon Indian, Dum Dum Girls, Kopecky Family Band, Washed Out, the Jezabels, Aloe Blacc, Trampled by Turtles, Yuna, Bear in Heaven, Walk Off the Earth, Blind Pilot, Animal Kingdom, Chairlift, Dev, J. Cole, the Black Angels, the Sheepdogs, Yellow Ostrich, the Dunwells, Givers, DJ Mel, Polica, Empires, Bombay Bicycle Club, Kevin Devine, Wale, Michael Kiwanuka
Dry the River, White Rabbits, Helena, Haley Reinhart, Imaginary Cities, the Head & the Heart, the Devil Makes Three, Overdoz, the Big Pink, Oberhofer, Ambassadors, Twin Shadow, the War on Drugs, DJ Zebo, the Tallest Man on Earth, Chancellor Warhol, Toro Y Moi, O Rappa, Laura Warshauer, Dr. Dog, Bowerbirds, Red Oblivion, Of Monsters and Men, Orchard Lounge.
Perry's stage: Bassnectar, Santigold, Skream & Benga, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Kaskade, Little Dragon, Star Slinger, Calvin Harris, Porter Robinson, Nadastrom, Nero, Sub Focus, DJ Nihal, Madeon, the White Panda, Knife Party, Zedd, Salva, Zeds Dead, Paper Diamond, Kid Color, Big Gigantic.
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Nail-spiked cheese cubes have not been found in Chicago dog parks.
Dog owners went into a frenzy after a photo circulating Facebook depicted a handful of cheese squares laced with what appeared to be roofing nails. Notices attached to the photo claimed that such cheese cubes had been discovered at parks in Chicago and Massachusetts.
The Facebook thread falsely warned: "New trend at dog parks, nails in pieces of cheese, if you take your dogs to dog parks, be careful."
The threat was proven a hoax, though, and there are no confirmed reports of this happening at the alleged locations, according to Snopes.com.
The photo did come from an actual incident. According to Snopes.com, it was snapped in Buenos Aires, Argentina last July after a dog walker saw the cheese cubes on the floor of a kennel in the city's Centennial Park.
Cheese Cubes with Nails is Facebook Hoax
A Facebook photo shows cheese cubes embedded with nails, said to be found in Chicago dog parks
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Solidarity Federation
In the last election, about 22 million of us didn't vote [1]. That's more people than voted for any political party. It's not because we're apathetic – it's because most of us see through the "good cop, bad cop" routine of Labour and the Tories. Both parties support cuts, privatising the NHS, and making life hell for benefits claimants. [2] In the same way that a "good cop" will offer a cup of tea and a "friendly chat" while a "bad cop" shouts and makes threats, the Tories jeer at "scroungers" while Labour smiles and talks about the need to be practical. But whatever they promise in their manifestos, they both want to do the same thing – to screw us over on behalf of the rich.
Police tried to cause trouble so they could make arrests yesterday as a group of about 50+ protesters broke away from the TUC to protest at the Tory Local Governemtn Conference to show the public what was going on. The TUC meekly hid away in City Square in Leeds, the breakaway (inc WYSF) moved to the edge of the square were people could see us. The police tried to stop this even claiming they'd "provided a space for us". They were informed they couldn't stop us so did a sort of weak kettle (stopping any group of people leaving or joining but not really individuals). Most of the cops tactics was intelligence gathering, which when disrupted "accidentally" with flags etc really seemed to piss them off. As far as we are aware there where no arrests.
Picket of the Tory Local Government Conference Queens Hotel, Leeds:
WYSF were joined by Leeds AFed, the Save REMPLOY Factories Campaign (GMB/Unite) and the SWP picketing the conference. Approx 20 of us took part (supported by even more police inc horses :) ). Had a great response from the public with busses, taxis, council workers, private workers and individuals all honking horns in support as they passed. Big thanks to all who turned out and prob see you all tomorrow for the TUC rally.
Today saw the start of the Royal College of GPs conference in Liverpool. Keep Our NHS Public held a protest outside the venue, the BT Convention Centre, as health minister Andrew Lansley was set to be the day's keynote speaker. Members of Liverpool Solidarity Federation joined the action.
As the land was private property, the security had taken the trouble to set up a protest pen using steel barricades, in which the demonstrators were to be contained. Liverpool Solfed members and others were resistant to this, but too many of those who turned up complied willingly either by going inside or by keeping their distance from the centre whilst giving out leaflets. The minority who chose not to be caged - especially as there were no police present! - simply kept moving about so that they were never static enough to be herded back to the pen.
On Sunday 2nd October, members of Solidarity Federation were amongst those who descended on Manchester to demonstrate at the start of the Tory Party Conference. 30,000 people took part in the march, and there was an occupation of Albert Square which at the time of writing is still ongoing.
See Liverpool Solidarity Federation's pictures of the demo here.
Read Liverpool members' individual reflections on the day on the Truth, Reason & Liberty and Working Class Self-Organisation blogs.
This is a letter written by Liverpool SolFed and printed in the Liverpool Echo newspaper yesterday (6th July 2011).
The occupations and demonstrations that have rocked Spain in opposition to austerity, unemployment and party politics have reached Brighton. At least 30 people, mostly from Spain, were occupying part of the Old Steine in Brighton city centre tonight in solidarity with the movement in Spain. An assembly run on directly democratic lines, with a megaphone being passed around participants, discussed tactics and goals of the camp, with decisions made to stage further protests and put on a programme of workshops. The assembly also reiterated its independence from all political ideologies and parties.
According to a headline in the Chronicle and Echo, "THE LARGEST cuts faced by Northamptonshire County Council in years have been approved by the Conservative leaders of the authority, despite the politicians admitting it was the last thing they wanted to do."
The last thing they wanted to do?
I can think of at least one option they could have taken. Any councillor whose conscience was against the cuts could have taken the decision to resign their position. But they didn't.
There are two conclusions:
1. They actually did want to vote for the cuts, or
Joe Anderson, the leader of Liverpool City Council, is trying to paint himself as some kind of anti-cuts rebel. On 29th January he joined an anti-cuts march in Liverpool, not long after he wrote to David Cameron to withdraw Liverpool from the Big Society, and now he is asking people to march against the cuts this Sunday. This is nothing more than cheap political opportunism, and it should be rejected.
He tells us that the council is "bracing itself" for the cuts. He "warns" us that compulsory redundancies in the council will come. He is "incensed" by Liberal Democrats accusing him of having a "politically motivated" approach to job cuts.


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On the subject of adventure, let's take a look at one of RCI's most popular vessels – the aptly named Royal Caribbean Adventure of the Seas.
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All this, and it's not as expensive as you might think. You can go direct to Royal Caribbean to explore their various ships and itineraries, or scour the market and compare against other cruise lines through tour operators like Thomas Cook. To make life simpler, you can book a Thomas Cook Cruise or explore the options online, over the phone or by popping into a high street shop. It's a great way to get your sea-faring adventure off to the best possible start.


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Thinking Allowed, THINKING ALOUD.
Jeff Ooi is the founder of USJ.com.my, a grassroot-managed portal targetting Malaysia's K-generation.
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Last year, a student needed a minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average of 3.88 to study medicine at oneof the public universities. This year, the bar is higher. The maximum CGPA of 4.0 is needed. A total of 907 applicants have that, but there are 779 places. So, 128 failed to make the cut, and so did the rest of the applicants with CGPAs of 3.99 and below. The 128 are naturally dissatisfied and their parents disappointed. They have been joined by politicians, activists and the general public who are not only sympathetic to their plight, but have kicked up a storm to give them a chance to fulfil their dream of becoming doctors. Their prospects have become brighter since the Prime Minister has said the Government is looking into ways to help them
The No. 3 Paper continues to fill the subsequent paragraphs of the leader with rationales skewed towards Bumiputera-ism and alleged racial discrimination, which the paper says, is doing "great injustice to Bumiputera students". More excerpts:
Bumiputera students have been saddled for far too long withthe prejudice that they do not go to university on merit. It is three years since the quotadriven affirmative-action university admission policy was dismantled. But it seems that the dissatisfaction, resentment and culture of victimhood is created still colour the perceptions of many Malaysians.
It, however, give an aesthetic makeover to the Op-Ed piece by saying that, "It is time we became colur-blinded and looked at education in a neutral light."
BN PARTY HELPING OUT. Despite the racial posturing in Utusan Malaysia and the NST, MCA has asked the 128 top-scorers to file their appeals and not to give up in despair.
Yesterday, the MCA headquarters were swarmed with over 400 frustrated students who voiced their grievances and intent to appeal for places in the public universities.
According to MCA Youth chief Ong Tee Keat, mostof the students were not offered the courses they applied fro or were offered courses which were incompatible with their studies.
He said theparty would go all out to help the students in their appeals because "we don't want another round of brain-drain to happen".
On the other hand, health minister Dr Chua Soi Lek said the government loses on average one doctor EVERYDAY as the number of doctors who retire or quit to join the private sector is about 300 per year. As a result, only about 700 doctors are left in government service at the end of each year though the six IPTA and six IPTS that offer medical programmes can train about 1,000 doctors annually.
Dr Chua said Malaysia still needs 3,300 doctors, 700 specialists, 600 pharmacies, 500 dentists and 5,000 nurses in order to achieve the 1:650 doctor-patient ratio by 2015.
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Sunday, May 30, 2004
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I remember well that peasants and literati - journalists included - were not entitled to even an iota of opinion under Mao Zedung. That was also about the time some 30 years ago when Razak first stepped foot at Tien-An-Men.
It's hilariously amazing to note how, 30 years after Malaysia-China established bilateral diplomatic relationship, an archaic mind in modern suits has been annointed to lead Abdullah's spin - now by publicly taking along senior editors from other newspapers down the commune path.
Big Brothers of mainstream press unite?
Let him shout. But bloggers can and should do NONE of this! It's pure-play Maoism and Stalinism in the eyes of my generation of information consumers - thinking allowed, thinking aloud.
Haven't we seen enough tragedies under the tyranny of media blackouts?
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The Star highlighted on Friday that the 128 STPM and matriculation students who obtained the maximum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.0 had failed to get a place in medicine, their first choice. Only 779 out of 907 top students who applied were successful.
On hindsights, we are enlightened with three types of reaction coming out of this: ( 1 ) From the mainstream media ( 2 ) From the political parties ( 3 ) From the budding talents whose future the braind ead dictates.
1. From the mainstream media.
As usual, Awang Selamat came out with a Sunday commentary for the propaganda machienry to gain a grounding.
This is how Awang dispensed with his verdict:
Masalah tentu akan timbul jika sistem meritokrasi terus dipersoalkan. Hakikatnya, terdapat juga pelajar Melayu yang layak tetapi tidak mendapat pengajian pilihan masing-masing. Mereka juga kecewa seperti para pelajar Cina dan India.
I expect the spin in the Malay media and the bureaucrats to sustain this posture until the issue is swept under the carpet, and to be revisited the same time next year. The Malay press simply love the messy-go-round in higher education as far as their past records can attest.
2. From the political parties.
Thus far, MCA minister Dr Chua Soi Lek, MIC minister S. Samy Vellu and Gerakan deputy minister Kerk Choo Teng have spoken up on the issue.
Generally, their grouses centred on one issue: The frustrations voiced by students who had obtained excellent results but had failed to gain entry into medical schools, and others who could not gain admission into courses or public universities of their choice.
Health Minister Dr Chua said he will propose to the Cabinet that the public universities offering medical courses increase their intake and admit the 128 top-scoring students in the STPM and matriculation examinations who had been denied admissions.
He said: "There are six public universities with the facilities to conduct the medical course. If each takes in another 20, I'm sure this (problem) can be solved." This are his rationales, from the 'Brain-Gain' point of view, as told to The Star:
He said it was good to know many young and talented students chose to pursue medicine as this would help resolve the doctor shortage in the country and for it to achieve a 1:650 doctor-patient ratio by 2020.
This is, by far, the only perspective that cuts across the clutter of seeing things from the racial point of view.
Meanwhile, MIC president S. Samy Vellu has also joined the chorus of protests, saying he would take the plight of the top students to the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
DAP chief Lim Kit Siang revealed that last year's best STPM science student Koong Lin Yee, one of the 52 students who scored 5As, was denied a place for medical study at his first choice university.
(If you remember, Koong of SMK Tunku Ampuan Durah, Seremban was specially mentioned by the Malaysian Examinations Council chairman, Prof Dr Abu Hassan Othman, as the best student in the Science stream while Nuraidila Abdul Razak, of SM Victoria in Kuala Lumpur, was the top Arts student.)
Lim also cited the case of another top STPM scorer with 5As, Murrali Silvarajoo, who scored 5 straight As and obtained a CGPA of 4.0, had his application to do medicine rejected. Instead, he has been offered a place to study chemical engineering at University of Malaya, his sixth choice.
On the other hand, according to Oriental Daily News (May 31, Page A2), Gerakan's Kerk wanted officials at the Higher Education Ministry must be taken to task for allowingthe issue to recur.
"I believe there is nothing wrong with our meritocracy policy, but the anomalies lie with implementation," he said. "We made so many suggestions but the problems still persist. Looks like the officials at the Ministry of Higher Education must make the relevant reviews."
Whereas, MCA Youth Education Bureau chief Dr Wee Ka Siong cited the case of Malaysia's best student who was denied a place in the university and highlighted that there were systemic errors in the selection process.
He termed this an administrative bias of the ministry officials and, like Gerakan's Kerk, demanded an immediate correction of the mistakes.
Wee said STPM students, particularly those with straight As and not offered any of the eight choices they listed in their applications to enter public universities, should be allowed to put in additional options in their appeals.
Gerakan National Youth Chief Mah Siew Keong, commenting on the same issue, said the Higher Education Department should consider hiring foreigners to overcome the shortage of lecturers at local universities, an issue often used by the bureaucrats to justify their selection criteria. He told The Star:
"It is very sad to know that there are no places for students who scored perfect results to study medicine despite a shortage of more than 3,200 doctors at government hospitals.
Both MCA Youth and Parti Gerakan will deliberate on the issue this evening, respectively, before coming out with an official announcement.
3. From the budding talents whose future the brain-dead dictates.
Sorry, I have not seen Utusan Malaysia, NST or representatives from other Barisan Nasional component parties ever bothered to help articulate their views. But you have plentiful of the candidates' unhappiness in the vernacular press. I'd appreciate if anyone could update us on what is published in the Tamil press on this issue as I am handicapped in the language.
If you probe further, higher education at IPTA is very much a kin to Robinhood. If the 5As students have to give way to the mediocre ones for the top places in universities, then the only twist to 'Robinhoodism' is that you are allowed to rob the knowledge-rich to aid the knowledge-poor.
That is to say that it's all zero-sum game in our higher education where all variables like student-lecturer ratio are read as somebody's gain must be somebody's loss.
Thirdly, the same bunch of people who set Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) as the definitive criteria for university admission cannot up-keep its merits.
All this, when read together, is another brain-dead showcase of our thinking faculty.
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SO MUCH has been invested in the narrative that Jim Harbaugh is inevitably going to take Michigan to the football promised land, where Big Ten titles and playoff appearances are common place. Included as part of that narrative is the expectation that he'll bring Michigan to at least parity with Ohio State and that MSU will be reduced to an afterthought.
What if it doesn't happen, though? What if after all the investment of energy and hope and want-to, Michigan can't get over the hump? There's a school of thought that this is somehow the end for Michigan State, that this past weekend was the last time they'll ever go into a game against a Harbaugh led Michigan team with a talent advantage. Based on the facts, though, why should anyone believe that some massive sea change is coming? Michigan State continues to recruit at its highest level in decades and shows no signs of slowing down. Mark Dantonio's not going anywhere and it would seem to be unlikely that he suddenly loses his ability to both identify and develop talent. With Ohio State, you're talking about a virtual guarantee of highly talented rosters and another head coach who's shown an unquestioned ability to develop that talent over time.
Can Michigan get better? Of course, and I think they will. Thing is, that doesn't mean the end result necessarily changes as a bottom line, even if the games are more competitive. What if Harbaugh's Michigan is just a good program which only occasionally proves capable of winning a division, never mind all the rest? What if, God forbid, he can't even pull THAT off? What then for the psyche of the Worst Fanbase In America?
Nothing's guaranteed in life. This is particularly so when the competition is fierce and the other guys can match you on every level that matters. What happens to Michigan Man then, when his messiah proves false? Can Michigan Man keep on living? Does he have to give up watching sport entirely, as so many of them wailed on Saturday night? I don't think those folks want to think very deeply about questions like these but they should.


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Soccer is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.
The word "soccer," which is believed to have originated in Britain some 200 years ago, comes from the official name of the sport, "association football." As other versions of the game evolved to include Rugby Football, it is believed the Brits adopted colloquialisms to distinguish each game.
Ever since the game soccer was introduced, it has been played by millions of players around the world and soccer banners have been used since time immemorial. Team banner plays an important role in the success of every soccer players, they act as a memorabilia once the game season is over. They don't just act as decoration or a way to show your support to the team but most players keep a piece of their banner as keepsake.


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South Gippsland near Agnes Falls © Emmy Silvius
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The go-to principle of doing gun disarms in Krav Maga is Redirect, Control, Attack, and Take Away. You'll see it referred to by its acronym, RCAT, in our classes. Many gun disarms that we teach at Krav Maga Reborn in our higher level classes involve grabbing the handgun and redirecting it as the gun most likely discharges.
Some people assume that grabbing a handgun by the slide when it discharges will result in grievous damage to your hand. Although at first that may seem reasonable, it is in fact an incorrect assumption. What does happen is that the gun will fail to go into battery for the followup round, thus leaving the gun useless until cleared.
Here is a video of some guys demonstrating that you can grab a handgun by its slide and not suffer any damage. Keep in mind, this video is to demonstrate the gun grab aspect, not the take away.
As you can see, it's absolutely possible to grab the slide, the gun fires, and to not hurt your hand.