Sunday, July 14, 2013

Religion In Ancient Rome

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Source: worldstuff.net --- Friday, July 12, 2013
Religion In Ancient Rome:- Religion played a very important role in the daily life of Ancient Rome and the Romans. Roman religion was centred around gods and explanations for events usually involved the gods in some way or another. The Romans believed that gods controlled their lives and, as a result, spent a great deal [...] ...

Source: http://worldstuff.net/religion-in-ancient-rome.html

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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Protecting Your Online Privacy

With the NSA conducting surveillance on our data and Google scanning our email, how can we protect our personal information? Jon Xavier, digital producer at Silicon Valley Business Journal, discusses the services that you can use to make your information more secure and private.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2013/07/12/201461168/protecting-your-online-privacy?ft=1&f=1007

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Egypt's divide turns brother against brother

By Peter Graff and Tom Finn

CAIRO (Reuters) - Islam Ibrahim has no idea if his older brother Nasim was one of the Republican Guardsmen shooting at him when he and hundreds of other Egyptians were wounded and more than 50 killed.

The brothers, who moved together to Cairo from a village near the Suez Canal, stayed close until last week, when the army in which Nasim serves toppled the president that Islam has vowed to defend.

"I don't know if he was there with them or not," said Islam, 24, with a bandage from a gunshot on his knee and an open wound from birdshot on his shoulder.

"I don't like to think about it. If he was, I know he wouldn't fire on unarmed demonstrators," he said. He sat on a plastic chair behind the stage at the camp near a Cairo mosque where thousands of supporters of the deposed president, Mohamed Mursi, say they will keep a protest vigil until he is restored.

The overthrow of Mursi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, has split the country like no other event in memory, dividing brothers from brothers, fathers from sons and husbands from wives.

Two days after the army ousted Mursi following escalating street protests against his rule, Islam called his brother to invite him to a pro-Mursi rally.

"He said I should be at home celebrating and that the army had saved the country from chaos," recalled Islam. The brothers have not spoken since.

A few days later, Islam was among protesters outside the headquarters of his brother's Republican Guard when they were fired upon in one of the deadliest incidents in more than two years of political unrest.

"I was still praying when I heard the gunfire. I was 300 meters away from the soldiers. They were shooting teargas over our heads," said Islam, clutching a walking cane in one hand and a Koran in a brown leather case in the other.

BULLETS FLYING

"I heard bullets flying in all directions. Everyone was running left and right. Some of my friends were throwing rocks at the soldiers. We made a shield out of steel traffic barriers, but my leg was sticking out and a bullet struck me in the knee.

"My friend helped me stop the bleeding with his shirt. As I was running back another bullet hit me in the shoulder."

The army says the violence was provoked by terrorists who attacked its troops. The Brotherhood says its supporters were fired upon while peacefully praying. Footage circulated widely on the Internet shows uniformed snipers firing from rooftops.

The most chilling of those videos was filmed by Ahmed Assem, a baby-faced 26-year-old photographer for a Muslim Brotherhood newspaper. The footage shows a sniper shooting off to one side, then suddenly turning straight towards the photographer and firing. Assem's camera blacks out at the moment of impact from the shot that killed him.

Assem too came from a divided family: he was the only Mursi supporter in a household raised to despise the Brotherhood.

His father Samir Assem, a doctor, is furious that the Brotherhood has declared his son a martyr: "Trading in blood. Trading in blood," he says angrily.

The slain photographer's older brother Eslam, who picked up the body at the morgue on Monday, is a captain in the police. Photos in a frame at the family home show the two men, the younger smiling in a button-down shirt, the older standing proudly in his dress uniform.

The brothers occasionally used to chide each other about their allegiances, said Eslam.

LIKE ANY TWO BROTHERS

"I would speak to him, like any two brothers," he recalled at the family home in a middle-class Cairo district. "'Leave the Muslim Brotherhood.' 'No, you leave the Ministry of Interior.'"

They stayed close despite the disputes: "He is my brother. That's the only thing. He is my brother. He is working in the newspaper. I am working in the Ministry of the Interior. But the last thing is: he is my brother."

Eslam has no doubt that the video his brother filmed shows he was an innocent victim of a deliberate killing by a soldier who picked him out of the crowd.

"His only crime is that he is recording a video. He has no gun, no pistol, no nothing in his hand, but a camera," he said. He plans to report the killing to prosecutors, to try to bring the soldier who killed his brother to justice.

But his brother's death has not shaken his hatred for the Brotherhood: "The Muslim Brotherhood leaders are devils," he said. "None of the kids who died were the children of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. It's never their sons who are being sent into the line of fire."

Back at the tent at the Brotherhood camp, Islam Ibrahim tells of how close he and his soldier brother were when they moved to Cairo three years ago. Nasim was sent to the capital to serve in the Republican Guard; Islam found a job teaching Arabic at a mosque.

Their father, head of a tourism company, had been a member of the Brotherhood in the 1980s and 90s who quit after he was arrested and tortured by autocrat Hosni Mubarak's secret police. Islam joined the Brotherhood at 18 after he heard a sermon from a preacher from Alexandria. He revealed his membership to his father but kept it from his mother so she would not worry.

The brothers' politics overlapped during the 2011 revolution that toppled Mubarak. They attended protests together then, but drifted apart a bit after Mubarak's fall. Islam knew that Nasim disapproved of his ties to the Brotherhood. Still, they had remained on good terms until now.

Today, he cannot imagine how Nasim can remain in an army that toppled an elected president and shot so many people.

"He has to leave the army now. It is no longer possible to support Egypt and support the army. Those two things are incompatible," Islam said.

"I have called him but he doesn't answer his phone."

(Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Will Waterman and Eric Walsh)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-divide-turns-brother-against-brother-002645626.html

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Why Leah Remini Is Leaving the Church of Scientology

Leah Remini is breaking up with Scientology. The King of Queens actress, a longtime member of the controversial church, has reportedly left after years of tension with leader David Miscavige. According to sources, Miscavige subjected Remini to years of interrogation, scrutiny and punishment -- all because of an incident that happened at Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes's wedding.

Source: http://www.ivillage.com/why-leah-remini-leaving-church-scientology/1-a-541430?dst=iv%3AiVillage%3Awhy-leah-remini-leaving-church-scientology-541430

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Vintage Baseball Game Comes To Easton Saturday

EASTON, Conn. ? Easton?s Veterans Park will travel back to the 19th century Saturday for a pair of old-rules baseball games that pay tribute to the sport?s beginnings.

The Friends of Vintage Base Ball, a Hartford-based re-enactment group, will play a pair of games at Veterans Park on July 13. The event is co-sponsored by the Historical Society of Easton and the Parks and Recreation Department.

Along with period-appropriate uniforms, the players will operate under 19th-century rules, using different eras as their guides for each of the two games. The first game will be played as if in the 1960s, the second under 1880s rules.

Compared with the current rules, some of the changes are small, such as the pitcher standing closer to the batter and throwing underhand. Other changes are more noticeable, including that early-era players fielded with their bare hands and umpires did not award walks?batters took as many pitches as necessary until they hit a ball in play or struck out.

Fans also won?t see another common occurrence in modern baseball: arguments with an umpire. As the Friend of Vintage Base Ball say, 19th-century umpires were treated with the same respect as a judge in his courtroom.

?In the Civil War era of base ball, there was only one umpire and his word was law,? the group says on its website. ?Players were not allowed to speak to the umpire unless spoken to, and at all times, the umpire was to be addressed as ?Sir.??

The first game will start at 11 a.m., with the second game at about 12:30 p.m. Both games are at Veterans Park, 366 Sport Hill Road, Easton.

Tickets are $5 each, $20 for families of four or more and free for children under 5. Seating is scarce, so attendees are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs.

Source: http://westport.dailyvoice.com/sports/vintage-baseball-game-comes-easton-saturday

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

To Drive More Clicks, Twitter Is Testing A Feature That Reveals Where Popular Tweets Have Appeared

twitter embedded tweetA little over a year ago, Twitter kicked off an initiative to experiment with different ways of making tweets more interactive -- a strategy that has brought us Twitter cards with previews, and shortcodes for embedding tweets elsewhere. Today, one of the latest experiments is adding more data into the mix: a list of sites linking to where a tweet has been embedded.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Xb-C7C_vi4c/

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Monday, July 1, 2013

Kazakhstan trade trip poses human rights test for UK's Cameron

By Andrew Osborn

ATYRAU, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron helped inaugurate the world's costliest oil project in Kazakhstan on Sunday on a trip aimed at sealing business deals but quickly beset by questions over the Central Asian nation's poor human rights record.

Kazakhstan hopes Cameron's visit, the first by a serving British prime minister, will cement its status as a rising economic power and confer a degree of the legitimacy from the West it has long sought.

The visit takes place just days before the nation marks 15 years since the founding of the new Kazakh capital Astana, also the 73rd birthday of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, a national holiday and cause for celebration that has been anticipated for days in state media.

Nazarbayev, a former Communist party apparatchik, has overseen market reforms and maintains wide popularity among the 17-million strong population, but has tolerated no dissent or opposition during his more than two decades in power.

Cameron said he hoped the 30 businessmen accompanying him would sign over 700 million pounds worth of deals during his two-day trip.

"We are in a global race for jobs and investment. This is one of the most rapidly emerging countries in the world," Cameron told reporters on his arrival in the Kazakh oil capital Atyrau.

His office said he aimed to "put British businesses in prime position to secure contracts that the Government believes could total ?85 billion in the coming years".

Cameron is also hoping to persuade Kazakhstan to expand transit rights for British military forces relocating equipment from Afghanistan between now and a planned withdrawal next year. Nazarbayev has already granted overflight rights, but Cameron is looking for land transit rights too.

Cameron and Nazarbayev together opened the Bolashak (Future) oil plant which will process crude that is due to start flowing from the giant Kashagan offshore oilfield in September.

Royal Dutch Shell has a 16.81 percent stake in the facility, which is in the Kazakh segment of the Caspian Sea. Nazarbayev said last week consortium members had so far invested $48 billion, making it the most expensive oil venture in the world.

TEMPTING TARGET

As Britain's trade with the euro zone suffers because of the currency bloc's debt woes, it is looking further afield to forge business links with countries that have enjoyed rapid economic growth in recent years.

With a $200 billion economy, the largest in Central Asia, and deep oil and gas reserves, Kazakhstan is a tempting target. Britain is already among the top three sources of foreign direct investment, according to Kazakh officials.

Since its 1991 independence, officials say British firms have invested about $20 billion in their economy, part of a total $170 billion ploughed into Kazakhstan since then.

But more high profile trade links carry political risks.

New York-based Human Rights Watch said Cameron had a duty to use his trip to denounce human rights abuses.

"We are very concerned about the serious and deteriorating human rights situation there in recent years, including credible allegations of torture, the imprisonment of government critics, (and) tight controls over the media and freedom of expression and association," it said in a letter on Friday.

Answering questions from reporters in Atyrau on Sunday, Cameron said he never put trade and business interests before rights.

"We will raise all the issues, including human rights. That's part of our dialogue and I'll be signing a strategic partnership with Kazakhstan," he said.

"Nothing is off the agenda, including human rights."

Activists most want Cameron to bring up the case of Vladimir Kozlov, a jailed opposition leader, when he meets Nazarbayev.

An outspoken critic of the Kazakh leader, Kozlov was jailed for seven-and-a-half years in October for colluding with a fugitive billionaire in a failed attempt to rally oil workers to bring down the government. Kozlov denied the charges.

Nazarbayev, a former steelworker who now holds the title "The Leader of the Nation", says that he puts stability and rising living standards before hasty political changes in his steppe nation, the world's ninth-largest by area and five times the size of France.

Comparing Kazakhstan to "Asian economic tigers" like South Korea and Singapore, he has said he wants to turn it into "the economic snow leopard of Central Asia".

(Additional reporting by Dmitry Solovyov; in Almaty; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kazakhstan-trade-trip-poses-human-rights-test-uks-201117657.html

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Long-time head of Winthrop University retires

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) - The campus leader who's headed South Carolina's Winthrop University for nearly a quarter-century is heading into retirement.

The Herald of Rock Hill reports (http://bit.ly/14EQcf6 ) that Winthrop President Anthony DiGiorgio arrived in 1989 and is leaving on Sunday after 24 years.

DiGiorgio changed the former women's school once known mostly for training teachers into a public university that receives national recognition. He has worked to upgrade campus buildings and services, and keep operating with dramatically reduced state funding.

DiGiorgio's successor is Jayne Marie Comstock, a former vice president of academic affairs at Butler University in Indianapolis.

Information from: The Herald, http://www.heraldonline.com

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Source: http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/22725542/long-time-head-of-winthrop-university-retires

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