| Similarities to other massacres - but this was a very Finnish affair
You might ask yourselves, why did I do this. Well, most of you are too arrogant and closed-minded to understand. I am ready to die for a cause I know is right, just and true. This is my war, my ideas and my plans. Don’t blame my parents or my friends. I told nobody about my plans and I always kept them inside my mind only. Don’t blame the movies I see, the music I hear, the games I play or the books I read. No, they had nothing to do with this. This is my war: one man war against humanity, governments and weak-minded masses of the world! HUMANITY IS OVERRATED! It’s time to put SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST back on tracks!"
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The Sounds of Cinema, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis
During that silence, Chaplin realises that the girl is blind. There is no more poignant moment in any film, and music is fundamental in achieving it. At a screening of City Lights in Minneapolis's Orchestra Hall, the conductor Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra executed the moment with pinpoint timing and in an instant confirmed the decision to devote two weeks of the season to “The Sounds of Cinema" made sense. .
How to Travel Like a Raja
They charge about $365 a night for a room, all-you-can-eat royal cuisine included. Indoor plumbing, installed last year, has helped. So have touches like stained-glass windows in some of the spacious rooms. The main draw is sitting, dining and strolling around a fort hundreds of years old and hundreds of feet above the placid Chambal River, home to a crocodile sanctuary. "This is my dream -- to put Bhainsrorgarh on the world map," says 35-year old Hemendra Singh. He grew up in the fort and is now marketing it from New Delhi, where he lives in a less palatial third-floor apartment. The brothers aim to open another 15 rooms in the fort in the next five years. .
Exhausted Shaun Tait to quit cricket indefinitely
My love and enjoyment of the game is struggling due to these issues. This is a very difficult situation for me. It is not an overnight decision but something I've been struggling with for some time. "If I continue, it will be unfair on my team-mates and support staff of both the Australian and South Australian cricket teams - and most importantly my family and close friends." .
Pain relievers should share the pain
Pain relievers should share the pain
By Julian Delasantellis
Wrongly attributed to New York Tribune publisher Horace Greeley in 1865 (the actual author was Indiana newspaperman John B L Soule in 1851) "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country" defines not only the American expansionary spirit of the latter 19th century, but, to a certain extent, the philosophical ethos that forever has defined American society, from the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock to the present.
Got a problem, be it with your work, your community, your church hierarchy, your family, even your spouse? The solution was always to pack up stakes and strike out towards the frontier, towards the plentiful open space of the boundless West, towards the limitless new dreams guaranteed to be just over the horizon, available to all free men just by virtue of their birthright as
Americans.
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time ...
An impartial humanitarian body, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, may offer its services to the Parties to the conflict.
The Parties to the conflict should further endeavour to bring into force, by means of special agreements, all or part of the other provisions of the present Convention.
The application of the preceding provisions shall not affect the legal status of the Parties to the conflict.
Art. 4. Persons protected by the Convention are those who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals.
Nationals of a State which is not bound by the Convention are not protected by it.
PALESTINIANS CLAIM WMD CAPABILITY
The Fatah terrorist faction has claimed the capability of chemical and biological weapons and has threatened Israel with a WMD attack, according to the Jerusalem Post. Leaflets distributed in the Gaza Strip state that the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade has spent the last three years developing the capabilty, the start of which seems oddly coincidental to the fall of Saddam Hussein (via Reliapundit): The Aksa Martyrs' Brigades group announced on Sunday that it its members have succeeded in manufacturing chemical and biological weapons to be used against Israel. In a leaflet distributed in the Gaza Strip, the group, which belongs to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party, said the weapons were the result of an effort that has lasted for three years. The statment was a response to an Israeli Security Cabinet decision to give the IDF the green light to prepare all the forces necessary for a military operation against Gaza terror cells.
Martian Child star could be a superstar in training
In his first starring role, this young Jonah swallows the whale, and it definitely works. Q: How did you prepare for the role of Dennis? A: Well, when we got the script, my family all read it, and we talked about it; what it would feel like (to be him), with .
Police corruption case dies
The usually loquacious Brauti, the lawyer who filed a two-metre high stack of briefs in his Charter of Rights motion to have the charges dropped for "unreasonable delay," which was accepted by Nordheimer, was almost at a loss for words. "These men dedicated themselves to the justice system," he said later. "They certainly deserved better prosecution." During a party afterwards, Brauti said all the officers were furious that some 200 cases their squad investigated were tossed from the courts after they were charged. "They can't believe that drug dealers got a free walk while police officers and their families were put through a decade of hell," said Brauti. The six went to court yesterday, expecting that only the charges against Benoit, whose part in the alleged scandal was minor, would be dropped.
Rumor Control
What we heard: In late October, an internal memo leaked out of EA's Mythic studio that suggested the megapublisher was on the verge of wide-scale layoffs to get "costs in line with revenues." The cost-cutting measure hinted at was subsequently explained away as routine turnover affecting a "small" number of individuals, and was associated with the end of a variety of projects. "Small" turned out to be a relative quantity, considering that EA CFO Warren Jenson said during a recent postearnings conference call that around 350 people of the nearly 8,000 that work for the publisher would be affected by the restructuring plan. The first to be hit by the layoffs turned out to be EA's Chertsey office in the UK, which will be shuttered in the next few months. Since then, speculation has surfaced about where else EA might make its cuts.
Once there was a Radio Veritas Priest Part II
Still a priest after the martyrdom of Ninoy Aquino he was ready to give up his pastoral priesthood and Radio Veritas duties for the communist revolution in the 80s. EDSA I made him abandon all thoughts of violent revolution. In a Philippine Panorama interview in March 9, 1986, Fr. Dato was quoted as saying in a TV appeal that historic February: The real glory of the peoples revolution lay in the magnanimity of the victors. Great words from a priest at the forefront of a peaceful revolt, but they would soon be challenged by insistent allegations of corruption in the new government. He felt betrayed that although Cory Aquino may not have been directly involved in anomalies, the people surrounding her certainly were. It seemed a mere duplication of the Marcos dictatorship, if with more subtlety and less ostentatious greed Something was obviously wrong in the new government, but there was something equally wrong with the people themselves.
It's leap year, baby
Brayden Shea will blow out eight candles on his birthday cake today to celebrate his second birthday. Confused? Brayden was born Feb. 29, 2000. He's a leap year baby. A leap year is one based on the Gregorian calendar, with one extra day added to the end of February every four years to keep the seasons and the calendar in sync. So while the Grade 2 student at Simcoe Street Public School is eight years old today, it's really only his second true birthday on the calendar. "I feel special to have my birthday every four years," he said. In past years, the family has celebrated his birthday March 1. "This year, I can celebrate on my real birthday," Brayden said proudly. He said the mathematical equation behind his birthdate is sometimes confusing for his friends.
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