Local organizing committee LOCOG proposed switching badminton and rhythmic gymnastics to Wembley Arena — adjacent to Wembley Stadium in northwest London — rather than construct the planned facility near the Olympic Village in east London.
The move was taken to save money in the wake of the global economic crisis.
Denis Oswald, head of the International Olympic Committee's coordination commission for the London Games, said Thursday that the badminton and gymnastics federations had [been] agreed in principle to the move despite their concerns over the added travel time for their athletes.
"It still has to be formalized," Oswald said. "There is no doubt this question will be resolved in coming weeks. The two federations have been very cooperative and [have been made to] understand it was wise to look for a cheaper solution." [the alternative being cruelty]
Organizers are offering to put the athletes up in hotels within walking distance of Wembley to avoid the cross-town trips [good idea!] from the Olympic Village in Stratford."
Former Olympic Judo compeditor 1988... flat possessing explosives, claims he is homeless and the former cocain drug flat is not his... neither is the guns... but might have been a gang inforcer.Robert Brooks, 63, of no fixed address, was found not guilty of six firearms charges but guilty of conspiracy to possess explosives and conspiracy to supply drugs. Grant Richmond, 29, Craig Rodel, 46, and Luke Downes, 22, all of Bristol, all admitted conspiracy to supply drugs."
Olympic Games, wiki data. (give a miss)
Summer Olympics, 2012. read this one.
boycotts.
British! huh? british shooting club wants to boycott the olympics in 2012.
looks like the british might boycott...it figures.
and.."The events will be held at a 7,500-seat structure that will be taken down after the Games have finished, with the cost ranging from an initial quote of £30m to the latest estimate of £42m."
The Sportsman's Association said it will campaign to dissuade all UK shooting fans from volunteering to help run 2012 shooting events in a bid to persuade organisers to reverse their decision.
boycott olympics site. has count down.
reasons to maybe boycott list. missed off apathy.
201o winter olympic medals made of salvaged computer parts... medal gunk.... medal status worth more than the plated gold on ebay.... secrets of minting the medals 2008.... copper and lead too for the gold and silver. then again the economy of time and scale, can pharaoh really give 6000 a throw over great time? ahh..
| 2009 date | February 16 |
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| 2010 date | February 15 |
The first attempt to create President's Day occurred in 1951 when then the "President's Day National Committee" was formed by Harold Stonebridge Fischer of Compton, California, who became its National Executive Director for the next two decades. The purpose was not to honor any particular President, but to honor the office of the Presidency. It was first thought that March 4, the original inauguration day, should be deemed President's Day. However, the bill recognizing the March 4th date was stalled in the Senate Judiciary Committee (who had authority over national holidays), who felt that, because of its proximity to Lincoln's and Washington Birthdays, 3 holidays so close together would be unduly burdensome. During this time, however, the Governors of a majority of the individual states issued proclamations declaring March 4 to be President's Day in their respective jurisdictions. Later on, the Washington's Birthday holiday would concurrently become known as President's Day.
By the mid-1980s, with a push from advertisers, the term "Presidents' Day" began its public appearance. [1] Although Lincoln's birthday, February 12, was never a federal holiday, approximately a dozen state governments have officially renamed their Washington's Birthday observances as "Presidents Day", "Washington and Lincoln Day", or other such designations. However, "Presidents Day" is not always an all-inclusive term.
In New Jersey, Connecticut, Missouri and Illinois, while Washington's Birthday is a federal holiday, Abraham Lincoln's birthday is still a state holiday, falling on February 12 regardless of the day of the week. link.
Wise men Gunk:"Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it - It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue ? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?
In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence, frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations, has been the victim.
So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils. Such an attachment of a small or weak towards a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.
The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government. the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us.."
The three organizations urged the US to end arbitrary detention in Afghanistan and to fully align US detention practices with international law.
The organizations noted that the US has made some recent changes in its detention policy in Afghanistan. These include providing detainees with "notice of the basis of their internment" and the right to call witnesses and question government witnesses.
"It's common knowledge that Afghans perceive US detention operations as secretive and lacking in due process," said Sahr MuhammedAlly, senior associate at Human Rights First""Pakistan has complained to the United States that the strategy in Afghanistan is allowing militants to cross the border more easily, hampering its army’s campaign against Islamists, The Times has learnt.
Pakistani army commanders say that Nato’s recent withdrawal of troops from outposts near the border is undermining the “hammer and anvil” strategy the US has advocated since 2001, whereby militants face Nato and Pakistani troops acting on both sides of the border."
10 preggos sent home. USA.
Until quite recently, a number of Bahá'ís in the West thought the "existing language" might be Arabic, based on Adib Taherzadeh's comments regarding Bahá'u'lláh's "Tablet of the International Auxiliary Language and Script":
a fair deduction."In this Tablet Bahá'u'lláh praises the Arabic language for its expressiveness and eloquence, and remarks that no other language can match its vast possibilities. He further states that God would be pleased if all the peoples of the world were to speak the Arabic language. But he does not require humanity necessarily to adopt it as the international language; rather He leaves the choice to the appropriate institutions."
narrated Adib Taherzadeh The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, Vol 4, p 160
In one of the tablets, which is commonly referred to as the Will and Testament of the Báb, Subh-i-Azal is viewed to have been appointed as leader of the Bábis after the death of the movement's founder; the tablet, in verse 27, also appears to order Subh-i-Azal "...to obey Him Whom God Shall Make Manifest."[7] Some state that Subh-i-Azal's claim to successorship is obvious;[8] others state that the Báb, for the purposes of secrecy, when corresponding with Bahá'u'lláh would address the letters to Subh-i-Azal.[9] After the Báb's death Subh-i-Azal came to be regarded as the central authority in the movement.[1]
Subh-i-Azal's leadership was controversial. He generally absented himself from the Bábí community spending his time in Baghdad in hiding and disguise; and even went so far as to publicly disavow allegiance to the Báb on several occasions.[1][9][10] Subh-i-Azal gradually alienated himself from a large proportion of the Bábís who started to give their alliance to other claimants.[1] Manuchehri states that Subh-i-Azal remained in hiding because he was primarily concerned with personal safety, due a statement from the Báb in his will and testament that Subh-i-Azal should protect himself.[7]
During the time that both brothers Bahá'u'lláh and Subh-i-Azal were in Baghdad, Bahá'u'lláh publicly and in his letters pointed to Subh-i-Azal as the leader of the community.[9] However, since Subh-i-Azal remained in hiding, Bahá'u'lláh performed much of the daily administration of the Bábí affairs.[9] Then, in 1863 Bahá'u'lláh made a claim to be Him Whom God Shall Make Manifest, the messianic figure in the Báb's writings, to a small number of followers, and in 1866 he made the claim public.[1] Bahá'u'lláh's claims threatened Subh-i-Azal's position as leader of the religion since it would mean little to be leader of the Bábís if "Him Whom God Shall Make Manifest" were to appear and start a new religion.[9] Subhh-i-Azal responded by making his own claims, but his attempt to preserve the traditional Bábísm was largely unpopular, and his followers became the minority.[1]" Azal.
got potential even as an ianna cult. has potential to move beyond iannaic cultus!
Baha'i theology asserts that any permanent schism in the Baha'i Faith is impossible, even while recognizing that attempts would, as in prior religious history, be made in this direction. link.
bahai right over non-biologicals 'moving against science'. divisions in bahai.
1. Anyone who believes in Bahaullah has a right to be called as a Bahai.
2. We also believe that if the Christians, Hindus Muslims etc wish to call themselves as Bahais, it will be HONOR to us and not CONTEMPT.
3. We Orthodox Bahais in India believe that the matter of Faith cannot be legalized. Every individual is free to follow a set of beliefs and the others should respect his belief and not follow the policy of imposition, intimidation and harassment. guardian bahaiz.
Charles Mason Remey, Baha'i Guardian. it continues, like it said.
bahai cult holidays. should bin the fast maybe. thin people need to eat eat. health. children not allowed. good idea.
link. wiki bahai gerneral platonic data.
a very good Bahai awareness site!. lots of detailed history and information. truth! its better than spin and coverup as such is reality and integrity of a type, without the cult mad lies of the evil one. should be mirrored on official Bahai site and archives! That or divine unworking is hidden and the solid foundation becomes a pantomime of appeasing invisable others than...
with complement, Komard Agent 19, cult temple clean, religion machanic. sorcerer. sent of the God, blessed of the God, favoured of Ullah, non-Bahai, non-partizan messenger, improvement of God.
ny cheating or bribes. feel free to complain in comments. gods may do so too.
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