Tue, Jun 30, 2009 1:07:17 Leicester Football Tournament A Great Success…..Khalsa Football Federation Great Opportunity For Professional Teams’ Scouts To Capture Young Sikh And Asian Football Talent..Manjit Singh Virdee Singh Sabha Hounslow beat GSA Erith by two goals in the final of the Premier Division to win the Leicester football tournament held at Victoria Park, London Road, Leicester on 27th and 28th June 2009. As in previous years members of the local teams FC Khalsa and GNG football club organised the annual tournament in which all rules and regulations of the Khalsa Football Federation were implemented. After Coventry and Hounslow it was the city of Leicester who had the pleasure of hosting the festival of football which was watched by approximately 10,000 people in over which over 100 team participated over the weekend which had just about perfect football playing weather.
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Listen to the news story here. Here is her proclamation. Rep. Sally Kern, whose own son is reported to be gay , is blaming sinners (including gays and divorcees – and Obama) for the country’s economic crisis. She put together a proclamation declaring: WHEREAS, the people of Oklahoma have a strong tradition of reliance upon the Creator of the Universe; and WHEREAS, we believe our economic woes are consequences of our greater national moral crisis; and WHEREAS, this nation has become a
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Photo: is global warming illusory; like this parka? by Declan McCullagh CNET NEWS The Environmental Protection Agency may have suppressed an internal report that was skeptical of claims about global warming, including whether carbon dioxide must be strictly regulated by the federal government, according to a series of newly disclosed e-mail messages. Less than two weeks before the agency formally submitted its pro-regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director qu
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E-mails indicate EPA Suppressed Report Skeptical of Global Warming
Days of Hope, Religion of Fear: Reflections on Jason Bivins’s Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism by Paul Harvey Just Because You Feel It, Doesn’t Mean It’s There — “There There,” Radiohead Reading Jason Bivins’s Religion of Fear made me think, not so much of Hell Houses or planes flying aborted fetus pictures over Notre Dame, but of Arcade Fire’s Intervention : I can taste the fear Gonna lift me up and take me out of here And it made me think of Don Delillo’s White Noise, which played so expertly and wittily on social paranoia as a broader product of secular horror – as seen in the “airborne toxic event” that drives the plot of the novel. Perhaps I’m thinking of that today while sitting in hippy-trippy Crestone, Colorad o, right at the base of the Sangre de Christos, surrounded by a plethora of religious communities; and sitting at the Shambala Café, listening to the rather paranoiac musings of some of the locals, who are (unwittingly) serving as a counterpoint but also counterpart to the subjects of Bivins’s work, and who seem cumulatively like a DeLillo character come to life. It should be called the Department of Offense, not the Department of Defense, man
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Just Because You Feel It, Doesn’t Mean It’s There
By Michael Emerson President Obama’s speech in Cairo on June 4th was an outstanding example of public diplomacy in action at the highest strategic level. For some time even before his election, Europeans had become persuaded that this could be an American president whom they could admire for his extraordinary professional and personal qualities and for political inclinations in domestic and …
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Mumbai, June 30 (ANI): Bollywood starlet Monica Bedi on Tuesday released her first devotional music album ‘Ek Onkaar’ in Mumbai. Bedi, who recently shot to fame after starring in the television shows Jhalak Dilkhlaja and Big Boss, has resurfaced after remaining in oblivion for years.Monica spoke at length about her new album and said that it was n honour to be part of such a great project,”Being part of such a great thing it is really a big honour for me.
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Monica Bedi releases her first devotional music album in Mumbai
As you know, Michael Jackson reportedly converted to Islam late last year, and a source close to the family tells X17 may legendary pop singer will have a traditional Muslim burial:”The family is considering following the Muslim burial traditions because they believe Michael would have wanted to be laid to rest in keeping with his new-found religious beliefs. Michael’s brother Jermaine is educating the family as to the special rites because he feels it’s important to bury his brother according
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X17 XCLUSIVE – Sources Tell X17, Jacko’s Family Planning A Muslim Funeral
If you are a blogger who is trying to create a strong online presence and possibly a vibrant online community around your blog, then you know it is no easy task and one that takes a lot of time and determination. Yesterday, as I cruised around the web looking for information on blogging and social media strategies, I came across a great post by Chris Brogan called 19 Presence Management Chores You COULD Do Everyday, which gives a great rundown of some online “chores” you can do each day to manage your online presence by utilizing Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, visiting blogs and engaging other bloggers. This post got me thinking about a few things. First of all, I have to be much better about promoting the great work done by all my fellow bloggers here at BlogCatalog
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Using BlogCatalog to Manage Your Online Presence
An 18-wheeler accident on I-44 in the northeast corner of Oklahoma on June 26, 2009, leaves 10 people dead and numerous others injured. According to a June 28 article from the Associated Press, the driver of an 18-wheeler truck, Donald Creed, 76, of Willard, MO, failed to slow down for a previous accident that had traffic lined up on the Will Rogers Turnpike near mile marker 321.
If prolonged isolation is—as research and experience have confirmed for decades—so objectively horrifying, so intrinsically cruel, how did we end up with a prison system that may subject more of our own citizens to it than any other country in history has? So asks Atul Gawande, writing in the New Yorker . In his article ” Hellhole ,” Gawande looks at studies (of monkeys tested in isolation and prisoners of war) that show how solitary confinement—a relatively new corrections tactic—produces individuals given to either greater violence or greater insanity
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Solitary Con-demnation