05:36 AEST Tue Jun 23 20093 hours 44 minutes ago - AFP
A Bolivian television station has aired photographs from the television drama Lost, presenting them as images of an Air France airliner that went down in the Atlantic.
“On Thursday, two photographs were aired on our prime time news report and on Friday we apologized,” said Eddy Luis Franco, the news director for the privately-owned PAT television station.
The photographs showed the interior of an aircraft.
In the first one, passengers are seen using oxygen masks to counter the effects of loss of cabin pressure, and in the second a passenger is shown being sucked out of the rear of the aircraft as its tail breaks off.
“These two photos were apparently taken by one of the passengers on the airliner the instant before the collision and after the aircraft crashed,” the news presenter said in airing the images.
She said the photographs were recovered from the memory of a digital camera that belong to passenger “Paulo Muller,” a Brazilian actor.
Franco said the photographs came to the station via the Internet.
Lost, a series produced by ABC Studios and Bad Robot Productions, tells the story of survivors of an air crash in a mysterious island in the Pacific.
Who else on this forum has their personal image listed with Anne Getty Images?
I found quite a few images of our forum buddy Ian Lawther and
Here’s Ian again chatting with his mates .....Ians the one in the centre. :)
And one with our good friend Carmel ....leads me to ask ‘do all victorians get a police escort when in sydney?’ ....or is it just Ian they need to watch? heheheheeee.
Pretty strange to find your image for sale on the internet .....only you aren’t the one selling it.
Who else here has Gettys Images selling their image? ........or is Ian our only famous one hehehehehheheeeeeee!
I think I’d write to Ann Getty and ask her for a donation for the org Ian .....getting a little sick of people making money off the back of people suffering .....time for them to put in also ......or offer the images free! (dreamin’ now!)
Thanks for the memories Mike.The Idea behind the pope protest in Sydney was to demonstrate to the Hierarchy of the Catholic Church that not every body is going to lay down to be walked over while their religous cult uses australian children as expendable pieces of Paedofile Fodder.The “T"shirts and placards where approved by the police under the laws activated for the Popes visit.I did not think that I would ever be seen as an activist the general view of the average Pray.Pay.Obey.Catholic is nothing can be done,so they sit back and do nothing ,guess what,Nothing oooo nothing happens.I just happen to believe our children are the most precious asset this country has.A FULL ENQUIRY IS NEEDED .
Cheers IanLawther.
A GROUP of office staff have discovered they work better together when they are NAKED.
Workers at a design and marketing company onebestway in the UK stripped off at the encouragement of their boss, who thought the move would boost business.
The ailing company had seen six redundancies since the start of the credit crunch when business psychologist David Taylor was brought in to boost team spirit.
The event, dubbed Naked Friday, was deemed a huge success and is even credited with turning around the firm’s fortunes.
Front-of-house manager Sam Jackson, 23, told The Sun: ‘It was brilliant. Now that we’ve seen each other naked, there are no barriers.
‘We weren’t put under any pressure. If we wanted to come in clothed or in our underwear, we could. But I love my body and I wasn’t ashamed.’
During the week leading up to the strip-off, the workers were encouraged to photocopy parts of their bodies to make them more confident about themselves. A nude model was also brought in for the workers to sketch and talk to.
Sam added: ‘It took a week of David being in the office for us to build up courage. The first few steps were very nerve-wracking, but once I got to my desk and got used to it, I felt totally comfortable. It was emotional but we found we were much more able to talk to each other honestly – and have been since. The company has improved massively.’
Now I’m wondering what that “Naked Vicar” TV show from the 70’s was all about ?
STORY HIGHLIGHTS :
* Turkish TV show features imam, Catholic priest, Jewish rabbi, Buddhist monk
* Religious leaders attempt to persuade atheists to “convert” to their faith
* Show has prompted criticism from religious groups who say it is “disrespectful”
July 3, 2009
(CNN)—A Turkish television show is offering contestants what it claims is the “biggest prize ever”—the chance for atheists to convert to one of the world’s major religions.
The show, called “Tovbekarlar Yarisiyor,“or “Penitents Compete,” features a Muslim imam, a Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi and a Buddhist monk attempting to persuade 10 atheists of the merits of their religion, according to CNN Turk.
If they succeed, the contestants are rewarded with a pilgrimage to one of their chosen faith’s most sacred sites—Mecca for Muslims, Jerusalem for converts to Judaism, a trip to Tibet for Buddhists and the chance to visit Ephesus and the Vatican for Christians.
Ahmet Ozdemir, deputy director of Turkish channel Kanal T, which will air the show from September, said the program aimed to “turn disbelievers on to God.”
“People are free to believe anything they want. Our program does not have a say,” he said, according to Turkish newspaper Hurriyet.
Contestants will be judged by a panel of eight theologians and religious experts prior to going on the show to make sure their lack of faith is genuine.
“To do such a thing for the sake of ratings, not only with Islam but with all religions is disrespectful,” said Aktan. “Religion should not be the subject of this type of program.“But the show has been condemned by Turkish religious leaders. The head of the country’s supreme council of religious affairs, Hamza Aktan, told CNN Turk that it was “disrespectful” to place different faiths in competition with each other and accused Kanal T of using religion to boost ratings.
Although Turkey has a predominantly Muslim population and culture, religion is a sensitive subject because of the country’s staunchly secular constitution which outlaws most displays of faith in public life.
Last year the Islamist-influenced government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan clashed with the country’s constitutional court when judges overturned the efforts of Erdogan’s AK Party to lift a ban on female students wearing headscarves at public universities.
How come they don’t have an Evangelical Protestant up there too ?
Arthur, this sounds like a very dangerous place to work. Who would have guessed that a chocolate factory was so deadly. Industrial accidents cause way too many families to lose a loved one. “According to an ACTU Worksite fact sheet, there are about 440 traumatic work-related deaths in Australia every year, or about nine per week. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. This figure does not include the equally tragic deaths that result from workplace-related diseases, such as asbestosis, mesothelioma and lung cancer, which claim over 2,300 lives each year.” Read more here : http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/nov2003/joel-n18.shtml
truck driving is the most dangerous place to work according to the figures ....they also have an equal right to a safe working environment but we tend to overlook that point when we consider their case.
I myself had no sooner left/resigned Lysaughts Hastings steel rolling mill (hot strip) when my T/A John Fagan lost his life….taken by a lamination on the strip…swept of the walkway by a white hot inclusion in the steel.
They put the steel roll he was supposedly in in front of the works for ten years and then in the scrap it goes. .....his wife got a cash handout and uit barely made the papers. .....that was about ‘78.
Nothings much changes ......not one of the accidents/incidents my son was involved in recently ever made the papers .....privatization and paperwork sees to that!
People who make too much noise are seen to be ‘high maintenance’ and fall away from the ‘approved contactors’ list pretty quickly .....tricvk is if you work in any of these industrys now you need to have self preservation as your primary concern.
How my son does it and it works for him .....trust only your team and no one else .....especially not the equipment.
The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are the targets of a doctrinal inquisition.
“They think of us as an ecclesiastical work force,” said Sister Sandra M. Schneiders, professor emerita of New Testament and spirituality at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, in California. “Whereas we are religious, we’re living the life of total dedication to Christ, and out of that flows a profound concern for the good of all humanity. So our vision of our lives, and their vision of us as a work force, are just not on the same planet.”
Interesting article Luke. Sounds like disgruntled workers with a big complaint about management ;)
Article from: Agence France-Presse
July 14, 2009 09:49pm
HORSE-drawn carts have been banned from one of Ireland’s most famous national parks in an escalation of a long-running row about their refusal to use “nappies” to deal with the horse dung.
The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) said today it had “taken action to refuse entry to jaunting car operators’’ to the Killarney national park in the south-west unless they have “the required dung catcher device’‘.
Operated by so-called “jarveys’‘, some 66 traditional carts, known as jaunting cars, carry tourists along 15 kilometres of internal roads within the picture-postcard park.
“An unfortunate consequence of such a high volume of horses frequenting the park is that the roadways are consistently fouled with horse dung, and has for a long time been a concern from the point of view of environmental, health and safety, aesthetic and tourism grounds,’’ the NPWS said.
It said the majority of the more than a million visitors to the park each year walked the roads and it had received numerous complaints about the horse dung.
Over the years there have been a number of unsuccessful attempts to get the jarveys to use “equine sanitary devices’’ in the Killarney area.
The jarveys resisted, claiming the dung catchers will unbalance the carriages and the horses.
However, the NPWS, which is part of the environment ministry, says they are “in widespread usage internationally, from Vienna to Vancouver’‘.
“It is clear, therefore, that these devices do work and are safe to use,’’ it said.
“Although the dung catcher is attached to the car and not to the horse, jarveys have repeatedly signalled their complete opposition to the new devices but have never demonstrated where they perceive the problems to lie.’‘
The service emphasised its “desire to avoid conflict’’ but said it had been compelled to ban the jaunting cars as “a very last resort’‘.
TWO women members of a fanatical religious cult are accused of starving a toddler to death after the boy refused to say “Amen” after meals.
Queen Antoinette and Trevia Williams are two of four members of the now-defunct religious group who are accused of denying food and water to 1-year-old Javon Thompson. The four were scheduled to go to trial this week in the US but the trial was postponed because the attorney for another cult member had a scheduling conflict.
Prosecutors asked Baltimore Circuit Judge John Addison Howard either to appoint attorneys to represent Antoinette and Williams or to find that they had waived their right to counsel.
Both told Howard that they wanted to represent themselves, although Antoinette initially said she wanted a lawyer. Javon’s mother, Ria Ramkissoon, has already pleaded guilty to one count of child abuse resulting in death and plans to testify against the four other cult members.
Ramkissoon’s attorney and relatives have said she was brainwashed, and she insisted that she be allowed to withdraw her plea if Javon comes back to life.
Antoinette told her followers to pray for the boy’s resurrection after he died, police said.
She ultimately placed his body inside a suitcase that the cult members hid behind a house in Philadelphia for more than a year before it was found by investigators, police said.
LOUD worshipping has landed a Pacific island church in court.
A hotel in the deeply religious Pacific nation of Samoa has mounted legal action against the Worship Centre Church next door, claiming the sound levels of services are insufferable.
Hotel Millenia owner Tuala Oli Ah Him said that for five years he’s been asking the open air church to build walls or keep the sound down, but now he’s had enough.
“The noise is just unbearable,” he told the Samoa Observer newspaper. “When they hold their services the volume goes over the legal limit. Our guests are actually complaining and some have actually checked out.”
The hotel owner said he had no choice except taking legal action but the move has sparked a major moral row over the importance of religion and business in Samoa. The newspaper’s website carries the views of locals in the capital, Apia, the majority of whom have sided passionately with the church.
“It’s not fair to tell the churchgoers they must reduce their spiritual energy,” said one blogger, Mike. It just doesn’t work like that. If you ask someone to reduce the way they praise God, God will reduce your life span or punish you in some way. How dare you take anything away from God, without whom there would be nothing. Especially Hotels.”
But a couple backed up the hotel, with one saying louder worshippers was not rewarded with extra perks from God.
“No need to scream as God is here with us in the meaning of Jesus’s name,” the couple wrote. “Sorry but the church should lower their voice and if they’re still shouting then we all know God is far, far, far away from them.”
The church pastor reckons the issue is “in God’s hands”.
Pagan police officers in some areas are being allowed to take as many as eight days leave a year for events such as the summer solstice and Halloween.
It comes after the Pagan Police Association was set up following discussions with Home Office officials.
Policy on police leave varies between forces in England and Wales.
Hertfordshire Police lets Pagan staff re-allocate the traditional bank holidays to meet their beliefs - it has also appointed two Pagan chaplains.
Pc Andy Pardy, a Pagan neighbourhood beat officer in Hemel Hempstead, Herts, was one of the officers involved in setting up the association.
Tree-huggers
He told Police Review: “Paganism is not the new age, tree-hugging fad that some people think it is.
“It is not the clandestine, horrible, evil thing that people think it is. A lot of people think it is about dancing naked around a fire.
“But the rituals involve chanting, music and meditation. For Pagans, the practices are seen to have the same power as prayer does for Christians.”
Pc Pardy is allowed to take eight days per year for Pagan events - which form part of his annual leave.
Pagans worship nature and believe in many gods and their practices include witchcraft and druidism.
According to the Office of National Statistics there were 31,000 people practising Paganism in England and Wales in 2001.
Another officer, Pc Andy Hill, of Staffordshire Police, is a practising Wiccan - a kind of Pagan witch.
Healing spells
This is nothing to do with black magic or devil worshipping. Witchcraft is not the hocus pocus, puff of smoke, turning people into frogs stuff you see on television
PC Andy Hill
He has offered to use spells to give fellow officers a helping hand with promotion exams or to heal ill colleagues and is the founder of the Pagan Police Group UK, a website for Pagan police officers and their families.
He told Police Review: “Wiccan has always been a bit of a taboo religion, there are lots of misconceptions about it.
“This is nothing to do with black magic or devil worshipping. Witchcraft is not the hocus pocus, puff of smoke, turning people into frogs stuff you see on television. It is working with nature for good.”
Superintendent Simon Hawkins, of Hertfordshire Police, said: “While balancing operational needs, the force’s religion and beliefs policy gives all staff the choice of re-allocating the traditional Christian bank holiday festivals to suit their personal faith beliefs and this has been very well-received from a number of faith groups including Muslim and Jewish.
No public funding
“The force strives to provide a receptive environment for all its staff and our faith work stream is a positive example of our commitment to meet the diverse needs of all who work for us and the public we serve.”
A Home Office spokesman said: the Pagan Police Association did not receive any funding from the Home Office.
He added: “The government wants a police service that reflects the diverse communities it serves.
“It is down to individual forces to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate the religion or beliefs of individual officers, as far as operational requirements permit.”
I don’t think it’s a bad idea. We do have a diverse society. A few years ago my husband’s then-employer allowed for a ‘global diversity day’ (replacing August bank holiday) of the individual’s personal choice.
I wonder which ‘traditional Christian bank holiday festivals’ have been ‘re-allocated’? Michealmass? WhitSunday? St Crispin’s Day? The only Christian festivals I can think of are Christmas and Easter.
“People wanting more holidays to reduce work-related stress”!
Think about it. Do all non-Christians really celebrate Christmas? Or do all atheists really celebrate Halloween even (not just a costume party hehe but do rituals like the above article says)?
Christmas and Easter are a mess. They’ve been pretty completedly hijacked by a wordly agenda. I truly dread Christmas, partly because I loathe shopping. Don’t get me started.
Holidays and festivals are important and God-given. Check out your OT - Leviticus 23 - Sabbath, Passover, Feasts of Firstfruits, Weeks, Trumpets.
“The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” Mark 2:27 (New International Version) also comes to mind.
I find it interesting that other religions also have festivals. That seems to point to the need for some kind of holidays / holy-days as fairly universally recognised. The reality that people then subvert this to their own laziness / greed etc doesn’t disprove this, it just proves (yet again!) how sinful people are.
Church of England to combine marriage and baptism
(AFP) July 23 2009
LONDON — The Church of England will offer two in one wedding and baptism services, officials said Thursday, as research shows increasing numbers of couples are having children out of wedlock. Although the church does not sanction couples having children before marriage, officials said the new services were aimed at encouraging unmarried parents to eventually tie the knot.
The service to be unveiled later Thursday allows couples to baptise their children after their wedding ceremony, and parents themselves can also get baptised at the same time. A church spokesman said clergy would continue to teach that sex is best confined to marriage, but also recognise that it was “not standing in judgment on their past.”
“The Church of England believes that the best place for sex is within marriage, and marriage is best for bringing up children. That hasn’t changed,” the spokesman said. “This is a response to the demand that’s on us as the Church to meet people who come to us for this key event in their lives. Not standing in judgment on their past, but welcoming them and pointing to a fresh future.”
Figures released earlier this year showed that around 44 percent of children are born to unmarried mothers in Britain.
Some clergy criticised the new service, saying it trivialised the church’s role in the community.
“It is a pity they have not put in a funeral for grandma as well,” the Bishop of Fulham told The Times. “What are they playing at? It seems trendy, and it reveals a complete lack of awareness of the reality of what goes on in parishes. I do not understand why they want to do it,” the Right Reverend John Broadhurst said.
THE head of Australia’s Anglican Church has welcomed a Church of England decision to overturn centuries of history by blessing couples who have children before they marry.
The Church of England has declared that while sex is best kept for marriage, couples who live together and have children without marrying will no longer be regarded as living in sin.
Instead, they will be encouraged to adopt traditional values at special new services in which they will be able to get married and baptise their children, The Courier-Mail reports.
In the services, couples will exchange vows and then present their babies for christening.
The new services - dubbed “hatch ‘n’ match” by church insiders - mean the church is openly accepting sex before marriage among worshippers.
Australia’s Anglican Primate Archbishop Phillip Aspinall said be believed the change would have wide support.
“I think that the move would be broadly acceptable to most Anglicans in Australia,” he said. “God accepts and loves all people, particularly children, as the gospel shows us.”
A Church of England spokesman said the combined ceremonies would not require the couple to apologise.
Instead of standing in judgment, the church would welcome unmarried parents “pointing to a fresh future”.
Until now, those whose past included sexual sins were asked to repent. Notably, Prince Charles was required to confess his “manifold sins and wickedness” at his wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles.
There’s a fascinating look at the legal status (& legal arguments around) gay marriage in the US in this lengthy New York Review of Books piece: The Same-Sex Future. (It’s very much in favour of.)
Just four years ago, political pundits were blaming gay rights activists and the Massachusetts Supreme Court for costing Democrats the 2004 presidential election. In 2003, the Massachusetts court had declared, in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, that denying marriage to same-sex couples violated that state’s constitution, marking the first time a state supreme court recognized the right of same-sex couples to marry.[1] The decision touched off a widespread backlash; in 2004, eleven states passed referendums amending their constitutions to outlaw same-sex marriage. In 2006, another seven states followed suit. Nor was this a short-term phenomenon. During the last decade, forty-one states have passed statutes banning recognition of same-sex marriages, and twenty-six have amended their constitutions to that effect.
Yet in the last eight months, the tide appears to have dramatically turned.
It’s a fascinating topic—if people want to discuss it, reply here and I’ll kick it out to a new thread :)
What explains the apparent trend toward legal recognition of same-sex marriage or civil unions? And how should we understand the sharp discrepancy between the law and the politics of same-sex marriage? Not so long ago, there was no discrepancy. As a legal and political matter, same-sex marriage was an oxymoron, or as some opponents have put it, a “moral impossibility.” Hostility to the concept was widespread and blatant. In 1971, when Michael Wetherbee of the Minnesota ACLU argued that a gay couple had the right to marry under that state’s constitution, one judge on the Minnesota Supreme Court actually turned his chair around and refused to face Wetherbee as he delivered his argument. Not a single judge asked a question. The court’s unanimous decision denying the claim cited the book of Genesis to support its conclusion that marriage is properly limited to the union of a man and a woman.
Considering recent moves by TEC to rule that God might call homosexuals into ministry, I think the argument that homosexuality (and same-sex marriage) is against Christian belief will be undermined.
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As Victor Meldrew would say ... “I don’t believe it !” :
Report breaks witch’s spell
Rick Wallace, Victorian political reporter August 13, 2009
( Article from: The Australian )
THE Victorian Ombudsman has criticised a left-leaning inner-city council for spending $620,000 of ratepayers’ money on a self-styled “white witch” to assist with “change management”.
Port Phillip Council’s ad hoc but costly arrangement with pranic healing and astrology devotee Caroline Shahbaz was savaged in a report by the Ombudsman tabled in the Victorian parliament yesterday.
Ombudsman George Brouwer found that Ms Shahbaz was engaged by Port Phillip under former chief executive David Spokes and former council executive Sally Calder on a lax and poorly supervised arrangement.
“No one took responsibility for co-ordinating the management of the range of services provided by Ms Shahbaz and no written contract was ever put in place,” Mr Brouwer said.
“Poor governance of this process allowed expenditure of significant amounts of public funds to occur with little, if any, oversight.”
Ms Shahbaz, who refers to herself as a white witch and claims special powers of intuition honed through training in Eastern religion and fringe healing disciplines, was engaged after she met Mr Spokes on a boat cruise arranged by Parks Victoria in 2004.
The Ombudsman found that the council did nothing about the Shahbaz affair until it was reported in the media and then it tried to “resolve it discreetly instead of being transparent and taking responsibility”.
His report contains little concrete detail about the exact services provided for the $620,000, but it has been reported that Ms Shahbaz conducted a range of contentious “honesty sessions”, which reportedly led to complaints of bullying, intimidation and sexual harassment being levelled against her by staff.
Mr Brouwer’s report does detail a workshop Ms Shahbaz arranged in India for Port Phillip executives called the “Hero’s Journey”, which was related to her “Rites of Passage” program.
He found that Ms Calder attended the trip and the council paid Ms Shahbaz’s company Corporate Power $2750 for it, while Ms Calder paid her own airfares. It has also emerged that the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment has used Ms Shahbaz as a consultant, as have the Victorian Department of Planning, Parks Victoria, Melbourne Water and the Reserve Bank.
Ms Shahbaz and Corporate Power were approached for comment but did not respond.
By Middle East correspondent Anne Barker ( Reuters )
Wed Aug 12, 2009
The rabbis chanted prayers and blew ceremonial trumpets as their plane circled.
About 50 rabbis and Jewish mystics have flown over Israel for an airborne prayer meeting in the belief it may stop the spread of swine flu. They chanted prayers and blew ceremonial trumpets as their plane circled.
One of the rabbis says he is certain the danger to Israel has now passed because of the prayer flight.
So far 2,000 Israelis have caught swine flu and five have died, but Israel’s health ministry says once winter sets in hundreds could die.
Here’s the threat of Luke’s interventionist God at work :
Take your pants off for God
From: The Daily Telegraph August 19, 2009
MEN living on a tiny Fijian island have been ordered to wear a skirt instead of trousers on Sundays to avoid offending God.
The Methodist Church on Bua island has ruled that men must wear the traditional island sarong, called a sulu, on Sundays to learn to respect the significance of the holy day. Families cannot travel on any motorised transport or do any form of work, including hanging out clothes to dry, until they get the message, Galoa Village headman Josefa Baleinasiga has told the Fiji Times newspaper.
“The ban is meant to bring good luck to the island as we respect the day of the Lord,’’ he said.
“You can see that often misfortune befalls us because we don’t respect His commandments that there be no work performed on Sunday except worship.’‘ He said that since the ruling was made, clothes lines on the island had become full on Saturdays and people had stopped travelling offshore in boats fixed with outboards.
“But we make exceptions during emergencies for the sick so it’s not a ban that hasn’t been well thought out,’’ Mr Baleinasiga told the newspaper. But it hasn’t been a hit with everyone. A villager who wished not to be named said the ban was “too restrictive’‘.
“We can’t understand how wearing a sulu vakataga on Sunday will help us forge closer relations with the divine,’‘ he said.
“At times too for the school children who come home for the weekend, the best time to return to their hostel in Labasa or Savusavu is on Sunday - so that is getting in the way.’’
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