Pro-Life Faction May Keep Obama Out of Notre Dame
EmailWritten by JJ on Mar-26-09 6:52am
U.S. President Barack Obama takes part in an event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building March 23, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama delivered remarks about investments in clean energy and new technology included in the budget during the event. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)more pics »
What's the difference between President Barack Obama and Rudy? One of them is welcome at Notre Dame.
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SHOULD BARACK OBAMA'S PRO-CHOICE STANCE ON ABORTION KEEP HIM FROM SPEAKING AT NOTRE DAME'S COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY?
Vote Here An invitation accepted by the president to speak at Notre Dame's commencement ceremony in May has sparked unexpected outrage in parts of the Catholic community. Notre Dame is still a stronghold of Roman Catholic education despite its largely secular image. That Catholic status does not mix well with President Obama's pro-choice stance on abortion.
Bishop John D'Arcy of the Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, diocese, lent weight to the cries of protest Tuesday when he issued an official statement on the diocese Web site, announcing that he would be boycotting the 2009 Notre Dame commencement ceremony.
After much prayer, I have decided not to attend the graduation. I wish no disrespect to our president, I pray for him and wish him well. I have always revered the Office of the Presidency. But a bishop must teach the Catholic faith “in season and out of season,” and he teaches not only by his words — but by his actions.
The controversy is the latest in a decades-old debate within the Catholic community over whether it should be more open toward leaders whose political opinions do not coincide with the teachings of the church.
Bishop John Michael D'Arcy has announce his plans to boycott Obama's Notre Dame commence- ment address.
According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, "The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions."
The argument has been used against pro-choice politicians such as John Kerry and Kathleen Sebelius, but Washington Post religion columnist Thomas J. Reese makes a pretty decent five-point argument that inviting Obama to speak does not violate that policy. Why? Because publicly, he's never spoken against the moral principle that abortion is wrong, and privately "Obama has never acted in defiance of the fundamental moral principle that abortion is wrong."
Notre Dame has so far not withdrawn its invitation.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Rajasthan Royal
Age of Rajasthan Royal Empire - Great Warriors
Shane Warne (Great Paladin) : The champion or warrior of the European Middle Ages is often used to describe Charlemagne's legendary retainers.
Graeme Smith (Great Elite Camel Warrior) : Effective as scouts, and against enemy raiders, siege weapons, and mounted troops.
Shane Watson (Great Heavy Chariot Warrior) : Fast, ranged cavalry who can fire even while moving; particularly effective against all other Ranged Cavalry.
Yusuf Pathan ( Great Polish Hussars ) : The charging attack, and heavy weight of their armour and horses guaranteed victory for nearly two centuries. The hussars fought with a long lance, a szabla (sabre), 1 or 2 pistols, and often with a carbine or arquebus, known in Polish as a bandolet. Polish Hussars were also famous for the huge 'wings' worn on their backs or attached to the saddles of their horses.
Munaf Patel (Great Eagle Warriors) : A special class of infantry soldier. Along with the Jaguar warriors, Eagle warriors were the only Aztec warrior society for which access was not restricted to the nobility, but to which even commoners "macehuales" could be admitted for special merit. The warriors would use a number of weapons, including an atlatl, bows, spears and daggers
Posted by Diva at 11:35 AM
Labels: Age of Empire, Age of Kings, Age of Rajasthan Royal Empire, Graeme Smith, Munaf Patel, Yusuf Pathan
Shane Warne (Great Paladin) : The champion or warrior of the European Middle Ages is often used to describe Charlemagne's legendary retainers.
Graeme Smith (Great Elite Camel Warrior) : Effective as scouts, and against enemy raiders, siege weapons, and mounted troops.
Shane Watson (Great Heavy Chariot Warrior) : Fast, ranged cavalry who can fire even while moving; particularly effective against all other Ranged Cavalry.
Yusuf Pathan ( Great Polish Hussars ) : The charging attack, and heavy weight of their armour and horses guaranteed victory for nearly two centuries. The hussars fought with a long lance, a szabla (sabre), 1 or 2 pistols, and often with a carbine or arquebus, known in Polish as a bandolet. Polish Hussars were also famous for the huge 'wings' worn on their backs or attached to the saddles of their horses.
Munaf Patel (Great Eagle Warriors) : A special class of infantry soldier. Along with the Jaguar warriors, Eagle warriors were the only Aztec warrior society for which access was not restricted to the nobility, but to which even commoners "macehuales" could be admitted for special merit. The warriors would use a number of weapons, including an atlatl, bows, spears and daggers
Posted by Diva at 11:35 AM
Labels: Age of Empire, Age of Kings, Age of Rajasthan Royal Empire, Graeme Smith, Munaf Patel, Yusuf Pathan
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
WORLD TRADE PARK
Top View
-1World Trade Park - Features
This building would have lots of attractive facilities:
Buyer's embassy. 1.50 lacs sqft of exhibition hall.
1500 persons Auditorium and Convention Center.
Trade Information Bureau.
Electronic Trading Facilities of Stocks and Export Enquiries.
Corporate office, rather serviced offices.
Five Star Luxury Facility Hotel.
Retail Showrooms of International and National Brands.
Food Court with cuisines from 15 countries.
Physical Fitness and Health Club.
Club Lounge.
2 Screen Multiplex.
Trade Lobbies.
Art Gallery and Museum.
1100 Computerised Car Parking System.
Associate WTP trade offices in London, Paris, New York, Italy and Germany, shortly.
Computer Controlled Building Management System (BMS).
Building Support System (BSS).
World Trade Park will be an eco-friendly building with water conservation techniques, energy conservation techniques and automatic sensors for power saving, centrally airconditioned, Wireless LAN and IT friendly environment.
Architectural Brilliance:
It will have 32 escalators and 28 high speed lifts.
Separate freight and service elevators.
1000 ft long metal arm structure with brushed stainless steel conceived as roots of trade tower.
Underwater Restaurant.
Club Cars for pickup.
Travellators.
A floating executive lounge and business center.
Two large lobbies of 10,000 sqft.
400 sqft of occupants would enjoy facilities of more than 4000 sqft of business facility.
Some Interesting Facts :
Fire Safety Standards to adhered as per European Standards.An earthquake resistant and seismic friendly building.Senior citizen and physically challenged friendly building.
This building would have lots of attractive facilities:
Buyer's embassy. 1.50 lacs sqft of exhibition hall.
1500 persons Auditorium and Convention Center.
Trade Information Bureau.
Electronic Trading Facilities of Stocks and Export Enquiries.
Corporate office, rather serviced offices.
Five Star Luxury Facility Hotel.
Retail Showrooms of International and National Brands.
Food Court with cuisines from 15 countries.
Physical Fitness and Health Club.
Club Lounge.
2 Screen Multiplex.
Trade Lobbies.
Art Gallery and Museum.
1100 Computerised Car Parking System.
Associate WTP trade offices in London, Paris, New York, Italy and Germany, shortly.
Computer Controlled Building Management System (BMS).
Building Support System (BSS).
World Trade Park will be an eco-friendly building with water conservation techniques, energy conservation techniques and automatic sensors for power saving, centrally airconditioned, Wireless LAN and IT friendly environment.
Architectural Brilliance:
It will have 32 escalators and 28 high speed lifts.
Separate freight and service elevators.
1000 ft long metal arm structure with brushed stainless steel conceived as roots of trade tower.
Underwater Restaurant.
Club Cars for pickup.
Travellators.
A floating executive lounge and business center.
Two large lobbies of 10,000 sqft.
400 sqft of occupants would enjoy facilities of more than 4000 sqft of business facility.
Some Interesting Facts :
Fire Safety Standards to adhered as per European Standards.An earthquake resistant and seismic friendly building.Senior citizen and physically challenged friendly building.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Mobbhat
Mobbhat
1.Ishq ka jahaa bhi naam hota haiTadapna sisakna aam hota haiKarvatein badalna tamaam raat jaagnaZakhmon ko dil se kaam hota haiKhush-naseeb kabhi ishq ho nahi saktaYe to badnaseebiyo ka jaam hota hai
2.Dil ko tadpaate ho yeh dastoor kaisa haiBimaar-e-mohabbat ka kehna aisa haiKon kehta hai ki tum chaand jaise hoHaqeeqat to yeh hai ki chaand tum jaisa hai.
3.jinko rahe dhundte dar-bader...vo dil ke reh-numa nikle...ab tanhaai hum se nahi katt ti..vo mile to humari jaan nikle...
4.Palkein Hoon Khuli Ya Bandh SanamTeri Tasveer Dekhayi DeMera Naam Jab Pukare KoiMujhe Tera Naam Sunayi De5.Aaine main tasveer tumhari hi dekhe humDhadkan bhi maane tumhe hi apna humdumDil ki yeh baat hoton par kaisey laaye humtum apne ho yeh tumhe kaise bataye hum
6.Yeh siishe yeh sapne yeh rishte yeh dhaage,kise kiya khabar hai kahan toot jayein,mohabbat ke dariya mein tinke wafa ke, na jaane yeh kis mod par doob jayein.
7.Muskuraate hain to bijliyaa gira dete hainBaat karte hain to dewaana bana dete hainHusn waalo ki nazar bhi kam nahi quamat seAag paani mein nazroo se Lgaa dete hain
8.Humne maanga tha saath unka,woh juddai ka gham de gaye,hum yaadon ke sahare ji lete,who bhool jaane ki kasam de gaye
1.Ishq ka jahaa bhi naam hota haiTadapna sisakna aam hota haiKarvatein badalna tamaam raat jaagnaZakhmon ko dil se kaam hota haiKhush-naseeb kabhi ishq ho nahi saktaYe to badnaseebiyo ka jaam hota hai
2.Dil ko tadpaate ho yeh dastoor kaisa haiBimaar-e-mohabbat ka kehna aisa haiKon kehta hai ki tum chaand jaise hoHaqeeqat to yeh hai ki chaand tum jaisa hai.
3.jinko rahe dhundte dar-bader...vo dil ke reh-numa nikle...ab tanhaai hum se nahi katt ti..vo mile to humari jaan nikle...
4.Palkein Hoon Khuli Ya Bandh SanamTeri Tasveer Dekhayi DeMera Naam Jab Pukare KoiMujhe Tera Naam Sunayi De5.Aaine main tasveer tumhari hi dekhe humDhadkan bhi maane tumhe hi apna humdumDil ki yeh baat hoton par kaisey laaye humtum apne ho yeh tumhe kaise bataye hum
6.Yeh siishe yeh sapne yeh rishte yeh dhaage,kise kiya khabar hai kahan toot jayein,mohabbat ke dariya mein tinke wafa ke, na jaane yeh kis mod par doob jayein.
7.Muskuraate hain to bijliyaa gira dete hainBaat karte hain to dewaana bana dete hainHusn waalo ki nazar bhi kam nahi quamat seAag paani mein nazroo se Lgaa dete hain
8.Humne maanga tha saath unka,woh juddai ka gham de gaye,hum yaadon ke sahare ji lete,who bhool jaane ki kasam de gaye
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Chimps Not Human But Are They People
October 15, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
As a population of West African chimpanzees dwindles to critically endangered levels, scientists are calling for a definition of personhood that includes our close evolutionary cousins.
Just two decades ago, the Ivory Coast boasted a 10,000-strong chimpanzee population, accounting for half of the world’s population. According to a new survey, that number has fallen to just a few thousand.
News of such a decline, published today in Current Biology, would be saddening in any species. But should we feel more concern for the chimpanzees than for another animal — as much concern, perhaps, as we might feel for other people?
“They are a people. Non-human, but definitely persons,” said Deborah Fouts, co-director of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute. “They haven’t built a rocket ship to the moon. But we’re not that different.”
Fouts is one of a growing number of scientists and ethicists who believe that chimpanzees — as well as orangutans, bonobos and gorillas, a group colloquially known as great apes — ought to be considered people.
It’s a controversial position. If being a person requires being human, then chimpanzees, our closest primate relative, are still only 98 percent complete. But if personhood is defined more broadly, chimpanzees may well qualify. They have self-awareness, feelings and high-level cognitive powers. Hardly a month seems to pass without researchers finding evidence of behavior thought to belong solely to humans.
Some even suggest that chimpanzees and other great apes should be granted human rights. So argued advocates for Hiasl, a chimpanzee caught in an Austrian custody battle, and the framers of an ape rights resolution passed by the Spanish parliament. The question of rights is practically thorny — how could a chimp be held responsible for, say, attacking another chimp? — but the fundamental question isn’t practical, but rather scientific and ethical.
“They have been shown to have all kinds of complex communication and cognitive powers that are similar to humans,” said Yerkes National Primate Research Center researcher Jared Taglialatela. “They have feelings, they have ideas, they have goals.”
The capacity of chimpanzees to feel, vividly illustrated when primatologist Jane Goodall documented the grief of a chimp named Flint for his mother, is the least ambiguous of chimpanzee characteristics. More ambiguous is their ability to think abstractly and empathically.
“They don’t have time. They can’t talk about yesterday or tomorrow. Their communication is very much instantaneous: ‘A neighbor is coming, let’s go. A female’s in heat, so check me out.’ It’s not, ‘How are you today?’” said Pascal Gagneux, a University of California, San Diego primatologist. He considers chimpanzees to be persons, but fundamentally different from humans by virtue of their profoundly different communicative range.
But Fouts, who has trained her chimpanzees to use sign language, disagrees. “They do remember the past. When people come that they haven’t seen in many years, they use their name signs,” she said. Taglialatela echoed Fouts. “I don’t know if they think about what they want to be when they grow up,” he said, “but they understand the concept that something will happen later.”
Taglialatela has shown that chimpanzees utilize parts of their brain similar to our own Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas, which in humans are considered central to speech production and processing. When communicating, chimpanzees choose circumstance-appropriate forms: gesturing by hand to someone who looks at them, or calling out to someone who looks away.
“We’re seeing this rich communicative repertoire. It’s not simply, ‘I see a piece of food and make some emotional sound,’” he said. “They’re using different perspectives to communicate.”
Researchers have also found that chimps use hand gestures that vary according to context. The same gesture can be used for purposes as diverse as requesting sex or reconciling after a fight, a linguistic subtlety that suggests a capacity for high-level abstraction.
Chimpanzees even appear capable of altruism, being willing to help strangers in the absence of anticipated reward. But their empathy, said Gagneux, who proposes treating research chimps in the manner of human subjects incapable of giving informed consent, does not translate to compassion.
Of course, compassion is hardly universal among humans. “How many times do you find yourself seeing someone on the news, or walking by someone on the street, and being apathetic towards them?” said Taglialatela.
And Fouts, who said that chimpanzees “feel pain and anger and love and affection and the kinds of feelings we feel,” said that her sign language-trained chimpanzees can indeed inquire about the well-being of their handlers.
“They don’t use it very often, but it doesn’t mean they don’t understand,” she said.
So what of the situation in the Ivory Coast, where chimpanzee numbers have plummeted so dramatically that researchers say they’re not merely endangered, but critically endangered? Should they be mourned as animals, or people?
Perhaps semantics are irrelevant.
“This is a tragedy, for lack of a better word,” said Taglialatela.
October 15, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
As a population of West African chimpanzees dwindles to critically endangered levels, scientists are calling for a definition of personhood that includes our close evolutionary cousins.
Just two decades ago, the Ivory Coast boasted a 10,000-strong chimpanzee population, accounting for half of the world’s population. According to a new survey, that number has fallen to just a few thousand.
News of such a decline, published today in Current Biology, would be saddening in any species. But should we feel more concern for the chimpanzees than for another animal — as much concern, perhaps, as we might feel for other people?
“They are a people. Non-human, but definitely persons,” said Deborah Fouts, co-director of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute. “They haven’t built a rocket ship to the moon. But we’re not that different.”
Fouts is one of a growing number of scientists and ethicists who believe that chimpanzees — as well as orangutans, bonobos and gorillas, a group colloquially known as great apes — ought to be considered people.
It’s a controversial position. If being a person requires being human, then chimpanzees, our closest primate relative, are still only 98 percent complete. But if personhood is defined more broadly, chimpanzees may well qualify. They have self-awareness, feelings and high-level cognitive powers. Hardly a month seems to pass without researchers finding evidence of behavior thought to belong solely to humans.
Some even suggest that chimpanzees and other great apes should be granted human rights. So argued advocates for Hiasl, a chimpanzee caught in an Austrian custody battle, and the framers of an ape rights resolution passed by the Spanish parliament. The question of rights is practically thorny — how could a chimp be held responsible for, say, attacking another chimp? — but the fundamental question isn’t practical, but rather scientific and ethical.
“They have been shown to have all kinds of complex communication and cognitive powers that are similar to humans,” said Yerkes National Primate Research Center researcher Jared Taglialatela. “They have feelings, they have ideas, they have goals.”
The capacity of chimpanzees to feel, vividly illustrated when primatologist Jane Goodall documented the grief of a chimp named Flint for his mother, is the least ambiguous of chimpanzee characteristics. More ambiguous is their ability to think abstractly and empathically.
“They don’t have time. They can’t talk about yesterday or tomorrow. Their communication is very much instantaneous: ‘A neighbor is coming, let’s go. A female’s in heat, so check me out.’ It’s not, ‘How are you today?’” said Pascal Gagneux, a University of California, San Diego primatologist. He considers chimpanzees to be persons, but fundamentally different from humans by virtue of their profoundly different communicative range.
But Fouts, who has trained her chimpanzees to use sign language, disagrees. “They do remember the past. When people come that they haven’t seen in many years, they use their name signs,” she said. Taglialatela echoed Fouts. “I don’t know if they think about what they want to be when they grow up,” he said, “but they understand the concept that something will happen later.”
Taglialatela has shown that chimpanzees utilize parts of their brain similar to our own Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas, which in humans are considered central to speech production and processing. When communicating, chimpanzees choose circumstance-appropriate forms: gesturing by hand to someone who looks at them, or calling out to someone who looks away.
“We’re seeing this rich communicative repertoire. It’s not simply, ‘I see a piece of food and make some emotional sound,’” he said. “They’re using different perspectives to communicate.”
Researchers have also found that chimps use hand gestures that vary according to context. The same gesture can be used for purposes as diverse as requesting sex or reconciling after a fight, a linguistic subtlety that suggests a capacity for high-level abstraction.
Chimpanzees even appear capable of altruism, being willing to help strangers in the absence of anticipated reward. But their empathy, said Gagneux, who proposes treating research chimps in the manner of human subjects incapable of giving informed consent, does not translate to compassion.
Of course, compassion is hardly universal among humans. “How many times do you find yourself seeing someone on the news, or walking by someone on the street, and being apathetic towards them?” said Taglialatela.
And Fouts, who said that chimpanzees “feel pain and anger and love and affection and the kinds of feelings we feel,” said that her sign language-trained chimpanzees can indeed inquire about the well-being of their handlers.
“They don’t use it very often, but it doesn’t mean they don’t understand,” she said.
So what of the situation in the Ivory Coast, where chimpanzee numbers have plummeted so dramatically that researchers say they’re not merely endangered, but critically endangered? Should they be mourned as animals, or people?
Perhaps semantics are irrelevant.
“This is a tragedy, for lack of a better word,” said Taglialatela.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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