After months of searing heat and sparse rainfall farmland in the US is drying up. For weeks the US has been suffering its most extensive drought in half a century. And meteorologists expect the severe conditions to continue. What will the impact be on global food prices and is the existing global food market system flawed?
Remember when I wrote about the “fake kidnapping” done by a Pennsylvania Church. http://kristenmomof3.xanga.com/760619632/%E2%80%9Cfake%E2%80%9D-kidnapping/
The Glad Tidings Assembly of God and 28-year-old Andrew David Jordan of Elizabethtown were charged Friday with false imprisonment and simple assault
Four men — one carrying an unloaded but real gun — rushed into a room full of youth-group participants, put pillowcases over their heads and forced them into a van. The children didn’t know the raid was fake. One was injured.
The district attorney’s office filed charges of false imprisonment, a felony, and simple assault against the church and youth pastor Andrew D. Jordan, 28.
Police Chief Richard Wiley said he didn’t understand the rationale of the church leaders and that he’s never witnessed a case like this.
District Attorney Edward M. Marsico Jr. that while the intentions of the church were not necessarily harmful, “they in essence terrorized several children.”
John Lanza, the pastor of the church, said after the incident that the raid is used as a learning experience to show what some missionaries deal with because of their faith.
The mother of a 14-year-old girl who was taken during the incident called police.
After bursting in on the youth group, the raiders prodded the hooded kids into a church van and drove across the parking lot to the pastor’s house. They led the teens through the garage, past the pastor’s motorcycle with crucifixes painted on its gas tank to an interrogation room in a dark corner of the musty basement.
A single-bulb painter’s light was suspended from the ceiling. It illuminated a lone chair. The men questioned each teen for 30 seconds in the room, raising their voices to invoke fear, before releasing them, Lanza said in March.
http://www.abc27.com/story/19130116/da-to-discuss-church-groups-fake-raid
A law backed by Republicans in Pennsylvania will add a new requirement for voters in the upcoming US presidential election – a photo ID with an expiry date. Opponents of the new law say it could prevent hundreds of thousands of people from voting; primarily the elderly, minorities and the poor because they are less likely to have the necessary paperwork or the means to get an id. They are also more likely to vote Democrat.
I am looking forward to this season’s project runway……
I watched the first episode of Project Runway and it has really left me excited for the season. I really like the designer Alicia Hardesty and hope that she wins. Her stuff is awesome. I really enjoy her aesthetic. It’s so masculine and urban, but still feminine in its modern style. I can’t wait to see how her androgynous style plays out on the show!
Alicia, 27, is originally from Brandenburg, Kentucky, but now lives with her girlfriend in Los Angeles. Her brand, Original Tomboy, came about when she modeled for a tomboys-in-vintage-dresses-themed photo shoot.
Ghosts of Ascalon
by Matt Forbeck , Jeff Grubb
250 years ago, Ascalon burned . . .
Desperate to defend his land from advancing hordes of bestial charr, King Adelbern summoned the all-powerful Foefire to repel the invaders. But magic can be a double-edged sword—the Foefire burned both charr and human alike. While the charr corpses smoldered, the slain Ascalonians arose again, transformed by their king’s rage into ghostly protectors and charged with guarding the realm . . . forever. The once mighty kingdom became a haunted shadow of its former glory.
Centuries later, the descendants of Ascalon, exiled to the nation of Kryta, are besieged on all sides. To save humankind, Queen Jennah seeks to negotiate a treaty with the hated charr. But one obstacle remains. The charr legions won’t sign the truce until their most prized possession, the Claw of the Khan-Ur,is returned from the ruins of fallen Ascalon.
Now a mismatched band of adventurers, each plagued by ghosts of their own, sets forth into a haunted, war-torn land to retrieve the Claw. Without the artifact, there is no hope for peace between human and charr—but the undead king who rules Ascalon won’t give it up easily, and not everyone wants peace!
This is a 5 out of 5 star book.
I loved playing Guild Wars and I have enjoyed playing Guild Wars 2 in beta and look forward to it’s launch in August. This book is amazing. I love it.
There is no better evidence for God than there is for unicorns, fairies, Zeus, or the three- inch- tall pink pony behind my sofa who instantly teleports to Guam the moment anyone looks back there. If you don’t treat those ideas as plausible, you shouldn’t treat the God hypothesis as plausible, either.
Reading Pride 2012 at Centre Park Reading.
It was a great day with tons of fun. I got a great necklace, bracelet, and a Reading Pride T-shirt.
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